It's a very good OS, and so is iOS. So is Linux. Windows is finally pretty good too. I like OSs and I admire the engineers who make them better all the time. Good stuff, impressive.
I hope you're joking. Of course helium doesn't 'float' -resist gravity- but it does rise (get pushed) to a point of lower density when mixed into an atmosphere. Like bubbles in water...
Apple has a brand to protect, in a similar manner to Disney, which sounds weird, but then you go to Times Square in 2011 and nothing will ever seem that weird again.
Well it could be seen as a slanted and prejudicial kind of slander, to imply that Apple and others like them are predatory creatures playing on Human weakness. It could be say to be unrealistically insulting to Apple, its ilk, and to consumers as well in calling them unconscious dupes. If the app presented the alternative view as well, that some of us consumers may actually willingly and with awareness take part in the sharing of products with the caveats of advertisements, exploitation of workers, mining of rare minerals and all the other attendant issues, and in spite of it are still good-spirited individuals, merely having fun within this echelon... Well, Apple is fulfilling a dream of mankind, so why not at least give them the benefit of the doubt? It's a hard position for Apple to be in, having to acknowledge this product as plainly mean-spirited. But I suspect other mean-spirited apps have also been blocked - Dartboards with the faces of politicians and things like that... It's a fine line and a hard call, and maybe there's some flak deserved for coming down on a sketchy line. The app could be seen as kind of satirical, but it's possible the detailed content has a nastier spirit than the plain idea we have so far discussed.
Maybe New York City should consider emulating what London and Stockholm have done, which is charge an extra fee to drive through the city during business hours. Something exorbitant enough that it will actually affect behavior, reduce traffic congestion and pollution, and actually improve the environment there. Not to mention the number of idling and double-parked vehicles. Vehicle idling should be made illegal too, even though it would be difficult to enforce.
Until our personal vehicles stop putting out invisible soot, the fewer the better!
Well of course schools should all offer courses on comparative religion, the history of religions, and so forth. It should be intrinsic to any humanities-based education. Religion is after all a giant social force, and it should be studied on the level of all other ideologies and isms. Then also, religion is very interesting psychologically. So students should be made aware of the various aspects of their own minds, especially their reasoning, to understand what aspect of their nature are being leveraged by religions. Young people should understand the spectrum of religious involvement ranging from isolated individual revelations all the way to groups indoctrinated into cults.
In other words, it should be studied objectively like any other phenomenon, as if the students were arriving at the Earth on a spaceship, and then being shown what goes on down there. The spaceship analogy works pretty well as an objectivity test.
Fulfilled prophecy, riiiiggghhhttt... And how do you feel about Astrology, the Kabbalah, Tarot, reading tea leaves?
Study Nature and keep in mind that Humans aren't any more 'special' or 'magic' than any other organism. We can no more 'know' the future than any other animal. We may be better at predicting certain things, due to our experience and logic, but there are no magic people who can time travel in their minds.
If psychic powers were an intrinsic part of Nature, evolution would have favored them, and we'd have all kinds of creatures running around with psychic circuitry in their heads. Sorry, but you can't build anything out of neurons that can 'see' the future.
And that's just the way it is! It's a bummer that reality goes against our cherished fanciful notions. But frankly it doesn't harm the richness of life to see how it really is. It just lets you drop the nonsense and wishful thinking so you can pay attention to the here and now. If you go to the core advice of Jesus & Buddha, the point is to get you to let go of childish things and to mature enough to accept the world as it is. Buddha is far more helpful in regard to steering people away from the extremes of absolutism and nihilism.
Maybe it seems like a bummer to live in a world where no gods intervene. But 'the way has been prepared' so get a little faith and don't be such a wimp. Let go of your silly theories about gods and get on with your work in the sensible world. The psychological tools of religion (skillful means) are there for you when you feel hopeless. After a while, even knowing certain things are placebos (like 'talking to god') doesn't harm their usefulness. Just as one understands that the i-ching or tarot is just an 'oracle' that lets you play with your subconscious themes a little bit, so too the Bible is a set of aphorisms we can use as reminders. But neither one will tell you science or history in any accurate way.
Not to mention, 500 feet tall, retarded, childish, selfish, and murderous. Unless constrained.
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Shh. We're all supposed to have forgotten about that. And the missing military weapon caches. And the number of civilians killed by the US invasion. And Abu Ghraib. And the Guantanamo pretrial torture experimentation clinic....
Quite so. The Republican party serves the interests of its cronies in the Military Industrial Complex, and then simply don't think beyond that. At all. They don't really have to, do they? After all, the angry God is on their side.
Yes, you only need to download once, then you can put it on a USB stick or a DVD to install on other Macs. Apple doesn't prevent this, you might just need your iTunes account password. But don't necessarily quote me on that till I've tested it out... At the moment I just have the developer GM installed.
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It's a very good OS, and so is iOS. So is Linux. Windows is finally pretty good too. I like OSs and I admire the engineers who make them better all the time. Good stuff, impressive.
I believe the MBTA matter-of-fact male voice is also synthetic.
I hope you're joking. Of course helium doesn't 'float' -resist gravity- but it does rise (get pushed) to a point of lower density when mixed into an atmosphere. Like bubbles in water...
Volume! Older iPad 1 is $350 used or refurb. Lots of these thangs around. And apple gets 30% on all apps sold.
AP News is now reporting 9 casualties.
Apple has a brand to protect, in a similar manner to Disney, which sounds weird, but then you go to Times Square in 2011 and nothing will ever seem that weird again.
Well it could be seen as a slanted and prejudicial kind of slander, to imply that Apple and others like them are predatory creatures playing on Human weakness. It could be say to be unrealistically insulting to Apple, its ilk, and to consumers as well in calling them unconscious dupes. If the app presented the alternative view as well, that some of us consumers may actually willingly and with awareness take part in the sharing of products with the caveats of advertisements, exploitation of workers, mining of rare minerals and all the other attendant issues, and in spite of it are still good-spirited individuals, merely having fun within this echelon... Well, Apple is fulfilling a dream of mankind, so why not at least give them the benefit of the doubt? It's a hard position for Apple to be in, having to acknowledge this product as plainly mean-spirited. But I suspect other mean-spirited apps have also been blocked - Dartboards with the faces of politicians and things like that... It's a fine line and a hard call, and maybe there's some flak deserved for coming down on a sketchy line. The app could be seen as kind of satirical, but it's possible the detailed content has a nastier spirit than the plain idea we have so far discussed.
VERY mean-spirited towards Evil. Whole cities destroyed. But perhaps this falls under the Parody Rule.
Possibly the same guy who decided commas should separate the thousands, millions, billions...
Once might be an accident, but two unreleased iPhones lost in bars starts to look like a strategy.
No, it actually makes it look more like an accident.
I honestly wouldn't expect a lot of developers to cooperate with this decision.
There, reverted that Mac-bot correction for you.
Maybe New York City should consider emulating what London and Stockholm have done, which is charge an extra fee to drive through the city during business hours. Something exorbitant enough that it will actually affect behavior, reduce traffic congestion and pollution, and actually improve the environment there. Not to mention the number of idling and double-parked vehicles. Vehicle idling should be made illegal too, even though it would be difficult to enforce.
Until our personal vehicles stop putting out invisible soot, the fewer the better!
I'm sorry, but who did Abel marry again?
Well of course schools should all offer courses on comparative religion, the history of religions, and so forth. It should be intrinsic to any humanities-based education. Religion is after all a giant social force, and it should be studied on the level of all other ideologies and isms. Then also, religion is very interesting psychologically. So students should be made aware of the various aspects of their own minds, especially their reasoning, to understand what aspect of their nature are being leveraged by religions. Young people should understand the spectrum of religious involvement ranging from isolated individual revelations all the way to groups indoctrinated into cults.
In other words, it should be studied objectively like any other phenomenon, as if the students were arriving at the Earth on a spaceship, and then being shown what goes on down there. The spaceship analogy works pretty well as an objectivity test.
Fulfilled prophecy, riiiiggghhhttt... And how do you feel about Astrology, the Kabbalah, Tarot, reading tea leaves?
Study Nature and keep in mind that Humans aren't any more 'special' or 'magic' than any other organism. We can no more 'know' the future than any other animal. We may be better at predicting certain things, due to our experience and logic, but there are no magic people who can time travel in their minds.
If psychic powers were an intrinsic part of Nature, evolution would have favored them, and we'd have all kinds of creatures running around with psychic circuitry in their heads. Sorry, but you can't build anything out of neurons that can 'see' the future.
And that's just the way it is! It's a bummer that reality goes against our cherished fanciful notions. But frankly it doesn't harm the richness of life to see how it really is. It just lets you drop the nonsense and wishful thinking so you can pay attention to the here and now. If you go to the core advice of Jesus & Buddha, the point is to get you to let go of childish things and to mature enough to accept the world as it is. Buddha is far more helpful in regard to steering people away from the extremes of absolutism and nihilism.
Maybe it seems like a bummer to live in a world where no gods intervene. But 'the way has been prepared' so get a little faith and don't be such a wimp. Let go of your silly theories about gods and get on with your work in the sensible world. The psychological tools of religion (skillful means) are there for you when you feel hopeless. After a while, even knowing certain things are placebos (like 'talking to god') doesn't harm their usefulness. Just as one understands that the i-ching or tarot is just an 'oracle' that lets you play with your subconscious themes a little bit, so too the Bible is a set of aphorisms we can use as reminders. But neither one will tell you science or history in any accurate way.
You forgot: In the 'beginning' preceding conditions.
Maybe this is too obvious.
"...telling their students how stupid they are for believing in God..."
Well someone has to tell them! Otherwise they'll never realize their intellectual folly.
Yep! We're past the tipping point, but maybe we'll be ok in the long run. Once we terra-form Mars.
Not to mention, 500 feet tall, retarded, childish, selfish, and murderous. Unless constrained.
Shh. We're all supposed to have forgotten about that. And the missing military weapon caches. And the number of civilians killed by the US invasion. And Abu Ghraib. And the Guantanamo pretrial torture experimentation clinic....
Debtor: Yes, this collar is a little tight, why do you ask? Is it time for my walkies?
Quite so. The Republican party serves the interests of its cronies in the Military Industrial Complex, and then simply don't think beyond that. At all. They don't really have to, do they? After all, the angry God is on their side.
Yes, you only need to download once, then you can put it on a USB stick or a DVD to install on other Macs. Apple doesn't prevent this, you might just need your iTunes account password. But don't necessarily quote me on that till I've tested it out... At the moment I just have the developer GM installed.
Haha! Timely, but offtopic... China just needs a re-dose of African to offset their over-dependence on Neanderthal.
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