I'll venture something outrageous for fun. Every 'completion' of one order of symmetry exhibits a slight flaw which a higher order symmetry is required to reconcile. Thus instead of finding circles we end up with spirals, and instead of spheres within spheres we end up with - whatever 3D spirals would be...
I think the distinction would be, politics are always contingent by definition. Science may hone but it seldom needs to censure. Newton survives in spite of Einstein and Heisenberg.
Now that you know how BCC: works, you will know to send the email TO: yourself and BCC: everyone else, including the main recipient. OR, skip BCC and send a separate message to your boss, if needed. Main rule: always consider the potential consequences of your actions before committing to them.
Happy to say, this particular 'green' credits a scientific grounding for his views. That, and the belief that "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," or something to that effect.
That said, I also am an active participant in human activities, so I have become familiar with the habit of using hyperbole or analogy without quite realizing it. So when I hear someone say the 'Earth is a living system' I know what they mean, even if I wouldn't say it quite that way myself. Then when I go on to reply to the person, instead of getting stuck on their verbiage, I am able to address the 'real substance' of what they are saying.
So, you know, yeah, the earth has some lifeforms on its surface, and literally speaking it is not 'alive.' However, there are many instances where it makes sense to look at whole systems as having certain qualities. In this instance, the Earth does form a 'living system' whereas Venus does not. In fact the very atmosphere we breathe would not have enough Oxygen for us if not for lifeforms breaking down CO2. If we were to eliminate enough plants while keeping enough animals "Earth would die" in the sense that it would no longer be suitable for life.
It is the overall conditions of the Earth that causes people to invoke 'Gaia,' which is just a shorthand for 'all that sustains life.'
Frankly, I have a lot of respect for those people who feel an emotional, tangible, and personified connection to life and the Earth as a whole. They may be flaky and sentimental by some estimations, but at least they have not cut themselves off from the natural world.
What worries me more is the ones who are happy when they probably ought not to be. They're the ones who will happily stamp the execution forms all week long, then go home to their backyard barbecues on the weekends while the bodies are piled up in mass graves. I'm just sayin'... they should encourage more internal communication and get those malcontents to speak up. Or do the thing where you randomly promote people - which works according to studies. Anything to keep the diversity going. Organizations need to appreciate that a person may be malcontent because (A) they perceive a clear problem and (B) they are powerless to do anything about it or to even speak up. Organizations that oppress their members or demand abstract loyalties are doomed to turn into little Milgram experiments.
Hey man, the book does mean hook_perm() - but maybe it skipped over the part where it explains what the "hook_" part of "hook_perm" means. The "hook_" part is replaced by the name of the module. So, "user_perm()" is the "user" module's implementation of hook_perm(). Cheers!
That's one reason why TRON Legacy's Clu face didn't work perfectly. The skin was a little too perfect, and there were none of the changes in skin hue you see in a human face as it moves. I'd like to see more tests on what kinds of motion seem unreal versus those that seem genuine. I think with humans, it's the way we really do balance our muscles and the weight of our limbs and torso. If we lean to the left we have to compensate with tension on the right, and so on. Our muscles and nerves are making intelligent decisions every millisecond, whereas computer-animated beings have no points of hesitation in their motion. A lot of the missing Jazz could be inserted with algorithms that take these weight-adjustments into account. As for facial realism, similar things apply. The individual character has a guiding aspect in how the face and eyes move, but the body is doing its own thing. I feel like Avatar really caught on to these aspects of motion and weight, and would make a good basis for the more canny end of the spectrum in any study.
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Fine, let's not allow pop-unders, but can we leave in the ability to move windows to the front?
I was going to post on the same point. The CIA can spend public money on an internal investigation of its own leaks, and the Army can spend public money to look into its own leaks (which it wants to do without the CIA helping out, I'm sure). If crimes of espionage have been committed, the FBI should be looking into those. The CIA's mandate is to provide intelligence and to produce counterintelligence as a basis for national security. So, one really has to ask, who directs the CIA to go after someone who has not been charged with a clear crime? If they aren't investigating for the sake of prosecuting a case then they must be intelligence-gathering on behalf of the State and its benefactors.
To the steely lizard gaze of the CIA, WikiLeaks is simply an "extra-state actor" - an entity which is loyal to NO country, and therefore analogous to a terrorist group in the sense that both are Idealistically-driven. The CIA doesn't factor in good intentions.
In full disclosure, the CIA has historically been used as a blunt instrument, an assassination squad, a tool to overthrow governments, a means to spread lies and maintain instability in exploitable regions, a pandora's box of all things secret and nasty that the US feels the need to carry out in the interests of the State and its holdings. So the CIA has itself a plethora of material it would not like to see leaked, and no doubt its zeal to stop WikiLeaks has helped the Administration and the Agency get past any lingering grievances.
Make no mistake, this is a brave new world we live in. I for one applaud what WikiLeaks does and what they stand for. It's not enough for leaders to make a show, to put their hands on their hearts and swear oaths to the old gods. In the USA we founded a union of, by, and for the people, and not just the people on this spit of land, but people everywhere. It's obvious, I suppose, that the government bureaucracy's interests and goals cannot abide the existence of an extra-state actor who makes every person on Earth a part of its conspiracy to know the truth. But that, I think, runs counter to the greater interests of the people of the earth, who deserve to see the way that the arms and agents of the State routinely behave when they think no one is watching.
It's one thing to assert that these mf's are criminals, altogether another to see vivid portraits, with video, of their bloody hands carrying out state-sanctioned diminutions of life with the same routine aspect as they might make a pot of drip coffee. We learn the cynical truth, that it's better to work for the boss, bad to cross the boss. Maybe it's better not to be reminded.
If intelligent life evolved out of a moon ecosystem where the main source of heat was tectonic stress, and the main liquid was methane or ammonia, you can bet they'd kick our ass.
Since it's a repeating fraction representing the subtraction of something so small we can't ever see it at the infinitely far end, maybe better to think like this:
0.9999... = 1 - (10 ^ (- infinity))
Abstractly it seems to indicate the difference between 0.9999... and 1 is so infinitesimal as to be unquantifiable, yet it matters.
Announce the return of the King of Pop for a 3D version of Thriller, featuring Jack Black as the voice of Vincent Price. The 3D TVs will start flying off the shelves.
That's a rather unusual reading of John 20:17. In most translations the word is "cling" not "touch," and he gives his reasoning quite clearly. For example, the English Standard translation reads:
Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
I don't know how you get from that passage to the notion that Jesus considered women unclean. You think he was just being clever sending her on an errand so he could throw up in private? In other passages he cavorts with women pretty openly, even giving them credit as intellectual beings. And generally speaking he's quite against the stupid religious laws of his time.
They are free to continue their hate-speech, just not on Rackspace servers. They should seek out an ISP that happily hosts Neo-Nazi sites. That will guarantee they won't be shut down on the basis of company policies, and it will make sure money goes to their kind of people.
Here's a video about how a rainforest was created in only 20 years, altering weather and creating a habitat for abundant life. This could be done all over the world to mediate the effects of Human activity.
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I'll venture something outrageous for fun. Every 'completion' of one order of symmetry exhibits a slight flaw which a higher order symmetry is required to reconcile. Thus instead of finding circles we end up with spirals, and instead of spheres within spheres we end up with - whatever 3D spirals would be...
I think the distinction would be, politics are always contingent by definition. Science may hone but it seldom needs to censure. Newton survives in spite of Einstein and Heisenberg.
$shit = new Piss($fuck, $cunt, $cocksucker, $motherfucker, $tits);
It was just a matter of time before someone invoked Godwin.
Oh yeah, and don't forget the young Anakin - winning pod races and destroying Trade Federation battle cruisers by pure luck!
Now that you know how BCC: works, you will know to send the email TO: yourself and BCC: everyone else, including the main recipient. OR, skip BCC and send a separate message to your boss, if needed. Main rule: always consider the potential consequences of your actions before committing to them.
Happy to say, this particular 'green' credits a scientific grounding for his views. That, and the belief that "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," or something to that effect.
That said, I also am an active participant in human activities, so I have become familiar with the habit of using hyperbole or analogy without quite realizing it. So when I hear someone say the 'Earth is a living system' I know what they mean, even if I wouldn't say it quite that way myself. Then when I go on to reply to the person, instead of getting stuck on their verbiage, I am able to address the 'real substance' of what they are saying.
So, you know, yeah, the earth has some lifeforms on its surface, and literally speaking it is not 'alive.' However, there are many instances where it makes sense to look at whole systems as having certain qualities. In this instance, the Earth does form a 'living system' whereas Venus does not. In fact the very atmosphere we breathe would not have enough Oxygen for us if not for lifeforms breaking down CO2. If we were to eliminate enough plants while keeping enough animals "Earth would die" in the sense that it would no longer be suitable for life.
It is the overall conditions of the Earth that causes people to invoke 'Gaia,' which is just a shorthand for 'all that sustains life.'
Frankly, I have a lot of respect for those people who feel an emotional, tangible, and personified connection to life and the Earth as a whole. They may be flaky and sentimental by some estimations, but at least they have not cut themselves off from the natural world.
What worries me more is the ones who are happy when they probably ought not to be. They're the ones who will happily stamp the execution forms all week long, then go home to their backyard barbecues on the weekends while the bodies are piled up in mass graves. I'm just sayin'... they should encourage more internal communication and get those malcontents to speak up. Or do the thing where you randomly promote people - which works according to studies. Anything to keep the diversity going. Organizations need to appreciate that a person may be malcontent because (A) they perceive a clear problem and (B) they are powerless to do anything about it or to even speak up. Organizations that oppress their members or demand abstract loyalties are doomed to turn into little Milgram experiments.
I've been keeping up with the indispensible help of drupal.org and the coder module!
Hey man, the book does mean hook_perm() - but maybe it skipped over the part where it explains what the "hook_" part of "hook_perm" means. The "hook_" part is replaced by the name of the module. So, "user_perm()" is the "user" module's implementation of hook_perm(). Cheers!
That's one reason why TRON Legacy's Clu face didn't work perfectly. The skin was a little too perfect, and there were none of the changes in skin hue you see in a human face as it moves. I'd like to see more tests on what kinds of motion seem unreal versus those that seem genuine. I think with humans, it's the way we really do balance our muscles and the weight of our limbs and torso. If we lean to the left we have to compensate with tension on the right, and so on. Our muscles and nerves are making intelligent decisions every millisecond, whereas computer-animated beings have no points of hesitation in their motion. A lot of the missing Jazz could be inserted with algorithms that take these weight-adjustments into account. As for facial realism, similar things apply. The individual character has a guiding aspect in how the face and eyes move, but the body is doing its own thing. I feel like Avatar really caught on to these aspects of motion and weight, and would make a good basis for the more canny end of the spectrum in any study.
Fine, let's not allow pop-unders, but can we leave in the ability to move windows to the front?
I was going to post on the same point. The CIA can spend public money on an internal investigation of its own leaks, and the Army can spend public money to look into its own leaks (which it wants to do without the CIA helping out, I'm sure). If crimes of espionage have been committed, the FBI should be looking into those. The CIA's mandate is to provide intelligence and to produce counterintelligence as a basis for national security. So, one really has to ask, who directs the CIA to go after someone who has not been charged with a clear crime? If they aren't investigating for the sake of prosecuting a case then they must be intelligence-gathering on behalf of the State and its benefactors.
To the steely lizard gaze of the CIA, WikiLeaks is simply an "extra-state actor" - an entity which is loyal to NO country, and therefore analogous to a terrorist group in the sense that both are Idealistically-driven. The CIA doesn't factor in good intentions.
In full disclosure, the CIA has historically been used as a blunt instrument, an assassination squad, a tool to overthrow governments, a means to spread lies and maintain instability in exploitable regions, a pandora's box of all things secret and nasty that the US feels the need to carry out in the interests of the State and its holdings. So the CIA has itself a plethora of material it would not like to see leaked, and no doubt its zeal to stop WikiLeaks has helped the Administration and the Agency get past any lingering grievances.
Make no mistake, this is a brave new world we live in. I for one applaud what WikiLeaks does and what they stand for. It's not enough for leaders to make a show, to put their hands on their hearts and swear oaths to the old gods. In the USA we founded a union of, by, and for the people, and not just the people on this spit of land, but people everywhere. It's obvious, I suppose, that the government bureaucracy's interests and goals cannot abide the existence of an extra-state actor who makes every person on Earth a part of its conspiracy to know the truth. But that, I think, runs counter to the greater interests of the people of the earth, who deserve to see the way that the arms and agents of the State routinely behave when they think no one is watching.
It's one thing to assert that these mf's are criminals, altogether another to see vivid portraits, with video, of their bloody hands carrying out state-sanctioned diminutions of life with the same routine aspect as they might make a pot of drip coffee. We learn the cynical truth, that it's better to work for the boss, bad to cross the boss. Maybe it's better not to be reminded.
If intelligent life evolved out of a moon ecosystem where the main source of heat was tectonic stress, and the main liquid was methane or ammonia, you can bet they'd kick our ass.
It begs the question, how long have you been a language-hater?
Since it's a repeating fraction representing the subtraction of something so small we can't ever see it at the infinitely far end, maybe better to think like this:
0.9999... = 1 - (10 ^ (- infinity))
Abstractly it seems to indicate the difference between 0.9999... and 1 is so infinitesimal as to be unquantifiable, yet it matters.
Announce the return of the King of Pop for a 3D version of Thriller, featuring Jack Black as the voice of Vincent Price. The 3D TVs will start flying off the shelves.
That's a rather unusual reading of John 20:17. In most translations the word is "cling" not "touch," and he gives his reasoning quite clearly. For example, the English Standard translation reads:
I don't know how you get from that passage to the notion that Jesus considered women unclean. You think he was just being clever sending her on an errand so he could throw up in private? In other passages he cavorts with women pretty openly, even giving them credit as intellectual beings. And generally speaking he's quite against the stupid religious laws of his time.
They are free to continue their hate-speech, just not on Rackspace servers. They should seek out an ISP that happily hosts Neo-Nazi sites. That will guarantee they won't be shut down on the basis of company policies, and it will make sure money goes to their kind of people.
iPhone 4, iPod Touch gen.4, iPad, and Apple TV gen.2 all use the Apple A4 processor, which is an ARM+GPU manufactured by Samsung.
Here's a video about how a rainforest was created in only 20 years, altering weather and creating a habitat for abundant life. This could be done all over the world to mediate the effects of Human activity.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/willie_smits_restores_a_rainforest.html
Hey lady, I've been vegan for 5 years, been doing yoga and bicycling every day, and yet I still have my winter paunch.
Can I vote for "better candidates, please!"?
Change is real. Time is only an inference.