Calling it "Islamic terrorism" Actually, his catchphrase is "Islamic extremism", and is used specifically to differentiate the views of Islamic extremists from mainstream Muslims.
I'm not sure what part of "The US government is responsible for infecting zillions of blacks with AIDS," mis-citing the Tuskegee experiments (which didn't infect anyone with syphilis, but rather allowed their infections to go untreated) as evidence, is being taken out of context. The same can be said for many of Wright's other ridiculous claims.
And I don't think for a minute that Barack Obama believes any of that crap. But I do question his honesty and his judgment in how he handled the whole mess, and those are issues of character that are relevant in a Presidential campaign.
Personally, even though I know elrous0 meant 4-8 years in terms of Presidential terms, I think four years is probably a reasonable estimate for a time frame in which all troops could be withdrawn if it turns out the Iraqis don't want us maintaining even a Kuwait-style military presence there. McCain has actually stated that one of his goals is to get Iraq into a condition within four years that would permit all of our combat forces to be removed (although he's in favor of having an ongoing non-combat military presence there if the Iraqi government is interested).
If it takes longer, I'm fine with that, but conditions have improved so much that I don't think it will be necessary.
So he knows some crazy people. Big fucking deal. I have some friends whose opinions are moronic beyond belief, but that doesn't mean I agree with them in the slightest. The problem is that he didn't realize the guy was crazy until the news media told him so.
(And I'm still not convinced that his wife doesn't think the guy is crazy, mainly because nobody's asked her. She strikes me as being indoctrinated by the ivory-tower racism she learned in her African-American Studies classes at Princeton. I'm not saying that her views are important enough to affect how a person would vote for her husband, but she still creeps me out.)
4-8 more years of Iraq I can't believe I'm posting this in a thread filled with polished gold turds, when I have mod points to blow, but here goes:
Obviously, you're an Obama supporter, and your main reason for such is because you steadfastly oppose the Iraq war and want the troops recalled ASAP. I disagree with you completely on that, but I do want to thank you for not trumpeting that "hundred years of war" bullshit that Obama keeps claiming was McCain's intention even when he knows damn well it wasn't.
But how do you think it felt, being trapped in ice for 120,000 years? Fry: "Bender! What was it like, lying in that hole for a thousand years?" Bender: "I was enjoying it until you guys showed up!"
A few years ago, when the Republicans were in control of both houses of Congress as well as the White House, Senator Harry Reid - then the Senate Minority Leader - made a comment that having the entire government under the control of one party like that was a bad thing.
From http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/05/08/int05032.html:
Senator Reid: The danger in a one-party system is that there's no ability to have an alternative message. When we had a Senate that was "controlled" by the Republicans but had a Democratic President, we were still a force. But once you have all three bodies under one-party control, you no longer have the ability to communicate with the American people. It makes it very difficult to communicate with the American people. That's the position we now find ourselves in. One-party government is bad for all kinds of reasons, not the least of which is there's no new ideas. It's either George Bush's way or the highway. If people don't agree with him, they'll lose their chairmanships, their subcommittee chairmanships and other goodies that the President can control. At the time I heard him say this, it was in the run-up to the 2006 election (somewhat after the interview I just linked), and it was becoming clear that the Dems were going to have control of both houses of Congress. And at the time, I was 95% certain that Hillary Clinton would win the presidency in 2008. So, I wondered exactly which of those three - House, Senate, or President - Harry Reid was planning on giving up.
Those would be reasons to watch the show if you already play the game. But what are the reasons to play this particular game above all the other choices?
I don't see the TV show becoming popular. After all, if you're a MMOG fan, wouldn't you rather be playing a game yourself rather than watching a TV show about other people playing it?
And that brings us to what will make this particular game better than the fifty bazillion other MMOGs on the market now: your character might get to be on TV. Except you won't care, because your character probably won't get to be on TV, and barring that, you'd rather be playing than watching.
Why don't they drop this schtick and give us a sequel to that halfway-decent D&D movie they made a few years back? (And no, I'm not talking about the one with Jeremy Irons.)
In the first FA, Changizi states his hypothesis that primates evolved color vision in order to detect changes in emotional state indicated by things like blushing/flushing of the face. I find this a bit problematic, primarily because it doesn't explain why our vision evolved to respond to three different wavelength ranges of light (red, green, and blue). It would make more sense to have only evolved cones responsive to red light, or perhaps red and one other color, if that were the only reason.
It seems to me that a more reasonable hypothesis is that trichromatic color vision co-evolved along with the colorings of fruits that primates would find nutritious. Emotional cues seem like a more subtle issue - as well as a mostly-solved problem - that would have taken advantage of color vision that was already partially or fully evolved.
The LEDs aren't actually illuminated all the time. They are actually flashing very fast - faster than your brain can discern. When you eat crunchy foods, it vibrates your head (and therefore, your retinas) at a frequency sufficient to allow some of the LED flashes to appear above or below the other flashes.
Your average program can't break off into 128 threads, that takes a little bit of extra skill on the coder's part. Or, in some cases, a significant lack of skill, although in those cases, it usually doesn't stop at 128.
I'm not so sure it absorbs anything - it's far more likely that it adsorbs the hydrophobic liquids.
Useless, inaccurate summary, as per usual:P Tell it to Francesco Stellacci, a materials science associate prof at MIT and the PI on the project, who was directly quoted as saying "absorb" in TFA.
A later paragraph also says,
Two key properties make the system work. First, the nanowires form a spaghetti-like mat with many tiny pores that make for good capillarity, or the ability to absorb liquids. Second, a water-repelling coating keeps water from penetrating into the membrane. Oil, however, isn't affected, and seeps into the membrane.
How about cracking CableCARD? I don't really need free digital cable - I can afford to just pay for it - but I wouldn't mind being able to record digital cable on my MythTV box without needing a set-top box and an IR link.
We note that your puny civilization has not even discovered the advance of Bright Red Full Body Paint. We will trade you this knowledge in exchange for Nuclear Weaponry.
What?! You reject our generous offer? Prepare for WAR!
Yeah, I guess my slim hopes rest on people way smarter than me hacking the cards from the Media Center PCs to work under Linux. They're already available on the market separate from the machines they're normally sold with.
It's been happening in meatspace for thousands of years (though not so much anymore). People would shave bits off of coins made of precious metals and then smelt and sell the shavings to wind up with more money than they started with. Wikipedia notes that some British silver coins would routinely be milled down to half their original weight as nearly everyone took a little bit off the edge.
Eventually, coins could be made with milled edges, which largely curbed the practice, and today, of course, most coins are made from metals that are worth very little compared to the value of the coin itself.
Frankly, my only concern is that I'm allowed to use my open source MythTV box with a CableCard in order to record shows off encrypted QAM channels like Discovery HD. Currently, I cannot do this due to the ridiculous certified media center PC and Vista requirement. If anyone knows a way around this, please tell me. The analog cutoff is looming and I don't want to lose my recording ability. We can only hope that this will eventually become a reality (though I have very low expectations on the matter). Fortunately, most cable companies appear to be planning to maintain analog cable for at least a few years after the broadcast DTV transition, as long as HD isn't that important to you.
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I'm not sure what part of "The US government is responsible for infecting zillions of blacks with AIDS," mis-citing the Tuskegee experiments (which didn't infect anyone with syphilis, but rather allowed their infections to go untreated) as evidence, is being taken out of context. The same can be said for many of Wright's other ridiculous claims.
And I don't think for a minute that Barack Obama believes any of that crap. But I do question his honesty and his judgment in how he handled the whole mess, and those are issues of character that are relevant in a Presidential campaign.
Personally, even though I know elrous0 meant 4-8 years in terms of Presidential terms, I think four years is probably a reasonable estimate for a time frame in which all troops could be withdrawn if it turns out the Iraqis don't want us maintaining even a Kuwait-style military presence there. McCain has actually stated that one of his goals is to get Iraq into a condition within four years that would permit all of our combat forces to be removed (although he's in favor of having an ongoing non-combat military presence there if the Iraqi government is interested).
If it takes longer, I'm fine with that, but conditions have improved so much that I don't think it will be necessary.
(And I'm still not convinced that his wife doesn't think the guy is crazy, mainly because nobody's asked her. She strikes me as being indoctrinated by the ivory-tower racism she learned in her African-American Studies classes at Princeton. I'm not saying that her views are important enough to affect how a person would vote for her husband, but she still creeps me out.)
Obviously, you're an Obama supporter, and your main reason for such is because you steadfastly oppose the Iraq war and want the troops recalled ASAP. I disagree with you completely on that, but I do want to thank you for not trumpeting that "hundred years of war" bullshit that Obama keeps claiming was McCain's intention even when he knows damn well it wasn't.
Bender: "I was enjoying it until you guys showed up!"
Actually, 82% of Yahoo's float is held by institutions and mutual funds.
Also note that the base charges are on par with what you pay for unmetered access at similar data rates on various consumer-level ISPs.
From http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/05/08/int05032.html: Senator Reid: The danger in a one-party system is that there's no ability to have an alternative message. When we had a Senate that was "controlled" by the Republicans but had a Democratic President, we were still a force. But once you have all three bodies under one-party control, you no longer have the ability to communicate with the American people. It makes it very difficult to communicate with the American people. That's the position we now find ourselves in. One-party government is bad for all kinds of reasons, not the least of which is there's no new ideas. It's either George Bush's way or the highway. If people don't agree with him, they'll lose their chairmanships, their subcommittee chairmanships and other goodies that the President can control. At the time I heard him say this, it was in the run-up to the 2006 election (somewhat after the interview I just linked), and it was becoming clear that the Dems were going to have control of both houses of Congress. And at the time, I was 95% certain that Hillary Clinton would win the presidency in 2008. So, I wondered exactly which of those three - House, Senate, or President - Harry Reid was planning on giving up.
Those would be reasons to watch the show if you already play the game. But what are the reasons to play this particular game above all the other choices?
I don't see the TV show becoming popular. After all, if you're a MMOG fan, wouldn't you rather be playing a game yourself rather than watching a TV show about other people playing it?
And that brings us to what will make this particular game better than the fifty bazillion other MMOGs on the market now: your character might get to be on TV. Except you won't care, because your character probably won't get to be on TV, and barring that, you'd rather be playing than watching.
Why don't they drop this schtick and give us a sequel to that halfway-decent D&D movie they made a few years back? (And no, I'm not talking about the one with Jeremy Irons.)
In the first FA, Changizi states his hypothesis that primates evolved color vision in order to detect changes in emotional state indicated by things like blushing/flushing of the face. I find this a bit problematic, primarily because it doesn't explain why our vision evolved to respond to three different wavelength ranges of light (red, green, and blue). It would make more sense to have only evolved cones responsive to red light, or perhaps red and one other color, if that were the only reason.
It seems to me that a more reasonable hypothesis is that trichromatic color vision co-evolved along with the colorings of fruits that primates would find nutritious. Emotional cues seem like a more subtle issue - as well as a mostly-solved problem - that would have taken advantage of color vision that was already partially or fully evolved.
The LEDs aren't actually illuminated all the time. They are actually flashing very fast - faster than your brain can discern. When you eat crunchy foods, it vibrates your head (and therefore, your retinas) at a frequency sufficient to allow some of the LED flashes to appear above or below the other flashes.
Useless, inaccurate summary, as per usual
A later paragraph also says, Two key properties make the system work. First, the nanowires form a spaghetti-like mat with many tiny pores that make for good capillarity, or the ability to absorb liquids. Second, a water-repelling coating keeps water from penetrating into the membrane. Oil, however, isn't affected, and seeps into the membrane.
How about cracking CableCARD? I don't really need free digital cable - I can afford to just pay for it - but I wouldn't mind being able to record digital cable on my MythTV box without needing a set-top box and an IR link.
It's posts like this that make me wish moderation went all the way to eleven.
Please tell me we also get to hear the lamentations of their women! It's just too much work if we don't even get any lamentations out of it.
We note that your puny civilization has not even discovered the advance of Bright Red Full Body Paint. We will trade you this knowledge in exchange for Nuclear Weaponry.
What?! You reject our generous offer? Prepare for WAR!
Battleship: KABOOM!
Spearmen: Uh.... G-12!
Battleship: Hey, you sank my... oh crap!
There was also a PC port. It's not being published anymore, but GameTap is currently carrying it for subscribers.
Yeah, I guess my slim hopes rest on people way smarter than me hacking the cards from the Media Center PCs to work under Linux. They're already available on the market separate from the machines they're normally sold with.
It's been happening in meatspace for thousands of years (though not so much anymore). People would shave bits off of coins made of precious metals and then smelt and sell the shavings to wind up with more money than they started with. Wikipedia notes that some British silver coins would routinely be milled down to half their original weight as nearly everyone took a little bit off the edge.
Eventually, coins could be made with milled edges, which largely curbed the practice, and today, of course, most coins are made from metals that are worth very little compared to the value of the coin itself.