Florida is insane, in the same way that senile demented octogenarians are insane. They never think past tomorrow, because they don't know if they're going to live until tomorrow. All that matters is today, the pudding, and Matlock.
Exactly. It's all relative. Like the snail who got mugged by the 3 tortoises. When questioned by the police he said "I just don't know. It all happened so fast."
If you don't want people leaving the left parties, and voting elsewhere (like the Pirate Party) then you should consider appealing to those voters interests. Clearly, copyright reform is a deal breaker for these voters.
Even in a country like Ireland, which has Proportional representation, the emergence of The Green Party and others merely forced the larger more mainstream parties to include more green policies. (Granted, it was lip service in the end.)
We've become far too tolerant of this sort of thing. Deliberate pollution of the info-sphere.
Aliens did not fly millions of miles to Earth, just so they could probe Cletus the slack-jawed yokels' anal cavity. There is no invisible man in the sky who knows when you've been naughty and when you've been nice, and who you can ask for things. A larger percentage of the human population than you might think possible, are genuinely mentally disturbed.
The best thing about seeing the swimming pool area, is when you recognise it from Call of Duty 4. You can snap a photo of where you killed that sniper...
No, because dropping one could have been hand-waved as "We didn't know how devastating it would be" or "It's so horrible, we don't like to use it" or "It's a weapon of last resort".
Dropping one, then dropping another a few days later, gives the impression of "We can keep this up until you're all dead. Surrender or else."
When I was in Pripryat (and yes, we had the dosimeters as well) the readings were perfectly fine if you stepped on concrete, tarmac, or in some of the buildings. But if you stepped onto grass, soil, vegetation or anything which was connected to the water table, the dosimeter shot WAY up WAY fast.
Our guide made a point of showing this to us, when we were taking photos of the bumper cars in the amusement park.
so surely the second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki was gratuitous at best.
No, it served a purpose. Just not one that fits neatly into the Good vs Evil narrative, so often attributed to World War II.
Both bombs were dropped on Japan, in order to show Russia exactly what sort of weapons the US now possessed. The military leaders of the day were already mentally moving past the Nazi/Japanese, and were then looking to Stalin.
It's like some people such as those of European decent can metabolize alcohol fairly easily where as other groups without the history of consuming it have less tolerance.
"Later studies suggested this panic was less widespread than newspapers suggested. During this period, many newspapers were concerned that radio, a new medium, would render the press obsolete. In addition, this was a time of yellow journalism, and as a result, journalists took this opportunity to demonstrate the dangers of broadcast by embellishing the story, and the panic that ensued, greatly." see Mass Communication Theory: Foundations, Ferment, and Future By Stanley J. Baran, Dennis K. Davis
Robert E. Bartholomew suggests that hundreds of thousands were frightened in some way, but notes that evidence of people taking action based on this fear is "scant" and "anecdotal". See - Bartholomew, Robert E. (2001). Little Green Men, Meowing Nuns and Head-Hunting Panics: A Study of Mass Psychogenic Illness and Social Delusion. Jefferson, North Carolina: Macfarland & Company. pp. 217ff.. ISBN 0-7864-0997-5.
The urban legend that sprang up, about ignorant people believing that the radio broadcast of War of the worlds was real, is one of the most pervasive and believed myths in modern times.
It was fuelled by the newspapers and magazines of the era, who didn't like radio much and were keen to portray it in a bad light.
As anyone who has heard the broadcast knows, the show was frequently interrupted by voice overs telling you that you were listening to a dramatisation.
No doubt though, there will be those on slashdot who will also continue to perpetuate this legend as historical fact.
As others have said, he's dealing in 4 spatial dimensions, not Time.
If it helps, to have a real world analogy, imagine a maze. Even with bushes, it's basically a 2D problem. Now, leave the bushes there, but imagine you could float/hover and move over them. You're moving in a separate spatial dimension than the maze.
Now, if there's floating bushes too, you're kind of stuck.
What this game does, is allow you to choose which 3 spatial dimensions you see on your screen, and move around in. But at any time, you can change your reference frame.
If a path is blocked in your current reference frame (1,1,1) where (1) represents an object blocking your path, do a transform, and see what's there in the fourth dimension. (0,1,1) Oh look, now a path is opened. We can go in that direction...
Thanks for that. Strange that in a story about the importance of wikileaks, such an important part of the story would have been left deliberately vague.
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That's great! Because a single isolated counter-example will totally bring the system crashing to halt in twenty or thirty years.
Florida is insane, in the same way that senile demented octogenarians are insane. They never think past tomorrow, because they don't know if they're going to live until tomorrow. All that matters is today, the pudding, and Matlock.
"Is that how iFanboys spell cachet?"
It's how my spellchecker spelled it. Stupid lack of dictionary...
It might be the single most humane way to reduce the human population down to manageable numbers and get rid of the pleasure-seeking mouth breathers.
We'd finally be left with a population for whom the pursuit of meaningless virtual pleasure isn't the be-all and end-all of their existence.
We'd be left with some artists, some engineers, probably all the mathematicians, and people who like other people...
I really don't see a problem with it.
Wow! A judge with common sense!
Someone should nominate him for the Supreme Court. They are in dire need of common sense.
As it invents the extra "caché" of owning an iPad.
There's no way the demand exceeded their expectations. Maybe with the iPhone or iPod, they could have argued this. But not now.
Exactly. It's all relative. Like the snail who got mugged by the 3 tortoises.
When questioned by the police he said "I just don't know. It all happened so fast."
use to communicate, it's ultra low frequency radio waves.
Wait. What?
If you don't want people leaving the left parties, and voting elsewhere (like the Pirate Party) then you should consider appealing to those voters interests. Clearly, copyright reform is a deal breaker for these voters.
Even in a country like Ireland, which has Proportional representation, the emergence of The Green Party and others merely forced the larger more mainstream parties to include more green policies. (Granted, it was lip service in the end.)
irrationality.
We've become far too tolerant of this sort of thing. Deliberate pollution of the info-sphere.
Aliens did not fly millions of miles to Earth, just so they could probe Cletus the slack-jawed yokels' anal cavity.
There is no invisible man in the sky who knows when you've been naughty and when you've been nice, and who you can ask for things.
A larger percentage of the human population than you might think possible, are genuinely mentally disturbed.
and I doubt that that film can be remade better
Give the triple breasted hooker an extra breast? And a sex scene?
And their families, their friends, their secretaries, their PA's?
They need to feel the pinch of this insane law. And fast.
The best thing about seeing the swimming pool area, is when you recognise it from Call of Duty 4. You can snap a photo of where you killed that sniper...
No, because dropping one could have been hand-waved as "We didn't know how devastating it would be" or "It's so horrible, we don't like to use it" or "It's a weapon of last resort".
Dropping one, then dropping another a few days later, gives the impression of "We can keep this up until you're all dead. Surrender or else."
That's the sort of message they were going for.
When I was in Pripryat (and yes, we had the dosimeters as well) the readings were perfectly fine if you stepped on concrete, tarmac, or in some of the buildings. But if you stepped onto grass, soil, vegetation or anything which was connected to the water table, the dosimeter shot WAY up WAY fast.
Our guide made a point of showing this to us, when we were taking photos of the bumper cars in the amusement park.
I'm considering going back again this year.
so surely the second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki was gratuitous at best.
No, it served a purpose. Just not one that fits neatly into the Good vs Evil narrative, so often attributed to World War II.
Both bombs were dropped on Japan, in order to show Russia exactly what sort of weapons the US now possessed. The military leaders of the day were already mentally moving past the Nazi/Japanese, and were then looking to Stalin.
It's like some people such as those of European decent can metabolize alcohol fairly easily where as other groups without the history of consuming it have less tolerance.
Ah, that explains the Irish.
How's that war on actual facts going?
Have you seen Fox News lately? I think they're winning.
Sure...
"Later studies suggested this panic was less widespread than newspapers suggested. During this period, many newspapers were concerned that radio, a new medium, would render the press obsolete. In addition, this was a time of yellow journalism, and as a result, journalists took this opportunity to demonstrate the dangers of broadcast by embellishing the story, and the panic that ensued, greatly." see Mass Communication Theory: Foundations, Ferment, and Future By Stanley J. Baran, Dennis K. Davis
Robert E. Bartholomew suggests that hundreds of thousands were frightened in some way, but notes that evidence of people taking action based on this fear is "scant" and "anecdotal".
See - Bartholomew, Robert E. (2001). Little Green Men, Meowing Nuns and Head-Hunting Panics: A Study of Mass Psychogenic Illness and Social Delusion. Jefferson, North Carolina: Macfarland & Company. pp. 217ff.. ISBN 0-7864-0997-5.
And for a slightly more amusing take on the myth :
http://www.cracked.com/article_18487_6-ridiculous-history-myths-you-probably-think-are-true_p2.html
That enough citations for you?
The urban legend that sprang up, about ignorant people believing that the radio broadcast of War of the worlds was real, is one of the most pervasive and believed myths in modern times.
It was fuelled by the newspapers and magazines of the era, who didn't like radio much and were keen to portray it in a bad light.
As anyone who has heard the broadcast knows, the show was frequently interrupted by voice overs telling you that you were listening to a dramatisation.
No doubt though, there will be those on slashdot who will also continue to perpetuate this legend as historical fact.
Why do we have to change the rules just because some idiots are finding brand new unforeseen ways to be stupid?
Remember this, the next time you hear someone push the "they hate us for our freedoms" meme.
Just because this stuff is covered up in the US, doesn't mean it's covered up elsewhere.
The people of the United States are often the most ignorant of the atrocities being carried out in their name.
In the hands of the right teller, that actually holds true, though rarely for a third cycle.
I have discovered a wonderful proof for this though sadly this text box is too narrow to contain it.
As others have said, he's dealing in 4 spatial dimensions, not Time.
If it helps, to have a real world analogy, imagine a maze. Even with bushes, it's basically a 2D problem. Now, leave the bushes there, but imagine you could float/hover and move over them. You're moving in a separate spatial dimension than the maze.
Now, if there's floating bushes too, you're kind of stuck.
What this game does, is allow you to choose which 3 spatial dimensions you see on your screen, and move around in. But at any time, you can change your reference frame.
If a path is blocked in your current reference frame (1,1,1) where (1) represents an object blocking your path, do a transform, and see what's there in the fourth dimension. (0,1,1) Oh look, now a path is opened. We can go in that direction...
Thanks for that. Strange that in a story about the importance of wikileaks, such an important part of the story would have been left deliberately vague.