Where should they get thier words from then? Latin? According to dictionary.com the middle english 'fruit' comes from the latin 'fructus' and veg from 'vegetbilis'. Should scientists have different words? How about fructs and vegetabils? Not differnt enough from the language cooks use? Maybe they should generate a synthetic language only scientists use and call then blobs and wobbles? Isn't taking known words and reutilising them for different purposes how language works? Unless words are politically charged, like the N word, doesn't anyone and everyone have the right to do exactly what they want with them?
For people on a good wage with little or no dependants it is a relatively small amount of money and I remember those days well. That's not what the population of the world consists of though.
I have kids now. We can and have fed our family of 4 for a week on ten quid when the need has arose and sometimes when it hasn't just because. I consider ourselves comfortable and know other people and families in comparatively impoverished circumstances to our selves. I've never met anyone who is malnourished or starving but I'm led to believe there are plenty of people in the world who are.
When I grew up I realised just what a huge sum of money ten quid is.
There are religious people and non-religious people. There are assholes and non-assholes. In the resulting venn diagram, you've already identified your self positively as non-religious and provided indirect evidence as to the other dimension. Ah, I'm playing with you; in truth people probably don't easily fall into neat categories. Or do they? What do you think?
The internet is a great way to learn what's possible all right. Before the internet came along I only had top shelf mags for a reference. Now the internet is here it turns out all those mags were wrong anyway. It turns out that all women are hairless, desperate to choke on an aggressive deep throating, eager to have a threesome and absolutely love it up the Gary Glitter every time without hesitation. Now if I can just get the women in my life to understand all these things are possible then I wouldn't need the internet any more either.
I'm unable to avoid googling things like this so; Zippocat turns out to be a series of pictures of a cat being doused with lighterfluid and set on fire. Cute eh? Glad you asked? Apparently, used to troll cat lovers and to get yourself banninated from any given place you post it. I have to say, not as disturbing as two girls, one cup.
...but completely compatible with a system of unbalanced power and resources. I like your use of the concept of naturally in this train of thought but it's misplaced. You could replace it with politically and maybe even with socially and it would better reflect your proclivities.
Your'e miscarracterising nautre too (although granted, your spelling is better) from a particualrly western, positivist frame of reference.
Competition does not exist in a vacuum and does not work without co-operation. The 'competition', 'selfishness' and 'rational self interest' memes are compelling because they are powerful explanations that can be weilded effectively but don't confuse the explanations with the thing itself.
Defining 'having kids' as 'supremely selfish' is a point of view. Stating; "..not altruistic.." is a pre-polarised statement that completely misses that there even is another side to the story and is another point of view. You're welcome to your point of view but please refrain from the twin evils of confusing it with reality and imposing it on others as reality.
I'll second that. I did it myself and it did me a world of good. (Also, co-incidentally, saving me a lot of money in tharapy fees.)
I ended up married a counsellor. Luckyly we'd both mostly sorted ourselves out before hooking up so the whole dysfunctional co-dependancy thing was not much of an issue but because of the circles we've both moved through through the years, I've known a lot of these people; and a majority of them seem to be self selected borderline nutso gaga, in it for the fix and sometimes quite open about thier own little screwball tendancies; using social situations with thier peers as some kind of opportunity for ongoing theraputic work.
Me? Well I used to have a split personality but we're both alright now.*twitch, twitch, spasm*
It was years ago I read this so I can't quote a source for it but; You are more likely to be in an accident with a car if you are a helmet wearing cyclist. The study suggested car drivers drive more carefully around cyclists without head protection and more carelessly around those with.
Because people are animals and animals will eat anything edible if they get nutrition out of it. Oxpeckers groom the animals of the african savanha eating dandruff and earwax (which I hear is the same stuff as snot in a different form) amoung other things. A cats digestion is inefficient and there is still enough protein left in the end result for some dogs to want to eat it.
There's an evolutionary advantage to enjoying your food no matter how disgusting.
First they hacked the mechanical legs. I did not protest for I have no mechanical legs.
Then they hacked the mechanical hands. I did not protest for I have no mechanical hands.
Then they hacked the mechanical spines and I did not protest for I have no mechanical spine.
Then they hacked the mechanical jaws and I still did not protest for I had a mechanical jaw.
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Where should they get thier words from then? Latin? According to dictionary.com the middle english 'fruit' comes from the latin 'fructus' and veg from 'vegetbilis'. Should scientists have different words? How about fructs and vegetabils? Not differnt enough from the language cooks use? Maybe they should generate a synthetic language only scientists use and call then blobs and wobbles? Isn't taking known words and reutilising them for different purposes how language works? Unless words are politically charged, like the N word, doesn't anyone and everyone have the right to do exactly what they want with them?
Yes I like this idea. And let's tax the rich while we're at it.
But the music industry don't want an end to downloading as that would cut off more than one financially lucrative revenue stream.
Just me then.
...for porn. Sooo; intelligent and turned on. Good combo.
I have kids now. We can and have fed our family of 4 for a week on ten quid when the need has arose and sometimes when it hasn't just because. I consider ourselves comfortable and know other people and families in comparatively impoverished circumstances to our selves. I've never met anyone who is malnourished or starving but I'm led to believe there are plenty of people in the world who are.
When I grew up I realised just what a huge sum of money ten quid is.
Here it is
Multicellular life deep in the earth is interesting but I'd like to find sentient slashdot editors.
Just like my wife. As soon as I show an interest, she wont let me in.
Well then maybe those little babies wont become obese. What would be the economic impact of that?
A shark can tell the difference between fun and drowning.
There are religious people and non-religious people. There are assholes and non-assholes. In the resulting venn diagram, you've already identified your self positively as non-religious and provided indirect evidence as to the other dimension. Ah, I'm playing with you; in truth people probably don't easily fall into neat categories. Or do they? What do you think?
The internet is a great way to learn what's possible all right. Before the internet came along I only had top shelf mags for a reference. Now the internet is here it turns out all those mags were wrong anyway. It turns out that all women are hairless, desperate to choke on an aggressive deep throating, eager to have a threesome and absolutely love it up the Gary Glitter every time without hesitation. Now if I can just get the women in my life to understand all these things are possible then I wouldn't need the internet any more either.
Hummmmm... noodles.
I'm unable to avoid googling things like this so; Zippocat turns out to be a series of pictures of a cat being doused with lighterfluid and set on fire. Cute eh? Glad you asked? Apparently, used to troll cat lovers and to get yourself banninated from any given place you post it. I have to say, not as disturbing as two girls, one cup.
...but completely compatible with a system of unbalanced power and resources. I like your use of the concept of naturally in this train of thought but it's misplaced. You could replace it with politically and maybe even with socially and it would better reflect your proclivities.
Competition does not exist in a vacuum and does not work without co-operation. The 'competition', 'selfishness' and 'rational self interest' memes are compelling because they are powerful explanations that can be weilded effectively but don't confuse the explanations with the thing itself.
Defining 'having kids' as 'supremely selfish' is a point of view. Stating; "..not altruistic.." is a pre-polarised statement that completely misses that there even is another side to the story and is another point of view. You're welcome to your point of view but please refrain from the twin evils of confusing it with reality and imposing it on others as reality.
I ended up married a counsellor. Luckyly we'd both mostly sorted ourselves out before hooking up so the whole dysfunctional co-dependancy thing was not much of an issue but because of the circles we've both moved through through the years, I've known a lot of these people; and a majority of them seem to be self selected borderline nutso gaga, in it for the fix and sometimes quite open about thier own little screwball tendancies; using social situations with thier peers as some kind of opportunity for ongoing theraputic work.
Me? Well I used to have a split personality but we're both alright now.*twitch, twitch, spasm*
It was years ago I read this so I can't quote a source for it but; You are more likely to be in an accident with a car if you are a helmet wearing cyclist. The study suggested car drivers drive more carefully around cyclists without head protection and more carelessly around those with.
It's a pity that conventional broadcast media make content consumption so much less convienient, accessible and satisfying than "just pirate it."
I'm hoping to live long enough for a small cranial implant or neural interface to take over from my cell phone/watch/mp3/net/etc...
...how far a stick is up their rectum
Yur doin it wrong!
Sounds like having kids.
Because people are animals and animals will eat anything edible if they get nutrition out of it. Oxpeckers groom the animals of the african savanha eating dandruff and earwax (which I hear is the same stuff as snot in a different form) amoung other things. A cats digestion is inefficient and there is still enough protein left in the end result for some dogs to want to eat it. There's an evolutionary advantage to enjoying your food no matter how disgusting.
Because anyone who dosen't read /. has no clue how to go about coverting this stuff.
First they hacked the mechanical legs. I did not protest for I have no mechanical legs.
Then they hacked the mechanical hands. I did not protest for I have no mechanical hands.
Then they hacked the mechanical spines and I did not protest for I have no mechanical spine.
Then they hacked the mechanical jaws and I still did not protest for I had a mechanical jaw.