> which is an empty concept, like the Philosopher's Stone
Only a spiritual idiot would think the process of Alchemy referred to a _physical_ process -- it is about a spiritual transformation. But then again most men are clueless and completely fail to understand the allegorical pattern -- they automatically assume a literal interpretation. The problem with any fundamentalist is their myopic view.
For example:
1 + 1 = 1
People ask how?
Proof: Marriage -- but you won't understand the answer until you live it.
> or an honest politician.
Hehe./Oblg. Q. How do you know when a politician is lying? A. When they are talking.
(Variations include; When their lips move)
> The texts of the Bible express differing theological positions
As the disciple James says that was _intentional_.
James having thus spoken, the elders were in an agony of terror. Therefore James, perceiving that they were greatly afraid, said:
"Hear me, brethren and fellow-servants. If we should give the books to all indiscriminately, and they should be corrupted by any daring men, or be perverted by interpretations, as you have heard that some have already done, it will remain even for those who really seek the truth, always to wander in error. Wherefore it is better that they should be with us, and that we should communicate them with all the fore-mentioned care to those who wish to live piously, and to save others. But if any one, after taking this adjuration, shall act otherwise, he shall with good reason incur eternal punishment. For why should not he who is the cause of the destruction of others not be destroyed himself?"
The disciple Peter said the same thing:
"But I would not have you think, that in saying this I take away the power of judging concerning things;but I give counsel that no one walk through devious places, and rush into errors without end. And therefore I advise not only wise men, but indeed all men who have a desire of knowing what is advantageous to them, that they seek after the true Prophet; for it is He alone who knoweth all things, and who knoweth what and how every man is seeking. For He is within the mind of every one of us, but in those who have no desire of the knowledge of God and His righteousness, He is inoperative; but He works in those who seek after that which is profitable to their souls, and kindles in them the light of knowledge. Wherefore seek Him first of all; and if you do not find Him, expect not that you shall learn anything from any other. But He is soon found by those who diligently seek Him through love of the truth, and whose souls are not taken possession of by wickedness. For He is present with those who desire Him in the innocence of their spirits, who bear patiently, and draw sighs from the bottom of their hearts through love of the truth; but He deserts malevolent minds, because as a prophet He knows the thoughts of every one. And therefore let no one think that he can find Him by his own wisdom, unless, as we have said, he empty his mind of all wickedness, and conceive a pure and faithful desire to know Him. For when any one has so prepared himself, He Himself as a prophet, seeing a mind prepared for Him, of His own accord offers Himself to his knowledge."
> so anyone who infers a singular position from the text is picking and choosing.
Incorrect. As the teacher Yeshua taught:
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
Any _apparent_ inconsistency is because:
a) someone is not understanding the purpose of the contradiction -- it is a literal "WAKE UP!" to the reader. See next point: b) someone falling for the fallacy of a strict literal interpretation and completely oblivious to the 2 other higher meanings, c) failing to understand that _men_ wrote contradictory scripture. As the prophet Jeremiah says:
"'How can you say, "We are wise, for we have the law of the LORD," when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely?
Only an complete and utter idiot would believe that God required animal sacrifices. Jeremiah shows the development of the mind of those who seek:
Jeremiah 7:22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I
Yes, they really need to look at the same programmer across procedural, functional, and OOP languages. In my experience programmers that don't understand how to use C welltend to be very poor Java, etc. programmers.:-( Understanding low levels such as memory usage and cache performance, the ability to read assembly, and knowing concepts such as register spell and branch prediction, while not "necessary" for the modern programmer all help you to be a much better programmer by understanding what the machine is doing. People who suggest "Just throw memory / cpu / hardware at a problem" are piss-poor programmers.
However consider the majority of programmers 0.5% can't even grok a simple 4* case if-then statement of FizzBuzz....
... then I would say the bigger problem is teaching programmers to have critical thinking. Stop over-engineering everything. Here is an article on "Criminal Overengineering."
Yes that is another short coming of Buddhism: It is ignorant of the Soul and how it transcends time with past, concurrent, and potential lives. When you make assumptions naturally you will come to the wrong conclusion.:-( Can't really fault them for that.
Other then that Buddhists certainly is more grounded in reality then other religions by not focusing on dogma as much. Of course there are a lot of shitty religious teachers unable to grasp the 3 levels of "scripture." Fundamentalists in any group, be it theist, or atheist, are pretty intolerant of others with their myopic views.
What I like about Buddhism is that it gets the foundation for enlightenment correct:
Know Thyself.
i.e. "How can you know God if you don't first know yourself?"
Which is a modern paraphrase of this beautiful quote:
A brahmin once asked the Blessed One: "Are you a God?" "No, brahmin," said the Blessed One. "Are you a saint?" "No, brahmin," said the Blessed One. "Are you a magician?" "No, brahmin," said the Blessed One. "What are you then?" "I am awake."
Buddhism teaches the myopic view of non attachment and to deny the ego. The fallacy of Buddhism is that you are NOT a divine nothing. There is nothing wrong in loving your spouse; in fact the exact opposite should be honored, respected, and cherished. Buddhism focuses on the false ego and ignores the true self -- which loves everything unconditionally.
Other then that, it is a wonderful system as it provides Atheists a way to understand the beginnings of God: Know Thyself
> BTW, people who use spaces in filenames are imbeciles.
And yet here you are using spaces to communicate. _Exactly_ why we have filenames in the FIRST place instead of using sector numbers.
We don't write nor read (English) with underscores: e.g. "BTW,_people_who_use_spaces_in_filenames_are_imbeciles."
Maybe you should stop being an imbecile and pay attention to how 99% of the rest of the world operates instead of making excuses for a broken OS's filesystem, shell, or GUI. Forcing people to adapt to the computerinstead of the other way around is exactly why you should take your own advice: Oh, get over yourself.
> What did YOU give the world in 1975?
Fallacy of Ad Hominem; let's shoot the messenger instead of paying attention to the message.
I used to think like this too before I got some insight into how the cable customer operates.
At the risk of getting down modded, that is extremely short term thinking.
The customer is going to lose in this "battle."
Why?
People "think" they want TV a la carte (pay for only the channels you want) but they don't understand how the industry works. Content license fees are spiraling out of control. As in 1 to 10% increases in License costsper year. (Some estimates put the license fees in the $100's of millions/year; the increases cost millions / year.) The cable companies are NOT going to absorb that expense so they pass it onto the customer -- that is 1 of the 3 reasons why the damn cable bill is so high. (Hint. Why do you think NetFlix is moving to start their own TV shows?! To build branding and to avoid all those exuberant content license fees!)
Customer goes: "I only want to pay for the few channels I watch. I watch these 4 channels."
Cable company replies: "Sure, that is $50/channel. That is a total of $200 please."
Customer goes: "WTF? My bill is STILL $200??"
Cable: "Well if you order 2 more channels we could lower your total bill down to $150. Normally 6 channels @ $50/channel would cost $300, but since you are a valued premium channel subscriber you'll only pay $25/channel. That is a 50% discount for 1 year." <--- Notice how the rep wants the customer to believe he is getting this huge deal yet still pays through the nose!
Customer: "Grrr, can we go back to bundling?"
Cable company: "Sorry, nope, this is what you wanted remember?"
Customer: **Sigh** (Thinks: If only I had known... I could cut the cord but then I can't get the shows I want to watch) **Grumbling** "Alright."
The cable market is saturated. The rate of "churn" is holding steady. All customers are doing are moving from one ISP/Cable/Satellite company to another and back again. The cable companies really don't care about 0.001% of their customers "cutting the cord." Where are those that say good-bye going to get their content? Plus they have enough suckers ^H^H^H customers dependent on them anyways that group-herd-mentality (aka Stockholm syndrome) that they won't leave anyways. It is far easier to bitch then to do something.
Shifting how the license fees are collect are not going to change your cable bill.
Sure a few crappy channels will die, but you can bet that the content creators are fighting tooth and nail to never let TV a la carte happen. The cable companies will _still_ be seen as "gouging" the customer no matter what happens because the customer has NO IDEA of the infrastructure costs, let alone the content license fees.
And the customer still _won't_ be able to get the channels he wants unless he ponies up.
CP/M needs to die in a fire, and be buried, never to be remembered where it belongs.
That stupid piece-of-shit OS couldn't have more then 8.3 characters in filenames when Apple DOS 3.3 had 30 characters (including spaces!); Apple ProDOS had 15 characters the latter which even had sub-directories!
Good bye and good riddance to CP/M -- the OS that held Microsoft, MSDOS, and Windows back for decades. Even _today_ you _still_ see Windows using 8.3 filenames in Windows\System32 !?
All I need is 2 or 3 copies @ $100 to have a valid serial number.
It is not about "proving" anything to Microsoft. The _point_ was that there are already free alternatives that I use daily. Windows is no longer the "mandatory" software that it once was -- especially now that I gave up playing other people's games and starting making my own.
I think Windows 7 is going to be the last Microsoft OS I'm going to buy. Linux is free. Hell, even OSX is free. Yet MS wants to keep gouging customers $100+. Uhm, no thanks.
Especially since you can use the Safe Boot > Repair Computer > and this batch file to have "unlimited" time to "register"
> Just use jquery or something, sheesh. No one needs to manually fiddle with DOM anymore.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not agains jQuery. It serves a useful purpose. HOWEVER, yeah, like I have better things to do then debug that unholy-mess called jQuery.
There is a time to manipulate DOM with small, simple, fast Javascript. And a time to use a more heavyweight solution.
Of course there are always exceptions to the "rule".
Let's take off the myopic glasses for a second and look at a few other fields...
How many male (registered) nurses are there compared to women? How many male hair stylists are there compared to women? How many male baby sitters are there compared to women?
Conversely :
How many women are there in construction? How many women are there in the NHL (hockey) or some other male dominated sport? How many women are there in professional motorcycle/F1/Nascar racing? How many women are firefighters?
Lastly one last question:
How many men give birth to children?
Hmm, I don't see too many men complaining that they can't give birth. Maybe, just _maybe_ there might be a slight biological basis that since women naturally become mothers and nurturing is a big part of being a mother that women might tend to favor jobs that favor compassion over things. Color me shocked!
Men tend to like either a) building things, or b) destroying things. Women tend to be more focused on human relationships. Calling the general trends & facts "stereotypes" is akin to sticking your head in the sand. Ignoring the data doesn't make it go away.
And before we forget, the first programmer was a Ada Lovelace.
We should be celebrating our differencesinstead of complaining that genetics + our social environment tends to favor stereotypes. In the western world a woman has lots of choices for whatever she does. Yet ironically the most important one, a mother caring for her children, is starting to change.
Slashdot Mirror
+1 well said!
Minor comments:
> which is an empty concept, like the Philosopher's Stone
Only a spiritual idiot would think the process of Alchemy referred to a _physical_ process -- it is about a spiritual transformation. But then again most men are clueless and completely fail to understand the allegorical pattern -- they automatically assume a literal interpretation. The problem with any fundamentalist is their myopic view.
For example:
1 + 1 = 1
People ask how?
Proof: Marriage -- but you won't understand the answer until you live it.
> or an honest politician.
Hehe. /Oblg.
Q. How do you know when a politician is lying?
A. When they are talking.
(Variations include; When their lips move)
That's easy.
Wikipedia's idiotic "No Trivia" policy.
As they say "One man's trivia is another man's useless data."
Just because _you_ don't find the information useful does _not_ imply _no one_ finds the information interesting.
I _like_ knowing about cultural references, easter eggs, trivia, in movies, games, books, etc.
> The texts of the Bible express differing theological positions
As the disciple James says that was _intentional_.
The disciple Peter said the same thing:
> so anyone who infers a singular position from the text is picking and choosing.
Incorrect. As the teacher Yeshua taught:
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
Any _apparent_ inconsistency is because:
a) someone is not understanding the purpose of the contradiction -- it is a literal "WAKE UP!" to the reader. See next point:
b) someone falling for the fallacy of a strict literal interpretation and completely oblivious to the 2 other higher meanings,
c) failing to understand that _men_ wrote contradictory scripture. As the prophet Jeremiah says:
Only an complete and utter idiot would believe that God required animal sacrifices. Jeremiah shows the development of the mind of those who seek:
That is a great point !
Yes, they really need to look at the same programmer across procedural, functional, and OOP languages. In my experience programmers that don't understand how to use C well tend to be very poor Java, etc. programmers. :-( Understanding low levels such as memory usage and cache performance, the ability to read assembly, and knowing concepts such as register spell and branch prediction, while not "necessary" for the modern programmer all help you to be a much better programmer by understanding what the machine is doing. People who suggest "Just throw memory / cpu / hardware at a problem" are piss-poor programmers.
However consider the majority of programmers 0.5% can't even grok a simple 4* case if-then statement of FizzBuzz ....
* http://blog.codinghorror.com/w...
* http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FizzBuz...
* http://coderoom.wordpress.com/...
This is the reason modern programs chew up megabytes of RAM and people _still_ are waiting on a GHz CPU.
Somewhere along the way we lost the importance of K.I.S.S. -- Keep it Simple Stupid.
--
* The 4 cases are:
1. n mod 15 = 0, print fizzbuzz
2. n mod 5 print buzz
3. n mod 3 printf fizz
4. default: print n
Yes that is another short coming of Buddhism: It is ignorant of the Soul and how it transcends time with past, concurrent, and potential lives. When you make assumptions naturally you will come to the wrong conclusion. :-( Can't really fault them for that.
Other then that Buddhists certainly is more grounded in reality then other religions by not focusing on dogma as much. Of course there are a lot of shitty religious teachers unable to grasp the 3 levels of "scripture." Fundamentalists in any group, be it theist, or atheist, are pretty intolerant of others with their myopic views.
What I like about Buddhism is that it gets the foundation for enlightenment correct:
Know Thyself.
i.e. "How can you know God if you don't first know yourself?"
Which is a modern paraphrase of this beautiful quote:
A brahmin once asked the Blessed One: "Are you a God?"
"No, brahmin," said the Blessed One.
"Are you a saint?"
"No, brahmin," said the Blessed One.
"Are you a magician?"
"No, brahmin," said the Blessed One.
"What are you then?"
"I am awake."
Buddhism teaches the myopic view of non attachment and to deny the ego. The fallacy of Buddhism is that you are NOT a divine nothing. There is nothing wrong in loving your spouse; in fact the exact opposite should be honored, respected, and cherished. Buddhism focuses on the false ego and ignores the true self -- which loves everything unconditionally.
Other then that, it is a wonderful system as it provides Atheists a way to understand the beginnings of God: Know Thyself
/Oblg.
South Park - Cable Company
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
> BTW, people who use spaces in filenames are imbeciles.
And yet here you are using spaces to communicate. _Exactly_ why we have filenames in the FIRST place instead of using sector numbers.
We don't write nor read (English) with underscores: e.g. "BTW,_people_who_use_spaces_in_filenames_are_imbeciles."
Maybe you should stop being an imbecile and pay attention to how 99% of the rest of the world operates instead of making excuses for a broken OS's filesystem, shell, or GUI. Forcing people to adapt to the computer instead of the other way around is exactly why you should take your own advice: Oh, get over yourself.
> What did YOU give the world in 1975?
Fallacy of Ad Hominem; let's shoot the messenger instead of paying attention to the message.
So putting up with traffic, pollution, and excessive noise is the solution?? And I can only watch the _local_ teams??
Methinks you over-estimate how motivated people are.
They would rather sit in the comfort of their own home where they can pause the game as needed then spend an extra hour or 2 of inconveniences.
> I am rooting for a death spiral.
I used to think like this too before I got some insight into how the cable customer operates.
At the risk of getting down modded, that is extremely short term thinking.
The customer is going to lose in this "battle."
Why?
People "think" they want TV a la carte (pay for only the channels you want) but they don't understand how the industry works. Content license fees are spiraling out of control. As in 1 to 10% increases in License costs per year. (Some estimates put the license fees in the $100's of millions/year; the increases cost millions / year.) The cable companies are NOT going to absorb that expense so they pass it onto the customer -- that is 1 of the 3 reasons why the damn cable bill is so high. (Hint. Why do you think NetFlix is moving to start their own TV shows?! To build branding and to avoid all those exuberant content license fees!)
Customer goes: "I only want to pay for the few channels I watch. I watch these 4 channels."
Cable company replies: "Sure, that is $50/channel. That is a total of $200 please."
Customer goes: "WTF? My bill is STILL $200??"
Cable: "Well if you order 2 more channels we could lower your total bill down to $150. Normally 6 channels @ $50/channel would cost $300, but since you are a valued premium channel subscriber you'll only pay $25/channel. That is a 50% discount for 1 year." <--- Notice how the rep wants the customer to believe he is getting this huge deal yet still pays through the nose!
Customer: "Grrr, can we go back to bundling?"
Cable company: "Sorry, nope, this is what you wanted remember?"
Customer: **Sigh** (Thinks: If only I had known ... I could cut the cord but then I can't get the shows I want to watch) **Grumbling** "Alright."
The cable market is saturated. The rate of "churn" is holding steady. All customers are doing are moving from one ISP/Cable/Satellite company to another and back again. The cable companies really don't care about 0.001% of their customers "cutting the cord." Where are those that say good-bye going to get their content? Plus they have enough suckers ^H^H^H customers dependent on them anyways that group-herd-mentality (aka Stockholm syndrome) that they won't leave anyways. It is far easier to bitch then to do something.
Shifting how the license fees are collect are not going to change your cable bill.
Sure a few crappy channels will die, but you can bet that the content creators are fighting tooth and nail to never let TV a la carte happen. The cable companies will _still_ be seen as "gouging" the customer no matter what happens because the customer has NO IDEA of the infrastructure costs, let alone the content license fees.
And the customer still _won't_ be able to get the channels he wants unless he ponies up.
CP/M needs to die in a fire, and be buried, never to be remembered where it belongs.
That stupid piece-of-shit OS couldn't have more then 8.3 characters in filenames when Apple DOS 3.3 had 30 characters (including spaces!); Apple ProDOS had 15 characters the latter which even had sub-directories!
Good bye and good riddance to CP/M -- the OS that held Microsoft, MSDOS, and Windows back for decades. Even _today_ you _still_ see Windows using 8.3 filenames in Windows\System32 !?
While you are correct that it was a Catholic Priest who came up with the idea of the Big Bang I'm more concerned about the bigger picture.
The Pope declaring something "true" doesn't change the facts.
This is a non story.
That's a pretty good summary !
Some really good videos ...
Quantum Physics And How We Affect Reality!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The Quantum Conspiracy: What Popularizers of QM Don't Want You to Know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Hint: There is no conspiracy -- just a Google Talk about entanglement and wave collapse
Without 3rd party software?
All I need is 2 or 3 copies @ $100 to have a valid serial number.
It is not about "proving" anything to Microsoft. The _point_ was that there are already free alternatives that I use daily. Windows is no longer the "mandatory" software that it once was -- especially now that I gave up playing other people's games and starting making my own.
Windows 7 64 bit
I think Windows 7 is going to be the last Microsoft OS I'm going to buy. Linux is free. Hell, even OSX is free. Yet MS wants to keep gouging customers $100+. Uhm, no thanks.
Especially since you can use the Safe Boot > Repair Computer > and this batch file to have "unlimited" time to "register"
> Just use jquery or something, sheesh. No one needs to manually fiddle with DOM anymore.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not agains jQuery. It serves a useful purpose. HOWEVER, yeah, like I have better things to do then debug that unholy-mess called jQuery.
There is a time to manipulate DOM with small, simple, fast Javascript. And a time to use a more heavyweight solution.
> it's about ethics in games journalism.
LOL. That's funny.
_That_ would BE news if there were any!
Mod parent up !
The other problem with GMO is that we don't have long term studies, i.e. 100 years, to _really_ know ALL of the effects.
Typo t->g. Obviously different rates, not rages. ;-)
Cognitive dissonance much?
The video points out the absurdity and unfairness of taxing with different rages is no different then a petition to redistribute GPA scores.
He never said it was an "absolute".
Of course there are always exceptions to the "rule".
Let's take off the myopic glasses for a second and look at a few other fields ...
How many male (registered) nurses are there compared to women?
How many male hair stylists are there compared to women?
How many male baby sitters are there compared to women?
Conversely :
How many women are there in construction?
How many women are there in the NHL (hockey) or some other male dominated sport?
How many women are there in professional motorcycle/F1/Nascar racing?
How many women are firefighters?
Lastly one last question:
How many men give birth to children?
Hmm, I don't see too many men complaining that they can't give birth. Maybe, just _maybe_ there might be a slight biological basis that since women naturally become mothers and nurturing is a big part of being a mother that women might tend to favor jobs that favor compassion over things. Color me shocked!
Men tend to like either a) building things, or b) destroying things. Women tend to be more focused on human relationships. Calling the general trends & facts "stereotypes" is akin to sticking your head in the sand. Ignoring the data doesn't make it go away.
And before we forget, the first programmer was a Ada Lovelace.
We should be celebrating our differencesinstead of complaining that genetics + our social environment tends to favor stereotypes. In the western world a woman has lots of choices for whatever she does. Yet ironically the most important one, a mother caring for her children, is starting to change.
Indeed.
"An Underground History of American Education" covers this exact problem.
* PDF
* Dead tree format
Mathematicians and Physicists have been pointing this out for years ...
* A Mathematician's Lament
* Cargo Cult Science
Exactly.
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