WHAT?!? And kill Slashdot?
Where would this fine website be if people didn't force themselves to use technology that gave them stomach ulcers so they could fly of into a nerd rage and post about it?
Ah ok, didn't know that. It still doesn't change the fact that eugenics is NOT evolution as described by Darwin (again, artificial vs natural selection).
The thing that annoys me, is that even if Hitler, Stalin and Eugenics were all directly influenced by and required evolution, it still doesn't mean that evolution is wrong.
The big bang and origins of life have nothing to do with evolution. Descent through natural selection describes how life evolves, it doesn't actually touch on what is, lets face it, astrophysics. And nor should it.
And yes Steien DOES point to a god. ID is just Creationism with a new look. Google for the PBS documentary on the Dover School Trial and you'll see what I mean.
Animal husbandry, which has been around for centuries (or more) was the basics of eugenics. That is, artificial selection. What Darwin proposed was natural selection.
For a more in depth explanation, please read this:
Open letter from Richard Dawkins.
You do know that before the US invasion Al-Quaeda barely had a look in in Iraq, right?
Its sad the amount of people that will join a radical cause just because someone invades their country and totally destabilize it:-(
You're quite right - taken of itself this isn't a huge deal outside of a third world dictatorship.
But coming in after the Patriot Acts One and Two, after suspension of right to trial, waltzing in after allowing for the extradition of people (including American citizens) to 'detention camps' in countries that happen to have lax laws when its comes to torture, coming in after Bush and his whole fucking government lied through their teeth about the reasons for the illegal invasion and continued occupation of Iraq, bouncing along after stolen elections, skipping along to the the tune of "warrentless wiretapping" and getting down to the beat of "corporate kickbacks for Bush's buddies" - ya just gotta sit back and wonder if maybe its symptomatic of a government gone horribly wrong.
Just to add to the above re breathing (my Father has an anxiety disorder - I have a mild one), thats very good advice.
An ex of mine once had a panic attack and I pretty much talked her down by getting her to focus on her breathing. "In through the nose, out through the mouth, keep looking at me" It works for two reason:
a) When having a panic attack you tent to hyperventilate (sp?) and so lose oxygen, which just makes things feel worse
b) Having something to focus on, ANYTHING other than what is making you anxious helps. Anxiety/panic tends to be nasty in that you start to focus on something, worry about it and so focus more on it. Focusing on your breathing can break that cycle. Sounds odd but it does work.
I'd also like to re-enforce what a few other people have said: panic attacks don't mean your nuts (you calling my dad nuts? Huh?) it's propablly just an indication that you're heavily stressed and not dealing with it (and are probablly not aware of just how much stress you're putting yourself under).
Since we have an internet setup with unlimited bandwidth, there's no cost overhead for using Skype. And not to pimp Skype or anything, but we've saved a couple of grand a month on phone bills:-)
(We have offices in three countries, so we make a LOT of overseas calls just within the company.)
Doh, I thought "wait, I didn't write the original comment, I cannot addendum (sp?) that!" But I'd pressed Submit rather than Preview.
Ah well, still mean it - depresion is not a mood that you (or anyone) can just snap out of. Its a rather unpleasant state of mind, made more so because it leads you to think that its just the way things are.
It took me a long time to accept that depression is in fact an illness, and not just me being the social reject I saw myself as. (The fact that I had (many) friends who were confused as fuck as to why I kept putting myself down never seemed to register;-)
I'm still having to remind myself that its an illness, that its something that's going to pass and that what I feel now about myself is NOT how the rest of world sees me. But with friends/family it is possible to get past this crap (and it is crap - its just that the subjective nature of depression makes it hard if not imppossible to realise this.)
I'd love to mod you up, because yes, he is a programmer and graphics nut, who as far as I can tell, these days, leaves the game design largely up to other people.
Somehow I think that he's come a long way from Commander Keen - engine development and game design can be now be totally removed from each other.
"They should choose a toolkit and stick with it."
*cough*
If you can get "They" to agree to what toolkit/library to use, then you should probablly consider a career change to diplomat/hostage negotiator:-)
Ok, if none of the mods did - I got the joke:-)
On another note, for some weird reason this is the best news I've heard all week - better even than "its Australia day so the clients wont be bothering you today". It really cheered me up for some reason:-)
I re-read the original four books at least once a year, the man was a comic genius and I rate him up there with Spike Milligan comedy wise - both wildy different styles but always able to catch me off guard:-)
"For ten miles Seagoon swam, the last three were in agony."
"They were on land folks!"
"They hung in the air in exactly the same way that bricks don't."
i.e. People wanting to use something like WebEx, or a custom built application that requires ActiveX.
Not justifing it (by a long shot), but you might be suprised at how many "web" apps have been written that only work on IE.
"Bill Gates made bad software acceptable in the market. Steve Jobs would have made bad corporate culture acceptable."
Does "Bad corporate culture" include illegal abuse of a monopoly position? Does it perhaps include falsifying evidence in a court of law? How about astroturfing? How about all the other crap that Microsoft pulled off?
"Altruism, in its purest sense, doesn't really work in reality."
Ok, I'm a tad drunk (drinking tea until the booze wears off enough so that I can go to sleep knowing the hangover will be lessened) so take the following in that context, but:
Altruism never works, Altruism simply is. You do something becaue it helps others. Implying it needs to 'work' is missing the point:-)
If people expected it to 'work', it wouldn't be Altruistic (sp?). The Altruistic act itself is the part that works, anything that follows and happens to be positive is just extra feel good points.
I agree with the rest of the post, just this little bit made me go "ughhhh" in my drunken state;-)
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WHAT?!? And kill Slashdot?
;-)
Where would this fine website be if people didn't force themselves to use technology that gave them stomach ulcers so they could fly of into a nerd rage and post about it?
Please think before posting in future
Ah ok, didn't know that. It still doesn't change the fact that eugenics is NOT evolution as described by Darwin (again, artificial vs natural selection).
The thing that annoys me, is that even if Hitler, Stalin and Eugenics were all directly influenced by and required evolution, it still doesn't mean that evolution is wrong.
The big bang and origins of life have nothing to do with evolution. Descent through natural selection describes how life evolves, it doesn't actually touch on what is, lets face it, astrophysics. And nor should it.
And yes Steien DOES point to a god. ID is just Creationism with a new look. Google for the PBS documentary on the Dover School Trial and you'll see what I mean.
Animal husbandry, which has been around for centuries (or more) was the basics of eugenics. That is, artificial selection. What Darwin proposed was natural selection. For a more in depth explanation, please read this: Open letter from Richard Dawkins.
True.
And the universe in Animal Farm was fictional, and therefore had nothing of value to say.
Yes, and I was imagining geeks setting up PC controlled table top lasers with motion sensors for the ultimate in stupid home defense systems :-)
You do know that before the US invasion Al-Quaeda barely had a look in in Iraq, right? Its sad the amount of people that will join a radical cause just because someone invades their country and totally destabilize it :-(
You're quite right - taken of itself this isn't a huge deal outside of a third world dictatorship.
But coming in after the Patriot Acts One and Two, after suspension of right to trial, waltzing in after allowing for the extradition of people (including American citizens) to 'detention camps' in countries that happen to have lax laws when its comes to torture, coming in after Bush and his whole fucking government lied through their teeth about the reasons for the illegal invasion and continued occupation of Iraq, bouncing along after stolen elections, skipping along to the the tune of "warrentless wiretapping" and getting down to the beat of "corporate kickbacks for Bush's buddies" - ya just gotta sit back and wonder if maybe its symptomatic of a government gone horribly wrong.
Just to add to the above re breathing (my Father has an anxiety disorder - I have a mild one), thats very good advice.
An ex of mine once had a panic attack and I pretty much talked her down by getting her to focus on her breathing. "In through the nose, out through the mouth, keep looking at me" It works for two reason:
a) When having a panic attack you tent to hyperventilate (sp?) and so lose oxygen, which just makes things feel worse
b) Having something to focus on, ANYTHING other than what is making you anxious helps. Anxiety/panic tends to be nasty in that you start to focus on something, worry about it and so focus more on it. Focusing on your breathing can break that cycle. Sounds odd but it does work.
I'd also like to re-enforce what a few other people have said: panic attacks don't mean your nuts (you calling my dad nuts? Huh?) it's propablly just an indication that you're heavily stressed and not dealing with it (and are probablly not aware of just how much stress you're putting yourself under).
http://www.newamericancentury.org/
Since we have an internet setup with unlimited bandwidth, there's no cost overhead for using Skype. And not to pimp Skype or anything, but we've saved a couple of grand a month on phone bills :-)
(We have offices in three countries, so we make a LOT of overseas calls just within the company.)
Doh, I thought "wait, I didn't write the original comment, I cannot addendum (sp?) that!" But I'd pressed Submit rather than Preview.
Ah well, still mean it - depresion is not a mood that you (or anyone) can just snap out of. Its a rather unpleasant state of mind, made more so because it leads you to think that its just the way things are.
"If you know someone you think may be depressed then talk to them about it and offer a friendly ear..."
:-)
Addendum: but NEVER just say "ahh, just snap out of it!" because it soen't work that way
Had I the points, I'd mod you up.
;-)
It took me a long time to accept that depression is in fact an illness, and not just me being the social reject I saw myself as. (The fact that I had (many) friends who were confused as fuck as to why I kept putting myself down never seemed to register
I'm still having to remind myself that its an illness, that its something that's going to pass and that what I feel now about myself is NOT how the rest of world sees me. But with friends/family it is possible to get past this crap (and it is crap - its just that the subjective nature of depression makes it hard if not imppossible to realise this.)
I'd love to mod you up, because yes, he is a programmer and graphics nut, who as far as I can tell, these days, leaves the game design largely up to other people. Somehow I think that he's come a long way from Commander Keen - engine development and game design can be now be totally removed from each other.
Personally, I'm very fucking glad that kind of destructive power cannot be used at all right now, regardles of the budget.
"They should choose a toolkit and stick with it." *cough* If you can get "They" to agree to what toolkit/library to use, then you should probablly consider a career change to diplomat/hostage negotiator :-)
Re: inciting followers to be peacefull hippies - that's pretty much what the Buddha did to his followers :-)
Ok, if none of the mods did - I got the joke :-)
On another note, for some weird reason this is the best news I've heard all week - better even than "its Australia day so the clients wont be bothering you today". It really cheered me up for some reason :-)
I re-read the original four books at least once a year, the man was a comic genius and I rate him up there with Spike Milligan comedy wise - both wildy different styles but always able to catch me off guard :-)
"For ten miles Seagoon swam, the last three were in agony."
"They were on land folks!"
"They hung in the air in exactly the same way that bricks don't."
i.e. People wanting to use something like WebEx, or a custom built application that requires ActiveX. Not justifing it (by a long shot), but you might be suprised at how many "web" apps have been written that only work on IE.
"Sorry, HOW exactly would Steve Jobs be better?"
Argh! tech me to post after getting back from a night's drinking :-)
"Sorry, HOW exactly is Bill Gates better?
"Bill Gates made bad software acceptable in the market. Steve Jobs would have made bad corporate culture acceptable."
Does "Bad corporate culture" include illegal abuse of a monopoly position? Does it perhaps include falsifying evidence in a court of law? How about astroturfing? How about all the other crap that Microsoft pulled off?
Plus, bad software thrown into the bargin!
Sorry, HOW exactly would Steve Jobs be better?
"Altruism, in its purest sense, doesn't really work in reality." Ok, I'm a tad drunk (drinking tea until the booze wears off enough so that I can go to sleep knowing the hangover will be lessened) so take the following in that context, but: Altruism never works, Altruism simply is. You do something becaue it helps others. Implying it needs to 'work' is missing the point :-)
If people expected it to 'work', it wouldn't be Altruistic (sp?). The Altruistic act itself is the part that works, anything that follows and happens to be positive is just extra feel good points.
I agree with the rest of the post, just this little bit made me go "ughhhh" in my drunken state ;-)