Those who [...] say that some official or another "lied" about complex issues related to WMD in Iraq, OIF, etc., are the ones who are effectively the liars.
Are educated Americans really still in denial about this?
Yes you got *lied* to. The whole world knows it. Open your damn eyes.
It is very common for occupying forces to implement a 'divide and conquer' strategy, actively encouraging tribal conflicts.
This works on a number of levels:
1. It weakens national resistance movements by undermining their integrity and cohesiveness. 2. It allows the occupier to paint the natives as backward & sectarian - and requiring the 'civilising' presence of the empire for 'their own good'. 3. It undermines any sympathy that might arise in the imperial heartland for the plight of the natives.
You should take the summary information from this page - http://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_Project - and put it the front page of your site. I'd also like to see a summary of how your project borrows from Ghandi, Bucky Fuller and FOSS.
FWIW, I think what you are doing is really interesting - and I disagree that you suck at video!
Computing power would be offered by a "Computer Utility" company. They would handle all the technical details. You simply pay your bill and the "technical goodness" comes down the line...
These malfunctioning parts of the brain cannot be coaxed into working by talking, any more than a weak pancreas can be talked into producing insulin. They are BOTH physical problems.
I accept that you are strongly convinced of this claim. I'm not sure, however, why anybody else should be convinced of it. Can you provide evidence that a common root cause of depression is a physical disorder?
Regarding the specific analogy, it seems clear that treating the brain as a purely physical organ - akin to a pancreas - is bound to lead to error.
Just because a disease strikes the brain and effects emotions does not magically make it non-physical.
That the human brain can be affected by non-physical phenomena - such as ideas and opinions - is commonly accepted, and doesn't require any kind of belief in magic.
Working, properly tuned, anti-depressants don't make you feel happy; instead they enable you to be happy under circumstances that most folks would be happy in, and you feel normal on normal days.
Circumstances must be filtered by opinions before they affect a person's happiness. The most effective and least risky way to control one's emotional state is to modify one's opinions.
Directly tampering with brain chemistry is expensive, risks your health, and creates a dangerous dependency on the supplier.
An even easier and less risky way to try Ubuntu is to use Wubi
How does Wubi work?
Wubi adds an entry to the Windows boot menu which allows you to run Linux. Ubuntu is installed within a file in the windows file system (c:\wubi\disks\system.virtual.disk), this file is seen by Linux as a real hard disk.
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You are Dwight Schrute.
Those who [...] say that some official or another "lied" about complex issues related to WMD in Iraq, OIF, etc., are the ones who are effectively the liars.
Are educated Americans really still in denial about this?
Yes you got *lied* to. The whole world knows it. Open your damn eyes.
A person who can break addictions easily may also tend to randomly stop doing useful, rewarding things.
Not so. Every healthy human mind has the capacity to distinguish between addictions and 'useful, rewarding things'.
It is important to remember that humans are not reflex-driven automatons.
Addiction is a disorder of the mind, where the rational faculty has been overwhelmed by ideas that reinforce the addictive behaviour.
Perhaps the most symptom of addiction is the delusion that one has no self control.
It is very common for occupying forces to implement a 'divide and conquer' strategy, actively encouraging tribal conflicts.
This works on a number of levels:
1. It weakens national resistance movements by undermining their integrity and cohesiveness.
2. It allows the occupier to paint the natives as backward & sectarian - and requiring the 'civilising' presence of the empire for 'their own good'.
3. It undermines any sympathy that might arise in the imperial heartland for the plight of the natives.
You gotta love that Yucca Mountain argument!
1. Turn Yucca Mountain into a repository
2. Bury nuclear waste for 100 to 200 years
3. Let hot stuff decay away
4. ???
5. Profit!!!
I think you absolutely right, the war is proof of the old adage about what the path to hell is paved with.
Would we be so quick to ascribe "good intentions" to the perpetrators of this travesty if they were foreigners?
Did Russia invade Afghanistan out of "good intentions"?
It seems that the Golden Rule of the western media is that the bigger the crime, the more pure our intentions were.
Actually, according to a peer-reviewed study published in the Lancet in 2006,
31% of those were attributed to the Coalition, 24% to others, 46% unknown.
Cheap and fast are not good?
Don't know about where you live, but where I come from water and waste disposal are 'free at the point of use'.
A wifi network that is 'free at the point of use' is massively more usable than a chargeable one.
The costs of providing such a service are rapidly diminishing, and easily provided by local government.
What I don't get is why the profits of private businesses are supposed to be sacrosanct.
But just imagine there was a project for an open source self-replicating machine ...
"[RepRap] has been called the invention that will bring down global capitalism, start a second industrial revolution and save the environment..."
Secondly, it's not about WMDs anymore. It's about instability and anarchy in Iraq, and a heavy terrorist presence funded by the Iranian government.
It was never about WMDs. There were no WMDs.
It's not about "instability and anarchy in Iraq" now.
Why do you keep believing their lies?
Hi Vinay,
You should take the summary information from this page - http://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_Project - and put it the front page of your site. I'd also like to see a summary of how your project borrows from Ghandi, Bucky Fuller and FOSS.
FWIW, I think what you are doing is really interesting - and I disagree that you suck at video!
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Fascinating videos. The last one especially is excellent.
Ghandi+Bucky Fuller+FOSS = interesting stuff!
This is a page with more info on the Hexayurt:
http://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_Project
Computing power would be offered by a "Computer Utility" company. They would handle all the technical details. You simply pay your bill and the "technical goodness" comes down the line...
... as you wave goodbye to your freedom.
These malfunctioning parts of the brain cannot be coaxed into working by talking, any more than a weak pancreas can be talked into producing insulin. They are BOTH physical problems.
I accept that you are strongly convinced of this claim. I'm not sure, however, why anybody else should be convinced of it. Can you provide evidence that a common root cause of depression is a physical disorder?
Regarding the specific analogy, it seems clear that treating the brain as a purely physical organ - akin to a pancreas - is bound to lead to error.
Just because a disease strikes the brain and effects emotions does not magically make it non-physical.
That the human brain can be affected by non-physical phenomena - such as ideas and opinions - is commonly accepted, and doesn't require any kind of belief in magic.
Telling somebody who is suffering from clinical depression to "modify their opinions" or "control their emotional state" is mostly useless.
Of course. I am assuming that the person suffering from depression is unable to do this, and must be taught how.
Somebody suffering from clinical depression is simply unable to feel happy.
I think you are confusing something which can be cured by learning with a physical disability.
Telling a depressed person that they should just be happier is about as effective as telling somebody who is drunk off their ass to "think sober".
Again, you are confusing the mental with the physical. Alcohol is physical. Negative thoughts are non-physical, and must be treated differently.
It is silly to argue against anti-depressants because they "create a dangerous dependency on the supplier"
Perhaps I should have added the word 'needless' to make my meaning clearer.
What about those who suffer from unhealthy opinions?
Are you saying that wrong opinions cannot also make us unhappy?
Working, properly tuned, anti-depressants don't make you feel happy; instead they enable you to be happy under circumstances that most folks would be happy in, and you feel normal on normal days.
Circumstances must be filtered by opinions before they affect a person's happiness. The most effective and least risky way to control one's emotional state is to modify one's opinions.
Directly tampering with brain chemistry is expensive, risks your health, and creates a dangerous dependency on the supplier.
"If the root cause is that your Axons are not releasing enough neurotransmitters, then this technique is addressing the root cause."
The problem is that modern medicine assumes that this is the root cause.
Mod parent up!
Wubi is fantastic - it makes trying Ubuntu/Kubuntu as easy as installing an application.
Who knows, but the competition is getting good very quickly indeed.
With Wubi, trialling Linux is now as easy as installing a Windows application.
Wubi+Kubuntu makes switching so very, very easy!
The year of linux is already here.
It's just not evenly distributed.
An even easier and less risky way to try Ubuntu is to use Wubi
How does Wubi work?
Wubi adds an entry to the Windows boot menu which allows you to run Linux. Ubuntu is installed within a file in the windows file system (c:\wubi\disks\system.virtual.disk), this file is seen by Linux as a real hard disk.
They've had a hard time vanquishing OSS by embracing and extending standards, so now they'll try to embrace and extend code and licenses.
Given the recent decision by the OSI to endorse badgeware, the 'Open Source' community appear to be doing their work for them.
No one can "plug" random devices into the wireless spectrum without permission from some company first.
Surely the obvious solution is for the government to retain ownership?
Then companies who want access can lease from the government rather than a competitor.
Why would you insist on handing over a monopoly to a private corporation in the first place?