It's happening all right, but I still have my doubts if it is happening due to man or if it's part of some unknown cycle of Earth which is too complicated for us to grasp yet.
I remember when Obama got the prize and a lot of readers were really supportive of him. Now that he's not that mystical figure any longer, the consense seems to be that China is right in her position mainly because the peace prize has lost its meaning, and as an example of this decadence a lot of readers are citing Obama as one of the examples of decandece of the Nobel peace prize.
Suppose you invite me into your house. After a cup of coffee and a nice conversation, I start doing things which you do not approve, e.g. making prank calls from your land line. You demand me to stop and leave but I refuse and I keep going until I am completely satisfied.
I didn't force you to invite me into your house in any way. You did invite me under the impression that we would have a nice time, but then the reason for the visit changed, could cause you trouble and you felt uncomfortable, so you were within your rights as a citizen in asking me to leave. Me not complying constitutes assault and trespassing.
He is accused of proceeding with intercourse when the partner explicitly has asked him to stop. That alone is a crime, aggravated by the fact that the partner has made such request after the condom broke. Since when such act is not a crime? It constituting a crime has nothing to do with Mr. Assange. It is a crime in the whole lot of the civilized World, including Sweden. Period.
Now, he is accused of given crime. That is also a fact. What is not a fact is that the crime took place at all and that he was the culprit if it even happened. These questions only Justice will answer -- and I hope for an unbiased trial here, it should be made clear if one is innocent of serious accusations.
Other than that, I was just pointing out the stupidity of the parent on writing such idiotic comment, not demoting Mr. Assange in any way or implying that he is guilt. Please, read the post twice before replying and preferably give it some thought, even if it is just a few seconds.
You are not the police and masturbating often and having unusual penis dimensions is not a crime. He was accused of a crime. There was an allegedly victim. As said, he does not get to dictate how or when his questioning should proceed.
Seriously people, just because he is your new superhero doesn't mean you have to get dumb when it suits you.
Transparency doesn't benefit only the citizens but also the enemies which would eagerly absorb and put the acquired information to use in benefit of their own interests, which are obviously against the interests of the government who had it's info out in the open.
In an idealized World where there are no quarrels between nations, no economical and no political interests, it certainly would be recommended to have full transparency -- let everyone see what's going on, be them citizens, foreigners, alien governments. In the world we actually live in, such practice is dangerous and doesn't work.
Being one step ahead of your enemy matters and can mean the difference between peace and war, fortune and poverty.
So, they idea is: if a leak makes the US government look bad then it must be the real deal, but if it may serve the US government in some way then we have to suspect that it has been planted?
Nice judgement you have there.
This reminds me of what is going on with the leaks which state that the Government of Israel had notified both the Egyptian Government and the Palestinian Fatah before attacking the Gaza Strip during operation Cast Lead in 2008, mainly against Hammas (and thus making the Fatah look bad to the Palestinians). The international press is giving much more voice to those denying the leak than it gives to leaks which bring discomfort the US government.
I asked myself the same thing. If they are selecting what to release, in what order, and how much noise to make for each release, then it would look like they have a reason to privilege certain leaks, or even hide leaks they went through and decided not to publish (which is far more dangerous).
IMHO it is too much power in the hands of a single organization and that rarely brings anything good in the long run.
I highly doubt he hasn't the support of some government or even big companies around the world who would love to see their rivals (be it political or economical) going down. It is highly unlikely he has no secret agenda.
Reason gets to pick, for Christ's sake. They should have released documents which reveal crimes, misconduct, torture, etc. They should have not disclosed documents which reveal internal reports and assessments of other governments, internal relations and legitimate negotiations between the US and other nations.
Having privileged information doesn't mean having to disclosed it. Unless one is using it as evidence to uncover, accuse and ultimately trial said crimes, disclosing it is pure sabotage and high treason.
I completely second you. I've posted a few comments with a similar point of view but I was not this eloquent. WikiLeaks has definitely disappointed me on this one. People will suffer for their recklessness. People, not governments.
From a geekish point of view the idea is pretty neat. Who wouldn't like a bonsai lamp on his desk?
But using such a technology in public trees to replace street lights? Doesn't sound too good for me. What about the animals which dwell on the trees? Not only birds and squirrels, but also invertebrates, reptiles and other small mammals which have nocturnal life and depended on the absence of light to feed, to hunt, to reproduce, to be hunted, etc. This isn't Middle-Earth, they haven't evolved for an environment where leaves give off luminous glow.
Changing the environment (for worst) is not restricted to dumping tons of CO2 on the atmosphere. People haven't got that yet?
Interesting to know. Originally it was used in the same way as it is used in Spanish, meaning joy or pleasure (when a noun). In Brazilian Portuguese it has acquired the sexual connotation besides the usual meanings. Funny thing is that I just discovered that gozo means sweet in Basque.
The interesting thing about this flick is that it actually has a history -- weak as it may be, I've seen worse in regular movies. The DVD even includes a 30 minutes long non-porn version of the movie in which all the porn scenes have been cut off.
This non-porn version is probably just a reordering of the DVD chapters by excluding the porn chapters, but nonetheless it's pretty interesting, it really captures the spirits of the original series.
Those results are from google.com. The Brazilian TLD for Google is google.com.br. I just did a quick search on both now and for the.com TLD I got 52.7% vs 47.3% for Rousseff, and for the.com.br TLD 54% vs 46%. Official polls run by several different media agencies were giving Rousseff with 60%+ of valid votes.
On the first turn of our major elections, when we voted for Senators, Governors and Congressmen, something similar happened. For my state a certain Senator candidate had 17% on previous public surveys and it was ranking 3rd. After the results were out he was elected with 36% and he was the 1st.
Here in Brazil such surveys and predictions are quite dangerous, to some extent they are used as manipulative tools. Most people are unfortunately uneducated and ignorant in issues concerning politics and economy and those people are likely to vote on the candidate which seems to be winning, just so they don't "lose" their vote (yes, this is not an uncommon reasoning around here, insane as it may sound). Worst of all perhaps is the fact that we are obliged to vote, it is an imposed duty. Our democracy is still an infant, and I think we are yet to reach adolescence. Some rough years to come.
Today Brazilians are electing their new President. It is the second turn of our elections so we get to choose between the two candidates for the presidential chair which were most voted in the first turn that occurred one month ago.
The candidates are Jose Serra (current opposition) and Dilma Rousseff (candidate supported by the current President). According to a simple "volumetric" serach on Google, Serra has 47% and Rousseff has 53%. These predictions are somewhat similar to what polls and public opinion surveys have been showing (reckoning only the valid votes). Tonight we will have the final results and I will be amazed if this Google prediction so to speak turns out to be more accurate than official polls.
True, but the video made me feel kinda sad. Despite being completely ignored by most people he lives in this world in his head where the current president would subject himself to a dark and moldy basement in order to get a half-assed hologram taken. Other than that, when was this documentary made? I thought someone would mention 3D TVs and stuff like that near the end when he says the world is dimensional but we seem to be content with representing it as flat.
In my opinion, yes. I am an undergrad Physics student (senior) and had my first contact with Fortran in my third semester, in a course called Computational Physics I. We learned the basics of Fortran 77/90 and how to solve some numerical problems using it. We also simulated some interesting problems that amazes undergrad students such as chaotic oscillators, Magnus effect in action and a few other simple yet curious systems. I had already some programming experience, but most other students didn't. They got it quite quickly and I think this is due Fortran's simplicity.
Even if you are never going to use Fortran in your own projects, you will stumble on it now and then if you are going seriously into applied and theoretical research field. NASA, for example, has tons of production code written in Fortran and even new codes are written on it. Many many Physics and Chemistry groups around the world have their most important codes in Fortran, and sometimes they use clever hacks to make the code faster, so a minimum understanding of it is necessary. I work with a Computational Chemistry group and much of the code they still develop, even for new applications, is Fortran. It is good and solid code, they are very experienced on it, and they are not willing to change to another technology so easily.
As a first language I don't know if Fortran is the best, maybe Python or Java would be my choice in this case, but it is definitely worth learning.
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It's happening all right, but I still have my doubts if it is happening due to man or if it's part of some unknown cycle of Earth which is too complicated for us to grasp yet.
I remember when Obama got the prize and a lot of readers were really supportive of him. Now that he's not that mystical figure any longer, the consense seems to be that China is right in her position mainly because the peace prize has lost its meaning, and as an example of this decadence a lot of readers are citing Obama as one of the examples of decandece of the Nobel peace prize.
Humans are really amusing.
And yet, for the last 50 years they have been at war with one sixth of all humans -- their own population.
Suppose you invite me into your house. After a cup of coffee and a nice conversation, I start doing things which you do not approve, e.g. making prank calls from your land line. You demand me to stop and leave but I refuse and I keep going until I am completely satisfied.
I didn't force you to invite me into your house in any way. You did invite me under the impression that we would have a nice time, but then the reason for the visit changed, could cause you trouble and you felt uncomfortable, so you were within your rights as a citizen in asking me to leave. Me not complying constitutes assault and trespassing.
He is accused of proceeding with intercourse when the partner explicitly has asked him to stop. That alone is a crime, aggravated by the fact that the partner has made such request after the condom broke. Since when such act is not a crime? It constituting a crime has nothing to do with Mr. Assange. It is a crime in the whole lot of the civilized World, including Sweden. Period.
Now, he is accused of given crime. That is also a fact. What is not a fact is that the crime took place at all and that he was the culprit if it even happened. These questions only Justice will answer -- and I hope for an unbiased trial here, it should be made clear if one is innocent of serious accusations.
Other than that, I was just pointing out the stupidity of the parent on writing such idiotic comment, not demoting Mr. Assange in any way or implying that he is guilt. Please, read the post twice before replying and preferably give it some thought, even if it is just a few seconds.
You are not the police and masturbating often and having unusual penis dimensions is not a crime. He was accused of a crime. There was an allegedly victim. As said, he does not get to dictate how or when his questioning should proceed.
Seriously people, just because he is your new superhero doesn't mean you have to get dumb when it suits you.
Transparency doesn't benefit only the citizens but also the enemies which would eagerly absorb and put the acquired information to use in benefit of their own interests, which are obviously against the interests of the government who had it's info out in the open.
In an idealized World where there are no quarrels between nations, no economical and no political interests, it certainly would be recommended to have full transparency -- let everyone see what's going on, be them citizens, foreigners, alien governments. In the world we actually live in, such practice is dangerous and doesn't work.
Being one step ahead of your enemy matters and can mean the difference between peace and war, fortune and poverty.
So, they idea is: if a leak makes the US government look bad then it must be the real deal, but if it may serve the US government in some way then we have to suspect that it has been planted?
Nice judgement you have there.
This reminds me of what is going on with the leaks which state that the Government of Israel had notified both the Egyptian Government and the Palestinian Fatah before attacking the Gaza Strip during operation Cast Lead in 2008, mainly against Hammas (and thus making the Fatah look bad to the Palestinians). The international press is giving much more voice to those denying the leak than it gives to leaks which bring discomfort the US government.
I asked myself the same thing. If they are selecting what to release, in what order, and how much noise to make for each release, then it would look like they have a reason to privilege certain leaks, or even hide leaks they went through and decided not to publish (which is far more dangerous).
IMHO it is too much power in the hands of a single organization and that rarely brings anything good in the long run.
I highly doubt he hasn't the support of some government or even big companies around the world who would love to see their rivals (be it political or economical) going down. It is highly unlikely he has no secret agenda.
Reason gets to pick, for Christ's sake. They should have released documents which reveal crimes, misconduct, torture, etc. They should have not disclosed documents which reveal internal reports and assessments of other governments, internal relations and legitimate negotiations between the US and other nations.
Having privileged information doesn't mean having to disclosed it. Unless one is using it as evidence to uncover, accuse and ultimately trial said crimes, disclosing it is pure sabotage and high treason.
I completely second you. I've posted a few comments with a similar point of view but I was not this eloquent. WikiLeaks has definitely disappointed me on this one. People will suffer for their recklessness. People, not governments.
You, sir, have gone too far. You take that back, and take it now.
From a geekish point of view the idea is pretty neat. Who wouldn't like a bonsai lamp on his desk?
But using such a technology in public trees to replace street lights? Doesn't sound too good for me. What about the animals which dwell on the trees? Not only birds and squirrels, but also invertebrates, reptiles and other small mammals which have nocturnal life and depended on the absence of light to feed, to hunt, to reproduce, to be hunted, etc. This isn't Middle-Earth, they haven't evolved for an environment where leaves give off luminous glow.
Changing the environment (for worst) is not restricted to dumping tons of CO2 on the atmosphere. People haven't got that yet?
Interesting to know. Originally it was used in the same way as it is used in Spanish, meaning joy or pleasure (when a noun). In Brazilian Portuguese it has acquired the sexual connotation besides the usual meanings. Funny thing is that I just discovered that gozo means sweet in Basque.
Phonetically gosu sounds identical to the Portuguese word "gozo", which literally means cum (as in ejaculation).
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The interesting thing about this flick is that it actually has a history -- weak as it may be, I've seen worse in regular movies. The DVD even includes a 30 minutes long non-porn version of the movie in which all the porn scenes have been cut off.
This non-porn version is probably just a reordering of the DVD chapters by excluding the porn chapters, but nonetheless it's pretty interesting, it really captures the spirits of the original series.
This is nothing compared to Fringe's typewriter hacked to communicate with a parallel universe through a mirror.
Those results are from google.com. The Brazilian TLD for Google is google.com.br. I just did a quick search on both now and for the .com TLD I got 52.7% vs 47.3% for Rousseff, and for the .com.br TLD 54% vs 46%. Official polls run by several different media agencies were giving Rousseff with 60%+ of valid votes.
On the first turn of our major elections, when we voted for Senators, Governors and Congressmen, something similar happened. For my state a certain Senator candidate had 17% on previous public surveys and it was ranking 3rd. After the results were out he was elected with 36% and he was the 1st.
Here in Brazil such surveys and predictions are quite dangerous, to some extent they are used as manipulative tools. Most people are unfortunately uneducated and ignorant in issues concerning politics and economy and those people are likely to vote on the candidate which seems to be winning, just so they don't "lose" their vote (yes, this is not an uncommon reasoning around here, insane as it may sound). Worst of all perhaps is the fact that we are obliged to vote, it is an imposed duty. Our democracy is still an infant, and I think we are yet to reach adolescence. Some rough years to come.
The winner is out, and it is Rousseff with 55.65% vs. 44.35% from Serra. Google got closer than any other prediction.
Today Brazilians are electing their new President. It is the second turn of our elections so we get to choose between the two candidates for the presidential chair which were most voted in the first turn that occurred one month ago.
The candidates are Jose Serra (current opposition) and Dilma Rousseff (candidate supported by the current President). According to a simple "volumetric" serach on Google, Serra has 47% and Rousseff has 53%. These predictions are somewhat similar to what polls and public opinion surveys have been showing (reckoning only the valid votes). Tonight we will have the final results and I will be amazed if this Google prediction so to speak turns out to be more accurate than official polls.
True, but the video made me feel kinda sad. Despite being completely ignored by most people he lives in this world in his head where the current president would subject himself to a dark and moldy basement in order to get a half-assed hologram taken. Other than that, when was this documentary made? I thought someone would mention 3D TVs and stuff like that near the end when he says the world is dimensional but we seem to be content with representing it as flat.
In my opinion, yes. I am an undergrad Physics student (senior) and had my first contact with Fortran in my third semester, in a course called Computational Physics I. We learned the basics of Fortran 77/90 and how to solve some numerical problems using it. We also simulated some interesting problems that amazes undergrad students such as chaotic oscillators, Magnus effect in action and a few other simple yet curious systems. I had already some programming experience, but most other students didn't. They got it quite quickly and I think this is due Fortran's simplicity.
Even if you are never going to use Fortran in your own projects, you will stumble on it now and then if you are going seriously into applied and theoretical research field. NASA, for example, has tons of production code written in Fortran and even new codes are written on it. Many many Physics and Chemistry groups around the world have their most important codes in Fortran, and sometimes they use clever hacks to make the code faster, so a minimum understanding of it is necessary. I work with a Computational Chemistry group and much of the code they still develop, even for new applications, is Fortran. It is good and solid code, they are very experienced on it, and they are not willing to change to another technology so easily.
As a first language I don't know if Fortran is the best, maybe Python or Java would be my choice in this case, but it is definitely worth learning.
The same way the DoD payed for the Cray supercomputers, gamers are paying for the GPUs. Science dropped by and said thanks.