Around some parts, the word "patriot" is synonymous with "racist". Some countries are actually proud of other things than just owning the most guns.
Americans as a whole are most proud of two things:
Our form of government. Not the specific government in power (although we're satisfied by how Obama is doing so far), but the constitution, checks & balances, etc.
Our level of influence in the world. We are the only superpower still standing. We are proud of that, though we know we are in decline.
Personally, I'm most proud of:
Our freedoms. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, civil liberties, etc. Freedom of gun ownership is one of those, sure, but we're not happy that we own guns, we're happy that we're able to own guns. There's a difference.
Yeah, and Hamas is _totally_ capable of eradicating Israel. It's like a few native Americans stating they want to eradicate the US. Laughable.
Hamas is bigger than that. Is Palestine capable of eradicating Israel? Because the Hamas leader is more popular than current Palestinian president, and while the Hamas party isn't more popular that the Fatah party, Fatah isn't doing jack for the citizenry while Hamas is busy building clinics and kindergardens. In short, Hamas is set to assume leadership of Palestine and use the nation's resources against Israel.
(But this has nothing to do with Trident missles...)
They also didnt bother to test how fast each browser rendered html either, which is just as important, if not more so than how fast it can render javascript.
I disagree. HTML always renders fast enough. Slowdowns are from scripts and ads.
My point is that I see the fact that we needed a strong string processing language to help with shell pipelining as a flaw in the way pipelines are handled. I also see the fact that so much good functionality is exposed as Perl or Python modules, but not as shell utilities, as indicative of a severe limitation in what the shell is capable of as a programming language (overcoming this limitation goes beyond just adding a stronger set of data types to the shell language itself - the shell would also need to be able to use these datatypes as part of its pipelines.)
If you haven't taken a look at Microsoft's PowerShell, do so. It seems to effectively solve this problem. Of course, it is significantly less effective in the Unix and Mac environments...but the concept is cool in its own right.
...see how people who think they're accomplishing something manage to royally fuck themselves through "consensus processes", nonviolence, and insistence on having everyone follow rules.
In practice, the appointment rather than election of Senators provided a wide-open avenue for corrupt appointees, seat buying (see Blagojevich), and a nepotistic entrenchment of political power.
Well, as the Blagojevich thing has shown, it's difficult for politicians to get away with these things these days. The 17th Amendment was passed in 1912. I don't think many of the issues it was designed to solve are still compelling, and for the rest, we can figure out some other way.
The API reminded me of the early Mac OS API. Everything was a handle, the screen-manipulation and string functions were similar, and the case convention was the same.
Jan Gullberg's book Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers is a great read! It covers, well, a hell of a lot: number theory, trig, fractals, matrices, calc, probability, diff eq, combinatorics, symbolic logic, etc. It includes anecdotes and historical notes, and does a very good job of explaining many different things.
Yes bridges and roads need to be repaired and new ones built but not in an emergency stimulus package.
Why not in an emergency stimulus package? It's just another bill. The money would have to be allocated in some bill or another, and Congress hasn't shown much interest in allocating enough infrastructure money in earlier legislative cycles. Might as well get it over with in this stimulus bill, as long as they're on the subject anyway.
These are animals with a certain genetic/immunologic compatibility. They have all the humanity of a cancer removed from my left testicle.
I just don't understand how you can consider someone born from a surrogate cow as different from someone born normally. The circumstances of birth mean nothing.
It's like, would you consider Hitler's kid to be evil just because his father was evil? Or, is the son of a good king destined to be a good king himself? No, of course not. You can't judge a person from his parents.
Likewise, is a person born via C-section inherently different from one birthed au naturel? What about one born to a surrogate mother? Or one born through fertility treatments? Or a test-tube baby? Where is the line?
Every ethical argument has some unjustifiable assumptions at its base.
Every argument, full stop, has unjustifiable assumptions at its base. They are called axioms. You can't get rid of axioms. It's not wrong that ethical arguments are based on unjustifiable assumptions, that's just the way it is.
In the case of ethics--if you want to be formal about it--what you do is, look at the logical and philosophical justifications for these different ethical arguments and find the axioms. Then decide which set of axioms sounds best to you. Voila, you now have an acceptable ethical system. That is, acceptable to you. Other people will have selected other ethical systems.
Singularity means the end to individualism and imagination.
Says who? You're thinking the Singularity is some kind of world-mind. But the point of the concept is that we won't know and can't understand what happens on the other side. It's just as likely to be some kind of unfettered individualism and ability to dream the currently-impossible-to-dream dreams and reify them.
Yes, electrons could be thought of as a field. I'm trying to keep things simple for the non-physicists in the audience.
Perhaps it isn't that electrons can be thought of as a magnetic field, so much as they are a magnetic field. I don't have doctorate-level physics, but I think that's what the GP was saying.
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Having something that looks similar, but does not have the same personality should gradually allow the owner to let go.
I think it's more like, "You look like Dave, but you aren't acting like Dave ever would. What are you?" You know, like your dog is a pod person now. Probably not therapeutic.
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I'm lost in a maze of small twisting phrases, all exactly alike!
Around some parts, the word "patriot" is synonymous with "racist". Some countries are actually proud of other things than just owning the most guns.
Americans as a whole are most proud of two things:
Personally, I'm most proud of:
Yeah, and Hamas is _totally_ capable of eradicating Israel. It's like a few native Americans stating they want to eradicate the US. Laughable.
Hamas is bigger than that. Is Palestine capable of eradicating Israel? Because the Hamas leader is more popular than current Palestinian president, and while the Hamas party isn't more popular that the Fatah party, Fatah isn't doing jack for the citizenry while Hamas is busy building clinics and kindergardens. In short, Hamas is set to assume leadership of Palestine and use the nation's resources against Israel.
(But this has nothing to do with Trident missles...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban
I'm surprised this is at 0. Lojban might be an excellent choice. Perhaps our politicians can study it.
They also didnt bother to test how fast each browser rendered html either, which is just as important, if not more so than how fast it can render javascript.
I disagree. HTML always renders fast enough. Slowdowns are from scripts and ads.
If you haven't taken a look at Microsoft's PowerShell, do so. It seems to effectively solve this problem. Of course, it is significantly less effective in the Unix and Mac environments...but the concept is cool in its own right.
It's a date.
That deserves a mod point. :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev_train, near the end where it talks about maglev systems.
...see how people who think they're accomplishing something manage to royally fuck themselves through "consensus processes", nonviolence, and insistence on having everyone follow rules.
As opposed to Japan, where — oh, wait.
They could put ground effects around the tires.
What, like this?
In practice, the appointment rather than election of Senators provided a wide-open avenue for corrupt appointees, seat buying (see Blagojevich), and a nepotistic entrenchment of political power.
Well, as the Blagojevich thing has shown, it's difficult for politicians to get away with these things these days. The 17th Amendment was passed in 1912. I don't think many of the issues it was designed to solve are still compelling, and for the rest, we can figure out some other way.
The API reminded me of the early Mac OS API. Everything was a handle, the screen-manipulation and string functions were similar, and the case convention was the same.
You hit the nail on the head. This is the study of the forced, artificial spread of a meme - someone Tried to start it.
I think the interesting bit is that someone started it, it died, it mutated, and it flourished.
You must frog jump the vent core! Hurry, before it's too--[CORE DUMP]
Jan Gullberg's book Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers is a great read! It covers, well, a hell of a lot: number theory, trig, fractals, matrices, calc, probability, diff eq, combinatorics, symbolic logic, etc. It includes anecdotes and historical notes, and does a very good job of explaining many different things.
Amazon has a couple of reviews.
Yes bridges and roads need to be repaired and new ones built but not in an emergency stimulus package.
Why not in an emergency stimulus package? It's just another bill. The money would have to be allocated in some bill or another, and Congress hasn't shown much interest in allocating enough infrastructure money in earlier legislative cycles. Might as well get it over with in this stimulus bill, as long as they're on the subject anyway.
I wonder if the military will have any problems getting their quotas filled in the coming years, they are paying jobs after all.
Probably not.
Oh behave, baby, yeah!
These are animals with a certain genetic/immunologic compatibility. They have all the humanity of a cancer removed from my left testicle.
I just don't understand how you can consider someone born from a surrogate cow as different from someone born normally. The circumstances of birth mean nothing.
It's like, would you consider Hitler's kid to be evil just because his father was evil? Or, is the son of a good king destined to be a good king himself? No, of course not. You can't judge a person from his parents.
Likewise, is a person born via C-section inherently different from one birthed au naturel? What about one born to a surrogate mother? Or one born through fertility treatments? Or a test-tube baby? Where is the line?
And I would not be surprised to learn he placed a genetic block just so this cannot be done.
What would be your reaction if He didn't place a block, and this sort of tinkering worked reasonably well?
Every ethical argument has some unjustifiable assumptions at its base.
Every argument, full stop, has unjustifiable assumptions at its base. They are called axioms. You can't get rid of axioms. It's not wrong that ethical arguments are based on unjustifiable assumptions, that's just the way it is.
In the case of ethics--if you want to be formal about it--what you do is, look at the logical and philosophical justifications for these different ethical arguments and find the axioms. Then decide which set of axioms sounds best to you. Voila, you now have an acceptable ethical system. That is, acceptable to you. Other people will have selected other ethical systems.
Singularity means the end to individualism and imagination.
Says who? You're thinking the Singularity is some kind of world-mind. But the point of the concept is that we won't know and can't understand what happens on the other side. It's just as likely to be some kind of unfettered individualism and ability to dream the currently-impossible-to-dream dreams and reify them.
Yes, electrons could be thought of as a field. I'm trying to keep things simple for the non-physicists in the audience.
Perhaps it isn't that electrons can be thought of as a magnetic field, so much as they are a magnetic field. I don't have doctorate-level physics, but I think that's what the GP was saying.
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Having something that looks similar, but does not have the same personality should gradually allow the owner to let go.
I think it's more like, "You look like Dave, but you aren't acting like Dave ever would. What are you?" You know, like your dog is a pod person now. Probably not therapeutic.