What if it was written like this: "'Talking and hanging out with my friends gives me a constant feeling of comfort,' wrote one of the students, who blogged about their reactions. 'When I did not have those two luxuries, I felt quite alone and secluded from my life.'" Could it be a natural feeling of loneliness rather than addiction that is the problem.
In other words it's a "rational" way to keep them low income niggers behind bars forever (and don't tell me where you live, such as the ghetto and your income statistics won't have anything to do with the computer's decision).
They're so much better. Aren't they? Aren't you glad this is left up to the government now rather than individual service providers? Aren't you glad you won't have a choice anymore?
No. ECT and all that does not work as well as traditional thought reform. Brainwashing, done properly, is a process almost completely devoid of physical coercion... Here's a chapter from a book on the topic (Brainwashing in China). Interestingly enough, the structure of Chinese thought reform is more or less identical to that used by many cults (which isn't to imply a causal relationship... similar structures can form in parallel). Also, the term brainwashing was first coined by the Chinese.
before the people revolt and the blood of these assholes runs in the streets. Sadly, i'm leaning towards the believe that the people will probably take it. They know no other way.
When people are willing to give up sovereignty of their sex lives, they'll give up pretty much anything. That is why the emphasis is there. It's not like the state gives a shit about what people do with their naughty bits. It's just a test to make sure people comply with the absurd. Those who resist are likely to be troublemakers elsewhere.
One of the articles mentioned that the break-ins also involved theft of Google IP and trade secrets.
The article may very well be wrong. Google did mention "intellectual property" in their blog post but then went on to explain what it meant: the email accounts of Chinese dissidents and pro-democracy advocates.
Google defies Chinese internet censors
Times Online - Jane Macartney - 59 minutes ago
Images of students crushed under tanks in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown are available for the first time on Google's China server.
Wow. Did not expect that so soon. It's almost as if they had already taken steps. At first I thought you might be wrong but after I found the article and checked for myself. Wow. "Tank man" is indeed available on Google.cn's images, as are others related to the massacre. It's not quite what the English version is but it's not like it was a while ago when I searched on google.cn. Some bureaucrats in China are def. shitting kittens right about now. According to this chinese article, google switched the censoring off earlier today, apparently without warning. In the article are pictures of the flowers mentioned.
Why do we need to mess with their society at all? Why not have a policy of basically "commerce with all... and we really don't care what you do in your country". It's not our responsibility to affect change in China. It's the responsibility of the Chinese people. If we gave it to them by force or coercion, they wouldn't want or respect it anyway as much as if they had earned it themselves.
Absolutely I agree that human rights trump cultural rights and that there are certain basic inalienable freedoms. I also believe, however, that freedom cannot be given or granted (implies it was never there to begin with, implies they can be taken away, remember I said inalienable). It can only be expressed, and the liberty to continue to partake in that expression often only comes from the end of a rifle. It's necessary, and inevitable in any repressed society and it's the responsibility of the Chinese, not us, and not Google, to bring that to fruition.
...within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.
It could be a PR stunt, but my feeling is that if they were just going to "discuss" it with the chinese they would have kept it behind closed doors. This sounds more like an ultimatum made publicly, and if you say something like that publicly you have to follow through or risk looking like a liar and a hypocrite. Could there be an ulterior motive? Sure. This move will make them very popular outside of China. People like to be on the side of "good" and if a company is seen as sticking up for the oppressed, I can see a lot of people buying their services and products in order to show their support and gratitude.
And the angel of the lord came unto me, snatching me up from my place of slumber. And took me on high, and higher still until we moved to the spaces betwixt the air itself. And he brought me into a vast farmlands of our own midwest. And as we descended, cries of impending doom rose from the soil. One thousand, nay a million voices full of fear. And terror possessed me then. And I begged, "Angel of the Lord, what are these tortured screams?" And the angel said unto me, "These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots! You see, Reverend Maynard, tomorrow is harvest day and to them it is the holocaust." And I sprang from my slumber drenched in sweat like the tears of one million terrified brothers and roared, "Hear me now, I have seen the light! They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers!" Can I get an amen? Can I get a hallelujah? Thank you Jesus.
As for the point about Pollock's later paintings having higher fractal dimensions, that's a natural consequence of random splotches of colour as you add more splotches and more detail, regardless of the actual artistic merit.
But it's not. Read the article. Other artists imitating his style do not exhibit the same sort of pattern, which is very regular in Pollock's work and becomes predictably complex over time to the point where one can determine the approximate date the art was painted based on this progression.
I get you understand his life. That's not my point. My point was about his art, and what is significant about it. Most often people don't like art because they simply don't "get" it. Aesthetics and personal tastes can change over time with understanding, experience, and simple extended exposure. If you don't take the time to learn about something in depth you can't really know one way or another whether it's something you could like or not. If you still hate it, fine, but at least then you're making an informed decision. Even still, it would be very hard to argue from any perspective that Pollock made no positive contribution to the world through his art (which is what you seemed to be implying, among other things, in your original post).
In Jackson Pollock's drip paintings, as in nature, certain patterns are repeated again and again at various levels of magnification. Such fractals have varying degrees of complexity (or fractal dimension, called D), ranked by mathematicians on a series of scales of 0 to 3. A straight line (fig. D=1) or a flat horizon, rank at the bottom of a scale, whereas densely interwoven drips (fig. D=1.8) or tree branches rank higher up. Fractal patterns may account for some of the lasting appeal of Pollock's work. They also enable physicist Richard Taylor to separate true Pollocks from the drip paintings created by imitators and forgers. Early last year, for instance, an art collector in Texas asked Taylor to look at an unsigned, undated canvas suspected to be by Pollock. When Taylor analyzed the painting, he found that it had no fractal dimension and thus must have been by another artist.
If you don't get something, it doesn't mean there is nothing there. Sometimes it takes time, examination, and a willingness to have an open mind. Whether that was because of Pollock's natural ability or the psychedelics is up to debate but in my view there is definite relationship between high quality art and artists who use or have used psychadelics. Think about the music you listen to if you don't believe me.
So we've got a substance dangerous to kids in just the kind of jewelry they can afford on their allowance.
This stuff is absolutely something that needs regulation to control it. Sometimes "letting the market decide" just rolls off the bowling lane and into the gutter. No, knocking down pins in somebody else's lane doesn't count. That's why they put the gutter in.
Civil law can help to keep such companies in check without the government getting involved directly. If people get sick, they sue, and the company goes out of business (and/or the owner is held financially accountable personally). If they're in China and can't be sued for whatever reason, people as a whole start to begin to become more and more skeptical of all products from that country as they can't be held accountable. Net result: more people buy domestic. MindlessAutomata also has some good suggestions below in regards to private safety certification entities.
Also consider that most libertarians don't advocate the dissolution of law entirely. Selling cadnium bracelets, knowing the dangers and without informing customers, could be seen as reckless endangerment and so forth.
"Never say never" could be a viable tag line if the game were ever released. Not sure how humor (especially since it's self-deprecating) appeals in marketing but I think a lot of potential customers would get the joke and appreciate it.
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But the basic myth comes from the fact that film is so convincing and thus you don't "need" more... as long as each frame is a blurred representation of the full period of time it is displayed for.
Not quite. Film cameras, because of they way they work, max out about half of the time they are exposed for (180 degree shutter). 24fps is usually shot at 1/48 second exposure time per frame. The full time (a 360 degree shutter) would be far too blurry.
Windows 7 supports EFI natively. You apparently do need Apple drivers to use the internal keyboard and trackpad on laptops, though.
The keyboard and trackpad work from a fresh install, but not everything on the keyboard is mapped to the right place and multi touch does not function. The vista drivers work, through, so it's not a huge deal.
There was no way even a futuristic United States would allow such actions to proceed.
I'd have to disagree. As long as it's not in our back yard, I don't think we would care too much so long as our energy needs/resources were being met. You underestimate greed and the things that people will do, or ignore, when they are desperate. Sure in the hypothetical future earth I imagine there was some uproar over what happened, but people will just sit back in front of their TVs when the story switches to some future celebrity.
Throwing all ethics aside, what you're saying assumes that a child with such an illness can contribute nothing to society and/or has no other desirable traits. Who decides who lives or dies and which direction society evolves in? If anything, interfering by ending such a life is just as unnatural, if not more, as it is to prolong one through medicine, especially if you consider medicine and technology to be part of the evolution of a society and of a species.
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What if it was written like this: "'Talking and hanging out with my friends gives me a constant feeling of comfort,' wrote one of the students, who blogged about their reactions. 'When I did not have those two luxuries, I felt quite alone and secluded from my life.'" Could it be a natural feeling of loneliness rather than addiction that is the problem.
In other words it's a "rational" way to keep them low income niggers behind bars forever (and don't tell me where you live, such as the ghetto and your income statistics won't have anything to do with the computer's decision).
Works with politicians too. Try typing in "obama is" or "bush is".
They're so much better. Aren't they? Aren't you glad this is left up to the government now rather than individual service providers? Aren't you glad you won't have a choice anymore?
No. ECT and all that does not work as well as traditional thought reform. Brainwashing, done properly, is a process almost completely devoid of physical coercion... Here's a chapter from a book on the topic (Brainwashing in China). Interestingly enough, the structure of Chinese thought reform is more or less identical to that used by many cults (which isn't to imply a causal relationship... similar structures can form in parallel). Also, the term brainwashing was first coined by the Chinese.
before the people revolt and the blood of these assholes runs in the streets. Sadly, i'm leaning towards the believe that the people will probably take it. They know no other way.
When people are willing to give up sovereignty of their sex lives, they'll give up pretty much anything. That is why the emphasis is there. It's not like the state gives a shit about what people do with their naughty bits. It's just a test to make sure people comply with the absurd. Those who resist are likely to be troublemakers elsewhere.
One of the articles mentioned that the break-ins also involved theft of Google IP and trade secrets.
The article may very well be wrong. Google did mention "intellectual property" in their blog post but then went on to explain what it meant: the email accounts of Chinese dissidents and pro-democracy advocates.
Anyone who responds to a criticism of any country with a rant about how bad the United States is has immediately lost the argument
Not quite. In China they would be unable to criticize or rant about how bad their country is. The mere act of self criticism proves the point.
Google defies Chinese internet censors Times Online - Jane Macartney - 59 minutes ago Images of students crushed under tanks in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown are available for the first time on Google's China server.
Wow. Did not expect that so soon. It's almost as if they had already taken steps. At first I thought you might be wrong but after I found the article and checked for myself. Wow. "Tank man" is indeed available on Google.cn's images, as are others related to the massacre. It's not quite what the English version is but it's not like it was a while ago when I searched on google.cn. Some bureaucrats in China are def. shitting kittens right about now. According to this chinese article, google switched the censoring off earlier today, apparently without warning. In the article are pictures of the flowers mentioned.
Why do we need to mess with their society at all? Why not have a policy of basically "commerce with all... and we really don't care what you do in your country". It's not our responsibility to affect change in China. It's the responsibility of the Chinese people. If we gave it to them by force or coercion, they wouldn't want or respect it anyway as much as if they had earned it themselves.
Absolutely I agree that human rights trump cultural rights and that there are certain basic inalienable freedoms. I also believe, however, that freedom cannot be given or granted (implies it was never there to begin with, implies they can be taken away, remember I said inalienable). It can only be expressed, and the liberty to continue to partake in that expression often only comes from the end of a rifle. It's necessary, and inevitable in any repressed society and it's the responsibility of the Chinese, not us, and not Google, to bring that to fruition.
...within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.
It could be a PR stunt, but my feeling is that if they were just going to "discuss" it with the chinese they would have kept it behind closed doors. This sounds more like an ultimatum made publicly, and if you say something like that publicly you have to follow through or risk looking like a liar and a hypocrite. Could there be an ulterior motive? Sure. This move will make them very popular outside of China. People like to be on the side of "good" and if a company is seen as sticking up for the oppressed, I can see a lot of people buying their services and products in order to show their support and gratitude.
And the angel of the lord came unto me, snatching me up from my place of slumber. And took me on high, and higher still until we moved to the spaces betwixt the air itself. And he brought me into a vast farmlands of our own midwest. And as we descended, cries of impending doom rose from the soil. One thousand, nay a million voices full of fear. And terror possessed me then. And I begged, "Angel of the Lord, what are these tortured screams?" And the angel said unto me, "These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots! You see, Reverend Maynard, tomorrow is harvest day and to them it is the holocaust." And I sprang from my slumber drenched in sweat like the tears of one million terrified brothers and roared, "Hear me now, I have seen the light! They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers!" Can I get an amen? Can I get a hallelujah? Thank you Jesus.
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As for the point about Pollock's later paintings having higher fractal dimensions, that's a natural consequence of random splotches of colour as you add more splotches and more detail, regardless of the actual artistic merit.
But it's not. Read the article. Other artists imitating his style do not exhibit the same sort of pattern, which is very regular in Pollock's work and becomes predictably complex over time to the point where one can determine the approximate date the art was painted based on this progression.
I get you understand his life. That's not my point. My point was about his art, and what is significant about it. Most often people don't like art because they simply don't "get" it. Aesthetics and personal tastes can change over time with understanding, experience, and simple extended exposure. If you don't take the time to learn about something in depth you can't really know one way or another whether it's something you could like or not. If you still hate it, fine, but at least then you're making an informed decision. Even still, it would be very hard to argue from any perspective that Pollock made no positive contribution to the world through his art (which is what you seemed to be implying, among other things, in your original post).
In Jackson Pollock's drip paintings, as in nature, certain patterns are repeated again and again at various levels of magnification. Such fractals have varying degrees of complexity (or fractal dimension, called D), ranked by mathematicians on a series of scales of 0 to 3. A straight line (fig. D=1) or a flat horizon, rank at the bottom of a scale, whereas densely interwoven drips (fig. D=1.8) or tree branches rank higher up. Fractal patterns may account for some of the lasting appeal of Pollock's work. They also enable physicist Richard Taylor to separate true Pollocks from the drip paintings created by imitators and forgers. Early last year, for instance, an art collector in Texas asked Taylor to look at an unsigned, undated canvas suspected to be by Pollock. When Taylor analyzed the painting, he found that it had no fractal dimension and thus must have been by another artist.
If you don't get something, it doesn't mean there is nothing there. Sometimes it takes time, examination, and a willingness to have an open mind. Whether that was because of Pollock's natural ability or the psychedelics is up to debate but in my view there is definite relationship between high quality art and artists who use or have used psychadelics. Think about the music you listen to if you don't believe me.
So we've got a substance dangerous to kids in just the kind of jewelry they can afford on their allowance.
This stuff is absolutely something that needs regulation to control it. Sometimes "letting the market decide" just rolls off the bowling lane and into the gutter. No, knocking down pins in somebody else's lane doesn't count. That's why they put the gutter in.
Civil law can help to keep such companies in check without the government getting involved directly. If people get sick, they sue, and the company goes out of business (and/or the owner is held financially accountable personally). If they're in China and can't be sued for whatever reason, people as a whole start to begin to become more and more skeptical of all products from that country as they can't be held accountable. Net result: more people buy domestic. MindlessAutomata also has some good suggestions below in regards to private safety certification entities.
Also consider that most libertarians don't advocate the dissolution of law entirely. Selling cadnium bracelets, knowing the dangers and without informing customers, could be seen as reckless endangerment and so forth.
"Never say never" could be a viable tag line if the game were ever released. Not sure how humor (especially since it's self-deprecating) appeals in marketing but I think a lot of potential customers would get the joke and appreciate it.
But the basic myth comes from the fact that film is so convincing and thus you don't "need" more... as long as each frame is a blurred representation of the full period of time it is displayed for.
Not quite. Film cameras, because of they way they work, max out about half of the time they are exposed for (180 degree shutter). 24fps is usually shot at 1/48 second exposure time per frame. The full time (a 360 degree shutter) would be far too blurry.
Has there ever been a recorded incident where an unwitting passenger caused an explosion?
April 17, 1986: A pregnant Irishwoman was duped by her Muslim boyfriend, Nezar Hindawi, into carrying a bomb onto an aircraft at Heathrow.
Well that's one way to get out of child support.
Windows 7 supports EFI natively. You apparently do need Apple drivers to use the internal keyboard and trackpad on laptops, though.
The keyboard and trackpad work from a fresh install, but not everything on the keyboard is mapped to the right place and multi touch does not function. The vista drivers work, through, so it's not a huge deal.
The highest quality video drivers are direct from Nvidia, who now provide notebook drivers. The existing vista drivers cover the rest.
Same here. I have Leopard and Win 7 64 bit on my macbook pro (Santa Rosa). Works perfectly.
There was no way even a futuristic United States would allow such actions to proceed.
I'd have to disagree. As long as it's not in our back yard, I don't think we would care too much so long as our energy needs/resources were being met. You underestimate greed and the things that people will do, or ignore, when they are desperate. Sure in the hypothetical future earth I imagine there was some uproar over what happened, but people will just sit back in front of their TVs when the story switches to some future celebrity.
Throwing all ethics aside, what you're saying assumes that a child with such an illness can contribute nothing to society and/or has no other desirable traits. Who decides who lives or dies and which direction society evolves in? If anything, interfering by ending such a life is just as unnatural, if not more, as it is to prolong one through medicine, especially if you consider medicine and technology to be part of the evolution of a society and of a species.