Hmm, no. The link you provide talks about a way to deprive monkeys of the "satisfaction of work done", so they keep working and working because they never "feel" their work is done. It acts on the pleasure/reward circuit in the brain.
The pill discussed in this here article, though, is about forcing the metabolical effects of exercise (developing of muscles, turning of fat into readily-usable energy, etc...) without exercising. It acts on the metabolism.
What about the complete works of A. Hitchcock on one disc ? Or the complete cinema production of 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004, one disc per year ?
1TB would be enough to record nearly 25000 hours of audio, what about the complete works of Kipling, Hemingway and Tolstoi combined, as a fully indexed, searchable and commented audiobook ?
The very fact that my post was modded +5, Insightful gives insight on how most slashdoters see politics. And somehow I don't think this is a phenomenon limited to the US.
I don't think it refers to jews in any way (that's not something I remarked at all when I first read it), you're seeing racial slurs when there are none out of habit, maybe ? The text does indeed imply that some rather wealthy people own and control a lot of things, but hey, everyone has a different opinion on who it truly is (conservatives say liberals do, liberals say the opposite, neonazis say jews do, and a lot of other people think it's Masons / Illuminatis / Third Reich descendants / alien invaders / blacks / prairie squids / etc...). It's not like the far right wing has the exclusivity on loonie conspiracies.
Maybe you should research who owns the Federal Reserve ? That would probably help clear this up.
I concede, though, that the artwork that was added to the original text has a right-wing racist tone to it, and that the end of the text goes a bit too far in the Illuminatus-style denouncement of a conspiracy. I'll probably write my own version of the text so that these do not get in the way of rational and factual arguments.
In any case, that sig is temporary, I'll revert to my good ole Principia Discordia link soon. In the meantime, I'd have disturbed and confused some more people;)
No, you're talking about the country where inhabitants are so apathetic they didn't bother checking whether the exceptional heatwave of last year (unprecedented in this century and the last) did fry their retired neighbours.
We for example learned a few years before his death (couple of years after Monicagate ?) that our previous president (Miterrand) had an illegitimate teenage daughter by a regular lover. The main debate was on whether the newspapers shouldn't have held their tongues.
This is a common misunderstanding. The scandal was over the use of tax money to pay for gifts and housing for the illegitimate daughter of the president.
act, thre's a law in France making it a crime to "attack the character of the French President."
AFAIR, this law was repelled years ago.
That, combined with communist control of many of the French journalist's unions, means that many stories (such as all the members of the French government, past and present, who had their hands in the ELF bribery scandal, or, for that matter, the UN Oil-for-food scandel) never get adequately reported in the French press.
That, unfortunately, is completely true, and in fact communist workers unions have a lot more power than most people think. They hold an active minority in virtually every public service, including the Police and power distribution. They even had one of their men as Prime Minister not that long ago ! I half-jokingly call France "The Sovietic Republic of France" because of this. Sometimes that's "Ex-Sovietic Republic of France", though, because more and more people realize what's happening behind the political scene.
It's not really censorship, it's more anti generic defamation laws. Most of any hate speech is a form of defamation towards a minority (jews, blacks, arabs, homosexuals, whatever...).
I agree that prohibiting people to buy/sell nazi objects (as in the France V.S. Ebay case) does not fall into this category, but blocking nazi speech is more of an antidefamation act than of censorship.
Do my refusing to go to the cinema (overpriced), my boycotting of DVDs (overpriced and region-locked and encrypted) and my waiting for films to be broadcasted on TV make me a thief ?
It's been three decades since the average number of incident per million movement has stagnated, how do this project's managers think they'll be effective where nothing was in all this time ?
Adding information to the pilot's input is probably not a good idea. Risk management experts such as René Amalberti have explained in great length that sensory overload exhausts cognitive resources, leaving little for actual piloting. The only few occasions where some new information technology would probably prove useful are situations where lack of information leads to a dangerous difference between what the pilot THINKS is happening, and what is REALLY happening. These sorts of difference is what leads to catastrophe (Sharm el Cheik being only one). I think there are a number of occasions where the SVS would help, but how many new loopholes, how many false assumptions ("The system does not show THAT so the situation is safe") will it introduce ?
I'll keep my doubt until I see the system's limitations.
The Haisch-Rueda theory that explains gravity and inertia by describing them as, respectively, electric and magnetic secondary effects of quantum fluctuations in the void, would probably explain the Allais effect better.
It "reverses" the way gravity works, that is: non-matter curves space-time and pushes in every direction, and matter masks this effect, thus it's the rest of the Universe that pushes you towards the center of the Earth instead of the Earth sucking you in.
That masking principle could explain slightly weakened gravitation, because there is less "absence of matter" (less dense quantum fluctuations) seen by the gravimeter.
Allautcy, tihs sduty is a sacm. The hamun mnid connat ilsuoenatnatsny dehpicer a txet wsohe wdros hvae had tiehr lrettes resreved epecxt for the fsrit and lsat.
Are the rovers equipped to identify traces of life if there are some around ? Or would that specifically require an entirely different mission ? I know Beagle2 was built for this purpose but the poor thing slept to its death on the way down...
You know, it's actually good news, because this system works a lot more like what most people think is the process of teleporting people as seen in Star Trek: get on the transportation pad, and *BZTT* your physical form is carried away in a flash of light !
Sources are INSEE, ANPE + major interim agencies (Manpower, Adecco and Vedior Bis). The REAL unemployment rate here is the official rate plus all that they left out, like: - unemployed people who are currently following a formation - interim employees who don't have a mission at the moment (over-year average) - unregistered unemployed workers (those who exhausted all social facilities or were discouraged), though I admit a number of them probably found un unofficial job but are too honest to claim allocations at the same time - but then I don't count unofficial jobs (au noir) - disabled people who can't work (obviously this includes fraudsters, but these are unemployed anyway so I count them as such)
This might not correspond to your idea of an unemployment rate, obviously, but it accurately gives the ratio of people who don't work in the active population.
If you're gonna argue over figures, then 6% unemployment in the US ? According to the other answer to my original post, the same is true in the US, where the real unemployment rate is said to be 11.4 %. That's still a lot less than 19.9%
Fine, now please add the working poor who live below the poverty line. Or talk about the retired having to flip burgers, or the single mums with 2 jobs. As an aside, a lot of retired people in France live under the poverty line, in the overwhelming majority they come from the private sector. Single mums don't generally need 2 jobs like can be the case in the US, but single women with no children can't even earn a living (source: my-friggin-self !)
You sound like Le Pen who routinely slips that there are 5 million unemployed in France (where it's officially 2) I take this as a compliment over open-mindedness:) I'm a anarcho-libertarian who would never vote for an authoritarian egomaniac like Le Pen, even for a few million euros.
Yes this 19.9% rate is a pessimistic estimate because it does not account for illicit jobs and counts disabled as unemployed, but it is far more realistic than the official rate.
Unemployment runs about 10% in France vs 6% in the US. Err, no, the REAL, non-politically correct unemployment rate as calculated by interim agencies is almost 20% in France. That's why worker unions try their damnedest to outlaw firing of people entirely (which is not, IMHO, the correct solution), they know that once they're out they won't find another job.
The point is that it's good to keep a healthy dose of skepticism when in comes to environmental changes, before walking the streets wearing a 'DOOM' sign.
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Hmm, no. The link you provide talks about a way to deprive monkeys of the "satisfaction of work done", so they keep working and working because they never "feel" their work is done. It acts on the pleasure/reward circuit in the brain.
The pill discussed in this here article, though, is about forcing the metabolical effects of exercise (developing of muscles, turning of fat into readily-usable energy, etc...) without exercising. It acts on the metabolism.
What about the complete works of A. Hitchcock on one disc ? Or the complete cinema production of 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004, one disc per year ?
1TB would be enough to record nearly 25000 hours of audio, what about the complete works of Kipling, Hemingway and Tolstoi combined, as a fully indexed, searchable and commented audiobook ?
The very fact that my post was modded +5, Insightful gives insight on how most slashdoters see politics. And somehow I don't think this is a phenomenon limited to the US.
Why settle with just the marketing droids ? What about them lawyers, IRS people, CIA higher-ups, credit salesmen, etc...
Vote C'thulhu for President !
I don't think it refers to jews in any way (that's not something I remarked at all when I first read it), you're seeing racial slurs when there are none out of habit, maybe ? The text does indeed imply that some rather wealthy people own and control a lot of things, but hey, everyone has a different opinion on who it truly is (conservatives say liberals do, liberals say the opposite, neonazis say jews do, and a lot of other people think it's Masons / Illuminatis / Third Reich descendants / alien invaders / blacks / prairie squids / etc...). It's not like the far right wing has the exclusivity on loonie conspiracies.
;)
Maybe you should research who owns the Federal Reserve ? That would probably help clear this up.
I concede, though, that the artwork that was added to the original text has a right-wing racist tone to it, and that the end of the text goes a bit too far in the Illuminatus-style denouncement of a conspiracy. I'll probably write my own version of the text so that these do not get in the way of rational and factual arguments.
In any case, that sig is temporary, I'll revert to my good ole Principia Discordia link soon. In the meantime, I'd have disturbed and confused some more people
No, you're talking about the country where inhabitants are so apathetic they didn't bother checking whether the exceptional heatwave of last year (unprecedented in this century and the last) did fry their retired neighbours.
We for example learned a few years before his death (couple of years after Monicagate ?) that our previous president (Miterrand) had an illegitimate teenage daughter by a regular lover. The main debate was on whether the newspapers shouldn't have held their tongues.
This is a common misunderstanding. The scandal was over the use of tax money to pay for gifts and housing for the illegitimate daughter of the president.
Surely the availability of "Mein Kampf" serves as a historical record of how screwed up Hitler really was, thus strengthening human rights?
No, it's a piece of propaganda that certainly qualifies as being highly defamatory of the jewish minority.
According to the RSF organization, France is ranking 26th on the world's classment of freedom of press, while the US are 31st.
act, thre's a law in France making it a crime to "attack the character of the French President."
AFAIR, this law was repelled years ago.
That, combined with communist control of many of the French journalist's unions, means that many stories (such as all the members of the French government, past and present, who had their hands in the ELF bribery scandal, or, for that matter, the UN Oil-for-food scandel) never get adequately reported in the French press.
That, unfortunately, is completely true, and in fact communist workers unions have a lot more power than most people think. They hold an active minority in virtually every public service, including the Police and power distribution. They even had one of their men as Prime Minister not that long ago ! I half-jokingly call France "The Sovietic Republic of France" because of this. Sometimes that's "Ex-Sovietic Republic of France", though, because more and more people realize what's happening behind the political scene.
There is no real consensus between ALL french journalists, though, as proven by the existence of such publications.
It's not really censorship, it's more anti generic defamation laws. Most of any hate speech is a form of defamation towards a minority (jews, blacks, arabs, homosexuals, whatever...).
I agree that prohibiting people to buy/sell nazi objects (as in the France V.S. Ebay case) does not fall into this category, but blocking nazi speech is more of an antidefamation act than of censorship.
Think about it.
Sealand has anti-aircraft cannons and a will to defend its sovereignty. It did make use of those cannons once to repel a Royal Navy frigate.
I didn't know Jack Valenti posts on Slashdot ! ;)
Do my refusing to go to the cinema (overpriced), my boycotting of DVDs (overpriced and region-locked and encrypted) and my waiting for films to be broadcasted on TV make me a thief ?
Humm, no, I'm pretty confident ROT-13 does not have collisions. The only problem is that hashes obtained with it are the same size as the fed data...
It also depends on the usefulness of informations supplied. If it provides a false sense of security to a pilot, the risks of incidents are increased.
It's been three decades since the average number of incident per million movement has stagnated, how do this project's managers think they'll be effective where nothing was in all this time ?
Adding information to the pilot's input is probably not a good idea. Risk management experts such as René Amalberti have explained in great length that sensory overload exhausts cognitive resources, leaving little for actual piloting. The only few occasions where some new information technology would probably prove useful are situations where lack of information leads to a dangerous difference between what the pilot THINKS is happening, and what is REALLY happening. These sorts of difference is what leads to catastrophe (Sharm el Cheik being only one). I think there are a number of occasions where the SVS would help, but how many new loopholes, how many false assumptions ("The system does not show THAT so the situation is safe") will it introduce ?
I'll keep my doubt until I see the system's limitations.
The Haisch-Rueda theory that explains gravity and inertia by describing them as, respectively, electric and magnetic secondary effects of quantum fluctuations in the void, would probably explain the Allais effect better.
It "reverses" the way gravity works, that is: non-matter curves space-time and pushes in every direction, and matter masks this effect, thus it's the rest of the Universe that pushes you towards the center of the Earth instead of the Earth sucking you in.
That masking principle could explain slightly weakened gravitation, because there is less "absence of matter" (less dense quantum fluctuations) seen by the gravimeter.
Or perhaps this limitation made it into their brains because they don't *need* to count.
Allautcy, tihs sduty is a sacm. The hamun mnid connat ilsuoenatnatsny dehpicer a txet wsohe wdros hvae had tiehr lrettes resreved epecxt for the fsrit and lsat.
Could that "lumpy" rock be a fossil of a ?
Are the rovers equipped to identify traces of life if there are some around ? Or would that specifically require an entirely different mission ? I know Beagle2 was built for this purpose but the poor thing slept to its death on the way down...
You know, it's actually good news, because this system works a lot more like what most people think is the process of teleporting people as seen in Star Trek: get on the transportation pad, and *BZTT* your physical form is carried away in a flash of light !
Sources are INSEE, ANPE + major interim agencies (Manpower, Adecco and Vedior Bis). The REAL unemployment rate here is the official rate plus all that they left out, like:
:) I'm a anarcho-libertarian who would never vote for an authoritarian egomaniac like Le Pen, even for a few million euros.
- unemployed people who are currently following a formation
- interim employees who don't have a mission at the moment (over-year average)
- unregistered unemployed workers (those who exhausted all social facilities or were discouraged), though I admit a number of them probably found un unofficial job but are too honest to claim allocations at the same time - but then I don't count unofficial jobs (au noir)
- disabled people who can't work (obviously this includes fraudsters, but these are unemployed anyway so I count them as such)
This might not correspond to your idea of an unemployment rate, obviously, but it accurately gives the ratio of people who don't work in the active population.
If you're gonna argue over figures, then 6% unemployment in the US ?
According to the other answer to my original post, the same is true in the US, where the real unemployment rate is said to be 11.4 %. That's still a lot less than 19.9%
Fine, now please add the working poor who live below the poverty line. Or talk about the retired having to flip burgers, or the single mums with 2 jobs.
As an aside, a lot of retired people in France live under the poverty line, in the overwhelming majority they come from the private sector. Single mums don't generally need 2 jobs like can be the case in the US, but single women with no children can't even earn a living (source: my-friggin-self !)
You sound like Le Pen who routinely slips that there are 5 million unemployed in France (where it's officially 2)
I take this as a compliment over open-mindedness
Yes this 19.9% rate is a pessimistic estimate because it does not account for illicit jobs and counts disabled as unemployed, but it is far more realistic than the official rate.
Unemployment runs about 10% in France vs 6% in the US.
Err, no, the REAL, non-politically correct unemployment rate as calculated by interim agencies is almost 20% in France. That's why worker unions try their damnedest to outlaw firing of people entirely (which is not, IMHO, the correct solution), they know that once they're out they won't find another job.
The point is that it's good to keep a healthy dose of skepticism when in comes to environmental changes, before walking the streets wearing a 'DOOM' sign.