You have no coherent argument against my statement, so you resort to the old standby in an attempt to squash dissenting views.
You statement is invalid because it contains no precise data or even estimates, but uses weasel words like "large swaths" and "many" in their place. It is incomplete because it contains no references whatsoever to back your assertions, even if they were precise enough to backed, which they aren't. And it is also pointless because with over 1 billion muslims on this planet, there are undoubtedly "many" with "something fundamentally broken" with them.
If b is an expression that returns a reference to a newly allocated resource, such as fopen or malloc, this if
So it's a tradeoff: get neat one-liners for a thing most C programmers don't bother to do, at the expense of adding a hard to notice source of bugs to every if statement.
Does your fridge or your sprinkler system or whatever need high speed?
Neither my fridge nor my sprinkler system - especially my sprinkler system - needs any kind of connectivity whatsoever except to spy on me and bombard me with ads where ever I go, both of which do require high speed.
But the only thing here to care about is the journalistic integrity thing, and she didn't do that; the journalist did.
If journalistic integrity is worth caring for, so are attempts to subvert it. You don't get to give a bribe and then claim you're blameless for corruption.
However: a coproation does not have arms & legs so it cannot write documents, send emails, etc. These things have to be done by people on behalf of the company, typically these are employees. It is these people who should be made to be held responsible for what they have done with their arms & legs.
Does this also mean that any product made by, say, General Motors, actually belongs to the people who used their arms & legs to build them? Or does it only apply when it happens to benefit the corporation?
I never once thought about the "God of War" as a living thing as you describe it, but you are totally right.
And of course the rest of the gang are also still out there, from Venus to Dionysus, made all the more powerful by being hidden from view. Any fool could had seen that trying to legislate the "God of Wine" out of existence would be an epic fail, but we had somehow managed to convince ourselves that it didn't exist, thus Prohibition and War on Drugs. Or look at Catholic Church and what their attempts to banish "Goddess of Sex" led to.
I think there's a whole new branch of psychology we desperately need, and could conceivably develop by going through ancient myths, this time without assuming the people who came up with and believed them were blind idiots. Which was pretty weird to begin with, after all, we sum up observed reality by anthropomorphising various aspects of it all the time, from countries to capitalism to the abstract concepts of justice and freedom.
Ironically enough, my source for this idea was Walter Wink's "Powers" series, which is about taking a close look at the Bible and what it has to say about power (hence the name) and social institutions, and how these can be regarded as living things in their own right. And even more ironically, that idea meshes quite well with Dawkin's ideas about cultural memes being analogous to genetics.
So it has. Humans are, after all, also living creatures with their own agendas, such as survival. But every time war is avoided, how is that treated? Like we had won a terrible fight against a great enemy?
Or simply read what you wrote. Yes, war has ben avoided. You could replace "war" with "the Great Cthulhu" or "Slenderman" in that sentence and it would make just as much sense. War is not just an unfortunate failure of diplomacy. It's more, a pattern of behaviours inherited from our ancestors that are always there, suggesting a particular response to any perceived situation. And that pattern has been activated once again, and is guiding people's responses towards WWIII.
It won't be the end of humanity... There's no chance that this will ever develop to that scale.
War is an archetypal situation. Once the possibility of one starting develops, it has "suction": people react to the archetype, and that threatens to overwhem rational thought. The archetype was worshipped as a divinity in many cultures precisely because war behaves as if it was a living thing seeking to devour people - or, in this case, the entire world.
So yes, there's every chance this will develop into World War III: Last Dance.
A good cyberwarfare department could easily post lots of fake satellite imagery to google from multiple sources.
A good cyberwarfare department does what it's told. Gaining foreign hostility is likely one of Putin's goals in all this, because he can use the resulting siege mentality to concentrate more power in his hands. For that matter, economic sanctions work in his favour too, since they get Russians used to lower standard of living which gets blamed on West, thus allowing Putin to move economic resources to military.
For shame, really, because its attached historical lessons are desperately needed these days.
Don't worry, we're about to get re-educated on the matter. And this time there isn't any "free world" left to come to the rescue, just Stalin - er, Putin.
If the Passenger Pigeon has been extinct for this long, it's safe to say that ecosystems have adjusted to their demise. Let's not see what the consequences of re-introducing them are.
AFAIK there wasn't any dramatic changes when the PP went extinct, so whatever function they had, some other species took over - in engineering terms, the ecosystem switched to using Backup Pigeon System. If so, then re-introducing Passenger Pigeon is analogous to getting primary system back online, which is a good thing both because it re-introduces a layer of redundancy, as well as allows the ecosystem to return to the balance its species have evolved into (and haven't have time to evolve out of), thus giving much-needed stress reduction on a system already facing enough challenges.
And since that person is apparently now dead, how can they just somehow arbitrarily decide that charges should be dropped?
Because dead men tell no tales. Which rises a question of what incentive does any officer have to ensure that the merely wounded survive? Delay calling help a little and there won't be any confusion over conflicting testimonies.
Ultimately he is the only one who can determine if the environment is safe for him to operate that computer and drive. He failed. It cost a life. He needs to pay a price for that.
Alternatively, we could decide that the blame resides partially - probably mostly - on the police department and current social climate as a whole. After all, the latter has all but declared police to be above law or even the very concept of accountability, while the former certainly took advantage of it. People planted into a poisonous cultural atmosphere cannot help but internalize and treat it as a baseline for what's "normal", and can individually only decide whether they're better or worse than that. And assigning all the blame on that individual lets the system that spawned them off the hook, thus ensuring the same thing will happen again, and again, and again.
we're generally more willing to believe a tragedy was accidental and not the result of systemic problems between the police and a particular community when it was accidental and not the result of systemic problems between the police and a particular community.
The problem is, this death was a result of systemic problems between the police and society at large, specifically the police thinking - correctly, it appears - that they're above the law.
This also goes to show why you should not tolerate such problems even when you are currently not affected: eventually they'll grow to the point where even you aren't safe.
Given the evidence, it's difficult to believe that ideological atheism won't lead to irrationality and bloodshed just as quickly and easily as any religion.
That's because every religion is an ideology and every ideology a religion.
Religion isn't always right... they don't teach facts, they teach opinions.
This is unlikely to have much to do with either, and more with Ayatollah wishing to stay "Grand": a gatekeeper of Heaven who dictates to ignorant masses in the name of God. That doesn't really work if the masses aren't ignorant, and even more so if they get used to debating.
In other words, power corrupts. It should really be regarded like super-heroin: no matter your initial purposes for getting it, you will be addicted and unwilling to put it down, until keeping it and getting more is all that really matters to you anymore. Which explains why the world is so dysfunctional: every society is led by junkies.
After marijuana I can put the pain aside; it's still there, but I become able to ignore it by making an effort.
Tha'ts a mild psychedelic effect. It lets you see your mind as a set of subsystems rather than a whole. Actual hallucinogens like LSD have similar but far stronger effect, which is why they're potentially very useful in treating things like addictions - but of course that's impossible thanks to the War on Drugs, ironically enough.
It's also almost certainly the real reason for WoD: an outbreak of self-awareness could shatter the chains of delusion which keep people in their place beneath the booths of the Powers That Be. What would happen to our society and it's "elite" if people stopped fighting each other to become millionaires and instead banded together to ensure a decent standard of living for all?
I don't see a positive future for the US. Either the middle class will continue to get fucked until everybody is at the poverty level (except the uber-wealthy) or there will be a civil war.
Relax, the way things are going we seem headed for World War III long before that.
Alcohol, being the most dangerous of those ready intoxicants, has the property of having a somewhat tested method of measuring whether your system is effected.
Not really. While acute alcohol intoxication is easy to test, the lingering effects are not. Hangover persists even after all ethanol has been burned up, as do the effects of lack of (restful) sleep, not to mention possible withdrawal effects. And of course depression and outright illness which result from heavy use don't exactly make you a safer driver, nor does lowered constitution due to being too hungover to practice, etc.
Of all people, experts of the disease take precautions to avoid catching it themselves, when they do, its not a good sign.
Maybe. Then again, where I work it's the new guys who follow safety guidelines religiously, while those who have been there for a while can't be bothered because, after all, nothing's happened this far so it must be safe.
Experts are humans, and humans are notoriously bad at keeping their guard up with familiar things.
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You statement is invalid because it contains no precise data or even estimates, but uses weasel words like "large swaths" and "many" in their place. It is incomplete because it contains no references whatsoever to back your assertions, even if they were precise enough to backed, which they aren't. And it is also pointless because with over 1 billion muslims on this planet, there are undoubtedly "many" with "something fundamentally broken" with them.
In short, clumsy propaganda.
So it's a tradeoff: get neat one-liners for a thing most C programmers don't bother to do, at the expense of adding a hard to notice source of bugs to every if statement.
Neither my fridge nor my sprinkler system - especially my sprinkler system - needs any kind of connectivity whatsoever except to spy on me and bombard me with ads where ever I go, both of which do require high speed.
If journalistic integrity is worth caring for, so are attempts to subvert it. You don't get to give a bribe and then claim you're blameless for corruption.
Does this also mean that any product made by, say, General Motors, actually belongs to the people who used their arms & legs to build them? Or does it only apply when it happens to benefit the corporation?
No need to imagine, most of us have gone to elementary school.
And of course the rest of the gang are also still out there, from Venus to Dionysus, made all the more powerful by being hidden from view. Any fool could had seen that trying to legislate the "God of Wine" out of existence would be an epic fail, but we had somehow managed to convince ourselves that it didn't exist, thus Prohibition and War on Drugs. Or look at Catholic Church and what their attempts to banish "Goddess of Sex" led to.
I think there's a whole new branch of psychology we desperately need, and could conceivably develop by going through ancient myths, this time without assuming the people who came up with and believed them were blind idiots. Which was pretty weird to begin with, after all, we sum up observed reality by anthropomorphising various aspects of it all the time, from countries to capitalism to the abstract concepts of justice and freedom.
Ironically enough, my source for this idea was Walter Wink's "Powers" series, which is about taking a close look at the Bible and what it has to say about power (hence the name) and social institutions, and how these can be regarded as living things in their own right. And even more ironically, that idea meshes quite well with Dawkin's ideas about cultural memes being analogous to genetics.
So it has. Humans are, after all, also living creatures with their own agendas, such as survival. But every time war is avoided, how is that treated? Like we had won a terrible fight against a great enemy?
Or simply read what you wrote. Yes, war has ben avoided. You could replace "war" with "the Great Cthulhu" or "Slenderman" in that sentence and it would make just as much sense. War is not just an unfortunate failure of diplomacy. It's more, a pattern of behaviours inherited from our ancestors that are always there, suggesting a particular response to any perceived situation. And that pattern has been activated once again, and is guiding people's responses towards WWIII.
War is an archetypal situation. Once the possibility of one starting develops, it has "suction": people react to the archetype, and that threatens to overwhem rational thought. The archetype was worshipped as a divinity in many cultures precisely because war behaves as if it was a living thing seeking to devour people - or, in this case, the entire world.
So yes, there's every chance this will develop into World War III: Last Dance.
In Europe trying to refute an action by calling it socialist doesn't work.
A good cyberwarfare department does what it's told. Gaining foreign hostility is likely one of Putin's goals in all this, because he can use the resulting siege mentality to concentrate more power in his hands. For that matter, economic sanctions work in his favour too, since they get Russians used to lower standard of living which gets blamed on West, thus allowing Putin to move economic resources to military.
Don't worry, we're about to get re-educated on the matter. And this time there isn't any "free world" left to come to the rescue, just Stalin - er, Putin.
AFAIK there wasn't any dramatic changes when the PP went extinct, so whatever function they had, some other species took over - in engineering terms, the ecosystem switched to using Backup Pigeon System. If so, then re-introducing Passenger Pigeon is analogous to getting primary system back online, which is a good thing both because it re-introduces a layer of redundancy, as well as allows the ecosystem to return to the balance its species have evolved into (and haven't have time to evolve out of), thus giving much-needed stress reduction on a system already facing enough challenges.
Because dead men tell no tales. Which rises a question of what incentive does any officer have to ensure that the merely wounded survive? Delay calling help a little and there won't be any confusion over conflicting testimonies.
Alternatively, we could decide that the blame resides partially - probably mostly - on the police department and current social climate as a whole. After all, the latter has all but declared police to be above law or even the very concept of accountability, while the former certainly took advantage of it. People planted into a poisonous cultural atmosphere cannot help but internalize and treat it as a baseline for what's "normal", and can individually only decide whether they're better or worse than that. And assigning all the blame on that individual lets the system that spawned them off the hook, thus ensuring the same thing will happen again, and again, and again.
The problem is, this death was a result of systemic problems between the police and society at large, specifically the police thinking - correctly, it appears - that they're above the law.
This also goes to show why you should not tolerate such problems even when you are currently not affected: eventually they'll grow to the point where even you aren't safe.
That's because every religion is an ideology and every ideology a religion.
I guess there's always a Greater Satan.
This is unlikely to have much to do with either, and more with Ayatollah wishing to stay "Grand": a gatekeeper of Heaven who dictates to ignorant masses in the name of God. That doesn't really work if the masses aren't ignorant, and even more so if they get used to debating.
In other words, power corrupts. It should really be regarded like super-heroin: no matter your initial purposes for getting it, you will be addicted and unwilling to put it down, until keeping it and getting more is all that really matters to you anymore. Which explains why the world is so dysfunctional: every society is led by junkies.
That so, TeknoHog?
Tha'ts a mild psychedelic effect. It lets you see your mind as a set of subsystems rather than a whole. Actual hallucinogens like LSD have similar but far stronger effect, which is why they're potentially very useful in treating things like addictions - but of course that's impossible thanks to the War on Drugs, ironically enough.
It's also almost certainly the real reason for WoD: an outbreak of self-awareness could shatter the chains of delusion which keep people in their place beneath the booths of the Powers That Be. What would happen to our society and it's "elite" if people stopped fighting each other to become millionaires and instead banded together to ensure a decent standard of living for all?
Relax, the way things are going we seem headed for World War III long before that.
Not really. While acute alcohol intoxication is easy to test, the lingering effects are not. Hangover persists even after all ethanol has been burned up, as do the effects of lack of (restful) sleep, not to mention possible withdrawal effects. And of course depression and outright illness which result from heavy use don't exactly make you a safer driver, nor does lowered constitution due to being too hungover to practice, etc.
Maybe. Then again, where I work it's the new guys who follow safety guidelines religiously, while those who have been there for a while can't be bothered because, after all, nothing's happened this far so it must be safe.
Experts are humans, and humans are notoriously bad at keeping their guard up with familiar things.