I can't help but remember that Nintendo is very much known for "$300 handheld or a $500 console", to very large part of the world (most typically parts which are able, on average, to afford things less) But that's quite usual thing...
Hm, though that doesn't fit well with how DSi XL is sold also as a supposedly better "experience for onlookers"... Now it's suddenly a one-person experience?
"Then match the poorly rated people with each other"
Oh how that should be the way in social networking... ("poorly" being relative of course; more of a folksonomy in the style of Last.fm that really matches like-people)
And how can you be so certain only the one factor you list played a role, not any other? (especially if the issue is still hotly debated among historians)
Hm, couple that with how for photon there is no time / "between" moments of time...crap, we've just found even more confusing way of looking at general relativity;p
One could almost get an impression that you have a habit of omitting part of important conclusions of what you yourself write about...
Of course they have plenty enough to do with each other (with how important part of whole culture religious practices were and still are in many places...heck, they themselves claim it is like this), of course it mattered what people on the streets thought - you said it yourself: while one cultural group led itself to believe in single, higher order (an approach which undoubtedly helped them advance, as you also said), some other groups didn't have that (also!) because of their beliefs (Chinese probably to a large degree, for example; one of the reasons why they didn't have the same kind of Enlightenment is possibly because they've seen gods / world as a bit more finicky, etc.)
And it still matters. Sure, it might not be so visible on personal timeframe - but influences the dynamics of societies (as...it always did; and no, it's not some simplistic "if you want the place to be better, work to make it more secular" of course, too many factors interweave, in all directions...though it sems to be a general pattern if such trend is organic). Even on a pretty basic level - for example, my place experiences yet another exodus of intelligentsia lately... (which isn't naturally some direct response to slightly over the top levels of religious practices, among many other things of course - rather, all those effects feed on each other, most importantly on long-term results of previous waves)
While mentioning a "desire for policy decisions to be made based on science", you should also say much more directly what way too often influences policies now. Which also immediatelly invalidades your claim that what practitioners believe doesn't matter - at the least they can influence policy (plus, for example, prevent large portion of future citizens from even considering certain pursuits). That science is not a philosophy of life doesn't matter much if the second way of conduit we're dealing with most certainly is.
I nearly have an impression that what you're saying is, essentially, almost a much milder form of one usual talk of religious PR - "when something good is around, that's of course largely thanks to us; when something bad happens...uhm, don't look here, no reason to"
PS. "Truth" that atheism is a religion? Excuse me? That's the only approach which has shown it's disconnected from the whims of societies which are what's shaping religions ("post-theism" is a more precise term in light of that) Almost, a bit (though in a different form of course), like...some other thing which describes reality that we talk about in this thread. You might get such impression if you mistakenly think that it's suddenly about very short-term dynamics of some specific results or policies...but it's about much longer timeframes than that. (and please, don't embarass yourself by selling me BS about, say, "national atheism" of so called "communist" countries - I live in place which had such official policy - and, surely by some miracle, virtually all children of ex Party members are baptised; and if anything, the Parties tried to create their new faith / miracles / Lenin still hasn't decomposed...which worked in very few places (one?) where "old" faiths actually gave in. But you might look, if you haven't, at Czech Republic, Estonia, large part of Germany, France, Spain or Nordic countries...)
PPS. What was the purpose of bringing morality into this? Policy decisions cannot be made on science and hence must depend on...morality? OK, probably also. But that's another, third topic altogether. One in which religions demostrably don't have much authority... (look at countries best in positive societal factors, low crime rate, etc. and look at their average secularisation; do the same for places with the worst state of society; that is the level which tells anything when it comes to big, very long-term policies; some details about promoting further spread of HIV or gods often displaying quite horrible, very human traits in all mythologies, being largely irrelevant)
One of the probable explanations seems to be - inertia is equivalent to the gravitational force that acts on the body...from the rest of the Universe. With a disclaimer that this would need propagation of gravitational disturbances into and from distant future!
Which would be...most interesting. Possibly actually strenghtening speed limits present in our Universe, with those limits being probably even more crucial part of fundamental mechanisms of our world. OTOH with the potential to bring even more wild scenarios if it's possible to break away from said limits?
"Free-fall" so, say, something as relatively trivial as "in orbit"?Y
es, there's some vestigal drag - just use high orbit or circumsolar one, and encase the experiment in "external" spacecraft, without physical contact between the two; the internal one being in as pure free-fall as we can get, the external one shielding the interior from miniscule drag by stationkeeping (that's not my ideas, that's actually a setup of some mission that's in the works already)
China (that you sort of mention), in recent times specifically? I'm not actualy sure of this / don't quite disagree with you...but really, how does present day China fit into the argument?
IMHO, such feedback mechanisms aren't exactly "on purpose", but stem from the deep need of people to truly convince themselves in value or "better purpose" of things they had to put up with themselves, in their time.
Which of course doesn't change much in practise / isn't much help in preventing the above...
Also, look at the map of countries where "old Christianity" is historically dominant; now look at map of coutries which had at least a serious problem with "communism" - interesting, isn't it? Those were simply most feudal places, with a coup of sorts. One kind of faith replaced by another... (look at most over the top propaganda and tell me it doesn't have religious undertones; BTW, not only saints don't decompose - Lenin is like that, too!) And there's this one open secret from my place how, by a miracle I guess, virtually all children born to parents who were in the Party are...baptised.
What it all boils down to: don't search for clear cutoffs, ther aren't many. Diffusion is what happens most often with human societies.
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I can't help but remember that Nintendo is very much known for "$300 handheld or a $500 console", to very large part of the world (most typically parts which are able, on average, to afford things less)
But that's quite usual thing...
Hm, though that doesn't fit well with how DSi XL is sold also as a supposedly better "experience for onlookers"...
Now it's suddenly a one-person experience?
It's not, 3DS has stereoscopic screen with parallax barrier. Apparently.
Why putting off the not-so-big fan base you have would make sense as an introduction to the new system?
I would expect at least those integrated in UPS of good class might - after all the device is already wired for practically instant switchover?
I would expect also "reverse BJs" through printed pictures of faces.
"Then match the poorly rated people with each other"
Oh how that should be the way in social networking... ("poorly" being relative of course; more of a folksonomy in the style of Last.fm that really matches like-people)
How does that work when they can generally only choose the lesser of (very few) evils?
And how can you be so certain only the one factor you list played a role, not any other? (especially if the issue is still hotly debated among historians)
Laptop and/or surge protectors?
Hm. No, I didn't have that opportunity.
But even(?) the military seems to use seatbelts in potentially high-g scenarios...
Hey, other govs will be happy to do it.
Why control interface needs superheated plasma conduits?
Hm, couple that with how for photon there is no time / "between" moments of time...crap, we've just found even more confusing way of looking at general relativity ;p
One could almost get an impression that you have a habit of omitting part of important conclusions of what you yourself write about...
Of course they have plenty enough to do with each other (with how important part of whole culture religious practices were and still are in many places...heck, they themselves claim it is like this), of course it mattered what people on the streets thought - you said it yourself: while one cultural group led itself to believe in single, higher order (an approach which undoubtedly helped them advance, as you also said), some other groups didn't have that (also!) because of their beliefs (Chinese probably to a large degree, for example; one of the reasons why they didn't have the same kind of Enlightenment is possibly because they've seen gods / world as a bit more finicky, etc.)
And it still matters. Sure, it might not be so visible on personal timeframe - but influences the dynamics of societies (as...it always did; and no, it's not some simplistic "if you want the place to be better, work to make it more secular" of course, too many factors interweave, in all directions...though it sems to be a general pattern if such trend is organic). Even on a pretty basic level - for example, my place experiences yet another exodus of intelligentsia lately... (which isn't naturally some direct response to slightly over the top levels of religious practices, among many other things of course - rather, all those effects feed on each other, most importantly on long-term results of previous waves)
While mentioning a "desire for policy decisions to be made based on science", you should also say much more directly what way too often influences policies now. Which also immediatelly invalidades your claim that what practitioners believe doesn't matter - at the least they can influence policy (plus, for example, prevent large portion of future citizens from even considering certain pursuits). That science is not a philosophy of life doesn't matter much if the second way of conduit we're dealing with most certainly is.
I nearly have an impression that what you're saying is, essentially, almost a much milder form of one usual talk of religious PR - "when something good is around, that's of course largely thanks to us; when something bad happens...uhm, don't look here, no reason to"
PS. "Truth" that atheism is a religion? Excuse me? That's the only approach which has shown it's disconnected from the whims of societies which are what's shaping religions ("post-theism" is a more precise term in light of that)
Almost, a bit (though in a different form of course), like...some other thing which describes reality that we talk about in this thread.
You might get such impression if you mistakenly think that it's suddenly about very short-term dynamics of some specific results or policies...but it's about much longer timeframes than that.
(and please, don't embarass yourself by selling me BS about, say, "national atheism" of so called "communist" countries - I live in place which had such official policy - and, surely by some miracle, virtually all children of ex Party members are baptised; and if anything, the Parties tried to create their new faith / miracles / Lenin still hasn't decomposed...which worked in very few places (one?) where "old" faiths actually gave in.
But you might look, if you haven't, at Czech Republic, Estonia, large part of Germany, France, Spain or Nordic countries...)
PPS. What was the purpose of bringing morality into this? Policy decisions cannot be made on science and hence must depend on...morality? OK, probably also. But that's another, third topic altogether. One in which religions demostrably don't have much authority... (look at countries best in positive societal factors, low crime rate, etc. and look at their average secularisation; do the same for places with the worst state of society; that is the level which tells anything when it comes to big, very long-term policies; some details about promoting further spread of HIV or gods often displaying quite horrible, very human traits in all mythologies, being largely irrelevant)
Still - what could possibly, after the realisation of last step, cause them to forget about seatbelts?
Hm, maybe you're onto something - that could, maybe, account for exploding control panels... (not to later problems with repairing them, though)
Secret codewords / types of phrases? ;)
This was a fun read about inertia...
http://physics.fullerton.edu/~jimw/general/inertia/index.htm
One of the probable explanations seems to be - inertia is equivalent to the gravitational force that acts on the body...from the rest of the Universe. With a disclaimer that this would need propagation of gravitational disturbances into and from distant future!
Which would be...most interesting. Possibly actually strenghtening speed limits present in our Universe, with those limits being probably even more crucial part of fundamental mechanisms of our world. OTOH with the potential to bring even more wild scenarios if it's possible to break away from said limits?
"Free-fall" so, say, something as relatively trivial as "in orbit"?Y
es, there's some vestigal drag - just use high orbit or circumsolar one, and encase the experiment in "external" spacecraft, without physical contact between the two; the internal one being in as pure free-fall as we can get, the external one shielding the interior from miniscule drag by stationkeeping (that's not my ideas, that's actually a setup of some mission that's in the works already)
I will take the option of seatbelts while sitting at the bridge of your spaceship, thank you very much.
China (that you sort of mention), in recent times specifically? I'm not actualy sure of this / don't quite disagree with you...but really, how does present day China fit into the argument?
IMHO, such feedback mechanisms aren't exactly "on purpose", but stem from the deep need of people to truly convince themselves in value or "better purpose" of things they had to put up with themselves, in their time.
Which of course doesn't change much in practise / isn't much help in preventing the above...
It almost seems you limit that conclusion only to modern politics? Why would you do that?...
You need to see one movie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Ribbon
Also, look at the map of countries where "old Christianity" is historically dominant; now look at map of coutries which had at least a serious problem with "communism" - interesting, isn't it?
Those were simply most feudal places, with a coup of sorts. One kind of faith replaced by another... (look at most over the top propaganda and tell me it doesn't have religious undertones; BTW, not only saints don't decompose - Lenin is like that, too!)
And there's this one open secret from my place how, by a miracle I guess, virtually all children born to parents who were in the Party are...baptised.
What it all boils down to: don't search for clear cutoffs, ther aren't many. Diffusion is what happens most often with human societies.