Wow, this post actually made me feel good about myself.
No car to work - check (bus running on biomethane)
Do buy reusable shopping bags - check (actually, bought once and used since)
Recycle trash - check (into 6 different categories, I think)
Don't use air conditioning - check
And I'm not actually even trying that hard. I just go about my daily life, not exactly spending hours thinking about these things. The fact that so many people can't even take these simple, non-intrusive, steps to curb real problems is pretty sad. Granted, I live in a city where they make a lot of these things easier for you but so could any city. Cities are run by people and, unlike the aforementioned corporations, not driven in the same way by profit. Also, something usually overlooked, these are actually economically sensible things to do. Not a single thing on that list increases monetary outlays, it lessens them!
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Maybe this has been pointed out elsewhere but here goes: the hatch thing is a reference to one of the characters, Desmond, actually living in a hatch for a considerable stretch of time. It's a joke.
Actually, they worked in three different ways. Pictograms, sounds and determinants.
If you were in a "hurry", had a lack of space or artistic reasons, you could just draw the symbol for bird and be done with it.
You could also use them to describe sounds (like a modern alphabet). This would combine a few symbols into a word that could be sounded-out.
Lastly, you could use them to simply be more clear, to help _determine_ the meaning of a word. You'd spell out the word for bird and then draw a bird (and underline the bird to distinguish it from the rest).
Interesting sideline to all of this is that you can write with hieroglyphs from both left to right and right to left. Doesn't really matter which one you pick. If you want to read it, just keep an eye out for the birds again. The direction of their mouths indicate which way to read the text.
I'm not sure why you say that. Certainly both are problematic but I'd say the copying of the images are the worst of the two. If they just put the original url in an IMG tag and didn't provide a link back, while bad, it wouldn't be as bad. It lets you retain a certain degree of control (even though they are leeching of your bandwidth) and might (I say might) even be perfectly legal.
As someone who hosts content on Flickr, I can say with absolute certainty that I find it a lot more annoying when someone copies one of my photos to their own server and links back to my flickr account then when they just load a photo straight from the flickr servers without a linkback.
Then please tell me why jews at large are not stoning people for having sex with someone that is married to another person.
Also, please tell me why the reformists that you describe in your reply to me can not be in a majority, at some point in the future. If their views are so internaly consistent in a "muslim logic way" that they can carry over to the current somewhat sizeable minority then clearly what is stopping them from spreading is not the inbuild reasoning of the 'new' interpretation.
The problem of the middle eastern region is a cultural and governing one as well as a historical one. A mindset that rests outside of Islam and is prevalent in many other parts of the world. They could all be Hindi and the exact same patterns would turn up.
And please bear in mind, through all this I am simply forgoing the argument of who are in a majority and minority, outside of the controlling forces. For the sake of argument I'm willing to accept your view because even with that handicap, your reasoning comes out short.
I guess we are going quite of track here and this thread is becomeing a bit old. I'll just again agree with you and disagree at the same time.
I think the reason for that fact is simple. Most of the world contains oppression. In fact, non-opression is like an island in a sea of opression. Russia and China are the easiest ones to pick up on because of their size but it's not like South America, in general a Catholic stronghold I believe, is that harmonious. India, known for Hinduism, isn't eactly a beacon of personal liberties. Africa, ranging from muslim to christian to all sorts of other things, are in many, many ways a complete mess.
If you want to argue that a lot of the places I just mentioned isn't as screwed up as, say, Saudi Arabia or Iran then I'd like to point out that for example Malaysia and Indonesia, two countries that are by no means top-notch countries, do however have muslim majorities and are run at least on par with some of the less bad oppressors, if there is such a thing.
To make it clear, I make no apologies for them. It's just my beliefe that when you look at the world and you see what a sorry state it is in, it is not more sorry because of the muslims but because of people seeking power, in whatever form they can get it. It is my firm hope that one day everyone can say whatever they want to say, that everyone will feel safe and that life for everyone will be good. I don't think we'll get there by pointing the finger at the wrong reasons though. I think we need to figure out the real reasons, find real sollutions and simply try to look at the world through other peoples eyes.
That said, fuck the bastard that wants to tell anyone else how to behave and the assholes that try to control people by fear. Plenty of muslims fit into that role and so do other people.
As a sidenote, thank you for this short discussion. In general, slashdot is not that conductive to deep reasoning and even though we do not agree with regards to a lot of things, I think we agree on some points and if we were to have a real, live conversation I think it would turn out we stand pretty closely on all the main issues. We just differ on what we think are the reasons for them not being in place.
I'm sorry you had to respond again. The page I had loaded in my browser was not properly refreshed and so I didn't notice all the discussions bellow.
While I'm willing to agree you have a point as such, I still do think the future holds lots of mild interpretations.
One reason to think this is the millions upon millions of 'shepherds' that define themselves as muslim and live perfectly peacefull, happy lives next to denominations and non-denominations of all kinds.
Another one is to keep remembering, like I said, that EVERYTHING can be re-interpreted. For example, I'm sure you can find reason to hold that the 'wars' you speak of need not be violent ones. They can be economical, moral, of the mind, what not. I'm not trying to get into a discussion as to if they need or not, I'm just giving the first example that pops into my head. I'm sure people that study the religion day and night for 40 years can, and will, come up with more convincing arguments. I'm sure they will attract more followers than me.
Because koran is put forth as unchanged word of god, it is impossible to find any excuse to reinterpret it.
Some of the things you say might very well be true and I certainly find some of it interesting, but you seem to be leaning a bit heavily on this pillar (semi-pun intended). From the simple fact that followers of Sunni and Shia (not to mention all of the other smaller factions) are abundant there obviously is room for interpretation. Why would a more modern one not be possible?
For that matter, though I'm by no means an expert, I seem to remember that the OT is supposedly the word of god as well. I guess you could argue that jewish oral traditions might have miss-remembered and made it not the word of god anymore and that by translating it the meaning has changed, but I think a lot of people would disagree. I see plenty of interpretation regarding this work going on. Including, but not limited, to the muslim, jewish and christian readings.
Either or, the point is, it is ALWAYS possible to interpret things in a different way. I bet even the five word Hallmark birthday cards can be interpreted in five-factorial ways, at the very least. It's a human trait.
I don't actually think that would happen. Granted, I haven't given this _that_ much thought, but I think the price of SMS;s could be loosely modeled as a function of a monopoly. For certain, the prices doesn't follow the regular price structures of a market in competition and it in no way reflects the underlying cost.
Thus, assuming monopoly model, the price the carriers are charging are the highest the market will bear and any additional cost will be taken on by the company itself.
I seriously doubt there is anything even resembling 'after hours' in a chip fabrication plant that can crank out i7 CPUs. If you have a plant you run it like there is no tomorrow and then you run it some more.
Though it might be convenient inside your own head, making up labels using pre-existing words with pre-existing definitions is generaly considered a bad idea and frowned upon.
No doubt are there differences in how the Hungarian regime used to run Hungary and how the current Chines regime runs China. That is not a reason to assume that one is communism and the other is socialism.
In fact, the very notion that just the fact that they are different is justification to use your labeling system is simply absurd.
To be perfectly honest, I wouldn't ascribe communism to either of the regimes as the word is originaly and properly defined. If I were to pick one, granted I would go with your pick as well. Sadly, that doesn't render any credibility to your argument.
To finish things of, let me just give you an example I once heard (in my own words since I can not recall the exact example); just because you are in a New York bar sitting next to a guy from India doesn't mean you should take his word for the current state and reasons for intricate Indian monetary policies. He is just a random Indian guy. Being from Hungary hardly makes you and all hungarian people experts on communism and it certainly doesn't lend you much in the way of credibillity on Chinese governing systems.
Take a long, hard look at what you wrote and realise that the building blocks of your reasoning are not useable. Using this kind of reasoning strategy is rarely advisable and gets you nowhere. Even if the main point of your reasoning is a true one your logical fallacies opens you up to numerous vectors of attack and lets an opponent remove your base. Better luck next time.
I don't quite agree. Assuming you start a chain of reasoning with a boolean argument, such that one depends on gods existence and the other depends on gods non-existence, valuable things can come from it.
Locate a place down the two chains where another boolean position exists between the two strains of reasoning. This might be a place where an observable/measurable truth is predicted or where a philosophical truth is stated.
Either way, you can now look at the world / your worldview, pick the chain of reasoning that fits in that point and trace it back to the initial assumption..
Not always the best, the easiest or the most correct approach but for sure not even close to useless. In many instances it is in fact very usefull. You might benefit from it if you try it.
And that makes sense. We're physical beings. The alignment, balance, symmetry of ourselves as physical bodies - of course that makes a difference, sometimes a big one, in our health. The anti-chiropractic camp would ask us to believe, what?, that we're pure spiritual essence, to which the body is so secondary even in regards to the body's own health that only our mental attitude - as adjusted of course by whatever drugs an orthodox physician might decide to prescribe - makes an "objective" difference in healing?
I don't think anyone is saying that you can't have physical problems with your spine nor that it can't influence several areas of your body (break it and if you had that delusion you will lose it quickly enough).
What is being said (by the people that aren't just parroting "chiropractics doesn't work") is this: The things that they do _do not_ do what they claim they do.
It is a logical fallacy to think that just because something is important (the spine) someone that claims to do good things to it are in fact doing this. The two are not connected. In fact, they are disjoint in two places.
Take these two examples:
1) The practice is wrong but the practitioner think it's right.
2) The practice is wrong and the practitioner think it's wrong.
I'm sure a lot of chiropractors are in the 1st camp and this, just like the homeopathic movement, confuses matters. People try to use trust, judgement of character and the beliefs of the practitioner to judge the truth of a matter when the startingpoint needs to be a completely different one.
I'll mention it again. The core of the distrust: The things that they do _do not_ do what they claim they do. It might help you (and it might help others). It is besides the point, sadly.
That said, I'm glad it helps you (and other posters). I find it hard to tell people to not do something that helps them. Without something else to sugest as an option it is just stupid.
Not to sound rude but how do you actually look at the world? Does it seem like magic to you? Does it not occur to you that the value of a (theoretical) company that owns all the h.265 IP will be pretty much exactly the current value of the future license fees - any debt + any other property and future options?
You can be expected to understand the laws in the 'areas' in which you live your life.
Don't own a farm? Not expected to know and understand the laws related to that.
Don't run a newspaper? Editorial laws and other regulations are not a required reading for you.
Plan on driving a car? Better brush up on those chapters.
Of course this is a slight oversimplification and I agree that in some areas it has gone to extremes. What I'm trying to show is that the somewhat witty and often heard responce that you gave is not as clear-cut as it can easily sound.
I suppose that the point is -- if there was no copyright, there would be no need for the GPL because you wouldn't have a leg to stand on.
From my, admittedly limited, knowledge of the GPL it stems from copyright law and not contract law; i.e. given the limits imposed on you due to a copyright claim on a certain software you are granted ADDITONAL rights. Thus, no copyright, no need for the GPL.
On a slightly less legal and more philosophical plane, the GPL is there to prevent something once free from turning non-free and thus limit people from using it as they want. Without copyright you could just 'liberate' it again. Disassemble and rewrite if need be. The focus on 'contributing back' takes a back seat to this.
I am way to lazy to even point you to an url that describes the 'time value of money' and explain what you did wrong in your calculations. I'll just ask you this highly theoretical question: Would you rather have $1000 in your hand today or next month? The rest is left as an exercise to the reader.
I swear, people on slashdot sometimes make me actually regret getting a degree in economics. It's the same feeling as when you watch computer programing/hackers in Hollywood movies. Makes you slap your forehead and go 'doh'!
For all intents and purposes, the flow of time from my perspective was different than normal.
More likely, your memory of the event as you look back at it makes it seem like time was slower. As I understand it, the brain has something very much like a short buffer memory that it can use for instant replays. You notice this in situations like when someone at the table next to you say your name. It's not like you react to every word starting with 'b' or 'be'. Instead, the brain is playing it back to you (and in your case probably with a slower speed than the actual event).
Thus, the memory you now think you have of the event is more likely a memory of the instant replay that your brain did for you. Some childhood memories are like this too. You don't actually remember the even itself but you have a memory of a memory. The brain is a strange place.
Yeah. Like huge oil production for a country with a small population. Rumor has it, if every Norwegian were given their "fair share" of the oil production when they hit 18, every single one of them would be a millionaire. If this is true or not, I don't know. But just comparing GDP from two so different economies is almost as pointless as comparing net output.
As a Swede though, I ask myself, what would their GDP be if it wasn't for the oil (and, erm, cod) and would they again be 'little brother'? =)
Let me preface this by saying I dislike the whole 'web OS' crap that Starforce, among others, represent. Useless. At least for me. Maybe there is a target group out there for this stuff too. I would like to get hold of the underlying software though to run on my own server. Does anyone know if this is possible/available?
There is every now and again a moment when it could be useful. I have my own documents saved on my server (mostly) and I could certainly set up rsync'ish capabilities (or something similar) to have it mirrored completely. All this stuff, useless as it is living on someone elses hardware could actually sometimes be useful living on your own. Also it could be amusing to experiment with.
I seem to remember some vnc java applet that I guess could technically do something similar, but handled correctly I think this could be better (as in not completely suck as the VNC sollution did when I last tried it).
Yes, speeds are survivable. Now try to actually find some torrents... What is needed is not a better client (though it wouldn't hurt) but they need to reach a 'critical mass' of users.
They might not be "paying supporters", but if I don't remember it completely wrong, parties large enough are entitled to state funds and these contributions are calculated on the numbers of members. I know their youth party section receives quite a large ammount due to this. They are in fact the largest political youth section in the country.
So, for all intents and purpouses, they might as well be called 'paying' members.
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Wow, this post actually made me feel good about myself.
No car to work - check (bus running on biomethane)
Do buy reusable shopping bags - check (actually, bought once and used since)
Recycle trash - check (into 6 different categories, I think)
Don't use air conditioning - check
And I'm not actually even trying that hard. I just go about my daily life, not exactly spending hours thinking about these things. The fact that so many people can't even take these simple, non-intrusive, steps to curb real problems is pretty sad. Granted, I live in a city where they make a lot of these things easier for you but so could any city. Cities are run by people and, unlike the aforementioned corporations, not driven in the same way by profit. Also, something usually overlooked, these are actually economically sensible things to do. Not a single thing on that list increases monetary outlays, it lessens them!
Maybe this has been pointed out elsewhere but here goes: the hatch thing is a reference to one of the characters, Desmond, actually living in a hatch for a considerable stretch of time. It's a joke.
Actually, they worked in three different ways. Pictograms, sounds and determinants.
If you were in a "hurry", had a lack of space or artistic reasons, you could just draw the symbol for bird and be done with it.
You could also use them to describe sounds (like a modern alphabet). This would combine a few symbols into a word that could be sounded-out.
Lastly, you could use them to simply be more clear, to help _determine_ the meaning of a word. You'd spell out the word for bird and then draw a bird (and underline the bird to distinguish it from the rest).
Interesting sideline to all of this is that you can write with hieroglyphs from both left to right and right to left. Doesn't really matter which one you pick. If you want to read it, just keep an eye out for the birds again. The direction of their mouths indicate which way to read the text.
Sadly, it removes the suggestion feature in the address bar. At least for those of us that use it.
I'm not sure why you say that. Certainly both are problematic but I'd say the copying of the images are the worst of the two. If they just put the original url in an IMG tag and didn't provide a link back, while bad, it wouldn't be as bad. It lets you retain a certain degree of control (even though they are leeching of your bandwidth) and might (I say might) even be perfectly legal.
As someone who hosts content on Flickr, I can say with absolute certainty that I find it a lot more annoying when someone copies one of my photos to their own server and links back to my flickr account then when they just load a photo straight from the flickr servers without a linkback.
Then please tell me why jews at large are not stoning people for having sex with someone that is married to another person.
Also, please tell me why the reformists that you describe in your reply to me can not be in a majority, at some point in the future. If their views are so internaly consistent in a "muslim logic way" that they can carry over to the current somewhat sizeable minority then clearly what is stopping them from spreading is not the inbuild reasoning of the 'new' interpretation.
The problem of the middle eastern region is a cultural and governing one as well as a historical one. A mindset that rests outside of Islam and is prevalent in many other parts of the world. They could all be Hindi and the exact same patterns would turn up.
And please bear in mind, through all this I am simply forgoing the argument of who are in a majority and minority, outside of the controlling forces. For the sake of argument I'm willing to accept your view because even with that handicap, your reasoning comes out short.
I guess we are going quite of track here and this thread is becomeing a bit old. I'll just again agree with you and disagree at the same time.
I think the reason for that fact is simple. Most of the world contains oppression. In fact, non-opression is like an island in a sea of opression. Russia and China are the easiest ones to pick up on because of their size but it's not like South America, in general a Catholic stronghold I believe, is that harmonious. India, known for Hinduism, isn't eactly a beacon of personal liberties. Africa, ranging from muslim to christian to all sorts of other things, are in many, many ways a complete mess.
If you want to argue that a lot of the places I just mentioned isn't as screwed up as, say, Saudi Arabia or Iran then I'd like to point out that for example Malaysia and Indonesia, two countries that are by no means top-notch countries, do however have muslim majorities and are run at least on par with some of the less bad oppressors, if there is such a thing.
To make it clear, I make no apologies for them. It's just my beliefe that when you look at the world and you see what a sorry state it is in, it is not more sorry because of the muslims but because of people seeking power, in whatever form they can get it. It is my firm hope that one day everyone can say whatever they want to say, that everyone will feel safe and that life for everyone will be good. I don't think we'll get there by pointing the finger at the wrong reasons though. I think we need to figure out the real reasons, find real sollutions and simply try to look at the world through other peoples eyes.
That said, fuck the bastard that wants to tell anyone else how to behave and the assholes that try to control people by fear. Plenty of muslims fit into that role and so do other people.
As a sidenote, thank you for this short discussion. In general, slashdot is not that conductive to deep reasoning and even though we do not agree with regards to a lot of things, I think we agree on some points and if we were to have a real, live conversation I think it would turn out we stand pretty closely on all the main issues. We just differ on what we think are the reasons for them not being in place.
I'm sorry you had to respond again. The page I had loaded in my browser was not properly refreshed and so I didn't notice all the discussions bellow.
While I'm willing to agree you have a point as such, I still do think the future holds lots of mild interpretations.
One reason to think this is the millions upon millions of 'shepherds' that define themselves as muslim and live perfectly peacefull, happy lives next to denominations and non-denominations of all kinds.
Another one is to keep remembering, like I said, that EVERYTHING can be re-interpreted. For example, I'm sure you can find reason to hold that the 'wars' you speak of need not be violent ones. They can be economical, moral, of the mind, what not. I'm not trying to get into a discussion as to if they need or not, I'm just giving the first example that pops into my head. I'm sure people that study the religion day and night for 40 years can, and will, come up with more convincing arguments. I'm sure they will attract more followers than me.
Some of the things you say might very well be true and I certainly find some of it interesting, but you seem to be leaning a bit heavily on this pillar (semi-pun intended). From the simple fact that followers of Sunni and Shia (not to mention all of the other smaller factions) are abundant there obviously is room for interpretation. Why would a more modern one not be possible?
For that matter, though I'm by no means an expert, I seem to remember that the OT is supposedly the word of god as well. I guess you could argue that jewish oral traditions might have miss-remembered and made it not the word of god anymore and that by translating it the meaning has changed, but I think a lot of people would disagree. I see plenty of interpretation regarding this work going on. Including, but not limited, to the muslim, jewish and christian readings.
Either or, the point is, it is ALWAYS possible to interpret things in a different way. I bet even the five word Hallmark birthday cards can be interpreted in five-factorial ways, at the very least. It's a human trait.
I don't actually think that would happen. Granted, I haven't given this _that_ much thought, but I think the price of SMS;s could be loosely modeled as a function of a monopoly. For certain, the prices doesn't follow the regular price structures of a market in competition and it in no way reflects the underlying cost. Thus, assuming monopoly model, the price the carriers are charging are the highest the market will bear and any additional cost will be taken on by the company itself.
I seriously doubt there is anything even resembling 'after hours' in a chip fabrication plant that can crank out i7 CPUs. If you have a plant you run it like there is no tomorrow and then you run it some more.
Though it might be convenient inside your own head, making up labels using pre-existing words with pre-existing definitions is generaly considered a bad idea and frowned upon.
No doubt are there differences in how the Hungarian regime used to run Hungary and how the current Chines regime runs China. That is not a reason to assume that one is communism and the other is socialism.
In fact, the very notion that just the fact that they are different is justification to use your labeling system is simply absurd.
To be perfectly honest, I wouldn't ascribe communism to either of the regimes as the word is originaly and properly defined. If I were to pick one, granted I would go with your pick as well. Sadly, that doesn't render any credibility to your argument.
To finish things of, let me just give you an example I once heard (in my own words since I can not recall the exact example); just because you are in a New York bar sitting next to a guy from India doesn't mean you should take his word for the current state and reasons for intricate Indian monetary policies. He is just a random Indian guy. Being from Hungary hardly makes you and all hungarian people experts on communism and it certainly doesn't lend you much in the way of credibillity on Chinese governing systems.
Take a long, hard look at what you wrote and realise that the building blocks of your reasoning are not useable. Using this kind of reasoning strategy is rarely advisable and gets you nowhere. Even if the main point of your reasoning is a true one your logical fallacies opens you up to numerous vectors of attack and lets an opponent remove your base. Better luck next time.
I don't quite agree. Assuming you start a chain of reasoning with a boolean argument, such that one depends on gods existence and the other depends on gods non-existence, valuable things can come from it.
Locate a place down the two chains where another boolean position exists between the two strains of reasoning. This might be a place where an observable/measurable truth is predicted or where a philosophical truth is stated.
Either way, you can now look at the world / your worldview, pick the chain of reasoning that fits in that point and trace it back to the initial assumption..
Not always the best, the easiest or the most correct approach but for sure not even close to useless. In many instances it is in fact very usefull. You might benefit from it if you try it.
I don't think anyone is saying that you can't have physical problems with your spine nor that it can't influence several areas of your body (break it and if you had that delusion you will lose it quickly enough).
What is being said (by the people that aren't just parroting "chiropractics doesn't work") is this: The things that they do _do not_ do what they claim they do.
It is a logical fallacy to think that just because something is important (the spine) someone that claims to do good things to it are in fact doing this. The two are not connected. In fact, they are disjoint in two places.
Take these two examples:
1) The practice is wrong but the practitioner think it's right.
2) The practice is wrong and the practitioner think it's wrong.
I'm sure a lot of chiropractors are in the 1st camp and this, just like the homeopathic movement, confuses matters. People try to use trust, judgement of character and the beliefs of the practitioner to judge the truth of a matter when the startingpoint needs to be a completely different one.
I'll mention it again. The core of the distrust: The things that they do _do not_ do what they claim they do. It might help you (and it might help others). It is besides the point, sadly.
That said, I'm glad it helps you (and other posters). I find it hard to tell people to not do something that helps them. Without something else to sugest as an option it is just stupid.
Not to sound rude but how do you actually look at the world? Does it seem like magic to you? Does it not occur to you that the value of a (theoretical) company that owns all the h.265 IP will be pretty much exactly the current value of the future license fees - any debt + any other property and future options?
You can be expected to understand the laws in the 'areas' in which you live your life.
Don't own a farm? Not expected to know and understand the laws related to that.
Don't run a newspaper? Editorial laws and other regulations are not a required reading for you.
Plan on driving a car? Better brush up on those chapters.
Of course this is a slight oversimplification and I agree that in some areas it has gone to extremes. What I'm trying to show is that the somewhat witty and often heard responce that you gave is not as clear-cut as it can easily sound.
I suppose that the point is -- if there was no copyright, there would be no need for the GPL because you wouldn't have a leg to stand on.
From my, admittedly limited, knowledge of the GPL it stems from copyright law and not contract law; i.e. given the limits imposed on you due to a copyright claim on a certain software you are granted ADDITONAL rights. Thus, no copyright, no need for the GPL.
On a slightly less legal and more philosophical plane, the GPL is there to prevent something once free from turning non-free and thus limit people from using it as they want. Without copyright you could just 'liberate' it again. Disassemble and rewrite if need be. The focus on 'contributing back' takes a back seat to this.
I am way to lazy to even point you to an url that describes the 'time value of money' and explain what you did wrong in your calculations. I'll just ask you this highly theoretical question: Would you rather have $1000 in your hand today or next month? The rest is left as an exercise to the reader. I swear, people on slashdot sometimes make me actually regret getting a degree in economics. It's the same feeling as when you watch computer programing/hackers in Hollywood movies. Makes you slap your forehead and go 'doh'!
More likely, your memory of the event as you look back at it makes it seem like time was slower. As I understand it, the brain has something very much like a short buffer memory that it can use for instant replays. You notice this in situations like when someone at the table next to you say your name. It's not like you react to every word starting with 'b' or 'be'. Instead, the brain is playing it back to you (and in your case probably with a slower speed than the actual event).
Thus, the memory you now think you have of the event is more likely a memory of the instant replay that your brain did for you. Some childhood memories are like this too. You don't actually remember the even itself but you have a memory of a memory. The brain is a strange place.
Yeah. Like huge oil production for a country with a small population. Rumor has it, if every Norwegian were given their "fair share" of the oil production when they hit 18, every single one of them would be a millionaire. If this is true or not, I don't know. But just comparing GDP from two so different economies is almost as pointless as comparing net output.
As a Swede though, I ask myself, what would their GDP be if it wasn't for the oil (and, erm, cod) and would they again be 'little brother'? =)
Let me preface this by saying I dislike the whole 'web OS' crap that Starforce, among others, represent. Useless. At least for me. Maybe there is a target group out there for this stuff too. I would like to get hold of the underlying software though to run on my own server. Does anyone know if this is possible/available?
There is every now and again a moment when it could be useful. I have my own documents saved on my server (mostly) and I could certainly set up rsync'ish capabilities (or something similar) to have it mirrored completely. All this stuff, useless as it is living on someone elses hardware could actually sometimes be useful living on your own. Also it could be amusing to experiment with.
I seem to remember some vnc java applet that I guess could technically do something similar, but handled correctly I think this could be better (as in not completely suck as the VNC sollution did when I last tried it).
Shouldn't that be Chanandler Bong?
Yes, speeds are survivable. Now try to actually find some torrents... What is needed is not a better client (though it wouldn't hurt) but they need to reach a 'critical mass' of users.
They might not be "paying supporters", but if I don't remember it completely wrong, parties large enough are entitled to state funds and these contributions are calculated on the numbers of members. I know their youth party section receives quite a large ammount due to this. They are in fact the largest political youth section in the country.
So, for all intents and purpouses, they might as well be called 'paying' members.
If there is, I better make sure I get the AF achievement... O:-)