The point is that numerous allegations, including photos which appear to show US service men raping individuals, allegations by people like Seymour Hersh (Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for the NY Times) and Senator Lindsey Graham, rape being mentioned specifically in the Taguba Report, as well as personal accounts of rape, all appear in various places on the internet.
You seem to be taking a position that rape definitely did NOT happen. While a Google search does not prove anything, a quick read through of most of the articles found there should be sufficient to warrant further investigation before asserting with certainty that rape did not happen.
Cool! I'll be by soon to shoot you and take your land. You might mind, but I don't care! Fuck you, you fucking fuck! It'll be mine soon, 'cuz whoever has the most guns wins!
I'll also kill your whole family, just for kicks. Yeehaw!
In the report, author Eric Davis says psychic teleportation, moving yourself from location to location through mind powers, is "quite real and can be controlled."
I have tried to keep this a secret for as long as I have been able, but I guess the cat is out of the bag now. Just a few minutes ago, I was standing on the other side of the room from where I am now typing. With my mind, I told my body to move over to the other side of the room and immediately it happened! My body does whatever I tell it to! It is completely under my psychic control!
For a while it was cool being the only one with this power, but now everyone is going to start doing it. Suxx azz.
It is so interesting that we find the idea of communicating with another consciousness somewhere in the universe so compelling. I suppose we could just as easily not care that much. But for some reason, this idea seems to touch on our deepest instincts and desires.
We seem to be hard-wired with an innate desire to connect our consciousness with that of the Other. The thing I wonder about - is this a fundamental desire that is simply specific to humans because of the nature of our species, or is this more of a general rule - that as creatures become more conscious, the desire to connect becomes more and more powerful?
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe what your are thinking of as a pigeon is a species of dove; a Rock Dove" to be precise. Actually, I think the term pigeon and dove are interchangeable in reference to this family of birds. So, I suppose that the fact that Rock Doves are a species in the family of doves supports your position on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. A more precise re-wording of your feelings about consuming said birds thus might be, "I would not eat a filthy feral rock dove."
I believe that the limits of our language do limit our thought, and we are constantly trying to expand language to allow us to expand our consciousness. But there are other ways of knowing as well. For example, as a visual artist, I spend a lot of time attempting to discern subtleties in the way we actually see the world, and how we think visually. One of the most shocking things I came to understand while in art school was how our media shapes how we actually see the world around us; what we pay attention to, and what we ignore. This is why I feel the arts are so very important - we must continue to expand our vocabularies in order to expand our very consciousness; whether those vocabularies are language, the visual world, music, or math.
Exactly. Essentially we have only one data point (life on Earth) to help us determine what are the universal foundations of life. It is very difficult to extrapolate from one data point. For example, why couldn't there be life on the Sun? Who knows?
I think it is important to try and take as broad a view as possible about what life might actually be. I mean, what the heck IS life, anyway? I find Stuart Kauffman's thinking very interesting.
As a graphic designer, perhaps because of necessity, I find that I am sensitive to resolutions of about 225 - 300 pixels / sq. inch at typical reading distance. Actually, at higher resolutions, I can still sense the difference. It's hard to describe, but when I look at 600 or 1200 dpi images, even though I definitely cannot pick out the individual dots, I can still see a difference.
I have always dreamed of a monitor that could render at 300 dpi - the most typical print resolution. Have you ever noticed that there is a dramatic difference in reading a book, and reading on screen? Of course, we all have. I believe that the higher resolution of the type on paper makes for a much easier and enjoyable experience. I think this is why I sometimes print out longer documents in order to read them. It is subtle, but type on paper is much easier on the eyes. It was interesting to note that the author of the article complained that type on screen rendered too small. If monitors like this become popular, I imagine we will see a revolution in onscreen typography.
One of the funniest things about the article was the screenshot showing the display rendering an image - as if you could duplicate the resolution on other monitors!
Right now I save the tape, but I may change my strategy. I have heard that recording quality can diminish if a tape is used repeatedly, but I am not certain about this.
This is a great boon for backup of miniDV tapes. Since 1 hour of miniDV = 15 GB of data, and the typical miniDV tape is 1 hour long, I will be able to easily backup captured digital video onto these discs and preserve the IN and OUT points of captured video (which is critical when recompiling). I had been using tape backup, but that is slow, and gives me a lot of headaches. I can't wait.
It was developed by the Jhai Foundation with help from Lee Felsenstein. Lee Thorn founded Jhai - he is a Viet Nam vet who wanted (needed) to find a way to reconcile his experiences in the war with the people of Laos.
Here is a link to an article about the bike-and-linux powered computer they developed. It is pretty cool.
Here is a link to a previous slashdot story on the machine. There were a lot of dumb comments previously on this story for some reason.
Here is a link to a page on the Jhai Foundation's website about the concept. Last I heard, the project was hung up in Laotian red tape, waiting for some bureaucrats to give it the green light. I have no idea why a project like this would pose any threat to the government of such a country, however. Hopefully these problems have been resolved.
Religion can be a lot of things besides explaining our physical reality. In my humble opinion, one of the major issues it struggles with is, what is the meaning of our existence.
Of course, I understand your criticism, which is, I think, directed mostly at dogmatic adherence to ancient traditions without questioning them. However, religion will survive, I am sure. Religion and science are not mutually exclusive. Science is concerned with one aspect of our reality - the quantifiable, and predictable. Religion is concerned with all those things that you cannot quantify - love, anger, thought, the experience of death, wonder, awe, consciousness. They are both parts of our reality, and neither can be used to explain everything.
Fcuk all that - join Hatester. You know that is why you join - so you can flame - so why not just admit it? Hatester is inevitable. Hatester is the future!
Slashdot Mirror
You seem to be taking a position that rape definitely did NOT happen. While a Google search does not prove anything, a quick read through of most of the articles found there should be sufficient to warrant further investigation before asserting with certainty that rape did not happen.
I'm not an expert, but when I do a Google Search, I get quite a number of hits on this topic. Draw your own conclusions.
Anyone set up a mirror of the videos? They are getting pretty heavily slashdotted...
"I intend to live forever. So far, so good."
Not until you meet this guy.
Cool! I'll be by soon to shoot you and take your land. You might mind, but I don't care! Fuck you, you fucking fuck! It'll be mine soon, 'cuz whoever has the most guns wins! I'll also kill your whole family, just for kicks. Yeehaw!
I have tried to keep this a secret for as long as I have been able, but I guess the cat is out of the bag now. Just a few minutes ago, I was standing on the other side of the room from where I am now typing. With my mind, I told my body to move over to the other side of the room and immediately it happened! My body does whatever I tell it to! It is completely under my psychic control!
For a while it was cool being the only one with this power, but now everyone is going to start doing it. Suxx azz.
ga
That depends on where you were born.
Mod parent up - that's as close to the truth as I can articulate at this moment.
(BTW, dolphins are mammals.)
We seem to be hard-wired with an innate desire to connect our consciousness with that of the Other. The thing I wonder about - is this a fundamental desire that is simply specific to humans because of the nature of our species, or is this more of a general rule - that as creatures become more conscious, the desire to connect becomes more and more powerful?
I believe he was making a joking oblique reference to a quote falsely attributed to Dan Quayle.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe what your are thinking of as a pigeon is a species of dove; a Rock Dove" to be precise. Actually, I think the term pigeon and dove are interchangeable in reference to this family of birds. So, I suppose that the fact that Rock Doves are a species in the family of doves supports your position on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. A more precise re-wording of your feelings about consuming said birds thus might be, "I would not eat a filthy feral rock dove."
I believe that the limits of our language do limit our thought, and we are constantly trying to expand language to allow us to expand our consciousness. But there are other ways of knowing as well. For example, as a visual artist, I spend a lot of time attempting to discern subtleties in the way we actually see the world, and how we think visually. One of the most shocking things I came to understand while in art school was how our media shapes how we actually see the world around us; what we pay attention to, and what we ignore. This is why I feel the arts are so very important - we must continue to expand our vocabularies in order to expand our very consciousness; whether those vocabularies are language, the visual world, music, or math.
It's not CCD noise - if you look at the animated GIF, you can track the motion of the objects.
This guy spent a lot of time optimizing these imgages, and offers a very cool site about the Soviet Venera program in general. Very cool stuff.
I think it is important to try and take as broad a view as possible about what life might actually be. I mean, what the heck IS life, anyway? I find Stuart Kauffman's thinking very interesting.
I have always dreamed of a monitor that could render at 300 dpi - the most typical print resolution. Have you ever noticed that there is a dramatic difference in reading a book, and reading on screen? Of course, we all have. I believe that the higher resolution of the type on paper makes for a much easier and enjoyable experience. I think this is why I sometimes print out longer documents in order to read them. It is subtle, but type on paper is much easier on the eyes. It was interesting to note that the author of the article complained that type on screen rendered too small. If monitors like this become popular, I imagine we will see a revolution in onscreen typography.
One of the funniest things about the article was the screenshot showing the display rendering an image - as if you could duplicate the resolution on other monitors!
Thank you for posting while high. I think we need more of that around here. Oh wait...
Right now I save the tape, but I may change my strategy. I have heard that recording quality can diminish if a tape is used repeatedly, but I am not certain about this.
This is a great boon for backup of miniDV tapes. Since 1 hour of miniDV = 15 GB of data, and the typical miniDV tape is 1 hour long, I will be able to easily backup captured digital video onto these discs and preserve the IN and OUT points of captured video (which is critical when recompiling). I had been using tape backup, but that is slow, and gives me a lot of headaches. I can't wait.
Oops - I think you were referring to another, similar device with similar goals. Should have re-read your post before posting!
Here is a link to an article about the bike-and-linux powered computer they developed. It is pretty cool.
Here is a link to a previous slashdot story on the machine. There were a lot of dumb comments previously on this story for some reason.
Here is a link to a page on the Jhai Foundation's website about the concept. Last I heard, the project was hung up in Laotian red tape, waiting for some bureaucrats to give it the green light. I have no idea why a project like this would pose any threat to the government of such a country, however. Hopefully these problems have been resolved.
Of course, I understand your criticism, which is, I think, directed mostly at dogmatic adherence to ancient traditions without questioning them. However, religion will survive, I am sure. Religion and science are not mutually exclusive. Science is concerned with one aspect of our reality - the quantifiable, and predictable. Religion is concerned with all those things that you cannot quantify - love, anger, thought, the experience of death, wonder, awe, consciousness. They are both parts of our reality, and neither can be used to explain everything.
i mean... c'mon.
Fcuk all that - join Hatester. You know that is why you join - so you can flame - so why not just admit it? Hatester is inevitable. Hatester is the future!