Where do all these electric cars get their power from? It's okay to pollute wherever the power plants are built, just as long as it's not in the city limits, eh?
yes it is!... same as it is ok to shit in the bathroom but not in the kitchen.. got it now?
I've been saying it for years. Autism isn't a disease, it's the next step in human evolution.
amen to that! people just like to classify as sick whatever they do not like or understand.
and also, I always thought that the big bang in the 3rd biggest scam in the history of the mankind... with no1&2 being money and religion
good luck and all the best to lil jack
quite effective your comparison, unfortunately it is totally flawed.
First, selling black market energy is quite a bit harder than selling black market diamonds.
As for the oil comparison, energy is a market-ready product, oil is not; it is usually transported to a western refinery which produces the final product and therefore the origin country ends up with a very low fraction of the benefits generated from the whole oil-processing chain.
TFA is to PC to say it outright, but putting Romania at the head or the list says it is a Gypsy operation.
These are multi-generational career criminal families. And the Spanish police seem unable to do anything about it.
There was a good documentary on the BBC:
really? bet you never had contact with a gypsy your whole life.
I am a big fan of BBC documentaries almost all are very well done. The problem with those is that not any dummy can understand. Sometimes I cannot believe what some ppl get from such documentaries. And although I have not seen this one, sounds like it was your case too.
Gypsies are "low-tech" crime experts.. small time thieves, children/women exploitation, etc.
The vast majority are illiterate and the bosses make no exception. And probably an even bigger problem is that you cannot count on them. Not even for using a counterfeit card to get the money out of the ATM.. even if they manage to do it, they will run away with the money or try to keep most for themselves.
This operation is way too high-tech for a gypsy clan.. at least for now. And judging by their appetite for education that is not going to change anytime soon.
solutions for the copy/move problems:
- teracopy: 3rd party, nice and neat
- robocopy: MS app, kinda clunky but better than nothing
too lazy to add links, just google
If this goes on, will the major labels and studios actually need musicians and actors?
yes.. both dead and alive ones... and some 3D rendered ones too.. the more the merrier
In the future, it could be harder to make money playing guitar with all of the competition from dead or retired artists
so? if you can't play the guitar better than a dead guy, why should you make any money?
plus, a decent guitar player should always be able to make some bikinis "dissapear".. that not enough as a reward?
and if guitars and guitar players dissapear forever so what?
you do have a brain though.. a brain which Thinks... if all you needed was Belief, you would have had a simple on/off switch instead.
actually, some of you believers truly act like you do
Why should someone be upset that: 1. different people believe different things and 2. people act upon the things they believe?
because you are not alone in this world and your acting always interferes with other people... and guess what, that tends to be upsetting
Would you assume that if the U.S. were running out of money we'd go ape-shit?
YES. As a matter of fact a lot of you already did. Just open the tv sometime.
Actually, I do not disagree with your point; it is a 100% valid one but it is just one of the multiple possibilities; grandparent's point is another one; and so on
And your comparison truly sucks.
Seriously, for such an advanced species, they make very little sense.
oh really !?
an advanced, smart species will act EXACTLY the way you describe above... and landing over superbowl is actually the kind of thing that a complete retard with big boots will do.
if you find a new civilization, you just cannot go in head-first like some sort of bush-junior-junior
you would take your time and study the place thoroughly and do all possible experiments, as stealthy as possible... if you wanna do some hands-on testing on a few specimens, you have to choose precisely the ones that noone will believe in case they remember something.
and after you done your homework, you may wanna start to give them clues, like crop-circles or whatever stuff may seem strange for them and see how they react.
and only after that you may try to approach them more directly, in a manner that you figured out would be the least disruptive for their civilization.
have you ever thought that there may be many alien species which are studying as for centuries already but figured we are not ready for contact.. or that it's just not a good thing for them to do it?
why would you think that alien species are so dying to see you asap?
anyway, it is quite disturbing to see you got moderated +5 for the above commentary.
catchy article title but you are joking, right?
anyone aware of how many billions in "property" will be erased in an instant?
if that title ever makes it to a main media channel like CNN, you will hear thousands of CEOs, board members and other millionaires yelling at once.. and there will be noone there to silence them!
as a matter of fact, I am sure there is going to be a second wall-of-noise generated by cellphones ringing in law-firms, political bureaus and lobbist halls... well, at least those people will be most happy to hear about it
also from the article:
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured an avalanche on Mars' surface and also *very* important here: what was Avalanche's little son doing on Mars on a school day?
Translation: I wish this had DRM so I could karma whore some anti-MS points. Well, since the GP only got karma-neutral Funny points and you got Insightful ones, I think a further translation is needed:
"I wish more ppl would try to unjustifiably slap MS so I can piggyback on their karma-whoring."
P.S.
if I get any karma-points, an even further translation will be needed... stay tuned.
I worry sometimes that they would be more successful with $1M than $25M+. Sometimes lots of money has a tendency to create more infrastructure than structure.
at lest from my experience, starting with that kind of money is *always* bad.
in the end, most of those projects manage to get their act together but an awful lot of money gets wasted in bureaucracy... all the luck for you and them, you really need it.
(The ToL's total budget for the entire first 5 years was $16,000. During that time my brother and I were the programmers, and we had a single graduate student assistant, and that was it. At most we have had two full-time employees, which is what we have now. Most of the work, after all, is done by the biologists out there.) wow!... my very quick estimation for your budget was 50-100K/year.. you ppl did a truly amazing work for that kind of money.. at the very least, i gotta double my congrats and thanks;)
Firstly, these exceptions are narrow and not relevant to this discussion, bringing them up is immature pedantry. The politician's wives being discussed are not dead and their place on a board is not a natural defect. These exceptions are there because speaking ill of the dead and teasing physical defects achieves no purpose, the general spirit of the law remains that someone has the right to say the truth if it has a point.
my post is 100% relevant for it's context... it is Not a direct reply to the original article but to the parent and grand-parent posts... they both state that in America truth is an "absolute defense".. and i said, "no, it is not Absolute" and supported my statement with a sample.
and btw, for such a master-pedant as u pretend to be, i find ur readin skills quite lacking.
Secondly, truth is actually narrower than legal-truth in defamation cases (as discussed in the wikipedia article) since in most cases the defendant must only show that they had a reasonable belief that it was true, rather than it actually being so. If you misunderstand reality you are not liable for speaking your mind unless it can be proven that you were negligent with your facts, i.e. published without checking them. As for real truth, well truth is truth, the courts aren't far enough up their own arse to start calling black white when it comes to facts outside the courtroom, they have enough to confuse inside.
thx for expanding on my "truth != legal_truth" statement.
but next time u may wanna tone down your answer.. your angry reply tries quite hard to imply that i said something wrong and i did not, i just didnt go into details.
Thirdly, for fuck's sake, if you're going to discuss law at least write "you", capitalise the first letter of sentences and stop using ellipsis as a comma. It makes it easier to read and makes people take you seriously. A little sloppy spelling and grammar is fine, but deliberately garbling a word just to save two letters from your sentence is just pathetic.
firstly, the "fuck's sake" is not somethin i care about, so no i wont do anythin for it.
secondly, this is not a legal forum and not a discussion between lawyers.. so pls go take care of that "fuck's sake" u mentioned.
thirdly, i am not an english native and i dont know the intricate comma/ellipsis/etc rules of english grammar... nor do i care about any of those, i only try to present an Idea in an Understandable form.. i think i did that pretty good and if u don like my writing, there is a very simple solution - just don read it!
fourthly, i can keep posting on this subject up to the 200tly point but the discussion is already a waste of time.. mine and yours.
P.S. many thx for all that seemed to care so much about my writing style... and next time pls try doin somethin better with ur time.. i am sure u can.
the very source u cited contradicts you.. it says:
"
Some U.S. statutes preserve historical common law exceptions to the defense of truth to libel actions. These exceptions were for statements "tending to blacken the memory of one who is dead" or "expose the natural defects of one who is alive."
"
so no, the truth itself is not always a fool-proof legal defense in America... and if u think about it a bit more, you may also find that truth and legal-truth are quite different things.
pretty lame that one of the most informative posts didnt get any modpoints.
and an opinion from an IT guy with no special biology skills - at this stage, tol is A LOT better than eol... polished layout, beautiful media materials and *very* well structured... in fact, i would have a hard time finding any flaws. on the other hand, in spite of the great funding that u mentioned eol is just an ugly pile of stuff, thrown together in the worst possible way... not so much stuff either... and on top of that, the technical side is a disaster - the portal seems to be badly missconfigured and it's awfully slow... kind of hard to find *any* positive aspect.
"surprisingly", money can buy u neither wisdom nor good taste.
anyway... congrats and many thx for your effort... and good luck!
forget feng shui, business fashion is about violence, if you could imagine someone beating his subordinates with a bat or maybe shooting them in the head as they whimper on their knees, they are dressed for success. i find your "funny" moderation quite inappropriate... yours is one of the most insightful quotes i seen around here in a long while... and the most insightful i *ever* seen about business fashion.
a surprisingly low number of ppl understand that business is war (and both of them are just forms of competition).. i wonder why is so hard to understand such a plain and simple thing
I'm going to ignore your obvious spelling and grammar errors and focus on content. But if you want to be taken seriously by most people you might want to fix your writing style.
sry, not a native... but anyway, discussing grammar is for ppl with no other ideas.. what does it matter how u write, as long as the ideas are clear enough?
and besides, i dont really care about ppl that cannot differentiate between letters and content.. and as extra bonus for me, i think my broken english is still better than your president's.
basically u say "here, this is the best tool we have but we shouldnt use it to make the most important decisions that influence our lives"... doesnt that sound stupid to u?
Well, it does, but that isn't what I said. What I said was that science doesn't give us a framework for ethics and morals. That comes from someplace else. It gives us a lot of data about who people are and how they get along, but where we go with that information is up to us. So, science should inform our decisions, yes, but it shouldn't (and can't) dictate them.
someplace else.. hm, i hope u r not talkin about religion.
what else could that be? maybe philosophy? afaik, that is also quite a science.. maybe they dont use the scientific method but still, methods like deduction/induction/etc are scientific methods.
and btw, ethics and morals are not the same... Ethics is actually Science, morals is not... or if u wish, Ethics ~= "Morals in a scientific framework"... looks like u dont have a very good definition of what science or ethics are, maybe u should try reading some Karl Popper.. or try TTC, they have a few good lectures under "philosophy of science"
and if scientists and the scientific method shouldnt be involved in politics than who should be? politicians like monkey-boy-georgie and their evangelical "methods"?
How about you and I? That's really who should be making political decisions. People who claim some sort of authority as a scientist and then use it to justify political decisions shouldn't be trusted and definitely should not be given any more authority than any other random person has.
agree about u & i.
but i cant see any reason not to trust an ethical scientist... i would trust one a lot more than i would trust some georgie-bible&boots-boy
those land mines had a few interesting letters on them... like "made in US"... or maybe u think that there is no problem with selling weapons to a known tyrant or criminal !? afaik, that is a crime even in a guns-for-all culture like the US.
This might well be true. But the responsibility isn't all ours, and those things have a way of finding their way into those kinds of hands regardless.
oh really? those things do not manufacture themselves.. how about u dont make em?
And there's no mention of the ones that had "Made in the USSR" stamped on them. Saddling us with all the responsibility isn't reasonable no matter how you slice it.
yes the ussr made same as many, or even more... so?... since when is "that guy is bad too" a valid or ethical/moral defence?
it is quite lovely the way the US acts lately... u still pretend to be the good guys, the most ethical and so on, but when it comes to do somethin good u ppl start whining with lame stuff like "look, the other guy is bad too".. good guys take the lead and set a sample, what u do there lately is simply lame.
and anyway, i doubt anyone said the US had all the fault... but u had quite a lot and u sh
Slashdot Mirror
...said an FBI official "we're chopping off the head of Lulzsec"
Considering that Lulzsec was declared dead and was ceremoniously buried like a year ago, isn't that necrophilia or something !?
this research seems to be just a small part of a bigger picture: the genes have memory ... not a fully proven idea but looks quite promising
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/ghostgenes.shtml
Where do all these electric cars get their power from? It's okay to pollute wherever the power plants are built, just as long as it's not in the city limits, eh?
yes it is! ... same as it is ok to shit in the bathroom but not in the kitchen .. got it now?
I've been saying it for years. Autism isn't a disease, it's the next step in human evolution.
amen to that! people just like to classify as sick whatever they do not like or understand. ... with no1&2 being money and religion
and also, I always thought that the big bang in the 3rd biggest scam in the history of the mankind
good luck and all the best to lil jack
quite effective your comparison, unfortunately it is totally flawed.
First, selling black market energy is quite a bit harder than selling black market diamonds.
As for the oil comparison, energy is a market-ready product, oil is not; it is usually transported to a western refinery which produces the final product and therefore the origin country ends up with a very low fraction of the benefits generated from the whole oil-processing chain.
TFA is to PC to say it outright, but putting Romania at the head or the list says it is a Gypsy operation. These are multi-generational career criminal families. And the Spanish police seem unable to do anything about it. There was a good documentary on the BBC:
How Gypsy gangs use child thieves
really? bet you never had contact with a gypsy your whole life.
I am a big fan of BBC documentaries almost all are very well done. The problem with those is that not any dummy can understand. Sometimes I cannot believe what some ppl get from such documentaries. And although I have not seen this one, sounds like it was your case too.
Gypsies are "low-tech" crime experts .. small time thieves, children/women exploitation, etc.
The vast majority are illiterate and the bosses make no exception. And probably an even bigger problem is that you cannot count on them. Not even for using a counterfeit card to get the money out of the ATM .. even if they manage to do it, they will run away with the money or try to keep most for themselves.
This operation is way too high-tech for a gypsy clan .. at least for now. And judging by their appetite for education that is not going to change anytime soon.
People are seeing the error page or just waiting an insanely great long time to get pages back.
sorry, but those funny beings do not qualify as people .. they do share a large number of "features" with sheep, though
solutions for the copy/move problems:
- teracopy: 3rd party, nice and neat
- robocopy: MS app, kinda clunky but better than nothing
too lazy to add links, just google
If this goes on, will the major labels and studios actually need musicians and actors?
yes .. both dead and alive ones ... and some 3D rendered ones too .. the more the merrier
In the future, it could be harder to make money playing guitar with all of the competition from dead or retired artists
so? if you can't play the guitar better than a dead guy, why should you make any money? .. that not enough as a reward?
plus, a decent guitar player should always be able to make some bikinis "dissapear"
and if guitars and guitar players dissapear forever so what?
I don't have evidence either way. Just belief.
you do have a brain though .. a brain which Thinks ... if all you needed was Belief, you would have had a simple on/off switch instead.
actually, some of you believers truly act like you do
Why should someone be upset that: 1. different people believe different things and 2. people act upon the things they believe?
because you are not alone in this world and your acting always interferes with other people... and guess what, that tends to be upsetting
Are you 100% sure?
nothing is 100% sure... except maybe trolls like u
Would you assume that if the U.S. were running out of money we'd go ape-shit?
YES. As a matter of fact a lot of you already did. Just open the tv sometime.
Actually, I do not disagree with your point; it is a 100% valid one but it is just one of the multiple possibilities; grandparent's point is another one; and so on
And your comparison truly sucks.
Don't forget: evolution is not done yet.
Don't forget: evolution is not done ever.
there is no catch, there is only greed and shamelessness ... or in other words, normal business.
Seriously, for such an advanced species, they make very little sense.
oh really !? ... and landing over superbowl is actually the kind of thing that a complete retard with big boots will do.
an advanced, smart species will act EXACTLY the way you describe above
if you find a new civilization, you just cannot go in head-first like some sort of bush-junior-junior ... if you wanna do some hands-on testing on a few specimens, you have to choose precisely the ones that noone will believe in case they remember something.
.. or that it's just not a good thing for them to do it?
you would take your time and study the place thoroughly and do all possible experiments, as stealthy as possible
and after you done your homework, you may wanna start to give them clues, like crop-circles or whatever stuff may seem strange for them and see how they react.
and only after that you may try to approach them more directly, in a manner that you figured out would be the least disruptive for their civilization.
have you ever thought that there may be many alien species which are studying as for centuries already but figured we are not ready for contact
why would you think that alien species are so dying to see you asap?
anyway, it is quite disturbing to see you got moderated +5 for the above commentary.
catchy article title but you are joking, right? anyone aware of how many billions in "property" will be erased in an instant?
.. and there will be noone there to silence them!
... well, at least those people will be most happy to hear about it
if that title ever makes it to a main media channel like CNN, you will hear thousands of CEOs, board members and other millionaires yelling at once
as a matter of fact, I am sure there is going to be a second wall-of-noise generated by cellphones ringing in law-firms, political bureaus and lobbist halls
and btw, what makes u think u were cured ?
"I wish more ppl would try to unjustifiably slap MS so I can piggyback on their karma-whoring."
P.S.
if I get any karma-points, an even further translation will be needed
in the end, most of those projects manage to get their act together but an awful lot of money gets wasted in bureaucracy... all the luck for you and them, you really need it. (The ToL's total budget for the entire first 5 years was $16,000. During that time my brother and I were the programmers, and we had a single graduate student assistant, and that was it. At most we have had two full-time employees, which is what we have now. Most of the work, after all, is done by the biologists out there.) wow!
Firstly, these exceptions are narrow and not relevant to this discussion, bringing them up is immature pedantry. The politician's wives being discussed are not dead and their place on a board is not a natural defect. These exceptions are there because speaking ill of the dead and teasing physical defects achieves no purpose, the general spirit of the law remains that someone has the right to say the truth if it has a point.
my post is 100% relevant for it's contextand btw, for such a master-pedant as u pretend to be, i find ur readin skills quite lacking.
Secondly, truth is actually narrower than legal-truth in defamation cases (as discussed in the wikipedia article) since in most cases the defendant must only show that they had a reasonable belief that it was true, rather than it actually being so. If you misunderstand reality you are not liable for speaking your mind unless it can be proven that you were negligent with your facts, i.e. published without checking them. As for real truth, well truth is truth, the courts aren't far enough up their own arse to start calling black white when it comes to facts outside the courtroom, they have enough to confuse inside.
thx for expanding on my "truth != legal_truth" statement.but next time u may wanna tone down your answer
Thirdly, for fuck's sake, if you're going to discuss law at least write "you", capitalise the first letter of sentences and stop using ellipsis as a comma. It makes it easier to read and makes people take you seriously. A little sloppy spelling and grammar is fine, but deliberately garbling a word just to save two letters from your sentence is just pathetic.
firstly, the "fuck's sake" is not somethin i care about, so no i wont do anythin for it.secondly, this is not a legal forum and not a discussion between lawyers
thirdly, i am not an english native and i dont know the intricate comma/ellipsis/etc rules of english grammar... nor do i care about any of those, i only try to present an Idea in an Understandable form
fourthly, i can keep posting on this subject up to the 200tly point but the discussion is already a waste of time
P.S. many thx for all that seemed to care so much about my writing style
the very source u cited contradicts you .. it says:
... and if u think about it a bit more, you may also find that truth and legal-truth are quite different things.
" Some U.S. statutes preserve historical common law exceptions to the defense of truth to libel actions. These exceptions were for statements "tending to blacken the memory of one who is dead" or "expose the natural defects of one who is alive." "
so no, the truth itself is not always a fool-proof legal defense in America
pretty lame that one of the most informative posts didnt get any modpoints.
... not so much stuff either ... and on top of that, the technical side is a disaster - the portal seems to be badly missconfigured and it's awfully slow ... kind of hard to find *any* positive aspect.
... congrats and many thx for your effort ... and good luck!
and an opinion from an IT guy with no special biology skills - at this stage, tol is A LOT better than eol... polished layout, beautiful media materials and *very* well structured... in fact, i would have a hard time finding any flaws.
on the other hand, in spite of the great funding that u mentioned eol is just an ugly pile of stuff, thrown together in the worst possible way
"surprisingly", money can buy u neither wisdom nor good taste.
anyway
a surprisingly low number of ppl understand that business is war (and both of them are just forms of competition) .. i wonder why is so hard to understand such a plain and simple thing
I'm going to ignore your obvious spelling and grammar errors and focus on content. But if you want to be taken seriously by most people you might want to fix your writing style.
sry, not a native ... but anyway, discussing grammar is for ppl with no other ideas .. what does it matter how u write, as long as the ideas are clear enough?
.. and as extra bonus for me, i think my broken english is still better than your president's.
and besides, i dont really care about ppl that cannot differentiate between letters and content
basically u say "here, this is the best tool we have but we shouldnt use it to make the most important decisions that influence our lives" ... doesnt that sound stupid to u?
Well, it does, but that isn't what I said. What I said was that science doesn't give us a framework for ethics and morals. That comes from someplace else. It gives us a lot of data about who people are and how they get along, but where we go with that information is up to us. So, science should inform our decisions, yes, but it shouldn't (and can't) dictate them.
someplace else .. hm, i hope u r not talkin about religion.
.. maybe they dont use the scientific method but still, methods like deduction/induction/etc are scientific methods.
... Ethics is actually Science, morals is not ... or if u wish, Ethics ~= "Morals in a scientific framework" ... looks like u dont have a very good definition of what science or ethics are, maybe u should try reading some Karl Popper .. or try TTC, they have a few good lectures under "philosophy of science"
what else could that be? maybe philosophy? afaik, that is also quite a science
and btw, ethics and morals are not the same
and if scientists and the scientific method shouldnt be involved in politics than who should be? politicians like monkey-boy-georgie and their evangelical "methods"?
How about you and I? That's really who should be making political decisions. People who claim some sort of authority as a scientist and then use it to justify political decisions shouldn't be trusted and definitely should not be given any more authority than any other random person has.
agree about u & i. ... i would trust one a lot more than i would trust some georgie-bible&boots-boy
but i cant see any reason not to trust an ethical scientist
those land mines had a few interesting letters on them ... like "made in US" ... or maybe u think that there is no problem with selling weapons to a known tyrant or criminal !? afaik, that is a crime even in a guns-for-all culture like the US.
This might well be true. But the responsibility isn't all ours, and those things have a way of finding their way into those kinds of hands regardless.
oh really? those things do not manufacture themselves .. how about u dont make em?
And there's no mention of the ones that had "Made in the USSR" stamped on them. Saddling us with all the responsibility isn't reasonable no matter how you slice it.
yes the ussr made same as many, or even more ... so? ... since when is "that guy is bad too" a valid or ethical/moral defence?
... u still pretend to be the good guys, the most ethical and so on, but when it comes to do somethin good u ppl start whining with lame stuff like "look, the other guy is bad too" .. good guys take the lead and set a sample, what u do there lately is simply lame.
it is quite lovely the way the US acts lately
and anyway, i doubt anyone said the US had all the fault... but u had quite a lot and u sh