The idea that a culture can be bred out of existence is antithetical to how DNA works. DNA merges, it doesn't attack and destroy other DNA.
No, it doesn't "merge". It recombines. It is like two jigsaw puzzles that were cut with the same cutter, but with different pictures. Take the two puzzles, put them in a box, and shake them up. Put the puzzle together until you have a whole puzzle. Now, take 1 copy of the first puzzle, and 1000 copies of the second puzzle. When you shake them up in a box and put them together, the first picture for all intents and purposes will have ceased to exist. Take in the random 'lost pieces', and over thousands of iterations, the first puzzle will literally be gone. Of course this is if one puzzle has some inherent advantage over the other.
It is rare for a populous to die out from a culturally imposed social dysfunction which is what makes Japan so interesting. They could breed themselves to healthy numbers if they really wanted to.
No, they are just likely to last longer because they have the technology to deal with the declining numbers, outside observers that are interested enough to notice, and a peaceful enough world to keep it from being overthrown by the outside observers that are interested enough to notice.
No kidding! Just the other day, I had some idiot telling me that if you traveled east, you would get to Europe, and then not 10 minutes later claimed that you could get their if you went west instead.
Mentioning mathematics, I was having a conversation about that with a parent who was considering homeschooling her child a while back. She was trying to figure out how the 'Unschooled' kids learned math without a formal class. So, I started pondering how my kid learned math. At 6 he is doing areas and volumes, adds and subtracts fractions, and is just moving into multiplication of fractions, as well as some simple algebra.
Going through the math subjects he learned, I noticed that the process pretty much was 1) Explain a concept 2) Show him how it worked 3) Show him a real world example 4) Walk him through it with him doing the work, and me telling him the next step 5) Have him try it on his own. We would throw in the occasional challenge game where he would challenge me to a 'puzzle', then I would challenge him. If he wasn't interested, my wife and I would challenge each other in the same room as him, completely 'ignoring him'.
What came out of this reflection was that math up to and including high school is pretty much only a few days worth of information. All the rest is just practice.
All that being said, you might be amazed at how much math goes into a lot of games. Whether that is calculating the amount of damage based on armor class, strength, magical multipliers, and a host of other factors, or if it is calculation how many of your crew will starve to death on the way to the next port based on food stores, feed rate, ship speed, and odds of delay based on encounters on the way.
The trick is getting kids to recognize the math they do so that they can reapply it later. I pretty regularly point out to my son that various math techniques are 'secret codes' to winning games he is playing.
This is what amazes me about people. They don't get that credit cards are totally insecure by design. It gets worse when you look at 'Check Cards'. They are ATM cards with the security of a credit card. It's crazy. I don't want an ATM with credit card security. Give me a credit card with ATM security.
Even worse, when the 'Check Cards' came out, Visa ran commercials showing how easy it is to use illegally. The commercials basic premise was 'Don't want to prove it is really you trying to spend money out of this account? Use a Visa check card!"
OK, I mean on a cultural level. On a personal level, I would be much happier if huge numbers of women from different cultures tried to wipe out my genetic code by having lots of sex with me.
What is better about having your genetic code bred out of existence, and your culture completely replaced by immigrants over having your genetic code lost through lack of breeding and your culture lost due to nobody from your culture being left? They have both happened to many cultures over the centuries, and they are both likely to continue to happen.
So, every dollar spent on software is a dollar that could have otherwise been spent on life saving surgeries for children?!?!?! If I understand the BSA's logic correctly, that would mean that the BSA is murdering thousands of children a year!!!! Won't someone think of the children????
Or better yet, I work real hard to dig a hole for storing air. Nobody pays me. Having air is really important and everybody wants it. People start storing air in my hole. They produce the air with their trees, and then they later breath the air. Yet nobody wants to pay me for my hard work on creating an air storage hole. They just use it. I want my money!
I'm going to disagree. I would say that pretty much everybody that uses DeCSS is a "pirate". They might not be using DeCSS to do their pirating, but anybody that is old enough to use DeCSS has certainly committed multiple acts of copyright infringement. Whether that is singing "Happy Birthday" in a public place, or copying a picture from a book. Copyright infringement is ever present, and almost impossible to avoid.
At $0.01/KwH, it would make financial sense for many of us in CA to buy battery systems and charge our homes overnight. Our Electricity starts at $0.12/Kwh, and quickly raises. Since we work off of a tiered system, pretty much anyone charging their car in CA would be paying $0.32 to $0.38/kwh. I don't know how high the prices go on other tiers, so it may be even more.
The difference in electricity prices being so much greater than the differences in gas prices makes discussions on the economics of electric vehicles highly regionally specific.
I have not done the math on most of these vehicles, but I recently did on the Leaf after looking at their display at the California State Fair. Dollar per mile, the Leaf couldn't even come close to the fuel costs compared to my 1999 Suzuki Swift. It's purchase price, even after accounting for inflation isn't even close either. Yes, the Leaf probably has 10 years more worth of safety features, but that doesn't account for it's poor TCO. No doubt it is a better value in those magical parts of the country that I keep hearing about on Slashdot where they pay only $0.10/kwh. Here in California, we can be paying over $0.30/kwh.
I think you are misunderstanding. It isn't Ubuntu vs. OSX on Apple hardware. OSX does run with no problems on hardware chosen specifically by Apple to run OSX. The same could be said for hardware chose specifically to run Ubuntu. The only reason they don't both just get a 10 is because there is other hardware out there.
Other than Pederasty, the rest of the "illegal" words in the list you linked to are not "illegal". All of these people would disagree with you. Look up "Gay Pride" on YouTube, and you will find plenty of absolute proof that you are incorrect. The only reason you don't see the same thing for Heterosexuals is that they are just a given.
In California (and I understand many other states), it is legal. Yes, it hasn't been legalized on the Federal level, but for several months, we actually had one of those roadside 30 foot by 50 foot billboards advertising where to buy your pot in my Northern California town.
Of course that isn't going to happen. The people that the non-winning tickets are sold to are going scratch them off, see that they are losers, and throw them away. The only tell would be if an unusually large number of non-winners were to be scanned, and if the lotto actually tracks that.
The better solution would be for municipalities to lay pipes like the sewer system to homes. They are already experienced with that, they can rent out the right to pull your cable through it, they wouldn't have to deal eminent domain, the start up cost for future competition would be dramatically reduced, and the incumbents wouldn't have anything to sue over since the municipalities would not be competing with them.
The first time I saw a quickie mart employee scan the back of a scratcher to see if it was a winner, it became clear that the California Lottory wasn't even trying to look legit anymore. I assume that a good portion of the tickets sold are pre scanned by employees and store owners.
Bingo. The solution already exists. Win7 is nice because the MediaCenter has a remote friendly Netflix client. I just have my remote set to be able to load XBMC, Hulu or MC based on what I want to watch. I put a cheap quite Gateway in the living room, but the Acer Revo that I have in my office works great. Both have HDMI out, so there is no fidgety problems with hooking up to the TV either.
To, be fair, she is cute in the, "if I am 40 and my wife looks like that, I am happy" sort of way. Not in the "I am putting her on my desktop because I am fantasizing about her while having sex with my hot 20 year old girlfriend" sort of way. The posts you put up were of women that looked like they were 1 to 2 decades younger. That last one in particular would be unlikely to be as cute in a year for year comparison.
This is why we don't get anywhere with the poor. No, they do not have to just be bland. They can taste bad. kids all over the world are made to eat things that they don't think taste good. It isn't abuse, and they don't puke. I didn't say that they should be made to taste so bad that they will cause vomiting. Only the most spoiled and ill adjusted think that anything that tastes even a little bad will make them puke. They need to be made to taste bad enough that people only eat them if they don't have a better choice. Worse than a 50 cent package of roman, but better than some trick's semen.
Also, while there may be some evidence that savoring your food improves how efficiently you digest it, we are not talking best case scenarios. We are talking, keeping you alive and not forcing you into a life of crime. It wouldn't take much to create scientific evidence that have a personal chef who works closely with your personal dietitian improves health, and how efficiently you digest your food too, but that is unrealistic for those that are so poor that they cannot buy their own food. I don't know how many people you have known on the dole, but I have known many, and they are already not savoring their food. They are eating like the rest of us. Some meals are good, some meals are just to get you through the day.
At the point that people have to be given food as a hand out, worrying that they should be savoring food to improve how efficiently they digest it is absurd.
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The idea that a culture can be bred out of existence is antithetical to how DNA works. DNA merges, it doesn't attack and destroy other DNA.
No, it doesn't "merge". It recombines. It is like two jigsaw puzzles that were cut with the same cutter, but with different pictures. Take the two puzzles, put them in a box, and shake them up. Put the puzzle together until you have a whole puzzle. Now, take 1 copy of the first puzzle, and 1000 copies of the second puzzle. When you shake them up in a box and put them together, the first picture for all intents and purposes will have ceased to exist. Take in the random 'lost pieces', and over thousands of iterations, the first puzzle will literally be gone. Of course this is if one puzzle has some inherent advantage over the other.
It is rare for a populous to die out from a culturally imposed social dysfunction which is what makes Japan so interesting. They could breed themselves to healthy numbers if they really wanted to.
No, they are just likely to last longer because they have the technology to deal with the declining numbers, outside observers that are interested enough to notice, and a peaceful enough world to keep it from being overthrown by the outside observers that are interested enough to notice.
So, to paraphrase, "My pop culture is better than your pop culture."
No kidding! Just the other day, I had some idiot telling me that if you traveled east, you would get to Europe, and then not 10 minutes later claimed that you could get their if you went west instead.
Would it be better if it is symbolic cannibalism? I guess, but not much.
Mentioning mathematics, I was having a conversation about that with a parent who was considering homeschooling her child a while back. She was trying to figure out how the 'Unschooled' kids learned math without a formal class. So, I started pondering how my kid learned math. At 6 he is doing areas and volumes, adds and subtracts fractions, and is just moving into multiplication of fractions, as well as some simple algebra.
Going through the math subjects he learned, I noticed that the process pretty much was 1) Explain a concept 2) Show him how it worked 3) Show him a real world example 4) Walk him through it with him doing the work, and me telling him the next step 5) Have him try it on his own. We would throw in the occasional challenge game where he would challenge me to a 'puzzle', then I would challenge him. If he wasn't interested, my wife and I would challenge each other in the same room as him, completely 'ignoring him'.
What came out of this reflection was that math up to and including high school is pretty much only a few days worth of information. All the rest is just practice.
All that being said, you might be amazed at how much math goes into a lot of games. Whether that is calculating the amount of damage based on armor class, strength, magical multipliers, and a host of other factors, or if it is calculation how many of your crew will starve to death on the way to the next port based on food stores, feed rate, ship speed, and odds of delay based on encounters on the way.
The trick is getting kids to recognize the math they do so that they can reapply it later. I pretty regularly point out to my son that various math techniques are 'secret codes' to winning games he is playing.
Your inner tribal monkey is showing. The left is just as immune to truth and reason as the right.
This is what amazes me about people. They don't get that credit cards are totally insecure by design. It gets worse when you look at 'Check Cards'. They are ATM cards with the security of a credit card. It's crazy. I don't want an ATM with credit card security. Give me a credit card with ATM security.
Even worse, when the 'Check Cards' came out, Visa ran commercials showing how easy it is to use illegally. The commercials basic premise was 'Don't want to prove it is really you trying to spend money out of this account? Use a Visa check card!"
OK, I mean on a cultural level. On a personal level, I would be much happier if huge numbers of women from different cultures tried to wipe out my genetic code by having lots of sex with me.
What is better about having your genetic code bred out of existence, and your culture completely replaced by immigrants over having your genetic code lost through lack of breeding and your culture lost due to nobody from your culture being left? They have both happened to many cultures over the centuries, and they are both likely to continue to happen.
So, every dollar spent on software is a dollar that could have otherwise been spent on life saving surgeries for children?!?!?! If I understand the BSA's logic correctly, that would mean that the BSA is murdering thousands of children a year!!!! Won't someone think of the children????
Or better yet, I work real hard to dig a hole for storing air. Nobody pays me. Having air is really important and everybody wants it. People start storing air in my hole. They produce the air with their trees, and then they later breath the air. Yet nobody wants to pay me for my hard work on creating an air storage hole. They just use it. I want my money!
I'm going to disagree. I would say that pretty much everybody that uses DeCSS is a "pirate". They might not be using DeCSS to do their pirating, but anybody that is old enough to use DeCSS has certainly committed multiple acts of copyright infringement. Whether that is singing "Happy Birthday" in a public place, or copying a picture from a book. Copyright infringement is ever present, and almost impossible to avoid.
At $0.01/KwH, it would make financial sense for many of us in CA to buy battery systems and charge our homes overnight. Our Electricity starts at $0.12/Kwh, and quickly raises. Since we work off of a tiered system, pretty much anyone charging their car in CA would be paying $0.32 to $0.38/kwh. I don't know how high the prices go on other tiers, so it may be even more.
The difference in electricity prices being so much greater than the differences in gas prices makes discussions on the economics of electric vehicles highly regionally specific.
I have not done the math on most of these vehicles, but I recently did on the Leaf after looking at their display at the California State Fair. Dollar per mile, the Leaf couldn't even come close to the fuel costs compared to my 1999 Suzuki Swift. It's purchase price, even after accounting for inflation isn't even close either. Yes, the Leaf probably has 10 years more worth of safety features, but that doesn't account for it's poor TCO. No doubt it is a better value in those magical parts of the country that I keep hearing about on Slashdot where they pay only $0.10/kwh. Here in California, we can be paying over $0.30/kwh.
I think you are misunderstanding. It isn't Ubuntu vs. OSX on Apple hardware. OSX does run with no problems on hardware chosen specifically by Apple to run OSX. The same could be said for hardware chose specifically to run Ubuntu. The only reason they don't both just get a 10 is because there is other hardware out there.
Well here you go... I go with the cheapest 12/2 plan, but I rarely drop below the 22/5 level.
Yes, this is a 'Business' account, but all that means is that you pay an extra $20 a month for 24/7 tech support, and they don't filter any ports.
Other than Pederasty, the rest of the "illegal" words in the list you linked to are not "illegal". All of these people would disagree with you. Look up "Gay Pride" on YouTube, and you will find plenty of absolute proof that you are incorrect. The only reason you don't see the same thing for Heterosexuals is that they are just a given.
In California (and I understand many other states), it is legal. Yes, it hasn't been legalized on the Federal level, but for several months, we actually had one of those roadside 30 foot by 50 foot billboards advertising where to buy your pot in my Northern California town.
Of course that isn't going to happen. The people that the non-winning tickets are sold to are going scratch them off, see that they are losers, and throw them away. The only tell would be if an unusually large number of non-winners were to be scanned, and if the lotto actually tracks that.
The better solution would be for municipalities to lay pipes like the sewer system to homes. They are already experienced with that, they can rent out the right to pull your cable through it, they wouldn't have to deal eminent domain, the start up cost for future competition would be dramatically reduced, and the incumbents wouldn't have anything to sue over since the municipalities would not be competing with them.
Why? There are lots of people that buy tickets in bunches. You could also just scan 5 or 10 every few hours.
The first time I saw a quickie mart employee scan the back of a scratcher to see if it was a winner, it became clear that the California Lottory wasn't even trying to look legit anymore. I assume that a good portion of the tickets sold are pre scanned by employees and store owners.
Bingo. The solution already exists. Win7 is nice because the MediaCenter has a remote friendly Netflix client. I just have my remote set to be able to load XBMC, Hulu or MC based on what I want to watch. I put a cheap quite Gateway in the living room, but the Acer Revo that I have in my office works great. Both have HDMI out, so there is no fidgety problems with hooking up to the TV either.
To, be fair, she is cute in the, "if I am 40 and my wife looks like that, I am happy" sort of way. Not in the "I am putting her on my desktop because I am fantasizing about her while having sex with my hot 20 year old girlfriend" sort of way. The posts you put up were of women that looked like they were 1 to 2 decades younger. That last one in particular would be unlikely to be as cute in a year for year comparison.
This is why we don't get anywhere with the poor. No, they do not have to just be bland. They can taste bad. kids all over the world are made to eat things that they don't think taste good. It isn't abuse, and they don't puke. I didn't say that they should be made to taste so bad that they will cause vomiting. Only the most spoiled and ill adjusted think that anything that tastes even a little bad will make them puke. They need to be made to taste bad enough that people only eat them if they don't have a better choice. Worse than a 50 cent package of roman, but better than some trick's semen.
Also, while there may be some evidence that savoring your food improves how efficiently you digest it, we are not talking best case scenarios. We are talking, keeping you alive and not forcing you into a life of crime. It wouldn't take much to create scientific evidence that have a personal chef who works closely with your personal dietitian improves health, and how efficiently you digest your food too, but that is unrealistic for those that are so poor that they cannot buy their own food. I don't know how many people you have known on the dole, but I have known many, and they are already not savoring their food. They are eating like the rest of us. Some meals are good, some meals are just to get you through the day.
At the point that people have to be given food as a hand out, worrying that they should be savoring food to improve how efficiently they digest it is absurd.