Neuroscientist Craig Bennett purchased a whole Atlantic salmon, took it to a lab at Dartmouth, and put it into an fMRI machine used to study the brain. The beautiful fish was to be the lab's test object as they worked out some new methods.
So, as the fish sat in the scanner, they showed it "a series of photographs depicting human individuals in social situations." To maintain the rigor of the protocol (and perhaps because it was hilarious), the salmon, just like a human test subject, "was asked to determine what emotion the individual in the photo must have been experiencing."
The salmon, as Bennett's poster on the test dryly notes, "was not alive at the time of scanning."
...But the fish had a surprise in store. When they got around to analyzing the voxel (think: 3-D or "volumetric" pixel) data, the voxels representing the area where the salmon's tiny brain sat showed evidence of activity. In the fMRI scan, it looked like the dead salmon was actually thinking about the pictures it had been shown.
The patriarchy isn't just keeping women down, it is using other women to do it. Triple-patriarchy, when you add that it has programmed men to program women to keep women down.
You are delusional if you really thought that there was anything that could have prevented our resident SJW from spouting such nonsense.
Pull the "women in tech" string, and men hate women. Show evidence that men are actually biased in favor of women, and out pops this latest bullshit. When the evidence to refute this shows up (and it'll be a while because this "theory" is almost untestable) it'll be leprechauns. When leprechauns are found lacking, it'll be gremlins. And on, and on, and on.
I use an Android app called Tasks & Notes. One of the main selling points is that it can sync to my Horde server.
I used the built-in Palm notes app for years and years, which highlights the overwhelming inferiority of "modern" notes apps (this is typical of post-Palm apps, which kept me on my Treo until the cellular network it uses was finally pulled).
Tasks & Notes is the least bad replacement I've been able to find, and I installed maybe a couple dozen candidates. Note that I reject without any consideration any apps that involve a third party server. Apps with local-only storage were not rejected unless I was unable to find and copy the file out automatically when it was connected to my home wifi or if the file format was lame.
On desktops, I start a new text file from time to time with a consistent name and location (notes-YYYYMMDD.txt). I use it as a scratchpad with whatever basic text editor is available on that system, and my archiving system grabs them all for versioning and backup.
An armed population can restore their other rights, if they decide to do so. A disarmed population has no rights.
What kind of moron thinks that anyone is planning to attack tanks and drones with hunting rifles and handguns? I promise you that the people who think and write about this sort of thing are no more planning to charge an armor formation with an AR-15 than they would with a club or sword.
This is meaningless no matter what. VAG is getting raked over the coals for selling cars that people wanted. There was not even a hint that these cars disappointed even a single owner. And if flashing the firmware was easy, I'm guessing that pretty much every single owner would have installed this code on their own.
This is slashdot, right? Are we still in favor of people overclocking their hardware? How about purchasing pre-overclocked gear? A few days ago, weren't we opposed to WiFi routers locking their firmware to ensure compliance with FCC rules? How are we on the opposite side today?
The amazing thing about this story is that no one has yet found the settlement agreement sloshing millions of dollars into the coffers of communist agitator groups. Or maybe we'll find out later that VAG made a "voluntary" donation to a bunch of them in exchange for the settlement not being even higher.
Interestingly enough, people (both men and women) who do that fail to meet most definitions of "life", since most (all?) definitions include reproduction.
Meanwhile, on planet Earth, Obama (hardly a "right winger") is going to go down in history as the first president to have been effectively at war for 8 solid years.
You might not have noticed, since dead American soldiers became invisible and nameless on January 20th, 2009, despite having been front page/prime time news the day before.
P.S. Crack a history book some time and look carefully at who has actually been starting wars around here.
Exceedingly rare? You do know that at least 13% of federal inmates are, in addition to whatever crime they are in prison for, in the country illegally, right? I say "at least" because our lovely government puts some serious effort into obfuscating the real numbers.
Furthermore, you moron, 2a is directly contradicted by the fucking article that you are commenting on. Since you don't appear to have read it, the government is trying to justify new powers by invoking the threat of the enemy that they have already is already invited in.
Also, do you even know what "alienate" means? Or, for that matter, "alien"? I'll give you a hint. You can't "alienate" someone who is already an "alien".
I am unable to fathom what point you are trying to make here. Feel free to try rephrasing it, but I doubt you'll get very far. The line you are on (or at least were on earlier) is self-refuting. No one who says that we should ignore risks that we can manage because there exist other risks that we cannot, actually lives like they believe it.
Do you wear your seatbelt? Lock your doors? Live in a good neighborhood? Do you avoid biker bars? Do you have handrails on your stairs? How about a railing on your porch or balcony? Do you have smoke detectors? Anti-virus on your computer?
If the answer to any of those questions is yes, then you are a hypocrite. Worse, actually, since you imagine that you are immune to the risks that you are choosing for your neighbors.
That word is used in a legal context in a way that is wildly different from the ordinary conversational use. In the ordinary sense, I am. In the legal sense, I am not.
You do know that we are at historic levels of immigration both in absolute numbers and in percentage of the population, right? And that no one has any idea how to "melting pot" this many people?
You'll notice that a lot of these Sudden Jihad Syndrome cases involve 2nd generation immigrants, people that look at their parents with scorn for having integrated and who are more interested in the culture of their grandparents than in ours. Remember that time when the son of a Chinese immigrant shot 100 people for not obeying Confucius's teachings? Or the time the son of an Irish immigrant cut a woman's head off because she insulted Danu? Nether do I.
We can probably digest the lump that is already here, but we really need to stop bringing more in. Early US history is not informative here, you should be looking back further, to other countries where the rulers tried to elect a new nation and what happened to them. I'll give you a hint, it rhymes with genocide and I would really prefer that it not happen here, particularly when, as now, it is so easy to prevent.
I disagree with the terrorist label for incidents like this. Terrorism is the use of violence in pursuit of political goals, like the mobs outside Trump rallies trying to frighten his supporters and prevent them from gathering.
There was no political aim being advanced in Orlando. He wasn't trying to keep people from voting, or sway them towards his candidate, or make anyone afraid to participate in the process. This was just plain simple Jihad: war against infidels. He found the most infideleous infidels he could find, and he killed them for their infidelity.
We should indeed not give up our liberty. But I'm ready to give up multiculturalism.
Security, Liberty, Multiculturalism. You might be able to get 2 of the three, or just one. Never all three, not even once in recorded history, not even in myth.
A multicultural society is necessarily a low trust society. Low trust societies are dangerous, even when monocultural. You can give up liberty in the pursuit of security, or give up security in the pursuit of liberty. History says that you won't get the one you want, even after giving up the one you are willing to sacrifice.
If you want security and liberty, at a minimum, you must stop importing people that want to destroy your culture. History suggests that you'd better
Oh, and this is done by vote, most people will rank security at the top of their list, and will not budge.
One specific other religion is trying really hard to show us that it is not compatible with western civilization and has no intention of tolerating much of anything.
This is exactly like "free trade". We have a pile of unilateral "free trade" deals that are ruining our country financially and industrially. We refuse to distinguish between actual free trade and everything that is called "free trade". And by "we", I mean our lugenpresse.
Yes, because this will be the one magic regulation that big business is somehow unable to twist to their advantage.
I'm in favor of network neutrality, but opposed to Network Neutrality. I just don't believe that new regulatory powers are the cure to problems created by the old regulatory powers.
ZOMG! Now the Russians know that Trump is racist, sexist, homophobic and Islamophobic. He wants to throw grandma out of the hospital to die on the street, or off a cliff, depending on the topic. At night he hands out fully automatic, laser guided "Assault Guns" with extra-lethal plastic parts to inner city toddlers and mentally unstable Democrats. In his spare time, he is the leader of a secret society of racists known as "the Police" that meets daily to discuss new ways to murder and/or frame innocent black children on their way to church.
Seriously guys, the DNC's "opposition research" is chiseled in stone, and not exactly secret. They just swap out the name at the top.
Religious tolerance in the US was based on the Westphalia system - essentially a cease-fire between Christians. You'll notice that the very first clause of the 1st Amendment forbids the Federal Congress from abolishing any of the State Churches in the colonies (an Establishment of Religion), which is also the core of the Westphalia treaties. We've been happy to extend that tolerance to other religions, so long as they were willing to work within the common framework.
One aspect of the ascendant alt-right, and of Trump and his supporters, is that we say "Fuck you!" to everyone that thinks the 1st Amendment is a suicide pact. The founders of our nation, the people that invented "American Ideals", would slap half of you silly for rolling out the red carpet for your own enslavement just because it wears a thin cloak of religion.
And why don't you mention other American Ideals, like an educated electorate? Or an armed populace? Or self reliance? Oh, right, those ideals strengthen western civilization instead of weakening it, so just pretend they don't exist.
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The woman in eastern Europe is genuinely interested and capable. Here, no one can ever be quite sure, not even the woman.
Are you kidding? That is double-patriarchy!
The patriarchy isn't just keeping women down, it is using other women to do it. Triple-patriarchy, when you add that it has programmed men to program women to keep women down.
You are delusional if you really thought that there was anything that could have prevented our resident SJW from spouting such nonsense.
Pull the "women in tech" string, and men hate women. Show evidence that men are actually biased in favor of women, and out pops this latest bullshit. When the evidence to refute this shows up (and it'll be a while because this "theory" is almost untestable) it'll be leprechauns. When leprechauns are found lacking, it'll be gremlins. And on, and on, and on.
I use an Android app called Tasks & Notes. One of the main selling points is that it can sync to my Horde server.
I used the built-in Palm notes app for years and years, which highlights the overwhelming inferiority of "modern" notes apps (this is typical of post-Palm apps, which kept me on my Treo until the cellular network it uses was finally pulled).
Tasks & Notes is the least bad replacement I've been able to find, and I installed maybe a couple dozen candidates. Note that I reject without any consideration any apps that involve a third party server. Apps with local-only storage were not rejected unless I was unable to find and copy the file out automatically when it was connected to my home wifi or if the file format was lame.
On desktops, I start a new text file from time to time with a consistent name and location (notes-YYYYMMDD.txt). I use it as a scratchpad with whatever basic text editor is available on that system, and my archiving system grabs them all for versioning and backup.
An armed population can restore their other rights, if they decide to do so. A disarmed population has no rights.
What kind of moron thinks that anyone is planning to attack tanks and drones with hunting rifles and handguns? I promise you that the people who think and write about this sort of thing are no more planning to charge an armor formation with an AR-15 than they would with a club or sword.
This is meaningless no matter what. VAG is getting raked over the coals for selling cars that people wanted. There was not even a hint that these cars disappointed even a single owner. And if flashing the firmware was easy, I'm guessing that pretty much every single owner would have installed this code on their own.
This is slashdot, right? Are we still in favor of people overclocking their hardware? How about purchasing pre-overclocked gear? A few days ago, weren't we opposed to WiFi routers locking their firmware to ensure compliance with FCC rules? How are we on the opposite side today?
The amazing thing about this story is that no one has yet found the settlement agreement sloshing millions of dollars into the coffers of communist agitator groups. Or maybe we'll find out later that VAG made a "voluntary" donation to a bunch of them in exchange for the settlement not being even higher.
None of those things you listed are socialist ideas. Anything else you want to claim credit for? Horses? Gravity? Arithmetic?
Mystery solved.
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Interestingly enough, people (both men and women) who do that fail to meet most definitions of "life", since most (all?) definitions include reproduction.
Meanwhile, on planet Earth, Obama (hardly a "right winger") is going to go down in history as the first president to have been effectively at war for 8 solid years.
You might not have noticed, since dead American soldiers became invisible and nameless on January 20th, 2009, despite having been front page/prime time news the day before.
P.S. Crack a history book some time and look carefully at who has actually been starting wars around here.
Exceedingly rare? You do know that at least 13% of federal inmates are, in addition to whatever crime they are in prison for, in the country illegally, right? I say "at least" because our lovely government puts some serious effort into obfuscating the real numbers.
Furthermore, you moron, 2a is directly contradicted by the fucking article that you are commenting on. Since you don't appear to have read it, the government is trying to justify new powers by invoking the threat of the enemy that they have already is already invited in.
Also, do you even know what "alienate" means? Or, for that matter, "alien"? I'll give you a hint. You can't "alienate" someone who is already an "alien".
I am unable to fathom what point you are trying to make here. Feel free to try rephrasing it, but I doubt you'll get very far. The line you are on (or at least were on earlier) is self-refuting. No one who says that we should ignore risks that we can manage because there exist other risks that we cannot, actually lives like they believe it.
Do you wear your seatbelt? Lock your doors? Live in a good neighborhood? Do you avoid biker bars? Do you have handrails on your stairs? How about a railing on your porch or balcony? Do you have smoke detectors? Anti-virus on your computer?
If the answer to any of those questions is yes, then you are a hypocrite. Worse, actually, since you imagine that you are immune to the risks that you are choosing for your neighbors.
That word is used in a legal context in a way that is wildly different from the ordinary conversational use. In the ordinary sense, I am. In the legal sense, I am not.
You do know that we are at historic levels of immigration both in absolute numbers and in percentage of the population, right? And that no one has any idea how to "melting pot" this many people?
You'll notice that a lot of these Sudden Jihad Syndrome cases involve 2nd generation immigrants, people that look at their parents with scorn for having integrated and who are more interested in the culture of their grandparents than in ours. Remember that time when the son of a Chinese immigrant shot 100 people for not obeying Confucius's teachings? Or the time the son of an Irish immigrant cut a woman's head off because she insulted Danu? Nether do I.
We can probably digest the lump that is already here, but we really need to stop bringing more in. Early US history is not informative here, you should be looking back further, to other countries where the rulers tried to elect a new nation and what happened to them. I'll give you a hint, it rhymes with genocide and I would really prefer that it not happen here, particularly when, as now, it is so easy to prevent.
I disagree with the terrorist label for incidents like this. Terrorism is the use of violence in pursuit of political goals, like the mobs outside Trump rallies trying to frighten his supporters and prevent them from gathering.
There was no political aim being advanced in Orlando. He wasn't trying to keep people from voting, or sway them towards his candidate, or make anyone afraid to participate in the process. This was just plain simple Jihad: war against infidels. He found the most infideleous infidels he could find, and he killed them for their infidelity.
We should indeed not give up our liberty. But I'm ready to give up multiculturalism.
All the more reason to lock your doors. Your house is already quite dangerous enough.
Security, Liberty, Multiculturalism. You might be able to get 2 of the three, or just one. Never all three, not even once in recorded history, not even in myth.
A multicultural society is necessarily a low trust society. Low trust societies are dangerous, even when monocultural. You can give up liberty in the pursuit of security, or give up security in the pursuit of liberty. History says that you won't get the one you want, even after giving up the one you are willing to sacrifice.
If you want security and liberty, at a minimum, you must stop importing people that want to destroy your culture. History suggests that you'd better
Oh, and this is done by vote, most people will rank security at the top of their list, and will not budge.
One specific other religion is trying really hard to show us that it is not compatible with western civilization and has no intention of tolerating much of anything.
This is exactly like "free trade". We have a pile of unilateral "free trade" deals that are ruining our country financially and industrially. We refuse to distinguish between actual free trade and everything that is called "free trade". And by "we", I mean our lugenpresse.
Might want to read my post again. I'm clearly in the "Hillary 4 Prison 2016" camp.
Yes, because this will be the one magic regulation that big business is somehow unable to twist to their advantage.
I'm in favor of network neutrality, but opposed to Network Neutrality. I just don't believe that new regulatory powers are the cure to problems created by the old regulatory powers.
People in prison have liberty?
I think your grasp on "inalienable" isn't as solid as you think it is.
ZOMG! Now the Russians know that Trump is racist, sexist, homophobic and Islamophobic. He wants to throw grandma out of the hospital to die on the street, or off a cliff, depending on the topic. At night he hands out fully automatic, laser guided "Assault Guns" with extra-lethal plastic parts to inner city toddlers and mentally unstable Democrats. In his spare time, he is the leader of a secret society of racists known as "the Police" that meets daily to discuss new ways to murder and/or frame innocent black children on their way to church.
Seriously guys, the DNC's "opposition research" is chiseled in stone, and not exactly secret. They just swap out the name at the top.
Religious tolerance in the US was based on the Westphalia system - essentially a cease-fire between Christians. You'll notice that the very first clause of the 1st Amendment forbids the Federal Congress from abolishing any of the State Churches in the colonies (an Establishment of Religion), which is also the core of the Westphalia treaties. We've been happy to extend that tolerance to other religions, so long as they were willing to work within the common framework.
One aspect of the ascendant alt-right, and of Trump and his supporters, is that we say "Fuck you!" to everyone that thinks the 1st Amendment is a suicide pact. The founders of our nation, the people that invented "American Ideals", would slap half of you silly for rolling out the red carpet for your own enslavement just because it wears a thin cloak of religion.
And why don't you mention other American Ideals, like an educated electorate? Or an armed populace? Or self reliance? Oh, right, those ideals strengthen western civilization instead of weakening it, so just pretend they don't exist.