There are some aspects of the concept of self-help that are objective. Obviously, teaching someone how to stab himself isn't helping their self. Teaching someone how to overcome depression and become a functioning member of society, on the other hand, would be difficult to construe as negative. As the concept of "help" ties in with the concept of something being "good" and thus morality/ethics, it is important to realize that there are both objective and subjective parts of the concept.
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The point of self-help books is actual objective improvement, not believed subjective improvement. At least, it should be...
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"I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose."
-- George Carlin
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The book is extremely ambiguous, not very helpful, and basically words things most people already know in ways that make it seem like it's new and insightful. That's pretty sad. I'm sure there will be a bunch of people who are completely absorbed by this and will say that it "changed their life", or some such rubbish.
Need I remind the poster that Lion-o got his sixth sense from the Sword of Omens, not something innate. sight-beyond...agh. I quit. Not funny. POST ABORTED.
You're preaching to the wrong crowd here... I'm in favor of a state-run health care system. I think that the medical community has been given too many liberties. Example: A doctor accidentally leaves a scalpel inside a patient after surgery. The patient dies. The doctor can get away with this, so long as the hospital's insurance can cover the lawsuit (assuming the family is allowed to even file one under the new regulations). This doctor can make the same mistake over and over again, until either a) the insurance company cancels coverage on the hospital, or b) the hospital replaces the doctor.
The version I have says "birds", not insects. By the way...
"All fowls that creep, going upon all four..."
Fowls are a class of bird.
I agree that Christ "fulfilled" the Mosaic law (as the popular term goes), and that this stuff doesn't apply anymore. Besides, it was mostly a set of rules designed to help a frail new society grow and flourish as best as possible.
Not to mention that the same book mentions that "four-legged birds" are abominations... whatever the hell those are. Oh yeah, and owls, geese, swans, ducks, dogs, cats, pigs, cows, eagles... and so on.
There's nothing idiomatic about it. "Could care less" indicates that it's perfectly possible for you to care less, but you are deciding not to. "Couldn't care less" indicates that you care so little about it, it would be impossible for you to care less.
Actually, most larger companies have insurance that covers most, if not all, of the cost of the settlements from class-action suits. The companies who were big enough to afford this didn't suffer.
By the way, what the hell was Bush thinking, restricting medical malpractice suits? When hundreds (if not thousands) of people die from medical goofs (surgical error, medicinal overdose/allergy, etc) each year, why would he possibly think it's a good thing to prevent them from suing the people who hurt them?
Most linguists would be hesitant to say that monkeys use language, per se. The three major aspects of what we consider language are productivity, conventionality, and displacement. Productivity is the ability to combine symbols into previously unseen arrangements that still convey a meaningful, coherent message. You'd be hard pressed to find a monkey doing this. Conventionality is less important, as it just indicates that the meanings of symbols are arbitrarily agreed upon. Displacement would be even more difficult to demonstrate in monkeys, as it is the ability to describe things and events that are not currently present. Since we can't fully understand what monkeys intend by their calls and gestures, we can't tell if they truly use displacement or not.
Aside from all this, and more on-topic, I'd really like to see this sort of thing perfected and used in humans. Especially in accidental amputation cases, such as those resulting from car accidents, land mine injuries, and the like. If a monkey can do it, I'm sure people can, too.
Oops. "scientists are currently able to transport beams of light over several feet" should read "scientists are currently able to teleport beams of light over an empty gap of several feet", for clarity's sake.
2. Quantum entanglement communication. It's a high end research idea which they aren't sure if can ever be realized.
Not quite. Through the use of quantum teleportation, scientists are currently able to transport beams of light over several feet. This is partially due to quantum entanglement. If you used this to send morse code signals, you've got quantum entanglement communication... or, more seriously, you could use it to transmit data.
That's funny... I could have sworn that free market economics supports the industry's right to choose more than the consumer's. A theoretical free-market economy removes all restrictions on companies that don't directly protect the public. This means, for example, that cigarette and alcohol companies would be allowed to sell directly to children.
I just wrote a paper for my college-senior-level Business Ethics class on this very subject. Every student in my class came to the same conclusion: free market economics is an inherently flawed concept.
By the way, your comment was not insightful. It was basically a troll.
... or is the first screenshot from a Windows XP machine with a silver skin? See for yourself...
Maybe it's just me, but I didn't think it was possible to run MMC applications under Linux... and the fact that the WINDOWS LOGO is in the Start button kinda gives me the feeling that this is Windows. The Linspire folks wouldn't dare use that logo in an official release...
Also, notice:
the disks have drive letters (e.g. D:)
My Computer is identical to the Windows XP version
... PowerDVD? DVD Decrypter? AD-AWARE? This is WINDOWS!
Why would you put a Windows screenshot in a story about Linspire 5-0's first look? That's pretty deceptive.
Reading flash memory (at least the kind used in a flash drive) is far less stressful on the memory cells. Writing tends to involve a significantly larger electical charge passing through the cells, while reading is mostly passive.
Yes, but why an iPod? If you get a Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra, you can get a 40GB MP3/WMA/Audible audio player for about $250. The battery lasts more than ten hours, you can copy songs back OFF of the player (rather than just onto it), and you don't have to pay over $100 for a battery (which isn't true for the iPod, last I heard).
I read that as:
Hammer. Available at every decent tool shop. only in Kenya.
Which makes it even funnier. Want to play PS1/PS2 games on your PSP? Go to Africa and buy a hammer...
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There are some aspects of the concept of self-help that are objective. Obviously, teaching someone how to stab himself isn't helping their self. Teaching someone how to overcome depression and become a functioning member of society, on the other hand, would be difficult to construe as negative. As the concept of "help" ties in with the concept of something being "good" and thus morality/ethics, it is important to realize that there are both objective and subjective parts of the concept.
The point of self-help books is actual objective improvement, not believed subjective improvement. At least, it should be...
"I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose."
-- George Carlin
The book is extremely ambiguous, not very helpful, and basically words things most people already know in ways that make it seem like it's new and insightful. That's pretty sad. I'm sure there will be a bunch of people who are completely absorbed by this and will say that it "changed their life", or some such rubbish.
Here's a couple references: http://www.fixyourownprinter.com/forums/inkjet/268 47
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11gripe_ 1.html
Need I remind the poster that Lion-o got his sixth sense from the Sword of Omens, not something innate. sight-beyond...agh. I quit. Not funny. POST ABORTED.
You're preaching to the wrong crowd here... I'm in favor of a state-run health care system. I think that the medical community has been given too many liberties. Example: A doctor accidentally leaves a scalpel inside a patient after surgery. The patient dies. The doctor can get away with this, so long as the hospital's insurance can cover the lawsuit (assuming the family is allowed to even file one under the new regulations). This doctor can make the same mistake over and over again, until either a) the insurance company cancels coverage on the hospital, or b) the hospital replaces the doctor.
The one I checked was "The Evidence Bible", which I think is based off of KJV. I'm not entirely sure.
The version I have says "birds", not insects. By the way...
"All fowls that creep, going upon all four..."
Fowls are a class of bird.
I agree that Christ "fulfilled" the Mosaic law (as the popular term goes), and that this stuff doesn't apply anymore. Besides, it was mostly a set of rules designed to help a frail new society grow and flourish as best as possible.
Not to mention that the same book mentions that "four-legged birds" are abominations... whatever the hell those are. Oh yeah, and owls, geese, swans, ducks, dogs, cats, pigs, cows, eagles... and so on.
There's nothing idiomatic about it. "Could care less" indicates that it's perfectly possible for you to care less, but you are deciding not to. "Couldn't care less" indicates that you care so little about it, it would be impossible for you to care less.
Actually, most larger companies have insurance that covers most, if not all, of the cost of the settlements from class-action suits. The companies who were big enough to afford this didn't suffer.
By the way, what the hell was Bush thinking, restricting medical malpractice suits? When hundreds (if not thousands) of people die from medical goofs (surgical error, medicinal overdose/allergy, etc) each year, why would he possibly think it's a good thing to prevent them from suing the people who hurt them?
You know, I never imagined that "-1, Funny" was actually possible. Kudos.
Most linguists would be hesitant to say that monkeys use language, per se. The three major aspects of what we consider language are productivity, conventionality, and displacement. Productivity is the ability to combine symbols into previously unseen arrangements that still convey a meaningful, coherent message. You'd be hard pressed to find a monkey doing this. Conventionality is less important, as it just indicates that the meanings of symbols are arbitrarily agreed upon. Displacement would be even more difficult to demonstrate in monkeys, as it is the ability to describe things and events that are not currently present. Since we can't fully understand what monkeys intend by their calls and gestures, we can't tell if they truly use displacement or not.
Aside from all this, and more on-topic, I'd really like to see this sort of thing perfected and used in humans. Especially in accidental amputation cases, such as those resulting from car accidents, land mine injuries, and the like. If a monkey can do it, I'm sure people can, too.
Oops. "scientists are currently able to transport beams of light over several feet" should read "scientists are currently able to teleport beams of light over an empty gap of several feet", for clarity's sake.
2. Quantum entanglement communication. It's a high end research idea which they aren't sure if can ever be realized.
Not quite. Through the use of quantum teleportation, scientists are currently able to transport beams of light over several feet. This is partially due to quantum entanglement. If you used this to send morse code signals, you've got quantum entanglement communication... or, more seriously, you could use it to transmit data.
That's funny... I could have sworn that free market economics supports the industry's right to choose more than the consumer's. A theoretical free-market economy removes all restrictions on companies that don't directly protect the public. This means, for example, that cigarette and alcohol companies would be allowed to sell directly to children.
I just wrote a paper for my college-senior-level Business Ethics class on this very subject. Every student in my class came to the same conclusion: free market economics is an inherently flawed concept.
By the way, your comment was not insightful. It was basically a troll.
Actually, he never says that he put a Windows screenshot in there. He just said that he made a mistake while partitioning.
See for yourself...
Maybe it's just me, but I didn't think it was possible to run MMC applications under Linux... and the fact that the WINDOWS LOGO is in the Start button kinda gives me the feeling that this is Windows. The Linspire folks wouldn't dare use that logo in an official release...
Also, notice:
Why would you put a Windows screenshot in a story about Linspire 5-0's first look? That's pretty deceptive.
Congratulations, you get the "in way over your head" award! Your prize: a copy of U2's latest album, "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb".
Reading flash memory (at least the kind used in a flash drive) is far less stressful on the memory cells. Writing tends to involve a significantly larger electical charge passing through the cells, while reading is mostly passive.
The flashing is done when the disk is written, not read. There is a virtually unlimited read capacity for flash disks.
Yes, but why an iPod? If you get a Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra, you can get a 40GB MP3/WMA/Audible audio player for about $250. The battery lasts more than ten hours, you can copy songs back OFF of the player (rather than just onto it), and you don't have to pay over $100 for a battery (which isn't true for the iPod, last I heard).
Wait, wait... why is the UK getting it on the 18th?
I read that as:
Hammer. Available at every decent tool shop. only in Kenya.
Which makes it even funnier. Want to play PS1/PS2 games on your PSP? Go to Africa and buy a hammer...