Notice I didn't say anything about evil or moral. Right and wrong are in the eye of the beholder as well. Saying life-taking is "wrong" is ridiculous. The laws of the universe could care less. It's just as "wrong" to slaughter a pig or pluck grass from the earth.
There's a reason we propped up the Shah. And there a reason we went into Iraq. There's a reason we're in Afghanistan. Everything has to do with resource control. Meddling with Iran has less to do with defeating evil, and more to do with destabilization.
I was in north philly just a couple years back and saw a white girl in nice business attire walk to her SUV. As she attempted to drive off, about 3-4 brothers approached her car and attempted to open the doors, which she had locked. They were laughing the whole time, so I got the feeling they were just fucking with the scared (racist?) white girl; perhaps they whistled (or not) at her as she passed on the sidewalk, and as she frantically sped up her pace, they followed her to her car... who knows.
I was living in west philly for about 4 years, and I would personally prefer raising my son there than the middle-high income suburb we currently inhabit.
It totally affects me because I don't have any and wish I did. Now I can't focus on my job and will probably get fired. Have more respect for your neighbors. I'm sure good old Tom would have passed the bong.
but your motor skills and reaction times are unquestionably impaired.
Being a light-weight, I've noticed the same effects. However, I would question that it's unquestionably impairment. I've come to feel that it wasn't impairment, but rather a heightened awareness that gave me the sense of impairment.
When you do something so much, like driving, often you become lackadaisical. I'm not going to make an unquestionable claim, but I propose that more accidents are caused by lackadaisical drivers than stoned drivers with heightened awareness.
OO is considered the be-all and end-all of programming
Not by me. I'm still waiting for AI that will take my high-level executive summary and produce an optimal program that achieves my goals. Until then, I suppose I'll accept OO.
The book of the century has an entire chapter with no punctuation. But I suppose James Joyce would fall under the category of suck, huh?
Disclaimer: Paragraphs or not, I don't read most posts longer than 500 words, unless I have a compelling reason to... and trust me, I'm a message-board junkie.
Microsoft rely on the average user being kept dumb. The more the user knows about day to day computing, the more they can make the decisions Microsoft make on their behalf because they understand them, at least on a basic level.
If you replace "microsoft" with "government" and "average user" with "citizen" your thesis generalizes quite nicely. We certainly have a long way to go, but keep fighting the good fight, bro.
You're going to have a hard time convincing me that you are a better follower of Jesus's teachings than any number of other christians.
Actually when you strip out super-natural events and only include direct quotes from Jesus that don't have to do with super-natural entities, then you get a pretty consistent message of an anarchist who abides by free-love. I can dig that. Am I a better follower of Jesus' teachings than a large number of bible thumpers out there? You tell me...
The cult of church does everything it possibly can to destroy that consensus and inflict its fucked-up brainwashing on everyone else, which is why it's necessary to go to such extreme lengths to stop it!
I wouldn't go that far. In and of itself, changing a name is what it is, and that's not much. But it is SOMETHING.
Remember all the buzz about the Nintendo Wii? All those creative news headlines? All that criticism: "what a stupid name"? Well, no news is bad news, and I think that applies here.
Also the name-change probably has something to do with the power of branding with a verb.
This last point is stretching, but perhaps an onomatopoeia like "bing" instills a feeling of speed as in, "Bing, see how fast that was?"
His killing, prior to the distribution of the tape, was passed off as just another random murder (meaning releasing the tape was pointless if you were doing it to cover your tracks).
Your assumption is based on the faulty premise that random murders are never solved.
The sad reality is that the majority of humans on planet earth are perfectly happy to live under a dictatorship of some kind.
Simply not true. Many are happy not knowing they live under a dictatorship, and many more (the growing number below the poverty line) are not happy at all.
I suppose the record shows there are a few loons who are happy to live under a dictatorship and think everyone else shares their exuberance.
Maybe it's faster, but we're counting hairs at this point, and that's the problem with 7 or Vista. A new OS won't be adopted unless it's leaps and bounds better AND/OR the predecessor isn't good enough anymore.
If microsoft built on the momentum of XP in a way that wasn't motivated by maximizing profit, perhaps they could adapt to a changing computer industry and right the ship. Domination and monopoly only works for so long.
No kidding. It ain't paradox, and I'm not sure it's irony either. It's plain old common sense that a country without electricity won't be affected by disruptions to the magnetic field.
Let's say the CO2 exchange between creation and a decay of a whale works out to 0 net. But you're forgetting the CO2 in the living mass of whales, a population which will certainly have increased. Of course, it's an artificially increased population that will return to equilibrium when we stop feeding it, but isn't that similar to the way stock markets work? (And in a way, similar to the overproduction of man?)
Maybe at the end of the day, the carbon required to mine and transport "six metric tons of dissolved iron" negates benefits gained from large whale populations. Or just maybe we can tap into the energy of the whales matrix style.
Yeah, a higher order audio signal could be constructed, and that 23.5 years could be greatly reduced.
I wonder, if mapping DNA to more a complex audio signal, what's the shortest signal (or "song") that could be produced, such that the song is both pleasant and distinct (to human ears) for each DNA sequence? I wonder if people would have a natural tendency to enjoy such a song based on their own DNA.
But of course, that's silly. DNA doesn't sequence songs, it sequences people. Ahhh... the song of life.:)
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Notice I didn't say anything about evil or moral. Right and wrong are in the eye of the beholder as well. Saying life-taking is "wrong" is ridiculous. The laws of the universe could care less. It's just as "wrong" to slaughter a pig or pluck grass from the earth.
There's a reason we propped up the Shah. And there a reason we went into Iraq. There's a reason we're in Afghanistan. Everything has to do with resource control. Meddling with Iran has less to do with defeating evil, and more to do with destabilization.
I was in north philly just a couple years back and saw a white girl in nice business attire walk to her SUV. As she attempted to drive off, about 3-4 brothers approached her car and attempted to open the doors, which she had locked. They were laughing the whole time, so I got the feeling they were just fucking with the scared (racist?) white girl; perhaps they whistled (or not) at her as she passed on the sidewalk, and as she frantically sped up her pace, they followed her to her car... who knows.
I was living in west philly for about 4 years, and I would personally prefer raising my son there than the middle-high income suburb we currently inhabit.
And what about the EESTOR battery? Has this been debunked as myth yet?
It totally affects me because I don't have any and wish I did. Now I can't focus on my job and will probably get fired. Have more respect for your neighbors. I'm sure good old Tom would have passed the bong.
but your motor skills and reaction times are unquestionably impaired.
Being a light-weight, I've noticed the same effects. However, I would question that it's unquestionably impairment. I've come to feel that it wasn't impairment, but rather a heightened awareness that gave me the sense of impairment.
When you do something so much, like driving, often you become lackadaisical. I'm not going to make an unquestionable claim, but I propose that more accidents are caused by lackadaisical drivers than stoned drivers with heightened awareness.
because those are the ones that will have you sucking dick in the toilets for a hit
I kinda understand the expression, but I hope you won't try to scare your kids with homosexual bashing.
OO is considered the be-all and end-all of programming
Not by me. I'm still waiting for AI that will take my high-level executive summary and produce an optimal program that achieves my goals. Until then, I suppose I'll accept OO.
The book of the century has an entire chapter with no punctuation. But I suppose James Joyce would fall under the category of suck, huh?
Disclaimer: Paragraphs or not, I don't read most posts longer than 500 words, unless I have a compelling reason to... and trust me, I'm a message-board junkie.
Microsoft rely on the average user being kept dumb. The more the user knows about day to day computing, the more they can make the decisions Microsoft make on their behalf because they understand them, at least on a basic level.
If you replace "microsoft" with "government" and "average user" with "citizen" your thesis generalizes quite nicely. We certainly have a long way to go, but keep fighting the good fight, bro.
You're going to have a hard time convincing me that you are a better follower of Jesus's teachings than any number of other christians.
Actually when you strip out super-natural events and only include direct quotes from Jesus that don't have to do with super-natural entities, then you get a pretty consistent message of an anarchist who abides by free-love. I can dig that. Am I a better follower of Jesus' teachings than a large number of bible thumpers out there? You tell me...
The cult of church does everything it possibly can to destroy that consensus and inflict its fucked-up brainwashing on everyone else, which is why it's necessary to go to such extreme lengths to stop it!
There, fixed that for you.
this rebranding is a complete non-story.
I wouldn't go that far. In and of itself, changing a name is what it is, and that's not much. But it is SOMETHING.
Remember all the buzz about the Nintendo Wii? All those creative news headlines? All that criticism: "what a stupid name"? Well, no news is bad news, and I think that applies here.
Also the name-change probably has something to do with the power of branding with a verb.
This last point is stretching, but perhaps an onomatopoeia like "bing" instills a feeling of speed as in, "Bing, see how fast that was?"
the world would be a better place if everybody grew herb on their roof. And if the world heats up anyway.... well fuck it. who cares?
in an ideal world I would agree with your sentiment, but unfortunately I am afflicted with post-traumatic embitterment disorder.
His killing, prior to the distribution of the tape, was passed off as just another random murder (meaning releasing the tape was pointless if you were doing it to cover your tracks).
Your assumption is based on the faulty premise that random murders are never solved.
The sad reality is that the majority of humans on planet earth are perfectly happy to live under a dictatorship of some kind.
Simply not true. Many are happy not knowing they live under a dictatorship, and many more (the growing number below the poverty line) are not happy at all.
I suppose the record shows there are a few loons who are happy to live under a dictatorship and think everyone else shares their exuberance.
Maybe it's faster, but we're counting hairs at this point, and that's the problem with 7 or Vista. A new OS won't be adopted unless it's leaps and bounds better AND/OR the predecessor isn't good enough anymore.
If microsoft built on the momentum of XP in a way that wasn't motivated by maximizing profit, perhaps they could adapt to a changing computer industry and right the ship. Domination and monopoly only works for so long.
but certainly not the last.
viva la revolucion!
No kidding. It ain't paradox, and I'm not sure it's irony either. It's plain old common sense that a country without electricity won't be affected by disruptions to the magnetic field.
Let's say the CO2 exchange between creation and a decay of a whale works out to 0 net. But you're forgetting the CO2 in the living mass of whales, a population which will certainly have increased. Of course, it's an artificially increased population that will return to equilibrium when we stop feeding it, but isn't that similar to the way stock markets work? (And in a way, similar to the overproduction of man?)
Maybe at the end of the day, the carbon required to mine and transport "six metric tons of dissolved iron" negates benefits gained from large whale populations. Or just maybe we can tap into the energy of the whales matrix style.
Your diatribe is an artifact of your limits of perception
If you mean, "I'm doing web design for a small company," the GIMP is ready today.
That's me. But I tell ya, not a day goes by that I don't dream about the boss buying me a photoshop license.
Yeah, a higher order audio signal could be constructed, and that 23.5 years could be greatly reduced.
I wonder, if mapping DNA to more a complex audio signal, what's the shortest signal (or "song") that could be produced, such that the song is both pleasant and distinct (to human ears) for each DNA sequence? I wonder if people would have a natural tendency to enjoy such a song based on their own DNA.
But of course, that's silly. DNA doesn't sequence songs, it sequences people. Ahhh... the song of life. :)
There will always be an audience for crap.
Do not mushrooms grow on crap?
Who's to decide what is crap? I think offering everything and letting people take what they want is a pretty good process.