Home Theater: You can cry into your ice cream while watching your favorite romantic comedy for the fifteenth time
Public Theater: You can't cry because you're afraid the tears will blur your vision; causing you to miss a second of your fifteen dollar movie. You can't cry because you're afraid to get your 5 dollar popcorn soggy. You can't cry because the guy sitting next to you is an ex-convict.
Home Theater is clearly the better choice for cry babies across the globe.
this has me thinking a little. I imagine extraterrestrial life will have different chemical composition than the primarily HCNO life that we see here. as such, stronger gravity or 'harsher' atmospheres aren't so much a theorectical obstacle. however, the complexity of the seasons provides an interesting situation for chemical evolution. with a 2 day year, the climate must oscillate with a high frequency (i'm not sure how drastic the change is on Gliese 876.) however, here we have a climate which changes with a relatively longer period. I've read that venus has comparable seasons to Earth, however, the climate change is so slight that it is nearly constant for all seasons. so, what i'm thinking is, a planet with a period of seasons such as ours has time to establish a 'biosphere' for chemical bonds which is advanced by the next season. a planet with a nearly constant atmosphere has no means for chemical evolution. a planet with a highly frequent drastic shift of the climate has no opportunity either, for different reasons. perhaps bonds that could form in one season are no longer favorable under the vastly different suceeding season. considering these ideas, a planet such as ours has a perfect mix of climate specific to being hospitable to carbon based evolution. just naive guessothizing.
The question now is: how the release of such search engines is going to impact the BitTorrent network?
Perhaps the search engines are a data mining tool. Anyone who wants to know what bittorrent is being used for rigs up a search engine and records the queries. In this speculative case, the impact on 'bittorrent' could be fatal; given that the data is presented in a certain way to the right robes.
I'm sorry. Could someone please assist me in deciphering this first sentence-like-thing:
John Kheit followed up his MacObsorne article, which others have since covered minus the parts detailing a Steve Jobs uncanny ability to repeat his own mistakes, with a scathing editorial damning the most of the Mac Press, Apple's managment and parts of the user base as a bunch of deranged goose-stepping lemmings that are ignoring the costs associated with the Mac PPC to Intel switch.
I mean, I get the jist, but my meat parser is going apeshit over the syntax.
write down my password? ha! I have mine tattoo'd. In fact, all I need is a speculum and a magnifying mirror to retrieve it.
it was the best i could come up with, other than Zaphod Beeblebrox brain-brand style. but that is just BIZARRE, you know?
This may seem offtopic, however I assure you it is not. This is pure speculation and the twelfth step should be applied.
I'm convinced all the vitamins and minerals are found in the little crumbs at the bottom of the package. You know the ones that no one ever eats? They are tossed to the trash in their protective little nonbiodegradable bags. Each company has hired poor children from fictional poverty stricken countries to gather their respective bags from the trash dumps. The crumbs are then used in new product.
However, this isn't the whole story. Oh no. I keep hearing on the news about how the poor children from fictional poverty stricken countries are becoming very healthy and taking all our jobs to their homelands. Be careful with your crumbs, lest ye be oppressed by your own bottomfeeders..
Rewarding scientists isn't a bad thing. However, the prize isn't a million bucks and a golden locket. The prize is discovery. To make progress towards a higher level of understanding is invaluable. When one man comes closer to understanding himself through scientific discovery, the global community prospers. The significance of the nobel prize isn't the golden locket, but rather a point in the direction of understanding. A recognition of truth.
Most kids don't ask the questions that lead to discovery. You could blame that on the schools, but realize that public schools simply aren't for that type of thing. Public schools are for the sake of economic growth. When the economy grows more opportunities for scientific advancements are possible (believe it or not.)
Science isn't popular among youth because there are so many pleasures abound, and few opportunities to ask "what is going on here?" All they hear concerning academics is "do your homework." It's just something that "has to be done." Mathematics, easily the most astounding acheivement of human intellect, is taught merely algorithmically. Students are taught only to learn procedure, rather than to discover.
I can only assume it is the schematic of the vibrating dildo to which you refer..
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hm, i have a problem with this.
Plato suggested only ideas truly exist. Descartes suggested the existence of mind. Philosphers are trained to ignore the physicality of the world. They don't trust their senses. Understandable, but we aren't in the 1600s anymore. We can't translate electrical signals to thoughts, but we can detect brain activity. There is no brain activity in the dead; if Descartes proved the existence of mind, then he proved the existence of flesh also. You suggest the universe would function as it does without personal experience, but I don't agree. Consciousness and experience exist as a result of the way the universe functions. We are complex beings formed by the natural progression of the universe. A universe without consciousness and without human experience would be, by mechanism, nothing like this one.
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Tell me, can she explain why it is that we aren't all just unconscious zombies, doing exactly what we do?
Can you prove that we aren't? Take, for instance, that empty soda can lying over there. Forgot about it didn't you? You're a zombie, doing exactly what you do. Give this some real thought, play an instrument, write the declaration of independence. You're still on rails. Perhaps, as a human, on rails with considerable degrees of freedom, but still on rails.
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Cats always want to lay in the sun and look out the window in the morning. They always chase laser pointers and will go nuts with yarn or catnip. Squirrels always look at you out of the corner of their eye and hop a few steps in response to every step you take nearer to them. People respond to stimulus too, but we are slaves to language and consequently have a much more complex range of responses. Along the same vein: electrons may distribute seemingly randomly, but they all follow a higher order.
There are SO many things to be said about this topic, but I will say this: Thermodynamics provides a great deal of certaintity to chemical equilibrium. Electricity and magnetism can be engineered. When we have physical laws that contradict the constitution of the United States (self evident rights,) the answer to your question about the illusion of free will may be a painful answer indeed.
What you claim is initially a bit ludicrous sounding, seeing that there are many americans who do 'get it.' However, I quickly recalled films such as the Monty Pythons and the more recent Shaun of the Dead (hilarious film!) also the show 'whose line is it anyway' and have to agree with you. The brits have a way with comedy.. I mean, look at their government. I kid, I kid..
"Favorable" in a scientific context means that the conditions for an event to happen are met. Therefore, because it happened, favorable conditions existed..
do you mean to say that the favorable conditions haven't happened yet, and that life exists because in the future it will be favorable for us to exist?
"'Descarte also wrote, that God would never decieve us'. Yes, of course, according to the opinion of some guy that died 355 years ago, God would never deceive us. "
Actually, Descartes asserted that because his senses could be deceived, that perhaps nothing was real. In asserting that, however, he proved the existence of his own mind. From there, he concluded that since he was able to learn and be deceived, that something more complete or more perfect existed.
From there, Descartes lays the groundwork for the scientific method we (should) know and love. Philosophy has always been a search for truth, and as such has given us our modern machine for truth: science. And just as Descartes was concerned with the omnipotent and omniscient, scientists today still seek the truth about the only omnipotence and omniscience in the universe: Nature. The conception of God has since the beginnings of Philosophy been synonymous with our current word Nature. However, the use of God in the christian faith (written by philosophers for the purpose of morals, law, and order) has perverted our sense for the word.
No kidding. These guys have said a whole lot of nothing.
The press release states: "'This study indicates that the carbon dioxide-rich, hydrogen-poor Mars and Venus-like model of Earth's early atmosphere that scientists have been working with for the last 25 years is incorrect,' said Toon."
Yet, in 1953(52 years ago, not 25) the Miller-Urey experiment showed the possibility of an atmosphere containing water, methane, ammonia, and hydrogen to form essential biomolecules.
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I hear there's a big push to get an 8-track in every hut in the congo by 2007.
I don't think the german readership will enjoy your attitude toward their preferred method of expressing the plural case.
Home Theater: You can cry into your ice cream while watching your favorite romantic comedy for the fifteenth time
Public Theater: You can't cry because you're afraid the tears will blur your vision; causing you to miss a second of your fifteen dollar movie. You can't cry because you're afraid to get your 5 dollar popcorn soggy. You can't cry because the guy sitting next to you is an ex-convict.
Home Theater is clearly the better choice for cry babies across the globe.
j/k sweetybear
why are you running it at 320x240 :(
this has me thinking a little. I imagine extraterrestrial life will have different chemical composition than the primarily HCNO life that we see here. as such, stronger gravity or 'harsher' atmospheres aren't so much a theorectical obstacle. however, the complexity of the seasons provides an interesting situation for chemical evolution. with a 2 day year, the climate must oscillate with a high frequency (i'm not sure how drastic the change is on Gliese 876.) however, here we have a climate which changes with a relatively longer period. I've read that venus has comparable seasons to Earth, however, the climate change is so slight that it is nearly constant for all seasons. so, what i'm thinking is, a planet with a period of seasons such as ours has time to establish a 'biosphere' for chemical bonds which is advanced by the next season. a planet with a nearly constant atmosphere has no means for chemical evolution. a planet with a highly frequent drastic shift of the climate has no opportunity either, for different reasons. perhaps bonds that could form in one season are no longer favorable under the vastly different suceeding season. considering these ideas, a planet such as ours has a perfect mix of climate specific to being hospitable to carbon based evolution. just naive guessothizing.
Everyone except the baker. And the guy who makes the baker hat, and so forth.
The question now is: how the release of such search engines is going to impact the BitTorrent network? Perhaps the search engines are a data mining tool. Anyone who wants to know what bittorrent is being used for rigs up a search engine and records the queries. In this speculative case, the impact on 'bittorrent' could be fatal; given that the data is presented in a certain way to the right robes.
check the budgets VS gross of these films. mortal kombat was a big name when the movie came out and 70 mil gross - 20 mil budget = fat wallet.
you know, halo is a bigger name today than mortal kombat was then..
I'm sorry. Could someone please assist me in deciphering this first sentence-like-thing:
John Kheit followed up his MacObsorne article, which others have since covered minus the parts detailing a Steve Jobs uncanny ability to repeat his own mistakes, with a scathing editorial damning the most of the Mac Press, Apple's managment and parts of the user base as a bunch of deranged goose-stepping lemmings that are ignoring the costs associated with the Mac PPC to Intel switch.
I mean, I get the jist, but my meat parser is going apeshit over the syntax.
would your password be 'trojanman' or 'lifestyles', by chance?
write down my password? ha! I have mine tattoo'd. In fact, all I need is a speculum and a magnifying mirror to retrieve it. it was the best i could come up with, other than Zaphod Beeblebrox brain-brand style. but that is just BIZARRE, you know?
this journalist's error is going to cost someone millions
the script checker image is pretty bad; nearly incomprehensible. what next, a game of chess to prove I am not a script? oh wait..
This may seem offtopic, however I assure you it is not. This is pure speculation and the twelfth step should be applied.
I'm convinced all the vitamins and minerals are found in the little crumbs at the bottom of the package. You know the ones that no one ever eats? They are tossed to the trash in their protective little nonbiodegradable bags. Each company has hired poor children from fictional poverty stricken countries to gather their respective bags from the trash dumps. The crumbs are then used in new product.
However, this isn't the whole story. Oh no. I keep hearing on the news about how the poor children from fictional poverty stricken countries are becoming very healthy and taking all our jobs to their homelands. Be careful with your crumbs, lest ye be oppressed by your own bottomfeeders..
Rewarding scientists isn't a bad thing. However, the prize isn't a million bucks and a golden locket. The prize is discovery. To make progress towards a higher level of understanding is invaluable. When one man comes closer to understanding himself through scientific discovery, the global community prospers. The significance of the nobel prize isn't the golden locket, but rather a point in the direction of understanding. A recognition of truth.
Most kids don't ask the questions that lead to discovery. You could blame that on the schools, but realize that public schools simply aren't for that type of thing. Public schools are for the sake of economic growth. When the economy grows more opportunities for scientific advancements are possible (believe it or not.)
Science isn't popular among youth because there are so many pleasures abound, and few opportunities to ask "what is going on here?" All they hear concerning academics is "do your homework." It's just something that "has to be done." Mathematics, easily the most astounding acheivement of human intellect, is taught merely algorithmically. Students are taught only to learn procedure, rather than to discover.
"I don't think it has as much to do with "communication" skills as it does with empathy"
perhaps it's more along the lines of being able to communicate empathy. being empathetic yourself, you should have known that's how we all feel.
I can only assume it is the schematic of the vibrating dildo to which you refer..
hm, i have a problem with this.
Plato suggested only ideas truly exist. Descartes suggested the existence of mind. Philosphers are trained to ignore the physicality of the world. They don't trust their senses. Understandable, but we aren't in the 1600s anymore. We can't translate electrical signals to thoughts, but we can detect brain activity. There is no brain activity in the dead; if Descartes proved the existence of mind, then he proved the existence of flesh also. You suggest the universe would function as it does without personal experience, but I don't agree. Consciousness and experience exist as a result of the way the universe functions. We are complex beings formed by the natural progression of the universe. A universe without consciousness and without human experience would be, by mechanism, nothing like this one.
Tell me, can she explain why it is that we aren't all just unconscious zombies, doing exactly what we do?
Can you prove that we aren't? Take, for instance, that empty soda can lying over there. Forgot about it didn't you? You're a zombie, doing exactly what you do. Give this some real thought, play an instrument, write the declaration of independence. You're still on rails. Perhaps, as a human, on rails with considerable degrees of freedom, but still on rails.
Cats always want to lay in the sun and look out the window in the morning. They always chase laser pointers and will go nuts with yarn or catnip. Squirrels always look at you out of the corner of their eye and hop a few steps in response to every step you take nearer to them. People respond to stimulus too, but we are slaves to language and consequently have a much more complex range of responses. Along the same vein: electrons may distribute seemingly randomly, but they all follow a higher order.
There are SO many things to be said about this topic, but I will say this: Thermodynamics provides a great deal of certaintity to chemical equilibrium. Electricity and magnetism can be engineered. When we have physical laws that contradict the constitution of the United States (self evident rights,) the answer to your question about the illusion of free will may be a painful answer indeed.
Google launches a new service the "Google map of your mind"!
wow, wouldn't it be cool, if like, they made something like that, where, like, all the minds of the world were, like, connected? hey wait..
So, just what sort of licensing scheme would the average mind have anyways?
Damnit, I know there is a joke here! My mind has left me..
oh yeah.
Product is provided as is, no refunds accepted.
What you claim is initially a bit ludicrous sounding, seeing that there are many americans who do 'get it.' However, I quickly recalled films such as the Monty Pythons and the more recent Shaun of the Dead (hilarious film!) also the show 'whose line is it anyway' and have to agree with you. The brits have a way with comedy.. I mean, look at their government. I kid, I kid..
"Favorable" in a scientific context means that the conditions for an event to happen are met. Therefore, because it happened, favorable conditions existed.. do you mean to say that the favorable conditions haven't happened yet, and that life exists because in the future it will be favorable for us to exist?
"'Descarte also wrote, that God would never decieve us'. Yes, of course, according to the opinion of some guy that died 355 years ago, God would never deceive us. "
Actually, Descartes asserted that because his senses could be deceived, that perhaps nothing was real. In asserting that, however, he proved the existence of his own mind. From there, he concluded that since he was able to learn and be deceived, that something more complete or more perfect existed.
From there, Descartes lays the groundwork for the scientific method we (should) know and love. Philosophy has always been a search for truth, and as such has given us our modern machine for truth: science. And just as Descartes was concerned with the omnipotent and omniscient, scientists today still seek the truth about the only omnipotence and omniscience in the universe: Nature. The conception of God has since the beginnings of Philosophy been synonymous with our current word Nature. However, the use of God in the christian faith (written by philosophers for the purpose of morals, law, and order) has perverted our sense for the word.
No kidding. These guys have said a whole lot of nothing.
The press release states:
"'This study indicates that the carbon dioxide-rich, hydrogen-poor Mars and Venus-like model of Earth's early atmosphere that scientists have been working with for the last 25 years is incorrect,' said Toon."
Yet, in 1953(52 years ago, not 25) the Miller-Urey experiment showed the possibility of an atmosphere containing water, methane, ammonia, and hydrogen to form essential biomolecules.