The lady who pulled out right in front of me while talking on her cell and looked shocked as hell as I almost broadsided her. It was a clear sunny day, I was on the main road, she was on a side street.
If I didn't see the cell phone in her hand (as i was sitting about 2' from her car) then I would have thought she was crazy or blind-- which perhaps she was. I think her eyes had turned off during the phone call.
Not sure who would have modded a relevant, legitimate question as troll.
No mod points to fix it myself.
To the best of my knowledge they are not cracked and not likely to be cracked at our level for at least a decade. OTH, any sneaky businesses with a reasonable amount of money will be able to crack them almost immediately and make knockoff copies.
Bottom line, these are STILL just $2.49 movies that they are trying to use to mine the last few dollars out of the 1st world countries. I do not notice a difference in quality at 20' across my living room.
And as someone else here posted- the first time I saw serenity it was downloaded off the net at 233mb each. They were great on my 19" monitor from a distance of 5'.
My work setup is dual 1280x1024 monitors and it rocks.
I can open open up the eclipse workspace and then adjust it so source and variables are on the right, tasks and console are on the left, etc.
The monitors are at slightly different heights and have different bezel colors but after about 2 days, I don't even notice it any more. My brain just remapped it into one big monitor.
Not so long ago, in the upper crust it was considered bad form to drink and behave badly when you were drunk. Given those social constraints, people behaved differently. Also, I think there was a study of college students who got "drunk" when told they were drinking alcoholic beverages but the drinks really were not.
So the question is.. how would people behave if they were drunk but didn't know they were drunk?
That's actually a key point that isn't pushed a lot tho I was not unaware of it.
The popular presentations (Family circle for example) is that "you" continue to exist. People like that image, but my understanding is that "you" the personality is wiped clean and the soul essence is the only part retained.
Is it just me, or does that seem like some kind of horror movie plot.
---
Supernatural being harvests purified life essence from unsuspecting humans.
The pits are growing, the ridges between them shrinking...
The newly observed melting, if it is part of a trend, could pump enough carbon dioxide...
--- Listen- I voted against Bush both times. I think we are in a global warming cycle. I do -not- agree that humans are the main cause of this global warming cycle.
I've seen some animals do some pretty stupid things.
Like the bird that was stealing my dog's food. It got more and more casual about the dogs- finally almost getting the attitude that they were taking -its- food.
A few days later, there were a lot of feathers in the yard and the dogs seemed particularly happy. Never saw the bird in that form again.
Some I've talked to said that the original text more implies that we are like god mentally, than we look -exactly- like god physically.
I.e. we make things, we have curiosity, etc.
Sort of like "Thou shalt not murder" gets turned into "Thou shalt not kill" frequently.
The problem with that line of thought is...
we murder, we rape, we torture, we commit incest... (and god kinda does some of those things or gives his chosen people to do those things in the bible too).
Of course some of us have 20 kids too- what a mess that would be.. the holy icosohedrinity.
As a one who lacks faith, I find nothing in evolutionary theory that supports or denies the existence of supernatural beings.
For some unknown reason, a particular sect of christians has decided to pick a fight with a body of facts and conclusions about those facts (instead of wisely ignoring this non-conflict).
Historically, when you mix faith and science- faith loses. Because you -can- measure pie is not "3", because you -can- point to measurable, duplicatable hard edged -facts-, and because the bloody earth goes -around- the bloody Sun.
Faith is important to people. Having faith makes a lot of them happy. Having faith allows a lot more of them to at least endure. So why walk into the buzzsaw of facts repeatedly?
It only takes one counter-example to falsify a theory.
I would think that evidence that multiple objects in the solar system are warming up would be sufficient to dispute that human activities are the only cause for global warming.
Yes- we do have increased CO2. we do have higher average temperatures. oth... there is some evidence that we might be reading core samples incorrectly.. other objects are heating up... and there is strong evidence that humans are prone to hysteria and crisis mongering on little good evidence.
I think the evidence for human caused global warming is enough that -reasonable-, -inexpensive- things should be done to reduce the effect until we know more. I don't think we should destroy the world economy just quite yet.
At the heart of it, we just have too many people- I suspect the globe is really only suited for 2 to 3 billion people. Like deer, we are going to breed and push the limits until we start dying in large numbers. But that's just my personal, not a scientific, opinion.
Only problem I have with those is that if you don't qualify as people (because.. say you worship a different god or you don't worship god), then it's okay to kill you, take your daughters and all the rest of your property.
I dont know... in my opinion, Real Climate has a pretty hard bias, and I've read more than once that they simply delete posts that they don't like/can't address.
RC is one resource for forming an opinion- but they seem a bit like using the Catholic Church as reference for deciding if Christ existed or not.
Facts are... Mars and other objects in the solar system are warming up too, there is correlation between the arms of the galaxy and past climate fluctuation, the climate -has- been hotter and colder than it is now without our doing anything and.... many experts were sure that we were going to have a new ice age only 30 years ago. Not all experts- and not all experts believe in global warming either.
Well, among other things.. you need to view "The Corporation".
it's biased too, of course, but it does a pretty good job of presenting your arguments (pro-development) and then shows some examples of what's actually happening out there.
You can see it elsewhere in the news too-- Shell-backed african governments are murdering people left and right when they protest the rape of their environment while other Shell people are being all pro-environment in the developed world.
We have lived in a nice little bubble but that's coming to an end. Reality is on its way back with a vengence.
Oh and by the way.. the rest of your assertions are complete bullshit.
A conscience is about obeying your own internal moral code- usually embedded in you before you were mature. It's the manifestation of the superego.
It has nothing to do with being optimistic, pessimistic, or even being moral/immoral with regard to other people. You can very conscienciously kill people and cook them.
As far as betraying the causes.. you just don't get it. I have repeatedly seen the causes you talk of revealed to be front organizations for other purposes. Some are really backed by corporations-- some are really just feed cash to evil warlords-- some are complete scams-- others provide cushy jobs and free travel for a very select group of the upper classes. I still volunteer where I can see the people I'm actually helping but I've become cynical.
Almost nothing you see any more is real. How can you make valid decisions when most of the information you use to make those decisions has already been coopted and changed before it ever got to you.
And some of this even applies to you. Looking over your posts in this thread- I don't see much of what you believe in- what I see is you trolling and bashing for fun. You really just came here for an argument... and your five minutes are up.
My conscience only affects my personal actions towards others. It doesn't affect my view that the corporations and governments have actually gained the upper hand over people in a way that may be unbreakable. It doesn't change my view that from here, things only go downhill.
Ironically, my life is pretty good- and I might actually make it to a peaceful death before things go all to hell. I'm a bit older than the 22 that you pre-supposed based on no information.
I do what I can to purchase from ethical companies-- but it is dishearting to see the "ethical" company you were purchasing from turns out to work 13 year olds to death while claiming to spend part of it's profits to help children around the world.
I would propose something better but I mostly agree with you except for the outcome.
You think it is hopeless but that things will get better.
I think it is hopeless and things are only going to get worse.
The key element of the Jeffersonian democracy was many wealthy people- but a lack of people like modern billionaires and corporations (which are like immortal artificial people without souls).
Jefferson's democracy and libertarian society breaks down when there are a small subclass of fantastically powerful/wealthy people with no one to counterbalance them.
What you are ignoring is that: 1) The people you are competing against are willing to use slave labor. 2) The people you are competing against are willing to use.03 cents per hour labor 3) The people you are competing against are still where we were 50 years ago and are more than eager to completely destroy their lower classes with pollutionl, toxins, and mutagens.
In other words- WE ARE NOT COMPETING ON A EVEN PLAY FIELD.
i leave it to your boundless imagination as to how and why racing to the bottom against slave labor, rampant pollution, child labor, and sub-poverty wages is not a good idea.
---
Seriously man- WAKE UP.
India is an example of how this can go -reasonably- well. They have democracy- they have a middle class. Here we have hard competitors- but their wages are going up because they are valuable. As a reasonable libertarian capitalist type, I'm not particularly against Indian competition (except that they engage in blatant age discrimanation and some other things we would consider illegal but it's minor compared to other countries).
I am against businesses using this cheap labor and then keeping the prices high (often by having laws passed to prohibit reimportation of products that are identical yet 50 to 80% cheaper- re - 2.45 dvd movies in china, $4 medicine in india that we pay $80 for, etc)
In many other countries, this is not the case. In many other countries including china as a large example, we are competing with -slave labor-. Where we are not competing with slave labor, we are competing with heavily exploited people surrounded by armed guards where those who cause problems mysteriously disappear at night.
Again- china is artificially holding its currency low (estimates in the WSJ are that it would double if allowed to float freely) - how fair is that?
---
Are you in favor of a race to the bottom where we have a world with 'nobles' and 'serfs' again? Is that what you want? Because that is where we are headed. In the US it takes the form of offshoring jobs- and a select class making multi-million dollar salary's while claiming hardship and foisting thousands of people off on the rest of us to support. Corporations are built to move their costs to us and to maximize their profits.
Have you so completely bought their propaganda that you can't see how you are paying high taxes so large corporations can use cheap labor and avoid paying benefits to them? How does it feel to cover Walmart's health care bill while a few top executives get to keep the profits?
CS degrees are VERY hard (the only class in my school where people had to stay up 40 hours straight to get the homework done on time) and don't relate to the work you will actually be doing. Why kill yourself for a CS degree when you can get a Business degree- faster- and as a result for a lot less money- and have better job prospects.
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The lady who pulled out right in front of me while talking on her cell and looked shocked as hell as I almost broadsided her. It was a clear sunny day, I was on the main road, she was on a side street.
If I didn't see the cell phone in her hand (as i was sitting about 2' from her car) then I would have thought she was crazy or blind-- which perhaps she was. I think her eyes had turned off during the phone call.
Not sure who would have modded a relevant, legitimate question as troll.
No mod points to fix it myself.
To the best of my knowledge they are not cracked and not likely to be cracked at our level for at least a decade. OTH, any sneaky businesses with a reasonable amount of money will be able to crack them almost immediately and make knockoff copies.
Bottom line, these are STILL just $2.49 movies that they are trying to use to mine the last few dollars out of the 1st world countries. I do not notice a difference in quality at 20' across my living room.
And as someone else here posted- the first time I saw serenity it was downloaded off the net at 233mb each. They were great on my 19" monitor from a distance of 5'.
... Sony was part of the open source software movement.
No-- you are correct.
If you sit with your head turned just an inch left or right from neutral all day, then you are going to pay for it with spasms on the contracted side.
The attack is relevant and thus not adhominem.
They are not attacking him for being ugly, a bolshevik, or a pedaphile.
They are pointing out that he works for industry. Thus, his position is influenced and if he were a judge, he would have to recuse himself.
My work setup is dual 1280x1024 monitors and it rocks.
I can open open up the eclipse workspace and then adjust it so source and variables are on the right, tasks and console are on the left, etc.
The monitors are at slightly different heights and have different bezel colors but after about 2 days, I don't even notice it any more. My brain just remapped it into one big monitor.
This is an excellent point and I had this happen to me.
I had two cars at one point for about eight months and would drive the smaller one when it was appropriate (and this was back with 88 cent gasoline).
But the insurance costs came due for the next year and I decided it wasn't worth an extra grand to insure the extra car so I got rid of it.
Actually that is sort of a recent development.
Not so long ago, in the upper crust it was considered bad form to drink and behave badly when you were drunk. Given those social constraints, people behaved differently. Also, I think there was a study of college students who got "drunk" when told they were drinking alcoholic beverages but the drinks really were not.
So the question is.. how would people behave if they were drunk but didn't know they were drunk?
At the very worst, since they are about 25% of the RIAA price, you would pay 25% of the taxes.
That's actually a key point that isn't pushed a lot tho I was not unaware of it.
The popular presentations (Family circle for example) is that "you" continue to exist. People like that image, but my understanding is that "you" the personality is wiped clean and the soul essence is the only part retained.
Is it just me, or does that seem like some kind of horror movie plot.
---
Supernatural being harvests purified life essence from unsuspecting humans.
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=17977
/ mars_snow_011206-2.html ...
...
was the easiest example to find of reporting on the nasa report.
I'm not familiar with heartland.org so here is another...
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem
From the article:
Global warming on Mars?
The odd shapes -- circular pits, ridges and mounds -- were first photographed in 1999. Since then, the features have eroded away by up to 50 percent.
The pits are growing, the ridges between them shrinking...
The newly observed melting, if it is part of a trend, could pump enough carbon dioxide
---
Listen- I voted against Bush both times. I think we are in a global warming cycle. I do -not- agree that humans are the main cause of this global warming cycle.
I've seen some animals do some pretty stupid things.
Like the bird that was stealing my dog's food. It got more and more casual about the dogs- finally almost getting the attitude that they were taking -its- food.
A few days later, there were a lot of feathers in the yard and the dogs seemed particularly happy. Never saw the bird in that form again.
Some I've talked to said that the original text more implies that we are like god mentally, than we look -exactly- like god physically.
.. the holy icosohedrinity.
I.e. we make things, we have curiosity, etc.
Sort of like "Thou shalt not murder" gets turned into "Thou shalt not kill" frequently.
The problem with that line of thought is...
we murder, we rape, we torture, we commit incest... (and god kinda does some of those things or gives his chosen people to do those things in the bible too).
Of course some of us have 20 kids too- what a mess that would be
As a one who lacks faith, I find nothing in evolutionary theory that supports or denies the existence of supernatural beings.
For some unknown reason, a particular sect of christians has decided to pick a fight with a body of facts and conclusions about those facts (instead of wisely ignoring this non-conflict).
Historically, when you mix faith and science- faith loses. Because you -can- measure pie is not "3", because you -can- point to measurable, duplicatable hard edged -facts-, and because the bloody earth goes -around- the bloody Sun.
Faith is important to people. Having faith makes a lot of them happy. Having faith allows a lot more of them to at least endure. So why walk into the buzzsaw of facts repeatedly?
It only takes one counter-example to falsify a theory.
I would think that evidence that multiple objects in the solar system are warming up would be sufficient to dispute that human activities are the only cause for global warming.
Yes- we do have increased CO2. we do have higher average temperatures. oth... there is some evidence that we might be reading core samples incorrectly.. other objects are heating up... and there is strong evidence that humans are prone to hysteria and crisis mongering on little good evidence.
I think the evidence for human caused global warming is enough that -reasonable-, -inexpensive- things should be done to reduce the effect until we know more. I don't think we should destroy the world economy just quite yet.
At the heart of it, we just have too many people- I suspect the globe is really only suited for 2 to 3 billion people. Like deer, we are going to breed and push the limits until we start dying in large numbers. But that's just my personal, not a scientific, opinion.
Only problem I have with those is that if you don't qualify as people (because.. say you worship a different god or you don't worship god), then it's okay to kill you, take your daughters and all the rest of your property.
But that's really a different subject than this.
That's very very very funny.
I dont know... in my opinion, Real Climate has a pretty hard bias, and I've read more than once that they simply delete posts that they don't like/can't address.
.... many experts were sure that we were going to have a new ice age only 30 years ago. Not all experts- and not all experts believe in global warming either.
RC is one resource for forming an opinion- but they seem a bit like using the Catholic Church as reference for deciding if Christ existed or not.
Facts are... Mars and other objects in the solar system are warming up too, there is correlation between the arms of the galaxy and past climate fluctuation, the climate -has- been hotter and colder than it is now without our doing anything and
Well, among other things.. you need to view "The Corporation".
it's biased too, of course, but it does a pretty good job of presenting your arguments (pro-development) and then shows some examples of what's actually happening out there.
You can see it elsewhere in the news too-- Shell-backed african governments are murdering people left and right when they protest the rape of their environment while other Shell people are being all pro-environment in the developed world.
We have lived in a nice little bubble but that's coming to an end. Reality is on its way back with a vengence.
Oh and by the way.. the rest of your assertions are complete bullshit.
A conscience is about obeying your own internal moral code- usually embedded in you before you were mature. It's the manifestation of the superego.
It has nothing to do with being optimistic, pessimistic, or even being moral/immoral with regard to other people. You can very conscienciously kill people and cook them.
As far as betraying the causes.. you just don't get it. I have repeatedly seen the causes you talk of revealed to be front organizations for other purposes. Some are really backed by corporations-- some are really just feed cash to evil warlords-- some are complete scams-- others provide cushy jobs and free travel for a very select group of the upper classes. I still volunteer where I can see the people I'm actually helping but I've become cynical.
Almost nothing you see any more is real. How can you make valid decisions when most of the information you use to make those decisions has already been coopted and changed before it ever got to you.
And some of this even applies to you. Looking over your posts in this thread- I don't see much of what you believe in- what I see is you trolling and bashing for fun. You really just came here for an argument... and your five minutes are up.
No.
My conscience only affects my personal actions towards others. It doesn't affect my view that the corporations and governments have actually gained the upper hand over people in a way that may be unbreakable. It doesn't change my view that from here, things only go downhill.
Ironically, my life is pretty good- and I might actually make it to a peaceful death before things go all to hell. I'm a bit older than the 22 that you pre-supposed based on no information.
I do what I can to purchase from ethical companies-- but it is dishearting to see the "ethical" company you were purchasing from turns out to work 13 year olds to death while claiming to spend part of it's profits to help children around the world.
I would propose something better but I mostly agree with you except for the outcome.
You think it is hopeless but that things will get better.
I think it is hopeless and things are only going to get worse.
All that is left is bread and circuses, I guess.
The key element of the Jeffersonian democracy was many wealthy people- but a lack of people like modern billionaires and corporations (which are like immortal artificial people without souls).
Jefferson's democracy and libertarian society breaks down when there are a small subclass of fantastically powerful/wealthy people with no one to counterbalance them.
man...
.03 cents per hour labor
You have bought the capitalist line hard.
What you are ignoring is that:
1) The people you are competing against are willing to use slave labor.
2) The people you are competing against are willing to use
3) The people you are competing against are still where we were 50 years ago and are more than eager to completely destroy their lower classes with pollutionl, toxins, and mutagens.
In other words- WE ARE NOT COMPETING ON A EVEN PLAY FIELD.
i leave it to your boundless imagination as to how and why racing to the bottom against slave labor, rampant pollution, child labor, and sub-poverty wages is not a good idea.
---
Seriously man- WAKE UP.
India is an example of how this can go -reasonably- well. They have democracy- they have a middle class. Here we have hard competitors- but their wages are going up because they are valuable. As a reasonable libertarian capitalist type, I'm not particularly against Indian competition (except that they engage in blatant age discrimanation and some other things we would consider illegal but it's minor compared to other countries).
I am against businesses using this cheap labor and then keeping the prices high (often by having laws passed to prohibit reimportation of products that are identical yet 50 to 80% cheaper- re - 2.45 dvd movies in china, $4 medicine in india that we pay $80 for, etc)
In many other countries, this is not the case. In many other countries including china as a large example, we are competing with -slave labor-. Where we are not competing with slave labor, we are competing with heavily exploited people surrounded by armed guards where those who cause problems mysteriously disappear at night.
Again- china is artificially holding its currency low (estimates in the WSJ are that it would double if allowed to float freely) - how fair is that?
---
Are you in favor of a race to the bottom where we have a world with 'nobles' and 'serfs' again? Is that what you want? Because that is where we are headed. In the US it takes the form of offshoring jobs- and a select class making multi-million dollar salary's while claiming hardship and foisting thousands of people off on the rest of us to support. Corporations are built to move their costs to us and to maximize their profits.
Have you so completely bought their propaganda that you can't see how you are paying high taxes so large corporations can use cheap labor and avoid paying benefits to them? How does it feel to cover Walmart's health care bill while a few top executives get to keep the profits?
I second this.
CS degrees are VERY hard (the only class in my school where people had to stay up 40 hours straight to get the homework done on time) and don't relate to the work you will actually be doing. Why kill yourself for a CS degree when you can get a Business degree- faster- and as a result for a lot less money- and have better job prospects.