baldness might very well be an indicator of virility
It is, and this has been proven since the 1970's! Men with less tetesterone usually keep a full head of hair - but they are often more "womanly". A great book on the subject is Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps. Sounds sexist, but it's very fact-based - women and men don't think alike, and this book explains even teh gay. It all comes down to how much of the 'correct' hormone your particular chomosome pair receives...
How and when you lose your hair is determined before birth (through a fetus' genes and the 'correctness' of homone programming during development (xx chromosomes should get estrogen, xy should get tetesterone). Every hair on your body will grow/fall an x number of times. Men with more tetesterone lose their hair sooner, and men with less keep a full head of hair until later in life, if they lose it at all. This has been scientific fact since the 1970's - I really don't understand why this is not common knowledge yet (perhaps so people will continue falling for those bullsh*t "hair recovery" commercials).
So when a man goes bald, the hair follicle is still there, it's just not producing hair anymore. According to TFA, researchers have managed to chemically 'trick' the follicle into producing hair again - but this will last only as long as the chemical is present; in its absence, the body will go back to its 'normal' pre-programmed (bald) state. In other words, if you stop taking the drug, you lose your hair.
What bugs me most about the RIAA is their obstinant ~laziness~ - they fight against learning and adapting to any new technology, and to do so rely on the only trade they seem to know since centuries - making court cases. Even there, since recent years, they're failing miserably.
And yes, the fact that the music that they seek to 'protect' is 90% pre-programmed superficial shite makes their plight all the more ironic.
Gramaphone == Threat to live performances! Radio == Threat to the Gramaphone industry! Blank Cassettes == Threat to the Record (gramaphone) industry! Burnable CD's == Threat to the Record (and Cassette) industry! Mp3's + web == We're all gonna die!
Slashdotters, as a general rule, are woefully ignorant of relgion.
I beg to differ. In fact, I would even argue that those least religious are that way because they actually took the time to look into the religion that they later decided to shun.
Christianity owes its existence first to a schism between the Jews believing that Christ was the real messiah (another King David) and those who didn't, then to a schism between the Hellenic Jews (who wanted to allow 'gentils', or anyone of any origin, into the Jewish faith) and the Israelite Jews who wanted only people from a certain ethnic origin to participate. Christianity's evolution from there on was pure politics: the Catholics were formed by the Christian 'hard right' who sought to keep a complete (financial and spiritual) control over their followers, and Protestants promoted a more 'personal' relationship with God. We owe the 'fear factor' elements that dominate many forms of Christianity (Satan, Hell, Limbo) to the Catholics; in reality Satan (aka Lucifer) is hardly present in the bible.
There is a great series on Christianity's origins - "Corpus Christi" and "l'origine du christianisme" - presented and analysed by leading theologists and historians from all faiths - it exists only in French, unfortunately.
Well, MS ~did~ manage to make most of the world addicted 'users' of their half-baked product, and XP ~did~ have a rather vamped-up 'Playskool' look about it...
The record companies' "losses" == "money we 'could have' made": a falacious argument for many reasons, but even if piracy never existed, how can they claim that every downloader would have gone out and bought a cd?
That's it exactly - our thinking should be around "what is (was)" and "how it reacts together". Getting stuck in a 'dimension dogma' that is basically a crutch for a weakness in our conception of matter will only prove to be a roadblock in the end.
I also have reservations with the idea of 'time dilation': just because, from our spacetime point of reference, we haven't been able to accelerate any light-emitting particle to a speed anywhere near the speed of light (meaning that light emitted from the accelerated particle would be travelling ~faster~ than the speed of light away from us, from our point of reference) doesn't mean that it's not possible. I see time dilation as a crutch for both our lack of reference (we have only begun major experiments in particle acceleration) and our dogged idea that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light - just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean that it can't. But I digress.
So why are we still stuck on the 'three dimension' concept? It is impossible for any matter to exist if it does not have height, width AND depth: matter either exists, or it doesn't. Time, on the other hand, is largely a measure based on the context (timeframe) in which all matter was created. Physics should base its model upon the comparative interaction of existing matter; it's what happens that's important, how 'fast' a reaction happens is only a secondary question (that only appeases our longstanding habits of 'comparative' understanding).
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(cleaning whiskers nonchalantly) Well, I was already here three lives ago, dude.
Ftth! Ftth! Ftth! Ftth! FTTH!
Damn hairball.
...cle.
Whence the vitriol? Whither your goal? Nitpicking natter is worth but a lump of coal.
...or Rod Blagojevich's hair, that should plug it nicely.
Je préfère Camembert.
baldness might very well be an indicator of virility
It is, and this has been proven since the 1970's! Men with less tetesterone usually keep a full head of hair - but they are often more "womanly". A great book on the subject is Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps. Sounds sexist, but it's very fact-based - women and men don't think alike, and this book explains even teh gay. It all comes down to how much of the 'correct' hormone your particular chomosome pair receives...
Like when I carry around Apple's first "portable" computer ; )
My favourite colour is black - so I should be driving a model T? Imagine flying down the highway at 22km/h...
How and when you lose your hair is determined before birth (through a fetus' genes and the 'correctness' of homone programming during development (xx chromosomes should get estrogen, xy should get tetesterone). Every hair on your body will grow/fall an x number of times. Men with more tetesterone lose their hair sooner, and men with less keep a full head of hair until later in life, if they lose it at all. This has been scientific fact since the 1970's - I really don't understand why this is not common knowledge yet (perhaps so people will continue falling for those bullsh*t "hair recovery" commercials).
So when a man goes bald, the hair follicle is still there, it's just not producing hair anymore. According to TFA, researchers have managed to chemically 'trick' the follicle into producing hair again - but this will last only as long as the chemical is present; in its absence, the body will go back to its 'normal' pre-programmed (bald) state. In other words, if you stop taking the drug, you lose your hair.
This sounds like $$$ to me.
Hey, Baby, come over to my corner of the cage tonight and we'll split some cheese.
Eeeeeeeeeeeeew! Oh, wait, I read "cut" instead of "split".
Ah, but I made that program for them in php. Here's the full code:
/>";
if ($media == "Gramaphone") {$hysteria = "Threat to Live Performances!";}
elseif ($media == "Radio") {$hysteria = "Threat to the Gramaphone industry!";}
elseif ($media == "Blank Cassettes") {$hysteria = "Threat to the Record (gramaphone) industry!";}
elseif ($media == "Burnable CD's") {$hysteria = "Threat to the Record (and Cassette) industry!";}
elseif ($media == ("Mp3's" + "web")) {$hysteria = "We're all gonna die!";}
elseif ($media == "unknown" || $media == '') {$hysteria == "Oh, Nooooooooooo!"'}
$i = 0;
while ($i < 100000) {
echo $hysteria . "<br
$i++;
}
Why did you post as anonymous? Dot on.
What bugs me most about the RIAA is their obstinant ~laziness~ - they fight against learning and adapting to any new technology, and to do so rely on the only trade they seem to know since centuries - making court cases. Even there, since recent years, they're failing miserably.
And yes, the fact that the music that they seek to 'protect' is 90% pre-programmed superficial shite makes their plight all the more ironic.
Please allow me to clarify:
Gramaphone == Threat to live performances!
Radio == Threat to the Gramaphone industry!
Blank Cassettes == Threat to the Record (gramaphone) industry!
Burnable CD's == Threat to the Record (and Cassette) industry!
Mp3's + web == We're all gonna die!
So you come out walking like a duck? Jeez, in my day, even twelve inches was an exaggeration.
Moses worked for NeXT? But that was Steve Jobs running all tha... WHAT? (Running to glue a long, flowing beard to a picture of Steve Jobs)
Did they hire Moses as their campaign manager? That guy was a whiz at promoting tablets.
Slashdotters, as a general rule, are woefully ignorant of relgion.
I beg to differ. In fact, I would even argue that those least religious are that way because they actually took the time to look into the religion that they later decided to shun.
Christianity owes its existence first to a schism between the Jews believing that Christ was the real messiah (another King David) and those who didn't, then to a schism between the Hellenic Jews (who wanted to allow 'gentils', or anyone of any origin, into the Jewish faith) and the Israelite Jews who wanted only people from a certain ethnic origin to participate. Christianity's evolution from there on was pure politics: the Catholics were formed by the Christian 'hard right' who sought to keep a complete (financial and spiritual) control over their followers, and Protestants promoted a more 'personal' relationship with God. We owe the 'fear factor' elements that dominate many forms of Christianity (Satan, Hell, Limbo) to the Catholics; in reality Satan (aka Lucifer) is hardly present in the bible.
There is a great series on Christianity's origins - "Corpus Christi" and "l'origine du christianisme" - presented and analysed by leading theologists and historians from all faiths - it exists only in French, unfortunately.
It's gonna take me ~weeks~ to duplicate all those punch cards.
I thought you were making a joke about how /. users shaved their 'lady parts' ; )
Well, MS ~did~ manage to make most of the world addicted 'users' of their half-baked product, and XP ~did~ have a rather vamped-up 'Playskool' look about it...
The record companies' "losses" == "money we 'could have' made": a falacious argument for many reasons, but even if piracy never existed, how can they claim that every downloader would have gone out and bought a cd?
I think you're right there too - time is but a dimension, or a 'direction of a chain of events'.
That's it exactly - our thinking should be around "what is (was)" and "how it reacts together". Getting stuck in a 'dimension dogma' that is basically a crutch for a weakness in our conception of matter will only prove to be a roadblock in the end.
I also have reservations with the idea of 'time dilation': just because, from our spacetime point of reference, we haven't been able to accelerate any light-emitting particle to a speed anywhere near the speed of light (meaning that light emitted from the accelerated particle would be travelling ~faster~ than the speed of light away from us, from our point of reference) doesn't mean that it's not possible. I see time dilation as a crutch for both our lack of reference (we have only begun major experiments in particle acceleration) and our dogged idea that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light - just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean that it can't. But I digress.
So why are we still stuck on the 'three dimension' concept? It is impossible for any matter to exist if it does not have height, width AND depth: matter either exists, or it doesn't. Time, on the other hand, is largely a measure based on the context (timeframe) in which all matter was created. Physics should base its model upon the comparative interaction of existing matter; it's what happens that's important, how 'fast' a reaction happens is only a secondary question (that only appeases our longstanding habits of 'comparative' understanding).