Indeed, they should continue to hold this man until the "War on Terror" is over. If that's the case, he'd better start get comfortable in that cell, 'cause he won't be going anywhere or getting a trial anytime soon.
How about the hexagram? _WTF_ is the deal with that??
Seriously, that freaks me the hell out. How can you explain that? Or many of those other weird patterns, for that matter. Humor? That'd be seriously f00ked, but funny.
The Worldwide Coalition of Coin-Eating Child Protestors (WCCCP) is outraged at the new ADS systems, citing it as a violation of their penny-eating freedoms.
"Do you have any idea what this raygun would do to someone who's just consumed their typical 25cents in pennies?", a spokesman for the WCCCP said Thursday.
But really, hasn't anyone in the military watched Akira? It proved to us that gut-firing protestors with smoke grenades is the most effective, or at least most totally rockin' method of dispersing a crowd.
I have to disagree with you here. Software patents are incredibly important to protect the waning rights of corporations on intellectual property. After all, a world with free-roaming ideas is NOT conducive to progress. That IP must be harnessed by corporations with a large enough capital to actually do something useful with it. Every time I see quick sort in someone's source it drives me nuts.
Are you sir, suggesting that we value education more than violence? Your post is subversive and quite frankly, unAmerican
Instead I'd like to propose a new system called "Books for Bombs"
Television is something that networks the masses, it represents the "mainstream". The population watches television and relates to the social interactions they are observing. The more television watched, the more the ones watching will be socialized to what is mainstream/normal in society. Check out this link for an interesting take on this subject.
I believe the same situation is present on the internet in message boards, in social circles, or anywhere that would present a non-varied take on society. For example a gamer frequenting message boards that discuss the effects of violent video games on children will be exposed primarily to the viewpoint that video games don't cause violence, despite whether it is actually true. So that gamer will most likely then adopt the same take on that subject. This would be what is often referred to as "groupthink" on Slashdot.
However, I don't think this is entirely bad. Many denounce television on the premise that it causes groupthink. But to detach ourselves completely from society as you have only serves to isolate us and break apart our cohesiveness with society. So now we have the two extremes: being glued to the television set and being socialized completely to mainstream society's values, or detaching oneself completely but lacking cohesiveness with the rest of society.
I believe that the "truth" lies somewhere in the middle. It is important that we are all not relying on groupthink, as our range of opinions and thought will be bland and not diverse, so that we are not resilient enough to change and adapt. At the same time it is important that we do not detach ourselves completely, so that we as a society are all locked into niches and identity politics, making us unable to act with any useful degree of solidarity in human society.
People are too stupid to realize that retarded is a perfectly legitimate scientific term...
They're insensitive to it because it's taken a negative connotation, namely by calling other people "retards". Kind of like "gay". A lot of gay people don't like being called gay either... disturbing ain't it?
... but Linux still doesn't support half of my hardware. When will the community as a whole learn that Linux will take forever to adopt as long as the hardware is a complete pain in the ass to set up? My Wireless B Linksys USB adapter doesn't work, my nVidia & ATI cards work either sometimes or with horrible performance, and my Sound Blaster doesn't work either. And before you mention it, yes I'm aware of ALSA and all that fun. But personally, I don't like to spend weeks upon weeks browsing forums for obscure fixes to drivers.
I'm not saying this is directly the Linux community's fault, I know that hardware vendors are being wankers. But c'mon... Linux is wayyy too much of a hastle at the moment to bother with. And believe me, I've spent a lot of time trying to get a Linux system up that I'm happy with.
"Thirdly -- improving literacy at a basic level alone doesn't make a nation capable of innovation. The rift between educated and uneducated *is* increasing."
Would you care to cite some sources on this? It's interesting
"You don't know what "faith" is, do you? What you're describing is known as "hope". "Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld." (Hebrews 11:1, NWT [watchtower.org]) Read that again. Assured expectation and evident demonstration are anything but blind. Faith is based on a logical conclusion, not formed despite one."
And here is another definition from dictionary.com:
"Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence."
Any term can have a number of definitions. That's why I stated what faith meant in the context of what I said.
There is a problem with what you've said. Assume for a second that the universe was created by a something. What then created that something? That becomes an infinite loop of thought. I think it is better to simply not lean toward one explanation or the other until we have more information.
You're argument for Creationism seems to be that current methods aren't reliable enough. Well no kidding, but they're sure as hell more reliable than faith. I have no bias against Creationism. I couldn't care less if there is or isn't a God. What do I have to gain either way? The fact is, I haven't seen any compelling evidence for Creationism. And I've seen a shitload for the currently most accepted theories.
I'd think what he was referring to as true Christians would be people who believe in their religion based purely on faith, and don't attempt to prove it through logical grounds. I see faith in something as a lack of logical conclusion. So having faith in something and trying to prove it through bullshit like the afforementioned inductive reasoning method is pretty stupid.
IMO the "true Christians" are just as dumb for having blind faith in something, but that opinion isn't entirely original now is it
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I suppose we shouldn't consider our military operations in Iraq a war then, since after all... it isn't an "officially declared war"
Try again.
Indeed, they should continue to hold this man until the "War on Terror" is over. If that's the case, he'd better start get comfortable in that cell, 'cause he won't be going anywhere or getting a trial anytime soon.
I feel this is an appopriate moment for the obligatory Benjamin Franklin quote:
"The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either."
Right, because that follows from what he said...
Interesting model, although the signal-to-noise ratio is extremely high. But perhaps that'll change if the demographic of readership does as well.
How about the hexagram? _WTF_ is the deal with that??
Seriously, that freaks me the hell out. How can you explain that? Or many of those other weird patterns, for that matter. Humor? That'd be seriously f00ked, but funny.
The Worldwide Coalition of Coin-Eating Child Protestors (WCCCP) is outraged at the new ADS systems, citing it as a violation of their penny-eating freedoms. "Do you have any idea what this raygun would do to someone who's just consumed their typical 25cents in pennies?", a spokesman for the WCCCP said Thursday. But really, hasn't anyone in the military watched Akira? It proved to us that gut-firing protestors with smoke grenades is the most effective, or at least most totally rockin' method of dispersing a crowd.
I have to disagree with you here. Software patents are incredibly important to protect the waning rights of corporations on intellectual property. After all, a world with free-roaming ideas is NOT conducive to progress. That IP must be harnessed by corporations with a large enough capital to actually do something useful with it. Every time I see quick sort in someone's source it drives me nuts.
Except for the marketing value of those donations. People constantly refer to it as a sign of Microsoft's redeeming holiness. It's PR
Ah sorry apparently I misunderstood you
Perhaps they want to be pro-gamers because they're studying from "9am to midnight"?
But nah, it must be those Confucian ideals corrupting them...
Are you sir, suggesting that we value education more than violence? Your post is subversive and quite frankly, unAmerican Instead I'd like to propose a new system called "Books for Bombs"
Television is something that networks the masses, it represents the "mainstream". The population watches television and relates to the social interactions they are observing. The more television watched, the more the ones watching will be socialized to what is mainstream/normal in society. Check out this link for an interesting take on this subject.
I believe the same situation is present on the internet in message boards, in social circles, or anywhere that would present a non-varied take on society. For example a gamer frequenting message boards that discuss the effects of violent video games on children will be exposed primarily to the viewpoint that video games don't cause violence, despite whether it is actually true. So that gamer will most likely then adopt the same take on that subject. This would be what is often referred to as "groupthink" on Slashdot.
However, I don't think this is entirely bad. Many denounce television on the premise that it causes groupthink. But to detach ourselves completely from society as you have only serves to isolate us and break apart our cohesiveness with society. So now we have the two extremes: being glued to the television set and being socialized completely to mainstream society's values, or detaching oneself completely but lacking cohesiveness with the rest of society.
I believe that the "truth" lies somewhere in the middle. It is important that we are all not relying on groupthink, as our range of opinions and thought will be bland and not diverse, so that we are not resilient enough to change and adapt. At the same time it is important that we do not detach ourselves completely, so that we as a society are all locked into niches and identity politics, making us unable to act with any useful degree of solidarity in human society.
Suprised there isn't an e-book torrent up yet :p
People are too stupid to realize that retarded is a perfectly legitimate scientific term... They're insensitive to it because it's taken a negative connotation, namely by calling other people "retards". Kind of like "gay". A lot of gay people don't like being called gay either... disturbing ain't it?
... but Linux still doesn't support half of my hardware. When will the community as a whole learn that Linux will take forever to adopt as long as the hardware is a complete pain in the ass to set up? My Wireless B Linksys USB adapter doesn't work, my nVidia & ATI cards work either sometimes or with horrible performance, and my Sound Blaster doesn't work either. And before you mention it, yes I'm aware of ALSA and all that fun. But personally, I don't like to spend weeks upon weeks browsing forums for obscure fixes to drivers.
I'm not saying this is directly the Linux community's fault, I know that hardware vendors are being wankers. But c'mon... Linux is wayyy too much of a hastle at the moment to bother with. And believe me, I've spent a lot of time trying to get a Linux system up that I'm happy with.
"Thirdly -- improving literacy at a basic level alone doesn't make a nation capable of innovation. The rift between educated and uneducated *is* increasing." Would you care to cite some sources on this? It's interesting
That is the ugliest console I have ever seen in my entire life.
0wn3d :D
I think the point is that the new definition would be more favorable in terms of lawyer-speak for ID than the old one.
"You don't know what "faith" is, do you? What you're describing is known as "hope". "Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld." (Hebrews 11:1, NWT [watchtower.org]) Read that again. Assured expectation and evident demonstration are anything but blind. Faith is based on a logical conclusion, not formed despite one." And here is another definition from dictionary.com: "Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence." Any term can have a number of definitions. That's why I stated what faith meant in the context of what I said.
There is a problem with what you've said. Assume for a second that the universe was created by a something. What then created that something? That becomes an infinite loop of thought. I think it is better to simply not lean toward one explanation or the other until we have more information.
I actually laughed out loud on that one, thanks :)
You're argument for Creationism seems to be that current methods aren't reliable enough. Well no kidding, but they're sure as hell more reliable than faith. I have no bias against Creationism. I couldn't care less if there is or isn't a God. What do I have to gain either way? The fact is, I haven't seen any compelling evidence for Creationism. And I've seen a shitload for the currently most accepted theories.
I'd think what he was referring to as true Christians would be people who believe in their religion based purely on faith, and don't attempt to prove it through logical grounds. I see faith in something as a lack of logical conclusion. So having faith in something and trying to prove it through bullshit like the afforementioned inductive reasoning method is pretty stupid. IMO the "true Christians" are just as dumb for having blind faith in something, but that opinion isn't entirely original now is it