Guys, you're missing a fundamental point here- The right to fly on an airplane is not right which was granted by your government. It's not something we all should expect. You have other options- drive where you need to go, take a cruise, or get your own plane...
Interestingly enough, the power to anal probe me when I try to fly is not a right granted to the government in the Constitution (speaking as an American). It would seem that whole little bit about "powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." might be relevant. Maybe they granted that power further down past where I had to study in middle school though.
I know, I know I'm a bad, dirty little karma whore, but the point still stands.
Jaron has a real knack for heading off in the right direction. He's also good at seeing beyond the scope of conventionally-worn blinders - in a number of fields. He's got great intuition on which way the truest future lies, and little patience for those who plod along with less vision - or even desire for vision - even where they are people who count as brilliant within the confines of neuroscience, or computer science, or a single genre of music.
That said, he's also a good hand at writing for a popular audience. But he deflates a lot more bullshit than he puts out. That earns him a lot of retaliatory swipes - like the snidely negative book review that counts as the text for discussion here. Isn't there a sample chapter up somewhere we can more profitably discuss? Need we be derivative even in our criticism?
Hi Jaron! Glad you could make it to the discussion!
Hypothetical example: for every Indian who looks up "sex", there are four Americans who each look up "fisting", "creampies", "MILFs", and "jailbait":)
What about the guy who's searching for "MILFs fisting jailbait creampies"? or "MILF"+"fisting"+"jailbait"+"creampies"? Or "jailbait fisting MILFs"? Or any of the previous with +"midget"?
I mean if you just search for "sex" you get stuff like wikipedia and psychology today...
Wait, I got duke3d on my iphone like yesterday. It's cool it's on the n900 now, but I would think it wouldn't be a big deal that they were porting it to portables...
Ah yes, the vast Canadian Empire. At one time covering up to 6.7% of the land area of the earth. It was a fearsome empire with the children trained from birth to hurl rocks across frozen lakes and ice fish.
While I feel for the plight of the Somali people, this needs to be stopped. If merchant vessels can't easily arm themselves for legal reasons, then they should move through dangerous waters with a military warship escort. Create shipping lanes, and ruthlessly enforce the security of those lanes.
Yup I agree completely. The country they are flagged in should provide escorts or rescue operations. So... how many warships does Panama or Liberia have? Flags of convenience have a price...
There is an even more obvious solution: bomb Somalia, or at least the coast that lays next to the shipping lines, and burn it down to the bedrock.
And that would be a job for the mighty force that is the Panamanian Navy. The US Navy gets involved when US flagged ships are captured which is what should happen.
As a person willing to drive to get what I want, I am saddened and dismayed that I cannot search within x miles. A simple interface is one thing; lacking important and useful features is a huge failure, and the minute something else comes along that is craiglist plus a worthy search, craigslist is over.
Yeah I don't care if that free couch is in $TOWN I only care if it's with in $DISTANCE from $HOME. And I don't care if that apartment is on $STREET I just want to know if it's within $DISTANCE2 from $WORK...
Maybe that'll be my million dollar website and I shouldn't post it, but on the other hand I'd be fine with better location awareness if someone else did it...
Will releasing it make you money? No? Then don't do it.
See how easy that was?
No, no, no. Ethics cannot be based on money because money is only a means to an end not an end in itself. We must fall back on the ethical basis nature gives us as anything else is artificial.
Will it get you laid?
Will it enhance the ability of your children to get laid?
And statistically speaking, who do you think is more likely to survive the encounter? A: the Ron Paul'er standing across the street pointing a finger and laughing at the two.
Where are all of the glaciers from 10,000 years ago? You can't tell me that wasn't man-made warming as well.
Little known fact: Early man burned mammoths for heat and to power industry. Rapid mammoth extinction and major climate change. Coincidence? I think not!
The only thing that saved ice hockey was peak mammoth!
I normally don't care much who the VP is but it would be neat to go back to a system where the VP is the runner up to the public elections. It would offer a bit more in the way of balance for the people.
Actually, I think we should go back to VP's shooting other prominent political figures in duels. Cheney was working towards it I think, but I doubt he would have dueled Pelosi.
Here in Portugal we can only withdraw 200 at once, and can only withdraw twice per day in any ATM. For more than that, we need to go to a balcony and show our ID.
That doesn't even make sense! How would going out on a random deck (Balcony)and flash my ID around get me more money? Crazy Portugese...
You have a natural right to control what goes on in your home; but occupying land for business purposes is a privilege subject to the common good.
Uh what? Soooo if I set up a business in my home, I can no longer control what happens there? What if I live in a room in the back of my business? If I own the land, which in modern society is own-able, than I should be able to do whatever the hell I want irrespective of whether it's for business or pleasure. Until you are coerced onto my property and if you are aware of my rules, we should play my house, my rules.
Can you send me the DRM package you put into your DNA? I want to use it for mine, but include my consciousness as well. And then, time to start cloning myself. Dinosapien army, all to myself.
Veto! We do not need MORE dinosapiens surfing slashdot.
The Japanese sure seem to like Yahoo! Maybe Yahoo is the only search engine that does not deliver insane search results when searhing in Japanese??? Anyone with experience that can clarify why Yahoo is big in the Japanese market?
These statements are becoming increasingly common in story summaries, and it's sadly ironic for a site that serves ads itself. How about cutting out the snarky anti-ad commentary and just sticking to the story?
My own informal research done in bars among friends who enjoy drinks like this, heart palpitations aren't unusual after a few vodka/redbulls or jager bombs. Mixing a moderate stimulant with a strong depressant just spells disaster.
I'd imagine you'd have issues with heart palpitations after a few redbulls even without the vodka or jager. I would imagine alcohol probably reduces their judgement, and people maybe don't think "gee I've just shotgunned 4 energy drinks maybe I should slow down"
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..."LEAVE KIDS ALONE!"...
That's ignorant. Don't be ignorant.
Guys, you're missing a fundamental point here- The right to fly on an airplane is not right which was granted by your government. It's not something we all should expect. You have other options- drive where you need to go, take a cruise, or get your own plane...
Interestingly enough, the power to anal probe me when I try to fly is not a right granted to the government in the Constitution (speaking as an American). It would seem that whole little bit about "powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." might be relevant. Maybe they granted that power further down past where I had to study in middle school though.
I know, I know I'm a bad, dirty little karma whore, but the point still stands.
Jaron has a real knack for heading off in the right direction. He's also good at seeing beyond the scope of conventionally-worn blinders - in a number of fields. He's got great intuition on which way the truest future lies, and little patience for those who plod along with less vision - or even desire for vision - even where they are people who count as brilliant within the confines of neuroscience, or computer science, or a single genre of music.
That said, he's also a good hand at writing for a popular audience. But he deflates a lot more bullshit than he puts out. That earns him a lot of retaliatory swipes - like the snidely negative book review that counts as the text for discussion here. Isn't there a sample chapter up somewhere we can more profitably discuss? Need we be derivative even in our criticism?
Hi Jaron! Glad you could make it to the discussion!
What is "balkanization"?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=balkanization
Give a man a fish feed him for a day, beat a man to death with a fish and he's never hungry again.
Hypothetical example: for every Indian who looks up "sex", there are four Americans who each look up "fisting", "creampies", "MILFs", and "jailbait" :)
What about the guy who's searching for "MILFs fisting jailbait creampies"? or "MILF"+"fisting"+"jailbait"+"creampies"? Or "jailbait fisting MILFs"? Or any of the previous with +"midget"?
I mean if you just search for "sex" you get stuff like wikipedia and psychology today...
Wait, I got duke3d on my iphone like yesterday. It's cool it's on the n900 now, but I would think it wouldn't be a big deal that they were porting it to portables...
Man, at least know your source!
One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. -Joseph Stalin
You don't need to cite yourself
...zombie-Josheph Stalin that is!
What you didn't know that Joe posted on slashdot?
We are not part of any empire save our own.
Ah yes, the vast Canadian Empire. At one time covering up to 6.7% of the land area of the earth. It was a fearsome empire with the children trained from birth to hurl rocks across frozen lakes and ice fish.
Have you ever driven on the DC Beltway at rush hour?
No but I've parked there!
While I feel for the plight of the Somali people, this needs to be stopped. If merchant vessels can't easily arm themselves for legal reasons, then they should move through dangerous waters with a military warship escort. Create shipping lanes, and ruthlessly enforce the security of those lanes.
Yup I agree completely. The country they are flagged in should provide escorts or rescue operations. So... how many warships does Panama or Liberia have? Flags of convenience have a price...
There is an even more obvious solution: bomb Somalia, or at least the coast that lays next to the shipping lines, and burn it down to the bedrock.
And that would be a job for the mighty force that is the Panamanian Navy. The US Navy gets involved when US flagged ships are captured which is what should happen.
As a person willing to drive to get what I want, I am saddened and dismayed that I cannot search within x miles. A simple interface is one thing; lacking important and useful features is a huge failure, and the minute something else comes along that is craiglist plus a worthy search, craigslist is over.
Yeah I don't care if that free couch is in $TOWN I only care if it's with in $DISTANCE from $HOME. And I don't care if that apartment is on $STREET I just want to know if it's within $DISTANCE2 from $WORK... Maybe that'll be my million dollar website and I shouldn't post it, but on the other hand I'd be fine with better location awareness if someone else did it...
Yeah, really! Ethics is easy!
Will releasing it make you money? No? Then don't do it.
See how easy that was?
No, no, no. Ethics cannot be based on money because money is only a means to an end not an end in itself. We must fall back on the ethical basis nature gives us as anything else is artificial.
Will it get you laid?
Will it enhance the ability of your children to get laid?
If yes, then you are morally obligated to do it.
And statistically speaking, who do you think is more likely to survive the encounter?
A: the Ron Paul'er standing across the street pointing a finger and laughing at the two.
But what kind of life would it be?
Where are all of the glaciers from 10,000 years ago? You can't tell me that wasn't man-made warming as well.
Little known fact: Early man burned mammoths for heat and to power industry. Rapid mammoth extinction and major climate change. Coincidence? I think not!
The only thing that saved ice hockey was peak mammoth!
Every industrialized nation is to blame here.
Yeah and the dirt farmers that burn thousands of acres of forest are completely blameless. People are to blame here.
Interestingly enough, there is a solution to the people problem...
I normally don't care much who the VP is but it would be neat to go back to a system where the VP is the runner up to the public elections. It would offer a bit more in the way of balance for the people.
Actually, I think we should go back to VP's shooting other prominent political figures in duels. Cheney was working towards it I think, but I doubt he would have dueled Pelosi.
Here in Portugal we can only withdraw 200 at once, and can only withdraw twice per day in any ATM. For more than that, we need to go to a balcony and show our ID.
That doesn't even make sense! How would going out on a random deck (Balcony)and flash my ID around get me more money? Crazy Portugese...
It's always interesting how quick some people without deeper knowledge of the matter are with labeling something as nonsense.
I have 3 dark PhD's, and I say it's bunk!
yes.
Tree/plant grows extracting CO2
Tree is buried
Over time tree becomes oil (???)
Extract oil (profit!)
Burn oil for CO2
You have a natural right to control what goes on in your home; but occupying land for business purposes is a privilege subject to the common good.
Uh what? Soooo if I set up a business in my home, I can no longer control what happens there? What if I live in a room in the back of my business? If I own the land, which in modern society is own-able, than I should be able to do whatever the hell I want irrespective of whether it's for business or pleasure. Until you are coerced onto my property and if you are aware of my rules, we should play my house, my rules.
Can you send me the DRM package you put into your DNA? I want to use it for mine, but include my consciousness as well. And then, time to start cloning myself. Dinosapien army, all to myself.
Veto! We do not need MORE dinosapiens surfing slashdot.
The Japanese sure seem to like Yahoo! Maybe Yahoo is the only search engine that does not deliver insane search results when searhing in Japanese??? Anyone with experience that can clarify why Yahoo is big in the Japanese market?
Any search redirects to tentacle porn?
These statements are becoming increasingly common in story summaries, and it's sadly ironic for a site that serves ads itself. How about cutting out the snarky anti-ad commentary and just sticking to the story?
Slashdot has ads?
*turns off adblock*
Oh. Huh.
*turns adblock back on*
My own informal research done in bars among friends who enjoy drinks like this, heart palpitations aren't unusual after a few vodka/redbulls or jager bombs. Mixing a moderate stimulant with a strong depressant just spells disaster.
I'd imagine you'd have issues with heart palpitations after a few redbulls even without the vodka or jager. I would imagine alcohol probably reduces their judgement, and people maybe don't think "gee I've just shotgunned 4 energy drinks maybe I should slow down"