John Nolan exposed this "self-aggrandizing, simple-minded, poorly observed, repetitious, maudlin drivel" in his July 2003 review A Million Pieces of Shit.
An excerpt: "I step forward and I hug her. There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honesty, respect that comes from challenge, and the form of love that exists between people whose minds have touched, whose souls have touched. Our minds touched. Our hearts touched. Our souls touched."
You be the judge.
John Nolan was also one of the first (the first?) to publicly call Frey a liar in a reviewreview of Freys next (even worse book).
Although most of the discussion so far has focused on foreign language translation, this technology is about *real-time-audio-to-text* conversion. The feds will be able to monitor, analyze, and record our conversations in real time:
Monitor all conversation. Apply real-time text filters. Assign live agents to priority eavesdropping. Profit!
If you could apply a filter to listen in to any call what would it be?
Would it be evil for Google to dig up search and browser info of some prominent Senators/Justice Department/White House types and uhhh, twist some arms? Yeah, I guess so.
Google is sitting on the informational(?) equivalent of the Saudi oil fields and the secret of nuclear fission combined.By this I mean they are sitting on a resource any government would _need_ to have. They can either:
1) Go to bed with the Feds and sell their soul.
or
2)Fight the Feds by morphing into something even more evil.
I'd like to hear a third option. Even if Google wins this battle I fear the war can't be won. Perhaps a third option is enough folks lose faith in the free internet that we go back to pencil and paper. Not likely I admit, but that might be the healthiest outcome.
Ouch! Yes I erred large there. Still the binary star idea is an interesting possibility. Ranks with the possibility of intelligent life on other planets, meaning it's controversial,there is rational and reasonable arguments for it, but not close to being proven.
I worked with a man whose wife knocked on doors for the census in the 60's. She worked the poor black communities and was instructed to collect "off-the-books" information about attitudes toward the government and possession of firearms, etc.
The feds want to keep the lid on tight, but don't want the kettle to blow in their face. We are constantly being manipulated, folks. Put that in your tin-foil pipe and smoke it.
BTW, she had to quit the census job when she knocked on the wrong door and was beat nearly to death.
First Bush lied about domestic spying. Now that he's been outed, he uses the vague "war powers" given to him by Congress in the wake of 9-11. Seems to me Congress needs to declare the war OVER so we can have our Constitution back.
The best way to get spam is to have a dictionary address with a popular isp/email provider. The following is a genuine bullshit re-creation:
3fr2gn78qn@gmail.com No spam! dragonfly@gmail.com 18,579 spam emails and counting...
I always got in early (earthlink, yahoo, gmail) for that "designer" email address, thinking I was smart, now I'd like to switch to unguessable addresses.
or at least insightful. Hey tbone1, I like your twisted humour. I suppose by now you are fairly used to people not "getting the humor". Keep on all the same...
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the magneto-optical drives/discs. They were the bee's knees in the early 90's and have a 100 year or so lifetime. I have a Pinnacle Micro Apex 4.6G MO drive and discs that run on my Performa. I just wish I could find a driver for OSX or linux.
What "reverse-greenhouse" effect? This is a simple refrigeration cycle (pluto is like the "freon" cooling the sun).
Pluto's Summer: In a refrigeration cycle, the liquid freon (etc) absorbs heat and becomes a liquid/gas mixture. The liquid/gas mixture can absorb heat without raising it's temperature. Similarly, Pluto absorbs heat during its summer without increasing surface temperature (due to sublimation cooling).
Pluto's Winter: In the next step the liquid/gas is compressed to liquid again (one phase) and is allowed to radiate heat to the environment. Pluto's atmosphere freezes solid, so any radiation emitted from Pluto's surface cannot be absorbed by its atmosphere, but is lost to space, resulting in an overall cooling effect.
I would expect astrophysicists understand refrigeration better than I do, so I wonder what really had them stumped.
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You can talk about color if you are color blind, but you won't have much to say (about the color). You can talk about odors without a nose, but what would you say? Your reasoning is hard to follow.
Light and sound have measurable structure and properties in addition to their visual and auditory effects. Chemical structures have measurable structure and properties in addition to their olfactory effects.
Biology adapted a complex sensory mechanism to adapt to the compexity of molecular structure. However complex chemical structure and olfactory response is, it certainly can be measured quantitatively and qualitatively, just as with light and sound.
Smells and flavors are sorted by molecules and groups of molecules with similar structure. Salts, esters, fatty acids, aromatics, alcohols, etc. can be used to identify smells and tastes.
Google flavor chemistry. It is a rich, actively investigated science.
Apparently 9/11 didn't fully take hold in the public mind. They let those bastards run two planes into the WTC and one into the pentagon. Give them what they want or they _will_ let a nuke or three slip through customs.
Fight terrorists in Iraq? Bah! The real fight is being fought right here and you and I have already lost.
I believe (the US) government prefers to keep the internet "free and open" as long as they can "monitor" (aka spy) on all content. If general use of hard encryption became easy to use and popular, they would pull the plug damn quick.
The US can serve google with one of those secret warrants and have tons of information. They like that I think...
What happened to economy of scale? The cost of the popular music should be less, not more. The "e-bay auction" reasoning doesn't work for an item which is virtually inexhaustible in supply. Demand may go up, but supply is unlimited, especially when piracy enters the equation.:)
First off, most exchange of information leading up to the publication is electronic anyway. So why NOT publish electronically? After a paper is published, the original article should never be tampered with, though corrections can be indicated. The authors paper, right or wrong, needs to be preserved.
However, due to demands for speed in publishing breakthrough science, peer REVIEW suffers. Except for the journal Organic Synthesis, no other journals require peers to replicate the procedure/results of a paper. So quality suffers.
A journal could institute peer POSTVIEW, by which scientists who attempt to replicate the science can support or detract the original claims. Perhaps then scientists will include more (and more accurate) details of their work. And the postviews will keep the scientists honest.
On an unrelated note, I was always bothered that journals retained copyright over the hard work of the scientists. We need good OPEN SOURCE journals.
What about a terrorist moving here, having children, and raising them to enter politics and be president of the United States? He/She could start a nuclear war, killing tens or hundreds of millions. Much more serious than a plane attack.
rubberbando speculated: "Since the blood vessels are grown using the patient's own skin cells, there isn't any chance for rejection."
Wasn't in TFA, because it isn't true. Rejection is a possiblity even with patient's own cells. And these aren't even the patient's own, they are GROWN from the patient's cells.
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Man blinded after staring at the sun sues God! Congressman demands mandatory sunglasses.
Real life couldn't produce such crap.
John Nolan exposed this "self-aggrandizing, simple-minded, poorly observed, repetitious, maudlin drivel" in his July 2003 review A Million Pieces of Shit.
An excerpt:
"I step forward and I hug her. There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honesty, respect that comes from challenge, and the form of love that exists between people whose minds have touched, whose souls have touched. Our minds touched. Our hearts touched. Our souls touched."
You be the judge.
John Nolan was also one of the first (the first?) to publicly call Frey a liar in a reviewreview of Freys next (even worse book).
Although most of the discussion so far has focused on foreign language translation, this technology is about *real-time-audio-to-text* conversion. The feds will be able to monitor, analyze, and record our conversations in real time:
Monitor all conversation.
Apply real-time text filters.
Assign live agents to priority eavesdropping.
Profit!
If you could apply a filter to listen in to any call what would it be?
Would it be evil for Google to dig up search and browser info of some prominent Senators/Justice Department/White House types and uhhh, twist some arms? Yeah, I guess so. Google is sitting on the informational(?) equivalent of the Saudi oil fields and the secret of nuclear fission combined.By this I mean they are sitting on a resource any government would _need_ to have. They can either:
1) Go to bed with the Feds and sell their soul.
or
2)Fight the Feds by morphing into something even more evil.
I'd like to hear a third option. Even if Google wins this battle I fear the war can't be won. Perhaps a third option is enough folks lose faith in the free internet that we go back to pencil and paper. Not likely I admit, but that might be the healthiest outcome.
Ouch! Yes I erred large there. Still the binary star idea is an interesting possibility. Ranks with the possibility of intelligent life on other planets, meaning it's controversial,there is rational and reasonable arguments for it, but not close to being proven.
I worked with a man whose wife knocked on doors for the census in the 60's. She worked the poor black communities and was instructed to collect "off-the-books" information about attitudes toward the government and possession of firearms, etc.
The feds want to keep the lid on tight, but don't want the kettle to blow in their face. We are constantly being manipulated, folks. Put that in your tin-foil pipe and smoke it.
BTW, she had to quit the census job when she knocked on the wrong door and was beat nearly to death.
First Bush lied about domestic spying. Now that he's been outed, he uses the vague "war powers" given to him by Congress in the wake of 9-11. Seems to me Congress needs to declare the war OVER so we can have our Constitution back.
This lawsuit will go nowhere otherwise.
Yes these wallet guys are rank amateurs. The alien abduction crowd is light-years ahead on this.
Scotch Black Cloth Tape, part number 330BLK-NA is prefered to duct tape.
Here you go...
http://www.stopabductions.com/
International terrorism, global warming, peak oil, massive debt, nuclear proliferation, US president as eternal Commander-in-Chief.
No problem! Pass the popcorn...
The best way to get spam is to have a dictionary address with a popular isp/email provider. The following is a genuine bullshit re-creation:
3fr2gn78qn@gmail.com No spam!
dragonfly@gmail.com 18,579 spam emails and counting...
I always got in early (earthlink, yahoo, gmail) for that "designer" email address, thinking I was smart, now I'd like to switch to unguessable addresses.
or at least insightful. Hey tbone1, I like your twisted humour. I suppose by now you are fairly used to people not "getting the humor". Keep on all the same...
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the magneto-optical drives/discs. They were the bee's knees in the early 90's and have a 100 year or so lifetime. I have a Pinnacle Micro Apex 4.6G MO drive and discs that run on my Performa. I just wish I could find a driver for OSX or linux.
The Eiffel Tower was built using a wooden scaffold http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/uk/documentation /dossiers/page/construction.html . I imagine that the 300 steelworkers who built the Tower were "real men". I can hear the hordes of American french-bashers, you guys need to read up on history http://www.exile.ru/2003-October-02/war_nerd.html .
What "reverse-greenhouse" effect? This is a simple refrigeration cycle (pluto is like the "freon" cooling the sun).
Pluto's Summer: In a refrigeration cycle, the liquid freon (etc) absorbs heat and becomes a liquid/gas mixture. The liquid/gas mixture can absorb heat without raising it's temperature. Similarly, Pluto absorbs heat during its summer without increasing surface temperature (due to sublimation cooling).
Pluto's Winter: In the next step the liquid/gas is compressed to liquid again (one phase) and is allowed to radiate heat to the environment. Pluto's atmosphere freezes solid, so any radiation emitted from Pluto's surface cannot be absorbed by its atmosphere, but is lost to space, resulting in an overall cooling effect.
I would expect astrophysicists understand refrigeration better than I do, so I wonder what really had them stumped.
You can talk about color if you are color blind, but you won't have much to say (about the color). You can talk about odors without a nose, but what would you say? Your reasoning is hard to follow.
Light and sound have measurable structure and properties in addition to their visual and auditory effects. Chemical structures have measurable structure and properties in addition to their olfactory effects.
Biology adapted a complex sensory mechanism to adapt to the compexity of molecular structure. However complex chemical structure and olfactory response is, it certainly can be measured quantitatively and qualitatively, just as with light and sound.
Smells and flavors are sorted by molecules and groups of molecules with similar structure. Salts, esters, fatty acids, aromatics, alcohols, etc. can be used to identify smells and tastes.
Google flavor chemistry. It is a rich, actively investigated science.
Apparently 9/11 didn't fully take hold in the public mind. They let those bastards run two planes into the WTC and one into the pentagon. Give them what they want or they _will_ let a nuke or three slip through customs.
Fight terrorists in Iraq? Bah! The real fight is being fought right here and you and I have already lost.
All hail to our industial-military overlords!
I believe (the US) government prefers to keep the internet "free and open" as long as they can "monitor" (aka spy) on all content. If general use of hard encryption became easy to use and popular, they would pull the plug damn quick.
The US can serve google with one of those secret warrants and have tons of information. They like that I think...
Open Office is a MS Office clone, how perfect can it be? Tell me IE is not a total POS.
What happened to economy of scale? The cost of the popular music should be less, not more. The "e-bay auction" reasoning doesn't work for an item which is virtually inexhaustible in supply. Demand may go up, but supply is unlimited, especially when piracy enters the equation. :)
Thank God for pirates!
First off, most exchange of information leading up to the publication is electronic anyway. So why NOT publish electronically? After a paper is published, the original article should never be tampered with, though corrections can be indicated. The authors paper, right or wrong, needs to be preserved.
However, due to demands for speed in publishing breakthrough science, peer REVIEW suffers. Except for the journal Organic Synthesis, no other journals require peers to replicate the procedure/results of a paper. So quality suffers.
A journal could institute peer POSTVIEW, by which scientists who attempt to replicate the science can support or detract the original claims. Perhaps then scientists will include more (and more accurate) details of their work. And the postviews will keep the scientists honest.
On an unrelated note, I was always bothered that journals retained copyright over the hard work of the scientists. We need good OPEN SOURCE journals.
With Eve handing Adam an Apple, and the snake slithering around the perimeter. Way cool!
What about a terrorist moving here, having children, and raising them to enter politics and be president of the United States? He/She could start a nuclear war, killing tens or hundreds of millions. Much more serious than a plane attack.
Can never be too careful...
rubberbando speculated: "Since the blood vessels are grown using the patient's own skin cells, there isn't any chance for rejection."
Wasn't in TFA, because it isn't true. Rejection is a possiblity even with patient's own cells. And these aren't even the patient's own, they are GROWN from the patient's cells.