The last normal person was born a decade ago. Since then, every child born has either ADHD or some other kind of learning difference preventing them from being able to pay attention. It has nothing to do with the education system or the fact that it has failed to reach out to modern yo--Ooh! A puppy!
Japan occupied Korea for the first half of the 20th century and ran the entire country like a concentration camp. Koreans weren't allowed to speak their own language or acknowledge their own heritage. They didn't even keep their own names.
The occupation didn't end until the end of World War 2 and underscored the more well-known rape of Eastern China, commonly known as "the Rape of Nanjing."
Japan was once a violent empire. This ended roughly around the same time it had two nuclear bombs dropped on it. Strangely enough, this made Japan one of the most peaceful countries in the world.
Japan hides it's brutal history from it's children, unfortunately.
Sadly, Korea has very little left from the time before the occupation. Most historic places in Korea were built ten-to-twenty years ago.
4) Koreans are crazily patriotic. They denounce everybody. They insist on serving kimchi with French food (I love kimchi, but, um... Do we serve ketchup with pulgogi in the US???), just to assert their Korean-ness. It's insane. They bitch and moan about Japan and burn the Japanese flag every time a politician has the audacity to honor Japan's war dead, despite the fact that a large percentage of their business comes from Japan and they have just basically copied the Japanese economic model--even where it makes no sense to their situation. Korea is nuts. Both Koreas. Crazy. A history of playing second-fiddle to whomever else was in power has bred a keen inferiority complex, which they overcompensate for. So saying they hate America is not really the whole picture. They hate everybody.
It's not that bad these days. Nationalism is slowly creeping away in this country and is now confined more to embittered adjosshi and ajumma than to the population as a whole. Korea isn't the hive mind it once was, at least not on the surface.
It's not wise to label an entire group of people. The sort you're speaking of limit their crazy to protests and public places. Most Koreans aren't too keen on them. The future policy-makers of South Korea have more in common with American youth than their fathers and grandfathers. I blame Westernization and the internet.
Terminator Salvation is to science-fiction movies as Dodgeball was to sports movies...a joke, and maybe even a parody.
Say what you will about the third and fourth films, but to say that about the second is downright ignorant. As far as Science-Fiction films are concerned, Terminator 2 is one of the greats.
The above video is a workable alternative that you might find interesting. It involves "throwing away an entire working infrastructure with a fuel that makes a great deal of sense" and "slapping a miracle car together by 2010... an entire line of them [that] meet everyone's differing needs while still having the high reliability, safety, and now fuel economy required" in a very short span of time.
That's only one proposed theory, too. If you scour the internet and other resources you'll find a lot of other emerging theories for how to we can switch to a green infrastructure in the limited time we have.
A lot of proponents of alternative energy would like to take a lot of time to transition from one infrastructure to a new one. Yes, this should very reasonably take a lot of time. Unfortunately, time is not a luxury we can not afford. While it would be a very bumpy road indeed to switch infrastructures in a matter of years, we simply have no choice.
The government should keep its grubby mitts off my cars and my guns.
Is it fair for one human being to feel entitled to something which he does not deserve? When your right encroaches on the rights of others (such as the right of your children and your children's children to live good lives and pursue all of their other rights), then don't you think it's a right you should retain or one that you should give up? We're already passing down enough crap to future generations. Thinking the way you seem to think is a detriment to human progress and you should be ashamed of yourself.
I'm not an expert, but haven't cars that get better than 42MPG been on the road for years?
I'd like to see a law prohibiting the use of gasoline powered cars by 2016. The industry will adjust.
Scientist: "Look at the following pictures, please.
*Click* Next picture, *Click*, Next picture *Click*"
Patient: *Ding on metal sound*
Scientist: "What was tha--Oh!"
While both will be technologically feasible in the future, they aren't now and as such AI should have been in the article too. It was just as hyped, though it wasn't attempted as embarrassingly in the public eye (Nintento Virtualboy anyone?)
These technologies in their most fundamental form are something that will be realized some day. The thought process behind this article is full of holes. Nobody thought VR was going to be fully realized in the 90s: people were just playing with early prototypes.
If a business is losing money on a product, then they will make changes to churn revenue. I'm not happy about this, but I completely understand it and hope that Google makes a smart decision regarding it.
Hopefully they'll only charge for said "premium" content and not user-generated content. If the premium content is offered at a suitable price and has a lot of content from a lot of different providers available, then I would pay for it. Especially seeing as how Hulu doesn't allow countries other than the US.
In the past year I've been to two amusement parks and have gone on two "3D Rides." I noticed that while everyone else was experiencing the 3D Just fine, I could still see both of the composite frames (without closing one eye).
I had my eyes checked last about 15 years ago. My doctor then said I was a little farsighted. Certainly not farsighted enough to need glasses, but farsighted enough to not enjoy 3D entertainment.
Now this is a really, really stupid question:
If I'm a little farsighted, would it help the 3D experience to sit further away from the screen as opposed to closer? On both the above occasions, I was near the front row.
the above statement is clearly unqualified. and no, i am not a korean nationalist.
Why?
would agree that the korean justice system is not as established as it is in the united states. however, to simply state that it's "reason" is emotional response cannot be substantiated in ANY way whatsoever. no justice system can operate on such a weak foundation.
Maybe I need to be more clear. Korea has only been a democracy for a very short period of time. While the concepts of rationality and due process are favoured in law here, they do not take precedence in a lot of cases when the public or another group of (powerful) people have a strong emotional connection to the case.
I could go on for hours and hours about it, but suffice to say, the legal system in Korea is very different and most Westerners wouldn't agree with some of it's outcomes.
using a western paradigm to judge an eastern paradigm is also simply wrong.
I think blind cultural relativism is wrong.
a statement this ignorant and misleading in most context might even make me believe that this is trolling at its worst. but i think the parent is serious about this though.
Again, why? It's like saying: "I don't like him because he's a big-nosed, poo-poo head so mod parent down!"
Anyone who has spent any time in Korea figures this one out pretty quick. Especially if one finds themselves in a legal entanglement. Koreans think Western law is cold, formuliac and overly rational. Korean law often finds it's "reason" in emotional response, a response usually vocalized by the masses or the majority involved in the case.
It is not the same legal process as one would find in the West, where technicalities and Habeas Corpus rein supreme. Someone made a joke about the goverment detaining this particular blogger because he was more intelligent and resourceful than the government, which made the government jealous. That is more true than you know.
Additionally, Korea is the most Confucian country in the world which might add some understanding into why laws aren't always followed in a logical way. This blogger made the government "lose face", to be blunt.
A feature that should've been included in the initial release?
This is highway robbery. The micro-payment system is worthless if a game worth $40 ends up costing $65 in $5 denominations.
I like how pro-creationists suddenly revert to nihilists whenever you resort to "burden of proof" arguments. For example, "the Theory of Evolution has been sifting through a mountain of proofs in the forms of fossil records for more than a century." "Yes, but could you say anything is really 'true'? What is 'truth'? It is a mere construction of... *blah blah metaphysical blah*"
The truth is, all that metaphysical nonsense aside, the Theory of Evolution has been sufficently proven enough to be a real science where Intelligent Design has not.
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The last normal person was born a decade ago. Since then, every child born has either ADHD or some other kind of learning difference preventing them from being able to pay attention. It has nothing to do with the education system or the fact that it has failed to reach out to modern yo--Ooh! A puppy!
Japan occupied Korea for the first half of the 20th century and ran the entire country like a concentration camp. Koreans weren't allowed to speak their own language or acknowledge their own heritage. They didn't even keep their own names.
The occupation didn't end until the end of World War 2 and underscored the more well-known rape of Eastern China, commonly known as "the Rape of Nanjing."
There is a lot to be said about this, so here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_under_Japanese_rule
Japan was once a violent empire. This ended roughly around the same time it had two nuclear bombs dropped on it. Strangely enough, this made Japan one of the most peaceful countries in the world.
Japan hides it's brutal history from it's children, unfortunately.
Sadly, Korea has very little left from the time before the occupation. Most historic places in Korea were built ten-to-twenty years ago.
4) Koreans are crazily patriotic. They denounce everybody. They insist on serving kimchi with French food (I love kimchi, but, um... Do we serve ketchup with pulgogi in the US???), just to assert their Korean-ness. It's insane. They bitch and moan about Japan and burn the Japanese flag every time a politician has the audacity to honor Japan's war dead, despite the fact that a large percentage of their business comes from Japan and they have just basically copied the Japanese economic model--even where it makes no sense to their situation. Korea is nuts. Both Koreas. Crazy. A history of playing second-fiddle to whomever else was in power has bred a keen inferiority complex, which they overcompensate for. So saying they hate America is not really the whole picture. They hate everybody.
It's not that bad these days. Nationalism is slowly creeping away in this country and is now confined more to embittered adjosshi and ajumma than to the population as a whole. Korea isn't the hive mind it once was, at least not on the surface.
It's not wise to label an entire group of people. The sort you're speaking of limit their crazy to protests and public places. Most Koreans aren't too keen on them. The future policy-makers of South Korea have more in common with American youth than their fathers and grandfathers. I blame Westernization and the internet.
Terminator Salvation is to science-fiction movies as Dodgeball was to sports movies...a joke, and maybe even a parody.
Say what you will about the third and fourth films, but to say that about the second is downright ignorant. As far as Science-Fiction films are concerned, Terminator 2 is one of the greats.
I was hoping someone would catch that...
Wow. I didn't know that console gamers started taking it upon themselves to shit on the Master System from which all their little consoles derived.
The only "ethical code" a robot needs to be AWESOME (I often dream about battling robots, among other things).
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/shai_agassi_on_electric_cars.html
The above video is a workable alternative that you might find interesting. It involves "throwing away an entire working infrastructure with a fuel that makes a great deal of sense" and "slapping a miracle car together by 2010... an entire line of them [that] meet everyone's differing needs while still having the high reliability, safety, and now fuel economy required" in a very short span of time.
That's only one proposed theory, too. If you scour the internet and other resources you'll find a lot of other emerging theories for how to we can switch to a green infrastructure in the limited time we have.
A lot of proponents of alternative energy would like to take a lot of time to transition from one infrastructure to a new one. Yes, this should very reasonably take a lot of time. Unfortunately, time is not a luxury we can not afford. While it would be a very bumpy road indeed to switch infrastructures in a matter of years, we simply have no choice.
The government should keep its grubby mitts off my cars and my guns.
Is it fair for one human being to feel entitled to something which he does not deserve? When your right encroaches on the rights of others (such as the right of your children and your children's children to live good lives and pursue all of their other rights), then don't you think it's a right you should retain or one that you should give up? We're already passing down enough crap to future generations. Thinking the way you seem to think is a detriment to human progress and you should be ashamed of yourself.
I'm not an expert, but haven't cars that get better than 42MPG been on the road for years? I'd like to see a law prohibiting the use of gasoline powered cars by 2016. The industry will adjust.
Imagine the scientist standing outside the fMRI.
Scientist: "Look at the following pictures, please. *Click* Next picture, *Click*, Next picture *Click*"
Patient: *Ding on metal sound*
Scientist: "What was tha--Oh!"
AI is just as hypothetical as VR.
While both will be technologically feasible in the future, they aren't now and as such AI should have been in the article too. It was just as hyped, though it wasn't attempted as embarrassingly in the public eye (Nintento Virtualboy anyone?)
These technologies in their most fundamental form are something that will be realized some day. The thought process behind this article is full of holes. Nobody thought VR was going to be fully realized in the 90s: people were just playing with early prototypes.
Are you going to argue as to why you don't put any stock in Kurzweil's theories?
While his motives might be suspect, his predictions are anything but baseless. I'd like to see why you think this way.
If a business is losing money on a product, then they will make changes to churn revenue. I'm not happy about this, but I completely understand it and hope that Google makes a smart decision regarding it. Hopefully they'll only charge for said "premium" content and not user-generated content. If the premium content is offered at a suitable price and has a lot of content from a lot of different providers available, then I would pay for it. Especially seeing as how Hulu doesn't allow countries other than the US.
They could just be branding it with 2012 to sell more books. ...and ur a geek, too.
Be careful! The goggles, zey do nothing!
Luckily for Hawking, if he concentrates hard enough, he can make God disappear in a poof of logic.
In the past year I've been to two amusement parks and have gone on two "3D Rides." I noticed that while everyone else was experiencing the 3D Just fine, I could still see both of the composite frames (without closing one eye). I had my eyes checked last about 15 years ago. My doctor then said I was a little farsighted. Certainly not farsighted enough to need glasses, but farsighted enough to not enjoy 3D entertainment. Now this is a really, really stupid question: If I'm a little farsighted, would it help the 3D experience to sit further away from the screen as opposed to closer? On both the above occasions, I was near the front row.
"Nexr-Gen" Tsk tsk tsk.
Why?
the above statement is clearly unqualified. and no, i am not a korean nationalist.
Why?
would agree that the korean justice system is not as established as it is in the united states. however, to simply state that it's "reason" is emotional response cannot be substantiated in ANY way whatsoever. no justice system can operate on such a weak foundation.
Maybe I need to be more clear. Korea has only been a democracy for a very short period of time. While the concepts of rationality and due process are favoured in law here, they do not take precedence in a lot of cases when the public or another group of (powerful) people have a strong emotional connection to the case.
I could go on for hours and hours about it, but suffice to say, the legal system in Korea is very different and most Westerners wouldn't agree with some of it's outcomes.
using a western paradigm to judge an eastern paradigm is also simply wrong.
I think blind cultural relativism is wrong.
a statement this ignorant and misleading in most context might even make me believe that this is trolling at its worst. but i think the parent is serious about this though.
Again, why? It's like saying: "I don't like him because he's a big-nosed, poo-poo head so mod parent down!"
It is not the same legal process as one would find in the West, where technicalities and Habeas Corpus rein supreme. Someone made a joke about the goverment detaining this particular blogger because he was more intelligent and resourceful than the government, which made the government jealous. That is more true than you know.
Additionally, Korea is the most Confucian country in the world which might add some understanding into why laws aren't always followed in a logical way. This blogger made the government "lose face", to be blunt.
A feature that should've been included in the initial release? This is highway robbery. The micro-payment system is worthless if a game worth $40 ends up costing $65 in $5 denominations.
Nah, Bush just had the US troops make faces and yell "neiner, neiner, neiner!" over the DMZ until one of the Norks snapped.
I like how pro-creationists suddenly revert to nihilists whenever you resort to "burden of proof" arguments. For example, "the Theory of Evolution has been sifting through a mountain of proofs in the forms of fossil records for more than a century." "Yes, but could you say anything is really 'true'? What is 'truth'? It is a mere construction of... *blah blah metaphysical blah*" The truth is, all that metaphysical nonsense aside, the Theory of Evolution has been sufficently proven enough to be a real science where Intelligent Design has not.
I'm more worried about Korean RTS gamers with laser-mounted satellites and GPS drones than FPS gamers with lasers added to their heads.
It took them eight years to find out what CSI could have found out in one episode! Reality is so unrealistic.