>People hate living under a dictatorship, but they hate living under foreign occupation even more.
What makes you think that an asshole with an accent is different from an asshole without an accent.
It is just easier to point fingers.
Also I had the opportunity to get a slight taste of both at the same time and I find the fact that you live in a dictatorship perpetrated by your own people and the occupiers sucks more as when your country is occupied by people who at least mean well.
I have the impression that the US was successful in spreading the idea of the free world because they so far supported nations who were industrially at a similar level as the US just not socially.
Iran and Iraq are at least at a level where they are able to support a reasonable level of education. So what is wrong about enabling them to become democratic.
Your asking for a citation is certainly a good idea. However, you could find one yourself and post it instead, so you don't just look as if you were spreading FUD.
Now why don't you find some more mainstream source for this citation which might look a little bit more reliable than the link above.
What I like about this is the idea that it doesn't have to be perfect for a fireworks display so the technology should be usable early on, and any artifacts could be declared special effects.
The problem will be that high powered lasers will be needed to get the same effect as with a normal firework.
I'm also wondering where the noise will come from, it could be replaced by music from "Disaster Area" however.
With some luck one could use the lasers to make some noise, here is a good one
All in all if you look at the cost you will figure out that producing the Laser will be expensive energy wise, more so than fireworks actually. Also you won't be able to develop stuff like this in China so you may have to pay some engineers locally to come up with something. With all the SUVs they are driving it won't be good for the environment either.
If you want to see a star spangled banner in the sky though, just turn off the lights and pray for good weather. That will give you a whole milky way of stars if the moon isn't out. I saw this once in Australia it was just awesome.
I love all those "* International" organizations. Some while ago Transparency International has sprung up and today I have found Privacy International. I suppose this can help you find your privacy sanctuary.
I for one would look somewhere where people haven't changed their lifestyle much since oil has been introduced as the best thing since sliced bread, or where size of population, bureaucrazy, and tax income haven't changed much since the introduction of oil. You don't want to live there ? Damn.
While I don't feel comfortable with any fear mongering perpetrated by the peak oil crowd, I have to admit that I think peak oil will happen some day and we will have to adjust. Given that there will be many more people around who have nothing to lose when oil costs a fortune and won't seem to get cheaper anymore, security measures will have to be increased and that by governments strapped for cash.
I would also look for a country which will be able to adjust its economy quickly.
Some fellow posted three nice bbc streams some time ago explaining the current state and possible future of our society.
I'm still digesting this though. This lack of trust in society as the bbc report explains it to me seems not only be caused by cold war thinking but I could also imagine through increased urbanization and resulting lack of social bonds with your fellow citizens.
Unlike the BBC report I just don't think that society is controlled through psychiatrists.
So after all I would look for a non-western society with a democratic attitude which wasn't involved in the cold war and isn't a first world country. Once you have found one tell me how you are planning to live there.
Very nice! I first came across the SCA when reading "3001 The Final Odyssey" by A.C. Clarke. Otherwise I connect to those medieval people mainly through archery since I'm into target archery (FITA) and our club supports target and 3D archery.
I hear Australia has a lot to offer there too.
What I found fairly surprising is that when the medieval guys do their occasional reenactment of some battle with bow and arrow the fighters can use bows up to 50lbs and arrows with some large (5cm) foam rubber ball as tip to shoot at each other - medieval paint ball at least as far as the pain is concerned.
Anyway, this whole thing combines escapism and fresh air in a rather nice way and that buzz you can get from a few hours of sunshine in spring is just something that is missing in WoW.
Now explain to me how the kids know about dads porn addiction. Also, just wait until they reach puberty and they will understand.
Chat room addiction is ok, otherwise dad would go to the next bar and get shit faced.
Obsession with world of warcraft sounds real dangerous to me though. They should rather get out and go to some sort of medieval festival. I took part in something like that (heavily involving archery) and met a whole bunch of programmers (just two but hey the idea counts).
>AI is a Holy Grail. In other words, something we'll probably never get
This is an interesting thing to think about. Are we fundamentally blocked from developing AI at a human level? If we were fundamentally unable to comprehend human level AI could we ever prove that it will be forever out of reach for us?
I think the next big step forward in understanding human intelligence will come from improved methods of measuring what happens in the brain. I heard some colleague talk about our current abilities in that field. Essentially it is like trying to guess the score of a baseball game from measuring the noise level in the stadium.
To me it seems that better measurement technology is usually a big driver behind deeper insights into whatever field of science you are looking at. So in conclusion I would suggest we should wait for a couple more decades until we give up and declare AI a holy grail.
There is a cooperation between extreme right wing groups going on. A couple of years ago our nationalists had a news item on their home page about a meeting with their British counterparts.
Funny how international they can be all of a sudden.
Frequently I want to have a look at somebodies source and normally I find a comment section at the beginning of a file and I'm happy about this. So when reading beyond the first/* I find the GPL blurb which is great. Then upon reading a bit further I come across the */ so I'm thinking ok I'm fine to read his code since it is GPLed. Any description of the code the programmer could have put into the initial comment is not there probably because the code is new.
When going further into the code I would expect to find some explanation about what each function does even if it is just a construction site.
Ok, so that is missing maybe at least the names are descriptive. What do I get? Something not much better than O_oOo_0(int a,...)
This is just not what I need a GPL blurb for. Why don't you omit that too and just keep us guessing. Don't worry nobody will touch your precious code - ever!
I'm not sure how "lies have short legs" leads you to the conclusion that they have longer staying power.
The proverb normally means that lies don't get you very far until you are discovered to be a liar.
To address your point I would almost let the brown shirts have their hate speech back so they can discredit them selfs some more. The extreme right is far too white washed and almost clean nowadays. My impression is that they are able to attract far more reasonable people this way than they would otherwise. In our local government they had the strongest gains in the recent election.
My astronomy teacher told us about it when I was still in school. Must have been around '92.
She taught astronomy at the local observatory+planetarium. Her name was the German word for Fox so she had her own constellation = Vulpecula.
Idiotically our local Christian democrat government canceled astronomy lessons in 2007. This used to be a required course for the 10th grade in Eastern Germany since 1959. (Its probably the money)
Anyway, old satellites never die, and sometimes their orbits won't even decay.
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It means those pixels are apparently replaced with non-image. It can mean overlaying a black rectangle, or any colored rectangle, or a pattern, or random noise. As long as it appears to remove those image pixels, thatâ(TM)s fine."
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>People hate living under a dictatorship, but they hate living under foreign occupation even more.
What makes you think that an asshole with an accent is different from an asshole without an accent.
It is just easier to point fingers.
Also I had the opportunity to get a slight taste of both at the same time and I find the fact that you live in a dictatorship perpetrated by your own people and the occupiers sucks more as when your country is occupied by people who at least mean well.
I have the impression that the US was successful in spreading the idea of the free world because they so far supported nations who were industrially at a similar level as the US just not socially.
Iran and Iraq are at least at a level where they are able to support a reasonable level of education. So what is wrong about enabling them to become democratic.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:World_literacy_map_UNHD_2007_2008.png)
Good point!
He probably meant mugs:
http://www.hofbraeuhaus.de/de/bilder/view_en.php?id=gast_bedienung.jpg&gal=0&pg=0&count=2
She doesn't quite have the jugs he might be thinking of, she is pretty though.
I thought I heard some people in southern Tyrol think they are the southern most state of Germany ;).
Glad I'm 700km to the east. They might have introduced that law because of the dope though ;).
Its "might makes right" I guess, no matter what well meaning people are trying to tell you.
>Yeah, but why are people trying to prevent eavesdropping from inside the same house?
We have mothers in law too :).
Some fellow posted the following here somewhere
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4103.htm
Your asking for a citation is certainly a good idea. However, you could find one yourself and post it instead, so you don't just look as if you were spreading FUD.
Now why don't you find some more mainstream source for this citation which might look a little bit more reliable than the link above.
Nobody is saying you can't have a well founded opinion.
I'm wondering whether some advanced LASER show wouldn't be more useful.
I doubt though that anything like holograms could be easily used for this but who knows where we can get with the following
http://www.media.mit.edu/spi/holoVideoAll.htm
What I like about this is the idea that it doesn't have to be perfect for a fireworks display so the technology should be usable early on, and any artifacts could be declared special effects.
The problem will be that high powered lasers will be needed to get the same effect as with a normal firework.
I'm also wondering where the noise will come from, it could be replaced by music from "Disaster Area" however.
With some luck one could use the lasers to make some noise, here is a good one
http://legolas.ece.wisc.edu/current/laser/index.html
They are talking about shock waves at least.
All in all if you look at the cost you will figure out that producing the Laser will be expensive energy wise, more so than fireworks actually. Also you won't be able to develop stuff like this in China so you may have to pay some engineers locally to come up with something. With all the SUVs they are driving it won't be good for the environment either.
If you want to see a star spangled banner in the sky though, just turn off the lights and pray for good weather. That will give you a whole milky way of stars if the moon isn't out. I saw this once in Australia it was just awesome.
I love all those "* International" organizations. Some while ago Transparency International has sprung up and today I have found Privacy International. I suppose this can help you find your privacy sanctuary.
http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd%5B347%5D=x-347-559597
I for one would look somewhere where people haven't changed their lifestyle much since oil has been introduced as the best thing since sliced bread, or where size of population, bureaucrazy, and tax income haven't changed much since the introduction of oil. You don't want to live there ? Damn.
While I don't feel comfortable with any fear mongering perpetrated by the peak oil crowd, I have to admit that I think peak oil will happen some day and we will have to adjust. Given that there will be many more people around who have nothing to lose when oil costs a fortune and won't seem to get cheaper anymore, security measures will have to be increased and that by governments strapped for cash.
I would also look for a country which will be able to adjust its economy quickly.
Some fellow posted three nice bbc streams some time ago explaining the current state and possible future of our society.
Actually I just found it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trap_(television_documentary_series)
I'm still digesting this though. This lack of trust in society as the bbc report explains it to me seems not only be caused by cold war thinking but I could also imagine through increased urbanization and resulting lack of social bonds with your fellow citizens.
Unlike the BBC report I just don't think that society is controlled through psychiatrists.
So after all I would look for a non-western
society with a democratic attitude which wasn't involved in the cold war and isn't a first world country. Once you have found one tell me how you are planning to live there.
They could just continue where they stopped last time.
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/N/NERVA.html
Then again, in space no one can hear you trumpet.
No, and I'm delighted to find out that it was a normal Swedish newspaper.
Scandinavia just has some sense of humor which is great. Aftenposten had some pretty funny articles in the past too.
Here is a second hand example:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1706617.html?menu=
and another
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/business/article709784.ece
Very nice! I first came across the SCA when reading "3001 The Final Odyssey" by A.C. Clarke. Otherwise I connect to those medieval people mainly through archery since I'm into target archery (FITA) and our club supports target and 3D archery.
I hear Australia has a lot to offer there too.
What I found fairly surprising is that when the medieval guys do their occasional reenactment of some battle with bow and arrow the fighters can use bows up to 50lbs and arrows with some large (5cm) foam rubber ball as tip to shoot at each other - medieval paint ball at least as far as the pain is concerned.
Anyway, this whole thing combines escapism and fresh air in a rather nice way and that buzz you can get from a few hours of sunshine in spring is just something that is missing in WoW.
Now explain to me how the kids know about dads porn addiction. Also, just wait until they reach puberty and they will understand.
Chat room addiction is ok, otherwise dad would go to the next bar and get shit faced.
Obsession with world of warcraft sounds real dangerous to me though. They should rather get out and go to some sort of medieval festival. I took part in something like that (heavily involving archery) and met a whole bunch of programmers (just two but hey the idea counts).
Now I'll go and read the article. So long.
Well if what you say is true, nobody will come out of the woodwork screaming "read the fucking article".
For once I can rejoice.
Maybe now that I said this I'll just have a little peek.
Obviously. Otherwise employers would have to fund Sumo training for their fat people.
>AI is a Holy Grail. In other words, something we'll probably never get
This is an interesting thing to think about. Are we fundamentally blocked from developing AI at a human level? If we were fundamentally unable to comprehend human level AI could we ever prove that it will be forever out of reach for us?
I think the next big step forward in understanding human intelligence will come from improved methods of measuring what happens in the brain. I heard some colleague talk about our current abilities in that field. Essentially it is like trying to guess the score of a baseball game from measuring the noise level in the stadium.
To me it seems that better measurement technology is usually a big driver behind deeper insights into whatever field of science you are looking at.
So in conclusion I would suggest we should wait for a couple more decades until we give up and declare AI a holy grail.
we will never see Elite 4 come out now.
There is a cooperation between extreme right wing groups going on. A couple of years ago our nationalists had a news item on their home page about a meeting with their British counterparts.
Funny how international they can be all of a sudden.
Frequently I want to have a look at somebodies source and normally I find a comment section at the beginning of a file and I'm happy about this. So when reading beyond the first /* I find the GPL blurb which is great. Then upon reading a bit further I come across the */ so I'm thinking ok I'm fine to read his code since it is GPLed. Any description of the code the programmer could have put into the initial comment is not there probably because the code is new.
When going further into the code I would expect to find some explanation about what each function does even if it is just a construction site.
Ok, so that is missing maybe at least the names are descriptive. What do I get? Something not much better than O_oOo_0(int a,...)
This is just not what I need a GPL blurb for. Why don't you omit that too and just keep us guessing.
Don't worry nobody will touch your precious code - ever!
I'm not sure how "lies have short legs" leads you to the conclusion that they have longer staying power.
The proverb normally means that lies don't get you very far until you are discovered to be a liar.
To address your point I would almost let the brown shirts have their hate speech back so they can discredit them selfs some more. The extreme right is far too white washed and almost clean nowadays. My impression is that they are able to attract far more reasonable people this way than they would otherwise. In our local government they had the strongest gains in the recent election.
This is a silly comment.
This kind of knowledge must come in handy when designing your nuclear powered waffle iron.
My astronomy teacher told us about it when I was still in school. Must have been around '92.
She taught astronomy at the local observatory+planetarium. Her name was the German word for Fox so she had her own constellation = Vulpecula.
Idiotically our local Christian democrat government canceled astronomy lessons in 2007. This used to be a required course for the 10th grade in Eastern Germany since 1959. (Its probably the money)
Anyway, old satellites never die, and sometimes their orbits won't even decay.
This is highly on topic:
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/golf-ball-finder-goes-hitech-169088.php
Now instead imagine the golf ball finder for socks.
Hell, you could even convert a smart phone into that.
Use that Roadrunner as sock finding server.
Just found the following in their faq:
"For the 2008 contest: what does âoeblocked outâ mean?
It means those pixels are apparently replaced with non-image. It can mean overlaying a black rectangle, or any colored rectangle, or a pattern, or random noise. As long as it appears to remove those image pixels, thatâ(TM)s fine."
Very good!