The only way we can tell for sure that these aren't articificial is actually to go there and see for ourselves. You cannot dismiss the apparently face-like features of the formation as mere tricks of the light or simulacra until you've discounted all the alternatives. As we cannot determine it's not an articificial structure from mere imagery, we have to go there and investigate in person (not that is gonna be forthcoming anytime soon).
An earthly comparison
In Peru there's a place that is dominated by huge hills which dwarf the surrounding landscape. From a far these look like any other hill in an arid desert environment. However, closer inpsection reveals them to be huge man-made pyramids which have been so badly eroded over the centuries they no longer look articificial at all. They are made of hundreds of thousands of mud bricks. But the culture which built them is no longer around.
Now, suppose they had built just one of these giant structures but in the shape of human face . Given the absence of the people who built it and of any other evidence there was anyone there to build it anyway, and having been eroded for centuries, wouldn't it now look entirely natural, and any facial resemblance entirely co-incidental. Alas, it was only by being up close that its nature was determined.
And as it is with the Pyramids of the Moche, so it is with Cydonia. We're going to have to go there and see for ourselves. We might all just be surprised.
Apparently, one US Congressman wants public access to social networking sites banned, all under the guise of protecting kiddies from molesters. If you're not sure what I'm wittering on about, then read about the "Deleting Online Predators Act". Banning access to these sites in public places is only the start of further restrictions to your rights online or otherwise. Act now, or pay later. You choose, whilst you've still got freedom of choice anyway.
Just over a third of the bloggers said they often conduct journalistically appropriate tasks such as verifying facts and linking to source material.
Which is prolly the same as many actual journos themselves. After all, how many reporters ever question what their told in Govt news conferences, particularly ones in which dubious facts are paraded out regarding a country targeted by the chicken-hawks for invasion. Not many.
For instance, prior to the 2nd Gulf War, media outlets happily spun the propagranda line that Iraq had x amounts of WMD waiting to be unleashed, when any checking of the facts would've revealed that Iraq's capacity to produce WMDs had been destroyed by the Allies in Gulf War I. Moreover, any lingering WMDs would have been useless by the advent of GWII because the chemicals dissolve into harmless goo over time. Of course, the Govts knew this. But more importanly they knew the people didn't know, and knew also that reporters would happily swallow the lies and regurgitate them later in their papers and TV news programmes because they never check up on facts.
So the issue is, what's the big deal that bloggers don't necessarily cross-reference the stories they blog. What does it matter that they maybe report hearsay as absolute fact when it's perhaps nothing of the sort. After all, the real media do this also, only thousands of times worse, since they reach out to larger audiences/markets.
No! Can't you understand that when I mean the menu labels are invisible it is because I can't see them at all.
Click on any menu and on the dropdown all the labels are missing (including the toplevel). That's what. If it had been missing toolbars I'd have said that in the first place. Geddit??? Hmmmm??:rolleyes:
Anyway, problem solved by uninstalling Opera and then reinstalling it from scratch.
Those tags used with style classes work just fine in IE. But use adjacent sibling selectors in everything else until CSS 3's nth child selectors are more widely supported.
I'm sure I'd love it too if they managed to make the menu bar work, i.e. acutally display any of its menu-items. How you meant to customise if you can't even click on any menus, for crying out loud. jeezo
Eh... nothing runs straight with wine. The more you have, the less straight you run. Unless it's a bottle of Buckie, in which case you don't run when the rozzers appear, you just shout abuse at them and all within the nearest square mile.
Jeezo. Why can't we just have a system that just makes phonecalls? Why does everything have to be applicable? I want to be able to phone someone or have them phone me. I don't want to suffer from someone else's idea of an application.
What's all this talk about using magnets to destroy HDDs. Just open up the casing and take an angle-grinder to the platters, for crying out loud. Then discard the remnants in different waste bins in different locations. Problem solved.
People really should stop and think about this. They should stop comparing these cards (UK/US/AU) with other countries ones, since these aren't just paper cards with nothing more than some details printed on them, but electronic cards linked to an all powerful central management database that encompasses everything about our lives to which every major organisation and business will have access to.
In the UK they're not mandatory, but you WILL need one to buy or sell anything, to use Govt services, to use the bank, to use public transport, so in effect it's completely necessary. These cards are basically a licence to exist. The card is the identity itself: lose it and lose your identity. Also, the card can be revoked by the Govt at anytime: they can make you non-people at a whim.
Suddenly having lived in a free society all my life, I'm not threatened with jail if I don't sign up for one. Why? Am I a criminal? No, so why should my existence be subject to the full force of the state? Seems to me the Establishments of the West have become scared of their own people and wanna make it easier to track and criminalise them lest they lose control. What better way to do it than to tag and herd everyone like criminals.
Isn't Deep Brain Stimulation normally called sex. I mean, wouldn't getting laid more often have the same de-stressing, depression-relieving effect. Oh wait, this is/. and the comparison is probably lost on many readers. Ach, never mind...
Or else Emmanuel Goldstein - that is, the mythical terrorist in 1984 the Party use to terrorise their citizenry into submission. Rather like old Uncle Osama who died of renal failure who always seems to pop up at the most opportune times for buddy Bush, all thanks to modern media wizardry.
Er, no. Raking through people's private lives won't reduce these false imprisonments because the intent was to pervert the course of justice in the first place. The authorities had ample evidence that they were innocennt, but chose to ignore it, and indeed fabricated evidence to establish guilt where none existed, purely to get a result.
A man is strolling through the Olympic Village and he sees another man walking along with a great, long stick over his shoulder. He asks the man, "Are you a pole vaulter?" To which he receives the reply, "No, I am a German. How did you know my name was Walter?"
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The only way we can tell for sure that these aren't articificial is actually to go there and see for ourselves. You cannot dismiss the apparently face-like features of the formation as mere tricks of the light or simulacra until you've discounted all the alternatives. As we cannot determine it's not an articificial structure from mere imagery, we have to go there and investigate in person (not that is gonna be forthcoming anytime soon).
An earthly comparison
In Peru there's a place that is dominated by huge hills which dwarf the surrounding landscape. From a far these look like any other hill in an arid desert environment. However, closer inpsection reveals them to be huge man-made pyramids which have been so badly eroded over the centuries they no longer look articificial at all. They are made of hundreds of thousands of mud bricks. But the culture which built them is no longer around.
Now, suppose they had built just one of these giant structures but in the shape of human face . Given the absence of the people who built it and of any other evidence there was anyone there to build it anyway, and having been eroded for centuries, wouldn't it now look entirely natural, and any facial resemblance entirely co-incidental. Alas, it was only by being up close that its nature was determined.
And as it is with the Pyramids of the Moche, so it is with Cydonia. We're going to have to go there and see for ourselves. We might all just be surprised.
Information just hates our freedoms. Death to all information.
... for free speech, amongst other things.
Apparently, one US Congressman wants public access to social networking sites banned, all under the guise of protecting kiddies from molesters. If you're not sure what I'm wittering on about, then read about the "Deleting Online Predators Act". Banning access to these sites in public places is only the start of further restrictions to your rights online or otherwise. Act now, or pay later. You choose, whilst you've still got freedom of choice anyway.
No sh!t, Sherlock.
Which is prolly the same as many actual journos themselves. After all, how many reporters ever question what their told in Govt news conferences, particularly ones in which dubious facts are paraded out regarding a country targeted by the chicken-hawks for invasion. Not many.
For instance, prior to the 2nd Gulf War, media outlets happily spun the propagranda line that Iraq had x amounts of WMD waiting to be unleashed, when any checking of the facts would've revealed that Iraq's capacity to produce WMDs had been destroyed by the Allies in Gulf War I. Moreover, any lingering WMDs would have been useless by the advent of GWII because the chemicals dissolve into harmless goo over time. Of course, the Govts knew this. But more importanly they knew the people didn't know, and knew also that reporters would happily swallow the lies and regurgitate them later in their papers and TV news programmes because they never check up on facts.
So the issue is, what's the big deal that bloggers don't necessarily cross-reference the stories they blog. What does it matter that they maybe report hearsay as absolute fact when it's perhaps nothing of the sort. After all, the real media do this also, only thousands of times worse, since they reach out to larger audiences/markets.
Nah... I've heard of fish riding bicycles, but not dogs. That's just crazy talk, man.
... has another meaning in the UK. I'll give you a hint - it rhymes with hay and used to denote a state of lighthearted abandon. Capiche?
No! Can't you understand that when I mean the menu labels are invisible it is because I can't see them at all.
Click on any menu and on the dropdown all the labels are missing (including the toplevel). That's what. If it had been missing toolbars I'd have said that in the first place. Geddit??? Hmmmm?? :rolleyes:
Anyway, problem solved by uninstalling Opera and then reinstalling it from scratch.
Those tags used with style classes work just fine in IE. But use adjacent sibling selectors in everything else until CSS 3's nth child selectors are more widely supported.
Eh, no. I can't click on any menu because I can't even see them: the labels are invisible!
... the quality of the pr0n photographed with that bady boy in it!!
I'm sure I'd love it too if they managed to make the menu bar work, i.e. acutally display any of its menu-items. How you meant to customise if you can't even click on any menus, for crying out loud. jeezo
Well, you're either with US science or against US science*. You can't have it both ways.
*I heard Shrub say that, so ... er, erm ... it must be true ...
Eh ... nothing runs straight with wine. The more you have, the less straight you run. Unless it's a bottle of Buckie, in which case you don't run when the rozzers appear, you just shout abuse at them and all within the nearest square mile.
Jeezo. Why can't we just have a system that just makes phonecalls? Why does everything have to be applicable? I want to be able to phone someone or have them phone me. I don't want to suffer from someone else's idea of an application.
HTML 5 is currently the spec. being worked on by WHATWG. You can read more about it courtesy of Anne van Kesteren.
What's all this talk about using magnets to destroy HDDs. Just open up the casing and take an angle-grinder to the platters, for crying out loud. Then discard the remnants in different waste bins in different locations. Problem solved.
People really should stop and think about this. They should stop comparing these cards (UK/US/AU) with other countries ones, since these aren't just paper cards with nothing more than some details printed on them, but electronic cards linked to an all powerful central management database that encompasses everything about our lives to which every major organisation and business will have access to.
In the UK they're not mandatory, but you WILL need one to buy or sell anything, to use Govt services, to use the bank, to use public transport, so in effect it's completely necessary. These cards are basically a licence to exist. The card is the identity itself: lose it and lose your identity. Also, the card can be revoked by the Govt at anytime: they can make you non-people at a whim.
Suddenly having lived in a free society all my life, I'm not threatened with jail if I don't sign up for one. Why? Am I a criminal? No, so why should my existence be subject to the full force of the state? Seems to me the Establishments of the West have become scared of their own people and wanna make it easier to track and criminalise them lest they lose control. What better way to do it than to tag and herd everyone like criminals.
Isn't Deep Brain Stimulation normally called sex. I mean, wouldn't getting laid more often have the same de-stressing, depression-relieving effect. Oh wait, this is /. and the comparison is probably lost on many readers. Ach, never mind ...
No, not unless it's called the E-bay of Pigs ... taa-daa ... ok, I'll get m coat ;-)
Actually, I think you'll find Tamiflu is useless against bird flu!
Or else Emmanuel Goldstein - that is, the mythical terrorist in 1984 the Party use to terrorise their citizenry into submission. Rather like old Uncle Osama who died of renal failure who always seems to pop up at the most opportune times for buddy Bush, all thanks to modern media wizardry.
Er, no. Raking through people's private lives won't reduce these false imprisonments because the intent was to pervert the course of justice in the first place. The authorities had ample evidence that they were innocennt, but chose to ignore it, and indeed fabricated evidence to establish guilt where none existed, purely to get a result.
Just to underline the police's corruption, there was also the false imprisonment of the Guildford 4 and the Maguire 7. Of course, you rarely hear about the times when the security forces are actively involved within the terrorist groups themselves.
A man is strolling through the Olympic Village and he sees another man walking along with a great, long stick over his shoulder. He asks the man, "Are you a pole vaulter?" To which he receives the reply, "No, I am a German. How did you know my name was Walter?"