Oh, I see. One minute George W. Bush the imbecile puppet of the evil warlords Cheney and Bush the Elder; The next minute he's the architect of a sinister far-reaching plan to suspend our rights and impose a fascist state.
Both ideas are gross simplifications generated by naive, irrational people hopped up on caffeine and leftist blogs.
Yes, we have a one-party State. It's called the Republicrats, or Demoblicans, if you prefer. We live in a beautiful corporate pseudo-Democracy, which has produced the most productive and powerful nation in the world.
Clinton and Bush are part of the same club -- good ol' boys who meet in smoke-filled rooms with leather arm-chairs. The *big secret* is that they actually have our best interests in mind, and are working 24/7 (from Ft. Meade to Ft. Bragg) to prevent Armageddon. (CIA, Yale, Masons, Rhodes, yada, yada, yada.) They're the Quigley gang, and they know exactly what they're doing.
President Clinton violated Posse Comitatus at Waco, bombed the Chinese embasssy in the latest Serbo-Croatian war, and banned - temporarily - the sale of new combat-ready semi-automatic (A.K.A. "assault") rifles.
The Chief Executive, or Commander-in-Chief has had the ability to order troops anywhere needed for a long, long time. Just over a year ago, many of you pissed and moaned that Bush had been *too slow* to deploy the 82nd Airborne to New Orleans!
Wake up.
Spot-on. Nuclear energy is the most absurdly under-used "resource." Imagine a fleet of Detroit electric cars charged up each night from the nuclear-powered grid. Carbon dioxide? Never heard of it . Waste can be processed efficiently and safely. It's the so-called "left" which has prevented the construction of new nuclear plants in the U.S.
Workers of the world untie.
Kindred "spirits," as it were.
Humor is our best tool when it comes to the barely-hardly-severely-not-"knowable."
Thanks.
And fuck y'all bitch-ass niggas! I am joking. This is a joke. J-O-K-E. Get over yourselves.
Word. By the way, earth is not truly spherical. The centripedal "centrifucal" *whatever* (force: no) causes it to bulge at the equator, kinda like my belly after a nice Italian dinner. Well not really like that, but you get the idea: it's a flattened sphere. I wonder about the dynamics of the centripedal *whatever* in our 4-D vortex. Certainly, no Intelligent Designer, such as the Flying Spaghetti Monster, would devise such a confusing and incontheivable thythtem. The 4-D dynamics of Spaghetti are as yet unexplained. I leave it to you to Understand.
Furthermore, the brilliant overlords assume that/. readers would be appalled by a simple emotional and lyrical reaction to a mind-blowing scientific concept.
My Cortex is in Gore-Tex contemplating the Vortex. I'm getting a complex! I need a cold compress! I need to undress. I'm relatively impressed. Er... where's Eminem when you need him? Am I off-topic here?
Maybe some folks use Gmail for critical communications, unencrypted, but to me, the worst that could happen would be:
Dear Mom,
Life is bad. Thrown in jail. Broke. Girl left me. Lost my job. I'm gay (not that there's anything wrong with that.)
Hate,
j0n
Please.
Who created the laws of physics? I have had many drunken discussions of this with my friend Nirav Mehta, a quantum theorist working on the three-body problem. They just are? Deh jus' is? Did God bust out his powerbook and write these laws? Did he use algbraic language? My head hurts. I need a drink.
A theory, in scientific terms, is not merely a conjecture. That's what it means in every day use, like: "My theory is that Donovan McNabb doesn't like T.O." In science a theory is a tested and testable (?) system of thought. An hypothesis is not a capital-T Theory. This is the main tripping point for non-scientists. A true scientific theory is usually pretty good. It is, howvere, always subject to revision or complete overturning. Some aspects of relativity, for example, will undoubtably be replaced at some point due to the advances in quantum mechanics. ID is not a scientific theory. It is a belief. I want to believe. In a group of intelligent star-hopping aliens who made first contact with humanity around 4000BCE and gave humans technology and science. Nearly every culture on Earth has a version of this story, passed down orally for thousands of years. Ever wonder why agriculture, architecture, astronomy, brewing and law all arose very suddenly in the near-East? It was the Annunaki, or Nephilim. The "angels" or messengers who took to wife the daughters of men. Watch the X-Files.
I beg to differ. Before actual single-celled organisms evolved, certain long chains of molecules evolved by natural selection. Picture a bag of legos the size of a blimp being constantly jostled. Certain pieces would, according to the laws of nature, start systematically sticking together in certain ways. This actaully happened in the primordial soup. Think proteins, amino acids. I'm sure you've all seen the experiments where they zap a hypothetical primordial soup with electicity and "create" amino acids, etc.
Evolution is a paradigm (forgive me) which encompasses more than biological life.
Furthermore, Let's get the timeline rolling right now: Start building a Lego robot factory out of... Legos. Don't forget to incoporate building-block manufacturing and recycling units. (This oversight plagued the first few versions of the project. Lego cannibalism is not pretty.) If you fail to do so, I will begin to fade away like Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future.
Correctamundo!
"...They have an aim in mind when they alter the virus"
Who are "they?" The bodies and brians of the programmers? Their minds? Are "they" distinct? Do "they" have some magical fairy-dust between their synapses which gives rise to a meta-being apart from their bodies? Are you saying the hacker's "soul" has an aim in "its" mind?
No. "They" are co-evolved meme-complexes. Memeplexes. Selfplexes.
Technology does literally evolve by natural selection. Humans, aardvarks, and bananas are natural. Intelligence and consciousness are really quite subjective. Granted, our mastery of symbols and abstractions is NEATO.
"I hate this place...this prison...this zoo...It's the SMELL...if there is such a thing..."
-Agent Smith
Brilliant coincidence. Yes, video streaming of news is not new. But major networks promoting alternative distribution for major shows? I could swear I just read something about that fruit company doing something like this. Now, if only ABC/Disney (who've teamed with Apple/iTMS) had an evening news program, they could... wait a sec...
The notion that modern sapiens evolved and replaced Neanderthals within 1K years is ridiculous. Anatomically modern humans have lived since at least 100K years ago and "shared the Earth" with various now-extinct groups of Homos (e.g. Neanderthals & "Hobbits") for probably 50K years or more. (Not to mention "sharing the Earth" with millions of other species.) This is pop-claptrap.
Also, Neanderthals were pretty modern humans, with language, technology, culture, and very large brains (larger than most/. readers.)
None of this, of course, falsifies Noodly Intervention...
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Oh, I see. One minute George W. Bush the imbecile puppet of the evil warlords Cheney and Bush the Elder; The next minute he's the architect of a sinister far-reaching plan to suspend our rights and impose a fascist state. Both ideas are gross simplifications generated by naive, irrational people hopped up on caffeine and leftist blogs.
Yes, we have a one-party State. It's called the Republicrats, or Demoblicans, if you prefer. We live in a beautiful corporate pseudo-Democracy, which has produced the most productive and powerful nation in the world. Clinton and Bush are part of the same club -- good ol' boys who meet in smoke-filled rooms with leather arm-chairs. The *big secret* is that they actually have our best interests in mind, and are working 24/7 (from Ft. Meade to Ft. Bragg) to prevent Armageddon. (CIA, Yale, Masons, Rhodes, yada, yada, yada.) They're the Quigley gang, and they know exactly what they're doing. President Clinton violated Posse Comitatus at Waco, bombed the Chinese embasssy in the latest Serbo-Croatian war, and banned - temporarily - the sale of new combat-ready semi-automatic (A.K.A. "assault") rifles. The Chief Executive, or Commander-in-Chief has had the ability to order troops anywhere needed for a long, long time. Just over a year ago, many of you pissed and moaned that Bush had been *too slow* to deploy the 82nd Airborne to New Orleans! Wake up.
View menu > View Source. Select all (CMD-A). Copy (CMD-C). Launch TextEdit (one click on dock). Paste (CMD-V). Edit away.
Your sig is disgusting. Advocating violence toward a woman with whom you disagree is reprehensible. Your post was insightful, though.
Spot-on. Nuclear energy is the most absurdly under-used "resource." Imagine a fleet of Detroit electric cars charged up each night from the nuclear-powered grid. Carbon dioxide? Never heard of it . Waste can be processed efficiently and safely. It's the so-called "left" which has prevented the construction of new nuclear plants in the U.S. Workers of the world untie.
... to irritate Prefects. Now you kids get off'n my lawn or I'll call the Prefect of Police!
Kindred "spirits," as it were. Humor is our best tool when it comes to the barely-hardly-severely-not-"knowable." Thanks. And fuck y'all bitch-ass niggas! I am joking. This is a joke. J-O-K-E. Get over yourselves.
Word. By the way, earth is not truly spherical. The centripedal "centrifucal" *whatever* (force: no) causes it to bulge at the equator, kinda like my belly after a nice Italian dinner. Well not really like that, but you get the idea: it's a flattened sphere. I wonder about the dynamics of the centripedal *whatever* in our 4-D vortex. Certainly, no Intelligent Designer, such as the Flying Spaghetti Monster, would devise such a confusing and incontheivable thythtem. The 4-D dynamics of Spaghetti are as yet unexplained. I leave it to you to Understand.
Furthermore, the brilliant overlords assume that /. readers would be appalled by a simple emotional and lyrical reaction to a mind-blowing scientific concept.
Have a heart. This is some trippy shit. I, for one, welcome our Modding-Down overlords.
My Cortex is in Gore-Tex contemplating the Vortex. I'm getting a complex! I need a cold compress! I need to undress. I'm relatively impressed. Er... where's Eminem when you need him? Am I off-topic here?
Maybe some folks use Gmail for critical communications, unencrypted, but to me, the worst that could happen would be: Dear Mom, Life is bad. Thrown in jail. Broke. Girl left me. Lost my job. I'm gay (not that there's anything wrong with that.) Hate, j0n Please.
The feds should look through their sofa cushions. I'm sure there a piddling $5B in there somewhere.
Who created the laws of physics? I have had many drunken discussions of this with my friend Nirav Mehta, a quantum theorist working on the three-body problem. They just are? Deh jus' is? Did God bust out his powerbook and write these laws? Did he use algbraic language? My head hurts. I need a drink.
A theory, in scientific terms, is not merely a conjecture. That's what it means in every day use, like: "My theory is that Donovan McNabb doesn't like T.O." In science a theory is a tested and testable (?) system of thought. An hypothesis is not a capital-T Theory. This is the main tripping point for non-scientists. A true scientific theory is usually pretty good. It is, howvere, always subject to revision or complete overturning. Some aspects of relativity, for example, will undoubtably be replaced at some point due to the advances in quantum mechanics. ID is not a scientific theory. It is a belief. I want to believe. In a group of intelligent star-hopping aliens who made first contact with humanity around 4000BCE and gave humans technology and science. Nearly every culture on Earth has a version of this story, passed down orally for thousands of years. Ever wonder why agriculture, architecture, astronomy, brewing and law all arose very suddenly in the near-East? It was the Annunaki, or Nephilim. The "angels" or messengers who took to wife the daughters of men. Watch the X-Files.
I beg to differ. Before actual single-celled organisms evolved, certain long chains of molecules evolved by natural selection. Picture a bag of legos the size of a blimp being constantly jostled. Certain pieces would, according to the laws of nature, start systematically sticking together in certain ways. This actaully happened in the primordial soup. Think proteins, amino acids. I'm sure you've all seen the experiments where they zap a hypothetical primordial soup with electicity and "create" amino acids, etc. Evolution is a paradigm (forgive me) which encompasses more than biological life.
Furthermore, Let's get the timeline rolling right now: Start building a Lego robot factory out of... Legos. Don't forget to incoporate building-block manufacturing and recycling units. (This oversight plagued the first few versions of the project. Lego cannibalism is not pretty.) If you fail to do so, I will begin to fade away like Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future.
Correctamundo! "...They have an aim in mind when they alter the virus" Who are "they?" The bodies and brians of the programmers? Their minds? Are "they" distinct? Do "they" have some magical fairy-dust between their synapses which gives rise to a meta-being apart from their bodies? Are you saying the hacker's "soul" has an aim in "its" mind? No. "They" are co-evolved meme-complexes. Memeplexes. Selfplexes. Technology does literally evolve by natural selection. Humans, aardvarks, and bananas are natural. Intelligence and consciousness are really quite subjective. Granted, our mastery of symbols and abstractions is NEATO. "I hate this place...this prison...this zoo...It's the SMELL...if there is such a thing..." -Agent Smith
Brilliant coincidence. Yes, video streaming of news is not new. But major networks promoting alternative distribution for major shows? I could swear I just read something about that fruit company doing something like this. Now, if only ABC/Disney (who've teamed with Apple/iTMS) had an evening news program, they could... wait a sec...
The notion that modern sapiens evolved and replaced Neanderthals within 1K years is ridiculous. Anatomically modern humans have lived since at least 100K years ago and "shared the Earth" with various now-extinct groups of Homos (e.g. Neanderthals & "Hobbits") for probably 50K years or more. (Not to mention "sharing the Earth" with millions of other species.) This is pop-claptrap. Also, Neanderthals were pretty modern humans, with language, technology, culture, and very large brains (larger than most /. readers.)
None of this, of course, falsifies Noodly Intervention...
Indeed. I am impressed on almost a weekly basis by new features and services offered by Google. I think we're seeing only the beginning.