Dodged fresh crap at least 3 times while walking ~1 mile during my morning commute. Who was out crapping on the sidewalk on Christmas night? However, it was cold, so none of it smelled bad, unlike the warm broccoli fart smell as I walked by Lake Merritt. Bay Area is disgusting.
Being half is a much bigger impediment than being white in terms of social integration. They are viewed as some sort of ideal and thus an artificial barrier is created. It's a tough barrier because of its rarity, meaning there are no established social conventions regarding Japanese/half interactions. And it doesn't help that the native person tends to consider themselves inferior to the half. If white people are alien in Japan, half is doubly so. For a Japanese/white interaction, it's alien/alien on both sides, so there's lots of forgiveness. For a Japanese/half interaction, it's native/unknown from the Japanese perspective and native/alien from the half perspective (I haven't met a half person who doesn't understandably consider themselves "alien" in Japan). If you look Asian but not fully Japanese, the predisposition is to treat you like one of the races that more legitimately suffer from racism in Japan. Why on earth do you think being "native" half would be some sort of gold standard for the most easily socially integrated race?
I said "whites". Your suggestion that half-Japanese would be higher up the totem pole of acceptability is a bit of a rookie mistake for someone who believes I'm poor at picking up on social cues, ne?
I'd say over half of Japanese "racism" toward whites is just wanting to avoid an awkward situation at all costs. Speaking Japanese well eliminates almost all racism (not counting the institutionalized variety, of course).
If it's like a dog, the trick is to run away and it'll chase you. If it's like a cat, just open your laptop and you'll have more than you want in short order. Oh, hey, you can find plenty on Slashdot, so I guess it's like a cat.
And America is considered a democracy or a republic, despite the fact it is clearly an oligarchy. Likewise, faith is not considered insanity. On Slashdot, pedantry is a virtue (as it really should be everywhere else). Dogma is a sin. Hence my correction of your "correction".
Your statement is woefully uninformed. There is absolutely no way you can make a factual statement about the nature of pre-Edison music aside from what is recorded in sheet music or preserved through ritual and tradition. People used to play music in their homes EVERY NIGHT. A home without a resident musician was extremely rare before the invention of radio. The music lost to time, by its nature, dwarfs humanity's lost literature. You have no idea what you are talking about because you CANNOT BEGIN to have any idea what you are talking about. For all we know, some Mayan farmer could have invented a crude form of Dubstep before being murdered by Europeans.
It worked great for me in Math and Physics because I like those. I'd read ahead while everyone else was learning the lesson because I couldn't stand the pacing. And because those subjects are cumulative, I'd be reading in order. It worked against me in History because I'd read the interesting parts, but I've never been in a class that covered the whole textbook, so I'd often read things that never made it into class and I really couldn't give a fuck the specific date something happened.
Are you suggesting Vivaldi or Mozart would have died rich if the music industry had existed back then? Maybe if they decided to transition to producing instead of composing. Music thrives on diversity, which is the antithesis of industrialization.
In this new era, ADHD is really coming into its own. It forces you to learn to process/simplify data faster, encourages the creation of external systems of organization and enables hyper-focus on areas of interest. These areas of interest may seem tangential at times, but relativity is the law of reality. Or as Dirk Gently might put it, the fundamental interconnectedness of all things.
You do realize music existed for tens of thousands of years before the music industry existed, don't you? And that many, many artists have songs specifically about how bad the music industry is? Some examples:
A Russian, tech-illiterate, minor celebrity broke a contract and will face financial consequences. iOS and Android are virtually identical these days, the only difference is branding. Nobody cares.
My main account apparently had a less used account as its backup, and since I can't remember the password for that account, I can't access either. So now only hackers can access my oldest internet accounts. Neither has a phone # associated with them. I could access my main account fine until they locked everything down in the security breach. Fuck Yahoo!
Without knowing what "shibboleth" means, I'd know I agree with you. Similarly, without knowing whether the CoC is a joke or not, I know I'd hate working with the person who made that comment.
All irrelevant to my original point regarding the Genesis of Science. Your misinterpretation of the primary motivation for wars is patently incorrect and disqualifies you from further response from me. Given your general level of misinformation, I'd suspect you were just entering college, but your Slashdot ID suggests you're much older than that. You demonstrate a significant lack of education. I would propose randomly browsing Wikipedia rather than reading Slashdot.
Your peculiarly specific misinformation about the history of religion aside [you've conflated religion with politics since the two were linked so closely], I'm pretty sure religion has been the primary foundational element for almost every form of math in our history. Maybe you believe there was some other way to develop math besides tracking the planets, stars and constellations (i.e. gods)? Can you suggest an alternative method for development of calculus? If you cannot, you are asking me to accept your opinion (belief) over the historic reality.
I'm also pretty sure monkeys are tribalistic and political despite living in a religious vacuum.
For clarification, I am as atheist as a human is capable of being, but I don't put my fingers in my ears and shake my head when presented with the facts of human history. Now look at my username. Sin is the Sumerian god of wisdom and the moon. His name was spelled XXX. "X" had the value of 10 (which is the history of the IX and XII on your clock). XXX = 30, which is the approximate length of a lunar month. He was the head god of the city that originated the alphabet. Is it better in your mind to worship atheism or to embrace Sin?
Using the Bible is a straw man fallacy. It is fan fiction and propaganda at the turn of the era of imperialism. My original post clearly states my preference for the older religions. Please attack them specifically before demonizing all of religion.
Slavery is clearly an areligious institution. Too weak of an argument for me to address.
Perhaps you simply haven't learnt that almost all our math came from religion's obsession with tracking the stars? Bayes (of Bayes' Theorem) was a minister because that was essentially the only place people used anything above basic algebra and geometry until about 500 years ago. The history of math is the history of tracking the planets, stars and constellations (i.e. gods).
Don't tease the poor guy. He's demonstrated an unwillingness to accept reality. We have to assume a more cooperative tone to get people to recognize failed logic and misinformation. Of course, that's a slow and painful process, and this is some random internet dude, so I fully understand the compulsion.
Gods were extremely helpful to early human society. "Because I said so" doesn't get you very far when organizing a society, but "God's will" [fucking] clearly plays well to the uneducated belligerent.
Your opinion of religion is about as informed as that of Hawking. Anu and El are the foundation of modern society. School yourself, beliigerent.
From a scientific standpoint, there is most certainly no Christian "God" because we can trace "His" creation (read: evolution/appropriation) back through antiquity. Both Christian and Greek gods are derivatives of El/Anu and his kin. That Hawking denies "God" demonstrates his complete lack of expertise on the subject matter. Religion works in the reverse of Science. More observation creates more noise. Science is a filter; Religion is a game of telephone. Denying the Christian God is like denying Newton's models of physics.
Their entire history of hardware development is full of problems. I broke down and bought the Surface Pro 4 because all the reviews finally seemed positive. And "Flickergate" hit the news shortly thereafter.
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Dodged fresh crap at least 3 times while walking ~1 mile during my morning commute. Who was out crapping on the sidewalk on Christmas night? However, it was cold, so none of it smelled bad, unlike the warm broccoli fart smell as I walked by Lake Merritt. Bay Area is disgusting.
Being half is a much bigger impediment than being white in terms of social integration. They are viewed as some sort of ideal and thus an artificial barrier is created. It's a tough barrier because of its rarity, meaning there are no established social conventions regarding Japanese/half interactions. And it doesn't help that the native person tends to consider themselves inferior to the half. If white people are alien in Japan, half is doubly so. For a Japanese/white interaction, it's alien/alien on both sides, so there's lots of forgiveness. For a Japanese/half interaction, it's native/unknown from the Japanese perspective and native/alien from the half perspective (I haven't met a half person who doesn't understandably consider themselves "alien" in Japan). If you look Asian but not fully Japanese, the predisposition is to treat you like one of the races that more legitimately suffer from racism in Japan. Why on earth do you think being "native" half would be some sort of gold standard for the most easily socially integrated race?
I said "whites". Your suggestion that half-Japanese would be higher up the totem pole of acceptability is a bit of a rookie mistake for someone who believes I'm poor at picking up on social cues, ne?
I'd say over half of Japanese "racism" toward whites is just wanting to avoid an awkward situation at all costs. Speaking Japanese well eliminates almost all racism (not counting the institutionalized variety, of course).
If it's like a dog, the trick is to run away and it'll chase you. If it's like a cat, just open your laptop and you'll have more than you want in short order. Oh, hey, you can find plenty on Slashdot, so I guess it's like a cat.
And America is considered a democracy or a republic, despite the fact it is clearly an oligarchy. Likewise, faith is not considered insanity. On Slashdot, pedantry is a virtue (as it really should be everywhere else). Dogma is a sin. Hence my correction of your "correction".
Your statement is woefully uninformed. There is absolutely no way you can make a factual statement about the nature of pre-Edison music aside from what is recorded in sheet music or preserved through ritual and tradition. People used to play music in their homes EVERY NIGHT. A home without a resident musician was extremely rare before the invention of radio. The music lost to time, by its nature, dwarfs humanity's lost literature. You have no idea what you are talking about because you CANNOT BEGIN to have any idea what you are talking about. For all we know, some Mayan farmer could have invented a crude form of Dubstep before being murdered by Europeans.
It worked great for me in Math and Physics because I like those. I'd read ahead while everyone else was learning the lesson because I couldn't stand the pacing. And because those subjects are cumulative, I'd be reading in order. It worked against me in History because I'd read the interesting parts, but I've never been in a class that covered the whole textbook, so I'd often read things that never made it into class and I really couldn't give a fuck the specific date something happened.
Are you suggesting Vivaldi or Mozart would have died rich if the music industry had existed back then? Maybe if they decided to transition to producing instead of composing. Music thrives on diversity, which is the antithesis of industrialization.
In this new era, ADHD is really coming into its own. It forces you to learn to process/simplify data faster, encourages the creation of external systems of organization and enables hyper-focus on areas of interest. These areas of interest may seem tangential at times, but relativity is the law of reality. Or as Dirk Gently might put it, the fundamental interconnectedness of all things.
You'll find ADHD-negative people have a learning disorder compared to ADHD-positive people when the subject matter is of interest.
You do realize music existed for tens of thousands of years before the music industry existed, don't you? And that many, many artists have songs specifically about how bad the music industry is? Some examples:
White Stripes - The Big 3 Killed My Baby
The Animals - The Story of Bo Diddley
Elvis Costello - Radio, Radio
Pink Floyd - Gravy Train
This is what I want every Slashdot post to be like. Relevant, interesting article. Informative comments. Math, anime and 4chan, oh my!
A Russian, tech-illiterate, minor celebrity broke a contract and will face financial consequences. iOS and Android are virtually identical these days, the only difference is branding. Nobody cares.
My main account apparently had a less used account as its backup, and since I can't remember the password for that account, I can't access either. So now only hackers can access my oldest internet accounts. Neither has a phone # associated with them. I could access my main account fine until they locked everything down in the security breach. Fuck Yahoo!
I'd say "thanks", but I'd said "I'd". I was drawing a parallel using a hypothetical. You have failed the shibboleth of reading comprehension. ;)
Without knowing what "shibboleth" means, I'd know I agree with you. Similarly, without knowing whether the CoC is a joke or not, I know I'd hate working with the person who made that comment.
Take care to whom you reply. I have not denied the atrocities carried out in the name of religion. It has always been irrelevant to my initial point.
All irrelevant to my original point regarding the Genesis of Science. Your misinterpretation of the primary motivation for wars is patently incorrect and disqualifies you from further response from me. Given your general level of misinformation, I'd suspect you were just entering college, but your Slashdot ID suggests you're much older than that. You demonstrate a significant lack of education. I would propose randomly browsing Wikipedia rather than reading Slashdot.
Your peculiarly specific misinformation about the history of religion aside [you've conflated religion with politics since the two were linked so closely], I'm pretty sure religion has been the primary foundational element for almost every form of math in our history. Maybe you believe there was some other way to develop math besides tracking the planets, stars and constellations (i.e. gods)? Can you suggest an alternative method for development of calculus? If you cannot, you are asking me to accept your opinion (belief) over the historic reality.
I'm also pretty sure monkeys are tribalistic and political despite living in a religious vacuum.
For clarification, I am as atheist as a human is capable of being, but I don't put my fingers in my ears and shake my head when presented with the facts of human history. Now look at my username. Sin is the Sumerian god of wisdom and the moon. His name was spelled XXX. "X" had the value of 10 (which is the history of the IX and XII on your clock). XXX = 30, which is the approximate length of a lunar month. He was the head god of the city that originated the alphabet. Is it better in your mind to worship atheism or to embrace Sin?
Using the Bible is a straw man fallacy. It is fan fiction and propaganda at the turn of the era of imperialism. My original post clearly states my preference for the older religions. Please attack them specifically before demonizing all of religion.
Slavery is clearly an areligious institution. Too weak of an argument for me to address.
Perhaps you simply haven't learnt that almost all our math came from religion's obsession with tracking the stars? Bayes (of Bayes' Theorem) was a minister because that was essentially the only place people used anything above basic algebra and geometry until about 500 years ago. The history of math is the history of tracking the planets, stars and constellations (i.e. gods).
Don't tease the poor guy. He's demonstrated an unwillingness to accept reality. We have to assume a more cooperative tone to get people to recognize failed logic and misinformation. Of course, that's a slow and painful process, and this is some random internet dude, so I fully understand the compulsion.
Gods were extremely helpful to early human society. "Because I said so" doesn't get you very far when organizing a society, but "God's will" [fucking] clearly plays well to the uneducated belligerent.
Your opinion of religion is about as informed as that of Hawking. Anu and El are the foundation of modern society. School yourself, beliigerent.
From a scientific standpoint, there is most certainly no Christian "God" because we can trace "His" creation (read: evolution/appropriation) back through antiquity. Both Christian and Greek gods are derivatives of El/Anu and his kin. That Hawking denies "God" demonstrates his complete lack of expertise on the subject matter. Religion works in the reverse of Science. More observation creates more noise. Science is a filter; Religion is a game of telephone. Denying the Christian God is like denying Newton's models of physics.
His opinions on AI are equally suspect.
Abel saw I ere I was Bael.
Their entire history of hardware development is full of problems. I broke down and bought the Surface Pro 4 because all the reviews finally seemed positive. And "Flickergate" hit the news shortly thereafter.