Yessir, it's the online axis of evil. Porn, spam AND hijacking.
But what's with this 'could be used for kiddie porn' comment. I have a shovel in my closet. It COULD be used to whack someone over the head with. Dosen't mean I've done it. Hell, my printer could be used for printing kiddie porn.
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>The real harm is that the attention on SARS has >drawn attention away from things like West Nile >Virus.... and J.Lo
Same difference. More helium is culled from gas wells than oil wells. It's still being mined rather than manufactured which was the point of what I was saying.
And if you're going to get your panties in a wad about what other people write, learn to fucking spell Helium.
Admittedtly this is slightly offtopic, but it's close enough to somthing I've always wondered that I thought I'd post it here.
Hydrogen and Helium are two elements with unusual properties: they're so light that the earth's gravitational field cannot hold them in their elemental form (or molecular form for Hydrogen, H2). Most of the Helium that we use has been harvested from oil wells and is the product of radioactive decay. When we run out of oil, we'll have to turn to nuclear power if we want more helium.
Hydrogen is a little different, of course. Since it's so reactive and abundant people usually don't worry about losing it. But considering that water vapor in the upper atmosphere, whatever it's source can be broken apart into HO and H, and some H might escape into space.... how would this impact the Hydrogen cycle?
If we're continually getting water delivered to earth via mini-comets (this is still debated) and continually evaporating off Hydrogen, what would this say about oxygen levels on earth, especially when the earth was first forming and possibly further from chemical equilibrium. Does this mandate an oxidizing environment if water is abundant in the earth's atmosphere, thus weighing in against the possibility that early earth had a reducing atmosphere?
I had a professor criticize this scenario back when I was in school, but he couldn't offer any evidence why it was wrong.
translation: you disagree with me so you're going to insult me a little bit.
You didn't even seem to grasp the point of what I was writing. If we take the New Testament standard of 'judging a tree by its fruit' then we have to come to grips with the notion that Christian society (as well as other societies) has frequently used religion as a tool throughout history in the process of nationbuilding and of separating 'us' from 'them'. i.e. 'do you worship the local god(s)?'
In short, I was arguing against the notion that the Christian history of Germany was incidental to the nationalism, the anti-semitism and the anti-gypsy attitudes.
... that the internet is TV. Nobody said 'now that we have TV, maybe we can get rid of those pesky libraries'.
This is just a reworking of the whole 'in a decade we'll have a paperless office' syndrome that swept the country in the mid 90s.
Photography altered the art of painting, but it didn't destroy it. TV altered the types of content provided over radios but didn't eliminate them. Communication technologies have a way of sticking around if they offer the slightest difference or benefit, and adapting to exploit that difference.
Maybe it'd be better to ask 'how will/has the internet change TV?'
>Christians were angry with jews over what their >ancesters did
Allegedly did. One gospel account has the Romans holding Jesus's trial, another account has the Sanhedrin holding the exact same trial. So one of the gospels violates a commandment and bears false witness.
>And christians, unlike nazis, have doctrines of >love and forgiveness that tended to ameliorate >anger.
Individual Christians may live by such doctrines, but historically and politically pogroms, murder, and severe economic sanctions were commonly used by religiously oriented governments (Christians included) as a form of political control which played on feelings of religious nationalism. The Vatican was openly in support of Hitler, then tried to erase its involvement afterwards. The tremendous support given to Nazism by religious institutions was not an accident.
It seems that the political usefulness of religion is to help individuals to assert their moral superiority over others, and then use that superiority to justify expansion and or exploitation. Christianity may make its followers well disposed towards other Christians, but it has rarely, from what I have seen, increased the acceptance of various 'outsiders' (whoever those happen to be at the time) by Christians. The Quakers were one possible exception. Our modern emphasis on tolerance is more a novelty than the rule.
The 'it's only a theory' argument has also been used by people who want to deny that global warming is real. Of course, it's only a theory that any of a particular administration's actions will have a particular effect, and usually a much more tenative theory than global warming, but that certainly hasn't detered our good congresmen and senetors.
Half the time they just dump the plastic from the recycle bins in the landfill with all the other garbage. Seriously. People want a 'plastic recycling program'. It costs too much to actually recycle so...
the porn mag that can also be used as a prophylactic! Isn't this incredible folks? But wait, there's more. Order now and you'll also receive this free ginsu knife....
Doctors don't nessicarily take a hypocratic oath.
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Physicians take the hypocratic oath. Surgeons do not. The hypocratic oath contains the phrases 'I will not cut, not even for stone.' So those folks doing surgery can't take it or they're out of business
... while I don't like Bush's take on stem cell research any more than you do, I don't believe he banned it. He just cut off federal funding. Private companies can still partake.
Could you compare Hardware based AI (i.e. AI which is AI because it is designed from hardware specifically for the purpose, such as a physical neural net) with software AI (i.e. AI which is simulated using a serial processor)?
Is software based AI running on serial processors simply a matter of a drunk looking for his keys under the lamppost because that's where the light is?
"It could be used, for example, if there was threat of a detonation of some type of a remote-controlled device. We could jam the frequencies to make sure nobody could send a signal to that bomb."
He did not know, however, how the jamming would affect cell phones or commercial radio transmissions
It specifies that "every reasonable effort shall be made to confine or restrict to the extent possible interference with or obstruction of a radiocommunication . . . to the smallest physical area, the fewest number of frequencies and the minimum duration required to accomplish the objectives of the interference or obstruction."
and most interesting
Jamming devices are also illegal in the United States, but there is a growing underground market for the devices, which can be bought for about $2,200. A survey of 2,000 people last year by Decima Research found about 50 per cent support for jammers in public places.
Imagine no more cell phones going off in movie theatres.
Besides, if it's a public place, there should be a public phone nearby. It's not like these people are on a highway in the middle of nowhere.
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Yessir, it's the online axis of evil.
Porn, spam AND hijacking.
But what's with this 'could be used for kiddie porn' comment. I have a shovel in my closet. It COULD be used to whack someone over the head with. Dosen't mean I've done it. Hell, my printer could be used for printing kiddie porn.
>The real harm is that the attention on SARS has >drawn attention away from things like West Nile >Virus. ... and J.Lo
Same difference. More helium is culled from gas wells than oil wells. It's still being mined rather than manufactured which was the point of what I was saying.
And if you're going to get your panties in a wad about what other people write, learn to fucking spell Helium.
>He better not venture online, because there are >lots of people out there that will have lots of >nasty things with his name on them.
Don't worry. I'm sure if he even knows what a computer is it's because his corporate 'constituents' explained it to him.
Admittedtly this is slightly offtopic, but it's close enough to somthing I've always wondered that I thought I'd post it here.
Hydrogen and Helium are two elements with unusual properties: they're so light that the earth's gravitational field cannot hold them in their elemental form (or molecular form for Hydrogen, H2). Most of the Helium that we use has been harvested from oil wells and is the product of radioactive decay. When we run out of oil, we'll have to turn to nuclear power if we want more helium.
Hydrogen is a little different, of course. Since it's so reactive and abundant people usually don't worry about losing it. But considering that water vapor in the upper atmosphere, whatever it's source can be broken apart into HO and H, and some H might escape into space.... how would this impact the Hydrogen cycle?
If we're continually getting water delivered to earth via mini-comets (this is still debated) and continually evaporating off Hydrogen, what would this say about oxygen levels on earth, especially when the earth was first forming and possibly further from chemical equilibrium. Does this mandate an oxidizing environment if water is abundant in the earth's atmosphere, thus weighing in against the possibility that early earth had a reducing atmosphere?
I had a professor criticize this scenario back when I was in school, but he couldn't offer any evidence why it was wrong.
translation: you disagree with me so you're going to insult me a little bit.
You didn't even seem to grasp the point of what I was writing. If we take the New Testament standard of 'judging a tree by its fruit' then we have to come to grips with the notion that Christian society (as well as other societies) has frequently used religion as a tool throughout history in the process of nationbuilding and of separating 'us' from 'them'.
i.e. 'do you worship the local god(s)?'
In short, I was arguing against the notion that the Christian history of Germany was incidental to the nationalism, the anti-semitism and the anti-gypsy attitudes.
Umm... but I'm not an atheist.
... that the internet is TV.
Nobody said 'now that we have TV, maybe we can get rid of those pesky libraries'.
This is just a reworking of the whole 'in a decade we'll have a paperless office' syndrome that swept the country in the mid 90s.
Photography altered the art of painting, but it didn't destroy it. TV altered the types of content provided over radios but didn't eliminate them. Communication technologies have a way of sticking around if they offer the slightest difference or benefit, and adapting to exploit that difference.
Maybe it'd be better to ask 'how will/has the internet change TV?'
>Christians were angry with jews over what their >ancesters did
Allegedly did. One gospel account has the Romans holding Jesus's trial, another account has the Sanhedrin holding the exact same trial.
So one of the gospels violates a commandment and bears false witness.
>And christians, unlike nazis, have doctrines of >love and forgiveness that tended to ameliorate >anger.
Individual Christians may live by such doctrines, but historically and politically pogroms, murder, and severe economic sanctions were commonly used by religiously oriented governments (Christians included) as a form of political control which played on feelings of religious nationalism. The Vatican was openly in support of Hitler, then tried to erase its involvement afterwards. The tremendous support given to Nazism by religious institutions was not an accident.
It seems that the political usefulness of religion is to help individuals to assert their moral superiority over others, and then use that superiority to justify expansion and or exploitation. Christianity may make its followers well disposed towards other Christians, but it has rarely, from what I have seen, increased the acceptance of various 'outsiders' (whoever those happen to be at the time) by Christians. The Quakers were one possible exception. Our modern emphasis on tolerance is more a novelty than the rule.
The 'it's only a theory' argument has also been used by people who want to deny that global warming is real. Of course, it's only a theory that any of a particular administration's actions will have a particular effect, and usually a much more tenative theory than global warming, but that certainly hasn't detered our good congresmen and senetors.
Half the time they just dump the plastic from the recycle bins in the landfill with all the other garbage. Seriously. People want a 'plastic recycling program'. It costs too much to actually recycle so...
the porn mag that can also be used as a prophylactic! Isn't this incredible folks?
But wait, there's more. Order now and you'll also receive this free ginsu knife....
Physicians take the hypocratic oath.
Surgeons do not. The hypocratic oath contains
the phrases 'I will not cut, not even for stone.'
So those folks doing surgery can't take it or they're out of business
... while I don't like Bush's take on stem cell research any more than you do, I don't believe he banned it. He just cut off federal funding. Private companies can still partake.
Getting Lance Bass off the fucking planet... priceless.
You know, while I've always respected Benjamin Franklin, I think that a hot air balloon is a little big to play 'catch' with.
I already have enough bacteria, thanks. And women low on the evolutionary scale have never been in short supply.
But they have taught chimps sign language. They can even do basic syntax. One called a cucumber a 'green bananna'.
I want to go up to someone carrying one of those ads and say 'sure, I'd eat you'.
I've gotten a few virus from the web, sircam being one. I didn't download anything. My browser made me do it.
Well, if you just spent your retirement funds on twinkies, you're not going to need a retirement fund.
Could you compare Hardware based AI (i.e. AI which is AI because it is designed from hardware specifically for the purpose, such as a physical neural net) with software AI (i.e. AI which is simulated using a serial processor)?
Is software based AI running on serial processors simply a matter of a drunk looking for his keys under the lamppost because that's where the light is?
Even buildings don't have 100% 'uptime' anymore. Considering how it crashed, the WTC must have been running windows. It had them all over the place.
I'm tempted to make a comment about your sig involving the seventh planet from the sun, but modesty forbids
"It could be used, for example, if there was threat of a detonation of some type of a remote-controlled device. We could jam the frequencies to make sure nobody could send a signal to that bomb."
He did not know, however, how the jamming would affect cell phones or commercial radio transmissions
It specifies that "every reasonable effort shall be made to confine or restrict to the extent possible interference with or obstruction of a radiocommunication . . . to the smallest physical area, the fewest number of frequencies and the minimum duration required to accomplish the objectives of the interference or obstruction."
and most interesting
Jamming devices are also illegal in the United States, but there is a growing underground market for the devices, which can be bought for about $2,200. A survey of 2,000 people last year by Decima Research found about 50 per cent support for jammers in public places.
Imagine no more cell phones going off in movie theatres.
Besides, if it's a public place, there should be a public phone nearby. It's not like these people are on a highway in the middle of nowhere.