Your paying to buy data on their servers. Get it? Your paying money to clog their servers...
I want to open a website: everyone give me money. "For every $100 I get, I'll drop the servers for an hour. I'll also photoshop special sigs that say how much money you donated. Of course, when the server is down you can't access the sigs...hmmm."
You sir take that back! I've only seen every episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus twice...TWICE! That is unacceptible! Unexpectidly unacceptible. As unexpected as...
If time travel occurs beyond the speed of light, I've seen it at 88 miles per hour. And the earth once was spun backwards at that rotational velocity in Superman 1.
But seriously, when will we create a material that doesn't have light bounce off of it, but is reflected and bounces off of light?
Wait...Physists worked on this project. I thought they were too busy explaining Shrodinger to Peta.
The map streches back to half the life-span of this universe. That means that if a single unit of a radioactive atom exists in the universe with just the right value...
Uh-oh! It just reached half-life! Nasa better hurry up and find this long lasting nuclear element before its lost forever. We wasted the first half of this universe's existance, lets not waste the second.
Oh wait...this statement would only be true if the universe was ending at exactly this moment and the hubble did this scan half-a-universe's-life-span ago.
You see, the easiest way to gain control of a decadent empire is to first create an enemy or wait for an enemy attack to you. After this occurs, its easy to instill fear into your nation. You don't need fear of the government (which is bad to instill since it leads to revolution), nor do you need fear of a deity (which is bad to instill since it either leads to demoting science or deluding God, depending on your outlook). You have fear of an enemy of the state. If the populace isn't fearful enough, tell the populace that members of this enemy faction may exist within the nation (Revolutionary War and the British supporters, Civil War and the separatists, WWII and Japan, Cold War and the communists) and will attack us FROM within. People begin to fear one another and see the government as a trustworthy protector.
Once this state is formed, the government can easily control its populace and remove more and more freedoms from the populace that ensure its own survivability (since the ultimate fate of all governments and empires everywhere now and forever is to be destabilized from within or from an enemy force).
On another note: I do believe there is a group out there who wants to kill us and did attack us. I believe the barbarians did attack and sac Rome, and I believe the mongols did in fact lead China into its seclusive era from its expansive era (err not expansive so much as...outgoing? You know, treasure ships and silk road and all that).
The right to bear arms says otherwise. Our founding fathers were smart enough to foresee at one point or another, violence might become necessary. No human being, myself or any president in history, would be able to give up a position of power as high as the presidency of the United States without a fight. Its just how human nature works.
But that's another topic all-together.
And meeting in private doesn't always help. A government can gather suspects and use public cameras to track our movements to private domains. Finding privately owned and surveyed paths to and from different private residences is near impossible.
But frankly I'm too lazy to do anything about tyranny in *any* country. I'd rather move out. And since I'm still here in America...obviously I don't have THAT many scruples against our current government.
This country was founded with most of its rules (excluding the bill of rights just for simplicity) placed so that we, the people, can more easily conquer a government that represses our liberties. When a government begins placing us in a situation in which plotting against them in case they become tyrannical becomes impossible, they have removed our most precious liberty (the liberty to choose our leaders).
Personally I blame the mass media and several other industries/foundations for making us so lazy that I doubt anyone would really rebel...but eih.
I still enjoy Nixon for everything he did OTHER than Watergate and the lying and what-not...but I mostly like what he did for cancer research and involving relations with China...
But no man should be judged by only their worse moments. You must take ALL moments into account, and until you see everything a person did, you should not judge for yourself what they have done.
Clinton is still loved by many despite what he did. And I don't mean the scandel. I mean acts reguarding printing so much money that the penny is now worth less than 1 cent...
Now don't call me crazy now...but what if the universe really is just an infinate space going on forever and ever and we are all just wasting our time with these fascinating theories? I mean, what if the universe just is "there" and just "is". No expansion or shapes, just infinate in all directions.
Well personally I believe in the infinite expansion of matter. That is, there is one clump of matter that explodes (the explosion being labeled a "star") and bursts forth with a ton of energy, creating orbits of these clumps of energy and mass that themselves do the same thing.
I'm not asking people to "vaguely follow" some rules, I'm asking them (via "hoping they will read between my lines") to see that modern science is in fact a new "religion" (by our current definitions). All theories and beliefs are based as firmly
I'm not saying killing other people for your belief is right. I'm saying that putting down other people's beliefs is wrong. I personally agree that we should teach only evolution in school (err as opposed to every creationist theory feasible...lets ignore the fact that the mayan creation story is vastly different and makes more sense in the symbolic sense than the Jeudeo-Christian...), because that is our current societies BELIEF. Its hard to hear, and even hard for me to type. But recently I've begun to look around and realize that everything "modern science" is teaching me has the same basis of fact as "ancient science". That basis being the ability to belief whoever is in charge while trying to put together how the world works.
You stated the "scientific explanation" is the right belief. Why? You were taught a series of beliefs dictating that A+B=C, yet if another culture teaches that A+B=D, you will automatically assume them wrong and yourself superior...and the ironic part is they are doing the same thing when you try to explain your beliefs to them (or so historically accurate accounts of attempting to "educate" and "teach" those "uneducated" lands has taught us).
Imagine if the atomic bomb was tested in this day and age...all the lawsuits regarding radiation poisoning and whatnot...that one test in...Nevada/Arizona I believe...spread radiation as far as New Jersey...
This sounds weird I know, maybe even out of place, but I think more studies needs to be done with linking subjects together. I know it sounds funny, but when a student is given a hyper-text encoded text-book, they tend to like to click on links they want to find different articles and learn even more about different fields they would have otherwise ignored. Kind of a "wikipedia" format of learning.
1.) say the word "science" in a newspost.
2.) get 100 people bashing old sciences (i.e. "religions") and foreign beliefs (i.e. "shamanic faiths")
3.) have someone like me post a classic "...profit" list like this.
4.)...
5.) Profit!
Seriously though (and I believe myself a man of science), we don't have to put down everyone's personal beliefs every time someone says the word "science". We are starting to sound as thick-skulled as religious fundamentalists who put down scientists and foreign tribal/shamanic religions for "not believing in Jesus".
Can we ever accept that truth is really relative? The existence of the aether was as strongly believed by scientists 700 years ago as the existence of the atom is today. And all it takes is a few discoveries (followed by burnings and denials) to prove it entirely wrong.
A tribe in Africa might see a hawk fly overhead 2 hours before it rains every time it rains. Generations later, they still believe the "hawk brings rain", when scientists might argue that the hawk is indeed just fleeing from the rain coming in from the source of water (and source of the hawk's food) back to the hawk's nesting grounds on the other side of the village. But in the end, the village STILL can use the hawk to prepare themselves for rain in advanced. In the end its still two strong beliefs colliding. And in the end, does it really matter who is right and who is wrong?
For there is only one damned truth out there: your own. And there is only one person who needs to hear about it: you. Because in the end if you die and rot in a hole, or die and your consciousness carries on through the stars forever...it doesn't matter! Because the guy your arguing with will find himself in the same hole or astral-traveling through the same stars! Its like arguing over whether to use a magnum or colt to commit suicide with, and then dying of old age during the 15 year government funded study on which hurts less to get hit by.
About the privacy of mail...the main purpose for privacy is, besides the obvious reasons, the main purpose for most of the bill of rights: to make it much easier to transfer information leading to the destruction of our government if the far fetched fantasy occured and its timeless perfect democratic ways failed us. Am I right? Honestly, I don't know, am I right?
Isn't it very self centered to pollute the oceans in the first place? I mean, more so than the land. We don't even life in the ocean (anymore). Yet we continue to pollute it and then ignoring the pollution by leaving the beach when the local sewage drain breaks open.
Makes me wish we could just have a mini-ice age. Nothing big. Just enough to cover the top half of Russia and all of Alaska...plus greenland...yeah...then we can just use trucks...no wait...no one lives in Alaska either...
[/sarcasm]
"Its not the radio waves you need to worry about. Its these new fangled "wireless tubes" that are zooming faster than the eye can percieve them. Take one wrong step in a wifi cafe and BAM, knock your head clear off. And then it'll have cancer sprout of your neck.
Hey, it happened to me, why do you think I'm trying to ban these things?"
A reason I think the word "religion" is a dirty word altogether.
The only reason the Shinto faith had to catagorize itself as "Shinto" was after western involvement. Its not that they didn't have multiple faiths then to compare it with, its that they saw no need to be competitive with their religions: a way of seeing the world one way or the other is both fine. One person can believe in the doughnut theory of how the galaxy is shaped, and the other the pac-man theory. Is one better than the last? Not really. One person can believe all rocks have a soul and the other can believe only his rock has a soul. Both are just as wrong and right, it is simply the way of the universe. I would say simply "both are wrong", but as long as we are the only known percievers of the universe...
Then again, our arrogance will probably force us to still see us at the only sentient beings, even after aliens are discovered by the general public. Its all just al-gore-rhytmns people! And tubes.
But most athiests tend to simply be against the "big evil organized religion that sends people into blood-frenzys", which, to be truthful, most are against (there's a good counter-point to this, but its not worth the term paper required for it--derailing the current topic is not a good idea at this point).
Slashdot Mirror
It welcomes our new life-eradicating switch-flipping overlords. Seriously though, its called a w-i-l-l.
Architects won't have to shell out the $10,000...
Is anyone else impressed by the multi-materials?
I for one welcome our new environmental concerned robotic overlords.
Your paying to buy data on their servers. Get it? Your paying money to clog their servers... I want to open a website: everyone give me money. "For every $100 I get, I'll drop the servers for an hour. I'll also photoshop special sigs that say how much money you donated. Of course, when the server is down you can't access the sigs...hmmm."
You sir take that back! I've only seen every episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus twice...TWICE! That is unacceptible! Unexpectidly unacceptible. As unexpected as...
Exactly my point, good sir.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1998/12/21 (Penny Arcade)
If time travel occurs beyond the speed of light, I've seen it at 88 miles per hour. And the earth once was spun backwards at that rotational velocity in Superman 1.
But seriously, when will we create a material that doesn't have light bounce off of it, but is reflected and bounces off of light?
Wait...Physists worked on this project. I thought they were too busy explaining Shrodinger to Peta.
I always want coal but usually get ponies and expensive consoles myself...
I'll never finish that steam powered automon at this rate.
"Wow dude, you just got a new game! Put it in!" "Hmm its just an empty box...no CD...not even a manual...just...sand..." "Eih. Wait for the patch."
The map streches back to half the life-span of this universe. That means that if a single unit of a radioactive atom exists in the universe with just the right value...
Uh-oh! It just reached half-life! Nasa better hurry up and find this long lasting nuclear element before its lost forever. We wasted the first half of this universe's existance, lets not waste the second.
Oh wait...this statement would only be true if the universe was ending at exactly this moment and the hubble did this scan half-a-universe's-life-span ago.
Those Godless, nickel stealing, toilet licking, straw sucking, red wearing, anti-American, ignorant, hack-bringing, country stealing, president converting, 5-year planning, backwards talking, astronaut suffocating, satellite launching, Afghan invading, Cuban Corrupting, gosh-darned commies are at it again. *Grabs gun* "Let's shoot these mother *******."
You see, the easiest way to gain control of a decadent empire is to first create an enemy or wait for an enemy attack to you. After this occurs, its easy to instill fear into your nation. You don't need fear of the government (which is bad to instill since it leads to revolution), nor do you need fear of a deity (which is bad to instill since it either leads to demoting science or deluding God, depending on your outlook). You have fear of an enemy of the state. If the populace isn't fearful enough, tell the populace that members of this enemy faction may exist within the nation (Revolutionary War and the British supporters, Civil War and the separatists, WWII and Japan, Cold War and the communists) and will attack us FROM within. People begin to fear one another and see the government as a trustworthy protector.
Once this state is formed, the government can easily control its populace and remove more and more freedoms from the populace that ensure its own survivability (since the ultimate fate of all governments and empires everywhere now and forever is to be destabilized from within or from an enemy force).
On another note: I do believe there is a group out there who wants to kill us and did attack us. I believe the barbarians did attack and sac Rome, and I believe the mongols did in fact lead China into its seclusive era from its expansive era (err not expansive so much as...outgoing? You know, treasure ships and silk road and all that).
The right to bear arms says otherwise. Our founding fathers were smart enough to foresee at one point or another, violence might become necessary. No human being, myself or any president in history, would be able to give up a position of power as high as the presidency of the United States without a fight. Its just how human nature works.
But that's another topic all-together.
And meeting in private doesn't always help. A government can gather suspects and use public cameras to track our movements to private domains. Finding privately owned and surveyed paths to and from different private residences is near impossible.
But frankly I'm too lazy to do anything about tyranny in *any* country. I'd rather move out. And since I'm still here in America...obviously I don't have THAT many scruples against our current government.
This response is only to what I assumed the article would be about given the first four words of the title:
"One day we will be able to transfer all kinds of data through phone lines!"~Tesla
This country was founded with most of its rules (excluding the bill of rights just for simplicity) placed so that we, the people, can more easily conquer a government that represses our liberties. When a government begins placing us in a situation in which plotting against them in case they become tyrannical becomes impossible, they have removed our most precious liberty (the liberty to choose our leaders).
Personally I blame the mass media and several other industries/foundations for making us so lazy that I doubt anyone would really rebel...but eih.
I still enjoy Nixon for everything he did OTHER than Watergate and the lying and what-not...but I mostly like what he did for cancer research and involving relations with China...
But no man should be judged by only their worse moments. You must take ALL moments into account, and until you see everything a person did, you should not judge for yourself what they have done.
Clinton is still loved by many despite what he did. And I don't mean the scandel. I mean acts reguarding printing so much money that the penny is now worth less than 1 cent...
Now don't call me crazy now...but what if the universe really is just an infinate space going on forever and ever and we are all just wasting our time with these fascinating theories? I mean, what if the universe just is "there" and just "is". No expansion or shapes, just infinate in all directions.
Well personally I believe in the infinite expansion of matter. That is, there is one clump of matter that explodes (the explosion being labeled a "star") and bursts forth with a ton of energy, creating orbits of these clumps of energy and mass that themselves do the same thing.
I'm not asking people to "vaguely follow" some rules, I'm asking them (via "hoping they will read between my lines") to see that modern science is in fact a new "religion" (by our current definitions). All theories and beliefs are based as firmly
I'm not saying killing other people for your belief is right. I'm saying that putting down other people's beliefs is wrong. I personally agree that we should teach only evolution in school (err as opposed to every creationist theory feasible...lets ignore the fact that the mayan creation story is vastly different and makes more sense in the symbolic sense than the Jeudeo-Christian...), because that is our current societies BELIEF. Its hard to hear, and even hard for me to type. But recently I've begun to look around and realize that everything "modern science" is teaching me has the same basis of fact as "ancient science". That basis being the ability to belief whoever is in charge while trying to put together how the world works.
You stated the "scientific explanation" is the right belief. Why? You were taught a series of beliefs dictating that A+B=C, yet if another culture teaches that A+B=D, you will automatically assume them wrong and yourself superior...and the ironic part is they are doing the same thing when you try to explain your beliefs to them (or so historically accurate accounts of attempting to "educate" and "teach" those "uneducated" lands has taught us).
Imagine if the atomic bomb was tested in this day and age...all the lawsuits regarding radiation poisoning and whatnot...that one test in...Nevada/Arizona I believe...spread radiation as far as New Jersey...
This sounds weird I know, maybe even out of place, but I think more studies needs to be done with linking subjects together. I know it sounds funny, but when a student is given a hyper-text encoded text-book, they tend to like to click on links they want to find different articles and learn even more about different fields they would have otherwise ignored. Kind of a "wikipedia" format of learning.
1.) say the word "science" in a newspost. ...
2.) get 100 people bashing old sciences (i.e. "religions") and foreign beliefs (i.e. "shamanic faiths")
3.) have someone like me post a classic "...profit" list like this.
4.)
5.) Profit!
Seriously though (and I believe myself a man of science), we don't have to put down everyone's personal beliefs every time someone says the word "science". We are starting to sound as thick-skulled as religious fundamentalists who put down scientists and foreign tribal/shamanic religions for "not believing in Jesus".
Can we ever accept that truth is really relative? The existence of the aether was as strongly believed by scientists 700 years ago as the existence of the atom is today. And all it takes is a few discoveries (followed by burnings and denials) to prove it entirely wrong.
A tribe in Africa might see a hawk fly overhead 2 hours before it rains every time it rains. Generations later, they still believe the "hawk brings rain", when scientists might argue that the hawk is indeed just fleeing from the rain coming in from the source of water (and source of the hawk's food) back to the hawk's nesting grounds on the other side of the village. But in the end, the village STILL can use the hawk to prepare themselves for rain in advanced. In the end its still two strong beliefs colliding. And in the end, does it really matter who is right and who is wrong?
For there is only one damned truth out there: your own. And there is only one person who needs to hear about it: you. Because in the end if you die and rot in a hole, or die and your consciousness carries on through the stars forever...it doesn't matter! Because the guy your arguing with will find himself in the same hole or astral-traveling through the same stars! Its like arguing over whether to use a magnum or colt to commit suicide with, and then dying of old age during the 15 year government funded study on which hurts less to get hit by.
About the privacy of mail...the main purpose for privacy is, besides the obvious reasons, the main purpose for most of the bill of rights: to make it much easier to transfer information leading to the destruction of our government if the far fetched fantasy occured and its timeless perfect democratic ways failed us. Am I right? Honestly, I don't know, am I right?
Isn't it very self centered to pollute the oceans in the first place? I mean, more so than the land. We don't even life in the ocean (anymore). Yet we continue to pollute it and then ignoring the pollution by leaving the beach when the local sewage drain breaks open.
Makes me wish we could just have a mini-ice age. Nothing big. Just enough to cover the top half of Russia and all of Alaska...plus greenland...yeah...then we can just use trucks...no wait...no one lives in Alaska either...
[/sarcasm]
"Its not the radio waves you need to worry about. Its these new fangled "wireless tubes" that are zooming faster than the eye can percieve them. Take one wrong step in a wifi cafe and BAM, knock your head clear off. And then it'll have cancer sprout of your neck.
Hey, it happened to me, why do you think I'm trying to ban these things?"
A reason I think the word "religion" is a dirty word altogether.
The only reason the Shinto faith had to catagorize itself as "Shinto" was after western involvement. Its not that they didn't have multiple faiths then to compare it with, its that they saw no need to be competitive with their religions: a way of seeing the world one way or the other is both fine. One person can believe in the doughnut theory of how the galaxy is shaped, and the other the pac-man theory. Is one better than the last? Not really. One person can believe all rocks have a soul and the other can believe only his rock has a soul. Both are just as wrong and right, it is simply the way of the universe. I would say simply "both are wrong", but as long as we are the only known percievers of the universe...
Then again, our arrogance will probably force us to still see us at the only sentient beings, even after aliens are discovered by the general public. Its all just al-gore-rhytmns people! And tubes.
But most athiests tend to simply be against the "big evil organized religion that sends people into blood-frenzys", which, to be truthful, most are against (there's a good counter-point to this, but its not worth the term paper required for it--derailing the current topic is not a good idea at this point).