No, I think we should encourage activism. This would give us a greater range of politicians to choose from. We need people who believe in things. We need people to look at us and point out the flaws in our thinking. The greatest dangers in life are the things you think are true, and the things you don't know.
"Question: is the New Zealand government a good or bad one in your opinion?" They are stable, but if you watched them in parliament (before they starting selectively releasing their own footage) they aren't exactly role models. The New Zealand government spends a lot of time indulging itself in social engineering which is a personal hate of mine. At the same time they sometimes try and get things right, and stand for what they believe in. The best I can say for them is that they are stable. It is almost election time over here and we need a change of government. Unfortunately, we might get it.
"I'm actually a bit lost as to what you're saying; are you suggesting all people in the government are bad? Or was it just a statement with nothing meant by it?" No, I am not suggesting that all people in government are bad. The activists of today should be the leaders of tomorrow.
Surely, wouldn't it make more sense to become a politician if you're an activist then? Yes, I does. I think if anything, the problem lies in the systems. And no-one seems to be questioning those.
Fella, I have just wasted 15mins of my life reading news articles trying to figure out whether there was any truth in what you were saying. None of the news stories agree with each other (including such gems as them being recruited from 67 cities (when there were 35 people)) and it turns out the afadavit (pdf warning) is attached to the request for a search warrant and has nothing to do with what was actually found when the search warrant was actioned. All the shit that has been reported sounds wonderful, but most of it was never found when the houses were searched.
I must regretfully conclude you believed this shit without ever researching it.
If I am wrong, point it out. However,I would like documentation and citations please. Not random newspaper reports.
I don't know if it is the same in Australia, but over here in N.Z. half our government is made up of ex-activists, including the prime minister. In short, our activists of today are our government of tomorrow.
There would be a number of points. Besides the basic nature of catering to your customers tin foil hats (of which many of us are), there is the business angle. Link it to the subscription! What a nice selling point. And no, I don't want my password stolen.
I assumed he/she/it had been confused by the Hubble reference since one of the methods of detecting a black hole is through the gravitational lensing of light.
The astronomers linked together radio dishes in Hawaii, Arizona and California to create a virtual telescope more than 2,800 miles across that is capable of seeing details more than 1,000 times finer than the Hubble Space Telescope.
I wouldn't go so far as to say it should be encouraged. At the time I posted though, it was the only thread and the memory of that conversation still makes me smile (the things people say!).
As for the ad's making you crack up uncomfortably, thats perfectly natural. Ad's for condoms or tampons used to do it to me as well. Our inhibitions are part of our social training, and are very hard to get rid of. Look on the dark side, if you seriously ever want to hurt a man, tell him he has a small penis. He will always wonder.
That reminds me of a conversation I was having with my brother about how much we hated our toilet because you always ended up touching the bowl. A friend of ours walked in on this and said,"Really? I've never had that problem." At which point we both collapsed laughing.
People should put more thought into toilet design.:)
The reason there aren't as many smart criminals is because the smart ones don't get caught very often. The smart ones sit quietly in the background, deal in small networks of trusted associates, and silence people who lose that trust.
NASA's documents consisted of printed news articles from the Slashdot website, but no other related documents.
On a heavier note. I seem to remember when the New Zealand SIS (so secret that I only know about them because they had an office below my lawyers...tinted window, blinking lights, NZ SIS signage, you get the idea.) revealed their super secret documents on Ahmed Zaoui, they were largely comprised of newspaper clippings. Tinfiol hats on people, we are being watched. I propose either the deletion of/., or the replacement of us all with bots endlessly spouting memes. Either way, we are all in the BlackVault now.
"I'm willing to go as far as to say it was one of these objects that was responsible for the destruction of a now ghost planet between Mars and Jupiter."
"They may just like sun on their backs and not in their eyes."
Yes, it does seem to draw a conclusion from a remarkable lack of information.
Let me see; "Researchers discovered that cattle have a good sense of direction and tend to point in a northerly direction." And yet, later it says "Although, in many cases, the images were not clear enough to determine which way the cattle were facing they were aligned on a north/south axis."
They also only studied cows from "Britain, Ireland, India and the USA" which are all in the northern hemisphere. Perhaps they do only like the sun on their backs.
The article states,"Huge variations in the wind direction and sunlight in the areas where the beasts were found meant that the scientists were able to rule out those factors as being responsible for the direction they were facing." and yet its source is Google Earth where to see the cows you cannot have cloud cover and the only way to tell wind direction would be to...I don't know....watch the wave patterns on water? Or maybe find when each image was taken and check the wind direction for the day.
From the face of it, it sounds like poor science to me. A link to the paper wouldn't be to much to ask for, would it?
Consider this hypothetical example. You walk into a shopping mall. In the middle of the shopping mall, there is someone in front of a kiosk who asks you if he can record what stores you visit while you're there as part of a survey. In order to do so, he writes down a description of what you look like - not your name - but what you're wearing, your height, etc. In several of the stores throughout the mall, there are people who identify you based on this data, and record whether or not you visit a particular store. When the mall closes, the surveyors in the store report their tallies back to the kiosk. What the surveyor ends up with is a list of some of the stores you visit while you're at the mall."
How, in dogs name does he think they price mall space. I must admit though, it's a great analogy, they don't ask you on the web either!
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No, I think we should encourage activism. This would give us a greater range of politicians to choose from. We need people who believe in things. We need people to look at us and point out the flaws in our thinking. The greatest dangers in life are the things you think are true, and the things you don't know.
"Question: is the New Zealand government a good or bad one in your opinion?"
They are stable, but if you watched them in parliament (before they starting selectively releasing their own footage) they aren't exactly role models. The New Zealand government spends a lot of time indulging itself in social engineering which is a personal hate of mine. At the same time they sometimes try and get things right, and stand for what they believe in. The best I can say for them is that they are stable. It is almost election time over here and we need a change of government. Unfortunately, we might get it.
"I'm actually a bit lost as to what you're saying; are you suggesting all people in the government are bad? Or was it just a statement with nothing meant by it?"
No, I am not suggesting that all people in government are bad. The activists of today should be the leaders of tomorrow.
Surely, wouldn't it make more sense to become a politician if you're an activist then?
Yes, I does. I think if anything, the problem lies in the systems. And no-one seems to be questioning those.
Damn!
Fella, I have just wasted 15mins of my life reading news articles trying to figure out whether there was any truth in what you were saying. None of the news stories agree with each other (including such gems as them being recruited from 67 cities (when there were 35 people)) and it turns out the afadavit (pdf warning) is attached to the request for a search warrant and has nothing to do with what was actually found when the search warrant was actioned. All the shit that has been reported sounds wonderful, but most of it was never found when the houses were searched.
I must regretfully conclude you believed this shit without ever researching it.
If I am wrong, point it out. However,I would like documentation and citations please. Not random newspaper reports.
I don't know if it is the same in Australia, but over here in N.Z. half our government is made up of ex-activists, including the prime minister.
In short, our activists of today are our government of tomorrow.
"Yes, and don't buy that new computer now, because in a few months it will be obsolete!"
Yes, the end is insight.
There would be a number of points. Besides the basic nature of catering to your customers tin foil hats (of which many of us are), there is the business angle. Link it to the subscription! What a nice selling point. And no, I don't want my password stolen.
Looks like I was sucked in. ;)
I assumed he/she/it had been confused by the Hubble reference since one of the methods of detecting a black hole is through the gravitational lensing of light.
The astronomers linked together radio dishes in Hawaii, Arizona and California to create a virtual telescope more than 2,800 miles across that is capable of seeing details more than 1,000 times finer than the Hubble Space Telescope.
It is rather a bad analogy isn't it.
And this (pdf warning) might be of interest as well, as it is from S Doeleman July 2008.
Agreed, and in the interests of an intelligent thread (to which I should not be posting) I bring you "STRUCTURE OF SAGITTARIUS A* AT 86 GHz USING VLBI CLOSURE QUANTITIES" which is actually worth reading if you want to get up to date on the research into Sagittarius A*.
Can someone give those of us from a different part of the world a set of ages. High school in NZ means 13yrs to 17yrs. What age are we talking about?
I wouldn't go so far as to say it should be encouraged. At the time I posted though, it was the only thread and the memory of that conversation still makes me smile (the things people say!).
As for the ad's making you crack up uncomfortably, thats perfectly natural. Ad's for condoms or tampons used to do it to me as well. Our inhibitions are part of our social training, and are very hard to get rid of. Look on the dark side, if you seriously ever want to hurt a man, tell him he has a small penis. He will always wonder.
That reminds me of a conversation I was having with my brother about how much we hated our toilet because you always ended up touching the bowl. A friend of ours walked in on this and said,"Really? I've never had that problem." At which point we both collapsed laughing.
People should put more thought into toilet design. :)
The really smart ones, do it legally.
I'm mind of the old saying: What do you mean there's an *acceptable* level of rat feces in (insert food product here)!
Try this. Rat feces is listed as "Mammalian excreta", so just search for some rather eye opening food facts.
You can have mine.
NASA's documents consisted of printed news articles from the Slashdot website, but no other related documents.
On a heavier note. I seem to remember when the New Zealand SIS (so secret that I only know about them because they had an office below my lawyers...tinted window, blinking lights, NZ SIS signage, you get the idea.) revealed their super secret documents on Ahmed Zaoui, they were largely comprised of newspaper clippings. Tinfiol hats on people, we are being watched. I propose either the deletion of /., or the replacement of us all with bots endlessly spouting memes.
Either way, we are all in the BlackVault now.
After last weeks deletion error, you are probably right.
"I fixed your post for you"
Thats lucky, I thought it was "I Find Your Porn For You".
You might like this. It is the beginnings of an economic model for distributed solar power.
"I'm willing to go as far as to say it was one of these objects that was responsible for the destruction of a now ghost planet between Mars and Jupiter."
No, that was the Martians.
Yes, it does seem to draw a conclusion from a remarkable lack of information.
Let me see;
"Researchers discovered that cattle have a good sense of direction and tend to point in a northerly direction." And yet, later it says "Although, in many cases, the images were not clear enough to determine which way the cattle were facing they were aligned on a north/south axis."
They also only studied cows from "Britain, Ireland, India and the USA" which are all in the northern hemisphere. Perhaps they do only like the sun on their backs.
The article states,"Huge variations in the wind direction and sunlight in the areas where the beasts were found meant that the scientists were able to rule out those factors as being responsible for the direction they were facing." and yet its source is Google Earth where to see the cows you cannot have cloud cover and the only way to tell wind direction would be to...I don't know....watch the wave patterns on water? Or maybe find when each image was taken and check the wind direction for the day.
From the face of it, it sounds like poor science to me. A link to the paper wouldn't be to much to ask for, would it?
Consider this hypothetical example. You walk into a shopping mall. In the middle of the shopping mall, there is someone in front of a kiosk who asks you if he can record what stores you visit while you're there as part of a survey. In order to do so, he writes down a description of what you look like - not your name - but what you're wearing, your height, etc. In several of the stores throughout the mall, there are people who identify you based on this data, and record whether or not you visit a particular store. When the mall closes, the surveyors in the store report their tallies back to the kiosk. What the surveyor ends up with is a list of some of the stores you visit while you're at the mall."
How, in dogs name does he think they price mall space. I must admit though, it's a great analogy, they don't ask you on the web either!