"What seems to be universal is the ability to have mystical experiences that feel transcendent and change people's lives."
Yep, even for atheists. It's called LSD-25 and it's pretty damn transcendent;)
I'm not implying that materialism is an attribute of only the rich. Materialism is a societal issue that extends not just to the rich, but nearly all income levels, castes and locations within first-world countries. Look at nearly all popular culture media, the focus on acquiring material things is purvasive and has no explanation. No one knows why they want these things, they just know they want them.
I know why I want a chicken sandwich, it's because I'm hungry. I also know why I want a better graphics card, it's because I want better graphics/higher FPS. I bet the same can be said for anyone whoever wants something "unnecessary". What I don't get is why this is wrong.
I would also like to put forth the idea that the more you have the less are you concerned with possessions.
Unfortunately, however, this is a digression from the purpose of my post. I was simply pointing out that the reason that people find the supposed connection between video games and violence so comforting is because it gives them something that's easy to blame. It doesn't require them to look hard at the deeper problems in society which are actually at fault and it doesn't require them to actually do anything.
Most/many political attempts at solving the deeper problems in society have ended in mass murder. This leads me to believe that politics isn't the way to go.
Currently, EUROCAE specifies that a recorder must be able to withstand an acceleration of 3400 g (33 km/s) for 6.5 milliseconds.
If the same specifications apply to a HDD based FDR I wouldn't assume you could use any hard drive based medium as crash safe flight data recorder. That was my point.
If you went and talked someone lacking the basic needs you would find the most materialistic person you have ever seen. All they think about (in no particular order) is: sleep, food, warmth and water. If you think poor tribesmen or industrial workers were less of materialists than we are you are very wrong. They were at least as materialistic but they cared about other things because we as humans weren't rich enough to care about more esoteric material possesions.
That's because the TPB doesn't enforce ratios. If you use any members only bittorrent site I usually max out my 8Mb ADSL. Just because most torrents on TPB suck doesn't mean other sites don't work as good as or better than commercial alternatives. Hell it's only recently I've been getting speeds above 200KB/s on STEAM which is about the only legal download platform I use.
That depends on the severity of the crash and on the looks of the nurse. The same isn't really true for DRM unless it doesn't work or the DRM'ed movies are of Pearl Harbor quality.
I can confirm this. When I first tried Ubuntu around 5.04 I felt severely restrained by Gnome (and everything because I'm so used to windows). When I finally figured out how to install Kubuntu (it was so easy it was hard) I felt much more at home. It felt at least somewhat like windows. So if you're coming from windows only I would recommend KDE or maybe some of the lightweight window managers but I haven't tried any of those so I can't say.
Hmm... It would appear that you are correct. I thought you would be dead wrong but it was only my own sample that was skewed. Most of my friends don't use on board audio and I thought that would reflect somewhat on the general population. However it appears that out of the steam population that agrees to take the hardware survey only 12 or so percent use soundblaster sound cards.
I would scarcely call 400mg the OD limit. I can take that much instantly without any side effects except a small tremor of the hands and some additional sweat. This is from someone weighing about 200 pounds and without a caffeine tolerance. I rarely drink coffee unless I need it.
The dosage advice on erowid seems to be pretty conservative. If you drink coffee daily you should easily be able to handle anything below 600-800. It's probably bad for you in the long run but you shouldn't be shaking around sweating like something that sweats a lot.
Not really. You would need about ten of these donuts (if each donut contains 200mg of caffeine) to experience some nasty side effects. When I was young I popped twenty or so 100mg caffeine pills in about an hour. I was jittery and sweaty for about five hours then I got a severe stomach ache, diarrhea and fell asleep at about seven PM.
You would have to try really really hard to do yourself in with this.
If they can walk (drive) around with GSM jammers they can use EM-detectors. I would rather use a piece of string or some wire to detonate a bomb preferably identifying targets my own eyes. Cheaper, safer, easier and less prone to jamming or general ECM.
I use a different bank called Handelsbanken. They either use one time pads or a certificate with a third party program. On both login and transactions the third party program pops up and asks for the password. AFAIK the program isn't compatible with firefox but I imported the certificate to firefox once and (of course) didn't even need to enter the password to do transactions. This is secure enough for me but if your computer is pwned then you are as well.
The bomb would have to be a powerful transmitter for that to work. It wouldn't be particularly hard to triangulate its location with the EM-radiation it sends out. As a military weapon it would suck. As an assassination weapon or terror weapon it would be conceivable but less likely than other methods.
I remember seeing some study a year or so back that concluded that when playing a person is less likely to snack compared to snacking while watching TV. This is due to the fact that you can't really eat while playing. I usually don't even browse when eating in front of the computer but run a video instead.
I'm saying that the first link decides what is science, I'm not seeing an analysis of all relevant published papers and the ratio between a global cooling trend and a warming one.
If you can show me such a paper I will gladly admit that my analogy is worthless and that the issue of global cooling was largely media created.
The biggest point of the second hand smoking episode is that the reports are being misrepresented. The press release about the report and the report itself differs widely as you can see for yourself. Another thing that WHO-report said was that the slight relative risk increase disappears when exposure ceases.
It would also appear that some studies have found the correlation to breast cancer and abortion which is equal to or greater than second hand smoke. I haven't seen any of those reports splattered all over the media.
Please note that I'm not saying that tobacco smoke isn't dangerous but second hand smoke is hardly as dangerous as it's made out to be.
Let's say that the whole man-made global warming thing is to be less than what it's said to be in forty years, could I not link to today's dissenters and say the same thing about man-made global warming?
It's not a straw man per se. I've seen plenty of feminists who claim that there are _no_ differences between women and men. Against reasonable people it is indeed a straw man.
I don't understand this race to the bottom crap. In the beginning everyone was dirt poor then came the great industrial revolution and the western countries got rich. Now most of the world is industrialized. South Korea used to be a country of cheap labor now when they're not that sector has moved to China instead and yet the South Koreans are still much much better off than they were before. The only thing I'm seeing is that the Chinese are better off than they were before.
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"What seems to be universal is the ability to have mystical experiences that feel transcendent and change people's lives." Yep, even for atheists. It's called LSD-25 and it's pretty damn transcendent ;)
If you went and talked someone lacking the basic needs you would find the most materialistic person you have ever seen. All they think about (in no particular order) is: sleep, food, warmth and water. If you think poor tribesmen or industrial workers were less of materialists than we are you are very wrong. They were at least as materialistic but they cared about other things because we as humans weren't rich enough to care about more esoteric material possesions.
That's because the TPB doesn't enforce ratios. If you use any members only bittorrent site I usually max out my 8Mb ADSL. Just because most torrents on TPB suck doesn't mean other sites don't work as good as or better than commercial alternatives. Hell it's only recently I've been getting speeds above 200KB/s on STEAM which is about the only legal download platform I use.
That depends on the severity of the crash and on the looks of the nurse. The same isn't really true for DRM unless it doesn't work or the DRM'ed movies are of Pearl Harbor quality.
My knowledge of US TV is not that good but isn't both 60 minutes and 20/20 on commercial networks?
I can confirm this. When I first tried Ubuntu around 5.04 I felt severely restrained by Gnome (and everything because I'm so used to windows). When I finally figured out how to install Kubuntu (it was so easy it was hard) I felt much more at home. It felt at least somewhat like windows. So if you're coming from windows only I would recommend KDE or maybe some of the lightweight window managers but I haven't tried any of those so I can't say.
Hmm... It would appear that you are correct. I thought you would be dead wrong but it was only my own sample that was skewed. Most of my friends don't use on board audio and I thought that would reflect somewhat on the general population. However it appears that out of the steam population that agrees to take the hardware survey only 12 or so percent use soundblaster sound cards.
See the steam hardware survey for exact numbers.
Try Sweden, Soviet, Cuba, Norway, France, Belorussia and so on and so forth. There are lots of countries with larger governments.
If you meant that the current government in the US is larger than it has ever been before then you are correct.
Good point.
I would scarcely call 400mg the OD limit. I can take that much instantly without any side effects except a small tremor of the hands and some additional sweat. This is from someone weighing about 200 pounds and without a caffeine tolerance. I rarely drink coffee unless I need it.
The dosage advice on erowid seems to be pretty conservative. If you drink coffee daily you should easily be able to handle anything below 600-800. It's probably bad for you in the long run but you shouldn't be shaking around sweating like something that sweats a lot.
Minerva kicks ass. Hurry up and get the third part out please think of the children.
Not really. You would need about ten of these donuts (if each donut contains 200mg of caffeine) to experience some nasty side effects. When I was young I popped twenty or so 100mg caffeine pills in about an hour. I was jittery and sweaty for about five hours then I got a severe stomach ache, diarrhea and fell asleep at about seven PM.
You would have to try really really hard to do yourself in with this.
If they can walk (drive) around with GSM jammers they can use EM-detectors. I would rather use a piece of string or some wire to detonate a bomb preferably identifying targets my own eyes. Cheaper, safer, easier and less prone to jamming or general ECM.
I use a different bank called Handelsbanken. They either use one time pads or a certificate with a third party program. On both login and transactions the third party program pops up and asks for the password. AFAIK the program isn't compatible with firefox but I imported the certificate to firefox once and (of course) didn't even need to enter the password to do transactions. This is secure enough for me but if your computer is pwned then you are as well.
The bomb would have to be a powerful transmitter for that to work. It wouldn't be particularly hard to triangulate its location with the EM-radiation it sends out. As a military weapon it would suck. As an assassination weapon or terror weapon it would be conceivable but less likely than other methods.
I remember seeing some study a year or so back that concluded that when playing a person is less likely to snack compared to snacking while watching TV. This is due to the fact that you can't really eat while playing. I usually don't even browse when eating in front of the computer but run a video instead.
I'm saying that the first link decides what is science, I'm not seeing an analysis of all relevant published papers and the ratio between a global cooling trend and a warming one.
If you can show me such a paper I will gladly admit that my analogy is worthless and that the issue of global cooling was largely media created.
That implies that you are prescient or have access to models or data that are vastly more accurate than what we have today.
Did you also manage to miss my first sentence somehow?
The biggest point of the second hand smoking episode is that the reports are being misrepresented. The press release about the report and the report itself differs widely as you can see for yourself. Another thing that WHO-report said was that the slight relative risk increase disappears when exposure ceases.
It would also appear that some studies have found the correlation to breast cancer and abortion which is equal to or greater than second hand smoke. I haven't seen any of those reports splattered all over the media.
Please note that I'm not saying that tobacco smoke isn't dangerous but second hand smoke is hardly as dangerous as it's made out to be.
Let's say that the whole man-made global warming thing is to be less than what it's said to be in forty years, could I not link to today's dissenters and say the same thing about man-made global warming?
It's not a straw man per se. I've seen plenty of feminists who claim that there are _no_ differences between women and men. Against reasonable people it is indeed a straw man.
I don't understand this race to the bottom crap. In the beginning everyone was dirt poor then came the great industrial revolution and the western countries got rich. Now most of the world is industrialized. South Korea used to be a country of cheap labor now when they're not that sector has moved to China instead and yet the South Koreans are still much much better off than they were before. The only thing I'm seeing is that the Chinese are better off than they were before.