According to the summary, some people are also contemplating murdering their children before committing suicide, so as to save them from Armageddon. Funny shit, right?
It's worth noting that there is some debate in the penology field as to whether or not the higher crime rates experienced in the sixties and seventies had more to do with problems of rehabilitation in general, or with problematic approaches to rehabilitation that were adopted.
In-genus but trans-species matings are pretty well-documented. Since there's some debate as to whether or not neandertals deserved to be classified as a separate species or an h. sap subspecies, I'd guess we're fairly close genetically, probably at least close enough to avoid the chromosome number mismatches that render most hybrids sterile. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_(biology)#Examples_of_hybrid_animals
Yes, because the masses of casual users struggling under the crushing weight of FreeBSD that was preinstalled on their PC will naturally flock to Ubuntu...
What about just combating the government's insane advantage in terms of putting down popular unrest? Riot police and SWAT teams are bad enough. Pain rays and sound cannons are just ridiculous.
Your slimmed-down version must have been REALLY slimmed down to boot with 20 MB. Standard Windows XP that people actually use demands at least 64 MB and I've found 128 is the absolute minimum if you want to actually do anything other than boot up and stare at the screen. In my own usage I've found that 256 was probably the lowest you'd want to actually use it. But as long as we're on the topic if your only criterion is "will boot up and display a web page" I've managed that on OS X with 128 MB while running iTunes. It stops being fun once you open up a word processor, too, but it works.
Considering that they haven't said what the software they used in particular was it may not be a safe bet to assume that it's GPLv2 licensed. What if they decided to use, say, the OpenBSD kernel? That's a piece of open-source software which has no source redistribution requirements.
Good question. I looked on Wiki and it appears that it suffers from a polyploidy (it has three sets of chromosomes as opposed to the normal two) that makes it sterile. I guess it suffered some kind of reproductive accident that rendered it sterile in the distant past and cloning effectively became its only option.
There's nothing unnatural about it at all. Cloning is a not-uncommon way for plants to reproduce. A branch falls off, and instead of dying, it just becomes a new plant. It isn't cloning in the specific way that us metazoans are cloned, but the net effect is the same- a new individual that's genetically identical to the originator. That's how Lomatia tasmanica reproduces and has reproduced for a long time now. All we've done is help it along since 1994.
That's funny, because as soon as you mentioned Stallman and Ballmer in a room together the only thing I could envision happening is some kind of antimatter detonation.
At least the world will be rid of both their odious presences.;)
Yeah, everybody loves meat, including myself, but does that justify the kinds of conditions the animals are made to live in? My point was that there are alternatives to going vegetarian if the conditions animals in industrial operations live in bothers you. If you don't care, that's fine for you and my comment was irrelevant. I guess my thing about expanding the "local, sustainable" meat industry was my own pipe-dreaming more than anything.
That's a very good point, but there are also other things you can do. There are many farms across the country that still operate on a sustainable basis that treat their animals more humanely than in industrial CAFOs. Their meat tends to taste better anyways because the animals are generally getting the food they actually need- cows and chickens are actually getting grass instead of corn- so it actually tastes like how that animal should taste.
If you can support those local farmers, you can grow the market for that kind of meat. There probably won't ever be large companies doing sustainable, humane, meat production, but if enough little guys get into the business again who needs large companies?
Though, of course, there are more ecological benefits to quitting meat. Meat is way more resource-intensive to produce than plants.
Even if the animal cannot feel physical pain, it's still going to be spending its entire life in cramped, inhumane living conditions.
Bingo. The problem isn't the physical pain the animals feel. It's the terrible conditions they're made to live in. Most animals can't contemplate death (we count as at least one exception) but I am pretty sure they're able to be dissatisfied with living their entire lives in an overcrowded box doing nothing but gaining weight.
To borrow an example from somewhere in Michael Pollan's excellent The Omnivore's Dilemma, pigs are weaned off their mother's milk after ten days so they can be put on a special feed that makes them gain weight faster in modern industrial meat production. It helps the bottom line, but it does leave the improperly-weaned pig with a lifelong urge to chew and suck. What's the only thing to chew and suck in a pen full of your fellow pig? Their tails, of course. So they chew and suck the tails of their fellow-pigs, who, unlike normal, healthy pigs, have given up fighting off any potential tail-biters.
That causes infection, which raises costs. The common "solution" is to cut the pigs' tails off when they're young. Without anesthetic (Why bother? A pig can't sue you for inhumane treatment...). Sure, having pain-free pigs would make the act of cutting off the tail less inhumane, but it's not really solving the problem of why you need to cut these pigs' tails off in the first place.
In my view, the problem is industrialized agriculture practices. The approach has been: treat these complex, living, breathing animals as simple meat-growing machines. Pack them together as close as possible, that kind of thing. When they get sick, the solution isn't to ask why they're living knee-deep in their own sewage like no healthy animal should, it's to put them on antibiotics. When they get depressed and start eating each others' tails off, the solution isn't to ask why they feel the need to chew and suck their whole lives. The solution is to cut the tail off early. When people begin to complain about the pain these animals feel, the solution isn't to ask why these animals' lives are so painful, it's to take away their capacity for pain.
It's a well-established legal principle that your constitutional rights don't really apply at the border. Inside the border, of course you have rights. But at the border they can pretty much search whatever they want. If they feel like tearing apart your vehicle, piece by piece, just on the offchance you might have hidden contraband, that's legal, and there's no requirement that they compensate you in any way or put it back together. If they can do that then I figure they probably have the right to poke around your hard drive.
And, as has obviously already been mentioned, not all searches require warrants. Terry stops. "probable cause" searches of, say, a vehicle. Exigent circumstances.
Anyway, why spell it "Qi" when the Chinese/Japanese language does not use the Latin script ?
Because Qi is the Pinyin transliteration, and Pinyin is pretty much as close as you can get to standard. Chinese and Japanese don't use the Latin script but there most certainly do exist standards to transcribe them consistently.
It gets a little hairy with Chinese, but that's how you write it and is sexier than both "Chee" and "Chi" (the now-outmoded Wade-Giles way of transliterating it).
I don't think what happens in the classroom is by any stretch of the imagination the decisive formative influence on young people. Putting honors students in with the delinquents won't help because the delinquents have an entire life outside the classroom that propels them towards delinquency. Messed-up situations at home, living in a bad neighborhood, having a social network full of other people who are on the same track as them... having a good education is a component to getting out of that situation but it's by no means enough.
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According to the summary, some people are also contemplating murdering their children before committing suicide, so as to save them from Armageddon. Funny shit, right?
You shouldn't feed the trolls. It only encourages them.
Because taxpayers are contemplating suicide over this 2012 nonsense?
It's worth noting that there is some debate in the penology field as to whether or not the higher crime rates experienced in the sixties and seventies had more to do with problems of rehabilitation in general, or with problematic approaches to rehabilitation that were adopted.
In-genus but trans-species matings are pretty well-documented. Since there's some debate as to whether or not neandertals deserved to be classified as a separate species or an h. sap subspecies, I'd guess we're fairly close genetically, probably at least close enough to avoid the chromosome number mismatches that render most hybrids sterile. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_(biology)#Examples_of_hybrid_animals
Brilliant! Apple will have the Flatland market cornered! Cornered I tell you!
Yes, because the masses of casual users struggling under the crushing weight of FreeBSD that was preinstalled on their PC will naturally flock to Ubuntu...
What about just combating the government's insane advantage in terms of putting down popular unrest? Riot police and SWAT teams are bad enough. Pain rays and sound cannons are just ridiculous.
They're like websites, except there's no video.
But for how long?
Your slimmed-down version must have been REALLY slimmed down to boot with 20 MB. Standard Windows XP that people actually use demands at least 64 MB and I've found 128 is the absolute minimum if you want to actually do anything other than boot up and stare at the screen. In my own usage I've found that 256 was probably the lowest you'd want to actually use it. But as long as we're on the topic if your only criterion is "will boot up and display a web page" I've managed that on OS X with 128 MB while running iTunes. It stops being fun once you open up a word processor, too, but it works.
Considering that they haven't said what the software they used in particular was it may not be a safe bet to assume that it's GPLv2 licensed. What if they decided to use, say, the OpenBSD kernel? That's a piece of open-source software which has no source redistribution requirements.
Good question. I looked on Wiki and it appears that it suffers from a polyploidy (it has three sets of chromosomes as opposed to the normal two) that makes it sterile. I guess it suffered some kind of reproductive accident that rendered it sterile in the distant past and cloning effectively became its only option.
Shit happens.
There's nothing unnatural about it at all. Cloning is a not-uncommon way for plants to reproduce. A branch falls off, and instead of dying, it just becomes a new plant. It isn't cloning in the specific way that us metazoans are cloned, but the net effect is the same- a new individual that's genetically identical to the originator. That's how Lomatia tasmanica reproduces and has reproduced for a long time now. All we've done is help it along since 1994.
That's funny, because as soon as you mentioned Stallman and Ballmer in a room together the only thing I could envision happening is some kind of antimatter detonation.
;)
At least the world will be rid of both their odious presences.
Yeah, everybody loves meat, including myself, but does that justify the kinds of conditions the animals are made to live in? My point was that there are alternatives to going vegetarian if the conditions animals in industrial operations live in bothers you. If you don't care, that's fine for you and my comment was irrelevant. I guess my thing about expanding the "local, sustainable" meat industry was my own pipe-dreaming more than anything.
That's a very good point, but there are also other things you can do. There are many farms across the country that still operate on a sustainable basis that treat their animals more humanely than in industrial CAFOs. Their meat tends to taste better anyways because the animals are generally getting the food they actually need- cows and chickens are actually getting grass instead of corn- so it actually tastes like how that animal should taste. If you can support those local farmers, you can grow the market for that kind of meat. There probably won't ever be large companies doing sustainable, humane, meat production, but if enough little guys get into the business again who needs large companies?
Though, of course, there are more ecological benefits to quitting meat. Meat is way more resource-intensive to produce than plants.
Even if the animal cannot feel physical pain, it's still going to be spending its entire life in cramped, inhumane living conditions.
Bingo. The problem isn't the physical pain the animals feel. It's the terrible conditions they're made to live in. Most animals can't contemplate death (we count as at least one exception) but I am pretty sure they're able to be dissatisfied with living their entire lives in an overcrowded box doing nothing but gaining weight.
To borrow an example from somewhere in Michael Pollan's excellent The Omnivore's Dilemma, pigs are weaned off their mother's milk after ten days so they can be put on a special feed that makes them gain weight faster in modern industrial meat production. It helps the bottom line, but it does leave the improperly-weaned pig with a lifelong urge to chew and suck. What's the only thing to chew and suck in a pen full of your fellow pig? Their tails, of course. So they chew and suck the tails of their fellow-pigs, who, unlike normal, healthy pigs, have given up fighting off any potential tail-biters.
That causes infection, which raises costs. The common "solution" is to cut the pigs' tails off when they're young. Without anesthetic (Why bother? A pig can't sue you for inhumane treatment...). Sure, having pain-free pigs would make the act of cutting off the tail less inhumane, but it's not really solving the problem of why you need to cut these pigs' tails off in the first place.
In my view, the problem is industrialized agriculture practices. The approach has been: treat these complex, living, breathing animals as simple meat-growing machines. Pack them together as close as possible, that kind of thing. When they get sick, the solution isn't to ask why they're living knee-deep in their own sewage like no healthy animal should, it's to put them on antibiotics. When they get depressed and start eating each others' tails off, the solution isn't to ask why they feel the need to chew and suck their whole lives. The solution is to cut the tail off early. When people begin to complain about the pain these animals feel, the solution isn't to ask why these animals' lives are so painful, it's to take away their capacity for pain.
No, not Amish, I just have no interest in distorting reality.
Like the reality you perceive now hasn't already been distorted in a thousand different ways?
As it happens, I've not only read it, I re-read it periodically, and i'm also familiar with the debates that surrounded its ratification.
Are you also familiar with the case-law and legal interpretation that have built up over the centuries?
It's a well-established legal principle that your constitutional rights don't really apply at the border. Inside the border, of course you have rights. But at the border they can pretty much search whatever they want. If they feel like tearing apart your vehicle, piece by piece, just on the offchance you might have hidden contraband, that's legal, and there's no requirement that they compensate you in any way or put it back together. If they can do that then I figure they probably have the right to poke around your hard drive.
And, as has obviously already been mentioned, not all searches require warrants. Terry stops. "probable cause" searches of, say, a vehicle. Exigent circumstances.
Go to the preferences dialog, go to "Privacy" tab. There's an option which allows you to pick what kinds of data the Location Bar should look through.
Select "nothing" and it won't look through either your history or your bookmarks.
Anyway, why spell it "Qi" when the Chinese/Japanese language does not use the Latin script ?
Because Qi is the Pinyin transliteration, and Pinyin is pretty much as close as you can get to standard. Chinese and Japanese don't use the Latin script but there most certainly do exist standards to transcribe them consistently.
It gets a little hairy with Chinese, but that's how you write it and is sexier than both "Chee" and "Chi" (the now-outmoded Wade-Giles way of transliterating it).
TABM Ain't Burning Man.
A bug causing a game to not render the background correctly is "important", but security fixes et al are not?
I don't think what happens in the classroom is by any stretch of the imagination the decisive formative influence on young people. Putting honors students in with the delinquents won't help because the delinquents have an entire life outside the classroom that propels them towards delinquency. Messed-up situations at home, living in a bad neighborhood, having a social network full of other people who are on the same track as them... having a good education is a component to getting out of that situation but it's by no means enough.