It's like the scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail: "He must be a King." "How do you know?" "He hasn't got shit all over him." Holy crap that's funny:)
About the abortion debate, let's not go there, we both probably are not interested in that kind of discussion. I was just pointing out that modern day rationale for a lot of cultural phenomena is radically different than 1000 years ago, even if it's the same stuff. Some things related to religious neocon rhetoric today are, however, deeply rooted in human instinct and should therefore be correctly identified as such before attacking them (if attacking them is judged to be the right thing to do). Thx for this discussion, I didn't know many of the historical stuff you mentioned.
Few comments:
Various cultures have had gay rights, or even elevated positions for gays or transgendered persons. Examples: Ancient Greeks, Sacred Hermaphrodites and transgendereds in Hindusism, Berdache shamans in Apache culture. There is a big difference between fantasy-like eroticism related to polytheistic immortal beings as part of a cultural awe towards their abnormality, and social acceptance. Gay males in particular were viewed with some respect in some areas when they were the penetrating/dominant side of adult relationships because they resembled macho/physical dominance over not only females but males. Effeminate males OTOH were not allowed to hold political office in roman and greek culture, and were seen as prostitutes (which is what they were, especially the young ones in Roman times). Lesbians were viewed with disdain, but indifference towards them is similar to monotheist indifference today. You still need a dildo (joking, joking).
Smoking was considered unhealhy, devilish, and lower-class stuff when tabacco first found it's way into Europe. It was also considered a medicine and health promoter in certain circles. Recognition of health concerns, implementation of nation-wide decrees in which the public takes part in the debate (supposedly) is new. There is an obsession with hygiene today that did not exist before I think.
Abortion and infanticide has long been practices in tribal societies and non-Monotheistic, Godess-worshipping culture Name one place where abortion was not viewed with shame, or as the result of failed relationships, economic poverty, negligence..etc. Infanticide was almost always restricted to females, particularly in pre-Islamic Arabia. Today, abortion is an unquestionable service in many places. Yes, modern-day evangelism is unprecedented in it's violent opposition, but modern day "I can kill my baby and be proud" is also very new.
Evolved elements of human psychology do not changed very much. This is nature, not nurture.
You are right, parent is mostly wrong. Just because people have become accustomed to relaxed attitudes towards things that are done via software does not mean they require less of an effort. In fact, the "effort" part can be taken out of this argument entirely due to difference between physical and informational domains. It is the intent that matters, and in both cases the intent is to infringe upon the privacy of information that is not intended for public use.
What kind of a geek are you? I would have taken quick photo shoots of the building, RJ11 outlets, external phone cables..etc on the spot while chatting to them wireless, put the pics on a computer and sent them back immediately to the customer support email! Die you bastards!
[commercial with sexy woman wearing short curly hair and holding LAN cable] AT&T: Is your "building" tall enough?
Also in the news: Man breaks 3 bones after jumping from roof of 4 story building to prove to telecom company that he wants their service. The said company is still skeptical.
Physicists of the DZero experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a new heavy particle, the b (pronounced "zigh sub b") baryon..
So now instead of
*sigh* goes back to watching pr0n
we will get
*zigh* goes back to watching pr0n
Any other ramifications other than standard model verification?
I think that technology's march is not only inevitable, but accelerating. To outright dismiss these possibilities is completely unreasonable and irrational. The biggest problem is not in technology (the application of science) but the actual nature of physics/maths and our knowledge of them in the past 100 years. We have not only made discoveries during that period, but we also made significant strides in the way we understand and perform science, leading to thought experiments that have made predictions on the nature of reality which have been verified to utmost present accuracy even though they were never based on these observations to begin with. In other words, for the first time in our history, we have been able to postulate mathematically provable things about what we can and cannot know (think quantum physics), while eliminating the pretense of knowledge/assumptions almost completely. True, we're not "there" yet, but a new revolution in our understanding of physics will have to be much much greater (and far less understandable) than the one we currently have, and which renders something like interstellar travel very far-fetched.
It may be that a new leap is beyond our models of math reasoning. Have you ever considered that?
Egypt considers the war on an Arab despot a direct threat to it's own totalitarian regime, and in keeping with it's nationalist rhetoric the local media were all instructed to demonize anything American in this war, and support any force, terrorist or otherwise, against it. The US state department knows and understands this, as the Egyptians need this to heat up the people against a common enemy/"devil" or else lose power.
Saudi is not happy because now they have to protect themselves from an Iran wannabe state, run by militant shias whose entire sect is based on a political theme 1400 years ago. Threats have been exchanged.
Kuwait is unhappy to be part of a conflict in which it is portrayed as supporting the heathen American forces in invading and destroying a non-threatening Arab country.
Or did you mean the war will scare everybody into a US-style democracy? Is that even a good thing?
Moderators on crack. How the hell is this insightful when even a cursory read of the summary will get you to recognize the concept of using an accurately known mass for calibration?
Most methods to measure mass will involve measuring the effect of imparting motion on that mass, and gravitational fields do this in an energy efficient way. Step no.2 is to see how much force, ona calibrated scale, in the opposite direction is required to cancel that effect out. Traditionally: elastic springs..etc. Today: magnetic flux.
Something involving rotational acceleration could perhaps be used in space for small objects.
Also, perfectly round silicon is hard to argue against. Have you no hormones at all?:)
Half the problem is that the ISS was designed by Congress and the President of the United States (Reagan, Bush I, Clinton) Right, so that's how it got the long pointy shape. I've always wondered.
Only a thought experiment required, performed by Albert Einstein in 1902, and others before him. To talk about time you must talk about events, and events can be described only through some notion of simultaneity, and simultaneity is relative frames of reference and thus dimensional.
Still, from what I know, the time vector is under standard interpretation like an expanding arrow, it cannot have a negative value despite its dimensionality.
In the absence of some first-hand information from down there, how _do_ you draw the right conclusions from just a satellite photo? You're going around in circles, mate. They already told you (5 posts up) that given the first hand information on the intricacies you are talking about, the satellite imagery adds to the evidence needed to establish the case. It's not meant to prove that group A is bad and group B is good - it's just meant to show, from an overhead-view, what everybody on the ground has seen.
It's nothing complicated, no "technology" at all: your client polls for data from the server every second or so, the malicious server knows who you are from your login credentials and sends you a price that is higher/lower than the actual market price on one such second. You have programmed your client to trigger a buy once the price rises to point X (this is a buy stop), so the single quote triggers you off, then the data falls back to the real (low) price and you have lost money. They have won. Evil world.
Even worse, when you sue them you aren't just suing big pockets, you're literally suing the bank. Very funny, no?
If you're in forex rather than stocks, you can get a very similar and rather high quality service for FREE by checking out www.forexfactory.com, which is very open source oriented (automated trading scripts) and which has a business model based on sane advertising from good brokers.
They buy the news calender from a premium provider, and it includes expected values and impact, as well as a summary explaining each news item. It's all on the front page, and you can even wget their calender file in xml, or parse it real time with your scripts as the news comes in. Stock markets are affected by the same set of news, usually, although trading individual companies is a different game.
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About the abortion debate, let's not go there, we both probably are not interested in that kind of discussion. I was just pointing out that modern day rationale for a lot of cultural phenomena is radically different than 1000 years ago, even if it's the same stuff. Some things related to religious neocon rhetoric today are, however, deeply rooted in human instinct and should therefore be correctly identified as such before attacking them (if attacking them is judged to be the right thing to do). Thx for this discussion, I didn't know many of the historical stuff you mentioned.
Evolved elements of human psychology do not changed very much. This is nature, not nurture.
You are right, parent is mostly wrong. Just because people have become accustomed to relaxed attitudes towards things that are done via software does not mean they require less of an effort. In fact, the "effort" part can be taken out of this argument entirely due to difference between physical and informational domains. It is the intent that matters, and in both cases the intent is to infringe upon the privacy of information that is not intended for public use.
All your toilets are still belong to us!
What kind of a geek are you? I would have taken quick photo shoots of the building, RJ11 outlets, external phone cables..etc on the spot while chatting to them wireless, put the pics on a computer and sent them back immediately to the customer support email! Die you bastards!
[commercial with sexy woman wearing short curly hair and holding LAN cable]
AT&T: Is your "building" tall enough?
Also in the news: Man breaks 3 bones after jumping from roof of 4 story building to prove to telecom company that he wants their service. The said company is still skeptical.
But there's no fiction at all then, not just the exciting stuff. There only happiness must come from quotes like:
Theories pass. The frog remains.
-Jean Rostand
Physicists of the DZero experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a new heavy particle, the b (pronounced "zigh sub b") baryon..
So now instead of
*sigh* goes back to watching pr0n
we will get
*zigh* goes back to watching pr0n
Any other ramifications other than standard model verification?
My cynicism detector thresholds have now been adjusted. Thank you for your input. Please proceed to the nearest exit.
It may be that a new leap is beyond our models of math reasoning. Have you ever considered that?
Would you care to elaborate?
Egypt considers the war on an Arab despot a direct threat to it's own totalitarian regime, and in keeping with it's nationalist rhetoric the local media were all instructed to demonize anything American in this war, and support any force, terrorist or otherwise, against it. The US state department knows and understands this, as the Egyptians need this to heat up the people against a common enemy/"devil" or else lose power.
Saudi is not happy because now they have to protect themselves from an Iran wannabe state, run by militant shias whose entire sect is based on a political theme 1400 years ago. Threats have been exchanged.
Kuwait is unhappy to be part of a conflict in which it is portrayed as supporting the heathen American forces in invading and destroying a non-threatening Arab country.
Or did you mean the war will scare everybody into a US-style democracy? Is that even a good thing?
He was being sarcastic. Welcome to the US of A :)
Moderators on crack. How the hell is this insightful when even a cursory read of the summary will get you to recognize the concept of using an accurately known mass for calibration?
Mod him up you fascists.
So when I finally bite the dirt sandwich, my [bot]master will be not God, but a skinny 14 year old with Vitamin D deficiency?
Religion seems OK sometimes.
Most methods to measure mass will involve measuring the effect of imparting motion on that mass, and gravitational fields do this in an energy efficient way. Step no.2 is to see how much force, ona calibrated scale, in the opposite direction is required to cancel that effect out. Traditionally: elastic springs..etc. Today: magnetic flux.
:)
Something involving rotational acceleration could perhaps be used in space for small objects.
Also, perfectly round silicon is hard to argue against. Have you no hormones at all?
Your question demonstrates the rhetorical rationality of arguments *for* stringent immigration laws.
On Soviet Slashdot, groupthink/redundancy hates YOU!
Only a thought experiment required, performed by Albert Einstein in 1902, and others before him. To talk about time you must talk about events, and events can be described only through some notion of simultaneity, and simultaneity is relative frames of reference and thus dimensional.
Still, from what I know, the time vector is under standard interpretation like an expanding arrow, it cannot have a negative value despite its dimensionality.
It's nothing complicated, no "technology" at all: your client polls for data from the server every second or so, the malicious server knows who you are from your login credentials and sends you a price that is higher/lower than the actual market price on one such second. You have programmed your client to trigger a buy once the price rises to point X (this is a buy stop), so the single quote triggers you off, then the data falls back to the real (low) price and you have lost money. They have won. Evil world.
Even worse, when you sue them you aren't just suing big pockets, you're literally suing the bank. Very funny, no?
If you're in forex rather than stocks, you can get a very similar and rather high quality service for FREE by checking out www.forexfactory.com, which is very open source oriented (automated trading scripts) and which has a business model based on sane advertising from good brokers.
They buy the news calender from a premium provider, and it includes expected values and impact, as well as a summary explaining each news item. It's all on the front page, and you can even wget their calender file in xml, or parse it real time with your scripts as the news comes in. Stock markets are affected by the same set of news, usually, although trading individual companies is a different game.