FlorinAndrei

Y'all are totally missing the point.

Each street is ~1 mile across. The distance between two successive "streets" is ~10 miles. The whole "city" is ~100 miles measured on one edge.

I, for one, welcome our new undersea giant overlords.

P.S.: Gmaps is full of artifacts like that. Here's another one, bigger than Ireland:

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=54.188155,-12...

Good point, but I wonder how much of that is reality, and how much is Greenspan's mistake - you know, that we're entering a brave new world where the old rules do not apply.

Well duh, if you were the 800lb gorilla you'd be a fool to "settle".

Interesting how the etymologies for "democracy" and "republic" are essentially the same. :-)

M&Ms.

They were working for "peanuts".

That was pretty awesome, thanks for sharing.

Uh-huh. The next study will reveal that the sky is blue and the water is wet.

This should be obvious for anyone who has spent a number of years in the corporate world - have you never seen that staple of the corp environment, the moron with no skills but a loud mouth and no scruples?

Amazing! Absolutely amazing. Great talk.

Small companies can be just as bad.

The more the merrier, duh.

Stop multiplying the copies when the effort becomes too big.

Make multiple copies of everything.

One copy on your media server - you know, the one you access via the PS3 or some other UPnP client in your living room.

One copy on a USB drive stored in a bank safe, ideally not too close physically to your home.

One copy (or more) distributed to your parents, in-laws, etc. Bonus points if they live in a different area.

Synchronize copies once in a while.

"We are sorry, but this item is not currently available for your region."

My region is Northern California. Hmmm...

Yo dawg, I herd you like feedback...

Excellent observation.

Or -f

As in:

ps axf

An army of lawyers, plus a brilliant rock-star entrepreneur usually described as "the smartest man in the room" who can pull it off, based on smarts and bravado.

The "cowboy persona" is a myth, completely fabricated. He bought the ranch in the early stages of planning his presidency bid, following the advice (probably) of people such as Karl Rove. Now that the ranch has served its purpose, it's up for sale.

Being a stickler for formal dress and punctuality - I see that more as an indication of insecurity.

> unless by "sustainable energy" we mean proven technologies like nuclear, which leftists inevitably don't

Oh wow, stereotyping much?

Bush versus Obama.

Appearance versus substance.

Let's make it seem ok, versus let's actually move things forward.

1. Do the MSF class 2. Get an M1 driver license 3. Get a sportbike, start riding

There are some risks involved...

http://florin.myip.org/blog/node/22

...but it will disconnect you from all stress and worries in a tremendous way.

Worked for Jules Verne anyway.

Wait, it didn't. They missed the Moon.

It's all in the deeper layers of your brain.

Look at all the "popular" people you know - individuals with lots of friends, a pretty busy social life, etc. What makes them like that? Easy: when they interact with people, the things that light up in their brains are all sorts of pleasure centers and reward sites and parts of the brain that generate positive emotions, and stuff like that. I don't know the proper names for those things, but you get the gist, I'm sure.

Even when just thinking about social interactions, before they even get up and go out and do it, the simple thought of interacting with people generates the same reaction in their brains. So they are motivated to start doing it, rather than sitting passive.

How about those with few (or no) real friends? When interacting with people, there's no such reaction in their brains. No reward sites, no positive emotions, nothing. Or, even worse, negative emotions are generated. And yes, that may happen even as that person feels "alone" - those are different processes, not mutually incompatible.

The solution? This is one of those rare instances when self-help books and New Age literature and stuff like that actually works. "Change starts with yourself", "positive thinking", heck even "love thy neighbor". All those stereotypes, in such a situation they do apply pretty well.

If you break a hologram to pieces, every piece retains the original image.

Sweet, so if you break the Universe... oh wait.

Right, so the accounts are falsified by the chairman of a company whose name means "truth".

Oh, the irony.

Maybe his bet is that CPUs will become massively multicore "soon enough".

the so-called "sugar high"

Reincarnation is of secondary importance to buddhism, and indeed it gives the impression of a "bolted on" feature that was added later on to, presumably, satisfy the masses.

The most strict interpretations of the buddhist doctrine actually posit the unreality of reincarnation.

(n.b.: I am not a buddhist)

Keep in mind though, a large part of modern science is a monism - it tries to explain everything starting from a single principle.

I'm not saying that's right or wrong, I'm just pointing it out. A monism works beautifully, as long as its basic assumptions are true. Unfortunately, the converse is true - a monism cannot detect whether its axioms are true or not. The more it keeps digging, the more it appears to confirm itself.

It is quite possible that the fundamental assumptions of materialist science are true. It's just that, if they are not, chances are the system will never detect its own incompletitude.

There doesn't seem to be such a big chasm between humans and the most evolved mammals. It's more a difference of degree.

We have language. So do the dolphins, albeit less complex. We are self-aware. So are chimps, dolphins, etc. Perhaps their self-awareness is not as sharply defined and perceived like ours, but it's there.

etc. etc.