On the Nature of Things | Forum

Actually, I had, at two different points. One rinzai, one Franciscan. However, there is no zen on the mountain but the zen you bring with you. A nuke is not a flint axe, and consciousness that evolves at a cybernetic pace is not flickerings on a cave wall. At some point, the tools change everything...

until they allow drinking and shagging im probably not welcome at a monestry and its moot anyway, they ran out of monks at our local one and it became a tourist trap.

i think most people do agree with you ibrahim and thats why im a pessimist.

nice summary. now onto the nitty gritty, how doth one define justice within this context... I thought quite simply. If you have a person, or persons, enjoying entitlements and privileges supported by others in circumstances where those privileges are either denied them or granted with a penalty - w...

This concern seems like part of living in human society generally, not a problem specific to the Internet, TV, or any other communications medium. thats exactly it ... pre internet and pre everything happening on the internet, this aspect of human society had local flavours and was only poorly enfo...

yeah...... freedom isn't free. It costs money....... There is a confusion between freedom and human rights, the two aren't exactly coequal. Basic contractual agreements and conventions because one is a human being and lives in a society that claims to be moral and under the rule of law is confuted ...

somewhere between the cliche;s you love so much are things that have been lost and i want back..somewhere along the line "progress" became ruthlessy enforced rather than encouraged.. i cant afford to go off the grid, that is only possible for the very rich or very poor in my country, i wil...

What are you guys worried about? The gubbermint seeing what websites you visit? I pity the NSA factotum grinding his teeth in boredom while reading my emails. its not so much "worry" .. its more that over the last few decades ive watched all sorts of things move from the "free and ch...

Under SOPA you could get 5 years in prison for uploading a video of Michael Jackson, that's 1 more year than the guy who killed him

they only stuffed up on this bill by concentrating on copyright which doesnt trigger a good kneejerk across enough sub cultures. in australia they focused on terrorists and druglords and pedophiles and anonymous bullies causing pretty teenage girls to suicide.. and it all passed with approval across...

Lol, man; people don't make a deal with the devil out of nowhere. Scratch got all the bennies. He may not ever come to collect. But eventually, you start cheering for him, even though you know it's wrong, just because you find yourself on the same side. I had one experience with credit back in 1993...

http://blog.curry.com/stories/2012/01/16/sopaIsARedHerring.html the TL;DR snapshot is that laws to control the dns servers are only needed if the dns servers dont comply with government demands - the dns root servers are complying with government demands so the law has become somewhat irrelevant. As...

Typhoon wrote:Japanese custom officials caught the men on their second attempt and sent them home after imposing fines. Later, one of the suspects allegedly orchestrated an unsuccessful bid to smuggle gold bars from Mongolia to Hong Kong using a similar method.

so.....is that a relapse or a prolapse.

the difference with those cities is they are old and formed adhoc over time so their isnt a daftness per se in the fact they dont have sewers... its a different thing. when starting from scratch in a modern context with a budget big enough to build the biggest and craziest buildings in the world, it...

So do I. Somebody out to write Utilizing Raspberry Pi for Dummies so us non-geniuses (I'm speaking for myself here, not anyone else on the thread) can have fun, too. feck posted how to setup a linux vm and these little buggers run a small linux, so first step is already documented :) normally for t...

- At the National Art Gallery in Dublin , a husband and wife were staring at a portrait that had them completely confused. The painting depicted 3 black men totally naked, sitting on a bench. Two of the figures had black penises, but the one in the middle had a pink penis. The curator of the gallery...

Gentlemen, behold ! http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/8523/raspimodelabmono1699x10.png A credit card sized computer for $25. A cheap assed HTPC ! An ultra low powered torrent / file / print / DNS server! The brains inside your inexpensive [ GENERIC_TOKYO_DESTROYING_ROBOT_IDEA ]! The controller of ...

Amazingly, Dubai doesn't have a sewage infrastructure to support its skyscrapers, including the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa. Drivers said they'd been queuing for three days! Unsurprising then, that many dump their loads into storm drains that lead directly to the open sea. Tourists ar...

if everyone isnt forced to participate in the socialised service then they are killing poor babies and grannies because that model requires the well off to pay extra so that the poor can get the service at a cheaper rate.

see alabama.

*twisted*

In General: 1. Never take an open stubby to a job interview... 2. Always identify people in your paddocks before shooting at them. 3. It's tacky to take an Esky to church. 4. If you have to vacuum the bed, it's time to change the sheets. 5. Even if you're certain you're included in the will, it's ru...

the dry and abrasive philosopheriserinater only flies when odin walks.

i quite got into the "mind hacking" meme at one stage - the way different humans have different response patterns when in different moods and the ability to trigger a mood using different concepts... a pulpy scifi book (paratwa?) first got me thinking about it. the simplistic explanation b...

there is a cultural difference in perception between those of us raised "sticks n stones" versus those raised to be ermm, polite.

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simple answer for windows after a significant hardware change is backup your stuff and reinstall ... unless you enjoy spending hours on forums and tinkering with drivers and registry settings.

What is "A Right" anyway? Something a group of people allow themselves to do; usually expressed as a prohibition on an authority's actions. I don't see where "Internet Access" and it's implied infrastructure falls under that rubric unless enough people agree and write it all dow...