Meshugger

We aren't trying, we simply are more civilized. Changes in society and culture and technology prove this. That's what civilization is. It doesn't stop us from being human, and that we can act selfishly, of stupidly or violently doesn't mean humanity as a whole isn't more civilized now than in the past. We don't "cave in" to our basic instincts. Choosing to eat when I'm hungry is not "caving in". Do I need to refuse to eat in order to be seen as civilized? No, we are not. In order to improve oneself and society, and therefore civilization, there has to be a will to do it. And don't compare eating to fighting for male dominance of a woman. One is for basic survival, the other is for breeding.

People also still eat fruit and meat. This does not make you an american black bear. When you reduce anything enough, everything becomes the same. Ok, let's go down on a level. How many barfights are started over a woman? 100 years ago this kind of matters, such as insulting someones significant other, were settled with duel (often to the death). We are trying to get more civilized, but the basic instincts often cave in too often.

Possibly not in the way that you mean, but on a purely technical level, yes we are. Comparing the life expectancy, average height and cranium size of modern people to those who lived 2000 years ago attests to that much. However, our behavior towards one another shows that we are as primitive as we were back then. Speak for yourself. I don't recall clubbing any rivals for female attention lately. Uh-hum. Compare on how it is done today to get "the female attraction", the difference lies in sophistication, but it is still the same: Men do compete against each other for female attention.

By browsing through some other forums, i've seen the current "conspiracy theory": Albanians in Macedonia and Greece will soon prompt for independence under similar conditions, which will spark more separatist uprising in the Caucasus-region, Chechenya will continue their uprising and the north of Cyprus, and parts of Moldavia as well. Kosovo, will like Montenegro and a lesser degree Albania be a grey area in Europe, where at least 50 of the GDP will come from organized crime for the next 20-30 years. Sounds very pessimistic.

Holy hell, that is what i would call a patch

There's also the cost/performance ratio. A PS3 is 479 euro, compared to a Quad-Xeon processor, which costs 879 euro.

I don't know. Do a Luxembourgian model and invite all the banks from the world?

Linky. Considering the history of the balkans, i wonder whether this turns out peacefully.

I just finished "Toppa Tengen Gurren Lagann". 10/10. The best thing happened to anime in years. Celebration of over-the-top action and style completely sold me. Unpossible not to like this anime, even if you never watched anime before.

I for one, is using the "THE POWER OF THE CELL" for my master's thesis. I am programming for the playstation 3 (C with IBM CBE libraries) in order to explore the use streaming, parallel dataflows, compared to traditional sequential programming. It is used as a tool for a larger project. Difficult to get used to, but the results are impressive. "And why not the Xbox360?", as a layman would say. There aren't simply any tools for the Xbox360 for public use in order to explicitly map the different cores.

See, if I'd hear more such things, and of people I know that have the same taste in games (which both of you do to some extent), and important: of people in RL, I'd get it I haven't seen anyone on this board that played ME say they didn't enjoy it. I'd say it's fairly well spoken for among this grumpy group. Except me. This grumpy old pop didn't like it all. Keep in mind, my focus was on the story and characters.

= Message to the voters: *Haha* *nee-ner* *nee-ner* Here i actually agree on one thing that Mike Gravel said: "By negating the people a candidate that speaks for them, the government commits the worst political sin to its people, they create a generation a cynics." I've said all along Hillary will not go down gracefully. If the election results went against her she would beg, bribe, or threaten the supers to her side. If that fails she will probably sue the DNC to get the Michigan and Florida delegates seated because that would be enough. Her lodestone is the personal gratification in the power of the Presidency. If you listen to her on health care it should scare the bejesus out of any red blooded freedom loving American. I think that she scares to the beejesus out of any sane human being. I mean her idea of "free" healthcare takes all the power from the people and gives it to the coorperations under government mandate. What was is it called again, Hillary? Corporatism! Mussolini would've been proud. It's like she gone so much left on political compass that she jumped over to the farthest of right-wing authocracy.

Another thing the article forgot about Teddy: Before entering office he had been awarded the Medal of Honor (the highest a civil person can get) and later got the Nobel peaceprize. As Guard Dog said, he is THE american and symbolises everything that is good and right about the USA.

Or look at any number of European countries which are proof that mankind can try, and succeed, in evolving to something better and maintaining that improvement (but it looks like we're talking about philosophy and ethics now instead of biology). Honestly, your argument sounds the type Visceris used to make. Oh, i never claimed that this had anything to do with random mutations on our binary helix Europe has had a relative peace for 60 years. Insignificant compared on how long we have been on this earth. Point being, is that i personally admire people like King, Gandhi and alike. But the call from the jungle always gets the best of us.

Read and behold /salutes to Teddy.

= Message to the voters: *Haha* *nee-ner* *nee-ner* Here i actually agree on one thing that Mike Gravel said: "By negating the people a candidate that speaks for them, the government commits the worst political sin to its people, they create a generation a cynics."

More help for the mentally ill and rational gun control would prevent more incidents than both combined. Meshugger: Um. No? Lots of micro-evolution has occurred in Humans in 2000 years. I think people too often dissociate mutation and evolution. Sand: Oh really? Where did you learn that? Because it's wrong. Humans are evolving in 2 ways: 1) We're evolving faster as the human population increases (not more slowly, as predicted), due to population increase increasing the chance of favourable mutations occurring. 2) Populations geologically isolated are evolving away from each other - not towards one homogeneous mass as predicted due to globalisation; globalisation is serving to introduce some novel genes and mutations to work off, not homogenise populations. Not really. Look at africa, especially in the estern Kongo, Rwanda and Uganda. It's not even about power or religion any more, the situation has downright gone to Lord of the Flies. What has this to do with the shootings at the university? No matter how humankind tries to evolve to something better, incidents like these prove that we haven't much left the jungle yet.

Sad thing really, educational grounds or any other, should have to worry about matters such as these. There's however two solutions: 1) Give everyone a gun, empower the individual. Fear and survival instinct will nurture people, and the status quo will make people think twice before pulling a weapon. 2) Love. Celebrate life in general and your own life with your friends. Love your family, neighbour and people of all ages. Teach this to the following generation, no fear or hate when there's love. There was a guy actually saying something in the vein of option number 2 some time ago. Was it John, Jos

No, it really is. Meshugger: Not really. Most encryptions require brute-forcing by super-computers to decipher. It can take years to millions of years. This isn't World War 2. Look here for details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_factorization Basically, it's an NP problem, and NP problems can't be solved quickly by today's computers. Quantum computers may offer some advances, but then you'll very likely get quantum cryptography to nullify that. I was not talking about brute force. Hackers usually abuse different security hazards surrounding the software.

Oh but it can be that hard. Life is not allways a Dan Brown novel... There are pritty much proven unbrakeable codes in existance, mostly in use by militaries&governments but they say this PGP is as close as it gets to those... So I guess all we have left is waterbording heh. Btw I thought we were bombing ppl applying your "versions" around the world cos its too barbaric and extremist lol... No such thing. At least for commercial use. Good detective work and a smart hacker will do the job.

I have some worries about this movie: 1) Shia Leboulf (or whatever his name is). If he plays the same kind of teenage character as in Disturbia and Transformers, we're in for a lot of trouble, folks. 2) The main plot. We have had the Arc of the Covenant and the Grail. And even Atlantis in a game, what's left to discover? The charm of Indy 1 and 3 was the adventure for seeking clues and finding the great "treasure" with great action in the background. Having action for action's sake, while searching for somethingsomething is a step back IMO.

I'll do a "Tale" and go HAHA.

Not so fast. McCain is not poular in the Southern states and pro-business democrats can do well there. Contrary to what many people think (especially non-Ameicans I'm noticing) the south is not made up of "gun-totin, confederate flag wavin, beer-swillin, trailer dwellin, nascar lovin rednecks". The old confederate states have as a group the most rapidly growing poulation, the largest middle class by percentage of population, the lowest state tax rates, the largest by percentage contribution to the US GDP, and the lowest unemployment rates. It would be inaccurate to make statements like "The white republican will win the south because he's white" (not saying that is what you said Mes). LIBERAL candidates will do poorly in the south because by and large high tax big government policies are not popular here. The vast majority of voters no longer care what race you are, or what gender you are. The 1960s are over. I didn't put my point well enough, my appologies. Obama and Hillary are already socially liberal enough to make McCain the perfect candidate for the south, being a minority or a woman (or in Hillary's case, just being Hillary Clinton) isn't exactly helping on the whole image part of their campain. If Obama or Hillary wins, i owe you a big appology

Hope it will be, like MotB, outside of the sword coast.

My bad. But his writing for two of the best (except for Canderous) characters in KotOR was still vital for the overall package.