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Dec. 5th, 2006 01:02 amOne presentation, finished. Very informal sort of style, and mine was probably the shortest, both on content and on slides. Which was good for me, because I felt like the room needed to wake up some. No presenting tomorrow, but on again on Wednesday, then off until Tuesday the twelfth. By then, it should all be done.
Headcrab Hat. For the person that needs headwear that will deplete their health.
My library gene is tickled. My older sister sent this along to me - a list of some of the new book terminology. Like Sadtires, the Thirty-Second Pickup, and the like. My philosophical gene is also tickled by the existence of Dudeism. Although I think I already knew that Dudeism existed beforehand. It’s probably in the archives somewhere.
I’m not amused, however, by the following link.. Although I wonder whether this is a humorous post or a serious one, it accuses the left of being sore losers, and takes delight in holding up an example of someone not yet past the Internet-Beta stage as the spokesperson for liberals, which I believe creates the straw man argument that he claims is used against him. (If not that one, I’m pretty sure there’s a logical fallacy involved). What he might be looking for is something wordy and linktastic, more like A Question for Neoconservative Catholics, which places the neoconservative philosophy in contrast to the words and writings of Jesus of Nazareth and the later Catholic thinkers.
We know that there are all sorts of persons in the Untied States, with all sorts of ideologies. According to what happened when Jerry Klein put up a hoax suggestion that Muslims be tattooed or identified in some manner, there's a significant part of the populace that thinks Muslims should be identified, the same way the Jews were. The article then goes on to cite a Gallup poll that says nearly 40 percent of the over 1,000 polled believe Muslims should be required to carry special identification. On a slightly different note, but sort of following the general though process, check a collection of answers to the question Is it Fascism Yet?
Sand Sculpture on a large scale. I’d say these people should be hired to build a sand castle at a 1:1 replica size. Although, with the potential of a large ice shelf collapsing, all the beachfront might start bigger.
Translation machines may soon be ready for the big show - without needing massive amounts of parallel text in both the source and target languages. I like this idea - it translates through, keeps all the possible ideas in mind, then scans the source language looking for the most likely correct grammatical structure and word placement. You get more natural-sounding language, rather than technically correct but very gibberish-like sentences.
Is it possible the FBI could use your cell phone as a wireless tap? Well, we’re not sure. If the phone can be turned on remotely and used to monitor, without user consent or knowledge, that’s going to be very interesting. Lauren Weinstein produces for us a couple suggestions on how to tell if your cell phone is being used as a bug, with the admonition that most people are probably never going to be tapped by the FBI for listening. Still, if it can be done by government, the question is always “What’s stopping private enterprise from doing the same thing, especially if they have friendly Reps and Senators in Washington?” Or from doing it anyway, even if it is illegal. Or doing it at the government’s request for a general warrantless wiretap. In my case, I think I get away with things simply because I’m not interesting enough.
Last thing for tonight, which is always the special spot (people cheer and say “Thank $DEITY, it’s almost done!”).![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jadecat takes on the idea of the surrendered wife and produces from it, a sound idea of what relationships and marriages should be like. jadecat even vivisects the two extremes that seem to prevail when people think of marriage - the surrendered wife, who enslaves herself to her husband, or the nag with a sharp tongue that makes her husband look like a bumbling idiot. I think that the terminology of a woman needing to surrender smacks of a certain kind of relationship. Might be along the same lines of how “Wives, submit to your husbands” has been classically interpreted. With the somewhat more expanded view of the world I have, I tend to think of a “surrendering” wife either being in the “women have no rights” sort of relationship, or alternately a dominant-submissive relationship. Those two are pretty well away from each other on the scale of similarity, though. If that wasn’t the intent, then better words could probably be used. But, y’know, go read for yourself and tell me whether my interpretation’s far off.
That’s the feed. One of these days, I’ll have a post of original content, or something like that. But for now, you get my comments on other people’s thoughts. Not necessarily a less valid way of going about things, just not necessarily the easiest way to get known as a creative thinker and writer in your own right. Not too worried about it, anyway. After all, I’m still writing papers, so by definition I’m doing a lot of work that’s based on other people’s ideas. Meh. One of these days, I’ll have an interesting thought and expound on it (and then someone else will tell me it’s already been done, but until then, we’ll savor the thought of having been original).
Also, did I mention how hard it is to turn silveradept into a pronoucable, actually achievable Nobody name?
Headcrab Hat. For the person that needs headwear that will deplete their health.
My library gene is tickled. My older sister sent this along to me - a list of some of the new book terminology. Like Sadtires, the Thirty-Second Pickup, and the like. My philosophical gene is also tickled by the existence of Dudeism. Although I think I already knew that Dudeism existed beforehand. It’s probably in the archives somewhere.
I’m not amused, however, by the following link.. Although I wonder whether this is a humorous post or a serious one, it accuses the left of being sore losers, and takes delight in holding up an example of someone not yet past the Internet-Beta stage as the spokesperson for liberals, which I believe creates the straw man argument that he claims is used against him. (If not that one, I’m pretty sure there’s a logical fallacy involved). What he might be looking for is something wordy and linktastic, more like A Question for Neoconservative Catholics, which places the neoconservative philosophy in contrast to the words and writings of Jesus of Nazareth and the later Catholic thinkers.
We know that there are all sorts of persons in the Untied States, with all sorts of ideologies. According to what happened when Jerry Klein put up a hoax suggestion that Muslims be tattooed or identified in some manner, there's a significant part of the populace that thinks Muslims should be identified, the same way the Jews were. The article then goes on to cite a Gallup poll that says nearly 40 percent of the over 1,000 polled believe Muslims should be required to carry special identification. On a slightly different note, but sort of following the general though process, check a collection of answers to the question Is it Fascism Yet?
Sand Sculpture on a large scale. I’d say these people should be hired to build a sand castle at a 1:1 replica size. Although, with the potential of a large ice shelf collapsing, all the beachfront might start bigger.
Translation machines may soon be ready for the big show - without needing massive amounts of parallel text in both the source and target languages. I like this idea - it translates through, keeps all the possible ideas in mind, then scans the source language looking for the most likely correct grammatical structure and word placement. You get more natural-sounding language, rather than technically correct but very gibberish-like sentences.
Is it possible the FBI could use your cell phone as a wireless tap? Well, we’re not sure. If the phone can be turned on remotely and used to monitor, without user consent or knowledge, that’s going to be very interesting. Lauren Weinstein produces for us a couple suggestions on how to tell if your cell phone is being used as a bug, with the admonition that most people are probably never going to be tapped by the FBI for listening. Still, if it can be done by government, the question is always “What’s stopping private enterprise from doing the same thing, especially if they have friendly Reps and Senators in Washington?” Or from doing it anyway, even if it is illegal. Or doing it at the government’s request for a general warrantless wiretap. In my case, I think I get away with things simply because I’m not interesting enough.
Last thing for tonight, which is always the special spot (people cheer and say “Thank $DEITY, it’s almost done!”).
jadecat takes on the idea of the surrendered wife and produces from it, a sound idea of what relationships and marriages should be like. jadecat even vivisects the two extremes that seem to prevail when people think of marriage - the surrendered wife, who enslaves herself to her husband, or the nag with a sharp tongue that makes her husband look like a bumbling idiot. I think that the terminology of a woman needing to surrender smacks of a certain kind of relationship. Might be along the same lines of how “Wives, submit to your husbands” has been classically interpreted. With the somewhat more expanded view of the world I have, I tend to think of a “surrendering” wife either being in the “women have no rights” sort of relationship, or alternately a dominant-submissive relationship. Those two are pretty well away from each other on the scale of similarity, though. If that wasn’t the intent, then better words could probably be used. But, y’know, go read for yourself and tell me whether my interpretation’s far off.That’s the feed. One of these days, I’ll have a post of original content, or something like that. But for now, you get my comments on other people’s thoughts. Not necessarily a less valid way of going about things, just not necessarily the easiest way to get known as a creative thinker and writer in your own right. Not too worried about it, anyway. After all, I’m still writing papers, so by definition I’m doing a lot of work that’s based on other people’s ideas. Meh. One of these days, I’ll have an interesting thought and expound on it (and then someone else will tell me it’s already been done, but until then, we’ll savor the thought of having been original).
Also, did I mention how hard it is to turn silveradept into a pronoucable, actually achievable Nobody name?
