I've known about Mixmaster for years, but only just now finally
downloaded and installed it (Mixmaster 2.9.0). Does anyone know where I
can find documentation on how to actually use it? The distribution
(from Sourceforge) contains no documentation whatsoever beyond a *very*
terse man page
Morlock Elloi wrote:
Funny, but I can't seem to find the passage in the Bible where it talks about cloning. In fact, I can't find any passage that even remotely impinges on the subject
[...] wasn't there something about exclusivity of conceiving without fucking ?
As a former believer and
Morlock Elloi wrote:
What would be the valid reason for the government to claim power
to regulate her egg, her skin DNA, and her uterus?
1) Fucks up the prevailing religion doctrine.
Funny, but I can't seem to find the passage in the Bible where it talks
about cloning. In fact, I can't
John Kelsey wrote:
No policy toward anyone isn't possible once there's any kind of
contact. There are terrorists who'd want to do nasty things to us for
simply allowing global trade, or for allowing trade with repressive
regimes like Saudi Arabia or Nigeria, or for selling weapons to
Tyler Durden wrote:
For some reason I've never been able to fathom, many journalists seem
to be remarkably gullable, when they're told something from the right
kind of source, especially a government agency or other official source.
Chomsky (dig around on http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm) and
Tyler Durden wrote:
Black leadership is one potential issue here, but the other ethnic
groups that do so well in the US have no identifiable leaders here.
Which is precisely why those ethnic groups do so well, while U.S.
blacks do not.
The value of leaders is vastly overrated in American
Tim May wrote:
It goes beyond just the black leaders thing--it's also about black
pride.
My eye-opening experience was my arrival in college (as Brits would
say, at university) in 1970.
Well, this post explains a lot about Tim's attitude. Myself, I never
ran into this kind of crap in
Tim May wrote:
Swahili was the language they took to meet the minimal foreign
language requirements.
This sounds like the one worthwhile course in the bunch. One may learn
a foreign language in order to be able to read important literary,
historical, philosophical, or scientific works in
Tim May wrote:
In the past fifteen years I have come to realize that crypto anarchy
will probably change all this, as it makes for a system where only a
competent elite does well. Probably fifty million marginal Americans,
including nearly all of the so-called peoples of color, will, one
Tyler Durden wrote:
Was this black people's fault? Nah. It's all of our fault.
Bullshit. I had nothing to do with it.
Collective guilt only dilutes responsibility and ensures that
pathological behavior continues. Let me suggest some specific groups of
people who are responsible:
- The
Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Girl driving in car is attacked by men in car
and tries to escape the attack. The men are pigs (DEA, of course)
out of uniform in unmarked car. She is shot in head.
Pigs will get away with this, of course. She was
Mexican, lower class, in Texas, so expendable.
I've been reading DiLorenzo's book, _The Real Lincoln_, and this
description is a pretty close fit to Abraham Lincoln, too.
Eric Cordian wrote:
--- A great, civilized nation democratically elected a fanatic demagogue, who preached war. Actually, he did not really receive the majority of votes,
Anonymous wrote:
Ethnomathematics
Good lord, this sounds like it was practically designed to sabotage the
prospects for minorities to excel in mathematics, by encouraging them to
waste their efforts on nonsense and useless trivia.
Harmon Seaver wrote:
The better way to frame the question: May a private property owner
legally exclude people from it? Seems to me the answer should be, as a
general rule, yes
Absolutely yes, except for the fact that malls have invited the public in,
Are you saying that if I invite people to a
Tyler Durden wrote:
Let's take one of my famous extreme examples. Let's say a section of
the New Jersey Turnpike gets turned over to a private company, which
now owns and operates this section.
So...now let's say I'm black. NO! Let's say I'm blond-haired and blue
eyed, and the asshole in the
Tyler Durden wrote:
Actually, I am dimly aware of this. From the little I've been able to
glean, there is a very slow, steady progress in the 'science' of
economics/econometrics.
By the way, one piece of evidence that economics is maturing into a real
science is that it is becoming usable by
Major Variola (ret) wrote:
I just realized this morning that corporations can't exiest in an
anarchy,
they are whole a fiction of the state.
In the sense of a govt-recognized, protected entity, granted.
But not in terms of voluntary associations.
Not all companies are corporations.
Tim May wrote:
More time-consuming than I am prepared to commit to for an article
which maybe 5 people will read!)
Ah, you're too modest, Tim. In spite of the fact that you're a bigoted,
misanthropic curmudgeon, at least you're an INTERESTING bigoted,
misanthropic curmudgeon. :-)
david wrote:
But you wouldn't mind if insurance companies required the device
in order for you to get a policy (whether or not it called the
police or just the insurance company) ?
Right ?
If I did mind, I'd just find a different insurance company. It's a
little bit harder for me to say, I
R. A. Hettinga wrote:
By the way, one piece of evidence that economics is maturing into a real
science is that it is becoming usable by engineers;
Well, finance, anyway, where it is possible to calculate some risk.
You can't calculate prices, though. You discover them.
For commodities, if
Steve Thompson wrote:
Logical actors dominate in the economy
because those prone
to excessive irrationality end up with little money
to play with.
Perhaps you aren't joking... I would be forced to
agree with you is you defined `logical' in this
context to mean actors following the logic of
Harmon Seaver wrote:
Encouraging the imperial persecution of a religious minority?
Well, it looks at this point that it would have been a reasonable trade-off, given the millions who have been tortured and murdered in Europe and the Americas since the Council of Nicea in 425 by the offspring of
James A. Donald wrote:
Indeed, this He said, she said approach, which treats US reports and
Iraqi reports as equally credible, seems to me like
Baathist propaganda, like anti western bias.
Lying is as natural to governments as breathing is to normal, healthy
people. What makes you think the
Harmon Seaver wrote:
And what makes you think things would have been any better in the
absence of Christianity?
You've heard of the Inquistion perhaps?
The Catholic Church (which carried out the Inquisition, in cooperation
with various governments) is not the whole of Christianity. There are
Harmon Seaver wrote:
But of course, the problems really pre-date all that, going back to
when the christer Romans came and killed off the Druids and Wiccans
who wouldn't bend the knee to conversion, as they did in the rest of
Europe.
You are completely and utterly wrong here. The Romans never
John Kelsey wrote:
I think there was some complicated argument about the Taliban not
being a legitimate government,
What's a legitimate government? One with enough firepower to make its
rule stick?
Harmon Seaver wrote:
If you read the history, there were just as many christer theologists and ministers arguing *for* slavery as there were against.
Their religion was not the cause of their support for slavery;
self-interest was. On the other hand, many, many abolitionists became
devoted to
Damian Gerow wrote:
I can only see two reasons for bombing with
nuclear weapons: hate and stupidity.
That being said, you'd have to *really* hate someone (or an entire country) to actually /use/ a nuclear weapon.
That's nonsense. I can think of several entirely ethical uses of
nuclear weapons,
Harmon Seaver wrote:
No, they weren't christian -- they were followers of Rabbi Yeshua ben
Yoseph ha Natzri, later called Mesheach ha Israel. [...] Jesus and
Christ and christianity were something invented by the europeans [...] [Marcion] took
a scissors and cut out anything that was at all
Tyler Durden wrote:
As far as I can tell, we've been actively meddling in foreign
governments since the early 1950s.
I haven't been; have you? If not, then you shouldn't use the term we.
One of the mind games that state worshippers play on the populace is to
get them to identify with the
Harmon Seaver wrote:
Translate/transliterate is irrelevant -- you don't change people's names,
Ever hear of King Ferdinand of Spain? His real name was, of course,
Fernando -- Ferdinand is merely the English equivalent. Likewise,
English and Spanish speakers use different names for the same
Joseph Ashwood wrote:
The priority oil is not a current problem but with the world oil supply
quickly becoming depleted (some estimates put us at only 30 years left)
Which is what they were saying 30 years ago...
Tyler Durden wrote:
This should be seen as a trial run. Iraq is seen as an extremely easy
and totally defenceless target.
I beg to differ. Haiti and Yugoslavia were the trial runs; but since
they happened under a Democratic president, the left didn't make a fuss.
Neil Johnson wrote:
When your choice is 1) sending THOUSANDS of troops to their death trying
invade the Japanese home islands or 2) Trying out two new, not fully reliable, not fully understood weapons that, however, if they work, will save you from doing 1).
I think I know what my ethical
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