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Hey! You lot! Stop slapping yourselves on the back and answer my question! ;) Anyway, one of the good things about a place like lenin's tomb or antiwar.com is that they wear their biases on their sleeves, so you know where they are coming from. what's so pernicious about the BBC and similar...

Nice! I love ghost in the shell. i've been watching the GOTS tv series they've put out recently and it's pretty good too. and talk about post-modern influence, in one episode there was a brief clip of one of their semi-autonomous robots (the tachikomas!) reading Anti-Oedipus for godsakes! Lot's...

Arg, this conversation is going nowhere. But let's give it a try anyway. My question is, regardless of whether the US actually will attack Iran or not, can anyone actually picture a situation in which a US attack on Iran will work out well? A situation: - that does not just further inflame...

sweet, hadn't seen this thread. surfing kicks ass. Yeah, "riding giants" was great for the big waves, absolutely insane stuff. But i find all the pseudo-spiritual uplifting bullshit really hard to take. same with "endless summer" (the surf movie, not the beach boys album, of course!). Which is...

you guys aren't helping!!! (btw, lenin cat rules all! :) )

Seriously, i've developed an unhealthy addiction to cute pictures of cats. it's worse than porn! god there's a cat picture for everything and then there's this site, which is gold for this pic alone (lenin cat particularly kills me): but even worse is this! it's like it should...

R U DOUBLE DOUBLE F AIN'T NO OTHER CREW THAT CAN TEST!! I rest my case :D

nomad, have you seen this thread? http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=1360 Vice's conservatism and general shitty attitude discussed extensively...

Jesus, this site just completely blew my morning. Actually, there are worst ways to start your monday than with a million pictures of cute kitties...

Ah, thanks you two. I made the typical CS mistake of forgetting to think about the humans ;) That said, do you people know about things like the Web Ontology Language (OWL)? It's essentially an attempt to create a language that will give the internet a standard, computer-readable semantic...

So I was thinking about your argument Nomad, and (just to play devil's advocat here) I do think there's a decent arguement for newsom actually being a feminist. As you say yourself Nomad, you *can* see her as being a feminist. I think, the way to do this is to look at her taking some very...

Umm, might I ask exactly what that means? Surely the trend of the internet is an increase of the organizational structure of knowledge? Especially with things like google's attempt to digitize all the world's books and i dunno, just pretty much the efforts of every large technology company out...

Damn, Nomad, I think you've summed yourself up pretty damn well there and uhhh I think you're largely right. But I still like her music. Does that make me a bad person? ;) I guess maybe I'm happy that it's at least fairly sonically progressive, and, well, not everything I listen to needs to be...

This looks really cool. Would you be able to recommend which of these papers would be of interest to a person actually in computer science, but with an interest in theory? This stuff kind of looks like a weird parallel universe to the CS academic field, topics like embodiment, virtual spaces...

Yeah, I did a google scholar search out of interest and found the same thing, but who knows, maybe they had higher standards on what journals they considered. Still, I did find this paper though that seems to pretty much sum up the arguments I was giving. I didn't actually read through the...

I dunno, I don't think the "natural cycles" issue really is that important a part of the discussion on global warming, aside from its role as an accelerating agent for worsening climate change. I think bringing it up tends to play down and take the emphasis off our own roll in the mess, and how...

Nomad, you really need to watch An Inconvenient Truth, where they deal with exactly the claim you've brought up, about cyclical ice ages. Basically, as Mr. Tea has said, if you look at the ice cores in in Antarctica, you can measure both the temperatures and the levels of carbon dioxide in the...

Yeah I saw An Inconvenient Truth not long ago, and this stuff has been weighing heavily on my mind ever since. For me though, I think almost worse than the flooding of cities is the fact that the first thing to go when water levels start to rise will be the beaches. Can you imagine a world...

WTF???? euphoric piano house may possibly be the greatest genre of music ever, there is simply no arguing against this. it's a fundamental law of the universe or something...i mean really, do you hate fun?? :D

HAHAHAHA oh wow that review, that is priceless...i wish those bastards would just shut up, it makes defending this album a lot harder. Though I should perhaps admit that i used to read a fair amount of fantasy as a young nerd (and still do occasionally) and to be honest there is a part of YS...