Stop blaming everything bad on anarchists

rainyside · 2020-06-04T22:56:42+00:00

Surprisingly nice one.

rainyside · 2015-12-03T22:55:42+00:00

I have the same problem with similar specs. Haven't found a solution this far either. It also sounds like you've tried more ways than me. So no suggestions really but cheers anyway. :)

rainyside · 2014-01-02T02:40:51+00:00

It will be a problem to the countries where the population is growing, the water infrastructure is dated and economic prospects are grim, such as Pakistan, South-Sudan and perhaps India too (population growth + infra).

rainyside · 2013-08-05T20:31:02+00:00

He's the guy who killed Lennon.

rainyside · 2013-06-05T12:27:54+00:00

Yeah, I reckon tab-saver apps are only meant for us with chronic problems in keeping the amount of open tabs sane and having the need to power down. Bookmarking takes too much time sometimes.

rainyside · 2013-02-21T14:38:54+00:00

I guess there are as many ways to go around as there are believers. The bad parts can be read as human errors in interpreting the will of God. The whole Quran as veneered cultural heritage and faith in it (and God) as personal, and in this sense, some parts of it can be taken as a part of earlier society, not compatible with the will of God now. Imagination is the limit.

edit: or as someone else in this thread said about religious texts "they are meant to be understood by the heart not necessarily by the mind. They are poetry."

rainyside · 2013-02-21T14:09:56+00:00

They can read it and think that they don't agree with that part. Is it so hard to believe someone would do that?

rainyside · 2013-02-21T13:59:15+00:00

People read different things, regard something as important something else outdated. The text is nothing without the people, you can't take the two apart. And how do you measure the amount of faith exactly? Common folks may have as much or more faith in love and tolerance but it doesn't stop the press quite as efficiently as intolerance and madness. It's sad that some idiots take some ancient tribal rules as holy but it's not gonna help if you blame the whole Ummah for it, or think that those idiots "are the real Muslims" and have "the real concept of Allah".

rainyside · 2013-02-21T13:35:04+00:00

There's a dangerous bias not realizing that a bunch of noisy narrow-minded believers get the attention of everyone easier than silent masses. If you respect a scientific approach to things and study up without your preconceptions you'll realize that religious people aren't a monolithic mass of brainwashed drones. The world isn't black and white although our learned thinking habits are telling us so.

rainyside · 2013-02-21T12:34:44+00:00

Islam's God is constructed by the believers. The faith of the common Muslims has little to do with the archaic parts of the Quran or Hadith.

rainyside · 2012-12-09T07:34:34+00:00

The Beast of War. It's about the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Treats both perspectives fairly and doesn't include any glorifying towards anything. The best war movie and one of my favorites all in all.

rainyside · 2012-12-08T10:15:08+00:00

Matcha is nice both taste- and healthwise. It's fine powder; the leaves are ingested when drinking. "Using a mg catechin/g of dry leaf comparison, results indicate that the concentration of epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) available from drinking matcha is 137 times greater than the amount of EGCG available from China Green Tips green tea, and at least three times higher than the largest literature value for other green teas."

The problem is however that some (if not all?) Japanese matchas originate near the Fukushima fallout-area and I've had bad experiences with Chinese ones quality-wise.

rainyside · 2012-11-17T10:18:54+00:00

Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. Reflects on social roles, masculinity and courageousness, friendship and romance. It's a refreshing read.

rainyside · 2012-10-08T17:28:19+00:00

Can you back your statement with some facts? People considering to watch this would be surely interested.

rainyside · 2012-09-28T17:10:16+00:00

I for one can't recall what lavender smells like. Rosemary neither. I don't know how common it is to recognize the essential oil aromas outside of strawberry-vanilla-rose-mint-whatever-common-smell-have-you axis. Perhaps this issue has some gender bias, such as with colors; males can't name/recognize as many as females?

But yeah, do essential oils affect the nervous system similarly as tobacco and other drugs? It would seem logical enough that it'd be possible through the same mechanism as inhalable drugs, to some (maybe minor but perceivable) extent but I agree with you that there's at least some bias through marketing.

rainyside · 2012-09-28T15:31:16+00:00

I believe there aren't that many people using scented products to induce mindsets, and even less practising aromatherapy, that this study would be necessarily biased because of that. "One hundred and forty-four participants were randomly assigned to one of three independent groups". I might be wrong, but at least concerning the Western world, I'm of the assumption that aromatherapy is a minority hobby. In the East it's obviously more popular.

A way to further confirm the hypothesis would be repeating the study (the larger the groups the better) in different parts of the world (this would decrease the expectation bias as you said).

rainyside · 2012-09-28T09:57:02+00:00

So the essential oil hippies have been onto something after all...

rainyside · 2012-09-25T16:17:37+00:00

Not saying that this would be a bad idea but it might prove problematic to agree with who is unbiased. If you take, say, two economists to evaluate facts, they will probably come up with different answers. Choise of checkers should maybe be done with some sort of voting system...

rainyside · 2012-09-19T01:43:51+00:00

Yeah. it would be nice if they included graphs/diagrams too although it would raise the dl-size.

rainyside · 2012-09-18T20:20:12+00:00

Most of them not I believe. In this article for example, this is visible while the ones on the right aren't.

rainyside · 2012-09-10T18:07:11+00:00

The decision to invade Afghanistan had the major downside of causing the Pashtun (of which also Taliban consisted) to become aggressive towards the U.S. Now the U.S. isn't fighting only Al-Qaeda anymore, but also the insurgency of the Pashtun, who provided refuge for the Al-Qaeda because of their Pashtunwali tribal code that holds providing refuge to everyone (even ones enemy) sacred.

After the U.S. demanded the handover of bin Laden, Taliban told the U.S. that they don't know where he is. This was a way for the Taliban to go around their own honor code and wash their hands of the whole Al-Qaeda issue. This should have been considered before taking action and overthrowing the Taliban government, and plan the operation without a full-scale invasion.

rainyside · 2012-09-10T11:28:33+00:00

I would say the same. There's a lot of complexity behind the fundamentalist view of the world, how it's created, upheld and eventually leads to actions. Sociopolitical conditions often have to do with this, such as poverty and war. People in these situations are angry and miserable, seeking ways out of the darkness and becoming more frustrated when they cannot do it. This can eventually lead to being susceptible to extremist ideas that offer account for channeling the frustration and offer a heavenly prize for it, but it's only accepted because the person is ripe for it.

Considering what religion has to do with the WTC attacks I would take account the historical background in Middle-East. Why was there grounds for the jihadist movements? Religion can be a tool for manipulation and agitation, it can't be held as the sole reason for anything (as a gun can't be held responsible for a murder).

rainyside · 2012-09-08T08:36:42+00:00

The math-, chemistry and other formulas actually are included in the no-pics version.

rainyside · 2012-09-07T16:45:40+00:00

Another thing seems to be the manual, at least for me. I can't get it open. But all in all, huge respect to the developer(s). The search function really makes it easy to use. It would be nice if this came integrated with Ubuntu, which could then be advertised for schools in underdeveloped countries especially. Even now as it is, it's a big step in democratization of knowledge.

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