GENIUS FORUMS

Being an IT guy myself, I loathe calling customer service for some basic connectivity related question. I have come up with a solution though. When they guy begins to ask if the computer is on and is it plugged in, etc., I tell him that my DNS, firewall, and subnet mask are unchanged. And I tell him...

Bye Bye Kow. You won't be missed.

III. If one travelled back in time could history be changed? Layperson: Simply showing up in a place you did not exist before would create changes (at least microscopic) eventually increasing over time. Indepth: History: (n.) "a treatise presenting systematically related natural phenomena"...

If I weren't so repressively serious, I would also find quite a lot of humor in Buddhism and life itself. There is a reason he is smiling.

What's the opposite of libertarian?

Sorry but the WP article is idiotic, as seems the whole question. The US is quickly getting as isolated and ultimately irrelevant as a schoolyard bully. The other major nuclear powers in the world are just waiting for the US to run out of steam. What do you think the US forces can really do if the ...

Tharan, What do you think about all of this? What do you think the best option would be? Pull an Israel on Iraq and seem to have no mercy...or just leave the place (either immediately or gradually) since it seems that we can get nowhere with the way we're running things now? What do you think the c...

What is the world's lone superpower to do with it self, when all equal competitors have been vanquished? Is it a recipe for corruption? It reminds me of the American boxer Roy Jones Jr. He was a generation ahead of his competitors in terms of his fighting style. He tended to spread his legs, lowerin...

unwise, did you also find the Carlos Castaneda books enlightening?

Think of a teenager that has been abused. He is angry, hateful, and chances are he is not going to listen to you. It is better to keep your mouth shut in his presence rather than preach. That is something the US has yet to realize in the midst of all its moralizing bluster.

beebuddy, I read it. I agree with you that it was an informative book. I didn't read his follow-up but one of the residents at my previous postion was reading Collapse at the same time I was reading Guns... and gave me a good synopsis of the recurring pattern of collapse that we seem destined to enj...

Tharan wrote: I understand what he is doing. No, you don't. Yes, I do. Your turn. You make me smile, Leyla. I like your judgmental stance against me ever since we disagreed on tactics in the Isreal/Lebanon thread. Oh, stop being so egoistic. Are you really going to single yourself out on this score...

Tharan: Since this is a philosophy forum, I think you are missing the most salient point. Certainly, you are missing the crux of the argument most worthy of attention in my view. What we have here is a man who is calling for a return to what I will call Newtonian physics. This was abundantly clear ...

Personally, I am very well aware of the rest of the world and the fact that the rest of the world is much larger than the US. The US economy is 25% of the world's economy, so the rest of the world's economy is only 3 times greater. But the rest of the world has 19 times the people, in 192 countries...

from the article, I conducted an investigation into what we observe, and how physics interprets what we observe. This begun with a simple electrostatic experiment. When I rubbed a glass rod and placed it near a suspended pith ball it attracted the pith ball. Physics sees this attraction as the resul...

But to be perfectly fair, there is some truth to what the professor said, but only in the reverse. I did a good bit of research on the Sierra Leonian civil war a coupe of years ago for another writing project I was doing, and one of interesting tidbits was the influence of hip hop culture on the (mo...

I heard there was a group of white kids in Kansas City slinging some rhyme and a (white) professor claimed they were actually speaking in the manner of ancient druid and celtic pagan chants. I asked the kids about it and they said, "What's a druid, cuz? We just trying to get some play!" Fu...

If anyone truly believes that Bay Area originators of ebonics (teenagers in Oakland) intentionally use West African linguistic structures and words, then that implies that these same people have a clue where West Africa might be located. I seriously doubt it.

But I'm just racist cracka, yo!

Hereclitus was fundamentally unhappy, thus everything died in his world view. Siddartha was fundamentally happy, thus everything lived in his world view. For both, death is a constant, yet it is how you deal with this constant that determines a judgement on the quality of a person's life. Both were ...

If they want to control me, they must have something in mind. Remember, a large percentage of business transactions take place either business to business or remotely in other forms. The human interaction is not necessary as it was in the time of that writing. You might then expand your scenario by ...

Wolfgang, you had to infect your post with a religious text? Elizabeth wrote, ...but neither do I think that big money has as much influence in government than the average person believes. Yes, as evidenced by the oil and pharmaceutical lobbyists scrambling to switch gears and kiss the reluctant ass...

If it were a black toe that had collapsed to a singularity, then you couldn't see it, but you could notice the effect it had on the surrounding environment. Do the other toes warp in one direction? Do leaves and other street debris seem to cling to your feet? Are your shoes getting tighter? When you...

Why is it assumed that "helping others" is the default decision of a genius in a particular situation?

Matt asked,

Is the realization of something a choice?

Elizabeth answered,

... We have limited choices, but we do have choices.

I agree with that. Our choices are limited to our perception.

I agree. There is nothing stopping me.