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Aug 10

Dealing With a Relationship Breakup | Relationship and L…

Dealing With a Relationship Breakup | Relationship and Love Advice

…It might be hard to believe but taking your time is probably the best way for dealing with a relationship breakup. There are other things that you can do, but the old saying time heals all wounds is true. Unfortunately, if you’ve been together for many years it can take even more than a year to get over the break up. But like I said, there are steps you can take to mitigate the pain and take your focus away from it.
Do new things that interest you and that you and your ex didn’t do. Doing something creative or spiritual can give balance to your life. When holidays and birthdays come around, create new traditions to replace the old ones you may have had with your ex.
Make a schedule for your days. Give yourself things to accomplish. After a break up it’s easy to develop a feeling of low self-worth. By getting things done, you can work at building your self-worth. Also, this takes the focus off your relationship.
You need closure. Box up reminders of your relationship and put them away. Stop having contact…

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Aug 10

Ray Kurzweil does not understand the brain

There he goes again, making up nonsense and making ridiculous claims that have no relationship to reality. Ray Kurzweil must be able to spin out a good line of bafflegab, because he seems to have the tech media convinced that he’s a genius, when he’s actually just another Deepak Chopra for the computer science cognoscenti. His latest claim is…

…KG, do you really not know that your points are irrelevant to the question of the computational complexities involved? Yes, of course synapses are growing and changing all the time. If you prefer, think of every potential synapse whether or not it presently exists, as a “connection”. Synapses that do not exist are simply have “zero” for all the variables describing the computationally relevant aspects of their state.

The brain is not a computer. It is not nicely “layered” into hardware, firmware, operating system and application programs. Functionally, it’s a vast tangle of cross-scale interactions…

Do you know know what it means for a computer to simulate something? The architecture of the computer is entirely irrelevant to this discussion. What matters is what the computer can represent and simulate in data. “represent” means that in memory it stores a bunch of numbers that mathematically describe the relevant details of neurons and synapses… this can be anything from their geometric shape to the…

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11
Apr 10

Self Improvement: Impossible is Just a Word

Everyone, at some point of his or her life, has dreamed of being somebody special, somebody big. Who hasn’t fantasized about being the one who hits the game-winning homer? Who hasn’t dreamed of being the homecoming queen?

…Everyone, at some point of his or her life, has dreamed of being somebody special, somebody big. Who hasn’t fantasized about being the one who hits the game-winning homer? Who hasn’t dreamed of being the homecoming queen? And how many times have we dreamed of being rich, or successful, or happy with our relationships?Often, we dream big dreams and have great aspirations. Unfortunately, our dreams remain just that dreams. And our aspirations easily collect dust in our attic.This is a sad turn of events in our life. Instead of experiencing exciting adventures in self actualization, we get caught up in the humdrum of living from day-to-day just barely existing.But you know what? Life could be so much better, if only we learned to aim higher.The most common problem to setting goals is the word impossible. Most people get hung up thinking I can’t do this. It’s too hard. It’s too impossible. No one can do this.However, if everyone thought that, there would be no inventions, no innovations, and no breakthroughs in…

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Feb 10

How I Convinced a Death-Row Murderer Not to Die

Eight years ago, Christian Longo murdered his wife and three children. On the lam, he assumed the identity of the author, a man he’d never met. Now their long, twisted relationship culminates in a final, chilling bargain.

…he was still on the bottom, he was reaching up, grabbing his wife’s neck with both hands, grabbing so hard his fingers dug deep, forming the scars that would be found when the divers opened the suitcase.It takes quite a long time to kill someone by strangulation. Like five minutes. Longo said it was long enough for him to think, during the act, that maybe he ought to stop. But then he figured he’d already begun, and if he stopped and MJ survived then what? His wife would leave him and he’d still be in trouble. When she was dead, he got up, put on some clothes, and strangled their two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Madison, who was sleeping on the floor. He strangled her with one hand. This was how Longo described the feeling of strangling a two-year-old, her neck so soft and thin: “To hold on to a little girl’s neck is the most weird, uncomfortable, disgusting thing in the world. It tore me up to put my hands around something that small.” It was so difficult, he said, that he could not strangle the two older…

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Feb 10

Sacred Geometry

Sacred geometry is an ancient system of design and building based upon the harmonic relationship between man, nature and the universe. Virtually ignored by modern architects and designers, it was central to most ancient societies.

…I use religion as a catch-all description to describe any sort of beliefs founded on something other than logic and reason. We are also arguing the same point i believe (perhaps why i keep getting so frustrated) however i seem to be using the wrong language to convey it.
Religion is not a scape-goat to call it such implies the blame being laid upon it is unfair . which it is not. Religion is an organized institution created to continue and further the spread and acceptance of a particular belief system. Name me a single religion in the entirety of the human race that did NOT become an autocratic force systematically surpressing not only those that are of a different creed, but it’s own followers. (depending on it’s penetration and wealth of course, some only manage to get a small number of followers to destroy EX: the Branch Davidians, Jim Jones ETC. As opposed to the ones that get to harm millions, EX: Judaism, Christianity, Islam)
Does it cause these problems? No they arise from our inability to…

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9
Feb 10

Mind-reading headsets will change your brain

In the coming months, cheap headsets that let you control technology with the electrical signals generated by your firing neurons will go on sale to the general public. Our relationship with technology – and our brains – will never be the same again.

…I don’t think the main use in games will be control, as joysticks and pads do a decent job of this already. Also, I think it might be tiresome to make your mind think a certain way just to control something. But detecting mood might serve to adjust facial expressions of online avatars. Also, having the game respond to one’s emotions might draw one further into the game as there will be in game benefit to letting yourself actually feel emotions in response to game scenarios. Imagine non player characters reacting to your emotions the way a real person might react to your body language….

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Feb 10

"If Soldiers Did This To My Family, I Would Be An Insurgent Too” – Iraq Vet

The Iraqis have always been friendly and welcoming to the U.S. Let’s hope we can repair our relationship after we get rid of Bush Co.

…AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to two other soldiers, two other vets of the Iraq war quoted in The Nation article. Staff Sergeant Timothy John Westphal served on the outskirts of Tikrit for a yearlong tour in Iraq. Sergeant Dustin Flatt served with the 18th Infantry Brigade in Iraq also for a year. They both served from February 2004 to February 2005, joining us from Rocky Mountain PBS in Denver, Colorado. Juan?JUAN GONZALEZ: Yes. I’d like to begin with Sergeant Dustin Flatt. We’ve been discussing a lot of the house raids that occurred by US soldiers, but also many violent incidents occurred around convoys with civilians. And in your interview, you talked about some very chilling situations that you were involved in: deaths of innocent civilians as a result of them coming into contact with US convoys. Could you talk about that?SGT. DUSTIN FLATT: Yes. The innocent deaths happened at different times, different places and different occasions. Convoys were commonplace. The only incident I have firsthand knowledge of…

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Feb 10

Linux Distributions Bird’s Eye View - a Mind Map

Here is a rather intutive mind map of mainstream GNU/Linux distributions and their relationship (if any) with each other. Really interesting.

…Mind mapping is the process of creating a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central keyword or idea. I have created a mindmap of Linux to get a visual idea of the number of Linux distributions out there and their relationships with each other. There are umpteen GNU/Linux distributions and then some more. Many claim their roots in Debian and others in Red Hat. Still others swear that they are unique and were created from grounds up. Wouldn’t it be nice if we had a picture which gave a broad idea of the roots of each GNU/Linux distributions? Well look no further. Here is a mind map of almost all GNU/Linux distributions (atleast the mainstream ones). Though there is a good chance that I could have missed some. The mind map below shows the relations between different GNU/Linux distributions.Fig: Mind map of GNU/Linux distributions and their relations.(Click on the mind map to enlarge)Update: Mind Map of Linux Distributions Version 2 released!!…

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3
Feb 10

Relationship Answers Now

Relationship Answers Now

…Here are some tips to ease the pain of breaking up with someone.

Get to the point. Be decisive or you are leaving things open for the future. If you’re here to break up, then break up not talk.
Do the break up in person. News like this is never good to give over the phone or on a message machine.
Don’t break up by email or text message. People really do this! Maybe they do it out of convenience, but that is a heartless way to break up with…

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Jan 10

16 Most Entertaining Age Lopsided Relationships in Movies

The trend didn’t begin with Ashton and Demi and it won’t end just because Roman Polanski was brought to justice. This world is rife with lovers who find age is nothing but a number. Here are the 16 Most Entertaining Age-Lopsided Relationships in Movie History!

…s trapped in a loveless marriage with a unfaithful real estate agent, and father to a girl who dates their drug dealing neighbor, He keeps his sanity by beefing up to impress his daughter’s friend Angela (Mena Suvari), and in his fantasies he plucks rose petals out of her. When Angela’s virginity is revealed, Lester the molester makes the correct moral decision, but we’re not clear what message the creators of the movie want to send. Is it that only a bullet to the head can prevent the defloweration of a minor? Sorry to be blunt, but I tend to find this logic offensive to my libido. When my tubesocks come off my feet for me to deflower, I’m too eager for relief to get into moral decisions about experience, age, or a hole in my head. But that’s just me, and I’m going to hell….

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