The Museum of Unworkable Devices Physics Gallery. Perpetual motion machine inventors do have principles. Unfortunately the physical principles they assume are often ones not obeyed by nature. Let's examine just a few. The principle of unlimited possibility. Anything is possible in nature. The "heavier on one side" seduction. The "more weight on one side" distraction. The "unbalanced torque" deception. Anything is possible Inventors assume that since we haven't looked at every part of the universe nor have we looked at all possible mechanisms or phenomena, we can't rule out anything. Those who think this way are much like the child who puts two blocks in a box, closes the box, shakes it, then opens it, hoping to find three blocks inside.
The "heavier on one side" seduction. The most naive level of perpetual motion seduction is the notion that if a system has more mass on one side of the axle, then that side must swing downward. We can test its stability by turning the wheel to any position whatever. The situation is worse than that. Immortality blows (fiction)@Everything2.com - StumbleUpon. Man, I wish I'd never found that goddamn lamp. Stupid fucking genie. I just had to blurt it out, didn't I? "I wish I were immortal! " Half the time they can't even make you immortal, but Sim Allah Bim of the Seven Winds just snapped his fingers and said "It is done. " Damn, was I stoked.
I don't even remember what my other two wishes were. Doesn't make a damn bit of difference now. Oh, it was awesome for a while. Mankind did some really amazing shit over the next couple hundred million years. But then they started evolving. But it seemed to keep getting hotter. Then there was this galaxy that was fucking huge in the sky. Now, the sun exploding itself was an even cooler sight than all those extra stars. So I waited. But then the damnedest thing happened. Now let me tell you, I thought it was cold on solid ground with no sun, but that was nothing. I landed on planets or even in stars from time to time. But eventually I drifted out of the galaxy altogether.
But that's where it ended. Belief in Nothing - StumbleUpon. Nihilism confuses people. "How can you care about anything, or strive for anything, if you believe nothing means anything? " they ask. In return, nihilists point to the assumption of inherent meaning and question that assumption. Do we need existence to mean anything? After all, existence stays out there no matter what we think of it. Nihilists who aren't of the kiddie anarchist variety tend to draw a distinction between nihilism and fatalism. What is nihilism? As a nihilist, I recognize that meaning does not exist. In the same way, I accept that when I die, the most likely outcome will be a cessation of being. Even further, I recognize that there is no golden standard for life.
A tree falling in a forest unobserved makes a sound. Many people "feel" marginalized when they think of this. Meaning is the human attempt to mold the world in our own image. This distanced mentality further affirms our tendency to find the world alienating to our consciousness. Nihilism reverses this process. Recent Database Breaches Teach Security Lessons -- The Hard Way. Gawker, Epsilon, TSS of San Juan offer window into database hacks -- and how to defend against them [Excerpted from "Database Breaches: Lessons Learned From Real-World Attacks," a new report posted this week on Dark Reading's Database Security Tech Center.]
If a hack successfully queries and exports hundreds of thousands -- or even millions -- of customers' records, you have a major problem that’s likely to cost your company millions of dollars in notifications, incident investigation/recovery, and lost business. According to the Ponemon Institute’s sixth annual U.S. Cost of a Data Breach Study, data breach incidents cost U.S. companies $214 per compromised customer record in 2010.
Yet despite the threat, many companies still have no idea that their most important data -- especially databases -- are being pillaged. How do such major breaches happen -- and how can you prevent them from happening to your organization? This was the second major email data breach in recent months. English Pronunciation. If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud. Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
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Of Philosophy&-&Philosophy - the best subject in the world. The first reason why Philosophy is the best and most important subject in the world, is because it gives us the opportunity to think more deeply about the subjects that really matter to us as individuals and to societies, nations and humanity itself. These include such questions as: Everyday life often seems so full of pushes and pulls that it can be hard to address such matters in as full a way as we might wish. Philosophy gives the opportunity to come to a greater understanding of such questions, to examine our own thoughts and attitudes. This is regardless of our background, creed or age. As the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus said: Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young, nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the benefits of philosophy.
(Letter to Menoeceus) The second reason why philosophy is so important as a subject is because it deals in the realm of causes and ideas which govern human life. Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Reviews - StumbleUpon. 137 Freaky Wikipedia Entries - StumbleUpon. 6 Books Everyone (Including Your English Teacher) Got Wrong. #3. Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Anybody who grew up in the 1960s (and still remembers anything about it) can tell you what Lewis Carroll's classic children's book was really all about: A girl takes a "trip" down the rabbit hole and finds herself in a surreal world where animals start talking to her. After she eats some "mushrooms," everything starts to change sizes before her eyes. She meets an over-stimulated "white rabbit" and a stoned caterpillar smoking a "shitload of drugs.
" We didn't really need Jefferson Airplane to clarify it; Alice in Wonderland is the Fear and Loathing of fairy tales. It became one of the most important allegories of the 60s counterculture, with scenes that accurately correspond to the sensation of every mind-altering substance known to man. What it's really about: Lewis Carroll was the pen name of the very conservative Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Anglican deacon and professor of mathematics.
. #2. Crazy, baby. #1. Wait, it isn't? 12 Must-See Skywatching Events in 2012 | 2012 Skywatching Events Guide &... This story was updated on Jan. 2. As the year 2011 comes to a close, some might wonder what is looming sky-wise for 2012? What celestial events might we look forward to seeing? I've selected what I consider to be the top 12 "skylights" for this coming year, and list them here in chronological order. Not all these events will be visible from any one locality … for the eclipses, for instance, you'll probably have to do some traveling … but many can be observed from the comfort of your backyard. Hopefully your local weather will cooperate on most, if not all, of these dates. Clear skies! Jan. 4: Quadrantid meteor shower peaks This meteor shower reaches its peak in the predawn hours of Jan. 4 for eastern North America. From the eastern half of North America, a single observer might count on seeing as many as 50-to-100 "Quads" in a single hour.
The first major meteor shower of 2012 takes place on the night of Tuesday, Jan. 3 and the morning of Wednesday, Jan. 4. May 5: Biggest full moon of 2012.
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