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What Happens When I Die?
Art by Alex Grey In order to answer the question, "What happens when I die?" I feel it is important to take a look at something a bit less speculative and that is the question of what happens when we live. There is no way to understand death if you don't know what life is.By Paul Newall (2005) Expanding on our fourth discussion, we'll now look at the kinds of moves—rhetorical or otherwise—that can be made when setting out or defending an idea and countering others. We'll also consider some common errors in reasoning that come up in philosophical arguments from time to time, like anywhere else. The purpose of this piece is to provide a toolbox of concepts to use or refer back to when reading through and evaluating pieces of philosophy.
16. A Guide to Logical Fallacies
How To Get The New Google Bar on Chrome
Google recently announced a redesigned navigation bar which will replace the black one we currently have. A move welcomed by all Google fans. Most of them hated the black bar. They are yet to roll this new design to everyone but with a small tweak, you can get this working on Chrome. Here is how to do that.
Native Client turns Chrome into high-end gaming platform | The Download Blog
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Google's new technology to secure the Web and make browsers significantly more powerful got its first public demo tonight at the company's headquarters south of San Francisco after three years under wraps. Calling it Native Client , Google says that integrating technology into Chrome is essential for the future of Web browsers.
WebGL ( Web Graphics Library ) is a JavaScript API for rendering interactive 3D graphics and 2D graphics [ 2 ] within any compatible web browser without the use of plug-ins . WebGL is integrated completely into all the web standards of the browser allowing GPU accelerated usage of physics and image processing and effects as part of the web page canvas. WebGL elements can be mixed with other HTML elements and composited with other parts of the page or page background. [ 3 ] WebGL programs consist of control code written in JavaScript and shader code that is executed on a computer's Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). WebGL is designed and maintained by the non-profit Khronos Group . [ 4 ] [ edit ] Design WebGL is based on OpenGL ES 2.0 and provides an API for 3D graphics. [ 5 ] For security reasons, GL_ARB_robustness (OpenGL 3.x) or GL_EXT_robustness (OpenGL ES) is needed.
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Brian Hugh Warner (born January 5, 1969), better seen by his stage name Marilyn Manson , is an American rock musician, actor, painter, multimedial artist and former music journalist known for his controversial stage persona and image as the lead singer of the eponymous band Marilyn Manson . His stage name was formed by juxtaposing the names of two American cultural icons , namely actress Marilyn Monroe and multiple murder conspiracy convict Charles Manson [ 1 ] as a critical and, simultaneously, laudatory appraisal of America and its peculiar culture . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The seemingly outrageous visual and vocal styles he employs, his unique interpretations of familiar songs and the controversy surrounding his lyrics and imagery have led to his very pronounced public appeal. [ 4 ] Manson has been ranked in the Top 100 Heavy Metal Vocalists by Hit Parader (#44). [ edit ] Early life
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BBC Nature - Chimpanzees consider their audience when communicating
29 December 2011 Last updated at 17:01 By Victoria Gill Science reporter, BBC Nature The chimps made soft "hoo" sounds to warn individuals that had not seen the threat Chimpanzees appear to consider who they are "talking to" before they call out.
In Focus: Mexico Drug War, Five Years Later
Posted Dec 21, 2011 A graphic picture is emerging in Mexico five years after President Felipe Calderon launched his all-out assault on organized crime: Mass killings as cartels fight each other for territory and civilians caught in the violence; police unable to prevent the mayhem or to investigate the aftermath. The government needed to act decisively, he said, to prevent organized crime from taking over the country. Over the next five years, he deployed 45,000 troops, made major hits on the leadership of at least five cartels and spent nearly $46 billion fighting organized crime, his defining domestic policy.Google has just added a new flag in its Chromium 18 builds that extends the browser's hardware acceleration feature. Zoom Vector-based SVG graphics as well as CSS filters are now accelerated via the GPU and can be activated via chrome://flags in a recent nightly build . The feature is mainly for developers as there are very few websites that could take advantage of accelerated CSS filters. Chromium supports SVG and CSS acceleration on Mac, Windows, Linux, and Chrome OS. Additional experimental GPU acceleration features include GPU accelerated painting as well as GPU compositing on all pages.
Google Chrome Uses Graphics Card to Accelerate SVG, CSS
Check a Man's Sperm Count
From Wired How-To Wiki You don't need to visit a fertility clinic to find out how stacked your swimmers are. Photo by Esther Montoro/Wired.com About 40 percent of infertility issues in couples are due to male infertility. Even with these compelling statistics, men are still reluctant to go to the doctor to deal with the whole question of fertility for a variety of reasons — awkward conversation in the reception area, waiting sheepishly among other semen-holding guys, the possibility of being caught by familiar faces while stepping out of the clinic, to name a few.
Shovel Snow Like a Pro
From Wired How-To Wiki Some work is best done with a little help from the family. Photo by Brad Moon, Wired.comFrom Wired How-To Wiki Dumping your entire music collection onto an iPod is a simple, one-click process. But what about getting your music off an iPod? You'll find that's not so easy. Apple's iTunes software only lets you put the music onto the player, and not the other way around.
Get Your Music Off of Your iPod
I’m a big fan of the iPod but what I don’t like is Apple not being very forthcoming about how to move music from the iPod back to the PC. They’re quick enough to tell you how to move the music from your PC to your iPod but when you want to do the opposite, Apple clams up tight. Their reasoning is probably that the only reason you’d want to take your music off the iPod is to copy it and illegally distribute it. But that is really an insult to the music buyer. There are plenty of legitimate reasons why you would want to move your music from the iPod back to the PC.
How To: Move Music from iPod to PC in 5 Easy Steps
"The Fox and the Grapes" is one of the traditional Aesop's fables and can be held to illustrate the concept of cognitive dissonance . In this view, the premise of the fox that covets inaccessible grapes is taken to stand for a person who attempts to hold incompatible ideas simultaneously. In that case, the disdain the fox expresses for the grapes at the conclusion to the fable serves at least to diminish the dissonance even if the behaviour in fact remains irrational. [ 1 ]