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I don’t think you should always necessarily enjoy popular music…not every play has a happy ending, not every film you see has a happy ending, and not every painting you are going to look at is going to be kittens sitting in a basket…You find your prejudices and preconceptions are laid waste in the space of an hour, and that’s vital to one’s development. ~ John Peel
Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt - particularly to doubt one’s cherished beliefs, one’s dogmas and one’s axioms. ~ Will Durant
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one of the records for the lonely island ….
Abstract:
Mirror usage has been taken to indicate some degree of awareness in animals. Can pigs, Sus scrofa, obtain information from a mirror? When put in a pen with a mirror in it, young pigs made movements while apparently looking at their image. After 5 h spent with a mirror, the pigs were shown a familiar food bowl, visible in the mirror but hidden behind a solid barrier. Seven out of eight pigs found the food bowl in a mean of 23 s by going away from the mirror and around the barrier. Naïve pigs shown the same looked behind the mirror. The pigs were not locating the food bowl by odour, did not have a preference for the area where the food bowl was and did not go to that area when the food bowl was visible elsewhere. To use information from a mirror and find a food bowl, each pig must have observed features of its surroundings, remembered these and its own actions, deduced relationships among observed and remembered features and acted accordingly. This ability indicates assessment awareness in pigs. The results may have some effects on the design of housing conditions for pigs and may lead to better pig welfare.
Keywords: awareness; cognition; learning; mirror; pig; Sus scrofa
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“Paramount’s official casting call for the heroic characters solicited applicants who were “Caucasian or any other ethnicity.” “
:-/
this is really sad … I mean, everybody knows what “Caucasian or any other ethnicity.” really means … 8(
caught in seaweed and tentacles with a plank “through” the heel: somewhere between bizzare and kitch haha :D
Secret Copyright Treaty Leaks: Obama’s Reign of Terror Knows No Bounds
Negotiations are currently underway in Seoul, South Korea on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), and apparently the internet chapter of this copyright treaty has leaked. And what do you know: its details are enough to make any freedom-lovin’ American apoplectic with rage. Amongst the proposals are international provisions to ensure that ISPs follow “notice and takedown regimes,” that policies are put in place to “deter unauthorized storage and transmission of allegedly copyright infringing content” (according to EFF), and that ACTA signatories enable legal action to be taken against those who break technological protection measures (such as DRM). In other words, this is about extending government control over the internet all within a global framework. ACTA began in October 2007 and aims to introduce international standards to tackle counterfeit goods and pirated copyright protected works. As summarised by Boing Boing, ISPs would “have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material” and “cut off the internet access of accused copyright infringers or face liability.” What’s key here is that internet access could be denied and content blocked simply because an allegation is made. No evidence has to be produced to justify the claims. Is there anything more un-American? The Obama administration purportedly refused to disclose the text of the treaty “due to ‘national security’ concerns.” HMPH!
