Fatalism? It's an old frame of mind
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&quot;Hey, there. You look so happy. Red Sox fever still got you?&quot; &quot;Nope. Over and done with that.&quot;
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If you remember those 1970âs era âHang in There, Babyâ posters, the phrase âJust because youâre paranoid doesnât mean theyâre not out to get youâ -- of similar vintage -- will probably ring a bell. But while that treacly picture of a kitten hanging onto a rope is now a laughable bit of nostalgia, the observation about paranoia is more relevant than ever.
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In the animal kingdom, a capacity for trends could mean the difference between life and death.
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Failed state plus expertise plus insurgency equals... As soon as 63-year old Russell Defreitas was arrested in early June for an alleged plot to destroy JFK through fuel explosions, terror beat journalists couldn't resist their favorite hobby: telling stories about how everything in the US is at risk. The description "elderly patsy" immediately came to mind when eyeballing Defreitas, but AP described him, with no apparent sense of humor, as an "accused mastermind." "Unthinkable devastation" would have resulted, had his plan not been nipped in the bud.â¦
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In response to this recent article from the Hiveminds website, Marco Tabini has a few choice words about some of the topics they cover in the article, and cover incorrectly.   Over the last few years, I've made it a point of trying to respond to at least some of the "PHP is dead"-type articles that crop up on the Net from time to time. The latest one comes from Hiveminds and reveals a complete misunderstanding of almost every point it covers.   He notes that though the article seems to be a coherent whole for why PHP is dwindling, it's "based on nothing more than a string of misinformed concepts cobbled together to give the appearance that the author knows what he or she is talking about". Marco comes back against each of the points made in the article, setting things right and eliminating some of the FUD (fear, uncertainly, and doubt) that the Hiveminds article spreads.
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"Dying is a very dull, dreary affair," the late British author W. Somerset Maugham has oft been quoted as saying. He obviously didn't live in the Anna Nicole Smith era.
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Recent avalanche-related deaths in Utah have stirred debate about where to draw the line between free will and recklessness.
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Some tragedies are reversible -- if we take action.
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The things that kill us in IT center around being forced to work within the confines of legacy infrastructural decisions and processes, and more importantly, how any change that occurs (for good or bad reasons) will at best fix one tactical issue, but that will more than likely cause other problems.  We hope the new problem will be better than the old, or at least will become someone else's issue.
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"Has it ever occurred to you how astonishing Western society really is? Industrialized nations provide their citizens with unprecedented safety, health, and comfort. Average life spans increased fifty percent in the last century. Yet modern people live in abject fear. They are afraid of strangers, of disease, of crime, of the environment. They are afraid of the homes they live in, the food they eat, the technology that surrounds them. They are in a particular panic over things they can't even see - germs, chemicals, additives, pollutants. They are timid, nervous, fretful, and depressed. And even more amazingly, they are convinced that the environment of the entire planet is being destroyed around them. Remarkable! Like the belief in witchcraft, it's an extraordinary delusion - a global fantasy worthy of the Middle Ages."
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The last century, through its great cataclysms, offers two clear, ringing, and, unfortunately, contradictory lessons.
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Who or what is to blame when a once-powerful society collapses?
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It was February, 1754. Valletta looked beautiful. By that time, the age of extravagance was at its peak, and was therefore nearing a slow and painful death.
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Mental illness according to experts is assuming an alarming dimension all over the world. The preponderance of such cases is attracting the attention of individuals, governments and non-governmental organisations
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If as some have suggested religions are viruses of the mind, then it might make sense to separate the components of any given religion into two parts. The first part being those things which are necessary to maintain viral infection and which assist in the infection of new hosts. The second part is the payload: Those instructions which the virus writer wishes those who have been infected to carry out or execute.     My hope is that this method of analysis will assist others in understanding the structure of existing religions as well as those who aim to write one from scratch
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When painful medicine is involved, closeness to a patient can make for fuzzy views.
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Suggestive, certainly. Misogynistic, sometimes. But dangerous?