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Side note: according to EDICT: 引きこもり [ひきこもり] (n) (1) shut-in, stay-at-home, hikikomori, people 引きずる [ひきずる] (v5r,vt) (1) to drag along, to pull, (2) to force someone along, (3) to p…

It's interesting what the sense of a direct translation of hikikomori implies. Original form is (if you have the font) 引き子守 The first two characters imply someone who is dragged al…

Right. So there is a received cognitive operating system which generates an interactive model of ' reality ' shaped by historic experience, a facet of this system involves ' hierar…

Which reminds me of a story from a retired Bell Labs, Murray Hill engineer who related how they would add useless circuits to microprocessors to see if these sections were duplicat…

However, the above link does point out a convention ripe for abuse: Because suspects are put through continuous interrogation which could last up to 23 days as well as isolation fr…

In discussions with older Viet Nam vets there were numerous complaints about the reliability of the earlier M16s. Seems squads would use captured AK47s when they could since they w…

And by extension, maybe as the POGO comic strip observed We have met the enemy and he is us

Your link tells of Ingo Swann's pivotal role in the remote viewing program About 10 years ago came across research papers (not via Blavatsky) on an old mind-altering Buddhist coppe…

Funny, a physician friend once commented that the effectiveness of a placebo seems to be directly proportional to its cost :-)

Well, looks like these Monroe Institute activities segued into CIA interest into what was called ' remote viewing ' for use as a possible supplemental espionage methodology. Appare…

Even scarier. Imagine someone with evil intent feeding captured feature vectors for any individual into a 3D printer scripted to render high-def latex masks? Privacy could then be …

You are confusing 'definition' with positivism Interesting. But the subject is the nature of the definition. What is the OED definition of definition (circularity intended): a prec…

Thanks for the link.

Yeah, but there's always Popper's observation hovering in the background concerning definitions: 'all definitions involve the use words which themselves remain undefined'. Now if p…

Not bad! Be interesting to include this tech into a FPV drone headset which could yield serviceable complete heads-up control for area sightseeing. BTW hope you turned off the proj…

Bad actors exist and they're cleaver. Plus these days you don't have to remember anything. Adding an updatable PIN field to a personal call file in such an app coupled with a softw…

A smart phone app which behaves as a firewall requiring callers to enter, say, a three character PIN code before phone rings may be useful. Incorporate two message files, one for l…

experiencing an entheogen. A psilocybin experience can literally restore your spiritual faith Interesting point. Given individuals temperamentally and experientially predisposed to…

If interested in WW2 Allied code breaking you may want to watch the BBC documentary Station X - The Code Breakers of Bletchley Park on Acorn tv

Cultural value is as important as technical advancement, at least in the long run. I think you could agree with me. True but, EG, resurrecting the old 360KB 5.25-inch floppies tech…

Couple the above article with Crisis on the High Plains: The Loss of America’s Largest Aquifer – the Ogallala URL = http://duwaterlawreview.com/crisis-on-the-high-plains-the-lo... …

Only if they can count to three.

Jim Breen's EDICT dictionary lists 'great' and 'old boy' as core meanings for associated kanji. Aside from an in-group honorific suffix the kimi kanji is also associated with moro …