domenica 7 novembre 2010
Loctite Superattak FlexGel commercial
Superattak FlexGel is a special kind of glue known for its resistance properties, it allows to join different kind of materials such as wood, cork and plastics for example
Oleophobic Screen
The 3GS iPhone has a coating that helps you leave no, well hardly any, prints or fingerprints. The glass screen is coated with a polymer, a plastic that human skin oil doesn't adhere to very well. People in the chemical bonding business like to call the finished surface "oleophobic."
Funny name. Serious Stuff
This is an ad of Banana Boat Ultra, a lotion that screens from UV rays, we think that is an interesting example of the dichotomy Resistant / Weak through the metaphor of the temptation
Weak Thought
Gianteresio Vattimo, also known as Gianni Vattimo (born January 4, 1936) is an internationally recognized Italian author, philosopher, andpolitician. Many of his works have been translated into English.
Biography
Vattimo was born in Turin, Piedmont. He studied philosophy under the existentialist Luigi Pareyson at the University of Turin, and graduated in 1959. After studying with Karl Löwith and Hans-Georg Gadamer in Heidelberg he returned to Turin where he became assistant professor in 1964, and later full professor of Aesthetics in 1969. While remaining at Turin, becoming Professor of Theoretical Philosophy in 1982, he has been a visiting professor at a number of American Universities.
After being active in the Partito Radicale, the short-lived Alleanza per Torino, and the Democrats of the Left, Vattimo joined the Party of Italian Communists. Between 1999 and 2004 he was a member of the European Parliament.
He is openly gay and an avowed Catholic "who welcomes God's death."[1]
Vattimo added his name to a petition released on February 28, 2009 calling on the European Union to unconditionally remove Hamas from its list of terrorist organizations and grant it full recognition as a legitimate voice of the Palestinian people.
Vattimo's philosophy
His philosophy can be characterized as postmodern with his emphasis on "pensiero debole" (weak thought). This requires that the foundational certainties of modernity with its emphasis on objective truth founded in a rational unitary subject be relinquished for a more multi-faceted conception closer to that of the arts.
He draws on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger with his critique of foundations and the hermeneutic philosophy of his teacher Hans-Georg Gadamer. Perhaps his greatest influence though is the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche, whose "discovery of the 'lie', the discovery that alleged 'values' and metaphysical structures are just a play of forces" (1993:93) plays an important role in Vattimo's notion of "weak thought."
Weak thought and ethics
Biography
Vattimo was born in Turin, Piedmont. He studied philosophy under the existentialist Luigi Pareyson at the University of Turin, and graduated in 1959. After studying with Karl Löwith and Hans-Georg Gadamer in Heidelberg he returned to Turin where he became assistant professor in 1964, and later full professor of Aesthetics in 1969. While remaining at Turin, becoming Professor of Theoretical Philosophy in 1982, he has been a visiting professor at a number of American Universities.
After being active in the Partito Radicale, the short-lived Alleanza per Torino, and the Democrats of the Left, Vattimo joined the Party of Italian Communists. Between 1999 and 2004 he was a member of the European Parliament.
He is openly gay and an avowed Catholic "who welcomes God's death."[1]
Vattimo added his name to a petition released on February 28, 2009 calling on the European Union to unconditionally remove Hamas from its list of terrorist organizations and grant it full recognition as a legitimate voice of the Palestinian people.
Vattimo's philosophy
His philosophy can be characterized as postmodern with his emphasis on "pensiero debole" (weak thought). This requires that the foundational certainties of modernity with its emphasis on objective truth founded in a rational unitary subject be relinquished for a more multi-faceted conception closer to that of the arts.
He draws on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger with his critique of foundations and the hermeneutic philosophy of his teacher Hans-Georg Gadamer. Perhaps his greatest influence though is the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche, whose "discovery of the 'lie', the discovery that alleged 'values' and metaphysical structures are just a play of forces" (1993:93) plays an important role in Vattimo's notion of "weak thought."
Weak thought and ethics
History as a process of weakening (secularisation and disenchantment are other terms Vattimo uses) "assumes the form of a decision for non-violence" (1992:95). An ethics of communication along the lines suggested by Jürgen Habermas suffers, according to Vattimo, from finding itself in a substantially ahistorical position, while oscillating between formalismand cultural relativism (1992:117). For Vattimo it is only when hermeneutics accepts its nihilistic destiny that "it can find in ‘negativity,’ in dissolution as the ‘destiny of Being’ … the orientating principle that enables it to realize its own original inclination for ethics whilst neither restoring metaphysics nor surrendering to the futility of a relativistic philosophy of culture" (1992:119).
Weak interaction
Weak interaction (often called the weak force or sometimes the weak nuclear force) is one of the four fundamental interactions of nature, along with strong interaction, electromagnetic force, and gravitation. In the Standard Model of particle physics, it is due to the exchange of the heavy W and Z bosons. Its most familiar effect is beta decay (or the emission of electrons by neutrons or positrons by protons in atomic nuclei) and the associated radioactivity. It is a non-contact force, called weak because the typical field strength is 10−11 times the strength of the electromagnetic force and some 10−13 times that of the strong force, when forces are compared between particles interacting in more than one way.
The weak force was originally (in the 1930s) described by Fermi's theory of a contact four-fermion interaction, that is to say, a "force" without range.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_nuclear_force
The weak force was originally (in the 1930s) described by Fermi's theory of a contact four-fermion interaction, that is to say, a "force" without range.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_nuclear_force
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a 1966 Italian/Spanish epic spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach in the title roles.
The sequence that represents the term Resistant is:
"Tuco (Lee Van Cleef) prepares to kill him (Blondie, Clint Eastwood) but pauses when a runaway ambulance carriage appears on the horizon heading their way. Inside, while looting the dead soldiers, Tuco discovers a dying Bill Carson, who reveals that $200,000 in stolen Confederate gold is buried in a grave in Sad Hill cemetery but falls unconscious before naming the grave. When Tuco returns with water, he discovers Carson dead and Blondie slumped against the carriage beside Carson's body. Before passing out, Blondie says that Carson told him the name on the grave."
Tuco cannot kill Blondie because he knows the second part of the Secret, the location of the $200,000.
Spinach addicted...
Popeye the Sailor Man is a fictional hero notable for appearing in comic strips and animated films as well as numerous television shows. He was created by Elzie Crisler Segar.
The Popeye's character is very famous for the relation with spinach, it gives him the "strenght" to face his enemies, in our opinion is a very strong example of the passage from the weakness to the resistance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popeye
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