Hedonism

Hedonism is a school of thought that argues that pleasure is the primary or most important intrinsic good.

A hedonist strives to maximize net pleasure (pleasure minus pain).

Ethical hedonism is the idea that all people have the right to do everything in their power to achieve the greatest amount of pleasure possible to them, assuming that their actions do not infringe on the equal rights of others. It is also the idea that every person's pleasure should far surpass their amount of pain. Ethical hedonism is said to have been started by Aristippus of Cyrene, a student of Socrates. He held the idea that pleasure is the highest good.

Etymology

The name derives from the Greek word for "delight" (ἡδονισμός hēdonismos from ἡδονή hēdonē "pleasure", cognate with English sweet + suffix -ισμός -ismos "ism"). The Greek word coming from ancient Assyrian word "ḫadûtu" meaning: delight.

History of development

Sumerian civilization

In the original Old Babylonian version of the Epic of Gilgamesh, which was written soon after the invention of writing, Siduri gave the following advice "Fill your belly. Day and night make merry. Let days be full of joy. Dance and make music day and night [...] These things alone are the concern of men", which may represent the first recorded advocacy of a hedonistic philosophy.

Caught Inside (film)

Caught Inside is a 2010 Australian thriller directed by Adam Blaiklock and produced by Paul S. Friedmann. The film stars Peter Phelps, Harry Cook, Ben Oxenbould & Daisy Betts; Damien Wyvill as the cinematographer. Caught Inside was also produced under the names Locked In and The Hedonist.

Premise

Surfing charters are meant to be a trip to Paradise... With 7 male surfers stuck on a boat, there's bound to be some friction - but when two of the boys are replaced at the last minute with two gorgeous girls - the heat is turned way up! The one 'single girl' on board - SAM - enjoys the attention. She soon has them all wrapped around her finger, as she challenges surf legend "BULL" in being 'the Alpha Male' on board. But The Bull decides to make a forceful move on Sam. Archie's loyalty is torn - between Bull and the group, as the others beat and abandon Bull on an island, but soon the ever-determined Bull returns..! It's soon a life-and-death struggle on board the yacht, as the five imprisoned friends - Archie, Sam, Toobs, Rob and Alex - must survive the fury of the psycho at the helm. When everything goes horribly wrong - their "dream trip" turns into a nightmare battle of wits, love and survival.

Martin Solveig

Martin Picandet (French pronunciation: ​[maʁtɛ̃ pikɑ̃dɛ]), known as Martin Solveig, (born Paris, France 22 September 1976), is a French DJ and record producer. He also hosts a weekly radio show called "C'est La Vie" on stations worldwide including FG DJ Radio in his homeland. His label is called Mixture Stereophonic. Solveig had been ranked 29th in the 2011 DJ Mag Top 100 DJs popularity poll. He has collaborated with Dragonette, Kele of Bloc Party, and Madonna.

Early life

As a child, Martin Solveig joined the choir of The Paris Boys Choir also known in France as Les petits chanteurs de Sainte-Croix de Neuilly, where he had a classical music training and became soprano soloist under the direction of François Polgár. At the age of 18, he became a DJ and then started to work in famous Parisian nightclubs: L'Enfer, Le Queen, Les Bains Douches.

Career

2002–07: Sur la Terre & Hedonist

On 17 June 2002, Solveig released his debut studio album Sur la Terre, the album failed to chart. The album includes the singles "Madan", "Rocking Music" and "I'm a Good Man". On 12 September 2005, he released his second studio album Hedonist, the album peaked to number 43 on the French Albums Chart. The album includes the singles "Everybody", "Jealousy", "Something Better" and "Rejection".

Less

Less or LESS may refer to:

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Privative

A privative, named from Latin privare, "to deprive", is a particle that negates or inverts the value of the stem of the word. In Indo-European languages many privatives are prefixes; but they can also be suffixes, or more independent elements.

Privative prefixes

In English there are three primary privative prefixes, all cognate from PIE:

These all stem from a PIE syllabic nasal privative *n̥-, the zero ablaut grade of the negation *ne, i.e. "n" used as a vowel, as in some English pronunciations of "button". This is the source of the 'n' in 'an-' privative prefixed nouns deriving from the Greek, which had both. For this reason, it appears as an- before vowel, e.g. anorexia, anesthesia.

The same prefix appears in Sanskrit, also as a-, an-. In in Slavic languages the privative is nie- and u-, e.g. nieboga, ubogi. In North Germanic languages, the -n- has disappeared and Old Norse has ú- (e.g. ú-dáins-akr), Danish and Norwegian have u-, whereas Swedish uses o, and Icelandic uses the etymologically related ó.

Less (stylesheet language)

Less (sometimes stylized as LESS) is a dynamic style sheet language that can be compiled into Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and run on the client side or server side. Designed by Alexis Sellier, Less is influenced by Sass and has influenced the newer "SCSS" syntax of Sass, which adapted its CSS-like block formatting syntax. Less is open source. Its first version was written in Ruby; however, in the later versions, use of Ruby has been deprecated and replaced by JavaScript. The indented syntax of Less is a nested metalanguage, as valid CSS is valid Less code with the same semantics. Less provides the following mechanisms: variables, nesting, mixins, operators and functions; the main difference between Less and other CSS precompilers being that Less allows real-time compilation via less.js by the browser.

Variables

Less allows variables to be defined. Variables in Less are defined with an at sign (@). Variable assignment is done with a colon (:).

During translation, the values of the variables are inserted into the output CSS document.