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As some of you may remember, the original NES came with two game pads, a light gun and a Robotic Operating Buddy (ROB) (Seen Here with the powerglove).

ROB was an interesting device, it had sensors which recieved signals from the screen, and it could move it's hands left or right and pick up or drop two gyroscopes. The gyroscopes could be dropped into a little motorized thing that spun them or they could be dropped onto two buttons. When playing a game that used ROB you'd put the second controller in a little holder on ROB that would translate those gyros that were dropped on the buttons into controller button presses.

So, during ROB enabled games, you'd hold the first controller, and issue commands to the game that would be translated into light signals that would be sent to ROB, who would pick up, turn, or drop gyros at your command. In the end it was a lot of work to simply push one of two buttons, and the ROB games inevitably sucked. Eventually, players would become so annoyed that they'd simply grab the second controller and push the buttons on their own, completely ignoring cute little ROB.

The moral? Well, making it a hassle to push one or two (or four) buttons doesn't a cool controller make.

Second, this thing is using a decent amount of technology to detect body movements, but it will inevitably make some mistakes. Think about the difference between typing and using speech recognition software... With typing, errors are your own fault, but they are often associated with the motor feedback associated with a miskey. With speech, you can say the word properly but the machine may misinterpret your speech. Unfortunately, this occurs un a probabilistic fashion, and is not easy to detect. Imagine if 1 percent of the time that you pressed a key on your keyboard it would be mapped to another key. It would be infuriating. Relying on a probabilistic detector is bound to lead to frustration.

Check out this PDF file for more on speech recognition errors.

I do a search for "izzy's theories", looking for an fanart site hidden deep in the bowels of Tripod:

Google gives me what I'm looking for in its first result.
The newcomer (Tea? O, Ma!) gives me Conspiracy Theories.

I hope they fix their design by the time they get out of beta, or else Teoma is doomed. BTW, I'll never switch over from Google, what with the cache option and all.

L5R had to change their card backs because of USOC bullying. The original logo was 5 rings in a, well, ring, and looked nothing like the Olympic symbol. But in such matters the Olympic thugs have total authority, granted by Congress.

As for the subtle digs at right wingers? You know what, if you talk to those on the lunatic fringe of the left they will tell you the CBC has a right wing bias. They will point out that between them CBC and CBC Newsworld has something like a dozen hours a week of business oriented programming -- but not one labour oriented show.

BTW, I'm no hypocrite. Check it out.

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I think he meant Canada as in British North America... though the French Canadians fought also.

You're correct that Canada as it is known today didn't exist. But the people who fought the war would later be formally declared Canadians in 1867; our ancestors kicked some American "dumb ass", to use your own word.

Here's an interesting link:The battle (burning) of Washington

Interesting parts as follows:

The British soon got word that the only troops standing between them and Washington were militia units. The main British force moved into a Washington suburb and after a brief battle the militia units broke and ran, in the words of one American observer: "They ran like sheep being chased by dogs."

Several hunderd U.S. sailors came ashore to fight but they could not stop the British advance for very long.

The military problems of Mr. Madison and his cabinet faced on the Canadian frontier were now being repeated at the door of the nations capital.

Once the battle had commenced Mr. Madison and the Secretaries of War and State decided it would be better to withdraw to a position in the rear.

Ahead of the President word shot back to Washington that all was not well. The British invasion force was now clearly in on the capital, the presidents wife Dolly Madison dashes of a note to her sister:

Will you believe it my sister, we have a battle or skirmish near the city. I am still within sounds of the cannons, Mr. Madison comes not. May God protect us. Two messengers come in and asked me to leave the capital, I must stay here and wait for my husband.

While Mrs. Madison showed great courage at the White House . Mr. madison was tracking down the Secretary of War to find out what steps were in the works to meet the final British assault, he was shocked and disheartened to find out there was no plan.

The 25th of August 1814, the British approached the heart of Washington, march down Constitution Avenue bearing a flag of truce and demand a surrender. Suddenly from a house window the flag of truce is fired apon.

The British troops rushed into the house where the shots had been fired from, and put all who were found in the house to the sword and then reduced the house to ashes. They went onto burn and destroy every building connected to the government.

While Washington burned, the president and his cabinet became fugitives fleeing westward deep into the hills of Virginia. At the White House Mrs. Madison was persuaded to leave also, and soon after the British troops arrived.

When these British soldiers who had been sent to destroy the President's house entered they found a dinner that had been made for about forty people. They ate every bit of food and drank every bottle of wine, then started to destroy the White House.

Washington D.C. the capital of the United States was a city on fire, what had started two years earlier as the invasion and conquest of Canada had now turned into a defensive war.

Indeed, the United States were humiliated.

Check it out...he also did work for Battlestar Galactica and Airwolf.

On the fan site, they have some interesting film credits:

The talent is as follows:

Alec Baldwin
Ming Na Wen (ER and "Chun-Li" in Streetfighter)
James Woods (John Carpenter's Vampires)
Donald Sutherland (Outbreak)
Peri Gilpen ("Ros Doyle" on Frasier)
Ving Rhames (Mission: Impossible 1 and 2)
Steve Buscemi (Armageddon)

Oooooooh, that James Woods! And the Donald Sutherland from Outbreak! I also heard Ving Rhames and Steve Buscemi might have done a few other films as well....

It reminded me of the South Park 'Cripple Fight' episode WRT Steven Spielberg credits:

The rally has also caught the attention of old scouts members, like Steven Spielberg director of such films as 'Always' and '1941'.

sorry, Anonymous Coward, didn't ever see that. I normally don't read webpages sponsored by the Olsen twins.

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There's an Old Lump of Rock Wobbling around the Outer-limits of the Solar System, and it's been there a while...

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Or Europe based web sites having to comply with the narrow laws (concerning e.g. nudity, drugs, or cryptography) of hyporcrite US.

Anyone remember Milquetoast, the Bloom County/Outland cockroach? How he'd plant subliminal messages by whispering in ears at night... This is how I visualize it:

Milquetoast into the ears of RIAA and MPAA executives: Sue everyone, fear the future, keep your lawyers on the gravy train, leave out a bag of stale cheese puffs.

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From Amazon, Neverwhere was out in hard cover in 1997. From the IMBD, Neverwhere was on TV in 1996. That would seem to support your statement. This page tracks some of his work and pretty much says the same thing.
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It's not Hollywood. The screenplay was written by Jackson himself, a New Zealander who's also directing it. It was also filmed entirely in New Zealand, with the majority of the effects work being done there as well. Sure, it's American money, but the direction is foreign.

I suggest you check out Bad Taste his first film, which was completed on weekends over a couple of years with friends, if I remember. You won't get it, it's mostly kiwi jokes. What you might get is Meet the Feebles a Muppets parody with some really sick shit in it. Basically, his roots are effects and schlock stuff. But he also did Heavenly Creatures, an excellent look at the Parker-Hume murder. If he's ever proven anything, it's that he's got incredible range.

That being said, I'm right with the group here suggesting you assume it's crap until you see it. I think TPM has prepared us all. The last guy who tried to do this, Ralph Bakshi, left it half finished. Don't quote me, but I'm pretty sure he died of cancer half way through. His Vaughn Bode-esque experimental animation put alot of people off, but in truth was quite an amazing adaptation. But perhaps a little too experimental for many peoples' liking. I'm certain Peter Jackson won't make the same mistake, being a true fan.

For a pretty interesting interview with John Kricfalusi (of Ren & Stimpy fame) discussing Bakshi, go here.

It's not Hollywood. The screenplay was written by Jackson himself, a New Zealander who's also directing it. It was also filmed entirely in New Zealand, with the majority of the effects work being done there as well. Sure, it's American money, but the direction is foreign.

I suggest you check out Bad Taste his first film, which was completed on weekends over a couple of years with friends, if I remember. You won't get it, it's mostly kiwi jokes. What you might get is Meet the Feebles a Muppets parody with some really sick shit in it. Basically, his roots are effects and schlock stuff. But he also did Heavenly Creatures, an excellent look at the Parker-Hume murder. If he's ever proven anything, it's that he's got incredible range.

That being said, I'm right with the group here suggesting you assume it's crap until you see it. I think TPM has prepared us all. The last guy who tried to do this, Ralph Bakshi, left it half finished. Don't quote me, but I'm pretty sure he died of cancer half way through. His Vaughn Bode-esque experimental animation put alot of people off, but in truth was quite an amazing adaptation. But perhaps a little too experimental for many peoples' liking. I'm certain Peter Jackson won't make the same mistake, being a true fan.

For a pretty interesting interview with John Kricfalusi (of Ren & Stimpy fame) discussing Bakshi, go here.

After going through quite a bit of trouble, and re-installing the game three times, I finally got around to playing it. Trust me, you aren't missing much by returning it.

Finishing the game took me less than a week, and I didn't play it half as obsessively as I usually do. Compared to previous Myst games, this one is incredibly short. I'd estimate that there's about 20 hours of gameplay in this thing, at the most. Compared to the multiple weeks it took me to finish the first one, it's a real disappointment.

The puzzles were a very odd assortment...some of them made absolutely no sense at all. I completed a couple puzzles through pure trial and error, and never actually understood what it was that caused them to be solved - or even what happened once I solved them. Again, compared to the previous games this is a real disappointment. I am used to puzzles in Myst games being logical, and understanding what I am doing and why. On the other hand, some of the puzzles were so simple that I didn't feel any sense of accomplishment in solving them.

The graphics were not very impressive. I'm not sure what the 3D card is being used for, but it's not rendering anything interesting, that's for sure. The QuickTime 3D interface was very clumsy, and got in the way quite often. I missed several clues because I didn't pan the camera enough in some specific direction. The lush, beautifully pre-rendered look of the old Myst games was often absent. In fact, several scenes looked distinctly two-dimensional. The full-motion videos were of very low quality, especially when compared to the surrounding scenery. They looked very grainy and unimpressive.

I ran into a number of bugs during gameplay too. Alt-tabbing to anything else caused my cursor to freeze up, requiring a ctrl-alt-del to unstick it. When I finally finished the game, it crashed my entire system during the credits screen. Had to reboot and everything - and this is in Win2k, not 98/Me.

Quite frankly, I only finished this game because I felt I had to after spending the money on it. I really wanted to like this game, but it was just bad. I can put up with some bugs, or even some poor content...but both of them in vast quantities was just too much for me.

My full review is available at my website: http://ephemeriis.tripod.com/

They that can give up essential Liberty to obtain a little temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safetey

Here is slightly different (s/obtain/purchase).

Quote Aholic does a s/security/safety.

This site agrees, but also gives a source: Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

This site agrees, but attributes it to a letter to Josiah Quincy in 1773.

In fact, I find that more than any others.

However, I also read (sorry, don't have the source) that Ben was fond of borrowing ideas from other sources - reading lots of old books (he did own a book store at one time, if I'm not mistaken), and simply rephrasing some of the general ideas from them. Not that he wasn't a wise man - if it's true, he certainly picked up on the best ideas. Regardless, if it is true, then it's probably not necessary to get it exactly right, and he probably said it several times himself - perhaps interchanging obtaining/purchasing and security/safety himself.

Yah, well, we might believe you if you weren't a member of the [Durham University Fart Lighting Society] we just might believe you.

But you are a DULFSer, [as this film clip shows]!

Atmospheric reentry, damn right. Ain't no silo-ceramic high-tech tile gonna survive that sorta abuse!

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Keith's sentencing hearing was yesterday and his motion to postpone sentencing pending appeal apparently didn't go anywhere. So he'd have been thrown in jail and by the time his appeals were complete, his 200-day recommended sentence would have been over. However, since he wouldn't have had any income in jail, he'd have likely lost his house (he's permitted to keep it in bankruptcy under the homestead exemption). As it is, he's applying for permission to work in Canada, so he'll be able to keep making payments. There's some more info on this on the currently-slashdotted Free Henson site, which will hopefully be back in operation soon.

in Australia with GM canola crops, being grown for commercial, not scientific use. These crops are being grown in "secret" locations, and may be polluting the neighbourhood crops (with windblown pollen), but since their locations are not public, we won't really know. This has really pissed off anti-GM and organic crop growers, who feel that their business is at risk.

The island state of Tasmania here would like to be a GM free zone, which if it can be enforced legally, would provide them with a lot of protection, as they are not close to many landmasses.

There has also been dumping of a GM crop into a commercial rubbish tip.

When I competed in a sceince fair back in March, amoung other awards I won the "Princeton Plasma Physics Award", an award sponsored by the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) here in New Jersey, and as a winner I was given a free tour of the facilities. For those of you who don't know, PPPL is "The hottest place in the Universe", lying at the forefront of Nuclear Power and Plasma research...very cool.

So I was going around the facilites, visiting their $125,000,000 tokamac's and torsotrons and all this crazy equipment (very cool science plamsa physics is, too much to elaborate on here), and I get to the control room, from which they run all their Data Acquisition (DaQ) and such to monitor the expirements, and the room is filled with .... MACS? The engineer giving me the tour explained that it was in the personal interest of most of the researchers. Yes, there were Sun's and other UNIX boxes scattered on the control room floor, but I would look closely, and sure enough, amounst the three or so monitors at each workstation, one of them was hooked up to a mac. There were g4's and g3's scattered all across the floor. Wack.

So yea, Mac's are playing a key role in plasma research, helping achieve effecient fusion, one step at a time.

For another cool plamsa physics project (unrelated to mac's), check out Garrett Young's ISEF project Quasi-Elliptical Torsatron - A Study of Induced Radial Electric Fields and Plasma Turbulence. He is a senior in high school and on the cutting edge of plasma physics research. Quite the talented individual.

Get it here.

Yeah, actually (hold on) it's "Impossible Mission". A great game, but darn was it hard. I never got far. :(

In this article, there is a good discussion on the big bang theory and it's origins.

The discovery of background radiation is described well in this article. The work was done by Penzias and Wilson in 1965. As for the CNN article referring to this as the "cosmic match that ignited the big bang," classical theories break down at the singularity which we presume the universe began from. Because space and time break down at this singularity, how can we identify a cause? The only events in space and time that matter are the ones after the big bang. The article isn't well written and with what's written about it, it seems to be the same work done 36 years ago that I cited above. I'm sure there's a reason it's making the news now, but whatever the discovery is, the article doesn't do it justice.

"How is this useful in transporting a message? Could someone either explain what I'm missing"

You're not missing anything, that was my first thought as well. The current analysis of "spooky action at a distance" implies that while there is a statistical correlation, it is insufficient for transmitting data. That fact is something sorely lacking from this Science, and I would like to have it addressed. Spooky interaction of electron spin is not sufficient for communicating a message, though it may be useful for verifying a message. What gives?

Check out the heading "Putting Entangled Photons to Work" here for more info. There's a lot missing in this quantum encryption proposal mentioned in the article...

I opened one up on the way to the developer once. It was a long car ride and I got bored. In the one that I opened (a Kodak MAX something...) the film was 35mm, but it did not have a normal sprocket for the camera to wind it with. It was a strange shape so that normal film couldn't be wound it it, nor could the film be used in a normal camera. You actually take pictures in reverse order from normal.

In addition, in a normal camera, you wind film out of the canister, then rewind it back when you're done. In a disposable, you are actually rewinding it while you shoot each picture, it comes unwound inside the camera already.

Here is a bit of information about reusing disposable wide angle cameras.

The Mayan calendar ends on December 21 2012. *shrug*

And in the case of tethers, 'This is not NASA' typically means 'This works'.

e.g., the Small Expendable Deployment Systems (SEDS) which is a dirt-cheap (by aerospace standards) system that has flown successfully several times.

Take a look. Reagan had two recessions during his 2 terms.

So maybe this would be a good reason to get M$ back in court

It seems that Bill or his lawyers read history. If time were in a position to honour anything, we would be considering a time-honoured practice here.

The exact same method was used to acquire enormous power by the Medievel Church. They worked very hard to become confessors to important people, then used or sold the information confessed for even further political entrenchment. Of course, if someone became too much of an obstacle, they could always be bumped off their perch.

So... Microsoft are taken to court, and then one day a judge finds an email in his inbox with copies of emails to and from his son's Hotmail account - concerning specific indiscretions - attached; or copies of an email conversation between him and a particular woman; or whatever. I'm sure you get the idea.

Suddenly, having Microsoft lose a case seems an exceptionally bad idea to the judge. Meanwhile, the other judges are seeing rising pressure from friends and relatives (many of whom, it seems, also have Hotmail/Passport accounts), which combined with another astroturf movement might be enough to throw the case.

Re:mote Induction's contribution to Global Disinformation Day:
A review of the 'Prvjict Mir' 10" EP by 'Etomer'

The last cosmonauts on the station placed contact mics and transimitters at strategic locations around the station before it headed earthwards...
The first ten copies come packaged with Mir Debris.

The worrying thing is, I'm pretty sure there will be a good number of noiseniks around the world saying "the sounds of a dying space station? hell fuck yeah!!"

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...now that their code bases are merging!

While I am all for motivating people to come up with new poems and/or types of poetry, that is not what this contest does. Playing with not only language but with syntax, capitalizations, and even symbols has been around for awhile, just check out any good poetry mag or even (for a simpler version) go find an e.e. cummings anthology. However, if nothing else comes of this perhaps people will finally learn how to send intelligable messages in very few characters. -- Fear the Tactical Toddlers!

There's already a form of PDA for the Gameboy. It's a freeware ROM made by TeamKNOX. You can download it from here. If you need an emulator for it you can download one (Windows) here. It's actually pretty fun to play with. There is also a retail GB PDA, made by Datel, but I believe it is only available in Europe.

There's already a form of PDA for the Gameboy. It's a freeware ROM made by TeamKNOX. You can download it from here. If you need an emulator for it you can download one (Windows) here. It's actually pretty fun to play with. There is also a retail GB PDA, made by Datel, but I believe it is only available in Europe.

(Actually, in addition to high-altitude contrails are an indicator of not spraying the Earth, any concerted contrail activity would be visible in satellite photos and impossible to hide.)

Somebody has written a Win32 MMIX emulator, complete with source code. If anybody's looking for a project, porting this to Linux/Unix is probably a good one . . .

Well, I'll hate myself in the morning, but I've been inspired to put online my take of "Jurassic Park", with finger puppets.

http://matt.jensen.tripod.com/jp.html.

(.AVI, 5MByte download.)

Sheesh, 3.5MB just for that? Learn to optimize, man! Giant dithered gif89a is a terrible waste of bandwidth.

Here's an example of how to do gif-mation on a reasonable scale.

How come so many Scientologists and Scientology supporters have criminal records? How come so many of them are losers who are taking their personal frustration out on the critics of their crimes?

We have Founder L. Ron Hubbard with his criminal conviction for petty theft for passing bad checks and with a record of wife-beating and drug abuse, who died on psych drugs while hiding from the authorities. Not only did his ex-wife and his own son describe him as a "paranoid schizophrenic" but a judge even described the cult he founded as "paranoid and schizophrenic" and stated that this was a "reflection of its founder." Among his other crimes, L. Ron Hubbard was sentenced to four years of prison for fraud by a French court, but he remained a fugitive from this charge as well.

Hubbard was also a child abuser, who forced his son L. Ron Hubbard, Jr. to take phenobarbitol and who was fined $50 and sentenced to probation for abandoning his own daughter in a vehicle.

Theft conviction
Wife-beating and drug abuse
Death on psych drugs coroner report
Described as a "paranoid schizophrenic" by ex-wife
Described as a "paranoid, schizophrenic megalomaniac" by his own son
Described as "schizophrenic and paranoid" by judge
Convicted of fraud and sentenced to four years in prison
Fined and put on probation for abandoning his daughter in a vehicle
Forced his own son to take drugs

Then we have L. Ron Hubbard's third wife Mary Sue Hubbard, who was convicted of felonies and served jail time for helping her husband mastermind the biggest domestic espionage case in American history, involving burglarizing government offices routinely and committing other crimes. Even her own lawyers admitted that she had committed these crimes, as well as 11 other Scientologists who were convicted of crimes including felonies.

Sentencing memorandum describing crimes as "heinous and vicious"
Stipulation of evidence admitting to multiple felonies by Hubbard and other defendants

Next comes the President of the cult he founded, Heber Jentzsch, who has just recently skipped out on a million dollars bail for felonies in Spain, making him a fugitive from justice and persona non grata in all of Europe. A habitual liar, who constantly claims that his cult has eight million members, this criminal can be seen in handcuffs all around the net, and can accurately be described as a bail-jumping felon.

Heber Jentzsch Spanish criminal charges

1) Revelation Chapter 13 - which details the Antichrist's plan to force all mankind to receive a mark in their right hand or forehead in order to buy or sell goods.

2) The Islamic Hadith's Final Signs of Qiyaamah - which predicts the arrival of a monstrous 'beast from the earth' which will mark the foreheads of believers.

3) Patent 5,878,155 - defined as "Method for verifying human identity during electronic sale transactions...A bar code or a design is tattooed on an individual. Before the sales transaction can be consummated, the tattoo is scanned with a scanner. Characteristics about the scanned tattoo are compared to characteristics about other tattoos stored on a computer database in order to verify the identity of the buyer. Once verified, the seller may be authorized to debit the buyer's electronic bank account in order to consummate the transaction. The seller's electronic bank account may be similarly updated."

Thank god I live in a city (Washington D.C.) where I work across the street from a bar/restaurant that doesn't have a no-smoking section.
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When I get off work I can go smoke a pack (or big fat cigars) & drink to my hearts content without having to worry about the P.C. shocktroops. God Bless America.
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Mainstream news companies don't need to try very hard, now do they?

Radio just isn't going to cut it for this. Simple and reliable 'bot positioning at this time needs an absolute position indicator. Open the box, place the 'bot on-site, boot it up for the very first time and it should be able to work out where it is. Anything that requires it to be placed in a "known position", then track movement from their is just too painful to contemplate.

Doppler radio systems might deliver some velocity information (but it's difficult), but it cannot do absolute positioning.

Radio multi-station phase-tracking systems were developed during WW2 (Gee, Oboe) to give absolute positions. The trouble with these is that they only work over long distances. They work by timing path length differences between fixed stations, so they can only work if the path lengths differ by more than the shortest time interval you can measure, multiplied by the speed of light. With radio wavelengths in a garden - forget it !

This does not logically follow. I could make an arguement about this, but I submit for you consideration this essay found at this site, which says it all much better than I could come up with at a moments notice. It is a poetry site BTW, and not particularly political in nature, although opinions are expressed.

Television Science: the Year of the Circuit

I keep hearing authorities on public radio applying logic to who and what we are that, if applied to a TV set, might run as follows: Though tradition claims that there is life beyond this TV set, a life that continues after its demise --actual living beings who create these moving pictures, the TV set being only a means of presenting them to others --we know, scientifically, that this cannot be the case. Here is the evidence:

1. Obviously, nothing of the life you see on a TV set can survive the demise of the TV set. Proof: destroy a TV set. It contains no more life, nor ever will again.

2. Evidence is mounting that the TV set is the SOURCE of the pictures you see on its screen. They are all created within the "brain" of the TV set. For example, if you sever this wire, the pictures vanish. If you sever THIS one, the picture lose their vertical hold. If you cut THAT one, they lose horizontal hold. If you destroy that part, they fade. If you destroy THAT part, the sound vanishes. And so forth. By disabling one or another component to see what it controls, scientists, daily, are clarifying the ways in which the various parts of the TV set contribute to the creation of its pictures. (Tube or not tube?)

3. Where sets are faulty (electrical brain imbalances), we can't cure them, but we CAN keep them operating. For example, when we jolt this set by attaching a power line to this part here, we don't get the correct picture back, but notice how the screen flares up, all brilliant white? See? We can keep it happy.

Our scientists -- never has more intelligence been exerted to propound greater stupidity. When a body dies, a body dies; therefore there is no soul. Huh? When you mess up part of a brain, the person becomes incapable of telling one face from another. Therefore the person IS his brain. So let's see: If I'm using brains and nerves to communicate via a body, and you can mess up my communication lines by messing up the body, I don't exist? If you can cut the brake linings on a car so that the brakes don't work, this proves that there's no driver?

The only point being , we need to be careful in our logic when it cones to these things.