it's true... why would anyone aroudn the world want a fucking laptop? no one seems to get the big outside point, sure the internet is dope, sure Doom 3 in africa is a worthy goal for an entrepreneur but fucking COME ON!!
people dont want a laptop, they want to be CONNECTED. you dont need a keyboard if your cellphone can dictate information to you. you dont need to give everyone a solid monitor, an 8in^2 cell screen is plenty to show mufatu the picture of the buffalo's banging on the plain.
where the hell you gonna set a laptop on the serengeti anyway? throw the mobile in your pocket... but laptops do have an advantage, they can be multi user machines. 8 people share a laptop on MTV's whatever show, so a whole village can share 12 of them. you can't rellay multi user a phone. how do you get in touch with someone when the phone they are using that day changes?
Where do you plug the bloody laptop in? power usage in both machines differs. a foot of solar panel can pour enough juice in a car battery to recharge more phones than bones in the nose of new guinan.
Where am I gonna be connected with these laptops? no network no networking. what do we say to the tribes who need 800miles of cable to get hooked up? Wifi shows potential, the same solar panel could juice a local cell tower, and the ranges on wifi routers get stretched every day with less and less power.
but it seems that both the laptop and the mobile phone come closer and closer to fulfilling our desire to communicate without quite locking in on what is needed. imagine a future where the network covers the landscape. little apps are showing up right now, you can ask an expert a question with text messaging at random. the barriers in between our minds are falling.
imagine when the wearables start looking sexy.... all you see is some chunky framed shades, they see people the're connected to through myspace highlighted in pink, with the names, faces, and contacts all available INSTANTLY. asking someone's name triggers a google search, every politico's dream.
world getting crazier every day homie. what did your great grandfather say when he saw that first horseless carraige? could he even comprehend a freeway? parallel parking? rush hour double lane switches with burning hot coffee all over your crotch so you don't miss the onramp to the 101? what about WAL-mart? no truckers no walmart right? Change is in the air.
can you imagine a future where everyone is connected. where holding a phone for 10 minutes reroutes your information so people looking for you can IM, text, video, audio, voice, walkie talkie, whatever? it's expensive to run fiber optic cable everywhere, and dropped laptops get cracked. how about captain genius puts some thought into something radical.... small scale satellite phone packages. mount the dish/server to something tall, point it at the sky. use the local broadcast/mesh network of the phones for local shite, and satellite everything outside the network. or just mesh it over to the satellite dish network over there... one big wireless network, with everyone connected. all your tribe needs to do is come up with the 3k price tag. for fun's sake we'll make it so that anyone with one of grass roots towers can use any grass roots satellite/ mesh network for free. all the tower needs is juice, so hook up the panel to a battery so the tower can run at night. if you wanted to get frisky, have every tribe pony up $200 a year. take all that cash and spend it to upgrade key network points for faster overall network thoroughput. post a 3k online grant to people who post the best hacks to the system's code. fuck microsoft, let's get ALL the big fish. from the telcos to the cable companies to the broadcast media. why pay a reporter when an on site "network animal" vids the scene with his camera, posts the reel to his "satellite tree" which bit torrents the informaiton to all the other animals through the "mesh network canopy". it wasn't the video from the ne
This is so great. all of the studio execs and movie moguls/ riaa payroll members were so stoked when they got the DMCA passed, little did they know it was going to be the beginning of their downfall.
The article states that "There's no question that if Osama bin Laden had access to nanoweapons that he'd use them."
That's quite a statement my friend. Let's be dreadfully honest here. What is terrorism? Terrorism is violence. Violence against a group of people who are unlike us. What defines "us"? Ladies and Gentlemen, we were infected at a very early age. With a dreadful virus, a virus of the mind. From here on I will refer to a virus of the mind as a meme.
We have all been infected with a very specific meme. The meme of race. The meme of Nationalism. The memes of "We" and "Them".
We are all alike. Even the most beautiful and glamorous of us is forced to take a large foul-smelling crap from time to time.
When you are born, your parents induct you into a society. They tell you the story of your Forefathers, your culture, your heritage. You are given a sense of pride in your genetic lineage. Don't panic. You have been infected. From then on, everyone around you is different. The "We" and the "Them". You can't be part of them, you're part of "Us", part of "our" "we".
When confronted with one of "Them", you meet an alien for the first time. Where your own eyes are round, the alien's eyes are slanted. Where your skin is black, his is white. Where your hair is lusturous and black, hers is fine and white, or red, or green. See what just happened? You fell into the trap... You have denied your shared traits, your shared behaviours. You saw the differences between you, and fell into the trap of racism.
Racism is a negative idea, Not because of the violence and hatred it breeds, but because it is wrapped up in the meme of race. The Twin memes of "We" and "Them". How am I different from any Muslim? How am I different from any Jew? How am I different from any Catholic? We all eat to survive. We all take big smelly shits. We Pick our noses and stare at our boogers. We Fart and blame it on the Dog. We all become aroused. Which incidentally brings me to the first cure for Racism.
We all need to fuck each other.
You heard me, say it yourself. You'll feel much better.
"We all need to fuck one another."
If the words taste funny in your mouth, it's cause you haven't acquired a taste yet. Try it again...
You may be asking me now, "But Kauai_Geek, we're gonna be having a whole lot of fun with this, but how will it cure racism?" The answer? By eliminating the Visual differences, it is impossible to differentiate yourself from your neighbor. He looks just like you. He has your cocoa skin, your exotic eyes, your tall lanky frame, even your acne. He. Looks. Just. Like. Me. He is me... How can I hate myself? How can I hate my brother? How can I do naught but love my sister? My Aunt? My cousin? My Father? My Mother?
It's okay if you still have that foul taste in your mouth. This is a difficult, and sometimes distasteful idea to stomach. How could you ever fuck a Nigger? A Chink? A Jap? A Wop? A Filthy Fucking Jew? You may not taste the sweet nectar of lust when you contemplate the differences of another. For you I have another cure.
You are going to have to kill everyone. Well I shouldn't say that. You won't have to kill Everyone . Just those who aren't part of your "We". Gives you a funny feeling in your stomach? Wrap all of that silly queasyness in a bundle and throw it over your shoulder. You're not a Murderer. You're ending Racism! And what a glorious gift your god has given you. That's right Your God. Don't let yourself down after everyone who looks different than you is dead. You and your similar brothers have much more work to do! You've got to kill everyone one who isn't a Catholic! Who isn't a Baptist! Who isn't a Muslim! Heck, even those who aren't Buddhists! You've got a whole bunch of Jews to kill. Go on, don't be hesitant. Your God said to love all your brothers. How can you love with the unsafety of difference between you and your brothers? Go on, keep killing.
Good work. You've killed everyone who does not share your melanin levels. Good work. Now take a good long look around. Hey.... Waitaminute John's eyes are blue. Mine are brown. Fuck, there's still a little bit of racism left to be purged... Smoke that blue eyed fuck! And his Daughter! That bitch with the Red HAIR!!! Slaughter that BiTch! Fucking murder hate kill enemy destroy slaughter maim, bite kick kill punch!
Thank goodness, there's no racism left. Funny, weren't there more people around here? Hmmm this is interesting. You seem to be All. By. Your. Self.
Well at least there's no more of those racist fucks left.
As for me? I'd rather get laid in a bed of cloth than a bed of dirt. Which do you choose?
First off you should know that Hawaii, in general, is a VERY weird place. Ask anyone here about the "Night Marchers". More than likely you'll get the full story, AND how to handle when you encounter them.
Secondly, every island is a little more wierd than the next. Kahoolawe used to be a Navy Air Bombing site. Today you can take tours of the special beauty of the island. Not limited to the *live* bombs laying on the ground, as well as *marked* landmine fields.
Green Harvest (local government agency dedicated to eradicating marijuana) dropped what initially looks like little orange balls all over the Big island (You guys call it the isle of Hawaii, we call it Big island). Turns out that when the balls impact something solid, they release a gas that will supposedly kill *only* Marijuana, turns out that it's actually an Agent Orange Derivative, that was being *tested*. Hundreds got sick and sued, Green Harvest's funding is in jeapordy as a result.
On Kauai we have the PMRF (Pacific Missile Range Facility). The PMRF is the *entire* US west coast defense system, I'll give you three guesses to figure out what kind of missile(s) protects the entire west coast of America.
Hawaii is a very fuc*ed up place. Hearing that about Oahu does not suprise me at all.
6.5 mps (miles per second) is escape velocity
IANAP (I am not a physicist), I remember reading about this in one of asimov's essays (asimov on numbers, physics, cheese-pants. whatever).
I have no respect for people who put me down with their larger knowledge of trivia, but if you're in a field where this knowledge is crucial, and you ever come to Hawaii, I'll teach you how to surf. (people who launch things into space are cool)
During a late-nite drug binge, the man in my television told me that a vote for Nader was a vote for Bush. I thought to my self, "Wow! That's like getting to vote twice! I'd be a total sucker to pass that one up!"
the best thing about nanotech is not that it'll allow everyone to purchase super detailed mega-spiffy goods. The best thing about Nanotech is it will take every labor/ service related worker and throw them in the gutter. Where they belong!
Guess what waits for them in the gutter?
the general assembler. A nano-sized robot that can build a copy of itself from nearby available materials. "what does this mean for me as I am an idiot?" you might say. Imagine living without want. Imagine a future where materialism is long dead, anyone can build anything if they have the right plans for their general assembler(s). A future where information and ideas are the new currency. Sainthood to the first one to bring a single assembler to the poor slave laborers. Forever loved for freeing them from the slavery of trying to be a "productive" country, where labor is exchanged for goods & services.
In my vision, we have achieved eden. When the general Assembler hits, you'll find me in a boat 30 miles from the southern shores of Kauai, dropping a canister full of those little robots. Fsck your countries, all of them. I'll be more than happy to live out my life on my own personal paradise, where all I want is grown and controlled by me. If you'd like you can come and visit, perhaps live. Let me warn you though. My paradise involves long peeling waves that never seem to end (I can grow any kind of reef I want). Lots of the Herb growing plentifully everywhere. Don't worry about not being one of the beautiful people though.... I'll just mess with a few of your genes. it might feel a little odd for a while to shed excess fat directly onto the ground, to lose your "unattractive" features. You will enjoy it..
for the pro - a digital camera is not what you want, you're gonna have to stick to film for right now..... it all comes down to how a digital takes pictures compared to a good film camera. when you push the button with a digital you're not really taking one picture.... you're taking three pics. one in red, one in green, and one in blue. This means that if there is any shaking in the camera one of your pics just isn't gonna look "right" (looking *really* close with photoshop will let you see how your hand shook) and even with a super-keen tripod you're still gonna get a little shake...
a film camera on the other hand takes one photo, one exposure, one shot, wham bang, looks crisp if you got your lighting and stuff going on right.
for the weekend warrior or stoked parent who just wants to show off the kids: digital camera's are great, you can get a pretty decent shot with a simple sony digital camera they sell at wal-merk (destroyer of Mom & Pop stores everywhere). the main problem you're gonna have is with the software package and connecting the silly camera to your pc...
I work as an digital editor for a local photographer and we see the digital problem all the time from customers who bring in disks with really funky images, we're usually more than happy to show em the red haze on the top combined with the blue outline on the bottom after zooming in quite a bit.
untrue. you can buy a $30,000 Leica GPS reciever and get 1cm accuracy. it's civilian in the sense that anyone can buy the damn thing but it's not civilian in the sense that it'll take a 30,000 dollar chunk out of your preffered nostril...
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it's true... why would anyone aroudn the world want a fucking laptop? no one seems to get the big outside point, sure the internet is dope, sure Doom 3 in africa is a worthy goal for an entrepreneur but fucking COME ON!!
people dont want a laptop, they want to be CONNECTED. you dont need a keyboard if your cellphone can dictate information to you. you dont need to give everyone a solid monitor, an 8in^2 cell screen is plenty to show mufatu the picture of the buffalo's banging on the plain.
where the hell you gonna set a laptop on the serengeti anyway? throw the mobile in your pocket... but laptops do have an advantage, they can be multi user machines. 8 people share a laptop on MTV's whatever show, so a whole village can share 12 of them. you can't rellay multi user a phone. how do you get in touch with someone when the phone they are using that day changes?
Where do you plug the bloody laptop in? power usage in both machines differs. a foot of solar panel can pour enough juice in a car battery to recharge more phones than bones in the nose of new guinan.
Where am I gonna be connected with these laptops? no network no networking. what do we say to the tribes who need 800miles of cable to get hooked up? Wifi shows potential, the same solar panel could juice a local cell tower, and the ranges on wifi routers get stretched every day with less and less power.
but it seems that both the laptop and the mobile phone come closer and closer to fulfilling our desire to communicate without quite locking in on what is needed. imagine a future where the network covers the landscape. little apps are showing up right now, you can ask an expert a question with text messaging at random. the barriers in between our minds are falling.
imagine when the wearables start looking sexy.... all you see is some chunky framed shades, they see people the're connected to through myspace highlighted in pink, with the names, faces, and contacts all available INSTANTLY. asking someone's name triggers a google search, every politico's dream.
world getting crazier every day homie. what did your great grandfather say when he saw that first horseless carraige? could he even comprehend a freeway? parallel parking? rush hour double lane switches with burning hot coffee all over your crotch so you don't miss the onramp to the 101? what about WAL-mart? no truckers no walmart right? Change is in the air.
can you imagine a future where everyone is connected. where holding a phone for 10 minutes reroutes your information so people looking for you can IM, text, video, audio, voice, walkie talkie, whatever? it's expensive to run fiber optic cable everywhere, and dropped laptops get cracked. how about captain genius puts some thought into something radical.... small scale satellite phone packages. mount the dish/server to something tall, point it at the sky. use the local broadcast/mesh network of the phones for local shite, and satellite everything outside the network. or just mesh it over to the satellite dish network over there... one big wireless network, with everyone connected. all your tribe needs to do is come up with the 3k price tag. for fun's sake we'll make it so that anyone with one of grass roots towers can use any grass roots satellite/ mesh network for free. all the tower needs is juice, so hook up the panel to a battery so the tower can run at night. if you wanted to get frisky, have every tribe pony up $200 a year. take all that cash and spend it to upgrade key network points for faster overall network thoroughput. post a 3k online grant to people who post the best hacks to the system's code. fuck microsoft, let's get ALL the big fish. from the telcos to the cable companies to the broadcast media. why pay a reporter when an on site "network animal" vids the scene with his camera, posts the reel to his "satellite tree" which bit torrents the informaiton to all the other animals through the "mesh network canopy". it wasn't the video from the ne
This is so great. all of the studio execs and movie moguls/ riaa payroll members were so stoked when they got the DMCA passed, little did they know it was going to be the beginning of their downfall.
The irony of the situation amuses me to no end.
The article states that "There's no question that if Osama bin Laden had access to nanoweapons that he'd use them."
That's quite a statement my friend. Let's be dreadfully honest here. What is terrorism? Terrorism is violence. Violence against a group of people who are unlike us. What defines "us"? Ladies and Gentlemen, we were infected at a very early age. With a dreadful virus, a virus of the mind. From here on I will refer to a virus of the mind as a meme.
We have all been infected with a very specific meme. The meme of race. The meme of Nationalism. The memes of "We" and "Them".
We are all alike. Even the most beautiful and glamorous of us is forced to take a large foul-smelling crap from time to time.
When you are born, your parents induct you into a society. They tell you the story of your Forefathers, your culture, your heritage. You are given a sense of pride in your genetic lineage. Don't panic. You have been infected. From then on, everyone around you is different. The "We" and the "Them". You can't be part of them, you're part of "Us", part of "our" "we".
When confronted with one of "Them", you meet an alien for the first time. Where your own eyes are round, the alien's eyes are slanted. Where your skin is black, his is white. Where your hair is lusturous and black, hers is fine and white, or red, or green. See what just happened? You fell into the trap... You have denied your shared traits, your shared behaviours. You saw the differences between you, and fell into the trap of racism.
Racism is a negative idea, Not because of the violence and hatred it breeds, but because it is wrapped up in the meme of race. The Twin memes of "We" and "Them". How am I different from any Muslim? How am I different from any Jew? How am I different from any Catholic? We all eat to survive. We all take big smelly shits. We Pick our noses and stare at our boogers. We Fart and blame it on the Dog. We all become aroused. Which incidentally brings me to the first cure for Racism.
We all need to fuck each other.
You heard me, say it yourself. You'll feel much better.
"We all need to fuck one another."
If the words taste funny in your mouth, it's cause you haven't acquired a taste yet. Try it again...
You may be asking me now, "But Kauai_Geek, we're gonna be having a whole lot of fun with this, but how will it cure racism?" The answer? By eliminating the Visual differences, it is impossible to differentiate yourself from your neighbor. He looks just like you. He has your cocoa skin, your exotic eyes, your tall lanky frame, even your acne. He. Looks. Just. Like. Me. He is me... How can I hate myself? How can I hate my brother? How can I do naught but love my sister? My Aunt? My cousin? My Father? My Mother?
It's okay if you still have that foul taste in your mouth. This is a difficult, and sometimes distasteful idea to stomach. How could you ever fuck a Nigger? A Chink? A Jap? A Wop? A Filthy Fucking Jew? You may not taste the sweet nectar of lust when you contemplate the differences of another. For you I have another cure.
You are going to have to kill everyone. Well I shouldn't say that. You won't have to kill Everyone . Just those who aren't part of your "We". Gives you a funny feeling in your stomach? Wrap all of that silly queasyness in a bundle and throw it over your shoulder. You're not a Murderer. You're ending Racism! And what a glorious gift your god has given you. That's right Your God. Don't let yourself down after everyone who looks different than you is dead. You and your similar brothers have much more work to do! You've got to kill everyone one who isn't a Catholic! Who isn't a Baptist! Who isn't a Muslim! Heck, even those who aren't Buddhists! You've got a whole bunch of Jews to kill. Go on, don't be hesitant. Your God said to love all your brothers. How can you love with the unsafety of difference between you and your brothers? Go on, keep killing.
Good work. You've killed everyone who does not share your melanin levels. Good work. Now take a good long look around. Hey.... Waitaminute John's eyes are blue. Mine are brown. Fuck, there's still a little bit of racism left to be purged... Smoke that blue eyed fuck! And his Daughter! That bitch with the Red HAIR!!! Slaughter that BiTch! Fucking murder hate kill enemy destroy slaughter maim, bite kick kill punch!
Thank goodness, there's no racism left. Funny, weren't there more people around here? Hmmm this is interesting. You seem to be All. By. Your. Self.
Well at least there's no more of those racist fucks left.
As for me? I'd rather get laid in a bed of cloth than a bed of dirt. Which do you choose?
Secondly, every island is a little more wierd than the next. Kahoolawe used to be a Navy Air Bombing site. Today you can take tours of the special beauty of the island. Not limited to the *live* bombs laying on the ground, as well as *marked* landmine fields.
Green Harvest (local government agency dedicated to eradicating marijuana) dropped what initially looks like little orange balls all over the Big island (You guys call it the isle of Hawaii, we call it Big island). Turns out that when the balls impact something solid, they release a gas that will supposedly kill *only* Marijuana, turns out that it's actually an Agent Orange Derivative, that was being *tested*. Hundreds got sick and sued, Green Harvest's funding is in jeapordy as a result.
On Kauai we have the PMRF (Pacific Missile Range Facility). The PMRF is the *entire* US west coast defense system, I'll give you three guesses to figure out what kind of missile(s) protects the entire west coast of America.
Hawaii is a very fuc*ed up place. Hearing that about Oahu does not suprise me at all.
Surfing is religion
you are silly
6.5 mps (miles per second) is escape velocity
IANAP (I am not a physicist), I remember reading about this in one of asimov's essays (asimov on numbers, physics, cheese-pants. whatever).
I have no respect for people who put me down with their larger knowledge of trivia, but if you're in a field where this knowledge is crucial, and you ever come to Hawaii, I'll teach you how to surf. (people who launch things into space are cool)
Surfing is religion
you are silly
During a late-nite drug binge, the man in my television told me that a vote for Nader was a vote for Bush. I thought to my self, "Wow! That's like getting to vote twice! I'd be a total sucker to pass that one up!"
Surfing is religion
you are silly
Provost Zackarov of the university
Alpha Centauri
Betcha $0.05 that I screwed up the comment...
Surfing is religion
you are silly
it'll put someone out of work?
Good!
the best thing about nanotech is not that it'll allow everyone to purchase super detailed mega-spiffy goods. The best thing about Nanotech is it will take every labor/ service related worker and throw them in the gutter. Where they belong!
Guess what waits for them in the gutter?
the general assembler. A nano-sized robot that can build a copy of itself from nearby available materials. "what does this mean for me as I am an idiot?" you might say. Imagine living without want. Imagine a future where materialism is long dead, anyone can build anything if they have the right plans for their general assembler(s). A future where information and ideas are the new currency. Sainthood to the first one to bring a single assembler to the poor slave laborers. Forever loved for freeing them from the slavery of trying to be a "productive" country, where labor is exchanged for goods & services.
In my vision, we have achieved eden. When the general Assembler hits, you'll find me in a boat 30 miles from the southern shores of Kauai, dropping a canister full of those little robots. Fsck your countries, all of them. I'll be more than happy to live out my life on my own personal paradise, where all I want is grown and controlled by me. If you'd like you can come and visit, perhaps live. Let me warn you though. My paradise involves long peeling waves that never seem to end (I can grow any kind of reef I want). Lots of the Herb growing plentifully everywhere. Don't worry about not being one of the beautiful people though.... I'll just mess with a few of your genes. it might feel a little odd for a while to shed excess fat directly onto the ground, to lose your "unattractive" features. You will enjoy it..
on buying a camera:
for the pro - a digital camera is not what you want, you're gonna have to stick to film for right now..... it all comes down to how a digital takes pictures compared to a good film camera. when you push the button with a digital you're not really taking one picture.... you're taking three pics. one in red, one in green, and one in blue. This means that if there is any shaking in the camera one of your pics just isn't gonna look "right" (looking *really* close with photoshop will let you see how your hand shook) and even with a super-keen tripod you're still gonna get a little shake...
a film camera on the other hand takes one photo, one exposure, one shot, wham bang, looks crisp if you got your lighting and stuff going on right.
for the weekend warrior or stoked parent who just wants to show off the kids:
digital camera's are great, you can get a pretty decent shot with a simple sony digital camera they sell at wal-merk (destroyer of Mom & Pop stores everywhere). the main problem you're gonna have is with the software package and connecting the silly camera to your pc...
I work as an digital editor for a local photographer and we see the digital problem all the time from customers who bring in disks with really funky images, we're usually more than happy to show em the red haze on the top combined with the blue outline on the bottom after zooming in quite a bit.
untrue. you can buy a $30,000 Leica GPS reciever and get 1cm accuracy. it's civilian in the sense that anyone can buy the damn thing but it's not civilian in the sense that it'll take a 30,000 dollar chunk out of your preffered nostril...