pssht -- "i said to the man, are you trying to tempt me?" a baby? none! a baby is born with shit and blood clinging to it, and who cares?
theologically, many people believe we are born with a certain number of rights. they're nuts. i'm a eugenicist, and i personally don't care about a single one of them.
the true scientific nature of human conduct and socialization is that we give to each other what we need to in order to survive. we give other peoples' babies rights because we need to ensure our own babies rights so they have a better chance at surviving. arguably, some of the same theologians who 'gaurantee' our 'rights' through flowery language also owned slaves despite the fact those people were babies at one time, as well.
i'm a radical eugenicist, too, so don't bother trying to up the age-limit of 'baby', i say go ahead and kill them all the way up to around 23 years old for being degenerates. p.s. asking questions like yours counts towards degeneracy rating. have a nice life.
read any issue of 2600 and think about e-voting, then go have a heart-to-heart with your elected representatives, especially if they are democratic as the democrats intend to involve from-home e-voting in the upcoming democratic primaries.
'governor, this is a simple 64mbyte ram module. there are sixty-four million groups of eight switches in here. if you count each of these groups one per second, it would take you over two years. now consider that each little individual switch of on and off has to be verified. one switch per second, this would take you sixteen years, and would total more seconds than there are american citizens, almost twice as many. and this, just to count one storage device, dozens of which would be required to actually do the job of recording indexes, names, addresses, signatures and social security numbers, and other data that are collected in current ballots in order to ensure fair elections. there would have to be more storage, as well, to keep logs of all the electronic transactions required in order make sure the processes were secure and retractable, for the purpose of tracking down any offenders. now this task of sixteen years to count every switch in this chip has been multiplied by dozens, perhaps hundreds or even thousands. you may find enough volunteers to reduce the time required, but now reduce the volunteers, in the case of just 1,000 such citizens, by the requirement of ability to run an electron-scanning microscope and to work steadily at the task for as many as sixteen years. now find 10,000 electron-scanning microscope-operating humans who can work without stopping to eat, sleep, or drink for a year and a half and you're approaching the end of your problem. now find 1,000,000 such citizens and the work has been reduced to.016 years, or perhaps a modest six days. consider that humans need to sleep, and you have eighteen days. count breaks, errors, and certain numbers having to count the same switch at the same time to verify it, and you have a multiply of that, perhaps exceeding a month. now pay them all or otherwise convince them to spend all their time for one month counting microscopic switches. now consider that you will have to either print and provide for them on paper, or have them record on paper, the status of the switches to be verified. now accomodate the 1,000,000 vote-counters. you already have all the materials you need to have done the ballot by classic ballot means and also at the very least quadrupled the expenses. i urge you to ditch the computer junk and ask people to turn out to the booths, instead.'
These scientists... look, people in their class take jets at least two times a year up to twice a week. Sorry, but they aren't average americans, they are from a much smaller percentile class.
Meanwhile, I a fellow human don't take jets ever. I am making up for one scientist's transgression. There are enough like me to cover their little trist so fine. I support their conference, though I agree it could be tried by telepresence next time.
What I don't support is anybody using any excuse to peddel communism on me. Even if it's 'green', I don't agree to any method of allocating me rights I haven't earned fairly, or disallocating me any rights that I have.
This junk about the 'common good' is misleading, nobody in history has ever even proved that the common good exists. For that matter, the pre-existance of society is an inflicted myth. You make society in any given moment, not in the past. In other words, the world is what we make of it. Abstracts in the past no longer exist.
I don't like scientific myths and I don't like stupid scientists wasting grants to ritually gather. And I don't like bad math propaganda, and I don't like shock science. And I also don't like conferences, the idea itself is wasteful which is what they are actually battling, whether they realize it or not.
well your eyewsight is bad and blurs things whether they are intentionally blurry or not. the fact that the pixels were intentionally blurred is reasonable and discernable, hence your ability to discern it. that means it's obvious to sight, that means it's as visible as a lego strew. so fess up, you only speak about the blur because your vision is blurry. you wouldn't know straight from clear.
the blood being taken out, i find typical, unnecessary, but nothing to whine about. it's just my opinion -- blood makes a fighting game gaudy, the same way excessive blood makes a war movie gaudy and even unrealistic.
and i agree wholeheartedly with taking out the guns. no fighting game should involve weapons, that's how i feel. i was pissed that scorpion was allowed into the mortal kombat tournament. i mean, nobody else showed up with synthetic weapons, they all used mystic forces. whether subzero's icy blasts could have actually been technologically produced or not is up to debate -- i say it was magic. i didn't even like the metallic fan thing in the sequel. i don't like weapons in empty-hand fighting games, they belong in samurai fighting games where at least a sword is expected. do you think it's fair to take a sword against honda? he'll never get out of the way or block more than one strike. he's a sumo wrestler -- that's why people like he and zangeif joined the tournament, to fight with their hands, not weapons. keep the guns and crap hidden under samurai showdown kimonos. in fact, take guns out of the fighting games. leave them in the war games. nobody wants to escape back to a time long ago when any moron could pick up a gun and negate evolution. that's not why we play fighting games. we play them to revel in a style of doing battle that has been outdated by something so easy to use that eugenics may as well be abandoned while inbreds rule the world.
but, i digress. while i can tolerate censoring blood, and i think guns shouldn't be in fist/magic/combo-fighting games, this junk about removing 'bouncing' is intolerable.
there is probably nothing more distracting to the gamer than the first time they run into a pair of realistically jiggling boobs on what they had hoped would be an easy-to-beat opponent. it's seriously disarming. any realistically portrayed part of female anatomy is disarming to other gamers, sometimes especially other females.
it's a great feat of human ingenuity to take pixels that are often so large you can see them as clearly as lego-blocks on your bedroom floor and turn them into an illusion of anatomy so realistic that the player can be aroused by it. for this technology to be stifled is a real shame in the pants. you think this is bad, wait until they censor 'falling/flying/f**king' (lawnmower man.) now that's outrage.
TEN DAYS FROM NOW, NEWS -- Japan, Hitachi HQ -- Hitachi reports that its PDA's have run out of fuel and it's time for users to throw all of their PDA's at the Sun.
Hitachi president states, "just look up into the sky not directly at the sun!!! such action would surely detriment the eyeball. look askance the sun by degrees and mark its position well. we are now requesting all of our PDA users to toss their devices at the sun."
when asked why such action was necessary, Hitachi execs were incredulous at our gaijin inferior mentality.
"you're so damn stupid," said one hitachi CEO, "you don't know your pockets. let me tell you, warrior, press start now to save your scroll. thank you. if you have been reading the news, you know what we are up to. i suggest you talk to the boredoms."
boredoms were on hand to talk, yoko ono being very far away at the moment. what did they have to say? "VISION," said 'eye', the band's leader, "CREATION," chiimed in another member who was quickly followed up with "NEWSUN! YEAH!" by a third. they all chanted: "VISION! CREATION! NEWSUN! YEAH!" in unison for several hours in the coffee-room of Hitachi headquarters in Japan.
"we don't know why they are here is the official word, but since you're an american i know that you know that we all know what a conspiracy is," said one 'Mister Johnson' while sipping a vaguely Italian cappucino. "this is the dirt, sir. the dirt you seek here now. go-go. it's all here now, where the sun... the sun," but the young exec couldn't finish, he was too overwhelmed by the need to accomodate an interactive vending machined in providing much-needed soiled panties to the masses. "SCHOOLGIRLS," this reporter heard him scream, "SCHOOOL -- GIIIIIRRLLLSS!!!"
meanwhile, outside, i can see from this window the broken, scattered personal data assistant devices laying on the ground. many young japanese people must have actually tried forcing these devices to reach the sun once they ran out of fuel, in rememberance of the beautiful legendary japanese space probe which once upon a time lost the marathon to mars.
surrounding these devices were many small, bloodied bodies laying on the ground, all japanese school children with their bellies slashed open by their own hands. the juxtaposition of not only totally having to throw one's Hiatchi PDA into the sun but also that universal physics declared this impossible was too much strain for the young overachievers. they committed seppuku en masse, spontaneously and innocently like little geisha-doll-kabuki-samurai-ghosts.
"this is traditional," said one psychology ph.d. race-supremacist who demanded to be left anonymous on threat of burning down our village. "let sleeping dogs die!" he issued in courtly chinese.
much was pondered about the emergence of technology and magic, but Enix was not available for comment.
not only did i not know that p2p 'sharing' crap has been such a tremendous overhead, but i never bothered to remember or analyse the figures to realize that the music industry is a pittance. could you think the same way about the u.s. justice system? i'm sure they're just as over-rated by most americans.
if i could say anything to the music industry, i would say: "you want it all, but you can't have it! yeah, yeah, yeah."
here is the final solution:
1. entire music industry decides to represent music, not recordings. "recorded music is dead!" they finally cede, joining ranks of some of the best musicians in the world as improv artists. recording industry part of the music industry dies.
2. music industry re-assesses the value of the poor instrument makers, sound technicians, and studio owners who underpinned the recording industry the entire time. how to get them and musicians paid while leaving shared songs free?
3. for musicians, life doesn't change. musicians go to studios, record songs, and they are quickly copied to and shared on the internet for free. listeners find their favorite artists. artists gain popularity, recognition, and prestige. stardom lives on.
<fame> i'm gonna live 4evar!!!111!!!1!!!
4. ambitious people want the fame. they buy instruments, recording equipment (which is needed in the studio process and computers are still behind in that league,) music lessons, and pay sound technicians and executives a lot of money for advice (execs,) and ridicule (techs.)
5. the money of all of these sales goes to the recording industry. the musicians spend money to the music industry in order to invest in becoming famous. the songs are still free unless they sell recordings -- mass-producers are still willing to press albums, which would be dirt-cheap now that sharing is legal but only die-hard fans want to buy cd's, and low demand keeps prices pretty high, still several or a dozen dollars a disc.
6. the musicians want the money to come in where it has always been -- the gigs and tours. more popular musicians go on more tours and make more money. they are more popular by making better songs, which fans are familiar with and appreciative of because they got the songs for free off the internet. the music industry sells them bunches of road techs, architects, instruments and equipment to smash, anarchists, the works. industry profits and musicians rake it in.
7. a bardic way of life returns where touring isn't some 'hassle' for some lame-ass, half-ass musician in 'rolling stone'. touring becomes a way of life. music becomes magic. crowds become hordes and musicians make more money than they ever would have dreamed they could make. they are music industry's number one customers and music industry floats in the air on top of enormous profits coming in from the bardic class. music industry returns to the period of artisans and actually being good at producing musical instruments and equipment, rather than being cheap.
8. retrospectively, fans realize that the recording industry and its long, hard battle to survive was their own damn fault. they should have ditched recording music long ago. music played live, improvisationally in all forms, is living music. even the mp3 is dead. suddenly phish phans were before their time -- the fact that western civilization is all about entertainment dawns on the masses and exodus begins as people re position themselves geographically to be nearer to their favorite artists.
9. hippies don't know how to use birth control. the world population spins out of control and all the migrating nomadic anarchist hippies have too many children for the ecology to support. the world ends because issues of entertainment were more important to the most powerful and decisive nation in world history than even their own moral and eugenic principles. humanity fails. earth dies. life is snuffed out.
10. paul simon writes a lyric and philip glass plays a song to accompany the empty universe. paul mccartney dies. then any musician who ever spoiled the british crown by accepting a knighthood die, the savages.
see, this is a great example of how 'left'/'right', 'up'/'down', 'positive'/'negative', 'clockwise'/'counterclockwise', and other conventions can be clung to and allowed to distort the truth.
for example, you care really badly which way compasses point, or more generally you care a lot about the polarity of magnetic fields staying how they are.
oh, really? well, do you care much at all about which way around the toilet your water swirls as it goes down the drain? of course you don't -- and it's a good thing because if you cross the equator and flush your toilet again, the water will go down the other direction.
the earth goes through a series of wobbles which lend its hemispheres 'seasons', while undergoing a process known as 'precession'. at the same time, the solar plane undergoes a bit of unsteadiness where it's located on the galaxy's arm, dipping over and under the galactic plane.
our solar system is heading toward the galactic plane, the denser part of the galaxy.
my intuition tells me that as we approach, we will notice changes in certain things that go 'one way around', either slowing or diminishing, and when we pass over -- ping? pong! -- even the magnetic field will be inverted.
but rest easy -- in this theory, you'll also be able to go to australia and experience the retro feeling of water going down the drain the way it used to in the united states.
also, magnetic pole flips aren't 'rare', they may have happened millions of times in the past at regular intervals, according to some geologists who have studied sedimentary rock layers and found that magnetically influenced particles in the sediment (settled over time,) pull this way, then that way, then this way again as they survey deeper.
i understand what is being said by music industry. i comprehend them.
see, they are saying that we can't trade content but we can trade description-of-content. they are suggesting we will be as excited about description-of-content as we are about content itself.
in other words, they are saying that they think we need to use our imaginations more. this is like one of those 'get your community educated' exercises.
their hope is that by exercising our imaginations more, we will all go out and take music lessons and become musicians.
the reason for this is that if there are more musicians releasing more music, then music costs less, so you have less of a reason to steal it. and, musicians can make their own music any time they want so they never have to steal it. this way, the companies don't 'lose' 'money'.
instead, they just go out of business. in fact, their model is working already ahead-of-time: people are so musically inclined that they won't even try to use this new description-of-content sharing method, they will just imagine that it sucks!
many feet of cable and a crimper (and a shovel) isn't actually that expensive. i could connect insulated cable underground to my neighbor's house pretty cheaply. and to the next neighbor's, and the next. so could you. let's do it, but please: call miss dig 1-800-miss-dig first (or you'll be electrocuted!)
i think you can easily foresee the internet that they have planned. any time these governing bodies ask a question and can't understand the answer, they will just say 'we cannot have that on the innernet. cut that out of the flowchart.'
whatever roms and processes they expect will be required to operate online will be easy to copy or spoof, keeping the illusion of their dumb terminal in front of your preferred machine. the problem won't be hacking around their off-limits innernet, the problem will be data laws that people keep crying for to solve every little problem such as spam and DOS.
see even if you decide to spoof the dumb terminal, all you will be able to use your coveted secret computer for is local processing of data. you won't be able to 'surf' so to speak, unless it appears to be the dumb terminal doing the surfing, which means you may as well just stick to the DT. even by hiding your real surfing steganographically within seemingly innocent or innocuous DT surfing, the stego will appear to be erroneous data and you will either be asked to stay offline until your terminal is repaired or your house will just be burned down. in any case, nobody will be out there to stego surf with you except other people who've hidden machines behind spoofed DTs.
the problem, again, are the laws attempting to control data. it will just become against the law to produce unpredicted data. this will be seen as a way to eliminate both errors and malice. the conclusion is that the internet will cease to be a thing that once inspired dreams of a vast neural network coming 'alive' and will instead be something like kitsch wallpaper with about as much function as 'ta-da!' a toaster (or credit card.)
it's like some crazy race this time. i think this is where the japanese probe fires the retros and stands still along the 'track', waiting for the other probs to pass. as they do, it will break FCC space-probe-marathon rules and fry their circuits with EMP, microwaves, and lasers. when all the probes crash into mars, the japanese probe will fire rockets again for mars and send the song 'speed racer (dance remix)' back to earth on all FM radio frequencies.
i'm saying that projects nasa has achieved so far have been more difficult than this one, involving more advanced mathmatics (landing on a not-so-distant surface vs. predicting the results of a series of gravity 'slingshot' trajectories,) and fewer attempts, and how suddenly getting near mars is the impossible project for our entire space-exploring race which has been extremely successful so far in all interplanetary missions (again, sans mars.)
see how easy it is to get into the 'gag'? 'hehehe, and then when it's 144,000 miles from objective, hehehe, we push the button and made it explode, kookoo! haha!'
'yeah heh people will think there's something going on on mars, this is way more exciting than people thinking it's boring and we're useless.'
how do soooooo many people get jobs in aerospace, working in big old science departments funding by big old governments which send probes to venus and saturn, probes to the moons of jupiter and past pluto, probes to fast-moving comets, but they can't put a damn thing on surface or orbit of mars and the one time they did it was all screwed up? what the hell is the deal with mars? are scientists throwing our money away on purpose just to have laughs over a nerdy gag that 'mars has little green men and huge monuments and we're not allowed to see it'?
And the carrot is: We're gonna offer you a better experience . . . and it's only gonna cost you a dollar a song.
So: Tom Waits "Rain Dogs" = $19; Bob Dylan "Infidels" = $9; Philip Glass "Music in 12 Parts" (3 CDs) = $12? Where are they going with that bologna? Are the Boredoms or other experimental artists going to sell any of their extra-long tracks or one-track albums for just $1? Are artists going to be forced to ditch the 'album' experience and focus on hovering a saleable image over a bunch of disconnected songs?
Does commercialism or commercial break cause ADHD?
Another funny thing: a lot of the insistance that we pay to share data that appears to be somebody's music is based on the idea of 'intellectual property' and this unproven (untested) theory that 'intellectual property' and 'copyright' are required for the global economy to function.
Meanwhile, they still want to charge top dollar for recordings of compositions that are in the public domain. And, corporations pressure lawmakers to change the meaning of 'copyright' anyways for instance extending the lifetime of copyrights an additional few decades just because an expensive icon is about to become free.
Why the double standards? Could they be reasoning all of this over profits, not their purported ideals? It's possible. I wonder why we allow ourselves to continue to be duped by laws controlling information after seeing time and again that it does information no good.
I just think it's strange that such antisocial tendencies as 'competition' and 'private property' are being pushed on the back of such raging idealism when the idealists aren't even serious about ideology except as packaging and when said ideals are contradictory. The package is being bought despite these logical inconsistencies.
The carrot is their false ideologies and the stick is the truth that the world is ruled by violence and issues of MP3 piracy only matter to a civilization of very comfortable hogs.
Anyways its a fitting analogy; only in agricultural civilization could food become so scarce that a stuck carrot would be so tantalizing to so many.
charging miniscule amounts to send email that only mount up when you're mass-mailing sounds like a great idea until you work trojans and zombies into it, then you have people racking up bills and not knowing how to explain it. a server could analyze traffic and find the offensive email being sent to the zombie to mass-forward, but if the trojan decrypts the message first and then scrambles the key based on some seeded randomization shared with the zombie-lord, how will you ever prove that was the offending message? people will be getting screwed out of more money than they already are.
if the results of poorly maintained databases were network instability and sites being bum-rushed off the net, instead of a 'few'(^n) spams getting through or emails being mis-blocked you might get reliably maintained databases. you're only worried because you think somebody who doesn't deserve the 'lynching' will get on the list of people to lynch/shun/etc.
i don't think your suggestion is viable as a way of economically bogging the spam industry, due to the fact that there are very few spammers who really 'care' and many don't speak english.
as sure as you are that they're waiting to have a hallmark moment with their victims, i'm equally convinced that they don't even have an 'inbox' feature on their mass-mailer. it's too tedious to care what people say or want -- that's why spam is what it is, an annoyance that won't go away.
i'm not saying that your ideal of there being some kindhearted spammers out there in singapore is wrong. there might be, but addressing them in the hope of it causing them financial distress seems to be pointing the wrong shooter up the wrong hole.
first of all, if i did find any kindhearted spammers i would assume that they were actually employing some new emotional honeypot method. they want me to think they care, so i won't try something more drastic or painful.
but, if some spammer and yourself exchanged a few poorly translated words and got to know one another's concerns, i guess i would hope not that the conversation was intended to financially hurt anyone but rather was intended to emotionally hurt them. if you really actually find an open port to some spammer's heart, you should try to request they use their powers for good and crash the megacruiser into the death star.
i mean such an opportunity to touch a spammer's cold, spongemold heart is not going to be very useful as a financial tool but might have some purpose as an ideological one.
all this applies as well to the idea of passing yet more flailing laws against various forms of data or transfer. all that nonsense has to stop because frankly it's not how the internet or computing were formed in the first place. nobody 'cares' about abuse of laws to stifle what amount to annoyances, not actual damages. you don't have to open your inbox or accept mail from anybody not on your exclusive list of expected senders, but the stupid ass legislation gets passed anyways.
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let's reduce this to terms of personal freedoms:
you're tricked by the illusion, i'm not.
you're jealous.
shut up.
pssht -- "i said to the man, are you trying to tempt me?" a baby? none! a baby is born with shit and blood clinging to it, and who cares?
theologically, many people believe we are born with a certain number of rights. they're nuts. i'm a eugenicist, and i personally don't care about a single one of them.
the true scientific nature of human conduct and socialization is that we give to each other what we need to in order to survive. we give other peoples' babies rights because we need to ensure our own babies rights so they have a better chance at surviving. arguably, some of the same theologians who 'gaurantee' our 'rights' through flowery language also owned slaves despite the fact those people were babies at one time, as well.
i'm a radical eugenicist, too, so don't bother trying to up the age-limit of 'baby', i say go ahead and kill them all the way up to around 23 years old for being degenerates. p.s. asking questions like yours counts towards degeneracy rating. have a nice life.
read any issue of 2600 and think about e-voting, then go have a heart-to-heart with your elected representatives, especially if they are democratic as the democrats intend to involve from-home e-voting in the upcoming democratic primaries.
.016 years, or perhaps a modest six days. consider that humans need to sleep, and you have eighteen days. count breaks, errors, and certain numbers having to count the same switch at the same time to verify it, and you have a multiply of that, perhaps exceeding a month. now pay them all or otherwise convince them to spend all their time for one month counting microscopic switches. now consider that you will have to either print and provide for them on paper, or have them record on paper, the status of the switches to be verified. now accomodate the 1,000,000 vote-counters. you already have all the materials you need to have done the ballot by classic ballot means and also at the very least quadrupled the expenses. i urge you to ditch the computer junk and ask people to turn out to the booths, instead.'
'governor, this is a simple 64mbyte ram module. there are sixty-four million groups of eight switches in here. if you count each of these groups one per second, it would take you over two years. now consider that each little individual switch of on and off has to be verified. one switch per second, this would take you sixteen years, and would total more seconds than there are american citizens, almost twice as many. and this, just to count one storage device, dozens of which would be required to actually do the job of recording indexes, names, addresses, signatures and social security numbers, and other data that are collected in current ballots in order to ensure fair elections. there would have to be more storage, as well, to keep logs of all the electronic transactions required in order make sure the processes were secure and retractable, for the purpose of tracking down any offenders. now this task of sixteen years to count every switch in this chip has been multiplied by dozens, perhaps hundreds or even thousands. you may find enough volunteers to reduce the time required, but now reduce the volunteers, in the case of just 1,000 such citizens, by the requirement of ability to run an electron-scanning microscope and to work steadily at the task for as many as sixteen years. now find 10,000 electron-scanning microscope-operating humans who can work without stopping to eat, sleep, or drink for a year and a half and you're approaching the end of your problem. now find 1,000,000 such citizens and the work has been reduced to
These scientists... look, people in their class take jets at least two times a year up to twice a week. Sorry, but they aren't average americans, they are from a much smaller percentile class.
Meanwhile, I a fellow human don't take jets ever. I am making up for one scientist's transgression. There are enough like me to cover their little trist so fine. I support their conference, though I agree it could be tried by telepresence next time.
What I don't support is anybody using any excuse to peddel communism on me. Even if it's 'green', I don't agree to any method of allocating me rights I haven't earned fairly, or disallocating me any rights that I have.
This junk about the 'common good' is misleading, nobody in history has ever even proved that the common good exists. For that matter, the pre-existance of society is an inflicted myth. You make society in any given moment, not in the past. In other words, the world is what we make of it. Abstracts in the past no longer exist.
I don't like scientific myths and I don't like stupid scientists wasting grants to ritually gather. And I don't like bad math propaganda, and I don't like shock science. And I also don't like conferences, the idea itself is wasteful which is what they are actually battling, whether they realize it or not.
You don't masturbate to Slashdot? That's kinky.
well your eyewsight is bad and blurs things whether they are intentionally blurry or not. the fact that the pixels were intentionally blurred is reasonable and discernable, hence your ability to discern it. that means it's obvious to sight, that means it's as visible as a lego strew. so fess up, you only speak about the blur because your vision is blurry. you wouldn't know straight from clear.
the blood being taken out, i find typical, unnecessary, but nothing to whine about. it's just my opinion -- blood makes a fighting game gaudy, the same way excessive blood makes a war movie gaudy and even unrealistic.
and i agree wholeheartedly with taking out the guns. no fighting game should involve weapons, that's how i feel. i was pissed that scorpion was allowed into the mortal kombat tournament. i mean, nobody else showed up with synthetic weapons, they all used mystic forces. whether subzero's icy blasts could have actually been technologically produced or not is up to debate -- i say it was magic. i didn't even like the metallic fan thing in the sequel. i don't like weapons in empty-hand fighting games, they belong in samurai fighting games where at least a sword is expected. do you think it's fair to take a sword against honda? he'll never get out of the way or block more than one strike. he's a sumo wrestler -- that's why people like he and zangeif joined the tournament, to fight with their hands, not weapons. keep the guns and crap hidden under samurai showdown kimonos. in fact, take guns out of the fighting games. leave them in the war games. nobody wants to escape back to a time long ago when any moron could pick up a gun and negate evolution. that's not why we play fighting games. we play them to revel in a style of doing battle that has been outdated by something so easy to use that eugenics may as well be abandoned while inbreds rule the world.
but, i digress. while i can tolerate censoring blood, and i think guns shouldn't be in fist/magic/combo-fighting games, this junk about removing 'bouncing' is intolerable.
there is probably nothing more distracting to the gamer than the first time they run into a pair of realistically jiggling boobs on what they had hoped would be an easy-to-beat opponent. it's seriously disarming. any realistically portrayed part of female anatomy is disarming to other gamers, sometimes especially other females.
it's a great feat of human ingenuity to take pixels that are often so large you can see them as clearly as lego-blocks on your bedroom floor and turn them into an illusion of anatomy so realistic that the player can be aroused by it. for this technology to be stifled is a real shame in the pants. you think this is bad, wait until they censor 'falling/flying/f**king' (lawnmower man.) now that's outrage.
when it runs out of fuel you throw it at the sun, why cannot you learn this?@!@!#% gaijin---
TEN DAYS FROM NOW, NEWS -- Japan, Hitachi HQ -- Hitachi reports that its PDA's have run out of fuel and it's time for users to throw all of their PDA's at the Sun.
Hitachi president states, "just look up into the sky not directly at the sun!!! such action would surely detriment the eyeball. look askance the sun by degrees and mark its position well. we are now requesting all of our PDA users to toss their devices at the sun."
when asked why such action was necessary, Hitachi execs were incredulous at our gaijin inferior mentality.
"you're so damn stupid," said one hitachi CEO, "you don't know your pockets. let me tell you, warrior, press start now to save your scroll. thank you. if you have been reading the news, you know what we are up to. i suggest you talk to the boredoms."
boredoms were on hand to talk, yoko ono being very far away at the moment. what did they have to say? "VISION," said 'eye', the band's leader, "CREATION," chiimed in another member who was quickly followed up with "NEWSUN! YEAH!" by a third. they all chanted: "VISION! CREATION! NEWSUN! YEAH!" in unison for several hours in the coffee-room of Hitachi headquarters in Japan.
"we don't know why they are here is the official word, but since you're an american i know that you know that we all know what a conspiracy is," said one 'Mister Johnson' while sipping a vaguely Italian cappucino. "this is the dirt, sir. the dirt you seek here now. go-go. it's all here now, where the sun... the sun," but the young exec couldn't finish, he was too overwhelmed by the need to accomodate an interactive vending machined in providing much-needed soiled panties to the masses. "SCHOOLGIRLS," this reporter heard him scream, "SCHOOOL -- GIIIIIRRLLLSS!!!"
meanwhile, outside, i can see from this window the broken, scattered personal data assistant devices laying on the ground. many young japanese people must have actually tried forcing these devices to reach the sun once they ran out of fuel, in rememberance of the beautiful legendary japanese space probe which once upon a time lost the marathon to mars.
surrounding these devices were many small, bloodied bodies laying on the ground, all japanese school children with their bellies slashed open by their own hands. the juxtaposition of not only totally having to throw one's Hiatchi PDA into the sun but also that universal physics declared this impossible was too much strain for the young overachievers. they committed seppuku en masse, spontaneously and innocently like little geisha-doll-kabuki-samurai-ghosts.
"this is traditional," said one psychology ph.d. race-supremacist who demanded to be left anonymous on threat of burning down our village. "let sleeping dogs die!" he issued in courtly chinese.
much was pondered about the emergence of technology and magic, but Enix was not available for comment.
oh my god, oh my god oh my GOD!
not the fall of rome, AGAIN??!!
it wasn't blasphemy! i said 'o me ga'. 'o-me-ga! omega-- fine, burn me at the stake.'
not only did i not know that p2p 'sharing' crap has been such a tremendous overhead, but i never bothered to remember or analyse the figures to realize that the music industry is a pittance. could you think the same way about the u.s. justice system? i'm sure they're just as over-rated by most americans.
if i could say anything to the music industry, i would say: "you want it all, but you can't have it! yeah, yeah, yeah."
here is the final solution:
1. entire music industry decides to represent music, not recordings. "recorded music is dead!" they finally cede, joining ranks of some of the best musicians in the world as improv artists. recording industry part of the music industry dies.
2. music industry re-assesses the value of the poor instrument makers, sound technicians, and studio owners who underpinned the recording industry the entire time. how to get them and musicians paid while leaving shared songs free?
3. for musicians, life doesn't change. musicians go to studios, record songs, and they are quickly copied to and shared on the internet for free. listeners find their favorite artists. artists gain popularity, recognition, and prestige. stardom lives on.
<fame> i'm gonna live 4evar!!!111!!!1!!!
4. ambitious people want the fame. they buy instruments, recording equipment (which is needed in the studio process and computers are still behind in that league,) music lessons, and pay sound technicians and executives a lot of money for advice (execs,) and ridicule (techs.)
5. the money of all of these sales goes to the recording industry. the musicians spend money to the music industry in order to invest in becoming famous. the songs are still free unless they sell recordings -- mass-producers are still willing to press albums, which would be dirt-cheap now that sharing is legal but only die-hard fans want to buy cd's, and low demand keeps prices pretty high, still several or a dozen dollars a disc.
6. the musicians want the money to come in where it has always been -- the gigs and tours. more popular musicians go on more tours and make more money. they are more popular by making better songs, which fans are familiar with and appreciative of because they got the songs for free off the internet. the music industry sells them bunches of road techs, architects, instruments and equipment to smash, anarchists, the works. industry profits and musicians rake it in.
7. a bardic way of life returns where touring isn't some 'hassle' for some lame-ass, half-ass musician in 'rolling stone'. touring becomes a way of life. music becomes magic. crowds become hordes and musicians make more money than they ever would have dreamed they could make. they are music industry's number one customers and music industry floats in the air on top of enormous profits coming in from the bardic class. music industry returns to the period of artisans and actually being good at producing musical instruments and equipment, rather than being cheap.
8. retrospectively, fans realize that the recording industry and its long, hard battle to survive was their own damn fault. they should have ditched recording music long ago. music played live, improvisationally in all forms, is living music. even the mp3 is dead. suddenly phish phans were before their time -- the fact that western civilization is all about entertainment dawns on the masses and exodus begins as people re position themselves geographically to be nearer to their favorite artists.
9. hippies don't know how to use birth control. the world population spins out of control and all the migrating nomadic anarchist hippies have too many children for the ecology to support. the world ends because issues of entertainment were more important to the most powerful and decisive nation in world history than even their own moral and eugenic principles. humanity fails. earth dies. life is snuffed out.
10. paul simon writes a lyric and philip glass plays a song to accompany the empty universe. paul mccartney dies. then any musician who ever spoiled the british crown by accepting a knighthood die, the savages.
see, this is a great example of how 'left'/'right', 'up'/'down', 'positive'/'negative', 'clockwise'/'counterclockwise', and other conventions can be clung to and allowed to distort the truth.
for example, you care really badly which way compasses point, or more generally you care a lot about the polarity of magnetic fields staying how they are.
oh, really? well, do you care much at all about which way around the toilet your water swirls as it goes down the drain? of course you don't -- and it's a good thing because if you cross the equator and flush your toilet again, the water will go down the other direction.
the earth goes through a series of wobbles which lend its hemispheres 'seasons', while undergoing a process known as 'precession'. at the same time, the solar plane undergoes a bit of unsteadiness where it's located on the galaxy's arm, dipping over and under the galactic plane.
our solar system is heading toward the galactic plane, the denser part of the galaxy.
my intuition tells me that as we approach, we will notice changes in certain things that go 'one way around', either slowing or diminishing, and when we pass over -- ping? pong! -- even the magnetic field will be inverted.
but rest easy -- in this theory, you'll also be able to go to australia and experience the retro feeling of water going down the drain the way it used to in the united states.
also, magnetic pole flips aren't 'rare', they may have happened millions of times in the past at regular intervals, according to some geologists who have studied sedimentary rock layers and found that magnetically influenced particles in the sediment (settled over time,) pull this way, then that way, then this way again as they survey deeper.
i understand what is being said by music industry. i comprehend them.
see, they are saying that we can't trade content but we can trade description-of-content. they are suggesting we will be as excited about description-of-content as we are about content itself.
in other words, they are saying that they think we need to use our imaginations more. this is like one of those 'get your community educated' exercises.
their hope is that by exercising our imaginations more, we will all go out and take music lessons and become musicians.
the reason for this is that if there are more musicians releasing more music, then music costs less, so you have less of a reason to steal it. and, musicians can make their own music any time they want so they never have to steal it. this way, the companies don't 'lose' 'money'.
instead, they just go out of business. in fact, their model is working already ahead-of-time: people are so musically inclined that they won't even try to use this new description-of-content sharing method, they will just imagine that it sucks!
many feet of cable and a crimper (and a shovel) isn't actually that expensive. i could connect insulated cable underground to my neighbor's house pretty cheaply. and to the next neighbor's, and the next. so could you. let's do it, but please: call miss dig 1-800-miss-dig first (or you'll be electrocuted!)
it seems like most of the internet is already stored. wouldn't forking the implementation be expected?
i think you can easily foresee the internet that they have planned. any time these governing bodies ask a question and can't understand the answer, they will just say 'we cannot have that on the innernet. cut that out of the flowchart.'
whatever roms and processes they expect will be required to operate online will be easy to copy or spoof, keeping the illusion of their dumb terminal in front of your preferred machine. the problem won't be hacking around their off-limits innernet, the problem will be data laws that people keep crying for to solve every little problem such as spam and DOS.
see even if you decide to spoof the dumb terminal, all you will be able to use your coveted secret computer for is local processing of data. you won't be able to 'surf' so to speak, unless it appears to be the dumb terminal doing the surfing, which means you may as well just stick to the DT. even by hiding your real surfing steganographically within seemingly innocent or innocuous DT surfing, the stego will appear to be erroneous data and you will either be asked to stay offline until your terminal is repaired or your house will just be burned down. in any case, nobody will be out there to stego surf with you except other people who've hidden machines behind spoofed DTs.
the problem, again, are the laws attempting to control data. it will just become against the law to produce unpredicted data. this will be seen as a way to eliminate both errors and malice. the conclusion is that the internet will cease to be a thing that once inspired dreams of a vast neural network coming 'alive' and will instead be something like kitsch wallpaper with about as much function as 'ta-da!' a toaster (or credit card.)
it's like some crazy race this time. i think this is where the japanese probe fires the retros and stands still along the 'track', waiting for the other probs to pass. as they do, it will break FCC space-probe-marathon rules and fry their circuits with EMP, microwaves, and lasers. when all the probes crash into mars, the japanese probe will fire rockets again for mars and send the song 'speed racer (dance remix)' back to earth on all FM radio frequencies.
i'm saying that projects nasa has achieved so far have been more difficult than this one, involving more advanced mathmatics (landing on a not-so-distant surface vs. predicting the results of a series of gravity 'slingshot' trajectories,) and fewer attempts, and how suddenly getting near mars is the impossible project for our entire space-exploring race which has been extremely successful so far in all interplanetary missions (again, sans mars.)
see how easy it is to get into the 'gag'? 'hehehe, and then when it's 144,000 miles from objective, hehehe, we push the button and made it explode, kookoo! haha!'
'yeah heh people will think there's something going on on mars, this is way more exciting than people thinking it's boring and we're useless.'
how do soooooo many people get jobs in aerospace, working in big old science departments funding by big old governments which send probes to venus and saturn, probes to the moons of jupiter and past pluto, probes to fast-moving comets, but they can't put a damn thing on surface or orbit of mars and the one time they did it was all screwed up? what the hell is the deal with mars?
are scientists throwing our money away on purpose just to have laughs over a nerdy gag that 'mars has little green men and huge monuments and we're not allowed to see it'?
And the carrot is: We're gonna offer you a better experience . . . and it's only gonna cost you a dollar a song.
So: Tom Waits "Rain Dogs" = $19; Bob Dylan "Infidels" = $9; Philip Glass "Music in 12 Parts" (3 CDs) = $12? Where are they going with that bologna? Are the Boredoms or other experimental artists going to sell any of their extra-long tracks or one-track albums for just $1? Are artists going to be forced to ditch the 'album' experience and focus on hovering a saleable image over a bunch of disconnected songs?
Does commercialism or commercial break cause ADHD?
Another funny thing: a lot of the insistance that we pay to share data that appears to be somebody's music is based on the idea of 'intellectual property' and this unproven (untested) theory that 'intellectual property' and 'copyright' are required for the global economy to function.
Meanwhile, they still want to charge top dollar for recordings of compositions that are in the public domain. And, corporations pressure lawmakers to change the meaning of 'copyright' anyways for instance extending the lifetime of copyrights an additional few decades just because an expensive icon is about to become free.
Why the double standards? Could they be reasoning all of this over profits, not their purported ideals? It's possible. I wonder why we allow ourselves to continue to be duped by laws controlling information after seeing time and again that it does information no good.
I just think it's strange that such antisocial tendencies as 'competition' and 'private property' are being pushed on the back of such raging idealism when the idealists aren't even serious about ideology except as packaging and when said ideals are contradictory. The package is being bought despite these logical inconsistencies.
The carrot is their false ideologies and the stick is the truth that the world is ruled by violence and issues of MP3 piracy only matter to a civilization of very comfortable hogs.
Anyways its a fitting analogy; only in agricultural civilization could food become so scarce that a stuck carrot would be so tantalizing to so many.
charging miniscule amounts to send email that only mount up when you're mass-mailing sounds like a great idea until you work trojans and zombies into it, then you have people racking up bills and not knowing how to explain it. a server could analyze traffic and find the offensive email being sent to the zombie to mass-forward, but if the trojan decrypts the message first and then scrambles the key based on some seeded randomization shared with the zombie-lord, how will you ever prove that was the offending message? people will be getting screwed out of more money than they already are.
if the results of poorly maintained databases were network instability and sites being bum-rushed off the net, instead of a 'few'(^n) spams getting through or emails being mis-blocked you might get reliably maintained databases. you're only worried because you think somebody who doesn't deserve the 'lynching' will get on the list of people to lynch/shun/etc.
i don't think your suggestion is viable as a way of economically bogging the spam industry, due to the fact that there are very few spammers who really 'care' and many don't speak english.
as sure as you are that they're waiting to have a hallmark moment with their victims, i'm equally convinced that they don't even have an 'inbox' feature on their mass-mailer. it's too tedious to care what people say or want -- that's why spam is what it is, an annoyance that won't go away.
i'm not saying that your ideal of there being some kindhearted spammers out there in singapore is wrong. there might be, but addressing them in the hope of it causing them financial distress seems to be pointing the wrong shooter up the wrong hole.
first of all, if i did find any kindhearted spammers i would assume that they were actually employing some new emotional honeypot method. they want me to think they care, so i won't try something more drastic or painful.
but, if some spammer and yourself exchanged a few poorly translated words and got to know one another's concerns, i guess i would hope not that the conversation was intended to financially hurt anyone but rather was intended to emotionally hurt them. if you really actually find an open port to some spammer's heart, you should try to request they use their powers for good and crash the megacruiser into the death star.
i mean such an opportunity to touch a spammer's cold, spongemold heart is not going to be very useful as a financial tool but might have some purpose as an ideological one.
all this applies as well to the idea of passing yet more flailing laws against various forms of data or transfer. all that nonsense has to stop because frankly it's not how the internet or computing were formed in the first place. nobody 'cares' about abuse of laws to stifle what amount to annoyances, not actual damages. you don't have to open your inbox or accept mail from anybody not on your exclusive list of expected senders, but the stupid ass legislation gets passed anyways.