I am rather certain that Budda did not say "whoa":o) Has any one else noticed that Keanu seems to play the messiah disturbingly often? Lets see... 'Bill and Ted', 'Little Budda', 'The Matrix', 'Johnny Mnenomic'? I don't remember the plot of that one very well.
Of course a 'respected' news source is going to side with the toy distributer (intentionally or otherwise) at this time of year, and more so when it is against artists who are not beyond using nudity in their art, which no doubt translates to 'pornographer' in the mind of most people when talking about the Internet. [That was a long sentance. The management apologises.]
But really, you would hope that someone still believe in *investigative* journalism.
Actually it is because Neptune is in the wrong place. To rectify this, I prepose that we construct a large craft designed to land on the suface of Neptune and shift its orbit via the detonation of several large nucular explosives, thus allowing your horoscopes to be more acurate in future.
Surely the comfort of knowing the future is worth the several billion dollars this will cost:o)
The major problem with horoscopes...
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Is that they classify the entire population into 12 groups. This might have been resonable when the population of the earth was 36, but we cannot be reasonable expected to believe that there are 500 million scorpios who all are going to lose their keys on the same day.
And why did they have the date range listed beside the different signs? Would anyone that actually descided to read their horoscope then think to them selves "Wait! I don't know what my sign is!" For that matter, does *anyone* in western civilization not know what sign they are anyway? Isn't it required knowledge to get a passport or something?
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"Attraction is Biology Love is chemistry Sex is physics."
And so and interesting sub-set of sex is astrophysics?
I said this in a previous post, but I think its worth saying again. NASA could easily become self funded by staging huge, spectatcular explosive dismemberment-in-space on pay TV.
I sure know *I'd* pay up to 20 dollars to see Charon blowen to bits by a NASA probe:o)
Hell. If you didn't want to actually blow bits of the sloar sytem up, you could just crash some probes into each other. Or dive something into Sol:o)
-assuming the presence of water, which seems extremely likely now.-
You're kidding, right?! Europa is basicly a big ol' ball of water, with a crust of ice over the top!
And who says that ET life has to use a system at all like the self replicating double helix we all know and love? Well admitedly the self replicating bit is kinda needed, who know what sort of structures would allow this?
I don't know... I rather enjoy watching my tax dollars get slamed into a distant planet. Actually, its even better - my country doesn't have a space program, so I'm watching some bastards slam *your* tax dollars into a distant planet.
When you think about it though, it could be a good way for NASA[*] to raise funds, by using this as a spectator sport: They build the biggest, most explosive space probe they can, and the slam it into some un-important moon (I'm thinking maybe charon?) on pay TV. They'd make *billions*. I sure know I'd pay:o)
[*] Now, preferably it would actually be IASA, a yet to be set up division of the UN or something, that we should all pester someone else to get around to doing. You'd basicly only need to front the cost of the first explosive probe, and then it would be self-funding:o)
Why would you want to go to titan, when europa is so much better?
It has all the water you could possible want! Ever! And its closer, and thus not as cold.
The way I see it, having a base on Europa would be quite similar to having a base on antarctica (I just *know* I spelled that wrong:o) , except its a lot harder to get to. And you need to bring your atmosphere with you. And there isn't as much gravity. And, um... Jupiters gravity could screw you over a little bit (Don't even get me *started* on Io...) And... actually it isn't all that much like having a base on antarctica at all.
But my point remains valid, as soon as I actually remember what it was...
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Around these parts, thats kinda like asking what chocolate is:o)
"Better than getting screwed by a totalitarian gowernment. "
maybe, but I'd rather not be screwed by anyone. And the best way I see to to that is to set up a new nation. On the Moon.
And that just reminded me of "I feel better than James Brown", by Was (not Was)
'Two weeks later I was transfered to the moon / Worse pay - better hours / Two weeks later I was transfered to the moon / Worse pay - better fellow workers'
Any way, we all need to move to the moon, and set up some sort of geektopia.
Nations generally want tariffs etc to protect their own citizens from more competitive outsiders.
As an example, the US has resently placed an import tax of some sort (I'm a little sketchy on the details, because I basicly don't care) on beef because our (New Zealand) producers can make it much more cheeply, and US farmers just couldn't compete...
This, it would seem, is because the Pen is more highly valued than the Sword
Or, perhaps more acurately, people in general view freedom of speech as a Good Thing, while they view freedom to carry the means to kill a person as a Bad Thing
I'm not saying that this is the right way to think, nor am I saying its wrong. I really don't know, to be honest. But I am trying to explain a social phernomanon that you really should have figured out yourself - talking good, killing bad.
does anyone else find it odd that the ASIO is responsable for *both* security and intellegance? These things are at odds with one another, in the sense that one countrys intel comes up against its target's sucurity.
Ergo, the ASIO has next to no problem spying on aust. citizens electronically or otherwise, with or without legislation leting them do so - who's going to know...
I don't think I'm coming out from under this bed anytime soon.
my gut reaction was "Oh Eris no! Crap! wheee! no, how could they do this!"
Given a goodly amount of time to think it all over, and to mull the finer points, my reaction is : "Crap crap crap crap! eeee!"::hides under the bed:: "whimper whimper whimper".
Now, a person acually living in Australia would probably take it a bit harder, and I can only hope that the New Zealand govt. doesn't follow suit.
However, today is election day! and (I hope I'm not wrong on this one) we are about to vote a center-right govt out in favor of a center-left one.
"History in my 9th year of education was one such subject, where I failed deliberately."
This just reminded me of the absolute *bane* of education in New Zealand - The NZQA (New Zealand Qualification Authority).
A few years ago they started to try to introduce a new for of qualification - the Unit Standard. Basicly put, every subject is devided into topics which are subdivided and so on until you get to the meat of the matter - the unit. A unit is basicly one skill or whatever with in the subject. you either pass or fail, dependant on wether or not you have that skill. you eith pass or fail a devision dependant on the number of subdivisions you pass.
So far, it doesn't seem to bad. But when you look at the actuall difficultylevel involved, you see it for the farce it really is.
The subject in which I encountered it was year 12 Acounting. Basicly I didn't give a f*ck about the unit standard assessment for the year, so descided to see if I could fail. Not, I should say, fail by not answering any questions, but by answering the questions in such a way as to make the marker laugh as much as possible. Despite my best efforts I still passed! C'mon! A subject that I *couldn't* fail!
Strangely enough, I seemed to be able to (accidentally) predict certain questions. I (jokingly) said, before the test, "God damn I hate these stupid Unit Standards. I'm telling you, the questions will be something like 'which of these is a asset' Then thell have a picture of a banana, a picture of an apple, a picture of a car, and then another freacking picture of a banana!"
needless to say, the first question of the exam:" which of these is an asset?..." no pictures though. And no fruit. But just about as difficult. It was funny. funny enough to make a friend and I unable to proceed with the exam for a minite or two.
Thankfully, enough people held as low an opinion of the scheme for NZQA to start replacing it... But I can't help but think that the replacement might be just as bad.
The highschool that I have just resently left (Got the qualifications need for uni a year early, stupidly didn't go to uni a year early... 6 months of senior highschool later I just left...) was like that too. On an aside note, our principal was either Frank Zappa, having faked his own death, or the Devil. I'm serious about the Frank Zappa thing. Really.
Anyway, Too much spending on crappy athletic stuff, and still 386's running win3.1 !!! No CS type courses. Here I am, wanting to start on a Comp.sci degree next year, and everything I know in the subject has been cobbled together in my own time. *everything*.
::Puts on the voice of marvin monroe from the simpsons::
I propose that we clone and individual a number of times, and bring the clones up in isolation from one another and the rest of socity, in order to determin how much of sexual orentation is enviromental
It is also my hypothisis that these clones will have poor social skills, and harbour a deep resentment of me
A belief system is open to choice, based on rational discussion and any thing else you choose to bring into it. On the other hand, on cannot choose their race.
Because a belief system can be chosen, it behoves us all to make sure that we choose the on that seems the most true. This is a descision that we must all make indepentantly, but we should all try to be as informed as possible. Humour is just a way of getting people to think about things they may otherwise have overlooked.
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Of course! The temptation to drive a truck full of explosives into Times Square this new years is so high that *someone* has to do it...
Me? Well I'm going to be executing a cleverly planed bank robbery... I mean hiding under my bed.
I am rather certain that Budda did not say "whoa" :o) Has any one else noticed that Keanu seems to play the messiah disturbingly often? Lets see... 'Bill and Ted', 'Little Budda', 'The Matrix', 'Johnny Mnenomic'? I don't remember the plot of that one very well.
Of course a 'respected' news source is going to side with the toy distributer (intentionally or otherwise) at this time of year, and more so when it is against artists who are not beyond using nudity in their art, which no doubt translates to 'pornographer' in the mind of most people when talking about the Internet. [That was a long sentance. The management apologises.]
But really, you would hope that someone still believe in *investigative* journalism.
Actually it is because Neptune is in the wrong place. To rectify this, I prepose that we construct a large craft designed to land on the suface of Neptune and shift its orbit via the detonation of several large nucular explosives, thus allowing your horoscopes to be more acurate in future.
:o)
Surely the comfort of knowing the future is worth the several billion dollars this will cost
Is that they classify the entire population into 12 groups. This might have been resonable when the population of the earth was 36, but we cannot be reasonable expected to believe that there are 500 million scorpios who all are going to lose their keys on the same day.
And why did they have the date range listed beside the different signs? Would anyone that actually descided to read their horoscope then think to them selves "Wait! I don't know what my sign is!"
For that matter, does *anyone* in western civilization not know what sign they are anyway? Isn't it required knowledge to get a passport or something?
"Attraction is Biology
Love is chemistry
Sex is physics."
And so and interesting sub-set of sex is astrophysics?
Hmm. Nope. I don't think I can say EULA.
I sure know *I'd* pay up to 20 dollars to see Charon blowen to bits by a NASA probe :o)
Hell. If you didn't want to actually blow bits of the sloar sytem up, you could just crash some probes into each other. Or dive something into Sol :o)
Which reminds me of Douglas Adams and Kakrafroon.
You're kidding, right?! Europa is basicly a big ol' ball of water, with a crust of ice over the top!
And who says that ET life has to use a system at all like the self replicating double helix we all know and love? Well admitedly the self replicating bit is kinda needed, who know what sort of structures would allow this?
When you think about it though, it could be a good way for NASA[*] to raise funds, by using this as a spectator sport: They build the biggest, most explosive space probe they can, and the slam it into some un-important moon (I'm thinking maybe charon?) on pay TV. They'd make *billions*. I sure know I'd pay :o)
[*] Now, preferably it would actually be IASA, a yet to be set up division of the UN or something, that we should all pester someone else to get around to doing. You'd basicly only need to front the cost of the first explosive probe, and then it would be self-funding :o)
It has all the water you could possible want! Ever! And its closer, and thus not as cold.
The way I see it, having a base on Europa would be quite similar to having a base on antarctica (I just *know* I spelled that wrong :o) , except its a lot harder to get to. And you need to bring your atmosphere with you. And there isn't as much gravity. And, um... Jupiters gravity could screw you over a little bit (Don't even get me *started* on Io...) And... actually it isn't all that much like having a base on antarctica at all.
But my point remains valid, as soon as I actually remember what it was...
Around these parts, thats kinda like asking what chocolate is :o)
maybe, but I'd rather not be screwed by anyone. And the best way I see to to that is to set up a new nation. On the Moon.
And that just reminded me of "I feel better than James Brown", by Was (not Was)
'Two weeks later I was transfered to the moon / Worse pay - better hours / Two weeks later I was transfered to the moon / Worse pay - better fellow workers'
Any way, we all need to move to the moon, and set up some sort of geektopia.
As an example, the US has resently placed an import tax of some sort (I'm a little sketchy on the details, because I basicly don't care) on beef because our (New Zealand) producers can make it much more cheeply, and US farmers just couldn't compete...
Which really is the whole point. By allowing people to post anonymously, you allow people like yourself to act without fear of the consequences.
Also, has anyone else wondered what Ms. Portman's reaction to that... that... drivel would be? *I* find it... disturbing, at best.
All. Yep, that sounds about right. All.
Backward view of the future? you mean you have it written down in books are are forced to study parts of it in highschool?
Or, perhaps more acurately, people in general view freedom of speech as a Good Thing, while they view freedom to carry the means to kill a person as a Bad Thing
I'm not saying that this is the right way to think, nor am I saying its wrong. I really don't know, to be honest. But I am trying to explain a social phernomanon that you really should have figured out yourself - talking good, killing bad.
does anyone else find it odd that the ASIO is responsable for *both* security and intellegance? These things are at odds with one another, in the sense that one countrys intel comes up against its target's sucurity.
Ergo, the ASIO has next to no problem spying on aust. citizens electronically or otherwise, with or without legislation leting them do so - who's going to know...
I don't think I'm coming out from under this bed anytime soon.
my gut reaction was "Oh Eris no! Crap! wheee! no, how could they do this!"
Given a goodly amount of time to think it all over, and to mull the finer points, my reaction is : "Crap crap crap crap! eeee!" ::hides under the bed:: "whimper whimper whimper".
Now, a person acually living in Australia would probably take it a bit harder, and I can only hope that the New Zealand govt. doesn't follow suit.
However, today is election day! and (I hope I'm not wrong on this one) we are about to vote a center-right govt out in favor of a center-left one.
This just reminded me of the absolute *bane* of education in New Zealand - The NZQA (New Zealand Qualification Authority).
A few years ago they started to try to introduce a new for of qualification - the Unit Standard. Basicly put, every subject is devided into topics which are subdivided and so on until you get to the meat of the matter - the unit. A unit is basicly one skill or whatever with in the subject. you either pass or fail, dependant on wether or not you have that skill. you eith pass or fail a devision dependant on the number of subdivisions you pass.
So far, it doesn't seem to bad. But when you look at the actuall difficultylevel involved, you see it for the farce it really is.
The subject in which I encountered it was year 12 Acounting. Basicly I didn't give a f*ck about the unit standard assessment for the year, so descided to see if I could fail. Not, I should say, fail by not answering any questions, but by answering the questions in such a way as to make the marker laugh as much as possible. Despite my best efforts I still passed! C'mon! A subject that I *couldn't* fail!
Strangely enough, I seemed to be able to (accidentally) predict certain questions. I (jokingly) said, before the test, "God damn I hate these stupid Unit Standards. I'm telling you, the questions will be something like 'which of these is a asset' Then thell have a picture of a banana, a picture of an apple, a picture of a car, and then another freacking picture of a banana!"
needless to say, the first question of the exam:" which of these is an asset?..." no pictures though. And no fruit. But just about as difficult. It was funny. funny enough to make a friend and I unable to proceed with the exam for a minite or two.
Thankfully, enough people held as low an opinion of the scheme for NZQA to start replacing it... But I can't help but think that the replacement might be just as bad.
The highschool that I have just resently left (Got the qualifications need for uni a year early, stupidly didn't go to uni a year early... 6 months of senior highschool later I just left...) was like that too. On an aside note, our principal was either Frank Zappa, having faked his own death, or the Devil. I'm serious about the Frank Zappa thing. Really.
Anyway, Too much spending on crappy athletic stuff, and still 386's running win3.1 !!! No CS type courses. Here I am, wanting to start on a Comp.sci degree next year, and everything I know in the subject has been cobbled together in my own time. *everything*.
Its insane. really.
I propose that we clone and individual a number of times, and bring the clones up in isolation from one another and the rest of socity, in order to determin how much of sexual orentation is enviromental
It is also my hypothisis that these clones will have poor social skills, and harbour a deep resentment of me
A belief system is open to choice, based on rational discussion and any thing else you choose to bring into it. On the other hand, on cannot choose their race.
Because a belief system can be chosen, it behoves us all to make sure that we choose the on that seems the most true. This is a descision that we must all make indepentantly, but we should all try to be as informed as possible. Humour is just a way of getting people to think about things they may otherwise have overlooked.