Just to be a bit funny, please don't take personally. Is that GMO or non GMO corn?
Don't have these new ants around here but we have fire ants galore. And their pretty aggressive. Don't stand in one of their trails they will attack you and try to drive you off.
So buy working in the Armed forces protecting your legal means of making yourself rich. By allowing your country to have sovereignty. By providing roads for your goods to be transported on. By helping your employees have clean water and utilities.
We didn't do anything.
You were not out sitting in the woods by yourself when you made that software. You had all of us behind you. If you want to delude yourself to that fact then, by all means, go on out into the woods and see how easy it is to program or sell computer disks for a living.
Oh and lets not even mention patents and copyrights. Which ARE AT THE VERY FUCKING FOUNDATION of Microsofts business model. Without them they would have been a blip in history while humanity progressed further on.
No I actually think congress should dissolve all this good stuff that helped get us here. We should definitely go back to rubbing sticks together.
Most people did not make very much. There were a few LPers with 1.5 million ~ views. Who maybe grossed enough to live comfortably on. But YT is very sekret about these numbers and the LP'ers I watch dare not squeal.
I personally think Nintendo is going to far and youtube is making a very huge mistake allowing itself to be bullied so easily.
This is infuriating to me. Because you old farts are conflating nostalgia with story. With meaning and message.
The movie is targeted at younger audiences. But it had plenty to say about loyalty, friendship, duty, honor, integrity. Humanity. In a modern and satirical way.
It was plenty god damned Star Trek. Gene would have been proud. But maybe annoyed as much as you at the format.
Get past your hang up that they were duking it out on floating space barges. That was there to entertain you and the people funding the real movie behind the movie. You obviously zoned out and lost interest because the format wasn't what you were use to, wanted, or were expecting.
This is a classical dilemma with cinema as it develops over the ages. Look at good movies Charlton Heston movies from the 1950s. They wouldn't sell shit today if re-shot and re-done in the same style and format. It does not support fantasy very well. Masume Shirow had this same problem with Ghost in the Shell and decided to take a break, or get out of cinema because of that same problem. He griped a lot about Innocence this way.
It could mean the difference between a few powerful gods roaming the universe creating civilizations and grey goo syndrome. Or the giant version of space ants. But those are extreme examples. Either is probably un-likely.
But I could see a few very empty and vain humans dictating over vast swaths of space just because they can. Over very little other then whatever the new form of "value" is. Maybe not even humans by that point. Keeping humanity intact might be nice though. Thats partly what this last Star Trek movie was about. Doing things because of feeling vs pure logic. Military vs Civics. Duty and loyalty, and friendship. Honor, and Integrity. Human things that make the play of life interesting. Even after the fact.
I'm glad there's room for the rest of us in your brave new world of highly specialized humans which act as machines instead of machines acting as humans.
What happens when the rest of the robots decide your funky bug reports are a malfunction.
Loss of life for one. Heterogeneity and diversity for another. Unless you believe everyones individual contributions will be kept in what remains of the human race. Most of it will be forgotten and discarded over time. But if we head down the road of automation. We may loose the vast majority of what we have created over night. In bigger timescales then decades. The slow evolution towards a more automated society would be more beneficial over all as long as there was no external pressure threatening us. It would allow all of everyones efforts to contribute more to the final whole end product. If you wan't to think in those terms.
Right now an artist in China can subtlety influence world culture over a long period of time by influencing other artists. Or inspiring someone who works sanitation. And so the chain begins.
Automate everything within a century and most of that will be lost. The stories will never be written. Our libraries will end up empty.
If the gradual end result is a few people controlling a vast army of machines or a hybrid society of people, machine, cyborg. That society can be either greatly influenced by the past and the method of evolution towards that society. Or be highly specialized and devoid of life.
The better way will create an organism that isn't as empty and thoughtless as a bacteria. At least we may create create and meaningful works as we consume the universe and transcend our limitations. This is the value of life. Perhaps.
Thats great. But does that really warrant being number one financially. His empire is fine even perhaps. But maybe corporations should be limited too.
Real life is not like a game of eve (or maybe it is unfortunately). And the indirect casualties of building those empires are real. A lot of skills people use in eve translate to real life and vice-versa.
But morally. Can we justify elevating one man over all other men. Because of his good business sense.
Unfortunately money is what our society uses for "value" in this regard. People even expect him to be a philanthropic leader. These empire builders shouldn't have to be.
I can say should all I want though and that will not make it so.
Have you ever used Medicare? So they wage slave gets taxed more for this crazy system that is constantly a point of contention and failing in government. While the upper class can just drop a few million on whatever health care procedures they feel like?
Lets not even get into the pigeonhole that mental health is in this country. And pharmaceuticals. We create crazy people with this shenanigans and then medicate them with shit that makes them sick. Then they loose it after the medication becomes normative for them.
All that wonderful extra taxation to the lower classes is creating a huge drain on society. People making below 10$ an hour should get a fucking free ride. And not all area's of the country are the same. Some places are insane to work in. Try being a grocery clerk in DC. You require external non-government support systems in friends, family, ethnicity, and clique. This is good because those are far more reliable then social welfare. But they are not good safety nets.
I see ewoks shitting in your dirt and fouling up your fucking printer. It would be wonderful. But do you really believe its going to happen before the vast majority of people start getting fucked hard enough to rebel and tear down what we've built?
Thanks for saying what needed to be said. You say it well. I feel like I failed myself and my family because I did not prepare for this by being a vicious psychopath.
Mind if I ask what you did, how you did it? I feel trapped here in the state, city, town that I am in (leaving them un-named) because the general public does not have a need to know.
I would love to see the world. Even if it was high risk, or as near-slave.
No, he is very sparing with the technobabble but it is absolutely B.S. when it gets used... completely unrealistic. Not that the original technobable was good. I think they may have been trying to be intentionally humorous there.
The plot was simple. But the meaning behind the characters interaction with the plot was deep enough if your not completely mentally retarded. You will enjoy that. It had a Star Trek message in it.
Also what happens when there are no more empires to build? Or empire building is not sustainable for the greater good?
If the very rich and powerful were investing madly in Aerospace to the point the common man was getting a chance at the stars and we were seeing the whole Dune golden path thing play out that would be fine.
But I think we might have stalled out somewhere after Apollo. Which was mostly funded by everyone and not just a few people. However I might be able to believe some very rich intellectuals greatly influenced it, possibly in a good direction.
Bah I don't like the idea of "land ownership per see" because that is very draconian way of looking at things.... You might as well go back to feudalism. Clearly land ownership is not the most ideal solution. It's just what were using right now. It changes as sovereignty changes.
Well heck. If you take the average, it's probably a neolithic subsistence culture. And they had more freedom then some of our richest do. Shorter life spans. But hey quality of life is highly subjective.
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Smart.
Just to be a bit funny, please don't take personally. Is that GMO or non GMO corn?
Don't have these new ants around here but we have fire ants galore. And their pretty aggressive. Don't stand in one of their trails they will attack you and try to drive you off.
^ I would mod funny. lol.
Aliens. Genetic engineering. http://www.lloydpye.com/
-and Yes I am not posting this as an AC. Take it or leave it. It's at least entertaining.
Fat chance, these ants seem pretty harmless. More like annoy all over the earth.
*by, not buy
So buy working in the Armed forces protecting your legal means of making yourself rich. By allowing your country to have sovereignty. By providing roads for your goods to be transported on. By helping your employees have clean water and utilities.
We didn't do anything.
You were not out sitting in the woods by yourself when you made that software. You had all of us behind you. If you want to delude yourself to that fact then, by all means, go on out into the woods and see how easy it is to program or sell computer disks for a living.
Oh and lets not even mention patents and copyrights. Which ARE AT THE VERY FUCKING FOUNDATION of Microsofts business model. Without them they would have been a blip in history while humanity progressed further on.
No I actually think congress should dissolve all this good stuff that helped get us here. We should definitely go back to rubbing sticks together.
I will say touché. But my point still stands.
Thanks, thats a much more eloquent and assertive point of view =)
Sounds good to me. And make sure they wear bright red uniforms so their easy to spot. *ducks
Most people did not make very much. There were a few LPers with 1.5 million ~ views. Who maybe grossed enough to live comfortably on. But YT is very sekret about these numbers and the LP'ers I watch dare not squeal.
I personally think Nintendo is going to far and youtube is making a very huge mistake allowing itself to be bullied so easily.
Space: 1999 - TV intro (season 1) HQ (1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WZW4groJro
Seriously people. Go back inside to your basements and stop scrutinizing your lawns.
This is infuriating to me. Because you old farts are conflating nostalgia with story. With meaning and message.
The movie is targeted at younger audiences. But it had plenty to say about loyalty, friendship, duty, honor, integrity. Humanity. In a modern and satirical way.
It was plenty god damned Star Trek. Gene would have been proud. But maybe annoyed as much as you at the format.
Get past your hang up that they were duking it out on floating space barges. That was there to entertain you and the people funding the real movie behind the movie. You obviously zoned out and lost interest because the format wasn't what you were use to, wanted, or were expecting.
This is a classical dilemma with cinema as it develops over the ages. Look at good movies Charlton Heston movies from the 1950s. They wouldn't sell shit today if re-shot and re-done in the same style and format. It does not support fantasy very well. Masume Shirow had this same problem with Ghost in the Shell and decided to take a break, or get out of cinema because of that same problem. He griped a lot about Innocence this way.
It could mean the difference between a few powerful gods roaming the universe creating civilizations and grey goo syndrome. Or the giant version of space ants. But those are extreme examples. Either is probably un-likely.
But I could see a few very empty and vain humans dictating over vast swaths of space just because they can. Over very little other then whatever the new form of "value" is. Maybe not even humans by that point. Keeping humanity intact might be nice though. Thats partly what this last Star Trek movie was about. Doing things because of feeling vs pure logic. Military vs Civics. Duty and loyalty, and friendship. Honor, and Integrity. Human things that make the play of life interesting. Even after the fact.
I'm glad there's room for the rest of us in your brave new world of highly specialized humans which act as machines instead of machines acting as humans.
What happens when the rest of the robots decide your funky bug reports are a malfunction.
Loss of life for one. Heterogeneity and diversity for another. Unless you believe everyones individual contributions will be kept in what remains of the human race. Most of it will be forgotten and discarded over time. But if we head down the road of automation. We may loose the vast majority of what we have created over night. In bigger timescales then decades. The slow evolution towards a more automated society would be more beneficial over all as long as there was no external pressure threatening us. It would allow all of everyones efforts to contribute more to the final whole end product. If you wan't to think in those terms.
Right now an artist in China can subtlety influence world culture over a long period of time by influencing other artists. Or inspiring someone who works sanitation. And so the chain begins.
Automate everything within a century and most of that will be lost. The stories will never be written. Our libraries will end up empty.
If the gradual end result is a few people controlling a vast army of machines or a hybrid society of people, machine, cyborg. That society can be either greatly influenced by the past and the method of evolution towards that society. Or be highly specialized and devoid of life.
The better way will create an organism that isn't as empty and thoughtless as a bacteria. At least we may create create and meaningful works as we consume the universe and transcend our limitations. This is the value of life. Perhaps.
Thats great. But does that really warrant being number one financially. His empire is fine even perhaps. But maybe corporations should be limited too.
Real life is not like a game of eve (or maybe it is unfortunately). And the indirect casualties of building those empires are real. A lot of skills people use in eve translate to real life and vice-versa.
But morally. Can we justify elevating one man over all other men. Because of his good business sense.
Unfortunately money is what our society uses for "value" in this regard. People even expect him to be a philanthropic leader. These empire builders shouldn't have to be.
I can say should all I want though and that will not make it so.
Have you ever used Medicare? So they wage slave gets taxed more for this crazy system that is constantly a point of contention and failing in government. While the upper class can just drop a few million on whatever health care procedures they feel like?
Lets not even get into the pigeonhole that mental health is in this country. And pharmaceuticals. We create crazy people with this shenanigans and then medicate them with shit that makes them sick. Then they loose it after the medication becomes normative for them.
All that wonderful extra taxation to the lower classes is creating a huge drain on society. People making below 10$ an hour should get a fucking free ride. And not all area's of the country are the same. Some places are insane to work in. Try being a grocery clerk in DC. You require external non-government support systems in friends, family, ethnicity, and clique. This is good because those are far more reliable then social welfare. But they are not good safety nets.
I see ewoks shitting in your dirt and fouling up your fucking printer. It would be wonderful. But do you really believe its going to happen before the vast majority of people start getting fucked hard enough to rebel and tear down what we've built?
Thanks for saying what needed to be said. You say it well. I feel like I failed myself and my family because I did not prepare for this by being a vicious psychopath.
But I don't have a good moral solution either.
Mind if I ask what you did, how you did it? I feel trapped here in the state, city, town that I am in (leaving them un-named) because the general public does not have a need to know.
I would love to see the world. Even if it was high risk, or as near-slave.
No, he is very sparing with the technobabble but it is absolutely B.S. when it gets used... completely unrealistic. Not that the original technobable was good. I think they may have been trying to be intentionally humorous there.
The plot was simple. But the meaning behind the characters interaction with the plot was deep enough if your not completely mentally retarded. You will enjoy that. It had a Star Trek message in it.
Because I consistently fail at writing clear and concise grammatically correct monologues.
Also what happens when there are no more empires to build? Or empire building is not sustainable for the greater good?
If the very rich and powerful were investing madly in Aerospace to the point the common man was getting a chance at the stars and we were seeing the whole Dune golden path thing play out that would be fine.
But I think we might have stalled out somewhere after Apollo. Which was mostly funded by everyone and not just a few people. However I might be able to believe some very rich intellectuals greatly influenced it, possibly in a good direction.
Bah I don't like the idea of "land ownership per see" because that is very draconian way of looking at things.... You might as well go back to feudalism. Clearly land ownership is not the most ideal solution. It's just what were using right now. It changes as sovereignty changes.
Well heck. If you take the average, it's probably a neolithic subsistence culture. And they had more freedom then some of our richest do. Shorter life spans. But hey quality of life is highly subjective.