I'm amazed you can exhibit such foresight from under that bridge!
I often scoff at marketing ploys, but game demos are a good thing. As long as this doesn't increase the price of the discs, this is more value for your dollar- it isn't as if you have to play the demo to watch your movie.
Now, just watch them bundle some highly anticipated game demo exclusively with some crap film- SURPRISE HOME MOVIE SALES HIT OF THE SUMMER!
Technically, THC is a mild hallucinogen. If you want to feel its hallucinogenic effects, I recommend getting yourself a pollinating grinder or box, scoring a hefty amount of kief, and try smoking an entire bowl taken from some really good dank. Odds are if you don't live in California, Colorado, Oregon or Washington, you wont be finding weed good enough to warrant putting in a pollinator.
BUT! If you can find pot that good, I recommend the Space Case brand of grinders. They are amazing. If for some reason I was forced to give up all of my paraphernalia save for one, my space case would be what I keep. I love it.
As far as pot goes, it isn't excreted in your saliva. Consequently, saliva drug tests can only score positives for pot if there is still residue in your mouth from the last time you were smoking, and even then only if it was relatively recent (a few hours). So, as long as they're using saliva for the test, they should not be able to pull positives when you aren't high. Now, if they had a curtain and a cup, that would be a different story.
Technology IS what makes modern games "good" (most of the time don't shoot me please see top 10 best selling games lists). There may be a few gems few and far between, but for the most part I would wager the only test of time a modern game will stand anymore will be a continuation of the franchise, the beating of long dead horses.
Neuropsychology student is studying split-brain patients- people with injuries or diseases that inhibit the hemispheres of the brain from communicating. Their brains function normally kind of, except no information is passed between the two hemispheres.
Speech, or more specifically, translating what you see into words, is predominantly handled by your left hemisphere. Your left visual field is handled by your right hemisphere, and your right visual field by your left.
One experiment he conducted was showing different pictures to each eye at the same time, and then asking the subject to point to a card showing a picture that relates to the image shown.
One subject was shown a picture a picture of a chicken claw to his right eye (left hem.), and a snow covered landscape to his left (right hem.). The subject then pointed to a chicken with his right hand (again, controlled by left hem), and a shovel with his left (right!). Obviously, the logic behind his choice was the claw belongs to a chicken, and you need a shovel to shovel snow. However, when asked to explain his choice, the subject responded with something to the tune of, "The claw belongs to a chicken, and you need a shovel to clean the chicken shed."
Even though acting independently he was able to correctly deduce the response, the lack of communication between the hemispheres meant that when his left hemisphere was trying to put it all into words, it was unable to recall why he chose the shovel from the right hemisphere of the brain.
Gazzaniga (the student conducting the test) believes that in the left hemisphere of the brain lies what he calls the interpreter: a part of your brain whose sole function is to try to rationalize what we do not understand. An evolved speculation machine. Like the article said, I probably served an evolutionary purpose in that it kept us paranoid and safe in the grasslands, but odds are this is also the same part of the brain that saw lightning and concluded there must be an unseen humanoid in the sky making it. Or, when the great questions of "why?" and "how?" concerning our world began to plague the mind, the same brainpiece reached the same god conclusion.
It may have been evolutionarily useful at the time, but like male nipples, serves only to confuse, bewilder, and slow progress anymore. Nietzsche killed it.
I have a sneaky suspicion that this is only the beginning of the truly free sectors of the net being shut down. With net neutrality in the dangerous position it is in right now, it feels as if a more controlled, monitored, and 'signed-off upon' internet is right around the corner.
My prediction:
Welcome to Comcast's service tier selection!
Core Net: $49.95/month The core-net pack is the basic, introductory-level internet access, suitable for the less-experienced internet user. With this package, you will be able to access the core sites of the internet including:
Google.com AOL.com CNN.com MSNBC.com AP.org etc.
Core Plus:$89.95/month Core Plus is aimed at the more heavy internet user. With the core plus package you will have access to the more 'fringe' internet sites. Along with all of the core sites, you will also be able to access:
Slashdot.org Ars-technica.org xkcd.org myspace.com facebook.com youtube.com etc.
Questionable Content: $400/month Stay away from this package. The questionable content package will allow un-restricted access to the whole of the internet, including the indecent, unpatriotic riff raff. This package includes everything not listed in the first to tiers of service.
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And by squeezing the less affluent, the free net will be murdered.
like a lot of you (i assume), i live in the burbs and have to trek to the shitty every day.
ride a bike instead of driving. if its too far for that, ride your bike to a bus stop. preemptive apologies to those of you in cites with piss poor public transportation.
oh man, what if, like, your moments of true epiphany and understanding, the moments of complete and empathetic bonding with the universe and all its splendor create your bubbleverses. thanks to an equivalent to lsd, a sentient being in another universe made our universe and the life here possible.
Sad that something that (I believe) has a lot of potential with media and entertainment is pioneered to sell you shit. *I meant potential outside of research and medicine.
Or may take some other form we are, from our completely subjective earthen perspective, are incapable and even naive to assume that life is bound to the same fundamental structures we are.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm amazed you can exhibit such foresight from under that bridge!
I often scoff at marketing ploys, but game demos are a good thing. As long as this doesn't increase the price of the discs, this is more value for your dollar- it isn't as if you have to play the demo to watch your movie.
Now, just watch them bundle some highly anticipated game demo exclusively with some crap film- SURPRISE HOME MOVIE SALES HIT OF THE SUMMER!
4 years.
Technically, THC is a mild hallucinogen. If you want to feel its hallucinogenic effects, I recommend getting yourself a pollinating grinder or box, scoring a hefty amount of kief, and try smoking an entire bowl taken from some really good dank. Odds are if you don't live in California, Colorado, Oregon or Washington, you wont be finding weed good enough to warrant putting in a pollinator.
BUT! If you can find pot that good, I recommend the Space Case brand of grinders. They are amazing. If for some reason I was forced to give up all of my paraphernalia save for one, my space case would be what I keep. I love it.
As far as pot goes, it isn't excreted in your saliva. Consequently, saliva drug tests can only score positives for pot if there is still residue in your mouth from the last time you were smoking, and even then only if it was relatively recent (a few hours). So, as long as they're using saliva for the test, they should not be able to pull positives when you aren't high. Now, if they had a curtain and a cup, that would be a different story.
https://secure.eff.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=DON_splash
EFF donation/membership page. "Get swell EFF gear with your donation!"
Technology IS what makes modern games "good" (most of the time don't shoot me please see top 10 best selling games lists). There may be a few gems few and far between, but for the most part I would wager the only test of time a modern game will stand anymore will be a continuation of the franchise, the beating of long dead horses.
I can't believe no one's touched on this yet.
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~fle/gazzaniga.html
Executive summary:
Neuropsychology student is studying split-brain patients- people with injuries or diseases that inhibit the hemispheres of the brain from communicating. Their brains function normally kind of, except no information is passed between the two hemispheres.
Speech, or more specifically, translating what you see into words, is predominantly handled by your left hemisphere. Your left visual field is handled by your right hemisphere, and your right visual field by your left.
One experiment he conducted was showing different pictures to each eye at the same time, and then asking the subject to point to a card showing a picture that relates to the image shown.
One subject was shown a picture a picture of a chicken claw to his right eye (left hem.), and a snow covered landscape to his left (right hem.). The subject then pointed to a chicken with his right hand (again, controlled by left hem), and a shovel with his left (right!). Obviously, the logic behind his choice was the claw belongs to a chicken, and you need a shovel to shovel snow. However, when asked to explain his choice, the subject responded with something to the tune of, "The claw belongs to a chicken, and you need a shovel to clean the chicken shed."
Even though acting independently he was able to correctly deduce the response, the lack of communication between the hemispheres meant that when his left hemisphere was trying to put it all into words, it was unable to recall why he chose the shovel from the right hemisphere of the brain.
Gazzaniga (the student conducting the test) believes that in the left hemisphere of the brain lies what he calls the interpreter: a part of your brain whose sole function is to try to rationalize what we do not understand. An evolved speculation machine. Like the article said, I probably served an evolutionary purpose in that it kept us paranoid and safe in the grasslands, but odds are this is also the same part of the brain that saw lightning and concluded there must be an unseen humanoid in the sky making it. Or, when the great questions of "why?" and "how?" concerning our world began to plague the mind, the same brainpiece reached the same god conclusion.
It may have been evolutionarily useful at the time, but like male nipples, serves only to confuse, bewilder, and slow progress anymore. Nietzsche killed it.
I have a sneaky suspicion that this is only the beginning of the truly free sectors of the net being shut down. With net neutrality in the dangerous position it is in right now, it feels as if a more controlled, monitored, and 'signed-off upon' internet is right around the corner.
My prediction:
Welcome to Comcast's service tier selection!
Core Net: $49.95/month
The core-net pack is the basic, introductory-level internet access, suitable for the less-experienced internet user. With this package, you will be able to access the core sites of the internet including:
Google.com
AOL.com
CNN.com
MSNBC.com
AP.org
etc.
Core Plus:$89.95/month
Core Plus is aimed at the more heavy internet user. With the core plus package you will have access to the more 'fringe' internet sites. Along with all of the core sites, you will also be able to access:
Slashdot.org
Ars-technica.org
xkcd.org
myspace.com
facebook.com
youtube.com
etc.
Questionable Content: $400/month
Stay away from this package. The questionable content package will allow un-restricted access to the whole of the internet, including the indecent, unpatriotic riff raff. This package includes everything not listed in the first to tiers of service.
--
And by squeezing the less affluent, the free net will be murdered.
So long everyone, and thanks for all the fish.
like a lot of you (i assume), i live in the burbs and have to trek to the shitty every day.
ride a bike instead of driving. if its too far for that, ride your bike to a bus stop. preemptive apologies to those of you in cites with piss poor public transportation.
Stars and Stripes of corruption.
oh man, what if, like, your moments of true epiphany and understanding, the moments of complete and empathetic bonding with the universe and all its splendor create your bubbleverses.
thanks to an equivalent to lsd, a sentient being in another universe made our universe and the life here possible.
Is it ironic that the nation that holds free speech in the most esteem has (one of) the strictest censorship bureaus?
Sad that something that (I believe) has a lot of potential with media and entertainment is pioneered to sell you shit.
YOU use silly capitalization.
No way to patch a PEBKAC problem!
Or may take some other form we are, from our completely subjective earthen perspective, are incapable and even naive to assume that life is bound to the same fundamental structures we are.