I know. I only say I can't imagine using Notepad for longer than three minutes, because it lacks three crucial features (two at least. I think people would agree but not about which two;-) ).
I remember struggling, as a kid, with a strange, philosophical yet practical observation that my father's old calculator didn't help me in solving my maths homework in any way (it giving results as useless decimal approximations or indeed Err or similar, being the seemingly simplest of the problems... Of course that was when I was a bit older, but the calculator didn't impair my arithmetics' learning. Though I guess you would attribute it to my grandma victimizing me for using the device).
I also remember my fascination with the machine, its red luminescent display and metallic front panel. It had a power cord and a place for a large 4.5 V battery.
Most people wouldn't give any thought to an idea of giving a mental masturbator of an I-pod or a gaming console, while taking as granted that giving a math-pod is obvious damage.
A weird point, for one somehow those U-2S pilots have been fine without this since the 50ies, for another they even inhale special mixtures starting an hour before the take-off (Wikipedia sez). Anyway I must had been the only one not aware of this craziness with those muscle cars in the military, nice article I found here
http://www.hemmings.com/mus/stories/2005/07/01/hmn_feature20.html
Here you have people talking about how sleep deprivation leads to dangerous widespread inflammations and even cancer. Deprive somebody, who's already dying, of sleep and you may risk making it very much shorter for them, and destroying any possible slim chance of long-term surviving. Not for sure, but quite possible. My concern is signing release forms when it's so hard to be sure about anything here even if you try. Moreover, why do you think a non-drugged-up person after 48 hours is more dangerous than a drugged-up person after 480 hours. Obviously I agree, as I say there are many sides of those issues!
Jesus, what's the people's problem with GIMP? Until clients/employers/nazis force you to use it, that is? Please understand there is at least one person (me) who like GIMP for more than just being there to do what they need, for many years. Surely no intelligent person can say that a redundant feature (Clippy) is better than a whole useful application (GIMP). Ironic eh?
Military planes seem ideal to be remote controlled. Why bother with drugs if you can have groups of people steering the plane from the ground? Is the human CPU in the plane there to prevent interception? Cryptography would solve that to an extent, coupled with some not easily replaced friend-or-foe logic. They talk about ground robots already proving themselves in Iraq, when building a ground robot is surely more complicated then setting up a remote joystick for a plane.
A big-money enterprise by former Sony execs. Playing financial and marketing tricks on the crowd. They're probably not less friendly to pirates than "the majors". Saying you get free music there is quite much like saying you get free music from Myspace (which actually has 2 more songs in the player).
They emphasize CDs and expect users to sell those CDs. CDs are obsolete.
Boosting some artists through insiders buying shares is not very financially inconvenient for them since they would be mostly paying themselves.
They can "boost" a bit clueless artists and then mold them in all the professional studios, just like the labels do now. With the final product they can go on twisting your mind that that it's what you wanted, because you voted for it, eh? It's not about trusting and nurturing people since they don't give you the money and they send you to the "professionals" who apparently excel in killing music. It's a game of financial market types. (But what should I expect from the real world(tm) anyway)
A non-mainstream musician will probably never obtain anything there above another Myspace like service, only one with $$$ signs everywhere--nasty when you'll never get any and if some people buy shares for you and Sellaband will sit on this money until (if) people withdraw. That is unless everybody locks their money in obscure bands on Sellaband by 2012.
Just a couple of haphazard thoughts from somebody trying to understand his uncomfortable feeling when on the Sellaband website. Probably the hour here is too freaking late to tell the future of this indeed sophisticated model!! It's certainly less evil then the quite bottom-feeding Slicethepie, where you actually engage in gambling on the one-who-takes-all.
You're a government offical? BANG! Dreamin' 'bout having public roads to drive on, eh? BANG! You expect armed forces to protect you instead of standing up for yourself, you looser? BANG! I'm the guy who does bang?? Ugh, toooo bad! BANG!
I'm sorry for Ryan, but it had been the funniest/. post ever. I laugh every time I see him posting again. Sorry. Really. People should buy him something in compensation.
It's interesting to remember it exactly: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Purchase, Essential, and Temporary are too often left out. (I agree with your original post, but you misquoted quite badly, replacing "deserve" with "will gain", which is quite different, isn't it! The alleged author Richard Jackson or whoever it was would not be happy.)
In case that means you are an amnesiac you might want to bookmark this website NOW!!! As far as I can remember I'm not, so I'll surely watch "Paris, Texas" again.
I totally understand. (Though, to tell the truth, I can't remember what happened at the end (don't tell)) This was one of the two movies that I experienced so strongly, when, as a teen, I stumbled upon them on tv in the early '90s, due to a kind of a "desperate father" theme that connects them for me, the other one being Cassavetes' "Love Streams".
I came here to make this exact obscure reference! I still love Nastasia Kinsky and Harry Dean Stanton too;-) Only boring movies are interesting! (That's more of a general reference to Wenders' early works). That's such a strange coincidence. I'm surprised the city has that many inhabitants, from the movie I remembered it as just a point on the map. Possibly though, only the piece of ground he bought was in the middle of nowhere.
Then, I watched the movie for the last time many years ago...
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old new again but not cool http://www.microcarmuseum.com/tour/fuldamobils-6.html
I know. I only say I can't imagine using Notepad for longer than three minutes, because it lacks three crucial features (two at least. I think people would agree but not about which two ;-) ).
I've recently read H.H.Bauer's "Students who don't study". A bad student myself, I recommend all Prof. Bauer's writing. Not a paradox, really. link
No auto indent, one-level undo, no line number. WTF ??
I remember struggling, as a kid, with a strange, philosophical yet practical observation that my father's old calculator didn't help me in solving my maths homework in any way (it giving results as useless decimal approximations or indeed Err or similar, being the seemingly simplest of the problems... Of course that was when I was a bit older, but the calculator didn't impair my arithmetics' learning. Though I guess you would attribute it to my grandma victimizing me for using the device).
I also remember my fascination with the machine, its red luminescent display and metallic front panel. It had a power cord and a place for a large 4.5 V battery.
Most people wouldn't give any thought to an idea of giving a mental masturbator of an I-pod or a gaming console, while taking as granted that giving a math-pod is obvious damage.
A weird point, for one somehow those U-2S pilots have been fine without this since the 50ies, for another they even inhale special mixtures starting an hour before the take-off (Wikipedia sez). Anyway I must had been the only one not aware of this craziness with those muscle cars in the military, nice article I found here http://www.hemmings.com/mus/stories/2005/07/01/hmn_feature20.html
Here you have people talking about how sleep deprivation leads to dangerous widespread inflammations and even cancer. Deprive somebody, who's already dying, of sleep and you may risk making it very much shorter for them, and destroying any possible slim chance of long-term surviving. Not for sure, but quite possible. My concern is signing release forms when it's so hard to be sure about anything here even if you try. Moreover, why do you think a non-drugged-up person after 48 hours is more dangerous than a drugged-up person after 480 hours. Obviously I agree, as I say there are many sides of those issues!
Jesus, what's the people's problem with GIMP? Until clients/employers/nazis force you to use it, that is? Please understand there is at least one person (me) who like GIMP for more than just being there to do what they need, for many years. Surely no intelligent person can say that a redundant feature (Clippy) is better than a whole useful application (GIMP). Ironic eh?
Military planes seem ideal to be remote controlled. Why bother with drugs if you can have groups of people steering the plane from the ground? Is the human CPU in the plane there to prevent interception? Cryptography would solve that to an extent, coupled with some not easily replaced friend-or-foe logic. They talk about ground robots already proving themselves in Iraq, when building a ground robot is surely more complicated then setting up a remote joystick for a plane.
sinister. Sb mentioned "Vitamin D".
The Bill of Oz?
But it's a setup
until you're fed up
Your point makes no sense, by the next year most workstations will support cursor positioning anyway.
a direct object
A big-money enterprise by former Sony execs. Playing financial and marketing tricks on the crowd. They're probably not less friendly to pirates than "the majors". Saying you get free music there is quite much like saying you get free music from Myspace (which actually has 2 more songs in the player).
They emphasize CDs and expect users to sell those CDs. CDs are obsolete.
Boosting some artists through insiders buying shares is not very financially inconvenient for them since they would be mostly paying themselves.
They can "boost" a bit clueless artists and then mold them in all the professional studios, just like the labels do now. With the final product they can go on twisting your mind that that it's what you wanted, because you voted for it, eh? It's not about trusting and nurturing people since they don't give you the money and they send you to the "professionals" who apparently excel in killing music. It's a game of financial market types. (But what should I expect from the real world(tm) anyway)
A non-mainstream musician will probably never obtain anything there above another Myspace like service, only one with $$$ signs everywhere--nasty when you'll never get any and if some people buy shares for you and Sellaband will sit on this money until (if) people withdraw. That is unless everybody locks their money in obscure bands on Sellaband by 2012.
Just a couple of haphazard thoughts from somebody trying to understand his uncomfortable feeling when on the Sellaband website. Probably the hour here is too freaking late to tell the future of this indeed sophisticated model!! It's certainly less evil then the quite bottom-feeding Slicethepie, where you actually engage in gambling on the one-who-takes-all.
It's great fun to use even if the music is usually so-so. http://www.jamendo.com/
Interesting things can happen in the future. You can be freed. One should pretend they have some mental life ;-)
You're a government offical? BANG! Dreamin' 'bout having public roads to drive on, eh? BANG! You expect armed forces to protect you instead of standing up for yourself, you looser? BANG! I'm the guy who does bang?? Ugh, toooo bad! BANG!
had been funny
Of course, who wouldn't understand that?
Gen.Anti
I'm sorry for Ryan, but it had been the funniest /. post ever. I laugh every time I see him posting again. Sorry. Really. People should buy him something in compensation.
It's interesting to remember it exactly: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Purchase, Essential, and Temporary are too often left out. (I agree with your original post, but you misquoted quite badly, replacing "deserve" with "will gain", which is quite different, isn't it! The alleged author Richard Jackson or whoever it was would not be happy.)
I had read three supposedly fact-packed paragraphs at the top and still didn't know what it is. For a useful down-to-the-point introduction, with the experience of three-minute googling I'd recommend those:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/reductio+ad+absurdum
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=reductio%20ad%20absurdum
In case that means you are an amnesiac you might want to bookmark this website NOW!!! As far as I can remember I'm not, so I'll surely watch "Paris, Texas" again.
I totally understand. (Though, to tell the truth, I can't remember what happened at the end (don't tell)) This was one of the two movies that I experienced so strongly, when, as a teen, I stumbled upon them on tv in the early '90s, due to a kind of a "desperate father" theme that connects them for me, the other one being Cassavetes' "Love Streams".
I came here to make this exact obscure reference! I still love Nastasia Kinsky and Harry Dean Stanton too ;-) Only boring movies are interesting! (That's more of a general reference to Wenders' early works). That's such a strange coincidence. I'm surprised the city has that many inhabitants, from the movie I remembered it as just a point on the map. Possibly though, only the piece of ground he bought was in the middle of nowhere.
Then, I watched the movie for the last time many years ago...
I think PHP is this tranquilizer for horses and when some guys were taking it then they would pull out their eyes and stuff