Note: I'm drunk as I write this, so pl;ease excuse spelling errors.
Actually, I'm style myself as Brennan-monster, not a true Pak Protector, sense the Human branch of Pak have diverged too far from the Pak Model (one of the reasons Brennan was afraid the Pak would try to exterminate us.)
After all, hte Pak Breeder is a nonsentient creature. The Human Breeder is sentient.
Anyway, I made this name when I was 12 or so. I'm 19 now. I think I was twelve. Was sometime back then.
And it's not that a Protector has any choice in the matter. Just look at the details from Brennan and Teela, to take just two (only two we have good records of.) The protector's intsinct to defend their bloodline is genetic. They can't fight it. Even Brennan, when Roy Truesdale was trying to kill him, couldn't do something that would kill Roy. Even after he shattered Roy's arm, sent what time he had left trying to save loy's life so that Roy could infect the planet.
It's not selfishness. I do things that are altruistic. I help other people as I am able and as I feel they need the help. However, I do nothing whatsover to violate another person's freedom of choice. If someone chooses to refuse my help, I do not lock them in an institution or schedule an 'intervention.' It's their choice to not seek help, or to refuse help when given. Even when that person is a loved one.
Freedom of Choice is the ultimate. It must be protected at all costs.
However, that doesn't mean I can choose to kill someone when they're choosing to try to kill me.
I'm also a pacifist -- however, I don't let that stop me from being reasonable.
I am a rational anarchist, as in the kind from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein. It seems that one of the facets of human nature is a desire to tell other people what to do, and what they may not do, often under the pretext of 'for their own good.
I dislike laws and government, however, I will accept any laws and government that other people feel are required for their safety and well-being. If I find a law tolerable, I tolerate it. If I find it untolerable, I ignore it.
I do not run around killing people because I would not normally do so; however, I would have no problem violating the law against depriving the government of a tax paying citizen (the worst crime of all), if I felt it neccessary to do so.
Same goes with all other laws. If I find it neccessary to act in a fashion which the law prohibits, I ignore the law. I also ignore laws which I find stupid.
The Valkyrie is never coming out, due to the simple fact that we don't want to have to listen to a whiny little sixteen year old bitch singing such mind-warping 'classics' as "Stage Fright," "My Boyfriend is a Pilot," "We Will Win," "To Be In Love," etc.
On the other hand, I want a VT-1S. I know where all 57 controls are.
Alrighty, first of all, did you even attempt to comprehend what I said? I said TRUE altruism, not altruism, is very rare in human beings. TRUE altruism being that sort of selflessness that allows one to put everyone elses' needs above your own.
If someone has to be told to do a kind act, that's not altruism -- it's following orders. When someone does a kind act of their own volition simply because it was their nature to do so, that is altruism.
I am not ignoring the fact that we share many genes. However, you and I are not closely related. The only time helping someone else survive to pass on their genes is of great interest to you (and will increase the spread of an altruism gene) is in the case of siblings.
And what exactly do you mean by 'Broken IP Model'? Are you saying you want to take away my ability to profit from my own damn work?
That's very altruistic of you. I guess when I'm starving on the streets, I'll just have to rely on Altruism to keep me alive.
I would reply that I said 'Pretty Much.' I would also reply that true altruism is a very rare trait in human beings.
After all, putting others ahead of yourself is one of the most assured ways to not live, and therefore, to not reproduce. Therefore, people who are altruistic would reproduce less, and contribute to the gene pool whatever genes (if any) lead to the increase in altruism.
Thank you very much. That was actually one of the Wiki Pages I was thinking about when I was posting. Unfortunately, the Caffiene is not strong with me at the moment.
You were right. I was wrong. It was done over the fear of white women visiting Chinese opium dens and being taken advantage of by their runners.
Wiki Link to Prohibition on Drugs. However, I was only half wrong about the gun thing. It was an increase from.32 to.38 Calibre, because of fear of blacks on cocaine, not opium
If I recall correctly, Opiates were first banned because there was fear and panic that 'drug crazed negroes' would rape white women. This was in San Fran, or one of those more westernly of the United States Cities.
This was also what stirred the first (recorded) police increase of calibre size, as it was thought that anything below a.38 would not be enough to kill someone on Opium.
Also, the reason Drug Use is pervasive amongst youth is because it is forbidden. You make something verbotten, and its appeal instantly skyrockets among teenagers, mainly because teenagers have a built in mechanism whereby the seek to break as many rules as they possibly can, due to the fact they need to explore and find the boundaries of what is acceptable behaviour, and more importantly, what they can get away with.
Probably important to becoming a well-rounded adult.
It's okay. Yours is good. I've just got a great deal more experience at saying outrageous and outrageously stupid things.
I was something of an army brat, and till I was about 14 all my friends were over 60 vets, buddies of my Grandpa.
Of course, I didn't get to polish it up until I was in the JROTC.
Nothing like being 16 and 'talking' your 'supply sergeant' into giving you live ammo for a gun so you and your pals could go down to the shooting range.
Do you have any kind of evidence whatsoever to back that up?
Hm. I suspect your tenure as an active slashdotter has not been as lengthy as it may have been, or in more common parlance, "you must be new here".
Your cowardly reliance on anonymity, forthermore, may imply a certain embarrassment concerning your slashdot userid. I'd wager it's around twice mine.
Hmm. And I see yours is just over quadruple mine. Let me explain to you how it works in the 'real world.'
Money as a Motivator > Pretty much anything but your life as a Motivator.
The reason Open Source has such difficulty is because, in the material society we live in, people do not understand how someone can give something away for free and it be worth something.
People are much more accepting of software (people in general -- not people who neccessarily have a clue) when they have to pay for it. After all, if you pay for it, it must be better than something you can just get for free, right?
Thank you. Now, next time you make a joke about UID, please don't do it till there are people whose UID's are six times your own.
I remember back in the '70s when I tried to Modify my Jean with a pair of scissors. It didn't make her run faster, jump higher, or gain the ability to remember where I put my keys, either.
In fact, all it got me was a release from jail for murder last week.
Evangelion and Sailor Moon are teenager shows. The hint pointing to this would be that the main characters are teens in high school.
So what? Now I have to be a tentacle monster to watch all the neat-o hentai?
I suppose most of Hayao Miyazaki's works are for young girls, as most (if not all, can't remember clearly, not enough caffiene) of his main characters are young girls.
Is that what you're trying to say?
Please, try to think outside the box that Government Incorporated has forced your head into.
I happen to have watched Evangelion about six years ago, when I was 13, and I did not get the great deal of what it was trying to convey at all.
The older I get, the more sense things make.
Same with books. When I was 12 I loved Starship Troopers. Now that I'm 19 I'm more fully able to understand everything RAH was trying to say with the book. You know, the complex themes, sometimes only hinted at, that are beyond the ken of even the brightest of 13 year olds? Socio-political themes that a 13 year old cannot understand because they have not been sufficiently exposed to them?
Please, for the damn Teenagers who NGE is 'for,' think next time.
He certainly hoped it would prove otherwise, though. I remember hearing that back in the '70s they analysed a strand of Sir Newton's hair, only to find it contained a concentration of Mercury that was forty times higher than 'background exposure.'
I'm sorry, but as a Member of the Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria, who do not exist, and of which said non-existant organisation I am not a member of, I'm going to have to say that I find your lack of offensiveness down right defensive.
I've thought about asking them if I can have/buy it if they throw it away. It's an original Galaga machine, which is worth keeping. If it's only a CRT problem it shouldn't be too hard for me to just open the thing up and pop in a new, appropriately sized CRT.
General Products' #3? Oh, please. Let me count the problems with that:
Firstly, the Puppetters are gone. Vanished. Nada. The Fleet of Worlds is leaving Known Space at a little below the speed of light. They're heading straight up, away from the plane of the galaxy, and probably will goto either the Magellanic Clouds or to the core, after the Radiation Wave from the Core Explosion has passed.
Secondly, a #3 Hull? Are you insane? It would be much, much better to use a #4, as that 1km sphere of indestructability (unless you happen to run into a sufficient quantity of anti-matter), was designed for colonization.
Thirdly, I've always been a fan of Singleships, be they fusion or bussard ramjet powered.
Amen in regards to Galaga, brother. I play it every chance I get, preferably on the original arcade version, as the newer 'updated' versions suck -- different movement patterns, things move too slowly, etc...
I hang out at a bar in town solely for the purpose (other than the fact that I go there because, unlike a club, people don't bother you unless you want to be bothered) of listening to (sometimes) interesting indie music and being able to play Galaga for a quarter any time I want.
Sadly, their machine has developed CRT problems and is likely to be killed.
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Note: I'm drunk as I write this, so pl;ease excuse spelling errors.
Actually, I'm style myself as Brennan-monster, not a true Pak Protector, sense the Human branch of Pak have diverged too far from the Pak Model (one of the reasons Brennan was afraid the Pak would try to exterminate us.)
After all, hte Pak Breeder is a nonsentient creature. The Human Breeder is sentient.
Anyway, I made this name when I was 12 or so. I'm 19 now. I think I was twelve. Was sometime back then.
And it's not that a Protector has any choice in the matter. Just look at the details from Brennan and Teela, to take just two (only two we have good records of.) The protector's intsinct to defend their bloodline is genetic. They can't fight it. Even Brennan, when Roy Truesdale was trying to kill him, couldn't do something that would kill Roy. Even after he shattered Roy's arm, sent what time he had left trying to save loy's life so that Roy could infect the planet.
It's not selfishness. I do things that are altruistic. I help other people as I am able and as I feel they need the help. However, I do nothing whatsover to violate another person's freedom of choice. If someone chooses to refuse my help, I do not lock them in an institution or schedule an 'intervention.' It's their choice to not seek help, or to refuse help when given. Even when that person is a loved one.
Freedom of Choice is the ultimate. It must be protected at all costs.
However, that doesn't mean I can choose to kill someone when they're choosing to try to kill me.
I'm also a pacifist -- however, I don't let that stop me from being reasonable.
Your post touches on something that is truth.
I am a rational anarchist, as in the kind from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein. It seems that one of the facets of human nature is a desire to tell other people what to do, and what they may not do, often under the pretext of 'for their own good.
I dislike laws and government, however, I will accept any laws and government that other people feel are required for their safety and well-being. If I find a law tolerable, I tolerate it. If I find it untolerable, I ignore it.
I do not run around killing people because I would not normally do so; however, I would have no problem violating the law against depriving the government of a tax paying citizen (the worst crime of all), if I felt it neccessary to do so.
Same goes with all other laws. If I find it neccessary to act in a fashion which the law prohibits, I ignore the law. I also ignore laws which I find stupid.
Let's face it. If Tokyo wasn't destroyed every sixth months by Godzilla, Japan would rule the world!
Arrr, matey! Ye be claimin' ye've seen a sober pirate?! *hiccough* Arrrr...
The Valkyrie is never coming out, due to the simple fact that we don't want to have to listen to a whiny little sixteen year old bitch singing such mind-warping 'classics' as "Stage Fright," "My Boyfriend is a Pilot," "We Will Win," "To Be In Love," etc.
On the other hand, I want a VT-1S. I know where all 57 controls are.
Alrighty, first of all, did you even attempt to comprehend what I said? I said TRUE altruism, not altruism, is very rare in human beings. TRUE altruism being that sort of selflessness that allows one to put everyone elses' needs above your own.
If someone has to be told to do a kind act, that's not altruism -- it's following orders. When someone does a kind act of their own volition simply because it was their nature to do so, that is altruism.
I am not ignoring the fact that we share many genes. However, you and I are not closely related. The only time helping someone else survive to pass on their genes is of great interest to you (and will increase the spread of an altruism gene) is in the case of siblings.
And what exactly do you mean by 'Broken IP Model'? Are you saying you want to take away my ability to profit from my own damn work?
That's very altruistic of you. I guess when I'm starving on the streets, I'll just have to rely on Altruism to keep me alive.
I would reply that I said 'Pretty Much.' I would also reply that true altruism is a very rare trait in human beings.
After all, putting others ahead of yourself is one of the most assured ways to not live, and therefore, to not reproduce. Therefore, people who are altruistic would reproduce less, and contribute to the gene pool whatever genes (if any) lead to the increase in altruism.
Thank you very much. That was actually one of the Wiki Pages I was thinking about when I was posting. Unfortunately, the Caffiene is not strong with me at the moment.
You were right. I was wrong. It was done over the fear of white women visiting Chinese opium dens and being taken advantage of by their runners.
Wiki Link to Prohibition on Drugs. However, I was only half wrong about the gun thing. It was an increase from .32 to .38 Calibre, because of fear of blacks on cocaine, not opium
If I recall correctly, Opiates were first banned because there was fear and panic that 'drug crazed negroes' would rape white women. This was in San Fran, or one of those more westernly of the United States Cities.
This was also what stirred the first (recorded) police increase of calibre size, as it was thought that anything below a .38 would not be enough to kill someone on Opium.
Also, the reason Drug Use is pervasive amongst youth is because it is forbidden. You make something verbotten, and its appeal instantly skyrockets among teenagers, mainly because teenagers have a built in mechanism whereby the seek to break as many rules as they possibly can, due to the fact they need to explore and find the boundaries of what is acceptable behaviour, and more importantly, what they can get away with.
Probably important to becoming a well-rounded adult.
It's okay. Yours is good. I've just got a great deal more experience at saying outrageous and outrageously stupid things.
I was something of an army brat, and till I was about 14 all my friends were over 60 vets, buddies of my Grandpa.
Of course, I didn't get to polish it up until I was in the JROTC.
Nothing like being 16 and 'talking' your 'supply sergeant' into giving you live ammo for a gun so you and your pals could go down to the shooting range.
High Times.
Hmm. And I see yours is just over quadruple mine. Let me explain to you how it works in the 'real world.'
Money as a Motivator > Pretty much anything but your life as a Motivator.
The reason Open Source has such difficulty is because, in the material society we live in, people do not understand how someone can give something away for free and it be worth something.
People are much more accepting of software (people in general -- not people who neccessarily have a clue) when they have to pay for it. After all, if you pay for it, it must be better than something you can just get for free, right?
Thank you. Now, next time you make a joke about UID, please don't do it till there are people whose UID's are six times your own.
I remember back in the '70s when I tried to Modify my Jean with a pair of scissors. It didn't make her run faster, jump higher, or gain the ability to remember where I put my keys, either.
In fact, all it got me was a release from jail for murder last week.
So what? Now I have to be a tentacle monster to watch all the neat-o hentai?
I suppose most of Hayao Miyazaki's works are for young girls, as most (if not all, can't remember clearly, not enough caffiene) of his main characters are young girls.
Is that what you're trying to say?
Please, try to think outside the box that Government Incorporated has forced your head into.
I happen to have watched Evangelion about six years ago, when I was 13, and I did not get the great deal of what it was trying to convey at all.
The older I get, the more sense things make.
Same with books. When I was 12 I loved Starship Troopers. Now that I'm 19 I'm more fully able to understand everything RAH was trying to say with the book. You know, the complex themes, sometimes only hinted at, that are beyond the ken of even the brightest of 13 year olds? Socio-political themes that a 13 year old cannot understand because they have not been sufficiently exposed to them?
Please, for the damn Teenagers who NGE is 'for,' think next time.
Or I'm gonna do some NERV damage to your SEELE.
I wasn't debating that. I was just pointing out how ardent Newton's belief in conversion of base metals to gold was.
He certainly hoped it would prove otherwise, though. I remember hearing that back in the '70s they analysed a strand of Sir Newton's hair, only to find it contained a concentration of Mercury that was forty times higher than 'background exposure.'
Take your best shot. I've been waiting out here in the Cometary Halo for two centuries waiting for someone to start something.
So the question you need to ask yourself is..
Do you feel lucky, Punk?
Signed,
Brennan-monster
You forgot to add The Second Law of the Great God Finagle, whose Prophet is Murphy.
If It Can Go Wrong, It Already Has.
I'm sorry, but as a Member of the Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria, who do not exist, and of which said non-existant organisation I am not a member of, I'm going to have to say that I find your lack of offensiveness down right defensive.
Seriously, TripMaster. Why the hell can't they join a real religion, like Discordianism?
Those freaks.
I've thought about asking them if I can have/buy it if they throw it away. It's an original Galaga machine, which is worth keeping. If it's only a CRT problem it shouldn't be too hard for me to just open the thing up and pop in a new, appropriately sized CRT.
General Products' #3? Oh, please. Let me count the problems with that:
Anyone seen where I left Kobold?
Amen in regards to Galaga, brother. I play it every chance I get, preferably on the original arcade version, as the newer 'updated' versions suck -- different movement patterns, things move too slowly, etc...
I hang out at a bar in town solely for the purpose (other than the fact that I go there because, unlike a club, people don't bother you unless you want to be bothered) of listening to (sometimes) interesting indie music and being able to play Galaga for a quarter any time I want.
Sadly, their machine has developed CRT problems and is likely to be killed.
In re: to adultury, something is taken away from the wronged spouse, atleast if the wronged spouse is male: Proof of Paternity.
That's why for so long in so many countries it is illegal for the woman to commit adultery, but not for the man.