Oh god, given the chance, the free state project would transform new hampshire into an anarchy. Police would only be better in the sense that my privatized police are better than yours, if you could afford them. Don't forget the FSP is libertarian. Their ideals look good on the outside, until you really think it through- most libertarian ideals are just that- ideals.
Not to mention virtual target practice isn't really that fun. I enjoyed older games because there was real strategy involved. It was more than just the superficial point and shoot crapstorm games are today.
I built my own arcade machine specifically for Mr. Do! (though with MAME, I clearly didn't stop with just one game). It's always interesting to see somebody else know that relatively obscure game that's like dig dug with a snowball.:D
To the best of my knowledge, there is no parity in HDMI (nor digital audio coax/optical intefaces), and in fact, you can get degraded quality, which can show up as artifacts, skips, or drops in audio/video. Additionally if the clocks on the sending and receiving side are not matched properly, there can be jitter which may or may not be noticeable small corrections in time.
You analyze the risk. As long as the person doesn't represent themselves falsely, I don't see the problem. For instance, I wouldn't let the informed "not-a-doctor" perform surgery, because it's my life. But I'd let an informed "not-a-lawyer" represent me for cheap, since it's better odds than me representing myself completely uninformed pro se.
Except the difference is, if you can't afford decent legal coverage, a well informed amateur may still be a better bet than nothing at all, and understanding that risk but using one anyway may be the difference between winning or losing. That should be your choice, not the courts.
Agreed. I still keep my facebook account around to manage business fan pages and keep in touch with friends, but I've ended up turning off commenting on my wall because the last thing I want is for different friend groups to mingle- I have some friends who are hardcore atheists, and I have some very religious friends. I really don't want my wall to become a battle zone. Additionally, have you ever tried going out into the dating world with a facebook profile? Even though casual dates aren't exclusive and it's an unspoken truth that you're probably dating other people (like trying on shoes), the last thing you need is somebody who knows somebody posting "how was your date last night with xyz," things could get harry.
Just in time for the netflix app. Coincidence? I think not. Honestly, as a member with 5 lines, they'll feel the sting as more people like me switch. I'll go through the hassle of switching before I take it up the ass with a plan change like this.
I have to disagree with you there. If I can use netflix on my phone and google on my tethered laptop, I fail to see why I have to pay extra to use my alloted transfer.
Thank you for that. For those of you who want a very entertaining 10 minutes along those lines, check out Tim Minchin's Storm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U
I believe she does talk about day dreams. She also talks about the "theater" of consciousness, whether or not we're in control, or if it's an illusion, and the experience of what we choose to be conscious of at any particular time (i.e. driving home and not remembering the trip, or suddenly noticing a background noise that's been going on for a while). It's definitely a good read, I recommend it!
But you have to understand what caused these skills to be appealing to females in the first place. Again, the women who desired guys who were not able to provide, their offspring didn't make it. So what you're seeing is a combination of people who can provide, and women who are extremely attracted to those sorts. That's the bottleneck. Most other combos just didn't survive in the human gene pool.
Way too meta. I always thought to myself, man, people are just victims to instincts and the chemicals in their heads. I'm going to be different, I'll deviate.
But of course, in my mind, I thought by trying to deviate from the knee-jerk reactions everybody else seems victim to, all I've accomplished is adding another layer of abstraction between my actions and my happiness, causing me to be just as much a victim to the chemicals in my head. There's no escaping it. Altruism is false! We all just want happiness! HEEEELPPPP
This is a backwards way of looking at the evolution of the brain. Consider it this way: Our ability to learn to use tools and reason allowed us to better provide for ourselves and our mates, which in turn caused the offspring of those types to have a higher survival rate. This meant that after some generations, the evolutionarily more viable males were more sexually attractive to females. (read: the females who were attracted to morons didn't make it). Evolution is a retrospective description, not a predictive course correction.
A good book to read is "Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction" by Susan Blackmore. She describes the "gut" feeling as your unconscious mind working out logical problems as rationally as possible and then introducing this information into your consciousness for further processing. For example, you mention the "gut" feeling, which is your unconscious mind working out as quickly as possible what it expects possible outcomes to be from a scenario. Often it takes some serious thinking to understand how you came to that conclusion. Anybody who's solved a problem in their sleep or had a eureka moment can tell exactly what this feels like.
It's not that we developed deductive reasoning to search for truth. It's a bit backwards. Evolution is a retrospective description. Those who were able to reason better were able to predict outcomes better, thus escaping candidacy for the darwin awards. Those who had not developed the ability to reason slowly got picked off. The fact that our keen deductive (and inductive for that matter) reasoning skills made us evolutionarily more viable than the alternative just means that at a certain point our abilities became more concentrated, and it allowed us to search for more abstract truth than what actually is necessary. But don't forget the ability to reason in the abstract was the very reason our ancestors didn't die. Imagine understanding cause and effect multiple levels deep. While other animals tried killing their dinner, we found ways to make dinner come to us in safer environments. Traps, farms, more complex weapons.
To see these traits as a path to winning arguments or finding truth just seems to lack a grasp on how evolution worked in the first place. We didn't decide to "grow" brain parts to find enlightenment. The ones that didn't died. I hate evolution articles that don't grasp what direction evolution happens.
Anybody who's been in the US court system would likely agree with you. There's no room for logic and reason in society as a whole. There may be concentrated groups of logical thinkers who hide in mensa meetings, but for the rest of the country (USA for me), it's about being an effective persuader, not about being logically correct or having a sound argument.
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Oh god, given the chance, the free state project would transform new hampshire into an anarchy. Police would only be better in the sense that my privatized police are better than yours, if you could afford them. Don't forget the FSP is libertarian. Their ideals look good on the outside, until you really think it through- most libertarian ideals are just that- ideals.
Not to mention virtual target practice isn't really that fun. I enjoyed older games because there was real strategy involved. It was more than just the superficial point and shoot crapstorm games are today.
I built my own arcade machine specifically for Mr. Do! (though with MAME, I clearly didn't stop with just one game). It's always interesting to see somebody else know that relatively obscure game that's like dig dug with a snowball. :D
Hahahaha, well done good anon. I just got coffee up my nose!
To the best of my knowledge, there is no parity in HDMI (nor digital audio coax/optical intefaces), and in fact, you can get degraded quality, which can show up as artifacts, skips, or drops in audio/video. Additionally if the clocks on the sending and receiving side are not matched properly, there can be jitter which may or may not be noticeable small corrections in time.
The 12 hour or 1/2 Day clock is an intended EVIL against humanity. The Cubed earth has 4 days in one time rotation, dunce.
As we all know, this causes a temporal paradox, and since this wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff isn't quite a straight line, this is ok.
You analyze the risk. As long as the person doesn't represent themselves falsely, I don't see the problem. For instance, I wouldn't let the informed "not-a-doctor" perform surgery, because it's my life. But I'd let an informed "not-a-lawyer" represent me for cheap, since it's better odds than me representing myself completely uninformed pro se.
Except the difference is, if you can't afford decent legal coverage, a well informed amateur may still be a better bet than nothing at all, and understanding that risk but using one anyway may be the difference between winning or losing. That should be your choice, not the courts.
I would like to moderate you +1 that guy who always gets the blue tiles and railroads in monopoly and makes the final 4 hours of the game miserable :P
I thought they'd like this game I made, but apparently, she's angry and I know what I did wrong. Will somebody tell me what that means?
Agreed. I still keep my facebook account around to manage business fan pages and keep in touch with friends, but I've ended up turning off commenting on my wall because the last thing I want is for different friend groups to mingle- I have some friends who are hardcore atheists, and I have some very religious friends. I really don't want my wall to become a battle zone. Additionally, have you ever tried going out into the dating world with a facebook profile? Even though casual dates aren't exclusive and it's an unspoken truth that you're probably dating other people (like trying on shoes), the last thing you need is somebody who knows somebody posting "how was your date last night with xyz," things could get harry.
Just in time for the netflix app. Coincidence? I think not. Honestly, as a member with 5 lines, they'll feel the sting as more people like me switch. I'll go through the hassle of switching before I take it up the ass with a plan change like this.
I have to disagree with you there. If I can use netflix on my phone and google on my tethered laptop, I fail to see why I have to pay extra to use my alloted transfer.
That's the new protocol. HTTP over SMS. It's going to be a hard winter this year.
Thank you for that. For those of you who want a very entertaining 10 minutes along those lines, check out Tim Minchin's Storm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U
Lol, check out this site i made a few months ago: mineverse.com
:D
It's currently not running any servers, I took them offline, but the community is nice.
I believe she does talk about day dreams. She also talks about the "theater" of consciousness, whether or not we're in control, or if it's an illusion, and the experience of what we choose to be conscious of at any particular time (i.e. driving home and not remembering the trip, or suddenly noticing a background noise that's been going on for a while). It's definitely a good read, I recommend it!
But you have to understand what caused these skills to be appealing to females in the first place. Again, the women who desired guys who were not able to provide, their offspring didn't make it. So what you're seeing is a combination of people who can provide, and women who are extremely attracted to those sorts. That's the bottleneck. Most other combos just didn't survive in the human gene pool.
Way too meta. I always thought to myself, man, people are just victims to instincts and the chemicals in their heads. I'm going to be different, I'll deviate.
But of course, in my mind, I thought by trying to deviate from the knee-jerk reactions everybody else seems victim to, all I've accomplished is adding another layer of abstraction between my actions and my happiness, causing me to be just as much a victim to the chemicals in my head. There's no escaping it. Altruism is false! We all just want happiness! HEEEELPPPP
This is a backwards way of looking at the evolution of the brain. Consider it this way: Our ability to learn to use tools and reason allowed us to better provide for ourselves and our mates, which in turn caused the offspring of those types to have a higher survival rate. This meant that after some generations, the evolutionarily more viable males were more sexually attractive to females. (read: the females who were attracted to morons didn't make it). Evolution is a retrospective description, not a predictive course correction.
A good book to read is "Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction" by Susan Blackmore. She describes the "gut" feeling as your unconscious mind working out logical problems as rationally as possible and then introducing this information into your consciousness for further processing. For example, you mention the "gut" feeling, which is your unconscious mind working out as quickly as possible what it expects possible outcomes to be from a scenario. Often it takes some serious thinking to understand how you came to that conclusion. Anybody who's solved a problem in their sleep or had a eureka moment can tell exactly what this feels like.
It's not that we developed deductive reasoning to search for truth. It's a bit backwards. Evolution is a retrospective description. Those who were able to reason better were able to predict outcomes better, thus escaping candidacy for the darwin awards. Those who had not developed the ability to reason slowly got picked off. The fact that our keen deductive (and inductive for that matter) reasoning skills made us evolutionarily more viable than the alternative just means that at a certain point our abilities became more concentrated, and it allowed us to search for more abstract truth than what actually is necessary. But don't forget the ability to reason in the abstract was the very reason our ancestors didn't die. Imagine understanding cause and effect multiple levels deep. While other animals tried killing their dinner, we found ways to make dinner come to us in safer environments. Traps, farms, more complex weapons.
To see these traits as a path to winning arguments or finding truth just seems to lack a grasp on how evolution worked in the first place. We didn't decide to "grow" brain parts to find enlightenment. The ones that didn't died. I hate evolution articles that don't grasp what direction evolution happens.
Because at no point would you try to communicate what you've reasoned. Good point.
Anybody who's been in the US court system would likely agree with you. There's no room for logic and reason in society as a whole. There may be concentrated groups of logical thinkers who hide in mensa meetings, but for the rest of the country (USA for me), it's about being an effective persuader, not about being logically correct or having a sound argument.