Where's their "pre-determined path to a completed human state"?
Terence McKenna would hate ya:P
Quote: Animal life has been transfused with something either willfully descended into matter or trapped by some cosmic drama. Something in an unseen dimension is acting as an attractor for our forward movement in understanding.
[...]
It's a point in the future that affects us in the present. For example, if you were to do your Christmas shopping in July, then Christmas is an attractor for your summer shopping habits. Our model that everything is pushed by the past into the future, by the necessity of causality, is wrong. There are actual attractors ahead of us in time -- like the gravitational field of a planet. Once you fall under an attractor's influence, your trajectory is diverted.
Abit will cease to exist entirely after midnight on the last day of 2008 because the owner of the brand, Universal Scientific Industrial, is in the process of restructuring and cutting their costs.
Ow, and i thought that was Massive Dynamic.. seems like even they need to cut costs these days. Do they still make those USB-attachable drug submersion brain interconnection tanks?
"[...] [D]rillers looking for geothermal energy in Hawaii have inadvertently put a well right into a magma chamber. Molten rock pushed back up the borehole several meters before solidifying, making it perfectly safe to study."
Futurama anyone? Or "LOST"?
OK but this doesn't *really* have anything to do with the right of people to remain anonymous? It's not the point whether this gives you better control over people, this is about rights. Antiright advocates all want to use it as a measure of control as well, you're just playing into their scheme.
The scary thing about this is that it doesn't matter if it works right, it just matters if it gets certified and approved for use as that what it claims it is. And that could just happen.
..people taking law enforcement into their own hands. Because "the internet is free to roam", or what is the premise here? ISPs still have too much power. It sort of plays into the net neutrality issue for me.
It reminds me of how some trolls who were constantly trolling me on IRC recently, when asked about their behaviour, replied to me "well, it's the internet!" (i.e. "deal with it"). This is not much better. I'd treat these ISPs as trolls, block them from my servers altogether, and that's that (that is, until I get a proper C&D court order).
They are just bored and are suing themselves. As a small benefit, if the court decides that Apple has the rights to restrict OS X usage, they'll get that out of it.
Well, when they say 'hit back' they really mean hit back. Of course there are probable benefits aside from just hitting through the ISPs's "congestion management", but I think just about everybody had it with ISPs throttling (AND not admitting it).
Doesn't work if you know that under such circumstances, you won't be even able to work properly. Some people only work (work as in tick) only the my way/highway way, just in reverse; those are sometimes crackpots, but also quite often very good programmers.
At least where I live, there are special laws in existence guarding the transfer of mail, and they are *special* and as far I can tell *exclusive* to postal mail, and I'd think that the U.S. has similar laws. So no big surprise that there is nothing going on with your mail, but an ISP is obviously not bound to these laws.
that Linux IS pretty much a mess, it's just that there enough hands around at all times to fix quickly enough whenever something breaks. That's pretty much how it works at the moment and this could be better indeed.
That's not the point. TFA is about Google, so I was pointing out what Google is doing. The previous companies didn't have as much of a marketshare.
Granted, I'm just trying to save my argument, but it's not really as bad as you're pointing out;)
There are much worse scenarios imaginable, which I'll leave as an exercise for the reader.
By saying this I don't want to bless all the problematic things that are happening, and it's certainly always helpful to "watch back", but we could be already living in an information nightmare already, which we aren't thanks, in part, to Google: If some other big company would have as big a share as Google, I wonder how they'd behave (don't mod me as troll please, it's just to show that we're still doing quite well.)
Paraphrasing the great late Pauline Kael, 2001 is just a typical Hollywood blockbuster movie, just in a different tempo, and about 20 years ahead of its time (search for her review of 2001, it's within an article of other reviews and summaries, it's ingenious).
I suppose if one were to make a different cut which would speed up the tempo, and make a few additional scenes to compensate for the then shorter length, it could be still very much a success. I'm dreaming of doing this all the time, but I just don't have the money to film additional scenes. I might re-cut it one day for me personally though.
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Where's their "pre-determined path to a completed human state"? :P
Terence McKenna would hate ya
Quote:
Animal life has been transfused with something either willfully descended into matter or trapped by some cosmic drama. Something in an unseen dimension is acting as an attractor for our forward movement in understanding. [...] It's a point in the future that affects us in the present. For example, if you were to do your Christmas shopping in July, then Christmas is an attractor for your summer shopping habits. Our model that everything is pushed by the past into the future, by the necessity of causality, is wrong. There are actual attractors ahead of us in time -- like the gravitational field of a planet. Once you fall under an attractor's influence, your trajectory is diverted.
No, it just means they are all different... wait! Hmmmmm...
Abit will cease to exist entirely after midnight on the last day of 2008 because the owner of the brand, Universal Scientific Industrial, is in the process of restructuring and cutting their costs.
Ow, and i thought that was Massive Dynamic.. seems like even they need to cut costs these days. Do they still make those USB-attachable drug submersion brain interconnection tanks?
"[...] [D]rillers looking for geothermal energy in Hawaii have inadvertently put a well right into a magma chamber. Molten rock pushed back up the borehole several meters before solidifying, making it perfectly safe to study." Futurama anyone? Or "LOST"?
OK but this doesn't *really* have anything to do with the right of people to remain anonymous? It's not the point whether this gives you better control over people, this is about rights. Antiright advocates all want to use it as a measure of control as well, you're just playing into their scheme.
The scary thing about this is that it doesn't matter if it works right, it just matters if it gets certified and approved for use as that what it claims it is. And that could just happen.
Ok maybe I should have said that I created this page in 2006 after a friend working with it explained me what Siebel is!
http://futurepast.free.fr/OLD/opensiebel/
[original research?]
..people taking law enforcement into their own hands. Because "the internet is free to roam", or what is the premise here? ISPs still have too much power. It sort of plays into the net neutrality issue for me.
It reminds me of how some trolls who were constantly trolling me on IRC recently, when asked about their behaviour, replied to me "well, it's the internet!" (i.e. "deal with it"). This is not much better. I'd treat these ISPs as trolls, block them from my servers altogether, and that's that (that is, until I get a proper C&D court order).
They are just bored and are suing themselves. As a small benefit, if the court decides that Apple has the rights to restrict OS X usage, they'll get that out of it.
Happy Coca-Cola Christmas!
http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/hitachis-water-cooled-p4-notebook-20020719/
lol! Out of mod points but someone needs to mod this up Funny.
Well, when they say 'hit back' they really mean hit back. Of course there are probable benefits aside from just hitting through the ISPs's "congestion management", but I think just about everybody had it with ISPs throttling (AND not admitting it).
Doesn't work if you know that under such circumstances, you won't be even able to work properly. Some people only work (work as in tick) only the my way/highway way, just in reverse; those are sometimes crackpots, but also quite often very good programmers.
At least where I live, there are special laws in existence guarding the transfer of mail, and they are *special* and as far I can tell *exclusive* to postal mail, and I'd think that the U.S. has similar laws. So no big surprise that there is nothing going on with your mail, but an ISP is obviously not bound to these laws.
that Linux IS pretty much a mess, it's just that there enough hands around at all times to fix quickly enough whenever something breaks. That's pretty much how it works at the moment and this could be better indeed.
I'm German, and I must tell you that our beer is our water.
That's not the point. TFA is about Google, so I was pointing out what Google is doing. The previous companies didn't have as much of a marketshare. Granted, I'm just trying to save my argument, but it's not really as bad as you're pointing out ;)
..Google does it still pretty well.
There are much worse scenarios imaginable, which I'll leave as an exercise for the reader.
By saying this I don't want to bless all the problematic things that are happening, and it's certainly always helpful to "watch back", but we could be already living in an information nightmare already, which we aren't thanks, in part, to Google: If some other big company would have as big a share as Google, I wonder how they'd behave (don't mod me as troll please, it's just to show that we're still doing quite well.)
Paraphrasing the great late Pauline Kael, 2001 is just a typical Hollywood blockbuster movie, just in a different tempo, and about 20 years ahead of its time (search for her review of 2001, it's within an article of other reviews and summaries, it's ingenious). I suppose if one were to make a different cut which would speed up the tempo, and make a few additional scenes to compensate for the then shorter length, it could be still very much a success. I'm dreaming of doing this all the time, but I just don't have the money to film additional scenes. I might re-cut it one day for me personally though.
Except that they had it from day 1 of release. The MacBooks didn't magically gain DRM features on the day of a slashdot news announcement ;)
This is one of the worst summaries from at least this day. Was this just copy&pasted out of a bigger text or what?
The protection of the self came before the self and it might be very well an extension of this in humans that brought up consciousness.
Or it could have been aliens from Zeta Reticuli.
.Did they serve Pina Coladas at the beaches?