past few years there's been a trend here , the ageing populace encourage the younger generations to have more children, otherwise there won't be enough people to take care of them, there won't be enough working people to fund their pensions... ever since i have been thinking this is fundamentally flawed since having more children now means you will have to have even more later for each one you pop out now. Also, exactly WHAT kind of job will all these kids be doing when they grow up. Jobs are scarce as it is and unless we get another krieg and the need to rebuild from scratch (let's hope not) i don't see that changing. Am i the only person who sees it like this ? Imo birth control is the one and only option we have barring colonization of another planet.
i get the feeling they are somewhat shifting attention towards the second-hand market lately so maybe we should expect sites like ebay or amazon getting sued over the sales of second hand media causing a drop in profits, there's very few games, cd's or dvd's i buy at the full price tbh, i haven't even jumped on the bluray wagon yet since i think those prices are outrageously ridiculous for the little bit of increased quality you get and the tons of useless content you get like interviews or some director blabbering over the whole movie about why this and that was done so and so doesn't convince me either. Piratebay must be a nightmare to marketeers since no matter the ad campaign, you can always get a 'trial' version there before you buy it:-)
we have to, it's the only way to survive the gloom . I do think belgium is one of europes top ranked countries when it comes to popping anti-depressants and benzo's as well
citoyen du monde hm, imo we need more strange and imo growth comes from conflct only, where conflict need not include violence, if all is turned into specialists, who will dream the scheme ?
yes, i have been considering that for quite a while now, but i don't feel like just up and leaving, i need a bit of security to go along with that , and i'm afraid that's gonna take me a few more years... i was thinking China, at least they are honest about their repression and censorship, the needs of the many and all that... i think there has to be at least more breathing space than here, my crystal ball is broken however so i don't know what will happen say five to ten years from now. I am determined to not die in this forgotten sold-out hole, at least that's something to cling to:)
you must be Belgian... (i see the humour however it was not intended), we will have our next conversation in Dutch so i won't make any more mistakes that offend the lets-not-get-the-point-but-point-out-the-spelling-mistakes-police or as you so correctly call them... maybe the sky above the hill is a mirror and everyone just sees themselves... poor humans, they have such a long way to go
once more i am proud to live in belgium the country with 5 governments to rule the same number of inhabitants as new york, the country were spelling is more important than social security, the country where bias is the norm, the shire where hobbits still think the earth is flat and they are at the centre. Everything beyond the hill is strange, dangerous and full of weird folk... how proud that makes me (good thing is, living here, there's little chance i'll give in to nationalism...)
yea, they're doing great lately, firs i pre-purchase heroes VI to get access to the beta, woaw, then they postpone the release date for about six months, then when the beta comes you're left with like 3 measly maps to play with, now they pull this off... most of my collection consists of second hand games so i guess i won't be playing second-hand ubisoft games then:)
according to what little i know of the standard human psyche it's easier to be part of the slave group than it is to walk away on your own. The need to belong to a larger organism that defines identity seems to be undeniable in most people. That makes true individuals the odd ones out, they get swarmed on like a stranger by white bloodcells, unless they prove to be strong enough to impose their difference and make it part of the group, they get cast out or destroyed. It seems to be standard behaviour, not only in humans. I don't dare say too much on the subject however since i'm technically a layman. I do think however there's a sociopath in everyone who's just held down by a strict set of group-rules that get more or less wired into the brain from birth. Let it loose and see what happens. Few years ago we had this guy here who just all of a sudden got up, went out and started killing old ladies and infants, with a knife nonetheless, no one saw it coming, no one had a clue, no one even knew the guy. Lack of social control ? this is getting off topic...
yea , everyone should be able to do what they want, as long as no one complains... someone must have shown the piratebay to grandpa, someone should as well, silence that government bit who cares about anything but getting on tv... you are pretty much all stupid when it comes to this, dont bother bugging me , i will self destruct in 5...4...3...2...1...
As V says, "Ideas are bulletproof".
that's like it, i shiver at the thought, these people are still looking for 'leaders' to demoralize the troops... anonymous and lulzsec proved the admins don't have a clue about what they're admin-ing... this is way more dangerous but these people don't have a clue about what they're fighting. Am i the only one who perceives it this way ? Don't answer, just think... please...
i like China a lot, they are free of western hippie morals, what troubles me is microsoft getting the monopoly on english based searches... can you see the duality, if not, goto your statement
never win the war, nor do they get credit, nor do they care about any comment on whatever they did, most of the time they're dead by the time it happens, but when it happens, shit happens
did i miss the part where they tried to find out WHY a 13 year old commits robberies ??? did he use a game controller to intimidate people ? a kitchen knife ? an actual gun ? who the hell sold him a controller to intimidate people with in the first place ?
try forsaken world on steam if you want to get into mmo's, its pretty decent for a free game, lets you level to the cap and no purchase is required to unlock content, only aids (as in 'to help you level faster') and cosmetics cost real money so far from what i've seen, playing wow free til lvl 20 is just plain stupid
mhm, france processes nuclear waste from all around the world, so i heard (but the end product there is still radioactive for a very long time, so how this is a good thing i don't know, do they shoot it into space, right at the sun to give it a boost perhaps?), chances that they get earthquakes like in Japan are also pretty much negligable (until it happens once ofcourse)... profitable, yet still stupid imo, i don't think there is one good reason except profit to keep investing in nuclear energy.
mhm, i'm all for a ban on making money from selling pets, except in games perhaps, it's good intentions but as with all laws, it will have holes and fail i'm afraid
i don't know, from what i understand any memory you have is 'coloured' by other memories and past experiences. Simply turning off or erasing one memory would only change so much if all memories were generated on the fly, starting with the oldest ones. If memories are just stored as they are , 'coloured' and all, it would do nothing to change the perception you have of things in general. I don't know, if any expert could point me to some comprehensible reading on the matter i'd be much obliged.
i'm afraid the people you're trying to reach have given up on listening and interpreting to any other theories than the mantras and dogmas they live by. To me, there's hardly any difference between blind dumb-asses like this and an al-qaeda terrorist who would lash out at you with deadly force for slandering or even mentioning the name of a (long) dead guy
i'd go for the hive, that's extra scary, gives the marketeers one more chance to alienate the 'simple' users and sell them magic in a box you can't open cos it will bite you but you need cos everyone else has it and you don't want to be left behind, do you
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Do you mean we have to, like, imbue computers with a sense of mortality so they are pushed to achieve more in a limited lifetime ?
past few years there's been a trend here , the ageing populace encourage the younger generations to have more children, otherwise there won't be enough people to take care of them, there won't be enough working people to fund their pensions ... ever since i have been thinking this is fundamentally flawed since having more children now means you will have to have even more later for each one you pop out now. Also, exactly WHAT kind of job will all these kids be doing when they grow up. Jobs are scarce as it is and unless we get another krieg and the need to rebuild from scratch (let's hope not) i don't see that changing. Am i the only person who sees it like this ? Imo birth control is the one and only option we have barring colonization of another planet.
i get the feeling they are somewhat shifting attention towards the second-hand market lately so maybe we should expect sites like ebay or amazon getting sued over the sales of second hand media causing a drop in profits, there's very few games, cd's or dvd's i buy at the full price tbh, i haven't even jumped on the bluray wagon yet since i think those prices are outrageously ridiculous for the little bit of increased quality you get and the tons of useless content you get like interviews or some director blabbering over the whole movie about why this and that was done so and so doesn't convince me either. Piratebay must be a nightmare to marketeers since no matter the ad campaign, you can always get a 'trial' version there before you buy it :-)
i guess you're right, we havent come that much further since innocent meant the witch did drown :)
we have to, it's the only way to survive the gloom . I do think belgium is one of europes top ranked countries when it comes to popping anti-depressants and benzo's as well
citoyen du monde hm, imo we need more strange and imo growth comes from conflct only, where conflict need not include violence, if all is turned into specialists, who will dream the scheme ?
in communist belgium, guilty is what you are until proven otherwise ...
yes, i have been considering that for quite a while now, but i don't feel like just up and leaving, i need a bit of security to go along with that , and i'm afraid that's gonna take me a few more years ... i was thinking China, at least they are honest about their repression and censorship, the needs of the many and all that ... i think there has to be at least more breathing space than here, my crystal ball is broken however so i don't know what will happen say five to ten years from now. I am determined to not die in this forgotten sold-out hole, at least that's something to cling to :)
you must be Belgian ... (i see the humour however it was not intended), we will have our next conversation in Dutch so i won't make any more mistakes that offend the lets-not-get-the-point-but-point-out-the-spelling-mistakes-police or as you so correctly call them ... maybe the sky above the hill is a mirror and everyone just sees themselves ... poor humans, they have such a long way to go
once more i am proud to live in belgium the country with 5 governments to rule the same number of inhabitants as new york, the country were spelling is more important than social security, the country where bias is the norm, the shire where hobbits still think the earth is flat and they are at the centre. Everything beyond the hill is strange, dangerous and full of weird folk ... how proud that makes me (good thing is, living here, there's little chance i'll give in to nationalism ...)
yea, they're doing great lately, firs i pre-purchase heroes VI to get access to the beta, woaw, then they postpone the release date for about six months, then when the beta comes you're left with like 3 measly maps to play with, now they pull this off ... most of my collection consists of second hand games so i guess i won't be playing second-hand ubisoft games then :)
according to what little i know of the standard human psyche it's easier to be part of the slave group than it is to walk away on your own. The need to belong to a larger organism that defines identity seems to be undeniable in most people. That makes true individuals the odd ones out, they get swarmed on like a stranger by white bloodcells, unless they prove to be strong enough to impose their difference and make it part of the group, they get cast out or destroyed. It seems to be standard behaviour, not only in humans. I don't dare say too much on the subject however since i'm technically a layman. I do think however there's a sociopath in everyone who's just held down by a strict set of group-rules that get more or less wired into the brain from birth. Let it loose and see what happens. Few years ago we had this guy here who just all of a sudden got up, went out and started killing old ladies and infants, with a knife nonetheless, no one saw it coming, no one had a clue, no one even knew the guy. Lack of social control ? this is getting off topic ...
yea , everyone should be able to do what they want, as long as no one complains ... someone must have shown the piratebay to grandpa, someone should as well, silence that government bit who cares about anything but getting on tv ... you are pretty much all stupid when it comes to this, dont bother bugging me , i will self destruct in 5...4...3...2...1...
As V says, "Ideas are bulletproof". that's like it, i shiver at the thought, these people are still looking for 'leaders' to demoralize the troops ... anonymous and lulzsec proved the admins don't have a clue about what they're admin-ing ... this is way more dangerous but these people don't have a clue about what they're fighting. Am i the only one who perceives it this way ? Don't answer, just think ... please ...
the loose collective has cells and is organized ? these people don't know anything but scapegoats do they ?
i like China a lot, they are free of western hippie morals, what troubles me is microsoft getting the monopoly on english based searches ... can you see the duality, if not, goto your statement
never win the war, nor do they get credit, nor do they care about any comment on whatever they did, most of the time they're dead by the time it happens, but when it happens, shit happens
did i miss the part where they tried to find out WHY a 13 year old commits robberies ??? did he use a game controller to intimidate people ? a kitchen knife ? an actual gun ? who the hell sold him a controller to intimidate people with in the first place ?
all your base ...
try forsaken world on steam if you want to get into mmo's, its pretty decent for a free game, lets you level to the cap and no purchase is required to unlock content, only aids (as in 'to help you level faster') and cosmetics cost real money so far from what i've seen, playing wow free til lvl 20 is just plain stupid
mhm, france processes nuclear waste from all around the world, so i heard (but the end product there is still radioactive for a very long time, so how this is a good thing i don't know, do they shoot it into space, right at the sun to give it a boost perhaps?), chances that they get earthquakes like in Japan are also pretty much negligable (until it happens once ofcourse) ... profitable, yet still stupid imo, i don't think there is one good reason except profit to keep investing in nuclear energy.
mhm, i'm all for a ban on making money from selling pets, except in games perhaps, it's good intentions but as with all laws, it will have holes and fail i'm afraid
i don't know, from what i understand any memory you have is 'coloured' by other memories and past experiences. Simply turning off or erasing one memory would only change so much if all memories were generated on the fly, starting with the oldest ones. If memories are just stored as they are , 'coloured' and all, it would do nothing to change the perception you have of things in general. I don't know, if any expert could point me to some comprehensible reading on the matter i'd be much obliged.
i'm afraid the people you're trying to reach have given up on listening and interpreting to any other theories than the mantras and dogmas they live by. To me, there's hardly any difference between blind dumb-asses like this and an al-qaeda terrorist who would lash out at you with deadly force for slandering or even mentioning the name of a (long) dead guy
i'd go for the hive, that's extra scary, gives the marketeers one more chance to alienate the 'simple' users and sell them magic in a box you can't open cos it will bite you but you need cos everyone else has it and you don't want to be left behind, do you