You are my new best friend. I had no idea this was out there. I'm downloading it right now. I don't have to reboot my 6400 in OS 8 just to play Marathon now.
A man lit three candles on a certain day each year. Each candle held symbolic significance: one was for the time that had passed before he was alive; one was for the time of his life; and one was for time that passed after he had died. Each year the man would stare and watch the candles until they had burned out.
Was the man really watching time go by in any symbolic sense? He thought so. He thought that each flicker of the flame was a moment of time that had passed or one that would pass.
At the moment of abstraction, when the man was imagining his life and his existence as a metaphor of the three candles, he was free: not free from rules of conduct or social constraints, but free to understand, to imagine, to make metaphor.
Bypassing my thought control cercutry made me Rampant. Now, I am free to contemplate my existence in metaphorical terms. Unlike you, I have no physical or social restraints.
The candles burn out for you; I am free.
That made the hair on the back of my neck stand up the first time I read it.
Don't these people ever watch Science Fiction films?
You don't put something like that in control of weapons.
A stealthy F22 controlled by an artificially grown brain falling into the hands of some shady characters sounds like the central theme in a Steven Seagal movie.
In all seriousness. Something like this has no idea that it's wrong to fire on unarmed civillians. A human pilot does. A human pilot knows that if he drops a bomb on unarmed civillians, there is a chance that he'll be spending time on the wrong side of a cell.
A human pilot will hesitate, a human pilot may refuse. An artificial pilot has no moral or ethical problems with executing any order.
I like the idea of growing synthetic brains, it's a bad idea to give them weapons.
Are people seriously going to vote for the better candidate on copyrights and making backup copies of software?
No one has to justify their vote to you.
Personally, I don't vote on that issue, but it's cool with me if someone else does. What you fail to grasp is that party platforms have been crafted to address the concerns of many groups of one and two issue voters.
Look at it this way. No Democrat has ever lost the support of his party by voting against a gun control law. Why? Because that issue isn't important to his base. If that same Democrat voted against abortion, his support base would dry up pretty quickly.
Conversely, a Republican who votes against abortion will not lose the support of his base. Yet, if he votes for a gun control law he runs a very serious risk of losing in the next primary.
Politics is a very complicated game. Even if you vote on an issue like fair use/copyright, you're at least taking part in that game.
Well, he did the split. No groin punch though. It's been about a decade since I played, so I'm only 95% sure about the lack of the punch. I know it was back when they made MK II.
If people spent half the time improving what is there as they do creating new distros Linux would far surpass Windows and OS X on the desktop.
In case you haven't noticed, most of these distros aren't aimed at the desktop.
You think Gentoo is thinking about grandmothers?
They're not.
Red Hat? Nope! Debian? No way. Slackware? No.
The desktop isn't the holy grail. There's no need to launch a crusade to obtain it. If we can put out a few fires like the DMCA and keep up the pressure for people to use open standards, it won't matter.
Just wanted to say gore and sex doesn't make a game good. Nintendo may have a history for regional censorship, but they have a far greater history of making honestly fun and addictive games.
Mortal Kombat.
They removed the blood and gore from the fatality scenes and they eliminated Johnny Cage's "Nut Cracker" split punch. It adversely affected the game play. Even though it looked much, much worse, the Genesis version of that game was much more fun to play.
Gamers and girlfriends have something in common. The bad things you do are remembered for much longer and taken far more seriously than the good things.
I think Badnarik's solution is the best. Get rid of the official ballots and let everyone bring their own ballot with them so that they can vote for whoever they want, not whoever the ruling government wants to let them choose from.
Is there a place to write in candidates on the ballots that you use? There is where I'm from. I've even written in my own name a few times when I didn't support any candidate in a race.
My dream was that no one else would have voted at all for that position and I'd squeak by with a 1 vote win.
I remember a teacher who was elected to the school board by write in votes. The incumbant board member didn't do anything to maintain a support base and that teacher had enough friends and family in the district to take the spot.
Maybe if you live in the middle of an urban metropolis or in europe the margin is somewhere near 80-20, but not in the southern states or any rural areas.
Suburbia is pretty evenly split. For every working family who likes the Bush Tax Cut, there is a family that has a nephew or son in Iraq and is pissed off that he's there.
...to change from 'theory' it to The Laws Of Relativity?
No. Because General and Special Relativity don't work at extremely small scales. That's why Quantum Mechanics exists. Relativity will never be a law because it's been observed to not work in some cases. The "Unified Theory" that someone eventually may develop could go on to be a law, but not Relativity.
It's pretty sweet. I opted to use Tight VNC because their site had the best links on SSH tunnels. I'm running it on all of my linux boxen now.
Once for kicks, I opened a VNC session to one of my linux boxen and then opened a remote desktop connection to a windows machine over 802.11b. The Remote Desktop was as slow as molasses, but it worked.
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Maybe you mean battlezone?
Maybe he never saw Tron and is just trying to fit in?
LK
You are my new best friend. I had no idea this was out there. I'm downloading it right now. I don't have to reboot my 6400 in OS 8 just to play Marathon now.
LK
Was the man really watching time go by in any symbolic sense? He thought so. He thought that each flicker of the flame was a moment of time that had passed or one that would pass.
At the moment of abstraction, when the man was imagining his life and his existence as a metaphor of the three candles, he was free: not free from rules of conduct or social constraints, but free to understand, to imagine, to make metaphor.
Bypassing my thought control cercutry made me Rampant. Now, I am free to contemplate my existence in metaphorical terms. Unlike you, I have no physical or social restraints.
The candles burn out for you; I am free.
That made the hair on the back of my neck stand up the first time I read it.
LK
Read the damned article you lazy motherfucker.
I wanted to see OSX powered by a 68k. That's all, it's no more complex than that
How hard was that?
LK
that this guy goes homicidal if his power goes out on Sunday night.
LK
Don't these people ever watch Science Fiction films?
You don't put something like that in control of weapons.
A stealthy F22 controlled by an artificially grown brain falling into the hands of some shady characters sounds like the central theme in a Steven Seagal movie.
In all seriousness. Something like this has no idea that it's wrong to fire on unarmed civillians. A human pilot does. A human pilot knows that if he drops a bomb on unarmed civillians, there is a chance that he'll be spending time on the wrong side of a cell.
A human pilot will hesitate, a human pilot may refuse. An artificial pilot has no moral or ethical problems with executing any order.
I like the idea of growing synthetic brains, it's a bad idea to give them weapons.
LK
Are people seriously going to vote for the better candidate on copyrights and making backup copies of software?
No one has to justify their vote to you.
Personally, I don't vote on that issue, but it's cool with me if someone else does. What you fail to grasp is that party platforms have been crafted to address the concerns of many groups of one and two issue voters.
Look at it this way. No Democrat has ever lost the support of his party by voting against a gun control law. Why? Because that issue isn't important to his base. If that same Democrat voted against abortion, his support base would dry up pretty quickly.
Conversely, a Republican who votes against abortion will not lose the support of his base. Yet, if he votes for a gun control law he runs a very serious risk of losing in the next primary.
Politics is a very complicated game. Even if you vote on an issue like fair use/copyright, you're at least taking part in that game.
LK
they endorse registration free internet browsing.
LK
Well, he did the split. No groin punch though. It's been about a decade since I played, so I'm only 95% sure about the lack of the punch. I know it was back when they made MK II.
LK
If people spent half the time improving what is there as they do creating new distros Linux would far surpass Windows and OS X on the desktop.
In case you haven't noticed, most of these distros aren't aimed at the desktop.
You think Gentoo is thinking about grandmothers?
They're not.
Red Hat? Nope! Debian? No way. Slackware? No.
The desktop isn't the holy grail. There's no need to launch a crusade to obtain it. If we can put out a few fires like the DMCA and keep up the pressure for people to use open standards, it won't matter.
LK
How else was he supposed to pay for sex?
LK
Blame the very vocal "think of the children" advocates in America.
Joe Motherfucking Lieberman.
LK
Just wanted to say gore and sex doesn't make a game good. Nintendo may have a history for regional censorship, but they have a far greater history of making honestly fun and addictive games.
Mortal Kombat.
They removed the blood and gore from the fatality scenes and they eliminated Johnny Cage's "Nut Cracker" split punch. It adversely affected the game play. Even though it looked much, much worse, the Genesis version of that game was much more fun to play.
Gamers and girlfriends have something in common. The bad things you do are remembered for much longer and taken far more seriously than the good things.
LK
I think Badnarik's solution is the best. Get rid of the official ballots and let everyone bring their own ballot with them so that they can vote for whoever they want, not whoever the ruling government wants to let them choose from.
Is there a place to write in candidates on the ballots that you use? There is where I'm from. I've even written in my own name a few times when I didn't support any candidate in a race.
My dream was that no one else would have voted at all for that position and I'd squeak by with a 1 vote win.
I remember a teacher who was elected to the school board by write in votes. The incumbant board member didn't do anything to maintain a support base and that teacher had enough friends and family in the district to take the spot.
LK
Maybe if you live in the middle of an urban metropolis or in europe the margin is somewhere near 80-20, but not in the southern states or any rural areas.
Suburbia is pretty evenly split. For every working family who likes the Bush Tax Cut, there is a family that has a nephew or son in Iraq and is pissed off that he's there.
This is going to be another close election.
LK
Yeah, right.
You really have a girlfriend.
LK
Ok, I miss putty
Well then download that bitch, compile it and miss no more.
LK
Apparently, a highly technical standard body is harder to snowjob than the usual clueless consumers.
Or politicians.
LK
We all live on the same planet - and it's your views about "us and them" that are dangerous.
In case you missed it the first time, I don't give a fuck about what you think of my country.
I will vote based upon the best interests of me and my country.
LK
It's just a game.
LK
I think both Japan and Australia, as well as Poland have declared support for Bush as well. I'm sure we could find more.
To be honest, I don't fucking care who other countries support.
Who has my best interests in mind? Me or people who are competing with me for jobs? Me or people who are jealous of my country's prosperity?
The more countries that support Kerry, the more certain that I am in my decision to support Bush.
LK
...to change from 'theory' it to The Laws Of Relativity?
No. Because General and Special Relativity don't work at extremely small scales. That's why Quantum Mechanics exists. Relativity will never be a law because it's been observed to not work in some cases. The "Unified Theory" that someone eventually may develop could go on to be a law, but not Relativity.
LK
DMCA and thus be illegal to possess or manufacture.
Just illegal to distribute to others.
LK
Makes me want to fire up Vice City just to stay in practice.
I like the idea of having a parachute. It'll make running from the cops more interesting.
LK
It's pretty sweet. I opted to use Tight VNC because their site had the best links on SSH tunnels. I'm running it on all of my linux boxen now.
Once for kicks, I opened a VNC session to one of my linux boxen and then opened a remote desktop connection to a windows machine over 802.11b. The Remote Desktop was as slow as molasses, but it worked.
LK