Already 26. "any time before I was born" is the exact time period where you and I lack the experience to speak of it.
"Back in the day" for me was anything prior 9/11/2001. The world undoubtedly changed at that point because we let it change. And (some) things WERE better back then. We were actually paying off some of this hideous crushing debt. There wasn't a massive disparity between political parties. There have been advances since then and some things that were concerns back then are no longer (bloody 2000 end-timers), but on the whole, I'd say that the sudden focus on Terror, 7 years of unbridled Bush, 2 wars, gas peaking, and a freaking DEPRESSION makes the 90's look better then the "aught-ies".
This little bit right here is the primary reason I'm a little wary of Google. Others are downright paranoid or delusional against Google like it's the second coming of Microsoft, but worse somehow. I honestly don't see them doing anything that's all that evil.
So far.
Just like Disney was a good company that became an evil empire after Walt passed on, I worry that Google, which has the potential to be MASSIVELY evil, will be bent to sinister ends when the founders leave. Now, I myself can easily pick up and move. I'm not locked in to Google at all. But the masses will be. And so I worry for them.
I hear ya. My crew played with the holy trinity of 3.0 books: PHB, MM, and the DMG. Ok, the DM's guide was a waste of money and I was fooled into buying it. So we had a book of rules and a book of baddies.
But in this new town, the people playing 3.5 have small libraries full of obscure splat books with overpowered feats and prestige classes. Apparently "the book of the nine swords" is like a 3.75 book so this guy keeps using encounter powers. So you might have some rose-tinted glasses about the good 'ole days. Heard 2nd ed was similar. So I think you'd have to go all the way back to AD&D before you got away from feature creep and overpowered splat books.
Actually it was China's decision to open up their borders, allow trade, foreign companies, and embrace that whole capitalism thing. So they actually DID decide to let Google (and everyone else) in. Learn you some history, foo!
Well yeah, the old farts usually make the best DM and just fucking know the rules. You can't get them to pick up new additions, so it's less "hip" playing their campaigns, but it's a pleasurable experience and they keep things moving along.
That said, the creepy old guy at the gaming shop should be avoided, but he started out as a creepy young guy.
This is my main worry about buying things like this. Worrying about actually using it.
I've seen too many people worship the nice things they bought to the point of keeping them under glass and never actually using them for their intended purpose. If you can't bring a drink to the table then that is in fact a negative aspect of that table.
So we just bought a house. It's rather nice. We've been in apartments and rented houses up till now. At one point I remember being really proud of, well, not having bought any of my furniture. Her parents moved so we got a bunch of junk from them, we got a TV and some Sofas from friends, and we had a few leftovers from college. The only thing we had paid money for ourselves was a little end-table to hold games we got from good-will. I guess I'm not the "need to be seen rich".
And now we have a rather nice house. We got some rather nice bedroom furniture, we need a new couch, and the wife is planning on a pool table and some furniture for the guest room. And we really do need a better office desk. We haven't hung up any pictures yet because we don't want to make any holes in the walls.
And it's all nice. It really is. But you know what? In all but a very few exceptions, I'd be fine with a mattress on the floor, a cable-spindle table, and an old sofa.
Fucking coward
There is no contradiction and your strawman is made of fail. There is no transcendence, the internet does indeed exist on the wired and servers here in good 'ol reality. But the internet is more then just some scrap copper.
Ok, perfect example:
Obviously China can censor the internet and kick Google out of the country without having to fear the "right of might" of another country. There's nothing the "internet" can do about it either.
China can try to censor the internet. A significant percentage of people in China will tunnel through the great firewall and connect to the internet on the whole. Duh. If you think that's untrue in the slightest then you are delusional. They will do this with tools and help from people on the internet. All this will occur, GASP, on wires! Be amazed and welcome to the world of tomorrow!
It's an allegory people! Seeking out any possible way that Google's actions can be deemed evil is a dick thing to do.... like DMs that make up convoluted reasons to make paladins lose their powers.
Yay, verily, dost thou get-ith it?
HAHA! By slaying that bandit lord, his goons seek vengeance on the inn you slept last night. That's accomplice to arson. That's EVIL, your paladin FALLS!
Facebook is valued at what? $4 Billion? What would the value of Facebook be without anyone ever logging in?
What is Google's revenue if no one ever searched for anything?
Sound is vibration. You could say it's nothing more and nothing less, and you'd be technically right. But those vibrations can form music, speeches, and critical signals. If you're so short sighted to think that some wires and peering agreements can be nothing more then just that, then I'm going to side with the hippie.
Also,
There is no right for anyone to go to another country and tell them the local rules suck so he's going to ignore them.
Bullshit. For the vast majority of history that would be the right of might. Or, if you want to take a more civilized spin on it, there is no right for anyone to tell a foreigner to stop ignoring the sucky local rules other then by might.
Not so much in the long run when you've got a monopoply of a few oligarchs who all collude to keep prices high. Now that one of the prisoners has come face to face with his dilema, he's breaking ranks and diving for some quick cheap cash.
Of course, it's also possible that the music quality will just decline to compensate for the drop in price.
HAHAHAHAHA, oh that's a good one. A decline in music quality? You think that corporate profits influence musicians in ANY way? And I don't think that the quality of pop music has to drop very far before it becomes noise.
I read the summary and what little mathmatical legs I got were sweapt out from under me. I read "A sketch of the proof using language intended for the lay reader is available at Wikipedia." and my instant reaction was "oh thank you god!"
But when I read the wiki over but couldn't get my head around a one-dimensional circle, and a two-dimensional sphere.
Read some other slashdotters posts and and some other wiki pages, and while I know more about manifolds than I ever strictly wanted to, it wasn't until your post that I realized that the hell poincare was going on about.
Now, uh... why should I care? Will this help with research into the 4-dimensional manifold that is space-time (as seen by Einstein, apparently) and get us closer to flying cars and personal jetpacks?
A legal and public knowledge bribe, but a bribe no less. Even illegal actions are just business decisions at that level.
But Xi'an is gonna be pissed after they leave in 6 years.
I had to do a double-take when reading this summary. Most of the time when I'm impatient with DRM hoops and loops, I just go out and pirate the damn thing. Yes, even after I've bought it.
Slashdot Mirror
Try talking to an Arab-American about it sometime.
Already 26. "any time before I was born" is the exact time period where you and I lack the experience to speak of it.
"Back in the day" for me was anything prior 9/11/2001. The world undoubtedly changed at that point because we let it change. And (some) things WERE better back then. We were actually paying off some of this hideous crushing debt. There wasn't a massive disparity between political parties. There have been advances since then and some things that were concerns back then are no longer (bloody 2000 end-timers), but on the whole, I'd say that the sudden focus on Terror, 7 years of unbridled Bush, 2 wars, gas peaking, and a freaking DEPRESSION makes the 90's look better then the "aught-ies".
For the twenty-teens? Well, I still have hope.
That's right, other then the roads, and the potable water, and indoor plumbing, and peace, and government, What has Rome ever done for us!?
I stand corrected! My friends, I fear the splat pox buries itself even deeper then previous predictions.
This little bit right here is the primary reason I'm a little wary of Google. Others are downright paranoid or delusional against Google like it's the second coming of Microsoft, but worse somehow. I honestly don't see them doing anything that's all that evil.
So far.
Just like Disney was a good company that became an evil empire after Walt passed on, I worry that Google, which has the potential to be MASSIVELY evil, will be bent to sinister ends when the founders leave. Now, I myself can easily pick up and move. I'm not locked in to Google at all. But the masses will be. And so I worry for them.
I hear ya. My crew played with the holy trinity of 3.0 books: PHB, MM, and the DMG. Ok, the DM's guide was a waste of money and I was fooled into buying it. So we had a book of rules and a book of baddies.
But in this new town, the people playing 3.5 have small libraries full of obscure splat books with overpowered feats and prestige classes. Apparently "the book of the nine swords" is like a 3.75 book so this guy keeps using encounter powers. So you might have some rose-tinted glasses about the good 'ole days. Heard 2nd ed was similar. So I think you'd have to go all the way back to AD&D before you got away from feature creep and overpowered splat books.
Actually it was China's decision to open up their borders, allow trade, foreign companies, and embrace that whole capitalism thing. So they actually DID decide to let Google (and everyone else) in. Learn you some history, foo!
Well yeah, the old farts usually make the best DM and just fucking know the rules. You can't get them to pick up new additions, so it's less "hip" playing their campaigns, but it's a pleasurable experience and they keep things moving along.
That said, the creepy old guy at the gaming shop should be avoided, but he started out as a creepy young guy.
This is my main worry about buying things like this. Worrying about actually using it.
I've seen too many people worship the nice things they bought to the point of keeping them under glass and never actually using them for their intended purpose. If you can't bring a drink to the table then that is in fact a negative aspect of that table.
So we just bought a house. It's rather nice. We've been in apartments and rented houses up till now. At one point I remember being really proud of, well, not having bought any of my furniture. Her parents moved so we got a bunch of junk from them, we got a TV and some Sofas from friends, and we had a few leftovers from college. The only thing we had paid money for ourselves was a little end-table to hold games we got from good-will. I guess I'm not the "need to be seen rich".
And now we have a rather nice house. We got some rather nice bedroom furniture, we need a new couch, and the wife is planning on a pool table and some furniture for the guest room. And we really do need a better office desk. We haven't hung up any pictures yet because we don't want to make any holes in the walls.
And it's all nice. It really is. But you know what? In all but a very few exceptions, I'd be fine with a mattress on the floor, a cable-spindle table, and an old sofa.
There is no contradiction and your strawman is made of fail. There is no transcendence, the internet does indeed exist on the wired and servers here in good 'ol reality. But the internet is more then just some scrap copper.
Ok, perfect example:
Obviously China can censor the internet and kick Google out of the country without having to fear the "right of might" of another country. There's nothing the "internet" can do about it either.
China can try to censor the internet. A significant percentage of people in China will tunnel through the great firewall and connect to the internet on the whole. Duh. If you think that's untrue in the slightest then you are delusional. They will do this with tools and help from people on the internet. All this will occur, GASP, on wires! Be amazed and welcome to the world of tomorrow!
It's an allegory people! Seeking out any possible way that Google's actions can be deemed evil is a dick thing to do.... like DMs that make up convoluted reasons to make paladins lose their powers.
Yay, verily, dost thou get-ith it?
Also, damn the typo to hell along with the inn.
HAHA! By slaying that bandit lord, his goons seek vengeance on the inn you slept last night. That's accomplice to arson. That's EVIL, your paladin FALLS!
Yes, it's their choice on what they want.
Right now it's not their choice on what they get
What is Google's revenue if no one ever searched for anything?
Sound is vibration. You could say it's nothing more and nothing less, and you'd be technically right. But those vibrations can form music, speeches, and critical signals. If you're so short sighted to think that some wires and peering agreements can be nothing more then just that, then I'm going to side with the hippie.
Also,
There is no right for anyone to go to another country and tell them the local rules suck so he's going to ignore them.
Bullshit. For the vast majority of history that would be the right of might. Or, if you want to take a more civilized spin on it, there is no right for anyone to tell a foreigner to stop ignoring the sucky local rules other then by might.
And China tried to change Google's culture and force them to do something against their ethics (and company slogan). Hypocrites.
Speaking of anarchy,
Two Forks Enter! One Fork Leaves!!!
Two Forks Enter! One Fork Leaves!!!
Of course, it's also possible that the music quality will just decline to compensate for the drop in price.
HAHAHAHAHA, oh that's a good one. A decline in music quality? You think that corporate profits influence musicians in ANY way? And I don't think that the quality of pop music has to drop very far before it becomes noise.
Ok, that finally sunk in. Thank you.
I read the summary and what little mathmatical legs I got were sweapt out from under me. I read "A sketch of the proof using language intended for the lay reader is available at Wikipedia." and my instant reaction was "oh thank you god!"
But when I read the wiki over but couldn't get my head around a one-dimensional circle, and a two-dimensional sphere.
Read some other slashdotters posts and and some other wiki pages, and while I know more about manifolds than I ever strictly wanted to, it wasn't until your post that I realized that the hell poincare was going on about.
Now, uh... why should I care? Will this help with research into the 4-dimensional manifold that is space-time (as seen by Einstein, apparently) and get us closer to flying cars and personal jetpacks?
Well hopefully they'll appeal for privliege of “extraterritoriality" and hire out people to run in the shadows to defend their secrets.
A legal and public knowledge bribe, but a bribe no less. Even illegal actions are just business decisions at that level.
But Xi'an is gonna be pissed after they leave in 6 years.
I'll third that, it'll save me the agony of reading The Silmarillion
Student: "Your house rules suck! Freaking rollplayers"
Well you're working that INT sure enough.
Now let's see if you can apply that CHA to figure out what it means.
I'm sorry, you're replying to YOUR OWN SIG which is itself off topic. As much as I like spreading awareness of network neutrality, don't do that.
I had to do a double-take when reading this summary. Most of the time when I'm impatient with DRM hoops and loops, I just go out and pirate the damn thing. Yes, even after I've bought it.