There I got my "incredulous weird things that people would think only existed in fairy-land" boost for today. Hearing about little things like this is what keeps my motivation up - makes me feel like I can actually accomplish the things I want to accomplish.
Nope. However, people who fall into "that sort of thing" and are able to cope with it have much higher tolerance to stress than your average middle-class geek - leading to greater risk taking. (Also, I'm not from the US, but how could you get the impression that "the streets are paved with gold" in the US from watching american television? Or does Bollywood portray the US like that?)
Got that mixed up, it seems. Yah, the rest of the Dystemper tracks are horrifyingly bad (prospective fans, take heed.) The only other good SP remix I can think of is "Last Call" from Brap, and that one they made themselves.
I have one complaint with immersive shooters - the fact that it doesn't feel like your vision is attached to a body. If the character backflips, spins around, gets knocked down or rolls sideways I'd really like for the screen to stay attached to the avatars POV. The ability to actually wind up in a vertical mess on the floor if I try something stupid like somersaulting into a wall, (the only save being a quick tap in the right moment, as appropriate) is something that would really remove a lot of non-immersion for me.
One of the better I can think of is the simulated helmet in Republic Commando, complete with a forcefield wiping off viscera. At times, it really feels like you're in a stormtrooper armor.
I interpreted it as a way to keep the suspension up on the edge - like in the knife fight in RE4 for example, or the lasers. if you know there might be a split-second reaction coming up, that doesn't kill immersion, it increases it. For me, at least.
The RIAA acts in a way that is completely sociopathic. Whatever dynamic on the inside driving the organization in this way, they don't seem to show any respect at all for anything or anyone besides themselves.
But if these people did these crazy things alledgedly because they believe in things that are not real, and someone else proclaims himself to believe in similiar things that are not real, can't you accept that people who only understand the world through their own eyes and the process of physical cause and effect might want an explanation to as why you should be trusted not to do anything crazy?
The people the article speaks about are clearly allowing their faith to rule their actions in a major way, which is exactly what atheists and related ilk find frightening. It's like a person talking to their imaginary friend about what to have for dinner, proclaiming loudly that carrots are of the Big Red Bunny Beneath, and refusing to eat them. God knows what such a person might come up with next.
This works better than you think, because (speaking as a swede) the nordic countries are much more homogenous and stable than the US. It's easier for a person born here to feel obligated towards their workplace, and towards the government. I don't neccessarily agree with this situation, and the reason many youths voted in a more liberal (as opposed to socialist democrat) government is to shake things up a bit. It's hard to re-sculpture a frozen crystal of iron, wood, coffee, melancholy and warmed-over 60s socialist ideals. You need to heat it up a bit, especially if those poor sods from warmer countries are going to reliably find any broken lattices to hang on to.
...Ah, now I see it. But it's still ambigious wether the speaker means that the other child couln't be born on a tuesday. "One and exactly one" would have solved the problem, right? Or expressing the problem in lojban (presumably; i don't know any lojban either. Anyone up for a shot at it?)
Well, if it isn't the same as saying that, then it's a distortion of information expression or an error in method, in the sense that the mathematics don't fit reality when it's your intention that they do so?
I have absolutely no knowledge of statistics, but why would you assume that just because one of the boys where born on tuesday, that one of his siblings then couldn't be?
The techniques behind ARP spoofing and DNS spoofing are quite simple, if you understand the protocols involved. And the automated tools (Ettercap et al) are so good and easy to use that people use them for office pranks.
True, and I say this knowing full well the implications; MITM attacks are easy on networks with cheap routing equipment that doesn't block it. You have to keep in mind, however, that a "normal" person likely wouldn't understand the devils in the details even if it was explained to them.
Just because you dress sexually doesn't mean you're submissive, from a power perspective. It's also quite certain that the world they live in have different ratings of power than yours or mine. In my case, I'm quite certain that there's a lot of emotions involved in these relationships that I can't really feel or understand.
"Writing stories about harming people" releases hormones, adrenaline that increases endurance. Helping people gives an endorphine reward that gives the person more capacity to endure pain. So if I easily fall into a state of seething rage, does that mean I have an easier time accessing this power boost? And what has that to do with "good and evil?"
That's true. On the other hand, that's about as far as it goes. I'm not sure, but the freemasons have the same thing - ranking back to the time where a secret society that didn't openly support the church would risk being abolished. On the third hand, a lodge in the kind of town the grandparent poster seems to live in might have a larger religious constituent, and thus most likely take the "morality from the almighty" tenets as seriously as the organizations moral tenets themselves? (Which they, at least in the lodge here, they take quite seriously; i know about at least one member that was kicked out for dishonest business practices.)
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There I got my "incredulous weird things that people would think only existed in fairy-land" boost for today. Hearing about little things like this is what keeps my motivation up - makes me feel like I can actually accomplish the things I want to accomplish.
Nope. However, people who fall into "that sort of thing" and are able to cope with it have much higher tolerance to stress than your average middle-class geek - leading to greater risk taking.
(Also, I'm not from the US, but how could you get the impression that "the streets are paved with gold" in the US from watching american television? Or does Bollywood portray the US like that?)
I hate it when I can't judge if things like this is just power-play or if they actually honestly mean what they say.
Got that mixed up, it seems. Yah, the rest of the Dystemper tracks are horrifyingly bad (prospective fans, take heed.) The only other good SP remix I can think of is "Last Call" from Brap, and that one they made themselves.
I love Skinny Puppy.
The original, censored gore-mishmash "legally pornography" video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUdF6yl4aW0&feature=related
The unusually great Rhys Fulber remix (WorlockED): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04OiEm_zZt0&feature=related
I have one complaint with immersive shooters - the fact that it doesn't feel like your vision is attached to a body. If the character backflips, spins around, gets knocked down or rolls sideways I'd really like for the screen to stay attached to the avatars POV. The ability to actually wind up in a vertical mess on the floor if I try something stupid like somersaulting into a wall, (the only save being a quick tap in the right moment, as appropriate) is something that would really remove a lot of non-immersion for me.
One of the better I can think of is the simulated helmet in Republic Commando, complete with a forcefield wiping off viscera. At times, it really feels like you're in a stormtrooper armor.
I interpreted it as a way to keep the suspension up on the edge - like in the knife fight in RE4 for example, or the lasers. if you know there might be a split-second reaction coming up, that doesn't kill immersion, it increases it. For me, at least.
"I paid for zhat mans life!"
-- Hans Landa, "Inglorious Basterds"
The RIAA acts in a way that is completely sociopathic. Whatever dynamic on the inside driving the organization in this way, they don't seem to show any respect at all for anything or anyone besides themselves.
It's savage, yes, but since the worst punishment they could meter out is death it is still just.
But if these people did these crazy things alledgedly because they believe in things that are not real, and someone else proclaims himself to believe in similiar things that are not real, can't you accept that people who only understand the world through their own eyes and the process of physical cause and effect might want an explanation to as why you should be trusted not to do anything crazy?
The people the article speaks about are clearly allowing their faith to rule their actions in a major way, which is exactly what atheists and related ilk find frightening. It's like a person talking to their imaginary friend about what to have for dinner, proclaiming loudly that carrots are of the Big Red Bunny Beneath, and refusing to eat them. God knows what such a person might come up with next.
This works better than you think, because (speaking as a swede) the nordic countries are much more homogenous and stable than the US. It's easier for a person born here to feel obligated towards their workplace, and towards the government. I don't neccessarily agree with this situation, and the reason many youths voted in a more liberal (as opposed to socialist democrat) government is to shake things up a bit. It's hard to re-sculpture a frozen crystal of iron, wood, coffee, melancholy and warmed-over 60s socialist ideals. You need to heat it up a bit, especially if those poor sods from warmer countries are going to reliably find any broken lattices to hang on to.
...Ah, now I see it. But it's still ambigious wether the speaker means that the other child couln't be born on a tuesday. "One and exactly one" would have solved the problem, right? Or expressing the problem in lojban (presumably; i don't know any lojban either. Anyone up for a shot at it?)
Well, if it isn't the same as saying that, then it's a distortion of information expression or an error in method, in the sense that the mathematics don't fit reality when it's your intention that they do so?
I have absolutely no knowledge of statistics, but why would you assume that just because one of the boys where born on tuesday, that one of his siblings then couldn't be?
The techniques behind ARP spoofing and DNS spoofing are quite simple, if you understand the protocols involved. And the automated tools (Ettercap et al) are so good and easy to use that people use them for office pranks.
True, and I say this knowing full well the implications; MITM attacks are easy on networks with cheap routing equipment that doesn't block it. You have to keep in mind, however, that a "normal" person likely wouldn't understand the devils in the details even if it was explained to them.
And that's not going to change until you start wiring stuff into/altering people's brains.
Just because you dress sexually doesn't mean you're submissive, from a power perspective. It's also quite certain that the world they live in have different ratings of power than yours or mine. In my case, I'm quite certain that there's a lot of emotions involved in these relationships that I can't really feel or understand.
Most elderly people with tatoos I've seen manage to look dignified enough. At least it looks like they've actually lived a full life.
You just need to play those temporary buffs for all it's worth.
"Writing stories about harming people" releases hormones, adrenaline that increases endurance. Helping people gives an endorphine reward that gives the person more capacity to endure pain. So if I easily fall into a state of seething rage, does that mean I have an easier time accessing this power boost? And what has that to do with "good and evil?"
That's true. On the other hand, that's about as far as it goes. I'm not sure, but the freemasons have the same thing - ranking back to the time where a secret society that didn't openly support the church would risk being abolished. On the third hand, a lodge in the kind of town the grandparent poster seems to live in might have a larger religious constituent, and thus most likely take the "morality from the almighty" tenets as seriously as the organizations moral tenets themselves? (Which they, at least in the lodge here, they take quite seriously; i know about at least one member that was kicked out for dishonest business practices.)