Yes, the people enjoy choice, but it's only big enough for two main systems.
No, it's big enough for zillions of systems (especially if there were such a thing as cross-platform game development) - but wall street only likes a company that dominates it's market. Apparently a stock is only worth investing in if the company is a monopoly.
Apple can clearly make prototypes. It remains to be seen if they can produce these in volume sufficient to meet demand. Which has always been Apple's weakness.
Even worse, east-coast cities, and Chicago and Milwaukee all have the distinction of being laid out backwards. Body of water to the East of downtown, Suburbs to the West. Such that, commuters have to drive Eastward towards the city in the morning, blinding morning sunlight in their eyes, and then turn around and drive Westwards towards the suburbs in the evenings.
It's gotta do some nasty things to one's stress levels trying to drive rush hour twice a day blinded by low angle sunlight.
whachya REALLY should do is get a car made prior to 1972, and tell the EPA to fuck off. (regulations vary by state). No catalytic converter, and carbs running so rich you can smell the gasoline in the exhause. Yeah baby, that's the way to go.
On the other hand, I went to a music store to buy this fine CD the other day, and they didn't have it. In fact, they had nothing at all from Aphex Twin. Guess it's on to Gnutella then. . .
now, this is a great reason to buy the actual CD. I'd pay $15 for that. Then again, I also LIKE Aphex Twins' music. On the other hand, it's not very useful if it's copy-protected and won't play on a PC. I think there's a lesson to be learned here for both the RIAA and the "cartel-protest" crowd.
. . . hell, for that matter, the small 4-cylinder horizontally opposed air cooled engine that Ferdinand Porsche designed in 1910 for an airplane, later used in the VW KDF-Wagen (Nazi jeep), VW beetle (best selling car in automotive history), Porsche 356, and Porsche 912, and dune-buggies everywhere, is in use today in the Predator unmanned drone. (that version of the engine is called the Rotax 912).
(There's already been talk of bringing Sharon before the ICC, but none for Arafat, I can't imagine why...)
I think it would probably be in the best interest of every man woman and child on this planet if both of them were skinned alive and left for the rats to feast upon.
I really despise the logic that tries to equate the suicide bomber with an "heroic" guerilla fighter.
If you look at the methodology of the suicide bomber, and the reaction it encourages, it's an otherwise ordinary civillian-looking person, who walks into a place full of civillians on the other side, and murders them, and himself. Which encourages a defense methodology of - search all civillians, harass them, impose rules on them, shoot them if they give you any hassle. This makes no distinction at all between combattants and non combattants. Which is why we're seeing the happily used photographs of mangled women and children as propaganda to prove the inhumanity of the defenders.
The guerilla fighter uses stealth, and even deception - but does not infiltrate civillian areas, does not hide amongst civillians, does not pose as a civillian. The guerilla fighter's targets are military targets. Or civil infrastructure. Not non combattants.
There is an honor difference. There is a moral difference. But most importantly - when you endanger the very people you're professing to be fighting to protect - you lose all credibility to your cause. This is exactly why, with all the propaganda from both sides to choose from on the internet, I tend to side with the Israelis.
I suggest you read up on Che Guevera's Guerilla Warfare book.
If you look at high-speed photographs of rifle bullets passing through ballistic geletan, you'll see that fragmentation, mushrooming aside, high projectile velocities can still wreak serious damage on tissue through propagation of shock waves. A bullet only.30 inches in diameter fired from a rifle at close range can rupture arteries and connective tissue in a 6" diameter path.
If you've ever seen the Zapruder footage, you know what I'm talking about.
um - WHO pays for this? Certainly not taxpaying American citizens of all races and creeds. Surely their US $3bln/year has nothing at all to do with it.
I totally agree with what you're saying, but you can't discount the US's role. In fact, I wish we would just shut off that aid, just so we could shut the critics up, because I'm sure that it wouldn't make one damn bit of difference.
No - they haven't forgotten it. In fact, the ones who seem to hate the Jews the most have learned to fully memorized verse by verse the entire Koran.
It's a simple logical twist that allows them to hate the people the Koran commands them to love and respect. They're freely allowed and encouraged to hate the Zionists, because the Zionists are supposedly out to steal their homeland and destroy all arabs. Since all Americans and Jews are Zionists, it makes it a simple thing to hate them.
I once sat on a 12 hour plane trip next to a Palestinian-American. He talked my ear off about how they don't hate Americans, they don't hate Jews, they don't want to kill all the Jews. They just hate the Zionists. Find a Jew that's not a Zionist in their eyes. I learned many, many things about the Arab/Muslim "viewpoint" on that plane trip. All of them, quite frightening.
Of course I would be guilty of the same thing if I submitted this post without stating the obvious disclaimer; hopefully, not all Palestinians/Arabs/Muslims feel or think this way. Apparently, only the ones in positions of power, or with bombs feel this way.
People who are in favor of racial segregation will argue that increasing contact between two races or groups will increase friction and conflict, and that groups should be kept separate, and not mixed, in order to prevent such conflict.
I think that where groups have been thrown in together, they DO fight over their differences. But eventually, they learn that they need eachother to survive. I'm just afraid that before we get to that point, we may get to the point where our actual survival has to be at stake. Not that I'm arguing for segregation. I'm of the opinion that we should all keep fucking eachother untill we're the same color.
Any one of a number of fine Apple text-to-speech voices should have been just fine to "sing" these songs. "Good News" etc. Although I would have preferred Zarvox.
ok, so they've supposedly recorded two of these "events" within a 10-year period. So, over the entire lifetime of the earth, we're talking about hundreds of millions of these events. So tell me. In the entire history of geology, has any geologist ever dug up a rock that had a tiny unexplained hole punched through it? I thought not.
given that it has jet engines, can this shuttle do a horizontal take-off? I'm sure it wouldn't be able to fly very far (unless you modify the cargo bay to hold massive fuel tanks) - but what's to stop someone from converting this into a useful airplane with a few hundred thou?
This pseudo-intellectual BS about "myth" really seems to be catching on now. Even people like John Katz can proselytize on it.
The fact remains that the appeal of comic books is rooted in Biological Social Dominance. When humans who have a dominant drive, fail to achieve dominance in their social groups through the traditional means, (grunting, sweating, feats of strength, etc.) they do what animals can't; they try to find alternate means of achieving dominance and power: Money, Intellect, or even Guile - etc. It's what drives all fields of human endeavour.
Thus, the weak, sickly, sensitive artist uses his talent to create to gain respect and dominance, in a field which utterly rejects the unindoctrinated. (when was the last time Joe Sixpack appreciated Picasso?) The scrawny geek learns a technical field filled with obscure jargon which favors his mental talents, and ignores his physical shortcomings - and all challengers to his 1337 command of his field bow to his might.
While we're young, and still trying to reach these goals, we fulfill these biological urges through fantasy. Fantasy is probably rooted in the function of planning goal attainment. But when the goals are unrealistic (having superpowers) - they can still somewhat satisfy the urge to attain dominance, at least in fantasy.
I'm not saying that all comic book fans are failures at attaining dominance. I'm saying that even the most successful among us have times when, even though they're well on track to achieving social dominance, still require a quick, temporary fix for the urge. Comic books are one fix. Video games are another fix. Pornography is another, and drugs are also. It may even be that obcessive-compulsive disorder is rooted in the drive to master some part of one's environment that one feels one does not control.
The problem with dominance and control is - it cannot be GIVEN. It must be TAKEN. For those who have this urge. Fantasy is the mind's way of taking control of one's environment at times when one feels not in control. Myth is rooted in this fantasy, and it's not much more complicated than that. So I don't see what the big deal is. Rah-rah. Joseph Campbell is da man. whatever.
Millions of scrawny, science-aware geeks idolize Spider Man, because Spider Man represents the ultimate fantasy: being the master of alternate forms of dominance (Art (photography), Science) - and not NEEDING to resort to the alternate forms, because he has super-powers, and can kick pretty much anyone's ass. That's why, in my mind, Spider Man has always been the most appealing superhero to me.
The justice, the heroism, the drama, is all window-dressing aside from the root appeal. You can tell this by how especially weak it is in the whole X-Men BS. Comparatively, Spider Man's world and life are much more strongly constructed. As is Batman, and Superman. I find Batman hugely more appealing, because he has no "magical" powers. He is strong on a level playing field with other men. And therefore, does not have an unfair advantage of radioactive spider DNA, or being from another planet.
I dunno, I think you and Chomsky ARE full of crap. And I really would like to see him ripped to shreds as he deserves in a fair and open and widely publicised debate. I'd very much like to see that. I'm very disappointed that most conservatives appear afraid to speak their minds on issues where they're afraid of the negative publicity that the politically incorrect (but logically correct) roots of their thought process are bared to the public.
One of my favorite shows is Crossfire - and over and over, I see conservatives (Novak, Buchanan) getting their heads handed to them - and suddenly, oops! they're out of time, can't let the opponent with the level headed arguments and reasonable premises finish. God that sucks. But it's no conspiracy - they need to keep their hosts appeased, otherwise they'll run out of people who have the nads to host the show.
And in the case of Chomsky - he may have a point, but it's weak, and supported by a lot of left wing propaganda and lies. I can see a debate where he could go up and make his wild unsupported claims, followed by a gasp of the audience, and a hotheaded stupid response to appeal to the wounded emotions of Americans to discredit - where the situation actually calls for some simple refutations. Overall, I think what we'd see is a damnation of the weakness in debating and oration skills (and grasp of knowledge) by America's leaders. THAT'S what I want to see. And THAT'S what they're afraid of showing.
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Yes, the people enjoy choice, but it's only big enough for two main systems.
No, it's big enough for zillions of systems (especially if there were such a thing as cross-platform game development) - but wall street only likes a company that dominates it's market. Apparently a stock is only worth investing in if the company is a monopoly.
Buy one used on ebay then. Who cares if it has no games to run if you're going to plop Linux onto it.
Um. OK. But really, the RIAA IS the labels. It's a trade association whose most important members are Warner Brothers, EMI, Sony, BMG and Universal
sounds more like a Trade Federation to me. . .
Apple can clearly make prototypes. It remains to be seen if they can produce these in volume sufficient to meet demand. Which has always been Apple's weakness.
I live in Landers, and that quake knocked my pickup truck off it's cinder blocks.
Even worse, east-coast cities, and Chicago and Milwaukee all have the distinction of being laid out backwards. Body of water to the East of downtown, Suburbs to the West.
Such that, commuters have to drive Eastward towards the city in the morning, blinding morning sunlight in their eyes, and then turn around and drive Westwards towards the suburbs in the evenings.
It's gotta do some nasty things to one's stress levels trying to drive rush hour twice a day blinded by low angle sunlight.
don't forget the killer bees and high-speed car chases.
whachya REALLY should do is get a car made prior to 1972, and tell the EPA to fuck off. (regulations vary by state). No catalytic converter, and carbs running so rich you can smell the gasoline in the exhause. Yeah baby, that's the way to go.
On the other hand, I went to a music store to buy this fine CD the other day, and they didn't have it. In fact, they had nothing at all from Aphex Twin. Guess it's on to Gnutella then. . .
now, this is a great reason to buy the actual CD. I'd pay $15 for that. Then again, I also LIKE Aphex Twins' music. On the other hand, it's not very useful if it's copy-protected and won't play on a PC. I think there's a lesson to be learned here for both the RIAA and the "cartel-protest" crowd.
. . . hell, for that matter, the small 4-cylinder horizontally opposed air cooled engine that Ferdinand Porsche designed in 1910 for an airplane, later used in the VW KDF-Wagen (Nazi jeep), VW beetle (best selling car in automotive history), Porsche 356, and Porsche 912, and dune-buggies everywhere, is in use today in the Predator unmanned drone. (that version of the engine is called the Rotax 912).
no shit.
(There's already been talk of bringing Sharon before the ICC, but none for Arafat, I can't imagine why...)
I think it would probably be in the best interest of every man woman and child on this planet if both of them were skinned alive and left for the rats to feast upon.
Now, read This essay [berkeley.edu]. One of the author's points is that the Protestant Reformation brought Christianity into the modern age
Oh yeah, your Tim McVeighs, and abortion clinic bombers are real modern.
I really despise the logic that tries to equate the suicide bomber with an "heroic" guerilla fighter.
If you look at the methodology of the suicide bomber, and the reaction it encourages, it's an otherwise ordinary civillian-looking person, who walks into a place full of civillians on the other side, and murders them, and himself. Which encourages a defense methodology of - search all civillians, harass them, impose rules on them, shoot them if they give you any hassle.
This makes no distinction at all between combattants and non combattants. Which is why we're seeing the happily used photographs of mangled women and children as propaganda to prove the inhumanity of the defenders.
The guerilla fighter uses stealth, and even deception - but does not infiltrate civillian areas, does not hide amongst civillians, does not pose as a civillian. The guerilla fighter's targets are military targets. Or civil infrastructure. Not non combattants.
There is an honor difference. There is a moral difference. But most importantly - when you endanger the very people you're professing to be fighting to protect - you lose all credibility to your cause. This is exactly why, with all the propaganda from both sides to choose from on the internet, I tend to side with the Israelis.
I suggest you read up on Che Guevera's Guerilla Warfare book.
If you look at high-speed photographs of rifle bullets passing through ballistic geletan, you'll see that fragmentation, mushrooming aside, high projectile velocities can still wreak serious damage on tissue through propagation of shock waves. A bullet only .30 inches in diameter fired from a rifle at close range can rupture arteries and connective tissue in a 6" diameter path.
If you've ever seen the Zapruder footage, you know what I'm talking about.
Also, the chinese have been around for even longer than the jews so (by your logic) they are God's chosen people.
ask a few Chinese, and they'll agree with that.
um - WHO pays for this? Certainly not taxpaying American citizens of all races and creeds. Surely their US $3bln/year has nothing at all to do with it.
I totally agree with what you're saying, but you can't discount the US's role. In fact, I wish we would just shut off that aid, just so we could shut the critics up, because I'm sure that it wouldn't make one damn bit of difference.
No - they haven't forgotten it. In fact, the ones who seem to hate the Jews the most have learned to fully memorized verse by verse the entire Koran.
It's a simple logical twist that allows them to hate the people the Koran commands them to love and respect. They're freely allowed and encouraged to hate the Zionists, because the Zionists are supposedly out to steal their homeland and destroy all arabs. Since all Americans and Jews are Zionists, it makes it a simple thing to hate them.
I once sat on a 12 hour plane trip next to a Palestinian-American. He talked my ear off about how they don't hate Americans, they don't hate Jews, they don't want to kill all the Jews. They just hate the Zionists. Find a Jew that's not a Zionist in their eyes.
I learned many, many things about the Arab/Muslim "viewpoint" on that plane trip. All of them, quite frightening.
Of course I would be guilty of the same thing if I submitted this post without stating the obvious disclaimer; hopefully, not all Palestinians/Arabs/Muslims feel or think this way. Apparently, only the ones in positions of power, or with bombs feel this way.
How can this be fixed? What can we do about it?
kill them all.
People who are in favor of racial segregation will argue that increasing contact between two races or groups will increase friction and conflict, and that groups should be kept separate, and not mixed, in order to prevent such conflict.
I think that where groups have been thrown in together, they DO fight over their differences. But eventually, they learn that they need eachother to survive. I'm just afraid that before we get to that point, we may get to the point where our actual survival has to be at stake. Not that I'm arguing for segregation. I'm of the opinion that we should all keep fucking eachother untill we're the same color.
Any one of a number of fine Apple text-to-speech voices should have been just fine to "sing" these songs. "Good News" etc. Although I would have preferred Zarvox.
ok, so they've supposedly recorded two of these "events" within a 10-year period. So, over the entire lifetime of the earth, we're talking about hundreds of millions of these events. So tell me. In the entire history of geology, has any geologist ever dug up a rock that had a tiny unexplained hole punched through it? I thought not.
given that it has jet engines, can this shuttle do a horizontal take-off? I'm sure it wouldn't be able to fly very far (unless you modify the cargo bay to hold massive fuel tanks) - but what's to stop someone from converting this into a useful airplane with a few hundred thou?
This pseudo-intellectual BS about "myth" really seems to be catching on now. Even people like John Katz can proselytize on it.
The fact remains that the appeal of comic books is rooted in Biological Social Dominance. When humans who have a dominant drive, fail to achieve dominance in their social groups through the traditional means, (grunting, sweating, feats of strength, etc.) they do what animals can't; they try to find alternate means of achieving dominance and power: Money, Intellect, or even Guile - etc. It's what drives all fields of human endeavour.
Thus, the weak, sickly, sensitive artist uses his talent to create to gain respect and dominance, in a field which utterly rejects the unindoctrinated. (when was the last time Joe Sixpack appreciated Picasso?)
The scrawny geek learns a technical field filled with obscure jargon which favors his mental talents, and ignores his physical shortcomings - and all challengers to his 1337 command of his field bow to his might.
While we're young, and still trying to reach these goals, we fulfill these biological urges through fantasy. Fantasy is probably rooted in the function of planning goal attainment. But when the goals are unrealistic (having superpowers) - they can still somewhat satisfy the urge to attain dominance, at least in fantasy.
I'm not saying that all comic book fans are failures at attaining dominance. I'm saying that even the most successful among us have times when, even though they're well on track to achieving social dominance, still require a quick, temporary fix for the urge. Comic books are one fix. Video games are another fix. Pornography is another, and drugs are also. It may even be that obcessive-compulsive disorder is rooted in the drive to master some part of one's environment that one feels one does not control.
The problem with dominance and control is - it cannot be GIVEN. It must be TAKEN. For those who have this urge. Fantasy is the mind's way of taking control of one's environment at times when one feels not in control. Myth is rooted in this fantasy, and it's not much more complicated than that. So I don't see what the big deal is. Rah-rah. Joseph Campbell is da man. whatever.
Millions of scrawny, science-aware geeks idolize Spider Man, because Spider Man represents the ultimate fantasy: being the master of alternate forms of dominance (Art (photography), Science) - and not NEEDING to resort to the alternate forms, because he has super-powers, and can kick pretty much anyone's ass. That's why, in my mind, Spider Man has always been the most appealing superhero to me.
The justice, the heroism, the drama, is all window-dressing aside from the root appeal. You can tell this by how especially weak it is in the whole X-Men BS. Comparatively, Spider Man's world and life are much more strongly constructed. As is Batman, and Superman.
I find Batman hugely more appealing, because he has no "magical" powers. He is strong on a level playing field with other men. And therefore, does not have an unfair advantage of radioactive spider DNA, or being from another planet.
I dunno, I think you and Chomsky ARE full of crap. And I really would like to see him ripped to shreds as he deserves in a fair and open and widely publicised debate. I'd very much like to see that. I'm very disappointed that most conservatives appear afraid to speak their minds on issues where they're afraid of the negative publicity that the politically incorrect (but logically correct) roots of their thought process are bared to the public.
One of my favorite shows is Crossfire - and over and over, I see conservatives (Novak, Buchanan) getting their heads handed to them - and suddenly, oops! they're out of time, can't let the opponent with the level headed arguments and reasonable premises finish. God that sucks. But it's no conspiracy - they need to keep their hosts appeased, otherwise they'll run out of people who have the nads to host the show.
And in the case of Chomsky - he may have a point, but it's weak, and supported by a lot of left wing propaganda and lies. I can see a debate where he could go up and make his wild unsupported claims, followed by a gasp of the audience, and a hotheaded stupid response to appeal to the wounded emotions of Americans to discredit - where the situation actually calls for some simple refutations. Overall, I think what we'd see is a damnation of the weakness in debating and oration skills (and grasp of knowledge) by America's leaders. THAT'S what I want to see. And THAT'S what they're afraid of showing.