The PHB's at our pad wanted to give a group of people web cams so they could watch their faces in conference calls. The users for the most part don't really want them and don't want to mess with them.
I can see why. That sounds kinda perverted. I'm guessing that it's not two way...
If it's not voyueristic, it's at least a bit extreme. Are they trying to fix a problem, or create one?
It's not necessarily about supporting doping. I think it's more about being realisitic, and gleening the benefits from that.
I said in another post:
Do you think, perhaps, that giving dopers an outlet might actually reveal in due course, how lame and atrocious it might actually be to use these things?
That it might actually paint itself as ugly and not what we want for our national sports heroes?
Keep them seperate, and perhaps we can be more objective about it. Maybe learn something and leverage undoped sport as the more elite.
The fact is, doping is happening. Right now. More and more. Is it a bad thing or a good thing? Can a bad thing be turned into a good thing?
What I'm trying to infer here, is the more you censor something the more unprepared (and often glorified) things become. When the veil is removed we may see the naked truth.
...and YES. I do think it's worth a few lives to save many more.
The Olympic Games are not about how far you can push the human body, they're about how far you can push the human spirit. We already know that steroids will make you perform better, that's not a mystery.
Watching a cheater win drums up very little emotion but on the other hand watching someone win cleanly is very exciting, motivating, inspiring and humbling.
Sounds like you are more interested in biological challenges than spiritual ones.
I tend to agree with you on most points, except the last one, about spirituality ~ that's not quite right.
You do realise people are doping already, right? but covertly...and corrupting "legimate" sport in the process. So most of the scientific data we may be able to extract is occluded by a facade.
That's the very same scientific data that could help us purify legimately undoped sport, AND it provides an outlet for those aspects of humanity that already exist, currently infiltrating this campus of noble spirits you refer to.
Do you think, perhaps, that giving dopers an outlet might actually reveal in due course, how lame and atrocious it might actually be to use these things?
That it might actually paint itself as ugly and not what we want for our national sports heroes?
Keep them seperate, and perhaps we can be more objective about it. Maybe learn something and leverage undoped sport as the more elite.
The fact is, doping is happening. Right now. More and more. Is it a bad thing or a good thing? Can a bad thing be turned into a good thing?
However, actually shaping a track sounds terrible in the digital domain and you can't even find a digital processor that will sound warmer than a professional tube limiter.
can someone explain this ability to hear the temperature of a sound?
what is the difference between a 'warm' sound and a 'cold' sound exactly?
well, because my name actually is Xenn, and it was more of a play on zen master, and I'm not married so master rather than mister, so...anyway, it eventually occurred to me that people probably presumed occasionally that was an indication of my night time vocation. which it isn't, but who cares?
yeah, thanks for clearing that up, because the meaning of what you were trying to say was completely obfuscated by not adding those extra two or three letters.
I'm just glad someone around here could make such huge leap in comprehension for us all.
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classic. do you write for dilbert too?
I quite liked the method of the review. At first I thought he was quoting a paragraph from the book.
It was kind of interesting that he used a similar technique as the one he was decrying. Reminded me of Bret Easton Ellis in Lunar Park.
OMG. Yeah. That is soooo stupid. How can anybody consider themselves intelligent, and yet make such a stupid mistake.
I'm so glad you picked that up, cause I couldn't understand what the hell he was talking about.
MFPlease
I thought it was werewolves.
I wouldn't consider that 'cheating', I'd call that a unique strategy.
Why is this moderated Troll?
you might like this "advertisement" for plastic bags...
Plastic Bags
True, the cost of one song.
Like buy nothing day\
Buy a song against the RIAA\
...and have the proceeds go to helping fight the battle.
well, nice ideal anyway
The PHB's at our pad wanted to give a group of people web cams so they could watch their faces in conference calls. The users for the most part don't really want them and don't want to mess with them.
I can see why. That sounds kinda perverted. I'm guessing that it's not two way...
If it's not voyueristic, it's at least a bit extreme. Are they trying to fix a problem, or create one?
it must be a strange situation...
Oh, so THIS is the internet. I'd only ever heard about it before now.
Seriously, if anyone get's hairy palms over this... That's just plain disturbing.
Aye. More like Joe One-Keg.
It's not necessarily about supporting doping. I think it's more about being realisitic, and gleening the benefits from that.
I said in another post:
Do you think, perhaps, that giving dopers an outlet might actually reveal in due course, how lame and atrocious it might actually be to use these things?
That it might actually paint itself as ugly and not what we want for our national sports heroes?
Keep them seperate, and perhaps we can be more objective about it. Maybe learn something and leverage undoped sport as the more elite.
The fact is, doping is happening. Right now. More and more. Is it a bad thing or a good thing? Can a bad thing be turned into a good thing?
What I'm trying to infer here, is the more you censor something the more unprepared (and often glorified) things become. When the veil is removed we may see the naked truth.
Apple has successfully captured so much market share in the last few years, people who will not likely return to the non-Apple world.
umm... Duh?
I remember Jobs saying that Apple aspired to be like sony at a conference in Japan not long after he returned to Apple.
and, well, perhaps that is still the goal.
I drew domino circles on them
So what is legal then? ....and why?
The Olympic Games are not about how far you can push the human body, they're about how far you can push the human spirit. We already know that steroids will make you perform better, that's not a mystery.
Watching a cheater win drums up very little emotion but on the other hand watching someone win cleanly is very exciting, motivating, inspiring and humbling.
Sounds like you are more interested in biological challenges than spiritual ones.
I tend to agree with you on most points, except the last one, about spirituality ~ that's not quite right.
You do realise people are doping already, right? but covertly...and corrupting "legimate" sport in the process. So most of the scientific data we may be able to extract is occluded by a facade.
That's the very same scientific data that could help us purify legimately undoped sport, AND it provides an outlet for those aspects of humanity that already exist, currently infiltrating this campus of noble spirits you refer to.
Do you think, perhaps, that giving dopers an outlet might actually reveal in due course, how lame and atrocious it might actually be to use these things?
That it might actually paint itself as ugly and not what we want for our national sports heroes?
Keep them seperate, and perhaps we can be more objective about it. Maybe learn something and leverage undoped sport as the more elite.
The fact is, doping is happening. Right now. More and more. Is it a bad thing or a good thing? Can a bad thing be turned into a good thing?
dont be rude.
However, actually shaping a track sounds terrible in the digital domain and you can't even find a digital processor that will sound warmer than a professional tube limiter.
can someone explain this ability to hear the temperature of a sound?
what is the difference between a 'warm' sound and a 'cold' sound exactly?
well, I had masterxenn@ ...com
well, because my name actually is Xenn, and it was more of a play on zen master, and I'm not married so master rather than mister, so...anyway, it eventually occurred to me that people probably presumed occasionally that was an indication of my night time vocation. which it isn't, but who cares?
funny haha.
funny.
my suitcase has the same combination
thanks for the laughs, nice entertaining way to make your point.
yeah, thanks for clearing that up, because the meaning of what you were trying to say was completely obfuscated by not adding those extra two or three letters.
I'm just glad someone around here could make such huge leap in comprehension for us all.
PITA?
like what they wrap a doner kebab in?
I always wondered what that doner option on my drivers license meant...
Well, being a morphine junky was probably a contributing factor in why he couldn't feel his body breaking beneath the barbell.
I'm not recommending morphine to remedy lack of foresight (or intelligence).
In fact, I doubt morphine or heroine is used by many athletes to gain fitness advantages either.