Shin Megami Tensei games spend a good amount of effort to depict beings from diverse mythologies/religions around the world. They even keep a brief description about each of them available.
It isn't the same as having diverse ethnicity, but it is much more interesting and informative this way.
I don't see any problem with these researches. Choosing characteristics of your children is not a big deal too.
Even so, I can't help but fear when I think there might be a future filled with genetically engineered people where "the imperfect" (our average joe) will have miserable lives, if allowed to live at all. I believe there are many fiction works depicting that scenario. Unfortunately, I didn't get in contact with any of those.
Maybe people like enough of the old way of having children, maybe not. In that case there might be a future where sex is used exclusively as a way of having pleasure and people would be infertile in that regard.
The problem is that sometimes you need speed instead of features that you probably won't even use.
If the speed of an application is below the expected for its main use and the additional features don't compensate for the lost speed, there will be a productivity loss.
You say there is a "juvenile fascination" with speed, but the same can be said about new (or not so new) technologies that introduce new features to applications, even if they don't add anything to the so-to-speak standard purpose of the application. It may end up as a "juvenile fascination" with novelty.
Speed is important for many and optimization is technology too.
I'm not the only one who have seen results out of it. While the explanations given about it are very unscientifical, science might have simply failed to find a good explanation so far.
Even common medicines depend on biological conditions to have good results. If results with non-standard medicines are unreliable, it might just be that the underlying principles are not well understood. And they surely are not.
That's my point. To say everytime it works is because placebo effect and everytime it doesn't work is because it doesn't work it's too easy. The same can be said about any medicine. I am not a pharmacologist, I don't know how the medicine I take works. Just because we can't figure out how it works it doesn't means it doesn't work, it only means we don't know.
Unaware of the intended effect? You mean it was slipped in their food without them noticing? The people giving it didn't know the intended effect either?
The people giving it obviously knew what it was and it was not slipped to the food, but the subject didn't know what it was or what was intended to cure. I'm not sure if she even noticed the problem before it was cured. In those conditions, how other people knowing would do any difference?
Was the uneasy sleep getting worse? why wait before trying this remedy? The underlying cause for the uneasy sleep may well have been resolved by itself.
Why does it match the use of the flower remedies then? And why it didn't resolve itself before? The changes happened just after the first week of use. Only a single flask was used. I'm not sure, but I believe it lasts less than a month. It is a small window of time. Why it coincides then?
"Measurable" is subjective. The same Wikipedia article you pointed me says they are extremely dilute. The amount of flower extracts remaining should be "measurable" as it is just diluted, not removed.
If the subject is unaware of the intended effect, how could it be placebo effect? Supposing it is the brandy, why the effect would continue after it was no longer administered?
I do know people who had been successfully treated with homeopathy without knowing the intended effect. Specifically the subject stopped having uneasy sleep, which it had been having for a long time, just by taking a few drops of a bach flower remedy on a regular basis. The subject was a child, have never been told what was supposed to be cured and apparently there was no other reason for the end of the symptom.
I know homeopathy probably won't cure severe diseases, but it isn't as useless as people think. Seemingly there is no reason for it to work at all, yet there are people who get results by taking it.
Being skeptic will not achieve anything. If it seemingly works for some people we shouldn't say "it doesn't work" just because we believe it is not supposed to work. We should ask ourselves why it works. Discover why and in which circumstances it could work rather than just trying to disprove it.
Reality beats theory at any time, don't limit yourself to what the books say. You may even end up discovering something completely new.
It doesn't matter which form of government they are in or which religion they follow, people will still try to rule over each other and will be willing to kill for a figment of their imagination.
They don't even need malicious intent for that matter. They just need to believe their opinion is "the best" or "for the good of all" regardless of other people agreeing or not. Any kind of belief (or government or even knowledge) will cause conflict.
When someone is defending its beliefs it might not even notice when it's crossing the line and going too far. It is subjective, after all. Then add self-justification and hidden interests...
Exactly, my grandma who was Alzheimer's was notorious for doing just that walking around the assisted living facility in nothing but her underwear, tough deal Alzheimer's is...
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...in bed
I thought the problem was when she was walking around.
We observe these 3 things every day, in every new baby plant and animal.
Variation: We see mutations in every baby. Brothers (who are not twins) do not look exactly alike, and do not have exactly the same traits. We can observe that this is because mother and father give different halves of their DNA to each AND we observe mutations occuring within the embryo.
Heredity: We observe those same traits being passed on to the next generation.
Selection: The organisms with traits that make it easier to survive long enough to reproduce will have more of their traits passed on. (They'll be making more babies.)
I Am Not A Creationist, but given the way things are now I think it's more about how often people have heterosexual intercourse without (or with ineffective) preconceptive methods than how evolved they are.
I think we may need a new terminology... unless getting laid become a measure of evolution.
I Am Not A Statistician, but I Am A Brazilian and I'd say 90% of every software in Brazil is either pre-installed or warez. Or pre-installed warez depending on where you buy your PC.
On the other side Brazil's government is working (slowly but steadily) on a transition to FLOSS.
Alternatively you may find out that some well known bands make some of their songs available for free on their sites. For example Coldplay ( http://www.coldplay.com/ ) currently have an album available on their website. It usually requires your email and while I'm not sure it's CC (and I'm guessing it is not) it's gratis. Of course, it doesn't happen as often with games and movies.
Hassan distinguishes between what he terms as destructive cults and benign cults. A destructive cult, according to Hassan, has a "pyramid-shaped authoritarian regime with a person or group of people that have dictatorial control." and "uses deception in recruiting new members." In contrast, benign cults are, according to Hassan, "any group of people who have a set of beliefs and rituals that are non-mainstream."
So if a cult goes murdering people it may be benign as long as it is not mainstream?
These are not mutually exclusive characteristics. Does it mean a benign cult can be also destructive without being incoherent?
Clarkkent09, I think this Hassan is who is actually confused.
The Bible is old, this is a fact. It is based in a different culture and a different age. It was written, compiled and translated by men. There is no way of being sure what was the original message, but then again we are in a different context.
I doubt even Jesus would do things the same way if he appeared again.
Religion is more than following what a book says. It involves beliefs. If you don't actually believe, following a set of rules doesn't make any difference. People might disagree with the standards of the religion they follow, at the point they may end up with a different set of beliefs. Religion is actually something very personal.
There are many different Christian churches with different sets of beliefs. This is no surprise. Even if someone doesn't try to adapt religion to their needs they might still disagree about some interpretation or even some ethical matter. Remember also that Christ was a jew and didn't do things the same way the other jews did (See Matt 12).
You beat them so they won't jump off the roof? I'm not sure that's going to help in this case.
Beatings result in fear and/or anger, that's all. There is no "lesson learned". You might as well say an abusive husband is "teaching" his wife (and they say it, AFAIK).
Someone that lives in fear will fear life. Anger too, doesn't make a healthy mind. The kid might hold a grudge against his parents. It doesn't matter whether the kid will do something against them (and probably won't), but chances are the kid will not trust their parents either.
If a beating is the only thing that will fix the kid, it means the parent have been doing(or, more accurately have been letting the kid do) something wrong.
If a beating is the only thing that will fix the kid, it means the parent have been doing(or, more accurately have been letting the kid do something wrong) something wrong.
Anyway, if people (it doesn't matter the age) intend to kill themselves, I doubt telling them to "suck it up" will solve anything. They are way past the level of having only immature behavior.
MMO users exploiting a perceived weakness in the game? Who saw that one coming?
I didn't bother, but when I think about it, it's no surprise.
This is the reason I abandon most MMORPG in less than a month. Most players just want to grind. If you doesn't grind, you suck. If you doesn't have the full shiny equip set, preferably +(Infinity+1), you suck. If you doesn't have the right build, you suck for life. When (and if) you stop sucking you probably already did everything interesting in the game, at the point it gets boring and you quit.
I have to admit I enjoyed many of them for some time, but sucking sucks and they demand more time than I have available.
Anyway, the majority of MMORPG players seek (or follow) the fastest way to getting the best character. So, most forms of content creation for MMORPG (by developers) involve something that resembles a fight against the users, in the sense they have to make sure players won't find a way to exploit the new content. If they allow player-created content which grants rewards similar to the standard gameplay, pplayers will, of course, exploit it. And get stronger. And get bored. And leave.
I will go back to my single player games. Feel free to add words like "some" and "almost" where you feel necessary.
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Shin Megami Tensei games spend a good amount of effort to depict beings from diverse mythologies/religions around the world. They even keep a brief description about each of them available.
It isn't the same as having diverse ethnicity, but it is much more interesting and informative this way.
I don't see any problem with these researches. Choosing characteristics of your children is not a big deal too.
Even so, I can't help but fear when I think there might be a future filled with genetically engineered people where "the imperfect" (our average joe) will have miserable lives, if allowed to live at all. I believe there are many fiction works depicting that scenario. Unfortunately, I didn't get in contact with any of those.
Maybe people like enough of the old way of having children, maybe not. In that case there might be a future where sex is used exclusively as a way of having pleasure and people would be infertile in that regard.
...it might mean you can use it completely free, but it may come bundled with malware.
My father said something very interesting about this Mythbusters' episode a couple days ago.
What they actually did prove is that it was possible to make a fake footage.
I actually don't care. We have more problems to solve here than in any other celestial body.
I'm not sure the universe could take the irony.
Slashdot is fine.
As long you don't go and do it on /b/...
The problem is that sometimes you need speed instead of features that you probably won't even use.
If the speed of an application is below the expected for its main use and the additional features don't compensate for the lost speed, there will be a productivity loss.
You say there is a "juvenile fascination" with speed, but the same can be said about new (or not so new) technologies that introduce new features to applications, even if they don't add anything to the so-to-speak standard purpose of the application. It may end up as a "juvenile fascination" with novelty.
Speed is important for many and optimization is technology too.
Ok, give my pixels back then.
I'm not the only one who have seen results out of it. While the explanations given about it are very unscientifical, science might have simply failed to find a good explanation so far.
Even common medicines depend on biological conditions to have good results. If results with non-standard medicines are unreliable, it might just be that the underlying principles are not well understood. And they surely are not.
That's my point. To say everytime it works is because placebo effect and everytime it doesn't work is because it doesn't work it's too easy. The same can be said about any medicine. I am not a pharmacologist, I don't know how the medicine I take works. Just because we can't figure out how it works it doesn't means it doesn't work, it only means we don't know.
Unaware of the intended effect? You mean it was slipped in their food without them noticing? The people giving it didn't know the intended effect either?
The people giving it obviously knew what it was and it was not slipped to the food, but the subject didn't know what it was or what was intended to cure. I'm not sure if she even noticed the problem before it was cured. In those conditions, how other people knowing would do any difference?
Was the uneasy sleep getting worse? why wait before trying this remedy? The underlying cause for the uneasy sleep may well have been resolved by itself.
Why does it match the use of the flower remedies then? And why it didn't resolve itself before? The changes happened just after the first week of use. Only a single flask was used. I'm not sure, but I believe it lasts less than a month. It is a small window of time. Why it coincides then?
"Measurable" is subjective. The same Wikipedia article you pointed me says they are extremely dilute. The amount of flower extracts remaining should be "measurable" as it is just diluted, not removed.
If the subject is unaware of the intended effect, how could it be placebo effect? Supposing it is the brandy, why the effect would continue after it was no longer administered?
pretend that you lost a sense of smell (let me see them prove otherwise)
That's easy: they just need to put some fermented dog poo under your nose while you don't expect it and watch your reaction :)
Well, have to be both blind and anosmic(can't smell) to ignore fermented poo almost in your face.
I do know people who had been successfully treated with homeopathy without knowing the intended effect. Specifically the subject stopped having uneasy sleep, which it had been having for a long time, just by taking a few drops of a bach flower remedy on a regular basis. The subject was a child, have never been told what was supposed to be cured and apparently there was no other reason for the end of the symptom.
I know homeopathy probably won't cure severe diseases, but it isn't as useless as people think. Seemingly there is no reason for it to work at all, yet there are people who get results by taking it.
Being skeptic will not achieve anything. If it seemingly works for some people we shouldn't say "it doesn't work" just because we believe it is not supposed to work. We should ask ourselves why it works. Discover why and in which circumstances it could work rather than just trying to disprove it.
Reality beats theory at any time, don't limit yourself to what the books say. You may even end up discovering something completely new.
It doesn't matter which form of government they are in or which religion they follow, people will still try to rule over each other and will be willing to kill for a figment of their imagination.
They don't even need malicious intent for that matter. They just need to believe their opinion is "the best" or "for the good of all" regardless of other people agreeing or not. Any kind of belief (or government or even knowledge) will cause conflict.
When someone is defending its beliefs it might not even notice when it's crossing the line and going too far. It is subjective, after all. Then add self-justification and hidden interests...
Humility is an actual virtue.
[...]Your real fear should be collusion between multiple accounts created by the same person or a group of people acting together.[...]
Scientologists?
Exactly, my grandma who was Alzheimer's was notorious for doing just that walking around the assisted living facility in nothing but her underwear, tough deal Alzheimer's is...
---
...in bed
I thought the problem was when she was walking around.
We observe these 3 things every day, in every new baby plant and animal.
I Am Not A Creationist, but given the way things are now I think it's more about how often people have heterosexual intercourse without (or with ineffective) preconceptive methods than how evolved they are.
I think we may need a new terminology... unless getting laid become a measure of evolution.
I Am Not A Statistician, but I Am A Brazilian and I'd say 90% of every software in Brazil is either pre-installed or warez. Or pre-installed warez depending on where you buy your PC.
On the other side Brazil's government is working (slowly but steadily) on a transition to FLOSS.
Speaking of RIAA, anyone know the links to some good CC websites? Always a good thing to post in a DRM discussion!
http://www.jamendo.com/
It really has lots of good stuff.
Alternatively you may find out that some well known bands make some of their songs available for free on their sites. For example Coldplay ( http://www.coldplay.com/ ) currently have an album available on their website. It usually requires your email and while I'm not sure it's CC (and I'm guessing it is not) it's gratis. Of course, it doesn't happen as often with games and movies.
[...]Of course, a game solely based off of achievements will not be fun [...]
Disagree:
armorgames.com/play/2893/achievement-unlocked
It is worth, at the very least, a good laugh.
Hassan distinguishes between what he terms as destructive cults and benign cults. A destructive cult, according to Hassan, has a "pyramid-shaped authoritarian regime with a person or group of people that have dictatorial control." and "uses deception in recruiting new members." In contrast, benign cults are, according to Hassan, "any group of people who have a set of beliefs and rituals that are non-mainstream."
So if a cult goes murdering people it may be benign as long as it is not mainstream?
These are not mutually exclusive characteristics. Does it mean a benign cult can be also destructive without being incoherent?
Clarkkent09, I think this Hassan is who is actually confused.
The Bible is old, this is a fact. It is based in a different culture and a different age. It was written, compiled and translated by men. There is no way of being sure what was the original message, but then again we are in a different context.
I doubt even Jesus would do things the same way if he appeared again.
Religion is more than following what a book says. It involves beliefs. If you don't actually believe, following a set of rules doesn't make any difference. People might disagree with the standards of the religion they follow, at the point they may end up with a different set of beliefs. Religion is actually something very personal.
There are many different Christian churches with different sets of beliefs. This is no surprise. Even if someone doesn't try to adapt religion to their needs they might still disagree about some interpretation or even some ethical matter. Remember also that Christ was a jew and didn't do things the same way the other jews did (See Matt 12).
Remember, If you love you're children BEAT THEM!
You beat them so they won't jump off the roof? I'm not sure that's going to help in this case.
Beatings result in fear and/or anger, that's all. There is no "lesson learned". You might as well say an abusive husband is "teaching" his wife (and they say it, AFAIK).
Someone that lives in fear will fear life. Anger too, doesn't make a healthy mind. The kid might hold a grudge against his parents. It doesn't matter whether the kid will do something against them (and probably won't), but chances are the kid will not trust their parents either.
If a beating is the only thing that will fix the kid, it means the parent have been doing(or, more accurately have been letting the kid do) something wrong.
If a beating is the only thing that will fix the kid, it means the parent have been doing(or, more accurately have been letting the kid do something wrong) something wrong.
Anyway, if people (it doesn't matter the age) intend to kill themselves, I doubt telling them to "suck it up" will solve anything. They are way past the level of having only immature behavior.
MMO users exploiting a perceived weakness in the game? Who saw that one coming?
I didn't bother, but when I think about it, it's no surprise.
This is the reason I abandon most MMORPG in less than a month. Most players just want to grind.
If you doesn't grind, you suck.
If you doesn't have the full shiny equip set, preferably +(Infinity+1), you suck.
If you doesn't have the right build, you suck for life.
When (and if) you stop sucking you probably already did everything interesting in the game, at the point it gets boring and you quit.
I have to admit I enjoyed many of them for some time, but sucking sucks and they demand more time than I have available.
Anyway, the majority of MMORPG players seek (or follow) the fastest way to getting the best character. So, most forms of content creation for MMORPG (by developers) involve something that resembles a fight against the users, in the sense they have to make sure players won't find a way to exploit the new content. If they allow player-created content which grants rewards similar to the standard gameplay, pplayers will, of course, exploit it. And get stronger. And get bored. And leave.
I will go back to my single player games. Feel free to add words like "some" and "almost" where you feel necessary.
They mod parent funny because there isn't a +1 Sad mod
Moral of the story, if you're going to do this shit, don't let people see you doing it.
They didn't, but they were caught urinating later.
In the end Apple ended up dumping nearly 3,000 Lisa's in landfill
Give me a good reason for doing this instead of lowering the price or even donating them