Interesting proposal. Could it be funded through cutting down the military budget?
It wouldn't take any additional funding at all. Zero cost.
You just selectively divert money that would have gone to the offending country (the carrot), to their sworn enemy Israel (the stick). I'm doing it this way because each one dollar is doing two dollars worth of 'work.' Not only have they lost a dollar, they have enriched their enemy by a dollar.
If they behave, aid flows exactly as it does now.
The more they 'misbehave' (i.e. Embassy attacks, suicide bombings, kidnappings...) the more of their precious aid money flows to Israel that year.
But, there is always an incentive for them to correct their behavior, as that aid money could be resumed the next year.
If you are proposing that the scientists should use humans instead, because humans can consent, and animals cannot, then by all means! Drive yourself down there and fill in the forms before the public notary, and get into the hospital gown.
If, however, you are just creaming out your ass because scientists are doing science, and it makes you feel 'ow swo bwad fwor de widdle monkwies', and would rather that humans live in the stone age than experiment on other lieforms to larn how living things work, and in so doing, push the boundries of scentific knowledge and medical technologies, then kind find a fire, pour gasoline all over yourself, and step into it.
Great post! The thought that always crosses my mind when I read a label that says: NOT TESTED ON ANIMALS...is always: "Great. They're testing this stuff on ME."
I'm sure many would actually start killing Americans and storming embassies just to have a little less of that 'aid' thrust upon them.
You may be right about the general populous, but I think their governments would brutally crush any such uprising, once our billion-dollar teat starts to get pulled out of their mouth.
We give out tons of aid money: (all amounts USD$ for 2010) Afghanistan = $11,446,800,000 Pakistan = $2,853,500,000 Iraq = $2,087,900,000 Egypt = $1,698,900,000 Sudan = $975,900,000 Gaza = $693,100,000
Why don't we just say: Every time you kill an American, we take $80 million of your aid money, and give it to Israel. Every time you attack an embassy: $200 million Every time you issue a fatwa (on some cartoonist or author, or filmmaker, etc.): $10 million...and so on.
Any time the violence stops, that aid level is restored the next year.
If you just cut off all their aid, they have no incentive to do anything. This way, they have incremental rewards to act civilized.
I'm sorry I failed to describe it to your satisfaction. You did read my disclaimer?: "One is a treadmill, actually two, set at right angles, one sort of "riding on" the other (don't know the exact mechanism, just saw the video)"
Being a radio show, the Goon Show was absolutely breathtaking in their use of sound and music to construct their crazy world. (Having Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan didn't hurt either!) Without them, we wouldn't have the whole absurdist comedy movement. (Think: Pythons, Marty Feldman, Firesign.)
At the same time a disproportionate number of nazi leaders were catholics (about 46% versus 32% in the general population, source: http://www.luebeck-kunterbunt.de/TOP100/Nazi-Katholiken.htm, article in German). So it seems that the priests killed in Dachau were people who were following their convictions and the teachings of the bible instead of the Vatican, apparently the first "country" to officially recognize Hitler's regime (source: http://www.theologe.de/katholische-kirche_holocaust.htm, also in German).
...along, of course, with the current pope, Ratzinger, who served under Hitler in the German army.
Good point. The Jews didn't kill Him, they rejected Him and when given a choice on which prisoner to release and which to crucify, they chose to crucify Jesus. So they didn't kill him, but voted him on to the cross? Subtle difference of course.
...but since he was also a Jew, and so (probably) was the other prisoner for crucifixion, what you are really saying is: "Some Jews picked one of their fellow Jew to be released, and another fellow Jew to be crucified by the invading Romans, who only allowed them to pardon one of the Roman prisoners."
That comes out WAY different than saying "the Jews killed Jesus."
Yes, because being killed by Atheists and Scientists is soooooo much better...
Yeaaaaaah....
I don't remember the headline about the "Atheist zealots" going nuts, and flying a plane in to a building, or machine gunning a car full of Nuns, or blowing up a hotel in Mumbai, or going on a crusade into the holy land, or...
Think about making a 'treadmill' that allows 360 degree movement. You are ether standing inside a ball or on top of one.
There is one system (Russian) that does put you in a giant transparent sphere. (Saw this at Nextfest)
However, there are some other systems for doing this that work pretty well...
One is a treadmill, actually two, set at right angles, one sort of "riding on" the other (don't know the exact mechanism, just saw the video) As you walk, say north, the N-S treadmill runs south. If you turn west, the E-W treadmill starts moving you east. If you move on a diagonal they both run in opposition to your movement to keep you near the center.
There is a cute one with motorized roller skates that slowly roll you back to center.
There is also an interesting psychological approach to this problem. One system actually keeps changing the map layout so you gradually keep yourself centered. This works well with a map with a lot of turns, of course. It works by making your turns "not quite" or "a little more than" 90 degrees; and then changing the layout behind you. As I recall, most people were unaware of the changes.
That said, I own an old VR helmet. You're going to want to sit and have solidly mounted controls in your hands. Less pukey that way.
I've been using an HMD for about 8 years. The 'pukey' years were back when I couldn't refresh the display fast enough to keep the display up with head tracking. So, my inner-ear and visual cortex had to fight it out. Now I'm getting a good FPS, no more puke. I run freestanding with a hand controller. If you think about it, you walk though real-life without nausea. If the head tracking and refresh are solid, it just looks like RL.
No, I just don't get how it's better than my traditional methods of slipping her a roofie and letting her wake up in the dungeon I dug out under my garage where she'll be spending the rest of her unnatural life.
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Interesting proposal. Could it be funded through cutting down the military budget?
It wouldn't take any additional funding at all. Zero cost.
You just selectively divert money that would have gone to the offending country (the carrot), to their sworn enemy Israel (the stick). I'm doing it this way because each one dollar is doing two dollars worth of 'work.' Not only have they lost a dollar, they have enriched their enemy by a dollar.
If they behave, aid flows exactly as it does now.
The more they 'misbehave' (i.e. Embassy attacks, suicide bombings, kidnappings...) the more of their precious aid money flows to Israel that year.
But, there is always an incentive for them to correct their behavior, as that aid money could be resumed the next year.
If you are proposing that the scientists should use humans instead, because humans can consent, and animals cannot, then by all means! Drive yourself down there and fill in the forms before the public notary, and get into the hospital gown.
If, however, you are just creaming out your ass because scientists are doing science, and it makes you feel 'ow swo bwad fwor de widdle monkwies', and would rather that humans live in the stone age than experiment on other lieforms to larn how living things work, and in so doing, push the boundries of scentific knowledge and medical technologies, then kind find a fire, pour gasoline all over yourself, and step into it.
Great post! ...is always:
The thought that always crosses my mind when I read a label that says: NOT TESTED ON ANIMALS
"Great. They're testing this stuff on ME."
I'm sure many would actually start killing Americans and storming embassies just to have a little less of that 'aid' thrust upon them.
You may be right about the general populous, but I think their governments would brutally crush any such uprising, once our billion-dollar teat starts to get pulled out of their mouth.
Watching the fashion cam made me wonder how the hell people walk like that and not get seasick.
Oh, the runway models get seasick.
There's just nothing left to throw up.
"Just let them kill each other"
I have more humane proposal.
We give out tons of aid money: (all amounts USD$ for 2010)
Afghanistan = $11,446,800,000
Pakistan = $2,853,500,000
Iraq = $2,087,900,000
Egypt = $1,698,900,000
Sudan = $975,900,000
Gaza = $693,100,000
Why don't we just say: ...and so on.
Every time you kill an American, we take $80 million of your aid money, and give it to Israel.
Every time you attack an embassy: $200 million
Every time you issue a fatwa (on some cartoonist or author, or filmmaker, etc.): $10 million
Any time the violence stops, that aid level is restored the next year.
If you just cut off all their aid, they have no incentive to do anything.
This way, they have incremental rewards to act civilized.
...the newly released and terribly blurry photos of Kate Middleton's tits? And what kinds of sounds would he add to that film?
Timpani, pedaled up.
http://www.sounddogs.com/sound-effects/25/mp3/327399_SOUNDDOGS__ca.mp3
Seriously? That's an afternoon of work.quote>
No. That's 3 seconds of button pushing of work, maybe 2 hours of tracking and render.
Brain damaged monkeys, high on cocaine, playing MMOs, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!
Yeah, except the Swiss would never shoot out a speed camera.
Correction: The Swiss wouldn't be speeding in the first place.
I'm sorry I failed to describe it to your satisfaction. You did read my disclaimer?:
"One is a treadmill, actually two, set at right angles, one sort of "riding on" the other (don't know the exact mechanism, just saw the video)"
Please watch these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=moq1Dclza90
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rtX2pWRh6w
Being a radio show, the Goon Show was absolutely breathtaking in their use of sound and music to construct their crazy world. (Having Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan didn't hurt either!) Without them, we wouldn't have the whole absurdist comedy movement. (Think: Pythons, Marty Feldman, Firesign.)
Here's a great moment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JtCuxbrAu8&feature=related
At the same time a disproportionate number of nazi leaders were catholics (about 46% versus 32% in the general population, source: http://www.luebeck-kunterbunt.de/TOP100/Nazi-Katholiken.htm, article in German). So it seems that the priests killed in Dachau were people who were following their convictions and the teachings of the bible instead of the Vatican, apparently the first "country" to officially recognize Hitler's regime (source: http://www.theologe.de/katholische-kirche_holocaust.htm, also in German).
...along, of course, with the current pope, Ratzinger, who served under Hitler in the German army.
Good point. The Jews didn't kill Him, they rejected Him and when given a choice on which prisoner to release and which to crucify, they chose to crucify Jesus. So they didn't kill him, but voted him on to the cross? Subtle difference of course.
...but since he was also a Jew, and so (probably) was the other prisoner for crucifixion, what you are really saying is: "Some Jews picked one of their fellow Jew to be released, and another fellow Jew to be crucified by the invading Romans, who only allowed them to pardon one of the Roman prisoners."
That comes out WAY different than saying "the Jews killed Jesus."
Yes, because being killed by Atheists and Scientists is soooooo much better...
Yeaaaaaah....
I don't remember the headline about the "Atheist zealots" going nuts, and flying a plane in to a building, or machine gunning a car full of Nuns, or blowing up a hotel in Mumbai, or going on a crusade into the holy land, or...
Do tell when the Jews ever killed anyone over silly shit like this...
They killed Jesus Christ for preaching peace, non-violence, and the rejection of greed.
I believe:
1. The Romans actually killed Jesus.
2. Jesus was actually a Jew.
Knowing real life, the maker of the product would probably prohibit porn.
You gottta be kidding. That's usually the killer app!
Didn't anybody see "Brainstorm?"
Think about making a 'treadmill' that allows 360 degree movement. You are ether standing inside a ball or on top of one.
There is one system (Russian) that does put you in a giant transparent sphere. (Saw this at Nextfest)
However, there are some other systems for doing this that work pretty well...
One is a treadmill, actually two, set at right angles, one sort of "riding on" the other (don't know the exact mechanism, just saw the video) As you walk, say north, the N-S treadmill runs south. If you turn west, the E-W treadmill starts moving you east. If you move on a diagonal they both run in opposition to your movement to keep you near the center.
There is a cute one with motorized roller skates that slowly roll you back to center.
There is also an interesting psychological approach to this problem. One system actually keeps changing the map layout so you gradually keep yourself centered. This works well with a map with a lot of turns, of course. It works by making your turns "not quite" or "a little more than" 90 degrees; and then changing the layout behind you. As I recall, most people were unaware of the changes.
That said, I own an old VR helmet. You're going to want to sit and have solidly mounted controls in your hands. Less pukey that way.
I've been using an HMD for about 8 years. The 'pukey' years were back when I couldn't refresh the display fast enough to keep the display up with head tracking. So, my inner-ear and visual cortex had to fight it out. Now I'm getting a good FPS, no more puke. I run freestanding with a hand controller. If you think about it, you walk though real-life without nausea. If the head tracking and refresh are solid, it just looks like RL.
His comic was put out in 2006, but the title/phrase has been in use since at least 1962.
He will have to show that people would somehow confuse this book, with his comic, which would be fairly hard.
Drug delivery.
Depending on its electrical properties it could be a component of an ultracapacitor.
...or a very tiny antenna. (similar to the way they are using fractal antennae.)
Sorry, this is /.
That surface area is the same as Bill Gates home+garage on Lake Washington. (Really.)
Not even in the same league.
I just tried a quick test search in both Alibaba and Ariba Discovery (searched for: "thrust bearing")
Alibaba: "65,366 Product(s) found"
Ariba Discovery: "No results found."
No, I just don't get how it's better than my traditional methods of slipping her a roofie and letting her wake up in the dungeon I dug out under my garage where she'll be spending the rest of her unnatural life.
Mr. Romney.....? Is that you?
No, the Brainwave Cat Ears let you control the movement of the ears (the ear motors) by thinking a certain way.
This could be useful if cats take over the planet.
I'd rather be #1 in quality than quantity.
...but quantity is job #1 ...!