It's baffling, isn't it. It reminds me of the Amish. It's not as if the Amish are adverse to technology; they're happy to use looms and metal tools and spectacles and horse-drawn buggies and intensive farming techniques. But they arbitrarily draw the line at electricity, life-saving medicines, modern construction materials and combustion engines. It's bizarre. Why draw the line there? Is there a group of retro-Amish who won't use anything more modern than bearskins and flint knives? If not, why not?
But as I understand it, the line drawn by the Amish isn't arbitrary. It's about separatism, not technology per se. They eschew technologies like electricity and telephones and automobiles mainly because using these technologies would require them to become intricately involved in a larger society from which -- for reasons I admit I'm not clear on -- they wish to remain separate.
When it comes to new technologies, Amish communities often assess them carefully, and decide to adopt or avoid them based upon the impact they are likely to have on the community.
And it's not the same for all Amish. I know of one Amish gentleman who would never have considered getting on the power grid, but decided it would be OK to refurbish a junked generator to run some power tools. Only in his workshop, though -- certainly not in his home. (And now that I think of it, I never heard what he used for fuel.)
Just as a data point: I've got pretty good Japanese support on my U.S.-purchased Zaurus SL-5500. Look around on the Downloads section of Zaurus Zone for Japanese packages, including Nunome and Kanji Nirvana. Probably not as slick a solution as a Japanese Zaurus, but not bad if you want a primarily English-language PDA with Japanese support useful to a language student.
In MK Deadly Alliance, you are able to go on a "Konquest" where you learn the specific moves of each character in a orderly fashion. For Sub Zero, one of the training exercizes was to remove 80 pints of blood from your advesary in less than 30s (I think).
Mario Kart Deadly Alliance? Man, that game has come a long way...
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I think the important question is, why does every video game on tv sound like Pac Man for the 2600?
We'll figure this out just as soon as we discover why so many or their video text displays still sound like teletypes from 1965.
Instead they listened to Frank Sinatra. Because everyone knows it's better to support an Italian-American with apparent mob connections than to support an African-American with apparent gang connections. Right?
I believe his exact words were "when corporations are declared illegal...".
At the risk of taking this all too seriously -- how does declaring corporations illegal = criminalizing free trade? It is perfectly possible to carry on free trade as an individual, or as a member of a group, without the government-created fiction of the corporate entity to insulate you from some of the economic risk.
Remember, folks -- the corporate entity is governmental interference in the free market.
If you want to bring down the air traffic system, it would be more effective to take out a couple of big airports rather than a couple of small ones.
If you want to take down the internet, it would be easier to do so by removing the more heavily trafficked nodes than the undertrafficked, small nodes.
If you want to take out the movie industry, it would be more effective to take out Kevin Bacon.
I believe the US Supreme Court once ruled that interstate commerce can be considered as any exchange of currency within the United States (I'm not sure which case, or what the circumstances of the case are). This is exactly how prohibition of alcohol happened, and how prohibition of most illegal drugs are also handled (marijuana).
That's pretty much right, except the part about alcohol prohibition. Prohibition came about by means of an amendment to the constitution, so it was by definition constitutional, commerce clause or no commerce clause.
I'm not an expert, but I vaguely remember reading that when Tolkien sold the film rights to LotR, he specifically prohibited any 'based on'-type works (thus thankfully preventing a Middle-Earth sitcom).
Damn. There goes my idea for a Justice Friends-type show about Gimli and Legolas settling down into an apartment in Bree...
The average SUV driving, my favorite sports team is whoever is winning, Starbucks drinking, windows using, Average Joe is going to switch to digital when the media tells them to.
Terribly OT, but this made me realize that growing up as a Mets fan probably prepared me to become a Linux user!
you moderators do realize, don't you, that modding up entries with links to funny pictures, cartoons, etc., for being funny is comparable to awarding an oscar to someone who hands you a copy of Titanic on video...
This is true only if you regard positive moderation as some kind of "award" bestowed upon the poster.
I consider moderation to be a service to readers, to help them find things they might find funny/informative/insightful/whatever.
If someone hands me a DVD of a great movie I might not have seen before, I'll still say "thanks" and tell my other friends about it, even if the helpful fellow wasn't the filmmaker.
Don't find a home anywhere in America... state and local governments tend to have very restrictive laws about what you can and can't do with your house, and also laws about helping people build thier own houses, unless you've paid your registration and union dues...
Sure, and there are laws about what I can and can't do with my software -- copyright laws, for example. But this isn't the same thing as hiring a carpenter to work on a house, and have him place restrictions on what I can do with the house long after he's gotten his money and gone home.
And believe it or not, there are places in the U.S. where a bunch of people can build a house without union interference.
Man, you didn't stay until the end of the credits, did you? Yeah, he dies at the end, but get this -- three days later they go to the gravesite, and IT'S EMPTY! Creepy, right? But then he actually like shows up and it turns out he came back to life. Seriously, dude. His old friends are freaked out for a while, but then they get used to it. And then they all hang out on the beach and have this fish barbecue, but I'm not sure what's up with that.
The other way of looking at this is that society sacrificed the the other possible outputs of those people.
If we were talking about a society with too many jobs and not enough people, this argument would make sense. I think these days it's the other way around in Russia (and most other places).
Oh, I can just see it. Housing wants to be FREE! When you think about it, free housing is just as sensible idea as free software.
Let's see...When I buy or build a house, I don't want some "vendor" to insist on a restrictive license telling me what I can and can't do with my house. And I'd like to be able to help my friends build similar houses, if they want them.
Yes, this kind of "free" housing sounds very much like "free" software, and I'm all for it.
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No question about it. This MUST be made:
Gitaroo Man: The Movie
Are you listening, Pixar?
It's baffling, isn't it. It reminds me of the Amish. It's not as if the Amish are adverse to technology; they're happy to use looms and metal tools and spectacles and horse-drawn buggies and intensive farming techniques. But they arbitrarily draw the line at electricity, life-saving medicines, modern construction materials and combustion engines. It's bizarre. Why draw the line there? Is there a group of retro-Amish who won't use anything more modern than bearskins and flint knives? If not, why not?
But as I understand it, the line drawn by the Amish isn't arbitrary. It's about separatism, not technology per se. They eschew technologies like electricity and telephones and automobiles mainly because using these technologies would require them to become intricately involved in a larger society from which -- for reasons I admit I'm not clear on -- they wish to remain separate.
When it comes to new technologies, Amish communities often assess them carefully, and decide to adopt or avoid them based upon the impact they are likely to have on the community.
And it's not the same for all Amish. I know of one Amish gentleman who would never have considered getting on the power grid, but decided it would be OK to refurbish a junked generator to run some power tools. Only in his workshop, though -- certainly not in his home. (And now that I think of it, I never heard what he used for fuel.)
Just as a data point: I've got pretty good Japanese support on my U.S.-purchased Zaurus SL-5500. Look around on the Downloads section of Zaurus Zone for Japanese packages, including Nunome and Kanji Nirvana. Probably not as slick a solution as a Japanese Zaurus, but not bad if you want a primarily English-language PDA with Japanese support useful to a language student.
Mario Kart Deadly Alliance? Man, that game has come a long way...
We'll figure this out just as soon as we discover why so many or their video text displays still sound like teletypes from 1965.
Instead they listened to Frank Sinatra. Because everyone knows it's better to support an Italian-American with apparent mob connections than to support an African-American with apparent gang connections. Right?
"A style of animation developed in Japan, characterized by stylized colorful art, futuristic settings, violence, and sex."
Man. That's got to be the stupidest, most ignorant "definition" of anything that I've read in a long time.
Remind me never to use Dictionary.com for anything important.
ummmm there is also a Soho district in London?
New York's SoHo rocks, but don't assume you know everything.
At the risk of taking this all too seriously -- how does declaring corporations illegal = criminalizing free trade? It is perfectly possible to carry on free trade as an individual, or as a member of a group, without the government-created fiction of the corporate entity to insulate you from some of the economic risk.
Remember, folks -- the corporate entity is governmental interference in the free market.
If you want to take down the internet, it would be easier to do so by removing the more heavily trafficked nodes than the undertrafficked, small nodes.
If you want to take out the movie industry, it would be more effective to take out Kevin Bacon.
GUI? I'll keep my Microraptor COMMAND LINE, thank-you-very-much!
It made me think of a different P-A cartoon. Do they realy have games like that in Indiana?
That's pretty much right, except the part about alcohol prohibition. Prohibition came about by means of an amendment to the constitution, so it was by definition constitutional, commerce clause or no commerce clause.
Debian, of course.
Then again, I often use the unstable sources...
Damn. There goes my idea for a Justice Friends-type show about Gimli and Legolas settling down into an apartment in Bree...
Why "lab flavored," anyway? Why not terrier, or dachshund?
The average SUV driving, my favorite sports team is whoever is winning, Starbucks drinking, windows using, Average Joe is going to switch to digital when the media tells them to.
Terribly OT, but this made me realize that growing up as a Mets fan probably prepared me to become a Linux user!
you moderators do realize, don't you, that modding up entries with links to funny pictures, cartoons, etc., for being funny is comparable to awarding an oscar to someone who hands you a copy of Titanic on video...
This is true only if you regard positive moderation as some kind of "award" bestowed upon the poster.
I consider moderation to be a service to readers, to help them find things they might find funny/informative/insightful/whatever.
If someone hands me a DVD of a great movie I might not have seen before, I'll still say "thanks" and tell my other friends about it, even if the helpful fellow wasn't the filmmaker.
"Come back, damn, you! Mark my words, monkey -- I will click you, and claim my prize!"
I'm holding out for a fridge that cools with lasers, so I can make up a batch of Bose-Einstein condensate whenever I need some.
Sure, and there are laws about what I can and can't do with my software -- copyright laws, for example. But this isn't the same thing as hiring a carpenter to work on a house, and have him place restrictions on what I can do with the house long after he's gotten his money and gone home.
And believe it or not, there are places in the U.S. where a bunch of people can build a house without union interference.
Man, you didn't stay until the end of the credits, did you? Yeah, he dies at the end, but get this -- three days later they go to the gravesite, and IT'S EMPTY! Creepy, right? But then he actually like shows up and it turns out he came back to life. Seriously, dude. His old friends are freaked out for a while, but then they get used to it. And then they all hang out on the beach and have this fish barbecue, but I'm not sure what's up with that.
If we were talking about a society with too many jobs and not enough people, this argument would make sense. I think these days it's the other way around in Russia (and most other places).
Let's see...When I buy or build a house, I don't want some "vendor" to insist on a restrictive license telling me what I can and can't do with my house. And I'd like to be able to help my friends build similar houses, if they want them.
Yes, this kind of "free" housing sounds very much like "free" software, and I'm all for it.