So? They do that all over the globe all the time. "4 people died" is a breezy sunny morning in most parts of Africa. Provided that for a change NO militia comes by. Then you could add a zero or two.
By spreading the risk. I don't need to accumulate wealth myself if I can rely on society's ability to catch me if I fall.
In the end it's way more sensible because not everyone will suddenly lose a limb and be unable to work anymore, so in total we need to accumulate way less wealth just to take care of "just in case" cases.
Saddam never ceased to be useful. Not to mention that he never ceased to be loyal. Funny enough, he actually thought that he dealt with a sane and reliable partner that would keep his word or at least be rational.
Wealth isn't freedom. You become a slave of your wealth if you allow yourself to be one. Because you become paranoid, others could want to steal your wealth, you start to worry, you start to protect it, and most of all you start to fear that it may be gone. What you are looking for is security. Security that you have food and shelter tomorrow, even if you for some reason cannot work anymore. That can be accomplished far easier than by accumulating tons of money. I (and everyone in my country) has that security. And few of them are wealthy in a monetary sense.
If you need to first amass a lot of money to get that level of security, I can only pity you, you poor, poor man.
That doesn't match the usually also displayed sadness and mourning, also the light of the heavens shines upon the person on the cross. No, it's more likely that the cult considers being nailed to the cross some kind of deification process. Maybe they went and nailed each other onto some beams to gain some sort of divine insight from the pain of being tortured that way? Kinda like some people get sexual gratification from being tortured?
In the end, it would. What we usually do when we deal with ancient religions and trying to understand them is that we compare them to contemporary religions. We find idols carved out of wood and assume that they are gods or spirits. What we don't assume is that they were toys.
Imagine some "alien" civilization (not necessary coming from out of this planet but having no connection to us today) comes down to earth and finds only part of what we wrote. Imagine they find a book giving the details of the D&D pantheon but nothing else concerning role playing games.
I can SO see people create some sort of future SCO and try to reenact masses for the greater glory of Torm and Sune.
Yes, that was fucked up. But in between that and today, there was a period of uneasy peace. The ME was by no means the clusterfuck it is today about a quarter century ago. It was mostly stable. Not quite the place I'd have wanted to be, but at least it was no source of international concern.
To put it bluntly, it sucked if you were there, but not as much as it does now. And it sure didn't suck as badly for the rest of the globe. Because Saddam was good at doing one thing: Keeping his people at home.
But without any repercussions should someone not volunteer, of course.
Laws exist because people have the potential to be assholes. Now imagine how much more people with intelligence but without conscience (i.e. corporations) do.
Yeah, that worked great in the past. From companies honoring the "do not track" flag to people disabling adblockers when asked. Hey, while we're at it, could we finally implement the "evil bit"? I mean, if you think ISPs will honor this, you can as well expect internet criminals to set the evil bit.
It's not that bad, what really causes most motion sickness is lateral movement. As soon as you're moving to the side or spinning, things get ugly. If that can be limited or eliminated, the effects on most people aren't too bad.
What you can do so far is work around it. Either create a game where you are stationary (i.e. a single room scenario, with the VR room being, in size and borders, identical with the room you actually are in), or by making games where you "jump" from one location to the other, i.e. the way it basically is today. I do think especially in the former area there is lots of room for development if you do it creatively. You can even go from room to room if you "reverse" the orientation of the rooms when you go through VR doors (i.e. you go in your real room to the left, and at the end of your real room you step through the VR door into the next VR room where you are at the wall again, with the room you just left being virtually on the other side of the "edge" of your real room. Think of it like stepping through the mirror).
We will have to work on this, of course, and until we have "true" holodecks we'll have to adapt to the limitations of the tools we use. We got used to using a mouse as input device, and keyboards to move our characters around, and we learned to control sprites with D-Pads. This is a lot closer to what we'd consider "natural" control.
The US delivered top notch war material (F14s, Phoenix missiles, etc) to Iran in the 1970s back when the Shah was "our man in Iran". That was bleeding edge military hardware at that time. The Iran had the fourth largest army on the plant at that time (behind US, USSR and China).
And then in 1979, over night our man in Iran was kicked out and that Khomeini took over. And he was anything BUT our man. And we couldn't even simply roll over them for not playing nice because that Ayatollah now had top level military hardware, that would decidedly NOT have been a war like desert storm which was pretty much like a boxing match between Mohammad Ali and some 3-year old. That would have been a war that deserves that name.
Lucky for us we managed to convince a local warlord to do the dirty work for us and destroy that Ayatollah's top of the line equipment. We remember that as the first Gulf War.
True, but in the end it's basically them saying "We have no idea what that shit is about."
And, let's be honest here, that's what religions look like. Imagine there is no written word. We haven't invented writing yet. And you unearth the ruins of a Catholic church. What will you find? Well, if you do it in Europe, chances are good that you will notice that this building was taller than many of the buildings around, giving you the idea that it was some important building. You will also probably find the altar and notice that this table played some central role in this building. Usually it's not big enough to serve as a table where everyone who was there could sit and eat, so it wasn't the dinner table for the congregation. You might find some of the wood used for the benches and notice that they were arranged in such a way to face that altar, and you would probably deduce that some sort of ritual or religious background is likely.
What else will you find? You will probably find the tabernacle (where the hosts are stored), and you might even find that the (usually) richly decorated bowl inside he (usually also quite lavishly decorated) tabernacle contained an edible substance. It is also usually offset to a side (unless you're dealing with Gothic cathedrals, where it can as well be present near or even on the altar), so you would probably deduce that food still played a key role in the rituals that were held there. Also, food was somehow sacred, because it was stored in such a lavishly decorated box, and it was obviously considered valuable because the box can usually be locked. Usually the ornaments also contain angels that appear as guards for the contents, so you would probably come to the conclusion that this food was also supernaturally guarded against evil spirits or that the congregation was supposed to fear the retaliation of supernatural forces should they somehow act "wrongly" towards food.
Your first conclusion would probably be that the cult celebrating there was either one celebrating food or a cult with sacrificing food as a central element. You will find that the food in that special place is of a single kind (usually host wafers), which suggests that the bread was distributed from there rather than everyone bringing something to the celebration and the food of the believers being stored there. So people congregated to eat together. Which will probably puzzle you because, as stated before, the table, the altar, is by no means big enough to allow everyone fitting into the church to sit around it and have a meal.
What else will you find? Well, invariably, you'll find a cross. Actually, usually you will find multiple ones. The cross as a central element of the faith will be emblazoned on pretty much every sacred item, sometimes multiple times, so you will easily identify it as the most important symbol of the religion. You will quickly also find out that this isn't just some pretty symbol but that the cross is something where someone gets nailed onto and that this is also critical to the religion, i.e. that someone is tortured by being nailed to the cross. You will find paintings, both on canvas as well as on walls, and stained glass, that tell the story of someone being nailed to a cross. This is very obviously a central element of the faith, and you can somehow deduce that the person being nailed to the cross is revered and that it is in some way connected to the divine, that the god or gods these people believe in shine upon the crucified.
So you could deduce that people in this religion either wanted to be nailed to crosses to be considered divine, or that they do it onto others in an attempt to "save" them for their religion. One could also ponder that nailing someone to the cross is some kind of fertility rite (remember the food in the special box off to the side), and that the people of this cult praise and deify the person sacrificing himself in such a manner.
And so on. You see the problem here, that it is virtually impossible to accurately identify and follow the idea of a religion just by the stuff you find in the ground. You can at best make some guesses, but as soon as metaphysical shit gets mixed into the fold, you're usually completely off.
It's not exactly that way for all of app development. If you develop an app for Android, you can be fairly sure that you will be able to run it in the foreseeable future. Hell, even with iOS there is a set of rules that you have to abide with, but if you do, your app will continue to exist.
What we're talking about here is an app going *poof* for no other reason than Twitter saying "yeah, we didn't like it", without even providing an explanation what you did wrong.
Why do you not want to advertise on a channel that I very obviously like to watch, or I would not watch it?
That's the question I'd have to ask. I don't know about you, but I don't watch stuff I don't want to watch. Why? Because I fucking can, duh. It's not like I have to sit through the stupid sitcom because my favorite show comes right after and the channel is notorious for not heeding its schedule enough that I could rely on the times being accurate. I, and only I, decide what I see and what I don't.
And yes, some of the content I watch is "controversial". As in "could get some religious weenie's panties in a knot when he hears that his imaginary buddy gets insulted". By the way, YouTube, do you think it's "topical" to show me ads for Muslim dating pages when I watch a video of a guy who shows that the koran holds at least as much bullshit as the bible in even less content?
But yes, I'd actually watch an ad before that. I'd want to know what company is actually rooted enough in reality to support someone speaking out against the bullshit religion is. Hell, I'd even buy something from a company like that, provided I can actually use their goods, because I think they're supporting someone who I like.
In a nutshell, people watch videos they enjoy. You, advertisers, DO want to be associated with that. You DO want to be associated with something the watcher enjoys, considers pleasurable and maybe even wholesome. That's what you DO want to be associated with!
Slashdot Mirror
Certainly. But care to inform me why I should give a fuck about anyone else dying?
Or why anyone else should even remotely be bothered by the death of my mom? I bet you didn't even hear about it when she died.
People died here!
So? They do that all over the globe all the time. "4 people died" is a breezy sunny morning in most parts of Africa. Provided that for a change NO militia comes by. Then you could add a zero or two.
It's too early.
Make Ruby on Rails jokes instead.
Dude, that chair creaking under your weight when you move isn't quite a roar.
Yes, but what kind of life is that? You'd envy the dead.
Microsoft is 28% more desperately trying to convince you to switch than last year.
Good.
By spreading the risk. I don't need to accumulate wealth myself if I can rely on society's ability to catch me if I fall.
In the end it's way more sensible because not everyone will suddenly lose a limb and be unable to work anymore, so in total we need to accumulate way less wealth just to take care of "just in case" cases.
That game looks a bit like a retextured Ikaruga.
If that's true: May $deity have mercy on your files!
Sure, if you can get in through the door without breaking a lock.
Saddam never ceased to be useful. Not to mention that he never ceased to be loyal. Funny enough, he actually thought that he dealt with a sane and reliable partner that would keep his word or at least be rational.
That was basically his cardinal sin.
Wealth isn't freedom. You become a slave of your wealth if you allow yourself to be one. Because you become paranoid, others could want to steal your wealth, you start to worry, you start to protect it, and most of all you start to fear that it may be gone. What you are looking for is security. Security that you have food and shelter tomorrow, even if you for some reason cannot work anymore. That can be accomplished far easier than by accumulating tons of money. I (and everyone in my country) has that security. And few of them are wealthy in a monetary sense.
If you need to first amass a lot of money to get that level of security, I can only pity you, you poor, poor man.
That doesn't match the usually also displayed sadness and mourning, also the light of the heavens shines upon the person on the cross. No, it's more likely that the cult considers being nailed to the cross some kind of deification process. Maybe they went and nailed each other onto some beams to gain some sort of divine insight from the pain of being tortured that way? Kinda like some people get sexual gratification from being tortured?
In the end, it would. What we usually do when we deal with ancient religions and trying to understand them is that we compare them to contemporary religions. We find idols carved out of wood and assume that they are gods or spirits. What we don't assume is that they were toys.
Imagine some "alien" civilization (not necessary coming from out of this planet but having no connection to us today) comes down to earth and finds only part of what we wrote. Imagine they find a book giving the details of the D&D pantheon but nothing else concerning role playing games.
I can SO see people create some sort of future SCO and try to reenact masses for the greater glory of Torm and Sune.
Yes, that was fucked up. But in between that and today, there was a period of uneasy peace. The ME was by no means the clusterfuck it is today about a quarter century ago. It was mostly stable. Not quite the place I'd have wanted to be, but at least it was no source of international concern.
To put it bluntly, it sucked if you were there, but not as much as it does now. And it sure didn't suck as badly for the rest of the globe. Because Saddam was good at doing one thing: Keeping his people at home.
But without any repercussions should someone not volunteer, of course.
Laws exist because people have the potential to be assholes. Now imagine how much more people with intelligence but without conscience (i.e. corporations) do.
Ayn, for fuck's sake take your pills!
Yeah, that worked great in the past. From companies honoring the "do not track" flag to people disabling adblockers when asked. Hey, while we're at it, could we finally implement the "evil bit"? I mean, if you think ISPs will honor this, you can as well expect internet criminals to set the evil bit.
It's not that bad, what really causes most motion sickness is lateral movement. As soon as you're moving to the side or spinning, things get ugly. If that can be limited or eliminated, the effects on most people aren't too bad.
What you can do so far is work around it. Either create a game where you are stationary (i.e. a single room scenario, with the VR room being, in size and borders, identical with the room you actually are in), or by making games where you "jump" from one location to the other, i.e. the way it basically is today. I do think especially in the former area there is lots of room for development if you do it creatively. You can even go from room to room if you "reverse" the orientation of the rooms when you go through VR doors (i.e. you go in your real room to the left, and at the end of your real room you step through the VR door into the next VR room where you are at the wall again, with the room you just left being virtually on the other side of the "edge" of your real room. Think of it like stepping through the mirror).
We will have to work on this, of course, and until we have "true" holodecks we'll have to adapt to the limitations of the tools we use. We got used to using a mouse as input device, and keyboards to move our characters around, and we learned to control sprites with D-Pads. This is a lot closer to what we'd consider "natural" control.
Odd. I would consider myself "left". And it's likely I make more money than you. Yes, even after those insane European taxes.
The US delivered top notch war material (F14s, Phoenix missiles, etc) to Iran in the 1970s back when the Shah was "our man in Iran". That was bleeding edge military hardware at that time. The Iran had the fourth largest army on the plant at that time (behind US, USSR and China).
And then in 1979, over night our man in Iran was kicked out and that Khomeini took over. And he was anything BUT our man. And we couldn't even simply roll over them for not playing nice because that Ayatollah now had top level military hardware, that would decidedly NOT have been a war like desert storm which was pretty much like a boxing match between Mohammad Ali and some 3-year old. That would have been a war that deserves that name.
Lucky for us we managed to convince a local warlord to do the dirty work for us and destroy that Ayatollah's top of the line equipment. We remember that as the first Gulf War.
True, but in the end it's basically them saying "We have no idea what that shit is about."
And, let's be honest here, that's what religions look like. Imagine there is no written word. We haven't invented writing yet. And you unearth the ruins of a Catholic church. What will you find? Well, if you do it in Europe, chances are good that you will notice that this building was taller than many of the buildings around, giving you the idea that it was some important building. You will also probably find the altar and notice that this table played some central role in this building. Usually it's not big enough to serve as a table where everyone who was there could sit and eat, so it wasn't the dinner table for the congregation. You might find some of the wood used for the benches and notice that they were arranged in such a way to face that altar, and you would probably deduce that some sort of ritual or religious background is likely.
What else will you find? You will probably find the tabernacle (where the hosts are stored), and you might even find that the (usually) richly decorated bowl inside he (usually also quite lavishly decorated) tabernacle contained an edible substance. It is also usually offset to a side (unless you're dealing with Gothic cathedrals, where it can as well be present near or even on the altar), so you would probably deduce that food still played a key role in the rituals that were held there. Also, food was somehow sacred, because it was stored in such a lavishly decorated box, and it was obviously considered valuable because the box can usually be locked. Usually the ornaments also contain angels that appear as guards for the contents, so you would probably come to the conclusion that this food was also supernaturally guarded against evil spirits or that the congregation was supposed to fear the retaliation of supernatural forces should they somehow act "wrongly" towards food.
Your first conclusion would probably be that the cult celebrating there was either one celebrating food or a cult with sacrificing food as a central element. You will find that the food in that special place is of a single kind (usually host wafers), which suggests that the bread was distributed from there rather than everyone bringing something to the celebration and the food of the believers being stored there. So people congregated to eat together. Which will probably puzzle you because, as stated before, the table, the altar, is by no means big enough to allow everyone fitting into the church to sit around it and have a meal.
What else will you find? Well, invariably, you'll find a cross. Actually, usually you will find multiple ones. The cross as a central element of the faith will be emblazoned on pretty much every sacred item, sometimes multiple times, so you will easily identify it as the most important symbol of the religion. You will quickly also find out that this isn't just some pretty symbol but that the cross is something where someone gets nailed onto and that this is also critical to the religion, i.e. that someone is tortured by being nailed to the cross. You will find paintings, both on canvas as well as on walls, and stained glass, that tell the story of someone being nailed to a cross. This is very obviously a central element of the faith, and you can somehow deduce that the person being nailed to the cross is revered and that it is in some way connected to the divine, that the god or gods these people believe in shine upon the crucified.
So you could deduce that people in this religion either wanted to be nailed to crosses to be considered divine, or that they do it onto others in an attempt to "save" them for their religion. One could also ponder that nailing someone to the cross is some kind of fertility rite (remember the food in the special box off to the side), and that the people of this cult praise and deify the person sacrificing himself in such a manner.
And so on. You see the problem here, that it is virtually impossible to accurately identify and follow the idea of a religion just by the stuff you find in the ground. You can at best make some guesses, but as soon as metaphysical shit gets mixed into the fold, you're usually completely off.
It's not exactly that way for all of app development. If you develop an app for Android, you can be fairly sure that you will be able to run it in the foreseeable future. Hell, even with iOS there is a set of rules that you have to abide with, but if you do, your app will continue to exist.
What we're talking about here is an app going *poof* for no other reason than Twitter saying "yeah, we didn't like it", without even providing an explanation what you did wrong.
Only bad ideas require censorship for survival. If you need proof for that, take a look at any dictatorship in history.
Hmm. I disagree, care to present your argument for it? Mine against it would, at least for now, be that I enjoy living.
Why do you not want to advertise on a channel that I very obviously like to watch, or I would not watch it?
That's the question I'd have to ask. I don't know about you, but I don't watch stuff I don't want to watch. Why? Because I fucking can, duh. It's not like I have to sit through the stupid sitcom because my favorite show comes right after and the channel is notorious for not heeding its schedule enough that I could rely on the times being accurate. I, and only I, decide what I see and what I don't.
And yes, some of the content I watch is "controversial". As in "could get some religious weenie's panties in a knot when he hears that his imaginary buddy gets insulted". By the way, YouTube, do you think it's "topical" to show me ads for Muslim dating pages when I watch a video of a guy who shows that the koran holds at least as much bullshit as the bible in even less content?
But yes, I'd actually watch an ad before that. I'd want to know what company is actually rooted enough in reality to support someone speaking out against the bullshit religion is. Hell, I'd even buy something from a company like that, provided I can actually use their goods, because I think they're supporting someone who I like.
In a nutshell, people watch videos they enjoy. You, advertisers, DO want to be associated with that. You DO want to be associated with something the watcher enjoys, considers pleasurable and maybe even wholesome. That's what you DO want to be associated with!