We had to imagine the wheel, the bucket, the pictures and the cage cause it was all text. And we could only play on weekends cause there was no staying up late or sleepovers on a school night. And our parents drove us to the place where we would imagine all that. And it was raining. And we were cold. And hungry. All of the time. And we LIKED it!
Jack Bauer beats up or kills everyone in the end. Unless they manage to squeeze in Chuck Norris as well.
But then you also have nothing to worry about, cause having both Jack Bauer and Chuck Norris in the same show would cause universe to implode. The fact that you would feel just fine while watching the awesomest "24" episode EVAR! would be a clear indicator that we are all dead already and that you are in heaven.
Science fiction TV show gets chopped up by the powers that be so they could fit in more commercials in a government sponsored programming? That is SF, fanboy factor, freedom of speech violation and possible misuse of authority by TV media.
Don't bother turning your decoder ring. Just stick your hand in the fing.. I mean ring remover box. It is quite painless. Honest.
Your first sentence answered the question you made in your second sentence. Watch the above linked video for clarification. Based on the fact that a cop DOES NOT LIE, when the rape victim steps into that box, swears and then says that the cop (who does not lie - EVER) said something wrong - rape victim can end up in jail for purgery. Or at best, just make a fool of themselves and made to appear like someone who goes around accusing innocent people for no reason.
Correct way is to talk to a lawyer hired by you or appointed to you and have him/her talk to the police. Naturally, a lawyer that has two things. YOUR best interest in mind and a BRAIN.
For example, you might have guessed that the guy was into anime but reading his resume you have absolute proof. He did 3 "how-to" books on the subject of drawing in manga style.
* Le, Trung, Making the Impossible, Possible. Advance Female Android,
ISBN 978-0-9689663-5-8
* Le, Trung, How to Draw Anime for Beginner Vol 1, 2001, ISBN 0-9689663-0-6
* Le, Trung, How to Draw Anime for Beginner Vol 2, 2002,ISBN 0-9689663-2-2
* Le, Trung, How to Draw Anime Background, 2002, ISBN 0-9689663-3-0
* Le, Trung, "Effect of Aspirins", York University, May 2003.
Also...
How Aiko was built
I have been watching Robot anime, since I was a kid. After watching Chobits and DearS, I have made up my mind that I will make a full human android on August 15,2007. All it takes is inspiration...
After many struggles, and exactly 1.5 months later I have finished Aiko version 1.0. On Novemeber 2,3,4 2007, Aiko made her first TV interview from Global news, and her first public apperance at the HobbyShow at Toronto International Center, and Ontario Science Center a week later. Aiko is bilingual, she can speak English and Japanese.
I mean, you got go give it to the guy - he is quick. If he continues with this tempo he will have his army of robot maids built in no time.
I found some CDs with old DOS games that I thought were lost. A friend of mine that has been collecting them since the late 80's once burned me a copy. CD Writer it was burned on was a powerful 2X Traxdata SCSI drive. And I have kept them safe all these years, but one of them still got lost. Probably borrowed to someone who forgot to return it. BUT...
Since he has recently decided to make another backup on a DVD, he gave me his original CDs. Didn't have the heart to throw them away. And what do you know - his copy of the CD I was missing is just fine and readable despite being scratched a bit.
And to top it off - he lost his DVD he made the copy to. And called me today to ask if I can make him a copy. He also completely forgot he gave me his originals.
I wonder... Had I submitted this a story, would 39 guys find THIS story as interesting as the story about how they managed to copy a floppy?
Wasn't there a law in Nazi Germany prohibiting laughter in public places? I know I've read about it somewhere but I just can't find any reference online at the moment.
Did you raise you kids in a sterile box without connection to the outside world? I didn't think so.
A person may turn off its own conscious influence on his/her child but it can't turn off the subconscious. Or did you and your wife started acting androgynously and asexually around your kids?
And even if YOU did do something extreme as that - what about the TV? Cousins? Friends? Neighbors? The outside world. You know - the REAL influence on the children, not that "parenting" crap.
"If a piece of technology is used there is a neat description somewhere of how and why that particular piece of technology works and what are its underlying principles."
This is what I have a problem with. 99% of the time, the science/technology/explanations behind it is just complete bullshit, intentionally piled higher and deeper so people who call it out are labeled as "not getting it". I haven't read the manga of GitS, so I can't comment on that. But the general tendency for sci-fi anime (and sci-fi anything) is to over-explain to cover up flawed scientific reasoning.
I was referring to the manga. Read some of Shirow's GITS and Appleseed works. If he says that a round from a GunTM goes through an ArmourTM it probably means that he did some extensive research about guns, calibers, materials and such before making that claim. Manga in general is mostly not like Marvel with its "fill in the bubbles". One guy is responsible for drawing AND writing. Yes, he may use helpers for manual labor, but in the end only one name is connected to the work. So, when they work on something - they pay attention. Any mistake is their own, and any expression relayed through the story is their own. There is no wizard.
Also... dig up Mamoru Osii's Avalon and his Red Spectacles - Stray Dog: Kerberos Panzer Cops - Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade trilogy. You should notice that in general - he makes more of an art/philosophical movie with SF taking the back seat or being just a setting.
Put a layer of that over Shirow's detailed work - and you get what you call "piled higher and deeper".
I don't know what you're referring to about the Wachowski dipshits and them ripping it off, but I believe it. They truly are hacks.
I was referring to the GITS opening credits (letters and kanji forming words) which were lifted to create the "pure unconverted Matrix" and probably also the "jacking in". Although that can be traced to various other SF work.
For the record, I think 99% of what's out there (hollywood or otherwise) as "sci-fi" is shit, and should not really be considered sci-fi.
Check you terminology. Sci-fi is often considered a pejorative term. Then again, you ARE saying that 99% of X is not really X but Y.
Wouldn't then the logic dictate that it be called Y and not X?
Well... yes. If you were expecting a quick action fix. GITS and Masamune Shirow's manga in general need to be watched/read with some concentration. Add to that Mamoru Oshii's direction who almost always goes of to a deep end of the psychology pool and it may seem unnecessarily complicated.
As for trash..
Try reading some of Shirow's manga. He would really get into particulars with every single little thing in his universe. That is, before he figured out he can live off the royalties and churning out a borderline hentai calendars and art-books here and there. There are no "beam guns" in Shirow's manga. If a piece of technology is used there is a neat description somewhere of how and why that particular piece of technology works and what are its underlying principles. There is almost no issue without some added bits of text with additional explanation for such cases. Original Ghost in the Shell manga is a great example. There are about 10 pages of "notes" at the end of the book.
A great example of visionary "future tech" he also featured can be found in Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor. In a story printed in 1992 (Drive Slave) he drew microrobots that travel through bloodstream using flagella for propulsion. Such robots are widelyresearchedtoday.
On other hand... I fear that you have no idea what Sci-Fi is. Or Science Fiction. Or that one is primarily read, and other mostly watched these days.
GITS SAC 1, 2 and the movies are great sci-fi. GITS manga and movies are great Science Fiction. If nothing else, Hollywood hacks like Wachowskis ripping it off is a good indicator of its value.
Nothing mythical, mysterious or mind blowing about it. The humans in the test are simply percepting something they see done to another as done to themselves. Its not even psychological - its neurological.
The study of the neural underpinnings of empathy has received increased interest following the target paper published by Preston and De Waal,[39] following the discovery of mirror neurons in monkeys that fire both when the creature watches another perform an action as well as when they themselves perform it. In their paper, they argued that 'attended perception of the object's state automatically activates neural representations, and that this activation automatically primes or generate the associated autonomic and somatic responses, unless inhibited.
That is also why "it did not work when a non-humanoid object -- such as a chair or large block -- was used." You can't empathize with a block of wood.
Unless it is in a form of a Weighted Companion Cube.
Like I said - Windows boxes are where the money is.
Botnets need numbers - not credits for "hacking a Jobs-on". Like I said above - when was the last time someone had a "virus" problem? Its all trojans and worms these days.
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We had to imagine the wheel, the bucket, the pictures and the cage cause it was all text.
And we could only play on weekends cause there was no staying up late or sleepovers on a school night.
And our parents drove us to the place where we would imagine all that.
And it was raining. And we were cold. And hungry. All of the time.
And we LIKED it!
You didn't miss much.
Jack Bauer beats up or kills everyone in the end.
Unless they manage to squeeze in Chuck Norris as well.
But then you also have nothing to worry about, cause having both Jack Bauer and Chuck Norris in the same show would cause universe to implode.
The fact that you would feel just fine while watching the awesomest "24" episode EVAR! would be a clear indicator that we are all dead already and that you are in heaven.
Still, on the list of ways to kick the bucket, beats slipping in the shower any day.
Depends...
If it is a warm shower with a hot girlfriend and you slip as you were stepping out to get some other flavor of syrup...
Science fiction TV show gets chopped up by the powers that be so they could fit in more commercials in a government sponsored programming?
That is SF, fanboy factor, freedom of speech violation and possible misuse of authority by TV media.
Don't bother turning your decoder ring.
Just stick your hand in the fing.. I mean ring remover box. It is quite painless. Honest.
Pirates are important for maintaining a natural balance and fighting global warming.
I bet you are one of those pajama-wearing-ninja-lovers too.
Your first sentence answered the question you made in your second sentence. Watch the above linked video for clarification.
Based on the fact that a cop DOES NOT LIE, when the rape victim steps into that box, swears and then says that the cop (who does not lie - EVER) said something wrong - rape victim can end up in jail for purgery.
Or at best, just make a fool of themselves and made to appear like someone who goes around accusing innocent people for no reason.
Correct way is to talk to a lawyer hired by you or appointed to you and have him/her talk to the police.
Naturally, a lawyer that has two things. YOUR best interest in mind and a BRAIN.
Worse.
I'm one of them foreign people.
I prefer females with pulse and body temperature irrelevant of the room temperature.
He sure did get a lot of publicity though...
From the crowd that eagerly awaits the first remotely marketable model.
Probably somewhere in China or India.
Half of the world is there - statistically that is where the second coming should take place.
Is much more informative
For example, you might have guessed that the guy was into anime but reading his resume you have absolute proof.
He did 3 "how-to" books on the subject of drawing in manga style.
Also...
I mean, you got go give it to the guy - he is quick.
If he continues with this tempo he will have his army of robot maids built in no time.
I found some CDs with old DOS games that I thought were lost.
A friend of mine that has been collecting them since the late 80's once burned me a copy. CD Writer it was burned on was a powerful 2X Traxdata SCSI drive.
And I have kept them safe all these years, but one of them still got lost. Probably borrowed to someone who forgot to return it.
BUT...
Since he has recently decided to make another backup on a DVD, he gave me his original CDs. Didn't have the heart to throw them away.
And what do you know - his copy of the CD I was missing is just fine and readable despite being scratched a bit.
And to top it off - he lost his DVD he made the copy to.
And called me today to ask if I can make him a copy.
He also completely forgot he gave me his originals.
I wonder... Had I submitted this a story, would 39 guys find THIS story as interesting as the story about how they managed to copy a floppy?
But you might expect a visit from Knights Who Say Ni for insulting the shrubbery of the world.
Still.. its funny.
Wasn't there a law in Nazi Germany prohibiting laughter in public places?
I know I've read about it somewhere but I just can't find any reference online at the moment.
I did find this gem though.
...only if the "thoughtcrime" marker is in the middle of the scale.
THEN this would be one step from thoughtcrime.
One step BEYOND to be precise.
Did you raise you kids in a sterile box without connection to the outside world?
I didn't think so.
A person may turn off its own conscious influence on his/her child but it can't turn off the subconscious.
Or did you and your wife started acting androgynously and asexually around your kids?
And even if YOU did do something extreme as that - what about the TV? Cousins? Friends? Neighbors? The outside world.
You know - the REAL influence on the children, not that "parenting" crap.
He is a Zunian-American you insensitive clod!
These two and now Obama.
Balmer probably has one too, but I don't think that anyone would want to "squirt" anything with him.
Maybe only Dick Cheney.
Was it a brown one?
Not very surprising to the Slashdot crowd.
Our fond attachment to lesbians is very well known.
I was referring to the manga. Read some of Shirow's GITS and Appleseed works.
If he says that a round from a GunTM goes through an ArmourTM it probably means that he did some extensive research about guns, calibers, materials and such before making that claim.
Manga in general is mostly not like Marvel with its "fill in the bubbles". One guy is responsible for drawing AND writing.
Yes, he may use helpers for manual labor, but in the end only one name is connected to the work.
So, when they work on something - they pay attention. Any mistake is their own, and any expression relayed through the story is their own. There is no wizard.
Also... dig up Mamoru Osii's Avalon and his Red Spectacles - Stray Dog: Kerberos Panzer Cops - Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade trilogy.
You should notice that in general - he makes more of an art/philosophical movie with SF taking the back seat or being just a setting.
Put a layer of that over Shirow's detailed work - and you get what you call "piled higher and deeper".
I was referring to the GITS opening credits (letters and kanji forming words) which were lifted to create the "pure unconverted Matrix" and probably also the "jacking in". Although that can be traced to various other SF work.
Check you terminology. Sci-fi is often considered a pejorative term.
Then again, you ARE saying that 99% of X is not really X but Y.
Wouldn't then the logic dictate that it be called Y and not X?
Nothing mysterious about the effects of the so called "Mental Body-Swapping".
As for empathy... see the Wikipedia link above.
There are a shitload of theories, research and results about it.
And "unknown" and "mysterious" don't mean exactly the same thing.
Well... yes. If you were expecting a quick action fix.
GITS and Masamune Shirow's manga in general need to be watched/read with some concentration.
Add to that Mamoru Oshii's direction who almost always goes of to a deep end of the psychology pool and it may seem unnecessarily complicated.
As for trash..
Try reading some of Shirow's manga. He would really get into particulars with every single little thing in his universe.
That is, before he figured out he can live off the royalties and churning out a borderline hentai calendars and art-books here and there.
There are no "beam guns" in Shirow's manga.
If a piece of technology is used there is a neat description somewhere of how and why that particular piece of technology works and what are its underlying principles.
There is almost no issue without some added bits of text with additional explanation for such cases.
Original Ghost in the Shell manga is a great example. There are about 10 pages of "notes" at the end of the book.
A great example of visionary "future tech" he also featured can be found in Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor.
In a story printed in 1992 (Drive Slave) he drew microrobots that travel through bloodstream using flagella for propulsion.
Such robots are widely researched today.
On other hand...
I fear that you have no idea what Sci-Fi is. Or Science Fiction. Or that one is primarily read, and other mostly watched these days.
GITS SAC 1, 2 and the movies are great sci-fi.
GITS manga and movies are great Science Fiction.
If nothing else, Hollywood hacks like Wachowskis ripping it off is a good indicator of its value.
Nothing mythical, mysterious or mind blowing about it.
The humans in the test are simply percepting something they see done to another as done to themselves.
Its not even psychological - its neurological.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy#The_development_of_empathy
That is also why "it did not work when a non-humanoid object -- such as a chair or large block -- was used."
You can't empathize with a block of wood.
Unless it is in a form of a Weighted Companion Cube.
Like I said - Windows boxes are where the money is.
Botnets need numbers - not credits for "hacking a Jobs-on".
Like I said above - when was the last time someone had a "virus" problem?
Its all trojans and worms these days.