This is amateur sociology and is in fact not true; if deprived of the means to cmmit suicide, most suicides will in fact lose the will to go through with it.
The article and previous posts said nothing about removing tall buildings, bridges, razors, pills, carbon monoxide in cars, etc. to prevent people from killing themselves. Also, it is within our rights in most countries to describe methods for doing such a thing. In the U.S. we have things thing called the Bill of Rights, and within that, there is the First Amendment that basically tells us we can say whatever we want (the only limitations I am aware of are in dealing with public safety, e.g. not screaming "FIRE!" in a crowded theater, and libel.)
Also, what makes you so sure of yourself that suicide is bad? Yes, it is against Judeo-Christian values, as well as a lot of other religions and cultures. However, there are sometimes valid reasons to kill yourself. What about someone who is dying of a painful brain tumor? What if someone simply doesn't want to live, has no hope, and doesn't want any help? It is not your right to tell someone how to live, and it should not be up to you to infringe on their right to die. If you are worried about "protecting" people, find someone who wants your help rather than those who simply want left alone.
Also, according to you, a lot of people that commit suicide are only temporarily in that depression and really want help. Going with that, wouldn't it be a lot easier for a kid to read a discussion group that has other people that feel like they do on it? Maybe their intent is to end their life, but when they find out they are not alone things seem better...or...if it is a website only about methods of killing yourself, the child's parents will look through the history in the web browser or sees the page on the monitor (a responsible parent that doesn't rely on worthless censorware) will know that something is wrong in their kid's life and try to find a way to help.
In any case, I don't think this stuff should be censored, and I think you may agree with me about that, I think the suicide thing should be viewed from another perspective.
Using the @home service is extremely safe if you take the following into consideration:
- In flame wars, unlike real wars, noone has ever used ICBM's to assault the person they are pissed off at.
- In cybersex, unlike real sex, noone can get herpes, aids, crabs, etc.
- While running around shooting people in a game such as Quake or Unreal, unlike running around shooting people in school or a post office, the worst wound you can get is blistered fingers.
I can think of other reasons why @home would be considered safe, but it's all about relativity. Sure, @home might not be safe when compared to other ISPs, but they sure are safe compared to playing hot potato with a hand grenade.:o)
Maybe these companies should be thinking twice about basing a business on trying to create software to do a task that, as you've just pointed out, is pretty hopeless (all issues of whether it's a good idea or not aside).
It also is pretty hopeless to make a decent translation program. I view things like babblefish and the like as being pretty crude, but they are free, and if it doesn't know for sure what something is, it leaves it. I think it might be a good idea if the censorware programmers took the same approach. It might be a good idea to leave in words like "breast" and "Dick" since they can be talking about anatomy class, or someone's name. However, I can't think of a non-vulgar or non-pornographic instance of "cum guzzler" or "suck my dick" which would be fine to block in my opinion.
The real fallacy here is not how unreliable censorware is, but of the expectations these ignorant politicians, christian groups, family groups, etc. are about the usefulness of the software. There is no substitute for parental guidance. We should have learned that from the generations that have grown up watching TV already. If these people really cared about what was good for the children, they would take care of them properly and not try to rely on broken software to do their jobs for them. If people can't take the responsibility to raise their children, they shouldn't be having them in the first place.
Browne, while personally against abortion, feels that it is not the job of the president to decide on the abortion issue. I read a quote of him saying that, but I am too lazy to look it up again.
Despite all the issues discussed about presidents, they are not all that powerful. It's the congress that matters the most about issues like abortion, spending, and gun control and such.
I'm not trying to be a troll or anything...just that this is not new information really. For those of you that read the discussion and not the article it basically deals with the following:
- Winamp can be used to listen to illegal mp3's
- Shoutcast can be used to play copyrighted music and not pay any royalties
- Gnutella exists
- The guys from nullsoft released a winamp plugin to change the AOL Instant Messenger ads with something else.
There really isn't much new information here, it portrays the guys at Nullsoft as whimsical, ecentric, crazy kids while showing AOL to be the mature but understanding adult that is simply putting up with their youthful antics with a grin.
At the Networld Interop, they didn't advertise by handing out some crappy trinkets that break as soon as you get home, but they advertised using sex. That's right, they had some ho in black leather advertising their stuff, whatever it is. Of course, we'll ignore the fact that she was about 60 years old. Her assistants were looking pretty good. In retrospect, I think that it would have been a good idea for me to go back to the FreeBSD/BSDi booth to get them some devil horns and tails to complete the look.
Oh, and umm...in a business sense ChiliWare makes the software that lets you run a website using.asp on linux...yeah...that's it. See? I did learn something from ChingaWare.
Lara Croft, for example, might be liberated in the sense of freely committing violence normally reserved for men, but she's still chained to an image of large breasts and a sexually inviting pelvis.
It's better than some of the guys. Sure, we have the male characters that are macho, big muscular guys that can kick ass, but, back in the days of Nintendo particularly...we were given some pretty ugly characters.
Mario - I don't know about most guys, but I never wanted to grow up and become a short fat guy with a beer belly and a huge moustache that you know catches at least half of the food he eats in it. Nevermind the bigass nose.
Kid Icarus - A midget version of Harpo Marx with a pair of wings strapped on his back, running around in his underwear is not my idea of an ass kicker either.
A boy and his blob - A lot of kids pick their nose and never give it a second thought. But, when a big ball of snot comes to life and you play with it, then you have real problems. That kid is a dork, not a hero.
We could go on to other game systems that do a good job. I think Sega has done excellent with games like Sonic the Hedgehog. Rather than having it be completely biased that he is a man and saving the princess, he is simply a mutated animal trying to save all the other animals. While there really is no female interaction there that I am aware of, it's not such a bad thing as it deals with animals, so it is more abstract than some guy running around shooting other army guys and ok for even young children, as you never kill the bad guys, simply free the animals from their robotic forms. Anyways, that is off topic so I will end this post now.:o)
Actually the ability to float like that was pretty important to me. Even though I am a big somewhat macho guy, I always used the princess as my character in SMB2 because it was just so damn easy to fly past all the obstacles in my way. Luigi was probably the worst character in SMB2 but I'll leave that game alone as it was just generally bad.
I have read the above posts about Metroid. Now, that may or may not count because you didn't know it was a woman until the end. She did kick butt though.
There is another thing to take into consideration. The NES was meant for a younger audience than a lot of the games that are out now. Most boys that are 5 years old or so don't really like girls, and the NES was mostly meant for pre-pubescent boys I think. The Super Nintendo eventually came out, with games for older audiences, like Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter 2. These games featured women characters that kicked ass. This has continued today, even in the computer gaming arena. Even though Lara Croft looks like a ho, guys love to play her game, and you can't say that a woman running around playing Indiana Jones and shooting everything in sight is not a woman kicking butt.
As far as physical strength in real life, generally men are stronger than woman in how much we can pick up or lift. Women seem to have greater endurance though, and we are just made differently.
In any case, it is true that there were a lot more games with guys running around being macho, but I don't think it was necessarily because of a problem of the adults making this game, but that the audience was for little kids, who at that age the majority don't associate with the opposite sex all that much.
Street Fighter 2 was a good game, but I had some friends that liked to constantly remind me that they were better than me at the game. Well, after enough taunts and being beaten, I was tired of it, so I yanked the cartridge out of the SNES, threw it out the window, then proceeded to have a fist fight with the cocky SOB that was taunting me. I had almost forgotten about that incident. Ahhh...the days when I had a bad temper...
I remember the music it would play when you put it on pause...
bu-chck-bu-chck-bu-chckchckchck-bamph-bamph-bamph- chckchckchck
You know, all the playstation games and such still can have never had such a cool beat as the pause music on battletoads. I remember when I figured out how to connect my NES to the stereo (I used the RCA cables to connect everything to a Commodore monitor I had with my C=64) and played that up really loud. I also had a dad that was a big music fan, so he always got me fairly expensive stereo equipment for xmas and birthdays...man did my mom get mad about the bass...
Re:RMS = Removed from society? (Score:2)
by Dr. Evil (http://) on Sunday October 22, @02:28PM EDT (#45)
I think it is a very clear, noble and realistic point of view.
But you are Dr. Evil, so if you support him, that means he is a bad guy too! Oh God...just wait until we feel the wrath of Mini-RMS!!! Where's Linus Powers when we need his funky shagadelic self?
The driving in Atlanta in general is bad...but, it would be nice to have a realistic map of it, along with a game like Twisted Metal, and be able to drive around and destroy these other assholes (yes, I am an asshole driver too) out on the road blocking my way.
Another option that would be good would be a tank game that you can drive around on the streets, but not end up getting shot by the cops when your tank gets caught on the fence when trying to get on the highway. The traffic sucks here, and a few people I know that have been to L.A. say that the traffic has become worse in Atlanta than it is there. It's pretty sad.
a beowulf cluster of these just might be able to run vi. If you are lucky.
Seriously though, the first time I got on the internet was with a C=64. I dialed into a bbs (I got one of the first 2400baud modems) that was connected to the net, and I got to use pine, lynx, and a gopher client that I forgot the name of. It was pretty neat.
We're talking about politics here. The most rediculous interpretation that we could dream up, will pale in comparison to how stupid the governments of these countries are. Even though you and I know that they are trying to simply make stuff illegal that are used for DoS attacks and sniffers and such, the words there literally mean that all electronic devices and software will be illegal if their purpose is for accessing computers. It's pretty clear to me that this treaty wasn't thought out very well. If I were the conspiracy paranoid type, I'd say they are doing this with some evil goal to move us back into the dark ages, but I digress.
Criminalize the production, sale, distribution or
otherwise making available of devices or computer
programs who's primary use is to access, intercept or
interfere with computer systems or communications
WOOHOO!!! There goes the information age, as well as the industrial age as all cars made within the past 15 years or so have computer chips in them! ANARCHY!!!
Well, what I think is best would not be quite open source, but still I don't think that the law is the way to help creativity along that much.
For example, the majority of products and services used on the internet are the result of academic, military, and people just scratching an itch. Here's a few examples:
Internet - Military
HTTP/Browsers - Academic
FTP - Academic
Linux - Academic/scratching an itch
So with the exception of bringing networked computing to the masses (Microsoft, AOL, Intel) what has been done for the internet on a corporate level? It seems like most of the creativity is stifled by business practices. The only thing business seems to help is to create more business. The most popular and useful aspects of the internet are the free ones.
I know it is illegal to use certain emulators and certain software, however, it is pretty tough to see what you can get commercially or what you can get legally. Obviously, the people that host ROM sites aren't about to do the research to see what is legal or not, and I know I am going to get something the easiest way possible whether it is legal or not. Personally, I see copyrights and trademarks as a joke. Things should become public domain much faster and there should not be any "right" of businesses to make money. When a little kid opens up a lemonade stand, that doesn't mean the other kids on the block are not allowed to open them so the first kid can make money. No, other kids see it, get the idea to open up other lemonade stands, and whoever is the cheapest, actually washes the cups/gives paper cups, and has the best tasting lemonade wins. If little kids are smart enough to figure out something as basic as this, why can't our government and corporations? The reason is greed and selfishness, and in this respect, as well as many others...the people running this world are little more than "spoiled little brats in need of a good ole' fashioned ass-whoopin."
I have no idea what MMF is. My first guesses would be "Mad Mother Fucker", "My Mango's Friend" or some other crap like that. Someone please explain to me what MMF is.
I don't participate in elections for farcical, non-representative "consultation committees" at work; why should I do the same thing at a national level.
If people like you and I don't vote, we'll never get a professional wrestler/actor/etc into office. The point is, we can't have a politician in office because they will just make stupid laws that hurt us. What we need is a wacky sitcom type of person to be in office and entertain us at least. If people like you didn't vote in Minnesota, Jesse "The Body" Ventura wouldn't be in office. We all know politicians don't actually do any good work, we might as well hire PeeWee Herman or Pauly Shore to do the job.
Actually no, I want to vote for that guy from all the Police Academy movies. You know, the black guy that made the funny noises. I think the president was a better fit to be an actor in Porky's.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census of enumeration.
Yes, that was bad...but not nearly as bad as some of the other rights being taken away now. Free speech is worth more to me than 40% of my paycheck, although I don't like the fact that they take that much either. They force us to do a lot of things that are against the constitution. Basically the U.S. Government has no respect for the citizens, and unfortunately most of the citizens are too apathetic to care. I've looked at both Gore and Bush, and neither of them is fit to have this office. I know a lot of people on Slashdot spend their time bashing Bush, but seriously, they are both scumbags. It's sad to see that there is no major difference in the two. They both are idiots when it comes to the issues. I could vote for someone like Ralph Nader just so I can say I voted, and that I am not responsible for putting a dickweed like Gore or Bush into office, but even that is only symbolic.
Personally, I think I should move out to another country so I can have more freedoms since a majority of the other people in the U.S. don't seem to notice what is going on. It's sad to see that people don't realize the politics in this country has turned into the "devil" that was the U.S.S.R. and we are becoming more socialized in the wrong areas, and people are too fat, lazy, and greedy to care. I won't go into all the problems I have with the U.S. since I do know it is still one of the better places to live in the world, as I get all of my physical needs taken care of and have a decent living. However, there are better places to live than here.
"Preliminary tests of the pristine material find that it is loaded with organic molecules of the type that some experts have suggested could have been the original raw materials for the formation of life on Earth."
Original materials for life in The Rock? Oh no! We're all descended from a professional wrestler! Evolution is true! You smell what The Rock is cookin'?
Pinky: What'll we do tonight Brain?
The Brain: Same thing we do every night Pinky, try to take over Chia Earth!
Yes...there was an actual episode of Pinky and The Brain where they made a chia earth...this just reminded me of that. Also, please don't ask why a 23 year old watches Pinky and The Brain.
"What other frontiers or environments are left for computers to work in?" How about the typical windoze office, none of the computers there seem to work at all.
Or in my case (I have a bad temper) it needs to be functioning inside of a trash can, with crusty week-old General Tso's Chicken sauce and pork fried rice all over it.
Another option that would be useful for too many reasons to list...
I want a working computer that is completely encased inside of a brick.
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The article and previous posts said nothing about removing tall buildings, bridges, razors, pills, carbon monoxide in cars, etc. to prevent people from killing themselves. Also, it is within our rights in most countries to describe methods for doing such a thing. In the U.S. we have things thing called the Bill of Rights, and within that, there is the First Amendment that basically tells us we can say whatever we want (the only limitations I am aware of are in dealing with public safety, e.g. not screaming "FIRE!" in a crowded theater, and libel.)
Also, what makes you so sure of yourself that suicide is bad? Yes, it is against Judeo-Christian values, as well as a lot of other religions and cultures. However, there are sometimes valid reasons to kill yourself. What about someone who is dying of a painful brain tumor? What if someone simply doesn't want to live, has no hope, and doesn't want any help? It is not your right to tell someone how to live, and it should not be up to you to infringe on their right to die. If you are worried about "protecting" people, find someone who wants your help rather than those who simply want left alone.
Also, according to you, a lot of people that commit suicide are only temporarily in that depression and really want help. Going with that, wouldn't it be a lot easier for a kid to read a discussion group that has other people that feel like they do on it? Maybe their intent is to end their life, but when they find out they are not alone things seem better...or...if it is a website only about methods of killing yourself, the child's parents will look through the history in the web browser or sees the page on the monitor (a responsible parent that doesn't rely on worthless censorware) will know that something is wrong in their kid's life and try to find a way to help.
In any case, I don't think this stuff should be censored, and I think you may agree with me about that, I think the suicide thing should be viewed from another perspective.
- In flame wars, unlike real wars, noone has ever used ICBM's to assault the person they are pissed off at.
- In cybersex, unlike real sex, noone can get herpes, aids, crabs, etc.
- While running around shooting people in a game such as Quake or Unreal, unlike running around shooting people in school or a post office, the worst wound you can get is blistered fingers.
I can think of other reasons why @home would be considered safe, but it's all about relativity. Sure, @home might not be safe when compared to other ISPs, but they sure are safe compared to playing hot potato with a hand grenade. :o)
It also is pretty hopeless to make a decent translation program. I view things like babblefish and the like as being pretty crude, but they are free, and if it doesn't know for sure what something is, it leaves it. I think it might be a good idea if the censorware programmers took the same approach. It might be a good idea to leave in words like "breast" and "Dick" since they can be talking about anatomy class, or someone's name. However, I can't think of a non-vulgar or non-pornographic instance of "cum guzzler" or "suck my dick" which would be fine to block in my opinion.
The real fallacy here is not how unreliable censorware is, but of the expectations these ignorant politicians, christian groups, family groups, etc. are about the usefulness of the software. There is no substitute for parental guidance. We should have learned that from the generations that have grown up watching TV already. If these people really cared about what was good for the children, they would take care of them properly and not try to rely on broken software to do their jobs for them. If people can't take the responsibility to raise their children, they shouldn't be having them in the first place.
Despite all the issues discussed about presidents, they are not all that powerful. It's the congress that matters the most about issues like abortion, spending, and gun control and such.
- Winamp can be used to listen to illegal mp3's
- Shoutcast can be used to play copyrighted music and not pay any royalties
- Gnutella exists
- The guys from nullsoft released a winamp plugin to change the AOL Instant Messenger ads with something else.
There really isn't much new information here, it portrays the guys at Nullsoft as whimsical, ecentric, crazy kids while showing AOL to be the mature but understanding adult that is simply putting up with their youthful antics with a grin.
Oh, and umm...in a business sense ChiliWare makes the software that lets you run a website using .asp on linux...yeah...that's it. See? I did learn something from ChingaWare.
It's better than some of the guys. Sure, we have the male characters that are macho, big muscular guys that can kick ass, but, back in the days of Nintendo particularly...we were given some pretty ugly characters.
Mario - I don't know about most guys, but I never wanted to grow up and become a short fat guy with a beer belly and a huge moustache that you know catches at least half of the food he eats in it. Nevermind the bigass nose.
Kid Icarus - A midget version of Harpo Marx with a pair of wings strapped on his back, running around in his underwear is not my idea of an ass kicker either.
A boy and his blob - A lot of kids pick their nose and never give it a second thought. But, when a big ball of snot comes to life and you play with it, then you have real problems. That kid is a dork, not a hero.
We could go on to other game systems that do a good job. I think Sega has done excellent with games like Sonic the Hedgehog. Rather than having it be completely biased that he is a man and saving the princess, he is simply a mutated animal trying to save all the other animals. While there really is no female interaction there that I am aware of, it's not such a bad thing as it deals with animals, so it is more abstract than some guy running around shooting other army guys and ok for even young children, as you never kill the bad guys, simply free the animals from their robotic forms. Anyways, that is off topic so I will end this post now. :o)
I have read the above posts about Metroid. Now, that may or may not count because you didn't know it was a woman until the end. She did kick butt though.
There is another thing to take into consideration. The NES was meant for a younger audience than a lot of the games that are out now. Most boys that are 5 years old or so don't really like girls, and the NES was mostly meant for pre-pubescent boys I think. The Super Nintendo eventually came out, with games for older audiences, like Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter 2. These games featured women characters that kicked ass. This has continued today, even in the computer gaming arena. Even though Lara Croft looks like a ho, guys love to play her game, and you can't say that a woman running around playing Indiana Jones and shooting everything in sight is not a woman kicking butt.
As far as physical strength in real life, generally men are stronger than woman in how much we can pick up or lift. Women seem to have greater endurance though, and we are just made differently.
In any case, it is true that there were a lot more games with guys running around being macho, but I don't think it was necessarily because of a problem of the adults making this game, but that the audience was for little kids, who at that age the majority don't associate with the opposite sex all that much.
Street Fighter 2 was a good game, but I had some friends that liked to constantly remind me that they were better than me at the game. Well, after enough taunts and being beaten, I was tired of it, so I yanked the cartridge out of the SNES, threw it out the window, then proceeded to have a fist fight with the cocky SOB that was taunting me. I had almost forgotten about that incident. Ahhh...the days when I had a bad temper...
bu-chck-bu-chck-bu-chckchckchck-bamph-bamph-bamph
You know, all the playstation games and such still can have never had such a cool beat as the pause music on battletoads. I remember when I figured out how to connect my NES to the stereo (I used the RCA cables to connect everything to a Commodore monitor I had with my C=64) and played that up really loud. I also had a dad that was a big music fan, so he always got me fairly expensive stereo equipment for xmas and birthdays...man did my mom get mad about the bass...
Thanks battletoads!
I think it is a very clear, noble and realistic point of view.
But you are Dr. Evil, so if you support him, that means he is a bad guy too! Oh God...just wait until we feel the wrath of Mini-RMS!!! Where's Linus Powers when we need his funky shagadelic self?
Ok, it was a joke.
Another option that would be good would be a tank game that you can drive around on the streets, but not end up getting shot by the cops when your tank gets caught on the fence when trying to get on the highway. The traffic sucks here, and a few people I know that have been to L.A. say that the traffic has become worse in Atlanta than it is there. It's pretty sad.
Seriously though, the first time I got on the internet was with a C=64. I dialed into a bbs (I got one of the first 2400baud modems) that was connected to the net, and I got to use pine, lynx, and a gopher client that I forgot the name of. It was pretty neat.
Or Perhaps it's Signal 11 or the penis-bird guy in a plot to mess with your head.
The point is, this treaty is useless, too broad.
WOOHOO!!! There goes the information age, as well as the industrial age as all cars made within the past 15 years or so have computer chips in them! ANARCHY!!!
For example, the majority of products and services used on the internet are the result of academic, military, and people just scratching an itch. Here's a few examples:
Internet - Military HTTP/Browsers - Academic FTP - Academic Linux - Academic/scratching an itch
So with the exception of bringing networked computing to the masses (Microsoft, AOL, Intel) what has been done for the internet on a corporate level? It seems like most of the creativity is stifled by business practices. The only thing business seems to help is to create more business. The most popular and useful aspects of the internet are the free ones.
I know it is illegal to use certain emulators and certain software, however, it is pretty tough to see what you can get commercially or what you can get legally. Obviously, the people that host ROM sites aren't about to do the research to see what is legal or not, and I know I am going to get something the easiest way possible whether it is legal or not. Personally, I see copyrights and trademarks as a joke. Things should become public domain much faster and there should not be any "right" of businesses to make money. When a little kid opens up a lemonade stand, that doesn't mean the other kids on the block are not allowed to open them so the first kid can make money. No, other kids see it, get the idea to open up other lemonade stands, and whoever is the cheapest, actually washes the cups/gives paper cups, and has the best tasting lemonade wins. If little kids are smart enough to figure out something as basic as this, why can't our government and corporations? The reason is greed and selfishness, and in this respect, as well as many others...the people running this world are little more than "spoiled little brats in need of a good ole' fashioned ass-whoopin."
Thanks.
If people like you and I don't vote, we'll never get a professional wrestler/actor/etc into office. The point is, we can't have a politician in office because they will just make stupid laws that hurt us. What we need is a wacky sitcom type of person to be in office and entertain us at least. If people like you didn't vote in Minnesota, Jesse "The Body" Ventura wouldn't be in office. We all know politicians don't actually do any good work, we might as well hire PeeWee Herman or Pauly Shore to do the job.
Actually no, I want to vote for that guy from all the Police Academy movies. You know, the black guy that made the funny noises. I think the president was a better fit to be an actor in Porky's.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census of enumeration. Yes, that was bad...but not nearly as bad as some of the other rights being taken away now. Free speech is worth more to me than 40% of my paycheck, although I don't like the fact that they take that much either. They force us to do a lot of things that are against the constitution. Basically the U.S. Government has no respect for the citizens, and unfortunately most of the citizens are too apathetic to care. I've looked at both Gore and Bush, and neither of them is fit to have this office. I know a lot of people on Slashdot spend their time bashing Bush, but seriously, they are both scumbags. It's sad to see that there is no major difference in the two. They both are idiots when it comes to the issues. I could vote for someone like Ralph Nader just so I can say I voted, and that I am not responsible for putting a dickweed like Gore or Bush into office, but even that is only symbolic.
Personally, I think I should move out to another country so I can have more freedoms since a majority of the other people in the U.S. don't seem to notice what is going on. It's sad to see that people don't realize the politics in this country has turned into the "devil" that was the U.S.S.R. and we are becoming more socialized in the wrong areas, and people are too fat, lazy, and greedy to care. I won't go into all the problems I have with the U.S. since I do know it is still one of the better places to live in the world, as I get all of my physical needs taken care of and have a decent living. However, there are better places to live than here.
What type of a new job did you find? I'm looking for something to do after I get completely burnt out of working with computers myself.
"Preliminary tests of the pristine material find that it is loaded with organic molecules of the type that some experts have suggested could have been the original raw materials for the formation of life on Earth."
Original materials for life in The Rock? Oh no! We're all descended from a professional wrestler! Evolution is true! You smell what The Rock is cookin'?
Pinky: What'll we do tonight Brain?
The Brain: Same thing we do every night Pinky, try to take over Chia Earth!
Yes...there was an actual episode of Pinky and The Brain where they made a chia earth...this just reminded me of that. Also, please don't ask why a 23 year old watches Pinky and The Brain.
Or in my case (I have a bad temper) it needs to be functioning inside of a trash can, with crusty week-old General Tso's Chicken sauce and pork fried rice all over it.
Another option that would be useful for too many reasons to list...
I want a working computer that is completely encased inside of a brick.