Necessity is the mother of all change. It's awesome that word is getting out about what is necessary, so that change can occur sooner, but seriously, I have faith that before, or slightly after "shit hits the fan", these realizations will be made on behalf of the greater good. In the meantime, I'm reducing my carbon footprint. I use less, likely 1/3 less, than what the average american uses. I eat in moderation, heat my house in moderation, don't over consume shit I don't need, I reuse toilet paper... why else would it have two sides, you know?
Even with save states on an emulator I gave up. I got past the snakes, but then I remember rolling around the walls with some vacuum cleaner like device. It was like "Seriously? This game is trying to piss me off. I don't have the patience for this."
Boy and his Blob. Lol. Thinking back on it, it seems like an underrated game. You feed this blob, what was it, jelly beans? and different things happen? And let's not forget blaster master, the technodrome level in TMNT, marble madness, and level 20 tetris. There are also those who claim to have beaten contra with only one life. I've never seen it done.
100% redundant my ass. I had a subtle hint there about the words "orgasm" and "organism" looking so similar. As if there's something eerily behind it. Maybe that's what makes us organisms. Being able to enjoy the orgasm of life. Okay, yea, fine, be that way.:P
Well, we have a representative democracy, so in a way, this already mitigates a lot of the dangers. I actually think it works almost perfectly, except for a few glaring, nagging issues that we need to get past.
1) 2 Party system. This is not healthy. It's too polarizing
2) Big money campaigns and lobbyists. The candidates aren't representing the people really, but big money, and making the platform palatable to the people and telling just enough lies so that the whole farce isn't exposed.
I believe there's an obvious solution here though, to both these problems. Internet based parties. It provides an extra NEEDED layer between the public and the representatives they elect. Take slashdot. It's a real organic community of people. Imagine if instead of discussing silly nerdy articles, we discussed politics. The karma system could represent our voting power, and we'd vote for candidates (coming from our own constituency) to represent us in the elections. Further, these candidates, if they were elected, could promise to vote inline with their underlying body (the slashdot community), so if there's a vote in congress, then slashdot would vote on it, and our representative(s) would then vote in accordance with our vote (or they can go rogue and jeopardize their slashdot endorsement/support in the next election, which I imagine would/should happen from time to time, although rarely as the exception.)
So summarizing, the public then could go to the website of the internet party, and would be able to see the transparent discussions that led to the policies that the party represents. I think people could/would get behind such a system. And further, it would allow for multiple parties to compete. I think a healthy government would be more like an N-party system. Maybe the government lists all such internet parties on website, with links to them, with a little 200 word blurb about them.
Think about it. The capabilities of the internet put the democratic tools of the past to shame. Let's start to leverage it. There's no reason this system wouldn't work perfectly without even changing a single part of our current governance system. And also these parties could represent all types of political orientations, from the wealthy fascists to the dirty socialists. There's something for everyone.
Desirable to whom? I define desirable as having the propensity to understand a simple grammatic rule such as using "whom" when it's the object of a preposition.
The smartest people I know don't have a college degree. The drive to get a degree shows nothing than the pursuit of selfish things. Meeting a person and looking into their eyes is all I need to know.
And to further elaborate, Persig brings this point home with his analysis of quality. He says every child without any training has an innate sense of quality, yet quality cannot be proven by the scientific method. We can develop models for quality, but from what I've seen, the models fall apart as some point and are very fragile.
I think to answer your question of "why" is to understand the essence of life.:) I believe it was Daniel Dannett, an atheist cognitive scientist at Tufts, who said, and I paraphrase:
"We won't truly understand how the mind arises from the brain and how the mind and brain work until we understand the purpose of music"
In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Persig takes issue with the rigidity of the scientific method. To paraphrase, he said the problem is that if you can't create an experiment to test something, and if it can't be proven in a lab, then it doesn't exist.
I have a theory that explains why we're so crazy about music, but it can't be proven, and proposing it to a group of scientists, well I would be abused faster than a cow eaten by piranhas in the amazon.
Parabola's are more innate to the human evolution. Insects follow ballistic motions, but most mammals and more complex species surely derived form fish that swam in more parabolic patterns. It's more natural. Birds evolved from flying fish, so there you go. If there was some app with fish that moved in parabola's it would probably be just as successful.
I've never played the games, so I'm just surmising, which I realize is something isn't respected around here, but let's face it, the scientific method will struggle to prove this.
I seriously doubt they could breed in the wild, no? Are you suggesting they might be cross breedable with elephants? What would you call that? An elemoth?
Seriously, they should breed a family. And do it for a few generations. Obviously this is the next step. Can't wait!
If you were all on polyphasic sleeping schedules (like the Everyman or Uberman), it would make this more feasible. But with monophasic sleeping you're just asking for a whole host of problems I'm sure everybody else has already pointed out.
Funny... I was going to say the same thing... and actually I did. And the weirdest thing is, I started my post BEFORE you submitted wrote yours, and then I was interrupted by a meeting (damn boss thinks he's more important than/..) After the meeting I finished and submitted my post, but you beat me to the punch. Clearly it's a misleading title.
marco polo and the japanese and pretty much the world stole so much shit from china, I think it's only fair. Read needham's Science and Civilization in China for a broad, and I mean mother fuckin broad (RIP joe, you were da man), history of Chinese firsts that the rest of the world stole.
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Necessity is the mother of all change. It's awesome that word is getting out about what is necessary, so that change can occur sooner, but seriously, I have faith that before, or slightly after "shit hits the fan", these realizations will be made on behalf of the greater good. In the meantime, I'm reducing my carbon footprint. I use less, likely 1/3 less, than what the average american uses. I eat in moderation, heat my house in moderation, don't over consume shit I don't need, I reuse toilet paper... why else would it have two sides, you know?
Anonymous group is a perfect cover for intelligence agencies to run wild on the internet.
Good point! It just goes to show the best things come with risk.
Even with save states on an emulator I gave up. I got past the snakes, but then I remember rolling around the walls with some vacuum cleaner like device. It was like "Seriously? This game is trying to piss me off. I don't have the patience for this."
Boy and his Blob. Lol. Thinking back on it, it seems like an underrated game. You feed this blob, what was it, jelly beans? and different things happen? And let's not forget blaster master, the technodrome level in TMNT, marble madness, and level 20 tetris. There are also those who claim to have beaten contra with only one life. I've never seen it done.
100% redundant my ass. I had a subtle hint there about the words "orgasm" and "organism" looking so similar. As if there's something eerily behind it. Maybe that's what makes us organisms. Being able to enjoy the orgasm of life. Okay, yea, fine, be that way. :P
Well, we have a representative democracy, so in a way, this already mitigates a lot of the dangers. I actually think it works almost perfectly, except for a few glaring, nagging issues that we need to get past.
1) 2 Party system. This is not healthy. It's too polarizing
2) Big money campaigns and lobbyists. The candidates aren't representing the people really, but big money, and making the platform palatable to the people and telling just enough lies so that the whole farce isn't exposed.
I believe there's an obvious solution here though, to both these problems. Internet based parties. It provides an extra NEEDED layer between the public and the representatives they elect. Take slashdot. It's a real organic community of people. Imagine if instead of discussing silly nerdy articles, we discussed politics. The karma system could represent our voting power, and we'd vote for candidates (coming from our own constituency) to represent us in the elections. Further, these candidates, if they were elected, could promise to vote inline with their underlying body (the slashdot community), so if there's a vote in congress, then slashdot would vote on it, and our representative(s) would then vote in accordance with our vote (or they can go rogue and jeopardize their slashdot endorsement/support in the next election, which I imagine would/should happen from time to time, although rarely as the exception.)
So summarizing, the public then could go to the website of the internet party, and would be able to see the transparent discussions that led to the policies that the party represents. I think people could/would get behind such a system. And further, it would allow for multiple parties to compete. I think a healthy government would be more like an N-party system. Maybe the government lists all such internet parties on website, with links to them, with a little 200 word blurb about them.
Think about it. The capabilities of the internet put the democratic tools of the past to shame. Let's start to leverage it. There's no reason this system wouldn't work perfectly without even changing a single part of our current governance system. And also these parties could represent all types of political orientations, from the wealthy fascists to the dirty socialists. There's something for everyone.
Hmmm why do the words orgasm and organism look so similar? Now, that's a museum I'd be curious to check out. The Museum of Engineered Orgasms.
The natives used a stick to determine who talks. Leave it to those industrious (nerdy?) japanese to rely on some electronic gadgetry. ;)
Desirable to whom? I define desirable as having the propensity to understand a simple grammatic rule such as using "whom" when it's the object of a preposition.
Brainscans don't only detect autism, they also cause it.
Can't function socially
I always thought the joke was, they can't function sexually. I guess the jokes on me, huh?
yeah, like that chicago squad that murdered the peace-broker Fred Hampton in his sleep, and then smugly smiled about it, evidenced in this photo.
I'm down to start my own police force to police the outta control police forces. Anybody with me? Haha... and we'll all be dead before we know it.
Is that what you meant? I've never heard of consolitis
The smartest people I know don't have a college degree. The drive to get a degree shows nothing than the pursuit of selfish things. Meeting a person and looking into their eyes is all I need to know.
And to further elaborate, Persig brings this point home with his analysis of quality. He says every child without any training has an innate sense of quality, yet quality cannot be proven by the scientific method. We can develop models for quality, but from what I've seen, the models fall apart as some point and are very fragile.
I think to answer your question of "why" is to understand the essence of life. :) I believe it was Daniel Dannett, an atheist cognitive scientist at Tufts, who said, and I paraphrase:
"We won't truly understand how the mind arises from the brain and how the mind and brain work until we understand the purpose of music"
In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Persig takes issue with the rigidity of the scientific method. To paraphrase, he said the problem is that if you can't create an experiment to test something, and if it can't be proven in a lab, then it doesn't exist.
I have a theory that explains why we're so crazy about music, but it can't be proven, and proposing it to a group of scientists, well I would be abused faster than a cow eaten by piranhas in the amazon.
Parabola's are more innate to the human evolution. Insects follow ballistic motions, but most mammals and more complex species surely derived form fish that swam in more parabolic patterns. It's more natural. Birds evolved from flying fish, so there you go. If there was some app with fish that moved in parabola's it would probably be just as successful.
I've never played the games, so I'm just surmising, which I realize is something isn't respected around here, but let's face it, the scientific method will struggle to prove this.
I seriously doubt they could breed in the wild, no? Are you suggesting they might be cross breedable with elephants? What would you call that? An elemoth?
Seriously, they should breed a family. And do it for a few generations. Obviously this is the next step. Can't wait!
There's Kucinich, and there was feingold. Would Ron Paul count?
Real evil is paying your taxes to endorse illegal wars of agression
If you were all on polyphasic sleeping schedules (like the Everyman or Uberman), it would make this more feasible. But with monophasic sleeping you're just asking for a whole host of problems I'm sure everybody else has already pointed out.
What about the nouse?
Funny... I was going to say the same thing... and actually I did. And the weirdest thing is, I started my post BEFORE you submitted wrote yours, and then I was interrupted by a meeting (damn boss thinks he's more important than /..) After the meeting I finished and submitted my post, but you beat me to the punch. Clearly it's a misleading title.
That's fucking crazy. 18M per CD per month? I think you meant 18M CD/Month
post a link on slashdot with a possible chance of titties, and watch the /. effect take affect. Can anybody else view that link?
marco polo and the japanese and pretty much the world stole so much shit from china, I think it's only fair. Read needham's Science and Civilization in China for a broad, and I mean mother fuckin broad (RIP joe, you were da man), history of Chinese firsts that the rest of the world stole.