GP is apparently not a native English speaker, and probably meant "on their heads".
Yes, bend over backwards to re-interpret the insane so that it fits with your own psyche. This is variously called mirroring and projecting, and it is the primary duck blind psychopaths hide behind when interacting with the human race.
I already explained this to some degree, but you are clearly severely limited in your range of free thought, as your previous remarks concerning the power generation system and Kassam rockets indicates.
Try reading with your eyes open if you can, and don't be so quick to hit, "Reply" until you are sure you know what you are talking about.
You sounded pretty intelligent as long as you talked about science. Perhaps if you had done your research you would have known that most of Gaza's electricity is supplied by Israel, and most electricity outages in Gaza have been caused by Kassam rockets hitting electricity infrastructure in Israeli territory. (And of course, Israeli Electric Company technicians are sent to fix the problem, risking their lives to provide power to the very people attacking them!)
And you don't sound intelligent at all.
Points in order. . .
1. The Israeli air force bombed Gaza's primary power plant in 2006. 2. Power generation today rests on diesel availability. This is one of the many things Israel will not allow into Gaza. 3. Delivery infrastructure in Gaza is damaged (due to IDF bombing, not home-made rockets) and repair was slowed to a crawl because building materials are blocked from entering Gaza. 4. Your claim that black outs being due to Kassam rockets damaging Israeli infrastructure is patently wrong. Daily rolling blackouts are planned because there is not enough power to supply demand. And anyway, if the damage were in Israel, why would Israeli repair crews need to enter Gaza? Your logic is flawed. 5. Rationing power from Israel is a means of very deliberate population control.
Of course, the Israeli psychopaths who support this system claim that it is Gaza's fault. This is typical behavior. Blame the victim.
Anybody interested in further details may refer to this document detailing the power distribution system over the last 10 years in Gaza.
I could only wish what you think is true and Mossad would shot a bullet in your stupid head. Unfortunately, it's not and Israeli citizen will have to keep suffering with Hamas rockets falling in their heads.
One amazing thing about congenital psychopaths is that they have a marvelous facility for mangling language in such a way as to speak truth without their intending to.
It took me three readings to spot the glaring "WTF?" item in the above quote. This is largely because the normal human automatically forgives and tries to auto-correct their reading of other people's social faux-pas out of embarrassment on their behalf. Everybody makes typos, but "George Bush Jr." moments are special, they carry a certain flavor of 'Wrong', and they are one of the tell-tale signs that one is dealing with a monster.
The system is broken. You get to choose charming and evil or just plain evil.
The government is bought and paid for. Voting is a charade.
For voting to work as we'd all like it to work, first we'd have to...
1. Have an independent media not owned by the oligarchs. This way real debate can happen. 2. Test candidates and sitting leaders for psychopathy and remove those who fail the tests from the system. 3. Make corporate sponsorship/lobbying a crime with real punishments which stop the crimes from repeating. 4. Fix the money system so that we are not all debt slaves in the giant pyramid scheme which is the global economy.
Since none of those things are going to come about, debating how to vote is pointless.
The system is collapsing, and a LOT of people are going to suffer horribly.
The only thing you can realistically do is to find your neighbors and figure out how to help and support each other through the hard times, because the government is an evil leach which is here to feed on you and enslave you. Disengage from it.
So, batteries are good for them, and there is a chance that maybe possibly we're seeing some sort of scientific-economic-political strategy at work here.
Ugh.
The "Yissum Research Development Company Ltd." trying to sell this turd has come up with a way to turn a food source into a power source. Except, it doesn't work because. . .
1. The power comes from oxidization of metal and needn't involve potatoes at all. It could just as well be cow dung. Or a cup of salt water. 2. The potatoes need to be boiled first, so there's a huge amount of energy already being spent/wasted. 3. Potatoes rot and thus any power system would be saddled with ridiculous limitations in terms of maintenance, portability, and time constraints. 4. We already have wind-up radios and solar solar powered devices. Conventional electronics still wouldn't work, because you can't plug potatoes into them, so you'd need extra gear just to use the craptastic consumer-level garbage devices which don't even last in suburbia for more than a year. It makes a lot more sense to use electronics specifically designed for harsh environments.
But the thing which makes this sick is that the scientists who came up with this potato thing are not stupid. They know all these problems exist, which begs the question; what is their real aim?
It sure isn't to create great battery technology so as to stymie their oil-rich neighbors. It's probably an attempt to generate some positive media spin for their university and by extension Israel, (green is good and people are too stupid to realize when they are being manipulated through media!) -That, combined with some underlying psychopathic desire to sell a bad bill of goods to people who are already hurting.
Yeah. So, thanks, Israel. If you wanted to make sure underprivileged people have electricity, perhaps you should NOT bomb their infrastructure while saying, "Look what you made me do with the bottle rockets our own Mossad organized you into firing at us so we could have an excuse to steal your land!"
Psychopaths blame the victims for their own crimes. That's the pattern. Look for it.
Anybody disagreeing with me simply hasn't done the research or is evil.
More than 420,000 scam emails are sent every hour in the UK according to a report by CPP which estimates that Brits were targeted by 3.7 billion phishing emails in the last 12 months alone. A quarter of us admit to falling victim to e-fraudsters, with the average victim losing over GBP285 each.
First of all. . , who exactly is "CPP"??
It took a bit of Google confusion to determine that it's this some bullshit corporate security racket...
It appears that their business model is based around selling security devices and systems, featuring ID cards as one of their premier items. The interests here are just a BIT conflicted.
Second of all. . . Sorry, but as much as I think the herd is idiotic, I simply don't believe that one in four Brits is THAT stupid.
Lies, damned lies and statistics, right?
Oh whatever. If you can't work out why this is utter and complete bullshit, then further writing isn't going to make a very big difference and you probably feel like all those security cameras make you safer.
Fear-mongering bullshit ADVERTISING of this nature has no place on Slashdot.
While silly scare stories of this nature are.., well what they are, it does raise a point.
Solar maximums do spit out a lot of radiation, and they have been known to cause power outages. My question is this, (because I can't seem to find a straight answer), we know that the Earth's magnetic field which protects us from solar wind is decreasing.
I'm not actually very concerned about this; the platitudes are well in place and I don't really have any reason to doubt them (other than I don't trust any government or large media promises ever), but whatever. In any case, it is an interesting and relevant point which you'd think SOMEBODY might have taken a moment to mention.
Here's NASA's website which has some details about the shifting magnetic field. Apparently it's picked up speed; magnetic North is moving at about 40 Km every year now.
Seriously! This reminds me of those really fun goof-off days in physics class.
And in the next thread over, everybody could be bitching about politics and one more from that, D&D. This is like taking the best parts of school and dumping the rest.
-The analogy I was tinkering with before I ran across your summation was, "Hey, human brains are routinely used to entertain stupid, vapid thoughts, so brains should be banned. And I'm suspicious of human hands as well; consider how often they are used to do stupid, dangerous things!"
The medium is the message, yes; we are always changed by any medium we use frequently. But honestly. . , we can choose the websites we visit. I use my computer to read books as well as watch youtube videos and everything in between. I know a LOT more today than I did ten years ago, and that's largely thanks to humans communicating freely on the web.
I think, though, for me the single most powerful, can't find it anywhere else, value of the web is that of forum discussion. I can have personal illusions and false info blasted to pieces faster on line than anywhere else. There are universities and various gatherings where people can discuss and compare knowledge, but that's not available or as fast. (Which, coincidentally, is one of the reasons I think the iPad is a giant brain-damper. You can't type! It turns the information flow back into a one-way street, where people are no longer doing but instead passively sit down to be programmed with the daily download, fed public consensus rather than building their own.)
But sure, if you fritter away your on-line energies, then you won't reap much overall. You get out what you put in. Just like life.
It's a 1024 x 768 screen with finger-painting and no keyboard, a platform where the software still doesn't turn into real cash for programmers, except now they're not having any fun on Open Source because lottery-mentality greed has taken the place of creative pride, and where the end user is milked.
What part of this is not getting through?
EVERY part, apparently.
So I say, milk the suckers! They obviously want to be treated like cattle. They should just consider the extra charges the RETARD TAX.
It seems more likely you pulled them out of your ass. Or they pulled you out of theirs.
Oh it seems that way, does it? Who are you measuring against? Yourself and the people you call friends?
Yeah, that's a reliable source of intelligence. Because it's obvious that ALL Jews are bad and there's no possible way any reality might exist where people don't have to lie about having friends who aren't boring, predictable losers. Grow a spine and step beyond your comfort zone. Not everybody is an inexperienced, TV-watching coward.
You're the product of social engineering. Think for yourself for five seconds.
Zionism is a program aimed at Jews, designed ultimately, to destroy them by creating, well, idiots like you via backlash.
See how well it works?
There are people who were born Jewish and who reject Zionism, and there are a lot of them. I've got close friends who are Jews and who are the loudest critics of Israel you'll hear, (much to their own professional and familial detriment). It takes real guts and morals to do that, and I have deep respect for them. You've also got people who were born Jewish and who simply ignore their own stupid religion and get on with life, but who are perhaps not strong enough when the "Sayem" come knocking. And then you've got those who join the IDF and cheer when bulldozers crush houses.
You have to discriminate within a much larger subset. Essentially, fools and psychopaths are the problem. "Jew" is a useless word, because it can refers to both paragons of humanity and psychopaths at the same time, and everything in between.
Condemn Israel and Zionism, but leave my friends out of it. I didn't just pick them out of a hat.
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Actually, I know exactly what you're talking about.
The best video game I've seen in almost a half decade was one about setting off fireworks by Popcap games. Here. . .
Competing for audience appreciation (cheers for bigger explosions) was by far the happiest and most exhilarating reward system I've ever encountered. Very positive and very fun. We're tuned as a species to seek approval noises from people. I'm surprised it hasn't caught on more as a game reward feature.
Anyway. . , as per my reaction in my first post; I was just stunned when I saw the screen in action on that Youtube video. I'd never paid attention to how that game actually worked before It was a shock to realize just how little it takes to keep the human race perpetually entertained. I just figured there was more to it than Karaoke for your fingers.
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Mod parent +1 insightful curmudgeon.
Dang it! Yeah, I'm old. I don't take well to lots of ruckus no more! A good film is one about. . , row boats! Nice and smooth and quiet. But there better not be any splashin' or I'll want my money back!
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I am at a loss for words.
I had that game on my old TRS-80 Color Computer.
I keyed it in from Rainbow Magazine. It was less than 1 Kb.
Things fell down from the top of the screen and you had to catch them. The end.
Later on they remade this game a few thousand times. Stuff comes down and you have to catch it. Or shoot it. Or bounce it. Or tetris it. If you made enough mistakes, the music would stop playing.
The only difference here is that the music happens to be licensed and your joy stick looks even dumber than a joystick.
I can't believe this is what all the fuss is over. People pay HOW MUCH for this? They made a South Park episode about this?
Okay. Thanks for that. I feel informed now. And rather silly for being human.
That would actually be an awesome universe! I remember the Amiga people were bright and happy and smart. Kind of like Apple people today, except they were more fun and they weren't scared of hacking and open source thinking.
It could have happened, too. There was this weird period where everything shifted. It was when Lucasarts released X-Wing on the PC and nothing else. I know guys who bought whole $2000+ systems just to play that game. (Such was the power of Star Wars before Phantom). Imagine if Lucas had released it on the Amiga?
Heck, Bill Gates might not have become such a force in everybody's lives.
Of course, the Evil Overlords were prepared for such an eventuality. Some ex-CIA spooks managed to work themselves into power over at Commodore, and tanked the company. Interestingly, it's very hard to look up the details of that since Google searches on the subject get confused by one of the chips inside the Amiga, called the "CIA" chip.
But whatever.
Instead we got Linux and Mozilla. And Slashdot, for that matter. Can't keep the good guys down!
The geek button got pushed, wherein a false item was offered up as fact, and the overpowering instinct to raise one's hand in class and correct it illustrates a fundamental piece of social programming common in many.
Even when they know it's redundant, that it's not going to be read, (let alone noticed), and will generally only add to the clutter of a forum tree which is already populated with 750 comments and growing, they'll go ahead and do it anyway. Such is the auto-response system of the common nerd.
And people wonder why I insist that the human race runs almost entirely on automatic. This is just an extreme example. Virtually all behavior is automatic. (Including this one, btw. My auto-button activates when I see thoughtless behavior. I chose to indulge it this time and write this response.)
I wish you were right, but my cynical side is shaking his head sadly.
This is old tech. Other posters have indicated that filtering technology exists and is indeed stockpiled. But it seems that dispersant is the cheaper, faster and prettier solution. Keeps the muck off-camera by sinking it in toxic globs. Profits have more to do with keeping investors on board than in actually saving oil. I'm sure all their other holes in the ground are more than keeping things in the black, what with oil profits being what they are.
The problem is also one of scale. And with Hurricane season growing dark upon the horizon, I can see those scales getting splashed around a bit.
Hopefully the BP execs responsible will all tip out of a boat.
Musicians are artists. Their work should not be copied and distributed without their consent on a mass scale. Why not, you ask. Because it constitutes as theft, unless declared otherwise by the artist or the music company. So what? This is significant because people who have done so in the past have been made examples by massive lawsuits. There is a gray area between right and wrong but I doubt anyone pirates music because they need it to maintain their physical body.
Yes, thank-you for such an original analysis. I'm sure if you continue to repeat this logically broken argument enough times it will magically take on the aura of truth. It worked on you, after all; Somebody obviously fooled you into thinking that information and ideas are property and that only rich people should be allowed to use their eyes, ears and minds.
Oooh! Did I hear your brain just re-boot there? Why, I think I did! Often, people like you hear an idea which doesn't fit their paradigm and promptly forget they heard it. So I'll repeat it for you: "YOU ARE TELLING US THAT ONLY RICH PEOPLE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO USE THEIR EYES, EARS AND MINDS."
Do not fucking re-boot! THINK! Do it now. I'll wait.
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You see? If you have a brain, you will realize that what we are talking about here is the issue of slavery; Of one caste of society controlling what another caste is allowed to PERCEIVE AND THINK. If you are okay with that, then you are evil and you need to fuck off now. If you are not okay with that, then we can continue with this analysis.
The problem cannot be reconciled with our current money and trade system. This is the issue. Everything else is a sideshow.
Money is a fool's game. It is inadequate for our needs as a species. It limits everything. There are better ways, ones which support artists and do not feed middle-men leach people 98% of the revenue and profits. Those alternative systems are in their fledgling stages of growth right now, but they work. Except greedy power-mongers who like to keep slaves know that the money system as it stands works to their benefit. And so they convince people (fools) to embrace it.
Bottom line: Your ideas are over-simple and faulty. The ideas I am presenting take brain power and work to understand. You believe in work, don't you? Anybody who uses the copying-music-is-theft argument does. So do some of it now. Think.
Because I get exactly where you are coming from and I reject that position because I have considered it and I see how and why it is flawed. Before you reject my ideas, you ALSO need to put in the WORK of understanding them. Slavery is wrong.
Dang. Where's that "Idiot" moderation option when you need it?
I'll just have to post instead.
-If you can't see or understand the problems with your argument, then you are an Idiot.
I'll define idiot for you, (though I doubt you'll understand it, so really consider yourself a bug under glass and that I'm offering the following for other readers to note). . .
Idiot:Noun. 1. A person without sufficient imagination to see beyond a narrow world view. 2. Somebody who would be much happier if the world were in fact confined to this narrow understanding because shades of gray require the expenditure of Effort in order to formulate a viable plan of Action. 3. Somebody who has realized that, "Thinking is hard. You can make mistakes and hurt yourself or others. Pain is scary! I am a tool. Give me orders I can follow and assure me that doing so will make this feeling of unrest inside me go away.", and rather than face up to that reality like a man, instead PRETENDS that reality can be shoved into a simple set of on-off switches wherein there is always a single best answer to any given problem, and that this answer is always the right one. 4. Somebody who is either intellectually lazy, or just plain stupid.
In other words, grow up or shut up you damned retard. The world is burning because lazy twerps like you don't THINK.
And because most idiots are also religious, I'll put it this way:
God is infinite; trying to jam reality into a simple set of finite, easy answers is like going to war with God. Only and idiot thinks he can win that fight. And look around at the world. Only an idiot would think he is currently winning.
Wise men don't fight the wind and ocean. They learn to sail.
One way of dealing with such problems in smaller towns is to let the Federal police do the work; that is, RCMP officers, when they get the job, are shipped off across country to another province where they serve a term. This way, they don't know anybody and are able to do their job without bias.
It's not an ideal solution, but it certainly serves to cut down on small town corruption. I've had my share of encounters with RCMP officers, and I always come away really impressed by their behavior. I knew a girl once who had gotten into in some trouble; it wasn't her fault, but she was a foreigner and was terrified; in her home country dealing with the cops meant you were basically going to be shaken down by a state-funded gang. I assured her that this wasn't the case in Canada, at least not that I'd ever seen. The officer came, was really supportive and calm and everything was taken care of in a really professional and competent manner. After the officer left, she turned to me with tears in her eyes and she said "I love Canada." That was a good example, and I warned her that Canada wasn't perfect; we have plenty of stupid here as well, but we certainly did have some good law enforcement and emergency workers. Part of it is that they are quite well paid. Starting salaries at the RCMP are pretty big.
Larger cities, by contrast, employ local law enforcement and hire from the resident populations, but cities being bigger entities have a lot more anonymity simply due to their size. There is, of course, still the danger of corruption and bad apples. And 9-11 left its mark of stupid paranoia here as well, but on the whole we seem to do pretty well compared to other places.
The explanations I've seen thus far are annoying and hard to turn into concepts I can grasp.
Here's how it appears to me. . .
1. Think of a cube of air inside which is contained the car. 2. That cube of air is moving at 10 mph. It takes a certain amount of energy to do this. 3. The car absorbs and uses some of that energy. 4. Does the cube of air stop moving once the car has absorbed its energy? (A: No.) 5. So there's MORE energy than is contained in that one cube of air. Where is it coming from? 6. The rest of the surrounding air. The wind is very big. A HUGE amount of energy is required to move the atmosphere along like that. 7. The car is a kind of energy capacitor which, by the time it is spending the energy at the same speed it absorbs it, happens to be moving faster than the wind. (The propeller becomes a type of energy-storing gyro.) 8. The speed of the wind and the speed of the car aren't directly related.
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GP is apparently not a native English speaker, and probably meant "on their heads".
Yes, bend over backwards to re-interpret the insane so that it fits with your own psyche. This is variously called mirroring and projecting, and it is the primary duck blind psychopaths hide behind when interacting with the human race.
I already explained this to some degree, but you are clearly severely limited in your range of free thought, as your previous remarks concerning the power generation system and Kassam rockets indicates.
Try reading with your eyes open if you can, and don't be so quick to hit, "Reply" until you are sure you know what you are talking about.
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Wow. I'm interested in your religion and would like a pamphlet.
My religion is Life and Objective Reality.
There are no pamphlets. This is too bad, as you could clearly use one.
Maybe try cracking a book or ten..?
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You sounded pretty intelligent as long as you talked about science. Perhaps if you had done your research you would have known that most of Gaza's electricity is supplied by Israel, and most electricity outages in Gaza have been caused by Kassam rockets hitting electricity infrastructure in Israeli territory. (And of course, Israeli Electric Company technicians are sent to fix the problem, risking their lives to provide power to the very people attacking them!)
And you don't sound intelligent at all.
Points in order. . .
1. The Israeli air force bombed Gaza's primary power plant in 2006.
2. Power generation today rests on diesel availability. This is one of the many things Israel will not allow into Gaza.
3. Delivery infrastructure in Gaza is damaged (due to IDF bombing, not home-made rockets) and repair was slowed to a crawl because building materials are blocked from entering Gaza.
4. Your claim that black outs being due to Kassam rockets damaging Israeli infrastructure is patently wrong. Daily rolling blackouts are planned because there is not enough power to supply demand. And anyway, if the damage were in Israel, why would Israeli repair crews need to enter Gaza? Your logic is flawed.
5. Rationing power from Israel is a means of very deliberate population control.
Of course, the Israeli psychopaths who support this system claim that it is Gaza's fault. This is typical behavior. Blame the victim.
Anybody interested in further details may refer to this document detailing the power distribution system over the last 10 years in Gaza.
-FL
I could only wish what you think is true and Mossad would shot a bullet in your stupid head. Unfortunately, it's not and Israeli citizen will have to keep suffering with Hamas rockets falling in their heads.
One amazing thing about congenital psychopaths is that they have a marvelous facility for mangling language in such a way as to speak truth without their intending to.
It took me three readings to spot the glaring "WTF?" item in the above quote. This is largely because the normal human automatically forgives and tries to auto-correct their reading of other people's social faux-pas out of embarrassment on their behalf. Everybody makes typos, but "George Bush Jr." moments are special, they carry a certain flavor of 'Wrong', and they are one of the tell-tale signs that one is dealing with a monster.
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Sorry.
The system is broken. You get to choose charming and evil or just plain evil.
The government is bought and paid for. Voting is a charade.
For voting to work as we'd all like it to work, first we'd have to...
1. Have an independent media not owned by the oligarchs. This way real debate can happen.
2. Test candidates and sitting leaders for psychopathy and remove those who fail the tests from the system.
3. Make corporate sponsorship/lobbying a crime with real punishments which stop the crimes from repeating.
4. Fix the money system so that we are not all debt slaves in the giant pyramid scheme which is the global economy.
Since none of those things are going to come about, debating how to vote is pointless.
The system is collapsing, and a LOT of people are going to suffer horribly.
The only thing you can realistically do is to find your neighbors and figure out how to help and support each other through the hard times, because the government is an evil leach which is here to feed on you and enslave you. Disengage from it.
-FL
So, batteries are good for them, and there is a chance that maybe possibly we're seeing some sort of scientific-economic-political strategy at work here.
Ugh.
The "Yissum Research Development Company Ltd." trying to sell this turd has come up with a way to turn a food source into a power source. Except, it doesn't work because. . .
1. The power comes from oxidization of metal and needn't involve potatoes at all. It could just as well be cow dung. Or a cup of salt water.
2. The potatoes need to be boiled first, so there's a huge amount of energy already being spent/wasted.
3. Potatoes rot and thus any power system would be saddled with ridiculous limitations in terms of maintenance, portability, and time constraints.
4. We already have wind-up radios and solar solar powered devices. Conventional electronics still wouldn't work, because you can't plug potatoes into them, so you'd need extra gear just to use the craptastic consumer-level garbage devices which don't even last in suburbia for more than a year. It makes a lot more sense to use electronics specifically designed for harsh environments.
But the thing which makes this sick is that the scientists who came up with this potato thing are not stupid. They know all these problems exist, which begs the question; what is their real aim?
It sure isn't to create great battery technology so as to stymie their oil-rich neighbors. It's probably an attempt to generate some positive media spin for their university and by extension Israel, (green is good and people are too stupid to realize when they are being manipulated through media!) -That, combined with some underlying psychopathic desire to sell a bad bill of goods to people who are already hurting.
Yeah. So, thanks, Israel. If you wanted to make sure underprivileged people have electricity, perhaps you should NOT bomb their infrastructure while saying, "Look what you made me do with the bottle rockets our own Mossad organized you into firing at us so we could have an excuse to steal your land!"
Psychopaths blame the victims for their own crimes. That's the pattern. Look for it.
Anybody disagreeing with me simply hasn't done the research or is evil.
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Somebody... like an idiot? Yes.
Somebody with eyes and a brain, you mean. If you had a valid point, you wouldn't post as an AC.
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More than 420,000 scam emails are sent every hour in the UK according to a report by CPP which estimates that Brits were targeted by 3.7 billion phishing emails in the last 12 months alone. A quarter of us admit to falling victim to e-fraudsters, with the average victim losing over GBP285 each.
First of all. . , who exactly is "CPP"??
It took a bit of Google confusion to determine that it's this some bullshit corporate security racket...
http://www.cpp.co.uk/about-cpp/
It appears that their business model is based around selling security devices and systems, featuring ID cards as one of their premier items. The interests here are just a BIT conflicted.
Second of all. . . Sorry, but as much as I think the herd is idiotic, I simply don't believe that one in four Brits is THAT stupid.
Lies, damned lies and statistics, right?
Oh whatever. If you can't work out why this is utter and complete bullshit, then further writing isn't going to make a very big difference and you probably feel like all those security cameras make you safer.
Fear-mongering bullshit ADVERTISING of this nature has no place on Slashdot.
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While silly scare stories of this nature are.., well what they are, it does raise a point.
Solar maximums do spit out a lot of radiation, and they have been known to cause power outages. My question is this, (because I can't seem to find a straight answer), we know that the Earth's magnetic field which protects us from solar wind is decreasing.
I'm not actually very concerned about this; the platitudes are well in place and I don't really have any reason to doubt them (other than I don't trust any government or large media promises ever), but whatever. In any case, it is an interesting and relevant point which you'd think SOMEBODY might have taken a moment to mention.
Here's NASA's website which has some details about the shifting magnetic field. Apparently it's picked up speed; magnetic North is moving at about 40 Km every year now.
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Seriously! This reminds me of those really fun goof-off days in physics class.
And in the next thread over, everybody could be bitching about politics and one more from that, D&D. This is like taking the best parts of school and dumping the rest.
Cheers, all!
-FL
Thank-you.
-The analogy I was tinkering with before I ran across your summation was, "Hey, human brains are routinely used to entertain stupid, vapid thoughts, so brains should be banned. And I'm suspicious of human hands as well; consider how often they are used to do stupid, dangerous things!"
The medium is the message, yes; we are always changed by any medium we use frequently. But honestly. . , we can choose the websites we visit. I use my computer to read books as well as watch youtube videos and everything in between. I know a LOT more today than I did ten years ago, and that's largely thanks to humans communicating freely on the web.
I think, though, for me the single most powerful, can't find it anywhere else, value of the web is that of forum discussion. I can have personal illusions and false info blasted to pieces faster on line than anywhere else. There are universities and various gatherings where people can discuss and compare knowledge, but that's not available or as fast. (Which, coincidentally, is one of the reasons I think the iPad is a giant brain-damper. You can't type! It turns the information flow back into a one-way street, where people are no longer doing but instead passively sit down to be programmed with the daily download, fed public consensus rather than building their own.)
But sure, if you fritter away your on-line energies, then you won't reap much overall. You get out what you put in. Just like life.
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It's a 1024 x 768 screen with finger-painting and no keyboard, a platform where the software still doesn't turn into real cash for programmers, except now they're not having any fun on Open Source because lottery-mentality greed has taken the place of creative pride, and where the end user is milked.
What part of this is not getting through?
EVERY part, apparently.
So I say, milk the suckers! They obviously want to be treated like cattle. They should just consider the extra charges the RETARD TAX.
~exasperation~
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It seems more likely you pulled them out of your ass. Or they pulled you out of theirs.
Oh it seems that way, does it? Who are you measuring against? Yourself and the people you call friends?
Yeah, that's a reliable source of intelligence. Because it's obvious that ALL Jews are bad and there's no possible way any reality might exist where people don't have to lie about having friends who aren't boring, predictable losers. Grow a spine and step beyond your comfort zone. Not everybody is an inexperienced, TV-watching coward.
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You're the product of social engineering. Think for yourself for five seconds.
Zionism is a program aimed at Jews, designed ultimately, to destroy them by creating, well, idiots like you via backlash.
See how well it works?
There are people who were born Jewish and who reject Zionism, and there are a lot of them. I've got close friends who are Jews and who are the loudest critics of Israel you'll hear, (much to their own professional and familial detriment). It takes real guts and morals to do that, and I have deep respect for them. You've also got people who were born Jewish and who simply ignore their own stupid religion and get on with life, but who are perhaps not strong enough when the "Sayem" come knocking. And then you've got those who join the IDF and cheer when bulldozers crush houses.
You have to discriminate within a much larger subset. Essentially, fools and psychopaths are the problem. "Jew" is a useless word, because it can refers to both paragons of humanity and psychopaths at the same time, and everything in between.
Condemn Israel and Zionism, but leave my friends out of it. I didn't just pick them out of a hat.
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Actually, I know exactly what you're talking about.
The best video game I've seen in almost a half decade was one about setting off fireworks by Popcap games. Here. . .
http://www.popcap.com/games/rocketmania
Competing for audience appreciation (cheers for bigger explosions) was by far the happiest and most exhilarating reward system I've ever encountered. Very positive and very fun. We're tuned as a species to seek approval noises from people. I'm surprised it hasn't caught on more as a game reward feature.
Anyway. . , as per my reaction in my first post; I was just stunned when I saw the screen in action on that Youtube video. I'd never paid attention to how that game actually worked before It was a shock to realize just how little it takes to keep the human race perpetually entertained. I just figured there was more to it than Karaoke for your fingers.
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Mod parent +1 insightful curmudgeon.
Dang it! Yeah, I'm old. I don't take well to lots of ruckus no more! A good film is one about. . , row boats! Nice and smooth and quiet. But there better not be any splashin' or I'll want my money back!
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I am at a loss for words.
I had that game on my old TRS-80 Color Computer.
I keyed it in from Rainbow Magazine. It was less than 1 Kb.
Things fell down from the top of the screen and you had to catch them. The end.
Later on they remade this game a few thousand times. Stuff comes down and you have to catch it. Or shoot it. Or bounce it. Or tetris it. If you made enough mistakes, the music would stop playing.
The only difference here is that the music happens to be licensed and your joy stick looks even dumber than a joystick.
I can't believe this is what all the fuss is over. People pay HOW MUCH for this? They made a South Park episode about this?
Okay. Thanks for that. I feel informed now. And rather silly for being human.
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That would actually be an awesome universe! I remember the Amiga people were bright and happy and smart. Kind of like Apple people today, except they were more fun and they weren't scared of hacking and open source thinking.
It could have happened, too. There was this weird period where everything shifted. It was when Lucasarts released X-Wing on the PC and nothing else. I know guys who bought whole $2000+ systems just to play that game. (Such was the power of Star Wars before Phantom). Imagine if Lucas had released it on the Amiga?
Heck, Bill Gates might not have become such a force in everybody's lives.
Of course, the Evil Overlords were prepared for such an eventuality. Some ex-CIA spooks managed to work themselves into power over at Commodore, and tanked the company. Interestingly, it's very hard to look up the details of that since Google searches on the subject get confused by one of the chips inside the Amiga, called the "CIA" chip.
But whatever.
Instead we got Linux and Mozilla. And Slashdot, for that matter. Can't keep the good guys down!
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The geek button got pushed, wherein a false item was offered up as fact, and the overpowering instinct to raise one's hand in class and correct it illustrates a fundamental piece of social programming common in many.
Even when they know it's redundant, that it's not going to be read, (let alone noticed), and will generally only add to the clutter of a forum tree which is already populated with 750 comments and growing, they'll go ahead and do it anyway. Such is the auto-response system of the common nerd.
And people wonder why I insist that the human race runs almost entirely on automatic. This is just an extreme example. Virtually all behavior is automatic. (Including this one, btw. My auto-button activates when I see thoughtless behavior. I chose to indulge it this time and write this response.)
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I wish you were right, but my cynical side is shaking his head sadly.
This is old tech. Other posters have indicated that filtering technology exists and is indeed stockpiled. But it seems that dispersant is the cheaper, faster and prettier solution. Keeps the muck off-camera by sinking it in toxic globs. Profits have more to do with keeping investors on board than in actually saving oil. I'm sure all their other holes in the ground are more than keeping things in the black, what with oil profits being what they are.
The problem is also one of scale. And with Hurricane season growing dark upon the horizon, I can see those scales getting splashed around a bit.
Hopefully the BP execs responsible will all tip out of a boat.
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There are not enough moderation options.
I was looking for the, "WTF -Seriously?!" mod option and came up blank. "Interesting" doesn't cut it with items like the one you pointed out.
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Musicians are artists. Their work should not be copied and distributed without their consent on a mass scale. Why not, you ask. Because it constitutes as theft, unless declared otherwise by the artist or the music company. So what? This is significant because people who have done so in the past have been made examples by massive lawsuits. There is a gray area between right and wrong but I doubt anyone pirates music because they need it to maintain their physical body.
Yes, thank-you for such an original analysis. I'm sure if you continue to repeat this logically broken argument enough times it will magically take on the aura of truth. It worked on you, after all; Somebody obviously fooled you into thinking that information and ideas are property and that only rich people should be allowed to use their eyes, ears and minds.
Oooh! Did I hear your brain just re-boot there? Why, I think I did! Often, people like you hear an idea which doesn't fit their paradigm and promptly forget they heard it. So I'll repeat it for you: "YOU ARE TELLING US THAT ONLY RICH PEOPLE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO USE THEIR EYES, EARS AND MINDS."
Do not fucking re-boot! THINK! Do it now. I'll wait.
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You see? If you have a brain, you will realize that what we are talking about here is the issue of slavery; Of one caste of society controlling what another caste is allowed to PERCEIVE AND THINK. If you are okay with that, then you are evil and you need to fuck off now. If you are not okay with that, then we can continue with this analysis.
The problem cannot be reconciled with our current money and trade system. This is the issue. Everything else is a sideshow.
Money is a fool's game. It is inadequate for our needs as a species. It limits everything. There are better ways, ones which support artists and do not feed middle-men leach people 98% of the revenue and profits. Those alternative systems are in their fledgling stages of growth right now, but they work. Except greedy power-mongers who like to keep slaves know that the money system as it stands works to their benefit. And so they convince people (fools) to embrace it.
Bottom line: Your ideas are over-simple and faulty. The ideas I am presenting take brain power and work to understand. You believe in work, don't you? Anybody who uses the copying-music-is-theft argument does. So do some of it now. Think.
Because I get exactly where you are coming from and I reject that position because I have considered it and I see how and why it is flawed. Before you reject my ideas, you ALSO need to put in the WORK of understanding them. Slavery is wrong.
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Dang. Where's that "Idiot" moderation option when you need it?
I'll just have to post instead.
-If you can't see or understand the problems with your argument, then you are an Idiot.
I'll define idiot for you, (though I doubt you'll understand it, so really consider yourself a bug under glass and that I'm offering the following for other readers to note). . .
Idiot: Noun. 1. A person without sufficient imagination to see beyond a narrow world view. 2. Somebody who would be much happier if the world were in fact confined to this narrow understanding because shades of gray require the expenditure of Effort in order to formulate a viable plan of Action. 3. Somebody who has realized that, "Thinking is hard. You can make mistakes and hurt yourself or others. Pain is scary! I am a tool. Give me orders I can follow and assure me that doing so will make this feeling of unrest inside me go away.", and rather than face up to that reality like a man, instead PRETENDS that reality can be shoved into a simple set of on-off switches wherein there is always a single best answer to any given problem, and that this answer is always the right one. 4. Somebody who is either intellectually lazy, or just plain stupid.
In other words, grow up or shut up you damned retard. The world is burning because lazy twerps like you don't THINK.
And because most idiots are also religious, I'll put it this way:
God is infinite; trying to jam reality into a simple set of finite, easy answers is like going to war with God. Only and idiot thinks he can win that fight. And look around at the world. Only an idiot would think he is currently winning.
Wise men don't fight the wind and ocean. They learn to sail.
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One way of dealing with such problems in smaller towns is to let the Federal police do the work; that is, RCMP officers, when they get the job, are shipped off across country to another province where they serve a term. This way, they don't know anybody and are able to do their job without bias.
It's not an ideal solution, but it certainly serves to cut down on small town corruption. I've had my share of encounters with RCMP officers, and I always come away really impressed by their behavior. I knew a girl once who had gotten into in some trouble; it wasn't her fault, but she was a foreigner and was terrified; in her home country dealing with the cops meant you were basically going to be shaken down by a state-funded gang. I assured her that this wasn't the case in Canada, at least not that I'd ever seen. The officer came, was really supportive and calm and everything was taken care of in a really professional and competent manner. After the officer left, she turned to me with tears in her eyes and she said "I love Canada." That was a good example, and I warned her that Canada wasn't perfect; we have plenty of stupid here as well, but we certainly did have some good law enforcement and emergency workers. Part of it is that they are quite well paid. Starting salaries at the RCMP are pretty big.
Larger cities, by contrast, employ local law enforcement and hire from the resident populations, but cities being bigger entities have a lot more anonymity simply due to their size. There is, of course, still the danger of corruption and bad apples. And 9-11 left its mark of stupid paranoia here as well, but on the whole we seem to do pretty well compared to other places.
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The explanations I've seen thus far are annoying and hard to turn into concepts I can grasp.
Here's how it appears to me. . .
1. Think of a cube of air inside which is contained the car.
2. That cube of air is moving at 10 mph. It takes a certain amount of energy to do this.
3. The car absorbs and uses some of that energy.
4. Does the cube of air stop moving once the car has absorbed its energy? (A: No.)
5. So there's MORE energy than is contained in that one cube of air. Where is it coming from?
6. The rest of the surrounding air. The wind is very big. A HUGE amount of energy is required to move the atmosphere along like that.
7. The car is a kind of energy capacitor which, by the time it is spending the energy at the same speed it absorbs it, happens to be moving faster than the wind. (The propeller becomes a type of energy-storing gyro.)
8. The speed of the wind and the speed of the car aren't directly related.
That's what occurs to me, anyway.
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