The goal behind Microsoft isn't simply to do business as its primary feat of social engineering.
Subversion of the masses through electronic drugs is the primary goal. If Microsoft dies, then it will be replaced by some other machine designed to make people dumb and slow and distracted.
I'm sure all the MS employees, however, don't see it this way. But they're just expendable cogs in the works of a greater force.
Among the best things I ever did for myself was to throw out my television set, to stop playing video games, and to start eating healthy foods.
When I vote, it is to put somebody in office who has the skills and education to make good choices for me so that I don't have to spend every hour of my life in politics mode. It's called, 'delegation.'
What I would like to see, though, is a mandatory test of psychopathy in all candidates. --If they test positive for the mental disorder, then they should be removed from the race and preferably put in a detention center with the rest of the human-looking sharks for the rest of their lives. If we could achieve this, then I'd feel confident in letting my elected representatives do their jobs.
I want to see an accurate biological test for psychopathy developed and an appropriate system for dealing with them. Psychopaths crave power, live in their own fantasy worlds, are extremely good at manipulating people and whose primary goal in life is to torment normal humans and create chaos. A simple survey of the world today suggests to me that most of the political spectrum in all countries is staffed by dangerous lunatics with under-developed frontal lobes.
Well, if something implanted itself in you, started sucking massive amounts of your nutrients, caused you to vomit, and caused extreme discomfort, etc. wouldn't you call that thing a "disease":P
Perhaps, but only in the very etymological sense of the word. That being, 'Dis-Ease'.
The studies being quoted in the article were published in 1991 and 1992. I don't know about the rest of the world, but I didn't even have an internet account until several years later. Heck, 'Doom' didn't even come out until 1993. How is this relevant? Well, until people started messing up their wrists on their own time as opposed to in the work place, there was plenty of incentive to make sure that the victim was blamed and that therefore no money would flow from corporate and insurance coffers to pay for medical bills.
Yeah, there are a couple of points in those fifteen year-old articles which are sort of interesting. --That if you have arthritis, then you may be at higher risk. (Duh. --Though such points are important to medical insurance companies; if you have a prior condition, then you aren't going to be covered for your injuries.)
In any case, I don't really see why articles published fifteen years ago when RMI's were still a relatively new and misunderstood concept are suddenly worth getting upset over. It might be that the editor isn't too swift. . .
"Classically the associated diseases are the following: rheumatoid arthritis, menopause, hypothyroidism, acromegaly, end-stage renal disease, pregnancy, and obesity. Even then the data is not clear that the repetitive use contributes any."
Menopause is a disease? Pregnancy is a disease? No. But ending a sentence with the word 'any' is evidence of poor journalistic skill.
Seriously, the original claim looks like science making the classic mistake; if the lab can't explain a phenomenon, then obviously the observers out there in the public are at fault. It's swamp gas or hysteria, (menopause?). Or indeed, maybe the money funding the studies came from corporations worried about having to pay out on medical claims. Who knows? What I do know is that if you use your hands in certain sitting-at-desk work for long enough without breaks, your wrists and joints start to hurt and your back and neck can get messed up, and the skin can even wear right off the parts of your hands rubbing against the desk / paper, etc. --I knew an animator who ruined her hands trying to meet a crazy deadline with a crazy amount of work and ended up smearing blood across her easel. She was unable to work for several months afterwards. But then I suppose we can just blame her chronic condition (being female) rather than repetitive motion stress for the injury.
The IMDB has a tidy little slide show of Hollywood's new It Boy.
I'm glad they didn't go for a look-a-like. There's a couple of shots which suggest this actor might have enough screen presence and charisma to pull off the arrogant super-leader several-times savior of the galaxy.
Good luck to you, Mr. Pine! Them's big shoes. --It's a case of creating a character who is, (on and off the screen) ultra arrogant, skilled enough to deserve acting that way, and charming enough not to piss everybody off while doing it. If you follow Shatner's lead, then you will also be a really kind, light-hearted and giving soul, but that usually comes with age. If you don't get blasted by photon disrupters first. Is this Pine kid also a Canadian like old Bill? I'm not sure it's possible to achieve all of those goals otherwise. We'll have to see. Like I said, good luck to you, man!
And I have gotta say, this is the first time in forever, (with the exception of the recent and sadly disappointing Superman film), that I've been excited about an upcoming movie. With a good writer and good direction, this could be a really awesome film.
When, oh, when will I accumulate enough jaded cynicism to not let my hopes get the better of me?
Having looked through your recent posting history, it doesn't appear that you are particularly clear in your writing style. Perhaps a larger sample of your posts would disabuse me of this notion, but as it stands, you seem to write in a manner I would call, "reactive", (acting as though you are in the middle of a conversation when you are not), which leads to the use of mildly cryptic statements and terms designed only for those 'in the know' as opposed to making statements designed to convey insight to the largest number of readers. This comes off as sounding holier than thou, which is of course going to predispose people to having a certain bias against you. But like I said, I may be wrong in this view based on what little I've seen of your comment history.
Secondly. .,
You are far too worried about digital karma. Long ago, I realized a basic truth about Slashdot. If you post honestly and with integrity, you will be modded up more often than down. You can afford then to burn karma by making comments which are important to you but which are not popular with the status quo. --I think the most karma I've burned during a sitting at Slashdot was something like 12 points. --I had something to say which was modded to -1, and I simply kept cutting and pasting it to the bottom of the thread, adding a sentence at the beginning which described my reasons for repeating myself. Rinse and repeat, and a few hours later you've lost a dozen karma points until finally everybody gets tired of hammering you and leaves the post up. --I wouldn't recommend this tactic often, but the few times I've done it were times when the message was, I felt, really important and unique. But the point is this, I managed to say what I wanted, and never lost my overall positive karma trend or any of the posting privileges I enjoy.
Three. . . The system works in both directions. When I get mod points, while I usually use them to mod people up who I think have contributed something worthwhile, I will also sometimes spend them to turn the volume down on somebody I think is posting like an idiot. --And that includes clearly worded treatises which attempt to mislead people into destructive thinking patterns. I like the "-1 Overrated" mod for this purpose when I see posts which have been modded as "insightful" for something which is patently stupid, or which has been properly shown as such by other posters.
Four. . , I keep my Slashdot filters wide open. I want to see everything posted. What if there's somebody who has uttered some painful truth and has been modded into the dust bin who could use a positive mod point or a supportive comment?
Slashdot remains a very useful forum for all manner of discussion. There is certainly a somewhat juvenile video-game-player quality to it at times, but so what? That's a huge demograph, and it's a valid one. I've learned a lot here, both by reading other posters and through having my own comments put through the crucible, cut apart and examined, (as it turns out, I am wrong sometimes. Gee whiz!) Slashdot is not going to turn to sour raisins and blow away any time soon just because you don't happen to like it when you are modded down by people who disagree with you.
The fact of the matter is that this world is at war. There are two ends to the spectrum of human experience; the self-serving experience and the other-serving experience. All battles resolve to working out where one exists on this basic balance. Self-serving people tend to cleave to ignorance, and other-serving people tend to want to grow in knowledge. Slashdot is a powerful stage upon which this battle is played out. The mod system is just another element of this war, and I have seen that it tends for the most part, to favor the good guys as it cuts down on several basic attacks which the dark side employs, (Bullying and 'post flooding' being the main ones. --The cyber equivalents of, well, Bullying and "La La La I Can't Hear You". The dark side is a petulant child.)
it just really bugs me when people compare me to Stalin for having a reasonable opinion.
Excuse me? Do you mean to say that you are compared to Stalin with some frequency? Sheesh. I post all the time and nobody has ever pulled that one on me. What exactly are these opinions of yours?
I've been fascinated for some years by claims which stem from all over esoteric thinking that there is some sort of 'shift' on the horizon.
This shift is described and predicted by every group imaginable. Shamans in the West, Energy Masters in the East, and every brand of channeler, seer, crystal ball hockum reiki flakey and voodoo witch spotted throughout the rest of the world. --While much of this comes in the form of garbled nonsense, (disinformation arrives in lively spurts from the etheric realms as well as the physical), this common theme of a physical paradigm shift remains universal.
So I wonder what is going on with this story. --Is it a "Faked Moon Landing" straw man designed to be ridiculed on the scientific front? Or is it the result of a researchers who are plugged into the esoteric scene and wanted to see how the maths fell? Or is it an honest exploration into physics derived from pure, unaffected interest in the universe.
I'd be curious to know what they mean by, "the recently fashionable sudden singularities", which they seem to think may be an indication that their findings hold water. In my cursory googling about, I cannot quite determine whether "Sudden Singularities" are a physically observed trend in astrophysics, or a mathematical discovery which is blowing holes in current theoretical models of reality.
Whatever the case, I'd be interested to see how this theory bounces when peer reviewed.
You know that 'feature' whereby the page jumps up about four inches as your cursor nears the bottom of the word processor screen?
I think Open Office is a wonderful gift to computing, but that one element makes my eyes bug out. I cannot stand having the page react with tectonic adjustment whenever I scroll down beyond a certain point. Maybe some people don't mind this, but it drives me bonkers. I spent a long time looking through an older version of OO, but was unable to find a toggle switch to turn off this feature. --Does the new version of OO allow one to type like a civilized human being who doesn't like his marbles rattled half a dozen times every page?
Well, of course. I live in Canada, and I've never once claimed that our politicians didn't come from the same snak-pak as those south of the border. The public is just programmed with a different kind of stupid up here. Not as fast-acting, but just as troubling.
Hopefully the level of stupid currently occupied by the Canadian public will still allow somebody in office to be publicly humiliated and fired for implementing this insane penny ruse.
I think things might be a bit better if every now and again the public would haul a politician out of office to be thrown into the nearest lake for the crime of evil and greed. The only problem is that a significant portion of the populace is too stupid and greedy themselves to know which politicians need throwing. I would happily tell them, but nobody attends my soap box seminars.
While reading the headline for this story out loud to a friend of mine, he interrupted me with the same detail you pointed out, so that my tongue crashed into the top of my mouth. I bristled at him, "Is that relevant at this exact moment?"
He shrugged, "Sorry. It's in my geek nature to radiate trivia when it's least useful."
Yes. There is no way that photons can affect the nervous system. With the possible exceptions of microwave radiation heating the water in the brain (keep your head out of microwave ovens and you'll be fine), and high energy photons causing DNA damage (stay away from sources of ionizing radiation).
Photons? --Aside from the temptation to point out that your eyes are one of the central features of the central nervous system, I have to respectfully disagree with your statement.
And I'm assuming the following definition, (Wiki) "In physics, the photon is the elementary particle responsible for electromagnetic phenomena. It is the carrier of electromagnetic radiation of all wavelengths, including gamma rays, X-rays, ultraviolet light, visible light, infrared light, microwaves, and radio waves."
Your brain emits 'photons' in this respect. It functions at between 10 and 12 htz. As with most objects which emit EM, you can affect them with EM. --Like getting a guitar string across the room to hum when you pluck the same note from a sister guitar, a variety of studies have demonstrated that the brain also responds and changes when exposed to various frequencies of non-ionizing EM radiation. It's not nearly that simple, but there is considerable evidence to suggest that the effects are present.
One of the methods by which photonic EM can affect the nervous system is through a mechanism called, Cyclotronic Resonance; the example looks at 60 htz wall socket power and lithium. I scanned the section from Robert O. Becker's book, Cross Currents which specifically looks at the effects of non-ionizing radiation. It makes for fascinating reading.
He now has his day in court and the Crown Prosecution Service can make their case for his guilt and he can make his case for his innocence, and he'll be given ample opportunity to tell the court his story.
That's a very trusting view. I hope you're right, but I strongly suspect you're not.
If Pakistan can have corrupt government, and the U.S. can have corrupt government, then why on earth would the U.K. be exempt? The common factor among nations is that humans are in charge of running things, and until there is a definitive test for psychopathy and penalties for greed, then no government deserves any level of trust, especially when it comes to cases like this. --The kid in question is most likely going to be nailed to the wall, innocent or not. The government cannot afford for him to be innocent. I'm surprised he and his family members were not accidentally gunned down by trigger happy police who later absolved themselves of wrongdoing through liberal use of PR spin and a media more than happy to play along. Wouldn't have been the first time.
Persinger created the "God helmet," which generates weak electromagnetic fields and focuses them on particular regions of the brain's surface.
Yet again, we have more evidence that the brain can be affected by EM.
If you are a government and you want to make sure everybody is dulled down, what better way than to flood society with technologies masked as ubiquitous, ever-so-useful tools which people voluntarily hold up to their heads several times a day, every day of the year?
Cell phones don't cause cancer. Well, they do, but that's not the primary intention. The primary intention is to make you dumb and susceptible to further programming and easy management.
Oh crap. Sorry, I thought this was slashdot. My mistake...I wonder where it went...
Gee, I'm a nerd and this stuff matters to me, and nobody is discussing it in a nerdy way in the mainstream. Seriously. Do the popular kids in the lunch room discuss this stuff to your satisfaction?
I'm getting tired of the tunnel-vision context trolls. While computers are interesting, they do not comprise the whole universe of things which matter.
Just because a law is on the books doesn't make it worth obeying. It's a stupid law.
The reason radio stations pay royalties is because the public will be listening to the broadcast. Honestly. The broadcast is made public the instant it's on the publicly owned radio waves.
The music is already paid for, the law is insane, and several greedy somebodies need a smacking and a sacking. Or perhaps we should all give in to ridiculousness and have the advertisers shell out to the auto company in question for playing their messages which are included with the music. And while we're at it, let's have everybody in the public pay a yearly sum if they own a radio.
De-crap-ify it, removing Short Stop, Jar Jar, and similar BS.
That's Short ROUND. --And I thought several of the scenes he was in were classic! (His fight with the prince mirroring Indy's fight with the giant. I also liked the argument over poker while whatshername screamed at snakes and bats and such. Spielberg at his best.) Short Round was a fine addition to the "Bold Explorer of the 30's" pulp thing.
Jar Jar was a baffling waste of screen time, though. The Phantom Edit did its best to take care of that.
As for Indy IV. . .
I'll probably watch it, but I don't have my hopes up. The third one left me scratching my head.
We've grown some as a species in the last couple of decades.
I don't think robo-cars are really all that interesting now. With stuff like Battlestar Galactica, and Heroes and Dr. Who on the air, and with the whole Star Trek franchise come and gone since Knight Rider, people have a somewhat higher expectation of quality from their sci-fi adventure. Knight Rider is a relic from the hair spray decade, when culture rarely elevated above space invaders and bimbos. I mean, we were listening to "Thriller" and "Devo". --Which yes, I realize aren't much more advanced than the latest. . , what the heck are kids listening to now? But still. There was a highly plasticized happy-happy fakeness to everything. A bullet-proof talking car which could jump over trucks? That could work in such an environment. But now? No chance.
I'm not claiming that people today are any smarter than they were in the 80's. --We've got legions of cynical, drooling game-box junkies who are plenty dull, but that kind of stupid is incompatible with the stupid of the 80's. Our culture is too firmly tuned to violence to give a hoot about such a childish formula as a talking car. --Remember, fun in the 80's involved little multi-coloured cube puzzles and video games where you shot alien space ships, jumped over barrels and ate dots. Today we gun down simulated fellow humans for fun and pretend it hasn't changed us. We've become a race of fat, dull-witted warriors who barely blink when civilians are murdered by our troops. Our reaction to the present events going on in the world would have been very, very different in the 80's.
the brain is very flexible, if one part is damaged another takes over, it could be that these birds evolved to utilize the extra processing power of their brains that work with light vision in a similar way. rather than evolve an entirely new region of the brain solely involved in the processing of this magnetic field sese, they use what they already have- an evolutionary macguyver in a way.
While I have not done enough reading to say with conviction, it nonetheless would seem to me that magnetic sensing may well be older than photo sensitivity. Microbes were absorbing iron long before they got together to collectively form creatures with eyes.
Cuz none of the other scientists who study space for a living would have thought of that.
To test your hypothesis, before you go looking for known frequencies, you would probably benefit if you stopped saying things like, "I'm sure there was. .." and "It was probably a. .."
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Subversion of the masses through electronic drugs is the primary goal. If Microsoft dies, then it will be replaced by some other machine designed to make people dumb and slow and distracted.
I'm sure all the MS employees, however, don't see it this way. But they're just expendable cogs in the works of a greater force.
Among the best things I ever did for myself was to throw out my television set, to stop playing video games, and to start eating healthy foods.
-FL
What I would like to see, though, is a mandatory test of psychopathy in all candidates. --If they test positive for the mental disorder, then they should be removed from the race and preferably put in a detention center with the rest of the human-looking sharks for the rest of their lives. If we could achieve this, then I'd feel confident in letting my elected representatives do their jobs.
I want to see an accurate biological test for psychopathy developed and an appropriate system for dealing with them. Psychopaths crave power, live in their own fantasy worlds, are extremely good at manipulating people and whose primary goal in life is to torment normal humans and create chaos. A simple survey of the world today suggests to me that most of the political spectrum in all countries is staffed by dangerous lunatics with under-developed frontal lobes.
-FL
Perhaps, but only in the very etymological sense of the word. That being, 'Dis-Ease'.
-FL
Yeah, there are a couple of points in those fifteen year-old articles which are sort of interesting. --That if you have arthritis, then you may be at higher risk. (Duh. --Though such points are important to medical insurance companies; if you have a prior condition, then you aren't going to be covered for your injuries.)
In any case, I don't really see why articles published fifteen years ago when RMI's were still a relatively new and misunderstood concept are suddenly worth getting upset over. It might be that the editor isn't too swift. . .
"Classically the associated diseases are the following: rheumatoid arthritis, menopause, hypothyroidism, acromegaly, end-stage renal disease, pregnancy, and obesity. Even then the data is not clear that the repetitive use contributes any."
Menopause is a disease? Pregnancy is a disease? No. But ending a sentence with the word 'any' is evidence of poor journalistic skill.
Seriously, the original claim looks like science making the classic mistake; if the lab can't explain a phenomenon, then obviously the observers out there in the public are at fault. It's swamp gas or hysteria, (menopause?). Or indeed, maybe the money funding the studies came from corporations worried about having to pay out on medical claims. Who knows? What I do know is that if you use your hands in certain sitting-at-desk work for long enough without breaks, your wrists and joints start to hurt and your back and neck can get messed up, and the skin can even wear right off the parts of your hands rubbing against the desk / paper, etc. --I knew an animator who ruined her hands trying to meet a crazy deadline with a crazy amount of work and ended up smearing blood across her easel. She was unable to work for several months afterwards. But then I suppose we can just blame her chronic condition (being female) rather than repetitive motion stress for the injury.
What a silly article.
-FL
I'm glad they didn't go for a look-a-like. There's a couple of shots which suggest this actor might have enough screen presence and charisma to pull off the arrogant super-leader several-times savior of the galaxy.
Good luck to you, Mr. Pine! Them's big shoes. --It's a case of creating a character who is, (on and off the screen) ultra arrogant, skilled enough to deserve acting that way, and charming enough not to piss everybody off while doing it. If you follow Shatner's lead, then you will also be a really kind, light-hearted and giving soul, but that usually comes with age. If you don't get blasted by photon disrupters first. Is this Pine kid also a Canadian like old Bill? I'm not sure it's possible to achieve all of those goals otherwise. We'll have to see. Like I said, good luck to you, man!
And I have gotta say, this is the first time in forever, (with the exception of the recent and sadly disappointing Superman film), that I've been excited about an upcoming movie. With a good writer and good direction, this could be a really awesome film.
When, oh, when will I accumulate enough jaded cynicism to not let my hopes get the better of me?
I am SUCH a sci-fi geek!
-FL
First of all. . ,
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Having looked through your recent posting history, it doesn't appear that you are particularly clear in your writing style. Perhaps a larger sample of your posts would disabuse me of this notion, but as it stands, you seem to write in a manner I would call, "reactive", (acting as though you are in the middle of a conversation when you are not), which leads to the use of mildly cryptic statements and terms designed only for those 'in the know' as opposed to making statements designed to convey insight to the largest number of readers. This comes off as sounding holier than thou, which is of course going to predispose people to having a certain bias against you. But like I said, I may be wrong in this view based on what little I've seen of your comment history.
Secondly. .
You are far too worried about digital karma. Long ago, I realized a basic truth about Slashdot. If you post honestly and with integrity, you will be modded up more often than down. You can afford then to burn karma by making comments which are important to you but which are not popular with the status quo. --I think the most karma I've burned during a sitting at Slashdot was something like 12 points. --I had something to say which was modded to -1, and I simply kept cutting and pasting it to the bottom of the thread, adding a sentence at the beginning which described my reasons for repeating myself. Rinse and repeat, and a few hours later you've lost a dozen karma points until finally everybody gets tired of hammering you and leaves the post up. --I wouldn't recommend this tactic often, but the few times I've done it were times when the message was, I felt, really important and unique. But the point is this, I managed to say what I wanted, and never lost my overall positive karma trend or any of the posting privileges I enjoy.
Three. . . The system works in both directions. When I get mod points, while I usually use them to mod people up who I think have contributed something worthwhile, I will also sometimes spend them to turn the volume down on somebody I think is posting like an idiot. --And that includes clearly worded treatises which attempt to mislead people into destructive thinking patterns. I like the "-1 Overrated" mod for this purpose when I see posts which have been modded as "insightful" for something which is patently stupid, or which has been properly shown as such by other posters.
Four. . , I keep my Slashdot filters wide open. I want to see everything posted. What if there's somebody who has uttered some painful truth and has been modded into the dust bin who could use a positive mod point or a supportive comment?
Slashdot remains a very useful forum for all manner of discussion. There is certainly a somewhat juvenile video-game-player quality to it at times, but so what? That's a huge demograph, and it's a valid one. I've learned a lot here, both by reading other posters and through having my own comments put through the crucible, cut apart and examined, (as it turns out, I am wrong sometimes. Gee whiz!) Slashdot is not going to turn to sour raisins and blow away any time soon just because you don't happen to like it when you are modded down by people who disagree with you.
The fact of the matter is that this world is at war. There are two ends to the spectrum of human experience; the self-serving experience and the other-serving experience. All battles resolve to working out where one exists on this basic balance. Self-serving people tend to cleave to ignorance, and other-serving people tend to want to grow in knowledge. Slashdot is a powerful stage upon which this battle is played out. The mod system is just another element of this war, and I have seen that it tends for the most part, to favor the good guys as it cuts down on several basic attacks which the dark side employs, (Bullying and 'post flooding' being the main ones. --The cyber equivalents of, well, Bullying and "La La La I Can't Hear You". The dark side is a petulant child.)
Excuse me? Do you mean to say that you are compared to Stalin with some frequency? Sheesh. I post all the time and nobody has ever pulled that one on me. What exactly are these opinions of yours?
-FL
By the way, do you want a Shania Twain? Cheap?
-FL
This shift is described and predicted by every group imaginable. Shamans in the West, Energy Masters in the East, and every brand of channeler, seer, crystal ball hockum reiki flakey and voodoo witch spotted throughout the rest of the world. --While much of this comes in the form of garbled nonsense, (disinformation arrives in lively spurts from the etheric realms as well as the physical), this common theme of a physical paradigm shift remains universal.
So I wonder what is going on with this story. --Is it a "Faked Moon Landing" straw man designed to be ridiculed on the scientific front? Or is it the result of a researchers who are plugged into the esoteric scene and wanted to see how the maths fell? Or is it an honest exploration into physics derived from pure, unaffected interest in the universe.
I'd be curious to know what they mean by, "the recently fashionable sudden singularities", which they seem to think may be an indication that their findings hold water. In my cursory googling about, I cannot quite determine whether "Sudden Singularities" are a physically observed trend in astrophysics, or a mathematical discovery which is blowing holes in current theoretical models of reality.
Whatever the case, I'd be interested to see how this theory bounces when peer reviewed.
-FL
I think Open Office is a wonderful gift to computing, but that one element makes my eyes bug out. I cannot stand having the page react with tectonic adjustment whenever I scroll down beyond a certain point. Maybe some people don't mind this, but it drives me bonkers. I spent a long time looking through an older version of OO, but was unable to find a toggle switch to turn off this feature. --Does the new version of OO allow one to type like a civilized human being who doesn't like his marbles rattled half a dozen times every page?
-FL
Hopefully the level of stupid currently occupied by the Canadian public will still allow somebody in office to be publicly humiliated and fired for implementing this insane penny ruse.
I think things might be a bit better if every now and again the public would haul a politician out of office to be thrown into the nearest lake for the crime of evil and greed. The only problem is that a significant portion of the populace is too stupid and greedy themselves to know which politicians need throwing. I would happily tell them, but nobody attends my soap box seminars.
-FL
He shrugged, "Sorry. It's in my geek nature to radiate trivia when it's least useful."
Know and love yourself, I guess. But, FUCK!
-FL
Photons? --Aside from the temptation to point out that your eyes are one of the central features of the central nervous system, I have to respectfully disagree with your statement.
And I'm assuming the following definition, (Wiki) "In physics, the photon is the elementary particle responsible for electromagnetic phenomena. It is the carrier of electromagnetic radiation of all wavelengths, including gamma rays, X-rays, ultraviolet light, visible light, infrared light, microwaves, and radio waves."
Your brain emits 'photons' in this respect. It functions at between 10 and 12 htz. As with most objects which emit EM, you can affect them with EM. --Like getting a guitar string across the room to hum when you pluck the same note from a sister guitar, a variety of studies have demonstrated that the brain also responds and changes when exposed to various frequencies of non-ionizing EM radiation. It's not nearly that simple, but there is considerable evidence to suggest that the effects are present.
One of the methods by which photonic EM can affect the nervous system is through a mechanism called, Cyclotronic Resonance; the example looks at 60 htz wall socket power and lithium. I scanned the section from Robert O. Becker's book, Cross Currents which specifically looks at the effects of non-ionizing radiation. It makes for fascinating reading.
-FL
Are you saying that you accept that the nervous system can be affected by one and not the other?
Besides, do you really think the government needs technology to make people dumb?
Fear and greed put the concept of 'need' through a very distorting filter.
-FL
First, give me an example of this happening.
How about examples where the secret services demand to know who borrowed what title? That gives me worse chills. Lists of names worry me.
-FL
That's a very trusting view. I hope you're right, but I strongly suspect you're not.
If Pakistan can have corrupt government, and the U.S. can have corrupt government, then why on earth would the U.K. be exempt? The common factor among nations is that humans are in charge of running things, and until there is a definitive test for psychopathy and penalties for greed, then no government deserves any level of trust, especially when it comes to cases like this. --The kid in question is most likely going to be nailed to the wall, innocent or not. The government cannot afford for him to be innocent. I'm surprised he and his family members were not accidentally gunned down by trigger happy police who later absolved themselves of wrongdoing through liberal use of PR spin and a media more than happy to play along. Wouldn't have been the first time.
-FL
Yet again, we have more evidence that the brain can be affected by EM.
If you are a government and you want to make sure everybody is dulled down, what better way than to flood society with technologies masked as ubiquitous, ever-so-useful tools which people voluntarily hold up to their heads several times a day, every day of the year?
Cell phones don't cause cancer. Well, they do, but that's not the primary intention. The primary intention is to make you dumb and susceptible to further programming and easy management.
-FL
Gee, I'm a nerd and this stuff matters to me, and nobody is discussing it in a nerdy way in the mainstream. Seriously. Do the popular kids in the lunch room discuss this stuff to your satisfaction?
I'm getting tired of the tunnel-vision context trolls. While computers are interesting, they do not comprise the whole universe of things which matter.
-FL
Just because a law is on the books doesn't make it worth obeying. It's a stupid law.
The reason radio stations pay royalties is because the public will be listening to the broadcast. Honestly. The broadcast is made public the instant it's on the publicly owned radio waves.
The music is already paid for, the law is insane, and several greedy somebodies need a smacking and a sacking. Or perhaps we should all give in to ridiculousness and have the advertisers shell out to the auto company in question for playing their messages which are included with the music. And while we're at it, let's have everybody in the public pay a yearly sum if they own a radio.
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That's Short ROUND. --And I thought several of the scenes he was in were classic! (His fight with the prince mirroring Indy's fight with the giant. I also liked the argument over poker while whatshername screamed at snakes and bats and such. Spielberg at his best.) Short Round was a fine addition to the "Bold Explorer of the 30's" pulp thing.
Jar Jar was a baffling waste of screen time, though. The Phantom Edit did its best to take care of that.
As for Indy IV. . .
I'll probably watch it, but I don't have my hopes up. The third one left me scratching my head.
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I don't think robo-cars are really all that interesting now. With stuff like Battlestar Galactica, and Heroes and Dr. Who on the air, and with the whole Star Trek franchise come and gone since Knight Rider, people have a somewhat higher expectation of quality from their sci-fi adventure. Knight Rider is a relic from the hair spray decade, when culture rarely elevated above space invaders and bimbos. I mean, we were listening to "Thriller" and "Devo". --Which yes, I realize aren't much more advanced than the latest. . , what the heck are kids listening to now? But still. There was a highly plasticized happy-happy fakeness to everything. A bullet-proof talking car which could jump over trucks? That could work in such an environment. But now? No chance.
I'm not claiming that people today are any smarter than they were in the 80's. --We've got legions of cynical, drooling game-box junkies who are plenty dull, but that kind of stupid is incompatible with the stupid of the 80's. Our culture is too firmly tuned to violence to give a hoot about such a childish formula as a talking car. --Remember, fun in the 80's involved little multi-coloured cube puzzles and video games where you shot alien space ships, jumped over barrels and ate dots. Today we gun down simulated fellow humans for fun and pretend it hasn't changed us. We've become a race of fat, dull-witted warriors who barely blink when civilians are murdered by our troops. Our reaction to the present events going on in the world would have been very, very different in the 80's.
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While I have not done enough reading to say with conviction, it nonetheless would seem to me that magnetic sensing may well be older than photo sensitivity. Microbes were absorbing iron long before they got together to collectively form creatures with eyes.
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To test your hypothesis, before you go looking for known frequencies, you would probably benefit if you stopped saying things like, "I'm sure there was. .
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What's Britney like to be with? I mean, only 8 other guys know the answer.
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