The putting to death of someone who, it has been decided in a court of law, has committed crimes of a degree that he should be removed from society
-and-
the putting to death of an unborn child who is (arguably) a person, innocent of any crime.
Problem with it is it basically limits us to one of the republicrats. Third parties are basically screwed.
I admit, i voted for Bush too, but only as IMHO a lesser of 2 assholes. I would have voted Libertarian, if they'd had an ice cube's chance in hell of winning or a candidate who didn't look like he was about to keel over and die.
I hate to have to point this out, but I'm pretty sure the post you're replying to was intended as sarcasm. Possible clues:
Username: Jack Valenti
homepage: mpaa.org
I think the new HTML spec should include <sarcasm> tags for the sarcasm impaired.
Er, I'm still having problems deciding whether or not I think you're kidding.
In the case that you're not:
The way I figure, if we follow your reasoning to its logical extreme, anything too expensive for the poor minorities is non-newsworthy. Any article subject not within the economic grasp of the lower classes (especially African-Americans, apparently) should simply be ignored. Right?
Slashdot:
News for Minorities. Stuff that matters to African-Americans.
In the case that you *are* kidding:
Heheheh heh eh hmm
"..and the children who had seen the violent movie would hit the dolls at a significantly higher rate than the children exposed to non-violent content."
Notice, though, that the children were hitting the dolls, like in the movie, and not hitting other children. Does this mean I'm more prone to violence against imps and cacodemons?
Guns don't kill people, kids who play video games kill people.
I guess "AIBO is a friend for life." sounded better than "AIBO is a friend for exactly as long as he has to in order to not get returned, so after those 90 days, watch your ass and secure your valuables."
So do they have add-ons yet? You know, useful stuff, like drink-holders and remote-control finders?
What about screw-on spikes for the post-apocalyptic punk look? I don't want no sissy-ass Aibo, I want something that can beat the shit out of my neighbor's Aibo and the Palm robot across the street.
Honestly, I don't get it. This would more than double the price of my Visor, when I could just spend $115 on the MPTrip that plays 'em off a CD-R/RW.
Sure, I could pretend to be working while I rearrange songs on a playlist, but for the money, I could get the MPTrip and, say, a cheap GPS receiver or something, heh. It just doesn't seem cost-effective, even compared to the other flash-based players.
The microwave or physical-storage ideas sound interesting, but I'd like to add that, for a cable up a space station to even support itself, it would most likely need to have a tensile strength exceeding anything we currently have.
I could whip out my old TI from calculus to come up with some figures, but I'm lazy, heh.
That's the beauty of the Web. If I put up a site and call it news, *I* am the press. The fact that CNN is a big damn company with their own damn cable channel makes their claim to freedom of the press no more valid than mine.
I believe 2600.com also considers itself to be "the press". How is CNN's linking "integrity" while anyone else's is "promotion of piracy"?
I'll let a doctor explain it, as I lack both the inclination and the expertise to do so with authority.
Many ADHDers value aspects of their ADHD, such as the creativity and a different style of thinking, including the ability to
hyperfocus when there is an intense interest in a topic or task.
-excerpt from an article in the Princeton Packet, by the clinical director of the Princeton ADD center.
An ability to concentrate on *certain things* does *not* indicate a lack of ADD.
I have taken numerous tests designed to diagnose the disorder, including brainwave analysis, and have tested positively on all of them.
A symptom that frequently goes along with ADD is tendency for the attention to *fixate* on certain things, to such a point that all other stimuli are effectively blocked out, somewhat analogous to mental "tunnel vision".
Before I had undertaken any treatment for ADD, I had been observed several times to pick up a book and read for upwards of 6 hours or so, without eating, getting up, etc., because my attention had become so fixated on the activity at hand that I was almost physically incapable of stopping until the book ~4-500pages was finished.
In the same way, I have seen people incapable of finishing a single sentence without being distracted by a shiny object(slight exaggeration) play Quake for hours numbering in the double digits (no exaggeration).
It's not actually the video games that give the effect that this article explores. The video game is just one way to apply the biofeedback. I've actually participated in something similar to this, only less fun. I had a couple leads attached to my head and a computer screen showing my brain wave spectrum.
Apparently, a certain part of that spectrum is the part that is associated with the difficulty concentrating that characterizes ADD. If a person (me) is able to look at the specific part of the brain wave spectrum, and see that when that type of brain activity increases, with the increase causing the computer to emit an annoying tone, the person can, after a little practice, actually control those specific brain waves to a large degree, and thereby avoid the annoying tone. Eventually, it becomes almost unconscious, like second nature, and suppressing the undesirable waves becomes automatic, more or less.
Looks like the difference between that, and the technique in the article, is that the video game is able to provide both negative(bad control) *and* positive(good control) feedback, rather than just negative.
In any case, watching your own brainwaves and changing them with conscious effort is trippy as hell, to say the least.
The equipment necessary for the sort of biofeedback therapy I received wasn't really that complex/expensive, either, seems like this stuff could be almost mass-produced and maybe prescribed/sent home and installed on a home computer.
Er, I know I'm pulling this directly out of my ass, and you know how *that* usually ends up, but is it possible to mickey-mouse a fix by appending _your own_ unauthorized ADK to your public key, or even an authorized one or 2?
How many ADK's is it possible to have on one key? Could an unauthorized ADK be added if you already had 2 authorized ADK's(with the 3rd party being yourself)in the key? Sort of like the equivalent of securing your house by breaking off keys in all the locks.
I checked fatbrain.com and there apparently is a Debian GNU/LINUX For Dummies book, looks like someone just forgot to mention it specifically in this article.
Actually it *is* a mouse. You're referring to a totally different unit, an older attempt at force-feedback. With all due respect, it probably would have been useful to have first *read* the article, which specifically mentions the unit you're talking about:
And Logitech....came out
last year with a mouse that employed force-feedback technology. But that was a clunky model that had to remain on its hard plastic console, making it rather impractical.
Computer security experts warn of a new virus running rampant around the web, specifically targeted at users of the iFeel Mouseman force-feedback mouse. The virus, once it infects the user's computer, causes the mouse to zip off the desktop and repeatedly attack the user's genital area.
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>..application of elementary grade school physics.. ---
Which fucking elementary grade school did you go to?
I wanna send my kids there when/if I ever have any.
Could you kindly explain the contradiction?
Explain significant parallels between:
The putting to death of someone who, it has been decided in a court of law, has committed crimes of a degree that he should be removed from society
-and-
the putting to death of an unborn child who is (arguably) a person, innocent of any crime.
Same reason people climb a mountain.
Because it's there.
Problem with it is it basically limits us to one of the republicrats. Third parties are basically screwed.
I admit, i voted for Bush too, but only as IMHO a lesser of 2 assholes. I would have voted Libertarian, if they'd had an ice cube's chance in hell of winning or a candidate who didn't look like he was about to keel over and die.
My understanding is that this stands for Grand Old Party. Yeah, I don't get it either.
Sweet, does this mean Alec Baldwin is moving to Canada now??
I hate to have to point this out, but I'm pretty sure the post you're replying to was intended as sarcasm. Possible clues:
Username: Jack Valenti
homepage: mpaa.org
I think the new HTML spec should include <sarcasm> tags for the sarcasm impaired.
Er, I'm still having problems deciding whether or not I think you're kidding.
In the case that you're not:
The way I figure, if we follow your reasoning to its logical extreme, anything too expensive for the poor minorities is non-newsworthy. Any article subject not within the economic grasp of the lower classes (especially African-Americans, apparently) should simply be ignored. Right?
Slashdot:
News for Minorities. Stuff that matters to African-Americans.
In the case that you *are* kidding:
Heheheh heh eh hmm
"..and the children who had seen the violent movie would hit the dolls at a significantly higher rate than the children exposed to non-violent content."
Notice, though, that the children were hitting the dolls, like in the movie, and not hitting other children. Does this mean I'm more prone to violence against imps and cacodemons?
Guns don't kill people, kids who play video games kill people.
I guess "AIBO is a friend for life." sounded better than "AIBO is a friend for exactly as long as he has to in order to not get returned, so after those 90 days, watch your ass and secure your valuables."
So do they have add-ons yet? You know, useful stuff, like drink-holders and remote-control finders?
What about screw-on spikes for the post-apocalyptic punk look? I don't want no sissy-ass Aibo, I want something that can beat the shit out of my neighbor's Aibo and the Palm robot across the street.
Honestly, I don't get it. This would more than double the price of my Visor, when I could just spend $115 on the MPTrip that plays 'em off a CD-R/RW.
Sure, I could pretend to be working while I rearrange songs on a playlist, but for the money, I could get the MPTrip and, say, a cheap GPS receiver or something, heh. It just doesn't seem cost-effective, even compared to the other flash-based players.
>...affordable player that can handle cds...
These do exist, and IMHO, they rock. The MPTrip, for example, plays 'em off of a cd-r/cd-rw and costs only $115.
>people do have a tendency to make better products whether there is competition or not.
Sometimes, sometimes not. By your reasoning, shouldn't Windows have gotten better over the years? *grin*
>I wonder if Pool has ever wondered how many assassins are employed by the Global 2000.
Which brings up more interesting quesions--are they hiring for the position, and where do I send my resumé?
The microwave or physical-storage ideas sound interesting, but I'd like to add that, for a cable up a space station to even support itself, it would most likely need to have a tensile strength exceeding anything we currently have.
I could whip out my old TI from calculus to come up with some figures, but I'm lazy, heh.
>...CNN is the press, after all.
That's the beauty of the Web. If I put up a site and call it news, *I* am the press. The fact that CNN is a big damn company with their own damn cable channel makes their claim to freedom of the press no more valid than mine.
I believe 2600.com also considers itself to be "the press". How is CNN's linking "integrity" while anyone else's is "promotion of piracy"?
I'll let a doctor explain it, as I lack both the inclination and the expertise to do so with authority.
-excerpt from an article in the Princeton Packet, by the clinical director of the Princeton ADD center.
An ability to concentrate on *certain things* does *not* indicate a lack of ADD.
I have taken numerous tests designed to diagnose the disorder, including brainwave analysis, and have tested positively on all of them.
A symptom that frequently goes along with ADD is tendency for the attention to *fixate* on certain things, to such a point that all other stimuli are effectively blocked out, somewhat analogous to mental "tunnel vision".
Before I had undertaken any treatment for ADD, I had been observed several times to pick up a book and read for upwards of 6 hours or so, without eating, getting up, etc., because my attention had become so fixated on the activity at hand that I was almost physically incapable of stopping until the book ~4-500pages was finished.
In the same way, I have seen people incapable of finishing a single sentence without being distracted by a shiny object(slight exaggeration) play Quake for hours numbering in the double digits (no exaggeration).
It's not actually the video games that give the effect that this article explores. The video game is just one way to apply the biofeedback. I've actually participated in something similar to this, only less fun. I had a couple leads attached to my head and a computer screen showing my brain wave spectrum.
Apparently, a certain part of that spectrum is the part that is associated with the difficulty concentrating that characterizes ADD. If a person (me) is able to look at the specific part of the brain wave spectrum, and see that when that type of brain activity increases, with the increase causing the computer to emit an annoying tone, the person can, after a little practice, actually control those specific brain waves to a large degree, and thereby avoid the annoying tone. Eventually, it becomes almost unconscious, like second nature, and suppressing the undesirable waves becomes automatic, more or less.
Looks like the difference between that, and the technique in the article, is that the video game is able to provide both negative(bad control) *and* positive(good control) feedback, rather than just negative.
In any case, watching your own brainwaves and changing them with conscious effort is trippy as hell, to say the least.
The equipment necessary for the sort of biofeedback therapy I received wasn't really that complex/expensive, either, seems like this stuff could be almost mass-produced and maybe prescribed/sent home and installed on a home computer.
I say, break out the biofeedback videogames!
Er, I know I'm pulling this directly out of my ass, and you know how *that* usually ends up, but is it possible to mickey-mouse a fix by appending _your own_ unauthorized ADK to your public key, or even an authorized one or 2?
How many ADK's is it possible to have on one key? Could an unauthorized ADK be added if you already had 2 authorized ADK's(with the 3rd party being yourself)in the key? Sort of like the equivalent of securing your house by breaking off keys in all the locks.
Any thoughts?
I checked fatbrain.com and there apparently is a Debian GNU/LINUX For Dummies book, looks like someone just forgot to mention it specifically in this article.
Actually it *is* a mouse. You're referring to a totally different unit, an older attempt at force-feedback. With all due respect, it probably would have been useful to have first *read* the article, which specifically mentions the unit you're talking about:
Y'know, I wouldn't mind having a winamp visualization plugin that makes my mouse dance when I'm not using it, heh.
I just hope they don't figure out a way to make this thing wireless-- "Dammit, mouse, come BACK HERE! And leave my cat alone!"
Reuters: