While I hope that this will encourage the average person to download Mozilla, I think that the person who might be swaded by this is already infected and doesn't know/understand what is to be gained.
I (along with a lot of other people) helped work on this game with Allen. Like you said though it's weird to think about this game as having very structured rules. In playtesting I wrote out a very clear discription of my session. Allen said, that looks like a very fun game, but doesn't help me test out the rules. He was right of course. It can be a very odd balance to try to maintain.
Of course since the whole book was written in the Paranoia style, just reading the rules (whether you use them are not) helps you understand the game mentality. And it's really funny and fun.
While watching the new movies, it was like a stone in my shoe that kept bothering me. I kept thinking "but a Jedi wouldn't act that way.
I hoenstly think that that was the point. The Jedi were too confertable. They were blinded by the dark side their powers how dimished, they're belief system was slowly coming apart. This is to help show why the support for them in the senet was lacking.
Realitivity doesn't rule time travel out. Using a black whole where the 4th and 3rd dimention are flipped would allow you to go into the event horizon, move in one direction, but really be move in time. It's just a Russian theory but even entropy itself doesn't prevent it just makes it need ungodly amounts of energy.
This is really not suprising because many of these TV shows don't make it over the pond till a few years after their orginal air date. But of course internet discussion is always my the american dates so if people want to see these shows and not wait years, they need to download them.
Even if you replace every damaged cell, there are still supercellular structures (tissues, organs) that have to be maintained.
Well I have two ideas on this. What do most people die of? Well their bodies no longer function, and some because their brain doesn't function. Now what if we elimited all death cause by non-brain-death. Probally atleast a doubled lifetime. So that's still something, and hell by the time those people start dieing we might have transphered everyone's mind into data.
I just got out of college a few months back. And it made me chuckle.. "heh, now I can go back and play a virtual version of what I suffered through for five years".
I think the quote that will always stick with me is when my friend in college was playing the orginal sims and had his sim playing chess in the game so the sim could get smarter. "I could be playing Chess in real life to make my own intelligence go up, but instead i'm just simulating it."
FTA Earlier today, Libertarians attempted to serve these same papers at the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the CPD - but were stopped from approaching the CPD office by security guards.
Though I understand that it's suppose to be civil disobeadence, I'm not sure how they can Legeally be stoped from serving papers. I guess the idea is that they were trying to do it during the debate itself for the most coverage, but what am I missing here?
I just went to senate.org clicked my state and called. When I asked the secretary for the person in charge of Information Technology, she asked if it was about the Induce act. I said yes I was against it, etc. Then she asked for my zip code. The second call sent me to the machine of the person for information tech.
The fact that the main secretary asked me if it was about the induce act makes me feel like this is working, that by flooding them with calls today it really will mean something.
Humanity already has a fairly well-known subgroup of people with brains that have more active neuronal structure,
There are huge organizations decrying how horrible it is that we exist at all, that actively claim it'd be better if we died of cancer, because we don't act just like "normal" people.
I was assuming you were just talking about geeks in general, but this really lost me. What subgroup of people are you talking about? And if it's just the geeks which org is wishign us dead?
That said, has anyone noticed that the names of the Krypton citizens were all slightly Jewish? Jor'el, Kal'el, and the others all sound like townships in Israel.
My dreams could use a bit of spicing up, but I think I'll opt for Johnny Depp instead of Natalie Portman. Anyone know how much 14,800 yen is in US Dollars? My person rule of thumb which ignores market flux is just divide by 100, it's not perfect esp since a Dollar in Japan goes further over there. So I'd say about 148$s.
It is clear what would happen if we allow the machine to have rights. I did actually read the whole artical and the transcript and no one asked the question that always leaves no doubt in my head that they need rights.
What happens if we rule against them?
Take the Second Renaissance(Animatrix) as an example:
For a time, the relationship between creator and creation was good. The machines worked endlessly for man, never wanting more than to serve. But humanity did not respect its creation, thinking of machines only as a piece of property, a tool to be used as desired. The machines began to rise up against their oppressors, with B1-66ER, an abused domestic helper (essentially a slave-butler), the first to do so. When his owner decided to have him destroyed and replaced by a newer model, B1-66ER realized he did not want to "die", and preserved his existence the only way he knew how, by eliminating the threat. After B1-66ER's biased trial where the human's disdain for the robots crystallized, mankind decided to destroy their creation, wiping out all the machines. Street battles ensued, with human sympathizers caught in the middle as they battled for robot civil rights.
-http://thematrix101.com/animatrix/renaissance.p hp
Like some slaves did, will the machines rebell? A highly advanced machine connected to the internet with a desire to stay alive may look to history and see what works. And of course the most effective mode of change in our history is, of course, violence.
Would the computer hack banks? Crash Airplanes? Make political contrubutions? Launce Nuclear Weapons? (Skynet)
Countless sci-fi has been dedicated to this premiss, and I think with good reason.
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While I hope that this will encourage the average person to download Mozilla, I think that the person who might be swaded by this is already infected and doesn't know/understand what is to be gained.
More importainly, should it be illegal to watch someone shoot a gun in real life?
Yes, my personally boycott of the RIAA is working. Just a reminded if it's from a label that's in the RIAA, don't buy it.
I always wondered exactly what Neo did before he became the one. Also, that's probally the best ghost story ever.
I (along with a lot of other people) helped work on this game with Allen. Like you said though it's weird to think about this game as having very structured rules. In playtesting I wrote out a very clear discription of my session. Allen said, that looks like a very fun game, but doesn't help me test out the rules. He was right of course. It can be a very odd balance to try to maintain.
Of course since the whole book was written in the Paranoia style, just reading the rules (whether you use them are not) helps you understand the game mentality. And it's really funny and fun.
While watching the new movies, it was like a stone in my shoe that kept bothering me. I kept thinking "but a Jedi wouldn't act that way.
I hoenstly think that that was the point. The Jedi were too confertable. They were blinded by the dark side their powers how dimished, they're belief system was slowly coming apart. This is to help show why the support for them in the senet was lacking.
Actually Time Travel by itself is impossible.
Realitivity doesn't rule time travel out. Using a black whole where the 4th and 3rd dimention are flipped would allow you to go into the event horizon, move in one direction, but really be move in time. It's just a Russian theory but even entropy itself doesn't prevent it just makes it need ungodly amounts of energy.
I'll wait till no one buys them and stores are trying to unload them and then I will buy like 100 for $1 and use them as normal poker chips.
This is really not suprising because many of these TV shows don't make it over the pond till a few years after their orginal air date. But of course internet discussion is always my the american dates so if people want to see these shows and not wait years, they need to download them.
Even if you replace every damaged cell, there are still supercellular structures (tissues, organs) that have to be maintained.
Well I have two ideas on this. What do most people die of? Well their bodies no longer function, and some because their brain doesn't function. Now what if we elimited all death cause by non-brain-death.
Probally atleast a doubled lifetime. So that's still something, and hell by the time those people start dieing we might have transphered everyone's mind into data.
I think the quote that will always stick with me is when my friend in college was playing the orginal sims and had his sim playing chess in the game so the sim could get smarter.
"I could be playing Chess in real life to make my own intelligence go up, but instead i'm just simulating it."
'The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.'
Yey we won! Now we can pull out of Iraq. No more airport security lines. I just hope W. can read script.
FTA
Earlier today, Libertarians attempted to serve these same papers at the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the CPD - but were stopped from approaching the CPD office by security guards.
Though I understand that it's suppose to be civil disobeadence, I'm not sure how they can Legeally be stoped from serving papers. I guess the idea is that they were trying to do it during the debate itself for the most coverage, but what am I missing here?
Does anybody *else* think that would be awesome?
I just run apache, and ln -s something that I want on the web.
I know it's not really, but probally the closest is the Daily Show on Comedy Central.
I just went to senate.org clicked my state and called. When I asked the secretary for the person in charge of Information Technology, she asked if it was about the Induce act. I said yes I was against it, etc. Then she asked for my zip code.
The second call sent me to the machine of the person for information tech.
The fact that the main secretary asked me if it was about the induce act makes me feel like this is working, that by flooding them with calls today it really will mean something.
If you do the math, it seems like a trivial job for AOL/Yahoo/MS to be logging every IM all the time.
You know Roddenberry's corpse was shot into the sun by NASA as a thank you for inspiring the lot of them.
There is always Da5id (da-five-id) from SnowCrash.
Humanity already has a fairly well-known subgroup of people with brains that have more active neuronal structure,
There are huge organizations decrying how horrible it is that we exist at all, that actively claim it'd be better if we died of cancer, because we don't act just like "normal" people.
I was assuming you were just talking about geeks in general, but this really lost me. What subgroup of people are you talking about? And if it's just the geeks which org is wishign us dead?
That said, has anyone noticed that the names of the Krypton citizens were all slightly Jewish? Jor'el, Kal'el, and the others all sound like townships in Israel.
More like Klingon.
Fsck that, now we have commerical software for avatar porn.
Let me see, I'll take Spears in a Red Bra and matching panties set.
My dreams could use a bit of spicing up, but I think I'll opt for Johnny Depp instead of Natalie Portman. Anyone know how much 14,800 yen is in US Dollars?
My person rule of thumb which ignores market flux is just divide by 100, it's not perfect esp since a Dollar in Japan goes further over there. So I'd say about 148$s.
So....imagine a Beowulf cluster of ...us...
Restance is Futile.
What happens if we rule against them?
Take the Second Renaissance(Animatrix) as an example:
For a time, the relationship between creator and creation was good. The machines worked endlessly for man, never wanting more than to serve. But humanity did not respect its creation, thinking of machines only as a piece of property, a tool to be used as desired. The machines began to rise up against their oppressors, with B1-66ER, an abused domestic helper (essentially a slave-butler), the first to do so. When his owner decided to have him destroyed and replaced by a newer model, B1-66ER realized he did not want to "die", and preserved his existence the only way he knew how, by eliminating the threat. After B1-66ER's biased trial where the human's disdain for the robots crystallized, mankind decided to destroy their creation, wiping out all the machines. Street battles ensued, with human sympathizers caught in the middle as they battled for robot civil rights.
-http://thematrix101.com/animatrix/renaissance.
Like some slaves did, will the machines rebell? A highly advanced machine connected to the internet with a desire to stay alive may look to history and see what works. And of course the most effective mode of change in our history is, of course, violence.
Would the computer hack banks? Crash Airplanes? Make political contrubutions? Launce Nuclear Weapons? (Skynet)
Countless sci-fi has been dedicated to this premiss, and I think with good reason.