"Back in the day", when Americans were not satisfied with the tax on goods, they threw the goods into the harbor. Reaction, more laws from the lawmakers. Next reaction, revolt.
I was speaking with a guy in his 60s the other day, and he was quiet and just worked for a living. He bluntly said to me, "I don't understand why young people put up with the shit that the government is doing today."
So, aside from PETA trying to keep poor frogs from being dissected* and the NRA wanting armor piercing bullets available for children, and the EFF, who stands up for their rights?
I speak with lawmakers, individuals, post stuff like this on slashdot and have it moderated down.
* I have a love/hate relationship with extremists. I guess they need to be extreme so that a decent middleground is reached, but frogs? I love frogs. I've had 1 tree frog as a pet, and 2 firebelly toads. Very interesting animals. But in the wild, frogs have about a 0.03% chance of becoming old enough to be dissected. Frogs/toads are pretty happy in captivity. A little water, a little girl frog for the boy frog to hug onto, some food, they sing at night. Cool stuff. But, we still need extremists, even though their rational is irrational, hopefully a decent middlegound can be reached.
Am I then obligated to stop buying video games and viewing porn?
Yes, if you truly believe that buying video games requires its programmers to be treated poorly and the same with your favorite starlet, and you feel bad about the way they are treated, why perpetuate the bad treatment?
Good porn starlets are hard to come by. Many of the longer career ones appear to be very healthy psychologically and are often very intelligent as well. The ones between 18 and 22 or so years old often don't last long. They can't hack it. You know, good game programmers are hard to come by too. They are what, between 18 and 25 years old, or at a max around 30. They are often intelligent as well, and they too don't last long.
Its a tough call. Sometimes I feel bad about buying clothes that I know are made in a sweatshop overseas. Sometimes I feel bad about buying electronics that are manufactured overseas by similar people. I never feel bad about porn stars, prostitutes, or game developers.
So, we both have cognitive dissidence to deal with.
For me and my state, adding that $.08 to cigarette tax would be much more productive. I wish they would do that instead.
Why? I'd quite like to hear your reasoning on that...
Yeah. What is up with that? If the government really cared, they would pay people to smoke. Smokers don't live as long in old age when they are collecting government money and odds are they aren't working and paying income tax either. Wait until 2050 when the largest age group will be 80+. We will have a Geritol party!
I pay to digitally download content from a website called slashdot. I don't have to, but it gives me advantages over not paying, plus I like slashdot, and its the cheapest form of entertainment I've ever encountered. Just to teach the tax man and slashdot a lesson, I'll stop paying as soon as I'm taxed for it.
I don't think you would be able to organically synthesise anything and then expect to put it 5% in a aqueous solution, and STILL make it for less than $1 a bottle.
But in many a boardroom that is where the:
3) ????? 4) PROFIT!
is brought up. #3 is de-emphasized #4 is an example of the recency affect.
It seems to me the effects of these two substances are quite distinct. I'm not saying they have nothing in common, but they work on quite different systems in the brain, and it's quite easy to tell apart someone on alcohol from someone on marijuana (from a 1st or 3rd person point of view). Each of these states of consciousness are useful in their own way, but they are not the same state; one does not adequately substitute for the other.
Yes, the effects are different, and the onset, duration, and after affects are entirely different. Alcohol is almost a maintenance drug. You can start at X [AP]M and maintain until you stop. Marijuana has a distinct onset, especially when smoked, a slight peak, and a trail off. If you smoke too much pot, you will not notice much more than the onset and then stay "burned out". Personally, I rather enjoy a combination of alcohol and marijuana.
Wow, I'm glad those drug companies aren't making a shitton of money on drugs that we don't need like anti-psychotics and anti-depressants, because the way you make it sound, the government would _never_ let those drugs come to market.
anti-depressants and anti-psychotics are the government's and pharmacy industries wet dream.
Government subsidized research, patents ensuring a long market at a high profit, depressive and psychotic people are less likely to sue because of all of the side affects -- even death, government subsidization of patient's prescriptions, these drugs are maintenance drugs with no cure in sight, they are government controlled via federal and state laws, there is no market for them for recreational drug users. Hell, maybe they can dope up the people enough to pay taxes and get a regular job.
If you're stupid enough to drink to such excess after learning your own limits you probably don't belong there anyway.
I was stupid enough to drink to such excess without learning my own limits, and after 2 years of hospitalization and learning how to deal with my mental illness, I was able to graduate with honors, and have professors say that "I could do anything" and one 20+ year professor at the school said that I was the brightest student he ever had. I still speak to these professors 10+ years after graduating, and do quite well.
One of these days, I'll be smart enough to learn my own limits with respect to alcohol. At my current rate, it will not be until another 25 or so years until my liver quits. Apparently, I still have a few brain cells left.
No, but a major effect of alcohol is disinhibition. That's what it does, heck, that's a major reason for drinking it ("dutch courage" and all that"). So it makes people more prone to say what they think.
And thus we have -- "Alcohol, the cause of and the solution to all of life's problems."
"mount nice man" doesn't sound like my cup of tea.
Had to do it:)
while true do
mount/partner && strip/partner/* && (fsck -y/partner && echo god | yes; ^C^C^C); dmesg; which true >/dev/null && make love || umount/partner; umount/partner 2>/dev/null) ;
sleep 10h
echo "Good morning `date`"
find / -name *meaning* -print done
I've been using UNIX wayyyy too long.
Documentation:
mounting/partner is required for the following chain of commands: so is stripping/partner/* the first fsck can fail with no screenfulls of yes which true will always succeed but the make love is not a guarantee if make love fails, then immediately umount/partner regardless a final umount/partner is attempted where any error will be ignored and stored in/dev/null sleeping will happen regardless of sucessful mounting of/partner after 10h of sleeping, "Good morning" will be printed followed by the current date
after that an attempt is made to find *meaning* on the system. Nothing will be done if *meaning* is not found, but successful findings of *meaning* will be displayed on the terminal
Disclaimer:
BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
I get into these "debates" where people want to know "the answer", the best answer is, "it depends".
So, if I want to become a new car manufacturer, what do I do? Make cheap disposable cars, like say the Scion, or make cars like Rolls Royce or Bentley that are of such quality that they are willed to people after their death?
Well, both models exist, and have for some time.
Should I make cheap handtools for residential use that are only designed to work a year or two, or should I make industrial strength ones that will last a "lifetime", which is typically defined as 7 years.
We could go on and on with these things, but the true answer is, "it depends".
There are advantages and disadvantages to any decision, hopefully the goal is to pick the decisions where the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
More features requires more time and efforts in both the planning, development, testing, and whatnot. Too few features means that few if anybody will buy the device, but even in that situation, if its cheap enough, someone will buy it:)
But look at how much time and effort we humans and other organisms spend on adding some kind of order to the seemingly pervasive randomness and entropy in life.
Termites build nice tubes. Ants follow each other back and forth from food/material supplies and their ant-made dwellings. Cats define "their territory" with scent markings. Etc, etc.
My infinite inprobability drive is broken right now. Its on my "todo" list.
If, however, those two extra legs meant that the sheep could run 50% faster away from predators than the other sheep, that's a trait that's going get passed on until eventually there's a shit-load* of six-legged sheep.
Thanks for expanding my scientific vocabulary. Its great to learn new things!
Regarding six-legged sheep being faster and able to escape predators, 50% is an overkill. All you need is to be faster. Kinda like the joke about outrunning a bear:
Bear: I'm going to eat you!
Person A: I'm going to try and outrun the bear! Starting now!
Person B: I'm going to outrun Person A. I don't need to outrun the bear!
"if you lose interest in it once you've come, it's porn."
That does not seem like a very good definition. Husbands frequently go to sleep after sex, and rinse and repeat the process some other night. Most prostitutes are not that good, so after busting a nut, the prostitute is quickly shown the door. I've never heard of someone losing interest in porn after the first or X number of orgasms.
I guess the best definition of porn is "sensory reproductions of sexually arousing situations often intended for use in masturbation or arousal before a sexual act with another person".
Ha! I should be a lexicographer so I could say, "I know what I'm talking about, I wrote the book".
Inheritable genetic mutations are seemingly random.
Einstein didn't believe that God played dice, but the evidence seems contrary. That may be a distorted view of Einstein's views on quantum theory, but...
Seriously, random junk like mutations -- who knows if a 6th finger or being attached to another person is evolutionarily valuable? Who knows if brownian motion will make something cool? Who knows if this primordial soup will taste good?
The whole concept of random, seems strange. Its difficult for people to create random stuff intentionally, but randomly it seems to happen at random times.
Ah, but supposedly science is founded on the basis that there is order to the universe.
What do I know?
I always chuckle to myself when someone says something like "different random number".
Although this does seem like a PITA, it does entirely seem recoverable without too much hassle. Macs come with bootable CDs, so reboot, hold down the c key, use disk utitility to create a dmg of your existing OS X data. Reinstall OS X, DND your old junk, click OK on overwriting files, you should be OK to where you started in a while. Optionally resize your partition with Disk Utility if you don't want a partitioned drive.
I remember doing things like that with fips, lilo, and company long ago. It took me a while to realize that dual booting is just not worth it, but many disagree. I've heard of some people having 5+ boot options on their computer. YMMV.
IMHO, once chicks start getting spread-eagled, they've crossed the line from erotica to porn.
"Cuties being cute" would be more along the lines of non-nude or teasing-but-still-barely-non-nude. Lightspeed stuff qualifies as solo porn.
As I said, there is no generally accepted definition of "porn" beyond that its generally associated with sexual content via some form of media. I'm not sure, but I don't think strip clubs are considered porn. Prime time TV ads in some countries would be considered porn in others. Its all relative.
Oh, TubeSteak seems appropriate username for this discussion.
In short, he thinks small icon advertisements (eg. "drink coke") should be put in the corner of a TV show, and then the TV show should be freely distributed on bittorrent. Everyone wins.
Another thing. The small icon advertisement thing is used all the time during sporting events. Endorsements for clothing, equipment, and other goods and services are displayed via green-screen type overlays, billboards, on-screen overlays, and to boot they still have dedicated commercials.
A success story with marketing this way is Nike in the penetration of sports equipment and clothes. Riddell used to be the dominant helmet used by football players, but Nike has taken that market over. Nike used to have almost no presence in the soccer or football (confusion for you europeans:) market. Now they are a very dominant product in those sports.
So, even with product placements, overlay icon advertisements or whatnot, I still see dedicated advertising for years to come. What would the Superbowl be without advertisements? It would merely seem to be just another football game.
Ok, and we should use this instead of del.icio.us why, exactly? Might be good to put on the FAQ list.
Good or bad, right or wrong, I use slashdot, I've only looked at del.icio.us.
I'm a mobile computer user, and I'm in the market for an online bookmark service. Unfortunately, I'm happy with Safari's bookmarking features. Apple-D a nice menu comes down asking for the title of the bookmark, and which folder I want to put it under. DND bookmarking is possible, and then putting the bookmarks into the top of the browser so that it is always accessible is nice as well. Oh, and when a site is bookmarked and I type an URL into the location box, odds are its either the top selected item in my history, or at worst its in the top 5 with 5 characters or less of input.
So, I'm looking for a remote bookmarking facility. Here are my requirements:
1) Synchronization with Safari across machines so that I can either view my bookmarks online, say on a public machine, or I can import the bookmarks into my browser of a machine that I use frequently.
2) Being that I have friends here on slashdot, it would be nice to get notification of their bookmark changes or browse my friends bookmarks sorted by date added in reverse order:)
3) Ability to have bookmarks listed as private and public. This is important. I have my online banking bookmarked for convenience for me I find it unnecessary for everyone who knows me to know every bank I deal with. Same would go for other things I would prefer to keep private, yet bookmarked.
"Kids, I just want you to know that we would be very proud for you to be in the family business. We're very proud of our business. Uh, NOT the product, mind you, just the business.
"You'll go into the 'production' end over my dead body."
Your take on this is like saying it's "not hypocritical" for a narco-trafficker to punish his kids for taking drugs.
Basic human needs and desires are established via culture and biology. Sex and altered states of consciousness are both part of every society known to mankind. Sex is a need, not a want. If I were to stop thinking about sex, it would require castration. Just ask your local Catholic priest. Even after castration, some animals engage is reflexive sexual behavior when they are young.
Seeing young cuties on a computer or TV screen is an outlet for many. Its cited in many research publications that unwed pregnancy, child porn, molestations, and similar sex problems or crimes are directly proportional to the societal acceptance and openness associated with sex.
Hypocrisy is denying and ignoring the human need for sex. Myths like adultery is merely thinking of sex with another person besides your spouse does not agree with human nature or any animal that reproduces via sex with another animal. Besides myths about immaculate conception and humans being delivered to the Earth via aliens, sex is where most people come from. The human population is actually growing faster than people are dieing, so somewhere, somehow, when noone is looking, sex is going on.
Is MS shooting itself in the foot? Or merely trying to maximize revenue?
If MS can detect that your Vista is pirated, why not just shut down the Vista altogether? Instead they're just turning off eye candy.
MS wants money, but on the other hand it must realize that a user on a pirated Vista is better than a user on Linux.
From what I know, doesn't most of Microsoft's OS revenue come from stronghold tactics by putting OEM licensed copies on new computers whether the customer wants the software or not?
Windows costs between $100 to $300 dollars, where the upper end of that is the entry price for computers today that comes with Windows already "legal" and good with it.
At the retail price level, who could justify spending that much money for something that already comes with a computer?
I don't think he's moaning about "doing the time" he's just complaining about being treated as a "terrorist" and all the fun that involves.
Jail time - fair enough. Guantanamo Bay, perhaps not...
Well, he is lucky enough to live in a country that allows you to have legal representation, due process, and all that jazz.
This would be a non story if he were in the US. Few people hear about who gets detained at Guantanamo. Fortunately, Guantanamo is small, so you have to be of special interest to get an invitation to stay there. When the US government starts talking about using an entire island for these kinds of camps, I would be in the market for a safer country to live in. Bright men have considered using Madagascar as a good sized prison before. I'm sure there are other suitable locations as well for such a thing.
In short, he thinks small icon advertisements (eg. "drink coke") should be put in the corner of a TV show, and then the TV show should be freely distributed on bittorrent. Everyone wins.
I'm also a fan of product placement, so long as its done tastefully. Products are a part of our culture, we use them all the time. Its unlikely that a billionaire business tycoon on TV would drive a 1976 Pinto. Why not have Ferarri or some high end/high dollar car manufacturer compete for having this new billionaire business tycoon drive one of their products instead of the Pinto?
Probably the most successful product placement campaign in history was by the De Beers diamond cartel. In a few decades they were able to convince much of the world that their rocks were always something involved with love and marriage, especially those failed Hollywood marriages, and you too should participate and give them money in the name of love.
Despite the complete marketing con and manipulation by De Beers, it does not really bother me because it was tastefully done. Diamonds are a girl's best friend is a cute song, and metaphorically it sums up a majority of Eastern European derived women.
Life is better when you have a child's understanding of the world. Beyond that, I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
As his children get closer to adulthood, he said, he'll explain what their parents do. "I wouldn't mind if my kids get involved in this business," he said. Then he added: "Behind the scenes."
These statements are in no way contradictory or hypocritical. Steve is behind the scenes, and is recommending the same to his children.
There may be more to Steve Lightspeed than I know, but I've seen some of his work and it was primarily very young and young looking girls doing naked dances and/or heavy petting with another similar girl. Jordan Capri was/is his star model, and she is extremely cute. AFAIK, there is no guy/girl stuff or hardcore, just cuties being cute.
In my eye, its not even porn. But there is no clear definition of porn at this time.
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How the hell did we get to this point?
There are no victims, only volunteers.
"Back in the day", when Americans were not satisfied with the tax on goods, they threw the goods into the harbor. Reaction, more laws from the lawmakers. Next reaction, revolt.
I was speaking with a guy in his 60s the other day, and he was quiet and just worked for a living. He bluntly said to me, "I don't understand why young people put up with the shit that the government is doing today."
So, aside from PETA trying to keep poor frogs from being dissected* and the NRA wanting armor piercing bullets available for children, and the EFF, who stands up for their rights?
I speak with lawmakers, individuals, post stuff like this on slashdot and have it moderated down.
* I have a love/hate relationship with extremists. I guess they need to be extreme so that a decent middleground is reached, but frogs? I love frogs. I've had 1 tree frog as a pet, and 2 firebelly toads. Very interesting animals. But in the wild, frogs have about a 0.03% chance of becoming old enough to be dissected. Frogs/toads are pretty happy in captivity. A little water, a little girl frog for the boy frog to hug onto, some food, they sing at night. Cool stuff. But, we still need extremists, even though their rational is irrational, hopefully a decent middlegound can be reached.
Am I then obligated to stop buying video games and viewing porn?
Yes, if you truly believe that buying video games requires its programmers to be treated poorly and the same with your favorite starlet, and you feel bad about the way they are treated, why perpetuate the bad treatment?
Good porn starlets are hard to come by. Many of the longer career ones appear to be very healthy psychologically and are often very intelligent as well. The ones between 18 and 22 or so years old often don't last long. They can't hack it. You know, good game programmers are hard to come by too. They are what, between 18 and 25 years old, or at a max around 30. They are often intelligent as well, and they too don't last long.
Its a tough call. Sometimes I feel bad about buying clothes that I know are made in a sweatshop overseas. Sometimes I feel bad about buying electronics that are manufactured overseas by similar people. I never feel bad about porn stars, prostitutes, or game developers.
So, we both have cognitive dissidence to deal with.
For me and my state, adding that $.08 to cigarette tax would be much more productive. I wish they would do that instead.
Why? I'd quite like to hear your reasoning on that...
Yeah. What is up with that? If the government really cared, they would pay people to smoke. Smokers don't live as long in old age when they are collecting government money and odds are they aren't working and paying income tax either. Wait until 2050 when the largest age group will be 80+. We will have a Geritol party!
I pay to digitally download content from a website called slashdot. I don't have to, but it gives me advantages over not paying, plus I like slashdot, and its the cheapest form of entertainment I've ever encountered. Just to teach the tax man and slashdot a lesson, I'll stop paying as soon as I'm taxed for it.
In 1885 he coined the terms "coke whore" and later in 1985 President Reagan invented the "crack whore".
All of which are healthy and normal.
I don't think you would be able to organically synthesise anything and then expect to put it 5% in a aqueous solution, and STILL make it for less than $1 a bottle.
But in many a boardroom that is where the:
3) ?????
4) PROFIT!
is brought up. #3 is de-emphasized #4 is an example of the recency affect.
It seems to me the effects of these two substances are quite distinct. I'm not saying they have nothing in common, but they work on quite different systems in the brain, and it's quite easy to tell apart someone on alcohol from someone on marijuana (from a 1st or 3rd person point of view). Each of these states of consciousness are useful in their own way, but they are not the same state; one does not adequately substitute for the other.
Yes, the effects are different, and the onset, duration, and after affects are entirely different. Alcohol is almost a maintenance drug. You can start at X [AP]M and maintain until you stop. Marijuana has a distinct onset, especially when smoked, a slight peak, and a trail off. If you smoke too much pot, you will not notice much more than the onset and then stay "burned out". Personally, I rather enjoy a combination of alcohol and marijuana.
Wow, I'm glad those drug companies aren't making a shitton of money on drugs that we don't need like anti-psychotics and anti-depressants, because the way you make it sound, the government would _never_ let those drugs come to market.
anti-depressants and anti-psychotics are the government's and pharmacy industries wet dream.
Government subsidized research, patents ensuring a long market at a high profit, depressive and psychotic people are less likely to sue because of all of the side affects -- even death, government subsidization of patient's prescriptions, these drugs are maintenance drugs with no cure in sight, they are government controlled via federal and state laws, there is no market for them for recreational drug users. Hell, maybe they can dope up the people enough to pay taxes and get a regular job.
If you're stupid enough to drink to such excess after learning your own limits you probably don't belong there anyway.
I was stupid enough to drink to such excess without learning my own limits, and after 2 years of hospitalization and learning how to deal with my mental illness, I was able to graduate with honors, and have professors say that "I could do anything" and one 20+ year professor at the school said that I was the brightest student he ever had. I still speak to these professors 10+ years after graduating, and do quite well.
One of these days, I'll be smart enough to learn my own limits with respect to alcohol. At my current rate, it will not be until another 25 or so years until my liver quits. Apparently, I still have a few brain cells left.
No, but a major effect of alcohol is disinhibition. That's what it does, heck, that's a major reason for drinking it ("dutch courage" and all that"). So it makes people more prone to say what they think.
And thus we have -- "Alcohol, the cause of and the solution to all of life's problems."
A psychopharmacologist is interested in why and how chemicals interact with the brain and nervous system...
An ethnobotanist is interested in how natural plants affect people.
A good ethnobotanist will take you places that very few pshchopharmacologists will ever get right.
"mount nice man" doesn't sound like my cup of tea.
:)
/partner && strip /partner/* && (fsck -y /partner && echo god | yes; ^C^C^C); dmesg; which true >/dev/null && make love || umount /partner; umount /partner 2>/dev/null) ;
/partner is required for the following chain of commands: /partner/* /partner /partner is attempted where any error will be ignored and stored in /dev/null /partner
Had to do it
while true
do
mount
sleep 10h
echo "Good morning `date`"
find / -name *meaning* -print
done
I've been using UNIX wayyyy too long.
Documentation:
mounting
so is stripping
the first fsck can fail with no screenfulls of yes
which true will always succeed but the make love is not a guarantee
if make love fails, then immediately umount
regardless a final umount
sleeping will happen regardless of sucessful mounting of
after 10h of sleeping, "Good morning" will be printed followed by the current date
after that an attempt is made to find *meaning* on the system. Nothing will be done if *meaning* is not found, but successful findings of *meaning* will be displayed on the terminal
Disclaimer:
BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY
FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN
OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES
PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED
OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS
TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE
PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING,
REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
Like every thing else in life
:)
You just have to find the right balance.
So true.
I get into these "debates" where people want to know "the answer", the best answer is, "it depends".
So, if I want to become a new car manufacturer, what do I do? Make cheap disposable cars, like say the Scion, or make cars like Rolls Royce or Bentley that are of such quality that they are willed to people after their death?
Well, both models exist, and have for some time.
Should I make cheap handtools for residential use that are only designed to work a year or two, or should I make industrial strength ones that will last a "lifetime", which is typically defined as 7 years.
We could go on and on with these things, but the true answer is, "it depends".
There are advantages and disadvantages to any decision, hopefully the goal is to pick the decisions where the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
More features requires more time and efforts in both the planning, development, testing, and whatnot. Too few features means that few if anybody will buy the device, but even in that situation, if its cheap enough, someone will buy it
What the fuck, its only a buck!
It turns out that things really are random.
But look at how much time and effort we humans and other organisms spend on adding some kind of order to the seemingly pervasive randomness and entropy in life.
Termites build nice tubes. Ants follow each other back and forth from food/material supplies and their ant-made dwellings. Cats define "their territory" with scent markings. Etc, etc.
My infinite inprobability drive is broken right now. Its on my "todo" list.
If, however, those two extra legs meant that the sheep could run 50% faster away from predators than the other sheep, that's a trait that's going get passed on until eventually there's a shit-load* of six-legged sheep.
Thanks for expanding my scientific vocabulary. Its great to learn new things!
Regarding six-legged sheep being faster and able to escape predators, 50% is an overkill. All you need is to be faster. Kinda like the joke about outrunning a bear:
Bear: I'm going to eat you!
Person A: I'm going to try and outrun the bear! Starting now!
Person B: I'm going to outrun Person A. I don't need to outrun the bear!
"if you lose interest in it once you've come, it's porn."
That does not seem like a very good definition. Husbands frequently go to sleep after sex, and rinse and repeat the process some other night. Most prostitutes are not that good, so after busting a nut, the prostitute is quickly shown the door. I've never heard of someone losing interest in porn after the first or X number of orgasms.
I guess the best definition of porn is "sensory reproductions of sexually arousing situations often intended for use in masturbation or arousal before a sexual act with another person".
Ha! I should be a lexicographer so I could say, "I know what I'm talking about, I wrote the book".
Inheritable genetic mutations drive evolution.
Inheritable genetic mutations are seemingly random.
Einstein didn't believe that God played dice, but the evidence seems contrary. That may be a distorted view of Einstein's views on quantum theory, but...
Seriously, random junk like mutations -- who knows if a 6th finger or being attached to another person is evolutionarily valuable? Who knows if brownian motion will make something cool? Who knows if this primordial soup will taste good?
The whole concept of random, seems strange. Its difficult for people to create random stuff intentionally, but randomly it seems to happen at random times.
Ah, but supposedly science is founded on the basis that there is order to the universe.
What do I know?
I always chuckle to myself when someone says something like "different random number".
Now, I'm confused. Does randomness exist?
Although this does seem like a PITA, it does entirely seem recoverable without too much hassle. Macs come with bootable CDs, so reboot, hold down the c key, use disk utitility to create a dmg of your existing OS X data. Reinstall OS X, DND your old junk, click OK on overwriting files, you should be OK to where you started in a while. Optionally resize your partition with Disk Utility if you don't want a partitioned drive.
I remember doing things like that with fips, lilo, and company long ago. It took me a while to realize that dual booting is just not worth it, but many disagree. I've heard of some people having 5+ boot options on their computer. YMMV.
IMHO, once chicks start getting spread-eagled, they've crossed the line from erotica to porn.
"Cuties being cute" would be more along the lines of non-nude or teasing-but-still-barely-non-nude. Lightspeed stuff qualifies as solo porn.
As I said, there is no generally accepted definition of "porn" beyond that its generally associated with sexual content via some form of media. I'm not sure, but I don't think strip clubs are considered porn. Prime time TV ads in some countries would be considered porn in others. Its all relative.
Oh, TubeSteak seems appropriate username for this discussion.
In short, he thinks small icon advertisements (eg. "drink coke") should be put in the corner of a TV show, and then the TV show should be freely distributed on bittorrent. Everyone wins.
:) market. Now they are a very dominant product in those sports.
Another thing. The small icon advertisement thing is used all the time during sporting events. Endorsements for clothing, equipment, and other goods and services are displayed via green-screen type overlays, billboards, on-screen overlays, and to boot they still have dedicated commercials.
A success story with marketing this way is Nike in the penetration of sports equipment and clothes. Riddell used to be the dominant helmet used by football players, but Nike has taken that market over. Nike used to have almost no presence in the soccer or football (confusion for you europeans
So, even with product placements, overlay icon advertisements or whatnot, I still see dedicated advertising for years to come. What would the Superbowl be without advertisements? It would merely seem to be just another football game.
Ok, and we should use this instead of del.icio.us why, exactly? Might be good to put on the FAQ list.
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Good or bad, right or wrong, I use slashdot, I've only looked at del.icio.us.
I'm a mobile computer user, and I'm in the market for an online bookmark service. Unfortunately, I'm happy with Safari's bookmarking features. Apple-D a nice menu comes down asking for the title of the bookmark, and which folder I want to put it under. DND bookmarking is possible, and then putting the bookmarks into the top of the browser so that it is always accessible is nice as well. Oh, and when a site is bookmarked and I type an URL into the location box, odds are its either the top selected item in my history, or at worst its in the top 5 with 5 characters or less of input.
So, I'm looking for a remote bookmarking facility. Here are my requirements:
1) Synchronization with Safari across machines so that I can either view my bookmarks online, say on a public machine, or I can import the bookmarks into my browser of a machine that I use frequently.
2) Being that I have friends here on slashdot, it would be nice to get notification of their bookmark changes or browse my friends bookmarks sorted by date added in reverse order
3) Ability to have bookmarks listed as private and public. This is important. I have my online banking bookmarked for convenience for me I find it unnecessary for everyone who knows me to know every bank I deal with. Same would go for other things I would prefer to keep private, yet bookmarked.
You gotta be kiddin' me.
No, I'm not.
"Kids, I just want you to know that we would be very proud for you to be in the family business. We're very proud of our business. Uh, NOT the product, mind you, just the business.
"You'll go into the 'production' end over my dead body."
Your take on this is like saying it's "not hypocritical" for a narco-trafficker to punish his kids for taking drugs.
Basic human needs and desires are established via culture and biology. Sex and altered states of consciousness are both part of every society known to mankind. Sex is a need, not a want. If I were to stop thinking about sex, it would require castration. Just ask your local Catholic priest. Even after castration, some animals engage is reflexive sexual behavior when they are young.
Seeing young cuties on a computer or TV screen is an outlet for many. Its cited in many research publications that unwed pregnancy, child porn, molestations, and similar sex problems or crimes are directly proportional to the societal acceptance and openness associated with sex.
Hypocrisy is denying and ignoring the human need for sex. Myths like adultery is merely thinking of sex with another person besides your spouse does not agree with human nature or any animal that reproduces via sex with another animal. Besides myths about immaculate conception and humans being delivered to the Earth via aliens, sex is where most people come from. The human population is actually growing faster than people are dieing, so somewhere, somehow, when noone is looking, sex is going on.
Is MS shooting itself in the foot? Or merely trying to maximize revenue?
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If MS can detect that your Vista is pirated, why not just shut down the Vista altogether? Instead they're just turning off eye candy.
MS wants money, but on the other hand it must realize that a user on a pirated Vista is better than a user on Linux.
From what I know, doesn't most of Microsoft's OS revenue come from stronghold tactics by putting OEM licensed copies on new computers whether the customer wants the software or not?
I mean according to amazon http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/694
Windows costs between $100 to $300 dollars, where the upper end of that is the entry price for computers today that comes with Windows already "legal" and good with it.
At the retail price level, who could justify spending that much money for something that already comes with a computer?
I don't think he's moaning about "doing the time" he's just complaining about being treated as a "terrorist" and all the fun that involves.
Jail time - fair enough. Guantanamo Bay, perhaps not...
Well, he is lucky enough to live in a country that allows you to have legal representation, due process, and all that jazz.
This would be a non story if he were in the US. Few people hear about who gets detained at Guantanamo. Fortunately, Guantanamo is small, so you have to be of special interest to get an invitation to stay there. When the US government starts talking about using an entire island for these kinds of camps, I would be in the market for a safer country to live in. Bright men have considered using Madagascar as a good sized prison before. I'm sure there are other suitable locations as well for such a thing.
In short, he thinks small icon advertisements (eg. "drink coke") should be put in the corner of a TV show, and then the TV show should be freely distributed on bittorrent. Everyone wins.
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I'm also a fan of product placement, so long as its done tastefully. Products are a part of our culture, we use them all the time. Its unlikely that a billionaire business tycoon on TV would drive a 1976 Pinto. Why not have Ferarri or some high end/high dollar car manufacturer compete for having this new billionaire business tycoon drive one of their products instead of the Pinto?
Probably the most successful product placement campaign in history was by the De Beers diamond cartel. In a few decades they were able to convince much of the world that their rocks were always something involved with love and marriage, especially those failed Hollywood marriages, and you too should participate and give them money in the name of love.
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http://www.turnerclassicmovies.com/thismonth/arti
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debeers#Marketing
Despite the complete marketing con and manipulation by De Beers, it does not really bother me because it was tastefully done. Diamonds are a girl's best friend is a cute song, and metaphorically it sums up a majority of Eastern European derived women.
Life is better when you have a child's understanding of the world. Beyond that, I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
As his children get closer to adulthood, he said, he'll explain what their parents do. "I wouldn't mind if my kids get involved in this business," he said. Then he added: "Behind the scenes."
These statements are in no way contradictory or hypocritical. Steve is behind the scenes, and is recommending the same to his children.
There may be more to Steve Lightspeed than I know, but I've seen some of his work and it was primarily very young and young looking girls doing naked dances and/or heavy petting with another similar girl. Jordan Capri was/is his star model, and she is extremely cute. AFAIK, there is no guy/girl stuff or hardcore, just cuties being cute.
In my eye, its not even porn. But there is no clear definition of porn at this time.