For one, don't park your ass at a Burger King in one of the worst neighborhoods in the city with your 4000 Dell XPS notebook. I see nerds on the subway with their laptops in full view doing nothing but playing Solitaire. Quit showing off, dumbasses, and you won't get jacked. Easy.
And that goes for those telltale white headphones too.
Some users of dial-up sheepishly acknowledge that they avoid admitting their low network speeds when they are with their better-connected friends.
Hell no. I revel in telling my better-connected friends how elite I am because I'm willing to wait a whole 24 hours while my Slackware ISO pumps through my itty bitty link. Not only that, but I routinely smash low pingers in a certain FPS to the point where I'm one of the best on the planet in the game -- and that's all through my analog baby.
Time truly doesN't exist. The universe is timeless, eternal. By nature, time is a dualistically fabricated concept. What you consider the past is nothing more than the present fact of you recalling your memories. What you call the future is nothing more than the present fact of you holding expectations. What is real is now. The universe manifests itself in an endless cycle of now moments.
The universe perishes and is reborn an untold number of times per second -- it essentially changes configuration endlessly, perfectly.
There are some who hold that the universe began X billion years ago. Some also hold that the universe never began, and thus never ends. Still more hold that the universe begins when you're born and ends when you die, since the idea of a universe and consciousness to them are not mutually exclusive.
How about I suggest a book? The Spectrum of Consciousness by Ken Wilber. Read him.
That godforsaken article reads like a legal document! Surely it wasn't written by any kind of literary hacker. I quit reading after the third paragraph.
The Inspiron 8200 which I bought in June 2002 would beg to differ. With a 64-meg GeForce4 440 Go and a crystal clear native resolution of 1600x1200, the XPS is/not/ Dell's first forway into portable gaming systems. Though mine has a 1.6 gig CPU, it runs Quake3 Arena with all effects turned on just fine.
why did you include "this sentence is false"? contradiction alone has little to do with zen. if you're looking for good koans, i recomment The Gateless Gate..
I have the Gateless Gate. May I suggest one? Read Ken Wilber's The Spectrum of Consciousness.
This sentence is false is the verbal equivalent to Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, and is very applicable in demonstrating the extent to which logic can describle Reality. The theorem represents the annhilating edge of dualistic reasoning (a statment that attempts to test its own truth will render itself false to itsef; you can't describe who you are with what you know about who you are). Koans rest right where the Liar's Paradox does; it takes the mind that annhilating edge and through diligent effort we are expected to make the leap over. That "quasi-mysterious" nonsense would probably fare as well as Joshu's Mu in opening the mind's eye.
Though I respect your opinion, my including the sentence wasn't my attempt at demonstrating Zen, because you and I know zen escapes the Four Propositions (Madyamika, exclusion limits so it can't describe Reality), so any dualism-ridden attempt I make here would be fruitless. In fact, the time we take here to discuss zen is doing it a disservice.
My final point. Zen the experience escapes all categorization; zen is experience and ONLY experience. It is neither a religion nor a philosophy. Anything we say of it falls back in upon itself. Such is the nature of dualism.
Zen is not a religion in the popular definition of the word. Zen abhors doctrine and is particularly atheist in its belief of a higher being, although it's closer to agnosticism in its opinion. Zen is neither a philosophy; philosophy bases its position on a logic-based mode of thinking -- zen is beyond dualistic reasoning. As much as we could try, the zen experience could never be explained in words (and there's a proven reason for this). Zen isn't only a subset of Buddhism; zen defines Buddhism in its purest form. Buddhism without zen is like the antarctic without snow..
This sentence is false.
To be most accurate, zen is more a recipe than a religion; a practice more than a philosophy. In zen the road is practice, the destination is Mind.
It's worth knowing that Warp was instrumental in kicking off the resurgence of techno during the early nineties. They were responsible for massively popular underground bleep tracks such as "Tricky Disco" and the poltergeist of a track "Test Four" and it's derivatives. Back then, these boys supplied extremely high quality minimal techno. I owe a large portion of my thanks to Warp for inspiring my love for high art minimal tech.
Doesn't make it correct. What other word do you know that has two adjective forms, one of them the result of fools that don't read enough to know better?
"Minimalist" is correct and it is an adjective as well as a noun. "Minimalistic" is a pretend word that pretends to be an adjective.
If enough ignorant people use a word enough, it becomes official. "Irregardless" is in the dictionary too and it's just as incorrect. We're paving the way for a generation of dummies, I tell you.
" The packaging system is minimalistic. It does not support dependency resolving, but so far I did not felt that I need any."
When will people learn that "minimalistic" is not a fucking word. If your vocabulary fails to exceed that of your average three year old, goddamnit, don't make up words to suit your stupid self.
The final boss was IMPOSSIBLE to defeat. The fight consisted of you having to lay mines for the boss to step on, and he never did. The only weakness he had were the bottom of his feet. He managed to scurry around every mine I layed, and the fight dragged on and on. Never did beat the game because of it.
"Louder" may simply an illusion due to compression and levelling. Know when you turn on your teevee and flip channels and you don't have to continually adjust the volume on your set? That's the FCC (or CRTC in Canada) saying networks should spare our ears and broacast only so loud. In response to this, compression allows the soft sounds to be heard with equal ease as the loud sounds in commercials, essentially "pinning" the entire sound spectrum in your average 30-second commercial up against the FCC broadcast barrier, allowing programs and commercials to be loud without requiring you to turn up your television (or radio or CD, etc).
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ET for the Atari 2600, hands down. That game didn't seem to have an end or an objective, ferchrissakes.
Coming from the best player in Tron 2.0, yes, all of the above although my machine is borderline. Dell Inspiron 8200.
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I actually include the capslock key in my touch typing. It's kinda hard juggling left and right shift when typing strings of capital letters.
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For one, don't park your ass at a Burger King in one of the worst neighborhoods in the city with your 4000 Dell XPS notebook. I see nerds on the subway with their laptops in full view doing nothing but playing Solitaire. Quit showing off, dumbasses, and you won't get jacked. Easy.
And that goes for those telltale white headphones too.
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There's nothing like the grammatical mangling of white blood versus red. Truthfully.
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Some users of dial-up sheepishly acknowledge that they avoid admitting their low network speeds when they are with their better-connected friends.
Hell no. I revel in telling my better-connected friends how elite I am because I'm willing to wait a whole 24 hours while my Slackware ISO pumps through my itty bitty link. Not only that, but I routinely smash low pingers in a certain FPS to the point where I'm one of the best on the planet in the game -- and that's all through my analog baby.
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Ghouls and Ghost, hardest game of all time?
Hell no.
Robotron: 2084 and Actraiser were both exponentially more difficult. And that's for example.
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Time truly doesN't exist. The universe is timeless, eternal. By nature, time is a dualistically fabricated concept. What you consider the past is nothing more than the present fact of you recalling your memories. What you call the future is nothing more than the present fact of you holding expectations. What is real is now. The universe manifests itself in an endless cycle of now moments.
The universe perishes and is reborn an untold number of times per second -- it essentially changes configuration endlessly, perfectly.
There are some who hold that the universe began X billion years ago. Some also hold that the universe never began, and thus never ends. Still more hold that the universe begins when you're born and ends when you die, since the idea of a universe and consciousness to them are not mutually exclusive.
How about I suggest a book? The Spectrum of Consciousness by Ken Wilber. Read him.
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That godforsaken article reads like a legal document! Surely it wasn't written by any kind of literary hacker. I quit reading after the third paragraph.
Remember that KISS principle thingamajig.
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First forway into portable gaming systems?
/not/ Dell's first forway into portable gaming systems. Though mine has a 1.6 gig CPU, it runs Quake3 Arena with all effects turned on just fine.
The Inspiron 8200 which I bought in June 2002 would beg to differ. With a 64-meg GeForce4 440 Go and a crystal clear native resolution of 1600x1200, the XPS is
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They're crooks and they were caught. Where's the real news?
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Damnit, I guess that means no Tron sequel.
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why did you include "this sentence is false"? contradiction alone has little to do with zen. if you're looking for good koans, i recomment The Gateless Gate..
I have the Gateless Gate. May I suggest one? Read Ken Wilber's The Spectrum of Consciousness.
This sentence is false is the verbal equivalent to Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, and is very applicable in demonstrating the extent to which logic can describle Reality. The theorem represents the annhilating edge of dualistic reasoning (a statment that attempts to test its own truth will render itself false to itsef; you can't describe who you are with what you know about who you are). Koans rest right where the Liar's Paradox does; it takes the mind that annhilating edge and through diligent effort we are expected to make the leap over. That "quasi-mysterious" nonsense would probably fare as well as Joshu's Mu in opening the mind's eye.
Though I respect your opinion, my including the sentence wasn't my attempt at demonstrating Zen, because you and I know zen escapes the Four Propositions (Madyamika, exclusion limits so it can't describe Reality), so any dualism-ridden attempt I make here would be fruitless. In fact, the time we take here to discuss zen is doing it a disservice.
My final point. Zen the experience escapes all categorization; zen is experience and ONLY experience. It is neither a religion nor a philosophy. Anything we say of it falls back in upon itself. Such is the nature of dualism.
Pleased to have discussed things with you.
Gassho,
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Yeah, but you can't overlook the fact the chick looks like she's taken a few right hooks from Mike Tyson. Where are her pupils ferchrissakes?
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Zen is not a religion in the popular definition of the word. Zen abhors doctrine and is particularly atheist in its belief of a higher being, although it's closer to agnosticism in its opinion. Zen is neither a philosophy; philosophy bases its position on a logic-based mode of thinking -- zen is beyond dualistic reasoning. As much as we could try, the zen experience could never be explained in words (and there's a proven reason for this). Zen isn't only a subset of Buddhism; zen defines Buddhism in its purest form. Buddhism without zen is like the antarctic without snow..
This sentence is false.
To be most accurate, zen is more a recipe than a religion; a practice more than a philosophy. In zen the road is practice, the destination is Mind.
A Zen Buddhist,
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It's worth knowing that Warp was instrumental in kicking off the resurgence of techno during the early nineties. They were responsible for massively popular underground bleep tracks such as "Tricky Disco" and the poltergeist of a track "Test Four" and it's derivatives. Back then, these boys supplied extremely high quality minimal techno. I owe a large portion of my thanks to Warp for inspiring my love for high art minimal tech.
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I stole my copy of Megaman along with my NES. Best mission of my life.
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Man, pens? This transcends geekdom. This is the domain of nerds.
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Doesn't make it correct. What other word do you know that has two adjective forms, one of them the result of fools that don't read enough to know better?
"Minimalist" is correct and it is an adjective as well as a noun. "Minimalistic" is a pretend word that pretends to be an adjective.
If enough ignorant people use a word enough, it becomes official. "Irregardless" is in the dictionary too and it's just as incorrect. We're paving the way for a generation of dummies, I tell you.
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" The packaging system is minimalistic. It does not support dependency resolving, but so far I did not felt that I need any."
When will people learn that "minimalistic" is not a fucking word. If your vocabulary fails to exceed that of your average three year old, goddamnit, don't make up words to suit your stupid self.
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And oh, "Ligar" at the end of Rygar for the NES. Bloody frickin' difficult as hell. Beat him, but ended up bald because of it.
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Metal Gear 2: Snake's Revenge for the NES.
The final boss was IMPOSSIBLE to defeat. The fight consisted of you having to lay mines for the boss to step on, and he never did. The only weakness he had were the bottom of his feet. He managed to scurry around every mine I layed, and the fight dragged on and on. Never did beat the game because of it.
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Screw you, worm. You're fucking up my Tron 2.0 ping.
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More like Outlook Exploit.
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"Louder" may simply an illusion due to compression and levelling. Know when you turn on your teevee and flip channels and you don't have to continually adjust the volume on your set? That's the FCC (or CRTC in Canada) saying networks should spare our ears and broacast only so loud. In response to this, compression allows the soft sounds to be heard with equal ease as the loud sounds in commercials, essentially "pinning" the entire sound spectrum in your average 30-second commercial up against the FCC broadcast barrier, allowing programs and commercials to be loud without requiring you to turn up your television (or radio or CD, etc).
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