It's that silly new convention where commas are no longer used before "and" -- e.g., "The loud noises make the hamster [twitch and cause] the walls to shake". I'm all for a benevolent linguistic dictatorship, but sadly, Language = Mob-Rule, or at least popularity. When weighing the value of popularity, you can always remember the Mc (*)Billions Served, or turn on the radio.
In the end we almost survived - but the solution had been copyrighted. The Establishment had opted to uphold the patents rather than avert our final demise and anger Emperor Troll. Though Emperor Troll was the last beast on Earth, there was nothing for him to live for and he soon followed. However, much of the planet's other species began to thrive once again. Dolphins eventually took to land and continued to evolve. Uninhibited by the manacles of a silly tongue, their communication was pure and intentions toward the stars, though never neglectful of home. Their endeavors were neither cannibal or competitive; they were of joy and free expression. They were not without their troubles, and many years passed before they ironed out the vestiges of a primitive past, but they grew and quickly so, as they did not hold each other down for the elevation of another. Reality was a goal and not a nightmare. To them, life was not a crime, nor was it something to be suffered, but something to embrace with the entirely of their potential. They eventually left Earth after some time. After traversing space for aeons, they conquered the limitation of will imposed by Universe. Form became optional and distance irrelevant. But from 'time' to 'time' they did visit Earth. Strangely, they never did bother to teach the history of humanity - it was self-implied. But they did build, leave and maintain a monument to Emperor Troll, which a strange and suspiciously human-like species would gaze at from great distance in wonder, but remained afraid to discuss.
Let's admit it; computerized devices are no longer an adult-dominated user-arena. They are used by everyone from seniors to children. Digital curriculum is likely to become only more and more popular, especially for children. At this rate, it won't be long before some sort of digital interface enters the baby market on a wide scale. This is truly where I think GNOME[3] should focus all their efforts. After exhibiting such puerile aptitude and genuine passion for infantine interfaces, I really think they should go with their bliss and corner the baby market. They shouldn't have to deal with any feedback, babies can't run away effectively, nor do they have any expectations beyond the very basic -- just pure love and acceptance, and just what GNOME[3] needs. I also think GNOME[3] and Unity would have a great a chance in the seniors market, but it would take a little more work and a few less bubbles.
You have to admit, it would be pretty cool to honestly say "My baby uses Linux!" - that is, if "Linux" is the right word.
This is way bigger than you think. Big, like in SPACE. To understand, you should first affiliate yourself with the origins of chess, particularly from the view of former President of the Republic of Kalmykia, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.
Well, soon you will begin to see what started this whole affair in the first place. The President of the Republic of Kalmykia has powerful friends, and Putin is not at the top amongst them. These friends have spaceships and don't piddle around, especially with chess. In other words, Gary fucked with the Aliens by criticizing their Kalmykian friend, and Putin, the incredibly patient fellow he is, is finally closing in -- in service of the KGB (King's Gambit Bezopasnosti).
Gentlemen, I assure you, chess is far stranger than Go.
After reading your comment and reflecting a bit, I can't help but to agree to some extent. However, I am a fiend for humor and see it as a nutrient. I also got more than a few good chuckles from the comments here. The article did seem to lend itself to such jokes, but I'm sure you make a valid point anyway. I will keep it in mind. But flamebait? Nah.
Quite funny! But perhaps you are proving their worth. As I proposed above, I foresee a place in politics for these rascals. The colors are already correct, and as you mentioned, they are "pathetically" immobile and unimpressive, not to mention robotic. They're bulbous at the center, and groveling on hands and knees too. But for the sake of your Friday afternoon, I can oblige you. Simply activate your television.
"The team thinks the devices could have a variety of different uses" - with a few adjustments and a teleprompter app, they could take over the government!
Sounds like malignant nonsense. And I hope people don't accept it, else we might soon need smartphones to obtain drivers-licenses. Insurance companies, although happily masquerading as safety-options, are mafia in disguise. They have purchased their way into government and become mandatory by force, compelling people to pay for protection whether they want it or not. Of course drivers need protection from the irresponsible or even honest accidents (collisions) of others, but with such a huge amount of them being fender-benders, which premiums don't cover, insurance companies make fortunes forcing people to pay for what they might do, and often never do - nor get compensated for. I'm not suggesting that the concept of insurance is necessarily intrinsically flawed; but the current model is a state-sponsored scam. They offer "rewards" of reduced extortion fees to those who behave well and age over time. But what about the person who drives for 50 years and never has an accident? If these insurance companies are mandated by force, then they should likewise be mandated by force to offer rebates to the families of deceased drivers who payed for protection but never used it.
They have monopolized upon the hypothetical, or at best the questionably statistical, and have done so with minimal mercy for their subjects. I am more than 100% for safety, so much that I will volunteer my time to empower it, but let us not confuse safety with horse-shit.
A lot of social studies have been done on games and the motivating factors behind them that breed such (understandably) fanatical enthusiasms. Is it so difficult to imagine that we are being gamed ourselves?
For God's sake man! I think you just inadvertently discovered the final solution to world peace! Apple patents Explosions!.. i m a g i n e
I am an avid reader/fan of Paul Theroux and remember his descriptions of dynamite-fishing, which were pretty depressing. It's a super practical way to obtain fish (and other debris), especially in third-world situations where environmental impacts are at best, abstract and strange concepts. I don't remember where it was exactly, but somewhere off the coasts of South-East Asia, Paul was camping on an island when visited by (modern) pirates and after giving one them a tin of mackerel, in guerrillian gratitude the guy handed him a grenade -- which was presumably intended to be used for fishing. Blast-fishing is a problem for sure, though I honestly don't know how effectively it competes with plastic islands and the mass-eutrophication of modern industry.
Winter, night-time, zinc-oxide, etcetera, etcetera, - I've heard it all before. The most sensible strategy is to simply wait until it sets into the sea.
Tesla was possibly one of the most brightly shining anti-proprietary knights in history -- intrinsically opposed to patent-trollery and obsessed with the upliftment and betterment of society. Yes, he took patents, as Stallman might willingly defile himself on an internet running through proprietary cables in order to do his work. Even the Buddha made a compromise along the way. Survival is especially tempting when you have epic (to say the least ) ideas. But I can think of no greater example than Tesla when considering the concept of open-source contributions to society. Ravaged and cabbaged by Morgans, Westinghouses, Edisons and government zombies, he lived humbly and ceaselessly contemplative to his last day, and on that day, a pigeon trumped humanity, as a deep and special etch in the key of utopia nearly died alone, if not for his feathered friend.
And yet his name goes generally unmentioned throughout academia. In the realm of geeks his name is reminiscent not of a champion of transparent innovation, but of tinfoil and jokes. Yet he came to the US and was handed a shovel, with which he toiled and dug while thinking of how such labor might be accomplished without breaking not his own back, but the backs of his fellows.
With no less honor than another ever had, Tesla sat beside and discussed the world with Einstein. And though not always eye to eye, a mutual respect was held. Mark Twain was also a friend of Tesla, and I'd myself not dare pass through a harsher judge of character than his.
But maybe one is best judged not by their friends, but by their foes. And it may be worth asking what these foes have given to society without receiving their plunder and more. By the very gift that innovation is supposed to be, the variety pandered by some has brought luxury to others, but a sure promise of suffering to many more if persistent in the same direction. While the gap between now and then is wide and filled with complexities, I think a solid look into Tesla will reveal that this path we've chosen is something entirely different at the very core from what he had in mind. My guess is that in a world where super-geniuses don't die in poverty beside pigeons, but live well amongst their peers and share their creativity freely, that although it's not the world we're in, it's the world we should strive for. A museum seems a pittance, but a due and positive one anyway.
Or perhaps: A new ontology, through the lens of biometrics | or; you're in trouble now, whether you are or not.
In the recent Slashdot post regarding TrapWire, an anonymous reader had posted a superb video which was removed. An identical version can be seen HERE, which I think beautifully summarizes the current and coming state of surveillance we face.
If the mod-trolls don't send me under, my own interpretation -- inspired by and written immediately after watching the video -- can be read here:
http://www.activistpost.com/2012/08/biometrics-prison-within-tripwires.html
And on the subject of plate-readers and helicopters, here:
http://eccentricintelligenceagency.info/archives/7340
Maybe instead of bashing me with mod-points, the more formidable cudgel of critical-thinking could be used. Otherwise, I'll continue to speak through the rubble. Things are getting so stupid, that soon neither the stupid nor the intelligent will have any power of denial.
Probably the most logical forecast I've received yet. And I surely hope he doesn't join Mr. Manning, even though it would ironically complement "justice". But I see the Pentagon as a sort ofnuclear Jabba the Hutt, and can too easily imagine it getting its nip of flesh. However, I remain mystified by the discrepancy of affairs between Assange and Manning. Neither should be dealing with anything but gratitude, yet one is naked amongst real-life cave-trolls and the other in a suit within an embassy. But too few seem adequately outraged by the treatment of Manning, who on purely hypothetical terms has been branded a monster, while legitimate psychopaths from Blackwater are praised, payed and nearly laid by the public. -- Almost makes me want to see what things are like without this body. Just waaay too damned absurd to ever accept as anything but pure pharmaceutical grade bullshit.
A: Assange is in some well-concealed way working with government agencies. After an almost unprecedented reception of media coverage in response to successful operations, Elite PR in effort to avoid breaching the threshold of public cognitive-dissonance, determines that Assange must be at some point incarcerated to prove that the King of the Hill isn't some sheep in bully's clothing, but is a bone-fide bully not to be F'd with. Assange then spends some time in a well-regulated prison environment to satiate a generation of tax-paying dullards. But eventually, he is released upon ground-breaking violations of international law by his captors who just F'd up. The sock-puppets and actors pretend to be outraged, frothing from jowly chops and uttering through trained faces words of rage. But in the end, the operative is set free due to the errors involved in his apprehension.
B: Achtung! Fascism has arrived and reserved a spot for you and your family in a Serco termination-chamber. Please be informed that your government has queued your number. You are advised to either self-terminate at the nearest eugenics pylon, or wait at your nearest Federal building for the next purge-wagon.
I think you put half the world into a nutshell with that last paragraph. How dare we ask for information, and after being denied, deceived and abused, actually take it. And yet so many people think these leaks are somehow more unpatriotic than waging illegal wars that produce millions of casualties, lying and spying, parasiting the economy with Haliburtons, Blackwaters and endless dead-end military contracts while we watch the collective IQ of the US dissipate as quickly as the smoke on the 4th of July.
UK: "Whaaaa! I didn't get my patsy, boo hoo hoo. Let's storm the embassy and feed him to the US Pentagon."
This should frighten the hell out of everyone. Perhaps citizen's arrests should made upon the any mention of the word "transparency" by bureaucrats. Do we really have to wait for Stratfor and other "Global Intelligence" agencies to crap their trousers before the population gets any insight into what they are funding?
When they grab Julian, they should grab Gary M. too, and burn them both at the stake for old times. Why hide their thirst for blood any longer?
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It's that silly new convention where commas are no longer used before "and" -- e.g., "The loud noises make the hamster [twitch and cause] the walls to shake". I'm all for a benevolent linguistic dictatorship, but sadly, Language = Mob-Rule, or at least popularity. When weighing the value of popularity, you can always remember the Mc (*)Billions Served, or turn on the radio.
In the end we almost survived - but the solution had been copyrighted. The Establishment had opted to uphold the patents rather than avert our final demise and anger Emperor Troll. Though Emperor Troll was the last beast on Earth, there was nothing for him to live for and he soon followed. However, much of the planet's other species began to thrive once again. Dolphins eventually took to land and continued to evolve. Uninhibited by the manacles of a silly tongue, their communication was pure and intentions toward the stars, though never neglectful of home. Their endeavors were neither cannibal or competitive; they were of joy and free expression. They were not without their troubles, and many years passed before they ironed out the vestiges of a primitive past, but they grew and quickly so, as they did not hold each other down for the elevation of another. Reality was a goal and not a nightmare. To them, life was not a crime, nor was it something to be suffered, but something to embrace with the entirely of their potential. They eventually left Earth after some time. After traversing space for aeons, they conquered the limitation of will imposed by Universe. Form became optional and distance irrelevant. But from 'time' to 'time' they did visit Earth. Strangely, they never did bother to teach the history of humanity - it was self-implied. But they did build, leave and maintain a monument to Emperor Troll, which a strange and suspiciously human-like species would gaze at from great distance in wonder, but remained afraid to discuss.
Let's admit it; computerized devices are no longer an adult-dominated user-arena. They are used by everyone from seniors to children. Digital curriculum is likely to become only more and more popular, especially for children. At this rate, it won't be long before some sort of digital interface enters the baby market on a wide scale. This is truly where I think GNOME[3] should focus all their efforts. After exhibiting such puerile aptitude and genuine passion for infantine interfaces, I really think they should go with their bliss and corner the baby market. They shouldn't have to deal with any feedback, babies can't run away effectively, nor do they have any expectations beyond the very basic -- just pure love and acceptance, and just what GNOME[3] needs. I also think GNOME[3] and Unity would have a great a chance in the seniors market, but it would take a little more work and a few less bubbles.
You have to admit, it would be pretty cool to honestly say "My baby uses Linux!" - that is, if "Linux" is the right word.
This is way bigger than you think. Big, like in SPACE. To understand, you should first affiliate yourself with the origins of chess, particularly from the view of former President of the Republic of Kalmykia, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.
Well, soon you will begin to see what started this whole affair in the first place. The President of the Republic of Kalmykia has powerful friends, and Putin is not at the top amongst them. These friends have spaceships and don't piddle around, especially with chess. In other words, Gary fucked with the Aliens by criticizing their Kalmykian friend, and Putin, the incredibly patient fellow he is, is finally closing in -- in service of the KGB (King's Gambit Bezopasnosti).
Gentlemen, I assure you, chess is far stranger than Go.
After reading your comment and reflecting a bit, I can't help but to agree to some extent. However, I am a fiend for humor and see it as a nutrient. I also got more than a few good chuckles from the comments here. The article did seem to lend itself to such jokes, but I'm sure you make a valid point anyway. I will keep it in mind. But flamebait? Nah.
Quite funny! But perhaps you are proving their worth. As I proposed above, I foresee a place in politics for these rascals. The colors are already correct, and as you mentioned, they are "pathetically" immobile and unimpressive, not to mention robotic. They're bulbous at the center, and groveling on hands and knees too. But for the sake of your Friday afternoon, I can oblige you. Simply activate your television.
"The team thinks the devices could have a variety of different uses" - with a few adjustments and a teleprompter app, they could take over the government!
That's even better; I'd planned on using Navy Seals, but a submarine would protect against sharks.
Sounds like malignant nonsense. And I hope people don't accept it, else we might soon need smartphones to obtain drivers-licenses. Insurance companies, although happily masquerading as safety-options, are mafia in disguise. They have purchased their way into government and become mandatory by force, compelling people to pay for protection whether they want it or not. Of course drivers need protection from the irresponsible or even honest accidents (collisions) of others, but with such a huge amount of them being fender-benders, which premiums don't cover, insurance companies make fortunes forcing people to pay for what they might do, and often never do - nor get compensated for. I'm not suggesting that the concept of insurance is necessarily intrinsically flawed; but the current model is a state-sponsored scam. They offer "rewards" of reduced extortion fees to those who behave well and age over time. But what about the person who drives for 50 years and never has an accident? If these insurance companies are mandated by force, then they should likewise be mandated by force to offer rebates to the families of deceased drivers who payed for protection but never used it.
They have monopolized upon the hypothetical, or at best the questionably statistical, and have done so with minimal mercy for their subjects. I am more than 100% for safety, so much that I will volunteer my time to empower it, but let us not confuse safety with horse-shit.
A lot of social studies have been done on games and the motivating factors behind them that breed such (understandably) fanatical enthusiasms. Is it so difficult to imagine that we are being gamed ourselves?
If he was running as root, even distant black-holes would whimper.
For God's sake man! I think you just inadvertently discovered the final solution to world peace! Apple patents Explosions! .. i m a g i n e
I am an avid reader/fan of Paul Theroux and remember his descriptions of dynamite-fishing, which were pretty depressing. It's a super practical way to obtain fish (and other debris), especially in third-world situations where environmental impacts are at best, abstract and strange concepts. I don't remember where it was exactly, but somewhere off the coasts of South-East Asia, Paul was camping on an island when visited by (modern) pirates and after giving one them a tin of mackerel, in guerrillian gratitude the guy handed him a grenade -- which was presumably intended to be used for fishing. Blast-fishing is a problem for sure, though I honestly don't know how effectively it competes with plastic islands and the mass-eutrophication of modern industry.
Oh come now my dear AC, don't be so drab; we all know the Chinese will be taking over shortly and just want to have a little fun before hand
If he installed Linux on them badboys, could he send eveything he didn't like to /dev/null just by saying "Talk to the hand."?
Winter, night-time, zinc-oxide, etcetera, etcetera, - I've heard it all before. The most sensible strategy is to simply wait until it sets into the sea.
How do I know this article isn't a Nigerian scam? I aint clickin' on that link, no sir I aint.
Tesla was possibly one of the most brightly shining anti-proprietary knights in history -- intrinsically opposed to patent-trollery and obsessed with the upliftment and betterment of society. Yes, he took patents, as Stallman might willingly defile himself on an internet running through proprietary cables in order to do his work. Even the Buddha made a compromise along the way. Survival is especially tempting when you have epic (to say the least ) ideas. But I can think of no greater example than Tesla when considering the concept of open-source contributions to society. Ravaged and cabbaged by Morgans, Westinghouses, Edisons and government zombies, he lived humbly and ceaselessly contemplative to his last day, and on that day, a pigeon trumped humanity, as a deep and special etch in the key of utopia nearly died alone, if not for his feathered friend.
And yet his name goes generally unmentioned throughout academia. In the realm of geeks his name is reminiscent not of a champion of transparent innovation, but of tinfoil and jokes. Yet he came to the US and was handed a shovel, with which he toiled and dug while thinking of how such labor might be accomplished without breaking not his own back, but the backs of his fellows.
With no less honor than another ever had, Tesla sat beside and discussed the world with Einstein. And though not always eye to eye, a mutual respect was held. Mark Twain was also a friend of Tesla, and I'd myself not dare pass through a harsher judge of character than his.
But maybe one is best judged not by their friends, but by their foes. And it may be worth asking what these foes have given to society without receiving their plunder and more. By the very gift that innovation is supposed to be, the variety pandered by some has brought luxury to others, but a sure promise of suffering to many more if persistent in the same direction. While the gap between now and then is wide and filled with complexities, I think a solid look into Tesla will reveal that this path we've chosen is something entirely different at the very core from what he had in mind. My guess is that in a world where super-geniuses don't die in poverty beside pigeons, but live well amongst their peers and share their creativity freely, that although it's not the world we're in, it's the world we should strive for. A museum seems a pittance, but a due and positive one anyway.
Or perhaps: A new ontology, through the lens of biometrics | or; you're in trouble now, whether you are or not.
In the recent Slashdot post regarding TrapWire, an anonymous reader had posted a superb video which was removed. An identical version can be seen HERE, which I think beautifully summarizes the current and coming state of surveillance we face.
If the mod-trolls don't send me under, my own interpretation -- inspired by and written immediately after watching the video -- can be read here:
http://www.activistpost.com/2012/08/biometrics-prison-within-tripwires.html
And on the subject of plate-readers and helicopters, here:
http://eccentricintelligenceagency.info/archives/7340
Maybe instead of bashing me with mod-points, the more formidable cudgel of critical-thinking could be used. Otherwise, I'll continue to speak through the rubble. Things are getting so stupid, that soon neither the stupid nor the intelligent will have any power of denial.
It's Tr a pWire, not "Trip". Such an important subject deserves accurate spelling.
Please mod parent to the proper height of Refreshing and Mind-Smarting Eloquence, i.e., (+1 *)
Probably the most logical forecast I've received yet. And I surely hope he doesn't join Mr. Manning, even though it would ironically complement "justice". But I see the Pentagon as a sort of nuclear Jabba the Hutt, and can too easily imagine it getting its nip of flesh. However, I remain mystified by the discrepancy of affairs between Assange and Manning. Neither should be dealing with anything but gratitude, yet one is naked amongst real-life cave-trolls and the other in a suit within an embassy. But too few seem adequately outraged by the treatment of Manning, who on purely hypothetical terms has been branded a monster, while legitimate psychopaths from Blackwater are praised, payed and nearly laid by the public. -- Almost makes me want to see what things are like without this body. Just waaay too damned absurd to ever accept as anything but pure pharmaceutical grade bullshit.
A: Assange is in some well-concealed way working with government agencies. After an almost unprecedented reception of media coverage in response to successful operations, Elite PR in effort to avoid breaching the threshold of public cognitive-dissonance, determines that Assange must be at some point incarcerated to prove that the King of the Hill isn't some sheep in bully's clothing, but is a bone-fide bully not to be F'd with. Assange then spends some time in a well-regulated prison environment to satiate a generation of tax-paying dullards. But eventually, he is released upon ground-breaking violations of international law by his captors who just F'd up. The sock-puppets and actors pretend to be outraged, frothing from jowly chops and uttering through trained faces words of rage. But in the end, the operative is set free due to the errors involved in his apprehension.
B: Achtung! Fascism has arrived and reserved a spot for you and your family in a Serco termination-chamber. Please be informed that your government has queued your number. You are advised to either self-terminate at the nearest eugenics pylon, or wait at your nearest Federal building for the next purge-wagon.
From what I've read, Tesla and ol' Sam were fair pals. I actually don't see how they couldn't have been. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Twain_in_Tesla's_Lab.jpg
Clearly you've confused reality with a certain RightGuard commercial?
Side question:
Who initiated the coup that lead to that event in Iran?
Please note ; no intention of sounding pugnacious.
I think you put half the world into a nutshell with that last paragraph. How dare we ask for information, and after being denied, deceived and abused, actually take it. And yet so many people think these leaks are somehow more unpatriotic than waging illegal wars that produce millions of casualties, lying and spying, parasiting the economy with Haliburtons, Blackwaters and endless dead-end military contracts while we watch the collective IQ of the US dissipate as quickly as the smoke on the 4th of July.
UK: "Whaaaa! I didn't get my patsy, boo hoo hoo. Let's storm the embassy and feed him to the US Pentagon."
This should frighten the hell out of everyone. Perhaps citizen's arrests should made upon the any mention of the word "transparency" by bureaucrats. Do we really have to wait for Stratfor and other "Global Intelligence" agencies to crap their trousers before the population gets any insight into what they are funding?
When they grab Julian, they should grab Gary M. too, and burn them both at the stake for old times. Why hide their thirst for blood any longer?