I agree with you for the most part. My wife is undergoing chemo for breast cancer as we speak -- she should be done in the next 4 - 5 months. It sucks, people. That is all that I will say.
She was given a BRCA test, and has no genetic propensity for [breast] cancer. WTF? Why did this happen?
Chemo f#cks you up. Some of the side effects continue after the patient has finished therapy. I really wish there was some other way. There was a point where we were frantically researching some "alternate" therapy, and had to settle on chemo because there just wasn't the certainty. There was some downright quackery bullsh#t that... I don't have words for it.
With my mother on a second round of chemo, and my wife starting her first (she's young, too), I stops and makes me think -- nothing like hitting and home personal to bring a distant concept to the forefront of your thinking. I hope none of you ever have the opportunity to visit a "chemo room". Dozens of miserable people sitting in chair and and being pumped with poison. You know that is how syphilis was cured by some physicians back in the day?
So I started to think -- why is this happening? It seems like some groups -- cultures, segments of society -- seem to have less incidence of cancer and illness in general. When I brought this to the attention of the oncologist -- I had mentioned 7th Day Adventists, the traditional, non-Western Japanese diet -- she sort of glazed over. Pharmaceuticals seems to be the answer for everything.
I think that diet, a sedentary life style, stress, being constantly exposed to chemicals -- pesticides, etc -- is very likely a large determinant for contracting cancer. I am slowly talking my wife around to the idea of exercising regularly and eating good, healthy food. We have no choice but to have her undergo chemo, but when this sh*t is done, I want her to stay cancer-free.
The Oriental medicine? I think there is something to it. I think Asian medicine is good for prevention, and that Oriental and Western medicine are complementary. Using acupuncture to for clogged arteries, not so much. How did the arteries get clogged in the first place, though?
Yes, please. By all means find a cure. While "they" are at, find out why it is happening in the first place. The medical/drug industry doesn't have a stake in that, however.
I apologize for the ramble, but sometimes it's nice to get this sh*t off your chest.
Has anyone taken a look at some of the retweets this guy is responsible for?
'Best Korea: who has more Seoul? We do!' 'Don't shoot! Don't shoot, I'm typing as fast' 'KJU: Highest score Galaga' 'and Asteroids' 'KJU: The REAL King of Kong' 'Kim Jung-un 12"' 'Kim Jung-un retains championship belt for Real Korea Ultimate Fighting'
And if it is natural, what makes you think we can do anything to counteract it?
Since total human carbon emission is about 3 to 4% (even by IPCC figures), we are not going to make a big impact on the natural cycles even if we reduce to zero..
The downside is that climate scientists have data from relatively recent volcanic explosions that naturally create the cooling side effect. However, no one AFAIK has artificially created this condition. This begs the question: what the side effects, and can what happens if you miscalculate, making things too cold?
I'm personally crossing my fingers and hoping this, or other similar projects, precipitate a Thundarr-the-Barbarian-like global cataclysm. Bleep this garbage -- let's all start over.
Tresset believes that it might be a good idea to imbue all personal robots with some sort of artistic skill to encourage an emotional bond
That seems like putting the cart before the horse. How about creating a robot with voice capabilities that are similar to natural speech? Or something that doesn't look and act like the killer cowboy from "Westworld"?
Any machine that can simulate possessing an emotional core creates sympathy/empathy. However, a Dreadnought a la Iron Man baking me a cake or doing water color is still a freaking Dreadnought.
1) replacing natural muscle with this artificial muscle means that your energy requirements are drastically reduced: the ATP requirements would probably be limited to the nerve impulses required for muscle contraction and some other collateral factors.
2) you would need to have some sort of aesthetic implants: the amount of artificial muscle required to replace is going to be smaller: "[artificial muscle] can generate power 85 times as great as a similarly sized human muscle". Otherwise, you have freaky skeleton dudes walking around.
3) You to create some kind of feedback sensor so you don't tear up tendon and ligament 3a) The skeletal system and connective tissues need to be enhanced to account for higher load.
Does it like your girlfriend/wife/boyfriend/husband/pet goat? Nope. Will it kill your boss for you? Nope. Does it like long, moonlit walks along the beach? Nope. Like episodes IV, V, & VI? Nope. If it happens to be getting a beer from the fridge, will it get you one? Nope. Just nope nope nope nope nope. Nope.
A group of retired Galactic Rebels in search of stool softener and analgesic cream venture forth on the eve of their respective retirements to a nearby star system, but get more than they bargained for when they crash land on the planet Tatooine, and must confront a menacing shadowy organization from their past that is bent on stealing their retirement benefits.
Starring:
Robert Pattinson: Jake Skywalker Anna Kendrick: Allison Organa-Solo That Kid From Real Steel: Timmy Organa-Solo Harvey Keitel: Mum-Ra Frank Palpatine: Former Vice President Dick Cheney Carrie Fisher: Leia Organa-Solo/Tatooine Mark Hammil: Luke Skywalker Martin Lawrence: Ambassador Zev Mehv Chev Harrison Ford: General Han Organa-Solo Morgan Freeman: Narrator
now all we need to do is drag Stuart Little out of rehab (child stars... what more needs to be said?), and get him trained up over in Langley. With this invisible cloak, we can take rodint (rodent intelligence) to the next level.
Can someone look up cat populations in Iran at CIA's World Fact Book?
We need a Bond that looks more like Bond and less like a Bond Villian.
When some says "we", they usually mean "me". Let's give it a try:
"We don't want you here." Translation: I hate you, Jan! (Brady Bunch anyone?) "When are we going to eat?" Translation: I'm hungry (and lazy). "We need a diaper with long-lasting absorbency." Translation: when will this damnable infant-centric technology be incorporated into Depends?
There not a single gram of Ian Fleming novel' spirit in that movie, such a shame. This is just a giant advertising for Omega® and Sony® for zombie audience eating pop-corn.
You can leave it.
I'd be curious to know if you think any of the Bond movies have featured a portrayal of 007 that is true to the novels. Outside of Sean Connery, Daniel Craig's Bond is fairly close to the source material. Where Craig excels is in his physical portrayal of Bond: not only does he have the physique, but he moves like Bond: an operator, an athletic pugilist, with just a hint of the street; he looks and acts like a hard case.
The fact is, the Bond portrayed in the books is a thug, and at least initially, he lacks sophistication. He is provincial, and somewhat racist (though not consistently so, and actually irrelevant). So if you think that earlier portrayals of Bond (Connery excluded, of course) are somehow more accurate... I don't know what to tell you. Methinks you protest too much (and that you don't know of what you speak).
Can't wait for another stunning Hollywood interpretation of computer science. Maybe this time when he flies up to the spaceship and hacks it with his MacBook, it will show a virus check on screen and tell us that it's the Matrix.
to resist the urge to critique Hollywood's dumbed down portrayal of things related to computing: programming, what software can realistically do, cracking, etc.
To put it in perspective, imagine a combat veteran's reaction to any number of films involving gun fighting and war. A lot of these people are probably bemusedly shaking their heads at a minimum.
I remember reading a thriller centered around a 'revolutionary' piece of software -- it was described as a 'firewall', but it really sounded like some kind of penetration tester suite. I "know" the author knows better, but he made a (lazy?) choice to entertain over being technically accurate, and that was correct.
TL:DR Above all else, your first job as a creator is to entertain.
I haven't seen suggestions for living as an expat. I'd live in SE Asia -- Thailand or Vietnam, maybe Malaysia -- for the dry season, then bounce to South America for the off times. I am guessing SA would be pretty cool, I know that SE Asia would be great -- I've lived there. The point is that the dollar would go a hell of a lot farther.
Basically, these people need to learn from the Amish, who are already skilled in knowing how to survive without the complicated infrastructure of a high-tech society.
--if there really is going to be a civilization-destroying apocalypse, the Amish are going to be the ones who rebuild civilization, 'cause the rest of us all starved to death by about the fifth winter.
(Yes, the Amish don't live completely independently of the rest of society. But they are a darn sight closer than any of the rest of us.)
Yeah? And it'll take a single member of HOMC* to knock it all down again.
Did anyone else read the headline as "Apple Delays Sniper"?
For a moment, I was like "wow. That's just so inconsiderate. How would you like it if someone needlessly kept you waiting? The mission's a go. Tell him to take the shot and we can all go home".
That's weird. When I read this, my body emits powerful gamma rays, I turn green, get huge, and burst out of my clothes. As in this case, I somehow manage to not burst out of my pants, which, when I revert to my non-green self, is always a relief.
Always look at your opponents eyes, (if they're not highly skilled) they will usually look at an area before making a move in that direction.
Please mod this down. Looking at your opponents eyes is the last thing you want to do. Nor do you want to stare at a weapon, or at their chest as someone else posted. You want to see all of the opponent, and not focus at any one particular place. If anything, you want to fix your gaze slightly past the opponent. Then any movement, be it head, foot, hand, can be seen equally. Just watch UFC if you disagree. See that kind of glassy unfocused look in their eyes? That's what you want.
My last post in this thread was modded as flamebait. That wasn't the intention. Really and truly, all of you do not know what you speak of. This is silly talk, like 'what is the best knife grip', or 'do you punch with the top two knuckles or bottom three'?
I love (certain) traditional martial arts, and am presently looking for a good tai chi instructor (or even bagua). But this kind of stuff DOES NOT MATTER.
A real fight, not UFC, or a karate tournament, or what have you, takes less than a minute. When it does happen -- you've gotten past the 'interview' stage (assuming you haven't been outright ambushed) -- it isn't David Carradine. It's ugly and quick and then it is over. There's no subtlety.
and many of these guys have never been in a real street fight.
As a consequence, none of them will tell you "here's how to defuse this situation so that it doesn't escalate. Fighting cause you to owe money if it goes to court. You could go to the hospital. The person(s) attacking you could go. Someone could die." And most don't teach how to do this.
They also will not tell you "the complicated stuff you are learning, the spinning kicks, the block-strike patterns, will probably not work". Under adrenal stress, you lose fine motor coordination. Those techniques will go out the window, probably, and you'll be reduced to playground style fighting.
You are better off learning basic, easy to use techniques that are "high percentage". Practice those under pressure.
If you are a pro fighter, veteran cop, etc, feel free to ignore this. For the rest of us schlubs, this is how it is.
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I agree with you for the most part. My wife is undergoing chemo for breast cancer as we speak -- she should be done in the next 4 - 5 months. It sucks, people. That is all that I will say.
She was given a BRCA test, and has no genetic propensity for [breast] cancer. WTF? Why did this happen?
Chemo f#cks you up. Some of the side effects continue after the patient has finished therapy. I really wish there was some other way. There was a point where we were frantically researching some "alternate" therapy, and had to settle on chemo because there just wasn't the certainty. There was some downright quackery bullsh#t that... I don't have words for it.
With my mother on a second round of chemo, and my wife starting her first (she's young, too), I stops and makes me think -- nothing like hitting and home personal to bring a distant concept to the forefront of your thinking. I hope none of you ever have the opportunity to visit a "chemo room". Dozens of miserable people sitting in chair and and being pumped with poison. You know that is how syphilis was cured by some physicians back in the day?
So I started to think -- why is this happening? It seems like some groups -- cultures, segments of society -- seem to have less incidence of cancer and illness in general. When I brought this to the attention of the oncologist -- I had mentioned 7th Day Adventists, the traditional, non-Western Japanese diet -- she sort of glazed over. Pharmaceuticals seems to be the answer for everything.
I think that diet, a sedentary life style, stress, being constantly exposed to chemicals -- pesticides, etc -- is very likely a large determinant for contracting cancer. I am slowly talking my wife around to the idea of exercising regularly and eating good, healthy food. We have no choice but to have her undergo chemo, but when this sh*t is done, I want her to stay cancer-free.
The Oriental medicine? I think there is something to it. I think Asian medicine is good for prevention, and that Oriental and Western medicine are complementary. Using acupuncture to for clogged arteries, not so much. How did the arteries get clogged in the first place, though?
Yes, please. By all means find a cure. While "they" are at, find out why it is happening in the first place. The medical/drug industry doesn't have a stake in that, however.
I apologize for the ramble, but sometimes it's nice to get this sh*t off your chest.
Has anyone taken a look at some of the retweets this guy is responsible for?
'Best Korea: who has more Seoul? We do!'
'Don't shoot! Don't shoot, I'm typing as fast'
'KJU: Highest score Galaga'
'and Asteroids'
'KJU: The REAL King of Kong'
'Kim Jung-un 12"'
'Kim Jung-un retains championship belt for Real Korea Ultimate Fighting'
And if it is natural, what makes you think we can do anything to counteract it?
Since total human carbon emission is about 3 to 4% (even by IPCC figures), we are not
going to make a big impact on the natural cycles even if we reduce to zero..
This is my favorite solution (solution).
The downside is that climate scientists have data from relatively recent volcanic explosions that naturally create the cooling side effect. However, no one AFAIK has artificially created this condition. This begs the question: what the side effects, and can what happens if you miscalculate, making things too cold?
I'm personally crossing my fingers and hoping this, or other similar projects, precipitate a Thundarr-the-Barbarian-like global cataclysm. Bleep this garbage -- let's all start over.
problem solved -- that makes it legal, right?
Tresset believes that it might be a good idea to imbue all personal robots with some sort of artistic skill to encourage an emotional bond
That seems like putting the cart before the horse. How about creating a robot with voice capabilities that are similar to natural speech? Or something that doesn't look and act like the killer cowboy from "Westworld"?
Any machine that can simulate possessing an emotional core creates sympathy/empathy. However, a Dreadnought a la Iron Man baking me a cake or doing water color is still a freaking Dreadnought.
ARGH!
Seriously, a few things to consider are
1) replacing natural muscle with this artificial muscle means that your energy requirements are drastically reduced: the ATP requirements would probably be limited to the nerve impulses required for muscle contraction and some other collateral factors.
2) you would need to have some sort of aesthetic implants: the amount of artificial muscle required to replace is going to be smaller: "[artificial muscle] can generate power 85 times as great as a similarly sized human muscle". Otherwise, you have freaky skeleton dudes walking around.
3) You to create some kind of feedback sensor so you don't tear up tendon and ligament
3a) The skeletal system and connective tissues need to be enhanced to account for higher load.
Does it like your girlfriend/wife/boyfriend/husband/pet goat? Nope. Will it kill your boss for you? Nope. Does it like long, moonlit walks along the beach? Nope. Like episodes IV, V, & VI? Nope. If it happens to be getting a beer from the fridge, will it get you one? Nope. Just nope nope nope nope nope. Nope.
Nope.
elements with the shortest half-life tend to be light... :) Hey, we could call our band "Lead Zepplin. Yeah!
...and it should be noted, by the IAU definition, this "rogue planet" is not a planet at all. It's a "sub-brown dwarf".
are you sure you aren't reading that from the "personals" section in the classified pages of your free, local newspaper?
that is all
Star Wars 8: Crazy Banthas
A group of retired Galactic Rebels in search of stool softener and analgesic cream venture forth on the eve of their respective retirements to a nearby star system, but get more than they bargained for when they crash land on the planet Tatooine, and must confront a menacing shadowy organization from their past that is bent on stealing their retirement benefits.
Starring:
Robert Pattinson: Jake Skywalker
Anna Kendrick: Allison Organa-Solo
That Kid From Real Steel: Timmy Organa-Solo
Harvey Keitel: Mum-Ra
Frank Palpatine: Former Vice President Dick Cheney
Carrie Fisher: Leia Organa-Solo/Tatooine
Mark Hammil: Luke Skywalker
Martin Lawrence: Ambassador Zev Mehv Chev
Harrison Ford: General Han Organa-Solo
Morgan Freeman: Narrator
look for FB posts/status updates containing the phrase "ate Wendy's chili" or some combination thereof.
now all we need to do is drag Stuart Little out of rehab (child stars... what more needs to be said?), and get him trained up over in Langley. With this invisible cloak, we can take rodint (rodent intelligence) to the next level.
Can someone look up cat populations in Iran at CIA's World Fact Book?
Is Vladimir Putin still playing James Bond?
We need a Bond that looks more like Bond and less like a Bond Villian.
When some says "we", they usually mean "me". Let's give it a try:
"We don't want you here." Translation: I hate you, Jan! (Brady Bunch anyone?)
"When are we going to eat?" Translation: I'm hungry (and lazy).
"We need a diaper with long-lasting absorbency." Translation: when will this damnable infant-centric technology be incorporated into Depends?
There not a single gram of Ian Fleming novel' spirit in that movie, such a shame. This is just a giant advertising for Omega® and Sony® for zombie audience eating pop-corn.
You can leave it.
I'd be curious to know if you think any of the Bond movies have featured a portrayal of 007 that is true to the novels. Outside of Sean Connery, Daniel Craig's Bond is fairly close to the source material. Where Craig excels is in his physical portrayal of Bond: not only does he have the physique, but he moves like Bond: an operator, an athletic pugilist, with just a hint of the street; he looks and acts like a hard case.
The fact is, the Bond portrayed in the books is a thug, and at least initially, he lacks sophistication. He is provincial, and somewhat racist (though not consistently so, and actually irrelevant). So if you think that earlier portrayals of Bond (Connery excluded, of course) are somehow more accurate... I don't know what to tell you. Methinks you protest too much (and that you don't know of what you speak).
Can't wait for another stunning Hollywood interpretation of computer science. Maybe this time when he flies up to the spaceship and hacks it with his MacBook, it will show a virus check on screen and tell us that it's the Matrix.
to resist the urge to critique Hollywood's dumbed down portrayal of things related to computing: programming, what software can realistically do, cracking, etc.
To put it in perspective, imagine a combat veteran's reaction to any number of films involving gun fighting and war. A lot of these people are probably bemusedly shaking their heads at a minimum.
I remember reading a thriller centered around a 'revolutionary' piece of software -- it was described as a 'firewall', but it really sounded like some kind of penetration tester suite. I "know" the author knows better, but he made a (lazy?) choice to entertain over being technically accurate, and that was correct.
TL:DR
Above all else, your first job as a creator is to entertain.
P.S.
"Killer refresh rate!!" Derrrrpp!
I haven't seen suggestions for living as an expat. I'd live in SE Asia -- Thailand or Vietnam, maybe Malaysia -- for the dry season, then bounce to South America for the off times. I am guessing SA would be pretty cool, I know that SE Asia would be great -- I've lived there. The point is that the dollar would go a hell of a lot farther.
Ultimately, he added, cloud computing needs to adopt the Linux model.
Translation: "Please, please, please don't use EC2. Oh yeah, and Amazon beats its wife."
Basically, these people need to learn from the Amish, who are already skilled in knowing how to survive without the complicated infrastructure of a high-tech society.
--if there really is going to be a civilization-destroying apocalypse, the Amish are going to be the ones who rebuild civilization, 'cause the rest of us all starved to death by about the fifth winter.
(Yes, the Amish don't live completely independently of the rest of society. But they are a darn sight closer than any of the rest of us.)
Yeah? And it'll take a single member of HOMC* to knock it all down again.
* Hell's Octogenarians Motorcycle Club
Did anyone else read the headline as "Apple Delays Sniper"?
For a moment, I was like "wow. That's just so inconsiderate. How would you like it if someone needlessly kept you waiting? The mission's a go. Tell him to take the shot and we can all go home".
+1
That's weird. When I read this, my body emits powerful gamma rays, I turn green, get huge, and burst out of my clothes. As in this case, I somehow manage to not burst out of my pants, which, when I revert to my non-green self, is always a relief.
Always look at your opponents eyes, (if they're not highly skilled) they will usually look at an area before making a move in that direction.
Please mod this down. Looking at your opponents eyes is the last thing you want to do. Nor do you want to stare at a weapon, or at their chest as someone else posted. You want to see all of the opponent, and not focus at any one particular place. If anything, you want to fix your gaze slightly past the opponent. Then any movement, be it head, foot, hand, can be seen equally. Just watch UFC if you disagree. See that kind of glassy unfocused look in their eyes? That's what you want.
My last post in this thread was modded as flamebait. That wasn't the intention. Really and truly, all of you do not know what you speak of. This is silly talk, like 'what is the best knife grip', or 'do you punch with the top two knuckles or bottom three'?
I love (certain) traditional martial arts, and am presently looking for a good tai chi instructor (or even bagua). But this kind of stuff DOES NOT MATTER.
A real fight, not UFC, or a karate tournament, or what have you, takes less than a minute. When it does happen -- you've gotten past the 'interview' stage (assuming you haven't been outright ambushed) -- it isn't David Carradine. It's ugly and quick and then it is over. There's no subtlety.
For your edification:
Marc McYoung
P. Quinn
Bill Kipp
I attended RMCAT this year. Eye-opening.
and many of these guys have never been in a real street fight.
As a consequence, none of them will tell you "here's how to defuse this situation so that it doesn't escalate. Fighting cause you to owe money if it goes to court. You could go to the hospital. The person(s) attacking you could go. Someone could die." And most don't teach how to do this.
They also will not tell you "the complicated stuff you are learning, the spinning kicks, the block-strike patterns, will probably not work". Under adrenal stress, you lose fine motor coordination. Those techniques will go out the window, probably, and you'll be reduced to playground style fighting.
You are better off learning basic, easy to use techniques that are "high percentage". Practice those under pressure.
If you are a pro fighter, veteran cop, etc, feel free to ignore this. For the rest of us schlubs, this is how it is.
For starters, did any of the participants in the experiments roll any savings throws? Lame.
Experimenter: "OK, you encounter a beholder, and... it gets initiative. You: it fires... (dice roll) a beam from eye-stalk number 7."
Participant: "Uh, OK."
Experimenter: "Roll the dice. No. No, the other one. Yeah. OK. I see you failed your save vs paralysis".
Participant: "Huh? (sees the taser in the experimenter's hand) No, wait!!"
Experimenter: Zzzzzaaap!
Experimenter: "Hm. He's not moving... oops. Hey. Did anyone roll a cleric? Anyone? What?!? Goddammit!