Re:Injecting a little perspective here.
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Moreover, after doing a quick fact-checking session, what happened really in 1791 (March, 17) was the creation of the first republican law defining and granting patents (as well as laying down on paper the principles of free commerce and enterprise). The next revision would be realized in 1844.
The law of 1791 would thus establish a system that would replace following the events of 1789 when all the privileges, mark of the absolutist regim were abolished.
Re:Injecting a little perspective here.
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Just to get things in perspective of your last anecdote.. 1791 was 2 years after a revolution, and 2 years before the terror. Don't you think the economical situation would be then so much outside-of-normality to make the example invalid? A bit like if you tried to interpret the economical policy of the current leaders of the american iraq.
you really think that anybody like saddam could bribe countries in the g7? You think such countries are so poor they have to take money from a old, failing dictator, when they could just sell airbuses to china?
Re:Again you fail to understand science
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Gently illustrates your point...
Exposed: conman's role in prayer-power IVF 'miracle'
One of the authors of a university report on infertility has admitted a multi-million-dollar fraud, reports Paul Harris in New York
Sunday May 30, 2004 - The Observer
It was a miracle that created headlines around the world. Doctors at one of the world's top medical schools claimed to have scientifically proved the power of prayer.
Many Americans took the Columbia University research - announced in October 2001 after the terror attacks on New York and Washington - as a sign from God. It seemed to prove that praying helped infertile women to conceive.
But The Observer can reveal a story of fraud and cover-up behind the research. One of the study's authors is a conman obsessed with the paranormal who has admitted to a multi-million-dollar scam. Daniel Wirth, now under house arrest in California awaiting sentencing, has used a series of false identities for several decades, including that of a dead child.
Wirth is at the centre of a network of bizarre scientific research, often working with co-researcher Joseph Horvath. Horvath has pleaded guilty to fraud, has used a series of false names and is accused of burning down his house for insurance money. (...) FBI papers filed during the case also show that Wirth has used a series of false identities over the years. In the mid-1980s, Wirth used the name of John Wayne Truelove to obtain a passport and rent apartments in California. The real Truelove was a New York child who had died as an infant in 1959.
He also used the name of Rudy Wirth, who died in 1998, to establish an address in New York and claim social security benefits. It is not clear whether Wirth and Rudy Wirth were related.
It has emerged that Wirth has no medical qualifications. He graduated with a law degree and then took a master's in parapsychology at John F. Kennedy University in California, where he met Horvath. (...) Columbia University would not comment on the Wirth case. However, shortly after the prayer and fertility study was published, the Department of Health began an investigation into the university's research. It found numerous ethical problems. Lobo, a respected scientist who was named initially as the lead author of the research, had only provided 'editorial review and assistance with publication' on the study.
Where does your favorite deity appear (or rather where should it appear) in physical equations? And how? (And if you answer, in the cosmological constants, then where's the bias?)
What's supposed to happen in your case-insensitive filesystem when one types a ß ?(german sz character) The capitalization of this character is SS (two characters)
Of course you don't have the smell, the G, the wind noises, the risk. But there's a certain thrill, driving an unstable virtual car in a driving simulation is a bit like if you were driving with a lot of your senses muted. The amount of concentration needed makes it a real pleasure when you are "in the zone" and everything works subconciously.
It's so great to see papyrus reborn from the ashes. They've always shown a certain dedication, a non compromising stance in the creation of their games, that also attracted one of the most passionate scene of people playing, studying, modding their games. (Amazing cars, tracks, mods have been created since GPL was released initially)
To think I bought a GPL copy this week, after seeing it was now working in linux, see: http://www.zefix.tv/gpl_linux/FrontPage (for now only I have problems with making wine recognize my input device's buttons, it insists on recognizing only 2 of them)
Also, recently a mod called GPL 65, retranscribing the 1965 f1 season was released. It may be of interest to people who still haven't discovered GPL since it has an a bit easier gameplay.
Of course I'd wish they could make GPL GPL, I think the "virtual" drivers would still buy it if it came in updated packages.
First, the scene is a community, so it is not so much about demos than about the way they are created and shared.
One of the main values is efficiency. People can and will distribute demos and intros easily because they are rather small and efficient. Inefficiency (pre-rendered movies) hurts redistribution.
Secondly, by having to be run realtime, demos emphasize code over any other sort of more static methods to create visuals/music. It is in that sense necessarly a generative discipline, whose medium is the manipulation of information and the emergence of concrete visuals / sounds from an abstract material, the code.
Thirdly, well, the scene is no more interesting than tractor pulling or poker championships, I guess it does look very similar at times. It plays the computer equivalent to what graffiti plays for the visual arts:
- a style
- a pop movement
- a new medium
What would the point in that? If you want to make a point by showing off a particularly quick demo, you do it on native hardware. If the native hardware is not fast enough, you use another.
I don't quite see what that would achieve to release an "amiga" demo that wouldn't work on existing "amiga" hardware.
Basically shareware brings none of the benefits of opensource (free price, availability, future-proof) and none of the benefits of proprietary software (lot's of invested money: quality, support, polishing)
You know what? It's because non-religious people are typically free to do what they want to do. (Likewise for dogmatic people, but i don't think i've ever seen a game claiming to bring a certain economical ideology for example)
You want to blame them for not being organized and self-censor themselves. Well, all it requires is a little wait until the industry becomes much smaller (in terms of number of publishing houses) than it is today. It is the concentration of power that can enable self-censorship.
A given morality cannot be imposed without a government.
It's because the damn people and dictionaries conspired to, after such a long use of a positive connotation attached to the word art, to add it has a full blown denotation of the word.
Now this makes all discussions with the single 3 letter word useless because each author might jump from one meaning to the next in the spawn of a sentence.
Re:Anne Quéméré = Anchor Mer (Sea)
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Brittany has a specific language which is in most part unrelated to french.
You know, being in prison doesn't forbid you writing books, doing certain amount of things that can make you contribute to society. Besides, i'm not really for prison for life either. Certain countries have prison terms of around 15 years for murder. Certain countries don't accumulate prison terms to end up with utterly ridiculous (but totally coherent with this line of reasoning of yours) 116 aggregate years of prison.
That reasoning is just so utterly backwards it's a shame it can even be uttered in public. This type of contribution divining is also so short-sighted. The key thing is that you (society) do not have enough ability to judge the consequences of one's life + action and thus its overall contribution to society/humanity as a whole.
For a naive example, imagine that spammer you "removed" with a $0.10 bullet, despite having cost a lot to other people would have had later in his life children. Imagine that thanks to his (badly acquired) riches they would then lead lifes as researchers, and discover some important vaccine. (against ebola, aids whatever)
For a less naive reasoning, you have to take into account the huge amount of unseen consequences that result from one's life.
It will still sound random because you are only generating "familiarity" locally. To make an enjoyable piece you probably have to have another more high level structure.
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http://www.pbministries.org/History/John%20T.%20Ch ristian/vol1/history_05.htm
The "saying" comes from the 13th century
Moreover, after doing a quick fact-checking session, what happened really in 1791 (March, 17) was the creation of the first republican law defining and granting patents (as well as laying down on paper the principles of free commerce and enterprise). The next revision would be realized in 1844.
The law of 1791 would thus establish a system that would replace following the events of 1789 when all the privileges, mark of the absolutist regim were abolished.
Just to get things in perspective of your last anecdote.. 1791 was 2 years after a revolution, and 2 years before the terror. Don't you think the economical situation would be then so much outside-of-normality to make the example invalid? A bit like if you tried to interpret the economical policy of the current leaders of the american iraq.
you really think that anybody like saddam could bribe countries in the g7? You think such countries are so poor they have to take money from a old, failing dictator, when they could just sell airbuses to china?
Exposed: conman's role in prayer-power IVF 'miracle'
Where does your favorite deity appear (or rather where should it appear) in physical equations? And how? (And if you answer, in the cosmological constants, then where's the bias?)
Who let the music bigots enter the building?
Oh no, they come to our industrialized countries and spend some of their bonuses on luxury items by well known companies. (louis vuitton etc)
That and tourism.
What's supposed to happen in your case-insensitive filesystem when one types a ß ?(german sz character) The capitalization of this character is SS (two characters)
Of course you don't have the smell, the G, the wind noises, the risk. But there's a certain thrill, driving an unstable virtual car in a driving simulation is a bit like if you were driving with a lot of your senses muted. The amount of concentration needed makes it a real pleasure when you are "in the zone" and everything works subconciously.
It's so great to see papyrus reborn from the ashes. They've always shown a certain dedication, a non compromising stance in the creation of their games, that also attracted one of the most passionate scene of people playing, studying, modding their games. (Amazing cars, tracks, mods have been created since GPL was released initially)
To think I bought a GPL copy this week, after seeing it was now working in linux, see: http://www.zefix.tv/gpl_linux/FrontPage (for now only I have problems with making wine recognize my input device's buttons, it insists on recognizing only 2 of them)
Also, recently a mod called GPL 65, retranscribing the 1965 f1 season was released. It may be of interest to people who still haven't discovered GPL since it has an a bit easier gameplay.
Of course I'd wish they could make GPL GPL, I think the "virtual" drivers would still buy it if it came in updated packages.
In a more didactic way:
First, the scene is a community, so it is not so much about demos than about the way they are created and shared.
One of the main values is efficiency. People can and will distribute demos and intros easily because they are rather small and efficient. Inefficiency (pre-rendered movies) hurts redistribution.
Secondly, by having to be run realtime, demos emphasize code over any other sort of more static methods to create visuals/music. It is in that sense necessarly a generative discipline, whose medium is the manipulation of information and the emergence of concrete visuals / sounds from an abstract material, the code.
Thirdly, well, the scene is no more interesting than tractor pulling or poker championships, I guess it does look very similar at times. It plays the computer equivalent to what graffiti plays for the visual arts:
- a style
- a pop movement
- a new medium
What would the point in that? If you want to make a point by showing off a particularly quick demo, you do it on native hardware. If the native hardware is not fast enough, you use another.
I don't quite see what that would achieve to release an "amiga" demo that wouldn't work on existing "amiga" hardware.
Why do you need it emulated? There are still amiga compos you know?
What are you talking about. There are always two time trials, and always one of them is after the mountains and just a few days before the end.
Basically shareware brings none of the benefits of opensource (free price, availability, future-proof) and none of the benefits of proprietary software (lot's of invested money: quality, support, polishing)
The author is actually actually arguing that tags are syntactic, not semantic.
You know what? It's because non-religious people are typically free to do what they want to do. (Likewise for dogmatic people, but i don't think i've ever seen a game claiming to bring a certain economical ideology for example)
You want to blame them for not being organized and self-censor themselves. Well, all it requires is a little wait until the industry becomes much smaller (in terms of number of publishing houses) than it is today. It is the concentration of power that can enable self-censorship.
A given morality cannot be imposed without a government.
It's because the damn people and dictionaries conspired to, after such a long use of a positive connotation attached to the word art, to add it has a full blown denotation of the word.
Now this makes all discussions with the single 3 letter word useless because each author might jump from one meaning to the next in the spawn of a sentence.
Brittany has a specific language which is in most part unrelated to french.
> find media/global.media/z/ -name "*.mp3" -print | wc -l
4580
> find media/global.media/z/ -name "*.mp4a" -print | wc -l
0
> find media/global.media/z/ -name "*.mp4p" -print | wc -l
0
> find media/global.media/z/ -name "*.ogg" -print | wc -l
1157
You know, being in prison doesn't forbid you writing books, doing certain amount of things that can make you contribute to society. Besides, i'm not really for prison for life either. Certain countries have prison terms of around 15 years for murder. Certain countries don't accumulate prison terms to end up with utterly ridiculous (but totally coherent with this line of reasoning of yours) 116 aggregate years of prison.
That reasoning is just so utterly backwards it's a shame it can even be uttered in public. This type of contribution divining is also so short-sighted. The key thing is that you (society) do not have enough ability to judge the consequences of one's life + action and thus its overall contribution to society/humanity as a whole.
For a naive example, imagine that spammer you "removed" with a $0.10 bullet, despite having cost a lot to other people would have had later in his life children. Imagine that thanks to his (badly acquired) riches they would then lead lifes as researchers, and discover some important vaccine. (against ebola, aids whatever)
For a less naive reasoning, you have to take into account the huge amount of unseen consequences that result from one's life.
It will still sound random because you are only generating "familiarity" locally. To make an enjoyable piece you probably have to have another more high level structure.
oh oh. though you might want to know about william the conqueror.