Batman wins becasue in Hollywood he is George Clooney, Val Kilmer, Michael Keaton, Kevin Conroy, Olan Soule, Jing Abalos and of course Adam West. Those guys get together to kick the sh1t out one poor guy in a wheelchair. Fair fight? No. Batman wins? Yes.
There is no clinical proof of multipule personality disorder, its made up by people who write soap operas.
Another fun fact schizophrenic means a "split" between affect and cognition. Not a split between personalit A & B.
Wayne is clearly driven by emotions about his parents, therefore he does not show blunted affect, the main symptom of schizophrenia. He does not show mystical thinking. He is not too paranoid considering that there are about 100+ super villians out to kill him. So he is not schizophrenic.
Anything with the momentum of Hollywood won't be gone in 3 years no matter what.
Take an an example the porn industry. It is years ahead of mainstream entertainment technology all the time. Is the "Hollywood" side of the porn industry gone due to DVD and internet? No. So why is a more entrenched and better endowed indutry going to be goen in such a short time frame. I find the agument a little bit sensational and a little bit of "the sky is falling."
I have no doubt that the wave of change is at the door step but like many coups, the change made be better by the incumbents.
That the PDA's will loose their sparkle, the CPU's will loose their shine and all things slicon will slip into a malise of tedious discontent. That is untill Doom3 comes out.
As are carrots. Be VERY wary of very inexpensive carrots. In the same right be very wary of food made from fertilizer made from scrubbers in smoke stacks. If you aren't outraged your not paying attention. Check out Physicians for social responsibility.
The truely terrifing aspects are the use of microbes to refine Uranium from simple mine tailings. (Wired Mag.)
I dream of landfills being mined by Von Neuman Machines and gene taylored bacteria. I of the silica trees of Naussca cleaning the plutonium out of the soil. I dream of the darkness between the stars.
F34nor -If we stay on this rock we're all going to die.
Isn't the new gods of America what Neil Stevenson has been hammering away on in Snow Crash, Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon? The whole Athena/Coyote thing. God gives man tech. Tech makes man weaker and more dependant on tech. e.g. Instead of building Menumonics to memorize things like Homer (the poet) you just abdicate your mental powers to a computer to remember for you. The total density of information may be higher in some respects in the computer but it is still a mental crutch.
Coyote is THE American God. He makes you think you're free by giving you Linux, PDA's and Internet Porn but he's the trickster god, so in reality it all just makes you into a fat pasty nerd who's easier to eat. Kill your computer be a Mentat or a Navagator not a technican for some god of obfuscation.
Just goes to show that we do need the Butlerian Jihad. "Thou shat not make a machine in the image of a human mind."
This is why I am planning on spending 28 days in total darkness. http://www.universal-tao.com/dark_room/DarkRoom.pd f If I can't buy drugs in this (snicker) FREE COUNTRY. I' get my brain to make them myslef.
Any of the Culture books by Banks are ripe for this award. I think Potter's a bathtub read not a Hugo but that's OK. I heard a NPR bit which ripped the Author a new waste disposal unit, he pointed out that she used teh term "stretched thier legs" like 5 times and that it was just poor quality writing.
I have to say the Vernor Vinge books are wonderful and if you haven'r read them you are in for a treat.
F34nor
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It is even esier becasue Japanese has each leter as a sylable. eg.
a ka na sa i ki ni shi u ku nu su e ke ne se o ko no so
so Sony is so-ne.
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Haiku is actually a drinking game based on the larger form Tanka 5,7,5,7,7.
You write Haiku 5,7,5. Pass it to a friend. They take a shot of Sake and write 7,7, to make it a Tanka. It go so popular that it became its own form.
Works well with 2 way hand shaking.
Winter's frozen spam, Delicate jelly of meat, Router eat it all.
... the fast food company that made me fat, the cola company that made me belive I was a good coder, the whore who gave me HIV, GE for making the bullets that shot JFK.
Have you read about gyromils? www.bbc.co.uk/science/tw/items/010328_w indmillsint hesky.shtml
Team up the two. We can subsidize it as "homeland security." We put a ring of these around major metro areas, the steel cables should give the civies a flase sense of secuity while pumping out power and bandwidth.
Slashdot Mirror
www.fractenna.com
Has anyone tested these yet? Lets see some numbers.
Batman wins becasue in Hollywood he is George Clooney, Val Kilmer, Michael Keaton, Kevin Conroy, Olan Soule, Jing Abalos and of course Adam West. Those guys get together to kick the sh1t out one poor guy in a wheelchair. Fair fight? No. Batman wins? Yes.
-F34nor
There is no clinical proof of multipule personality disorder, its made up by people who write soap operas.
Another fun fact schizophrenic means a "split" between affect and cognition. Not a split between personalit A & B.
Wayne is clearly driven by emotions about his parents, therefore he does not show blunted affect, the main symptom of schizophrenia. He does not show mystical thinking. He is not too paranoid considering that there are about 100+ super villians out to kill him. So he is not schizophrenic.
-F34nor B.S. Psychology
If you've been reading chompsky you'll love this.
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Basically the Bush family are a bunch of Nazi's
http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id195/pg1/
http://www.lpdallas.org/features/draheim/dr9912
http://www.lightwatcher.com/culturejam/bush_sla
http://www.drugtext.org/press/2000/%5B09-25-00%
Anything with the momentum of Hollywood won't be gone in 3 years no matter what.
Take an an example the porn industry. It is years ahead of mainstream entertainment technology all the time. Is the "Hollywood" side of the porn industry gone due to DVD and internet? No. So why is a more entrenched and better endowed indutry going to be goen in such a short time frame. I find the agument a little bit sensational and a little bit of "the sky is falling."
I have no doubt that the wave of change is at the door step but like many coups, the change made be better by the incumbents.
-F34nor
That the PDA's will loose their sparkle, the CPU's will loose their shine and all things slicon will slip into a malise of tedious discontent. That is untill Doom3 comes out.
As are carrots. Be VERY wary of very inexpensive carrots. In the same right be very wary of food made from fertilizer made from scrubbers in smoke stacks. If you aren't outraged your not paying attention. Check out Physicians for social responsibility.
F34nor
The truely terrifing aspects are the use of microbes to refine Uranium from simple mine tailings. (Wired Mag.)
I dream of landfills being mined by Von Neuman Machines and gene taylored bacteria. I of the silica trees of Naussca cleaning the plutonium out of the soil. I dream of the darkness between the stars.
F34nor
-If we stay on this rock we're all going to die.
CAD CAM wins by about 10 years.
I know. I have 8 NiMH 1800 ma batteries from Frys. They last for so long that it freaks me out sometimes. I rotate them through all my devices.
They fact the my job trows away probably thousands of alkalines a month is criminal.
Even Ford has figured it out though, the new hybrid mini-explorer uses NiMH.
Freedom.
As my friend says...
"You can have my programable CPU over my dead body."
or we could say...
"Better a thousand media conglomerates go backrupt then allow hardware level control over our information systems."
or we could say...
"I plan on wiping my ass with the 1st amendment becasue someday some bad, bad person could use it to make me sad."
If you fall off a building, screech, because maybe you'll look like a simian and people will be like hey, free monkey.
That's how you make it on topic.
Pink Lemonade is sugar, sulphuric acid, cheap frozen lemon pulp, and pink dye. Yum!
LEGO trained us well.
Good Poll
Places I have booted...
a. PC
b. PDA
c. Mainframe
d. Cluster
e. Cowboy Neal's futon
Haven't read it so...
Isn't the new gods of America what Neil Stevenson has been hammering away on in Snow Crash, Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon? The whole Athena/Coyote thing. God gives man tech. Tech makes man weaker and more dependant on tech. e.g. Instead of building Menumonics to memorize things like Homer (the poet) you just abdicate your mental powers to a computer to remember for you. The total density of information may be higher in some respects in the computer but it is still a mental crutch.
Coyote is THE American God. He makes you think you're free by giving you Linux, PDA's and Internet Porn but he's the trickster god, so in reality it all just makes you into a fat pasty nerd who's easier to eat. Kill your computer be a Mentat or a Navagator not a technican for some god of obfuscation.
Just goes to show that we do need the Butlerian Jihad. "Thou shat not make a machine in the image of a human mind."
Not that the Bridge isn't SciFi. I can see why he published it under Iain Banks. But Powell's puts it in the Gold Room and that means its SciFi to me.
When the FUCK do I get my 28 extra glands?
d f If I can't buy drugs in this (snicker) FREE COUNTRY. I' get my brain to make them myslef.
This is why I am planning on spending 28 days in total darkness. http://www.universal-tao.com/dark_room/DarkRoom.p
Any of the Culture books by Banks are ripe for this award. I think Potter's a bathtub read not a Hugo but that's OK. I heard a NPR bit which ripped the Author a new waste disposal unit, he pointed out that she used teh term "stretched thier legs" like 5 times and that it was just poor quality writing.
I have to say the Vernor Vinge books are wonderful and if you haven'r read them you are in for a treat.
F34nor
It is even esier becasue Japanese has each leter as a sylable. eg.
a ka na sa
i ki ni shi
u ku nu su
e ke ne se
o ko no so
so Sony is so-ne.
Haiku is actually a drinking game based on the larger form Tanka 5,7,5,7,7.
You write Haiku 5,7,5. Pass it to a friend. They take a shot of Sake and write 7,7, to make it a Tanka. It go so popular that it became its own form.
Works well with 2 way hand shaking.
Winter's frozen spam,
Delicate jelly of meat,
Router eat it all.
... the fast food company that made me fat, the cola company that made me belive I was a good coder, the whore who gave me HIV, GE for making the bullets that shot JFK.
Yeah he would have been in Star Trek X if he had been using OSX
3. Same as above, except generating a flow of warmed air up the recutm of a corporation, boos, or other jackass without merit.
Have you read about gyromils?w indmillsint hesky.shtml
www.bbc.co.uk/science/tw/items/010328_
Team up the two. We can subsidize it as "homeland security." We put a ring of these around major metro areas, the steel cables should give the civies a flase sense of secuity while pumping out power and bandwidth.