Kragg said "It means games with lots of blood and guts get rated 18, and the 12-yr olds have to get their older brother to buy it for them."
This couldn't be more true. I agree that a ratings system is a good idea, but there is a risk parents will use it as yet another excuse to give somebody else the responsibilty of looking after their child's welfare. Near to where I live (North Wales), youths regularly get drunk and throw up everywhere... the retailers are selling this alcohol to their older relatives/friends who then pass it on. How else do you think kids get hold of alcohol, pornography, etc? The analogy to violent games is just waiting to happen.
Yes, rate your games - but make sure this means something to retailers (fines, etc for selling to minors). However, it MUST be combined with some way of encouraging parents to control their offspring!
Well... I understand that, that's exactly my point.
The 'all is money' paradigm does not apply to free software.
Nobody can sell it, so nobody can make money out of it.
It's a tool out of which you can eventually make usefull and non free products (that is the sense of GPL). That's why IBM or Sun go for it. Their core business is elsewhere.
That doesn't mean that free software it not worthwhile...
Is science worthwhile, is education worthwhile, are arts worthwhile, philosophy, poetry, feeding poeple that can't buy their food, teaching children to read and write..? What is the market share of CERN, MIT, UNESCO, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Heinrich Heine,...
That's what free software is about : giving people tools to live freely in a computerized world, and not to depend on some few western major companies.
People did 'invest' money in Red Hat... Well, then RedHat will have to produce really value added products, not just try to make a monopoly and bother everybody. Cause then free software will live elsewhere.
Is there such a thing as "executive privalege" that could be used to keep these things private?
Also, does anyone know the basis for the president's private e-mail (say, to his daughters about family matters) being public record? If he wrote them paper letters, would that be public record? Why is e-mail different?
Would it make a difference if he used a computer owned by him personally instead of by the government, and used an ISP he paid for himself instead of the government's connection?
Also, how do we know he'd be forced to reveal the private key or plaintext, instead of just the ciphertext? Is there legal precedent for this in other cases?
I'm not claiming anyone who's posted before is wrong here -- I'd just like to know.
Oops I dropped my multi-billion dollar probe, now where'd it go? Wait I think I found it, maybe hmm dunno. Ah well...
Hey it's a great thing they have possibly found it, well sorta. The space probe is still a practical loss if they can't raise the thing on communications till we send someone up there to fix it, and at the current rate that will be NEVER. Reason we made it to the moon was a race of pride with the Russians, we can never do something just for the sake of it being good for the human Race, it has to be to show other humans we're better than them.
Well some day geeks will inherit the earth and we will go up there and fix our broken multi-billion dollar probe!
Well honestly as a proud American I can say society's gone to hell. Lawyers and other people Rule Washington DC to the point where the President, be it Clinton, Bush, Gore, whomever, is nothing but a puppet of those with the real power. If they don't want the president of the United States reading email, he won't be reading it.
Sure it's better to keep it safe by using encryption, but when it's the government itself you're encrypting the data from, how long will it take them to crack it? A few seconds?
This also is the most well known guy on the planet. In addition to the Lawyers and the Government, general hackers will decrypt it just for fun. Okay so he could use really secret encryption we'd love to be able to run on our own systems, but even that is unlikley. End result his emails are public, 4th Ammendment or not. Sure I may not like Bush, and never saw him as someone who could spell e-mail anyway, but even if he was a super-geek, he probably would have made the same decision.
It's rather interesting that the President of the United States is legally allowed to sign an online commerce agreement with a digital signature, and Clinton digitally signed a bill into law last year (though apparently a bill must still be signed by hand); but, at the same time, the president does not know, and was not informed, by his advisors or close friends, that the same technology can be used to encrypt his personal email.
It will be interesting to see if mass public usage of encryption ever comes to pass, and whether the `important people' (like business transactions, etc.) set the example or the end-users set the example.
I wonder how many people have emailed President Bush informing him about the uses of public-key cryptography?
I'm happy to hear that news. I think that jupiter and its moons can teach us alot about our solar system and many other things. Not to mention that there could be life on one of its moons. I think we should send more probes to check out jupiter, and stop messing with mars, i think that if we will ever find life somewhere besides here, one of jupiters moons is our best bet. Plus, i don't think we've ever crashed a billion or so dollar probe into jupiter. And we've done it to mars, so how about we make things fair? Why not crash one into one of its moons. Now theres an idea.
Thats it, enough of your crap...listen to some of mine!
For most people doing e-commerce, there is no real need to go through the expense and hassle of getting a site certificate. Many good web hosting companies will provide use of their own site certificate for a fairly low fee. That is, for about $10-$30 per month, you can have your site hosted AND have a real SSL certificate for doing e-commerce.
Now, what happend to all the black holes? Did they just up and dissipear? Now, i tend not to challenge science, but, i seriously don't belive this. I'm pretty sure that the only way for a black hole to dissipear is if it "eats" up all the matter pretty much everywhere. And if black holes ruled the universe, wouldn't that mean that there would pretty much be no matter left? Then wouldn't there be no earth? No sun? No milky way? But hey, what do i know. I'm just a michigander.
...If you can't amaze them with your wit, amaze them with your bull-shit...
Well, it dosn't supprise to me to see alot of gaming corperations dropping out of arcading. People have quit going to arcades because all these games, they can get an equal ammount of quality at home. And not have to have a big pile of quarters. There just isn't money to be made in arcading anymore. I don't blame them for dropping out.
Since I can't code, but I have a good app idea, I'll toss it out here.
Linux needs a GUI frontend to control everything that modern voice/fax/modems can do.
This frontend should allow the user to configure all aspects of the voice/fax/modem from one interface. This means configuring the ability to:
- Send/Recieve Faxes
- Dial out/Dial in
- Configure an Answering machine
And if made properly modular, this program could become a boom. Imagine the capabilities of this frontend if when you configured your answering machine, it could do the following:
- multiple voice-mail boxes
- send you an email/page noting the time of the call and any Caller ID information
- encode the message using either mp3 or ogg format (low mono bitrate - perfect for this) and email the message
The more modular this program is made, the more flexible this could be, allowing other implementations to be included.
For all the focus on the whiz-bang of video and audio, Linux is severely lacking in easy control of thhe modern voice/fax/modem in a GUI environment.
Any other ideas to flesh this out?
Microsoft and McDonalds are alike. They don't make the best, but they make the most.
"CATS: I SCRATCH YOU IN EYE YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME"
oh hasn't this been completely played out already?
i recently heard that someone hung an all your base banner from one of my university's parking garages... oh my.
convieniently don't say anything about the killer micro-organisms that they brought back.
The guys, all their clothing and everything else were actually put in a pretty serious quarantine for weeks to check if they had brought back anything serious.
The rooftop arials (?) are not always the most attractive... and there are some concerned with the asthetics of their domicile. personally, i would like to have the technical aspects, but the mere sight of it is unpleasent. I would not want to see one on the neighbor's roof (of course in rural Austrailia, your neighbor might be 12 miles away in which case it would be fine)
Can someone explain the differences between the competing codecs - original DivX, "open" DivX, DivX Deux, OpenCodex.com, 3ivx... Are any of them any better/faster, more cross-platform etc.? The Archive.org files that have been converted so far are in original DivX.
I guess not everyone has the equipment yet, but there are lots of ways to turn (legal) MPEG-2 and DivX from Archive.org into video in another format: video card with composite video out to VCR, convert to DV stream and record over FireWire to DV camcorder, make into a VideoCD using e.g. Nero, or make into a DVD (using Apple's iDVD).
DivX;-) is just some hacked codec to begin with so I, for one, will never support it.
If the "makers" of DivX (which is technically Microsoft so I should say the "hackers that distribute DivX") really want to do something clever; they should write their own code.
(Don't get me wrong; I think a cross platform MPEG-4 codec is a wonderful thing but let's make one without just hacking someone else's -- and yes; I know there are a couple in development.)
As for the MPAA, I seriously doubt the MPAA is going to embrace a hacked codec in which illegal screener copies of currently running films are distributed over the internet.
In the past, inventions were always by a very few people with a huge market. One company could dominate an 'industry' until another huge company came along and decided to manufacture something similar. Today, if we take a look at the handheld manufacturing, there are so many more companies, producing very similar things, so it seems as though there is no innovation when you look at it overall. With everyone cooperating AND competing at the same time (alliance between IBM, Intel, Nortel etc to make various products and user intreface services) it's hard to make something "revolutionary".
But, I believe there IS less innovation if you consider the technology available to us, compared to just 10 years ago. Mathematica lets you execute calculations faster than several human lifetimes needed if you were to do it by hand. So shouldn't there be a ton more and better inventions by now? Why is TB still around? And hand-footand mouth disease? But such tools aren't being used to create revolutionary things...they are used to optimize and improve by increments. All the tools we have now, the genome dissecting, deep-space telescopes, biomedical engineering, are not intended for revolutionary tools, but fact-gathering and confirming what we know so far is right.
Lastly, there is also a trend in academic journals like Nature and Science that were previously mentioned for fact-gathering and focusing on a very small aspect of a system; one fold of a single protein for example. The results published today are considered science, whereas fifty years ago, they would be considered preliminary results upon which one could begin to do science.
But that's just my opinion.
The head of the Galactic Federation (76 planets around larger stars visible from here) (founded 95,000,000 years ago, very space opera) solved overpopulation (250 billion or so per planet - 178 billion on average) by mass implanting..
He caused people to be brought to Teegeeack (Earth) and put an H-Bomb on the principal volcanos (incident II) and then the Pacific area ones were taken - in boxes to Hawaii and the Atlantic area ones to Las Palmas and there "packaged".
His name was Xenu. He used renegades. Various misleading data by means of circuits etc was placed in the unplants. When through with his crime loyal officers (to the people) captured him after six years of battle and put him in an electronic mountain trap where he still is. "They" are gone. The place (Confederation) has since been a desert.
The length and brutality of it all was such that this Confederation never recovered. The implant is calculated to kill (by pneumonia etc) anyone who attempts to solve it. This liability has been dispensed with by my tech development. One can freewheel through the implant and die unless it is approached as precisely outlined. The "freewheel" (auto-running on and on) lasts too long, denies sleep etc and one dies. So be careful to do only Incidents I and II as given and not plow around and fail to complete one thetan at a time.
In December 1967 1 know someone had to take the plunge. I did and emerged very knocked out, but alive. Probably the only one ever to do so in 75,000,000 years. I have all the data now, but only that given here is needful.
One's body is a mass of individual thetans stuck to oneself or to the body.
One has to clean them off by running incident II and Incident I. It is a long job, requiring care, patience and good auditing.
You are running beings. They respond like any preclear. Some large, some small.
Thetans believed they were one. This is the primary error.
Good luck.
For the purpose of clarity, by BODY THETAN is meant a thetan who is stuck to another thetan or body but is not in control.
A THETAN is, of course, a Scientology word using the Greek theta which was the Greek symbol for thought or life. An individual being such as a man is a thetan, he is not a body and he does not think because he has a brain.
A CLUSTER is a group of body thetans crushed or hold together by some mutual bad experience.
Character of Body Thetans
Body Thetans are just Thetans. When you get rid of one he goes off and possibly squares around, picks up a body or admires daisies. He is in fact a sort of cleared Being. He cannot fail to eventually, if not at once, regain many abilities. Many have been asleep for the last 75,000,000 years. A body Thetan responds to any process any Thetan responds to.
Some body Thetans are suppressive. A suppressive is out of valence in R6. He is in valence in Incident I almost always.
One can't run a human being on these two incidents since human beings are composites and would not be able to run the lot. Aside from that, non-clears are way below awareness required to even find these Incidents.
Huge amounts of charge have already been removed from the case and the body thetans by Clearing and OT I and OT II to say nothing of engrams and lower grades.
Awareness is proportional to the charge removed from the case.
Although a human is a composite being there is only one I (that is you) who runs things.
Body thetans just hold one back.
You will continue to be you. You, inside, can of course separate out body thetans and so solo auditing is the answer. How good do you have to be to run body thetans off? Well, if you didn't skip your grades, Clearing and OT II particularly, you. should be able to'command body thetans easily.
The head of the Galactic Federation (76 planets around larger stars visible from here) (founded 95,000,000 years ago, very space opera) solved overpopulation (250 billion or so per planet - 178 billion on average) by mass implanting..
He caused people to be brought to Teegeeack (Earth) and put an H-Bomb on the principal volcanos (incident II) and then the Pacific area ones were taken - in boxes to Hawaii and the Atlantic area ones to Las Palmas and there "packaged".
His name was Xenu. He used renegades. Various misleading data by means of circuits etc was placed in the unplants. When through with his crime loyal officers (to the people) captured him after six years of battle and put him in an electronic mountain trap where he still is. "They" are gone. The place (Confederation) has since been a desert.
The length and brutality of it all was such that this Confederation never recovered. The implant is calculated to kill (by pneumonia etc) anyone who attempts to solve it. This liability has been dispensed with by my tech development. One can freewheel through the implant and die unless it is approached as precisely outlined. The "freewheel" (auto-running on and on) lasts too long, denies sleep etc and one dies. So be careful to do only Incidents I and II as given and not plow around and fail to complete one thetan at a time.
In December 1967 1 know someone had to take the plunge. I did and emerged very knocked out, but alive. Probably the only one ever to do so in 75,000,000 years. I have all the data now, but only that given here is needful.
One's body is a mass of individual thetans stuck to oneself or to the body.
One has to clean them off by running incident II and Incident I. It is a long job, requiring care, patience and good auditing.
You are running beings. They respond like any preclear. Some large, some small.
Thetans believed they were one. This is the primary error.
Good luck.
For the purpose of clarity, by BODY THETAN is meant a thetan who is stuck to another thetan or body but is not in control.
A THETAN is, of course, a Scientology word using the Greek theta which was the Greek symbol for thought or life. An individual being such as a man is a thetan, he is not a body and he does not think because he has a brain.
A CLUSTER is a group of body thetans crushed or hold together by some mutual bad experience.
Character of Body Thetans
Body Thetans are just Thetans. When you get rid of one he goes off and possibly squares around, picks up a body or admires daisies. He is in fact a sort of cleared Being. He cannot fail to eventually, if not at once, regain many abilities. Many have been asleep for the last 75,000,000 years. A body Thetan responds to any process any Thetan responds to.
Some body Thetans are suppressive. A suppressive is out of valence in R6. He is in valence in Incident I almost always.
One can't run a human being on these two incidents since human beings are composites and would not be able to run the lot. Aside from that, non-clears are way below awareness required to even find these Incidents.
Huge amounts of charge have already been removed from the case and the body thetans by Clearing and OT I and OT II to say nothing of engrams and lower grades.
Awareness is proportional to the charge removed from the case.
Although a human is a composite being there is only one I (that is you) who runs things.
Body thetans just hold one back.
You will continue to be you. You, inside, can of course separate out body thetans and so solo auditing is the answer. How good do you have to be to run body thetans off? Well, if you didn't skip your grades, Clearing and OT II particularly, you. should be able to'command body thetans easily.
it would be nice to have the source to play with. Like how id releases quake/doom sources after a year. With the sources the community could imporve the game and add features we always wanted (ie multiplayer X-com that doesn't suck like apacolypse). Unfortunatly not many companies do that. off hand I can only remember id doing that...
I'm an advid gamer but only a entry level programmer, IMHO(and god is it humble) there are a lot of tittles thats seems superb for the ps2 (MGS2, FFX, ect..). Sony is throwing a lot of money into the production of the ps2 and sony has a good track racord for user end support (they still supply part for beta.). The technical difficulties can be overcome if the user base grows and more componies familiarize themselves with the new achitecture. I have heard that many companies have avoided the problems with jaggies by simply rendering at higher resolutions(with the resulting drop in frame rate ect..). The documentation for the developer might be horrible but I hear(so much second hand info) that sony is reviewing and redistributing new docutmentation and developers kits. The texture ram problem is problably the worst.. I can't think of any way they'd overcome that but then again the quality of the graphics aren't always intergral to the quality of the game.
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Posted by ep51lon:
Kragg said "It means games with lots of blood and guts get rated 18, and the 12-yr olds have to get their older brother to buy it for them." This couldn't be more true. I agree that a ratings system is a good idea, but there is a risk parents will use it as yet another excuse to give somebody else the responsibilty of looking after their child's welfare. Near to where I live (North Wales), youths regularly get drunk and throw up everywhere... the retailers are selling this alcohol to their older relatives/friends who then pass it on. How else do you think kids get hold of alcohol, pornography, etc? The analogy to violent games is just waiting to happen. Yes, rate your games - but make sure this means something to retailers (fines, etc for selling to minors). However, it MUST be combined with some way of encouraging parents to control their offspring!
Posted by alci:
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Well... I understand that, that's exactly my point.
The 'all is money' paradigm does not apply to free software.
Nobody can sell it, so nobody can make money out of it.
It's a tool out of which you can eventually make usefull and non free products (that is the sense of GPL). That's why IBM or Sun go for it. Their core business is elsewhere.
That doesn't mean that free software it not worthwhile...
Is science worthwhile, is education worthwhile, are arts worthwhile, philosophy, poetry, feeding poeple that can't buy their food, teaching children to read and write..? What is the market share of CERN, MIT, UNESCO, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Heinrich Heine,
That's what free software is about : giving people tools to live freely in a computerized world, and not to depend on some few western major companies.
People did 'invest' money in Red Hat... Well, then RedHat will have to produce really value added products, not just try to make a monopoly and bother everybody. Cause then free software will live elsewhere.
Posted by kjeldsen:
Why would anyone use a hacked MS Codec for this? ISeeLawSuits
Is there such a thing as "executive privalege" that could be used to keep these things private?
Also, does anyone know the basis for the president's private e-mail (say, to his daughters about family matters) being public record? If he wrote them paper letters, would that be public record? Why is e-mail different?
Would it make a difference if he used a computer owned by him personally instead of by the government, and used an ISP he paid for himself instead of the government's connection?
Also, how do we know he'd be forced to reveal the private key or plaintext, instead of just the ciphertext? Is there legal precedent for this in other cases?
I'm not claiming anyone who's posted before is wrong here -- I'd just like to know.
Posted by IWAssassin:
Oops I dropped my multi-billion dollar probe, now where'd it go? Wait I think I found it, maybe hmm dunno. Ah well... Hey it's a great thing they have possibly found it, well sorta. The space probe is still a practical loss if they can't raise the thing on communications till we send someone up there to fix it, and at the current rate that will be NEVER. Reason we made it to the moon was a race of pride with the Russians, we can never do something just for the sake of it being good for the human Race, it has to be to show other humans we're better than them. Well some day geeks will inherit the earth and we will go up there and fix our broken multi-billion dollar probe!
Well honestly as a proud American I can say society's gone to hell. Lawyers and other people Rule Washington DC to the point where the President, be it Clinton, Bush, Gore, whomever, is nothing but a puppet of those with the real power. If they don't want the president of the United States reading email, he won't be reading it.
Sure it's better to keep it safe by using encryption, but when it's the government itself you're encrypting the data from, how long will it take them to crack it? A few seconds?
This also is the most well known guy on the planet. In addition to the Lawyers and the Government, general hackers will decrypt it just for fun. Okay so he could use really secret encryption we'd love to be able to run on our own systems, but even that is unlikley. End result his emails are public, 4th Ammendment or not. Sure I may not like Bush, and never saw him as someone who could spell e-mail anyway, but even if he was a super-geek, he probably would have made the same decision.
Posted by Bridog:
It's rather interesting that the President of the United States is legally allowed to sign an online commerce agreement with a digital signature, and Clinton digitally signed a bill into law last year (though apparently a bill must still be signed by hand); but, at the same time, the president does not know, and was not informed, by his advisors or close friends, that the same technology can be used to encrypt his personal email.
It will be interesting to see if mass public usage of encryption ever comes to pass, and whether the `important people' (like business transactions, etc.) set the example or the end-users set the example.
I wonder how many people have emailed President Bush informing him about the uses of public-key cryptography?
I'm happy to hear that news. I think that jupiter and its moons can teach us alot about our solar system and many other things. Not to mention that there could be life on one of its moons. I think we should send more probes to check out jupiter, and stop messing with mars, i think that if we will ever find life somewhere besides here, one of jupiters moons is our best bet. Plus, i don't think we've ever crashed a billion or so dollar probe into jupiter. And we've done it to mars, so how about we make things fair? Why not crash one into one of its moons. Now theres an idea.
Thats it, enough of your crap...listen to some of mine!
Posted by Kamel Jockey:
For most people doing e-commerce, there is no real need to go through the expense and hassle of getting a site certificate. Many good web hosting companies will provide use of their own site certificate for a fairly low fee. That is, for about $10-$30 per month, you can have your site hosted AND have a real SSL certificate for doing e-commerce.
Now, what happend to all the black holes? Did they just up and dissipear? Now, i tend not to challenge science, but, i seriously don't belive this. I'm pretty sure that the only way for a black hole to dissipear is if it "eats" up all the matter pretty much everywhere. And if black holes ruled the universe, wouldn't that mean that there would pretty much be no matter left? Then wouldn't there be no earth? No sun? No milky way? But hey, what do i know. I'm just a michigander.
...If you can't amaze them with your wit, amaze them with your bull-shit...
Posted by hairy_palms:
Well, it dosn't supprise to me to see alot of gaming corperations dropping out of arcading. People have quit going to arcades because all these games, they can get an equal ammount of quality at home. And not have to have a big pile of quarters. There just isn't money to be made in arcading anymore. I don't blame them for dropping out.
Posted by replicataur:
Since I can't code, but I have a good app idea, I'll toss it out here.
Linux needs a GUI frontend to control everything that modern voice/fax/modems can do.
This frontend should allow the user to configure all aspects of the voice/fax/modem from one interface. This means configuring the ability to:
- Send/Recieve Faxes
- Dial out/Dial in
- Configure an Answering machine
And if made properly modular, this program could become a boom. Imagine the capabilities of this frontend if when you configured your answering machine, it could do the following:
- multiple voice-mail boxes
- send you an email/page noting the time of the call and any Caller ID information
- encode the message using either mp3 or ogg format (low mono bitrate - perfect for this) and email the message
The more modular this program is made, the more flexible this could be, allowing other implementations to be included.
For all the focus on the whiz-bang of video and audio, Linux is severely lacking in easy control of thhe modern voice/fax/modem in a GUI environment.
Any other ideas to flesh this out?
Microsoft and McDonalds are alike. They don't make the best, but they make the most.
Posted by thepanicofficer:
"CATS: I SCRATCH YOU IN EYE YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME" oh hasn't this been completely played out already? i recently heard that someone hung an all your base banner from one of my university's parking garages... oh my.
Posted by targo:
convieniently don't say anything about the killer micro-organisms that they brought back. The guys, all their clothing and everything else were actually put in a pretty serious quarantine for weeks to check if they had brought back anything serious.
Posted by deuxdrop:
The rooftop arials (?) are not always the most attractive... and there are some concerned with the asthetics of their domicile. personally, i would like to have the technical aspects, but the mere sight of it is unpleasent. I would not want to see one on the neighbor's roof (of course in rural Austrailia, your neighbor might be 12 miles away in which case it would be fine)
Posted by rakerman:
Can someone explain the differences between the competing codecs - original DivX, "open" DivX, DivX Deux, OpenCodex.com, 3ivx... Are any of them any better/faster, more cross-platform etc.? The Archive.org files that have been converted so far are in original DivX.
I guess not everyone has the equipment yet, but there are lots of ways to turn (legal) MPEG-2 and DivX from Archive.org into video in another format: video card with composite video out to VCR, convert to DV stream and record over FireWire to DV camcorder, make into a VideoCD using e.g. Nero, or make into a DVD (using Apple's iDVD).
Posted by Lee Thompson:
DivX;-) is just some hacked codec to begin with so I, for one, will never support it. If the "makers" of DivX (which is technically Microsoft so I should say the "hackers that distribute DivX") really want to do something clever; they should write their own code. (Don't get me wrong; I think a cross platform MPEG-4 codec is a wonderful thing but let's make one without just hacking someone else's -- and yes; I know there are a couple in development.) As for the MPAA, I seriously doubt the MPAA is going to embrace a hacked codec in which illegal screener copies of currently running films are distributed over the internet.
Posted by isopiagroove:
In the past, inventions were always by a very few people with a huge market. One company could dominate an 'industry' until another huge company came along and decided to manufacture something similar. Today, if we take a look at the handheld manufacturing, there are so many more companies, producing very similar things, so it seems as though there is no innovation when you look at it overall. With everyone cooperating AND competing at the same time (alliance between IBM, Intel, Nortel etc to make various products and user intreface services) it's hard to make something "revolutionary". But, I believe there IS less innovation if you consider the technology available to us, compared to just 10 years ago. Mathematica lets you execute calculations faster than several human lifetimes needed if you were to do it by hand. So shouldn't there be a ton more and better inventions by now? Why is TB still around? And hand-footand mouth disease? But such tools aren't being used to create revolutionary things...they are used to optimize and improve by increments. All the tools we have now, the genome dissecting, deep-space telescopes, biomedical engineering, are not intended for revolutionary tools, but fact-gathering and confirming what we know so far is right. Lastly, there is also a trend in academic journals like Nature and Science that were previously mentioned for fact-gathering and focusing on a very small aspect of a system; one fold of a single protein for example. The results published today are considered science, whereas fifty years ago, they would be considered preliminary results upon which one could begin to do science. But that's just my opinion.
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Posted by lazarus142:
OT III
[Operating Thetan Level 3]
BODY THETANS
by L. Ron Hubbard
The head of the Galactic Federation (76 planets around larger stars visible from here) (founded 95,000,000 years ago, very space opera) solved overpopulation (250 billion or so per planet - 178 billion on average) by mass implanting..
He caused people to be brought to Teegeeack (Earth) and put an H-Bomb on the principal volcanos (incident II) and then the Pacific area ones were taken - in boxes to Hawaii and the Atlantic area ones to Las Palmas and there "packaged".
His name was Xenu. He used renegades. Various misleading data by means of circuits etc was placed in the unplants. When through with his crime loyal officers (to the people) captured him after six years of battle and put him in an electronic mountain trap where he still is. "They" are gone. The place (Confederation) has since been a desert.
The length and brutality of it all was such that this Confederation never recovered. The implant is calculated to kill (by pneumonia etc) anyone who attempts to solve it. This liability has been dispensed with by my tech development. One can freewheel through the implant and die unless it is approached as precisely outlined. The "freewheel" (auto-running on and on) lasts too long, denies sleep etc and one dies. So be careful to do only Incidents I and II as given and not plow around and fail to complete one thetan at a time.
In December 1967 1 know someone had to take the plunge. I did and emerged very knocked out, but alive. Probably the only one ever to do so in 75,000,000 years. I have all the data now, but only that given here is needful.
One's body is a mass of individual thetans stuck to oneself or to the body.
One has to clean them off by running incident II and Incident I. It is a long job, requiring care, patience and good auditing.
You are running beings. They respond like any preclear. Some large, some small.
Thetans believed they were one. This is the primary error.
Good luck.
For the purpose of clarity, by BODY THETAN is meant a thetan who is stuck to another thetan or body but is not in control.
A THETAN is, of course, a Scientology word using the Greek theta which was the Greek symbol for thought or life. An individual being such as a man is a thetan, he is not a body and he does not think because he has a brain.
A CLUSTER is a group of body thetans crushed or hold together by some mutual bad experience.
Character of Body Thetans
Body Thetans are just Thetans. When you get rid of one he goes off and possibly squares around, picks up a body or admires daisies. He is in fact a sort of cleared Being. He cannot fail to eventually, if not at once, regain many abilities. Many have been asleep for the last 75,000,000 years. A body Thetan responds to any process any Thetan responds to.
Some body Thetans are suppressive. A suppressive is out of valence in R6. He is in valence in Incident I almost always.
One can't run a human being on these two incidents since human beings are composites and would not be able to run the lot. Aside from that, non-clears are way below awareness required to even find these Incidents.
Huge amounts of charge have already been removed from the case and the body thetans by Clearing and OT I and OT II to say nothing of engrams and lower grades.
Awareness is proportional to the charge removed from the case.
Although a human is a composite being there is only one I (that is you) who runs things.
Body thetans just hold one back.
You will continue to be you. You, inside, can of course separate out body thetans and so solo auditing is the answer. How good do you have to be to run body thetans off? Well, if you didn't skip your grades, Clearing and OT II particularly, you. should be able to'command body thetans easily.
Posted by lazarus142:
OT III
[Operating Thetan Level 3]
BODY THETANS
by L. Ron Hubbard
The head of the Galactic Federation (76 planets around larger stars visible from here) (founded 95,000,000 years ago, very space opera) solved overpopulation (250 billion or so per planet - 178 billion on average) by mass implanting..
He caused people to be brought to Teegeeack (Earth) and put an H-Bomb on the principal volcanos (incident II) and then the Pacific area ones were taken - in boxes to Hawaii and the Atlantic area ones to Las Palmas and there "packaged".
His name was Xenu. He used renegades. Various misleading data by means of circuits etc was placed in the unplants. When through with his crime loyal officers (to the people) captured him after six years of battle and put him in an electronic mountain trap where he still is. "They" are gone. The place (Confederation) has since been a desert.
The length and brutality of it all was such that this Confederation never recovered. The implant is calculated to kill (by pneumonia etc) anyone who attempts to solve it. This liability has been dispensed with by my tech development. One can freewheel through the implant and die unless it is approached as precisely outlined. The "freewheel" (auto-running on and on) lasts too long, denies sleep etc and one dies. So be careful to do only Incidents I and II as given and not plow around and fail to complete one thetan at a time.
In December 1967 1 know someone had to take the plunge. I did and emerged very knocked out, but alive. Probably the only one ever to do so in 75,000,000 years. I have all the data now, but only that given here is needful.
One's body is a mass of individual thetans stuck to oneself or to the body.
One has to clean them off by running incident II and Incident I. It is a long job, requiring care, patience and good auditing.
You are running beings. They respond like any preclear. Some large, some small.
Thetans believed they were one. This is the primary error.
Good luck.
For the purpose of clarity, by BODY THETAN is meant a thetan who is stuck to another thetan or body but is not in control.
A THETAN is, of course, a Scientology word using the Greek theta which was the Greek symbol for thought or life. An individual being such as a man is a thetan, he is not a body and he does not think because he has a brain.
A CLUSTER is a group of body thetans crushed or hold together by some mutual bad experience.
Character of Body Thetans
Body Thetans are just Thetans. When you get rid of one he goes off and possibly squares around, picks up a body or admires daisies. He is in fact a sort of cleared Being. He cannot fail to eventually, if not at once, regain many abilities. Many have been asleep for the last 75,000,000 years. A body Thetan responds to any process any Thetan responds to.
Some body Thetans are suppressive. A suppressive is out of valence in R6. He is in valence in Incident I almost always.
One can't run a human being on these two incidents since human beings are composites and would not be able to run the lot. Aside from that, non-clears are way below awareness required to even find these Incidents.
Huge amounts of charge have already been removed from the case and the body thetans by Clearing and OT I and OT II to say nothing of engrams and lower grades.
Awareness is proportional to the charge removed from the case.
Although a human is a composite being there is only one I (that is you) who runs things.
Body thetans just hold one back.
You will continue to be you. You, inside, can of course separate out body thetans and so solo auditing is the answer. How good do you have to be to run body thetans off? Well, if you didn't skip your grades, Clearing and OT II particularly, you. should be able to'command body thetans easily.
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Posted by king-manic:
it would be nice to have the source to play with. Like how id releases quake/doom sources after a year. With the sources the community could imporve the game and add features we always wanted (ie multiplayer X-com that doesn't suck like apacolypse). Unfortunatly not many companies do that. off hand I can only remember id doing that...
Posted by king-manic:
I'm an advid gamer but only a entry level programmer, IMHO(and god is it humble) there are a lot of tittles thats seems superb for the ps2 (MGS2, FFX, ect..). Sony is throwing a lot of money into the production of the ps2 and sony has a good track racord for user end support (they still supply part for beta.). The technical difficulties can be overcome if the user base grows and more componies familiarize themselves with the new achitecture. I have heard that many companies have avoided the problems with jaggies by simply rendering at higher resolutions(with the resulting drop in frame rate ect..). The documentation for the developer might be horrible but I hear(so much second hand info) that sony is reviewing and redistributing new docutmentation and developers kits. The texture ram problem is problably the worst.. I can't think of any way they'd overcome that but then again the quality of the graphics aren't always intergral to the quality of the game.