How come society (Mr. or Ms.) never files a libel suit? Cause it doesn't exist!
How come govt never listens to the public? Cause it doesn't exist!
Folks, forget about the suits, offices, authority, lobbying, and so on. It's a million year old game we're playing by negligence. The fact is a solemn idiot can cause as much damage as a lying bastard.
It's all about paranoia and opportunity. It seems people tend to put their lives on hold every time some shit like this happens. People always have to claim and protect their territory but if all you do defend yourself, you forget why and what you're fighting for, you accomplish nothing with considerable effort and the asses pass you by. Don't like gun laws. Fine but at the same time annoy your representative about other issues throw them out when they fail at smaller tasks and send them a message. People invented gov't not the other way around. People perverted gov't as well deal with them accordingly.
Right now physicists invent a new particle every time there's a kink in their theories and only their particles are valid. Science that focuses on one level of emergence instaed of another belongs in practice not research. If I want to become a chemist or biologist I should get the education that will make me ready to meet day to day challenges. Studying subclasses of chemistry fits in that case. If I want to do research I should have some theoretical background besides studying reasearch itself.
The way theoretical physicists do their work it seems as if they never studied research. I get the impression they should be doing applied physics not theoretical. If you sent them out into a park and had them measure distances between trees they'd come back with names for each measured distance not numerical data.
In that same vein I don't see the validity in hypothesizing more complexity into the THEORY of the mind than there really is.
Sure, we have emotions, thoughts, and sensory impulses. But these things are not manifested in separate entities. They appear within the same field. Sensory information is lie a bunch of points. We can say my foot hurts just above the ankle. The sensory system simply registers information.
The emotional system deals with expectations, reflex, predictions, and some emotions are identified by the fact that nothing is explicitly expected. If you take an emotion out of context it collapses into the change in intensity of some sensation. That slight ache in one's leg after strenous exercise might not be pleasant, but that same ache after sex, is a whole other story. Talent with such trickery gives us our musicians, dancers, painters, etc. Nevermind sense of humor.
The intellect or mind, is the formation of relationships between elements one happens to be considering at some point in time. It's dangerous to talk of distances between neurons representing a real world geometry because as anyone knows the brain is noodles. But it is possible to talk about weighted neurons that tend to communicate with each other. The neurons themselves represent nothing but they can be used to reconstruct an idea or a model.
I think once theory and application are easily identifiable, studying either or becomes much less confusing.
It often amazes me how chemists all get so excited about this and that molecule doing whatever it does when in fact the properties of the molecule and its atoms are not inscribed on the molecule's forehead but are a result of the number(a quantity not a quality) of protons and neutrons in those atoms.
Some find it easier to hold onto the superficial image of the world that they see without reflecting and stepping out of the immediate world to a more general perspective.
Take Ptolemy. Sure his twisted geo centric planetary system was reasonably mathematically equivalent to Copernicus' But what a lack of intuition.
Take Emil Zola (the evil naturalist). Ok so he says all we have is our ears, eyes, skin, nasal passages, and taste buds. Imagination, ESP, souls, all those are nonexistent as far as he's concerned. Art ought to be a science that treats people's relationship difficulties as if they were symptoms of diseases.
Hmm, so why is it a blind man given his sight at a late period in his life wishes it taken away? Because he doesn't know how to use it. Our senses are man made. Our inputs are given to us by our DNA. I could bet Zola never had a sense of humor.
One just spreads. Like a cancer or an avalanche or glass shards when a glass shatters. Certainly strong and robust but intelligent? No.
One has a feedback loop. Like the sense of balance. Or some sort of sense of danger. Strong or robust? Maybe. Ability to adapt? Yes. Intelligent? Not quite yet.
Finally, the last one has several inputs, a tool with which to coordinate inputs and build other soft inputs or interpretive strategies, and a storage mechanism. Its growth constantly causes slight distortions in the information received making it much easier to identify and classify the information. Its growth also requires a renewal mechanism that allows old information to be replaced. This in effect constitutes a feedback mechanism. Strong and robust? No way to tell without seeing it. Ability to adapt? Mostly involuntary adaptation, however it can learn about itself and train itself. Intelligent? Depends on its training and education. Self-aware? Maybe, maybe not.
All we got to do is keep our poker faces on. Might help to give BSD er's some of the limelight we have. And then just let the clowns shoot themselves in the foot.
Linux needs to move into its second stage of evolution. we've crossed first obstacle, which was advocating open source. It's time we showed the world you can depend on open source. Distributors need to compete on the basis car dealers do (that is without ripping ppl off). we development suites like Cygnus' tools to mastch Vis Studio in publicity (not popularity or bugload)
we need production suites to give people the capability to do what one does with CCakewalk Pro Audio on Macs and PC's.
I'm not looking for groupie-bait software however developers need to see software ppl do use to be straight forward and clear as to how to develop it on Linux. We're going to capsize the bandwagon if we don't get some of this stuff out.
#2. Gov. says if you get a job you lose your welfare effective immediately instead of within 6 months or until you get up on your own two feet
#3. The world at large is too dense to understand the difference between volunteering for graduation (involuntary volunteering) and working for something you believe in (personal volunteerism)
if I were an activist as opposed to being active and accomplishing something, I might suggest a practice of vigilante volunteerism. Whatever that is?
you know, I knew it was going to get uglier in the last feww decades for this miserable planet, but this is way too much. Misrepresentation by newspapers aside, this is nasty.
My usually paranoid persona regarding events and insights much less conclusive than this (read: bullshit videogame lawsuits = 1984, it's not the big boys who are the threat it's the normal average everyday moron) reading about disasters has just about confounded my daemon of perversity. Therefore, I am cured.
Of what?
My only question is why do we have to go through another 40 years of the world turning ugly before we fry. it's demeaning. God is a Nazi!
or maybe the rider on the white horse (asteroid) is the guy who turns the world into compost after we've gutted each other.
Autoupdate a behemoth to make up for creating a market of morons. YAPoV Yet another piece of vaporware.
I worked in a computer lab. Newbies are not idiots. They're scared. Hence, they ARE, however, ignorant. I read their tutorials on Win95. A load of crap. They treated right mouse clicks like the plague as if you have to be a genious escaped from the mental ward in order to use them.
Think back a while 1971. Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. The first Monochrome GUI. No color because Monitor technology was reserved for the rich. GUI with a drawing program and (wouldn't you know?) a MOUSE. Guess what Xerox didn't give a hoot for it. I used to think what anal, retarded, myopic morons would give it up. Who could miss such a profitable opportunity? I know better now. They probably would have gone out of business if they'd thrown their money into it. Note this was a little before Amiga 32-bit GUI'd OS (1985) lost against yech MS-DOS! The reason Xerox would have failed is because no newbie cared about compurters. They were just as afraid of them as they are now. Making it easier would have meant no thing to them. They wouldn't have had anything to do with it. Now computers mean jobs, so they whine.
Every newbie has first contact syndrome. They have just as much trouble using the mouse now as they did typing "copy a:*.* c:" a decade ago.
Misleading a newbie and making them further removed from their tools is like saying "We know finding a job is hard Now you don't have to. Welfare for the common man."
Does this seem a little too much?
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The Dust-Bowl comparison fails in that it would require the genes to jump from plant to all plants.
The ecosystem is REAL. Think about it this way: We have a problem - car accidents or crop failure We have a culprit - the car(generalized) ar insects(generalized) we have a solution - remove all cars(bad) or remove all insects(bad)
the result: the car-bone is connected to the work-bone, the work-bone is connected to the income-bone, the income-bone is connected to the food, shelter, survival, and spending-bones
the disaster: the food, shelter, survival, and spending-bones are connected to the economy-skeleton and finally the economy-skeleton is connected to the company-earnings-bone and the product-research-bone wwhich have all kinds of income-bones coming from them.
the ecosystem has very similar connections.
the fallcy:
There's is little guarantee that all cars would be removed by confiscating them for DUI's, and there is none that gene bouncing will affect your whole crop and remove all insects. The fortunate thing about a catastrophe is it requires simple but extreme circumstances.
the differences in those two cases above is that in the case of the insects there is no guarantee to begin with. We're closer to the central skeleton in that case. A few insects gone or a few drunks off the road are good thing for the system. In the case of the confisctaion of cars there's a bit of a problem. Unless we focus on repeat offenders in that case we are closer to being the insects and too many people who hardly ever get out line being out of a job can bite into our economy.
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That's there is to it
Check www.troll-tech.com
Run for office and replace it.
How come society (Mr. or Ms.) never files a libel suit? Cause it doesn't exist!
How come govt never listens to the public? Cause it doesn't exist!
Folks, forget about the suits, offices, authority, lobbying, and so on. It's a million year old game we're playing by negligence. The fact is a solemn idiot can cause as much damage as a lying bastard.
It's all about paranoia and opportunity. It seems people tend to put their lives on hold every time some shit like this happens. People always have to claim and protect their territory but if all you do defend yourself, you forget why and what you're fighting for, you accomplish nothing with considerable effort and the asses pass you by. Don't like gun laws. Fine but at the same time annoy your representative about other issues throw them out when they fail at smaller tasks and send them a message. People invented gov't not the other way around. People perverted gov't as well deal with them accordingly.
You go live in a time when foreign soldiers are housed and taken care of by you. Where the idiots are the majority that's where policy goes. Wake up!
It's not harsh- it's stupid. Having the right to defend yourself !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!= to a license to kill.
How dense can you get?
Right now physicists invent a new particle every time there's a kink in their theories and only their particles are valid. Science that focuses on one level of emergence instaed of another belongs in practice not research. If I want to become a chemist or biologist I should get the education that will make me ready to meet day to day challenges. Studying subclasses of chemistry fits in that case. If I want to do research I should have some theoretical background besides studying reasearch itself.
The way theoretical physicists do their work it seems as if they never studied research. I get the impression they should be doing applied physics not theoretical. If you sent them out into a park and had them measure distances between trees they'd come back with names for each measured distance not numerical data.
In that same vein I don't see the validity in hypothesizing more complexity into the THEORY of the mind than there really is.
Sure, we have emotions, thoughts, and sensory impulses. But these things are not manifested in separate entities. They appear within the same field. Sensory information is lie a bunch of points. We can say my foot hurts just above the ankle. The sensory system simply registers information.
The emotional system deals with expectations, reflex, predictions, and some emotions are identified by the fact that nothing is explicitly expected. If you take an emotion out of context it collapses into the change in intensity of some sensation. That slight ache in one's leg after strenous exercise might not be pleasant, but that same ache after sex, is a whole other story. Talent with such trickery gives us our musicians, dancers, painters, etc. Nevermind sense of humor.
The intellect or mind, is the formation of relationships between elements one happens to be considering at some point in time. It's dangerous to talk of distances between neurons representing a real world geometry because as anyone knows the brain is noodles. But it is possible to talk about weighted neurons that tend to communicate with each other. The neurons themselves represent nothing but they can be used to reconstruct an idea or a model.
I think once theory and application are easily identifiable, studying either or becomes much less confusing.
It often amazes me how chemists all get so excited about this and that molecule doing whatever it does when in fact the properties of the molecule and its atoms are not inscribed on the molecule's forehead but are a result of the number(a quantity not a quality) of protons and neutrons in those atoms.
But that's because we see colors not frequencies.
Some find it easier to hold onto the superficial image of the world that they see without reflecting and stepping out of the immediate world to a more general perspective.
Take Ptolemy. Sure his twisted geo centric planetary system was reasonably mathematically equivalent to Copernicus' But what a lack of intuition.
Take Emil Zola (the evil naturalist). Ok so he says all we have is our ears, eyes, skin, nasal passages, and taste buds. Imagination, ESP, souls, all those are nonexistent as far as he's concerned. Art ought to be a science that treats people's relationship difficulties as if they were symptoms of diseases.
Hmm, so why is it a blind man given his sight at a late period in his life wishes it taken away? Because he doesn't know how to use it. Our senses are man made. Our inputs are given to us by our DNA. I could bet Zola never had a sense of humor.
Take three entities growing.
One just spreads. Like a cancer or an avalanche or glass shards when a glass shatters. Certainly strong and robust but intelligent? No.
One has a feedback loop. Like the sense of balance. Or some sort of sense of danger. Strong or robust? Maybe. Ability to adapt? Yes. Intelligent? Not quite yet.
Finally, the last one has several inputs, a tool with which to coordinate inputs and build other soft inputs or interpretive strategies, and a storage mechanism. Its growth constantly causes slight distortions in the information received making it much easier to identify and classify the information. Its growth also requires a renewal mechanism that allows old information to be replaced. This in effect constitutes a feedback mechanism. Strong and robust? No way to tell without seeing it. Ability to adapt? Mostly involuntary adaptation, however it can learn about itself and train itself. Intelligent? Depends on its training and education. Self-aware? Maybe, maybe not.
All we got to do is keep our poker faces on. Might help to give BSD er's some of the limelight we have. And then just let the clowns shoot themselves in the foot.
/ - bare necessities for booting
/usr - network shareable
/usr/local - no one on the network needs to be playing in here
Linux needs to move into its second stage of evolution. we've crossed first obstacle, which was advocating open source. It's time we showed the world you can depend on open source. Distributors need to compete on the basis car dealers do (that is without ripping ppl off).
we development suites like Cygnus' tools to mastch Vis Studio in publicity (not popularity or bugload)
we need production suites to give people the capability to do what one does with CCakewalk Pro Audio on Macs and PC's.
I'm not looking for groupie-bait software however developers need to see software ppl do use to be straight forward and clear as to how to develop it on Linux. We're going to capsize the bandwagon if we don't get some of this stuff out.
I am a Nothinghead and I'm OK...
Thank Vonnegut for your education. There's little time before the last candle burns out.
(We already lost Burroughs)
btw check out www.c3f.com
They're after me for... um... reading /. ...
/. may be classified a thing of substance that must be controlled.
Next thing we know
-Shut ut Pinky!
You have a choice:
You can whine all day when in fact information is available.
Or you can go and research and learn.
Life's short. Your move...
How bout designing hardware and testing hardware for Linux?
Electronics Boutique ran a an ad on it.
#1. Gov. says using volunteers is bad
#2. Gov. says if you get a job you lose your welfare effective immediately instead of within 6 months or until you get up on your own two feet
#3. The world at large is too dense to understand the difference between volunteering for graduation (involuntary volunteering) and working for something you believe in (personal volunteerism)
if I were an activist as opposed to being active and accomplishing something, I might suggest a practice of vigilante volunteerism. Whatever that is?
you know, I knew it was going to get uglier in the last feww decades for this miserable planet, but this is way too much. Misrepresentation by newspapers aside, this is nasty.
#4.
My usually paranoid persona regarding events and insights much less conclusive than this (read: bullshit videogame lawsuits = 1984, it's not the big boys who are the threat it's the normal average everyday moron) reading about disasters has just about confounded my daemon of perversity. Therefore, I am cured.
Of what?
My only question is why do we have to go through another 40 years of the world turning ugly before we fry. it's demeaning. God is a Nazi!
or maybe the rider on the white horse (asteroid) is the guy who turns the world into compost after we've gutted each other.
Scrapping Windows by becoming windows.
Blow me! Flame!
Autoupdate a behemoth to make up for creating a market of morons. YAPoV Yet another piece of vaporware.
I worked in a computer lab. Newbies are not idiots. They're scared. Hence, they ARE, however, ignorant. I read their tutorials on Win95. A load of crap. They treated right mouse clicks like the plague as if you have to be a genious escaped from the mental ward in order to use them.
Think back a while 1971. Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. The first Monochrome GUI. No color because Monitor technology was reserved for the rich. GUI with a drawing program and (wouldn't you know?) a MOUSE. Guess what Xerox didn't give a hoot for it. I used to think what anal, retarded, myopic morons would give it up. Who could miss such a profitable opportunity? I know better now. They probably would have gone out of business if they'd thrown their money into it.
Note this was a little before Amiga 32-bit GUI'd OS (1985) lost against yech MS-DOS! The reason Xerox would have failed is because no newbie cared about compurters. They were just as afraid of them as they are now. Making it easier would have meant no thing to them. They wouldn't have had anything to do with it. Now computers mean jobs, so they whine.
Every newbie has first contact syndrome. They have just as much trouble using the mouse now as they did typing "copy a:*.* c:" a decade ago.
Misleading a newbie and making them further removed from their tools is like saying "We know finding a job is hard Now you don't have to. Welfare for the common man."
The Dust-Bowl comparison fails in that it would require the genes to jump from plant to all plants.
The ecosystem is REAL. Think about it this way:
We have a problem - car accidents
or crop failure
We have a culprit - the car(generalized)
ar insects(generalized)
we have a solution - remove all cars(bad)
or remove all insects(bad)
the result:
the car-bone is connected to the work-bone,
the work-bone is connected to the income-bone,
the income-bone is connected to the food, shelter, survival, and spending-bones
the disaster:
the food, shelter, survival, and spending-bones are connected to the economy-skeleton and finally
the economy-skeleton is connected to
the company-earnings-bone and the
product-research-bone wwhich have all kinds of
income-bones coming from them.
the ecosystem has very similar connections.
the fallcy:
There's is little guarantee that all cars would be removed by confiscating them for DUI's, and there is none that gene bouncing will affect your whole crop and remove all insects. The fortunate thing about a catastrophe is it requires simple but extreme circumstances.
the differences in those two cases above is that in the case of the insects there is no guarantee to begin with. We're closer to the central skeleton in that case. A few insects gone or a few drunks off the road are good thing for the system. In the case of the confisctaion of cars there's a bit of a problem. Unless we focus on repeat offenders in that case we are closer to being the insects and too many people who hardly ever get out line being out of a job can bite into our economy.
I'm encougaed some ppl (/.ers) haven't lost it but when will CNNers ever get this viewpoint?
Jazz wouldn't exist otherwise.
a musical palidrome would be impossible to notice.