you know, there are actually more than two choices...
while gore and bush are the exact same, and may be destroying this country. By not voting, you are voting for the standard, and the standard sucks. It needs to change. Don't vote for someone because you "have" to... vote for who you feel is the best candidate, regardless of party affilitation... nader may be the best guy for the job in a long time.
i mean, have you ever heard him speak? this guy knows what he's talking about, and doesnt talk down to you, and doesnt BS or pander. Its really great to have a guy that has clear virties and principles and plans.
go ahead, measure "time" pure time? even the standard for a second is based on movement, a specific number of vibrations by a specific type of crystal.
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representative democracy was set up to avoid the pitfalls of mob mentality that would be present in a direct democracy.
and with how easily manipuated the general public is, and with the relatively low education of the populace in general, this would just be a horror story.
so... keep the representative democracy, but get rid of the duopoly.
(Associated Press - Alcatraz)
Today, in an effort to end the pampered style of geek prison life that so many convicted criminals have been accustomed to, The Rock was reopened for service today.
"Hey, these guys managed to get T3 lines into every cell, and the guard door system was a joke, we think that they managed to hack the system so that it would let the doors open whenever they wanted.", said Red Bull, the head of HACK (H)ackers (A)re (C)riminals (K)ill 'em.
"I wished that we could have continued using the death penalty against these evil terrorists and child pornographers, but the ACLU felt it necessary to defend these scumbags. Something about 'the punishment not fitting the crime' or other such nonsense"
"Look, these felons have it better in prison, hell, their cells are over 4 times as big as a typical cubicle is, and they get in house laundry, THEY DONT EVER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT DOING LAUNDRY AGAIN, and look this doesnt seem like a big point, but I've been to busts on these evil hackers, and their laundry piles up to huge amounts before they decide to do it. It's inhuman, I tell you.
"I just wanted to make this prison term as much of a punishment as possible, so we are cutting these geeks off of their lifeline, and going back to all old-style technology. No computers, no net access, barely electricity.
Maybe now these felons will get what they deserve.
EVery night, my pa would thrash everyone one of us within inches of our lives with a rusty fork, exposing our innards for all to see... He would then scoop our brains out, put them in a blender and arrange them as "circuitry"...
Each day would start out with him resurrecting us and starting the whole process over....
when we did sleep, it was accompanied with the torture of having hot grits poured down our pants...
Why all we had was blocks of wood on a string... Worlds first computer my arse... the mathematics you could do by directly manipulating those blocks of wood was amazing... none of this panzy-ass "command-line" or "electric typewriter"... Hell, we would've killed for "patchcords". And the GUI wasnt even thought of yet, hell the world was still in black and white!
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we would pass around lists of games that came out on the Commie 64, and pay some kid $50 for 100 disks worth of pir8d wAreZ... cracked by THG, iCE, etc...
never underestimate the distributed power of the SneakerNET!
Sure the "geeks" like more functionality, and are willing to sacrifice early learning curve time to get it. The only thing that the pretty GUI's and dumbed down interfaces create is a wealth of clueless users who can barely maneuver around a computer and need to be held by the hand.
While microsoft has made the desktop accessible to all, they did it at the expense of obscurring the power and abilities of the hardware. everything simple can be done, but once you go beyond that, everything gets incredibly complex to do.
in contrast to this is the open source model, where while there may be an initial delay in newbies picking up the technology, doing the harder things is a whole lot more straight forward.
Anybody remember Wasteland? I had this dream that I couldnt get out of Femister's head... fairly realistic, as it took me weeks to figure this one out.
I also had Ultima IV dreams, Pools of Radiance, and Bard's Tale Dreams.
but his conclusion that the population under 18 is dwindling is clearly a statistical conclusion. It indicates a downward trend that isnt present, and thats what i was pointing out.
why is it important to vote for someone who can "win"? what you are espousing is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Dont vote for people because no one will vote for them. It severely limits your choices and options.
if people dont vote their consicense, and vote for who they feel is the best candidate, and instead vote for one of the two candidates that might "win", that, by definition assures that there will never be a new viewpoint.
There are decent contenders for President, but they arent Gore or Bush.
Look at Nader and Browne, hell look at Buchanan. Dont be deceived into thinking that you only have one choice.
Its kindof like saying that there is choice in the MS operating system... THeres Win98, NT4.0, W2K enterprise, advanced, data, personal, WinCE... See there are a lot of options... but they all suck.
take a stand, vote for someone other than Gore or Bush. And no, it isnt wasting your vote.
actually, he's right... the so called "Gen Y" is bigger than the Baby Boom generation, and they are currently graduating highschool.
So him saying that this is the largest demographic group is correct. It's what happens when the previous largest generation's kids grow up. Baby Boomers kids are graduating high-school, and there are a whole lot of them.
Oh - and to all you people who are voting for "lesser evil" or whatever, please take a stand and consider voting for someone beside the two big parties - and no, its not wasting your vote.
Personally, I take at LEAST 150mg of LSD on a daily basis- keeps the head clear!:)
Oh please, please tell me that you mean ~150 ug NOT mg... Otherwise, I'll go call the local/loony/bin for you, and they can give you a nice padded room and straight jacket, and lots of risperdal, zyprexa, etc.
christ... 150mg of this stuff is like 1500+ hits a day. I highly doubt that you're doing that:-)
the law is not the ultimate source of morality. It cant be. And relying on it as such is flawed for many reasons.
You're moral argument goes like this
Everything that is law is moral,
my action is within the law,
therefore, my action is moral.
first off, the law is changing constantly, and things that used to be in the law are not any longer because we found them to be immoral. Things such as slavery, Jim Crowes laws, women's rights. This shows that the law has not always been the ultimate source of morality, because it has been 1) wrong, and 2) changing.
You see, ultimate morality can never change, nor could it ever be wrong. Its contrary to the nature of being "ultimate".
Law is supposed to be based on the moral principle of Justice. HOwever, oftentimes the law is NOT JUST. For a discussion that is far better than anything i could write, go read Socrate's Euthyphro. Anybody got a link?
you are definitely going to the wrong types of parties... maybe you should try to go to the ones that make it a point of advertising that there is NO ALCOHOL (wink wink nudge nudge)
as for skipping.... the kick ass CD players that DJ's use are so anti-skip its silly...
and the stability of a 30 lbs. 1200 spinning vinyl with an actual physical contact point of the needle is amazing... 1000's of decibels and no skippy...
anyway - in summary... if you are concerned about these things... especially the drinking... you arent going to the right parties...:-)
my roommate moved out a couple of months ago, and when he cancelled the cable, I never had it turned back on.
and its one of the best decisions i've ever made.
at first it seems like the end of the world when you dont have TV, but soon you realize that there are all sorts of other, much more useful ways to spend the 6+ hours/day that the average american is watching every day.
all of a sudden, i had time for hobbies, reading, coding, hanging out with friends... Its amazing how much time that damn thing sucks up of yours.
One of funniest things that I've come across is the reaction that I get when I tell most people that I dont have cable, and hardly ever watch TV. Most people say something along the lines of "I cant survive without TV". Kindof sad, really...
After you dont watch TV for a while, you being to realize how exploitive the advertising is, and how manipulative the programming is. My favorite example is the damn Prilosec "Purple Pill" commercial. It gives you the impression that taking this pill will save your life... when all it does is stop heartburn:-)
so... I dont exactly see myself buying one of these HDTV's.
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while gore and bush are the exact same, and may be destroying this country. By not voting, you are voting for the standard, and the standard sucks. It needs to change. Don't vote for someone because you "have" to... vote for who you feel is the best candidate, regardless of party affilitation... nader may be the best guy for the job in a long time.
i mean, have you ever heard him speak? this guy knows what he's talking about, and doesnt talk down to you, and doesnt BS or pander. Its really great to have a guy that has clear virties and principles and plans.
this guy is exactly what america needs
let me step down off my soapbox...
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actually, they look childish, and simplistic. they are all fairly non-complex games. most of them look like variants of memory or tic-tac-toe.
ugh.
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Time is a purely derived notion, it doesnt exist.
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your right... i meant augustine and his confessions grrr... all this good jebbie education going to waste...
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time paper 1
time paper 2 time paper 3
most of the theory is that our perception of time is related to motion, but that time does not exist. care to rebut?
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or at least thats St. Francis of Assisi's opinion.
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and with how easily manipuated the general public is, and with the relatively low education of the populace in general, this would just be a horror story.
so ... keep the representative democracy, but get rid of the duopoly.
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(Associated Press - Alcatraz) Today, in an effort to end the pampered style of geek prison life that so many convicted criminals have been accustomed to, The Rock was reopened for service today.
"Hey, these guys managed to get T3 lines into every cell, and the guard door system was a joke, we think that they managed to hack the system so that it would let the doors open whenever they wanted.", said Red Bull, the head of HACK (H)ackers (A)re (C)riminals (K)ill 'em.
"I wished that we could have continued using the death penalty against these evil terrorists and child pornographers, but the ACLU felt it necessary to defend these scumbags. Something about 'the punishment not fitting the crime' or other such nonsense"
"Look, these felons have it better in prison, hell, their cells are over 4 times as big as a typical cubicle is, and they get in house laundry, THEY DONT EVER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT DOING LAUNDRY AGAIN, and look this doesnt seem like a big point, but I've been to busts on these evil hackers, and their laundry piles up to huge amounts before they decide to do it. It's inhuman, I tell you.
"I just wanted to make this prison term as much of a punishment as possible, so we are cutting these geeks off of their lifeline, and going back to all old-style technology. No computers, no net access, barely electricity.
Maybe now these felons will get what they deserve.
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Why we LLLLLOOOONNNNNGGGGEEEDDDD to be dead...
EVery night, my pa would thrash everyone one of us within inches of our lives with a rusty fork, exposing our innards for all to see... He would then scoop our brains out, put them in a blender and arrange them as "circuitry"...
Each day would start out with him resurrecting us and starting the whole process over....
when we did sleep, it was accompanied with the torture of having hot grits poured down our pants...
and i'm a better programmer for it...
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Why all we had was blocks of wood on a string... Worlds first computer my arse... the mathematics you could do by directly manipulating those blocks of wood was amazing... none of this panzy-ass "command-line" or "electric typewriter"... Hell, we would've killed for "patchcords". And the GUI wasnt even thought of yet, hell the world was still in black and white!
But boy oh boy, let me tell you how much you learned by being able to directly manipulate the abacus... Now THERES real power
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never underestimate the distributed power of the SneakerNET!
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While microsoft has made the desktop accessible to all, they did it at the expense of obscurring the power and abilities of the hardware. everything simple can be done, but once you go beyond that, everything gets incredibly complex to do.
in contrast to this is the open source model, where while there may be an initial delay in newbies picking up the technology, doing the harder things is a whole lot more straight forward.
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sometimes i wonder if those people mumbling about the black helicopters, echelon, wearing tin-foil hats are right.
sometimes
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I also had Ultima IV dreams, Pools of Radiance, and Bard's Tale Dreams.
i think i played too many RPG games as a kid...
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Dont vote for people because no one will vote for them. It severely limits your choices and options.
if people dont vote their consicense, and vote for who they feel is the best candidate, and instead vote for one of the two candidates that might "win", that, by definition assures that there will never be a new viewpoint.
politics is not an either or choice.
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lets see...
data points = {25.7, 26.1, 26.0, 25.9, 25.7}
Mean = 25.88
Median = 25.9
Mode = 25.7 - i find this kindof useless
Standard Deviation = 0.1788 .3576
SD*2 =
so ... + or - 2 standard deviations of the mean would be {25.5224 , 26.2376}
All values are within this range, so it would be tough to say that there is any appreciable change in graduating populations.
sigh...
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Look at Nader and Browne, hell look at Buchanan. Dont be deceived into thinking that you only have one choice.
Its kindof like saying that there is choice in the MS operating system... THeres Win98, NT4.0, W2K enterprise, advanced, data, personal, WinCE... See there are a lot of options... but they all suck.
take a stand, vote for someone other than Gore or Bush. And no, it isnt wasting your vote.
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So him saying that this is the largest demographic group is correct. It's what happens when the previous largest generation's kids grow up. Baby Boomers kids are graduating high-school, and there are a whole lot of them.
Oh - and to all you people who are voting for "lesser evil" or whatever, please take a stand and consider voting for someone beside the two big parties - and no, its not wasting your vote.
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Oh please, please tell me that you mean ~150 ug NOT mg... Otherwise, I'll go call the local /loony/bin for you, and they can give you a nice padded room and straight jacket, and lots of risperdal, zyprexa, etc.
christ... 150mg of this stuff is like 1500+ hits a day. I highly doubt that you're doing that :-)
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You're moral argument goes like this
Everything that is law is moral,
my action is within the law,
therefore, my action is moral.
first off, the law is changing constantly, and things that used to be in the law are not any longer because we found them to be immoral. Things such as slavery, Jim Crowes laws, women's rights. This shows that the law has not always been the ultimate source of morality, because it has been 1) wrong, and 2) changing.
You see, ultimate morality can never change, nor could it ever be wrong. Its contrary to the nature of being "ultimate".
Law is supposed to be based on the moral principle of Justice. HOwever, oftentimes the law is NOT JUST. For a discussion that is far better than anything i could write, go read Socrate's Euthyphro. Anybody got a link?
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Think about it... if someone gave you that much money, do you think that you'd give a damn about losing your job? I didnt think so.
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as for skipping.... the kick ass CD players that DJ's use are so anti-skip its silly...
and the stability of a 30 lbs. 1200 spinning vinyl with an actual physical contact point of the needle is amazing... 1000's of decibels and no skippy...
anyway - in summary ... if you are concerned about these things... especially the drinking... you arent going to the right parties... :-)
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He realized how pathetic that was, and cancelled his cable.
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and its one of the best decisions i've ever made.
at first it seems like the end of the world when you dont have TV, but soon you realize that there are all sorts of other, much more useful ways to spend the 6+ hours/day that the average american is watching every day.
all of a sudden, i had time for hobbies, reading, coding, hanging out with friends... Its amazing how much time that damn thing sucks up of yours.
One of funniest things that I've come across is the reaction that I get when I tell most people that I dont have cable, and hardly ever watch TV. Most people say something along the lines of "I cant survive without TV". Kindof sad, really...
After you dont watch TV for a while, you being to realize how exploitive the advertising is, and how manipulative the programming is. My favorite example is the damn Prilosec "Purple Pill" commercial. It gives you the impression that taking this pill will save your life... when all it does is stop heartburn :-)
so... I dont exactly see myself buying one of these HDTV's.
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