Which one of you isn't posting your sophmoric pseudo-political euro-babble from a clean, well-lit place? Which of you is sleeping on the street at night? Which of you is not free to go to the local library and peruse the political screeds of a thousand or more years of ideoligical genius and idiocy alike? What is being denied to you and by whom? What reward is owed you and by whom, that you would postpone all pleasure in life until it is recieved?
You have plenty, and yet are only capable of constantly chafing at the fact that someone, somewhere, less deserving than you, has more.
That will ALWAYS be the case in ANY political system.
If 'they' in Capitalism have more money than you, then 'they' in Socialism will have more status or connections or a prettier wife than you. You will NEVER get the 'fair deal' you think you deserve. Get over that now so the healing can begin.
Learn to be a Good Animal, and life in general will take on colors you didn't even know existed. But don't get that confused with constantly brayying like a donkey or a stuck pig every time some desire of yours is thwarted.
"The sum of all the little mistakes," he said, "is big."
It is the dogged and too-often mindless persuit of control over that dynamic that is behind every ridiculously draconian rule you ever suffered in any company you ever worked for, from McDonald's to Ratheon.
They learn too late that it's a double-edged sword, that erodes morale and encourages sabotage when pushed too far. It is the dynamic that make even the new-age slobs at Apple yearn for the dark years of yore when labor laws were lax as slacks on a Lorax!
I've played the RTCW demo on Windows and have been seriously underwhelmed. They've slid downhill ever since the first Quake as far as I'm concerned. I think they really need another Romero to help channel their technical abilities into a more exciting and presentable package. No Id game has creeped me out the way the original Quake did, until Half Life. I really liked the quasi-medieval-sci-fi angle to the whole thing which was entirely original, and eventually panned in favor of a 'safer' alternative.
2. We take pictures of Mars to do Science, and because it's fun and they look cool.
3. Astrophysisists are not not much better at politics and foreign-policy than the rest of us, so I say let them stick to their chosen persuit of Science.
4. Some of us try to look beyond what we may presently believe to be short-term necessities. This has probably saved Mankind's ass many times in the past.
5. Addressing the proposed problem of lives lost in the name of established religions is (once again) not really a good use of your typical Astrophysicist's time. He or she is most likely to look at you rather quizically and say something like "What do you mean exactly?" while not-so-secretly hoping that you will leave soon.
There's lot's of folks in the world, so we can (and will) all do lot's of different things. Is that hard to understand?
You wish it were otherwise? You wish you could enact policy so that we would all have to address 'urgent world issues' as labeled such by folks like yourself?
...if everyone gains, even unequally, the group as a whole does better and the individuals do better as well. A win/win. Yet the study mentioned by the original poster flies in the face of this simple logic.
This means that humans may well be hard-wired with a non-survival instinct!
You're speaking of 'group' in the global sense, whereas in the midst of an experiment such as that described, the members group them selves not as a whole but as 'those getting less' and 'those getting more'. The percieved unfairness/pain causes inner turmoil which they then choose to soothe by choosing the 'less but equal' option. This, to me, shows simply (and interestingly) that the "Hey! That's not fair!" feeling is tied to something basic within ourselves that can over-ride our intellectual capacities to a fair degree.
Whether this is an effective survival adaptation or a neurotic side-effect of modern culture is difficult to determine at this point.
I lean a *little bit* towards the cultural, but could easily be swayed the other way. I can't help thinking of how the idea of Fairness is pounded into most children, with varying slants as to whether one should be fair to others or demand fairness from others. Or, more rarely, both!
No question that Rodney or whatever his name is is a bit of a RudeBoy, but there's also no question that you fed the flames as eagerly as he returned them. Granted, he sounds like a bit of a dork, but he has that right, as do we all.
No flames here, but definately a degree of puzzlement as to how one could watch the movie and see only a 'strange sequence of random events'. I'm guessing that you're recently out of college and still have your intellectual 'guard' up uneccessarily high. It'll losen up in another 10 years or so, and you'll start to see the fnords again...
; )
I'm with you 100% as far as throwing out TV, though. We have video and DVD and hardly touch those at all. TV is now a curiosity that I sip in measured amounts when visiting the folks...
It's so tempting for me to lose patience with people who see Totoro as 'slow', but it takes a while, I suppose, to get acclimated to a way of storytelling which often places as much emphasis on the spaces 'between the notes' as it does to scenes or moments of frantic activity. Those beats and pauses are very intentional and very Japanese, and immensely effective once you get over the ingrained Western horror of silence and subtlety.
The bus-stop scene with the droplets of water on the 'umbrella' is priceless.
Ne?
Laputa has a similar appeal, in a format that is more appealing to those who squirm uncomfortably in the absence of giant flying robots.
As long as it is, I just wish that Laputa was a bit longer...in the quiet parts. After awakening on the cloud city, I'd like to see an entire hour devoted to the characters quietly exploring an unconvering the ancient and overgrown wonders of the city. As it is, the sence of quiet majesty is a bit too quickly dispelled by the reappearance of the antagonists and the main story line. Great movie tho', and a must see if you can find it. I have it in Japanese, but I don't know if it's available with subtitles...
Too true. Them big animals is more specialized, in terms of diet and environments. In todays fast-moving bio-diversatorium, on-the-spot adaptibility is key (along with the usual rampant reproduction and carrion-eating).
Your best bet is to advertise traditionally while keeping your product on the web. Put out a 'single' of two (good) songs and advertise with posters, magazine/zine ads, radio time, whatever, then, cash in on cd's, t-shirts and gigs.
Expensive? You bet! Wanna make money, gotta spend it.
Also, when you advertise your single, don't snare the user in any 'please register and submit us your name and address first' bs, as a good 60% of your potential listeners will turn tail cold at this point. If the songs are free, give them away, free. Period.
You can win on two fronts here. The advertising will give you credibility in the glitzy/larger-than-life sense, while the no-nonsense presentation of your single/whatever will keep visitors feeling good about you and eager to hear more.
The songs have to be good, by the way, and well-produced. Lot's of us can make recordings on our PC's, but you're still better off hiring someone else to do it right, even if it's on 8-track analog tape. No one wants to hear your mildly interesting but otherwise crappy 20-minute bedroom demos unless you've already hooked their attention with something real.
'Real' also means REAL drums and a REAL bass. The techno slum (and the home-recording 'industry' at large) is full to bursting with ACID droppings and one-man bands. Real music happens when real people get together and make it happen.
The White House asked the media not to air the interviews. That's a very big difference, along with the fact that the request was very clearly made in the interest of increasing the likelihood of success in the 'war effort' against Afghanistan. However unpopular the war may be to some, the country as a whole views the effort as being in the national public interest, hence there was a general supportive response to the government's _request_. To say that this is in any real way similar to Saudi Arabia banning media at the national level on religious grounds is nonsense.
The rest of your comment seems to be the classic Intellectual stance that "I have my foot on your throat because *I* know what's best for you. If you resist you will have to be eliminated because *we* know what we're doing and can't afford to let *you* get in our way".
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Stop browsing at -1. It's as simple as that. If you're afraid of negating some -1 AC's free speech or whatever, well, good luck to ya.
I was always annoyed by the little dead bugs or bits of food I would occasionally find stuck between pages.
Oh well.
Isn't Symptoom the name of one of those tyrannical planets that John Carter overthrows in the 'Warlord of Mars' series?
Firewire and wav recording capability.
That's pretty much all it takes to blow DAT's and MD's out of the water.
Lightweight
No moving parts
Quick up/download to PC
On-the-fly mp3 (no fussing afterwards)
These are just a few that come quickly to mind.
Will this type of thing eventually force things like DAT and MD off the market?
Yes, but not totally.
Which one of you isn't posting your sophmoric pseudo-political euro-babble from a clean, well-lit place? Which of you is sleeping on the street at night? Which of you is not free to go to the local library and peruse the political screeds of a thousand or more years of ideoligical genius and idiocy alike? What is being denied to you and by whom? What reward is owed you and by whom, that you would postpone all pleasure in life until it is recieved?
You have plenty, and yet are only capable of constantly chafing at the fact that someone, somewhere, less deserving than you, has more.
That will ALWAYS be the case in ANY political system.
If 'they' in Capitalism have more money than you, then 'they' in Socialism will have more status or connections or a prettier wife than you. You will NEVER get the 'fair deal' you think you deserve. Get over that now so the healing can begin.
Learn to be a Good Animal, and life in general will take on colors you didn't even know existed. But don't get that confused with constantly brayying like a donkey or a stuck pig every time some desire of yours is thwarted.
That road is endless and paved in skulls.
The Amazon article ends with the following quote:
"The sum of all the little mistakes," he said, "is big."
It is the dogged and too-often mindless persuit of control over that dynamic that is behind every ridiculously draconian rule you ever suffered in any company you ever worked for, from McDonald's to Ratheon.
They learn too late that it's a double-edged sword, that erodes morale and encourages sabotage when pushed too far. It is the dynamic that make even the new-age slobs at Apple yearn for the dark years of yore when labor laws were lax as slacks on a Lorax!
Hey, it's all part of the fun.
Is a 'Coronel Custer' anything like a Beowulf Cluster?
I've played the RTCW demo on Windows and have been seriously underwhelmed. They've slid downhill ever since the first Quake as far as I'm concerned. I think they really need another Romero to help channel their technical abilities into a more exciting and presentable package. No Id game has creeped me out the way the original Quake did, until Half Life. I really liked the quasi-medieval-sci-fi angle to the whole thing which was entirely original, and eventually panned in favor of a 'safer' alternative.
Oh well. It ain't my company!
1. We're going to Mars to do Science.
2. We take pictures of Mars to do Science, and because it's fun and they look cool.
3. Astrophysisists are not not much better at politics and foreign-policy than the rest of us, so I say let them stick to their chosen persuit of Science.
4. Some of us try to look beyond what we may presently believe to be short-term necessities. This has probably saved Mankind's ass many times in the past.
5. Addressing the proposed problem of lives lost in the name of established religions is (once again) not really a good use of your typical Astrophysicist's time. He or she is most likely to look at you rather quizically and say something like "What do you mean exactly?" while not-so-secretly hoping that you will leave soon.
There's lot's of folks in the world, so we can (and will) all do lot's of different things. Is that hard to understand?
You wish it were otherwise? You wish you could enact policy so that we would all have to address 'urgent world issues' as labeled such by folks like yourself?
Hey, Good Luck to ya!
...if everyone gains, even unequally, the group as a whole does better and the individuals do better as well. A win/win. Yet the study mentioned by the original poster flies in the face of this simple logic.
This means that humans may well be hard-wired with a non-survival instinct!
You're speaking of 'group' in the global sense, whereas in the midst of an experiment such as that described, the members group them selves not as a whole but as 'those getting less' and 'those getting more'. The percieved unfairness/pain causes inner turmoil which they then choose to soothe by choosing the 'less but equal' option. This, to me, shows simply (and interestingly) that the "Hey! That's not fair!" feeling is tied to something basic within ourselves that can over-ride our intellectual capacities to a fair degree.
Whether this is an effective survival adaptation or a neurotic side-effect of modern culture is difficult to determine at this point.
I lean a *little bit* towards the cultural, but could easily be swayed the other way. I can't help thinking of how the idea of Fairness is pounded into most children, with varying slants as to whether one should be fair to others or demand fairness from others. Or, more rarely, both!
Funny! True, but funny.
No question that Rodney or whatever his name is is a bit of a RudeBoy, but there's also no question that you fed the flames as eagerly as he returned them. Granted, he sounds like a bit of a dork, but he has that right, as do we all.
Agreed. I use it at home to share a dialup and loves it much, I tell you what.
No flames here, but definately a degree of puzzlement as to how one could watch the movie and see only a 'strange sequence of random events'. I'm guessing that you're recently out of college and still have your intellectual 'guard' up uneccessarily high. It'll losen up in another 10 years or so, and you'll start to see the fnords again...
; )
I'm with you 100% as far as throwing out TV, though. We have video and DVD and hardly touch those at all. TV is now a curiosity that I sip in measured amounts when visiting the folks...
Hear Ye!
It's so tempting for me to lose patience with people who see Totoro as 'slow', but it takes a while, I suppose, to get acclimated to a way of storytelling which often places as much emphasis on the spaces 'between the notes' as it does to scenes or moments of frantic activity. Those beats and pauses are very intentional and very Japanese, and immensely effective once you get over the ingrained Western horror of silence and subtlety.
The bus-stop scene with the droplets of water on the 'umbrella' is priceless.
Ne?
Laputa has a similar appeal, in a format that is more appealing to those who squirm uncomfortably in the absence of giant flying robots.
As long as it is, I just wish that Laputa was a bit longer...in the quiet parts. After awakening on the cloud city, I'd like to see an entire hour devoted to the characters quietly exploring an unconvering the ancient and overgrown wonders of the city. As it is, the sence of quiet majesty is a bit too quickly dispelled by the reappearance of the antagonists and the main story line. Great movie tho', and a must see if you can find it. I have it in Japanese, but I don't know if it's available with subtitles...
All these law-abiding citizens make me want to weep with joy. I think we should enact legislation to allow them to use handicapped parking spaces.
Relax. It's a temporary phenomena, and a small price to pay for finding out about something that would have slipped by you otherwise.
/.'ed.
If you already knew about it, you'd have already checked it out and wouldn't care if it was
Soon Monster Island will be a reality!
Too true. Them big animals is more specialized, in terms of diet and environments. In todays fast-moving bio-diversatorium, on-the-spot adaptibility is key (along with the usual rampant reproduction and carrion-eating).
I've got it on a Ventures disc somewhere...Besame Mucho perhaps?
Your best bet is to advertise traditionally while keeping your product on the web. Put out a 'single' of two (good) songs and advertise with posters, magazine/zine ads, radio time, whatever, then, cash in on cd's, t-shirts and gigs.
Expensive? You bet! Wanna make money, gotta spend it.
Also, when you advertise your single, don't snare the user in any 'please register and submit us your name and address first' bs, as a good 60% of your potential listeners will turn tail cold at this point. If the songs are free, give them away, free. Period.
You can win on two fronts here. The advertising will give you credibility in the glitzy/larger-than-life sense, while the no-nonsense presentation of your single/whatever will keep visitors feeling good about you and eager to hear more.
The songs have to be good, by the way, and well-produced. Lot's of us can make recordings on our PC's, but you're still better off hiring someone else to do it right, even if it's on 8-track analog tape. No one wants to hear your mildly interesting but otherwise crappy 20-minute bedroom demos unless you've already hooked their attention with something real.
'Real' also means REAL drums and a REAL bass. The techno slum (and the home-recording 'industry' at large) is full to bursting with ACID droppings and one-man bands. Real music happens when real people get together and make it happen.
But that takes work...
Good luck to ya!
The White House asked the media not to air the interviews. That's a very big difference, along with the fact that the request was very clearly made in the interest of increasing the likelihood of success in the 'war effort' against Afghanistan. However unpopular the war may be to some, the country as a whole views the effort as being in the national public interest, hence there was a general supportive response to the government's _request_. To say that this is in any real way similar to Saudi Arabia banning media at the national level on religious grounds is nonsense.
The rest of your comment seems to be the classic Intellectual stance that "I have my foot on your throat because *I* know what's best for you. If you resist you will have to be eliminated because *we* know what we're doing and can't afford to let *you* get in our way".
No thanks.
Ahh yes, too true.
But how many jobs have you created as compared to Microsloth?
Uhhhhh...hyuk hyuk! I mean here.
Forgot to QA my own post!
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