is silver iodide used in rainmaking living? it catalyzes a chain reaction
is a bit of ice in supercooled water living? it catalyzes a chain reaction
take a prion, put it at the right spot in a susceptible brain, and it makes a cascade of prions. this is chemistry, not life. if you call a prion living, lots of chain reactions in nature you would have to call living
now a virus, that's the border between living and nonliving
MacReady: I dunno, it's like this: thousands of years ago this spaceship crashes, and this thing, whatever it is, jumps out or crawls out and gets entombed in the ice. Garry: So, the Norwegians find it, and they dig it out of the ice... MacReady: That's right, Garry. They dig it up, they cart it back to their base. Somehow it gets thawed, it wakes up, probaly not the best of moods, and... I don't know, I wasn't there!
I am completely capable of writing in proper punctuation. But I choose not to as it is silly and redundant. If I were writing something serious, I would adapt the requisite formality. Do you enjoy walking around in a suit all day? I don't, I like informality in speech and behavior. In fact, I trust it more. Formality is often an attempt at faking sincerity, over what many times requires a brutal honesty of communication.
however, i am writing in shorthand here, it's a fucking comment forum. it's more text message than serious essay. can you handle the difference? if someone sends you an sms message, do your eyes bleed? get the fuck over your autistic rigidity of mind, please
capitalization is redundant. it carries no extra information
what drives me nuts are people so autistic in their rigidity that when i don't use capitalization, they have to complain, apparently so loud is the cognitive noise in their mind about something completely unnecessary and redundant as capitalization. plenty of other people respond to me and carry on conversations without even caring or noticing
i have found that there is overlap in the minds that have a problem with lack of capitalization, and rigidity in many other cognitive ways too. and so, my lack of capitalization works for me: it filters these people out of responding to me, and i don't have to deal with their cognitively rigid thought patterns (or at least it should filter them out: you responded, unfortunately)
so i suggest a compromise: don't fucking read anything i write ever again, don't fucking respond to anything i write ever again, and enjoy your life
in short, fuck off, i don't fucking care about your communication needs, and the only reason you need to is because your mind is rigid and weak
every time someone in the government so much as sneezes, you are supposed to read their actions as the continual destruction of our rights and the inevitable vise-like tightening towards the establishment of worldwide freedom crushing fascism
not, you know, meat and potatoes law enforcement
so shame on you. where is your requisite dose of paranoid schizophrenia when making comments on a comment board? i have never been so outraged at such a reasonable and even tempered post in a long time
now get back to your keyboard and find something to whine about hysterically!
i addressed that issue already: hardcore gamers. a group apart
the truth is, 90% of people are casual gamers, and there isn't a lack of anything in smart phones that doesn't adequately satisfy them. as the wii shows, playability and fun are all that matters, and issues like yours that you bring up only matter to a vocal 10% of hardcore gamers
the reality is, you and that 10% can be safely ignored. let sony or nintendo build a portable gaming platform that suits your needs if sony or nintendo wants to. but sales won't be large, because honestly, what you complain about simply doesn't matter as much as you think it does (except in your loud echo chamber of fellow hardcore gamers)
the point has come where the wants and needs of hardcore gamers is not sufficient enough to justify the added expense of bleeding edge hardware advancements. the majority of us just want to have light fun for a few minutes now and then, and smart phones have more than enough control and graphics to make that work
even garmin is trying to retailor their gps receivers for the consumer market (not the specialty market, professional gps will always have a niche) as a telephone
nintendo ds and psp are dead, killed by convergence into the smart phone market, unless they try convergence like garmin is. otherwise, the only future these guys have are as trinkets for the toddler set, before the kid gets a smart phone for his birthday. nobody cares about framerate and pixel count on a goddamn handheld. hell, wii should have taught these guys that nobody cares about framerate and pixel count in the living room either, only playability and fun (except for the hardcore gamers... and sony has pissed even them off)
"David Pitchford, a Florida trailer park resident..."
this really gets me mad. why does living in Florida matter? why does living in a trailer park matter? that's wrong with people, this sort of prejudice...
come to think of it, yeah, carry on. this is a good prejudice
so there is nothing left to talk about. i am creeped out like any one else about google's increasing ability to know everything about our lives, but in this case, google did the right thing in the name of openness by denying H.264
good job google, thank you. ignore the paid prostitutes howling about not including H.264. we who have genuine opinions, not opinions derived from corporate pay, are on your side, and support your decision. thank you
astronauts in zero g lose muscle mass and bone density, even with exercise. in martian gravity, similar effects are likely
and don't talk about conception and birth on mars, because the effects of low g on fetal development probably won't be good, nevermind normal bone and muscle development in childhood. the whole idea of creating new species sounds neat, but really all you are going to wind up creating is some brittle easily broken people who may not be able to lift themselves on mars, nevermind never able to go to earth, ever, without getting crushed in normal earth atmosphere
colonize venus first. at the cloud tops, venus is isothermal with earth, isobaric with earth, has an induced magnetosphere (no windows on mars, just concrete blocks, unless you like cancer), lots of solar energy to put to use on venus... and most importantly, the gravity is just about the same as earth. if you are wondering how you will get people to stay at the cloud tops, consider that earth atmosphere is a lifting gas on venus, like helium is a lifting gas on earth. meaning a cloud city is a balloon that can be lived in. maybe spin carbon nanotubes from the plentiful carbon dioxide atmosphere to make the cloud cities, and use the oxygen from that to breathe, all powered by a bright sun
do you understand that easy access to guns leads to thousands of pointless deaths every year in the usa?
if you do, we can have a conversation or argument. if not, there is no possibility of talking to you. all i can do is attempt to get you to understand this gobsmackingly obvious facet of the reality you live in
if you don't understand the obvious, i have no choice but to repeat myself. it is not my job to find fascinating and creative new ways to say the same obvious thing, it is your job to understand for once the fucking obvious thing that your mind is stuck on and can't seem to grasp:
what easy access to guns really means for a civil society
i had a meeting with my boss today and he gave me a list of new requirements for extending the inhouse app. i pointed my cell phone at my notes from the meeting, it snapped a picture of my poor handwriting and the list of new requirements, i sent the picture to google goggles, i went to lunch, and when i came back google goggles was busy writing jquery code and extending the xslt transforms we use. i may even get a raise. thanks google goggles
Cthulhu does not get a cold. A cold gets a Cthulhu. In this way, Cthulhu is sort of like Chuck Norris. Now don't even get me started on the terror known as Cthulhuck Norris
you can't yell fire in a crowded theatre. there are limits on everything, including free speech. AND THERE ARE LIMITS ON FIREARMS, and there will a lot more, every time asswipes like jared loughner show rational people what free access to handguns in civil society actually and genuinely means. not the boy scout fantasy sequence you seem to believe guns represent
the judge and the congresswoman were shooters. why didn't they save themselves. BECAUSE NO GUN OWNERSHIP WILL SAVE YOU FROM THIS SCENARIO. the gun ownership clearly empowers madness more than it empowers reason
the real world does NOT work like dirty harry movie. try for once in your life, to have reason triumph over your gun as religious fetish object fantasy life
so if wikileaks didn't exist, mugabe would be a sweetheart?
that's what you are telling me
this is of course absurd
if wikileaks did not exist, mugabe would be doing the exactly the same thing today, using some other lame ass excuse for mugabe being a dick
again, i ask you: WHY DO YOU BELIEVE WHAT THE DICK SAYS?
the dick acts like a dick because he is a DICK. he uses ANY EXCUSE HE WANTS. the problem is when certain morons like you BELIEVE WHAT THE DICK SAYS ARE HIS REASONS when for anyone with a half a brain, it is clear the dick needs no reasons and is just making cheap excuses
WHY DO YOU BELIEVE MUGABE WHEN HE GIVES LAME EXCUSES FOR WHAT MUGABE WILL DO NO MATTER WHAT???
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to make you go on bad blind dates
once the mammoth is revived, how do we keep Sarah Palin from shooting it?
go to i95 or you rlocal 8 lane highway, play frogger for real
since frog muscles will respond to electric jolts after death, do it with a dead frog, so PETA can't complain
then you have something even better than the classic arcade: zombie frogger
or, more in style with the electrical bolts and mad scientist-messing-with-life theme here: frankenstein frogger
is silver iodide used in rainmaking living? it catalyzes a chain reaction
is a bit of ice in supercooled water living? it catalyzes a chain reaction
take a prion, put it at the right spot in a susceptible brain, and it makes a cascade of prions. this is chemistry, not life. if you call a prion living, lots of chain reactions in nature you would have to call living
now a virus, that's the border between living and nonliving
MacReady: I dunno, it's like this: thousands of years ago this spaceship crashes, and this thing, whatever it is, jumps out or crawls out and gets entombed in the ice.
Garry: So, the Norwegians find it, and they dig it out of the ice...
MacReady: That's right, Garry. They dig it up, they cart it back to their base. Somehow it gets thawed, it wakes up, probaly not the best of moods, and... I don't know, I wasn't there!
why are responding twatstain?
I am completely capable of writing in proper punctuation. But I choose not to as it is silly and redundant. If I were writing something serious, I would adapt the requisite formality. Do you enjoy walking around in a suit all day? I don't, I like informality in speech and behavior. In fact, I trust it more. Formality is often an attempt at faking sincerity, over what many times requires a brutal honesty of communication.
however, i am writing in shorthand here, it's a fucking comment forum. it's more text message than serious essay. can you handle the difference? if someone sends you an sms message, do your eyes bleed? get the fuck over your autistic rigidity of mind, please
capitalization is redundant. it carries no extra information
what drives me nuts are people so autistic in their rigidity that when i don't use capitalization, they have to complain, apparently so loud is the cognitive noise in their mind about something completely unnecessary and redundant as capitalization. plenty of other people respond to me and carry on conversations without even caring or noticing
i have found that there is overlap in the minds that have a problem with lack of capitalization, and rigidity in many other cognitive ways too. and so, my lack of capitalization works for me: it filters these people out of responding to me, and i don't have to deal with their cognitively rigid thought patterns (or at least it should filter them out: you responded, unfortunately)
so i suggest a compromise: don't fucking read anything i write ever again, don't fucking respond to anything i write ever again, and enjoy your life
in short, fuck off, i don't fucking care about your communication needs, and the only reason you need to is because your mind is rigid and weak
every time someone in the government so much as sneezes, you are supposed to read their actions as the continual destruction of our rights and the inevitable vise-like tightening towards the establishment of worldwide freedom crushing fascism
not, you know, meat and potatoes law enforcement
so shame on you. where is your requisite dose of paranoid schizophrenia when making comments on a comment board? i have never been so outraged at such a reasonable and even tempered post in a long time
now get back to your keyboard and find something to whine about hysterically!
i addressed that issue already: hardcore gamers. a group apart
the truth is, 90% of people are casual gamers, and there isn't a lack of anything in smart phones that doesn't adequately satisfy them. as the wii shows, playability and fun are all that matters, and issues like yours that you bring up only matter to a vocal 10% of hardcore gamers
the reality is, you and that 10% can be safely ignored. let sony or nintendo build a portable gaming platform that suits your needs if sony or nintendo wants to. but sales won't be large, because honestly, what you complain about simply doesn't matter as much as you think it does (except in your loud echo chamber of fellow hardcore gamers)
the point has come where the wants and needs of hardcore gamers is not sufficient enough to justify the added expense of bleeding edge hardware advancements. the majority of us just want to have light fun for a few minutes now and then, and smart phones have more than enough control and graphics to make that work
sorry
even garmin is trying to retailor their gps receivers for the consumer market (not the specialty market, professional gps will always have a niche) as a telephone
http://www8.garmin.com/nuvifone/
nintendo ds and psp are dead, killed by convergence into the smart phone market, unless they try convergence like garmin is. otherwise, the only future these guys have are as trinkets for the toddler set, before the kid gets a smart phone for his birthday. nobody cares about framerate and pixel count on a goddamn handheld. hell, wii should have taught these guys that nobody cares about framerate and pixel count in the living room either, only playability and fun (except for the hardcore gamers... and sony has pissed even them off)
"David Pitchford, a Florida trailer park resident..."
this really gets me mad. why does living in Florida matter? why does living in a trailer park matter? that's wrong with people, this sort of prejudice...
come to think of it, yeah, carry on. this is a good prejudice
no. "shoot the messenger" is a time honored tradition in society. why stop now?
The reason H.264 costs money is that there is a shitload of patents that all have been dealt with as part of the patent pool.
in other words, it's not open
why are you saying it's open?!
so there is nothing left to talk about. i am creeped out like any one else about google's increasing ability to know everything about our lives, but in this case, google did the right thing in the name of openness by denying H.264
good job google, thank you. ignore the paid prostitutes howling about not including H.264. we who have genuine opinions, not opinions derived from corporate pay, are on your side, and support your decision. thank you
the five finger maneuver will be called "the shocker"
astronauts in zero g lose muscle mass and bone density, even with exercise. in martian gravity, similar effects are likely
and don't talk about conception and birth on mars, because the effects of low g on fetal development probably won't be good, nevermind normal bone and muscle development in childhood. the whole idea of creating new species sounds neat, but really all you are going to wind up creating is some brittle easily broken people who may not be able to lift themselves on mars, nevermind never able to go to earth, ever, without getting crushed in normal earth atmosphere
colonize venus first. at the cloud tops, venus is isothermal with earth, isobaric with earth, has an induced magnetosphere (no windows on mars, just concrete blocks, unless you like cancer), lots of solar energy to put to use on venus... and most importantly, the gravity is just about the same as earth. if you are wondering how you will get people to stay at the cloud tops, consider that earth atmosphere is a lifting gas on venus, like helium is a lifting gas on earth. meaning a cloud city is a balloon that can be lived in. maybe spin carbon nanotubes from the plentiful carbon dioxide atmosphere to make the cloud cities, and use the oxygen from that to breathe, all powered by a bright sun
send men to mars and women to venus
venus is hot and unbearable, mars is cold and barren
well, ok then, i see your point, send men to venus and women to mars
yes, on the topic of what happened in arizona, it is a nice time to make jokes, isn't it?
i understand who and what you are very well
do you understand that easy access to guns leads to thousands of pointless deaths every year in the usa?
if you do, we can have a conversation or argument. if not, there is no possibility of talking to you. all i can do is attempt to get you to understand this gobsmackingly obvious facet of the reality you live in
"computers are useless. they can only answer questions"
-pablo picasso
if you don't understand the obvious, i have no choice but to repeat myself. it is not my job to find fascinating and creative new ways to say the same obvious thing, it is your job to understand for once the fucking obvious thing that your mind is stuck on and can't seem to grasp:
what easy access to guns really means for a civil society
i had a meeting with my boss today and he gave me a list of new requirements for extending the inhouse app. i pointed my cell phone at my notes from the meeting, it snapped a picture of my poor handwriting and the list of new requirements, i sent the picture to google goggles, i went to lunch, and when i came back google goggles was busy writing jquery code and extending the xslt transforms we use. i may even get a raise. thanks google goggles
Cthulhu does not get a cold. A cold gets a Cthulhu. In this way, Cthulhu is sort of like Chuck Norris. Now don't even get me started on the terror known as Cthulhuck Norris
you can't yell fire in a crowded theatre. there are limits on everything, including free speech. AND THERE ARE LIMITS ON FIREARMS, and there will a lot more, every time asswipes like jared loughner show rational people what free access to handguns in civil society actually and genuinely means. not the boy scout fantasy sequence you seem to believe guns represent
the judge and the congresswoman were shooters. why didn't they save themselves. BECAUSE NO GUN OWNERSHIP WILL SAVE YOU FROM THIS SCENARIO. the gun ownership clearly empowers madness more than it empowers reason
the real world does NOT work like dirty harry movie. try for once in your life, to have reason triumph over your gun as religious fetish object fantasy life
so if wikileaks didn't exist, mugabe would be a sweetheart?
that's what you are telling me
this is of course absurd
if wikileaks did not exist, mugabe would be doing the exactly the same thing today, using some other lame ass excuse for mugabe being a dick
again, i ask you: WHY DO YOU BELIEVE WHAT THE DICK SAYS?
the dick acts like a dick because he is a DICK. he uses ANY EXCUSE HE WANTS. the problem is when certain morons like you BELIEVE WHAT THE DICK SAYS ARE HIS REASONS when for anyone with a half a brain, it is clear the dick needs no reasons and is just making cheap excuses
WHY DO YOU BELIEVE MUGABE WHEN HE GIVES LAME EXCUSES FOR WHAT MUGABE WILL DO NO MATTER WHAT???