get your hepatits shots, and take a flight to a certain area of the world, have a glass of the local water, and return home when intestinal invasion is verified
on return to home, be ethical and don't expose anyone else. declare one of the bathrooms in your house off limits to anyone else, and take special care in public restrooms
if the therapy doesn't work, go to your doctor and get a cheap, readily available antihelminthic drug
if it works, you can wear the alien stomach burster halloween costume and no one has to know the secret is that you are actually paying thankful homage and gratitude to your new inseparable best friend
but for anyone not in the know, digestive system immune disorders are maybe imbalances where the missing counterbalance is an intestine full of worms. we evolved with intestines full of worms, and having no worms in our intestines is a recent and abnormal state of affairs. so some people "need" the worms in order for their immune system to perform normally in their digestive system
mind rape is only possible by flayers, illithids, and other cthulhoid psionic creatures. although i would not be surprised to walk into an advertising executive suite and see a davy jones style squidface in a three piece suit behind the desk
in fact, i believe this is the surprise ending of this season's Mad Men: Don Draper is in his office with his back to the camera, embracing a woman, and he quarter turns to reveal a cephalopod-like head with octopus tentacles emanating from where his jawline should be reaching down and wrapping around the woman's throat. quick cut to black, season ending, much speculation all summer about the next season of Mad Men
an advertisement is essentially a form of seduction. that's why sex figures so large in advertising. you are trying to entice someone into buying your product, to woo them to come hither
so when you intrusively force someone to view your ad, you've just completely destroyed the psychology of what makes any advertisement work
you have in fact performed a pavlovian experiment: you've force someone into an unpleasant experience, then associated that unpleasant experience with your brand name. much as with pavlov's dogs who started salivating whenever they heard a bell because you always played a bell before feeding them, forced viewing associates the unpleasurable feeling of coercion with your brand name and products
so all these idiots have done is perfected the art of anti-advertising, of driving people away from your product
just make the ad nonintrusive, and anyone who is predisposed to your product might click. that's the best you can do. anything more intrusive simply destroys your brand name with the pavlovian association as described above
Perforin resembles the cellular weaponry employed by bacteria such as anthrax, but may have been appropriated by our immune system in our evolutionary past to fight against them.
or perhaps anthrax, and others, appropriated perforin from our immune system
i'm not saying one scenario is more likely than the other, but redirecting virtuous weaponry for evil is just as likely as salvaging malicious weaponry for good. molecular evolution is a highly promiscuous process, so, in the end, it might not even matter which came first, or possible to figure out which came first
the citizens have no right to elect their own government, and so they are basically slaves to a few grumpy technocrats in beijing
and the shame is, americans are happy to support this human rights quagmire, because they get cheap plastic crap in the bargain. all the while, they let their own manufacturing sector rot and their economy go to hell, because slave labor is obviously cheaper
who cares about human rights, who cares about my own country's economy, as long as i get my fucking shiny smartphone
Oil and the middle east will not cease to be a problem for us or the rest of the world because of electric cars. That is profoundly naive. Any middle east oil we fail to consume will be more than offset by Asian demand. Will China demonstrate more or less restraint than the west has when they experience disruption of their energy supply? The last time someone messed with an Asian power's energy supply we got Pearl Harbor.
so let the fundamentalist muslim nazis bomb shanghai instead of new york. then when gas goes to $8/ gallon on supply freak outs we can happily speed along in our electric cars, unaffected
then china has to go into the middle east militarily to ensure its supply. so china is bled of its young people and trillions of dollars while we build our economic might in peace, unaffected by the insane conflict. rather than currently, where we bleed all of our money and young military men and women in the middle east, while china happily builds its economic might on the oil supply we guarantee the security of for them
i can't in a million years understand your thinking
someone who understands why boob jobs for teachers is wrong, but thinks expensive toys for military boobs is right
how did that military and intelligence spending stop 9/11? how many aircraft carriers did it take to stop 19 assholes with boxcutters? how much money were we spending on intelligence when the 9/11 hijackers got their visas approved in the mail a couple of months after 9/11? how many trillions and how many dead americans did it take to install the new generation of corrupt jihadi breeding iraqi and afghani governments? corrupt governments the jihadis had a tenuous reason to put the blame on the usa before 9/11, but now have a much more plausible reason to blame us for? you feel safer?
you honestly believe the massive money we are spending in afghanistan or spent in iraq makes one tiny bit of difference in terms of the threats facing us? what i see is it makes us out to be a bigger more pompous target to take down and thumb in the eye to pump up jihadi resolve and morale. what the bleep are we doing there? why aren't we decoupling ourselves from the middle east and letting themselves kill each other in fundamentalist madness rather than getting us involved and making us target numero uno? why aren't we spending 1/100th of the money we spend there so we can drive electric cars AND SIMPLY NOT CARE about middle east oil, and also STOP FUNDING THE JIHADIS every time a soccer mom fills up her SUV?
19 guys with BOXCUTTERS. how do you stop that with aircraft carriers my friend?
military and intelligence spending is out of control, exactly in the same way that teachers getting boob jobs on your dime is out of control, for exactly the same lack of value for what your tax dollars are purchasing
everyone has skeletons in their closet. you still have to hunt them down to find them about someone else on the internet, even without the false premise that you couldn't find them before the internet (you could)
and you also have the fact that everyone else's skeletons are equally findable. its the new normal. and maybe the new normal is better, because there is nothing to be ashamed of when everyone is supposed to somehow be ashamed of the same thing for some reason no one can put their finger on anymore
more succinctly: that evil significant other or that evil employer can't hold your drunk photos against you when they also have drunk photos out there too
"IE6 is estimated to have roughly 16% of browser market share, and due to mistakes in the past it may never truly die."
you just put a chill down my spine and scared the heck out of me. congratulations slashdot, your tale of the undead is truly frightening and horrifying. well done, happy halloween!
that an employer's perception of you might get you fired and this carries huge implications? yeah, i think i can comprehend that concept. do you think you are informing me of something that i am not aware of?
make damn sure the internet carries nothing that might get you fired. and if something is out there about you that might effect your employment, why the bleep didn't you make sure that didn't get out there? it's something you can't control, like a friend photographing you and labelling you in the photo? why don't you try picking your friends more carefully, or situations where you might be photogrpahed more carefully, or having more discretion around a camera?
who is to blame but yourself?
this whole issue is a nonissue, it's the same bs as old as time: avoiding responsibility. "i wish to shift blame about the negative consequences of my behavior onto someone or something else"
no: you are your image. take ownership of it and manage it. because of all the heavy implications you are well aware of. lesson number one: discretion and self-control and choosing your friends and social situations where you let loose wisely
any potential employer or significant other that would judge you so harshly for simply having a life is frankly an employer/ S.O. you don't want to have anything to do with
live your life, and stop worrying so much about micromanaging your public image. us who are well-adjusted simply doesn't care as much as you think we do about pictures of you drunk. its just simple not that big of a deal. the misperception is yours: that anyone cares. we don't care
the internet is what it is: it shows more of our lives, longer, as permanent mementos. adapt to that new reality and accept it, because you can't manage or alter it
anyone who would reject you or fire you based on what the internet contains about you is someone without a level of tolerance you don't want to be involved with in the first place. and if you don't want that behavior of yours made a permanent part of your "internet record", then learn the art of discretion
because this is not about other people, or facebook, or the internet affecting your image in ways you don't want. it's about YOU affecting your image in ways you later regret
you have no one to blame if something is out there you don't want to be out there except yourself. take responsibility for your image. or shift blame onto others, and whine about it, to no effect whatsoever, because you can't do anything about it
you don't get to post things on the internet, and then complain when people see it on the internet
if you don't want people to see something DON'T POST IT ON THE INTERNET
because the fine level of control you desire: "only this person, at this time, in this context, can see this piece of info" is a nonstarter, because it takes 10x more time and effort to define the context of the info you are sharing than it takes to post the info. there is no better way to completely and utterly destroy the pleasure of a social life than weighing it down with such weighty micromanagement
so just don't post the info! no one is going to micromanage their social lives to the point where no information is leaked in the wrong context, mainly because people aren't machiavellian supergeniuses with omnipotent future sight to know every miniscule fine grain social context in which their information is not being told to someone they didn't want that info told to
the better solution is far simpler: SHUT UP and DON'T POST. or post freely and talk freely, AND GIVE UP YOUR RIGHT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT MISUSE. that's really your only choices
the control you seek starts with your mouth, or your keyboard. blaming facebook is just shifting responsibility and personal accountability away from you when things go wrong because you weren't discreet
a market without any regulation is dominated by its largest players. who proceed to do everything unfair you complain the government does, and more
a government is theoretically accountable to its people. it will never be perfect, but no government is worse than an imperfect one. so you want to FIX government, not DESTROY government, because if you destroy government, everything you complain about GETS WORSE, and you've destroyed the only means of addressing the unfairness that bothers you. large corporations are not accountable to you. government IS. that's the big piece you are missing in your understanding of reality
if there was no competition to spur them on, the european powers would not have gobbled so greedily
look at any historical tract from any time period in any area of the world, it's always the british worrying about the french getting ahead or the spanish worrying about the portuguese fort or the dutch worrying about the belgians or the germans or the danish worrying about falling behind, etc., etc.
not to mention the main point is that the technology that enabled the european powers to colonize in the first place was only possible because of nationalist rivalry back in europe
pick a frequency, any frequency: 100 millseconds, 3 seconds, 1 second... all trades are queued and batched in those intervals, nothing faster. so it is not possible to game the system with more hardware with crazier algorithms and faster connections to wall street
otherwise you simply have domination of the entire stock market by a few wealthy players. small investors will leave, or continually suffer an invisible tax on every one of their trades
its a classic case of the largest players in a marketplace abusing natural imperfections in the market to their advantage. the big lie of libertarianism is that markets, left to themselves, are egalitarian and self-regulating. bullshit: markplaces, left to themselves, are stories of abuse by its largest players at the expense of smaller players, in dozens of ways: collusion, price fixing, flooding, etc...
this is a simple truth you need to understand: for the sake of fair and free and equal marketplaces in this world, you need continual "intrusive" (defined as intrusive bureaucracy by potential abusers) government regulation. in the case of the stock market, the solution is simple: a "heartbeat"
a couple of thousand of us have been watching you surf since one of the many bored hackers decided to install the streaming remote desktop on your pc about 5 months ago just for fun. how do you get any work done with all those pop ups?
So you are saying that the British would not have tried to find India and open up a huge market for their goods to get all of the economic benefits if the French weren't also trying?
all of european advancement over the last 10 centuries can be traced to tribal and then nationalist competition
french spanish and british frigates would not have been sailing around india, china and the south pacific, making military inroads, if french spanish and british galleons were not first doing their best to better shoot holes into one another
in fact, you can say china and india stagnated behind european scientific advancement precisely because there was no fever pitch nationalist rivalries in those areas
european history is exhibit number one of scientific advancement propelled forward by nationalist rivalry, hardly an example of a contrast to what i am saying
Slashdot Mirror
with the fourth dimension being TIME
get this: the 3D image CHANGES over time such that the illusion of...
um, nevermind
no need to buy anything
get your hepatits shots, and take a flight to a certain area of the world, have a glass of the local water, and return home when intestinal invasion is verified
on return to home, be ethical and don't expose anyone else. declare one of the bathrooms in your house off limits to anyone else, and take special care in public restrooms
if the therapy doesn't work, go to your doctor and get a cheap, readily available antihelminthic drug
if it works, you can wear the alien stomach burster halloween costume and no one has to know the secret is that you are actually paying thankful homage and gratitude to your new inseparable best friend
you probably know all about that idea
but for anyone not in the know, digestive system immune disorders are maybe imbalances where the missing counterbalance is an intestine full of worms. we evolved with intestines full of worms, and having no worms in our intestines is a recent and abnormal state of affairs. so some people "need" the worms in order for their immune system to perform normally in their digestive system
mind rape is only possible by flayers, illithids, and other cthulhoid psionic creatures. although i would not be surprised to walk into an advertising executive suite and see a davy jones style squidface in a three piece suit behind the desk
in fact, i believe this is the surprise ending of this season's Mad Men: Don Draper is in his office with his back to the camera, embracing a woman, and he quarter turns to reveal a cephalopod-like head with octopus tentacles emanating from where his jawline should be reaching down and wrapping around the woman's throat. quick cut to black, season ending, much speculation all summer about the next season of Mad Men
an advertisement is essentially a form of seduction. that's why sex figures so large in advertising. you are trying to entice someone into buying your product, to woo them to come hither
so when you intrusively force someone to view your ad, you've just completely destroyed the psychology of what makes any advertisement work
you have in fact performed a pavlovian experiment: you've force someone into an unpleasant experience, then associated that unpleasant experience with your brand name. much as with pavlov's dogs who started salivating whenever they heard a bell because you always played a bell before feeding them, forced viewing associates the unpleasurable feeling of coercion with your brand name and products
so all these idiots have done is perfected the art of anti-advertising, of driving people away from your product
just make the ad nonintrusive, and anyone who is predisposed to your product might click. that's the best you can do. anything more intrusive simply destroys your brand name with the pavlovian association as described above
Perforin resembles the cellular weaponry employed by bacteria such as anthrax, but may have been appropriated by our immune system in our evolutionary past to fight against them.
or perhaps anthrax, and others, appropriated perforin from our immune system
i'm not saying one scenario is more likely than the other, but redirecting virtuous weaponry for evil is just as likely as salvaging malicious weaponry for good. molecular evolution is a highly promiscuous process, so, in the end, it might not even matter which came first, or possible to figure out which came first
its true
we waste our young folk's lives and trillions of our dollars to ensure the stability of the oil supply... for the growth of china
the usa has become nothing but the thug enforcer for china
the citizens have no right to elect their own government, and so they are basically slaves to a few grumpy technocrats in beijing
and the shame is, americans are happy to support this human rights quagmire, because they get cheap plastic crap in the bargain. all the while, they let their own manufacturing sector rot and their economy go to hell, because slave labor is obviously cheaper
who cares about human rights, who cares about my own country's economy, as long as i get my fucking shiny smartphone
blame corporations all you want
i blame the fat, lazy, ignorant american consumer
apparently it's backwards with him:
the neanderthal genome reveals some lineage inherited from keith richards
so let the fundamentalist muslim nazis bomb shanghai instead of new york. then when gas goes to $8/ gallon on supply freak outs we can happily speed along in our electric cars, unaffected
then china has to go into the middle east militarily to ensure its supply. so china is bled of its young people and trillions of dollars while we build our economic might in peace, unaffected by the insane conflict. rather than currently, where we bleed all of our money and young military men and women in the middle east, while china happily builds its economic might on the oil supply we guarantee the security of for them
i am being 100% honest here:
i can't in a million years understand your thinking
someone who understands why boob jobs for teachers is wrong, but thinks expensive toys for military boobs is right
how did that military and intelligence spending stop 9/11? how many aircraft carriers did it take to stop 19 assholes with boxcutters? how much money were we spending on intelligence when the 9/11 hijackers got their visas approved in the mail a couple of months after 9/11? how many trillions and how many dead americans did it take to install the new generation of corrupt jihadi breeding iraqi and afghani governments? corrupt governments the jihadis had a tenuous reason to put the blame on the usa before 9/11, but now have a much more plausible reason to blame us for? you feel safer?
you honestly believe the massive money we are spending in afghanistan or spent in iraq makes one tiny bit of difference in terms of the threats facing us? what i see is it makes us out to be a bigger more pompous target to take down and thumb in the eye to pump up jihadi resolve and morale. what the bleep are we doing there? why aren't we decoupling ourselves from the middle east and letting themselves kill each other in fundamentalist madness rather than getting us involved and making us target numero uno? why aren't we spending 1/100th of the money we spend there so we can drive electric cars AND SIMPLY NOT CARE about middle east oil, and also STOP FUNDING THE JIHADIS every time a soccer mom fills up her SUV?
19 guys with BOXCUTTERS. how do you stop that with aircraft carriers my friend?
military and intelligence spending is out of control, exactly in the same way that teachers getting boob jobs on your dime is out of control, for exactly the same lack of value for what your tax dollars are purchasing
why the bleep can't you see that?
there's no conflict in my statements. both are poised against a third choice: don't blame others for the info out there about you
you can ignore the info out there about you, or you can take responsibility for it
that's my point, and i've stated it consistently. try to keep up
complaining about uncontrolled government spending?
only when it goes to teachers and transit systems and healthcare for poor people do they seem to get upset
the usa has to massively curtail its intelligence and military spending
unfortunately, we will only dominate the world 2x over, rather than 10x over (rolls eyes)
so much fuss over nothing
everyone has skeletons in their closet. you still have to hunt them down to find them about someone else on the internet, even without the false premise that you couldn't find them before the internet (you could)
and you also have the fact that everyone else's skeletons are equally findable. its the new normal. and maybe the new normal is better, because there is nothing to be ashamed of when everyone is supposed to somehow be ashamed of the same thing for some reason no one can put their finger on anymore
more succinctly: that evil significant other or that evil employer can't hold your drunk photos against you when they also have drunk photos out there too
"IE6 is estimated to have roughly 16% of browser market share, and due to mistakes in the past it may never truly die."
you just put a chill down my spine and scared the heck out of me. congratulations slashdot, your tale of the undead is truly frightening and horrifying. well done, happy halloween!
meaning what exactly?
that an employer's perception of you might get you fired and this carries huge implications? yeah, i think i can comprehend that concept. do you think you are informing me of something that i am not aware of?
make damn sure the internet carries nothing that might get you fired. and if something is out there about you that might effect your employment, why the bleep didn't you make sure that didn't get out there? it's something you can't control, like a friend photographing you and labelling you in the photo? why don't you try picking your friends more carefully, or situations where you might be photogrpahed more carefully, or having more discretion around a camera?
who is to blame but yourself?
this whole issue is a nonissue, it's the same bs as old as time: avoiding responsibility. "i wish to shift blame about the negative consequences of my behavior onto someone or something else"
no: you are your image. take ownership of it and manage it. because of all the heavy implications you are well aware of. lesson number one: discretion and self-control and choosing your friends and social situations where you let loose wisely
any potential employer or significant other that would judge you so harshly for simply having a life is frankly an employer/ S.O. you don't want to have anything to do with
live your life, and stop worrying so much about micromanaging your public image. us who are well-adjusted simply doesn't care as much as you think we do about pictures of you drunk. its just simple not that big of a deal. the misperception is yours: that anyone cares. we don't care
the internet is what it is: it shows more of our lives, longer, as permanent mementos. adapt to that new reality and accept it, because you can't manage or alter it
anyone who would reject you or fire you based on what the internet contains about you is someone without a level of tolerance you don't want to be involved with in the first place. and if you don't want that behavior of yours made a permanent part of your "internet record", then learn the art of discretion
because this is not about other people, or facebook, or the internet affecting your image in ways you don't want. it's about YOU affecting your image in ways you later regret
you have no one to blame if something is out there you don't want to be out there except yourself. take responsibility for your image. or shift blame onto others, and whine about it, to no effect whatsoever, because you can't do anything about it
you don't get to post things on the internet, and then complain when people see it on the internet
if you don't want people to see something DON'T POST IT ON THE INTERNET
because the fine level of control you desire: "only this person, at this time, in this context, can see this piece of info" is a nonstarter, because it takes 10x more time and effort to define the context of the info you are sharing than it takes to post the info. there is no better way to completely and utterly destroy the pleasure of a social life than weighing it down with such weighty micromanagement
so just don't post the info! no one is going to micromanage their social lives to the point where no information is leaked in the wrong context, mainly because people aren't machiavellian supergeniuses with omnipotent future sight to know every miniscule fine grain social context in which their information is not being told to someone they didn't want that info told to
the better solution is far simpler: SHUT UP and DON'T POST. or post freely and talk freely, AND GIVE UP YOUR RIGHT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT MISUSE. that's really your only choices
the control you seek starts with your mouth, or your keyboard. blaming facebook is just shifting responsibility and personal accountability away from you when things go wrong because you weren't discreet
a market without any regulation is dominated by its largest players. who proceed to do everything unfair you complain the government does, and more
a government is theoretically accountable to its people. it will never be perfect, but no government is worse than an imperfect one. so you want to FIX government, not DESTROY government, because if you destroy government, everything you complain about GETS WORSE, and you've destroyed the only means of addressing the unfairness that bothers you. large corporations are not accountable to you. government IS. that's the big piece you are missing in your understanding of reality
colonialism was nationalist rivalry
if there was no competition to spur them on, the european powers would not have gobbled so greedily
look at any historical tract from any time period in any area of the world, it's always the british worrying about the french getting ahead or the spanish worrying about the portuguese fort or the dutch worrying about the belgians or the germans or the danish worrying about falling behind, etc., etc.
not to mention the main point is that the technology that enabled the european powers to colonize in the first place was only possible because of nationalist rivalry back in europe
pick a frequency, any frequency: 100 millseconds, 3 seconds, 1 second... all trades are queued and batched in those intervals, nothing faster. so it is not possible to game the system with more hardware with crazier algorithms and faster connections to wall street
otherwise you simply have domination of the entire stock market by a few wealthy players. small investors will leave, or continually suffer an invisible tax on every one of their trades
its a classic case of the largest players in a marketplace abusing natural imperfections in the market to their advantage. the big lie of libertarianism is that markets, left to themselves, are egalitarian and self-regulating. bullshit: markplaces, left to themselves, are stories of abuse by its largest players at the expense of smaller players, in dozens of ways: collusion, price fixing, flooding, etc...
this is a simple truth you need to understand: for the sake of fair and free and equal marketplaces in this world, you need continual "intrusive" (defined as intrusive bureaucracy by potential abusers) government regulation. in the case of the stock market, the solution is simple: a "heartbeat"
a couple of thousand of us have been watching you surf since one of the many bored hackers decided to install the streaming remote desktop on your pc about 5 months ago just for fun. how do you get any work done with all those pop ups?
yes, that is exactly what i am saying
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_enclaves_in_China
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Game
etc
you just don't know your history very well
well if its a war, lets start fighting back
implicit in your statement is that citizens are somehow helpless against corporations. hardly
don't lay down and take it, stand up and fight back, if at least only to preserve your self-respect
all of european advancement over the last 10 centuries can be traced to tribal and then nationalist competition
french spanish and british frigates would not have been sailing around india, china and the south pacific, making military inroads, if french spanish and british galleons were not first doing their best to better shoot holes into one another
in fact, you can say china and india stagnated behind european scientific advancement precisely because there was no fever pitch nationalist rivalries in those areas
european history is exhibit number one of scientific advancement propelled forward by nationalist rivalry, hardly an example of a contrast to what i am saying