I did read Children of the Mind and the rest of the post-Ender's Game Ender Series of that line [...] Jane isn't even an "artificial" intelligence in some sense of the word; she has a soul, pulled from the same stuff that anyone else's is and created intentionally. Or did you miss that part?
I did, mustn' have been in the ones I read. Didn't read that Children of the mind thing... A soul you say? Bleach, glad I quit when I did then! Last I read she was a result of the psychological programm adapting to Ender's lil' genius mind in super-general school...
He has written many books. A whole bunch of them, in fact! I've not read anything of his outside the Ender stuff, though.
You're a lazy fanboy then. Its called "The Worthing Saga" btw...it sucked, don't bother, I spoiled the great punch for you, now you know that they HURL THE DAMN PLANET IN THE SUN... But if you want to see that seig-heil worthy blue eye fetishism, go right ahead.
He establishes these civilisation-wide concensus that basically pop up over night in an extreme paradigm shift...
Overnight? Three thousand years elapsed between Ender's game and the next book about him.
The other book, it was, IIRC, a matter of days...
So, 3000 years, yeah, but I seem to remember that the hate came right away.
His brother was still alive...he never left earth, so it was within one normal lifetime at least. I didn't buy that, and the sequels just expanded on that, so I didn't like.
And hey, its been a while, gimme a break if I'm fuzy on the details. I read a lot of books, I don't bother memorising every little thing from the ones I don't like.
Most modern(post 1990?) coin op games have some sort of pricing setting in the service menu and can be set as high as 8 coins, whatever coin you may use. Whether it be a quarter, nickel, or loonie.
Or twonies...
16 bucks canadian...that's about 12 bucks U.S.!
Man, puts that whole 50 cents into perspective : )
Mike (from Moon) and Jane (Ender series) are the same to you? What, are those the only books you've read where there was some sort of human-like AI character that had a part? Very different characters in so many ways.
If you couldn't figure out why everyone hated Ender, then you didn't read too much. The Buggers were not just space monsters. What books did you read exactly? There are many, many pages where the whole not-just-some-one-dimensional-space-monster thing is gone into and in some depth.
I read the damn things, you pompous jerk. Just because I din't like it doesn't mean I didn't understand it.
Michelle and Jane are VERY similar. Their spontaneous awakening, etc. If you like it so much, read Harsh Mistress and read it just after, you'll notice the similarities.
And I didn't need to "figure out" why everyone hates Ender, they go on and on and on about it in the book. At great lenght. Apparently, if you repeat something that doesn't make sense often enough people will accept it.
I don't know about you, but if someone destroyed the only other sentient race humanity has ever known in 3000 years of relativistic light-speed travel, over a misunderstanding, I'd be pissed to. Maybe not to the extent everyone hated Ender, but masses of people are dumb, and they didn't have anywhere near the whole story...
He was a KID who was FORCED to destroy them out of SELF DEFENSE.
So, after the fact, it turns out that the space monsters that WERE coming to perform xenocide on us were doing it because they misunderstood us? Boohoofuckinghoo. How many billions would they have slaughtered in search of our psychic-queens before they would have understood the concept of idividuality? No one ever considered that?
What was that other book he wrote..blue eyed guy with psychic powers on a backwater planet having a hick kid write a book about his life? There was a planet full of SPOILER WARNING!!! INEFFECTIVE SPOILER WARNING blue-eyed supermen (ah HEM!) that upon being told that they are hypocrites for denying others their pain while keeping their FLING THEIR PLANET INTO THE SUN! Right away! "Hey, you're a bunch of hyppocrites!" *flings planet in the sun*.
Maybe those behaviours make sense to mormons, but I find them completely insane. He establishes these civilisation-wide concensus that basically pop up over night in an extreme paradigm shift...I don't buy it.
Smoking causes lung damage. Why is this? Because no matter who you are if you smoke your lungs will be damaged. If you continue to smoke it will cause a horrible disease like lung cancer.
<persona type="Wolverine"> Speak for yourself, Bub! </persona>
I found Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow to be very good reads.
That unfortunatly led me to read the sequels (shadow is more of a retelling than a sequel), and I want those hours of my life back
There was one cute bit where Ender is playing videogames with a kid, that was the high point. I really didn't like the whole thing: That AI was, well, the AI from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, the way people hate Ender felt very weird to me...he saved the human race from space monsters and everyone hates him? What the hell? And so on.
They weren't the worst I've read, but they weren't up to the hype.
Yes, one less thing to break, but FAR less surface in contact with the ground. I don't know...
It still keeps 4 wheels on the ground at all times...that is as much surface in contact with the ground as every car out there today... Thik of that next time you jaywalk;- )
You remember when SCO first made these claims, and you had a bunch of people running around saying "they might be right, they might be right...", and basically defending SCO?
The solar system of origin of UFO Robot Grendizer, also known as Goldorak.
He was then modified after being captured by an alien civilisation and used by its prince to escape to earth, where it was further modified until it became the ultimate giant war robot used to fend off the Vegans attacking earth.
Here in Russia most murders are commited with kitchen knives.
Here in Canada there was a copycat incident soon after the infamous Columbine shooting. But since this is Canada, the kid did not have easy access to an arsenal, so he used a knife. 6 people were injured, included the idiot, none were killed.
Killing someone with a knife is much harder than killing someone with a gun.
The problem is that the ballistics signature of a gun will change as it is used, at least, so I've heard. Also a couple of quick swipes with a round file will change it as well.
Better than nothing. Organised criminals won't get caught, but your average impulse shooter will.
Some time ago, a guy tried to break into my house - while I was home. Feeling a bit uneasy in that situation, as there was no way to easily exit the dwelling, and there was no time to call the police, I took it upon myself to point my loaded.357 Magnum revolver at the guy.
He left!
Good for you.
My grandma did the same to a armed robber with a broom (well, she didn't point the broom at him, she wailed on him like crazy)...
I don't have a point really, I just miss my grandma.
It seems plausible that easy access to guns would mean that there'd be more armed nutcases and therefor more shootings, but the data doesn't support that line of reasoning. By the same token, it seems plausible that people would commit less burglary if there was a good chance that the homeowners would have firearms, but again, the data does not support that line of reasoning.
Well, burglars prefer to work in peace and quiet, and will wait until the house is empty before going in (usually).
As for shootings...I'll take your word on it, don't really feel like looking for dutch statistics either.
Incidentally, I do support the argument that "if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns". Holland has strict gun control, but if you don't mind breaking the law, getting your hands on a gun isn't that hard.
Funny you should mention it, I allways think "If drugs are outlawed, only outlaws will have drugs" whenever I hear that, then I think of the netherlands. Then I start the whole "what are the netherlands exactly" and then I have to look at maps and stuff. Quite a bother.
You are rational poster #2, kudos (read around your post for incredible nonsense and hostility, mildly entertaining).
Now remembering that you only need to obtain a driver's license and register your car when you expect that you are going to operate it on a public roadway, the closest would be a concealed carry permit. For guns that are going to be left at home, or transported in an inactive state (unloaded and in a case), no permit should be needed (just like a car).
I know you don't need a driving liscense to own a car, but don't you need to register the thing anyhow?
But yeah, that might work...I honestly have not given this a lot of thought. But it seems obvious that something as dangerous and harmfull as gubs should be regulated. Cars are, planes are, freakin' ham radios are...guns could use a bit of regulating.
Possibly provide a sample fired bullet with your permit application, in case they find one just like it in some dead guy later on...
For the record - I don't hate and fear authority, I detest and despise power-mad bureaucrats whose lifelong mission it is to extend their scope and reach, to keep meddling with ever-more intimite details of my life and keep increasing the claim they supposedly have on the fruits of my labour.
Well, first of all, this is about the 10th reply to my post, and the first rational one.
Bravo!
And no, not all laws make sense. Especially those about issues in wich rational people are a rare minority. They probably make amendments and adjustments to good ideas until they end up garbled and pointless.
The thing is that a free-for-all in guns means that these easy-to-use death machines are spread around and used a lot.
I think that if you are convicted of a violent crime, you should lose you right to bear arms. If you are convicted of say, drunk driving, you should be banned of driving AND of gun use, because drunk shooting isn't much better than drunk driving, and you've allready demonstrated that you are not a responsible person. Etc.
Law abiding people who do not drink and drive and beat people up with tire irons would have their guns and feel the manly safety it provides to their heart's content.
Then again, I hate paperwork...less than I hate getting shot, but almost enough for me not to get a gun if it involves lots of paperwork.
If guns are freely available, there will be a lot of irresponsible idiots out there with guns.
If speech is free, irresponsible idiots will exercise it.
Said on slashdot no less...
Ok: "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me."
The purpose of licensing drivers is to assure that they know how to make the vehicle work, not to regulate their ownership, possession, or use of the vehicle
They have an exam. In that exam, they ride with an examiner.
If they exhibit unsafe behaviour, they will not get the liscense.
The sole basis of every gun registration regime that has ever been suggested in this country and in every other I'm aware of is to make it easier to restrict ownership and to seize the weapons when a full prohibition is passed.
What a stylish hat! Tinfoil is it?
Ending your post with a line that suggests that people who disagree with you don't have rational arguments is pompous and assinine
How about starting the post with it? You did, and the person I was replying to did it too. I even quoted him in my post.
You insult people while giving a moral lesson about how insulting people is bad: Wow.
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I did, mustn' have been in the ones I read.
Didn't read that Children of the mind thing...
A soul you say? Bleach, glad I quit when I did then! Last I read she was a result of the psychological programm adapting to Ender's lil' genius mind in super-general school...
He has written many books. A whole bunch of them, in fact! I've not read anything of his outside the Ender stuff, though.
You're a lazy fanboy then.
Its called "The Worthing Saga" btw...it sucked, don't bother, I spoiled the great punch for you, now you know that they HURL THE DAMN PLANET IN THE SUN...
But if you want to see that seig-heil worthy blue eye fetishism, go right ahead.
Overnight? Three thousand years elapsed between Ender's game and the next book about him.
The other book, it was, IIRC, a matter of days...
So, 3000 years, yeah, but I seem to remember that the hate came right away.
His brother was still alive...he never left earth, so it was within one normal lifetime at least. I didn't buy that, and the sequels just expanded on that, so I didn't like.
And hey, its been a while, gimme a break if I'm fuzy on the details. I read a lot of books, I don't bother memorising every little thing from the ones I don't like.
Most modern(post 1990?) coin op games have some sort of pricing setting in the service menu and can be set as high as 8 coins, whatever coin you may use. Whether it be a quarter, nickel, or loonie.
Or twonies...
16 bucks canadian...that's about 12 bucks U.S.!
Man, puts that whole 50 cents into perspective : )
Mike (from Moon) and Jane (Ender series) are the same to you? What, are those the only books you've read where there was some sort of human-like AI character that had a part? Very different characters in so many ways.
If you couldn't figure out why everyone hated Ender, then you didn't read too much. The Buggers were not just space monsters. What books did you read exactly? There are many, many pages where the whole not-just-some-one-dimensional-space-monster thing is gone into and in some depth.
I read the damn things, you pompous jerk. Just because I din't like it doesn't mean I didn't understand it.
Michelle and Jane are VERY similar. Their spontaneous awakening, etc. If you like it so much, read Harsh Mistress and read it just after, you'll notice the similarities.
And I didn't need to "figure out" why everyone hates Ender, they go on and on and on about it in the book. At great lenght.
Apparently, if you repeat something that doesn't make sense often enough people will accept it.
I don't know about you, but if someone destroyed the only other sentient race humanity has ever known in 3000 years of relativistic light-speed travel, over a misunderstanding, I'd be pissed to. Maybe not to the extent everyone hated Ender, but masses of people are dumb, and they didn't have anywhere near the whole story...
He was a KID who was FORCED to destroy them out of SELF DEFENSE.
So, after the fact, it turns out that the space monsters that WERE coming to perform xenocide on us were doing it because they misunderstood us? Boohoofuckinghoo. How many billions would they have slaughtered in search of our psychic-queens before they would have understood the concept of idividuality? No one ever considered that?
What was that other book he wrote..blue eyed guy with psychic powers on a backwater planet having a hick kid write a book about his life?
There was a planet full of SPOILER WARNING!!! INEFFECTIVE SPOILER WARNING blue-eyed supermen (ah HEM!) that upon being told that they are hypocrites for denying others their pain while keeping their FLING THEIR PLANET INTO THE SUN! Right away!
"Hey, you're a bunch of hyppocrites!"
*flings planet in the sun*.
Maybe those behaviours make sense to mormons, but I find them completely insane. He establishes these civilisation-wide concensus that basically pop up over night in an extreme paradigm shift...I don't buy it.
Smoking causes lung damage. Why is this? Because no matter who you are if you smoke your lungs will be damaged. If you continue to smoke it will cause a horrible disease like lung cancer.
<persona type="Wolverine">
Speak for yourself, Bub!
</persona>
And now we move from physics jokes to lawyer jokes!
What a fun news day! : )
I found Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow to be very good reads.
That unfortunatly led me to read the sequels (shadow is more of a retelling than a sequel), and I want those hours of my life back
There was one cute bit where Ender is playing videogames with a kid, that was the high point. I really didn't like the whole thing:
That AI was, well, the AI from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, the way people hate Ender felt very weird to me...he saved the human race from space monsters and everyone hates him? What the hell?
And so on.
They weren't the worst I've read, but they weren't up to the hype.
I guess the dead Jews who were killed by Palestinian terrorists publicly bankrolled by Saddam don't count in your eyes.
The israelians kill back palestinians at a ratio of 3 to 1.
They are bankrolled by the U.S.
So I guess someone needs to bomb the states, pillage the whitehouse and kill Bush's children then?
Or do the dead non-jews don't count in your eyes?
There hasn't been another September 11th yet has there?
Yeah, because those were SO frequent before...
Bush has brought this country out of recession
Wich he put it in in the first place!
stood up to terrorism
He did what?
He did WHAT?
What the hell?
those websites will retain their original feel;
I'm sorry, but IGN lost its original feel about a gazillion annoying ads ago.
Do they even have content anymore?
Yes, one less thing to break, but FAR less surface in contact with the ground. I don't know...
;- )
It still keeps 4 wheels on the ground at all times...that is as much surface in contact with the ground as every car out there today...
Thik of that next time you jaywalk
Uh, the problem was that the contractors did it in metric, and not imperial.
No, the problem was that the contractors used imperial while NASA works in Internation Units.
In fact, its not just NASA, its almost the entire world.
I still can't believe the U.S. chickened out of the switch. Canada and Mexico didn't!
And BTW:
How much do you weight in meters?
How many centimeters does it take for water to boil?
Its the International Unit System, not the Metric System...
Thanks for the very Informative(tm) comment, the leagues thing was gnawing at the back of my mind since forever!
should be able to turn the wheels flat and use them as rubber feet and WALK over obstacles.
It does walk, akwardly, but they don't need to turn the wheels over, they just lock 'em and use the regular surface. One less thing to break.
Hey, maybe they'll put these things in matches of robot soccer! They can walk, so they might also be able to kick a ball!
P.S. Your sig (``L'imagination au povoir.'') is missing a "u". Its "pouvoir".
From looking at the pictures, it seems that the wheels can rotate perpendicular to the length of the vehicle. Should make parallel parking a breeze.
From looking at the videos, it does.
It also goes sideways, up and down a bit, and can walk (akwardly) on them 4 at a time.
Does all sort of crazy cool stuff.
You remember when SCO first made these claims, and you had a bunch of people running around saying "they might be right, they might be right...", and basically defending SCO?
Where are they now?
Looking for weapons of mass destruction?
You and your wife might enjoy a game of Rez on PS2.
In fact, if you have the right peripheral, she might enjoy it more than you...
: )
Vega, as ALL REAL GEEKS know, was
The solar system of origin of UFO Robot Grendizer, also known as Goldorak.
He was then modified after being captured by an alien civilisation and used by its prince to escape to earth, where it was further modified until it became the ultimate giant war robot used to fend off the Vegans attacking earth.
Here in Russia most murders are commited with kitchen knives.
Here in Canada there was a copycat incident soon after the infamous Columbine shooting.
But since this is Canada, the kid did not have easy access to an arsenal, so he used a knife. 6 people were injured, included the idiot, none were killed.
Killing someone with a knife is much harder than killing someone with a gun.
The problem is that the ballistics signature of a gun will change as it is used, at least, so I've heard. Also a couple of quick swipes with a round file will change it as well.
Better than nothing. Organised criminals won't get caught, but your average impulse shooter will.
Some time ago, a guy tried to break into my house - while I was home. Feeling a bit uneasy in that situation, as there was no way to easily exit the dwelling, and there was no time to call the police, I took it upon myself to point my loaded .357 Magnum revolver at the guy.
He left!
Good for you.
My grandma did the same to a armed robber with a broom (well, she didn't point the broom at him, she wailed on him like crazy)...
I don't have a point really, I just miss my grandma.
It seems plausible that easy access to guns would mean that there'd be more armed nutcases and therefor more shootings, but the data doesn't support that line of reasoning. By the same token, it seems plausible that people would commit less burglary if there was a good chance that the homeowners would have firearms, but again, the data does not support that line of reasoning.
Well, burglars prefer to work in peace and quiet, and will wait until the house is empty before going in (usually).
As for shootings...I'll take your word on it, don't really feel like looking for dutch statistics either.
Incidentally, I do support the argument that "if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns". Holland has strict gun control, but if you don't mind breaking the law, getting your hands on a gun isn't that hard.
Funny you should mention it, I allways think "If drugs are outlawed, only outlaws will have drugs" whenever I hear that, then I think of the netherlands.
Then I start the whole "what are the netherlands exactly" and then I have to look at maps and stuff. Quite a bother.
Is this bizarro slashdot or something?
No, this cleary is the regular, non-bizarro slashdot.
lol!
Aww...its funny because its true.
You are rational poster #2, kudos (read around your post for incredible nonsense and hostility, mildly entertaining).
Now remembering that you only need to obtain a driver's license and register your car when you expect that you are going to operate it on a public roadway, the closest would be a concealed carry permit. For guns that are going to be left at home, or transported in an inactive state (unloaded and in a case), no permit should be needed (just like a car).
I know you don't need a driving liscense to own a car, but don't you need to register the thing anyhow?
But yeah, that might work...I honestly have not given this a lot of thought. But it seems obvious that something as dangerous and harmfull as gubs should be regulated. Cars are, planes are, freakin' ham radios are...guns could use a bit of regulating.
Possibly provide a sample fired bullet with your permit application, in case they find one just like it in some dead guy later on...
For the record - I don't hate and fear authority, I detest and despise power-mad bureaucrats whose lifelong mission it is to extend their scope and reach, to keep meddling with ever-more intimite details of my life and keep increasing the claim they supposedly have on the fruits of my labour.
Amen.
However, the following is always true:
no law implies no crime.
Because crime is defined by law. But this is getting silly.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Its ok, but on a sidenote, the poster I was coplaining about replied and told me he was, in fact, an anarchist who would like all laws to go away.
He also kept on with his irrational crap, but this is slashdot, its to be expected.
Well, first of all, this is about the 10th reply to my post, and the first rational one.
Bravo!
And no, not all laws make sense. Especially those about issues in wich rational people are a rare minority. They probably make amendments and adjustments to good ideas until they end up garbled and pointless.
The thing is that a free-for-all in guns means that these easy-to-use death machines are spread around and used a lot.
I think that if you are convicted of a violent crime, you should lose you right to bear arms. If you are convicted of say, drunk driving, you should be banned of driving AND of gun use, because drunk shooting isn't much better than drunk driving, and you've allready demonstrated that you are not a responsible person. Etc.
Law abiding people who do not drink and drive and beat people up with tire irons would have their guns and feel the manly safety it provides to their heart's content.
Then again, I hate paperwork...less than I hate getting shot, but almost enough for me not to get a gun if it involves lots of paperwork.
If speech is free, irresponsible idiots will exercise it.
Said on slashdot no less...
Ok: "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me."
The purpose of licensing drivers is to assure that they know how to make the vehicle work, not to regulate their ownership, possession, or use of the vehicle
They have an exam. In that exam, they ride with an examiner.
If they exhibit unsafe behaviour, they will not get the liscense.
The sole basis of every gun registration regime that has ever been suggested in this country and in every other I'm aware of is to make it easier to restrict ownership and to seize the weapons when a full prohibition is passed.
What a stylish hat! Tinfoil is it?
Ending your post with a line that suggests that people who disagree with you don't have rational arguments is pompous and assinine
How about starting the post with it? You did, and the person I was replying to did it too. I even quoted him in my post.
You insult people while giving a moral lesson about how insulting people is bad: Wow.