As for military applications, what happens diplomatically when the frenchies or the belgians or some other group of fruity bastards mandate that their system be left on while the US is fighting the next war for them?
It really doesn't matter what value you place on human life, nor if you are a believer in "God's Grand Design" or a steadfast evolutionist or anything in between... Nature is nature. If you can't have children because you are naturally unable to, then maybe you're not supposed to have kids at all.
There you go, the fatal flaw in this reasonning is when you used the word "supposed". As if there was an intention behind someone's low sperm count, as if a concious choice was made at some point by an intellectual entity with power over your sperm count.
This is not how natural selection works. Natural selection works thusly: If you have descendents, you suceeded. And the word "natural" doesn't mean "if you have children that you would also have had had you been stranded without any technology on a remote desert island".
Using a device to filter out your lil' swimmers is no different, in the grand scheme of things, from using a spear to kill an antilope. Its using your naturally selected brain to come up with a plan to make sure you live another day and have kids that'll do the same, day after day.
Remeber, its not how you reproduce, its if you reproduce.
If you want a kid and are unable to have one "the natural way", why not consider adoption?
Selfishness. They don't want "a" kid, they want "their" kid. They want a version 2.0 of themselves.
I wish that Apple would look into signing contracts with smaller labels
The iTunes music store wellcomes suggestion and is constantly adding new music and artists to their libraries.
If you have the latest iTunes, all you need to do is use it to tell apple who you want to see in there. If not, tell me the name of the bands and maybe I'll let 'em know : )
Am I the only one who thinks this is a good idea? As long as it's done correctly, it should really cut down on counterfeiting without too many privacy concerns.
Yes, you're the only one who thinks that there isn't too many provacy concerns.
You get money from the ATM, the ATM stores a picture of you taking out the money, all the money's ids, your personnnal bank information. Money gets passed around, money ends up in a bad place (drug lab, whatever). Police tracks money back to you, you're in trouble.
Sure, in a perfect world the police would have a full record of where its been, but if it wasn't tracked before it got to the bad place (you bought candy from a kid going door to door, he gave it as change to the drug lord, say), you're in trouble.
That's just one example, there are an infinate scenario of nastiness that can go with that scheme.
The big picture is: This is a tool for a police state, not a free democracy.
Eh, last time my car was towed away (years ago) I hunted down a phone booth with a phonebook (they don't have them at all the booths) and called the local police station. They told me to call 911.
Humanity fucked up the earth and was forced to retreat into a scealed virtual world while humanity's machine were left in charge of caring for our bodies.
But since the human brain tends to resist the fake world, the machines devised a plan to let us "escape" the matrix while still keeping us safely inside their mechanical wombs. What we get to watch is the trials and tribulations of those unfortunate human minds who reject the basic matrix construct and who are allowed into a crapier reality. The second layer matrix construct is designed to both be much crapier than the 1st level (its a cold, hostile place) and still provide escapist situations to make it worth while (orgies and superpowers/mechas/flying ships). The fact that it is in many ways crapier than the original helps make it seem more real (notice how physical pain is rare in dreams?).
The advantage? Efficiency: You provide the bodies with the bare necessities and feed the brain the illusion of opulence.
I don't normally feed your kind, but you werre modded up...
did we really need to be exposed to Keano Reeves and Carrie Moss having sex? I feel that in this sequel the Watchowski Brothers abandoned all of the philosophical values that Neo personified in the original Matrix
Being gay?
I don't think that was what the Bros were shooting for...
ride on the shoulder and down the line endangering others
I'm now sitting down, endengering others. Later on I plan to watch Tv, endangering others, and then go to sleep, endangering countless billions. how reckless of me.
But keep in mind that the maniac trying tu RAM OTHER PEOPLE WITH HIS CAR was perfectly justified and was not endangering anyhow by using a car as a weapon...that was allright.
Now I'll go have a piss, regardless of all the lives I'll destroy by doing so...
If Apple is "good" for bundling applications and not giving consumers the choice
You have the choice, you can use their free software that works great and that you can "uninstall" anytime you choose, or you can use a 3rd party program if you choose. How much more choice do you want?
why is Microsoft "bad" for including IE and Windows Media Player with the OS?
They code their crappy programs so that they cannot be uninstalled (totally artificially, while claiming falsy that its the only way it'll work, the sneaky bastards). That is a strongarm tactic abusing their monopolistic position illegally. There is nothing preventing me from getting rid of Safari, or iTunes, but I keep 'em 'cause they work so damn well.
Apple offers a good product, MS forces you to use a crappy one. See the oh-so subtle difference?
And can you imagine the outcry if Microsoft began selling music inside Windows Media Player?
Yes, I can imagine...its a horrible nightmare vision... The horrible akward interface! The tyranical DRM! The top-40 only music selection! MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP!!! AAAARGH!
I've heard it explained many times, that the reason why America is targeted by terrorists is that "certain elements" are simply jealous of our outstanding quality of life.
that is what the US propaganda machine spews out.
but maybe you should consider the other explanation: It is because "certain elements" came back home after a hard day's work only to find their house destroyed, their family dead, and a piece of shrapnell with the words "Made in the U.S.A." stuck in their departed mother's forehead.
Whenever a terrorist bombs you, remember that you bombed them first. Its like a fight between a couple of 7 year olds who both want to be the last one to hit the other, but with bombs.
Canada doesn't bomb anybody, and so we don't get bombed back. Its the Canadian Way.
Yes, but its stuck in sand up in Albeta...not as easy to get to as drilling a hole and letting it flow. You have to get it out of the sand, wich is a hassle.
But Alberta, from what I hear, would be happy to be "liberated" by the US, so go right ahead : )
The sidewalk would be a no-no, but if someone is threatening you it seems like a good idea.
Alleluja! Man, I've been moderated -1 flaimebait for trying to explain that to a jerk who was calling me an idiot, a dumbass, an asshole, and that my brains should be splaterred, all in a 3 line post that wasn't considered flaimebait (?!). I'm getting fed up with the/. trolling brigade...but at least I can see from your post that there are still a handfull of intelligent people around. : )
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Big, thik book.
You'll be talking about giant lizards for weeks...
As for military applications, what happens diplomatically when the frenchies or the belgians or some other group of fruity bastards mandate that their system be left on while the US is fighting the next war for them?
Unfuckingbelievable.
or bad thing for world peace?
Er, I you mean good thing for world peace.
Unless you want to imply that the USmilitary is going to attack europe to stop them from lauching its satelittes...
It really doesn't matter what value you place on human life, nor if you are a believer in "God's Grand Design" or a steadfast evolutionist or anything in between... Nature is nature.
If you can't have children because you are naturally unable to, then maybe you're not supposed to have kids at all.
There you go, the fatal flaw in this reasonning is when you used the word "supposed". As if there was an intention behind someone's low sperm count, as if a concious choice was made at some point by an intellectual entity with power over your sperm count.
This is not how natural selection works. Natural selection works thusly: If you have descendents, you suceeded. And the word "natural" doesn't mean "if you have children that you would also have had had you been stranded without any technology on a remote desert island".
Using a device to filter out your lil' swimmers is no different, in the grand scheme of things, from using a spear to kill an antilope. Its using your naturally selected brain to come up with a plan to make sure you live another day and have kids that'll do the same, day after day.
Remeber, its not how you reproduce, its if you reproduce.
If you want a kid and are unable to have one "the natural way", why not consider adoption?
Selfishness. They don't want "a" kid, they want "their" kid. They want a version 2.0 of themselves.
I wish that Apple would look into signing contracts with smaller labels
The iTunes music store wellcomes suggestion and is constantly adding new music and artists to their libraries.
If you have the latest iTunes, all you need to do is use it to tell apple who you want to see in there. If not, tell me the name of the bands and maybe I'll let 'em know : )
All my Euros already have a serial on them, so if somebody wants to trace them from the ATM to the grocery, they could already do so.
As you said, Euros already have a serial on them, so these tracking devices aren't really needed.
They will give more power to the powerfull. The question is, can you trust 'em with this power?
Am I the only one who thinks this is a good idea? As long as it's done correctly, it should really cut down on counterfeiting without too many privacy concerns.
Yes, you're the only one who thinks that there isn't too many provacy concerns.
You get money from the ATM, the ATM stores a picture of you taking out the money, all the money's ids, your personnnal bank information. Money gets passed around, money ends up in a bad place (drug lab, whatever). Police tracks money back to you, you're in trouble.
Sure, in a perfect world the police would have a full record of where its been, but if it wasn't tracked before it got to the bad place (you bought candy from a kid going door to door, he gave it as change to the drug lord, say), you're in trouble.
That's just one example, there are an infinate scenario of nastiness that can go with that scheme.
The big picture is: This is a tool for a police state, not a free democracy.
A few years back a man lost an eye at a Tony Hawk pro skater demo at E3 (someone lost controll of a skateboard and he caught it right in the cornea).
Its all fun and games until somebody looses and eye, or gets repeated cavitie searches.
you shouldn't call the local police station.
The police station said to call 911, 911 dispatched my call to the right person in no time at all.
You should find the Non-Emergency Police Dispatch number.
That number leads to "thank you for calling, your call is important" on a loop. I once spent an hour and a half on that line before I gave up.
Eh, last time my car was towed away (years ago) I hunted down a phone booth with a phonebook (they don't have them at all the booths) and called the local police station.
They told me to call 911.
Go figure.
I think that the Matrix is an arc.
Humanity fucked up the earth and was forced to retreat into a scealed virtual world while humanity's machine were left in charge of caring for our bodies.
But since the human brain tends to resist the fake world, the machines devised a plan to let us "escape" the matrix while still keeping us safely inside their mechanical wombs. What we get to watch is the trials and tribulations of those unfortunate human minds who reject the basic matrix construct and who are allowed into a crapier reality. The second layer matrix construct is designed to both be much crapier than the 1st level (its a cold, hostile place) and still provide escapist situations to make it worth while (orgies and superpowers/mechas/flying ships). The fact that it is in many ways crapier than the original helps make it seem more real (notice how physical pain is rare in dreams?).
The advantage? Efficiency: You provide the bodies with the bare necessities and feed the brain the illusion of opulence.
did we really need to be exposed to Keano Reeves and Carrie Moss having sex? I feel that in this sequel the Watchowski Brothers abandoned all of the philosophical values that Neo personified in the original Matrix
Being gay?
I don't think that was what the Bros were shooting for...
Also, the zip includes documents warning you that by downloading them you violated its EULA.
Fun.
Yeah, because compressing allready-compressed video is such a productive use of one's time...
releasing games on DVD
Ooooooo!
Yeah...and with all the blue laser talk, I shoulda thought of it too!
Thanks : )
At the end of the trailer, it states PC CD, wich I guess means the game is coming for PC, on a CD.
But, do they really need to specify the CD part? I mean, are there still people out there releasing games on 42 floppies?
But, are the villagers still whiny bitches?
Allways with the "Food! We need food!" and such...
ride on the shoulder and down the line endangering others
I'm now sitting down, endengering others.
Later on I plan to watch Tv, endangering others, and then go to sleep, endangering countless billions. how reckless of me.
But keep in mind that the maniac trying tu RAM OTHER PEOPLE WITH HIS CAR was perfectly justified and was not endangering anyhow by using a car as a weapon...that was allright.
Now I'll go have a piss, regardless of all the lives I'll destroy by doing so...
In cork you say? So the coloured plastic thing is out now?
Apple never ceases to innovate...they now make the first floating computers! Organic too!
What about us who want a good MP3/OGG player that is under 100bucks?
You have to ride a unicorn to Shan Gri La to get one...
If Apple is "good" for bundling applications and not giving consumers the choice
You have the choice, you can use their free software that works great and that you can "uninstall" anytime you choose, or you can use a 3rd party program if you choose. How much more choice do you want?
why is Microsoft "bad" for including IE and Windows Media Player with the OS?
They code their crappy programs so that they cannot be uninstalled (totally artificially, while claiming falsy that its the only way it'll work, the sneaky bastards). That is a strongarm tactic abusing their monopolistic position illegally. There is nothing preventing me from getting rid of Safari, or iTunes, but I keep 'em 'cause they work so damn well.
Apple offers a good product, MS forces you to use a crappy one. See the oh-so subtle difference?
And can you imagine the outcry if Microsoft began selling music inside Windows Media Player?
Yes, I can imagine...its a horrible nightmare vision...
The horrible akward interface! The tyranical DRM! The top-40 only music selection! MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP!!! AAAARGH!
I've heard it explained many times, that the reason why America is targeted by terrorists is that "certain elements" are simply jealous of our outstanding quality of life.
that is what the US propaganda machine spews out.
but maybe you should consider the other explanation: It is because "certain elements" came back home after a hard day's work only to find their house destroyed, their family dead, and a piece of shrapnell with the words "Made in the U.S.A." stuck in their departed mother's forehead.
Whenever a terrorist bombs you, remember that you bombed them first. Its like a fight between a couple of 7 year olds who both want to be the last one to hit the other, but with bombs.
Canada doesn't bomb anybody, and so we don't get bombed back. Its the Canadian Way.
Yes, actually...Alberta's full of it.
You can say THAT again!
(insert rimshot here)
: )
Yes, but its stuck in sand up in Albeta...not as easy to get to as drilling a hole and letting it flow. You have to get it out of the sand, wich is a hassle.
But Alberta, from what I hear, would be happy to be "liberated" by the US, so go right ahead : )
The sidewalk would be a no-no, but if someone is threatening you it seems like a good idea.
/. trolling brigade...but at least I can see from your post that there are still a handfull of intelligent people around. : )
Alleluja!
Man, I've been moderated -1 flaimebait for trying to explain that to a jerk who was calling me an idiot, a dumbass, an asshole, and that my brains should be splaterred, all in a 3 line post that wasn't considered flaimebait (?!). I'm getting fed up with the