I think universities are completely obsolete. I think they're having these troubles because they're supposed to be eliminated. There's very little that goes on at a university that can't be done better otherwise. The biggest raison d'être for the present system is the security of the professor. He's got tenure. Has anybody else got tenure? Hell, no. Those tenure boys are really a shame; they're so businesslike, they really look out for themselves.
Once you eliminate the obsolete structure and the emphasis on earning a living, people will go to the university because they want to use themselve and explore their wonderful capabilities. Humanity will carry on beautifully if you don't mix them up with earning a living. We'll make wonderful use of those buildings and all that equipment. That's what the tenure boys are so scared of. They've been living on the idea of monopolizing the information, but now they see the time coming when the big idea ill be to proliferate it and try to see that everybody gets to share it.
The real question is, if they wanted to make it look small and space-saving, why did they take a wide-angle photo of it to make it look like some behemoth?
Michel Gondry is a great example. Also, Scorsese used verrry low-budget special effects in The Last Temptation of Christ, but it's still a great film. A lot of editing tricks there too (e.g. turning five stuntmen into an army of Roman soldiers storming the temple).
Rahzel is an idiot. Bobby McFerrin can beatbox circles around him any day of the week, and could since the 80's. And have you seen his interviews in the making of Bjork's new album? He doesn't even know the difference between "octave" and "timbre".
I think it's more commonly used when both parties benefit - I always have a flashback to Silence of the Lambs to help me remember what it means..."Quid pro quo Clarice...." etc.
The other thing that was interesting is that they traveled around to different areas. IIRC the other "random people snipers" all just stayed in one place (e.g. the top of the building, by the side of the highway). Malvo and co. managed to freak out an entire metropolitan area.
I lived in northern Virginia at the time (and in fact I drive by one of the gas stations where someone got killed on the way to my dad's house...creepy), and was a senior in high school, and they wouldn't let us go outside for athletic practice, lunch, anything, and we didn't have football games for a few months - we didn't even have a homecoming game.
Yeah, that's always what I thought of as the best solution. Or give yourself a really contagious deadly virus/bacteria/disease and shake his hand. I'm sure if you're crazy enough to do it you wouldn't mind killing yourself in the process.
IIRC, Beck tried to do something with his Gameboy at the Coachella music festival in southern California this past spring...but it wasn't working or something so he had to scrap it.
And yeah, I can definitely see GB's being used for lo-fi electro stuff...people that love circuit-bend keyboards and such would get a kick out of it (you can pry my old Casio SK-1 from my cold, dead hands!).
I think California should secede as well. I mean after all, while Bush is taking America 50+ years backwards in terms of civil rights (thanks to the likelihood of him being able to appoint a conservative dream team of Supreme Court Justices within the next four years), we'll keep moving forward - moving ahead with stem cell research, in the process of decriminalizing marijuana, and even prostitution in some areas (well, only Berkeley I think for now). ---- I use the term 'decriminalizing' loosely here - from what I've heard these offenses have been bumped to the very bottom of police priority lists, making it very unlikely for you to get arrested, and you definitely won't go to jail.
The problem is that we're on opposite coasts. We need some way to unite the west coast and the northeastern states, then we'd be set.
I've read your responses to the replies that were similar to mine, and....well....no, your sense of humor obviously doesn't work just fine. I mean you might as well accept that and just move on, instead of trying to defend yourself. You're just making yourself look like a bigger ass, with an even worse sense of humor. But whatever floats your boat...
I think they should send some artists and musicians up there. They wouldn't get bored. And they could definitely make money selling the stuff when they got back - "listen to the first album created entirely in space!" etcetera. I'd sign up.
I too was really disappointed when I scrolled down to find that was the only question relating to the War on Drugs. Is everybody avoiding it just because they KNOW it's a complete waste of taxpayers' money? That more people are hurt than helped? That it is unquestionably a violation of our rights as human beings to our own bodies? The entire idea just boggles my mind.
Hopefully in 50 years my grandchildren will laugh when I tell them that yes, there was a time when you weren't allowed to put whatever you wanted into your own body! They probably won't believe me.
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from Buckminster Fuller, in 1972:
I think universities are completely obsolete. I think they're having these troubles because they're supposed to be eliminated. There's very little that goes on at a university that can't be done better otherwise. The biggest raison d'être for the present system is the security of the professor. He's got tenure. Has anybody else got tenure? Hell, no. Those tenure boys are really a shame; they're so businesslike, they really look out for themselves.
Once you eliminate the obsolete structure and the emphasis on earning a living, people will go to the university because they want to use themselve and explore their wonderful capabilities. Humanity will carry on beautifully if you don't mix them up with earning a living. We'll make wonderful use of those buildings and all that equipment. That's what the tenure boys are so scared of. They've been living on the idea of monopolizing the information, but now they see the time coming when the big idea ill be to proliferate it and try to see that everybody gets to share it.
And remember game.coms?! Those were awesome!
/hangs head in shame
The real question is, if they wanted to make it look small and space-saving, why did they take a wide-angle photo of it to make it look like some behemoth?
Or is our luck in the hands of fate?
I'm glad SOMEBODY said it. I see more attractive chicks when I go to Carls Jr., geez.
And whoever said slashdot isn't US-centred?
You misspelled "centered".
Michel Gondry is a great example. Also, Scorsese used verrry low-budget special effects in The Last Temptation of Christ, but it's still a great film. A lot of editing tricks there too (e.g. turning five stuntmen into an army of Roman soldiers storming the temple).
Rahzel is an idiot. Bobby McFerrin can beatbox circles around him any day of the week, and could since the 80's. And have you seen his interviews in the making of Bjork's new album? He doesn't even know the difference between "octave" and "timbre".
I think it's more commonly used when both parties benefit - I always have a flashback to Silence of the Lambs to help me remember what it means..."Quid pro quo Clarice...." etc.
The other thing that was interesting is that they traveled around to different areas. IIRC the other "random people snipers" all just stayed in one place (e.g. the top of the building, by the side of the highway). Malvo and co. managed to freak out an entire metropolitan area.
I lived in northern Virginia at the time (and in fact I drive by one of the gas stations where someone got killed on the way to my dad's house...creepy), and was a senior in high school, and they wouldn't let us go outside for athletic practice, lunch, anything, and we didn't have football games for a few months - we didn't even have a homecoming game.
Yeah, that's always what I thought of as the best solution. Or give yourself a really contagious deadly virus/bacteria/disease and shake his hand. I'm sure if you're crazy enough to do it you wouldn't mind killing yourself in the process.
Ot alsi helpos you learn yhow ti tyope with one hand!! /'im gettin g better evry day
IIRC, Beck tried to do something with his Gameboy at the Coachella music festival in southern California this past spring...but it wasn't working or something so he had to scrap it.
And yeah, I can definitely see GB's being used for lo-fi electro stuff...people that love circuit-bend keyboards and such would get a kick out of it (you can pry my old Casio SK-1 from my cold, dead hands!).
I think California should secede as well. I mean after all, while Bush is taking America 50+ years backwards in terms of civil rights (thanks to the likelihood of him being able to appoint a conservative dream team of Supreme Court Justices within the next four years), we'll keep moving forward - moving ahead with stem cell research, in the process of decriminalizing marijuana, and even prostitution in some areas (well, only Berkeley I think for now). ---- I use the term 'decriminalizing' loosely here - from what I've heard these offenses have been bumped to the very bottom of police priority lists, making it very unlikely for you to get arrested, and you definitely won't go to jail.
The problem is that we're on opposite coasts. We need some way to unite the west coast and the northeastern states, then we'd be set.
I've read your responses to the replies that were similar to mine, and....well....no, your sense of humor obviously doesn't work just fine. I mean you might as well accept that and just move on, instead of trying to defend yourself. You're just making yourself look like a bigger ass, with an even worse sense of humor. But whatever floats your boat...
Yeah, we were the Colonials, but we didn't have a Colonial mascot costume or anything. We identified more with the calculator.
Sense of humors (or would it be senses of humor?) are fun. You should try getting one sometime.
Dude - my old high school's mascot was a TI calculator. The costume gets passed down to the new seniors every year.
I'm only getting 0.3.....but then again I'm on dialup.
I think they should send some artists and musicians up there. They wouldn't get bored. And they could definitely make money selling the stuff when they got back - "listen to the first album created entirely in space!" etcetera. I'd sign up.
Haha punk reached it's creative peak in the late 80's? You're a decade late, my friend.
What would be a better adjective.....bubbly?
(sorry)
...we would, in effect, be emulating god.
God is in the self.
I too was really disappointed when I scrolled down to find that was the only question relating to the War on Drugs. Is everybody avoiding it just because they KNOW it's a complete waste of taxpayers' money? That more people are hurt than helped? That it is unquestionably a violation of our rights as human beings to our own bodies? The entire idea just boggles my mind.
Hopefully in 50 years my grandchildren will laugh when I tell them that yes, there was a time when you weren't allowed to put whatever you wanted into your own body! They probably won't believe me.
What about authors that make up words? Damn you James Joyce!