People seem to think dolphins are happy smiling human-equivalents that spend all day frolicking in the water and occasionally hunt for fish. Similarly, apes are just peaceful vegetarians who live in the trees and pick nits out of each other's hair.
In reality, both dolphins and apes (and chimpanzees) are - as they'd say in the old days - brutes and spend their days waring with each other, pillaging for spoils and that includes the females.
In short, the concept of "human rights" makes no sense in a world without law. What's law? In my best Spock voice: To bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, so that the strong should not harm the weak. If you want your favorite higher mammals to have the same rights as us, then guess what, they have the same responsibilities as us too.
So far as I can tell no-one reads forums. Even here on Slashdot I regularly get people who reply to a long thread when they clearly haven't bothered to read all of it.
Thankfully that's still considered rude on mailing lists.
I watched that crappy movie all the way to the end because Woody Harrelson said there would be spaceships. A couple of times they cut to the China compound and showed us vehicles that looked a lot like spaceships. They got on the damn things and started talking about "pressurization" and "life support".. then it turns out they're just regular old ships. Cunts.
Anyway, has anyone actually done streaming skeletal recognition over the web yet? Seems that's the kinda thing that would be an interesting addition to Second Life or some of the other "open" virtual worlds.
Something like "Unexplainable Aerial Phenomena" would do the trick. As soon as it is adequately explained it would stop being a UAP. But unfortunately the past tense of unidentified means that once someone declares something a UFO it always will be.
Yes, "UFO" is a stupid term. Has been for years. To normal, sane, people it means "I saw something flying that didn't look like a plane" but to drooling morons it means "OMG! Aliens!"
He apparently has *millions* of dollars now.. why not hire a team of decent C programmers and convert the game? I imagine you could get it running on mobile platforms damn fast shortly afterwards and make even more money.
Make the game for PC/Mac/Linux.. the Kinect just plugs right in.
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Essentially an infinite army. That's my take, anyway.
Well duh.. and frankly I can't understand how anyone could miss that. "Oh no, he might get out!" "So what?" Shows rows and rows of soldiers who blindly follow CLU's every command.. what did you think they were going to do when they got out? Sell cupcakes?
Personally, I was hoping he'd get out and we'd have a romp in the real world and get to see the iso's power.. but no, the movie had taken too long to get to the portal.
Until right now I had no idea it was a CG Jeff Bridges.. I just figured they had decent makeup artists who could make him look the same as he did in '82.
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#8: You're nitpicking in the most pedantic way possible.
I'm sure you already know this, but it's worth mentioning: idiotic sites, like gawker, ignore more than 8 characters. So, in your example, 6 of the 8 characters would be weak.
Sigh. Have you never heard of independent discovery? Wright may have found it first but he didn't patent it and it was never proscribed to anyone (unless you count dogs and rabbits). If Hoffmann hadn't discovered it 20 years later Wright's work would have died in obscurity.
Now please, stop being offensive you fucking coward.
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This. A hundred times this.
People seem to think dolphins are happy smiling human-equivalents that spend all day frolicking in the water and occasionally hunt for fish. Similarly, apes are just peaceful vegetarians who live in the trees and pick nits out of each other's hair.
In reality, both dolphins and apes (and chimpanzees) are - as they'd say in the old days - brutes and spend their days waring with each other, pillaging for spoils and that includes the females.
In short, the concept of "human rights" makes no sense in a world without law. What's law? In my best Spock voice: To bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, so that the strong should not harm the weak. If you want your favorite higher mammals to have the same rights as us, then guess what, they have the same responsibilities as us too.
Actually, if you don't know what Progress is then you probably need to work on your social sciences a bit. Study a little history.
Please stop posting your novels here.
So far as I can tell no-one reads forums. Even here on Slashdot I regularly get people who reply to a long thread when they clearly haven't bothered to read all of it.
Thankfully that's still considered rude on mailing lists.
I watched that crappy movie all the way to the end because Woody Harrelson said there would be spaceships. A couple of times they cut to the China compound and showed us vehicles that looked a lot like spaceships. They got on the damn things and started talking about "pressurization" and "life support".. then it turns out they're just regular old ships. Cunts.
They do not get horribly sick.
Obviously you've never been there.
Anyway, has anyone actually done streaming skeletal recognition over the web yet? Seems that's the kinda thing that would be an interesting addition to Second Life or some of the other "open" virtual worlds.
Something like "Unexplainable Aerial Phenomena" would do the trick. As soon as it is adequately explained it would stop being a UAP. But unfortunately the past tense of unidentified means that once someone declares something a UFO it always will be.
Arguments like yours are why the scientific method is such a necessity.
Yes, "UFO" is a stupid term. Has been for years. To normal, sane, people it means "I saw something flying that didn't look like a plane" but to drooling morons it means "OMG! Aliens!"
They seem to just make em up as they go along.
There's open source drivers that do that too.
He apparently has *millions* of dollars now.. why not hire a team of decent C programmers and convert the game? I imagine you could get it running on mobile platforms damn fast shortly afterwards and make even more money.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bk7AMY_ocU&has_verified=1
Make the game for PC/Mac/Linux.. the Kinect just plugs right in.
Essentially an infinite army. That's my take, anyway.
Well duh.. and frankly I can't understand how anyone could miss that. "Oh no, he might get out!" "So what?" Shows rows and rows of soldiers who blindly follow CLU's every command.. what did you think they were going to do when they got out? Sell cupcakes?
Personally, I was hoping he'd get out and we'd have a romp in the real world and get to see the iso's power.. but no, the movie had taken too long to get to the portal.
Until right now I had no idea it was a CG Jeff Bridges.. I just figured they had decent makeup artists who could make him look the same as he did in '82.
#8: You're nitpicking in the most pedantic way possible.
In other words: he's a nerd.
Especially when people write Generic Strategy Factory pattern to create a single object.
And by Smalltalk you mean Objective-C right?
Get a room, and don't pay by the hour.. cause I hear you take a while to get started.. :P
I'm sure you already know this, but it's worth mentioning: idiotic sites, like gawker, ignore more than 8 characters. So, in your example, 6 of the 8 characters would be weak.
Sigh. Have you never heard of independent discovery? Wright may have found it first but he didn't patent it and it was never proscribed to anyone (unless you count dogs and rabbits). If Hoffmann hadn't discovered it 20 years later Wright's work would have died in obscurity.
Now please, stop being offensive you fucking coward.
no... Bayer *invented* Heroin. Before that there was just unrefined opium, and mixtures.
Well, their advertising for Heroin was for "non-addictive opium".. could they have gotten that any more wrong?
Bayer: the people who gave us Heroin.
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