I completely agree, and I'm sick of fan boys who think it'll ruin the purity of the game. Playing 20 hours a day sorta does that as well; if someone has more money than time then let them spend real money for ingame power; sounds like smart business to me plus it'd undercut fraudulent selling.
It's hardly a "teeth cleaning", although it's not the butchery it once was. My roommate in college had to have it done and he has a huge scar from it and he doesn't throw harder now, that does happen on occasion but no one would suggest getting tommy john to help your fast ball.
The bible is ripe with this sort of translational errors; Christianity has created an entire mythology surrounding the "Anti-Christ" when it's only mentioned in passing in revelations and I think Matthew [although I'm no theologian]. Moreover, when referenced in Revelations it is a plural; the logical progression that follows lessons the control that the religious leaders would have had over people. But if they create a bad place with a bad man to torture you they can control you...I love organized religion:)
Oh well it's as perfect as we are which is to say very far from it...
You're using a straw man argument here; I'm not saying that I agree with intelligent design I'm just saying your argument isn't a valid one. It's falls under the same category of "If God is all powerful than God can create a rock that God cannot list thus God can't be all powerful". It'd be like me saying that I can make a square-circle...
Your statement reminds me a bit of the movie "The Usual Suspects"; often people decide that they know how something unfolds so it's just a matter of letting them create the story that they desire.
Personally I think we should take all the fundamentalists of the various religions and put them all in France. Then let's build a wall around france and fill it with water, the world would be a better place:)
Yeah, I'm the same way. I can remember spending 12-16 hours a day playing a MUD during my summer vacations and it was no thing what-so-ever. Now if I spend more than 30 minutes playing a computer game at any given time I get bored...I guess it's just that I'd rather spend my time doing other things now.
I think it's part of that growing up thing, but don't let me mislead you to believe that I've grown up any;)
You raise some valid points but I honestly believe that the issue isn't that it is bad for you; yes it is bad for you. It will damage your lungs, it can cause dementia if you're in a risk-group, it can be a gateway drug. None of that matters though, because alcohol and tobacco are no different.
In my mind, we [the US, I apologize to all your foreigners on here because I'm being a typical American:)] live in a society that operates on the premise that it is free. We are free to make our own decisions and the consequences of those decisions are our responibility to deal with; this is the attitude that we have towards tobacco and towards alcohol. The government has a right to regulate a substance and tax the hell out of a substance but I do not feel it has a right to tell me what to do with my body. I'm not a fan of Marijuana but I believe I should have the right to legally smoke if I so choose.
Some argue that the government has a responibility to maintain a certain level of order within a society thus has every right to ban certain substance; there is a fundamental flaw in this logic though, human nature trumps everything. Regardless of what the government says, people are going to partake in illicit and dangerous activities. The best thing for a government to do is to regulate as opposed to prohibit...prohibition didn't workin the 20's and it isn't working today. If people want to get fucked up, they are going to do so; in fact I have ancedotal evidence of this phenomona. I went to college in the LA area and I graduated last year; recently my university has been cracking down on drinking on campus. This year, according to people who still go there, there was a lot less drinking on campus but the use of coccaine went up dramatically. People want to have their fun and will have it regardless of what the authorities attempt to do; crack down on one vice and people turn to another...personally I think Marijuana is less damaging than cocaine but maybe I'm in the minority...
Shit happens, then you die. Get over it, the number of injustices in the world is only equal to the number of people bitching about them. If you don't like something, vote with your money...that's how free market economies work because in the end it's all about what brings money in.
And if you don't like that, well go live in a cave somewhere by yourself because by participating in our culture you are giving your acceptance of this sort of thing...just as I am and everyone on this website is, in other words get off your soapbox.
All I seem to be seeing in these posts are reasons why we couldn't do it, just because we don't have all the tools that we need to make a viable system at the moment doesn't mean that those tools could not be created.
As it stands, we have ceramics that can withstand the tempature but I don't know how ceramics react under intense pressure. I understand that just a ceramic shell would not, in and of itself, be enough because as far as I know (although I'm no materials engineer) ceramics don't do that whole conducting thing [although I think I read somewhere that certain types of ceramics start have similar properties as superconducters near 0 kalvin].
My whole point is this, rather then looking at what's not possible why don't we assume we don't know what is and is not possible and work out from there? Ambitious projects require a reasonable amount of unreasonability....
Powerlifting is a completely different ball game and most people don't have the toughness required to do it... I know I don't. You forgot the most important part of power lifting, and that is the day after you max lift 1-2 reps you do a very light weight/high intensity workout. It forces your muscles to build raw power as well as explosive quickness.
There are only two groups of athletes who do these type of workouts: professional football players and powerlifters, both of which are a freakish minority of people...that being said if you want to squat six hundred lbs it's the only way it'll happen. [If you don't believe me, do a little research...]
Yeah I have to agree, for awhile I was working at getting big and my legs actually were getting there [up to 300 squatting] but I got sick of it. Now I just run a lot and do Jeet Kune Do and Shoot Wrestling, that stuff kicks my ass but builds lean muscle... the lean muscle thing is much more asthetically pleasing in my mind anyhow.
The user is stupid and that's why Microsoft has access... however it is not their responibility nor should they make something like SQL user friendly. The reason SQL isn't user friendly has nothing to do with an arrogant geek attitude, rather it has to do with the flexibility and power that I would assume it gives to users [never used it so I'm taking a guess].
Case and point, I've programmed in both Java and C although not particularly extensively in either. Java is real easy to use but it's slow and it's clunky, C is much more difficult to use but it is much more powerful. There are projects that require C and there are projects that Java works for, the same goes for databases. A mom and pop database can run on Access no problem, easy to use etc but as the database has a greater level of complexity the tools for creating it become more complex as well. This is how engineering of *ANY* kind works. As systems get bigger, they become more complex! HOLY SHIT BATMAN!
In my mind, Europe is generally responible for a lot of the strife that is going on in the world today. Let me take a quick step back and say that the United States might as well be thrown in to the category of "Europe" because there is hardly anything left of the original population that once lived here; as Chris Rock said "All I hear is everyone complaining about Racisim except the Native American's because they're all dead".
Anyhow, to move forward to my point; let's take a nice little look at how fucked up Africa is? The European Nations as well as the United States have a collective involvement in just how fucked up that region of the world is; we entered that region and imposed our rule. We systematically stripped the countries of their resources and then left them with a power vaccuum which has caused attrocities to be commited akin to the Holocaust. People rarely like to deal with the full issues nor look at the skeletons that exist in their respective closets.
These counter-measures that companies keep attempting to come out with to stop P2P remind me a lot of what is going on with pesticides and anti-biotics. As soon as they come out with the latest "greatest" thing that will put an end to P2P someone comes out with a solution to work around it. In the end the P2P just gets harder and harder to control... all I have to say is HAHAHAHAHAHA FUCK YOU RIAA AND MPAA!
[Also, I do not use file sharing programs. I use iTunes and pay for my music because I said I would if those jackasses came out with a system to reasonably distribute their media... instead they use scare tactics and attempt to keep making money off of the system that they've been using for years. Too bad we exist in a free market economy]
I'm not saying that they are mutually exclusive, I'm saying they need to be mutually exclusive. Why, you may ask?
Well it's quite simple, the current system isn't working. You are right, that is how religion operates in the world but religion is tearing our world apart. Something needs to change and religions need to become less dogmatic. Why does a religion have to prove that their God is the one and only God? Because the dogma told them, which is fucking bullshit and I'm sick of people defending this mindset. I'm all for Muslims believing in Allah, I'm all for Catholics beliving that Jesus was the son of God, I'm all for all of that stuff as long as it is relegated to a personal set of beliefs that is not forced upon other people and accepts the possiblity that some other way could also be correct.
Your critique holds because semantically I have not been clear enough, when I say "reason" what I really mean is a theory that explains the world concretely. I do not mean the use of logic to build a position; this is my fault because I was not clear. What I have been attempting to express though is the idea that no one religion will ever encompass the beliefs of every person in this world, nor should it. Our religions need to be accepting of this difference and stop using it as a means to gain economic power over each other [let's face it, even if a war is religious someone started it to get rich... that is human nature].
How about reading my post before post before launching a critique?
Moreover, I believe this is as much a debate about the mixture of faith and reason. Faith is for religion, reason is for science; both are very powerful in their own realms but using faith with science is just as disastrous as using reason in religion.
I never once mention a specific religion, I merely stated the roles that both faith and reason *SHOULD* play, I never stated that this is how things happen. In my mind, a large reason why the Catholic Church is having so many problems today is because they do not understand their role in society. I'll refrain from launching this critique but please don't put words in my mouth because I never said that's how things are.
Oh and I believe I said that using reason in religion is disastrous, which sums up the Catholic Church [I'm catholic...]
Well, to continue this dicussion, is it not fair to say that any religion is in fact a product of man so inherintely it is flawed. That in and of itself, is not enough evidence to discount the possiblity of divine inspiration, but as I've stated before the issue is one of faith and reason. Religion requires faith that the inspiration is divine even if the implementation is far from perfect.
Very well said;/. needs to stop propagating the stereotype of the "computer geek" because the fact of the matter is it's just not true anymore. Yeah there are people who are wastes of space, but uh let's face it... Paris Hilton is too!
I will not being buying a PSP. Not that I had planned to buy one of those things in the first place but to own something "trendy" that Paris Hilton owns *shudder*... I really really really hope she OD's soon and stops wasting my oxygen.
[Yes, that's a terrible thing to say. I know this but I stand behind my comments.]
My question for you is, why do we still have religious structures if science explains things better?
I'm not saying science is wrong and religion is right; I'm saying that human beings have a desire to participate in a transcendental experience. Whether that is possible or not I can not say, but don't be so quick to relegate religion to the trash heap. It serves a purpose in our society and very important one at that... go talk to some anthropologists about the role that religion and myth plays in society; it quickly becomes clear that it is just as important as evolution although not in the "worshipping god" sense. Religions and myths create our societies and cultures; if you're more interested in the subject matter or don't believe me check out this website. And no Joseph Campbell isn't just some crack-pot; his work in the field of mythology throughout the 20th century was groundbreaking and his influence on people throughout the world is undeniable [references seem to pop-up with regard to him in the most unexpected places, at least that's what I've noticed].
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I completely agree, and I'm sick of fan boys who think it'll ruin the purity of the game. Playing 20 hours a day sorta does that as well; if someone has more money than time then let them spend real money for ingame power; sounds like smart business to me plus it'd undercut fraudulent selling.
It's hardly a "teeth cleaning", although it's not the butchery it once was. My roommate in college had to have it done and he has a huge scar from it and he doesn't throw harder now, that does happen on occasion but no one would suggest getting tommy john to help your fast ball.
The bible is ripe with this sort of translational errors; Christianity has created an entire mythology surrounding the "Anti-Christ" when it's only mentioned in passing in revelations and I think Matthew [although I'm no theologian]. Moreover, when referenced in Revelations it is a plural; the logical progression that follows lessons the control that the religious leaders would have had over people. But if they create a bad place with a bad man to torture you they can control you...I love organized religion :)
Oh well it's as perfect as we are which is to say very far from it...
You're using a straw man argument here; I'm not saying that I agree with intelligent design I'm just saying your argument isn't a valid one. It's falls under the same category of "If God is all powerful than God can create a rock that God cannot list thus God can't be all powerful". It'd be like me saying that I can make a square-circle...
Your statement reminds me a bit of the movie "The Usual Suspects"; often people decide that they know how something unfolds so it's just a matter of letting them create the story that they desire.
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Personally I think we should take all the fundamentalists of the various religions and put them all in France. Then let's build a wall around france and fill it with water, the world would be a better place
Yeah, I'm the same way. I can remember spending 12-16 hours a day playing a MUD during my summer vacations and it was no thing what-so-ever. Now if I spend more than 30 minutes playing a computer game at any given time I get bored...I guess it's just that I'd rather spend my time doing other things now.
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I think it's part of that growing up thing, but don't let me mislead you to believe that I've grown up any
Uh maybe it's not used at Drexel but I'd say 70% of the people who went to my school used it at least once in college.
You raise some valid points but I honestly believe that the issue isn't that it is bad for you; yes it is bad for you. It will damage your lungs, it can cause dementia if you're in a risk-group, it can be a gateway drug. None of that matters though, because alcohol and tobacco are no different.
:)] live in a society that operates on the premise that it is free. We are free to make our own decisions and the consequences of those decisions are our responibility to deal with; this is the attitude that we have towards tobacco and towards alcohol. The government has a right to regulate a substance and tax the hell out of a substance but I do not feel it has a right to tell me what to do with my body. I'm not a fan of Marijuana but I believe I should have the right to legally smoke if I so choose.
In my mind, we [the US, I apologize to all your foreigners on here because I'm being a typical American
Some argue that the government has a responibility to maintain a certain level of order within a society thus has every right to ban certain substance; there is a fundamental flaw in this logic though, human nature trumps everything. Regardless of what the government says, people are going to partake in illicit and dangerous activities. The best thing for a government to do is to regulate as opposed to prohibit...prohibition didn't workin the 20's and it isn't working today. If people want to get fucked up, they are going to do so; in fact I have ancedotal evidence of this phenomona. I went to college in the LA area and I graduated last year; recently my university has been cracking down on drinking on campus. This year, according to people who still go there, there was a lot less drinking on campus but the use of coccaine went up dramatically. People want to have their fun and will have it regardless of what the authorities attempt to do; crack down on one vice and people turn to another...personally I think Marijuana is less damaging than cocaine but maybe I'm in the minority...
Shit happens, then you die. Get over it, the number of injustices in the world is only equal to the number of people bitching about them. If you don't like something, vote with your money...that's how free market economies work because in the end it's all about what brings money in.
And if you don't like that, well go live in a cave somewhere by yourself because by participating in our culture you are giving your acceptance of this sort of thing...just as I am and everyone on this website is, in other words get off your soapbox.
All I seem to be seeing in these posts are reasons why we couldn't do it, just because we don't have all the tools that we need to make a viable system at the moment doesn't mean that those tools could not be created.
As it stands, we have ceramics that can withstand the tempature but I don't know how ceramics react under intense pressure. I understand that just a ceramic shell would not, in and of itself, be enough because as far as I know (although I'm no materials engineer) ceramics don't do that whole conducting thing [although I think I read somewhere that certain types of ceramics start have similar properties as superconducters near 0 kalvin].
My whole point is this, rather then looking at what's not possible why don't we assume we don't know what is and is not possible and work out from there? Ambitious projects require a reasonable amount of unreasonability....
Powerlifting is a completely different ball game and most people don't have the toughness required to do it ... I know I don't. You forgot the most important part of power lifting, and that is the day after you max lift 1-2 reps you do a very light weight/high intensity workout. It forces your muscles to build raw power as well as explosive quickness.
There are only two groups of athletes who do these type of workouts: professional football players and powerlifters, both of which are a freakish minority of people...that being said if you want to squat six hundred lbs it's the only way it'll happen. [If you don't believe me, do a little research...]
Yeah I have to agree, for awhile I was working at getting big and my legs actually were getting there [up to 300 squatting] but I got sick of it. Now I just run a lot and do Jeet Kune Do and Shoot Wrestling, that stuff kicks my ass but builds lean muscle ... the lean muscle thing is much more asthetically pleasing in my mind anyhow.
What the hell? That's about all that coems to mind when I read this post :) Maybe I missed something....or a whole lot of somethings.
First time I saw it ... funny shit man surely brightened my day at 6:30 in the mornign :)
The user is stupid and that's why Microsoft has access ... however it is not their responibility nor should they make something like SQL user friendly. The reason SQL isn't user friendly has nothing to do with an arrogant geek attitude, rather it has to do with the flexibility and power that I would assume it gives to users [never used it so I'm taking a guess].
Case and point, I've programmed in both Java and C although not particularly extensively in either. Java is real easy to use but it's slow and it's clunky, C is much more difficult to use but it is much more powerful. There are projects that require C and there are projects that Java works for, the same goes for databases. A mom and pop database can run on Access no problem, easy to use etc but as the database has a greater level of complexity the tools for creating it become more complex as well. This is how engineering of *ANY* kind works. As systems get bigger, they become more complex! HOLY SHIT BATMAN!
Damn straight! We don't need'em either 'cause only WE matter!
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/. has thwarted my plans for world domination once again ... oh well back to cubicle hell for me!
Damn I tried to make a somewhat humour joke, at least in my mind but the lamness filter stopped me
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In my mind, Europe is generally responible for a lot of the strife that is going on in the world today. Let me take a quick step back and say that the United States might as well be thrown in to the category of "Europe" because there is hardly anything left of the original population that once lived here; as Chris Rock said "All I hear is everyone complaining about Racisim except the Native American's because they're all dead".
Anyhow, to move forward to my point; let's take a nice little look at how fucked up Africa is? The European Nations as well as the United States have a collective involvement in just how fucked up that region of the world is; we entered that region and imposed our rule. We systematically stripped the countries of their resources and then left them with a power vaccuum which has caused attrocities to be commited akin to the Holocaust. People rarely like to deal with the full issues nor look at the skeletons that exist in their respective closets.
Oh well, shit happens than you die, right?
*boos* ... too many people go there and it's getting old and boring.
Get over the Soviet Russia Jokes, it's like Paris Hilton's cooch
These counter-measures that companies keep attempting to come out with to stop P2P remind me a lot of what is going on with pesticides and anti-biotics. As soon as they come out with the latest "greatest" thing that will put an end to P2P someone comes out with a solution to work around it. In the end the P2P just gets harder and harder to control ... all I have to say is HAHAHAHAHAHA FUCK YOU RIAA AND MPAA!
... instead they use scare tactics and attempt to keep making money off of the system that they've been using for years. Too bad we exist in a free market economy]
[Also, I do not use file sharing programs. I use iTunes and pay for my music because I said I would if those jackasses came out with a system to reasonably distribute their media
I'm not saying that they are mutually exclusive, I'm saying they need to be mutually exclusive. Why, you may ask?
... that is human nature].
Well it's quite simple, the current system isn't working. You are right, that is how religion operates in the world but religion is tearing our world apart. Something needs to change and religions need to become less dogmatic. Why does a religion have to prove that their God is the one and only God? Because the dogma told them, which is fucking bullshit and I'm sick of people defending this mindset. I'm all for Muslims believing in Allah, I'm all for Catholics beliving that Jesus was the son of God, I'm all for all of that stuff as long as it is relegated to a personal set of beliefs that is not forced upon other people and accepts the possiblity that some other way could also be correct.
Your critique holds because semantically I have not been clear enough, when I say "reason" what I really mean is a theory that explains the world concretely. I do not mean the use of logic to build a position; this is my fault because I was not clear. What I have been attempting to express though is the idea that no one religion will ever encompass the beliefs of every person in this world, nor should it. Our religions need to be accepting of this difference and stop using it as a means to gain economic power over each other [let's face it, even if a war is religious someone started it to get rich
How about reading my post before post before launching a critique?
Moreover, I believe this is as much a debate about the mixture of faith and reason. Faith is for religion, reason is for science; both are very powerful in their own realms but using faith with science is just as disastrous as using reason in religion.
I never once mention a specific religion, I merely stated the roles that both faith and reason *SHOULD* play, I never stated that this is how things happen. In my mind, a large reason why the Catholic Church is having so many problems today is because they do not understand their role in society. I'll refrain from launching this critique but please don't put words in my mouth because I never said that's how things are.
Oh and I believe I said that using reason in religion is disastrous, which sums up the Catholic Church [I'm catholic...]
Well, to continue this dicussion, is it not fair to say that any religion is in fact a product of man so inherintely it is flawed. That in and of itself, is not enough evidence to discount the possiblity of divine inspiration, but as I've stated before the issue is one of faith and reason. Religion requires faith that the inspiration is divine even if the implementation is far from perfect.
Very well said; /. needs to stop propagating the stereotype of the "computer geek" because the fact of the matter is it's just not true anymore. Yeah there are people who are wastes of space, but uh let's face it ... Paris Hilton is too!
I will not being buying a PSP. Not that I had planned to buy one of those things in the first place but to own something "trendy" that Paris Hilton owns *shudder* ... I really really really hope she OD's soon and stops wasting my oxygen.
[Yes, that's a terrible thing to say. I know this but I stand behind my comments.]
My question for you is, why do we still have religious structures if science explains things better?
... go talk to some anthropologists about the role that religion and myth plays in society; it quickly becomes clear that it is just as important as evolution although not in the "worshipping god" sense. Religions and myths create our societies and cultures; if you're more interested in the subject matter or don't believe me check out this website. And no Joseph Campbell isn't just some crack-pot; his work in the field of mythology throughout the 20th century was groundbreaking and his influence on people throughout the world is undeniable [references seem to pop-up with regard to him in the most unexpected places, at least that's what I've noticed].
I'm not saying science is wrong and religion is right; I'm saying that human beings have a desire to participate in a transcendental experience. Whether that is possible or not I can not say, but don't be so quick to relegate religion to the trash heap. It serves a purpose in our society and very important one at that