That’s why ear protectors are completely sold out and there are even people selling cheap self-made ones on the streets. Good ones might reduce the noise by 40 dB. Which makes them bearable. But cheaps ones might only lower it by -10 to -20 dB. Which still is way too loud. I personally would go with noise-cancelling headphones over earplugs and a hat with a built-in cooling fan. But then again, why not just stay at home?:)
... is that there is no such thing as "blowing off steam", only an endorphin rush associated with displaying anger which rewards feeling anger and displaying it. Warlike sports make us more warlike, they don't produce a pressure relief.
Which is pretty much the argument used by people who want to ban violent video games, yes?
Don’t worry. I read up on the psychology and neurology behind this, and he’s simply completely wrong. Just as those who want to ban violent video games. But considering he did not even show any arguments for why his statements would be right, that should have been clear.:)
I have seen and proven myself, that blowing off steam is a real thing and works very well. That’s why there was this “primal therapy” movement after the 60s, where people could flip out and scream while wrecking the room, or similar strong emotional things. The problem is (and primal therapists nowadays love to keep silent about that), that it does not last permanently. So you have to re-do and re-do it again.
That’s the problem that I specifically looked into and solved. What I found out, is that this “blowing off steam” is just one part of two. And the effect only lasts, if you use both, and in the right order. The second part is the same thing that is used in behavioral therapy. You could call it the actual processing, but that would diminish the importance of the first part. It is hard to explain to the average Joe, how the two parts work together, but you could say it like this: The first part allows you to open up the mis-association (what you may know as neuroses) you repressed. And the second part allows you to learn from them to get back to reality. So obviously, if you don’t do the first part, you won’t know (on an emotional level!) what actually caused it and what you should fix. Which would mean you’d fix “something” and only make it harder to find the real problem again. And if you don’t do the second part, you after a time forget the twists in your brain... the distortion glasses you’re wearing... and go back to the same old same old. Without ever fixing it.
This is why we need that “blowing off steam” every now and then. And this is why modern psychotherapy hardly ever fixes people. (They don’t find the actual problem. Like having a tree that leans to the left, and moving its top branches to the right, instead of its stem. It may fall down anyway.)
...last time we ended up with a particle zoo, we found that they were made out of a few smaller particles (quarks) that never really revealed being separate particles, but where you could find it out indirectly. What if that’s also, in a way, the case here? Or something else that is not a direct property of the Higgs particle, but only of the situation/position/forcefields/... it is in.
Wait, what do “unix Tie-fighter Information Firewalls Anonymous PPP Nike industrial sardine pink PBX Dictionary chosen bet noise delay government information chosen mechanism beef sport mixmaster executive rail tax PGP RL Bugs Bunny Tokyo captain AC Furbys screws’ do in there?? Seriosly... WTF?
That list of keywords matches on pretty much everything out there.
Oh wait... that’s the point... Seems they learned an important trick from their masters (the Catholic Taliban): If everyone is always guilty, you can control them at will.
The point is that a FBI monitoring led to a UKARREST just because of a “dangerous combination of words”.
So in other words: Add the following string to anything, and he goes to jail, WITHOUT HAVING DONE ANY CRIME AT ALL!:
bomb school hate bastard kill all never again bought explosives
If that is enough for someone to go to jail, then it’s way more than is needed for me, to throw you in jail, just because I did not like your comment! Now how cool do you think that would be? Hm? Not very much, am I right?
LOL. You got to be kidding! Neutral according to your world view, and that of your environment. Another view is how the Taliban might describe it. Either the Muslim Taliban or the Christan Taliban (“teabaggers”) The point here is, that everyone of you considers himself the only who is globally one right. And everyone of you has all his “knowledge” and “facts” from what he considers trustworthy and unbiased sources, while to everyone of you, the others are complete nutcases.
And finally: Nobody of you can prove that he is globally right by basing his statements on measured and proven physics and mathematics. You all just trusted your senses and peers.
So unless you can prove that anything except for yourself even exists at all, please take a step back out of your bubble of egocentrism and social conditioning, and take a deep breath.:)
So their “ideal” is something that by the laws of physics, by how our brains and senses work, and by how our society works, is completely and utterly impossible? Yeah... way to go...
As long as they live that delusion, Wikipedia has no chance to survive in the long run.
Because grown-ups have other interests than children.
Yes, you could easily theme Mario or even Kirby in a grown-up style. I’m thinking Sin City styling. Or something with dirty industrial metal and machines in it. You could add an adult story, including advanced relationships, more high-level goal, and other things that grown-ups can relate to.
I think that’s the thing: Can you relate to Spongebob? I can’t. See... If you can, then you’re A LOT more childish than me.
BUT: I’m not judging. I’m not saying that one is better than the other. What counts is how successful we are at achieving our life goals and how happy we are. I just wonder how you do it.;)
A major theme for Nintendo's presentation was the arrival of classic franchises on new systems.
That’s just marketing speak for “We’re way too pathetic to have the balls to go with something new, and even if, we’re completely out of ideas, which is no surprise, considering how we treat our employees.”
The sad thing is, that it’s not a Nintendo thing. Rather the opposite. The whole “industry” has become like this.
Someone should put up a site that allows you to focus on what’s really new.
Now tell me... how exactly would this “stealing of music” work? Explain to me, how you could take away the music from someone, so that he does not have it anymore?
Protip: Container = meatspace = physics of meatspace. != physics of bitspace = bitspace = music. If you manage to steal (take it away, so that he doesn’t have it anymore) music from someone I’ll give you $200 in cash on the barrelhead! (Remember that a brain is a lossy but valid storage container for music too!)
Only if your mind can only reach as far as the Apple delusion bubble goes. Protip: There are a bazillion fuckin’ great media players out there. Half of them are better than any Apple product. And if you consider the price/performance ratio, most of them probably are better. Tip: Buy one that is Rockbox-compatible and get tons of features and formats for free.
Well, look at how Apple competes. Or Microsoft, for another strategy. Being much better does not mean much in a world full of passive-reactive cattle. The louder stronger dick with the worse offer still might win easily.
In spite of their lack of Fair Trade credentials, they pay more to the farmers who grow their beans than most companies ( contributing to the price ).
That is like saying that you should buy from the Nazis instead of the Stalin, because the concentration camps are not as bad as the Gulags. It’s still evil. It’s still wrong. Killing one person instead of two does not make you acceptable.
Hmm... It requires energy to slow down the spacecraft. Which in the case of Mars goes up in heat in the bit of atmosphere, and stuff and heat propelled out in the case of manual breaking with trusters. What if we, instead of throwing that energy away, could just transform it into something storable. Then we could create at least a part of our fuel in-place, wouldn’t have to carry it all the way, and kill two birds with one stone.
I think it’s worth pursuing that idea. Especially for missions to somewhere where there is no large planet/atmosphere to break. Or where the planet is too large to carry all the fuel there.
It does not have to land with the fuel mass. It only has to land with enough mass to get back to orbit. There it can dock to the fuel that brings it back to earth. Like with the mars landings. If you optimize to the sweet spot, you can save a lot.
And then wait ten years for the open source community to bring out a beta clone with just the base functions actually working.;) (If you hate to hear it and like to mod me down, I have to tell you that I hated just as much to say it. But we both know that’s because it’s right and that’s what we actually hate.)
1. Never come up with something yourself but just blindly react to whatever innovator creates a “trend”. 2. Find something to distinguish yourself from what you are actually just trying to make a copy of, no matter how crappy or pointless it is. (Kinect) 3. Market it as if you invented all of it, as if it would change the world, and as if it were the greatest thing since sliced bread. “Use Panzerfaust” if required. 4.... (to *the sound of a herd of cattle starting to move*) 5. PROFIT (Or rather not so much anymore.)
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That’s why ear protectors are completely sold out and there are even people selling cheap self-made ones on the streets. :)
Good ones might reduce the noise by 40 dB. Which makes them bearable. But cheaps ones might only lower it by -10 to -20 dB. Which still is way too loud. I personally would go with noise-cancelling headphones over earplugs and a hat with a built-in cooling fan. But then again, why not just stay at home?
What I certainly wouldn't do is bother to read articles about games I don't like, let alone comment on them.
Yet that’s exactly what you did right now. ;)
Been there, but dude... hypocrite much?
Better watch out for that catch 22 next time!
... is that there is no such thing as "blowing off steam", only an endorphin rush associated with displaying anger which rewards feeling anger and displaying it. Warlike sports make us more warlike, they don't produce a pressure relief.
Which is pretty much the argument used by people who want to ban violent video games, yes?
Don’t worry. I read up on the psychology and neurology behind this, and he’s simply completely wrong. Just as those who want to ban violent video games. But considering he did not even show any arguments for why his statements would be right, that should have been clear. :)
I have seen and proven myself, that blowing off steam is a real thing and works very well. That’s why there was this “primal therapy” movement after the 60s, where people could flip out and scream while wrecking the room, or similar strong emotional things.
The problem is (and primal therapists nowadays love to keep silent about that), that it does not last permanently. So you have to re-do and re-do it again.
That’s the problem that I specifically looked into and solved. What I found out, is that this “blowing off steam” is just one part of two. And the effect only lasts, if you use both, and in the right order.
The second part is the same thing that is used in behavioral therapy. You could call it the actual processing, but that would diminish the importance of the first part.
It is hard to explain to the average Joe, how the two parts work together, but you could say it like this:
The first part allows you to open up the mis-association (what you may know as neuroses) you repressed. And the second part allows you to learn from them to get back to reality.
So obviously, if you don’t do the first part, you won’t know (on an emotional level!) what actually caused it and what you should fix. Which would mean you’d fix “something” and only make it harder to find the real problem again.
And if you don’t do the second part, you after a time forget the twists in your brain... the distortion glasses you’re wearing... and go back to the same old same old. Without ever fixing it.
This is why we need that “blowing off steam” every now and then. And this is why modern psychotherapy hardly ever fixes people. (They don’t find the actual problem. Like having a tree that leans to the left, and moving its top branches to the right, instead of its stem. It may fall down anyway.)
...last time we ended up with a particle zoo, we found that they were made out of a few smaller particles (quarks) that never really revealed being separate particles, but where you could find it out indirectly.
What if that’s also, in a way, the case here?
Or something else that is not a direct property of the Higgs particle, but only of the situation/position/forcefields/... it is in.
Wait, what do “unix Tie-fighter Information Firewalls Anonymous PPP Nike industrial sardine pink PBX Dictionary chosen bet noise delay government information chosen mechanism beef sport mixmaster executive rail tax PGP RL Bugs Bunny Tokyo captain AC Furbys screws’ do in there?? Seriosly... WTF?
That list of keywords matches on pretty much everything out there.
Oh wait... that’s the point...
Seems they learned an important trick from their masters (the Catholic Taliban): If everyone is always guilty, you can control them at will.
Set it to 250 words, click GO, and see the list of 250 things the FBI does want to hide. ^^
Fuck your red herring, FBI ass-kisser!
That’s not the point!
The point is that a FBI monitoring led to a UK ARREST just because of a “dangerous combination of words”.
So in other words: Add the following string to anything, and he goes to jail, WITHOUT HAVING DONE ANY CRIME AT ALL! :
bomb school hate bastard kill all never again bought explosives
If that is enough for someone to go to jail, then it’s way more than is needed for me, to throw you in jail, just because I did not like your comment!
Now how cool do you think that would be? Hm? Not very much, am I right?
LOL. You got to be kidding! Neutral according to your world view, and that of your environment.
Another view is how the Taliban might describe it. Either the Muslim Taliban or the Christan Taliban (“teabaggers”)
The point here is, that everyone of you considers himself the only who is globally one right. And everyone of you has all his “knowledge” and “facts” from what he considers trustworthy and unbiased sources, while to everyone of you, the others are complete nutcases.
And finally: Nobody of you can prove that he is globally right by basing his statements on measured and proven physics and mathematics.
You all just trusted your senses and peers.
So unless you can prove that anything except for yourself even exists at all, please take a step back out of your bubble of egocentrism and social conditioning, and take a deep breath. :)
an honest attempt at a neutral point-of-view.
So their “ideal” is something that by the laws of physics, by how our brains and senses work, and by how our society works, is completely and utterly impossible? Yeah... way to go...
As long as they live that delusion, Wikipedia has no chance to survive in the long run.
Because grown-ups have other interests than children.
Yes, you could easily theme Mario or even Kirby in a grown-up style. I’m thinking Sin City styling. Or something with dirty industrial metal and machines in it.
You could add an adult story, including advanced relationships, more high-level goal, and other things that grown-ups can relate to.
I think that’s the thing: Can you relate to Spongebob? I can’t. See...
If you can, then you’re A LOT more childish than me.
BUT: I’m not judging. I’m not saying that one is better than the other. What counts is how successful we are at achieving our life goals and how happy we are. ;)
I just wonder how you do it.
A major theme for Nintendo's presentation was the arrival of classic franchises on new systems.
That’s just marketing speak for “We’re way too pathetic to have the balls to go with something new, and even if, we’re completely out of ideas, which is no surprise, considering how we treat our employees.”
The sad thing is, that it’s not a Nintendo thing. Rather the opposite. The whole “industry” has become like this.
Someone should put up a site that allows you to focus on what’s really new.
Now tell me... how exactly would this “stealing of music” work?
Explain to me, how you could take away the music from someone, so that he does not have it anymore?
Protip: Container = meatspace = physics of meatspace. != physics of bitspace = bitspace = music.
If you manage to steal (take it away, so that he doesn’t have it anymore) music from someone I’ll give you $200 in cash on the barrelhead!
(Remember that a brain is a lossy but valid storage container for music too!)
Only if your mind can only reach as far as the Apple delusion bubble goes.
Protip: There are a bazillion fuckin’ great media players out there. Half of them are better than any Apple product. And if you consider the price/performance ratio, most of them probably are better.
Tip: Buy one that is Rockbox-compatible and get tons of features and formats for free.
Eehh Tommy, you’re lucky! The Don considers a kinder, gentler ass-rape torture for ya! How about that? Aren’t ya happy now? *laughs*
Don’t worry. There is a reason Boll stopped making “movies”: They finally closed the loophole.
He’s basically done now. Perhaps that’s why he’s now trying it this way.
You definitely forgot Drunken Master (I & II) in there. :)
You’re a C programmer, right? ;)
Protip: It is extremely likely someone already invented a better wheel (library/API/OS part) than you. Use it.
I don't know how Starbucks expects to compete.
Well, look at how Apple competes. Or Microsoft, for another strategy.
Being much better does not mean much in a world full of passive-reactive cattle.
The louder stronger dick with the worse offer still might win easily.
In spite of their lack of Fair Trade credentials, they pay more to the farmers who grow their beans than most companies ( contributing to the price ).
That is like saying that you should buy from the Nazis instead of the Stalin, because the concentration camps are not as bad as the Gulags.
It’s still evil. It’s still wrong. Killing one person instead of two does not make you acceptable.
Hmm... It requires energy to slow down the spacecraft. Which in the case of Mars goes up in heat in the bit of atmosphere, and stuff and heat propelled out in the case of manual breaking with trusters.
What if we, instead of throwing that energy away, could just transform it into something storable.
Then we could create at least a part of our fuel in-place, wouldn’t have to carry it all the way, and kill two birds with one stone.
I think it’s worth pursuing that idea. Especially for missions to somewhere where there is no large planet/atmosphere to break. Or where the planet is too large to carry all the fuel there.
It does not have to land with the fuel mass. It only has to land with enough mass to get back to orbit. There it can dock to the fuel that brings it back to earth. Like with the mars landings. If you optimize to the sweet spot, you can save a lot.
Ewww! That’s nasty dude!
And then wait ten years for the open source community to bring out a beta clone with just the base functions actually working. ;)
(If you hate to hear it and like to mod me down, I have to tell you that I hated just as much to say it. But we both know that’s because it’s right and that’s what we actually hate.)
“Imitate, not innovate”
1. Never come up with something yourself but just blindly react to whatever innovator creates a “trend”. ... (to *the sound of a herd of cattle starting to move*)
2. Find something to distinguish yourself from what you are actually just trying to make a copy of, no matter how crappy or pointless it is. (Kinect)
3. Market it as if you invented all of it, as if it would change the world, and as if it were the greatest thing since sliced bread. “Use Panzerfaust” if required.
4.
5. PROFIT (Or rather not so much anymore.)
Don’t get your hopes up to high. The next farticle may be another Apple Slashvertisement.