You really still believe that the US was ever under the theat of a thermonuclear attack? Have you never seen WarGames, or even better Dr. Strangelove and [...]? Do you think the people in the Soviet Union were all idiots and did not know that with launching such a missile, they would have killed themselves and pretty much everything. Or that the people of the USA were that dumb too? Both sides were fanatic idiots at that time. But they both were not *that* stupid.
But hey, it was very useful to stay in power, to let the people believe it... I wouldn't wonder, if this was in fact a planned global move, to keep both sides in control while creating a false dichotomy...
Those $100 equaled about 1000-2000 clicks (not page views) on a default banner advertisement on the home page of a large web portal in 2005. At a typical click rate (back then, before AdBlock) of 0.03-0.04% (I kid you not!), this results in 33333 to 50000 page views with that ad on it. It's a rough calculation, but you can get a feeling for it that way.
What? And let those without ads get away with it? Naah... If they *can* put more ads in there, they *will*. Wait for whole "games" to be designed around nothing but a pile of marketing shit.
No. Because "When you have 64 PC his (hyphen) the reliability of all of those hard drives would result in more frequent failures than we could tolerate.":P
Answer from Jon Steward: Ah, you mean those oil & gas companies with their own armies killing dozens of people and owning whole foreign countries? Or do you mean those who use the US army, kill tenthousands of people and *invade* foreign countries? Because I'm not quite sure, which one you mean...
Yeah. And when the brake brakes, then either the wind breaks the blades, or the brakes brake themselves, when the wind is too strong. Groundbreaking, indeed!
Hey, who cares? It's the only game where you always win.
Imagine the old saying that in nuclear war everybody loses. Well, not so if you're an Alien, like radioactivity, and just happens to crash land there. ^^
Are you freakin' kiddin' me?? I wrote this comment because of the *exact* point that there were no other mentionings of this at that time! Great work, moderloser!
you don't just make a small group of neurons fire -- many neurons fire a long way away from the electrode. That's probably because instead of activating the cell bodies of the neurons, their axons fire. [...] and the yo-yo connected to the string can be really far away.
Was this ever not blatantly obvious? I'm always shocked by how unobvious the whole concept of the brain is to even the very "scientists" who work on it. They seem to always be caught in some tiny box and/or focusing on details that are only artifacts of the foundational rules. I'm sorry, but trying to identify what a specific part of the brain does (except for some really specific parts like the cerebellum), is a pointless exercise, that shows that you don't really understand the point of the way a neural network works. It is like looking at the digital data inside a memory chip, instead of the wires themselves, to understand how the chip itself works. You can gain something from it. But why use such a bad point of view?
And this is even worse: I mean, who here seriously did not think that when you stick an electrode in your brain, the electricity will run down the axons it touches, to land anywhere that axon ends (Which sometimes can be more than 2 or 3 feet away somewhere down/up the spine!) What did they think before? That it only touches the cells themselves? That's like only touching the fruits inside of a rolled up raspberry bush.
Oh, and by the way: Yo-yos? Really? That's the worst analogy ever. Or did you do that to foster "Yo dawg, [...] yo momma and yo yo ma's yo-yo [...]" jokes?
Glass is extremely slippery. At least if you still want to get light trough, and don't want it to be sharp like a razor blade.
I just imagine a partially roughed glass surface, with some sharp parts breaking out, barefoot kids cutting their feet, and cars still either sliding or cutting their wheels.
You fall for the classic fallacy that only the tech types would be able to use the tech tricks. Do you think only the creator of a crack will actually use it? No, every horribly dumb noob and joe sixpack has a friend who knows how to either install and configure the p2p tool for joe or get the crack and do it himself.
The same thing is the case for those TV cards. It's interesting how it always happens, that that huge muscular guy with the tiny head at the gym knows exactly that you can crack and get those encryption cards, yet can't even install his own driver. He usually heard it from a friend. Then he asks you. And you point him to the local expert, or a local online service to order such services. Finito.
They all do it if they want. They need only *one* guy willing to offer that service to them. And they are willing to pay money for it! Which means there usually it someone.
In the end we win. Hell, we already have. We always had. And we always will. It's physically unavoidable nature.
Interesting... I just noticed, that when you would exchange the quote and the answer of your comment, GP would still be right. I've never seen that before, but it's certainly cool. I'm going to try to reproduce that... ^^
Problem is: It's still a loan. With a rate. It's still ethically unacceptable, because there is always at least one of those who get one, who will not be able to pay it back. (Where would those extra percents of money come from, when all money is just passed on, and never created?)
I stopped using banks as much as I can. Which means that I immediately withdraw everything that's landing on my one bank account, and only sign a contract for such an account, if they guarantee to me in writing, that they will never ever give me a credit, loan, or any money I don't own. (Which is easy, if you know what kills their trust to lend you money. ^^)
I invest only in real physical things that raise in value. Gold was an excellent thing to invest in, in the last years. Because as in every "recession", it's only a recession, if you are in their game, playing it, and things like gold and silver rise like crazy, giving you huge (relative) profits, if you're not.
What? A story with a CEO turning out not to do the dumbest thing in history?? Unpossible!
Are they by any chance... hiring?
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If I were the attacker, I'd do it again. This time properly with no errors at all. And with a special warning included, that fake mailings are in circulation, and with a big official seal of trustworthiness, etc. Something that C?Os love. The whole package of "*drool* want". With no fingerprints, genetic material, etc, but real pressed CDs, with professional labels. I'd let the real NCUA send me some presentational CDs as templates. (Of course to a fake place with no traces on the mailbox.) Oh and the trojan... oh the trojan... I wouldn't even start attacking their network! I would straight out start with making the banks attacking each other for alleged fraud, industrial espionage, etc. It would be a wonderful mess with everybody accusing everybody. A psychological fight club finale. But I guess criminals and ideas like mine, are usually mutually exclusive.;)
It's impressive how you can use so many words, to essentially say nothing!
Likelynesses, tell-tales, non-proven statements "absolutely no trauma". Yeah, right, because you personally checked and have the competence to do so...
The might be evil or not. And I would even like to agree with you, if you had some data in there. But your comment only shows that you couldn't even hold an argument, if you had the facts in plain sight and proven for you.
Next time, come up with a basis and proof for your arguments.
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So you mean that the congressmen will knock on their door, asking for more money, because of the good work and the lobby's admission that it works? ^^
You really still believe that the US was ever under the theat of a thermonuclear attack? Have you never seen WarGames, or even better Dr. Strangelove and [...]? Do you think the people in the Soviet Union were all idiots and did not know that with launching such a missile, they would have killed themselves and pretty much everything. Or that the people of the USA were that dumb too?
Both sides were fanatic idiots at that time. But they both were not *that* stupid.
But hey, it was very useful to stay in power, to let the people believe it... I wouldn't wonder, if this was in fact a planned global move, to keep both sides in control while creating a false dichotomy...
Those $100 equaled about 1000-2000 clicks (not page views) on a default banner advertisement on the home page of a large web portal in 2005. At a typical click rate (back then, before AdBlock) of 0.03-0.04% (I kid you not!), this results in 33333 to 50000 page views with that ad on it. It's a rough calculation, but you can get a feeling for it that way.
What? And let those without ads get away with it? Naah... If they *can* put more ads in there, they *will*. Wait for whole "games" to be designed around nothing but a pile of marketing shit.
No. Because "When you have 64 PC his (hyphen) the reliability of all of those hard drives would result in more frequent failures than we could tolerate." :P
Let's call it "global farming"!
Answer from Jon Steward: Ah, you mean those oil & gas companies with their own armies killing dozens of people and owning whole foreign countries? Or do you mean those who use the US army, kill tenthousands of people and *invade* foreign countries? Because I'm not quite sure, which one you mean...
Yeah. And when the brake brakes, then either the wind breaks the blades, or the brakes brake themselves, when the wind is too strong. Groundbreaking, indeed!
Hey, who cares? It's the only game where you always win.
Imagine the old saying that in nuclear war everybody loses. Well, not so if you're an Alien, like radioactivity, and just happens to crash land there. ^^
Are you freakin' kiddin' me?? I wrote this comment because of the *exact* point that there were no other mentionings of this at that time! Great work, moderloser!
you don't just make a small group of neurons fire -- many neurons fire a long way away from the electrode. That's probably because instead of activating the cell bodies of the neurons, their axons fire. [...] and the yo-yo connected to the string can be really far away.
Was this ever not blatantly obvious?
I'm always shocked by how unobvious the whole concept of the brain is to even the very "scientists" who work on it.
They seem to always be caught in some tiny box and/or focusing on details that are only artifacts of the foundational rules.
I'm sorry, but trying to identify what a specific part of the brain does (except for some really specific parts like the cerebellum), is a pointless exercise, that shows that you don't really understand the point of the way a neural network works.
It is like looking at the digital data inside a memory chip, instead of the wires themselves, to understand how the chip itself works. You can gain something from it. But why use such a bad point of view?
And this is even worse: I mean, who here seriously did not think that when you stick an electrode in your brain, the electricity will run down the axons it touches, to land anywhere that axon ends (Which sometimes can be more than 2 or 3 feet away somewhere down/up the spine!)
What did they think before? That it only touches the cells themselves? That's like only touching the fruits inside of a rolled up raspberry bush.
Oh, and by the way: Yo-yos? Really? That's the worst analogy ever. Or did you do that to foster "Yo dawg, [...] yo momma and yo yo ma's yo-yo [...]" jokes?
Protip: Never *ever* link a "here" or similar word! Ever! :)
Glass is extremely slippery. At least if you still want to get light trough, and don't want it to be sharp like a razor blade.
I just imagine a partially roughed glass surface, with some sharp parts breaking out, barefoot kids cutting their feet, and cars still either sliding or cutting their wheels.
You mean the universe has a <blink> tag?
Nooooooooooooooooo.............
Well, then only *one* provider needs to come up with actual realistic prices, and he takes all their uploading (or other) clients from them.
It's your beloved "free" market at work.
Oh, and wait a decade, and large cities' internets will go trough private wlan and wimax nodes anyway. No need for a provider to share stuff then...
If you mean the Daft Punk version, and not the "gay with 80s plastic shades, who likes 'fishsdicks'" version, then I can agree. ^^
You fall for the classic fallacy that only the tech types would be able to use the tech tricks. Do you think only the creator of a crack will actually use it?
No, every horribly dumb noob and joe sixpack has a friend who knows how to either install and configure the p2p tool for joe or get the crack and do it himself.
The same thing is the case for those TV cards. It's interesting how it always happens, that that huge muscular guy with the tiny head at the gym knows exactly that you can crack and get those encryption cards, yet can't even install his own driver. He usually heard it from a friend. Then he asks you. And you point him to the local expert, or a local online service to order such services. Finito.
They all do it if they want. They need only *one* guy willing to offer that service to them. And they are willing to pay money for it! Which means there usually it someone.
In the end we win. Hell, we already have. We always had. And we always will. It's physically unavoidable nature.
I smell a new Chuck Norris fad clone...
Interesting... I just noticed, that when you would exchange the quote and the answer of your comment, GP would still be right. I've never seen that before, but it's certainly cool. I'm going to try to reproduce that... ^^
Hey! Shhh... I'm twying to hunt wetawds hewe...
*sends out more very obvious scams targeted at IQs below 80*
You know... fow natuwaw sewection and such...
Problem is: It's still a loan. With a rate. It's still ethically unacceptable, because there is always at least one of those who get one, who will not be able to pay it back. (Where would those extra percents of money come from, when all money is just passed on, and never created?)
I stopped using banks as much as I can. Which means that I immediately withdraw everything that's landing on my one bank account, and only sign a contract for such an account, if they guarantee to me in writing, that they will never ever give me a credit, loan, or any money I don't own. (Which is easy, if you know what kills their trust to lend you money. ^^)
I invest only in real physical things that raise in value. Gold was an excellent thing to invest in, in the last years. Because as in every "recession", it's only a recession, if you are in their game, playing it, and things like gold and silver rise like crazy, giving you huge (relative) profits, if you're not.
What? A story with a CEO turning out not to do the dumbest thing in history?? Unpossible!
Are they by any chance... hiring?
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If I were the attacker, I'd do it again. This time properly with no errors at all. And with a special warning included, that fake mailings are in circulation, and with a big official seal of trustworthiness, etc. Something that C?Os love. The whole package of "*drool* want". With no fingerprints, genetic material, etc, but real pressed CDs, with professional labels. I'd let the real NCUA send me some presentational CDs as templates. (Of course to a fake place with no traces on the mailbox.) Oh and the trojan... oh the trojan... I wouldn't even start attacking their network! I would straight out start with making the banks attacking each other for alleged fraud, industrial espionage, etc. It would be a wonderful mess with everybody accusing everybody. A psychological fight club finale. ;)
But I guess criminals and ideas like mine, are usually mutually exclusive.
It's impressive how you can use so many words, to essentially say nothing!
Likelynesses, tell-tales, non-proven statements "absolutely no trauma". Yeah, right, because you personally checked and have the competence to do so...
The might be evil or not. And I would even like to agree with you, if you had some data in there. But your comment only shows that you couldn't even hold an argument, if you had the facts in plain sight and proven for you.
Next time, come up with a basis and proof for your arguments.
You have a submissive girlfriend that is into bondage?
Lucky bastard...!
Don't worry. They will simply ban Venezuela itself, and be done with it. :P