No. You misunderstood me. I think the whole concept of the existence of a "soul" is horsecrap, just like religion.
My idea was more like: We have something special. A will/power to survive, that outweighs even the Borg assimilation nanites. Of course, in reality, such a thing does not exist too. But it can be explained on a basis of physics in the movie.
The whole experience of seeing that struggle of humanity to survive, when it's as close to dead as it possibly could be... is the point of it. The rest only exists to serve that purpose. That special power is just a tool. And a pretty good one, from the perspective of the transmission of feelings.
But who am I arguing with. "totally sucks" is such a deep and good argument...;) I wonder if you ever studied the psychology of movies/games in depth like I have? (It's my job.)
Doesn't a BitTorrent folder already allow adding additional stuff later?
I would recommend making a small modification of an existing open source torrent client: Let the download never stop. Make it look for now parts, updates to downloaded parts (via sha1), and new files in the directory structure of the torrent until the end of time.
That way you have an instant error-resistant peer-to-peer backup and replication service that is as easy to use, as copying (or linking) the files into the right folder.
Oh, and: I know that I'm exceptionally bad at English when I'm still dead from a party last night (it lasted until 10 am today, and I slept until 7 pm).
Luckily tough, going outside also gives me shitloads of creative output time.:)
Because - oh god, this will cost me karma! - Star Trek autors are pretty pathetic themselves. (The best example is that nearly all extraterrestrial life [not just "humanoids"] is like earth, just extremely different where you can't look at.)
If they had invaded and won, the authors would have been unable to come up with a continuation. In Star Trek, everything has to be OK at the end of a show. Only Movies are allowed to change fundamental things. They would be forced to end the show.
If there were more creative authors around, an won invasion by the Borg would be the greatest opportunity of all! Think of that invasion happening in a movie.... and the movie ending with the borg winning and dominating the whole federation. People would have thought: "What the fuck? Why did it not have a happy ending?" But they would never forget it! The following TV show would have a continuous storyline. Starting with everybody - and I mean everybody - being Borg! Then the magic would happen: Somehow, a child of a Human and one of the other major Species, would be able to resist in it's innermost Soul. Like i tiny flame in a storm, struggling to survive. You would experience this feeling with that child.
No cheap tricks about a special race, a data disguising as a Borg, or some crap. No. Just the plain spirit of Humanity and the Federation......fighting, and growing......spreading to other humans on earth too......until the resistance would be so big,...that the whole Borg collective would be assimilated by it! Assimilated by the spirit of individuality and freedom of the mind. By what we think is right an wrong. And the Borg would not know how to handle such a very strange weapon / enemy within. They would traverse all kinds of strange changes in their society, to cope with it, making the Borg something far from what they originally were. All their technology would be useless.
The Borg would be assimilated themselves. It would be a very very hard war on so many and so strange fronts as the mind itself. Until just a small group of some thousand Borg would be caught... the last resistance against the new resurrected Federation. (Everything would still be very temporary, unstable in the background territory, and semi-Borg, using Borg technology.)
But the surviving Borg were changed so much, that they were no enemy anymore, but a helpless race, struggling to survive... with right so survive on its own. So the Federation would let their old enemies live, and make a historic agreement with them, adding them *to* the federation, as the first advanced - and now good - race.
This would also make for some very interesting inner conflicts in the later federation! (27th-31th century?)
As a last plus, the Federation, together with Borg technology, and the new born power of the inner spirit (explained as some electromagnetic power of the brain), would make humanity a new advanced race themselves.
And just as with the first warp flight, this would call for some other advanced - elder - races, who would ask them for contact, allowing inter-galaxy flights and contacting a ton of non-humanoid species (which is possible, now that CGI is good enough).
Oh: If anyone important reads this and wants to contact me, to work on a realization: Bring some money with you! I have much, much more ideas!:)
No, it's just, that it our experience, the likeliness for corruption in such a case is so near to 100%, that it is basically more efficient to expect it from the beginning.
It was on the news this morning a mother in AR, who had kill her three kids. They are taking the three babby back to New York too a lady to rest. My pary are with the father who lost his chrilden ; i am truley sorry for your lots.
That's why we should eliminate the need for a government (or more exactly: for a small group of humans that decide for a large group) at all. Look at metagovernment.org for my favorite solution, until I start my own advanced direct government system.
Warning: Most CDs are just as bad for archival purposes. Buy CD-RWs. They have a higher grade material that lasts 10 years instead of 2-3. And buy media with a data layer out of gold. Not the green or blueish ones. They are organic and die rather quickly. Especially under light. Look for disks with a golden look.
I personally would go with a DVD-RAM for 2x-3x speed. They also use gold, and are specified to survive 30 years. They also have many other advantages like defect-management (like hard disks), sectorization, being rewritable as often as a hard disk, and allowing full UDF usage. If only they were 500GB a piece...:)
I personally recommend buying a good hard disk where all your data fits on, and then two others that are exactly the same. Then put them in hot-swappable bays, and create a mirror setup with a basic well-known file system. Now write the data to it and put the disks at 3 different locations (eg work, home, car [in a sealed bag!]).
Now put them into the bays every month, and let a tool completely read and write the data on the 3 disks again, thereby letting the error correction do its job. This prevents the motor from sticking and the data from bit-rot.
And just as important: Keep the system as it is, and keep it around, just for that purpose. Because some day, you may have disks, but no system that can read them.
I would recommend making everything 3-times redundant (eg using 3 systems, and replace the failing ones, as soon as they fail), but excanging the system by a new one with new technology and new media every 10 years should also do the job if you're not planning for a nuclear war.
Thank you. I knew that it's wise to not buy stones for big money.;)
Oh, and I need big cubes (think square meter) of jewels in my garage too.:D Hey, why not build the windows out of diamond. *Then* I want to see them fuckin' kids break them! Oh, and the grass shall be made out of emeralds... *sharp* emeralds. O:-)
To translate a word, I type Ctrl-L and then "dict someword" ENTER. For Wikipedia I have "wiki sometopic" and "wikie sometopic" for the English Wikipedia.
Oh, I also use Yakuake, and I have a special button on my keyboard for it. So for when Firefox is not running, I press that button, type "wiki sometopic" or "dict sometopic" and Firefox opens with that search. Yakuake even automatically retracts when Firefox opens.
I have this for YouTube (yt=, btjunkie (bt), wikipedia (wiki, wikie), dict.leo.org (dict, dico), price comparison (preis), recipes (rezept), urban dictionary (ud), and others. I did not see the front pages of those sites for months or even years.
have psychological problems which prohibit "getting" certain things.
have physical health problems, like harmful environments, bad food or genetic errors.
You can solve all of them trough
teaching them what they did not know.
healing the neuroses in their brain, so they can think freely again. (Includes religion/fanatics.)
heal their body, by moving to another environment, changing their diet, or fixing their genetic errors with a genetic therapy.
The only thing that's still hard to cure are genetic errors. But I trust the method of "infecting" people with modified virii that inject good DNA into cells. Think of a epidemic of something like this. You could cure the world by releasing such a virus into the wild. Just be very, very sure that it has no side-effects.;)
So if you see someone who is really stupid, and you want to help him, find the *causes* of his stupidity, and fix them. But who am I telling this, when even most doctors don't care for causes anymore...:\
I know you were joking, but some of us are a little bit sensitive about that "Europe becomes one single country" thing. Mostly because the European parliament creates a basic constitution, when most people in Europe strongly oppose it. On the first try, the people voted against it. On the second try they simply did not let anyone vote.
So if Europe becomes a country, they already set in stone the fact that it will become a dictatorship. I hope by then the USA went to normal and China got nice, and they invade us.:)
I will be far far away from what they used to call the first world by then.
I think the major difference is, that in European countries (there is no such country as "Europe") you learn the history of the world, while in the USA, you learn the history of the USA. At least that's how I heard it. We learned about conflicts and events is nearly every country in the world during our school time. We even have to draw outlines of continents with the countries in them. It's actually pretty easy. You do in once, and then you always remember that image when you hear the name.
Additionally, a big world map in a child's room helps much.:)
I wonder if in the USA, children really don't learn about things like rome, the russian empire, the discovery of america (including the killing), china, the nazis, and so on... Hard to believe...
They work for you, because they are seasoned experts. So ask them, and expect them to know better than you. There's no shame in it. You are the expert in your field. That way you work together instead of against each other.
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It was about rollerskates and payphones, wasn't it?
Or Galactica about science fiction.
It's the reduced pressure. That's why it's called leakage. :)
No. You misunderstood me. I think the whole concept of the existence of a "soul" is horsecrap, just like religion.
My idea was more like: We have something special. A will/power to survive, that outweighs even the Borg assimilation nanites.
Of course, in reality, such a thing does not exist too. But it can be explained on a basis of physics in the movie.
The whole experience of seeing that struggle of humanity to survive, when it's as close to dead as it possibly could be... is the point of it. The rest only exists to serve that purpose. That special power is just a tool. And a pretty good one, from the perspective of the transmission of feelings.
But who am I arguing with. "totally sucks" is such a deep and good argument... ;)
I wonder if you ever studied the psychology of movies/games in depth like I have? (It's my job.)
Now where's my Persuadatron, when I need it?
Bullfrog... I really miss you!
Doesn't a BitTorrent folder already allow adding additional stuff later?
I would recommend making a small modification of an existing open source torrent client:
Let the download never stop. Make it look for now parts, updates to downloaded parts (via sha1), and new files in the directory structure of the torrent until the end of time.
That way you have an instant error-resistant peer-to-peer backup and replication service that is as easy to use, as copying (or linking) the files into the right folder.
I'm serious, guys! ;)
Oh, and: I know that I'm exceptionally bad at English when I'm still dead from a party last night (it lasted until 10 am today, and I slept until 7 pm).
Luckily tough, going outside also gives me shitloads of creative output time. :)
Because - oh god, this will cost me karma! - Star Trek autors are pretty pathetic themselves. (The best example is that nearly all extraterrestrial life [not just "humanoids"] is like earth, just extremely different where you can't look at.)
If they had invaded and won, the authors would have been unable to come up with a continuation. In Star Trek, everything has to be OK at the end of a show. Only Movies are allowed to change fundamental things. They would be forced to end the show.
If there were more creative authors around, an won invasion by the Borg would be the greatest opportunity of all!
Think of that invasion happening in a movie.... and the movie ending with the borg winning and dominating the whole federation. People would have thought: "What the fuck? Why did it not have a happy ending?" But they would never forget it!
The following TV show would have a continuous storyline. Starting with everybody - and I mean everybody - being Borg!
Then the magic would happen: Somehow, a child of a Human and one of the other major Species, would be able to resist in it's innermost Soul. Like i tiny flame in a storm, struggling to survive. You would experience this feeling with that child.
No cheap tricks about a special race, a data disguising as a Borg, or some crap. No. Just the plain spirit of Humanity and the Federation... ...fighting, and growing... ...spreading to other humans on earth too... ...until the resistance would be so big, ...that the whole Borg collective would be assimilated by it!
Assimilated by the spirit of individuality and freedom of the mind. By what we think is right an wrong.
And the Borg would not know how to handle such a very strange weapon / enemy within. They would traverse all kinds of strange changes in their society, to cope with it, making the Borg something far from what they originally were. All their technology would be useless.
The Borg would be assimilated themselves. It would be a very very hard war on so many and so strange fronts as the mind itself.
Until just a small group of some thousand Borg would be caught... the last resistance against the new resurrected Federation. (Everything would still be very temporary, unstable in the background territory, and semi-Borg, using Borg technology.)
But the surviving Borg were changed so much, that they were no enemy anymore, but a helpless race, struggling to survive... with right so survive on its own.
So the Federation would let their old enemies live, and make a historic agreement with them, adding them *to* the federation, as the first advanced - and now good - race.
This would also make for some very interesting inner conflicts in the later federation! (27th-31th century?)
As a last plus, the Federation, together with Borg technology, and the new born power of the inner spirit (explained as some electromagnetic power of the brain),
would make humanity a new advanced race themselves.
And just as with the first warp flight, this would call for some other advanced - elder - races, who would ask them for contact, allowing inter-galaxy flights and contacting a ton of non-humanoid species (which is possible, now that CGI is good enough).
Oh: If anyone important reads this and wants to contact me, to work on a realization: Bring some money with you! I have much, much more ideas! :)
No, it's just, that it our experience, the likeliness for corruption in such a case is so near to 100%, that it is basically more efficient to expect it from the beginning.
OMG... *thinks of a giant chain-driven clippy, with a M$-logo on it, rolling at you, over a hill of skulls, firing his huge plasma cannons*
It was on the news this morning a mother in AR, who had kill her three kids. They are taking the three babby back to New York too a lady to rest. My pary are with the father who lost his chrilden ; i am truley sorry for your lots.
They're called Firewire cards.
Oh, and we have Firewire S3200 now. :)
That's why we should eliminate the need for a government (or more exactly: for a small group of humans that decide for a large group) at all. Look at metagovernment.org for my favorite solution, until I start my own advanced direct government system.
Warning: Most CDs are just as bad for archival purposes. Buy CD-RWs. They have a higher grade material that lasts 10 years instead of 2-3. And buy media with a data layer out of gold. Not the green or blueish ones. They are organic and die rather quickly. Especially under light. Look for disks with a golden look.
I personally would go with a DVD-RAM for 2x-3x speed. They also use gold, and are specified to survive 30 years. They also have many other advantages like defect-management (like hard disks), sectorization, being rewritable as often as a hard disk, and allowing full UDF usage. If only they were 500GB a piece... :)
I personally recommend buying a good hard disk where all your data fits on, and then two others that are exactly the same.
Then put them in hot-swappable bays, and create a mirror setup with a basic well-known file system. Now write the data to it and put the disks at 3 different locations (eg work, home, car [in a sealed bag!]).
Now put them into the bays every month, and let a tool completely read and write the data on the 3 disks again, thereby letting the error correction do its job. This prevents the motor from sticking and the data from bit-rot.
And just as important: Keep the system as it is, and keep it around, just for that purpose. Because some day, you may have disks, but no system that can read them.
I would recommend making everything 3-times redundant (eg using 3 systems, and replace the failing ones, as soon as they fail), but excanging the system by a new one with new technology and new media every 10 years should also do the job if you're not planning for a nuclear war.
Thank you. I knew that it's wise to not buy stones for big money. ;)
Oh, and I need big cubes (think square meter) of jewels in my garage too. :D
Hey, why not build the windows out of diamond. *Then* I want to see them fuckin' kids break them!
Oh, and the grass shall be made out of emeralds... *sharp* emeralds. O:-)
Never heard of keyword search?
To translate a word, I type Ctrl-L and then "dict someword" ENTER.
For Wikipedia I have "wiki sometopic" and "wikie sometopic" for the English Wikipedia.
Oh, I also use Yakuake, and I have a special button on my keyboard for it.
So for when Firefox is not running, I press that button, type "wiki sometopic" or "dict sometopic" and Firefox opens with that search.
Yakuake even automatically retracts when Firefox opens.
I have this for YouTube (yt=, btjunkie (bt), wikipedia (wiki, wikie), dict.leo.org (dict, dico), price comparison (preis), recipes (rezept), urban dictionary (ud), and others. I did not see the front pages of those sites for months or even years.
They can learn! Everybody can learn!
People are "stupid", because they
You can solve all of them trough
The only thing that's still hard to cure are genetic errors. But I trust the method of "infecting" people with modified virii that inject good DNA into cells. Think of a epidemic of something like this. You could cure the world by releasing such a virus into the wild. Just be very, very sure that it has no side-effects. ;)
So if you see someone who is really stupid, and you want to help him, find the *causes* of his stupidity, and fix them. But who am I telling this, when even most doctors don't care for causes anymore... :\
... to the world's most giant doctor!
...about asstronomers, Goatse and the large hardon collider (or harcon collider?) in there...
Who's first?
I know you were joking, but some of us are a little bit sensitive about that "Europe becomes one single country" thing. Mostly because the European parliament creates a basic constitution, when most people in Europe strongly oppose it. On the first try, the people voted against it. On the second try they simply did not let anyone vote.
So if Europe becomes a country, they already set in stone the fact that it will become a dictatorship. I hope by then the USA went to normal and China got nice, and they invade us. :)
I will be far far away from what they used to call the first world by then.
I think the major difference is, that in European countries (there is no such country as "Europe") you learn the history of the world, while in the USA, you learn the history of the USA. At least that's how I heard it. We learned about conflicts and events is nearly every country in the world during our school time. We even have to draw outlines of continents with the countries in them. It's actually pretty easy. You do in once, and then you always remember that image when you hear the name.
Additionally, a big world map in a child's room helps much. :)
I wonder if in the USA, children really don't learn about things like rome, the russian empire, the discovery of america (including the killing), china, the nazis, and so on... Hard to believe...
That's still true, but nowadays they call it a "penis". ;)
They work for you, because they are seasoned experts. So ask them, and expect them to know better than you. There's no shame in it. You are the expert in your field. That way you work together instead of against each other.
Yeah. That's what I thought when she told me this.
Still a true story though. :(