There's that parasite that's found in cat faeces, that when ingested by a rat, will cause a rat to become reckless and unafraid of cat smells (previously running a mile) so that it will likely be killed, infect the cat responsible and carry on the cycle.
It also makes humans who ingest it more wreckless and therefore likely to get killed - and provide the opportunity for their infected corpses to be consumed by another potential host.
The thread worm (?) in Africa - the one that can come out anywhere on the body, not through stools - for example the leg, or eye or wherever - is passed on through drinking parasite infested water. At the time of emergence, it will make its host, just as likely a human as any other animal, attracted to water, and they will wander to the water, immerse themselves in it, the parasite will emerge and infect the water.
Parasites altering their host's behaviour is not news in and of itself.
"for example, if a random stranger walked up to you on the street and said that they were a representative from your bank and said that they must verify your account information otherwise they will have to close down your account, you would tell them to fuck off, walk away, and maybe even call the police on them."
Interestingly, Derren Brown, a fellow specialising in psychological manipulation and stuff like that, did a stunt in a seaside resort (the clip isn't to be found at the link I gave unfortunately) where he 'simply' went up to people, asked them for directions to somewhere, and then asked them for their wallet/purse.
He was successful about 60% of the time (IIRC) and walked off with the person's cash. The victims all then stood about a little while later, wondering if something wasn't amiss, and then, realised something and chased Derren down (who had only sauntered a little distance down the road) to ask him if they hadn't given him their cash.
One poor chap was given his wallet back, and then Derren took it away from him again, there and then!
Don't be too sure that the internet is to blame. People have been conned in the real world since time began.
Except that Google's ads are no longer *guaranteed* to be non-intrusive and non-distracting.
The moment I saw google serving up adverts in the style of those fake system warning messages, was the day everything from */pagead/* got squished by my adblock filter.
I don't see what's unreasonable about opposing genetically modified plants which can essentially corrupt the natural, millions-of-years-old gene pool - y'know... life on this planet - for some fairly mean ends. With generally unknown and potentially catastrophic results.
The limiting factor for population will not be food, but water supply, which is all ready scarce in many areas of the world.
Even if we were to solve this particular issue, however, this is not a good argument for limitless population growth and endless invention to deal with the inevitable consequences that accrue from there being billions of hairless apes walking around this planet, sucking up resources, squeezing out other species, which we actually depend on in this interdependent world, and shitting out various forms of waste and toxins in our desire for a way of life that is at best out of kilter and insensitive to the natural world, and at worst deeply hostile to it (generally for reasons of pure selfishness).
How about we deal with the pressing situation by limiting and managing our populations, our impact on the world, our drain and demand on the limited resources that exist and living in harmony with all the other countless billions of other species (which we depend on directly or indirectly to one extent or another)?
I just don't buy that argument, I'm afraid. DVDs do not offer "more entertainment" than CDs. In no way, shape or form do they provide more enetertainment.
You can listen to an hour's worth of music on a CD, time after time after time. How many times do people really watch a movie?
Speaking for myself - once, and maybe again some *years* later. Whereas I'll listen to a good album maybe several times a month.
I think the idea that movies somehow provide more entertainment for your buck than a music album, is a fallcy.
"Fer Chrissakes, Sudan, a government currently undergoing an organized campaign of genocide against its own citizenry,sits at the head of the UN Human Rights Commission. And what does the General Assembly do about such a travesty? It steadfastly refuses to pass a resolution condemning antisemitism."
You might want to check the propaganda the US government and related bodies is spitting out with regard to the Sudanese "genocide" with a few other perspectives.
American warnings that Darfur is heading for an apocalyptic humanitarian catastrophe have been widely exaggerated by administration officials, it is alleged by international aid workers in Sudan. Washington's desire for a regime change in Khartoum has biased their reports, it is claimed.
"I'd like to see Internet Explorer gone, but it's too well embedded."
I'd like to see fucking Outlook Express gone. It's ridiculous. I uninstall it, set access permissions to deny, and yet if I click on a mailto link with no mail client installed, Outlook still launches and asks for access to the internet!
I uninstalled the fucker and denied it access permissions, for christ's sake.
When I tried to delete the files from the outlook folder - they magically re-appear. And people go on about Real and their dodgy practices.
And sure, I know there's a complicated process I could go through to get the piece of crap off my computer, but I should just be able to uninstall it like any other program.
I'd like to see the EU tackle Outlook Express, and bitchslap Microsoft for that piece of infest-ware.
"I don't think Google has any right [...] to make a stand against the Chinese government."
This gets moderated interesting? Let us all cease our condemnation of Myanmar (Burma), of Zimbabwe, of Iraq... they might not like it, and apparently we don't have the "right". What nonsense.
"If the socialists in that country see fit to regulate the media [...] then Google (an American company) has no business telling them they are wrong."
They have as much business as I do in telling you you're nothing but a good little shill for oppressors the world over; ie. every goddamned right.
It looks like Google's appended "(unless it makes us a buck)" to "Don't be evil". Damn shame.
I don't want to sound too horrible but, I think you might just be onto something there!;)
They figured us limeys would take the shit Americans won't put up with, I guess.
Time to have a word with the reason they have any sort of user base here in the UK - Auntie - and let her know the crap their media format provider is putting us license fee payers through.
"How many clicks does it take for you to click "Download" on www.real.com [real.com]?"
Several, actually.
I get redirected to "uk.real.com/radiopass/?&src=ZG.uk.idx" from real.com, and I have to select the 'RadioPass Trial' download button because there is no free player link anywhere to be seen.
I then have to deselect some "free trial offer!" tick-boxes and enter an e-mail address, say I'm a new customer... so i guess they expect me to register and give a password... and a credit card!
I think my question has to be: why is your company the cunt of the media software world?
" People that sell weapons, tools, and cars better be punished too. "
Interestingly, Hatch introduced (it says here) legislation "in March 2000 to protect firearms manufacturers from lawsuits arising from crimes committed with their guns".
'Hypocritical douche-bag', is the phrase you're fumbling for.
In case you've forgotten, we have the EUCD over here just as you have the DMCA overe there - the effective privatisation of copyright law (Corps now write their own rules - trying to circumvent those rules brings in the law).
Our governments are just as 0wnz0red by media corporations as America's, I'm afraid.
John Lettice of The Register has an interesting take on the 'starter' edition:
...as Microsoft builds relationships with the local system builders it will become less and less feasible for businesses to get away with running pirate software. They'll be offered special upgrade deals to full versions, pulling them further into the 'ecosystem' too, and you can see clear parallels with the way Microsoft's sales efforts have progressed in the developed world.
The plan, therefore, is not to eradicate piracy in consumer markets, but to fuel the development of a 'legitimate' market in government and business while throttling any prospect of open source developing its own markets in the area. Government and business will, as in the developed world, pay a goodly price to Microsoft for its software, while Microsoft will be able to increase the number of PCs that ship with its software (any software will do) and hence yield it the Microsoft tax. The actual entry price paid by government isn't (as in the developed world) particularly relevant, so long as it enters) and whatever the end user shoves on the machine isn't anything like as important as it is for Microsoft to pick up the rent from them as part of the machine's price (as, also, in the developed world).
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"Another funny thing is there are always a lot of posts like "Gay dude seeks straight male for discreet oral -- No reciprocation." To each his own and all, but I can't imagine that being successful."
I imagine it's more successful than the ad that runs "Gay dude seeks straight male for discreet oral -- reciprocation mandatory."
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It also makes humans who ingest it more wreckless and therefore likely to get killed - and provide the opportunity for their infected corpses to be consumed by another potential host.
The thread worm (?) in Africa - the one that can come out anywhere on the body, not through stools - for example the leg, or eye or wherever - is passed on through drinking parasite infested water. At the time of emergence, it will make its host, just as likely a human as any other animal, attracted to water, and they will wander to the water, immerse themselves in it, the parasite will emerge and infect the water.
Parasites altering their host's behaviour is not news in and of itself.
Interestingly, Derren Brown, a fellow specialising in psychological manipulation and stuff like that, did a stunt in a seaside resort (the clip isn't to be found at the link I gave unfortunately) where he 'simply' went up to people, asked them for directions to somewhere, and then asked them for their wallet/purse.
He was successful about 60% of the time (IIRC) and walked off with the person's cash. The victims all then stood about a little while later, wondering if something wasn't amiss, and then, realised something and chased Derren down (who had only sauntered a little distance down the road) to ask him if they hadn't given him their cash.
One poor chap was given his wallet back, and then Derren took it away from him again, there and then!
Don't be too sure that the internet is to blame. People have been conned in the real world since time began.
The moment I saw google serving up adverts in the style of those fake system warning messages, was the day everything from */pagead/* got squished by my adblock filter.
They've only got themselves to blame.
Proof, kids, that using porn really ages you.
The limiting factor for population will not be food, but water supply, which is all ready scarce in many areas of the world.
Even if we were to solve this particular issue, however, this is not a good argument for limitless population growth and endless invention to deal with the inevitable consequences that accrue from there being billions of hairless apes walking around this planet, sucking up resources, squeezing out other species, which we actually depend on in this interdependent world, and shitting out various forms of waste and toxins in our desire for a way of life that is at best out of kilter and insensitive to the natural world, and at worst deeply hostile to it (generally for reasons of pure selfishness).
How about we deal with the pressing situation by limiting and managing our populations, our impact on the world, our drain and demand on the limited resources that exist and living in harmony with all the other countless billions of other species (which we depend on directly or indirectly to one extent or another)?
How's that for an "imperfect solution"?
Or is it merely inconventient?
>>I guess this just proves that porn really does drive every new technology ;-)
No entry at all for "pussy" though.
"Dick" on the other hand is there.
OMG! Google is gay!
I just don't buy that argument, I'm afraid. DVDs do not offer "more entertainment" than CDs. In no way, shape or form do they provide more enetertainment.
You can listen to an hour's worth of music on a CD, time after time after time. How many times do people really watch a movie?
Speaking for myself - once, and maybe again some *years* later. Whereas I'll listen to a good album maybe several times a month.
I think the idea that movies somehow provide more entertainment for your buck than a music album, is a fallcy.
The former is something that's within your actual power?
Me too - for everything print.google.com related.
I thought it might be to do with the fact that I'm in the UK, and a print.google search doesn't show up anything in Google.co.uk results.
Are you in the UK too? Maybe Google's blocking non-US IPs?
Anyone confirm?
You might want to check the propaganda the US government and related bodies is spitting out with regard to the Sudanese "genocide" with a few other perspectives.
Here's one from The Observer that says that claims of genocide by the US administration are overstated and politically motivated.
That's pretty much the current US in a nutshell.I'd like to see fucking Outlook Express gone. It's ridiculous. I uninstall it, set access permissions to deny, and yet if I click on a mailto link with no mail client installed, Outlook still launches and asks for access to the internet!
I uninstalled the fucker and denied it access permissions, for christ's sake.
When I tried to delete the files from the outlook folder - they magically re-appear. And people go on about Real and their dodgy practices.
And sure, I know there's a complicated process I could go through to get the piece of crap off my computer, but I should just be able to uninstall it like any other program.
I'd like to see the EU tackle Outlook Express, and bitchslap Microsoft for that piece of infest-ware.
This gets moderated interesting? Let us all cease our condemnation of Myanmar (Burma), of Zimbabwe, of Iraq ... they might not like it, and apparently we don't have the "right". What nonsense.
"If the socialists in that country see fit to regulate the media [...] then Google (an American company) has no business telling them they are wrong."
They have as much business as I do in telling you you're nothing but a good little shill for oppressors the world over; ie. every goddamned right.
It looks like Google's appended "(unless it makes us a buck)" to "Don't be evil". Damn shame.
Just so people know, the 'listen again' service won't give you the programme until after the repeat on Thursday night (11:00pm GMT+1).
ps. I just listened to the first episode and it was *fantastic* - much funnier than I remember the last two series being.
Jesus, somebody send Lucas that book with that passage highlighted.
Soon, if they're the geniuses you say they are - before anyone realises the list is run by their competitors - McAfee! :)
Maybe Jobs and his spouse could challenge Mc.Cartney and his wife to a three legged race?
William Franklin was also the lead-voice talent in the game Startopia.
Well, they don't have to get rid, just slap 'em about a bit and tell them to behave. That'd do me.
I don't want to sound too horrible but, I think you might just be onto something there! ;)
They figured us limeys would take the shit Americans won't put up with, I guess.
Time to have a word with the reason they have any sort of user base here in the UK - Auntie - and let her know the crap their media format provider is putting us license fee payers through.
Several, actually.
I get redirected to "uk.real.com/radiopass/?&src=ZG.uk.idx" from real.com, and I have to select the 'RadioPass Trial' download button because there is no free player link anywhere to be seen.
I then have to deselect some "free trial offer!" tick-boxes and enter an e-mail address, say I'm a new customer ... so i guess they expect me to register and give a password ... and a credit card!
I think my question has to be: why is your company the cunt of the media software world?
Interestingly, Hatch introduced (it says here) legislation "in March 2000 to protect firearms manufacturers from lawsuits arising from crimes committed with their guns".
'Hypocritical douche-bag', is the phrase you're fumbling for.
Stand up to industry bigwigs?
In case you've forgotten, we have the EUCD over here just as you have the DMCA overe there - the effective privatisation of copyright law (Corps now write their own rules - trying to circumvent those rules brings in the law).
Our governments are just as 0wnz0red by media corporations as America's, I'm afraid.
Oh wow. Thanks.
If I ever get sick of ZA (maybe when), and give it another shot, I'll remember that.
Cheers.
I imagine it's more successful than the ad that runs "Gay dude seeks straight male for discreet oral -- reciprocation mandatory."