Marx said that a communist revolution had to happen in an extremely advanced capitalist state (like the USA). Where have the so-called revolutions happened so far?
Russia: Piss-poor (at the time, and now) aristocracy. mainly full of peasants. Stalin seized power, and it was all downhill from there.
China: Piss poor aristocracy. mainly full of peasants. Mao based his revolution on Stalinist USSR
Cuba: Piss-poor aristocracy. mostly full of peasants. Castro based his revolution on Stalinist USSR
Cambodia: Piss-poor aristocracy. mostly full of peasants. Pol-Pot based his revolution on Stalinist USSR (cambodia's a badish example because they had the inklings of capitalism forming... mostly talking about prostitution here)
Now, what do these all have in common? Stalin. Piss poor aristocracies. Full of peasants. Lacking a pre-existing industrial infrastructure.
And for the moderate part, yeah I agree with you. but Canada and Norway are moderately left, and the US is moderately rightwing.
I think that the 2nd was to prevent a standing army from existing, as it can be turned against the people. The gun nuts now try to argue about protecting their shit from 'criminals'. That's not what it's there for. If you want to go off a little, it's to protect the people from the government, but nuclear weapons are still illegal, and an air force is prohibitively expensive (not to mention that if you called lockheed and asked for a weapons-capable F-18, the government likely wouldn't let you buy it). When faced with the largest military in the world, with thousands of supersonic aircraft capable of delivering millions and millions of tons of explosives within a 3 foot radius of the target in minutes, a 30-06 rifle seems kinna useless to me, don't you think?
which is loosely a left wing dictatorship, which embraces socialism.
The USA is the most business friendly state in the world, throwing it right into the right wing. Left wing would be something like Canada or Norway.
Do remember that socialism is an economic system where most of the industries are monopolized by the government
No it's not, read marx. Socialism is an economic system where the workplace is run democratically.
One thing that is occurring that is an aspect of socialism is less attention is being paid to the individual, and more is to the group
Again, read marx. He says nothing about looking after the group over the individual
Radio waves are much longer than UV, IIRC the spectrum is something like Gamma rays (will penetrate skin, wood, steel... pretty much whatever you throw at it with the exception of some dense elements like lead, and cause all sorts of problems) X-rays (penetrate skin, can cause cancer, not as bad as gamma), UV (penetrates skin, but not far. causes skin cancer, the rest of your body is okay), Visible light (no penetration. no cancer). microwaves (excites water molecules, not much else) and then, we go off to radio waves. radiowaves don't have nearly enough energy to do anything at all to you, particularly slice apart DNA (which is where the cancer problems come from)
These aren't gamma ray devices we're talking about, not even UV devices... they're long wave devices, which are harmless
Actually, i think it's the real marxists that have jobs. It's kindof in everything marx wrote about (which basically boils down to "democratic control of the workplace by the worker" not nationalized economy, etc.). So, no workplace, no marxism for you.
Regardless of weather we can know the position and velocity of a particle, it has one, and that's a set thing... observability is not a required function of determination
HAHAHAHA! You actually believe that drivel about free will? There is no free will, nature/nurture aside, if there's one thing science teaches us it's that there is no free will. Neurons fire, causing other neurons to fire (or not fire) causing muscles to contract, causing a.40 calibre jacketed hollow point to begin a parabolic path straight through a classmate's chest. Not free will, cause and effect.
no, it's not indicative of idiocy... It's rhetoric, and it works. It worked to destroy communism, it works all the time. Ad hominem attacks really hold no weight for anyone with any formal philisophical training (socrates said something to the effect of "in my day we were content to get truth from rocks and trees, so long as it was the truth") but for the unwashed masses, it works really well... if an "expert" say something, it's true, and if an "idiot" says something, it's false. Regardless of the actual truth.
Someone want to please tell me what exactly is wrong with kids being exposed to sexual images?
Honestly, it's part of the human experience, so why stop kids from seeing it? Apart from the obvious differences between porn and real sex, I see nothing wrong with kids knowing where babies really come from...
In the rest of the world, where we use postal codes, there's no way you can mess that up, it goes X#X #X#. like, V5J 4T0 and the last character's the number 0 because it's in the right place for it
In fields?!?! You monster! Killing all those trees with slash-and-burn clearcutting just to grow fuel! And you'd use it for something remotely to do with genetic engineering?!
US Army SL2 reactor: a small reactor for forward deployment. a technician removed the control rod manually, Reactor power spiked to 300,000% and the water in the core was flashed to superheated steam. The control rod was ejected from the core, pinning the technician to the ceiling. Radiation alarms sounded in a fire house 5 mi away.
US Air Force HTRE3 nuclear powered aircraft: electronics pulled the control rods untill the reactor melted down.
"The only thing we could look for was if we find evidence for that our universe is simulated with computers similar to the ones we're using today, ie we could search for typical errors or something like rounding..."
Quantum physics? (particles that come and go... makes for less computation than tracking them all the time)
Not to mention a myriad of other physics that shouldn't work but does.
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What a cop-out. Games don't train you to kill or desensitize you. When you've grown up with them you can easily tell the difference between reality and fantasy. The tension is different, build up, etc. Ever seen the movie "American History X"? It's much less violent than a lot of other movies, but the violence in AHX still, to this day (I watch it a lot, it's a great movie) causes me to be uncomfortable, because the movie is more "real" feeling. I think the same would transfer over to videogames, a videogame that would desensitize you to violence for the real world, you'd have to play through it, and get to know the "enemy" as real people, friends and such, then one day you find a gun and the object would be to shoot the shit out of them. It'd need some crazy-good AI and probably wouldn't sell.
Blaming videogames for violence is such a cop-out, blame bad parenting, blame a school system that allows people to be stigmatized based on what they wear, blame the whole of america for the consumerist quick-fix mindset it spawns. But no, this is America. A quick fix that doesn't force us to look in the mirror is what we need, so we'll blame doom and marilyn manson.
WASD is a more ergonomic way of using arrow keys on PC games. that way your left arm isn't bent all out of shape trying to reach the (poorly placed) arrow keys while your right arm is on your mouse (used for shooting, jumping, ducking and switching weapons in my case).
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Just reading this thread I've noticed that this is the most offtopic story I've seen yet.
The threads spawned by it range from everything from Marxism to gun control.
It's great, there aren't enough OT modpoints in the world to take care of it
Let's analyze this.
Marx said that a communist revolution had to happen in an extremely advanced capitalist state (like the USA). Where have the so-called revolutions happened so far?
Russia: Piss-poor (at the time, and now) aristocracy. mainly full of peasants. Stalin seized power, and it was all downhill from there. China: Piss poor aristocracy. mainly full of peasants. Mao based his revolution on Stalinist USSR Cuba: Piss-poor aristocracy. mostly full of peasants. Castro based his revolution on Stalinist USSR Cambodia: Piss-poor aristocracy. mostly full of peasants. Pol-Pot based his revolution on Stalinist USSR (cambodia's a badish example because they had the inklings of capitalism forming... mostly talking about prostitution here)
Now, what do these all have in common? Stalin. Piss poor aristocracies. Full of peasants. Lacking a pre-existing industrial infrastructure.
And for the moderate part, yeah I agree with you. but Canada and Norway are moderately left, and the US is moderately rightwing.
I think that the 2nd was to prevent a standing army from existing, as it can be turned against the people. The gun nuts now try to argue about protecting their shit from 'criminals'. That's not what it's there for. If you want to go off a little, it's to protect the people from the government, but nuclear weapons are still illegal, and an air force is prohibitively expensive (not to mention that if you called lockheed and asked for a weapons-capable F-18, the government likely wouldn't let you buy it). When faced with the largest military in the world, with thousands of supersonic aircraft capable of delivering millions and millions of tons of explosives within a 3 foot radius of the target in minutes, a 30-06 rifle seems kinna useless to me, don't you think?
which is loosely a left wing dictatorship, which embraces socialism.
The USA is the most business friendly state in the world, throwing it right into the right wing. Left wing would be something like Canada or Norway.
Do remember that socialism is an economic system where most of the industries are monopolized by the government No it's not, read marx. Socialism is an economic system where the workplace is run democratically.
One thing that is occurring that is an aspect of socialism is less attention is being paid to the individual, and more is to the group
Again, read marx. He says nothing about looking after the group over the individual
Socialism is democratic control of the workplace, coupled with the democratic control of the political sphere.
Totalitarianism is dictatorial government control over the market, as well as political sphere
Facism is a free market coupled with government control.
Get your terms right, and don't talk shit about 'socialism' when you haven't even read marx
Oops... forgot infrared. it's between visible and microwave. you can't get cancer from it either, just warm.
Radio waves are much longer than UV, IIRC the spectrum is something like Gamma rays (will penetrate skin, wood, steel... pretty much whatever you throw at it with the exception of some dense elements like lead, and cause all sorts of problems) X-rays (penetrate skin, can cause cancer, not as bad as gamma), UV (penetrates skin, but not far. causes skin cancer, the rest of your body is okay), Visible light (no penetration. no cancer). microwaves (excites water molecules, not much else) and then, we go off to radio waves. radiowaves don't have nearly enough energy to do anything at all to you, particularly slice apart DNA (which is where the cancer problems come from)
These aren't gamma ray devices we're talking about, not even UV devices... they're long wave devices, which are harmless
Actually, i think it's the real marxists that have jobs. It's kindof in everything marx wrote about (which basically boils down to "democratic control of the workplace by the worker" not nationalized economy, etc.). So, no workplace, no marxism for you.
If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound.
Regardless of weather we can know the position and velocity of a particle, it has one, and that's a set thing... observability is not a required function of determination
Where'd you snag that from, anyways?
.torrent?
Wanna give me a
I don't know, but I know I'm doing my part by downloading it every few mins or so
HAHAHAHA! You actually believe that drivel about free will? There is no free will, nature/nurture aside, if there's one thing science teaches us it's that there is no free will. Neurons fire, causing other neurons to fire (or not fire) causing muscles to contract, causing a .40 calibre jacketed hollow point to begin a parabolic path straight through a classmate's chest. Not free will, cause and effect.
no, it's not indicative of idiocy... It's rhetoric, and it works. It worked to destroy communism, it works all the time. Ad hominem attacks really hold no weight for anyone with any formal philisophical training (socrates said something to the effect of "in my day we were content to get truth from rocks and trees, so long as it was the truth") but for the unwashed masses, it works really well... if an "expert" say something, it's true, and if an "idiot" says something, it's false. Regardless of the actual truth.
Someone want to please tell me what exactly is wrong with kids being exposed to sexual images?
Honestly, it's part of the human experience, so why stop kids from seeing it? Apart from the obvious differences between porn and real sex, I see nothing wrong with kids knowing where babies really come from...
If a system like this were implemented, how would they deal with apartment buildings? Is there a field for exact height ASL (above sea)?
In the rest of the world, where we use postal codes, there's no way you can mess that up, it goes X#X #X#. like, V5J 4T0 and the last character's the number 0 because it's in the right place for it
In fields?!?! You monster! Killing all those trees with slash-and-burn clearcutting just to grow fuel! And you'd use it for something remotely to do with genetic engineering?!
Also:
US Army SL2 reactor: a small reactor for forward deployment. a technician removed the control rod manually, Reactor power spiked to 300,000% and the water in the core was flashed to superheated steam. The control rod was ejected from the core, pinning the technician to the ceiling. Radiation alarms sounded in a fire house 5 mi away.
US Air Force HTRE3 nuclear powered aircraft: electronics pulled the control rods untill the reactor melted down.
"The only thing we could look for was if we find evidence for that our universe is simulated with computers similar to the ones we're using today, ie we could search for typical errors or something like rounding..."
Quantum physics? (particles that come and go... makes for less computation than tracking them all the time) Not to mention a myriad of other physics that shouldn't work but does.
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mmm.... magic lemonade...
*foams at mouth*
What a cop-out. Games don't train you to kill or desensitize you. When you've grown up with them you can easily tell the difference between reality and fantasy. The tension is different, build up, etc. Ever seen the movie "American History X"? It's much less violent than a lot of other movies, but the violence in AHX still, to this day (I watch it a lot, it's a great movie) causes me to be uncomfortable, because the movie is more "real" feeling. I think the same would transfer over to videogames, a videogame that would desensitize you to violence for the real world, you'd have to play through it, and get to know the "enemy" as real people, friends and such, then one day you find a gun and the object would be to shoot the shit out of them. It'd need some crazy-good AI and probably wouldn't sell.
Blaming videogames for violence is such a cop-out, blame bad parenting, blame a school system that allows people to be stigmatized based on what they wear, blame the whole of america for the consumerist quick-fix mindset it spawns. But no, this is America. A quick fix that doesn't force us to look in the mirror is what we need, so we'll blame doom and marilyn manson.
god bless america.
WASD is a more ergonomic way of using arrow keys on PC games. that way your left arm isn't bent all out of shape trying to reach the (poorly placed) arrow keys while your right arm is on your mouse (used for shooting, jumping, ducking and switching weapons in my case).
LIES! Filthy horrible lies! Stop at book 3, H2G2 books 4 & 5 sucked, added nothing to the original storyline, and were just plain not funny.