Hi, I can pull in 30k with my KEI enchanter in about 5 hours. 3 million plat pieces being sold is the figure that is going out ACROSS ALL SERVERS from ALL PEOPLE PLAYING.
If you're saying "1 end game uber guild" could do it, you're wrong because most end game stuff is NO DROP and NOT SELLABLE.
Basically hire people round the clock to farm loot, sell KEI, etc. on ALL SERVERS and you can *easily* come up with 3 million plat.
Do the math again, genius. The person at playerauctions with the highest rating, Yantis, has their own brokerage system. All they do is buy things cheap, sell things expensive with both real $$ and platinum.
Yeah, there *could* be a GM scam, but 3million a day / 20ish servers = 150k each day earned.
Bottomline is that you don't know how much is actually BEING SOLD each day - they could be stockpiling it because only a total wipe would buy game platinum.
Giving money out is impersonal. Giving a gift certificate at least gives some hint that you know and care about what the person wants.
Giving a gift isn't necessarily some consumer strategized targeting of your "friend units" in order to stimulate "maximum happiness" growth kinesis.
I'd rather give someone a clump of my own waste as a present than hand them, essentially, purely what I worked for: power units.
A family member giving cash is different - it's like 'pooling the resources for the empire'...
the only exception i make to giving cash is when its a pooled effort from people who don't know each other. Usually that involves a predicated event: "GIVE ME CASH" or distance: long lost auntie mysteria doesn't know what else to do...
so rather than 20 people buying you a $10 CD (or gift certificate) they can all give you cash, you can buy your $200 present, and you can send 'em all a photo of yourself with it saying a polite version of "boo-yeah!"
But yeah, here's $20 dude is bottom of the totem of "buying a gift > gift certificate > money"...be sure to include the receipt with the gift!
Wow, this sounds *exactly* like AOL IM.../sarcasm off
Are you arguing that the first application of a patent to a patent office that gets accepted is bogus? Or is this really a bitter denouncement that you should've thought to do it first?
My assumption is that the space and the tech required to pull off amazon.com would be way greater than any other book chain.
With "bulk purchasing discounts" you still need to store the goods, you only save on the real estate of having an actual point of purchase land-space.
To really save on shipping you have to spread the storage facilities out, reducing both the distances pallets travel & the distance a shipment has to go to the customer.
Does the website & crew cost more than renting out a huge shop for each city & crew? I figure the crew does, but does the tech outweigh the POP real-estate?
> Why, why, why, do they always do this? It should say "could not support life AS WE KNOW IT."
That should read "why do [scientists sometimes] do this?"
You're guilty of the same error they are: making implications, ie, not saying what they 'mean.'
I believe it's not foolhardy to speak of things in present terms: like "could not support life" meaning the only definition of life: life that is right now.
saying that it could not support "life as we know it" seems a bit redundant. Would you ever say "The distant moon could support life as we don't know it?"
Besides, once the moon changes or 'life or our knowledge of it' changes you can then say "The distant moon can support life."
Or how about saying "The moon, that is distant to something, in its current state, can not support life, as we know it, but perhaps in the future the moon, that is distant to something, in its then current state, will be able to support life as we will then know it."
The reason why patenting the one-click, two-click, XYZ click checkout method is that they would have quantifiable, sound proof that it was the most convenient to shop at Amazon versus anywhere else: know why? because they are the only ones with this technology.
Or, they can charge people to use the tech.
What I'm wondering is what essentially composes a "check-out" process being 2 clicks? This clicking process involves having a stored profile, so isn't that added clicks?
It all depends on the marketing, I s'pose, but I just don't see any "checkout" needing more than 1 click, ever, with any number of added & optional steps for 'clickability' labeling reasons if there is data previously stored
Rollercoasters will no longer be a big deal once there's a handful virtual rollercoasters in every city.
The one thing that a virt rollercoaster can't sim, at least not for a while, is my brain telling me that I'm in a rollercoaster and not strapped to a bionic arm.
The thing that's missing from here is the "ROLLING" part of it. At least in star tours or body wars in epcot center (and any decent driving sim) there's actually rollers underneath so that you still feel as though your scraping along on a track / ground.
It'll also be missing the doppler effect on the people in front of you screaming
Programmers ought to contact graphic designers or even "web designers" who are light in the pants when it comes to coding, server side work, etc.
With the WYSIWYG boom, lately, it's becoming easier and easier for non-pros to emulate pro work... any graphic designer who changed 47 style sheets on a few hundred pages by hand because they forgot to put the text in Paragraph tags will tell you that they wish they had the skill and knowhow to efficiently do the programmy stuff based off of their illustrator or photoshop spreads.
I can get a web job for $3,000 as a designer. I can come up with the design (paper prototypes) for about 1/3rd of that. The other 2/3rds is spent hacking through code, when a "pro" would take not even 1/2 that time. . . it is then, obviously, profitable for me to hire a freelance programmer (repeatedly)
Yeh, it's all too obvious a bleached blue collar ethic here for the most part.
Any good out of post-industrial leftovers (cheap big lofts, closely knit undercurrent) have been trampled on by the post-state-school "now i'm in the big city" land rush. I'd swear that someone is implementing an inflatable condo here.
Lived in lakeview m'whole life, it's funny how you can wander around here and rarely see or hear people. Def' a wastelandish nightmare at times.
What neighborhood did you live in? The 'scenes' I frequent I'd deem overly intellectual (delving into the realm of pseudo-intellectual all too readily)... the opposite of angry: everyone has been everyone's best friend for the longest time... and uh, well, yeah, it is kinda boorish.
I find Chicago to be tame, passive versus any other metropolises I've been to. Perhaps that's why certain people might seem extra obnoxious when contrasted by the 'distance'...
Yeh, tho, I've had friends in full agreement of you. But if you back out and say you lived in a suburb (or the south or west sides) then tut tut on you, that's not 22nd Century Chicago.
Anyway, the 'putting up an office building prewired for Internet Access' is, uh, a bit off - The company was Divine Interventures (RIP) and they were offered the internet-building at, like, a fraction of what a riverfront, totally hooked up building ought to cost. The plan essentially turned into the 'Schaumberg Boom' which pretty much nixed the property taxes and other city controlled sorta monies... check the radar and you'll find a spike in the amount of HQs sprouting up in the Chicagoland area.
The Silicon Prairie is what it is - cheaper than the 'coasts', our No Coast boasts pseudo-urban styles, a little bit of everything.
PS . . . I'm not a tech person and I want to get out, it's not the most social of cities that's for sure.
Err, have you seen this playing? I imagine that the sound effects are of a 5 year old sputtering 'battle sounds'
"pchewww! BOOF! PSHOO PSHOO POW!"
Yawn!
Metroid Prime & Resident Evils are what's keeping the gamecube in the mind of the mature ones. Zelda looks like a new playmobil set animated in flash.
Mario Sunshine, and hey - all of their games, are technically impressive but nothin' new.... as far as N64 goes, Conker's bad fur day had an interesting Chicago campaign - they spraypainted the logo all over the sidewalks. Sorry, rented it and 'poo poo jokes' don't make good gaming for more than 3 seconds.
The only games that made the N64 worth it to the mature folks were Goldeneye and Perfect Dark. I believe both by Rare (not sure about Goldeneye)...
but, yeah, monsters going "pow" is for the kids, Splinter Cell & GTA3 are not.
My friend is a 'software guy' and confusing Chicago with "the midwest" is a joke. There are people from the suburbs that say they're from Chicago, and, truth be told, a lot of the Corp. HQs in Illinois are in the burbs of Chicago (Shaumburg, mostly) but we're definitely in a big "fish sucking up all the little jobs just to stay alive phase" here. You've got massive firms here as well as some more specialized and user centered design firms.
Chicago is more expensive than, say, Pittsburgh, and yeah it's a bit cutthroat right now where corps are hiring straight out of school robots at low wages who are no threat to their job security but the difference between some of the big firms here and elsewhere is *gasp* they'd encourage a digital resume being sent in, will fly you out and meet with you, and etc.
According to Robert Zubrin, president of Pioneer Astronautics and The Mars Society, "We are much closer today to sending people to Mars than we were to sending people to the moon in 1961."
How are we going to get around the fact that being away from Earth for approx three years would mean that every cell of your body would be transversed by a galactic ray? Or being in 0 gravity for all that time will essentially weaken the heart to the point that you couldn't return to Earth quickly?
Exactly: So what? If everyone told the truth all the time, all agendas would be out on the table and we'd have no "secret enemies", right?
On the flip side: We should all be very, very afraid. A friend of mine went to a li'l' Communist meeting at his college, signed the sign in sheet, and a few years later when he was applying for citizenship he was rejected and that meeting was cited.
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I think somewhere in between are the less-than-utopian privacy issues... the grey areas... that are worthy of argument.
How about the power to edit our "permanent records"?
Is it a privacy issue that an employer should/shouldn't have the right to know if their employees visit "post-minority fisting-report" websites in their spare time?
I only value privacy when it amounts to avoiding people pushing products, unfairly judging me, taking what's mine, and/or impersonating me.
Other than that, knowing any amount of data about us could only be used to make generalizations about us. . . who would really have the time to come up with a fair assessment? Who's job would that be?
It seems like it'd be less preventative and useful in the "clean up our mess" department of the guv.
I think the contour probe immersed itself in the comet's behaviors, undercover, & followed it closely. At first the comets were suspicious of this strangely shaped companion, but after an initiation rite of ordering the probe to collide with a nearby mass just to "fuck shit up with the business end" the other comets took in the countour as one if their own.
Time went on, valuable data was collected by the clandestine probe... but then one day the probe found it didn't know who it was any more...
When I first got my "unlimited broadband" I did nothing but download for 1 straight month... I had basically set up webcrawlers to retrieve every director website, including pages and sources, every single graphic that I could find, every single font that I could find, all of the flash site archives and, finally, found and used scripts to download every single bit of shareware that was on the web.
I recall using max bandwidth (uncapped back then) for at least 3 weeks straight.
Nothing illegal, I was too paranoid at the time to lose the connection because *they* were watching.
Smoke 'em if you got 'em. Maybe one day a system will be developed that lets you utilize a certain amount (megs? time?) of high speeds for when you "really need it" and the rest of the time you suffer a cap that's more than the current one...
I know I'd not mind my 99% of the time DL cap if I could then pool the savings to massively increase my cap.
I generally TALK LIKE THIS when something is CRUSHING MY BALLS randomly.
That aside, You're off base just a bit.
Here comes the trusty ol' Nazi/Volkswagen story.
The Volkswagen itself: neutral, technology has no 'moral ramification' itself, without use
Being the scientist/engineer team who invented the Volkswagen for the Nazis: "EVIL." (by majoritiy's opinion, at least) They did it to help the Nazis win.
Let's get specific:
Windows itself: neutral, technology
The team behind windows: Possibly EVIL. They support, to be polite, a questionable agenda.
So, this guy might be proving to be a slut for his local master.
We 'should' all quit our jobs if we really have problems with what are employer is doing, unless we think that the power & resources gained by working with something we don't like will fix the harm done by helping the possibly evil entity out.
IE, it'd have been ok to have become a nazi and done things to HELP them if you eventually used that power & proximity to overthrow them.
from the looks of it, this guy is just soft-shoeing whatever minstrel show fetches the most $$$$$$
This is your third post in this thread that has nothing to do with answering the question (deemed too simple to be worthy of your time) but rather with the proper way of responding to the question, how the question is lame, etc.
Yeah, I'm just adding to that pile - but you're killing the hostages so that they're not killed by the kidnappers in an attempt to "save" em, here.
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Anyway, here's the proper way of not cluttering up slashdot (gee whiz, isn't it up to those accepting the questions to decide that?):
The answer is: there is some info regarding the drive partitions in the MBR, but most likely this information is stored on your controller itself in what's known as NVRAM.... right now I wouldn't consider slashdot my one-stop "info shop", but why not? it's easy enough.
Besides, I'd ask Jeeves but Jeeves prefers the term "jovial"... that's a little too homophobic for me. Rumor has it he was spotted sitting alone in a hotel room wearing a confederate flag like an Aunt Jemima headband, a vest, and nothing else...
A second thought - wouldn't that be grand? All of the yuppies would actually get use out of their City Tanks out there in the "new frontier"... we should demand a starbucks be placed there, all of a sudden there'll be a condo development that's perpetually 90% sold and a [insert Health Food MegaConGlom Chain here]
Mmm Mmm! 6 grain wheat, incoming. Hey who wouldn't promote healthy living, leaves you a little more energy after the vampiric economic ramifications of supporting massive health food chain stores!
I think we could cut the Wai Wai in on the deal, too, they could be the health club attendants
"...First of all, it only stops learned fear. This would mean that you would somehow have to stop these soldiers from learning fear of combat situations. You would have to do that at a young age, then how the hell would you train them?"
I think YOU need to RTFA, and absorb the practical consequences of discovering the properties and behaviors of this specific signal pathway.
It directly addresses that, obviously, the lesser-useful "learned-fear" inhibition is hinged upon by a short-protein (GRP) which is encoded by the Grp gene.
The grammar of the article is bizarre. They constantly refer to "learned fear"... as opposed to what? Instinctual fear? Isn't most all fear 'learned'?
I believe what they know now, a little more specifically, is this: how "learning fear" (ie, memory imprinting) works.
what this gives us/them a clue to: how triggering or retrieving the correct "fear reaction" can be altered or stifled.
Who cares about the "army of clones"? The most direct use of any bio-tech is weaponry. In this case weapons that make people irrationally afraid. Subjugation, anyone? The obligatory Philip K. Dick reference incoming: the emotion programs from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Just dial up a neurochemical 'scenario' and you're all set for some altered perceptions... hey, every time you see Ashcroft's face on TV your FeelingTrans can hit ya with a healthy dose of fear.
Bottomline is that this is the first step towards controlling ALL facets of fear.
Next the FBI will buy "spamvertisements" and send out this info from
slutty_FBI_baby_2009ERJKAWJEKAIOSZ@yahoo.com
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KFf0iL xHSjUmyX...... why not? It'd probably work just as well
The women don't mean "if you drink bud you'll get women"
the women are there because, presumably, dudes pay attention to women.
Hence the (in)famous Bud ad that has three women in swimsuits with the logo across the three swimsuits. Some dude is most likely not interested in the budwiser logo when they look at the poster, but the correlation is hard to avoid.
The point is market/mind placement and saturation.
The pragmatic reasons behind purchasing (or not purchasing) any item should, we can both agree, outweigh the 'sexy lady' kicking down the door approach... cost, quality, taste, etc are probably what one thinks about.
But, tell that to a less than college educated rural american construction crew. Bud will probably never go away.
And hey, you're not exactly validating your opinion by saying "I relate bud to other low quality beers" without ever having tasted it. Basically that's telling us that you have formed (somehow) this image of high quality and low quality based on something other than taste. Odd, I'm not exactly sure how the other 'fancier' beers can explain how maybe 25 cents more product/process in their beer makes it a few dollars more expensive.
It happens in other industries, I'd be really interested to see what other beers Bud are selling that's essentially the same product but with a little bit tweaked, a classier identity, and a bit more expensive.
Bottomline - its gotten to a point that budwiser is presented as it is so that you can't help but buy something else.
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Hi,
I can pull in 30k with my KEI enchanter in about 5 hours. 3 million plat pieces being sold is the figure that is going out ACROSS ALL SERVERS from ALL PEOPLE PLAYING.
If you're saying "1 end game uber guild" could do it, you're wrong because most end game stuff is NO DROP and NOT SELLABLE.
Basically hire people round the clock to farm loot, sell KEI, etc. on ALL SERVERS and you can *easily* come up with 3 million plat.
Do the math again, genius. The person at playerauctions with the highest rating, Yantis, has their own brokerage system. All they do is buy things cheap, sell things expensive with both real $$ and platinum.
Yeah, there *could* be a GM scam, but 3million a day / 20ish servers = 150k each day earned.
Bottomline is that you don't know how much is actually BEING SOLD each day - they could be stockpiling it because only a total wipe would buy game platinum.
Yawn.
in soviet russia, gifts give you!
...be sure to include the receipt with the gift!
no, really, they do...
Giving money out is impersonal. Giving a gift certificate at least gives some hint that you know and care about what the person wants.
Giving a gift isn't necessarily some consumer strategized targeting of your "friend units" in order to stimulate "maximum happiness" growth kinesis.
I'd rather give someone a clump of my own waste as a present than hand them, essentially, purely what I worked for: power units.
A family member giving cash is different - it's like 'pooling the resources for the empire'...
the only exception i make to giving cash is when its a pooled effort from people who don't know each other. Usually that involves a predicated event: "GIVE ME CASH" or distance: long lost auntie mysteria doesn't know what else to do...
so rather than 20 people buying you a $10 CD (or gift certificate) they can all give you cash, you can buy your $200 present, and you can send 'em all a photo of yourself with it saying a polite version of "boo-yeah!"
But yeah, here's $20 dude is bottom of the totem of "buying a gift > gift certificate > money"
Wow, this sounds *exactly* like AOL IM... /sarcasm off
Are you arguing that the first application of a patent to a patent office that gets accepted is bogus? Or is this really a bitter denouncement that you should've thought to do it first?
Money = Power, right?
Failed businessman? How exactly did he fail?
My assumption is that the space and the tech required to pull off amazon.com would be way greater than any other book chain.
With "bulk purchasing discounts" you still need to store the goods, you only save on the real estate of having an actual point of purchase land-space.
To really save on shipping you have to spread the storage facilities out, reducing both the distances pallets travel & the distance a shipment has to go to the customer.
Does the website & crew cost more than renting out a huge shop for each city & crew? I figure the crew does, but does the tech outweigh the POP real-estate?
> Why, why, why, do they always do this? It should say "could not support life AS WE KNOW IT."
That should read "why do [scientists sometimes] do this?"
You're guilty of the same error they are: making implications, ie, not saying what they 'mean.'
I believe it's not foolhardy to speak of things in present terms: like "could not support life" meaning the only definition of life: life that is right now.
saying that it could not support "life as we know it" seems a bit redundant. Would you ever say "The distant moon could support life as we don't know it?"
Besides, once the moon changes or 'life or our knowledge of it' changes you can then say "The distant moon can support life."
Or how about saying "The moon, that is distant to something, in its current state, can not support life, as we know it, but perhaps in the future the moon, that is distant to something, in its then current state, will be able to support life as we will then know it."
I'm not holding my breath...
The reason why patenting the one-click, two-click, XYZ click checkout method is that they would have quantifiable, sound proof that it was the most convenient to shop at Amazon versus anywhere else: know why? because they are the only ones with this technology.
Or, they can charge people to use the tech.
What I'm wondering is what essentially composes a "check-out" process being 2 clicks? This clicking process involves having a stored profile, so isn't that added clicks?
It all depends on the marketing, I s'pose, but I just don't see any "checkout" needing more than 1 click, ever, with any number of added & optional steps for 'clickability' labeling reasons if there is data previously stored
Rollercoasters will no longer be a big deal once there's a handful virtual rollercoasters in every city.
The one thing that a virt rollercoaster can't sim, at least not for a while, is my brain telling me that I'm in a rollercoaster and not strapped to a bionic arm.
The thing that's missing from here is the "ROLLING" part of it. At least in star tours or body wars in epcot center (and any decent driving sim) there's actually rollers underneath so that you still feel as though your scraping along on a track / ground.
It'll also be missing the doppler effect on the people in front of you screaming
bah!
Programmers ought to contact graphic designers or even "web designers" who are light in the pants when it comes to coding, server side work, etc.
With the WYSIWYG boom, lately, it's becoming easier and easier for non-pros to emulate pro work... any graphic designer who changed 47 style sheets on a few hundred pages by hand because they forgot to put the text in Paragraph tags will tell you that they wish they had the skill and knowhow to efficiently do the programmy stuff based off of their illustrator or photoshop spreads.
I can get a web job for $3,000 as a designer. I can come up with the design (paper prototypes) for about 1/3rd of that. The other 2/3rds is spent hacking through code, when a "pro" would take not even 1/2 that time. . . it is then, obviously, profitable for me to hire a freelance programmer (repeatedly)
Yeh, it's all too obvious a bleached blue collar ethic here for the most part.
Any good out of post-industrial leftovers (cheap big lofts, closely knit undercurrent) have been trampled on by the post-state-school "now i'm in the big city" land rush. I'd swear that someone is implementing an inflatable condo here.
Lived in lakeview m'whole life, it's funny how you can wander around here and rarely see or hear people. Def' a wastelandish nightmare at times.
Anyway, well met
Woah!
What neighborhood did you live in? The 'scenes' I frequent I'd deem overly intellectual (delving into the realm of pseudo-intellectual all too readily)... the opposite of angry: everyone has been everyone's best friend for the longest time... and uh, well, yeah, it is kinda boorish.
I find Chicago to be tame, passive versus any other metropolises I've been to. Perhaps that's why certain people might seem extra obnoxious when contrasted by the 'distance'...
Yeh, tho, I've had friends in full agreement of you. But if you back out and say you lived in a suburb (or the south or west sides) then tut tut on you, that's not 22nd Century Chicago.
Anyway, the 'putting up an office building prewired for Internet Access' is, uh, a bit off - The company was Divine Interventures (RIP) and they were offered the internet-building at, like, a fraction of what a riverfront, totally hooked up building ought to cost. The plan essentially turned into the 'Schaumberg Boom' which pretty much nixed the property taxes and other city controlled sorta monies... check the radar and you'll find a spike in the amount of HQs sprouting up in the Chicagoland area.
The Silicon Prairie is what it is - cheaper than the 'coasts', our No Coast boasts pseudo-urban styles, a little bit of everything.
PS . . . I'm not a tech person and I want to get out, it's not the most social of cities that's for sure.
Err, have you seen this playing? I imagine that the sound effects are of a 5 year old sputtering 'battle sounds'
... as far as N64 goes, Conker's bad fur day had an interesting Chicago campaign - they spraypainted the logo all over the sidewalks. Sorry, rented it and 'poo poo jokes' don't make good gaming for more than 3 seconds.
"pchewww! BOOF! PSHOO PSHOO POW!"
Yawn!
Metroid Prime & Resident Evils are what's keeping the gamecube in the mind of the mature ones. Zelda looks like a new playmobil set animated in flash.
Mario Sunshine, and hey - all of their games, are technically impressive but nothin' new.
The only games that made the N64 worth it to the mature folks were Goldeneye and Perfect Dark. I believe both by Rare (not sure about Goldeneye)...
but, yeah, monsters going "pow" is for the kids, Splinter Cell & GTA3 are not.
My friend is a 'software guy' and confusing Chicago with "the midwest" is a joke. There are people from the suburbs that say they're from Chicago, and, truth be told, a lot of the Corp. HQs in Illinois are in the burbs of Chicago (Shaumburg, mostly) but we're definitely in a big "fish sucking up all the little jobs just to stay alive phase" here. You've got massive firms here as well as some more specialized and user centered design firms.
Chicago is more expensive than, say, Pittsburgh, and yeah it's a bit cutthroat right now where corps are hiring straight out of school robots at low wages who are no threat to their job security but the difference between some of the big firms here and elsewhere is *gasp* they'd encourage a digital resume being sent in, will fly you out and meet with you, and etc.
According to Robert Zubrin, president of Pioneer Astronautics and The Mars Society, "We are much closer today to sending people to Mars than we were to sending people to the moon in 1961."
How are we going to get around the fact that being away from Earth for approx three years would mean that every cell of your body would be transversed by a galactic ray? Or being in 0 gravity for all that time will essentially weaken the heart to the point that you couldn't return to Earth quickly?
Exactly:
So what? If everyone told the truth all the time, all agendas would be out on the table and we'd have no "secret enemies", right?
On the flip side:
We should all be very, very afraid. A friend of mine went to a li'l' Communist meeting at his college, signed the sign in sheet, and a few years later when he was applying for citizenship he was rejected and that meeting was cited.
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I think somewhere in between are the less-than-utopian privacy issues... the grey areas... that are worthy of argument.
How about the power to edit our "permanent records"?
Is it a privacy issue that an employer should/shouldn't have the right to know if their employees visit "post-minority fisting-report" websites in their spare time?
I only value privacy when it amounts to avoiding people pushing products, unfairly judging me, taking what's mine, and/or impersonating me.
Other than that, knowing any amount of data about us could only be used to make generalizations about us. . . who would really have the time to come up with a fair assessment? Who's job would that be?
It seems like it'd be less preventative and useful in the "clean up our mess" department of the guv.
I'm applying for the patent on an iPod attachment that allows it to function not unlike a GAYDAR.
It's called: the iMoutofthecloset
It essentially allows you to clip the iPod on your belt and away you gay! Thuper!
I think the contour probe immersed itself in the comet's behaviors, undercover, & followed it closely. At first the comets were suspicious of this strangely shaped companion, but after an initiation rite of ordering the probe to collide with a nearby mass just to "fuck shit up with the business end" the other comets took in the countour as one if their own.
Time went on, valuable data was collected by the clandestine probe... but then one day the probe found it didn't know who it was any more...
had it become one of the comets?
Interesting,
When I first got my "unlimited broadband" I did nothing but download for 1 straight month...
I had basically set up webcrawlers to retrieve every director website, including pages and sources, every single graphic that I could find, every single font that I could find, all of the flash site archives and, finally, found and used scripts to download every single bit of shareware that was on the web.
I recall using max bandwidth (uncapped back then) for at least 3 weeks straight.
Nothing illegal, I was too paranoid at the time to lose the connection because *they* were watching.
Smoke 'em if you got 'em. Maybe one day a system will be developed that lets you utilize a certain amount (megs? time?) of high speeds for when you "really need it" and the rest of the time you suffer a cap that's more than the current one...
I know I'd not mind my 99% of the time DL cap if I could then pool the savings to massively increase my cap.
I generally TALK LIKE THIS when something is CRUSHING MY BALLS randomly.
That aside,
You're off base just a bit.
Here comes the trusty ol' Nazi/Volkswagen story.
The Volkswagen itself: neutral, technology has no 'moral ramification' itself, without use
Being the scientist/engineer team who invented the Volkswagen for the Nazis: "EVIL." (by majoritiy's opinion, at least) They did it to help the Nazis win.
Let's get specific:
Windows itself: neutral, technology
The team behind windows: Possibly EVIL. They support, to be polite, a questionable agenda.
So, this guy might be proving to be a slut for his local master.
We 'should' all quit our jobs if we really have problems with what are employer is doing, unless we think that the power & resources gained by working with something we don't like will fix the harm done by helping the possibly evil entity out.
IE, it'd have been ok to have become a nazi and done things to HELP them if you eventually used that power & proximity to overthrow them.
from the looks of it, this guy is just soft-shoeing whatever minstrel show fetches the most $$$$$$
Haha!
... right now I wouldn't consider slashdot my one-stop "info shop", but why not? it's easy enough.
... that's a little too homophobic for me. Rumor has it he was spotted sitting alone in a hotel room wearing a confederate flag like an Aunt Jemima headband, a vest, and nothing else...
This is your third post in this thread that has nothing to do with answering the question (deemed too simple to be worthy of your time) but rather with the proper way of responding to the question, how the question is lame, etc.
Yeah, I'm just adding to that pile - but you're killing the hostages so that they're not killed by the kidnappers in an attempt to "save" em, here.
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Anyway, here's the proper way of not cluttering up slashdot (gee whiz, isn't it up to those accepting the questions to decide that?):
The answer is: there is some info regarding the drive partitions in the MBR, but most likely this information is stored on your controller itself in what's known as NVRAM.
Besides, I'd ask Jeeves but Jeeves prefers the term "jovial"
A second thought - wouldn't that be grand? All of the yuppies would actually get use out of their City Tanks out there in the "new frontier" ... we should demand a starbucks be placed there, all of a sudden there'll be a condo development that's perpetually 90% sold and a [insert Health Food MegaConGlom Chain here]
Mmm Mmm! 6 grain wheat, incoming. Hey who wouldn't promote healthy living, leaves you a little more energy after the vampiric economic ramifications of supporting massive health food chain stores!
I think we could cut the Wai Wai in on the deal, too, they could be the health club attendants
You're supposed to put a STARBUCKS in a neighborhood when you want to increase the TIF funding attractiveness, not a piano!
Why does this remind me of some sort of
"Catholocism spreading to the brutes" scenario of a few centuries ago? Oh, wait, because it is that.
I guess them savage folks needed to understand the Word of God, I mean, it's our duty to inform them that they're going about living all wrong.
"...First of all, it only stops learned fear. This would mean that you would somehow have to stop these soldiers from learning fear of combat situations. You would have to do that at a young age, then how the hell would you train them?"
... as opposed to what? Instinctual fear? Isn't most all fear 'learned'?
I think YOU need to RTFA, and absorb the practical consequences of discovering the properties and behaviors of this specific signal pathway.
It directly addresses that, obviously, the lesser-useful "learned-fear" inhibition is hinged upon by a short-protein (GRP) which is encoded by the Grp gene.
The grammar of the article is bizarre.
They constantly refer to "learned fear"
I believe what they know now, a little more specifically, is this:
how "learning fear" (ie, memory imprinting) works.
what this gives us/them a clue to:
how triggering or retrieving the correct "fear reaction" can be altered or stifled.
Who cares about the "army of clones"? The most direct use of any bio-tech is weaponry. In this case weapons that make people irrationally afraid.
Subjugation, anyone? The obligatory Philip K. Dick reference incoming: the emotion programs from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Just dial up a neurochemical 'scenario' and you're all set for some altered perceptions... hey, every time you see Ashcroft's face on TV your FeelingTrans can hit ya with a healthy dose of fear.
Bottomline is that this is the first step towards controlling ALL facets of fear.
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Missing the point entirely ---
The women don't mean "if you drink bud you'll get women"
the women are there because, presumably, dudes pay attention to women.
Hence the (in)famous Bud ad that has three women in swimsuits with the logo across the three swimsuits. Some dude is most likely not interested in the budwiser logo when they look at the poster, but the correlation is hard to avoid.
The point is market/mind placement and saturation.
The pragmatic reasons behind purchasing (or not purchasing) any item should, we can both agree, outweigh the 'sexy lady' kicking down the door approach... cost, quality, taste, etc are probably what one thinks about.
But, tell that to a less than college educated rural american construction crew. Bud will probably never go away.
And hey, you're not exactly validating your opinion by saying "I relate bud to other low quality beers" without ever having tasted it. Basically that's telling us that you have formed (somehow) this image of high quality and low quality based on something other than taste. Odd, I'm not exactly sure how the other 'fancier' beers can explain how maybe 25 cents more product/process in their beer makes it a few dollars more expensive.
It happens in other industries, I'd be really interested to see what other beers Bud are selling that's essentially the same product but with a little bit tweaked, a classier identity, and a bit more expensive.
Bottomline - its gotten to a point that budwiser is presented as it is so that you can't help but buy something else.