Who cares about Vista... the interesting one is Barcode Battler!
Instead of spending gobs of cash on Pokemon Cards or Magic Cards or whatever other type of card game you play, you can raid the cupboard, grab some barcodes and make your own decks to play against your friends.
I bet if the sarcastic doofus reviewing it had read the instructions before starting his review, he might have gotten more out of it.
Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out. I suspect though, that if you were dumb enough to actually move, you might find out what a real police state and real tyranny is. Much better, easier, and safer to bitch from your safe confines within the US.
I don't live in the US. And quite frankly, I'm afraid to enter again, even just to travel through to another country. I think your country is seriously fucked up, and as a foreigner, I'd fear for my safety.
You fail to consider the possibility that people actually want to live in the society that he wants to create. The people don't want an ideology of competing for profit, they don't want conflict, they just want to work together, live their lives with some happiness, be productive, have a family and grow old.
The man isn't ruling his people. He's leading his people, and they're following him because they like where he's going and they trust his capacity to get the job done.
I think the concept of a 'term' violates the democratic process.
It allows the con artists room to do real damage before they can be ousted from roles that give them authority, and it prevents genuinely good leadership from doing long term damage to the machinations of conspiracies, which is what the modern corporate structure amounts to.
Democracy should be direct, transparent, participatory, and accompanied by a communist economic structure whose purpose starts and ends with intelligent maintenance of and expansion of common infrastructure.
I think the ideal infrastructure would be to allow people to vote on every issue, some issues, or no issues, and if they weren't voting on issues, they assign their vote to any individual they like, lending their weight to that persons vote.
So Hillbilly Joe can get Doctor Adams to speak on his behalf on issues he feels under qualified to decide about, and Doctor Adams can pass the vote for half the town on to a brilliant and responsible guy he knew in university on issues he doesn't understand. All the while, Twitchy McGee can sit at his computer researching during every spare moment and try to micromanage the world if he is so inclined.
One of the characteristics of human societies is that they are very good at organizing themselves into totalitarian power structures when they are afraid and wish to enjoy the advantages centralized control brings during times of threat, but they are not very good at peacefully setting aside such power structures.
Everyone is cool, until one day the shit hits the fan, then they become a centrally managed army, because it's wise, then when the threat is gone, they end up having to fight each other to disassemble the structure.
That's what the modern corporate structure is. It's a centrally managed army of scared people, who are scared because the rules are set up to make society into an inhospitable jungle if you haven't personally made allies. It's sick.
What we need is intelligent, wise and centralized control of critical infrastructure, with every person participating to the best of their capacity in each of the sectors so they have a sense of connection to what is going on, without the freedom to refuse, and as much autonomy to pursue higher achievements or personal leisure after they have done their chores as is possible.
Places like Russia and China show more promise than the west. Not because of their leadership, but because of the sense of connectedness that their people feel. Politically, we are like a bunch of savages, while they are like a dysfunctional family.
What, you think a man who has demonstrated both loyalty to his nation and the capacity to lead it effectively should just be isolated from the government on principle? In the absence of overweening pride, such men are national treasures in every society, with first hand experience in the recent history of the country that shouldn't be discarded out of hand.
Around here, we recognize the utility of such men through such political structures as the Senate.
There's nothing foul or corrupt about Putin wanting to remain in government behind the scenes.
China isn't getting things in trade for those exports. They're exporting on loan, to the tune of billions and billions of dollars, and they're doing it so they can keep justifying the existing power structures where everyone goes to a factory to work while preventing too much wealth from being created that might lead to a cease in production.
They could accomplish the same goal by dumping the goods into the Pacific as quickly as they were made. The USA hasn't had anything significant to offer by way of trade in a long, long time. If you're going to talk about China-US relations, you really need to fully digest these realities, or you're going to end up way off.
To the people of China, working in those factories is no more practically useful than the Pyramids were to the Egyptians.
The cold war wasn't between democracy and totalitarianism. It was between evil men who got their power from capitalism and evil men who got their power from totalitarianism.
Ideologically, communism is a better system of rules than capitalism, because in a communist economy, the group has an implicit duty to care about your well being and not leave you to freeze in the cold. In capitalism, they have an implicit duty to let you freeze.
Ideologically, democracy is a better system of leadership than totalitarianism, because in a democratic society, the leader is materially accountable to the population, and can be replaced if he should wield that power according to whim rather than in the fulfillment of their duty.
However, in the end, violence and deprivation are both effective tools for oppressing people, so it doesn't matter if you've got communism or democracy, if you've got totalitarianism or capitalism complimenting it, you're living with the threat of death staring you in the face.
The cold war was won when the corrupt Russian oligarchy agreed to unite with the corrupt NATO capitalists and oppress everyone under the capitalist system.
Putin is in an uncomfortable situation over there. They've already re-structured their society according to the capitalist ideology, so there aren't really any legal means he can use to prevent foreigners from raping his country and impoverishing his people, but he's decided to fight it out anyways.
Of course, good luck finding anyone saying anything like that out of any Western run news organization. The people who own those outlets are the same ones who would happily see all those Russians back in the mines making minimum wage and living in poverty while all their natural resources are systematically piped out of the country and used to heat our houses.
See, I don't see Fox News as a directly Pro-Bush station. I see it as a fear-mongering tool, used to keep the population too insane from a bombardment of propaganda intended to incite reactionary fear to be capable of voting in an intelligent and measured fashion.
The efforts of Kasparov and his ilk are after the same sort of thing. Make people too afraid to co-operate and trust in each other so they can be turned against each other and exploited, like we do here in North America.
No, I think I'd like it more if we started taking a page out of their book, instead of the other way around.
The people of Russia elected Putin. By comparison, rich foreign capitalists who want to plunder Russia support Kasparov. He's an immoral piece of shit who cares no more for the welfare of others in his country than he does for chess pieces.
Personally, I'm happy to hear this. I hope they stick him in a dark hole forever. This is good for the people of Russia, and for the people of the world.
Take your shoes off and run on soft earth instead of concrete, asphalt or hardwood. You'll improve your body posture dramatically. Good shoes relieve impact stress, but they cripple the stabilizer muscles of the foot and ankle in the long term.
No what I'm saying is two people who are fed the same number of excess calories, the person who does the weight bearing exercise will not gain as much fat and the second person. The conventional wisdom has always been 3500 Kcal = one pound of fat, and that anyone who consumes 3500 Kcals more than they burn will gain one pound of fat, and it doesn't matter what kind of food the calories come from because a Kcal is a Kcal.
If the excess calories are not burned and not stored, where do they go..?
I'll give you a hint. It's brown, it stinks, and if you go to sleep with an itchy ass, you'll wake up with some of it on your finger.
Well, I eat little to nothing during the day, take 15 minute breaks to practice Capoeira in the backyard hourly, then consume large amounts of fruit, vegetables and meat during the evening.
I find sugar distastefully sticky and starchy foods bland, I find digestion during the day makes me sluggish and stupid, and I find doing strenuous physical activity keeps me from getting sluggish and hypnotized, so I ignore everything written down by science and go with what my body wants. This has led to me being a lean strong guy who can run all day on no breakfast and walk around on his hands.
I find the metaphor an appropriate comparison between the way I eat and the way I see other people eat. YMMV.
Medicine is scientific where it can be. Any time in which you must observe a group that consists of humans, you are incapable of running multiple tests across multiple generations. You're dead before you find out what long term effect a lifestyle can have.
As for being fat. If you eat like a predator, you'll have a body like a predator. If you eat like a herbivore, you'll look like one.
So, eat huge portions of animal flesh, late in the day, and stay away from sugars and starches, and you won't look like a cow.
The more you force your body to get its energy from fat, the better it will get at doing it.
Except the public doesn't have the right to know everything that happens. That is often times cited when a journalist wants to go on a fishing expedition for embarrassing things that celebrities may have done. Which usually is that a couple are sleeping around or may be getting married really isn't something that the public has a right to know about.
I don't think the public has the right to have the government protect their secrets from other members of the public. As a member of the public, I may not have the right to know everything, but I will try to do it anyways, and try to help others do it. I think misleading the public should be a capital offense, and it should be the responsibility of every citizen to assist in ferreting out liars and putting them to death by their own hand.
And if you're in opposition, I have no problem having a biblical style rock fight to the death with you either, just on principle.
That or the fact that no one has ever beamed energy from a satellite to a terrestrial site. Ever. Remember that thing called "an atmosphere?" So we're talking lasers, right? You want to show me where the prototype exists to convert a very-high-powered laser beam to an electricity source? Just one will do. Go on. Show me one example.
Won't sell because of a power conspiracy? Give me a break. If a company could do this already, they'd be launching satellites on a daily basis. Think about it for a moment: you could be the company that supplies most of the world's power while waving the banner of environmental responsibility. But *no one* has even built *a prototype* because of your supposed cabal?
I think your tin foil hat needs to be cleaned; you've been wearing it far too long already.
If you'd read the study, which I linked to, which was commissioned for the US government by the DoD:
For the DoD specifically, beamed energy from space in quantities greater than 5 MWe has the potential to be a disruptive game changer on the battlefield. SBSP and its enabling wireless power transmission technology could facilitate extremely flexible "energy on demand" for combat units and installations across an entire theater, while significantly reducing dependence on vulnerable over-land fuel deliveries.
Also, you could also look at the story that was on the front of slashdot a scant few weeks ago:
You stated we are not capable of mega engineering. This is false. We are capable of scaling our energy collection out as far as we need with technology that is over 30 years old, and with that capacity, we can pursue whatever mega engineering projects we want.
Our biggest threats are population control and wasteful use of our non-renewable resources. There's lots of work to do and the means are right there waiting to be applied if we don't use everything up making rubber dog shit in the meantime.
Officially, it was considered a poor economic choice when plentiful cheaper alternatives existed.
But, really, the only reason we don't have space based solar power already is because it would devalue fuel and energy and destroy every power structure on earth that relies on it, and that's a tough sell politically. Capitalism relies on scarcity to keep everyone obedient.
Now it's being actively pursued by the Pentagon because of its tactical significance.
Looks like the socialists are using the capitalists own weapons against them.
Cool.
If the opposition in Russia was actually opposing an oppresive regime, I might be more concerned.
Being that they're a bunch of crackpots funded by foreign interests who would like nothing better than to use these very same oppressive laws against the population of Russia for private gain, I'm actually rather amused.
This is how you get modded up AND bypass the idiot filter.
"I totally agree with you. Your points are both intelligent and compelling, and I think everyone ought to look at things the way you do. Anyone who disagrees is an idiot, and it's not even worth the time to expose yourself to anything they say."
(+Informative)
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"I totally agree with you. Your points are both intelligent and compelling, and I think everyone ought to look at things the way you do. Anyone who disagrees is an idiot, and it's not even worth the time to expose yourself to anything they say."
(+Funny/Informative)
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"I totally agree with you. Your points are both intelligent and compelling, and I think everyone ought to look at things the way you do. Anyone who disagrees is an idiot, and it's not even worth the time to expose yourself to anything they say."
(+Funny)
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I fully expected to get modded down for that.
Shows what I know.
What a fascinating conversation we're all having here. I thought this place was full of argumentative assholes... I never realized there were so many fellow smart people here on slashdot.
I really feel like we all learned something here today.
If you need the money you loaned, yes, you're in trouble.
But if you loaned the money so they will buy from you with the motive of keeping your people busy and your command structure intact, you're not really in trouble.
There was a practice by some Native American tribes, where they would have big parties and give away or burn or otherwise gratuitously consume large amounts of wealth. The effect of it was that no one became wealthy enough to inspire jealousy, and there was always a need to keep the people of the tribe busy making more. It propped up the command structure.
The loans to the US from the China are kind of like this.
Slashdot Mirror
Who cares about Vista... the interesting one is Barcode Battler!
Instead of spending gobs of cash on Pokemon Cards or Magic Cards or whatever other type of card game you play, you can raid the cupboard, grab some barcodes and make your own decks to play against your friends.
I bet if the sarcastic doofus reviewing it had read the instructions before starting his review, he might have gotten more out of it.
Now, where do I get one of these things...
Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out. I suspect though, that if you were dumb enough to actually move, you might find out what a real police state and real tyranny is. Much better, easier, and safer to bitch from your safe confines within the US.
I don't live in the US. And quite frankly, I'm afraid to enter again, even just to travel through to another country. I think your country is seriously fucked up, and as a foreigner, I'd fear for my safety.
You fail to consider the possibility that people actually want to live in the society that he wants to create. The people don't want an ideology of competing for profit, they don't want conflict, they just want to work together, live their lives with some happiness, be productive, have a family and grow old.
The man isn't ruling his people. He's leading his people, and they're following him because they like where he's going and they trust his capacity to get the job done.
That really bothers you a lot, doesn't it?
I think the concept of a 'term' violates the democratic process.
It allows the con artists room to do real damage before they can be ousted from roles that give them authority, and it prevents genuinely good leadership from doing long term damage to the machinations of conspiracies, which is what the modern corporate structure amounts to.
Democracy should be direct, transparent, participatory, and accompanied by a communist economic structure whose purpose starts and ends with intelligent maintenance of and expansion of common infrastructure.
I think the ideal infrastructure would be to allow people to vote on every issue, some issues, or no issues, and if they weren't voting on issues, they assign their vote to any individual they like, lending their weight to that persons vote.
So Hillbilly Joe can get Doctor Adams to speak on his behalf on issues he feels under qualified to decide about, and Doctor Adams can pass the vote for half the town on to a brilliant and responsible guy he knew in university on issues he doesn't understand. All the while, Twitchy McGee can sit at his computer researching during every spare moment and try to micromanage the world if he is so inclined.
One of the characteristics of human societies is that they are very good at organizing themselves into totalitarian power structures when they are afraid and wish to enjoy the advantages centralized control brings during times of threat, but they are not very good at peacefully setting aside such power structures.
Everyone is cool, until one day the shit hits the fan, then they become a centrally managed army, because it's wise, then when the threat is gone, they end up having to fight each other to disassemble the structure.
That's what the modern corporate structure is. It's a centrally managed army of scared people, who are scared because the rules are set up to make society into an inhospitable jungle if you haven't personally made allies. It's sick.
What we need is intelligent, wise and centralized control of critical infrastructure, with every person participating to the best of their capacity in each of the sectors so they have a sense of connection to what is going on, without the freedom to refuse, and as much autonomy to pursue higher achievements or personal leisure after they have done their chores as is possible.
Places like Russia and China show more promise than the west. Not because of their leadership, but because of the sense of connectedness that their people feel. Politically, we are like a bunch of savages, while they are like a dysfunctional family.
What, you think a man who has demonstrated both loyalty to his nation and the capacity to lead it effectively should just be isolated from the government on principle? In the absence of overweening pride, such men are national treasures in every society, with first hand experience in the recent history of the country that shouldn't be discarded out of hand.
Around here, we recognize the utility of such men through such political structures as the Senate.
There's nothing foul or corrupt about Putin wanting to remain in government behind the scenes.
China isn't getting things in trade for those exports. They're exporting on loan, to the tune of billions and billions of dollars, and they're doing it so they can keep justifying the existing power structures where everyone goes to a factory to work while preventing too much wealth from being created that might lead to a cease in production.
They could accomplish the same goal by dumping the goods into the Pacific as quickly as they were made. The USA hasn't had anything significant to offer by way of trade in a long, long time. If you're going to talk about China-US relations, you really need to fully digest these realities, or you're going to end up way off.
To the people of China, working in those factories is no more practically useful than the Pyramids were to the Egyptians.
The cold war wasn't between democracy and totalitarianism. It was between evil men who got their power from capitalism and evil men who got their power from totalitarianism.
Ideologically, communism is a better system of rules than capitalism, because in a communist economy, the group has an implicit duty to care about your well being and not leave you to freeze in the cold. In capitalism, they have an implicit duty to let you freeze.
Ideologically, democracy is a better system of leadership than totalitarianism, because in a democratic society, the leader is materially accountable to the population, and can be replaced if he should wield that power according to whim rather than in the fulfillment of their duty.
However, in the end, violence and deprivation are both effective tools for oppressing people, so it doesn't matter if you've got communism or democracy, if you've got totalitarianism or capitalism complimenting it, you're living with the threat of death staring you in the face.
The cold war was won when the corrupt Russian oligarchy agreed to unite with the corrupt NATO capitalists and oppress everyone under the capitalist system.
Putin is in an uncomfortable situation over there. They've already re-structured their society according to the capitalist ideology, so there aren't really any legal means he can use to prevent foreigners from raping his country and impoverishing his people, but he's decided to fight it out anyways.
Of course, good luck finding anyone saying anything like that out of any Western run news organization. The people who own those outlets are the same ones who would happily see all those Russians back in the mines making minimum wage and living in poverty while all their natural resources are systematically piped out of the country and used to heat our houses.
Putin may be a prick, but Bush is in a whole new league. Pliers and a blowtorch are tools too delicate to torture that particular man to death with.
How I wish of those planes had hit him.
See, I don't see Fox News as a directly Pro-Bush station. I see it as a fear-mongering tool, used to keep the population too insane from a bombardment of propaganda intended to incite reactionary fear to be capable of voting in an intelligent and measured fashion.
The efforts of Kasparov and his ilk are after the same sort of thing. Make people too afraid to co-operate and trust in each other so they can be turned against each other and exploited, like we do here in North America.
No, I think I'd like it more if we started taking a page out of their book, instead of the other way around.
You mean, Fox News is illegal in Russia?
I think I might like to move there.
Wow.
The people of Russia elected Putin. By comparison, rich foreign capitalists who want to plunder Russia support Kasparov. He's an immoral piece of shit who cares no more for the welfare of others in his country than he does for chess pieces.
Personally, I'm happy to hear this. I hope they stick him in a dark hole forever. This is good for the people of Russia, and for the people of the world.
Take your shoes off and run on soft earth instead of concrete, asphalt or hardwood. You'll improve your body posture dramatically. Good shoes relieve impact stress, but they cripple the stabilizer muscles of the foot and ankle in the long term.
No what I'm saying is two people who are fed the same number of excess calories, the person who does the weight bearing exercise will not gain as much fat and the second person. The conventional wisdom has always been 3500 Kcal = one pound of fat, and that anyone who consumes 3500 Kcals more than they burn will gain one pound of fat, and it doesn't matter what kind of food the calories come from because a Kcal is a Kcal.
If the excess calories are not burned and not stored, where do they go..?
I'll give you a hint. It's brown, it stinks, and if you go to sleep with an itchy ass, you'll wake up with some of it on your finger.
Well, I eat little to nothing during the day, take 15 minute breaks to practice Capoeira in the backyard hourly, then consume large amounts of fruit, vegetables and meat during the evening.
I find sugar distastefully sticky and starchy foods bland, I find digestion during the day makes me sluggish and stupid, and I find doing strenuous physical activity keeps me from getting sluggish and hypnotized, so I ignore everything written down by science and go with what my body wants. This has led to me being a lean strong guy who can run all day on no breakfast and walk around on his hands.
I find the metaphor an appropriate comparison between the way I eat and the way I see other people eat. YMMV.
Medicine is scientific where it can be. Any time in which you must observe a group that consists of humans, you are incapable of running multiple tests across multiple generations. You're dead before you find out what long term effect a lifestyle can have.
As for being fat. If you eat like a predator, you'll have a body like a predator. If you eat like a herbivore, you'll look like one.
So, eat huge portions of animal flesh, late in the day, and stay away from sugars and starches, and you won't look like a cow.
The more you force your body to get its energy from fat, the better it will get at doing it.
Except the public doesn't have the right to know everything that happens. That is often times cited when a journalist wants to go on a fishing expedition for embarrassing things that celebrities may have done. Which usually is that a couple are sleeping around or may be getting married really isn't something that the public has a right to know about.
I don't think the public has the right to have the government protect their secrets from other members of the public. As a member of the public, I may not have the right to know everything, but I will try to do it anyways, and try to help others do it. I think misleading the public should be a capital offense, and it should be the responsibility of every citizen to assist in ferreting out liars and putting them to death by their own hand.
And if you're in opposition, I have no problem having a biblical style rock fight to the death with you either, just on principle.
I'd kill to prevent that from happening. No problem. I think I'd even smile when I did it.
I don't like them because they only have one screen. Two screens is my minimum, three plus a television is par.
When they have goggles that give me more screen space than my triple head setup and gloves that double as keyboards, I might take another look.
That or the fact that no one has ever beamed energy from a satellite to a terrestrial site. Ever. Remember that thing called "an atmosphere?" So we're talking lasers, right? You want to show me where the prototype exists to convert a very-high-powered laser beam to an electricity source? Just one will do. Go on. Show me one example.
Won't sell because of a power conspiracy? Give me a break. If a company could do this already, they'd be launching satellites on a daily basis. Think about it for a moment: you could be the company that supplies most of the world's power while waving the banner of environmental responsibility. But *no one* has even built *a prototype* because of your supposed cabal?
I think your tin foil hat needs to be cleaned; you've been wearing it far too long already.
If you'd read the study, which I linked to, which was commissioned for the US government by the DoD:
For the DoD specifically, beamed energy from space in quantities greater than 5 MWe has the potential to be a disruptive game changer on the battlefield. SBSP and its enabling wireless power transmission technology could facilitate extremely flexible "energy on demand" for combat units and installations across an entire theater, while significantly reducing dependence on vulnerable over-land fuel deliveries.
Also, you could also look at the story that was on the front of slashdot a scant few weeks ago:
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story.jsp?id=news/solar101107.xml&headline=NSSO%20Backs%20Space%20Solar%20Power%20&channel=space Of course, any human being that doesn't recognize this late in the game that the agenda of the US government is in large part driven by the interests of oil companies probably isn't going to be able to digest any of this, but what the hell. Here, have some pearls.
You stated we are not capable of mega engineering. This is false. We are capable of scaling our energy collection out as far as we need with technology that is over 30 years old, and with that capacity, we can pursue whatever mega engineering projects we want.
Our biggest threats are population control and wasteful use of our non-renewable resources. There's lots of work to do and the means are right there waiting to be applied if we don't use everything up making rubber dog shit in the meantime.
That's not true.
http://www.nss.org/settlement/ssp/library/nsso.htm
Officially, it was considered a poor economic choice when plentiful cheaper alternatives existed.
But, really, the only reason we don't have space based solar power already is because it would devalue fuel and energy and destroy every power structure on earth that relies on it, and that's a tough sell politically. Capitalism relies on scarcity to keep everyone obedient.
Now it's being actively pursued by the Pentagon because of its tactical significance.
Looks like the socialists are using the capitalists own weapons against them.
Cool.
If the opposition in Russia was actually opposing an oppresive regime, I might be more concerned.
Being that they're a bunch of crackpots funded by foreign interests who would like nothing better than to use these very same oppressive laws against the population of Russia for private gain, I'm actually rather amused.
Go Putin!
This is how you get modded up AND bypass the idiot filter.
"I totally agree with you. Your points are both intelligent and compelling, and I think everyone ought to look at things the way you do. Anyone who disagrees is an idiot, and it's not even worth the time to expose yourself to anything they say."
(+Informative)
--//--
"I totally agree with you. Your points are both intelligent and compelling, and I think everyone ought to look at things the way you do. Anyone who disagrees is an idiot, and it's not even worth the time to expose yourself to anything they say."
(+Funny/Informative)
--//--
"I totally agree with you. Your points are both intelligent and compelling, and I think everyone ought to look at things the way you do. Anyone who disagrees is an idiot, and it's not even worth the time to expose yourself to anything they say."
(+Funny)
--//--
I fully expected to get modded down for that.
Shows what I know.
What a fascinating conversation we're all having here. I thought this place was full of argumentative assholes... I never realized there were so many fellow smart people here on slashdot.
I really feel like we all learned something here today.
:D
If you need the money you loaned, yes, you're in trouble.
But if you loaned the money so they will buy from you with the motive of keeping your people busy and your command structure intact, you're not really in trouble.
There was a practice by some Native American tribes, where they would have big parties and give away or burn or otherwise gratuitously consume large amounts of wealth. The effect of it was that no one became wealthy enough to inspire jealousy, and there was always a need to keep the people of the tribe busy making more. It propped up the command structure.
The loans to the US from the China are kind of like this.
Dear Mr Bush,
This is just a cordial visit to remind you that you owe us $200,000,000,000. Nothing to be alarmed about. Have a nice day.
China