The whole point of Sport is to stupefy the population. Ever heard the term "Bread and Circuses"?
When you get right down to it, the "Sport" industry is more harmful than illicit drugs. I've seen people high on drugs build lots of useful and productive things. I've never seen people hooked up to their television do anything but waste oxygen.
Yup did that. I remember watching the surgery in the reflection of his glasses until he took them off, commenting that he didn't need me throwing up in the middle of it. Fucker only gave me advil for afterwards too. A co-worker of mine some years later got percocet. Gyp! Another co-worker is a mutant whose super-power is apparently to not have wisdom teeth. We still need to do some evolving in the teeth area, but that's definitely a step in the right direction.
The size of the jaw, the size of the teeth, the number of teeth... all driven by different parts of the genome. The dramatic increase in dental problems coincides with increased mobility and breeding outside the "tribe". You end up with folks with tiny asian jaws and giant nordic teeth, things like that.
Wasn't that long ago that people generally didn't travel and bred with their second and third cousins, and they had less genetic problems with their teeth. Still had the problems that stem from primitive hygiene, but that's a different story.
Though, evolution isn't going to affect the issue until a failure of technology causes those who have such problems to die young as a consequence of their genetic makeup, instead of getting braces and passing on their genes to their children.
Steve Jobs probably liked blue jeans and black turtlenecks, and made that choice out of thousands of options. He did not go out to make it the only option for everyone. See that essential difference? In fact, it's pretty much similar to those who want to stick with MATE instead of choosing between following Gnome's antics or switching to another desktop.
So yeah, using MATE fragments Linux like black turtlenecks fragment fashion, and it takes away annoying and trivial choices like wearing the same takes away choices. What were you trying to say again?
To you, it's an essential difference. To Steve, whos head was full of larger concerns for world domination, it probably wasn't. If he had a wardrobe full of black work pants and blue zip up sweaters, it probably wouldn't have made much difference to him. It would have been beneath him to dwell on such trivialities.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe Steve would have walked through a fire to get jeans. I doubt it.
I do know it's beneath me to dwell on such things. Being confronted with trivial choices stresses me out and makes me UNHAPPY. One of the things I miss about having a woman around the house is letting her amuse herself with that crap so I don't have to.
One man's "more choice" is an anti-choice idiot's "fragmentation".
FTFY.
People who value trivial choices are the idiots. I'm reminded of Steve Jobs, and his decision to fill his wardrobe with identical blue jeans and black turtlenecks as a way to eliminate such from his head space.
We live in a culture where we're totally immersed in brainwashing. All the psy-ops folks who lost their jobs when the cold war ended now turn their weapons on us. I hate it, and I want it to end. I think our culture is vile, and it fills my life with suffering to walk around in it. I'm a man of honour, who is forthright, generous, works hard and does right by his fellow man. It is always liars who bring me low, spreading misinformation in an effort to wield the ignorant and misinformed as weapons against me, and it is always a struggle from a position of isolation to redeem myself with the truth, and after it is all said and done, the lies that created my suffering are trivialized. It's a vicious pattern.
Really, I just want to meet a nice woman, move to the country and wash my hands of the lot of you. Just fed up, past the point of wanting to try to set things right. Bread and circuses and galloping idiots who would rather see standards set to grave level than be forced to engage in a little self criticism and self restraint.
I sure would have loved to see Bill Hicks given the job though. The thought of watching the man herd all of Satans Little Helpers into a gas chamber makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
I think I was pretty direct about the fact that I think intentionally publishing misinformation on a wide scale should be THE highest of crimes, and why. But then, I also suspect you've been lied to so much and for so long that you're completely batshit insane already, just like your fellow men, and that your peer group are in the process of destroying yourselves as we speak and don't even know it.
Why would a government, even a repressive one, crack down on rumors for no reason? Is unfounded rumors (not actual dissent, mind, but weird stuff like this) spreading and causing actual trouble a problem in China?
They did it to protect the people in their charge from being misled into harmful behavior by liars. Duh!
Lying on a grand scale causes millions of people to act contrary to what is sane and wise. When you get right down to it, intentionally and maliciously causing millions of people to act contrary to what is sane and wise causes far more harm than raping and killing a bus full of children.
If I drove you crazy by injecting you with LSD, it would be clear to everyone that I'd assaulted you. If I do it with lies, that's "protected self expression".
Personally, I have a great deal of respect for the Chinese government for doing this.
The fact that there was a singularity in the first place makes it pretty obvious that entropy does not only go one way. Abiogenesis will eventually be accepted as fact, and this will provide strong evidence that the "heat death of the universe" hypothesis is wrong.
I wrote a rambling essay that I think relates and threw it in my journal for the trolls to rip apart... maybe it will provoke something.
The quest to find random numbers is the quest to entangle our locality to ever more distantly related things in weirder and weirder ways... which, if you ask me, is far more interesting to think about.
Incidentally, because of the time I invested in teaching her to program in Scratch and design toys in Art of Illusion for printing on our Makerbot, she got a free ride to a private tech focused junior high school worth thousands and thousands of dollars.
Again, the purpose of compromise is to create unity. If you don't intend to surrender to the will of the majority, you shouldn't be voting in the first place. A vote is a deal you make with everyone else involved, and deals should be made in good faith.
The purpose of society is to create a scheme that entices its members to unite with each other, rather than shooting each other in the face and taking what they want.
The purpose of money, again, is to allow people to collaborate on large projects for the larger self-interest of everyone involved.
They're collaborative technologies that are capable of standing on a stone age foundation.
I taught my daughter to program using it. It uses most if not all of the standard logical constructs, but instead of having to type and debug code, you drag and drop, attaching little lego-brick looking things together. It lets you focus on logic errors instead of syntax errors, and makes it a lot more accessible.
Also, you can log in to the scratch website and publish from within the Scratch IDE. This was a major source of encouragement for my kid, who is more driven by the appreciation of her peers than by the achievement itself. After our game got featured on the front of the website and over a hundred kids posted comments about how cool she was, it stopped being a way to spend time with Dad and became something exciting in its own right.
You can also download other kids programs, open them in the IDE and see exactly how they work. If you then create a derivative work and publish it, that will all be preserved... anyone looking at your program will be able to identify that you made it, what it was derived from, and who made the original. So, it teaches them to share, too, and helps them learn from each other.
Once he gets deeper into it, you can buy him some hardware and he can use scratch to control that. It's compatible with Lego, and also with the PicoBoard:
Totalitarianism is a politically loaded synonym for "Unity". Unity is what democracy is supposed to create. Show me a man who opposes totalitarianism, and I'll show you a man who dreams of his own plantation full of slaves.
1983 In Australia, how do I know, I was five when it came out.
The Atari 2600 sold 30 million units over it's entire life span throughout the entire world, so not that many people. For comparison, Nintendo sold that many Wii's in it's first year and the 2600 was sold from 1977 to 1992.
Further more, on release it cost US$199. Add to that the AUD fetched US$0.70 in 83, that's $260 for the console. That would be if things were actually priced according to the exchange rate. The real cost of an Atari 2600 in Australia was $400 in 1983 dollars (cant be arsed figuring out inflation). Now the average wage in 1983 was around the $350-380 mark.
So armed with those facts, I can say not that many people over 35 grew up with consoles.
Gaming really made it's mark in the 90's with the NES/SNES and their inferior Sega counterparts (punk kids, think their console war is a new thing).
The thing we're facing now, is that gaming has gone from being a new innovation to an accepted part of life and this shows a huge generation gap between the under 35's who grew up with gaming and the over 35's who didn't. There may be some over 35's who gamed but the overwhelming majority didn't.
So nice way to over-generalise and pull facts out of your arse (generalise and arse spelled correctly for a discussion about Australia, thank you). You dont even have decent supposition to support your argument and yes, I did register your sample of 1, you are the anomaly, not the norm.
I'm 36. Most of the people I knew had Atari's when I was a child. Myself, I was programming on a VIC 20 in grade school. Both were available at Canadian Tire for a pretty reasonable price. Commodore 64's were so inexpensive I was able to pay for mine with my paper route. I spent junior high school swapping C64 games on 5 1/2 inch floppy disks. One of my favorites was the barbarian sword fighting game, where if you got just the right finishing move, you'd decapitate your opponent and the little green goblin that drags the body away kicks his head like a soccer ball. Great fun.
Hell, we even had portable versions of Pac Man, Donkey Kong and Q~bert for long car trips.
And, of course, if you were really too poor to own any of the above, there were arcade machines EVERYWHERE.
Maybe you just need to recognize that, inane sarcasm about sample sizes aside, you don't have the slightest clue what you're fucking talking about. Of course, you're quite free to continue believing fiction if you like.
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The age of massive hydroelectric power installations is only beginning. It most likely won't be dominated by Americans, but it will dwarf that which exists now.
My wallet has so many cards in it that it's thick. Add 1.5 mm up again and again, and it's not hard to get something with some thickness. Now, place that under only one side of your butt, and sit on it for a while. Also, I would add, be fit and have very little body fat for cushioning. In no time at all, you'll be uncomfortable.
I've cut back as much as I can, but I travel for business (so that's two cards), have a joint account for household expenses (one card) a credit card for personal use (another card) and a debit card which I use the most (another card). Other things, like a driver's license and health insurance cards...those need to stay. But how I have longed for a solution to move some of those cards out and have them in some other format, so that instead of these rectangles of plastic to represent what is essentially a very short piece of data, I could have it piggyback on a device I already own.
And that's an NFC-endabled smartphone. I get it. I want one.
Why don't you just stop putting your phone in your back pocket.
Personally, I switched to a card case and a money clip. No discomfort, classier looking and best of all, people can't call me on a money clip.
Among other things, my code co-ordinates distributed translations teams that make medicine and medical equipment accessible to the world. The largest drug company on earth uses them exclusively. I wrote the code that handles every step of the process, and integrated everything into their internal infrastructure, and when it needs maintenance, they call me. So, chances are pretty fucking good that someone you know enjoys good health because of work I did sitting in my living room.
What you owe me is to show some respect for the gift I've given you and give some regard for the fact that it's people like me these laws are designed to support.
The value of a good idea is directly related to how widely it is used.
This system prevents the value of an idea from being maximized. The food, shelter, power and material goods that the creator of intellectual works receives is not created by restricting it's dissemination. Those materials exist, regardless of how far the idea spreads. The purpose of the system is to determine who gets support and who does not. Anyone with a brain could think of a half a dozen different ways to make that determination without requiring the good idea to be restricted in its use.
This system is STUPID. It is WASTEFUL. It DESTROYS VALUE. And, with the onward march of technology, the percentage of the population with idle time to create goes up, and the amount of idle time goes up. So, the rarity of the producers of IP continuously decreases, and that rarity would decrease even faster if good ideas were spread wider and faster.
This system is indefensible. Period. It has to go.
I'm a creator of intellectual works. My creations have dramatically improved the quality of life for all mankind. And I've sat in many round table discussions where I was forced to come up with ways to artificially destroy the value of my own creations. It makes me FUCKING ANGRY that I'm forced to do that for such stupid and unnecessary reasons.
So, take your BS about protecting the rights of creators and SHOVE IT UP YOUR FUCKING ASS. Find a way to determine that I deserve to be fed and clothed and sheltered and I'll weave magic that makes everyones life better till the day I die. Because THAT'S JUST WHAT I DO.
What would victory look like? Forcing them to acknowledge that they're genuinely incapable of delivering what they promise is really about as much as can be achieved...
Slashdot Mirror
OK, well, not all that shocked.
Whoever doesn't realize by now that Google is a marketing agency who makes their money off selling their users' data, deserves to get screwed.
Liberating yourself doesn't do you a lot of good if the folks you liberated yourself from have an army of billions and an agenda.
The whole point of Sport is to stupefy the population. Ever heard the term "Bread and Circuses"?
When you get right down to it, the "Sport" industry is more harmful than illicit drugs. I've seen people high on drugs build lots of useful and productive things. I've never seen people hooked up to their television do anything but waste oxygen.
Same thing goes for video games.
Confidence born in a simulator coupled with a lack of experience working with meat. Doesn't sound like someone I want cutting into me.
Yup did that. I remember watching the surgery in the reflection of his glasses until he took them off, commenting that he didn't need me throwing up in the middle of it. Fucker only gave me advil for afterwards too. A co-worker of mine some years later got percocet. Gyp! Another co-worker is a mutant whose super-power is apparently to not have wisdom teeth. We still need to do some evolving in the teeth area, but that's definitely a step in the right direction.
The size of the jaw, the size of the teeth, the number of teeth... all driven by different parts of the genome. The dramatic increase in dental problems coincides with increased mobility and breeding outside the "tribe". You end up with folks with tiny asian jaws and giant nordic teeth, things like that.
Wasn't that long ago that people generally didn't travel and bred with their second and third cousins, and they had less genetic problems with their teeth. Still had the problems that stem from primitive hygiene, but that's a different story.
Though, evolution isn't going to affect the issue until a failure of technology causes those who have such problems to die young as a consequence of their genetic makeup, instead of getting braces and passing on their genes to their children.
Steve Jobs probably liked blue jeans and black turtlenecks, and made that choice out of thousands of options. He did not go out to make it the only option for everyone. See that essential difference? In fact, it's pretty much similar to those who want to stick with MATE instead of choosing between following Gnome's antics or switching to another desktop.
So yeah, using MATE fragments Linux like black turtlenecks fragment fashion, and it takes away annoying and trivial choices like wearing the same takes away choices. What were you trying to say again?
To you, it's an essential difference. To Steve, whos head was full of larger concerns for world domination, it probably wasn't. If he had a wardrobe full of black work pants and blue zip up sweaters, it probably wouldn't have made much difference to him. It would have been beneath him to dwell on such trivialities.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe Steve would have walked through a fire to get jeans. I doubt it.
I do know it's beneath me to dwell on such things. Being confronted with trivial choices stresses me out and makes me UNHAPPY. One of the things I miss about having a woman around the house is letting her amuse herself with that crap so I don't have to.
One man's "more choice" is an anti-choice idiot's "fragmentation".
FTFY.
People who value trivial choices are the idiots. I'm reminded of Steve Jobs, and his decision to fill his wardrobe with identical blue jeans and black turtlenecks as a way to eliminate such from his head space.
Whatever.
We live in a culture where we're totally immersed in brainwashing. All the psy-ops folks who lost their jobs when the cold war ended now turn their weapons on us. I hate it, and I want it to end. I think our culture is vile, and it fills my life with suffering to walk around in it. I'm a man of honour, who is forthright, generous, works hard and does right by his fellow man. It is always liars who bring me low, spreading misinformation in an effort to wield the ignorant and misinformed as weapons against me, and it is always a struggle from a position of isolation to redeem myself with the truth, and after it is all said and done, the lies that created my suffering are trivialized. It's a vicious pattern.
Really, I just want to meet a nice woman, move to the country and wash my hands of the lot of you. Just fed up, past the point of wanting to try to set things right. Bread and circuses and galloping idiots who would rather see standards set to grave level than be forced to engage in a little self criticism and self restraint.
I sure would have loved to see Bill Hicks given the job though. The thought of watching the man herd all of Satans Little Helpers into a gas chamber makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
I think I was pretty direct about the fact that I think intentionally publishing misinformation on a wide scale should be THE highest of crimes, and why. But then, I also suspect you've been lied to so much and for so long that you're completely batshit insane already, just like your fellow men, and that your peer group are in the process of destroying yourselves as we speak and don't even know it.
Why would a government, even a repressive one, crack down on rumors for no reason? Is unfounded rumors (not actual dissent, mind, but weird stuff like this) spreading and causing actual trouble a problem in China?
They did it to protect the people in their charge from being misled into harmful behavior by liars. Duh!
Lying on a grand scale causes millions of people to act contrary to what is sane and wise. When you get right down to it, intentionally and maliciously causing millions of people to act contrary to what is sane and wise causes far more harm than raping and killing a bus full of children.
If I drove you crazy by injecting you with LSD, it would be clear to everyone that I'd assaulted you. If I do it with lies, that's "protected self expression".
Personally, I have a great deal of respect for the Chinese government for doing this.
The fact that there was a singularity in the first place makes it pretty obvious that entropy does not only go one way. Abiogenesis will eventually be accepted as fact, and this will provide strong evidence that the "heat death of the universe" hypothesis is wrong.
I wrote a rambling essay that I think relates and threw it in my journal for the trolls to rip apart... maybe it will provoke something.
http://slashdot.org/journal/281071
The quest to find random numbers is the quest to entangle our locality to ever more distantly related things in weirder and weirder ways... which, if you ask me, is far more interesting to think about.
Incidentally, because of the time I invested in teaching her to program in Scratch and design toys in Art of Illusion for printing on our Makerbot, she got a free ride to a private tech focused junior high school worth thousands and thousands of dollars.
These teaching tools WORK.
Again, the purpose of compromise is to create unity. If you don't intend to surrender to the will of the majority, you shouldn't be voting in the first place. A vote is a deal you make with everyone else involved, and deals should be made in good faith.
The purpose of society is to create a scheme that entices its members to unite with each other, rather than shooting each other in the face and taking what they want.
The purpose of money, again, is to allow people to collaborate on large projects for the larger self-interest of everyone involved.
They're collaborative technologies that are capable of standing on a stone age foundation.
Set him up with Scratch.
http://scratch.mit.edu/
I taught my daughter to program using it. It uses most if not all of the standard logical constructs, but instead of having to type and debug code, you drag and drop, attaching little lego-brick looking things together. It lets you focus on logic errors instead of syntax errors, and makes it a lot more accessible.
Also, you can log in to the scratch website and publish from within the Scratch IDE. This was a major source of encouragement for my kid, who is more driven by the appreciation of her peers than by the achievement itself. After our game got featured on the front of the website and over a hundred kids posted comments about how cool she was, it stopped being a way to spend time with Dad and became something exciting in its own right.
You can also download other kids programs, open them in the IDE and see exactly how they work. If you then create a derivative work and publish it, that will all be preserved... anyone looking at your program will be able to identify that you made it, what it was derived from, and who made the original. So, it teaches them to share, too, and helps them learn from each other.
Once he gets deeper into it, you can buy him some hardware and he can use scratch to control that. It's compatible with Lego, and also with the PicoBoard:
http://www.picocricket.com/picoboard.html
Totalitarianism is a politically loaded synonym for "Unity". Unity is what democracy is supposed to create. Show me a man who opposes totalitarianism, and I'll show you a man who dreams of his own plantation full of slaves.
Please hand in your geek cred at the front desk. ;)
What you talkin bout? I ain't no circus geek! I's a well rounded individual!
He's referring to the fact that I was half asleep and referred to them as 5 1/2 inch instead of 5 1/4 inch.
1983 In Australia, how do I know, I was five when it came out.
The Atari 2600 sold 30 million units over it's entire life span throughout the entire world, so not that many people. For comparison, Nintendo sold that many Wii's in it's first year and the 2600 was sold from 1977 to 1992.
Further more, on release it cost US$199. Add to that the AUD fetched US$0.70 in 83, that's $260 for the console. That would be if things were actually priced according to the exchange rate. The real cost of an Atari 2600 in Australia was $400 in 1983 dollars (cant be arsed figuring out inflation). Now the average wage in 1983 was around the $350-380 mark.
So armed with those facts, I can say not that many people over 35 grew up with consoles.
Gaming really made it's mark in the 90's with the NES/SNES and their inferior Sega counterparts (punk kids, think their console war is a new thing).
The thing we're facing now, is that gaming has gone from being a new innovation to an accepted part of life and this shows a huge generation gap between the under 35's who grew up with gaming and the over 35's who didn't. There may be some over 35's who gamed but the overwhelming majority didn't.
So nice way to over-generalise and pull facts out of your arse (generalise and arse spelled correctly for a discussion about Australia, thank you). You dont even have decent supposition to support your argument and yes, I did register your sample of 1, you are the anomaly, not the norm.
I'm 36. Most of the people I knew had Atari's when I was a child. Myself, I was programming on a VIC 20 in grade school. Both were available at Canadian Tire for a pretty reasonable price. Commodore 64's were so inexpensive I was able to pay for mine with my paper route. I spent junior high school swapping C64 games on 5 1/2 inch floppy disks. One of my favorites was the barbarian sword fighting game, where if you got just the right finishing move, you'd decapitate your opponent and the little green goblin that drags the body away kicks his head like a soccer ball. Great fun.
Hell, we even had portable versions of Pac Man, Donkey Kong and Q~bert for long car trips.
And, of course, if you were really too poor to own any of the above, there were arcade machines EVERYWHERE.
Maybe you just need to recognize that, inane sarcasm about sample sizes aside, you don't have the slightest clue what you're fucking talking about. Of course, you're quite free to continue believing fiction if you like.
Elusive indeed. I'm pretty sure my record is +4 Flamebait
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The age of massive hydroelectric power installations is only beginning. It most likely won't be dominated by Americans, but it will dwarf that which exists now.
My wallet has so many cards in it that it's thick. Add 1.5 mm up again and again, and it's not hard to get something with some thickness. Now, place that under only one side of your butt, and sit on it for a while. Also, I would add, be fit and have very little body fat for cushioning. In no time at all, you'll be uncomfortable.
I've cut back as much as I can, but I travel for business (so that's two cards), have a joint account for household expenses (one card) a credit card for personal use (another card) and a debit card which I use the most (another card). Other things, like a driver's license and health insurance cards...those need to stay. But how I have longed for a solution to move some of those cards out and have them in some other format, so that instead of these rectangles of plastic to represent what is essentially a very short piece of data, I could have it piggyback on a device I already own.
And that's an NFC-endabled smartphone. I get it. I want one.
Why don't you just stop putting your phone in your back pocket.
Personally, I switched to a card case and a money clip. No discomfort, classier looking and best of all, people can't call me on a money clip.
Among other things, my code co-ordinates distributed translations teams that make medicine and medical equipment accessible to the world. The largest drug company on earth uses them exclusively. I wrote the code that handles every step of the process, and integrated everything into their internal infrastructure, and when it needs maintenance, they call me. So, chances are pretty fucking good that someone you know enjoys good health because of work I did sitting in my living room.
What you owe me is to show some respect for the gift I've given you and give some regard for the fact that it's people like me these laws are designed to support.
The value of a good idea is directly related to how widely it is used.
This system prevents the value of an idea from being maximized. The food, shelter, power and material goods that the creator of intellectual works receives is not created by restricting it's dissemination. Those materials exist, regardless of how far the idea spreads. The purpose of the system is to determine who gets support and who does not. Anyone with a brain could think of a half a dozen different ways to make that determination without requiring the good idea to be restricted in its use.
This system is STUPID. It is WASTEFUL. It DESTROYS VALUE. And, with the onward march of technology, the percentage of the population with idle time to create goes up, and the amount of idle time goes up. So, the rarity of the producers of IP continuously decreases, and that rarity would decrease even faster if good ideas were spread wider and faster.
This system is indefensible. Period. It has to go.
I'm a creator of intellectual works. My creations have dramatically improved the quality of life for all mankind. And I've sat in many round table discussions where I was forced to come up with ways to artificially destroy the value of my own creations. It makes me FUCKING ANGRY that I'm forced to do that for such stupid and unnecessary reasons.
So, take your BS about protecting the rights of creators and SHOVE IT UP YOUR FUCKING ASS. Find a way to determine that I deserve to be fed and clothed and sheltered and I'll weave magic that makes everyones life better till the day I die. Because THAT'S JUST WHAT I DO.
Fucking scumbag.
What would victory look like? Forcing them to acknowledge that they're genuinely incapable of delivering what they promise is really about as much as can be achieved...