Last year, Trent Reznor produced rapper Saul Williams' latest album, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust. That one was released initially on a Radiohead-esque "pay what you feel" plan, but after 100,000 downloads and very few donations it was changed to a $5 download. DRM-free, of course, and your choice of 192 or 3?? kbps MP3.
If you like rap or Reznor, or are just in the mood for something different, it's worth the price of the download. Hell, the chorus of the title track might be enough to make the download worthwhile:
When I say Niggy, you say nothing. Niggy. Niggy.
Overall it's a smart and catchy offering, if slightly uneven at times.
I'm disheartened that the parent is currently +5 Insightful instead of -1 Flamebait. I try to stay out of these sorts of threads nowadays, but this is simply ridiculous.
Anything that starts with some "There's some invisible guy, up in the sky, who can kill you, because he loves you" is deeply, persistently and fundamentally fucked up. Agreed, but this is a straw man summary of Christianity. Some fundamentalist sects are getting closer and closer to matching it, but the only people who do are the Westboro Baptists, and you'll see them denounced by the overwhelming majority of Christians.
Creationism is merely an expression of how fucked up it is. This doesn't follow. Care to elaborate and earn that Insightful mod? Creationism is certainly a belief system that I would call misguided, and their efforts to discredit evolution I would call misguided, sometimes underhanded, and often malicious. But these ideas do not come from Christianity; they are ideas that have grown up in a unique societal environment. This is why you really only see this sort of thing here in the US. Using creationism to condemn Christianity is like condemning the pursuit of science based on the rantings of the Time Cube guy.
ANY country that has ANY religion is just as fucked up. And here we have the flametastic centerpiece. What does this even mean? Any country that has a state religion? Clearly not that, since it's a response to something in the US, and we don't have one. Any country that has religious people in it? Try and find one that doesn't. Any country that does not prohibit religion? Take a look at some that do if you want to see a fucked-up society*.
"Offer your sufferings to Christ" is NOT a health care policy. Got that? Most definitely agreed.
For the record, I am an ex-Christian who's tired of the shitty creation-vs-evolution "debate" coming from the two most vocal camps. I tend to side with the evolutionists in the role creationism should play in our education system (namely, none in science, maybe a footnote in religious courses), but unfounded attacks like this (and they fly both ways, so don't think you're off the hook, creationists) make me wonder why I should even give a shit. It's like all of your minds are already made up, and not only that, but everyone else *must* adhere to your point of view or they're "deeply, persistently and fundamentally fucked-up."
I know that the great religious thinkers of the past would be severely disappointed with the creationists' tactics and attitudes. I don't doubt for a second that the same goes for the great scientific thinkers' assessment of the evolutionists.
*I don't claim that banning religion results in a fucked-up society any more than allowing religion does, merely that it has little bearing on how fucked-up a country is.
What *I* really don't get is why people don't just call Scientology for what it is: a sect. Most likely because it isn't a sect; it's a cult. At least, it has more characteristics of a cult than a sect. Sects are groups of people with a certain set of beliefs that have broken off from a parent religion (or cult). Scientology never had a parent, so the term "sect" is a misnomer. Its practices (strict control of its members and its secrecy being the most apparent) closely match those associated with cults. The biggest difference between scientology and your run-of-the-mill cult is its massive size and influence, which is large enough to cause colleges nationwide to rename a class from something like "A Study of Cults" to something like "New Religious Movements" for fear of lawsuits.
Mario didn't have horrible graphics. It had simple graphics, which is all you could have at the time, but certainly not horrible. Working with a limited color palette, Mario managed to have a good amount of atmosphere, a variety of distinct enemies, and a pleasing and consistent look-and-feel. Games with horrible graphics, IMO, are games whose playability is impeded by them. Superman 64 comes to mind.
I could see an argument being made for SMB having bland graphics, although I would disagree and point to something like Rampart or Milon's Secret Castle (both of which I enjoy playing).
GMail's interface update a month or so back randomly crashes Firefox 2.0 on Windows whenever you click one of the left-hand links or "Send." The 3.0 beta doesn't have this problem, and you can specify "ui=1" in the URL to use the old interface, but it's worth mentioning.
Ever notice how its getting increasingly harder to get a console game where you can do multiplayer on the same box? No, I haven't. Then again, I have a Wii =)
Well yes, but that's because the meaning of the word "cricket" is perfectly unambiguous to everyone. It's not like the sport shares its name with something completely unrelated, like, say, a small nocturnal insect, or a dart game, or a children's magazine, or a ridge structure designed to divert water on a roof, or an early American automobile model.
It's actually not a stupid question at all. Or, at least, I don't think it is. Sure, you won't get the same experience as seeing it in person, but any material absorbing that much light is going to keep you from getting much information about its shape. In other words, if someone were to wear a shirt made of this stuff and put his hand on his chest, you'd see nothing but a disembodied hand stuck to his chest. You wouldn't be able to discern the fabric of his sleeve from the fabric covering his chest.
Gene Wolfe posits a material like this called "fuligin" in his Book of the New Sun. He describes it as looking like a void; you get no depth information whatsoever. Though a picture couldn't do that justice, I'd like to see one anyway.
Ron Paul is a dangerous fad. He does not believe in evolution So what? His beliefs also prevent him from trying to force others to follow them.
and he wants to scrap what little healthcare the poor in the US have access to (bear in mind that the US already has lower life expectancy and higher infant mortality than European countries that spend less per capita on healthcare) Point taken.
His platform is yanking away what little social protections exist in the US so that the middle classes can pay less tax Wrong - his platform is personal liberty, one of the ideals that this country was founded upon. I happen to be a Ron Paul supporter, though I'm not convinced that all of his ideas will work as he thinks they will. Here's the thing though: I would rather have him championing my freedom, scaling back our massive government, and causing some problems with health care than have the same old shit go another round. We're not in great shape as a country, as any liberty-minded person will tell you. If Ron Paul can succeed only in tearing down a lot of what's been built up, leaving the possibly more difficult job of finding a better solution to someone else, I'm satisfied with that because something will finally be getting done.
Of course, for those who want to run Civ II that PC is perfectly qualified to run Freeciv (which the cheap walmarter doesnt even have to buy!). s/have to buy/know where to get/
In fact, in the range of games that hardware can be expected to support there is a selection of free Linux games that could easily have the walmart customer wasting a year or three. And unless these games are included with the PC or linked to under a "download games" icon, the cheap walmarter will never know of their existence. He will only know that the games for sale on walmart's shelves don't run on his PC, possibly after buying one or more because the employees will neither know the difference nor care.
I have never seen name, post, and sig all in such accord.
You, sir, show a level of dedication that I find quite frankly a bit frightening. I applaud you for it while simultaneously hoping you are not near me in meatspace.
3: We aren't mistreating non-US citizens, we're interrogating and gaining intelligence from suspected and known terrorists. So, if we let one go and they end up flying an aircraft into another US building, killing thousands, can we expect you to denounce the US government for "not connecting the dots", like everyone else does? Not me. I will accept the chance of 3000 more deaths by another attack before I accept the guarantee of trampled rights for 300 million citizens and an unknown number of foreigners.
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If you like rap or Reznor, or are just in the mood for something different, it's worth the price of the download. Hell, the chorus of the title track might be enough to make the download worthwhile:
Overall it's a smart and catchy offering, if slightly uneven at times.
This is a very good point, and one I hadn't considered before.
For the record, I am an ex-Christian who's tired of the shitty creation-vs-evolution "debate" coming from the two most vocal camps. I tend to side with the evolutionists in the role creationism should play in our education system (namely, none in science, maybe a footnote in religious courses), but unfounded attacks like this (and they fly both ways, so don't think you're off the hook, creationists) make me wonder why I should even give a shit. It's like all of your minds are already made up, and not only that, but everyone else *must* adhere to your point of view or they're "deeply, persistently and fundamentally fucked-up."
I know that the great religious thinkers of the past would be severely disappointed with the creationists' tactics and attitudes. I don't doubt for a second that the same goes for the great scientific thinkers' assessment of the evolutionists.
*I don't claim that banning religion results in a fucked-up society any more than allowing religion does, merely that it has little bearing on how fucked-up a country is.
My thoughts exactly. Tagged "valis" and "philipkdick" but we don't have the mindshare to make 'em show up.
I'd be upset too if I were Chinese and was called Asian-American! Everybody knows the proper term is American-Asian.
Mario didn't have horrible graphics. It had simple graphics, which is all you could have at the time, but certainly not horrible. Working with a limited color palette, Mario managed to have a good amount of atmosphere, a variety of distinct enemies, and a pleasing and consistent look-and-feel. Games with horrible graphics, IMO, are games whose playability is impeded by them. Superman 64 comes to mind.
I could see an argument being made for SMB having bland graphics, although I would disagree and point to something like Rampart or Milon's Secret Castle (both of which I enjoy playing).
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You keep misquoting that movie. I do not think it means what you think it banana. Dear Anonymous Custard
You keep banana that movie. I do not think it means what you think it leaflets.
Dave Barry's brand of humor is ineptitude. Seriously, am I the only one here who finds him banal?
GMail's interface update a month or so back randomly crashes Firefox 2.0 on Windows whenever you click one of the left-hand links or "Send." The 3.0 beta doesn't have this problem, and you can specify "ui=1" in the URL to use the old interface, but it's worth mentioning.
Well yes, but that's because the meaning of the word "cricket" is perfectly unambiguous to everyone. It's not like the sport shares its name with something completely unrelated, like, say, a small nocturnal insect, or a dart game, or a children's magazine, or a ridge structure designed to divert water on a roof, or an early American automobile model.
A neighbor of mine has a dog with no legs named Winston. Every morning she takes him out for a drag.
In space, no one can hear you sip.
It's actually not a stupid question at all. Or, at least, I don't think it is. Sure, you won't get the same experience as seeing it in person, but any material absorbing that much light is going to keep you from getting much information about its shape. In other words, if someone were to wear a shirt made of this stuff and put his hand on his chest, you'd see nothing but a disembodied hand stuck to his chest. You wouldn't be able to discern the fabric of his sleeve from the fabric covering his chest.
Gene Wolfe posits a material like this called "fuligin" in his Book of the New Sun. He describes it as looking like a void; you get no depth information whatsoever. Though a picture couldn't do that justice, I'd like to see one anyway.
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I have never seen name, post, and sig all in such accord.
You, sir, show a level of dedication that I find quite frankly a bit frightening. I applaud you for it while simultaneously hoping you are not near me in meatspace.
for The Wheel of Time book 97: Tarmon Gai'don. Along the bottom was written "Finally, it's fucking over - The New York Times"
This post would have been much more effective had I found the link, but I think it's gone forever.