It may have been related to Benham's disk. Here's the best one I can find on the web. But basically, it's a broken black and white spiral. When you spin it, you saw a faint shimming rainbow of washed-out colors.
Go look up the money available to a given company and then look at how much the federal budget is. The difference is staggering.
I think the figure we should look at is the amount of money that companies control in aggregate compared to the government.
Joseph Campbell said if you want to see who's in control in society, look at who has the biggest building. In ancient societies, it was a pyramid or ziggurat, controlled by a God/King/Priest. In Europe in the middle ages, the biggest buildings were cathedrals, run by the church. After the enlightenment, it was government buildings, and public buildings like railway stations. In today's world, it's office buildings run by corporations.
I remember playing Contra on the NES with my buddy one day. I was trying to show off my skills, claiming that I could beat the game without the 30 lives. I played through the whole game without dying once. I was plenty impressed with myself!
Some people believe that toilets don't allow for complete elimination and are the source of a lot of colon cancer.
This is true, but plumbing ans sewer systems != sit-down toilets.
IIRC, modern sit-down toilets were invented by John C. Crapper sometime in the 1700s. I could look this up and link this to wikipedia, but my karma is good enough.
So all these ancient civilizations we're hearing about that had plumbing systems -- Egypt, the Indus valley, the Mayans, Rome -- they were all still squatting to take a shit.
In fact I understand that squat toilets are still common in China, India, and the Middle East to this day.
The problem with these schemes is that managers can manipulate events to keep them off the books until bonuses are dispersed... in a way that could seem reasonable.
Fresh out of college, I had a friend who quit a job as an accountant at the local instance of a fortune 500 company because of exactly these kinds of shenanigans. The managers and accountants were all "in" on it, but not explicitly. They would just talk about when the proper time was to put things on the books. It happened to work out to maximize bonuses, shaft certain people, and displace blame. My friend thought it was unethical. Oh, to be young and idealistic again!
Tarnish his reputation? Forgive me, but isn't he emblematic of the mad genius? I don't mean just eccentric, but paranoid nut-so. His work wouldn't be so great without that factor, I don't think.
And for those of you who missed it, here's Robert Crumb's The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick
I disagree. What we think of as life forms -- cells, tissues, organs, creatures, colonies -- are all epiphenomenal of DNA. And the DNA molecule is not really life itself; rather life is genes expressed in DNA. The genes are immortal.
And I don't think the best space-faring races will be biological *or* mechanical -- who has the energy to move all those heavy atoms around? I think that true space-faring life forms will composed of light, or massless particles like neutrinos, or something that has no problem banging around space.
It would be just a cool, hipster retro-hack. Imagine running around with a camera and lens from the 70s, and you're actually shooting digital video. Or you go to a little art-house movie fest and you have a film that was done on some consumer level camera from the 50s. You would have hipster geek cred, that's what you'd get out of it.
I'd like to see a hack of old movie cameras. If someone would replace the film cartridge area with a cheap, off-the-shelf elctronic video system, that would be awesome.
Seriouly, the Terrans and Protoss are just as ruthless when it comes to resource exploitation. Has the StarCraft Universe experienced peak mineral yet?
I remember watching a film in high school Government class about a Russian who tried to defect to the US on a Navy ship or something. He was dissapeared into gulag systems, and finally after years he was just taken and dropped off in the middle of the woods by KGB agents. He thought he was going to be executed. Instead he was picked up by Americans.
My teacher at the time talked about how "In Soviet Russia, they could just pick you up and people would never hear from you again." Then the War on Terror happened, and guess who is disappearing people? I guess wars age you.
Any currency -- any at all -- is nothing more than a communal expectation of continued value. It's fine for people to think that (say) gold will retain its value better than (say) the USA, but it's hogwash to claim that one value is "real" and the other is not.
I disagree.
Gold has practical value as a currency that are based on its physical properties, and facts about the human nervous system.
As a currency, it has some benefits:
It's congomerable and partable. You can lump it together and break it down easily, and it's value doesn't change, unlike paper currency or, say, jade. Two broken pieces of jade has less value than the whole one. A paper currency shredded is worthless. And I can't easily put them back together.
It's corrosion resistant, unlike copper or silver, which tarnish.
It's rare, but not too rare. Unlike paper currency, you can't just make more. But it's not so rare that it's unusable.
People have valued gold where ever they could get their hands on it. It's pretty, in an objective way, the way that people like gems, feathers, shells and other shiny, colorful things all over the world. It tickles the pleasure centers in the brain.
Combined with the fact that people like it for its beauty and its other physical properties, it's a good bet that gold will act as a currency, or universal commodity, until we're able to syntheisize or live on a planet where is in abundance like salt-water on Earth.
I'd like to take the opportunity to plug video editing with AviSynth. No, there's no GUI and it only runs on Windows. But, if you want to take the power of scripting and programming to the world of video editing, this tool is for you.
There was at one time a project to make a version that ran cross-platform, but it ran out of steam.
Also, there is a bill in committee, HR 3149 that would ban the practice of credit checks for hiring. Contact your congressperson and tell them you want them to sponsor this and vote for it!
Cheat in a game of Solitaire? Its "wrong" to cheat, but nothing bad could possibly happen as a result?
If you're 'cheating' in solitaire, you know you're cheating. It sounds to me like a contradiction in terms, or a redundancy. Can I 'steal' from my wallet if I take out some bills?
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It may have been related to Benham's disk. Here's the best one I can find on the web. But basically, it's a broken black and white spiral. When you spin it, you saw a faint shimming rainbow of washed-out colors.
Why would I ever want a website to have access to my camera or microphone?
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You mean downloadable content that you can't borrow, lend, trade, sell? I'd rather have my games on physical media.
Hear that, future? This guy doesn't want you. G'wan home.
Upvoted for reddit meme infecting slashdot headline. Sneaky cat is sneaky.
Go look up the money available to a given company and then look at how much the federal budget is. The difference is staggering.
I think the figure we should look at is the amount of money that companies control in aggregate compared to the government.
Joseph Campbell said if you want to see who's in control in society, look at who has the biggest building. In ancient societies, it was a pyramid or ziggurat, controlled by a God/King/Priest. In Europe in the middle ages, the biggest buildings were cathedrals, run by the church. After the enlightenment, it was government buildings, and public buildings like railway stations. In today's world, it's office buildings run by corporations.
I remember playing Contra on the NES with my buddy one day. I was trying to show off my skills, claiming that I could beat the game without the 30 lives. I played through the whole game without dying once. I was plenty impressed with myself!
Any emperor who adopted a "fewer legions" policy would find himself replaced with extreme prejudice by somebody willing to do the opposite.
For some reason, I'm having mental images of Roman legions marching through Iraq and Afghanistan, with predator drones buzzing overhead.
Some people believe that toilets don't allow for complete elimination and are the source of a lot of colon cancer.
This is true, but plumbing ans sewer systems != sit-down toilets.
IIRC, modern sit-down toilets were invented by John C. Crapper sometime in the 1700s. I could look this up and link this to wikipedia, but my karma is good enough.
So all these ancient civilizations we're hearing about that had plumbing systems -- Egypt, the Indus valley, the Mayans, Rome -- they were all still squatting to take a shit.
In fact I understand that squat toilets are still common in China, India, and the Middle East to this day.
#TODO: finish up all operations for 64-bit integers.
The problem with these schemes is that managers can manipulate events to keep them off the books until bonuses are dispersed... in a way that could seem reasonable.
Fresh out of college, I had a friend who quit a job as an accountant at the local instance of a fortune 500 company because of exactly these kinds of shenanigans. The managers and accountants were all "in" on it, but not explicitly. They would just talk about when the proper time was to put things on the books. It happened to work out to maximize bonuses, shaft certain people, and displace blame. My friend thought it was unethical. Oh, to be young and idealistic again!
OK, let's arrest you for impersonating a doctor then :)
Tarnish his reputation? Forgive me, but isn't he emblematic of the mad genius? I don't mean just eccentric, but paranoid nut-so. His work wouldn't be so great without that factor, I don't think.
And for those of you who missed it, here's Robert Crumb's The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick
The War Nerd addresses this point exactly. Carriers are big, floating sea-tombs.
I think we are already the hive-society. But, instead of organisms, we are hives of cells.
I disagree. What we think of as life forms -- cells, tissues, organs, creatures, colonies -- are all epiphenomenal of DNA. And the DNA molecule is not really life itself; rather life is genes expressed in DNA. The genes are immortal.
And I don't think the best space-faring races will be biological *or* mechanical -- who has the energy to move all those heavy atoms around? I think that true space-faring life forms will composed of light, or massless particles like neutrinos, or something that has no problem banging around space.
I'm not sure what you would gain with that.
It would be just a cool, hipster retro-hack. Imagine running around with a camera and lens from the 70s, and you're actually shooting digital video. Or you go to a little art-house movie fest and you have a film that was done on some consumer level camera from the 50s. You would have hipster geek cred, that's what you'd get out of it.
I'd like to see a hack of old movie cameras. If someone would replace the film cartridge area with a cheap, off-the-shelf elctronic video system, that would be awesome.
Seriouly, the Terrans and Protoss are just as ruthless when it comes to resource exploitation. Has the StarCraft Universe experienced peak mineral yet?
I remember watching a film in high school Government class about a Russian who tried to defect to the US on a Navy ship or something. He was dissapeared into gulag systems, and finally after years he was just taken and dropped off in the middle of the woods by KGB agents. He thought he was going to be executed. Instead he was picked up by Americans.
My teacher at the time talked about how "In Soviet Russia, they could just pick you up and people would never hear from you again." Then the War on Terror happened, and guess who is disappearing people? I guess wars age you.
I did this for a year in Finland as an exchange student, and also for long stretches in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru. Nobody gives a shit.
Any currency -- any at all -- is nothing more than a communal expectation of continued value. It's fine for people to think that (say) gold will retain its value better than (say) the USA, but it's hogwash to claim that one value is "real" and the other is not.
I disagree.
Gold has practical value as a currency that are based on its physical properties, and facts about the human nervous system.
As a currency, it has some benefits:
Combined with the fact that people like it for its beauty and its other physical properties, it's a good bet that gold will act as a currency, or universal commodity, until we're able to syntheisize or live on a planet where is in abundance like salt-water on Earth.
I'd like to take the opportunity to plug video editing with AviSynth. No, there's no GUI and it only runs on Windows. But, if you want to take the power of scripting and programming to the world of video editing, this tool is for you.
There was at one time a project to make a version that ran cross-platform, but it ran out of steam.
Also, there is a bill in committee, HR 3149 that would ban the practice of credit checks for hiring. Contact your congressperson and tell them you want them to sponsor this and vote for it!
Cheat in a game of Solitaire? Its "wrong" to cheat, but nothing bad could possibly happen as a result?
If you're 'cheating' in solitaire, you know you're cheating. It sounds to me like a contradiction in terms, or a redundancy. Can I 'steal' from my wallet if I take out some bills?
What is war, then? Maniacal bad guys getting a bug up their ass, and then humble good guys defending themselves against the outlashes?