I do my first draft in charcoal on slabs of shale-rock.
I then edit the draft by using a chisel to carve the words into the rock permanently.
It gives me time to think about each individual phrase, word, and letter.
Actually, I am part of the growing generation of high school students that do all of their work (beginning to finish) in Word or StarOffice or something of the equivalent.
Somehow, our adolescent minds have been able to wrap themselves around the concept that, if you just spend a few minutes formatting at the beginning or end of a writing session, and then leave it the hell alone, you can be just as productive and creative etc. as you might on pen and paper.
Not to mention the fact that italics have removed the need to remember whether the name of a play should be underlined or put in quotation marks.
Actually, I'm not so worried about the fact that an essay may be mis-graded on technicalities due to a fault of a computerized grading system. Things like this are easy to fix and can be shown to the professor and re-evaluated with a minimal amount of effort.
What makes me worry is that it won't be hard for students to figure out what kinds of sentence constructs/ content fillers consistently give them high marks, and cease to view writing papers as an intellectual process and begin to look at it as a method of defeating the machine's "AI". This sort of thing will surely encourage copy-paste-style adlibs.
Was the most boring 6 minutes and 34 seconds of footage that I have ever downloaded and then absent-mindedly left running in the background in my entire life. It was shaky bad-image video of static. And at the end some vaguely Star-wars like noise. Really, I believed them when they made the claims. I didn't need to sit through that. Even 10 seconds of that would have convinced me.
Come to think of it, how do we know they're not just tuning to a random static-frequency and recording it?
Send us more videotape! Better documentation, and longer!
I completely concur. Mod this guy up. Except that he didn't place a strong enough emphasis on: Including Saudi Arabia, which is mysteriously uninvaded at present.. Saudi Arabia is the number one supplier of economic and moral support to terrorists world-wide, as well as having been deeply entrenched in the September 11th attacks.
Why aren't we invading Saudi Arabia? I didn't support Afghanistan, and I certainly didn't support Iraq, but taking a look at Saudi Arabia might have an easier time making it onto my list of sane options (that is, if we should be invading anyone at all.)
Oh, except for the fact that the two holiest Moslem sites (Mecca and Medina) are in Saudi Arabia, and since Israel is already "occupying" (hah!) their 7th or something holiest site (i.e. the Temple Mount), we might as well leave those two alone.
Not to mention how unbelievably ludicrous it is when people bring up Israel's nukes in relation to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Like Israel would even CONSIDER using nukes on any of the people inhabiting its Rhode-Island sized country. The palestinians are much too close to the Israelis to ever worry about nuclear weapons.
Living in Denver, Colorado, I find myself constantly surrounded by right-wing bandwagon-hopping jingoist Bush supporters that all but carry the fasces around on their tomahawks. It makes one liberal minded independent feel like a bit of an island, and it sure is good to see all of the overwhelming logic and liberal (if not necessarily independent or individual) thought going on here. I know I've come to expect the anti-anti-Privacy stuff from the \. crowd, but it's still nice to see that I'm not the only person in town who sends off a couple letters a week to my state legislators etc. letting them know what pissants I think they are.
Sounds like a great idea to me. I'm currently volunteering to help with a study that does something similar to detect traces of NO in the air expelled from the lungs that, at higher levels, indicate that a patient may be suffering from athsma.
I do, however, agree with those that have voiced concern about discrimination, especially in the employment world, in regard to both devices (cancer much more so, of course.)
Of course, it seems that the camera would need near head-on uninterrupted vision of the person whose' lips are being read, which is not an ideal surveillance situation and makes it pretty much impossible to track actual conversations (with people facing one another).
I'd be scared of speaking to my computer now, tho - can you imagine a virus that uses your own webcam or whatever to see what you're saying when you're sitting in front of the screen?
But people have to produce the songs that you're listening to for free.
I find it amusing that people assume that there would be no more new music if people weren't getting millions of dollars for making it. I'm not sure if this is what you're assuming, but I'll use this time to rant anyways.
Music was around a long time before record labels. Moreover, when music is driven by the dollars that it brings in, it tends to suck. I would have absolutely no problem with the record industry coming crashing to earth and half of the crappy musicians in the industry having to get real jobs because they can no longer live off the royalties.
Music, without the record industry, would be incredible. It would be written by people who actually have some interest invested in making music.
Down with the RIAA! Stop buying CDs, pirate it off the 'net!
This is comparable to our brand-spanking new Department of Homeland Security calling Wireless Networks a "terrorist technology".
Personally, I'd rather have open source software running on all important computers - that way we can check to make sure that things are done right, rather than have to trust in proprietary source code churned out by the monkeys at MS. I feel more threatened by the unknown than by the free.
I subscribe to a belief expressed best by Benjamin Franklin: "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security".
I believed "President Bush's War on Iraq is incredible hoax culminating on April 1st with a Soldier's Ball open to Americans and Iraqis in Baghdad hosted at the Jewish Community Center" before this one.
I would be pissed off about having the jack in the wrong part of the wall. I wouldn't like having to modify my computing to match the house. I want the house to match the way I like to do things. Ideally I would have one room of the house with many computers in it and many cables. I would have an office with one computer in it, wired. Every other room in the house woul be accomodated by a single WAP.
You get pissed off about having a jack in the wrong part of the wall? Does that seem a little bit thumb-your-nose to anyone else? And one room with many computers and many cables? AND an office, with another computer? What are all of those cables for?
I consider someone buying a "paid placement" on a search engine to be spam, and that's a FREE service. Not something that people are paying money for, billed as a way to "cut around commercials, watch only the content they want to see, when they want to see it", etc.
Television channels are generally supported by subscription revenue, ad placement, selling marketing data, etc. However, that doesn't mean that when MTV changes it's format to a {5 minutes of programming : 5 minutes of advertisement} format that it's an acceptible usage of their service.
This sort of thing is called "selling out", and it's what our government has done over and over to pro-Spam lobbyists and (in many places, still) pro-Telemarketer lobbyists.
Wow, I thought I'd be the first to bring up Textmode Quake. Took me a couple of secs to figure out that Rooked One was talking about it already.
But since I already put the effort in (clicking on bookmarks is hard donchaknow), I'll put in a plug for my favorite Quake mod ever - check out ascii-quake at: http://webpages.onvoy.com/bobz/ttyquake/ .
Like they say on the site... "people are starving to death in this world... and somebody had time for this..."
Interesting concept, although I would be much more impressed if the site was supported by a writer with some talent. If there was a story-line that was more interesting and a bit more eloquent story-telling, this would be some really great stuff.
Same goes for the brick testament stuff - that one didn't take any writing talent at all (although the pictures, admittedly, are pretty cool in most cases.)
Anyways, better writing or maybe just more nudity. Lego-porn would be great, and would make up for bad scripts.
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I completely concur with my forebearers, and echo their sentiments, in asking:
What the fuck is this post trying to say?
The last page is where it gets real funny:
"Call tech support, bitch!"
If I heard the Fab 5 on the real Queer Eye saying that, I'd just die.
I do my first draft in charcoal on slabs of shale-rock.
I then edit the draft by using a chisel to carve the words into the rock permanently.
It gives me time to think about each individual phrase, word, and letter.
Actually, I am part of the growing generation of high school students that do all of their work (beginning to finish) in Word or StarOffice or something of the equivalent.
Somehow, our adolescent minds have been able to wrap themselves around the concept that, if you just spend a few minutes formatting at the beginning or end of a writing session, and then leave it the hell alone, you can be just as productive and creative etc. as you might on pen and paper.
Not to mention the fact that italics have removed the need to remember whether the name of a play should be underlined or put in quotation marks.
Actually, I'm not so worried about the fact that an essay may be mis-graded on technicalities due to a fault of a computerized grading system. Things like this are easy to fix and can be shown to the professor and re-evaluated with a minimal amount of effort.
What makes me worry is that it won't be hard for students to figure out what kinds of sentence constructs/ content fillers consistently give them high marks, and cease to view writing papers as an intellectual process and begin to look at it as a method of defeating the machine's "AI". This sort of thing will surely encourage copy-paste-style adlibs.
Perhaps if you had grown up with a similar toy, you would be able to spell words like 'children' and 'tricking' and 'high'
Full disclosure: I'm reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance right now).
No kidding. Either that or you're Persig himself.
Was the most boring 6 minutes and 34 seconds of footage that I have ever downloaded and then absent-mindedly left running in the background in my entire life. It was shaky bad-image video of static. And at the end some vaguely Star-wars like noise. Really, I believed them when they made the claims. I didn't need to sit through that. Even 10 seconds of that would have convinced me.
Come to think of it, how do we know they're not just tuning to a random static-frequency and recording it?
Send us more videotape! Better documentation, and longer!
No kidding! What is up with their spamming? I've asked to be removed from the list 2 times already!
I completely concur. Mod this guy up. Except that he didn't place a strong enough emphasis on: .
Including Saudi Arabia, which is mysteriously uninvaded at present.
Saudi Arabia is the number one supplier of economic and moral support to terrorists world-wide, as well as having been deeply entrenched in the September 11th attacks.
Why aren't we invading Saudi Arabia? I didn't support Afghanistan, and I certainly didn't support Iraq, but taking a look at Saudi Arabia might have an easier time making it onto my list of sane options (that is, if we should be invading anyone at all.)
Oh, except for the fact that the two holiest Moslem sites (Mecca and Medina) are in Saudi Arabia, and since Israel is already "occupying" (hah!) their 7th or something holiest site (i.e. the Temple Mount), we might as well leave those two alone.
Amen Hendrix69!
Not to mention how unbelievably ludicrous it is when people bring up Israel's nukes in relation to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Like Israel would even CONSIDER using nukes on any of the people inhabiting its Rhode-Island sized country. The palestinians are much too close to the Israelis to ever worry about nuclear weapons.
All correct except for the loser part. Punk != loser, and in fact, it's one of the more popular subcultures in America today.
Proud to be Punk.
Living in Denver, Colorado, I find myself constantly surrounded by right-wing bandwagon-hopping jingoist Bush supporters that all but carry the fasces around on their tomahawks. It makes one liberal minded independent feel like a bit of an island, and it sure is good to see all of the overwhelming logic and liberal (if not necessarily independent or individual) thought going on here.
I know I've come to expect the anti-anti-Privacy stuff from the \. crowd, but it's still nice to see that I'm not the only person in town who sends off a couple letters a week to my state legislators etc. letting them know what pissants I think they are.
I do, however, agree with those that have voiced concern about discrimination, especially in the employment world, in regard to both devices (cancer much more so, of course.)
I'd be scared of speaking to my computer now, tho - can you imagine a virus that uses your own webcam or whatever to see what you're saying when you're sitting in front of the screen?
I guess no more webcam sex for me. =(
I find it amusing that people assume that there would be no more new music if people weren't getting millions of dollars for making it. I'm not sure if this is what you're assuming, but I'll use this time to rant anyways.
Music was around a long time before record labels. Moreover, when music is driven by the dollars that it brings in, it tends to suck. I would have absolutely no problem with the record industry coming crashing to earth and half of the crappy musicians in the industry having to get real jobs because they can no longer live off the royalties.
Music, without the record industry, would be incredible. It would be written by people who actually have some interest invested in making music.
Down with the RIAA! Stop buying CDs, pirate it off the 'net!
Ludicrous.
This is comparable to our brand-spanking new Department of Homeland Security calling Wireless Networks a "terrorist technology".
Personally, I'd rather have open source software running on all important computers - that way we can check to make sure that things are done right, rather than have to trust in proprietary source code churned out by the monkeys at MS. I feel more threatened by the unknown than by the free.
I subscribe to a belief expressed best by Benjamin Franklin:
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security".
Is phreaking dead forever?
I believed "President Bush's War on Iraq is incredible hoax culminating on April 1st with a Soldier's Ball open to Americans and Iraqis in Baghdad hosted at the Jewish Community Center" before this one.
I would be pissed off about having the jack in the wrong part of the wall. I wouldn't like having to modify my computing to match the house. I want the house to match the way I like to do things. Ideally I would have one room of the house with many computers in it and many cables. I would have an office with one computer in it, wired. Every other room in the house woul be accomodated by a single WAP.
You get pissed off about having a jack in the wrong part of the wall? Does that seem a little bit thumb-your-nose to anyone else? And one room with many computers and many cables? AND an office, with another computer? What are all of those cables for?
I consider someone buying a "paid placement" on a search engine to be spam, and that's a FREE service. Not something that people are paying money for, billed as a way to "cut around commercials, watch only the content they want to see, when they want to see it", etc.
Television channels are generally supported by subscription revenue, ad placement, selling marketing data, etc. However, that doesn't mean that when MTV changes it's format to a {5 minutes of programming : 5 minutes of advertisement} format that it's an acceptible usage of their service.
This sort of thing is called "selling out", and it's what our government has done over and over to pro-Spam lobbyists and (in many places, still) pro-Telemarketer lobbyists.
But since I already put the effort in (clicking on bookmarks is hard donchaknow), I'll put in a plug for my favorite Quake mod ever - check out ascii-quake at: http://webpages.onvoy.com/bobz/ttyquake/ .
Like they say on the site ... "people are starving to death in this world... and somebody had time for this..."
Where did they get those lego penises?
Those things are hilarious!
Thanks!
Same goes for the brick testament stuff - that one didn't take any writing talent at all (although the pictures, admittedly, are pretty cool in most cases.)
Anyways, better writing or maybe just more nudity. Lego-porn would be great, and would make up for bad scripts.
Except the girls are all pretty flat-chested.
It doesn't seem to me like there's much similarity between "leet speak" and the Engrish subtitles except for terrible grammar and horrific spelling.
Oh, wait, that's what leet speak is anyways.
So what's the difference?