If you can give me ONE example, where a set of laws were introduced (like the Patriot Act) with the promise they wouldn't go down slippery slope, AND THEY KEPT THAT PROMISE, then I'll shut up about the slippery slope.
But somehow, at some point in time, the US Government will cross the line into controlling the internet just as much as any dictatorship would. (see China)
The only question is whether they will do it gradually enough for the people to notice, or not.
I hate Zombies too. Possibly even more than I hate pedo's. I mean, a zombie could in theory wipe out the human race. (You can substitute ebola or some other virus if you happen to like zombies)
I would still object to anyone logging all my internet searches because of the Zombie threat. My objection wouldn't make me a Zombie lover. I just love my privacy more than I hate zombies. (Or Pedos.)
You'd think SOMEONE would actually tell us the name of the game responsible? Seems like that should have been in the headline or story. ("3D Anti Terrorist Action" by the way)
But no, I suppose it's more important to emphasise that it's Windows.
Slashdot. Old school journalism at its finest.
("There's a chemical in your home which may kill you. We'll tell you what it is, after these important messages")
In fairness, I always refer to Jesus as the *benevolent* Zombie jew.
I've never said he was a bad zombie, here to eat brains and what not. Just that there are many of his followers who seem to love symbolically being brainless.
They freaked out over a drawing of a teddy bear that contained a drawing of Santa Claus, just because ANOTHER cartoon character said that the drawing of the Teddy bear covered a drawing of Muhammad.
Sure it *could* make healthier and tastier food, but where's the profit in that?
Monsanto could have made genetically modified wheat that produced more food. But no, that discovery was done by a man who was more interested in solving hunger, than attaining personal profit. (Norman Borlaug, greatest human being in history.)
Monsanto would rather introduce the whole "Defective by design" element into the food chain.
Technology does exist to help you get Lucid dreaming, but I've always found that it's easier to just practice.
I had the experience of trying to explain to my brother when we were kids how cool a lucid dream was. He never seemed to get it. Until years later, he had one of his own, and he couldn't stop telling me all the details of it.
My point is simply this... I've been lucid dreaming for over 20 years, and while you might find it impossible to believe, sooner or later you get bored with the "being God" part.
Back in the day, when alt.lucid.dreaming was still going strong, we used to regularly see posts from people saying "Well, I've kind of done everything I wanted... What else can I do with lucid dreaming?" Because the list of celebrities you want to fuck, virtual environments you want to explore, dead people you want to talk to, etc... is not that big a list.
The last and most interesting thing I used to with L.D. was go into crowded areas and stop random strangers and interrogate them about their lives. I took it as read that these virtual constructions were parts of my subconscious and mass random interrogations were one of the very few ways I could get an insight into my own unconscious mind.
Again, good for a while. But sooner or later you get bored with that too.
I always like reading about other peoples lucid dreaming experiences. However, I would like to point something out. Everyone's experiences can be different, but in my experience, telling people they can't do something, or that it's difficult, rapidly becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I know plenty of people who swear that you can't dream in colour, because they never have. And they were told they couldn't, when they were young. Same with all sorts of other dream related stuff, like seeing yourself in a mirror. Anyway, I'd like to point out that when you say "the next step comes in FULL CONTROL of your dreams, which is very difficult to achieve" I never found this to be true. For me, full control was instant and easy. It was like being on a holodeck.
It would be a shame if you were telling people that full control was difficult, and as a result, they found it as hard as you apparently did.
Most of the people that whine about this stuff aren't really Christians
No offence, but one of the most common identifying marks of a christian, is the apparent ability to identify others who self-identify as christians, and tell them they're not really christians.
They vote for the lesser of two evils, because if they didn't, they're afraid the wrong lizard will get in.
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Ford Prefect, of course, had an explanation for this, as he sat with Arthur and watched the nonstop frenetic news reports on television, none of which had anything to say other than to record that the thing had done this amount of damage which was valued at that amount of billions of pounds and had killed this totally other number of people, and then say it again, because the robot was doing nothing more than standing there, swaying very slightly, and emitting short incomprehensible error messages.
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
Slashdot Mirror
It's just made up numbers and made up words, told by the princelings of lies and falsehoods.
his claims.
This is like asking one psychic about the veracity of another psychic.
Lie Detectors are a known-to-be-bullshit product which the Feds seem to love spending money on.
This seems to be more-of-the-same.
Non Elected Government Body = Civil Service.
It's hardly Soviet Russia.
but is it at all possible that the coalition is doing GOOD instead of evil?
I do believe that's unprecedented.
Miranda rights exist because of abusive cops.
How timely. Miranda rights are going away, because of Right-wing judges.
Supreme Court backs off strict enforcement of Miranda rights
and the general apathetic public sleeps soundly.
If you can give me ONE example, where a set of laws were introduced (like the Patriot Act) with the promise they wouldn't go down slippery slope, AND THEY KEPT THAT PROMISE, then I'll shut up about the slippery slope.
Okay?
But somehow, at some point in time, the US Government will cross the line into controlling the internet just as much as any dictatorship would. (see China)
The only question is whether they will do it gradually enough for the people to notice, or not.
I hate Zombies too. Possibly even more than I hate pedo's. I mean, a zombie could in theory wipe out the human race.
(You can substitute ebola or some other virus if you happen to like zombies)
I would still object to anyone logging all my internet searches because of the Zombie threat.
My objection wouldn't make me a Zombie lover. I just love my privacy more than I hate zombies. (Or Pedos.)
Well that's helpful. I tried googling the phone number to see what I could find.
Google told me the answer was 88,079.
Thanks Google.
You'd think SOMEONE would actually tell us the name of the game responsible?
Seems like that should have been in the headline or story.
("3D Anti Terrorist Action" by the way)
But no, I suppose it's more important to emphasise that it's Windows.
Slashdot. Old school journalism at its finest.
("There's a chemical in your home which may kill you. We'll tell you what it is, after these important messages")
True story. I tried pointing that out once. The response I got was "That's not science. That's technology. Technology is good. Science is bad"
Indeed. There are many spontaneously fermented beers on sale in Belgium. They do taste quite different.
In fairness, I always refer to Jesus as the *benevolent* Zombie jew.
I've never said he was a bad zombie, here to eat brains and what not.
Just that there are many of his followers who seem to love symbolically being brainless.
Yeah, but who's going to kill them, if you need to renounce your own faith to follow the apostates into America?
I think it's a genius (if unworkable) idea.
I dunno. Almost every religion I know says that we're fucked as a species, and the world will see the end of humans at some point.
That's a prophecy I find easy to believe.
They freaked out over a drawing of a teddy bear that contained a drawing of Santa Claus, just because ANOTHER cartoon character said that the drawing of the Teddy bear covered a drawing of Muhammad.
They are clearly and demonstrably INSANE.
I say, let's poke them with a big stick.
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Guess who that's supposed to be?
derive cures for other viruses?
Sure it *could* make healthier and tastier food, but where's the profit in that?
Monsanto could have made genetically modified wheat that produced more food.
But no, that discovery was done by a man who was more interested in solving hunger, than attaining personal profit. (Norman Borlaug, greatest human being in history.)
Monsanto would rather introduce the whole "Defective by design" element into the food chain.
It's okay. When they dispose of it for you, you can come back here and tell us what you really think.
I hope we all get the reference, but just in case...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg
Technology does exist to help you get Lucid dreaming, but I've always found that it's easier to just practice.
I had the experience of trying to explain to my brother when we were kids how cool a lucid dream was. He never seemed to get it. Until years later, he had one of his own, and he couldn't stop telling me all the details of it.
My point is simply this ... I've been lucid dreaming for over 20 years, and while you might find it impossible to believe, sooner or later you get bored with the "being God" part.
Back in the day, when alt.lucid.dreaming was still going strong, we used to regularly see posts from people saying "Well, I've kind of done everything I wanted... What else can I do with lucid dreaming?" Because the list of celebrities you want to fuck, virtual environments you want to explore, dead people you want to talk to, etc... is not that big a list.
The last and most interesting thing I used to with L.D. was go into crowded areas and stop random strangers and interrogate them about their lives. I took it as read that these virtual constructions were parts of my subconscious and mass random interrogations were one of the very few ways I could get an insight into my own unconscious mind.
Again, good for a while. But sooner or later you get bored with that too.
I always like reading about other peoples lucid dreaming experiences. However, I would like to point something out. Everyone's experiences can be different, but in my experience, telling people they can't do something, or that it's difficult, rapidly becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I know plenty of people who swear that you can't dream in colour, because they never have. And they were told they couldn't, when they were young. Same with all sorts of other dream related stuff, like seeing yourself in a mirror. Anyway, I'd like to point out that when you say "the next step comes in FULL CONTROL of your dreams, which is very difficult to achieve" I never found this to be true. For me, full control was instant and easy. It was like being on a holodeck.
It would be a shame if you were telling people that full control was difficult, and as a result, they found it as hard as you apparently did.
Most of the people that whine about this stuff aren't really Christians
No offence, but one of the most common identifying marks of a christian, is the apparent ability to identify others who self-identify as christians, and tell them they're not really christians.
They vote for the lesser of two evils, because if they didn't, they're afraid the wrong lizard will get in.
=0=
Ford Prefect, of course, had an explanation for this, as he sat with Arthur and watched the nonstop frenetic news reports on television, none of which had anything to say other than to record that the thing had done this amount of damage which was valued at that amount of billions of pounds and had killed this totally other number of people, and then say it again, because the robot was doing nothing more than standing there, swaying very slightly, and emitting short incomprehensible error messages.
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"