A few months ago, I got the strongest, most visual "acid" I have ever taken - at four hits, tripped balls for a good 10 hours. I don't think it was LSD though, me and a few freinds were speculating that it might have been DMA sold as acid.
But yeah, most acid I've gotten in the last few years has been crap. Shrooms are happier anyhow.
Most college students I know are not adults, if by adult you mean mentally mature, in any way - although I would hope that the ones at Stanford would be.
I agree with you in entirety, although I am one who does not have any college experiance, (most of my freinds are currently attending, and not learning shit) and has the added benefit of not being able to find a job other than fast food/telemarketing due to the area I'm living in and lack of college degree - although I have more useful, real-world knowledge than many college grads I know. I know one lady with a (bullshit) CS degree. I had to "fix" her computer. You know what was wrong with it? Power strip was off. (That's probably not the best example but anyhow)
I have a freind who is two years older than I am, but acts three years younger. He is majoring in business. When he gets out of college he's going to get some bullshit jack-off high pay job, which is fine if that's what he want's to do.
Personally, I gleaned nothing from high school. Well, I did learn one thing - that if you suck up to those above you, you get ahead - and if you are detrimental to your higher-ups image, you get screwed no matter how valid or obvious your points are, or your level of intelligence.
I hate the way people equate a college education with a job. Also, I hate the employers hiring people based on nothing but a degree. I had a conversation with an older fellow (a freind's dad that own's his own business...stubborn old guy) and he was saying that he would hire someone with a degree over someone without one, because at the very least in means that they have been exposed to a certain level of knowledge. In theory this is true, but in reality it is not always the case. In fact, I might guess that it is the case a minority of the time.
I enjoy learning, I always have. If I go to college, it is going to be to learn, to expand my level of knowledge - not to get a peice of paper that leads to a high paying job and high-expense debts and bills. I can already get very close to the same experiance as a college education online, just without the paper, and all the material is not availiable yet - but it will be eventually, probably soon.
Anyhow, soon I am going to be relocating with almost no money to my name to go to a larger, more urban area where hopefully I can do something useful, or at least find more like-minded people than I can here.
In sum, college is very valuable if you want a two story house, a trophy wife, two cars, two kids, and a middle to upper class paycheck.
Hey, thanks for the informative reply...more than what I expect of the average/.er, heh.
I have fooled around with ACID a very little bit through a freind of mine (mainly just merging guitar tracks together.) I have also heard from many people that a good mic makes all the difference in the world.
I could be called one of those infamous internet pirates....mainly because I really don't have the funds to dish out for software that I'm not sure that I'm going to get a lot of use out of. If I needed a certain peice of software's functionality on a daily basis, or for my job I would pay for it, but I don't.
Who doesn't want to sound like Atarii Teenage Riot?
But anyhow, at the moment I am running Linux, and haven't bothered to put a windows install on my drive as well, and I haven't found much decent looping or sampling programs for *nix, although I'm sure they exist (I haven't looked very hard.)
Most of the music I make anymore is mainly guitar, maybe some lyrics - I seem to have an inability to find anyone who plays drums and also has a drumset...
Anyhow, if I make anything and upload it online anywhere, I'll be sure to let you know so you can check it out (and your freinds and so on).
The creation of music is a beautiful thing, keep it up my freind.
Hey I checked out some of the music linked in your sig, I was wondering what you are using to make your tunes? I've been looking to get into some computer-driven music creation but I don't know a good place to start.
Oh by the way, I think you should add a little effect to the vocals on that trip to the jungle song...just a little distortion or something.
>There are LOTS of ways to go about establishing >trust in someone without proving yourself >trustworthy and against their will. If you think >otherwise, you're the one that's naive.
I was not saying that there aren't many different ways of inspiring trust in other people. I was saying that if you are taking a pill to give yourself trust in other people it would probably make you trusting of people who you wouldn't normally trust. I was saying that it would (or at least could) make you trusting in a naive fashion, like a small child - and that that could lead to you getting fucked over pretty bad.
Also, I can not think of many cases where there would be much other motive than control for giving a "trust pill" to another person, excluding treatment for paranoia....
It only makes sense that if you act in a 'trustworthy' fashion - or if you don't go out of your way to partake in actions that negatively affect other people - that people will give you more 'trust'.
When you think about it, it's really just a matter of pattern recognition, something that humans have the ability to excel at if they wish to.
I would guess that any trust gained from this pill would either be just a placebo sort of effect, or it would make whoever took the pill painfully naive.
you dont even need to send it to anybody to get the link, just type ergdfgr@aglher.com in it or leave it blank (i think)....it still uploads and gives you the http links.
If you have firefox, here's what you do. Right click, select View Page source, type / in the window with the source, type some of your post into it and then look at the blank reply to yours.
This works just about any time you are wondering how someone did something in a post.
I suspected that the people making the blank posts were just posting an html tag that doesn't display anything but whitespace like
The dude below you just posted a
tag.
This wasn't really directed at you in particular...(since you're just not bored enough to find out, you know you could find out) it seems sometimes though that people just don't realize that for anything you can do on the computer, there is information about how to do it available to you, even if it's just looking at the source for the page. Learning how to do shit with a computer is just a matter of putting forth a little effort to get the information about how to do it.
i alism> <P> Not anything like the Libertarian party. The term libertarian socialism has been around longer than the party. It's really a synonym for anarchism. Not chaos, anarchism.
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What are you talking about? There has been a translation patch at dejap for all of forever now, and the rom is easily attainable.
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Found through that link.
Yeah, he also majored in history, then later got an MBA, while John Kerry studied law. So there.
A few months ago, I got the strongest, most visual "acid" I have ever taken - at four hits, tripped balls for a good 10 hours. I don't think it was LSD though, me and a few freinds were speculating that it might have been DMA sold as acid.
But yeah, most acid I've gotten in the last few years has been crap. Shrooms are happier anyhow.
Most college students I know are not adults, if by adult you mean mentally mature, in any way - although I would hope that the ones at Stanford would be.
I agree with you in entirety, although I am one who does not have any college experiance, (most of my freinds are currently attending, and not learning shit) and has the added benefit of not being able to find a job other than fast food/telemarketing due to the area I'm living in and lack of college degree - although I have more useful, real-world knowledge than many college grads I know. I know one lady with a (bullshit) CS degree. I had to "fix" her computer. You know what was wrong with it? Power strip was off. (That's probably not the best example but anyhow)
I have a freind who is two years older than I am, but acts three years younger. He is majoring in business. When he gets out of college he's going to get some bullshit jack-off high pay job, which is fine if that's what he want's to do.
Personally, I gleaned nothing from high school. Well, I did learn one thing - that if you suck up to those above you, you get ahead - and if you are detrimental to your higher-ups image, you get screwed no matter how valid or obvious your points are, or your level of intelligence.
I hate the way people equate a college education with a job. Also, I hate the employers hiring people based on nothing but a degree. I had a conversation with an older fellow (a freind's dad that own's his own business...stubborn old guy) and he was saying that he would hire someone with a degree over someone without one, because at the very least in means that they have been exposed to a certain level of knowledge. In theory this is true, but in reality it is not always the case. In fact, I might guess that it is the case a minority of the time.
I enjoy learning, I always have. If I go to college, it is going to be to learn, to expand my level of knowledge - not to get a peice of paper that leads to a high paying job and high-expense debts and bills. I can already get very close to the same experiance as a college education online, just without the paper, and all the material is not availiable yet - but it will be eventually, probably soon.
Anyhow, soon I am going to be relocating with almost no money to my name to go to a larger, more urban area where hopefully I can do something useful, or at least find more like-minded people than I can here.
In sum, college is very valuable if you want a two story house, a trophy wife, two cars, two kids, and a middle to upper class paycheck.
Hey, thanks for the informative reply...more than what I expect of the average /.er, heh.
I have fooled around with ACID a very little bit through a freind of mine (mainly just merging guitar tracks together.) I have also heard from many people that a good mic makes all the difference in the world.
I could be called one of those infamous internet pirates....mainly because I really don't have the funds to dish out for software that I'm not sure that I'm going to get a lot of use out of. If I needed a certain peice of software's functionality on a daily basis, or for my job I would pay for it, but I don't.
Who doesn't want to sound like Atarii Teenage Riot?
But anyhow, at the moment I am running Linux, and haven't bothered to put a windows install on my drive as well, and I haven't found much decent looping or sampling programs for *nix, although I'm sure they exist (I haven't looked very hard.)
Most of the music I make anymore is mainly guitar, maybe some lyrics - I seem to have an inability to find anyone who plays drums and also has a drumset...
Anyhow, if I make anything and upload it online anywhere, I'll be sure to let you know so you can check it out (and your freinds and so on).
The creation of music is a beautiful thing, keep it up my freind.
Bullshit. Unless by we're you meant we were.
Hey I checked out some of the music linked in your sig, I was wondering what you are using to make your tunes? I've been looking to get into some computer-driven music creation but I don't know a good place to start.
Oh by the way, I think you should add a little effect to the vocals on that trip to the jungle song...just a little distortion or something.
But overall, I have enjoyed what I have heard,
Someone's got it in their sig, I've seen it quite a few times. But yeah, I think it is stewart.
He also wrote meeces. And made star trek references.....then explained them.
It sounds like a form of reproduction in which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual?
So have you heard of a way to do this other than by chance? If you got that temporarily, there has to be some way to get that permanently right?
What's wrong with them having membrane keys and gold paint if they still provide the same, if not better functionality?
Most physical bully types that I have met already have their computers infested anyhow.
Just saying.....
>There are LOTS of ways to go about establishing
>trust in someone without proving yourself
>trustworthy and against their will. If you think
>otherwise, you're the one that's naive.
I was not saying that there aren't many different ways of inspiring trust in other people. I was saying that if you are taking a pill to give yourself trust in other people it would probably make you trusting of people who you wouldn't normally trust. I was saying that it would (or at least could) make you trusting in a naive fashion, like a small child - and that that could lead to you getting fucked over pretty bad.
Also, I can not think of many cases where there would be much other motive than control for giving a "trust pill" to another person, excluding treatment for paranoia....
It only makes sense that if you act in a 'trustworthy' fashion - or if you don't go out of your way to partake in actions that negatively affect other people - that people will give you more 'trust'.
When you think about it, it's really just a matter of pattern recognition, something that humans have the ability to excel at if they wish to.
I would guess that any trust gained from this pill would either be just a placebo sort of effect, or it would make whoever took the pill painfully naive.
Thanks alot
Could you perhaps point out a few good indie games? Most of the 'indie games' that I've seen have been MUDs.
I could have sworn that the worst game ever was Action 52....
you dont even need to send it to anybody to get the link, just type ergdfgr@aglher.com in it or leave it blank (i think)....it still uploads and gives you the http links.
I can't believe I never noticed that. Thanks, that is a much better way of checking the source for a section.
This works just about any time you are wondering how someone did something in a post.
I suspected that the people making the blank posts were just posting an html tag that doesn't display anything but whitespace like
The dude below you just posted a
tag.
This wasn't really directed at you in particular...(since you're just not bored enough to find out, you know you could find out) it seems sometimes though that people just don't realize that for anything you can do on the computer, there is information about how to do it available to you, even if it's just looking at the source for the page. Learning how to do shit with a computer is just a matter of putting forth a little effort to get the information about how to do it.
I spend my free time learning anyhow, it can be one of the most enjoyable experiences, as long as you're learning about something you care about.
But yeah, again I have a tendency to ramble.
i alism>
<P>
Not anything like the Libertarian party. The term libertarian socialism has been around longer than the party. It's really a synonym for anarchism. Not chaos, anarchism.
What are you talking about? There has been a translation patch at dejap for all of forever now, and the rom is easily attainable.