I don't know, man. Most wireheads I've known have been disturbingly antisocial. Personal experience with uppers has boiled down essentially to "terrifyingly real" leading to a scary near-psychotic state (Amphetamine psychosis). YMMV, of course, but a society of that sounds potential very very scary.
A society of opium smokers on the other hand would be incredibly benign but unproductive.
Actually, legend has it that Tarantino shot many of the more gruesome scenes in black and white to avoid an NC-17 rating. Kill Bill was really pushing the R rating, but it got very little of the kind of attention that GTA:SA is getting.
Hey y'all aren't alone. I'm 18, target-demographic fodder for MTV (and everything else it seems) and I think it's stupid too.
On the other hand, I really enjoyed "Cyber Seduction" and the new crop of Lifetime movies. Not to mention the Golden Girls. I guess the advertisers just can't catch me.
1) There are antibacterial soaps out there. They started out in places like operating rooms and hospitals, however in recent years have been permeating our homes and society by the ultrahygenic movement.
Yes I know, that's what I was talking about. The antibacterial soaps. They're not antibiotics, you know. For some reference, I direct you to wikipedia.
Please look at them. I beg you to try and educate yourself to the difference between antibiotic drugs like erythromycin, penicillin, ciprofloxacin and common antibacterial hand soap. This is a truly dangerous meme, and it should be killed before it propagates and people abandon basic hygiene out of fear it will create Soap-Resistant Death Germs from Hell. This is totally wrong and quite irresponsible.
In our "faith based" medical system we are given magic pills for our mysterious diseases without knowing how they work or why we have the disease in the first place.
Then learn, dude. Don't know what Prozac (fluoxetine) does? Viagra (sildenafil)? There's a reason that they exist. They actually do things with your body's own chemistry that can be measured and demonstrated. Learning is one of life's great joys. I doubt irrational fear and paranoia about "the medical Establishment" is quite as interesting.
Antibacterial soap? What are you talking about? Soap is not an antibiotic, it is *soap*, and soap kills bacteria by very quick, extreme pH changes in solution, not chemically destroying a cell's ability to survive or procreate, as a true antibiotic does.
Antibacterial is not equal to antibiotic, in any way. Bacteria don't build up a resistance to soap. Antibiotics actually are bad, and I consider them to be the most dangerous form of "drug abuse" going on in this species.
So go crazy with the soap! Well, don't go crazy, but use it as you see fit. It's not dangerous.
I'm a recovering drug addict, and a recovering high school student. I can honestly tell you we get into drugs because reality is boring. That's the same reason we play video games. Also, we would drink were it available, but illicit drugs are usually far more available than (slightly less illegal) ethanol.
All in all, everyone has the same personality-forming mechanisms (as you mentioned) as everyone else. Some people are just wired to react differently to it.
This is the same case with just about everything else, video games and violent movies/tv, porn and sex; all the things that are 'wrong' for youth to be exposed to are elements of the Real World(TM) that, without proper understanding, could conceivably cause some sort of harm. But then again maybe not.
It's all about what the patents are all about. IBM tends to actually innovate- thus the heavy support for them from the/. community. On the other hand, the frivolity of Amazon's patents is pretty much unquestioned. If Amazon wasn't patenting (I wish I could have written "attempting to patent", but I know they'll get away with it) such blatantly obvious things, I'm sure they'd get far less attention.
A corporation's one and only duty is to make it's stockholders richer. There are no greedy corporations, just greedy investors. Other than the investors, corporations are composed of the average working folk like you or I.
As little as five years ago, Amazon was the darling of the Internet, probably one of the few.coms that not only survived, but made it into our vocabulary. Bezos used to be a geek hero.
Power corrupts. Who knew?
-cooter
Not to diminish your point, but the US is much more populous than Russia. Also, I've never heard of genetically engineered 'warrior types', but I'm sure we'll have them eventually if we want to.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ population
I doubt anyone would deny the pure evil running through the collective veins of the cable industry. I'd say they're at least as bad as Microsoft and, because they've personally slighted me more than once, I think they may be worse.
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Check out the company website, and Google them. I just did and it turns up that this company was founded on Oct10.2k4ce by Mark Phillips. A Google turned up... the company website, the original submission, and a couple other press releases. this is their only product, and they made it in two months.
Microsoft's only connection with them is that Mark Phillips guy, who, when googled investigatively, appears to have founded A Dot Corporation in Apr.2k3ce and they were involved in... SPOT Watch technology and claim microsoft to be a business partner (spotcorporation.com).
So is Mark Phillips using his work with microsoft's SPOT developer team to create something to market under a different name? Both companies list only Mark Phillips as founder and, in fact, confirmed employee, although one site listed A Dot as having 24 employees.
I do a lot of audio production (analog and digital) so I have a lineup of various brands/models of headphones that I use during final mixdown processes. From my experience, some devices do seem to have a little bit of extra "edge eq" similar to techniques used by commercial radio stations trying to get "that signature sound" type of an effect. IMO the iPod is bright on my whole range of headphones, from my wonderful Audio-Technica M40fs' (a great deal at $69-$99US for studio headphones that also sound great on everything) to shitty panasonics and almost-brandless Sony rip-offs I spend $7 to $15 on almost weekly. My PowerBook puts out colorless sound and (with eq off in iTunes and my mixes how they played out through the board, as CD size/format uncompressed AIFFs) has beautifully distinguished bass. I've noticed similar effects on some sony players, enhanced when sony's headphones are used, but muddy through the AT monitors and dry and harsh through iPod earbuds.
These are my own mixdowns of stuff I'm working on in production and were transferred in that same uncompressed AIFF format to all the devices, and on CD as CD audio to play in car stereos, etc.
Just my experience, but it's been something I've had to actually thinking about when closing up a mix recently.
I've never heard a hiss, though, on any non-powered headphones (noise-canceling ones are really noisy, it's a bitch) on any of the devices I use, with any of my headphones, the hiss could be result of interference, crappy modem(DAC), crappy electrical in your house, no ground, or a million other things. Oh, and if this guy is driving 'audiophile-quality' headphones to the point of hearing hiss because they are sensitive (ohmage? s/n ratio? frequency response pattern?) he may well have already blown a crossover or otherwise damaged the drivers on his phones. Also the SPLs this would be pushing are close to ear-damaging and also cause the brain's very own distortion channel of pain to kick in on the signal, so he might be hearing the his from aural compression, so to speak.
Stuff sounds better when you turn it down.
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A society of opium smokers on the other hand would be incredibly benign but unproductive.
Actually, legend has it that Tarantino shot many of the more gruesome scenes in black and white to avoid an NC-17 rating. Kill Bill was really pushing the R rating, but it got very little of the kind of attention that GTA:SA is getting.
On the other hand, I really enjoyed "Cyber Seduction" and the new crop of Lifetime movies. Not to mention the Golden Girls. I guess the advertisers just can't catch me.
Oh I agree, but if he was saying that, it wasn't clear enough for me to catch that meaning from it.
Yes I know, that's what I was talking about. The antibacterial soaps. They're not antibiotics, you know. For some reference, I direct you to wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiseptic
Please look at them. I beg you to try and educate yourself to the difference between antibiotic drugs like erythromycin, penicillin, ciprofloxacin and common antibacterial hand soap. This is a truly dangerous meme, and it should be killed before it propagates and people abandon basic hygiene out of fear it will create Soap-Resistant Death Germs from Hell. This is totally wrong and quite irresponsible.
Then learn, dude. Don't know what Prozac (fluoxetine) does? Viagra (sildenafil)? There's a reason that they exist. They actually do things with your body's own chemistry that can be measured and demonstrated. Learning is one of life's great joys. I doubt irrational fear and paranoia about "the medical Establishment" is quite as interesting.
Antibacterial is not equal to antibiotic, in any way. Bacteria don't build up a resistance to soap. Antibiotics actually are bad, and I consider them to be the most dangerous form of "drug abuse" going on in this species.
So go crazy with the soap! Well, don't go crazy, but use it as you see fit. It's not dangerous.
Is that wrong?
All in all, everyone has the same personality-forming mechanisms (as you mentioned) as everyone else. Some people are just wired to react differently to it.
This is the same case with just about everything else, video games and violent movies/tv, porn and sex; all the things that are 'wrong' for youth to be exposed to are elements of the Real World(TM) that, without proper understanding, could conceivably cause some sort of harm. But then again maybe not.
Your mileage may vary with life.
-cooter
-cooter
That's just irresponsible and inflammatory. Go away. -c
-cooter
A corporation's one and only duty is to make it's stockholders richer. There are no greedy corporations, just greedy investors. Other than the investors, corporations are composed of the average working folk like you or I. As little as five years ago, Amazon was the darling of the Internet, probably one of the few .coms that not only survived, but made it into our vocabulary. Bezos used to be a geek hero.
Power corrupts. Who knew?
-cooter
Thanks. I was going to have to post something along those lines if you hadn't stepped up. Much props. -Cooter
Not to diminish your point, but the US is much more populous than Russia. Also, I've never heard of genetically engineered 'warrior types', but I'm sure we'll have them eventually if we want to. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ population
I doubt anyone would deny the pure evil running through the collective veins of the cable industry. I'd say they're at least as bad as Microsoft and, because they've personally slighted me more than once, I think they may be worse.
dirty hippie.
Check out the company website, and Google them. I just did and it turns up that this company was founded on Oct10.2k4ce by Mark Phillips. A Google turned up... the company website, the original submission, and a couple other press releases. this is their only product, and they made it in two months.
Microsoft's only connection with them is that Mark Phillips guy, who, when googled investigatively, appears to have founded A Dot Corporation in Apr.2k3ce and they were involved in... SPOT Watch technology and claim microsoft to be a business partner (spotcorporation.com).
So is Mark Phillips using his work with microsoft's SPOT developer team to create something to market under a different name? Both companies list only Mark Phillips as founder and, in fact, confirmed employee, although one site listed A Dot as having 24 employees.
Yeah, so that's funny...
I do a lot of audio production (analog and digital) so I have a lineup of various brands/models of headphones that I use during final mixdown processes. From my experience, some devices do seem to have a little bit of extra "edge eq" similar to techniques used by commercial radio stations trying to get "that signature sound" type of an effect. IMO the iPod is bright on my whole range of headphones, from my wonderful Audio-Technica M40fs' (a great deal at $69-$99US for studio headphones that also sound great on everything) to shitty panasonics and almost-brandless Sony rip-offs I spend $7 to $15 on almost weekly. My PowerBook puts out colorless sound and (with eq off in iTunes and my mixes how they played out through the board, as CD size/format uncompressed AIFFs) has beautifully distinguished bass. I've noticed similar effects on some sony players, enhanced when sony's headphones are used, but muddy through the AT monitors and dry and harsh through iPod earbuds. These are my own mixdowns of stuff I'm working on in production and were transferred in that same uncompressed AIFF format to all the devices, and on CD as CD audio to play in car stereos, etc. Just my experience, but it's been something I've had to actually thinking about when closing up a mix recently. I've never heard a hiss, though, on any non-powered headphones (noise-canceling ones are really noisy, it's a bitch) on any of the devices I use, with any of my headphones, the hiss could be result of interference, crappy modem(DAC), crappy electrical in your house, no ground, or a million other things. Oh, and if this guy is driving 'audiophile-quality' headphones to the point of hearing hiss because they are sensitive (ohmage? s/n ratio? frequency response pattern?) he may well have already blown a crossover or otherwise damaged the drivers on his phones. Also the SPLs this would be pushing are close to ear-damaging and also cause the brain's very own distortion channel of pain to kick in on the signal, so he might be hearing the his from aural compression, so to speak. Stuff sounds better when you turn it down.