Yeah- I knew that was Square-Enix but I saw they somehow publisher VII for the PC.
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There is no "detriment" to others other than it seems to aggrivate your inability to... not let it bother you.
It's remarkable how you dirty hippies abuse the english language. I am "polluting?" Please. Polluting is what happens to the local lake when dirty hippies go there to bathe.
Lets talk instead about your unethical behavior in breaking our agreement. You did not put in a referral or put it in your signature.
I don't really know about the ethical nature of email spam. It can't be any more unethical than my current server that responds to any email with a request that $5 be paid into my paypal account and, if that is not paid within 20 minutes, the email is deleted and I never see it.
Maybe I should setup a similar system for/. posts - I won't respond to posts from people who don't either put my referral link into their sig or do a referral.
I've read a lot of stuff about her. Wouldn't surprise me. We have one degree of seperation on a couple of fronts and many of my friends have worked very closely with her over the years although we have never met. At some point, I'd really like to get to know her and maybe I will have that chance. Small world. Too bad she's in NY and not DC.
Gamerankings is not perfect, but here are the averages for the last 14 "hot" games that Eidos has released (releases for composite systems averaged together):
51%- Get on da mic
64% - Crash 'n Burn
47% - Backyard Wrestling 2
57% - Shellshock: Nam '67
83% - Thief: Deadly Shadows
78% - Hitman Contracts
80% - R-Type Final
85% - Dues Ex: Invisible War
76% - Legacy of Kain: Defiance
54% - Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness
75% - Commandos 3: Desination Berlin
70% - Whiplash
58% - The Italian Job
66% - Republic: The Revolution
Looks pretty mediocre overall. Final Fantasy is pretty huge series though.
It WOULD be fun to do a Hitman Contracts, but play as Ann Coulter going after dirty hippies.
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If "harming others" involves not giving money to every bum I pass by on the way to work, or "harming others" means selling my services for the highest price I can get for them, or "harming others" means speaking in a reference in an uncensored forum about *gasp* a job creating initiative involving the Gratis Network, Microsoft, eFax, Blockbuster, etc., yeah, I guess it does.
So what -you want to censor me, you Nazi?
BTW - I see you have not kept your end of the bargain up by putting my referal link in your signature. You have been warned and my lawyer is on the phone.
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You claim a right that you do not have. I guess you think you have a right to free healthcare and a right to walk into cages at the zoo and molest the goats.
I am giving you one freebie here with the offer that I will continue if you DO a referral for me OR if you put my link in your unused signature slot.
Today, Slashdot will post silly, unsubstantiated rumors from 'experts' speculating out of their nose.
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So you oppose doing anything for personal gain?
Personal gain, obviously in my context, means not in a way that coerces others. Duh. But I guess you consider my reference coercion?
Law is not just a codification of someone's ethics - it can be more than that - namely a recognition of the objective right and wrong, moral and immoral.
You seem to enjoy this converasation but I do not. I will, however, continue going back and forth for another 5 posts if you take up my offer to help me get a nintendo DS for free. See here.
Heheheh.
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You are psychotic.
Comparing me putting a reference to my ongoing attempt to get free stuff - including a way for others to get $10 from me - in a post to illegal embezzelement...
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All of my posts are for personal gain. I enjoy discussing and learning. I also enjoy Xbox. Hence I was able to mix multiple personal gains into a single post.
It seems I have all I need for the free Xbox. I already got the free Ipod Mini. I think that next I will either go for the Nintendo DS or maybe a full size Ipod. Or maybe the shuffle.
Anyway, those are my ideas on mixing highly ethical personal gains.
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I disagree: she doesn't really have sex scenes. There is some dialog at the beginning and the end.
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I get it, sort of now, from your explanation. The link givin did not make it as clear as that once sentence.
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She says that both are important. Empiricism discounts the value of the mind. She can explain better than I can in her own writing.
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I wasn't even thinking about arise. My mind just goes totally phonetic sometimes.
Rand's focus is how to develop this automatizing conciously. Some of it happens on it's own and can be incorrect. EG - fearing a parent yelling at you when you try something unusual/new.
Re: Hume/Descarts, Rand disagrees with both of them and says that knowledge comes from both the mind and experience. She is not a pure empiricist nor a pure... whatever Descarts is.
And after that, you can complete the fourth and final referral for the link in my signature.
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I really don't see it at all. Rand and Blink are about developing intuition (if there is such a thing) and automatizing of thoughts. The Five Rings only touches on this in a very vague way. Further, I doubt Rand read or was even aware of the five rings and did not hold the Oriental culture in high esteem.
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In her essays - especially in her Art of Fiction, Art of Non-Fiction and her collection of essays - Philospohy, Who Needs It discusses how to order your mind to automize certain assessments.
A simple example is that in typing these sentences, I'm not conciously trying to decide each and every word I am typing (and mispelling - yes, I know). You can gradually autamatize many functions through practice - taking concretes, making them abstracts, and then re-applying those abstracts to other situation where they arize. One such automization that Rand writes a lot about are emotions.
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Aight - once yours goes through I'll do one for you. I suggest Efax as the easiest.
Hey - trade referrals with me? You do mine, I'll do yours. I got the free Ipod and the free Xbox already.
Trade referrals with me? You do mine, I'll do yours. I got the free Ipod and the free Xbox already.
Trade referrals with me? You do mine, I'll do yours. I got the free Ipod and the free Xbox already.
Hey - Do my referral and I'll do yours. I already got a free ipod - it does work.
want to swap referrals?
Yes to all.
Yeah- I knew that was Square-Enix but I saw they somehow publisher VII for the PC.
It's remarkable how you dirty hippies abuse the english language. I am "polluting?" Please. Polluting is what happens to the local lake when dirty hippies go there to bathe.
Lets talk instead about your unethical behavior in breaking our agreement. You did not put in a referral or put it in your signature.
I don't really know about the ethical nature of email spam. It can't be any more unethical than my current server that responds to any email with a request that $5 be paid into my paypal account and, if that is not paid within 20 minutes, the email is deleted and I never see it.
Maybe I should setup a similar system for /. posts - I won't respond to posts from people who don't either put my referral link into their sig or do a referral.
I've read a lot of stuff about her. Wouldn't surprise me. We have one degree of seperation on a couple of fronts and many of my friends have worked very closely with her over the years although we have never met. At some point, I'd really like to get to know her and maybe I will have that chance. Small world. Too bad she's in NY and not DC.
Looks pretty mediocre overall. Final Fantasy is pretty huge series though.
It WOULD be fun to do a Hitman Contracts, but play as Ann Coulter going after dirty hippies.
So what -you want to censor me, you Nazi?
BTW - I see you have not kept your end of the bargain up by putting my referal link in your signature. You have been warned and my lawyer is on the phone.
I am giving you one freebie here with the offer that I will continue if you DO a referral for me OR if you put my link in your unused signature slot.
Today, Slashdot will post silly, unsubstantiated rumors from 'experts' speculating out of their nose.
Personal gain, obviously in my context, means not in a way that coerces others. Duh. But I guess you consider my reference coercion?
Law is not just a codification of someone's ethics - it can be more than that - namely a recognition of the objective right and wrong, moral and immoral.
You seem to enjoy this converasation but I do not. I will, however, continue going back and forth for another 5 posts if you take up my offer to help me get a nintendo DS for free. See here.
Heheheh.
Comparing me putting a reference to my ongoing attempt to get free stuff - including a way for others to get $10 from me - in a post to illegal embezzelement...
It seems I have all I need for the free Xbox. I already got the free Ipod Mini. I think that next I will either go for the Nintendo DS or maybe a full size Ipod. Or maybe the shuffle.
Anyway, those are my ideas on mixing highly ethical personal gains.
I disagree: she doesn't really have sex scenes. There is some dialog at the beginning and the end.
I get it, sort of now, from your explanation. The link givin did not make it as clear as that once sentence.
She says that both are important. Empiricism discounts the value of the mind. She can explain better than I can in her own writing.
Rand's focus is how to develop this automatizing conciously. Some of it happens on it's own and can be incorrect. EG - fearing a parent yelling at you when you try something unusual/new.
Re: Hume/Descarts, Rand disagrees with both of them and says that knowledge comes from both the mind and experience. She is not a pure empiricist nor a pure... whatever Descarts is.
Anyway, I'd encourage you to get her book "Philosophy: Who Needs It?" You can buy it for $5.90 shipped right here.
And after that, you can complete the fourth and final referral for the link in my signature.
I really don't see it at all. Rand and Blink are about developing intuition (if there is such a thing) and automatizing of thoughts. The Five Rings only touches on this in a very vague way. Further, I doubt Rand read or was even aware of the five rings and did not hold the Oriental culture in high esteem.
Along with a TV series.
It's actually nationalism.
A simple example is that in typing these sentences, I'm not conciously trying to decide each and every word I am typing (and mispelling - yes, I know). You can gradually autamatize many functions through practice - taking concretes, making them abstracts, and then re-applying those abstracts to other situation where they arize. One such automization that Rand writes a lot about are emotions.