The short version of what a lot of people are saying in this thread is that If you Can't Take care of your child then Don't Have one. The last thing we need is a lot of children growing up full of resentment because their parents were always too busy to play with them. If you want to have children then be prepared to slow your life down and sacrifice to take care of them, don't think you can just pop one out, send him off to day care and then show up at high school/college graduation to say hello.
Yeah, that Steve Jobs is such an idiot, I mean, his company just released that stupid consumer CDRW/DVDRW drive that writes so fast that a 1 hour movie only takes 2 hours to burn....
What a bunch of morons there are over at Apple... yeah...
Ok, so you think people who spend a lot of time on interactive roleplaying games have no lives, who do you consider to have a life? The idiot that goes out and drinks until he can't see every night? The one that sits in front of the TV for 4 or 5 hours once they get home? I play muds, diablo 2, did play Everquest and Ultima Online. If my character got screwed up bad I got pissed because I had devoted TIME, even if it was only 20 minutes of my time it was 20 minutes that I couldn't get back. But at least I spent the time doing something that involved some form of mental activity as my recreation. I also get out with my friends and play M:TG with them, I also teach them martial arts. But None of that matters, the people that devoted hours of their lives to create those characters will have lost ALL of that time and have no more to show for it than if they'd spent the time watching TV. If you can't understand that then I guess you'll have to go back to your beer and your television and continue to wonder when we roleplaying losers will 'get lives'.
Therefore, prediction: Until using LEDs becomes either cheap or mandatory, only ultra-enviro's will be using them.
Don't forget Lazy people!!! I use those incredible long life low power bulbs because I hate having to bother to change the light bulbs. So I get the longest life bulbs I can find in order to avoid that. I've also found that you can get compact flourescents for as low as 4$ a bulb and they are good quality. I usually get mine from Ikea...
But all I see are the same 3 being asked over and over again. Didn't anyone notice that the same few questions were being asked repeatedly?! Heck 3 of the answers simply refer back to the first or second questions answers. Come on now, I'm sure there were more than just those three questions....
Thanks for the informative site link. Interesting. I was almost certain that true male aunts (ie, capable of reproduction) were only produced a couple of times in the life of a colony and were winged....Thanks for the info.
I may have been a little unclear in a couple of places, sorry about that.
Yes, this is so obscenely offtopic it's great that I'm immune to moderation... I haven't been moderated up or down in months...
. you contradict yourself by saying that every ant has wings and then later on you say it 'only occurs when...'
Woahwoahwoah!! Slow down boyo, I never said every ant has wings. I said there are winged ants. There's a difference. It's quite obvious that not all ants have wings. I grew up in the south eastern US. My main ant issues were with fire ants and army ants (Our army ants are WAY smaller than those big red fsckers y'all have in africa) and these was larvae called Cow Killers that are big ants. Now, fire ants almost always have a bunch of winged drones if you dig down a ways. I've seen some winged army ants too. So there are winged ants. However NO WHERE in ANY of my posts did I even IMPLY that all ants have wings.
I posted this down there somewhere in the chaos, but I decided to repost it up here where someone might read it. This is the way I think taxation should work:
1 Person, 20K = No Taxes
2 Person, 25K = No Taxes
3 Person, 30K = No Taxes
4+ Person, 35K = No Taxes
Any person or family where income is greater than the amount shown pays 15% or the amount neccessary to drop them to the top of their bracket, whichever is less. So 1 person making 20,025$ a year won't get screwed and have to pay 3 grand in taxes. Just 25$.
That way a family of 4 where one parent has a decent job making around 30K pays no taxes which will significantly add to their ability to take care of their children. This way the poor don't get shafted by taxes, and the rich aren't bearing the burden of a whole bunch of lazy bastards. I'm also in favor of removeing the current welfare system and impleneting a new system whereby current welfare recipients live in a policed apartment complex and are required to take 3 hours a day of job training. Are given a couple of sets of decent clothes, and are required to get a job in 6 months or out they go onto the street and someone who actually needs help instead of just wants to sit on their ass can come in.
Comments are welcome.
Kintanon
I guess I should have put the emphasis on STUPID, not rich. I intend to be rich.I just don't intend to be stupid and amoral. My $2000 in luxury spending, or savings is less important than $200 a piece for 10 families to spend on food and necessities. This is why a flat tax is regressive it imposes a greater burden on those who are poorer because it is taking money from necessities, while the rich pay the same percentage, but that money comes form luxuries. A prograssive tax like we have now is fairer because the poorer person gets more money for the necessities while the rich person has to get the 20' boat instead of the 25' boat.
Quick fix, no income under 20K per year will be taxed, above that there will be a 15% flat tax for everyone. If you Still think that unfairly taxes poor families then do it this way.
1 Person, 20K = No Taxes
2 Person, 25K = No Taxes
3 Person, 30K = No Taxes
4+ Person, 35K = No Taxes
Any person or family where income is greater than the amount shown pays 15% or the amount neccessary to drop them to the top of their bracket, whichever is less. So 1 person making 20,025$ a year won't get screwed and have to pay 3 grand in taxes. Just 25$.
That way a family of 4 where one parent has a decent job making around 30K pays no taxes which will significantly add to their ability to take care of their children.
don't blame him being fascinated by programming, but it would be good if kids like him were finding time in their lives to do sports and other social
activities, not just hacking.
Why do we never hear 'I don't blame him for being fascinated by sports, but it would be good if kids like him/her were finding time in their lives to do some hacking and intellectual activities, not just hacking.'
What is the fascination with physical = good, mental = not as good that some people seem to have? Why should he play a sport or socialize? I apparently finds no internal desire for such activites.
I don't see why you have to say stuff like Sometimes I get the feeling people aren't thinking before they post all the time, who do you think you are anyway ? obviously you didn't even think about an ant not having wings before you posted either, so that feeling might originate from your own expirience. or was it a *flying* ant you were thinking of ? - that's probably what you're gonna say....
Ants do have wings. In fact, every true male ant has wings, as well as the queen. This occurs when the ant colony has grown large enough to migrate. So it's easy to find winged ants. Once again, you didn't bother to do any research before you posted. Stop doing that, it makes you look uninformed.
that's not the point, the only reason that they used electrodes is to measure muscle activity, they could have used an optical device to measure the wing activity with the same effect. For the ant just use a suitable device that will measure the relevant directional parameters...
I don't think you were paying attention to the endeavour here. They are translating the muscle movement of the locust into steering for the vehicle. If they changed their method of input then it would be an entirely different experiment now wouldn't it!?
Now, as an excersise for you, go build an optical device that will measure the wing activity of an ANT well enough to tell which direction the thing wants to turn in, then harness an ant up to a little car without killing it in such a way that its wing motion is still discernable.
Sometimes I get the feeling people aren't thinking before they post.
I don't really understand what the big deal is about this piece of expiriment/research. We all know that locusts don't fly into anything except lights and windows. They just tapped the signal the insect uses to steer... They could have used any other insect/animal that has some intelligence about direction and tapped it's muscles. The tapping of muscles is not new.
I think a useful option might be using ants because ants have a tendency to follow a sort of 'invisible path' left by the ant(s) before him -the ants leave some sort of chemical-. This could be used to steer vehicles along a certain path and that could be quite useful for unmanned vehicles in factories etc. . Although I'm not sure how an ant would respond to travelling at 30 km/h instead of 1 km/h ?
ok, let's see YOU plug an electrode into an ants ass.... Go ahead, try it!
The reason the used Locusts was clearly explained on the site if you had bothered to read it. Their nervous system is accesible (and the electrodes aren't bigger than the target organism).
I've been reading the specs for the all in wonder radeon and with the bundled software(windows only i think) it looks very functional. Anyone know if I could get by with a Duron and a 5400rpm drive for such a box?
That setup will do fine for everything except recording. Just watching and stuff will be great, but with anything less than a 700mhz machine the recording at decent quality blows frames all over the place.
A natural extension of your argument is that any refusal of a sex act that could lead to a baby is an abortion. After all, that ovum had full potential to become a human life, but was cruelly denied.
Hmmm.... that's one hell of a pickup line.
"Hey baby, you wouldn't wanna be party to causing millions of abortions would you? Well then you'd best get undressed...."
This site states that the ratio required for overdose is 40 thousand to one. My math might be a little bit off. But it still makes the required number of joints something insanely high.
Ah yes, here we see that renowned professer Stephen Hawking is trying to use fear tactics in a quest to convince us that we need space exploration and colonization to escape the "inevitable doom" that lies before us, all thanks to our flaws.
Now where have we hear this before? Yes, you've guessed it, from the Liberals, of home Dr. Hawking seems to be a fully paid-up member. Despite all evidence to the contrary the Liberals have been persistent in their claims of "environmental damage", and through their front organisation the UN, they've been trying to push through globalist regulations to shackle the freedoms of nations to conduct their own affairs.
It's all just another step along their path towards a one world superstate run along Liberal policies such as eugenics and thought control. After all, human nature fails to match up with the Liberal "ideal" of happy sheep following the herd, and the Liberals would love to eliminate these pesky differences that make us human.
Bah. Don't trust the word of a man of whom God has surely passed judgement upon. The Liberal one world agenda is an evil we need to avoid, there is no need to head off into space to escape a doom which is no more than a propaganda piece.
Look everybody! Look! A +1 troll! Everyone giggle and laugh before the idiot gets moderated down and shaves off some of my triple didgit Karma with him!
Blatant falsehood!! Studies have shown that smoking 15 thousand joints or more in an hour will result in recieving a FATAL dose! So please, everyone limit your Marijuanna consumption to LESS THAN 15 thousand joints per hour!!!
Hacking should be prosecuted on a case by case basis of the amount of harm done, not just because someone broke in. IF they break in, fix the hole, and send you a note saying what they did and why then you should thank them and leave them alone. If they come in, look around and leave they should be charged with breaking and entering, if they touch anything then you can get up to theft, grand theft, etc...
No offense but I've been on Undernet and IMO the users are less experienced than myself. I have been an avid Linux user since Slackware 2 (eww) and I've met very intelligent people on efNet that I learned a lot from, and I've also helped other promising script kiddies to get another life.
I have to agree, Undernet is generally younger and less hardcore for all of their subjects. But we're improving as best we can, and our network is much better than Efnets recently.
EFnet has been a great resource for me for computer help, etc....though I've been told once or twice to RTFM. But the people there have been generally more helpful than irritating, so I'm upset to see them getting DoS attacks, etc.
If you get shunned by Efnet come to Undernet. #linux and #linuxhelp and #techies are prefectly great places to find info. Undernet is alive and well and relatively trouble free.
The keys are on separate tracks of the DVD, which are read separately from the reading of the output. It is not possible to "Physically copy" the key tracks without licensing a special piece of equipment, or without reverse engineering a DVD player to gain access to the read signal from the key tracks. This second activity also counts as "circumventing a copy protection device".
But the copy protection device being circumvented is NOT CSS, it's a physical measure. CSS is not what prevents copying and DECSS does not bypass the physical protection method. DECSS does not circumvent copy protection, it circumvents playback protection.
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The short version of what a lot of people are saying in this thread is that If you Can't Take care of your child then Don't Have one. The last thing we need is a lot of children growing up full of resentment because their parents were always too busy to play with them. If you want to have children then be prepared to slow your life down and sacrifice to take care of them, don't think you can just pop one out, send him off to day care and then show up at high school/college graduation to say hello.
Kintanon
Yeah, that Steve Jobs is such an idiot, I mean, his company just released that stupid consumer CDRW/DVDRW drive that writes so fast that a 1 hour movie only takes 2 hours to burn....
What a bunch of morons there are over at Apple... yeah...
Kintanon
Ok, so you think people who spend a lot of time on interactive roleplaying games have no lives, who do you consider to have a life? The idiot that goes out and drinks until he can't see every night? The one that sits in front of the TV for 4 or 5 hours once they get home? I play muds, diablo 2, did play Everquest and Ultima Online. If my character got screwed up bad I got pissed because I had devoted TIME, even if it was only 20 minutes of my time it was 20 minutes that I couldn't get back. But at least I spent the time doing something that involved some form of mental activity as my recreation. I also get out with my friends and play M:TG with them, I also teach them martial arts. But None of that matters, the people that devoted hours of their lives to create those characters will have lost ALL of that time and have no more to show for it than if they'd spent the time watching TV. If you can't understand that then I guess you'll have to go back to your beer and your television and continue to wonder when we roleplaying losers will 'get lives'.
Kintanon
Therefore, prediction: Until using LEDs becomes either cheap or mandatory, only ultra-enviro's will be using them.
Don't forget Lazy people!!! I use those incredible long life low power bulbs because I hate having to bother to change the light bulbs. So I get the longest life bulbs I can find in order to avoid that. I've also found that you can get compact flourescents for as low as 4$ a bulb and they are good quality. I usually get mine from Ikea...
Kintanon
But all I see are the same 3 being asked over and over again. Didn't anyone notice that the same few questions were being asked repeatedly?! Heck 3 of the answers simply refer back to the first or second questions answers. Come on now, I'm sure there were more than just those three questions....
Kintanon
Thanks for the informative site link. Interesting. I was almost certain that true male aunts (ie, capable of reproduction) were only produced a couple of times in the life of a colony and were winged....Thanks for the info.
I may have been a little unclear in a couple of places, sorry about that.
Yes, this is so obscenely offtopic it's great that I'm immune to moderation... I haven't been moderated up or down in months...
Kintanon
In fact, every true male ant has wings, as well as the queen
See the part after EVERY, where it says TRUE MALE? That's defining a subset of ant. And what I said is correct. Every TRUE MALE ant has wings.
Kintanon
. you contradict yourself by saying that every ant has wings and then later on you say it 'only occurs when...'
Woahwoahwoah!! Slow down boyo, I never said every ant has wings. I said there are winged ants. There's a difference. It's quite obvious that not all ants have wings. I grew up in the south eastern US. My main ant issues were with fire ants and army ants (Our army ants are WAY smaller than those big red fsckers y'all have in africa) and these was larvae called Cow Killers that are big ants. Now, fire ants almost always have a bunch of winged drones if you dig down a ways. I've seen some winged army ants too. So there are winged ants. However NO WHERE in ANY of my posts did I even IMPLY that all ants have wings.
Kintanon
I posted this down there somewhere in the chaos, but I decided to repost it up here where someone might read it. This is the way I think taxation should work:
1 Person, 20K = No Taxes
2 Person, 25K = No Taxes
3 Person, 30K = No Taxes
4+ Person, 35K = No Taxes
Any person or family where income is greater than the amount shown pays 15% or the amount neccessary to drop them to the top of their bracket, whichever is less. So 1 person making 20,025$ a year won't get screwed and have to pay 3 grand in taxes. Just 25$.
That way a family of 4 where one parent has a decent job making around 30K pays no taxes which will significantly add to their ability to take care of their children. This way the poor don't get shafted by taxes, and the rich aren't bearing the burden of a whole bunch of lazy bastards. I'm also in favor of removeing the current welfare system and impleneting a new system whereby current welfare recipients live in a policed apartment complex and are required to take 3 hours a day of job training. Are given a couple of sets of decent clothes, and are required to get a job in 6 months or out they go onto the street and someone who actually needs help instead of just wants to sit on their ass can come in.
Comments are welcome.
Kintanon
I guess I should have put the emphasis on STUPID, not rich. I intend to be rich .I just don't intend to be stupid and amoral. My $2000 in luxury spending, or savings is less important than $200 a piece for 10 families to spend on food and necessities. This is why a flat tax is regressive it imposes a greater burden on those who are poorer because it is taking money from necessities, while the rich pay the same percentage, but that money comes form luxuries. A prograssive tax like we have now is fairer because the poorer person gets more money for the necessities while the rich person has to get the 20' boat instead of the 25' boat.
Quick fix, no income under 20K per year will be taxed, above that there will be a 15% flat tax for everyone. If you Still think that unfairly taxes poor families then do it this way.
1 Person, 20K = No Taxes
2 Person, 25K = No Taxes
3 Person, 30K = No Taxes
4+ Person, 35K = No Taxes
Any person or family where income is greater than the amount shown pays 15% or the amount neccessary to drop them to the top of their bracket, whichever is less. So 1 person making 20,025$ a year won't get screwed and have to pay 3 grand in taxes. Just 25$.
That way a family of 4 where one parent has a decent job making around 30K pays no taxes which will significantly add to their ability to take care of their children.
Kintanon
don't blame him being fascinated by programming, but it would be good if kids like him were finding time in their lives to do sports and other social
activities, not just hacking.
Why do we never hear 'I don't blame him for being fascinated by sports, but it would be good if kids like him/her were finding time in their lives to do some hacking and intellectual activities, not just hacking.'
What is the fascination with physical = good, mental = not as good that some people seem to have? Why should he play a sport or socialize? I apparently finds no internal desire for such activites.
Kintanon
I don't see why you have to say stuff like Sometimes I get the feeling people aren't thinking before they post all the time, who do you think you are anyway ? obviously you didn't even think about an ant not having wings before you posted either, so that feeling might originate from your own expirience. or was it a *flying* ant you were thinking of ? - that's probably what you're gonna say....
Ants do have wings. In fact, every true male ant has wings, as well as the queen. This occurs when the ant colony has grown large enough to migrate. So it's easy to find winged ants. Once again, you didn't bother to do any research before you posted. Stop doing that, it makes you look uninformed.
Kintanon
that's not the point, the only reason that they used electrodes is to measure muscle activity, they could have used an optical device to measure the wing activity with the same effect. For the ant just use a suitable device that will measure the relevant directional parameters...
I don't think you were paying attention to the endeavour here. They are translating the muscle movement of the locust into steering for the vehicle. If they changed their method of input then it would be an entirely different experiment now wouldn't it!?
Now, as an excersise for you, go build an optical device that will measure the wing activity of an ANT well enough to tell which direction the thing wants to turn in, then harness an ant up to a little car without killing it in such a way that its wing motion is still discernable.
Sometimes I get the feeling people aren't thinking before they post.
Kintanon
I don't really understand what the big deal is about this piece of expiriment/research. We all know that locusts don't fly into anything except lights and windows. They just tapped the signal the insect uses to steer... They could have used any other insect/animal that has some intelligence about direction and tapped it's muscles. The tapping of muscles is not new.
I think a useful option might be using ants because ants have a tendency to follow a sort of 'invisible path' left by the ant(s) before him -the ants leave some sort of chemical-. This could be used to steer vehicles along a certain path and that could be quite useful for unmanned vehicles in factories etc. . Although I'm not sure how an ant would respond to travelling at 30 km/h instead of 1 km/h ?
ok, let's see YOU plug an electrode into an ants ass.... Go ahead, try it!
The reason the used Locusts was clearly explained on the site if you had bothered to read it. Their nervous system is accesible (and the electrodes aren't bigger than the target organism).
Kintanon
I've been reading the specs for the all in wonder radeon and with the bundled software(windows only i think) it looks very functional. Anyone know if I could get by with a Duron and a 5400rpm drive for such a box?
That setup will do fine for everything except recording. Just watching and stuff will be great, but with anything less than a 700mhz machine the recording at decent quality blows frames all over the place.
Kintanon
A natural extension of your argument is that any refusal of a sex act that could lead to a baby is an abortion. After all, that ovum had full potential to become a human life, but was cruelly denied.
Hmmm.... that's one hell of a pickup line.
"Hey baby, you wouldn't wanna be party to causing millions of abortions would you? Well then you'd best get undressed...."
Kintanon
This site states that the ratio required for overdose is 40 thousand to one. My math might be a little bit off. But it still makes the required number of joints something insanely high.
Kintanon
Ah yes, here we see that renowned professer Stephen Hawking is trying to use fear tactics in a quest to convince us that we need space exploration and colonization to escape the "inevitable doom" that lies before us, all thanks to our flaws.
Now where have we hear this before? Yes, you've guessed it, from the Liberals, of home Dr. Hawking seems to be a fully paid-up member. Despite all evidence to the contrary the Liberals have been persistent in their claims of "environmental damage", and through their front organisation the UN, they've been trying to push through globalist regulations to shackle the freedoms of nations to conduct their own affairs.
It's all just another step along their path towards a one world superstate run along Liberal policies such as eugenics and thought control. After all, human nature fails to match up with the Liberal "ideal" of happy sheep following the herd, and the Liberals would love to eliminate these pesky differences that make us human.
Bah. Don't trust the word of a man of whom God has surely passed judgement upon. The Liberal one world agenda is an evil we need to avoid, there is no need to head off into space to escape a doom which is no more than a propaganda piece.
Look everybody! Look! A +1 troll! Everyone giggle and laugh before the idiot gets moderated down and shaves off some of my triple didgit Karma with him!
Fucking moron.....
Kintanon
You can't OD
Blatant falsehood!! Studies have shown that smoking 15 thousand joints or more in an hour will result in recieving a FATAL dose! So please, everyone limit your Marijuanna consumption to LESS THAN 15 thousand joints per hour!!!
Kintanon
Hacking should be prosecuted on a case by case basis of the amount of harm done, not just because someone broke in. IF they break in, fix the hole, and send you a note saying what they did and why then you should thank them and leave them alone. If they come in, look around and leave they should be charged with breaking and entering, if they touch anything then you can get up to theft, grand theft, etc...
Kintanon
No offense but I've been on Undernet and IMO the users are less experienced than myself. I have been an avid Linux user since Slackware 2 (eww) and I've met very intelligent people on efNet that I learned a lot from, and I've also helped other promising script kiddies to get another life.
I have to agree, Undernet is generally younger and less hardcore for all of their subjects. But we're improving as best we can, and our network is much better than Efnets recently.
Kintanon
EFnet has been a great resource for me for computer help, etc....though I've been told once or twice to RTFM. But the people there have been generally more helpful than irritating, so I'm upset to see them getting DoS attacks, etc.
If you get shunned by Efnet come to Undernet. #linux and #linuxhelp and #techies are prefectly great places to find info. Undernet is alive and well and relatively trouble free.
Kintanon
Yer .sig is wrong, it's braindead AOLer.
>:)
Chandra is alive and well as you can tell from this link:
Chandra Discovers Missing Link Black Hole
I hope I did that html right since the preview button doesn't seem to be working.
Kintanon
The keys are on separate tracks of the DVD, which are read separately from the reading of the output. It is not possible to "Physically copy" the key tracks without licensing a special piece of equipment, or without reverse engineering a DVD player to gain access to the read signal from the key tracks. This second activity also counts as "circumventing a copy protection device".
But the copy protection device being circumvented is NOT CSS, it's a physical measure. CSS is not what prevents copying and DECSS does not bypass the physical protection method. DECSS does not circumvent copy protection, it circumvents playback protection.
Kintanon