I'm afraid to say that al those who say "I know it's not true, it doesn't happen to me!" might be deluding themselves. There are tons of examples of people not aware of the processes that run on in the background of thier own minds.
For example, in "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell, he goes into how we make snap impressions based on previous experiences. In one particular case he makes an example of how people "come up" with the solution to an experiment "on their own" after being hinted at the solution. All of them were fully convinced of their independance of their solution. He also gives examples of those who were convinced to walk slower or otherwise alter their behaviour because of words read from a list. If asked, those people would also say they had no external influence and decided to do their actions on their own.
Even if we look at general psychology, and internal hidden causes of why people enact certain behaviours because they're acting on previous stimuli, not the stimulus proviking them right now. Being attracted to a mate who has qualities of a favorite parent, or learned passive aggressiveness or impulsiveness. People, it could be argued, are vastly unaware of the causes of their own behaviours and we would be surprised how reactive we really are as beings.
As I recall, Vanilla (the flower) smells like rotting flesh and attracts flies to pollenate itself.
Somehow, I'm not surprised that the another source for this substance is crap.
The same goes with the arts. Many artists (those who take it seriously, not just people who doodle when bored or are stuck up) have a vast interest in the sciences, though we're not always educated with the nitty gritty maths. Myself, a sculptor, am also a programmer and avidly keep in touch with developments in physics, biogogy, chemistry and psychology. I don't find myself to be too uncommon in the art world.
I'm not concerned. Blogs by nature have pubic and private settings so that's taken care of. The contract with a blog means that the data is public unless otherwise noted, so if you're worried, you protect it.
Despite the number of personal blogs out there, the google blog search will likely have it's hits focused on things like political and technical blogs rather than blogs about what Suzy did last night. Likely, most of these authors want their views and opinions public.
If you don't want people to see your dirty laundry, keep it in the hamper.
If PA decides to implement a city wide plan it will cost them a large chunk of change to implement necassary security measures, hardware, support personnel and administrators. I forget where on slashdot I had read this before, but basically it boiled down to large initial costs with low maintenance.
However, this COSTS money where leaving connectivity in private hands allows tax money to actually come in to the state through taxes on the communications since telecom is state governed. That coupled with breaks to increase A) corporate spending and B) loopholes to better infiltrate markets the taxes based off of telecom would surely rise.
Besides, what does the state really care about it's low income residents anyway?
Putting totalitarianism and socialism in the same sentence doesn't consist as proof that they go hand in hand. One might be able to say the same thing about our capitalist economy and the patriot act.
This bring up the idea of an audible body language for these ghosts. Effectively background music or noise but once you got used to it you could use it to determine the ghost's mood, intentions, playfulness, etc. Whether or not the ghost actually has any feelings is moot as long as the interaction with the ghost can replicate more real human interactions.
Ghosts might then have a auditory presense when they're around so that we can know that it's there instead of being surprised with a disembodied voice.
An interesting question is would the ghost be allowed to change it's own "body language" or is it a fixed entity like our own presence in a room. And if it can change it's "body language" like we can, is it programmed that way from the get go, or does it have to learn it's own habits and change them accordingly. This could be an effective way to teach a ghost how to lie.
The real question in all of this I guess would be what does PMS sound like?
I code for the same reason I sculpt. I like create things and I like to muck about and get my hands dirty in my medium.
In art school and my general art life I've learned to weld, forge, draw, build electronics and robotics, work with plaster, clay, paint, make multimedia, make furniture and cabinets, mold-making and casting and have opportunities to dissect human corpses, build cars, work on movies and other video/film/perfomance projects. etc.
These things are definately still alive, though because of excess modernization they aren't as common.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm afraid to say that al those who say "I know it's not true, it doesn't happen to me!" might be deluding themselves. There are tons of examples of people not aware of the processes that run on in the background of thier own minds. For example, in "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell, he goes into how we make snap impressions based on previous experiences. In one particular case he makes an example of how people "come up" with the solution to an experiment "on their own" after being hinted at the solution. All of them were fully convinced of their independance of their solution. He also gives examples of those who were convinced to walk slower or otherwise alter their behaviour because of words read from a list. If asked, those people would also say they had no external influence and decided to do their actions on their own. Even if we look at general psychology, and internal hidden causes of why people enact certain behaviours because they're acting on previous stimuli, not the stimulus proviking them right now. Being attracted to a mate who has qualities of a favorite parent, or learned passive aggressiveness or impulsiveness. People, it could be argued, are vastly unaware of the causes of their own behaviours and we would be surprised how reactive we really are as beings.
As I recall, Vanilla (the flower) smells like rotting flesh and attracts flies to pollenate itself. Somehow, I'm not surprised that the another source for this substance is crap.
The same goes with the arts. Many artists (those who take it seriously, not just people who doodle when bored or are stuck up) have a vast interest in the sciences, though we're not always educated with the nitty gritty maths. Myself, a sculptor, am also a programmer and avidly keep in touch with developments in physics, biogogy, chemistry and psychology. I don't find myself to be too uncommon in the art world.
Damn you spell check, you have failed me again!
I'm not concerned. Blogs by nature have pubic and private settings so that's taken care of. The contract with a blog means that the data is public unless otherwise noted, so if you're worried, you protect it. Despite the number of personal blogs out there, the google blog search will likely have it's hits focused on things like political and technical blogs rather than blogs about what Suzy did last night. Likely, most of these authors want their views and opinions public. If you don't want people to see your dirty laundry, keep it in the hamper.
Wow, 80 bucks for what I can do with 3 dollars worth of spray paint or some solvent to get rid of the letters.
Is this anything like the UFC?
If PA decides to implement a city wide plan it will cost them a large chunk of change to implement necassary security measures, hardware, support personnel and administrators. I forget where on slashdot I had read this before, but basically it boiled down to large initial costs with low maintenance. However, this COSTS money where leaving connectivity in private hands allows tax money to actually come in to the state through taxes on the communications since telecom is state governed. That coupled with breaks to increase A) corporate spending and B) loopholes to better infiltrate markets the taxes based off of telecom would surely rise. Besides, what does the state really care about it's low income residents anyway?
Putting totalitarianism and socialism in the same sentence doesn't consist as proof that they go hand in hand. One might be able to say the same thing about our capitalist economy and the patriot act.
This bring up the idea of an audible body language for these ghosts. Effectively background music or noise but once you got used to it you could use it to determine the ghost's mood, intentions, playfulness, etc. Whether or not the ghost actually has any feelings is moot as long as the interaction with the ghost can replicate more real human interactions. Ghosts might then have a auditory presense when they're around so that we can know that it's there instead of being surprised with a disembodied voice. An interesting question is would the ghost be allowed to change it's own "body language" or is it a fixed entity like our own presence in a room. And if it can change it's "body language" like we can, is it programmed that way from the get go, or does it have to learn it's own habits and change them accordingly. This could be an effective way to teach a ghost how to lie. The real question in all of this I guess would be what does PMS sound like?
The movie studio should buy out The howling series, lost boys, american werewolf, and whatever they get their hands on and do a counter suit.
I code for the same reason I sculpt. I like create things and I like to muck about and get my hands dirty in my medium.
In art school and my general art life I've learned to weld, forge, draw, build electronics and robotics, work with plaster, clay, paint, make multimedia, make furniture and cabinets, mold-making and casting and have opportunities to dissect human corpses, build cars, work on movies and other video/film/perfomance projects. etc.
These things are definately still alive, though because of excess modernization they aren't as common.