Where the heck is the Apple ][ category... no Oregon Trail, Choplifter, Lode Runner, Rescue Raiders, Karateka (the first game to have cut scenes), nor Conan ???
*sniff* no Loom, Monkey Island, Guardian Heroes.:-/ Nice to see Rez, and Shadows of the Colossus though.
i.e. * Although there isn't much to do in Shadow of the Colossus other than killing the colossi and sightseeing, you'll find yourself captivated enough by the scenery to sink hours into just wandering around the place and drinking in the beauty of the setting. Scenery Porn at its finest. [ http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SceneryPorn ]
* ColecoVision
Donkey Kongâ (Action), Zaxxon (Target), Pitfall II: Lost Caverns (Adventure), Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator (Tactics)
* Intellivision
TRON: MazeâAtron (Action), Star Strike (Target), Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (Adventure), Utopia (Tactics)
* Commodore 64
Jumpman (Action), Attack of the Mutant Camels (Target), The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate (Adventure), Pirates! (Tactics)
* Nintendo Entertainment System
Super Mario Brothers 3 (Action), 1943: The Battle of Midway (Target), The Legend of Zelda (Adventure), Desert Commander (Tactics)
* SEGA Master System
Marble Madness (Action), After Burner (Target), Phantasy Star (Adventure), Spy vs Spy (Tactics)
* SEGA Genesis
Earthworm Jim (Action), Gunstar Heroes (Target), Phantasy Star IV (Adventure), Dune II: Battle for Arrakis (Tactics)
* Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Super Mario World (Action), Star Foxâ (Target), The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Adventure), SimCity (Tactics)
* SEGA Saturn
Tomb Raider (Action), Panzer Dragoon II: Zwei (Target), Panzer Dragoon Saga (Adventure), SimCity 2000 (Tactics)
* DOS/Windows
DOOM II (Action), Diablo II (Target), Fallout (Adventure), StarCraft (Tactics)
* PlayStation
Metal Gear Solid (Action), Einhander (Target), Final Fantasy VII (Adventure), Final Fantasy Tactics (Tactics)
* Nintendo 64
Super Mario 64 (Action), Star Fox 64* (Target), The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Adventure), Worms Armageddon (Tactics)
* SEGA Dreamcast
Sonic Adventure (Action), Rez (Target), Shenmue (Adventure), ChuChu Rocket! (Tactics)
* PlayStation 2
Shadow of the Colossus (Action), Gradius V (Target), ÅOEkami (Adventure), Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Tactics)
* Microsoft XBox
Halo 2 (Action), Panzer Dragoon Orta (Target), Fable (Adventure), Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (Tactics)
* Nintendo GameCube
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Action), Star Foxâ: Assault (Target), The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (Adventure), Pikmin 2 (Tactics)
* Modern Windows
Portal (Action), flOw (Target), Fallout 3 (Adventure), Minecraft (Tactics)
* Microsoft XBox 360
Bioshock (Action), Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 (Target), Mass Effect 2 (Adventure), Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth II (Tactics)
And why the hell is there a Gutenberg discontinuity where gravity increases the closer you get, then drops down to zero? i.e. The Gutenberg Discontinuity, is the boundary, as detected by changes in seismic waves, between the Earth's lower mantle and the outer core about 1800 miles below the surface. It is also called the core-mantle boundary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohorovi%C4%8Di%C4%87_discontinuity
> If you made your stats "wrong", your character was gimped and you had to delete him and start the game all over. How do you think people figured out you don't need ANY dex for a barb, or you don't need ANY engergy for a Sorc??
> There was no building or experimenting in D2 because there was no respeccing period. It is obvious you have never played patch 1.13.
You can now respec once per difficulty from Akira.
OR
You can collect essences from the Andariel, Mephistom, Diablo, and Baal in hell cube the 4 colors of them to make a Token of Absolution
> At the end of the day calling all data "just a number" is not useful, just like referring to all matter as 'just a collection of atoms' isn't useful either. A judge will still convict you of murder if those atoms happened to be a piece of metal that moved at high speed through a brain.
Ah, but there is a difference. The first one is a victimless crime, the second, there is an injured party.
Why is computer generated graphics of child porn illegal? Because of some fallacy that legality == morality??
> how would you feel about a world where we could scan your brain, accurately simulate your consciousness on a computer, and then torture that simulation? Would you agree it's just numbers and that such practices should be legal?
Solve the first problem of actually "accurately simulating consciousness".
Note: the joke what passes for Artificial Ignorance (AI) is still at least 50 years away from actual intelligence (a.i.).
Yeah, I should of said I like synergies. A kicksin soloing uber trist is a beautiful thing. =)
Just wish they didn't half ass synergies. A good example is Paladin's Meditation getting fucked over by the runeword Insight.:-/
> The immortal king set is really good. Yeah, I was debating whether to mention the IK set or not. I still have fondness for it after doing a pure Str/Vit barb and trading for it ~ 1.10 patch. Hell, I _still_ collect all the sets every time they reset the ladder. =) One of these days I will complete that dam Griswold's Legacy -- even if it sucks -- maybe a zealot can use it.
> I wish they would just make more expansions for d2 instead of an entirely new game. Unfortunately, the mass consumer doesn't want 2D:-(
I've been playing D2/D2X off and on for 10+ years. Have to agree about their attitude towards patching breaking [cookie] cutter builds / templates...
* First they nerfed the cow level because they didn't want people leveling up to 99 so fast. So basically the bots win, and the legit players get screwed. Real nice. * Then they added "synergies" in their lame attempt to re-balance skills that no one ever used. Idea: How about "fixing" the useless skills so they are actually _usefull_. When was the last time you actually say a barb use 'Grim Ward'? Yeah me neither. * The "high-end" sets are a joke, except for Tal Rasha's. * Meanwhile, they completely ignored all the hammerdins they made godly with Engima. I am still miffed that an pure Martial Artist assassin can't do shit in Hell even with Godly Gear compared to a hammerdin spamming hammers. * Thanks for fixing the charge-stun-lock after all these years. NOT.
Other non gameplay issues:
* Blizzard has done fuck all with all the spammers in the channels. Why the hell can't I report a spammer? If 500 people reported a spammer he should be either muted, or banned.
* If I make a game why the fuck can't the host decide if PK'ing is allowed or not?? What, encourage people to play _together_ in hard-core mode? What a concept!!
Runewords are gone in D3. The fact that we had 3 separate currencies in D2/X: pgems, runes, and rares, was a GOOD thing.
Blizzard just doesn't give a fuck about its customers -- especially after the bnetd and WOW glider incidents. it remains to be seen if the game design of D3 is any good, or if Blizzard jumped the shark by trying to making everything into a dumbed down WoW.
You seem to be confusing "Belief" with "Application" and not know when you should apply one over the other.
Please show where I said one should toss out Science, please?
Science is a very useful (applied) philosophy. So is religion (noticed the difference between religion and Religion.) when properly applied as well. See my post about the Golden Rule.
> In the other--christian superstition--questioning is actively discouraged. Maybe you should try another religion where all questions are encouraged, instead of a bastardized fear-based one?
> 'Religion' is pretty damn fuzzy, that's true, but I've yet to see one that's based solely on empiricism.
As a mystic "You are doing it wrong." Instead of looking for an external Religion, look for an internal religion.
Notice the difference the between big 'R' and little 'r'.
Religion: aka cult: Our way is the _only_ way to God!/sarcasm: Oh, BTW, please give money - you need heaven insurance, don't you know! You must call on the only name _we_ deem appropriate, be it Yahweh (Egyptian mood goddess), Jesus (mis-transliteration of Yeshua), or Allah, etc. religion: I am exploring my own way to understand my relationship with this conscious, creative, energy that is inside ALL things.
Let me give you an practical example:
All religions teach the Golden Rule in one form or another. You don't need to follow a list of DO's and DON'Ts like a little child -- you are probably mature enough to figure out that how you treat others generally is mirrored back to you.
Another example: When you study your favorite "Holy" book / scripture you will start to understand that it was written in 3 layers. - The literal, which at some times is totally absurd. It is intentional written that way so your mind will go "This is nonsense, there must be a deeper meaning to this!" - The allegorical / parable. You've heard of the parable of the boy who cried wolf? Whether that story literally happened or not doesn't freakin matter IF you learn the lessons - The spiritual, where you have lived enough of the literalism to know what is meant to be literal and what is allegorical, and can see the spiritual pattern and laws.
I should point out it is worth studying Buddhism. It has its own flaws, but it has significantly less dogma then the other religions, and some find it possible to be an Atheist.
The point is, explore what works for you. If it doesn't, toss it out, but keep searching!
> anyway since nobody can define "religion" or "physics" or even "geography", "history" or "art".
Agreed that it can be very difficult/tricky to try to define those -- but just because it is extremely difficulty doesn't mean it is not worth trying =)
Here is my attempt. It may not be very good, but it is a start:
religion: living the lifestyle necessary to prove your beliefs; it is the science of the mind art: expressing oneself for non survival needs -- note that the medium is irrelevant be it body, canvas, CD, computer, etc.! science: using subjective experience to reach objective truth by removing falsehood history: the story of the winners (as opposed to...) herstory: the story of the losers
> Some people (like me) will argue until the day is done that copyright infringement is theft. They (I) will not be convinced otherwise.
So copying a _number_ is theft ?? First, some natural plants are illegal, and now imaginary property, aka numbers, are illegal too. What's next? Thinking the same thoughts??
You _do_ realize that the basis of all civilizations are built on the concept of sharing, right? Or would you like to pay a license for the privilege of adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing ??
I understand that there are two diametrically opposed paradigms:
- customers want to pay as little as possible (even nothing) and share content with everyone - content creators want as much money as possible -- for each usage if possible
Copyright, while it was created by _publishers_ to stop other _publishers_ is a middle ground between the 2 extremes of sharing and profit.
But to confuse copyright infringement with theft shows a total lack of critical thinking.
a) You ignorant to assume that the Scientific Method is _mutually exclusive_ with Religion (the latter which is _supposed_ to be the Science of the Mind when it is not corrupted, but I digress.)
And
Have you _personally_ seen an electron? Have you _personally_ seen Dark Matter or Dark Energy? If no, then you take them to exist on faith -- based on another person's word. Science relies on Subjective Truth to establish an Objective Truth. Note the order and dependency!
b) It is arrogant to assume your objective "faith" is somehow more valid then someone else's subjective faith who has a different set of assumptions. It would behoove you to spend less time criticizing others who don't think like you and focus on solving problems.
Right now desktop CPU's have anywhere from 2 to 8 cores. In ~20 years we'll have 1024 cores. What term would you use to distinguish between few cores (8), many (128), and lots (1024) ??
That's putting it rather nicely. He's an Egyptian bigot with an ego the size of the pyramid. His arrogance is completely unable to accept the fact that the progress of civilization is cyclic NOT linear.
He is also completely unable to accept the fact that the Sphinx had _water_ erosion. Geologists don't give a shit about the "status quo" of history / archeology. Rocks don't lie. Now the interpretation may be faulty, but when you have 200+ geologists accepting the conclusion, that's pretty damning evidence that Zahi is not interested in facts that burst his little bubble.
Some geologists dated it be around 12,000 BC, others not so old. Fore more details, see the conflicting theories.
> but I see no country that exhibits freedom the way we all THOUGHT it would be. Which is what exactly?
> the sooner we all wake up and see the evil in ALL our governments, the sooner we'll be able to fix this world wide problem. Why are YOU _still_ falling for the old energy of "us" vs "them". Divide and conquer is a tactic used to maintain power. Stop falling for it.
When are you going to grow up and realize:
a) YOU _are_ the government b) "EVERYONE IS the government."
That is, to use a cliche: The All is the One, the One is the All.
Blaming others is not a solution -- living an example of HOW you want a government to function IS. If you still need man-made rules to decide what is legal and illegal the problem is one of self-government because you are still ignorant of the symbiosis between one's needs and the needs of the many.
> stop believing the propaganda that your country is somehow more free or just than some other. its not true. Uhm, Hello McFly. You _have_ heard it is Illegal to criticize the King of Thailand. Only an idiot tries to censor his constitutes. At least in the USA it is still perfectly legal to criticize the all offices of government. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Thailand
Some countries _used_ to have free speech. Some more then others. The USA was founded upon the principles of freedom as long as it didn't trample another person's freedom.
In some countries it is illegal to criticize another person religion. That is not freedom.
The problem is not "evil government" The problem is not money. The problem is not greed.
The problems are many:
- If government is to have authority it MUST have accountability. - Demand open processes. Petition to stop rider bills. - End the nonsense of the 2 party system and focus on problems & solutions. - Petition for money to be removed from politics.
No, the root problem is that the majority just don't give a fuck and want to go back to their "UNreality" shows...
Uhm, yeah, like Reginald Aubrey Fessenden or Alexander Graham Bell, etc. eh?
* Who first used the word and the method of continuous waves? * Who was first to transmit voice over radio? * Who devised a detector for continuous waves? * Who first used the method, and the word heterodyne? * Who was first to send two-way wireless telegraphy messages across the Atlantic ocean? * Who was first to send wireless telephony (voice) across the Atlantic Ocean? * Who made the world's first wireless broadcast (voice and music)?
> How can you write off the civilization that gave us private property, money, justice and the rule of law?/sarcasm Right, aside from property, money, justice, philosophy, what have the Greeks ever given us!?
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Where the heck is the Apple ][ category ... no Oregon Trail, Choplifter, Lode Runner, Rescue Raiders, Karateka (the first game to have cut scenes), nor Conan ???
*sniff* no Loom, Monkey Island, Guardian Heroes. :-/ Nice to see Rez, and Shadows of the Colossus though.
i.e.
* Although there isn't much to do in Shadow of the Colossus other than
killing the colossi and sightseeing, you'll find yourself captivated
enough by the scenery to sink hours into just wandering around the
place and drinking in the beauty of the setting. Scenery Porn at its
finest. [ http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SceneryPorn ]
http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2012/games/featuredgames/
* Atari VCS
Pac-Man (Action), Space Invaders (Target), Pitfall! (Adventure), Combat® (Tactics)
* ColecoVision
Donkey Kongâ (Action), Zaxxon (Target), Pitfall II: Lost Caverns (Adventure), Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator (Tactics)
* Intellivision
TRON: MazeâAtron (Action), Star Strike (Target), Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (Adventure), Utopia (Tactics)
* Commodore 64
Jumpman (Action), Attack of the Mutant Camels (Target), The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate (Adventure), Pirates! (Tactics)
* Nintendo Entertainment System
Super Mario Brothers 3 (Action), 1943: The Battle of Midway (Target), The Legend of Zelda (Adventure), Desert Commander (Tactics)
* SEGA Master System
Marble Madness (Action), After Burner (Target), Phantasy Star (Adventure), Spy vs Spy (Tactics)
* SEGA Genesis
Earthworm Jim (Action), Gunstar Heroes (Target), Phantasy Star IV (Adventure), Dune II: Battle for Arrakis (Tactics)
* Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Super Mario World (Action), Star Foxâ (Target), The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Adventure), SimCity (Tactics)
* SEGA Saturn
Tomb Raider (Action), Panzer Dragoon II: Zwei (Target), Panzer Dragoon Saga (Adventure), SimCity 2000 (Tactics)
* DOS/Windows
DOOM II (Action), Diablo II (Target), Fallout (Adventure), StarCraft (Tactics)
* PlayStation
Metal Gear Solid (Action), Einhander (Target), Final Fantasy VII (Adventure), Final Fantasy Tactics (Tactics)
* Nintendo 64
Super Mario 64 (Action), Star Fox 64* (Target), The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Adventure), Worms Armageddon (Tactics)
* SEGA Dreamcast
Sonic Adventure (Action), Rez (Target), Shenmue (Adventure), ChuChu Rocket! (Tactics)
* PlayStation 2
Shadow of the Colossus (Action), Gradius V (Target), ÅOEkami (Adventure), Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Tactics)
* Microsoft XBox
Halo 2 (Action), Panzer Dragoon Orta (Target), Fable (Adventure), Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (Tactics)
* Nintendo GameCube
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Action), Star Foxâ: Assault (Target), The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (Adventure), Pikmin 2 (Tactics)
* Modern Windows
Portal (Action), flOw (Target), Fallout 3 (Adventure), Minecraft (Tactics)
* Microsoft XBox 360
Bioshock (Action), Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 (Target), Mass Effect 2 (Adventure), Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth II (Tactics)
* Nintendo Wii
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Action),
For some reason the title makes me think of Monty Python's Holy Grail, the "Not dead yet" line.
> 97% of the human genome is "junk" DNA.
That is an assumption. Just because you don't understand the language doesn't mean what little you do know somehow invalidates the majority you don't.
i.e.
http://www.psrast.org/junkdna.htm
In time we will learn how to read it non-linearly because it has been encoded multidimensionally.
Why is the force of gravity at the core zero?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Earth-G-force.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Slice_earth.svg
And why the hell is there a Gutenberg discontinuity where gravity increases the closer you get, then drops down to zero?
i.e.
The Gutenberg Discontinuity, is the boundary, as detected by changes in seismic waves, between the Earth's lower mantle and the outer core about 1800 miles below the surface. It is also called the core-mantle boundary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohorovi%C4%8Di%C4%87_discontinuity
One's man boring data is another man's life passion.
We have different interests. Go figure!
> If you made your stats "wrong", your character was gimped and you had to delete him and start the game all over.
How do you think people figured out you don't need ANY dex for a barb, or you don't need ANY engergy for a Sorc??
> There was no building or experimenting in D2 because there was no respeccing period.
It is obvious you have never played patch 1.13.
You can now respec once per difficulty from Akira.
OR
You can collect essences from the Andariel, Mephistom, Diablo, and Baal in hell cube the 4 colors of them to make a Token of Absolution
http://www.diablowiki.com/Token_of_Absolution_(Diablo_II)
They are not compatible with Battle.Net -- the warden will flag you if you run them because they inject code into storm.dll. :-/
Ah, so you're the idiot that believes Time is Physical.
Please show me how I can put time in a bottle separate from the physical ...
> At the end of the day calling all data "just a number" is not useful, just like referring to all matter as 'just a collection of atoms' isn't useful either. A judge will still convict you of murder if those atoms happened to be a piece of metal that moved at high speed through a brain.
Ah, but there is a difference. The first one is a victimless crime, the second, there is an injured party.
Why is computer generated graphics of child porn illegal? Because of some fallacy that legality == morality??
> how would you feel about a world where we could scan your brain, accurately simulate your consciousness on a computer, and then torture that simulation? Would you agree it's just numbers and that such practices should be legal?
Solve the first problem of actually "accurately simulating consciousness".
Note: the joke what passes for Artificial Ignorance (AI) is still at least 50 years away from actual intelligence (a.i.).
You are ignorant if you think all religions teach a imaginary sky friend.
You are aware of the difference between a shared world (wow) and independent world instanced (D2) right?
A person botting in D2 effects no one else because they are in their own private game.
A person botting in WoW effects everyone in that zone.
It was absolute perversion of justice where a company can dictate what programs you may or may run on your own computer while you play their game.
Understand the issue now?
Yeah, I should of said I like synergies. A kicksin soloing uber trist is a beautiful thing. =)
Just wish they didn't half ass synergies. A good example is Paladin's Meditation getting fucked over by the runeword Insight. :-/
> The immortal king set is really good.
Yeah, I was debating whether to mention the IK set or not. I still have fondness for it after doing a pure Str/Vit barb and trading for it ~ 1.10 patch. Hell, I _still_ collect all the sets every time they reset the ladder. =) One of these days I will complete that dam Griswold's Legacy -- even if it sucks -- maybe a zealot can use it.
> I wish they would just make more expansions for d2 instead of an entirely new game. :-(
Unfortunately, the mass consumer doesn't want 2D
I've been playing D2/D2X off and on for 10+ years. Have to agree about their attitude towards patching breaking [cookie] cutter builds / templates...
* First they nerfed the cow level because they didn't want people leveling up to 99 so fast. So basically the bots win, and the legit players get screwed. Real nice.
* Then they added "synergies" in their lame attempt to re-balance skills that no one ever used. Idea: How about "fixing" the useless skills so they are actually _usefull_. When was the last time you actually say a barb use 'Grim Ward'? Yeah me neither.
* The "high-end" sets are a joke, except for Tal Rasha's.
* Meanwhile, they completely ignored all the hammerdins they made godly with Engima. I am still miffed that an pure Martial Artist assassin can't do shit in Hell even with Godly Gear compared to a hammerdin spamming hammers.
* Thanks for fixing the charge-stun-lock after all these years. NOT.
Other non gameplay issues:
* Blizzard has done fuck all with all the spammers in the channels. Why the hell can't I report a spammer? If 500 people reported a spammer he should be either muted, or banned.
* If I make a game why the fuck can't the host decide if PK'ing is allowed or not?? What, encourage people to play _together_ in hard-core mode? What a concept!!
Runewords are gone in D3. The fact that we had 3 separate currencies in D2/X: pgems, runes, and rares, was a GOOD thing.
Blizzard just doesn't give a fuck about its customers -- especially after the bnetd and WOW glider incidents. it remains to be seen if the game design of D3 is any good, or if Blizzard jumped the shark by trying to making everything into a dumbed down WoW.
You seem to be confusing "Belief" with "Application" and not know when you should apply one over the other.
Please show where I said one should toss out Science, please?
Science is a very useful (applied) philosophy.
So is religion (noticed the difference between religion and Religion.) when properly applied as well. See my post about the Golden Rule.
> science, questioning is encouraged.
You mean like how Watson treated Franklin?
http://www.brown.edu/Courses/BI0020_Miller/dh/guide.html
> In the other--christian superstition--questioning is actively discouraged.
Maybe you should try another religion where all questions are encouraged, instead of a bastardized fear-based one?
> 'Religion' is pretty damn fuzzy, that's true, but I've yet to see one that's based solely on empiricism.
As a mystic "You are doing it wrong." Instead of looking for an external Religion, look for an internal religion.
Notice the difference the between big 'R' and little 'r'.
Religion: aka cult: Our way is the _only_ way to God! /sarcasm: Oh, BTW, please give money - you need heaven insurance, don't you know! You must call on the only name _we_ deem appropriate, be it Yahweh (Egyptian mood goddess), Jesus (mis-transliteration of Yeshua), or Allah, etc.
religion: I am exploring my own way to understand my relationship with this conscious, creative, energy that is inside ALL things.
Let me give you an practical example:
All religions teach the Golden Rule in one form or another. You don't need to follow a list of DO's and DON'Ts like a little child -- you are probably mature enough to figure out that how you treat others generally is mirrored back to you.
Another example:
When you study your favorite "Holy" book / scripture you will start to understand that it was written in 3 layers.
- The literal, which at some times is totally absurd. It is intentional written that way so your mind will go "This is nonsense, there must be a deeper meaning to this!"
- The allegorical / parable. You've heard of the parable of the boy who cried wolf? Whether that story literally happened or not doesn't freakin matter IF you learn the lessons
- The spiritual, where you have lived enough of the literalism to know what is meant to be literal and what is allegorical, and can see the spiritual pattern and laws.
I should point out it is worth studying Buddhism. It has its own flaws, but it has significantly less dogma then the other religions, and some find it possible to be an Atheist.
The point is, explore what works for you. If it doesn't, toss it out, but keep searching!
> anyway since nobody can define "religion" or "physics" or even "geography", "history" or "art".
Agreed that it can be very difficult/tricky to try to define those -- but just because it is extremely difficulty doesn't mean it is not worth trying =)
Here is my attempt. It may not be very good, but it is a start:
religion: living the lifestyle necessary to prove your beliefs; it is the science of the mind
art: expressing oneself for non survival needs -- note that the medium is irrelevant be it body, canvas, CD, computer, etc.!
science: using subjective experience to reach objective truth by removing falsehood
history: the story of the winners (as opposed to...)
herstory: the story of the losers
> Some people (like me) will argue until the day is done that copyright infringement is theft. They (I) will not be convinced otherwise.
So copying a _number_ is theft ?? First, some natural plants are illegal, and now imaginary property, aka numbers, are illegal too. What's next? Thinking the same thoughts??
You _do_ realize that the basis of all civilizations are built on the concept of sharing, right? Or would you like to pay a license for the privilege of adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing ??
I understand that there are two diametrically opposed paradigms:
- customers want to pay as little as possible (even nothing) and share content with everyone
- content creators want as much money as possible -- for each usage if possible
Copyright, while it was created by _publishers_ to stop other _publishers_ is a middle ground between the 2 extremes of sharing and profit.
But to confuse copyright infringement with theft shows a total lack of critical thinking.
I'll probably get modded down, but I will point out 2 things:
You _do_ know that a Catholic priest gave us the theory of the Big Bang, right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre
a) You ignorant to assume that the Scientific Method is _mutually exclusive_ with Religion (the latter which is _supposed_ to be the Science of the Mind when it is not corrupted, but I digress.)
And
Have you _personally_ seen an electron?
Have you _personally_ seen Dark Matter or Dark Energy?
If no, then you take them to exist on faith -- based on another person's word. Science relies on Subjective Truth to establish an Objective Truth. Note the order and dependency!
b) It is arrogant to assume your objective "faith" is somehow more valid then someone else's subjective faith who has a different set of assumptions. It would behoove you to spend less time criticizing others who don't think like you and focus on solving problems.
s/Few/Fewer-Cores
s/Multi/More-Cores
Right now desktop CPU's have anywhere from 2 to 8 cores. In ~20 years we'll have 1024 cores. What term would you use to distinguish between few cores (8), many (128), and lots (1024) ??
> That guy is a complete xenophobe.
That's putting it rather nicely. He's an Egyptian bigot with an ego the size of the pyramid. His arrogance is completely unable to accept the fact that the progress of civilization is cyclic NOT linear.
He is also completely unable to accept the fact that the Sphinx had _water_ erosion. Geologists don't give a shit about the "status quo" of history / archeology. Rocks don't lie. Now the interpretation may be faulty, but when you have 200+ geologists accepting the conclusion, that's pretty damning evidence that Zahi is not interested in facts that burst his little bubble.
Some geologists dated it be around 12,000 BC, others not so old. Fore more details, see the conflicting theories.
http://www.robertschoch.com/sphinxcontent.html
and
http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/TempleR1.php
> but I see no country that exhibits freedom the way we all THOUGHT it would be.
Which is what exactly?
> the sooner we all wake up and see the evil in ALL our governments, the sooner we'll be able to fix this world wide problem.
Why are YOU _still_ falling for the old energy of "us" vs "them". Divide and conquer is a tactic used to maintain power. Stop falling for it.
When are you going to grow up and realize:
a) YOU _are_ the government
b) "EVERYONE IS the government."
That is, to use a cliche: The All is the One, the One is the All.
Blaming others is not a solution -- living an example of HOW you want a government to function IS. If you still need man-made rules to decide what is legal and illegal the problem is one of self-government because you are still ignorant of the symbiosis between one's needs and the needs of the many.
> stop believing the propaganda that your country is somehow more free or just than some other. its not true.
Uhm, Hello McFly. You _have_ heard it is Illegal to criticize the King of Thailand. Only an idiot tries to censor his constitutes. At least in the USA it is still perfectly legal to criticize the all offices of government.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Thailand
Some countries _used_ to have free speech. Some more then others. The USA was founded upon the principles of freedom as long as it didn't trample another person's freedom.
In some countries it is illegal to criticize another person religion. That is not freedom.
The problem is not "evil government"
The problem is not money.
The problem is not greed.
The problems are many:
- If government is to have authority it MUST have accountability.
- Demand open processes. Petition to stop rider bills.
- End the nonsense of the 2 party system and focus on problems & solutions.
- Petition for money to be removed from politics.
No, the root problem is that the majority just don't give a fuck and want to go back to their "UNreality" shows...
Uhm, yeah, like Reginald Aubrey Fessenden or Alexander Graham Bell, etc. eh?
* Who first used the word and the method of continuous waves?
* Who was first to transmit voice over radio?
* Who devised a detector for continuous waves?
* Who first used the method, and the word heterodyne?
* Who was first to send two-way wireless telegraphy messages across the Atlantic ocean?
* Who was first to send wireless telephony (voice) across the Atlantic Ocean?
* Who made the world's first wireless broadcast (voice and music)?
http://www.ieee.ca/millennium/radio/radio_radioscientist.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell
> a nice placebo
So why does the placebo effect even exist at _all_ ?
> How can you write off the civilization that gave us private property, money, justice and the rule of law? /sarcasm
Right, aside from property, money, justice, philosophy, what have the Greeks ever given us!?
Bloody Greeks. /oblg. Monty Python - Life of Brian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWfh6sGyso