Why do you think its called FecesBook by people who don't use it?
* People post their crap that no one gives a fuck about, * Only shit-for-brains people use it
-- FaceBook Censorship: "facebook purity" will be blocked but reversing it works: purity facebook. WTF!? *facepalm* Source: https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...
> but others like Ark - Survival evolved (which is insanely graphics demanding) will even on a 1080ti - get the "light ray" bug, where there's "rays" of darkness that will overshadow the game, psychedelic rain that will make it impossible to fly - and they all blame Nvidia drivers...which in turn blame bad coding on the game devs, or game engine devs. etc.
ARK was built with a heavily modified Unreal Engine 4. I seriously doubt that the (GPU) shaders running Linux are different from the shaders running on Windows -- but it would be good to confirmation on that.
Still, that sucks that nVidia + Epic won't take responsibility for it.:-/
Gamers are like water flowing downhill -- they _will_ find the most efficient path. Why people are surprised about this is beyond me.
Unless you play hardcore, the entire risk:reward in games is a complete joke, especially with the grindfests that modern gaming has devolved into. i.e. Do some boring-menial-grind for X hours for a % of phat loot -- oh wait, that sounds exactly like a job.
Now that is a sweet krack! Holy crap at age 12 too! Congrats!
Did you ever find out about the typo in the manual for the "Summon Clone" spell?:-) I used a hex editor (hiew?) to view the bit-fields that tagged what reagents were used for ALL the spells. Turns out the manual had a typo.:-/ Whoopsie-daisy.
I have two stories to share:
1. Speaking of XOR protection -- you'll probably want to check out Monkey Island 1 and Monkey Island 2.:-)
I got stuck in MI1 when you are on the ship. I had the VGA version and there was only 1 data file so I knew all the text had to be in there somewhere. Problem was searching revealed *nothing* which mean the data was either encrypted, or compressed. For all you *nix users this would be the equivalent of "strings MONKEY.001"
I manually inspected one of the save games and saw that some of the dialogue HAD been included but then I noticed something REALLY strange -- what should have been a lot NULL bytes instead as a constant byte. That got me thinking -- maybe the data file is encrypted with an one byte XOR key?? Wrote a little C program to XOR the data and write it back out. *BOOM!* All the dialog strings in plain ASCII were there. I was able to track down a clue about one of cupboards and able to continue the game.:-)
Never did get around to patching that SCUMM Virtual Machine / Interrupter to by pass that stupid pirate wheel -- but someone else did -- so they obviously figured out the XOR protection AND decoded the VM instructions.
> You never forget your first time;)
Damn right! Practice safe hex! =P
My first krack was Copy ][+ on the Apple 2. I'm wonder how many PC krackers started on the Apple 2 / C64 / Atari 400/800 ?
2. I got a cool Ultima 6 + debug.exe story -- at least I think so.
On the Apple 2 there was a daughter board peripheral called WildCard that when you pressed a button (it generated a NMI) it would take a snapshot of the entire 64K of memory. This made it trivial to krack games.
I unfortunately never had one.:-/
By the time Ultima 6 came out I had switched over to PC programming & gaming. I would often times load up a game in debug.exe and single-step through it to figure out where the copy protection was. I did this for Test Drive III (1990). The NOP trick was definitely the "common krack."
On the PC side more and more games started being event driven meaning the old single-step method wouldn't work. I recall one day thinking : "Man, if only there was a way to generate a NMI on the PC like that WildCard hardware." After pondering about this for a while and checking "Ralph's Brown Interrupt List" I realized I _already_ had hardware to do this! The mouse driver IRQ 33h interrupts whatever is running whenever a mouse button is pushed!
So I wrote a TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) assembly program that hooked into the mouse driver -- whenever the mouse button was triggered it would call INT 3 -- to manually trigger "debug.exe". I then loaded my "mkrack.com" program.
Next, I fired up: debug u6.exe, and typed G to let it rip.
When the copy protection came up, I pressed my mouse button. After a bit of stack cleanup, 7 instructions IIRC, I was back in the game at the correct CS:IP where the mouse button was pushed!
Made it trivial to inspect the code, and data, and generate a 1-byte krack like any self-respecting good kracker would do
> And I doubt any 12 year old would be able to have the same chance or the same start today.
Indeed. There is SO much extra crap running in the OS, drivers, let alone Game, that would don't have a clue about any of the fundamentals. I still say the last great programmers are the ones who grew up with 8-bit computers and work with 64-bit machines -- because they understand what the machine is doing at the lowest (software) level all the way up to the highest level.
Back in the 80's we called it "Copy Protection" and we "kracked" (*) that stupid shit because media wears out, companies go out of business, kids damage disks, to LEARN, etc. and we got the legal right to back up our software.
DRM is a big "Fuck You to our legal right."
Sadly most people are wussies to get the law to change due to the country being an oligarchy / plutocracy / corporate shill, etc.
(*) Fucking media hijacked the definition of these words:
* Krack = Crack = to remove copy protection * Kracker = someone who removed copy protection * Hack = Quick Fix * Hacker = Someone who is motivated SOLELY to LEARN. The unwritten "code of conduct" was to NEVER damage _anything._
New hijacked meaning:
Crack = drug Hacker = someone who breaks into systems for either damage, for profit, espionage, etc.
It isn't fucking "intelligence" -- it's Artificial Ignorance (A.I.) at best.
e.g. AlphaGo has NO concept of what a board is, what a stone is, what a player is, etc. It just following an algorithm. Go ahead and add a custom house rule and watch it crash-and-burn.
Here, I'll put it in simple terms you can understand:
An algorithm using a glorified Table-Lookup is NOT fucking Artificial "Intelligence."
People who use the bullshit term "A.I." term are the ones moving the goal posts and hand-waving what intelligence actually is. Wake me up when Science has a test for Consciousness -- a _pre-requisite_ for intelligence.
If people were honest they would call it Algorithmic Table-Lookup or Algorithmic Ignorance because it is NOT actual intelligence (a.i.)
> as tab-vs-spaces debates.
Apples and Oranges.
* Form: There is _zero_ confusion over what is tab is or what a space is, * Function: They _both_ indent.
Only idiots argue over the "correct" way to indent.
> I guess shut up, keep your head down and toe the party is all you need to become an executive at a place like Microsoft or Google. No actual skill needed.
Isn't that either the:
* Peter Principle aka "managers rise to the level of their incompetence" or * Dilbert Principle aka "companies tend to systematically promote their least competent employees to management in order to limit the amount of damage they can do"
> Which of the following would you prefer that the maintainer of a computer program do, given a limited budget of time=money? > A. Fix bugs in components that end users often use > B. Fix bugs in components that end users seldom use
You DO realize that the choice is NOT mutually exclusive, right?
> the next step is to measure which features end users often use. Telemetry does this.
So how did they manage for the past 30 yearswithout Telemetry???
30 years from 1985 (release date of Windows 1.0) to 2015 (release date of Windows 10).
The fact that you think you "need" telemetry shows that you don't respect people and are unable to comprehend that Quality Assurance is supposed to find bugs BEFORE shipping. Relying on something AFTER the fact shows that Q.A. was sleeping on the job.
> Even GNU/Linux distributions have this sort of thing,
Oh I see, so if one person jumps of a bridge everyone else needs to be a bunch of retards too. Got it.
> such as the optional popularity-contest package in Debian and Ubuntu.
Is it opt-in or opt-out by default?
* Opt-in is fine. * Opt-out is bullshit.
> or that feature is broken
You don't telemetry to show that a feature is broken. Do you even understand what a bug report is?
> Would it be acceptable for folder sizes in a file manager to initially appear as a throbber and then be replaced with the actual size after several seconds of HDD thrashing?
Gee, if only there was a such as concept as a low-priority thread.
> Or would you prefer that a file manager hide the contents of a folder entirely until it has run the equivalent of du to query all folders within that folder for their sizes?
Why??? There is no need to BLOCK on a _background_ task.
> And what value would you prefer that a file manager show for the size of the folder if the current user lacks permission to traverse some subfolder?
Gee, if only there was an "n/a" or "???" concept. Nah that would never work.
I'm not your son but I'm probably old enough to be your brother and/or father.;-) But I digress...
> Microsoft has a track record for anti-competitive
I'm quite well aware of the DR-DOS, Stacker/DoubleSpace, etc. shenagins. Hell, even _part_ of the FCB (File Control Block) in DOS 1.x and 2.x was a blatant rip-off from CP/M.
Guess I missed the '+', as in 20+. And you're right, I should have said 30+. Is 40+ stretching it?
Microsoft has a LONG history of not-invented-here buying companies.
> They have not changed, they will never change.
I wouldn't say never but I'm extremely skeptical if they will ever change.
Considering they added telemetry into Visual Studio 2015 and even have a dedicated license webpage for it -- it is easy to see they still pull the same shit, different day nonsense. Emphasis added
2. DATA. The software may collect information about you and your use of the software, and send that to Microsoft. Microsoft may use this information to provide services and improve our products and services. You may opt-out of many of these scenarios, but not all, as described in the product documentation.
Microsoft doesn't respect your time, money, or computer.
He used the word voxel 11 times and refers to the 2D heightfield as "voxel tiles" but technically that's correct. A 2D heightfield is just one way to represent a sub-set of 3D voxels.
Yeah, some details are extremely sloppy -- I'd really wish they would clarify _everything._
My understanding is that the RNG output its value, and then the operator's meditated. What they found was that it didn't matter if the operators meditate before or after the event -- there was still a significant sigma shift in the random values.
The fact that they have 20+ years of operators meditating before caused the RNG generated its output and saw a shift IS news -- but has been conveniently ignored.
What I'm doing is nothing new nor unique. When you listen to Terence McKenna, Allan Watts, Ram Dass, and other modern mystics and distill their teachings down to the raw essentials you find everyone teaches pretty much the same basic spiritual principles: Unconditional Love and Forgiveness for All. Based on my personal experiences I agree with that 100%.
What made my experience memorable for me is that a friend of my brother gave me one of Raymond's Moody's book Life after Life. That got me to curious to try meditation. One my very first try I met my Soul. That was proof enough: "OK, maybe there just is something to this whole meditation thing after all." Over the years, both solo meditation, and meditation with the wife, you quickly find out "We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto." We're mapping whole new territory.
These experiences are the reason I say "Mind, not space, is the final frontier -- because there is nothing, or no thing, but Mind." The _real_ interesting question becomes: Whose mind?:-) It dovetails with the quintessential questions: Who am I? Who was I? Who will I become?
There are a couple of other important points I've learnt along the way:
* It never ceases to amaze me how an armchair critic is now magically "an expert" on an experience they have never even had.
* Religion is about taking one man's Spiritual experience and adding all sorts of bullshit dogma and tradition around the "correct way."
But I digress...
What is really cool is that we have just barely scratched the surface with the entire "Mind over Matter" thing as a species.
Modern science is stuck in a myopic reductionist POV: "If it isn't physical then it does't exist." -- which is the epitome of ignorance because Time and Numbers themselves are non-physical. *facepalm*
Princeton for 28 years has evidence that (human) consciousness CAN effect a random number generator -- but important clues like this, sadly, are marginalized or ignored. http://www.princeton.edu/~pear...
Thankfully First Contact ~2024 - 2034 will (help) put an end to our primitive thinking and widen our perspective to the next level of understanding.
Great ready for an interesting ride these next few decades. We're about to learn some really cool stuff about reality.
-- Atheist: A blind man arguing with those that can see that color doesn't exist.
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Also watch the documentary The Corporation
Why do you think its called FecesBook by people who don't use it?
* People post their crap that no one gives a fuck about,
* Only shit-for-brains people use it
--
FaceBook Censorship: "facebook purity" will be blocked but reversing it works: purity facebook. WTF!? *facepalm*
Source: https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...
> but others like Ark - Survival evolved (which is insanely graphics demanding) will even on a 1080ti - get the "light ray" bug, where there's "rays" of darkness that will overshadow the game, psychedelic rain that will make it impossible to fly - and they all blame Nvidia drivers...which in turn blame bad coding on the game devs, or game engine devs. etc.
ARK was built with a heavily modified Unreal Engine 4. I seriously doubt that the (GPU) shaders running Linux are different from the shaders running on Windows -- but it would be good to confirmation on that.
Still, that sucks that nVidia + Epic won't take responsibility for it. :-/
Have you tried turning off light shafts ( god rays) and bloom?
> I still run Linux 90% of my time at home
If anyone is curious you can filter in Steam games that run on Linux via this link:
http://store.steampowered.com/linux
Gamers are like water flowing downhill -- they _will_ find the most efficient path. Why people are surprised about this is beyond me.
Unless you play hardcore, the entire risk:reward in games is a complete joke, especially with the grindfests that modern gaming has devolved into.
i.e.
Do some boring-menial-grind for X hours for a % of phat loot -- oh wait, that sounds exactly like a job.
Now that is a sweet krack! Holy crap at age 12 too! Congrats!
Did you ever find out about the typo in the manual for the "Summon Clone" spell? :-) I used a hex editor (hiew?) to view the bit-fields that tagged what reagents were used for ALL the spells. Turns out the manual had a typo. :-/ Whoopsie-daisy.
I have two stories to share:
1. Speaking of XOR protection -- you'll probably want to check out Monkey Island 1 and Monkey Island 2. :-)
I got stuck in MI1 when you are on the ship. I had the VGA version and there was only 1 data file so I knew all the text had to be in there somewhere. Problem was searching revealed *nothing* which mean the data was either encrypted, or compressed. For all you *nix users this would be the equivalent of "strings MONKEY.001"
I manually inspected one of the save games and saw that some of the dialogue HAD been included but then I noticed something REALLY strange -- what should have been a lot NULL bytes instead as a constant byte. That got me thinking -- maybe the data file is encrypted with an one byte XOR key?? Wrote a little C program to XOR the data and write it back out. *BOOM!* All the dialog strings in plain ASCII were there. I was able to track down a clue about one of cupboards and able to continue the game. :-)
Never did get around to patching that SCUMM Virtual Machine / Interrupter to by pass that stupid pirate wheel -- but someone else did -- so they obviously figured out the XOR protection AND decoded the VM instructions.
> You never forget your first time ;)
Damn right! Practice safe hex! =P
My first krack was Copy ][+ on the Apple 2. I'm wonder how many PC krackers started on the Apple 2 / C64 / Atari 400/800 ?
2. I got a cool Ultima 6 + debug.exe story -- at least I think so.
On the Apple 2 there was a daughter board peripheral called WildCard that when you pressed a button (it generated a NMI) it would take a snapshot of the entire 64K of memory. This made it trivial to krack games.
I unfortunately never had one. :-/
By the time Ultima 6 came out I had switched over to PC programming & gaming. I would often times load up a game in debug.exe and single-step through it to figure out where the copy protection was. I did this for Test Drive III (1990). The NOP trick was definitely the "common krack."
On the PC side more and more games started being event driven meaning the old single-step method wouldn't work. I recall one day thinking : "Man, if only there was a way to generate a NMI on the PC like that WildCard hardware." After pondering about this for a while and checking "Ralph's Brown Interrupt List" I realized I _already_ had hardware to do this! The mouse driver IRQ 33h interrupts whatever is running whenever a mouse button is pushed!
So I wrote a TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) assembly program that hooked into the mouse driver -- whenever the mouse button was triggered it would call INT 3 -- to manually trigger "debug.exe". I then loaded my "mkrack.com" program.
Next, I fired up: debug u6.exe, and typed G to let it rip.
When the copy protection came up, I pressed my mouse button. After a bit of stack cleanup, 7 instructions IIRC, I was back in the game at the correct CS:IP where the mouse button was pushed!
Made it trivial to inspect the code, and data, and generate a 1-byte krack like any self-respecting good kracker would do
> And I doubt any 12 year old would be able to have the same chance or the same start today.
Indeed. There is SO much extra crap running in the OS, drivers, let alone Game, that would don't have a clue about any of the fundamentals. I still say the last great programmers are the ones who grew up with 8-bit computers and work with 64-bit machines -- because they understand what the machine is doing at the lowest (software) level all the way up to the highest level.
Krackin
> Might always makes right.
You DO realize that the fallacy of Iron Rule has been replaced with the Golden Rule, right?
> When was the last time FreeBSD came up as the OS of a device?
Sony PS3: FreeBSD
Sony PS4: FreeBSD
Sony Vita: FreeBSD / NetBSD
Nintendo Switch: FreeBSD
Exactly.
Back in the 80's we called it "Copy Protection" and we "kracked" (*) that stupid shit because media wears out, companies go out of business, kids damage disks, to LEARN, etc. and we got the legal right to back up our software.
DRM is a big "Fuck You to our legal right."
Sadly most people are wussies to get the law to change due to the country being an oligarchy / plutocracy / corporate shill, etc.
(*) Fucking media hijacked the definition of these words:
* Krack = Crack = to remove copy protection
* Kracker = someone who removed copy protection
* Hack = Quick Fix
* Hacker = Someone who is motivated SOLELY to LEARN. The unwritten "code of conduct" was to NEVER damage _anything._
New hijacked meaning:
Crack = drug
Hacker = someone who breaks into systems for either damage, for profit, espionage, etc.
Now get off my LAN.
His beef is the same one every programmer has:
It isn't fucking "intelligence" -- it's Artificial Ignorance (A.I.) at best.
e.g. AlphaGo has NO concept of what a board is, what a stone is, what a player is, etc. It just following an algorithm. Go ahead and add a custom house rule and watch it crash-and-burn.
Here, I'll put it in simple terms you can understand:
An algorithm using a glorified Table-Lookup is NOT fucking Artificial "Intelligence."
People who use the bullshit term "A.I." term are the ones moving the goal posts and hand-waving what intelligence actually is. Wake me up when Science has a test for Consciousness -- a _pre-requisite_ for intelligence.
If people were honest they would call it Algorithmic Table-Lookup or Algorithmic Ignorance because it is NOT actual intelligence (a.i.)
> as tab-vs-spaces debates.
Apples and Oranges.
* Form: There is _zero_ confusion over what is tab is or what a space is,
* Function: They _both_ indent.
Only idiots argue over the "correct" way to indent.
You are trying to distill a complex equation down to one number. /sarcasm If only we had a way to do that -- oh wait, we do! It's called a benchmark:
* 3DMark
* Unigine Valley Benchmark (2013)
Maybe you should stop reading shitty websites that don't show a normalized score.
Desktop GPU Performance Hierarchy Table and Best GPU's of 2018 make it trivial to compare _how_ a GPU performs.
/sarcasm Gee, maybe if MS didn't do forced downgrades aka _spyware_ (Windows 10) we could actually trust them.
It is obvious MS doesn't respect MY choice to stick with Windows 7, so fuck them.
> I guess shut up, keep your head down and toe the party is all you need to become an executive at a place like Microsoft or Google. No actual skill needed.
Isn't that either the:
* Peter Principle aka "managers rise to the level of their incompetence" or
* Dilbert Principle aka "companies tend to systematically promote their least competent employees to management in order to limit the amount of damage they can do"
I think it eventually happens to any big company.
It is sad how Americans have become a bunch of pussies / wussies.
The America I remember wouldn't put up with this bullshit of Theater Security Assholes (TSA).
> Everything is toxic at a particular level.
You don't know what the fuck you are talking about.
Not everything has an LDLo or LD50.
https://biology.stackexchange....
> Which of the following would you prefer that the maintainer of a computer program do, given a limited budget of time=money?
> A. Fix bugs in components that end users often use
> B. Fix bugs in components that end users seldom use
You DO realize that the choice is NOT mutually exclusive, right?
> the next step is to measure which features end users often use. Telemetry does this.
So how did they manage for the past 30 years without Telemetry???
30 years from 1985 (release date of Windows 1.0) to 2015 (release date of Windows 10).
The fact that you think you "need" telemetry shows that you don't respect people and are unable to comprehend that Quality Assurance is supposed to find bugs BEFORE shipping. Relying on something AFTER the fact shows that Q.A. was sleeping on the job.
> Even GNU/Linux distributions have this sort of thing,
Oh I see, so if one person jumps of a bridge everyone else needs to be a bunch of retards too. Got it.
> such as the optional popularity-contest package in Debian and Ubuntu.
Is it opt-in or opt-out by default?
* Opt-in is fine.
* Opt-out is bullshit.
> or that feature is broken
You don't telemetry to show that a feature is broken. Do you even understand what a bug report is?
> Would it be acceptable for folder sizes in a file manager to initially appear as a throbber and then be replaced with the actual size after several seconds of HDD thrashing?
Gee, if only there was a such as concept as a low-priority thread.
> Or would you prefer that a file manager hide the contents of a folder entirely until it has run the equivalent of du to query all folders within that folder for their sizes?
Why??? There is no need to BLOCK on a _background_ task.
> And what value would you prefer that a file manager show for the size of the folder if the current user lacks permission to traverse some subfolder?
Gee, if only there was an "n/a" or "???" concept. Nah that would never work.
You misspelt Raspberry Pi.
Why waste engineering time to add a SoC when there are dozens of dirt-cheap alternatives?
A funny, but sad, analogy for how Microsoft behaves.
A "good" example is how they every few years they hype a 3 letter acronym as the latest and greatest fad, and then abandon it.
I'm not your son but I'm probably old enough to be your brother and/or father. ;-) But I digress ...
> Microsoft has a track record for anti-competitive
I'm quite well aware of the DR-DOS, Stacker/DoubleSpace, etc. shenagins. Hell, even _part_ of the FCB (File Control Block) in DOS 1.x and 2.x was a blatant rip-off from CP/M.
Guess I missed the '+', as in 20+. And you're right, I should have said 30+. Is 40+ stretching it?
Microsoft has a LONG history of not-invented-here buying companies.
> They have not changed, they will never change.
I wouldn't say never but I'm extremely skeptical if they will ever change.
Considering they added telemetry into Visual Studio 2015 and even have a dedicated license webpage for it -- it is easy to see they still pull the same shit, different day nonsense. Emphasis added
Microsoft doesn't respect your time, money, or computer.
One _single_ act doesn't magically negate the 20 years of why Microshaft sucks.
Have they disabled telemetry in Windows 10 yet? Why was ON in the _first_ place??
Can I buy an license for Windows 7? Forced upgrades are bullshit.
Can Explorer show me folder sizes yet? This isn't fucking rocket science, just basic computer science.
There are numerous technical reasons why Windows is still crap.
Microshit's "innovation" is total joke.
The original Art Directoror disagrees.
He used the word voxel 11 times and refers to the 2D heightfield as "voxel tiles" but technically that's correct. A 2D heightfield is just one way to represent a sub-set of 3D voxels.
http://francksauer.com/index.p...
You are right about the ray casting though.
Was Quake Wars: Ray Traced the first ray-traced game?
> The UE4 Star Wars thing is real enough. It's also running on $12,000 worth of GPUs at 30fps in 1080p
Uhm, try $50K for the Nvidia DGX Station running on four Volta GPUs.
> Well the answer is no, it is here.
Outcast, back in 1999, did real-time ray tracing and voxel rendering
The only difference is 20 years later we can do it hardware.
Yeah, some details are extremely sloppy -- I'd really wish they would clarify _everything._
My understanding is that the RNG output its value, and then the operator's meditated. What they found was that it didn't matter if the operators meditate before or after the event -- there was still a significant sigma shift in the random values.
The fact that they have 20+ years of operators meditating before caused the RNG generated its output and saw a shift IS news -- but has been conveniently ignored.
Oh look, an armchair critic who is an "expert" on something he has never even experienced.
I've heard the experiences are comparable.
What I'm doing is nothing new nor unique. When you listen to Terence McKenna, Allan Watts, Ram Dass, and other modern mystics and distill their teachings down to the raw essentials you find everyone teaches pretty much the same basic spiritual principles: Unconditional Love and Forgiveness for All. Based on my personal experiences I agree with that 100%.
What made my experience memorable for me is that a friend of my brother gave me one of Raymond's Moody's book Life after Life. That got me to curious to try meditation. One my very first try I met my Soul. That was proof enough: "OK, maybe there just is something to this whole meditation thing after all." Over the years, both solo meditation, and meditation with the wife, you quickly find out "We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto." We're mapping whole new territory.
These experiences are the reason I say "Mind, not space, is the final frontier -- because there is nothing, or no thing, but Mind." The _real_ interesting question becomes: Whose mind? :-) It dovetails with the quintessential questions: Who am I? Who was I? Who will I become?
It's great to see other people reach the same conclusions about Consciousness: The Primacy of Consciousness - Peter Russell
There are a couple of other important points I've learnt along the way:
* It never ceases to amaze me how an armchair critic is now magically "an expert" on an experience they have never even had.
* Religion is about taking one man's Spiritual experience and adding all sorts of bullshit dogma and tradition around the "correct way."
But I digress ...
What is really cool is that we have just barely scratched the surface with the entire "Mind over Matter" thing as a species.
Modern science is stuck in a myopic reductionist POV: "If it isn't physical then it does't exist." -- which is the epitome of ignorance because Time and Numbers themselves are non-physical. *facepalm*
Princeton for 28 years has evidence that (human) consciousness CAN effect a random number generator -- but important clues like this, sadly, are marginalized or ignored.
http://www.princeton.edu/~pear...
Thankfully First Contact ~2024 - 2034 will (help) put an end to our primitive thinking and widen our perspective to the next level of understanding.
Great ready for an interesting ride these next few decades. We're about to learn some really cool stuff about reality.
--
Atheist: A blind man arguing with those that can see that color doesn't exist.