Atonal music is pretty much like nonfigurative art where the painter wants you to pay attention to, say, colours or shapes or whatever instead of what it is supposed to represent.
Just give people an option to have a passport photo of either their heads or genitals.
At least it would give a chance to choose a lesser evil, and making a more righteous choice could't be much of a sin.
1. he actually did it
2. this is a plot by US officials to get him
3. someone wants to make US officials seem sheer idiots making such ludicrous plots
4. someone wants to make someone against US look bad because everything under point 3 all is too ridiculous to be taken seriously
5. someone wants someone else look like plotting like in point 4
etc. going on basically switching 3 and 4...
If I had to guess, I'd say the correct answer is 11. or maybe 23.
RIAA and the industry behind it are bound to vanish soon, so they have nothing to lose anymore and they can use any means they wish to gain small wins before the destruction. The problem is that the stupid laws they push will bug people for decades after the nowadays media industry has been buried and forgotten.
Almost every dying meme or institution works in a same aggressive and self-destructing way. Look at the news.
Or that you can afford to buy a new inexpensive PC more often than a more expensive Mac.
There's a difference between choosing to and having to use older technology. If Macs costed the same as PC:s, would you still have refused to update your gear?
The real reason behind these new laws is that many European countries are giving up analog broadcasting, and especially the people who use the Internet as a primary news source are threatening to ditch their televisions for good.
The state owned media relies on somewhat constant income through these fees. They are huge corporations with strong influence on politics and excellent means to spread their propaganda.
Take any madia megacorp, and it is politically small potatoes compared to some YLE or SVT.
I'd say video games saved my life. I got my first one at my thirties, and the game taught me persistence, concentration, and to take my time and really figure out how to proceed.
I needed all this in my professional life, but the environment never really encouraged me to develop these skills.
I remember being in (well, minor) trouble and almost giving up, and suddenly I thought I'd try at least ten times more if this were in the game. I took it as a challenge and I have to admit my life's been a lot better ever since.
The point: people who have played all their lifes and take the video games for granted tend to underestimate their good sides. They've just never tried to do without the gaming experience.
Whoops, I forgot this: redundance is the key. The story should tell the main points over and over again, preferably on a slightly differen view point each time.
I'd do as the poor old Jews did: I'd concentrate on the immaterial content.
I'd write my heritage as a story, beef it with miracles, sex, violence, and colourful characters like Noah, Jakob and David.
Then I'd use some combination of populism, terrorism and charity. Get the stories spread as wide as possible, and also get them loved and hated, so people would remember them.
And bang, here are we still, knowing a lot of the early history of a nation, which couldn't afford that much at the time. Information is the winner, matter decays.
If they are buying a computer for the whole village, you're right. But for personal use, think of the energy consumption of old tabletops. India is a warm country, so giving our old machines to them would increase the demand of electricity considerably.
Computers sold to individuals were never used as "sensibly" as the commercials suggested. Think of the history of home computers here in the First World.
More important is to breed nerdhood. Everywhere there are people (especially young males) with drive to find out how new gadgets work. For the first years or decades the computer is just a toy for geeks, but eventually they will spread tech-savviness to their surroundings.
The passenger cars are deliberately made somehow hard to drive. While the automatic system cannot handle every possible situation, the driver has to be kept alert.
I remember the Cylons wanted order in the universe. They were built by the original culture of lizard men in planet Cylon to bring order, and eventually the robots cleaned up their own planet of their creators. The humans were also too inorderly, and thus to be exterminated.
In the last episode of 1980 one of the cylons told they despise the undemocratic ways of humans; in their three pilot fighters the crew voted on every subject, and this was the reason the fighter crashed in said episode.
The ages of people interviewed seem to be 50, 52 and 77. Can anybody younger afford to remain offline? Even if you don't (already) need net in your job, not having an email seems actually quite impolite nowadays.
I quit blogging some months ago. Writing a blog makes you exaggerate your message. It is just you and your voice.
With teens without much knowledge of an outside world you'd see it as being over-emotional or just plain obnoxious. With more adult blogs you see professors being quite silly with politics and end of the world scenarios.
I like Slashdot more, because here it is easy to shut up indeterminately when I don't have anything special to say. Plus usually the readers already find the thread interesting, and I don't have to motivate them into the subject.
That's probably the most important cultural change in today's technology.
Formerly you studied and learned your knowledge once in your lifetime. In school and college, that is. After that you lived on and used the knowledge.
Everyday life was rapid and the knowledge stayed. Now it is vice versa. You probably can't tell if you had a brunette girlfriend year or three ago, or in which year you found your nowadays favorite band.
The computer world changes entirely in a few years. You'd never mistake a 2002 PC for a 1996 PC. The technological or professional time runs a lot faster than a private time, probably the first time in the human history.
looks just like locking the consumers in. For example in Yahoo you can buy yourself out by paying $ 20 and upload your 2G anywhere. You can't do this in Gmail.
I don't believe a cat could make such a high air friction that it would keep its terminal velocity tolerable.
Even knowing cats are ten times lighter than us humans, its fur and spread legs would be help about as much as a if a kid used an umbrella (or two) as a parachute.
For example after a 3 second drop its velocity wouldn't be a lot less than about 120 km/h it would reach without the air friction.
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Atonal music is pretty much like nonfigurative art where the painter wants you to pay attention to, say, colours or shapes or whatever instead of what it is supposed to represent.
Just give people an option to have a passport photo of either their heads or genitals. At least it would give a chance to choose a lesser evil, and making a more righteous choice could't be much of a sin.
The chances are
1. he actually did it
2. this is a plot by US officials to get him
3. someone wants to make US officials seem sheer idiots making such ludicrous plots
4. someone wants to make someone against US look bad because everything under point 3 all is too ridiculous to be taken seriously
5. someone wants someone else look like plotting like in point 4
etc. going on basically switching 3 and 4...
If I had to guess, I'd say the correct answer is 11. or maybe 23.
How about having a nuclear rocket with sails gathering particles for reaction mass?
RIAA and the industry behind it are bound to vanish soon, so they have nothing to lose anymore and they can use any means they wish to gain small wins before the destruction. The problem is that the stupid laws they push will bug people for decades after the nowadays media industry has been buried and forgotten.
Almost every dying meme or institution works in a same aggressive and self-destructing way. Look at the news.
Or that you can afford to buy a new inexpensive PC more often than a more expensive Mac.
There's a difference between choosing to and having to use older technology. If Macs costed the same as PC:s, would you still have refused to update your gear?
The real reason behind these new laws is that many European countries are giving up analog broadcasting, and especially the people who use the Internet as a primary news source are threatening to ditch their televisions for good.
The state owned media relies on somewhat constant income through these fees. They are huge corporations with strong influence on politics and excellent means to spread their propaganda.
Take any madia megacorp, and it is politically small potatoes compared to some YLE or SVT.
I'd say video games saved my life. I got my first one at my thirties, and the game taught me persistence, concentration, and to take my time and really figure out how to proceed.
I needed all this in my professional life, but the environment never really encouraged me to develop these skills.
I remember being in (well, minor) trouble and almost giving up, and suddenly I thought I'd try at least ten times more if this were in the game. I took it as a challenge and I have to admit my life's been a lot better ever since.
The point: people who have played all their lifes and take the video games for granted tend to underestimate their good sides. They've just never tried to do without the gaming experience.
Whoops, I forgot this: redundance is the key. The story should tell the main points over and over again, preferably on a slightly differen view point each time.
I'd do as the poor old Jews did: I'd concentrate on the immaterial content.
I'd write my heritage as a story, beef it with miracles, sex, violence, and colourful characters like Noah, Jakob and David.
Then I'd use some combination of populism, terrorism and charity. Get the stories spread as wide as possible, and also get them loved and hated, so people would remember them.
And bang, here are we still, knowing a lot of the early history of a nation, which couldn't afford that much at the time. Information is the winner, matter decays.
Don't worry. The kids who used to cause nuclear wars with their home computers are now in their thirties.
If they are buying a computer for the whole village, you're right. But for personal use, think of the energy consumption of old tabletops. India is a warm country, so giving our old machines to them would increase the demand of electricity considerably.
Computers sold to individuals were never used as "sensibly" as the commercials suggested. Think of the history of home computers here in the First World.
More important is to breed nerdhood. Everywhere there are people (especially young males) with drive to find out how new gadgets work. For the first years or decades the computer is just a toy for geeks, but eventually they will spread tech-savviness to their surroundings.
The passenger cars are deliberately made somehow hard to drive. While the automatic system cannot handle every possible situation, the driver has to be kept alert.
I think it looks a lot like a ratfish or chimaera [wikipedia.org], a member of cartilaginous fishes subclass Holocephali.
In the last episode of 1980 one of the cylons told they despise the undemocratic ways of humans; in their three pilot fighters the crew voted on every subject, and this was the reason the fighter crashed in said episode.
The ages of people interviewed seem to be 50, 52 and 77. Can anybody younger afford to remain offline? Even if you don't (already) need net in your job, not having an email seems actually quite impolite nowadays.
Synthetic lubricants are also better in low temperatures. This too applies to Iceland.
Well, compared to president Schwartzenegger.
Too much popularity is a common problem among /. readers. Watch out for those stalking teenage girls.
With teens without much knowledge of an outside world you'd see it as being over-emotional or just plain obnoxious. With more adult blogs you see professors being quite silly with politics and end of the world scenarios.
I like Slashdot more, because here it is easy to shut up indeterminately when I don't have anything special to say. Plus usually the readers already find the thread interesting, and I don't have to motivate them into the subject.
Hey, your jobs are outsourced to Native America.
That's probably the most important cultural change in today's technology.
Formerly you studied and learned your knowledge once in your lifetime. In school and college, that is. After that you lived on and used the knowledge.
Everyday life was rapid and the knowledge stayed. Now it is vice versa. You probably can't tell if you had a brunette girlfriend year or three ago, or in which year you found your nowadays favorite band.
The computer world changes entirely in a few years. You'd never mistake a 2002 PC for a 1996 PC. The technological or professional time runs a lot faster than a private time, probably the first time in the human history.
looks just like locking the consumers in. For example in Yahoo you can buy yourself out by paying $ 20 and upload your 2G anywhere. You can't do this in Gmail.
I don't believe a cat could make such a high air friction that it would keep its terminal velocity tolerable. Even knowing cats are ten times lighter than us humans, its fur and spread legs would be help about as much as a if a kid used an umbrella (or two) as a parachute. For example after a 3 second drop its velocity wouldn't be a lot less than about 120 km/h it would reach without the air friction.