I'm an extremely poor urban white kid now finishing a physics degree on a full scholarship at a rather elite liberal arts college. I use both Facebook and Myspace. Facebook to talk to everyone I've met since leaving my high school, and Myspace to talk to everyone I went to high school with. It's amazing how true it is. There really is NO overlap. Almost everyone I see on Facebook has a crowded list of colleges they have friends at and a pile of high school friends keeping up with them on their wall. I have next to none since, after all, hardly anyone I knew in high school was rich enough to attend a college. Granted, Myspace makes my eyes bleed and my hands cathartically twitch out better code, but Facebook is very, very, very good at making class and social hierarchies explicit.
Every time dem newfangled social networking sites are brought up I can't help thinking that ye ol' geocities and some sort of universal standardized social networking framework will be the ultimate solution. Add or remove modules. Throw some wiki elements in... Personally on general principle I'd feel a lot more secure if I was hosting my own profile rather than some corporate farm.
I thought the whole point was to be constantly rebuilding the 'string' (ie running repair bots up and down the structure or finding other repairing methods). This doesn't prove that space elevators are impossible. It just means we'd need to make a few more tech advances.
Which is, of course, always the case. But the starry-eyed folk have always known they'd have to engineer some constant repairing mechanism. I just don't see how this is a big deal.
I think the real issues here are getting obscured amid this Jack Thomson fracas and the hearty self-congratulations of we internet warriors fighting off such trollery. Namely that Thomson and his ilk want to use legal and de facto social power to outlaw the access of certain media based on age.
Though I appreciate the Gaming Community's sensitive nerves when it comes to the irrational violent stereotype of gamers, this whole troll hunt has largely helped obscure the dangers posed by Thompson's larger movement. This is a battle with those who somehow think they are owed the privilege of controlling what information individuals are allowed to pass between one another. And all those gamer personalities who, in the heat of action, are passingly assigning blame to parents 'not strict enough' in 'enforcing' what games their children could play... are actually buffering the very movement they so fashionably oppose.
Just like with every other troll we need to make sure we aren't doing their work by fighting them.
Careful analysis of the trailer will reveal that all the "sound in space" scenes happen in
a) the atmosphere
or
b) some weird nebula thing
And loud music does not equate StarTrek wooshes.
Fans directly paying for the production of good television.
Where appreciation directly translates into value...
Could this be the forcast world of the future? Where ones and zeros are no longer forced into old concepts of physical property? Where the television stations and record labels are thrown aside in favor of quality? Where sunshine and happiness fills the world?
Naw. We all know Fox bought up the rights to happiness years ago and refuses to release 'em out of a personal grudge against Whedon.
Mr. Badnarik, as much as I (an active opponent and protestor of the WTO) agree wholeheartedly with your stated opposition to the World Trade Organization and its corporatist ilk, I have yet to hear a clear stance.
If elected president, what steps would you take regarding America's membership in WTO? (And other supposedly "free-trade" organizations)
If elected president, what steps would you take to eliminate tariffs and other statist attacks on commerce?
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I'm an extremely poor urban white kid now finishing a physics degree on a full scholarship at a rather elite liberal arts college. I use both Facebook and Myspace. Facebook to talk to everyone I've met since leaving my high school, and Myspace to talk to everyone I went to high school with. It's amazing how true it is. There really is NO overlap. Almost everyone I see on Facebook has a crowded list of colleges they have friends at and a pile of high school friends keeping up with them on their wall. I have next to none since, after all, hardly anyone I knew in high school was rich enough to attend a college. Granted, Myspace makes my eyes bleed and my hands cathartically twitch out better code, but Facebook is very, very, very good at making class and social hierarchies explicit.
Every time dem newfangled social networking sites are brought up I can't help thinking that ye ol' geocities and some sort of universal standardized social networking framework will be the ultimate solution. Add or remove modules. Throw some wiki elements in... Personally on general principle I'd feel a lot more secure if I was hosting my own profile rather than some corporate farm.
I thought the whole point was to be constantly rebuilding the 'string' (ie running repair bots up and down the structure or finding other repairing methods). This doesn't prove that space elevators are impossible. It just means we'd need to make a few more tech advances.
Which is, of course, always the case. But the starry-eyed folk have always known they'd have to engineer some constant repairing mechanism. I just don't see how this is a big deal.
I think the real issues here are getting obscured amid this Jack Thomson fracas and the hearty self-congratulations of we internet warriors fighting off such trollery. Namely that Thomson and his ilk want to use legal and de facto social power to outlaw the access of certain media based on age.
Though I appreciate the Gaming Community's sensitive nerves when it comes to the irrational violent stereotype of gamers, this whole troll hunt has largely helped obscure the dangers posed by Thompson's larger movement. This is a battle with those who somehow think they are owed the privilege of controlling what information individuals are allowed to pass between one another. And all those gamer personalities who, in the heat of action, are passingly assigning blame to parents 'not strict enough' in 'enforcing' what games their children could play... are actually buffering the very movement they so fashionably oppose.
Just like with every other troll we need to make sure we aren't doing their work by fighting them.
Too Busy Seeing Movie 80 Million Times.
Careful analysis of the trailer will reveal that all the "sound in space" scenes happen in a) the atmosphere or b) some weird nebula thing And loud music does not equate StarTrek wooshes.
Direct Files
/ serenity_m240.mov
/ serenity_m320.mov
/ serenity_m480.mov
/ serenity_ifs2.mov
small
http://movies.apple.com/movies/universal/serenity
4.83 MB
Medium
http://movies.apple.com/movies/universal/serenity
8.5 MB
Large
http://movies.apple.com/movies/universal/serenity
21 MB
Full screen:
http://movies.apple.com/movies/universal/serenity
41MB
Shiny!
God yes.
Fans directly paying for the production of good television.
Where appreciation directly translates into value...
Could this be the forcast world of the future? Where ones and zeros are no longer forced into old concepts of physical property? Where the television stations and record labels are thrown aside in favor of quality? Where sunshine and happiness fills the world?
Naw. We all know Fox bought up the rights to happiness years ago and refuses to release 'em out of a personal grudge against Whedon.
Insensitive clod got my hopes up with that "updated" hoopla. I've never been more angry to see a big book of hitchhikers floating against a starscape.
Now it's more like Enemy of the Slashdotter-With-Too-Much-Time.
Muhahhahahahaha.
My favorite bloggers diverge sharply from the political left-right schism.
http://www.theagitator.com/
http://anarchogeek.com/
http://www.crookedtimber.org/
http://kenmacleod.blogspot.com/
http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/index.html
and of course
http://williamgillis.blogspot.com/
The usual partisan ramblings, just don't provide any entertainment for me anymore.
"It's jargon and buzzwords and nothing more. All companies do that. Nobody buys products based on that." If only such were true.
Mr. Badnarik, as much as I (an active opponent and protestor of the WTO) agree wholeheartedly with your stated opposition to the World Trade Organization and its corporatist ilk, I have yet to hear a clear stance. If elected president, what steps would you take regarding America's membership in WTO? (And other supposedly "free-trade" organizations) If elected president, what steps would you take to eliminate tariffs and other statist attacks on commerce?