...and several times per day we were reminded of the mysteries of the Trinity and whatnot that we couldn't understand, so we weren't to try.
One of the beauties of life and death(and sausage) is the mystery. I used to enjoy movies and television much more before I got into the business and learned how it was done. Now I notice or am distracted by every flash frame and boom mic in the shot.
There aren't many people who are genuinely incapable of understanding the world, but there are many who don't bother to try.
As long as the bills are paid and there's beer in the fridge and the can is open when she brings it to you, it probably won't make the todo list. I mean, like, what else is there?
That's my point. These people fall for this because they don't think critically. They want to believe, no matter how absurd the "product". Politicians are huckster because it works. If it didn't, they would be honest, but that's not what the voters want. They want tax cuts and entitlements. Those who promises those things, regardless of their real intent, will win. That is not the fault of the huckster. Adam and Eve were sinners, not victims. I say let the devil run loose. He can't do a thing without our help. Resisting temptation is our responsibility and nobody else's. And it is our responsibility to teach our children to resist. Don't ever expect the hucksters to "police themselves". And don't think for a second that legislation against tempting people will ever work. Critical thinking is indeed the key, but conditioned reflex is more likely to rule the day.
While many of us know this is silly, many people believe it, and are victimized because of it.
They are victims of their own faith. It doesn't matter who the huckster is. Just like people who buy from spammers are victims of nothing more than their own greed. They get no sympathy from me.
If they can lower the price in China, they can lower the price for the rest of the world. If they want to practice price discrimination then they should give it away to those with no money at all.
Well, I suppose I can live with a consumer grade toaster or blender, but when it comes to electronics you're not too far off base. About the only difference between the consumer and "pro" version of the minidisc player was a balanced input connector and no DRM, and of course, a huge difference in price. And in its case the DRM had a very detrimental effect on sales to the general public. If that effect had carried over to their other products, you wouldn't see much DRM come from Sony, and you can bet that Blu-ray would be wide open.
Pavlov's dog B.F. Skinner National Geographic Animal Planet
It should be easy to understand that all lifeforms are motivated by the same thing. The only real difference being the complexity of how it's expressed. The only thing separating humans from most animals is the opposable thumb. Psychology Today has always been the "National Inquirer" of behavioral studies.
So why is violence acceptable everywhere but in video games?
Because in the movies, the "good" guy always wins. The games allow you to be and root for the "bad" guy. Violence is okay, and in fact encouraged when the authorities can control how and where it's directed. You create winning armies when you can control a persons most primal desires for sex and power. Keep 'em dumb and horny(and throw in some alcohol) makes for a very aggressive, mean fighting machine. The games take away this control.
That may be the picture they present to internal revenue to dodge taxes, or to the FTC to avoid monopoly charges, but to me, Sony is Sony. And if Playstation can't say or do much about the DRM issues the others decide on, then that just means they're not so separate after all.
But I'm holding off until all the DRM disappears and they call off the RIAA dogs. Why should I buy from a company that treats the customer like a crook? All this talk about boycotts is just that, huh?
I'm not saying don't participate. Just don't deal with snakes in the grass(or the trees as it may be). They're easy to spot. They don't seem so easy to resist, but then that's our problem. Only if we police these people(and our own desires) will there ever be any kind of hope of change. Because I will always believe that politicians in any country with somewhat free elections are a very accurate reflection of the voters. All looking for easy money and advantage over others. Besides there will always be a strong resistance to change. Look how difficult it is to get people to switch from Windows to another clearly superior OS. 95%...hmmm, about the same as the re-election rate in congress. Coincidence? That's what they want you to think:-)
We are picking from close to the bottom of the barrel when it comes to politicians.
To me that puts the blame for this entire mess squarely on our shoulders. I saw a great poster the other day that says, "Child prostitutions exists because YOU pay for it." I apply the same rules to spam and politics. The sellers are the serpent. The buyers are the sinners.
It shouldn't matter if it's "constitutional" or not. We simply should vote thoughtfully and not elect people who practice these abuses. The politicians won't hold up the law if we don't force them to with our votes, constitution or no. BUT you have a bunch of people who think this is perfectly okay, and in fact necessary, and they will continue to vote for the corrupt politicians as long they promise another tax cut or some phony health plan.
The fact that SOME people operate on your lame premise just goes to show how wrong "business, politics and war" can be when left in the hands of primal dolts with little capacity of controling their hormones.
The fact that we are the sheep who keep them in charge should tell you something. It's an animal bonding thing, no different than a baby hippo muzzling up to the alpha male. Try getting down to basics. Pavlov and Skinner, and I'm sure others, have already verified all of this. Not only are we animals, we appear to be quite arrogant ones at that to believe that we are somehow above the rest while demonstrating quite the opposite. Don't try to pass off some individual variables as the norm. As a species, we are no different than the amoeba. We will kill anything that gets in our way. Including(if not especially) other humans.
None of my friends attempt to hook up with women in the hopes that they are fertile and will get pregnant.
All the fancy talk cannot ever effectively deny the base motivations for everything we do. We exist to reproduce. Everything else is pure fluff, and is merely a means to that end. You and your friends are blissfully unaware of the primal forces that we all live under. Humans are animals, just like any other. Our actions and interactions are proof positive of that. Our way of doing business, our politics, our wars, etc are perfect displays of animal psychology. They all follow perfectly natural patterns. And they all reveal the desire to prevail over the other, exactly the way everything in existence operates.
I say lets declare an embargo on the **AAs products for three months.
Yeah, yeah, yeah...Right after Spiderman 3, or Transformers 2...We're still waiting for another Harry Potter, right? Okay, right after that. Have you seen the numbers? They're rakin' it in. No boycotts anytime soon.
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...and several times per day we were reminded of the mysteries of the Trinity and whatnot that we couldn't understand, so we weren't to try.
One of the beauties of life and death(and sausage) is the mystery. I used to enjoy movies and television much more before I got into the business and learned how it was done. Now I notice or am distracted by every flash frame and boom mic in the shot.
There aren't many people who are genuinely incapable of understanding the world, but there are many who don't bother to try.
As long as the bills are paid and there's beer in the fridge and the can is open when she brings it to you, it probably won't make the todo list. I mean, like, what else is there?
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:-)
Oopsy-daisy. Looks like I offended a purchaser of Dr. Richard Cranium's "performance enhancer". Hope you got your money's worth
Same as in town, fifty bucks
Promoting critical thought matters...
That's my point. These people fall for this because they don't think critically. They want to believe, no matter how absurd the "product". Politicians are huckster because it works. If it didn't, they would be honest, but that's not what the voters want. They want tax cuts and entitlements. Those who promises those things, regardless of their real intent, will win. That is not the fault of the huckster. Adam and Eve were sinners, not victims. I say let the devil run loose. He can't do a thing without our help. Resisting temptation is our responsibility and nobody else's. And it is our responsibility to teach our children to resist. Don't ever expect the hucksters to "police themselves". And don't think for a second that legislation against tempting people will ever work. Critical thinking is indeed the key, but conditioned reflex is more likely to rule the day.
While many of us know this is silly, many people believe it, and are victimized because of it.
They are victims of their own faith. It doesn't matter who the huckster is. Just like people who buy from spammers are victims of nothing more than their own greed. They get no sympathy from me.
If they can lower the price in China, they can lower the price for the rest of the world. If they want to practice price discrimination then they should give it away to those with no money at all.
By the time you get to the White House, unless you end up there by mistake, you're already crooked.
"No transa no gana"
Well, I suppose I can live with a consumer grade toaster or blender, but when it comes to electronics you're not too far off base. About the only difference between the consumer and "pro" version of the minidisc player was a balanced input connector and no DRM, and of course, a huge difference in price. And in its case the DRM had a very detrimental effect on sales to the general public. If that effect had carried over to their other products, you wouldn't see much DRM come from Sony, and you can bet that Blu-ray would be wide open.
The cartoon was super-popular among people who like really boring, poorly-animated cartoons for a decade.
You kids don't know poorly animated.
I don't download songs so I'm not overly worried about these attack dogs.
Neither do I, but that doesn't seem to matter to them. I still could get sued after I'm dead... not that it would matter much to me.
Instead, I will just say "References, please?"
Pavlov's dog
B.F. Skinner
National Geographic
Animal Planet
It should be easy to understand that all lifeforms are motivated by the same thing. The only real difference being the complexity of how it's expressed. The only thing separating humans from most animals is the opposable thumb. Psychology Today has always been the "National Inquirer" of behavioral studies.
So why is violence acceptable everywhere but in video games?
Because in the movies, the "good" guy always wins. The games allow you to be and root for the "bad" guy. Violence is okay, and in fact encouraged when the authorities can control how and where it's directed. You create winning armies when you can control a persons most primal desires for sex and power. Keep 'em dumb and horny(and throw in some alcohol) makes for a very aggressive, mean fighting machine. The games take away this control.
Playboy Magazine. I doubt it's for the weapons and violence though. They just like to read the articles. What am I missing here?
That may be the picture they present to internal revenue to dodge taxes, or to the FTC to avoid monopoly charges, but to me, Sony is Sony. And if Playstation can't say or do much about the DRM issues the others decide on, then that just means they're not so separate after all.
You have to convert to metric metres.
It just needs to find or _create_ more hosts.
Hmmm, sounds like a virus.
It starts being the survival of the fittest "Culture".
Well, survival does entail reproduction. A culture, and most species won't survive long without it.
But I'm holding off until all the DRM disappears and they call off the RIAA dogs. Why should I buy from a company that treats the customer like a crook? All this talk about boycotts is just that, huh?
I'm not saying don't participate. Just don't deal with snakes in the grass(or the trees as it may be). They're easy to spot. They don't seem so easy to resist, but then that's our problem. Only if we police these people(and our own desires) will there ever be any kind of hope of change. Because I will always believe that politicians in any country with somewhat free elections are a very accurate reflection of the voters. All looking for easy money and advantage over others. Besides there will always be a strong resistance to change. Look how difficult it is to get people to switch from Windows to another clearly superior OS. 95%...hmmm, about the same as the re-election rate in congress. Coincidence? That's what they want you to think :-)
We are picking from close to the bottom of the barrel when it comes to politicians.
To me that puts the blame for this entire mess squarely on our shoulders. I saw a great poster the other day that says, "Child prostitutions exists because YOU pay for it." I apply the same rules to spam and politics. The sellers are the serpent. The buyers are the sinners.
It shouldn't matter if it's "constitutional" or not. We simply should vote thoughtfully and not elect people who practice these abuses. The politicians won't hold up the law if we don't force them to with our votes, constitution or no. BUT you have a bunch of people who think this is perfectly okay, and in fact necessary, and they will continue to vote for the corrupt politicians as long they promise another tax cut or some phony health plan.
The fact that SOME people operate on your lame premise just goes to show how wrong "business, politics and war" can be when left in the hands of primal dolts with little capacity of controling their hormones.
The fact that we are the sheep who keep them in charge should tell you something. It's an animal bonding thing, no different than a baby hippo muzzling up to the alpha male. Try getting down to basics. Pavlov and Skinner, and I'm sure others, have already verified all of this. Not only are we animals, we appear to be quite arrogant ones at that to believe that we are somehow above the rest while demonstrating quite the opposite. Don't try to pass off some individual variables as the norm. As a species, we are no different than the amoeba. We will kill anything that gets in our way. Including(if not especially) other humans.
Encryption. Learn it. Love it. Live it.
Soon to be blocked at the government's "request". You can bet the ISPs will be more than happy to comply.
None of my friends attempt to hook up with women in the hopes that they are fertile and will get pregnant.
All the fancy talk cannot ever effectively deny the base motivations for everything we do. We exist to reproduce. Everything else is pure fluff, and is merely a means to that end. You and your friends are blissfully unaware of the primal forces that we all live under. Humans are animals, just like any other. Our actions and interactions are proof positive of that. Our way of doing business, our politics, our wars, etc are perfect displays of animal psychology. They all follow perfectly natural patterns. And they all reveal the desire to prevail over the other, exactly the way everything in existence operates.
I say lets declare an embargo on the **AAs products for three months.
Yeah, yeah, yeah...Right after Spiderman 3, or Transformers 2...We're still waiting for another Harry Potter, right? Okay, right after that. Have you seen the numbers? They're rakin' it in. No boycotts anytime soon.