There is some combination of bits that will give us a picture of life on another planet, or Cleopatra giving Elvis a hummer. Maybe even me holding a lottery ticket with winning numbers. A combination of bits might give us a #1 pop song sung by no one.
Piracy is ship to ship armed robbery. Calling copyright infringement piracy makes light of murderous thugs, and makes infringement sound worse than it is. It doesn't even work as a metaphor. When we use their misnomer, they win. Then one of two things will happen. Either infringers will be demonized people sharing 1s and 0s or the word piracy will lose its gravity.
Cue the "langwijiz morf, get/it" crowd.
And yeah, get off my lawn, or whatever other dismissiveness you want to conjure. Disagree all you want, but try to do it without dismissing me as pedantic or a grammar nazi. Try some substance.
Language matters; word choice matters. All actions start as thoughts, thoughts happen in words. By calling a government a regime, we can make overthrowing it more palatable. By calling a person a kike, nigger, rag head, witch etc, we can make them not human, so killing them won't be murder. Hacker was a positive term. The "man" (media, law, etc) has corrupted the word hacker to refer to criminals. It's like calling Nazis German over and over until the word German means Nazi. When we blur the distinction between words we lose expressiveness and have to invent awkward ways to regain specificity that we threw away out of laziness and ignorance. Yeah languages change over time, but there is evolution and there is devolution and corruption. Change is not inherently good.
Organizations sometimes like to promote good performers until they are out of their depth.
i'm kinda sorta joking here.
But as most people are saying here, it comes down to what do you want to do? Do you want your hands dirty or to wear a tie? Neither is good or bad unless you dislike which ever you are doing. Don't make the choice based on money. It might not be worth the raise.
If you want more money, get a financial education and get it that way. If you must work, strive to do something you enjoy (even if it doesn't pay as well).
"Answer: No they didn't. US did a coup in Iran 40-50 years ago and overthrow their national democratic government and returned the dictator "Shah" to power. people were forced to act more aggressive to put the Shah away. An aggressive act of revolution caused more aggressive opinions."
Wrong. There were maybe a handful of Americans within Iran during the revolution. The Iranians did all that to each other.
"Then a war was exposed to Iran by Iraq (Saddam) which killed almost 1million Iranians. The war was supported by most Arab countries + Europeans + USA. Arabs paid Iraq by oil and cash (around 200 billion) and Europeans and US gave them weapons etc (including chemicals for illegal chemical warfare). 50,000 Iranians are effected by chemicals provided by Europeans to Saddam."
Did you opposed the overthrow of Saddam? Which presidents did all this? Did you know that the US changes presidents from time to time?
"The same Saddam used those weapons against same Arab countries a few years later."
Well, he won't be gassing any Kurds or Iranians for a while.
"About your comment on Nukes I should say, USA is the only country which has both built and used nukes."
So? It's naive to assume that the USSR wouldn't have used them if they had won that race. Our use of them did two important things: ended WW2 (which Japan, Germany and Italy started, no the US) without a land invasion of Japan AND showed the world the horror of nuclear weapons. Which in turn prevented their further USE. Imagine the cold war without that knowledge.
"US has started around 50 wars in recent history. Iran has never started any war in last150 years or more."
Wrong. The US hasn't started ANY wars in living memory. Not one. We've joined two after being attacked. But we didn't start either of those and we tried to stay out of them. Since then we learned that isolationism and cruel indifference don't work.
"You want to condemn the 7000 years old culture of Iran"
The culture that exists there is not based on the culture that existed before. Once Islam took root there it became another culture. If Islam took root in the US in the way it did in Iran, it would be a radically different culture.
Furthermore the sins and virtues of the ancestor are not the descendant's to bear. i don't care if 1000 years ago some Iranian did $somethingMiraculous or $somethingAwful. All parties involved are dead. i could no more credit an Iranian born 20 years ago with the Cyrus Cylinder than i could a German born 20 years ago for Mein Kampf. It doesn't matter in the slightest.
The person you replied to wasn't condemning 7000 years of culture. Just the culture since 1935 or so.
Don't worry, i'll tell the girl at the campus bookstore how multiculti you are. She'll be impressed.
i found this to be true of Mafia Wars and the Vampire equivalent (on iPhone). Once you hit a certain income level the game falls apart. They become a reason to unlock the phone once an hour. i deleted both and sighed in relief.
Diablo 2 was satisfying. i could play it again in different classes, or the same class but with a different set of powers. i could play using more cheats so it was less of a grind. i could play with people.
Intelligence itself might be overrated. Intelligence alone isn't enough to be successful at something. Effort seems to be the overriding factor. Determined people can outstrip smart people who are lazy *raises hand*.
There was a study where they assessed the abilities of two classes of kids. They complimented one class on how smart they were and the other on how hard they worked. Before long, the smart kids were frustrated. The hard working kids where less likely to give up. They found out that they could work through things they didn't understand.
The whole thing was too near the bone for me. Through my childhood they told me i was gifted (but undisciplined). i had a tendency to assume that anything i found difficult was beyond me, and i'd quit.
Intelligence alone won't help in relationships. Smart people sometimes think they can outsmart relationship problems, or that love is a problem to be solved. It just doesn't work that way. Until i gained some serious self awareness through painful experiences, i had a tendency to annoy the shit out of people by trying to be smart/logical.
Last i heard, the membership of MENSA showed that they are not universally wealthy or highly placed in their careers.
i wonder if this is actually the case. Do people who drive more cause more traffic on their way to work? Seems that granny's Sunday drive causes just as much traffic as a cab driver... 1 car.
Does data cause some kind of wear and tear? Seems to me a packet is a packet. That more of them are going to.56 than to.27 shouldn't matter. Does the fiber going to my house get tired faster than the same cable going to granny's house? Do they need to hire more techie because i'm pulling down torrents? Seems more likely that the companies are just looking for an excuse to charge more.
Don't the operators pay for the bandwidth whether it's not used at all or if it's pegged?
Another question: Why is this vital service in the hands of companies trying to charge as much as they can for as little service as possible?
People can take anything too far. Even trying to become "cultured" as the snob in the other reply to me describes, can go too far.
Not sure that anyone's life is normal by any objective standard. Even within one culture. i think i would slash my wrists if i realized i had spent that much time and money on a game. Not sure i want to tell him how he should entertain himself or how bad he should feel about it.
How many hours per week was this guy playing? Was it really 100+? If he achieved this in 100+ hours per month, would we look down at him less?
What value is gained for reading a book, watching a movie, listening to music or mounting a pretty painting on the wall? It's all entertainment. If he enjoyed doing it, that's all the gain *he* needs. Entertainment is an end unto itself. Fun and beauty ARE utility.
i'd rather do the other things i listed above than play WoW, but in the end, it's all fun and games.
What if you lose not because you are wrong, but because the other side has a war chest and an army of lawyers and can bury you? Maybe Canada has better systems for that too, but here in the US, it's not about right or wrong, it's about legal firepower. The laws are designed by the rich to keep them rich and make them richer. Justice and morality occasionally find service, but it's rare.
They created the environment that spawned an emergent behavior. They knew from Everquest that it would happen. Player trade, facilitated by the game, created twinking, gold farmers and the sale of virtual property and characters. They built a game with a Gygaxian power curves that make some characters "worth" more (and able to kill others with a single click). Blizzard actively sells a product that creates the desire to do these things. Bob sees Tim with phat loot. Bob wants phat loot. Bob works his ass off to get it. Finds out the Tim bought it with his birthday money from a guy in a sweatshop. It's not a matter of someone finding a loop hole and are exploiting it.
Games without player trade do not have those issues (though they may have others). Some don't have a problem with that and that's fine with me. Personally, i think it's dishonest, cheating and insulting. Blizzard could stop it, but envy drives the game, so they won't. So i stick to games w/o player trade (and w/o Gygaxian power curves).
i freely acknowledge that this is a *me* thing. Maybe you could acknowledge that they installed a speed trap at the bottom of a steep hill on a smooth empty road. We don't have to speed, but they did their best to make us want to.
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There is some combination of bits that will give us a picture of life on another planet, or Cleopatra giving Elvis a hummer. Maybe even me holding a lottery ticket with winning numbers. A combination of bits might give us a #1 pop song sung by no one.
Fun to think about.
This was on our local radio station over a year ago. The boy is autistic or something. The boy loves the birds but they are nasty critters.
Don't tell me how to raise my kids!!1!
Your friends are cool, then!
Most of the commercials i see/hear insist on calling them Lithium-ion. *shrugs*
For the 87th Time:
Piracy is ship to ship armed robbery. Calling copyright infringement piracy makes light of murderous thugs, and makes infringement sound worse than it is. It doesn't even work as a metaphor. When we use their misnomer, they win. Then one of two things will happen. Either infringers will be demonized people sharing 1s and 0s or the word piracy will lose its gravity.
Cue the "langwijiz morf, get/it" crowd.
And yeah, get off my lawn, or whatever other dismissiveness you want to conjure. Disagree all you want, but try to do it without dismissing me as pedantic or a grammar nazi. Try some substance.
Language matters; word choice matters. All actions start as thoughts, thoughts happen in words. By calling a government a regime, we can make overthrowing it more palatable. By calling a person a kike, nigger, rag head, witch etc, we can make them not human, so killing them won't be murder. Hacker was a positive term. The "man" (media, law, etc) has corrupted the word hacker to refer to criminals. It's like calling Nazis German over and over until the word German means Nazi. When we blur the distinction between words we lose expressiveness and have to invent awkward ways to regain specificity that we threw away out of laziness and ignorance. Yeah languages change over time, but there is evolution and there is devolution and corruption. Change is not inherently good.
And stand up for yourselves.
i wish calling Lithium batteries "Li-on" (Li + ion) had taken root. Maybe we'll get it this time with Si-on.
i'd be worried about it becoming a present for a postal worker's kid!
Could someone 'splain why i was modded down? It's a legit question and not even snarky in its wording.
Organizations sometimes like to promote good performers until they are out of their depth.
i'm kinda sorta joking here.
But as most people are saying here, it comes down to what do you want to do? Do you want your hands dirty or to wear a tie? Neither is good or bad unless you dislike which ever you are doing. Don't make the choice based on money. It might not be worth the raise.
If you want more money, get a financial education and get it that way. If you must work, strive to do something you enjoy (even if it doesn't pay as well).
Will this allow us a FOSS (competitive) alternative to Flash?
Because that would be sweet.
Take your sarcasmometer to the shop.
And ask your doctor about Paxil.
Remember kids: /. is just like Digg. If you disagree with someone mod them as a troll to bury their comment. It's not censorship when YOU do it!
Are these new RNA structures, or newly discovered RNA structures? My bet is that they are ancient structures that these guys have just recently found.
"Answer: No they didn't. US did a coup in Iran 40-50 years ago and overthrow their national democratic government and returned the dictator "Shah" to power. people were forced to act more aggressive to put the Shah away. An aggressive act of revolution caused more aggressive opinions."
Wrong. There were maybe a handful of Americans within Iran during the revolution. The Iranians did all that to each other.
"Then a war was exposed to Iran by Iraq (Saddam) which killed almost 1million Iranians. The war was supported by most Arab countries + Europeans + USA. Arabs paid Iraq by oil and cash (around 200 billion) and Europeans and US gave them weapons etc (including chemicals for illegal chemical warfare). 50,000 Iranians are effected by chemicals provided by Europeans to Saddam."
Did you opposed the overthrow of Saddam? Which presidents did all this? Did you know that the US changes presidents from time to time?
"The same Saddam used those weapons against same Arab countries a few years later."
Well, he won't be gassing any Kurds or Iranians for a while.
"About your comment on Nukes I should say, USA is the only country which has both built and used nukes."
So? It's naive to assume that the USSR wouldn't have used them if they had won that race. Our use of them did two important things: ended WW2 (which Japan, Germany and Italy started, no the US) without a land invasion of Japan AND showed the world the horror of nuclear weapons. Which in turn prevented their further USE. Imagine the cold war without that knowledge.
"US has started around 50 wars in recent history. Iran has never started any war in last150 years or more."
Wrong. The US hasn't started ANY wars in living memory. Not one. We've joined two after being attacked. But we didn't start either of those and we tried to stay out of them. Since then we learned that isolationism and cruel indifference don't work.
"You want to condemn the 7000 years old culture of Iran"
The culture that exists there is not based on the culture that existed before. Once Islam took root there it became another culture. If Islam took root in the US in the way it did in Iran, it would be a radically different culture.
Furthermore the sins and virtues of the ancestor are not the descendant's to bear. i don't care if 1000 years ago some Iranian did $somethingMiraculous or $somethingAwful. All parties involved are dead. i could no more credit an Iranian born 20 years ago with the Cyrus Cylinder than i could a German born 20 years ago for Mein Kampf. It doesn't matter in the slightest.
The person you replied to wasn't condemning 7000 years of culture. Just the culture since 1935 or so.
Don't worry, i'll tell the girl at the campus bookstore how multiculti you are. She'll be impressed.
A word with its own website:
http://sarchasm.net/
i found this to be true of Mafia Wars and the Vampire equivalent (on iPhone). Once you hit a certain income level the game falls apart. They become a reason to unlock the phone once an hour. i deleted both and sighed in relief.
Diablo 2 was satisfying. i could play it again in different classes, or the same class but with a different set of powers. i could play using more cheats so it was less of a grind. i could play with people.
What about watching millionaires play sports?
Intelligence itself might be overrated. Intelligence alone isn't enough to be successful at something. Effort seems to be the overriding factor. Determined people can outstrip smart people who are lazy *raises hand*.
There was a study where they assessed the abilities of two classes of kids. They complimented one class on how smart they were and the other on how hard they worked. Before long, the smart kids were frustrated. The hard working kids where less likely to give up. They found out that they could work through things they didn't understand.
The whole thing was too near the bone for me. Through my childhood they told me i was gifted (but undisciplined). i had a tendency to assume that anything i found difficult was beyond me, and i'd quit.
Intelligence alone won't help in relationships. Smart people sometimes think they can outsmart relationship problems, or that love is a problem to be solved. It just doesn't work that way. Until i gained some serious self awareness through painful experiences, i had a tendency to annoy the shit out of people by trying to be smart/logical.
Last i heard, the membership of MENSA showed that they are not universally wealthy or highly placed in their careers.
for the Repo Man.
i thought that was Fox's MO.
i wonder if this is actually the case. Do people who drive more cause more traffic on their way to work? Seems that granny's Sunday drive causes just as much traffic as a cab driver... 1 car.
Does data cause some kind of wear and tear? Seems to me a packet is a packet. That more of them are going to .56 than to .27 shouldn't matter. Does the fiber going to my house get tired faster than the same cable going to granny's house? Do they need to hire more techie because i'm pulling down torrents? Seems more likely that the companies are just looking for an excuse to charge more.
Don't the operators pay for the bandwidth whether it's not used at all or if it's pegged?
Another question: Why is this vital service in the hands of companies trying to charge as much as they can for as little service as possible?
People can take anything too far. Even trying to become "cultured" as the snob in the other reply to me describes, can go too far.
Not sure that anyone's life is normal by any objective standard. Even within one culture. i think i would slash my wrists if i realized i had spent that much time and money on a game. Not sure i want to tell him how he should entertain himself or how bad he should feel about it.
How many hours per week was this guy playing? Was it really 100+? If he achieved this in 100+ hours per month, would we look down at him less?
What value is gained for reading a book, watching a movie, listening to music or mounting a pretty painting on the wall? It's all entertainment. If he enjoyed doing it, that's all the gain *he* needs. Entertainment is an end unto itself. Fun and beauty ARE utility.
i'd rather do the other things i listed above than play WoW, but in the end, it's all fun and games.
What if you lose not because you are wrong, but because the other side has a war chest and an army of lawyers and can bury you? Maybe Canada has better systems for that too, but here in the US, it's not about right or wrong, it's about legal firepower. The laws are designed by the rich to keep them rich and make them richer. Justice and morality occasionally find service, but it's rare.
They created the environment that spawned an emergent behavior. They knew from Everquest that it would happen. Player trade, facilitated by the game, created twinking, gold farmers and the sale of virtual property and characters. They built a game with a Gygaxian power curves that make some characters "worth" more (and able to kill others with a single click). Blizzard actively sells a product that creates the desire to do these things. Bob sees Tim with phat loot. Bob wants phat loot. Bob works his ass off to get it. Finds out the Tim bought it with his birthday money from a guy in a sweatshop. It's not a matter of someone finding a loop hole and are exploiting it.
Games without player trade do not have those issues (though they may have others). Some don't have a problem with that and that's fine with me. Personally, i think it's dishonest, cheating and insulting. Blizzard could stop it, but envy drives the game, so they won't. So i stick to games w/o player trade (and w/o Gygaxian power curves).
i freely acknowledge that this is a *me* thing. Maybe you could acknowledge that they installed a speed trap at the bottom of a steep hill on a smooth empty road. We don't have to speed, but they did their best to make us want to.