shoulda said ...has the human right to pursue earning an honest living...
If everyone has a right to a job, that's sort of a socialist/communist-ish system (and I don't mean that in a bad or foreboding way, I'm not scaremongering just observing).
The parent asks a fair and valid question. He's breaking down imagined barriers between people, barriers which are operating as "nations". He's fostering a global community. This is a GREAT point he's making, and he gets labelled a troll?
Guess I'm just another troll too. Trolling trolling trolling...grr!
We get involved with other countries either because we were asked or for our own personal gain. What the CIA was thinking in the 60s and 70s, who knows.
If that were the case, why would people be willing to sacrifice themselves to kill thousands of innocents in the US? Bush's gov't has only told us "because that area of the earth is populated with nothing but evil godless fundamentalists and terrorists who hate freedom and like to kill people and don't value their own lives". But people have stopped asking why. No offense, but notice that you just avoided the topic as well. The topic of discussion almost changed to only CIA, but the question here *still* is: why did the Alqaida do what they did on 9-11?
I don't even think the CIA even has checks and balances by Congress. Reminds me of Hoover's FBI.
I didn't know that. That worries me even more. How much more invisible can they get?
the golden rule isn't even **IN** the Bible. That you think it was, was my point! It was Confucious who first said it, but since it would disrupt Christian culture to think 'heathen godless savage pagans' could develop such a golden rule, they tried to associate it with the Bible by squeezing "unto" into it, so people will only go to the church when they want answers in life.
Game of the Year. A very realistic game, at least in terms of social engineering. It's slowpaced, but steady. Very immersive. You can be a thief, a king of thieves, a mage, become a vampire, be a bounty hunter, join the underworld, etc. etc. etc. Everything's open. It's games like these that foreground the importance of social engineering (ya ya, vague term but I hope you know what I mean).
The greatest thing about being a child is getting to discover the world for the first time. You get to use your imagination to fill things in. That's why games were so fun: the more you used your imagination, the funner it gets. It doesn't matter if the characters are just a few blocks -- you really ARE a knight in shining armour in your mind's eye, and your quest *matters*. Nowadays, every little visual detail is all given to you, so there's no feeling of 'getting involved', of bringing the game to life. There's no magic there: the walls and shadows and ripples are already there, everything's defined. You're just consuming the predefined plots and graphics, rather than actively being part of the 'magic', which is where the REAL enjoyment is.
Believe me, I've wasted a childhood and a half playing games.
It wasn't just the open border policy. What was more important was US government intervention in other countries' affairs. I mean, the CIA don't exactly twiddle their thumbs all day! In one of the Dalai Lama's books, he mentions that the CIA were involved in his run to India, and that was decades ago on the other side of the world in the Himalayan mountains in Tibet, ferchrissakes! Can you imagine what the CIA are like now? What amazes and scares me the most is that today people have stopped demanding to know why and just accept the fact that it happened because those "middle easterners are evil terrorists". But WHY? WHAT ARE THEY DYING FOR? All I ever hear is that "those godless savages and fundamentalists hate freedom, that's all". C'mon people, keep questioning!!! 3000 people dead. What is going on behind our backs?
Actually, this is a very profound statement, imho. I believe a section of the Tao Te Ching states something to that affect, that when a populace is well fed, there will be no more warfare, because there won't be anything to fight over. Generally, "desperate times call for desperate measures" will no longer hold true.
had a chip built into the cartridge so that I.. I mean, so that the friends of inlaws of people I once knew couldn't use those 3.5" disk consoles to copy it to ROM (or so I heard). Someone told me it was to help process the intensive 3D graphics, dunno if that's true.
But the main base in usage is virtually always 10. Notice that 10, 12, and 60 require 2 symbols to represent, not one symbol. In Chinese, there are exactly the same symbols as in English: one for 0, one for 1,... one for 9. Anything more needs a combination of the symbols. This is the case the entire world over. No civilization uses as its main numbering system a base-8 digit symbol system in which '9' requires 2 digits to represent, or a base-13 numbering system in which there are 13 unique single symbols for 1 to 13, etc.
The population of China could be 1.2B, but when you compare the amount of literature written in Chinese langauge(s) to that written in English, Chinese comes in a very poor second place.
Most translated books in the world:
the Bible. I don't think this counts because it's pushed onto other cultures by hordes of fanatical marketers that outnumber any corporation today: missionaries.
the Tao Te Ching, written thousands of years before Christ was even born. Less than 100 sections. Some sections are just 2 sentences. No missionaries. It's not even religious. No marketing force. People read it, it's deep, people want to learn more. Eye-opening whether you're 17, 57, reading for first time, 100th time... You should read it some time.
Did you know the Golden Rule of humanity "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is from Confucious? That "unto" King James lingo bullshit was added in to make people think only the Bible has any wisdom in the world. A better translation is "treat others as you would have them treat you". Less action-based, more focused on attitude and respect.
Sun Tzu's Art of War, written over 2000 years ago, is a must-read for MBA's the entire world over.
Oh yeah, the Chinese also invented the printing press.
I'm not saying Chinese people have the best literature in the world, but they're defintely up there. How can you think Chinese literature is comparatively poor? I think you should thoroughly study a topic before you make such generalizing statements. It only makes you look like a culture-centric ass.
The general meaning is: "3 times 7 is 21 no matter what you say, do, wish, idealize or philosophize about, so just do what you have to do and be expedient". "chi" and "yi" also rhymes, so it sticks in the mind.
I've never heard 88 used as "bye bye", but I can see it since 8 = "bat" (actually a soft cut-off 't', no letter for it). It sounds a little like "bye", and Chinese people like the number 8 because it's a perfect rhyme with "fat", which means rich. Dat's "fat", yo.
Sorry, this is a bit OT, but I always hear about how much better Open GL is for graphics. But lately it seems not many games support it. Why? Isn't it much better than DirectX? Is it disappearing because it's competing with MS?
Not trolling, I really want to know -- I bought a GVX1 4 years ago and it STILL runs OpenGL-enabled games smoothly. But fewer and fewer games are supporting OpenGL. Anybody more knowledgable than me know why?
Pretty much all major banks allow for internet transactions, which I'm assuming are virtually 100% secure. I have no idea how they do it, but why can't we implement their type of protocol/security system throughout the entire internet and disallow all other types of transactions? Is it too expensive or slow?
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If everyone has a right to a job, that's sort of a socialist/communist-ish system (and I don't mean that in a bad or foreboding way, I'm not scaremongering just observing).
The parent asks a fair and valid question. He's breaking down imagined barriers between people, barriers which are operating as "nations". He's fostering a global community. This is a GREAT point he's making, and he gets labelled a troll?
Guess I'm just another troll too. Trolling trolling trolling...grr!
I have a VX1 I bought about 7 years ago, but sadly less and less games are supporting OpenGL. Guess it's MS's DirectX pushing them around.
mmmm... 2 big flesh-coloured angular polygons...
If that were the case, why would people be willing to sacrifice themselves to kill thousands of innocents in the US? Bush's gov't has only told us "because that area of the earth is populated with nothing but evil godless fundamentalists and terrorists who hate freedom and like to kill people and don't value their own lives". But people have stopped asking why. No offense, but notice that you just avoided the topic as well. The topic of discussion almost changed to only CIA, but the question here *still* is: why did the Alqaida do what they did on 9-11?
I don't even think the CIA even has checks and balances by Congress. Reminds me of Hoover's FBI.
I didn't know that. That worries me even more. How much more invisible can they get?
I just did some research, and it IS in the Bible. Sorry, my bad. I had believed otherwise. Just ignore me as I take off my tinfoil hat! :)
the golden rule isn't even **IN** the Bible. That you think it was, was my point! It was Confucious who first said it, but since it would disrupt Christian culture to think 'heathen godless savage pagans' could develop such a golden rule, they tried to associate it with the Bible by squeezing "unto" into it, so people will only go to the church when they want answers in life.
Game of the Year. A very realistic game, at least in terms of social engineering. It's slowpaced, but steady. Very immersive. You can be a thief, a king of thieves, a mage, become a vampire, be a bounty hunter, join the underworld, etc. etc. etc. Everything's open. It's games like these that foreground the importance of social engineering (ya ya, vague term but I hope you know what I mean).
To beat what? Himself? To Samus?
Maybe that's why he didn't discover girls -- he was discovering himself.
The greatest thing about being a child is getting to discover the world for the first time. You get to use your imagination to fill things in. That's why games were so fun: the more you used your imagination, the funner it gets. It doesn't matter if the characters are just a few blocks -- you really ARE a knight in shining armour in your mind's eye, and your quest *matters*. Nowadays, every little visual detail is all given to you, so there's no feeling of 'getting involved', of bringing the game to life. There's no magic there: the walls and shadows and ripples are already there, everything's defined. You're just consuming the predefined plots and graphics, rather than actively being part of the 'magic', which is where the REAL enjoyment is.
Believe me, I've wasted a childhood and a half playing games.
It wasn't just the open border policy. What was more important was US government intervention in other countries' affairs. I mean, the CIA don't exactly twiddle their thumbs all day! In one of the Dalai Lama's books, he mentions that the CIA were involved in his run to India, and that was decades ago on the other side of the world in the Himalayan mountains in Tibet, ferchrissakes! Can you imagine what the CIA are like now? What amazes and scares me the most is that today people have stopped demanding to know why and just accept the fact that it happened because those "middle easterners are evil terrorists". But WHY? WHAT ARE THEY DYING FOR? All I ever hear is that "those godless savages and fundamentalists hate freedom, that's all". C'mon people, keep questioning!!! 3000 people dead. What is going on behind our backs?
Actually, this is a very profound statement, imho. I believe a section of the Tao Te Ching states something to that affect, that when a populace is well fed, there will be no more warfare, because there won't be anything to fight over. Generally, "desperate times call for desperate measures" will no longer hold true.
had a chip built into the cartridge so that I.. I mean, so that the friends of inlaws of people I once knew couldn't use those 3.5" disk consoles to copy it to ROM (or so I heard). Someone told me it was to help process the intensive 3D graphics, dunno if that's true.
But the main base in usage is virtually always 10. Notice that 10, 12, and 60 require 2 symbols to represent, not one symbol. In Chinese, there are exactly the same symbols as in English: one for 0, one for 1, ... one for 9. Anything more needs a combination of the symbols. This is the case the entire world over. No civilization uses as its main numbering system a base-8 digit symbol system in which '9' requires 2 digits to represent, or a base-13 numbering system in which there are 13 unique single symbols for 1 to 13, etc.
Most translated books in the world:
Did you know the Golden Rule of humanity "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is from Confucious? That "unto" King James lingo bullshit was added in to make people think only the Bible has any wisdom in the world. A better translation is "treat others as you would have them treat you". Less action-based, more focused on attitude and respect.
Sun Tzu's Art of War, written over 2000 years ago, is a must-read for MBA's the entire world over.
Oh yeah, the Chinese also invented the printing press.
I'm not saying Chinese people have the best literature in the world, but they're defintely up there. How can you think Chinese literature is comparatively poor? I think you should thoroughly study a topic before you make such generalizing statements. It only makes you look like a culture-centric ass.
The general meaning is: "3 times 7 is 21 no matter what you say, do, wish, idealize or philosophize about, so just do what you have to do and be expedient". "chi" and "yi" also rhymes, so it sticks in the mind.
I've never heard 88 used as "bye bye", but I can see it since 8 = "bat" (actually a soft cut-off 't', no letter for it). It sounds a little like "bye", and Chinese people like the number 8 because it's a perfect rhyme with "fat", which means rich. Dat's "fat", yo.
Humans everywhere use a 10-digit number system, because humans everywhere have 10 digits -- literally, 10 fingers.
l33t h4x0r w45 h3r3!!!!!!
while I'm on a wide open prairie field, trying to teach my children the constellations?
I for one want to tell our new night-sky advertisers to fuck the hell off.
Sorry, this is a bit OT, but I always hear about how much better Open GL is for graphics. But lately it seems not many games support it. Why? Isn't it much better than DirectX? Is it disappearing because it's competing with MS?
Not trolling, I really want to know -- I bought a GVX1 4 years ago and it STILL runs OpenGL-enabled games smoothly. But fewer and fewer games are supporting OpenGL. Anybody more knowledgable than me know why?
until its been lowered, gets blinking strobes and a spoiler, and plays really bad rave music!
you insensitive clod!
I'm in the Eng department too -- the ENGlish department.
Seriously though, what's so bad about SFU Engineering?
Must be the loan-calculating scripts all the Gs use out in Compton. Can't get much more street credit than that!
That just shizzled my nizzle.
Pretty much all major banks allow for internet transactions, which I'm assuming are virtually 100% secure. I have no idea how they do it, but why can't we implement their type of protocol/security system throughout the entire internet and disallow all other types of transactions? Is it too expensive or slow?
"Outlook Express 7 has features that better integrate with system elements such as the Contacts."
That worries me.