I think you'll find communism is where everyone is equal. There is no "leader" to work top down from.. if there is such a person then it's not true communism.
The internet is communist like Japan is. The whole society wants to be communist (or is forced into it), so they act that way. The internet is the same.
Communism can be anarchy where everyone wants the same thing so no one conflicts. Anarchy is only anarchy if theres no power and everyone has a different view point.
People need a clue of they're going to be given power.
The US has no control over the internet, they can mess with it and poke it a little but nothing more. The internet is an extreme communist network. You need to work together so everything works. If someone stops doing their share they get cut off and end up having to rejoin and work twice as hard or they die. It's that simple.
No one controls the Internet, no one ever will. Anyone who tries to will lose far more than I wish to even guess at.
I agreee except the GPL is for the "little people" to use, not just them. If they ignore everyone then they distance themselvs from the average person. It's like politics at the moment, it's so full of rich people who've never lived "like normal people" they forget about them and focus on other rich people's intrests.
You don't generally notice space stations disappearing when a shuttle explodes. You generally see them stay right where they are and continue to be space stations. Very few people would go "oh lets just knock it out the sky, who cares?" when it's the only space based human colony (small though it is).
I perfer my idea but sure, or you could take in an old box and drop it on the front desk and go "Excuse me, you've installed a virus on my PC via a Sony CD. Will you be removing it or should I charge by the hour at £X00(add as many 0s as you likee, but 2 sounds about right) for having to remove it via a repair guy (don't say you, it seems supicious).
Demand compensation (for petrol to get there), the money to fix it and if they refuse tell them you'll take them to court for the damages (claim the box was used for something important like hosting websites and the rootkit has not passed some safety tests that all servers must pass at your company).
We're the minority. Sony can laugh at us all day and we can't touch them as long as they still have their idiot brainwashing (people believe Sony is high quality). The only way we can do anything is pass this news around "Sony CDs screw up your PC! It like kills it and shit!". It may not be totally true but it's not far off and Sony will come out really bad if it makes it to the public mind share.
Is there any good guides for nethack newbies? I don't want full spoilers but I have no idea when to eat/drink and ways of telling what an item is and such, so could someone give me a useful site to head to please?
All our robots just run on Windows. If you look at them funny they turn all blue and die.. The shotguns and chainsaws are just there to look scary and fight the old mold based life form in coffee cups.
Nothing we don't put AI in will rebel, so your average toaster isn't going to start trying to cook your fingers. On the other hand if we ever put AI in PCs then I think every geek in the world is going to be afraid of what all them wires could do if they were given life...
I think that's also being ironed out with more men "taking care of their apperance". You have to take into account a difference between men and women here as well.
Women are curvy and sensual, they have body parts which make them look good if presented correctly (around the legs and chest being too prime examples). Where as men are little more then hairy shapeless apes. We have no curves or "sexy lines" to show off. The best a guy can generally pull off is to look smart and clean (a suit) or "arty" and go with something more free and flowing displaying a little more flesh.
As I've said in the past.
A naked woman is very sexy, a naked man is furry and has a strange but humourous thing between his legs.
But yea I guess you're right. People find the penis offensive in general so any expression of using it is instantly "sexual assault". Go figure.
But isn't giving a woman one liners also annoying to you? One liners tend to be either patheticly forced or given to worthless characters just getting a word in to seem cool. It annoys me more when they make a huge deal of some woman being a woman basicly. I never sat and watched Star trek and went "wow Janeways a woman!" I just watched it. Her character is a stubborn person trying to get home, her gender never came into it which needs to be done more often. We need unisex characters not "strong women". Just people who are people and not steriotyped pointlessly.
I can't confirm it but I'm 99% sure I've seen men wearing them same skirts in some form.
I find it curious though that in Japanese sci fi you commonly see men wearing skirts and it's not even questioned. It's "just there" in most cases. Maybe that says a lot about how we see TV on the whole..
Minority groups in some cases make themselvs minorities. They go out of there way to go "HEY I WANT TO BE EQUAL!" which just makes them stand out because no one else is screaming it. I'm not saying that there isn't some issues about being equal but mostly we're even in the world, the only places we're not equal is in peoples opinions.
A lot of women who go into business complain they're being repressed or held back because they're women. Now this is true because most people in that type of place are asshole guys whoi want flash cars, loose women and the latest fads. This isn't going to change any time soon so yes saddly in that aspect women arn't equal to men.
But then if we look at children's carers. Any man who tries to go into that job is often looked upon with untrusting eyes and whispers of child molesting arn't uncommon at all. No matter how nice the guy is the issue is still there.
So yea maybe women and ment arn't 100% equal in everything, but no amount of TV "role models" is going to change that. Only odd things becoming "normal" will change that, give it 10-20 years and no one will careless what you have between your legs in the business world because the people comming up now will be in charge and used to women being around.
Men and women are different, they have different roles and strengths. We have to understand this and accept that's life. It's a class system, if you're a female it's harder to be good in strength, but you'll excel in other ways. Not to mention a good mother (house wife if you wish ) does a million times more work then anyone with a "real" (not my words) job does. I have more respetct for women who stay home and look after their kids then I do women going into "the work place" to "show men women can do it too".
As for the clothes. Well women wearing mens clothes is seen as normal since mens clothes arn't ment to show anything off. Most female clothes are generally ment to be nicely fitted so they make a woman look good (and women want to look good even more then men want them to look good, watch/read any fashion show/magazine). Because of this people have come to think that men wearing female clothes is a fetish and so many wearing women's clothes is seen as sexual and hence strange/odd.
But hey personally I'm open minded and I'd love to be able to wear a nice skirt and have no issues about it. I know quite a few cross dressers (men who dress as women because it feels right to them when it's not sexual to them at all) and the general feed back is "do it for a joke, but not full time because Chavs will kick your face in and it makes your life so difficult it's easier to just stay hidden".
The sci fi channel is more "geek central". It shows everything from documentries to horror films to anime to classic B-movies (tremors for example). But it does appear female geeks are more common here but I think it's more because we're moving into a geeky era. Geek things are now becoming cool (look at consoles, lord of the rings, HHGG, star wars etc. ) so it's becoming more accessable (dumbed down some may say), which attracts more people. Women tend to catch onto trends faster so maybe that's why.
Or the other two options are they got lucky with the poll and got more geeky women or I'm an idiot and the 16-20 age bracket of women are more geeky then the last few.
I have to ask something if you don't mind too much.
Why is anything on TV a role model? It's nothing but entertainment let alone a decent role model. I've currently reading LOTRs which gives Aragorn a positive aura how is he a positive role model any more (or less) then any of these characters?
I know a lot of female geeks who're into sci fi and fantasy and none of them ever go "it's for the positive female image!", they simplely go "because I like it". If it's a cat of 19 men and 1 woman or 19 women and 1 man it shouldn't matter. It's entertainment and to look at it any deeper then a lava lamp is like staring at static untill it makes sense..
(Sorry for the rant, it just went that way and well it's a good rant so it can stay).
The worlds becoming dumber so everyones "anti-science", as long and "normal people" get to work 9-5 and watch their TV they don't care any more. We've had it drilled into us so hard that we're just worthless minions who need extra money to buy worthless crap that we end up more or less beliving it. So science is something you hear about on TV, not something you're able to take part in after you leave school.
but 1-2 seconds is nothing (20 is something). You probably waste more time yawning or sneezing in a day then you do in a year of 1 extra second loading.
GTA 1/London/2 and GTA 3/VC/SA shouldn't be called the same game series. They're vastly different (in playing style and looks) to the point where they're almost polar opposits. It's like comparing the 3D sonics to Sonic on the mega drive. One was great and the other is good but it's just not the same.
I kinda have to ask since this makes no sense to me.
How the hell is 1 second load time making the news? I mean really.. it's 1 second, over a week if you open OO every work day thats all of 5 seconds. So what a minute a year is going to some how make the world come crashing in on it's self?
Jack is not a nickname for John. Jack is it's own name and has been for a very long time. Jack is a nickname he got and it sounds better then "John Thompson".
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I think you'll find communism is where everyone is equal. There is no "leader" to work top down from.. if there is such a person then it's not true communism.
The internet is communist like Japan is. The whole society wants to be communist (or is forced into it), so they act that way. The internet is the same.
Communism can be anarchy where everyone wants the same thing so no one conflicts. Anarchy is only anarchy if theres no power and everyone has a different view point.
People need a clue of they're going to be given power.
The US has no control over the internet, they can mess with it and poke it a little but nothing more. The internet is an extreme communist network. You need to work together so everything works. If someone stops doing their share they get cut off and end up having to rejoin and work twice as hard or they die. It's that simple.
No one controls the Internet, no one ever will. Anyone who tries to will lose far more than I wish to even guess at.
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Oh they do enough as it is...
I agreee except the GPL is for the "little people" to use, not just them. If they ignore everyone then they distance themselvs from the average person. It's like politics at the moment, it's so full of rich people who've never lived "like normal people" they forget about them and focus on other rich people's intrests.
"It survived through the Columbia accident"
You don't generally notice space stations disappearing when a shuttle explodes. You generally see them stay right where they are and continue to be space stations. Very few people would go "oh lets just knock it out the sky, who cares?" when it's the only space based human colony (small though it is).
I perfer my idea but sure, or you could take in an old box and drop it on the front desk and go "Excuse me, you've installed a virus on my PC via a Sony CD. Will you be removing it or should I charge by the hour at £X00(add as many 0s as you likee, but 2 sounds about right) for having to remove it via a repair guy (don't say you, it seems supicious).
:D
Demand compensation (for petrol to get there), the money to fix it and if they refuse tell them you'll take them to court for the damages (claim the box was used for something important like hosting websites and the rootkit has not passed some safety tests that all servers must pass at your company).
Aww the fun of being a sick little geek
We're the minority. Sony can laugh at us all day and we can't touch them as long as they still have their idiot brainwashing (people believe Sony is high quality). The only way we can do anything is pass this news around "Sony CDs screw up your PC! It like kills it and shit!". It may not be totally true but it's not far off and Sony will come out really bad if it makes it to the public mind share.
Please do. May I request you put it on a brick and give Jack Thompson a reason to believe he's right? :D
Video games don't make people violent,polite reqeusts in discussions do!
Did anyone feel their jaw hit the floor half way through this and stay there permantly?
Is there any good guides for nethack newbies? I don't want full spoilers but I have no idea when to eat/drink and ways of telling what an item is and such, so could someone give me a useful site to head to please?
All our robots just run on Windows. If you look at them funny they turn all blue and die.. The shotguns and chainsaws are just there to look scary and fight the old mold based life form in coffee cups.
Nothing we don't put AI in will rebel, so your average toaster isn't going to start trying to cook your fingers. On the other hand if we ever put AI in PCs then I think every geek in the world is going to be afraid of what all them wires could do if they were given life...
I think that's also being ironed out with more men "taking care of their apperance". You have to take into account a difference between men and women here as well.
Women are curvy and sensual, they have body parts which make them look good if presented correctly (around the legs and chest being too prime examples). Where as men are little more then hairy shapeless apes. We have no curves or "sexy lines" to show off. The best a guy can generally pull off is to look smart and clean (a suit) or "arty" and go with something more free and flowing displaying a little more flesh.
As I've said in the past.
A naked woman is very sexy, a naked man is furry and has a strange but humourous thing between his legs.
But yea I guess you're right. People find the penis offensive in general so any expression of using it is instantly "sexual assault". Go figure.
It is when you're tired as I'am now :P
But isn't giving a woman one liners also annoying to you? One liners tend to be either patheticly forced or given to worthless characters just getting a word in to seem cool. It annoys me more when they make a huge deal of some woman being a woman basicly. I never sat and watched Star trek and went "wow Janeways a woman!" I just watched it. Her character is a stubborn person trying to get home, her gender never came into it which needs to be done more often. We need unisex characters not "strong women". Just people who are people and not steriotyped pointlessly.
I can't confirm it but I'm 99% sure I've seen men wearing them same skirts in some form.
I find it curious though that in Japanese sci fi you commonly see men wearing skirts and it's not even questioned. It's "just there" in most cases. Maybe that says a lot about how we see TV on the whole..
Minority groups in some cases make themselvs minorities. They go out of there way to go "HEY I WANT TO BE EQUAL!" which just makes them stand out because no one else is screaming it. I'm not saying that there isn't some issues about being equal but mostly we're even in the world, the only places we're not equal is in peoples opinions.
A lot of women who go into business complain they're being repressed or held back because they're women. Now this is true because most people in that type of place are asshole guys whoi want flash cars, loose women and the latest fads. This isn't going to change any time soon so yes saddly in that aspect women arn't equal to men.
But then if we look at children's carers. Any man who tries to go into that job is often looked upon with untrusting eyes and whispers of child molesting arn't uncommon at all. No matter how nice the guy is the issue is still there.
So yea maybe women and ment arn't 100% equal in everything, but no amount of TV "role models" is going to change that. Only odd things becoming "normal" will change that, give it 10-20 years and no one will careless what you have between your legs in the business world because the people comming up now will be in charge and used to women being around.
Men and women are different, they have different roles and strengths. We have to understand this and accept that's life. It's a class system, if you're a female it's harder to be good in strength, but you'll excel in other ways. Not to mention a good mother (house wife if you wish ) does a million times more work then anyone with a "real" (not my words) job does. I have more respetct for women who stay home and look after their kids then I do women going into "the work place" to "show men women can do it too".
As for the clothes. Well women wearing mens clothes is seen as normal since mens clothes arn't ment to show anything off. Most female clothes are generally ment to be nicely fitted so they make a woman look good (and women want to look good even more then men want them to look good, watch/read any fashion show/magazine). Because of this people have come to think that men wearing female clothes is a fetish and so many wearing women's clothes is seen as sexual and hence strange/odd.
But hey personally I'm open minded and I'd love to be able to wear a nice skirt and have no issues about it. I know quite a few cross dressers (men who dress as women because it feels right to them when it's not sexual to them at all) and the general feed back is "do it for a joke, but not full time because Chavs will kick your face in and it makes your life so difficult it's easier to just stay hidden".
The sci fi channel is more "geek central". It shows everything from documentries to horror films to anime to classic B-movies (tremors for example). But it does appear female geeks are more common here but I think it's more because we're moving into a geeky era. Geek things are now becoming cool (look at consoles, lord of the rings, HHGG, star wars etc. ) so it's becoming more accessable (dumbed down some may say), which attracts more people. Women tend to catch onto trends faster so maybe that's why.
Or the other two options are they got lucky with the poll and got more geeky women or I'm an idiot and the 16-20 age bracket of women are more geeky then the last few.
I have to ask something if you don't mind too much.
Why is anything on TV a role model? It's nothing but entertainment let alone a decent role model. I've currently reading LOTRs which gives Aragorn a positive aura how is he a positive role model any more (or less) then any of these characters?
I know a lot of female geeks who're into sci fi and fantasy and none of them ever go "it's for the positive female image!", they simplely go "because I like it". If it's a cat of 19 men and 1 woman or 19 women and 1 man it shouldn't matter. It's entertainment and to look at it any deeper then a lava lamp is like staring at static untill it makes sense..
(Sorry for the rant, it just went that way and well it's a good rant so it can stay).
The worlds becoming dumber so everyones "anti-science", as long and "normal people" get to work 9-5 and watch their TV they don't care any more. We've had it drilled into us so hard that we're just worthless minions who need extra money to buy worthless crap that we end up more or less beliving it. So science is something you hear about on TV, not something you're able to take part in after you leave school.
but 1-2 seconds is nothing (20 is something). You probably waste more time yawning or sneezing in a day then you do in a year of 1 extra second loading.
GTA 1/London/2 and GTA 3/VC/SA shouldn't be called the same game series. They're vastly different (in playing style and looks) to the point where they're almost polar opposits. It's like comparing the 3D sonics to Sonic on the mega drive. One was great and the other is good but it's just not the same.
adding you as a friend just because I want to keep up with this story. I 've almost died about 5-6 time sbut bloody hell man :D
I kinda have to ask since this makes no sense to me.
How the hell is 1 second load time making the news? I mean really.. it's 1 second, over a week if you open OO every work day thats all of 5 seconds. So what a minute a year is going to some how make the world come crashing in on it's self?
Fucking hell man, who did you piss off in your last life? Was it you who named Jesus to the cross then kicked a puppy!?
you're wrong.
Jack is not a nickname for John. Jack is it's own name and has been for a very long time. Jack is a nickname he got and it sounds better then "John Thompson".