Anybody who thinks home video is just as good as going to the theater has never been to see an IMAX release.
I have about $20,000 invested in my home theater (thats all electronics, not fake theater furniture) and it solidly beats a regular theater experience. Still, when I saw "300" in IMAX, there was no comparison: the sense of immersion with the giant image was fantastic.
The fundamental problem with concept of "free will" is that it basically a waste of time.
There are aspects of our behavior that we understand, at least to some extent. Everything else is referred to as "free will". How the universe (of which we are a part) produced the conditions that lead to our choices is ultimately unknowable, and utterly unimportant.
What is important is that quoted article is a pile of crap. How a fruit fly behaves in the absence of stimuli has nothing to do with "free will", and everything to do with the instinctive behaviors programmed into its nervous system.
There is no such thing as "quantum randomness", only quantum unpredictability.
Now, there are those that maintain unpredictability necessarily implies "randomness", but that is purely a philosophical idea, and can't be proven since no precise definiton of randomness exists.
Recent advances in neuroscience have gone a long way towards explaining the biological basis of human experiences. Will it ever explain everything, including "love and curiosity and unease and boredom"? Who knows? I don't, and you don't either.
Just because you can't imagine how something in human experience can be explained scientifically, doesn't mean it can't be. What you understand or believe right now is of no importance in the long run.
That's because the retard reviewer set the white balance wrong. If he had left in on "Auto", it would have easily been the best.
How old is the reviewer? The whole thing seems like a C+ -level show and tell for a 4th grade class.
Re:Social hack - use "bullfight" for "speed trap".
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A speed limit should be consistent for an entire stretch. It shouldn't start at 45mph, dip to 30 for a 1/4 mile, and then go back up to 45
I guess you were too busy ranting to notice that there was a school in that 30mph stretch.
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They hide because they can't catch everyone, so having you always worried that there might be one hiding around the next turn is a good deterence.
And as for those clowns that don't pay attention to their driving: the faster you are going, the less time you will have to avoid colliding with one. And, if you do collide, the energy of the collision goes up with the square of velocity.
Speed limits work. Whenever limits go up, serious accidents go up too.
Not true in Canada, Britain, and many other countries.
In these countries, anything that anyone imagines might encourage a perv to molest a child (including text, original drawings, etc) is classified as "child porn". Possesion of any of these is considered equivalent to possesing actual photographs of child abuse.
It seems that what is needed is more armed cops, not more armed non-cops. And, they don't need to be police-school graduates, with training in forensics, traffic law and Miranda. If ordinary volunteer citizens could be armed and deputized after a rigorous training program in "how to stop an armed crazy", then this would definitely help.
Of course, the police unions would scream like hell.
It does happen in other places, like my country (Canada), but it is very rare. The reason we hear so much about it in the US are:
1. it's a big country, so more of everything happens there 2. whatever happens in the US will dominate the news, since American media is so pervasive 3. guns are more easily available there, especially on the black market
They all contribute, and there is probably nothing that can be done about it. How do you plan for insanity? Nobody that's planning to kill themselves can be deterred.
As to the fucktard who said "if all the students had guns, this wouldn't have happened", I reply: No, it would have been much worse, with hundreds of poorly-aimed bullets flying all over the place. Many innocent bystanders would have been killed in the crossfire.
Trained SWAT officers have a hard time dealing with crazed snipers, how the hell would a bunch of scared university students handle it?
I loved Star Wars when I first saw it, in the seventies. You have to evaluate a movie in its context.
Serenity was a total shit-pile: they must have gone trolling for the worst actors on the planet.
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Drugs are bad, m'kay?
Slashdotted more likely.
Ah yes! The one and only good thing I remember about UBC!
So just what system did you use to dictate this post? Whatever it was, it sucks!
The guy in question not only downloaded some movies, but practically begged to be punished for it: I love the "Big Crook" part.
Anybody who thinks home video is just as good as going to the theater has never been to see an IMAX release.
I have about $20,000 invested in my home theater (thats all electronics, not fake theater furniture) and it solidly beats a regular theater experience. Still, when I saw "300" in IMAX, there was no comparison: the sense of immersion with the giant image was fantastic.
Except that the /.ers are making out with themselves.
The fundamental problem with concept of "free will" is that it basically a waste of time.
There are aspects of our behavior that we understand, at least to some extent. Everything else is referred to as "free will". How the universe (of which we are a part) produced the conditions that lead to our choices is ultimately unknowable, and utterly unimportant.
What is important is that quoted article is a pile of crap. How a fruit fly behaves in the absence of stimuli has nothing to do with "free will", and everything to do with the instinctive behaviors programmed into its nervous system.
This is not correct.
There is no such thing as "quantum randomness", only quantum unpredictability.
Now, there are those that maintain unpredictability necessarily implies "randomness", but that is purely a philosophical idea, and can't be proven since no precise definiton of randomness exists.
That's hilarious.
Recent advances in neuroscience have gone a long way towards explaining the biological basis of human experiences. Will it ever explain everything, including "love and curiosity and unease and boredom"?
Who knows? I don't, and you don't either.
Just because you can't imagine how something in human experience can be explained scientifically, doesn't mean it can't be. What you understand or believe right now is of no importance in the long run.
Nope, just you.
Except, you can't use your finger: only the supplied stylus.
That makes it all but useless to me.
Is this the worst (ie most-horseshit-in-need-of-deletion) post ever?
If not, any suggestions for worse ones?
Let me guess: you are also anti-evolution and pro-flatearth, too.
That's because the retard reviewer set the white balance wrong.
If he had left in on "Auto", it would have easily been the best.
How old is the reviewer? The whole thing seems like a C+ -level
show and tell for a 4th grade class.
They hide because they can't catch everyone, so having you always worried that there might be one hiding around the next turn is a good deterence.
And as for those clowns that don't pay attention to their driving: the faster you are going, the less time you will have to avoid colliding with one. And, if you do collide, the energy of the collision goes up with the square of velocity.
Speed limits work. Whenever limits go up, serious accidents go up too.
"icebrain" indeed.
Not true in Canada, Britain, and many other countries. In these countries, anything that anyone imagines might encourage a perv to molest a child (including text, original drawings, etc) is classified as "child porn". Possesion of any of these is considered equivalent to possesing actual photographs of child abuse.
It seems that what is needed is more armed cops, not more armed non-cops.
And, they don't need to be police-school graduates, with training in forensics,
traffic law and Miranda. If ordinary volunteer citizens could be armed and deputized
after a rigorous training program in "how to stop an armed crazy", then
this would definitely help.
Of course, the police unions would scream like hell.
It does happen in other places, like my country (Canada), but it is very rare.
The reason we hear so much about it in the US are:
1. it's a big country, so more of everything happens there
2. whatever happens in the US will dominate the news, since American media is so pervasive
3. guns are more easily available there, especially on the black market
They all contribute, and there is probably nothing that can be done about it.
How do you plan for insanity?
Nobody that's planning to kill themselves can be deterred.
As to the fucktard who said "if all the students had guns, this wouldn't have happened", I reply:
No, it would have been much worse, with hundreds of poorly-aimed bullets flying all over the place.
Many innocent bystanders would have been killed in the crossfire.
Trained SWAT officers have a hard time dealing with crazed snipers,
how the hell would a bunch of scared
university students handle it?
I loved Star Wars when I first saw it, in the seventies. You have to evaluate a movie in its context.
Serenity was a total shit-pile: they must have gone trolling for the worst actors on the planet.
It is irrelevant. Resistance is futile.