how much of that spam is something you have to sign up for versus random, whole scale DOS type spam campaigns, seriously I don't get 123415asdf@mydomain.com from US IP addresses, they All come from *.ru *.cn (RIPE or otherwise) etc. nothing jingoistic about it, they need canned spam laws. Now YMMV but I'm not the first person around here to say it. Seriously I was kinda thinking of saying "give it to em" just make sure they put up a big spam filter. See I don't care about the spam directed at stupid people that can't not put their address out there or click on "unsubscribe" button, I care about the superfluous wild stab in the dark crap, that is going to be like winning the lottery if it actually gets to a real address. Anyways, many many US businesses don't do business in Russia because the crime rates make it counter productive, and I don't really expect safe toys from China, I don't think they care more about our children than their own.
[sarcasm]xml can be semantic, that's like asking if there's "objects" in the painting [/sarcasm]. Personally, I would let the artist's peers judge him, this is after all a field of professionals and if the music is a good it may simply prove that there is a rhythm to the painting.
My theory: we can say that Leonardo Da Vinci was smart like Einstein with lots of wide ranging problems rather than a few concentrated ones, and his work will have both breadth AND depth by any typical genius' standards. We're talking people like Einstein, Beethoven, Shakespeare and few others. Now Da Vinci wasn't like any of them, he was a "typical" genius in several fields of study and is known "for" using math in his work http://www.google.com/search?&q=leonardo+da+vinci+math.
Heres an interesting quote:
Leonardo invented some of his own mathematical symbols and terms. Many scientists of his time did this because number notation was not standardized until after the invention of the printing press. This made it difficult for scientists and mathematicians to communicate their ideas to each other. The symbols used today for the numbers one through ten come down to us from ancient India by way of Greece, Rome, and the Moors in medieval Spain.
Actually, if he was fond of creating his own symbolism you might find something quite "like" xml in his work somewhere... far smarter than you or I. I wrote a phonetic substitution cipher in fourth grade. It was unique in that you could "speak" encrypted English by most laws of the English language. "Peds oue" means "fuck you" that's all I remember, anyways I'm not far above average intelligence. Da Vinci and the others I mentioned are generally considered to be OFF the charts.
Personally, until china, russia, and many others clean up their goddamned spam issues, we ought to talk war, when they talk about "their" Internet. Seriously, expecting an effective Internet from these people is like expecting safe toys from a nation well known for blatant human rights abuses.
Funny, isn't someone supposed to get hurt in a minefield, see cause it looks like Suse was "paid" a lot of money to "act" like there were land mines on an otherwise innocuous and beautiful beach front. Seriously, nothing screams weakness more than Microsoft warning everyone how dangerous it is to use FLOSS, while the majority of community shrugs it off. Weakness indeed, ballmer and these patent threats, have been little more than a joke, with some segments of the community actually taunting the beast "go ahead, push me on a mine" - "sue or stfu". The only thing that sickens the people at Microsoft are informed customers.
Bitter is a bad word for my emotion. Probably more disturbed, I grew up in a single parent home, and now that I'm divorced (a good thing tm), I'm also a single parent, both me and my sister are college graduates, have rarely taken welfare, and are reasonably successful in most everything we attempt. My children, though affected by the divorce, are emotionally literate, emotionally stable, and well educated for their ages (me). As a parent looking back on my childhood I don't see a lot of issues that arose from anything other than the "perceived" difficulties of single parenting. The "perceived difficulties of single parenting" had a profound effect on my mother at the time (by proxy me and my sister also), which is something you don't see so much today (probably more so where you work than I), but it is still there. And I'll be damned if me or my kids will ever feel inferior because of the structure of our family, it's "quality not quantity".
You would probably consider me to be an exception but, let me say something I think of as a fact of life, "there's no such thing as single parenting". Only after the nuclear family was there this notion of "single parenting", all throughout history children have traditionally been raised as part of their "families", now if a single parent doesn't have any family that can jump in, they still choose and interact with everyone that watches their children. A single parent may have to coordinate something where friends, babysitters, and teachers are dealt with at a more intimate and selective level, but a caring parent will compensate for any gap in their children's lives with just a little bit of encouragement, so long as there aren't any self esteem issues.
Now you can take that for what it's worth, or go back to spitting out some flimsy assertion based on some vague study that relates family structure to crime, but who is to say that criminals aren't more likely to be single and their children aren't more likely to commit crime? It's something you see often around here, "relation != causation". Not to mention the fact that every human added to a study is a potential for a fuck up (whether they are the test subjects or the testers), I mean you can't even give people placebos without them screwing with the results for Christ's sake.
Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future
Thousands of years ago into the future Christmas was the time for the Great Red Ape in Space to descend upon the white house, painting it with decorative red and green blood of Christmas elves, moving it to the north pole and claiming that "I fully understand those who say you can't win this thing militarily. That's exactly what the United States military says, that you can't win this military", which is absolutely correct. You cannot win christmas militarily which is why I have come from thousands of years ago into the future to kill that great red ape, santa claus and run for president. My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions. Decisions like those that apply when considering the value of the social welfare of the Indonesian pierced spider monkeys, BUT at the end of the day I got a lot of Ph.D.-types and smart people around me who come into the Oval Office and say, 'Mr. Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future President, here's what's on my mind.' And I listen carefully to their advice. But having gathered the device, I decide, you know, I say, 'THIS is what we're going to do. We're going to sell the white house soaked in the blood of christmas elves to Glenn Danzig so I can make love to Sigourney Weaver....'
I'm sure it's a joke, personally I value the input of any expert posting on Slashdot. Then again psychology is a field where it is very difficult to come by quantifiable results, because of this psychology is typically offered as either a science or an art. For many of us on slashdot, that's informative, which I think is far less insulting than an "insightful" moderation.
Why the hell was this moderated off-topic? It's an article about music, the comment is about the friggin music. I really am not getting this moderation at all. someone fix plz
* Research [bmj.com]
* More research [sciencedaily.com]
* More Research [opfs.org.uk]
* Oblig wikipedia [wikipedia.org]
* Someone almost any father should know about [copss.org]
* More research [hrsdc.gc.ca]
None of these relate crime rates with single parenting. You can go on, if you intend on looking for something relevant.
Your language reminds me of the teenagers I deal with.
You'd think you'd notice that as your own social ineptitude and correct the condescending manner in which you speak to people that you feel you have pegged as less emotionally stable than you.
I read what you typed. there is but one root factor here dipshit[And you wonder why I asked if you are bitter?!?!?]
It's not possible you said something to piss me off? Why is everything my deep seeded issue? God I hate psychologists, isn't it also possible that you're an inept quack? I mean seriously, how would we ever know? You're definitely not making me feel any better making snide little remarks and negative insinuations about my family life.
Money is not the only factor, nor is being single.... A one parent family is not so different from a two parent family with both parents working (especially in retail or some other job when your hours do not mesh with your childrens' hours).... Married parents can have just as many issues as well. If your spouse is not there for the children, and constantly gets in your way while you are trying to help the children, then the net is a greater negative for the children.
This is where you essentially agreed with me, competent parenting is by and far more indicative of a healthy upbringing than any other factor. Likewise, poverty is generally held as the #1 determining factor in a child's disposition for criminality.
You have to really want to be a good parent to hit all these things. Anyone can do it...
A far more benevolent statement than...
...two parent families with a competent stay at home parent produce better behaved children that are less likely to commit a crime...
This sentence you're defending implies that all other family types are in some way not as healthy, you can't see the logical flaw here? Or are you too busy arguing for a family model you grew up with and have advocated for the past 25 years? Emotionally attached to something? Certainly, you can't claim to be unbiased.
Your reaction and language back up what I was saying. Single parents have a statistically higher chance of having troubled children and being troubled themselves.
You're a fucking quack.
Until then, ranting like a child and swearing like a child only shows you have issues that belong to you.
Swearing is not a fucking disease anymore than psychobabble is, and your use of said psychobabble (as a professional) to demean me and call me simple, is something I find far more offensive.
Your defenses may be up as you perceive that I am blanketing all single parents as bad parents, but that is your interpretation based on your fears, your expectations and your shortcomings, not mine, or any other parents.
My defenses are up, because telling people they are at a disadvantage and more likely to fail is one of the most damaging psychological things you can do to people, and you a self proclaimed expert, seems to defend this stance (by blaming those offended), rather than having the patience to provide a lucid description of the situation as it really is. And you act as if you have no clue how many "lay people" honestly believe (more past tense in the past ten years or so) that all single parents are bad parents. You might as well tell a black man that his problem with the word "Nigger" is his problem and he shouldn't feel defensive the term is
Not in the least, are you, and what does that have to do with it?
Single parents have a statistically higher chance of having troubled children and being troubled themselves.
Show me some numbers.
As far as poverty causing the problems you are mentioning, you might find that the problems you are mentioning are more so a cause of the poverty.
It's a cycle, and the cycle typically begins with (drum roll...) Poverty!. Your making a gross exaggeration here.
Honestly I don't think you read what I said, nor do I think you have any fucking right saying that kids with two parents are better off than kids with one.
I would say that from what I have seen and in my own personal experiences, that two parent families with a competent stay at home parent produce better behaved children that are less likely to commit a crime on the whole...
This is the sentence you're defending, it's simply stating that two parent families with a competent stay at home parent are typically better/more productive than all others. I call bullshit, if life is so peachy keen this way why do so many people get divorced? Another way to put it is that the "two parent family" bit has far less to do with it than the "competent parent" part. Go ahead, look up some numbers.
there is but one root factor here dipshit, it's money, poor couples are about 40% more likely to argue and split up, the kids are more likely to wind up being yelled at excessively/getting-the-shit-beaten-out-of. this has nothing to do with two working parents, single parents, mixed homes, etc
two parent families with a competent stay at home parent produce better behaved children that are less likely to commit a crime
I think you're defending something you don't quite agree with. For instance as a single parent I find the above quote highly offensive as it automatically connects "single parenting" with "bad parenting".
let's say I'm on the phone with my broker, if someone kills my call and it demonstratively costs me money, I'm going to sue the living shit out of said dipshit, more so, if my kids are having an emergency and can't speak to me said asshole will be in deeper shit. There are all kinds of situations that this will cause more harm than good, simply putting up a sign asking people to turn their phones off typically works. Essentially though, this singles out individuals that work "on-call", such as doctors and in spirit inhibits all kinds of "emergency" services, be it the tow truck guy on call or whoever. Jammers, should not be tolerated, unless they would work in a hospital where cell phone use can interrupt sensitive equipment anyways. anyone so terrified of listening to someone talk on the phone that they are willing to risk communication in an emergency needs a damn attitude adjustment. hope they don't wear one to a car accident, and what gives these shits the right to decide who gets to use their phones, presuming the douches will typically be carrying cellphones themselves.
Time to move, I actually live in a rural area, but due to location there was a particular bank that could not be defended, robbed eight times in two years, they finally closed the thing, and voila no more bank robberies in town. Once these people figure something out that works they will become accustomed to more income, they will come back until they get caught, or the easy pickings disappear.
only on slashdot can you suggest people get divorced over dungeons and dragons:) personally I'm sitting at home with meh kids, going through all that old SRD stuff I have hacking up for all my personalized utilities I've been meaning to code for a couple of years. I'd rather my girlfriend not be an "NPC" right now, though. (Rolls for charisma... gets a date?)
thanks i was getting depressed after realizing I'm pushing 30, living at my mom's, my FOSS MMORPG isn't unique at all, and my entire social life consists of posting to slashdot. Now I have purpose again:)
I browse my foes list at +5, so I can play whack a mole when they come out. I usually come to respect these people eventually that way, anyways making fun of stupid people is just a public service nerds have an obligation to fulfill, if we don't have enough smart people around they will start burning us at the stake again.
some simple math, after coming back to this and watching the video again.
rate 20 m/min
1000/20 = 50min to run a kilometer
Wild mouse Distance 0.2 km
GM mouse Distance 4.9 km
4.9/0.2 = 24.5
that's 24 and a half times further
50*4.9 = 245/60 = 4.0833 hours for mighty mouse
50*0.2 = 10/60 = 1/6 hours = 10 min for his natural brethren
about three hours and fifty minutes longer, of course the mice both stopped and rested I wonder if these little guys run in four hour shifts maybe taking a half hour lunch?
On to more interesting speculation I wonder if they just juiced up the mouse's natural steroids (glands or whatever), if so I don't think it would be that stable in the long run (heart attacks, etc.?).
If we were allowed to brand morons, you wouldn't have to listen to the jokes. Unfortunately, they get equal time on the floor AND we can't mark them. Until then they must be ridiculed as the morons they are, lest we forget how stupid our fellow man can be.
Slashdot Mirror
how much of that spam is something you have to sign up for versus random, whole scale DOS type spam campaigns, seriously I don't get 123415asdf@mydomain.com from US IP addresses, they All come from *.ru *.cn (RIPE or otherwise) etc. nothing jingoistic about it, they need canned spam laws. Now YMMV but I'm not the first person around here to say it. Seriously I was kinda thinking of saying "give it to em" just make sure they put up a big spam filter. See I don't care about the spam directed at stupid people that can't not put their address out there or click on "unsubscribe" button, I care about the superfluous wild stab in the dark crap, that is going to be like winning the lottery if it actually gets to a real address. Anyways, many many US businesses don't do business in Russia because the crime rates make it counter productive, and I don't really expect safe toys from China, I don't think they care more about our children than their own.
my logs tell a different tale
[sarcasm]xml can be semantic, that's like asking if there's "objects" in the painting [/sarcasm]. Personally, I would let the artist's peers judge him, this is after all a field of professionals and if the music is a good it may simply prove that there is a rhythm to the painting.
after searching google I found this:
"There's always a risk of seeing something that is not there," Pala admits, "but it's certain that the spaces are divided harmonically."http://www.newser.com/story/11396.html
Which apparently can be proven mathematically.
My theory: we can say that Leonardo Da Vinci was smart like Einstein with lots of wide ranging problems rather than a few concentrated ones, and his work will have both breadth AND depth by any typical genius' standards. We're talking people like Einstein, Beethoven, Shakespeare and few others. Now Da Vinci wasn't like any of them, he was a "typical" genius in several fields of study and is known "for" using math in his work http://www.google.com/search?&q=leonardo+da+vinci+math.
Heres an interesting quote:
Leonardo invented some of his own mathematical symbols and terms. Many scientists of his time did this because number notation was not standardized until after the invention of the printing press. This made it difficult for scientists and mathematicians to communicate their ideas to each other. The symbols used today for the numbers one through ten come down to us from ancient India by way of Greece, Rome, and the Moors in medieval Spain.http://www.hypatiamaze.org/leonardo/leo_vinci.html
Actually, if he was fond of creating his own symbolism you might find something quite "like" xml in his work somewhere... far smarter than you or I. I wrote a phonetic substitution cipher in fourth grade. It was unique in that you could "speak" encrypted English by most laws of the English language. "Peds oue" means "fuck you" that's all I remember, anyways I'm not far above average intelligence. Da Vinci and the others I mentioned are generally considered to be OFF the charts.
Personally, until china, russia, and many others clean up their goddamned spam issues, we ought to talk war, when they talk about "their" Internet. Seriously, expecting an effective Internet from these people is like expecting safe toys from a nation well known for blatant human rights abuses.
Well yeah, but the business world goes 'round regardless of the PHBs, not because of them.
Funny, isn't someone supposed to get hurt in a minefield, see cause it looks like Suse was "paid" a lot of money to "act" like there were land mines on an otherwise innocuous and beautiful beach front. Seriously, nothing screams weakness more than Microsoft warning everyone how dangerous it is to use FLOSS, while the majority of community shrugs it off. Weakness indeed, ballmer and these patent threats, have been little more than a joke, with some segments of the community actually taunting the beast "go ahead, push me on a mine" - "sue or stfu". The only thing that sickens the people at Microsoft are informed customers.
Brilliant!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaatu_barada_nikto You're a genius, scholar, and comic, cheers!
Bitter is a bad word for my emotion. Probably more disturbed, I grew up in a single parent home, and now that I'm divorced (a good thing tm), I'm also a single parent, both me and my sister are college graduates, have rarely taken welfare, and are reasonably successful in most everything we attempt. My children, though affected by the divorce, are emotionally literate, emotionally stable, and well educated for their ages (me). As a parent looking back on my childhood I don't see a lot of issues that arose from anything other than the "perceived" difficulties of single parenting. The "perceived difficulties of single parenting" had a profound effect on my mother at the time (by proxy me and my sister also), which is something you don't see so much today (probably more so where you work than I), but it is still there. And I'll be damned if me or my kids will ever feel inferior because of the structure of our family, it's "quality not quantity".
You would probably consider me to be an exception but, let me say something I think of as a fact of life, "there's no such thing as single parenting". Only after the nuclear family was there this notion of "single parenting", all throughout history children have traditionally been raised as part of their "families", now if a single parent doesn't have any family that can jump in, they still choose and interact with everyone that watches their children. A single parent may have to coordinate something where friends, babysitters, and teachers are dealt with at a more intimate and selective level, but a caring parent will compensate for any gap in their children's lives with just a little bit of encouragement, so long as there aren't any self esteem issues.
Now you can take that for what it's worth, or go back to spitting out some flimsy assertion based on some vague study that relates family structure to crime, but who is to say that criminals aren't more likely to be single and their children aren't more likely to commit crime? It's something you see often around here, "relation != causation". Not to mention the fact that every human added to a study is a potential for a fuck up (whether they are the test subjects or the testers), I mean you can't even give people placebos without them screwing with the results for Christ's sake.
Thousands of years ago into the future Christmas was the time for the Great Red Ape in Space to descend upon the white house, painting it with decorative red and green blood of Christmas elves, moving it to the north pole and claiming that "I fully understand those who say you can't win this thing militarily. That's exactly what the United States military says, that you can't win this military", which is absolutely correct. You cannot win christmas militarily which is why I have come from thousands of years ago into the future to kill that great red ape, santa claus and run for president. My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions. Decisions like those that apply when considering the value of the social welfare of the Indonesian pierced spider monkeys, BUT at the end of the day I got a lot of Ph.D.-types and smart people around me who come into the Oval Office and say, 'Mr. Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future President, here's what's on my mind.' And I listen carefully to their advice. But having gathered the device, I decide, you know, I say, 'THIS is what we're going to do. We're going to sell the white house soaked in the blood of christmas elves to Glenn Danzig so I can make love to Sigourney Weaver....'
Thousands of years ago into the future...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Aqua_Teen_Hunger_Force_villains#Cybernetic_Ghost_of_Christmas_Past_from_the_FutureBushisms
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushisms.htmsynthesis is divine.
I'm sure it's a joke, personally I value the input of any expert posting on Slashdot. Then again psychology is a field where it is very difficult to come by quantifiable results, because of this psychology is typically offered as either a science or an art. For many of us on slashdot, that's informative, which I think is far less insulting than an "insightful" moderation.
Why the hell was this moderated off-topic? It's an article about music, the comment is about the friggin music. I really am not getting this moderation at all. someone fix plz
* Research [bmj.com]
* More research [sciencedaily.com]
* More Research [opfs.org.uk]
* Oblig wikipedia [wikipedia.org]
* Someone almost any father should know about [copss.org]
* More research [hrsdc.gc.ca]
None of these relate crime rates with single parenting. You can go on, if you intend on looking for something relevant.
Your language reminds me of the teenagers I deal with.
You'd think you'd notice that as your own social ineptitude and correct the condescending manner in which you speak to people that you feel you have pegged as less emotionally stable than you.
I read what you typed. there is but one root factor here dipshit[And you wonder why I asked if you are bitter?!?!?]
It's not possible you said something to piss me off? Why is everything my deep seeded issue? God I hate psychologists, isn't it also possible that you're an inept quack? I mean seriously, how would we ever know? You're definitely not making me feel any better making snide little remarks and negative insinuations about my family life.
Money is not the only factor, nor is being single. ... A one parent family is not so different from a two parent family with both parents working (especially in retail or some other job when your hours do not mesh with your childrens' hours). ... Married parents can have just as many issues as well. If your spouse is not there for the children, and constantly gets in your way while you are trying to help the children, then the net is a greater negative for the children.
This is where you essentially agreed with me, competent parenting is by and far more indicative of a healthy upbringing than any other factor. Likewise, poverty is generally held as the #1 determining factor in a child's disposition for criminality.
You have to really want to be a good parent to hit all these things. Anyone can do it...
A far more benevolent statement than...
...two parent families with a competent stay at home parent produce better behaved children that are less likely to commit a crime...
This sentence you're defending implies that all other family types are in some way not as healthy, you can't see the logical flaw here? Or are you too busy arguing for a family model you grew up with and have advocated for the past 25 years? Emotionally attached to something? Certainly, you can't claim to be unbiased.
Your reaction and language back up what I was saying. Single parents have a statistically higher chance of having troubled children and being troubled themselves.
You're a fucking quack.
Until then, ranting like a child and swearing like a child only shows you have issues that belong to you.
Swearing is not a fucking disease anymore than psychobabble is, and your use of said psychobabble (as a professional) to demean me and call me simple, is something I find far more offensive.
Your defenses may be up as you perceive that I am blanketing all single parents as bad parents, but that is your interpretation based on your fears, your expectations and your shortcomings, not mine, or any other parents.
My defenses are up, because telling people they are at a disadvantage and more likely to fail is one of the most damaging psychological things you can do to people, and you a self proclaimed expert, seems to defend this stance (by blaming those offended), rather than having the patience to provide a lucid description of the situation as it really is. And you act as if you have no clue how many "lay people" honestly believe (more past tense in the past ten years or so) that all single parents are bad parents. You might as well tell a black man that his problem with the word "Nigger" is his problem and he shouldn't feel defensive the term is
Not in the least, are you, and what does that have to do with it?
Single parents have a statistically higher chance of having troubled children and being troubled themselves.Show me some numbers.
As far as poverty causing the problems you are mentioning, you might find that the problems you are mentioning are more so a cause of the poverty.It's a cycle, and the cycle typically begins with (drum roll...) Poverty!. Your making a gross exaggeration here.
Honestly I don't think you read what I said, nor do I think you have any fucking right saying that kids with two parents are better off than kids with one.
I would say that from what I have seen and in my own personal experiences, that two parent families with a competent stay at home parent produce better behaved children that are less likely to commit a crime on the whole...This is the sentence you're defending, it's simply stating that two parent families with a competent stay at home parent are typically better/more productive than all others. I call bullshit, if life is so peachy keen this way why do so many people get divorced? Another way to put it is that the "two parent family" bit has far less to do with it than the "competent parent" part. Go ahead, look up some numbers.
there is but one root factor here dipshit, it's money, poor couples are about 40% more likely to argue and split up, the kids are more likely to wind up being yelled at excessively/getting-the-shit-beaten-out-of. this has nothing to do with two working parents, single parents, mixed homes, etc
two parent families with a competent stay at home parent produce better behaved children that are less likely to commit a crimeI think you're defending something you don't quite agree with. For instance as a single parent I find the above quote highly offensive as it automatically connects "single parenting" with "bad parenting".
let's say I'm on the phone with my broker, if someone kills my call and it demonstratively costs me money, I'm going to sue the living shit out of said dipshit, more so, if my kids are having an emergency and can't speak to me said asshole will be in deeper shit. There are all kinds of situations that this will cause more harm than good, simply putting up a sign asking people to turn their phones off typically works. Essentially though, this singles out individuals that work "on-call", such as doctors and in spirit inhibits all kinds of "emergency" services, be it the tow truck guy on call or whoever. Jammers, should not be tolerated, unless they would work in a hospital where cell phone use can interrupt sensitive equipment anyways. anyone so terrified of listening to someone talk on the phone that they are willing to risk communication in an emergency needs a damn attitude adjustment. hope they don't wear one to a car accident, and what gives these shits the right to decide who gets to use their phones, presuming the douches will typically be carrying cellphones themselves.
Time to move, I actually live in a rural area, but due to location there was a particular bank that could not be defended, robbed eight times in two years, they finally closed the thing, and voila no more bank robberies in town. Once these people figure something out that works they will become accustomed to more income, they will come back until they get caught, or the easy pickings disappear.
well let's hope they can do math... oh wait!
only on slashdot can you suggest people get divorced over dungeons and dragons :) personally I'm sitting at home with meh kids, going through all that old SRD stuff I have hacking up for all my personalized utilities I've been meaning to code for a couple of years. I'd rather my girlfriend not be an "NPC" right now, though. (Rolls for charisma ... gets a date?)
thanks i was getting depressed after realizing I'm pushing 30, living at my mom's, my FOSS MMORPG isn't unique at all, and my entire social life consists of posting to slashdot. Now I have purpose again :)
I browse my foes list at +5, so I can play whack a mole when they come out. I usually come to respect these people eventually that way, anyways making fun of stupid people is just a public service nerds have an obligation to fulfill, if we don't have enough smart people around they will start burning us at the stake again.
some simple math, after coming back to this and watching the video again.
rate 20 m/min
1000/20 = 50min to run a kilometer
Wild mouse
Distance 0.2 km
GM mouse
Distance 4.9 km
4.9/0.2 = 24.5
that's 24 and a half times further
50*4.9 = 245/60 = 4.0833 hours for mighty mouse
50*0.2 = 10/60 = 1/6 hours = 10 min for his natural brethren
about three hours and fifty minutes longer, of course the mice both stopped and rested I wonder if these little guys run in four hour shifts maybe taking a half hour lunch?
On to more interesting speculation I wonder if they just juiced up the mouse's natural steroids (glands or whatever), if so I don't think it would be that stable in the long run (heart attacks, etc.?).
maybe we can dump other shit on it, sort of like trading
If we were allowed to brand morons, you wouldn't have to listen to the jokes. Unfortunately, they get equal time on the floor AND we can't mark them. Until then they must be ridiculed as the morons they are, lest we forget how stupid our fellow man can be.
from the video, I would think it would be about a thousand times more mobile, unless of course they just run in circles.
give them the plague, it will be way more mobile than before.