One of the neat things about Wikipedia early on was that you could find entries on obscure people or places or things. That was one of the charming things about it. No matter how peripheral an item or event, there was someone, somewhere who could write an article about it.
Blade, the direct descendant of Cordell Walker, Texas Ranger, enforces the law and hunts renegade replicants in the wild frontier of an offworld colony on Mars.
Am I normal? Dunno. Used to be a geek until all that shit got old. This device is not for geek usage. People need to just get over that already.
I was hoping for a *bigger* iPad, maybe 12", but, well, OK. Probably won't happen any time soon. If I wear my +2 reading glasses instead of +1, the iPad *looks* like it's 12".;-)
I have a G4 Powerbook that's on its last legs that I just use for web browsing and video streaming away from the desktop machines. This iPad might just fit the bill. I was waiting for mainly for cameras and HD output. The iMovie was was cool. I did have a hankering to get into making little short films. Being able to do it all in once small device might be fun to explore. Definitely have to get to the new Apple store near my house to kick the tires on this thing.
I meant more the part of us we *never* let anyone see. I'm a firm believer that's an essential part of us- the center that keeps us, well, centered. Yeah, I'm out in psychological esoterica at this point, but, well, it's fun here.:-)
As cynical as I am, a hive mind would bring the understanding needed for previously unreachable levels of sympathy and social order.
Ha ha ha ha ha! Dude, you are *not* cynical enough if you can say that.
Stepping on people becomes harder when you feel the consequences of your actions.
How do you know the sociopath (say, a politician) would learn to feel? Maybe processing algorithm of the sociopath would overwhelm *you*, and your conscience would suddenly seem like a quaint relic.
Or even, how do you know that "the sociopath is wrong" isn't just some lie you have taught yourself, and seeing things from the sociopath's POV won't reveal the lie?
Maybe your conscience is an optical illusion.
I don't know what it's like to live in poverty. I have some vague sense that it sucks, but I don't understand the hardship in a meaningful way (i.e, in a way that I'd modify my own lifestyle to attempt to relieve the poverty).
And yet many of those who *do* live in poverty *don't* modify their lifestyles to relive the poverty. I did five years of volunteer work back in my undergrad years, and saw people who had an overwhelming amount of information directly available to them on a daily basis that certain bad choices lead to endless misery, and yet they still made those bad choices over and over again. It's what triggered my long slide into hardcore misanthropy.
But anyway, if this flight of fantasy ever saw the light of day, it would be the end of civilization.
Or it would average us all out, and it would be the last invention.
It's little known that many of the walls of hieroglyphs in Egyptian ruins are just smutty notes people left one another. They were pretty much the Craigslist "adult services" section of their day.
Translates to "For a hot time contact Lusty Isis in the main market square, next to jewelry vendor. 300 papyrus scrolls for complete experience. 50 scrolls extra for Anubis costume."
In other news, lawyers are linked to 100% of divorces.
In a controversial finding, "Cow Clicker" was directly implicated in 87% of the divorces in the more rural states, and "why can't mah lazy bum hubby git out dere make a billion like that jew kid?" was cited in over 62% of divorces involving blood relatives.
Each to his own. I have a 2005 Mustang GT, they year they took it retro. Still love it. Lots of folks hated on that, too. I think Countryman is a quite handsome car. It should have go-kart handling based on where the wheels are located. It's not *that* different, and it felt that way in the test drive.
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As George Carlin said, if I could lick myself there, I'd never leave the house.
Yeah, I'd forgotten about that. I don't have teh smartphone yet. :-\
He said Facebook is a symptom of the overpopulation problem and is killing babies.
Or... something.
Well, seriously, though- do people upload a photo to a web site and then delete the local copy?
Who pays for this shit? Cornell? Seriously?
One of the neat things about Wikipedia early on was that you could find entries on obscure people or places or things. That was one of the charming things about it. No matter how peripheral an item or event, there was someone, somewhere who could write an article about it.
They made a sequel to The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants?!!.//!??221211??
(head explodes)
Blade Walker, Mars Ranger
Blade, the direct descendant of Cordell Walker, Texas Ranger, enforces the law and hunts renegade replicants in the wild frontier of an offworld colony on Mars.
Because this is Hollywood. "Good" (or even "decent") is irrelevant.
Hmm. Interesting hypothesis.
OK, the question was "who is making $100 an hour". Period. :-P
Am I normal? Dunno. Used to be a geek until all that shit got old. This device is not for geek usage. People need to just get over that already.
I was hoping for a *bigger* iPad, maybe 12", but, well, OK. Probably won't happen any time soon. If I wear my +2 reading glasses instead of +1, the iPad *looks* like it's 12". ;-)
I have a G4 Powerbook that's on its last legs that I just use for web browsing and video streaming away from the desktop machines. This iPad might just fit the bill. I was waiting for mainly for cameras and HD output. The iMovie was was cool. I did have a hankering to get into making little short films. Being able to do it all in once small device might be fun to explore. Definitely have to get to the new Apple store near my house to kick the tires on this thing.
Um, someone making $208K a year?
I meant more the part of us we *never* let anyone see. I'm a firm believer that's an essential part of us- the center that keeps us, well, centered. Yeah, I'm out in psychological esoterica at this point, but, well, it's fun here. :-)
Many people here don't realize how valuable our secret, inner selves are in terms of just maintaining sanity.
I think it's why some people seem to go a bit nuts after they become famous. Imagine having no privacy whatsoever, even in your own mind.
I can think of few better descriptions for Hell.
As cynical as I am, a hive mind would bring the understanding needed for previously unreachable levels of sympathy and social order.
Ha ha ha ha ha! Dude, you are *not* cynical enough if you can say that.
Stepping on people becomes harder when you feel the consequences of your actions.
How do you know the sociopath (say, a politician) would learn to feel? Maybe processing algorithm of the sociopath would overwhelm *you*, and your conscience would suddenly seem like a quaint relic.
Or even, how do you know that "the sociopath is wrong" isn't just some lie you have taught yourself, and seeing things from the sociopath's POV won't reveal the lie?
Maybe your conscience is an optical illusion.
I don't know what it's like to live in poverty. I have some vague sense that it sucks, but I don't understand the hardship in a meaningful way (i.e, in a way that I'd modify my own lifestyle to attempt to relieve the poverty).
And yet many of those who *do* live in poverty *don't* modify their lifestyles to relive the poverty. I did five years of volunteer work back in my undergrad years, and saw people who had an overwhelming amount of information directly available to them on a daily basis that certain bad choices lead to endless misery, and yet they still made those bad choices over and over again. It's what triggered my long slide into hardcore misanthropy.
But anyway, if this flight of fantasy ever saw the light of day, it would be the end of civilization.
Or it would average us all out, and it would be the last invention.
No worries. This sort of neural interface will never exist outside of a tech fetishist's wet dream. I wouldn't spend a lot of time worrying about it.
I do hope some people, try, though, because that will be really, really funny.
Wow, but that's a lot of buzzword bullshit!
I really have to get in on this futurist book scam.
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It's little known that many of the walls of hieroglyphs in Egyptian ruins are just smutty notes people left one another. They were pretty much the Craigslist "adult services" section of their day.
This, for example: http://humanpast.net/images/hieroglyphics.jpg
Translates to "For a hot time contact Lusty Isis in the main market square, next to jewelry vendor. 300 papyrus scrolls for complete experience. 50 scrolls extra for Anubis costume."
In other news, lawyers are linked to 100% of divorces.
In a controversial finding, "Cow Clicker" was directly implicated in 87% of the divorces in the more rural states, and "why can't mah lazy bum hubby git out dere make a billion like that jew kid?" was cited in over 62% of divorces involving blood relatives.
Yes, let's hope for a whole new legion of compromised computers because of your dislike of an operating system.
And they call Mac users selfish.
Each to his own. I have a 2005 Mustang GT, they year they took it retro. Still love it. Lots of folks hated on that, too. I think Countryman is a quite handsome car. It should have go-kart handling based on where the wheels are located. It's not *that* different, and it felt that way in the test drive.
Don't ever design elevators.
Eh... A tolkien effort at best.