"It is impossible for most psyches to kill a human they have not dehumanized."
Not if you are the invading army, and there is a known resistance. If you know someone will kill you if you don't kill them first, you do not need to dehumanize them. You will find the ability to kill them becasue of your own instinct to survive.
I was in Romania and Bulgaria recently. There are very few if any computer laws there at all. I remember my hostel in Bulgaria. They had a computer in the room for internet access. The internet itself was so slow, you could have almost considered it dialup. However, it didn't come over phone or cable, but cat5. I don't know how they get ethernet service to each appartment building, but I immagine it would involve WAP's on the roof.
Anyways, while browsing was slow, you could get any single album, movie, game, or piece of software at speeds of 1-2 megaBYTES per second. Why? The ISPs cache the files on their servers and distrubute them over ethernet. They don't have to fear legal reprocusions, so they do it.
"Beyond that, I'm just as perplexed by the fact that there are astronauts blinded by the "I'm going to be in a text book one day" mentality that they are willing to ride up in the damn thing!"
Give me a spot on that shuttle and I'm there! I know I won't be in a text book, and I know it's an old shuttle, but I don't really give a shit. I want to go to space! If it crashes on the way down, so be it. I'll die happy (and quickly).
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Oh man, I remember that day. That was sooooo sweet.
Seriously though, I doubt it will be cracked, since it uses a central server. Just like steam, or any online game. Sure you can pirate any games, but to play it online, you still need a valid key. There has been no cracks for that. I imagine this is similar.
That was kind of dumb of them. If they had waited, they could have had it for free, and they wouldn't have held the engine back from the rest of us. Oh well.
Try browsing their free section of the forum. The place is really top notch, and completely worth the money. A hardcore dedicated community, with tons of info.
The money is really just to support the guy who runs this place for a living. And no, he doesnt just run a website. He goes through tons of effort, finding suppliers, doing large orders, and sourcing quality parts and lenses for the community at prices a fraction of their retail costs.
I havent built mine yet, but I am gearing up to. Ive been browsing the site heavily, scetching, planning, thinking.
Just browse their free section of the forums for a while. You will see it is as hardcore and geeky as any other enthusiast community. Plus there are tons and tons and tons of images posted by users, including side by sides with `real` projectors.
It seems to me that terrorism only funtions because people way over react to it.
Think about it. How likely are you to die in a car accident, or from a heart attack, or just some other stupid accident/conincidence? Now how likely are you to be bombed? You should be "terrorised" of the free way, not a bunch of extremeists!
So many people die of hunger, disease, and civil war in developing countries every day. I don't know the figures, but I immagine more die daily than in all terrorist attacks in the last few years combined. <i>This</i> is where we should be spending out money. Just maybe, if we did that, people would stop hating developed nations, and stop bombing them!
And how much news coverage do the attrocities mentioned above get? A 30 second blurb on the news once a week, if that at all? Maybe if we treated terrorism that way, it would stop as well!
Think like a terrorist. Your objective is not to kill people, it's to get a message out. Unfortunately, killing people is the easiest way to get attention. Shitloads of attention. Days of prime time TV coverage. Of course you will resort to this method.
However, would you do it if the evening news went something like, "and in other news, London was bombed today. 30 to 50 people are believed to be dead. Now, back to the Simpsons."
Ha! It would be worth the effort of making the game just to see what kind of a rise we could get out of angry mothers, politicians, and religious figures the world over!
Very well said. I read a very similar (though longer) article in a recent issue of Mcleans.
Basically, at the rate the US is going, the will reach a point in about 10 years where they will only be able to correct the situation by seriously raising taxes and cutting just about every public service. That's not exactly a recipe for election, so it's not very likely to happen, unless a politician comes along who wished to martyr his career by flat-out lying about his intentions during the presidential race.
If the states continue on this path for another 10 years after that, they will pretty much have reached the point of no return. Their economy will collapse, and nothing can stop that. Unfortunately, a huge chunk of the world's economy will collapse with it, unless other countries stop their reliance on the states, and expand trade with each other.
Esentially, the world sees the US as a dumping ground for their products, and many countries have been build on the notion that the US is an endless supply of easy money.
The world needs to bite the smaller bullet now, turn away from an easy but soon-to-be-depleted source, and distribute its resources.
The whole thing kind of reminds me of those bittorrent diagrams. You have one where everyone is sucking bandwidth from ones source, and then another diagram, where bandwidth is going from everywhere to everywhere. And we all know how well bittorrent works...
Man,
So the shuttle blew up. Boohoo. We all know space travel is inherantly dangerous. Anybody here think it is safe to sit on top of literally tons of highly reactive compounds and mixing them is without risks? NASA knew it, the austronaughts knew it. I'm not saying it doesn't suck that those people died, it does. It's just that everyone knew the risks and took them. That's no reason to stop space travel because of that. We've actually had a remarkabley low number of accidents considering the risks.
If someone offered me a seat on that shuttle tomorrow, I'd be there in a heartbeat.
why in god's name would anyone buy the word "negroe" for an eBay add? Who the hell goes online and says "you know what I need, some negroes. I hope there is an ad about it. Because I would click it if I saw it"
Jeeze.
Whatever the levy is, it isn't much. I am in canada, and I remember when they introduced it, I though crap, now the media prices will jump. That never happened. I can still get 50 CD-r's for $17 CDN if I catch the right sale.
Here here!
I can't believe how google managed to take a good system like email and enhance it in sooooooo many ways. I still use POP3 for backup putposes, and becasue I have to have a client open for work e-mail, but for the most part, it's the g-mail interface for me!
I'm somewhat new to linux so I don't know if this has been done or not, but couldn't someone just design a wizard for the average user. You know, ask them what type of activities they do, what they use their computer for, that sort of thing. And maybe autodetect their hardware, then compile a kernel with only the drivers/features they use for them?
Well, the amount of mails received would be less than clicks, so to make it worth while, the price paid per mail would have to be substantially higher than price per click. That means crooked customers could mass mail, and make scam revenues way faster than with clicking, since they would have to repeat the act fewer times.
It might be good. I hope it's good. Here's been my impression of the last few films:
Ep. 1) Mostly shit. Pod race was neat.
Ep. 2) Started out crappy, but got better towards the end (except that stupid romantic scene). The end, with all the Star Destroyers taking off, Palpatine looking evil, and the legions of storm troopers marching into ships was just plain f*cking awsome.
Ep. 3) If the trend continues (gradual improvement), this should be sweet. We got Vader, we got dark Palpatine, we got the eradication of the Jedi we've been hearing so much about, and there should be precious few crappy love scenes.
how will this be different from the flodding of fake files already on P2P networks like Kazaa. Sure, the hash will be the same, but what "JHoe Sixpack" looks at hashes?!
I just bought a keychain LED flashlight today, because they last forever on one of those little watch batteries. I wouldn't want them for home lighting though. It's such a weird shade of white, like blue-white. It would drive me nuts!
It shouldn't be an issue. If the MIAA wanted to distribute with bittorrent, they would proably go and set up dedicated seeding machine - hundreds to thousands of them - all around the world. Then people could close the torrent right afterwards since it wouldn't matter, and they would still be helping out during the download process.
Efficiency down a little bit, but with the MIAA covering the cost of the bandwidth, which would take the place of DVD production, Cover ink and materials, shipping, etc...
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I don't get the Dracula part. Was that supposed to be funny or sarcastic?
"It is impossible for most psyches to kill a human they have not dehumanized." Not if you are the invading army, and there is a known resistance. If you know someone will kill you if you don't kill them first, you do not need to dehumanize them. You will find the ability to kill them becasue of your own instinct to survive.
Yes, you are correct.
I was in Romania and Bulgaria recently. There are very few if any computer laws there at all. I remember my hostel in Bulgaria. They had a computer in the room for internet access. The internet itself was so slow, you could have almost considered it dialup. However, it didn't come over phone or cable, but cat5. I don't know how they get ethernet service to each appartment building, but I immagine it would involve WAP's on the roof.
Anyways, while browsing was slow, you could get any single album, movie, game, or piece of software at speeds of 1-2 megaBYTES per second. Why? The ISPs cache the files on their servers and distrubute them over ethernet. They don't have to fear legal reprocusions, so they do it.
"Beyond that, I'm just as perplexed by the fact that there are astronauts blinded by the "I'm going to be in a text book one day" mentality that they are willing to ride up in the damn thing!" Give me a spot on that shuttle and I'm there! I know I won't be in a text book, and I know it's an old shuttle, but I don't really give a shit. I want to go to space! If it crashes on the way down, so be it. I'll die happy (and quickly).
Oh man, I remember that day. That was sooooo sweet.
Seriously though, I doubt it will be cracked, since it uses a central server. Just like steam, or any online game. Sure you can pirate any games, but to play it online, you still need a valid key. There has been no cracks for that. I imagine this is similar.
That was kind of dumb of them. If they had waited, they could have had it for free, and they wouldn't have held the engine back from the rest of us. Oh well.
We could still be watching the actual TV show if fox hadn't screwed it over by running the episodes out of order. Man I love that show!
Try browsing their free section of the forum. The place is really top notch, and completely worth the money. A hardcore dedicated community, with tons of info.
The money is really just to support the guy who runs this place for a living. And no, he doesnt just run a website. He goes through tons of effort, finding suppliers, doing large orders, and sourcing quality parts and lenses for the community at prices a fraction of their retail costs.
this site, so to speak, is the real deal
They actaully do reach that quality.
I havent built mine yet, but I am gearing up to. Ive been browsing the site heavily, scetching, planning, thinking.
Just browse their free section of the forums for a while. You will see it is as hardcore and geeky as any other enthusiast community. Plus there are tons and tons and tons of images posted by users, including side by sides with `real` projectors.
It seems to me that terrorism only funtions because people way over react to it.
Think about it. How likely are you to die in a car accident, or from a heart attack, or just some other stupid accident/conincidence? Now how likely are you to be bombed? You should be "terrorised" of the free way, not a bunch of extremeists!
So many people die of hunger, disease, and civil war in developing countries every day. I don't know the figures, but I immagine more die daily than in all terrorist attacks in the last few years combined. <i>This</i> is where we should be spending out money. Just maybe, if we did that, people would stop hating developed nations, and stop bombing them!
And how much news coverage do the attrocities mentioned above get? A 30 second blurb on the news once a week, if that at all? Maybe if we treated terrorism that way, it would stop as well!
Think like a terrorist. Your objective is not to kill people, it's to get a message out. Unfortunately, killing people is the easiest way to get attention. Shitloads of attention. Days of prime time TV coverage. Of course you will resort to this method.
However, would you do it if the evening news went something like, "and in other news, London was bombed today. 30 to 50 people are believed to be dead. Now, back to the Simpsons."
Think about it...
Ha! It would be worth the effort of making the game just to see what kind of a rise we could get out of angry mothers, politicians, and religious figures the world over!
Very well said. I read a very similar (though longer) article in a recent issue of Mcleans.
Basically, at the rate the US is going, the will reach a point in about 10 years where they will only be able to correct the situation by seriously raising taxes and cutting just about every public service. That's not exactly a recipe for election, so it's not very likely to happen, unless a politician comes along who wished to martyr his career by flat-out lying about his intentions during the presidential race.
If the states continue on this path for another 10 years after that, they will pretty much have reached the point of no return. Their economy will collapse, and nothing can stop that. Unfortunately, a huge chunk of the world's economy will collapse with it, unless other countries stop their reliance on the states, and expand trade with each other.
Esentially, the world sees the US as a dumping ground for their products, and many countries have been build on the notion that the US is an endless supply of easy money.
The world needs to bite the smaller bullet now, turn away from an easy but soon-to-be-depleted source, and distribute its resources.
The whole thing kind of reminds me of those bittorrent diagrams. You have one where everyone is sucking bandwidth from ones source, and then another diagram, where bandwidth is going from everywhere to everywhere. And we all know how well bittorrent works...
Man, So the shuttle blew up. Boohoo. We all know space travel is inherantly dangerous. Anybody here think it is safe to sit on top of literally tons of highly reactive compounds and mixing them is without risks? NASA knew it, the austronaughts knew it. I'm not saying it doesn't suck that those people died, it does. It's just that everyone knew the risks and took them. That's no reason to stop space travel because of that. We've actually had a remarkabley low number of accidents considering the risks. If someone offered me a seat on that shuttle tomorrow, I'd be there in a heartbeat.
why in god's name would anyone buy the word "negroe" for an eBay add? Who the hell goes online and says "you know what I need, some negroes. I hope there is an ad about it. Because I would click it if I saw it" Jeeze.
Yeah, but it still goes up a few megs a day. So unless you receive obscene amounts of e-mail a day, you really will never run out. I love google
Whatever the levy is, it isn't much. I am in canada, and I remember when they introduced it, I though crap, now the media prices will jump. That never happened. I can still get 50 CD-r's for $17 CDN if I catch the right sale.
Here here! I can't believe how google managed to take a good system like email and enhance it in sooooooo many ways. I still use POP3 for backup putposes, and becasue I have to have a client open for work e-mail, but for the most part, it's the g-mail interface for me!
I'm somewhat new to linux so I don't know if this has been done or not, but couldn't someone just design a wizard for the average user. You know, ask them what type of activities they do, what they use their computer for, that sort of thing. And maybe autodetect their hardware, then compile a kernel with only the drivers/features they use for them?
Well, the amount of mails received would be less than clicks, so to make it worth while, the price paid per mail would have to be substantially higher than price per click. That means crooked customers could mass mail, and make scam revenues way faster than with clicking, since they would have to repeat the act fewer times.
It might be good. I hope it's good. Here's been my impression of the last few films: Ep. 1) Mostly shit. Pod race was neat. Ep. 2) Started out crappy, but got better towards the end (except that stupid romantic scene). The end, with all the Star Destroyers taking off, Palpatine looking evil, and the legions of storm troopers marching into ships was just plain f*cking awsome. Ep. 3) If the trend continues (gradual improvement), this should be sweet. We got Vader, we got dark Palpatine, we got the eradication of the Jedi we've been hearing so much about, and there should be precious few crappy love scenes.
I see. So you could end up with a song that is a half-song, half-static type of thing?
how will this be different from the flodding of fake files already on P2P networks like Kazaa. Sure, the hash will be the same, but what "JHoe Sixpack" looks at hashes?!
you're not missing much...
I just bought a keychain LED flashlight today, because they last forever on one of those little watch batteries. I wouldn't want them for home lighting though. It's such a weird shade of white, like blue-white. It would drive me nuts!
It shouldn't be an issue. If the MIAA wanted to distribute with bittorrent, they would proably go and set up dedicated seeding machine - hundreds to thousands of them - all around the world. Then people could close the torrent right afterwards since it wouldn't matter, and they would still be helping out during the download process. Efficiency down a little bit, but with the MIAA covering the cost of the bandwidth, which would take the place of DVD production, Cover ink and materials, shipping, etc...