Welcome to humanity. Yep, I've known this ever since I was a child. That government doesn't work as well as it should, that it's to regulate human behavior, and it will get replaced with another government which may or may not be as bad. But that will follow the same pattern. Hell my culture and history is full of this example. This country is presently called China and its most recent governmenet that will eventually be overthrown is the People's Republic of China. Though I'm living in the USA..which coincendantally will also collaspe on itself one day. I just pray that things don't turn to the worse till I have a chance to grow old with my family and die...sucks for my children though. Alas it is our free will that makes us great as it is our free will that is our downfall. If your religious then you have got to say God knew what gift was the best and worst to give us. If your not then, all sentiental (or whatever the correct word is) suffer from this somehow. My only guess of why aliens (if they exist) can work together is because they can all read each other's mind.
As a person who is currently working summers in D.C. I have to agree somewhat. HOV lanes help out alot here. But you still got idiotic drivers on the Beltway that slow it down for everyone.
But I take the metro so >.>
What route do you take?
I go walk-->ride on (yep I'm MoCo) --> shady grove --> Metro center --> Mcpherson --> walk
True dependent on the type of government, the state is essentialy a reflection of society. Of also how it can capitalize on society's wants, dislikes, and fears.
I guess it's if your going along with mass society or against the flow. And that as long as you'll go against it, you'll be sticking out till there's enough people going against that it becomes the main flow.
And the government by then either tries to adapt or falls apart, which once again leads to another one being constructed with a belief that "it'll be better this time". Yet the same exact thing will happen.
True, humans as a species require social interaction. I cannot deny that with all the classes and information I've studied in both psychology and sociology.
Though isn't is possible to somewhat replace physical interaction with someone with interaction online? We are interacting right now? Granted its hard for me to read your body language, facial expression, etc.
I feel that as we continue to progress in technology, as video/audio chat gets better and better. Then the next jump to whatever (VR?) that what constitues human interaction may need to reworked.
Exactly. That's the whole reason why I quote it from there and not the orginal. Because the quote itself represents the concept explained in the last ep.
So so many copies.:)
Hmm I don't think that's the problem. I think the problem has to do with our concentration and our ability to multitask. Even talking on a hands free telephone seems to degrade (some if not all) concetration.
Interesting once again. To be frank, I agree:). The state was orginally, a long long long time ago was created to maintain order. To maintain order it needed money to enforce it. And to get money they use taxes, tarrifs, "friendly" donations when the tax man use to knock on your door.
In the threat of losing their power, they may act even stricter. Even resorting to methods like jailing or making people dissapear to maintain their influence.
But they can't catch everyone, and eventually (hopefully) the state would dissolve.
Before another one is created and repeats the same damn ****ing mistakes. >.
As long as robots don't touch psychology I'm perfectly happy with this.
Though this reminds me of a debate I was in several years ago about robots and medicine..
Interesting thought. I'm curious to hear what you think about organizations that push/support the state censorship though. And then they pursue those who seek alternative measures to bypass it.
Haha I'd give you points if I could figure out this darn moderation system.
How true it is..unfortuntely humans are adapt at making sure Darwain's laws don't apply to us very well.:(
Suprise suprises. The US isn't controlled by their citizens but by business. Yep, saw that one coming:(.
Those massive contributions from "interest" groups wouldn't be the cause of it would it?
But yes the US government does not represent what a true American is. Kinda ironic, being the supposed land of the free and all..
Dunno, when an entire world changes (for the worse IMO) because of some of the inventions. I think it's rather good that the Chinese DON'T invent more new technology.
They can tell the difference. Unless you learned Chinese the traditional way.
At home and attended Chinese school for the first couple years of your life. Then your Chinese shouldn't be that off.
Though even things like your body language would be slightly different. A detection that something is slightly off.
With every technology advance in security, there will be those who break it. And then another technology advance comes, that will be broken.
We've been playing this cat and mouse game for nearly 5000 years. Nothing is going change.
I know Firefox and Opera allow you to force a site to do certain things. (which may wind up breaking it in your browser).
But couldn't a possible solution to the horribly designed myspace pages be one where there's a Firefox extension or Opera (whatever) that makes all myspace pages look like one default thing?
Have it automatically ignore the music and videos, etc..
I have to agree. I'm a psychology major and a computer sciences minor.
The thing that makes psychology a science, and not another mind reading group of people out there is the science. We come up with theories. We test the theories in experiments and observational studies. We have emperical evidence that what we do works the majority of the time.
Yep, and AMD is gearing out AM2 with RHT (not a real competitor, just a stop gap). Then AMD will release theirs that pisses all over Intel. Then Intel will release theirs that piss all over AMD.
I currently run an Opteron 165 system, in 4-5 years when I decide to upgrade my PC to quad-core I'll buy whoever is the best then.
hmm..I haven't used GAIM in forever. I just use Trillian now. But could it be because of extra extensions or whatever installed in GAIM?
Haven't used YIM in forever either. I have like 3 people on my contact list that use Yahoo. Though is Yahoo like AIM or MSN that has ads on it?
To actually complete the analogy the car manufacturer with immense wealth has secured practically all the companies' support meaning the only way to use a companies' product you must use that car manufacturer's products.
Doesn't make it so easy to switch now huh? It's like XBOX's situation in Japan. In order for it to sell it needs Japanese games. But because it has pratically none it doesn't sell. But all Japanese games are made by Japanese companies. And they don't want to take the plunge or risk because XBOX hasn't proven itself. But how can it prove itself if it doesn't have the games. And back and forth and back in forth it goes.
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Welcome to humanity. Yep, I've known this ever since I was a child. That government doesn't work as well as it should, that it's to regulate human behavior, and it will get replaced with another government which may or may not be as bad. But that will follow the same pattern. Hell my culture and history is full of this example. This country is presently called China and its most recent governmenet that will eventually be overthrown is the People's Republic of China. Though I'm living in the USA..which coincendantally will also collaspe on itself one day. I just pray that things don't turn to the worse till I have a chance to grow old with my family and die...sucks for my children though. Alas it is our free will that makes us great as it is our free will that is our downfall. If your religious then you have got to say God knew what gift was the best and worst to give us. If your not then, all sentiental (or whatever the correct word is) suffer from this somehow. My only guess of why aliens (if they exist) can work together is because they can all read each other's mind.
As a person who is currently working summers in D.C. I have to agree somewhat. HOV lanes help out alot here. But you still got idiotic drivers on the Beltway that slow it down for everyone.
But I take the metro so >.>
What route do you take?
I go walk-->ride on (yep I'm MoCo) --> shady grove --> Metro center --> Mcpherson --> walk
Reverse it to go home.
The best method of control is to give people the illusion that they still have the control. Its much easier that way then it is to use outright force.
Nah those people have a unique social psychology term. Mainly those who go thru serial marriages.
True dependent on the type of government, the state is essentialy a reflection of society. Of also how it can capitalize on society's wants, dislikes, and fears. I guess it's if your going along with mass society or against the flow. And that as long as you'll go against it, you'll be sticking out till there's enough people going against that it becomes the main flow. And the government by then either tries to adapt or falls apart, which once again leads to another one being constructed with a belief that "it'll be better this time". Yet the same exact thing will happen.
True, humans as a species require social interaction. I cannot deny that with all the classes and information I've studied in both psychology and sociology. Though isn't is possible to somewhat replace physical interaction with someone with interaction online? We are interacting right now? Granted its hard for me to read your body language, facial expression, etc. I feel that as we continue to progress in technology, as video/audio chat gets better and better. Then the next jump to whatever (VR?) that what constitues human interaction may need to reworked.
Exactly. That's the whole reason why I quote it from there and not the orginal. Because the quote itself represents the concept explained in the last ep. So so many copies. :)
Hmm I don't think that's the problem. I think the problem has to do with our concentration and our ability to multitask. Even talking on a hands free telephone seems to degrade (some if not all) concetration.
Interesting once again. To be frank, I agree :). The state was orginally, a long long long time ago was created to maintain order. To maintain order it needed money to enforce it. And to get money they use taxes, tarrifs, "friendly" donations when the tax man use to knock on your door.
In the threat of losing their power, they may act even stricter. Even resorting to methods like jailing or making people dissapear to maintain their influence.
But they can't catch everyone, and eventually (hopefully) the state would dissolve.
Before another one is created and repeats the same damn ****ing mistakes. >.
As long as robots don't touch psychology I'm perfectly happy with this. Though this reminds me of a debate I was in several years ago about robots and medicine..
Interesting thought. I'm curious to hear what you think about organizations that push/support the state censorship though. And then they pursue those who seek alternative measures to bypass it.
Haha I'd give you points if I could figure out this darn moderation system. How true it is..unfortuntely humans are adapt at making sure Darwain's laws don't apply to us very well. :(
Suprise suprises. The US isn't controlled by their citizens but by business. Yep, saw that one coming :(.
Those massive contributions from "interest" groups wouldn't be the cause of it would it?
But yes the US government does not represent what a true American is. Kinda ironic, being the supposed land of the free and all..
Dunno, when an entire world changes (for the worse IMO) because of some of the inventions. I think it's rather good that the Chinese DON'T invent more new technology.
True, we could make it harder for them to crack. And if it didn't cost any extra I don't see why they shouldn't do it.
Oh I don't know, perhaps the inventions from long long ago that made their way across the Silk Road into EUROPE. Yeah...
They can tell the difference. Unless you learned Chinese the traditional way. At home and attended Chinese school for the first couple years of your life. Then your Chinese shouldn't be that off. Though even things like your body language would be slightly different. A detection that something is slightly off.
With every technology advance in security, there will be those who break it. And then another technology advance comes, that will be broken. We've been playing this cat and mouse game for nearly 5000 years. Nothing is going change.
I know Firefox and Opera allow you to force a site to do certain things. (which may wind up breaking it in your browser). But couldn't a possible solution to the horribly designed myspace pages be one where there's a Firefox extension or Opera (whatever) that makes all myspace pages look like one default thing? Have it automatically ignore the music and videos, etc..
I have to agree. I'm a psychology major and a computer sciences minor. The thing that makes psychology a science, and not another mind reading group of people out there is the science. We come up with theories. We test the theories in experiments and observational studies. We have emperical evidence that what we do works the majority of the time.
Yep, and AMD is gearing out AM2 with RHT (not a real competitor, just a stop gap). Then AMD will release theirs that pisses all over Intel. Then Intel will release theirs that piss all over AMD. I currently run an Opteron 165 system, in 4-5 years when I decide to upgrade my PC to quad-core I'll buy whoever is the best then.
dun dun dun the plot continues.
hmm..I haven't used GAIM in forever. I just use Trillian now. But could it be because of extra extensions or whatever installed in GAIM? Haven't used YIM in forever either. I have like 3 people on my contact list that use Yahoo. Though is Yahoo like AIM or MSN that has ads on it?
hmm you forget that the controls for Red Steel have been vastly improved. The E3 demo..is well outdated and shouldn't be used to judge the game.
To actually complete the analogy the car manufacturer with immense wealth has secured practically all the companies' support meaning the only way to use a companies' product you must use that car manufacturer's products. Doesn't make it so easy to switch now huh? It's like XBOX's situation in Japan. In order for it to sell it needs Japanese games. But because it has pratically none it doesn't sell. But all Japanese games are made by Japanese companies. And they don't want to take the plunge or risk because XBOX hasn't proven itself. But how can it prove itself if it doesn't have the games. And back and forth and back in forth it goes.