Here's a simple 5 step solution to online gaming addiction that i can share. Try it.
1st) find the Soft Stone of Washing (soap) and use on the underarms. It will make you nicer to be around and help a great deal with stages 3+ 4 below.
2nd) use the trick of "absorbing daylight" to improve your appearance. this has been known to help with mood points as well.
3th) talk to the ones that call themselves "the WomenFolk" They are elusive and can be as welcoming as a giant cave bear at first, but they can offer a great deal in terms of friendship, understanding and more besides!
4th) find something that you enjoy doing (outside of a juvenile fantasy world that is!) and see if you can make some money/help people while doing it. This part can be a bit tricky but it is most satisfying when it works out.
5th) your quest is over pilgrim. enjoy!
from one year to the next they have lowered standards further and further, to the present point where their existence (and the license fee) can definitely no longer be justified.
there are hardly any current affairs or docs on anymore; instead we get shedloads of cookery, hideous karaoke, home improvement, crime dramas and suchlike
you can always pull out the "if thats what people want then..." but that won't wash. Mass media shapes as well as reflects the desires and attitudes of its audience. What happened to the optimistic days of the "Ascent of Man" or "Civilisation". repeating sitcoms again and again and again until they become "comedy classics" is not in the public service i'm afraid
i know people who work at the beeb and it makes a fortune from gardening mags, phone-ins, dvds etc....where does all this cash go? the uncritical and repetitive mess that is news 24?
on the drm issue, imo they shouldn't even consider it
obviously a great deal of their back catalogue will be chipmunks mating, wildebeest being chased and then eaten alive by hyenas etc. but I was really looking forward to perusing the OU archives and enjoying the sight of some of those kipper ties again. everyone around the world ought to be able to share in this guilty pleasure.
those gods were/are not thought to have more than one pair of hands; the depictions portray them as multi-limbed to convey their different aspects. namaste.
You all disgust me. None of you ever met or know anything about Ron Hubbard.
No one ever has achieved as much as Ron in the whole history of human existence. Astronaut, brain surgeon, Nobel Prizewinning biodynamicist, philosopher, painter, statesman, travelling salesman, charlatan, truck driver, leopardskin accessories - you name it and he did it better than any man had ever done before him.
"Light peace and universal karma to you all. L. Ron has passed into the clouds of unknowing where the Self is Unself and the mind is as unmind and all that sort of thing. L. Ron may have melted from the earth like snow, but, one thing lives on. His money. Please send cheque to address below."
The marharishi Veririshi, The Cayman Islands
"Light, peace and all the same sort of thing as from the other one with the beard. You've got to hand it to L. Ron - when it comes to pulling the wool over the eyes he was in a class of his own. I only wish I had a piece of his action.'
The Bhagwash Rujrish Somewhere in India (Address withheld on request)
"Life is both river and mountain, forest and sea. To know life is to be part of life. Give me your cheque immediately." -" These words written by the greatest genius who ever lived. L. Ron Neasden, totally encapsulate the whole message that L. Ron was trying to put across to mankind.
OK -the most important thing to understand is that most people don't have a problem paying artists for the work they've done, after all how could they?
What they don't like is the way that the music "business" gets the lions share of the cash that is spent on CDs etc. However unfair 'fair-use' may seem, nothing is more unfair than the disgusting cut artists get from the sale of their work, and the profits that the 'industry' side of things ends up with.
Without getting into the fact that the music business is one of the most exploitative, monopolistic and unpleasant businesses in existence, its hard to deny that they have used their position to rip off both their customers and the artists again and again.
In a way they can't be blamed for this; if you allow a fox in with a load of chickens then who is to blame for the resultant carnage? (there's the metaphor you warned against- sorry!)
To give you a good example - why did an inverse relationship develop between the cost CDs in the shop, and the actual cost of making the things? Why do artists get pennies or end up in dept even after they're sold shed-loads of albums?
You or i may be in a position to spend lots of money on music, but lots of people can't afford to, and are forced to go without why - because some talentless suit wants to upgrade his lexus?
Ok, you can turn round and say "its a market- you don't have to buy their product!" Well thats not good enough im afraid. Music and art are more important than that type of mentality, and that is not the direction that things are moving in - like it or not. Not to say the notion of intellectual property is a thing of the past (there's the hyperbole you warned against), but until a system comes along that sees the consumer and the artist treated fairly, then most people are not interested in paying through the nose for content that is overpriced and crippled in one way or another.
The technology we have today allows for the consumer to cut the middle man out almost completely from the loop. Now no-one would expect these middle men to facilitate this process, but the point is that its only the mass-downloading and illegal sharing of content that will finally shake these parasites off.
The problem with IQ tests is that they lack content and criterion validity (predictive & concurrent).
As such they measure IQ and not much else, certainly not intelligence.
I have a theory that what they do measure is racist bigotry (like your own). Just a theory, but they're certainly of little use when it comes to genuine science.
Now be a good little insect and crawl back under that rock you emerged from.
The problem with IQ tests is that they lack content and criterion validity (predictive & concurrent).
As such they measure IQ and not much else, certainly not intelligence.
Their usage is probably a good measure of racist bigotry (like your own) but of little use when it comes to genuine science.
Now be a good little insect and crawl back under that rock you emerged from.
I had a look at the article you linked to; the paragraph that immediately follows the one you quoted is pretty crystal on where Sadam Husseins weapons came from - It is becoming increasingly clear that George Bush Sr., operating largely behind the scenes throughout the 1980's, initiated and supported much of the financing, intelligence, and military help that built Saddam's Iraq into [an aggressive power]" And Reagan/Bush administrations permitted and frequently encouraged the flow of money, agricultural credits, dual-use technology, chemicals, and weapons to Iraq.
The history of this wikipedia article doesn't indicate that it has been amended to include this new information since you made your comment. In that case you chose to entirely misrepresent the information that you made reference to. Either that or you didn't bother to read anything beyond the 0.6% part; difficult to believe i would say.
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Its ok for people to scoff and laugh at this kind of thing, but if you look into the misty roots of mankind you'll see that Vastu Shastra, just like Feng Shui, is another part of the art of "separating people from their money."
These arts can be bring you closer to what the ancient sages called the "state of complete bankruptcy."
Life is both river and mountain, ocean and sky To know life is to be part of life Please give me a cheque for the full amount now
My feeling on this is that we'll find that human teleportation, molecular decimation, breakdown and reformation is inherantly purging; it'll make a man a king!
Stay away from Ghost if you're using an sata hd; when you try to make an image of a drive your computer will stop booting up. The software offers no warning that this will happen, great stuff Symantec >:[
Recent versions have fixed this little problem, but Ghost is now bloatware- long exorcised from my library of tools.
Actually it's the uk government that is nauseating.
When you look at some of the facts it might be a bit easier for you to understand why we dont trust them at all.
First off , they are corrupt; some of the closest people to Tony Blair have been arrested recently and taken away in handcuffs. BTW, the British media like to reserve the word corrupt for 3rd world govts and prefer to use the term sleaze, but thats just the usual Orwellian crap.
In terms of these "alerts" you may not hear about them but there've been countless occasions on which the govt have taken very theatrical action against some imaginary enemy, quite often to distract from other unpleasant stuff they're engaged in. The worst example of this was our corrupt home secretary literally sending the tanks into Heathrow airport, believe it or not. It turns out there was no justification for this. Also the number of times chemical weapons have are supposed to have been manufactured by terrorists in this country and whole areas have been sealed off is almost into double figures.
The real problem with Tony Bliar et al is that they took this country to war on the basis of lies. The fact that this war has proved to be a big mistake is not the point here- its that you don't produce dodgy dossiers and use them to try to sway the UN unless you are up to no good, lets face it. He's a liar and most British people i know don't trust him or his govt one bit.
In this case it may turn out to be a genuine bomb plot and obviously we all want to see these swine stopped and brought to justice. But please forgive us for being sceptical.
I have one of these things and he is great fun to be sure.
I must admit i was a tad dissapointed when i realised i couldn't program it myself, or even put my own wavs in.
Hearing a robot ask for "spare change" and reach out is funny even after 30 or 40 times, but i'd much rather him ask if "i knew the whereabouts of of Sarah Connor."
"Paradigm shift and all that" is irrelevant here i'm afraid.
Its really very simple - if someone suggests that something is true or real, when in fact:
1) there is no evidence for that to be the case
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2) there is no observable mechanism that would allow for that something to exist
then there is not much reason to believe in that something, whether it be astrology, ghosts, telekinesis...the list goes on.
The fact that scientific disciplines go through developmental stages (as Kuhn observed) does not mean that they should accept pseudo-science as truthful; where did you get that idea from may i ask?
Find some evidence of the kind of nonsense that Randi refutes and your belief that he's arrogant will make some sense.
His dismissive attitude towards the "supernatural" is well founded.
By the way, why do you say "so-called skepticism."
Axe to grind? He resents pseudo-science and the load of crap that is the occult. What is wrong with that?
Re:Already losing interest.
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have you actually played prey? dood if you think that there is anything original about that drab clone then you're not fit to judge.
one of the weapons is a small spider like creature that you put down, and then...he scurries towards your opponent and...hang on a minute!
the graphics are nothing new either. the teleports and the ability to walk on the ceiling add nothing to the game.
what a let-down prey is to be sure. uninstalled that utter crap and back to the shop double time
if you compare doom, duke nukem and gta3 to what came before them then you have a good example of real fps gaming leaps.
has all the talent and creativity been leached out of the gamemaking business or is it just me?
even gta has been turned into a larger than average pile of crap- aiming in san andreas is simply laughable. the whole control system was messed up along with the AI.
Why shouldn't slashdot put forward adverts for any product that comes along?
It's a lot better than going over the intelligent design debate and the reasons why America should avoid slipping back into the dark ages, isn't it?
At least it beats discussing computers and having a squad of Apple fanboys shouting and modding down anyone who doesn't think that a computer is a profound and spiritual way to express ones self, as opposed to a useful symbolic processing device.
Maybe there just isn't enough science or technology going on in the world to justify a place for highlighting and discussing it- thats it! Bye.
i think the point here is that black & white was a big disapointment and failed to live up to the hype.
one of the central features of the game was the creature, and the ai code that allowed it to learn. well it didn't learn or at least forgot stuff almost straight away. it soon became clear that the game was big on gimmicks but very light on gameplay and most people i know didn't play past the third or fourth level. i wouldn't bother with the sequel or anything else from molyneux, once bitten...
spore looks very promising though and maxis have, in the past, delivered the goods. it'd be nice if you could evolve creatures to the point where they create computer games (life simulators)
you're spot on when it comes to the world and the reality part of all this- i mean thats what this is all about right?
so help me out here, i've got the sony rootkit installed, thats all cool and seems to be running nicely, but i was wondering where can i get the 'better internet' thing i keep hearing about?
given the popularity of digital music and mp3 its not surprising that lots of competing formats should emerge, but as far as i'm concerned they're not a great deal better than mp3.
if you really do need better sound then look to your setup and enhance that first of all.
http://www.ilikejam.dsl.pipex.com/audiophile.htm might help you on your way.
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Here's a simple 5 step solution to online gaming addiction that i can share. Try it. 1st) find the Soft Stone of Washing (soap) and use on the underarms. It will make you nicer to be around and help a great deal with stages 3+ 4 below. 2nd) use the trick of "absorbing daylight" to improve your appearance. this has been known to help with mood points as well. 3th) talk to the ones that call themselves "the WomenFolk" They are elusive and can be as welcoming as a giant cave bear at first, but they can offer a great deal in terms of friendship, understanding and more besides! 4th) find something that you enjoy doing (outside of a juvenile fantasy world that is!) and see if you can make some money/help people while doing it. This part can be a bit tricky but it is most satisfying when it works out. 5th) your quest is over pilgrim. enjoy!
The BBC are the good guys, remember?
u rtime_history.shtml/ is pretty good, but should each household pay more than £100 for this?
er... they most certainly are not the good guys.
from one year to the next they have lowered standards further and further, to the present point where their existence (and the license fee) can definitely no longer be justified.
there are hardly any current affairs or docs on anymore; instead we get shedloads of cookery, hideous karaoke, home improvement, crime dramas and suchlike
you can always pull out the "if thats what people want then..." but that won't wash. Mass media shapes as well as reflects the desires and attitudes of its audience. What happened to the optimistic days of the "Ascent of Man" or "Civilisation". repeating sitcoms again and again and again until they become "comedy classics" is not in the public service i'm afraid
credit where credit is due, http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/ino
i know people who work at the beeb and it makes a fortune from gardening mags, phone-ins, dvds etc....where does all this cash go? the uncritical and repetitive mess that is news 24?
on the drm issue, imo they shouldn't even consider it
obviously a great deal of their back catalogue will be chipmunks mating, wildebeest being chased and then eaten alive by hyenas etc. but I was really looking forward to perusing the OU archives and enjoying the sight of some of those kipper ties again. everyone around the world ought to be able to share in this guilty pleasure.
those gods were/are not thought to have more than one pair of hands; the depictions portray them as multi-limbed to convey their different aspects.
namaste.
...and maybe take a course in Diabetics.
Had to get this back on topic some how.
You all disgust me. None of you ever met or know anything about Ron Hubbard.
No one ever has achieved as much as Ron in the whole history of human existence. Astronaut, brain surgeon, Nobel Prizewinning biodynamicist, philosopher, painter, statesman, travelling salesman, charlatan, truck driver, leopardskin accessories - you name it and he did it better than any man had ever done before him.
"Light peace and universal karma to you all. L. Ron has passed into the clouds of unknowing where the Self is Unself and the mind is as unmind and all that sort of thing. L. Ron may have melted from the earth like snow, but, one thing lives on. His money. Please send cheque to address below."
The marharishi Veririshi, The Cayman Islands
"Light, peace and all the same sort of thing as from the other one with the beard. You've got to hand it to L. Ron - when it comes to pulling the wool over the eyes he was in a class of his own. I only wish I had a piece of his action.'
The Bhagwash Rujrish
Somewhere in India
(Address withheld on request)
"Life is both river and mountain, forest and sea. To know life is to be part of life. Give me your cheque immediately."
-" These words written by the greatest genius who ever lived. L. Ron Neasden, totally encapsulate the whole message that L. Ron was trying to put across to mankind.
Clearly you were harbouring deep feelings of guilt about abandoning Bill Gates and consequently you imagined the whole thing.
What is more likely, that a technical impossibility occurs or that you react badly to the loss of a classic father figure.
That'll be $50 (towards my new plasma.)
OK -the most important thing to understand is that most people don't have a problem paying artists for the work they've done, after all how could they?
What they don't like is the way that the music "business" gets the lions share of the cash that is spent on CDs etc. However unfair 'fair-use' may seem, nothing is more unfair than the disgusting cut artists get from the sale of their work, and the profits that the 'industry' side of things ends up with.
Without getting into the fact that the music business is one of the most exploitative, monopolistic and unpleasant businesses in existence, its hard to deny that they have used their position to rip off both their customers and the artists again and again.
In a way they can't be blamed for this; if you allow a fox in with a load of chickens then who is to blame for the resultant carnage? (there's the metaphor you warned against- sorry!)
To give you a good example - why did an inverse relationship develop between the cost CDs in the shop, and the actual cost of making the things? Why do artists get pennies or end up in dept even after they're sold shed-loads of albums?
You or i may be in a position to spend lots of money on music, but lots of people can't afford to, and are forced to go without why - because some talentless suit wants to upgrade his lexus?
Ok, you can turn round and say "its a market- you don't have to buy their product!" Well thats not good enough im afraid. Music and art are more important than that type of mentality, and that is not the direction that things are moving in - like it or not. Not to say the notion of intellectual property is a thing of the past (there's the hyperbole you warned against), but until a system comes along that sees the consumer and the artist treated fairly, then most people are not interested in paying through the nose for content that is overpriced and crippled in one way or another.
The technology we have today allows for the consumer to cut the middle man out almost completely from the loop. Now no-one would expect these middle men to facilitate this process, but the point is that its only the mass-downloading and illegal sharing of content that will finally shake these parasites off.
I'll second that brother - crush elvish imperialism!
The problem with IQ tests is that they lack content and criterion validity (predictive & concurrent).
As such they measure IQ and not much else, certainly not intelligence.
I have a theory that what they do measure is racist bigotry (like your own). Just a theory, but they're certainly of little use when it comes to genuine science.
Now be a good little insect and crawl back under that rock you emerged from.
The problem with IQ tests is that they lack content and criterion validity (predictive & concurrent). As such they measure IQ and not much else, certainly not intelligence. Their usage is probably a good measure of racist bigotry (like your own) but of little use when it comes to genuine science. Now be a good little insect and crawl back under that rock you emerged from.
I had a look at the article you linked to; the paragraph that immediately follows the one you quoted is pretty crystal on where Sadam Husseins weapons came from - It is becoming increasingly clear that George Bush Sr., operating largely behind the scenes throughout the 1980's, initiated and supported much of the financing, intelligence, and military help that built Saddam's Iraq into [an aggressive power]" And Reagan/Bush administrations permitted and frequently encouraged the flow of money, agricultural credits, dual-use technology, chemicals, and weapons to Iraq.
The history of this wikipedia article doesn't indicate that it has been amended to include this new information since you made your comment. In that case you chose to entirely misrepresent the information that you made reference to. Either that or you didn't bother to read anything beyond the 0.6% part; difficult to believe i would say.
Its ok for people to scoff and laugh at this kind of thing, but if you look into the misty roots of mankind you'll see that Vastu Shastra, just like Feng Shui, is another part of the art of "separating people from their money."
These arts can be bring you closer to what the ancient sages called the "state of complete bankruptcy."
Life is both river and mountain, ocean and sky
To know life is to be part of life
Please give me a cheque for the full amount now
Namaste
My feeling on this is that we'll find that human teleportation, molecular decimation, breakdown and reformation is inherantly purging; it'll make a man a king!
A word of advice...
Stay away from Ghost if you're using an sata hd; when you try to make an image of a drive your computer will stop booting up.
The software offers no warning that this will happen, great stuff Symantec >:[
Recent versions have fixed this little problem, but Ghost is now bloatware- long exorcised from my library of tools.
Acronis is a lot better all round IMO.
Actually it's the uk government that is nauseating.
When you look at some of the facts it might be a bit easier for you to understand why we dont trust them at all.
First off , they are corrupt; some of the closest people to Tony Blair have been arrested recently and taken away in handcuffs. BTW, the British media like to reserve the word corrupt for 3rd world govts and prefer to use the term sleaze, but thats just the usual Orwellian crap.
In terms of these "alerts" you may not hear about them but there've been countless occasions on which the govt have taken very theatrical action against some imaginary enemy, quite often to distract from other unpleasant stuff they're engaged in. The worst example of this was our corrupt home secretary literally sending the tanks into Heathrow airport, believe it or not. It turns out there was no justification for this. Also the number of times chemical weapons have are supposed to have been manufactured by terrorists in this country and whole areas have been sealed off is almost into double figures.
The real problem with Tony Bliar et al is that they took this country to war on the basis of lies. The fact that this war has proved to be a big mistake is not the point here- its that you don't produce dodgy dossiers and use them to try to sway the UN unless you are up to no good, lets face it. He's a liar and most British people i know don't trust him or his govt one bit.
In this case it may turn out to be a genuine bomb plot and obviously we all want to see these swine stopped and brought to justice. But please forgive us for being sceptical.
I have one of these things and he is great fun to be sure.
I must admit i was a tad dissapointed when i realised i couldn't program it myself, or even put my own wavs in.
Hearing a robot ask for "spare change" and reach out is funny even after 30 or 40 times, but i'd much rather him ask if "i knew the whereabouts of of Sarah Connor."
Ah, that's where the psychic powers come into play. By using the eventual powers gained recursively, it should be possible to...
"Paradigm shift and all that" is irrelevant here i'm afraid.
Its really very simple - if someone suggests that something is true or real, when in fact:
1) there is no evidence for that to be the case
+
2) there is no observable mechanism that would allow for that something to exist
then there is not much reason to believe in that something, whether it be astrology, ghosts, telekinesis...the list goes on.
The fact that scientific disciplines go through developmental stages (as Kuhn observed) does not mean that they should accept pseudo-science as truthful; where did you get that idea from may i ask?
Find some evidence of the kind of nonsense that Randi refutes and your belief that he's arrogant will make some sense.
His dismissive attitude towards the "supernatural" is well founded.
By the way, why do you say "so-called skepticism."
Axe to grind? He resents pseudo-science and the load of crap that is the occult. What is wrong with that?
have you actually played prey? dood if you think that there is anything original about that drab clone then you're not fit to judge.
one of the weapons is a small spider like creature that you put down, and then...he scurries towards your opponent and...hang on a minute!
the graphics are nothing new either. the teleports and the ability to walk on the ceiling add nothing to the game.
what a let-down prey is to be sure. uninstalled that utter crap and back to the shop double time
if you compare doom, duke nukem and gta3 to what came before them then you have a good example of real fps gaming leaps.
has all the talent and creativity been leached out of the gamemaking business or is it just me?
even gta has been turned into a larger than average pile of crap- aiming in san andreas is simply laughable. the whole control system was messed up along with the AI.
Why shouldn't slashdot put forward adverts for any product that comes along? It's a lot better than going over the intelligent design debate and the reasons why America should avoid slipping back into the dark ages, isn't it? At least it beats discussing computers and having a squad of Apple fanboys shouting and modding down anyone who doesn't think that a computer is a profound and spiritual way to express ones self, as opposed to a useful symbolic processing device. Maybe there just isn't enough science or technology going on in the world to justify a place for highlighting and discussing it- thats it! Bye.
i think the point here is that black & white was a big disapointment and failed to live up to the hype.
one of the central features of the game was the creature, and the ai code that allowed it to learn. well it didn't learn or at least forgot stuff almost straight away. it soon became clear that the game was big on gimmicks but very light on gameplay and most people i know didn't play past the third or fourth level. i wouldn't bother with the sequel or anything else from molyneux, once bitten...
spore looks very promising though and maxis have, in the past, delivered the goods. it'd be nice if you could evolve creatures to the point where they create computer games (life simulators)
you're spot on when it comes to the world and the reality part of all this- i mean thats what this is all about right?
so help me out here, i've got the sony rootkit installed, thats all cool and seems to be running nicely, but i was wondering where can i get the 'better internet' thing i keep hearing about?
It's becoming clear why Apple went the Intel route - this kind of restrictive and unpleasant nonsense is right up their street.
When AMD keeps on beating intel to the post (by country mile after country mile) then what the hell else can they do but cheat?
Maybe they should diversify into high-end sound systems and make their money there! Anyone for monophonic intellihance surround, a mere snip at $300.
given the popularity of digital music and mp3 its not surprising that lots of competing formats should emerge, but as far as i'm concerned they're not a great deal better than mp3. if you really do need better sound then look to your setup and enhance that first of all. http://www.ilikejam.dsl.pipex.com/audiophile.htm might help you on your way.