While everyone nags at "joaommp" for not reporting one slot company, applying what he says to this story produces the following new storyline:
Slot building company(s) design convoluted crap that only they understand the shouldn't-be-there flaws in, allowing for future exploits by "others" in the future.
Actually it has been Hotmail policy to wipe your account if you don't use it for a while. I think it was 30 days. Can't remember as I haven't used Hotmail in 5 or 6 years. I do remember setting a reminder to check my Hotmail account monthly or else I would lose all the spam I hadn't read yet.
What I've heard (and am too lazy to look up right now) is that although men and women have similar IQs on average, men have a greater percentage far below the line and a greater percentage far above the line.
sometimes I skip the beginner's class and just meditate (for an hour) in the back of the dojo; two hours of Aikido seems like a waste of my time, but switching sensei is not wasteful because each has their own teaching style and thus impart different insight.
I have come to Aikido quite late in my life. I have a multiply broken body. For me I enjoy the warmups as much as anything. I also enjoy being Uke as I get more exercise, especially because my body can't handle rolling so I have to recover repeatedly from half rolls. I also enjoy watching people with good technique. Certainly each offers different insights. As for those who want to be Nage all the time, I find this to be a more juvenile tendency.
Regarding funakogi I think this is once again a more advanced technique. i.e. something is available in doing this that a beginner can not grasp or be ready for. My hunch is that it relates more to the breath and breath energy than anything else. Not sure how it would be "cleaned up...with sword techniques".
I respect the man and would more prefer everyone to take up a deeper study of philosophy to achieve a more personal individuality.
I liked this and the next three paragraphs, but at no time did anything Clinton or Obama said or did appeal to me. I have as much interest in politicians as I do pieces of wood that have been carved and painted and glued to the front of ships.
It is impossible to form your own convictions without forming a strong, inflexible attachment to them.
Interesting. I've always had this, as did my parents. I can't really relate to those that don't have it.
Regarding your "rant" paragraph, I would suggest that the more we see clearly, the more we have to pick our battles. For example, maybe when those new internment camps start filling up the world is going to need people who keep their head and adapt to the new reality, rather than those who take a run at someone while shouting "Banzai!" and fall dead a moment later.
Perhaps this is a good time to offer what my sensei's sensei told him when he was training as hard as he could. His sensei was applying a throw while kneeling repeatedly, and egging my sensei on to get up faster and move faster. This went on an extended period of time. At which point he quietly began whispering to my sensei "Don't lose your mind"...while continuing to throw him.
May you keep your mind when all around you are losing theirs.
What I'm saying is, back then, these people were actually paying attention. They didn't say: come to the dojo, pick up the sword, punch the bag, perform this motion 500 times, spar with wooden swords. You came to the dojo and they asked you questions that didn't make any sense. They asked your motivation. They asked WHY they should teach you. They made you carry buckets of water around, they made you work, they made you wait. They made you sit down, meditate, and then answer complicated questions about life that have no answers. They made you search your soul for the meaning behind your desires.
I want to agree and disagree with this. In our dojo we don't get told to "perform this motion 500 times", with the exception of rolling which is truly the most core and more basic aspect of this defensive martial art. However I also agree with you that zen masters tend to be very demanding and exclusionary regarding potential students. This is a good thing...yet somehow they let Steve Jobs in, however briefly.
I think O-sensei needed to know more than the generations that followed. And that this is true of any great movement. Henry Ford needed to do a monumental amount of thinking and creating so that ultimately mindless robots could make great cheap cars.
I agree with your earlier point about being quicker than the smart arse kid -- the advantage of surprise. But when you complain, correctly, about it all being for show I think you are mad at the wrong thing. Aikido offers all, if you commit all. Aikido in America offers a mat and a belt path in exchange for $75/month. It is up to the individual to know there is much more and to look for it. The young ones are all show and are quite useless at actual Aikido until they are probably 20 or more years old, even if they have attended the dojo for 15 of those 20 years. This is not the fault of Aikido, the sensei or the general standard of today's martial arts. It is really more a fault of the parents.
Parents can relate to belts. And kicks. And swords. In our case we insisted on more from our kids. They got (exercise-like) consequences at home if they fidgeted, fooled around, or were too clueless during class. I lectured them while driving home on probably 100 occasions. Today I am proud of them. They are still kids, however, and have very little understanding of what is behind Aikido. And this is what makes Aikido great -- it is something you can do your whole life and never master. I pity the karate types who line up a bunch of bricks, bust them all and think "Man, I am something special" when they are done. With Aikido, those who are in it for the belts soon go. With our kids I deliberately hold them back from testing for their next belts. We often have two or three times the training days needed. And in at least one case I asked the sensei to not give them a belt, to take it back. The point is, all of this comes from the parents.
The saddest thing about America can be summed up in a book title: "The Closing Of The American Mind". If any generation becomes mindless, pity the kids.
Getting back to O-Sensei, I think another reason he had a wider repetoire, including offensive skills is that people challenge the top dog. Ask any boxer. So what he was teaching was quite different from what he had to go through. I think the average Aikidoist today is quite indistinguishable from Joe Sixpack when seated side by side. And that brings with it more protection than O-Sensei ever had. If he ever lost a challenge, how many would stop following him? He had a lot at stake. More than I have and probably more than you do.
...and very much advocated the study of more solid, violent arts (he said HE couldn't even understand what he needed to about martial arts without his Taijutsu background)...
I wonder if you might be mixing two things up here. Yes, O-Sensei had to have a Taijutsu background to allow h
Miyomoto Musashi was a swordsmen, and you make no mention of your cousin using a sword on you. Morihei Ueshiba founded Aikido: the way of harmonious energy. I can assure you that no Aikido sensei "proceed(s) to teach you to beat people up" as that is simply not part of the basic principles of Aikido. I have had the privilege of being associated with Aikido for about 8 years now and my respect and admiration for the practice continues to grow. Whatever possessed your cousin had nothing to do with Aikido, that much I know for sure.
I currently have no tattoos but have considered on more than one occasion getting the 3 kanji characters [Ai Ki Do] on my spine. My S.O. wishes I would hurry up and join her on this one. It is one of the few "causes" worth joining, IMHO.
It is most interesting to compare feudal to present times. For all the similarities, there is a single big difference between the two.
In feudal times the king had all the gold and so he really had very little need or concern for serfs -- they were truly expendable and replaceable. Today the system of control is based on money -- worthless paper that has a pretend value, unsustainable if we all made a run on the banks. The king lived in a stone castle that was designed to last for hundreds if not thousands of years. We live in a house of cards that is rotting as we speak. No wonder we have to be given the appearance of freedom -- jets flying over baseball games and all that. If we all collectively woke up and stopped allowing the twice daily milkings, the system of control would end immediately. We also have to be given hope -- rebates for children keep families happy, rebates for electric car buyers keep them smug and stupid -- while at the same time we know that if we buck the system we lose our rebates. The states are controlled in the same way by the feds, with conditional bribes.
In feudal times the king had it all. Today the trillionaires siphon it all.
There have been ads on TV lately for ridiculously bright regular beam headlights. I drive plenty, at night, etc. and see more and more of these idiot lights. So plenty of people are modding their cars to make them more of a threat on the road.
What if anti-matter produced anti-gravity (i.e. the "Dark Energy")? Shortly after the Big Bang occurred the matter/anti-matter annihilations, with scientists always wondering why matter prevailed. Well maybe anti-matter is having the last laugh as it is "still there" and causing the runaway expansion of the universe.
When you consider how important times & speeds are to this sport, it was pretty revolutionary (and progressive) of them to do this. Maybe it is just time for the Supercomputer list people to do the same thing.
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Did anyone else puke all over their monitor when they saw the screenshots for Windows Bubble, or what it just me?
Did you miss the email address of the person you were replying to?
I have a question.
How do you get away with this and not get a speeding ticket?
How do you justify doing 80mph in a 10mph zone? Or 120mph in a 50 zone? Or whatever the zone is where you are exceeding it by 70mph.
Do you have a mixture of blood stains on the front of your car?
Wait, are you the Deer Hunter?
Wait a second..."Let's bang"? I don't get it.
This is a two-seater. Those 4 men would be sitting on top of each other. NTTAWWT.
Only on Slashdot.
This thread needs a bicentennialman tag.
In Soviet Russia this thread would not have "In Soviet Russia" jokes.
7. What the #$*! Do We Know? (2004)
It was worth reading this thread just to see this listed as one of the worst.
Actually it has been Hotmail policy to wipe your account if you don't use it for a while. I think it was 30 days. Can't remember as I haven't used Hotmail in 5 or 6 years. I do remember setting a reminder to check my Hotmail account monthly or else I would lose all the spam I hadn't read yet.
What I've heard (and am too lazy to look up right now) is that although men and women have similar IQs on average, men have a greater percentage far below the line and a greater percentage far above the line.
Obscure, like programming traffic lights?
sometimes I skip the beginner's class and just meditate (for an hour) in the back of the dojo; two hours of Aikido seems like a waste of my time, but switching sensei is not wasteful because each has their own teaching style and thus impart different insight.
I have come to Aikido quite late in my life. I have a multiply broken body. For me I enjoy the warmups as much as anything. I also enjoy being Uke as I get more exercise, especially because my body can't handle rolling so I have to recover repeatedly from half rolls. I also enjoy watching people with good technique. Certainly each offers different insights. As for those who want to be Nage all the time, I find this to be a more juvenile tendency.
Regarding funakogi I think this is once again a more advanced technique. i.e. something is available in doing this that a beginner can not grasp or be ready for. My hunch is that it relates more to the breath and breath energy than anything else. Not sure how it would be "cleaned up...with sword techniques".
I respect the man and would more prefer everyone to take up a deeper study of philosophy to achieve a more personal individuality.
I liked this and the next three paragraphs, but at no time did anything Clinton or Obama said or did appeal to me. I have as much interest in politicians as I do pieces of wood that have been carved and painted and glued to the front of ships.
It is impossible to form your own convictions without forming a strong, inflexible attachment to them.
Interesting. I've always had this, as did my parents. I can't really relate to those that don't have it.
Regarding your "rant" paragraph, I would suggest that the more we see clearly, the more we have to pick our battles. For example, maybe when those new internment camps start filling up the world is going to need people who keep their head and adapt to the new reality, rather than those who take a run at someone while shouting "Banzai!" and fall dead a moment later.
Perhaps this is a good time to offer what my sensei's sensei told him when he was training as hard as he could. His sensei was applying a throw while kneeling repeatedly, and egging my sensei on to get up faster and move faster. This went on an extended period of time. At which point he quietly began whispering to my sensei "Don't lose your mind"...while continuing to throw him.
May you keep your mind when all around you are losing theirs.
Maybe I don't understand what is being debated here, but the equation reduces as follows:
(A+B)(A-B)=A(A-B)
A^^2 - B^^2 = A^^2 - AB
- B^^2 = - AB
B^^2 = AB
B = A
I see no "divide by zero" errors. Someone give me a whoosh, I can take it.
What I'm saying is, back then, these people were actually paying attention. They didn't say: come to the dojo, pick up the sword, punch the bag, perform this motion 500 times, spar with wooden swords. You came to the dojo and they asked you questions that didn't make any sense. They asked your motivation. They asked WHY they should teach you. They made you carry buckets of water around, they made you work, they made you wait. They made you sit down, meditate, and then answer complicated questions about life that have no answers. They made you search your soul for the meaning behind your desires.
...and very much advocated the study of more solid, violent arts (he said HE couldn't even understand what he needed to about martial arts without his Taijutsu background)...
I want to agree and disagree with this. In our dojo we don't get told to "perform this motion 500 times", with the exception of rolling which is truly the most core and more basic aspect of this defensive martial art. However I also agree with you that zen masters tend to be very demanding and exclusionary regarding potential students. This is a good thing...yet somehow they let Steve Jobs in, however briefly.
I think O-sensei needed to know more than the generations that followed. And that this is true of any great movement. Henry Ford needed to do a monumental amount of thinking and creating so that ultimately mindless robots could make great cheap cars.
I agree with your earlier point about being quicker than the smart arse kid -- the advantage of surprise. But when you complain, correctly, about it all being for show I think you are mad at the wrong thing. Aikido offers all, if you commit all. Aikido in America offers a mat and a belt path in exchange for $75/month. It is up to the individual to know there is much more and to look for it. The young ones are all show and are quite useless at actual Aikido until they are probably 20 or more years old, even if they have attended the dojo for 15 of those 20 years. This is not the fault of Aikido, the sensei or the general standard of today's martial arts. It is really more a fault of the parents.
Parents can relate to belts. And kicks. And swords. In our case we insisted on more from our kids. They got (exercise-like) consequences at home if they fidgeted, fooled around, or were too clueless during class. I lectured them while driving home on probably 100 occasions. Today I am proud of them. They are still kids, however, and have very little understanding of what is behind Aikido. And this is what makes Aikido great -- it is something you can do your whole life and never master. I pity the karate types who line up a bunch of bricks, bust them all and think "Man, I am something special" when they are done. With Aikido, those who are in it for the belts soon go. With our kids I deliberately hold them back from testing for their next belts. We often have two or three times the training days needed. And in at least one case I asked the sensei to not give them a belt, to take it back. The point is, all of this comes from the parents.
The saddest thing about America can be summed up in a book title: "The Closing Of The American Mind". If any generation becomes mindless, pity the kids.
Getting back to O-Sensei, I think another reason he had a wider repetoire, including offensive skills is that people challenge the top dog. Ask any boxer. So what he was teaching was quite different from what he had to go through. I think the average Aikidoist today is quite indistinguishable from Joe Sixpack when seated side by side. And that brings with it more protection than O-Sensei ever had. If he ever lost a challenge, how many would stop following him? He had a lot at stake. More than I have and probably more than you do.
I wonder if you might be mixing two things up here. Yes, O-Sensei had to have a Taijutsu background to allow h
Miyomoto Musashi was a swordsmen, and you make no mention of your cousin using a sword on you. Morihei Ueshiba founded Aikido: the way of harmonious energy. I can assure you that no Aikido sensei "proceed(s) to teach you to beat people up" as that is simply not part of the basic principles of Aikido. I have had the privilege of being associated with Aikido for about 8 years now and my respect and admiration for the practice continues to grow. Whatever possessed your cousin had nothing to do with Aikido, that much I know for sure.
I currently have no tattoos but have considered on more than one occasion getting the 3 kanji characters [Ai Ki Do] on my spine. My S.O. wishes I would hurry up and join her on this one. It is one of the few "causes" worth joining, IMHO.
It is most interesting to compare feudal to present times. For all the similarities, there is a single big difference between the two.
In feudal times the king had all the gold and so he really had very little need or concern for serfs -- they were truly expendable and replaceable. Today the system of control is based on money -- worthless paper that has a pretend value, unsustainable if we all made a run on the banks. The king lived in a stone castle that was designed to last for hundreds if not thousands of years. We live in a house of cards that is rotting as we speak. No wonder we have to be given the appearance of freedom -- jets flying over baseball games and all that. If we all collectively woke up and stopped allowing the twice daily milkings, the system of control would end immediately. We also have to be given hope -- rebates for children keep families happy, rebates for electric car buyers keep them smug and stupid -- while at the same time we know that if we buck the system we lose our rebates. The states are controlled in the same way by the feds, with conditional bribes.
In feudal times the king had it all. Today the trillionaires siphon it all.
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I posited and posted something similar on Dec 2nd
There have been ads on TV lately for ridiculously bright regular beam headlights. I drive plenty, at night, etc. and see more and more of these idiot lights. So plenty of people are modding their cars to make them more of a threat on the road.
What if anti-matter produced anti-gravity (i.e. the "Dark Energy")? Shortly after the Big Bang occurred the matter/anti-matter annihilations, with scientists always wondering why matter prevailed. Well maybe anti-matter is having the last laugh as it is "still there" and causing the runaway expansion of the universe.
Price a high end MBP with anything of the same specs from Dell and look at the price difference.
Price a jumbo sized popcorn with anything of the same ingredients from any other movie theater and look at the price difference.
You'll find both are a waste of money.
Witches?
When you consider how important times & speeds are to this sport, it was pretty revolutionary (and progressive) of them to do this. Maybe it is just time for the Supercomputer list people to do the same thing.