The notion of whether or not the Japanese youth 'come out fine' is worth questioning when one looks at, say, suicide rates.
But that said, I, like you, don't attribute any measurable fault to the country's prevalent sexual imagery. The worker-bee school system seems more ripe for blame here. I think the Japanese penchant for graphic sexual fantasy is definitely mostly harmless, if not a great steam-release valve.
So, it's Erwin Schrodinger's 60th birthday, and his friends all decide to pitch in and surprise him with a prostitute.
The party comes, the stripper shows up and wraps herself around Schrodinger and pulls him close, and whispers in his ear "I can offer you some super positions..."
As much as my first instinct is to agree that productivity is peaking or will soon, that would violate a deeper trend that I've learned very well to obey: Michael Crichton wrote about this over a decade ago, which on almost all instances translates neatly to 'It was alarmist then, and is alarmist now.'
Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs,
dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with
the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
to the same diseases, healed by the same means,
warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as
a Christian is?
A famous counter-example occurred at the 1925 Baden-Baden Tournament when Aaron Nimzowitsch swept all the pieces off the chessboard, jumped up on the table and screamed "How can I lose to this idiot?".
And yet, come to think of it, that's probably because I failed to take the requisite levels of an arcane spellcasting class before attempting the Arcane Archer prestige class. Whoops!
I consider it an outrage that I've been quietly multiclassing my very own 'Saba, Queen of the Lyase' into a Half-elven Level 10/6 Fighter/Arcane Archer for years without a whit of recognition. And now this!
Oh, I was absolutely asking for a wisecrack; just didn't even have the energy to type out a caveat. And my post was deprecating enough as it was anyway.
Chess skill is largely a basis of pattern recognition and experience, prodigies aside. One can be brilliant at chess by sheer dint of having played thousands and thousands of games and be mediocre at everything else in life. Adrian de Groot famously [in the chess world, at least] found that Grandmasters are far better than amateurs at memorizing real gameplay positions on a board, but are just as poor as amateurs with nonsense positions [three white bishops all on black squares, kings adjacent, general random piece placement]. This has led heavily to the adoption of the 'pattern recognition' mode of thought.
Your monk, then, may have just been very, very, experienced, in spite of his old age, and thus fearsome. Hell, look at Viktor Kortchnoi.
That said, though, I absolutely believe there are some very, very, sharp elderly men and women out there. As well as some very, very, strong ones, to dispel another myth. The key is using what you have -- intelligence, strength -- and never giving it a chance to slip into senility.
This has been kicked around for a few years, at least. I remember reading it in Thomas J. Elpel's "Direct Pointing to Real Wealth", which is very out-there and hippieish. As such, I'm mildly surprised it's news at all to a science-minded website such as this one.
Alright, here's a simple question of feasibility, assuming this technology works:
"How much more power would have to be supplied to the copper antenna than would be received by the device?"
Which is to say, the resonance would be emanating in all directions, and a great part of it would be missing the receptive object entirely. How much resonance would need to be lost for the cell phone, mp3 player or whatever to receive the needed amount of charge? With something like a laser as long-distance power, efficiency would be near total, but with something like this, it seems like a lot of energy would be spent pumping this copper coil into sending resonant waves into peoples' living room walls, out their windows, into the inseam of their pants, etc.
I'd be curious to hear anyone bandy back an educated response [I know -- this is Slashdot, but I have faith] here.
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The notion of whether or not the Japanese youth 'come out fine' is worth questioning when one looks at, say, suicide rates.
But that said, I, like you, don't attribute any measurable fault to the country's prevalent sexual imagery. The worker-bee school system seems more ripe for blame here. I think the Japanese penchant for graphic sexual fantasy is definitely mostly harmless, if not a great steam-release valve.
Notably more well-recieved that Eben Boglin's address, which was admittedly just a lot of arm-waving and scare tactics.
Theoretical physics is no stranger to this kind of irresponsible behavior. Fortunately, it can be resolved: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/52324
So, it's Erwin Schrodinger's 60th birthday, and his friends all decide to pitch in and surprise him with a prostitute.
The party comes, the stripper shows up and wraps herself around Schrodinger and pulls him close, and whispers in his ear "I can offer you some super positions..."
So, Schrodinger says: "I'll take the soup".
300.
If you can't see the striking impracticality of paying for everything with coins, I'll give you a hint; it rhymes with 'ass'.
As much as my first instinct is to agree that productivity is peaking or will soon, that would violate a deeper trend that I've learned very well to obey: Michael Crichton wrote about this over a decade ago, which on almost all instances translates neatly to 'It was alarmist then, and is alarmist now.'
Yes. Shakespeare is Flamebait.
Bravo, Slashdot. Bravo.
The NaNorwegian Geitost or the NaNeufchâtel?
Furthermore, are you taking into account the possiblity that someone Moved Your Nano-cheese?
We could be talking Nano-ok of the North, here.
Hath not a Jew eyes?
Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?
If you prick us, do we not bleed?
A famous counter-example occurred at the 1925 Baden-Baden Tournament when Aaron Nimzowitsch swept all the pieces off the chessboard, jumped up on the table and screamed "How can I lose to this idiot?".
Chess can be just as aggravating.
And yet, come to think of it, that's probably because I failed to take the requisite levels of an arcane spellcasting class before attempting the Arcane Archer prestige class. Whoops!
I consider it an outrage that I've been quietly multiclassing my very own 'Saba, Queen of the Lyase' into a Half-elven Level 10/6 Fighter/Arcane Archer for years without a whit of recognition. And now this!
Oh, I was absolutely asking for a wisecrack; just didn't even have the energy to type out a caveat. And my post was deprecating enough as it was anyway.
The only intuitive human interface is the nipple.
Not even that. Just ask the first woman I ever got naked.
Chess skill is largely a basis of pattern recognition and experience, prodigies aside. One can be brilliant at chess by sheer dint of having played thousands and thousands of games and be mediocre at everything else in life. Adrian de Groot famously [in the chess world, at least] found that Grandmasters are far better than amateurs at memorizing real gameplay positions on a board, but are just as poor as amateurs with nonsense positions [three white bishops all on black squares, kings adjacent, general random piece placement]. This has led heavily to the adoption of the 'pattern recognition' mode of thought.
Your monk, then, may have just been very, very, experienced, in spite of his old age, and thus fearsome. Hell, look at Viktor Kortchnoi.
That said, though, I absolutely believe there are some very, very, sharp elderly men and women out there. As well as some very, very, strong ones, to dispel another myth. The key is using what you have -- intelligence, strength -- and never giving it a chance to slip into senility.
I don't know. I thought King Missile had thoroughly addressed this issue years ago.
$400 of that $900 is for the labor costs he accrued using up the roll of toilet paper.
This has been kicked around for a few years, at least. I remember reading it in Thomas J. Elpel's "Direct Pointing to Real Wealth", which is very out-there and hippieish. As such, I'm mildly surprised it's news at all to a science-minded website such as this one.
"Face-recognition software fingers suspects"?
Great, now they're out to violate not only our privacy, but our personal space?
[Go ahead and mod parent 'Redundant'. I would relish it. Have already.]
First post!
Game over, man -- game over!
Tubes.
Alright, here's a simple question of feasibility, assuming this technology works:
"How much more power would have to be supplied to the copper antenna than would be received by the device?"
Which is to say, the resonance would be emanating in all directions, and a great part of it would be missing the receptive object entirely. How much resonance would need to be lost for the cell phone, mp3 player or whatever to receive the needed amount of charge? With something like a laser as long-distance power, efficiency would be near total, but with something like this, it seems like a lot of energy would be spent pumping this copper coil into sending resonant waves into peoples' living room walls, out their windows, into the inseam of their pants, etc.
I'd be curious to hear anyone bandy back an educated response [I know -- this is Slashdot, but I have faith] here.