While we are on the topic of George Lucas, let me be on the record as saying that Lucas is going to pull a Kerry and decide to go ahead and produce Star Wars 7 8 and 9. 3 was just too much of a downer to to be the last one made.
You can tell me how right I am later.
I would really appreciate and value an explaination.
"Ars points out that 'the changes are minimal, but they give some insight into Google's plans.'" I thought we already knew those: world domination."
The link made reference to world domination, and I made a joke in reference to this - that resistance to Google's world domination is futile. I know I'm being repetative, but the comment is reference to the implicit topic being alluded to - i.e. world domination. If you don't find it funny, that is fine. But while it is not on the explicit topic of 'google's new page' it alludes to the implicit 'joke' of world domination by google made by Zonk. Considering the power google has amassed in the last few years and their company motto, a joke in reference to the implicit topic being discussed (even if you don't find it funny) is not off topic. Sheesh.
From a memetic/cultural perspective. South Korean culture is flourishing (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?stor yId=5300970), and many people view Microsoft as floundering and reactionary (they change the name of outlook to match Apple Mail, redo large portins of Vista, and are often percieved as not having the consumers best interest in mind, opposed to Google who says 'lets not be evil' [whatever that means]). The hearts and minds of the people and therefore jurors and judges and beurocrats (unless, of course, it is a conspiracy) are not on Microsofts sides. Perception is everything.
Microsoft will lose this.
Does anyone else notice that there is a unusually high proportion of funny comments to not funny comments at 5:30 in the morning? Correlation? Coincedence? ??? Maybe I'm tired.
Furhurmore, I would like to note that this is hypocritical because it is probably the same people who claim 911 was not a major loss of life that claim we should not worry about another terrorist event and the War in Iraq is a quagmire and horrible.
Yet, many of them complain how horrible the War In Iraq is despite the fact that less of our soldiers have died in Iraq than American citizens died during 911. If that doesn't make sense, read it more carefully; I'm not going to refine it.
Jeeze, it has been like 2 days since this discussion. I'm really taking the bait, aren't I? I feel like such a tool.
What they really ought to do is cover these suckers with radio transmission blocking material and fill these suckers with robots, then you really would need to put few real human lives at risk and so the robots could not be hacked. I guess we need to develope the technology first, but seriously, then people will stop complaing about our soldiers dying, but they would complain about the costs of developing and implimenting the technology and they would also complain about how much we are relying on technology. War has cost - biological, psychological, political, cultural, and economic. Take your pick.
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mislead you...
This is not actually going to be a "motel" or 'hotel' per se. You will not be able to go there after prom. What they are probably refering to is the lunar base that we (America) is planning to build.
I just thought we ought to clear that up.
What qualifies as a worthy read? Something that makes your professional value go up? Something that makes time go faster (i.e. it is fun?). But what is the real value that you get from playing Counter-Strike, posting or reading a rant, or some sexually confused girl's myspace blog (okay, maybe she is attractive)? What value does it add to your life? A candy bar tastes good, but it only makes you fat and probably doesn't do anything valuable for you, other than provide you with the five minutes of pleasure that it took to eat it. Perhaps, you could argue that eating healthy and working out provide long term value, because it makes you feel good in the long term. But does being fat make you feel good in the long term? Does 20 gigs of pr0n? 20 gigs is a lengthy bit of media, perhaps that does qualify as long term.
Please explain to me what you think 'A Trillion Dollar Bet' has to do what is being discussed.
And if you would direct me to the manuscript as well, I would appreciate it. I do not see an obvious link on the website for the show.
1. This seems like flame bait, not insight. (perhaps I'm just overly sensitive, but he calls 3,000 people's lives not a major loss of life, and then tells me that because of my opinion I am 'throwing away my(italics added) liberty'... excuse me... 'LIBERTY')
2. Then out of all the posts in this thread, this was the only one modded to an insight level of 3. How dare they insult my level of insight through neglect.
Please consider me righteously indignant. Thank you. =0)
Oh, and the 'criminals' who perpetrated 911. Those criminals commited an act of war against us, just like the criminals at Pearl Harbor. They may not be of one nation, but 911 seemed like an act of war to me. I realize however, if you want to minimize the harm done to your nation, through semantics, that is your business, but I thougth that ought to be said.
Although, I see good logic in what you say, I just don't see a "relatively small number of people's lives" at stake. The terrorists would kill everyone in America if they could (unless, perhaps, we all convert to Islam), and if they are smarter than us, there is a potential they could inflict mass casualties. I don't want this to happen, and this could seem like a relatively number of big people if they kill enough of us.
However, I'd be all for banning cigarette use, at least in all places besides one's home and around one's children. Sounds good to me.
Theoretically speaking, is the following not possible?:::
1. Terrorist plans to release a biological agent or release a dirty bomb, and somehow (directly or otherwise, may heaven forbid) kill 1,000,000+ people.
2. There is a closed meeting that discusses, "Let's do X, Y, and Z to deter terrorists from releasing diseases or dirty bombs". They all agree.
3. The powers that be secretly execute and follow through on items X, Y and Z.
4. Terrorists plan to use a method to kill 1,000,000 (albeit, a VERY remote possibility) that would be counteracted due to the measures of X Y and Z previously taken.
5. Terrorists do not include in their plans ways to counteract X, Y, and Z.
6. Terrorists are foiled by X Y and Z, and 1,000,000+ lives are saved.
I admit, this is not possible. And there is a potential that the terrorists are using our anxieties to "turn us in to a dictatorship", and that is their plan. Albeit, that is remote as well.
As for saying the powers that be, somehow 'have a hidden agenda', as another gentleman who replied to my post suggested. I just don't think that is the case.
I knew/know a fellow who pre-Nov 2004, claimed adamantly, and rather passionately that if George Bush won the election that 'there will never be another election'. I just don't see events coalescing into anything like this. Perhaps I am just naive. Please BigTrike's logic almost sold me, but I just don't see a small number of people's lives at stake. If the terrorists play their cards right and are smart, they could theoretically do A LOT of damage. They claim and hope to do this, if you have heard their most recent statements.
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While we are on the topic of George Lucas, let me be on the record as saying that Lucas is going to pull a Kerry and decide to go ahead and produce Star Wars 7 8 and 9. 3 was just too much of a downer to to be the last one made. You can tell me how right I am later.
Which of those companies is the big wifi manufacturer/distributor?
Or maybe whichever is branded and publicized better.
"Ars points out that 'the changes are minimal, but they give some insight into Google's plans.'" I thought we already knew those: world domination."
The link made reference to world domination, and I made a joke in reference to this - that resistance to Google's world domination is futile. I know I'm being repetative, but the comment is reference to the implicit topic being alluded to - i.e. world domination. If you don't find it funny, that is fine. But while it is not on the explicit topic of 'google's new page' it alludes to the implicit 'joke' of world domination by google made by Zonk. Considering the power google has amassed in the last few years and their company motto, a joke in reference to the implicit topic being discussed (even if you don't find it funny) is not off topic. Sheesh.
From a memetic/cultural perspective. South Korean culture is flourishing (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?stor yId=5300970), and many people view Microsoft as floundering and reactionary (they change the name of outlook to match Apple Mail, redo large portins of Vista, and are often percieved as not having the consumers best interest in mind, opposed to Google who says 'lets not be evil' [whatever that means]). The hearts and minds of the people and therefore jurors and judges and beurocrats (unless, of course, it is a conspiracy) are not on Microsofts sides. Perception is everything.
Microsoft will lose this.
Wasn't this obvious? Or am I just exhibiting the hindsight bias? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias%5D
don't you wish you'd used ubuntu?
you will be assimilated
Does anyone else notice that there is a unusually high proportion of funny comments to not funny comments at 5:30 in the morning? Correlation? Coincedence? ??? Maybe I'm tired.
I just hope that these rapscallions are punished properly.
I am very glad for him.
Yet, many of them complain how horrible the War In Iraq is despite the fact that less of our soldiers have died in Iraq than American citizens died during 911. If that doesn't make sense, read it more carefully; I'm not going to refine it.
Jeeze, it has been like 2 days since this discussion. I'm really taking the bait, aren't I? I feel like such a tool.
What they really ought to do is cover these suckers with radio transmission blocking material and fill these suckers with robots, then you really would need to put few real human lives at risk and so the robots could not be hacked. I guess we need to develope the technology first, but seriously, then people will stop complaing about our soldiers dying, but they would complain about the costs of developing and implimenting the technology and they would also complain about how much we are relying on technology. War has cost - biological, psychological, political, cultural, and economic. Take your pick.
mislead you... This is not actually going to be a "motel" or 'hotel' per se. You will not be able to go there after prom. What they are probably refering to is the lunar base that we (America) is planning to build. I just thought we ought to clear that up.
What qualifies as a worthy read? Something that makes your professional value go up? Something that makes time go faster (i.e. it is fun?). But what is the real value that you get from playing Counter-Strike, posting or reading a rant, or some sexually confused girl's myspace blog (okay, maybe she is attractive)? What value does it add to your life? A candy bar tastes good, but it only makes you fat and probably doesn't do anything valuable for you, other than provide you with the five minutes of pleasure that it took to eat it. Perhaps, you could argue that eating healthy and working out provide long term value, because it makes you feel good in the long term. But does being fat make you feel good in the long term? Does 20 gigs of pr0n? 20 gigs is a lengthy bit of media, perhaps that does qualify as long term.
Good riddance.
You're spite (even if only in jest) only makes me more resistant to your patterns of thought.
There's always plastic surgury.
Please explain to me what you think 'A Trillion Dollar Bet' has to do what is being discussed. And if you would direct me to the manuscript as well, I would appreciate it. I do not see an obvious link on the website for the show.
1. This seems like flame bait, not insight. (perhaps I'm just overly sensitive, but he calls 3,000 people's lives not a major loss of life, and then tells me that because of my opinion I am 'throwing away my(italics added) liberty'... excuse me... 'LIBERTY')
2. Then out of all the posts in this thread, this was the only one modded to an insight level of 3. How dare they insult my level of insight through neglect.
Please consider me righteously indignant. Thank you. =0)
Oh, and the 'criminals' who perpetrated 911. Those criminals commited an act of war against us, just like the criminals at Pearl Harbor. They may not be of one nation, but 911 seemed like an act of war to me. I realize however, if you want to minimize the harm done to your nation, through semantics, that is your business, but I thougth that ought to be said.
However, I'd be all for banning cigarette use, at least in all places besides one's home and around one's children. Sounds good to me.
1. Terrorist plans to release a biological agent or release a dirty bomb, and somehow (directly or otherwise, may heaven forbid) kill 1,000,000+ people.
2. There is a closed meeting that discusses, "Let's do X, Y, and Z to deter terrorists from releasing diseases or dirty bombs". They all agree.
3. The powers that be secretly execute and follow through on items X, Y and Z.
4. Terrorists plan to use a method to kill 1,000,000 (albeit, a VERY remote possibility) that would be counteracted due to the measures of X Y and Z previously taken.
5. Terrorists do not include in their plans ways to counteract X, Y, and Z.
6. Terrorists are foiled by X Y and Z, and 1,000,000+ lives are saved.
I admit, this is not possible. And there is a potential that the terrorists are using our anxieties to "turn us in to a dictatorship", and that is their plan. Albeit, that is remote as well.
As for saying the powers that be, somehow 'have a hidden agenda', as another gentleman who replied to my post suggested. I just don't think that is the case.
I knew/know a fellow who pre-Nov 2004, claimed adamantly, and rather passionately that if George Bush won the election that 'there will never be another election'. I just don't see events coalescing into anything like this. Perhaps I am just naive. Please BigTrike's logic almost sold me, but I just don't see a small number of people's lives at stake. If the terrorists play their cards right and are smart, they could theoretically do A LOT of damage. They claim and hope to do this, if you have heard their most recent statements.
If this helps prevent another 911 (which, admittedly, there is a potential it may not), then maybe it isn't such a bad thing.
How? I thought it was funny.