Everyone is so concerned with teleporting living matter. I say start working on the non-living matter first. Besides, in the end we probably never need to teleport ourselves in the first place.
I mean, you wanna go to the store? Just teleport whatever you want to buy to yourself instead? Wanna go to the grandcanyon? Teleport it to ya piece by piece.
The point of the original post I believe is you can still believe in the Bible and, to some extent, evolution. Especially if you take the bible symbolically, like most should.
Its funny that people are perfectly "ok" with taking the last book symbolically, but the first book literally. I assure you, if whoever wrote revelations was talking about a pope being the whore of Babylon, he would have been more than capable of calling it the "whore of the Rome of Christ"... Yet a lot of fundamentalists swear by the theory that the anti-Christ will be a pope.
"We've produced over ten million of these discs -- we've had less than a dozen phone calls"
Personally I think 11/10,000,000 (to round the numbers) is about an appropriate number for all people who...
1.) Care about the environment 2.) Bought the newspaper for more than a crafts project or dog waste 3.) Have a computer and still read newspapers 4.) Have a mac 5.) Actually would be smart enough to call the company to complain about the CD, and not apple. 6.) Actually put the disk in their computers in the first place 7.) Would care enough about spam to use the DVD.
I'd personally be very interested in seeing how correct my estimate is. This person is trying to imply that 10,000,000+ mac users who used his CD are doing "just fine" since he only got less than a dozen calls that he knows about...
You don't need to be the "savior of the world" in an RPG. Most (newer) RPers tend to write characters like this, but I've seen people RP accountants to 'the side-kick of the secondary or tertiary villain". Thanks to new mediums such as anime and newer fantasy novels/films* focusing on more than just the singular hero. The side characters are many times loved by more people than the protagonist (at least in my experiences). RPing the "random-one-shot-character-who-isn't-always-in-the-spot-ligt" isn't a bad thing anymore. Half because when he gets his moment in the sun its really cool and memorable, and half because the interesting things you can do with a side character usually tends to make them more memorable in the viewers mind then the generic protagonist or antagonist. Since you don't affect the plot all the time and aren't "the chosen one", your allowed certain unique freedoms (from exploring grayer areas of morality more easily to having a god-modish power that is only worthwhile in such a unique capacity that your designed for "that one moment"**.
Check out some online, forum based RPGs if you want more information/data on this. Make sure they are RP groups with long lasting and unique characters though, not just temporary groups of people on gaia online RPing their favorite Inuyasha characters.
*By newer I mean...50-60 years as opposed to older epics and sci-fi dramas like Flash Gorden.
**"Able to shoot eye beams that can blow up mountains if fighting a lich's snow wurm in hawaii". Heehee, couldn't resist.
I still prefer greeting cards sent through mail, as another example. I consider most "e-greetings" spam from cheap relatives who don't believe in the privacy of my e-mail. Thank goodness that little fad seems to be dying down...
But really, a lot of things are better postmarked on paper. You can still modify/forge it, but its a lot harder than with, say, your own printout of an e-mail you received with no proof it was sent to you other than the text document in the judge's hand.
Whatever is coming in the future will be bleak, confusing and only serve to remind us how much better things were when we were children. Its been said since the beginning of civilization and therefore must be true.
I wish I had a point to mod this troll...
Anyways, many religions in the past functioned almost like a de-facto science for the people of the time, providing them with new outlooks on life that would lead them to leading richer and longer lives. People would take data from experiences ("If I water my plants more and more, balancing the water with the dirt in a constant ratio, I get better olives") and later assume, although by today's standard with a lack of in depth experimentation, it was the result of a spiritual anomaly ("this must be because all matter is composed of more or less dense water, and grows as a result of contact with this dense or less dense form of water"). As a result, they could teach people these fundamental truths and prosper in a way they could easily understand so they could apply it to their lives ("I have watered my plants with the same consistency and obtained a proper harvest each and every year, getting lots of money in the process" to use an early Greek 'religious' example, which was at the time lauded as a cult).
Many laws in Religious teachings (Cleaning your hands before eating to keep your body clean, a Shinto teaching, or not eating Pork due to disease rampant in the creature at the time) helped the people of the time better survive a world that didn't understand what was happening to them. Just because they didn't have the technology to explore that, for example, washing your hands prior to eating is essential for physical health because your hands gather dangerous germs and bacteria throughout the day that you don't want in your body, doesn't mean they couldn't learn through observation of the world around them and live better lives later. Explaining the myth to children or even 'the common people' through poetic tales (Tsukuyomi decapitating the kami of the feast, for example, for not properly presenting and cleaning the food and eating area), doesn't mean that its 'wrong'--even science does this through misleading titles ('the big bang', for example, despite the lack of sound that would have been present at the time; and yes, I know the term was originally used to mock the theory. The point is, its still taught using this term).
Personally, I still believe in the future new ways of seeing existence will emerge to become the leading way of understanding the universe that will be so different from today's standards (Physics), that old (our 'current') sciences will be rendered as foolish and useless as old religious practices are seen by many today. I also believe there will be strong support for our modern sciences that will continue, albeit to much criticism for not adopting to the modern way of thinking.
In the end, I believe any view that allows you to live your life to the fullest without imposing itself on the lives of others to an extent that they are unable to explore the world themselves (and other's ability to advance their personal philosophical views on the world) is a valid choice. The tricky part is getting people to stop wanting to define their world-view as "the one everyone agrees with...or else."
The issue though with that is teaching...if you really wanted a non-invasive philosophical doctrine imposed on the world, no one could teach anyone anything. Or people would simply have to be forced to be taught opposing world-views and ideas, spend time actually exploring the possibilities that other realities exist outside the ones that they formed in their heads when they were children, once they've achieved a mental capacity for coming to conclusions. Building new ideas on existing dogma and advancing the human consciousness and view of our world based on personal experience, experimentation and logic is the true goal set for every able human on or off the face of the earth.
How could a bug kill a dinosaur? Have you seen how large a dinosaur is? Capable of ripping a man in half it is! What can a bug do? Eat some smaller bugs? Maybe annoy you with incessant buzzing?
I for one do not welcome our weak, tiny and harmless incestoid over-*dies of malaria*
I still think a good chunk of the military should use an entirely new OS, kernal and even framework, releasing to the public only after they move on from that.
Would be if our signals actually interrupt another evolving society? Imagine if another society, more privative than ours, maybe...1,000 years from now, decides to communicate via radio transmissions. The first inventor of such a receiver would get all our crap. And I doubt their first thought will be "Intelligent Life in the Universe!" (c). It'll probably be "woah, there is so much radio interference in the universe, this technology is unusable.
This is assuming our waves would actually, for whatever reason, constantly bombard their planet. Odds are low, considering how much of space is...well...empty space.
What about aliens who "see"/sense the spectrum of light beyond that of normal living organisms? Could their entire planet be "blinded" or awashed with these waves? For long enough that the beings of that planet believe it is a _natural_ occurence in the universe?
Didn't the anti-water thing actually occur at one point in France to increase domestic wine sales? Mind you, this could be an old wives tale...which is why I'm trying to get it confirmed.
Reminds me of what happened that killed the Gurren Laggann MMORPG:
An online video game was developed by Konami called Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Chouzetsu Hakkutsu ONLINE ( ONLINE, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Chouzetsu Hakkutsu ONLINE?). Beta testing had ended on April 16, 2007. The player takes up the role of a driller and drills for treasures in first person view. There is a shop to purchase drills -- the shopkeeper is an original character named Asaki. The player can also collect digital trading cards. The game was canceled at the closed beta stage, as installing the game crashed Windows indefinitely. Konami even had to send out 500GB external hard drives to beta users so that they could back up files while reinstalling their broken operating systems. (source: Wikipedia)
You mean the owner and root admin of a site performed his duty as root admin? Say it isn't so!
The truth is, sometimes you just HAVE to do your job or your site will end up like YouTube is. Honestly, I wish I could ban some youtube users (spammers, trollers, those not even discussing the video in question when they use the discussion tool), but no: its an "open forum" of information.
Funny how quickly "open forum" turns into "stagnant quagmire".
I just want to know why so many people think I have issues with the size of my penis.
But in all seriousness, in the last years spammers have simply moved to slightly weasel-ier territories: pay-to-play online games like World of Warcraft and social communities like Facebook or forums.
On our own college anime club forum of about 40 people we get something like 5-10 bots signing up a day. Thank god we turned on e-mail confirmation...but even THEN spammers now compensate for that (manual labor?).
Its freaking' ridiculous.
The worst part is I'm so against spam I refuse to purchase anything from a banner ad. And I've even seen a few things I'd like to buy.
But they lost a sale. Instead of using mediums such as conventions, magazines or television, they plastered their ads over some torrent site, jeopardizing the moral integrity of that site in the process (which is now making thousands off banner revenue instead of _just_ trying to free the information "that wants to be free").
Maybe you can use this as a diversion. Dial 911, toss the phone across the room and put it on speaker phone?
Of course I'm kidding. This would just rile up anyone and get them looking for whose phone it was (or just randomly beating someone). Then again, if you REALLY didn't like someone nearby...you could hand them the phone...
What'd be really interesting if criminals started using these for those silly girls who go on their cellphones when walking down an alley, etc... and call up friends.
"Did you hear the 911 beep, Joe?" "Nope, lets go get her purse!"
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Everyone is so concerned with teleporting living matter. I say start working on the non-living matter first. Besides, in the end we probably never need to teleport ourselves in the first place.
I mean, you wanna go to the store? Just teleport whatever you want to buy to yourself instead? Wanna go to the grandcanyon? Teleport it to ya piece by piece.
The point of the original post I believe is you can still believe in the Bible and, to some extent, evolution. Especially if you take the bible symbolically, like most should.
Its funny that people are perfectly "ok" with taking the last book symbolically, but the first book literally. I assure you, if whoever wrote revelations was talking about a pope being the whore of Babylon, he would have been more than capable of calling it the "whore of the Rome of Christ"... Yet a lot of fundamentalists swear by the theory that the anti-Christ will be a pope.
"We've produced over ten million of these discs -- we've had less than a dozen phone calls"
Personally I think 11/10,000,000 (to round the numbers) is about an appropriate number for all people who...
1.) Care about the environment
2.) Bought the newspaper for more than a crafts project or dog waste
3.) Have a computer and still read newspapers
4.) Have a mac
5.) Actually would be smart enough to call the company to complain about the CD, and not apple.
6.) Actually put the disk in their computers in the first place
7.) Would care enough about spam to use the DVD.
I'd personally be very interested in seeing how correct my estimate is. This person is trying to imply that 10,000,000+ mac users who used his CD are doing "just fine" since he only got less than a dozen calls that he knows about...
point=anon.
You don't need to be the "savior of the world" in an RPG. Most (newer) RPers tend to write characters like this, but I've seen people RP accountants to 'the side-kick of the secondary or tertiary villain". Thanks to new mediums such as anime and newer fantasy novels/films* focusing on more than just the singular hero. The side characters are many times loved by more people than the protagonist (at least in my experiences). RPing the "random-one-shot-character-who-isn't-always-in-the-spot-ligt" isn't a bad thing anymore. Half because when he gets his moment in the sun its really cool and memorable, and half because the interesting things you can do with a side character usually tends to make them more memorable in the viewers mind then the generic protagonist or antagonist. Since you don't affect the plot all the time and aren't "the chosen one", your allowed certain unique freedoms (from exploring grayer areas of morality more easily to having a god-modish power that is only worthwhile in such a unique capacity that your designed for "that one moment"**.
Check out some online, forum based RPGs if you want more information/data on this. Make sure they are RP groups with long lasting and unique characters though, not just temporary groups of people on gaia online RPing their favorite Inuyasha characters.
*By newer I mean...50-60 years as opposed to older epics and sci-fi dramas like Flash Gorden.
**"Able to shoot eye beams that can blow up mountains if fighting a lich's snow wurm in hawaii". Heehee, couldn't resist.
I still prefer greeting cards sent through mail, as another example. I consider most "e-greetings" spam from cheap relatives who don't believe in the privacy of my e-mail. Thank goodness that little fad seems to be dying down...
But really, a lot of things are better postmarked on paper. You can still modify/forge it, but its a lot harder than with, say, your own printout of an e-mail you received with no proof it was sent to you other than the text document in the judge's hand.
Also, ebay and packages...
Whatever is coming in the future will be bleak, confusing and only serve to remind us how much better things were when we were children. Its been said since the beginning of civilization and therefore must be true.
I wish I had a point to mod this troll... Anyways, many religions in the past functioned almost like a de-facto science for the people of the time, providing them with new outlooks on life that would lead them to leading richer and longer lives. People would take data from experiences ("If I water my plants more and more, balancing the water with the dirt in a constant ratio, I get better olives") and later assume, although by today's standard with a lack of in depth experimentation, it was the result of a spiritual anomaly ("this must be because all matter is composed of more or less dense water, and grows as a result of contact with this dense or less dense form of water"). As a result, they could teach people these fundamental truths and prosper in a way they could easily understand so they could apply it to their lives ("I have watered my plants with the same consistency and obtained a proper harvest each and every year, getting lots of money in the process" to use an early Greek 'religious' example, which was at the time lauded as a cult). Many laws in Religious teachings (Cleaning your hands before eating to keep your body clean, a Shinto teaching, or not eating Pork due to disease rampant in the creature at the time) helped the people of the time better survive a world that didn't understand what was happening to them. Just because they didn't have the technology to explore that, for example, washing your hands prior to eating is essential for physical health because your hands gather dangerous germs and bacteria throughout the day that you don't want in your body, doesn't mean they couldn't learn through observation of the world around them and live better lives later. Explaining the myth to children or even 'the common people' through poetic tales (Tsukuyomi decapitating the kami of the feast, for example, for not properly presenting and cleaning the food and eating area), doesn't mean that its 'wrong'--even science does this through misleading titles ('the big bang', for example, despite the lack of sound that would have been present at the time; and yes, I know the term was originally used to mock the theory. The point is, its still taught using this term). Personally, I still believe in the future new ways of seeing existence will emerge to become the leading way of understanding the universe that will be so different from today's standards (Physics), that old (our 'current') sciences will be rendered as foolish and useless as old religious practices are seen by many today. I also believe there will be strong support for our modern sciences that will continue, albeit to much criticism for not adopting to the modern way of thinking. In the end, I believe any view that allows you to live your life to the fullest without imposing itself on the lives of others to an extent that they are unable to explore the world themselves (and other's ability to advance their personal philosophical views on the world) is a valid choice. The tricky part is getting people to stop wanting to define their world-view as "the one everyone agrees with...or else." The issue though with that is teaching...if you really wanted a non-invasive philosophical doctrine imposed on the world, no one could teach anyone anything. Or people would simply have to be forced to be taught opposing world-views and ideas, spend time actually exploring the possibilities that other realities exist outside the ones that they formed in their heads when they were children, once they've achieved a mental capacity for coming to conclusions. Building new ideas on existing dogma and advancing the human consciousness and view of our world based on personal experience, experimentation and logic is the true goal set for every able human on or off the face of the earth.
How could a bug kill a dinosaur? Have you seen how large a dinosaur is? Capable of ripping a man in half it is! What can a bug do? Eat some smaller bugs? Maybe annoy you with incessant buzzing? I for one do not welcome our weak, tiny and harmless incestoid over-*dies of malaria*
Wonder what the effects of this on ADD medication will be...
Woah! I had just the same idea!
I still think a good chunk of the military should use an entirely new OS, kernal and even framework, releasing to the public only after they move on from that.
Their only side effect is greatness.
When its released by a company that now relies almost solely on sequels and franchises to the extent that they need no announcement?
That's odd, I haven't notic anyt-kzzzt.
Would be if our signals actually interrupt another evolving society? Imagine if another society, more privative than ours, maybe...1,000 years from now, decides to communicate via radio transmissions. The first inventor of such a receiver would get all our crap. And I doubt their first thought will be "Intelligent Life in the Universe!" (c). It'll probably be "woah, there is so much radio interference in the universe, this technology is unusable.
This is assuming our waves would actually, for whatever reason, constantly bombard their planet. Odds are low, considering how much of space is...well...empty space.
What about aliens who "see"/sense the spectrum of light beyond that of normal living organisms? Could their entire planet be "blinded" or awashed with these waves? For long enough that the beings of that planet believe it is a _natural_ occurence in the universe?
I still have to pay for my music? No fair. I want it for free because it makes me happy.
The fishing section is just as bad. Robots have a hard time telling the difference between a "fish" and a "human in a swimming pool".
It happened to me once, I still have the scars.
Isn't Cancer theoretically evolution? I mean, at least 1 cell is mutated...
Just goes to show that God hates evolution.
And that I don't know what the hell I'm talking about.
Didn't the anti-water thing actually occur at one point in France to increase domestic wine sales? Mind you, this could be an old wives tale...which is why I'm trying to get it confirmed.
Find me a machine that can't be hacked by a paperclip and I'll find you the episode of Mc Guyver that'll prove you dead wrong.
Reminds me of what happened that killed the Gurren Laggann MMORPG:
An online video game was developed by Konami called Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Chouzetsu Hakkutsu ONLINE ( ONLINE, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Chouzetsu Hakkutsu ONLINE?). Beta testing had ended on April 16, 2007. The player takes up the role of a driller and drills for treasures in first person view. There is a shop to purchase drills -- the shopkeeper is an original character named Asaki. The player can also collect digital trading cards. The game was canceled at the closed beta stage, as installing the game crashed Windows indefinitely. Konami even had to send out 500GB external hard drives to beta users so that they could back up files while reinstalling their broken operating systems. (source: Wikipedia)
You mean the owner and root admin of a site performed his duty as root admin? Say it isn't so!
The truth is, sometimes you just HAVE to do your job or your site will end up like YouTube is. Honestly, I wish I could ban some youtube users (spammers, trollers, those not even discussing the video in question when they use the discussion tool), but no: its an "open forum" of information.
Funny how quickly "open forum" turns into "stagnant quagmire".
I just want to know why so many people think I have issues with the size of my penis.
But in all seriousness, in the last years spammers have simply moved to slightly weasel-ier territories: pay-to-play online games like World of Warcraft and social communities like Facebook or forums.
On our own college anime club forum of about 40 people we get something like 5-10 bots signing up a day. Thank god we turned on e-mail confirmation...but even THEN spammers now compensate for that (manual labor?).
Its freaking' ridiculous.
The worst part is I'm so against spam I refuse to purchase anything from a banner ad. And I've even seen a few things I'd like to buy.
But they lost a sale. Instead of using mediums such as conventions, magazines or television, they plastered their ads over some torrent site, jeopardizing the moral integrity of that site in the process (which is now making thousands off banner revenue instead of _just_ trying to free the information "that wants to be free").
Maybe you can use this as a diversion. Dial 911, toss the phone across the room and put it on speaker phone?
Of course I'm kidding. This would just rile up anyone and get them looking for whose phone it was (or just randomly beating someone). Then again, if you REALLY didn't like someone nearby...you could hand them the phone...
What'd be really interesting if criminals started using these for those silly girls who go on their cellphones when walking down an alley, etc... and call up friends.
"Did you hear the 911 beep, Joe?"
"Nope, lets go get her purse!"