I hate pseudo-science. It is the only thing I really agreed with any Scientologist on. (Tom Cruise on Psychiatry) In general, there is a lot of pseudo-science, and unfortunately it is not only in Psychiatry. Doctors are often wrong and don't do their patients justice, only wanting to give them a prescription as we've been conditioned to expect and get us on our way. If only the placebo effect actually could cure everything, and all these chemicals we're given didn't have such negative side effects.
Either scientists don't understand the scientific method, or the actual relationship and statistical relationship of the subjects they are experimenting on, or they don't care due to their agendas. It seems to have always been a problem, but with big business, even more so.
In this study, I can assure you, having to stare at a blank screen (or mirror) for minutes would likely give me too much time to reflect on how pointless my life appears to be being that some monkey in a white coat has me staring at a blank screen. Heck, allowing me to do anything stimulating would probably give me more self esteem than just sitting there.
While I did read the article and understand their way of thinking (and they may actually be somewhat right), such a trivial experiment surely can't be a very helpful basis of self esteem. In their control group for example, were not even any other websites. Hence, this is garbage science.
This appears to beg the question to me, who commissioned this study, and if we followed the money who would it lead to? Why do they appear to want us to be hypnotized by Facebook, and what in life do they wish to have us ignore, ala "The Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz"?
I want to point out that I believe in GOD. This is important to note I feel, because it allows me to see what is not normally seen. What I mean is, there is obviously something other at work here, and it goes far deeper than I have bothered to touch on. I mean really, we're OK with the headlines surely being plastered on the papers this week encouraging people to look to Facebook for a self-esteem boost, even if it is buried in the Life section? Red pill or Blue pill, it's you choice.
Now, some of you will instantly dismiss me as a crack-pot even if I had merely acknowledged GOD. But consider this, I love science, and think our minds are a gift. We should use them, and get out of the boxes that enslave us. They take many forms, as do the payments that are obviously due for this slashvertisement. These people who feed you this garbage can't honestly have your well being at heart.
Well, if you were in Bradley Mannings shoes, and were innocent, I doubt you would be happy with the lawyer the state would supply, especially since he is being held without a trial at the moment...
I am not sure I agree, I think big government allows big business to unite. With small government, it is much more transparent and there are less politicians to "get to".
Troll is the new noob. Everyone was a newbie, no big deal. A noob however thinks everyone else is, and he is in fact almost assuredly the noob. But please, use words correctly, society has a hard enough time as it is with astroturfing new meanings with the intent of causing confusion. Troll does not equal nigger. Nigger now refers to a lifestyle, as troll sort of does. They both used to refer to colors, one of skin, and the other of intent of post. Now, it appears they are attempting to be used interchangeably. I hope I don't hear one day, "You cut me off you muther-fucking troll!";)
Also, don't think the worst of people. He may not like you, but you get trolled when you respond back to him calling you a troll. Sort of like you look like the noob when you get upset someone called you that...
If I call someone a fag or nigger before I beat their ass into the ground, I can assure you I hated them no more than any one else I would beat into the ground. I don't do things like that, because I don't hate people, period. The only reason hate speech is on the level you mention is because we have been conditioned to believe it to be. If I called someone a nerd before I beat them into the ground, why would I not get prosecuted for hate crimes against nerds? Oh, because blacks and homosexuals are protected. WTF! What about me, the nerd? I am not protected? Doesn't singling out "hate crimes" make them more prevalent in the end? If not, it just makes us easier to control....
I am not ignoring past history, but acknowledging it. I admire Martin Luther King Jr. He had a dream we could all walk together equal, and until we are just that, equal, we are creating more problems.
What if they told you to "hold it" and that you couldn't pee? You are never free, whilst you believe you aren't. Do most believe they are, but are not? Sure, but don't let someone scare you into staying in the cage when you can see the door is not locked or adequately patrolled.
No sir, a better analogy is you sold him a car, he took it apart to see how it works and then explained it to friends. You then come with your friends with guns, and bust down his door. Could his friends make the car parts? Sure, but should it be illegal to share information? Certainly not. He didn't steal anything. Reverse engineered maybe, but you can't steal a car in your possession.
What he is advocating is that if you put a security system on your car, the police shouldn't have to track down car thieves if the car gets stolen. I see his point, but I don't agree. I believe in information being free, and I think it is "criminal" (to society, in general) to not allow someone to share it. But, I believe in freedom, and someone should have the right to be selfish. Forcing someone to not be selfish is well, selfish.
Wall hacks are not currently measurable by some simple metric. Computers simply can't detect (yet) what humans can. I have seen some sorry cheaters that had low scores with wall-hacks, and some good ones that are really good at hiding it. I say this as someone often accused of cheating, and someone that researched it on my own game servers before VAC2 came out for CS:S. It just isn't an easily solvable problem unless you don't trust the client as you said. But that brings upon extra expense, complexities, etc. Either you don't have single player, or you need to be online to play. And so on.
I understand your concern, I really do. But, they way they see it, if you are online, they can pull statistics, etc. for marketing. I feel it is a reasonable trade off for the ability to always download my game to another computer for free, etc. Am I also concerned? You betcha, but I have to admit that there is a "reasonable" explanation. I do feel you should have the option to go "offline" even if you aren't technically. But I like options... rarely can be too careful.
Reply back, does not equal reply to. It helps, and has done its intended purpose. Secret: sometimes I do reply back to, but usually only to just say how much anonymous coward means a free license to be an idiot to many idiots. Even if it is a well reasoned reply, I have if I remember to, avoided replying back. Good troll protection it is. Often, if you refuse to play the game, you already won.
It is, soon I can have the cheapest gas (including cost to drive there) known "for" me instead of having to look it up on gasbuddy.com myself. I will even be able to have it feed that info. directly to my brain. Just go get my implant in my forehead or wrist, and all important "decisions" will already be handled for me! I can't wait..../end sarcasm
Even though they raise our taxes...quite often...we get most of the things we need done.
Anyone who believes that, needs to listen to this. Why is it we are still discussing the same things, just WORSE off?
We're not being openly murdered by the government, there is LESS corruption in our government than other countries. We are a democracy.
Ahahaha, hahahaha. Wait, what am I laughing at again? Oh yea, it's really not funny, even though it is dead wrong. A. I would challenge most believe that politicians can and do get people "bumped off". B. We live in a Democratic Republic. Half right maybe, but we have a republic because of the fear of democracy. As it has been said, "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch." The problem is, we have elected the wolves.
I'm not saying we're perfect, but we're closer to it than all these other countries.
Almost, only in horseshoes and hand grenades. Maybe it was "defective by design", in the way that communism is believed to be.. but I know this much, if you listen to the Youtube link above, you will be reminded of this:..time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the founding fathers...two friends talked to a Cuban refuge, in the midst of his story one of my friends said, "We don't know how lucky we are." The Cuban said, "How lucky you are? I had some place to escape to." In that sentence he told the entire story. We lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.... Now it doesn't require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether you hold the deed or the title to your business or property, if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property. And such machinery already exists. The government can find some charge to bring against any concern it chooses to prosecute. Every business man has his own tale of harassment. Somewhere a perversion has taken place. Our natural unalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation of government. And freedom, has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp, as it is this moment.
We all know better, don't we? Don't we? Yet, so many of us act like it isn't that way. Why do we continue to drink the Koolaid? I guess we like red lips, and I don't mean the ones you normally kiss.
Out of the Ruins Out from the wreckage Can't make the same mistake this time We are the children The last generation We are the ones they left behind And I wonder when we are ever gonna change Living under the fear, till nothing else remains
We don't need another hero We don't need to know the way home All we want is life beyond Thunderdome
Looking for something We can rely on There's gotta be something better out there. Love and compassion Their day is coming All else are castles built into the air. And I wonder when we are ever gonna change Living under the fear till nothing else remains
All the children say We don't need another hero We don't need to know the way home All we want is life beyond Thunderdome
So what do we do with our lives We leave only a mark Will our story shine like a light Or end in the dark Give it all or nothing
We don't need another hero We don't need to know the way home All we want is life beyond Thunderdome
That means that there is no point in ousting its leaders
I don't think that's necessarily accurate. It may prove to be the case, but it's certainly not a foregone conclusion.
Foregone in so much as we'll never be free of computer viruses. Too many people got a taste of the power they have, and like the idea of being "anonymous".
The anarcho-lunatics will keep doing what they're doing, which is more or less okay, because without massive participation Anonymous is toothless.
It doesn't sound like the HBGary attack took all that massive of participation. DDOSSing did, but the point was that helped people stay anonymous by using a mob. Reminds me of what they used to do in my hometown. 2-3- poeple would all walk out of Walmart at the same time with their hands full at the "right" time. Then they'd all get on the bus. They figured that they could only catch 1-2 of them, if any, in the confusion.
The buck stops at the top. Only when a corporation has paid someone off in some way can they get away with blaming an individual employee in that way. A CEO or CFO, etc. are supposed to know that all "tools" used are not stolen, pirated, etc.
Using FOSS will save you a lot more trouble than just the BSA. If more companies did this, we'd have more of them poor money into FOSS, and it'd be even better...
However, I think that corporations are a system defective by design, and we should have more self-employed in the world.
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I hate pseudo-science. It is the only thing I really agreed with any Scientologist on. (Tom Cruise on Psychiatry) In general, there is a lot of pseudo-science, and unfortunately it is not only in Psychiatry. Doctors are often wrong and don't do their patients justice, only wanting to give them a prescription as we've been conditioned to expect and get us on our way. If only the placebo effect actually could cure everything, and all these chemicals we're given didn't have such negative side effects.
Either scientists don't understand the scientific method, or the actual relationship and statistical relationship of the subjects they are experimenting on, or they don't care due to their agendas. It seems to have always been a problem, but with big business, even more so.
In this study, I can assure you, having to stare at a blank screen (or mirror) for minutes would likely give me too much time to reflect on how pointless my life appears to be being that some monkey in a white coat has me staring at a blank screen. Heck, allowing me to do anything stimulating would probably give me more self esteem than just sitting there.
While I did read the article and understand their way of thinking (and they may actually be somewhat right), such a trivial experiment surely can't be a very helpful basis of self esteem. In their control group for example, were not even any other websites. Hence, this is garbage science.
This appears to beg the question to me, who commissioned this study, and if we followed the money who would it lead to? Why do they appear to want us to be hypnotized by Facebook, and what in life do they wish to have us ignore, ala "The Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz"?
I want to point out that I believe in GOD. This is important to note I feel, because it allows me to see what is not normally seen. What I mean is, there is obviously something other at work here, and it goes far deeper than I have bothered to touch on. I mean really, we're OK with the headlines surely being plastered on the papers this week encouraging people to look to Facebook for a self-esteem boost, even if it is buried in the Life section? Red pill or Blue pill, it's you choice.
Now, some of you will instantly dismiss me as a crack-pot even if I had merely acknowledged GOD. But consider this, I love science, and think our minds are a gift. We should use them, and get out of the boxes that enslave us. They take many forms, as do the payments that are obviously due for this slashvertisement. These people who feed you this garbage can't honestly have your well being at heart.
Well, if you were in Bradley Mannings shoes, and were innocent, I doubt you would be happy with the lawyer the state would supply, especially since he is being held without a trial at the moment...
You mean a credit union?
I am not sure I agree, I think big government allows big business to unite. With small government, it is much more transparent and there are less politicians to "get to".
Troll is the new noob. Everyone was a newbie, no big deal. A noob however thinks everyone else is, and he is in fact almost assuredly the noob. But please, use words correctly, society has a hard enough time as it is with astroturfing new meanings with the intent of causing confusion. ;)
Troll does not equal nigger. Nigger now refers to a lifestyle, as troll sort of does. They both used to refer to colors, one of skin, and the other of intent of post. Now, it appears they are attempting to be used interchangeably. I hope I don't hear one day, "You cut me off you muther-fucking troll!"
Also, don't think the worst of people. He may not like you, but you get trolled when you respond back to him calling you a troll. Sort of like you look like the noob when you get upset someone called you that...
If I call someone a fag or nigger before I beat their ass into the ground, I can assure you I hated them no more than any one else I would beat into the ground. I don't do things like that, because I don't hate people, period. The only reason hate speech is on the level you mention is because we have been conditioned to believe it to be. If I called someone a nerd before I beat them into the ground, why would I not get prosecuted for hate crimes against nerds? Oh, because blacks and homosexuals are protected. WTF! What about me, the nerd? I am not protected? Doesn't singling out "hate crimes" make them more prevalent in the end? If not, it just makes us easier to control....
I am not ignoring past history, but acknowledging it. I admire Martin Luther King Jr. He had a dream we could all walk together equal, and until we are just that, equal, we are creating more problems.
What if they told you to "hold it" and that you couldn't pee? You are never free, whilst you believe you aren't. Do most believe they are, but are not? Sure, but don't let someone scare you into staying in the cage when you can see the door is not locked or adequately patrolled.
No sir, a better analogy is you sold him a car, he took it apart to see how it works and then explained it to friends. You then come with your friends with guns, and bust down his door. Could his friends make the car parts? Sure, but should it be illegal to share information? Certainly not. He didn't steal anything. Reverse engineered maybe, but you can't steal a car in your possession.
What he is advocating is that if you put a security system on your car, the police shouldn't have to track down car thieves if the car gets stolen. I see his point, but I don't agree. I believe in information being free, and I think it is "criminal" (to society, in general) to not allow someone to share it. But, I believe in freedom, and someone should have the right to be selfish. Forcing someone to not be selfish is well, selfish.
Wall hacks are not currently measurable by some simple metric. Computers simply can't detect (yet) what humans can. I have seen some sorry cheaters that had low scores with wall-hacks, and some good ones that are really good at hiding it. I say this as someone often accused of cheating, and someone that researched it on my own game servers before VAC2 came out for CS:S. It just isn't an easily solvable problem unless you don't trust the client as you said. But that brings upon extra expense, complexities, etc. Either you don't have single player, or you need to be online to play. And so on.
I understand your concern, I really do. But, they way they see it, if you are online, they can pull statistics, etc. for marketing. I feel it is a reasonable trade off for the ability to always download my game to another computer for free, etc. Am I also concerned? You betcha, but I have to admit that there is a "reasonable" explanation. I do feel you should have the option to go "offline" even if you aren't technically. But I like options... rarely can be too careful.
Reply back, does not equal reply to. It helps, and has done its intended purpose. Secret: sometimes I do reply back to, but usually only to just say how much anonymous coward means a free license to be an idiot to many idiots. Even if it is a well reasoned reply, I have if I remember to, avoided replying back. Good troll protection it is. Often, if you refuse to play the game, you already won.
That is why it is democratic republic, "all" we'd have to do is elect better decision makers...
It's not a democracy. It is a democratic republic.
It is, soon I can have the cheapest gas (including cost to drive there) known "for" me instead of having to look it up on gasbuddy.com myself. I will even be able to have it feed that info. directly to my brain. Just go get my implant in my forehead or wrist, and all important "decisions" will already be handled for me! I can't wait.... /end sarcasm
Hemp for VICTORY!
Even though they raise our taxes...quite often...we get most of the things we need done.
Anyone who believes that, needs to listen to this. Why is it we are still discussing the same things, just WORSE off?
We're not being openly murdered by the government, there is LESS corruption in our government than other countries. We are a democracy.
Ahahaha, hahahaha. Wait, what am I laughing at again? Oh yea, it's really not funny, even though it is dead wrong. A. I would challenge most believe that politicians can and do get people "bumped off". B. We live in a Democratic Republic. Half right maybe, but we have a republic because of the fear of democracy. As it has been said, "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch." The problem is, we have elected the wolves.
I'm not saying we're perfect, but we're closer to it than all these other countries.
Almost, only in horseshoes and hand grenades. Maybe it was "defective by design", in the way that communism is believed to be.. but I know this much, if you listen to the Youtube link above, you will be reminded of this: ..time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the founding fathers. ..two friends talked to a Cuban refuge, in the midst of his story one of my friends said, "We don't know how lucky we are." The Cuban said, "How lucky you are? I had some place to escape to." In that sentence he told the entire story. We lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth. ...
Now it doesn't require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether you hold the deed or the title to your business or property, if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property. And such machinery already exists. The government can find some charge to bring against any concern it chooses to prosecute. Every business man has his own tale of harassment. Somewhere a perversion has taken place. Our natural unalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation of government. And freedom, has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp, as it is this moment.
It is pretty bad ass, the solo that is. I hope maybe at least you got the point of the post...
I hope you are right. There will still be more attacks on freedom concerning the Internet in America, however.
We all know better, don't we? Don't we? Yet, so many of us act like it isn't that way. Why do we continue to drink the Koolaid? I guess we like red lips, and I don't mean the ones you normally kiss.
Out of the Ruins
Out from the wreckage
Can't make the same mistake this time
We are the children
The last generation
We are the ones they left behind
And I wonder when we are ever gonna change
Living under the fear, till nothing else remains
We don't need another hero
We don't need to know the way home
All we want is life beyond
Thunderdome
Looking for something
We can rely on
There's gotta be something better out there.
Love and compassion
Their day is coming
All else are castles built into the air.
And I wonder when we are ever gonna change
Living under the fear till nothing else remains
All the children say
We don't need another hero
We don't need to know the way home
All we want is life beyond
Thunderdome
So what do we do with our lives
We leave only a mark
Will our story shine like a light
Or end in the dark
Give it all or nothing
We don't need another hero
We don't need to know the way home
All we want is life beyond
Thunderdome
I walk the corner to the rubble that used to be a library,
Line up to the mind cemetery now.
What we don't know keeps the contracts alive and moving.
They don't got to burn the books they just remove'm.
While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells, rally round the family, pocket full of shells.
Would YOU want to run against him? If you were to, remember, if something happened to you he'd automatically win...
That means that there is no point in ousting its leaders
I don't think that's necessarily accurate. It may prove to be the case, but it's certainly not a foregone conclusion.
Foregone in so much as we'll never be free of computer viruses. Too many people got a taste of the power they have, and like the idea of being "anonymous".
The anarcho-lunatics will keep doing what they're doing, which is more or less okay, because without massive participation Anonymous is toothless.
It doesn't sound like the HBGary attack took all that massive of participation. DDOSSing did, but the point was that helped people stay anonymous by using a mob. Reminds me of what they used to do in my hometown. 2-3- poeple would all walk out of Walmart at the same time with their hands full at the "right" time. Then they'd all get on the bus. They figured that they could only catch 1-2 of them, if any, in the confusion.
The buck stops at the top. Only when a corporation has paid someone off in some way can they get away with blaming an individual employee in that way. A CEO or CFO, etc. are supposed to know that all "tools" used are not stolen, pirated, etc.
Using FOSS will save you a lot more trouble than just the BSA. If more companies did this, we'd have more of them poor money into FOSS, and it'd be even better...
However, I think that corporations are a system defective by design, and we should have more self-employed in the world.