Ah yes, that used to annoy the shit out of me before I got a car.
*ring ring* "Hello? Yeah, I'm on the bus." [inconsequential blather for the next 10 miles]
What really irritates me these days, though, is when I'm in the grocery store and I hear some idiot asking his/her SO what they need. This is why we have pencils and paper, folks. Or am I the only one who still makes shopping lists (or more accurately, gets one from the wife)?
Or you could hang back at a safe distance and watch while he careens into the lamp post anyway, with a cellphone in one hand, a cigarette in the other, and steering with his knees (a common sight lately--no, I'm not making this up).
But to be fair to responsible cellphone users, I've also seen women putting on makeup and construction workers reading the paper and drinking coffee (paper in one hand, cup in the other, steering with pinkie) on the highway.
A good point, and I'm happy you're one of the very few cellphone users who make some effort not to irritate me with loud obnoxious ringing noises when I'm trying to watch a movie I paid to see.
SIMPLY ASK the person to shutup, leave, or wait
My wife and I are too passive/aggressive for that; we usually just talk loudly about how stupid the person is and belittle his or her sense of self-importance (of course--we never do this in the theater. That would only add to the problem).
In either case, though, property owners/managers should take the initiative to *ask* irritating people to leave, not rely on technology to do their dirty work for them.
Five minutes after this hits the market, I'll be downloading the software (or diagrams for hardware) that bypasses it, just like I did with MacroVision (can't beat those MV scrubbers for clear VHS...and the 9V battery lasts forever).
I still think web ads need to DIE DIE DIE!, but you have a good point. Ever seen the 4-6 page ads (usually from department stores) in the newspaper? Irritating as all fuck.
If they really feel the need to be "compensated" they can either start a subscription service or get the fuck off the internet. In either case, larger ads will only make me more likely to use a proxy ad filter to replace them with transparent gifs/pngs. I don't bother now because ads are small enough that I can effectively ignore them.
-Legion
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D'oh--typos strike again. Replace "legion" with "~legion" above.
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According to the DMCA--which the MPAA is using to threaten people (see my reply to them at www.dimensional.com/legion/mpaa.html)--they have to specify exactly which links they object to.
After spending something like 40 hours playing through Planescape: Torment, a truly great game, I went back to try my hand at Fallout 2 again. Both games are by Black Isle, and they are both quite good, but I keep slamming up against this "take four steps and you won't have enough action points left to attack" thing. Say what? Just let me hit the goddamned thing. That's how the real world works.
If, as you say, the word "day" has the literal meaning of a "day," then that would mean the Bible is utterly wrong on the topic of dates--we know that the universe is much, much older than the Bible claims. See other threads for discussion.
1. I won't forget that experiment, because if it had actually increased the speed of light, it would have been the first time ever, *anywhere*, where that phenomenon was observed. According to Einstein's theories of relativity, the speed of light in a vacuum is a constant; gasses and solids might slow it down, but *absolutely nothing* in nature is capable of speeding it up. Einstein's theories are among the most successful ever proposed to describe the universe--do you have a competing theory that includes all of his predictions, his models of time/space, and which also includes a model for your "but light can surely be sped up!" idea? If so, please forward it to Science for peer review.
3. I know it is accurate for older items because: a.) decay rates are well known from direct observation, and b.) as another poster mentioned in this very thread, several other dating methods corroborate radiometric dating quite well. When you see three or four different dating methods all agreeing on the age of an object, do you dismiss them all as flawed?
And saying we had ice age, then stone age, then this age & that still doesn't tell you the exact happenings to each specific artifact, nor can it ever!
Well, you can argue that all you want, but it's not what we were talking about.
1. Light is slowed under very specific conditions; if the light from other galaxies is traveling to us more slowly than usual, then they are even *farther* away than estimated, which would make the universe even older. The speed of light was never sped up--you seem to be confused as to what actually happened in that experiment.
3. Carbon dating is only shaky when used to date fairly "recent" (geologically speaking) items. It is quite accurate for older items. Or are you implying that your god made the cave paintings look old just to fool us poor stupid humans?
And unless any of you know of dinosaurs or people living here millions of years ago with cowboy boots on, I'm pretty sure that shoots down the dating process pretty well. I think I shall have to talk to that friend & figure out where he got this info.
Presumably he found it in his ass or on Art Bell's website.
No. The overwhelming plethora of evidence for a meteor strike around the time the dinosaurs died out is what makes it the generally accepted explanation.
Everything came from somewhere, there has to be a beginning. People who talk about the big bang and that huge mass exploding, well where did it come from? Hmm... perhaps a higher being?
You were doing quite well until you brought up Pascal's Wager (and the "big bang == creation" thing actually; there have been some attempts to explain it through quantum mechanics, which is fairly strange and nonintuitive anyway):
Those who DO believe in God will either draw or win.
Or lose. Which god, of the literally thousands dreamed up by man, will you choose to believe in?
A recent story on a local news station got most of the details right, but the nifty PowerPoint graphic they used showed two Macs transferring some colors between each other; I believe the Mac version of Napster hadn't been invented at the time.
Well, that figure worked out to $1.67 per user, per month. If Napster charges users any more than that to use the service, we can safely assume they pocket the difference.
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*ring ring* "Hello? Yeah, I'm on the bus." [inconsequential blather for the next 10 miles]
What really irritates me these days, though, is when I'm in the grocery store and I hear some idiot asking his/her SO what they need. This is why we have pencils and paper, folks. Or am I the only one who still makes shopping lists (or more accurately, gets one from the wife)?
-Legion
Until 1995 or so, parts of the Maritimes didn't have their own 911 trunks. :)
-Legion
But to be fair to responsible cellphone users, I've also seen women putting on makeup and construction workers reading the paper and drinking coffee (paper in one hand, cup in the other, steering with pinkie) on the highway.
-Legion
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SIMPLY ASK the person to shutup, leave, or wait
My wife and I are too passive/aggressive for that; we usually just talk loudly about how stupid the person is and belittle his or her sense of self-importance (of course--we never do this in the theater. That would only add to the problem).
In either case, though, property owners/managers should take the initiative to *ask* irritating people to leave, not rely on technology to do their dirty work for them.
-Legion
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After spending something like 40 hours playing through Planescape: Torment, a truly great game, I went back to try my hand at Fallout 2 again. Both games are by Black Isle, and they are both quite good, but I keep slamming up against this "take four steps and you won't have enough action points left to attack" thing. Say what? Just let me hit the goddamned thing. That's how the real world works.
-Legion
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3. I know it is accurate for older items because: a.) decay rates are well known from direct observation, and b.) as another poster mentioned in this very thread, several other dating methods corroborate radiometric dating quite well. When you see three or four different dating methods all agreeing on the age of an object, do you dismiss them all as flawed?
And saying we had ice age, then stone age, then this age & that still doesn't tell you the exact happenings to each specific artifact, nor can it ever!
Well, you can argue that all you want, but it's not what we were talking about.
-Legion
In fact, all the evidence tells us that it is billions of years old.
I'm going to get modded down for redundancy, I can feel it.
-Legion
3. Carbon dating is only shaky when used to date fairly "recent" (geologically speaking) items. It is quite accurate for older items. Or are you implying that your god made the cave paintings look old just to fool us poor stupid humans?
And unless any of you know of dinosaurs or people living here millions of years ago with cowboy boots on, I'm pretty sure that shoots down the dating process pretty well. I think I shall have to talk to that friend & figure out where he got this info.
Presumably he found it in his ass or on Art Bell's website.
-Legion
You have no idea how much that pleases me.
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Where did your "higher being" come from?
-Legion
Those who DO believe in God will either draw or win.
Or lose. Which god, of the literally thousands dreamed up by man, will you choose to believe in?
-Legion
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