This is the most awesome thing I've read in some time. In highly complex behaviors like these, I often wonder how the hell the evolutionary development [of the wasp] proceeded in order for the organism to deal with its prey like that. Not just one carefully administered sting, but two, then drags it home as if it knows what it just did. Hot damn.
I think you misunderstood. I never said that all women think this way or that all men enjoy these things, and I don't understand where you got the "dictates all our actions" bit. Your fiance might like Katamari, and at the same time may love Grand Theft Auto. Maybe you play Halo.. all this is completely irrelevant. Also: social constructs do not exist across racial AND cultural AND religious AND geographical boundaries unless they have some strong (and usually very vital) grounding in biological instinct.
There is simply no denying the fact that physical dominance and charisma in males are almost universally found attractive by females. I do not have to account for every little mutation in human desire or sexual orientation to rationalize this. It is also not a secret that people enjoy competitiveness, and speed, and combat and many many things that we inherit genetically even from species that precede us, that are beneficial to our survival. It does not take a feat of imagination to see why human beings that are strong (both genders) in all senses of the word are able to survive and let their offspring survive. This is not a "weird idea".
Human psychology is a very complex thing precisely because of this interplay between cognition and instinct that you are touching on. Neither rules the other, though one would hope the former overcomes the latter in modern society. I don't see how anybody can use what I've written to suggest that video games cause violence or crime, and I really can't see what's wrong with women (or men) acting "a certain way because it is programmed in their genes to do so", if that has historically helped the human race to not die out. You detest the idea because human beings like to think they are so damn independent and in charge of everything.. yet another instinct at work (ego). Try walking into a bar tomorrow night, and take a look at the highly evolved specimens.
But why does it have to be 15 years down the road? Why isn't it that way now? Human (and most animal) sexual relationships do not reciprocate. There are very profound differences in the way men and women perceive and attract each other, and that is why nobody ever accused commercials (let alone porn) of objectifying men - men are not the value item. Women are, and this is natural, not traditionally or religiously induced.
Which answers your first point. I would not raise a girl in exactly the same manner, or treat her in the same (harsh) way, because girls are biologically and psychologically different by nature. They don't even like to play the same games, usually. People shun "traditional" ideas because of implied linkage to religious prejudice, and though I mock any form of religion whatsoever you have to realize that these man-made doctrines didn't magically develop the same stances across continents when it comes to these things. Tradition and religion and culture itself are hostage to human instinct, and human instinct usually makes sense, with a little thought applied.
Oh yeah? How about you do a survey of torrents downloaded from major trackers and then we'll talk? And I never said other types of games are unpopular, I just want you to think a little about Halo, Half Life, GTA, Thief, Bioshock, RPGs where you are generally destroying things..etc. There is no doubt what games are usually in the spotlight.
Statistics..damn lies. If you ignore "organized violence".. atrocities committed by armies..etc you will see what I mean. I have no data, but try walking down DC at night. You'll get some data right away. Nice video.
Oh yes, because all the people dying from AIDS and other STD's don't count. Sex is natural, violence is natural, the gothic obsession with sex and violence in certain parts of human society (read: America today) is both unnatural and disgusting. Violence is necessary and combat is instinctively pleasurable.. why do you think those games are so damn popular? It has strong links with male ego and probably evolved as a motivation to maintain dominance over resources and courtship to females. That's why females will take a warrior over a wimp - they too have instinctive attraction to the alpha male who will give them healthy children and security. He does not have to be violent, he only has to have the potential to be violent if needed.
And that's how we should raise kids. If I ever have a son, I don't want him to be a bunny rabbit. Children should know the value of being gentle and sweet, but must be strong as well. Today's world is every bit as dangerous and violent as the ancient one, and it is rather sad that only the military are given "survival skills". And yes course they don't get these things from video games - video games pale in comparison.
As for pr0n, it is much less threatening to society then chaotic sexual relationships yet it's objectification of women is far more of a psychological impact than any game. Kids raised in a "healthy way" will not have a whole lot of time for either video games or pr0n, but games come out being more... tasteful as a form of entertainment:)
you can even capture things like brake dancing. Ahh, you really are from the Netherlands aren't you? Brake dancing? Is that like drifting, but you get to see how the driver hits the pedals with eminem on the radio? And my gosh, they do it on a highway?
I thik there was an episode of "Oz" where a mobster got breast cancer, and tried to keep it secret. That's friggin hilarious. Even more hilarious is the fact that you're using the mobster who got breast cancer in Oz as some sort of reference.
Not really: I should love him, because he showed us the limitations of logical systems in general, so that when we speak we speak the truth in its entirety and when we are silent we can mathematically prove that we should indeed be silent. It is the physicists and their self-referential models that fear Gödel; mathematicians were only made stronger by his observations.
By the way the quote is ripped right out of the Opus Dei prayer in Latin, with slight modification:)
Sorry, but I've already patented the systematic use and manipulation of abstract symbols representing real world quantities in order to derive relationships. And I've copyrighted proverbial hand-waving. Together, we hold the scientific community hostage!
How about Visual Studio 2005, the very best IDE for C++ development that I have ever used(after vim)? Anyway, GP was not talking about software methinks, Microsoft Research is a whole 'nother thing, and yes their people are very good. They produce quality academic papers all the time, and are mostly PhDs/experts in various areas of CS. I've turned down soft.eng jobs for MS, but a research position in those labs would be a privilege.
Mormons don't use ASCII. Or Pi for that matter. Mormons got Unicode on the continent before it was invented - they found it on buried golden plates, and they gave them back.
Serious hack. I did a quick run on your router and there does not seem to be a documented hole ATM. Also, if the rules don't show up on your interface then either:
1) Netgear ppl were complete morons and the GUI is not directly linked to the filesystem records/small database/whatever or 2) Hacker is good enough to alter this part of the router's code as well, meaning he flashed the firmware remotely.
I wonder how many people have been hit with this without knowing. It is one thing to monitor your PC's activity, but a router? Scary shit. Better get that rusty copy of Snort up and running again.
PS: you actually check your logs..wow. You either work for the NSA or you are half Klingon. Also, did you find out who it was, and whether you were sending out payloads similar to the one you received(meaning that it wasn't an "important" node that attacked you)?
I wish the IEEE in particular would go this path, instead of charging poor grad students (who are the main audience) silly amounts for material they clearly won't buy. My CS department told me it cost $275,000 for access to I think 3 sections on the IEEE website. So much for the age of enlightenment.
Brighter side: most authors have the right to publish anything pre-final (which is usually just the same sans format particulars) on their own respective websites, for free. So once more, Google is your friend.
And why is this flamebait? Is it because another moderator doesn't realize that he is an inbred moron, too, and that first posts can't possibly be redundant and that congrats are nice things that should not be forgone in the age of inbred moronic moderators?
How about the "she was fucked by the serial murderer friend who introduced her to drugs after being refused a homosexual fling with her husband" defense? It's actually true, or so claims the article. While it may not be clear how that is in his defense, I think it slightly increases the chances of his having nothing to do with this little bit of strangeness. The woman is clearly capable of something like a disappearance act.
Another part of his defense would be how there was a book on murder investigations in his car. A man with the intelligence to pull this off right, let alone the intelligence of Reiser, would probably not leave a how-to book in his car if he was guilty. If the jury is smart, that should be evidence for him, not against him.
Ask the parent poster what he meant by blood mare. And I did read the article, genius - I didn't magically have the quote in my post transferred into my brain. Maybe you should, like, RTFA yourself.
Bullshit. She seems to be one hell of a bitch, obviously married him only for the money and the oh-so-prized citizenship.
"She divorced me the day she became a citizen. I don't know whether it was the exact day but same month"
And from TFA she also was cleaning out his money. He introduced her to his best friend, to take care of her while he was away, but this highly intelligent, educated doctor you speak of let the man introduce her to drugs and fuck her while reiser wasn't there. Sounds like some Russian skank who wanted to escape being a translator for a dating service in KGB land. And beautiful? She looks barely average.
As for your blood-mare comment, I'm sure the governments of Sweden and similar nations who pay women to stay at home and care for their children several YEARS have something to say to you. I have the utmost respect for stay-at-home moms who are helping to build solid families for this country.. definitely more than your favorite juknie/ho "doctor".
Reiser could've had so much better for a wife, no matter how "weird" he is. Reiser also doesn't have the nicest of friends, unfortunately. Kind of tough when you're best friend is a homosexual serial killer who wanted to sleep with you then decided to give it to your Russian wife when you said no. Jesus fucking Christ, Hans, are there no other people in the world to make friends with?
There - he got modded up plenty when I first saw the comment (RIAA bandits moderating./) . That has been fixed now. I do not disagree that what she did was illegal, but like another poster said - we need to start some heavy civil disobedience if this is what "legal" means to the courts. I don't even care if she did or did not download the fscking songs. She was using - in a non-commecial manner - information given freely to her. If this MAY have cost the company in EXPECTED revenue, then it's time to rethink the business models for that company. Suing single mothers for hundreds of thousands of dollars is not a business model. It's more like organized crime.
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This is the most awesome thing I've read in some time. In highly complex behaviors like these, I often wonder how the hell the evolutionary development [of the wasp] proceeded in order for the organism to deal with its prey like that. Not just one carefully administered sting, but two, then drags it home as if it knows what it just did. Hot damn.
I think you misunderstood. I never said that all women think this way or that all men enjoy these things, and I don't understand where you got the "dictates all our actions" bit. Your fiance might like Katamari, and at the same time may love Grand Theft Auto. Maybe you play Halo.. all this is completely irrelevant. Also: social constructs do not exist across racial AND cultural AND religious AND geographical boundaries unless they have some strong (and usually very vital) grounding in biological instinct.
There is simply no denying the fact that physical dominance and charisma in males are almost universally found attractive by females. I do not have to account for every little mutation in human desire or sexual orientation to rationalize this. It is also not a secret that people enjoy competitiveness, and speed, and combat and many many things that we inherit genetically even from species that precede us, that are beneficial to our survival. It does not take a feat of imagination to see why human beings that are strong (both genders) in all senses of the word are able to survive and let their offspring survive. This is not a "weird idea".
Human psychology is a very complex thing precisely because of this interplay between cognition and instinct that you are touching on. Neither rules the other, though one would hope the former overcomes the latter in modern society. I don't see how anybody can use what I've written to suggest that video games cause violence or crime, and I really can't see what's wrong with women (or men) acting "a certain way because it is programmed in their genes to do so", if that has historically helped the human race to not die out. You detest the idea because human beings like to think they are so damn independent and in charge of everything.. yet another instinct at work (ego). Try walking into a bar tomorrow night, and take a look at the highly evolved specimens.
But why does it have to be 15 years down the road? Why isn't it that way now? Human (and most animal) sexual relationships do not reciprocate. There are very profound differences in the way men and women perceive and attract each other, and that is why nobody ever accused commercials (let alone porn) of objectifying men - men are not the value item. Women are, and this is natural, not traditionally or religiously induced.
Which answers your first point. I would not raise a girl in exactly the same manner, or treat her in the same (harsh) way, because girls are biologically and psychologically different by nature. They don't even like to play the same games, usually. People shun "traditional" ideas because of implied linkage to religious prejudice, and though I mock any form of religion whatsoever you have to realize that these man-made doctrines didn't magically develop the same stances across continents when it comes to these things. Tradition and religion and culture itself are hostage to human instinct, and human instinct usually makes sense, with a little thought applied.
Oh yeah? How about you do a survey of torrents downloaded from major trackers and then we'll talk? And I never said other types of games are unpopular, I just want you to think a little about Halo, Half Life, GTA, Thief, Bioshock, RPGs where you are generally destroying things..etc. There is no doubt what games are usually in the spotlight.
Statistics..damn lies. If you ignore "organized violence".. atrocities committed by armies..etc you will see what I mean. I have no data, but try walking down DC at night. You'll get some data right away. Nice video.
Actually, for your homework, go read the post again, very carefully.
Oh yes, because all the people dying from AIDS and other STD's don't count. Sex is natural, violence is natural, the gothic obsession with sex and violence in certain parts of human society (read: America today) is both unnatural and disgusting. Violence is necessary and combat is instinctively pleasurable.. why do you think those games are so damn popular? It has strong links with male ego and probably evolved as a motivation to maintain dominance over resources and courtship to females. That's why females will take a warrior over a wimp - they too have instinctive attraction to the alpha male who will give them healthy children and security. He does not have to be violent, he only has to have the potential to be violent if needed.
:)
And that's how we should raise kids. If I ever have a son, I don't want him to be a bunny rabbit. Children should know the value of being gentle and sweet, but must be strong as well. Today's world is every bit as dangerous and violent as the ancient one, and it is rather sad that only the military are given "survival skills". And yes course they don't get these things from video games - video games pale in comparison.
As for pr0n, it is much less threatening to society then chaotic sexual relationships yet it's objectification of women is far more of a psychological impact than any game. Kids raised in a "healthy way" will not have a whole lot of time for either video games or pr0n, but games come out being more... tasteful as a form of entertainment
That will be all, thank you, more abuse at 11.
WTH?
I *heart* slashdot.
Not really: I should love him, because he showed us the limitations of logical systems in general, so that when we speak we speak the truth in its entirety and when we are silent we can mathematically prove that we should indeed be silent. It is the physicists and their self-referential models that fear Gödel; mathematicians were only made stronger by his observations.
:)
By the way the quote is ripped right out of the Opus Dei prayer in Latin, with slight modification
How about Visual Studio 2005, the very best IDE for C++ development that I have ever used(after vim)? Anyway, GP was not talking about software methinks, Microsoft Research is a whole 'nother thing, and yes their people are very good. They produce quality academic papers all the time, and are mostly PhDs/experts in various areas of CS. I've turned down soft.eng jobs for MS, but a research position in those labs would be a privilege.
It's more complicated than that, obviously, otherwise the edible species would have evolved the dont-run phenomena in response.
Mormons don't use ASCII. Or Pi for that matter. Mormons got Unicode on the continent before it was invented - they found it on buried golden plates, and they gave them back.
Serious hack. I did a quick run on your router and there does not seem to be a documented hole ATM. Also, if the rules don't show up on your interface then either:
1) Netgear ppl were complete morons and the GUI is not directly linked to the filesystem records/small database/whatever
or
2) Hacker is good enough to alter this part of the router's code as well, meaning he flashed the firmware remotely.
I wonder how many people have been hit with this without knowing. It is one thing to monitor your PC's activity, but a router? Scary shit. Better get that rusty copy of Snort up and running again.
PS: you actually check your logs..wow. You either work for the NSA or you are half Klingon. Also, did you find out who it was, and whether you were sending out payloads similar to the one you received(meaning that it wasn't an "important" node that attacked you)?
I wish the IEEE in particular would go this path, instead of charging poor grad students (who are the main audience) silly amounts for material they clearly won't buy. My CS department told me it cost $275,000 for access to I think 3 sections on the IEEE website. So much for the age of enlightenment.
Brighter side: most authors have the right to publish anything pre-final (which is usually just the same sans format particulars) on their own respective websites, for free. So once more, Google is your friend.
And why is this flamebait? Is it because another moderator doesn't realize that he is an inbred moron, too, and that first posts can't possibly be redundant and that congrats are nice things that should not be forgone in the age of inbred moronic moderators?
Oops, thnx for the heads up, sorry about that, "mare" was enough to disgust me.
How about the "she was fucked by the serial murderer friend who introduced her to drugs after being refused a homosexual fling with her husband" defense? It's actually true, or so claims the article. While it may not be clear how that is in his defense, I think it slightly increases the chances of his having nothing to do with this little bit of strangeness. The woman is clearly capable of something like a disappearance act.
Another part of his defense would be how there was a book on murder investigations in his car. A man with the intelligence to pull this off right, let alone the intelligence of Reiser, would probably not leave a how-to book in his car if he was guilty. If the jury is smart, that should be evidence for him, not against him.
Ask the parent poster what he meant by blood mare. And I did read the article, genius - I didn't magically have the quote in my post transferred into my brain. Maybe you should, like, RTFA yourself.
Bullshit. She seems to be one hell of a bitch, obviously married him only for the money and the oh-so-prized citizenship.
"She divorced me the day she became a citizen. I don't know whether it was the exact day but same month"
And from TFA she also was cleaning out his money. He introduced her to his best friend, to take care of her while he was away, but this highly intelligent, educated doctor you speak of let the man introduce her to drugs and fuck her while reiser wasn't there. Sounds like some Russian skank who wanted to escape being a translator for a dating service in KGB land. And beautiful? She looks barely average.
As for your blood-mare comment, I'm sure the governments of Sweden and similar nations who pay women to stay at home and care for their children several YEARS have something to say to you. I have the utmost respect for stay-at-home moms who are helping to build solid families for this country.. definitely more than your favorite juknie/ho "doctor".
Reiser could've had so much better for a wife, no matter how "weird" he is. Reiser also doesn't have the nicest of friends, unfortunately. Kind of tough when you're best friend is a homosexual serial killer who wanted to sleep with you then decided to give it to your Russian wife when you said no. Jesus fucking Christ, Hans, are there no other people in the world to make friends with?
As long as it won't charge me while it is switched off I will be fscking ecstatic.
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./) . That has been fixed now. I do not disagree that what she did was illegal, but like another poster said - we need to start some heavy civil disobedience if this is what "legal" means to the courts. I don't even care if she did or did not download the fscking songs. She was using - in a non-commecial manner - information given freely to her. If this MAY have cost the company in EXPECTED revenue, then it's time to rethink the business models for that company. Suing single mothers for hundreds of thousands of dollars is not a business model. It's more like organized crime.
There - he got modded up plenty when I first saw the comment (RIAA bandits moderating
You haven't answered my question. Did she or did she not attempt to sell the stuff as some people here appear to be claiming?