Order of the Hammer Bureaucrat

It's nice to know this unhumble crazy engineer is smart enough to be a fashion designer. As to expectations, here's what I suggest to the general population: continue fantacizing about media-depicted females but don't try to hitch-up with real ones - well-rendered interactive models in high-end and future game engines should suffice to give enough pleasure to continue being productive at work.

Maybe you meant she has the facial cartilage and muscle structure indicative of a genetic predisposition for a low metabolic rate. Besides which, fat people are represenatative of low self-control (which is generally disliked in our society) in the modern society where food is easy to get.

time goes by far too fast.

The idea of running a forum on freenet always sounds appealing. Without revealing who you are.

I don't want to get started on how convoluted the system is for people who want to get a PhD, but P.Eng is a license, a right to call yourself an engineer and undertake projects.

I think the educational system through which a person is forced to go successfully to become a P.Eng, does exactly that, prevents, at least some people, from developing an inquiring mind.

I tend to condense paragraphs-worth of ideas into one incomprehensible sentence, then everyone complains. And the wording definitely jumbled, either faulty javascript or I give myself too much sanity credit. breakdown: -our society includes a population with a large deviation of moral understanding. (moral: understanding what's generally good or bad in some way that through some process many people can agree on it). -judging by results a hypothesis can be formed that maybe the 'bringing out' processes of our society produce children (or people) who blindly respect authority too much. -argument is that because of the wide discrepancy of morals, if people are not taught to respect authority too much as they are now, but are taught to think for themselves on all issues in life then lots of chaos and disruption will ensue in the society (which is detrimental to society). -analyzing this, i can argue that the only way to give people the right to think for themselves while preserving the integrity of society is to introduce a caste system and give only some people that right, while the rest have to follow the rules. -introducing a caste would destroy the basis of the current society, namely emancipation, the result of all those revolutions when monarchy collapsed in 18th century. Disclaimer: this is not thought through nor supported or researched, random idea that flitted for a second as a reaction to reading, and is generally categorized as nonsensical rambling.

Yay! the core works. Good for you!

on the comment of 'illegal' vs 'immoral' I find it strange that so many people have an immediate strong emotional response to 'illegal'. It is obviously merely what the current government will punish, and not something 'wrong', 'immoral' or 'against the common good', (although for the last, many common actions are). And yet when people need to justify something they commonly say it's 'not illegal' and likewise when to accuse that something 'is illegal'. Maybe it's the society bringing out children to follow authority like that, but then you can't combine order and thinking-for-yourself in a society with such a large gap people of moral understanding of what's generally good or bad between without introducing some sort of caste system and removing the fundamental emancipation on which it was built.

Seriously, one month is too short to download and play them. I expect not many people will turn in results.

Off-Topic: did I mention I want to move to the Falklands? It's so peaceful there, so clean and civilized, and lacks hectic modern stuff and commercials. The weather there is also perfect, rains %50+ days per year, snows, hails, and rains at will summer and winter, no predictability (I don't like predictability) depending on the storms at sea. The sky is always overcast. I hope British folks and Falkland gov'r will approve me staying for a couple of months or years.

Anybody ever played Freedom Fighters? I played it this summer: watched the intro and played the first 2 minutes until he gets wounded. Aside, regarding countries invading USA, I thought N.Korea is much more of a threat than it really is, or the media overpresents it. Turns out they can't even launch their own nukes. Nothing compared to the hundreds of intercontinentals the soviets had.

The main development team, sponsored by that rich Boer I believe, is Ubuntu. Kubuntu is just some kde-krazy international folks getting together through the internet and coding.

I recommend downloading xubuntu or plain ubuntu and trying it again just to have something different. You can switch to kde from the inside. Why do you prefer kde?

I used RedHat, slack, and Debian for a few years, and even though I tried around 30 different minor distros for one purpose or another my rule of thumb is the following: install debian unless you need graphics and/or sound in which case use ubuntu. My ftp/torrent/ssh server uses debian, my music server uses ubuntu without X, ssh client debian, solid-state laptop ubuntu. Ubuntu is the easiest and nicest with auto-detection and zero-maintenance, however, it has some quirks which debian lacks. Unlike debian, version upgrades are, um, bumpy, and as far as I noticed, the recent version, 6.06 is much buggier than 5.10. Here's a short paragraph of my struggles with it past summer: http://giantdisc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t...&highlight=

Last time I went to vote, there was a box on the ballot for the communist party...

hmm, why are people proud of where they're born....? It seems only recently that we had revolutionary and patriotic ideas floating around in western countries, and napoleon ruled. This is a painting from my upcoming fm, the painting is called 'alma parens'. http://fatalbits.com/pictures/a70d6ea126.jpg edit: corrected the url. In the preview of the post it worked correctly, in the post after seeing the "doesn't work" comment, by some unlikely error, it cut off the 'bi' 2 characters from both the name and the link.

too tired to elaborate, but yeah, kinda. depends on which people, age, urban or rural, before 1960's or after and what degree of information.

I disagree, saying it is removal. A person having it suppressed for over 30 years will have it removed. Most people will. People born when no 'bad' opinions are expressed around them their whole lives and no 'bad' information is available on which to form opinion won't have an opinion. People tend to take any current situation as natural and when information of how it was 'before' or how it is 'across the border' is suppressed they don't know any better.

People don't paint walls. You can put chalk on them. Wood with or without lacquer, umm, wallpaper or wallcloth if you have the money, can't think of anything else. http://www.realpaints.com/history.htm

Look at USSR. When enough speech is forbidden for enough time people don't have those ideas because an idea needs to develop out of something.

There's an unplanned effort and waste of time involved in going to the store to return something. The returner should be compensated for that.

Just finished reading prisonexp. Sure took a chunk of my day. I've seen this briefly mentioned elsewhere before. I think it's really nice that no forced labour was involved. If I was in a position of spending time in prison I would most fear forced labour. They work you until you're dead tired then they shoot you. Or you work for decades at the threshold of your health and then collapse. I wonder how authoritarian each of us is compared to an average person. From hearing about lives of people in China and my ancestors in USSR I always think I would either seek non-conventional immoral and illegal (read: exploit the planned economy and socialist ideology) ways to achieve what I believe I deserve (ie a quality of life akin to the western world) without concern of punishment. I wouldn't be too covert and sly about it because that's against my nature, so I guess I wouldn't stay alive for long. \ How do people become soldiers in the army? I find that a stressful environment like MedSci or some engineering faculties similarly affect people in two ways: some people gradually bond and develop camaraderie with an increase of stress where a lower level of stress had them be independent and stressed, while other people disintegrate and become isolated individuals whereas at a lower level of stress they were social outgoing people. In any way this shows it's a good way of controlling populations when you want massive low-quality labour involving no intelligence or creativity. 1984. When the psych. student was corresponding with the real inmate: Time to go to cragscleft. I keep seeing messages of this wording and I can never understand is it good or bad? Is it somehow a fault of non-African-Americans and non-Hispanics that they're overrepresented?

I truly pity people with the above definition. I sure wish they aren't punished too harshly by society for what they are but given a chance to change. Those soldiers who tanked over a motorcar, maybe it's not their fault, maybe they just had a deficiency of iodine and thiamine because their mothers were poor and uneducated.

http://www.protv.ro/filme/exclusive-footag...grims.html#4265 a romanian cameraman at a climbing expedition in nepal witnesses chinese soldiers hunting tibetan pilgrims.