Order of the Hammer Bureaucrat

I agree, in that reading too much into specifics of sentences is not the best idea as often interpretations and extrapolations are wrong.

There's a detailed discussion on it in the public forums.

Why not just get a computer that handles it? I threw out about 5 a few months ago, and there's one in the basement which I should get to throwing out soon. There should be plenty where-ever you live.

Off I go to wikipedia Aah, there's nothing mysterious about it. Everyone knows Brandy heals most ailments, and spirits are good for "spiritual conditions".

The internet is a free place, by all means, go ahead and do it. If you build it, someone will come.

I don't really know what everyone's talking about here, but if it's like what Domarius describes then I'm all for it.

I had no intention to steer this discussion towards Orwell, but as I was clearing out my 2,504 bookmarks collected over the past 4 years I found this one, from two years ago. Freedom is DRM Slavery.

Yes the tex# reference was very annoying, made me leave texturing until the very end.

A better alternative seems http://imagevenue.com/ At least there's no pop-ups.

Very well made.

USA = 1984 anybody? Just a funny article. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...28/IN244190.DTL

When I was little and adults told me the universe is finite/infinite/unknown shape/they don't really know, I immediately concluded it's spherical but in such a way that the above laser trick works, wraparound. Not because it made sense, I knew it was just a false, entertaining notion, but they told me it can't wraparound. Then in elemtary schohol I discovered bing bang, expanding, etc, and that was that.

AFAIK winnt/system32/mspaint

The reason selective/limited breeding will/should not be implemented to a large extent in the future is because procreation is for many people a somewhat spiritual experience, that is a big part of their meaning of life, especially for females, and older males.

I could, if I bought a Macleans magazine to lose mass, and got some Iraqi oil for some infinite energy.

Timetravel is impossible. It has always boggled and irritated me when they have timetravel in Star Trek or some movies. They talk about weird time things and multiple event lines so surely as if it's actually true. However, I don't mind watching well-made movies about time-travel, and one movie I've been wanting to see for years, just don't remember its name, if anybody does tell me: it's about some guy in a long coat and wide-brimmed dark hat.

Actually, to make the effect pronounced this needs to happen: more pronounced shaping of hthe skeletal stsructure with skin tightening, discolouration of green and attendant increase of grey on skin and dark brown around lips, eyes, etc, eyes increasing in area and teeth becoming more bare and more sharp.

When I went south of the border and got talking with someone who in Connecticut I was extremely surprised that schools are connected to property taxes, and that some people really want to live 500m down the street so their kid goes to a better school. Township district school boards receiving Provincial funding like here makes much more sense.

I'd like to live in a 10k city. I probably won't though because what irritates me about most cities is the ubiquitous architectural style: thin-shell concrete boxes with huge window panes and cheesy siding like faux-rocks or faux-wood paneling - this makes it aesthetically hardly any different from my 5M city. And I think the Economist survey is good enough, because it considers the old and the new values, and that's what I care about.

that's correct, ishtvan. usually the default is equal sharing.

I play such a game a MUD, and the repetitive aspect I despise, so I always praised the other ones: communication with real people, (before internet became popular), interactivity, giant world (before graphical giant world games appeared). The most fun part of playing this game to this day is illegally botting - I love the challenge of creating bots smart enough to be profitable and not get caught.

pure-bred animals are largely inferior in survival, but disregarding pure-bred livestock, let's consider dogs. They are highly specialized and more useful than wolf-like animals of the past. If people become more useful it brings two positives: overall society COP goes up permitting to do more stuff like doom3 modding or violin playing and caring for whatever it is people care for like other disadvantaged people, environment, etc, and two, people get a purpose in life which boosts their morale and happiness and keeps them from trouble (trouble like becoming a politician or a businessman or a gangster for example.)

One could possibly argue that there are faulty methods on either side.

Well then it seems rather normal, as long as there's not too many random attacks. Shakespearean.

"Breeding will happen as with the most logical race in the galaxy, the vulcans. Breeding will be once a year, for most of you it means much less breeding, for me - much much more." comic book guy in the episode of the simpsons where the mayor disappeared and the mensa club tried to improve Springfield but got corrupted by power.