Posts by GrimJack

The Igies are out - the prize for medicine:

for demonstrating that people make better decisions about some kinds of things - but worse decisions about other kinds of things‚ when they have a strong urge to urinate.
REFERENCE: "Inhibitory spillover: Increased Urination Urgency Facilitates Impulse Control in Unrelated Domains," Mirjam A. Tuk, Debra Trampe and Luk Warlop, Psychological Science, vol. 22, no. 5, May 2011, pp. 627-633.

There is a new(ish) theory that it was the invasion of a parasite about a hundred million years ago that allowed mammals to carry their developing young within the womb.

I think E.Ψ.E is definitely worth it; it has on-line play (through Steam); playability, you have a range of weapons to choose from. As you advance your stats you get access to more advanced weapons; there is research that ups your stats or provides upgrades or opens up more research. There are people and machines to hack using your excellent haxor skills (if you fail, they could hack you! - it is your hacking vs theirs). You develop mental skills which is why it is called a game of cybermancy. You can buy upgrades. It is a first person shooter but has Diablo aspects to it. I bought it when Steam offered it as a item of the week sale. I don't want to give anything away because it is dark and confusing and you wake up from a dream (often) - all you know is that you are back from an assignment and some of your memories are missing. Is your commander the bad guy? Or your mentor? Or is it your entire organization? Might be the Feds? The looters are definitely the bad guys, aren't they?

Now take a look at what happens when you blend spider silk and skin. Silk was often used as an under-liner beneath armor because projectiles like bullets did not pierce the silk, it pulled the silk into the wound - keeping it 'hygienic'.

jinga - as stated earlier, I play shooters on my box and turn-based on my laptop because that is all it can handle. I keep the laptop in the living room so my wife and I can be social.

I also play PBeMs like Olympia and Destiny2

I know! I can get as far as the original attack on the lab before my computer can no longer handle it and crashes.

So I have been playing E.Y.E. to pass the time until I get back to work so I can afford an upgrade. Not sure if I will build my new machine or buy a stock model. My last 2 machines I built myself but....

I have had cats sharing my quarters for most of my life.

Can't be - you just had one last year

Have a happy anyway

I'm a avid player of shooters so i googled e.y.e Absolutly nothing mentions this game.

It is available on Steam. Also google for Divine Cybermancy. the 'Y' E.Y.E. is actually Ψ.

It is really effing hot - you get to hack computers, looters, bank machines.... and you can use 'powers' to gib your enemies, you can betray everyone from your commander, your mentor, to your guild... and when you die, it might never have happened, it might have been a dream....

If you hack one of the looters you can force him to kill his buddies; and he really hates doing it, you can see the struggle in his eyes (yeah, so it does get a little creepy at times).

Anyone here play E.Y.E? It is a really bizarre shooter that does not let you know what it real and/or a dream. Outcomes change - sometimes, someone 'mysterious'ly appears to tell you something about it maybe a dream.

And do not ignore the user base. The more users, the longer it takes to 'die.'

Anybody who does ignore those geeks^H^H^H^H^H users will always wonder "How come they still use [C++, Visual Basic 6, TECO, Assembler, FORTRAN, COBOL,<insert your fave here>] at that place ?"

Legacy code = job security.:cool:

To kill a language, one has to actively make machines that work against it.

Yeah! I was going to mention the fact that COBOL is the worst language in the world and yet most internal software depends on it. It is one of those old, spaghetti-code languages that has about a billion person hours invested and limps along because -er- no one knows how it does what it does using computed goto statements for gawds sake.

Sigh

I think I took the written test about 7 times and failed 6. On a completely unrelated note, my father was the town banker and had turned down a loan request from the state trooper giving the test. Passed the driving test on the 3rd try - I kept going 26 mph in a 25 mph zone and making harder stops than they wanted. I aced the parallel parking and driving in reverse.

I heard that the Old Bailey project managed to get the last 400 years of trials digitized. The way I understand it - treating guilty prisoners was similar to treating injured horses just hanging (on good days - on bad days it could be half hanging, drawing, then quartering. The drawing being one end of the intestines being 'drawn' from the body to its full length and dropped into a fire then 4 work horses would 'quarter' the still living defendent). At some point, hanging stopped being the 'goto' punishment.

Being a non-native, I probably got a lot of this wrong but this history might put me off the death penalty.

First, the US are in thrall to the Federal Reserve, which is a Ponzi scheme;

Sorry, I don't buy this statement, neither the thralldom nor that the Fed is a Ponzi scheme - maybe if you used different language we could discuss

second, they are printing ever increasing amount of paper money for the same amount of value behind it, further diluting its value.

I am not sure what it is that you are 'valuing' so I can't tell if it is being diluted.

Just these two things appened to the German Republic before its economic crash, which did allow a guy like Hitler to come to power.

Nope - way too simplistic; these had more to do with the hyperinflation:

1. The kaiser and parliament decided to fund WWI with debt rather than raising taxes - this is actually a point for your side of the argument since Bush decided to fund his wars with debt AND reduced taxes.
2. order-of-magnitude increases in prices and interest rates,
3. consumer flight from cash to hard assets,
4. reparations accounted for 1/3 of German deficit,

In addition, thirdly, they started a lot of small wars of agression that are bleeding them dry even while their schools, infrastructures and whole cities are crumbling under their feet

Is this a reference to Hitler coming to power? By the time Hitler started his rise, hyperinflation had been stopped

and fourth, they have gotten rid (exported to third world countries) all of their manufacturing capabilities and, more …

I was responding to:
We are doomed! For those of you who believe reality TV is reality there is no hope. One only needs look to Washington D.C. to see how sorry our society has become.
If I misinterpreted what you meant to say, it is either my perception or your wording; did you imply or did I infer? Or both?

Why do you think we are heading towards a 'Weimar Republic'?
I assume there are clues you can share with me so I can follow your thinking; I would be especially interested in the correlations you draw between specific events from that time period with some more current events.

Oh yeah, the "earthquake". I've read some thing about that :)

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I loved that pic! Thanks for sharing

I am glad someone earlier mentioned France in the 60s - the French right was blowing up anyone who even showed the slightest approval of a Free Algeria. There was so much terrorist bombing going on that the created the word 'plastique' to mean 'to blow up with plastic explosives'. Not long after that in the UK there were so many people blowing people up that one group actually devised a code for the authorities so that they could tell if it was the IRA or a wannabe who set the bomb. In the US someone was using bombs to create a smiley face on the map of the US.

Bombs and blowing up innocent people has been the province of crazies to make political hay since the invention of gunpowder.

The group claiming responsibility have killed around 250 people this year, usually targeting Nigerian officials. I think the scale of the matter alone suggests that 'terrorism' is a valid monicker for the way in which this group is acting. Terrorist Country or Terrorist State means something totally different to my mind. I take that to mean that the government of that nation sponsors or endorses terrorist activities abroad. I may be wrong

If the terrorists are blowing up government officials how then do you say the government sponsors/endorses terrorist activities?

The neighborhood is not dead; the neighborhood has changed.

This is one of my neighborhoods; I do not have a facebook page; I do not think reality tv is reality.

I can remember at least as many people from 47 years ago; I remember 4 people from 52 years ago (who are not family) and they were/are more important than most of the people I remember from 47 years ago.

If you choose to be doomed, feel free but don't put your doomsday crap on me.

Well, my computer answered for me -- I can't play it until I get a faster/better computer. Now all I need is a job, er... a job that I am not furloughed from.

I just bought 2 new games - EYE, which I recently started playing and am enjoying a great deal and the latest Deus Ex, which is the first game I paid full price for in years. I pre-ordered it months ago and then forgot about it. I generally only play one game at a time (I get really wrapped up in the game universe AND the differing game controls).

The games seem pretty similar:
Both are shooters

EYE has psychic and body enhancements along with research and a wide range of weapons to choose from

Deus Ex is a prequel to the previous games and seems to offer similar options - I have not opened it yet. The game just arrived and we have a dinner date at another couple's home to see pictures of their trip to Paris. We went to Paris a couple years ago so we will be comparing notes. I don't dare install Deus Ex until we get back!!

I know I should be looking forward to this visit if for no other reason than to get IRL - we have been pretty virtual for a couple months now. But... I really want.... Sigh.

The beauty of HalfLife gets my vote. I can replay it and it gets my heart pumping. I have not played BioShock but it seems dark. Currently I am playing E.Y.E. that I d.l.ed from steam; it is a pretty good shooter but it is DARK, I mean they had to do an update as it was so dark you could not see any detail - now it is just dark. I love it but I miss the beauty of 1/2 Life.

gross energy use for the U.S. is about 103 quadrillion BTUs per year. If we divide this by the U.S. population, then convert it into continuous average energy use, sure enough, we end up with about 11 kilowatts per person.

I would bet that your local library would have it in electronic form.

My UPS has a USB connection to my system; I can make firmware updates to the UPS; this leads me to believe that a software keylogger could be inserted.

Looks like an homework question

Did you output the simulation results to a file?

(Oops! I meandered down the wrong path - I read that as tspace so I wandered through some interesting IBM stuff, some odd mathematical transforms and a British covert surveillance system.)

Looks like tspice outputs to .pdf files - couldn't you just copy them across? Or mail them to your gmail account? Or run them on one system and output the result to the other?

Or I could be completely out of my depth (per usual).

Happygeek - which is the real you? your original avatar or this one? or both?

all he needs to do is copy this piece of code 1 million times:

Go to your local used book store and pick up a copy of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States - don't try to read it in one sitting, just keep it around and when something comes up, take a look at a 'different' point of view.

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up

like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore-

And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

Langston Hughes

Most of these so called shooters release some extremist bit of propaganda to go along with their act of violence.

I guess it gives them a twisted way to justify what they've done. But if you look closely... most of the reasons are just plain old baloney.

'The reason I am going to shoot up a whole load of people is because 'insert___extremist___rhetoric___here.'

The reason why most these individuals do these things is because they just suck at life... Compounded with clear psychiatric problems, because NO sane individual would shoot up a load of people, this is just like a time bomb waiting to go off.

Unfortunately, with no real psychiatric support and continued rejection in an area of life they clearly suck at, these individuals begin a downward spiral into oblivion.

The sad thing is, all it may have taken, was someone to grab this guy by the scruff of his neck when he was sucking at whatever he was bad at life, shown him how to do it properly... and a few successes later he'd be a normal, happy everyday citizen.

Unfortunately, this is not the case. He researched what it would take to get enough fertilizer to make a bomb - he bought/rented (this is unclear) a farm so he could have an excuse to buy fertilizer and diesel fuel. This was over a period of 4 years. This was a well planned masacre.

Hmmm, I have been against the death penalty until Ted Bundy who was jailed and escaped 3 times and in each instance he killed again. But since he is now dead - I think life w/o parole is fine because it costs about $50 million and 20 years to finally execute someone and then they often turn out to be innocent.

So, I would have to say that I am against capitol punishment. It is just to damned expensive to make sure that we do not execute an innocent person.

I remember trying to send an email in 1984 - the address was 25+ characters long, case sensitive and pretty meaningless. -- Never got that first email send; my first was not until 1988 I think

I got mine at age 16 - 47 years ago. Had it taken away 3 times before I turned 18 and have had no moving violations on my record since - I got caught speeding, running red lights etc but always got off with some fast talk.

You are, of course, referring to the few countries that have torn themselves loose from the old USSR. The whole of South America, Africa, and Asia with their assorted countries were the 3rd world. The UN has 193 member states - of them, about 173 were considered 3rd world. The actual count depends on when during the cold war you want to count the countries and how you count them (are n/s Korea and N/S VIET NAM 2 OR 4 countries).

It is now thought that the near and far sides of the moon differ because they are the result of a collision of 2 moons.

One of the system folks left the company under suspicious circumstances so we did a massive search for files he touched and found one called time_bomb. I 'typed' it to see what was in it and the screen locked up - total heart failure until I realized the file was just a couple million lines of cr-lf. When my heart rate returned to normal, I had a good laugh and later mail-bombed him.

Not really batch file prank.

US and NATO countries were the first world, communism/Soviet Union was the second world, and the non-aligned countries were the third world. The first and second worlds would fight over the third worlds.

This is just society adjusting to a different kind of flash mob - it will wind itself down when the dolts get their asses in a sling when they brag on facebook. Even now the 'powers that be' are tracking the e-bay sales, perusing the youtube bragging, and of course facebook.

Hmmm - the set up is interesting, when I was young and immortal I use to drink this stuff and go pee in the woods near campgrounds.

Jeez - Ron Paul is right up there with Palin, bachman and santorum for crazy:

• he also thinks the "War on Christmas" is real, and that the separation of church and state is a myth. He believes the founding fathers wanted to discriminate on behalf of certain religions, and that morality cannot be accomplished absent Christianity.
• he believes the "collective Left" hates religion and that our national heritage is under attack by "secularists".
• During Paul’s rally, he proposed getting rid of the Internal Revenue Service, Selective Service, income tax and the Federal Reserve, and withdrawing from the United Nations
• Ron Paul is the strongest opponent of "Hate Crime" Laws.

"When batshit crazy people have passed up an entire basket of admirably batshit crazy politicians in order to lend their batshit crazy support to him, I think what you can take from that is that Ron Paul is the chosen King of the Batshit Crazy.

I see that 20.5 inch screens are down to about $120.00 - what should I look for when buying? I will be using it for gaming.

> By the way, rather than bring an old thread live - it might be better to start your own thread.
Not really, if the only intent of that thread is to spam signature links related to the topic...

Odd - when I saw it there were no .sig links so I took it at face value.

I make and drink my own sparkling water - lately, I have been carbonating grapefruit juice.

Do you turn it? Compost should be a mixture of green, brown, and some dirt - like grass, leaves etc. Turning is usually done with tool designed to go into the pile and expand when you pull it out, bringing stuff up from below. Kitchen scraps are okay but you have to careful not to put meat products into the bin because it attracts rats and other scavengers.

By the way, rather than bring an old thread live - it might be better to start your own thread.

Happy Independence Day USAsian!

I will be drinking Full Sail IPA tonight

In the US, all poisonous snakes (except for the coral snake) have vertical, cat-like, slit pupils.

The headline was unsupported by the what was in the article - I would propose that the headline is proof that headline writers are stupid.

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Once again, the most solid proof of God's existence is right under your feet, and before your eyes daily. The earth, sun, moon, and stars, along with plants, animals, and people, all prove God is alive. Science has not disproven anything about God, only caused confusion about what it cannot explain. Another solid proof, and there are many, is Israel becoming a nation again, which God said through the prophets thousands of years ago. You can use your logic and reasoning to deceive you if you want, but in the end it will all be clear. The danger will be if you are an unbeliever when you die. Heaven or hell, your choice, but after death you won't be able to change your mind.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof - there is no need to prove there is no god and, using the 'double negative' rule, there is a need to prove there is a god.

Using Occam's Razor we end up with no need to posit a god to explain the universe. Threatening non-believers with damnation is not a very good argument for the existence of god.

Hey! What's wrong with knife throwing?

For some reason, I bought a set of throwing knives while I was in a knife store - now I am trying to learn to throw knives (actually, throwing them is easy - getting them to stick pointy end first is the test).