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| Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 (54 Views) | |
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| Monday, May 12th, 2008 (136 Views)  |  |
| A crow and a kitten, apparently quite fond of each other's company. I know this one is a bit long for most of ya, but its got a fairly interesting story, and some good footage in it. I tend to find interspecies social interaction to be quite fascinating, particularly when it involves two unlikely associates.
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| Monday, May 12th, 2008 (87 Views) |  |
| And what train do they put your dignity on?
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| Sunday, May 11th, 2008 (143 Views)  | |
| OK, sorry guys. The following line was inadvertently missing from my code:
$registers['dsg_start'] = time();
I am now deleting everyone's items and resetting the game. Please sign up again for the game to get your free credits :P I've also given everyone who played last round a 200 credit bonus :)
Sorry for the error, but it's really difficult to debug these types of things in advance.
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| Saturday, May 10th, 2008 (127 Views) | |
| Saw this on Hardocp, but thought it was interesting enough to share with those of you who read their site. I could see something like this becoming a 'toy' if it were simplified a little bit, and the tones were programmable, or even recordable.
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| Saturday, May 10th, 2008 (119 Views) |  |
| I've been in love with this series ever since I randomly stumbled across episode 3. It's, by my standards, clever, unique, and highly entertaining. What has me crying with laughter is the very subtle details that he doesn't focus on. Take for example the first video:
Notice the side-mirror of the car he is sitting in while he took the picture. The circumstances of it all is either just brilliant or all in my head.
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| Saturday, May 10th, 2008 (127 Views) | |
| I really couldnt resist.. sorry.
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| Friday, May 9th, 2008 (122 Views)  | |
| http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...e-pirates.html
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Matt Mason, in his book The Pirate's Dilemma (look for our review next week), shows how a culture of piracy tends to grow up whenever and wherever a human need meets draconian restrictions—economic, legal, what have you. The establishment that gave birth to hip-hop, Wikipedia, disco, and YouTube must change in the end or risk losing out as new players monetize the new market staked out by the pirates. Rap and graffiti started out as rebel yells, then became accepted as art forms, and they have now been integrated into the multibillion-dollar pop culture machinery that once was the enemy. It happened to Dr. Dre because the record companies couldn't silence him and his fans with cookie-cutter pop, so hip-hop quickly became a business model instead.
What Sumner is missing with his comments is the fact that pirates can be beaten—it happens all the time—but not primarily by means of legal threats and lawsuits. No, you subjugate these rebels with the tools of free enterprise. Piracy is just another business model, and the pirates will lose and go away when you come up with a better model (or they will become legitimate players themselves).
Stripped down to the bare essentials, consumers will choose the service with the most attractive balance of price, convenience, and quality. Piracy will always win on price, because you can't really beat free. The other two components are up for grabs, but the media companies are only now starting to seize the opportunity.
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| Thursday, May 8th, 2008 (385 Views)  |  |
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_...ty_Act_of_1924
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Originally Posted by wikipedia
The Sterilization Act provided for compulsory sterilization of persons deemed to be "feebleminded," including the "insane, idiotic, imbecile, feebleminded or epileptic"[2]. These two laws were Virginia's implementation of Harry Laughlin's "Model Eugenical Sterilization Law"[3], published two years earlier in 1922. The Sterilization Act was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Buck v. Bell 274 U.S. 200 (1927), which appealed the order to involuntarily sterilize Carrie Buck and her family, who were inmates in the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.. In support of his argument that the interest of the states in a "pure" gene pool outweighed the interest of individuals in their bodily integrity, he wrote:
We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives. It would be strange if it could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the State for these lesser sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned, in order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence. It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes.
Holmes concluded his argument with the infamous phrase: Three generations of imbeciles are enough.
Carrie Buck was paroled from the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded shortly after her sterilization was performed. Her mother and three-year old daughter were also sterilized under the same statute. The daughter, Vivian Buck, died in 1932 of "enteric colitis", possibly as a delayed complication of her sterilization surgery.
Carrie Buck eventually wed William Eagle and they remained married for twenty-five years before he died. As scholars and reporters visited Carrie it became abundantly clear to everyone that Carrie Buck was a woman of normal intelligence.
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There have been many heinous atrocities committed within the U.S. for many years but few merit unique notoriety. For decades, people presumably with poor intellect or individuals and even families were forcibly sterilized. Social Darwinism has been prevalent for ages scapegoating people with no defense.
Every time I hear someone sheepishly follow authority I am sickened. Milgram's experiments have turned out to an accurate depictation of the way humans have been inculcated by malevolent and vacuous culture worldwide.
Some people anticipate a brighter future and others fear for the next generation. Nobody gives a fuck about opinion.
Gee guys, entertainment sure is wonderful. Let me go get my 36oz. gold chain and rejoice in pursuit of the next 57 oz.
Any other misanthropic articles to share? | |
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| Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 (230 Views) | |
| So the DeadGod design has been changed a bit, as you may have noticed. That big bar beneath the title area will display recent posts, popular articles, or popular threads depending on what you mouse over.
The logo has also been changed to be slightly less offensive ;)
So, thoughts? Ideas? Like it? Hate it?
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| Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 (242 Views) |  |
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If I could have an ounce of either of their talent I would be a pleased gal.
When I was little the violin was my favorite instrument. I used to watch orchestras whenever dad would attempt to channel surf past them. I always loved their sound and the sharp movements of the musician. Of course, I didn't pursue this because I was a stupid American child.
I later grew to love wooden wind instruments (simple wooden flutes and the like) but I didn't pursue that nor did I pursue the harp.
Needless to say, I failed. These guys didn't. | |
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| Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 (219 Views)  |  |
| My cover with a friend of mine, of Justin King's Larivee guitar video
im playing bass and my friend is playing guitar
Click to listen! | |
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| Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 (97 Views) | |
| o Now only two items will be shown in your inventory.
This includes both the postbits area below player's avatars and their full user page. Which two items are displayed are up to you--they will be the top two items listed on your inventory page. You can access your inventory page as follows:
[ DSG Items ] -> [ View Inventory ]
Re-arrange your inventory by dragging the items around.
o All purchasable items now have a set cost of 5 credits.
o All purchasable items now have a stock of 1,000,000.
o Only people who have registered for the current cycle will be affected by events.
o Signing up to play a DSG cycle will grant you 150 credits. Playing each day will grant you an additional 10 credits.
This is in addition to the 1000/500/100 rewards everyone gets at the end of the cycle. This means that no matter what you will gain credits by playing DSG.
This opens up the game to people who don't necessarily want to play to win, but just want to interfere with other players :)
o The play method has been changed significantly. The new system works as follows:
Each cycle will open with a "registration" period that lasts 48 hours. This gives everyone a break and ample time to sign up for the new cycle. To register, visit http://www.deadgod.net/dsg
After the registration period is over, a single staging day will happen. When you are satisfied with your selection of items, visit http://www.deadgod.net/dsg to say you're ready for the next event to happen.
Every four hours a script will run to check if all players who registered are ready. If all players are ready and at least 16 hours have passed since the last event the next event will run. Players have 48 hours to signify they are ready, otherwise the event will run regardless. All registered players will receive a reminder email every 4 hours after the initial 16 hours have passed if they have not said they're ready.
At this point you can change your items around again. Once satisfied, you must visit http://www.deadgod.net/dsg and verify you're ready for the next event cycle.
This is much simpler than it sounds. Just visit http://www.deadgod.net/dsg after buying your items and you will be guided through the process.
That's it. Good luck! | |
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| Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 (232 Views) | |
| http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/sc...138&ei=5087%0A
This is truly a fascinating article. I admit to spending entirely too much time lost in thoughts concerning the evolution of intelligence. It's difficult to answer the two giant questions regarding it:
1) Why are we the only species with our level of intelligence?
2) What gradual adaptations could have led to it?
It's fascinating to think about; intriguing to read about experiments like these that will some day help us understand.
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“If it’s so great to be smart,” Dr. Kawecki asks, “why have most animals remained dumb?”
Dr. Kawecki and like-minded scientists are trying to figure out why animals learn and why some have evolved to be better at learning than others. One reason for the difference, their research finds, is that being smart can be bad for an animal’s health.
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| Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 (123 Views) | |
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| Monday, May 5th, 2008 (190 Views) | |
| There are about 50 short animated cartoons with this character in it, each about 3 minutes long. Seriously, its hard to go wrong with polar bears.. if you can get past the 10 seconds of intro music...
http://www.bernardbear.com/
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_lis...007146749C8E84 - Playlist (non english titles unfortunately, but the only playlist i could find that had most of the complete shorts in some sort of order.) | |
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| Monday, May 5th, 2008 (152 Views) | |
| http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/he...c6c&ei=5087%0A
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Kendal begins by asking newcomers whether they want to be resuscitated or go to the hospital and under what circumstances. “They give me an amazingly puzzled look, like ‘Why wouldn’t I?’ “ said Brenda Jordan, Kendal’s second nurse practitioner.
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I understand the increased risks of geriatric surgery and certainly understand why some patients would rather not undertake intrusive care or surgeries when there is very little to gain.
What I have a problem with is the culture of "respect" that's growing around this type of thing. What scares me is the fast-spreading idea that the elderly should be left alone to die naturally. With "honor" and "dignity".
I absolutely believe people should have a right to choose in this matter. I absolutely believe that a person should be able to choose to not undergo any life-saving measures.
But what protections are in place against abuse? Against peer pressure, both by families and doctors? Against insurance companies refusing to pay if "slow medicine" becomes the socially-accepted standard?
It scares me because I see this happening far too easily. Nobody wants to seem like a selfish asshole. They'll make a decision like this because they think it's what their kids want. Or what their doctors want. Or what they think they're supposed to want.
People's thoughts are too easily molded by others. Rigid safeguards must be put in place.
As for me, I have no problem appearing selfish. Should my life be at risk I'd want every possible course of action taken to save it. Even if it meant becoming a head in a jar.
Only in a brain-death situation would I want to be put down. Anything less is simply unacceptable to me.
So long as I have conscious thoughts I'll want to live. | |
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| Monday, May 5th, 2008 (205 Views) | |
| I enjoy animated content, particularly because good animated shorts are hard to find. Heres one i stumbled across while searching through youtube.
What sorts of content do you guys like to see? Videos, pictures, what themes? Funny, sad, thoughtful? Would be very interesting to know what our regulars, and our visitors find fun, interesting and entertaining. | |
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| Monday, May 5th, 2008 (164 Views) | |
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