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Re:The Pirate Bay Wants to Encrypt the Entire Internet on Thursday July 10, 2008 @09:50AM (#242375)
I really love this guys!
Re:The Black Swan and You on Wednesday July 09, 2008 @06:35PM (#241766)
Interesting, it reminds me "The Zurich Axioms"
Re:They Are Scribd on Wednesday July 09, 2008 @04:15PM (#241614)
i love scribd, more for the comunity (groups, friends, comments, related docs, etc) than for the ipaper itself.

but i'm afraid that if the site become too popular they will be teased by copyright, and ruin the whole site (for my personal usage).

Re:Why Paul Graham is wrong about New York City on Tuesday July 08, 2008 @08:00PM (#240549)
Paul Who?
Re:Why are Black Nerds so Unpopular? on Monday July 07, 2008 @12:38PM (#238779)
I never understood the (North) American "high school popularist fetichism". Must be a cultural self spreading virus (meme). I wonder how can you get rid of it? Because i haven't see such behaviour in South America, there the division is rather blured, the nerds are friends with everbody else, an the populars aren't so "elitists" and bulliers... that reminds me this clever bully fight back story: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2007/09/18/pink-t...
You're right, for pure sativas you would need a big closet. Maybe with a 75% s - 25% i, you can get close enough. (PS: i don't like to mix tech with thc).
"warning: personal frustration inspired comment"
|| buy the specific seeds you want, and grow them yourself in your closet!
Re:Are We Living In a Computer Simulation? on Sunday July 06, 2008 @02:38PM (#237925)
Like McLuhan said, "We shape our tools, and then our tools shape us."
Re:Are We Living In a Computer Simulation? on Sunday July 06, 2008 @02:36PM (#237923)
Exactly. Different observer, different models.
Re:Are We Living In a Computer Simulation? on Sunday July 06, 2008 @02:28PM (#237919)
Off course immad, is based in the believe that using our brains as measurement tools for experiencing the universe we can only make models of it, partial maps (filtering a lot of information in the meanwhile). In this process we use our senses, experience, conditioning, prior beliefs, and other non-objective factors to create our unique map.

Every brain make his own reality tunnel (or reference frame) to experience the universe, and we may share some of it with other brains around (also called culture).

So if reality depends of the observer there must be more than one.

Re:Are We Living In a Computer Simulation? on Saturday July 05, 2008 @03:07PM (#237186)
It's just another mind trick, enveloping the whole universe in something that we now understand (discret computer simulations).

Anyway, reality is an opinion, so any model is a valid model.

Re:Why I Still Use Windows 95 on Saturday July 05, 2008 @03:00PM (#237175)
The Win95 Viruses are extinct already ;)
Re:Why I Still Use Windows 95 on Saturday July 05, 2008 @02:57PM (#237169)
Win95 c'mon, lets help this guy with other cooler ways to getting attention and being "different".
Re:Die, Scribd. Die. on Friday June 20, 2008 @05:53PM (#223256)
then you would be reinventing scribd, it saves a copy of the original pdf and you CAN download it.
Re:Die, Scribd. Die. on Friday June 20, 2008 @04:57PM (#223213)
I'm a heavy scribd user and i think that is great to share documents, you can create groups and start discussions, find similar books and people that share your tastes.

You can't do that with acrobar reader.

Re:Die, Scribd. Die. on Friday June 20, 2008 @04:55PM (#223212)
tell them that IE6 is a virus, you wouldn't be liying