The collected works of GeneratriX - Page 8

hamei wrote: Dear CEO

Went to your company's website today. The garbage Flash on your website crashed my browser. I didn't come to you for a Rich Internet Experience, I wanted to check prices and maybe order something. But since you are more interested in playing with your dick than making a sale, I left without buying anything.

Merry Christmas and don't come crying to us dumbass consumers when you go broke !

love and kisses, big hugs to the kids

An ex-potential-customer

Excellent, I'll add it to my existant base of templates! ...anyway, I hope I'll not receive myself many letters as the above!
Merry christmas!

canavan wrote: If you have a tar, you've already done half the work to make a nekoware tardist.

After many weeks beeing bussy here, and reading this thread, I was about to offer myself to create the tardist... but after seeing the way you solved it... well... I have to accept you always show up with a very classy solution for all!
BTW: nice to see Pixie for IRIX!

...are you one of them? I don't believe at all in this 2012's Mayan stupidity... I'm so tired to hear all the people here taking about the end of the world... how anyone could believe in prophecies right now, in the age of information, computers, space shuttles, and DNA decyphering?

Arghhh... why the TV channels spread so stupid news all the time? I can't understand...

Is the people also bugging you with this BS at home, work, friends, customers, and/or any other social environments? ...or am I alone?

Nahhh... I'm not worried myself about the EOTW at all! ...in fact I'm hundreed percent sure that the damn thing will not happen at all! ...I can bet double against single that we will not see any other fact than a normal year as all the rest!
...still, the thing that worries me a bit is that A BIG LOT of people here (in my country, my city, etc.) is so conceirned about the Mayan prophecies that they are leaving their investments for tomorrow, more exactly for the time past 2012! ...and they are loosing a big oportunity and precious time without buying from me as much stuff as they should! Superstitions are something really annoying when they sit between my bussinesses and me!

...my kids are growing up so fast ...Wheeeeee!!! ...and they are both so brilliant that sometimes I feel myself as a stupid and underpowered 286 AT clone against a last generation multi-core machine! Seriously, they are something to watch! ...they already know the names for all my tools, instruments, machines, most part of softwares, etc...

[EDIT] Oh!, and they don't care at all about TV! ...they are way more interested on my cool gadgets! [/EDIT]

fu wrote: that (probably) happens because they did not have access to (decent) education but they all have access to a tv box…be a hero and turn off all the tv sets in argentina

You know about this quote: "El sueño de la razón produce monstruos"
...but I guess TV is a mixed benefit ...you know, you can always watch "Mythbusters", or things like that!

fu wrote: woohoo, if any of them wants to revive your video edit sw, gimme a ring

...well, I don't know ...they are too smart! ...I don't know if they really would like to have those cronic back pains and headaches like daddy!

fu wrote: all the best D

Are you still a constant traveller? Cheers!
Diego

hamei wrote:

sybrfreq wrote: it's like watching the odometer roll over. the car doesn't vanish leaving you with a skidmark on your ass.

Ha ! You never owned any of my cars !

Well... years ago, one of my first cars actually dissapeared below my ass, when I got stuck on a well transited street at the north of my city, at the middle of some very strong rain, and literally, these poor Fiat 600 was covered up to the windows with water... the flood was so strong that carried up with her every thing you could imagine... my salvation was a few guys that crossed the street to help, and with some big efforts (the Fiat 600 is not too heavy, but the car was flooded!) we managed to up the little thing to a higher area.

And yup, this is not a joke... so, yes, if you are 19' old and you drive a little blueish Fiat 600 at the middle of the rain, be careful!

The day after that, me and a friend of mine dissasembled a few parts around the engine, the seats, the doors, etc... everything majorly filled with very dirty water.

This is not the exact model that I had, but it was pretty close to that:

VenomousPinecone wrote: Thats essentially how I feel about. The experts and authorities are still human, so they make mistakes and make educated guesses.

Yes... and that in the best of cases... because it seems there is a lot of people that left behind educated guesses to just take prophecies as only guide. Of course: -Who am I to criticize them? But anyway, I can't share their apocalyptic enthusiasm; and mostly because I would not follow anyone without a proof of concept...

But, hey! ...I enjoy Class-B movies a lot, so... why not? ...there is no reason to not save some rations of beans, bullets, bandaids and bullion just in case the wind blows too much and the thin veneer of civilization finally peels away!

Anyway... honestly, despite the fact that such a massive event would be a very impressive experience to watch (even if last one!), I have to accept that it would also take away the chance to see how we manage to squeeze the energy from our planet, our sun, our galaxy, how we manage to open worm holes, travel in time, visit extra-solar places, etc. ...now way, Sir: the game is not finished yet!

VenomousPinecone wrote: Enrico Fermi once told Freeman Dyson that with four arbitrary parameters he could fit an elephant, with five he could make the trunk wiggle.

Heheh!, indeed! Very good quote!

Hey there, Hamei!

hamei wrote: Here's what makes me think it's over : people seem to have lost their brains somewhere.

Not me, my friend. But maybe I was not too specific with the subject. I'm not asking if you think the global warming is for real, or if you think that there are some (very noticeables, indeed!) environmental changes around, or if human stupidity growns up every day... I already know all of these things are already happening!

My real question was/is: "-Do you really think that at some point at the middle of 2012, the planet will blow up as per act of magic, just because the hopies, the mayans, and lately, Nostradamus predicted it?

I answer for myself: -No, I don't think so! And not even for a second!

But if you are asking if I think the planet, the tectonic plates, the human kind, the fauna, the flora, and our atmosphere are all of them healthy... my answer is: -No, I don't think so! ...the planet is mostly screwed up!

On the latest vacations I've taken with family one of the rivers where I accustomed to swim it was completely dried... only dry stones to see there... is this normal? No way. I visit these lands since 1974 and it never happened before.

But the case is... I don't think that everything will end at middle of the stupid 2012. Maybe it will end on around 50, 500, 5000, or 50000 years... but on couple years? ...I don't think so!

hamei wrote: It's as if people couldn't recognize truth if it rose up out of the grunter and bit them in the ass. There is obviously massive operpopulation, overconsumption, overcapacity, serious issues with the world we live on and cannot escape and a disconnect from reality. Yeah, the Maya thing is stupid ... but the impending doom is not. Chanting "Even scientists are human" is ... less than honest with yourself.

Yeah, I see the point... but I don't think the planet or the human kind will dissapear because operpopulation, overconsumption, overcapacity... or at least in less than a couple hundreed years... and for the case, we could also end conquered and squeezed by a bunch of aliens or anything else... it is another possibility too...

hamei wrote: Every single disaster of the past fifty years has been predictable and predicted but no one would listen. There's not a chance in hell that people will actually do what it's going to take, so there ya go. Fifty bucks says humanity will not make it to the next century.

I'll put the money in escrow

Predictable?: Probably! Avoidable?: I Doubt!
...you know ...all the real massive events ...call them tsunamis, earthquakes, or whatever you want, all of them are mostly unavoidable. The most powerful forces of nature are all of them colossals in magnitude... nothing to do against them.

Anyway, there are tons of many other things that are just mankind's resposability... all of them avoidable... and even there nothing is done to avoid them... so, why not? Maybe you're right and TEOTW is close... but not in 2012!

Fifty bucks says humanity will make it to -at least- up to 2013!

Hey there, Frap!

Frapazoid wrote: I think the next period is gonna be pretty rough, but honestly I see humans being around for a loooooooooong time.

My bet is on millions of years.

I don't know if for as much as millions years... at least in this planet... but yes, I think humans are pretty adaptable.

Frapazoid wrote: I think people can't imagine human civilization lasting because, other than constantly fantasizing about it for the entirety of human history, our written history isn't that long so we have absolutely no mental image of what a million year old civilization would even look like.

Indeed! ...and just that is a real challenge! Honestly, every time I try to imagine that, I imagine the human kind travelling the space. I don't think a single planet can support for such a sustained growth for a single specie for a lot of time... but well... who knows!

Exactly. It is just like the grace period that is offered with some loans... you can use the resources for two (or whatever) years before to start to make payments. That's what God offered with this planet. Now... how much will last this period of grace? Who knows!

Hey there, guys!
...too many posts to comment on each of them, despite the fact that I don't think my comments would be of any special importance, given the fact that this thread is geeting more interesting everyday, and I'm also more interested for read than write.

But the thing I would like to mention is: many years ago I had a nice book that commented about what the author considered to be a single and unavoidable fact. And these fact was: if the human kind wants to make it to the next evolutive level, it has to develop what he called "Consciousness Of Beehive" ...not in the figurative sense that the people commonly uses to refer to some kind of societies where a community is layouted similarly to a community of ants or bees, but more in a concrete and real sense of beehive. He stated that if we can't reach such thing, we'll not make it up to the next level.

I can't remember the name of the book or the author. I had these wild period where a couple different books crossed my night table each week. Anyway I've stored pretty well the info, but without too much metadata!

The thing is, I think there was something right with these concept... and at some point the world seemed to work towards such a direction, except that at some point everything was perverted... you know, the normal order on the world beehive resulted too altered... by far too much for any reasonable measure... the queen bees abused their power, the drones felt in drugs to make their lifes more supportables, and the intermediaries felt in extreme greed to fill their pockets!

So... are we the society of the future portrayed on the cover from "Cars, Ships, & Airplanes"? ...no way! ...we are the crappy society that you can watch in an episode of "The Office"... you know, everybody watchs his ass, etc...

We are not even there in the K-Scale... don't be fooled... this is a poor joke from what an advanced civilization would be. And I'm not beeing pessimist, but maybe a bit crude. Try to place our actual world into an episode of "Star Trek", and just try to imagine it, just try. We would be some kind of shame zoo, or something like that... you know, if our destiny is travel along the stars to find a Mother Earth's replacement, we are loosing precious time and resources with each TV, each car, each motorcycle, each reality-show, and each loosy unnecessary thing that is produced by means of resources that we would need to exploit to discover how to produce antimatter for cheap in good quantities, how to suspend human life for 5 years without brain damage, and all the rest...

I share the concepts with VP: I also think that there is another 10% pushing real hard in the right direction. The problem is that masses were probably never more stupid than today... to put it in perspective.

But still, I don't think we are facing the EOTW at 2012. Let's face it: we are a real plague for this planet. A plague worst than cockcroaches for this earth. And plagues are, for any means, anything but easy to kill.

Just my 6.626068 × 10-34 Cents!

We are foam!

ajerimez wrote: Totally naive question: if most matter is predominantly empty space, why don't objects pass through each other?

Quantum physics: at any given point of space/time there will be a random particle occupying it... since you could not predict the position for a single particle, is a lot less probably that you could predict the position for every single point from an enormous quantity of particles composing the matrix for any given object... and even less probably that you could process such a big amount of information to synchronize the position for each particle from the object A with each empty space from the object B...

All in all, if you were enough speedy (and clever!) you could do it!

[EDIT] And this without consider the interactions between the electromagnetic fields from each particle... [/EDIT]

Frapazoid wrote: ...

Nice trick, Frap!
...you deletted it a fraction of second before a hit "Submit"!

josehill wrote: Also keep in mind that our atoms are constantly moving, and the electrons in particular move around very quickly. At any instant, a point in space may be unoccupied, but at the next, most infinitesimal moment, it may be filled, so it's more practical to think of exclusionary clouds than single points in space over time.

Exactly what I've tried to say... but in your words it sounded a lot better!

Frapazoid wrote:

Peddling porn across the universe.

What if aliens want to buy it?

I don't know if they will buy... but if this is what they have for sale, I can't think of any successful bussiness model to help them!

ajerimez wrote: why then can't electrons pass right through each other?

I like to think that there are a few universal facts impeding it. I can think of:

1) The sub-atomic particles are either close to or lightspeed accelerated. It should make a lot more difficult to observe an empty space at some given point of time. Since they are a giant quantity of particles, and they travel to the limit speed, it would be as if each orbit were solidly covered with an anular shaped body more than with a single ball travelling thru it.

2) Since at speeds close light speed mass is increased as soon you accelerate the particle another tiny bit, I like to think that since those sub-atomic particles are so much accelerated, they should be on rare (inflated?) state rendering more mass than the original for each particle.

3) If all the above fails, I think the sense of turn from each sub-atomic particle should have a lot to do with it. As you know the principles of electrostatic fields explain that equally polarized particles suffer repulsion and oppositely polarized particles suffer attraction. But I was never sure if the reason is the same than the dogmatically consignated one in the books of text. There is a lot more to it than what I could recall now, including Triboelectric Properties, and all the rest. Maybe it is just as easy as to think that particles with same angular momentum just keep appart one of each other... or maybe not!