Double resurrect!
Try the game in it's current form and I do believe you'll find it entertaining and subject to challenges. It's currently available as a full-featured demo save the lack of saving replays, and the physics won't change any more.
It takes maybe 3-4 hours to get the control system down, and another year or two to master, quite a nice game.
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects."
-Aristotle - Book of Humour
And, importantly, do you have a firewall blocking yopu or is your ISP throttling you connection?
Wasn't there something about certain torrent clients not being allowed?
Here: http://tasvideos.org/BannedTorrentClients.html
Shareaza isn't banned, so I don't know...
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects."
-Aristotle - Book of Humour
Of course there are sociopaths, asf., but the only thing you need is for most people to agree on what is and isn't a crime, and the vast majority of people are agreed that acts such as murder, assault, kidnapping, theft, and arson are crimes, and i would add that this is because they constitute a physical invasion of another person's person or property.
This still doesn't mean that these are values that exist a priori, merely that it is the most common current train of thought, coaxed by the current historical period we live in.
Also, you assume that the a priori facts are to be found in the thoughts of humans, taking an anthropocentric stance on the issue of finding these basics, thus you are only assuming, and therefore you haven't found the basic principles, only your own assumptions.
Also, because justice is rooted in egalitarianism, it can't discriminate among persons, so kidnapping is just as much a crime when commited by private individuals as when commited by government officials, therefore we can say that the military commisions act (aside from being unconstitutional) is illegal, because it authorizes such kidnapping.
Not necessarily, since some forms of government or trains of thought do not consider it a crime for a "superior" to commit these actions, for example the hypothetical communist society, or the monarchies of old.
Only if we consider the bil las belonging to a democratic, liberal mindset does it not fit in, which it doesn't, I agree.
By the way, what do you have against anarchists? I'm an anarchist.
Point proven I should think ;)
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects."
-Aristotle - Book of Humour
We can debate moral and ethics when applied to a society, for the very reason that the society is democratic and open to debate. In a ("real", as opposed to electorate) democratic society, the opinion shared by the most, prevails.
Even if the morals or standards don't exist in the world a priori, as you seem to imply is the problem, in a world in which there either:
a) Are no a priori "facts"
b) The "facts" that exist a priori are not known (E.g. if you try to argue based on the concept of the Christian God, I would ask you why he/she is more "correct" than the Muslim God)
or finally:
c) The a priori "facts" carry no moral/ethic virtues (Science, at the very least, seems to present such a world),
We are then faced with an emptiness, in which we can pour our imagination and construct our own moral/ethic complexes, testing them out for both contradictions and pragmatic reliability, then judging them based on a system of thinking which might be pre-given to the debaters (In this case, I'm assuming we are all debating which rules to use in a democratic society.), and finding those moral/ethic complexes which seem best suited to these systems.
The latter is what this debate is about.
*Retort*
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects."
-Aristotle - Book of Humour
I got to the First equations, but decided to solve it as a complete system, rather than solving for each ring individually, then combining, I think that's what threw me off.
But good problem none-the-less :)
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects."
-Aristotle - Book of Humour
(2 weeks later)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAH
I've lost so much hair over this thing, I keep getting the quotient between the two to be -2 instead of 2, and I just can't find that elusive mistake.
Bleh.
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects."
-Aristotle - Book of Humour
I believe I read somewhere spoken Danish is supposed to be the most difficult language to learn, since there are so many different ways in which to pronounce the vowels, and it depends on context rather than the meaning of the word. Plus Danish is spoken at the back of the throat as opposed to, say, spanish, which is migh more highly elevated.
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects."
-Aristotle - Book of Humour
I'm a mixed-drinker myself, preferring whatever goes with the mood/food.
As for "starter" beers, Tuborg is ok. As a rule of thumb, don't go with something really fancy, but rather regulars. I love beer, and I still find Chimay and the like too yeasty for my liking.
As for other wares, they should all be had straight. Schnaps, Bailey's, the lot. Also much less of a hassle than mixing when both your eyes are trying to explore opposite ends of the room.
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects."
-Aristotle - Book of Humour
J** Taxes: Generally considered the highest in the world. Income tax starts at about 30% but is strongly progressive from $36,700 a year to 50-60%. Your employer must also pay about 40% of your total salary in payroll tax. If you own more than $200,000 you also pay captial tax. If you own a house you pay 0.75% of its value in property tax. If you want to buy something, assuming you have any money left, the VAT is 25%, unless you're buying gasoline, alcohol, tobacco and some other products, then there are extra purchase taxes.
** Tax spendings: Benefits and allowances consume about 34% of the state budget. In comparison education gets 9%, healthcare 5%, police and courts less than 4%.
*ahem*
http://www.libraryspot.com/know/highesttax.htm
Denmark has the highest income tax rate, with its top-taxed citizens paying 68% of their hard-earned crowns. The basic tax rate begins at 42%.
Source: Guiness World Records
According to the old version I have lying around, the total taxation has at times risen over 100%.
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects."
-Aristotle - Book of Humour
Hmm... For the sake of argument, here's a basic summary of Denmark (At least the part where I am situated);
Social structure: If you have money enough to make your kids rich, it doesn't matter if you live in a dumpster. Autocracy galore.
Politics: Borderline Nazi-style government. Not many foreigners allowed.
Economy: High tax (40-70%) with little personal freedom. Cars? 3x the price everywhere else. Free healthcare and free crappy school system, though.
Weather: Basically sweden-ish, except there are no pretty mountains.
Nature: As stated, no mountains, 90% farmland.
Girls: Stubborn and snobby for the most part, the other part is too drunk to notice.
Language: Take the beauty of swedish "opera", make it monotone, dreary and dull and eat half the syllables. A pinch of Schwarzenegger accent and that's danish for you.
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects."
-Aristotle - Book of Humour
Spread the word:
Every set of metaphysical parameters has no more merit to be true than any other set of metaphysical parameters.
E.g. you cannot say that christianity is more "real" than Islam, because there is no logical reason why it should be.
If mankind is to loose the notion of religion. it would mean conquering the fear of death;
Doing this on a personal scale is accomplishable, as per Camus' absurdity. Doing it on a global scale, however, is completely unthinkable to be completed anywhere near the next 75 years.
Or we could in some way distract from the thought of it, which isn't really solving the problem but rather hiding it.
What I do believe (As is already happening) is, that religion will take a more secularised form in Europe, where churches etc. within the christian faith mainly harbour the rituals which perform a meaningful function, such as marriage, burial, confirmation and christening. The moral power of the church has long been faded from the public mind, and I suspect this trend will continue.
In North america, however, they're gearing up the christian arsenals and putting nukes on the end of it. This I don't like.
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects."
-Aristotle - Book of Humour
On topic:
Carmageddon (any game) is hilarious.
Quake 3 with the qfrag add-on is also good (Think doom on steroids).
Red Alert 2 in multiplayer (Tactical senses are somewhat dulled by the 'hol).
Off topic:
The real dangers in alchohol is not in the drink itself, but in the world surrounding it.
A healthy drinking culture entailing whine (even to younger kids etc.), the occasional party etc. is much more sane than, say, banning all drinking until 21, and then having young kids drink their brains out and drive home, because they've been driving since they were 16.
Vote the Danish way! Drink from 16, drive from 18.
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects."
-Aristotle - Book of Humour
Gravity hasn't been proven to be, although theories on the quantization of gravity through rather obscure mathematics has provided some merit that it might very well be. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_gravity for more.
Let's review some of the criteria for being categorized as life, shall we?
- Metabolism
- Propagation (sexually or asexually)
The universe fails on these accounts.
Metabolism requires a distinction between what is "external" and "internal" to the organism. Since it is generally accepted that there is nothing "outside" the universe (at least, in a three-dimensional sense), on what would the universe feed - and to what does the energy contrived go?
Propagation requires areas into which the universe can expand and multiply, and thusly falols for the argument above.
Conversly, if we take quantum cosmology into account, then there might be something to it. this, in simplicity, states, that each quantum "decision" spawn a new universe, each containing the varying states in which any quantum could have been when the decision was made. Perhaps then, every quantum state that is found, will spawn an offspring into which we (The observers, parasites) are carried, until the next breeding period.
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects."
-Aristotle - Book of Humour
Must've typed it out wrong :/
Work has me dead-tired ATM.
One ladder is 30 m long, the other is 20 m long. The other case shows, that if such a construction is possible, 7/12 = 1, which clearly isn't true.
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects."
-Aristotle - Book of Humour
2 TASer can create together 2 TASes in 2 days. How many TASes can be created by 3 TASer in 3 days? :p
This would mean that one TAS'er spends 2 days creating one TAS.
Assuming they are not in some way parallel-processing the runs, three TAS'ers would create 3 TAS's in the first two days, then each would do half a speedrun in the next day.
As such, the answer is not 4.5 speedruns, the answer is 3 completed and 3 half-done, assuming serial processing by the TAS'ers.
For a challenge in basic maths, solve "the ladder problem" without reducing the problem to a fourth degree equation and then solving that.
An alley is of width X. Two ladders are standing in the alley so that one end is in the corner of the alley, and the other in on the opposite wall. They are situated so they form an X within the alley. One ladder is leaning onto the left wall so it hits the wall 40 metres from the ground. The other one hits the opposing wall 30 metres from the ground. The point where the ladders intersect is 10 metres from the ground. Determine the width of the alley.
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects."
-Aristotle - Book of Humour