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chilaxe Member Profile  Birthdate: January 1st, 1980 (29 years old) Bio: Member Since: 2007-04-27 Favorite Sift: VNV Nation - illusion By Andy Huang Last Power Points used: never • Available: now Max Power Points: 1 • Get More Power Points Now Comments |
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I just wanted to say good job on your comment about the mouse/pitcher plant video. I agree entirely though sometimes I wimp out and dont say so.
I've decided that I'm no longer looking the other way when it comes to videos of killing animals on videosift or videos where animals are set up to be killed as was the case in the pitcher plant video. People dont seem to get that the idea of a pitcher plant is its full of water and causes death by drowning.
So no mercy from my downvote in future, i dont care if it upsets people or causes * controversy!
Brutal. *snuff
no thats not snuff. I can honestly see where you are comming from but that mouse would of eaten its way out of the plant, thats what mice do, they gnaw and scratch and wriggle when they are confined such as it would be at the base of the pitcher. Infact I bet if the video went on for five more minutes you would see the mouse being MIGHTY AND VICTORIOUS.
It works on that site, so you just got yourself a vote.
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Sorry it didn't work for you. I listed another link that might work here: http://www.videosift.com/video/Sex-addict-It-was-exhausting#comment-895669
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Shitty player won't play for me
Any UPS the size of a surge protector won't give you much. The most valuable feature you can have on them is the shutdown-command that they can give the computer if there's a power-outage.
If you're worried about your motherboard / PSU failing due to a power surge, all you need is a surge protector as far as I'm concerned. The only component of the computer that might suffer damage from an instant shutdown is the hard-drive, and in the case of desktop computers, the damage is unlikly.
Make sure you buy a quality surge protector. $20-30 more isn't a lot to pay, and you don't want the cheap ones
In reply to this comment by chilaxe:
Demon_IX, Thanks for the advice on the UPS thread.
When you say UPS are loud, are you referring to the beeping when the power goes out, or to normal noise that they make?
Are you referring to the big box ones that have their own LCD screens, or to the smaller ones that look basically like normal surge protectors?
In reply to this comment by demon_ix:
I'd recommend something like a Surge Protector and not a UPS. Those things are loud, heavy, expensive and not very useful for home users.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Sam-Beam-Iron-Wine-The-Trapeze-Swinger
/votefish!
In reply to this comment by chilaxe:
Fair enough
if you're interested.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Another-Great-Poem-by-Enoch
vertical prose rules!
When Henry VIII officially criminalised buggery in 15-urmmurmurmurmur, and his law was supported by subsequent generations, they weren't just thinking of their people in their own time, they applied it to everyone - you, me, Alan Turing and a child born a billion years from now in Alpha Centauri. This is the problem with taking the long view; the future may be bright, but it can't shine back on us, while the shadow of the past stretches forward forever.
Meh. I'm still closer to childhood than middle-age, and enamoured of idealism.
As for our limited intelligence - you do the best you can with what you have, and I'd suggest we're doing a hell of a lot better than some.
In reply to this comment by chilaxe:
Yeah, the 'personhood' model and the cognitive machine model are each useful levels of detail for the same thing... the best one to use probably depends on what your application is.
I don't blame people, though, for holding views that I think have big costs for society... I think we're all in the same trap of limited human intelligence - them more so than us - and people will change their minds in the end.
Also, the libertarian in me says that society's lack of intelligence only has a cost on us if we let it (to some degree). Turing, for example, as much as I personally admire him for his genius, chose to take certain risks, and he lost the bet.
IMHO, it's reasonable to say a rationalist in his position wouldn't have been so careless with sexuality. I think we're often more empowered and capable of proactive behavior than we think we are, and viewing ourselves as victims is generally not necessary.
I disagree that calling a human a person is less valid than your input-output cognitive machine, which I absolutely accept to be an accurate description, itself no less valid than as a bundle of quarks and electrons, acting on even more fundamental mechanisms. One emerges from the next emerges from the next. Possessing a de facto consciousness I'm not too concerned with whether or why it really exists; illusory or real one seems to function as well as the other. So it's on that principle I interact with what I blindly assume are other similar minds.
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Doesn't it gnaw at you that, living in a world mostly populated by criminals, any good you do will primarily benefit them?
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Gorillaman, we're young enough that we have a decent chance of living to see the fulfillment of SENS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Grey).
Doesn't that make you want to do something with your life that's ingenious and constructive, helping out the common good, instead of just pursuing vendettas?
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>> ^burdturgler:
How does that translate into cheering for someones death?
Progressives ask for and praise the deaths of conservatives all the time. The path to victory for progressives requires increasing their intelligence. Then we'd all benefit.
This kind of hypocrisy seems like a good place to start.
i do attempt to structure at least rudimentary paragraphs,but when i get emotionally involved i tend to type like i speak.
at TCMS i had a secretary who would take my meanderings and make them at least readable.which was akin to having a personal editor and made me look fabulous.
i have no such luxuries here LOL.
i do not purposely try to confuse or confound, words can be very inadequate at times.
for me at least,and when i get emotionally involved i regress to vertical prose almost every time.
i need to either take a grammar course or find me a secretary.
thanks for the response bud,much appreciated.
till next time...namste,
Enoch, it's not in your interests to type in an unprofessional typing style. It distracts from your message and implies you're not considerate of the people reading your message.
what is my interest?
what is my message?
i reread my comment,and while in my normal run-on-sentence form.
i dont see where i was being inconsiderate to anyone in particular.
was it the word? agnostic?
it just means not-knowing.nothing more..nothing less.
nuance is often lost in text,and i surely did not mean to come across as inconsiderate.
i was just warning of the consequences of absolutist thinking,and that can be from both ends of the spectrum.thats all.
i just dont find sam harris that convincing,i am sure his books are far more concise.
i prefer richard dawkins arguments.
i just didnt want to see the subject matter get all clouded and lumped together as a "us vs them" mentality.
ah well...sometimes i nail it,other times i just confuse more.
but i do thank you for letting me know my words may be construed as inconsiderate.
i apologized accordingly,it really was not my intention.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html
In reply to this comment by chilaxe:
Hahaha. The rationalist stalks his prey.
I quiet agree with you: http://www.videosift.com/video/Usain-Bolt-Runs-New-100m-World-Record-9-58-sec#comment-838492