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Apple Zone / Re: Shiny New Color-Coded Butthurt Warning System

« on: October 05, 2012, 08:57:55 am »

If it's good enough for the Department of Homeland Security, it's good enough for us.  Please note that we'll never actually be below Orange, ever again (just like the airports).

Green - Low
"All-consumingly wonderful and feces-free.  Delightful, quick to laugh, slow to anger, magnanimous, sharp-witted, tripping the light fantastic, flying through the air shooting alternating puffs of lilac and sandalwood from your ass.  Probably getting sexed up right nice-like, debts well in hand, with car not making any unsettling noises at all.  Slightly annoying to people at lower levels, but you are swell, so they don't mind that much.  Running with the big dogs through the canyons of your mind and just really super in general, thanks for asking!"

Blue - Guarded - general risk
"Beginning to emit a bit of gaseous warning-foulness.  Not exactly appalling, but definitely lacking in the golden glow of the Green level.  Holding your own relatively well, but making that face which says 'Warning! Possible Cranky Pants!'  Medication holding the line to within spec, but also not making you the master/mistress of all you survey, either.  Minor, one-word, first-degree expletives heard from time to time, especially when safely aimed at the television, traffic or pets.  Vein in temple delivers occasional small pulse."

Yellow - Elevated - significant risk
"Skirting the near side of Butthurt.  Random stamping of foot beginning to appear.  Objects being thrown from time to time.  Angry comments about work, society, religion and/or politics in evidence.  Expressions of desire to kick someone increasing.  Hot Pockets and chocolate no longer cutting the mustard.  Personally comforting mini-delusions showing signs of strain.  Even sarcastic adult cartoons and video footage of political figures stumbling over their tongues or falling down not eliciting grins as they once did.  Someone needs a hug, but odds of getting one decreasing steadily."

Orange - High
"In grave danger of being full of it.  Others being lightly splattered with warning flecks of your emissions.  Outside facts, opinions, wants and needs having no effect on your personal headlong plunge into Me-ism.  You are presenting as unreasonable, grossly inconsiderate, petty, bullying, selfish, virtually humorless.  Imminent danger of screwing a pooch as tall as a Clydesdale.  Debating doing personal damage to others.  Listening to both Art Bell and the O'Reilly Report and taking them at face value.  Basically being a stinkpot.  Bad moon rising from the back of your pants."

Severe - Red
"Filled to overflowing with crap.  Far past the point where a mere apology will suffice; jewelry and submissive showing of buttocks required, just to get rolling again. A clear and present, highly-active pinwheel, coating everything and everyone in sight with a thick layer any time you open your mouth or take an action.  Even flies are revolted.  Someone may get punched right inna face.  Maintenance at this level threatens to burn all bridges and permanently soil your dickey with the Brown 'A'.  Get a grip, FUCK you, SHUT UP, I'll see you in COURT, motherfucker!"

Occurring - Black
Pants filled, internet over.

Absolutely spot-on! 

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: The Golden Dawn are taking over Athens

« on: October 05, 2012, 05:46:07 am »

True, this guy Bossi is the stuff nightmares are made of   

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: The Golden Dawn are taking over Athens

« on: October 05, 2012, 03:34:06 am »

To be honest, the fascists in the Christian Democrats (now the "People of Freedom" party of Silvio Berlusconi)  are more worrying than most of the Italian fascist groups who call themselves fascist.  The major Italian parties who call themselves fascist could be more typified as "post-fascist", and while still worrying in certain ways, are more or less resigned to the role of defending the Italian state within a democratic-liberal framework and on cultural grounds.  Hell, they've even repudiated biological racism and anti-Semitism.

Use of the Celtic cross as a symbol of political organization was sanctioned, primarily, by direct support of the Christian-democrat Forza Nuova, despite (or because of) it's direct association with the swastika and inciting  anti-Semitic violence.  La Democrazia Cristiana essentially associated itself with the symbol to protect and absorb the the lower-level organizers and agents of violence that operated under the symbol - covering the pernicious elements with it's greater mantle.  Overtly they do not condone the violence, but they support it.

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Techmology and Scientism / Re: Uncanny valley turned up to eleven.

« on: October 05, 2012, 03:04:48 am »

I can't say I'm much of a gambler, however, I'd give it a whirl for a stake in patents obtained 

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Random News Stories

« on: October 05, 2012, 02:59:09 am »

Half of them are here on diplomatic visas anyway.  They ain't paying for jack shit.

And it's all just, for "official business"

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Random News Stories

« on: October 04, 2012, 10:02:25 am »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210436/Is-smallest-flat-London-Home-measuring-10ft-8ft-goes-sale-90-000.html?ITO=1490

Yikes.

Knightsbridge.  Just south of Hyde Park and either in Westminster or Kensington and Chelsea....finding any property there worth less than six figures is a miracle all of its own.  Shit, where I'm living next year, the average price for a flat is £2.3 million.  Yes, you read that correctly.

Shit.

The speculation that this place was purchased solely for the parking permit also makes me  .

Third most expensive real estate market (averaged out) in the world here.  Just behind Monaco and Cape Ferrat.  I believe Tokyo, New York, Zurich and Geneva can be considered more expensive once living expenses are factored in, but based on land prices per square metre....yup.

Who would've thought letting all those Russian and Arab billionaires buy up property here would have had such an effect on the local market?

As long as they keep on paying those parking tickets and moving violations, no skin off my back.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: The Golden Dawn are taking over Athens

« on: October 04, 2012, 09:34:21 am »

Partito Socialista Nazionale:  currently a party in Italy's Gov.   

Then, for an historic misappropriation...


Re-prostituted by currently active neo/post-fascist party Forza Nuova:

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Techmology and Scientism / Re: Uncanny valley turned up to eleven.

« on: October 04, 2012, 09:07:34 am »

Just about to read this:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070221073440/http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/WorldOfDawkins-archive/Dawkins/Work/Articles/1996-11-24wheels.shtml

Why Don't Animals have Wheels
By Richard Dawkins

Hey Ferx, long time no see.


How've you been?

Well & looking forward (and now back for further absence you?

Re: article, just before where the picture was (supposed to be)
...

Now I must mention that there is one revealing exception to my premiss.  Some very small creatures have evolved the wheel in the fullest sense of the word.  One of the first locomotor devices ever evolved may have been the wheel, given that for most of its first two billion years, life consisted of nothing but bacteria (and, to this day, not only are most individual organisms bacteria, even in our own bodies bacterial cells greatly outnumber our ‘own’ cells).

Many bacteria swim using threadlike spiral propellors, each driven by its own continuously rotating propellor shaft.  It used to be thought that these ‘flagella’ were wagged like tails, the appearance of spiral rotation resulting from a wave of motion passing along the length of the flagellum, as in a wriggling snake.  The truth is much more remarkable.  The bacterial flagellum is attached to a shaft which, driven by a tiny molecular engine, rotates freely and indefinitely in a hole that runs through the cell wall.

...

I've been trying to figure out the biomechanics of how this would work on a larger scale. It doesn't seem possible in a terrestrial environment, there would be too much potential for fluid loss.

Just for the sake of conversation, I'd graft a gene to have the organism produce shellac to act as a barrier for fluid loss.  If the pH can be kept around 8, some kinds of shellac would not dissolve to allow permeability.  When access to water is granted, the pH could fall and allow for fluid exchange, osmosis etc.  If water is plentiful, the shell could be dissolved completely to allow for sexual reproduction, just for fun, not because the organism would be necessarily so complex.

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Techmology and Scientism / Re: Uncanny valley turned up to eleven.

« on: September 29, 2012, 07:04:47 am »

Just about to read this:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070221073440/http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/WorldOfDawkins-archive/Dawkins/Work/Articles/1996-11-24wheels.shtml

Why Don't Animals have Wheels
By Richard Dawkins

Hey Ferx, long time no see.


How've you been?

Well & looking forward (and now back for further absence you?

Re: article, just before where the picture was (supposed to be)
...

Now I must mention that there is one revealing exception to my premiss.  Some very small creatures have evolved the wheel in the fullest sense of the word.  One of the first locomotor devices ever evolved may have been the wheel, given that for most of its first two billion years, life consisted of nothing but bacteria (and, to this day, not only are most individual organisms bacteria, even in our own bodies bacterial cells greatly outnumber our ‘own’ cells).

Many bacteria swim using threadlike spiral propellors, each driven by its own continuously rotating propellor shaft.  It used to be thought that these ‘flagella’ were wagged like tails, the appearance of spiral rotation resulting from a wave of motion passing along the length of the flagellum, as in a wriggling snake.  The truth is much more remarkable.  The bacterial flagellum is attached to a shaft which, driven by a tiny molecular engine, rotates freely and indefinitely in a hole that runs through the cell wall.

...

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Techmology and Scientism / Re: Uncanny valley turned up to eleven.

« on: September 29, 2012, 04:01:37 am »

Just about to read this:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070221073440/http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/WorldOfDawkins-archive/Dawkins/Work/Articles/1996-11-24wheels.shtml

Why Don't Animals have Wheels
By Richard Dawkins

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Apple Zone / Re: INFLAMMATORY SUBJECT

« on: September 27, 2012, 12:09:04 am »

Response repeatedly relayed  redundantly reproduced regurgitations regarding recursive replies rendering retroactive recognition regaining real resolution

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: OFFICIAL POLITICAL CARTOONS/PIC FREAD.

« on: September 17, 2012, 07:39:59 pm »

Not photoshopped.

Wait, perhaps those are not safety missiles issuing from the drone?

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Have You Heard About Fukushima?

« on: September 09, 2012, 10:49:15 pm »

Conversely, currency continues climbing:
http://fxtop.com/en/imghisto.php?C1=USD&C2=JPY&A=1&DD1=01&MM1=09&YYYY1=1996&DD2=31&MM2=09&YYYY2=2012&LARGE=2&LANG=en

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Principia Discussion / Re: PLEASE, Deduce something ridiculous.

« on: September 09, 2012, 10:12:24 pm »

I always wonder, why do they come back?  Curiousity?  Boredom?

I think they  believe we have no long term memory.

I see.  Therefore "I bring the spicy".

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Apple Zone / Re: Nothing to do with anything.

« on: September 09, 2012, 08:29:54 am »

Disarming/disparaging the invidious comment with a retort to the effect of how, actually, you just may be too good looking for that, well, it tends to take a few beats...