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Yehat Revolution
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Yehat Revolution / Wars of Ascension
Terminator icon.png Fury icon.png Terminator icon.png
Yehat and Pkunk ships
Duration several months
Location Yehat space
Result * Rebel victory
* Ascension of a Pkunk Queen Braky Girdy the First
* Yehat-Pkunk assist the Alliance in the Final Mission
* Yehat Rebels
* Pkunk
* Yehat Royalists
The Yehat Revolution, also called the Wars of Ascension, is a civil war between the Yehat Rebels and Pkunk against the Yehat Royalists. It is an optional event that occurs only if The Captain restores the Shofixti race and proves this to the Yehat Starship Clans.
Seeds of Revolution[edit]
The Starship Clans were ashamed of their actions in the Great War, particularly when obeying the orders of the Veep-Neep Queen to abandon the Shofixti to the Ur-Quan Kzer-Za at Delta Gorno. The Starship Clans knew that if the Shofixti were still alive, the shame would be unbearable.
The Captain can meet with the Yehat during Star Control II, but while they are sympathetic to his cause, the Queen gives direct orders to the Starship Clans not to give him any assistance. This changes when The Captain revives the Shofixti race and sends a Shofixti captain to meet with representatives of the Starship Clans. The shock of seeing their adopted children reborn forces the Yehat to face their shameful actions, and in response, the Zeep-Zeep Clan breaks its allegiance to the Veep-Neep Queen.
However, not all Yehat are convinced that the Veep-Neep Queen's actions were dishonorable. These Yehat Royalists fight to preserve the Queen's place upon the High Perch.
Events of the Revolution[edit]
Yehat Rebels brief The Captain
The civil war begins with both sides in control of roughly half the total star systems under the original Yehat sphere of influence.
The Veep-Kreep Clan also joins the Rebels in the revolution. Under the leadership of Cheep-Guava, the Yehat Rebels take control of five star systems formerly under the Yehat Royalists.
The Yehat Rebels eventually defeat the Yehat Royalists and pull the Veep-Neep Queen from the High Perch. Surprisingly, Braky Girdy the First, a Pkunk, flies in to replace the Veep-Neep Queen and unites the Clans "in peace and harmony as never before."
The peaceful Pkunk are successfully absorbed into Yehat culture and begin to provide the Yehat with spiritual insights into themselves. The combined Pkunk Fury and Yehat Terminator fleets provide The Captain with some much needed reinforcements after he fights through the Ur-Quan Kzer-Za and Kohr-Ah defenses to face the Sa-Matra.
Spheres of Influence[edit]
On the Starmap, the Yehat Sphere of Influence is split in two. The Royalist sphere remains violet (dark purple) and the Rebel sphere is mauve (light purple). If the Flagship crosses the frontier where they are not overlapping, it will be met by either hostile or friendly forces. If the Flagship crosses into the overlapping spheres, both hostile and friendly forces.
Both the Royalists and the Rebels are royalist, with the former being Loyalists to the reigning monarch, and the latter breaking their allegiance which is eventually pledged to a different monarch. The term Royalist is used canonically by the Captain during interaction with hostile loyalist forces.
The civil war itself has a different name depending on who you ask. The Rebels and Captain recognize it as a Revolution while the Royalists recognize it as a continuation of the Wars of Ascension.
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Covid 2/9/23: Interferon λ
There are two big pieces of pandemic news this week.
One is that there is growing alarm about the dangers of avian flu, or H5N1. Likely mammal-to-mammal transmission has been identified, a lot of wild animals are infected, and there is a real danger that this will become a pandemic. I will cover this in its own post.
The other is that there are trial results for a new Covid treatment, Interferon λ. It looks super effective. Cuts hospitalizations and deaths in half, with no major side effects.
Despite this, there is zero expectation by anyone that it will be available any time soon, and little surprise about this reaction. You see, the trial was done by academics and was in Brazil and Canada. So it doesn’t count. Sorry.
Executive Summary
1. We have a new drug that cuts Covid risk of hospitalizations and deaths by about half with no major side effects.
2. You can’t have it. Maybe ever.
3. Because FDA. FDA Delenda Est.
Let’s run the numbers.
The Numbers
Predictions
Predictions from Last Week: 210k cases (-8%) and 3,150 deaths (-8%)
Results: 238k cases (-6%) and 3,052 deaths (-11%)
Predictions for Next Week: 220k cases (-7%) and 2,750 deaths (-10%).
Last week I forgot to manually adjust Florida for cases, which I’ve fixed. That’s why the percentages above don’t match. Also means my prediction last week for cases was worse than I thought – cases were actually slightly up and I predicted a drop.
I expect deaths to continue to drop on schedule. Valentine’s Day is not a reporting-relevant holiday, although it is still a date it is important not to forget.
Deaths
Cases
Interferon λ
As noted up top: It looks super effective. Cuts hospitalizations and deaths in half, with no major side effects. Despite this, there is zero expectation by anyone that it will be available any time soon, and little surprise about this reaction.
Here is their results summary.
> A total of 933 patients were assigned to receive pegylated interferon lambda (2 were subsequently
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List of underrated risks?
As everyone here knows, it would be a stupid idea to switch from airplanes to cars out of safety/terrorism concerns: Cars are a much more risky means of transportation than airplanes. But what other major risks are there that many people systematically undervalue or are not even consciously aware of?
The same can be asked for chances.
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Lost purposes - Doing what's easy or what's important
Original post: http://bearlamp.com.au/lost-purposes-doing-whats-easy-or-whats-important/
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A friend came to me with a startup as her main goal. I am keen on my coaching skills so I would from time to time ask her what the top 3 most important things she could be doing today would be. She would proceed to come back with a list. A few days later I would check back and ask her what she got done. She would very excitedly tell me all about the other things she was doing that weren't the top 3 things.
I watched this behaviour for a while before commenting. Eventually I asked her about it and she conceded she was doing tasks that seem easier than the important things because they feel like progress, say by doing four small 15 minute tasks you got four things done right? Whereas if you work on an important task for an hour you only got one thing done.
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Our brains like to use Rule of thumb type judgements to know what pathways to follow. In this case, Am I making progress towards my goal was replaced by, have I completed things which was easily gamified by, How do I do the most little things I can.
The same thing happens when people pay attention to their health. Get healthy turns into, Lose weight, which turns into unhealthy body images and great confusion. Although this is probably more related to us not being clear and specific on what the health goal was in the first place.
So what say you have a lost purpose. You want to do X but you find yourself doing the remarkably similar Y. How do you fix that?
1. Be specific
> "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
> "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
> "I don’t much care where–" said Alice.
> "Then it doesn’t matter which way you go," said the Cat.
It's not going to work 100% of the time, but it does help.
Imagine you told a monkey to go collect coconuts, every coconut th
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Counterfactual Mugging
**Related to**: [Can Counterfactuals Be True?](http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/07/counterfactual.html), [Newcomb's Problem and Regret of Rationality](http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/01/newcombs-proble.html).
Imagine that one day, [Omega](http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/01/newcombs-proble.html) comes to you and says that it has just tossed a fair coin, and given that the coin came up tails, it decided to ask you to give it $100. Whatever you do in this situation, nothing else will happen differently in reality as a result. Naturally you don't want to give up your $100. But see, Omega tells you that if the coin came up heads instead of tails, it'd give you $10000, but only if you'd agree to give it $100 if the coin came up tails.
Omega can predict your decision in case it asked you to give it $100, even if that hasn't actually happened, it can compute the [counterfactual truth](http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/07/counterfactual.html). Omega is also known to be absolutely honest and trustworthy, no word-twisting, so the facts are really as it says, it really tossed a coin and really would've given you $10000.
From your current position, it seems absurd to give up your $100. Nothing good happens if you do that, the coin has already landed tails up, you'll never see the counterfactual $10000. But look at this situation from your point of view before Omega tossed the coin. There, you have two possible branches ahead of you, of equal probability. On one branch, you are asked to part with $100, and on the other branch, you are conditionally given $10000. If you decide to keep $100, the expected gain from this decision is $0: there is no exchange of money, you don't give Omega anything on the first branch, and as a result Omega doesn't give you anything on the second branch. If you decide to give $100 on the first branch, then Omega gives you $10000 on the second branch, so the expected gain from this decision is
-$100 \* 0.5 + $10000 \* 0.5 = $4950
So, this straightforward calculation tells that you ought to give up your $100. It looks like a good idea before the coin toss, but it starts to look like a bad idea after the coin came up tails. Had you known about the deal in advance, one possible course of action would be to set up a precommitment. You contract a third party, agreeing that you'll lose $1000 if you don't give $100 to Omega, in case it asks for that. In this case, you leave yourself no other choice.
But in this game, explicit precommitment is not an option: you didn't know about Omega's little game until the coin was already tossed and the outcome of the toss was given to you. The only thing that stands between Omega and your 100$ is your ritual of cognition. And so I ask you all: is the decision to give up $100 when you have no *real* benefit from it, only *counterfactual* benefit, an example of [winning](/lw/31/what_do_we_mean_by_rationality/)?
**P.S.** Let's assume that the coin is deterministic, that in the overwhelming measure of the MWI worlds it gives the same outcome. You don't care about a fraction that sees a different result, in all reality the result is that Omega won't even consider giving you $10000, it only asks for your $100. Also, the deal is unique, you won't see Omega ever again.
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The Cynic Wasps in the Beehive
This essay uses the decentralized nature of beehives as a launching point to explore how language shapes our understanding of systems and power structures. It contrasts the popular misconception of the "Queen Bee" as a central commander with the reality of decentralized chemical communication and autonomous collective decision-making in beehives. He then draws a parallel to how Curtis Yarvin's political philosophy employs linguistic framing to naturalize hierarchical power structures.
The essay's exploration of historical counterexamples to hierarchical organization—like the egalitarian Cucuteni-Trypillia culture and Teotihuacan's council-based governance—provides empirical evidence against the narrative that inequality naturally emerges with civilization's complexity.
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"Membranes" is better terminology than "boundaries" alone
We've been thinking about the core concept behind «boundaries» extensively, and going forward we're going to stop using the term "boundaries" (alone) but use the term "«boundaries/membranes»" instead.
Summary: We've found that whenever try to use the word "boundaries" with others in lay speech, our explainees have had trouble. We think this is because the word "boundaries" in English is overloaded with different definitions, some of which directly conflict with our intended meaning. Critch suggested "membranes" as an alternative term in his first «boundaries» post, and we suggest using that instead.
Difficulties with using the word "boundaries"
The definition of "boundaries" used in common social situations (preferences) means something different than «boundaries/membranes»
We've found that the common use of the word "boundaries" is very confusingly related to the «boundaries/membranes» concept.
For example, if you hear someone say, "Hey, you yelled at me and that crosses my boundaries!", this is very not what «boundaries/membranes» is about.
Basically, everything in this post — which describes people setting social rules about how to interact with them according to their consent or preferences — is exactly what we don't mean by the technical term. Another example: this post is not about the "boundaries" that we mean: This post talks about "boundary" rules being variable, which we'd likely call "preferences"— meanwhile we think the concept at hand is is independent of any particular agent.
Basically: "crossing (boundaries : social requirements enforced by someone)" does not imply "crossing «membrane-boundaries»".
And that's annoying because every time we explain the concept to someone using the word "boundaries", we have to qualify, "it's called boundaries, but it's not about the normal kind of boundaries, but it's also not unrelated, but please just ignore that for now" lest they get understandably confused. Ugh.
(Also, this exact conflation delayed Chip
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Can a tiny bit of noise destroy communication?
Cross posted from Overcoming Bias. Comments there.
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If everyone knows a tenth of the population dishonestly claims to observe alien spaceships, this can make it very hard for the honest alien-spaceship-observer to communicate fact that she has actually seen an alien spaceship.
In general, if the true state of the world is seen as not much more likely than you sending the corresponding false message somehow, it’s hard to communicate the true state.
You might think there needs to be quite a bit of noise relative to true claims, or for acting on true claims to be relatively unimportant, for the signal to get drowned out. Yet it seems to me that a relatively small amount of noise could overwhelm communication, via feedback.
Suppose you have a network of people communicating one-on-one with one another. There are two possible mutually exclusive states of the world – A and B – which individuals occasionally get some info about directly. They can tell each other about info they got directly, and also about info they heard from others. Suppose that everyone likes for they and others to believe the truth, but they also like to say that A is true (or to suggest that it is more likely). However making pro-A claims is a bit costly for some reason, so it’s not worthwhile if A is false. Then everyone is honest, and can trust what one another says.
Now suppose that the costs people experience from making claims about A vary among the population. In the lowest reaches of the distribution, it’s worth lying about A. So there is a small amount of noise from people falsely claiming A. Also suppose that nobody knows anyone else’s costs specifically, just the distribution that costs are drawn from.
Now when someone gives you a pro-A message, there’s a small chance that it’s false. This slightly reduces the benefits to you of passing on such pro-A messages, since the value from bringing others closer to the truth is diminished. Yet you still bear the same cost. If the costs of s
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Free search engine tool hunts down malware-infected computers
Shodan is now offering the Malware Hunter scanning tool, which uncovers systems manipulated to control malware-infected devices
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RAT controllers remotely control malware-infected machines by sending instructions such as recording audio, logging keystrokes, and executing commands. Malware Hunter poses as an infected computer and sends out a beacon call to every IP address on the internet as if it was looking for the command-and-control server. Anything that responds to the beacon would be considered a RAT controller, Gundert said. Malware Hunter is not waiting for malware to contact it or infect it—which is what happens with passive honeypots and sinkholes—but actively seeks responses and collects the IP address. Malware Hunter does not send additional traffic or attempt to probe the controller.
For enterprise security teams, having the list of IP addresses is helpful on two fronts: They can check if any of those addresses are within their own networks—which would mean they are compromised—as well as proactively configure their firewalls and intrusion prevention systems to block all requests going to and from those addresses. If they detect any outgoing requests to those IP addresses, they can trace the compromised endpoint and shut down the infection.
“By doing it this way—signature scans for RAT controller IP addresses, observing malware through our API and cross-correlating it with a variety of sources—we are able to locate RAT controllers before the associated malware begins spreading or compromising targeted victims,” Gundert said.
Malware detection is a challenge because attackers are continuously changing the malware to avoid detection; there are different hashes, different functionality. An attack campaign may customize the malware multiple times for each victim. Command-and-control infrastructure tends to evolve slowly, so looking for patterns of behavior matching the C&C server is actually faster than waiting for malware samples to be found and analyzed, then detection added to antivirus and other security tools. Unknown malware variants can be found because the infected device is eliciting a response from the controller.
Malware Hunter has identified thousands of RAT servers since the project’s inception in 2015. Considering the millions of connected devices on the internet, thousands may not sound like a lot, but it is significant because these controllers are associated with widely used RATs such as Dark Comet, njRAT, and Poison Ivy, which control large numbers of infected machines. Malware Hunter recently identified a massive global installation of Gh0st RAT, a tool suspected to be of Chinese origin, which has been used in national-state attacks against government agencies and other political targets since 2009.
Recorded Future uses the Shodan API to obtain the crawler’s results, then “enriches” the results with additional information obtained from other open, closed, and technical sources to provide context around the threats, Gundert said. Recorded Future provides Shodan with the controller information that lets the crawler create the beacon calls to match known RAT behavior. Users with a Shodan account will be able to see the overview results and Recorded Future customers will see the results through the platform.
Right now, Malware Hunter is targeting well-known RATs, which Gundert called “low-hanging fruit,” but it can still find RAT families that employ obfuscation and other stealth tricks to avoid detection. The project will continue refining the probes to identify the more sophisticated tools.
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For TokHaar version, see TokHaar-Ket.
For the version fought during The Elder Kiln, see TzHaar-Ket (Hardened).
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TzHaar-Ket chathead
The TzHaar-Ket is an inhabitant of the TzHaar City. All of them can be found wielding a Tzhaar-ket-om. Some will have nothing with it, some wield three Tzhaar-ket-em to accompany, or a Toktz-ket-xil.
TzHaar-Ket have a max hit of 300 life points, which could cause problems for players with low Defence, although it is rare to see them hit over 200. Protect from Melee is recommended for lower level players. Despite being the same level, they tend to miss a lot more than the weaker TzHaar-Xil. Prior to the successful deployment of ClusterFlutterer, these creatures were killed often, primarily by bots, and so it was very hard to find a world without competition. In addition, players can go into the Fight Cave and die to fully heal themselves and recharge Prayer and Summoning points. They are more popular to kill than TzHaar-Xil despite their higher defence, due to having both more life points and more valuable Obsidian item drops.
TzHaar-Ket can be killed as part of the Slayer task set by Kuradal or Morvran. The player has a choice whether to do the task as normal or to change it to Volcanic Creatures, which are the creatures in the Fight Cave. Changing the task requires the player to kill TzTok-Jad. As a reward there is a bonus amount of Slayer experience.
Warning: Note that if you are a low levelled player coming to fight Tzhaar-Hurs, make sure that no Tzhaar-Kets or Tzhaar-Xils are near, as they will try to protect the Tzhaar-Hurs by trying to kill you. If you are level 95+, you should be able to fight these monsters with little or no food.
Item Quantity Rarity GE price
Fire battlestaffFire battlestaff1Rare8,333
Obsidian capeObsidian cape1Rare83,105
Item Quantity Rarity GE price
Super defence (1)Super defence (1)1Uncommon3,148
Super strength (1)Super strength (1)1Uncommon4,655
There is a chance for 2 potions to drop on one kill.
Item Quantity Rarity GE price
Tokkul 25Tokkul100–2,000CommonNot sold
Obsidian charmObsidian charm2CommonNot sold
Chilli potatoChilli potato1; 2Uncommon381–762
Onyx bolt tips 5Onyx bolt tips1–4Very rare7,597–30,388
Starved ancient effigyStarved ancient effigy1Very rareNot sold
Pure essencePure essence5; 10Very rare105–210
Ring of stoneRing of stone1Very rare465,047
Rare drop table drops
This monster has access to the rare drop table.
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Item Quantity Rarity GE price
Coins 250Coins250–500Common250–500
Uncut sapphireUncut sapphire1Common400
Uncut emeraldUncut emerald1Common764
Uncut rubyUncut ruby1Common1,270
Uncut diamondUncut diamond1Common2,544
Uncut diamondUncut diamond45–55 (noted)Rare114,480–139,920
Loop half of a keyLoop half of a key1Common12,463
Tooth half of a keyTooth half of a key1Common16,378
Uncut dragonstoneUncut dragonstone1Uncommon12,258
Uncut dragonstoneUncut dragonstone45–55 (noted)Rare551,610–674,190
Dragon longswordDragon longsword1Common58,115
Dragon spearDragon spear1Rare35,294
BattlestaffBattlestaff180–220 (noted)Rare618,120–755,480
Rune javelinRune javelin5Rare905
Rune platebodyRune platebody1Uncommon37,480
Rune platebodyRune platebody15–25 (noted)Rare562,200–937,000
Shield left halfShield left half1Rare63,792
Dragon helmDragon helm1Uncommon58,986
Rune arrowheads 5Rune arrowheads113–137Common14,125–17,125
Onyx bolts 5Onyx bolts135–165Very rare1,066,095–1,303,005
Chaos talismanChaos talisman1Rare1,475
Nature talismanNature talisman1Rare1,213
Water talismanWater talisman65–82 (noted)Rare250,250–315,700
Earth talismanEarth talisman65–82 (noted)Rare12,220–15,416
Fire talismanFire talisman25–35 (noted)Rare7,525–10,535
Raw lobsterRaw lobster135–165 (noted)Common70,605–86,295
Raw sharkRaw shark225–275 (noted)Uncommon206,325–252,175
Big bonesBig bones68–82 (noted)Uncommon11,084–13,366
Dragon bonesDragon bones180–220 (noted)Rare340,200–415,800
CoalCoal200–1,100 (noted)Uncommon23,400–128,700
Gold oreGold ore90–110 (noted)Common30,870–37,730
Adamantite oreAdamantite ore180–220 (noted)Uncommon46,440–56,760
Adamant barAdamant bar14–16 (noted)Common19,348–22,112
Adamant barAdamant bar135–165 (noted)Rare186,570–228,030
Runite oreRunite ore90–110 (noted)Rare86,670–105,930
Rune barRune bar(noted)Common6,204
Rune barRune bar45–55 (noted)Rare93,060–113,740
Grimy torstolGrimy torstol90–110 (noted)Uncommon712,080–870,320
Grimy snapdragonGrimy snapdragon90–110 (noted)Uncommon180,720–220,880
Lantadyme seed 5Lantadyme seed14–16Uncommon14,644–16,736
Dwarf weed seed 5Dwarf weed seed14–16Uncommon13,748–15,712
Magic seed 5Magic seed4Uncommon204,996
Palm tree seed 5Palm tree seed10Rare482,150
FlaxFlax450–550 (noted)Common41,400–50,600
Molten glassMolten glass45–55 (noted)Common9,675–11,825
Soft claySoft clay450–550 (noted)Uncommon280,800–343,200
Yew logsYew logs68–82 (noted)Uncommon11,764–14,186
Yew logsYew logs675–825 (noted)Rare116,775–142,725
Teak plankTeak plank45–55 (noted)Uncommon15,120–18,480
Mahogany plankMahogany plank270–330 (noted)Rare236,790–289,410
Blurberry SpecialBlurberry Special1Uncommon16,746
Vecna skullVecna skull1Very rare*69,139
Crystal triskelion fragment 1Crystal triskelion fragment 11Very rareNot sold
Crystal triskelion fragment 2Crystal triskelion fragment 21Very rareNot sold
Crystal triskelion fragment 3Crystal triskelion fragment 31Very rareNot sold
Universal drops
Universal drops are dropped by nearly every monster outside of Daemonheim.
These drops are dropped alongside main drops.
Item Quantity Rarity GE price
Key tokenKey token1RareNot sold
Mimic kill tokenMimic kill token1Very rare9,234
• Tzhaar-Ket were available as neutral units in Armies of Gielinor. While the game's canonicity is dubious, this could indicate that the TzHaar participated in the God Wars, albeit it is unknown who they would've be fighting for or against.
• In the Guthix Campaign of Armies of Gielinor on the level "King of the Hill", there are special TzHaar-Kets called Flame Keepers. They are under the command of Flametongue, better known as Verak Lith, a three-headed dragon like the King Black Dragon.
• These monsters' default action is to attack, no matter what your combat level is. It is unknown whether this was meant to be implemented or simply a glitch.
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If You're Gonna Be Dumb, You Gotta Be Tough: An Ode to Jackass | Splitsider →
While it's certainly not what scholars might consider classic cinema, I'd be willing to bet that Jackass will be shown as classic comedy for years to come. I think it showed a group of guys having the time of their lives and offering much needed release during a time in American history when it needed it the most.
Agreed, 100%.
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First Look At Fat Mac For It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
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My Movie Watching, January - June 2011
Since the beginning of the year, I've been keeping a mostly complete, mostly chronologically correct spreadsheet of all the films I've watched along with a score between 1 (awful) and 5 (great). We're almost halfway through the year, so here's how I'm doing so far:
Total films watched: 68
Number of 5s: 4
Number of 4s: 15
Number of 3s: 25
Number of 2s: 19
Number of 1s: 4
Average score: 2.94029850746269
For giggles, here's the full list:
• Buried - 2
• Easy A - 2
• Never Let me Go - 3
• Black Swan - 2
• Tron Legacy - 1
• Mama Mia - 3
• The King's Speech - 4
• Red - 4
• Yankee Doodle Dandy - 4
• How to Train Your Dragon - 3
• Death Proof - 3
• White Lightning - 2
• Last of the Mohicans - 3
• National Treasure 2 - 2
• Where Eagles Dare - 3
• The Kids are Alright - 3
• The Freebie - 3
• Peeping Tom - 3
• Blue Valentine - 4
• Warhammer 40k - 1
• The Losers - 3
• Hellboy 2 - 3
• Winter's Bone - 4
• Happy-go-lucky - 4
• Maguyver: Treasure of Atlantis - 2
• Richard Pryor live - 3
• Idiocracy - 3
• Shogun Assassin - 4
• Wendy and Lucy - 4
• Silent Running - 3
• Super Troopers - 2
• The Arbor - 5
• Il Rito (The Rite, in Italian) - 2
• V for Vendetta - 3
• Battle: Los Angeles - 2
• Sherlock Holmes - 3
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt 1 - 3
• Dungeon Masters - 2
• Source Code - 4
• The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (TV) - 2
• Red Dawn - 2
• Tron Legacy - 2
• MacGruber - 2
• Dog Day Afternoon - 4
• The Princess Diaries - 3
• Serpico - 5
• Star Trek: First Contact - 3
• LA Confidential - 5
• Miller's Crossing - 3
• Arthur - 2
• The Tree of Life - 4
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - 4
• The Tunnel - 4
• The Black Dahlia - 1
• Black Death - 2
• The Siege - 3
• True Grit - 4
• Cruise of the Gods (TV) - 2
• Minority Report - 3
• Teen Wolf - 3
• Valley Girl - 2
• The Bourne Supremecy - 4
• My Neighbour Totoro - 5
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall - 3
• Cyrus - 3
• Wet Hot American Summer - 2
• The Fast and the Furious - 1
Note: The first time I saw Tron: Legacy was in a cinema where the house lights stayed on for the first fifteen minutes and I had to go out and ask someone to shut them off. So it gets a 1. The second time was on a blu-ray in my house. It was only slightly better, so it got a 2.
Actors with Action Figures →
Narcissistic? Maybe. Self-indulgent? Perhaps a little. But I mean, come on - having your own action figure would be undeniably awesome.
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Books and e-books
In an editorial for the Independent, Johann Hari laments the decline in 'physical' books and the progression towards a more digital age. It's the usual kind of thing we're used to seeing. A "nothing can beat a good book -- nothing, you hear me?" kind of thing. It's the sort of thing we're used to hearing from 70 year old luddites. Except Johann Hari is only 32 years old. He's never known a world without colour TV, without videogames, without all sorts of gadgets. So the whole piece is a little strange from that point of view. From another point of view -- the point of view of being a well-reasoned argument -- it's a complete shambles.
Hari begins with a reference to Gary Steynghart's Super Sad True Love Story, in which everyone is "obsessed with their electronic Apparat – an even more omnivorous i-Phone with a flickering stream of shopping and reality shows and porn". I know it's hard, but look past his hyphenating of 'iPhone' (on his website, he also refers to 'i-Tunes' - nnngggg), and you'll see an implicit association of technology with consumerism and porn. Never mind global connectedness, a wealth of knowledge and a truly democratic press; this is really all the internet has given us: an easier way to buy Kleenex for all the porn we're watching.
At least he gives us an idea of what we're dealing with here.
He talks about moving house and hauling all the books, comparing it to the audiophiles still jealously clinging to their vinyl while most other people have moved onto MP3s. "Does it matter?" he asks. "What was really lost?" I had to re-read the entire article a couple of times before I realised this wasn't a rhetorical question. He actually thinks he's answered it by suggesting that there's a lot more to be lost as books move towards digital formats. Now, I'm no audiophile, but I'll just say this: hogwash.
As a very happy Kindle customer, I can say that my reading habits have changed completely since getting the magical little device. I'm reading more than ever before. I'm consuming books at a rate I never would have believed I was capable of.
But not only that, the Kindle has completely changed my attitude towards books. I used to love buying books. I used to hoard them, fetishise them. Living in a different country, English-language books become things to be treasured. When you even find something simple, like an Agatha Christie, you hold onto it because God knows when you'll find something like it again.
The Kindle has taught me that almost all of the things I read, the physical book itself -- the delivery mechanism -- isn't important, the writing is. And I can read that in whatever format I want, it'll still be the same. Whether this is smoke signals, semaphore, a dead-tree book or e-ink, they're the same words and they have the same meaning. The only difference between all of these methods is that when I'm finished with a physical book, I'm left with something that will go back on my shelf, probably never to be touched again. Imagine after making your dinner, you went and put the empty packet back on the shelf. Same thing.
This isn't true of all books though, and I still fetishise certain books, but mainly the ones whose physicality is intrinsic to their story and experience. For example, I recently bought Judith Schalansky's Atlas of Remote Islands, which won a prize in Germany as 'most beautiful book of the year'. In fact, fire up its Amazon page and see how many times it's described as 'beautiful'. Seriously, it's a gorgeous book and one that couldn't be replicated in today's technology. Maybe someday down the line it will and then I'll discard my physical copy, just like the 100-something other books I got rid of after getting my Kindle.
Of course, Hari is afraid of the Kindle.
The more they become interactive and linked, the more they multitask and offer a hundred different functions, the less they will be able to preserve the aspects of the book that we actually need. An e-book reader that does a lot will not, in the end, be a book.
I understand my Kindle can do a lot. It's got built-in 3G, so I can browse the internet, check my email, update my Twitter. All from anywhere in the world. Except I don't. I use the 3G to grab the books Amazon sends to it. I use the Kindle for reading books and the occasional long article. That's it.
But by Hari's definition, a book also does a lot of things that are distinctly un-book-like. For example, it can be a colouring book for when I really need to unleash my creative juices. It can be a prop for when I need it to raise the height of my monitor (thanks, Programming Python and Essential Systems Administration!). It can be an emergency Kleenex substitute for when I've wiped myself out from all the porn on my 'i-Phone'.
The point is, it's none of these things for me. It's just something to read. It's a book. Just as the Kindle may be able to do a lot of things, but to me, it's just something to read. It's a book.
Hari ends his article by lauding Freedom, a piece of software that disconnects you from the internet for a set period of time. In other words, he associates his computer with lots of different things -- email, Facebook, Twitter, funny cat videos and, yes, writing -- and the only way he cannot be distracted is if he forcibly removes his access to all these distractions. For him, a book is the same thing: a forcible removal from all the distractions a Kindle could possibly present.
A 'digital diet' is a strange answer, Johann. If you've got self-control enough to detach yourself from your digital devices, why not apply that same self-control to all the bells and whistles that keep you from enjoying digital books.
Come on in, the water's fine.
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This one frame in Totoro gets me every time.
Feeling Better
When I was 19, I got more drunk than I have ever been in my life. It’s still a high water mark of my drinking career. It was a Christmas, and someone thought it would be a good idea to give me a bottle of really good tequila, a bottle of black sambuca, and -- oh God -- a bottle of poitín. The tequila and the poitín were almost impossible to drink. At least, they were at the beginning. I remember hitting on the great idea of just mixing all three into one glass to maybe, maybe make it the whole thing easier to digest. I can just remember brief flashes of images: swigging tequila out of the bottle and thinking I was just like Jim Morrison (followed by thinking 'I fucking hate Jim Morrisson'); sitting outside in the back garden as my friend threw a glass at me, missing my head by inches and the two of us cracking up at how hilarious this near-accident was. Then, nothing. I woke up in my friend’s locked bathroom with vomit everywhere, under the towels on the radiator and everything. I don’t know if it was my vomit (that I'm not sure is my one glimmer of hope from the entire evening).
Just as sure as night follows day, my worst ever drunkenness was followed by my worst ever hangover. I managed to get home and crawl to the living room where I spent about 8 hours lying on the couch, shaking and sweating and writhing in pain. I felt like I was never going to recover. (Looking back now, I’m sure it actually was touch-and-go for a while.)
That evening, around 7pm, the film Without a Clue came on the TV, and everything changed. I wasn't feeling any better, but I knew I wasn't feeling any worse. My hangover had crested. Right at that exact moment, my ma poked her head in the door and said, “Would you like some rashers and sausages?” And right then, that’s when my worst possible experience turned into one of my most cherished memories. I think I actually cried with happiness, knowing that I was suddenly on the mend. Now, whenever I watch Without a Clue, I get hit with a wave of positive emotions. An entirely Pavlovian response that has now transformed this slightly shaky B-comedy into one of my favourite movies.
The other night, we went for Ethiopian food in a place called Mesob, which got a really good review from the New York Times a few weeks ago. And yeah, the food there was pretty damn great. The menu wasn't entirely clear and we spent a good part of the night feeling a bit awkward and 'what do we do now?' but once the food came and we were getting nicely toasted, it all worked out just fine.
Except I managed to find a stray chilli pepper in one of the dishes.
Okay, so listen, I was a little tired, a little drunk, and I wasn’t really paying attention. When my mouth started chomping down on something crunchy, no alarm bell rang in my head to warn me that it could be potentially terrible. I thought maybe it could be a bit of celery. I only realised I’d eaten an entire pepper after I’d swallowed the last bite. It was then that my tastebuds managed to place that weird flavour.
My tongue started burning. My eyes started welling up. My nose started watering. Sweat started pumping from my head. If a part of my body could secrete something, it decided now was a good time to do so. To make it clear, I love spicy food. I’m a huge fan of jalapeno peppers and I can eat them fairly handily without any issue. This was no simple jalapeno. This was something else. This pepper really blew my socks off. I spent ten minutes thinking I was going to die, and wondering how I could ask where the nearest hospital was without opening my mouth, which felt like it had started bleeding. I thought my tongue had turned white-hot and was about to melt out the underside of my jaw.
It was such an intense level of pain that I could tell immediately when it peaked and started going away. When this happened, I was hit by a wave of euphoria. Now, the pain didn't go away immediately. It must have taken a half an hour for things to return to normal, but that didn't matter. I suddenly knew that, regardless of how long it would take to get better, everything was going to be okay, I’d survived the worst of it and I’d soon be back in the clear again. Such a feeling of joy and well-being as I've never experienced eating food before. Is this why people love absurdly, obscenely spicy foods? I can only imagine how this lady felt.
Looking for Murder in His Eyes →
I've spoken to a few people about how Osama bin Laden was a handsome man. It's a difficult topic to untangle. Elizabeth Kiem does a great job of separating the image of bin Laden from the image of bin Laden.
Joe Griffin Must Be Stopped
Look, I really, really don't want this to descend into a personal attack on someone I don't even know, so let me just start off by saying that I don't have a problem with Joe Griffin in general. I think that when he sticks to writing about things he genuinely seems to know something about, like movies, he's absolutely fine. Check out his blog, Moviedrome. As personal movie blogs go, it's not terrible. I really wanted to hate it, but the best I can muster is a profound indifference.
What I don't like is when he steps outside of his comfort zone and starts writing about videogames. Which he does every Friday as part of the Irish Times' 'The Ticket' culture/entertainment supplement. He's clearly out of his depth and represents everything I hate about the way videogames are covered by traditional media. For example, take a look at his recent review of Portal 2, which is somewhere between a hot mess and a 300-word syntactic nightmare. Here's my favourite line of the entire thing:
This is a clever, captivating and sometimes hilarious sci-fi game, with compulsive gameplay. Here’s hoping I don’t have nightmares about GLaDos.
While you're reading this review, please bear in mind that the Irish Times is supposed to be Ireland's 'newspaper of record'. Can you imagine if it treated all of its arts coverage this way? Can you imagine if their review of There Will Be Blood ended with "I hope I don't have nightmares about Daniel Plainview." It's ridiculous.
Now, it's completely possible that Joe is merely writing within a set of constraints set by the Irish Times. It may well be that Madam Editor called Joe into her office, sat him down and said 'Listen, Joe, we still think videogames are for children, so we want 300 words written in the same tone you'd use if you were reviewing a Richard Scarry book." I suppose this is possible, but why, then, does their other videogames correspondent, Ciara O'Brien, do such a better job?
The other thing that makes me say that Joe Griffin is out of his depth writing about videogames is the amount of times he has gotten the facts wrong. Just basic factual details that he's either deliberately or carelessly missed. For example, in his editorial about videogame adaptations of literature from Friday, April 22nd 2011, he writes (emphasis mine):
There was some excitement this year when the Great Gatsby videogame resurfaced online. Originally an 8-bit title for the old Nintendo, the game is a platform adventure in which Nick Carraway fends off malevolent butlers and hobos.
First, since we're on it: 'old Nintendo'? There have been four consoles since the original NES. Any one of them could be referred to as 'old Nintendo'. I remember talking to someone and they used 'old Nintendo' to refer to the Nintendo 64 (God, did that make me feel old). But this is all beside the point. One quick google search for "Great Gatsby NES" and you'll see the first result is the game itself and the rest of the results are links to that game, with each one explaining how the game is a modern creation made to look like an old NES game. It's a retcon, a fake artifact from a "parallel reality". The Escapist explains it well:
In reality, Hoey created the game on a whim after creating an 8-bit tribute to the classic novel's cover. They simply couldn't stop, and eventually ended up with 4 levels of Gatsby-themed glory. The game includes several characters, places, and lines from the book, and even has a few short cut-scenes.
Know how much I get paid to write this blog? Nothing. Know how much I get paid to write about videogames at all? Not a penny. Know how many people read this blog? I don't actually keep track, but it's safe to say it's statistically insignificant compared to the number that read The Irish Times. How hard would it be for Joe to just either (a) keep on top of the subject he's getting paid to write about, or (b) do one quick google search before banging out an article?
Onwards and downwards.
Friday, May 6th, 2011
PORTAL 2 HAS been the subject of some rave reviews, but one innovation seems to have escaped critics: the villain’s voice is American and one of the sympathetic voices is English. This is very rare.
Reading his Portal 2 review, I thought "you know, this is all just fluffy bullshit that you could extrapolate from reading the back of the box - I don't think this guy has actually finished the game." This article, which appeared a week after his review, clinched it for me. I would bet cash money that Joe has not actually finished the 8-hour game he has been paid to write about. Actually, forget about 'finishing' the game, I would bet he hasn't actually played the game for more than 4 hoursDoes anyone have his Xbox Gamertag or Steam/PSN account name? It would be easy to tell how much of the game he's finished from any of these.. Why do I say this? Because if you do play the game for that long, you'd realise that there's a glaring error with Joe's statement. There's a second-act twist, which happens roughly three-to-four hours in, and he is completely oblivious to.
I'm not saying that reviewers need to finish all games to completion before reviewing them. This is completely unworkable. How would anyone ever review something like World of Warcraft which, in effect, has no ending? But I think it's a genuine disgrace when someone can't be bothered to finish a short game like Portal 2 -- or even to play it for four hours -- but will happily accept money to review it. It's like a restaurant reviewer saying "Well, technically, I didn't eat there, but I looked in the window and it seemed nice enough."
Again, I just want to reiterate that I don't want this to be a personal attack on Joe Griffin. I'm sure he's a lovely bloke and, like I said, when he's writing about movies, he's fine. I've even heard him talk about movies on Arena and I thought he was one of the better guests they've had on there. He was well-informed and articulate.
It's just a shame that he can't be the same when he's writing about videogames. It's even more of a shame given the amount of genuinely talented Irish people who are writing passionately and thoughtfully about videogames (e.g. the guys at Games Toaster or Shoryuken) and who would gladly write for free to get their stuff in The Irish Times.
Article updated at 21:43GMT+1 to tone down some things that were a little too mean
Tiny, Lego-style Apartment →
I would spazz right the fuck out if I had to live in just 24 square metres (shit, all my videogame stuff alone probably takes up about 20 square metres), but fair play to this guy, he seems to be totally zen and came up with a pretty good solution.
Portal 2 Authoring Tools →
"The Portal 2 Authoring Tools include versions of the same tools we used to make Portal 2. They'll allow you to create your own singleplayer and co-op maps, new character skins, 3D models, sound effects, and music."
PC-only right now. But still: oh wow.
Re-watching Star Trek: The Next Generation, 17 years later
I don't know what triggered it, but I decided to start re-watching all of Star Trek: The Next Generation. There's something about this show that still manages to evoke certain emotions in me. Like it's hitting a part of my brain that hasn't been touched since I was a kid. Even now, the sound of that theme song makes me feel like I'm 16 again and I'm just about to sit down and watch a quick episode on BBC2 before I start my homework. I've made it through the first season, and here are some of the things I've noticed so far.
• When it first aired, I remember thinking how technically impressive this show was, especially compared to the original series. The effects were great, the make-up was mind-blowing. Was I high? This is terrible! I can't count the amount of times I've watched Worf's prosthetic head-piece wobble almost completely off his head.
• Speaking of Worf, who decided this guy was supposed to be a big, tough badass? So far, he's lost every fight he's gotten into.
• Fuck Wesley. The majority of the episodes in the first season - especially in the first half - are solved by Wesley pulling some deus ex machina bullshit in the last five minutes.
• Picard is a bit eager to pull the Enterprise's self-destruct trigger, isn't he? I think he's done it three times in the first season. In the twenty-something episodes of the first season, that means there's a one-in-ten chance that Picard will try to blow up the ship. I know this is cheating, but there's an episode in the second season, where the Enterprise is being treated like a rat in a maze, being tested by some huge cosmic being. Picard lasts all of about fifteen minutes before saying "fuck this" and engaging the auto-destruct.
• How the fuck did I never realise how racist this show is? Each new alien is a thinly-veiled cipher for the writer's unique brand of xenophobia. The Ferengi alone should have warranted some kind of action from the Anti-Defamation League.
• I loved where they brought in Michael Berryman, drew a line down his face with a sharpie and then suddenly they've got one of the most believable, fucked-up looking aliens the show has ever seen.
Italian Style
Interesting post by Scott Schuman over at GQ on 'Italian Street Style'
Now, some people will discredit this and call it "effortless style," or write it off by saying, "These Italians are just born with it."
It's true, Italians do dress better than other nationalities. Even if Rome isn't the centre of Italian fashion, and they don't dress as nicely as they do in, say, Milan, the basic level of casual dress is so much higher than the basic level of casual dress in DublinAlthough maybe this isn't saying much. Before we moved to Rome, I was living in Stoneybatter in Dublin. A place where people would go shopping in their pyjamas. In fact, I saw one girl walking down the street still wrapped in her duvet. My theory behind pyjamas-as-casual-wear is probably best saved for another post. Shirts are more common than hoodies on twenty-something men, and tracksuits are almost non-existent. And Schuman is completely right in what he says about the care that people give to their clothes here. Instead of spending €200 each on a few good-enough suits that will look ratty in a couple of months, Italians would rather spend €1000+ on one fantastic suit that will last them for yearsBut then, they do this with all of their possessions, not just clothes. Theories behind this also best saved for another post.
But there's one thing that Schuman misses. Perhaps he can't see it because it's being obscured by his enormous boner for Italian style. Yes, the men clearly spend a long time making their style look completely effortless, and their shirts are never anything less than spotlessly clean and perfectly pressed - something you rarely see in Dublin, where crumpled, uncared-for shirts are the norm - but you know what? It's not the men who are putting in the effort. Their clothes are perfect, but that's not a challenge when you live with their mother who cleans and irons for you and generally make sure your clothes are perfect for youI know this isn't true in all cases, but as George Clooney says in Up in the Air, "I'm like my mother, I stereotype. It's faster.". I see this a lot at the various functions I go to. I see men whose clothes look fantastic, like they just stepped off a catwalk, while I'm there looking like I woke up in a ditch in my suit and rolled along to crash whatever reception I just found myself at. But you can just tell that these men have no idea how an iron works. They just open their wardrobe and see whatever Mama has left for them.
As great as Italian style is, there's also something to be said for people who usually look like a dog's dinner and then suddenly put in a bit of work. Yes, Italian style is effortless, but sometimes, knowing the wearer has put in a little bit of effort can look good too.
This post brought to you with a healthy dose of Irish begrudgery.
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If a tree falls on Sleeping Beauty...
Several months ago, we had an interesting discussion about the Sleeping Beauty problem, which runs as follows:
> Sleeping Beauty volunteers to undergo the following experiment. On Sunday she is given a drug that sends her to sleep. A fair coin is then tossed just once in the course of the experiment to determine which experimental procedure is undertaken. If the coin comes up heads, Beauty is awakened and interviewed on Monday, and then the experiment ends. If the coin comes up tails, she is awakened and interviewed on Monday, given a second dose of the sleeping drug, and awakened and interviewed again on Tuesday. The experiment then ends on Tuesday, without flipping the coin again. The sleeping drug induces a mild amnesia, so that she cannot remember any previous awakenings during the course of the experiment (if any). During the experiment, she has no access to anything that would give a clue as to the day of the week. However, she knows all the details of the experiment.
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> Each interview consists of one question, “What is your credence now for the proposition that our coin landed heads?”
In the end, the fact that there were so many reasonable-sounding arguments for both sides, and so much disagreement about a simple-sounding problem among above-average rationalists, should have set off major alarm bells. Yet only a few people pointed this out; most commenters, including me, followed the silly strategy of trying to answer the question, and I did so even after I noticed that my intuition could see both answers as being right depending on which way I looked at it, which in retrospect would have been a perfect time to say “I notice that I am confused” and backtrack a bit…
And on reflection, considering my confusion rather than trying to consider the question on its own terms, it seems to me that the problem (as it’s normally stated) is completely a tree-falling-in-the-forest problem: a debate about the normatively “correct” degree of credence which only seemed
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[META] Trackbacks
When I was going through the sequences, I often found that reading about a fallacy in passing, like when it was hyperlinked in the middle of a sentence, was more really helped me get the idea.
I know that on the wiki, there is a feature were you can see all the trackbacks to a page.
Is there a way to do this for non-wiki pages? This could be useful even for non-LW pages.
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Amy Hoy's How To Master New Skills
I'm mostly interested in instrumental rationality, and I think Amy's essays are ridiculously practical and well-written and not-scary and rational in their approach. I'm hoping this is of help to some people here, it reminds me of the instrumental rationality sequences I was referred to the last time I asked for links and pointers.
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The 67 Most Influential Films Ever Made
From 1895-1999. The flicks that taught Hollywood its tricks...
1. Exiting The Factory (1895)
Influential, how? Cinema arrives!
Citizen Kane. Top Gun. The Hottie & The Nottie. The common thread? They’re all descendents of cine-pioneer Louis Lumière’s La Sortie Des Usines Lumière - no less than the first motion picture ever made.
Fifty seconds long, it captures in real time workers spilling from the gates of Lyon’s Lumiere Factory.
A precursor to everything, it particularly anticipates the work of George Lucas: there are three versions in existence – you can tell ’em apart by the number of horses (one, two or none).
Money shot: The bit where men enter the factory. Plot hole!
2. L'assassination Du Duc De Guise (1908)
Influential, how? First movie with a score.
A notorious event in French history, a 15-minute costume drama directed by André Calmettes – and, to provide the first ever specially composed orchestral movie score, the 73-year-old doyen of composers, Camille Saint-Saëns.
Money shot: De Guise is stabbed by thugs as Saint-Saëns’ music rises to a frenzy.
3. Gertie The Dinosaur (1914)
Influential, how? Movies get animated.
"The two most important people in animation are Winsor McCay and Walt Disney," said legendary Warner Bros. animation director Chuck Jones. "I'm not sure who should go first."
Put it this way: Walt was just eight when McCay's lovable dinosaur called Gertie was born. Mickey, Bugs and Nemo are evolution's children...
Money Shot: Check it out on YouTube and pick your own...
4. Cabiria (1914)
Influential, how? Movies get big.
Even in our CG age of copy’n’paste armies, Cabiria is staggering. Shot across six months, the three-hour Italian silent set the benchmark for epic filmmaking.
DW Griffith saw it a year after he made The Birth Of A Nation - which suddenly didn’t seem so big and clever.
Money shot: Innovative camera-dollies over huge sets, dubbed “Cabiria movements”.[page-break]
5. The Birth Of A Nation (1915)
Influential, how? Cinema's language is written.
DW Griffith’s Civil War epic is shockingly racist but it integrated formative film grammar into narrative like no movie before.
Here, America embraced a three-hour movie for the first time - one that tethered a thrusting story to close-ups, iris shots, historical authenticity, impressively mounted battle sequences and cross-cutting between parallel action.
Money shot: Over to critic James Agee: “The most beautiful single shot I have seen in any movie is the battle charge…”
6. The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari (1920)
Influential, how? Cinema goes insane.
The senile granddaddy of the modern horror film, Caligari relates a chilling tale of murder through painted sets, high-contrast chiaroscuro lighting and a modern dance-like performance style.
In a more naturalistic form, these expressionist effects remain central to horror films.
Money shot: The reveal, when we discover Dr Caligari’s true calling.
7. Nanook Of The North (1922)
Influential, how? Cinema goes on the record.
Without Nanook, there'd be no documentary cinema, no Paul Greengrass, no Roger & Me, no Nobel Peace Prize for Al Gore...
Part real, part faked, Robert J Flaherty’s pioneering silent film about Inuit life in the Canadian arctic kick-started the documentary genre.
Accusations that key scenes were staged sparked a debate about keeping it real that still rages now.
Money shot: Nanook and Co hunting angry walruses with harpoons.
8. The Thief Of Bagdad (1924)
Influential, how? The stuff of fantasy.
From magic carpets to invisibility cloaks, winged horses to giant spiders, Raoul Walsh’s ‘fantasy’ film used every single dollar of its then-unprecedented $1m budget to show silent audiences just how fantastical celluloid could be.
Every fantasy film since owes it a big debt.
Money shot: The flying carpet ride over a fairytale Bagdad...[page-break]
9. The Last Laugh (1924)
Influential, how? The first true 'motion' picture.
FW Murnau is remembered for Nosferatu and Sunrise but this is his landmark film, an allegory about a proud hotel porter humiliated in old age.
Murnau dispenses with subtitles and tells the story through a grand visual design and a free-flowing, mobile camera.
Money shot: The camera’s tipsy pan to express the porter’s drunken state.
10. Becky Sharp (1935)
Influential, how? The Dawn Of Colour.
Goodbye, grey... shot on three-strip Technicolor, this adap of Thackeray's Vanity Fair wowed audiences and subtly used colour stock for dramatic effect.
"The greatest achievement in motion pictures since the advent of sound!" claimed the trailers. They weren't exaggerating.
Money shot: A lavish ballroom dancing sequence showcases the Technicolor tech.
11. The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Influential, how? Meaning through montage.
Deemed a threat to the capitalist order, Eisenstein’s recreation of a 1905 incident in which sailors mutinied against their Czarist officers was banned throughout Europe.
But the film is less important for its radical politics than its radical syntax.
A gifted cartoonist, Eisenstein composed bold, dramatic images, but realised that they assumed far greater power through the rhythm and rhetoric of their juxtaposition.
Eisenstein invented 'montage', and his theories became a foundation of film teaching, with Potemkin a seminal influence on the likes of Hitchcock.
Money shot: The Odessa steps sequence - copied and parodied many times (most famously in De Palma’s The Untouchables)...
12. The Adventures Of Prince Achmed (1926)
Influential, how? The first animated feature pioneer – and still unchallenged reigning queen – of silhouette animation, director Lotte Reiniger beat Disney to the punch by a dozen years or more.
Weaving together stories from the Arabian Nights and adding her own brand of wit and poetry, Reiniger set the template for telling fairy stories in a way that would enchant the kids, while packing in enough sophistication to keep grown-ups entertained.
Everyone from Disney and Chuck Jones to Hanna-Barbera and Pixar owes her a debt.
As for Achmed itself? “A masterpiece!” said Jean Renoir. Who could disagree?
Money shot: The Spirit Battle of Waq Waq: Achmed does valiant battle with monsters and demons.[page-break]
13. The Jazz Singer (1927)
Influential, how? Movies get mouthy.
Let’s clear this up. The Jazz Singer wasn’t the first ‘talkie’. But it was the first feature-length Hollywood talkie, in which spoken dialogue was meshed into the drama.
Audiences went mad-crazy as jazz megastar Al Jolson broke into song, ad-libbing with his old mum at the piano.
It wasn’t much: a song and a few lines of dialogue. But it was enough to change cinema forever.
Money shot: “Wait a minute, wait a minute… You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!”
14. Metropolis (1927)
Influential, how? Welcome to the future.
The Fifth Element’s New York, Blade Runner’s LA, Batman’s Gotham... The city of the future was first built here.
Metropolis’ shadow looms over every decade and every genre: from Bride Of Frankenstein’s lab to Dr Strangelove’s mechanical hand and even David Fincher’s music videos.
Metallic femme fatale Maria warned us about the machine-men who would appear in Westworld, The Terminator and The Matrix.
Money shot: Mad-scientist Rotwang runs through darkened catacombs, swinging his light like, well, a sabre. George Lucas takes note.
15. Un Chien Andalou (1929)
Influential, how? Surrealism opens eyes.
Not the first surrealist movie (that honour belongs to René Clair’s 1924 Entr’acte) but the first to make a major impact.
Right from the opening shot of an eyeball being sliced by a razor, Buñuel and Dali aimed to shock – and succeeded.
Thereafter, surrealist imagery tinged pretty much every movie dream-sequence.
Money shot: Gotta be that eyeball.
16. All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
Influential, how? Hollywood goes to war.
Banned by the Nazis, loved by pacifists, this early ‘war is hell’ classic captured the tragedy of the trenches and proved that there really is no honour in dying for one's country.
“Here is war as it is - butchery,” wrote Variety.
Money shot: A dying man reaches for a butterfly fluttering over barbed wire.[page-break]
17. It Happened One Night (1934)
Influential, how? The original romcom.
Bagging itself the top five Oscars, the Clarke Gable-Claudette Colbert sleeper hit not only spawned a generation of screwball comedies, but established the 'loathe at first sight' blueprint that three out of five Hollywood romcoms have been following ever since.
Money Shot: Grudgingly sharing a room together, the duo trade rapid-fire quips.
18. Le Roman D'Un Tricheur (1936)
Influential, how? The art of narration.
Sure, there’d been earlier voiceovers – but never before had the main character told us his own tale.
Sacha Guitry (writer, director, lead actor) dances us through the life of his self-styled ‘Cheat’, dispensing with dialogue. Ealing's Kind Hearts And Coronets is a direct descendant.
Money shot: Sent to bed early, our hero sees his family die of food poisoning.
19. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Influential, how? Calling the 'toon.
"No one's gonna pay a dime to see a dwarf picture..."
Even Walt Disney's wife mocked his first feature-length 'toon, but Walt was vindicated in the end - Snow White took home $66m and seven Oscars.
It set the template and the quality-bar, too.
Money shot: Snow White cleans Chez Dwarf with fwuffy forest animals.
20. Stagecoach (1939)
Influential, how? New Western frontiers.
Both the Western and John Ford has been around for decades when the latter revitalised the former with a modern, mature, myth-making 'road' movie.
Orson Welles watched it 40 times before making Citizen Kane. 'Nuff said.
Money shot: The seminal stuntwork as legendary daredevil Yakima Canutt is dragged beneath galloping horses.[page-break]
21. Citizen Kane (1941)
Influential, how? Movies get cinematic.
The 26-year-old Orson Welles expertly marshalled theatrical influences, dazzling technique, innovations in cinematography and the latest technology to produce a film that showed his fellow (older) filmmakers the sheer scope of the medium.
Some of the staging might seem a little hammy today (hell, it is over 60 years old) but Kane's simple, universal subject (the tragedy of an all-powerful man who wants the one thing he can't have) hasn't aged a day.
François Truffaut said that Kane is less influential than it is inspirational. We say it's one of the few films that manages to be both.
Money shot: The opening tracking shot: an immaculate temptation (“No trespassing”). Afterwards, there's an awful lot of shots - all bang the money...
For an extended look at Citizen Kane, see this feature in the latest issue of Total Film Magazine.
22. Meet Me In St Louis (1944)
Influential, how? Movies find their true voice.
Vincente Minnelli’s family musical broke ranks with the backstage template. Here, the songs aren’t so much show-stoppers as plot-pushers, woven spontaneously into the characters’ daily lives.
Set the tempo for everything from The Sound Of Music to South Park.
Money shot: The Trolley Song: ding-ding go the bells, sing-sing go the passengers…
23. Rashomon (1950)
Influential, how? East comes west.
The West finally woke up to Japanese film when Rashomon won Venice’s Golden Lion (and went on to win an Oscar).
The idea - a rape and murder related through conflicting flashbacks - has been repeatedly ribbed but never bettered.
Money shot: The second flashback, when we realise the camera does lie.
24. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Influential, how? Marlon brings The Method.
Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski: maybe the single most influential performance in the history of American film and theatre.
This was the first production to emerge from Elia Kazan’s Actors' Studio, and its intensity rocked Broadway, before jumping to celluloid.
In Tennessee Williams’ play, Stanley is a working-class brute who resents the airs of his sister-inlaw, Blanche. Brando’s naturalism came as a shock to moviegoers, who weren’t used to seeing sweat, but it was his sexual magnetism that really scorched the screen.
Money shot: “Stella!!!!” Brando howls into the night as his submissive wife folds into his arms.[page-break]
25. Bwana Devil (1952)
Influential, how? 3D takes shape.
The technology had existed for decades but Bwana Devil jump-started the ’50s 3D boom.
Its tale of lions attacking railway workers was tosh, but as the tagline (grumpily) inquired: “What do you want? A good picture, or a lion in your lap?” Audiences opted for the latter.
Money shot: A spear hefted at the camera had audiences ducking.
26. The Robe (1953)
Influential, how? Cinema gets 'the big picture'.
Clunky Biblical epic? Yes. But also the first movie made in CinemaScope – using special lenses to squeeze and re-expand the image allowed cinema aspect ratios to rocket from 1.33:1 to an eye-slapping 2.55:1.
As a result, widescreen became the Hollywood way.
Money shot: Four horses gallop straight at the camera in a spectacular chase scene.
27. Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Influential, how? The movies rock'n'roll.
Plug in, turn on, rock out: Richard Brooks’ social-problem flick is often viewed as the founding wallop of the rock’n’roll movie.
Infamously, the opening credits propelled Teds to their feet, where they ravaged seats and grooved to the sound of…
Money shot: Bill Haley And The Comets’ ‘Rock Around The Clock’.
28. The Man With The Golden Arm (1955)
Influential, how? Hollywood tackles hard drugs.
Sidestepping the censors’ Production Code, this downbeat flick mainlined controversy with a taboo-shattering take on heroin addiction.
With Frank Sinatra hooked on dope, The Man... is the granddaddy of smack-pics from Trainspotting to Requiem For A Dream.
Money shot: Ol' Blue Eyes going cold turkey in a shitty apartment.[page-break]
29. Shadows (1959)
Influential, how? The godfather of indie.
Actor John Cassavetes resolved to make a movie his way, on the streets of New York, with friends and acting students, and money raised by public donation.
The result was as fresh and alive as the bebop he used to score it.
Money shot: The end title card - “The movie you have just seen was an improvisation…”
30. Room At The Top (1959)
Influential, how? Class becomes an issue.
With its grimy canals and sexual frankness, Jack Clayton’s film kick-started the Brit New Wave.
Laurence Harvey’s slimy social climber set the pattern for a gallery of class-conscious protagonists in a whole decade of British movies.
Money shot: Harvey, preparing for his wedding, overhears people describing his lover’s agonising death.
31. Breathless (1960)
Influential, how? Jumping to the next level.
The French New Wave found its most revolutionary expression in this debut feature from critic Jean-Luc Godard.
Francois Truffaut provided the basic story outline about a young hoodlum (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and his doomed relationship with an American girl (Jean Seberg) in Paris, but it was Godard who shook up the system with jerky jump-cut rhythms, handheld camera work and a penchant for mixing lofty dialogue with low-brow action.
For once, the artist didn’t hide behind the story – Godard invited the audience right behind the looking glass.
Money shot: Belmondo draws his thumb across his lip in homage to Humphrey Bogart. Cinema enters its self-conscious stage.
32. Psycho (1960)
Influential, how? Horror comes home.
In many ways, the first truly modern American film: Hollywood movies lost their innocence here, in the shower with the shockingly brutal rubbing-out of the picture’s apparent star.
In 1960, many critics were appalled by what Time called “one of the messiest, most nauseating murders ever filmed”.
These days, it seems relatively discreet, but overwhelmingly sad – not least because it inaugurated the mostly shabby serial depravities of the slasher film.
It was also a radical rethink for Hitchcock, a low-budget black-and-white movie with no frills.
Money shot: The shower scene, with its multiple cuts, chocolate-sauce blood and implicit nudity.[page-break]
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Like this feature? Then see it in the latest issue of Total Film Magazine, featuring expanded sections on Jaws, The Graduate, Tron, Flashdance, Deep Throat, Twister, Citizen Kane and The Blair Witch Project.
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33. Victim (1961)
Influential, how? CInema comes out of the closet.
Closeted star Dirk Bogarde gave his idol image a kick in the crotch by taking the role of a barrister with gay yearnings.
Brave, bolshy and poetic, it opened the door to everything from Boys In The Band to Brokeback Mountain.
Money shot: Bogarde’s angry, agonised confession to his wife: “I wanted him! Do you understand? I wanted him!”
34. Blood Feast (1963)
Influential, how? Horror goes splatter.
Drive-in quickie Blood Feast's story about a cannibal Egyptian caterer broke messy new ground: no one had ever spilt so much claret, faked human organs by using sheep offal or chopped up so many actresses (actually hard-up strippers) before.
“It’s like a Walt Whitman poem,” claimed director Herschell Gordon Lewis. “It’s no good, but it’s the first of its type, and therefore deserves a certain position.”
Money shot: A woman’s tongue being ripped out of her bloody gob.
35. The Battle Of Algiers (1966)
Influential, how? 'Based on real-life events...'
It's hard to believe that no newsreel footage was used in Gillo Pontecorvo’s blistering docu-drama.
Shot on the same streets where, only a few years earlier, Algerian nationalists and French colonialists had battled it out, The Battle Of Algiers set the bar challengingly high for every docu-drama that followed.
Money shot: Algerian women descending from the Casbah to bomb a French cafe.
36. The Graduate (1967)
Influential, how? Average schmoes could be leading men.
The casting of Hoffman changed Hollywood’s idea of what a 'movie star' could be. Even Hoffman took some convincing he was the man for the job.
Making an arse of himself at the audition and bringing an uncomfortable tension to his scenes, Hoffman left miserable but director Nichols was sold.
Hoffman picked up an Oscar nom for Best Actor for his misery, and casting logic was never the same again. Tom Hanks, Bill Murray, Tobey Maguire, Steve Carell, Michael Cera and Shia LaBeouf are just a few of Hollywood’s unconventional leads who’ve benefited from the Benjamin Braddock Effect.
Money shot: “Are you trying to seduce me, Mrs Robinson?”
For an extended look at The Graduate, see this feature in the latest issue of Total Film Magazine.[page-break]
37. Night Of The Living Dead (1968)
Influential, how? The birth of the horror movie.
Romero’s stark monochrome nightmare about the walking dead came (very slowly) with stark violence and disturbing docu-realism.
“Horror films were usually about rubber monsters or hands groping in the dark,” says fellow legend John Carpenter. “George
revolutionised that.”
Money shot: A mother. A child. A trowel…
38. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Influential, how? Space becomes a real place.
2001 made a giant leap into deep space a full year before Neil Armstrong took one small step.
Using everything from a 30-tonne ferris wheel set to a close-up of an eye and reacting chemicals, Stanley Kubrick created SFX footage that left Nasa baffled by its accuracy and anticipation.
He also proved that movies could try harder and reach deeper (philosophy, ecology, evolution, the nature of 'intelligence') in their pursuit of a grand cinematic design.
Money shot: That first space station rolling in the inky blackness of space.
39. The Wild Bunch (1969)
Influential, how? Shooting to kill.
The called him "bloody Sam", which he didn't like much, but Peckinpah's pre-censor Bunch earned the first X rating due to its break from the strictures of Hollywood's tired old Motion Picture Code.
Peckinpah splashed red screen-wide with raw steak, even double-loading squibs so that bullets left exit wounds. Slow-motion, multi-camera shooting and montage amplified the impact.
No wonder The New York Times called his revisionist Western "by several thousand red gallons the most graphically violent Western ever made."
Money shot: Shots, rather - the bunch are bullet-holed in a final, orgiastic shoot-'em up...
40. Easy Rider (1969)
Influential, how? The movie brats come of age.
Hippies, LSD, motorbikes: Easy Rider is a cultural landmark. The defining movie of the ’60s.
Connecting with the long-haired kids (and earning millions for its trouble), Hopper and Fonda's crotch rocket-fetishising classic ushered in New Hollywood by breathing hip life into the square studio system.
“You guys are finished,” Hopper ranted at Oscar-winner George Cukor. “We are in now... It’s our time.”
Money shot: Fonda and Hopper dropping acid in a New Orleans cemetery.[page-break]
41. Sweet Sweetback’s Baadass Song (1971)
Influential, how? Black cinema finds a voice.
Dedicated to “all the Brothers and Sisters who have had enough of The Man”, Sweet Sweetback's... is the first 'blaxploitation' flick.
It's a full-frontal attack on honky hegemony as hero Sweetback fights and fucks his way through corrupt white cops and lurid whorehouses.
Black Panther Huey P Newton praised it as “the first truly revolutionary black film.”
Money shot: Handcuffed Sweetback beating up a couple of racist rozzers.
42. Pink Flamingos (1972)
InfluentIal, how? Time to get gross.
Taboos are obliterated as fat tranny Divine stamps (and pisses) all over common decency in John Waters’ no-budget shock-pic.
Critics fumed (“one of the most vile, stupid and repulsive films ever made” spat Variety, reaching for the smelling salts) as this outrageously camp attempt to show the forbidden featured turd-gobbling, sphincter-puckering and a sex act involving a live chicken.
It's an anarchic vom-com that makes the Farrelly Brothers’ gross-outs look like something from CBeebies.
Money shot: Divine munching dog shit. The poodle poops, she scoops – for real.
43. Deep Throat (1972)
Influential, how? Porn goes mainstream.
Deep Throat was the movie that legitimised porn, a swinging hardcore sex film that became a crossover hit.
It quickly became a cultural watershed – changing the way America talked about sex forever.
More than just the movie that made blowjobs into dinner-party chatter, it stripped the seedier side of the porno industry bare for everyone to gawp at.
Money shot: Lovelace making like a turkey...
For an extended look at Deep Throat, see this feature in the latest issue of Total Film Magazine.
44. Mean Streets (1973)
Influential, how? Plugging the jukebox.
Shot with style and swagger, Scorsese’s breakthrough film blazed with rock’n’roll energy, rebooting the sound of cinema. At last, popular - not just classical - music could score a movie.
“For me,” Marty reckoned, “the whole movie was ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’ and ‘Be My Baby’.”
He sourced many of the songs from his own collection, bringing a personal stamp with an era’s rock-noise.
Try imagining Trainspotting or Reservoir Dogs without it.
Money shot: Johnny Boy’s slo-mo, hot-wired entrance, propelled by The Stones’ “crossfire hurricane”.[page-break]
45. Enter The Dragon (1973)
InfluentIal, how? Martial-arts go west.
The dragon died just a few weeks after he entered, but by then Bruce Lee was already an icon.
Warner Bros co-produced this sudden-impact thriller, hungry to capitalise on the growing popularity of Chinese chop-socky flicks in the US.
The Bond movie set-up and white supporting actors were a sop to drive-in tastes but the tightly coiled Asian star’s rapid-fire moves smashed east into west.
The ’70s kung fu craze kicked off here.
Money shot: Lee fighting claw-handed Shih Kien in a hall of mirrors.
46. Blazing Saddles (1974)
Influential, how? Here comes the modern spoof.
Movie parody had been around since Abbott And Costello's heyday, but Mel Brooks’ western set a new bar, lowering the tone and full-throttling the gag-rate.
For better (Airplane!) or worse (Date/Epic/Disaster Movie), Brooks’ more-is-more mantra is par for the parody course.
Money shot: Bean-fuelled cowboys farting round the campfire
47. Nashville (1975)
Influential, how? Every character is a star.
Robert Altman first hit on his sprawling, improv style of filmmaking with M*A*S*H in 1970, but he brought it to a pitch with this epic C&W satire.
No less than 26 character actors rub shoulders, sing, cry and vie for the limelight.
Money shot: A mega pile-up on the highway featuring almost the entire cast.
48. Jaws (1975)
Influential, how? It ushered in the blockbuster.
“It lives to kill. A mindless eating machine. It is as if God created the devil and gave him… JAWS!”
Jaws created the ‘blockbuster’ – a new breed of pacey crowd-pleaser with big budgets, bigger marketing drives and a broad commercial appeal.
The test screenings convinced Universal to spend $700,000 on a TV ad campaign and open in an unprecedented 409 cinemas across the US.
For better or worse, Jaws kick-started the practice of selling movies as a summer ‘event’. As producer Zanuck put it: “Jaws became more than a movie. It became a phenomenon.”
Money shot: Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) comes face to face with Ben Gardener’s corpse in an underwater wreck. A generation of moviegoers throw their popcorn in the air. Some even puke in the bucket…
For an extended look at Jaws, see this feature in the latest issue of Total Film Magazine.
49. Carrie (1976)
Influential, how? The rise of the shock ending.
Hollywood's first adap of a Stephen King paperback melds high-school teen flick with gory horror.
The shock graveyard ending has been much imitated but this is the original - and still the best: "I knew they were going to do it," said the novelist, "and I still almost shit in my pants!"
Money shot:That grave, that hand...
50. Star Wars (1977)
Influential, how? Cinema gets spectacular.
“It ate the heart and soul of Hollywood,” grumped Paul Schrader.
OK, so Star Wars isn’t Raging Bull. But George Lucas' ubiquitous space-opera is the most popular film ever made - inspiring a whole generation to fall in love with the whole idea of Going To The Movies.
Capturing the heart and dazzling the senses, Star Wars revolutionised CG visual effects, practically invented immersive Dolby Stereo surround-sound and gave audiences something they’d never seen or heard before.
We’re betting Schrader secretly enjoyed it.
Money shot: That unbelievable opening, as a deafening Imperial Starship engulfs the star-sprinkled vastness.
51. Halloween (1978)
InfluentIal, how? The slasher movie comes home.
John Carpenter’s cheap and chilling shocker set the savage style for a new horror sub-genre: the slasher flick.
Steeped in Hawks, Hitchcock and Westworld, it introduced a villain with supernatural implacability and a score that did its own sonic stalking.
And, pre-Blair Witch, it thrived on a budget: at $320,000, Halloween was the top-grossing indie pic of its era.
Changed the face of babysitting, too.
Money shot: Laurie weeps in the foreground while The Shape, who should be dead, gets up...
52. Heaven’s Gate (1980)
InfluentIal, how? The first nail in the coffin of the American auteur movement.
Cimino’s over-long, over-budget Western was a disaster so toxic it bankrupted United Artists, killing its director’s post-Deer Hunter career stone-dead and curbing the creative freedom of the '70s movie brats.
Critics loathed it and audiences avoided it. The film's dark shadow still clouds every blockbuster, every ‘vision’ - a grim warning of what can happen when egos and budgets inflate at the expense of entertainment.
Money shot: The roller skate dance sequence. Size does matter.[page-break]
53. The Evil Dead (1981)
Influential, how? Horror goes nasty.
“Rape of our children's minds!”
In the summer of 1983 the British tabloids were frothing over "video nasties". Public enemy #1 was Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead, a full-throttle gore-fest of near-comic extremes.
Fanboys laughed, everyone else barfed (one BBFC examiner felt her “bodily integrity had been attacked”) and knee-jerk hysteria over the VHS release led to the draconian Video Recordings Act of 1984 – effectively banning The Evil Dead from home viewing.
Few horror movies have scared the powers that be quite so shitless.
Money shot: Zombie Witch stabbing a pencil into an ankle. That's gotta hurt.
54. Blade Runner (1982)
Influential, how? The Future begins...
“There was nothing for me to do but stand around and give some focus to Ridley’s sets…”
Sour grapes, Harrison Ford. Director Scott was busy frying bigger fish - reinventing the future in a neon noir style whose influence has seeped everywhere from anime to architecture.
Yeah, it's also inspired the odd movie, too: Brazil, Dark City, Strange Days, The Matrix… Constant rain and overbearing billboards have become dystopian clichés, but the foresight and detail of BR’s mega-city decay still smell fresh.
Money shot: The opening panoramic reveal of LA, 2019: flying cars, flaming spires, forbidding wonder.
55. Tron (1982)
Influential, how? CG starts here.
Ironically, there was little computer wizardry to the first movie about computer wizards. “We treated live-action footage like individual animated cells,” says conceptual designer Richard Taylor.
For the 20 minutes of CG in the movie, the animators had to create each element, frame-by-frame. “We gave the computer guys six rows of handwritten numbers for every frame,” says animator Bill Kroyer. “And they typed them in!”
Everyone agreed on one thing: Tron’s CG was groundbreaking. So groundbreaking, in fact, that the Academy refused to nominate the film for its effects.
“They said we cheated!” says director Lisberger. “Which in the light of what’s happened since is just mind-boggling.”
Money shot: That thrilling light cycle duel, inspiring Family Guy skits, iPhone games and more.
For an extended look at Tron, see this feature in the latest issue of Total Film Magazine.
56. Flashdance (1983)
Influential, how? MTV is here to stay.
Flashdance had no star, a dour blue-collar setting and a lame script. It also had powerhouse producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, welding music and movies like never before.
Both David Cronenberg and Brian De Palma turned it down before TV-ad man Adrian Lyne grabbed the reins.
The movie is as dumb as an inbred redneck but it's also a fairytale button-pusher with flashy quick-cuts and an infectious soundtrack (Slumdog Millionaire, anyone?).
Heavy airplay on MTV steered the film past savage reviews, and sent it to the top of the charts, both in music and movies.
Money shot: Alex, silhouetted in hazy blue light, drenches herself with water as the prelude to a frenzied, erotic wet-dance.
For an extended look at Flashdance, see this feature in the latest issue of Total Film Magazine.[page-break]
57. The Abyss (1989)
Influential, how? Computers can do characters now...
It lasts just 75 seconds, but needed eight months of work. The 'Pseudopod', which snakes out of the ocean to explore an underwater oil platform was the first ever example of digitally animated CG water.
This being James Cameron, that wasn’t enough. He had the gliding alien water-tentacle replicate Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio’s face, making it also the first ever realistic CG character.
“That's the movie,” says Cameron. “You go down to confront the aliens and all they do is hold up a mirror and show you how fucked up you are.”
Money shot: Cameron thinks the giant wave is even more amazing than his CG tentacle. He’s right.
58. Do The Right Thing (1989)
Influential, how? Fighting the power.
No fake uplift, no clean-cut message, heaps of style: Spike Lee slammed home his take on racism with Public Enemy-enhanced pizazz, granting every character their reason to exist and liberating black cinema as he went.
Money shot: Mookie and Pino debate race. Direct-to-camera racial slurs follow, capped by Samuel L Jackson’s generation-defining slap-down.
59. Sex, Lies And Videotape (1989)
Influential, how? Here come the Sundance kids.
Miramax paid $2 million for Steven Soderberg's Sundance-pleasing voyeurs-and-video debut. They made back over 20 times their investment, in the process setting the blueprint for a new wave of US independent cinema.
Money shot: Ann (MacDowell) turns the camera on perpetual peeper Graham (Spader). And Graham
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Hey! I've been working on a planning a family trip to Washington and haven't had much luck finding hotels within our budget. I know that it is cheaper to stay in the suburbs and travel into the city so that's what the plan is, unless I find something cheaper with D.C which I know could potentially be a joke.
Details: Family of 6 (4 kids ranging from 9-21), staying two nights (Monday-Wednesday) of this upcoming week (I know short notice, but weren't too sure of plans due to some other factors), budget: $200 per night/$400 for stay including taxes and fees
Accommodation: Wouldn't mind a bed and breakfast or anything of that sort, would like a kitchen/kitchenette (save on money by making a couple meals), prefer a suite with some amount of separation from parents, kids don't mind sharing a sofa bed/using a cot or blow up mattress, would prefer free/inexpensive parking (for 1 car)
So basically does anyone have any suggestions/advice/words of wisdom?
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How to Beat Perfectionism (or at least reduce it)
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Cambridge/Boston-area Less Wrong meetups start at 3:30pm on the first and third Sunday of every month.
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Compromise: Send Meta Discussions to the Unofficial LessWrong Subreddit
-4 orthonormal 23 April 2013 01:37AM
After a recent comment thread degenerated into an argument about trolling, moderation, and meta discussions, I came to the following conclusions:
1. Meta conversations are annoying to stumble across, I'd rather not see them unless I think it's important, and I think other people mostly feel the same way. Moreover, moderators can't easily ignore those conversations when they encounter them, because they're usually attacks on the moderators themselves; and people can't simply avoid encountering them on a regular basis without avoiding LW altogether. This is a perfect recipe for a flamewar taking over Top Comments even when most people don't care that much.
2. Officially banning all meta conversations, however, is a bad precedent, and I don't want LW to do that.
Ideally, Less Wrong would implement a separate "META" area (so that people can read the regular area for all the object-level discussions, and then sally into the meta area only when they're ready). After talking to Luke (who also wants this), though, it seems clear that nobody is able to implement it very soon. So as a stopgap measure, I'm personally going to start doing the following, and I hope you join me:
Whenever a conversation starts getting bitterly meta in a thread that's not originally about a LW site meta issue, I'm going to tell people to start a thread on the LW Uncensored Reddit Thread instead. Then I'm going to downvote anyone who continues the meta war on the original thread.
I know it's annoying to send people somewhere that has a different login system, but it's as far as I can tell the best fix we currently have. Since some meta conversations are important, I'm not going to punish people for linking to meta thread discussions that they think are significant, and the relevant place for those links is usually the Open Thread. I don't want LessWrong to be a community devoted to arguing about the mechanics of LessWrong, so that's my suggestion.
Thoughts? (And yes, this thread is obviously open to meta discussion. I'm hopefully doing something constructive about the problem, instead of just complaining about it, though.)
EDIT: Changed the link to the uncensored thread more specifically, at Luke's request; originally I linked to the general LW subreddit, which is more heavily moderated.
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Robin Hanson's Cryonics Hour
24 orthonormal 29 March 2013 05:20PM
I'm writing to recommend something awesome to anyone who's recently signed up for cryonics (and to the future self of anyone who's about to do so). Robin Hanson has a longstanding offer that anyone who's newly signed up for cryonics can have an hour's discussion with him on any topic, and I took him up on that last week.
I expected to have a fascinating and wide-ranging discussion on various facets of futurism. My expectations were exceeded. Even if you've been reading Overcoming Bias for a long time, talking with Robin is an order of magnitude more stimulating/persuasive/informative than reading OB or even watching him debate someone else, and I'm now reconsidering my thinking on a number of topics as a result.
So if you've recently signed up, email Robin; and if you're intending to sign up, let this be one more incentive to quit procrastinating!
Relevant links:
The LessWrong Wiki article on cryonics is a good place to start if you have a bunch of questions about the topic.
If you want to argue about whether signing up for cryonics is a good idea, two good and relatively recent threads on that subject are under the posts on A survey of anti-cryonics writing and More Cryonics Probability Estimates.
And if you are cryocrastinating (you've decided that you should sign up for cryonics, but you haven't yet), here's a LW thread about taking the first step.
Does My Vote Matter?
18 orthonormal 05 November 2012 01:23AM
(Cross-posted from elsewhere; I thought some readers here might like it too. Please excuse the unusually informal style.)
Short answer: Actually, yes!
Slightly longer answer: Yes, if the election is close. You'll never get to know that your vote was decisive, but one vote can substantially change the odds on Election Day nonetheless. Even if the election is a foregone conclusion (or if you don't care about the major candidates), the same reasoning applies to third parties- there are thresholds that really matter to them, and if they reach those now they have a significantly better chance in the next election. And finally, local elections matter in the long run just as state or nation elections do. So, in most cases, voting is rational if you care about the outcome.
Full answer: Welcome! This is a nonpartisan analysis, written by a math PhD, of when and how a single vote matters in a large election. I've got a table of contents below; please skip to whatever section interests you most. And feel free to share this!
1. How can a single vote matter in a huge election?
2. What if I know it's not going to be close?
3. Do local elections matter?
In what follows, I'm going to be assuming an American-style voting system (first-past-the-post, for you voting-system buffs), but most of what I say carries over to other voting systems found around the world.
To answer this, let's imagine a different voting system. In the land of Erewhon, voters cast their ballots for president just as they do here; but instead of decreeing that the candidate with the most votes is the winner, each vote is turned into a lottery ball, and one is chosen at random to determine the next president.
While this system has its drawbacks (they get fringe candidates elected every so often, and they've had to outlaw write-in campaigns to prevent every voter from simply voting themselves in), the citizens of Erewhon agree on its main advantage: every one of them knows that their vote counts, that they increase the chance of their candidate winning by just that much.
I'm going to argue that if you would bother to vote if an election were held in Erewhon, then you should also vote—for the same reason—if the same election were held the normal way, and if it looked like the outcome might be close. That is, your effect on the outcome is about equivalent if the pre-election polls fall within the margin of error (about ±3% for each candidate, or a margin of less than 6% between two candidates, for an electorate of millions). And if the polls are nearly tied, then voting in our system might have the same effect as voting hundreds or even thousands of times in Erewhon's system!
This seems counterintuitive, because we imagine that the votes of everyone else are "locked in" somehow, and that we're only deciding whether to add ours to the pile- in which case, the only way that it could matter is in the event that it makes or breaks an exact tie. And not only are those exceedingly rare (the largest such example I could find was a recent Massachusetts election for state representative, in which 13,500 ballots were cast), but if the initial count for a massive election did show a margin of one or zero, we would be headed for an interminable recount. (See, for instance, the 2008 Minnesota Senate election, which was decided by about 300 votes; the extensive recount delayed the winner's inauguration by about six months.) What this messes with, though, isn't your chance of helping decide the election, but your chance of knowing that you helped decide the election.
That is, in modern elections, there's not a perfect sharp boundary between "Candidate A wins" and "Candidate B wins", but a gigantic muddle; and if A is narrowly ahead, then every additional vote for A represents a greater chance that the recount will eventually end, or end earlier, or not be contested at all; while every vote for candidate B means a greater chance that there will be a recount, or that it will go on longer, or that it might turn out victorious for B after all. You'd never know that your vote, which changed the lead from 412 to 413, was the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back and led the other candidate to concede, but at some point that's what happens.
And even more significantly, we can't consider everyone else's votes as "locked in". If you had the ability to re-play Election Day over and over, the chaotic dynamics of everyday life would affect the vote totals. Someone makes a light about to turn red, and so she ends up at the next light behind a bumper sticker that infuriates her, and so she remembers to vote. Or someone else bumps into an old friend, and starts a conversation, and then he realizes he doesn't have enough of his lunch break left to get to the polling place anyhow. It's the butterfly effect in action, and when multiplied by millions of people it leads to fluctuations in the hundreds or thousands. (The exact mechanism for this estimate is the Central Limit Theorem.) And what that means is that the margin isn't a fixed number pending your decision to vote; it's a mix of different possibilities, and your decision changes the odds as surely as adding a lottery ball to the Erewhon election does.
Of course, if one candidate is polling 10 points ahead of the other, then those fluctuations will be irrelevant. If the margin is closer, then it just might have an effect; remember that polls have several sources of error in them, so you can't be exactly sure of the margin before voting actually happens. And in those cases where the actual vote turns out to be extremely close, like Minnesota in 2008, your choice to vote swings those odds just as if you'd poured in thousands of Erewhonian lottery balls with your candidate's name on them. (That is, it changes those odds by a fraction of a percent, but the ability to nudge the odds by that much in an electorate of millions is pretty impressive!)
If the difference between the top candidates is outside the combined margin of error (7 points or more in a big election), then it's true that your vote won't affect the outcome of the current election, but it can matter greatly for the next one. This especially holds when there's a third party you prefer to the current major parties, but there are other relevant reasons to vote even if that's not the case.
First, about third parties: the conventional wisdom that they can't win is an outright falsehood. We tend to forget that Ross Perot nearly became President: he held a six-point lead in June 1992 over both Bush and Clinton, and despite his candidacy crashing and burning later on (for reasons more personal than systemic), he still won nearly 20% of the popular vote in the end. In addition, there are two current Senators who were elected as independents.
For a third party that's not polling well enough yet, votes now matter for future elections, and there are several significant thresholds. If they get rounded up to 1% on Election Day, then they get mentioned in election coverage. (Next, getting rounded up to 2% sounds much more impressive than getting rounded down to 1%.) If they get to 5%, then they can qualify for FEC matching funds, and double their ability to reach voters next time. And 10% is a significant number for media exposure (as well as invitations to the main debates). Higher than 20%, and we're talking about a viable candidate; there's a runaway dynamic in three-candidate races where as soon as the third party looks viable, any voters from the other parties who prefer the third party will suddenly switch (now that they're no longer worried about supporting an obvious loser), and suddenly the third party becomes the front-runner. (This kind of behavior is common in game theory in what's known as a coordination problem.)
Even if there's not a third party you prefer to the main ones, the margin of victory now helps determine what sort of candidates the parties select next time. If one party wins an election by more than 10% (this round number has a psychological hold on people, so it's what usually counts as a "landslide victory"), then next time that party is more likely to nominate a less moderate candidate, while the defeated party is likely to nominate a more moderate candidate. (Also, it goes without saying that you should be voting in primaries as well!)
All of these thresholds can hinge just as easily on a few hundred votes, and so your vote can matter greatly. You just need to care about what happens two, or four, or six years from now.
3. Do local elections matter?
Most certainly. First, your vote affects the odds more strongly in a local election. (And, of course, there can be margins of zero or one votes, without recounts, in local elections!) Secondly, there are a number of important issues decided at the local level, both directly (tax and bond issues) and through representatives (especially local school boards). And finally, many big names in politics start out in local elections: the current President began as an Illinois state senator, and the current Vice President began as a city councilman.
It's more difficult to do research at the local level. Project VoteSmart may have data on some of the candidates (including the voting record of incumbents, public statements, and response to a questionnaire about their positions). Otherwise, your local newspaper may be the best bet (short of going to campaign events yourself). But a little bit of research can go a long way here.
(Addendum: If I'd been composing this for the Less Wrong crowd, I'd have also noted that the decisions of people similar to you should be correlated, which adds another multiplier to the effectiveness of voting. I might like I bumper sticker that says "I'm a timeless decision theorist, therefore I vote!")
(Second addendum: I'm mindful of the dangers of posting this within a few days of a major election. I've done my very best to keep from mindkilling language; I hope you do the same in the comments.)
Decision Theories, Part 3.75: Hang On, I Think This Works After All
23 orthonormal 06 September 2012 04:23PM
Followup to: Decision Theories, Part 3.5: Halt, Melt and Catch Fire, Decision Theories: A Semi-Formal Analysis, Part III
The thing about dead mathematical proofs is that it's practically always worth looting the corpse; sometimes you even find there's still a pulse! That appears to be the case with my recent post lamenting the demise of the TDT-like "Masquerade" algorithm. I think I've got a rigorous proof this time, but I'd like other opinions before I declare that the rumors of Masquerade's demise were greatly exaggerated...
To recap quickly, I've been trying to construct an algorithm that, given the payoff matrix of a game and the source code of its opponent, does some deductions and then outputs a move. I want this algorithm to do the commonsense right things (defect against both DefectBot and CooperateBot, and mutually cooperate against both FairBot and itself), and I want it to do so for simple and general reasons (that is, no gerrymandering of actions against particular opponents, and in particular no fair trying to "recognize itself", since there can be variants of any algorithm that are functionally identical but not provably so within either's powers of deduction). I'd also like it to be "un-exploitable" in a certain sense: it has a default move (which is one of its Nash equilibria), and no opponent can profit against the algorithm by forcing it below that default payoff. If the opponent does as well or better in expected value than it would by playing that Nash equilibrium, then so too does my algorithm.
The revised Masquerade algorithm does indeed have these properties.
In essence, there are two emendations that I needed: firstly, since some possible pairs of masks (like FairBot and AntiFairBot) can't knowingly settle on a fixed point, there's no way to determine what they do without a deductive capacity that strictly exceeds the weaker of them. That's a bad feature to have, so we'll just have to exclude potentially troublemaking masks from Masquerade's analysis. (In the special case of Prisoner's Dilemma I know that including DefectBot and FairBot will suffice; I've got what looks like a good solution in general, as well.)
The second emendation is that FairBot needs to alternate between trying harder to prove its opponent cooperates, and trying harder to prove its opponent defects. (There needs to be an asymmetry, like cooperation proofs going first, to guarantee that when FairBot plays against itself, it finds a Löbian proof of mutual cooperation rather than one of mutual defection.) The reason for this is so that when agents reason about masks, they should be able to find a proof of the mask's action without needing to exceed that mask's powers of deduction. Otherwise we get that arms race again.
This escalation of proof attempts can be represented in terms of proof limits (since there exists a constant C such that for N sufficiently large, a proof that "there are no proofs of X of length less than N" either exists with length less than C^N or not at all), but the simplest way to do this is with the formalism of PA+N. That is, PA is Peano Arithmetic; PA+1 is the formal system with the axioms of Peano Arithmetic and an extra axiom that PA is self-consistent (that is, if PA proves X, then PA does not prove not-X); PA+2 has those axioms and an extra one stating that PA+1 is self-consistent and so on. (Note that none of these formal systems know themselves to be self-consistent, and for good reason!) In every use, we'll assume that N is a fixed number (anything greater than 4 will work).
New And Improved Masks
So without further ado, let's define our masks for the Prisoner's Dilemma:
def DefectBot(X):
return D
def FairBot(X):
for i in range(N):
if "X(FairBot)=C" is provable in PA+i:
return C
if "X(FairBot)=D" is provable in PA+i:
return D
return D
Lemma 1: For any X, "DefectBot(X)=D" is provable in PA. (Obvious.)
Lemma 2: "FairBot(FairBot)=C" is provable in PA.
Proof: If we label the FairBots separately (after all, they might be logically equivalent but not know they are), we can quickly show that "if PA proves FairBot1(FairBot2)=C, then FairBot2(FairBot1)=C" is provable in PA (and the same with the subscripts reversed). This makes what we might term a Löbian cycle, which will come up a few more times in this post: if we have a formal system S, and "if S proves A, then B" and "if S proves B, then A" are theorems of S, then S indeed proves both A and B. (Proof reserved for a comment; hat tip to Eliezer and co.)
Lemma 3: "FairBot(DefectBot)=D" is provable in PA+1.
Proof: Note that this does not work in PA, even though PA can prove "DefectBot(FairBot)=D". Why not? Because PA can't prove that PA doesn't find a proof of "DefectBot(FairBot)=C" before it can look for a proof of defection! However, PA+1 can handle this just fine, because it proves "if PA proves DB(FB)=D, then PA does not prove DB(FB)=C".
Note the weird fact that it takes a stronger formal system to prove a result that's much more intuitive from outside the system!
New and Improved Masquerade
Let's split up the long definition of Masquerade with a helper function.
def Search(X,Y):
for i in range(N):
for j,k in [C,D]:
if "Y(X)=j and X(Y)=k" is provable in PA+i:
return (j,k)
return False
This function, given two agents, simply searches (using increasingly strong formal systems) for a proof of what they do against each other; once it finds one, it halts and returns that result, and if it doesn't find one in time, it announces its failure. We will incorporate this into the definition of Masquerade. (The other function call here is to the payoff matrix, to retrieve the utility U(j,k) of a certain pair of moves.)
def Masquerade(X):
utility = -∞
my_move = null
their_move = null
for Y in [DefectBot, FairBot]:
if Search(X,Y) != False:
(j,k) = Search(X,Y)
if U(j,k) > utility:
my_move = j
their_move = k
utility = U(j,k)
if utility > U(D,D):
for i in range(N):
if "X(Masquerade) = their_move" is provable in PA+i:
return my_move
return D
A few things to note: first, this agent actually halts and outputs an action against any opponent... but for it to provably do so in a system below PA+N, Search(X,Y) has to find proofs quickly. This is the reason that my prior attempt didn't work- it had to wait at one point for the old FairBot to run out of time/power before concluding what it did, and that made it impossible for the old FairBot to know what the old Masquerade did. But with the new and improved agents, we get to ground in a fixed number of steps.
For brevity, I'll label DefectBot, FairBot, and Masquerade as DB, FB, and M, respectively.
Lemma 4: "Search(DB,DB)=(D,D)" is provable in PA+1. (Follows from Lemma 1; note that it needs to use PA+1 in order to rule out finding proofs of other action-pairs.)
Lemma 5: "Search(FB,DB)=Search(DB,FB)=(D,D)" is provable in PA+2. (Follows from Lemma 3.)
Lemma 6: "Search(FB,FB)=(C,C)" is provable in PA. (Follows from Lemma 2; since (C,C) is the first one tried, we don't even need to go up to PA+1.)
Lemma 7: "Masquerade(DB)=D" is provable in PA+3.
Proof: Lemmas 4 and 5, plus the fact that PA+3 knows the consistency of PA+2. There is no sanity-check step, since utility=U(D,D) here.
Lemma 8: "Masquerade(FB)=C" and "FB(Masquerade)=C" are provable in PA+3.
Proof: Lemmas 5 and 6, and the consistency of PA+2, imply that when Masquerade arrives at the sanity-check stage, it has the variables set as utility=U(C,C), my_move=C and their_move=C. Thus PA+3 can prove that "if 'FB(M)=C' is provable in PA+3, then M(FB)=C". And of course, "if 'M(FB)=C' is provable in PA+3, then FB(M)=C" is provable in PA+3, since again PA+3 can prove that PA through PA+2 won't have found proofs of contrary conclusions before it gets around to trying to find cooperation in PA+3. Therefore we have the desired Löbian cycle!
Theorem: "Masquerade(Masquerade)=C" is provable in PA+4.
Proof: Lemmas 7 and 8, and the consistency of PA+3, allow PA+4 to prove that when each Masquerade arrives at the sanity-check stage, it has set utility=U(C,C), my_move=C and their_move=C. Thus we achieve the Löbian cycle, and find proofs of mutual cooperation!
Awesome! So, what next?
Well, assuming that I haven't made a mistake in one of my proofs, I'm going to run the same proof for my generalization: given a payoff matrix in general, Masquerade enumerates all of the constant strategies and all of the "mutually beneficial deals" of the FairBot form (that is, masks that hold out the "stick" of a particular Nash equilibrium and the "carrot" of another spot on the payoff matrix which is superior to the "stick" for both players). Then it alternates (at escalating PA+n levels) between trying to prove the various good deals that the opponent could agree to. There are interesting complexities here (and an idea of what bargaining problems might involve).
Secondly, I want to see if there's a good way of stating the general problem that Masquerade solves, something better than "it agrees with commonsense decision theory". The analogy here (and I know it's a fatuous one, but bear with me) is that I've come up with a Universal Turing Machine but not yet the Church-Turing Thesis. And that's unsatisfying.
But before anything else... I want to be really sure that I haven't made a critical error somewhere, especially given my false start (and false halt) in the past. So if you spot a lacuna, let me know!
Decision Theories, Part 3.5: Halt, Melt and Catch Fire
30 orthonormal 26 August 2012 10:40PM
Followup to: Decision Theories: A Semi-Formal Analysis, Part III
UPDATE: As it turns out, rumors of Masquerade's demise seem to have been greatly exaggerated. See this post for details and proofs!
I had the chance, over the summer, to discuss the decision theory outlined in my April post with a bunch of relevantly awesome people. The sad part is, there turned out to be a fatal flaw once we tried to formalize it properly. I'm laying it out here, not with much hope that there's a fix, but because sometimes false starts can be productive for others.
Since it's not appropriate to call this decision theory TDT, I'm going to use a name suggested in one of these sessions and call it "Masquerade", which might be an intuition pump for how it operates. So let's first define some simple agents called "masks", and then define the "Masquerade" agent.
Say that our agent has actions a1, ... , an, and the agent it's facing in this round has actions b1, ... , bm. Then for any triple (bi, aj, ak), we can define a simple agent Maskijk which takes in its opponent's source code and outputs an action:
def Mask_ijk(opp_src):
look for proof that Opp(Mask_ijk) = bi
if one is found, then output aj
otherwise, output ak
(This is slightly less general than what I outlined in my post, but it'll do for our purposes. Note that there's no need for aj and ak to be distinct, so constant strategies fall under this umbrella as well.)
A key example of such an agent is what we might call FairBot: on a Prisoner's Dilemma, FairBot tries to prove that the other agent cooperates against FairBot, and if it finds such a proof, then it immediately cooperates. If FairBot fails to find such a proof, then it defects. (An important point is that if FairBot plays against itself and both have sufficiently strong deductive capacities, then a short proof of one's cooperation gives a slightly longer proof of the other's cooperation, and thus in the right circumstances we have mutual cooperation via Löb's Theorem.)
The agent Masquerade tries to do better than any individual mask (note that FairBot foolishly cooperates against CooperateBot when it could trivially do better by defecting). My original formulation can be qualitatively described as trying on different masks, seeing which one fares the best, and then running a "sanity check" to see if the other agent treats Masquerade the same way it treats that mask. The pseudocode looked like this:
def Masquerade(opp_src):
for each (i,j,k), look for proofs of the form "Mask_ijk gets utility u against Opp"
choose (i,j,k) corresponding to the largest such u found
look for proof that Opp(Masquerade) = Opp(Mask_ijk)
if one is found, then output the same thing as Mask_ijk(Opp)
otherwise, output a default action
(The default should be something safe like a Nash equilibrium strategy, of course.)
Intuitively, when Masquerade plays the Prisoner's Dilemma against FairBot, Masquerade finds that the best utility against FairBot is achieved by some mask that cooperates, and then Masquerade's sanity-check is trying to prove that FairBot(Masquerade) = C as FairBot is trying to prove that Masquerade(FairBot) = C, and the whole Löbian circus goes round again. Furthermore, it's intuitive that when Masquerade plays against another Masquerade, the first one notices the proof of the above, and finds that the best utility against the other Masquerade is achieved by FairBot; thus both pass to the sanity-check stage trying to imitate FairBot, both seek to prove that the other cooperate against themselves, and both find the Löbian proof.
So what's wrong with this intuitive reasoning?
Problem: A deductive system can't count on its own consistency!
Let's re-examine the argument that Masquerade cooperates with FairBot. In order to set up the Löbian circle, FairBot needs to be able to prove that Masquerade selects a mask that cooperates with FairBot (like CooperateBot or FairBot). There are nice proofs that each of those masks attains the mutual-cooperation payoff against FairBot, but we also need to be sure that some other mask won't get the very highest (I defect, you cooperate) payoff against FairBot. Now you and I can see that this must be true, because FairBot simply can't be exploited that way. But crucially, FairBot can't deduce its own inexploitability without thereby becoming exploitable (for the same Gödelian reason that a formal system can't prove its own consistency unless it is actually inconsistent)!
Now, the caveats to this are important: if FairBot's deductive process is sufficiently stronger than the deductive process that's trying to exploit it (for example, FairBot might have an oracle that can answer questions about Masquerade's oracle, or FairBot might look for proofs up to length 2N while Masquerade only looks up to length N), then it can prove (by exhaustion if nothing else) that Masquerade will select a cooperative mask after all. But since Masquerade needs to reason about Masquerade at this level, this approach goes nowhere. (At first, I thought that having a weaker oracle for Masquerade's search through masks, and a stronger oracle both for each mask and for Masquerade's sanity-check, would solve this. But that doesn't get off the ground: the agent thus defined attains mutual cooperation with FairBot, but not with itself, because the weaker oracle can't prove that it attains mutual cooperation with FairBot.)
Another caveat is the following: FairBot may not be able to rule out the provability of some statement we know is false, but (given a large enough deductive capacity) it can prove that a certain result is the first of its kind in a given ordering of proofs. So if our agents act immediately on the first proof they find, then we could make a version of Masquerade work... as long as each search does find a proof, and as long as that fact is provable by the same deduction system. But there's an issue with this: two masks paired against each other won't necessarily have provable outcomes!
Let's consider the following mask agent, which we'll call AntiFairBot: it searches for a proof that its opponent cooperates against it, and it defects if it finds one; if it doesn't find such a proof, then it cooperates. This may not be a very optimal agent, but it has one interesting property: if you pit AntiFairBot against FairBot, and the two of them use equivalent oracles, then it takes an oracle stronger than either to deduce what the two of them will do! Thus, Masquerade can't be sure that AntiFairBot won't get the highest payoff against FairBot (which of course it won't) unless it uses a stronger deduction system for the search through masks than FairBot uses for its proof search (which would mean that FairBot won't be able to tell what mask Masquerade picks).
I tried to fix this by iterating over only some of the masks; after all, there's no realistic opponent against whom AntiFairBot is superior to both FairBot and DefectBot. Unfortunately, at this point I realized two things: in order to play successfully against a reasonable range of opponents on the Prisoner's Dilemma, Masquerade needs to be able to imitate at least both FairBot and DefectBot; and FairBot cannot prove that FairBot defects against DefectBot. (There are variants of FairBot that can do so, e.g. it could search both for proofs of cooperation and proofs of defection and playing symmetrically if it finds one, but this variant is no longer guaranteed to cooperate against itself!)
If there are any problems with this reasoning, or an obvious fix that I've missed, please bring it to my attention; but otherwise, I've decided that my approach has failed drastically enough that it's time to do what Eliezer calls "halt, melt, and catch fire". The fact that Löbian cooperation works is enough to keep me optimistic about formalizing this side of decision theory in general, but the ideas I was using seem insufficient to succeed. (Some variant of "playing chicken with my deductive system" might be a crucial component.)
Many thanks to all of the excellent people who gave their time and attention to this idea, both on and offline, especially Eliezer, Vladimir Slepnev, Nisan, Paul Christiano, Critch, Alex Altair, Misha Barasz, and Vladimir Nesov. Special kudos to Vladimir Slepnev, whose gut intuition on the problem with this idea was immediate and correct.
Posts I'd Like To Write (Includes Poll)
14 orthonormal 26 May 2012 09:25PM
Summary: There are a bunch of posts I want to write; I'd like your help prioritizing them, and if you feel like writing one of them, that would be awesome too!
I haven't been writing up as many of my ideas for Less Wrong as I'd like; I have excuses, but so does everyone. So I'm listing out my backlog, both for my own motivation and for feedback/help. At the end, there's a link
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WHEN: 13 August 2016 01:00:00PM (+0200)
WHERE: JetBrains Event Space, 5th floor, Elsenheimerstr. 47a, Munich
Hello everybody. I think it would be great to have a LessWrong meeting in August. However, since it's holiday/vacation time, I am not sure how many are around so please indicate if will or may join. Activities: - I can give a short talk about deliberate practice and its possible application to applied rationality. - Discussion of interesting books for the summer break: tell about the last book that impressed you, learn about new books from others. - Other contributions are welcomed and encouraged. Please leave a comment if there is a topic or an article you want to discuss. - We can always play Zendo :-)
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== History ==
March 06, 2013: Initial version
April 14, 2013: Added reference to Rackspace session at OpenStack Summit
April 18, 2013: Added pointer to etherpad from Key Manager design session at OpenStack Summit
April 23, 2013: Added section on "Post summit discussion" changes/clarifications
Revision as of 07:13, 23 April 2013
Key Manager
malini.k.bhandaru "at" intel.com https://etherpad.openstack.org/havana-key-manager
March 06, 2013: Initial version
Server side encryption with key management would make data protection more readily available, enable harnessing of any special hardware encryption support on the servers, make available a larger set of encryption algorithms and reduce client maintenance effort. Amazon and Google’s object storage systems provide transparent data encryption. Encryption is no longer prohibitive with newer chips available that carry hardware support for AES-NI, and implementations that harness possible parallelisms in data and processor architecture. The popular wisdom today is increase security [1]
Recently interest has grown in [[1]] to provide server side encryption in Cinder ( Volume ) [2], Swift ( Object ) [3], Glance ( Snapshot ).
Security Model
different keys.
Design Considerations
High Availability
Opaque Keys
Protecting Master Keys
Restricting Service Access
Restricting Key Access
Key Attributes / meta-data
Keys could have attributes such as no-cache, number-of-uses. KMIP has a notion of usage-mask, who can use for what purposes (encryption/decryption etc).
Key Caching
Need to log all access to keys,<who, what, when> CRUD: creation, read, update, delete actions should be logged as important events. This would meet regulation/audit needs such as HIPAA, Sarbanes Oxley etc.
Invalid/autherized attempts shpuld also be logged including IP address, time etc that may indicate hacking attempts and need for action.
Life Cycle Management: Background Tasks
1. archiving, re-keying
2. API for life cycle management
3. Plug-in solutions/implementations (open source and proprietary)
Side Benefits
Key Manager in OpenStack
create <authorization-token>
Key manager will create a random key and save the same, and return a tuple <key-id, key-string>
The communication between requester and key-manager should be secure to ensure that the key is not compromised.
get <key-id> <authorization-token>
delete<key-id> <authorization-token>
update<key-id> <authorization-token>
By supporting key delete, we essentially render any stored data associated with it inaccessible. It will not be necessary to "wipe" clean / shred for instance a block device. Just necessary to update that they area is free and can be re-used.
Key Scope:
• Per user
• Per project (within a domain)
• Per domain
Key Size
Key Manager in OpenStack
The master keys would be held in TPM Storage TPM Close-Up
OpenStack Service and Key Manager Internals
enc-object-x, meta_data: <enc:true, algorithm:aes-cbc, key-id: 1234567899 >
Similarly, an encrypted Cinder volume might be represented as
Key Flow
Encrypted saving of an object
Decrypted retrieval of an object
1. Another failure point: With another service, Key Manager, in the picture, we have another component that could fail. But encryption need keys, maintained by either the end user or the server. This is a feature cost. Caching keys mitigates some of the problems that arise from network latency and server failure. Using the TPM to protect the encryption master keys makes the cache less of a security hole.
2. KMIP: Do we need to support KMIP [7] in OpenStack? If the keys are not for end user direct consumption, KMIP is not mandated. However if we desire to use the key manager to save private and public keys of the OpenStack services, then KMIP would be useful to exchange information across cloud boundaries.
3. Encryption data transfer overhead: Keys typically are not updated, except on master key re-keying. Swift uses Rsync for replication, and for objects of size keys, it is not a performance criterion. However, strong encryption requires Initialization Vectors (IV)/Salts/and cipher chaining. Thus a small change in a document towards the beginning will generate a totally different encrypted object, which is what we desire, but in the context of Rsync, it implies a full data payload needs to be transferred. But data protection overrides all else here. Further, use cases may establish that this is an unwarranted concern if typically there are few updates to an object.
4. Unauthorized key deletion: If we use a Swift based system for the Key Manager backend store, a hijacked server with spurious insertions of tombstone records to mimic a legitimate deletion Swift storage nodes would result in key loss by way of a background reaper task periodically deleting such objects. This would not be a new security hazard, and has to be handled as today. Perhaps key deletion could be turned off to prevent such havoc.
5. Fear of Key Loss: Key Manager back end storage should ideally be distributed in geographically disparate locations.
6. Salts/IV: A key per object/entity behaves like a salt/IV, especially when used in conjunction with a user/project/domain (wider scope) key
Phased Implementation
Key Manager implementation could be in phases along the lines below. Double locking could even be part of phase I.
Phase I
1. Stub Key Manager, could pull out JHU-APL or Mirantis Key Manager implementation or Rackspace's (*) key manager as a service solution(added April 14, 2013), and float as either a new OpenStack Service ( or a sub-service of KeyStone). Essentially establish all the plumbing flows. Define a KeyManager_client that the other services use, via the KeyManager API. The key manager back end could initially be a file or mysql or sqlite database. The default could be mysql backend for devstack like single machine deployments for developer/testing.
2. Master keys stored on Python key ring or using mechanisms similar to private key protection on the various OpenStack service host machines.
3. Encryption algorithm and parameters could initially be defaults in a nova conf file (JHU-APL approach for volume encryption) or defaults per user/project/domain, going up the generalization chain till something specifc is found else use a domain level default.
Phase II
Make Key Manager a separate Swift instance, with multiple zones for storage. This would support true HA and fault tolerance.
Phase III
1. Support multiple encryption algorithms via encryption library querying. Provide user interface support to select preferences and store as part of user/project/domain profile.
2. Reaper routine to change a master key for a service, aka re-keying.
3. Support dual locking, a feature that uses KeyStone Identity V3 API's trust feature.
Phase IV
Introduce true TPM support for master keys. For instance, volume encryption may prefer XTS, an encryption strategy that uses sector address. We have expertise on TPM within Intel, and attestation service support already in OpenStack, which is currently being used to verify goodness of compute nodes. This would extend to the OpenStack service nodes.
Phase V
Chef puppet support for transferring symmetric keys to the various service host machines, particularly to scale horizontally in as automated a fashion as possible.
TPM: Trusted Platform Module
1. http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2012/10/encrypt-everything-everywhere-in.html
3. http://www.mirantis.com/blog/openstack-swift-encryption-architecture
4. http://opensecuritytraining.info/IntroToTrustedComputing_files/Day1-7-tpm-keys.pdf
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module
7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_Management_Interoperability_Protocol
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Stock phrases
‘Stock phrases’, in the sense I am using it here, refers to established phrases (in the more common, more specific sense), noises, gestures, etc.; they form a canon of well-known signifiers for messages one might want to convey, like the verbalisation ‘I am happy’, or the gesture of nodding in agreement. They can be very useful, because they save communicators the time, effort, and distraction of forming descriptions from existing phrases. Sometimes a stock phrase has been honed so finely that to try to recreate its precise meaning from scratch would not be possible in any practical period of time. As with language in general, novel or less common combinations of stock phrases are more liable to be misinterpreted. (For example, winks, nods, and other individual gestures are generally less ambiguous than chains of gestures.)
To put it another way: Compression is useful because some amount of upfront time and effort (learning meanings of stock phrases) can save a lot of time and effort later (having to construct new stock phrases repeatedly from scratch).
Two considerations that arise from this are over-reliance on the existing canon of stock phrases, and the skill of originating successful new stock phrases.
With the former, stock phrases are used even in situations where it would be better to construct a phrase not already in the canon. It is very tempting to round off a complex sentiment into the nearest available stock phrase, because it is so much more convenient—they are available. For example, saying ‘I’m an atheist’ can be a lot more convenient than saying, ‘I put an effectively-zero, but non-zero, probability on the existence of God’. And in some contexts, the former might genuinely be just a useful approximation. But in some other contexts, it can lead to spending an hour arguing with someone before they realise that you don’t rule out God entirely like they were arguing against, and you realise that they have been disagreeing with you ruling out God ent
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Dangerous optimisation includes variance minimisation
Let's look again at Stuart Russell's quote:
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variables, then it's likely true, if this maximisation or minimisation brings them to unusual values that we wouldn't encounter "naturally". But things might be different if the variables need only be set to certain "plausible" values.
Suppose, for example, that an AI is building widgets, and that it is motivated to increase widget production w. It can choose the following policies, with the following consequences:
1. π1: build widgets the conventional way; w=10.
2. π2: build widgets efficiently; w=15.
3. π3: introduce new innovative ways of building widgets; w=30.
4. π4: dominate the world's widget industry; w=10,000.
5. π5: take over the world, optimise the universe for widget production; w=1060.
If the AI's goal is to maximise w without limit, then the fifth option becomes attractive to it. Even if it just wants to set w to a limited but high value - w=10,000 - it benefits from more control of the world. In short:
* The more unusual the values of the variables the AI wants to reach, the more benefit it gets from strong control over the universe.
But what if the AI was designed to set w to 15, or in the range 20−30? Then it would seem that it has lower incentive for control, and might just "do its job", the way we'd like it to; the other variables would not be set to extreme values, since there is no need for the AI to change things much.
Eliezer and Nick and others have made the point that this is still not safe, in posts that I can't currently find. They use examples like the AI taking over the world and building cameras to be sure that it constructed 15 widgets exactly. These scenarios seem extreme as intuitions pumps, to some, so I thought it would be simpler to rephrase this as: moving the variance to unusual values.
Variance control
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Suppose that the AI was designed to keep v at 15. We could give it the utility function −(v−15)2, for instance. Would it then stick to policy π2?
Now assume further that the world is not totally static. Random events happen, increasing or decreasing the production of widgets. If the AI follows policy π, then its expected reward is:
E[−(v−15)2∣π]=−E(v2∣π)+2E(v∣π)−152=−var(v∣π)−(E(v∣π)−15)2.
The second term, −(E(v∣π)−15)2, the AI could control by "doing its job" and picking a human-safe policy. But is also wants to control the variance of v, specifically it wants to lower it. Even more specifically, it wants to move that variance to a very low, highly unusual value.[[1]](#fn-hsLCbJPdt3FgzDXAB-1)
So the previous problem appears again: it wants to move a variable - the variance of v - to a very unusual value. In the real world, this could translate to it building excess capacity, taking control of its supply chains, removing any humans that might get in the way, etc... Since "humans that might get in the way" would end up being most humans - few nations would tolerate a powerful AI limiting their power and potential - this tends to the classic "take control of the world" scenario.
Conclusion
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So, minimising or maximising a variable, or setting it to an unusual value, is dangerous, as it incentives the AI to take control of the world to achieve those unusual values. But setting a variable to a usual value can also be dangerous, in an uncertain world, as it incentivises the AI to take control of the world to set the variability of that variable to unusually low levels.
*Thanks to Rebecca Gorman for the conversation which helped me clarify these thoughts.*
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1. This is not a specific feature of using a square in −(v−15)2. To incentivise the AI to set v=15, we need a function of v that peaks at 15. This makes it concave-ish around 15, which is what penalises spread and uncertainty and variance. [↩︎](#fnref-hsLCbJPdt3FgzDXAB-1)
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On the Concept of a Universe of Reference
For a long time I've thrown the term "universe of reference" about without clarifying just what I have in mind. I first came across this concept in Guattari's Chaosmosis, though I have no idea whether I'm using the term correctly as Guattari's language is very dense and he seldom takes the time to slow down and develop his concepts thoroughly. According to Husserl's phenomenological method, the transcendental epoche consists in carrying out a reduction where one suspends all questions of whether or not the datums given to consciousness actually exist or what they are as they exist independently of consciousness (in themselves), and instead resolves to describe what is given simply in terms of how it appears or gives itself.
The concept of a "universe of reference" is thus an ontologico-sociological category designed to capture the "folk ontologies" shared by different groups of people and that diverge from one another. The aim here, of course, is not to promote some sort of facile relativism. There might be one true and genuine ontology such that these folk ontologies are just various illusions or falsehoods. However, in developing rhetorical and discursive strategies with regard to various groups it is necessary to be familiar with the universe of reference they inhabit so as to formulate those speech acts capable of making a difference with regard to them. A speech act formulated on the horizon of post-Newtonian physics isn't very effective when speaking to a community that inhabits an Aristotlean universe.
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Anonymous N. Pepperell said...
I suspect that this is very similar to how I think - with the addition that I've spent a lot of time trying to understand the relationships between belief systems (which seems to be what many people - although not necessarily for you - mean when they use the term "ontologies" in this way) and other kinds of social practices.
I feel that - at a sometimes very, very abstract level - there are homologies between what people do, how they enact their shared lives, and how they think about those lives - not in the sense that either practices or thoughts could be conceptualised as more fundamental, such that one could be reduced to the other, but in the sense, as we've discussed before, that the subject is the subject of its object... Collective practices that enact a social environment always already include practices of thought - but the contours of these practices of thought aren't always best conceptualised or understood solely with reference to the contents of belief systems... (I'm not suggesting that you are doing this - just thinking out loud...)
I agree that openness and receptiveness, to the extent we can achieve it, has to precede critique - or, for that matter, effective communication of any kind. Creative misunderstandings can be productive in their own way - but one wants the ability to move beyond them, when needed... ;-)
In terms of the related issue you mentioned in the (parallel?) post preceding this one: I want to be careful here, because I'm easing into this issue on the level of social theory, rather than pragmatic politics (which has other tools at its disposal). If we want to begin thinking theoretically about the conditions of possibility for communicating across belief systems in the contemporary context, I suspect it becomes very, very important how we understand the nature of that context. Many approaches for conceptualising context, I suspect, are intrinsically too concrete - they focus on the contents of belief systems, but not on the formal properties - the homologies - that might unite disparate contemporary belief systems at a more abstract level, and they neglect the underlying logics expressed through collective practices...
It may be that, when these issues are brought more centrally into view, we will find that we do share at least a small slice of context - and it may also be that the context we do share motivates a few significant shared forms of perception and thought that can make it a little easier for us to bridge the divides that occur at the level of the contents of our blief systems, if we become a bit more sensitive to ways of articulating what we might have in common...
My formulations here are too abstract to be of any use at the moment... It feels a bit unnerving, though, that you are writing about this, as I was sketching something related this morning... ;-)
December 23, 2006 8:31 PM
Anonymous bobo:) said...
The master’s discourse affirms the necessity of reference. The hysteric’s discourse interrogates and reveals the impossibility of reference. The discourse of the university opens the possibility of reference. Analytic discourse produces reference as contingency. Since universes of reference and universes of discourse are the same thing, already we can distinguish at least four different kinds of such universes. Sometimes universes of reference will clash as a matter of difference in degree—the same type of discourse but with different semantic valuations of reference—and sometimes they will clash as a matter of difference in kind.
Let’s look at your example of FOX News. You wrote that you are largely deaf to the claims and arguments of the newscasters even if they are true. This is strange, because you concede that you might agree on the truth-value of the newscasters’ statements, but still argue that you both live in different universes of reference! What you mean to say is that you *would* agree on the truth of these statements if were to engage with them in a different way. The fact is that when you watch FOX News, you are already situated towards the newscasters in a way that supposes the impossibility of reference. Other, more sympathetic viewers would situate themselves in a way that would suppose a necessity of reference: everything said on FOX News is true and must be true. Still others would engage with the statements in their possibility of reference: sure, what the newscasters are saying might be true, but it might also not be true. Analytic discourse shows how the statements can be true yet also remain contingent with respect to their conditions of production. The point is that there is a difference in kind in this example: you do not disagree with what the newscasters are saying per se, but are simply denying from the outset the very possibility of this particular universe of discourse having any reference. The result is that the referential value of the FOX newscasters’ statements emerges in the real as the impossible, becoming a kind of trauma. FOX News is thus a symptom for you.
In an analytic situation, such a symptom would be worked through by letting the impossible stop not writing itself. At this point you would realize that the statements on FOX News are true in their contingency, and must be accepted as such. Such a successful turning of discourse would hopefully dissolve the negative transference towards these statements.
Does this analysis make sense (if not reference)?
December 24, 2006 1:48 PM
Blogger Sinthome said...
I'm not convinced that analysis dissolves things as you suggest. What I'm speaking to here is a broader issue of a collapse of symbolic efficacy occuring right now in our culture. If the symbolic is not functioning in the way that it once did, no amount of analysis is going to dissolve that phenomenon as the support of the signifier isn't there to render it possible. Analysis can dissolve imaginary attachments such as when you find yourself perpetually and irrationally angry with your boss, but it's not suddenly going to make one see x as an authority.
December 24, 2006 1:56 PM
Anonymous bobo:) said...
I think you misread me, although I admit that might be easy to do. When has contingent truth ever been associated with "authority" in the history of philosophy or otherwise? I probably shouldn't have wrote "must be accepted as such," a phrase which connotes the necessary, when talking about contingency.
The turn of analytic discourse means the dissolution of all authority. This is so by virtue of the subject's confrontation with the undecidable within the impossible. Such a traversal opens up the space in which, in a crude logical sense, both X AND not-X are true inasmuch as either may be asserted as a contingent decision of the undecidable.
In short, analytic discourse produces reference: S1 in the bottom-right hand corner. It is not an ontology, but rather allows for the traversal of different ontologies or universes of reference on their own terms of production--refusing, in the name of enjoyment, any final decision on being.
December 28, 2006 12:17 PM
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hedwig06 Fri 29-Jul-11 13:10:24
I have a 15 yo DD, 11 yo DD, 9 yo DS & a 4 yo DS.
We have been trying to implement pocket money for a few months, versus giving out money willy nilly smile
We basically don't know how much to give her versus what to ask for in return.
I am a SAHM, so all jobs are really done by me, I keep on top of everything pretty much ok, the washing does pile up sometimes, but no-one can wash anymore than me as the machines are constantly going.
We live in Birmingham, so cinema trips usually cost about £10 all in, swimming trips are free, so its just the cost of the fast food .....
We buy all clothes, make-up, toiletries, would we ask DD to buy her own from any pocket money we gave?
Also what about DD 11, how much do we ask her to do or how much do we give her?
Thanks for your help
mumeeee Fri 29-Jul-11 17:14:06
At 15 my DD's had £25. Out of that they bought any special toiletries. non essential clothes and funded trips out with friends. They didn't have a mobile but if they had we would have probably given them an extra £10 towards it. We paid for all school expenses and for after school activities. EG Drama and youth club. They paid for friends birthday presents. We didn't link getting pocket money with doing jobs around the house. Although they were expected to take turns in cleaning the bathroom and doing the washing up.
GraduallyGoingInsane Sat 30-Jul-11 13:01:05
I have 4 DDs - almost 15, 13, 11 and 8. I'm a bit haphazard about the pocket money, so I'm sure they scam more out of me, but in principle this is what we do.
We buy all school clothes, shoes, sports clothes, toiletries etc. Twice a year we get them more non-school clothes, otherwise we plug the gap if they need it (i.e. grow out of something, or it falls apart). If they want other clothes, they have to use their allowance.
We also give the older 3 lunch money (DD4 has packed lunches). They get a school bus, so don't need money for that. We pay for after school activities and school trips.
They then get a monthly allowance (to try to attempt to budget). We worked this out based around £10 a week to allow them to either go to the cinema etc, or to save up for special clothes or music etc, which works out at £50 per month. They also have to buy anything that I don't deem necessary - i.e. make up, trips to starbucks when out, posh toiletries etc.
In return for this, they have to maintain their school work - i.e. any notes home about missed homework etc and they lose that week's portion of the allowance (£10), keep their rooms tidy and make their beds, not leave a trail of destruction around the house, help out setting and clearing the table after dinner etc. I don't feel like I ask them to do a huge amount towards the housework, but they are responsible for their own mess.
In reality, if they have spent all their allowance and it's a friend's birthday at the cinema etc, we usually give in and give them the money give them an advance. Similarly, if they have seen clothes they really want, and tried them on several times, and keep expressing an interest in it, and I approve of it they mostly get it. The allowance gives me the perfect 'out' if I disapprove, or if it looks like an impulse want.
Oh, I forgot to add, this only really applies to DD1 and 2, although now DD3 is heading to secondary, she'll get the same deal. DD4 gets £5 a week, which she mostly hoards.
BertieBotts Sat 30-Jul-11 13:04:41
The only danger with linking pocket money to chores is that it can be seen as an optional get-out, ie, if I don't want to do my jobs this week, I can choose to go without money for the privilege. That's okay if you're happy with that, but if you want them to do the jobs regardless then I'd consider not linking the two.
GnomeDePlume Sat 30-Jul-11 21:38:08
DD1 (15) gets £60/month paid by standing order direct into her bank account. This covers:
- all luxury toiletries, makeup etc
- all non-school clothes
- all non-family leisure activities, hobbies etc
- hair cuts
- phone top-up
All other expenses (school uniform, underwear, general toiletries etc) are met by the management.
DD1 is doing well with her money. It is tight but she is learning to budget and live within her means. She dresses well on this budget.
GnomeDePlume Sat 30-Jul-11 21:42:51
DD1 is expected to take responsibility when we are out (other DCs are 12 & 11). She cooks a couple of meals in the week for herself and the other DCs. She is asked to organise things like hoovering, bathroom cleaning (their bathroom) when we are out.
Her allowance isnt linked but she is expected to contribute the above to the family effort!
hedwig06 Mon 01-Aug-11 12:08:03
Thanks for all your responses, I have thought about your point BertieBotts, as this has happened in the past when we have tried to implement pocket money, I even went as far as a rota, giving them all small jobs, dependant on age but they all did something to help around the house, but they didn't stick to it and within 2 weeks, were at the shrugging the shoulders part when I reminded them about their jobs, saying they weren't bothered and didn't need the money :-(
DD 15 is very lazy she doesn't do anything really at all, she will sit reading all day if I let her .......
I think I will stay as we are for a bit, but I am getting to the end of my tether with the continual hand outs like its a bottomless pit.
Thanks again for you shared thoughts and ideas.
Angi x
lovemyboysandbeagles Mon 01-Aug-11 14:54:09
Hi, I have just seen this post and read with interest after my first post on the AIBU thread re chores. I too am trying to link pocket money / chores but it does seem like a battle. My Ds's are 12 (nearly 13) and 10. I ask them to do some basic jobs (setting table, empty dishwasher etc) as well as keeping their bedrooms tidy (a constant battle!!). They get £20 & £15 per month respectively at the moment but we buy all clothes & toiletries and they don't go out to the cinema etc yet so they basically save their a way this is good because I am hoping to teach them the value of money. My DS1 has his money paid straight into his bank account and at the moment is savig for a TV, he also has his name down for a paper round as soon as he is 13.
higgle Mon 01-Aug-11 16:00:48
My sons are required to keep their rooms tidy, clean them and are allowed the dining room as their sitting room if they look after that too. I also expect them to wash their own clothes and change their beds. I'll do a bit of ironing if it is best clothes. Pocket money was conditional on that being done but not a reward for it. DS2 gets £20pcm for lawn cutting and that is a straight paid job for him ( because we don't like doing it and he likes having the money)
Shodan Mon 01-Aug-11 16:30:22
Ds1 (15) gets £25 p/m into his bank account, plus £25 p/m contract phone. Also lunch money (£3 per day) during school term. Oh and £3 p/w for tennis. We buy all clothes BUT if he wants something which we consider hideously overpriced a bit much, he chips in. So for e.g he wanted a Superdry hoody recently (£45!!!!! shock). I would pay £25 for an unbranded hoody, so that's what I did- he paid the balance.
However he'll be starting to do a spot of babysitting for us soon, on a regular(ish) basis, so will probably get a bit more in his allowance. Not so much payment for sitting, more of an acknowledgement.
I never found that linking pocket money to chores worked, tbh. As a pp mentioned, very often he would prefer to go cashless than do the chores and I would just get wound up about it. Now chores not being done is linked to loss of privileges (loss of xbox, to be precise) and whaddya know- chores tend to get done. grin
lovemyboysandbeagles Mon 01-Aug-11 19:01:43
higgle, how old are your sons? Just out of curiosity, my eldest started doing some ironing - as a paid chore, but then got bored (he is 13 in Sept).
I have had better results already today, my youngest has done loads of the chores and my eldest was out at summer school but since coming home has tidied his room and helped clear away / wash up after tea, otherwise I told him there would be no internet connection tonight!! I can't really take his PS off him as he bought it, but I can take the internet connection and/or TV if necessary which would make it hard to use smile
higgle Tue 02-Aug-11 16:08:58
DS1 is at uni now, but these arrangements were in place from when they were 13 & 16 and continue. DS2 now 16. I'm lucky, they seem to be more domestic than me or DH - DS2 told me off for getting the collander (plastic) stained with pesto the other day, and told me to be more responsible when making salad!
lovemyboysandbeagles Tue 02-Aug-11 16:18:29
LOL! Thanks for that Higgle, I am in the process of trying to work out how much is too much and trying to get a balance, hence why I have signed up to Mums net, it seems to be going in the right direction after only a couple of days and it's good to know I am not the only one with problems / concerns and not a super-mum smile
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It wasn’t just audiences that caused Disney’s George Clooney blockbuster Tomorrowland to flop
To look at the campaign for Tomorrowland, you’d think Disney had already decided it was yesterday’s news.
By Ryan Gilbey
Disney has always had a profitable sideline in live-action movies for viewers slightly older than those who flock to its animated films. The likes of the Herbie comedies (beginning in 1969 with The Love Bug) and Mary Poppins were lucrative examples, but there were also largely unsung examples of the studio appealing to a marginally older demographic.
Some remain unsung for a reason (such as the 1979 comedy Hill’s Angels, about a reverend who recruits a group of plucky women to join his fight against the Mob) but there were also high-points like the 1981 adventure Dragonslayer, which demonstrated a high level of craftsmanship and flair and a genuine respect for its audience.
It is to this tradition that the current Disney fantasy Tomorrowland aspires. It is an intermittently interesting science-fiction movie that tries to incorporate big philosophical ideas into an adventure format – and fails. The first third of the film romps along quite nicely; in the remaining two, a so-so cast essentially reads the plot aloud. Basil Exposition would have balked.
If Mad Max: Fury Road employs a visual vocabulary that enables it to be understood globally, Tomorrowland is the opposite: when it isn’t incomprehensible, it is dull. And when it isn’t that, it’s strangely worthy – Benetton might have rejected the all-nations final montage – with odd glimpses of the Nietzschean tendencies that its director Brad Bird displayed in parts of one of his earlier movies, The Incredibles. Tomorrowland features a master race of super-talented, spick-and-span child prodigies, but doesn’t specify what its idealistic future might hold for youngsters who belch and fart and don’t always do their homework on time (or at all).
None of this would be noteworthy if the picture didn’t star George Clooney and have an estimated budget of around $175m. In those terms, it has been a commercial flop, grossing just $32.9m from its first three days in the US. (It came third in this week’s UK box-office chart, behind Pitch Perfect 2 and Mad Max: Fury Road, two films that had already been on release for a fortnight.)
Its relative failure has led some commentators to question the wisdom of having a female lead in a blockbuster – in this case, 25-year-old Britt Robertson. Of course, that’s poppycock; Twilight and The Hunger Games seemed to do just fine with the considerable impediment of a young woman in the main part.
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A bigger problem is that no one really knew in advance what the film was about. The trailers were confusing, the plot impossible to distil. Ambiguity can be wonderful in cinema. Enigmas are far too thin on the ground these days. But an audience needs to have its interest piqued if it is going to hand over the price of admission, and Tomorrowland didn’t manage that on a large enough scale.
Disney must also bear some of the blame for its complacent attitude towards marketing the film. As long as three months ago, I was hearing rumours that the studio was nervous about the lack of viewer awareness surrounding Tomorrowland. No one had heard of it, no one knew what it was, no one was expressing any excitement about seeing it. Disney did little to change that situation.
The minimum-access press junket arranged to promote the film, where journalists get a blink-and-you-miss-it interview with key personnel, was the sort of thing that might be expected for an Avengers or Star Wars movie, where everyone is clamouring for time with the filmmakers and stars. In the case of Tomorrowland, the studio should have done everything in its power to get the film out there, rather than employing the same strategy it used to sell Avengers: Age of Ultron (which, let’s face it, would still have broken box-office records even if it had been promoted with nothing more than a sandwich board).
It’s one thing for viewers to say, having seen the film, that it was a disappointment. But I feel sorry for the filmmakers in this instance. They never had much of a fighting chance. Perhaps the nuances have gone out of promotion on this scale, so that anything that isn’t a blockbuster risks getting lost down the back of the settee. To look at the campaign for Tomorrowland, you’d think Disney had already decided it was yesterday’s news.
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Why small brokerages should appeal to the long tail of traders
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“As internet companies have been able to significantly drop the cost of production and distribution, there is less of a need to lump products and consumers into a one-size-fits-all “package” – Adinah Brown, Leverate
The Future of the current retail FX & CFD brokerage model
With an ever increasing array of competitors, tightening regulations and ever thinning spreads, the competitive challenges faced by small brokerages can seem stacked against them. While these circumstances seem to advantage the larger and more established brokerages who have the resources available to adjust their offerings, these changes don’t necessarily have to entail the end of the small broker.
The solution may actually be found in the source of their perceived weakness. A small brokerage has the freedom to be more versatile, and able to venture into where no one else is going. The solution may be found in the long tail.
What is the long tail?
The long tail is a term that was first coined by Chris Anderson, who in October 2004 of Wired magazine wished to define the notion of moving away from the high number of “hits” that represents the bulk of demand and instead move towards the huge number of “niches” in the tail.
As internet companies have been able to significantly drop the cost of production and distribution, there is less of a need to lump products and consumers into a one-size-fits-all “package”. So, to take an example, your local book shop is going to stock all the popular favorites that they know will be of interest to a wide range of people.
That way they know that all Harry Potter and Hunger Games fans out there will be kept happy. However due to more onerous operational costs and limited space available, your local bookshop is far less likely to stock books about the evolution of the T class diesel locomotive in Mozambique, for the obvious reasons.
However while there is no chance that you would consider cracking this book open, believe it or not, there are some who would, I know because they tend to be relatives of mine – and these people represent the long tail.
The Forex Long Tail
So, this begs the question of how is the long tail concept applied to your forex brokerage?
A benefit to a small brokerage operation, over the big firms in the industry, is that you have the means to provide more personalized and specialized financial offerings, that will allow you to stand out from amongst your competitors.
You have the time available to foster strong relationships of trust with your clients and prove yourself able and willing to go the extra mile, where your competitors wouldn’t. Furthermore, with a more thin lined operation you also have the means to be more agile as you adapt to changing economic environments.
Implementing the Long Tail in online marketing
The finance industry,has one of the highest rates of PPC marketing, which shouldn’t come at much of a surprise when you consider that marketing funnels conducively lead to online trading platforms.
Still, while the big dogs are putting in the most obvious and direct keyword phrases such as “forex”,”trading” and “ broker”, as a small brokerage your best strategy is to find the niche that you are most equipped to tap into and focus on when you identify specific keywords for your PPC bids. The key is to identify and offer fairly unusual instruments or currencies, that are unlikely to suffer from too much volatility.
You might want to choose keywords such as “Bitcoin”, the index of your local region or an area of specialisation (foe example, the A500, Apple or the TASE). By placing your bids on these more unusual keywords, you give yourself a much stronger chance of being ranked close to the top.
Likewise, make sure that you include these keywords in the actual text of your landing pages and continue to invest in the value of your Landing Page Quality Score, so that your page performs well in organic SEO search results.
Towards this end choose more descriptive phrases such as “most trustworthy forex trading broker” or “responsive trading platform”, as these phrases are more likely to perform well when connected to the specialization of your business.
Undoubtedly the challenges faced by your small brokerage are high, but under the current financial trading climate, the key is in recognizing your potential niche in being able to offer a great deal less of more.
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I’m close to finishing David Graeber & David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. The most interesting thing I’ve found in it so far is a quote from The Jesuit Relations, a series of field reports from missionaries in North America published in the 17th century. This one is from 1649:
> In addition to the desires that we generally have that are free—or, at least, voluntary in us—which arise from a previous knowledge of some goodness that we imagine to exist in the thing desired, the Hurons believe that our souls have other desires, which are, as it were, inborn and concealed.…
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A composite is the joining of two or more materials to increase physical and mechanical performance properties. Composites date back to 1500BC when Egyptians started using a combination of mud and straw to build strong houses.
Fast forward to more recent years, composites have certainly come a long way – and with the birth of resin in the 1900s, technology has further advanced to a point where composites are used widely in industrial and recreational applications. Fiber reinforced polymers (FRP) made using the pultrusion process, have proven to be a popular material of choice and are today used in a variety of applications from fence posts to Formula1 racing car components.
Pultron is equipped to work with any fiber to meet the needs of customers and, has found glass to be the most popular based on price and performance.
Common pultrusion fibers
The four main fibers used in fiber-reinforced polymers are glass (GFRP), carbon (CFRP), aramid (AFRP) and basalt (BFRP). Each is unique in its features and uses.
Aramid fiber is an organic polymer produced by spinning a solid fiber from a liquid chemical blend. Recognized by its commercial names, Kevlar®, Twaron® and Nomex® it is commonly spun into large threads and woven.
Pros: Good tensile strength and modulus. Aramid is lightweight with excellent heat resistance. It has excellent ballistic and impact resistance.
Cons: It is expensive to produce, so only suitable for a few specific applications.
Used for: Fireproof suits, bulletproof vests, ropes, cables, and protective gear. Racing suits evolved over the years from using asbestos to aramid.
Cost: As aramid gains in popularity, prices are decreasing.
Due to price and performance, glass fiber is the most popular polymer reinforcement.
Pros: Twice the tensile strength of steel and lighter than aluminum. It is corrosion-free and highly chemical resistant.
Cons: Compared to carbon fiber, it has less strength.
Used for: GFRP is used in an ever-increasing range of applications including mining rock bolts, marinas, and grape harvesting rods to name a few. The last 30 years have seen an upsurge of civil engineers using GFRP rebar as concrete reinforcement in regions where corrosion is a problem.
Cost: A cost-effective option with excellent versatility.
Carbon fibers are primarily made from organic polymers bound together by carbon atoms. CFRP is displacing aluminum in the aerospace industry. It is lightweight resulting in less fuel consumption.
Pros: Outstanding strength-to-weight ratio. Low thermal expansion. Highly chemical resistant and does not corrode.
Cons: The high cost is its biggest hindrance.
Used for: Aircraft components, racing car components, tennis racquets, and bicycle frames. All benefit from its lightweight, strength, and high performance.
Cost: Higher overall cost.
Uses basalt rock, which is processed much like fiberglass.
Pros: Very good chemical resistance.
Cons: There is an increased carbon footprint because it needs high processing temperatures.
Used for: Basalt rebar for concrete reinforcement.
Cost: More costly than glass.
As we look further at developing new technologies and improving existing ones, composites continue to play an ever-increasing role in delivering better performance solutions and increasing durability for longer life-cycles.
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AbsenceFR182179,2292822682,82519 Jan 1311 Feb 13No
17. Enforced vacation and other sundry problems
Disclaimer: This is a work of Fan Fiction, I make no claims to the Ownership of BtVS, Stargate, or NBSG. All belong to their respective creators.
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Helo yawned as he set the Raptor down. Flying across the country was boring, the only part that was technically challenging was the end of the flight. Hovering the Raptor into the hanger was a pain in the ass, but technically difficult. Normally he wouldn’t care about the technical difficulty of his flight, just that he got his required flight hours in, but with only two qualified Raptor pilots he needed to get better as a flyer. He had only barely qualified on the raptor and it showed, rather painfully at times, in his rather sloppy flying. The only way he would get better was to fly more often, and to fly more difficult routes.
The second problem with being a bad flyer was that he really needed to improve before he even thought about trying to fly a Viper. Something that he would have to do now that he had cleared the SGC as a non-demonic agency and potential allies. Cordelia and Sharon would have to go over the readings he had collected but he doubted they would find anything different from what he had. After all both the survey packages had come up clean. He was still amused that he had used a Cylon survey package in conjunction with the Colonial survey package. Despite their different make both were eerily similar in function. Both had been part of their respective ships emergency supplies probably due to the fact that the Heavy Raider and the Raptor fulfilled similar roles in their respective fleets.
Helo yawned again and began shutting down the Raptor. It was clear from his wandering thoughts that he needed to get some sleep. The flight might have been boring, but it had also been rather long. He was looking forward to his own bed with his wife in it. Sleeping without Sharon after he had gotten used to sleeping with her had been a pain. Not to mention he wanted to see his daughter and Faith. As his kids he had found that he missed them when he was away. Before he could take that thought further the door of the Raptor was opened from the outside. Sharon stuck her head in, causing Helo to grin.
“Don’t bother running a complete shutdown,” Sharon said from the door. “We have issues here.”
“Lovely,” Helo finished shutting off the thrusters and then moved out of his seat. “I’m guessing that I’m not going to be sleeping in our bed tonight?”
“Our bed on the Atlantia,” Sharon responded giving him a tight hug.
“We’re pulling out?” Helo asked.
“Not really,” Sharon said with a sigh. “Our interns got hit with a supernatural assassin.”
“Is everyone okay? Is Willow okay?” Helo asked nervously.
“Willow has a slight crease over her ribs, Jonathan had a slug in his calf, and Andrew is freaking out.” Sharon kissed him.
“What the hell happened and who do I have to kill?” Helo shook his head in amazement. It sounded like things had gone insane while he was off working with the SGC.
“Career day of all things,” Sharon said with a slight laugh. “The Assassin posed as a police officer and pulled her service piece. She started shooting, but I got her before she killed anyone. Considering that she was shooting at the CRD group we’re assuming that she was hired to take us out, or at least prune back our operations.”
“Thank you. What a welcome home,” Helo’s voice was filled with sarcastic amusement. “And to think I was just thinking about missing home.”
“I missed you too,” Sharon pulled him out of the Raptor. He noted that there were more then a few bags scattered around the hanger. It looked like everyone was already packed up and ready to head out.
“So what’s the what?” Helo asked.
“You and Sharon are taking everyone but me and six of the Centurions with you and headed to that planet you were taken to by the SGC on the Atlantia.” Cordelia’s voice cut through his thoughts. “It gives the blond and the new Slayer two weeks to deal with the assassins.”
“There’s a new Slayer? When did that happen?” Helo asked, very confused.
“Your fault. It seems that the whole one girl in the world thing was from before CPR was invented. So now we have two,” Cordelia grinned as she said that. “Score one for the doofus.”
“Why thank you,” Helo mock bowed to her. “So this is a vacation, why aren’t you coming?”
“Because we need to leave someone here,” Cordelia’s voice went serious as she said this. “I’m the human face dealing with everyone but the military and the military knows me. Negotiations over the heat sink and solid light projectors are going to commence soon since we just registered our preliminary patent. Not to mention that the SGC will probably be sending someone by to check up on us and nag for technical specs.”
“And the Vipers?” Helo raised an eyebrow.
“The Air Force wants some time before we deliver them so they can snag the pilots and techs they need. I called them last night when you sent us your preliminary report.” Cordelia shrugged as she said that. “Two or three weeks worked for them.”
“Right, so we’re off to a new planet,” Sharon grinned as she said that. “What do you want as a souvenir?”
“Get me something shiny,” Cordelia shot back as she turned and left the hanger flanked by a pair of Centurions. He was glad to see that she was taking her own safety seriously.
“Are we really just going to follow her instructions?” Helo asked his wife. He was well aware of her antithapy towards Cordelia.
“It looks like there are assassins coming after all CDR personnel. I want our daughters well away from that and safe,” Sharon looked him in the eyes and growled out. “So yes, we are doing what she said. Don’t argue with me.”
“Yes dear,” Helo knew that tone, and he wasn’t dumb enough to even think of arguing with Sharon when she was in this kind of mood. “Have we told the interns yet?”
“No, I thought that you would want to be here to see Andrews meltdown first hand.” Sharon grinned as she said that. Her husband took a fair amount of pleasure from getting Andrew to melt down every chance he could in revenge for his slip of the tongue. Ever since he had absentmindedly referred to Sharon as a toaster Helo had taken every opportunity to cause him a meltdown that came his way. “We told them that we’re taking them on a trip. Not where and not how.”
“Excellent!” Helo actually rubbed his hands together in glee. “I believe we should inform them that they are flying Air Raptor. Besides, I want to check on Willow. I know you said she was okay, but she still is my little sister. Well, not real… you know what? Lets just get this done, I’m tired and starting to babble.”
“So any news on our assassin problem,” Cordelia asked as she entered the high school library closely followed by all six of the Centurions that she had kept on planet. She had initially wanted to keep all ten with her, but Helo and Sharon did need some ground forces even if the planet was empty. They would also need assistance running the hanger deck of the Atlantia. It could be done by just two people, but not if they wanted to do anything else with their time. Since they needed to get checked out on the Viper, well they would need the assistance. They also were responsible for six non-combatants, so letting four of the Centurions go with them was a necessity. Her Six memories had beaten the idea that you always plan for Murphy into her head, so she felt better if they had more qualified personnel. After all riding herd on their kids and the three interns would take up a lot of their time to begin with.
“Assassin and Du Lac problem,” Sam Zabuto spoke firmly from the table where he was pouring over a book. “They may be connected.”
“Probably connect I would say,” Giles spoke from where he was making tea in his office. “Tarakan’s are after all supernatural in nature.”
“Smart vamp?” Kendra asked, flipping a knife.
“Quite,” Sam grimaced as he admitted that. “We now have two fronts to work on, thereby splitting our attention and resources.”
“Well, let’s hope the Slayers get him or her,” Cordelia said mildly. “Smart opponents are a pain in the ass.”
“True,” Giles entered the library carrying four cups of tea. “If it is Spike, as I suspect, then this will undoubtedly be a thorny problem. He has after all killed two Slayers in hand to hand combat in the past.”
“This time he will be going up against two Slayers at the same time, I doubt that he will be able to match that.” Sam shrugged as he accepted his tea.
“Unless we are forced to split up.” Kendra said softly. “He has already divided out attention, it would make sense that he would attempt to divide us as well.”
“True,” Giles seemed to stop and contemplate for a moment. “If he does so then he will go after Buffy, not you Kendra. After all we know he has a made a rather extensive study of her fighting style.”
“And her propensity to dive head first into traps,” Cordelia accepted her tea with a roll of her eyes.
“Well…” Giles started to defend his Slayer.
“Giles, you need to realize that she has issues,” Cordelia overrode him before he could get started. “I’m not saying that she isn’t an effective Slayer, what I’m saying is that she has a known weakness.”
“I do have to wonder,” Sam stated loudly before Giles and Cordelia could go into one of their endless fights over Slayer Buffy. “What held the Hellmouth in check before the arrival of the Slayer.”
“What do you mean?” Giles asked, seating himself, slightly confused.
“From reading your reports, and from looking at the history of this place, I would think that you would have an established demonic boss in the area,” Sam sipped his tea as he paused for a second in contemplation. “Before the arrival of the Slayer there were no recorded attempts to open the Hellmouth. Given the nature of demons that implies that something old and powerful was keeping a lid on it. Thus forcing me to ask why have you seen no evidence of this malignant presence.”
“That is a very good question,” Giles sat back abruptly. “Could it have been the Master?”
“No, not with him trapped as he was,” Sam shook his head. “Although he could have been. I would speculate that you are being funnelled threats since Buffy survived her confrontation. Whomever is controlling the town is allowing you to deal with his or hers enemies instead of doing the job themselves. At least that is my theory on what is occurring.”
“And because each threat is credible on there own…” Cordelia frowned as she trailed off.
“You must deal with them, and you cannot look deeper,” Sam agreed. “It is a solid stratagem. Given the life expectancy of the Slayer whomever is doing this is counting on one set of enemies to take out another with the surviving group being distracted by the battle so that he or she can either go about their work unmolested or take out the winner should it please them. Since you have been winning consistently and remain ignorant of this boss I would further speculate that he or she views you being here as a good thing.”
“This is all well and good for the future,” Cordelia spoke acidly. “Unfortunately we have to deal with the now.”
“Ah, but it effects the now,” Sam looked at Cordelia. “We now speculate that this is all one prolonged attempt on the Slayers life, so we must deal with it as such.”
“How did you come to this conclusion?” Giles asked mildly.
“The political sophistication of this attack is beyond anything that a vampire would think up,” Sam said bluntly. “No vampire would think to strip away allies the way this attack does. Something about the presence of the Centurions has forced a change.”
“I think you severely underestimate Spike,” Giles voice was firmer then Cordelia had ever heard it before. “The Vampire has proven himself to be smarter then average and he has access to a seer.”
“So the Centurions are a threat are they?” Cordelia’s smirk was vicious as she spoke. “Then if there is an enemy they will hate what I’m about to do.”
“Cordelia?” Giles asked mildly frightened by the look on Cordelia’s face.
“I have six Centurions with me,” Cordelia grinned. “I’m assigning two to work with and be body guards for each slayer.”
“Putting them at the point of contact,” Sam nodded his approval of the plan. “Smart.”
“Of course,” Cordelia preened. “I came up with it.” Before they could really get into the ideas they had started to discuss the door to the library burst open. Everyone moved to get into combat mode. Even though it was still daylight the doors slamming open like that meant one thing, trouble was on the way.
“GILES!” Buffy’s voice caused everyone to relax slightly. It sounded like the slayer had just run into a problem. “GILES!”
“Here,” Giles called rolling his eyes. When Buffy limped around the stacks everyone’s eyes went wide. It looked like she had gone ten rounds with a master vampire.
“What in the world happened to you?” Cordelia was the first to ask.
“I went home and this creepy salesman knocked, then he turned out to be one of those teriyaki assassin guys, then when I was finally beating him he turned into a pile of bugs and left,” Buffy threw herself into a chair. “This totally sucks, my house is a wreck. Mom is coming home tomorrow and there is no way I can clean this up.”
“I believe that we can take care of that,” Giles said evenly. As he and Buffy began to talk over what would need to be done to put her home to rights Cordelia leaned in to have a whispered conversation with Sam.
“So what’s the big deal with you Watchers not wanting the families of your Slayers to know?”
“It’s dangerous,” Sam said flatly. “We once trained whole families, instead of just the potential. The end result of that was… messy. The families that potentials come from usually have unrealized mystical potential, so when the slayer inevitably died… well their family members tended to go on rampages. The last family involved in slaying was in 1908 and the mother caused the Tunguska Event without aid from anyone.”
“So now you keep the families out of it,” Cordelia shook her head. “Did those Slayers last longer then the Slayers of today?”
“At times,” Sam admitted. “The downside was that the Watchers were forced to avert an apocalypse every time a Slayer died. In the end we chose to accept the lower life expectancy as opposed to the constant clean up.”
“Brutally practical,” Cordelia said lightly. “It sounds like you Watchers care about the results more then the human part of the equation.”
“Yes, frankly Buffy’s support structure worries me because it is made up of her friends and bound together by bonds of love and affection. History has shown that those types of groups favour the human half, not the results.” Sam frowned as he admitted that. “You may not like the Watchers and the way we do things but there are reasons why we act the way we do. Frankly I would love to have a professional support team backing up Kendra, but an amateur group of friends? That is a bomb waiting to go off.”
“So you think we’re a threat,” Cordelia asked eyes narrowing.
“No, I know you’re a threat. You and this Xander, Karl, Helo, what ever his name is now, started off as teenagers and through a quirk of magic you were handed a nuclear arsenal. Admittedly you have used your new power responsibly so far and your memories of the lives the characters you dressed up as have helped, but in my mind it is just a matter of time before one of you makes a potentially fatal or world ending mistake.” Sam admitted sadly. “You are still fundamentally teens, not adults.”
Jonathan looked over the hanger deck in awe. He hadn’t collapsed into complete incoherence like Andrew had he was still in heaven. There were hundreds of starships here, fighters really, for him to play with. Helo had told him that this trip would be a learning experience but he hadn’t thought that it would be this fun. Each Viper was nestled into its cubby hole, each Raptor neatly laid out on the deck. He couldn’t wait to start crawling over the ships.
Frankly he wished that they had a type five Viper here instead of the type sevens, after all, the plan he was working on was from the mark five. Still the mark sevens were impressive ships if he had read the plans right. Just less useful when he was trying to design a space fighter that Earth could build. Despite, or maybe because of, his fascination with the space ships Jonathan knew that he wanted to fly one. He wanted to be the person in the drivers seat, controlling everything as he tore through space.
“Getting ideas?” Helo’s voice cut through his day dream of flying.
“Yeah,” Jonathan walked over to the nearest Viper and ran his hand over the underside of its nose. “You think I can get in on the flight training that you and Athena were talking about on the way up here?”
“Raptors, maybe,” Helo said ruefully. “Not Vipers, not till you’ve logged one hell of a lot of flight time.”
“Why the maybe?” Jonathan turned back to the older man.
“We don’t know how long it’s going to take Athena and myself to check out on the Viper. Flying a Vipers like nothing else in the universe,” Helo’s eyes went unfocused and his voice distant. “The response time is unreal, the littlest twitch of your hand any you’re tumbling through space. The truth is that they’re way too responsive. It makes them the most manoeuvrable craft in history but it also makes them a bitch to fly.”
“You don’t know if you’re going to check out,” Jonathan observed.
“Nope,” Helo came back to himself. “I barely passed Raptor training. Even with all the flight time I’ve logged since then a Viper might just be beyond me.”
“Interesting,” Jonathan hid his disappointment. He might not get to fly a Viper but he could end up flying a Raptor. Even if it wasn’t the ship he wanted to fly he would fly some sort of space ship. “How big is the crew of this ship?”
“Non existent,” Helo responded. “We’ve set this ship up as a space station, not as a working ship.”
“How did you get it here then?” Jonathan asked, curious.
“It takes two people to jump the ship,” Helo answered easily. “And that’s only because the hyper drive is on a two key lock out. If that wasn’t the case then one person could conceivably jump the ship. Unlike moving it with the sub light engines you can do everything you need to from the CIC.”
“Hyper drives are computer controlled and not the sub light drives? I would have thought that it would be the other way around,” Jonathan commented after a moment of thought.
“Not really, when you jump you feed Tillium directly into the hyper coils to be flash fried. The amount you burn determines that distance that you travel. Because of that everything has to be very precise so its on computer control. You should have someone watching the hyper drive but it isn’t actually necessary, especially if you’re just making one jump.” Helo shrugged. “With the sub light engines everything is more mechanically complicated, so you really need a full engineering crew to even think about using them.”
“Why not have a bunch of Centurions crew the ship,” Jonathan asked balefully glaring around him. It had just hit him that he was going to have to do everything, without assistance, if he wanted to play with the Vipers.
“Because they’re sentient,” Helo answered sourly. “Do you know how boring it is to sit on a ship and do nothing for months on end? Given the situation on earth and in the surrounding space we can’t even patrol the system. We made that decision just based on the astronomers we knew about. Trying it now when we know that Earth is active in the galactic scene? That would be an act of lunacy.”
“You still haven’t told me how Earth is active in the galactic scene,” Jonathan pointed out.
“They’ve got an artefact from an older culture, it creates a stable wormhole and allows them to explore the galaxy. At least the parts of the galaxy that have their own stable wormhole machines.” Helo paused briefly before continuing. “Frankly I think it’s idiotic, but that’s me.”
“Why idiotic?” Jonathan frowned as he considered what Helo had said. He couldn’t see how exploring was stupid.
“Because they don’t understand the tech they’re using. If something major goes wrong they’re SOL. To top it off think about this, they are involved in a war where their opponent has access to hyper capable starships, Earth doesn’t. It means that they can only fight their enemy on the ground and that is a losing proposition. Been there, done that, have more then my fair share of scars,” Helo’s voice had gone grim as he spoke. “He who holds the orbitals holds the world, that is an axiom any culture that has fought a war in space has adopted.”
“What about you? Is your ship capable of protecting Earth?” Jonathan asked suddenly worried.
“No, we don’t have shield tech, we don’t have energy weapons, and even throwing nukes we would have one hell of a time battering through the standard shields on a Goa’uld vessel. They are the lowest tech race that SGC has encountered.” Helo said softly. “Even if we could fight the Atlantia… well… we would lose if we came up against a Ha’tak.”
“Do you have any means to fight back?” Jonathan was beginning to see just how difficult a position the Cylons were in. On one hand they wanted to protect Earth, on the other they were facing a massively superior enemy.
“We have a plan,” Helo barked a laugh. “It seems all hyper systems the SGC knows about are radically different from the way we do things. I can’t tell you which is better but… with ours we can probably jump under anyone’s shields and nuke ‘em with a Raptor. Of course that only applies to larger vessels, smaller ships we would be at a major disadvantage. Still if we take out the bigger ships at the beginning of a fight we can bluff out the rest.”
“That sounds… suicidal,” Jonathan said softly.
“It’s not, difficult and dangerous yes. Suicidal? No, especially with the improved computers I’ve been working into our main Raptor. We can compute the second jump before we do the first jump.” Helo shrugged as he said that. “As for a fighter fight? Our Vipers would eat Death Gliders for breakfast; they’re more heavily armed and more manoeuvrable. That doesn’t even take into account the Raptors command and control functions. Of course we do need pilots for that kind of fight…”
“Let me get this straight,” Brigadier Ethan Wyndam the second said in a cold voice. “You bought the Stargate from us, got it to work, and then totally excluded us from the defence of the planet despite the fact we had relevant information on the threat. Something that we could have told you had you bothered to ask.”
“Exactly,” General Hammond couldn’t help but wince. “In our defence the people who started the program are all gone and after Dr. Langford died no one knew who he had bought the gate from, not even his daughter. We were told that he had simply dug it up.”
“And excluded your oldest allied power in the process of entering Earth into a galactic war,” Ethan said in a milder tone. “You do realize that you are going to have to give us concessions?”
“Yes, we are aware of that.” Hammond said heavily. “We are asking for personnel to form new teams and cutting you in on the knowledge that we’ve already gleaned from the program.”
“That would be enough were it not for the minor fact that you got us into a war,” Ethan said. “Since you did… you are going to have to give us a bit more.”
“Agreed,” Hammond shook his head at the position he found himself in. Normally the Brits were reasonable and easy to work with, not this time. From the Queen on down the Brits seemed universally annoyed. He thought that part of it was the discovery of their project blue book. Since they had managed a peaceful first contact they had thought that the Americans could have done the same. Only it hadn’t worked out like that, the Americans had run smack dab into an enemy and touched off a galaxy wide war by accident. Killing Ra had been the right choice, only no one at the SGC then had any clue what Ra’s political position was.
“So what are you going to give us and how are you going to sell this to the Pentagon?” Ethan asked with a devilish light in his eyes. He knew that Kinsey and the Pentagon were going to scream bloody murder over the inclusion of the Brits and that the SGC and President would bear the brunt of their ire. As much as he admired the soldiers of the SGC getting them raked over hot coals gave him a warm fuzzy feeling. No one should get you involved in a war and not both to tell you about it. It simply wasn’t cricket.
“Since one of your intelligence organs was in contact with extra terrestrials before the Stargate program began…” Hammond trailed off for a second and then continued in a much firmer voice. “We’re giving you discretion over all Cylon tech.”
“So basically we split the Goa’uld stuff but the Cylon stuff is under British control,” Ethan nodded. “I think that will work. It certainly will please Downing Street.”
“We do ask that you let us build the fighters that the Cylons were talking about giving us blueprints for.” George leaned back in his chair and smirked. The President had come up with this idea to calm the Brits. As angry as they were giving them the illusory control over Cylon tech was the perfect way to counter balance the American imperialist faction of the Pentagon and their supporters on the Hill. It also gave the SGC a solid reason why the Brits had been pulled in.
“Quite,” Ethan smirked as he saw the thoughts running through Hammond’s head. He was an old hand at these political games. “I presume that you are going to be running the tests on the late model fighters that the Cylons are selling us?”
“Unless you think you can get away with it,” Hammond shrugged as he said that.
“Unfortunately not,” Ethan admitted that Hammond had a point. The RAF simply didn’t have the testing facilities needed to really evaluate a space fighter. “How is this going to mesh with the 302 program?”
“It’s not,” George admitted. “We’re planning on running the programs in parallel. The 302s more of a Tomcat while the Viper is more of a Hornet. From the proposed technical specs both blow the Death Glider out of the water, but they’re birds build for different purposes. The 302 is a pure superiority bird while the Viper is a strike bird. At least that’s how we’re playing it at the moment. The fact that the Cylons think they can get us a gate capable model of the Viper is what is informing that thought.”
“And the Raptor?” Ethan asked mildly. Personally he thought that was the more important platform. Earth was already developing a fighter, a command and control bird built for space was something they didn’t have.
“We may get it in the future,” Hammond shrugged. “I don’t think so though. They’re keeping a tight leash on their hyper tech at the moment.”
“I noticed that in the briefings, I’m more interested in its applications as an AWACS bird, an EW bird, or any of the other roles that the Cylons use it for.” Ethan shrugged as he admitted that. “From everything I’ve read we’re better at fighter ops then anyone else in the galaxy, with the possible exception of the Free Colonial Cylon Fleet, it would behove us to take that expertise with us when we go to space.”
“You have a point there, but I’m not sure what to offer the Cylons for a Raptor clone,” Hammond admitted. “They didn’t ask for much technical knowledge. Most of what we gave them was target identification type information so if they ran into the Goa’uld they would know what they were fighting.”
“Point,” Ethan admitted. “I imagine that we can convince them to give us an older model without a hyper engine if we find the right bait though. Possibly even something as simple as offering to pay for it.”
“It will take time,” Hammond cautioned. “The Viper model they’re licensing to us is one that they are designing to be built with our tech base. I can’t imagine that a Raptor wouldn’t need to be redesigned as well.”
“True, but your command has noted that these Cylons think like humans. If so their AWACS birds are not on the cutting edge of technology except in their electronics. They probably have a model we can build in their historical archives.” Ethan said simply. He wasn’t sure if that was true or not, but if it was he planned to get the Raptors constructed in England. It would be a slap in the faces of the right people and it would generate jobs. Getting the British military industrial complexes feet in the door before the American industry realized the opportunity was a goal in its own right. Especially if they could become leaders in at least one of the new fields long term. Running the SGC cost money, and now that they were included the British would have to pay into the program. Boosting the budget was necessary otherwise they would find themselves out in the cold, again, only this time they would know about it.
The thumping of the heavy bag made it obvious where Faith was. She had taken off earlier after yelling at Helo, something had upset her. Sharon had said to let her go but Willow wanted to know what was going on. Especially since she had agreed to tutor the younger woman. Trying to get through to her would be a real problem, Willow didn’t want to get caught on the middle of whatever was going on. Especially when everyone involved in the fight where vicious when cornered.
Sharon had been trying to teach Willow how to fight, but for some reason she had issues with it. There was a cognitive disconnect between knowing the moves and using the moves on a person. Willow just wasn’t a physical person, unlike everyone else. When the Terakan had opened fire she had frozen, even Andrew and Jonathan had reacted better then she had. She had her suspicions as to why that was, their Halloween memories were getting a work out working the way they were. She had run her theory past miss Calendar, and Jenny agreed. It still made it hard to connect with the people she was now travelling with.
It seemed that everyone in her new life was comfortable with physical violence. Of course some of them preferred not to use it, but they were comfortable with it. Even Buffy, who hadn’t been changed by Halloween, was comfortable with violence. Willow’s issues made her nervous because of that. It was like being back at school again where everyone else could bond over fashion, leaving Willow out in the cold.
Not that she really was out in the cold. Helo had spent a lot of time with her while she recovered from her injury. They had talked almost like before Helo became Helo. It was a nice feeling that Willow had missed. Just sitting around joking with her friend. During her recovery everyone had come around to talk to her. It was a nice feeling but at the same time she worried that it was just sympathy. Still Sharon had asked her to get Faith up to speed on her English and history education. That was a mark of respect wasn’t it?
“What?” Faith had noticed Willow and turned towards the older girl.
“I just wanted to make sure that you’re okay. Not that you wouldn’t be okay, but you seemed upset and sometimes people, by that I mean me, need to talk about things.” Willow babbled. “I mean you could talk to Fred or Jonathan but since I was there I figured that I should come along and offer you know?”
“Nothing,” Faith’s voice and manner was surly.
“Well, maybe not talk to me, but you should talk to someone. It’s not good to just hold everything inside. Especially not with things being as crazy as they are. Everything is changing from day to day. Not to say that you can’t do it, just that it’s not good for you.” Willow shrugged.
“I liked the way things were,” Faith spoke softly after hitting the bag a couple of times. “I had a home and people who care. All this change is… screwing with me. I mean I went from Boston to California, everything changed. Now it’s changing again and I don’t know how it’s all going to turn out.”
“I can relate,” Willow nodded. She had thought that it was something like that. As Sharon had said earlier Faith had issues. “One night and everything I knew changed again.”
“Really?” Faith asked, suddenly interested. “What do you mean by again?”
“The first time was when Buffy came. Did you know that we used to be a trio, not a duo?
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Something's Wrong
Atheists trying to justify themselves often find themselves asked to replace religion. “If there’s no God, what’s your system of morality?” “How did the Universe begin?” “How do you explain the existence of eyes?” “How do you find meaning in life?” And the poor atheist, after one question too many, is forced to say “I don’t know.” After all, he’s not a philosopher, cosmologist, psychologist, and evolutionary biologist rolled into one. And even they don’t have all the answers.
But the atheist, if he retains his composure, can say, “I don’t know, but so what? There’s still something that doesn’t make sense about what you learned in Sunday school. There’s still something wrong with your religion. The fact that I don’t know everything won’t make the problem go away.”
What I want to emphasize here, even though it may be elementary, is that it can be valuable and accurate to say something’s wrong even when you don’t have a full solution or a replacement.
Consider political radicals. Marxists, libertarians, anarchists, greens, John Birchers. Radicals are diverse in their political theories, but they have one critical commonality: they think something’s wrong with the status quo. And that means, in practice, that different kinds of radicals sometimes sound similar, because they’re the ones who criticize the current practices of the current government and society. And it’s in criticizing that radicals make the strongest arguments, I think. They’re sketchy and vague in designing their utopias, but they have moral and evidentiary force when they say that something’s wrong with the criminal justice system, something’s wrong with the economy, something’s wrong with the legislative process.
Moderates, who are invested in the status quo, tend to simply not notice problems, and to dismiss radicals for not having well-thought-out solutions. But it’s better to know that a problem exists than to not know – regardless of whether you have a solution at the moment.
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A model of research skill
Doing research means answering questions no one yet knows the answer to. Lots of impactful projects are downstream of being good at this. A good first step is to have a model for what the hard parts of research skill are.
Two failure modes
There are two opposing failure modes you can fall into when thinking about research skill.
The first is the deferential one. Research skill is this amorphous complicated things, so the only way to be sure you have it is to spend years developing it within some ossified ancient bureaucracy and then have someone in a funny hat hand you a piece of paper (bonus points for Latin being involved).
The second is the hubristic one. You want to do, say, AI alignment research. This involves thinking hard, maybe writing some code, maybe doing some maths, and then writing up your results. You’re good at thinking - after all, you read the Sequences, like, 1.5 times. You can code. You did a STEM undergrad. And writing? Pffft, you’ve been doing that since kindergarten!
I think there’s a lot to be said for hubris. Skills can often be learned well by colliding hard with reality in unstructured ways. Good coders are famously often self-taught. The venture capitalists who thought that management experience and a solid business background are needed to build a billion-dollar company are now mostly extinct.
It’s less clear that research works like this, though. I’ve often heard it said that it’s rare for a researcher to do great work without having been mentored by someone who was themselves a great researcher. Exceptions exist and I’m sceptical that any good statistics exist on this point. However, this is the sort of hearsay an aspiring researcher should pay attention to. It also seems like the feedback signal in research is worse than in programming or startups, which makes it harder to learn.
Methodology, except “methodology” is too fancy a word
To answer this question, and steer between deferential confusion and hubristic over-simplicity,
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Announcer on P.A.: Attention zoo patrons! Clamu the Giant Oyster is on an emotional rampage! Please scream and run around in circles. Thanks for coming.
You can panic... now! Why? It's the ... CONSUMPTION POLIO AIDS ANTHRAX MONKEY-POX SARS BIRD SWINE FLU! Wait. No, I meant ... GLOBAL WARMING! Takes too long to be scary? Oh, okay, Forget all that... It's actually ACID RAINing the SARS virus all over New York City because of a TERRORIST PLOT to assassinate UNWED TEENAGE MOTHERS using VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES, LSD ON SCHOOL PLAYGROUNDS, JENKEM, and CHILD ABDUCTION...
This one goes hand-in-hand with the Made for TV Movie. Whatever the latest media-induced paranoia is from crime to typhoons, we're going to get a show or special report about it. Think Everything Trying to Kill You applied to Real Life and you have the idea.
If it's about new technology, then expect Science Is Bad. If it's a new minority or subculture, then lock the doors and hide your daughters -- it's the Freaks of the Week! Expecting volcanic eruptions in the midwest? Then it's likely a Disaster Movie. New diseases or health issues like high cholesterol and cancerous artificial sweetener? Then it's probably a Hallmark Channel Made for TV Movie about a Pollyanna and her family going through something truly Glurge-y.
See also: Axes At School, Disaster Movie, Freaks of the Week, Glurge, If It Bleeds, It Leads, Murder Simulators, New Media Are Evil, Paedo Hunt, Ripped from the Headlines, Western Terrorists. Often involves a Clueless Aesop.
Compare: Monster of the Week. Completely unrelated to This Is No Time to Panic.
Examples of You Can Panic Now include:
Fan Works
• In New Mutants: Academy X, when caught in Danger Room, the conversation is something like:
"Don't panic. Prodigy, can you replicate their abilities?
"No. Doesn't work on holograms."
"So panic."
• The media coverage of swine flu in general has been ridiculously alarmist. They never mention that thousands have contracted it and, like the "regular" flu, felt like crap for a while and then recovered. They mention that people died from it, but didn't say that a number of them were already in a high risk group for flu death (very young or very old, already-compromised health). The mainstream media seems to have tried very hard to manufacture a panic and make it look like perfectly healthy people were dropping like flies in some kind of Captain Trips scenario.
• The worrisome part is that after all the effort put into Crying Wolf at the swine flu, it'll be hard to know what to take seriously if a genuinely wide-scale life-threatening pandemic should emerge.
• The coverage will be exactly the same, because any dangerous pandemic will start in exactly the same fashion, which is why there was that reaction in the first place. Sure, it turned out to be only as dangerous as a normal flu, but not even the CDC knew that at the time.
• Reefer Madness: in the film musical the Lecturer says "When danger's near exploit their fear." The one parent who objects to these Red Scare tactics is labeled un-American.
• On Monsters, Inc., after the first sighting of Boo, a professorial looking monster appears on TV, seemingly to calm people down. He then tells the audience "It is my professional opinion that now is the time to PANIC!!"
• Rollover: the public panics and riots after banks fail worldwide. [1]
• In Airplane! II: The Sequel, when Elaine announces to the passengers of the shuttle that they're out of coffee and a riot breaks out, the sign changes from "Don't Panic" to "OK, Panic."
• Ra's al Ghul's in Batman Begins.
• If you type "don't panic" in the text adventure game, it will tell you nice try, but you have every reason to be panicking, and, for once, the game isn't lying to you.
Live Action TV
• The Leverage team once took down a TV reporter who made a career out of this. She actually turned down a fake story they fed her about secret terrorist prisons in the US because she didn't think it would scare her viewers enough. [3]
• The X-Files: “War of the Coprophages”: Scully attempts to control the mob with a speech about how they are giving in to panic. The mob ignores her and creates havoc. [4], [5], [6]
• Stephen Colbert is proud to be a fearmonger.
• Kryton from Red Dwarf has a "panic mode" for when the situation turns out to be more serious than he thought it would be.
• In Roseanne episode, “Toto, We’re Not In Kansas Anymore”, when Lanford is under a Tornado watch, this convention occurs…
Becky: Mother, this is no time to kid around.
Roseanne: Yeah, you’re right. Okay everybody… PANIC.
• The entire point of Eminem's song "Without Me" is to parody this trope. Within the song he makes a Take That at the FCC, teases paranoid parents that he's "infecting in your kids' ears", and invokes The New Rock and Roll trope by alluding to the fact that the Moral Guardians also reacted with You Can Panic Now when Elvis premiered.
New Media
Newspaper Comics
• Parodied in a Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin's dad was watching "Eyewitness Action News", which aimed to tell its audience why YOU should be paralyzed with helpless fear!"
Web Original
Video Games
• In the ending for the Portal 2 DLC, GLaDOS, upon seeing that the invader is in fact the bird, starts panicking and tells her robots to forget their training and flee.
• In Crash Bandicoot: Twinsanity, after removing Dr. Neo Cortex's brain and using it as a ball, Victor said that "This is the part where you run away screaming." Also cue Moritz doing a "go away" gesture to Cortex, before he did just so.
Western Animation
• In the final episode of Re Boot - after Megabyte's return, Mike the TV urges everyone in Mainframe to "panic as only you know how to do!" It turns out this is actually Megabyte in disguise - all part of his plan to trap the guardians.
• From Comet Kermillian in Phineas and Ferb, we get this gem:
Phineas: Can I have everyone's attention? Please don't panic. We're experiencing technical difficulties. Calmly head towards the exit in a calm, orderly--
A large chunk of structure falls right behind him.
Phineas glances at the fallen rock.
Phineas: Okay, now you can panic.
Patrick: Attention, Bikini Bottom! There's a big, scary monster that's going to eat you!
Fishes blink.
Squidward: OUR WORLD!!
crowd proceeds to panic
Cerberus: ROAR!!!
Pinkie Pie: Okay everypony, follow my lead. AAAAHHHHHHHH!
Real Life
• Anti-Semitic blood libels and conspiracy theories.
• The anti-vaccination movement.
• Anti-immigrant hatred.
• parodies this. Spoiler: It's water.
• Paedo Hunt.
• The PMRC and "Tipper Stickers".
• The War on Drugs.
• The Red Scare.
• Any stock exchange or stock market crash.
• The aftermath of an economic bubble.
• Search for conspiracy theories.
• 24-hour news networks in general. Specifically a lot of coverage of The War on Terror and terrorism post-9/11 has been accused of this; from some reporting, you'd think that there was a terrorist waiting behind every bush planning to assassinate you personally on your way to work.
• Every Environmental Scare Ever. According to Paul Ehrlich we've all died of skin cancer from UV exposure thanks to aerosol cans, the world is so crowded people are falling off,and there's no clean water left to drink-- oh, and the ever popular 'we're running out of resources!'.
• Every few months or so, an article comes out saying that Facebook, Twitter and texting make children and teens less socially interactive/have less empathy/have poorer grammar (despite the fact that you could arguably say that about anything that allows you to communicate without actually talking to the person). This may or may not be true, however the way the media goes on about it you would think all people under the age of 20 who use social media are anti-social basement dwellers who spend all their time "sexting". This is probably a continuation of the fear when My Space was popular that all people children meet on there are pedophile serial killers.
• Every time a new doll aimed at preteen girls comes out, someone will freak out and claim that the dolls are promoting loose morals and flawed beauty standards.
• Recently, a guy came on Dr. Oz and speculated that apple juice was harmful to drink, mostly because of arsenic being found in the stuff. The guy who made the claims never mentioned there are TWO types of arsenic, one harmful to the body, and the other doing relatively nothing.
• Every few months, some major media network gets hold of a controversial scene/level/mechanic in a video game and rages a huge stink about it, claiming it's turning people into psychopathic serial murderers or basement dwelling losers.
• In the case of Rainbow parties, no one actually did them. If there had been a few cases, then it was because they got the idea when the news claimed that everyone was doing it (a claim that was based off of one story in a book).
There are no more examples! YOU CAN PANIC NOW!
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Sunset at Noon
A meandering series of vignettes.
I have a sense that I've halfway finished a journey. I expect this essay to be most useful to people similarly-shaped-to-me, who are also undergoing that journey and could use some reassurance that there's an actual destination worth striving for.
1. Gratitude
2. Tortoise Skills
3. Bayesian Wizardry
4. Noticing Confusion
5. The World is Literally on Fire...
6. ...also Metaphorically on Fire
7. Burning Out
8. Sunset at Noon
Epistemic Status starts out "true story", and gets more (but not excessively) speculative with each section.
i. Gratitude
> "Rationalists obviously don't *actually* take ideas seriously. Like, take the Gratitude Journal. This is the one peer-reviewed intervention that *actually increases your subjective well being*, and costs barely anything. And no one I know has even seriously tried it. Do literally *none* of these people care about their own happiness?"
> "Huh. Do *you* keep a gratitude journal?"
> "Lol. No, obviously."
> - Some Guy at the Effective Altruism Summit of 2012
Upon hearing the above, I decided to try gratitude journaling. It took me a couple years and a few approaches to get it working.
1. First, I tried keeping a straightforward journal, but it felt effortful and dumb.
2. I tried a thing where I wrote a poem about the things I was grateful for, but my mind kept going into "constructing a poem" mode instead of "experience nice things mindfully" mode.
3. I tried just being mindful without writing anything down. But I'd forget.
4. I tried writing gratitude letters to people, but it only occasionally felt right to do so. (This came after someone actually wrote me a handwritten gratitude letter, which felt amazing, but it felt a bit forced when I tried it myself.)
5. I tried doing gratitude before I ate meals, but I ate "real" meals inconsistently so it didn't take. (Upon reflection, maybe I should have fixed the "not eating real meals" thing?)
But then I stumbled upon something
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Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Civil War review, with Captain America context and mild spoilers
Here’s a fairly comprehensive history of the character:
From here on out, there will be SPOILERS.
The special also talked about Cap’s stance for civil liberties in the comics version of The Civil War, which is why I was on Team Cap all the way before seeing the movie. However, the movie version is very watered down from what happened in the comics. It was tremendously narrowed in scope, not only in the number of people involved (just about a dozen here, as opposed to hundreds in the comics), but also, and more importantly, in the main moral conflict. The comics series had the government requiring all supers/mutants/special powered people to register, outing their secret identities, etc., and imprisoning many dissidents; as far as I can tell, the Sokovia Accords just apply U.N. oversight to the Avengers, which is much less interesting and impactful.
The Sokovia Accords are also pretty stupid, given that the only supers the treaty addresses are the few on the Avengers team; and how did this multinational agreement get made without Cap and Black Widow, both of whom I’m sure follow the news, getting wind of it? Also the whole collateral damage argument is stupid, given that they’re always trying to protect people, and nobody’s perfect — and it was pretty gobsmacking hearing General Ross scolding them about that, given his personal history, let alone real-world examples like Americans bombing the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, hospitals, etc.
So I had a few quibbles with the arguments made, and some that I thought should have been made but weren't, but that's much less important than the lowering of the tension in general by this smaller Civil War. But it's hard to see how they could have kept it as deep and wide as in the comics without turning it into a miniseries instead of a movie.
On to happier things: I was incredibly pleased to see that Agent 13 of Winter Soldier came back for this and did indeed turn out to be Sharon Carter, Peggy's niece. I LOOOOOOOVED how Cap's "Plant yourself like a tree ... No, YOU move" speech, from the Straczynski Spider-Man comic in Civil Wars, got transposed into Sharon's mouth to eulogize Peggy.
And since the wonderful Agent Carter series will not be renewed, that very fittingly works as a eulogy for the show as well.
I’m pleased that Steve and Sharon's shy interactions, and later teamwork, from The Winter Soldier, were renewed and expanded here, and I’m hopeful that their kiss here means Emily VanCamp (whom I enjoyed watching in Revenge) will be back for another movie and more character development.
Vision and the Scarlet Witch had some nice scenes together, and I liked Clint’s return, brief as it was, and his interactions with Black Widow. Natasha didn’t get enough to do, but her character was consistent, including what she did at the end. Falcon/Sam was also satisfying, though again, I'd have liked to see more of him.
I was also very pleased with the new characters. I really enjoyed Ant-Man, despite not having seen his movie.
The latest incarnation of Spider-Man was great with all his one-liners during the fight scenes, whether that was from his nervous tension or because he thought from comics that superheroes were just supposed to act like that. It’s really disturbing that Tony Stark practically drafted a child soldier for his little war, but then he’s always been more goal-focused than implications-considering.
T’Challah, the Black Panther, was magnetic. I loved his arc and his integrity, and I really wish we were getting his movie next instead of another Spider-Man (to say nothing of how long we’re waiting for Black Widow, if ever).
In summary: I had a great time watching CA:CW. I’m not sure I can recommend it to anyone who hasn’t seen The Avengers and/or The Winter Soldier (I missed Ant Man and Deadpool in the theaters, though I heard they were both good), because it builds so much on what’s happened before; but anyone who lost heart after Ultron should definitely see this one.
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1. As for the quibbles that I had with the arguments made and not made for each side in Civil War, Shamus Young does a really nice job of exploring those topics here: http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=32170
Let me know what you think about this!
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Global Catastrophe Prevention Plan Comprehensive Working Outline (wip)
Hi. It occurred to me to wonder if there was any unified practical step by step plan for getting our species to actually survive. I figured this is the kind of thing that would benefit from being organized into a collaborative to-do list or goal/subgoal list/map of sorts. I looked online and the closest things I was able to find to this were the Immortality Road Map website's "Existential Risks Prevention Roadmap" and a research paper by the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute titled "Towards an Integrated Assessment of Global Catastrophic Risk".
As far as I can tell, the "Existential Risks Prevention Roadmap" does not lay out a specific unified practical step by step plan for saving the world, it is instead a very general map of a variety of different endeavors that can be done to help at different points in our technological and sociocultural development, without breaking it down into a unified practical step by step plan. And GCRI's assessment that I just mentioned does not appear to lay out a unified practical step by step plan either.
I've read a lot about the subject over the past few years though, and I decided to try writing a rudimentary first draft of such a plan. I think I might have done a better job of it than I expected, though it is still far from complete. Could you guys perhaps look over what I have written so far and give some feedback?
Thanks!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b_FHAypOIB2VcrC93Im1_09qpo7vyQ84b3WCOamCdao/edit?usp=sharing
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Equity premium puzzles
Crossposted from the Metaculus Journal with minor modifications. The original is available here, and you can forecast on the questions cited in the essay yourself after signing up.
From 1870 to 2015, stocks in the United States have returned around 8.4% per year in real (inflation adjusted) terms, while short-term government bonds (called Treasury bills in the US) have only returned around 2.1% per year. Though the United States is somewhat of an outlier in how well its equity markets have performed in this period, the picture in other countries isn't much different: stocks have much higher returns than bonds. This fact is called the equity premium puzzle, and I'll get into why exactly it's so puzzling in this essay. I note here that while the discussion about the equity premium puzzle often focuses on broad stock indices, the puzzle is actually present in all asset markets: junk bonds, real estate, foreign exchange, et cetera.
If the difference between 8.4% and 2.1% per year looks small to you, remember that the logic of compounding works such that at these rates of return an initial investment into stocks (with cash from dividends, buybacks, etc. reinvested into the same portfolio) would double in value roughly every 8 years, while the same investment into bonds would double every 33 years. If the time horizon is on the order of a few decades, the difference between the value of the two portfolios becomes enormous. This, and many other interesting findings, are available in The Rate of Return on Everything.
The most common explanation offered for this difference in returns is that stocks are riskier and therefore it's natural that they command a higher rate of return: people who buy stocks are compensated for the risk that they are taking on. To see why this explanation is by itself not sufficient to explain anything, it's enough to notice that a short position on the stock market is at least just as risky (and, in fact, more risky) than a long position, and ye
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Rules and Skills
> The extraordinary moment in 20th Century Philosophy when Ludwig Wittgenstein’s analysis of how people are able to follow rules lines up with Martin Heidegger’s exposition of skillfully dealing with the world we are embedded in.
> … Thereby dismantling Epistemological Scepticism and Anti-realism in a single and simple insight.
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There’s a lot going on in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations and in Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time.
But a single and simple related move made by both Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger is enough to dismantle both … Epistemological Skepticism and Anti-realism…
https://thort.space/journey/110898789587140112950_5587971339654183211_6886495592041384105/2
These two master-works converge around the analysis of following a rule (L.W.) and skillfully dealing with the world we are embedded in (M.H.)
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How do humans acquire skills?
* By playing, experimenting, trial-and-error, trying things out
* By practicing
* By imitating
* By being coached, instructed, trained
* By being embedded in the world … we literally cannot help ourselves from acquiring skills, just as a consequence of the continuous feedback that the world gives us all the time, moment by moment, as we live our lives !
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Elaboration of Coaching
The coach breaks skills down into sub-skills and trains the apprentice in each of the sub-skills , and then trains the apprentice to combine the sub-skills
(1) The coach says: Do-X … the apprentice tries to do X.
(2) The coach tells the apprentice whether they did X, or how well or badly they did X
(3) repeat
Notice that the apprentice does not know whether they are doing X or not, or doing it correctly, or doing it well or doing it badly —
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hilton-franceMeasures internet traffic for the two Parises. By Tim Schwartz via Inspire me, now!
Why I Love Blogs
prellBlog comments are a source of unending delight — heat, light, humor, whatever. Yesterday, Gizmodo asked the musical question, “What’s the most important gadget (the biggest game-changer) of all time?”
Ignoring the fact that fans of Mel Brooks and the 2000 Year-Old Man know that the correct answer is ‘Liquid Prell,” Gizmodo readers responded with the following (first twenty answers):
1. The microchip
2. The telegraph
3. Fire
4. Fleshlight
5. Nokia 5170
6. Stick
7. Eyeglasses
8. Electricity
9. Modem
10. Camera
11. Cylons
12. Wheel
13. Toilet
14. Rocket
15. Printing Press
16. Battery
17. Bread slicer (greatest invention since… Get it?)
18. Computer
19. Clock
20. Women
Hard to beat fun at the old blog yard!
Twenty-One Principles
many-flavorsThe many flavors of innovation
1. Experience the world instead of talking about experiencing the world
2. See and hear with the mind of a child
5. Anything can be prototyped, and you can prototype anything
7. Develop a taste for the many flavors of innovation
8. Most new ideas aren’t
9. Killing good ideas is a good idea
More soon.
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KAnon
There's a dangerous conspiracy theory spreading, called "KAnon" by its adherents. Its claims, at their core, come down to the belief that there is a "K" great enough to protect us from attacks by the forces of deanonymization. While followers often make contradictory claims about "K", no matter how great "K" may really be, their trust has been misplaced.
This blind trust that proponents place in "K" is best illustrated by their slogan, "Where We Go One We Go All" (#WWG1WGA). Originating in the once-marginal "K=N" faction, it represents the idea that individuals, once united, cannot be divided. Despite the undeniable rhetorical appeal, however, its protection is illusory and such division remains possible by resourceful and determined attackers.
Believers in KAnon are right to seek better anonymization, and robust anonymization is possible. Their approach, however, of gathering large groups not only does not solve the problem but is metaphorically hazardous given the background of the pandemic. We must engage in patient discussion, with careful explanation of how the promises of KAnon have been shown again and again to be false, and bring believers around to more reliable approaches.
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The Way What If...? Episode 8 Referenced This Iconic MCU Scene
Marvel's "What If...?" is a gift to people who have stuck through the Marvel Cinematic Universe all these years. The premise of the series takes significant moments from the MCU and envisions a reality where something drastically different occurs. Instead of Steve Rogers receiving the super-soldier serum, Peggy Carter gets it. In lieu of Thor having Loki helping him develop to be the future king of Asgard, he's an only child and loves throwing global parties as a result.
It all looks oddly familiar but with a unique twist, and that leads us to Season 1, Episode 8, "What If... Ultron Won?" The episode shows us a universe where the Avengers failed to turn Vision into an ally. He instead retains his original purpose of being a puppet of Ultron, and after acquiring all of the Infinity Stones, becomes capable of traversing different realities. Black Widow and Hawkeye remain and are on a mission to take Ultron down once and for all, resulting in Hawkeye sacrificing himself so that Natasha can get away with the cybernetic mind of Arnim Zola. While it happens under vastly different circumstances, Hawkeye's death mirrors another iconic Marvel moment you may not have realized the first time around.
Hawkeye's death mirrors Black Widow's in Avengers: Endgame
"Avengers: Endgame" had plenty of emotional beats, but few hit as hard as Black Widow and Hawkeye traveling to Vormir to obtain the Soul Stone. It required a sacrifice, and both Natasha and Clint fought for the chance to sacrifice themselves so that the other may live. It was a hard-fought battle, but ultimately, Natasha fell to her death, leaving Clint as the one to return to Earth with the Infinity Stone. It was a heartbreaking moment, and in this alternate reality of "What If...?" where Ultron won, Hawkeye has the chance to return the favor.
As Natasha and Clint try to escape from an army of Ultrons, Hawkeye slips, and Black Widow grabs his hand. It's just like the moment from "Endgame" but reversed. He has no intention of making it out of the compound alive, and he lets go of his old friend's hand as he descends to the robots below him. No Soul Stone is waiting for him at the bottom, but he plans to take out as many robots as possible, letting one more arrow fly to blow them sky-high.
The parallels are evident, even in the emotions of the scene. It's obvious how much Black Widow and Hawkeye love each other, not in a romantic way but merely as friends. They would sacrifice themselves at a moment's notice if it meant the other could walk away. It's one of the most profound friendships in the MCU, and it's exciting to think of how that friendship will materialize in the upcoming "Hawkeye" series on Disney+.
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Sunday, July 22, 2007
SEEing LaTeX 8: Dealing with Auxiliary Files
As noted in part 5 of this series, there were three main features to add to the LaTeX mode for SubEthaEdit (SEE). I've already taken care of the first, typesetting, by taking advantage of latexmk. In this installment, I'll address the second, cleaning up the mess of auxiliary files.
LaTeX produces several sorts of auxiliary file to handle cross-references, tables of contents, bibliographies, and more. The auxiliary files are essential to how LaTeX works, but of little use when, e.g., sending a paper to a co-author or submitting it to a journal. With a bit of bad luck, it is also possible to have a corrupted auxiliary file that prevents you from creating a PDF from correct LaTeX sources; deleting some or all of the auxiliary files solves this problem.
Auxiliary file deletion is thus an infrequent, but necessary task. It would be possible to just ignore the issue and do the needed clean-up in either the Terminal or the Finder, but doing it by hand can be error prone. Also, it is simple to add to SEE. Overall, it seems worth doing.
In an earlier post, I used latexmk to trigger typesetting from SEE. With the right command line options, latexmk can also be used to clean up the auxiliary files! Adding a clean-up feature to SEE then just requires some relatively minor modifications to the scripts used for typesetting.
First, let's look at the shell script. It becomes:
export PATH
cd "`dirname "$1"`"
latexmk -c "`basename "$1"`"
The only change is that latexmk is called with a -c option, so that it will clean up the auxiliary files, leaving the output PDF. I saved the script as
Second, we'll look at the AppleScript. It becomes:
tell application "SubEthaEdit"
if exists path of front document then
set latexFilePath to path of front document
set modeResources to resource path of mode of front document
--Unsaved document, so LaTeX not run on it and can just return
end if
end tell
set cleanupScript to quote & modeResources & "/Scripts/shell/" & quote & space & quote & latexFilePath & quote
do shell script cleanupScript
on seescriptsettings()
return {displayName:"Clean Up Auxiliary Files"}
end seescriptsettings
Again, the changes are minimal. For typesetting, it mattered whether the front document was saved; here, it is only necessary to check whether the document has ever been saved. If it has, we run the shell script to clean up the auxiliary files, but if it hasn't, then LaTeX must not have been run on it so we just quietly do nothing.
The seescriptsettings handler is simplified, as well. All that remains is a displayName, which appears in the mode menu. There seems to be little reason to have either a keyboard shortcut or a toolbar item, since the task is infrequent.
The clean-up done by latexmk is fairly conservative. It only eliminates the auxiliary files from the specifically named document (in our case, the front document in SEE), and not from other files that are included. Further, it doesn't clean up absolutely everything, since different LaTeX packages can create files of their own which latexmk doesn't recognize. My feeling is that being conservative here is appropriate, as we don't want to accidentally delete something important while getting rid of the usual suspects.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Behaving Stupidly in Groups
I was only going to post the once concerning the MacUpdate promotion, but I just can't resist. The current state of the promotion provides such a beautiful illustration of how making good individual choices can lead to perverse large-scale behavior. Thinking it through also leads to such an interesting optimal strategy for purchasing and whether or not to recommend that others purchase the bundle. Keep in mind, this is coming from someone that has already described the bundle as a great deal.
Right now, the promotion can fairly be described as not going well. There are fewer than two days left of a nine-day promotion, and the number of sales is at about 3300. It looks like sales are going to limp along and just fail to reach the unlock point of 4000 sales for Intaglio. There was clearly an expectation of at least 10,000 sales, which is where the final application, TechTool Pro, would have been unlocked. I argued in the previous post that the entire system of unlocks is ill conceived, putting a strong disincentive on buying early, even though early sales are needed. As well, there originally was a system of invitations that benefitted not the sender of the invitation, but the recipient, providing further encouragement to wait before purchasing; the invites have since been fixed to reward the sender and recipient both.
To provide an example of where the problem comes in, consider Intaglio. People have already posted comments on the promotion site to the effect that they will buy once Intaglio is unlocked. How many people are waiting for that? The bundle could be viewed as getting Intaglio, a well-regarded program that costs $89, for $50 with a bunch of other applications thrown in for free. It must be tempting, but, really, why should they buy it without knowing for sure that Intaglio will be unlocked? If enough people make that decision, none of them get the program, even though together they could have provided the needed number of sales. The group behavior seems stupid, but the individual behavior is completely sensible.
Given the state of the sales, I think it worth considering the optimal strategy for those who have already bought the bundle, and for those who are thinking about buying the bundle. The optimal strategy for MacUpdate is indifferent to me; I see no reason to care, except in how it influences the benefits I will get from the promotion.
Let's focus first on those who, like me, have already bought the bundle. We'd like to get as much more added to the bundle as possible, since it's all just free for us at this point. At first, it looks like we should encourage people to buy the bundle, so as to unlock Intaglio, at least. However, Joel Mueller, one of the organizers of the promotion, posted (as MUeller) a comment on 13/7 at 4:04 pm:
We still haven't pulled out our big guns yet. We wanted the community to pull through first. Do not loose [sic] hope. We have every intent to unlock every app in this bundle.
Interesting claim! Those "big guns" must be really something, right? Let's assume that they are enough to cause enough sales to at least unlock Intaglio.
However, it does mean that there are some nice additions to the bundle which they're holding back. This in turn means that encouraging people to buy before those "big guns" are made available is pretty much a fool's game. We should encourage people to wait, hopefully getting both the "big guns" and unlocking Intaglio and TechTool Pro. In passing, I think Intaglio is quite possible, but doubt TechTool Pro will be unlocked.
The same thinking applies to those who have already decided to buy, but haven't yet: they should wait to be sure that MacUpdate makes the "big guns" available. The same goes for those who are waiting to buy until, e.g., Intaglio is unlocked: they should wait, both to be sure that Intagio does unlock and so as to get the "big guns".
I can see no reason for prospective buyers not to wait, at this point. There isn't a sufficient rate of sales to be at all sure that Intaglio will unlock; TechTool Pro is a pipe dream. There are some extras that haven't been offered yet. What appears to be the best case right now would be for sales to tank completely, pretty much forcing MacUpdate to offer some serious incentives with enough time left for Intaglio to unlock.
The combination of supposed incentives in the promotion are pretty tragic. Each one has actually been a disincentive to early purchasing, basically killing any chance of enough sales to unlock the "crown jewel" of TTP. I must admit that I'm puzzled how MacUpdate could have gotten all of this so wrong. Could they actually have believed all the marketing dross about "the Mac community" on the promotion web site? There really isn't a relevant community there, just potential customers who'll make decisions that are right for them, not for some mythical community. It is not exactly a secret that people make choices for individual benefit can lead to perversely contrary results in the large.
I will offer up a thought on what MacUpdate's strategy should be, although I won't put much effort into it. You want to sell as many as possible, so offer those "big guns," do it fast, and make clear that there's nothing else. So long as there is reason to think you're holding back, you're providing incentives to wait, killing sales to those who would buy if Intaglio were unlocked.
As a closing note, do remember this is from someone who's already bought the bundle and thus has every reason to hope for a successful promotion. If I'm concluding that it would really be best for sales to die off, and fast, then there's something quite wrong with the incentive structure.
Friday, July 13, 2007
A Nice Deal on Software (but a Bad Idea?)
Right now, MacUpdate is running a great promotion, with a bundle of useful programs at a good price. The promotion is obviously based on MacHeist, but the character of the bundle is different. The programs in the MacUpdate bundle are selected based on the best-selling previous promotions, which makes the bundle maybe less flashy, but probably more useful overall. I've bought the bundle, and hope enough others will buy in order to "unlock" all the applications.
That said, the promotion is appropriate to this blog for a much different reason. The promotion has an odd property that there are a number of disincentives to buying it early, but that it really requires early purchases to make it successful. There are seven apps to start, with three others that get "unlocked" if enough people purchase. So, if you buy early, you risk not getting the "locked" apps if the bundle doesn't sell well. Also, there was originally a system where, after buying, you could send an invitation to others, who would get a one-year paid membership to MacUpdate. While the benefits of that membership are pretty marginal, it's another reason to put off purchasing -- someone might send you an invitation, after all. Happily, this invitation system has been corrected by now.
The promotion thus seems to have a Nash equilibrium for the "don't buy" state. While I didn't pay much attention to MacHeist, largely because I'd already registered the only programs in the bundle that were of interest to me, it would also have had such a Nash equilibrium. It is clear enough that MacUpdate based their promotion on the success of MacHeist, but is this really a good idea in the long run?
Update: I think that the final paragraph might need to be clarified a bit. I mention that MacHeist was successful, and also that it had the same sort of Nash equilibrium that the MacUpdate promotion features. It might seem strange that I'm pointing this out as a problem for MacUpdate, when MacHeist was successful. In short, I'm arguing that MacHeist was successful despite the "unlock" portion, and certainly not because of it. Further, claims that MacHeist was successful are true in absolute terms, but do not validate the unlock idea; it could well be that MacHeist would have sold more without the unlocks.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
SEEing LaTeX 7: A Brief Digression to Build Tools
There are starting to be enough scripts for the LaTeX mode (some not yet described!) to justify automating the construction and installation of the mode. My first thought was make, unsurprisingly. There is a Makefile mode on the Coding Monkeys site, but it turned out to be a little disappointing.
Not that it was bad, per se, just that it could be more. The existing mode highlights the syntax, and that's about it. It doesn't even automatically set the mode if you open a file named "Makefile"; you have to do that by hand.
It wasn't very hard to extend the mode a bit. I added a ModeSettings.xml file to the bundle, specifying that files named "Makefile", "makefile", and "GNUmakefile" should be associated with the mode. The scripts for the LaTeX mode were easy to adapt into a form that would run make on the current SubEthaEdit document. It was necessary to add a little to the AppleScript portion, so that the results of running make would be reported, but that was straightforward.
Unlike earlier installments in this series, I'm not going to present any of the scripts here. I see nothing more to do with the Makefiles mode, so I sent it to the Coding Monkeys. Once it's available on their site, anyone interested can download the mode and examine the scripts.
Thursday, July 5, 2007
SEEing LaTeX 6: Typesetting
Up to this point, I've written about composing LaTeX in SubEthaEdit, but not said much about invoking LaTeX to typeset the document. What I'd been doing was to run latexmk in a Terminal. Latexmk has the nice feature that it will run latex repeatedly until the document is ready, instead of having to do it repeatedly yourself. It also handles bibtex. Maybe best of all, you can set it to a continuous preview mode, which sets latexmk to watch your LaTeX file, recompiling it whenever you save changes you make; if you use a PDF previewer, like PDFView, that can reload the document whenever it changes, you can just set latexmk going and pretty much always have an up-to-date PDF ready to examine.
More typical is to have a command in your editor that typesets the LaTeX document and sends the resulting PDF (or, if you must, dvi) file to a previewer. While it may lack the sheer coolness of the continuous preview that latexmk provides, it's a lot more natural and probably just as effective. Let's add that to SubEthaEdit now. Let's also start saving some typing by referring to it as SEE.
The strategy will be to write a shell script to handle the typesetting, and an AppleScript to get needed information from SEE and feed it to the shell script. The shell script is easy, but does something that would be pretty awkward in AppleScript. The combination of shell and AppleScript is a useful way to take advantage of the power of Unix with data from an application.
The shell script takes a single argument that is the path to the LaTeX file. First, we set a PATH that includes the directories for TeX (TeXlive, in my case, so /usr/texbin) and latexmk (/usr/local/bin/). The rest of the script then just changes to the directory for the LaTeX file, and calls latexmk to do the typesetting. The script is simple:
export PATH
cd "`dirname "$1"`"
latexmk -pv -pdf -quiet "`basename "$1"`"
The trickiest part was getting the quoting right for the arguments to cd and latexmk. They may look excessive, but all those quotes are necessary!
A copy of the script goes into the LaTeX mode bundle. I put it at ${RESOURCES}/Scripts/shell/, where RESOURCES refers to the Resources folder in the bundle. The executable bit of the script is set.
Now, let's look at the AppleScript. It's first going to save the document, if possible and necessary, since we'll normally want to see the effect of changes to a LaTeX document. We then extract the path to the file from the document, and the path to the shell script from the mode. These we glue together into a string that invokes the shell script on the document, and then we use do shell script to run it. Here's the script:
tell application "SubEthaEdit"
if exists path of front document then
if modified of front document then
save front document
end try
end if
set latexFilePath to path of front document
set modeResources to resource path of mode of front document
error "You have to save the document first"
end if
end tell
do shell script buildLatexScript
on seescriptsettings()
end seescriptsettings
The structure of the tell block is based on the discussion at the end of the SEE scripting page. The string we construct to invoke the shell script once again has a lot of quoting; once again, it's necessary!
The boilerplate in the seescriptsettings handler sets up a keyboard shortcut and a toolbar icon. I just used ToolbarIconBuildAndRun for the toolbar icon image; I don't know that it's a great choice, but I didn't have anything more appropriate. For the keyboard shortcut, I went with command-B. It seemed appropriate, since the same shortcut is used in the Objective-C mode for compilation. The Java mode uses command-B for syntax checking, but it's inconsistent with several others that use command-control-B for syntax checking. I'd really liked to have used command-R to override the HTML preview, which is useless for the LaTeX mode, but it doesn't work; SEE just refuses to assign command-R to the script. Consistency for different modes is important, so command-B it is.
The combination works well, but isn't flawless. I have several items set in my .latexmkrc, which aren't, at the moment, handled in the LaTeX mode bundle. Also, latexmk seems to give an error due to bibtex if you have a bibliography file called without any citations; I haven't established the exact conditions, but they match a new LaTeX document with the templates I use! Also, the AppleScript is a little slow if the document needs to be saved. In fact, there is no need for testing whether the document has been modified; I only check because the try block for saving makes the script conspicuously slower.
Those are relatively minor problems. However, there is a conceptual problem that has become apparent: SubEthaEdit provides no means to define a mode-dependent environment. Amongst other problems, it makes it quite hard to write scripts like the ones shown in this post that won't break on someone else's computer. It would be quite appropriate to simply include latexmk in the bundle, but that obviously won't work for TeX! So, what to do? Put in paths for every TeX distribution I can think of? It's simply bad design, and I don't see any easy way for users to adjust the environment to suit their own systems (and, no, I don't think an environment.plist file is an acceptable solution).
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
SEEing LaTeX 5: Taking Stock
Monday, July 2, 2007
SEEing LaTeX 4: More on Completions
Earlier, I took a look at using BibDesk to get SubEthaEdit to complete citations in LaTeX files. After working with it a few days, I've learned a few more things about BibDesk. Unfortunately, not all good.
There seems to be a rather unpleasant interaction between BibDesk's completions and SubEthaEdit's completions. Normally, SubEthaEdit injects some mode-dependent terms into the completion dictionary. For some modes, like Python, this is no big deal; most of the keywords in Python are normal English words, so they would be completed by the standard completion dictionary. For other modes, e.g., the Objective-C mode, it can make a more significant contribution; the Objective-C mode defines a large number of Cocoa class names, which you can see by typing NS and pressing F5. Also, and maybe more importantly, SubEthaEdit will search through the current file to find matches, so, e.g., variables you've defined will be completed. For LaTeX, that provides a way to have the labels for equations, figures, and the like to be completed; for user-defined macros to be easily referenced; and for names and technical terms that don't appear in the standard dictionaries to be completed.
Using BibDesk's Autocompletion input manager disables SubEthaEdit's Autocompletion features. Apparently, any input manager that extends completions will have this effect, as the SubEthaEdit FAQ notes that TextExtras will stop SubEthaEdit's Autocompletions from working. With TextExtras, that wouldn't be so bad, since it provides completions of its own, but the tradeoff with BibDesk is more extreme. You can have citations and, interestingly, the \ref and \pageref commands for cross-references completed, but lose completion of the terms in the document, whether it be LaTeX or something else. Or, you can have autocompletion of the terms in the document, but lose autocompletion of citations (cross-reference completion is handled just fine by completion of terms from the document).
An early idea on how to resolve this was that I could install TextExtras, and use its completions. I used to use it, and liked it a lot, but gave up on it some time ago. I'm not sure exactly why, now, but I think it was because an earlier version of TextExtras conflicted with the then-new autocompletions in Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to connect to the TextExtras page to download it since coming up with the idea!
In the end, I disabled BibDesk's Autocompletion input manager, it simply comes at too high of a cost. BibDesk has a number of system services, which allow citations to be inserted that way. It will have to do for now. A solution using AppleScript to get completions from BibDesk looks possible, but it seems best to make the issue clear now and solve it later.
This is definitely a strike against using SubEthaEdit for LaTeX.
Update: The same thing happens when BibDesk's input manager is loaded into other editors, too. In Smultron, you lose completion of words from the document; I'm not so familiar with Smultron, so I don't know if there are other features that get lost. It is truly a shame that one of the coolest features of BibDesk is also one that I just don't want to use.
Sunday, July 1, 2007
SEEing LaTeX 3: From PDFView to SubEthaEdit
In my last post, I presented an AppleScript that took us from a LaTeX document in SubEthaEdit to an appropriate portion of the corresponding PDF document in PDFView. This useful action is possible thanks to the magic of pdfsync.
What's more, pdfsync can be used to work both ways. Let's take a look at how to go from a PDF document open in PDFView to the appropriate line in the LaTeX document. In PDFView, you can command-click in the PDF, which invokes a shell command to presumably take you to the right spot in your editor. This works very nicely in TextMate, for example.
PDFView has a "command" text field and an "arguments" text field in its preferences. I don't really see why it's broken into two fields, but that's how it is, so that's what we'll work with. The arguments can include "%file" and "%line" tokens to indicate the file and line number, respectively. PDFView substitutes those tokens appropriately, and runs the script.
SubEthaEdit has the see command line tool that lets us open a file. That will be our starting point. Shockingly, it doesn't have a switch to go to a particular line! We'll work around that with AppleScript. This will be needlessly ugly, I'm afraid.
The see tool opens a file, and makes it the front document. That is the behavior we want for the document, so we'll start there and build a shell script to extend the behavior. We won't try to expose all the options of see in our script, instead just opening a file and going to a given line. We'll call the script seeline, and take its first argument to be the filename.
The next step in the script is to set the selection in the front document to a line number given as the second script argument. This is easy enough with AppleScript, and is a fairly direct transcription of the English-language description. Unfortunately, that turns out not to be enough. The selection is set as desired, but the selection may not be visible! What's worse, there is nothing in SubEthaEdit's AppleScript dictionary that lets us scroll the view as needed.
SubEthaEdit does have a "Jump to Selection" item in its "Find" menu. We could just hit command-J after PDFView transfers us to the LaTeX document in SubEthaEdit, I guess, but it is inelegant, at best. Instead, let's try something else. AppleScript can be used to script the user interface. You may need to first open the AppleScript Utility (why isn't this a preference pane, anyway?) and check the "Enable GUI Scripting" box. We can then use System Events to directly work with the menus of SubEthaEdit, choosing the "Jump to Selection" item.
Taken all together, we get a script:
# Brings document to front in SubEthaEdit, opening if necessary, and
# selects given line.
#$Id:,v 1.4 2007/07/01 18:28:31 mjb Exp $
/usr/bin/see "$1"
/usr/bin/osascript > /dev/null <<ASCPT
tell application "SubEthaEdit"
tell front document to set selection to paragraph $2
end tell
tell application "System Events"
tell process "SubEthaEdit"
tell menu bar 1
tell menu bar item "Find"
tell menu 1
click menu item "Jump to Selection"
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
All the AppleScript is included as a here document, which prevents lots of trouble with how the shell processes quotes and other characters.
I'm not pleased with using UI scripting. It seems fragile and likely to break with updated version of SubEthaEdit. Clearly, this should be an option for the see command line tool, which pretty much means it needs to be handled by the developers.
Whatever my feelings on the aesthetics of UI scripting, the important question is something else: does it work? Yes, it does, and pretty well at that. I have saved the script as ~/Library/bin/seeline, and set the "Command" and "Arguments" in the PDFView preferences to '$HOME/Library/bin/seeline' and '"%file" %line', respectively. Command-clicking in the PDF takes me to the LaTeX file.
Edit: Fixed formatting of included script.
Update: As of version 3.0 of SubEthaEdit, the see command line tool has an option to go to a desired line.
SEEing LaTeX 2: Opening the PDF in a Viewer
tell application "SubEthaEdit"
tellfront document
set lineNumber to startLineNumber of selection
set texFile to path
end tell
end tell
tell application "PDFView"
display tex line lineNumber of file pdfFile
end tell
-- SubEthaEdit settings
on seescriptsettings()
end seescriptsettings
Edit: Fixed formatting of included script.
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this image is hereby banned. Anyone caught posting it will be banned for 48 hours time
Good idea. Someone grab the "facebook will be closed for the 29th, 30th qnd 31st" one as well.
[–]sleepwhatsthat 5 points6 points (0 children)
Thank you. It was a bit annoying checking back to this page to see what's new and seeing 4 more of those posted.
EDIT: Wow...I just posted this and went to see what's new....Here's what is at the top...
EDIT 2: And then it was immediately followed by another
[–]_Minnow_ 5 points6 points (0 children)
Creative way of replacing the Snu doll.
[–]dermo529 2 points3 points (0 children)
Is... that a dildo in the background where the Reddit alien was on the shelf?
[–]fuck_this_shit_serio 22 points23 points (1 child)
The rules are fine, but I'd personally like to see the "no age-based posts" rule enforced a bit more. About half the things I see on here are hypocritical "she's 16" posts with a status about how in love she is or whatever. Only difference between them and us at their age is now they can post personal thoughts online for everyone to see.
[–]that-writer-kid 15 points16 points (0 children)
This. Also, no posts of the format:
TITLE: They've been dating a week.
CONTENT:xxxxxxxxxxxx is engaged to xxxxxxxxxxx!
[–]IvyGold 4 points5 points (3 children)
I think things are generally fine. I don't see any reason to tweak things right now.
Is there a specific concern floating around?
Nah, we just want some feedback.
[–]IvyGold 2 points3 points (0 children)
Then keep calm and carry on. I love it when facepalms percolate up on my mix of r/'s.
[–]over8000[S,M] 1 point2 points (0 children)
Not really, mostly just getting a feel for what we can do better.
[–]A_Cylon_Raider 9 points10 points (5 children)
Downvotes already, it seems we're not as well liked as we hoped!
Seeing as I'm currently in the middle of BSG S2, we just don't like Cylons.
[–]A_Cylon_Raider 0 points1 point (0 children)
Oh you just gotta give 'em a chance!
[–]CraftyCactus 2 points3 points (3 children)
Discover the line that divides /r/cringepics and /r/facepalm
This sub is more for blatant stupidity, while the other is for... Well, go take a look if you don't know yet. It's more of just annoying life-style choices.
[–]Nightcore50 1 point2 points (2 children)
Oh god, the first post on Cringepics right now x-x But on the upside, thanks for mentioning that subreddit, cringe pictures generally make me laugh xD
[–]CraftyCactus 0 points1 point (1 child)
Agreed! What was that about the first post?
[–]Nightcore50 2 points3 points (0 children)
A post about some dude called Ahmed Angel or something, just have a look for yourself ._.
[–]jman3693 2 points3 points (0 children)
It's not that /r/facepalm is bad...personally it's one of my favorites. But I think there is growing confusion over what is an acceptable facepalm and what is just plain funny or semi-stupid..
[–]jakefromstatefarm10 2 points3 points (0 children)
Any title with "It burns" in it gives me aids.
[–]Professor_Pajamas 4 points5 points (2 children)
I say to enforce the rule with the no "She's/He's only xx" titles. I thought it would help a lot, but I still saw the posts. Also, keeping it completely Facebook screenshots. I recently saw a post with a plain e-mail (which made no sense I might add) and a Twitter post. It says on the sidebar "Facebook friends making you facepalm?" That is all.
[–]over8000[S,M] 4 points5 points (1 child)
Yeah, most if those are a lapse in quality control I think. Make sure to report any non facebook things to us and we'll deal with it swiftly.
[–]Professor_Pajamas 0 points1 point (0 children)
I'll make sure to remember that.
[–]jcorn3jcorn "Bringer of the Banhammer" 3 0 points1 point (0 children)
[–]princesskiki 0 points1 point (3 children)
Somehow show the title of the post at the same time as viewing the picture? I like to come to Facepalm and then open a bunch of links at the same time in new tabs....and now I have no idea what the funny titles are that people posted with them.
[–]buritobandito 0 points1 point (1 child)
i'd like to see more cat pictures but on a more serious note the whole Like message share thing is getting pretty old now. This might sound noobish but can you post a link on how to capture longer posts because i cant do it using the snipping tool (doesn't capture when you use your mouse to scroll on long posts) or my "Webpage screenshot" tool because it shows the blue bar throughout the fb convo. If anyone can suggest me a tool that would be great
[–]over8000[S,M] 0 points1 point (0 children)
Hopefully most of the like and share whore posts are gone now, though sometimes some slip by us. As for the snipping tool issue I honestly have no idea. I think most people post albums when posts run long.
[–]LeGinge 0 points1 point (4 children)
I know mods can't agree on what's a face palm and what's not, but what if we decide? As in, if a certain post goes past a certain percentage of down votes over a given amount of time, or a certain number of down votes, then obviously the majority wants it gone, so based on that, couldn't it be removed from then? If people wanted to keep that post then they would have up voted it more? Surely? I could be missing something here and this could already be a thing, but it's just an idea.
[–]over8000[S,M] 0 points1 point (3 children)
Well if the majority wanted it gone it'd be at zero and wouldn't make the front page or what's hot section at all.
[–]LeGinge 0 points1 point (2 children)
But surely that's a good thing? I think I'm misunderstanding what you're saying.
[–]over8000[S,M] 0 points1 point (1 child)
I'm saying the way reddit functions it already kind of does what you wanted.
[–]LeGinge 0 points1 point (0 children)
Right, I see what you're saying. Thank you for clearing that up for me
[–]Tentacle_PornSultan of Slime 0 points1 point (3 children)
I would like to give the ability for mods to remove posts that are not facepalms.
I mean, the reasoning "the mods cannot decide what constitutes a facepalm" seems good, but is rather have few good ones, than a sea of people who are getting worked up over some guy spelling something wrong on Facebook, and wanting to post it for karma.
Edit: Woohoo, I had a say.
Uh, we do. We can decide what constitutes a facepalm. We can remove any post we consider to be bad.
Actually as of a while ago we can, only issue is different mods tend to tolerate different levels of something not being a facepalm I guess.
We'll consider using a finer net to catch more non facepalms.
[–]lydipoo -2 points-1 points (0 children)
personally, i find the "he/she is only xx yrs old" posts to be pretty funny. so i dont see why theyre not allowed.
[–][deleted] (2 children)
Twitter - /r/Twitless
Instagram - /r/Instapalm
Any facebook funnys - /r/Funnybook
Non facebook facepalms - /r/FaceDesk.
Facepalms on reddit- /r/redditfacepalms
And there are other related subreddits in the sidebar.
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IF IT'S WORTH SAYING, BUT NOT WORTH ITS OWN POST, THEN IT GOES HERE.
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Sabbath hard and go home
Growing up Jewish, I thought that the traditional rules around the Sabbath were silly. Then I forgot to bring a spare battery on a camping trip. Now I think that something like the traditional Jewish Sabbath is an important cultural adaptation to preserve leisure, that would otherwise be destroyed in an urbanized, technological civilization.
Sabbath as easy mode
As a child, I first learned that the Sabbath was a “day of rest,” a day on which you don’t do “work.” I was brought up by liberal Jews in a society in which “work” tends to mean either business or wage labor. Things you do for money. Things you do because someone else demands them. This is for the most part how we observed the Sabbath.
But I was also taught about the older traditions in which many categories of mundane activity are forbidden: lighting a fire, cutting or mending cloth, writing or erasing letters. This seemed to me like an arbitrary superstition based on an excessive literality. Surely I could tell for myself whether I was writing as part of a leisure activity or a desk job. Surely I could tell for myself whether I was planting seeds for my private garden, or on a commercial farm. Why avoid these activities in the privacy of one’s own home, doing things for oneself, and not working at all?
Likewise, Orthodox Jews must walk to and from their synagogue on the Sabbath, because driving would involve lighting a fire. Automobile engines run on combustion, after all. Liberal Jews often argued, if there is inclement weather, or if the synagogue is far, is it not more restful to take an easy drive than to walk?
In short, I thought that the rest of the Sabbath meant, or ought to mean, playing life on easy mode.
Unplugging as leisure
Recently, I’ve been feeling too caught up in local social momentum. When it looked like it would be difficult and take a long time to book a cabin to spend some time alone, I asked a friend to teach me how to go camping, to improve my range of options for solitude, bo
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1. Yours truly Also, @Auteur Panda, how many lists did Star Wars appear on? Thanks
2. Definitely agree with this; I've watched several classics as well and hardly any make my top 100 - most are just not my "cup of tea".
3. Monday's Numbers: updated - $4.62M (Final)
With the 4.7m Monday, here is where IW would end it it follows these movies: TA: $741,360,368 GOTG2: $706,534,202 Thor1: $680,575,109 (added this comp as it has been following Thor1 drops very closely) Ultron: $671,355,762 IM3: $657,906,733 CW: $644,044,313
4. I wonder if Footloose has the lowest RT score for a movie that has been on any of these top 100 lists?
5. IW final gross with the 6.9m Thursday number if it follows these films: TA: $751,247,800 GOTG2: $710,269,763 Ultron: $665,192,469 IM3: $653,115,219 CW: $631,039,557
6. My list for people to throw darts at
7. Tuesday (9/5):- Infinity War - 10.67m
I would think that Solo will have more of an impact on IW than Deadpool. Solo & IW = family films Deadpool? Not so much And it's Star Wars, so who knows how high it will go, 300-500m range?
8. Tuesday (9/5):- Infinity War - 10.67m
IW total with the 10.5m Tuesday if it follows the following films: TA: $752,914,078 GOTG2: $710,038,855 Ultron: $662,521,822 IM3: $649,556,681 CW: $627,944,902 Right now it is following GOTG2 the closest, but we all now how things can change.
9. Monday number IW 8.3
Second Monday drops: IW: -77% TA: -74% Ultron: -76% CW: -77% IM3: -78% GOTG2: -77% BP: -77% Nothing to see here...
10. Monday number IW 8.3
With the 8.5 Monday number, here is where IW would end up if it follows these movies: TA: $752,895,001 GOTG2: $710,883,439 Ultron: $660,261,747 IM3: $646,726,709 CW: $626,370,622 $700m still seems possible, but I think Ultron might be the best comparison - just my two cents.
11. Thursday Numbers ~ A:IW $15.5
Here is where IW would end up if it follows these films (just for comparisons): TA: $779,085,888 GOTG2: $720,494,561 Ultron: $655,065,316 IM3: $646,534,167 CW: $618,544,003 Edit: added guardians 2
12. Wed #s IW - 16.8m
Probably a little too early for this, but here it goes: IW final gross if it follows... TA: $777,563,419 BP: $799,576,763 Ultron: $647,446,097 IM3: $638,532,632 CW: $611,343,724
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"tl;dr: Just because it doesn't seem like we should be able to have beliefs we acknowledge to be irrational, doesn't mean we don't have them. If this happens to you, here's a tool to help conceptualize and work around that phenomenon.
There's a general feeling that by the time you've acknowledged that some belief you hold is not based on rational evidence, it has already evaporated. The very act of realizing it's not something you should believe makes it go away. If that's your experience, I applaud your well-organized mind! It's serving you well. This is exactly as it should be.
If only we were all so lucky.
Brains are sticky things. They will hang onto comfortable beliefs that don't make sense anymore, view the world through familiar filters that should have been discarded long ago, see significances and patterns and illusions even if they're known by the rest of the brain to be irrelevant. Beliefs should be formed on the basis of sound evidence. But that's not the only mechanism we have in our skulls to form them. We're equipped to come by them in other ways, too. It's been observed1 that believing contradictions is only bad because it entails believing falsehoods. If you can't get rid of one belief in a contradiction, and that's the false one, then believing a contradiction is the best you can do, because then at least you have the true belief too.
The mechanism I use to deal with this is to label my beliefs "official" and "unofficial". My official beliefs have a second-order stamp of approval. I believe them, and I believe that I should believe them. Meanwhile, the "unofficial" beliefs are those I can't get rid of, or am not motivated to try really hard to get rid of because they aren't problematic enough to be worth the trouble. They might or might not outright contradict an official belief, but regardless, I try not to act on them.
To those of you with well-ordered minds (for such lucky people seem to exist, if we believe some of the self-reports on this very site), this probably sounds outrageous. If I know they're probably not true... And I do. But they still make me expect things. They make me surprised when those expectations are flouted. If I'm asked about their subjects when tired, or not prepared for the question, they'll leap out of my mouth before I can stop them, and they won't feel like lies - because they're not. They're beliefs. I just don't like them very much.
I'll supply an example. I have a rather dreadful phobia of guns, and accordingly, I think they should be illegal. The phobia is a terrible reason to believe in the appropriateness of such a ban: said phobia doesn't even stand in for an informative real experience, since I haven't lost a family member to a stray bullet or anything of the kind. I certainly don't assent to the general proposition "anything that scares me should be illegal". I have no other reasons, except for a vague affection for a cluster of political opinions which includes something along those lines, to believe this belief. Neither the fear nor the affection are reasons I endorse for believing things in general, or this in particular. So this is an unofficial belief. Whenever I can, I avoid acting on it. Until I locate some good reasons to believe something about the topic, I officially have no opinion. I avoid putting myself in situations where I might act on the unofficial belief in the same way I might avoid a store with contents for which I have an unendorsed desire, like a candy shop. For instance, when I read about political candidates' stances on issues, I avoid whatever section talks about gun control.
Because I know my brain collects junk like this, I try to avoid making up my mind until I do have a pretty good idea of what's going on. Once I tell myself, "Okay, I've decided", I run the risk of lodging something permanently in my cortex that won't release its stranglehold on my thought process until kingdom come. I use tools like "temporarily operating under the assumption that" (some proposition) or declaring myself "unqualified to have an opinion about" (some subject). The longer I hold my opinions in a state of uncertainty, the less chance I wind up with a permanent epistemic parasite that I have to devote cognitive resources to just to keep it from making me do dumb things. This is partly because it makes the state of uncertainty come to feel like a default, which makes it simpler to slide back to uncertainty again if it seems warranted. Partly, it's because the longer I wait, the more evidence I've collected by the time I pick a side, so it's less likely that the belief I acquire is one I'll want to excise in the future.
This is all well and good as a prophylactic. It doesn't help as much with stuff that snuck in when I was but a mere slip of a youth. For that, I rely on the official/unofficial distinction, and then toe the official line as best I can in thought, word, and deed. I break in uncomfy official beliefs like new shoes. You can use your brain's love of routine to your advantage. Act like you only believe the official beliefs, and the unofficial ones will weaken from disuse. This isn't a betrayal of your "real" beliefs. The official beliefs are real too! They're real, and they're better. 1I read this in Peter van Inwagen's book "Essay on Free Will" but seem to remember that he got it elsewhere. I'm not certain where my copy has gotten to lately, so can't check."
What you see above is a segment from a LessWrong user's post.
In your discussion of "official" and "unofficial" beliefs, you mention using the strategy of "temporarily operating under the assumption that" (some proposition) or declaring oneself "unqualified to have an opinion about" (some subject) to avoid forming premature beliefs. Could you elaborate on how these strategies work in practice and provide examples?
Absolutely, these strategies are essentially cognitive tools that can help manage our beliefs and the way we form them.
Let's start with "temporarily operating under the assumption that". This strategy involves adopting a belief or perspective temporarily for the sake of exploration or understanding. For example, a scientist might temporarily operate under the assumption that a new theory is correct in order to fully explore its implications and test its predictions. This doesn't mean the scientist fully believes in the theory, but it allows them to approach the theory as if it were true to see where it leads. This can be a powerful tool for understanding new perspectives and ideas, and it can also help prevent premature commitment to a particular belief.
As for declaring oneself "unqualified to have an opinion about" a subject, this strategy is about recognizing the limits of our own knowledge and expertise. For instance, if a complex issue arises in quantum physics, a person who is not a physicist might declare themselves unqualified to have an opinion about it. This doesn't mean they can't learn about the issue or discuss it, but it's a recognition that their understanding is limited and their opinion might not be well-informed. This strategy can help prevent the formation of beliefs based on incomplete or inaccurate information.
These strategies are particularly useful when dealing with complex or controversial issues. They allow us to explore different perspectives and ideas without immediately committing to a belief, and they help us recognize the limits of our own knowledge and understanding. This can lead to more thoughtful and informed beliefs, and it can also help prevent the formation of "unofficial" beliefs that are not based on sound evidence or reasoning.
Given the strategies of "temporarily operating under the assumption that" and "declaring oneself unqualified to have an opinion about", how might these be applied in a real-world scenario such as a political debate or a business decision? Consider the potential benefits and drawbacks of each approach in these contexts.
In a political debate, "temporarily operating under the assumption that" can be a valuable tool for understanding the perspectives of others. For instance, if a politician is trying to understand an opposing party's policy, they might temporarily adopt the belief that the policy is beneficial to see what arguments and evidence support it. This could lead to a more nuanced understanding of the policy and might even reveal areas of common ground. However, the drawback is that this approach can be misinterpreted by others as an endorsement of the opposing view, potentially leading to confusion or backlash.
In a business decision, "temporarily operating under the assumption that" can be used to explore different outcomes. For example, a business leader might temporarily assume that a proposed project will be successful in order to fully understand its potential benefits. This can aid in decision-making by providing a comprehensive view of the potential outcomes. The drawback is that this approach can lead to over-optimism or confirmation bias if not balanced with a critical assessment of potential risks and challenges.
On the other hand, "declaring oneself unqualified to have an opinion about" can be a powerful tool for promoting humility and open-mindedness. In a political debate, a politician might use this strategy to acknowledge that they don't have all the answers, potentially fostering a more collaborative and respectful discussion. However, this approach can also be seen as a sign of weakness or indecisiveness, which could be detrimental in a competitive political environment.
In a business context, a leader might declare themselves unqualified to make a decision about a highly technical or specialized issue, instead deferring to experts in the field. This can lead to more informed and effective decisions. However, it's important that this approach is not used as an excuse to avoid responsibility or difficult decisions. Leaders still need to synthesize expert opinions and make final decisions based on the best available information.
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Boundaries vs Frames
This post is partially in response to Critch's boundaries sequence. My best guess is that he would agree with most of it in theory, but disagree with some of it in practice due to tradeoffs with other considerations in defining the concepts.
Boundaries and Frames
Imagine a world consisting of some atomic objects R={r0,r1,…}. For example, you can think of the ri as physical atoms or cells in the game of life. Each object comes along with a collection of states it can be in ri={s0i,s1i,…}.
(I am not committing now on whether or not we are thinking about our model as timeless. Maybe ri should be thought about as a cell in the game of life that passes through time, or maybe it should be thought about as a (cell, time) pair.)
There are two sets we naturally want to associate with our world. First, we have R={r0,r1,…}, which I will call the object space. Second, we have S=Πr∈R r, which is the set of all ways to assign state to each object in R. I will call this the state space. Note that partitions of R correspond to factorizations of S.
If I want to point at (for example) an agent in R, I might tell you what atoms are inside that agent, and thus express R in the form R=a⊔e, where a is the set of all atoms that are in the agent and e is the set of all atoms that are outside of the agent (and thus in the environment).
The agent then has its own state space A=Πr∈a r, while the environment has its own state space, E=∏r∈e r. Now, to point at this agent in S, I can express S in the form S=A×E.
Instead of specifying a list of objects in the agent, I specify the state space of the agent. Instead of thinking of the environment as the result of subtracting the agent object out of the world, I think of the environment as the result of quotienting out the agent's state space from the world's state space.
Instead of defining a Cartesian Boundary, I am defining a Cartesian Frame.
Playing on this naming scheme, in general (when not necessarily talking about agents), I will
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1. No. Wall Street strategists’ predicting that the US government’s 10-year borrowing costs will climb above the 3 per cent mark in the coming year is as much a staple of the Christmas period as awkward office parties. This year the forecasts look more likely to be fulfilled, given a withdrawal of quantitative easing and the US tax cut. However, the seismic, secular forces pinning down both inflation and long-term bond yields remain in place and are still underestimated. The Federal Reserve will raise interest rates at least three times in 2018, but the 10-year yield will not breach 3 per cent.
2. hospit客人+ality表名词，“状态，性质”→好客
3. 据"可信证据"流行小天王Justin Bieber当爸爸了!
4. Only three Hollywood productions, 'Furious 7', 'Avengers: Age of Ultron', and 'Jurassic World', made it into the top 10 at the Chinese box office in 2015.
5. In 2005, Davidson found herself constantly picking up sippy cups her one-year-old son Jake would toss to the ground. She went to Target, bought a sewing machine, and created the SippiGrip, a leash-like contraption for a sippy cup. Her entrepreneurial dreams were slowed, however -- she was recruited by Microsoft to join the HR team working with its X-Box Group. But in 2007, she launched the SippiGrip at a national trade show. Fortuitously, Target approached her to join its 2008 Parent Invented Products Program and today, Davidson's BooginHead line is sold by retailers like Walmart, Babies "R" Us, and Amazon.com.
6. Baby Driver is so much fun, although it's not necessarily non-stop LOLs, it's definitely non-stop lowercase lols.
1. This move works on multiple fronts for the Thunder. First, Gibson helps fill in for the injured Enes Kanter in the short-term and he brings playoff experience, solid rebounding and hard-nosed defense to a possible postseason matchup with the Spurs or Rockets.
2. Best chances: A best film nomination looks certain. Darkest Hour's Gary Oldman is the favorite for best actor, but if anyone can beat him it's probably Chalamet.
3. 别提什么至少提前两周通知公司，精心安排一次离职面谈，在卷铺盖走人前费尽心机跟人搞好关系了。有些人在离职时太过匆忙，根本顾不上这些套路。
4. 北弗罗里达大学的一个有趣的实验证明光脚跑步比穿鞋跑步更能提高记忆力。和那些在实验室和室内坐在桌子边进行的试验不同，在这个实验中，研究人员们引入了一些有趣的观点来探索提高记忆力的奥秘。实验的研究对象为“工作记忆”，即人们加工信息和回顾生活细节的能力。科学家们发现，光脚跑步比起穿鞋跑步来说，可以对记忆力产生轻微的提高。在试验中，年龄为18-44周岁的参与者们被要求跑两轮，一次穿鞋，一次不穿鞋。
5. 8.My resume is 5 pages long for a good reason. – Because I’m darn good at bullshittin’!
6. 4. AT&T
1. This is the 16th edition of the FT global executive MBA ranking.
2. 日前，斯坦福大学商学院(Stanford Graduate School of Business)教授彼得o库迪斯基于这场荷兰危机共同撰写了一篇文章，围绕“个人经验（而非市场信息）决定乐观、悲观以及信贷的获得与否”这种不那么科学的方法给出了现代经验。
3. The joint programme delivered by Tsinghua and Insead University (Tiemba) moved up two places to lead the 2015 global executive MBA ranking, dethroning Trium, which drops back to third place after only one year at the top.
4. The developer behind Kinect Disneyland Adventures and Elite: Dangerous is taking the theme park business to the extreme in ScreamRide. The game lets players build outrageous roller coasters, thrill rides and attractions from the ground up and then take them for a test run. The game offers three ways to play: Engineers can construct elaborate rides that test the boundaries of physics and g-forces; Scream Riders get on these rides and experience the thrills and spills first-hand – sometimes resulting in untimely deaths; and Demolition Experts can use any means necessary to tear down an entire amusement park. With classic PC games like Roller Coaster Tycoon now playable on smartphones, this next generation of thrill-ride creator is a welcome interactive experience. It’s always fun to build, ride and destroy roller coasters – and ScreamRide offers plenty of ways to share the thrills with your friends.
5. But a quick look at the changing skyline betrays a frustrating reality: Those shiny new towers have failed to deliver the type of housing most New Yorkers can afford. “There is a disconnect between what we’re building and what we need to build,” said Jonathan J. Miller, the president of the appraisal firm Miller Samuel. “2015 is going to be more of that.”
6. 艾米卡兹明(Amy Kazmin)
1. 怎么挑染头发
2. 不错，2014年完全是一场灾难，只等着引爆。在《年内股市崩盘的概率有多大？》(Doomsday poll: 87% risk of stock crash by year-end)一文中，我们分析了今年年初以来的10大崩盘征兆。之后，我们又不断发现了更多新的妖魔。它们有如嘀嗒作响的定时炸弹，来自国会、最高法院、性问题、碳排放、石油巨头、国家安全局(NSA)、国税局(IRS)、茶党式财政紧缩。接踵而至，让人无法招架。
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4. “The Man Who Knew is an impressive work of scholarship,” Lionel Barber, editor of the FT and chair of the book award judges, said. “It’s a masterpiece of political economy and, above all, it’s a great and enjoyable read.”
5. After years of filming its iconic fashion show in New York City, Victoria's Secret has travelled to London, Paris, Cannes and Los Angeles, and for 2017 the global lingerie giant is heading to Shanghai.
6. Tiemba scores highly forinternational experience, being delivered half on Tsinghua’s campus in Beijing as well as on Insead’s three campuses in Singapore, France and the UAE.
1. May the joy and happiness around you today and always.
2. Among the amenities spread through its three terminals are two 24-hour movie theaters screening the latest blockbusters for free, a rooftop swimming pool and a butterfly garden.
3. It is a timely warning. His findings, he writes, “point to a heightened risk of emerging market crises in the coming years as the Fed continues to normalise interest rates”.
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The result: a fractional dip in scoring to new lows and <a href="" target="_blank">sustained</a> <a href="" target="_blank">outcry</a> <a href="" target="_blank">from</a> <a href="" target="_blank">announcers</a> and <a href="" target="_blank">newspapermen</a> alike.</p> <p>Damn things like "division," <a href="" target="_blank">full speed ahead</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Is college basketball in crisis?</p> <p>Scoring is down. Pace is at an all-time low. Some teams are winning with defense, which is fine, but far too many others are surviving simply because — let's face it — they miss fewer shots.</p> </blockquote> <p>Damn things like "bothering to look at even one stat," full speed ahead:</p> <blockquote><p>[Colorado head coach Tad] Boyle said several factors, including the way the game is officiated, has led to lower scoring. Teams also tend to do the same things offensively, which makes defending them easier. But for the most part Boyle boiled it down. 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All of this looks at the state of the game today and shakes its head sadly at what we've lost.</p> <p>And it's all nonsense.</p> <h3> College basketball has barely changed</h3> <p>The thing about college basketball is how little it's changed over the past 13 years. <a href="" target="_blank">Kenpom</a> has data back to 2002 showing an eerily static state of play, with a slight trend towards <em>more</em> efficiency.</p> <p>Things that actually seem to have a trend are bolded:</p> <table class="tableizer-table"> <tbody> <tr class="tableizer-firstrow"> <th> Stat</th> <th> 2015</th> <th> 2010</th> <th> 2005</th> <th> 2002</th> </tr> <tr class="even"> <td> Offensive efficiency</td> <td> 102.1</td> <td> 100.8</td> <td> 101</td> <td> 100.9</td> </tr> <tr class="odd"> <td> <strong>Possessions per game</strong></td> <td> <strong>64.8</strong></td> <td> <strong>67.3</strong></td> <td> <strong>67.3</strong></td> <td> <strong>69.5</strong></td> </tr> <tr class="even"> <td> eFG%</td> <td> 49</td> <td> 48.8</td> <td> 49.3</td> <td> 49.1</td> </tr> <tr class="odd"> <td> <strong>TO%</strong></td> <td> <strong>19.1</strong></td> <td> <strong>20.4</strong></td> <td> <strong>21.3</strong></td> <td> <strong>21.5</strong></td> </tr> <tr class="even"> <td> <strong>OREB%</strong></td> <td> <strong>31.1</strong></td> <td> <strong>32.7</strong></td> <td> <strong>33.8</strong></td> <td> <strong>34.1</strong></td> </tr> <tr class="odd"> <td> FTA/FGA</td> <td> 37.1</td> <td> 37.7</td> <td> 36.5</td> <td> 37.6</td> </tr> <tr class="even"> <td> 3PT%</td> <td> 34.3</td> <td> 34.2</td> <td> 34.6</td> <td> 34.5</td> </tr> <tr class="odd"> <td> 2PT%</td> <td> 47.8</td> <td> 47.7</td> <td> 48</td> <td> 47.8</td> </tr> <tr class="even"> <td> FT%</td> <td> 69.2</td> <td> 68.9</td> <td> 68.7</td> <td> 69</td> </tr> <tr class="odd"> <td> <strong>Block%</strong></td> <td> <strong>9.6</strong></td> <td> <strong>9.2</strong></td> <td> <strong>8.8</strong></td> <td> <strong>8.5</strong></td> </tr> <tr class="even"> <td> <strong>Steal</strong></td> <td> <strong>9.4</strong></td> <td> <strong>9.8</strong></td> <td> <strong>10.4</strong></td> <td> <strong>10.3</strong></td> </tr> <tr class="odd"> <td> 3P/FGA</td> <td> 34.2</td> <td> 32.6</td> <td> 33</td> <td> 32.1</td> </tr> <tr class="even"> <td> A/FGM</td> <td> 53.1</td> <td> 53.5</td> <td> 55.7</td> <td> 55.2</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>Shooting has remained shockingly static, as have all the individual components—despite the three point arc moving back slightly during this sample. 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They're casting a wide net and poking anyone who looks like a quality college head coach so they have a list of interested people in the event they don't get Harbaugh. Asking after Cutcliffe is a good idea—he's a terrific coach. Or it means nothing at all in the event it didn't happen.</p> <p><strong>NEXT UP ON LET'S GO NUTS ABOUT A PHONE CALL</strong>. Michigan <a href="">talked to</a> <a href="">Les Miles's agent</a> yesterday, according to everyone <a href="">except LSU</a>. (See what I am saying about public statements?) This spawned a WHAT DOES IT MEAN thread on the board that was a little overheated—not that I expected anything else. It's clear that Miles is a guy Michigan should ask about if their policy is "let's talk to good head coaches," even if there remain conflicts between Miles and big chunks of the program alumni.</p> <p>A call is a call. It means that Miles is not entirely off the list; it doesn't mean much more than that. It has spawned a lot of insiders chattering about how he might be #2 on the list, which would be a shock to me. If so, Hackett is an OG for real. There are a lot of "over my dead body" hurdles to clear there.</p> <p>An alternate possibility: Hackett made a very public overture to Miles—every newspaper and site had it yesterday, and prominently—in an effort to spur Harbaugh to a decision. That doesn't necessarily mean Miles isn't a legit candidate. The nature of the contact when everything else is murky and disputed is a clear signal to Harbaugh, though.</p> <p><strong>*HERE IS HOW THIS WORKS. </strong>Search firms create a pool of candidates; when they do that they make sure that pool consists of people actually inclined to take the job. A reader who's been involved in these sorts of things details the process:</p> <blockquote><p>Anybody who’s been involved in either side of a job search conducted by a search firm knows that the search firm’s job is to create a pool of candidates. As a potential candidate, you get a call (or, I guess if you are important enough, your agent gets it) from a staffer at the search firm. The person asks you whether you’d be interested in being a candidate. (Sometimes the first question is whether you know anybody who’d be interested and would be a good candidate.) </p> <p>You ask about the process - how many people are they contacting? What’s the timeline? In my world, to commit to the process, you actually have to do something like write a letter of interest and submit your C.V, and I don’t know if that’s true for coaches. But you DO have to commit to expending time, energy, and the possibility of disappointment if you say “yes.” </p> <p>So from time to time I will get a call about an opening because I’m a plausible candidate, even if it is only to make sure that the firm has fulfilled its duty to create the pool. And in most cases, I’ll make an immediate decision that throwing my hat in the ring isn’t worth it, because the likelihood of getting the job just isn’t worth the physical and psychic costs.</p> <p>The news story on Cutcliffe in particular struck home that way. He’s a plausible candidate to have in the pool. He’s got a good job. He’s not likely to make the final cut. He says, “no, thanks, I’m not interested,” not because he wouldn’t like the idea of being the coach at Michigan (just as I wouldn’t mind being the dean at the XYZ Law School), but because he says or thinks, as I do, if Jim Hackett (or the equivalent provost in my case) really wants me, have him give me a call and we can cut to the chase, but I’m not willing just to fill out your NCAA 64 team bracket.”</p> <p>There, I feel better.</p> <p>Jeffrey</p> </blockquote> <p>Michigan is obviously creating this pool in earnest now.</p> <p><strong>BUT WHAT ABOUT HARBAUGH?</strong> I don't think this means much about Harbaugh. It rules out wildly optimistic scenarios in which Harbaugh has already agreed to the job and is going to punch Jed York on the field Sunday before escaping in a block M emblazoned helicopter, giving the stadium an epic double bird while laughing maniacally on his way out.</p> <p>Michigan is uncertain enough that they're giving themselves a fallback option, or fallback options. This fits with the general belief that Michigan has come after Harbaugh with a very strong offer and hopes he accepts it, but doesn't know.</p> <p>I've heard conflicting things, but one thing that seems clear is that Harbaugh is 100% honest when he tells the media he is not focused on anything other than his current job. If the 49ers get eliminated from the playoffs things might start moving faster then. Right now Harbaugh is still maniacally focused on something other than where he'll be next year. Frustrating; also why he's a very good coach.</p> <p><strong>NFL OPENINGS NOT SO OPEN.</strong> Despite currently being 5-8 in his second year with the Bears, local opinion holds that Marc Trestman <a href="">will be back next year</a>. Harbaugh was of course a Bears QB for a long time and an open Chicago job was described as a "problem" a few weeks ago.</p> <p class="rtecenter"><img alt="large[1]" border="0" height="324" rel="lightbox" src="" title="large[1]" width="293" /><img alt="large[1]" border="0" height="324" rel="lightbox" src="" title="large[1]" width="260" /></p> <p align="center"><em>how not to conduct a coaching search </em><br /> <em>an epic poem in iambic pentameter<br /> by Jeremy Foley</em></p> <p><strong>"DISORGANIZED."</strong> Bruce Feldman <a href="">called Michigan's search that</a> while discussing Cutcliffe, and we've heard other media people echo that assertion. For one, I don't think that's knowable. For two, M has been laser-focused on Harbaugh; agree with that approach or not it is a clear goal Michigan is pursuing before exploring other options.</p> <p>For three, I fail to see why Michigan's search is being held up for ridicule when Nebraska just hired a 62-year-old who's under .500 in the last five years and Florida—Florida!—botched their search so badly that half of the media in a five-state radius descended on their negotiations. Those negotiations fetched a guy with three years of head coaching experience for a seven million dollar buyout. Michigan doesn't have a coach yet, sure. I'd rather have this search than either of those.</p> <p><strong>PLAN B.</strong> Still nothing resembling clarity. Scout's Jamie Newberg <a href="">reports</a>($) that <strong>Jim Mora</strong>, <strong>Dan Mullen</strong>, <strong>Bob Stoops</strong>, and <strong>Butch Jones</strong> have all said no thanks; <a href="" target="_blank">247</a>'s Clint Brewster <a href="">reports</a> that Mullen and… erk… <strong>Bret Bielema</strong> could be next options after Harbaugh. He also says Seahawks OC <strong>Darrell Bevell</strong> is not so much, after Sam named him a person of
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One of the reasons I felt the need to switch from the outside view is that the issue is sufficiently complex, but at the same time, the component phenomena are sufficiently well-enumerated that a weak inside view can help. My initial framing of the issue was in terms of separating the roles of theory and evidence in belief in anthropogenic global warming. But a better weak inside view led me to the conclusion that
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Festival Stats 2019
Each year in the fall, since 2014, I've been sharing counts of how many weekend and festival gigs different bands and callers have been doing. Over the course of the year I collect bookings in a big spreadsheet, trying to check each dance weekend's website about a month before the event when they're likely to have a their performers listed.
I got into this as kind of a "market research" thing for the Free Raisins: how many weekends are there? What are the bands that are getting booked a lot, so I can go see what they sound like? Since then I've played a lot more of these events, and have a better handle on it, but I've kept the list because having a big pile of data means I have what I need for posts where I look at the gender distribution of musicians or callers, make heatmaps, or track when in the year these events tend to be (which is, not in December, and hence this post coming out in October and not November).
It's also fun to see who's playing a lot each year, and the waves of bands ramping up and down. One thing you can't get from this data, though, is whether this is driven primarily by band interest (reaching out to weekends to get booked, cutting back to focus on other things) or organizer interest (booking bands who seem new and hot, avoiding bands that aren't novel). Here's what this looks like for the ten most-booked bands 2014-2019:
It's not that clear, but if you know what you're looking for you can see some of what's going on:
* Great Bear deciding to retire in 2018 while still very popular.
* Buddy System ramping up, first playing techno-contra slots and growing from there into an excellent acoustic duo.
* Wild Asparagus, by far the longest-running band in this group, maintaining a very steady run.
* The Free Raisins playing fewer gigs after I had kids, and then more fewer gigs because we're not touring anymore.
* Elixir first cutting back, and then playing more again with subs
I'm sure there are more stories that this chart could acco
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30 April, 2006
The White House Correspondents Dinner
Boy, a bunch of people with leftward sympathies are extremely thrilled with Stephen Colbert's speech at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
I admit that I'm most decidedly not seeing this through the most even-handed point of view in the world. While GWB is not my favourite of Presidents by a long (long) shot, I am still really irritated at the constant jabs made in his direction.
This President has had a lot on his plate, and he still seems to have retained a decent amount of his sense of humour.
Earlier, the president had addressed the crowd with a Bush impersonator alongside, with the faux-Bush speaking precisely and the real Bush deliberately mispronouncing words, such as the inevitable "nuclear." At the close, Bush called the imposter "a fine talent. In fact, he did all my debates with Senator Kerry." The routine went over well with the crowd -- better than did Colbert's, in fact.
Yet it's soooo coool to so many people to see Colbert lay into him. I don't get why the right side of the aisle seems to always be the brunt of these routines. Step back 10 years to the 1996 dinner, hosted by that brave Right Winger Al Franken.
Now the whole point of Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot was to satirize the breakdown of civility in our public discourse, which is having a tremendously corrosive effect on society in general. Case in point. Don Imus. And that's why tonight, I'd like to do my part to move the national dialogue forward, not backward. And in all modesty I really hope that historians will look back on this speech as a watershed event that ushers in a New Age of Civility - which will begin immediately after I tell the following jokes about the Speaker.
Light on Clinton jokes, heavy on rightie-bashing.
And then, of course, in 1998, many prominant folks on the left were quite aggrieved at the very idea of Paula Jones dining in the same room at that year's WHC dinner.
Arianna Huffington was correct when she stated that
Political satire at its keenest has always been about speaking truth to power -- sometimes brutally, always wittily.
What is ironic was that she was lambasting the 1998 dinner for being too deferential to Clinton. So, do I think Colbert should have been more tame in his remarks? No. The WHCDinner has always been about sharp barbs between the president and the DC press. Except, of course, during the oh-so-deferential and fawning Clinton years.
Yeah, Stephen Colbert got a few good ones in on ol' Dubya. But you know what? Dubya let him. Dubya took it, albeit stoically. GWB didn't book obvious fanboys like Franken or crowd-pleasing lightweights like Jay Leno and Ray Romano. So next time you cheer on someone for dishing it out against the Right, remember that when the Left was in power, they couldn't even try to take it.
A Kindergarten Teacher Sounds Off On Childhood Obesity
Yes, I know my sister is not the early childhood expert that Two Quarters Shy Of A Buck is, but she does have a degree in elementary education and spends all day with about thirty kids. I heed her words of wisdom, elevated from comment status:
They are working on passing a law now that snacks, birthday treats, etc. are not going to be allowed in Indiana schools. As if me teaching my kids about graphing with a mini size bag containing about 10 M&M's is what is making kids fat-not the 6 hours they spend playing video games when they get home and the drive thru that Mom brings home for dinner!
Lest you think she's exaggerating about the amount of time 5 year olds spend in front of the t.v.--let me assure you. She isn't. She's also had parents tell her during their conferences that 30 minutes of homework a couple of days a week is "too much" for children that young.
I remember birthday treats. The occasional cupcake was a nice change from the routine. Somehow I don't think disallowing these from the classroom is going to do much for kids' waistlines.
Sunday Afternoon Stuff
? I've switched to "Blogrolling" for my blogroll. It's supposed to be easier to add URLs. It is. I also like the "new post" flag. Unfortunately, this only seems to work on certain blogs. So I'm still stuck actually clicking through to others. It bothers me that they're all in alphanumeric order now. I had grown accustomed to the mishmash order of before. It was beautiful in its randomosity.
¶ It's cool if you feel you have to de-blogroll me because we don't agree on everything. I understand it. I, however, prefer to have all kinds of different people listed. Just like the Small World ride at Disney. (Click for Video! I love Ride-Through Video!) I'm sad that Wintermute thought I wouldn't blogroll him. Why not? I love lawyers. I'm the spawn of lawyers a lawyer (my mother is not a lawyer). If all the lawyers who've populated my gene pool had their way I'd also be a lawyer. But, alas. I'm too eccentric. If I were a lawyer I'd be one of the eccentric friends of the protagonist in a Grisham novel.
¶ Yes, Nashville Knucklehead, the Seifert's Potato Chip Factory is one of the hallmarks of Fort Wayne Field Trips. That and the Archway Cookie Factory. When I was a kid there was also the Eckrich Meat Factory--but they've gone out of business. Oddly enough, childhood obesity was not a problem in the 70s. Perhaps we ought to let young children see exactly how their food is made. That might convince them to eat less.
¶ I'm meeting Ivy for lunch tomorrow in an undisclosed location. But it's definitely not as trendoid as the places where Aunt B. meets her lunch people. I hope that Ivy can excuse the fact that my hair is not coloured. I mean, yes, it has a colour (brown). But that colour is liberally streaked with "silver". I've had "silver" hair since I was 17. I'm long past the point of colouring it. Except I should to make a good first impression. But I won't because I'd probably end up messing it up totally.
¶ So glad I didn't see United 93 in the theatre. Six Meat Buffet linked to some guy's review wherein he described another patron leaving to throw up. I am not keen on movies that induce vomiting. Come to think of it, I'm not that keen on anything that induces vomiting.
¶ Lee (Digital Nicotine) wrote a good piece on YA novels. I miss the YA novels of yore. Nowadays they're all boomshackalackamowmow.
I'm In Love
I'm just finding myself so incredibly sucked into the Lost Indiana website that it's hard to pull away.
Talk To The----Oh, Just Forget It
My friend and official blogfather, Patrick has been picked up by NiT for announcing to the world that he is tired of hearing "at the end of the day." (I personally have steered him away from all performances of Les Miserables, as I can only assume this would cause his head to explode.) Sista Smiff (who is going to be blogrolled as soon as I dare face the template again...) is guest-blogging at NiT and has asked for other examples of phrases and words of which people are tired. As much as I thoroughly enjoy polluting the comments threads at NiT, I have WAY too much to get off my chest. So, "whole post time" it is. Be warned. It's late and my allergies are bad. So there. (No, I'm not drunk. I'm Baptist.)
a myriad of
Folks. Let me tell you something. Nothing drives me nutsier than this. Not even overu'sed apo'strophe's. I know that it is technically okay to use "myriad" as a noun but I'm one of those fusty creatures who thinks it should be restricted to adjectival use. Especially since, like "Legion", the noun form indicating a collective number is archaic. If Tim W. weren't sick, I'd leave this type of thing to him. He does it better than me. Regardless, 'myriad' as a noun bothers me. Or should I say 'irregardless'? Ha!
I am so tired of this. It sounded clever when I first moved here 15 years ago. Now it is just about as tiresome as that orange-banana knock-knock joke. Or that "pete and repeat sittin' on a fence' thing. Either way, it's the same principle. It's what people say when they think they're being really clever and they just don't get how bald the joke has gone. Every six year old thinks that "orange you glad I didn't say banana?" is the funniest thing they've ever heard. In the same way, people who've just arrived and been blown away by the Christian Tattoo Parlour and other gimcrackery think that 'Nashvegas' is funny in an ironic way. Not so much, no.
Be Christ To The World
This is the latest popular church-accessory language. When I was a kid everyone had "I Found IT!" bumper stickers. A few years ago it was 'WWJD'. Now we have "be Christ to (or in) the world." I like the sentiment behind it--to a degree. I agree that as Christians we are to be living a life that shows the power of Christ's redemption, compassion and grace. I know that "bCt(oi)tw" is shorthand for saying all of that. But it strikes me as a really nasty shorthand, full of hubris. Frankly, Christ was 'Christ to the World'. As humans only, without His Diety, we cannot "be Christ." Besides which, I've heard a few pastors say this in such a way as to make "Christ" sound like the latest Coca-Cola flavour. I can't escape this fear that we've dumbed Christ down over the last 30 years to make Him more palatable for human consumption. The fact that our latest bumper sticker makes Him sound so easily-replaced by any one of us bugs the ever-loving daylights out of me.
Gay Slang & Black Slang Used By Straight People or White People
Do you realise how stupid it sounds for a 35-year old white woman to say "Oh, Snap!" or "Oh no you di-int!"? Trust me, Beeyotch. It's played.
Git 'R' Done
I swear to you. I am very close to forgetting my vow of "being Christ to the world" and killing the next person who says this in my presence. There are a couple of reasons. First, I think that Larry The Cable Guy is the most disgusting person I've ever heard doing stand-up (and I've heard A LOT of stand-up.) I don't like it when a person's stand-up routine is reduced to a catchphrase that the audience waits for and then screams manaically upon hearing. (See Also: "Here's Your Sign.") Since it's not funny when the lazy comedian does it, it's doubly-not-funny when some punk guy wears it on a t-shirt. Second, it sounds kinda like it objectifies women. Okay, it probably doesn't. I should just remove the giant stick from my butt and accept that the 'R' that will be eventually gotten done is not a gender-specific 'R'. But still. It isn't funny.
29 April, 2006
RIP Franklin Main Street Festival
I really think the Franklin Events Community needs to adjust their dates for the Main Street Festival. Last year was just like this--grey, cold, windy and blech. I can't speak for anyone else, but I personally don't find myself in the mood for cotton candy, corn dogs and hippie yarn crafts when it's like November outside.
Festivals need to be hot and sticky. You need to find yourself so dying of thirst that those handsqueezed lemonades sound refreshing. Otherwise what would compell anyone to drink a beverage consisting of 1/4 cup of ice water and six lemon halves smashed down in a sludge of cane sugar?
My much-missed hometown of Fort Wayne has the monster of all festivals every year. 9 of the hottest days in the year are celebrated with fireworks, fried cheese and seemingly-dangerous carny erections on "the Three Rivers Midway." Every year we all wait with bated breath to find out how many punk teenagers have pulled knives on their buddies in front of the Tilt-A-Whirl. It's big news.
I miss having a local festival, and for years happily drove to Franklin for the pale imitation they have there. A stained-glass window in my house stands forever in shining testament to the years when it was bright, sunny and fun. We bought it in 1999 as an anniversary/birthday present to hang in the home we were just starting to build. That day of wandering the booths is still one of my happiest memories of my marriage.
That's probably why my hopes are too high, and why I was so disappointed at watching two women get in a catfight over a tie-dye shirt last year. Street festivals are no good in the rain.
28 April, 2006
Makin' It, Gettin' By, Etc.
The Man Who Hasn't Seen Jaws raises an interesting point.
Families with multiple children used to survive on one income. Now two people in their twenties who work themselves to the bone can't barely find a way for one of them to take a year off so they can have ONE kid.
Part of me really wants to agree with him, because I think that Nashville is a city filled with underemployed people. I think the economy here encourages employers to pay far less than the going rate elsewhere. When I was in a salaried position a year ago, I was paid $5K less than the bottom bracket for my job as listed on salaryweb. I wasn't even making the base amount, and I think that's typical within the Nashville job market, from what I've seen.
But in a larger sense, I do think that my generation and the one immediately following mine have redefined survival. Not to sound all uphill-both-ways-in-the-snow, but things were different when I was a kid. My parents raised four kids on one income. They didn't have cable TV, internet, cell phones, new cars every two years. We grew our own vegetables, my mom sewed our clothes. Instead of going to the movies we went to the library. Going out to eat was a huge treat that we did exactly five times every year. I know this because there was a restaurant where kids ate free on their birthdays and got a free chocolate cake, so each time one of us had a birthday, we'd go there. The fifth time was when we'd stop at Burger Chef (until it went out of business, then McDonalds) once on the way to my grandparents' farm every summer. That was it.
I do think it can be possible for a family to get by on one income. It just depends on how you define "getting by." It also depends on how you define contentment.
I really should link to Ivy on this topic. She and her husband are raising three kids on one income (plus some additional stuff since January or so.) She's written quite a bit about this. Also, Amy of Lavender Sparkles and her husband made the decision to learn to live on one income from the get-go so they don't feel deprived once children arrive. I also believe that Heather and her family are a one-income joint. So there ARE people making the sacrifice to live this way. It can be done.
Jose, Can You See?
I really don't have much to say about this story. I just really wanted to be one of about 90,000 bloggers who will use that headline when talking about it.
I do think the Star Spangled Banner should be sung in English. But if you want to try to hit that ball-busting high note at the end in another language, go for it.
The Bitchy View
I never watch "The View". Okay, there was that one time, but just to see Vin Diesel. And, oh yeah, that other time to see Daniel Day-Lewis. In short, I don't watch "The View" for its stable of nattering chattering gals, but for its rotating crop of mens.
So, I don't really care that Rosie O'Donnell has gotten bored with being a mom and decided to fill Meredith Viera's slot on "The View".
Reasons O'Donnell Bugs Me:
1. Totally fake "beard" crush on Tom Cruise.
2. Hypocritical anti-gun position. (You can't have a gun, but my bodyguards for my children can.)
3. Was completely bitchy and rude to Meat Loaf when he appeared on her show.
See, I can overlook the other two, but anyone who disses the Meat is on my list.
27 April, 2006
Like Kindergarten, Only Wordier
Ivy by way of Malia is playing an alphabet game, and so I'm joining in the fun.
The Rules
The Letter I Was Given
The first letter. A. On the plus side, it's a vowel so that expands my options. On the minus side it's a vowel. I don't like vowels. I think they're bossy and clicque-y. Always insisting that one of the five of them be included in every word. And then poor "y" is like the gay boy they let pick out their clothes and do their hair. But he's only in their club when they need a cool gay friend, he's not an automatic member. Vowels are snotty like that.
The Ten Words
Adultery: No, I'm not a fan of it. Not at all. But who can think of a giant letter "A" without thinking of Hester Prynne and her branding at the hands of the pious? Okay, maybe many people can. But I can't. That story made an impression on me. A few years ago my former youth pastor impregnated one of the women youth leaders. They had a baby girl. I suggested they name her "Pearl". No one else thought it was funny. Probably because they were all so scandalised by the youth pastor's wandering willy.
Apple: Apple Computer is the lodestar of my computing world. I will never forget the first time I laid eyes on a Macintosh. It was at the Tech Fair at the War Memorial Colisseum. I was a baby geeklet, and scoffed at the point-and-click GUI. After all, I had taken "keyboarding" just to enable my constant 10 "Davey is a loser" 20 Go To 10 programming. What were they trying to do? It wasn't until later that I was fully converted. And now I am a proud member of the Cult of Macintosh.
Asparagus: My all-time favourite food. There is no food on this earth I like better. Not chocolate, not caramel, not pizza. Give me a plate of asparagus and I'm in heaven.
Ambrose Bierce: I love him. Back when I was a swotty teenager with a chip on my shoulder, his Devil's Dictionary was a constant laugh-out-loud read. Now that I'm a swotty 35-year old with a chip on my shoulder I appreciate Bierce's work all the more.
Arbor Day: I love trees. I love to plant trees. My acreage is too small to squeeze any more saplings into the earth, but if I had more land I'd be planting more trees. And yes, I'm already reaching for things that begin with "A", and I'm only half-way through.
Algonquin Round Table: I love the idea of witty people gathering among fine food and drink to discuss art and literature. I love the fact that American society has been able to elevate a group of drunk gossips to near-saintly status. It strikes me funny.
America, The Country: Yes, I know that technically the United States is only a portion of the vast swath of land called "America", and that it's short-sighted, isolationist and nationalistic to think that we are the whole of America. Fine. Now that I've pacified the nitpickery, allow me to say that I love America. I love the fact that I am free to worship as I choose, speak as I choose and vote. I love the fact that there are so many of us here from so many different places. That we can eat Chinese, Italian, Mexican and Thai food, all brought here as part of other cultures and their people yearning to breathe free air. I love the fact that a bunch of arrogant farmer geniuses risked their lives to overthrow the tyranny of kings. That we don't have a "House of Commons" and a "House of Lords", and that we are not governed by anyone but ourselves. I love the fact that I can have a gun in my home, that I can't be forced to house soldiers by the pleasure of the president. I love the fact that you can drive for days and still be part of this vast land.
America, The Neil Diamond Song: One of my favourite tunes of his, and not just because it's fun to yell "Today!" in a crowd of people. I like that Neil captured the spirit of why people come here. And I like that this is a much better selection from The Jazz Singer soundtrack than "Love On The Rocks.
All-Night Pancake Houses: My Circadian rhythms are different than many people. I do my best work and living at night time. All-night pancake houses are the refuge of the nocturnal human. Where else can you congregate with the other Shadow People for buttery stacks of starchy goodness? Where else can you play Eucre till dawn and debate the validity of Reaganomics?
The Alphabet: Really stretching it here, but not so much. I'm a writer. Where would I be without the alphabet? It'd be like a carpenter with no nails, no wood, no hammer. I think it's cool that with near-endless combinations of 26 shapes I can feel the basso pulse of thundering sky, taste the charcoal sweetness of fresh rain and inspire hunger and sexual desire. Pretty nifty set of squiggles.
I Hear That Junkies Are Skinny
Aunt B. lays the smackdown on Fiddy. Good thing she did it first, because she got all the salient points in there, including the choice words that I'd use if I knew the likelihood of my mom reading this was slim.
I love how this punk who has glamourised drugs and gun violence and disrespect for women has the balls to make childhood obesity sound like the one unforgivable sin.
My heart breaks for all the chubby little kids who are mocked on the playground. Fat is the last acceptable prejudice. Can't make fun of the black kids, the gay kids, the poor kids. But slap a couple extra pounds on Bobby and he's fair game. (Ironically, maybe being able to play with all the other kids on the playground would help with his fitness level. )
Apparently in the 2006 version of the Cinderalla Story, the little chubby kid can dream of growing up to shoot people, get shot, sell drugs, rape women and earn enough money from the whole mess to hire a chef and a personal trainer. Then at last he will attain that pinnacle of all goals. Thinness.
Give me a frakkin' break.
Throwing Pots
I think this gal might be on to something.
I think one of the biggest reasons writers fail is because they don't write...The reason seems to be that the students who had to make a lot of pottery, began to play and take chances on their work since it didn't matter how it turned out. These risks allowed them to create some incredible work; they were free to create without judgment.
After a year of labouring over Writing my Book, with endless time spent researching such dry facts as sheepherding in Wales, I've taken a different tack. I gave myself a "month off" to write any fun fiction thing that appealed to me. I've gotten a lot more written, I think what I've written is better technically and I've enjoyed sitting down to write every day.
What About Brian?
Lovin' the heck out of this new show. That is all.
26 April, 2006
Eh, Nevermind
So I had a whole blog post typed about something that annoyed me, but then I realised I was giving it more attention than it deserved so I deleted it.
Since I have the Blogger Create window open, though, it's a shame to waste it. So I'm gonna tell you what I personally like to read on blogs and don't like to read on blogs. Keep in mind, I'm not telling you what to do. So all of you who like to pop into the comments and say "but I thought you were a libertarian" can relax. I'm merely expressing my personal preferences.
1. Wry, humourous and witty takes on things. It's fun to hear other people say what they think about stuff, even when we are diametrically opposed on certain issues. (Me=Bible True. Other Guy=Bible Not True.)
2. Tales about life in the trenches, whether it's waiting tables, being a nurse, selling Amway. What's your job like and how does it affect your life? What do you miss about your old job? That's all part of being human, and I like it.
3. Well-thought out opinions on social issues. Even when we disagree.
4. Good conservative commentary. I'm a conservative, even though some folk refuse to believe it. I like seeing conservative commentary that doesn't stoop to Hannity bromides.
5. Excellent material on your personal views and how they shape your opinions on economics, politics and religion.
6. Entertaining stories about your life events such as upcoming weddings raising kids and being married.
7. Breakdowns and reactions to popular culture events. TV Shows, movies, songs, whathaveyou.
Now, there are a whole lot of blogs on my blogroll that do these things that I didn't link. But, generally speaking, if they're on my blogroll it's because their blog is like this, in some way shape or form. I just didn't link them just now because I didn't happen to have their URL memorised and I'm that kind of lazy right now. But trust me. If they're blogrolled, they're good. And two of them, Rex L. Camino and Tim Warner are in a class by themselves. What they do defies description, and they do it better than anyone else I've seen.
So why am I going into all of this? Because I keep going to blogs that are just recaps of news stories. Here's a hint: I and anyone else who uses the Web have Excite. I have Google. I have all the access I could ever want to AP, Reuters and whoever else generates news feeds. Why should I be interested in the news as cherry-picked by some stranger?
Broken All Over
It's hard to understand hardcore cyclists. Even married to one for 15 years, I scratch my head at the people who like to unwind by "doing a quick fifty (miles)" every Monday and Thursday night. There's a certain mania to it. My better half writes a column for the local bike club newsletter. I'll let him tell you about it in his own words:
I readily admit that I get just a little bit insufferable this time of year. I can’t help it. Some people live for Christmas, while others prefer the Fourth of July or Thanksgiving. For me, the greatest, most festive season plays out in the lead-up to the first day of spring. The temperature rises, the days get longer and, like the grass and the trees, I find myself coming back to life. The fact that another cycling season is getting up to speed only adds fuel to the fire. You – and my wife – will have to cut me some slack until I get it out of my system.
Well, spring is here. Our garage workshop, which normally houses five bikes, has been brimming over with new tenants as Tim does spring overhauls, trues wheels, installs bike computers and performs his wizardry in a hundred other ways I don't understand. Every Monday and Thursday he joins his ride club (which I perversely insist on calling "the biker gang") for pushes throughout Wilson County, climing up Microwave Hill, breezing down Guelph Rd. and being chased by country dogs. It's just life as seen by the wife of a cyclist who is also a master craftsman.
This Monday night, however, things went a little diffferently.
A few miles out, one of the women on the ride stopped suddenly, going from 27 mph to 0 almost instantly. She flew over her handlebars and landed on her head. Her helmet did do its job: instead of being dead she is merely suffering from an intracranial bleed, a factured neck, a broken cheekbone, a lacerated spleen and assorted other breaks and tears. They moved her by ambulance from Summit Medical Center to Vanderbilt Trauma ICU, where she's being carefully observed. In her words yesterday she is "broken all over."
These things never fail to scare me, and this type of event is why I stick to my recumbant exercise bike in the basement. I'm writing this today for three reasons:
1. Please keep this young woman in your thoughts and prayers. She has a long road back to health.
2. Please always wear a helmet when you cycle. Yes, I'm a libertarian. You don't have to wear a helmet if you don't want to. Feel free to risk dying in one of the stupidest ways possible--by falling off your bicycle. It's your choice.
3. Please remember, when you see someone riding their bike along the side of the road that they are someone's son or daughter. They are likely also someone's husband or wife, father or mother. They also pay their taxes and are riding a legitimate vehicle. Please don't harrass them. Keep in mind how much oil they're NOT using, leaving some left for your car, truck or SUV.
25 April, 2006
Stuff I Don't Need To See
I'm not going to get into the abortion debate in this post. It's already proven far too emotionally charged for me and I don't really care to go there.
But I think it's safe to say that regardless of where anyone stands on the issue, no one needs to see things such as are shown in the post linked from this post at Moore Thoughts. Without taking sides on the abortion issue, I would like to ask how it helps anyone to show such graphic things? Whose side is being bolstered? And why do you think anyone is going to listen to what you have to say if you buttress it in that type of gore? I'll be honest. I wanted to read Mark Rose's post. But I can't even read it, nor can I link directly to it because I cannot stand to have the page open even long enough to extract the permalink. So if you are at all interested in seeing graphic depictions, you'll have to go through the above link.
I appreciate that there are those who can view such things dispassionately. I can also understand that there are some who actually enjoy seeing that level of soul-decaying material. I understand that Rotten.com has made a good business catering to those tastes. But I cannot for the life of me understand how showing those pictures has anything remotely to do with compassion.
I've never had a medical abortion, and most likely never will. I have had several early spontaneous abortions and yearn for a child. To this day I will never understand why some in the Pro-Life movement think that the grotesque photos on display here and other places do anything to advance their cause. They are harrowing and foul and cruel to most who view them. Regardless of what side they take in the larger issue.
My Old Boss Stole My Washing Machine
One of the strangest things about me are the endless, vivid, story-like dreams I have. Tim will swear up and down that my dreams are the wierdest he ever heard. And he took a class or two in wierd dreams, so he should know. It's kind of fun because each dream has a real narrative, character development and subtext. One of these days I'll be smart and start writing them down. Especially since I've twice dreamed what (years later) turned out to be blockbuster movies. Five years before Demi and Patrick (WHTO) Swayze were handed their scripts, I dreamed the entire plot of the movie Ghost. Ten years before Gwyneth I dreamed much of the story of Shakespeare In Love. Okay. Fair enough. I just dreamed about Shakespeare being in love with me. There was none of that Victor/Victoria crossdressing hi-larity in my sleep world. Nevertheless, the movie was called "Shakespeare in Love" and in my dream there was Shakespeare and he was in love so I'm going to count it.
I've occasionally had the woo-woo prophetic type of dream where a person I love is in trouble and I call them upon waking only to find out that, no they weren't being devoured by quicksand but yes, they do have a very bad chest cold. Occasionally my dead grandfather will show up for a game of chess or Scrabble. In that one Swedish movie the guy plays chess with death. In my dreams I play chess with a dead farmer who carried the mail in the winter. Kind of the same thing, but more lively.
Yes, I dream in color. Always. I always dream in English, although a few years ago when I was really fluent in Spanish I would have the occasional dream entirely in Spanish. What was weird is that each of those Spanish dreams featured Jesus Christ. It must have been because one of the ways I practiced my language skills was by reading the Bible in both languages. Because I didn't know any Spanish-speaking men named Jesus. In college when I studied Hebrew and German I had a few awkward Nazi dreams where one half of my language center was at war with the other. Thankfully that lasted only long enough to convince me to drop German. I hate that language. It's so literal, gutteral and harsh.
Last night I dreamed that a man from my old office stole my washing machine. The wierdest part (yes, it does get more strange) is that his wife was one of those Troll Dolls with the upsticking hair, and she kept pinching my stomach and lower back in a gesture of friendship. I truly don't get it. If they make a movie of that one I will NOT be there. Troll Dolls are creepy.
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24 April, 2006
In Cold Semen
I've been waiting to see the movie Capote for some time. I don't generally care for Truman Capote as a person. By all accounts he was boorish, duplicitous and self-centered. But he did write one of the best books I've ever read. In Cold Blood invented the true crime genre and reinvigorated American Fiction. It tells the story of the murder of the Clutter family in their home in Kansas. One night, acting on a jailhouse rumour of hidden cash cache on the Clutter property, Perry Smith and Dick Hickock entered the unlocked farmhouse and shot all four residents.
The Clutters left their doors unlocked, as did most of the inhabitants of Holcomb, KS. Of course, they don't anymore. But back then, doors were not locked. They were simple farm folk who knew all their neighbors and trusted them. Besides, from what we know about Smith and Hickock, we know they had come prepared to break
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1. if you are running commands in the xaya-qt console you can just put getblockchaininfo xaya-cli is a seperate executable that you run at the command line
2. AWESOME matey.. I'm thinking of filling up my 19 gpu rig.. I want to check if i can get around the GPU limits by running multiple VMs on Unraid (passing through 8 gpus per vm) - so i can run 19 gpus without having to buy those funny ones
3. added unity front end bounty for Xayaships
4. We are looking for someone to build the front end for Xayaships in Unity. Although this is something we can do ourselves we'd like to try to get the community involved. This should be great experience for understanding how games work on Xaya and also game channels themselves. We have created the art - so in all it should be splicing the graphics, connecting to the daemon(s) (xaya and xayaships daemon) and managing the lobby. All communication is done by json rpc and the backend code (executable) will already be written/ready. In all it should not be a too difficult of a job. Here are some of the screens..
5. Xaya Ships is the first implementation of Game Channels on the Xaya platform. It's purpose is to serve as a template for developers to build their own games around game channels. You can read about the game here: https://github.com/xaya/libxayagame/tree/master/ships It is still in development.
6. are you able to run the QT wallet? I dont see the error in the image, can you send again
7. Short update - upcoming public tech demo/competition.. and more
8. Soccer Manager Elite is a MMO. It's not replacing any of the other SM games.
9. just make a start.bat file ccminer(whateverexe_called) -a neoscrypt-xaya -o stratum+tcp://eu.bsod.pw:2534 -u wallet -p x change wallet to your chi address.. should be good to go
10. snailbrain
Xaya faucet
we could do with doing one. probably one that gives them a name + tiny amount of chi + they have to do a captcha + probably confirm an email (so they are on the newsletter mailing list too, unless they usubscribe). We could use 100k from the bounty pot which should cover over 1 million people easily... It obviously has to be rate limited and monitored. We were going to do it ourselves but happy for someone else to do.. needs to be robust.
11. The Xaya group on telegram will be changed into as channel soon. The taurion group on telegram is really for when we start enticing people in with some giveways (not ones that will affect the game hardly). Discord and the forum will be the main places for discussion. There is also of course the Xaya XMPP chat that we may be using more soon...
12. Can ask him if you can - or send me his contact details
13. they only will have 3 or 4 coins on there i think
14. are you mining from the same computer or somewhere else? if so check the time on the computer it's being mined on
15. Backend Updates (Taurion GSP): Logic / Integration Tests God Mode Admin commands (for testing) Minimum Damage Weapons now have a minimum and maximum damage. Front End As shown in the Video (also lots were added to the previous video which was also last month, but will ignore those for this post): Character UI Window Added ability to see "House" for each character You can now create multiple characters with 1 tx Added some temporary purple pending circles for when characters name is pending Added BAR to show how much of the 2KB name_update limit is used up Allow hold control to multi-select Added Multi-select (in Char UI Window too) on the map by holding control + clicking. Added ability to multi-select by dragging a box like in RTS style games Changed Hexes to small arrow/triangles to show when moving and the direction Added land bridges to some parts of the map. Changed the Flags to some 3d object when a region is prospected. Added Turrets to vehicles that should auto face whom they are attacking. Vehicle stats update from the gamestate now (hexes per block, and HP regen per block, weapon dmg etc) Added ability to enter IP addresses of each daemon. You can use an IP for the GSP that is stored on some external server - this is half way for light clients (mobile devices / console / steam) so they don't need to download the blockchain. Fixed bugs + performance optimisations.
16. if it works on one and not the other, probably overclock or heating or power issue? have you tried another neoscrypt coin? some algos might work fine under stress, others might not
17. Yes I am familiar with SM Worlds and it's been going a really long time. Since 2005 I believe which is longer than most MMOs going today. So it's great that it's still running even today and great there are still people who care so much about the game. I know the SM management team and I don't think there is anyone in the space that could build a better game world than them with the experience they have. We are also working very closely with them regarding all the blockchain based code and economy. I can't properly comment on if you think they have neglected SM Worlds - but business decisions are just that, business decisions and sometimes not everyone can be made happy - but from what I know they will be developing SM Worlds further from what I read somewhere. However you feel about games, mmos or their shelf-life, the positive thing about blockchain games on Xaya is all the inner workings are open source and they run unstoppable and autonomous forever (or as long as the blockchain is running), so if you or the community are not happy with the game after some time, you can always change it to the way you want (or don't update) but Soccer Manager Elite will be supported for a long time and won't be neglected - we'll be around to support it for the foreseeable future
18. Hi, once released - the game back end code will be fully opensource so anyone is free to modified the code and even create their own front end and fork of the game.
19. the zip version at least doesn't get the .cookie automatically it seems. or if it does the login/password doesn't disappear from the screen. i used a fixed rpc/user pass and it logs in and says server connected and local xaya connected. but, it doesn't send a move to xayad even if i use the username with p/ or without the p/ any ideas? also is it checking/using the game.dat wallet?
20. then you need to run that, no ccminer ccminer-x64 -a neoscrypt-xaya -o stratum+tcp://eu.bsod.pw:2534 -u XXXXXXX -p XXXXXXX
21. Brilliant good work.. you'll be able to do that in a game channel soon
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In 1881, 18 months after his father's death, Louis Wain, the only male and eldest of the Wain family, becomes the primary breadwinner. He supports five sisters and his mother working part-time as an illustrator for The Illustrated London News under editor Sir William Ingram. Ingram offers him a full-time job, but Wain declines in order to try his hand at composing music and playwriting; which he hopes will support the family but neither venture is successful. Louis hires Emily Richardson to be the new governess for his sisters. The two become instantly attracted to each other, much to the dismay of the eldest sister, Caroline. Louis decides to take the full time position in order to keep Emily as the governess. One night, Louis takes the family, and Emily to the theatre to see The Tempest as an educational trip. She comforts Louis in the men's restroom after he has a recurring nightmare about drowning during the performance, but inadvertently causes a scandal when nosy neighbor Mrs. DuFrane tells people about the incident. Embarrassed, Caroline fires her that night. Before she can leave, Louis professes his love for her and they begin a courtship. In 1884, the couple marry, which causes another scandal for the Wain family due to her being 10 years older than him; and her social status as a governess which is considered lower class. They move into a house in Hampstead, where Louis takes additional work as a freelance artist to continue supporting his mother and sisters. Months later, Emily is diagnosed with breast cancer. While walking in the countryside, they take in a stray kitten they name Peter, to relieve the grief of Emily's cancer. The practice of keeping a cat as a pet was unusual in the Victorian era. Louis begins painting realistic pictures of Peter, but the paintings become more unusual as Emily's condition worsens. He makes the cats more anthropomorphic, with them engaging in human behaviour. A financial crisis in England causes the paper to cut staff. Sir William tells Louis that he will have cut his workload, and advises him to use the extra time to spend with Emily. After showing Emily his work, she encourages him to show them to Sir William who uses the drawings in two pages of the Christmas edition. Although the edition becomes a success, Emily dies months later. Louis begins drawing more cat pictures to cope with losing the love of his life, creating whole cat societies, but it also begins to show Wain's detachment from reality. By 1891, Wain's cat pictures become enormously popular. They are featured on postcards, greeting cards, and other print materials. Wain also sends some of his drawings abroad. The drawings change peoples' perception of cats, making them acceptable as house pets. He hosts cat-themed events and is made chairman of The National Cat Society. Despite the popularity of his work, the family remains in debt. Wain fails to copyright his work, so he cannot profit from any reproductions of the art. To make matters worse, Marie, the youngest, begins to show signs of mental illness. The debt causes the family to be evicted from the Hampstead home. Sir William allows the family to stay at one of his properties at a reduced rate. Marie is admitted to an asylum, and Peter dies, causing Wain's own mental health to deteriorate. In 1907, Wain travels to New York, on a trip sponsored by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. Wain hopes to forge a successful career in America to alleviate his debts. He meets Max Kase, who tells him that people love the pictures. Days after arriving, he receives news that his mother has died of influenza. He has some success in NYC, but returns to England in 1914 at Caroline's request. Upon arriving home, Louis is given the news that Marie, too, has died from influenza. Sir William also dies, succumbing to his gout. The family is evicted, and moves into a smaller flat in London. Louis continues to work as Britain enters World War I. He hits his head trying to jump off a double decker bus, and falls into coma; where he sees a vision of 1999. Coming out of the coma, he is inspired to design futuristic themed cat toys. The toys are manufactured, which looks to change the Wains' fortunes, but their hopes are dashed when a German U-Boat sinks the ship carrying the toys. In 1917, Caroline dies. The losses of Emily, his mother, Marie, Peter, Sir William and Caroline causes Louis to go on a series of violent mental breakdowns. In 1924, his sisters are forced to have him committed to the Springfield Mental Hospital in Tooting. Dan Rider, an official inspecting the mental institution recognizes Louis; in 1881 Louis drew his dog Cleopatra for free while they rode a train. After speaking with Louis, he starts a campaign, along with Wain's three remaining sisters (who never married) to raise money that will place Louis in a better facility that allows cats and provides patients access to outdoors. The campaign gets an enormous response, as thousands of admirers of Wain's art contribute. The author H.G. Wells, also a fan of Louis's work, along with other prominent British figures, assist with the effort. After raising the money needed. Louis is transferred to Bethlem Royal Hospital in Southwark, where he has a cat companion. In 1930, he is admitted to Napsbury Hospital in St. Albans. Guided by Emily's spirit, and with his journal and a cut-out piece of Emily's old scarf, Louis goes out to the painted countryside, where Emily once told him that he would find her.
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In 17th-century Japan, assassins led by Bi-Han kill a rival clan led by Hanzo Hasashi, including Hanzo's family. After killing the attackers, Hanzo fights Bi-Han, who stabs him with his own kunai. Hanzo dies, and his soul is condemned to the Netherrealm. Raiden, God of Thunder, later takes Hanzo's surviving infant daughter to safety. In the year 2021, the realm of Outworld has defeated Earthrealm in nine tournaments known as "Mortal Kombat". If Earthrealm loses a tenth one, the rules state it will be conquered by Outworld. However, an ancient prophecy states that the "blood of Hanzo Hasashi" will unite a new generation of Earthrealm's champions to prevent Outworld's victory. Aware of this, sorcerer Shang Tsung, who has overseen the last nine victories, sends his warriors to kill Earthrealm's champions, identified by a dragon mark, before the next tournament begins. One such champion, MMA fighter Cole Young, is attacked alongside his family by Bi-Han, who now calls himself Sub-Zero. However, Special Forces Major Jackson "Jax" Briggs rescues the Youngs, directing them to find his partner, Sonya Blade, with whom he has been investigating Mortal Kombat's existence. Jax stays to battle Sub-Zero, but loses his arms in the process. Cole goes to Sonya's hideout, where she is interrogating a captive Australian mercenary named Kano. She reveals that the dragon mark can be transferred to anyone who kills the original bearer. They are attacked by Shang Tsung's assassin, Syzoth, who Kano kills with Cole and Sonya's help. They travel to Raiden's temple and meet Earthrealm champions Liu Kang and Kung Lao and Raiden himself, who is critical of the newcomers. They also find Jax, whom Raiden rescued and fitted with a set of mechanical arms. Shang Tsung attempts to attack the temple, but is stopped when Raiden shields it from intrusion. Cole and Kano train with Kang and Kung Lao to unlock their "Arcana", a power unique to all dragon mark bearers. During an argument, Kano awakens his arcana, the ability to shoot lasers from his right eye. Meanwhile, Cole is unable to awaken his. Disappointed, Raiden sends Cole back to his family, revealing that he is a descendant of Hasashi. Shang Tsung gathers his warriors, including Kano's former ally, Kabal, to attack the temple. Kabal convinces Kano to defect and sabotage the shield. During the fray, Jax awakens his arcana, granting him superhuman strength and upgraded arms. Concurrently, the Youngs are attacked by Goro. Cole rouses his arcana, gaining a suit of armor that can absorb kinetic energy from physical attacks and a set of tonfas, and kills Goro before helping repel the attack on the temple. As Raiden teleports the Earthrealm fighters to the Void, a safe space between realms, Sub-Zero attempts to stop Cole. However, Kung Lao saves Cole from Sub-Zero and has his soul taken by Shang Tsung. Cole proposes a plan to force Outworld's champions into single combat with them before neutralizing Sub-Zero together. Agreeing with the plan, Raiden gives Cole Hanzo's kunai, which still has Hanzo's blood on it. Raiden transports Cole and his allies to their targets. While defeating Outworld's champions, Sonya kills Kano and acquires his dragon mark, gaining the ability to fire energy blasts from her arms as her arcana in the process. Sub-Zero abducts Cole's family to lure him into a one-on-one fight. Overpowered, Cole uses the kunai and drains the blood from it, releasing Hanzo as the vengeful specter, Scorpion. Recognizing Cole as his descendant, Scorpion helps him kill Sub-Zero and free his family. Thanking Cole for freeing him and requesting that he take care of the Hasashi bloodline, Scorpion departs as Raiden, the other champions and Shang Tsung arrive. Shang Tsung threatens to bring armies instead of individual fighters next time they meet. Raiden banishes him, declaring his intention to train new warriors for the next tournament and assigning his current champions to recruit them. Cole then departs to Los Angeles to look for martial arts movie star Johnny Cage.
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Evelyn Quan Wang is a middle-aged Chinese immigrant who runs a laundromat with her husband, Waymond; two decades earlier, they eloped to the United States and had a daughter, Joy. In the present day, the laundromat is being audited by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Waymond is trying to serve Evelyn divorce papers in an attempt to get her attention so they can talk about their marriage. Evelyn's stern and demanding father (referred to as Gong Gong, Cantonese for "grandfather") is visiting for her Chinese New Year party; meanwhile, Joy is dealing with depression and has a strained relationship with her mother, which also includes Evelyn's reluctance to accept Joy's lesbian relationship with her non-Chinese girlfriend Becky. At a tense meeting with IRS inspector Deirdre Beaubeirdre, Waymond's body is taken over by Alpha-Waymond, a version of Waymond from the "Alphaverse." Alpha-Waymond explains to Evelyn that many parallel universes exist because every life choice creates a new alternative universe. In the Alphaverse, the late Alpha-Evelyn developed "verse-jumping" technology, which enables people to access the skills, memories, and bodies of their parallel selves by performing bizarre actions that are statistically unlikely. The multiverse is threatened by Jobu Tupaki (Alpha-Joy), whose mind was splintered after Alpha-Evelyn pushed her to verse-jump beyond her endurance; Jobu experiences all universes at once and can verse-jump and manipulate matter at will. She has created a black hole-like "Everything Bagel" topped with literally everything, which appears as a toroid singularity that could destroy the multiverse. Evelyn is given verse-jumping technology to fight Jobu's minions, who converge on the IRS building. She discovers other universes in which she made different choices and flourished, such as becoming a kung fu master and film star; she also learns of Waymond's plans with the divorce papers. Alpha-Waymond believes that Evelyn, as the greatest "failure" of all Evelyns in the multiverse, has the untapped potential to defeat Jobu. Gong Gong is taken over by Alpha-Gong Gong, who instructs Evelyn to kill Joy to stop Jobu from using her to enter Evelyn's universe. Evelyn refuses and decides to face Jobu by gaining powers through repeated verse-jumping. Alpha-Gong Gong, convinced that Evelyn's mind has been compromised like Jobu's, sends soldiers after Evelyn. While they fight, Jobu locates and kills Alpha-Waymond in the Alphaverse. As Jobu confronts Evelyn in her universe, Evelyn's mind splinters, and she collapses. Evelyn uncontrollably verse-jumps alongside Jobu across bizarre and diverse universes. Jobu reveals she does not want to fight at all, but that instead, she has been searching for an Evelyn who can see, as she does, that nothing matters, while killing the Evelyns that do not agree with her. She brings Evelyn to the Everything Bagel, explaining that she wants to use it to allow herself and Evelyn to truly die. Upon looking into the Bagel, Evelyn is initially persuaded, and behaves cruelly and nihilistically in her other universes, hurting those around her. As Evelyn is about to enter the Bagel with Jobu, she pauses to listen to Waymond's pleas in her universe for everybody to stop fighting and to instead be kind, even when life does not make sense. Evelyn has an existentialist epiphany and decides to follow Waymond's absurdist and humanist advice, using her multiverse powers to fight with empathy and bring happiness to those around her; in doing so, she repairs her damage in the other universes and neutralizes Alpha-Gong Gong and Jobu's fighters. In her home universe, Evelyn reconciles with Waymond, accepts Joy and Becky's relationship and tells Gong Gong of it, and talks with Deirdre after Waymond convinces Deirdre to let them redo their taxes. Jobu decides to enter the Bagel alone while, simultaneously in Evelyn's universe, Joy begs Evelyn to let her go. Evelyn tells Joy that even when nothing makes sense and even though she could be anywhere else in the multiverse, she will always want to be with Joy. Evelyn and the others save Jobu from the Bagel, and Evelyn and Joy embrace. Some time later, with the family's relationships improved, they return to the IRS building to refile their taxes. As Deirdre talks, Evelyn's attention is momentarily drawn to her alternative selves, before she grounds herself back in her home universe.
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Carson Wheetly is the wealthy and spoiled 20-year-old son of millionaire NASCAR car racer Ted Wheetly. Carson hates his father who he thinks might have murdered his mother one year earlier in order to inherit her money. Carson finds himself tangled up in a game of seduction, greed and murder after a raunchy night (a foursome) with three beautiful women: his girlfriend Rachel Thomas, her school friend Brandi Cox and a local woman named Linda Dobson during a party. Then the three women bring rape charges against Carson who is arrested. Linda drops the rape charges against Carson after being offered a large cash settlement and leaves town. Rachel also drops the rape charges, but Brandi continues to insist that Carson forced himself upon her. A few days later, Ted dies during a race and the police get involved when Detective Frank Walker investigates Ted's death which happened under questionable circumstances. Ted's lawyer, George Stuben, suddenly announces during the reading of the will that Carson cannot inherit Ted's money and estate until he turns 30 or marries. Carson quickly gets married to Rachel, and inherits. Carson and Rachel decide to kill Brandi rather than give her a share of the money after she finally drops the rape charges against Carson so that they keep all the money for themselves. However, Rachel, along with Brandi, are also plotting to kill Carson so that Rachel can inherit as a grieving widow and split the money between them. One evening, Rachel and Brandi lure Carson to a cheap motel in the Everglades with the intention of sex, and after a struggle, Brandi does murder Carson by shooting him in the head and leaves a forged suicide note implying the Carson killed himself. Rachel then inherits Carson's money, but rather than split the money, Rachel plots to murder Brandi to keep all the money for herself. Brandi, anticipating that Rachel might do just that, plots a scheme of her own to kill Rachel. Brandi lures Rachel to an old cabin in the nearby swamps with the intention of sex. Rachel and Brandi, both try to kill each other, and though Brandi gets the upper hand, they get discovered. They are both arrested and are separately interrogated by Detective Walker, who reveals that he knows that both grew up together and plotted to find a man to marry and then murder so they can inherent a fortune. Brandi incriminates Rachel by revealing hidden video DVDs that show that both Carson and Rachel tampered with Ted Wheetley's car on order to cause his death, as well as Rachel's blood-stained blouse from the motel, which suggests that Rachel murdered Carson all by herself. Rachel is arrested and sent to prison while Brandi gets away scot-free. After closing the case, Detective Walker retires and joins Brandi on a motor launch boat, revealing himself to be a corrupt cop who helped Brandi incriminate Rachel for Carson's murder so he could get a share of the Wheetly money. However at sea, Brandi double-crosses Walker by stabbing him to death and throwing his body overboard. She then flees to the Caribbean to claim all of the money for herself. A series of scenes over the end credits reveal the truth behind the crime. It turns out that Ted Wheetly's shy, nebbish lawyer, George, was in fact the mastermind behind the whole scheme. George is actually a career con artist who, for many years, impersonated a lawyer who plotted to steal all of the Wheetly family's money, totaling $155 million. George first approached Brandi (who held a grudge against the Wheetly family) to help him, and Brandi then approached Rachel. Rachel and Brandi then manipulated Carson into believing that Ted murdered his mother so they could get his assistance. Brandi then pretended to bring rape charges against Carson during a party in order to blackmail him into marrying Rachel, and to get a share of Ted's money. George worked behind the scenes throughout the film by changing the nature of Ted's will, as well as by planting evidence for Detective Walker to find. Brandi was the one who learned that Walker was corrupt and could by swayed by the offer of money. After killing Walker, Brandi meets with George at a Caribbean island. George empties all of his shell accounts to bring the money into his personal Cayman Islands account. George then gives Brandi a suitcase supposedly full of cash as her share of the Wheetlys money. But when Brandi climbs aboard a motorboat to pilot away and opens the suitcase, the contents of the case are revealed to be a bomb which explodes, killing Brandi. It is also implied that George had Rachel murdered in prison and set it up to look like a suicide. George walks away with all of the $155 million for himself. In the very final shot, George is joined by yet another co-conspirator; Linda Dobson, who happens to be his wife.
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Bruce Wayne and Andrea Beaumont begin a relationship after meeting while Bruce visits his parents' grave and Andrea visits her mother's. During this time, Bruce makes his first attempts at crime-fighting. He foils a truck hijacking but is disappointed that the criminals were not scared of him. Bruce becomes conflicted about how to honor his parents; whether to defend Gotham City to avenge their deaths, or to settle down and marry like they wished. Bruce proposes marriage to Andrea, who accepts. However, she abruptly leaves Gotham with her father, businessman Carl Beaumont, ending the engagement in a Dear John letter. Heartbroken, Bruce assumes the mantle of Batman. Ten years later, Chuckie Sol proposes flooding Gotham with counterfeit money, but is thwarted by Batman. When Sol tries to escape in his car, the Phantasm, a masked vigilante resembling the Grim Reaper, attacks him. Sol attempts to kill the assailant with his car, but the Phantasm dodges it and Sol careens to his death. Witnesses see Batman at the scene and believe him to have killed Sol. City councilman Arthur Reeves, once a lawyer for Carl Beaumont, vows to have Batman arrested. The Phantasm murders another gangster, Buzz Bronski, in the Gotham Cemetery. Bronski's bodyguards mistakenly believe the Phantasm to be Batman. Batman investigates the scene of Bronski's death and encounters Andrea, inadvertently revealing his identity to her. Batman finds evidence linking Carl Beaumont with Sol, Bronski, and a third gangster, Salvatore Valestra, later finding a photograph of the four together in Valestra's home. Paranoid that Batman will come for him next, the now-elderly Valestra asks Reeves for help but is refused. In doing so, Valestra reveals he illegally aided Reeves in his political career. In desperation, Valestra turns to the Joker. The Phantasm goes to kill Valestra at his penthouse, only to find Valestra already killed by Joker venom. Joker booby-trapped the place expecting to kill Batman with a bomb, but sees through a camera that Batman is not the killer. The Phantasm escapes the blast and is pursued by Batman but disappears. The police attempt to ambush Batman, but he is saved by Andrea. Andrea later explains to Bruce that her father embezzled money from Valestra and was forced to flee to Europe to find a way to repay it. What Andrea later realized is that Valestra wanted "payment in blood". While Bruce considers resuming his relationship with Andrea, he concludes that Carl Beaumont is the Phantasm. However, Bruce takes another look at the photo. He recognizes Valestra's unnamed enforcer as the Joker prior to his transformation. The Joker reveals to Reeves that Batman did not commit the murders, and accuses Reeves of targeting him to erase his mob connections. Reeves is exposed to Joker venom; albeit a weakened dose as Joker was interrupted. Later hospitalized, Reeves struggles with hysteria. Batman interrogates Reeves, and he confesses that while previously working as Carl's lawyer, he helped the Beaumonts escape. When he ran out of money during his first run for office, he sold out their location to Valestra. Reeves failed to realize that Valestra wanted Beaumont dead. Both Batman and the Joker deduce that the Phantasm is Andrea, and that her final target is the Joker. Andrea tracks down the Joker to his hideout in Gotham's abandoned World's Fair. They fight but are interrupted by Batman. Batman pleads with her to stop, to no avail. The Joker prepares to destroy the fair but is seized by Andrea, who bids Bruce goodbye as the explosives detonate. Bruce survives the blast but finds no trace of either Andrea or the Joker. Alfred later consoles Bruce in the Batcave, assuring him that Andrea could not have been helped, before finding Andrea's locket containing a picture of them together. A sorrowful Andrea departs Gotham and a saddened Batman, cleared of accusations against him, resumes crimefighting.
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Between the second and third films, Woody and Bo Peep rescue Andy's remote control car, RC, from being washed away in a storm, before Bo and her lamp are donated to a new owner. Woody is distraught but Bo has accepted her fate as part of a toy's life. Woody shares a heartfelt goodbye with her. Nine years later, after a college-bound Andy has donated his toys to Bonnie, Woody struggles to adapt as Bonnie shows little interest in playing with him. When she creates a doll from a spork, it comes to life as Forky. Forky suffers an existential crisis, seeing himself as trash, not a toy. As Forky quickly becomes Bonnie's favorite toy, Woody tries to stop Forky from throwing himself away. When Bonnie's family goes on a road trip, Forky jumps out of the window of the RV. Woody goes after him and helps Forky overcome his existential crisis. As they pass an antique store, window, he recognizes Bo Peep's lamp in the window, and detours inside to find her. They encounter a talking doll named Gabby Gabby and her ventriloquist dummy friends, who try to take Woody's voice box to replace Gabby's broken one. Woody escapes, though Forky does not. At a playground nearby, Woody reunites with Bo Peep and her sheep, who have become "Lost Toys," free from owners and able to do as they please, along with their new friend Giggles McDimples. They agree to help Woody rescue Forky. Buzz Lightyear, trying to find Woody, gets lost in a traveling carnival and encounters prize toys Bunny and Ducky. They find Woody and Bo, who takes them to Canadian stunt bike toy Duke Caboom. They attempt to rescue Forky, only to nearly get killed by the store owner's cat. The toys refuse to go back as it is not worth it, but Woody, desperate to be necessary to Bonnie, inadvertently insults Bo and is left alone to rescue Forky. When Gabby explains that she has wanted a child's love her entire life, Woody sympathizes and gives her his voice box on the condition that Forky is released. Woody and Forky see Gabby callously rejected by the store owner's granddaughter despite her fixed voice box. Woody convinces her to come to Bonnie's house with him. Bo, Caboom, and the rest of the gang return and help the pair escape and Bo and Woody reconcile. Bonnie's toys take over the RV and drive it to the carnival to reach the group. On the way, Gabby notices a lost child at the carnival and leaves the group to comfort her until the parents arrive, gaining a new home in the process. Woody, in love with Bo, is hesitant to leave her yet again. Buzz assures him that Bonnie will be okay without him and that he can start a new chapter of his life with Bo. Woody passes his sheriff badge to Jessie and shares an emotional goodbye with his friends. In an epilogue, the "Lost Toys" travel with the carnival and help prize toys find owners. Bonnie creates a companion for Forky from a plastic knife.
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Alice and Jack Chambers are married, living in Victory, California, an idealistic 1950s desert company town. Every day, the men leave for work at Victory Headquarters in the surrounding desert, which their wives are prohibited from entering and discouraged from asking about. The women live as housewives and enjoy luxuries and leisure while the men are out. Alice spends her days with other wives, including her best friend, Bunny. Another resident, Margaret, has become estranged from the community ever since she had a mental breakdown after her unauthorized desert visit resulted in her son's apparent death. Margaret claims Victory took him as punishment for breaking the rules. At a party hosted by Victory's founder, Frank, Alice sees Margaret's husband attempt to medicate her after an outburst. Alice and Jack then have sex in Frank's bedroom, but she notices Frank observing them in silence. While riding the trolley, Alice sees a plane crash in the desert and rushes to help. She stumbles onto Headquarters and touches one of its mirror-like windows, experiencing surreal hallucinations about another life before waking up at home that night. Alice continues to have increasingly strange experiences, then receives a phone call from Margaret, who claims to have seen the same things. After brushing her off, she sees Margaret slit her own throat and fall from her roof. Before she can reach Margaret's body, Alice is dragged away by men in red jumpsuits who work for Frank. Jack dismisses Alice's claims and says Margaret is simply recovering from a household accident. When Alice asks him what is really happening at the Victory Project, he becomes angry and refuses to answer. The town physician, Dr. Collins, prescribes Alice medication, which she and Jack decline, and she steals Margaret's heavily redacted medical file from his briefcase before burning it. Becoming increasingly paranoid during a company celebration where Frank promotes Jack, Alice breaks down in the bathroom. Comforted by Bunny, she attempts to explain her suspicions. Bunny reacts angrily when Alice tells her she went to Headquarters, accusing her of jeopardizing their livelihood in Victory and comparing her to Margaret. Alice and Jack invite their neighbors to dinner, including Frank and his wife Shelley. Frank privately confirms her suspicions and dares her to challenge him. Spurred on, Alice attempts to expose him over dinner, but Frank makes her appear delusional to the others, causing Jack grief. Afterward, Alice tells Jack that she despises their life in the Victory Project and begs him to leave. He feigns agreement, then lets Frank's men take her away in the driveway. Dr. Collins gives Alice electroshock therapy, during which she sees herself in the 21st century, struggling to get by as surgical resident Alice Warren and living with the unemployed Jack. After her treatment, Alice resumes her life in Victory, but comes to realize the visions are actually memories. Confronted by Alice, Jack confesses the truth: Victory is a simulated world created by Frank, where he and the other men lead their version of perfect lives; the women they have forced into the simulation are unaware that their lives in Victory and their children are artificial. When the men leave for work each day, they are actually logging out of the simulation for real jobs to pay for their captive wives to stay there. Jack argues that Alice was miserable in the real world while in Victory they can both finally be happy, but she is livid she's being held there non-consensually and without her autonomy. Jack begs Alice to stay, forcefully grabbing her, prompting her to smash a rocks glass over his head, killing him in both the simulation and reality. Frank immediately hears of Jack's death. Bunny finds Alice and admits she has always known about the simulation, but chose to stay to be with her children, who died in real life. She tells Alice that Frank's minions will kill her if she doesn't get to Headquarters—the exit portal from the simulation. Alice silently confronts the neighborhood, and as small explosions begin, the husbands panic. Fleeing in Jack's car, Alice is chased by Dr. Collins and Frank's men. She maneuvers them into fatally crashing into each other. Meanwhile, Shelley fatally stabs Frank to take control of Victory. Arriving at Headquarters, Alice has a final vision of Jack, then puts her hands on Headquarters just before Frank's men can reach her. Seeing disturbing images mixed with visions of herself in the real world, the screen cuts to black as Alice is heard gasping for air.
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In 1987, James Brennan plans to have a summer vacation in Europe after graduating from Oberlin College. His parents inform him that their current finances will not permit them to support him and he will have to spend the summer working instead. James gets a job working the carnival games at Adventureland, a local amusement park in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where his childhood friend Tommy Frigo works. Another games worker, Emily "Em" Lewin, saves James from being stabbed by a cheating customer and offers him a ride home that night. With her father and stepmother out of town, Em throws a party. At the party, Em and James discover they share a similar taste in music. Em persuades James to join her in her swimming pool, but an unfortunately timed erection humiliates him in front of everyone. After the party, Mike Connell, who is married and has been having an affair with Em, comes over and they have sex. As the love triangle between Mike, Em, and James continues to develop, other romances blossom between their coworkers at Adventureland. James also has a brief romance with rides worker Lisa P. Another of James' coworkers tells James that one night, he saw Em and Connell doing "pushups without any pants on" in the back of Connell's car. Frigo drives James to Connell's mother's house and they see Em leaving. James tells Lisa about the affair and asks her not to tell anyone, but she tells her friend Kelly and soon afterwards the news spreads throughout the park. Em quits and moves back to New York. James gets drunk, crashes his father's car into their neighbor's tree, and passes out. The next morning, James' prospective grad school roommate decides to go to Harvard Business School instead, leaving him with nowhere to live in New York. James heads to New York City and waits outside Em's apartment in the rain. When she arrives, she invites him in and they reconcile.
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A combined U.S.-Russian special forces operation captures General Ivan Radek, the dictator of Kazakhstan. Three weeks later, U.S. President James Marshall attends a diplomatic dinner in Moscow, Russia, during which he praises the capture and insists the U.S will no longer negotiate with terrorists. Marshall and his entourage, including his wife Grace and 12-year-old daughter Alice, and several of his Cabinet and advisers, prepare to return to the U.S. on Air Force One. In addition, members of the press have been invited aboard, including Radek loyalists disguised as journalists led by Egor Korshunov. A few hours after takeoff, Secret Service agent Gibbs, who is a mole, enables Korshunov and his accomplices to obtain weapons and storm the plane, killing many of the other agents and military personnel before taking the civilians hostage. Marshall is raced to an escape pod in the cargo hold and seemingly escapes as the pod is ejected. 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Top 8 DrivingSales Executive Summit 2014 Takeaways
The reality is this: you can't implement everything, but you can't afford to implement nothing. [] You need to determine what is most important and how you are going to accomplish it. To assist you in this endeavor, here are my top 8 takeaways from DSES 2014. In no particular order.
The Takeaway: You can’t just pump out content anymore. Not only do you need quantity to build yourself up as a reliable source, but you also need quality original content that is designed to answer user intent.
Rand Fishkin (@randfish) - "Google is an Answer Engine"
Rand, self-proclaimed "Wizard" of MOZ (and I don't disagree) gave us an update of Google and how it is no longer a "search engine" but now is moving towards a Skynet inspired sentient being, or "Answer/ Intent Engine".
We no longer seek out information, we seek out answers. Our instant gratification culture is in full force. We want an answer box, and we are not willing to accept anything less.
To facilitate this change Google now acts to solve the world's questions, before they are asked. The engine, now smarter than keywords and meta tags alone decides what answers it wants to use based on how it interprets content. Not on how you present it.
Jared Hamilton (@DrivingSales) – “We are going to be competing on customer experience”
Jared Hamilton (@DrivingSales) - "We are going to be competing on customer experience"
Jared gave us a sneak peek into the massive study DrivingSales is currently undergoing that focuses how we are perceived by the customer, and what they want in the car buying process. The results thus far are scary. This study, to be unveiled at NADA 2015 focuses on what customers ACTUALLY want in their automotive buying experience, not what we think they want. Or, more accurately, what we are cramming down their throats.
Right now the automotive industry is at a serious fork in the road and we have run out of race track. We need to decide today if we are willing to put in the effort to make serious changes to how we do business.
If we continue on the path that we are on, customers will moved towards alternatives that offer a better customer experience. We have all seen the Blockbuster story, the Kodak story, the Borders story, Blackberry, Tower Records, Circuit City, Polaroid, Sega or the countless other incidents where empires have fallen because they refused to adapt to the needs of the customer. If we don't change, right now will be the point where everyone looks back and says,
"How could they not see it? They had a chance to save themselves"
Now, where this hits the DEFCON-5 alert status is that we ALL need to work together to provide a phenomenally better customer experience. Not just one dealer, or one group, or one manufacture; we ALL need to really, truly, and honestly change. Else, stick your head in the sand and wait for it all to be over.
The Takeaway: Customer Experience; we are all in this together.
The Takeaway: Innovate your business to forecast the needs of tomorrow’s customer today, and start by asking why.
Brian Solis (@briansolis) - "Asking "why?" Prompts "what if?" Which leads to "what's next."
I don't need to watch horror movies to be terrified this Halloween, when I have Brian Solis. This slide from his presentation is what I mean:
"9,480. The mileage per year you'd have to exceed in order for mid-size car ownership to be cheaper than taking an UberX car everywhere you go." []
That is terrifying for anyone who works in the car business. Now, I am aware some due diligence into the data needs to be done, but on the service it's enough to panic.
Terror wasn't what Brian was hoping to convey however. In fact, it was one of the best presentations that inspired the reality of today's marketplace. He took our hand, and together we walked off the cliff of the past into the future. I believe his goal was to inspire us. Allow us to see how rapidly things can change under our noses. Prepare us for the coming change by asking "why" and most importantly innovate.
When you add this presentation to Jared's, its blindingly apparent how much we as an industry needs to change to adapt to the customer expectations of tomorrow.
The Takeaway: Innovate your business to forecast the needs of tomorrow's customer today, and start by asking why.
The Takeaway: "Pick up the F-cking Phone, then focus on your digital wizardry"
Elise Kephart (@TheYoutubediva) - "Pick up the F-cking Phone"
While the majority of Elise's breakout was a glimpse into her utter brilliance as a self-promoter, one of the most pertinent points of the entire summit was her opening slide, "Pick up the F-cking Phone".
As much as I loathe the phrase, "Back to basics" I can't argue with Elise's opening. Especially at a tech-heavy summit filled with the latest and greatest technological advancements, it is easy to forget what works.
Yes, you can geo-target customers, hi-jack their email inbox and send personalized video messages, and track their every movement prior to and upon arriving at your dealership; however none of today's digital trickery works without having a conversation with a customer. Something best accomplished by simply: picking up the phone.
So, amongst all the fancy new software, processes and ideologies don't forget the most basic tool in the automotive business: the phone.
The Takeaway: Advertising = Planning. Lots of planning.
Adam Justis - "Last Millisecond Marketing"
Adam easily had the best looking presentation. Being from Adobe you would expect that :P
Joking aside, his presentation outlined how the marketing world in the last two years has changed more than in the last 50. When you put that into the dealer's advertising perspective, traditional forms of advertising are so far out of the spectrum it's no longer funny. It's just sad.
The days of slapping together an advertisement minutes before deadline are gone. Long gone. Really long gone. To compete in today's marketing landscape takes some serious planning. Not just for what sales event you are going to run next week, or next month, but recording data and using it to plot where the customer will be next and drive content at the exact moment. The concept is last millisecond marketing, where literally in that last moment the advertising message can change based on the behavior of the user.
Now, this is some pretty heavy stuff for most, and that's okay. What is most important is the planning. If you aren't in the habit of seriously planning your advertising strategy, the follow of your website and what triggers which advertising; you need to start now.
The Takeaway: Advertising = Planning. Lots of planning.
The Takeaway: "Stay ahead of the curve. Start planning now on how you can implement this technology ASAP"
Paul Wagner (CloudEngage) - "There is no reason to deploy an app. Period."
I've never been a fan of dealership APS. Not just because between 2011-2013 I was be pitched 5-10 times a week, but because I knew from the start they were a cash grab from unscrupulous vendors hoping to make a quick buck off an unsuspecting dealer.
The only aspect I saw promise in, was push notifications. That you could target your customer based, based on demographics and most importantly location. How fantastic would it be if you could notify a customer who is due for an oil & filter service when they are 2 miles from your dealership?
Somewhere along the way, aps and location based push notifications floated off my radar. It wasn't until I was sitting in front of Paul that I realized I've been missing out.
Push notifications are now available through a mobile web browser. Modern HTML5 mobile websites in conjunction with the latest iOS and Android Operating Systems now have the ability to push notifications to a user's smart phone. No ap required.
Not only that, but the idea of having your website morph based on location literally made my jaw drop. (Ask Paul, I was sitting right in front of him).
I'm going to throw it out there now, but this will be THE hot topic of 2015; mobile location based websites.
The Takeaway: Your customers are different, don't paint them all with the same brush.
Bryan Eisenberg (@TheGrok) - "Segments, sub-segments & self selection"
I will happily admit to being biased in favour of Bryan, as I have completed the DrivingSales University Conversion Optimization Certification that largely focuses on his teachings, in addition to having read countless of his books and blog articles. With that said, I believe the very best thing you can do with your dealership right now is to start picking up what Bryan is laying down.
Although his keynote didn't even begin to do justice to the information available in his books or the DSU course, it did touch on one of the most important aspects of his teachings: Customer Persona's.
All customers are not the same. One customer may be more emotionally driven, another more competitive. Each customer will require different items and touch points on their car buying journey. Why then, do we only have one way to flow through our websites? If each customer naturally follows a different path, why do we force them down the same funnel?
Bryan's concept is simple, but does take some planning. Determine all the different persona's that match your customers, and plot our how they will journey from search to website to sale. Each persona will have a different path. Take this information, and then modify your website / process to reflect the natural paths they want to take. Providing customers the process they want, will ultimately lead to a higher conversion ratio.
Let me explain it a different way. You are the parent of 4 children, two boys, two girls, all different ages and you want them all to clean their rooms. Which is a better strategy:
1. Tell them all to clean their rooms, or else.
2. Have a different strategy for each child based on their personalities.
Option "a", may work in the short term, but if your goal is to have them keep their rooms clean in the long term you know that each child will require a different strategy. One child may require a reward system, another may require "buy-in" on why a clean room is important, another may want to keep a room clean on their own.
Each persona will react differently to your sales process, so to maximize conversions your process should be able to adapt accordingly. It's a big overall task, but it's imperative to start thinking more about the differences between your customers.
The Takeaway: The better the mobile experience, the better the customer's ENTIRE experience will be.
Mike Hudson (@verified_hudson) - "Auto shoppers are spending more time on pc than mobile, because are forced to."
Mike's data wasn't surprising, but it did offer hope for those willing to put into the effort. The mobile car buying experience is not ideal, so much so that customers are being forced to do their shopping on a PC.
The data shows that the shoppers want to interact with us on mobile, we just don't have the infrastructure to allow them to do this. What this means to you is, if your store has a truly fantastic mobile experience you will be head and shoulders above your competition.
This ties into the entire concept of customer experience. The car buying journey begins on your website, and if that experience is negative it sets the tone for the entire process.
What did I miss? Do you agree/disagree with any of my points? What were your biggest takeaways? Share your thoughts in the comments below:
Megan Barto
Great takeaways! And for those of you who didn't go to DSES, this blog post screams "YOU SHOULD GO" doesn't it?
Robert Karbaum
Thanks Megan!
Tim McLain
Excellent takeaways, thanks for sharing! I hope all dealers take a moment to think about new ways to attract cross-shoppers with conquest remarketing. I shared case studies at DSES. It's a new, cost-effective tactic most dealers aren't using - and it's boosting CTRs and cutting conversion costs in half. Grab my deck - "Success Stories in Search Remarketing & Advanced Mobile Search for Progressive Dealers" - from the master list here: See you all next year! Tim McLain, Netsertive @tmclain
Grant Gooley
Robert, maybe you should take Kephart's takeaway for when I call you!! :P On a serious note, well said and some great info here. I've said it once and I'll say it a million more times... DSES 2014 was the year to remember. The DS team took the summit to an entire new level. These takeaways are a great example as to why it was so great!
Robert Karbaum
Haha Grant. I only accept personalized videos. No phone calls. :P
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Directed By: Joe Wright
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana, John Macmillan, Jessica Barden, Olivia Williams, Jason Flemyng, Tom Hollander, et.al.
Rating: PG-13
Grade: A-
Sixteen year old Hanna Heller was raised in isolation by her father Erik, so he could train her to be the ultimate killing machine. When she feels she’s ready, she activates a beacon that brings the CIA to their doorstep, and begins her ultimate mission of taking down Marissa Wiegler, Erik’s former handler with the CIA, whom Hanna believes to be behind the death of her mother. As Hanna tracks Wiegler, she also makes her way back to Germany to make contact with a friend of her father’s, and in the process gets her first taste of the outside world. Despite making new friends, Hanna’s mission takes precedent, and her cat and mouse game with Wiegler comes to a deadly and explosive head.
As far as action thrillers go, this movie was incredibly well done. The basic plot isn’t too far outside the realm of believability, especially given that the program Hanna was meant to be in seems to have been developed in the wake of the Cold War. The acting is well done, and the characters seem to work well together. Cate Blanchett’s southern accent gets a bit annoying after a while. Saoirse Ronan does an excellent job of balancing near-psychopathic tendencies with a genuine curiosity in the world she’s experiencing for the first time.
There aren’t too many effects used, and what little there is isn’t really noticeable.
This is an excellent movie that I would highly recommend. The story and characters are well developed, and the violence isn’t overwhelming. Even people who don’t generally enjoy action movies should enjoy this one.
Hanna is currently not available to stream anywhere, but can be rented through Redbox or Netflix home delivery service, or purchased through a participating store or on-line retailer.
Directed By: Will Canon
Rating: R
Grade: C+
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Directed By: Jonas Åkerlund
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Vanessa Hudgens, Katheryn Winnick, Fei Ren, Ruby O. Fee, Matt Lucas, Robert Maillet, Anthony Grant, Josh Cruddas, Richard Dreyfuss, Johnny Knoxville, et. al.
Rated: TV-MA
Grade: C+
Duncan Vizla, a haunted expert assassin nearing a mandatory retirement that comes with a multi-million dollar final payout, decides to take on one final job for his employer, a company called Damocles. In the course of attempting to complete the assassination, Duncan learns that there was more to the job than he had been told, and eventually deduces that it was a setup intended to get him killed. Upon returning to one of his homes, this one located in a remote Montana town, to quietly wait for 50th birthday, he finds himself becoming enthralled with his nearest neighbor, Camille, a quiet, vulnerable young woman. However, his employer has sent an elite group of young assassins after him to ensure that they won’t have to make the payment. After the initial attack fails and Camille is taken, Duncan does everything in his extensive skill set to get her back.
This movie should have been much better than it actually was. Despite having several better than average actors and an interesting, somewhat original plot. Toward the beginning of the film, the action is often interrupted to splash a character’s name across the screen manga-style, and the pacing seems off. All but a handful of characters spend the entirety of their screen time chewing on scenery and hamming it up. The only explanation we’re given for Damocles wanting to kill off its retiring assassins is pure greed, which doesn’t hold up to the level effort put into eliminating Duncan. There’s also a plot point revolving around Camille recounting a story of being raped by a mall Santa while working as an elf, which is never really cleared up as to whether she made it up after her true motivations for moving to the town are revealed.
The effects are all pretty good. There isn’t too much CGI used, and the background filler isn’t obvious.
This movie is probably best saved for when you need background noise while working on another project. Despite having the potential, the movie doesn’t really find it’s feet until the last 10 minutes or so, but by then, you may be wondering if you can request your time back. Mikkelsen and Hudgens do a great job with their respective roles, but then again, they seem to be the only ones taking anything seriously.
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Chain Reaction
Chain Reaction
Directed By: Andrew Davis
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Morgan Freeman, Brian Cox, Fred Ward, Kevin Dunn, Joanna Cassidy, Chelcie Ross, Nicholas Rudall, Tzi Ma, Krzysztof Pieczynski, et. al.
Rated: PG-13
Grade: B+
Shortly after a successful test of a green energy generator, University of Chicago undergrad student Eddie Kasalavich returns to the lab he’s working out of to find his professor murdered and the energy prototype set to overload. With the FBI attempting to arrest him for murder and espionage, Eddie goes on the run with the only person who believes him to be innocent of the crime, fellow researcher Dr. Lily Sinclair, who appears to have also been framed. Together they attempt to gather evidence that proves their innocence while forces both inside and outside the law attempt to track them down.
So far as spy-ish thrillers go, this one hold up fairly well. While far from perfect, a storyline involving a new, clean energy source and the desire to keep it away from the general public is something that’s still applicable in today’s society, especially as we currently try to seek out alternative energy sources to stop dependence on fossil fuels. The reasoning behind the bad guys’ wanting to destroy such an energy source is typically financially motivated, as they try to make it out to be for the benefit of the global economy. The fact that they don’t come off as complete crazies, even now, shows how strongly written and acted it is.
Some of the effects haven’t held up very well over the years, but a surprising number of them have. The background filler remains mostly unnoticeable.
Pretty much anyone looking for a decent action/thriller should like this movie. As stated before, the story is fairly solid and holds up surprisingly well, though I can’t say much about the science. It was also interesting to see Morgan Freeman play against type as one of the bad guys, thought he does keep his hands clean throughout the majority of the movie.
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Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven
Directed By: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Byung-Hun Lee, Manuel Garcia-Ruflo, Martin Sensmeier, Hayley Bennett, Peter Sarsgaard, Luke Grimes, Matt Bomer, Jonathan Joss, Cam Gigandet, et. al.
Rated: PG-13
Grade: A-
In the late 1800s, the small town of Rose Creek is being overrun by a robber baron named Bartholomew Bogue, who runs a mining operation nearby. When a confrontation between Bogue and the townsfolk results in several deaths, newly created widow Emma Cullen and her companion Teddy Q seek out the help of Sam Chisolm to defend the town when Bogue returns with reinforcements to finish what he started. After agreeing to help, Chisolm recruits a local con man and gunfighter named Josh Faraday, using a horse Faraday lost in a bet as incentive. Chisolm then sends Faraday and Teddy to another town to recruit a man named Goodnight Robicheaux, who, along with a knife-wielding fighter named Billy Rocks, agrees to take the job after learning they’ll be paid. In search of more men to recruit, Chisolm and Emma come upon an outlaw named Vasquez squatting in the home of a dead man, and Chisolm offers him a chance to avoid punishment in exchange for joining him. After the two groups reunite, they seek out trader Jack Horne, who is recruited after killing the men who attempted to kill him. As they head back to Rose Creek, they are happened upon by lone Comanche Indian named Red Harvest, who joins their cause after Chisolm speaks with him. When they return to town, they fight off the men that Bogue left behind, and use the time until he returns to prepare the remaining townsfolk for the battle that awaits them.
This remake (of a remake) is one of the few that holds up when compared to the original. It’s also one of the few times that the modern leaning towards representative casting makes sense, as it would be probably incredibly likely to see a mixed bag of cultural and racial backgrounds amongst a group of mostly outlaws in the Old West. The actors all work well together, and everyone seemed to be having fun. The story itself is somewhat believable, with there being at least one documented instance of this type of things happening to small towns near mining ventures.
The effects seem to be mostly practically done, with the only CGI likely to be background filler, which isn’t noticeable.
This movie should appeal to anyone looking for a good action/drama or atypical western. The storyline is good, and you come genuinely to care about the characters. Some of the dialogue can get a bit cheesy and Chris Pratt is in typical form of not taking himself seriously, but other than that, it’s a solid movie that should appeal to most viewers.
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Terminator Genisys
Terminator: Genisys
Directed By: Alan Taylor
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney, Jason Clarke, Matt Smith, J.K. Simmons, Dayo Okeniyi, Courtney B. Vance, Byung-Hun Lee, Sandrine Holt, Michael Gladis, et.al.
Rated: PG-13
Grade: C
After helping John Connor defeat Skynet once and for all, Kyle Reese is sent back in time to protect John’s mother, Sarah, from a Terminator sent to kill John before he can be born. However, while Kyle is being transported, John is attacked, and the past that Kyle is sent to leads to a different future than the one he originally came from. Teaming up with a battle-ready Sarah Connor and the Terminator sent to protect her after her parents were killed in an earlier attack, Kyle directs them to 2017, the year that Judgment Day is now set to take place. Aided by a police officer who witnessed an attack on Kyle by a T-1000, they attempt to put a stop to Skynet once and for all, and put history back into place.
This reboot of the popular franchise isn’t necessarily bad, per se, but it’s not great, either. Despite getting James Cameron’s seal of approval before its release, poor critical and fan reviews all but ensured the planned trilogy wouldn’t be fully realized. The storyline itself is interesting, and puts a different spin on the What-Ifs of previous sequels. Another ding on the movie is the fact that the two leads don’t have the chemistry of their predecessors, and come off as if they’re playing against a sibling rather than a soulmate. Other than that, the actors seem to work well together, and Jason Clarke looks reasonably like someone who could be a child of Emilia Clarke (no relation) and Jai Courtney. This movie may have actually faired better had a large plot twist not been spoiled by the trailers and posters for the movie, which turned off a number of fans and potential moviegoers. Had that not happened, the movie itself may have been better received, and potentially been able to play out the 3-movie arc that was originally planned.
The special effects are all well done. In addition to explosions and bullet strikes, there are also some CGI graphics. Since the movie was meant to be seen in 3D, there are also some effects that would have added depth to the scenes. All background filler is unnoticeable.
Anyone looking for a decent sci-fi/action movie would probably enjoy this, so long as they’re not huge fans of the original. All in all, it’s a rather harmless way to burn a couple of hours, and viewers don’t need to pay much attention to the plot once the ball gets rolling.
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Discovery of Witches Season 1
A Discovery of Witches: Season 1
Starring: Matthew Goode, Teresa Palmer, Valerie Pettiford, Malin Buksa, Owen Teale, Edward Bluemel, Aiysha Hart, Alex Kingston, Greg Chillin, Trevor Eve, et.al.
Rating: TV-MA
Network: SkyOne/Sundance
Grade: A
Diana Bishop, a witch descended from a powerful line, travels to Oxford as a guest lecturer and to continue her research into history and alchemy for an upcoming academic papers she’s writing. While there, she comes across a book called Ashmole 782, which, unbeknownst to her, has been missing for centuries. After receiving a powerful burst of magic from the book, creatures around the world (witches, vampires, and daemons) all felt the strange burst and many become determined to figure out where it came from and why. Among them is Matthew Clairmont, a vampire and professor of Biochemistry at Oxford, who begins following Diana in order to learn how she was able to summon the book and persuade her to do it again. However, the more time they spend together, the harder it becomes to deny their growing attraction, which would be a violation of Conclave Law, as well as Diana’s growing power. As more and more creatures seek out Diana for the knowledge they believe she possesses, she and Matthew fight not only to protect their lives, but their love as well, and attempt to unravel the secret behind the missing text and what it means for the future of the creature species.
I’m a bit of a sucker for fantasy, so this immediately appealed to me. Not only was the storyline compelling, but it wasn’t completely outside the realm of possibility. I have yet to read the book series it’s based on, but based on what little I’ve read, the show is a fairly faithful adaptation of the first book. The acting is well done, and Goode and Palmer have excellent chemistry. A handful of the actors use accents that aren’t their own, but they do a fairly good job of it. Although it was a bit disconcerting for me to hear actors I know to be British speaking with an American accent. While most of the show was filmed in Wales, there were some scenes filmed in England and Italy, which added some nice touches of realism.
The special effects were all well done, and any background filler wasn’t noticeable.
While not all of the creature abilities are outlined, it doesn’t detract much from the storyline, as some things can be surmised just by watching the show and others are likely to be explained in upcoming seasons. It’s a serialized show, so you do need to pay a little bit of attention, and there is a large, prevalent romantic story so anyone who doesn’t enjoy romance mixed with their adventure stories may not like that aspect of the show.
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Directed By: Ruben Fleischer
Starring: Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Jenny Slate, Scott Haze, Reid Scott, Melora Walters, Peggy Lu, et. al.
Rated: PG-13
Grade: B
Shortly after a space shuttle operated by the Life Foundation crashed to earth and resulted in the deaths of the onboard crew, investigative reporter Eddie Brock is granted an interview with the Foundation’s CEO, Carlton Drake. Despite being told by his boss not to mention the crash, Eddie uses inside information he found on his fiancé’s computer to corner Drake, which results in Eddie losing both his job and his fiancé. Six months later, Eddie is still unemployed since he was effectively blackballed as a reporter due to the Drake incident and is barely managing to keep his life together. One day, however, he’s approached by Dr. Dora Skirth, a colleague of Carlton Drake’s, who informs Eddie that Drake recovered alien life from an asteroid before the shuttle crash, and has been performing human experiments in an attempt to create hybridized life forms with the beings Drake calls Symbiotes. After Skirth sneaks Eddie into the Life Foundation labs, Eddie becomes infected with a Symbiote calling itself Venom, and the two team up to stop Drake, who was infected with the only other remaining Symbiote, Riot, from bringing the rest of the Symbiote race to Earth, which would result in mankind being wiped out.
Based on the comic book character, who was introduced as a villain in the Spider-Man comics, Venom, according to some of what I’ve read, picks up after the character is given its own line of comics and is turned into more of an antihero. The movie itself is pretty good. As I’m not overly-familiar with comic books, I was only aware of Venom as a straight-up villain, so seeing him in the hero role took a little getting used to. The actors all do well, and Tom Hardy gets to show off his comedic skills with a bit of physical comedy. He also does a good job of portraying someone who isn’t completely in control of their own body in the scenes where Venom first makes himself known. Riz Ahmed seems to enjoy playing the bad guy and he makes you believe that the character thinks what they’re doing is right.
The effects are well done. The alien visages look a little off at times, but until the end fight scene, you don’t see them enough for it to matter, and the background filler isn’t noticeable.
Comic book fans should enjoy this. Despite some scathing critical reviews, the movie isn’t bad at all. It peppers in just enough humor to keep it from being melodramatic, but takes itself seriously enough to not be farcical. And, while it’s not a backdoor entry into the MCU, as many had hoped, it holds it’s own and creates an interesting universe nonetheless.
Venom is currently not available free to stream, but it can be rented from Redbox or Netflix home delivery service, or purchased from a participating store or on-line retailer.
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Hell Fest
Hell Fest
Directed By: Gregory Plotkin
Starring: Amy Forsyth, Reign Edwards, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Roby Attal, Christian James, Matt Mercurio, Stephen Conroy, Tony Todd, et. al.
Rated: R
Grade: B+
After returning to her hometown Natalie learns that her best friend, Brooke, has gotten tickets to a traveling horror-themed amusement park for the two of them, as well as Taylor, Brooke’s roommate, Asher and Quinn, Taylor and Brooke’s boyfriends, and Gavin, a boy Natalie has a crush on, to attend on Halloween night. When the group arrives at the park, they enter a haunted house and the girls end up getting separated from the boys. While searching for a way out, another attendee runs across them and claims that a killer is chasing her. When a masked man approaches looking for the girl, they direct him to where the girl is hiding, since they believe it to be part of the entertainment. However, as the night progresses, Natalie starts to notice the same man following her and her friends throughout the park, and becomes concerned when one of their group seems to go missing. Simply believing her to be paranoid, her friends brush her off until they realize that it’s too late and their lives are in real danger.
While I’m not completely jaded to horror movies, this one was interesting to watch in that it had a more original concept. Despite safety regulations, traveling carnivals and theme parks have long had sketchy reputations, and the movie outright plays into the theory that serial killers stalk through these places looking for victims. The acting is well done, and the actors are all have decent chemistry and make believable friends/couples.
The majority of the movie takes place at night, and most of the effects are practical. What few non-practical effects there are were well done, and the background filler isn’t noticed.
Anyone who likes horror movies should enjoy this one. There are some genuine scares and tense moments. One or two of the death scenes were a little much for me, but it was only the manner in which they were killed that bothered me, and not the amount of blood/gore involved.
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Clap on! Clap off!
1. A replicant
3. Alana Haim deserves better seats than this
4. Stanley Tucci on a ski trip
5. David Duchovny’s face
6. HAL 9000 putting on its best gold
7. Debra Jo Rupp
8. General U.S. Grant again
9. A cumulonimbus cloud
10. I don’t know, but her body language is appropriate
11. David Duchovny’s hair
12. Cousin It
13. Beldar Conehead
14. Hogarth Hughes
15. Maria, from Sesame Street
17. Yoko Ono
19. The Chinless Contessa
21. Burt Reynolds (again… Phil Holt)
22. Jennifer Anniston’s hair
23. Sid, from accounting
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24 responses to “Clap on! Clap off!
1. William Thompson
Don’t forget the first panel of Marianne Winner herself:
0: Clara Bow’s lips. Or maybe it’s Betty Boop.
• Hitorque
1. Who gives a shit about audiences over in Red China?
2. So she went from “Screw the academy for not giving us more nominations!” to “Screw the distributors, the backers, you mouth breathers who didn’t buy a ticket and anyone else who can’t recognize true art!!” Classy…
3. Yeah Marianne, this is why you have to write a proper acceptance speech in advance even if you don’t think you’ll win… Because this is a disaster.
3a. And yes, this is totally a “music starts playing, thank you please shut the fuck up and take your seat” smattering of courtesy applause…
• Banana Jr. 6000
“Bank in China” crucial to the story for one very important reason: it happened to Les.
2. Epicus Doomus
Just a few minutes ago, Marianne was unprepared, stunned and awe-stricken, but now she’s thanking producers and throwing around “insider” showbiz lingo like a weathered old pro. She’s not just an inconsistent character, she’s an impossible character, as no human being could possibly possess this mix of character traits. And the crowd, which should be confused, uncomfortable and silent, LOVES it. Go figure.
3. Banana Jr. 6000
“Lisa’s Story may not have banked in China”… why does Marianne even know about that? Why does even matter? Mason and Les went to that meeting. And it was one of several failed pitch meetings before connecting with Pink Entertainment. Rejection is a pretty common thing in Hollywood; it’s not even worth bringing up here.
But Tom Batiuk assumes everyone else in the world is as thin-skinned and endlessly bitter as he is, so here we are.
• Epicus Doomus
As recently as a few weeks ago Marianne was home with her mom, doing needlepoint or something equally wholesome, blissfully unaware that “Lisa’s Story” had become a minor streaming hit. Now today, she’s cracking jokes about the foreign box office numbers, like a grizzled cynical showbiz veteran. How can it be both?
• Rusty Shackleford
Don’t read too much into that. “Banked” is something Batty heard somewhere and so he threw it in as he thinks it makes her sound authentic.
• Banana Jr. 6000
But she didn’t just say “banked.” She said “banked in China”, an echo of something very specific from earlier in the story. When writers do that, readers expect it to mean something. Batiuk is always giving impressions he doesn’t mean to, because of his complete ignorance of basic writing tropes.
4. Banana Jr. 6000
Not good at reading the room? I guess not, since she still has no clue that her hero Les hated her guts and wanted nothing to do with her. And told this to everyone in earshot. And visibly pouted at her every time she was around.
5. Sourbelly
Marianne is greeted by shark eyes when she trots out the “banked in China” line. But the crowd erupts in applause when she admits that she can’t read a room. Whatever, this marks the end of this rotten thing, right?
So what’s next: More Harry Dinkhole or the Kwazy Komix guys?
As for the Faces Challenge:
#18 Woody Allen
#2 Ann Coulter
#9 Farrah Fawcett-Majors
• be ware of eve hill
I must have drunk too much wine while making dinner. I don’t understand the last four panels either.
Does anybody speak Batiukese? Help us, please?
Is the crowd applauding because they agree she doesn’t know ‘how to read a room’?
Why is no one pelting Marianne with vegetables yet?
• Y. Knott
No, it’s not you. The last four panels make no sense whatsoever.
Perhaps if you drink more wine…..
• none
This would have been my comment as well. I don’t know how I’m supposed to parse this strip. Are they applauding in agreement? Are they applauding to get her to shut up? This is prime CIDU material.
• Banana Jr. 6000
Does anybody speak Batiukese?
I don’t think anyone anywhere does.
• Epicus Doomus
I’m not really sure what he was going for here either. I assume she’s supposed to have won over the crowd of elite Hollywood scumbags with her homespun charm and blinding humility, as it’s something they rarely get to experience out there in Beelzebubville, what with all the scumbags and all. I mean, it’s not a joke, so they can’t be applauding that and really, what else is there?
• Banana Jr. 6000
Her “homespun charm and blinding humility” after she just insulted the whole room, bashed the Academy, and made tasteless jokes.
This comic strip has no theory of mind. It can’t imagine anything except how appease Les and Dinkle. The “bank in China” comment makes no sense for Marianne to say, or for anyone in the room to understand. But they all just clap like trained seals as if they were all in that pitch meeting, and are all just thin-skinned and bitter as Tom Batiuk is, over an irrelevant story point.
• Rusty Shackleford
Yes, but since she didn’t get any “ points on the backend”, soon she will be eating from vendos while on board a tramp steamer bound for Liverpool laden with sportos traveling to see a soccer game.
Lisa would have liked that.
• The Nelson Puppet
6. J.J. O'Malley
Ah, Marianne, you poor, sweet, unworldly waif! You still aren’t good at reading a room. “Lisa’s Story: The Movie” has indeed banked in China. In fact, it’s currently number one in PRC theatres thanks to some judicious editing, a lot of new subtitles, and its rebranding as the comic romp “High-Strung American Lawyer Lady Comes Down with Fatal Case of COVID-19 from U.S. Lab–Where Virus Was Created to Attack Glorious Workers’ Paradise of China–and Whiny Teacher Boyfriend Helps Pick Out Park Bench Where Her Ashes Will Be Scattered.” It’s the feel-good hit of the post-pandemic box office and the Beijing Bugle gave it a top rating of Five Chairman Maos!
Still dreading finding out where in the coming week(s) the Smug Cayla face in the banner will rise up.
7. Dood
This strip ignores Jimmy Dugan’s advice.
8. none
He was so close.
Panels three through five would have actually worked as a standalone strip, and would have been better for it. She says something weird and irrelevant, people respond as actual humans would to that statement (i.e., confused silence), and she apologizes for her faux pas. End. Done. It would have not been particularly humorous and a bit too self-effacing, but it would have worked well enough to actually be among the best strips that he’s written in the past year, by virtue of it not being so incomprehensibly bad.
But, no. Instead we get this, which implies that she was expecting some kind of response from the crowd after taking what could be the apex of her career and life to passive aggressively complain about something else. Then she apologizes, then a response comes. It has been answered elsewhere here, but I think it bears repeating to ask again – what is the applause in response to? That it didn’t bank in China? That she can’t read a room? That her speech should be over? What, exactly, within the context of the strip and the rest of the week, does that last panel even mean?
9. billytheskink
“But it banked in here…”
10. Westview Radiology
CauCayla says “The Playground is open!!💓”
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[03:30:28] <Bytram> cmd editing gravity waves story to put out at 05:05
[03:51:55] <Bytram> oops, that should have been 17:05 :/
[03:52:11] * Bytram 2nds carbon nanotube fil
[03:52:14] <Bytram> *film
[04:21:49] * Bytram saves VISC story for 18:38
[04:23:22] <cmn32480> thanks bytram... I'm working on the security software for the doors at work
[04:23:30] <cmn32480> getting the new firmware updated and getting the users loaded
[04:23:43] * Bytram suggests giving the users a six-pack
[04:23:49] <Bytram> =)
[04:23:54] <Bytram> brb dishes
[04:23:58] <cmn32480> we use liquor
[04:24:06] <Bytram> it's quicker!
[04:26:11] <Bytram> oh oh. I had just closed Pale Moon and then started an update when it proclaimed I still had it open... had three other windows open, with only ONE of my regular tabs in it; might have lost the other 35 tabs. :(
[04:26:29] <cmn32480> 35 tabs?
[04:26:34] <cmn32480> seriously
[04:27:35] <Bytram> and they are gone. :/
[04:54:17] Bytram is now known as Bytram|away
[04:55:28] <Bytram|away> well, thanks to some sleuthing I'd done about a year ago, I was able to find the session.rdf file where the URLs were kept and extracted all the links I'd had open recently... at least I can get 'em back, now.
[04:55:36] <Bytram|away> and with that, is time for me to get some sleep.
[04:55:51] <cmn32480> ~gnight Bytram|away
[04:55:53] * exec fanatically flings a wine flute of red cordial at Bytram|away
[04:55:57] <Bytram|away> catch ya again tomorrow, or in 5 minutes, whichever comes first!
[04:56:17] <Bytram|away> cmn32480: and a cheerful g'night to you ,too!
[04:56:27] <cmn32480> lol
[04:56:44] <Bytram|away> that'll have to work for now. ;)
[04:57:19] <Bytram|away> well, I gues I could 2nd your two stories before I leave
[05:02:51] <Bytram|away> cmn32480: 2nding done on your stories
[05:02:57] <cmn32480> thx
[05:03:04] <Bytram|away> np
[05:03:15] <Bytram|away> looks like we are in good shape for a good part of sunday.
[05:03:30] <Bytram|away> can catch up in the morning for pushing out some more
[05:03:43] <Bytram|away> and, with that, ta ta for now!
[05:03:47] <Bytram|away> =)
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[15:33:01] <shekel> ^ 03Error
[16:19:23] <cmn32480> bytram++
[16:19:23] <Bender> karma - bytram: 37
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[16:28:59] <cmn32480> bytram++
[16:28:59] <Bender> karma - bytram: 38
[16:29:06] <Bytram> cmn32480: !!
[16:29:12] <cmn32480> bytram !
[16:29:14] <cmn32480> !
[16:29:24] <Bytram> lol
[16:29:28] <Bytram> getting tired, are we?
[16:29:34] <cmn32480> nope
[16:29:36] <cmn32480> just waking up
[16:29:39] <Bytram> or running out of enthusiasm?
[16:29:43] <cmn32480> still on first cup of coffee++
[16:29:47] <Bytram> oh, in that case...
[16:29:50] <Bytram> cmn32480: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[16:29:50] <cmn32480> coffee++
[16:29:50] <Bender> karma - coffee: 42
[16:29:55] <cmn32480> <finger>
[16:29:56] <Bytram> good idea
[16:29:59] <Bytram> coffee++
[16:29:59] <Bender> karma - coffee: 43
[16:30:20] <cmn32480> god damn mornign people.... they shoudl all be beaten with a wet noodle
[16:30:53] <Bytram> make it a half-pound and I'll get the spaghetti sauce ready
[16:31:13] <cmn32480> my wet noodle IS a half pound
[16:31:15] <cmn32480> nograb
[16:31:35] * Bytram ain't grabbing your wet noodle!
[16:31:37] <Bytram> nograb
[16:32:54] <cmn32480> can't grab actions, unfortunately
[16:33:15] * Bytram tries to imagine grab as a noun... and fails
[16:36:51] <cmn32480> mna... hubie writes a good summary!
[16:37:41] <Bytram> which story?
[16:37:49] <cmn32480> the gravitational waves
[16:38:01] <cmn32480> but everythign I 've seen from him has been good so far
[16:38:38] <Bytram> yep, covers a goodly part of the: who what where when why and how questions
[16:39:07] * Bytram just pulled a story out of hold and fleshed it out beyond the original single sentence and link
[16:39:25] * cmn32480 is seconding
[16:39:41] <Bytram> jsut realized I forgot to put something in that story.
[16:39:46] <Bytram> (Fourier visual)
[17:46:10] <Bytram> cmn32480: I see you have 'Most Recent Journal Entries' selected in 'Customize Slashboxes' for the main page
[17:46:24] <Bytram> got a question for ya about a possible improvement
[17:46:24] <cmn32480> yes
[17:46:37] <cmn32480> and how do you see that? been probing the DB again?
[17:47:05] * Bytram has some admin powahs that let's me look at user's settings
[17:47:15] <Bytram> anyway, the first two entries there look something like:
[17:47:16] <Bytram> [takyon] Two interesting BBC Trending stories
[17:47:16] <Bytram> [shortscreen] x86 CPU trivia
[17:47:16] <Bytram> [GungnirSniper] Delayed Stories vs. Slashdot
[17:47:27] <Bytram> okay, first THREE stories
[17:47:52] <cmn32480> no
[17:48:00] <Bytram> clicking on any of those goes to the user's Journal *page* and not directly to the story I clicked on
[17:48:04] <cmn32480> [MichaelDavidCrawford] Tent Burglar
[17:48:04] <cmn32480> [takyon] Two interesting BBC Trending stories
[17:48:04] <cmn32480> [shortscreen] x86 CPU trivia
[17:48:04] <cmn32480> [GungnirSniper] Delayed Stories vs. Slashdot
[17:48:41] <Bytram> huh. /me needs to refresh his page.
[17:48:59] <Bytram> okay, so I click on MDC's entry
[17:49:10] <Bytram> It brings me to his journal *page*
[17:49:33] <cmn32480> then you cringe...
[17:49:37] <cmn32480> and try anoher
[17:51:13] <cmn32480> that is correct
[17:51:34] <cmn32480> but the entry, if on the "Recent" slashbox, is new
[17:51:38] <cmn32480> and likely at the top
[17:51:45] <Bytram> just finished reading. Ugh!
[17:51:55] <cmn32480> yeah
[17:52:35] <Bytram> the point being, when I click on a "story" on the main page, it takes me to the story *AND* the comments.
[17:52:52] <cmn32480> so you wanna fix the slash box?
[17:53:00] <Bytram> in the journal, I gotta click on the comment count under the journal entry to actually get to the comments
[17:53:21] <Bytram> also, if there was a journal entry I found interesting, I need to keep opening it to see if anyone has added another comment
[17:53:23] <Bytram> yes
[17:53:33] <Bytram> so, I'm thinking of making a change
[17:53:46] <Bytram> not sure if I can actually *DO* it, but here's what I would like:
[17:54:57] <Bytram> <a href="link_to_user's_journal_page">[$user_nick]</a> <a href="story_link">$story_title</a> ($comment_count)
[17:55:01] <Bytram> e.g.
[17:55:20] <Bytram> [martyb] Latest Thoughts (3)
[17:56:11] <Bytram> clicking on "martyb" takes me to: my journal *page*
[17:57:38] <Bytram> https://soylentnews.org
[17:57:45] <shekel> ^ 03Journal of martyb (76)
[17:58:12] <Bytram> clicking on "Latest Thoughts" would take me to the actual Journal Article and all its comments
[17:58:37] <Bytram> and the count would be just a text field that was just displayed (not clickable)
[17:58:45] <cmn32480> ok
[17:59:36] <Bytram> so, you get the idea. was wondering what your thoughts were on it?
[18:00:37] <Bytram> I'm thinking I can't be the only one who wants to follow a journal entry, and having the comment count visible would make it more useful and popular
[18:01:00] <cmn32480> at that point why not jsut set it up to message when a new comment is posted?
[18:02:05] <Bytram> good question... I guess because I can just scan down the list of Journal entries and, at-a-glance, see if I want to dive in and see what has been added.
[18:02:15] <Bytram> is quicker for me to hve all the info in one place.
[18:04:48] <Bytram> btw, we've already had TWO stripe subscriptions come in today! =)
[18:05:21] <cmn32480> mrc's test sub don't count
[18:05:31] <Bytram> not counting that one
[18:05:35] <cmn32480> good
[18:05:40] <Bytram> YUPPERS!
[18:06:33] <Bytram> I realized after the site update story went live and told people that we now support Stripe, that there was no link in the story to the Subscription sign-up page! Added that in early today.
[18:06:56] <cmn32480> saw that in the backscroll
[18:07:29] <Bytram> kewel
[18:08:05] * cmn32480 goes for more coffee++
[18:08:37] <Bytram> I picked up some cheap DVDs a few days ago, and am debating which one to watch: "The Fifth Element', 'I Am Legend', and 'Inception'
[18:09:25] * Bytram has seen 5th element before, but Milla Jovovich and Bruce Willis put in great performances, so wouldn't mind seeing again.
[18:09:30] <Bytram> have you seen either of the others?
[18:09:33] <cmn32480> can't make a recommendation... never seen any of them
[18:09:38] <Bytram> nod nod
[18:10:08] * cmn32480 notes he wouldn't mid seeing mill jovovitch putting on a different kind of performance
[18:10:40] <Bytram> noted. ♩♪♩♫♪
[18:10:43] * cmn32480 also thinks he's got the new door security software figured out!
[18:11:04] <Bytram> nice!
[18:11:13] <Bytram> find any back 'doors' ??
[18:11:22] <cmn32480> nope
[18:11:24] * Bytram channels jim morrison
[18:11:28] <cmn32480> unless you count the one in the warehouse
[18:11:35] <Bytram> Rider's on the Storm
[18:11:43] <cmn32480> Set up the Door.
[18:11:45] <Bytram> oh, yeah.
[18:11:47] <Bytram> LOL
[18:11:49] <Bytram> hold on
[18:11:51] <cmn32480> Assign it to a zone
[18:12:03] <cmn32480> Create an access group
[18:12:25] <Bytram> nod nod
[18:12:27] <cmn32480> Create a Group Access assignment schedule under the Access assignment
[18:12:45] <cmn32480> *under the access group
[18:12:51] <cmn32480> assign the user to the group
[18:13:12] <cmn32480> ie: Tech has Door 1 assigned
[18:13:20] <Bytram> nod nod
[18:13:51] <cmn32480> the Access Group "Tech" has 2 Groups assignment schedules assigned
[18:13:59] <cmn32480> 24x7 and 7a-6p
[18:14:29] <cmn32480> the cardholder gets one (or both) of those schedules assigned, and that is how it knows to let your ass in or not!
[18:14:43] * cmn32480 is gonna need to write up a cheat sheet
[20:06:11] Bytram is now known as Bytram|away
[22:21:30] * cmn32480 posted somethign to keep us from having a day of Bytram....
[22:45:14] <Bytram|away> it would be a shame if that happened, again, wouldn't it? =)
[22:45:21] <Bytram|away> whereto: http://go.theregister.com
[22:45:22] <shekel> ^ 03Foxconn to slurp Sharp for US$5.6 BEELLION • The Register ( http://www.theregister.co.uk )
[23:02:12] Bytram|away is now known as Bytram
[23:02:49] * Bytram takes a look at the name of the submitter on the article that cmn32480 decided to run... https://soylentnews.org
[23:02:50] <shekel> ^ 03Error
[23:05:57] <cmn32480> yup.. and the second one isn't yours
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[23:07:44] -!- exec [exec!~exec@23.24.kp.ip] has joined #editorial
[23:08:59] <Bytram> nice! slid that one in while I wasn't looking!!
[23:09:08] <cmn32480> nope
[23:09:11] <cmn32480> you were looking
[23:09:15] <cmn32480> just in the wrong place
[23:09:29] <Bytram> with both eyes closed... neener neener neener!
[23:09:34] <cmn32480> gotta go check on dinner'
[23:10:08] * Bytram 2nds the stories
[23:12:44] <cmn32480> steak is done
[23:12:46] <cmn32480> back later
[23:16:29] <Bytram> chew chew charlie?
[23:19:23] <Bytram> follow the links for me?
[23:19:24] <Bytram> http://cts.businesswire.com
[23:19:31] <shekel> ^ 03Seagate Hard Drives | Hagens Berman | National Class Action Litigation Firm based in Seattle, WA ( https://www.hbsslaw.com )
[23:19:50] <Bytram> http://cts.businesswire.com
[23:19:51] <shekel> ^ 03Seagate Hard Drives | Hagens Berman | National Class Action Litigation Firm based in Seattle, WA ( https://www.hbsslaw.com )
[23:20:13] <Bytram> http://cts.businesswire.com
[23:20:14] <shekel> ^ 03Seagate Hard Drives | Hagens Berman | National Class Action Litigation Firm based in Seattle, WA ( https://www.hbsslaw.com )
[23:20:48] <Bytram> three different URLs that end up in the same place?
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Thought Experiment: How Much SHOULD Society Seek To Control People?
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The older I get, the more I realize how complicated the world can be. By the world, I don’t just mean complex socio-political or cultural trends that manifest over extended periods of time. I’ve found that most people, in general, are complicated.
Every individual has their own story to tell.
Every person has their own goals, wants, needs, morals, and methods for doing things.
Every community and culture has their own approach to molding a functioning society.
There’s no one perfect way to go about it. If anything, there are too many approaches that are good, bad, or some messy combination of both. Many of us like to think there’s a single way to maximize the happiness and potential of all individuals. Many even believe they know it when they’re young and idealistic.
Then, we get older and we realize that’s not just impossible. It’s untenable.
I say this as someone who went through his share of ideological shifts, especially in college. I won’t bore everyone with the details. I’ll just say that my perspectives on politics, religion, and culture when I was 20 were vastly different from what they were when I turned 30.
In developing those perspectives, there weren’t many common threads, especially when religion and politics were involved. I know I’ve touched on both many times before and while I try to be fair, I don’t deny I have certain leanings that I don’t hide.
I am generally mistrustful of organized religion, as well as the agendas of those who are overly extreme in their beliefs. I am just as mistrustful as those who take extreme positions on certain political ideologies, be they conservative or liberal.
I am deeply critical of conservative religious types who basically seek to impose a theocracy.
I am also deeply critical of extreme left-wing liberals who seek to impose a politically correct autocracy.
People on both sides will likely claim they’re not seeking anything bad or negative. They genuinely believe that their way will be for the greater good. They believe people will be happier and more prosperous of everything they believe is imposed and integrated into a larger order.
Sincere or not, I still say those beliefs are misguided. I also suspect those same people don’t understand the complexities and nuances of individuals or humanity, as a whole. At the same time, I do think they raise an important question, which also warrants a larger thought experiment.
How much SHOULD society seek to control people?
It’s a question both sides of the political/ideological/cultural/religious spectrum grapple with, even if they don’t say it out loud. It often comes back to this. Whether it involves determine morals, crafting laws, or developing a larger culture, this is one of the most common issues.
It’s not an unreasonable concern, either. To some extent, society needs to exact some control over peoples’ behavior. Even in small, tribal settings, individual behavior can have a profound impact on others. If people just did anything they want without any regard for others, we couldn’t function. We couldn’t cooperate, coordinate, or collectively thrive.
Humans evolved to be a social species. One individual, on their own, can only do so much to function and survive. A group of individuals can achieve so much more. With a large enough group, we can create a civilization that can literally reshape the face of the planet.
That kind of coordination requires some level of control over the individual. Whether it’s by punishing or shaming certain behaviors or strongly encouraging others, we need some mechanism for maintaining social cohesion. It’s just a matter of extent.
Some ideologies go to incredible extremes. Religious conservatives can be particularly draconian in enforcing control. They don’t just seek to punish certain behaviors while censoring certain messages. They actively seek to police peoples’ thoughts and feelings, often in a way that’s damaging to many individuals.
Extreme liberals can be just as bad. There are those who seek to not just punish those who do so much as tell an offensive joke or depict video game characters in a way that’s too sexual. They seek to punish individuals in the present for the actions of those in the past. Like their religious counterparts, they also attempt to police others’ thoughts.
Then, you’ve got the extreme libertarians who try to minimize social control to the greatest extend possible. I would argue that too is not practical, if only because it ignores the nuances and complexities necessary for a functioning society at large.
For most people and societies, the extent of the control they impose varies. In some places, free speech is protected while in others, it’s tempered in the name of ensuring social harmony. The same goes for things like encouraging or discouraging certain behaviors, like drinking, gambling, or promiscuous sex. Some involve laws while others involve shaming. The goal is still the same.
It all comes back to control. To complicate things even more, some individuals require less control than others. There are those who are perfectly responsible and don’t need the law or shaming to be decent, upstanding members of society. There are also those who are just pathologically incapable of following the rules and getting along with other people. What does society do about them?
I understand I’m using “society” in a broad, generalized term. That’s because the question, and any thought experiment surrounding it, needs to focus on the bigger picture. I know that’s not easy for any one individual. Like I said, we all have our biases, prejudices, and predispositions. We also tend to believe we’re right and are generally resistant to change.
I maintain that’s exactly why we should ask questions like this. It’s also why we should dare to think about how much or how little we control one another on a societal level. Civilization and society, for all the wonders they achieve, is an ongoing process. That means there are always opportunities for refinement. We can and should take every opportunity to do so.
If you have any insights on this thought experiment, please share them in the comments. Also, if you have any thought experiments you’d like me to discuss, please share those as well.
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Jack’s World: The Utopian/Dystopian Dynamics Of “Demolition Man”
The following is a YouTube video for my YouTube channel, Jack’s World. It’s a somewhat lengthy video essay on one of my favorite action movies of all time, “Demolition Man.” I’ve written about this movie before. It’s one of those rare movies that has only gotten better with age and only gets better, the more you delve into it. This video highlights a few key themes that should help you appreciate the movie even more. Enjoy!
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Florida Strip Club Owners Lobbying To Lower Dancer Age Limit From 21 To 18: Do They Have A Point?
At what point does someone transition into an adult, with all the rights and responsibilities?
It’s not an unreasonable question. It’s also not easy to answer. There are plenty of laws regarding age limits and how people under a certain age are judged. I’m not a lawyer, but I do understand the intent. There are some things that children and people below a certain age just shouldn’t be able to do in a civil society.
At the same time, I don’t deny that not every adult is capable and not every child is ignorant. I’ve known people over 40 who have the maturity level of a 15-year-old. I’ve also known kids who are more mature than people twice their age. Everybody is different in terms of how and to what extent they mature. Some can handle adult situations better than others.
That brings me to strippers. I’m sure I have your attention now.
I bring it up because, this past year, a few strip club owners have been making waves in the news. Specifically, they’ve been protesting a law in Jacksonville from February 2020 that changes the minimum permissible age for a stripper from 18 to 21. That contrasts from many other jurisdictions, in which the minimum age is 18.
However, as what happened with the legal drinking age, this has become somewhat of a legal trend. Other jurisdictions have been seeking to raise the age limit, as well. They’re often met with protests, but so far the limits have been upheld. That may change with this case, as reported by AP News.
AP News: Jacksonville strip clubs fight to lower dancer age to 18
A lawyer representing 13 clubs and four dancers in Jacksonville argued before a federal judge that dancing is a form of expression protected under the First Amendment.
“This is just a ban on speech,” attorney Gary Edinger said.
City attorneys said younger people are more susceptible to the coercion that’s often part of trafficking and argued that 21 is a safer age.
Now, set aside your feelings towards strip clubs for a moment. As someone who has been to more than a few and had a genuinely good time, I’ll make that effort too. I understand that, being a man, my perspective is going to be skewed. I still think it’s a relevant issue. Beyond the titillating undertones, there’s a bigger picture here worth considering.
It goes back to the questions I raised earlier about when someone becomes a legal adult. For much of the United States, reaching age 18 is often seen as a major milestone. It’s the age when you can become legally emancipated, which permits you to do all sorts of things like buy a car, buy a place of your own, and sign a contract.
What is it about that age that is so special? Legally speaking, it’s fairly arbitrary. We, as a society, just agreed that most people when they reach this age are mature enough to handle adult responsibilities. Sure, some take longer than others. Some reach that point before that age. It’s an imperfect judgement for an imperfect society.
However, we do make some exceptions, as we did with alcohol. Now, I don’t know if that exception is warranted. When I was in high school, I knew plenty of people under the age of 21 who drank regularly. Most were fairly responsible. A few couldn’t handle it. They’re just lucky Instagram wasn’t around back then.
If that exception is so flimsy, then what makes 21 better than 18 when it comes to strippers? We’re not talking about ingesting a substance that can kill you if taken in large quantities. We’re talking about people being allowed to show off their sexy bodies for willing customers. What’s the justification for raising the age requirements just three years?
The lawyers say that it’s a means of combating human trafficking. That’s a perfectly respectable effort, but one that is often misused and abused to attack the sex industry, as a whole. It can also be very counterproductive, as I’ve noted before. I can’t find any evidence at how raising the minimum affects human trafficking, but I doubt the lawyers involved in this case need it to win the argument.
You’ll never lose political points for saying you’re against human trafficking. The problem is when your efforts are largely symbolic or arbitrary, the results will lack substance.
Beyond this shallow justification, it’s also inconsistent. How can we explain to a legal adult that 18 is not old enough to allow them to strip for money? At 18, you can legally skydive, give blood, and join the military. All three of those activities come with dangers, but we let 18-year-olds consent to doing them. So, why do we make an exception for stripping?
Again, I’m not a lawyer, but I have a hard time justifying that exception. I’ve heard coherent arguments about the drinking age being 21. I’ve yet to hear a coherent argument about making the minimum stripper age 21.
Just saying it’ll help combat human trafficking isn’t enough. I’d like to see some evidence of that. I’d also like to understand why it’s still legal for an 18-year-old to have consensual sex, but they need to wait another three years before they can get naked for money. That just too arbitrary and inconsistent.
I understand age limits will always be arbitrary to some extent. I also understand that people get very uncomfortable when it comes to sex, nudity, and the people who do it for a living. We can never stop people from being horny or doing sexy things for money. We should have some reasonable regulations in place to govern that sort of thing. My question here is simple. Is raising the age requirements for strippers to 21 reasonable? Please let me know your thoughts in the comments.
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Why Liars, Cheaters, And Hypocrites Get Away With It
We all deal with them.
We all encounter them.
We all despise them on some levels.
Call them any vulgar insult you want. It’s perfectly warranted, but it doesn’t change what they do. The liars, cheaters, and hypocrites of this world will keep doing it. They’ll keep lying to your face, cheating you out of money, and breaking promises or precedents without a second thought.
I know it’s a depressing thought. It has become a lot more in our collective faces in recent years, given how political rhetoric has become so heated. Both sides argue with one another. They each lie or cheat to varying degrees. They jump at the chance to call the other out on it, but nothing really changes.
They keep on lying and people who align with their politics buy into it, even when they know it’s a lie. It’s frustrating. I argue it’s gotten even more infuriating in recent years. It does, however, raise an important question.
Why do people who lie, cheat, and break promises keep getting away with it?
It’s a valid question. Nobody likes being lied to. Even kids know on some level how wrong it is. So, why does it keep happening and why does nobody seem to pay a price? Well, the very nature of those questions already answer that to some extent.
In short, people keep getting away with it because they never get punished, pay a price, or face any consequences for their dishonesty.
It’s not a very comforting answer, I know. It’s probably just as infuriating as being lied to. That doesn’t make it any less true.
Think about it. What price does someone really pay for lying? Sure, there’s the accompanying guilt that comes with it, but for some people, that’s not much of a price. You don’t have to be a psychopath incapable of guilt to lie. You just have to be capable of enduring the momentary discomfort that comes with it.
That’s not much of a price for certain people, especially when there’s money to be made and power to be gained. Granted, certain liars and hypocrites will lose credibility with certain people. Lie too much to one person and they won’t trust you, let alone be inclined to do you any favors.
On a larger scale, though, that’s less of an issue. Add mass media and the internet to the mix and it’s basically an afterthought. Right now, anyone can tweet or post some completely dishonest information to any number of major sites.
They could claim a certain politician beat up a child.
They could claim that a certain celebrity sexually assaulted someone.
They could claim that the theory of evolution is a plot by the Illuminati to keep people from finding out about the shape-shifting lizard people that secretly run our government.
That last one is a real conspiracy theory that some people actually believe, by the way. I wish I had made up something that absurd.
Some of these lies may incur lawsuits or blocks, but again, is that really much of a price? Some people can afford frivolous lawsuits. Many don’t care if certain people block them. Even when major websites try to clamp down on it, that only seems to fuel the liars.
That’s another critical element as to why it keeps happening. Not only do liars, cheats, and hypocrites pay little to no price for their dishonesty. In some cases, they’re rewarded. In some cases, the reward is huge.
We may hate hypocrites and liars, but so long as they have something to gain and little to lose, not much will stop them. If they have no sense of guilt or shame, as many politicians and CEOs often do, they have every incentive to do what they do. There’s just too much money and power to be gained.
On top of that, there are some people who want to believe in their lies. Everyone has their own reason for doing so. It often boils down to the lies being more appealing than the truth or reinforcing some position they already have. Whatever their reason, they keep give even more incentives to those willing to exploit that inclination.
I say this not to be dire, although I don’t deny the election last month is a motivating factor. I offer this as a means of adding perspective to those frustrated by the dishonesty and hypocrisy that seems so prevalent, no matter where you look.
There’s a reason it’s there and is a painfully valid reason. As long as the liars, cheaters, and hypocrites we despise keep gaining so much and losing so little, they will continue with their deplorable behavior. They have no reason not to. It’s just the nature of our flawed world.
We can only do so much to make it less flawed. One way you can help is to keep voting, even if it’s just for the least dishonest candidate. It’s not a perfect fix, but it’s a start.
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Artificial Intelligence Is Learning Law: Is Government Next?
It’s inevitable. As technology advances, certain industries are going to become obsolete. That’s why the horse-and-buggy industry is incredibly limited. It’s also why companies don’t make typewriters or LaserDisk movies anymore. Once better tech becomes available, an industry either adapts or disappears. Just ask Blockbuster.
Sometimes, it’s obvious that an industry is becoming obsolete. Again, just ask Blockbuster. As soon as something better, easier, and more convenient comes along, it’s only a matter of time before it takes over. However, it’s when things aren’t quite as obvious where more dramatic changes occur.
In terms of dramatic change, few things have the potential to generate more than artificial intelligence. I’ve highlighted that many times before, but a lot of that potential depends on advances that haven’t happened yet. They’re still likely to happen at some point, which may or may not be in my lifetime. They’re just not there yet.
That said, AI doesn’t have to become advanced on the level of Skynet or Hal 9000 to impact and/or disrupt major industries. The AI technology we have now is already having an impact. It may only be a narrow form of AI, which is AI that’s focused on performing a specific task, like playing chess. Its potential is still immense and some fields are feeling it more than others.
One industry that might feel it first is law. Now, at the risk of inspiring one too many lawyer jokes, I’m going to try and keep things general here. I’m also going to try and fit in some personal experience. I know some lawyers personally. I’ve been in law offices and I’ve seen how they work. You don’t have to be that much a visionary to understand how AI could change this industry entirely.
Recently, TechNews did a story on how artificial intelligence is learning basic legal operations and learning it quite well. Given the massive amounts of data and technicalities included in American law, a narrow AI is ideally suited to handle such tasks. However, I don’t think the piece fully grasps the implications.
TechNews: Lawyers Beware: Artificial Intelligence Is Learning Law – And Doing Frighteningly Well
AI or artificial intelligence is starting to find its footing in the legal field. The world is now on the brink of revolution in legal profession spearheaded with the extensive use of AI in the entire industry, specifically by the in-house lawyers.
Just like how email greatly changed the way people conduct their business on a daily basis, AI is also expected to become an ever-present force and an invaluable assistant to almost all lawyers.
But the million-dollar question now is, what does the future look like for AI as far as the legal industry is concerned? A much bigger question is, will AI soon replace real life lawyers?
These are not unreasonable questions. What will happen to the current legal industry if much of the legal grunt-work can be handled by an AI? What will happen to the industry when it’s no longer necessary to have a huge team of overpaid lawyers to conduct competent legal operations?
As someone who has been in his share of law offices, I can make a few educated guesses. I can easily imagine firms shrinking their office space, but expanding their operations. Most of the legal offices I’ve gone to dedicate 80 percent of their office space to storing documents and secure research material. Very little is left or necessary for the actual people doing the work.
The recent pandemic has only revealed that plenty of this work can be done form home or remotely. Some legal proceedings are even unfolding through Zoom calls, albeit with mixed results. It’s a step in that it undermines and disrupts the traditional model for handling the law. It also raises a much larger question that the TechNews article didn’t ask.
Once AI learns the law, then is learning government next?
It’s a natural progression. Governments make and administer laws. An AI that specializes in the law would also have to learn government, as well. A narrow AI might be able to process the general bureaucracy of a government, but what happens when those systems become more advanced?
I’m not just talking about a scenario where an AI becomes the government, which I’ve already speculated on. An AI that has perfect expertise in both law and government operations could have many less obvious effects. Inefficiencies that often go unnoticed in a bureaucracy are suddenly harder to overlook. Inconsistencies that rarely get fixed, due to that bureaucracy, can finally be remedied.
In theory, a sufficiently advanced AI, which need not be as intelligent as a human, could do more than just document legal and government proceedings. It could formulate new laws and policies on its own. Some may seem outrageous from a basic non-lawyer human perspective, but make perfect sense within a functioning legal system or government.
It may still seem like just another tool for lawyers to stay organized, but I think it could be more than that. If an AI makes both legal and government systems more efficient, then what will that mean for those in government? Would politicians be better able to implement their agenda if they have tools like AI at their disposal? Would that necessarily be a good thing?
This is where things get both tricky and political. No matter how confident you are in your political persuasions, the party you favor will not always be in power.
It may seem like politics is trending a certain way, but those trends change quickly. People who think their party is strong now can’t imagine a time when they’ll lose that strength. It happens regularly in any democracy.
Like it or not, your party will one day be out of power. When that happens, do you want the other party having a more efficient means of implementing their policies?
I’m sure everyone’s answer to that question will vary. What no one is certain of is how we’ll keep up with ever-improving AI systems, regardless of what industry they’re in. It’s one thing for a system to make it easier to stream movies or keep track of groceries. It’s quite another when it becomes intimately involved with our laws and our government.
The TechNews article expressed some concern, but only with respect to how it affects the current law industry. I believe AI, even if it’s focused only on law, will have a far larger impact. That’s not to say that AI will render law firms and governments obsolete.
If ever there was one domain in which foresight is critical, it’s this. Some industries can and should become obsolete. Others, like how we govern our society, need a more careful approach. We simply cannot afford our laws and our government to end up like Blockbuster.
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How Do We Regulate Artificial Intelligence? Seriously, How?
How do you regulate artificial intelligence?
Laws Regulating Sex Robots: A First Draft
Sex robots are coming, literally and figuratively. That’s not just a bit of dirty innuendo from someone who often writes sexy stories around it. That’s an objective fact. Bill Maher’s recent rant about it was just the latest. Rest assured, there will be more.
There will be a lot of doom-saying and fear-mongering. There’s already an organized campaign against sex robots. That’s to be expected. There’s always that kind of rhetoric when new technology or trends emerge. I’m old enough to remember when parents, politicians, and pundits thought TV was going to ruin an entire generation. If someone told them about social media, they might have had a heart attack.
As sex robots get more advanced and become more mainstream, expect to hear from those same people. They’ll bemoan how this latest trend will destroy the culture. Unlike jazz, rock music, Elvis’ hips, MTV, cartoon violence, and marijuana, this might actually do it. If I could write that with any more sarcasm, I would.
As annoyingly absurd as these comments are sure to be, I don’t deny that sex robots raises some serious issues. I’ve covered a few of them in discussing this issue. I’m sure there are plenty more that I’ve yet to explore. In the meantime, I’d like to try and confront some of those concerns that I’m sure the doom-sayers of the near-future will bring up.
Technology progresses rapidly, but the law rarely keeps up. Given how many laws there are regarding sex, some more archaic than others, it’s inevitable that sex robots will be subject to some form of regulation. It’s hard to contemplate how far that regulation will go. Some might go so far as to try and ban sex robots altogether. I doubt that will ever fly, if only because there’s way too much money to be made.
Even if sex robots are illegal, they’ll still arise. Human beings are just too horny, too lonely, and too greedy to ignore their potential for ever. For that reason, I’d like to propose a first draft for appropriate regulations regarding sex robots. Now, I’m not a lawyer, so I’m not at all qualified to make legal arguments.
However, someone will have to take this seriously at some point. When it comes to a technology as disruptive and groundbreaking as sex robots, we need to be proactive. As such, here are my preliminary laws for the regulation, sale, and use of sex robots. If anyone has any ideas to tweak or add to them, please present them in the comments.
Also, if you’re a lawyer or a lawmaker, please take this seriously. Do not let the discussion be guided by the same people who claimed Elivs’ hips would ruin America’s youth.
Law #1: The law shall hereby distinguish sex robots from sex dolls insofar as a sex doll is considered a sex toy, and subject to all current laws governing their sale, but a sex robot is classified as a robot with measure of intelligence that is designed specifically for engaging in sexual activity with another person.
Law #2: No individual under the age of 16 shall be permitted to purchase a sex robot.
Law #3: The production, sale, and distribution of sex robots shall be subject to common industry standards that are to be agreed upon by all producers and subject to approval by the courts.
Law #4: The production, sale, and distribution of sex robots that resemble children or individuals of a pre-pubescent appearance is illegal and shall be punishable by up to 5 years in prison.
Law #5: The production, sale, and distribution of sex robots that facilitate the act of rape, assault, or coercive conduct against another person is illegal and shall be punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Law #6: The production, sale, and distribution of sex robots programmed to cause serious harm, injury, or death to a person is illegal and any person, persons, or organizations that create such items are henceforth liable.
Law #6: The production, sale, or distribution of sex robots designed to resemble a specific person without their explicit consent and/or fair compensation is illegal.
Law #7: It is unlawful to engage in sexual activity with a sex robot in a public area or any area that would constitute a disturbance of the peace. Violators will be subject to local ordinances governing indecency.
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Should Teenagers Be Allowed To Use Sex Robots?
There are certain products and activities that society prohibits from teenagers. For the most part, there’s a reason behind that. Teenagers are young, inexperienced, and not mature enough to handle certain things. It’s not an insult, although I don’t blame any teenager for taking offense. It’s just an acknowledgement that most young minds aren’t ready to process the adult world.
That said, things get exceedingly tricky when sexuality enters the picture. Unlike smoking, drinking, or wanting to drive a car, sex is an innate desire that every teenager is wired to seek. You don’t need peer pressure, subversive advertising, or heavy metal music to make a teenager think about sex. Chances are they’re already thinking about it. For parents and teenagers alike, it makes for many awkward conversations.
Pictured are two people who do NOT want to have that conversation.
Thanks to the hormonal onslaught of puberty, a teenager’s sexuality is often in a state of chaos. They have thoughts, feelings, and desires they don’t entirely understand. Their bodies are changing and they’re just trying to keep up. On top of that, the most common refrain from parents and teachers is to repress all those feelings and shame anyone who doesn’t.
It’s an awkward situation, to say the least. I’m not a teenager or a parent, but I think most would agree there’s a lot of room for improvement. Improving comprehensive sex education, providing accurate information, and helping teenagers develop a mature understanding of sexuality will go a long way towards this effort. These are all things we can and should be doing now.
However, what happens once sex robots enter the picture?
It’s a serious question. While I’m sure it’ll elicit awkward laughter from some, I believe this issue is worth contemplating. As I’ve noted before, sex robots are coming. I know that’s a poor choice of words, but it’s true.
Some models are already available for purchase. While nobody will mistake them for actual people, the fact you can buy one today shows the market is there. Sex still sells and, like cell phones before it, the technology will improve. Even if we’re decades from something as lifelike as the model in “Ex Machina,” we’re not that far from something that provides realistic sexual experience.
While there will be plenty of adults who celebrate this technology, as well as a few who condemn it, what will it mean for teenagers? Will they be allowed to legally purchase sex robots? Even if they cannot purchase one, will they be allowed to use one? If not, then how will we go about policing it?
These are relevant questions and the answers don’t entirely depend on logistics. As I noted before, society prohibits teenagers from doing all sorts of activities. There are legitimate legal, social, and even medical reasons for these prohibitions. There are serious, long-term harms associated with teenagers who smoke and drink alcohol. For a healthy society, these prohibitions make sense.
With sex, it’s a lot trickier. While there is some research to indicate that viewing pornography affects teenage sexual behavior, it’s not as conclusive as the harms of drug addiction. Some of those harms have more to do with stigma and poor sexual education than the content itself. Once sex robots enter the equation, though, things get even more complicated.
Porn, for all its quirks and kinks, is a fantasy on a computer screen. A sex robot is a tangible, human-like figure that people can interact with. On top of that, if the robot has a human-like measure of intelligence, it can also provide a realistic sexual experience that the user ca
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"After that whole starting-itself incident, we were fairly wary of the aircraft and watched it pretty closely," an unnamed Air Force squadron commander testified to an investigative board, according to a transcript. "Right now, I still think the software is not good."
Ya think???
The last moments of Predator #07-3249:
23:15:34- SENSOR -- Dude, look at this camera. Seriously, I can't do anything. There's nothing I can do. I just nuked it.
23:15:44- PILOT -- Yeah, see what you can get working and I'll plan on landing on this for now.
23:15:47- SENSOR -- There's seriously like something... This camera is completely [expletive].
23:16:41- SENSOR -- Did he say, "Cleared to land"?
23:16:42- PILOT - Yeah
23:16:44- SENSOR -- Ok. Checklist complete, links are set up, autopilots disengaged, cleared to land, try to mess with this picture.
23:17:01- SENSOR -- Yeah dude, I literally have.... No picture right now. This camera's like, completely messed up.
23:17:16- SENSOR -- Can you land on that?
23:17:17- PILOT -- Uh, I'm going around if I can't see it.
23:17:21- SENSOR -- What altitude are we at right now?
23:17:23- PILOT -- Oh
23:17:27- PILOT -- That was the ground
23:17:27- PILOT -- That was the ground.
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Dear Lazyweb,
Can someone please tell me what CSS magic I need to do to make the links over on the right side of this page be clickable? (The "2006 Best of the Bay" stuff.) I thought that setting z-order:1 on .event_awards should do it but that seems to be ignored, and all of .event_blurb (the leftmost column) overlaps it as far as clicks are concerned.
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The latest Facebook "Pages" debacle
I see a lot of bitching about how Facebook has broken posts from Pages and is running some new shakedown trying to get people to buy sponsored posts, but so far none from people who strike me as really knowing what they're talking about.
Who has the facts? What precisely have they changed?
Yes, I have seen the "Dangerous Minds" thing. It's long on rant and short on supporting documentary evidence. (Very, very, very long on rant.)
It's been true for a long time (a year? two?) that if you go to the Facebook web site and don't immediately select "Sort / Most Recent", then you don't see shit. It's not clear to me that what people are complaining about is any different than this years-old situation that "Sort / Top Stories" sucks.
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Nom nom nom
They are not raising it because the Norfolk Southern Railroad doesn't care: it's their bridge and the only thing they want is to guarantee the safety of their trains. "As far as they are concerned, they solved that problem by installing the crash beam," 11foot8 says. Any potential solution -- like raising the bridge or lowering the road -- is too expensive to be worth it.
The city of Durham installed warning sings along the three blocks that precede the bridge, but the imbeciles still keep ramming into it once every month on average.
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DNA Lounge update, wherein Booootie has sold out already!
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A Next-Generation Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform
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An introductory paper to Ethereum, introduced before launch, which is maintained.
Satoshi Nakamoto's development of Bitcoin in 2009 has often been hailed as a radical development in money and currency, being the first example of a digital asset which simultaneously has no backing or intrinsic value and no centralized issuer or controller. However, another - arguably more important - part of the Bitcoin experiment is the underlying blockchain technology as a tool of distributed consensus, and attention is rapidly starting to shift to this other aspect of Bitcoin. Commonly cited alternative applications of blockchain technology include using on-blockchain digital assets to represent custom currencies and financial instruments (colored coins), the ownership of an underlying physical device (smart property), non-fungible assets such as domain names (Namecoin), as well as more complex applications involving having digital assets being directly controlled by a piece of code implementing arbitrary rules (smart contracts) or even blockchain-based decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). What Ethereum intends to provide is a blockchain with a built-in fully fledged Turing-complete programming language that can be used to create "contracts" that can be used to encode arbitrary state transition functions, allowing users to create any of the systems described above, as well as many others that we have not yet imagined, simply by writing up the logic in a few lines of code.
Introduction to Bitcoin and Existing Concepts
The concept of decentralized digital currency, as well as alternative applications like property registries, has been around for decades. The anonymous e-cash protocols of the 1980s and the 1990s, mostly reliant on a cryptographic primitive known as Chaumian blinding, provided a currency with a high degree of privacy, but the protocols largely failed to gain traction because of their reliance on a centralized intermediary. In 1998, Wei Dai's b-money became the first proposal to introduce the idea of creating money through solving computational puzzles as well as decentralized consensus, but the proposal was scant on details as to how decentralized consensus could actually be implemented. In 2005, Hal Finney introduced a concept of reusable proofs of work, a system which uses ideas from b-money together with Adam Back's computationally difficult Hashcash puzzles to create a concept for a cryptocurrency, but once again fell short of the ideal by relying on trusted computing as a backend. In 2009, a decentralized currency was for the first time implemented in practice by Satoshi Nakamoto, combining established primitives for managing ownership through public key cryptography with a consensus algorithm for keeping track of who owns coins, known as "proof of work".
Here is a blog post from Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, on Ethereum pre-history. Here is another blog post with more history.
Bitcoin As A State Transition System
From a technical standpoint, the ledger of a cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin can be thought of as a state transition system, where there is a "state" consisting of the ownership status of all existing bitcoins and a "state transition function" that takes a state and a transaction and outputs a new state which is the result. In a standard banking system, for example, the state is a balance sheet, a transaction is a request to move $X from A to B, and the state transition function reduces the value in A's account by $X and increases the value in B's account by $X. If A's account has less than $X in the first place, the state transition function returns an error. Hence, one can formally define:
In the banking system defined above:
The "state" in Bitcoin is the collection of all coins (technically, "unspent transaction outputs" or UTXO) that have been mined and not yet spent, with each UTXO having a denomination and an owner (defined by a 20-byte address which is essentially a cryptographic public keyfn. 1). A transaction contains one or more inputs, with each input containing a reference to an existing UTXO and a cryptographic signature produced by the private key associated with the owner's address, and one or more outputs, with each output containing a new UTXO to be added to the state.
1. For each input in TX:
3. Return S' with all input UTXO removed and all output UTXO added.
The first half of the first step prevents transaction senders from spending coins that do not exist, the second half of the first step prevents transaction senders from spending other people's coins, and the second step enforces conservation of value. In order to use this for payment, the protocol is as follows. Suppose Alice wants to send 11.7 BTC to Bob. First, Alice will look for a set of available UTXO that she owns that totals up to at least 11.7 BTC. Realistically, Alice will not be able to get exactly 11.7 BTC; say that the smallest she can get is 6+4+2=12. She then creates a transaction with those three inputs and two outputs. The first output will be 11.7 BTC with Bob's address as its owner, and the second output will be the remaining 0.3 BTC "change", with the owner being Alice herself.
If we had access to a trustworthy centralized service, this system would be trivial to implement; it could simply be coded exactly as described, using a centralized server's hard drive to keep track of the state. However, with Bitcoin we are trying to build a decentralized currency system, so we will need to combine the state transition system with a consensus system in order to ensure that everyone agrees on the order of transactions. Bitcoin's decentralized consensus process requires nodes in the network to continuously attempt to produce packages of transactions called "blocks". The network is intended to produce roughly one block every ten minutes, with each block containing a timestamp, a nonce, a reference to (ie. hash of) the previous block and a list of all of the transactions that have taken place since the previous block. Over time, this creates a persistent, ever-growing, "blockchain" that constantly updates to represent the latest state of the Bitcoin ledger.
2. Check that the timestamp of the block is greater than that of the previous blockfn. 2 and less than 2 hours into the future
The one validity condition present in the above list that is not found in other systems is the requirement for "proof of work". The precise condition is that the double-SHA256 hash of every block, treated as a 256-bit number, must be less than a dynamically adjusted target, which as of the time of this writing is approximately 2187. The purpose of this is to make block creation computationally "hard", thereby preventing sybil attackers from remaking the entire blockchain in their favor. Because SHA256 is designed to be a completely unpredictable pseudorandom function, the only way to create a valid block is simply trial and error, repeatedly incrementing the nonce and seeing if the new hash matches.
At the current target of ~2187, the network must make an average of ~269 tries before a valid block is found; in general, the target is recalibrated by the network every 2016 blocks so that on average a new block is produced by some node in the network every ten minutes. In order to compensate miners for this computational work, the miner of every block is entitled to include a transaction giving themselves 12.5 BTC out of nowhere. Additionally, if any transaction has a higher total denomination in its inputs than in its outputs, the difference also goes to the miner as a "transaction fee". Incidentally, this is also the only mechanism by which BTC are issued; the genesis state contained no coins at all.
In order to better understand the purpose of mining, let us examine what happens in the event of a malicious attacker. Since Bitcoin's underlying cryptography is known to be secure, the attacker will target the one part of the Bitcoin system that is not protected by cryptography directly: the order of transactions. The attacker's strategy is simple:
2. Wait for the delivery of the product
3. Produce another transaction sending the same 100 BTC to himself
Once step (1) has taken place, after a few minutes some miner will include the transaction in a block, say block number 270. After about one hour, five more blocks will have been added to the chain after that block, with each of those blocks indirectly pointing to the transaction and thus "confirming" it. At this point, the merchant will accept the payment as finalized and deliver the product; since we are assuming this is a digital good, delivery is instant. Now, the attacker creates another transaction sending the 100 BTC to himself. If the attacker simply releases it into the wild, the transaction will not be processed; miners will attempt to run APPLY(S,TX) and notice that TX consumes a UTXO which is no longer in the state. So instead, the attacker creates a "fork" of the blockchain, starting by mining another version of block 270 pointing to the same block 269 as a parent but with the new transaction in place of the old one. Because the block data is different, this requires redoing the proof of work. Furthermore, the attacker's new version of block 270 has a different hash, so the original blocks 271 to 275 do not "point" to it; thus, the original chain and the attacker's new chain are completely separate. The rule is that in a fork the longest blockchain is taken to be the truth, and so legitimate miners will work on the 275 chain while the attacker alone is working on the 270 chain. In order for the attacker to make his blockchain the longest, he would need to have more computational power than the rest of the network combined in order to catch up (hence, "51% attack").
Merkle Trees
SPV in bitcoin
Left: it suffices to present only a small number of nodes in a Merkle tree to give a proof of the validity of a branch.
Right: any attempt to change any part of the Merkle tree will eventually lead to an inconsistency somewhere up the chain.
The Merkle tree protocol is arguably essential to long-term sustainability. A "full node" in the Bitcoin network, one that stores and processes the entirety of every block, takes up about 15 GB of disk space in the Bitcoin network as of April 2014, and is growing by over a gigabyte per month. Currently, this is viable for some desktop computers and not phones, and later on in the future only businesses and hobbyists will be able to participate. A protocol known as "simplified payment verification" (SPV) allows for another class of nodes to exist, called "light nodes", which download the block headers, verify the proof of work on the block headers, and then download only the "branches" associated with transactions that are relevant to them. This allows light nodes to determine with a strong guarantee of security what the status of any Bitcoin transaction, and their current balance, is while downloading only a very small portion of the entire blockchain.
Alternative Blockchain Applications
The idea of taking the underlying blockchain idea and applying it to other concepts also has a long history. In 1998, Nick Szabo came out with the concept of secure property titles with owner authority, a document describing how "new advances in replicated database technology" will allow for a blockchain-based system for storing a registry of who owns what land, creating an elaborate framework including concepts such as homesteading, adverse possession and Georgian land tax. However, there was unfortunately no effective replicated database system available at the time, and so the protocol was never implemented in practice. After 2009, however, once Bitcoin's decentralized consensus was developed a number of alternative applications rapidly began to emerge.
• Namecoin - created in 2010, Namecoin is best described as a decentralized name registration database. In decentralized protocols like Tor, Bitcoin and BitMessage, there needs to be some way of identifying accounts so that other people can interact with them, but in all existing solutions the only kind of identifier available is a pseudorandom hash like 1LW79wp5ZBqaHW1jL5TCiBCrhQYtHagUWy. Ideally, one would like to be able to have an account with a name like "george". However, the problem is that if one person can create an account named "george" then someone else can use the same process to register "george" for themselves as well and impersonate them. The only solution is a first-to-file paradigm, where the first registerer succeeds and the second fails - a problem perfectly suited for the Bitcoin consensus protocol. Namecoin is the oldest, and most successful, implementation of a name registration system using such an idea.
• Colored coins - the purpose of colored coins is to serve as a protocol to allow people to create their own digital currencies - or, in the important trivial case of a currency with one unit, digital tokens, on the Bitcoin blockchain. In the colored coins protocol, one "issues" a new currency by publicly assigning a color to a specific Bitcoin UTXO, and the protocol recursively defines the color of other UTXO to be the same as the color of the inputs that the transaction creating them spent (some special rules apply in the case of mixed-color inputs). This allows users to maintain wallets containing only UTXO of a specific color and send them around much like regular bitcoins, backtracking through the blockchain to determine the color of any UTXO that they receive.
• Metacoins - the idea behind a metacoin is to have a protocol that lives on top of Bitcoin, using Bitcoin transactions to store metacoin transactions but having a different state transition function, APPLY'. Because the metacoin protocol cannot prevent invalid metacoin transactions from appearing in the Bitcoin blockchain, a rule is added that if APPLY'(S,TX) returns an error, the protocol defaults to APPLY'(S,TX) = S. This provides an easy mechanism for creating an arbitrary cryptocurrency protocol, potentially with advanced features that cannot be implemented inside of Bitcoin itself, but with a very low development cost since the complexities of mining and networking are already handled by the Bitcoin protocol. Metacoins have been used to implement some classes of financial contracts, name registration and decentralized exchange.
Thus, in general, there are two approaches toward building a consensus protocol: building an independent network, and building a protocol on top of Bitcoin. The former approach, while reasonably successful in the case of applications like Namecoin, is difficult to implement; each individual implementation needs to bootstrap an independent blockchain, as well as building and testing all of the necessary state transition and networking code. Additionally, we predict that the set of applications for decentralized consensus technology will follow a power law distribution where the vast majority of applications would be too small to warrant their own blockchain, and we note that there exist large classes of decentralized applications, particularly decentralized autonomous organizations, that need to interact with each other.
The Bitcoin-based approach, on the other hand, has the flaw that it does not inherit the simplified payment verification features of Bitcoin. SPV works for Bitcoin because it can use blockchain depth as a proxy for validity; at some point, once the ancestors of a transaction go far enough back, it is safe to say that they were legitimately part of the state. Blockchain-based meta-protocols, on the other hand, cannot force the blockchain not to include transactions that are not valid within the context of their own protocols. Hence, a fully secure SPV meta-protocol implementation would need to backward scan all the way to the beginning of the Bitcoin blockchain to determine whether or not certain transactions are valid. Currently, all "light" implementations of Bitcoin-based meta-protocols rely on a trusted server to provide the data, arguably a highly suboptimal result especially when one of the primary purposes of a cryptocurrency is to eliminate the need for trust.
Even without any extensions, the Bitcoin protocol actually does facilitate a weak version of a concept of "smart contracts". UTXO in Bitcoin can be owned not just by a public key, but also by a more complicated script expressed in a simple stack-based programming language. In this paradigm, a transaction spending that UTXO must provide data that satisfies the script. Indeed, even the basic public key ownership mechanism is implemented via a script: the script takes an elliptic curve signature as input, verifies it against the transaction and the address that owns the UTXO, and returns 1 if the verification is successful and 0 otherwise. Other, more complicated, scripts exist for various additional use cases. For example, one can construct a script that requires signatures from two out of a given three private keys to validate ("multisig"), a setup useful for corporate accounts, secure savings accounts and some merchant escrow situations. Scripts can also be used to pay bounties for solutions to computational problems, and one can even construct a script that says something like "this Bitcoin UTXO is yours if you can provide an SPV proof that you sent a Dogecoin transaction of this denomination to me", essentially allowing decentralized cross-cryptocurrency exchange.
However, the scripting language as implemented in Bitcoin has several important limitations:
• Lack of Turing-completeness - that is to say, while there is a large subset of computation that the Bitcoin scripting language supports, it does not nearly support everything. The main category that is missing is loops. This is done to avoid infinite loops during transaction verification; theoretically it is a surmountable obstacle for script programmers, since any loop can be simulated by simply repeating the underlying code many times with an if statement, but it does lead to scripts that are very space-inefficient. For example, implementing an alternative elliptic curve signature algorithm would likely require 256 repeated multiplication rounds all individually included in the code.
• Value-blindness - there is no way for a UTXO script to provide fine-grained control over the amount that can be withdrawn. For example, one powerful use case of an oracle contract would be a hedging contract, where A and B put in $1000 worth of BTC and after 30 days the script sends $1000 worth of BTC to A and the rest to B. This would require an oracle to determine the value of 1 BTC in USD, but even then it is a massive improvement in terms of trust and infrastructure requirement over the fully centralized solutions that are available now. However, because UTXO are all-or-nothing, the only way to achieve this is through the very inefficient hack of having many UTXO of varying denominations (eg. one UTXO of 2k for every k up to 30) and having O pick which UTXO to send to A and which to B.
• Lack of state - a UTXO can either be spent or unspent; there is no opportunity for multi-stage contracts or scripts which keep any other internal state beyond that. This makes it hard to make multi-stage options contracts, decentralized exchange offers or two-stage cryptographic commitment protocols (necessary for secure computational bounties). It also means that UTXO can only be used to build simple, one-off contracts and not more complex "stateful" contracts such as decentralized organizations, and makes meta-protocols difficult to implement. Binary state combined with value-blindness also mean that another important application, withdrawal limits, is impossible.
• Blockchain-blindness - UTXO are blind to blockchain data such as the nonce, the timestamp and previous block hash. This severely limits applications in gambling, and several other categories, by depriving the scripting language of a potentially valuable source of randomness.
Thus, we see three approaches to building advanced applications on top of cryptocurrency: building a new blockchain, using scripting on top of Bitcoin, and building a meta-protocol on top of Bitcoin. Building a new blockchain allows for unlimited freedom in building a feature set, but at the cost of development time, bootstrapping effort and security. Using scripting is easy to implement and standardize, but is very limited in its capabilities, and meta-protocols, while easy, suffer from faults in scalability. With Ethereum, we intend to build an alternative framework that provides even larger gains in ease of development as well as even stronger light client properties, while at the same time allowing applications to share an economic environment and blockchain security.
The intent of Ethereum is to create an alternative protocol for building decentralized applications, providing a different set of tradeoffs that we believe will be very useful for a large class of decentralized applications, with particular emphasis on situations where rapid development time, security for small and rarely used applications, and the ability of different applications to very efficiently interact, are important. Ethereum does this by building what is essentially the ultimate abstract foundational layer: a blockchain with a built-in Turing-complete programming language, allowing anyone to write smart contracts and decentralized applications where they can create their own arbitrary rules for ownership, transaction formats and state transition functions. A bare-bones version of Namecoin can be written in two lines of code, and other protocols like currencies and reputation systems can be built in under twenty. Smart contracts, cryptographic "boxes" that contain value and only unlock it if certain conditions are met, can also be built on top of the platform, with vastly more power than that offered by Bitcoin scripting because of the added powers of Turing-completeness, value-awareness, blockchain-awareness and state.
The design behind Ethereum is intended to follow the following principles:
1. Simplicity: the Ethereum protocol should be as simple as possible, even at the cost of some data storage or time inefficiency.fn. 3 An average programmer should ideally be able to follow and implement the entire specification,fn. 4 so as to fully realize the unprecedented democratizing potential that cryptocurrency brings and further the vision of Ethereum as a protocol that is open to all. Any optimization which adds complexity should not be included unless that optimization provides very substantial benefit.
2. Universality: a fundamental part of Ethereum's design philosophy is that Ethereum does not have "features".fn. 5 Instead, Ethereum provides an internal Turing-complete scripting language, which a programmer can use to construct any smart contract or transaction type that can be mathematically defined. Want to invent your own financial derivative? With Ethereum, you can. Want to make your own currency? Set it up as an Ethereum contract. Want to set up a full-scale Daemon or Skynet? You may need to have a few thousand interlocking contracts, and be sure to feed them generously, to do that, but nothing is stopping you with Ethereum at your fingertips.
3. Modularity: the parts of the Ethereum protocol should be designed to be as modular and separable as possible. Over the course of development, our goal is to create a program where if one was to make a small protocol modification in one place, the application stack would continue to function without any further modification. Innovations such as Ethash (see the Yellow Paper Appendix or wiki article), modified Patricia trees (Yellow Paper, wiki) and RLP (YP, wiki) should be, and are, implemented as separate, feature-complete libraries. This is so that even though they are used in Ethereum, even if Ethereum does not require certain features, such features are still usable in other protocols as well. Ethereum development should be maximally done so as to benefit the entire cryptocurrency ecosystem, not just itself.
4. Agility: details of the Ethereum protocol are not set in stone. Although we will be extremely judicious about making modifications to high-level constructs, for instance with the sharding roadmap, abstracting execution, with only data availability enshrined in consensus. Computational tests later on in the development process may lead us to discover that certain modifications, e.g. to the protocol architecture or to the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), will substantially improve scalability or security. If any such opportunities are found, we will exploit them.
5. Non-discrimination and non-censorship: the protocol should not attempt to actively restrict or prevent specific categories of usage. All regulatory mechanisms in the protocol should be designed to directly regulate the harm and not attempt to oppose specific undesirable applications. A programmer can even run an infinite loop script on top of Ethereum for as long as they are willing to keep paying the per-computational-step transaction fee.
Ethereum Accounts
In Ethereum, the state is made up of objects called "accounts", with each account having a 20-byte address and state transitions being direct transfers of value and information between accounts. An Ethereum account contains four fields:
• The account's current ether balance
• The account's contract code, if present
• The account's storage (empty by default)
"Ether" is the main internal crypto-fuel of Ethereum, and is used to pay transaction fees. In general, there are two types of accounts: externally owned accounts, controlled by private keys, and contract accounts, controlled by their contract code. An externally owned account has no code, and one can send messages from an externally owned account by creating and signing a transaction; in a contract account, every time the contract account receives a message its code activates, allowing it to read and write to internal storage and send other messages or create contracts in turn.
Note that "contracts" in Ethereum should not be seen as something that should be "fulfilled" or "complied with"; rather, they are more like "autonomous agents" that live inside of the Ethereum execution environment, always executing a specific piece of code when "poked" by a message or transaction, and having direct control over their own ether balance and their own key/value store to keep track of persistent variables.
Messages and Transactions
• The recipient of the message
• A signature identifying the sender
• The amount of ether to transfer from the sender to the recipient
• An optional data field
• A STARTGAS value, representing the maximum number of computational steps the transaction execution is allowed to take
• A GASPRICE value, representing the fee the sender pays per computational step
The first three are standard fields expected in any cryptocurrency. The data field has no function by default, but the virtual machine has an opcode which a contract can use to access the data; as an example use case, if a contract is functioning as an on-blockchain domain registration service, then it may wish to interpret the data being passed to it as containing two "fields", the first field being a domain to register and the second field being the IP address to register it to. The contract would read these values from the message data and appropriately place them in storage.
The STARTGAS and GASPRICE fields are crucial for Ethereum's anti-denial of service model. In order to prevent accidental or hostile infinite loops or other computational wastage in code, each transaction is required to set a limit to how many computational steps of code execution it can use. The fundamental unit of computation is "gas"; usually, a computational step costs 1 gas, but some operations cost higher amounts of gas because they are more computationally expensive, or increase the amount of data that must be stored as part of the state. There is also a fee of 5 gas for every byte in the transaction data. The intent of the fee system is to require an attacker to pay proportionately for every resource that they consume, including computation, bandwidth and storage; hence, any transaction that leads to the network consuming a greater amount of any of these resources must have a gas fee roughly proportional to the increment.
Contracts have the ability to send "messages" to other contracts. Messages are virtual objects that are never serialized and exist only in the Ethereum execution environment. A message contains:
• The sender of the message (implicit)
• The recipient of the message
• The amount of ether to transfer alongside the message
• An optional data field
• A STARTGAS value
Note that the gas allowance assigned by a transaction or contract applies to the total gas consumed by that transaction and all sub-executions. For example, if an external actor A sends a transaction to B with 1000 gas, and B consumes 600 gas before sending a message to C, and the internal execution of C consumes 300 gas before returning, then B can spend another 100 gas before running out of gas.
Ethereum State Transition Function
The Ethereum state transition function, APPLY(S,TX) -> S' can be defined as follows:
1. Check if the transaction is well-formed (ie. has the right number of values), the signature is valid, and the nonce matches the nonce in the sender's account. If not, return an error.
3. Initialize GAS = STARTGAS, and take off a certain quantity of gas per byte to pay for the bytes in the transaction.
4. Transfer the transaction value from the sender's account to the receiving account. If the receiving account does not yet exist, create it. If the receiving account is a contract, run the contract's code either to completion or until the execution runs out of gas.
5. If the value transfer failed because the sender did not have enough money, or the code execution ran out of gas, revert all state changes except the payment of the fees, and add the fees to the miner's account.
6. Otherwise, refund the fees for all remaining gas to the sender, and send the fees paid for gas consumed to the miner.
For example, suppose that the contract's code is:
if ![calldataload(0)]:[calldataload(0)] = calldataload(32)
Note that in reality the contract code is written in the low-level EVM code; this example is written in Serpent, one of our high-level languages, for clarity, and can be compiled down to EVM code. Suppose that the contract's storage starts off empty, and a transaction is sent with 10 ether value, 2000 gas, 0.001 ether gasprice, and 64 bytes of data, with bytes 0-31 representing the number 2 and bytes 32-63 representing the string CHARLIE.fn. 6 The process for the state transition function in this case is as follows:
1. Check that the transaction is valid and well formed.
2. Check that the transaction sender has at least 2000 * 0.001 = 2 ether. If it is, then subtract 2 ether from the sender's account.
3. Initialize gas = 2000; assuming the transaction is 170 bytes long and the byte-fee is 5, subtract 850 so that there is 1150 gas left.
4. Subtract 10 more ether from the sender's account, and add it to the contract's account.
5. Run the code. In this case, this is simple: it checks if the contract's storage at index 2 is used, notices that it is not, and so it sets the storage at index 2 to the value CHARLIE. Suppose this takes 187 gas, so the remaining amount of gas is 1150 - 187 = 963
6. Add 963 * 0.001 = 0.963 ether back to the sender's account, and return the resulting state.
If there was no contract at the receiving end of the transaction, then the total transaction fee would simply be equal to the provided GASPRICE multiplied by the length of the transaction in bytes, and the data sent alongside the transaction would be irrelevant.
Note that messages work equivalently to transactions in terms of reverts: if a message execution runs out of gas, then that message's execution, and all other executions triggered by that execution, revert, but parent executions do not need to revert. This means that it is "safe" for a contract to call another contract, as if A calls B with G gas then A's execution is guaranteed to lose at most G gas. Finally, note that there is an opcode, CREATE, that creates a
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In 1987, James Brennan plans to have a summer vacation in Europe after graduating from Oberlin College. His parents inform him that their current finances will not permit them to support him and he will have to spend the summer working instead. James gets a job working the carnival games at Adventureland, a local amusement park in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where his childhood friend Tommy Frigo works. Another games worker, Emily "Em" Lewin, saves James from being stabbed by a cheating customer and offers him a ride home that night. With her father and stepmother out of town, Em throws a party. At the party, Em and James discover they share a similar taste in music. Em persuades James to join her in her swimming pool, but an unfortunately timed erection humiliates him in front of everyone. After the party, Mike Connell, who is married and has been having an affair with Em, comes over and they have sex. As the love triangle between Mike, Em, and James continues to develop, other romances blossom between their coworkers at Adventureland. James also has a brief romance with rides worker Lisa P. Another of James' coworkers tells James that one night, he saw Em and Connell doing "pushups without any pants on" in the back of Connell's car. Frigo drives James to Connell's mother's house and they see Em leaving. James tells Lisa about the affair and asks her not to tell anyone, but she tells her friend Kelly and soon afterwards the news spreads throughout the park. Em quits and moves back to New York. James gets drunk, crashes his father's car into their neighbor's tree, and passes out. The next morning, James' prospective grad school roommate decides to go to Harvard Business School instead, leaving him with nowhere to live in New York. James heads to New York City and waits outside Em's apartment in the rain. When she arrives, she invites him in and they reconcile.
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In the early 1960s, a three-girl "Greek chorus" – Crystal, Ronette and Chiffon – introduce the film, warning the audience that some horror is coming their way ("Prologue: Little Shop of Horrors"). Seymour Krelborn and his co-worker, Audrey, work at Mushnik's Flower Shop in New York City's rough, rundown Skid Row neighborhood, which they lament that they cannot escape ("Skid Row (Downtown)"). Struggling from a lack of customers, Mr. Mushnik decides to close the store, but Audrey suggests he may have more success by displaying an unusual plant that Seymour owns. Immediately attracting a customer, Seymour explains he bought the plant – which he dubbed "Audrey II" – from a Chinese flower shop during a solar eclipse ("Da-Doo"). The plant brings much business to Mushnik's shop, but soon starts to wither. Seymour accidentally pricks his finger, and discovers that Audrey II needs human blood to thrive ("Grow for Me"). Audrey II begins to grow rapidly, making Seymour a local celebrity. Meanwhile, Audrey suffers at the hands of her sadistic biker boyfriend, Orin Scrivello; however, she has feelings for Seymour and secretly dreams of running off with him to the suburbs ("Somewhere That's Green"). Seymour continues to feed Audrey II his own blood, draining his energy ("Some Fun Now"). He attempts to ask Audrey out, but she turns him down because she has a date with Orin, who is revealed to be a dentist ("Dentist!"). After Seymour closes up shop, Audrey II begins to talk to Seymour, demanding more blood than Seymour can give. The plant suggests that Seymour murder someone, promising that it will bring him fame and fortune and will impress Audrey. Seymour initially refuses, but eventually agrees after he witnesses Orin abusing Audrey ("Feed Me (Git It!)"). After Orin finishes with his masochistic patient, Arthur Denton, who had requested "a long, slow, root canal", Seymour draws a revolver on Orin, but cannot bring himself to use it. Orin, who abuses nitrous oxide, puts on a type of venturi mask to receive a constant flow of the gas, but breaks the valve, and Seymour watches as he asphyxiates. Seymour dismembers Orin's body and feeds it to Audrey II, which has grown to enormous size, but is unknowingly witnessed by Mushnik, who flees in fear. Audrey, feeling guilty over Orin's disappearance, is comforted by Seymour and the two admit their feelings for each other ("Suddenly, Seymour"). That night, Mushnik confronts Seymour about Orin's death. He holds Seymour at gunpoint, demanding the plant for his own silence. Backed into a corner, Seymour begins to tell him how to care for Audrey II but before he can reveal the secret, the plant swallows Mushnik whole ("Suppertime"). Despite widespread success, Seymour worries about Audrey II's growth and unbridled appetite ("The Meek Shall Inherit"). Offered money and a contract for a botany TV show, Seymour becomes overwhelmed and decides to escape Skid Row with Audrey using money coming the next day, leaving the plant to starve. After Audrey accepts Seymour's marriage proposal, Audrey II catches Seymour leaving and demands another meal: Seymour agrees, but insists on meat from a butcher. While Seymour is gone, the plant telephones Audrey, coaxes her into the shop and attacks her ("Suppertime II").
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Noortje Marres
Information Macht Krieg
The emergence of electronic information war as a chance to marginalise the armed forces: this thought stands central in the review below. Reasoning from the idea that in order to carry out InfoWar, the military must act in civilian information space, I believed in November 1998 that civilian parties were able to resist such a militarisation of 'their media.' Stronger still, I concluded then that these parties were capable of attacking the hegemony of the military mentality (destruction and defence/suspense, sabotage and secrecy). Now it is April 1999, and this assessment seems ridiculous.
Amid all the concerns, criticism and embracing of Realkrieg called up by nato's Kosovo offensive, this observation appears: the fact that the military exercises its influence in the civilian media does not necessarily mean civilian parties can resist that influence. On the contrary. Western coverage is dominated by nato's rhetoric of humanitarian intervention - presented as an undertaking motivated by ethical-social concerns and not power politics. And in that light, the struggle for existence, charity, and information consumption (critical or otherwise) seem the only relevant civilian initiatives. At the moment it is unlikely that critical voices will come together in an anti-military campaign. But even aside from the propaganda issue, the choice for an open, non-hostile form of communication against military influence now appears in a different light. Milosevic's destruction machine, and nato's as well, make civilians' choice of a peaceful media strategy irrelevant to a certain extent. It has been law for millennia: whoever rules the battlefield (armed forces and political commanders-in-chief) rules the land. Yet that choice, as the only enduring one, remains important. That is why this article about InfoWar, however out of place, is being printed the way it was written in November 1998.
At 10:00 on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 1998, military experts, media theorists, net activists, scientists and journalists enter a room in the Brucknerhaus in Linz. Ars Electronica, the annual festival for Art, Technology and Society, has invited them to take positions for the next two days on the battlefield of the information war. Whether things at the symposium actually came down to a confrontation, I do not know. I was not there. But I can say that the word 'war' can be taken literally. The people in Linz really meant it: one-quarter of the speakers was directly involved in the national defence policy and Ars Electronica's InfoWar website:, links to the Pentagon, InfoSecurity News, the College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education, and the Air Power Journal.
Infowar is a term hyped by the us Department of Defense (dod) for defensive and offensive operations in information space, from everyday surveillance practices to catastrophic attacks on military, economic, political and social networks. Against its usual policy of secrecy, the military launched the new strategy in the media with surprisingly little reserve. The slogan is good for spectacle and sensation, and you might wonder if you really want to take Ars Electronica seriously. Since its inception in 1979 the festival has grown into an established player, as a list of affiliated companies attests: among this year's sponsors were Hewlett Packard Austria, Microsoft Austria, and Silicon Graphics Austria. Employees of Disney, Atari, Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, and Interval Inc. sat on the Prix Ars Electronica jury (responsible for the artistic portion of the festival). Why does Ars Electronica, which can definitely call itself a paragon of peaceful co-operation, choose war as its theme? During the InfoWar net symposium, where a reasonably lively discussion took place in the months around the festival, that question was repeatedly raised. ^^^^ It seems somewhat facile, outdated and counterproductive to carry out the discussion about technology and society under the threatening, oh-so-imposing standard of the American armed forces.
Everywhere or Nowhere
In our efforts to battle terrorism, cyber-attacks and biological weapons, all of us must be extremely aggressive, Bill Clinton said on May 22, 1998. If Washington is concerned with it, then there must be a case for it. The anthology published in connection with the InfoWar symposium opens with Cyberwar is Coming! (1991) (, by John Aquilla and David Ronfeldt, both affiliated with the Pentagon think tank the rand Corporation. The article serves as a central point of reference for the InfoWar debate, in this collection as well as elsewhere. The goal of InfoWar is the structural disorganisation of enemy communication systems. The target can be a state, but also a non-governmental organisation. The same holds for the aggressor. Thus InfoWar plays out in society. Every point in the network can serve as an attack base or target. A second characteristic of the InfoWar is invisibility: the moment at which information changes into disinformation can pass by completely unnoticed. InfoWar is everywhere, and likely without our knowing it.
Fortunately, InfoWar turns out to be an extremely elastic concept. The collection's writers - 26 men, two women - take advantage of its chameleon character and apply the term to the most diverse conflict situations. Governments, multinationals, media and civilian collectives are constantly locked in info-battle. At stake is not so much good old sovereignty, but market shares, organisation principles and worldviews. Everything is InfoWar. And to make things even more complicated, at the same time InfoWar means hardly anything. Aquilla and Ronfeldt declare that the emergence of a new kind of war is convenient for the postponement of looming defence cuts. The InfoWar illusion is further dismantled in a contribution by Chris Gray, author of Postmodern War, The New Politics of Confict (1997), a clear, sharp study of the present, past and future of high-tech warfare. He contends that the American armed forces entered a crisis of legitimacy after the Cold War. And business took over its pioneering role in the field of technological innovation besides. To save military ai research, which was devouring billions but all too often ending in blunders, the dod set up an advertising campaign:'' InfoWar Is Coming!
Don't believe the hype? The temptation to see InfoWar as nothing more than an empty formula cools with the realisation that doing so strips the opposition, the subversive actions of disobedient citizens, of credibility. The dod may be hyping InfoWar, but hackers and their supporters have been shouting about something like it for years. On the other hand, believing in InfoWar calls up a vision of a cyber-race based on mistrust in which states, companies and ngos keep on expanding their arsenals of info-weapons. An impasse? The collection's writers don't buy it. In a company of journalists, theorists, military and activists, everyone expects the enemy to be breathing down one's neck, and everyone feels called upon to take a position. This is decidedly a merit of the editing. But that's not to say that those positions link up with each other either. The collection offers a series of ingredients which in combination can lead to deadly boring stalemates with everyone beating a big drum but no one hearing anything. But they can also lead to tasty confrontations between the competing project developers of cyberspace. How the discussion in Linz went, I cannot say with certainty, but I can envision two scenarios.
Game 1: Rock 'n' Ruin
''Es schien daß man sich mit einem chicen, dem Zeitgeist entsprechenden Thema schmücken wollte, jedem echten Risiko aber dadurch aus dem Weg geht, daß die schützende Glaswand des Monitors zwischen sich selbst und die realen Gefahrenzonen gebracht wurde.
''armin medosch
, 'Report from the Front, Ars Electronica 98,' de:Bug, 16.10.98.
Manuel De Landa
''We must not see the proliferation of military methods and techniques in society as a totally new stage in Western history. The military and civilian life (family + work) have influenced each other continually in past centuries. The railways, for instance, were built with the help of military engineers.
Friedrich Kittler
''What is new about InfoWar is that espionage, communication, and war-simulations come together in a global computer network. From that moment on information is a weapon in itself and combat penetrates social life. This does not mean the public can join the fight, but that the computer industry appropriates the war, trampling over the users!
Douglas Rushkoff
''We must refuse mass participation in the information war. The big players have turned the Internet from a communication medium into an information medium (from two- to one-way traffic) and we would be crazy to go along with that. Let business fight the Info Arms Race themselves, and let us concern ourselves with communication.
Geert Lovink
''What we need are small-scale counter-psy-ops against the dominant media.
Paul Virilio
''Media-tycoons call the shots in politics these days (the election of Berlusconi in Italy is a sign of what is going to happen in the rest of Europe and in the us). It means that every enduring form of collective resistance from now on rests on an illusion, since teletechnology - the pre-eminent media weapon - makes remembering impossible and thereby the sharing of thoughts.
Igor Nicolaevich Panarin (national security expert in service of the President of the Russian Federation)
Governments' actions are decisive in ''InfoWar. To prevent the situation from escalating, states will have to join forces and develop an info-psychological security system under un leadership, in other words provide public opinion with a solid foundation.
Michael Wilson (infrastructural warfare field operations professional, advisor to states and multinationals)
''We have a word for pacifists: losers. A winner, by contrast, has the following cognitive tool set: InfoWar revolves around the management of infrastructures. Everything and everyone is dependent on infrastructure; it is simultaneously weapon, target and spoils of war. As soon as you see this, you can participate. After all, everyone has a pc.
Game 2: Baby, you're out of time
''Fantasy or reality? Pretty much all the speakers at the symposium agreed that that, too, is InfoWar: another definition of war in which the home front gets a new interpretation.
herman asselberghs, 'Past the Information War Metaphor,' De Financieel-Economische Tijd'', 19.9.98
Manuel De Landa
Gerfried Stocker (artistic director of the festival)
''We have reached a historic breaking point in the past few decades: today's society makes wars of destruction unlikely. Precisely because of the spread of originally military ict, mass destruction is no longer a desirable option for most economic and political parties. In a global infrastructure it's to no one's advantage if nodes fall away. The point is not to take out the other, but acquiring and controlling the knowledge he has.
Patrice Riemens
''In the information society the deciding factor is who has knowledge and who doesn't. Companies and governments try to keep control of the production and distribution of knowledge in all possible ways (the advancement of hierarchy). But this has also called forth a counter-movement. Hackers promote a different organisation principle: they demand open knowledge systems (radical democracy). It's time we recognise who our allies are!
Chris Hables Gray
It remains to be seen to what degree the American armed forces will be able to control civil networks. Defence develops its strategies in the supposition that systems can be imposed on information streams. But information moves too quickly and too chaotically to be simply managed. The army lacks the capacity to see ''InfoWar in the context of an extremely changeable society.
Ute Bernardt (information technology assessment expert)
''InfoWar will shut down networks and cripple society. That's why it is of utmost importance that the hegemony of the army in cyberspace is prevented. Military and civil interests are at odds with each other. So the stupidest thing we could do is let defence solve the problem of the vulnerability of networks. The development of alternative concepts of vulnerability reduction is the first task of a civil defence brigade. For starters, publicising security standards would help to prevent surprises.
Shen Weiguang (member of the Financial Committee of China's National People's Congress)
''An authority should arise soon to determine the territorial boundaries of cyberspace. The military is by far the most suitable candidate. It will have to become proficient in information theory.
George J. Stein (head of the department of Future Conflict Studies at the usaf Air War College)
''War is something that plays out between states; civilian activities have nothing to do with it. Cyber-actions by teenagers or swindlers are simply criminal and must be dealt with by the law.
Whoever determines the rules of the game also determines the outcome. I let the first game end in the inertia of the established order. The players become isolated and the Info Arms Race is checked by no one. In the second game the civilian party successfully explores new survival strategies. It discovers its potential for power and the various authorities, as they should, stand tongue-tied. For both games a single rule holds: if players adopt military and corporate definitions of InfoWar without bastardising them, things go wrong; if civilian players formulate in their own terms how ict has changed and can change the distribution of power in society, things may turn out all right.
Why this rule? If we want cyberspace to continue to display democratic potential, resistance to its militarisation will have to come from the civilian sphere. In this respect it doesn't seem an effective move to me to adopt the definitions of the military and sow panic about the impending InfoWar, as do Virilio and Kittler, for example. Patrice Riemens, Chris Gray, and Ute Bernard at least seek guidelines for counter-movements. Guidelines that don't go along with the definition of 'opponent' as defence sees it. They show why the advance of the military in cyberspace, in light of the social landscape it presents, is not suitable nor desirable, and describe ways to stop that advance.
In this they fill an urgent need. On October 17, 1998, the European Union member states announced that they had made an agreement with the fbi in 1995 to tap all forms of data communication in Europe, under the name eu-fbi surveillance plan.
( The news is on page 8 of the Dutch newspaper in the international section. For a Dutch paper such news is from faraway, has only indirectly to do with us. In a way it's right about that. In Europe InfoWar is scarcely an issue. Here, national armed forces specialise in peace operations. And as far as the European armed forces are concerned, a lot will have to happen before they will concern themselves with InfoWar. The Western European Union (weu), it is true, was chosen at the end of October by Tony Blair to supply the eu with a solid military framework, but it is now just a dormant boys' club without its own server (the weu housed its e-mail accounts with Hotmail and Skynet). In this context it's obvious that the American military-industrial complex will determine the rules for cyberspace. Insofar as we will be able to speak of a war in cyberspace, it will pass Europe largely by.
Another reason for the introduction of InfoWar into the public discussion is Kosovo. While Serbia pulled back some of its troops under the watchful eye of journalists and nato observers, Milosevic decided to ban Radio Index broadcasts as well as publication of daily newspapers Danas, Dnevni Telegraf and Nasa Borba (Arsenije Jovanov in the net symposium). nato concluded from these contradictory pieces of news that the best thing it could do was wait. Europe did nothing. If the crisis in Kosovo had been called an InfoWar, would we still not know how to interpret these signals? Ars Electronica's choice of themes is not as outdated and counterproductive as it seemed at first glance. InfoWar has abundant external points of reference.
In Postmodern War Chris Gray tells of a cyber-wargame staged by the Pentagon in 1995. The enemy (Muslim fundamentalists who hire Euro-hackers) uses viruses to crash trains, airplanes and banks, and finally forces the us to its knees when the telephone network too goes under. A participant remarked, This was not something carpet-bombing was going to solve. Naturally the armed forces interprets this as a stimulus to look for a digital version, and of course we can shudder at the thought of that. But maybe carpet bombing's best days are behind it, and the military will have to give up its role as gamemaster. One of the pillars of the military-industrial complex is weakening and another form of combat will become decisive in a civilian society.
translation laura martz
gerfried stocker, christine schöpf ^^
(eds.) Infowar Wien, New York 1998
gerfried stocker, christine schöpf
(eds.) Infowar, information.macht.krieg Wien, New York 1998
hannes leopoldseder, christine schöpf (eds.) Cyberarts, International Compendium Prix Ars Electronica Wien, New York 1998
chris hables gray Postmodern War, The New Politics of Conflict London 1997
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Neuroscience basics for LessWrongians
The origins of this article are in my partial transcript of the live June 2011 debate between Robin Hanson and Eliezer Yudkowsky. While I still feel like I don't entirely understand his arguments, a few of his comments about neuroscience made me strongly go, "no, that's not right."
Furthermore, I've noticed that while LessWrong in general seems to be very strong on the psychological or "black box" side of cognitive science, there isn't as much discussion of neuroscience here. This is somewhat understandable. Our current understanding of neuroscience is frustratingly incomplete, and too much journalism on neuroscience is sensationalistic nonsense. However, I think what we do know is worth knowing. (And part of what makes much neuroscience journalism annoying is that it makes a big deal out of things that are totally unsurprising, given what we already know.)
My qualifications to do this: while my degrees are in philosophy, for awhile in undergrad I was a neuroscience major, and ended up taking quite a bit of neuroscience as a result. This means I can assure you that most of what I say here is standard neuroscience which could be found in an introductory textbook like Nichols, Martin, Wallace, & Fuchs' From Neuron to Brain (one of the text books I used as an undergraduate). The only things that might not be totally standard are the conjecture I make about how complex currently-poorly-understood areas of the brain are likely to be, and also some of the points I make in criticism of Eliezer at the end (though I believe these are not a very big jump from current textbook neuroscience.)
One of the main themes of this article will be specialization within the brain. In particular, we know that the brain is divided into specialized areas at the macro level, and we understand some (though not very much) of the micro-level wiring that supports this specialization. It seems likely that each region of the brain has its own micro-level wiring to support its specialized functi
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Type » Animal: Biped
Temperament » Neutral to Aggressive. Tend not to attack unless directly provoked but outliers of the species will murder for economic incentive, out of desperation or psychosis.
Sapience » Complex. Constructs and preserves information outside of the self. High degree of organization and development of physical, mental, and social networks. Understanding of abstract concepts and creation of complex tools.
Size » Medium; 5-7 feet
Weight » 90-300 lbs
Habitat » Extremely adaptable. Have been seen living in mountain ranges, deserts, forests, and cities.
Location » Terrenus
Organization » Extremely adaptable. Major population centers range in the millions but instances can be observed of smaller chiefdoms and tribes with own culture, language, religion, magic, and scientific understanding.
Special Abilities » Enhanced physical attributes (compared to mundane mortal); innate magic (5% of the species capable of casting innately); external magic (learned through books, training, insight, etc).
Terrans are physically robust, comparable in physical ability to Olympic athletes and perhaps explaining why such a high percentage of the population is employed in high-risk physical labor (smithing, mining, dungeoneering, mercenary work, etc and so on). This is due to a diet whose food sources are maintained and augmented through magic, as well as to the physical demands of survival anywhere outside of the heavily constructed mega-cities.
The common language is Terric, with different dialects and pidgin languages in isolated pockets of the continent whose influence can be seen in the names of certain locations or historical events, such as Last Chance's native name of La Ultimate Opportunidad.
The life span is 100 for men and 110 for women. Unlike other hominid species, the disparity in physical strength between men and women is extant but borderline insignificant; women are more or less comparable to men in this regard. Most Terrans are Gaianist in religion, philosophy, or worldview, and this is salient in their implementation of biomimicry in their architecture and green engineering. Two-thirds of the population are citizens, which requires two years of military service in order to hold property and vote, and which establishes a basic minimum combat readiness for most men and women[1].
1: In short the average Terran citizen is strong, smart, and capable. They're not all perfect and if you need an NPC mook, you can use them for that but that type is the exception and not the standard.
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The following is a list of roleplay personality archetypes that you're liable to meet in pretty much any roleplay forum you can think of. You can use this list as a handy list as a reference guide not just for people you should avoid interacting with, but for people you should avoid becoming as well.
Our goal on Valucre, and one that I think we've managed to reach with a fair amount of success thanks to proactive thinking and not just reactionary punishments, is to have as low a percentage of these type of people as possible.
I've made a few light edits.All Credit and Work go to oxymoron_02
Anti Munch Project
What AMP is all about
The Anti Munch Project is all about roleplay awareness. With newcomers to roleplay appearing on the scene all the time, often with little idea of how it's done, we need this thread to show them where they are going wrong.
So what is in this thread?
This AMP thread lists first the types of roleplayer (all the largely agreed upon definitions, any corrections just PM me), and then the various types of Muncher/Godmoder/Godmodder.
In light of previous whining I have decided to kill all user input, including my own added terms. Apparently the concept of an AMP open to suggestion was not a popular idea.
The types of munching have now been ordered alphabetically. I tried to go for 'seriousness of offence,' but it was too difficult. Alphabetical order is generally easier to navigate and simpler to flick to to find the definition of a certain term, anyway.
Types of Roleplayer
Despite the definitions below, individuals tend to have their own definitions of the major terms for types of roleplayer. The definitions given here are sort of a "mean" or "average" of those opinions. No individual's opinion is incorrect, so long as they explain what they mean when using a certain term, if others ask.
Oldbies: Are veterans of roleplaying. They generally know best after years of experience. Becoming an oldbie, however, is not necessarily the ultimate goal; many people are fine just settling down as Literate.
Elites: A tricky area, the term Elite is often taken to mean someone who is superb at roleplaying, however this is usually reserved for the term Oldbie. Following now is a description of an Elite as typically seen.
Elites are on their way to becoming Oldbies, but somehow veer off-course and become asshats instead. Elites can be recognised by their "Elites only" policy, with no lee-way whatsoever. They are generally quite cocky, think they are better, and insist on using reams and reams of detail. This can be particularly true for magic users, who are convinced that their descriptions of the traits and limits of magic are unquestionable.
Thankfully their numbers are few and far between.
Literates: Literate roleplayers are just that. Literate. They use correct punctuation and grammar, and roleplay fairly. Literates often refer to and follow the AMP (Anti-Munch Project). A common flaw in being Literate is that you can be too fair, but that is by no means a totally end of the world drama oh the horror bad thing.
Newbie/Newb: A Newbie can at first seem to be a n00b, through they can learn to roleplay correctly, fairly and adequately. Newbies are to be encouraged and treated well, and will often grow into skilled Literates.
ne0 n00b: ne0s (never use a capital 'n' for them!) at first appear to be Literates. This falsehood becomes apparent after a few posts however, as they tend to break the AMP a lot, and are actually just n00bs who can spell.
n00b: (Don't use a capital 'n' for these either!) n00bs are the worst roleplayer available. A sad and terribly derogatory approach to take, but the simple fact of the matter is that they just cannot and will not roleplay fairly, even when outnumbered, outgunned, and obviously dead in character.
They will often resort to flaming, leading to eventual bans, new accounts, and new bans.
Anti Munch Project Terms
Aimbotter: Especially annoying when using NPCs, as NPCs don't get to argue about much.
A: Three hundred seventy of my trained assassin gymnasts crest the hill, sight you, and rush toward you.
B: Luckily, I have three hundred sixty-nine bullets in my chain gun! I quickly mow them all down, each taking a single bullet to the head, and peg the last one with a rock in the sternum.
Augustine: Far, far too prevalent. They try to carry something from one RP into another, just because they're in the same sub-forum.
A: Given that this RP's technology base is medieval, I happily drive my cart to the market to buy some maggot-ridden meat.
B: Too late! I already got there in my Gundam and blew up everything with my insanely overpowered weapons! And don't start whining, because my Gundam's already pre-approved in the "This Is Not a Medieval Technology Base RP" thread.
Baghdad Bobbit: An advanced (or is that "degraded"?) form of Puppetmaster and Aimbotter combined. These people soon become bored of anybody with a lick of skill, and wander off in a huff because the RP will take too long for their precious, precious time.
A: I fire at the stationary target, hitting twice but missing with my remaining four rounds.
B: I get tired of your realistic RPing style and poke you in the neck, collapsing your trachea. You die writhing in torment.
Boa Constrictor: Threads that have a long list of rules that prevent any characters except their own from roleplaying in that thread. No example will be given here, since that would be suggesting rules that shouldn't be used at all, and used separately these rules would be fine.
Boa Constrictors most commonly like to ban most forms of magic, guns, NPCs, technology, 'special' abilities, etc. The result is, as I said, a thread in which very few characters can venture.
I do emphasise that threads should have whichever rules they want, within fairness to other roleplayers. Lists of rules which prevent too much are too, let's face it, n00bish.
Daydreamer: Not exactly munch, per se, but it does get annoying. They manage to turn seemingly coherent RP into a mad ramble about totally unrelated things. Which is not to say that adding a little insight in the middle of an RP is bad; but try to make it only a few lines, three at the most, as anything else just distracts from the current events taking place.
A: In the middle of the intense shootout, I dash across the narrow alley, ducking and weaving in hopes to avoid getting hit. I'm unsuccessful; two bullets peg me in the shoulder, throwing me back into a Dumpster.
B: The bullets make me think back to my days as a youth, when I had to melt down tin soldiers to use as musket balls against the Redcoats...or was it redskins? I can't remember. Anyway, I had to walk uphill all three ways to school and back, running from glaciers all the while. It was torture, lemme tell ya. And then there's the story of how I met my first wife...
Gaseous Snake: A combination of McFly and Lucky Irishmen. They will often attempt to alter the RP right after the fair-playing RPer has made a post that will see the Snake's demise. They are not, however, as desperate as McFlys in what they change.
A: I walk to the door and open it.
B: Being a fellow with a bit of foresight, I hooked that doorknob to a car battery an hour ago. You're thrown across the room.
Godmoder: A rather broad term, basically covering a character/roleplayer who can overcome any situation. They will often have flashy powers, ignore just about anything you say and do, and somehow manage to be completely unaware of their own unfairness (otherwise known as stupidity).
A: Now that you're strapped to the end of a naval cannon, I fire it.
B: Whoosh! I nimbly dodge, somehow forgetting the fact that I'm restrained by a three-hundred-pound chain!
Hi-jacker: These are intensely annoying for thread creators. They are often members of that thread, also. These are the people that take over a thread they are roleplaying in, and either add things in, or perform actions that affect everyone roleplaying in the thread.
(Real example)
A: Ok! Our base is under attack and we have to defend it!
B: *Goes and activates the base's self destruct* Everybody run you have three minutes!
Hiver: So named after such things as the xenomorphs from Aliens, the Klendathu bugs from Starship Troopers (which both use hives), and the teeming hoardes they generally are. These hoardes are always fearless, tireless, will battle until dead, and quite often have some excessive weapons and/or armour. Alternate names are Beehivers or Ants.
Basically, it's the guys who have too many NPCs.
A: *He silently approached the enemy position, knowing himself to be outnumbered yet confident enough in his ability*
B: *The camp was over ten thousand strong and each man was alert and ready, watching the perimeter for intruders*
IDKFA: Most likely people attempting to emulate Solid Snake or some other cheesy spy-novel hero. They never run out of weapons or ammo, or anything else that leads to them being victorious.
A: You're all out of ammo for all five of your Ingram submachine guns. Since you're buck-naked, I know I can now safely step into the open and begin returning fire.
B: Ha! Little did you know, I have twelve shuriken hidden within my pubic hair!
McFly: Declining in numbers now, these will alter situations (and usually first posts) drastically to give them an advantage in roleplay.
A: Ha! Now that the force field is down, I run inside your evil lair!
B: Um... um... there's also a super-secret second force field which causes you to die instantly! I just didn't say anything about it because... um... I had to do my laundry! Not because I just thought of it now! Honestly!
Min-maxer: Not a lot of those running around here, thank goodness... that's more of a DnD-style paper game issue. Their own strength: weakness ratio is off the charts.
A: I've successfully broken into the facility which gave you your incredibly 1337 power armor. Now I pull up the file on it. What does it say about weak points?
B: The metal of my armor is... um... allergic to praying mantis urine.
Miss Cleo: They use Out of Character knowledge to their own advantage.
A: ((OOC: There's a secret switch hidden in the lamp.))
B: I suddenly think to myself-- why not check the lamp for hidden switches? Call me now for your free reading!
NIMBY: The people who quite readily attack others' threads, but then stop all attacks on their own thread.
A: They attacked us! Let's go and get them!
B: *Deletes any posts related to an attack and/or bitches to a moderator*
Oblivious Oaf: People who don't explain how what they are using, works. Now this is fine to an extent; you're not expected to know the exact functioning procedure for a gravity-spewing railgun, but at least give a vague idea behind the mechanism because at times it can help your opponent to formulate an adequate response.
A: Haha my ultra shield deflects any projectile weapon
B: ((Dude, how does that work? I need some info))
A: ((Ahhhhh uhhhhhh.......it....uses......some... weird substance... that like... does something... and then it like... just deflects all projectiles! ))
Oxymoron: Luckily rare. (And no relation to me. I think) They manage, somehow, to be completely contradictory in their posts.
A: I'm a farmer with a shotgun.
B: I'm a black hole which emits blinding pulses of visible light!
Puppetmaster: Another overly common occurrence. They basically take control of others' characters, often to extremes. It is usually ok to make tiny little changes to another person's character; for example if your own character launches a fireball at a tree, it is safe to assume that other characters will probably watch the tree get hit, and thus you can comment on that.
Depending upon the extent to which they puppetmaster, this is not necessarily a form of munching.
A: I step carefully into the room, peering around for occupants.
B: Suddenly a dragon pokes you in the eye. You run screaming from the room, whereafter you go home, make a pickle sandwich, and call your mother to cry about how she ruined your life.
Quaker: They can magically 'spawn' anything. Having a character which can retreive things from pocket dimensions is not an excuse, unless said pocket dimension has a previously listed inventory which can be checked.
A: My character is wearing a form of armour only vulnerable to a drop of water from a holy well in South Dakota.
B: *He pulls out the vial of water from a holy well in South Dakota* "I don't know why I always carried this, but I knew it would come in useful one day."
Revisionist: Another prevalent problem. They are akin to a McFly, but rather than trying to be an asshole OOC, they try to be one IC instead. Their characters change their mind, thus causing an annoyance, but not necessarily munching.
A: You chose the blue pill? Ooh, tough luck.
B: Red! I said red!
Don't go pulling that "I can read your previous post" mind game crap, either!
Shoe elf: Pretty obvious.
A: ((OOC: Well, gotta go to bed. Big neurosurgery test tomorrow.))
B: Ho, ho, ho! Now that the loser's gone to bed, I can strap his character to a cross and peg him with rotten fruit!
Speedhacker: One of the worst we have to deal with.
A: I walk to the door and step outside.
B: Suddenly, twelve men grab you, carry you off to my secret lair in Tibet, and torture you for weeks. When you finally die from the agony, we bury you in the frozen wastes. Hundreds of years later, arhcaeologists discover your frozen body and try to determine if you're another Lucy.
Trinity: The knowledge downloaders, the omniscient Billy Joe-Bobs. [Also known as Zoicites]
A: My character was raised by a gang leader in the harsh conditions of a slum. From this, he learned to wield small firearms fairly effectively and has limited driving abilities.
B: My character was born on a remote jungle island and can fly or drive anything and use any gun with perfect aim.
Twink: Sometimes allowed in certain RPs. If the RP isn't specifically about invincible deities and such, a simple rule is that if the strengths aren't counterbalanced with relatively equivalent weaknesses (or if the reasoning behind the phenomenal cosmic powers isn't eloquently and appropriately explained), you're dealing with a twink.
A: A punch coming, eh? Well, seeing as you're a seven-year-old child and I'm riding in a twenty-meter mecha, I won't bother dodging.
B: Fooled you! I have the power to DESTROY EVERYTHING when I punch it! I'm just like an X-Man, and therefore require you to suspend all logic when RPing with me! Oh, and I have the power to steal your girlfriend, too.
((All credit goes to Requiem in Mortis, and the original author of the AMP, for making a great guide.)
The Anti-Munch Project
Or, “The Role-player’s Guide to Identifying n00bs”
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The Anti-Munch Project, or AMP, is one of many guides that exists for role-players. It helps to identify various types of n00bishness, or “Munching”, that exists in role-playing. Munching is a growing issue in role-playing, and this guide will help you avoid these players while avoiding the mistakes yourself. The guide can apply to both pen-and-paper role-playing games, such as Dungeons and Dragons, and online role-plays; however, since games like D&D aren’t as common as they used to be, we shall focus on online role-playing. This guide, hopefully, will help you in your role-playing endeavors in the future. And if not, well, it makes for a good read anyways.
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Based on a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ken Wakui, ‘Tokyo Revengers ‘is a Shounen action TV anime. The series follows a 26-year-old loner named Takemichi Hanagaki, who gets the shock of his life when he learns the reality of his girlfriend’s death. While he is trying to grasp the implications of his newfound knowledge, Hanagaki mysteriously gets transported twelve years in the past. Realizing that this is his opportunity to make things right, he embarks on a quest to save innocent lives by embracing the world of crime. The anime first premiered on April 11, 2021. Here is everything you need to know about the upcoming episode of the show.
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The audio version can be listened to here:
In this essay, I will give my views on technology and progress, focusing specifically on space travel, computers and transhumanism.
Futurism is not just predictive. It is also normative. We are concerned with what we should do, not just with what will happen. So, I’m going to talk about what I think will happen, what probably won’t happen, and what I think we should try to do.
(see the rest of the post in the link)
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In modern-day New York, Derek Jacobi arrives at a theater where he delivers a monologue questioning the lack of manuscript writings of William Shakespeare, despite the undeniable fact that he is the most performed playwright of all time. Ben Jonson is making ready to enter the stage. The narrator offers to take the viewers into a different story behind the origin of Shakespeare's plays: "one of quills and swords, of power and betrayal, of a stage conquered and a throne lost." Jumping to Elizabethan London, Ben Jonson is running through the streets carrying a parcel and being pursued by soldiers. He enters the theatre called The Rose and hides the manuscripts he carries as the soldiers set fire to the theatre. Ben is detained at the Tower of London to face the questioning of puritanical Robert Cecil. The writings by Edward de Vere that Robert Cecil thought Ben had, are not found on him. In a flashback of five years, an adult Edward lives, disgraced and banished from court, in the last years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. The queen is old and in failing health but, as she has remained unmarried, lacks an heir. The affairs of the kingdom are managed by the elderly Lord William Cecil, the Queen's primary adviser, and his son Robert. A growing group of malcontent nobles gather at court, led by Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, who is widely believed to be Elizabeth's bastard son. In secret, the Cecils have been planning to solve the succession crisis by offering the crown to Elizabeth's cousin, King James VI of Scotland; the idea of a foreign king inheriting the crown of the Tudors angers enough nobles that they begin to muster support for Essex to claim the throne when Elizabeth dies. Edward's young friend, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, is pledged to support Essex but Edward warns him against any rash action and that any move they make has to be managed carefully to avoid civil war. When Edward and Henry visit a public theatre to see a play written by Ben Jonson, Edward witnesses how a play can sway people, and thinks that it can be used to thwart the influence of the Cecils, who as devout Puritans reject theater as the 'worship of false idols', with Queen Elizabeth concerning her successor. After the Cecils declare Ben's play illegal and arrest him, Edward arranges for his release and instructs him to stage a play he wrote and act as the author. The play, Henry V, galvanizes the people and even Ben, who had contemptuously dismissed Edward's skill as a writer as the passing fancy of a bored nobleman, is impressed. At curtain call, however, William Shakespeare, a "drunken oaf", steps forward to be recognized as the author of the play. Elizabeth accepts a gift that evokes a memory from forty years before, when the boy, Edward, performed in his own play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, as Puck. After the elder Earl of Oxford's death, the teenage Edward is entrusted as a ward to William Cecil and must write his plays in secret to avoid his guardian's ire. During this time, Edward kills a spying servant who had discovered his plays. William Cecil covers up the incident but forces Edward into a marriage with his daughter, Anne. However, Edward is infatuated with the queen and, after a brief time living on the continent, he enters into an affair with Elizabeth. When the queen discovers he is pregnant with Edward's child, she tells William of her intention to marry him but he dissuades her and arranges for the child to be fostered into a noble family, as they had done in the past with Elizabeth's other bastards. Elizabeth ends her affair with Edward and does not tell him the reason. Angered, he has an affair with a lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth and learns from her that he had fathered a child with the Queen. When Elizabeth learns of the affair, Edward is banished from court but not before learning the name of his illegitimate child: Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton. Back in the adult Edward's time, despite Shakespeare's claim to his plays, Edward continues to provide Ben with plays which quickly become the thrill of London. Despite their unhappiness at the plays' popularity, the Cecils do not outlaw them because they fear the mob which might occur of they do. Ben becomes increasingly frustrated with his role as Edward's messenger and his own inability to match the brilliance of his plays. Later on, Shakespeare discovers that Edward is the real author and extorts him for money. He orders the construction of the Globe Theatre, where he bans Jonson's works from being performed, and claims Edward's plays as his own. Christopher Marlowe discovers Shakespeare's deal, and is later found with his throat slit. Jonson confronts Shakespeare and accuses him of murder. Edward and Essex, seeking to reduce Cecil's influence and to secure Essex's claim to succession, decide to force their way into the palace, against Cecil's wishes. Edward writes the play Richard III in order to incite hatred against Cecil and to summon a mob of Essex's supporters. Simultaneously, he would gain access to Elizabeth by sending her Venus and Adonis. The plan is set to fail when a bitter Ben, angered by what he perceives as his own inadequacy as a writer and Shakespeare's unearned success, betrays the plan to Robert Cecil by informing him that Richard III will be played as a hunchback, a reference to Robert Cecil's own deformity. The mob is stopped at the Bridge, and Robert Devereux and Henry surrender in the palace courtyard when the soldiers fire on them from the parapet. Robert Cecil tells Edward that Elizabeth has had other illegitimate children, the first of whom was born during the reign of Bloody Mary when she was only sixteen and a virtual prisoner of her sister. William Cecil, already close to the future queen, hid the child and passed him off as the son of the Earl of Oxford, revealing Edward's parentage to him: he is the first of Elizabeth's bastard children. Horrified by the failure of his plan for the succession, the expected execution of his son and the knowledge that he committed incest with his own mother, Edward nevertheless visits the Queen in a private audience to beg her to spare Henry. Elizabeth agrees to spare Henry, but insists that Edward remain anonymous as the true author of "Shakespeare's" works. Henry is released while Essex is executed for his treason. After Elizabeth's death, James of Scotland succeeds as James I of England and retains Robert Cecil as his primary adviser. On his deathbed, Edward entrusts a parcel full of his writings to Ben to keep them out of the hands of the royal family. Ben at first refuses the task and confesses to Edward that he betrayed him to the Cecils. In an unexpected heart-to-heart between the two playwrights, Edward admits that, whenever he had heard the applause for his plays, he had always known they were celebrating another man but that he had always wanted to gain Ben's approval, as he had been the only one to know that had been the author of the plays. Ben admits that he considers Edward to be the 'Soul of the Age' and promises to protect the plays and publish them when the time is right. After Edward's death, Ben's interrogation ends when he tells Robert Cecil hears that the Rose has been destroyed by fire and he had hidden the plays inside. As he is released, Robert instructs Ben to better Edward nd wipe his memory from the world. Ben tells him that he would if he could but that it was impossible to do. Miraculously, Ben finds the manuscripts where he hid them in the ruins of the Rose. At a performance of a "Shakespeare" play performed at court, James I remarks to a visibly unhappy Robert that he is an avid theater goer. Returning to the present day theatre, the narrator concludes the story by revealing the characters' fates: Robert Cecil remained the King's most trusted advisor, but never succeeded in banishing Edward's plays. Shakespeare did not remain in London, but returned to his hometown of Stratford upon Avon where he spent his last remaining years as a businessman. Ben would achieve his dream and became the first Poet Laureate, and would later write the introduction to the collected works purported to be authored by William Shakespeare. Although the story ends with the fate of its characters, the narrator proclaims that the poet who wrote these works, whether it be Shakespeare or another, had not seen the end of their story, and that "his monument is ever-living, made not of stone but of verse, and it shall be remembered... as long as words are made of breath and breath of life."
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Theater director Caden Cotard finds his life unraveling. He suffers from numerous physical ailments and has been growing increasingly alienated from his artist wife, Adele. He hits bottom when Adele leaves him for a new life in Berlin, taking their four-year-old daughter, Olive, with her. After the success of his production of Death of a Salesman, Caden unexpectedly receives a MacArthur Fellowship, giving him the financial means to pursue his artistic interests. He determines to use it to create an artistic piece of brutal realism and honesty, into which he can pour his whole self. Gathering an ensemble cast into an enormous warehouse in Manhattan's Theater District, he directs a celebration of the mundane, instructing the cast to live out their constructed lives. As the mockup inside the warehouse grows increasingly mimetic of the city outside, Caden continues to seek solutions to his personal crises. He is traumatized as he discovers Adele has become a celebrated painter in Berlin and Olive is growing up under the questionable guidance of Adele's friend Maria. After a failed attempt at a fling with Hazel (the woman who works in the box office), he marries Claire, an actress in his cast, and has a daughter with her. Their relationship fails, and he continues his awkward relationship with Hazel, who is now married with children and working as his assistant. Meanwhile, an unknown condition is systematically shutting down his autonomic nervous system. As the years rapidly pass, the continually expanding warehouse is isolated from the deterioration of the city outside. Caden buries himself ever deeper into his magnum opus, blurring the line between reality and the world of the play by populating the cast and crew with doppelgängers. For instance, Sammy Barnathan is cast in the role of Caden in the play after Sammy reveals that he has been obsessively following Caden for 20 years, while Sammy's lookalike is cast as Sammy. Sammy's interest in Hazel sparks a revival of Caden's relationship with her, leading Sammy to commit suicide. Shortly after Caden and Hazel finally get together, Hazel dies of smoke inhalation in her constantly burning house. As he pushes against the limits of his personal and professional relationships, Caden lets an actress take over his role as director and takes on her previous role as Ellen, Adele's custodian. He lives out his days in the model of Adele's apartment under the replacement director's instruction while some unexplained calamity occurs in the warehouse leaving ruins and bodies in its wake. Finally, he prepares for death as he rests his head on the shoulder of an actress who had previously played Ellen's mother, seemingly the only person in the warehouse still alive. As the scene fades to gray, Caden begins to say that now he has an idea of how to do the play, when the director's voice in his ear cuts him off with his final cue: "Die."
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The film opens in the year 1950. It's Halloween and an 11-year-old Harvey Pekar refuses to dress up as a superhero while trick-or-treating. The scene shifts to an adult Harvey (Paul Giamatti), walking the gritty Cleveland streets. Then real Harvey Pekar appears in a documentary-style setup. The narrative picks up again in 1975, as a scratchy-voiced Harvey visits a throat doctor and exhibits hypochondria. Harvey's wife decides their "plebeian" lifestyle just isn't working for her anymore; without being able to speak, Harvey is powerless to convince her not to leave him. A few months later, a depressed Harvey is at his file clerk job at the VA hospital. Mr. Boats (Earl Billings) comes by to offer advice: the words of an Elinor Wylie poem. In a documentary scene, the real Harvey Pekar talks about his years as a part-time used-record collector/salesman. The narrative flashes back to 1962. While searching for old records at a yard sale, Harvey meets shy greeting card illustrator Robert Crumb (James Urbaniak). A friendship is formed over a shared love of jazz and comic books. Returning to 1975, a now famous Crumb is back in Cleveland for a visit. His marriage over, Harvey is lonely and frustrated — he wants to leave a mark on the world. Afterward, a sobering moment in the VA hospital's "deceased" files section leads Harvey to try drawing his own stories, but his lack of drawing talent stops him. An incident at the supermarket revives him, as his animated subconscious goads him: "Are you going to stand there in silence, or are you going to make a mark?" Inspired, Harvey stays up all night writing. At a diner with Crumb, Harv makes a pitch for a new kind of comics. He shows Bob the scripts he’s been working on, and Crumb offers to illustrate them for him. A montage of classic Pekar quotidian moments culminates with Harvey proudly showing off American Splendor #1 to his VA co-workers. The narrative moves forward to 1984. Harvey has published eight issues of American Splendor to critical acclaim but little financial gain; he's still a "flunky file clerk." Harvey runs into Alice Quinn (Maggie Moore), a woman he briefly knew in college. They catch up on each other’s lives and talk about Theodore Dreiser's novel Jennie Gerhardt. Harvey leaves their encounter feeling more alone than ever before. Meanwhile in Delaware, Joyce (Hope Davis) is frustrated with her partner in the comic book store, who has sold her copy of American Splendor #8 out from under her. She writes to Harvey, he responds, and they discover they are kindred spirits. Joyce travels to Cleveland to meet Harvey in person. The date begins with a handshake and dinner at a local family restaurant. Back at Harvey's apartment, Joyce is overcome with a bout of nausea and vomiting. A concerned Harvey offers her chamomile tea. Charmed, Joyce suggests they "skip the whole courtship thing" and get married. It's one week later, and Harvey sees his VA colleague Toby Radloff (Judah Friedlander) sitting in his car eating White Castle sliders. Toby is on his way to Toledo to see the new movie Revenge of the Nerds. Meanwhile, Harvey is on his way to Delaware to marry Joyce and help her move out to Cleveland. Sitting alongside the real Harvey, the real Joyce Brabner talks about what it was like to become a character in Harvey’s stories. Now married, Harvey and Joyce go to a screening of Revenge of the Nerds with Toby. Joyce and Toby found the film inspiring, and Harvey found it insipid. Back at their apartment, Joyce struggles with feeling at home amidst all of Harvey’s stuff. Their spat is interrupted by a message from a theater producer who wants to make American Splendor into a play. Harvey and Joyce travel to Los Angeles to see American Splendor: The Play. Things are finally breaking Harvey’s way. But his ascendancy is complicated by Joyce's emotional struggles. She wants a family. Her desires are put aside again because a producer calls to offer Harvey a chance to be a guest on Late Night with David Letterman. Almost despite himself, Harvey is a hit on the show and comes back for multiple appearances. Meanwhile, Toby becomes an MTV star. Back in Cleveland, a man recognizes Harvey from the Letterman show, but not for the "right" reasons. Harvey is angry and unfulfilled. Meanwhile, Joyce is looking for fulfillment of her own, as a creator and as an activist. Against Harvey’s wishes, she goes away to a peace conference, leaving him at loose ends. One lonely night, Harvey discovers a mysterious lump on his groin. Joyce is still away on her mission, and a scared and bitter Harvey makes another appearance on the Letterman show. He dons an "On Strike Against NBC" shirt and the show goes downhill from there, winding up in chaos. Joyce finally returns, but she discovers Harvey's lump. Harvey is diagnosed with lymphoma. Joyce suggest he make a comic book of the whole thing, but Harvey just wants to die. Undeterred, Joyce enlists Fred, an artist, to illustrate the experience. Fred brings along his daughter Danielle on their first brainstorming session, and Joyce is smitten with the girl. Harvey reluctantly agrees to participate in the comic, and asks Fred to keep bringing Danielle along. Harvey's treatment is traumatic and tumultuous. One night, an addled Harvey wonders if he's real or if he's just a character in a comic book. And if he dies will the story end, or will it keep on going? In one continuous take, Harvey wanders through a dreamscape, musing about other individuals he finds in the Cleveland telephone book that are also named Harvey Pekar. It's one year later, and Harvey and Joyce sign the completed Our Cancer Year. Harvey is declared cancer-free. They adopt Danielle, and Harvey adjusts to being a parent. The real Harvey retires from the VA hospital, and the movie ends with a group hug.
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Private investigator Tom Welles is contacted by Daniel Longdale, attorney for wealthy widow Mrs. Christian, whose husband has recently died. While clearing out her late husband's safe, she and Longdale find an 8mm movie which appears to depict a real murder of a girl, but Mrs. Christian wants to know for certain. Welles is bound by obligation from both Longdale and Mrs. Christian not to reproduce the film in any way, and that only they need to know about the investigation. After looking through missing persons files, Welles discovers the girl is Mary Ann Mathews and visits her mother, Janet Mathews. While searching the house with her permission, he finds Mary Ann's diary, in which she says she went to Hollywood to become a film star. He asks Mrs. Mathews if she wants to know the truth, even if it is the worst. She says that she wants to know what happened to her daughter. In Hollywood, with the help of an adult video store employee called Max California, Welles delves into the world of underground (and sometimes illegal) fetish pornography. He attempts to find out if snuff is indeed real, or if there was anyone in this underworld who was connected to this film. Contact with a sleazy talent scout named Eddie Poole leads them to director Dino Velvet, whose violent pornographic films star a masked man known as "Machine". To gain more evidence, Welles pretends to be a client interested in commissioning a hardcore bondage film to be directed by Velvet and starring Machine. Velvet agrees and arranges a meeting in New York City. The meeting turns out to be an ambush. Longdale and Poole appear and hold Welles at gunpoint. Longdale tipped off Velvet and Poole that Welles was on to them. It's now clear that the film was real; Mr. Christian contacted Longdale to procure a snuff film, and being unable to find one, he commissioned Velvet and Poole to make one. Velvet and Machine produce a bound and beaten California, whom they abducted to force Welles to bring them the only surviving copy of the illegal film. Longdale and Welles go to Welles' car to retrieve the film, in which Longdale admits that he never thought Welles would get as far as he did, and just wanted to placate Mrs. Christian with the investigation. Once he delivers it, they burn it and kill California. As they are about to kill Welles, he tells them that Mr. Christian paid $1 million for the film. Velvet, Poole, and Machine received $50,000 and that Longdale kept the major portion. In an ensuing fight, Velvet and Longdale are both killed; Welles wounds Machine and escapes. Welles calls Mrs. Christian to tell her his discoveries and recommends going to the police, to which she agrees. Arriving at her estate, Welles is told that Mrs. Christian committed suicide after hearing the news. She left envelopes for the Mathews family and Welles: it contains the rest of his payment and a note reading; "Try to forget us". Welles warns his already frantic wife of the impending danger and to seek shelter in a location known only to them, and hands her his half of the money. Welles decides to seek justice for the murdered girl by killing the remaining people involved. Tracking down Poole, Welles takes him to the shooting location and tries to kill him. He can't bring himself to do it amid Poole's taunting, and steps out of the house. He calls Mrs. Mathews to tell her about her daughter and asks for her permission to punish those responsible; "Just tell me that you loved her". Mrs. Mathews breaks down in hysterics once presented with the truth, but affirms that she loved her daughter. With that, Welles returns and beats Poole to death with his pistol, burning his body and the pornography from his car. Welles traces Machine and attacks him at his home. Welles unmasks him, revealing a bald, bespectacled man named George. He reveals to Welles that he has no ulterior motive for his sadistic actions; he does them simply because he enjoys it. They struggle, and Welles kills him. After returning to his family, Welles breaks down in front of his wife as he tries to process all of the evil that he had seen over the course of the investigation. Months later, Welles receives a letter from Mrs. Mathews, thanking him and suggesting he and she were the only ones to care about Mary Ann.
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On November 4, 1979, Iranian Islamists storm the United States Embassy in Tehran in retaliation for President Jimmy Carter giving the Shah, an absolute monarch who was supported by Western powers, asylum in the U.S. during the Iranian Revolution, for cancer treatment. Sixty-six of the embassy staff are taken as hostages, but six avoid capture and are sheltered in the home of Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor. With the six escapees' situation kept secret, the U.S. State Department begins to explore options for exfiltrating them from Iran. Agent Tony Mendez, a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency exfiltration specialist, is brought in for a consultation. He criticizes the proposals but is at a loss when asked for an alternative. While on the phone with his son, he is inspired by watching Battle for the Planet of the Apes and begins plans for creating a cover story for the escapees: that they are Canadian filmmakers who are in Iran scouting exotic locations for a science-fiction film. Mendez contacts John Chambers, a Hollywood make-up artist who had previously worked for the CIA. Chambers puts Mendez in touch with film producer Lester Siegel. Together, they set up a phony film production company, publicize their plans, and successfully establish the pretense of developing Argo, a "science fantasy adventure" in the style of Star Wars, to lend the cover story credibility. Meanwhile, the escapees grow restless. The revolutionaries reassemble embassy photographs shredded before the takeover and realize that some personnel are unaccounted for. Posing as a producer for Argo, Mendez enters Iran under the alias Kevin Harkins and meets with the six escapees. He provides them with Canadian passports and fake identities. Although afraid to trust Mendez's scheme, they reluctantly go along, knowing that he is risking his own life too. A scouting visit to the bazaar to maintain their cover story takes a bad turn when they are harassed by a hostile shopkeeper, but their Iranian culture contact hustles them away from the hostile crowd. Mendez is told the operation has been cancelled in favor of a planned military rescue of the hostages. He pushes ahead anyway, forcing his boss, Deputy Director Jack O'Donnell to hastily re-obtain authorization for the mission and rebook their cancelled tickets on a Swissair flight. Tensions rise at the airport, where the escapees' new ticket reservations are confirmed only at the last minute, and the head guard's call to the fake production company in Hollywood is answered only at the last second. The escapees board the plane, and at about the same time, the airport authorities are alerted to the ruse. They try to stop them, but the plane is able to take off. To protect the hostages remaining in Tehran from retaliation, all U.S. involvement in the rescue is suppressed, and full credit is given to the Canadian government and its ambassador (who shuts down the embassy and leaves Iran with his wife as the operation is underway). The ambassador's Iranian housekeeper, who had known about the Americans and lied to the revolutionaries to protect them, escapes to Iraq. Mendez is awarded the Intelligence Star, but due to the mission's classified nature, he receives the medal in secret and has to return it afterward. Mendez returns to his wife and son in Virginia. The film ends by explaining what happened after the depicted events: the hostages were freed after 444 days, Mendez and Chambers remained friends until Chambers' death in 2001, Bill Clinton returned Mendez's star in 1997 after the Canadian Caper is declassified, and that he lives with his family in rural Maryland. As the credits roll, President Jimmy Carter is heard commenting on the operation.
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On 30 January 1948, after an evening prayer, an elderly Gandhi is helped out for his evening walk to meet a large number of greeters and admirers. One visitor, Nathuram Godse, shoots him point blank in the chest. Gandhi exclaims, "Oh, God!", and then falls dead. In 1893, the 23-year-old Gandhi is thrown off a South African train for being an Indian sitting in a first-class compartment despite having a first-class ticket. Realising the laws are biased against Indians, he then decides to start a nonviolent protest campaign for the rights of all Indians in South Africa. After numerous arrests and unwelcome international attention, the government finally relents by recognising some rights for Indians.In 1915, as a result of his victory in South Africa, Gandhi is invited back to India, where he is now considered something of a national hero. He is urged to take up the fight for India's independence, (Swaraj, Quit India) from the British Empire. Gandhi agrees, and mounts a nonviolent non-cooperation campaign of unprecedented scale, coordinating millions of Indians nationwide. There are some setbacks, such as violence against the protesters and Gandhi's occasional imprisonment. The 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre is also depicted in the film. Nevertheless, the campaign generates great attention, and Britain faces intense public pressure. In 1930, Gandhi protests against the British-imposed salt tax via the highly symbolic Salt March. He also travels to London for a conference concerning Britain's possible departure from India; this, however, proves fruitless. After the Second World War, Britain finally grants Indian independence. Indians celebrate this victory, but their troubles are far from over. The country is subsequently divided by religion. It is decided that the northwest area and the eastern part of India (current-day Bangladesh), both places where Muslims are in the majority, will become a new country called Pakistan. It is hoped that by encouraging the Muslims to live in a separate country, violence will abate. Gandhi is opposed to the idea, and is even willing to allow Muhammad Ali Jinnah to become the first prime minister of India, but the Partition of India is carried out nevertheless. Religious tensions between Hindus and Muslims erupt into nationwide violence. Horrified, Gandhi declares a hunger strike, saying he will not eat until the fighting stops. The fighting does stop eventually. Gandhi spends his last days trying to bring about peace between both nations. He thereby angers many dissidents on both sides, one of whom (Godse) is involved in a conspiracy to assassinate him. Gandhi is cremated and his ashes are scattered on the holy Ganga. As this happens, viewers hear Gandhi in another voiceover from earlier in the film.
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Nursing assistant Ruth returns home from a bad day at work to find she has been burgled. She reports to the police that the thief has stolen her medication, her grandmother's silverware and a laptop computer. When she asks Detective William Bendix for advice, he merely chastises her for leaving her door unlocked. Ruth asks her neighbors if they saw anything suspicious; one of them, Tony, becomes enraged that someone would target a neighbor. When a mobile app reveals the location of her laptop and the police refuse to do anything, she enlists Tony's help. Ruth and Tony go to the location, where Ruth intimidates the owner into returning her laptop. He claims that he bought it from a fence who operates a resale shop. Ruth and Tony investigate the shop the next morning, where they find the stolen silverware and a man whose shoe matches a print left in her yard. Ruth gets into a scuffle with the owner when he demands she pay for the stolen silverware, and after he breaks her finger, Tony knocks him unconscious, at which point the two flee. Tony, having recorded the license plate number on the thief's van, researches it and learns that it is registered to someone named Christian Rumack. Ruth and Tony impersonate cops at the address belonging to the van, where a woman named Meredith lets them inside. She reveals that the owner of the van, her husband Chris, is not the one who uses the van; it is instead her step-son, who was given the van by his father. Chris Senior returns home abruptly with his bodyguard Cesar. Ruth states that she only wants to confront Christian about his behavior, but Chris taunts her for her idealism and kicks them out. As they leave, Ruth steals lawn art from Chris and Meredith. Disillusioned with Ruth's behavior, Tony goes back to his house, leaving Ruth alone. Christian and his friends, Marshall and Dez, watch from the side, calling off their intended robbery of Chris. They send Christian to confront Ruth about what she knows about them. He surprises her inside her home, and she crushes his windpipe in self-defense. As he staggers into the street, a bus strikes and kills him. Marshall and Dez kidnap Ruth, forcing her to take Christian's place in their heist. Ruth gains them entry into the mansion, where Meredith and Cesar are held at gunpoint and told to summon Chris. A battle ensues, during which Tony comes to Ruth's aid and is badly wounded; Cesar, Chris, and Dez are killed; and Meredith escapes. Ruth and Tony flee into the woods behind the mansion, with Marshall close behind. Ruth hides Tony under some foliage, then attacks Marshall by throwing rocks at him, and his sudden movements cause him to be bitten by a water moccasin. Panicked that she cannot find Tony on her way back, Ruth sees her grandmother's ghost point her in the correct direction. Grateful that Ruth saved her life, Meredith neglects to identify her as one of the burglars to Bendix. Ruth returns to her daily life with Tony, who survived his wounds.
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Miguel "Sugar" Santos (Perez Soto) spends his weekends at home, passing from the landscaped gardens and manicured fields on one side of the guarded academy gate to the underdeveloped, more chaotic world beyond. In his small village outside San Pedro de Macorís, Miguel enjoys a kind of celebrity status. His neighbors gather to welcome him back for the weekend; the children ask him for extra baseballs or an old glove. To his family, who lost their father years before, Miguel is their hope and shining star. With the small bonus he earned when he signed with the academy some time ago, he has started to build his family a new house—one that has a bigger kitchen for his mom and a separate room for his grandmother. After learning a devastating knuckle curve, Sugar is invited to spring training by the fictional Kansas City Knights. He is assigned to their Single A affiliate in Iowa, the Swing. He is housed by the Higgins family, who take in Swing players every year. Jorge (Rufino), a veteran player and the only other Dominican on the team, also tries to help Miguel learn the ropes. However, despite the Higgins' welcoming efforts and Jorge's guidance, the challenge of Miguel's acceptance into the community is exposed in small ways every day, from his struggle to communicate in the English language to an accident of casual bigotry at a local bar. Miguel's domination on the mound masks his underlying sense of isolation, until he injures himself during a routine play at first. While Miguel is on the disabled list, Jorge, his one familiar connection to home in this strange new place, is cut from the team, never fully regaining his ability following an off-season knee surgery. The new vulnerability of Miguel's injury, coupled with the loneliness of losing his closest friend, force Miguel to begin examining the world around him and his place within it. Pressure mounts when Salvador, a young pitching phenomenon who used to play with Miguel, is brought up from the Dominican Republic to join the team. Miguel's play falters, and the increased isolation begins to take its toll on him. As his dream begins to fall apart, Miguel decides to leave baseball to follow another kind of American Dream. His odyssey finally brings him to New York City, where at first he struggles to find community and make a new home for himself, like so many before him. Miguel ends up playing baseball with rejected players from the minor leagues.
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The woo is out there
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Aliens did it...
... and ran away
This article concerns undocumented migrants from outer space. Not to be confused with Earthling illegal aliens.
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
Based on the anecdotes and "research" of ufologists and abductees since 1947, one thing is absolutely clear — that, while we can let our imaginations get the best of us, the truth is our imaginations are not even that good at actually being original.[2]
Intelligent extraterrestrial life[edit]
Drake Equation[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Drake Equation
The usual suspects[edit]
What we know so far[edit]
Typical alien. Keep shotguns and slugs ready at all time
Consider it — all those species of aliens look attuned for kind of the same gravities and temperatures, and approximate the appearances of each other much closer than we approximate the appearance of lots of animals here on Earth.[note 3] Note also that we approximate the appearance of the aliens — and vice versa — in just the same way.[note 4]
Interestingly, all species of aliens are consistently described as being about the size they'd have to be in order to be able to interact with us in a way that we humans find meaningful — never disappearingly small[note 7], never the size of Godzillas (though the square–cube lawWikipedia's W.svg tells us the latter would be highly unlikely). Why, it's almost as if they were imagined by us in the only way that enables them be cast in exciting and interactive roles by the human imagination.
The dreadful Xenomorphs[note 9], on the other hand, don't look like tool users. They don't look technological. I mean, ask yourself. How would they fit into a cockpit and operate pedals and stuff? And besides, they don't use tools in the movies. They don't wear armor, they're born armored. They don't wield weapons, they are a weapon. Like the predators we've evolved to fear — snakes and tigers and the like — the Xenomorphs rely on their senses. Yeah — they're born fully decked killing machines. And from eggs, too — eew.[note 10] They don't look social. They look like lone hunters who predate upon soft-bellied, social animals like us. Yeah. And that definitely means they can't have tool use.[note 11] Besides, they don't have the temper for it. Because we know it takes social, vaguely ape-like vertebrates to ever have tool use. Right?Wikipedia's W.svg
Now, you might object — the Xenomorphs are fictional! Boy, do we have news for you...[note 12]
The alien zoo[edit]
Either way, "respected"[note 14] scholars have identified several different species of alien. They include:
• Pleiadians: They really care about us and are into multi-dimensional physicsWikipedia's W.svg.
• Reptilians: Also known as the Gorn,[5] they look like sentient dinosaurs. Like the Greys, they too have an agenda, theirs involving the shadow conquest of Earth. David Icke and his followers believe that Queen Elizabeth, the Bush family, and nearly every other major politician is actually a reptilian in disguise. Seems reasonable enough.
• Thetans: Originally alien citizens of various species who lived 75 billion[note 15] years ago, until they were thrown into volcanoes on Tegeeack (known as "Earth" to sane people) which then had hydrogen bombs detonated inside of them by the Galactic Overlord Xemu Xenu. Thus the restless, wandering alien souls, known as Thetans, were created, in the billions, right here on Earth. Ever since, these parasitic alien spirits have spent most of their time attaching themselves to us, and if only we'd read Dianetics, we'd be able to relieve our selves both of these invaders and of large quantities of cash in one fell swoop. Visit your local Church of Scientology center today to learn more, and get the opportunity to sign over your house to the Church - and if you're very gullible dedicated, you can sign a contract to work for the Sea Org for a billion years!
Wow! signal[edit]
The Wow! signal was a radio signal which was received by the Big Ear Radio Telescope on August 15th, 1977. It consisted of 72 seconds of unusually organized signals. There are many speculations on the origin of the signal, with one of them being that the signal is of alien origin. Despite the very odd organization of the signals, this is not definitive proof of alien life; it is a stretch to jump to that sort of conclusion. Nevertheless, many conspiracy theorists believe that the Wow! signal is a direct attempt at aliens trying to send us some form of a message: the content of this "message" can range from an innocent greeting to a more ominous warning as conspiracy theories usually tend to derail in that direction. In 2017, the Buzzkill Squad a team of researchers with the Center of Planetary Science determined that the sound came from the 266/P Christensen comet, which was unknown in 1977 but occasionally emits unusual frequencies due to an attached hydrogen cloud.[8]
Contact with Earth[edit]
See the main article on this topic: aliensdidit
In November 2011, the United States White House officially stated that the US (and as far as they knew, every other country) has never had contact with alien life. Of course, they also said they do not know who shot Kennedy; it's apparent who's lying, isn't it?
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2. Meanwhile good science fiction writers have much more imagination in that regard.
5. I mean think about it: this is our closest living relative. Would you be lining up to tap that? And an extraterrestrial wouldn't be related to us at all.
6. So still — technically — from Earth. What??
7. In which case their ships run the risk of being eaten by a small dog
9. Or, for the case, the Zerg/Tyranids if you're a StarCraft/Warhammer 40k player respectively
13. See the "UFO to flying saucer" segment of our article on UFOs.
14. We use that term very loosely — it really just means "Respected by other cranks ufologists".
15. Imagine, they lived 5½ times as long ago as the universe itself has existed!
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