I agree. A bunch of assholes were being a bunch of assholes and I can understand getting really pissed off and saying shit you normally wouldn't say. Really. I understand that. Though I've done it in my head and to one close friend (ahem, job stuff, you wouldn't understand.) He handled it badly. He reacted instead of responding, because believe it or not people might feel hurt when you treat them like shit, and those people might not have the best coping skills immediately available to them at the moment.

Richards has said:

And there ain't nothin' sacred in a verbal encounter: I don't care who's been oppressing you for 300 years. You big enough man to start shit? Be big enough man to take shit. (Or woman.)

Now, if you'll excuse me I'm heading off to the White Woman Think Tank they are holding on campus, so we can discuss how far white women have come and be all proud and stuff by excluding people of color. Really? That's racist? Well...that think tank doesn't exist. You might want the other think tank down the hall. :cool:

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I'm sorry, but I can't call you a racist until you've paid...

Paid...attention? Dues? For gas grass or ass?

Ass, Gas, or Grass...Nobody Rides For Free

Ah, that takes me back.:rolleyes:

Firsts:

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No means no--wait, whut?

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And what is nuttier is that Strom Therman said and did a lot more racists things, like filibustering the civil rights act, and got to keep his job.

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so this guy actually invented the world wide web?

What the Fuck? I though it was Al Gore!

http://i.imgur.com/o9E9hZz.gif

In Soviet Russia, Up pushes You.

Al Gore just sponsored a bill that allowed for the creation of the internet.

He was honored during the Olympic opening ceremony. A whole segment on Britain's technological achievements in the modern age culminated in his appearance.

The NBC commentators with not a shred of irony, said they didn't know who he was and would need to google him.

Here he is talking about how the world wide web happened.

[quote=DanaC;854978]Here he is talking about how the world wide web happened.

That's the first time in quite a while that I've sat thru an entire 25-min video.
His style of delivery is somewhat erratic, but once you get used to it the second half is well worth while.

But I think he misses a point when he is critical of people who are only using computers
as the "white thing" that they open and link to the web, instead of writing new programs.

Today, computers and programming are akin to automobiles.
Ford and Chevrolet are no longer different cars, except maybe to a few "auto-junkies",
and MS, Apple, and IBM are no longer different computers, except to a few "computer-junkies".

If you want to create something new in either of these fields,
you have to swim upstream against a current of what already exists.
Whatever "new programming" is do-able now has to be compatible with what already exists.

Unfortunately, today's CEO's of MS, Apple, Google, FB, Twitter, Ebay, the chip-makers, etc.
have turned away from creativity ("programming") and are only tinkering around the edges,
or are engulfed in profit-making via patent-infringement battles with one another.

I did very much like his final urging... to use creativity to develop something new starting first,
not with the technica or material aspects, but with changing human interactions.

I don't know about that.

I'm pretty amazed at what my cell phone can do. Video phone calls. Streaming videos to my TV. Asking it questions verbally and getting the answers spoken back to me. Dictating emails and web posts. And it's a computer that comes with me wherever I go.

Just how often should we expect a huge new advance? We didn't have any of that in one package two years ago.

But that is exactly what I mean by "only tinkering around the edges"

What is "creative" among those functions ?
Aren't they just applications of technologies that have been around for a while ?
Smaller and faster are only advances or twisting of existing technologies.

I agree, we should not expect huge new advances on a regular basis.
But technical areas (fields of endeavor) do grow, mature, and become resistant to further change.
Progress becomes stepwise, and human activities follow along with the current state of technology.

IMO, on the other hand, creativity brings about something new in human activities or understanding, and changes the future.
For example, Pascal's concept leading to a hydraulic circuit to run heavy machinery
was more than just a stepwise technical advance... it was a new concept.
And was an early demonstration of the value of basic research !

Likewise for things such GPS and DNA and even concepts such as "corporations" or "intelligence".

Again in my opinion... creativity in the areas of computers
and smart phones is nearing the status of cement.
All that is left seems to be financial exploitation.

All a computer can do is move 1s and 0s around. That's what a computer is.

If you're looking for a new invention that can physically do something, you need to be looking at something other than computers. Computers will control the device, but the computer will still just be moving 1s and 0s around.

Sorry Glatt. We seem to be speaking to different issues.

In the last part of Dana's video, Tim Berners-Lee is speaking to the concept of "creativity"
and saying that it does not come by starting at the technical level.
Instead, it comes from those ideas that change human endeavors.
He more or less says to his audience that to be "creative",
they need to start with new ideas that change human behavior.

Obviously, the internet (web) did that...
and FaceBook, tho it was not so intended, also has done that.
Also, Visicalc->Excel was another example of creative software that made such a change.
But now (IMO) adding voice recognition or streaming videos to the TV set... not so much.

For a while, Google was on that path by creating applications
that changed our access to information (search / maps / shopping / translations, etc.)
but now they are going in different directions (i.e., gathering $),
and they do recognize that the creativity of their work force is diminishing.
So they are constructing a whole new complex of buildings they hope will "foster creativity".

Yeah. I didn't watch the video, so that's probably it. I still don't really understand what you're talking about. Those things you cite as significant steps look just as incremental to me as what's been happening with smart phones in the last 2 years. I think Google maps are very cool, but paper maps with notations existed before Google maps. Google just linked up more stuff to the maps than was possible before.

I might be beating a dead horse, but I want to make sure it's clear. The World Wide Web protocol was indeed invented by Berners-Lee. But the WWW is not the Internet. It is one of many protocols that run on/through the Internet.

There's lots of room left for creativity in the area of computers and the Internet. There are infinite possibilities. We just need to think of interesting things for them to do.

But that's the hard part. If it were easy, we'd still be in the dot com bubble.

The creative push these days is in M2M (machine to machine) communication and interaction.

Naw man....rat brains. That's where the future is at...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/20...re-information

That's a waste. What do rats communicate to each other, the weather?

They might be good on toast...?

The Rat-Brains can fetch the gold!

Mostly politics.

:biglaughaTouche! :smack:

Facebook...You're doing it wrong.

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depr

NSFW, dude!

Please move to the WTF NSFW thread.

Yeah, acrylic nails are seriously WTF? but that should be in the WTF NSFW thread.

What the I don't even

linky?

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Last pic:

"On second thought I need the exercise, I think I'll walk."
"Why drive when you can fly?"
"I drive a Beemer"

:lol2: you slay me!

Re the second-last ad: yikes :eek:

"Buzzed driving is drunk driving."

Cat logic.

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Non... rien de rien
Non je ne regrette rien
Ni le bien... qu'on m'a fait
Ni le mal, tout ça m'est bien égale...

Non... rien de rien
Non... je ne regrette rien
C'est payé, balayé, oublié
Je me fous du passé...

Avec mes souvenirs
J'ai allumé le feu
Mes chagrins, mes plaisirs
Je n'ai plus besoin d'eux

Balayées les amours
Avec leurs trémolos
Balayés pour toujours
Je repars à zéro

Non... rien de rien
Non... je ne regrette rien
Ni le bien, qu'on m'a fait
Ni le mal, tout ça m'est bien égale

Non, rien de rien
Non... je ne regrette rien
Car ma vie... car mes joies...
Aujourd'hui... ça commence avec toi...

"Net Wt. - 1 Pickle"

No shit.:eyebrow:

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Nitwit: 1 Pickle

Is that a metric pickle or the old imperial pickle?

It's an SI units pickle. Measured in kilos rather than grams.

Not picograms, then?

That's a dilly of a find there, Gravdigr.

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How'd they get a picture of my prostate?

"Remove sunglasses before entering tunnel"

How did they know I was wearing sunglasses?

Changing tack somewhat, headline in paper yesterday......


Top Sunni preacher supporter of Assad among 42 killed after suicide bomber targets mosque in Damascus

First time suicide bomber has detonated explosives inside a mosque

Explosion struck as al-Buti, an 84-year-old cleric and religious scholar
Bombings blamed on Islamic extremists fighting with rebels are common in Syria's two-year-old civil war...

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not making fun of the atrocity, but the line "First time suicide Bomber", has anyone ever heard of a second or third time successful suicide bomber?
:smack:

There was the case of the Kamikaze pilot who panicked and made a safe landing...

Wtf, man?

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When you text that number you get a message saying: See? We told you so.

It's a trap.

Looks like a jew pickle to me. I don't see a foreskin, but that could just be the camera angle and the packaging.

Achmed, the dead terrorist perhaps?

http://youtu.be/qJm9sNQemE4
JR

'Cept he wasn't even successful the first time - premature explosion. :D

They have a pill for that now.

Inception nature...

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