Hint, : nobody care because you have no real capacity worth advertising.
You became laughing stock right after mentioning "ultimate" and "Free", no need to elaborate.
Right. You must be the wise one on the forum, yes? So many of you...everywhere. |
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BTCurious, that link reminds me of recent research that suggests a huge number of people previously considered vegetative actually have mental clarity. They didn't communicate with their eyes, but with different regions of the brain. They were asked to imagine, for example, playing tennis if the answer to a question was false, and asked to imagine following a map or rotating three dimensional objects if the answer was positive. Because these thoughts activate very different regions of the brain, the researchers were able to scan their answers in real time. I'll find a link, so we'll be prepared if Atlas goes comatose on us. Ooh, interesting. Thanks for the link! I almost killed myself in a lucid dream.
To this day, I honestly and fully believe that I would have also died in real life. If I jump off a building in a lucid dream, and then fly away, then I will do the same in real life. Actually, that was what I was going to do, sort of. Quick back story -- I had only had one lucid dream prior to this one when I was around 11 or 12. I became lucid, wanted to fly, flew for 15 seconds or so, then woke up when it got overwhelming. This 2nd time, I was about 23, and when I became lucid, I wanted to conduct a series of tests (I actually tried calling my real-life friend from my dream cellular phone). In the lucid dream, I was standing on top of these 50 foot bluffs overlooking the beach/ocean in Santa Barbara, CA where I had attended college for a few years. Being conscious and knowing I was lucid, I thought to myself that I wanted to run to the edge of the bluffs, jump off, and fly. But, when I ran toward the edge, an extreme sense of doubt stopped me. At that moment, because the dream felt as real as real life, I knew that if I jumped off I would fall. I still believe that because of my doubt of being able to fly, I would have fallen and killed myself. |
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Hold up, I'm a landlord and this is mostly the landlords fault. You never include a utility because you never know what your renter is going to do or how they live. Most include it just as an incentive to rent their unit, mistake #1.
That being said, if he has a contract/lease there is possibly a clause in there stating electricity use. If there is no cap in use or no clause, then yes, it is free electricity and is not grounds for eviction. The landlord is at fault here, though most fault should fall on the user, joint. I would be very interested to see what does happen when the landlord discovers what is going on. If your rig is open air, he can definitely boot you on grounds for a fire hazard.
Rig is not open air. Fire hazard? You should have heard the complaints from the housemates upstairs when the front door lock became jammed and wouldn't open. Landlord's response? "Well, you guys mostly use the side door anyway, right?" We also buy our own lightbulbs, shovel our own snow, mow the lawn ourselves, etc. There is no cap or clause in the lease. Trust me, I read what I signed. Only mention of anything electrically related is the max. heating temp allowed. |
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For M, has Vista been registered? Is the HDD otherwise clean except for copy of windows?
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In my most productive projects, I go through arbitrary work-crash cycles, perhaps 36 hours awake, who knows how long asleep. Though, I can't imagine it working on a schedule. I failed a semester of University trying to sleep less than four hours each night and couldn't separate my own thoughts from the world around me. Stress and lack of sleep are a hellish combination. Isn't that a well documented torture: sleep deprivation through forced standing, flashing lights, and loud dissonant music, until submission? But trying to sleep 4 hours a night and then failing does not mean that something like uberman can't work. Of course, it's notoriously hard to prove a negative, but still… On an unrelated note, this is mightily interesting: It was Keith Hearne (1978), of the University of Hull, who first exploited the fact that not all the muscles are paralyzed [during sleep]. In REM sleep the eyes move. So perhaps a lucid dreamer could signal by moving the eyes in a predetermined pattern. Just over ten years ago, lucid dreamer Alan Worsley first managed this is in Hearne's laboratory. He decided to move his eyes left and right eight times in succession whenever he became lucid. Using a polygraph, Hearne could watch the eye movements for sign of the special signal. He found it in the midst of REM sleep. So lucid dreams are real dreams and do occur during REM sleep. I almost killed myself in a lucid dream. To this day, I honestly and fully believe that I would have also died in real life. |
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Where in Illinois do you live. Are you renting one of my units. Is that why my electric bill is high.
Haha, maybe. |
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It's because Tradehill doesn't do Dwolla deposits anymore. Fewer deposits = lower price.
Nah, this is a newish trend. I made a thread on it a few days ago. I noticed something was up too. Thankfully, I've been capitalizing on it all day. See those dips? Lot of those were me  See the bottom of those dips? Lots of those were me It's been like taking candy from a baby to buy at the bottom of the wide trough and sell at the top. But I seem to be running into competition of late, and the commissions take a bite, so it's hardly worth the time. At least doing it manually. I started writing a bot to do it when it was going on months ago, but got interested in other things and could not believe that the opportunity would pop up again. Yep I got out at 2.28. Competition is thick at the moment. Lot of asks from 2.20-2.25 |
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I certainly hold myself to it. I agree with you mostly, joint. It's a pleasure to know you.
Likewise. Take care. |
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The purpose of life is to live.
That's all I bother to preserve in the end, to desire to preserve, if you will: Life. It seems other sentient things are the main things worth valuing in my life.. I don't do this out of religion or some other established cause. I certainly don't do this selflessly. I choose to love life because I choose to -- selfishly. I don't bother desiring a purpose. It's insipid and artificial as a concept. I just do what makes me happy. Life and its long-term sustention makes me happy. I only attack things I view as anti-life. Anti-life (death/destruction?) is as natural as life. This is evident in nature as well. Life gives rise to death, and death is evident all around you. Not only is death all around you, but it sustains and gives rise to life. For there to be life, there must be death. Appreciating the good in anti-life assists in qualitative living, I find. I see you're trying to be zen. Mr. Joint, of course I am not attached to the idea of an ideal world. I am also a proponent of natural selection. However, I will assert my preference for life when it is called for. You can prefer all you want. Just don't be too disappointed if what happens isn't what you prefer. A truism of Buddhist philosophy; attachment to desire is suffering. Gotcha. I'm not a Buddhist, but I do believe it is true. Though, I would add that I think desire for things that have intrinsic benefit is a good type of desire. I think that all desire is suffering in the same way that a free-being can simultaneously erect its own constraints. Paradoxes are plausible. |
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It's because Tradehill doesn't do Dwolla deposits anymore. Fewer deposits = lower price.
Nah, this is a newish trend. I made a thread on it a few days ago. I noticed something was up too. Thankfully, I've been capitalizing on it all day. See those dips? Lot of those were me |
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The purpose of life is to live.
That's all I bother to preserve in the end, to desire to preserve, if you will: Life. It seems other sentient things are the main things worth valuing in my life.. I don't do this out of religion or some other established cause. I certainly don't do this selflessly. I choose to love life because I choose to -- selfishly. I don't bother desiring a purpose. It's insipid and artificial as a concept. I just do what makes me happy. Life and its long-term sustention makes me happy. I only attack things I view as anti-life. Anti-life (death/destruction?) is as natural as life. This is evident in nature as well. Life gives rise to death, and death is evident all around you. Not only is death all around you, but it sustains and gives rise to life. For there to be life, there must be death. Appreciating the good in anti-life assists in qualitative living, I find. I see you're trying to be zen. Mr. Joint, of course I am not attached to the idea of an ideal world. I am also a proponent of natural selection. However, I will assert my preference for life when it is called for. You can prefer all you want. Just don't be too disappointed if what happens isn't what you prefer. |
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The purpose of life is to live.
That's all I bother to preserve in the end, to desire to preserve, if you will: Life. It seems other sentient things are the main things worth valuing in my life.. I don't do this out of religion or some other established cause. I certainly don't do this selflessly. I choose to love life because I choose to -- selfishly. I don't bother desiring a purpose. It's insipid and artificial as a concept. I just do what makes me happy. Life and its long-term sustention makes me happy. I only attack things I view as anti-life. Anti-life (death/destruction?) is as natural as life. This is evident in nature as well. Life gives rise to death, and death is evident all around you. Not only is death all around you, but it sustains and gives rise to life. For there to be life, there must be death. Appreciating the good in anti-life assists in qualitative living, I find. |
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Interesting though that those with mood disorders (depression, specifically) actually spend more time in REM sleep than do those without mental illness.
Seriously? How did they test such a thing lol Even more interesting is that studies were done where they woke people up during different stages of sleep to record their dreams, and REM sleep was significantly correlated with more nightmares than earlier stages.
Somehow that's not surprising. The deeper in your subconscious mind you go, the less in control you are. They tested through EEG. Different stages of sleep are marked by different electrical wave signatures (e.g. delta waves). It's as simple as timing how long a sleeping individual's brain emits each kind of wave signature. |
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You won't be able to keep it up. After about 3 days you're goimg to crash for several hours.
The body needs 2-3 hours of REM sleep just to survive.
It's a fun experiment though, I did it too when I was 17.
Interesting though that those with mood disorders (depression, specifically) actually spend more time in REM sleep than do those without mental illness. Even more interesting is that studies were done where they woke people up during different stages of sleep to record their dreams, and REM sleep was significantly correlated with more nightmares than earlier stages. |
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Alpha, how bout I take a stab at describing you? My guess is that through posting all of these grandiose opinions, which you undoubtedly choose to express in a medium where can't someone gaze back at that intent look in your eye and tell you where to shove your remorseless attitude, you gain a sense of purpose. You're fighting for something, and it's a fight you must win. To win is to be in control, and given that you openly discuss your discontent for a variety of things, it is no wonder you desire it.
Here's some language for you, Alpha.
The purpose of a purpose is to be purposeful according to whatever constitutes a purpose.
The purpose of life is to be purposeful according to whatever constitutes life.
The purpose of life is to live.
My purpose is being ever-fulfilled. As such, I am content so long as there is no immediate threat to my purpose. You, on the other hand, seem to be trying so hard to create your purpose. You're right...you don't have time to be nice. You have more important things to worry about.
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Honestly, you did a very poor job at describing me. Try again for double or nothing.
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"You're no individual. You're a shell; a means to an end. Feel free to be as such but you won't force me to play your game.
Heh and you define utilitarian resources such as energy as what makes life. You make me sick"
I'm happy. Are you?
By the way...choice vs. "slavery" is a false dichotomy
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Here's a fun little anomaly... The "manipulator" is so powerful, he transcends time.  |
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Take the mathematical proof for a boundary of a boundary = zero, then add to that the concept of syndiffeonesis which essentially states that any 2 relands x and y are always embedded within a common syntax and so all relationships are syndiffeonic relationships, and you will see that the concept of an "individual" is really not that simple. In fact, these two concepts alone are enough to throw anyone's idea of "self identity" for a loop.
Then, there is the idea of pride. Pride is an extremely dangerous concept, especially when that pride is linked to some endowed characteristic such as your ethnic or cultural heritage. If you are proud of what your forefathers or your ancestors did, don't be. You didn't do a goddamn thing and there is no reason you should be proud of something you didn't do. The idea of pride is one of the root causes of the self-vs-other paradigm which leads to things like nationalism and racism (the two are not mutually exclusive).
Having pride in something you DID do is a different issue, but it is still a touchy subject. Can a person truly act alone to commit an act that he/she can be proud of? Or is one's ability to act itself a result of interdependence? I would argue for the latter.
Sacrifice is beautiful because it mitigates the ego. When you are focused on someone else, you become selfless and compassionate. As you are part of an interdependent system, acting selflessly and compassionately indirectly helps you. Nature is about give and take and balance. The thermodynamic law stating that energy cannot be created nor destroyed suggests a "zero sum game" as you put it. If you look at nature, you will learn all you need to know about how to live. Animals and plants take, and animals and plants give. If you are unhappy with the current state of the world, maybe you need to sacrifice MORE, not less. Those who take and take from nature will not be given the same amount in return.
Edit: OP, being a human being is no more important than being a spec of dust on your mom's toilet seat. Are you proud to be a human being? Why the hell should you be? By the way, the only argument I can think of that would give credence to the idea that human's are more "valuable" than anything else is due to the energy involved...we all know that it's better to eat a single cow because that cow contains x times the amount of energy of a single fish. Thus, the cow has more energy to contribute, and thus more energy to give. But actually...doesn't this suggest that sacrifice becomes MORE important as you climb higher up the food chain?
Edit 2: Sacrifice is a sign of strength as it takes strength to sacrifice. If your ego hurts when you sacrifice...then your ego is weak.
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So...at this point I would assume you aren't interested?
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