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On February 01 2007 19:38 Clutch3 wrote:
today a co-worker and i decided to invent an anti-pain ray burqa. the stupid fucking military has developed a "non-lethal" weapon which uses microwaves to make you feel like you're going to burst into flames. it's ostensibly to provide a non-lethal alternative to guns, but i think it's going to be used for lots of more sadistic purposes. anyway, since i KNOW they'll be sending it to iraq asap, i figured we should start selling anti-pain ray burqas.
they'd be made of metal mesh to stop the microwaves...and they'd be fashionable too! plus i think it's funny the military's new multi-million dollar weapon can be foiled by a big sheet of aluminum foil. i could be wrong, as i don't know the details of the weapon, but if it's just a microwave generator, then a metal mesh should work.
From wikipedia:
There is no indication on the feasibility of electromagnetically shielding a person from its effects with a wire mesh, in a similar manner that a microwave oven prevents radiation escaping.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System
They woulda obviously changed its design if such a simple metal mesh could be used. And here:
Tin foil and other shields proved mostly ineffective, as even a tiny area of exposed skin was enough to stimulate the escape response.
http://66.225.202.210/journals/science.ars/2007/1/25/6747
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On February 01 2007 19:44 QuietIdiot wrote:
I want everyone in the world, to stop giving a shit about their beliefs and existence, and start doing something productive.
I would also like detachable and regenerative body parts. I want to create a rope with a 100 of my arms and swing around buildings around with it. I would remove my head, create a new body, create a new me, and I would mitotically reproduce myself. I would also like to stretch my penis out a 100 meters, shoot it around like a firehouse to unsuspecting victims. I could also probably create stilts with my legs, walk around everyone and scaring the shit out of dogs.
Productivity without wisdom can lead to very bad things, I couldn't disagree with you any more. Productivity to an Islamic terrorist could be driving a plane into the WTC. Productivity to Hitler was genocide. Productivity to some loon might be sniping doctors that perform abortions in the head while they are washing dishes. Ideas are what's more important than productivity.
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it upsets me that any idea I have ever conceived has been thought of by some other guy centuries before my birth.
sigh, why can't i be original.
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On February 01 2007 20:49 CrownRoyal wrote:
it upsets me that any idea I have ever conceived has been thought of by some other guy centuries before my birth.
sigh, why can't i be original.
Lol, it really is hard to be original! I guess when there are a large pool of highly educated people that have had an ongoing discussion for thousands of years that it is hard to be original! Probably the best way to be original is to have a good understanding of what's out there (hard to impossible to do?) and then make up some fringe theory and hope it catches! Think eliminative materialism or the such.
I guess I could also add that as science comes up with novel new ideas or anything else does for that matter, that a whole new field of philosophy is always open and ripe for the picking. Although many times these new ideas just inject new terminology in a debate that really had already been ongoing.
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On February 01 2007 20:45 Vi)Chris wrote:Show nested quote +On February 01 2007 19:44 QuietIdiot wrote:
I want everyone in the world, to stop giving a shit about their beliefs and existence, and start doing something productive.
I would also like detachable and regenerative body parts. I want to create a rope with a 100 of my arms and swing around buildings around with it. I would remove my head, create a new body, create a new me, and I would mitotically reproduce myself. I would also like to stretch my penis out a 100 meters, shoot it around like a firehouse to unsuspecting victims. I could also probably create stilts with my legs, walk around everyone and scaring the shit out of dogs. Productivity without wisdom can lead to very bad things, I couldn't disagree with you any more. Productivity to an Islamic terrorist could be driving a plane into the WTC. Productivity to Hitler was genocide. Productivity to some loon might be sniping doctors that perform abortions in the head while they are washing dishes. Ideas are what's more important than productivity.
Exactly. Stop doing a half-assed job with your evils and start doing it all the way. I'm sick of people getting to the middle, spending what little time in their lives thinking about it, and acting upon experience. Boring world, as it is. Why can't we all be more stupid mindless heartless machines? You focused on the negative nature of productivity and not the whole picture here. I was an ideal thinker, always trying to meticulate all sorts of logic into my life. All the events that passed by and they came to conclusions so perpetual and rhetorical. Perhaps its my lack of intelligence, my lack of respect, my lack of trust in human nature, and ideas can be swayed any way. In my eyes, evil is an opinion. We Americans condone the terrorist attacks, but people around the world condone the actions of america for our past actions. Of course, we don't put the two things in one place, seperate them, and influence more and more without directing the attention to it. What if we never believed in God? What if we never thought about the importance of individuality, difference between color, creed, and creativity? We would stand out black and white, none of the 50 versions of the bible shit, none of the different versions of islamic faith, and questioning our existence would never have been an issue. Stopped caring about all the small things that put our foundation of our society into one, and we work in uniform, like a animal cell or an atom. But this is simply an unrealistic and impossible conclusion that will never happen and I'm sorry if you got that misconstrued. That's why I put this under one of those "weird" ideas. Just out there, perhaps to some, nonsense.
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Oy oy oy lads play nicely! I intended this to be a sharing and friendly discussion!
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On February 01 2007 21:06 evanthebouncy~ wrote:
Oy oy oy lads play nicely! I intended this to be a sharing and friendly discussion!
no malice here, just a paragraph response here sir :>
On February 01 2007 21:10 Vi)Chris wrote:I'm just an argumentative person and I ALWAYS play devil's advocate regardless of my true position!  But anyways, I agree that there are no absolutes in terms of ethics, but that doesn't mean free-for-all to me. It means a system of ethics must be devised based on some criterion and followed. Personally I believe in doing the greatest amount of good to the greatest amount of people without infringing on the civil liberties of the minority. Those civil liberties were mostly outlined by Kant so I want blab on endlessly!
hehe ok I see your point now 
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I'm just an argumentative person and I ALWAYS play devil's advocate regardless of my true position!
But anyways, I agree that there are no absolutes in terms of ethics, but that doesn't mean free-for-all to me. It means a system of ethics must be devised based on some criterion and followed. Personally I believe in doing the greatest amount of good to the greatest amount of people without infringing on the civil liberties of the minority. Those civil liberties were mostly outlined by Kant so I want blab on endlessly!
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WOOT!
Peace is again restored! They'll totoally take me serial.
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yes, there are many equations. Yes, you need a big device to calculate it all. That's what the real world is; a device calculating with every equation to find out whats going to happen in the future. Therebye, we cant know exactly whats going to happen, cause the device didnt get there yet.
On January 22 2007 21:27 CrownRoyal wrote:
I have written several things trying to decipher on my own some of the unanswerable questions in life, such as things about god and in general just all of the difficult questions in the world. I don't necessarily agree with any of them, they are just theories that I formed.
Here is one of them, it's the latest one I thought of and most of the ideas aren't completely thought out or even right, but I think it's an interesting idea.
X = Life "Theory"
In mathematics one encounters several things. One of these things being equations. Equations can be made for literally ANYTHING. These equations enable us to have a completely accurate prediction of, as I said earlier, literally anything.
Knowing this, that anything can be predicted via mathematics, I am hypothesizing that human life also must have an equation where one can predict what anyone will do in any given situation, thus human life has no free will and fate is very much so real, to the point that we are all merely points on the graph of an XY chart. The end of the world can be predicted, the creation of our world can be found, we can understand nearly all of the questions that life has left us unanswered without ever leaving our rooms, we can travel through time, we can essentially understand everything by finding an equation for every single living person to figure out what they would do in any situation presented in front of them.
I believe this hypothesis is valid for the reason that I have no reason to believe human beings are special, if I can predict how a ball will roll across the ground, I should be able to predict how someone will react if I punch them in the face, though, the equation is going to be very complex there is most definitely one to achieve the answer that I am looking for.
To say that I am looking for an equation where I will know how Johnny Walker will react to being hit in the face is completely wrong, however, I am moreso looking at the idea of an equation that would set the path of your life, from your first action to your last. I’m not sure at this point how the equation would have to work to accomplish this, I would hypothesize that the answer to how you reacted would be iterated back into the formula somehow, but the exact details are unimportant to me. In this hypothesis I am forced to assume it is possible to create this complex equation merely because I see no reason not to believe it, if I can predict other things it is my belief then I can predict human behaviors.
If I could somehow possess this wonderful tool, I could work the equations backwards or forwards through every generation(time travel). I would essentially possess the ability to know when anything would happen. What a scary idea...
In conclusion: My hypothesis is that it is possible to create an equation that will lay out the path of any man's life and if this is possible, free will is nonexistent and life isn't quite as magical as one might expect.
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On January 22 2007 21:24 evanthebouncy~ wrote:
Ohh here's another one of mine...
Imagine you can store sleeps. Like... suck the sleep out of someone and put it in a can, say. Then you can just hire a bunch of hobos and make them sleep every day. And you pay them. However they are not getting rested because you keep sucking the sleep out of them :p You store the sleep inside a can, and now redbull can just go to hell.
You sell this can worth one hour of good night sleep to busy cooperate CEOs, busy students, busy men or maybe army in the war. So whenever they feel damn drowsy well go consume like 8 cans worth of 8 hours of sleeps. Kabam instant regen.
That'd rock!
when did you ever drink red bull to be able to sleep betTER? :p
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