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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-11-19 21:15 [#02507860]
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what do you think of ubuntu linux?
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Monoid
from one source all things depend on 2016-11-19 23:18 [#02507869]
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Nothing
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-11-20 00:45 [#02507871]
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Nothing is still a Thing
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w M w
from London (United Kingdom) on 2016-11-20 01:57 [#02507876]
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Nothing, such a communist answer. But linux has communist tones in it anyway. Then again information does in general. Except for the strategy of keeping your info unreleased until payment is received. It's the only way to profit, to prevent the first cell division because after that it is an uncontainable virus.
Anyway, nothing is the only thing that exists, the same as everything, just like in the neverending story. Eventually even gmork can't exist anymore, but that's what he wants.
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-11-20 15:56 [#02507881]
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Nothing is a Thing that is defined by NoT being a Thing
the same way that "404 not found" is still a result.
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-11-20 15:58 [#02507882]
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i am sure monoid knows more than NoT a Thing w/rt Ubuntuz. if he sat there and thought, bits would float up: pesky pangolin. that orange logo. some nerds making noise about amazon web search...
when you say, "i don't know" you actually may know, if you sit there and compute for a bit... but, immediately: 404 not found. sorry bro. knowing this is outside of my conscious sphere of context and i refuse to compute any further
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-11-20 16:01 [#02507883]
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what continually blows my mind is that you cannot write, say, or read anything without every word trigging a small grenade of not-404 results in your object/nothing pathways
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-11-20 16:10 [#02507884]
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so, a bit seriously, back to w M w ~~ any given memory you have does not exist until you attempt to recall it.
some information is immediately available ("are my balls sitting comfortably?") and other things you have to think for a moment ("what was that thing with amazon and ubuntu again?") and bits begin to trickle out. squeezing the sponge and data squirts out.
you can't help anything you say, read, write, do, etc. from changing your mind forever, but you do have a certain degree of choice. a trite example is how people will stay off the internet to avoid "spoiler alerts" for movies/TV.
so, pretty much, i agree with what you said about information being a communist-y (as sarah palin would say) thing in general, but i think you need to examine the flip side: you can avoid receiving information. train yourself not to think about certain things. maintain a barrier between yourself and that communist pile of libertarian shit out there. mental filter it....
better example: i mostly reading/watching the news a couple years ago. it was a mild addiction (sort of like candy or donuts) and a waste of time. a bad habit. once i stopped, though, i found this really weird gulf in between. a dead zone where people are all talking about some shit and i have no idea what the fuck. i found i quite enjoyed this feeling of being out of my element. like donnie. a child wandering into the middle of a serious political debate about nomenclature niggers
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-11-20 16:54 [#02507886]
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so, yes, WmW discussing how to profit from data: withold until payment received. fair enough. neal stephenson's "library" in snow crash completely ignores DRM and all that...
i am asking: where's that data you generated come from? it is a synthesis of all sorts of other data you've received and processed. effectively, whatever you're trying to profit out of wouldn't exist without certain sensory inputs from your past. what you put into your mind determines what you think. what you think determines what you think, as thinking determines which sensory inputs you elect to process next.
cutting myself off from google news was something i did merely as a life/balance thing. it wound up being interesting for deep reasons: the news pumps everyone full of words and phrases, then they get together at bus stops and parrot and splice and selecta like a jeff mills working three turntables at once. the news is exploded and blown-up and re-settled and this in turn influences the ratings, which influence the news...
there are multiple layers of feedback loops going on, there, and i've only just begun to untangle it all. if you aren't primed with words and phrases like "the nuclear option" you have no idea if people are talking about bombs or congressional procedure or something else. then you walk up to the bus stop full of this crap and it's a fucking surrel blender of words and sentences that are grammatically correct but oddly devoid of any extractable information. like walking into a cult's summer picnic and they're all spouting circular religious prattle. no one can answer a simple question: "where is the ketchup?" gets "wherever jehovah has left it for you to find it, for seeking is the quest." wat?
by staying outside of the usual informational grooves, you put yourself in a position to have a better perspective of what's going on. then your perspective influences your future decisions... free will bootstrap.....
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-11-20 17:32 [#02507893]
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we know something you don't know and if we don't share then we don't grow U'n'A bomb will set the whole world on fiar
be the fish with the carnivorous teef. beat the other hunters to the data? absolutely.
but you have to put stuff out into the world to see how others react to it, and you need their reactions to guide your future reactions. being too greedy with your data stunts your growth. this doesn't mean giving away the farm, but you gotta share to grow
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w M w
from London (United Kingdom) on 2016-11-20 20:19 [#02507899]
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The opposite blows my mind, how many 404 not found results ARE triggered. We don't know far more than we know, therefore we construct our internal reality simulation mostly of unknown hollowness, like the empty space of an atom (but I don't know that... for sure...)
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w M w
from London (United Kingdom) on 2016-11-20 21:02 [#02507903]
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I kind of like the humpty dance's new shark music video.
Earth's information network, the meme-o-sphere, has become as rigged as the economy, and the economy is rigged to the point of no longer being an economy but rather a stealth eugenics weapon with plausible deniability built in. At least my comments don't get stealth banned on xltronic, like they do on all the controlled internet ghettos like youtube, but only because xltronic itself isn't big enough to appear on their radar.
They are engaging in memetic warfare. Richard Dawkins theorized 3 characteristics of successful memes: fidelity, fecundity and longevity, and the elite and their pet artilects have scientifically studied how to game all 3. It sounds like circular religious prattle, because it is, it's all a cult, and all in the 90% spectrum of Sturgeon's Law. So does most of physics. String theory and the multiverse is a propaganda beta test at spreading a big lie and sticking to it at the expense of looking ridiculous. It's the Lady Kaka/Justin Beiber of information. Terms like "the nuclear option" are all based on the false ideology of statism. Criminals run everything, we don't have a political problem, we have a crime problem as Brad Spangler said in his journey to embracing agorism, but they easily disposed of him with their memetic warfare. I don't know what I'm writing about.
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-11-20 21:10 [#02507904]
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how do you know you don't know something? how do you connect that with the moments when you "oh yeah!" and suddenly, you realize, you did know it (it just took you a moment to remember it)? the definition of it depends on what your definition of "is" is, and some people define it as towelheads with guns, hell-bent on destroying democracy. then you try to bring them up to speed: no, i was not mispronouncing the name of a purported "terrorist" organization, i was quoting bill clinton. this makes them even more angry... and i wander off, like i have here.
the immense difficulty of explaining this sort of thing arises when that spiral of association begins to feed back on itself and essentially puts me in thought loops until i notice and pull the plug. a tier above that is "that was funny, but i totally failed in making the point i sat down to make." the above paragraph is in that tear. cache me a river, sean booth. there it goes again
remembering something is more or less re-creating the state of mind whatever it is generated in you. thinking about sex gives you a boner. thinking of the doctor's office generates boredom or anxiety or thoughts of boring magazines depending on who you are. the same process is used for anything you "know" and this leads to a hell of a lot of confusion. the word "know" definitely means something stronger + more specific than merely "remembering" something.
suffice to say it's easier to set that whole mess aside and say that i "know" 2+2=4. i've seen it so many times my reaction is thoughtless and automatic. 213+912=?? triggers a whole set of nonsense in my mind: when doing arithmatic in my head, i look for the nines and see which columns will roll over first... but, eventually, yes, i "know" the answer to this bit of arithmatic as well.
i would also say i "know" arithmatic, because i can compute the results of arbitrary arithmatic problems. this does not mean i can simply out with the answer like i can with 2+2=4.
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-11-20 21:21 [#02507906]
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Terms like "the nuclear option" are all based on the false ideology of statism. Criminals run everything, we don't have a political problem, we have a crime problem as Brad Spangler said in his journey to embracing agorism, but they easily disposed of him with their memetic warfare. I don't know what I'm writing about.
this is where garden-variety schizophrenic nutters and acid-heads get lost.
if you say, "criminals run everything!" i actually don't disagree. like "knowing," though, there's a lot of slip in the words. i do not believe there is some single group of criminals like SPECTRE that runs everything, james bond style.
i do not believe the media is run by any group like that -- no, it's a lot of them. i do not believe the media is a plot to control the government, or minds... at least, not coherently. not directly...
example: mass shootings. the media profits off of them. it glues people to their TVs. a few happen, the media blasts them all over. this plants bad idea seeds all over, and more mass shootings happen. all over. did the media create mass shootings? no. are they actively seeking to encourage them? no. do they know they're making it worse, and keep doing it anyways? fuck yes.
it is dangerous to view "the government" or "the media" or whatever as intelligent entities. they are not. they are animals; mindlessly eating. cooperating until they have to fight over the food. in symbotic relationships with other predators: the gun-control lobby probably gets a lot of donation$ off of media coverage of mass-shootings. this does not mean the gun control lobby is in cahoots with the media, or mass murders... you know?
this is actually something that gets me wondering if schizophrenia is actually a software problem. bad ideas take root and run rampant...
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w M w
from London (United Kingdom) on 2016-11-20 21:38 [#02507908]
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I'd say temporarily forgetting information that has already been stored in your brain is different than information that has never been stored in your brain, like I don't know the exact state of electrons/atoms on Jupiter's moons, or even any atoms right in front of me or even the true nature of atoms beyond an extremely minimal compulsory education briefly force taught concept.
2+2=4 had to be calculated on fingers or whatever at one point, but was simple enough to store in memory, so it can be retrieved w/o being calculated. More complex arithmetic takes a number of computation steps in the future, and the only way to find the answer faster than doing those steps, if it is computationally irreducible, is to perform them on the hardware of a faster universe:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ComputationalIrreducibility.ht ml
... hmmm... or compute the answer for EVERYTHING then store all answers for quick retrieval... sort of like a rainbow table attack or whatever, like a hash for every answer, maybe that's how the universe itself does it. Like you store all questions in a list, then store all pre-computed answers in a list. Then question[764501] = answer[764501], immediately without having to compute it. The only problem is some sort of parasite that would edit the answers into lies. That's also probably going on in the universe. Because I mean when trying to rotate 2 measily points in 3d, it takes all this computation... so how does the universe rotate freakin' jupiter... around the sun (and all other planets around other stars... it would be impossible without nearly infinite lag unless it uses pre-computed answers.
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w M w
from London (United Kingdom) on 2016-11-20 21:44 [#02507909]
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That gave me a good idea to make a kaleidoscope with less lag in shitty pygame (which has tons of lag). Compute distance to center of ALL pixels. make it a set (reduce duplicates to reduce extra work, like all 4 corners would be same distance). Pre-compute location of all 360 degree increments for every distance. Now you don't have to actually rotate, just put it in the pre-computed answer.
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-11-20 21:46 [#02507910]
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yes, you're in the neighborhood. the subconscious mind is more or less like the blockchain in bitcoin. the query, the result, and the record of the transaction are all the same thing. you can work backwards on the blockchain -- sort of like how i'm digging at why a phrase is nagging at me in a post i wrote, and i find the answer is i was paraphrasing some post someone else meant from three months ago... and i don't consciously remember reading it, i'm just in the car, chewing on it, and my brain tells me to google: "site:xltronic.com belb bunghole" and the right thread immediately popped out. until i ran the google search, though, i had no idea if that was actually going to go anywhere or not. once it did, and i saw where it went, it made total sense... but only in hindsight.
it is like the blockchain in bitcoin. all the previous transactions are there, but working backwards on it is like cracking encryption. lots of CPU. it is a rainbow table for every transaction ever conducted in your mind. things are immediately, permanently over-written whenever they're used and remain unchanged until they are used again -- my analogy here is: you've injured your arm. it hurts when you move it a certain way. you learn to avoid moving it that way. six weeks later, it's healed, and you realize it's healed and it's been four weeks since it healed and you're still moving like it's hurting. then you have to re-learn to use it as it was before. like breaking a bad habit; picking your nose. smoking cigarettes....
so, essentially, iterating through that for answers really can generate the answers you seek. possibly all the answers, ever. the limit on this is time. your time on this planet. how some things have answers but are not worth your time to stew through. memory feels infinite because it always generates more of itself. i'm left to conclude controlling which branches i take is the root of free will and the only way to control anything
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-11-20 21:48 [#02507911]
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royal clam joust
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-11-20 21:57 [#02507912]
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/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu/in Index of dices
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w M w
from London (United Kingdom) on 2016-11-20 22:02 [#02507913]
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Anarcho-capitalism (or just "anarchism" but said that way to distinguish from the attempted memetic hijack of anarcho-communism or the funny hijack of anarcho-feminism) also called voluntaryism, which is much more difficult to hijack since its name pretty much is its definition, redefines crime as anything that initiates force, as that would violate the sensible axiom of self ownership of another human. Currently it seems to be a human-only contract basically, like you can agree to this, or you can disagree and do things criminally, but at least there's a logical simple axiom to define what is or isn't criminal (can you "legally" initiate force against an animal to eat it? is why it becomes complex and is a contract for humans only). By this true standard of what should be legal or illegal, not the false bloated lawyer jargon maze of their criminal monopolized courts and false law enforcement... they are the criminals. They are all funded by tax and collecting that alone is criminal as it initiates force since the collection is involuntary. It's anti-voluntaryism. Anything voluntary should be legal. And this mutual individual respect built in legally at the base level allows all other ideologies to thrive if they do so voluntarily. Want to live in a communist society, join one voluntarily, as long as people that don't want to join aren't coerced to. So as long as you redefine what is criminal, there IS a giant criminal conspiracy, or more like a cult or "the most dangerous superstition" according to larken rose's book which I didn't read.
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-11-20 22:10 [#02507914]
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now you're just force-feeding me cotton. i propose paragraphs. i think hyperflake had a small cry when i learned how to use those
you are in a bloated lawyer-jargon maze of your own hedging. hashing and gurning the words off of each other, trying to resolve... what? really, you have the core approach correct. the process you're going through with anarcho-contracts. com, vol, com, legal, vol, which i didn't read.
i'm a comp sci major and so i reach for metaphors like blockchain as quickly as you seem to reach for... whatever those words go with. economics, poly-sci, etc...
what you need to work on, in my presumptuious internet opinion, is ranging outside of that bubble. i spend hours reading about everything on wikipedia, lots of books on psychology... and, now i feel like i need economics in there. i compulsively seek out and devour these microcosms and once i've done that i can drop into that frame of reference at any point in the future. all this stuff is totally unfigurable if you stick inside a single system of thought
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w M w
from London (United Kingdom) on 2016-11-20 22:19 [#02507915]
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When I used to read a lot, I found the end of the rabbit hole, the final piece of information and that information said that reading a lot itself was an unhealthy surrogate activity (it was the unabomber manifesto). So you do all this reading to "become wise" then the fuckin' wisest thing you realize is that doing all that reading was basically dementia to replace normal hunter gatherer activities. We're not in kansas anymore. Youtube discourages paragraphs in comments because they hide your tldr post with a "read more" click, and if the cut off is right at the paragraph blank line they might not think there's any more to read. But they ghost your comments anyway because every thing mainstream has been monopolized by the new world order.
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w M w
from London (United Kingdom) on 2016-11-20 22:20 [#02507916]
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I'm gonna go engage in the surrogate activity of trying that kaleidoscope. It probably won't work cuz I suck, AND pygame sucks.
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-11-20 22:33 [#02507919]
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it drives me crazy. i thought i said what i meant, but, no, that didn't do it.... at the end of the rabbit hole, what i found was this: i started off asking a legitimate question about how a known, specific video format gets rendered onscreen in very precise circumstances and went down the rabbit hole. how is color represented in video? what pixel formats does the graphics card use? how does linux handle color management? is that why firefox displays colors weird? and i knew i was totally up my ass. a dozen times i gave up and went back to the core question. a legitimate question. each time, i got lost. eventually, i realized, i was trying to answer the question, "how do pixels get on the screen?" this hit me moments after i joked to myself: "well, i suppose the existance of the universe is deeply critical to color management on linux, because if pixels do not exist, then they cannot be displayed." a brief moment mulling on whether or not pixels ever actually do exist... then, yes, i'm fucked.
i have hit that wall thousands of time since. each time, i catch myself a little sooner. before i get to "i need to know how ICC profiles are applied through a dbus connection to gdm3 on a non-wayland nvidia rig with the open-source drivers and i'm also curious if this explains a bug in firefox"
pretty much, i read your wall of economics and nothing came out that i could use. like the cult religious prattle. every other post in this thread here has given me real shit that i had immediate, extensive answers for. then that one is like a closed, armored sphere. the delay has fed back on itself and everything is at the red. no signal. just a wall of feedback. the full squarepusher
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-11-20 22:44 [#02507923]
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said a little better, i got the vague sense the energies of your conscious train of thought were trapped inside a sphere of economic goulash. there is something in there you want to express, dammit, but the language goes in circles and you never quite get there
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-11-20 23:02 [#02507940]
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welcome to peter molyneux. i should go get something else ballin' myself
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Monoid
from one source all things depend on 2016-11-21 02:53 [#02507993]
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Alright
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-11-21 04:30 [#02507996]
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comvolegalize anti-anarcho-snapism!!!
....but i didn't read it.
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Indeksical
from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2016-11-21 12:33 [#02508003]
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A few months ago my mobile telephone and laptop broke in quick succession. As my mobile telephone was only 14 months old I took it to Vodafone and they said it was £260 to fix the duff battery even though I hadn't done anything to break it. It was a flat fee from Apple for a replacement. I had at the same time been looking at getting another apple laptop buy I felt that the new MacBook with no update to the air was a direction I didn't like. Besides I had access to a Mac for work.
Also I realised I was unhappy at work and decided to quit once I had got through all my booked trips.
Anyway instead of paying the £260 I bought a Chinese elephone for £180 total and I have noticed no difference and instead of buying a new mac I bought a Lenovo laptop. I couldn't get comfortable with windows so I made a partition with Linux which is really nice, I keep the windows partition for ableton and max and because my laptop is one of those foldy ones and Linux isn't quite there yet.
Anyway I used manjaro kde for most of the time and I really liked it but I felt that I was losing track of what was going on behind the scenes so I changed to solus but that doesn't have much software so now I'm trying zorin but it uses nearly 2gb of ram idle and is full of screen tearing.
What distro should I use?
I made an EP in Linux in sun vox and recorded it to a tape and it was such a refreshing experience to have a change of pace.
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cygnus
from nowhere and everyplace on 2016-11-27 04:17 [#02508225]
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what is anarcho-feminism
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-11-28 04:05 [#02508257]
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linux mint currently has the crown, i'd say, for "i can deal with the guts of linux but i'd like to start with a nicely tuned desktop, thanks"
ubuntu is still good on the desktop, but i'd no longer recommend it over linux mint.
arch linux is where it's at for "handle all the really deep nerd crap for me, but don't even install a GUI, because i want to pick that myself." i use gdm3. it's not perfect but it's solid
there are distros tuned to specific tasks: kali linux is for security, knoppix is for sysadmin/recovery... there's one for mythTV, to make TiVO boxes...
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-11-28 04:10 [#02508258]
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given that: is there a linux distro tuned for media production? for music production? having the entire operating system tuned for audio (decisions for pulse, alsa, etc. are made for you when possible, intelligently presented when there are multiple options).
UNIX is modular. just like a modular synth.
most people walk up to a modular synth, plug in a few cables, press a key, and... hey! it's not making any noises! this is terrible! i don't give a shit about triangle generators!
a few odd sorts will say, "thank god! i'm no longer stuck with preset routings! i can try those strange ideas now!"
then we're off into the confusing middle: well, you can get a nord modular G2 and it comes with loads of preset modules that make sound right away... but, yes, it's still all modular, and you can tear open anything and modify it. that's UNIX more accurately.
having the entire operating system dedicated to music production would probably be pretty good. disk operations optimized for multitrack recording.
here's one of my old favorites, just to sort of hint how weirdly deep it could go:
cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp
this says, "plug the random number generator into the audio output of my speakers." the result, if it works, is white noise. it makes perfect sense but it seems a bit magic... all you did was run a command streaming data from one part of the OS into the next...
if it doesn't work, it's because the audio device on your distribution of UNIX is not /dev/dsp. it's usually something more obnoxious, i.e. "/dev/snd/pcmCODOc" and this is why most people hate UNIX
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-11-28 04:26 [#02508259]
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a eurorack module that....
* generates pulses every time you get an email OR * continuously outputs a control voltage representing how many people are currently logged into xltronic OR
* emits a gate pulse every time "HAM SANDWICH" shows up on google news OR...
yes, mental jams in that. realtime data from all over the world flowing into your patch as you record
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-11-28 04:28 [#02508260]
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max/msp, yes, i've heard of it. sounds good for the layer of glue in between /dev/urandom and sunvox
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w M w
from London (United Kingdom) on 2016-11-28 06:42 [#02508263]
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This guy makes very sensible anarchy videos, free of alex jonesesque acid memes, free of "Trump" and trendy "news" topics, and free of Agent provocateur or saboteur divide and conquer race/sex/religion themed bullshit:
LAZY_TITLE Of course they get few views because youtube is as rigged as ebay. I think "anarcho feminism" is some sort of socialist attempted meme hijack but I don't know. The government is just a monopoly of power, and a monopoly of money. They are just people who force others to pay them. And their false but perceived legitimacy is due to dumbing the population down in compulsory education concentration camps. It is a cult, nobody agreed to be part of it and they don't let you secede. They monopolize all the land. Everyone should be able to homestead and live for free, but that goes against their plan for you as a cog in their system. The government has evolved into a corporatocracy, a fascist merger of business and government. These corporations are actually probably the first primitive artilect life forms. Google and facebook etc will continue to crystalize into more and more powerful and evil entities and individual humans will become more and more like powerless bacteria compared to them.
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-11-28 06:46 [#02508265]
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what about a polysix of cash?
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-11-28 06:47 [#02508266]
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i would say countries, governments, and tribal villages all predate companies as meta-lifeforms that exist as if we were red blood cells going through their veins
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-11-28 06:49 [#02508267]
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it's all a system. you wouldn't be conscious unless someone taught you how to ask irritating questions on the internet. to use the internet, you have to know how to read, type, use google, and that's a whole system you are trapped within as you complain about systems you are trapped within. it's a trap. we're the joke
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-11-28 06:54 [#02508269]
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tribal villages occupied the fuck out of land back in the day, son. they kill anyone that steps on that holy hill. say the gods own it. took ages to clear them out -- foreign microbes they couldn't encounter and, like, live. shooting them with cannons before the spearmen could swim out to their boat. shooting them with guns on the beach before they're out of the forest. then we're on to some cowboys and indians, and once they're on reservations, we get 'em with alcohol. like microbes, europeans had shitloads of it for centuries and pretty soon your genetic memory is passed out and has sharpie dicks drawn on its face
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-11-28 06:55 [#02508270]
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i would actually say violence, greed, and unholy evil nastiness actually used to be a lot more prevalent before television and transfats
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w M w
from London (United Kingdom) on 2016-11-28 07:14 [#02508274]
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I wonder if in some alternate universe all of humanity was just a single person on an island by himself, would he still develop language to understand things better. He'd have nobody to talk to but he could think things with words to make more organized sense of stuff. Language is a shared social system I guess which shows how information organizes itself naturally and that intellectual property is a scam. I don't have anything interesting to write.
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-11-29 15:57 [#02508309]
Points: 25264 Status: Regular | Followup to w M w: #02507915
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When I used to read a lot, I found the end of the rabbit hole, the final piece of information and that information said that reading a lot itself was an unhealthy surrogate activity (it was the unabomber manifesto). So you do all this reading to become wise" then the fuckin' wisest thing you realize is that doing all that reading was basically dementia to replace normal hunter gatherer activities. We're not in kansas anymore.
i agree, really. i had this moment in August:
a lot it makes sense to me: i suppose i am genetically built to cover ten miles on foot, memorize the nuances of the turf, and compulsively optimize what i do on that journey because survival depends on it.
driving fast, outhinking the other drivers, moving quicker, more precisely... as wilson said to house: do you steal lunch to annoy me, or is it just the thrill of beating the other hunters to the food? it is a primal urge that, through compulsive compartmentalization, i have channeled into this strange recursive engine of self-discovery.
two or three years before I had that moment, though, i also had this one, and it's what keeps me out of that saggy nihilism your posts are drenched in.
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-11-29 15:58 [#02508310]
Points: 25264 Status: Regular | Followup to w M w: #02507915
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Youtube discourages paragraphs in comments because they hide your tldr post with a "read more" click, and if the cut off is right at the paragraph blank line they might not think there's any more to read.
interesting point!
But they ghost your comments anyway because every thing mainstream has been monopolized by the new world order.
now you're just taking the piss
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obara
from Utrecht on 2016-12-04 13:27 [#02508467]
Points: 19368 Status: Lurker | Followup to Indeksical: #02508003
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I've had Xubuntu on second partition alongside Windows on my pc for ages. Both old and new pc and also installed on my wife's laptop. Never had problems with it and it recognized my old gpu's no problem. Unlike Mint - which works very fine though and smooth if you're gpu is supported / there's no problem with drivers. I used it long ago with a crappy Geforce card so I had to quit and switch to another distro that supported my gpu.
Linux requires lots of googling and reading and searching for the distro that suits you - it needs lots of time and love and patience.
I've never tried Sun Vox, it looks cool.
Oh and try Ubuntu Studio - a distro dedicated to all/any media artists and has some audio tools already built-in.
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-12-07 00:02 [#02508578]
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my linux just said: GStreamer-CRITICAL **: Failed to deactivate pad qtdemux0:sink, very bad
silly gstreamer. the app accidentally the media before the driver said hullo. this is not very bad at all. if you want the definition of very bad, see elegant 0-day unicorn.
you have to have a sense of humor about these things or you break a lot of keyboards
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