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Arancaytar
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 written Saturday, December 8 2007 22:25 Profile Homepage #79
quote:
Aran ... why she (or he, sorry, I don’t know)
DAMMIT, NOT AGAIN.

I mean, wtf. Does either "Arancaytar" or "Aran" have a feminine ending in any romanic language? None that I know.

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Arancaytar
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 written Saturday, December 8 2007 00:43 Profile Homepage #23
quote:
Originally written by Excalibur:

Libertarians like liberty
If you want to be literal about this, so do liberals - and yet, libertarians and liberals are often surprisingly unsuccessful at getting along.

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Arancaytar
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 written Saturday, December 8 2007 00:40 Profile Homepage #21
#7557: So? It's still irksome to see it so atrociously mangled.

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Arancaytar
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 written Saturday, December 8 2007 00:37 Profile Homepage #19
Where are they in E/A2? Wasn't their city attacked by the Empire? I alway mix up Silvar and Cotra, even in Upper Avernum.

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Omaha Mall Shooting in General
Arancaytar
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 written Friday, December 7 2007 11:31 Profile Homepage #34
quote:
Originally written by Nioca:

No, is shouldn't be left at that. No matter how depraved a person is, he is (or was) still human. And it should be reported that these things aren't random acts of fate; it's a disgrace to both the killer and his victims. An investigation at least provides a reason, which in turn provides at least a tiny bit of solace to the families who lost one of their own. This guy wasn't some terrorist working for well-known twisted ends that are supplied by blowing innocent people up; he was a fellow citizen who tragically lost his life.
After the stunning insight that the first part of your post constitutes, the nationalist conclusion is disappointing. Seriously, would it kill you to scratch the terrorist and write "human" instead of "citizen"?

It is high time that we begin to understand our species as a single civilization, or we will have a hard time surviving the coming century.

[ Friday, December 07, 2007 11:33: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, December 6 2007 14:46 Profile Homepage #9
I find it very ironic to say that, in this day and age, the United States are not Christian... enough.

I mean, for a country whose constitution expressly forbids its laws to endorse any religion (but apparently that doesn't extend to abortions and homosexuals, because it's a completely non-religious fact that those are icky), your fundies are pretty loud.

Edit: Especially online. Hey wait.

[ Thursday, December 06, 2007 14:52: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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What have you been reading lately? in General
Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, December 6 2007 13:45 Profile Homepage #613
Did anyone else read "Djur" in Randomizer's post?

In any case, I'm still buried in unread Asimov tales. But a colleague has just introduced me to Iain Banks and one other whose name I forget (Gerald something? May have been Gerald Vance, but Google shows a couple of others.)

In whose Wikipedia entry I just saw that he wrote a novel titled "Consider Phlebas", which from the title alone must be instant bad-ass.

[ Thursday, December 06, 2007 13:46: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, December 6 2007 13:11 Profile Homepage #16
quote:
Vahatti
DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE
DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE
DIE DIE DER DAS DIE DIE DIE DIE

[ Thursday, December 06, 2007 13:11: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, December 5 2007 12:16 Profile Homepage #8
quote:
Originally written by Light Upon the Auric Waters:

—Alorael, who insists on hand-encrypting all information he sends in the clear with Pontifex/Solitaire. Anyone who really cares what he has to say will take the trouble to decrypt it.
KWKML UXFLX. (root) :P

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Arancaytar
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 written Tuesday, December 4 2007 21:39 Profile Homepage #9
Esther is not an uncommon name here, and I don't even think it's exclusively Jewish.

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Arancaytar
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 written Tuesday, December 4 2007 21:36 Profile Homepage #4
Except that intercepting two emails is inconsequentially more difficult than intercepting one. So splitting up the information is not quite as secure as using ROT13.

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Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Sunday, December 2 2007 16:27 Profile Homepage #59
quote:
Originally written by Dikiyoba:

headphones connected to my computer, because shocks to the inside of the ear are just unpleasant.

Dikiyoba.
Side question about electromagnetism: Can a static discharge cause the speaker to make a noise?

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What have you been reading lately? in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Sunday, December 2 2007 16:23 Profile Homepage #604
quote:
Originally written by SlaughteringSevile:

-Alorael, who is stealing member 335's signature, warns that it extensively talks about racism
Truly a first. Even the noobs who copy Alo's sig usually have the decency not to impersonate him by copying the name too.

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Arancaytar
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 written Sunday, December 2 2007 16:18 Profile Homepage #1
Mister Fox felt a kinship with animals that went beyond what is considered decent. He insisted on expressing these feelings in erotic fiction which he published on this board. Et voila, no more Mister Fox.

IMAGE(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2101/2050959989_9b3c14b784.jpg)

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Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded. Something like that anyway. in General
Arancaytar
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 written Sunday, December 2 2007 16:13 Profile Homepage #382
quote:
Originally written by Niemand:

out of bounds.
Is that a pun, as in put_stain(6000, 4000, ...)?

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Mental training in General
Arancaytar
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 written Sunday, December 2 2007 15:30 Profile Homepage #28
quote:
Originally written by Najosz Thjsza Kjras:

My understanding is that hypnosis is an entirely conscious behavior, and the claims of its advocates are unsupported and largely constructed on the assumption that the brain operates on some level besides neurochemical synapses.

It is very tempting to reify thoughts, feelings, and personalities - to pretend they operate on a level besides the one which our natural science has pinned them to - but it is still inappropriate. We are a beautiful architecture of chemicals, nothing more, and anyone who tries to convince you otherwise is a fool or a liar.
For all my skepticism, I must point out that hypnosis is not mind magic.

Analogously, a computer consists only of electric currents. It is based on rules we have invented and that we understand (or at least, there are people who know pretty much all there is to know about them). They're far less complex than our brains, and yet their complexity is enough to give rise to unbelievable concepts - viruses, operating systems, simulators that pretend to be a computer for another operating system to run in. Computer programming has become complex enough that it can take years for a bug to make itself known, or to be identified.

Just because we know that the brain, at a low level, consists of cells that fire electric impulses at each other, does not mean we understand how the mind works.

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Mental training in General
Arancaytar
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 written Sunday, December 2 2007 02:10 Profile Homepage #18
SoF: I'm having similar trouble accepting certain claims made by the hypnosis experts, but at least some of these concepts are simple enough: For one thing, your conscious mind is supposedly the only thing that separates your "inside" world from the "outside" - it's alleged that a baby will only learn to distinguish between its own mind and the outside reality after some time (no clue how they test that).

So it's not a long stretch to infer that if you can enter a trance in which your conscious mind is completely passive, it is possible to give information to your subconscious mind so suggestively that the subconscious will identify it as its own thought. You're really not giving an order; you're "planting" a thought.

Language ability must function at a lower level that conscious and subconscious, or it wouldn't work. That is why I'm skeptical of the idea that you could, for example, hypnotize someone into forgetting how to understand or speak a language.

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Arancaytar
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 written Saturday, December 1 2007 19:46 Profile Homepage #53
Our school had carpeted floors that really built up static when you walked over them on dry summer days. I got zapped by a door handle so hard once that my finger kept hurting for several minutes.

From then on I made it a practice to keep contact with metal (railings, locker doors) while walking, at all times. Unfortunately, this eventually turned into a minor OCD problem.

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What have you been reading lately? in General
Arancaytar
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 written Saturday, December 1 2007 18:14 Profile Homepage #597
I just read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow. In German, alas, but it was still awesome. I found it in a train station bookshop. The German title is completely different (Backup) but I knew the book and its synopsis, so I recognized it.

I chose it over getting a German copy of His Dark Materials, which I last read at the school library four years ago. That one I definitely want in English, so Amazon it is.

quote:
Originally written by Excalibur:

I recently read To Kill a Mockingbird in school, and now I wish to divulge into my favorite Steinbeck novels.
I don't think that word means what you think it means. You don't normally divulge anything into a book, unless its a diary. ;)

[ Saturday, December 01, 2007 18:20: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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Mental training in General
Arancaytar
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 written Saturday, December 1 2007 14:38 Profile Homepage #6
Er... aside from the point that the subconscious does not come with a compiler, are you sure that it is even possible to "deactivate" your conscious mind sufficiently for suggestions to become dangerously powerful to your subconscious, yet stay conscious enough to issue suggestions? This sounds somewhat contradictory to me.

I know auto-suggestion is believed to be effective too (although in this field you really have to be careful because the snake-oil "personality trainers" outweigh the scientists), but that involves full consciousness...

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Chimney in The Avernum Trilogy
Arancaytar
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 written Saturday, December 1 2007 00:29 Profile Homepage #6
quote:
Originally written by Wondering about Chimney:

does it run in vista?
This sounds like it could become a new Slashdot meme. :)

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Endeavour in General
Arancaytar
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 written Friday, November 30 2007 16:59 Profile Homepage #42
You wash the piss out when you're done. With water. If you're wondering about skin effects of urine in the clothes, what do you think would be the effect of any kind of detergent if you failed to wash the clothes with water after cleaning them?

[ Friday, November 30, 2007 17:01: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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The New World in General
Arancaytar
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 written Friday, November 30 2007 14:59 Profile Homepage #15
This sounds like a brilliant idea, Alec.

I didn't get one part though:

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the sort of historical figure steampunk would dream about if it had ever met a brown man it liked
Is steampunk inherently racist? How so?

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Hardest Spiderweb Game EVER!! in General
Arancaytar
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 written Friday, November 30 2007 12:01 Profile Homepage #9
quote:
Originally written by Lazarus.:

I assume you mean E3.
Argh. I cannot get one simple thing right today, can I, Niemand?

...

Wait.

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Hardest Spiderweb Game EVER!! in General
Arancaytar
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 written Friday, November 30 2007 05:38 Profile Homepage #5
I went into Canopy under-leveled. I don't think any SW game has been remotely as challenging, even the ToSF in BoE (and that was a biggie).

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