My Friday's night ask me a difficult question thread.

Be serious, and no asking about intentionally way-to-arcane things like "What is time like inside the event horizon of a black hole"

But anyway, any problems at all, no matter how difficult. Tortuous life decision? Want to know why someone does/won't do something? Ask me anything!

Or we can just chat. It is fine by me. Also, you are allowed to ask mind-boggling questions, but be aware that the answer will then appear in the next weeks thread.

****NO ASKING FOR MEDICAL ADVICE****

If you don't know what you want to ask, just tell me something you wish for. Simple.

Include what goes in and what comes out.

this means "do not ask things that are intentionally too arcane"

I fail to see how you could misunderstand what I have written, therefore I assume that the phrase "no asking about intentionally way-to-arcane things" was poorly written and not up to standard.

My apologies. :(

:P

I happen to know you are very intelligent, and I also know you are not one to back down from a challenge!

:hi:

if I was sure that it was the equivalent of work safe. (I run through a proxy, a lot like work environments but most social stuff allowed).

So no, I am not one to back from a challenge.

It can also be called Krebs cycle or Citric Acid cycle.

essentially it describes how glucose gets broken down and converted to energy in a living organism.

and change "way-too-arcane" to "far too obscenely arcane." ;)

Then maybe she'll get it. :D

A 3-second shot of a small shuttle crossing an empty starfield from mid-top right to mid-top left across a 90° camera pan rendered out at a lowly 10 frames per second at a resolution of 720x480 pixels.

Just give it your best guess. :crazy: :silly: :hi:

2.33 hours

(That was segment...umm...four, I believe). But it had considerably more detail (i.e. a space station in the background that consists of nigh on 100,000 polygons. :o). I'm hoping this segment will get done in under an hour so I can move on the character animation tomorrow.

I know rendering video takes a fuckton of time!

time per pixel = k = Dt/Dp
Total pixels = 720*480*10*3 pixels squared seconds per second per pixel; which equals 10368000 pixels.

Therefore total time Dt = 10368000*b*k

:D

just a single frame at 640x480 that's been going for 13 hours now - all so I can use the radiosity data in a larger image that will be used as a texture map in the final image

It's such a mind boggling feeling.

which stuck? A feeling that no-one thinks as you, or feeling that you can go nowhere, or a feeling of just stress that you can two (or more) opposing camps that just won't get it?

And what does this pertain to? DU? Work? Politics? Relationships?

Politics and life as a whole I guess. I feel like there's so much bullshit out there from both extremes.

that everyone twists whatever they can find with fuck-all regard from the truth.

Well then, quitting politics won't help as you will hear the same shit all the time still, but my (hopefully good) guess is that these would help:

1) A bit more on the here-and-now would not hurt. Extra effort into working out how to make those around you feel better, preferably in novel ways because you also sound somewhat stifled by the expectations of society to think and act in a certain way.

2) When on DU, now have an agenda - to make sure that if the dems win, no-one would be left out, even those the dems disagree with, for example.

3) If you want to have the energy to rid the world of bullshit, a massive task if ever there was one, just find some small issue that means a lot to you personally, and work on it, and don't worry about the other crap so much. (easier said than done)

4) On a nice situation like DU, try and find a set of questions you can ask yourself when you see two people arguing, when you know they both are ok people but are flaming each other, I'd start with

There are two people who cannot see each others point of view;

Are they saying the same arguments over and over? If yes, we have a failure of communication. Each has a different idea of what they are arguing about.

Your spot is a hard one to be in, so feel free to post again and again and again in these threads.
Most of my stuff is inference, I'm afraid, so I don't know how accurate it is.

I think it's just I am tired of hypocritical bullshit. I am tired of people who would rather blindly hate than try to think of solutions and realize that we're all human and that no one and I mean no one will agree with one person 100% of the time. People would rather go on about how their opponent or what not is the worst thing since so and so rather than talk about what they can offer. I don't know it's hard to explain it all really.

(As best I can, which is what I always try to do)

Time for you to act outside of social norms in bieng a good person, I think, if you can. And whenever someone talks politics, deliberately steer it to "what can you offer? Why does it work?"

If they object, the perennial cover-all excuse (because it happens to be true) is that "Well yes, I know that, but I also know that if you can tell me coherently what you stand for and WHY, then you are much more ready to do what you are saying"

I would memorise something like that. The best way to tell a smooth-talking gimboid from someone genuine is to ask about their reasons.

eg. Someone wants to introduce new worker policy. You know that no-matter the fucking what, they all start with some variation on the same line: "This policy will create a healthier economy by increasing productivity" - so you could ask why ^. The response you will get, of course, is that it is by increasing productivity, so you could ask why that is and you will get some BS about efficiency or some crap.
So, what you needed to do was ask at ^ is first, why will the effect of increase in productivity make America a better place, given that the concerns that (it would give everyone longer hours, for example) which is opposite the point.

Learning how to phrase the question is the hardest bit of all, but you can eventually cut sooooo much BS that it is worth it.

KW and R_A have got this thinking searching thing going on! I am so in to it! :rofl:


Hey there, R_A, KW and Kleeb! (dayum...that sounds like the ame of a law firm! !)

This is HUGH!!!!1!!

systems were isolated would provide the easiest example, in which one who frequented the lounge would find it more important, one who didn't would find it as imporant as the aether.

In what nation do you currently reside?

I've visited the US. You are from the US, now living in Sydney? When and why did you move here?

Follow-up: If someone spends equal time and emotional energy in the Lounge and in the non-Lounge sections , which will prove ultimately more important?

I'm now in Sydney. Where I was before is still in my profile.

Time and energy act as co-efficients only to some set of information of the responder, and how that information is used, therefore the answer is most likely to be "whichever the person is influenced more strongly by" - pretty obviously.

However, personal circumstances randomise each one around a normal curve, therefore the chance that the one less effective would prove more important is functionally proportional to the distance of the means and functionally proportional to the SD and SEM too.

Where does the brain come from? Evolution. Where does evolution come from? The order inherit in randomness. I am the Random_Australian for good reason.

wrong answer but an answer nevertheless.


How is Naomi and her father?

what I said. (Or you could demonstrate that I misunderstood you, or even try to argue against me (be warned))

I still don't know, I said the next opportunity will be Tuesday.

why even bother?

you are right. Best to agree to disagree. It is not so important to me this rightness of things. I will concede and you can gracefully declare yourself the winner. Love comes from the mind.

I would love to hear your viewpoint in full sometime, but this thread is perhaps not the place.

Anyway, the reason I can't declare is I don't believe in winning or losing. It helps me keep after the truth.

I have theories that I am trying to formulate regarding truth and time. somehow I think time has got something to do with it all...and I feel like I know the truth when I hear it. I learned a lot about lying from someone I loved once long ago and through that experience I learned how to recognize truth. I always have learned things bassakwards...comes from being lefthanded I reckon.

I ramble...we will talk another time in another thread.

Why are the first fourteen seconds of my animatic so orgasmically great? :D

Not that the rest of it sucks, I just haven't rendered any of the rest yet. :bounce:

But wow...yeah it's awesome. :D

If biological effects implied are true, then crosswiring has occured, such that localisation of brain function is no longer entirely accurate.

See phantom limbs.

:spank:

:P

physical in nature.

I'm considering a career change.

believe in that stuff. And what is more, you have the ethics that would mean you could not practice something you consider a rip-off.

So no, I believe that such a career change would likely be disastrous.

That you'd also recommend against me opening that Fundamentalist Christian book and gift store? :shrug:

that very reason. Therefore if my logic needed suchlike clarification, it was not clearly expressed the first time. You have guessed the meaning correctly, and you have my apologies for it having to be a guess.

And get my MLIS and become a librarian. Then I can continue to further the cause of the Atheist Agenda from the most unexpected of places....a library. :evilgrin:

When I get the time and, more importantly, the money, I'm going to get that degree so I can get a job that pays a living wage and doesn't involve the unpleasantries my current jobs do.

until you start using fresh Italian parsley as opposed to curley leaf.

peace to you...

How?

would be the same, but I think 1935 would be like America in 10 years time nine times out of 10.

who today are normal citizens of Germany, and who are accepting of the groups killed by the Nazis?

lived *'s life we would have ended up that way, I judge actions rather than people;

however none of this stops me from taking action against.

:cry: WAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! I guess that makes me kinda glad that I don't believe in vengence... What I find rather disturbing is that everybody thinks that what they're doing is right...nobody actually thinks that what they're doing is evil. It's so frustrating to think that, with all the violence in the world, we might all be trying to do the same thing, all only working for what we think is right.

we have to think (and eventually become who we are), and eventually, everyone is after the same thing and everyone can be swayed by just the right argument.

Going for what is best takes a lot of skill, but I am working on it.

It is good that you do not believe in vengeance.

He says that the reason days get longer in the summer is because light travels faster in warm air so it gets here earlier in the morning. But I told him that it was a fact that things expand as they warm up. Thus, as the days get warmer they get longer. Which is it?

We both now damn well that it is the orientation of the earth that creates a difference in the wattage per area.

Serious question.

is warmer from the wattage thing.

Other than that, the wattage thing comes from the sun. That atmospehere can have various effects like cloud that change the wattage, but not the original wattage or angle of the earth.

Serious question

The intensity increases closer the source yes, but even the diameter of the entire earth (of which we move only a fraction) is almost zero compared with the distance the light has already traveled. (from the sun)

and 'evil' from a source arbitrary enough that it does not relfect reality.

Stripped of good and evil.

Good and evil would take to long to go over.

Basically, no action is inheritly good or evil, but depends on the situation.

Also, we know too little about our own minds to realise why we are really thinking what we are thinking.

1 : the immaterial essence, animating principle, or actuating cause of an individual life
2 : the spiritual principle embodied in human beings, all rational and spiritual beings, or the universe

Being an atheist doesn't preclude belief in the existence of a soul.

You said to ask difficult questions, but you're just dodging. Tony Snow could use some lessons from you. :)

no, they carry information which reacts with the world, but do no actual processing.

Dodging huh? If I asked you about Bush, and you wanted to know if I talked of shrub or git, and it was not clear from the context, how else would you resolve it but to ask questions?

Well done.

Any, yes, you were dodging. You could have prefaced your answer with a comment about your thoughts on the irrelevance of the concepts of "good" and "evil" and your own personal belief that souls do not exist. Asking me questions was just a dodge. You knew what I was asking. Buying time to think, perhaps. Hoping I wouldn't follow up, maybe.

Either way, you did eventually answer the question, which is more than I can say for any of Bush's press secretaries.

Maybe I'm a little dense, but I don't know what the distinction between "shrub" and "git" is. Don't they both describe Bush?

the other a complete prick.

I was not dodging;
Without any definition of soul I could not answer YOUR question;
the thoughts of irrelevance were addressing the supplementary information;
see "I was not dodging";
I did not know what you were asking;
No buying time to think, in which case I would have just taken my time to respond;
ditto;
Yes, I did answer;
Yes, it is more than you can say for *'s secretaries;

One describes a plant, the other a complete prick.

Tell me NOW. Quickly, JEEEEEZZZ I haven't got all night!


Don/t you have the answer YET?

definitions first if I were you.

Do I still exist...like in heaven, hell, purgatory, limbo, or some other supernatural plane? Or do I fade into oblivion when I die?

personality are gone, that information can no longer react (unless it was previously stored).

Sorry, but I believe in neither heaven nor hell.

Or am I pretty much screwed?

is in other peoples memories. That way there brains can execute processing on the stored info.

They are 9 + 11, have great grades and are popular.... but I would like a little 'me' time prior to midnight.

- Same mealtime each day (or close to);
- Reminders 2hrs, 1hrs and a 1/2 hour before bedtime;
- Doing non-exciting things in the last hour;
- dessert is icecream or something BUT NOT chocolate or manufactured chocolate like things;
- It is light in the room for at least 1/2 an hour of natural light before they wake up in the morning?

Feel free to add whatever more info you want.
Getting them active outside during the day is a good idea too.