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  • On the post: Why The eBook Industry Needs More Piracy

    Cecil Green ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2009 @ 01:26pm

    Readers are Too Expensive to Bother With

    If my reader is stolen, I'm gonna sulk over it for weeks. If I lose a paperback book, SFW?

    I can purchase quite a few paperbacks for the cost of a Kindle reader. Screw the reader.

  • On the post: There's Only So Many Ways To Combine Chords…

    Cecil Green ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2009 @ 01:59pm

    Has anyone here actually heard the two songs in question?

    I haven't. I'm not going to bother commenting on them.

    As for many other songs sounding the same -- I INVENTED the 12 BAR BLUES PROGRESSION, and the minor ginantonic scale. Do I look wealthy to you? Noooo...

  • On the post: Group Wants A National Ban On Yakking While Driving

    Cecil Green ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2009 @ 10:30am

    I'm amazed...

    I'm really amazed that people around where I live can even drive at all -- they're so dim -- let alone while holding a phone to their ears. Seems like at least one out of three people on the road I see are talking without a headset. I also see Bush/Cheney '04 stickers occasionally.

  • On the post: Whisper It, But Maybe Movie Theaters Are Grasping The Need For Change

    Cecil Green ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2009 @ 01:00pm

    Why pay to put up with other people?

    I've had to deal with morons texting and playing games on phones, morons walking into the wrong movie -- sitting down and talking about how "duh... we're in the wrong movie... yeah, but let's watch some of it... duh... okay... hey, you gots dem hot fries?"

    The seats are never THAT comfortable, the sound and picture can f*ck up, the movies and concessions are both overpriced, I have to drive to get there, I have to sit through crappy ads for crap I don't need and movies I'll never wish to see ALL OF THIS while putting up with the rest of the borderline retarded population I spend so much time trying to avoid.

    ROKU, baby, ROKU. 'Nuff said.

  • On the post: Latest Massive Fraud: Satyam Found To Be Swimming Naked

    Cecil Green ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2009 @ 07:59pm

    Fooled as well...

    I was expecting nude swimming shots of some Russian model I'd not heard of. Sarah Satyamovich or something.

  • On the post: How Many More Ways Can Axl Rose Piss Off Fans?

    Cecil Green ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2008 @ 12:48pm

    Axl smashes phones when he gets frustrated. That's so cool...

    I dunno, maybe he smashes 'pooters nowadays. Stomp on that bitch!

  • On the post: Surprise, Surprise: E-Voting Glitches Found In Early Voting

    Cecil Green ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2008 @ 10:26am

    Beverly Harris has been covering this for years.

    I cannot believe that out of all of these comments not one person has mentioned Bev Harris' work investigating black box voting. Since 2000, she's been documenting electronic voter fraud happening on both sides of the ballot. It IS NOT a LEFT or RIGHT thing. Both parties are controlled by lobbyists. It is not SOCIALISM that we live under -- it's called CORPORATE FASCISM. Give Bev some credit, fools. Watch "Hacking Democracy", if nothing else.

  • On the post: Parents Are Never Going To Be Able To Monitor All Kids Online Activities

    Cecil Green ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2008 @ 11:04am

    all of your children are doomed.

    first i make you feel forced to inject your babies with mercury-containing vaccines, then we make sure that you feel milk from your breasts is not quite enough nourishment, so you'll rely on formula. next up is a fluoridated water supply (like the concentration camps had) that will keep them from ever being completely healthy. once they're old enough, we'll get them on psychotropic medications that haven't been tested for long-term effects -- we're testing them on you and your children. we'll make cell phones cute for them to hold up to their little heads and have the local news go back and forth every week on the cancer subject. scientists say cell phones cause cancer. scientists say cell phones do not cause cancer. pray to jesus that you'll be forgiven for whatever, or else you'll be punished forever by his daddy. now, let's make sure that you don't see any of the strange realities of the world, like scat photos online and bestiality vids, or those wacky 9-11 was an inside job websites. wake up slaves.

  • On the post: Blockbuster CEO Is Still Confused By The Long Tail

    Cecil Green ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2008 @ 02:54pm

    Blockbuster still doesn't get it...

    But if you go and read the interview, he makes a good case for there basically being plenty of fooktards out there to keep them afloat.

  • On the post: Everyone Be Afraid! Predators Move To Game Consoles

    Cecil Green ( profile ), 05 Jul, 2008 @ 11:47am

    Nielsen Families

    Unless you have a Nielsen ratings box on your set, they'll never know you're not watching.

    What we need is a concerted effort to get Nielsen families to boycott mainstream media during sweeps months, while they write to their respective news stations (anonymously) explaining their actions. If they're specific -- like, "we're not watching you anymore because you fed us Paris Hilton stories while our rights were disappearing" -- they'll listen. Use the ratings against them. It's the only thing they listen to.

  • On the post: Now Here's A Surprise: 'Free Energy' Company Cancels Demo

    Cecil Green ( profile ), 10 Jul, 2007 @ 01:31pm

    Re: The snarkiness of the post + Time

    I do have to say that calling the camp who believes that time is a real thing through which we travel the "philosophical realists" seems backwards to me. I would call myself a realist, which is why I side with the other camp. Time has no reality except in the minds of humans, in my view. I'm far more comfortable with that view.

  • On the post: Now Here's A Surprise: 'Free Energy' Company Cancels Demo

    Cecil Green ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2007 @ 04:58pm

    Re: The snarkiness of the post + Time

    PhysicsGuy -- you and I have two different views of what "time" is. The Wikipedia entry for time explains perfectly the difference between our views.

    You take the first view, I take the second. We shouldn't debate the two here anymore, since it, evidently, is a long-running debate. Thanks for being polite, though.

  • On the post: Now Here's A Surprise: 'Free Energy' Company Cancels Demo

    Cecil Green ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2007 @ 04:25pm

    Re: Phylosophy

    I doubt that there is an overall point to the universe (or multiverse.) In that sense, it wouldn't have to make sense. The more bizarre, the better. It would probably get pretty dull if everything made sense.

  • On the post: Now Here's A Surprise: 'Free Energy' Company Cancels Demo

    Cecil Green ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2007 @ 10:11am

    Re: Re: *sigh

    Black holes don't exist, Case physicists report
    And to think I grew up looking at illustrations showing a black hole at the center of our little galaxy.

    Speaking of the big bang, I wouldn't assume, within the context of that theory, that it came from nothing. It would have more than likely come from a previous big crunch.

  • On the post: Now Here's A Surprise: 'Free Energy' Company Cancels Demo

    Cecil Green ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2007 @ 09:47am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The snarkiness of the post

    You're right. Time exists. It's "real".

  • On the post: Now Here's A Surprise: 'Free Energy' Company Cancels Demo

    Cecil Green ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2007 @ 11:36am

    Re: Time

    Because motion is affected by gravity or lack thereof. You're still just comparing the motion of objects, not measuring some enigmatic 4th dimension.

    Now, let's figure-out what gravity REALLY is...

  • On the post: Now Here's A Surprise: 'Free Energy' Company Cancels Demo

    Cecil Green ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2007 @ 11:26am

    Re: Re: The snarkiness of the post + comments

    PhysicsGuy: "explain how existence doesn't exist."
    What exactly does it mean to exist? And how does time fit that bill?

    I said nothing about dimension of form. How is it that you cannot have dimension of form without some invisible thing called "time" that somehow exists?

    Is there truly a "past" outside of our memories? Nope. Furthermore, aren't all of our memories different? No two memories of any one event are identical, so can we ever have "time travel" into the past? Nope. What about the "future"? Seems to be the ever-evolving progression of infinite movement. All things are in motion, always. There is no time. 8:30pm is the name given to the predicted location of certain objects during the progression of their movements -- and from our collectively agreed-upon perspective. That's not something that "exists".

    Back to the original blog post regarding Steorn, it appears that they should simply stop using the term "free energy", since even if we can't see it or detect it, what gets generated is coming from something, somehow. They need a new descriptive term and some online demonstrations to gain any credibility.

  • On the post: Now Here's A Surprise: 'Free Energy' Company Cancels Demo

    Cecil Green ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2007 @ 03:32pm

    The snarkiness of the post + comments

    I agree with Bignumone. The way the blog post and comments read, who would ever even think of trying something that had not already been done before. Very sad.

    The concept of time is a good example of something that is completely made-up by humans, but accepted as fact by the establishment. There are entire books that attempt to explain this great mystery called time -- I've read a few -- and in the end, none of them mentioned what we once knew, but have forgotten.

    Time is simply a tool humans use to compare one movement to another. It's not a magical, invisible 4th dimension. It doesn't exist at all -- outside of human conception.

    No mystery. No genius required.

    So, if something so non-existent can be twisted and ground into our psyches as a real and true thing, what else are we fooling ourselves with?

    There's a difference between stating something to be a scientifically accepted law and squashing creative thought before it has had the opportunity to breathe.