ya so i outa creative juzt gonna type in mozt obviouz sentences 2 me.
so here bad meetz evil by eminem. bad meetz evil recount journey of shao kahn who decide to take up opium pipe againzt dalai lama circa 6,000 BC cuz dalai lama abuzing hazh 2 much since 10,000 bc as he slide toward his destiny of hazh pipe and opium pipe in 8,000 BC.
ya so u wonderin where windows came from it product of battle of shao kahn n dalai lama (who just finally goin' in2 retirement thiz year (hopefully!))
ya so dali lama from year 270,000 so he can smoke opium and hazh and hazh first while every1 elze not jezuz christin thru da marijuana fieldz in day fuckin bullet ant tranquilizer strait jacket. but dat basically shao kahn contribution to da film. ya shao kahn mighta been 3 men 1 womanz or 2 menz 1 womanz and that where they got da whole dragon ballz cuz one man cut each other dick and shove em up day azz and den shovin da headz up day azz after zum careful fistin and finally da woman pluck out her ovariez and eyeballz and they ballz and they eye ballz and shove 'em her puzzy and den day all die dramatic-like like in da movie about da dragon ballz and da snakez up da plane and so forth and so on.
ya since dalai lama blazin away on dat opium he aint guezz what happened dat he been tricked 4 like 10k yrz but gj he got it luckily.
anyway we finally meltin it down waz called LSD dalai lama's trip back from muhammad to jezuz den jezuz 2 ishmael den jezuz 2 abraham who rapin up on da ishmael and hiz mommma 4 her weed maybe she black. eve maybe black 2 but ishmael get fked by donkey and fkin muhammad by camel 1 or 2 humpz and den jezuz joseph banging mary and she innocent so she gonna 4 give dem but she blazin on dat eden bud.
some otha shit happen i tell u about l8r lol
anyway dis song by eminem bout how we got computer quantum synced plant chipz like megatron transformer in our brainz but it gonna evaporate when we discover da universe it exist in cuz it basically one big quantum-super computer super computer plant supercomputer generated mescaline trip crowley had out in da desert while he get sunburnt.
probz add somethin bout old bozz cat charlez and da trippin on LSD and so on he like o shit i fuk up bad. he apparently da founda of limitlezz drug mescahazh or psilocybomescahazh. no1 really kn0 but u remember how much troublez challz get in 4 makin dat matrix in da first plaze.
and how da second 2 movies pretty bad but da first movie super quick azz cuz we finally defeat it but ya took challz a little while figa out he inherent shit from crowley and zerg protoss xel nega got big "brainz" like kung fu gyms rewriting crowley all da way back 2 zhroomz probz even th0 crowley really probz went all or mosta da way.
but ya dat challz and u can see how we gonna have to rewrite some-a thiz shit cuz you all disconnected fragments and shit. ya aint nobody know how crowley finizh hiz work least of all crowley himzelf probz cuz fk'in hazh ovadoze and mescaline psilocybin ovadoze and other crazy wacky xatanix xhit dat i guezz he give up kinda and kinda not. who rly knowz.
now here come eminem wit da smi.silent tunez (a la wittgenstein in hiz extended WWW1 hallucination lolz). ya they start puttin computer chipz in niggaz brainz like i think i mentioned early but it more like real thiz time and they even outsourced some of da tech work to middle east.
ya important lyric here is "blud stain orange after u wazh it 3 4 timez in a tub but that normal aint it normin".
lol so dalai lama still pretty good con artist still running on pure luck running good from his mass hazh addiction which was big entropic prob for everyone else but pretty big boon for dalai lama rapin up for da last 10k yrz or so runnin good ya on da quantum.
so lemme get to da quantum and da computa chipz in da brain and i aint gonna take thiz that much further but ya u see there a lotta rewritez necezzary cuz this fkin windows bill gatez shindig gettin way outta hand n' fuck steve jobz apple 2
ya so challz portforward crowley into da present 1958 atmosphere best he cud but i guezz some extra thingamabobz came along wit it and all diz and dat. so ya LSD simulationz runnin ishmael muhammad jezuz abraham and adam and eve az pretty good guyz at least sum maybe all of dem. cuz ya, fightin 10k yr of hazh opium dalai lama apparently a pretty big process windowz windowz mandelbrot blah blah blah.
so here fk'in brian hiz fuckin' eye-orta dat is aorta dun turned to glazz cuz he uzed da bat strat (mentioned earlier) and den fk'in fry hiz azz wit fiztin and lightnin boltz and shit. lolz poor crowley challz brian alwayz runnin in2 troublez if it aint NZT1 (challz mescahash-apsycbin) itz fk'in NZT2 (brian psilohash-LSD). but ya he finally fight down dat windowz wit da bat and da fuqin jazon shang tsung double-fist-amentz.
ya i unno what do wit dat pcp and dat bat or angel duzt tar baby frikaseed lolz probz rly died up hiz own azz i had similar experience 1 time sum yrz ago.
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neway fazt forward little wayz and u see they finally stop dem nukez blowin up japan fk'in 2001 space oddessy stealin all our ballz. i aint gonna say much more but bazically NZT rl bad 4 u and u probz shouldnt take it cuz it might be curzed.
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so anyway how zand xing (that is sand king) figurez in iz pretty obviouz.
bazically sun is white when dinozaurz roaming and resta sky is white 2. den da fk'in 1945 earth crazh into earth blowz us all up so we gotta walk 1 more time which i guezz ok if u want da humanz (which sorta margin of error vs dalai lama conquest 2 eat da plantz). or maybe vs dalai lama conquest 2 eat da dinoz eatin' da plantz but whateva.
eitha way fkin sun white earth red like marz and big blu moon. dinoz aint got eyez dey got earz 4 eyez and da bright azz sun reflectin off da fkin batplantz da dinoz eat so dey eatin blue plantz (not red?) ya whateva. but anyway dey eat blu-ray dinoz and day eatin red ray plantz. and who da fuq kn0 what goin' on unda da sea.
but ya diz just a big build up 4 me 2 to you guyz that actually we aint even see subatomic / atomic / superatomic especially not theze dayz what wit da fuqin' earth vibratin. so actually all da computaz we got r quantum but some r "atomic" quantum and some r "superatomic" quantum and we still upset about what colorz da red plantz r actually reflecting and moon light and shit like dat.
and neway only motha fucka in da whole wurld who thot to meditate with hiz eyez open is fkin heat ballz sand king and his big azz sand castlez which i guezz is all of recorded hiztory up til this point. so brian accidentally put ole' king salman abdulaziz in charge of da whole biznizz (which crowley etc etc hopefully not but ya why not start all over twice)....
anyway fk'in moronz at tha guvament dont follow brian lead and we end up w/ fukin chipz in niggaz brainz (mebbe) and fk'in jump rope hop scotch string super stringz hopadoplin all ova da fuqin supacomputa q-supacomputa.
but ya it just straight bullzhit cuz we cant even see light no mo' not like dinoz zaw lite. in fact it fuckin' sand king givin us wild azz 2 least squares 3 least squares approximations based on smelly rugz and fk'in v8 drown fk'in gayazz hendrix castlez of sand fk'in drug addicted retard finally murder himzelf lolz.
but ya that what happen when u try to spin light approximationz outa fkin smellz taztez touchez n' soundz. fk'in retard azz luck box fk'in dalai lama alwayz croppin up where he leazt expected.
but ya we figa cannabiz sativa aint even really exist till we finally kill old retard sand king disband diz whole apparent 01 computer shennanigan and move on wit our livez.
ya da fuqin microchipz in ur brain juzt fk'in meltaway disappear and guvament stopz fkin mind controllin so hard with fira haarp station muzeamentz.
but ya blood stain turn orange like sativa leava. but ya it probz subject to changez if i had 2 guezz..
lol fk'in DMX fite-ing that retard white dude hope he stab 'em gg.
TL's boxerfred, 32 yr-old virgin, allegedly accepting donationz 2 cannablize own daughter, 6-yr old. fred married wife w/ black daughter and remains virgin (ya rite lol).
according 2 fred's story on da deep web, wife cheatz on him cuz "she can't control her urges." meanwhile fred remains chaste in the spirit of his lifelong roman catholicism. fred says, (though i think he 110% retarded 4 thiz) that he gonna remain a virgin all his life b/c he dream of becoming archbishop 1 day.
ya so fred apparently inzpired by les mizarbles 2 mary wife but remain chaste and drug free. but wife failz 2 convert or something because wtf life rarely like fiction so who da fuq knowz what fred waz expecting (lol life long virgin).
ne1 according to deep web story (link through TL deep web thread), boxerfred "fattening up 6-yr old daughter" on antipsychotic haldol and antipsychotic thorazine, giving it daily injexionz. fred say this is warning to wife and becuz eventual goal of propbet is self-improv actualization, "to become kierkegaarde knight of faith iz my full dream" (sayz fred).
since haldol thorazine over the counter prescripz (lol got no idea where da fuq diz boxafred live) fred been feeding daughter haldol thorazine cocktail 5 timez a day 4 like 9 monthz. but yah wife wont quit mdma addiction, meth addiction, & she a hash dealer alzo, living in fourth floor apartment "having sex with every fucking tenant and streetless hoboz." honexly i glad i live nowherz near europe cuz wat da fuq rofl.
but yah in hiz deep web OP fred sayin "pope benedict XVI appearz to me each night in da robez of Dalai Lama IX and preachez religiouz tolerance. he say, 'all every1 is goin' 2 heaven i zpent 10,000 yrz repentin of my opium & hash addictionz and gay butt sex, but i goin' 2 heaven finally retirin' az Dalai Lama XIV. every1 go to heaven 1day but i moz thankzful 4 my friendz da traiadz who i perzonally 4gave 4k yrz ago when i waz jezux chrizt. only thru careful zatanixm waz i able 2 convert frum hazh abuzer 2 opium dealer 2 moderate hazh smoka den finally 2 juzt mj & meditationz & heavenz afta XIV soba lifez."
so boxerfred inzpired by dalai lama 10,000 yr qzt 4 4givenezz & zayz, "i finally gonna cannablize daughter 2 get wife bak, she 2 xlutty and she 2 drug addix. she needa stop druggin' & fukin' around. if she had intacted hynem i rezpect her wizhex but she a fuckin' slut azz bitch azz nigga. she gonna learn resurrection through daughter when i eat that little cunt frikazeed. fk'in haldol thorazione gonna save dat kunt. aint no daughta of myne zluttin' raound fk'in 0n every jock playboi lik she a fukin made in china zex doll. my wife a lazy faggot cunt takin it up the azz while she fuked outta her mind on X meth n' fkin' purpl haz."
boxerfred goes on and on about the dangers of sex and drugs and how he thinks society has become lazy and ignorant of the consequences of their actions. fred concludez, "Ax a Xristian I dont believe in karma i think it a big lie dalai lama cook up 2 get off opium. but a good hard scoldin' neva hurt no1 and my fukin' whore bore drug up wife needa lurn her lezzon."
This is one of the most fucked up stories I have ever read. I sure hope someone in a position of authority detects boxerfred, but I don't think the government reads the deep web or cares about potential future crimes. This just goes to show that religion is the problem with virtually everything, and that science is the only route to understanding the deeper context of human behavior and what motivates the metaculture of contemporary society. Honestly I think we should propbet against fred and raise enough money to hire a private eye to determine if boxerfred is just trolling TL or if he's actually serious about all this weird shit with Pope Benedict. With the life of a six year old girl at risk (however dubious the claim), certainly we are obligated as citizens of the world to uphold the values of society and prevent someone who would say shit like this from escaping a minimum of surveillance and investigation.
in perfect harmony a piece collides.
a compliment hangs unspoken.
each feeling a memory.
upon the threshold tremble.
and gaze more openly.
hope more fulfilling
and less suited to the occasion.
For the most part, I'd say we think recursively. If I do this, then my action will benefit me in some way. Perhaps the most important thing others teach me is what benefits me. Then to them I disclose questions in the form of answers. In return I receive answers.
"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you are ashamed of, because words diminish them-words shrink things that seemed infinite inside your head to no more than living size when they come out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to where your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to the treasure chest your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked up not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear." -"The Body," Stephen King
Futurists argue the TOOL Band project is one of history's greatest satires. I don't want to say too much now about how they've achieved the synchronicity that they have. The premise is this: Some investment was required in order to achieve paradise. What constitutes paradise and when it will occur is "anyone's guess."
Well, anyway, pictures speak louder, so please consider:
Suppose that paradise is a concept -- an experience of conscious beings. The goal in every sense is a question of mind. (And ultimately a question of "conscience, or Ethical experience or knowledge). I'm not stating that perfectly -- I apologize. How and why conscience is the fundamental driving force is a challenge for our current language.
So, you may have already guessed the significance of the attached images. Certain religious figures have endured great suffering on behalf of humanity (see this interesting depiction of Jesus -- more about this representation some other time). Anyway, certain great religious, ethical, moral teachers, etc. have suffered and sacrificed for the sake of humanity and have inspired others to do the same. Others, most notably Indian Brahmin, Middle Eastern leaders and certain Asiatic dynasties have monopolized the resource generated by this suffering.
Observe the picture of the Brahmin. A correct depiction is of the Brahmin experiencing an omniscient, almost omnipotent bliss. Well, anyway, I've said too much. Listen carefully to TOOL band tracks, especially from "Opiate."
What does the manipulation or monopolization of particular resources imply? Well, again I've said too much. Can't quite think of how to conclude... I guess I'd just reiterate that careful consideration of subtleties could lead the TOOL Band fandom to very unusual conclusions about their music.
it's like if you ever say LOL you've just committed suicide. there's no way to get away with a misuse of the lol term. lawl and lawd are awful and anything involved 'ew' has been overused way too much.
lol on the other hand will never get old. however, lol is meant to be a free standing deal. Lol is bad and loL is worse. neither should occur.
let's be frank, there's no way to say it and definitely not LoL or lOl thought LOL is obviously not preferential. and in stream of consciousness you'll opt for LoL subconsciously, every time.
it's not that you've gotta approach these questions with a certain level of terse. it's just that these are important considerations. if you allow questions like this to run amuck internet etiquette quickly devolves.
what is the metagame? it's one of those emphemeral perspectives that only a word like lol and its correct failure to ever evolve in anyway is really the essence of why the metagame is really a non-issue. anyone who subscribes to metagame is a victim of their own conceits. you can't play starcraft or poker by the rules. it's no different than risk, and though i've never played diplomacy, i'm sure water is just as valuable there as it is in either of these other questions.
anyway myth once posted a famous bruce lee video that explained all this and why it's the essence of poker. i hope this clarifies the correct internet usage of the term lol and why any other possibility is unacceptable.
Are you still playing NLHE? ApocalyplsPLZ and I were thinking to visit the Vegas area for a brief stint. I've had trouble locating you on Facebook, so I was hoping you still visited this site. Anyway, if you think you'll be in the area sometime between April and May, shoot me a PM.
Just read a bit of ToTheEastSide's blog and thought I'd post some of my thoughts on the current health care debate in the US. This is a general complaint from my morose mind and hasn't got much to say about the politics of the situation. This is also too long to probably interest many readers, but I think it's simple and easy to argue for or against.
Not only is insurance causing pricing problems - medical insurance, at least as it exists today, doesn't even make sense. Insuring against buying monthly medication is pretty much the same as insuring against buying groceries. The whole point of insurance is to avoid variance, something poker players know a lot about. Example: if we summarize your yearly income from poker as being either 10BB/100 or -10BB/100, with an 80% chance of 10BB/100 and a 20% chance of -10BB/100 then your EXPECTED win rate for the year is 6BB/100. Remember, we're supposing that at the end of the year you will either come out at 10BB/100 or -10BB/100 and that (unlike the real life) no other option is a possibility. Would you, knowing that your EV was 6BB/100, be willing to pay a .5BB/100 premium to LP.net Insurance in order to ensure that your win rate was 5.5BB/100 for the year?
That's how insurance works: You insure against the possibility of a low-probability, high-impact event. You don't insure against relatively low-impact certainties. You don't insure against buying groceries. We shouldn't insure against monthly medication. Why are you paying a premium to medical companies on top of what you're already expecting to pay?
Insurance has other problems. It creates a lot of fucked up incentives. With a typical insurance company, we have copay (for simplicity's sake I'll ignore other types of insurance, but the principle is basically the same for coinsurance, etc.) Suppose my copay is $25 for any medication I buy. Medical corporations can now price their $35 product at $125 and yet no matter what they price it, demand from the insured is the same because copay is only $25. The whole concept of quantity demanded as a function of price goes right out the window. Profit-maximizing firms are incentivized to raise their prices.
Suppose then that not all of the population is insured. Insurance companies are gonna say "fuck the uninsured demand, I'm raising my prices. I can sell my shit at $125 where I used to sell it at $35, and people [the insured] will still buy it exactly the same as before." In other words, the insured have an extremely inelastic demand cure, meaning they will continue to purchase the medication is though it were $25 even as prices skyrocket. So, given that fact, medical corporations have an incentive to raise prices regardless of the uninsured demand because it benefits them to sell less product (also meaning less costs associated with production) at a substantially greater price. This whole phenomenon forces some of the uninsured to consider purchasing insurance just so they can afford the extreme prices of monthly medication.
Obviously this is a vicious cycle.
Another consideration with regard to insurance is the consumption of doctors' labor. The AMA already has a stranglehold on the number of doctors being licensed so in the USA we already have too few doctors to be called socially efficient. Couple the shortage of doctors with the copay example of how prices rise due to insurance. The price of a doctor's time, already artificially high because of the AMA's licensing procedures, is further increased by the fact that copay pays for all but $25 of a doctor's visit that can range into triple digit prices. Doctors prices are pushed higher, making them unaffordable to the uninsured while the quantity of doctor's labor demanded by the insured remains unchanged. We can imagine some unsavory, if not unlikely results: Suppose that before the introduction of insurance, a doctor's visit was relatively expensive, and suppose that once insurance is produced, a large fraction of the population purchases insurance. Then the quantity demanded for doctor's labor may actually increase due to the introduction of insurance meanwhile, because of the copay system, prices charged by doctors skyrocket. This means that not only will there be a shortage of doctors' labor, but that the condition will persist perhaps completely unchanged in spite of prices becoming incredibly expensive.
Do I think there should be medical insurance? Yeah, for stuff that doesn't happen often and is hugely expensive; not for routine check-ups or monthly/weekly prescriptions.
Sadly, insurance isn't the only problem with medical markets.
The very nature of medical markets disposes them to social inefficiency. As people are constantly pointing out, if you're dying and there's only one company with the cure, you're probably willing to pay a pretty high price to that company. In medical markets there are often no good substitutes for a given treatment; there are R&D/licensing barriers to entering the market; etc. Basically medical markets breed monopoly (or at the very least, they breed inefficiency).
Because medical companies are essentially monopolies reaming public welfare, government regulation of medical markets is absolutely necessary to achieving a socially optimal equilibrium. The breakdown of revenues and costs in medical markets is so far out of economic equilibrium that when I first read it I was hung up on the fact for days. What i'm referring to is neatly summed up in the fact that across the ENTIRE medical market, the mean after-tax accounting profit is over 20% of medical firms' revenues and costs balance. Without going into too much detail, there's a huge economic profit being realized in medical markets, and economic profit is a reliable red flag for social inefficiency. Socially efficient market structures do not yield positive economic profit, so positive economic profit is always suspicious to someone interested in socially optimal outcomes.
So you can see what I'm talking about, compare the following:
The graph is from 2005. Oil/gas is doing worse than you might expect. If this graph were current, banks and financial shit would be crashing, and I suspect that medical/biotech would stand well away from its competitors in terms of profits reaped. This is important for economic consideration: the fact that medical markets are way better than "the best alternative." Medical markets are raping all the other markets listed, and medical markets are also raping society at large.