Recent Comments by AeroMechanical

Wow. That is mesmerizing. A little creepy, but surely mesmerizing. It's a shame the video isn't of higher quality, there are some pretty good avatar possibilities in there.

Cool video.

written by AeroMechanical | 5 days 22 hours 23 minutes ago | CH

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I'm not Pro-Pot, I'm Anti-Ridiculous

The biggest problem the movement to legalize marijuana has is all of the hippies and stoners that won't shut up about it. It has a bad image. I don't believe any conspiracy theories about why marijuana is illegal. This may have been true back when it was first outlawed though, but it was also largely because marijuana was associated with black people and Mexicans and racism was very in vogue at the time. The primary reason it's illegal in the US now is because the voters think it should be, and because there is no politician who wants to be associated with leniency on drugs for that reason. If enough people wanted it to be and were willing to vote towards that end, it would be legalized.

It is a drug, and there are plenty of good reasons not to use drugs for the purpose of recreation. An important thing to take into account is that of the two, psychological and physical addiction, psychological addiction is the worst by far. You can totally cure physical addiction with a few odd weeks in detox, but people spend their entire lives struggling with psychological addiction. Really, the worst thing about physical addiction is that it powerfully reinforces of psychological addiction.

Marijuana isn't physically bad for you either, but neither is heroin. Even the more harmful drugs aren't particularly bad for you in moderation. Besides, whether or not something is "unhealthy" isn't a very good argument for why it should be illegal. Sunshine and french fries are also bad for you in excess.

Personally, I believe that all drugs should be legalized. It isn't as though the only reason I don't shoot up methamphetamine is because it is illegal, and the fact that it is illegal wouldn't stop me if I wanted to. I don't think the government should be in the business of protecting people from themselves, particularly when they're just going to go ahead and do it anyways, filling the jails up with people who aren't a threat to anybody other than themselves.

More to the point, terminally ill patients should be able to do whatever the hell they want to do. You would have a hard time arguing that someone who is at death's door shouldn't do something because it's unhealthy. If it makes them feel better, if it makes what's left of their life a little less horrible, I would feel pretty bad denying it to them.

Er... I typed too much. I could go on but it would be boring.

written by AeroMechanical | 6 days 23 hours 24 minutes ago | CH

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Photo-Realistic Virtual World Rendered LIVE server-side

I suspect that someday video games will work this way using thin clients (and pretty much all software). They'll need very low lag I/O and HD streaming, but that's not so hard to imagine in the future.

That would solve all of the hassle of video-game hardware--games could become increasingly advanced without the need for the consumer keep buying new hardware all the time. It would also eliminate piracy, and for various other reasons, I'm sure the game developers would love it. Except, of course, for the sort of hardware they're going to need.

If you figure a successful console game sells 10 million copies and you could probably imagine a few hundred-thousand people are playing at any given time after release, they're going to need some pretty heavy duty iron on their end and a ton of bandwidth.

I doubt this video is fake, but let's see it scale to thousands of simultaneous users spread hell-and-gone all over the internet. There was another video not so long ago demonstrating software you could use to run a game on your desktop but stream it to a laptop to actually play it.

I dunno, very cool possibilities anyways. Maybe 10 years from now.

written by AeroMechanical | 1 week 1 day ago | CH

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Secret Seats on Airplanes

I like trains, there ought to be more of those. You can get a sleeping *room* with a couch, a recliner a private bathroom with shower for about $300 if you plan ahead (2 people).

Frankly, I'd take the train even if it takes 12 hours longer. I'll be asleep or lounging around naked with my girlfriend reading the paper or playing computer game.

written by AeroMechanical | 1 week 3 days ago | CH

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Star Wars -- the classics vs. the Special Editions

Except for the car chase, which is totally ridiculous, the CGI stuff in THX-1138 special edition actually works okay. Of course, that film wasn't very good to begin with, which is probably why.

written by AeroMechanical | 1 week 4 days ago | CH

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Star Wars -- the classics vs. the Special Editions

I dunno, Luke was whining and blubbering like a pansy just before that.

written by AeroMechanical | 1 week 5 days ago | CH

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Two Tongued Kitty Cat

Is this for real? Creepy. It looks like it actually works and she can control it too, which is unusual for extra body parts.

edit: I forgot, ewwwwwwwwwwwww! It's sweet when my kitty comes and licks my hand, but if she had two tongues it would really, really creep me out.

written by AeroMechanical | 2 weeks ago | CH

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And your winner is....Arrrrr!

There was a horse once named "God Knows Who" which made for interesting commentary/announcements.

written by AeroMechanical | 3 weeks 1 day ago | CH

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Sexy/Sexist Guiness Ad

Brilliant.

written by AeroMechanical | 3 weeks 4 days ago | CH

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