my mind begins to hum...

Aiee! It burns! · Post by **Aiee! It burns!** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:31 am

Internet bots, also known as web robots or simply bots, are software applications that run automated tasks over the internet. Typically, bots perform tasks that are both simple and structurally repetitive, at a much higher rate than would be possible for a human editor alone. The largest use of bots is in web spidering, in which an automated script fetches, analyses and files information from web servers at many times the speed of a human. Each server can have a file called robots.txt containing rules for the spidering of that server that the bot is supposed to obey.

In addition to their uses outlined above, bots may also be implemented where a response speed faster than that of humans is required (eg gaming bots and auction-site robots) or less commonly in situations where the emulation of human activity is required, for example chat bots.

Aiee! It burns! · Post by **Aiee! It burns!** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:31 am

Another, more malicious use of bots is the coordination and operation of an automated attack on networked computers, such as a denial-of-service attack. (see botnet) Internet bots can also be used to commit click fraud and more recently have seen usage around MMORPG games as computer game bots. A spambot is an internet bot that attempts to spam large amounts of content on the Internet, usually adding advertising links.

There are malicious bots (and botnets) of the following types:
spambots that harvest email addresses from contact forms or guestbook pages;
downloader programs that suck bandwidth by downloading entire web sites;
web site scrapers that grab the content of web sites and re-use it without permission on automatically generated doorway pages;
programs that search web for copyright infringements so they can sue people or companies;
viruses & worms;
data mining programs and cyber-surveillance bots used to collect information on a web site or company;
hackers;
DDoS attacks;
Botnets / zombie computers; etc.
Bots are also used to buy up good seats for concerts, particularly by ticket brokers who resell the tickets. Bots are employed against entertainment event-ticketing sites, like TicketMaster.com. The bots are used by ticket brokers to unfairly obtain the best seats for themselves while depriving the general public from also having a chance to obtain the good seats. The bot runs through the purchase process and obtains better seats by pulling as many seats back as it can.
Bots are often used in Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games to farm for resources that would otherwise take significant time or effort to obtain; this is a concern to most online in-game economies.

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:37 am

ohhh... are you the bit police?

a musing can be amusing context ferry

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:39 am

you don't think my fingers are sufficient?

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:44 am

____________that's dumb

third person perspective · Post by **third person perspective** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:49 am

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:00 pm

Participation (joining), joining with others in activities.

Aiee! It burns! wrote:irrelevance, inappropriateness, or absurdity.

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:05 pm

Aiee! It burns!

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:10 pm

"blah blah blah""that's dumb"

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:12 pm

________________________________

________________________________"i have a job"

third person perspective · Post by **third person perspective** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:17 pm

culturally prosaic?

third person perspective · Post by **third person perspective** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:20 pm

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:35 pm

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:17 pm

Massage is the practice of applying structured or unstructured pressure,
tension, motion, or vibration

Massage can be applied to parts of the body or successively to the whole body

Where massage is used for its physiological, mental, and mechanical
benefits, it may be termed "therapeutic massage" or manipulative therapy.

Good communication is essential to effective massage

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:24 pm

has inimitable skills

A diagram is a simplified and structured visual representation of concepts,
ideas, constructions, relations, statistical data, anatomy etc used in all
aspects of human activities to visualize and clarify the topic.

An actor, actress, or player (see terminology) is a person who acts, or
plays a role

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:28 pm

change

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:45 pm

An actor usually plays a fictional character. In the case of a true story (or
a fictional story that portrays real people) an actor may play a real
person (or a fictional version of the same).

In the integral yoga and integral psychology of the Indian sage Sri
Aurobindo, The Inner Being is the wider and more plastic subliminal
faculty of one's being, that lies behind the narrow surface consciousness.

As with many esotericists and Jungian and Transpersonal psychologists,
Sri Aurobindo speaks of larger and deeper potentials of human nature
which can be contacted

This Inner Being includes the inner realms or aspects of the physical,
vital, and mental being

rare to find someone with that to offer

but i can find evidence of it's existance with ease

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:46 pm

eplaya participant... with plenty to keep me occupied for a long, long time

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 3:27 pm

vessal

line of communication

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 3:50 pm

maybe

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:05 pm

Media may refer to various aspects:

In communication:

Recording media, devices used to store information
Print media, communications delivered via paper or canvas
Electronic media, communications delivered via electronic or electromechanical energy
Multimedia, communications that incorporate multiple forms of information content and processing
Hypermedia, media with hyperlinks
Digital media, electronic media used to store, transmit and receive digitized information
Published media, any media made available to the public
Mass media, all means of mass communication
Broadcast media, communications delivered over mass electronic communication networks
News media, mass media focused on communicating news
News media (United States), the news media of the United States of America
Media meshing, the act of combining of multiple communication mediums to enrich an information consumer's experience
New media, media that can only be created or used with the aid of modern computer processing power

Transparency (philosophy), an adjective applied to a state in which the subject can be aware s/he is in that state
Transparency (humanities), a metaphor implying visibility in politics
Media transparency, in the communications industry
Radical transparency in management

Radical transparency is much more transparent than accountability.
It requires decision making to be transparent right from the beginning of the decision making process, while accountability is a process of verifying the quality of decisions or actions after they have been taken.

Art is a (product of) human activity, made with the intention of stimulating the human senses as well as the human mind and/or spirit; thus art is an action, an object, or a collection of actions and objects created with the intention of transmitting emotions and/or ideas.

An artwork is normally assessed in quality by the amount of stimulation it brings about.

Brainstorming is a group creativity technique designed to generate a large number of ideas for the solution to a problem.

The method was first popularized by Alex Faickney Osborn in the late 1930s, an advertising executive and one of the founders of BBDO, in a book called Applied Imagination." Osborn proposed that groups could double their creative output by using the method of brainstorming.

Because of such problems as distraction, social loafing, evaluation apprehension, and production blocking, brainstorming groups are little more effective than other types of groups, and they are actually less effective than individuals working independently.

Sharing is the joint use of a resource.

In economics, a good is considered either rivalrous (rival) or nonrival. Rival goods are goods whose consumption by one consumer prevents simultaneous consumption by other consumers. Most goods, both durable and nondurable, are rival goods. A hammer is a durable rival good. One person's use of the hammer presents a significant barrier to others who desire to use that hammer at the same time. However, the first user does not "use up" the hammer, meaning that some rival goods can still be shared through time. An apple is a nondurable rival good, once an apple is eaten, it is "used up" and no longer able to be eaten by others.

In contrast, nonrival goods may be consumed by one consumer without preventing simultaneous consumption by others. Most examples of nonrival goods are intangible goods. Television is a nonrival good; When a consumer turns on a set, this doesn't prevent the TV in another consumer's house from working either. Nonrival, tangible objects include a beautiful scenic view or the common cold.

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:07 pm

third person perspective · Post by **third person perspective** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:26 pm

The free good is a term used in economics to describe a good that is not
scarce. A free good is available in as great a quantity as desired with zero
opportunity cost to society.

A good that is made available at zero price is not necessarily a free good.
For example, a shop might give away its stock in its promotion, but
producing these goods would still have required the use of scarce
resources, so this would not be a free good in an economic sense.

There are three main types of free goods:

Resources that are so abundant in nature that there is enough for
everyone to have as much as they want. An example of this is the air that we breathe.

Resources that are jointly produced. Here the free good is produced as a
by-product of something more valuable. Waste products from factories
and homes, such as discarded packaging, are often free goods (see also
dumpster diving).

Ideas and works that are reproducible at zero cost, or almost zero cost.
For example, if someone invents a new device, many people could copy
this invention, with no danger of this "resource" running out. Other
examples include computer programs and web pages.

Intellectual property laws have the effect of converting some goods to
scarce goods by law. Although these goods are free goods (in the
economic sense) once they have been produced, they do require scarce
resources, such as skilled manpower, to create them in the first place.
Thus intellectual property laws such as copyrights and patents are
sometimes used to give exclusive rights to the creators of
such "intellectual property" in order to encourage resources to be
appropriately allocated to these activities.

Many futurists theorize that advanced nanotechnology with the ability to
automatically turn any kind of material into any other combination of
equal mass, will make all goods essentially free goods, since all raw
materials and manufacturing time will become perfectly interchangeable.

This term is a neologism, coined by Steven Weber to describe goods created by a process of reciprocal exchange for mutual benefit, such as open source software. A Wikipedia entry is an example of an anti-rival good.

An anti-rival good meets the test of a public good because it is non-
excludable (freely available to all) and non-rival (consumption by one
person does not reduce the amount available for others). However it has
the additional quality of being created by private individuals for common
benefit without being motivated by pure altruism, because the individual
contributor also receives benefits from the contributions of others. In
evolutionary biology, this mode of production and exchange is called
reciprocal altruism.

According to Lawrence Lessig,
"Language is an anti-rival good: not only does your speaking English not
restrict me, your speaking it benefits me. The more people who speak a
language, the more useful that language is... to those who speak it."

yet words are not playthings...
and tis possible the curse of babel strikes again and again...
but my, how i long for milieu of innocence

third person perspective · Post by **third person perspective** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:30 pm

________milieu

third person perspective · Post by **third person perspective** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:37 pm

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 12:17 pm

what two factions could kick more ass than all of them?

casting down a firery sword,
let the ancient prosecutor raise gaze
and look upon the world

hellishness need not be

Lucifer is a Latin word meaning "light-bearer"
(from lux, lucis, "light", and ferre, "to bear, bring"),
a Roman astrological term for the "Morning Star", the planet Venus.

but let the drama unfold
according to it's nature

critical mass
of complementary forces

let the disbelieving shudder

alpha to omega, raised and fallen pentagrams,
ascent to godhead, and descent of avatar...

some habits aren't indicative of the essence of the situation

but it can be pieced together into flawless logic

look to what is usefull;
the elements are useful
equipment is useful
nature is useful
comprehension is useful
satisfaction is useful

we each have our levels and degrees of understanding.
we want to lend a hand without staggering downward.
if you do not see the hand, fear not.
there is another one coming from somewhere.

i set off upon a pilgramage from venice.

i had a meal inclusive of meat
between ninethirty & ten,
and set off walking east
(similar to a quickstep march with a long gait)

i walked past the house i moved into a fiancee,
and found a large sand colored brush of thyme,
the last remnant of an herb garden i once planted.

"El Pueblo de Nuestra SeÃ±ora la Reina de los Ã

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:19 pm

libraries arent for talking

some show their colors

and we can share mutual respect without having been formaly introduced.

though, some cases we have

o ver
asceticism cuts to the core
when applied with military survival training

when living outside,
moving amounts to changing rooms

nature knows little
of those embraced in it tepidly

and your mind is evolution's apple
you could quell them with word

considered a brother wrote:It may take you two minutes to read this, but if you do not take the time to read this you are one of the people this post is talking about.

____________________________________________________

You stay up for 16 hours

He stays up for days on end.
____________________________________________________

You take a warm shower to help you wake up.

He goes days or weeks without running water.
____________________________________________________

You complain of a "headache", and call in sick.

He gets shot at as others are hit, and keeps moving forward.
____________________________________________________

You put on your anti war/don't support the troops shirt, and go meet up with your friends.

He still fights for your right to wear that shirt.
____________________________________________________

You make sure you're cell phone is in your pocket.

He clutches the cross hanging on his chain next to his dog tags.
____________________________________________________

You talk trash about your "buddies" that aren't with you.

He knows he may not see some of his buddies again.
____________________________________________________

You walk down the beach, staring at all the pretty girls.

He patrols the streets, searching for insurgents and terrorists.
____________________________________________________

You complain about how hot it is.

He wears his heavy gear, not daring to take off his helmet to wipe his brow.
____________________________________________________

You go out to lunch, and complain because the restaurant got your order wrong.

He doesn't get to eat today.
____________________________________________________

Your maid makes your bed and washes your clothes.

He wears the same things for weeks, but makes sure his weapons are clean.
____________________________________________________

You go to the mall and get your hair redone.

He doesn't have time to brush his teeth today.
____________________________________________________

You're angry because your class ran 5 minutes ove r.

He's told he will be held over an extra 2 months.
____________________________________________________

You call your girlfriend and set a date for tonight.

He waits for the mail to see if there is a letter from home.
____________________________________________________

You hug and kiss your girlfriend, like you do everyday.

He holds his letter close and smells his love's perfume.
____________________________________________________

You roll your eyes as a baby cries.

He gets a letter with pictures of his new child, and wonders if they'll ever meet.
____________________________________________________

You criticize your government, and say that war never solves anything.

He sees the innocent tortured and killed by their own people and remembers why he is fighting.
____________________________________________________

You hear the jokes about the war, and make fun of men like him.

He hears the gunfire, bombs and screams of the wounded.
____________________________________________________

You see only what the media wants you to see.

He sees the broken bodies lying around him.
____________________________________________________

You are asked to go to the store by your parents. You don't.

He does exactly what he is told even if it puts his life in danger.
____________________________________________________

You stay at home and watch TV.

He takes whatever time he is given to call, write home, sleep, and eat.
____________________________________________________

You crawl into your soft bed, with down pillows, and get comfortable.

He tries to sleep but gets woken by mortars and helicopters all night long.
____________________________________________________

If you support your troops, re-post this with "military life"

If you don't support your troops well, then don't re-post, it's not like you know the men and women that are dying to preserve your rights

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 4:16 pm

no ordinary words...

Psychic is a term relating to or denoting mental abilities or phenomena
that are apparently inexplicable by known natural laws, since they seem
to transcend the confines of the brain. People who are thought to have
these abilities or to be able to produce these phenomena are often
called "psychics". The term comes from the Greek word psychikos,
meaning "of the soul, mental," which is in turn derived from the Greek
word psyche (soul/mind). It was first used by French astronomer Camille
Flammarion (1842 â€“ 1925), who was also a noted spiritualist and psychical
researcher.

certain configurations
aligned to certain situation
strike more effectively

it would take a drastic change in context usage than the situation previously experienced

psychologically grounded in accepted mores
leads to an accepted result

The general public is often familiar with the term psychic or clairvoyant;
however, they may not be aware of what a psychic does or the different
abilities of a psychic.

Psychic is an umbrella term meaning an individual who uses one or more
normal senses to an extended heightened degree beyond self. Psychic
abilities are an extension of normal day-to-day sense abilities.

The five normal senses are: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and
touching.

The five psychic senses are: clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairalience,
clairgustance, and clairsentience. And the six or rather seventh sense is
claircognizance.

Clair is a suffix, in French, that means clear or clearly.

Clairvoyance means clearly seeing. Clairaudient means clear hearer.
Clairalience means clearly smelling. Clairgustance means clearly taste.
Clairsentience means clearly feeling or sensing. Claircognizant means
clear knowing or understanding.

third person perspective · Post by **third person perspective** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 4:23 pm

Parapsychological work was also conducted at the Stanford Research
Institute during this time, research which continued till February 2007.

In 1979, survey conducted to assess belief in one specific field associated
with psychics (ESP). It covered 1,100 US college professors and indicated
that more than 50% of them believed that ESP is either an established
fact or a likely possibility". Belief was shown to be highest among those
involved in arts and humanities, but lowest among psychologists.

The methodology and results of parapsychological work are often debated within the scientific community. (i.e. collectivemindedly inconclusive?)

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 4:31 pm

mayavin wrote:you could quell them with word

requires in addition to psychical-word, psychical-:

Nonverbal communication (NVC) is usually understood as the process of
communication through sending and receiving wordless messages. Such
messages can be communicated through gesture; body language or
posture; facial expression and eye contact; object communication such as
clothing, hairstyles or even architecture; symbols and infographics; prosodic
features of speech such as intonation and stress and other paralinguistic
features of speech such as voice quality, emotion and speaking style.