Originally posted by Katsu
Huh, nothing about the FED being privately owned and that all money today is debt? I am disappointed, Jaden. So unlike you.Back to what you were saying, yes, the dollar will die. China wants the yuan to become the world's reserve currency. They are quite fed up with the Occident's hegemony over it. The battle of BRIC vs NATO has begun.
Originally posted by Dark-Jaxx
Yeah it is. No Avatar has been shown to lift an entire mountain, Tsunami esque waves have happened though.With a swipe of its tail the Kyuubi can flatten mountains.
Then there are t3h Uchihas, who have the Sharingan which give them the power to instantly beat any foe regardless of strength. Fo rell.
We have seen Aang letting loose. It is not as impressive as some of Naruto's best.
Originally posted by GGS
Mohammad who encouraged and promoted death, war, rape and robbery and said it was A'ok i'm God's prophet and contary to what God supposedly told the other prophets i'm right. Then their's the sketchy business of him marrying a six year old and having sex with her when she was 9 and he was 54 and the unclear business of what exacatly he did with the goat and the dead woman 👀
Originally posted by chithappens
The entire idea makes my head hurt because it is flawed fundamentally.Inimalist covered this long ago with the adage comparing the brain to a car. Anything you change will directly conflict with some action that your body is already accustomed to. Simple classes in psychology explain to you things like having way more brain cells than are needed (which he already mentioned also), etc. Every function, each key I hit, each shit I take, are connected to the brain.
With this in mind, we are far away from technologies that are capable of the goals transhumanism aim for. It's like, at this very moment, discussing what living in the Butter Way Galaxy will be like: we don't even know for certain what the heck is out there (now I know astrologists can see pretty far but we are just now observing Mars' surface, for example).
Besides, I don't completely understand what the point is. Even if it could be done, it's not the same as medical medicine, in my opinion.
Originally posted by roughrider
So what does it mean?
It's not like Spielberg hasn't been CGI heavy in virtually all his films since the breakthroughs with Jurrasic Park. Technology was getting pushed along even in the 8-year period the Indy films were being made in; two of those films won Oscars for Visual Effects.
I think all they mean is, there won't be the heavy use of digital sets where actors walk around in bluescreen, while the FX department paints it all in later(aka Star Wars prequels.) Real locations & real sets; I think that's what they mean.
If they use a little CGI here & there to make something look better, they'll do it. No one in the industry - anywhere in the world - is going backwards on VFX tech, and using optical printing tech.