tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18557260.comments2023-06-30T07:24:05.398-06:00Chen-song's MusingsChen-songhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03544239764140983706noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18557260.post-10647821810179934912008-11-29T11:00:00.000-07:002008-11-29T11:00:00.000-07:00sounds cool, i also suffer from not many 40k event...sounds cool, i also suffer from not many 40k events in my area.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18557260.post-5906582945859787012008-03-31T13:45:00.000-06:002008-03-31T13:45:00.000-06:00My full Nidzilla list is as follows:Walkrant, VC, ...My full Nidzilla list is as follows:<BR/><BR/>Walkrant, VC, BS, toxin sacs, senses<BR/>Two Guards<BR/><BR/>Flyrant, senses, 2 X twin-linked devourers, warp field<BR/><BR/>3 X Dakkafexes<BR/>2 X Sniperfexes (VC, BS, senses, carapace, extra wound)<BR/><BR/>4 X 6 vanilla stealers<BR/>1 X 8 vanilla stealers<BR/><BR/>I'll put pictures on here some time.Chen-songhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03544239764140983706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18557260.post-87345366318359802062008-03-26T14:26:00.000-06:002008-03-26T14:26:00.000-06:00In most Nidzilla list that are torney competetive ...In most Nidzilla list that are torney competetive they have a mix of:<BR/><BR/>3-4 Dakkafexs, 2 or 3 sniper fexs (Depending if they run unholy Choir too) and then a TL-dev Flyrant, along with possibly a walkrant with a VC<BR/><BR/>You seem to be doing good there,<BR/><BR/>For troops Leaping rippers are the best, and behind the wall of fexs, use a mix of 3-6 raveners (In groups of 1 or 2) and small squads of vanilla stealersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18557260.post-25709403158925304772008-02-02T13:10:00.000-07:002008-02-02T13:10:00.000-07:00this movie is going to rock! i can not wait until ...this movie is going to rock! i can not wait until it comes out... there are alot of great people in it...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18557260.post-79191195075616210802007-09-19T22:25:00.000-06:002007-09-19T22:25:00.000-06:00Thank you. I'm hoping to post more stuff here in ...Thank you. I'm hoping to post more stuff here in the future from the games at the club where I play.Chen-songhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03544239764140983706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18557260.post-48844611201754968852007-09-19T08:51:00.000-06:002007-09-19T08:51:00.000-06:00As a fellow 40K player I enjoyed your report and p...As a fellow 40K player I enjoyed your report and pictures.Ad Astrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17452877645311502806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18557260.post-89037065993636808572007-08-17T15:56:00.000-06:002007-08-17T15:56:00.000-06:00I'd like to photograph some of your miniatures. Ma...I'd like to photograph some of your miniatures. Maybe I can actually go to a match and take pictures of the layout as well.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01595458147783951920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18557260.post-71602380066852531112007-07-05T22:28:00.000-06:002007-07-05T22:28:00.000-06:00It's fairly good, and captures the original's feel...It's fairly good, and captures the original's feel pretty well. Like I said though, it's not done, and because it uses the Quake II engine, the terrain is not destructible. Sad since that was one of the fun features of the original games. :)Chen-songhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03544239764140983706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18557260.post-83912428159211407692007-07-05T10:31:00.000-06:002007-07-05T10:31:00.000-06:00I haven't had a chance to play it yet: is it fun?I haven't had a chance to play it yet: is it fun?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01595458147783951920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18557260.post-11030148834117169522007-06-21T09:49:00.000-06:002007-06-21T09:49:00.000-06:00Yeah, I can't wait until they're done. They don't...Yeah, I can't wait until they're done. They don't have UFO fighter intercepts yet, and the research still needs more pictures. :) Also notice that the terrain is not destructible, unlike the original X-COM. I hope they make it so, but this is based on the Quake II engine so I don't know.Chen-songhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03544239764140983706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18557260.post-54352990885522928292007-06-20T17:50:00.000-06:002007-06-20T17:50:00.000-06:00AWESOME.AWESOME.MJOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06149871566249032234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18557260.post-5613097474545368792007-02-12T15:01:00.000-07:002007-02-12T15:01:00.000-07:00Well, I meant the lid of a random cup of instant n...Well, I meant the lid of a random cup of instant noodles, but if you insist... :)Chen-songhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03544239764140983706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18557260.post-61527791477023363932007-02-09T15:44:00.000-07:002007-02-09T15:44:00.000-07:00That's sick! Have you ever seen boiling water pour...That's sick! Have you ever seen boiling water poured onto a corpse before?MJOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06149871566249032234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18557260.post-53371278535538710522006-12-13T13:41:00.000-07:002006-12-13T13:41:00.000-07:00So are you up for seeing that? :)So are you up for seeing that? :)Chen-songhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03544239764140983706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18557260.post-11676521530562998772006-12-13T11:44:00.000-07:002006-12-13T11:44:00.000-07:00The film is praised on IMDB.The film is praised on <a href="http://imdb.com/title/tt0472043/">IMDB</a>.MJOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06149871566249032234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18557260.post-82330382647671834882006-12-05T15:16:00.000-07:002006-12-05T15:16:00.000-07:00"That's 'learned', Pepsi."
Oh well, the average f..."That's 'learned', Pepsi."<br /><br />Oh well, the average for the mailing list where I got the link was around 86 or so. It seems a lot of people have problems with West Africa. At least you'd know where Ivory Coast is. :)Chen-songhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03544239764140983706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18557260.post-82107648358223763742006-12-02T16:27:00.000-07:002006-12-02T16:27:00.000-07:00Incidentally, my score was 87. Damn West Africa.Incidentally, my score was 87. Damn West Africa.Chen-songhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03544239764140983706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18557260.post-65452709192103302702006-11-21T15:45:00.000-07:002006-11-21T15:45:00.000-07:00It seems the definition of free will is vital here...It seems the definition of free will is vital here. To me free will needs to simply imply that there are choices to be made within a range of possible behaviours, not to prove that the person making the decision is the *ultimate cause* of his decision. Even Christian theology, which has a very strong form of free will, does not make that claim - God is the ultimate cause after all. I think only some classical liberal philosophers would see man as a purely independent rational agent.<br /><br />As to your definition of free will: first of all, just because you can predict the probability of my making a given decision, how does that rob me of my choices? Do lower probability events not happen? And nice try combining the classical view of determinism with the quantum view. :) The big difference is that with the latter you are not sure what the outcome would be. I think the clockwork model is increasingly breaking down as we know more about quantum behaviour, and the idea that there is no probability of different paths is getting less plausible. The ability to predict the future *precisely* is what doesn't convince me. If you can predict it to a certainly probability that doesn't invalidate my definition of free will. Now it maybe possible in the future for someone to come up with "the ultimate wave function of the Universe" or whatever and predict everything precisely, then I'll be convinced. :)<br /><br />Well, even then, I might just kick a rock and say, "I dispute it thus!" :)Chen-songhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03544239764140983706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18557260.post-26692016686614616412006-11-21T15:22:00.000-07:002006-11-21T15:22:00.000-07:00It's actually kind of obvious in hindsight: The t...It's actually kind of obvious in hindsight: The things that supposedly characterized the Renaissance, the recovery of ancient Greek teachings, etc. were actually done during the Middle Ages. The origins of modern natural science (Roger Bacon, William of Ockham, etc.) started in the Middle Ages. The Renaissance was the age of witch persecutions, the wars of religion, (to which the Enlightenment was a reaction) etc. Certainly the Middle Ages were not all niceness and the Renaissance was not a dark age, but the popular idea of a revolutionary change in thinking occurring between the two just does not seem plausible.Chen-songhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03544239764140983706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18557260.post-76347089990940444262006-11-21T14:28:00.000-07:002006-11-21T14:28:00.000-07:00I haven't read the bulk of your link yet, but it s...I haven't read the bulk of your link yet, but it seems worth mentioning that I remember being kind of shocked while reading one of Stephen Jay Gould's books (I forget which one) and seeing him describe the Renaissance as an anti-science movement. Until then, I had always pictured the Renaissance as a a sort of necessary prequel to the Enlightenment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18557260.post-46261883465130313342006-11-21T14:16:00.000-07:002006-11-21T14:16:00.000-07:00I suppose it sort of depends on your definition of...I suppose it sort of depends on your definition of free will. But, if it were impossible for me, knowing the current state of all the particles in your brain and all the input from the natural world to your brain, to predict your next decision in advance, I would say free will exists. (Or, because of quantum uncertainty, say I couldn't predict the probability of any given decision).<br /><br />Based on this definition of free will, I think the claim that free will exists is the extraordinary claim. If free will doesn't exist, the mechanism for the illusion of free will is the known laws of physics. If free will does exist, the mechanism for it is . . . magic unicorns or something else unknown.<br /><br />It seems that less speculation or deviation from established science is required to believe in a world without free will. I happen to believe in free will, but I think Adams is taking the correct default position. If he took the opposite position, I would expect more justification, such as his hypothesis as to a mechanism.<br /><br />I know we've discussed this before and disagree, but it's such an interesting topic, I couldn't stop myself from making this post. (Haha).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18557260.post-65464014727688295942006-11-14T15:33:00.000-07:002006-11-14T15:33:00.000-07:00In addition, there's this other list of myths that...In addition, there's this other list of <a href="http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/medmyths.html">myths</a> that are commonly believed about the Middle Ages:Chen-songhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03544239764140983706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18557260.post-1160282417867617242006-10-07T22:40:00.000-06:002006-10-07T22:40:00.000-06:00Well, he's also saying that the said believer will...Well, he's also saying that the said believer will kill if provoked... Now where have we had an example of that recently? :)Chen-songhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03544239764140983706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18557260.post-1160155047636403312006-10-06T11:17:00.000-06:002006-10-06T11:17:00.000-06:00I don't think it *seems* like he was saying that. ...I don't think it *seems* like he was saying that. I think he was a lot more explicit (and general) than that: "suppose that the irrational guy is a specific kind of irrational guy – a literal believer in his faith."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18557260.post-1159335416250129682006-09-26T23:36:00.000-06:002006-09-26T23:36:00.000-06:00HereSatisfied now? :)<A HREF="http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/09/philosophical_q.html" REL="nofollow">Here</A><BR/><BR/>Satisfied now? :)Chen-songhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03544239764140983706noreply@blogger.com