You can slap technology on it, but you have to understand the problem first. You can absolutely tune one string absolutely.

You cant tune a piano absolutely because how keys and harmony work, not for lack of ear or technology. You have to decide how to fudge the tuning to suit the purpose.

Evidently only one string is all ya need

When i was that age, I mastered playing with my "one string guitar".

>> ^dag:

Maybe,
But I suspect that the rational wonder you describe is like decaf coffee. To get the jolt of physiological benefits- you need real faith- to let go and let God. It’s the relinquishing of personal control for the outcomes in your life that brings on the bliss.

I disagree with your opinion. I look at someone like Richard Feynman with that fervent passion for life which shows in all the videos here and you see someone that definitely wasn't drinking decaf. An argument could be made that people like him are the exception, but I don't think that is the case.

Of course it is different for everyone, right? I was raised in a very strong Roman Catholic house and my parents have become more and more fundamentalist as they have become older. It is disturbing to me as I fall into the rather large "non-practicing Roman Catholic" group, but they do have a large group of friends from the church. I can see how their faith and religion connects them. But it is just one string of connection. That string is thick for them because it is something that is so important to them. So passionate for them.

I'm passionate about compassion and fairness, among other things. I have atheist, catholics, christians, reborn christians (actually only one because most are fake), buddhist, shamanistic, etc... friends because of our shared passion for compassion and fairness. Religion is the race of passions - i.e. it is very easy to "see" and then involuntarily or voluntarily push those people into our predefined groups.

I admit that I think being in a religious group is a good ice breaker in bringing people together. In that regard, I do agree with you; however, it is just about finding those other passion connectors. This has been hard for me since I'm a budding recluse, but that avenue is still there and the friends that I have made haven't been from any religious connection. Now in society I can find other people with my passions in a large city or somewhere on the internet. There are more avenues to find like-minded people. It's hard to sift through, but they exist.

In closing - I live in a majestic area. Water and a couple of mountain ranges on the horizons. When I sit down looking at the water with the mountains beyond and the cumulus nimbus clouds racing across the sky, a warm wondrous feeling consumes me. I'm not thinking about God at all. And I can assure you that it isn't decaf.

>> ^Payback:
>> ^curiousity:
You are like a guitar which only has one string.

...and theists are different?


Please let me expand, because my point isn't atheists vs. theists. Memory is notoriously fickle, but it seems to me that every comment that I've read by honkeytonk73 has been mocking religion. I'm completely fine with that; I was just commenting that it seems to be the vast majority of what he says. Hence, a guitar with one string. I also avoid people that only talk about their religion.

>> ^curiousity:

You are like a guitar which only has one string.


...and theists are different?

>> ^honkeytonk73:
OH God the merciful and loving. Please cease sending forth massive disasters upon us, causing up to suffer, and smiting us with disease, cancer, starvation, war, and death. We know you love us so.. and you make us suffer in such horrid ways... because you love us so deeply. Yes. God loves us so much, that he kills us by the tens to hundreds of thousands. Wait.. umm. Fuck you God. You are one big asshole!


You are like a guitar which only has one string.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

>> ^phelixian:
"As soon as a human body sort of converges with digital space.. uh they can't co-exist"
Smoke another one string man.


Ha - that was kind of my thought too - when he said that.

"As soon as a human body sort of converges with digital space.. uh they can't co-exist"

Smoke another one string man.

Change "flag spam" into "flag abuse", meaning spam and adhom/hate speech

The current 10 votes to be posted / 2 days in the queue is not satisfactory.
12 votes may be a solution and put more focus on the quality of videos, but then again I also think it has become harder to find good videos. As there are more videos in the pool, the niche videos need more exposure:
What about having both the new sifted and unsifted (via a clickable tab that opens this list) videos in the individual channels?

I like MINK's time capsule idea, meaning hidden spoilers tags I guess?

Bad tag policing may work, but I think one could also make it obligatory to fill three? separate tag spaces with at least 1 tag of max. x characters when submitting a video. Those 3 are published as one string of tags.

What about a separate site statistics page, where we can see e.g. top (15/overall) members (of the week), new non-starred members, tag cloud, recently discarded posts, recently promoted posts, amount of views/hits per dag/week/month, an interactive real-time graph of VS-posts featuring their quantity of votes over time et cetera.

Transform SiftTalk into the proposed Community page, where there's this forum, who's online, latest blog entries, recent channel talk and on top of the page an introduction? text/links..

^Baqueta, no. All theory's are "models" the sole purpose of which is to be comprehensible, and explain and predict behavior. If string theory, or any other physics theory, can do a better job of explaining observed behavior than another model, then its seen as better. The problem physics has atm, is that observed behavior in certain macro conditions gets explained well by Newtonian models etc, and micro models are explained by other models, but there isn't a good "Theory of Everything" that explains all of it in one. String theory is one attempt at this, and the metaphor aspect is just part of seeking to make its ideas comprehensible to us, and the physicists trying to think about it (see the xkcd comic).

A new theory of everything, that simply matched all current theory's in terms of ability to predict behavior, would be a great starting point form which to explore its implications for new predicted behaviors, and thus test for to advance our knowledge.

So, the metaphor aspect of it, or of any theory, dosen't lessen its theory-ness, as it were. It's being Good or Bad, as a theory, is independent of the metaphor-ness.

Abel_Prisc,
When I saw them play, one of the strings broke so he just improved, played a whole song with one string missing

Theremins are analog already I know what you mean though, non-electronic.

It looks like an interesting instrument. Basically there is just one string, and it's plucked, and then the performer touches the string at various places along it's length to produce harmonics. The stick on the right side of the video is attached to the string, and you can increase or decrease tension, either to produce vibrato or to shift the pitch up or down (like a whammy bar on a guitar).

I wonder how hard it is to play.