As with many of these issues of our times it is a case of Technology outpacing ethics.
For a good part of history (and it is still going) Religion is the key teacher of ethics, and for the most part with a few exceptions it did a good enough job to keep society running.
However we are having new technological issues that really throw these old ethical standards into question.
Euthanasia: In the past, if you got Old and sick, you either died or you got better, so ethically to say you should favor life, as they just might get better, if not they will die shortly. Today we can stop death so they just get older and sicker.
Abortion/Birth Control/Homosexuality: In the past, the Human Race while not endangered, was not overpopulated, not contributing to a future generation would hinder society. Today we have too many people, society is being hurt from this over population.
Privacy: In the past, a lot of people knew about your business however it was limited to human memory and attention so any scandal would go away (You sinned, ask for forgiveness and you are good to go). Today we actually have a record of everything. So the sin that you did, will get recorded and saved, and available via the next goggle look-up years after the event.
Now Religions are going to be slow to change. That is what they are suppose to do, have many thousands of years fads that are around for a few decades come and go, while the religion tries to be a source of consistency for the people, which is comforting. That said if these issues are part of a long term trend, then we might have to start reevaluate our ethics to meet modern needs.
Lets use the 10 commandments. It really breaks down two solving two issues, 1 Consulate people to follow the same rule of law, 2. Estate planning. 1. Believe in only one god. The original use wasn't that there was only one God, but you you should only pray to one. This over time helped keep the religion together as there is only one set of stories about one god. 2. No graven images. Now a lot of religions use to make graven images and worshiped them as gods. This allowed people to make their own gods so they can follow/justify their own moral code. 3. Don't take the lords name in vane. This is not cursing in the traditional sense, but actually cursing like placing a curse on a person in the game of God, or saying I am doing this to justify my actions because I have God on my side. 4. Remember the Sabbath day. Helps prevent overwork, as well as a convent way to get people together to reteach the religious ethics. 5. Honor thy Mother and Father. Back then, your parent have invested heavily in you. People didn't live long, and estate planning that crossed many generations. Pissing off your parents and putting yourself out of the will created all sorts of problems. 6. Do not murder. This is fairly straight forward, however it was an early attempt to stop people from taking the law into their own hands, as well as upsetting the normal order of things such as killing your older brother so you can get the estate from your parents. 7. Do not commit adultery. Still with estate planning, If you have kids across many parents who is the legitimate oldest son. 8. Do not bare false witness. This is a little different then the popular don't lie, however if you a witness to an event you shouldn't lie about that. As the legal settings back then were rather tenuous. Lying to get someone in trouble, (say your elder brother, to get him killed so you can then can get the estate) 9. Don't covet your neighbors wife. Back onto complex estate planning, don't try to steal the wife away as you can create complex estate issues. 10. Do not seal. An other fairly obvious one. However if you steal something then we have this property rights nonsense going on.
I went with a Lenovo Think Pad too. They are good professional systems. They just have the opposite aesthetics that apple does.
Black Matted Rubberized Plastic, the same that they had for 20 years. But it is a solid design. A good keyboard even though the new version has a chicklet keyboard, it is still very nice, and feels good.
If you are actually using Windows 8, you may want to get an X series with touch but it comes down to what you want.
However unlike Apple where there is a few to choose from there is a good selection of Think Pads to choose from.
Well for the developers, they had a time line that Was an Act of Congress.
For your company, you will probably be able to delay the product release if there is a serious glitch going on. However the problem was there was a Legal Act of Congress saying this is when the website will need to be up and running.
Also there is a difference between government work and For Profit work. Government is Risk Adverse while For Profit is innovation driven. So working for the government for any President, your job is to not screw up so you will get fired or have to go threw some scandal, you can have a million of successes and one failure, and that failure will bring you down. In most good For Profit companies it focuses on your success. You screw up a few times, even some big ones, that is Ok (You may not be happy about it), you learned from your mistake, however under your belt you have a lot of solid successes that will drive you forward.
However the Biggest deal killer for me, who would like an XBox is the fact that I will need XBox live gold to watch Netflix which I already pay monthly for. This is the biggest deal killer for me. I much rather try the PS4 because at least I can watch netflix off of it, without paying a Tax to the stinking hardware maker.
Not in the US. Why HIPAA. We have so much privacy especially in HIV cases, that it will take an act of congress to allow sharing of data.
The extra regulations for HIV is due to the public and governments view of AIDS as a disease for the bad people in the world. Due to its initial high rates among Gay, and Drug users, then spreading to Sexual promiscuous people... All the stuff that your local minister tells you is quite evil and you are going to have to deal with the wrath of god for.
Now this is a public health problem, and it expends beyond just the normal "Sinners" of the world.
Well lets go back 50 years. You would go to your local store, buy supplies, and say if you asked for that magazine that is behind the desk, that store keeper would know. And you know what, I bet there may be some gossip from that. That went on. So the reason people didn't do those sorts of things, because they lived in world where there wasn't that much privacy.
The issue now, isn't as much privacy, but longevity. You did something you didn't like, everyone knows about it... However years down the line, people will not care much, and they wouldn't be able to look it up.
We are looking for Radio waves. We as a society had radio waves for a little more then a century. Earth has been around for 5 billion year, Humans only 2 Million Years, complex human society for like 20,000 years. And we will probably use radio for an other hundred years (As we try to move towards more secure, and have a better optical infrastructure, yaddy yaddy yaddy). That alone is 0.000004% Now we can factor in things like general static of space, degrading the single to a point there is so much randomness going on that most signal patterns cannot be detected. In short Seti is a bad way to look for ET
Sure they are good cops and bad cops. But why should we allow the Bad cops to continue working, making the publics lives more dangerous. We give these people extra powers so they will serve and protect us. Because we give these people more power, if they are bad cops they should be punished more harshly.
It isn't about being more Bad cops then good cops. But enough Bad cops to cause major problems in protecting their areas.
Exactly, Linux seems to get the green light whenever it comes out, any attempt to point out any disadvantage especially with such systems such as windows would mark you as a troll. However you can bash windows all day, and keep getting mod points.
I Like Linux, it is a good OS. But it isn't perfect, and if they spent less time on evangelicalism and more on being rational and seeing the issues and improving them, then we could get a really good OS.
I have had and reported a lot problems with Linux in the past that I didn't have with Other OS's and my reports get trashed back saying, why would you want to do that!, or Fix it yourself, or why didn't you do your research to realize that while XYZ hardware v.2.0 works fine, but there is an issue with XYZ hardware 2.001 (That they pushed out without letting users know, in the same box) doesn't work.
I know I tend to be the cause of the outrage on my commute to work. Why because I drive the road all day and I know how much more hazardous it is more then the others who dive it less. I have seen a bunch of car accidents on that road, from driving 10mph over the speed limit. While it seems like a straight road that you can go 70mph on, there are are spots where you can get into some real hazards.
The the guy who passes me and gives me the middle finger, if he makes it safely further down, I usually drive right behind him at the first stop light.
The total cost is usually the same. We are just splitting the currency of the Cost. There is Cost in United States of America Standard Dollars, and the cost in loss in privacy. You want more privacy you pay more, you want to pay less money you give up some privacy. The cost is about the same, it is just how we decide to pay for it.
Insurance is a Capitalist version of Socialism (Don't tell Fox News that). In essence we all pay a company money. That money goes to supporting other members when they get into trouble (Plus paying a bunch of salaries, and other overhead). Now if we can reduce the amount of time people get into trouble, either by offering distinctiveness (such as higher rates) for people who are prone to more problems, or offering intensives (lower rates to people who are less prone). Would in essence lower the pay out cost, and lower the total cost of insurance.
So how do we figure out the risk of each person. We could be using gross generalizations such as their Age, Gender, Location... or we could be using more detailed information to better target the right group.
Now all this privacy debate is really just bargaining to try to monetize how much our privacy is worth. Hey if I give up so much privacy what do I get in return. Can I get $50 off a month my drivers insurance, would that be worth some loss in privacy. Or how about can I get this application or service for free I just give up some information and get a few target adds.
Well having a 5 year old stand in the corner does have a purpose more then just punishment. Normally when a 5 year old gets into trouble it is because they are over stimulated and over excited, and act without thinking. Having them go to the corner puts them in an environment with less stimulation, and lets them calm down a bit.
However Prison doesn't have that effect, there is too much stimulation, and hardens the criminal. This is appreciate for people who are too dangerous to be in public, either because their crimes are dangerous, or are at a high risk of repeating the crime in public. However for a lot of these crimes that people get locked up in, isn't really worth it for them. House Arrest, where their movements are tracts and they can only go to designated places, is one good option. Monetary fines work too, and for some people, just getting yelled at is enough.
The US has this tough on crime mentality, which doesn't work, and all it does is increase fear of the general public of getting put in jail for some petty crime they didn't really think things threw.
We don't like what the US does. So we boycott this company because they may be working with the NSA... However... the NSA can work with many "foreign" companies as well, As in today global economy the difference between a foreign company and a US company, is the location of the CEO's most used office. Plant an operative, in the manufacturing area, when he installs the code of the firmware to flash, he puts in a slightly different version.
Chances are probably even more minor. After they go in operation for a while and experience a lot of the decisions they need to do to stay operational, they will probably start making the same "Stupid" decisions their bosses made, that caused them to quite in disgust.
Well you guys shouldn't have use that feature to make it easier to pirate video games. or Adding a level of complexity to a system that is suppose to be very easy to use for average Joe, Where some game makers try to get people to jump threw hoops to install software because they didn't want to go threw the normal channels. how about Installing a different OS, with improperly configured drivers could do damage to the system. Like, some components running hotter then the case can handle, because a proper shutdown of the component when not in use wasn't sent, or a component was getting data faster then designed, and the software actually manages the speed... perhaps All those call to Tech support asking how to get X,Y,Z configured in some unknown OS/Distribution.
In short if you buy a video game console you should expect a video game console, not a general purpose PC. Sometimes companies need to block features because they do harm then good.
That is what I was thinking. When they said a "surprisingly low failure rate" I was thinking 20% failure rate in 10 year. (AKA outlasting the usable life of the computer) But 3 years, with an average usable life span of 5 years means there is a more then an 1/5 chance that you will need a new drive isn't really that good.
Yes a nation can work on more then one initiative at a time. Space Travel inspires people to be Engineers, Scientists, to take risks and look further. That means the kids have a reason to get more schooling and get a better education. Now this educated population will be better at surviving in a global economy, even if they don't get into aerospace.
We have programs available for people to get food if they need it and not starve. A lot of those who are starving do not take advantage of these programs, or do not manage them properly. There is only so much we can do. Space Exploration, Manned or Robotic, means more jobs in the future requires higher skills. Means a living salary.
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Hey according to my book on Basic from 1989 640x480 is labeled Ultra High Resolution.
High Resolution was 640x200
Normal Resolution 320x200
As with many of these issues of our times it is a case of Technology outpacing ethics.
For a good part of history (and it is still going) Religion is the key teacher of ethics, and for the most part with a few exceptions it did a good enough job to keep society running.
However we are having new technological issues that really throw these old ethical standards into question.
Euthanasia:
In the past, if you got Old and sick, you either died or you got better, so ethically to say you should favor life, as they just might get better, if not they will die shortly. Today we can stop death so they just get older and sicker.
Abortion/Birth Control/Homosexuality:
In the past, the Human Race while not endangered, was not overpopulated, not contributing to a future generation would hinder society. Today we have too many people, society is being hurt from this over population.
Privacy:
In the past, a lot of people knew about your business however it was limited to human memory and attention so any scandal would go away (You sinned, ask for forgiveness and you are good to go). Today we actually have a record of everything. So the sin that you did, will get recorded and saved, and available via the next goggle look-up years after the event.
Now Religions are going to be slow to change. That is what they are suppose to do, have many thousands of years fads that are around for a few decades come and go, while the religion tries to be a source of consistency for the people, which is comforting. That said if these issues are part of a long term trend, then we might have to start reevaluate our ethics to meet modern needs.
Lets use the 10 commandments. It really breaks down two solving two issues, 1 Consulate people to follow the same rule of law, 2. Estate planning.
1. Believe in only one god. The original use wasn't that there was only one God, but you you should only pray to one. This over time helped keep the religion together as there is only one set of stories about one god.
2. No graven images. Now a lot of religions use to make graven images and worshiped them as gods. This allowed people to make their own gods so they can follow/justify their own moral code.
3. Don't take the lords name in vane. This is not cursing in the traditional sense, but actually cursing like placing a curse on a person in the game of God, or saying I am doing this to justify my actions because I have God on my side.
4. Remember the Sabbath day. Helps prevent overwork, as well as a convent way to get people together to reteach the religious ethics.
5. Honor thy Mother and Father. Back then, your parent have invested heavily in you. People didn't live long, and estate planning that crossed many generations. Pissing off your parents and putting yourself out of the will created all sorts of problems.
6. Do not murder. This is fairly straight forward, however it was an early attempt to stop people from taking the law into their own hands, as well as upsetting the normal order of things such as killing your older brother so you can get the estate from your parents.
7. Do not commit adultery. Still with estate planning, If you have kids across many parents who is the legitimate oldest son.
8. Do not bare false witness. This is a little different then the popular don't lie, however if you a witness to an event you shouldn't lie about that. As the legal settings back then were rather tenuous. Lying to get someone in trouble, (say your elder brother, to get him killed so you can then can get the estate)
9. Don't covet your neighbors wife. Back onto complex estate planning, don't try to steal the wife away as you can create complex estate issues.
10. Do not seal. An other fairly obvious one. However if you steal something then we have this property rights nonsense going on.
I went with a Lenovo Think Pad too.
They are good professional systems. They just have the opposite aesthetics that apple does.
Black Matted Rubberized Plastic, the same that they had for 20 years.
But it is a solid design. A good keyboard even though the new version has a chicklet keyboard, it is still very nice, and feels good.
If you are actually using Windows 8, you may want to get an X series with touch but it comes down to what you want.
However unlike Apple where there is a few to choose from there is a good selection of Think Pads to choose from.
year month day, so it can be sorted easy.
I prefer ZModem myself.
But if you don't have that you can probably use XModem.
Well it is, but should be better considered as methodological thinking.
If you want creationism in science, Then give us something we can test and verify to prove it. Otherwise we will stick to what the evidence shows us.
If it is wrong, then we are wrong, however there isn't evidence to show that yet.
Well for the developers, they had a time line that Was an Act of Congress.
For your company, you will probably be able to delay the product release if there is a serious glitch going on. However the problem was there was a Legal Act of Congress saying this is when the website will need to be up and running.
Also there is a difference between government work and For Profit work. Government is Risk Adverse while For Profit is innovation driven.
So working for the government for any President, your job is to not screw up so you will get fired or have to go threw some scandal, you can have a million of successes and one failure, and that failure will bring you down. In most good For Profit companies it focuses on your success. You screw up a few times, even some big ones, that is Ok (You may not be happy about it), you learned from your mistake, however under your belt you have a lot of solid successes that will drive you forward.
However the Biggest deal killer for me, who would like an XBox is the fact that I will need XBox live gold to watch Netflix which I already pay monthly for. This is the biggest deal killer for me. I much rather try the PS4 because at least I can watch netflix off of it, without paying a Tax to the stinking hardware maker.
Not in the US. Why HIPAA. We have so much privacy especially in HIV cases, that it will take an act of congress to allow sharing of data.
The extra regulations for HIV is due to the public and governments view of AIDS as a disease for the bad people in the world.
Due to its initial high rates among Gay, and Drug users, then spreading to Sexual promiscuous people... All the stuff that your local minister tells you is quite evil and you are going to have to deal with the wrath of god for.
Now this is a public health problem, and it expends beyond just the normal "Sinners" of the world.
Well lets go back 50 years.
You would go to your local store, buy supplies, and say if you asked for that magazine that is behind the desk, that store keeper would know. And you know what, I bet there may be some gossip from that. That went on. So the reason people didn't do those sorts of things, because they lived in world where there wasn't that much privacy.
The issue now, isn't as much privacy, but longevity. You did something you didn't like, everyone knows about it... However years down the line, people will not care much, and they wouldn't be able to look it up.
There is still a lot of other factors too...
We are looking for Radio waves. We as a society had radio waves for a little more then a century. Earth has been around for 5 billion year, Humans only 2 Million Years, complex human society for like 20,000 years. And we will probably use radio for an other hundred years (As we try to move towards more secure, and have a better optical infrastructure, yaddy yaddy yaddy). That alone is 0.000004%
Now we can factor in things like general static of space, degrading the single to a point there is so much randomness going on that most signal patterns cannot be detected. In short Seti is a bad way to look for ET
Sure they are good cops and bad cops. But why should we allow the Bad cops to continue working, making the publics lives more dangerous.
We give these people extra powers so they will serve and protect us.
Because we give these people more power, if they are bad cops they should be punished more harshly.
It isn't about being more Bad cops then good cops. But enough Bad cops to cause major problems in protecting their areas.
Exactly, Linux seems to get the green light whenever it comes out, any attempt to point out any disadvantage especially with such systems such as windows would mark you as a troll. However you can bash windows all day, and keep getting mod points.
I Like Linux, it is a good OS. But it isn't perfect, and if they spent less time on evangelicalism and more on being rational and seeing the issues and improving them, then we could get a really good OS.
I have had and reported a lot problems with Linux in the past that I didn't have with Other OS's and my reports get trashed back saying, why would you want to do that!, or Fix it yourself, or why didn't you do your research to realize that while XYZ hardware v.2.0 works fine, but there is an issue with XYZ hardware 2.001 (That they pushed out without letting users know, in the same box) doesn't work.
Well, most of the world is getting fatter, so more people are in the higher percentile in weight.
I am a bit overweight myself, but I found some statics that I am the average weight for an american my height, however I was in the 70th percentile.
They are lies, Damn lies and Statistics.
I know I tend to be the cause of the outrage on my commute to work. Why because I drive the road all day and I know how much more hazardous it is more then the others who dive it less. I have seen a bunch of car accidents on that road, from driving 10mph over the speed limit. While it seems like a straight road that you can go 70mph on, there are are spots where you can get into some real hazards.
The the guy who passes me and gives me the middle finger, if he makes it safely further down, I usually drive right behind him at the first stop light.
The total cost is usually the same. We are just splitting the currency of the Cost.
There is Cost in United States of America Standard Dollars, and the cost in loss in privacy. You want more privacy you pay more, you want to pay less money you give up some privacy. The cost is about the same, it is just how we decide to pay for it.
Insurance is a Capitalist version of Socialism (Don't tell Fox News that).
In essence we all pay a company money. That money goes to supporting other members when they get into trouble (Plus paying a bunch of salaries, and other overhead). Now if we can reduce the amount of time people get into trouble, either by offering distinctiveness (such as higher rates) for people who are prone to more problems, or offering intensives (lower rates to people who are less prone). Would in essence lower the pay out cost, and lower the total cost of insurance.
So how do we figure out the risk of each person. We could be using gross generalizations such as their Age, Gender, Location... or we could be using more detailed information to better target the right group.
Now all this privacy debate is really just bargaining to try to monetize how much our privacy is worth. Hey if I give up so much privacy what do I get in return. Can I get $50 off a month my drivers insurance, would that be worth some loss in privacy. Or how about can I get this application or service for free I just give up some information and get a few target adds.
Well having a 5 year old stand in the corner does have a purpose more then just punishment.
Normally when a 5 year old gets into trouble it is because they are over stimulated and over excited, and act without thinking. Having them go to the corner puts them in an environment with less stimulation, and lets them calm down a bit.
However Prison doesn't have that effect, there is too much stimulation, and hardens the criminal. This is appreciate for people who are too dangerous to be in public, either because their crimes are dangerous, or are at a high risk of repeating the crime in public. However for a lot of these crimes that people get locked up in, isn't really worth it for them. House Arrest, where their movements are tracts and they can only go to designated places, is one good option. Monetary fines work too, and for some people, just getting yelled at is enough.
The US has this tough on crime mentality, which doesn't work, and all it does is increase fear of the general public of getting put in jail for some petty crime they didn't really think things threw.
We don't like what the US does. So we boycott this company because they may be working with the NSA...
However... the NSA can work with many "foreign" companies as well, As in today global economy the difference between a foreign company and a US company, is the location of the CEO's most used office.
Plant an operative, in the manufacturing area, when he installs the code of the firmware to flash, he puts in a slightly different version.
Chances are probably even more minor. After they go in operation for a while and experience a lot of the decisions they need to do to stay operational, they will probably start making the same "Stupid" decisions their bosses made, that caused them to quite in disgust.
Well you guys shouldn't have use that feature to make it easier to pirate video games.
or
Adding a level of complexity to a system that is suppose to be very easy to use for average Joe, Where some game makers try to get people to jump threw hoops to install software because they didn't want to go threw the normal channels.
how about
Installing a different OS, with improperly configured drivers could do damage to the system. Like, some components running hotter then the case can handle, because a proper shutdown of the component when not in use wasn't sent, or a component was getting data faster then designed, and the software actually manages the speed...
perhaps
All those call to Tech support asking how to get X,Y,Z configured in some unknown OS/Distribution.
In short if you buy a video game console you should expect a video game console, not a general purpose PC. Sometimes companies need to block features because they do harm then good.
I love it how they group together things so they can make large news making percentage.
That is what I was thinking.
When they said a "surprisingly low failure rate" I was thinking 20% failure rate in 10 year. (AKA outlasting the usable life of the computer)
But 3 years, with an average usable life span of 5 years means there is a more then an 1/5 chance that you will need a new drive isn't really that good.
Unlike the Google Glasses, His visor could also be used to clip back long hair.
Yes a nation can work on more then one initiative at a time.
Space Travel inspires people to be Engineers, Scientists, to take risks and look further. That means the kids have a reason to get more schooling and get a better education. Now this educated population will be better at surviving in a global economy, even if they don't get into aerospace.
We have programs available for people to get food if they need it and not starve. A lot of those who are starving do not take advantage of these programs, or do not manage them properly. There is only so much we can do.
Space Exploration, Manned or Robotic, means more jobs in the future requires higher skills. Means a living salary.