Or both; Mmmn, that gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. Boundary-agnostic political animals, coming together to share information, for the good of mankind:D
For all these rights that have been trampled, what has been gained?
Uhh? people have less rights - what more do you want? - and, by virtue of all the hoo-hah (tm) "omg, there's a terrorist behind you", people are afraid. I seem to recall someone mentioning that a fearful electorate is easier to control. So, there you have it - mission accomplished.
In connecting the world via the Internet, we've also connected ourselves to every flavor of person we would rather avoid in real life.
In a sense though, this is a good thing. I'm arguing that complete worldwide social cohesion is required before the world's problems may be solved. If we have isolated (economically, socially) pockets of people who live outside the main body of society (whose members enjoy all the luxuries that the modern world has to offer), they are always going to send raiding parties of one form or another.
Note that in today's world 'exclusive' is seen to be synonymous with 'desireable'. Until the mindset of those in power changes from exclusion-based to inclusion-based, this is going to keep happening. Stop stealing from the poor and forcing them to live in first-world shanty-towns and they will stop stealing your credit card details on the internet, handbags, phones and cars in the street.
It's a common tactic to claim that the non-religious also hold beliefs without evidence
I'm non-religious and do hold certain beliefs to be true without myself having direct evidence (random example: Earth is the third planet from our Sun). Although I myself have no evidence of this, there's the understanding that there's a chain of people (each acting in good faith to transmit what they believe to be accurate information, with the shared goal to increase our knowledge about our existence) linking myself to someone who is actively pursuing truth, has the best intellectual capabilities available and themselves believes (perhaps is able to prove) that my belief is accurate.
Scientists are engaged in an ongoing search for truth and sharing of information which helps others in their search. The scientific method is about using logic to move from known facts to new conclusions via steps which introduce no falsehoods. By connecting chains of these steps we can know the universe.
In contrast, for religion, the search for truth has ceased (assuming it at some point existed); those involved with religion have beliefs which are also linked into chains; however, every now and again, one of the steps will introduce uncertainty, a cloud of unverifiable fuzziness, rendering all downstream conclusions in doubt, but this seems to go unnoticed.
If the whole of humanity were a single person, science is using your senses to walk around the world whereas religion is closing your eyes, ears etc. and sitting still for ever.
Generally I find when talking with religious types that they do hold rational beliefs, lots of them. It's just that they don't all fit together into a coherent picture of the world; something which usually goes unnoticed.
Well, the USanians put more effort in to the hollywood-style song and dance when they're [blatantly] lying, so they get points for that. The truth is a far more bland affair.
It's reassuring to know that there are people more retarded than me knocking about.. I come here regularly cause I'm a hopeless geek. This person hates coming here yet lives here to spam his photo album..
Well, it is in the UK. I'm one of the few relatively lucky ones 'cause I've got a theoretical download of 24MBps but it never exceeds 7. Most of the rest of the country outside Longon is stuck as theoretical 8, never exceeding 4. Some don't have broadband at all due to their location. When you consider that we could have fibre, yep, progress is slow...:D
distributed backup systems for "the common man" are something that will need to see real use as content is increasingly digitized.
First we need to wait twenty years so that 'they' can trickle-feed us incremental bandwidth increases. Only when we have _fast_, universally-accessible (this means via phones too) archives will the world of tomorrow truly be here.
Is a wonder-drug that will give people some will power. </irony>
This is equivalent to having your stomach stapled because you can't/won't stop eating. Both seek to intervene medically to perform as task best performed as an expression of personal will.
The last thing some scammer needs is some inconsiderate bastard from outside the country to enable rapid exchange of information amongst his target group.
As it is now there seems to be a large proportion of US society that refuses to question the government and a large portion that, as long as they're told there's a crisis on, will go along with any sort of behaviour (internment, torture) simply because it's the good ol' US of A doing it. And doing it to "bad" people who want to hurt america.
You are again showing your colors. "Any sort of behaviour" implies no limits, and lumps the U.S. in with entities that show no regard for human rights at all. Which is not the case.
*cough* for starters:
* Holding people without trial and subjecting them to torture
* Invasion of countries totally unconnected to terrorism
* Reading _all_ traffic sent over the 'net, private or otherwise
Nope, that only goes to the company from which you bought the product. I'm saying that even companies from which you don't buy a, for example toaster, should have the opportunity to learn why you didn't choose their toaster. That way they will know what they're doing wrong and have the opportunity to fix it. With the survey approach, they only know what they're doing right.
Bullshit. There is more then enough demand. The problem is that those big companies don't care. The free market idea assumes that if there is enough need, someone will supply something to fill it. However, look what happens when there is a need for a alternative, no big companies like to supply alternatives. What people want are open access hardware, but because every hardware maker prefers closed access hardware, and the people still need hardware, they have no choice but to use closed hardware. Much like food, sure, people want good food, but if in the end, they have no choice but to settle for dog shit, or die, they will eat the dog shit.
It's important that we, as a community, reward the good guys (with more purchases) and to let the sales people know why we choose them over their competitors.
What would better would be to let all sales people, via some centralised system, know why we chose a particular product. That way the market would be more responsive to our needs or at least there'd be the opportunity for such responsiveness.
The actual legitimacy isnt as importance as the appearance of legitimacy. Which may be why auctioning houses have a long and profitable history of making mistakes.
You may have a point. In cases where it can make no possible difference to the buyer if the thing is authentic (random example: gold-plated toothpick owned by napoleon vs an identical toothpick owned by rich but historically insignficant landowner X), appearance is enough. To me this just hilights the pointlessness of the whole auction game.
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Or both; Mmmn, that gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. Boundary-agnostic political animals, coming together to share information, for the good of mankind :D
Lol. It makes me laugh how corrupt the politicians in the USofA are. They could sure teach ours a thing or two.
Uhh? people have less rights - what more do you want? - and, by virtue of all the hoo-hah (tm) "omg, there's a terrorist behind you", people are afraid. I seem to recall someone mentioning that a fearful electorate is easier to control. So, there you have it - mission accomplished.
Yah, so we need a new tag, which can warn others to stay away from clicking to the article due to a blatant attempt to generate ad revenue.
I offer 'adFarming' for starters..
In a sense though, this is a good thing. I'm arguing that complete worldwide social cohesion is required before the world's problems may be solved. If we have isolated (economically, socially) pockets of people who live outside the main body of society (whose members enjoy all the luxuries that the modern world has to offer), they are always going to send raiding parties of one form or another.
Note that in today's world 'exclusive' is seen to be synonymous with 'desireable'. Until the mindset of those in power changes from exclusion-based to inclusion-based, this is going to keep happening. Stop stealing from the poor and forcing them to live in first-world shanty-towns and they will stop stealing your credit card details on the internet, handbags, phones and cars in the street.
Hardly. I'm not arguing against anything. Additionally, I barely make reference to your post, not even to a strawman version of it. Chill dude =)
What we have here is you using a strawman as justification to use your strawman counter.
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Strawman - one slashdot meme that must go.
Lol!
My favourite slashdot meme.
I'm non-religious and do hold certain beliefs to be true without myself having direct evidence (random example: Earth is the third planet from our Sun). Although I myself have no evidence of this, there's the understanding that there's a chain of people (each acting in good faith to transmit what they believe to be accurate information, with the shared goal to increase our knowledge about our existence) linking myself to someone who is actively pursuing truth, has the best intellectual capabilities available and themselves believes (perhaps is able to prove) that my belief is accurate.
Scientists are engaged in an ongoing search for truth and sharing of information which helps others in their search. The scientific method is about using logic to move from known facts to new conclusions via steps which introduce no falsehoods. By connecting chains of these steps we can know the universe.
In contrast, for religion, the search for truth has ceased (assuming it at some point existed); those involved with religion have beliefs which are also linked into chains; however, every now and again, one of the steps will introduce uncertainty, a cloud of unverifiable fuzziness, rendering all downstream conclusions in doubt, but this seems to go unnoticed.
If the whole of humanity were a single person, science is using your senses to walk around the world whereas religion is closing your eyes, ears etc. and sitting still for ever.
Generally I find when talking with religious types that they do hold rational beliefs, lots of them. It's just that they don't all fit together into a coherent picture of the world; something which usually goes unnoticed.
By the way, you spelt 'frist psot' wrong =)
Well, the USanians put more effort in to the hollywood-style song and dance when they're [blatantly] lying, so they get points for that. The truth is a far more bland affair.
It's reassuring to know that there are people more retarded than me knocking about.. I come here regularly cause I'm a hopeless geek. This person hates coming here yet lives here to spam his photo album..
Well, it is in the UK. I'm one of the few relatively lucky ones 'cause I've got a theoretical download of 24MBps but it never exceeds 7. Most of the rest of the country outside Longon is stuck as theoretical 8, never exceeding 4. Some don't have broadband at all due to their location. When you consider that we could have fibre, yep, progress is slow... :D
Not necessarily; a lot of ppl use EAC (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/). Together with FLAC (http://flac.sourceforge.net/), this makes for a winning combination in terms of fidelity of your backup.
Is a wonder-drug that will give people some will power.
</irony>
This is equivalent to having your stomach stapled because you can't/won't stop eating. Both seek to intervene medically to perform as task best performed as an expression of personal will.
The last thing some scammer needs is some inconsiderate bastard from outside the country to enable rapid exchange of information amongst his target group.
*cough* for starters:
* Holding people without trial and subjecting them to torture
* Invasion of countries totally unconnected to terrorism
* Reading _all_ traffic sent over the 'net, private or otherwise
What limits did you have in mind?
Nope, that only goes to the company from which you bought the product. I'm saying that even companies from which you don't buy a, for example toaster, should have the opportunity to learn why you didn't choose their toaster. That way they will know what they're doing wrong and have the opportunity to fix it. With the survey approach, they only know what they're doing right.
You may have a point. In cases where it can make no possible difference to the buyer if the thing is authentic (random example: gold-plated toothpick owned by napoleon vs an identical toothpick owned by rich but historically insignficant landowner X), appearance is enough. To me this just hilights the pointlessness of the whole auction game.