If you're concerned about your kid reading 'colorful' language, why in the world would you let it read slashdot? The only filtering going on here is what gets moderated below your viewing threshold. I can say any foul word I can think of and my post will be enshrined here for as long as slashdot lives (unless I quote scientologist scripture).
To quote St. Carlin: "Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker"
And, besides, in this particular case, Libertarians are not against the use of force, per se, but rather as you quoted, the initiation of force. Force as a response, in certain circumstances is acceptable.
The non-aggression principle means that the use of force is only an acceptable response to force initiated against you. Not paying your taxes is not force and is not a violation of the principle. Arresting and incarcerating you for not paying your taxes is initiation of force and wrong.
After all, a key tenet of Libertarianism is that relations of an economic or social sort can work only if the transactions that form them are free of fraud. How exactly, without regulation or other forms of force, do you propose such an idyllic scheme of honesty would transpire? On this point, I think, even the Libertarian party is unsure.
There is a difference between mandatory (forceful) regulation or taxes and freely entered aggreements.
If someone can't be trusted to honor their agreements without fraud or coercion, who would want to enter into an agreement with them anyway? If someone defaults on a contract you are free to keep any deposits, collateral, or liens that may have been stipulated. If they still don't fulfill their obligations, you are free to tell everyone you meet that they are a lying bastard with bad credit.
L(l)ibertarianism, unlike christianity, has been pretty clearly defined. The non-aggression principle is that definition. Even the Libertarian party pledge states: I do not believe in or advocate the initiation of force as a means of achieving political or social goals.
While some people who consider themselves to be libertarians may hold contradictory ideas, or support taxation and regulation, these are NOT holding with the libertarian ideal or Libertarian party policy.
From reading the article it's not just a hole, it's the primary basis of their "firewall". Their system is apparantly built the way it is because any other method would be too expensive and/or slow. TO prevent this workaround will require enourmous expenditures in reworking their network structure.
If the spooks managed to break AES and actually used it to prosecute anybody, they'd have a pretty hard time keeping it a secret. My guess is that unless you are doing something really bad(tm), they would let you get away or find another angle to nail you from, rather than tip their hand.
I agree. 99% of the capacitors that I have seen fail were either 10+ years old, abused (reversed polarity or over voltage), or bad from the factory (especially some 220uF tantalums recently - grrr). I was just trying to point out how silly the comment about the garge door opener failing was, in terms of how many cycles it lasted. My points tend to be too obtuse.
That depends on how it was used. If it was used for ripple smoothing in an AC>DC rectifier circuit it would have survived 1,892,160,000 cycles per year. If the cap was used in something like a 27MHz rf circuit it could have gone through 8.5x10^14 cycles per year.
She's always getting calls from various places and then making a flurry of more local calls. She uses code phrases like "your cousin's baby was born last night and it's a boy", or "Great Aunt Zelda had a stroke but they say she's going to be okay".
The tradeoff is in the performance. Cars that have performance comparable to a modern sportbike usually get 10mpg. If you want 100mpg, you're looking at a moped.
Can you see driving the car in the article in -40 weather? No heater, roof, or windshield = not a big improvement over a bike. Not to mention that I live in Arizona.
No argument here. Objectively, four wheeled cars will always have the upper hand over motorcycles when it comes to cornering. Lower center of gravity, much larger tire contact patches, and the ability to make use of areodynamic downforce in turns all make for a huge advantage. The very best handling motorcycles may acheive lateral g-forces in the low.9 range.
Subjectively though, I love the feeling of swooping through a tight corner on my bike (I've had the broken kneecap to prove it). It takes a hell of a sportscar to give the same feeling of connectedness and involvment with what the machine is doing.
I've got a vehicle that quick. It'll do 0-60 in 3.5, I've gotten 50MPG cruising on the highway at 80MPH (admittedly with a little tailwind), it goes about 200 miles on a tank of gas, and it cost me $2000 used.
But to get back to more basic or philosophical considerations: Maybe we're simply not able to create structures more complex than ourselves...
I read a quote somewhere related to that idea. It was somthing to the effect of "in that case Einsteins mother must have been one hell of a physicist".
If they can simulate something else than a virus (because I don't think viruses are intelligent) could they by this way obtain intelligence by simulating an intelligent animal?
It is theoreticaly possible (although it would be many orders of magnitude more difficult than the virus simulation), but the real question is - would such an experiment yield much insight into the nature of intelligence or give us any foothold toward developing an artificial intelligence suited to our needs? While it would enable us to examine the state of all the neurons of a brain at any given moment, it may not necessarily allow us any more comprehension of how the system we watched related to intelligence at the macroscopic level.
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Vampires would love it though.
That'll just make people think of kopi luwak.
Oops, missed that one in the copy-&-paste.
If you're concerned about your kid reading 'colorful' language, why in the world would you let it read slashdot? The only filtering going on here is what gets moderated below your viewing threshold. I can say any foul word I can think of and my post will be enshrined here for as long as slashdot lives (unless I quote scientologist scripture).
To quote St. Carlin:
"Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker"
The non-aggression principle means that the use of force is only an acceptable response to force initiated against you. Not paying your taxes is not force and is not a violation of the principle. Arresting and incarcerating you for not paying your taxes is initiation of force and wrong.
There is a difference between mandatory (forceful) regulation or taxes and freely entered aggreements.
If someone can't be trusted to honor their agreements without fraud or coercion, who would want to enter into an agreement with them anyway? If someone defaults on a contract you are free to keep any deposits, collateral, or liens that may have been stipulated. If they still don't fulfill their obligations, you are free to tell everyone you meet that they are a lying bastard with bad credit.
L(l)ibertarianism, unlike christianity, has been pretty clearly defined. The non-aggression principle is that definition. Even the Libertarian party pledge states:
I do not believe in or advocate the initiation of force as a means of achieving political or social goals.
While some people who consider themselves to be libertarians may hold contradictory ideas, or support taxation and regulation, these are NOT holding with the libertarian ideal or Libertarian party policy.
I see the parallel, but I don't see what you think it proves. There are a lot of people who think that censorship and prohibition are equally immoral.
From reading the article it's not just a hole, it's the primary basis of their "firewall". Their system is apparantly built the way it is because any other method would be too expensive and/or slow. TO prevent this workaround will require enourmous expenditures in reworking their network structure.
Yeah, it's so much more involuntary than conscription.
Or involuntary taxation.
Are these 'anti-spam volunteers' real volunteers, or are they volunteering-to-get-out-of-bayonette-testing volunteers?
Just curious.
If the spooks managed to break AES and actually used it to prosecute anybody, they'd have a pretty hard time keeping it a secret. My guess is that unless you are doing something really bad(tm), they would let you get away or find another angle to nail you from, rather than tip their hand.
I agree. 99% of the capacitors that I have seen fail were either 10+ years old, abused (reversed polarity or over voltage), or bad from the factory (especially some 220uF tantalums recently - grrr). I was just trying to point out how silly the comment about the garge door opener failing was, in terms of how many cycles it lasted. My points tend to be too obtuse.
That depends on how it was used. If it was used for ripple smoothing in an AC>DC rectifier circuit it would have survived 1,892,160,000 cycles per year. If the cap was used in something like a 27MHz rf circuit it could have gone through 8.5x10^14 cycles per year.
She's always getting calls from various places and then making a flurry of more local calls. She uses code phrases like "your cousin's baby was born last night and it's a boy", or "Great Aunt Zelda had a stroke but they say she's going to be okay".
The tradeoff is in the performance. Cars that have performance comparable to a modern sportbike usually get 10mpg. If you want 100mpg, you're looking at a moped.
Can you see driving the car in the article in -40 weather? No heater, roof, or windshield = not a big improvement over a bike.
Not to mention that I live in Arizona.
No argument here. Objectively, four wheeled cars will always have the upper hand over motorcycles when it comes to cornering. Lower center of gravity, much larger tire contact patches, and the ability to make use of areodynamic downforce in turns all make for a huge advantage. The very best handling motorcycles may acheive lateral g-forces in the low .9 range.
Subjectively though, I love the feeling of swooping through a tight corner on my bike (I've had the broken kneecap to prove it). It takes a hell of a sportscar to give the same feeling of connectedness and involvment with what the machine is doing.
Yeah, if they really want the looks to compare to a Bugatti they need to stick a giant pig nose on the front.
Bugatti really needs to find some new signature styling cues.
Yep, but not any more so than the vehicle in the article. It's shaped perfectly to direct a deer's torso into the head of the vehicle's occupants.
I've got a vehicle that quick. It'll do 0-60 in 3.5, I've gotten 50MPG cruising on the highway at 80MPH (admittedly with a little tailwind), it goes about 200 miles on a tank of gas, and it cost me $2000 used.
It's a 600cc sportbike.
You're welcome. Here's the correct quotes with attributions (from a fortune file circa 1989):
"Anything created must necessarily be inferior to the essence of the creator."
-- Claude Shouse (shouse@macomw.ARPA)
"Einstein's mother must have been one heck of a physicist."
-- Joseph C. Wang (joe@athena.mit.edu)
I read a quote somewhere related to that idea. It was somthing to the effect of "in that case Einsteins mother must have been one hell of a physicist".
It is theoreticaly possible (although it would be many orders of magnitude more difficult than the virus simulation), but the real question is - would such an experiment yield much insight into the nature of intelligence or give us any foothold toward developing an artificial intelligence suited to our needs? While it would enable us to examine the state of all the neurons of a brain at any given moment, it may not necessarily allow us any more comprehension of how the system we watched related to intelligence at the macroscopic level.
Seperated at birth?
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http://www.tuttle-ok.gov/vertical/Sites/%7B136BBA
http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2005/06/09/wbye
Not to mention that this appears to be a five year old dupe:l
http://slashdot.org/science/01/02/22/2113206.shtm
(I only remember that thread because I got my first socre 5 comment there)