Actually, the stories in i, robot only covered a few edge cases. There could be hundreds of other edge cases where the Three Laws allowed the robots to function perfectly fine. The stories that are written are simply the cases that are notable for their failure.
That's funny. I could have sworn I based that comment on what I read here on/., rather than things they don't talk about on talk radio. By the way, here in south Florida, it is on the FM dial. And I haven't listened to it in quite a while.
Automobiles are not a necessary part of life. Ask the Europeans that constantly tell us Americans we are too enslaved to the notion that we all need our own car. Bikes work for many people; walking works for those who choose to live near where they work, and vice versa. Subways and trains work for millions of people. So, no, automobiles are not a necessary part of everyone's life. They are a convenience, bordering on a luxury.
No, I don't want to pick a fight. I agree that punishing people for having different views and beliefs is wrong. You just picked the wrong example. Sorry if I pissed you off.
Your question was, "So, do you think the law in Iran that they execute people who won't convert to Islam is wrong?"
The article you linked to says he is being held now for "spreading corruption", or converting Muslims to Christians. So, no, it still isn't the law to execute Christians who don't convert to Islam.
Besides his posting history, human nature should come into play.
Wife: Honey, I want to have sex, but am afraid your.45 may accidentally discharge and hurt me. Husband: Too bad. I ain't moving it. Wife: If you just put the gun in the night stand, I'll let you fuck me silly. Husband: Do I have to put the safety on while it's in the drawer? Wife:I would prefer it, but just make sure it's pointing towards the wall. Husband: Can I take it back out afterwards and put it under my pillow? Wife: Yes, but I'm sleeping in the other room. Husband: OK, works for me.
A smart gun-control person would start up a gun factory and produce just such a gun. Offer it for sale, and send a notarized letter to New Jersey Department of Taking Away Citizens' Rights, to inform them to start the 30-month timer.
After the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Iranian Christians were recognized as a "protected religious minority" and according to the Constitution of Iran possess freedom of religion and even have a Member of Parliament (MP) representing them. However, evangelism and missionary work and converting Muslims to Christianity is prohibited by law, and Christians in practice may also face some discrimination as well in their lives.
In the Islamic Republic of Iran, there is officially no crime known as apostasy in the penal code (although there was a law about it prior to 1994). The last known execution for this crime was in 1990. However, despite there being no official civil law of apostasy, judges may still convict a defendant of that crime if they rule based on religious fatwas. As a result, a few people have been convicted of it, but there have been no known executions. In 2011 a man was executed in Ahvaz, Iran for blasphemy and "spreading corruption on the earth" (Mofsed-Fel-Arz) when he claimed that he was God, and attracting a "following" around himself.[8] According to the fatwas, for a man, if convicted, the punishment is death by hanging-for a woman, it is life imprisonment. The apostate should be given three chances to repent and convert back to Islam.
I'm quite certain that the people actually being executed think it is wrong. I also think they are just as dead, so thinking that doesn't prevent it.
Since the one guy who was executed was a god, I'm sure he simply saw it as a release from the physical realm.
Doesn't make it any less wrong, and I think a large number of people would agree with me there. Not all, but many people would.
And saying it happens doesn't make it any more real.
You still can't accept the fact that Obama has been in office for five years, and accomplished nothing he promised in regards to improving the government.
If the problem was simply that Bush had appointed idiots to run departments, Obama could have flushed most of them out immediately, and forced the rest to be replaced by now. Except of course, that would require two things: time spent doing his job rather than golfing, ability to actually be an executive.
As Micheal Moore recently said, one hundred years from now Obama's record is going to be, "He was the first black president."
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Or the metric system.
There's a baseball cap on top of the camera?
Guns don't shoot guns. Guns that shoot guns shoot guns.
Quite honestly, some people here wouldn't know what a BB is.
Actually, the stories in i, robot only covered a few edge cases. There could be hundreds of other edge cases where the Three Laws allowed the robots to function perfectly fine. The stories that are written are simply the cases that are notable for their failure.
That's funny. I could have sworn I based that comment on what I read here on /., rather than things they don't talk about on talk radio. By the way, here in south Florida, it is on the FM dial. And I haven't listened to it in quite a while.
I just wish all the posts that make sidewalks into rat mazes, are put into that one lane.
Automobiles are not a necessary part of life. Ask the Europeans that constantly tell us Americans we are too enslaved to the notion that we all need our own car. Bikes work for many people; walking works for those who choose to live near where they work, and vice versa. Subways and trains work for millions of people. So, no, automobiles are not a necessary part of everyone's life. They are a convenience, bordering on a luxury.
Nothing you said contradicts what he said.
And you would want to ride 40 minutes, while in labor, in a car that smells like fresh skunk spray?
I'm sure she was very happy to avoid that.
You apparently missed the part of his safety mechanisms where he doesn't provide high power guns to children that can't handle them.
Found the liberal in this thread.
No, I don't want to pick a fight. I agree that punishing people for having different views and beliefs is wrong. You just picked the wrong example. Sorry if I pissed you off.
Your question was, "So, do you think the law in Iran that they execute people who won't convert to Islam is wrong?"
The article you linked to says he is being held now for "spreading corruption", or converting Muslims to Christians. So, no, it still isn't the law to execute Christians who don't convert to Islam.
Besides his posting history, human nature should come into play.
Wife: Honey, I want to have sex, but am afraid your .45 may accidentally discharge and hurt me.
Husband: Too bad. I ain't moving it.
Wife: If you just put the gun in the night stand, I'll let you fuck me silly.
Husband: Do I have to put the safety on while it's in the drawer?
Wife:I would prefer it, but just make sure it's pointing towards the wall.
Husband: Can I take it back out afterwards and put it under my pillow?
Wife: Yes, but I'm sleeping in the other room.
Husband: OK, works for me.
It's like Thor's hammer; too heavy to lift except for the allowed user.
A smart gun-control person would start up a gun factory and produce just such a gun. Offer it for sale, and send a notarized letter to New Jersey Department of Taking Away Citizens' Rights, to inform them to start the 30-month timer.
You don't understand the definition of the word "tool".
No, I don't mean "or". I mean "and". They approve one patent, and they disapprove one patent. They do both, just as the sentence says.
You are completely correct...
So, do you think the law in Iran that they execute people who won't convert to Islam is wrong?
What law is that?
From this page, there is no such law.
I'm quite certain that the people actually being executed think it is wrong. I also think they are just as dead, so thinking that doesn't prevent it.
Since the one guy who was executed was a god, I'm sure he simply saw it as a release from the physical realm.
Doesn't make it any less wrong, and I think a large number of people would agree with me there. Not all, but many people would.
And saying it happens doesn't make it any more real.
Reference checking. How does that work?
Well, this page says there are actually about 300,000 patents across 3 categories, plus an additional 150,000 to "foreign residents". So that's about 450,000.
Also, the applications for patents is about double those numbers.
Factor that by 8,000 patent examiners, and they each both approve and disapprove just over one per week.
It's catwalks all the way up.
No no. Ex-co-workers.
You still can't accept the fact that Obama has been in office for five years, and accomplished nothing he promised in regards to improving the government.
If the problem was simply that Bush had appointed idiots to run departments, Obama could have flushed most of them out immediately, and forced the rest to be replaced by now. Except of course, that would require two things: time spent doing his job rather than golfing, ability to actually be an executive.
As Micheal Moore recently said, one hundred years from now Obama's record is going to be, "He was the first black president."