> They've poked and prodded every orifice of your body and they have still not been able > to determine where your consciousness is. It's not in the brain, it's not the organs, > it's not anywhere. Yet, most people seem to acknowledge its existence. Even many > scientists, atheist or not.
Yes, it's incredible. It also happens with happiness! We've not found it anywhere and yet people seem to aknowledge its existence. Even some scientists!
It's what happens with concepts. They can exist without a physical presence. The soul is as real as the virtue. And it makes about as much sense to discuss whether anything has soul as to discuss about it's general level of virtuousness.
I think my computer is quite virtuous. What do you think?
I'd love to have a work that could be done in complete solitude and that allowed me to do it at any time.
As it is right now for me, the work can't be done unless we're all working at the same time (more or less), so the company tries to balance some time flexiblity with a method to keep most people working when everybody else is working too. Thus, time constraints.
Also, part of my work is to extract some work out of programmers with less than a month of experience, and that includes teaching them that going to work isn't optative. Thus, more time constraints.
He touched every politically incorrect topic at the same time, which created the expectation of someone biting and replying about one of them. Which makes a fake-serious reply about the only untouched topic, hilarious. Just for me, apparently.
(Unless all your answers were cunning meta-jokes about not having understood mine. In which case I just fell dumbly and you may laugh your hearts off.)
> That's pretty hard when foreign governments USE Human Beings.
Yes, well, criminal organizations also use human beings and it's pretty easy to understand that not every citizen of a country that has a criminal organization is a criminal.
Brazil may have a great soccer team and that still doesn't make brazilians any better at playing soccer than french people.
And, surprisingly enough, being chinese doesn't raise the chances of being corrupt.
You know, mentally replacing each instance of "the chinese" in your text with "the chinese government" makes it non xenophobe.
At least until you reach: "One of the most effective ways for us to prevent a war is to make betraying military applicable technologies to their government an offense that most of these guys would never commit because the punishment is so severe." where you obviously refer to chinese people living in the United States.
If I were you, I'd review my thoughts on the differences between governments and human beings.
> The planets are getting closer to the sun, but not nearly fast enough to be interesting.
You mean interesting as in "Hmmm, we might want to have some means of space exploration in the next century at the latest" or interesting as in "My hair is on fire! My hair is on fire!".
Sometimes I need some detachment from slashdot to be able to keep reading. I know it's stupid and insensitive and wrong on many levels but I have to say it.
News like this give me the same feelings as horrible wars in third world countries. The more I learn the more revulsion I feel and it reaches a point where I simply detach and start thinking about something else. I transport myself to the little world around myself where those things simply don't happen.
I know about the "...now they come after me and there's nobody else left to care." parable, but still, I need a beer and a quiet mind to deal with extreme evil, or, as in this case, with extreme idiocy/corruption.
If you worked at the LHC you too would be happy to hear "The repair will cost at least $21 million."...... If the last comment before that was "Dear God it's all falling appart!".
> Maybe it should try to concentrate on getting rid of some of the laws that take away freedoms in that country. Stop trying to filter the Internet into the ground.
To set up a decent Autralian Great Firewall, you need to put down all those pesky satellites that allow illegal pirate connections.
Thus, the need for a space agency. How else would the autralian government put those intellectual property defending laser equipped sharks in orbit?
He's talking about getting benefits from more people having the base game and relates that to second hand market.
However, in that marketing structure, second hand market is worse than simply free distribution of the base game. The money for the extra copies isn't going to the creators and the distribution is much lower.
It's sad to see someone watching so intently at the future and yet not seeing it.
> Well, really, these stories should be checked out more throughly before publication!!!!
Or:
"Well, these stories should probably be checked moro thoroughly before publication. But I'm no expert on the matter of story publication so they might have been checked as thoroughly as necessary, under the circumstances. Furthermore, this is just my humble opinion. I'm no expert on checking news either, so this entire paragraph may be unprecise. Also, I may or may not be a government agent paid to spread misinformation. Thus, each and every word in this text may (or not) be false and aimed to mislead you. And vice versa."
Slashdot Mirror
You think the rover got some regolit in a hand and crushed it until it got water, but he actually crushed a piece of cheese!
Next, he'll throw another regolith really far. But it will actually be a bird!
> They've poked and prodded every orifice of your body and they have still not been able
> to determine where your consciousness is. It's not in the brain, it's not the organs,
> it's not anywhere. Yet, most people seem to acknowledge its existence. Even many
> scientists, atheist or not.
Yes, it's incredible. It also happens with happiness! We've not found it anywhere and yet people seem to aknowledge its existence. Even some scientists!
It's what happens with concepts. They can exist without a physical presence. The soul is as real as the virtue. And it makes about as much sense to discuss whether anything has soul as to discuss about it's general level of virtuousness.
I think my computer is quite virtuous. What do you think?
Do you think the sun is happy? Or somewhat angry.
"flyingcars"
I'd love to have a work that could be done in complete solitude and that allowed me to do it at any time.
As it is right now for me, the work can't be done unless we're all working at the same time (more or less), so the company tries to balance some time flexiblity with a method to keep most people working when everybody else is working too. Thus, time constraints.
Also, part of my work is to extract some work out of programmers with less than a month of experience, and that includes teaching them that going to work isn't optative. Thus, more time constraints.
I simply:
1 sit.
2 punch my code.
3 work.
4 profit! HAha! This time I've got all the steps!
When the day ends, I lock the workstation, and go.
Lady: "Why is there a big pink bear in this dressroom?"
Bear: "Shut up and take off your clothes already."
Oh dear gawd. It was a joke!
He touched every politically incorrect topic at the same time, which created the expectation of someone biting and replying about one of them. Which makes a fake-serious reply about the only untouched topic, hilarious. Just for me, apparently.
(Unless all your answers were cunning meta-jokes about not having understood mine. In which case I just fell dumbly and you may laugh your hearts off.)
> That's pretty hard when foreign governments USE Human Beings.
Yes, well, criminal organizations also use human beings and it's pretty easy to understand that not every citizen of a country that has a criminal organization is a criminal.
Brazil may have a great soccer team and that still doesn't make brazilians any better at playing soccer than french people.
And, surprisingly enough, being chinese doesn't raise the chances of being corrupt.
You know, mentally replacing each instance of "the chinese" in your text with "the chinese government" makes it non xenophobe.
At least until you reach: "One of the most effective ways for us to prevent a war is to make betraying military applicable technologies to their government an offense that most of these guys would never commit because the punishment is so severe." where you obviously refer to chinese people living in the United States.
If I were you, I'd review my thoughts on the differences between governments and human beings.
Naa, for rocket science I'd outsource to India.
> The planets are getting closer to the sun, but not nearly fast enough to be interesting.
You mean interesting as in "Hmmm, we might want to have some means of space exploration in the next century at the latest" or interesting as in "My hair is on fire! My hair is on fire!".
> Surely one hour's R&D expenses could be spared for the LHC.
Unless they're researching a black hole repeller shield, of course.
Sometimes I need some detachment from slashdot to be able to keep reading. I know it's stupid and insensitive and wrong on many levels but I have to say it.
News like this give me the same feelings as horrible wars in third world countries. The more I learn the more revulsion I feel and it reaches a point where I simply detach and start thinking about something else. I transport myself to the little world around myself where those things simply don't happen.
I know about the "...now they come after me and there's nobody else left to care." parable, but still, I need a beer and a quiet mind to deal with extreme evil, or, as in this case, with extreme idiocy/corruption.
We don't appreciate that kind of racism around here.
This reminds me of my early childhood, when I bet my sister that no matter how many of her cookies she gave me I'd be able to eat them all.
If you worked at the LHC you too would be happy to hear "The repair will cost at least $21 million."... ... If the last comment before that was "Dear God it's all falling appart!".
> Maybe it should try to concentrate on getting rid of some of the laws that take away freedoms in that country. Stop trying to filter the Internet into the ground.
To set up a decent Autralian Great Firewall, you need to put down all those pesky satellites that allow illegal pirate connections.
Thus, the need for a space agency. How else would the autralian government put those intellectual property defending laser equipped sharks in orbit?
He's talking about getting benefits from more people having the base game and relates that to second hand market.
However, in that marketing structure, second hand market is worse than simply free distribution of the base game. The money for the extra copies isn't going to the creators and the distribution is much lower.
It's sad to see someone watching so intently at the future and yet not seeing it.
Indeed, the manufacture of antimatter bombs would most certainly accelerate space exploration.
> Why not spend another 200 million on a companion piece in Alexandria of a lighthouse with no luminous parts?
"Behold! The darkhouse of Alexandria!
The real problem will come when the first soldier holds a grenade to his face and while everybody says "cheeeese" blows his head off.
Still asleep here, so my visualizing of this was:
"Plasma " ok that's the hot stuff
" plants " O, the beautiful trees, the nature... hmm, wait a second. Plasma trees? plasma grass?! What the...
" Vaporize trash " Dear freaking gawd! trash vaposizing red hot trees?!? Scorching grassy plains to vaporise trash on?
" While creating energy " They are self sustaining?! It's the end of the world! We're all gonna diiie!
And if you preorder now you'll also get
"Wikipeding security: The eleven results demo."
Hah! You buy at the KwikEMart?
Everybody knows the KwiikEMart is much better.
> Well, really, these stories should be checked out more throughly before publication!!!!
Or:
"Well, these stories should probably be checked moro thoroughly before publication. But I'm no expert on the matter of story publication so they might have been checked as thoroughly as necessary, under the circumstances.
Furthermore, this is just my humble opinion. I'm no expert on checking news either, so this entire paragraph may be unprecise.
Also, I may or may not be a government agent paid to spread misinformation. Thus, each and every word in this text may (or not) be false and aimed to mislead you.
And vice versa."