"They had their chance. They chose to rape and murder. Why should they survive?"
I liked how they (and, most likely, nearly everyone in the audience) used that to justify blowing up the prisoner's boat. Blowing up an entire ferry full of people is worse than probably any crime any of those inmates committed. If their lesser crimes make them worthy of death, then what do the surviving cowards deserve?
Live or don't live is very different from one of four different sentence lengths. In some ways, it's almost the opposite of the Prisoner's Dilemma. PD is about your own personal gain (which can be improved if you work cooperatively) whereas in Joker's Dilemma (JD?) getting away scott-free is easy; the trick is whether the two parties can work together to save each other, not themselves.
The ethical dilemma on the two ferries toward the end of the flick was excellent. The Joker's rants are enough to make you think (if you haven't already) but that one line was really, truly excellent:
"Well, we're still here, which means they haven't pushed the button."
Above all else, the best thing about this movie was the trip into the different aspects of the human condition. Whether it's the chaotic Joker, fair Two-Face, pure Fox, kind Alfred, or incorruptible Batman, or any of the others, we get, as The New Yorker paraphrased, a rare glimpse into the abyss.
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While the lack of internet infrastructure has just made Africa free of disease.
Not in the least! I don't think anybody is suggesting closing up shop and making this the be all and end all of epidemiological tools. All it is is just another way of discovering or verifying an outbreak. You don't have to choose between tits and cholera; you're lucky enough to be able to get your tits as an extra bonus to halting the spread of cholera.
Which is exactly what we should be seeing more of! The artists make more money via more successful tours, the listeners are happier because they get what they want without having to pay (perhaps using that 18 bucks toward the $35 concert ticket?), and a brilliant file transfer system gets promoted in the light it deserves.
The only ones left in the dust are the RIAA-types, whom I, for one, shall be saying prayers for tonight. *psyche*
Barring asteroid mining and recycling unlike anything we've ever seen, we're going to eventually run out of things. Guns, cars, and books need metal, more metal, and trees to be constantly created, used, dumped, and replenished.
Bits cost naught but the pittance of electricity required to turn them on or off and to read 'em. They won't run out until we run out of electricity (at which point we'll have other problems).
That's why the 4yos and Youtube and so-called piracy will "win" and an archaic business model will be forced to change - you can't do business the same way with material and immaterial.
While I think it's fascinating and should definitely be pursued, I'm going to remain skeptical on this for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, TFA says the process takes seven days to grow the vessels, though they hope to get that down to 24-48 hours. That is nowhere near what needs to be done to be viable. If you're considering surgery, you can't just wait half a week or so - you need results and you need them stat. Secondly, saying that the people who performed the research saw "improved heart function" is highly suspect - there're no numbers, no statistics, nothing solid at all. It sounds like a great idea, but far, far away...
Flawed doesn't mean it's a bad idea or shouldn't be done; much the opposite in fact.
A) It still requires human input. No one reporting the disease does not mean that it is not there.
If no one is reporting the disease, it doesn't matter whether you don't report it online or by ACME 15-second express to their doorstop - it's not being reported.
B) That input must be made over the internet.
Duh. Some places will clearly benefit more than others... so what? If I have the ability to increase the literacy rate in five nations, I'll do it even if I can't do it in all the rest yet.
C) It should preferably be in English.
Unavoidable. Except it's not too hard to write in an ability to pick up on any of a multitude of languages. Hell, just use Google's page translator for a fugly hack.
This isn't meant to solve all the problems, but I'm sorry - if implementing this concept means only one life is saved over the entire planet, it is entirely worthwhile. And if it increases reaction time to any single outbreak, it'll be irreplaceable. Nothing ventured, nothing gained and there is no harm in trying something simple and easy using technology we clearly already have.
I spend most of my lunch hours (inb4 no friends) playing Wii at the nearby Nintendo store. The fun little "destroy blocks" or "play sports" things are fun for the ten minutes or less you spend on 'em, but overall they're kind of silly. I, like you, can't understand spending money on them; they remind me of those "games" that come for free with modern operating systems.
Mario Kart, however, is, and I mean this in no uncertain terms, God's gift to man. I was a huge fan of the N64 version, and was depressed at the Gamecube game - I thought they totally killed it. On the Wii, however, it's exceptional. It takes full advantage of the greatest part of the Wii - the Wiimote. Game play is excellent and I highly recommend it. I'd almost buy the console just for that game alone.
Other than MK and Mario Galaxy (which is astounding, I really must say) I'm shocked that other games sell. I don't get the WiiFit's appeal - I play video games to get away from working out.
Most definitely. It's a pleasant start, and definitely one of the best we've got to work with at the moment, but it falls quite flat, I feel. The Pale Blue Dot is far better - just wish we had the tech then to do the observation here.
Hang the "all sorts of effects," that's just icing - shit is just small! The Earth-Moon system is pretty easy to observe when you're around it, but 4 billion miles away, a single dot ain't much to shake a stick at. Now, as you stated, the nearest star is over 6200 times farther away than that picture was taken at. I'm glad they're thinking right in the head, but this is like holding a magnifying glass up to my cat in order to better understand her cells' mitotic divisions.
The first flag should've been that it was the CEO who performed the patch. If a CEO _ever_ gets his hands dirty, you can rest assured that there is something illegal going on that needs to be covered up.
It's over-budget, behind schedule, and from what I've seen so far, totally kicks ass!
That's the way it should be. It's why Blizzard is one of the only group out there that makes a good product - Damn the release date! A better game is better for everyone in the long run. Really, that line should read:
They're putting every resource they have into making this the best, taking every day necessary to make it even more awesome, and from what I've seen so far, totally kicks ass!"
*insert joke about how DNF must be, ipso facto, the greatest game ever made*
"I wish I had enough money to buy an elephant." "Why do you want an elephant?" "I don't, I just want the money."
It's a relevant size measurement. People know there are a lot of Earth species - this must mean there are a lot of Spore "creatures." The point is that people put (at least some) effort into creating these things, which means that it must be doing alright. If the average person spent a mere five hours on a creature (although I haven't used this due to system requirement, I imagine it would take more to create a breast/penis monster) that's over 83k hours spent on this in the first week alone, or the amount of time 2,083 employees spend at work. That's astounding anyway you look at it.
One of the main advantages to having Congressmembers is the same advantage we use everywhere else - specialties. You go to a brain surgeon or a foot surgeon or a shoulder surgeon for specific ailments, not a general practitioner. Likewise, here you have someone whose entire day is devoted to lawmaking, so they will (hopefully) be better suited to the task than John Q. Public.
But that isn't to say the general populace voting is a BAD thing. People on slashdot are a terrible sample set, but Cowboy Neal as President For Life aside, we'd get things done. When was the last time you were in a story and the MAJORITY of non-trolls expressed a desire to disband the police? You'll get a lot of dumb shit with Direct Democracy, but, like against Kasparov, they'll be a small fraction of the vote.
Yeah, there are a lot of dumb people in the world, and we may not want them to vote, but they probably don't want us to vote either. To be honest though, you can't argue that Direct Democracy isn't better. As long as a larger portion of the population gets what they want than via representation, even if it's just one person more, then technically the system is better. It doesn't necessarily have to be better for the country, or even better for the people, but if everyone wants it, so be it.
Actually, it doesn't. An MIT study found that tinfoil hats amplified certain bands that coincide with government usage.
It requires no stretch of the imagination to conclude that the current helmet craze is likely to have been propagated by the Government, possibly with the involvement of the FCC. We hope this report will encourage the paranoid community to develop improved helmet designs to avoid falling prey to these shortcomings.
Their competition is called Blu-Ray. It's shorter to say, it has the word "Ray" in it (which is awesome), sounds new and different from DVDs, and even has a "cool" misspelling of a word. It's the same reason Yahoo! will never succeed - people simply like saying "Google" too much.
As a 21 year old not being able to hear it.... balls. I could trick myself into picking something faint out, so maybe it's a function of my speakers, but I don't know. I DO know that I got a headache when playing those mp3s, despite not really hearing anything.
Honestly, though, I'm not against this. It's a weapon that targets young people. So? Racial profiling may suck but it works so we do it. Setting up a device to deter teens may suck but let's be honest - they a large group that tends to do stupid shit in large groups. It's just a smart idea. No one's trying to invent devices to stop the extremely elderly from becoming rowdy because it just doesn't happen. It's not discriminating against young people, it's just only effective against them. You might as well argue that someone who writes a computer virus is discriminating against young people because they're more likely to be using one, or that people selling DVD players are discriminating against the elderly because they'll have a harder time using them.
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"They had their chance. They chose to rape and murder. Why should they survive?"
I liked how they (and, most likely, nearly everyone in the audience) used that to justify blowing up the prisoner's boat. Blowing up an entire ferry full of people is worse than probably any crime any of those inmates committed. If their lesser crimes make them worthy of death, then what do the surviving cowards deserve?
Wouldn't the Joker do something more ... Joker'ish? Like have the detonator blow up YOUR boat? Or BOTH boats?
Just like getting to the center of a Tootsie Pop, the world will never know...
I caught that too but it's slightly different.
Live or don't live is very different from one of four different sentence lengths. In some ways, it's almost the opposite of the Prisoner's Dilemma. PD is about your own personal gain (which can be improved if you work cooperatively) whereas in Joker's Dilemma (JD?) getting away scott-free is easy; the trick is whether the two parties can work together to save each other, not themselves.
It's a poorly written and shite article, but the box off to the side says:
One of two newly discovered exoplanets is nearly the size of Earth...
So, assuming they're talking about the same one, it should be roughly 5 times our gravity.
The ethical dilemma on the two ferries toward the end of the flick was excellent. The Joker's rants are enough to make you think (if you haven't already) but that one line was really, truly excellent:
"Well, we're still here, which means they haven't pushed the button."
Above all else, the best thing about this movie was the trip into the different aspects of the human condition. Whether it's the chaotic Joker, fair Two-Face, pure Fox, kind Alfred, or incorruptible Batman, or any of the others, we get, as The New Yorker paraphrased, a rare glimpse into the abyss.
Because Heath Ledger deserves one.
End of story.
While the lack of internet infrastructure has just made Africa free of disease.
Not in the least! I don't think anybody is suggesting closing up shop and making this the be all and end all of epidemiological tools. All it is is just another way of discovering or verifying an outbreak. You don't have to choose between tits and cholera; you're lucky enough to be able to get your tits as an extra bonus to halting the spread of cholera.
Which is exactly what we should be seeing more of! The artists make more money via more successful tours, the listeners are happier because they get what they want without having to pay (perhaps using that 18 bucks toward the $35 concert ticket?), and a brilliant file transfer system gets promoted in the light it deserves.
The only ones left in the dust are the RIAA-types, whom I, for one, shall be saying prayers for tonight. *psyche*
Barring asteroid mining and recycling unlike anything we've ever seen, we're going to eventually run out of things. Guns, cars, and books need metal, more metal, and trees to be constantly created, used, dumped, and replenished.
Bits cost naught but the pittance of electricity required to turn them on or off and to read 'em. They won't run out until we run out of electricity (at which point we'll have other problems).
That's why the 4yos and Youtube and so-called piracy will "win" and an archaic business model will be forced to change - you can't do business the same way with material and immaterial.
While I think it's fascinating and should definitely be pursued, I'm going to remain skeptical on this for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, TFA says the process takes seven days to grow the vessels, though they hope to get that down to 24-48 hours. That is nowhere near what needs to be done to be viable. If you're considering surgery, you can't just wait half a week or so - you need results and you need them stat. Secondly, saying that the people who performed the research saw "improved heart function" is highly suspect - there're no numbers, no statistics, nothing solid at all. It sounds like a great idea, but far, far away...
Flawed doesn't mean it's a bad idea or shouldn't be done; much the opposite in fact.
A) It still requires human input. No one reporting the disease does not mean that it is not there.
If no one is reporting the disease, it doesn't matter whether you don't report it online or by ACME 15-second express to their doorstop - it's not being reported.
B) That input must be made over the internet.
Duh. Some places will clearly benefit more than others... so what? If I have the ability to increase the literacy rate in five nations, I'll do it even if I can't do it in all the rest yet.
C) It should preferably be in English.
Unavoidable. Except it's not too hard to write in an ability to pick up on any of a multitude of languages. Hell, just use Google's page translator for a fugly hack.
This isn't meant to solve all the problems, but I'm sorry - if implementing this concept means only one life is saved over the entire planet, it is entirely worthwhile. And if it increases reaction time to any single outbreak, it'll be irreplaceable. Nothing ventured, nothing gained and there is no harm in trying something simple and easy using technology we clearly already have.
And... what? We're all just the pitiful remainder of the once-vast numbers of Martian Men who fled after the ancient battle with Bugs Bunny?
I spend most of my lunch hours (inb4 no friends) playing Wii at the nearby Nintendo store. The fun little "destroy blocks" or "play sports" things are fun for the ten minutes or less you spend on 'em, but overall they're kind of silly. I, like you, can't understand spending money on them; they remind me of those "games" that come for free with modern operating systems.
Mario Kart, however, is, and I mean this in no uncertain terms, God's gift to man. I was a huge fan of the N64 version, and was depressed at the Gamecube game - I thought they totally killed it. On the Wii, however, it's exceptional. It takes full advantage of the greatest part of the Wii - the Wiimote. Game play is excellent and I highly recommend it. I'd almost buy the console just for that game alone.
Other than MK and Mario Galaxy (which is astounding, I really must say) I'm shocked that other games sell. I don't get the WiiFit's appeal - I play video games to get away from working out.
Most definitely. It's a pleasant start, and definitely one of the best we've got to work with at the moment, but it falls quite flat, I feel. The Pale Blue Dot is far better - just wish we had the tech then to do the observation here.
Hang the "all sorts of effects," that's just icing - shit is just small! The Earth-Moon system is pretty easy to observe when you're around it, but 4 billion miles away, a single dot ain't much to shake a stick at. Now, as you stated, the nearest star is over 6200 times farther away than that picture was taken at. I'm glad they're thinking right in the head, but this is like holding a magnifying glass up to my cat in order to better understand her cells' mitotic divisions.
The first flag should've been that it was the CEO who performed the patch. If a CEO _ever_ gets his hands dirty, you can rest assured that there is something illegal going on that needs to be covered up.
Oof, thanks. MEANT five minutes, not hours. The meager math following that inane statement uses five minutes.
Besides, the average human can't spend five hours on ANYTHING.
It's over-budget, behind schedule, and from what I've seen so far, totally kicks ass!
That's the way it should be. It's why Blizzard is one of the only group out there that makes a good product - Damn the release date! A better game is better for everyone in the long run. Really, that line should read:
They're putting every resource they have into making this the best, taking every day necessary to make it even more awesome, and from what I've seen so far, totally kicks ass!"
*insert joke about how DNF must be, ipso facto, the greatest game ever made*
It reminds me of that old joke:
"I wish I had enough money to buy an elephant."
"Why do you want an elephant?"
"I don't, I just want the money."
It's a relevant size measurement. People know there are a lot of Earth species - this must mean there are a lot of Spore "creatures." The point is that people put (at least some) effort into creating these things, which means that it must be doing alright. If the average person spent a mere five hours on a creature (although I haven't used this due to system requirement, I imagine it would take more to create a breast/penis monster) that's over 83k hours spent on this in the first week alone, or the amount of time 2,083 employees spend at work. That's astounding anyway you look at it.
You clearly haven't heard of the iPod, it seems.
Except when certain rocks thought to be dry aren't.
But Universal Enlightenment is clearly still a long way off. What'll we do till then?
Wait?
One of the main advantages to having Congressmembers is the same advantage we use everywhere else - specialties. You go to a brain surgeon or a foot surgeon or a shoulder surgeon for specific ailments, not a general practitioner. Likewise, here you have someone whose entire day is devoted to lawmaking, so they will (hopefully) be better suited to the task than John Q. Public.
But that isn't to say the general populace voting is a BAD thing. People on slashdot are a terrible sample set, but Cowboy Neal as President For Life aside, we'd get things done. When was the last time you were in a story and the MAJORITY of non-trolls expressed a desire to disband the police? You'll get a lot of dumb shit with Direct Democracy, but, like against Kasparov, they'll be a small fraction of the vote.
Yeah, there are a lot of dumb people in the world, and we may not want them to vote, but they probably don't want us to vote either. To be honest though, you can't argue that Direct Democracy isn't better. As long as a larger portion of the population gets what they want than via representation, even if it's just one person more, then technically the system is better. It doesn't necessarily have to be better for the country, or even better for the people, but if everyone wants it, so be it.
Their competition is called Blu-Ray. It's shorter to say, it has the word "Ray" in it (which is awesome), sounds new and different from DVDs, and even has a "cool" misspelling of a word. It's the same reason Yahoo! will never succeed - people simply like saying "Google" too much.
As a 21 year old not being able to hear it.... balls. I could trick myself into picking something faint out, so maybe it's a function of my speakers, but I don't know. I DO know that I got a headache when playing those mp3s, despite not really hearing anything.
Honestly, though, I'm not against this. It's a weapon that targets young people. So? Racial profiling may suck but it works so we do it. Setting up a device to deter teens may suck but let's be honest - they a large group that tends to do stupid shit in large groups. It's just a smart idea. No one's trying to invent devices to stop the extremely elderly from becoming rowdy because it just doesn't happen. It's not discriminating against young people, it's just only effective against them. You might as well argue that someone who writes a computer virus is discriminating against young people because they're more likely to be using one, or that people selling DVD players are discriminating against the elderly because they'll have a harder time using them.