Stating the obvious, heavy doesn't equal hard... and the fact SUV's are safer is disputed: SUVs are more likely to roll over, more likely to be in a single-car accident and more likely to cause harm to other road users
FTA:
On a side note, for Reiser to disclose the body might bring some element of closure to his two children, a boy now 8 and a girl 6. They live with Nina's parents in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The boy, in letters to his father last year, asked his dad why he "hid" his mother.
it's the human performances within them that people really connect to...
He's got a point, though. Just wait until a simstim-like technology is developed to see how much people may want to connect to human performances, and in how many ways!
That's right. The law is a cautionary argument to be used against association fallacies like "the Nazis supported X, so X must be evil" (Reductio ad Hitlerum).
As the previous post on Volkswagen made the reversal comparison (in the common counter-fallacy way: "yeah, and Hitler was vegetarian, so it meat!"), is not to be Godwin'ed
I'd like to point out the underlying assumption of most of the comments in this discussion. Namely, that the works of the brain are algorithmical, and that what it does is *just* computing a calculus.
This idea, coming all the way from Descartes and Leibnitz, is of philosophical nature. It is as mysterious and scientifically unprovable as the opposite.
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FTA: "The Singularity" also called by some "The Rapture of the Nerds"
Very funny indeed!
Tinfoil hats ahoy!
Stating the obvious, heavy doesn't equal hard... and the fact SUV's are safer is disputed: SUVs are more likely to roll over, more likely to be in a single-car accident and more likely to cause harm to other road users
"Is the Internet making us even more stupid?"
FTA: On a side note, for Reiser to disclose the body might bring some element of closure to his two children, a boy now 8 and a girl 6. They live with Nina's parents in St. Petersburg, Russia. The boy, in letters to his father last year, asked his dad why he "hid" his mother.
Agree... the whole story is too sad
Maybe the fact their songs are available DRM-free has something to do with their changing of mind...
I have some old Natalie Portman's pics to print out!
You hit the nail on the head! And more than once. I only wish I hadn't wasted all my mod points on promoting not-so-funny comments!
He's got a point, though. Just wait until a simstim-like technology is developed to see how much people may want to connect to human performances, and in how many ways!
That's right. The law is a cautionary argument to be used against association fallacies like "the Nazis supported X, so X must be evil" (Reductio ad Hitlerum). As the previous post on Volkswagen made the reversal comparison (in the common counter-fallacy way: "yeah, and Hitler was vegetarian, so it meat!"), is not to be Godwin'ed
I'd like to point out the underlying assumption of most of the comments in this discussion. Namely, that the works of the brain are algorithmical, and that what it does is *just* computing a calculus. This idea, coming all the way from Descartes and Leibnitz, is of philosophical nature. It is as mysterious and scientifically unprovable as the opposite.