Eh, that's a rather trival attack on the conspiracy theory. The ocean isn't so far from the Pentagon. Do you think I just made up on the spot this very instant the reports of a passanger plane heading east escorted by two figher jets over Farmington, Delware?
Unless of course a scientist is fudging his results to maintain a desired result.
Then that person is no longer a scientist with respect to that research. With peer review this sort of thing is effectively limited.
Unfortunately in cases without peer review, pseudoscience and tradition can temporarily rule. Ex: Tetraethyl lead; antibiotics' effectiveness on certain cancers.
Science is, at its theoretical core, fact based. Religion is, at its theoretical core, faith based.
I learned the INFLections of the ENGLISH LANGAUGE from CARTOOOOOONS AND T.v.
When you don't know a language, you don't know what's exaggerated and what isn't. So you don't know how to listen to any recorded conversations and separate the wheat from the chaff. Keep with questionable sources, and you soon speak very weird. You need to get *good input* from quality sources. JapanesePod is ok to start with, but anime is right out.
Gosh! Your one uncited quote from one crackpot scientist has me completely convinced that you are making an unbiased and reasoned argument. Your overgeneralizations and exaggerations seal the deal. Bravo!
You, and many others, make the assumption that creative people only create for monetary gain.
Taking away the protections the law currently gives would discourage new ideas because they would no longer be profitable.
So no one would have any new ideas without copyright/patent law? I disagree in the strongest possible terms. Creative people won't go away without the ability to milk one creative endeavor for over three generations.
Example: the Creative Commons, blogs, flickr.
Exploring further, let's look at bands and the music industry. It used to be that bands made their money touring, and any exposure to their music was advertising for one of their performances. With record signed labels the bands don't actually make money, they pay back the money that the record labels spent on them. All of their music is actually the label's music, and the label doesn't play gigs. The label makes its money by selling copies of the recorded music and any exposure to the music had better have been paid for directly (purchased media) or indirectly (radio) by the consumer. In modern terms the artists are the whores and the labels are their pimps.
The only case I can think of where copyrights/patents are helpful is with major R&D investments (drugs). I submit that the pursuit of profitable drugs has created a culture of pill popping where prescription drugs are advertised on television. Seriously useful drugs that would cure the patient aren't desirable because it is far more profitable to create drugs that moderate symptoms and must be repetively taken. I propose that the expenditure of funds to create medical drugs should be put forth by world governments in a similar manner to space exploration funding. By this I don't mean to discourage garage labs (ex: the current private space ventures), nor that the labs should be run by the government and drugs be given away for free, but that the bulk of the R&D funding should be footed by the government as a social good (ex: roads, schools, or universities).
Alan Watts very effectively articulated many of these ideas and did an absolutely wonderful job of translating Eastern religions into Western thought concepts.
I suggest reading one of his books or, more ideally, listening to one of his lectures. The CDs are a little pricey but you can try before you buy at just about any torrent site.
What you describe isn't anything like 1984. In fact, it's the complete opposite! 1984 was all about the elimination of choice, and even the elimination of the existence of choice. Suggesting dating choices for people by analyzing their information isn't really Big Brotherly thing.
The ones that don't profess (a) god(s) try to teach you how to suppress or channel your desire.
Untrue. Buddha's statement to eliminate desire is not a doctrine, but the initiation of a dialog. For in trying to eliminate desire you soon realize that you are desiring to eliminate desire.
In the seventies we had makeout parties, sure, but it was really rare to have people taking their clothes off and having sex in the open, orgy-style; it obviously was even more rare to take photos or film it, since the technology to view those photos or films without them being developed outside the home was absent.
It still is rare. It's just that the rare exceptions can be publicly disseminated very easily via the Internet.
It's a popular modern quirk to consider ones time so unique and so different from any other time, but the reality is that people are people and we haven't really changed.
Try looking up how long it was after the invention of motion pictures before the first pr0n video was created. I bet you'll be surprised. I'd look it up for you (it's a little tricky to track because most film histories try to ignore the baser applications of the technology) but I'm at work. There are several excellent books on the subject though.
How is your music on your iPod and not your PC. iPods are only meant to mirror the music you have in iTunes. Without any hacking the only music on your iPod is music you already have on your PC.
People are human. Riots, drunkenness, disorderly conduct, crime, etc. are all part of what it means to be human in a human society. Extra surveillance won't change anything about human nature one bit, all it will do is give hotheads more reason to lash out against authority.
That makes two of us. Although for all I know, you aren't interested because you don't read Gamespot, Gamespy, or even play videogames. I do read (and subscribe) to gamespot, but I'm still not interested because everyone has always known that Previews show off the good parts of the games to come.
Try relating any of the main characters of Final Fantasy I to the main boss. Cecil didn't have a relationship to the ultimate evil, although he does defeat himself at one point by refusing to fight.
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Story is all the matters eh? Nothing about dialog, grammar, structure, and description? Story does matter, but it isn't the whole book.
Would "Snow Crash" be as entertaining without Stephenson's machine gun prose? Would "A Song of Ice and Fire" be as involving without Martin's richly detailed and realistic characters? Would LOTR be as popular without Tolkien's insane amount of detail? Would "One Hundred Years of Solitude" be as engrossing without Marquez's incomparable use of magical realism?
Let me give you some examples through movie:
Star Wars. Simplistic storyline that would bore anyone to tears made fascinating by incorporation of nifty ideas and placed in a space opera setting.
Memento. A decent story made unforgettable (ha) by use of an extremely clever format.
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Eh, that's a rather trival attack on the conspiracy theory. The ocean isn't so far from the Pentagon. Do you think I just made up on the spot this very instant the reports of a passanger plane heading east escorted by two figher jets over Farmington, Delware?
Unfortunately in cases without peer review, pseudoscience and tradition can temporarily rule. Ex: Tetraethyl lead; antibiotics' effectiveness on certain cancers.
Science is, at its theoretical core, fact based. Religion is, at its theoretical core, faith based.
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I like the name MacBook Pro.
I learned the INFLections of the ENGLISH LANGAUGE from CARTOOOOOONS AND T.v.
When you don't know a language, you don't know what's exaggerated and what isn't. So you don't know how to listen to any recorded conversations and separate the wheat from the chaff. Keep with questionable sources, and you soon speak very weird. You need to get *good input* from quality sources. JapanesePod is ok to start with, but anime is right out.
That's a 14 character password, but it isn't "strong".
Strong would be mixing upper/lowercase, using non-alphanumeric characters, etc.
Something like H()uSEn@mE1123
Time to sit back and wait for 12 Monkeys then.
Gosh! Your one uncited quote from one crackpot scientist has me completely convinced that you are making an unbiased and reasoned argument. Your overgeneralizations and exaggerations seal the deal. Bravo!
Ok. So people that would have otherwise had a good idea would not have it, or just keep it to themselves?
To debunk a popularly quoted study which found that prayer does help hospital patients.
So no one would have any new ideas without copyright/patent law? I disagree in the strongest possible terms. Creative people won't go away without the ability to milk one creative endeavor for over three generations.
Example: the Creative Commons, blogs, flickr.
Exploring further, let's look at bands and the music industry. It used to be that bands made their money touring, and any exposure to their music was advertising for one of their performances. With record signed labels the bands don't actually make money, they pay back the money that the record labels spent on them. All of their music is actually the label's music, and the label doesn't play gigs. The label makes its money by selling copies of the recorded music and any exposure to the music had better have been paid for directly (purchased media) or indirectly (radio) by the consumer. In modern terms the artists are the whores and the labels are their pimps.
The only case I can think of where copyrights/patents are helpful is with major R&D investments (drugs). I submit that the pursuit of profitable drugs has created a culture of pill popping where prescription drugs are advertised on television. Seriously useful drugs that would cure the patient aren't desirable because it is far more profitable to create drugs that moderate symptoms and must be repetively taken. I propose that the expenditure of funds to create medical drugs should be put forth by world governments in a similar manner to space exploration funding. By this I don't mean to discourage garage labs (ex: the current private space ventures), nor that the labs should be run by the government and drugs be given away for free, but that the bulk of the R&D funding should be footed by the government as a social good (ex: roads, schools, or universities).
Alan Watts very effectively articulated many of these ideas and did an absolutely wonderful job of translating Eastern religions into Western thought concepts.
I suggest reading one of his books or, more ideally, listening to one of his lectures. The CDs are a little pricey but you can try before you buy at just about any torrent site.
What you describe isn't anything like 1984. In fact, it's the complete opposite! 1984 was all about the elimination of choice, and even the elimination of the existence of choice. Suggesting dating choices for people by analyzing their information isn't really Big Brotherly thing.
Touché.
The ones that don't profess (a) god(s) try to teach you how to suppress or channel your desire.
Untrue. Buddha's statement to eliminate desire is not a doctrine, but the initiation of a dialog. For in trying to eliminate desire you soon realize that you are desiring to eliminate desire.
It's a popular modern quirk to consider ones time so unique and so different from any other time, but the reality is that people are people and we haven't really changed.
Try looking up how long it was after the invention of motion pictures before the first pr0n video was created. I bet you'll be surprised. I'd look it up for you (it's a little tricky to track because most film histories try to ignore the baser applications of the technology) but I'm at work. There are several excellent books on the subject though.
How is your music on your iPod and not your PC. iPods are only meant to mirror the music you have in iTunes. Without any hacking the only music on your iPod is music you already have on your PC.
Anything else?
People are human. Riots, drunkenness, disorderly conduct, crime, etc. are all part of what it means to be human in a human society. Extra surveillance won't change anything about human nature one bit, all it will do is give hotheads more reason to lash out against authority.
No, although some of the other complaints on blackboxvoting.org might be.
You need what for your what-hole?
That's the technique used for the XBox game "Indigo Prophecy". It worked quite well.
Try relating any of the main characters of Final Fantasy I to the main boss. Cecil didn't have a relationship to the ultimate evil, although he does defeat himself at one point by refusing to fight.
Story is all the matters eh? Nothing about dialog, grammar, structure, and description? Story does matter, but it isn't the whole book.
Would "Snow Crash" be as entertaining without Stephenson's machine gun prose? Would "A Song of Ice and Fire" be as involving without Martin's richly detailed and realistic characters? Would LOTR be as popular without Tolkien's insane amount of detail? Would "One Hundred Years of Solitude" be as engrossing without Marquez's incomparable use of magical realism?
Let me give you some examples through movie:
Star Wars. Simplistic storyline that would bore anyone to tears made fascinating by incorporation of nifty ideas and placed in a space opera setting.
Memento. A decent story made unforgettable (ha) by use of an extremely clever format.