If you think libertarians are simply anarchists, you aren't even knowledgeable enough to hold on a conversation on the topic. Learn about it first, then come back to the discussion.
Yes, I truly believe that once time zones are eliminated, the world will flatten and god will simply flip the earth toward and away from the earth every 12 hours. Feigning idiocy will get you nowhere. Come up with a real response, I'll give you the same courtesy.
So the two halves of the bar in two separate time zones are actually an hour apart? Those alcoholics must be breaking some of ground speed record every time they get up to use the john. Until our clocks and watches are continuously and automatically adjusted based on our longitude and the rotation of the Earth, no there is no physical meaning. It's simply the agreed upon time for your little portion of the planet. So if time is simply that which society agrees upon, how is it any different to use GMT rather than some half baked time zone lines and the rules which come with them?
Yeah, times have real, physical meaning. Unless you live in some place that doesn't do daylight savings. Arizona does not observe daylight savings. Or are in some weird time zone. Kathmandu is a 15 minute time zone instead of a full hour. Or live on the edge of a time zone. I've heard rumors of a bar in Florida that is somehow in two separate time zones. When it's closing time on the east coast, people pick up their drinks and move to the other side of the bar where they continue to drink for another hour.
What a joke.
No, times and time zones are arbitrary and have no real meaning. I've often thought the world should just use GMT. Wouldn't it be nice if you would just know what hours a business was open without having to calculate time zone differences, and then try to remember what the rules are for that timezone? I just recently missed a new episode of a TV show I enjoy because the time I saw was given in EST instead of CST. (Fortunately they rerun that show several times) Times only have a meaning because we give them one. If the country can adjust to a new daylight savings schedule, I'm sure we could adjust to a decent universal time system.
Make it a movie. Preferably one starring Jean Claude van Damme and a suitably attractive love interest who save the world from a deadly strain of bird flu. I'd be all over that.
If you want to argue about the speed of light or the status of a bill, yes those facts can be looked up.
But we're not talking about facts that have a long history of scientific review and simple yes/no questions. Where is the Iraq civilian death count conveniently laid out on an easy to navigate website, or in an encyclopedia that was printed decades ago? The civilian death count in Iraq has been highly accurately estimated by various sources to be somewhere between 50,000 and 650,000. Now tell me, which source is accurate? Get out your Encyclopedia Britannica, tell me what it says about that subject. How are the physicists coming with answer?
The issue the Pentagon will likely focus on is the late breaking news. Things which aren't widely known and which are difficult to verify. In those situations, the more information the better.
Funny, I never realized that about those two songs.
But beyond that example, all music is derivative. There are a number of chord progressions that lots of music uses. Standard blues riffs are the basis of countless songs. I highly doubt that at this time there's a way for software to accurately recognize songs. Similar songs? Sure, but there's no law against creating music that sounds similar to other music. The false positives will make it difficult to upload damn near anything.
Others have already commented on the Google thing, I'll just chalk it up to being early in the morning.
Where do you suggest people get their facts? Unless every person has the time and resources to independently verify every piece of information that they read, at some point it becomes a matter of trust.
So who do you trust? Do you want to believe biased article A, B or C? The reason everyone's opinion is important is because everyone has an agenda, and the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
Quite right. The knee-jerkers have already decided that everything from here on out is going to be filtered through the Pentagon. Instead, this sounds like it will just be one more source of information to be added to the pile, from amongst which everyone has to discover the truth for themselves.
Slow down there, skippy. The article does not say they will censor and rewrite the news. They will "fight" news by releasing their own version of it. The press is still free to report anything they want (within current legal limits).
Besides, with as much propaganda as already exists from the both the left and right, I fail to see how much difference this will make in the grand scheme of things. As it has always has been, if you want to find the truth you'll have to take in all of the available info and find the middle ground somewhere in between.
If the purpose of compressing information such as Wikipedia is for distribution for something such as the OLPC, compression time is largely irrelevant. Compression is done once, on one system, and the decompression is usually fairly fast.
While they may be useful while other technology matures, the life of interfaces based on flat surfaces is limited. The keyboard, the mouse, this touch screen (cool though it may be) are a decade away from obscurity. As it has in the past, I think the game industry is going to open the doors to the public of true 3D interfaces. If the Wii is as big a hit as is predicted, and works as well as some hope, people are going to start expecting that sort of control in the future. The days of hand pain from using current interface tools will hopefully end, because no matter how "natural" that keyboard or mouse is, it's natural for one person and not another. I for one would love to have an interface that involved nothing more than my hands in mid air making natural, comfortable movements.
And for those still stuck on the porn aspect, just imagine what that could do for you.
Have you ever thought about why rape is bad? Is it because it's inherently bad? Or is it because society says so? In the grand scheme of the universe, rape is irrelevant, and therefore it's society's opinion that it's bad. What if there were a society which decided that rape was good?
And please, if anyone is going to reply, stay away from strawmen. I'm not making a statement on my opinion of the goodness or badness of rape, simply arguing that there everything is inherently neutral and good or bad is simply a human construct.
The irony here is that that financial woes are the leading cause of divorce -- if anything this silly notion is probably setting up young couples to fail.
All the better to sell them another expensive rock a few years down the road.
And why wouldn't they? They need new laptops to use with their shiny new digital cameras, MP3 players, and PDAs which were conveniently removed from luggage.
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Seeing how angry that makes you, I'm pretty sure you've just dumped yourself in the "pathetic little Sony fanboy shits" category.
If you think libertarians are simply anarchists, you aren't even knowledgeable enough to hold on a conversation on the topic. Learn about it first, then come back to the discussion.
We also capitalize the initial words of our sentences in English. Got any more smartass remarks, dipshit?
Yes, I truly believe that once time zones are eliminated, the world will flatten and god will simply flip the earth toward and away from the earth every 12 hours. Feigning idiocy will get you nowhere. Come up with a real response, I'll give you the same courtesy.
So the two halves of the bar in two separate time zones are actually an hour apart? Those alcoholics must be breaking some of ground speed record every time they get up to use the john. Until our clocks and watches are continuously and automatically adjusted based on our longitude and the rotation of the Earth, no there is no physical meaning. It's simply the agreed upon time for your little portion of the planet. So if time is simply that which society agrees upon, how is it any different to use GMT rather than some half baked time zone lines and the rules which come with them?
Yeah, times have real, physical meaning. Unless you live in some place that doesn't do daylight savings. Arizona does not observe daylight savings. Or are in some weird time zone. Kathmandu is a 15 minute time zone instead of a full hour. Or live on the edge of a time zone. I've heard rumors of a bar in Florida that is somehow in two separate time zones. When it's closing time on the east coast, people pick up their drinks and move to the other side of the bar where they continue to drink for another hour.
What a joke.
No, times and time zones are arbitrary and have no real meaning. I've often thought the world should just use GMT. Wouldn't it be nice if you would just know what hours a business was open without having to calculate time zone differences, and then try to remember what the rules are for that timezone? I just recently missed a new episode of a TV show I enjoy because the time I saw was given in EST instead of CST. (Fortunately they rerun that show several times) Times only have a meaning because we give them one. If the country can adjust to a new daylight savings schedule, I'm sure we could adjust to a decent universal time system.
I'd pay to receive that kind of advertising. Where can I buy some?
Make it a movie. Preferably one starring Jean Claude van Damme and a suitably attractive love interest who save the world from a deadly strain of bird flu. I'd be all over that.
If you want to argue about the speed of light or the status of a bill, yes those facts can be looked up.
But we're not talking about facts that have a long history of scientific review and simple yes/no questions. Where is the Iraq civilian death count conveniently laid out on an easy to navigate website, or in an encyclopedia that was printed decades ago? The civilian death count in Iraq has been highly accurately estimated by various sources to be somewhere between 50,000 and 650,000. Now tell me, which source is accurate? Get out your Encyclopedia Britannica, tell me what it says about that subject. How are the physicists coming with answer?
The issue the Pentagon will likely focus on is the late breaking news. Things which aren't widely known and which are difficult to verify. In those situations, the more information the better.
Funny, I never realized that about those two songs.
But beyond that example, all music is derivative. There are a number of chord progressions that lots of music uses. Standard blues riffs are the basis of countless songs. I highly doubt that at this time there's a way for software to accurately recognize songs. Similar songs? Sure, but there's no law against creating music that sounds similar to other music. The false positives will make it difficult to upload damn near anything.
Others have already commented on the Google thing, I'll just chalk it up to being early in the morning.
Where do you suggest people get their facts? Unless every person has the time and resources to independently verify every piece of information that they read, at some point it becomes a matter of trust.
So who do you trust? Do you want to believe biased article A, B or C? The reason everyone's opinion is important is because everyone has an agenda, and the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
I'm sorry I don't have any points to mod you up.
Quite right. The knee-jerkers have already decided that everything from here on out is going to be filtered through the Pentagon. Instead, this sounds like it will just be one more source of information to be added to the pile, from amongst which everyone has to discover the truth for themselves.
More brilliant discourse from the left. When you can't argue, discredit. You're as bad as Bush.
Can the US military not disseminate it's own ideas? Or should that privilege belong solely to people with whom you agree? Who's afraid ideas again?
Slow down there, skippy. The article does not say they will censor and rewrite the news. They will "fight" news by releasing their own version of it. The press is still free to report anything they want (within current legal limits).
Besides, with as much propaganda as already exists from the both the left and right, I fail to see how much difference this will make in the grand scheme of things. As it has always has been, if you want to find the truth you'll have to take in all of the available info and find the middle ground somewhere in between.
If the purpose of compressing information such as Wikipedia is for distribution for something such as the OLPC, compression time is largely irrelevant. Compression is done once, on one system, and the decompression is usually fairly fast.
While they may be useful while other technology matures, the life of interfaces based on flat surfaces is limited. The keyboard, the mouse, this touch screen (cool though it may be) are a decade away from obscurity. As it has in the past, I think the game industry is going to open the doors to the public of true 3D interfaces. If the Wii is as big a hit as is predicted, and works as well as some hope, people are going to start expecting that sort of control in the future. The days of hand pain from using current interface tools will hopefully end, because no matter how "natural" that keyboard or mouse is, it's natural for one person and not another. I for one would love to have an interface that involved nothing more than my hands in mid air making natural, comfortable movements.
And for those still stuck on the porn aspect, just imagine what that could do for you.
Indeed. My eyes actually hurt after looking at the yellow and orange on her site.
I'd reply to that, but I'm too tired. Nihilism is exhausting.
Have you ever thought about why rape is bad? Is it because it's inherently bad? Or is it because society says so? In the grand scheme of the universe, rape is irrelevant, and therefore it's society's opinion that it's bad. What if there were a society which decided that rape was good?
And please, if anyone is going to reply, stay away from strawmen. I'm not making a statement on my opinion of the goodness or badness of rape, simply arguing that there everything is inherently neutral and good or bad is simply a human construct.
All the better to sell them another expensive rock a few years down the road.
And why wouldn't they? They need new laptops to use with their shiny new digital cameras, MP3 players, and PDAs which were conveniently removed from luggage.