Surely. I know how it was here in Sweden and elsewhere back when my grandparents where alive, and I still consider my morals and views of society superior. Just because great changes occured relatively speaking, just before I was born, does not mean that they have not happened. My grandmother on my fathers side, for example, had her first child born out of wedlock when she was 14, and was more or less cast out for it. Fortunately my grandfather took her in.
I am not american (swedish), and does not watch fox news - but it would seem to me that the claims that these things are done are uncontested by both western media and human rights organizations. Would you have any other source that says otherwhise?
Yes. But you presumably do what you think is right based on experience and observed real-world consequences of pain/happiness for yourself other beings, without complicating things with other factors.
Coercion is, unfortunately, the only way to prevent people without a conscience to commit bad acts, and "normal" people from commiting stupid/rash/uninformed acts. The attitude that physical force is always bad is just another simplification.
Religion is morally neutral. In your earlier posts you speak of a controlling "social fabric" as if it was a good thing, and I'm going to be brusque and assume that this includes religious values. Could you elaborate on your position in these questions?
I've never been involved in data center-ing, but call whomever owns the last jump to it (and presumably has records of the cables running to it) and ask?
Yes. The original manga is much more detailed when it comes to technical subjects - Shirow Masamunes view of the cyberbrain-experienced cyberspace was that it was "incomprehensible" and not really visual as such. He allegedly has an engineer education, so I always interpreted that as meaning something like the experience of a code/data model in your brain, as you experience when you are programming, turned up to 12. This also puts the twisted inhuman minds of the kids in the cyberbrain autism care center in a more comprehensible light. At one point in SAC, Motoko exclaims something to the likes of "Perhaps the key is going beyond this"; The Laughing Man (Aoi) is calm, serene and polite - showing that he has not lost himself (his ghost, his core "I") underneath the pressure of thought-as-data. This leading to a mastery of hacking, since he can take real-world and interpersonal variables into account, and gives him the ability to have cohesive goals and drive.
I've never been nicked for anything - but what I was getting at is that the status quo changes quite dramatically if you can and will enforce all traffic laws, turning a calculated risk of getting fined into a near absolute certainity.
So, we now need easy-to-use software for identifying video and image manipulation usable without much technical skill? I have no technical insights as to how these things are done, though.
It wasn't mysticism I was getting at - more like "Oh, so this more fundamental model of the universe means that this exception exists to space/time as we know it. Who could have thought?"
The clinch is of course, that in computer security the client has no idea what the hell you are doing whatsoever. There is no direct way for the client to observe if he has been ripped off, so people will therefore intuitively feel that a larger moral burden rests on the "comp sec guy."
I haven't played through 9 either, but he's "warm", almost like a foil to to cloud and squall, who where a psychotic emotionless stoic and a neurotic emotionless stoic respectively.
I think the core of the reaction to this is, the traffic system isn't and has never been built around everyone keeping every speed limit and rule all the time, implicitly?
Not all text adventures have narrative simplicity - the model that Inform 7 uses, with object types/inheritance allows you to build up a detailed "model world" with logical relationships easily, not just a progressive "if/then" scenario.
2. If you're going to hack an ATM, you have to have physical access to it.
You should never just assume things like that, even if it seems obvious. Assumption leads to complacency. Complacency leads to UFO theorists in your workstations.
You only have to break a small part for a time long enough for people to realise that your cause is just. That is, if the common man would find your cause just.
Do you mean in pure C or using a framework? And wich one, in that case? I found that writing in Inform 7 is unituitive at first, but it becomes extremely easy and flowing once you have memorized the syntax and structure. As in, you only have to think about the behaviour of the model world you are constructing, not the layout and management of code and data objects.
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Surely. I know how it was here in Sweden and elsewhere back when my grandparents where alive, and I still consider my morals and views of society superior. Just because great changes occured relatively speaking, just before I was born, does not mean that they have not happened. My grandmother on my fathers side, for example, had her first child born out of wedlock when she was 14, and was more or less cast out for it. Fortunately my grandfather took her in.
I am not american (swedish), and does not watch fox news - but it would seem to me that the claims that these things are done are uncontested by both western media and human rights organizations. Would you have any other source that says otherwhise?
I see. Then we are quite simply wildly divergent in what constitutes the basic terms of morality and good/evil.
Saudi Arabia? The same country that lashes little girls, homosexuals, and adulterers?
Yes. But you presumably do what you think is right based on experience and observed real-world consequences of pain/happiness for yourself other beings, without complicating things with other factors.
Coercion is, unfortunately, the only way to prevent people without a conscience to commit bad acts, and "normal" people from commiting stupid/rash/uninformed acts. The attitude that physical force is always bad is just another simplification.
Religion is morally neutral. In your earlier posts you speak of a controlling "social fabric" as if it was a good thing, and I'm going to be brusque and assume that this includes religious values. Could you elaborate on your position in these questions?
To be fair, I read that quote, and thought about it while posting. Why it didn't "click" that you where kidding, I don't know.
I've never been involved in data center-ing, but call whomever owns the last jump to it (and presumably has records of the cables running to it) and ask?
Yes. The original manga is much more detailed when it comes to technical subjects - Shirow Masamunes view of the cyberbrain-experienced cyberspace was that it was "incomprehensible" and not really visual as such. He allegedly has an engineer education, so I always interpreted that as meaning something like the experience of a code/data model in your brain, as you experience when you are programming, turned up to 12. This also puts the twisted inhuman minds of the kids in the cyberbrain autism care center in a more comprehensible light. At one point in SAC, Motoko exclaims something to the likes of "Perhaps the key is going beyond this"; The Laughing Man (Aoi) is calm, serene and polite - showing that he has not lost himself (his ghost, his core "I") underneath the pressure of thought-as-data. This leading to a mastery of hacking, since he can take real-world and interpersonal variables into account, and gives him the ability to have cohesive goals and drive.
I've never been nicked for anything - but what I was getting at is that the status quo changes quite dramatically if you can and will enforce all traffic laws, turning a calculated risk of getting fined into a near absolute certainity.
So, we now need easy-to-use software for identifying video and image manipulation usable without much technical skill? I have no technical insights as to how these things are done, though.
It wasn't mysticism I was getting at - more like "Oh, so this more fundamental model of the universe means that this exception exists to space/time as we know it. Who could have thought?"
He learnt to edit himself out completely towards the end, though. Leading to a very big-ham moment with Batou exclaiming "He stole my eyes!"
Seconded.
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You assume that what we take as hard rules of physical reality even remotely approximates how the universe actually functions.
The clinch is of course, that in computer security the client has no idea what the hell you are doing whatsoever. There is no direct way for the client to observe if he has been ripped off, so people will therefore intuitively feel that a larger moral burden rests on the "comp sec guy."
I haven't played through 9 either, but he's "warm", almost like a foil to to cloud and squall, who where a psychotic emotionless stoic and a neurotic emotionless stoic respectively.
Unless, of course, you are a programmer/IT person.
I think the core of the reaction to this is, the traffic system isn't and has never been built around everyone keeping every speed limit and rule all the time, implicitly?
Not all text adventures have narrative simplicity - the model that Inform 7 uses, with object types/inheritance allows you to build up a detailed "model world" with logical relationships easily, not just a progressive "if/then" scenario.
2. If you're going to hack an ATM, you have to have physical access to it.
You should never just assume things like that, even if it seems obvious. Assumption leads to complacency. Complacency leads to UFO theorists in your workstations.
You only have to break a small part for a time long enough for people to realise that your cause is just. That is, if the common man would find your cause just.
Do you mean in pure C or using a framework? And wich one, in that case? I found that writing in Inform 7 is unituitive at first, but it becomes extremely easy and flowing once you have memorized the syntax and structure. As in, you only have to think about the behaviour of the model world you are constructing, not the layout and management of code and data objects.