it's a bit frustrating when a state is bankrupt itself and has to throw more money down the drain to do something like this.
I agree, they should spend no money on well established megacorps, if they have to spend it, instead use it as venture capital for small startups in the area.
Besides, if the implication is that their source of funding makes them unreliable, doesn't that mean that similar analysis of the funding for climatologists on the other side of the issue is also fair?
I would be interested in finding out what is to be gained by these parties by erring towards climate change, is it monetary?, political?, egotism? That's what cemented my views early on. After all, apart from selling books or getting political brownie points, what do they have to gain from misinforming us?
Look, I'm a real left-winger, but the term 'gun-violence' is too caught up in semantics, after all the important statistic is the overall homicide rate which isn't markedly different than Britain. It's certainly not the straightforward issue that some would make it out to be, and incomparable to drug laws, but it seems best to me that we err towards the side of less law on these contentious issues.
Because you suffer from some form of cognitive bias? Perhaps an omission bias,
We don't have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it.
Agree, and there is definitely a difference on the user front, notably their contributions to open source. They have bankrolled two open source browsers, Chrome and Firefox, and this is something that we will never see Microsoft or Apple do.
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wow, what an unreasonable comparison, ~1,000,000 unnecessary civilian deaths isn't something for partisan fucks such as yourself to scoff at, it's more comparable to the holocaust, the soviet gulags, or pol pots killing fields.
The best incentive I can think of is to transfer most if not all income taxes into resource taxes, since the wealthy are experts at dodging taxes, they may well become experts at using less resources.
For the fuck-knuckle GP: Don't forget that the ones with faith here are the ones denying a growing body of scientific evidence, and indeed logic itself.
Shape your politics around reality, and not the other way around.
Honestly I don't think obscenities would exist without a society, and probably a prudish Victorian one that makes everyone embarrassed when I say the word "cunt".
All that aside, we should at least agree that Marxism has in its total caused far more harm than good, even if we cannot say the same for socialism and liberal democracy in general.
I used to run my Centos install as root, being a stupid windows user, and one day i was playing around in thunar (which actually has red bar at the top, to warn you not to..), and I accidentaly deleted my usr/var folder.
In all fairness I learnt a lot about bash and the LFS heirachy trying to get back to Init 5 though, I think in the end I copied the folder over from a fedora ISO, still a bit glitchy to this day though.
Within ten years consoles will have a small "Anti-Piracy/Anti-Terrorist" bottle of sarin gas that sprays you in the face, if you try to open the top, or if you make Anti-Microsoft or Anti-American comments on xbox-live.
maid stuff, or mow/garden/etc if they hire landscapers, etc...
What if your parents are maids or landscapers? It's fucking funny how your so outraged that he can't replace one of his parents servants, jesus where did you grow up? Buckingham Palace?
Exactly, this is what happens when you buy a black box, you have absolutely no rights and its manufacturer do whatever it wishes to it as soon as you connect to the net.
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Furthermore, the given argument wasn't about whether parents redistribute toys. Read it again. It was about whether kids force redistribution upon other kids.
You are right, but think of the parent as a benevolent socialist dictator, and we are on the right track. You seem to take a somewhat Georgist approach to parenting, everyone shares the natural resources (AKA the junk), but has the right to the fruits of their own labour, or in this case: the toy's they earned.
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So the point you are trying to make is that libertarians are somewhat like greedy children?
Just as any physical system can be modeled within a Turing machine, including the neural networks in our brain, given infinite resources that is. Also a complete understanding of the system in question is required, which is likely the impossible part. I have a feeling that free will is going to be proven to just be a part of a general illusion of consciousness, and that people (even atheists) will have a hard time excepting it, for religious reasons. While the original thought's may occur somewhat spontaneously (but possibly still deterministically ), It seems likely to me that most ideas and thoughts we have are selected in a highly deterministic fashion, and that only in the most poorly educated or fine grained decisions does chance even come into play, and even then this chance doesn't have to come from a quantum source.
To quote Daniel Dennet:
The model of decision making I am proposing has the following feature: when we are faced with an important decision, a consideration-generator whose output is to some degree undetermined produces a series of considerations, some of which may of course be immediately rejected as irrelevant by the agent (consciously or unconsciously). Those considerations that are selected by the agent as having a more than negligible bearing on the decision then figure in a reasoning process, and if the agent is in the main reasonable, those considerations ultimately serve as predictors and explicators of the agent's final decision.
So while "freewill" of a sort exists, it's probably an Insignificant indicator of our behaviors, and unsteady ground to build an entire political philosophy and justice system on:).
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it's a bit frustrating when a state is bankrupt itself and has to throw more money down the drain to do something like this.
I agree, they should spend no money on well established megacorps, if they have to spend it, instead use it as venture capital for small startups in the area.
Besides, if the implication is that their source of funding makes them unreliable, doesn't that mean that similar analysis of the funding for climatologists on the other side of the issue is also fair?
I would be interested in finding out what is to be gained by these parties by erring towards climate change, is it monetary?, political?, egotism? That's what cemented my views early on. After all, apart from selling books or getting political brownie points, what do they have to gain from misinforming us?
Who cares what it looks like, I'm going to be on that shit as soon as it supports a high bit-depth workflow, which they are working towards.
Look, I'm a real left-winger, but the term 'gun-violence' is too caught up in semantics, after all the important statistic is the overall homicide rate which isn't markedly different than Britain. It's certainly not the straightforward issue that some would make it out to be, and incomparable to drug laws, but it seems best to me that we err towards the side of less law on these contentious issues.
We don't have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it.
- Douglas Adams.
Wow, and to think I thought the GP was being a troll, but no, that response more or less justifies him.
Compared to the US-backed Batista regime, Castro was more or less a Santa in green clothes.
If you're that paranoid why not just compile the Dev stream of chromium, having removed all of the code that doesn't take your fancy?
Agree, and there is definitely a difference on the user front, notably their contributions to open source. They have bankrolled two open source browsers, Chrome and Firefox, and this is something that we will never see Microsoft or Apple do. For m
Better a "douche bag" than an apathetic coward
They may well have broken the EULA though.
My apologies, I thought you were serious, you sounded like a Big-State Conservative.
wow, what an unreasonable comparison, ~1,000,000 unnecessary civilian deaths isn't something for partisan fucks such as yourself to scoff at, it's more comparable to the holocaust, the soviet gulags, or pol pots killing fields.
tell us why this is "different".
It's not and it sucks, but on the other hand at least so far this administration hasn't started any wars.
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The best incentive I can think of is to transfer most if not all income taxes into resource taxes, since the wealthy are experts at dodging taxes, they may well become experts at using less resources.
For the fuck-knuckle GP: Don't forget that the ones with faith here are the ones denying a growing body of scientific evidence, and indeed logic itself.
Shape your politics around reality, and not the other way around.
obscenities
Honestly I don't think obscenities would exist without a society, and probably a prudish Victorian one that makes everyone embarrassed when I say the word "cunt".
All that aside, we should at least agree that Marxism has in its total caused far more harm than good, even if we cannot say the same for socialism and liberal democracy in general.
In another instance, Microsoft has for all purposes phased out FAT, that doesn't stop them trolling TomTom with it.
I used to run my Centos install as root, being a stupid windows user, and one day i was playing around in thunar (which actually has red bar at the top, to warn you not to..), and I accidentaly deleted my usr/var folder. In all fairness I learnt a lot about bash and the LFS heirachy trying to get back to Init 5 though, I think in the end I copied the folder over from a fedora ISO, still a bit glitchy to this day though.
Within ten years consoles will have a small "Anti-Piracy/Anti-Terrorist" bottle of sarin gas that sprays you in the face, if you try to open the top, or if you make Anti-Microsoft or Anti-American comments on xbox-live.
maid stuff, or mow/garden/etc if they hire landscapers, etc...
What if your parents are maids or landscapers? It's fucking funny how your so outraged that he can't replace one of his parents servants, jesus where did you grow up? Buckingham Palace?
Exactly, this is what happens when you buy a black box, you have absolutely no rights and its manufacturer do whatever it wishes to it as soon as you connect to the net.
Furthermore, the given argument wasn't about whether parents redistribute toys. Read it again. It was about whether kids force redistribution upon other kids.
You are right, but think of the parent as a benevolent socialist dictator, and we are on the right track. You seem to take a somewhat Georgist approach to parenting, everyone shares the natural resources (AKA the junk), but has the right to the fruits of their own labour, or in this case: the toy's they earned.
So the point you are trying to make is that libertarians are somewhat like greedy children?
Just as any physical system can be modeled within a Turing machine, including the neural networks in our brain, given infinite resources that is. Also a complete understanding of the system in question is required, which is likely the impossible part. I have a feeling that free will is going to be proven to just be a part of a general illusion of consciousness, and that people (even atheists) will have a hard time excepting it, for religious reasons. While the original thought's may occur somewhat spontaneously (but possibly still deterministically ), It seems likely to me that most ideas and thoughts we have are selected in a highly deterministic fashion, and that only in the most poorly educated or fine grained decisions does chance even come into play, and even then this chance doesn't have to come from a quantum source.
To quote Daniel Dennet:
The model of decision making I am proposing has the following feature: when we are faced with an important decision, a consideration-generator whose output is to some degree undetermined produces a series of considerations, some of which may of course be immediately rejected as irrelevant by the agent (consciously or unconsciously). Those considerations that are selected by the agent as having a more than negligible bearing on the decision then figure in a reasoning process, and if the agent is in the main reasonable, those considerations ultimately serve as predictors and explicators of the agent's final decision.
So while "freewill" of a sort exists, it's probably an Insignificant indicator of our behaviors, and unsteady ground to build an entire political philosophy and justice system on :).
Just because ultimately we will discover our minds are deterministic machines, doesn't mean that we should get all upset about it.