Or perhaps I was answering the only part of the post that wasn't so obviously riddled with sarcasm that it merited being given a serious answer. Even when slavery was entirely legal, beating slaves who were loyal, obedient, and were performing all of their duties satisfactorily was considered socially aberrant behaviour.
The ability to make a choice that can run contrary to what was instructed. Appearing to do so, for instance, making a right turn when you instructed it to make a left, may not be an example of free will when there are extenuating circumstances to the left that the machine was instructed to avoid... and in such a case, the right turn would be a matter of simply following instructions it had already been given.
If it turned right instead simply because it were "curious" about what was to the right, or because it simply saw that direction as more advantageous to its own purposes and disregarded the intention of its instructor, then that would clearly be an example of free will.
To be perfectly honest, if he were to ask me, I'd tell him to either give up on the idea that EV's are ever going to be suitable for most people based solely on allegedly practical advantages when they cost so much more, or else do something to actually address range anxiety. It doesn't just magically go away just because people who don't care about it that much think it's unimportant. The fact is that most people will make purchases based on emotion instead of logic... and anyone who fails to accommodate that fact will not succeed in the long run.
Addressing range anxiety can be accomplished one of two ways.... one is by having an EV that can get over a thousand miles on a charge, and you can recharge it overnight. This is comparable to how much distance you could put on an automobile in a day if you were making a long trip.... sure you'd have to stop for gas throughout the day, but those stops would only take a few minute each, which brings me to the second way that range anxiety could be alleviated, which is to have rapid recharge stations for EV's, as ubiquitous as gas stations, and which take no longer to fully charge an electric vehicle than it would to fill up a conventional automobile with gasoline.
That argument is as fallacious as claiming that you need to own the biggest SUV there is because once every couple of years you want to tow a boat
Only if you consider the convenience factor of owning vs renting to be "fallacious"
Well, I want to do a 1500 mile trip without charging, so EVs are impratical!"
I don't care if I have to charge a car during a 1500 mile trip... I have to stop and fill up with gas every so often in a regular car. But I *do* expect to be able to finish said trip in about the same amount of time as I would if I were driving a gasoline automobile, which would necessitate extremely rapid charging... from practically empty to full in a matter of minutes.
I have no problem if other people want to drive a tesla...
What I do have a problem with is when people ignore facts that are actually relevant to considering a vehicle purchase such as convenience just because such facts may not be based on objectively measurable data like fuel economy.
but if you want objective, I will own a car for as long as about ten years, and probably spend about a thousand dollars a year on gas. The tesla model S, whitch is the only ev I've ever seen that didn't look like a piece of crap is priced at about $40k more than what I'd normally want to spend on a car... So I'm spending more money than even what I'd be spending on a regular car plus gas, and losing the convenience if bing able to use it for long trips
I'm probably going to get modded as flamebait or troll for saying this, but all EV's are "toys"... including Tesla.
The problem is that although a Tesla's range on a charge is going to be good enough for probably more than 90% of a person's driving, especially if they live in an urban area, unless a person wants to own an extra vehicle that they only very rarely use, an automobile really needs to be just as practical for extended trips as it is for commuting... One could rent a vehicle for those longer tips, but this is still going to be less convenient than owning one. Considering most people in cities own cars in the first place because of the convenience factor over alternatives, I don't think that this is something that can continue to be ignored indefinitely by EV manufacturers.
Either the battery range on an EV needs to be at least thousand miles or so, and you recharge it overnight, or else it needs to get just as many miles as a full tank of gas on a charge, and can be charged up from practically depleted to fully charged in about the same amount of time as it takes to gas up an automobile at locations that are about equally ubiquitous as gas stations.
Until that happens, the EV will only remain an expensive toy.... no matter how much people scream how practical it allegedly is or how suitable it should be for such a high percentage of driving. Convenience matters to people... and until the EV does something to address that, it's just not going to be anything much more than a novelty to most people.
Of course, none of this is suggesting that' there's anything necessarily wrong with toys or liking things that most people don't., and I'd dare say that the people who will probably be most offended by what I've said above are people who expect or need approval from others for their own choices If it works for you, that's just great.... but can you really just not go on living if you are unable to convince a majority of other people that it should be just as practical for them as it is for you?
I never suggested it did. Please reead what I wrote...Free will implies a nondeterministic universe, but not the other way around, even though they are considered related issues in philosophy, and non-determinism suggests that free will is at least actually *possible*.
in fact, one can show that the only way to possibly know this for sure is if we can devise a test which can theoretically distinguish between what some might think is free will from what would actually qualify as a theoretical entirely freely willed decision when confronted with any kind of potential to make a decision.
Of course, the inability to devise such a test does not mean that free will definitely exists... at most, if you can actually ever prove that no such test can be constructed, even in theory, then you could show that the universe is not fully deterministic (which itself is a direct implication of the existence of free will, but not necessarily the other way around).
I had a prof like that too... although he didn't try to claim that the blank book was a textbook, but a notebook. Three times through the semester, he wanted to see our notes, and he graded them.
And at least it didn't cost very much... way less than $10, which itself is more than an order of magnitude less than what I'd spend on books for most of my other courses.
A rental. requires a contractual agreement before the rental commences, which usually requires your signature. They wouldn't have a legal leg to stand on if they sent you a bill for not returning it.
If I actually even had enough time to decide to swerve to avoid hitting somebody who had unexpectedly stepped onto the road, I probably have enough distance to stop, unless I were going faster than what is safe for the road conditions.
speaking from experience, one develops a profound appreciation for good brakes and tires when this kind of thing actually happens to you.
But to answer the question , I'd stay in my lane and hit the brakes, and hope for the best. If I hit the child, I would not be legally at fault I I could sho that the collision was unavoidable (dash cams are awesome), while swerving into oncoming traffic would make me entirely legally culpable for any damage and injuries... The fact that I swerved to avoid hitting a child would not impact this.. The law is actually quite clear.
Why would an automated car be drive on the sidewalk in the first place that a somehow unavoidable collision between pedestrians on the sidewalk and a steel pole would ever be an issue?
Apples and oranges. You have considerably more time than what mere physics will give to take somebody's life in which to make that decision and calculate the ramifications. This scenario addresses what to do when a collision is inevitable, and this will only be known mere moments before the event, and the outcome indeterminate in either case.
Most people are accustomed to a visual workflow, however... so documents others make and you need to collaborate with won't open nicely in your copy of LO.
Are they dead in the US? They were never a "thing" here to begin with.
They were definitely a thing in the US only a few years ago... A feature phone is basically just a low-end mobile phone. The key characteristic is that feature phones have more computing abilities than otherwise "plain" cell phones, the latter of which are capable of only sending or receiving voice calls and/or text messaging. The line between feature phone and smart phone is definitely a lot more blurry, but tends to be a function of how good the device is at running third party applications and how general purpose that the underlying computing platform is.
The term "feature phone" is not new... it's existed for almost as long as such phones have existed. It was invented to differentiate from just "cell phones", which are only capable of making or receiving calls and possibly text messages (although most phones with the latter capability are also feature phones). The feature phone is thus distinguished from the cell by having more "features".
The distinguishing characteristic of a feature phone in my experience is that you can run applications on it that the manufacturer did not bundle with the purchase of the phone... whether these applications are run natively by the phone's CPU or whether they utilize a virtual environment such as J2ME may vary. Basically, if it comes out of the box able to everything that you can ever do with it, then it it's not a feature phone. It is theoretically possible, with a firmware update, to change a pre-feature phone into a feature phone, although I've never seen that happen, I can only acknowledge its theoretical possibility.
He changed some of the questions so that he actually *COULD* answer them... because he considers the questions which referred to the terms that he changed, as they were originally asked, to be too ambiguous to give a response. Since this wasn't an interactive question period where RMS could ask the questioner for clarification about what the questioner actually meant, the only alternative would have been for RMS to simply ignore all such questions. RMS admittedly took a gamble in rephrasing the question, therefore, hoping that how he interpreted the question was the correct one, but at least he acknowledges his own interpretation of such questions, where it is applicable.
Feature phones are cell phones with additional "features", especially the ability to run different applications that a user can decide to install on it.
In the business world, documents need to not only be formatted the same way, they need to be equally editable by any recipient, so PDF is not workable. You can try to teach absolutely everybody to follow rigid standards but in the end, you are always still going to have to appease the weakest link in the chain, who is in my exprerience often the person paying your salary (or the person(s) that he or she needs to kiss ass for in order to keep the company itself afloat), and you don't really get to say "I want to use LibreOffice because I believe in freedom"... because hey.... you can have all the freedom you want... looking for another job and worrying about being able to continue to eat.
As said documents contain much personal information that isn't necessarily my own, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Really, you don't have to even try very heard to do this... and I'm surprised you would need to see proof of it. Try creating something in Office with images that have been positioned at certain points on a page. Something like a flyer or pamphlet can be especially problematic.
Of course, one might suggest that one ouoght to be using a better tool, such as Scribus for something like that, but the reason people distribute files in Office format is because of its near ubiquity. In fact, it's because of that ubiquity that the ability to open Office documents is even important in LO.
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Or perhaps I was answering the only part of the post that wasn't so obviously riddled with sarcasm that it merited being given a serious answer. Even when slavery was entirely legal, beating slaves who were loyal, obedient, and were performing all of their duties satisfactorily was considered socially aberrant behaviour.
I'm making a case that is practical for most people. Really, if that weren't the case, more people would be buying EV's.
The ability to make a choice that can run contrary to what was instructed. Appearing to do so, for instance, making a right turn when you instructed it to make a left, may not be an example of free will when there are extenuating circumstances to the left that the machine was instructed to avoid... and in such a case, the right turn would be a matter of simply following instructions it had already been given.
If it turned right instead simply because it were "curious" about what was to the right, or because it simply saw that direction as more advantageous to its own purposes and disregarded the intention of its instructor, then that would clearly be an example of free will.
To be perfectly honest, if he were to ask me, I'd tell him to either give up on the idea that EV's are ever going to be suitable for most people based solely on allegedly practical advantages when they cost so much more, or else do something to actually address range anxiety. It doesn't just magically go away just because people who don't care about it that much think it's unimportant. The fact is that most people will make purchases based on emotion instead of logic... and anyone who fails to accommodate that fact will not succeed in the long run.
Addressing range anxiety can be accomplished one of two ways.... one is by having an EV that can get over a thousand miles on a charge, and you can recharge it overnight. This is comparable to how much distance you could put on an automobile in a day if you were making a long trip.... sure you'd have to stop for gas throughout the day, but those stops would only take a few minute each, which brings me to the second way that range anxiety could be alleviated, which is to have rapid recharge stations for EV's, as ubiquitous as gas stations, and which take no longer to fully charge an electric vehicle than it would to fill up a conventional automobile with gasoline.
Only if you consider the convenience factor of owning vs renting to be "fallacious"
I don't care if I have to charge a car during a 1500 mile trip... I have to stop and fill up with gas every so often in a regular car. But I *do* expect to be able to finish said trip in about the same amount of time as I would if I were driving a gasoline automobile, which would necessitate extremely rapid charging... from practically empty to full in a matter of minutes.
I have no problem if other people want to drive a tesla...
What I do have a problem with is when people ignore facts that are actually relevant to considering a vehicle purchase such as convenience just because such facts may not be based on objectively measurable data like fuel economy.
but if you want objective, I will own a car for as long as about ten years, and probably spend about a thousand dollars a year on gas. The tesla model S, whitch is the only ev I've ever seen that didn't look like a piece of crap is priced at about $40k more than what I'd normally want to spend on a car... So I'm spending more money than even what I'd be spending on a regular car plus gas, and losing the convenience if bing able to use it for long trips
I'm probably going to get modded as flamebait or troll for saying this, but all EV's are "toys"... including Tesla.
The problem is that although a Tesla's range on a charge is going to be good enough for probably more than 90% of a person's driving, especially if they live in an urban area, unless a person wants to own an extra vehicle that they only very rarely use, an automobile really needs to be just as practical for extended trips as it is for commuting... One could rent a vehicle for those longer tips, but this is still going to be less convenient than owning one. Considering most people in cities own cars in the first place because of the convenience factor over alternatives, I don't think that this is something that can continue to be ignored indefinitely by EV manufacturers.
Either the battery range on an EV needs to be at least thousand miles or so, and you recharge it overnight, or else it needs to get just as many miles as a full tank of gas on a charge, and can be charged up from practically depleted to fully charged in about the same amount of time as it takes to gas up an automobile at locations that are about equally ubiquitous as gas stations.
Until that happens, the EV will only remain an expensive toy.... no matter how much people scream how practical it allegedly is or how suitable it should be for such a high percentage of driving. Convenience matters to people... and until the EV does something to address that, it's just not going to be anything much more than a novelty to most people.
Of course, none of this is suggesting that' there's anything necessarily wrong with toys or liking things that most people don't., and I'd dare say that the people who will probably be most offended by what I've said above are people who expect or need approval from others for their own choices If it works for you, that's just great.... but can you really just not go on living if you are unable to convince a majority of other people that it should be just as practical for them as it is for you?
Pretty straightforward I imagine.... You'd fail the course... with an "I" grade, for incomplete.
I never suggested it did. Please reead what I wrote...Free will implies a nondeterministic universe, but not the other way around, even though they are considered related issues in philosophy, and non-determinism suggests that free will is at least actually *possible*.
We don't actually know this.
in fact, one can show that the only way to possibly know this for sure is if we can devise a test which can theoretically distinguish between what some might think is free will from what would actually qualify as a theoretical entirely freely willed decision when confronted with any kind of potential to make a decision.
Of course, the inability to devise such a test does not mean that free will definitely exists... at most, if you can actually ever prove that no such test can be constructed, even in theory, then you could show that the universe is not fully deterministic (which itself is a direct implication of the existence of free will, but not necessarily the other way around).
You don't need to worry about "keeping them in line" if they don't have a free will in the first place.
Kind of like how you don't really need to worry about a steering wheel on a locomotive engine.
I had a prof like that too... although he didn't try to claim that the blank book was a textbook, but a notebook. Three times through the semester, he wanted to see our notes, and he graded them.
And at least it didn't cost very much... way less than $10, which itself is more than an order of magnitude less than what I'd spend on books for most of my other courses.
Where did you read that the digital version will be perpetually updated? That would be very worthwhile, but I don't recall reading that anywhere.
A rental. requires a contractual agreement before the rental commences, which usually requires your signature. They wouldn't have a legal leg to stand on if they sent you a bill for not returning it.
speaking from experience, one develops a profound appreciation for good brakes and tires when this kind of thing actually happens to you.
But to answer the question , I'd stay in my lane and hit the brakes, and hope for the best. If I hit the child, I would not be legally at fault I I could sho that the collision was unavoidable (dash cams are awesome), while swerving into oncoming traffic would make me entirely legally culpable for any damage and injuries... The fact that I swerved to avoid hitting a child would not impact this.. The law is actually quite clear.
PDF is not generally an editable document format. When you are collaborating with other people who use word, it's important to be using the same tool
Why would an automated car be drive on the sidewalk in the first place that a somehow unavoidable collision between pedestrians on the sidewalk and a steel pole would ever be an issue?
Apples and oranges. You have considerably more time than what mere physics will give to take somebody's life in which to make that decision and calculate the ramifications. This scenario addresses what to do when a collision is inevitable, and this will only be known mere moments before the event, and the outcome indeterminate in either case.
Most people are accustomed to a visual workflow, however... so documents others make and you need to collaborate with won't open nicely in your copy of LO.
They were definitely a thing in the US only a few years ago... A feature phone is basically just a low-end mobile phone. The key characteristic is that feature phones have more computing abilities than otherwise "plain" cell phones, the latter of which are capable of only sending or receiving voice calls and/or text messaging. The line between feature phone and smart phone is definitely a lot more blurry, but tends to be a function of how good the device is at running third party applications and how general purpose that the underlying computing platform is.
The term "feature phone" is not new... it's existed for almost as long as such phones have existed. It was invented to differentiate from just "cell phones", which are only capable of making or receiving calls and possibly text messages (although most phones with the latter capability are also feature phones). The feature phone is thus distinguished from the cell by having more "features".
The distinguishing characteristic of a feature phone in my experience is that you can run applications on it that the manufacturer did not bundle with the purchase of the phone... whether these applications are run natively by the phone's CPU or whether they utilize a virtual environment such as J2ME may vary. Basically, if it comes out of the box able to everything that you can ever do with it, then it it's not a feature phone. It is theoretically possible, with a firmware update, to change a pre-feature phone into a feature phone, although I've never seen that happen, I can only acknowledge its theoretical possibility.
He changed some of the questions so that he actually *COULD* answer them... because he considers the questions which referred to the terms that he changed, as they were originally asked, to be too ambiguous to give a response. Since this wasn't an interactive question period where RMS could ask the questioner for clarification about what the questioner actually meant, the only alternative would have been for RMS to simply ignore all such questions. RMS admittedly took a gamble in rephrasing the question, therefore, hoping that how he interpreted the question was the correct one, but at least he acknowledges his own interpretation of such questions, where it is applicable.
Feature phones are cell phones with additional "features", especially the ability to run different applications that a user can decide to install on it.
In the business world, documents need to not only be formatted the same way, they need to be equally editable by any recipient, so PDF is not workable. You can try to teach absolutely everybody to follow rigid standards but in the end, you are always still going to have to appease the weakest link in the chain, who is in my exprerience often the person paying your salary (or the person(s) that he or she needs to kiss ass for in order to keep the company itself afloat), and you don't really get to say "I want to use LibreOffice because I believe in freedom"... because hey.... you can have all the freedom you want... looking for another job and worrying about being able to continue to eat.
As said documents contain much personal information that isn't necessarily my own, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Really, you don't have to even try very heard to do this... and I'm surprised you would need to see proof of it. Try creating something in Office with images that have been positioned at certain points on a page. Something like a flyer or pamphlet can be especially problematic.
Of course, one might suggest that one ouoght to be using a better tool, such as Scribus for something like that, but the reason people distribute files in Office format is because of its near ubiquity. In fact, it's because of that ubiquity that the ability to open Office documents is even important in LO.