Posting the source is one thing, but the effect is limited. Perhaps the EFF (or some other organization) should start a fund for "public education". Use the money to buy ad space in mainstream publications, and provide a URL to more detailed discussion online. Encourage letter writing and boycotts.
Showing consumers that (and how) they're getting exploited by powerful corporations address the larger issue here anyway.
Write all the AI code in a simulator, or whatever. Additional costs would be negligable... some sensors, and extra processing. You could probably protect most of the "brains" from physical harm anyway....
It would be far more costly in terms of *time*, but that's just raising the bar...
It means that students, who have problems with the evolution theory (most likely their parents..) will not be required to learn things they find offending, simply to able to pass statewide tests governing the quality of education.
I am offended by the idea of the holocaust, or most any war. I could be offended by ideas of racial equality (were I a supremacist). I could be offended by the fact that there is more than one infinity (how absurd!).
Just because something might offend somebody, doesn't mean it isn't important and worthwhile to learn.
I think there is something wrong with being offended by an idea (or theory). Taking offense at a fact is even worse (not claiming evolution to be factual... but it is possible!).
Educators have a responsibility to expose their students to any viable theory, and one might go as far as to say they ought to expose their students to any popular theory, if only for the sake of worldliness....
You have GOT to be kidding. Cocaine DESTROYS lives. I destroys careers. It destroys families. It may not be anywhere near as immediate as an alcohol-induced car wreck, but there's no question about what it does to people. Cocaine does no such thing. People do those things. Believe it or not, there are lots of successful career people, family people, even, who have fairly serious cocaine problems. I know of a very successful company or two that was BUILT ON COCAINE. The builders have since gotten off the awful drug, but their cocaine induced drive at the beginning made them sucessful. This is not an endorsement of cocaine, or any other drug for that matter. My point about the company being "built on cocaine" is meant to contrast symbolic's claim that it DESTROYS lives. Action requires decisions. People make decisions, chemicals don't.
Being able to ingest more toxins than most people is a pretty pathetic thing to brag about. Is that the best thing about you, the thing you want everyone to remember?
Some "drugs" are toxins, and others are not. Alchohol is a toxin. LSD is not a toxin. Large doses of Alchohol will kill you. Large doses of LSD will make you crazy, but not kill you outright. Large doses of Marijuana (for the sake of completeness, assume it's ingested as food, and not smoked) is not a toxin.
I am offended at your post because you obviously have not experimented with psychedelic drugs (LSD, psylocibe, etc). I think any hacker who has will agree that the comparison is at least somewhat valid.
People with a strong rational consciousness can handle larger doses of LSD, for example, than those who are not practiced at thinking, those lacking mental discipline. Keeping on top of your mind when it is operating in an usual manner is a rough task, but can be very rewarding.
Excessive use of drugs might turn one into the pants-pooping buffon, deftly piloting MS Bob, but it depends on what "drugs" your talking about. I know plenty of men and women with a good 30+ years of regular drug use who are amongst the brightest, mentally sharp people I've ever met. You can say "imagine what they'd have been without the drugs", but nobody really can know that. If drug use had the effects that you describe, it would mean that there are thousands upon thousands of einstien-level geniuses living today, all of which have crippled themselves by drug use.
I doubt it.
This habit of non-drug-users spouting this kind of crap drives me crazy sometimes.
This AC is absolutely right... the sheer number of posts whining about a PR dept. doing what a PR dept. does is sickening... Apple is a company out to make a buck, sure they're gonna put some fishy numbers based on vauge comparisons. I'd really have thought there'd be a more supportive response for a major OS vendor testing the open source waters. MSX seems like a pretty nice piece of work, and I look forward to examining it personally. I would much rather discuss details than waste my time reading lame "hmmm... those marketing numbers look susupicious" posts.
I often wonder about that sort of thing... is it really help, or continued imperialism? Very fuzzy distinction. Sometimes I think that study abroad programs are good, other times I wonder if it only strengthens western influence....
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Posting the source is one thing, but the effect is limited. Perhaps the EFF (or some other organization) should start a fund for "public education". Use the money to buy ad space in mainstream publications, and provide a URL to more detailed discussion online. Encourage letter writing and boycotts.
Showing consumers that (and how) they're getting exploited by powerful corporations address the larger issue here anyway.
I code often, and Frank usually helps me out.
... watermellon in easter hay...
Esp. Instrumental stuff... mmmm
I can make a page with a CGI to WHOIS, and put ads on it, can't I?
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what are you talking about?
Write all the AI code in a simulator, or whatever.
Additional costs would be negligable... some sensors, and extra processing. You could probably protect most of the "brains" from physical harm anyway....
It would be far more costly in terms of *time*, but that's just raising the bar...
Hundreds? Is that all?
It means that students, who have problems with the evolution theory (most likely their parents..) will not be required to learn things they find offending, simply to able to pass statewide tests governing the quality of education.
I am offended by the idea of the holocaust, or most any war. I could be offended by ideas of racial equality (were I a supremacist). I could be offended by the fact that there is more than one infinity (how absurd!).
Just because something might offend somebody, doesn't mean it isn't important and worthwhile to learn.
I think there is something wrong with being offended by an idea (or theory). Taking offense at a fact is even worse (not claiming evolution to be factual... but it is possible!).
Educators have a responsibility to expose their students to any viable theory, and one might go as far as to say they ought to expose their students to any popular theory, if only for the sake of worldliness....
You have GOT to be kidding. Cocaine DESTROYS lives. I destroys careers. It destroys families. It may not be anywhere near as immediate as an alcohol-induced car wreck, but there's no question about what it does to people. Cocaine does no such thing. People do those things. Believe it or not, there are lots of successful career people, family people, even, who have fairly serious cocaine problems. I know of a very successful company or two that was BUILT ON COCAINE. The builders have since gotten off the awful drug, but their cocaine induced drive at the beginning made them sucessful. This is not an endorsement of cocaine, or any other drug for that matter. My point about the company being "built on cocaine" is meant to contrast symbolic's claim that it DESTROYS lives. Action requires decisions. People make decisions, chemicals don't.
Being able to ingest more toxins than most people is a pretty pathetic thing to brag about. Is that the best
thing about you, the thing you want everyone to remember?
Some "drugs" are toxins, and others are not. Alchohol is a toxin. LSD is not a toxin. Large doses of Alchohol will kill you. Large doses of LSD will make you crazy, but not kill you outright. Large doses of Marijuana (for the sake of completeness, assume it's ingested as food, and not smoked) is not a toxin.
I am offended at your post because you obviously have not experimented with psychedelic drugs (LSD, psylocibe, etc). I think any hacker who has will agree that the comparison is at least somewhat valid.
People with a strong rational consciousness can handle larger doses of LSD, for example, than those who are not practiced at thinking, those lacking mental discipline. Keeping on top of your mind when it is operating in an usual manner is a rough task, but can be very rewarding.
Excessive use of drugs might turn one into the pants-pooping buffon, deftly piloting MS Bob, but it depends on what "drugs" your talking about. I know plenty of men and women with a good 30+ years of regular drug use who are amongst the brightest, mentally sharp people I've ever met. You can say "imagine what they'd have been without the drugs", but nobody really can know that. If drug use had the effects that you describe, it would mean that there are thousands upon thousands of einstien-level geniuses living today, all of which have crippled themselves by drug use.
I doubt it.
This habit of non-drug-users spouting this kind of crap drives me crazy sometimes.
This AC is absolutely right... the sheer number of posts whining about a PR dept. doing what a PR dept. does is sickening... Apple is a company out to make a buck, sure they're gonna put some fishy numbers based on vauge comparisons. I'd really have thought there'd be a more supportive response for a major OS vendor testing the open source waters. MSX seems like a pretty nice piece of work, and I look forward to examining it personally. I would much rather discuss details than waste my time reading lame "hmmm... those marketing numbers look susupicious" posts.
I often wonder about that sort of thing... is it really help, or continued imperialism? Very fuzzy distinction. Sometimes I think that study abroad programs are good, other times I wonder if it only strengthens western influence....
or am I just having really wicked deja-vu... I have been up doing work all night, but I don't *think* I've gone so much crazier...
Looks like the /. effect has gotten us special mention in a new airtoon, how quaint ;-). Now there is no question that it matters!