How long until someone comes up with a retrovirus that will change the length of your "random strings" without significantly altering the function of your genome?
We use thin clients and Citrix windows a lot at my company, and they barely function well enough to get the job done. Good luck if you try running a video through one.
They have little else to do for entertainment. That's why we need cheap laptops, so they can get on Slashdot instead of fornicating. The more time someone spends on Slashdot the less likely they are to procreate.
But the software could refer you to a friend of a friend who has the media you're looking for and you could get it straight from them. You'd have to maintain two folders, one for media you bought, and one for media you got from someone else. Or have an attribute flag for bought vs shared.
In most cases it isn't the creator that retains control anyway, it's the publisher. I don't feel much sympathy for publishers, they're mostly just worried about becoming obsolete and unnecessary.
I believe the biggest problem lies with the fact that such blocking or censorship happens upon accusation, rather than after due process. This allows for considerable misuse and abuse, harassing and censoring potential competitors in both business and politics.
I have a friend who's a comic book artist. She releases her work for free. Her fans donate out of appreciation, and many of them will commission additional pages or other work. This is a viable economic model.
For example if we lived in a world like Matrix, and we were Mr. Smith, we really did not exist except as our thoughts.
You inadvertently answer your own question. Even if you only exist as your thoughts, you exist. Mr. Smith exists in my mind as a mental construct describing a fictional character described as a computer program which simulates a human being. If I imagine him thinking "I think therefore I am", his statement is no less valid than my own. The observation "I think therefore I am" makes no assertion as to the form of existence, merely the fact of existence. We could exist as computer simulations, or as someone's imagination, or as a static record of consecutive states of particles, or any of a huge number of other possibilities.
That sort of assumption (I think therefore I am) inevitably leads to the conclusion that there is god/creator.
I disagree with your assessment. I don't see how one leads to the other. I can see that one might argue "How could you come into being if there were no God?", but it's a logical fallacy to claim that a lack of a proven alternate theory or a disproof of God, would be a proof of God.
but legalizing marijuana... hardly innovative ideas promoting more effective governance
Unless of course, ending prohibition would drastically cut the amount of tax money needed to pay for police, courts, and prisons, while potentially generating significant tax revenue through the taxation of legal drug sales. In other words, perhaps not innovative but otherwise exactly what they're asking for.
Sure you might get a better deal in a physical store; otherwise why would anyone bother going out to the store? I bought L4D and L4D2 online for convenience, and so I could get them sooner. I understand that I'm buying "software as a service", and if Steam disappears so will those games I bought, but chances are I will have played them out by then anyway. I'm really not that concerned about being able to play L4D2 twenty years from now; and if people really want that there will be a remake or something like the X-COM DOSbox that I recently got from Steam. I've still got my original X-COM disk and manual but I was having trouble making it work. The $5 I paid Steam was well worth the convenience of an install that worked the first time.
Since God can neither be proven nor disproved, any argument based on the assumption of God can be dismissed by the assertion of no God. In order to have an infallible argument one must start on solid first principles, such as "I think therefore I am." It is pretty hard to go forward from there, but I think we can also say "I think therefore there is time.", because without time one could not have the experience of thinking. Also, "I think therefore there is data.", because the thoughts must contain or be represented by data of some kind.
It doesn't explain why the humans didn't just take the mountains and / or use orbital bombardment.
As far as taking the mountains, presumably the EM interference made navigation and operation of technology there difficult and dangerous. That doesn't mean they couldn't mine the mountains, just that it might not be nearly as profitable. As for orbital bombardment they probably didn't have the right kinds of ships handy at the time. In theory they could bring them, but that would take a lot of time and money. Perhaps we'll see that in Avatar 2.
All that means is that the store is disorganized. Too many choices you say? Well, let's decide for you, then you won't have to think for yourself.:) What they really need to do is just categorize things so you can find what you want without having to wade through what you don't want.
My wife and I did this with my ADHD son for a while when he was about five. Positive points for doing good things, negative points for doing bad things, all according to a list. When he saved up enough points he had a list of things he could cash them in for, like eating out at a restaurant of his choice, seeing a movie, or getting some Lego. It did seem to help.
Looks like people rated parent down because they didn't like his viewpoint. There's no -1 Disagree. It's on topic, and what he posits may have bearing. I doubt it's a significant portion of the cause, but it could be a contributer non the less.
I can easily imagine what I'd do if I found out my kid's school issued laptop were doing that. I might be careful enough to avoid prison, but I might be mad enough to forgo planning and precautions.
Just for reference, those airport scanners have already been abused. I don't have the link handy but there was a famous person in europe who's scans were distributed.
Slashdot Mirror
How long until someone comes up with a retrovirus that will change the length of your "random strings" without significantly altering the function of your genome?
We use thin clients and Citrix windows a lot at my company, and they barely function well enough to get the job done. Good luck if you try running a video through one.
They have little else to do for entertainment. That's why we need cheap laptops, so they can get on Slashdot instead of fornicating. The more time someone spends on Slashdot the less likely they are to procreate.
But the software could refer you to a friend of a friend who has the media you're looking for and you could get it straight from them. You'd have to maintain two folders, one for media you bought, and one for media you got from someone else. Or have an attribute flag for bought vs shared.
In most cases it isn't the creator that retains control anyway, it's the publisher. I don't feel much sympathy for publishers, they're mostly just worried about becoming obsolete and unnecessary.
Just wait until you plug it into your Toyota.
Because engineering is driven by marketing.
We thumb our noses at the creationists.
I believe the biggest problem lies with the fact that such blocking or censorship happens upon accusation, rather than after due process. This allows for considerable misuse and abuse, harassing and censoring potential competitors in both business and politics.
I have a friend who's a comic book artist. She releases her work for free. Her fans donate out of appreciation, and many of them will commission additional pages or other work. This is a viable economic model.
My, that was a yummy mango.
For example if we lived in a world like Matrix, and we were Mr. Smith, we really did not exist except as our thoughts.
You inadvertently answer your own question. Even if you only exist as your thoughts, you exist. Mr. Smith exists in my mind as a mental construct describing a fictional character described as a computer program which simulates a human being. If I imagine him thinking "I think therefore I am", his statement is no less valid than my own. The observation "I think therefore I am" makes no assertion as to the form of existence, merely the fact of existence. We could exist as computer simulations, or as someone's imagination, or as a static record of consecutive states of particles, or any of a huge number of other possibilities.
That sort of assumption (I think therefore I am) inevitably leads to the conclusion that there is god/creator.
I disagree with your assessment. I don't see how one leads to the other. I can see that one might argue "How could you come into being if there were no God?", but it's a logical fallacy to claim that a lack of a proven alternate theory or a disproof of God, would be a proof of God.
The cake is a lie.
but legalizing marijuana ... hardly innovative ideas promoting more effective governance
Unless of course, ending prohibition would drastically cut the amount of tax money needed to pay for police, courts, and prisons, while potentially generating significant tax revenue through the taxation of legal drug sales. In other words, perhaps not innovative but otherwise exactly what they're asking for.
Sure you might get a better deal in a physical store; otherwise why would anyone bother going out to the store? I bought L4D and L4D2 online for convenience, and so I could get them sooner. I understand that I'm buying "software as a service", and if Steam disappears so will those games I bought, but chances are I will have played them out by then anyway. I'm really not that concerned about being able to play L4D2 twenty years from now; and if people really want that there will be a remake or something like the X-COM DOSbox that I recently got from Steam. I've still got my original X-COM disk and manual but I was having trouble making it work. The $5 I paid Steam was well worth the convenience of an install that worked the first time.
Since God can neither be proven nor disproved, any argument based on the assumption of God can be dismissed by the assertion of no God. In order to have an infallible argument one must start on solid first principles, such as "I think therefore I am." It is pretty hard to go forward from there, but I think we can also say "I think therefore there is time.", because without time one could not have the experience of thinking. Also, "I think therefore there is data.", because the thoughts must contain or be represented by data of some kind.
It doesn't explain why the humans didn't just take the mountains and / or use orbital bombardment.
As far as taking the mountains, presumably the EM interference made navigation and operation of technology there difficult and dangerous. That doesn't mean they couldn't mine the mountains, just that it might not be nearly as profitable. As for orbital bombardment they probably didn't have the right kinds of ships handy at the time. In theory they could bring them, but that would take a lot of time and money. Perhaps we'll see that in Avatar 2.
But they have to actually hire them as employees, not contractors, or there could be tax issues...
All that means is that the store is disorganized. Too many choices you say? Well, let's decide for you, then you won't have to think for yourself. :) What they really need to do is just categorize things so you can find what you want without having to wade through what you don't want.
My wife and I did this with my ADHD son for a while when he was about five. Positive points for doing good things, negative points for doing bad things, all according to a list. When he saved up enough points he had a list of things he could cash them in for, like eating out at a restaurant of his choice, seeing a movie, or getting some Lego. It did seem to help.
Looks like people rated parent down because they didn't like his viewpoint. There's no -1 Disagree. It's on topic, and what he posits may have bearing. I doubt it's a significant portion of the cause, but it could be a contributer non the less.
I don't have to. You have the choice of not pursuing that job.
They probably came with a utility pre-installed that's required to access the school stuff the kids were supposed to be using.
I can easily imagine what I'd do if I found out my kid's school issued laptop were doing that. I might be careful enough to avoid prison, but I might be mad enough to forgo planning and precautions.
Just for reference, those airport scanners have already been abused. I don't have the link handy but there was a famous person in europe who's scans were distributed.