Stop blaming the lawyers and start blaming the people who ask them to file the lawsuits. It is like blaming the engineers that build an M1 tank, rather than the military that buys and operates it.
Yeah! The lawyers are just exploited innocents! There is a demand for evil, and they are only supplying that demand. Is that so evil? Of course not!
It's the same reason why drug-dealers, car thieves, and human traffickers aren't really evil, they are just supplying a demand.
Forget clouds. Do you really want to be on a plane in the event that the sun suffers a catastrophic failure and stops shining!? Everyone on that flight will be boned!
Horses are a truly renewable resource- when one wears out, sell it for meat in a foreign country (or maybe our own some day), and buy a new one. Add a buggy, and a whip to go fast, and you are green.
Brilliant! Horse drawn planes! Compared to solar powered planes, it doesn't sound that bad.
Using a calculator or a computer to perform complex tasks is a lot more analogous to using a stepladder to reach high stuff. Making these drugs mainstream is more like taking growth hormones (with possible unforeseen side-effects) to become taller in order to reach taller things.
Additionally, making these drugs more accessible to people who don't actually have a "problem", but want a an artificial advantage to be more competitive creates additional incentive for people who already are gifted to also seek a boost of their own abilities. This leads to "smart drugs" becoming the norm.
Outside of the pharmaceutical industry, who really wants this as a society?
Is it fair that some people are more gifted than others? Perhaps not, but that's life.
The problem isn't that people have unfair advantages, the problem is when people who are gifted (or more often, lucky) see the rest as being inferiors and exploit and leverage their status. Differing abilities wouldn't be such a big deal if man was more compassionate and less greedy.
I do believe that obesity, poverty, and birthrates are all linked, at least in the U.S. Is their a correlation between obesity and poverty anywhere other than the U.S.?
I read an article about 10 years ago regarding birthrate statistics, and I remember two things specifically.
1) The age that a mother has her first child is the #1 factor in birthrate of a population (which intuitively makes sense). 2) The more educational opportunities available to girls and women, the older the average was when they have their first child.
The article made a very compelling argument that the best way to slow population was to educate girls and women.
Turkey and India are secular? bwahahaha. Compared to the US even? Bwahahahaha. France, I would agree with.
I am not a Turk... but I've spoken with a few...
My impression is that Turkey used to have a a very strong belief in the separation of church and state, and they took it far more seriously than the U.S. politicians do. Religion was seen as personal, and had no place in politics and government. Turkey used to be a good example of a reasonably of a a mostly Muslim country that was reasonably progressive and democratic.
However, my understanding is that there's been a bit of religion that has been slowly seeping into the politics, and it isn't as true as it used to be. Though, the same could be said for the U.S., so I'm not sure how they compare respectively anymore.
Not necessarily. What if the omnipotent God desired humans to be free to make a choice, to interpret the world as they would? Some sects of Christianity would argue that there is an omnipotent God who does not desire all humans(only some) to believe. It is not so simply dismissed.
If God exists, then it is obvious that he expects us to believe in him contrary to the available evidence. He is effectively hiding from man, but at the same time demanding that we believe in him and follow him anyway. That makes him a demanding and needy prick.
If he is omniscient, then he knows what horrors would come out of his creation. But he created everything anyway, despite how many innocents would suffer. If he is willing to subject creation to countless horrors so that one day a small minority could hang out with him in heaven one day, then he is a selfish needy prick.
If he is all omnipotent, and could have stopped suffering of the innocent, then he is an apathetic prick.
If he isn't omniscient and omnipotent, as his followers claim that he claims, then he is a lying prick.
So, it seems to me, that either he is a prick or that everything important about him is made up.
If the evil people couldn't use Islam to be evil they'd use something else.
I agree with you, but yet I still have to concede that it is a lot easier for evil people to manipulate people into doing evil by using the Quran than it is by using My LIttle Pony episodes.
...for a fully decked out 100W processor + 2x300W graphics cards in CF/SLI there's no laptop replacement. But those uses aren't enough to sustain the market share and the less people use desktops, the less support and higher premiums it gets.
The people that are setting aside desktop PCs for laptops, tablets, and phones were not the same people buying those high end systems anyway. Performance systems were always a niche, and I don't see that particular niche going away anytime soon.
Been on slashdot for well over a decade and have played RPG's for longer than that (including WoW before it was an intenet only game), I have no idea what NPC stands for.
You played WoW, an MMRPG, before it was an internet only game? That is an interesting claim.
YouTube needs to charge a $1000 deposit on every takedown request, and that deposit is refunded only if the violation is confirmed. The the **AA won't want to burn money on false requests. YouTube should like the profit they make from this policy so everyone wins.
Except small content owners who don't have a spare $1000 to put down as a deposit when someone infringes on their content.
I've signed up for a couple of the classes. Like the real world, the quality and style of classes does vary from class to class.
I've seen a few duds, but overall I'd rate most of the classes that I've looked at as being competitive, and in some cases, superior to traditional classes I've taken.
Without fail, if there was something in a lecture or assignment that I found unclear, I could pause and check the forums and find a discussion thread that addresses the point of confusion.
Many folks also organize study session meetups online or in many cities.
I am not sure how these compare to a smaller traditional classroom, but I think that it is at least as good (if not better) than the average large classes that have become increasingly common at large schools.
4) That the camera moved 36 million miles during those 23 days and it didn't make any difference in the final image.
But other than that, the image looks exactly like a gazillion other images from Hubble, so one has to take it on faith that it is what it says it is.
IANAA, but it is that it is all relative. My gut feeling says that moving 36 million miles is still fairly still in the scale of the universe. Don't get me wrong, I'm still very impressed.
I've never tried juicing (because I hated to throw away all the fiber), but I've made a lot of fruit and vegetable smoothies, but changes in my eating habits over the last year have changed my tastes as well.
I stopped adding sugar to things, and began avoiding(or at least greatly limiting) foods with added sugar. I was surprised at just how much more I began to enjoy fruits and vegetables. It has ruined my taste for a lot of junk food. Now, sodas are way too sweet and I notice unpleasant (artificial or chemical like) tastes mixed in that I never really noticed before. I also notice unpleasant tastes in many junk snack foods.
I think GP is merely arguing the word choice that's all.
These two aren't antonyms, nor even mutually exclusive. I would agree that profit-seeking is a nearly ubiquitous goal of industrialists, but that is not the defining characteristic. Being involved in industry is.
Being an "industrialist" doesn't require seeking a profit anymore than a "business" requires profit. There are certainly "non-profit businesses", and the phrase "non-profit industry" should be familiar to most here.
Industrialists don't have to be robber barons in order to be industrialists.
It is an idea. Patents aren't supposed to cover the result, but rather the implementation or the process of achieving that result. That process should be more specific than "with a smart phone".
Cool but I don't think it's fair to call him an industrialist.
So far, none of his ventures have made money.
I'll accept that critisism as soon as you can explain to me what is so worthwhile about gaining increasingly more value and wealth? He's already rich. Does it matter if he is turning a profit if he is able to continue doing many great things?
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Stop blaming the lawyers and start blaming the people who ask them to file the lawsuits. It is like blaming the engineers that build an M1 tank, rather than the military that buys and operates it.
Yeah! The lawyers are just exploited innocents! There is a demand for evil, and they are only supplying that demand. Is that so evil? Of course not!
It's the same reason why drug-dealers, car thieves, and human traffickers aren't really evil, they are just supplying a demand.
Mickey Mouse and Luke Skywalker will both never leave copyright now. Ever.
Clouds?
Forget clouds. Do you really want to be on a plane in the event that the sun suffers a catastrophic failure and stops shining!? Everyone on that flight will be boned!
Horses are a truly renewable resource- when one wears out, sell it for meat in a foreign country (or maybe our own some day), and buy a new one. Add a buggy, and a whip to go fast, and you are green.
Brilliant! Horse drawn planes! Compared to solar powered planes, it doesn't sound that bad.
Using a calculator or a computer to perform complex tasks is a lot more analogous to using a stepladder to reach high stuff. Making these drugs mainstream is more like taking growth hormones (with possible unforeseen side-effects) to become taller in order to reach taller things.
Additionally, making these drugs more accessible to people who don't actually have a "problem", but want a an artificial advantage to be more competitive creates additional incentive for people who already are gifted to also seek a boost of their own abilities. This leads to "smart drugs" becoming the norm.
Outside of the pharmaceutical industry, who really wants this as a society?
Is it fair that some people are more gifted than others? Perhaps not, but that's life.
The problem isn't that people have unfair advantages, the problem is when people who are gifted (or more often, lucky) see the rest as being inferiors and exploit and leverage their status. Differing abilities wouldn't be such a big deal if man was more compassionate and less greedy.
I do believe that obesity, poverty, and birthrates are all linked, at least in the U.S. Is their a correlation between obesity and poverty anywhere other than the U.S.?
I read an article about 10 years ago regarding birthrate statistics, and I remember two things specifically.
1) The age that a mother has her first child is the #1 factor in birthrate of a population (which intuitively makes sense).
2) The more educational opportunities available to girls and women, the older the average was when they have their first child.
The article made a very compelling argument that the best way to slow population was to educate girls and women.
I dont
That's ok, I doubt anyone is going to subscribe to your newsletter either.
Blame Adam. He was the one that named all the animals, right?
Turkey and India are secular? bwahahaha. Compared to the US even? Bwahahahaha. France, I would agree with.
I am not a Turk... but I've spoken with a few...
My impression is that Turkey used to have a a very strong belief in the separation of church and state, and they took it far more seriously than the U.S. politicians do. Religion was seen as personal, and had no place in politics and government. Turkey used to be a good example of a reasonably of a a mostly Muslim country that was reasonably progressive and democratic.
However, my understanding is that there's been a bit of religion that has been slowly seeping into the politics, and it isn't as true as it used to be. Though, the same could be said for the U.S., so I'm not sure how they compare respectively anymore.
Not necessarily. What if the omnipotent God desired humans to be free to make a choice, to interpret the world as they would? Some sects of Christianity would argue that there is an omnipotent God who does not desire all humans(only some) to believe. It is not so simply dismissed.
If God exists, then it is obvious that he expects us to believe in him contrary to the available evidence. He is effectively hiding from man, but at the same time demanding that we believe in him and follow him anyway. That makes him a demanding and needy prick.
If he is omniscient, then he knows what horrors would come out of his creation. But he created everything anyway, despite how many innocents would suffer. If he is willing to subject creation to countless horrors so that one day a small minority could hang out with him in heaven one day, then he is a selfish needy prick.
If he is all omnipotent, and could have stopped suffering of the innocent, then he is an apathetic prick.
If he isn't omniscient and omnipotent, as his followers claim that he claims, then he is a lying prick.
So, it seems to me, that either he is a prick or that everything important about him is made up.
If the evil people couldn't use Islam to be evil they'd use something else.
I agree with you, but yet I still have to concede that it is a lot easier for evil people to manipulate people into doing evil by using the Quran than it is by using My LIttle Pony episodes.
You might want to get your sarcasm detector checked out. I think most of us picked up that the gp was being ironic.
...for a fully decked out 100W processor + 2x300W graphics cards in CF/SLI there's no laptop replacement. But those uses aren't enough to sustain the market share and the less people use desktops, the less support and higher premiums it gets.
The people that are setting aside desktop PCs for laptops, tablets, and phones were not the same people buying those high end systems anyway. Performance systems were always a niche, and I don't see that particular niche going away anytime soon.
Been on slashdot for well over a decade and have played RPG's for longer than that (including WoW before it was an intenet only game), I have no idea what NPC stands for.
You played WoW, an MMRPG, before it was an internet only game? That is an interesting claim.
YouTube needs to charge a $1000 deposit on every takedown request, and that deposit is refunded only if the violation is confirmed. The the **AA won't want to burn money on false requests. YouTube should like the profit they make from this policy so everyone wins.
Except small content owners who don't have a spare $1000 to put down as a deposit when someone infringes on their content.
Dick Tracy's watch just keeps getting better and better.
I've signed up for a couple of the classes. Like the real world, the quality and style of classes does vary from class to class.
I've seen a few duds, but overall I'd rate most of the classes that I've looked at as being competitive, and in some cases, superior to traditional classes I've taken.
Without fail, if there was something in a lecture or assignment that I found unclear, I could pause and check the forums and find a discussion thread that addresses the point of confusion.
Many folks also organize study session meetups online or in many cities.
I am not sure how these compare to a smaller traditional classroom, but I think that it is at least as good (if not better) than the average large classes that have become increasingly common at large schools.
You can have my password when you pry it from my cold, dead hand.
And that's the problem with biometric authentication.
LOL... Oops, apparently I forgot to proofread after I removed a phrase from that sentence.
4) That the camera moved 36 million miles during those 23 days and it didn't make any difference in the final image.
But other than that, the image looks exactly like a gazillion other images from Hubble, so one has to take it on faith that it is what it says it is.
IANAA, but it is that it is all relative. My gut feeling says that moving 36 million miles is still fairly still in the scale of the universe. Don't get me wrong, I'm still very impressed.
I've never tried juicing (because I hated to throw away all the fiber), but I've made a lot of fruit and vegetable smoothies, but changes in my eating habits over the last year have changed my tastes as well.
I stopped adding sugar to things, and began avoiding(or at least greatly limiting) foods with added sugar. I was surprised at just how much more I began to enjoy fruits and vegetables. It has ruined my taste for a lot of junk food. Now, sodas are way too sweet and I notice unpleasant (artificial or chemical like) tastes mixed in that I never really noticed before. I also notice unpleasant tastes in many junk snack foods.
Understandable. If you are interested, there was a great story on the radio regarding patent trolls (and connections to East Texas).
This American Life: When Patents Attack
If he's making money he's an industrialist.
If he's not then he's a philanthropist.
I think GP is merely arguing the word choice that's all.
These two aren't antonyms, nor even mutually exclusive. I would agree that profit-seeking is a nearly ubiquitous goal of industrialists, but that is not the defining characteristic. Being involved in industry is.
Being an "industrialist" doesn't require seeking a profit anymore than a "business" requires profit. There are certainly "non-profit businesses", and the phrase "non-profit industry" should be familiar to most here.
Industrialists don't have to be robber barons in order to be industrialists.
It is an idea. Patents aren't supposed to cover the result, but rather the implementation or the process of achieving that result. That process should be more specific than "with a smart phone".
Cool but I don't think it's fair to call him an industrialist.
So far, none of his ventures have made money.
I'll accept that critisism as soon as you can explain to me what is so worthwhile about gaining increasingly more value and wealth? He's already rich. Does it matter if he is turning a profit if he is able to continue doing many great things?