If one defines free will as "the ability of the conscious mind to make long term plans and see them to fruition", then neuroscience has, as of yet, nothing concrete to say on the subject.
If you do that, what's the meaningful difference between "will" and "free will"? Nobody disputes the fact that the conscious mind can make decisions. That's just "will". The debate is over whether that will is "free" or not.
"Free" is usually defined as "free from causality" or "free from external influence", which is obviously nonsense to anyone who's familiar with "f=ma". Free will hasn't had a leg to stand on since Newton's time.
If the Li-Iion battery on my laptop dies, my laptop isn't "bricked". I just hop on eBay and buy a new one. Same with the tesla. Now my battery only costs $40, instead of $40,000, but the principle is the same.
The legislative justification is "road pricing" - the idea being ostensibly to reduce congestion on busy roads at rush hour by charging higher tolls for them
Oh, that will help keep the proles out of the city center during business hours.
How do we know there's more matter than anti-matter? It's obvious that there's more matter than anti-matter near us, but how do we know we're not just an island of matter in a sea of anti-matter?
Yes, but what does the fitness of the person to be married have to do with the fitness of the person as a parent? It's entirely possible to be a terrible husband and great dad, or terrible wife but great mother.
I hear in Florida... or California... canâ(TM)t remember and may not be either... but at least one state will take infidelity insanely seriously. If a mother is found guilty of infidelity, she will lose complete custody and may get weekends IF the father is generous.
That's pretty fucked up. What bearing does the sex life of the parent have on the fitness of the parent?
6 years is not a terribly long time in computing anymore. My primary laptop is over 6 years old, and has an ATI graphics card. It's old enough that it's not supported by the Catalyst drivers anymore, but it's still plenty capable for me.
But fortunately, this is less about excluding older stuff than it is about ostrasizing AMD for not keeping their drivers up to date.
Nice. So 20 years ago, cars were built to last 30 years. 10 years ago, cars were built to last 20 years. 5 years ago cars were built to last 15 years. Today cars are built to last 10 years. We're going to be in for a big surprise in a decade or so when all of our cars fail at once.
you dont have a 'right' to sell children simulated experiences of murdering prostitutes and robbing them, any more than you have a 'right' to sell them simulated experiences of fucking prostitutes, or to put cigarette advertising inside of comic books.
Of course you have that right. Why wouldn't you? If parents don't want their kids to see something, they can prohibit their kid from seeing it. It's not my job to enforce the prudery of parents.
of all the actual, real censorship going on in society today, namely, people like Thomas Drake, Stephen Kim, and others being charged with Espionage for simply talking to reporters.... thats what REAL censorship is
You're absolutely right. This is the far more egregious breach of rights. But disparaging other areas of free speech doesn't help protect these people. If anything, giving the government more power to censor will lead to more abuses like these.
I've never come across any evidence (compelling or otherwise) as to why people should want to die to protect hate speech instead of protecting those affected by it.
Nobody is "affected by" hate speech. It's just vibrating air, it's not going to hurt you. Now giving politicians the power to counter vibrating air with violence? That's going to hurt people.
If you think its ok for a 5 year old kid to have 'fun' killing prostitutes and stealing their money, then you have serious issues.
Why wouldn't it be? Seems to me using video games to teach a child the difference between reality and fantasy is a lot more responsible than teaching them that a pair of every animal on earth could fit on one boat...or that a zygote is the same as a person...or that you can do anything you want in the world and as long as you ask for forgiveness inside your own head it's OK, without making any distinction between fantasy and reality.
It seems pretty obvious to me that the former is going to produce better adjusted adults than the latter.
They won't learn anything, because they won't suffer any consequences. Passing unconstitutional laws should be criminal. Every politician who voted for this law belongs in jail.
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Unless the loss of that gene leads to a functioning female reproductive system.
Squashing bugs and changing tires, duh.
If one defines free will as "the ability of the conscious mind to make long term plans and see them to fruition", then neuroscience has, as of yet, nothing concrete to say on the subject.
If you do that, what's the meaningful difference between "will" and "free will"? Nobody disputes the fact that the conscious mind can make decisions. That's just "will". The debate is over whether that will is "free" or not.
"Free" is usually defined as "free from causality" or "free from external influence", which is obviously nonsense to anyone who's familiar with "f=ma". Free will hasn't had a leg to stand on since Newton's time.
If the Copyright MAFIAA had their way, the US would be on the piracy watch list for its failure to pass SOPA & PIPA.
If the Li-Iion battery on my laptop dies, my laptop isn't "bricked". I just hop on eBay and buy a new one. Same with the tesla. Now my battery only costs $40, instead of $40,000, but the principle is the same.
The legislative justification is "road pricing" - the idea being ostensibly to reduce congestion on busy roads at rush hour by charging higher tolls for them
Oh, that will help keep the proles out of the city center during business hours.
If you can repair an item just by changing its battery, it's not bricked.
Is there any way we can pin this on Julian Assange?
How do we know there's more matter than anti-matter? It's obvious that there's more matter than anti-matter near us, but how do we know we're not just an island of matter in a sea of anti-matter?
Yes, and they will be forgotten by history. It's an appropriate punishment for picking a closed platform.
Yes, but what does the fitness of the person to be married have to do with the fitness of the person as a parent? It's entirely possible to be a terrible husband and great dad, or terrible wife but great mother.
I hear in Florida... or California... canâ(TM)t remember and may not be either... but at least one state will take infidelity insanely seriously. If a mother is found guilty of infidelity, she will lose complete custody and may get weekends IF the father is generous.
That's pretty fucked up. What bearing does the sex life of the parent have on the fitness of the parent?
6 years is not a terribly long time in computing anymore. My primary laptop is over 6 years old, and has an ATI graphics card. It's old enough that it's not supported by the Catalyst drivers anymore, but it's still plenty capable for me.
But fortunately, this is less about excluding older stuff than it is about ostrasizing AMD for not keeping their drivers up to date.
Nice. So 20 years ago, cars were built to last 30 years. 10 years ago, cars were built to last 20 years. 5 years ago cars were built to last 15 years. Today cars are built to last 10 years. We're going to be in for a big surprise in a decade or so when all of our cars fail at once.
You forgot:
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you dont have a 'right' to sell children simulated experiences of murdering prostitutes and robbing them, any more than you have a 'right' to sell them simulated experiences of fucking prostitutes, or to put cigarette advertising inside of comic books.
Of course you have that right. Why wouldn't you? If parents don't want their kids to see something, they can prohibit their kid from seeing it. It's not my job to enforce the prudery of parents.
of all the actual, real censorship going on in society today, namely, people like Thomas Drake, Stephen Kim, and others being charged with Espionage for simply talking to reporters.... thats what REAL censorship is
You're absolutely right. This is the far more egregious breach of rights. But disparaging other areas of free speech doesn't help protect these people. If anything, giving the government more power to censor will lead to more abuses like these.
I've never come across any evidence (compelling or otherwise) as to why people should want to die to protect hate speech instead of protecting those affected by it.
Nobody is "affected by" hate speech. It's just vibrating air, it's not going to hurt you. Now giving politicians the power to counter vibrating air with violence? That's going to hurt people.
Bill them? They should be imprisoned.
If you think its ok for a 5 year old kid to have 'fun' killing prostitutes and stealing their money, then you have serious issues.
Why wouldn't it be? Seems to me using video games to teach a child the difference between reality and fantasy is a lot more responsible than teaching them that a pair of every animal on earth could fit on one boat...or that a zygote is the same as a person...or that you can do anything you want in the world and as long as you ask for forgiveness inside your own head it's OK, without making any distinction between fantasy and reality.
It seems pretty obvious to me that the former is going to produce better adjusted adults than the latter.
"The pen is mightier than the sword" doesn't just hold for warfare. It applies to crime too.
They won't learn anything, because they won't suffer any consequences. Passing unconstitutional laws should be criminal. Every politician who voted for this law belongs in jail.
The Big Lie works.
Does it work with pine too?
The powerful already have all the tools they need to eliminate your privacy. This is a tool for us to eliminate their privacy.
IIRC, it was.