If Google had a more efficient means of finding what you're looking for, they'd incorporate it into their search engine. If you're looking for copyrighted information, just google it.
I found a TI-93 at Goodwill for a couple bucks. I still had my link software from back in the day. I laughed when I realized the TI-92 had a faster processor than the Mac Classic I hooked it up to for file transfer.
this happened to me on land lines. Being a kid, I knew that I needed to use an area code to call long distance. So I figured that any number that was in my area code was not long distance. So I set about dialing every BBS in my area code. Oops.
Turns out, and I still don't understand why, that quite a few of the numbers I called were not considered local. How was I supposed to know? My dad ended up getting a bill for a couple hundred dollars.
Personally, I don't think the phone company should be allowed to charge anything without an explicit declaration of price and agreement on the part of the customer. Even on POTS. When I dial a number, *any number*, I want to be quoted a rate and given a chance to decline.
These days I just have all long distance calls from my home phone blocked. If I need to make a long distance call, I have a phone card which has a fixed rate per minute, and it tells me how many much time I have left for a call. It's simple math to get back to the per minute rate. Why can't cell phones be as convenient?
TEA party crowd (though they are not exactly the same) favor a smaller government all the way around. Sure, there are some who, for instance, hate recreational drug use. However, as they favor less government, they don't want the government to restrict it.
What Tea Party figurehead has come out against government restrictions on drugs? Has any speaker at any Tea Party event even brought this up?
No. The Tea Partiers are only against government restrictions on rich white christian folk.
LOOK at the default home page that your average hotel provides, you'll find a logo in the corner someplace indicating who the real service provider is. Hint: it's never the hotel unless it's some ratty shathole
So what you're saying is that it's always the hotel?
Exactly. But the FBI didn't really want to get involved in pursuing child pornography trafficking charges against a school
Maybe what we need is a legal process for the people to force those charged with enforcing the law to actually enforce the law. When a prosecutor has knowledge of a crime and refuses to act, that's aiding and abetting. Prosecute him. Prosecutorial immunity is just begging for corruption.
Science proves free will doesn't exist either. The mind is a product of the brain which is ruled by the laws of physics. Those laws are either deterministic or stochastic, there's no room for free will.
Besides that, the concept of free will is nonsense in the first place. If I'm making a a free choice, what am I making that choice based on? My wants and needs. But what determines my wants and needs? If I can freely choose my wants and needs, I'm choosing them based on my wants and needs, which is circular nonsense. If I can't freely choose my wants and needs, then my earlier supposed free choice was based on something I have no control over, which would make it not free.
Note the complete statistical fail: the iPhone 4 has *two* glass screens - that means that all the fucktards that used to just scuff the hell out of the metal back are now dropping and breaking their back glass.
In that case, switching from metal to glass backing was an incredibly stupid design decision. Still Apple's fault.
Too bad that the world doesn't care how you personally define monotheism, especially since by your definition there are practically no monotheistic religions.
Yes, there are practically no monotheistic religions. I really don't see how Catholicism, for instance, with all its angels and saints is any different from Animism with spirits in every tree. Is it because there's one guy in charge? How then is it different than the Greek gods where Zeus is in charge?
one can still be ignorant about the imaginary where such is categorized by its believers. You fall into that group.
Yes, I freely admit that I am ignorant about such things. I'd invite anyone to educate me about the meaningful differences between monotheism and polytheism. From the outside it just looks like the monotheists are just claiming to be different from the older religions as a marketing ploy, when in reality there's no difference.
I don't know whether the devil, or angels, or any other such are "on the same tier" as the trinity. It's clear, however, that they're supernatural beings. I'd have a hard time describing any religion that posits more than one supernatural being as monotheistic, even if you're only supposed to worship one. That's not any more monotheistic than the pagan who worships the sun-god while recognizing spirits in every living being.
Have you ever known a religion addict? Psychologically healthy persons won't have a problem with this, but some people who are already compromised may completely lose touch with reality.
When the Pope brings us some evidence instead of merely fear, uncertainty, and doubt we will weigh that evidence according to its merits. Until he does that, he deserves all the derision he gets.
If this and pretty much every Final Fantasy game since VII have proven anything, it's that this series needs to just go away. It's far too late for a graceful death, but put it out of its misery.
It's not dead yet. It just needs to be put in some younger hands. Look at how well Dragon Quest did in the hands of Level 5. There are plenty of developers out there who can make a badass JRPG. Give the project to someone who grew up on the SNES Final Fantasies and it can be saved.
# That's a dumb product idea that doesn't sufficiently account for the present market.
Yes, this is very correct. I've talked about the PSP with a lot of people (I have one, I like it). Not one of them said "well, if there were a phone in there, I'd buy it". People who want gaming machines, want gaming machines, not phones. There is a market for games on the iPhone, but that's not why people buy them.
What matters with games is having a strong library to pick from, and feeling like you're getting a good value for your time. Sony fucked the first part up when introducing the PSP, and by the time they built a good library of games they decided to rip everyone off with the PSP GO. I don't know how to fix their problem, but slapping a phone in there won't do it.
I don't see how "we all know what decisions are so let's take that for granted" is any more useful than "we all know what intelligence is so let's take that for granted". If you're going to hand-wave the problem away, better to do it up front actually.
No, it doesn't, unless you play semantics with "decisions" and "actions" in ways that were not intended.
That's the problem with your definition. It merely defers the problem of defining intelligence to one of defining decisions. I'll happily grant you that anything that makes decisions is intelligent. But for that definition to be useful we have to agree on what makes a decision a decision.
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Doing something cool with a 16K computer is more challenging (and therefore more fun and interesting) than doing someting cool with a 16M computer.
If Google had a more efficient means of finding what you're looking for, they'd incorporate it into their search engine. If you're looking for copyrighted information, just google it.
Also, James Pond?
I found a TI-93 at Goodwill for a couple bucks. I still had my link software from back in the day. I laughed when I realized the TI-92 had a faster processor than the Mac Classic I hooked it up to for file transfer.
It was in central New York in the early 90s. I don't think I would have prefixed with a 1, but it's possible my software did that for me, I guess.
this happened to me on land lines. Being a kid, I knew that I needed to use an area code to call long distance. So I figured that any number that was in my area code was not long distance. So I set about dialing every BBS in my area code. Oops.
Turns out, and I still don't understand why, that quite a few of the numbers I called were not considered local. How was I supposed to know? My dad ended up getting a bill for a couple hundred dollars.
Personally, I don't think the phone company should be allowed to charge anything without an explicit declaration of price and agreement on the part of the customer. Even on POTS. When I dial a number, *any number*, I want to be quoted a rate and given a chance to decline.
These days I just have all long distance calls from my home phone blocked. If I need to make a long distance call, I have a phone card which has a fixed rate per minute, and it tells me how many much time I have left for a call. It's simple math to get back to the per minute rate. Why can't cell phones be as convenient?
Clearly this was theft. Power is not infinitely replaceable at negligible marginal cost.
we either side with modern civilization as we know it, or a pack of free-loading bullshit artists. Hmmm, tough choice.
That's no choice at all.
TEA party crowd (though they are not exactly the same) favor a smaller government all the way around. Sure, there are some who, for instance, hate recreational drug use. However, as they favor less government, they don't want the government to restrict it.
What Tea Party figurehead has come out against government restrictions on drugs? Has any speaker at any Tea Party event even brought this up?
No. The Tea Partiers are only against government restrictions on rich white christian folk.
LOOK at the default home page that your average hotel provides, you'll find a logo in the corner someplace indicating who the real service provider is. Hint: it's never the hotel unless it's some ratty shathole
So what you're saying is that it's always the hotel?
Exactly. But the FBI didn't really want to get involved in pursuing child pornography trafficking charges against a school
Maybe what we need is a legal process for the people to force those charged with enforcing the law to actually enforce the law. When a prosecutor has knowledge of a crime and refuses to act, that's aiding and abetting. Prosecute him. Prosecutorial immunity is just begging for corruption.
The solution is for the district attorney to prosecute those who implemented this policy just as they would any other hidden camera case.
If you don't vote, or if you don't bother to educate yourself, you're part of the problem.
If you vote for either major party, you're a bigger part of the problem than those who abstain. There's no point in participating in a rigged game.
Science proves free will doesn't exist either. The mind is a product of the brain which is ruled by the laws of physics. Those laws are either deterministic or stochastic, there's no room for free will.
Besides that, the concept of free will is nonsense in the first place. If I'm making a a free choice, what am I making that choice based on? My wants and needs. But what determines my wants and needs? If I can freely choose my wants and needs, I'm choosing them based on my wants and needs, which is circular nonsense. If I can't freely choose my wants and needs, then my earlier supposed free choice was based on something I have no control over, which would make it not free.
The entire concept of free will is bunk.
Note the complete statistical fail: the iPhone 4 has *two* glass screens - that means that all the fucktards that used to just scuff the hell out of the metal back are now dropping and breaking their back glass.
In that case, switching from metal to glass backing was an incredibly stupid design decision. Still Apple's fault.
Too bad that the world doesn't care how you personally define monotheism, especially since by your definition there are practically no monotheistic religions.
Yes, there are practically no monotheistic religions. I really don't see how Catholicism, for instance, with all its angels and saints is any different from Animism with spirits in every tree. Is it because there's one guy in charge? How then is it different than the Greek gods where Zeus is in charge?
one can still be ignorant about the imaginary where such is categorized by its believers. You fall into that group.
Yes, I freely admit that I am ignorant about such things. I'd invite anyone to educate me about the meaningful differences between monotheism and polytheism. From the outside it just looks like the monotheists are just claiming to be different from the older religions as a marketing ploy, when in reality there's no difference.
I don't know whether the devil, or angels, or any other such are "on the same tier" as the trinity. It's clear, however, that they're supernatural beings. I'd have a hard time describing any religion that posits more than one supernatural being as monotheistic, even if you're only supposed to worship one. That's not any more monotheistic than the pagan who worships the sun-god while recognizing spirits in every living being.
Have you ever known a religion addict? Psychologically healthy persons won't have a problem with this, but some people who are already compromised may completely lose touch with reality.
What monotheism thing? From what I know Christians acknowledge at least 4 gods. The Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, and the Devil.
When the Pope brings us some evidence instead of merely fear, uncertainty, and doubt we will weigh that evidence according to its merits. Until he does that, he deserves all the derision he gets.
It might be fun to say you would be a super villain, but I have a feeling most people aren't sociopaths.
How can you look at the world around you and think that they aren't?
If this and pretty much every Final Fantasy game since VII have proven anything, it's that this series needs to just go away. It's far too late for a graceful death, but put it out of its misery.
It's not dead yet. It just needs to be put in some younger hands. Look at how well Dragon Quest did in the hands of Level 5. There are plenty of developers out there who can make a badass JRPG. Give the project to someone who grew up on the SNES Final Fantasies and it can be saved.
And what of your right to face your accuser?
# That's a dumb product idea that doesn't sufficiently account for the present market.
Yes, this is very correct. I've talked about the PSP with a lot of people (I have one, I like it). Not one of them said "well, if there were a phone in there, I'd buy it". People who want gaming machines, want gaming machines, not phones. There is a market for games on the iPhone, but that's not why people buy them.
What matters with games is having a strong library to pick from, and feeling like you're getting a good value for your time. Sony fucked the first part up when introducing the PSP, and by the time they built a good library of games they decided to rip everyone off with the PSP GO. I don't know how to fix their problem, but slapping a phone in there won't do it.
I don't see how "we all know what decisions are so let's take that for granted" is any more useful than "we all know what intelligence is so let's take that for granted". If you're going to hand-wave the problem away, better to do it up front actually.
No, it doesn't, unless you play semantics with "decisions" and "actions" in ways that were not intended.
That's the problem with your definition. It merely defers the problem of defining intelligence to one of defining decisions. I'll happily grant you that anything that makes decisions is intelligent. But for that definition to be useful we have to agree on what makes a decision a decision.