I think the saying "Reality has a liberal bias" isn't meant to be "truth," but instead is meant to have more of a "Truthiness" kind of feel to it. A more truthful statement might be that liberals have a reality bias.
For example, if you ask the question. Why do rainbows exist? You usually get two very different responses.
Liberal response:
"Rainbows are formed by sunlight refracting off water droplets suspended in the atmosphere."
Conservative response: "The all knowing all powerful all loving God put those in the sky to remind himself not to kill every living thing on the Earth again."
Seriously, can you please read some of the other comments above yours about Israel and Profiling. You're just talking to your self at this point, reaffirming, your own tangentially related world view based on simplistic stereotypes of the so called left and right. It's getting tiring to hear people with this stratified Left/Right world view who see every communication as an opportunity to use derogatory catch phrases to denigrate the supposed opposing team.
I can't believe it, but it seems like there's actually a girl here on Slashdot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...and so close to 2012, Unnatural things are happening! This is a sign of the coming Apocalypse.
I agree, charge them for the actual song or songs. If the song was shared with millions of people, then they should charge millions of people. It should be a crime to charge one person for other peoples crimes, even if they accidentally facilitated the others in committing the crime. Go out and charge every person for the down load.
I'd like to be clear though. I'm speaking hypothetically. I don't believe sharing is a crime. Ever.
I think it's even more troubling than that if we consider for a moment that modern humans were around for roughly 170,000 to 190,000 years before we were able to accidentally domesticate wild plants and animals which led to population booms, sedentary lifestyles, the division of labor, specializations, and eventually higher levels of human organization and technology. Only three regions of our entire planet had suitable candidates for domestication, namely, plants with useful genetic mutations. Only the fertile crescent had most of the plants and animals needed to jump start civilization, and it still took them thousands of years to do it. It seems likely that a great deal of the Earth like planets that do manage to evolve intelligent life similar to that of homo Sapiens will probably do so in the absence of an environment that is conducive to technological advancement. I imagine that on the majority of the already probably small fraction of habitable planets that did evolve something similar to human like intelligence, the intelligent creatures just wind up wandering around their planet for hundreds of thousands of years before going extinct with very little evidence left behind of their existence. Just like the hundreds of millions of people that did exactly that before agriculture was stumbled into about 10,000 years ago.
If you wish to be seen, but are being spliced out. You could wear several different colored t-shirts over each other or something similar and then take them off to trick the camera at least temporarily. If you want people to see something that is being blocked out, you would have to probably spray them or it with some kind of colorant, or a bright flash of light might also do the trick, maybe some kind of a portable strobe light. This is just off the top of my head.
Somehow l feel like like I shouldn't be giving away these ideas, maybe my tinfoil hat is just making my head itchy...
I remember watching him as a kid with my Dad and younger brothers, and then going outside to look at the stars. Those are great memories. He definitely had an influence on my love for astronomy. Jack was a great man to be able to give the gift of curiosity, wonder, and enthusiasm to countless people. He is definitely missed. His legacy lives on.
I disagree, I think it's the wedding vows that are to blame. If people didn't have to make such a huge promise for the rest of their lives, (usually done when they're young and don't really understand what "the rest of your life" really entails) think of how many marriages could be saved. If people didn't have that expectation, they wouldn't feel let down when it happened, people wouldn't have to spend so much energy trying to hide it, and well, they could just get on with their lives. There should at least be a clause in there for if your spouse gets fat, or ugly, or otherwise sexually repulsive. Or what if your spouse doesn't want to have sex with you anymore? I guess that means you'll be sexless for the rest of your life? It doesn't seem fair. obviously divorce is the answer most people choose, but then why have "till death do us part" in the vows?
...sometimes I think soccer was invented by suburban parents. It's kind of like the perfect politically correct game for kids in that they get to run around for a couple of hours and get tired, so they can go home peacefully, and not chew the legs off the furniture. You don't have to be exceptionally tall, or strong, really there's no physical requirement other than being able to run around and kick a ball. Often, no team actually wins, so there's no tears. And when somebody does win, they can easily console their child by saying, "well, you only lost by one point," or something close to that.
This is just one man's opinion, don't flame me bro.
I think you're comparing apples and oranges. Your gun can be used directly to commit possibly the worst violation of of a human's rights; the right to be alive. I think the argument is at least somewhat reasonable that there be restrictions on such items. Anime, and legal Porn for that matter, as far as I know can't really be used to commit crimes. And, what constitutes CP in anime is really difficult to surmise. First of all it's from a completely different culture, and it's written in a language few outside Japan can actually read. So how would some guy in Australia know for sure? Obviously some is, but depending on how austere the person checking you is, just about any thing could be considered porn. For example, some fundamentalist Christian groups not to mention many Muslims consider showing a girl's ankles to be porn. This brings up an even more important question. What is their criteria they're using for determining what is "Porn?"
You're calling a guy racist for being wrong about black duck eggs? Or are you more upset with the fact that he's stating the obvious? That the Chinese government which is integrated into Chinese corporations and which are often the same entity is spying heavily on the US and other western countries? That's racist? Really?
Did the author make any broad disparaging generalizations about Chinese people? Did he list some Chinese stereotypes as reasons as to why we shouldn't trust the Chinese? No, but you somehow managed to do both of those things at the end of your post where you blatantly, racistly I dare say, attack the author for being Russian.
I'm guessing you're probably a hack, and a poor one at that. How does this stuff get modded +5 insightful?
What? I disagree. My guess is that if hypothetically everybody had an expensive car or whatever as easily as file sharing, there would be a boon in innovation as more people would become enthusiasts and start to modify their cars. Presuming that if cars became easily replicateable, then other things like tools and garages would probably also be easy to replicate as well.
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You might say these scientist really know how to get a head in life.
I think the saying "Reality has a liberal bias" isn't meant to be "truth," but instead is meant to have more of a "Truthiness" kind of feel to it.
A more truthful statement might be that liberals have a reality bias.
For example, if you ask the question. Why do rainbows exist? You usually get two very different responses.
Liberal response:
"Rainbows are formed by sunlight refracting off water droplets suspended in the atmosphere."
Conservative response:
"The all knowing all powerful all loving God put those in the sky to remind himself not to kill every living thing on the Earth again."
Oh.... I see....
Well, I hope it's not too late to help this monkey...
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/12514/Archive_Footage_Monkey_Head_Transplant_Experiment/
...not to mention that the Taliban offered to hand over Bin ladden in exchange for evidence linking him to 9/11...
Seriously, can you please read some of the other comments above yours about Israel and Profiling. You're just talking to your self at this point, reaffirming, your own tangentially related world view based on simplistic stereotypes of the so called left and right. It's getting tiring to hear people with this stratified Left/Right world view who see every communication as an opportunity to use derogatory catch phrases to denigrate the supposed opposing team.
I can't believe it, but it seems like there's actually a girl here on Slashdot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
More and more it appears the so called voice of the crowd is becoming the voice of the organization paying the spammers.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/11/02/follow-the-%E2%80%9Ctruthy%E2%80%9D-tweets-to-find-twitter%E2%80%99s-political-spammers/
I agree, charge them for the actual song or songs. If the song was shared with millions of people, then they should charge millions of people. It should be a crime to charge one person for other peoples crimes, even if they accidentally facilitated the others in committing the crime. Go out and charge every person for the down load.
I'd like to be clear though. I'm speaking hypothetically. I don't believe sharing is a crime. Ever.
I think it's even more troubling than that if we consider for a moment that modern humans were around for roughly 170,000 to 190,000 years before we were able to accidentally domesticate wild plants and animals which led to population booms, sedentary lifestyles, the division of labor, specializations, and eventually higher levels of human organization and technology. Only three regions of our entire planet had suitable candidates for domestication, namely, plants with useful genetic mutations. Only the fertile crescent had most of the plants and animals needed to jump start civilization, and it still took them thousands of years to do it. It seems likely that a great deal of the Earth like planets that do manage to evolve intelligent life similar to that of homo Sapiens will probably do so in the absence of an environment that is conducive to technological advancement. I imagine that on the majority of the already probably small fraction of habitable planets that did evolve something similar to human like intelligence, the intelligent creatures just wind up wandering around their planet for hundreds of thousands of years before going extinct with very little evidence left behind of their existence. Just like the hundreds of millions of people that did exactly that before agriculture was stumbled into about 10,000 years ago.
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Can anyone tell me what that is in Libraries of Congress?
If you wish to be seen, but are being spliced out. You could wear several different colored t-shirts over each other or something similar and then take them off to trick the camera at least temporarily. If you want people to see something that is being blocked out, you would have to probably spray them or it with some kind of colorant, or a bright flash of light might also do the trick, maybe some kind of a portable strobe light. This is just off the top of my head.
Somehow l feel like like I shouldn't be giving away these ideas, maybe my tinfoil hat is just making my head itchy...
Glen Beck University.
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/42502/
I remember watching him as a kid with my Dad and younger brothers, and then going outside to look at the stars. Those are great memories. He definitely had an influence on my love for astronomy. Jack was a great man to be able to give the gift of curiosity, wonder, and enthusiasm to countless people. He is definitely missed. His legacy lives on.
Thanks, that was very informative.
I had no idea that AOL or Ask.com were still around.
What's crazy is you got modded +4interesting.
I guess it is a good point.
Divorce is only as messy as the two parties make it.
that's the thing though, isn't it. There's two parties, and you only have control over one of them.
I disagree, I think it's the wedding vows that are to blame. If people didn't have to make such a huge promise for the rest of their lives, (usually done when they're young and don't really understand what "the rest of your life" really entails) think of how many marriages could be saved. If people didn't have that expectation, they wouldn't feel let down when it happened, people wouldn't have to spend so much energy trying to hide it, and well, they could just get on with their lives. There should at least be a clause in there for if your spouse gets fat, or ugly, or otherwise sexually repulsive. Or what if your spouse doesn't want to have sex with you anymore? I guess that means you'll be sexless for the rest of your life? It doesn't seem fair. obviously divorce is the answer most people choose, but then why have "till death do us part" in the vows?
...sometimes I think soccer was invented by suburban parents. It's kind of like the perfect politically correct game for kids in that they get to run around for a couple of hours and get tired, so they can go home peacefully, and not chew the legs off the furniture. You don't have to be exceptionally tall, or strong, really there's no physical requirement other than being able to run around and kick a ball. Often, no team actually wins, so there's no tears. And when somebody does win, they can easily console their child by saying, "well, you only lost by one point," or something close to that.
This is just one man's opinion, don't flame me bro.
I think you're comparing apples and oranges. Your gun can be used directly to commit possibly the worst violation of of a human's rights; the right to be alive. I think the argument is at least somewhat reasonable that there be restrictions on such items. Anime, and legal Porn for that matter, as far as I know can't really be used to commit crimes. And, what constitutes CP in anime is really difficult to surmise. First of all it's from a completely different culture, and it's written in a language few outside Japan can actually read. So how would some guy in Australia know for sure? Obviously some is, but depending on how austere the person checking you is, just about any thing could be considered porn. For example, some fundamentalist Christian groups not to mention many Muslims consider showing a girl's ankles to be porn. This brings up an even more important question. What is their criteria they're using for determining what is "Porn?"
Are you fucking serious?
You're calling a guy racist for being wrong about black duck eggs? Or are you more upset with the fact that he's stating the obvious? That the Chinese government which is integrated into Chinese corporations and which are often the same entity is spying heavily on the US and other western countries? That's racist? Really?
Did the author make any broad disparaging generalizations about Chinese people? Did he list some Chinese stereotypes as reasons as to why we shouldn't trust the Chinese? No, but you somehow managed to do both of those things at the end of your post where you blatantly, racistly I dare say, attack the author for being Russian.
I'm guessing you're probably a hack, and a poor one at that. How does this stuff get modded +5 insightful?
I'm glad someone put this into a car analogy, it makes perfect sense now.
What? I disagree. My guess is that if hypothetically everybody had an expensive car or whatever as easily as file sharing, there would be a boon in innovation as more people would become enthusiasts and start to modify their cars. Presuming that if cars became easily replicateable, then other things like tools and garages would probably also be easy to replicate as well.
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