Yay for NYB, I remember that virus, I got it about 6 times about 3 years ago. Friends of mine and I apparently had quite a few infected floppies, and it is rather easy to accidently leave a disk in the drive;)
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
I have never read the X-men. I have, however, seen some of the cartoon, as I used to watch it when I was younger. (And I thought it was good, but I'll bet everyone here thought it sucked:))
I thought that the movie did suffer a bit from having to introduce more than ten characters of major involvement in a very short time span, as well as actually having a plot. That, in my opinion, was the strangest thing.
Also, the plot, standing alone from the fact that it was the X-men, was not very original or captivating to me. If the movie had been about another ragtag bunch without the background, it would have been just another story.
I think that there is very good potential for a sequel though, because we might actually get some more character development, which I thought was the main thing that this movie needed more of.
Despite these flaws, the movie was cool, because I do have a limited familiarity with the X-men, and it was impressive to make the X-men not seem "totally gay" (as other readers here might say). Cyclops' beam looked believable, as did Storm's abilities. Having Rogue and Storm float around, however, probably would have seemed kind of silly. (Although, I have since inferred that Rogue's flying was from another mutant in some other story somewhere) Another cool thing to have seen, would have been a sentinel, but it would have been nonexistent from my understanding of the progression of the series. It was close to being too geeky as to bother a female friend of mine who is one of those rabid anti-star trek types:), but it did a good job of not being so.
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
Answer me this question: for each gallon of gas that you pay for, what percentage of it goes towards profit for the companies, and what percentage goes of it to the government (who did nothing in terms of refining, transporting, or marketing of the product)? The answer to this question will probably give you a better idea of whose pockets are being lined with cash.
What is up with you people? Mr. Government's pocket is being lined with cash? Who is this elusive government that takes your money just because it can!
Hmm, could it be that the government, in fact, spends this money on getting things done?? Could it be that the government actually gives this money BACK to the people, serving as a kind of redistribution organization? Could the government be doing things like building roads, keeping the elderly alive, and helping people who have little money get health care?
Apparently, you seem to think that congressmen are motivated financially to tax us. They're power hungry, not money-grubbing. Most congressmen are already incredible rich, anyway. But, lets assume you're right. The government takes in say $5,000 a year from the average person, this times 250,000,000 people or so is $1,250,000,000,000. So lets divvy this up, shall we? This means that every year, we have approximately $2,000,000,000 for each congressman. Not bad, eh? And all this from making our gas prices high! Damn those bastards!
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
Basically, though, the 2nd amendment exists so that if the government were to become oppressive, we could overthrow it. The idea is that if the populace were armed, and the government were also armed, the populace should be able to defeat the government's military force. Technology and our general socialist trend have changed this. Now, we spend hundreds billions of dollars a year on military, which is a far greater percentage of the Gross National Product than the government in the 1700's had. On top of that, many weapons that the military owns are far more expensive than anyone could ever afford.
The 2nd amendment died a long long time ago. At this point, there is no backup plan. If the military were to conduct a coup in our government, we would be absolutely unable to resist.
I don't consider this a real possibility now, or in the near future, but remember, we have a frickin' huge military. I'm not a zealot, I don't own a gun, but I do understand what those old guys writing the constitution were talking about. Back then, monarchies and similar autocratic governments were the norm. We were a new thing, a very optimistic and ruled-by-the-people-nation. Our giddy feeling of finally rising above feudal and monarchic lords after centuries and centuries made us worry that one day our government would stop being of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Defending your home is one issue, but fundamentally, the 2nd amendment exists so that we have the right to overthrow our government if necessary.
This is purely the idealistic view of the whole issue. I realize there are many pragmatic hooks that we need to worry about, and there is no right answer. If in the long term, we do have a military government, then maybe it would have been better for us to have sacrificed these lives to gun violence so we'd have had the ability to resist this government. More likely, I don't see that happening, but that's just my optimistic self talking.
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
5. Voters should have equal access regardless of socioeconomic status.
Internet voting tends to undermine this, from what I can tell. That is the real issue to me, not ballot stuffing or anonymity. Those are issues, too, but I feel this one is first.
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
Hmmm... thats interesting. I seem to have run on a parallel path to many of you guys here. The nerd thing or whatnot, I mean. However, I seem to have entirely missed out on comic books. I used to watch the X-Men cartoon occasionally.
I wonder what the percentage of geeky/.'s readers were comic book fans? I was a nintendo game kid myself:)
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
I'm pretty sure that I can't change it from a cash machine. I think I have to do some paper work somewhere.
Who runs the Smart Card system, and are they in widespread use already? I personally feel you should be able to see whatever info is on it. It's yours anyway. I can't conceive of why they wouldn't let you see it.
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
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Cute, I like the anecdote about the sheep/wolves:)
Good points, I must say. I suppose if under a limited democracy, a particular group was being very unfairly treated, that is an obvious indicator that we need some social changes, and any government including no government would still enforce (or pseudo-enforce) this viewpoint on the populace. I mean to say in a purely capitalist government, if people are racist as a whole, then it doesn't matter if they are part of a democracy or an authoritarian regime or an anarchy, those whom are being targeted will be treated unfairly.
Any super-libertarians/right-wingers out there want to add something about the virute of little/no government?
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
I agree strongly with your points, but figured I'd point out that Fascism is not rule by the few or anything like that, it is a way of life combined with a government. A fascist government is one where the state is first, and everyone is supposed to submit to the state. In general, fascist states tend to be run by a dictator, because public opinion has a definite direction that it it supposed to go.
A government by the intelligent or the rich or the white or the male would be an aristocracy (or an oligarchy if you don't want the wealth connotation, I suppose))
Amusingly enough, I've always found it odd that people find the phrase "democratic communism" to be a pardox. Communism is by definition a democracy. Admittedly, the USSR and other supposedly communist countries have redefined the word a bit to more of a one-party rules all approach, but I think that fundamentally they at least contain some elements of democracy.
Speaking of which, how is Cuba's leader elected? Do they vote for ol' Fidel every year, or what?
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
The terribly frightening thing is, for a split second, I agreed with you.
Just goes to show the power of the word "representation", in conjunction with "voting".
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
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Cool, in that case, where the money is actually stored on the card, I believe it is a bit trickier.
Is there a central authority that monitors the transactions? If so, there is a conceivable system to ensure that doubling cannot occur. However, if there is no authenticating organization, then I can't come up with a theory to keep you from being able to make a machine that will cheat.
The problem is, if you know the internals of a deterministic system with no random factor (like a public/private key system), then you should be able to trick the card. Even a system that used a clock timer in conjunction with the amount of money transferred would be easy to compromise. At least, thats my understanding.
Any ideas, anybody?
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
"There's an ever increasing reliance on computers for calculating totals, without any serious testing to make sure that there aren't any overflow bugs. Rather than spending time correcting errors, the spend a lot of money on making it possible for comoputers to do even more."
for (long int i=0; i (less than) 250,000,000; i++) {printf("Vote #%d received\n", i"); }
Are you suggesting that computers have overflow errors adding simple totals less than 250,000,000? If you know C/C++, are you suggesting that the above code will fail with any observable frequency?
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
Living in the U.S., I don't know what a smart card is, but I have a good idea. Some kind of debit card-like thing, just basically directly wired to your bank account, or is it a seperate account?
Anyway, my point is, I would far rather have it be open source. If the algorithm is good, then they shouldn't have to close source it. They just have to set up a system that will allow them to replace the algorithm before it becomes outdated. How do they authenticate anyway, an n digit pin number or what?
Here in the US, my debit card only has a 4 digit pin. Not very reassuring, but I suppose my bank would notice if someone guessed a few thousand times.:) Paying by credit requires only a signature that will never be checked.
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
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Pardon the Devil's Advocatism (I'm reading a book called Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge that does the same thing), but what if the majority decides that black men should work for free, or that we should have a state religion?
Would a system of democracy through economic voting work, a system where what you pay for indirectly makes your viewpoint heard? Is it feasible to have police, fire, militia, etc. all managed by the people without a formal organization with sweeping powers to tax, legislate, imprison, etc.?
Quite an interesting idea. I think that Marx says that this is the final state of government, a return to a peaceful anarchy.
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
In the book by Vernor Vinge that I am reading, Marooned in Realtime, the government of the 22nmd and 23rd century is anarchic. In it, the police force and such is all run commercially, and supposedly the economic benefits are high, crime is low, and there are no wars.
For some reason, futurists tend to advocate very libertarian systems. Why is this?
What is wrong with withholding those antibiotics for the good of humanity? Would it be better just to give them out, then later have a deadly disease where we have no backup weapon? Perhaps so.
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
AMD is looking out for its less savvy customers, namely those who buy whole systems at once. A remarker could just buy several of those motherboards, build systems, overclock the chip, and then sell them for a great profit. Then, when he starts getting sufficiently paranoid, he disappears. It's not that hard, really.
AMD was attempting to, but has failed, to prevent a remarker from having the technology to cost-effectively remark their chips. The chips are overclockable, as you can see here.
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
Well, the problem is, for any process that AMD can do after the production of the chip (which is when they determine the speed) which sets the REAL speed, some remarker can do it elsewhere.
If the chip speed is determined before final packaging, which I doubt, then I guess they could test the chip, then write something, then seal the chip off.
AMD does have a pretty interesting system, as you can see at the Tom's Hardware site linked in the story. They apparently use lasers to burn the REAL speed into the chip. I suppose they could have used this burned speed as the REAL speed, and had a softer overclocker method so that it would work as you suggested. Maybe that just hadn't occurred to them.
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
The problem is, there is no such thing as an Athlon 600 or 700 or whatever. There is simply a chip with resistors determining which speed the motherboard should run it at.
Some processors turn out better than others, and those are sold as higher speeds. To make a different configuration for each incremental step of a chip would be insanely expensive.
Overclockers are a niche market, there is no reason that AMD should take that much financial damage for their sake.
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
The point is that "stealing" for artists hurts THEM very little, but the RECORD COMPANIES a lot, because the record companies are getting fat off exploiting artists.
Is this situation that bad? How much does an artist get vs. the record company?
Again, there is a minor error in this parallel. Each sweatshop worker is not producing a unique good with their name on it whose sales reflect their individual work. Also, I don't know about the relative pay difference between what the record company makes vs. the artist, in comparison to the sweatshop analogy.
Again, if your quest is really to kill the record companies, you should try to have the decency to get money to the artist somehow. If you download Metallica songs, and listen to them with frequency, then to me, you are morally obligated to go to paylars.com and send some money his way.
I'm all for Napster and the like, because of the fact that they CAN make record companies either more responsible or obsolete entirely. I just feel that people misuse them, and they are not going towards helping artists and helping society.
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
Downloading free software will not condemn me to any punishment from the law, nor a higher power. At least, there is very little chance of either.
In all borderline actions I commit, I attempt to weigh the overall damage vs. the overall good. I try to be as unselfish as I can.
Why?
I have no idea... It's just the way I'm wired. It's better for the species, anyway.
So, there is at least a small minority of us who actually follow what we feel to be ethical out of honest concern for the well-being of our fellow man. It is my hope that one day this will not be the case. Hence, the post that you responded to.
Pardon my relative lack of knowledge, but is " operant conditioning with positive punishment."
Thanks,
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
53. Your car, your school, your company and yourself are all one-track vehicles moving forward through time, and they will each leave a stream-shaped cyberbody (like an aircraft's contrail) behind them as they go. These vapor-trails of crystallized experience will represent our first concrete answer to a hard question: what is a company, a university, any sort of ongoing organization or institution, if its staff and customers and owners can all change, its buildings be bulldozed, its site relocated -- what's left? What is it? The answer: a lifestream in cyberspace.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, there, slow down sir. Is this a poem or a futurist paper? I have NO idea what that translates to in real world terms. Admittedly, I skimmed the thing.
Does anyone else get the impression that he is being more controversial than actually extrapolating from the present?
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
I like that idea. In fact, thats pretty damn cool. Like have 2 or 3 free songs, or even the whole cd online, and if you like it, send money in. (i.e. computer games with demos)
Speaking of computer games, if people find record companies so evil, why don't they steal all hasbro games?:)
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
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Just in case anyone hadn't heard about it, another innovative car that should be out within a decade or so is the M400 skycar.
-Phredrick Dobbs
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Grand and High Protector of Everything
Yay for NYB, I remember that virus, I got it about 6 times about 3 years ago. Friends of mine and I apparently had quite a few infected floppies, and it is rather easy to accidently leave a disk in the drive ;)
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
I thought that the movie did suffer a bit from having to introduce more than ten characters of major involvement in a very short time span, as well as actually having a plot. That, in my opinion, was the strangest thing.
Also, the plot, standing alone from the fact that it was the X-men, was not very original or captivating to me. If the movie had been about another ragtag bunch without the background, it would have been just another story.
I think that there is very good potential for a sequel though, because we might actually get some more character development, which I thought was the main thing that this movie needed more of.
Despite these flaws, the movie was cool, because I do have a limited familiarity with the X-men, and it was impressive to make the X-men not seem "totally gay" (as other readers here might say). Cyclops' beam looked believable, as did Storm's abilities. Having Rogue and Storm float around, however, probably would have seemed kind of silly. (Although, I have since inferred that Rogue's flying was from another mutant in some other story somewhere) Another cool thing to have seen, would have been a sentinel, but it would have been nonexistent from my understanding of the progression of the series. It was close to being too geeky as to bother a female friend of mine who is one of those rabid anti-star trek types :), but it did a good job of not being so.
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
Uhm, actually if you wear red glasses and look at something that is red, it is black, not white.
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
What is up with you people? Mr. Government's pocket is being lined with cash? Who is this elusive government that takes your money just because it can!
Hmm, could it be that the government, in fact, spends this money on getting things done?? Could it be that the government actually gives this money BACK to the people, serving as a kind of redistribution organization? Could the government be doing things like building roads, keeping the elderly alive, and helping people who have little money get health care?
Apparently, you seem to think that congressmen are motivated financially to tax us. They're power hungry, not money-grubbing. Most congressmen are already incredible rich, anyway. But, lets assume you're right. The government takes in say $5,000 a year from the average person, this times 250,000,000 people or so is $1,250,000,000,000. So lets divvy this up, shall we? This means that every year, we have approximately $2,000,000,000 for each congressman. Not bad, eh? And all this from making our gas prices high! Damn those bastards!
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
Don't forget the M400 Skycar, which also will be running on gasoline :)
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
Basically, though, the 2nd amendment exists so that if the government were to become oppressive, we could overthrow it. The idea is that if the populace were armed, and the government were also armed, the populace should be able to defeat the government's military force. Technology and our general socialist trend have changed this. Now, we spend hundreds billions of dollars a year on military, which is a far greater percentage of the Gross National Product than the government in the 1700's had. On top of that, many weapons that the military owns are far more expensive than anyone could ever afford.
The 2nd amendment died a long long time ago. At this point, there is no backup plan. If the military were to conduct a coup in our government, we would be absolutely unable to resist.
I don't consider this a real possibility now, or in the near future, but remember, we have a frickin' huge military. I'm not a zealot, I don't own a gun, but I do understand what those old guys writing the constitution were talking about. Back then, monarchies and similar autocratic governments were the norm. We were a new thing, a very optimistic and ruled-by-the-people-nation. Our giddy feeling of finally rising above feudal and monarchic lords after centuries and centuries made us worry that one day our government would stop being of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Defending your home is one issue, but fundamentally, the 2nd amendment exists so that we have the right to overthrow our government if necessary.
This is purely the idealistic view of the whole issue. I realize there are many pragmatic hooks that we need to worry about, and there is no right answer. If in the long term, we do have a military government, then maybe it would have been better for us to have sacrificed these lives to gun violence so we'd have had the ability to resist this government. More likely, I don't see that happening, but that's just my optimistic self talking.
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
5. Voters should have equal access regardless of socioeconomic status.
Internet voting tends to undermine this, from what I can tell. That is the real issue to me, not ballot stuffing or anonymity. Those are issues, too, but I feel this one is first.
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
I wonder what the percentage of geeky /.'s readers were comic book fans? I was a nintendo game kid myself :)
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
Who runs the Smart Card system, and are they in widespread use already? I personally feel you should be able to see whatever info is on it. It's yours anyway. I can't conceive of why they wouldn't let you see it.
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
Good points, I must say. I suppose if under a limited democracy, a particular group was being very unfairly treated, that is an obvious indicator that we need some social changes, and any government including no government would still enforce (or pseudo-enforce) this viewpoint on the populace. I mean to say in a purely capitalist government, if people are racist as a whole, then it doesn't matter if they are part of a democracy or an authoritarian regime or an anarchy, those whom are being targeted will be treated unfairly.
Any super-libertarians/right-wingers out there want to add something about the virute of little/no government?
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
A government by the intelligent or the rich or the white or the male would be an aristocracy (or an oligarchy if you don't want the wealth connotation, I suppose))
Amusingly enough, I've always found it odd that people find the phrase "democratic communism" to be a pardox. Communism is by definition a democracy. Admittedly, the USSR and other supposedly communist countries have redefined the word a bit to more of a one-party rules all approach, but I think that fundamentally they at least contain some elements of democracy.
Speaking of which, how is Cuba's leader elected? Do they vote for ol' Fidel every year, or what?
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
Just goes to show the power of the word "representation", in conjunction with "voting".
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
Is there a central authority that monitors the transactions? If so, there is a conceivable system to ensure that doubling cannot occur. However, if there is no authenticating organization, then I can't come up with a theory to keep you from being able to make a machine that will cheat.
The problem is, if you know the internals of a deterministic system with no random factor (like a public/private key system), then you should be able to trick the card. Even a system that used a clock timer in conjunction with the amount of money transferred would be easy to compromise. At least, thats my understanding.
Any ideas, anybody?
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
"There's an ever increasing reliance on computers for calculating totals, without any serious testing to make sure that there aren't any overflow bugs. Rather than spending time correcting errors, the spend a lot of money on making it possible for comoputers to do even more."
for (long int i=0; i (less than) 250,000,000; i++)
{printf("Vote #%d received\n", i");
}
Are you suggesting that computers have overflow errors adding simple totals less than 250,000,000? If you know C/C++, are you suggesting that the above code will fail with any observable frequency?
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
Anyway, my point is, I would far rather have it be open source. If the algorithm is good, then they shouldn't have to close source it. They just have to set up a system that will allow them to replace the algorithm before it becomes outdated. How do they authenticate anyway, an n digit pin number or what?
Here in the US, my debit card only has a 4 digit pin. Not very reassuring, but I suppose my bank would notice if someone guessed a few thousand times. :) Paying by credit requires only a signature that will never be checked.
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
Would a system of democracy through economic voting work, a system where what you pay for indirectly makes your viewpoint heard? Is it feasible to have police, fire, militia, etc. all managed by the people without a formal organization with sweeping powers to tax, legislate, imprison, etc.?
Quite an interesting idea. I think that Marx says that this is the final state of government, a return to a peaceful anarchy.
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
For some reason, futurists tend to advocate very libertarian systems. Why is this?
What is wrong with withholding those antibiotics for the good of humanity? Would it be better just to give them out, then later have a deadly disease where we have no backup weapon? Perhaps so.
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
AMD was attempting to, but has failed, to prevent a remarker from having the technology to cost-effectively remark their chips. The chips are overclockable, as you can see here.
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
Well, the problem is, for any process that AMD can do after the production of the chip (which is when they determine the speed) which sets the REAL speed, some remarker can do it elsewhere.
If the chip speed is determined before final packaging, which I doubt, then I guess they could test the chip, then write something, then seal the chip off.
AMD does have a pretty interesting system, as you can see at the Tom's Hardware site linked in the story. They apparently use lasers to burn the REAL speed into the chip. I suppose they could have used this burned speed as the REAL speed, and had a softer overclocker method so that it would work as you suggested. Maybe that just hadn't occurred to them.
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
Some processors turn out better than others, and those are sold as higher speeds. To make a different configuration for each incremental step of a chip would be insanely expensive.
Overclockers are a niche market, there is no reason that AMD should take that much financial damage for their sake.
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
Is this situation that bad? How much does an artist get vs. the record company?
Again, there is a minor error in this parallel. Each sweatshop worker is not producing a unique good with their name on it whose sales reflect their individual work. Also, I don't know about the relative pay difference between what the record company makes vs. the artist, in comparison to the sweatshop analogy.
Again, if your quest is really to kill the record companies, you should try to have the decency to get money to the artist somehow. If you download Metallica songs, and listen to them with frequency, then to me, you are morally obligated to go to paylars.com and send some money his way.
I'm all for Napster and the like, because of the fact that they CAN make record companies either more responsible or obsolete entirely. I just feel that people misuse them, and they are not going towards helping artists and helping society.
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
Downloading free software will not condemn me to any punishment from the law, nor a higher power. At least, there is very little chance of either.
In all borderline actions I commit, I attempt to weigh the overall damage vs. the overall good. I try to be as unselfish as I can.
Why?
I have no idea... It's just the way I'm wired. It's better for the species, anyway.
So, there is at least a small minority of us who actually follow what we feel to be ethical out of honest concern for the well-being of our fellow man. It is my hope that one day this will not be the case. Hence, the post that you responded to.
Pardon my relative lack of knowledge, but is " operant conditioning with positive punishment."
Thanks,
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
Whoa, whoa, whoa, there, slow down sir. Is this a poem or a futurist paper? I have NO idea what that translates to in real world terms. Admittedly, I skimmed the thing.
Does anyone else get the impression that he is being more controversial than actually extrapolating from the present?
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
Speaking of computer games, if people find record companies so evil, why don't they steal all hasbro games? :)
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything