Makes sense. We already have regulations for mercury and lead, why not carbon, hydrogen, and others? I for one will sleep safer knowing the government is keeping the air I breathe safe from nano-particles of nitrogen.
The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32 (ie the Armed Services), under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard. - U.S. Code : Title 10 : Section 311(a)
The miltia is (and always has been) that portion of the population able (and hence expected) to take up arms and defend their country.
"Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it." -- Declaration of Independence
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe 101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution
The justification Christian churches use when they declare homosexuality to be a sin is from Leviticus 18:22
Not quite.
A long time ago, when Gentiles were first being converted to Christianity, there was some disagreement over whether they needed to be circumcised to be saved. The Apostles and elders met in Jerusalem to settle the issue.
When they had decided, they wrote the Gentile churches thusly; "It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality." (Acts 15:28)
So no, Christians are not bound by any Jewish law, except what is described there, which is why homosexuality is bad and shaving is okay.
An Internet co-op is paid for people who want to pay for it. A government program is paid for by everyone if 51%[1] of the voting population want everyone to pay for it.
An Internet co-op can be managed the way the users want. If different groups of users cannot agree on how the co-op should be run, several co-ops can coexist at the same place and time. If 51%[1] of voters think that the government-run ISP should ban porn to protect the children from terrorists who threaten our way of life, then the government-run ISP will ban porn.
Free association is preferable to government program.
[1] It's actually a lot less in 51% a republic, rather than a strict democracy. It's less still depending on the corruption level of the government.
How many of you discovered a tool that may make you much more productive as a system administrator during the time you have set aside to monitor relevant news and stay abreast of the industry zeitgeist?
But then again if we were to send the lawyers to the salt mines, I think it would solve most of our problems...
I disagree. I think that it would just cause more problems.
You're right. After paying them three hundred dollars an hour for a hundred hours a week to write two hundred page English/Latin documents called briefs, we would all be dead broke and still have nothing to put on our pretzels.
it was intentionally changed for political reasons to remove the actual actions and motivations of Job, because he questioned GOD HIMSELF and got away with it.
The way I remember it God himself spends several chapters throughly rebuking Job for questioning him. "Who is this that darkens my council with words without knowledge? Gird yourself up like a man, I will question you and you will answer."
Job, of course, didn't have any answer except "Sorry, dude. I'm a real idiot. I said a lot of shit, but I'll shut up now."
Interacting with the environment in a manner like C-3PO is not neccessary in order to be intelligent. Otherwise, Steven Hawking and Christopher Reeves would not be considered intelligent.
That's why the Turing Test was specified to take place over a teletype. It didn't take long for a program to pass the Turing Test either. Anecdotally Eliza fooled a leading scientist in the field of AI. She is still fooling people today.
AI programs are being used to sentence criminals, split assets after a divorce, and approve legal aid applications according to a recent article in the Tech Review.
I remember reading about a program in the eighties that proscribed antibiotics. It was a difficult problem for physicians because infections often involve multiple types of bacteria, antibiotics vary in how effective they are and what they are effective against, many antibiotics are contra-indicated by others, and there are many reasons to want to use the minimum number and dosages. The program was able to create better prescriptions than the doctors, and it was able to explain why it choose what it did.
I couldn't find the paper that described the prescription program, but the Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine probably has plenty of descriptions of AI making choices in a "real capacity".
You cannot define "truely human thought and thought processes", so you cannot judge when machines have reached that level. The history of AI is filled with people claiming some skill or ability required human-level intelligence, and then deciding that the software didn't have human level intelligence when it aquired that skill. There was the Turing Test in the beginning, chess now, poker and Go are next.
That's the problem with AI. As of right now, it can only fake intelligence
What is the difference between faking intelligence, and being intelligent? I think when you manage to wrap your head around that one, you'll begin to understand the Turing Test and that a) we will never truely have artificial intelligence and b) we already have artificial intelligence.
Two economists were walking down the sidewalk when they came across a hundred dollar bill lying in the grass. The first economist leans over to pick it up. The second economist stops him saying, "Don't bother. If it was a real hundred dollar bill someone would have picked it up already."
MIT Tuition Game: The practice of using high tuition and free ride scholarships to exclude 90%+ of the population, leaving room for allowing Ivy League Idiots to buy their way in if they did not make the numbers.
For the record, all MIT financial aid is need-based, none is awarded on merit. There is no room to "buy your way in".
While I'm picking nits, MIT is not an Ivy League school.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled topic. ..
You're right. He shouldn't say that. Information hates being anthropomorphised.
So I'll explain the idea more formally. The marginal cost of information approaches zero. In a free commodity market, the cost of a good approaches the marginal cost.
George Washington's birthday is not determined by whatever day most people think it is
On the contrary. Reality is the name we give our shared perceptions. If most people think that George Washington's birthday is February 26th, then that is the date that will be listed in Britannica, and Wikipedia.
If there is a distinction between Britannica and Wikipedia, it's that Britannica is written by an authoritative group, and anyone can contribute to Wikipedia. The advantage of the authoritative group is that they are convincing. If they say Washington's birthday is February 22nd, then most people believe it and, as I said before, reality is just what most people believe.
Music in speaker wire is transitory. It can be precieved, and reproduced from there, but only for a short duration.
Information in RAM is similarly transitory, it only lasts milliseconds before it fades away. RAM is a transitory medium.
A computer can keep information in RAM a lot longer than that by continually refreshing it. A computer can be a non-transitory medium.
A computer can also load information in RAM and let it fade away immediately. A computer can thus also be a transitory medium.
How long the work is retained determines if the computer is a fixed medium, or transitory, and thus if the work is "fixed", and thus is the behavior is infringing.
How long can a work be retained before is considered non-transitory? Speaker wire retains a work for milliseconds, it is clear that that is transitory. CD players with ASP (Advanced Skip Protection) retain a copy of a work for up to 120 seconds. If that is not transitory, anyone listening to a protected work in one of those CD players is infringing.
Many computer files are intended to be permanant, and thus with regards to them the computer is a fixed medium. But web caches only last a few hours or days. They are temporary, transitory. The same can be said of a/tmp partion. Files there are generally deleted after seven days. They are temporary, transitory.
If I set up a cron job to delete the protected works after three score years, I could then claim that my copies were transitory, and thus not fixed in the medium. It's a stretch, but maybe I could get it in front of the same judge who decided ninety-five years was a "limited time"
SSA is one of the most efficient government programs there is (something like 99.2% of the program costs goes directly to benefits). Far more efficient than most private charities, anyway, some of which spend up to 20% of their operating budget on "administration" and another 20-40% on "fundraising"
That's not a fair comparison. Administrative decisions are are in large part made by Congress. As for fundraising, it's cheaper to take by threat of force, than to convince people to give, and even that is included in the IRS and FBI budgets, not that of the SSA's.
You can also introduce bias by choosing which facts to include and which to leave out.
Police responded to a 911 emergency call at 123 Maple Ave yesterday. Arriving at the scene they found three dead from shotgun wounds. When questioned by police, Raymond Maynard admitted to committing the shootings. Mr. Maynard claims to have fired in self-defense, but every one of his victims was shot more than once, aand at close range from Maynard's 12-gauge, pump-action shotgun.
A police spokemen has already stated they do not expect to file charges against Maynard.
The families of the deceased are barred from filing wrongful death suits by new bill recently signed into law by Governor Letgodsortemout. The bill was widely denounced by concerned citizen groups.
This is fun. Let's try it again.
Raymond Maynard, the 48 year old homeowner and 23 year resident of 123 Maple Ave. dialed 911 yesterday at 3:22am to report an attempted invasion of his home in progress. When the police finally made it to the scene they found that the intruders, all convicted felons with violent records, had already entered the Maynard home. Maynard reports that he was able to repel the armed invaders with the help of a shotgun he keeps in his house for defense. All three intruders were found dead on the scene from multiple shotgun wounds.
Maynard's wife of 30 years, Edith Maynard, 49, and his 8 year old niece Emma Freely were both in the house at the time of the incident. They were visibly shaken, but unharmed. Emma still intends to perform in her ballet recital tommorrow night.
Maynard will recieve a special commendation from the neighborhood watch group he has captained for the past five years, in a ceremony Thursday night.
Instances of home invasion have dropped 62% in the fist year alone, since the city mandated each homeowner be armed.
Same story. Nothing but the facts, but very different slants.
Does it make any difference if I burgle your home by smashing the padlock on you garage door or picking it?
Legally it does. Many states have laws against using a lockpick to commit a crime, as well as having a lockpick with intent to commit a crime. Similar laws exist for guns and bulletproof vests.
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Makes sense. We already have regulations for mercury and lead, why not carbon, hydrogen, and others? I for one will sleep safer knowing the government is keeping the air I breathe safe from nano-particles of nitrogen.
The miltia is (and always has been) that portion of the population able (and hence expected) to take up arms and defend their country.
The justification Christian churches use when they declare homosexuality to be a sin is from Leviticus 18:22
Not quite.
A long time ago, when Gentiles were first being converted to Christianity, there was some disagreement over whether they needed to be circumcised to be saved. The Apostles and elders met in Jerusalem to settle the issue.
When they had decided, they wrote the Gentile churches thusly; "It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality." (Acts 15:28)
So no, Christians are not bound by any Jewish law, except what is described there, which is why homosexuality is bad and shaving is okay.
I don't know of a single gay person that hates all straight people
Most homosexuals have at least some heterosexual family members.
An Internet co-op is paid for people who want to pay for it. A government program is paid for by everyone if 51%[1] of the voting population want everyone to pay for it.
An Internet co-op can be managed the way the users want. If different groups of users cannot agree on how the co-op should be run, several co-ops can coexist at the same place and time. If 51%[1] of voters think that the government-run ISP should ban porn to protect the children from terrorists who threaten our way of life, then the government-run ISP will ban porn.
Free association is preferable to government program.
[1] It's actually a lot less in 51% a republic, rather than a strict democracy. It's less still depending on the corruption level of the government.
How many of you discovered a tool that may make you much more productive as a system administrator during the time you have set aside to monitor relevant news and stay abreast of the industry zeitgeist?
See? Me too.
Perhaps we need to apply the principles of adverse possesion to the patent industry.
You're right. After paying them three hundred dollars an hour for a hundred hours a week to write two hundred page English/Latin documents called briefs, we would all be dead broke and still have nothing to put on our pretzels.
The Secretary of Defense has all the power the President has delegated to him. He is in the chain of command directly below the Commander-in-Chief.
it was intentionally changed for political reasons to remove the actual actions and motivations of Job, because he questioned GOD HIMSELF and got away with it.
The way I remember it God himself spends several chapters throughly rebuking Job for questioning him. "Who is this that darkens my council with words without knowledge? Gird yourself up like a man, I will question you and you will answer."
Job, of course, didn't have any answer except "Sorry, dude. I'm a real idiot. I said a lot of shit, but I'll shut up now."
A public moderation system, cool. That never gets abused anywhere that I know of.
It's physically painful to resist the urge to mod the parent 'Troll'.
Interacting with the environment in a manner like C-3PO is not neccessary in order to be intelligent. Otherwise, Steven Hawking and Christopher Reeves would not be considered intelligent.
That's why the Turing Test was specified to take place over a teletype. It didn't take long for a program to pass the Turing Test either. Anecdotally Eliza fooled a leading scientist in the field of AI. She is still fooling people today.
AI programs are being used to sentence criminals, split assets after a divorce, and approve legal aid applications according to a recent article in the Tech Review.
I remember reading about a program in the eighties that proscribed antibiotics. It was a difficult problem for physicians because infections often involve multiple types of bacteria, antibiotics vary in how effective they are and what they are effective against, many antibiotics are contra-indicated by others, and there are many reasons to want to use the minimum number and dosages. The program was able to create better prescriptions than the doctors, and it was able to explain why it choose what it did.
I couldn't find the paper that described the prescription program, but the Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine probably has plenty of descriptions of AI making choices in a "real capacity".
You cannot define "truely human thought and thought processes", so you cannot judge when machines have reached that level. The history of AI is filled with people claiming some skill or ability required human-level intelligence, and then deciding that the software didn't have human level intelligence when it aquired that skill. There was the Turing Test in the beginning, chess now, poker and Go are next.
That's the problem with AI. As of right now, it can only fake intelligence
What is the difference between faking intelligence, and being intelligent? I think when you manage to wrap your head around that one, you'll begin to understand the Turing Test and that a) we will never truely have artificial intelligence and b) we already have artificial intelligence.
Two economists were walking down the sidewalk when they came across a hundred dollar bill lying in the grass. The first economist leans over to pick it up. The second economist stops him saying, "Don't bother. If it was a real hundred dollar bill someone would have picked it up already."
MIT Tuition Game: The practice of using high tuition and free ride scholarships to exclude 90%+ of the population, leaving room for allowing Ivy League Idiots to buy their way in if they did not make the numbers.
For the record, all MIT financial aid is need-based, none is awarded on merit. There is no room to "buy your way in".
While I'm picking nits, MIT is not an Ivy League school.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled topic. . .
Finally, information doesn't 'want' anything
You're right. He shouldn't say that. Information hates being anthropomorphised.
So I'll explain the idea more formally. The marginal cost of information approaches zero. In a free commodity market, the cost of a good approaches the marginal cost.
George Washington's birthday is not determined by whatever day most people think it is
On the contrary. Reality is the name we give our shared perceptions. If most people think that George Washington's birthday is February 26th, then that is the date that will be listed in Britannica, and Wikipedia.
If there is a distinction between Britannica and Wikipedia, it's that Britannica is written by an authoritative group, and anyone can contribute to Wikipedia. The advantage of the authoritative group is that they are convincing. If they say Washington's birthday is February 22nd, then most people believe it and, as I said before, reality is just what most people believe.
What is fixed, and what is transitory?
Music in speaker wire is transitory. It can be precieved, and reproduced from there, but only for a short duration.
Information in RAM is similarly transitory, it only lasts milliseconds before it fades away. RAM is a transitory medium.
A computer can keep information in RAM a lot longer than that by continually refreshing it. A computer can be a non-transitory medium.
A computer can also load information in RAM and let it fade away immediately. A computer can thus also be a transitory medium.
How long the work is retained determines if the computer is a fixed medium, or transitory, and thus if the work is "fixed", and thus is the behavior is infringing.
How long can a work be retained before is considered non-transitory? Speaker wire retains a work for milliseconds, it is clear that that is transitory. CD players with ASP (Advanced Skip Protection) retain a copy of a work for up to 120 seconds. If that is not transitory, anyone listening to a protected work in one of those CD players is infringing.
Many computer files are intended to be permanant, and thus with regards to them the computer is a fixed medium. But web caches only last a few hours or days. They are temporary, transitory. The same can be said of a /tmp partion. Files there are generally deleted after seven days. They are temporary, transitory.
If I set up a cron job to delete the protected works after three score years, I could then claim that my copies were transitory, and thus not fixed in the medium. It's a stretch, but maybe I could get it in front of the same judge who decided ninety-five years was a "limited time"
I'm sure dried ink can reek havoc on printer heads. This is not necessarily an attempt to screw over their customers
Commissioned works typically are still copyrighted to the artist
Wouldn't a commissioned work qualify as "work-for-hire"? If so, the person doing the commission gets the copyright, not the artist.
They are not inherently evil or monstrous
It is a widely held belief that all humans are inherently evil. See original sin.
And then, even if you weren't born evil, thinking evil thoughts is just as bad as doing them. (See The Gospel of Matthew, chapter 5, verses 27 and 28)
So yeah, you and others like you may be inherently evil monsters, but that does not make you any different from the rest of us.
SSA is one of the most efficient government programs there is (something like 99.2% of the program costs goes directly to benefits). Far more efficient than most private charities, anyway, some of which spend up to 20% of their operating budget on "administration" and another 20-40% on "fundraising"
That's not a fair comparison. Administrative decisions are are in large part made by Congress. As for fundraising, it's cheaper to take by threat of force, than to convince people to give, and even that is included in the IRS and FBI budgets, not that of the SSA's.
You can also introduce bias by choosing which facts to include and which to leave out.
This is fun. Let's try it again.
Same story. Nothing but the facts, but very different slants.
He's dead, though. And I doubt he'd win a modern election.
Mel Carnahan was elected to the US Senate on November 7, 2000 despite having died October 16, 2000.
Mind you, it would be a lot more difficult for Teddy. Having been dead for a lot longer, ballot access would be a major hurdle.
Does it make any difference if I burgle your home by smashing the padlock on you garage door or picking it?
Legally it does. Many states have laws against using a lockpick to commit a crime, as well as having a lockpick with intent to commit a crime. Similar laws exist for guns and bulletproof vests.
Write your representatives. Vote libertarian