You are painting us with a rather strange brush. To date, each time 'society at large' in the United States has spoken about creationism, it has been to say "No, that isn't science, you can't teach that in a science class."
I once met a Catholic, European biologist that made a distinction between micro and macro evolution. As an American with an engineering degree, I was a little mystified, but I didn't really map those ideas on to larger groups.
It isn't true that the cost is irrelevant; currently, if you want detail information about an individuals activities, you can hire someone to follow them around, at pretty good cost, and you have the information starting from when you decided to hire someone.
If companies were keeping databases of license sightings, you could do it retroactively (the low cost makes it possible to collect and store the mass information).
As I said, I don't want to live in a world where those things are mundane, but appealing to emotional responses is still pretty histrionic.
(continuing my previous comment, I wouldn't want to work for someone who cared what I was doing on my time; that isn't inviolate, but it would be pretty dire circumstances that would lead me to worrying about whether my boss found out that I got drunk and went to a strip club on a Friday. Gambling is for suckers and people that think it is entertaining.)
Vandalism will also be a factor. If I thought I wanted some anonymity for some real reason, I wouldn't have any bad feelings about shining a bright laser into all sorts of things (and as computers get better at automatic surveillance, they will also get better at being able to point that laser by themselves).
A lot of it is because episodic television is a crappy format to write for. There aren't that many stories to tell, so to get dozens and dozens of episodes, they are constantly retelling them and get lazy and fall back to poorly used, inconsistent devices (the viewer doesn't know the limitations of the characters knowledge, so it isn't very satisfying to watch them use knowledge to solve problems). And then people like the comfort they get from 'knowing' the characters, so no one ever dies or changes (there is some character development, but not anything resembling real life).
(For me, the format works best when a character is shown dealing with the consequences of a choice that they have made)
He means the intermediate versions. I don't care to look up the numbers, but at some point, Apple discontinued support for PPC, and they no longer sell retail copies of the last version of OS X that did support PPC, but you can (apparently) go to many Apple stores and purchase a retail box of the latest version, at which point they will also burn you a DVD of the earlier version.
I think you should go ahead and provide documentation that the MPAA and RIAA are giving Microsoft more than the billions and billions of dollars that they take in selling operating systems.
(The part where the paranoid DRM argument falls apart is where Microsoft provides no-charge software that plays back unencumbered media, so all the media DRM serves to do is to enable the customer to play additional media)
So you can remember what you see. You can't trust what you see.
And do you really have absolute total recall? That must absolutely suck (I mean, think back to what you did between 7:01 and 7:02 PM on December 29, 1999; I bet it was pretty boring).
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You are painting us with a rather strange brush. To date, each time 'society at large' in the United States has spoken about creationism, it has been to say "No, that isn't science, you can't teach that in a science class."
I once met a Catholic, European biologist that made a distinction between micro and macro evolution. As an American with an engineering degree, I was a little mystified, but I didn't really map those ideas on to larger groups.
It isn't true that the cost is irrelevant; currently, if you want detail information about an individuals activities, you can hire someone to follow them around, at pretty good cost, and you have the information starting from when you decided to hire someone.
If companies were keeping databases of license sightings, you could do it retroactively (the low cost makes it possible to collect and store the mass information).
Much of the weather in North America this year is a well understood consequence of El Nino.
"Carbon Nazi" works better than Deniazi (it's for the other side, but it works far better).
No better verbal attack comes immediately to mind for the other side.
I think it is a slight against engineers to imply that most of the people coming here are engineers.
If you can afford it, you make damn sure the shit is processed beforehand. Disease sucks.
I'm not agreeing with pervasive surveillance, I'm rejecting "Your wife will find out you had some beer" as a compelling argument against it.
As I said, I don't want to live in a world where those things are mundane, but appealing to emotional responses is still pretty histrionic.
(continuing my previous comment, I wouldn't want to work for someone who cared what I was doing on my time; that isn't inviolate, but it would be pretty dire circumstances that would lead me to worrying about whether my boss found out that I got drunk and went to a strip club on a Friday. Gambling is for suckers and people that think it is entertaining.)
I don't find this all that threatening, I try really hard to be truthful with the people that I trust and care about.
I don't want tiresome biddies keeping track of what I do with my time though.
Vandalism will also be a factor. If I thought I wanted some anonymity for some real reason, I wouldn't have any bad feelings about shining a bright laser into all sorts of things (and as computers get better at automatic surveillance, they will also get better at being able to point that laser by themselves).
Do you mean to imply that we are adapted to the uranium and radium released by coal plants?
All those negatives, and still they have released far less radioactive material into the environment than coal power.
Yeah, if nobody buys the game, it will be hard to argue that the copy protection was a success.
I'm on dial up so I haven't looked through much, but it looks like video is available:
http://www.google.com/search?q=skinner's+pigeons
A lot of it is because episodic television is a crappy format to write for. There aren't that many stories to tell, so to get dozens and dozens of episodes, they are constantly retelling them and get lazy and fall back to poorly used, inconsistent devices (the viewer doesn't know the limitations of the characters knowledge, so it isn't very satisfying to watch them use knowledge to solve problems). And then people like the comfort they get from 'knowing' the characters, so no one ever dies or changes (there is some character development, but not anything resembling real life).
(For me, the format works best when a character is shown dealing with the consequences of a choice that they have made)
He means the intermediate versions. I don't care to look up the numbers, but at some point, Apple discontinued support for PPC, and they no longer sell retail copies of the last version of OS X that did support PPC, but you can (apparently) go to many Apple stores and purchase a retail box of the latest version, at which point they will also burn you a DVD of the earlier version.
I think you should go ahead and provide documentation that the MPAA and RIAA are giving Microsoft more than the billions and billions of dollars that they take in selling operating systems.
(The part where the paranoid DRM argument falls apart is where Microsoft provides no-charge software that plays back unencumbered media, so all the media DRM serves to do is to enable the customer to play additional media)
It isn't supposed to be deep, it is supposed to nearly be nonsense (but breakfast is tasty).
1 acre isn't space.
(It's probably near enough space to survive in, but it wouldn't be real comfortable.)
I have people's phone numbers written down (in case I lose my phone).
There are several numbers I could remember in an emergency though.
(Also, many parking lots have lots of empty space if you park a little further from the door)
If you find yourself slightly convinced by an existential argument, eat breakfast.
Given sufficient detail, I would be astonished by a single hit.
So you can remember what you see. You can't trust what you see.
And do you really have absolute total recall? That must absolutely suck (I mean, think back to what you did between 7:01 and 7:02 PM on December 29, 1999; I bet it was pretty boring).
If you write it down beforehand and document it when it happens, James Randi will give you 1 million dollars.
Stuff that you remember, or stuff that you wrote down?
You can't trust your brain.