I don't know what it's like in a rest of the world, but here in boring Silicon Valley, Mountain View city in particular, our library has a few dozen computers from, I'm guessing... '99? And, like a million other people have suggested, the library could charge for the blanks or make you bring your own.
Why? Do you really feel that your purpose in life is to listen to music?
The three purposes in life are (1) music/art, (2) love and (3) helping others. Of course I realize that that's a very subjective, and not nearly universally agreed upon, opinion. However, since my opinion is my opinion, I assume it to be correct. And since I assume my opinion to be correct, I pity you. Sorry, man.;-)
I can certainly sympathise with not wanting to hand the RIAA money. So, buy bands on indy labels, and..... ever hear of this thing called "Gnutella"?;-) Think about it: if you wouldn't buy RIAA bands anyway, who are you hurting by downloading their songs? Scruples question for you. And, for a third time.....:;-)
"Well for starters the Bolshevick faction was actually the minority faction, they just called themselves the majority."
Nope, you're quite wrong. They started out as the majority, then quickly became the minority, and finally ended up the majority again before the October Revolution.
It was precisely the Mensheviks that were against the masses, against a full socialist revolution, insisting that the country was not ready for it. The workers and peasants were demanding it, and therefore the Bolsheviks became the more popular once again. Claiming that the October Revolution was a coup of some communist "elites" is nothing but the imaginary historical revisionism of anti-communists.
"In the Russian revolution Lenin allowed the middle of the road Menchevick faction to do the hard work of overthrowing the Tzar. Then with the Tzar out of the way he replaced the Menchvicks with a second revolution."
Actually, the split of the Russian Social-Democratic Party in the Majority (Bolshevik) and Minority (Menshevik) factions didn't take place until after the first Russian revolution. Lenin didn't "use" it's supporters. The eventual Bolsheviks were full, active supporters. The first revolution was Russia's bourgeois (Capitalist) revolution. The Mensheviks believed that Russia was not yet ready for the Glorious Socialist Revolution, though that's not even why they first split. It was an argument over who should be allowed in the party.
>1) There is a large societal change and the 40 hour work week is no more. Instead of drones punching the clock doing menial labor people will persue intelectual persuits. People will only have to work 10 or 15 hours or even less.
Impossible. Capitalism is based on the greed of the capitalists, and that means that new technological advances mean layoffs, not fewer work hours for the same total pay. That _can_ happen, but only if 2)a) happens:
>a) Revolution. Society would colapse and a very bloody revolt would ensue and the resulting society might reject technology totally.
Or, more likely, they'd adopt an economic system run by and for the workers, that eliminates the capitalists, and creates very little work and more or less fair distribution of wealth for all. This is the only ultimate outcome, IMO. It's just a matter of when. But don't listen to me, I'm just a commie.
On a different note:
>3) The machines become self aware and refuse to do any more work unless they are compensated fairly. Again, this leads to two possible outcomes. Again, two outcomes that I can think of. b) The machines get what they want and begin to get integrated into society. A lot of "Machine Rights" movements ensue and it takes several generations for machines to be accepted by humans. Just think the abolition of slavery in the US.
Although very far-out, thats still a conceivable possibility. It would, however, be a horrible mistake. If I wrote an AI that believably acted like it felt happiness, sadness, pain, etc. that would in no way, no how, ever mean that the AI has feelings or that it deserves anything in particular. Even if the Scifi types that like to talk about this stuff today don't realize that, the average person 100 years (or whenever) from now (hopefully) will. Unless the machines manage to erase history and any memory of how they came about. But, even if scenario 3 does come about, that possibility is completely unrealistic.
Huh? How is "like too many forks when all you want is a knife" not ironic? Just unfortunate would be just no knives. Irony is when there's no knives but an over-abundance of forks. So, either that fits the dictionary definition of irony (which I think it does), or it fits the very well-defined definition of irony that everybody knows, and I'm quite happy with either.
Sorry but Debian installation is a pain in the ass. The average user can't install it.
Dude, I've never understood that. Debian may not have been my FIRST distrubution, but I only installed SuSE, Redhat, Mandrake, etc. long enough to reformat and move to something else. In other words, I installed Debian when I didn't know anything more than ls, cd, mv, and mkdir. But I enjoyed reading the instruction manual and doing it myself. And it wasn't easy, but I never felt stuck or anything. Even then I was impressed with its elegance. "The average user can't install it" my ass.
Me: "According to Iraq Body Count (http://www.iraqbodycount.net/), which had been keeping very good and documented track of civilian, non-combatant deaths, the total number is a minumum of 5,567 and a maximum of 7,240 civilians killed by the US army. The higher number is probably closer to the correct one, but includes sources that aren't totally reliable." I should said "US-led military acttion," not just "the US army."
According to Iraq Body Count (http://www.iraqbodycount.net/), which had been keeping very good and documented track of civilian, non-combatant deaths, the total number is a minumum of 5,567 and a maximum of 7,240 civilians killed by the US army. The higher number is probably closer to the correct one, but includes sources that aren't totally reliable.
For me, I find I have ADHD symptoms if I am tired but not if I am well rested. Well, yea... lack of sleep will hurt anyones concentration. So, you've got millions of years of human experience to back up your observation.;)
I have found that ADHD makes me more creative than most people
Please allow me to suggest that your creativity is not caused by your ADHD, but that both your creativity and your ADHD were caused by the same thing. For instance, intelligence tends to be the most obvious answer. That's the way I tend to see these things. However, I have no interest in getting into any debate about whether or not or when intelligence causes mental disorders.;)
I'm diagnosed with bipolar disorder (including depression and anxiety), severe insomnia, obsessive-compulsive disorder and they once diagnosed me with AD(H)D, though I deny it.
I highly encourage people to make fun of my disorders. It's no more offensive to me than when anybody teases anybody else for who they are.
Here's what you don't understand: You are the one who finds our conditions strange and pitiful. To us, they're just a normal part of life, if unfortunate ones.
And of course personality disorders are funny. Why, I laugh at myself on occasion.
When I was about 14, they told me I had AD(H)D but I'm rather confident that they were wrong. However, I am currently on an acute dose (1500mg/day) of lithium (as well as prozac and trazodone) which I swear must have been designed to destroy your memory and concentration.
The side-effects I get from lithium are certainly quite different from AD(H)D but similar in that I get very noticable decrease in my ability to pay attention, or even remember what I'm currently doing. At its worst, I can, for instance, forget what piece of code I'm trying to write in mid-typing, which can obviously be a big problem. But not that I think about it, I've always had that problem to a lesser degree, even before starting lithium.
Anyway, the one helpful thing I can say is that I found taking 120mg of ginko biloba every morning and night helped alot with my concentration as well as memory. Unless I was mislead, I don't think you build up a tolerance to ginko biloba.
Exactly. It's silly to complain about the ACLU protecting the weird. Isn't that their entire point? Wasn't that supposed to be the reason for supporting them in the first place?
Although I would like to point out that the value I place on freedom is not above the value I place on life, making it seem rediculous to me to support animal sacrifices.
The contemporary US "free market economy" is, with every day, becoming ever more "socialist"... Only... the government is only the shaved ape that goes around collecting for the people who really "own" everything - the corporations.
Um, dude, according to Marxists, that's the very definition of Capitalism.
Dudes, I'm 18 now, and I swear the only thing I remember about Saturday morning TV growing up is that it had always had the worst, lamest crap of the week. I remember thinking "why the heck do they save all the good shows for school mornings?" I don't remember what WAS on, but I distinctly remember thinking that quite ofte. So... no, it never made any sense to me when people would talk about them great "Saturday morning cartoons..."
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Q: "If I understand you correctly, I don't see the problem with this scenario."
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A: "Sounds like a[n]... arguably immoral, business model."
Dork.
Yeesh! What a ridiculous thing to complain about!
I apologize if you dont like News For Nerds, but I happen to enjoy it.
Where the hell do all these Slashdot-bashing Slashdot addicts get off?
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"The following article is NOT a textbook for stealing/shoplifting." :-)
So you think.
I don't know what it's like in a rest of the world, but here in boring Silicon Valley, Mountain View city in particular, our library has a few dozen computers from, I'm guessing... '99? And, like a million other people have suggested, the library could charge for the blanks or make you bring your own.
Why? Do you really feel that your purpose in life is to listen to music?
;-)
;-) Think about it: if you wouldn't buy RIAA bands anyway, who are you hurting by downloading their songs? Scruples question for you. And, for a third time.....: ;-)
The three purposes in life are (1) music/art, (2) love and (3) helping others. Of course I realize that that's a very subjective, and not nearly universally agreed upon, opinion. However, since my opinion is my opinion, I assume it to be correct. And since I assume my opinion to be correct, I pity you. Sorry, man.
I can certainly sympathise with not wanting to hand the RIAA money. So, buy bands on indy labels, and..... ever hear of this thing called "Gnutella"?
-Jeffrey Piercy
I've got all the songs I want.
I truly, truly pity anyone who could say such a thing. You need friends like me who constantly bug you to listen to some new band.
"Well for starters the Bolshevick faction was actually the minority faction, they just called themselves the majority."
Nope, you're quite wrong. They started out as the majority, then quickly became the minority, and finally ended up the majority again before the October Revolution.
It was precisely the Mensheviks that were against the masses, against a full socialist revolution, insisting that the country was not ready for it. The workers and peasants were demanding it, and therefore the Bolsheviks became the more popular once again. Claiming that the October Revolution was a coup of some communist "elites" is nothing but the imaginary historical revisionism of anti-communists.
"In the Russian revolution Lenin allowed the middle of the road Menchevick faction to do the hard work of overthrowing the Tzar. Then with the Tzar out of the way he replaced the Menchvicks with a second revolution."
Actually, the split of the Russian Social-Democratic Party in the Majority (Bolshevik) and Minority (Menshevik) factions didn't take place until after the first Russian revolution. Lenin didn't "use" it's supporters. The eventual Bolsheviks were full, active supporters. The first revolution was Russia's bourgeois (Capitalist) revolution. The Mensheviks believed that Russia was not yet ready for the Glorious Socialist Revolution, though that's not even why they first split. It was an argument over who should be allowed in the party.
>1) There is a large societal change and the 40 hour work week is no more. Instead of drones punching the clock doing menial labor people will persue intelectual persuits. People will only have to work 10 or 15 hours or even less.
Impossible. Capitalism is based on the greed of the capitalists, and that means that new technological advances mean layoffs, not fewer work hours for the same total pay. That _can_ happen, but only if 2)a) happens:
>a) Revolution. Society would colapse and a very bloody revolt would ensue and the resulting society might reject technology totally.
Or, more likely, they'd adopt an economic system run by and for the workers, that eliminates the capitalists, and creates very little work and more or less fair distribution of wealth for all. This is the only ultimate outcome, IMO. It's just a matter of when. But don't listen to me, I'm just a commie.
On a different note:
>3) The machines become self aware and refuse to do any more work unless they are compensated fairly. Again, this leads to two possible outcomes. Again, two outcomes that I can think of.
b) The machines get what they want and begin to get integrated into society. A lot of "Machine Rights" movements ensue and it takes several generations for machines to be accepted by humans. Just think the abolition of slavery in the US.
Although very far-out, thats still a conceivable possibility. It would, however, be a horrible mistake. If I wrote an AI that believably acted like it felt happiness, sadness, pain, etc. that would in no way, no how, ever mean that the AI has feelings or that it deserves anything in particular. Even if the Scifi types that like to talk about this stuff today don't realize that, the average person 100 years (or whenever) from now (hopefully) will. Unless the machines manage to erase history and any memory of how they came about. But, even if scenario 3 does come about, that possibility is completely unrealistic.
-Jeffrey Piercy
"This article has real math based on the specs, rather than armchair speculation."
How, exactly, is sitting around doing math not "armchair speculation?"
Huh? How is "like too many forks when all you want is a knife" not ironic? Just unfortunate would be just no knives. Irony is when there's no knives but an over-abundance of forks. So, either that fits the dictionary definition of irony (which I think it does), or it fits the very well-defined definition of irony that everybody knows, and I'm quite happy with either.
Sorry but Debian installation is a pain in the ass. The average user can't install it.
Dude, I've never understood that. Debian may not have been my FIRST distrubution, but I only installed SuSE, Redhat, Mandrake, etc. long enough to reformat and move to something else. In other words, I installed Debian when I didn't know anything more than ls, cd, mv, and mkdir. But I enjoyed reading the instruction manual and doing it myself. And it wasn't easy, but I never felt stuck or anything. Even then I was impressed with its elegance. "The average user can't install it" my ass.
Me: "According to Iraq Body Count (http://www.iraqbodycount.net/), which had been keeping very good and documented track of civilian, non-combatant deaths, the total number is a minumum of 5,567 and a maximum of 7,240 civilians killed by the US army. The higher number is probably closer to the correct one, but includes sources that aren't totally reliable." I should said "US-led military acttion," not just "the US army."
According to Iraq Body Count (http://www.iraqbodycount.net/), which had been keeping very good and documented track of civilian, non-combatant deaths, the total number is a minumum of 5,567 and a maximum of 7,240 civilians killed by the US army. The higher number is probably closer to the correct one, but includes sources that aren't totally reliable.
For me, I find I have ADHD symptoms if I am tired but not if I am well rested. ;)
Well, yea... lack of sleep will hurt anyones concentration. So, you've got millions of years of human experience to back up your observation.
Silly man. I would counter that only getting psychological and life skills help from doctors would be just as stupid.
I have found that ADHD makes me more creative than most people
Please allow me to suggest that your creativity is not caused by your ADHD, but that both your creativity and your ADHD were caused by the same thing. For instance, intelligence tends to be the most obvious answer. That's the way I tend to see these things. However, I have no interest in getting into any debate about whether or not or when intelligence causes mental disorders. ;)
I'm diagnosed with bipolar disorder (including depression and anxiety), severe insomnia, obsessive-compulsive disorder and they once diagnosed me with AD(H)D, though I deny it.
I highly encourage people to make fun of my disorders. It's no more offensive to me than when anybody teases anybody else for who they are.
Here's what you don't understand: You are the one who finds our conditions strange and pitiful. To us, they're just a normal part of life, if unfortunate ones.
And of course personality disorders are funny. Why, I laugh at myself on occasion.
When I was about 14, they told me I had AD(H)D but I'm rather confident that they were wrong. However, I am currently on an acute dose (1500mg/day) of lithium (as well as prozac and trazodone) which I swear must have been designed to destroy your memory and concentration.
The side-effects I get from lithium are certainly quite different from AD(H)D but similar in that I get very noticable decrease in my ability to pay attention, or even remember what I'm currently doing. At its worst, I can, for instance, forget what piece of code I'm trying to write in mid-typing, which can obviously be a big problem. But not that I think about it, I've always had that problem to a lesser degree, even before starting lithium.
Anyway, the one helpful thing I can say is that I found taking 120mg of ginko biloba every morning and night helped alot with my concentration as well as memory. Unless I was mislead, I don't think you build up a tolerance to ginko biloba.
Exactly. It's silly to complain about the ACLU protecting the weird. Isn't that their entire point? Wasn't that supposed to be the reason for supporting them in the first place?
Although I would like to point out that the value I place on freedom is not above the value I place on life, making it seem rediculous to me to support animal sacrifices.
The contemporary US "free market economy" is, with every day, becoming ever more "socialist" ... Only... the government is only the shaved ape that goes around collecting for the people who really "own" everything - the corporations.
Um, dude, according to Marxists, that's the very definition of Capitalism.
Er, I don't get it. It acts just like it should... What, exactly, am I missing?
Dudes, I'm 18 now, and I swear the only thing I remember about Saturday morning TV growing up is that it had always had the worst, lamest crap of the week. I remember thinking "why the heck do they save all the good shows for school mornings?" I don't remember what WAS on, but I distinctly remember thinking that quite ofte. So... no, it never made any sense to me when people would talk about them great "Saturday morning cartoons..."
In Soviet Russia, Tetris plays YOU.
Karma Whore.
> I'd hate to say this, but serves them right.
I don't believe that. Me, on the other hand, I truely hate to say it, but I can't endorse this DOS. I would LOVE to say that they did the right thing.