I've got no damned idea what point you are trying to make.
I have never said that good and evil are part of the natural world. In fact, I said the exact opposite - that equating natural with good is a fallacy. I then went on to say that good and bad (in the moral sense) are human constructs. Did you read what I wrote? Any of it?
If what you were referring to was good for the individual or bad for the individual (ie benefit rather than moral), then I suppose you were correct. But since nobody else was talking about good or bad in the benefit sense, I'm STILL not sure what your point was supposed to be.
No, it is not. Good and bad in this argument are clearly used in the moral sense, and morals are something entirely human generated and defined.
I use rape as an example of nature violating our moral sense of good and bad because I expect that we can all agree that it is bad. Not 'bad for the species,' but 'bad morally.'
While you guys expand your toolset, could you pick up some robertson screwdrivers as well? Last time I shipped a crate to the US, they used crowbars to open it up.
You need to study formal logic a bit more. What you are committing is popularly known as the naturalistic fallacy.
This is the assumption that what is natural is good, and what is good must be natural.
Which is stupid when you actually stop and think about it. Dolphins rape each other, perfectly natural. Not good.
The original design did indeed call for an Orion type ship to be launched from the ground. Like I said, not good for those on the ground, but technically feasible.
I am as familiar with space launch alternatives as any other geek. Laser launch, launch loop, ram accelerators, QED (quiet electric discharge), magnetic slingshot even.
My point remains, we have a system that is technically feasible right now. And if there is one way to do it, there is almost always many ways to do it.
Orion Drive or a Nuclear one-shot cannon. Either one could put huge amounts of material in space. They're not good for everybody still on earth, but nobody argues that they wouldn't work.
Possibly the least well known webcomic out there, and one of the best. In art, in story, character design, everything.
And the artist is awesome, too. The crazy lady actively avoids donations or ads on the site. That's right, you have to work hard to donate money. It took months of work from fans to produce a kickstarter for a print version.
Man, the trolls are out thick on this one. I don't understand what they get out of it.
I appreciate your attempt to reason with them, but it just doesn't work very well.
Do they really? I mean, people with incurable cancer tend to die. That is a customer lost right there. A single, expensive and mostly permanent treatment at least means that some of the patients will relapse and need another treatment.
Nobody is forcing him to use Ubuntu. So what the hell are you bitching about? Canonical has intentionally implemented something that 3seas doesn't like, and has repeatedly defended the decision. Why should 3seas continue to use a product they put out? Hell, I don't particularly trust them anymore, either. I don't care if they had the very best of intentions.
That... That's a really good idea. And the bright light thing isn't much of a problem, really - you can control the amount of light coming in simply by greying the active lens a little.
It's wonderful. You are actually 100% wrong. It's called the Dunning Kruger Effect.
The man on the street thinks he is awesome at predictions, and the expert doesn't tell him he's an idiot because he knows that his predictions have some uncertainty.
Sure. And then you can use those averages to build models! Amazing, isn't it.
But I will say it again, generalities are easier to predict than specifics. "The world average temperature will be X C in November" is easier than "The US average temperature" is easier than "The Washington average temperature." That's how statistics work. You can mock all you like, it won't change the way the universe operates.
It also means that you don't have trigger-happy, guilt-wracked, paranoid soldiers on the ground, wondering when the next RPG is going to make their deployment a lot shorter than it was meant to be. With robotic systems and an operator out of harm's way, you can afford to wait and just shoot back.
It can see it swinging either way. It all depends on how the military decides to push.
I support this idea. We build the largest disk we can to block out the sun. Then we put it in orbit. Then we put PV on it. We get a space program, power, and technological advancement all at once.
If only it were big enough, it could even do something about global warming.
Keep in mind that broad strokes are normally easier than specifics. "It'll rain tomorrow" is a lot harder than "The average temperature for the month of October is X degrees C."
Science is almost never 100% correct, but it is always approaching. And lets be honest, it's the only way to make predictions of the future that are right more often than not.
I will accept that the correct pronunciation is Jif, but I don't think I'll change how I say it any time soon.
And that's a wonderful analogy. If I am told that Qwerty is pronounced 'Fred' I will accept that it's pronounced Fred, but I will also think that they are making shit difficult just to be difficult.
They should avoid going WYSIWYG, because WYSIWYG never works correctly. There's a reason TeX is so popular.
Hell, there's your answer. Just get everybody to write in TeX.
Do you have any idea how combustible the contents of your house are? Your bed, your rug, your curtains and desks and clothes and everything will burn with a ferocity that might surprise you.
The sprinklers will probably work. If some stupid homeowner hasn't put a false ceiling over them, anyway.
A lot about the firefighting profession is saving people from their own stupidity.
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I've got no damned idea what point you are trying to make.
I have never said that good and evil are part of the natural world. In fact, I said the exact opposite - that equating natural with good is a fallacy. I then went on to say that good and bad (in the moral sense) are human constructs. Did you read what I wrote? Any of it?
If what you were referring to was good for the individual or bad for the individual (ie benefit rather than moral), then I suppose you were correct. But since nobody else was talking about good or bad in the benefit sense, I'm STILL not sure what your point was supposed to be.
I use rape as an example of nature violating our moral sense of good and bad because I expect that we can all agree that it is bad. Not 'bad for the species,' but 'bad morally.'
While you guys expand your toolset, could you pick up some robertson screwdrivers as well? Last time I shipped a crate to the US, they used crowbars to open it up.
Which is stupid when you actually stop and think about it. Dolphins rape each other, perfectly natural. Not good.
The original design did indeed call for an Orion type ship to be launched from the ground. Like I said, not good for those on the ground, but technically feasible.
I am as familiar with space launch alternatives as any other geek. Laser launch, launch loop, ram accelerators, QED (quiet electric discharge), magnetic slingshot even.
My point remains, we have a system that is technically feasible right now. And if there is one way to do it, there is almost always many ways to do it.
Orion Drive or a Nuclear one-shot cannon. Either one could put huge amounts of material in space. They're not good for everybody still on earth, but nobody argues that they wouldn't work.
I second this, I just wish it didn't suffer quite so much schedule slip.
Possibly the least well known webcomic out there, and one of the best. In art, in story, character design, everything.
And the artist is awesome, too. The crazy lady actively avoids donations or ads on the site. That's right, you have to work hard to donate money. It took months of work from fans to produce a kickstarter for a print version.
Man, the trolls are out thick on this one. I don't understand what they get out of it.
I appreciate your attempt to reason with them, but it just doesn't work very well.
Do they really? I mean, people with incurable cancer tend to die. That is a customer lost right there. A single, expensive and mostly permanent treatment at least means that some of the patients will relapse and need another treatment.
I don't know, I can't imagine el Reg without the gratuitous use of the word. It fits the tone of the tech rag quite nicely, I think.
Nobody is forcing him to use Ubuntu. So what the hell are you bitching about? Canonical has intentionally implemented something that 3seas doesn't like, and has repeatedly defended the decision. Why should 3seas continue to use a product they put out? Hell, I don't particularly trust them anymore, either. I don't care if they had the very best of intentions.
That... That's a really good idea. And the bright light thing isn't much of a problem, really - you can control the amount of light coming in simply by greying the active lens a little.
I don't know about the European, but the Canadian Debt Crisis is... Well, non existent. How's the mortgage crisis coming along?
Because we have more brains than a mayfly.
1.4 km deep. Yeah, that ain't sea level change.
And an Intel processor is just a collection of switches.
Details are important.
It's wonderful. You are actually 100% wrong. It's called the Dunning Kruger Effect.
The man on the street thinks he is awesome at predictions, and the expert doesn't tell him he's an idiot because he knows that his predictions have some uncertainty.
Sure. And then you can use those averages to build models! Amazing, isn't it.
But I will say it again, generalities are easier to predict than specifics. "The world average temperature will be X C in November" is easier than "The US average temperature" is easier than "The Washington average temperature." That's how statistics work. You can mock all you like, it won't change the way the universe operates.
It also means that you don't have trigger-happy, guilt-wracked, paranoid soldiers on the ground, wondering when the next RPG is going to make their deployment a lot shorter than it was meant to be. With robotic systems and an operator out of harm's way, you can afford to wait and just shoot back.
It can see it swinging either way. It all depends on how the military decides to push.
I support this idea. We build the largest disk we can to block out the sun. Then we put it in orbit. Then we put PV on it. We get a space program, power, and technological advancement all at once.
If only it were big enough, it could even do something about global warming.
Keep in mind that broad strokes are normally easier than specifics. "It'll rain tomorrow" is a lot harder than "The average temperature for the month of October is X degrees C."
Science is almost never 100% correct, but it is always approaching. And lets be honest, it's the only way to make predictions of the future that are right more often than not.
I will accept that the correct pronunciation is Jif, but I don't think I'll change how I say it any time soon.
And that's a wonderful analogy. If I am told that Qwerty is pronounced 'Fred' I will accept that it's pronounced Fred, but I will also think that they are making shit difficult just to be difficult.
They should avoid going WYSIWYG, because WYSIWYG never works correctly. There's a reason TeX is so popular.
Hell, there's your answer. Just get everybody to write in TeX.
Do you have any idea how combustible the contents of your house are? Your bed, your rug, your curtains and desks and clothes and everything will burn with a ferocity that might surprise you. The sprinklers will probably work. If some stupid homeowner hasn't put a false ceiling over them, anyway. A lot about the firefighting profession is saving people from their own stupidity.
Obviously he's no true Scot then...