I don't know about you, but even though I've got four computers NAT'ed to my ISP, I only use one at a time. And if I'm playing quake or downloading mp3s I'm maxing out the bandwidth anyway, so what difference does it make?
It makes a lot more sense to sell services "per head" (ie, for each member of the household) than per computer, as that's the only way it will scale with "average use". -- Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
And I suppose you prefer dry, dim-witted intellectual puzzles propped up by ridiculous nonsense? The great thing about DS9 is that it usually ignores the bogus technology, and focuses on the politics and interpersonal relationships, and unlike the other shows, the characters are almost interesting people.
I share your opinion on SG1, but I can never quite make my brain ignore the fact that every race they encounter speaks English and represents some cultural stereotype, just like in Star Trek, past the first one where "Tealk" lives. It is especially irritating since so much of the appeal of the movie was the depth of the foreign culture and Daniel's process of learning the language.
-- Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
Yea, until the plebes catch a few skin flakes and clone their own super-children. In twenty years, DNA will be the warez all the kiddies get their kicks trading.
How many accounts do you troll under, anyway?
-- Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
Indeed. I wish every insurance provider had a record detailing every second of everyone's life, so they can mitigate risk perfectly. Why should I pay for other people's bad genes and risky behavior? So what if it creates a police state; being one with nothing to hide, I save a shitload money!
-- Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
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-- Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
No, it's the company's error for believing such a ridiculous contract is valid. To be chastising people for their "undergraduate notion of freedom of speech", you have a naive understanding of contract law.
-- Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
Which would seem to imply that elements of science fiction have existed since the first glimmerings of scientific thought.
If intellectual flavor is your criterion, then Conneticut Yankee is most certainly science fiction. It was written to critique the Romantic historicism being favored by elitists on both sides of the Atlantic. In the book, not only are the ancient nobles ignorant brutes, but technological knowledge allows the New England commoner to conquer them easily.
The idea that technology is a source of empowerment over social stratification is about as science fiction as you can get.
-- Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
What's really funny is how in the period from about August to November, Windows intrusions went way down, and linux intrusions when way up. I wonder why. Was Linux a four-month fad in the script kiddie scene?
-- Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
Indeed. I'm sick of all the repetition in works of fiction. They always have a "plot", with this thing called a "conflict" which exists between "protagonists" and "antagonists". And there is always some "theme" being preached at you by the author, like I give a damn. A random string of words beats this kind of doggerel anyday.
-- Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
Choose between Transformers and G.I. Joe? You're kidding right? They both rule!
Don't forget the Care Bears. Hey, stop laughing, Care Bears rocked, ok? They had a cloud car, they had a cloud castle, and they could kick GEM's ass with that Care Bear Stare (and leave her all warm and fuzzy inside).
-- Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
Heh, this is initially what I thought "IT" was. It was a natural progression from whathisname's wheelchair technology. Imagine platform with a single spherical wheel, and that platform balances itself by rotating that wheel in any direction. You can make that plaform move simply by shifting your balance. It's cool, but the technological revolution would come from the spherical wheel, not the futuristic go-kart. -- Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
d00d! That's not the freakin' point, man! Those Windoze users are zealots! They're children who base their self-esteem on what operating system they use. We gotta show everybody how non-conformist we are by dissin' the dominant meme here on slashdot. Just 'cause all the slashbots use Windows doesn't make 'em mature, sophisticated computer users, and this proves it! This one example of zealotry discredits the entire Gatesian movement! We win!!!
-- Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
I think you're thinking of "Wang's Carpets", which was incorporated in his novel Diaspora.
"Luminous" is a sort of cyberpunk meets distrubted.net meets Godel, Escher, and Bach type of story involving an optical computer. It is available in the collection titled Luminous.
Funny, I found the beginning of Teranesia much more enjoyable than the end. The last several chapters just seemed rushed, and didn't really explore the implications of the scientific "hook" at all.
-- Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
What killed The Postman was Kevin Costner, the campy script, and half-assed casting. I still think the story is compelling enough that it could have been one of the greatest movies ever made.
Hmm... I wonder if animation rights are still available. It would probably do well as anime, if it stuck closer to the plot of the book.
-- Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
What is most appalling about jobs like these is that the employees voluntarily accept the abuse heaped upon them by their employers and customers, that the employees willingly agree to be treated like stooges, clowns, poltroons, and jackasses. We have not seen this before in America.
No, previously the degree of voluntarily has always been such that is a choice between degradation and starvation or violence. He should save his shock and pity for the child who made his sneakers, not the voluntary whores of capitalism. -- Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
It's also true that you can do good object oriened design with a Turing Machine, implemented in the Game of Life, composed of a million midgets wearing reversible parkas, which is directed from above by an Elvis impersonator in a hot air ballon shaped like a guitar.
That isn't saying it's a good a idea. -- Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
This technique has been automated as "collaborative filtering". It's what Amazon and cdnow.com do when they give you recommendations based on your previous purchases and review scores.
A less-anonymous form is also the solution to your previous question about differing ideas of "truth". You simply ignore the ratings of those you disagree with, and weight other people's ratings based on their crediblity with you. This process can also be automated based on a simple criteria of likes and dislikes, agreement and disagreement. -- Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
It's hinted at throughout the three books. With a visual and audible medium it would probably be far easier to demonstrate those hints without giving it all away. A few wispered words and stolen glances at Elrond's is all it would take, even for the average movie-going public.
I'm far more interested in how they handle the Gimli / Galadriel subtext.;-) -- Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
And because those moral rules are beneficial, they can easily arise from both rational contemplation and from unthinking natural selection as it applies to entire cultures. It is no proof of God's love.
Your child analogy is different, because the parent is trying to protect the child from dangers out of the parent's control. In your religion, God is the one who judges, and God is the one who damns, so God's wrath is the actual danger to avoid.
There is no analogy between eternal torment and punishment. Punishment is a means of teaching though conditioning, or protecting (the individual and others) as a deterrent. The only thing damnation compels is the acceptance of Pascal's Wager. -- Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
If God is omnipotent then he has a choice: either accept those who have rejected the charlatans that represent him in life, or damn them for their skeptical nature. Your rationalizations say little more than "God's hands are tied".
It's a bit like an abusive parent degrading a small child. The child does not recognize the parent's choices, as that parent defines the child's entire worldview, and love does not enter the equation, but the child does recognize his own choices: either submit, or be beaten. -- Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
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I don't know about you, but even though I've got four computers NAT'ed to my ISP, I only use one at a time. And if I'm playing quake or downloading mp3s I'm maxing out the bandwidth anyway, so what difference does it make?
It makes a lot more sense to sell services "per head" (ie, for each member of the household) than per computer, as that's the only way it will scale with "average use".
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Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
And I suppose you prefer dry, dim-witted intellectual puzzles propped up by ridiculous nonsense? The great thing about DS9 is that it usually ignores the bogus technology, and focuses on the politics and interpersonal relationships, and unlike the other shows, the characters are almost interesting people.
I share your opinion on SG1, but I can never quite make my brain ignore the fact that every race they encounter speaks English and represents some cultural stereotype, just like in Star Trek, past the first one where "Tealk" lives. It is especially irritating since so much of the appeal of the movie was the depth of the foreign culture and Daniel's process of learning the language.
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Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
Yea, until the plebes catch a few skin flakes and clone their own super-children. In twenty years, DNA will be the warez all the kiddies get their kicks trading.
How many accounts do you troll under, anyway?
--
Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
Indeed. I wish every insurance provider had a record detailing every second of everyone's life, so they can mitigate risk perfectly. Why should I pay for other people's bad genes and risky behavior? So what if it creates a police state; being one with nothing to hide, I save a shitload money!
--
Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
d00d, 17 h@pp3n3D 70 M3
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Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
No, it's the company's error for believing such a ridiculous contract is valid. To be chastising people for their "undergraduate notion of freedom of speech", you have a naive understanding of contract law.
--
Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
Which would seem to imply that elements of science fiction have existed since the first glimmerings of scientific thought.
If intellectual flavor is your criterion, then Conneticut Yankee is most certainly science fiction. It was written to critique the Romantic historicism being favored by elitists on both sides of the Atlantic. In the book, not only are the ancient nobles ignorant brutes, but technological knowledge allows the New England commoner to conquer them easily.
The idea that technology is a source of empowerment over social stratification is about as science fiction as you can get.
--
Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
What's really funny is how in the period from about August to November, Windows intrusions went way down, and linux intrusions when way up. I wonder why. Was Linux a four-month fad in the script kiddie scene?
--
Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
Indeed. I'm sick of all the repetition in works of fiction. They always have a "plot", with this thing called a "conflict" which exists between "protagonists" and "antagonists". And there is always some "theme" being preached at you by the author, like I give a damn. A random string of words beats this kind of doggerel anyday.
--
Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
Choose between Transformers and G.I. Joe? You're kidding right? They both rule!
Don't forget the Care Bears. Hey, stop laughing, Care Bears rocked, ok? They had a cloud car, they had a cloud castle, and they could kick GEM's ass with that Care Bear Stare (and leave her all warm and fuzzy inside).
--
Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
Heh, this is initially what I thought "IT" was. It was a natural progression from whathisname's wheelchair technology. Imagine platform with a single spherical wheel, and that platform balances itself by rotating that wheel in any direction. You can make that plaform move simply by shifting your balance. It's cool, but the technological revolution would come from the spherical wheel, not the futuristic go-kart.
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Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
Ah, that aquatic culture.
http://www.amazon.co.uk is where I got both of 'em.
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Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
d00d! That's not the freakin' point, man! Those Windoze users are zealots! They're children who base their self-esteem on what operating system they use. We gotta show everybody how non-conformist we are by dissin' the dominant meme here on slashdot. Just 'cause all the slashbots use Windows doesn't make 'em mature, sophisticated computer users, and this proves it! This one example of zealotry discredits the entire Gatesian movement! We win!!!
--
Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
I think you're thinking of "Wang's Carpets", which was incorporated in his novel Diaspora.
"Luminous" is a sort of cyberpunk meets distrubted.net meets Godel, Escher, and Bach type of story involving an optical computer. It is available in the collection titled Luminous.
Funny, I found the beginning of Teranesia much more enjoyable than the end. The last several chapters just seemed rushed, and didn't really explore the implications of the scientific "hook" at all.
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Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
What killed The Postman was Kevin Costner, the campy script, and half-assed casting. I still think the story is compelling enough that it could have been one of the greatest movies ever made.
Hmm... I wonder if animation rights are still available. It would probably do well as anime, if it stuck closer to the plot of the book.
--
Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
No, previously the degree of voluntarily has always been such that is a choice between degradation and starvation or violence. He should save his shock and pity for the child who made his sneakers, not the voluntary whores of capitalism.
--
Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
It's also true that you can do good object oriened design with a Turing Machine, implemented in the Game of Life, composed of a million midgets wearing reversible parkas, which is directed from above by an Elvis impersonator in a hot air ballon shaped like a guitar.
That isn't saying it's a good a idea.
--
Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
This technique has been automated as "collaborative filtering". It's what Amazon and cdnow.com do when they give you recommendations based on your previous purchases and review scores.
A less-anonymous form is also the solution to your previous question about differing ideas of "truth". You simply ignore the ratings of those you disagree with, and weight other people's ratings based on their crediblity with you. This process can also be automated based on a simple criteria of likes and dislikes, agreement and disagreement.
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Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
MS Bob, the Sidewinder, and Monster Truck Rally
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Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
That's how they say it in Atlanta, you know, like Gomer Pyle. Surprise surprise surprise!
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Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
Huh, wha.. characters? I can't stop looking at the bobbing monkeys...
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Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
It's hinted at throughout the three books. With a visual and audible medium it would probably be far easier to demonstrate those hints without giving it all away. A few wispered words and stolen glances at Elrond's is all it would take, even for the average movie-going public.
;-)
I'm far more interested in how they handle the Gimli / Galadriel subtext.
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Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
Yea, because everyone knows that Atlas Shrugged is the greatest book ever written.
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Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
And because those moral rules are beneficial, they can easily arise from both rational contemplation and from unthinking natural selection as it applies to entire cultures. It is no proof of God's love.
Your child analogy is different, because the parent is trying to protect the child from dangers out of the parent's control. In your religion, God is the one who judges, and God is the one who damns, so God's wrath is the actual danger to avoid.
There is no analogy between eternal torment and punishment. Punishment is a means of teaching though conditioning, or protecting (the individual and others) as a deterrent. The only thing damnation compels is the acceptance of Pascal's Wager.
--
Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom
If God is omnipotent then he has a choice: either accept those who have rejected the charlatans that represent him in life, or damn them for their skeptical nature. Your rationalizations say little more than "God's hands are tied".
It's a bit like an abusive parent degrading a small child. The child does not recognize the parent's choices, as that parent defines the child's entire worldview, and love does not enter the equation, but the child does recognize his own choices: either submit, or be beaten.
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Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom