Guess what - the right of way goes to the biggest guns no matter if you have a government or not.
If that's true, then there are *no* property rights. There's only the rule of force, rather than the rule of law. Here, we're lucky enough to live under the rule of law. I live in a pretty nice house, I have some pretty nice stuff, and I do not have any fears of an armed band riding into town and running me off my land and into a refugee camp. It's not because I'm armed to the teeth and able to repel invaders, it's because if they tried I'd call 911 and the police would stop by and arrest them. In places where there is no functional government, there is the rule of force, where a local warlord can send his men to your house and chase you off, with no recourse. I know which one I prefer.
When in your life have you ever been confronted with a choice of "abandon your home or die". I'm gonna guess never. You rely on the government to enforce your property rights just as much as anyone else here (assuming you're not posting from Somalia), regardless of your rugged-individualist fantasies.
Even with governments we still have robbery, and in some cases the government itself commits the crime.
Of course there are, I'm not claiming that having a government is the path to Utopia. As long as there are people there will be crimes. But there's a problem here: Without a functional government, there are no crimes. How could there be, if there are no laws? To have laws, you need a consensus between you and your neighbors on what is lawful, and then a way to enforce them. Once you've involved other people in that way, you have a government, albeit a pretty rudimentary one, but a government nonetheless.
Okay, so, you have your house, and a pump shotgun, so you can enforce your rights when your neighbors encroach on them, and it works pretty well. Then I move in across the street with my two brothers and our collection of AK-47s and take your land. Your choice is run, or die. How are you going to enforce your property rights in this situation? This is what you end up with in paradise locations without functional governments.
Individuals have always had the ability to enforce their property rights with or without government backing.
No. Individuals have always had the ability to *try* to enforce their property rights. If someone else comes along with more swords or bigger guns they won't last long.
Outsourcing this function to the government may have certain advantages, but those right won't automatically go away if the government does.
It has the advantage of setting a level playing field, rather than having an anarchist free-for-all where the right of way goes to the biggest guns.
I'm not sure what your point is supposed to be here, 'cause what I'm getting there is that property ownership rights in that case belong to whoever has the most firepower. I personally wouldn't be inclined to think of that as a good thing....
Now that's just plain wrong. Reading from *.ini files is dead easy when coding for Windows, and doesn't require massive duplication of code any more than reading from the registry does. Further, there's no reason you can't do your configs as XML, which again, is not difficult to read/write.
Just because the GP said flat-file doesn't mean you have to write your own custom parser.
...but I don't think the point was that a sentient universe was specifically reaching backward in time to mess with Higgs producing devices.
I read the article, but I don't have it handy right now, but here's what I thought it was really suggesting:
The universe abhors Higgs particles, not on a conscious level, but in the same way nature abhors a vacuum. The production of a Higgs particle is so catastrophic though, that it effectively causes the end of the universe. BUT, if new universes are actually spawned every time a decision state is reached, it follows that some number of those universes will produce a string of events, however unlikely, that precludes the creation of a Higgs particle. Magnets break, parts shipments are stolen, terrorist attacks at the facility that intends to create them, whatever. From our point of view, we will always be in the universe where the thing didn't work, because in the other bubble universes there are no observers left to see the outcome. Why is it "us" that are in the universe(es) that survived? Because we're still here.
I don't think they were suggesting that a "caring universe" is saving us from ourselves, or even saving itself from us. If you accept the possibility of bubble universes it's inevitable that there will be surviving universes where the catastrophic event didn't occur, and we'll always end up being in one of the "lucky ones", because if we weren't we wouldn't be having this discussion.
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um, why can't you sit outside and read an ebook on your iPhone while sitting in a hammock? I do it all the time, and it seems to work just fine for me....
You personally may not like it, or perhaps you have some specific vision problem that stops you from doing it, but that doesn't mean it's not a perfectly good suggestion for a great many people anyway.
As an aside, I've been using eReader for years, first on Windows Mobile, and now on my iPod touch. It's a nice reader, they have a decent selection of books, and it's easy to make your own from converted text or html files.
If you're looking to keep your views private, you shouldn't have been signing a petition in the first place. The purpose of a petition is to publicly declare your support for whatever is being petitioned for.
Your post makes about as much sense as Bono saying, "I'll never sing on a stage in front of a crowd again. I had no idea those people were listening to me! I am outraged!".
If you don't want your views known publicly, don't take a public stand.
BTW for those of you who say that it is discrimination, gays are allowed to marry. They just aren't (in most states) allowed to marry someone of the same sex, but then neither are straights.
And following that logic inter-racial marriage wasn't discrimination either. Blacks weren't allowed to marry outside their race, but then nether were whites.
I would, however, appreciate a plausible explanation as to how abiogenesis could have occured.
Yeah, a lot of people would appreciate that, but since evolution has absolutely nothing to do with the origin of life, you're kind of wasting your time trying to get it to give you that answer. You may as well say that there are some big problems with fluid dynamics because it doesn't explain the origin of life either.
The "God did it" crowd typically answers the "how" question with something to the extent of "God is all powerful and I'll never understand how He did it". The "!God did it" crowd has more or less told me "I'm not really sure, but we're working on it". So I'll grant that both sides kinda cop out in the "how" department.
Then you've missed an incredibly important distinction between the two. In religion, if you don't know the answer, you can "make one up", and say god did it and it's mysterious but that's how it happened. In science, if you don't know the answer, the only available response is "I don't know". This is not a cop-out, it's the necessary answer, until such a time as you actually *do* have an answer. "I don't know" isn't the same thing as "It's unknowable".
Most people only really have broad demands on how their music sounds. Give them fairly deep bass, no obvious crackle at the high end, and they'll pretty much be happy with anything in between. If they're used to a "lower-end" listening experience to begin with (cheap headphones, laptop speakers, low-end stereos), then they'll be even less picky overall.
It also wouldn't surprise me if a fair number of the participants just picked one arbitrarily, just for the sake of giving an answer.
Humans have mutations all the time in just _one_ generation. I suppose you could consider downs syndrome to be a beneficial mutation, because in our society, they get taken care of by their parents and don't have to work as hard. (broad generalization+ grain of salt)
In fact, any human with what would be considered a normally debilitating mutation that is waited on hand-and-foot may be considered royalty to an alien observer. ( as we can be considered to e-coli)
Um, because people with debilitating mutations get to reproduce a lot? Wait, no they don't, and since evolution is all about giving you an advantage which enables you to procreate more often than others, thereby passing your genes to more offspring than others, what you just said really doesn't make any sense, now does it?
Also, from a Darwinian perspective... it's still e-coli, not some new organism. Is this really a proof of anything?
Let's say you found a population of people who could thrive on a diet of grass and sticks. Nobody else has the ability to do this, so would that be "proof of anything"?
I'm not sure what you're referring to as far as vendor lock-in goes. There's nothing stopping anyone from making any of the apps I'm hoping to see for the Pre, it's just a matter of time so far. WebOS is new, I can't reasonably expect every application I want to be ready and waiting immediately on it's release.
My understanding is that the eReader will be out for the Pre sometime soon. The XM/Sirius app is so far Apple only (no luck for your WinMo device there either), and I'm hoping that the platform gains enough traction to get Skype's interest.
The Pre does have an App-Catalog, which is similar to the Apple App-Store, but there are actually far more "homebrew" apps available from other sources, which are generally free and so far I've had no problem getting or installing. Actually, they've been easier to install than apps were on my WinMo Motorola Q or Compaq iPaq. No ActiveSync to deal with, or hunting down and hoping for a stand-alone cab file.
As for getting features WinMo has had for years, I'm not sure what you mean. I've been using WinMo from Casio's first colour Cassiopia, up to retiring my iPaq and Moto Q last year. There's not a thing I find myself missing. Maybe the next iteration of WinMo will be more interesting, but I think Palm did a seriously nice job here.
When I say above "being able to connect to the wireless network at my office with it (WPA Enterprise), which nobody's managed to do yet with an iPhone/iPod Touch", I'm talking about a specific network (at my office), not all WPA Enterprise networks. For whatever reason, a Pre can connect with no problem, but iPhones/iPod Touches do not. Oddly, OSX laptops connect just fine as well, so I was surprised when other Apple products had trouble.
Pardon me? Nobody? This has been a feature since iPhone/iPod OS 2.0 came out and I have been running it ever since then.
I'm going to guess you don't work at my office then. Maybe it's something specific to how the network is set up, I couldn't say, but the Pres in the office work fine, none of the iPhones/iPod Touches do.
I'll second that, and I also appreciate being able to connect to the wireless network at my office with it (WPA Enterprise), which nobody's managed to do yet with an iPhone/iPod Touch.......
Now, hopefully the apps will start to flow a little faster. There are some nice ones out now, and more every day, but I particularly would like to see the Sirius/XM player, Skype, and eReader come out soon.
But shouldn't there be SOME aspect of personal responsibility in this process
Yes, there is. If you have a restraining order filed against you, you are personally responsible for not intentionally contacting the person named in the order. Yes, she should have de-friended this person, but ultimately this person should not have made *any* attempt to contact her in *any* way. This is the same in real life as it is on the internet. If the person saw her at the grocery store, they shouldn't yell "Hi!" and wave to her either.
If she had added this person as a friend after she filed the order, you'd have a point, but the fact that she forgot to remove this person after the fact doesn't change the fact that this person was fully aware they were supposed to stay away from her and decided not to.
Restraining orders are all about personal responsibility. They're a way of saying, "We'd rather not send you to jail, so how about you just act like a grownup and just stay away from this person".
You're assuming that the people who created all of these religions originally did so because they believed it was the "true religion from [$DEITY]", rather than just a bunch of people who wanted to make their own rules and get other people to follow them.
And who knows, maybe I really do believe that some deity really does hate business attire. Go ahead, prove that I *don't* believe that. Who are you to say that my weird and inconsistent beliefs are any less valid than your own weird and inconsistent beliefs?
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If that's true, then there are *no* property rights. There's only the rule of force, rather than the rule of law. Here, we're lucky enough to live under the rule of law. I live in a pretty nice house, I have some pretty nice stuff, and I do not have any fears of an armed band riding into town and running me off my land and into a refugee camp. It's not because I'm armed to the teeth and able to repel invaders, it's because if they tried I'd call 911 and the police would stop by and arrest them. In places where there is no functional government, there is the rule of force, where a local warlord can send his men to your house and chase you off, with no recourse. I know which one I prefer.
When in your life have you ever been confronted with a choice of "abandon your home or die". I'm gonna guess never. You rely on the government to enforce your property rights just as much as anyone else here (assuming you're not posting from Somalia), regardless of your rugged-individualist fantasies.
Of course there are, I'm not claiming that having a government is the path to Utopia. As long as there are people there will be crimes. But there's a problem here: Without a functional government, there are no crimes. How could there be, if there are no laws? To have laws, you need a consensus between you and your neighbors on what is lawful, and then a way to enforce them. Once you've involved other people in that way, you have a government, albeit a pretty rudimentary one, but a government nonetheless.
Okay, so, you have your house, and a pump shotgun, so you can enforce your rights when your neighbors encroach on them, and it works pretty well. Then I move in across the street with my two brothers and our collection of AK-47s and take your land. Your choice is run, or die. How are you going to enforce your property rights in this situation? This is what you end up with in paradise locations without functional governments.
No. Individuals have always had the ability to *try* to enforce their property rights. If someone else comes along with more swords or bigger guns they won't last long.
It has the advantage of setting a level playing field, rather than having an anarchist free-for-all where the right of way goes to the biggest guns.
I'm not sure what your point is supposed to be here, 'cause what I'm getting there is that property ownership rights in that case belong to whoever has the most firepower. I personally wouldn't be inclined to think of that as a good thing....
Now that's just plain wrong. Reading from *.ini files is dead easy when coding for Windows, and doesn't require massive duplication of code any more than reading from the registry does. Further, there's no reason you can't do your configs as XML, which again, is not difficult to read/write.
Just because the GP said flat-file doesn't mean you have to write your own custom parser.
...but I don't think the point was that a sentient universe was specifically reaching backward in time to mess with Higgs producing devices.
I read the article, but I don't have it handy right now, but here's what I thought it was really suggesting:
The universe abhors Higgs particles, not on a conscious level, but in the same way nature abhors a vacuum. The production of a Higgs particle is so catastrophic though, that it effectively causes the end of the universe. BUT, if new universes are actually spawned every time a decision state is reached, it follows that some number of those universes will produce a string of events, however unlikely, that precludes the creation of a Higgs particle. Magnets break, parts shipments are stolen, terrorist attacks at the facility that intends to create them, whatever. From our point of view, we will always be in the universe where the thing didn't work, because in the other bubble universes there are no observers left to see the outcome. Why is it "us" that are in the universe(es) that survived? Because we're still here.
I don't think they were suggesting that a "caring universe" is saving us from ourselves, or even saving itself from us. If you accept the possibility of bubble universes it's inevitable that there will be surviving universes where the catastrophic event didn't occur, and we'll always end up being in one of the "lucky ones", because if we weren't we wouldn't be having this discussion.
um, why can't you sit outside and read an ebook on your iPhone while sitting in a hammock? I do it all the time, and it seems to work just fine for me....
You personally may not like it, or perhaps you have some specific vision problem that stops you from doing it, but that doesn't mean it's not a perfectly good suggestion for a great many people anyway.
That may be, but they've been back in for a little while now.
As an aside, I've been using eReader for years, first on Windows Mobile, and now on my iPod touch. It's a nice reader, they have a decent selection of books, and it's easy to make your own from converted text or html files.
Of course it isn't, we're talking about swine flu, after all.....
Most people do, but Civil War re-enactors sometimes become desensitized to that particular combination and miss the warning.....
If you're looking to keep your views private, you shouldn't have been signing a petition in the first place. The purpose of a petition is to publicly declare your support for whatever is being petitioned for.
Your post makes about as much sense as Bono saying, "I'll never sing on a stage in front of a crowd again. I had no idea those people were listening to me! I am outraged!".
If you don't want your views known publicly, don't take a public stand.
And following that logic inter-racial marriage wasn't discrimination either. Blacks weren't allowed to marry outside their race, but then nether were whites.
Yeah, a lot of people would appreciate that, but since evolution has absolutely nothing to do with the origin of life, you're kind of wasting your time trying to get it to give you that answer. You may as well say that there are some big problems with fluid dynamics because it doesn't explain the origin of life either.
Then you've missed an incredibly important distinction between the two. In religion, if you don't know the answer, you can "make one up", and say god did it and it's mysterious but that's how it happened. In science, if you don't know the answer, the only available response is "I don't know". This is not a cop-out, it's the necessary answer, until such a time as you actually *do* have an answer. "I don't know" isn't the same thing as "It's unknowable".
Ladies and gentlemen, I nominate this phrase for the coveted "Most Disgusting String of Words Seen on Slashdot" award for 2009.
are you sure you didn't mean prisons? Then again, maybe you're lucky enough not to spend 8+ hours a day in a cube.....
Most people only really have broad demands on how their music sounds. Give them fairly deep bass, no obvious crackle at the high end, and they'll pretty much be happy with anything in between. If they're used to a "lower-end" listening experience to begin with (cheap headphones, laptop speakers, low-end stereos), then they'll be even less picky overall.
It also wouldn't surprise me if a fair number of the participants just picked one arbitrarily, just for the sake of giving an answer.
Um, because people with debilitating mutations get to reproduce a lot? Wait, no they don't, and since evolution is all about giving you an advantage which enables you to procreate more often than others, thereby passing your genes to more offspring than others, what you just said really doesn't make any sense, now does it?
Let's say you found a population of people who could thrive on a diet of grass and sticks. Nobody else has the ability to do this, so would that be "proof of anything"?
I'm not sure what you're referring to as far as vendor lock-in goes. There's nothing stopping anyone from making any of the apps I'm hoping to see for the Pre, it's just a matter of time so far. WebOS is new, I can't reasonably expect every application I want to be ready and waiting immediately on it's release.
My understanding is that the eReader will be out for the Pre sometime soon. The XM/Sirius app is so far Apple only (no luck for your WinMo device there either), and I'm hoping that the platform gains enough traction to get Skype's interest.
The Pre does have an App-Catalog, which is similar to the Apple App-Store, but there are actually far more "homebrew" apps available from other sources, which are generally free and so far I've had no problem getting or installing. Actually, they've been easier to install than apps were on my WinMo Motorola Q or Compaq iPaq. No ActiveSync to deal with, or hunting down and hoping for a stand-alone cab file.
As for getting features WinMo has had for years, I'm not sure what you mean. I've been using WinMo from Casio's first colour Cassiopia, up to retiring my iPaq and Moto Q last year. There's not a thing I find myself missing. Maybe the next iteration of WinMo will be more interesting, but I think Palm did a seriously nice job here.
When I say above "being able to connect to the wireless network at my office with it (WPA Enterprise), which nobody's managed to do yet with an iPhone/iPod Touch", I'm talking about a specific network (at my office), not all WPA Enterprise networks. For whatever reason, a Pre can connect with no problem, but iPhones/iPod Touches do not. Oddly, OSX laptops connect just fine as well, so I was surprised when other Apple products had trouble.
I'm going to guess you don't work at my office then. Maybe it's something specific to how the network is set up, I couldn't say, but the Pres in the office work fine, none of the iPhones/iPod Touches do.
I'll second that, and I also appreciate being able to connect to the wireless network at my office with it (WPA Enterprise), which nobody's managed to do yet with an iPhone/iPod Touch.......
Now, hopefully the apps will start to flow a little faster. There are some nice ones out now, and more every day, but I particularly would like to see the Sirius/XM player, Skype, and eReader come out soon.
Yes, there is. If you have a restraining order filed against you, you are personally responsible for not intentionally contacting the person named in the order. Yes, she should have de-friended this person, but ultimately this person should not have made *any* attempt to contact her in *any* way. This is the same in real life as it is on the internet. If the person saw her at the grocery store, they shouldn't yell "Hi!" and wave to her either.
If she had added this person as a friend after she filed the order, you'd have a point, but the fact that she forgot to remove this person after the fact doesn't change the fact that this person was fully aware they were supposed to stay away from her and decided not to.
Restraining orders are all about personal responsibility. They're a way of saying, "We'd rather not send you to jail, so how about you just act like a grownup and just stay away from this person".
Italy has leapfrogged ahead of both Germany and Japan in the quest for making the weirdest adult films.....
Well, that should end its ability to cause havoc pretty efectively.
Yes, I speak from personal experience. Stupid staircase.
You're assuming that the people who created all of these religions originally did so because they believed it was the "true religion from [$DEITY]", rather than just a bunch of people who wanted to make their own rules and get other people to follow them.
And who knows, maybe I really do believe that some deity really does hate business attire. Go ahead, prove that I *don't* believe that. Who are you to say that my weird and inconsistent beliefs are any less valid than your own weird and inconsistent beliefs?