...when people have been struggling with the Trolly Problem for 50 years now, with still no real success?
we should all just understand that their are certain ethical problems that simply cannot be reconciled with logic, and then just assign randomness to the outcome and be done with it.
kill the kids, kill the driver? flip a coin and good luck.
...that right now, in the midst of the NSA security nightmare and all the angst and FUD it's causing, that people are wondering why individuals are not deciding to throw their often-sensitive data into the cloud.
how could anyone think their data will be or stay safe, given the various threats that we hear about on almost a daily basis?
timing is everything (besides location of course...and sex appeal...and everything else) in life, and right now is not the time for cloud computing.
as some of you know, i've spent time in the florida prison system...this stuff is SOP...prisons are basically just the streets with much higher prices.
imo, its great that inmates get to watch illegal movies, brought in the guards, while smoking their illegal weed, often brought in by the guards (and of course through other less...sanitary? ways), while talking on their illegal cell phones, often brought in by...well, you already know.
it's all mostly a big game...now i'm not saying people don't belong in prison, lord knows i've met plenty who do, but a dude running a pirate movie site?
it may be before your time, but WordPerfect was a real powerhouse in its heyday.
of course you didn't need to limit your work to 640k,,,that would be ridiculous and believe it or not, programmers knew how to page and cache memory...even back in the "stone age" of the 80's and DOS.
in fact, i would absolutely assert that back in those days, memory management in all forms was a constant concern of hard-core programmers, and developers such as I were always looking for ways to optimize it use and overcome its limitations,
let me preface that i have loved astronomy and space my entire life, so no hate here...
my first wall poster when i was 8 was a map of the local group that i got out of a natgeo...this was 40 years ago and at the time i remember my mind utterly being blown by that map and the realization of how tiny i was.
my problem with modern cosmology is, however, the new trend that propose theories with no testable means of proving them. i understand that with cutting edge theory sometimes there may be a lag between the idea and the ability to test, but at some point theories that are non-testable should be dropped from the scientific canon.
personally, i like to limit theory proposals to those that can somehow be proved by the scientific method, and keep others in scifi.
if you know you really (i mean really!) purchased a CD years ago, shouldn't that make it ok to download the same CD in FLAC or 320vbr from your fav pirate site??
i was/am a huge Who fan, and think Quadrophenia is simply epic...it was, in fact, the first CD i ever bought back in 1984...doesn't that mean I purchased the right to the content forever?
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nope...not even close.
you can't curve and go up or "over the cliff" and down 90 degrees.
what could possibly go wrong?
...would you be willing to receive a brand new $2000 frig/freezer for free IF it showed ads on it?
that's the real issue...i think alot of people would...hell I probably would.
watch TFV...
it clearly states that air brakes will slow the machine from 1000mph to 160mph and the brakes are simply used for fine-tuning the stop location.
...in order to punish assholes, on top of drug users, pedos, terrorists, and hackers.
really??? drug users are in the same class as terrorists and pedophiles?
jesus...with attitudes like this no wonder its so impossible for me to find any work whatsoever.
...when people have been struggling with the Trolly Problem for 50 years now, with still no real success?
we should all just understand that their are certain ethical problems that simply cannot be reconciled with logic, and then just assign randomness to the outcome and be done with it.
kill the kids, kill the driver? flip a coin and good luck.
...that right now, in the midst of the NSA security nightmare and all the angst and FUD it's causing, that people are wondering why individuals are not deciding to throw their often-sensitive data into the cloud.
how could anyone think their data will be or stay safe, given the various threats that we hear about on almost a daily basis?
timing is everything (besides location of course...and sex appeal...and everything else) in life, and right now is not the time for cloud computing.
I think the term you are looking for is "representative democracy", which may be either a republic or a monarchy.
yeah...a "representative democracy" the way choosing Coke or Pepsi counts as selecting your favorite beverage.
with the two-party stranglehold its neither a democracy nor representative.
:)
as some of you know, i've spent time in the florida prison system...this stuff is SOP...prisons are basically just the streets with much higher prices.
imo, its great that inmates get to watch illegal movies, brought in the guards, while smoking their illegal weed, often brought in by the guards (and of course through other less...sanitary? ways), while talking on their illegal cell phones, often brought in by...well, you already know.
it's all mostly a big game...now i'm not saying people don't belong in prison, lord knows i've met plenty who do, but a dude running a pirate movie site?
not really, imho at least.
...is the new 42.
im flat out fucking my server.
take that, cloud geeks.
...for smart business-orientated women to start-up the world's oldest profession in the Seattle area.
oh...Tinder's already covering that base.
to tweet to perfect tweet.
yeah..."fairly plausible" reasons would have to include the creation of health science and maybe, you know, hospitals?
love em to death, but i don't see too many dolphin and bonobos building hospitals for their kin.
in Angular as a web component, no less.
it may be before your time, but WordPerfect was a real powerhouse in its heyday.
of course you didn't need to limit your work to 640k,,,that would be ridiculous and believe it or not, programmers knew how to page and cache memory...even back in the "stone age" of the 80's and DOS.
in fact, i would absolutely assert that back in those days, memory management in all forms was a constant concern of hard-core programmers, and developers such as I were always looking for ways to optimize it use and overcome its limitations,
...that i am excited that this theory seems to fall into the "testable" catagory and that makes it quite exciting to me.
sorry i hit Submit before adding that thought...
let me preface that i have loved astronomy and space my entire life, so no hate here...
my first wall poster when i was 8 was a map of the local group that i got out of a natgeo...this was 40 years ago and at the time i remember my mind utterly being blown by that map and the realization of how tiny i was.
my problem with modern cosmology is, however, the new trend that propose theories with no testable means of proving them. i understand that with cutting edge theory sometimes there may be a lag between the idea and the ability to test, but at some point theories that are non-testable should be dropped from the scientific canon.
personally, i like to limit theory proposals to those that can somehow be proved by the scientific method, and keep others in scifi.
great post...
"FLASH: Old stuff deteriorates...News at 11!!"
if you know you really (i mean really!) purchased a CD years ago, shouldn't that make it ok to download the same CD in FLAC or 320vbr from your fav pirate site??
i was/am a huge Who fan, and think Quadrophenia is simply epic...it was, in fact, the first CD i ever bought back in 1984...doesn't that mean I purchased the right to the content forever?
a multi-billionaire like Zuckerberg just didn't give enough.
a measly $100mil?? it should of course had been $500mil
THEN...the problems could really be solved!
Al Gore's son.
excellent link...pretty much proves my original point that this guy is just playing political games to appease the media and people.
its all just government censorship....don't you see that??
the promise of the internet has always been information wants to free.
man, slashdot is changing nowadays...i can't believe that i am even debating this point on this particular forum...wow.