Mine is Violence : rough or injurious physical force, action, or treatment. Yours seems to be : an unjust or unwarranted exertion of force or power, as against rights or laws.
I don't think we're disagreeing - just take my objection to its logical conclusion. If you violate somebody's patent, you'll get sent threatening letters. At some point a group of people ("government") will tell you you have to show up at one of their temple-like buildings ("courthouse") to plead your case to a man in a black dress ("judge") because they wrote some rules down ("laws") that a man claiming to be a representative of one of your ancestors (perhaps over his objections) agreed to. If you fail to follow their demands, they'll send specialized men("police") to ransack your office, capture you with rough or injurious force ("arrest"), or, if you defend yourself, perhaps attempt to kill you (no euphemism here). If you fail to defend yourself, they'll lock you in a cage ("prison") and possibly subject you to anal rape from other caged people (again, no euphemism).
All because you arranged your property in a way that somebody previously did, but they wrote it down and mailed it in with a bunch of money. They claim this is to improve society.
That applies to a mixture of subject matter as well as a single subject, such as landscapes.
Quite so - a stroll through an Ansel Adams gallery will show strong subjects in most of the landscape, whether it's a group of ferns with different light, a group of aspens that jumps out from the background with careful exposure, or a just the Snake River, they all have something to capture the eye.
what happen in those model when an individual don't want to contribute anymore and use violence against his host society?
Contributing is optional, but you won't get very far if you don't participate and exchange. If he initiates violence, self defense is always allowed. It's a matter of who starts the aggression, not lay-down pacifism.
The vast majority of people agree with the idea that it's not OK to start violence but it is OK to defend yourself.
Why does the government get involved in auto theft? Why does the government get involved in fraud? Why does the government get involved in assault? Why does the government get involved in trespassing? Do you want to be responsible for the full cost of tracking down and prosecuting someone who committed any of those crimes against you?
No, and the odds are low of those things happening to any one person. It's exactly the situation insurance was invented to handle.
If you need a course to teach something, you must not want to do it very much.
You mean like a Mom apparently teaching an entire high school curriculum? I had a handful of excellent teachers in high school but I can't think of any of them who could have taught all the subjects.
Because, the default position has been that life is exceedingly difficult to make happen, and that you needed a truck-load of favorable conditions to even hope it could happen. I think the notion was that we were a rare and unique solar system.... The more time passes, the more it's hard not to look at Drake's equation and figure that he might have been onto something
For any denominator in Drake's equation where we don't have the technology to measure it, shouldn't the null hypothesis be that Earth (and by extension us) is dull and ordinary?
Other assumptions just sound like the echos of geocentrism.
They voted for a pyramid scheme... They paid into the pyramid scheme... Now, they are surprised that there is no money.
Now what kind of inflammatory talk is that? The unfunded liabilities of Medicare and Social Security are only slightly over the entire 'GDP' of the entire world. How could that money possibly not materialize?
IMHO it should have been done back with 2.6.19 or no later than 2.6.25. Better late than never though.
You could almost go by RHEL major versions there... but, speaking of arbitrary:
Does anybody track the number of releases? That is, will Linux 3.0.0 be Linux release #127 or something along those lines? I'd really rather track that kind of number, and if somebody is already doing the counting, so much the better. At a minimum, it would make programming easier.
if (linux_version > 122 && linux_version 149) {.... }
So - if we accept that editors shouldn't actually "edit" anything - why don't we just replace them with a shell script?
Slashdot requires hardware, software, and electricity to run. Sure, they could crowdsource story selection, but then they'd have to get other jobs. I don't begrudge them a successful business strategy.
That's essentially the argument here, and it's pretty easily seen as fallacious.
The article may be bad, but there are many serious researchers exploring the possibilities. Neuronal microtubles are a posited structure for quantum effects to be located on (I don't have the right word...).
There's no actual evidence that consciousness requires quantum mechanics, besides the trivial fact that our brains are chemical computers and chemistry requires quantum mechanics.
There are unsolved problems in brain processing speed, the degree of interconnectedness, and other things that look like our brain isn't good enough to do. Nobody knows what the mechanisms of action are, so quantum effects can't be ruled out (or in) yet. But, heck, even photosynthesis is a quantum system, so maybe.
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Mine is Violence : rough or injurious physical force, action, or treatment.
Yours seems to be : an unjust or unwarranted exertion of force or power, as against rights or laws.
I don't think we're disagreeing - just take my objection to its logical conclusion. If you violate somebody's patent, you'll get sent threatening letters. At some point a group of people ("government") will tell you you have to show up at one of their temple-like buildings ("courthouse") to plead your case to a man in a black dress ("judge") because they wrote some rules down ("laws") that a man claiming to be a representative of one of your ancestors (perhaps over his objections) agreed to. If you fail to follow their demands, they'll send specialized men("police") to ransack your office, capture you with rough or injurious force ("arrest"), or, if you defend yourself, perhaps attempt to kill you (no euphemism here). If you fail to defend yourself, they'll lock you in a cage ("prison") and possibly subject you to anal rape from other caged people (again, no euphemism).
All because you arranged your property in a way that somebody previously did, but they wrote it down and mailed it in with a bunch of money. They claim this is to improve society.
That applies to a mixture of subject matter as well as a single subject, such as landscapes.
Quite so - a stroll through an Ansel Adams gallery will show strong subjects in most of the landscape, whether it's a group of ferns with different light, a group of aspens that jumps out from the background with careful exposure, or a just the Snake River, they all have something to capture the eye.
It's time for fresh blood and a new start.
Or more esr'ly, it's time to move from the Cathedral to the Bazaar.
what happen in those model when an individual don't want to contribute anymore and use violence against his host society?
Contributing is optional, but you won't get very far if you don't participate and exchange. If he initiates violence, self defense is always allowed. It's a matter of who starts the aggression, not lay-down pacifism.
The vast majority of people agree with the idea that it's not OK to start violence but it is OK to defend yourself.
all form of societal organization are evil then since they are all backed with threats of initiation of some kind of violence.
Not at all - there are plenty of voluntary models.
all patent are not evil
Yeah, they're backed with threats of initiation of violence, so they are.
Why does the government get involved in auto theft? Why does the government get involved in fraud? Why does the government get involved in assault? Why does the government get involved in trespassing? Do you want to be responsible for the full cost of tracking down and prosecuting someone who committed any of those crimes against you?
No, and the odds are low of those things happening to any one person. It's exactly the situation insurance was invented to handle.
If you need a course to teach something, you must not want to do it very much.
You mean like a Mom apparently teaching an entire high school curriculum? I had a handful of excellent teachers in high school but I can't think of any of them who could have taught all the subjects.
These are the people who will be our medical doctors?
Nah, your doctor is the guy who graduated dead last in his medical school class.
The distinction between those two categories grows hazier every year...
This is easy - the one that screws up all your network connections is the ... ah, hell.
Perhaps we should be a bit more honest and just revert the Department of Defense back to the Department of War [wikimedia.org].
You'd think they'd have done that after the only attack on the US since the change was a massive failure.
Because, the default position has been that life is exceedingly difficult to make happen, and that you needed a truck-load of favorable conditions to even hope it could happen. I think the notion was that we were a rare and unique solar system. ...
The more time passes, the more it's hard not to look at Drake's equation and figure that he might have been onto something
For any denominator in Drake's equation where we don't have the technology to measure it, shouldn't the null hypothesis be that Earth (and by extension us) is dull and ordinary?
Other assumptions just sound like the echos of geocentrism.
Oh, crap, didn't proofread well enough. Correction:
The unfunded liabilities of Medicare and Social Security are only slightly over twice the 'GDP' of the entire world.
They voted for a pyramid scheme... They paid into the pyramid scheme... Now, they are surprised that there is no money.
Now what kind of inflammatory talk is that? The unfunded liabilities of Medicare and Social Security are only slightly over the entire 'GDP' of the entire world. How could that money possibly not materialize?
if (linux_version >= 122 && linux_version <= 149) { ....
}
IMHO it should have been done back with 2.6.19 or no later than 2.6.25. Better late than never though.
You could almost go by RHEL major versions there... but, speaking of arbitrary:
Does anybody track the number of releases? That is, will Linux 3.0.0 be Linux release #127 or something along those lines? I'd really rather track that kind of number, and if somebody is already doing the counting, so much the better. At a minimum, it would make programming easier.
if (linux_version > 122 && linux_version 149) { ....
}
Continually at War with some group, product, or idea since 1941.
I'm surprised they didn't wait until 2012 to release this game
How many bets are now going to come payable? Slashdot is shutting down IIRC.
So - if we accept that editors shouldn't actually "edit" anything - why don't we just replace them with a shell script?
Slashdot requires hardware, software, and electricity to run. Sure, they could crowdsource story selection, but then they'd have to get other jobs. I don't begrudge them a successful business strategy.
Isn't Apple trying to claim ownership of the word (abbreviation) "app"?
At least 'App Store', despite the fact that there are Usenet posts describing Electronics Boutique as an 'app store' (generic) a decade ago.
And you know what, they'll get it, because the system is corrupt.
just pay the mafia what they ask. its just a tax; just a cost of doing business. right?
RIGHT?
Yeah, most of us make this same decision every April 15th.
Just sayin'.
That's essentially the argument here, and it's pretty easily seen as fallacious.
The article may be bad, but there are many serious researchers exploring the possibilities. Neuronal microtubles are a posited structure for quantum effects to be located on (I don't have the right word...).
There's no actual evidence that consciousness requires quantum mechanics, besides the trivial fact that our brains are chemical computers and chemistry requires quantum mechanics.
There are unsolved problems in brain processing speed, the degree of interconnectedness, and other things that look like our brain isn't good enough to do. Nobody knows what the mechanisms of action are, so quantum effects can't be ruled out (or in) yet. But, heck, even photosynthesis is a quantum system, so maybe.
We just raise an open palm, with a bent elbow.
Used to be that here, now thanks to low-E coatings on the windows a little shake is needed.
I'm thankful at least one person understood my comment. We can go back to our actually-understanding-things cave now.