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For example: without free will how to you come to a new idea? how do you work out a math problem you have never done before?
I think the vast majority of what re do an say are rote and lack free will; but I think it's free will that allows us to change what we do.
I think that if you really look at ideas and thought processes, you don't really come up with them. They occur and you then perceive them. They certainly aren't conscious. I think it was in a Sam Harris book or lecture where he references brain imaging studies that show that the decision is made _before_ the person is consciously aware of it. The researchers can point to when the idea/decision occurs before the subject is aware of it himself. Where is the free will here?
From what I've read, the legal argument against this being an illegal search is that the entire dataset isn't searched, it is stored. They store the communications. When they want access to the data on a particular person they get a search warrant to access the stored data. I don't agree with that, but that seems to be the theory.
Here is a short video on an NSA whistleblower about the Utah datacenter and the types of things they can do with that much data.
On a lot of email providers have security questions. Click the handy "I forgot my password" link and they ask
1) Mother's Maiden Name 2) FIrst Pet 3) Name of your high school
or whatever other type of information that would be reasonably difficult to find out WITHOUT the internet but is trivial with it, even for non celebrities. For celebrities...
Right. The freedom to modify. The freedom to have the code so you can change the software to do things you want and to stop doing the things you don't want. As long as THAT freedom is there, this is a side issue.
Do I want my local searches going to the net? Nope. Still isn't a free software issue. RMS is arguing from an ideological point of view...but its not the FSF's main ideological point of view.
For an alternative viewpoint, Hey! A bundle with more games I want to play than usual. Delivered on a platform I like with DRM I've decided I can live with. Bought this bundle...haven't bought them all.
This is 2012, not the early 1970s. I don't know a single racist person that is not over 70 years old and retired. Those men don't make decisions anymore anyways, and their ideals are marginalized. Everybody else I know is actually quite progressive to use that ridiculous term, and does not make decisions like that. I operate in diverse environments, where in fact, I am the only person that does not speak multiple languages.
Well, there is your disconnect right there. The people you hang around with...the diverse ones who speak multiple languages...those are the people the racists are racist against. They're probably not so hot on you, either, the racists. Association, and all...
Those who speak something other than English as a second language are all-too-well aware of the challenge. Just imagine how you would sound trying to order a meal in a foreign land.
I would sound inexplicably slow and unreasonably loud. Probably mostly in English. I guess it is not inexplicable, I'm American.
PETA doesn't believe in people period, hell they labeled fish as "sea kittens" to try to get people not to eat them, and I have even seen a PETA person arguing against FLU shots because the flu is "alive".
The Jains would likely agree. Beliefs in the 'sanctity of life', for lack of a better term, typically have a level of life they respect. For a lot of religions, its a fetus. For a lot of PETA followers its animal life. The problem is you usually end up having to defend where you decide to draw the line and there don't seem to be any scientific arguments for a particular view, it comes down to whatever your faith or your gut or your conditioning tells you. Unless you refuse to draw the line...and then you get a virus with a right to life. One way off of a slippery slope is to slide all the way to the bottom. On a toboggan. With bells on.
But, as has been pointed out numerous times already in the comments, Disney Loves Money. How long before there are new DVD versions of the originals released followed by the collected box set followed by the side-by-side comparison version, etc.
They're not calling the women sluts because they had sex. They're calling the women sluts because they disagree with them, want to silence them, and character assassination often works.
Aspersions about their sex habits are the tool, the motive is power.
I've found putting them in an oven on the lowest heat setting with the oven door left open dries them out in an hour or so. Never had one not recover. The worst was an entire glass of tang / vodka with so much tang powder in that the spoon would almost stand up in it (not my drink).
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As opposed to simplifying it to the point where the answer is meaningless? Great.
" For example: without free will how to you come to a new idea? how do you work out a math problem you have never done before?
I think the vast majority of what re do an say are rote and lack free will; but I think it's free will that allows us to change what we do.
I think that if you really look at ideas and thought processes, you don't really come up with them. They occur and you then perceive them. They certainly aren't conscious. I think it was in a Sam Harris book or lecture where he references brain imaging studies that show that the decision is made _before_ the person is consciously aware of it. The researchers can point to when the idea/decision occurs before the subject is aware of it himself. Where is the free will here?
About 14 billion years ago.
In this case, its the type of pie you have to eat to buy it.
Ya think it might have been a joke? The poster decrying how nobody reads and the commenter giving a tl;dr? Maybe? Ya think?
So, we have the antagonist...
Mocking it doesn't make it less funny. It just makes you look weak.
From what I've read, the legal argument against this being an illegal search is that the entire dataset isn't searched, it is stored. They store the communications. When they want access to the data on a particular person they get a search warrant to access the stored data. I don't agree with that, but that seems to be the theory.
Here is a short video on an NSA whistleblower about the Utah datacenter and the types of things they can do with that much data.
Tell that to Richard Jewell. What was the name of the guy who was actually convicted for the bombing? Oh yeah, nobody remembers.
Where, exactly, are you injecting your heroin?
On a lot of email providers have security questions. Click the handy "I forgot my password" link and they ask
1) Mother's Maiden Name
2) FIrst Pet
3) Name of your high school
or whatever other type of information that would be reasonably difficult to find out WITHOUT the internet but is trivial with it, even for non celebrities. For celebrities...
Right. The freedom to modify. The freedom to have the code so you can change the software to do things you want and to stop doing the things you don't want. As long as THAT freedom is there, this is a side issue.
Do I want my local searches going to the net? Nope. Still isn't a free software issue. RMS is arguing from an ideological point of view...but its not the FSF's main ideological point of view.
I've never actually wished I had mod points before.
Bravo.
For an alternative viewpoint, Hey! A bundle with more games I want to play than usual. Delivered on a platform I like with DRM I've decided I can live with. Bought this bundle...haven't bought them all.
I'd say, where the rubber meets the road, science is "Huh?" and engineering is "Hmm".
This is 2012, not the early 1970s. I don't know a single racist person that is not over 70 years old and retired. Those men don't make decisions anymore anyways, and their ideals are marginalized. Everybody else I know is actually quite progressive to use that ridiculous term, and does not make decisions like that. I operate in diverse environments, where in fact, I am the only person that does not speak multiple languages.
Well, there is your disconnect right there. The people you hang around with...the diverse ones who speak multiple languages...those are the people the racists are racist against. They're probably not so hot on you, either, the racists. Association, and all...
Those who speak something other than English as a second language are all-too-well aware of the challenge. Just imagine how you would sound trying to order a meal in a foreign land.
I would sound inexplicably slow and unreasonably loud. Probably mostly in English. I guess it is not inexplicable, I'm American.
PETA doesn't believe in people period, hell they labeled fish as "sea kittens" to try to get people not to eat them, and I have even seen a PETA person arguing against FLU shots because the flu is "alive".
The Jains would likely agree. Beliefs in the 'sanctity of life', for lack of a better term, typically have a level of life they respect. For a lot of religions, its a fetus. For a lot of PETA followers its animal life. The problem is you usually end up having to defend where you decide to draw the line and there don't seem to be any scientific arguments for a particular view, it comes down to whatever your faith or your gut or your conditioning tells you. Unless you refuse to draw the line...and then you get a virus with a right to life. One way off of a slippery slope is to slide all the way to the bottom. On a toboggan. With bells on.
Does she have any more kids?
But, as has been pointed out numerous times already in the comments, Disney Loves Money. How long before there are new DVD versions of the originals released followed by the collected box set followed by the side-by-side comparison version, etc.
They're not calling the women sluts because they had sex. They're calling the women sluts because they disagree with them, want to silence them, and character assassination often works.
Aspersions about their sex habits are the tool, the motive is power.
I've found putting them in an oven on the lowest heat setting with the oven door left open dries them out in an hour or so. Never had one not recover. The worst was an entire glass of tang / vodka with so much tang powder in that the spoon would almost stand up in it (not my drink).
A bit? I think it might just be the largest amount of hyperbole ever uttered on /. or, dare I say it, on the internet ever!
How did you survive the days of goatse?
Hey, your sig is messed up. I think its "porpoises".