...as long as it's done well. Simple G.v.E. violence is a simple script, but it can't get very good. Interpersonal and moral struggle can be awfully done, sappy as hell, and so one, but it has the chance to become something som much better than that other stuff can eve possibly be.
If it were called anything else it would less of an opportunity to do these unpleasant things.
If you're sending in police after a murderer, you're not allowed to blow up the neighbourhood in which he's hiding---and you're not allowed to say that everyone must give up some unspecified portion of their rights for an indefintely extensible period of time. You're not allowed to take the dwellers' knickknacks or women, if that's your fancy. It won't permit you to excuse any of your failings, and shut up anyone who would point them up...
War, however, lets you have all kinds of "fun"....
No, I think it quite likely that many in the Linux community have given about half a thousandth of their assets.
You know, as with the police, I have a lot less trouble with Bill & co. than with their sycophants. At least the way B.G. and M.S. operate makes sense for _them_; to hear these cheerleaders prate along as if Bill might actually _like_ them....
The limited liability corporation is a technology which is not doing what it's supposed to do---their chartering "for the public good" is universally ignored, in the sense that no corporation has been de-chartered for violations of this condition. Not subject to death or illness as real people are, they are much more like the empathy-free, predatory, androids of P.K. Dick, or the vampires so popular in the fiction of recent decades. Free from the normal human constraints of shame and fear of imprisonment, they seem almost inevitably to end up as bad actors to the extent they can be considered to exist at all.
At the very least, these collectives shouldn't have the cloak of the civil rights proper to human beings; is there any prospect for this situation to be changed? This would go a long way to reducing the ability of the actual persons within them to escape full responsibility for their actions, to cloak their self-interest in the fulfillment of their fiduciary obligations, and to hide the contributions they direct toward the political parties.
Thanks for your time, and please tell Ralph to stay home next time.
You claimed that Brazil's scientists "couldn't" develop the drugs.
I was a little loathe to imply racism, but you didn't provide a reason why not. The implication was probably net unfair and I would make the question more explicit if I could edit the message; I'm sorry.
My point about the computer, Internet, and so on is that we live surrounded by free lunches, the denial is a silly of propertarian piety, and that by extension the rest of your argument was so---that I'm not sorry for.
...as a free lunch." That's why you had to invent computers, the Internet, the English language, and the capacity for rational though all by yourself before you made that post.
Brazil's scientists could never have created these drugs because they're brown, I guess....and its government couldn't have helped because no government has ever done anything good for anyone ever. The "natural process of development" was instituted by God at Valley Forge.
I'm irritated by propertarians' tendency to drag in the "men with guns" (you'd think they could resist better) to argue against laws they don't like, when they're always lurking behind the laws the _do_ want (enforcement of contracts)....
1.) Usenet/slashdot post seems oddly coherent.
2.) There's that certain, special _sumthin'_ about the fractal glint in Asia's lower lip....
3.) Lip-reader of your acquaintance says, "While he's doing that to Anthony Perkins in that doctored photo, Gore appears to be saying, "Al, your Bates are belong to U.S.."
4.) Snowcrashing.
Interesting enough, but there's no discussion about a strong part of any property rights/violations structure: penalties.
This feeds into another complaint: the claim that rights are binary. As Platonic ideals, maybe, but in the world your rights are only as strong as your ability to defend them (or have them defended, for example if you own property under a government that recognises the "right" to keep it).
That is, I can easily see a relatively humane system in which there are intellectual property rights, but the penalties for violating many of them aren't onerous, corporate "persons" have no or fewer rights than actual persons, the "necessity" defence is usable....
Call it the "Dutch model" for IP....
The bison were there as of 1987 (or maybe it was '86)---I was bitten by a radioactive spider and gained its proportionate memory.
There was also a mess o' seed corn there.
Nothing like manning data collection during a prairie thunderstorm---huge bolts of lightning flying around, and suddenly remembering that the bubble chamber, beside eveything else it is, is a lot of liquid hydrogen to have in one place.
There are a bunch of huge bison living in the ring. I once spent an hour trying to get as close as possible whilst not getting killed; a physicist was once gored or trampled to death by an angry bull, or so we were told to keep us away.
No, none of them ever mutated into a huge glowing green buffalo shooting laser beams from its eyes, trampling most of nearby Naperville and Aurora into atomic splinters...much as that would be an improvement there.
I've liked the book since first reading it quite awhile ago (1973 I think)...but I've always wondered what Hindus thought of it.
At least in the early '60's, there weren't enough Odinists in America to mount a really big protest against "Thor" comics---although the "National Lampoon" did a great job on the subject with their "Son o' God Comics".
...just one experiment, hell, even a gedankenexperiment, that's all I ask of these folks.
They seem to be too busy.
Someone once asked me why so many people fell for
newage stuff; I'm very pleased to have immediately shot back, "Because religion's lost
credibilty but science is too hard."
"Stephen just paraphrased Joseph Goebbels by
saying, 'When I hear the words "Schroedinger's Cat" I reach for my gun'." ---Chris [?],
advisee of S. Hawking at a public lecture at Caltech, 1982, on the latter's being asked
about quantum mechanics 'n' consciousness 'n' stuff.
Now he might be wrong (and would admit that, since he's a scientist), but it's a good reflexion of the importance of that stuff to Q.M....
Slashdot Mirror
"It was part of his severance package. Thank-you, patch-upgrade your waitron, /. audiences are the greatest in the world!"
...as a lovely parting gift.
Sorry to hear of the changes; lots of thought (and plagiarism, esp. of Ian Banks I think) went into the show.
Seriously, Sorbitol's acting is pretty bad, but Harper is as obnoxious as all the genius engineers in skiffy should have been.
...as long as it's done well. Simple G.v.E. violence is a simple script, but it can't get very good. Interpersonal and moral struggle can be awfully done, sappy as hell, and so one, but it has the chance to become something som much better than that other stuff can eve possibly be.
"Oh Lord, I seem to be English too."--Randy Giles.
If it were called anything else it would less of an opportunity to do these unpleasant things.
If you're sending in police after a murderer, you're not allowed to blow up the neighbourhood in which he's hiding---and you're not allowed to say that everyone must give up some unspecified portion of their rights for an indefintely extensible period of time. You're not allowed to take the dwellers' knickknacks or women, if that's your fancy. It won't permit you to excuse any of your failings, and shut up anyone who would point them up...
War, however, lets you have all kinds of "fun"....
Please.
No, I think it quite likely that many in the Linux community have given about half a thousandth of their assets.
You know, as with the police, I have a lot less trouble with Bill & co. than with their sycophants. At least the way B.G. and M.S. operate makes sense for _them_; to hear these cheerleaders prate along as if Bill might actually _like_ them....
The limited liability corporation is a technology which is not doing what it's supposed to do---their chartering "for the public good" is universally ignored, in the sense that no corporation has been de-chartered for violations of this condition. Not subject to death or illness as real people are, they are much more like the empathy-free, predatory, androids of P.K. Dick, or the vampires so popular in the fiction of recent decades. Free from the normal human constraints of shame and fear of imprisonment, they seem almost inevitably to end up as bad actors to the extent they can be considered to exist at all.
At the very least, these collectives shouldn't have the cloak of the civil rights proper to human beings; is there any prospect for this situation to be changed? This would go a long way to reducing the ability of the actual persons within them to escape full responsibility for their actions, to cloak their self-interest in the fulfillment of their fiduciary obligations, and to hide the contributions they direct toward the political parties.
Thanks for your time, and please tell Ralph to stay home next time.
You claimed that Brazil's scientists "couldn't" develop the drugs.
I was a little loathe to imply racism, but you didn't provide a reason why not. The implication was probably net unfair and I would make the question more explicit if I could edit the message; I'm sorry.
My point about the computer, Internet, and so on is that we live surrounded by free lunches, the denial is a silly of propertarian piety, and that by extension the rest of your argument was so---that I'm not sorry for.
...as a free lunch." That's why you had to invent computers, the Internet, the English language, and the capacity for rational though all by yourself before you made that post. Brazil's scientists could never have created these drugs because they're brown, I guess....and its government couldn't have helped because no government has ever done anything good for anyone ever. The "natural process of development" was instituted by God at Valley Forge.
...that's why they're called the "new" houses---I think they were built around 1960, in the post-Sputnik funding wave.
...but he neglected to mention which house---sounds like a scurve to me....
This all was probably necessary, but it's much better when you can have this kind of fun in peacetime.
I'm irritated by propertarians' tendency to drag in the "men with guns" (you'd think they could resist better) to argue against laws they don't like, when they're always lurking behind the laws the _do_ want (enforcement of contracts)....
1.) Usenet/slashdot post seems oddly coherent.
2.) There's that certain, special _sumthin'_ about the fractal glint in Asia's lower lip....
3.) Lip-reader of your acquaintance says, "While he's doing that to Anthony Perkins in that doctored photo, Gore appears to be saying, "Al, your Bates are belong to U.S.."
4.) Snowcrashing.
Sure; in a couple of years, some joker's going to try to compete using the new "Little Blue" implant.
Interesting enough, but there's no discussion about a strong part of any property rights/violations structure: penalties. This feeds into another complaint: the claim that rights are binary. As Platonic ideals, maybe, but in the world your rights are only as strong as your ability to defend them (or have them defended, for example if you own property under a government that recognises the "right" to keep it). That is, I can easily see a relatively humane system in which there are intellectual property rights, but the penalties for violating many of them aren't onerous, corporate "persons" have no or fewer rights than actual persons, the "necessity" defence is usable.... Call it the "Dutch model" for IP....
It exists; knowing stuff about Mormonism is necessary to laugh at most of it, the lead is a really attractive writer. Honest.
"Plain Old Text" mode ate the <[/]joke> tags I put around the "radioactive spider" lamexcuse.
The bison were there as of 1987 (or maybe it was '86)---I was bitten by a radioactive spider and gained its proportionate memory.
There was also a mess o' seed corn there.
Nothing like manning data collection during a prairie thunderstorm---huge bolts of lightning flying around, and suddenly remembering that the bubble chamber, beside eveything else it is, is a lot of liquid hydrogen to have in one place.
There are a bunch of huge bison living in the ring. I once spent an hour trying to get as close as possible whilst not getting killed; a physicist was once gored or trampled to death by an angry bull, or so we were told to keep us away. No, none of them ever mutated into a huge glowing green buffalo shooting laser beams from its eyes, trampling most of nearby Naperville and Aurora into atomic splinters...much as that would be an improvement there.
...you get a very small energy release. You get big effects by convincing a godawful [technical term] lot of them to split or fuse.
...but most physicists don't hold with this. Honest.
At least in the early '60's, there weren't enough Odinists in America to mount a really big protest against "Thor" comics---although the "National Lampoon" did a great job on the subject with their "Son o' God Comics".
Concrete needs to stay wet when setting, and to be kept warm (at least compared to ~3 K).
I'm not sure, but I think it also has to stay a little moist in order to keep together...plastic outer coatings?
Someone once asked me why so many people fell for newage stuff; I'm very pleased to have immediately shot back, "Because religion's lost credibilty but science is too hard."
Now he might be wrong (and would admit that, since he's a scientist), but it's a good reflexion of the importance of that stuff to Q.M....