No, but they sure as hell don't run on batteries. I hate sounding like the conspiracy theorist, but advanced battery technology and the fusion reactors to charge them must be too close on the horizon for "them" to feel comfortable... best be moving on to something that can only be oil powered!
I'm sympathetic for these people, if I lost $3000+ right now, it would ruin me.
However, people should be a little smarter about trading MP3s, if they insist on doing it.
Then again, I've considered hosting a copy of steamboat willy on my webserver, just for the hell of it. I know that the parasites (lawyers, politicians, FBI directors, judges) wouldn't see it this way, but if the cartoon were produced before the Sonny Bono Act, then how can it get its copyright extended?
Well, I could have (and probably should have) used the more tradtional YHBT. However, that just seems awkward to me. You don't expect me to crapflood do ya? The post has to look sincere enough, serious enough, make enough sense (but not to much) so that I can really bait people like you. I've got to find the perfect balance of saying something worth responding to, and of talking out of my ass. Sometimes it's still rather serious sounding.
But you must really want to talk about this subject. What can I say? In the local paper, the people always writing in to the editorials and criticizing Bush's anti-flag burning ammendment the most are veterans. Not just one or two, but dozens. For ever hillwilliam saying it's a good idea, there were at least 2 or 3 veteran's letters saying that they fought, were disabled, had friends die just so that people *could* burn our flag. Their words carry much more than mine could.
Me, I've always had little respect for symbolism. I know people that would literally explode if I burned a bible, and yet they seem to be the worst when it comes to interpreting Jesus's words. These people have no trouble twisting his words to do whatever it is they feel like, but to burn the paper they're written on would somehow be satanic.
In truth, I don't really care if anyone burns a flag, as long as it's not my personal property. More concerned about Dubya and Ashcroft, along with a willing Demopublican congress, burning the Bill of Rights.
You know, I wouldn't mind hearing an opinion about a hypothetical cyberlaw case, if you just want a real brainbender of a puzzle. Email me if interested.
Only one possible exception to that rule, and that is the immediate days before a constitutional ammendment goes up for a vote in congress that would ban that activity. Why? Because at that point, the country it symbolizes would have taken the next to last step in becoming a country whose flag is all but meaningless.
Michael Moore, the Dixie Chicks? Go read thefilthycritic.com's review of Faranheit 911. This guy, he is unpatriotic by Bush's standard, but a patriot in the true sense.
Moore is unpatriotic either way... why? Because he serves (eagerly and willingly) an agenda that is pissed off not so much with the Iraq thing, as they are about not being in power. And don't even get me started on the Dixie Airheads...
Hey monkeypimple, that's nationalism. Quite a bit of difference... patriots are often thought traitors while they are alive. Only history tells the truth about them.
Texas: The state that outlawed self-help legal books (how to do your own will, divorce, etc) on the grounds that they were impersonating lawyers. I'm not making this up. Of course, it was only geared towards the $19.99 Barnes and Noble crowd... the $1000 per volume legal library books were exempt.
I have a Tivo, and an Amiga 4000. Not to mention a few Powermacs. PPC check.
Anyone willing to donate an old iMac or similar, wouldn't mind having a G3 for once... for that matter, anyone have a Bebox or an RS6000 that they'd rather give away than throw away?
But to answer your dumb point, so what? I have a friend with the Powerbook, 2 actually, and they boot plenty of other OSs besides OSX. BSD, Linux... it would be a neat toy I suppose if they could run native OSX apps on it (or even Sys7-9 stuff for that matter).
Hell, at one point, didn't IBM even have PPC laptop? And of course, I could port it to Warp4 Presentation Manager PPC, for CHRP compliant systems...;)
I challenge you and anyone else that feels the need for the myth of free will to provide one piece of objective, observable, and repeatable evidence that free will exists.
You expect me to be able to prove something, that unproven causes no harm (we're not talking the Pope quashing heliocentric theory here), and that probably by it's very definition can't be proven? Let's see, we'll prove free will exists, by sitting someone down in a laboratory, and forcing them to make some contrived choice under control conditions. Fucking Duh.
No, at best, this is something that should be disproved, if indeed it can be. I'm more than confident it won't. It certainly isn't proved one way or the other by noting that a portion of some liberal's brain lights up in MRI more so than a conservative.
I, too, like it when something can be proved empirically. I tend to be sleptical when it can't be proved thusly. However, I'm not so stupid or unimaginative to think that without that one tool, nothing worth learning can be learned. I don't "believe" in free will, I didn't convert to the religion of free will. But the sum of my experience adds up such that I accept freewill as a fact. Certainly for intelligence on the level of humanity, to lesser extents for other animals.
If caveman ogg accepted as a fact that his world revolved around the sun, and not the other way around, is it a crazy unfounded belief, or just a truth he could only know intuitively (with a few decades observation thrown in) ? He knew it, it wasn't "belief". I consider my knowledge of freewill roughly equivalent of that.
The dumb guy at the indoor flea market who sells computer junk says "That's not for sale" in really bad ebonics, when I ask about the Ultrasparc machine sitting on his shelf. Ultrasparc missing.
Never had seen a HPUX machine anywhere. PA-Risc missing. If anyone would like to donate...
Yes, they should. I've measured the keys on this keyboard, and the M and K keys are fully 39 feet, 2 7/8th inches apart. There is no way in the world that this mistake could be due to say, my fingers being fat or sloppy, rather than the obvious explanation which is: I don't know how to spell "them" properly.
Worse than just a spelling error though, I committed the unforgivable sin of making my post impossible to understand. The variations in meaning for english words like this are enormous, and by including that errant "k" I caused the entire nation of Themkia to think that I, and by extension all americans, am anti-themkic. The people of Themkia have suffered from discrimination and degradation for far too long to put up with this one last insult.
You're the one trying to reduce me to a blob of protoplasm. People like you are the technicians that the uber-rich employ to turn people like me into cogs of some vast machine. Though it's nice in a 1984esque way that you suggest freewill is a delusion used towards that end, let's forget all the "war is peace" newspeak for a bit.
If you wish to believe all of this, fine. I don't really care, other than if someone else had responded, they might have given me cause to explore the subject a bit more. You wish to describe human beings as objects that randomly (but pre-determined?) make changes, until at some point they stop. You say these things as if you're ever so close to being able to predict each of these pre-determined behaviors (yet, you people are notoriously bad at predicting... why the prediction-predetermination disconnect?).
It's funny, in a way, that because some ice-cold rock in the depths of space is predictable, you also think a person is. Life, almost its very definition, is one of self-assembly, growth (often unpredictable, undetermined), and even limitlessness. This is true of even the most primitive microscopic little doodad, so to what extent does it hold for someone like myself? The molecules in a neuron in the middle of my brain are hardly little billiard balls, that if only you could measure them precisely, you'd be able to predict all of my thoughts.
And for those that say I'm full of shit, I'll offer something substantial. Where is their AI? They reduce all of human intelligence to just some simple ruleset, some megalithic expert system that checks through rules one at a time... and yet even the simplest implementations are laughably un-human-like in intelligence. At what point will we decide they have more than enough CPU power, and that they've been talking out of their asses for the past century?
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No, but they sure as hell don't run on batteries. I hate sounding like the conspiracy theorist, but advanced battery technology and the fusion reactors to charge them must be too close on the horizon for "them" to feel comfortable... best be moving on to something that can only be oil powered!
I'm sympathetic for these people, if I lost $3000+ right now, it would ruin me.
However, people should be a little smarter about trading MP3s, if they insist on doing it.
Then again, I've considered hosting a copy of steamboat willy on my webserver, just for the hell of it. I know that the parasites (lawyers, politicians, FBI directors, judges) wouldn't see it this way, but if the cartoon were produced before the Sonny Bono Act, then how can it get its copyright extended?
Well, I could have (and probably should have) used the more tradtional YHBT. However, that just seems awkward to me. You don't expect me to crapflood do ya? The post has to look sincere enough, serious enough, make enough sense (but not to much) so that I can really bait people like you. I've got to find the perfect balance of saying something worth responding to, and of talking out of my ass. Sometimes it's still rather serious sounding.
But you must really want to talk about this subject. What can I say? In the local paper, the people always writing in to the editorials and criticizing Bush's anti-flag burning ammendment the most are veterans. Not just one or two, but dozens. For ever hillwilliam saying it's a good idea, there were at least 2 or 3 veteran's letters saying that they fought, were disabled, had friends die just so that people *could* burn our flag. Their words carry much more than mine could.
Me, I've always had little respect for symbolism. I know people that would literally explode if I burned a bible, and yet they seem to be the worst when it comes to interpreting Jesus's words. These people have no trouble twisting his words to do whatever it is they feel like, but to burn the paper they're written on would somehow be satanic.
In truth, I don't really care if anyone burns a flag, as long as it's not my personal property. More concerned about Dubya and Ashcroft, along with a willing Demopublican congress, burning the Bill of Rights.
You could be off by an order of magnitude, and it would still be ludicrous. Off by two, and incredibly unlikely.
This is Ashcroft. Don't you mean Terrorbyte?
Trolled.
It may not be Predator at all.
You're not talking about redundancy - you're talking about data repetition.
You're not talking about redundancy - you're talking about data repetition.
You're not talking about redundancy - you're talking about data repetition.
You're not talking about redundancy - you're talking about data repetition.
You know, I wouldn't mind hearing an opinion about a hypothetical cyberlaw case, if you just want a real brainbender of a puzzle. Email me if interested.
Ric Flair? A govenor maybe. President? Never.
Side note: If my theory holds true, either Richard Dawson or Carl Weathers will become a state govenor next...
No, it can't. Ever.
Only one possible exception to that rule, and that is the immediate days before a constitutional ammendment goes up for a vote in congress that would ban that activity. Why? Because at that point, the country it symbolizes would have taken the next to last step in becoming a country whose flag is all but meaningless.
Worst. Examples. Ever.
Michael Moore, the Dixie Chicks? Go read thefilthycritic.com's review of Faranheit 911. This guy, he is unpatriotic by Bush's standard, but a patriot in the true sense.
Moore is unpatriotic either way... why? Because he serves (eagerly and willingly) an agenda that is pissed off not so much with the Iraq thing, as they are about not being in power. And don't even get me started on the Dixie Airheads...
Hey monkeypimple, that's nationalism. Quite a bit of difference... patriots are often thought traitors while they are alive. Only history tells the truth about them.
Look it up, you could use the extra vocabulary.
Texas: The state that outlawed self-help legal books (how to do your own will, divorce, etc) on the grounds that they were impersonating lawyers. I'm not making this up. Of course, it was only geared towards the $19.99 Barnes and Noble crowd... the $1000 per volume legal library books were exempt.
Sounds cool. Where are you located, roughly? Richmond, VA here...
Capitalism, bah.
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I have a Tivo, and an Amiga 4000. Not to mention a few Powermacs. PPC check.
Anyone willing to donate an old iMac or similar, wouldn't mind having a G3 for once... for that matter, anyone have a Bebox or an RS6000 that they'd rather give away than throw away?
But to answer your dumb point, so what? I have a friend with the Powerbook, 2 actually, and they boot plenty of other OSs besides OSX. BSD, Linux... it would be a neat toy I suppose if they could run native OSX apps on it (or even Sys7-9 stuff for that matter).
Hell, at one point, didn't IBM even have PPC laptop? And of course, I could port it to Warp4 Presentation Manager PPC, for CHRP compliant systems...
I challenge you and anyone else that feels the need for the myth of free will to provide one piece of objective, observable, and repeatable evidence that free will exists.
You expect me to be able to prove something, that unproven causes no harm (we're not talking the Pope quashing heliocentric theory here), and that probably by it's very definition can't be proven? Let's see, we'll prove free will exists, by sitting someone down in a laboratory, and forcing them to make some contrived choice under control conditions. Fucking Duh.
No, at best, this is something that should be disproved, if indeed it can be. I'm more than confident it won't. It certainly isn't proved one way or the other by noting that a portion of some liberal's brain lights up in MRI more so than a conservative.
I, too, like it when something can be proved empirically. I tend to be sleptical when it can't be proved thusly. However, I'm not so stupid or unimaginative to think that without that one tool, nothing worth learning can be learned. I don't "believe" in free will, I didn't convert to the religion of free will. But the sum of my experience adds up such that I accept freewill as a fact. Certainly for intelligence on the level of humanity, to lesser extents for other animals.
If caveman ogg accepted as a fact that his world revolved around the sun, and not the other way around, is it a crazy unfounded belief, or just a truth he could only know intuitively (with a few decades observation thrown in) ? He knew it, it wasn't "belief". I consider my knowledge of freewill roughly equivalent of that.
I have a SGI Indy, N64 and DECstation 5000. MIPS check.
DEC Multia. Alpha check.
Sparcstation 2 (with dual sbus HIPPI card!) Sparc check.
The dumb guy at the indoor flea market who sells computer junk says "That's not for sale" in really bad ebonics, when I ask about the Ultrasparc machine sitting on his shelf. Ultrasparc missing.
Never had seen a HPUX machine anywhere. PA-Risc missing. If anyone would like to donate...
Yes, they should. I've measured the keys on this keyboard, and the M and K keys are fully 39 feet, 2 7/8th inches apart. There is no way in the world that this mistake could be due to say, my fingers being fat or sloppy, rather than the obvious explanation which is: I don't know how to spell "them" properly.
Worse than just a spelling error though, I committed the unforgivable sin of making my post impossible to understand. The variations in meaning for english words like this are enormous, and by including that errant "k" I caused the entire nation of Themkia to think that I, and by extension all americans, am anti-themkic. The people of Themkia have suffered from discrimination and degradation for far too long to put up with this one last insult.
Please forgive me.
Let themk write their own damn software.
You're the one trying to reduce me to a blob of protoplasm. People like you are the technicians that the uber-rich employ to turn people like me into cogs of some vast machine. Though it's nice in a 1984esque way that you suggest freewill is a delusion used towards that end, let's forget all the "war is peace" newspeak for a bit.
If you wish to believe all of this, fine. I don't really care, other than if someone else had responded, they might have given me cause to explore the subject a bit more. You wish to describe human beings as objects that randomly (but pre-determined?) make changes, until at some point they stop. You say these things as if you're ever so close to being able to predict each of these pre-determined behaviors (yet, you people are notoriously bad at predicting... why the prediction-predetermination disconnect?).
It's funny, in a way, that because some ice-cold rock in the depths of space is predictable, you also think a person is. Life, almost its very definition, is one of self-assembly, growth (often unpredictable, undetermined), and even limitlessness. This is true of even the most primitive microscopic little doodad, so to what extent does it hold for someone like myself? The molecules in a neuron in the middle of my brain are hardly little billiard balls, that if only you could measure them precisely, you'd be able to predict all of my thoughts.
And for those that say I'm full of shit, I'll offer something substantial. Where is their AI? They reduce all of human intelligence to just some simple ruleset, some megalithic expert system that checks through rules one at a time... and yet even the simplest implementations are laughably un-human-like in intelligence. At what point will we decide they have more than enough CPU power, and that they've been talking out of their asses for the past century?
Besides, linux users would have to emulate the ppc instruction set
Only for linux on x86. Why does everyone assume that's the only place you'll ever find linux?