Bingo! Give the man a cupie doll!
I don't remember the name of the book, but it basically pointed out that common sense good and evil are basically defined by whats good or bad for the species. Baby torturing is bad for the species and hence will be evil by definition.
Amazing read. Wish I could remember the title. I loaned/gave it away quite awhile ago.
If he'll reach farther back, he will probably find another drug from 10 years ago that completely lost its effectiveness. If that drug were brought out, it would probably kick ass again.
Great! I'm sure your right, let them use this older drug on the cattle instead! Problem solved.
This is a little bit silly. If there is a god, particularly the variety of god that most Christians would describe to you, then that god defines what is moral.
Umm, No. You are using "Might makes Right" to throw his morality into question? For your own amusement, ask yourself what is the definition of morality if it turns out that not only does God (aka Jehovah, Allah, Jesus, etc) exist, but also Odin, Zeus, Kali, and Ra. So do we have an omnipotent elimination cage match to determine who gets to say what's right and wrong?
So, if there is a deity that your particular moral system deems "not worthy of belief or worship", but this deity has defined morality such that it is worthy of belief and worship, then your moral system is wrong.
Again, no. You are free to codify everything you experience as good or evil based upon some texts of questionable origin, but do not claim that others cannot know good or evil until they know which God, if any, actually exists. (My bet is on Kali)
Regardless of that answer, Morality is no longer the exclusive province of Religion. I believe secular morality to be superior, it's a sign that we are finally becoming adults as a species. And he was clearly referring to his own secular definition of good and evil when judging this supposed God as unworthy of belief for the reasons stated.
It might be that they're not expressing arrogance, but rather taking an opportunity.
If they need to lower the price because of lack(er) luster sales, they can do so without ditching the Blu-ray, undermining the perceived value of their flagship console, or even losing face, by claiming it was this manufacturing optimization that 'allowed' them to lower the price.
And if they lower the price enough, it will be a good move.
Besides, I'm pretty sure the PS3 has enough horse power to do it well, maybe better, and who better to build and maintain a PS2 emu than Sony?
Well it IS sold out here in south miami. Wii's go as fast as they come in and it seems nobody has any PS3's. I want to play around with the cell processor and the PS3 isn't THAT expensive. My frigin video card was over $300 not to mention my AMD CPU which went for around $500. Lets get some perspective here.
I went to get either a Wii or a PS3 and all the personnel at circuit city could do was try to push their stock of 360's on you. Had a stack of about 40 or so in the aisle.
There just doing their jobs I guess.
If anyone in Miami/Ft Lauderdale can suggest a store to get a PS3 I'd appreciate it. Reply here. Thanks.
Adam Smith criticized monopolies, tariffs, duties, and other state enforced restrictions of his time and believed that the market is the most fair and efficient arbitrator of resources.
The GP did not equate lack of laws with capitalism, but rather stated that lack of laws (state enforced restrictions?) gave one a purer capitalism. At least thats how I read it.
Someone else pointed out that in texas, the electric lines are owned by the government and any private company is free to sell you power over those lines. I was hoping for a similar setup for the "last mile". Owned by the government managed as a utility and accessable to all the ISP's that wish to compete.
So let me repeat myself, baring such a system where by any ISP is able to use the last mile in a fair and equal basis with its competitors, net neutrality is our best hope.
Thats like filming the movie with a highdef camera off of your LCD and saying they left another door wide open!
Actually, they are already trying to plug that hole using Camera DRM
"I tried to send a picture of my daughter to her Uncle Tim, but this window popped up saying it was blocked. I decided to print it out and mail it to him. There was a 14-page license agreement that printed out first that I had to fill out and fax to Sony so they could send me an authorization code to print out the picture."
I also remember reading about a proposed DRM that consists of a watermark in the video stream that would disable future digital cameras. Cant find a reference for that, but I'm sure if it can be done, they will do it.
Dude, I'm not trying to dog ya, I respect your opinions so much so that you are on my friends list, and I am certainly not qualified to discuss economics, but never the less I really don't think your right on this one.
If not constrained by the public utility commision, the company would likly charge a far higher price and earn an abnormal profit on its capital.
That is not true. All "natural monopolies" are constantly hounded by new competition.
What competition could compete with an Electric utility. I mean how much would it cost to independently set up wires to each and every house hold in South Fla, a billion or so? Suppose you get the VC and do so, If I were the entrenched and unrestricted utility, I would drop prices to just above cost. How long could you stay afloat after such an investment with only a trickle for income. When you go belly up (and you will), I buy the remains of your company and have it decimated, then put it on life support, not just to spite you. But to point at it so that when people say I'm monopoly, I can say I have "competition".
This has been legislated away in South Florida, maybe further, I'm not sure. It was supposed to be in exchange for upgrading to fiber, but after they passed the law allowing these shenanigens, the fiber was immediately forgotten and the only only lasting effect it had was to increase my monthly fee and reduce the service level I had, since none of the competition could survive such a situation and they all basically left town.
Except the Telcos have an unrestrained monopoly on the "last mile".
There used to be a ton of ISP providers where I live because there was a law stating that the Telcos had to share the "last mile" at rates that they would also charge themselves. A little crying along with some hefty cash to the government with promisses of fiber and all that in exchange for an unrestricted monopoly. Government told us all how great it would be and passed some new laws and look! Not only do we NOT get the cool new fiber (they changed their minds dontcha know) but now There is no competition. The competing ISP's were charged exhorbadent, extravegant, oh hell.. BIG FUCKING MONEY to use the last mile and viola. They took off knowing that when your competition controlls your pricing, you cant win. And this occured because of Telco sponsored laws.
Telcos keep bribing politicians into passing these self serving laws and we keep getting the shaft. If telcos are engendering laws against "net-neutrality", then you can bet grandmas farm that it won't be good for us in the long term. So I say "GO GOOGLE!!"
First paragraph says it all, the rest is for edification. From here
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Previously there was a gap between ancient and modern species of birds, and "Gansus fits perfectly into this gap," added Jerald D. Harris of Dixie State College in Utah.
"Gansus is the oldest example of the nearly modern birds that branched off of the trunk of the family tree that began with the famous proto-bird Archaeopteryx," said Peter Dodson of the University of Pennsylvania, a co-author of the paper along with Lamanna, You and others.
The remains were dated to about 110 million years ago, making them the oldest for the group Ornithurae, which includes all modern birds and their closest extinct relatives. Previously, the oldest known fossils from this group were from about 99 million years ago.
The fact that Gansus was aquatic indicates that modern birds may have evolved from animals that originated in aquatic environments, the researchers said.
Gansus is an additional "link in a long chain of intermediate forms between Archaeopteryx, the oldest known bird from the late Jurassic, and modern birds," said Sues, who was not part of Lamanna's research team.
It doesn't undermine anything if you look at what MS actualy did.
If I understood it right, the MS extensions conflicted with the standard java.* packages. This was not a mistake. The proper way to to add extensions would be to create your code in something like com.microsoft.NewClass. Sun says don't mess with the java.* stuff.
MS intentionally ignored the restriction and in addition to adding new classes in the restricted package, MS rewrote the order of a few parameters to some key Java classes within in the java.* package. Thus killing compatibility from the very start.
I don't remember the exact classes but the effect was like this:
Sun: void foo(int ip, int port)..
MS: void foo(int port, int ip)..
The changes that were like this served no other purpose other than to fragment the market.
MS got sued, lost and now cant touch java (MS-java is still 1.1.8, no?).
So they try to touch it indirectly through Kaffe. As far as MS is concerned Kaffe = SCO. Give em some money and let them mess with the competition.
Your example isn't evolution. It's natural selection.
I didn't understand his example either but his original premise is correct. Religion are shining examples of Evolution.
We've got the dinosaurs (dead religions/mythology): Norse, Greek, Babylonian, Egyptian, Celtic, etc. Natural selection in action.
And the ones still evolving: Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Bhudism, etc
Notice that Judiaism spawned the two successor religions first Christianity (a new limb called Jesus, 2.1 Billion Strong) and then Islam (A new limb called Mohammad, 1.3 Billion strong). Both of which are far more successful then Judaism is right now (14 million and shrinking).
Cristianity has become so large and successful that it as a species can support a variety of specializations(like the birds of the galapagos islands):
Jehovah's Witness, Methodist, Baptist, Protestant, Episcopalian,
Presbyterian, Lutheran, Catholic, Pentecostal, Church Of Christ,
Assembly Of God, Seventh Day Adventist, Episcopal, etc.
Islam isn't stagnant either: Sunni, Shi'ite, Salafis, etc
Religions in general are going through both evolution and natural selection. Some faster than others but they are all doing it just the same.
As someone else anonymously posted, Segue is supposed to be a sans-serif font. Your finding a serif on the one (1) kinda shows that it was added on as an after thought just to make it look different from the one it was copied from.
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Bingo! Give the man a cupie doll! I don't remember the name of the book, but it basically pointed out that common sense good and evil are basically defined by whats good or bad for the species. Baby torturing is bad for the species and hence will be evil by definition. Amazing read. Wish I could remember the title. I loaned/gave it away quite awhile ago.
Great! I'm sure your right, let them use this older drug on the cattle instead! Problem solved.
Umm, No. You are using "Might makes Right" to throw his morality into question? For your own amusement, ask yourself what is the definition of morality if it turns out that not only does God (aka Jehovah, Allah, Jesus, etc) exist, but also Odin, Zeus, Kali, and Ra. So do we have an omnipotent elimination cage match to determine who gets to say what's right and wrong?
So, if there is a deity that your particular moral system deems "not worthy of belief or worship", but this deity has defined morality such that it is worthy of belief and worship, then your moral system is wrong.
Again, no. You are free to codify everything you experience as good or evil based upon some texts of questionable origin, but do not claim that others cannot know good or evil until they know which God, if any, actually exists. (My bet is on Kali)
Regardless of that answer, Morality is no longer the exclusive province of Religion. I believe secular morality to be superior, it's a sign that we are finally becoming adults as a species. And he was clearly referring to his own secular definition of good and evil when judging this supposed God as unworthy of belief for the reasons stated.
I completely agree with him.
A lot of people miss this point. Thanks.
It might be that they're not expressing arrogance, but rather taking an opportunity.
If they need to lower the price because of lack(er) luster sales, they can do so without ditching the Blu-ray, undermining the perceived value of their flagship console, or even losing face, by claiming it was this manufacturing optimization that 'allowed' them to lower the price.
And if they lower the price enough, it will be a good move.
Besides, I'm pretty sure the PS3 has enough horse power to do it well, maybe better, and who better to build and maintain a PS2 emu than Sony?
>To me, "we copied something that already exists, almost!" is not noteworthy.
Creating an open source version of a closed source OS is pretty noteworthy, to me at least.
Well it IS sold out here in south miami. Wii's go as fast as they come in and it seems nobody has any PS3's. I want to play around with the cell processor and the PS3 isn't THAT expensive. My frigin video card was over $300 not to mention my AMD CPU which went for around $500. Lets get some perspective here.
I went to get either a Wii or a PS3 and all the personnel at circuit city could do was try to push their stock of 360's on you. Had a stack of about 40 or so in the aisle.
There just doing their jobs I guess.
If anyone in Miami/Ft Lauderdale can suggest a store to get a PS3 I'd appreciate it. Reply here. Thanks.
The GP did not equate lack of laws with capitalism, but rather stated that lack of laws (state enforced restrictions?) gave one a purer capitalism. At least thats how I read it.
That is sweet!
Someone else pointed out that in texas, the electric lines are owned by the government and any private company is free to sell you power over those lines. I was hoping for a similar setup for the "last mile". Owned by the government managed as a utility and accessable to all the ISP's that wish to compete.
So let me repeat myself, baring such a system where by any ISP is able to use the last mile in a fair and equal basis with its competitors, net neutrality is our best hope.
Unless you take the last mile away from the telcos and make it a public resource or utility, you just aren't going to have a free market.
Baring that, "net neutrality" is the next best thing.
But the reference to a video watermark was true. Can someone find a reference?
Actually, they are already trying to plug that hole using Camera DRM
"I tried to send a picture of my daughter to her Uncle Tim, but this window popped up saying it was blocked. I decided to print it out and mail it to him. There was a 14-page license agreement that printed out first that I had to fill out and fax to Sony so they could send me an authorization code to print out the picture."
I also remember reading about a proposed DRM that consists of a watermark in the video stream that would disable future digital cameras. Cant find a reference for that, but I'm sure if it can be done, they will do it.
If not constrained by the public utility commision, the company would likly charge a far higher price and earn an abnormal profit on its capital.
That is not true. All "natural monopolies" are constantly hounded by new competition.
What competition could compete with an Electric utility. I mean how much would it cost to independently set up wires to each and every house hold in South Fla, a billion or so? Suppose you get the VC and do so, If I were the entrenched and unrestricted utility, I would drop prices to just above cost. How long could you stay afloat after such an investment with only a trickle for income. When you go belly up (and you will), I buy the remains of your company and have it decimated, then put it on life support, not just to spite you. But to point at it so that when people say I'm monopoly, I can say I have "competition".
Yes, I'm bitter.
If they can figure a way to make you pay for it then yes, they will.
There used to be a ton of ISP providers where I live because there was a law stating that the Telcos had to share the "last mile" at rates that they would also charge themselves. A little crying along with some hefty cash to the government with promisses of fiber and all that in exchange for an unrestricted monopoly. Government told us all how great it would be and passed some new laws and look! Not only do we NOT get the cool new fiber (they changed their minds dontcha know) but now There is no competition. The competing ISP's were charged exhorbadent, extravegant, oh hell.. BIG FUCKING MONEY to use the last mile and viola. They took off knowing that when your competition controlls your pricing, you cant win. And this occured because of Telco sponsored laws.
Telcos keep bribing politicians into passing these self serving laws and we keep getting the shaft. If telcos are engendering laws against "net-neutrality", then you can bet grandmas farm that it won't be good for us in the long term. So I say "GO GOOGLE!!"
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Previously there was a gap between ancient and modern species of birds, and "Gansus fits perfectly into this gap," added Jerald D. Harris of Dixie State College in Utah.
"Gansus is the oldest example of the nearly modern birds that branched off of the trunk of the family tree that began with the famous proto-bird Archaeopteryx," said Peter Dodson of the University of Pennsylvania, a co-author of the paper along with Lamanna, You and others.
The remains were dated to about 110 million years ago, making them the oldest for the group Ornithurae, which includes all modern birds and their closest extinct relatives. Previously, the oldest known fossils from this group were from about 99 million years ago.
The fact that Gansus was aquatic indicates that modern birds may have evolved from animals that originated in aquatic environments, the researchers said.
Gansus is an additional "link in a long chain of intermediate forms between Archaeopteryx, the oldest known bird from the late Jurassic, and modern birds," said Sues, who was not part of Lamanna's research team.
Nice point..
And don't forget about Britney's Guide to Semiconductor Physics
It doesn't undermine anything if you look at what MS actualy did.
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If I understood it right, the MS extensions conflicted with the standard java.* packages. This was not a mistake. The proper way to to add extensions would be to create your code in something like com.microsoft.NewClass. Sun says don't mess with the java.* stuff.
MS intentionally ignored the restriction and in addition to adding new classes in the restricted package, MS rewrote the order of a few parameters to some key Java classes within in the java.* package. Thus killing compatibility from the very start.
I don't remember the exact classes but the effect was like this:
Sun: void foo(int ip, int port)
MS: void foo(int port, int ip)
The changes that were like this served no other purpose other than to fragment the market.
MS got sued, lost and now cant touch java (MS-java is still 1.1.8, no?).
So they try to touch it indirectly through Kaffe. As far as MS is concerned Kaffe = SCO. Give em some money and let them mess with the competition.
And out of 1,120 American adults surveyed, it was found that 45% believed the Sun was not a star.
It's too depressing to think about..
Your example isn't evolution. It's natural selection.
I didn't understand his example either but his original premise is correct. Religion are shining examples of Evolution.
We've got the dinosaurs (dead religions/mythology): Norse, Greek, Babylonian, Egyptian, Celtic, etc. Natural selection in action.
And the ones still evolving: Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Bhudism, etc
Notice that Judiaism spawned the two successor religions first Christianity (a new limb called Jesus, 2.1 Billion Strong) and then Islam (A new limb called Mohammad, 1.3 Billion strong). Both of which are far more successful then Judaism is right now (14 million and shrinking).
Cristianity has become so large and successful that it as a species can support a variety of specializations(like the birds of the galapagos islands): Jehovah's Witness, Methodist, Baptist, Protestant, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Catholic, Pentecostal, Church Of Christ, Assembly Of God, Seventh Day Adventist, Episcopal, etc.
Islam isn't stagnant either: Sunni, Shi'ite, Salafis, etc
Religions in general are going through both evolution and natural selection. Some faster than others but they are all doing it just the same.
When I went to Home Depot, there was about a third of the isle with spray cans of all sorts and not a lock among them.
I bought three cans without assistance so no, I didn't dream this up.
As someone else anonymously posted, Segue is supposed to be a sans-serif font. Your finding a serif on the one (1) kinda shows that it was added on as an after thought just to make it look different from the one it was copied from.