Sociologically and philosophically when one feels that he has an understanding of absolute truth that is empowering, and can lead to abuses - even genocide
But what if a genocide in one country inspires an entire population with a free press in another country, to the end of increasing patriotism, decreasing disease, decreasing suicide rates, and possibly instilling blind faith in the populous towards the ruling elite?
Absolute truth, by it's definition, is true whether enyone understands or believes it to be true.
Absolute truth can only be comprehended by an absolute being, but how can a being tending towards absolutism in the limit know that he's reached the absolute truth? Perhaps the current scientific rule whereby every question yields yet more questions will be reversed will be the time when one is halfway there?
It's interesting to note that a young child instinctively believes his parents without question, so perhaps a child in innocence is closer to absolute truth than all adults in the world?
obviously not something I can pay on zero income, even with unemployment checks.
You must not waste this opportunity. Before you couldn't become a waiter because everybody would have high expectations of dot-com man, but now you have the freedom to do what you like. The unemployment you have received is a gift, why not go on an adventure?
During the dot com boom suicide rates were high because of the cycle of competition and high expectations, time with family was unobtainable. Now the situation has reversed. Is there a steady state where we can all be happy?
You can fake it with a file server and a UPS, and set the server up to cache writes very aggresively, but to throw everything on disk when the UPS signals that shit is happenning. Of course then you're limited by LAN bandwith, and you have to keep that server simple to avoid any other program crashing it.
LuxuriousityOffice is fully licensed so you have full usage rights. In addition,
you also have access to the complete source code and the right to modify the program and re-compile a new version
your own specifications!
What he's doing is perfectly OK, because by selling it under a different name he obliges himself into providing Product Support and can also be sued if the product doesn't work properly. He's taking the liability off of Sun and putting it on his own head, I'm tempted to buy it.
Etched stone seems to have a staying power of approximately 10,000 years, even with some outdoor exposure
Macroscopic organisms' self-replicating DNA has a staying power of >3 billion years and even adjusts itself to new environments. It's almost completely resistant to EMP. Jonny Mnemonic come here!
Sometimes, those negotiations give way to violence, in which case might can "make right".
Might may prevail, but might only makes right in the eye of the beholder. Should Tyson have punched Frank Bruno so hard? -- Frank Bruno's a nice guy, Tyson shouldn't have punched him -- It's a match, knocking out your opponent is the point. The real winner is who does the Judging.
And - how can you know that "the only absolute truth is that absolute truth is a myth to comfort the simpleminded"?
Yes, the majority have to live in a state of self-deluded importance. Even our oldest computers don't have this problem, and therefore are more timeless and sentient than us already. Yet we wish to pollute computers with AI and other chaotic psedu-human-brain qualities because in our self-delusion, we believe computers should approach our state of chaotic thinking/processing patterns.
We are the history-makers because of our chaos, and computers are our history-keepers. Unfortunately we tend to tell the computer our perspective of history which taints the purity of the computer's selfless action if you will.
You say "truth cannot be known"
Can you say that absolutely?:)
In our current state, how would we know if we knew the absolute truth? Even if a human comes across the absolute truth, how will he know? If a person comes to know the absolute truth it'll be only for a moment, like a broken clock being correct twice a day.
Probability says there's even odds each one will be red, so on the average I'm losing 5 minutes from stoplights. But on the 1/1024 chance that I hit all reds, I am losing 10 minutes. If I bank on the average, there's a chance I'll be 5 minutes late
Assumption upon assumption
If your car breaks down you'll be hours late. If you have a heart attack or stroke while you're driving you will be infinitely late.
Uhh it's your decision, the US is a democracy after all. Withdrawing your right to live (healthcare) if you don't have a minimum wage job is very sad thing about the US. If you're on minimum wage 125% of your salary goes on rent (Bed & Breakfast plus Gas to get to work). This means in the US you have a choice of either taking a welfare check or having a job and dealing drugs simultaneously. Why are we invading Iraq again? If it's because we need cheap Gas, then the US working poor will indeed benefit greatly.
Your idea ignores the fact that Nike and the RIAA are monopolies who break the free market system
More likely that Micheal Jordan is a monopoly - people buy any product he endorses. If Micheal Jordan could only give 50% of his time to Nike and 50% to Reebok then we would have a more stable economy.
This client could download highly illegal files, and make it look like I'm knowingly downloading them. Say I run it, and it downloads anything from kiddy porn to some Al Qaida webpage from an FBI sting server.
What the fuck happened to the First Amendment? Rights that you aren't willing to die for will disappear. If you exect the Feds to censor the Internet and track your URLs then they will.
It's ironic that we attack Al-Qaeda's tactics when our constitution itself demands that we be willing to die for our Rights under the Constitution, unless the Constitution disappeared overnight and I missed a memo.
Already done, Bloomberg Terminals (Bloomberg Professional Services) Provide realtime information on all stocks to people that need it. Normal investors and 401k-responsible-alternative-seeers only care about 50% increase over the long term, not the "Ooooohhhh the DOW JONES has fallen by 0.1%, what a total disaster, everybody needs to know this information!!!"
Whenever you have a jobplace that is especially "metric based" - ie a "dashboard" with too much information in it, you get into a circumstance where the employee(s) work the metric, instead of their job.
In tech support, many places rate you on how many calls an hour you take. Great. But then you have operators "accidentally" hanging up on people every now and then
This system wasn't intended for metrics, it was intended to provide an alternate means for a Department Operations Superviser to report a problem that needed intervention. This is a classic case of overautomation.
I figure that in the near future most businesses will become more integrated with the Internet. The potential for customers to order goods without ever leaving their home is a tremndous potential market that can only grow as more people (especially Americans) get online
And thanks to McDonalds most Americans will be too obese to leave their homes to go shopping, necessitating home delivery which will lead to a second dot-com boom.
If McDonalds starts home delivery, then McDonalds can be sued for "Genocide by use of Gastric Weapons of Mass Destruction."
Nike should be forced to make Shoes at a price the Market decides, not a price Nike decides. Meaning if their shoes sell a ton, then the price should go down
Nike is free to choose whatever point they like on the supply-demand curve by setting the price at which they sell their product, as I am free to sell my house for $150,000 but I can (AND WILL) refuse to sell my house for $145,000 or less. Who can force me to sell my house for less than what I want ($150,000)?
I'm sorry but no one likes slave labor. If you say people in Silicon Valley over in the USA dont want to do this labor what makes you think people in China want to do it? They dont want to do it either, no one wants to do slave labor, however theres plenty of people here in Ghettos and Trailer Parks who would gladly make shoes for a living, perhaps these people wouldnt be out selling drugs and robbing people if there were jobs for them too, of course theres no jobs for the uneducated poor lower class Americans who make up a significant percentage of the population
The people in US in ghettos won't work for less than $10 an hour. Remember when they start working they lose their welfare check, so that money has to be made up plus rent and welfare allowances(no foodstamps for workers) plus health insurance. If you are poor you get good allowances, these need a minimum salary of $10 per hour which even the poorest trailer trash won't work for less than.
Competition is fine as long as its fair. I dont mind that Nike and Reebok compete, but I want the people working for them to make the money they deserve, someone shouldnt work for 12 hours and make less money than you just because of where they were born
I do TCP/IP programming and get $7 per hour, whilst my boss makes $10,000 a month out of the software I create. WAKE UP - the managers always rip off the employees everywhere!
If its fine, why are we losing the jobs? Oh I know, because our dollar is too expensive, so whats the solution? Should we change our currency to the Chinese currency? How about the Euro? Or maybe the Indian Currency? Our problem is inflation, our dollar is too expensive to be useful to anyone. So until we have a global currency certain people will be priced out of the market based on location alone, forcing people to move to certain locations. I dont know if you are American or if you love your country but if you do, do you really want to see America die because of "Capitalism"?
We're not losing jobs, the jobs are changing that's all. A carpet-fitter or builder can still earn $80,000 whilst nowadays a Harvard CS 1st class can earn $5 an hour. Geeks are too lazy to actually earn honest hands-in-the-mud money by farming or growing cattle, thus they become unemployed.
But you see, the Chinese have the jobs now, Americans are losing jobs while the Chinese gain them. Why should we give them our jobs? Why cant they create their own Jobs, start their own businesses, create their own industries
These are sweatshop jobs that the Americans aren't willing to do, just collect your welfare check from the Government and shut up. Due to the increased efficiency of US businesses thanks to globalisation, the US Government will tax the CEOs and give you your welfare check out of their money. The US is the centre of money in the world, almost all worldwide wealth is stored in the US. The service industry (restaurants) is doing very well. Now that everybody's 401k's have been donated to the dot com millionaires by the VCs and IPOs, the inflation in the US will drop as wealthy Americans suddenly stop getting their pension.
In a recession, you buy different kinds of property. Dumbass. Plus, "recessions" are national in character, real estate is very local.
Buying real estate financed by debt is asking for trouble. With property prices today, if you can buy so much real estate that your risk is spread, then you already have enough money.
If anything, it bodes well for Microsoft, because it gives them another solution to point to as a competitor, dispelling claims about MSOffice being a monopoly
Since the Judges don't care either that Micro$oft Office is a monopoly, yours is a moot point
6. PROFIT!......a wonderful program I use for my palm pilot called e-diet
That's a brilliant idea! The Bank should help people to diet - whenever you start a diet you give $10,000 into a trust fund which will gradually be paid back to you at your weekly/monthly weigh-in if you lose weight. You'll get your own money back only if you lose weight - now there's some motivation!!! It'll be on a logarithmic scale so you'll get $1,000 after the first month, $800 after the second month, bla bla and $200 monthly after a year. If Lloyds of London did this as an investment/insurance policy you could actually increase the amount of money you have at the expense of people who failed to lose their weight!
ilm producers and other Hollywood heavyweights use to "track" the buzz on spec scripts, actors, writers, etc. "The tracking boards are the herd mentality gone digital,"
THIS IS SERIOUS - the media is meant to be the Fourth Pillar of Democracy, if it's internally corrupt and nepotistic, this explains why CNN and AoL/TW aren't talking about the PATRIOT act impartially. If this type of corruption exists and is accepted (like Hollywood is accepting this) in the other pillars, then Saddam's Government was superior to ours. Crap.
Or perhaps I'm talking crap and this type of collusion will only force agents and writers to be nicer to Directors and Producers. I don't think it's a good idea for the Government to legislate media, and therefore these disgusting bulletin boards will unfortunately have to continue to exist.
Blackjack card counters are fools. So are any "professional" gamblers. With a similar investment of effort, a person could instead succeed at investments, or real estate, or any other enterprise. Cheating casinos is way too much effort for too little return
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Stop violating the DMCA by quoting this website's comments! All your base are belong to Hillary Rosen!
It's interesting to note that a young child instinctively believes his parents without question, so perhaps a child in innocence is closer to absolute truth than all adults in the world?
During the dot com boom suicide rates were high because of the cycle of competition and high expectations, time with family was unobtainable. Now the situation has reversed. Is there a steady state where we can all be happy?
-- Frank Bruno's a nice guy, Tyson shouldn't have punched him
-- It's a match, knocking out your opponent is the point.
The real winner is who does the Judging.
We are the history-makers because of our chaos, and computers are our history-keepers. Unfortunately we tend to tell the computer our perspective of history which taints the purity of the computer's selfless action if you will.
If your car breaks down you'll be hours late. If you have a heart attack or stroke while you're driving you will be infinitely late.
It's ironic that we attack Al-Qaeda's tactics when our constitution itself demands that we be willing to die for our Rights under the Constitution, unless the Constitution disappeared overnight and I missed a memo.
Move along now....
If McDonalds starts home delivery, then McDonalds can be sued for "Genocide by use of Gastric Weapons of Mass Destruction."
Or perhaps I'm talking crap and this type of collusion will only force agents and writers to be nicer to Directors and Producers. I don't think it's a good idea for the Government to legislate media, and therefore these disgusting bulletin boards will unfortunately have to continue to exist.