One simple reason: It gives people an excuse to produce more garbage ("hell, it will be recycled anyway").
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Now, the serious answer:
Excuse me, but I don't think that swapping my privacy for the chance to only get 'relevant' spam is a fair trade. If I don't mention some fact about myself to other people, maybe it's because I don't think they need to know it? If my would-be employer doesn't trust me enough to employ me without finding out everything that can be, then they're not worth my trust, either. What about if I'm a millionaire, but I don't show it - some random thugs can buy my file for $8. And so on. The new slogan should be: "I gave away my privacy, and all I got was this lousy penis enlarger"
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Techniques like this allow us to more effectively advertise products to you that you actually WANT. You don't want penis cream, you won't see it.
But I do want the miracle-product that makes me look and feel 20 years younger! (I'm 19 and a half...)
About five kilometers from my home, there's an old (ex-Soviet) military airbase, that hasn't been used for about ten years. The landing path went directly over my house. When we moved here sixteen years ago, the noise was annoying. After a while, I got used to it. When the Soviet military left and no more planes landed on the airfield, I had trouble falling asleep at nights for a long time, because something (the noise...) was missing.
...subsequent posters suggested that designing a worm using crypto and a truly distributed archetecture would make us a lot less smug in future.
I read about the Fizzer worm in the newspapers today and began to wonder if a truly self-modifying worm could be built. (Note that if the following sounds ridiculous or something, it's because I'm not actually a hacker or anything...)
Could the mechanism of how real viruses and bacteria reproduce be applied to computer viruses? So that every time the virus reproduces (spreads to another computer), it makes some changes to its code, or every once in a while adds something new (if lucky, a new ability). This would make the propagation of the virus slower, but the virus would be harder to detect (or, most probably, I just don't know enough about anti-virus programs). It would be a real Darwinist virus - only the fittest survive...
If I remember correctly, she began (in mid-1960's) with just six semantic primitives, but could only explain just several hundred words with these. The others have been added over decades, and though I don't the reasons why all these are needed, I can say that 'live' and 'die' are not antonyms, because living is a continuos process, but you die only once (and if you say that sometimes people die a long and painful death, then you may as well say that living IS dying...). Everything that isn't big may not be small - some things are medium. etc.
Polish linguist Anna Wierzbicka has done a lot of work with semantic primitives - key concepts that all the other words in a language can be explained with. She says there are about 60 such words, that are present in all languages and can explain all meanings and ideas. Here's the list (in thematic groups):
I, you, someone, something, people, body
this, the same, other
one, two, some, many/much, all
good, bad, big, small
think, know, want, feel, see, hear
say, word, true
do, happen, move
there is, have
live, die
not, maybe, can, because, if
when, now, after, before, a long time, a short time, for some time
where, here, above, below, far, near, side, inside
very, more
kind of, part of
like
I personally think that the need for a Klingon interpreter in a mental hospital is a much bigger issue to worry about than your $.02 being paid to one. Why do they need a Klingon speaker? Do they really have so many patients who won't speak any other language? OK, they hire a geek who can speak Klingon - but this means that they have other geeks (who else would bother to learn Klingon) in a pretty bad shape in the institution.
Stupid things (or things that seem stupid to others - as an anonymous kid said: "Kids don't do stupid things. They have their reasons.") have been done everywhere and everywhen, but the number of people who suffer from mental problems is big only when there's something wrong with the society. Yes, the hiring of Klingon interpreters is a sign, but it's not "We're doomed, they hired Klingon speakers", but "We're doomed, they need Klingon speakers".
A few moths ago, there was a show on the radio where they spoke about internet chat rooms. The guests were frequent chatters - and they spoke on the radio exactly like they do online - the same sentence construction, and the overuse of "irw" (the Estonian equivalent of LOL). So I guess they might be needing 1337-speakers (and -literates) quite soon, especially in schools.
Edmonton is utterly bereft of heroes, so there's nobody to name things after.
Looks like you could use some communism:7 In the USSR (and I guess this applies to other communist countries, too), there was never a shortage of people to name streets[*] after (every ideology has its own heroes...). For instance, in a small town near me there's a street that's still named after Benito Agirre, a Spanish pilot who fought in the Red Army in WWII. In case a famous revolutionary's (or scientist's) name wasn't appropriate, there were always all kinds of work-related names to choose from - Builders' Street was a popular name. It's kinda sad how one of the main streets gets named after a sportsman - who isn't even dead yet. Just as bad as all those "heroes of the revolution", if you ask me.
[*]Not to mention schools, hospitals, etc - practically everything that could be given a name
I have noticed that installation complexity is directly propotional to the reliability of the software.
So, if I follow your logic correctly, my system will become almost perfectly reliable, if I install all the software using punch cards, one byte per card, or, alternatively, scribing it on the hard drive by hand using miniature magnets:P
To my knowledge, the US territorial waters are 200 (nautical!) miles from the shore. In this range, it may not be too safe to land into territorial waters, as there is (as the current landing shows) a risk of hitting land instead of water. So yes, they did land (doesn't it sound strange in this context?) in international waters.
The word 'landed' is the key. As far as I know, all the US manned space flights before the shuttle program splashed into ocean on return. Whether you call it landing, is up to you.
"Until recently, Nerth Pork, a small town in Colorado, was your typical quiet American town, where traditions were held in great respect and all girls were virgins until the wedding night. Now, everything has changed overnight.
"Right now, I'm standing here on the Main Street, and what I see is terrifying. Down the road, some children are apparently listening to mp3's and behind me, I just heard someone mention french fries. Yesterday, the local McDonald's restaurant was shut down, because nobody wanted to eat there. I haven't seen anything like it since, well, for a long time. Our sound technician suffered a nervous breakdown half an hour ago, and we had to send him to the hospital. Who is to blame? Let's ask the Mayor.
"Mayor, what do you think caused all this...anarchy? Who were these terrorists?"
"Well, if ya ask me, then it was dem crack-smoking pothead hippies from Canada, who have been pollutin' our children with their distorted brainwaves that they beam here wid deir sattelites and teevee and int'r'nat. Wee'v tried tin foil hats, but de childrens' brains are so vulnerable dat only deep-diving suits would help. I 'ave aalways said that nothing good comes from Canada, and now even dat eediot guv'nor shoulda realize dis. I say, let's bomb dem hippies while it's not too late."
"There, now you know how the locals feel. The question is, why isn't the government doing anything, when the threat is obvious even to the ordinary American patriot? I say let's teach these pacifist hippies what it means to threaten America. This was Stacey Casey on Fox News, live from Nerth Pork."
What planet? Planet America? US laws sure don't reach us in Europe.
In order to eliminate the potential criminal threat from the rest of the world, the US is forced to make a preemptive strike on just about everybody else. Gott mit unser!
It probably was inspired by Plato or Descartes. It's the *Western* philosophy of rationalism.
Well, Plato may have been (quite probably) influenced by Buddhism, as at that time there were quite many contacts with the East. And Descartes must have read Plato (although he tried to forget everything and derive all his knowledge from the single fact that he tought and therefor he existed).
I'd like to see a Habermas Matrix. "Well, seems we have a conflict with the machines. Let's meet with them and talk it over during the remaining 12 hours or so of the movie."
The The Matrix is McLuhan Matrix: "You people are doomed to become the servo-mechanisms of the machines, yet the machines will only be extensions of yourselves"
And then some more:
Eliza Matrix: Neo: "Deja vu" Eliza: "Elucidate your thought" Neo:"I saw a black cat" Eliza: "Do you like cats?"
Zen Buddhist Matrix: (no dialogue; only Neo asking questions and Morpheus and others hitting him with staffs)
Wittgenstein Matrix: (complete silence and darkness - what can't be spoken of, shouldn't)
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One simple reason: It gives people an excuse to produce more garbage ("hell, it will be recycled anyway").
Excuse me, but I don't think that swapping my privacy for the chance to only get 'relevant' spam is a fair trade. If I don't mention some fact about myself to other people, maybe it's because I don't think they need to know it? If my would-be employer doesn't trust me enough to employ me without finding out everything that can be, then they're not worth my trust, either. What about if I'm a millionaire, but I don't show it - some random thugs can buy my file for $8. And so on. The new slogan should be: "I gave away my privacy, and all I got was this lousy penis enlarger"
But I do want the miracle-product that makes me look and feel 20 years younger! (I'm 19 and a half...)
That's the way I have seen it happen.
I read about the Fizzer worm in the newspapers today and began to wonder if a truly self-modifying worm could be built. (Note that if the following sounds ridiculous or something, it's because I'm not actually a hacker or anything...)
Could the mechanism of how real viruses and bacteria reproduce be applied to computer viruses? So that every time the virus reproduces (spreads to another computer), it makes some changes to its code, or every once in a while adds something new (if lucky, a new ability). This would make the propagation of the virus slower, but the virus would be harder to detect (or, most probably, I just don't know enough about anti-virus programs). It would be a real Darwinist virus - only the fittest survive...
If I remember correctly, she began (in mid-1960's) with just six semantic primitives, but could only explain just several hundred words with these. The others have been added over decades, and though I don't the reasons why all these are needed, I can say that 'live' and 'die' are not antonyms, because living is a continuos process, but you die only once (and if you say that sometimes people die a long and painful death, then you may as well say that living IS dying...). Everything that isn't big may not be small - some things are medium. etc.
The hallucination part (in the red lights district), where people's appearances change all the time.
I found it funny for two reasons:
1) Because the same post got modded up twice
2) It resembles a part of James Joyce's "Ulysses"...
Apart from this... joke with a long beard.
I, you, someone, something, people, body
this, the same, other
one, two, some, many/much, all
good, bad, big, small
think, know, want, feel, see, hear
say, word, true
do, happen, move
there is, have
live, die
not, maybe, can, because, if
when, now, after, before, a long time, a short time, for some time
where, here, above, below, far, near, side, inside
very, more
kind of, part of
like
Stupid things (or things that seem stupid to others - as an anonymous kid said: "Kids don't do stupid things. They have their reasons.") have been done everywhere and everywhen, but the number of people who suffer from mental problems is big only when there's something wrong with the society. Yes, the hiring of Klingon interpreters is a sign, but it's not "We're doomed, they hired Klingon speakers", but "We're doomed, they need Klingon speakers".
A few moths ago, there was a show on the radio where they spoke about internet chat rooms. The guests were frequent chatters - and they spoke on the radio exactly like they do online - the same sentence construction, and the overuse of "irw" (the Estonian equivalent of LOL). So I guess they might be needing 1337-speakers (and -literates) quite soon, especially in schools.
So... the next world war will be Estonia vs Germany? (/me points at mail address)
Looks like you could use some communism :7 In the USSR (and I guess this applies to other communist countries, too), there was never a shortage of people to name streets[*] after (every ideology has its own heroes...). For instance, in a small town near me there's a street that's still named after Benito Agirre, a Spanish pilot who fought in the Red Army in WWII. In case a famous revolutionary's (or scientist's) name wasn't appropriate, there were always all kinds of work-related names to choose from - Builders' Street was a popular name. It's kinda sad how one of the main streets gets named after a sportsman - who isn't even dead yet. Just as bad as all those "heroes of the revolution", if you ask me.
[*]Not to mention schools, hospitals, etc - practically everything that could be given a name
So, if I follow your logic correctly, my system will become almost perfectly reliable, if I install all the software using punch cards, one byte per card, or, alternatively, scribing it on the hard drive by hand using miniature magnets :P
To my knowledge, the US territorial waters are 200 (nautical!) miles from the shore. In this range, it may not be too safe to land into territorial waters, as there is (as the current landing shows) a risk of hitting land instead of water. So yes, they did land (doesn't it sound strange in this context?) in international waters.
The word 'landed' is the key. As far as I know, all the US manned space flights before the shuttle program splashed into ocean on return. Whether you call it landing, is up to you.
Whereas in the rest of the cases, they proved themselves innocent by passing the witch test (sinking when thrown into water)...
"Right now, I'm standing here on the Main Street, and what I see is terrifying. Down the road, some children are apparently listening to mp3's and behind me, I just heard someone mention french fries. Yesterday, the local McDonald's restaurant was shut down, because nobody wanted to eat there. I haven't seen anything like it since, well, for a long time. Our sound technician suffered a nervous breakdown half an hour ago, and we had to send him to the hospital. Who is to blame? Let's ask the Mayor.
"Mayor, what do you think caused all this...anarchy? Who were these terrorists?"
"Well, if ya ask me, then it was dem crack-smoking pothead hippies from Canada, who have been pollutin' our children with their distorted brainwaves that they beam here wid deir sattelites and teevee and int'r'nat. Wee'v tried tin foil hats, but de childrens' brains are so vulnerable dat only deep-diving suits would help. I 'ave aalways said that nothing good comes from Canada, and now even dat eediot guv'nor shoulda realize dis. I say, let's bomb dem hippies while it's not too late."
"There, now you know how the locals feel. The question is, why isn't the government doing anything, when the threat is obvious even to the ordinary American patriot? I say let's teach these pacifist hippies what it means to threaten America. This was Stacey Casey on Fox News, live from Nerth Pork."
Meanwhile, the MPAA is trying to ban real life, as scenes from it tend to illegally reproduce copyright-protected intellectual property.
In order to eliminate the potential criminal threat from the rest of the world, the US is forced to make a preemptive strike on just about everybody else. Gott mit unser!
Must have been one hell of a class when a randomly generated essay makes sense to you :D
Well, Plato may have been (quite probably) influenced by Buddhism, as at that time there were quite many contacts with the East. And Descartes must have read Plato (although he tried to forget everything and derive all his knowledge from the single fact that he tought and therefor he existed).
The The Matrix is McLuhan Matrix: "You people are doomed to become the servo-mechanisms of the machines, yet the machines will only be extensions of yourselves"
And then some more:
Eliza Matrix: Neo: "Deja vu" Eliza: "Elucidate your thought" Neo:"I saw a black cat" Eliza: "Do you like cats?"
Zen Buddhist Matrix: (no dialogue; only Neo asking questions and Morpheus and others hitting him with staffs)
Wittgenstein Matrix: (complete silence and darkness - what can't be spoken of, shouldn't)
No, for Christ's sake! Black cats should all be called Behemoth (after the coolest one of them - the one in Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita")!
It's also great because it has a black cat in it. Twice. Black cats rule.