I agree with you wholeheartedly. But the point I was trying to make to commodore64_love is that there is a world of difference between "you have no choice but to download things without the permission of the copyright holder" and "if you want things without the permission of the copyright holder, you have no choice but to download them".
I understand HOW programming works, but I don't know the modern languages. So essentially what I'm looking for is a translator to code the information I have about humanizing AI.
I suggest you start by trying to write it in BASIC, to prove (to yourself and others) that the information you think you have is well enough specified.
You cannot know the future, but you use predictions of it all the time in your decision-making. Do you really think that every decision can be made in isolation of its probable consequences? Do you think it's always right to rush in where angels fear to tread?
No, that's the basis of the law that you and I would like to see everyone live by.
The "genuine" laws, though, are the law of physics, which basically stipulate that things which want to remain in motion must consume other things.
If you followed Jesus' teachings, you'd have turned the other cheek to the British monarch. It's funny how Gandhi and the Dalai Lama have practised this better than any Christian in history.
Also, I just don't understand how the British were any more unlawful in occupying America than the Americans who, not so long ago, were Europeans themselves.
Indeed. Our daughter also spent the first couple of weeks in the NICU due to meconium aspiration -- acute enough for her to require five days of ECMO. During the birth my wife developed HELLP syndrome for which she required vast amounts of blood transfusion.
It really was not the best of times. Yet all the while I could count my blessings. You don't have to stray too far into the past or the third world for both of those conditions to be fatal. But also, I felt so lucky to live in a country so civilised that I didn't even have to think about whether we would be bankrupted to pay for the treatment. I'm not a religious person but I can testify: our National Health Service works miracles.
element-o.p., I hope there are no lasting burdens, and that you never have to face anything of the sort again.
When it's in your power to stop a bad thing, you are responsible to stop it, or you become culpable.
Sure, that's what you think when you're fresh out of college. But then you start to understand politics and diplomacy, and you realise that you can't solve all of the world's problems at once, and the sometimes you have to make deals.
Half right. It gets its high page rank from the fact it is a black hole for links.
Are you quite sure that this affects Wikipedia's PageRank? Doesn't nofollow indicate that the target's rank should not be affected, rather than indicating anything about the source's rank?
The only universal law is "might is right" (which stems directly from the laws of physics). And that's the law white men appealed to when taking over North America. Sure, we dressed it up in whatever religious claptrap we needed to assuage our guilt -- some appeal to external morality which gave us the imperative to dominate the heathens, or whatever. But the fact of the matter is that we did it because we could.
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Why bother with SEO? Just get your URL or product on a wikipedia page.
Won't work (rel="nofollow"). Indeed, the reason it doesn't work is a large part of the reason Wikipedia pages are ranked so highly.
Deletionists would be working hard to become 'trusted users' themselves
Reminds me of Signal 11 before the karma cap :)
Something tells me that brownness isn't what sells chocolate :)
I agree with you wholeheartedly. But the point I was trying to make to commodore64_love is that there is a world of difference between "you have no choice but to download things without the permission of the copyright holder" and "if you want things without the permission of the copyright holder, you have no choice but to download them".
I understand HOW programming works, but I don't know the modern languages. So essentially what I'm looking for is a translator to code the information I have about humanizing AI.
I suggest you start by trying to write it in BASIC, to prove (to yourself and others) that the information you think you have is well enough specified.
while Downadup today is not malicious in the sense of destroying files
How quaint! The idea that someone might infect millions of PCs just to delete people's files is so 20th century.
You cannot know the future, but you use predictions of it all the time in your decision-making. Do you really think that every decision can be made in isolation of its probable consequences? Do you think it's always right to rush in where angels fear to tread?
THAT is the basis of all genuine law.
No, that's the basis of the law that you and I would like to see everyone live by.
The "genuine" laws, though, are the law of physics, which basically stipulate that things which want to remain in motion must consume other things.
If you followed Jesus' teachings, you'd have turned the other cheek to the British monarch. It's funny how Gandhi and the Dalai Lama have practised this better than any Christian in history.
Also, I just don't understand how the British were any more unlawful in occupying America than the Americans who, not so long ago, were Europeans themselves.
I fail to see how this is not a net gain of 0
If doing the "right thing" now means you lose the support of people whose support you need to do five "right things" in future, what's the net gain?
I'm not saying this is necessarily the case, I'm just saying it's not nearly as simple as you paint it.
Other than that, I can't help you.
You'll never understand why some people prefer socialism until you understand the difference between can't and won't.
When I go to the Dr. and tell them I'm paying myself, they usually give me at least a 15% discount off the top of what they'd charge an insurance co.
Which must set you thinking: if that sort of shenanigans didn't happen, I'd be paying less for my insurance premiums.
Indeed. But somehow we still end up paying less than those who use insurance companies to offset the risk of not going to the doctor. Go figure!
Sure, we are accountable for each individual bad thing. But you are making claims about net gain, for which you need to understand the whole picture.
As long as there are no complications, that is.
Indeed. Our daughter also spent the first couple of weeks in the NICU due to meconium aspiration -- acute enough for her to require five days of ECMO. During the birth my wife developed HELLP syndrome for which she required vast amounts of blood transfusion.
It really was not the best of times. Yet all the while I could count my blessings. You don't have to stray too far into the past or the third world for both of those conditions to be fatal. But also, I felt so lucky to live in a country so civilised that I didn't even have to think about whether we would be bankrupted to pay for the treatment. I'm not a religious person but I can testify: our National Health Service works miracles.
element-o.p., I hope there are no lasting burdens, and that you never have to face anything of the sort again.
Indeed. And we are proud of that. Outside of America, socialism is not a dirty word.
The Republicans are out of office. Long preside the Democrats!
When it's in your power to stop a bad thing, you are responsible to stop it, or you become culpable.
Sure, that's what you think when you're fresh out of college. But then you start to understand politics and diplomacy, and you realise that you can't solve all of the world's problems at once, and the sometimes you have to make deals.
Le Roi est mort. Vive le Roi!
This really bad thing was already the case. Some other really bad things are no longer the case. Net gain: positive.
a lot of the nation is overcast today. We still have to pay to go to the doctor. Dog poo does not yet smell like peppermint.
As someone who lives in a country with a National Health Service, it tickles me to see it sandwiched between two "impossible ideals".
Half right. It gets its high page rank from the fact it is a black hole for links.
Are you quite sure that this affects Wikipedia's PageRank? Doesn't nofollow indicate that the target's rank should not be affected, rather than indicating anything about the source's rank?
Law is universal, and is discovered, not made.
The only universal law is "might is right" (which stems directly from the laws of physics). And that's the law white men appealed to when taking over North America. Sure, we dressed it up in whatever religious claptrap we needed to assuage our guilt -- some appeal to external morality which gave us the imperative to dominate the heathens, or whatever. But the fact of the matter is that we did it because we could.
Against an unlawful British occupying force. They were legitimate targets.
Hang on, I thought you said "There are rules, even in war"?
Plus, as far as we were concerned, it was you who was unlawful.
Plus, the whole country had been stolen in the first place -- pretty much in living memory -- from its indigenous peoples.
Good points, well made!
PageRank is well documented in various places. Follow the links from Wikipedia: that's what it's there for.