I could be wrong, but back when I bought my 5 Amazon stocks (about 2.5 years ago) Amazon's book business was already profitable, the company as a whole wasn't because Jeff was looking down the road, spending the money made in the profitable parts to establish Amazon in other areas.
It seems like that strategy is working, and my stock is finally worth what I paid for it, more than I can say for every other stock I own.
The problem with this is, simplifying for the sake of argument, people genreally learn to be moral during childhood through a system of just rewards and punishments. Which points up the real questions: How do you spank a computer? How do you give a computer a gold star?
You started out soo good, talking about creating an intelligence that chooses to be moral. Then you go and blow it with talk about spanking a computer. Damn, I would hate for my children to grow up to be moral just to avoid spanking. That's the society today, people don't take responsibility and the only thing stopping them from commiting crimes is the fact that the police are watching.
Reason, logic and reality are so much better as a basis of ethics. Teach them to your children (real and AI).
Totally!
You also have to remember that a corporation is a group of individual humans, and it has (and should have) the same rights as those individual humans.
I was trying to find an Ayn Rand quote on this but didn't have time.
Or even better, cover it with a one way mirror, that way all you see is a mirror when the monitor is off (I saw something like this with a TV in the bathroom mirror in a model house recently)
The reason you have to wear them, is that Mercury emits certain poisonous gases which traverse through the earth's atmosphere and might be dangerous. This can lead to loss of eyesight, decrease and breathing capacity and irritablity.
The poisonous gas is probably vaporized mercury, so you'll probably get heavy metal poisoning.
C) Your own anecdotal stories are, I'm sorry to say, worthless.
Actually, no, they are not:
Before: I typed 80 WPM, I was about to quit because my hands hurt, and not anecdotally.
After: I still type 80 WPM, my hands no longer hurt.
I've been tyiping Dvorak for 6 years now. I'm not going back.
Although both are carcinogenic, I don't imagine many marijuana users who smoke 2 packs a day, and in small doses I'm sure something else would kill you before marijuana related cancer does.
I'm voting Democrat in 2004, and I'm a Libertarian.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Democrats WILL find other rights to trample when in office, they have in the past and they will in the future. Your taxes WILL go up, your property rights (via environmental legislation) will get shot, what little choice you have in education will be less
How does voting for the left totalitarians instead of the right totalitarians help further the cause of liberty?
If all the libertarians in the country voted democrat the next election the effects would be small, If libertarians actually voted libertarian next election the effects would be significant (as a step in the right direction). We make a much stronger force (currently) as spoilers than as swing voters.
I AM voting Libertarian (assuming, of course, the LP candidate is acceptable)
Man this is SOOOO ungood! Receiving spam is just a (big) annoyance, but it really costs me nothing (and with spamassassin even less). Why would I want to pay yet another tax (as if 60% of my money, if you take sales, gas, car, property taxes, etc., wasn't enough).
I am now very glad that SMTP makes it hard to track spammers, it is this nature that may be the only thing keeping our congresscritters grabby hands off our emails.
Sounds good, only one caveat. How would the owners of the movie's copyrights ensure the quality of their product? Will Netflix also print the case inserts? Though they can't guarantee that a movie hasn't been scratched, it'd be a little harder to guarantee that the movie was burned properly and that the rest of the movie "experience" (the case, liner notes, etc) were as the "artists" intended. Of course, proper audits could be put in place to solve this.
Aside from the other very insightful comments here, I'd also judge wether to speak out based on the risks involved
Is this a pacemaker or space shuttle? I'd probably speak out louder.
Is this an "I'm on the web" website? I'd probably just mention my misgivings.
I'm not sure I am as clear as you are on the differences between a consultant and a contractor. I've always thought that the question is a false dichotomy.
Consulting speaks about the job you are doing: you are giving advice. Programming, database administration, graphic design are not consulting.
Contracting speaks about how you are charging and agreeing to do a job: under a contract. You may be a contract programmer, contract dba, contract graphic administrator and even a contract consultant.
If any bias, I see more Libertarian bias than anything else. Don't confuse being against the war or against the current administration with being pro-Saddam or pro-Dem.
Exactly! similar to the way you can be anti-abortion (not liking it and not supporting the use of tax $ for abortions) and pro-choice (supporting a woman's right to choose as a private matter).
Me personally? I would feel in need of a long shower if I went to vote for anything else but the closest to my ideal. I mean, didn't your conscience bother you after voting for x? Heck, here in CA even voting for Gary Copeland felt MUCH better than voting for Simon or Davis.
Your vote is small enough as it is, don't make it smaller by voting for the wrong person
And my final argument against the "wasted vote" is: if the race is so one-sided that the rep (or dem) is a clear winner, why not vote for whom you want, since it doesn't matter. If the race is so close that your vote does matter, why not send the message that supports liberty?
The LP has lately taken the stand that they WANT to be spoilers, if they can get enough votes to swing the election (and often it just takes a few %) then they are THE force to contend with.
Its a shame even linux kernel developers can not get jobs today because they have no cs degree as the same time vb weenies who are gifted in mathmatics are taking the jobs instead because hr thinks that degree will make them better programmers.
IMHO, All things being equal people with degrees DO make better programmers. I believe that all those courses in logic, math, etc. (not to mention those on ethics, philosophy, humanities, for those attending actual Universities) make a huge difference in the way a person works, behaves and yes...programs.
But then again, I may be a little biased because I do have a degree (and haven't had much of a problem finding work). YMMV.
I just sent a quick note to Intuit begging for a Linux port.
Please contact them at "http://www.intuit.com/company/contact_us/index.ht ml" and give them every reason you can think of.
I've been a MS money user since version 1.0 (it came free and I've been paying for upgrades since), and use quickbooks for business, but I can't stand having to reboot to windows to do it.
The past few days I've been attempting to move to gnucash, it has a LONG way to go, it can't even print 3-to-a-page checks easily!
I know Intuit is far from open source, but the unavailability of a good money management package is one more reason why people don't use Linux.
Slashdot Mirror
I could be wrong, but back when I bought my 5 Amazon stocks (about 2.5 years ago) Amazon's book business was already profitable, the company as a whole wasn't because Jeff was looking down the road, spending the money made in the profitable parts to establish Amazon in other areas.
It seems like that strategy is working, and my stock is finally worth what I paid for it, more than I can say for every other stock I own.
- Print some pretty pictures and tell everyone I'll store their gold which they can later retrieve
- Forget the gold, just give them the paper.
- ???
- Profit!!!
Man I wish we were back on the gold standard!The problem with this is, simplifying for the sake of argument, people genreally learn to be moral during childhood through a system of just rewards and punishments. Which points up the real questions: How do you spank a computer? How do you give a computer a gold star?
You started out soo good, talking about creating an intelligence that chooses to be moral. Then you go and blow it with talk about spanking a computer. Damn, I would hate for my children to grow up to be moral just to avoid spanking. That's the society today, people don't take responsibility and the only thing stopping them from commiting crimes is the fact that the police are watching.
Reason, logic and reality are so much better as a basis of ethics. Teach them to your children (real and AI).
Totally!
You also have to remember that a corporation is a group of individual humans, and it has (and should have) the same rights as those individual humans.
I was trying to find an Ayn Rand quote on this but didn't have time.
Fueled by certainty? I actually like that!
Or even better, cover it with a one way mirror, that way all you see is a mirror when the monitor is off (I saw something like this with a TV in the bathroom mirror in a model house recently)
The reason you have to wear them, is that Mercury emits certain poisonous gases which traverse through the earth's atmosphere and might be dangerous. This can lead to loss of eyesight, decrease and breathing capacity and irritablity.
The poisonous gas is probably vaporized mercury, so you'll probably get heavy metal poisoning.
C) Your own anecdotal stories are, I'm sorry to say, worthless.
Actually, no, they are not:
Before: I typed 80 WPM, I was about to quit because my hands hurt, and not anecdotally.
After: I still type 80 WPM, my hands no longer hurt.
I've been tyiping Dvorak for 6 years now. I'm not going back.
Although both are carcinogenic, I don't imagine many marijuana users who smoke 2 packs a day, and in small doses I'm sure something else would kill you before marijuana related cancer does.
Sigh... another person buys the story that there's only left and right... Advocates for Self-government
I'm voting Democrat in 2004, and I'm a Libertarian.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Democrats WILL find other rights to trample when in office, they have in the past and they will in the future. Your taxes WILL go up, your property rights (via environmental legislation) will get shot, what little choice you have in education will be less
How does voting for the left totalitarians instead of the right totalitarians help further the cause of liberty?
If all the libertarians in the country voted democrat the next election the effects would be small, If libertarians actually voted libertarian next election the effects would be significant (as a step in the right direction). We make a much stronger force (currently) as spoilers than as swing voters.
I AM voting Libertarian (assuming, of course, the LP candidate is acceptable)
Man this is SOOOO ungood! Receiving spam is just a (big) annoyance, but it really costs me nothing (and with spamassassin even less). Why would I want to pay yet another tax (as if 60% of my money, if you take sales, gas, car, property taxes, etc., wasn't enough).
I am now very glad that SMTP makes it hard to track spammers, it is this nature that may be the only thing keeping our congresscritters grabby hands off our emails.
Looking at it this way: LONG LIVE SPAM!
Me? I just stuff the envelopes with political brochures for the Libertarian Party. Because the LP doesn't have that much $ to mass mail these.
Sounds good, only one caveat. How would the owners of the movie's copyrights ensure the quality of their product? Will Netflix also print the case inserts? Though they can't guarantee that a movie hasn't been scratched, it'd be a little harder to guarantee that the movie was burned properly and that the rest of the movie "experience" (the case, liner notes, etc) were as the "artists" intended. Of course, proper audits could be put in place to solve this.
This is the United States of America, not the Socialist Republic Of America.
What? You didn't get the memo?
Aside from the other very insightful comments here, I'd also judge wether to speak out based on the risks involved
Is this a pacemaker or space shuttle? I'd probably speak out louder.
Is this an "I'm on the web" website? I'd probably just mention my misgivings.
If any bias, I see more Libertarian bias than anything else. Don't confuse being against the war or against the current administration with being pro-Saddam or pro-Dem.
Take a look at some of the analysis from the Cato institute:a llcato&pw=100%25&rf=0&qt=patriot+act&x=0&y =0
http://search.cato.org/query.html?col=allcato&qc=
Exactly! similar to the way you can be anti-abortion (not liking it and not supporting the use of tax $ for abortions) and pro-choice (supporting a woman's right to choose as a private matter).
Me personally? I would feel in need of a long shower if I went to vote for anything else but the closest to my ideal. I mean, didn't your conscience bother you after voting for x? Heck, here in CA even voting for Gary Copeland felt MUCH better than voting for Simon or Davis.
Your vote is small enough as it is, don't make it smaller by voting for the wrong person
And my final argument against the "wasted vote" is: if the race is so one-sided that the rep (or dem) is a clear winner, why not vote for whom you want, since it doesn't matter. If the race is so close that your vote does matter, why not send the message that supports liberty?
The LP has lately taken the stand that they WANT to be spoilers, if they can get enough votes to swing the election (and often it just takes a few %) then they are THE force to contend with.
Its a shame even linux kernel developers can not get jobs today because they have no cs degree as the same time vb weenies who are gifted in mathmatics are taking the jobs instead because hr thinks that degree will make them better programmers.
IMHO, All things being equal people with degrees DO make better programmers. I believe that all those courses in logic, math, etc. (not to mention those on ethics, philosophy, humanities, for those attending actual Universities) make a huge difference in the way a person works, behaves and yes...programs.
But then again, I may be a little biased because I do have a degree (and haven't had much of a problem finding work). YMMV.
I just sent a quick note to Intuit begging for a Linux port.t ml" and give them every reason you can think of.
Please contact them at "http://www.intuit.com/company/contact_us/index.h
I've been a MS money user since version 1.0 (it came free and I've been paying for upgrades since), and use quickbooks for business, but I can't stand having to reboot to windows to do it.
The past few days I've been attempting to move to gnucash, it has a LONG way to go, it can't even print 3-to-a-page checks easily!
I know Intuit is far from open source, but the unavailability of a good money management package is one more reason why people don't use Linux.
True, but as more and more people use customized spam filters spamers will have less incentive to continue.
Am I the only one with Google access?
Among many others:
http://tools.geht.net/rot13.html