I tried the 2.0 interface too and opted out instantly. Now I'm stuck with it like you. I think it's the default interface now, and the old one is gone for good. Actually when you get used to it, it's not that bad.
Anyway, I actually replied to tell that eBay/PayPal sucks as a company. They don't care for the users, their eBay and PayPal fees are quite high, they do not stop increasing the profit volume and they do not make fees cheaper.
I sometimes buy stuff in eBay, and some guy ripped me off. I bought several singles from the same seller with the 'buy it now button' for like 10 euros each one, the total amount was 65 euros. I sent the total amount in a single PayPal payment and the seller was supposedly combining shipping.
After two and a half months of excuses (lost in post...), bad feedback for the user started appearing like an avalanche (he had a lot of good feedback before that). So I applied for the buyer protection program. What they told me: the items you bought must have cost *each* 50 euros or more for eBay to refund you the money (there is an upper limit too).
If every good auction weren't on eBay, I'd stop using it right now.
Roughly, the singularity is the matter of creating an artificial intelligence superior to ours. Obviosly this superior intelligence would be able to do all the things we are able to do, so it could create even superior intelligences. The result of this would be an ever increasing developement, and the complete change of the world as we know us.
Bill Joy, Sun Microsystems cofounder, argumented in this article that he is scared about the possibility of the singularity making the human race extinct. And well, it could happen. But I would like to tell him and everybody who thinks like him that, if the singularity doesn't take place, we will be extinguish ourselves when terrestial resources are exhausted (very likely) or when a cosmical disaster takes place (sun will expand and shallow earth, 100% guaranteed).
The singularity and his exponential scientific developement would gives us and/or our "singular artificial sons" a significatively better chance of survival.
Good people in his books are routinely punished for being good, beauty is reviled and destroyed, decay is demonstrated to be the only natural course of nature, people with positive view-points are savagely 'dis-abused' of their notions, and his sexualization of pre-teen girls was entirely unsavory.
How many other books by George R. R. Martin have you read besides this one ? Please read Tuf Voyaging, for example, and think again.
Let's be realistic, intelligent people doesn't "stop to be good an honest" just because the characters of the book are bad and vicious, and they win.
losers like George R. Martin
And, could you make your argument without personal disqualifications ? Thanks.
Recommendations: Tuf Voyaging, Dying of the Light
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I would like to recommend the two books by George R. R. Martin that I have read: Tuf Voyaging and Dying of the Light, specially the first one.
- Tuf Voyaging is a compilation of lighthearted short stories about a good, old, kind and cat-lover space trader, who finds Ark, the last "seedship", a space ship capable of genetically engineer an entire planet, and combine and deploy any of the many species stored in his database. Tuf decides to use this mighty power to help civilizations with problems like overpopulation. It is one of my all time sci-fi favorites, I don't what it is, but the book has something that touched me.
- Dying of the Light. Quoted from the back of the book:
"A whisperjewel from Gwen Delvano calls Dirk t'Larien across space and beyond the Tempter's Veil to Worlorn, a dying Festival planet of rock and ice. Warlorn is slowly drifting through twilight to neverending night; as the planet sinks into darkness, so its inhabitants face annihilation. Seven years ago, on Avalon, Gwen was Dirk's lover, his Guenevere; now she wears the jade-and-silver bond of Jaantony Riv Wolf high-Ironjade Vikary, a barbarian visionary, an outcast from his own people for his acts of violence. And Garse Janacek, Jaan's *teyn*, his shieldmate, is also bound to Gwen -- in hatred. Dirk, a rogue and a wanderer, is called to be saviour of the three who are bonded together in love and hate."
It is about the complex relationship between completely different cultures and how those deal with love and the such. Very rocemmended too.
I plan to read A Game of Thrones very soon, I know Mr. Martin won't disappoint me.
I am the only one who sees nanotech + stem cells as a way to stop ageing ? If this could be achieved, then I think its worth taking the risks. You know, atomic bombs could extinct humanity too, but they haven't.
All I want from nanotechnology are little devices that go into our blood stream and stop ageing so we can all live forever (that is, if nanotech wars doesn't kill us first) in order to witness new technology achievements.
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I tried the 2.0 interface too and opted out instantly. Now I'm stuck with it like you. I think it's the default interface now, and the old one is gone for good. Actually when you get used to it, it's not that bad.
Anyway, I actually replied to tell that eBay/PayPal sucks as a company. They don't care for the users, their eBay and PayPal fees are quite high, they do not stop increasing the profit volume and they do not make fees cheaper.
I sometimes buy stuff in eBay, and some guy ripped me off. I bought several singles from the same seller with the 'buy it now button' for like 10 euros each one, the total amount was 65 euros. I sent the total amount in a single PayPal payment and the seller was supposedly combining shipping.
After two and a half months of excuses (lost in post...), bad feedback for the user started appearing like an avalanche (he had a lot of good feedback before that). So I applied for the buyer protection program. What they told me: the items you bought must have cost *each* 50 euros or more for eBay to refund you the money (there is an upper limit too).
If every good auction weren't on eBay, I'd stop using it right now.
Lol, but Walter Disney is dead, and he is not cryogenized despite the rumours.
Check Kurzweil's web. It talks about the singularity.
Roughly, the singularity is the matter of creating an artificial intelligence superior to ours. Obviosly this superior intelligence would be able to do all the things we are able to do, so it could create even superior intelligences. The result of this would be an ever increasing developement, and the complete change of the world as we know us.
Bill Joy, Sun Microsystems cofounder, argumented in this article that he is scared about the possibility of the singularity making the human race extinct. And well, it could happen. But I would like to tell him and everybody who thinks like him that, if the singularity doesn't take place, we will be extinguish ourselves when terrestial resources are exhausted (very likely) or when a cosmical disaster takes place (sun will expand and shallow earth, 100% guaranteed).
The singularity and his exponential scientific developement would gives us and/or our "singular artificial sons" a significatively better chance of survival.
Those mother fuckers...
Please read Tuf Voyaging, for example, and think again.
Let's be realistic, intelligent people doesn't "stop to be good an honest" just because the characters of the book are bad and vicious, and they win. And, could you make your argument without personal disqualifications ? Thanks.
- Tuf Voyaging is a compilation of lighthearted short stories about a good, old, kind and cat-lover space trader, who finds Ark, the last "seedship", a space ship capable of genetically engineer an entire planet, and combine and deploy any of the many species stored in his database. Tuf decides to use this mighty power to help civilizations with problems like overpopulation. It is one of my all time sci-fi favorites, I don't what it is, but the book has something that touched me.
- Dying of the Light. Quoted from the back of the book: It is about the complex relationship between completely different cultures and how those deal with love and the such. Very rocemmended too. I plan to read A Game of Thrones very soon, I know Mr. Martin won't disappoint me.
I am the only one who sees nanotech + stem cells as a way to stop ageing ? If this could be achieved, then I think its worth taking the risks.
You know, atomic bombs could extinct humanity too, but they haven't.
All I want from nanotechnology are little devices that go into our blood stream and stop ageing so we can all live forever (that is, if nanotech wars doesn't kill us first) in order to witness new technology achievements.