A computer capable of e-mail, web, and dialup access can be had second hand for $15. I think we ought to be able to contract with local e-waste recycling companies and give these away.
You are right. Maybe they should mimic the successful version: a print catalog with QR codes for instant ordering and shipping. The intent is to reduce time between impulse and buying to increase sales.
I'm actually surprised nobody has taken this "showroom" concept to the OBVIOUS next level: a storefront with no backroom inventory, that solicits single sample floor models from various online retailers, and for a set monthly fee, puts a QR code Sticker on each floor model. Maybe even going so far as to team up with Amazon or somebody similar to provide the small manufacturer single-point-of-distribution services.
See, that's exactly why I don't like him. He would have despised the Nazis for not being intelligent, but the sad part is that the Nazis WERE intelligent- they just took different assumptions. Everything they did was logical- within those assumptions. You don't get a eugenics-based superman by allowing the disabled to breed.
"Beyond Good and Evil"- the very title, the very idea, suggests that one can live a life entirely devoid of previous morality. A dangerous idea indeed. Where would science be without the progress of the Greeks, the Romans, the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment? Nietzsche's proposal is to take philosophy back to the very barbaric beginnings and start over from scratch without pre-conceived notions; I say if we did the same with science it would be a million years before we got back to chipped-flint stone tools.
I don't even see today's moral relativists- Nietzsche's more humane descendants- as being any more intelligent than a monk in a cave; and in some ways, a good deal less, for at least that monk had the traditions that brought him to the cave. Without our histories, we are nothing.
Does it mean something if I can't do a project like this because many of my earliest e-mails are stored in QWK packets on floppy disks for a drive type I no longer own?
Actually, it's Nietzsche's hatred for the weak- and wish to leave behind the morality that protects the innocent- that led me to that conclusion. It wasn't the extermination of the Jews that the Nazis followed Nietzsche in this, but the extermination of the disabled.
"I hope you are not suggesting that Nietzsche would have approved of the Nazis?"
Approved of, hell, he CREATED the Nazis. His philosophy was their base. Creating the Superman. That's what the Nazis were all about.
"Nietzsche was vehemently anti-anti-semitic. His sister married a man who was a political leader of an anti-semitic movement. Nietzsche disowned her for it. Among his writings he asserted that "The Jews are the strongest race in Europe", he admired them openly."
So what? String replace Aryans for Jews, and the racism is the same.
"The Nazis *did* try to use Nietzsche s work to justify their position but not very successfuly. The 'Nietzschean superman' was never in any way equivalent to the Nazi ideal of the 'master race' nor did it lead to the Nazi 'master race' concept."
It's more than equivalent- it's actually IDENTICAL. Just as the same philosophy is alive and well today in every Planned Parenthood clinic in the United States. "More for the fit, less for the unfit". The races change, the names change, the philosophy stays the same.
"Had Nietzsche been alive when the Nazis took power he would have been one of the first people they would have silenced."
As a Prussian Aristocrat, quite possibly. But that doesn't change the philosophy of hatred for the weak, or silencing those who disagree with you in the least- if anything, that would have been the ultimate fulfillment of Nietzsche's predictions.
Maybe not in 1963- but I could have sworn I saw one on a TV show back in the early 1990s. Northern Exposure had an entire episode with a former hunter who to please his environmentally conscious girlfriend, had put a sportsman stock on a 35 mm camera to go bear hunting with.
"Do you really think that because ethicists question at what stage a human becomes a conscious and self-aware human being that we are about to legislate in favour of infanticide?"
Human beings have done similar before. Just look at Germany 40 short years after Nietzsche.
"Disagree with the conclusions, sure (that's why these papers get published), but object to these issues even being discussed?"
Would have saved a whole lotta lives had Nietzsche never been published. There are certain things that should never be discussed.
I think the definition of ethics is being stretched way too far. First we have that Australian ethics journal publishing a paper on After Birth Abortion, and now this. Shouldn't a journal on ethics at least know the definition of the word, and consider it before allowing such a paper to be published?
You can write off personal losses. But take it from somebody who has done the numbers both ways: personal losses are considered to be a write off at your tax rate. Business losses are considered part of operating expenses, and reduce your net income. There is a difference- IF your business was profitable in the year the loss occurred. If it wasn't- then it becomes closer to a tossup, and even then it might come down to pennies difference.
So, you believe that life owes you something for nothing, eh?
More like I believe in the concept of a bigotry free community, where the Right to Life is absolute.
Unless you are truly infirmed, or aged where you can no longer provide shelter and food for yourself, then no....no one owes this to you for free. It all takes effort. Why should someone that works to pay to eat and have good shelter, have to work that bit harder to give it to you so you don't have to?
Civilization. With current technology, we need less than 2% of our total available labor force to provide these things. That means for each individual doing such work, 50 can be fed/clothed/housed. The rest of business activity? A waste of time.
I've done it in the past, but under our "modern economy" you can get arrested for that sort of thing (killing the wrong protected species, hunting without a permit, etc).
As both a W-2 employee and a Business owner for 1099 purposes, I find that losses to theft are completely tax deductible. The only question is whether I charge it under my personal or against my business, and I always play with the numbers enough to know which is more advantageous for me.
You must never have owned a business- or either that, you paid somebody else to do your taxes for you.
And some, like me, are truly high functioning and are very capable in the workplace but struggle mightily with the concept of "no, you don't deserve to eat or sleep unless you can pay for it".
I think the only thing keeping them out of homes NOW is no used market yet, and the high cost ($200-$5000) of entry. Basically the same problem that faced real personal computers in 1979.
Only THAT will change the real adoption of robots into the average American household.
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A computer capable of e-mail, web, and dialup access can be had second hand for $15. I think we ought to be able to contract with local e-waste recycling companies and give these away.
communicates with us primarily by e-mail, but is still required by federal law to have some things on paper.
You are right. Maybe they should mimic the successful version: a print catalog with QR codes for instant ordering and shipping. The intent is to reduce time between impulse and buying to increase sales.
"Not only was it frustrating that you still had to call an 800 number to place an order "
THAT is the difference between my idea and what Gateway did. We now have smartphones, take a picture of the QR code to purchase.
I'm actually surprised nobody has taken this "showroom" concept to the OBVIOUS next level: a storefront with no backroom inventory, that solicits single sample floor models from various online retailers, and for a set monthly fee, puts a QR code Sticker on each floor model. Maybe even going so far as to team up with Amazon or somebody similar to provide the small manufacturer single-point-of-distribution services.
Exactly my thought when I saw the Android Tricorder- this would be a neat start if we had better sensors on the system.
See, that's exactly why I don't like him. He would have despised the Nazis for not being intelligent, but the sad part is that the Nazis WERE intelligent- they just took different assumptions. Everything they did was logical- within those assumptions. You don't get a eugenics-based superman by allowing the disabled to breed.
"Beyond Good and Evil"- the very title, the very idea, suggests that one can live a life entirely devoid of previous morality. A dangerous idea indeed. Where would science be without the progress of the Greeks, the Romans, the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment? Nietzsche's proposal is to take philosophy back to the very barbaric beginnings and start over from scratch without pre-conceived notions; I say if we did the same with science it would be a million years before we got back to chipped-flint stone tools.
I don't even see today's moral relativists- Nietzsche's more humane descendants- as being any more intelligent than a monk in a cave; and in some ways, a good deal less, for at least that monk had the traditions that brought him to the cave. Without our histories, we are nothing.
Does it mean something if I can't do a project like this because many of my earliest e-mails are stored in QWK packets on floppy disks for a drive type I no longer own?
Actually, it's Nietzsche's hatred for the weak- and wish to leave behind the morality that protects the innocent- that led me to that conclusion. It wasn't the extermination of the Jews that the Nazis followed Nietzsche in this, but the extermination of the disabled.
"I hope you are not suggesting that Nietzsche would have approved of the Nazis?"
Approved of, hell, he CREATED the Nazis. His philosophy was their base. Creating the Superman. That's what the Nazis were all about.
"Nietzsche was vehemently anti-anti-semitic. His sister married a man who was a political leader of an anti-semitic movement. Nietzsche disowned her for it. Among his writings he asserted that "The Jews are the strongest race in Europe", he admired them openly."
So what? String replace Aryans for Jews, and the racism is the same.
"The Nazis *did* try to use Nietzsche s work to justify their position but not very successfuly. The 'Nietzschean superman' was never in any way equivalent to the Nazi ideal of the 'master race' nor did it lead to the Nazi 'master race' concept."
It's more than equivalent- it's actually IDENTICAL. Just as the same philosophy is alive and well today in every Planned Parenthood clinic in the United States. "More for the fit, less for the unfit". The races change, the names change, the philosophy stays the same.
"Had Nietzsche been alive when the Nazis took power he would have been one of the first people they would have silenced."
As a Prussian Aristocrat, quite possibly. But that doesn't change the philosophy of hatred for the weak, or silencing those who disagree with you in the least- if anything, that would have been the ultimate fulfillment of Nietzsche's predictions.
That's the way to have a civilization, instead of random barbarianism.
Maybe not in 1963- but I could have sworn I saw one on a TV show back in the early 1990s. Northern Exposure had an entire episode with a former hunter who to please his environmentally conscious girlfriend, had put a sportsman stock on a 35 mm camera to go bear hunting with.
Interesting argument- but academic freedom shouldn't cover sociopathic insanity.
"Do you really think that because ethicists question at what stage a human becomes a conscious and self-aware human being that we are about to legislate in favour of infanticide?"
Human beings have done similar before. Just look at Germany 40 short years after Nietzsche.
"Disagree with the conclusions, sure (that's why these papers get published), but object to these issues even being discussed?"
Would have saved a whole lotta lives had Nietzsche never been published. There are certain things that should never be discussed.
I think the definition of ethics is being stretched way too far. First we have that Australian ethics journal publishing a paper on After Birth Abortion, and now this. Shouldn't a journal on ethics at least know the definition of the word, and consider it before allowing such a paper to be published?
You can write off personal losses. But take it from somebody who has done the numbers both ways: personal losses are considered to be a write off at your tax rate. Business losses are considered part of operating expenses, and reduce your net income. There is a difference- IF your business was profitable in the year the loss occurred. If it wasn't- then it becomes closer to a tossup, and even then it might come down to pennies difference.
So, you believe that life owes you something for nothing, eh?
More like I believe in the concept of a bigotry free community, where the Right to Life is absolute.
Unless you are truly infirmed, or aged where you can no longer provide shelter and food for yourself, then no....no one owes this to you for free. It all takes effort. Why should someone that works to pay to eat and have good shelter, have to work that bit harder to give it to you so you don't have to?
Civilization. With current technology, we need less than 2% of our total available labor force to provide these things. That means for each individual doing such work, 50 can be fed/clothed/housed. The rest of business activity? A waste of time.
I've done it in the past, but under our "modern economy" you can get arrested for that sort of thing (killing the wrong protected species, hunting without a permit, etc).
They have TWO- but they don't even add up to ONE- they also bought a decommissioned Australian aircraft carrier for use as an amusement park.
And then you get the WAP password how?
As both a W-2 employee and a Business owner for 1099 purposes, I find that losses to theft are completely tax deductible. The only question is whether I charge it under my personal or against my business, and I always play with the numbers enough to know which is more advantageous for me.
You must never have owned a business- or either that, you paid somebody else to do your taxes for you.
And some, like me, are truly high functioning and are very capable in the workplace but struggle mightily with the concept of "no, you don't deserve to eat or sleep unless you can pay for it".
I think the only thing keeping them out of homes NOW is no used market yet, and the high cost ($200-$5000) of entry. Basically the same problem that faced real personal computers in 1979.
Only THAT will change the real adoption of robots into the average American household.
I find that the safety of hands free is a direct function of the efficiency of your voice recognition software.