I resemble this remark, except I replace #3 with informed on a rational religious basis, ie, I'm a Chestertonian Distributist with a hint of Marxist (in that I believe that capitalism should have a starting line of minimum private property allowed, not necessarily dictate outcomes, but should have a maximum amount of private property allowed equal to the assets of the nation - (minimum private property allowed * population-1), and I believe that should be so because of the Christian Concept of Human Dignity.
Of course, if you get more than one guy with the ambition to want more than the minimum, the maximum allowable ownership starts going down significantly, but that's due to good free market competition, not technocratic governmental fiat.
Yes, actually. Quite a nice lady in fact. http://ourpeacefulplace.org/ . Not only does she go out twice a day handing out donations to the homeless and connecting them with social services in the community, she's also pro-life. And not just pro-life- 35 years ago she was raped on the street and has not only a daughter from that rape, but two grandchildren. AND- get this- she's still working on the street, most mornings and nights alone. THAT takes commitment.
Members of the same sex don't have a slot B, only a slot C, and sticking tab A into slot C is a damn good way to die young, now that we know about germs and stuff.
September 2008 proved to me that anarcho-Captialism not only doesn't work, but that when you remove all effective regulation from any given market people go ape-shit crazy.
I'm all for getting rid of limited liability. It bugs the heck out of me that right now, liberty seems to be more about "I want to do what I want and I don't want anybody to tell me that it is wrong" than "I want to do what is right and get the government out of my way".
It is, in fact, what leans my distributism more towards technocratic marxism than to libertarianism. Because a bunch of people being allowed, by privilege of owning a lot, to do whatever the hell they want without consequences is a bad thing indeed- despite the existence of other groups with the same amount of money doing good.
Truly polite viruses and malware pop up a message box on install that says "I am a virus. My intent is to do X. Are you sure you want to Install? Type YeS (with that capitalization) to continue, anything else to cancel."
KOH virus, used in several industries to encrypt hard drives across a network. Or at least was back in the 1990s. It was very polite- asked by drive letter if you wanted it to migrate, asked you for each boot volume for a 256 byte private key and a pass phrase. It was NOT just "Click OK to install" either- you needed to type YeS, with both capitals, to go, at least in the version my company sold as "CasinoCrypt" to casinos in British Columbia (based on a gaming commission requirement). It would even migrate to floppies, again asking first, effectively locking that floppy into use on that computer.
Recession proof? Where have you been? Out of my 16 years in software engineering, I've spent 4 years unemployed due to recessions (a few months here, a few months there, really add up).
" no compelling demonstration of capabilities for anything even remotely resembling the richness and structure of human language has occurred. That the best Nim Chimpsky could do was "Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you.". If that is language, then I'm a monkey's uncle."
I have a tendency to agree- but sadly, that makes my original point MORE valid- because this is the level of independent language achieved by a human autistic with an Ipad.
Are you saying that this data proves that chimpanzees and humans do not have a common ancestor?
I was talking more about the anthropoligical effects of not being able to speak. And that it's rather arrogant to say that the great apes and the homo species do not have quite a bit in common.
I have no idea what you think your point is. Possibly because your IQ of 500 is so much greater than my mere 156.
"What in modern physics (I assume you refer to the Big Bang theory?) describes gravity as "making decisions"?"
Nothing in modern physics- which is why I say Stephen Hawking has moved beyond physics and into philosophy.
"I mean, you could possibly interpret it that way, but it would be as meaningful as saying that things fall down "because gravity decides so"."
Yep. In other words, a philosophic explanation for the anthropic constants being what they are is because "Gravity made them so" is philosophically equivalent to "God made them so". It doesn't remove the need for a personality designing and creating those constants; it merely reassigns that personality from God to Gravity.
And that's why I say Stephen Hawking is a bad philosopher, no matter how brilliant his physics are.
Oh, and I can binary finger AND thumb count to one thousand twenty three. Why do you stop at one hundred thirty two instead of two hundred fifty five? That's only 10000100!
Actually, I'm autistic myself, high functioning. But I'd say all homo sapiens are little more than apes- about 4% of our DNA is different. Part of that 4% is the power of verbal coherent speech, so yes, low functioning autistics are a bit closer to apes than the rest of humanity, in that neither apes nor low functioning autistics have verbal speech ability. Much has been proven that apes are a LOT closer to us than some people would like to believe.
I know a young autistic man- age 22- 3 verbal words in his vocabulary- who uses a PICS-to-Speech synthesizer program on his IPAD to communicate. I don't have any video of him however. I will try to remember, next time I see him, to take some on my phone and upload to Youtube for the next time this debate comes up.
He's like my special needs son- "facilitating" him on his pad would be impossible, unless all you want him to click is "no dad". Heck, at 22, he's larger and more muscular than his father- getting him to do ANYTHING he doesn't want to do is next to impossible.
TYPING, on the other hand, I largely agree with you. PICS to speech is easy, especially for those who have already been using the cardboard version of PICS in school - tap on the little picture and it says a word. Tap on the lunch folder, then the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, then the glass of milk, and the computer says "Lunch SandwichPBJ Milk". Makes for awfully choppy sentences, usually full of nouns with few verbs. My special needs son, when he types, what he types has even less meaning in English than what he says.
It's not much good beyond "what do you want for lunch?" type questions. And it's NOT going to "unlock hidden creativity".
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I resemble this remark, except I replace #3 with informed on a rational religious basis, ie, I'm a Chestertonian Distributist with a hint of Marxist (in that I believe that capitalism should have a starting line of minimum private property allowed, not necessarily dictate outcomes, but should have a maximum amount of private property allowed equal to the assets of the nation - (minimum private property allowed * population-1), and I believe that should be so because of the Christian Concept of Human Dignity.
Of course, if you get more than one guy with the ambition to want more than the minimum, the maximum allowable ownership starts going down significantly, but that's due to good free market competition, not technocratic governmental fiat.
Yes, actually. Quite a nice lady in fact. http://ourpeacefulplace.org/ . Not only does she go out twice a day handing out donations to the homeless and connecting them with social services in the community, she's also pro-life. And not just pro-life- 35 years ago she was raped on the street and has not only a daughter from that rape, but two grandchildren. AND- get this- she's still working on the street, most mornings and nights alone. THAT takes commitment.
Members of the same sex don't have a slot B, only a slot C, and sticking tab A into slot C is a damn good way to die young, now that we know about germs and stuff.
In my first grade straw poll, I wanted to vote for Ford- because that was the name on my toy tractor. That pinpoints me EXACTLY.
September 2008 proved to me that anarcho-Captialism not only doesn't work, but that when you remove all effective regulation from any given market people go ape-shit crazy.
And worse yet, when you limit government to being small, it doesn't have enough force left to prevent EITHER force or fraud.
It's hard to buy tanks based on bake sales.
Hell, even WITH pricing signals, supply and demand is impossible to calculate, because price isn't anywhere close to enough information.
I'm all for getting rid of limited liability. It bugs the heck out of me that right now, liberty seems to be more about "I want to do what I want and I don't want anybody to tell me that it is wrong" than "I want to do what is right and get the government out of my way".
It is, in fact, what leans my distributism more towards technocratic marxism than to libertarianism. Because a bunch of people being allowed, by privilege of owning a lot, to do whatever the hell they want without consequences is a bad thing indeed- despite the existence of other groups with the same amount of money doing good.
Truly polite viruses and malware pop up a message box on install that says "I am a virus. My intent is to do X. Are you sure you want to Install? Type YeS (with that capitalization) to continue, anything else to cancel."
KOH virus, used in several industries to encrypt hard drives across a network. Or at least was back in the 1990s. It was very polite- asked by drive letter if you wanted it to migrate, asked you for each boot volume for a 256 byte private key and a pass phrase. It was NOT just "Click OK to install" either- you needed to type YeS, with both capitals, to go, at least in the version my company sold as "CasinoCrypt" to casinos in British Columbia (based on a gaming commission requirement). It would even migrate to floppies, again asking first, effectively locking that floppy into use on that computer.
"Also, a virus by definition installs software on a machine without the owner's consent."
I disagree with that definition. KOH is an example of a good virus that asked *before* it installed.
Would be the answer. A polite virus doesn't migrate automagically- it *asks* before it migrates.
So automation counts for nothing in efficiency?
No, you live in TORONTO- which is too cold for the Hindu Immigrants to attack en mass.
Recession proof? Where have you been? Out of my 16 years in software engineering, I've spent 4 years unemployed due to recessions (a few months here, a few months there, really add up).
" no compelling demonstration of capabilities for anything even remotely resembling the richness and structure of human language has occurred. That the best Nim Chimpsky could do was "Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you.". If that is language, then I'm a monkey's uncle."
I have a tendency to agree- but sadly, that makes my original point MORE valid- because this is the level of independent language achieved by a human autistic with an Ipad.
They're able to dig sand cheaper?
Are you saying that this data proves that chimpanzees and humans do not have a common ancestor?
I was talking more about the anthropoligical effects of not being able to speak. And that it's rather arrogant to say that the great apes and the homo species do not have quite a bit in common.
I have no idea what you think your point is. Possibly because your IQ of 500 is so much greater than my mere 156.
"What in modern physics (I assume you refer to the Big Bang theory?) describes gravity as "making decisions"?"
Nothing in modern physics- which is why I say Stephen Hawking has moved beyond physics and into philosophy.
"I mean, you could possibly interpret it that way, but it would be as meaningful as saying that things fall down "because gravity decides so"."
Yep. In other words, a philosophic explanation for the anthropic constants being what they are is because "Gravity made them so" is philosophically equivalent to "God made them so". It doesn't remove the need for a personality designing and creating those constants; it merely reassigns that personality from God to Gravity.
And that's why I say Stephen Hawking is a bad philosopher, no matter how brilliant his physics are.
Oh, and I can binary finger AND thumb count to one thousand twenty three. Why do you stop at one hundred thirty two instead of two hundred fifty five? That's only 10000100!
Actually, I'm autistic myself, high functioning. But I'd say all homo sapiens are little more than apes- about 4% of our DNA is different. Part of that 4% is the power of verbal coherent speech, so yes, low functioning autistics are a bit closer to apes than the rest of humanity, in that neither apes nor low functioning autistics have verbal speech ability.
Much has been proven that apes are a LOT closer to us than some people would like to believe.
When you turn Gravity into a creative force that makes decisions, that implies a personality.
Depends on how bad the design was to begin with.
I know a young autistic man- age 22- 3 verbal words in his vocabulary- who uses a PICS-to-Speech synthesizer program on his IPAD to communicate. I don't have any video of him however. I will try to remember, next time I see him, to take some on my phone and upload to Youtube for the next time this debate comes up.
He's like my special needs son- "facilitating" him on his pad would be impossible, unless all you want him to click is "no dad". Heck, at 22, he's larger and more muscular than his father- getting him to do ANYTHING he doesn't want to do is next to impossible.
TYPING, on the other hand, I largely agree with you. PICS to speech is easy, especially for those who have already been using the cardboard version of PICS in school - tap on the little picture and it says a word. Tap on the lunch folder, then the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, then the glass of milk, and the computer says "Lunch SandwichPBJ Milk". Makes for awfully choppy sentences, usually full of nouns with few verbs. My special needs son, when he types, what he types has even less meaning in English than what he says.
It's not much good beyond "what do you want for lunch?" type questions. And it's NOT going to "unlock hidden creativity".
Wouldn't even need much of a spark. Water WANTS to be water.