Driving without a seatbelt is not morally wrong if you're doing it on your own private island.
Causing other people to take time out of their lives to scrape you off the asphalt and sew you back together, all while having my taxes and/or health insurance premiums pay for it _is_ morally wrong. Stopping traffic for hours while you're being scraped off the asphalt is morally wrong. Seatbelts, as much as they are for your benefit, are also for the benefit of everyone else.
We have to understand the fact that the choices we make as individuals affect our society as a whole. That means that society bears the partial burden of caring for embryos with genetic defects.
It is in society's (and, therefore, in all our our) best interests that an embryo eventually contributes to society rather than use its resources and, therefore, it has to be as free of genetic abnormalities as possible. Thus, whenever possible, an embryo should be subject to the most complete battery of genetic disease tests possible.
If it has self-awareness, it's human. If it doesn't, it's not. I think the distinction is pretty simple, most of us gain our humanity before the age of 2-3 or so.
I think that's a chance we have to take. The human race, in general, is not sustainable in its current state. I'd rather take proactive measures to change our fate and risk engineering ourselves out of existence than rush headlong into blowing ourselves up through war, starving ourselves through overpopulation, or freezing ourselves to death as we run out of fossil fuels.
The disadvantages of the iPod:
- non-replaceable batteries
Actually, even the cheapest tape and CD players (and even record players!) have one important advantage over the iPod:
When the tracks on the album run together, with no pause between tracks, they get played with no pause between tracks.
As anyone who likes Pink Floyd, classical music, or even techno can tell you, the half-second pause while the iPod:
1) Plays the last frame of the mp3 file, which, on average, is only half-filled with music
2) Buffers the next track
is quite jarring.
Yes, I know about gapless Ogg or FLAC encoding - but the iPod doesn't support them without aftermarket modification.
Yes, you can rip CD's in a gapless format in the new iTunes for the latest iPod - but you can't do that with mp3's you already have, and you can't do it on any hardware but the latest generation - whereas a CD player from the 1980's supports gapless natively.
The overuse of wide high-contrast bevels is a problem
I'm sorry, I just can't take that remark seriously. I make software to operate on images. I'm not selling bevels, or looks. I'm selling functionality. If you want to do some serious image manipulation, I have something to offer, and I can make a case for that very well. If you want great artwork, I would simply suggest that it is not appropriate to buy a hammer based on how well the handle is engraved. What you want to know is how well it hammers things. Decoration is irrelevant to serious tool users.
I don't think the grandparent is talking about the quality of the engraving. To extend the grandparent's point to your analogy, in order to hammer well, the hammer has to have its center of gravity near or within the head. Therefore, the handle has to be strong enough to support the hammerhead, but light enough that the hammer has the proper balance, rotational inertia, etc to let the hammerhead fall on the nail (as opposed to your hand)
The grandparent's point about your software (as a hammer) is that the handle (GUI) is too weighty / uncomfortable / distracting (too bright/contrasty/primary-colored) to impede (clash with) the hammerhead striking a nail properly (the image you're working on.)
Stupid question. If she's stepping down as a chair, but retains a seat, is she demoted to a stool? A small blanket on the ground? A chair is already fairly low on the seating totem pole - maybe if she stepped down as a recliner, she'd have more options for retaining her seating status.
I'm looking to build a terabyte+ NAS for home storage. Since I'm either at work or asleep for a good part of the day, I don't want to spin disks and use up power when I'm not around to enjoy it.
Will this solution go to sleep ( 5 watts) after 15-20 minutes of inactivity, shut down the fans, and go completely silent? And then wake up as soon as I try to retrieve data from it?
My current single-drive Tritton T-NAS box, being slowish and flaky, has a sleep mode. Buffalo Terastation has a sleep mode. Tritton ReadyNAS doesn't.
Ah yes, the early Half-Life CD's. I am under the impression the later versions of Installshield follow the "if this is not my file, I'm not touching it" philosophy.
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Driving without a seatbelt is not morally wrong if you're doing it on your own private island. Causing other people to take time out of their lives to scrape you off the asphalt and sew you back together, all while having my taxes and/or health insurance premiums pay for it _is_ morally wrong. Stopping traffic for hours while you're being scraped off the asphalt is morally wrong. Seatbelts, as much as they are for your benefit, are also for the benefit of everyone else.
Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay: http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/chroniclesofriddick One of very few movie-based games that's markedly BETTER than its movie.
Now I have time to play with myself! .
Montalban buried
Soft Corinthian leather
Lining his coffin
We have to understand the fact that the choices we make as individuals affect our society as a whole. That means that society bears the partial burden of caring for embryos with genetic defects. It is in society's (and, therefore, in all our our) best interests that an embryo eventually contributes to society rather than use its resources and, therefore, it has to be as free of genetic abnormalities as possible. Thus, whenever possible, an embryo should be subject to the most complete battery of genetic disease tests possible.
If it has self-awareness, it's human. If it doesn't, it's not. I think the distinction is pretty simple, most of us gain our humanity before the age of 2-3 or so.
I think that's a chance we have to take. The human race, in general, is not sustainable in its current state. I'd rather take proactive measures to change our fate and risk engineering ourselves out of existence than rush headlong into blowing ourselves up through war, starving ourselves through overpopulation, or freezing ourselves to death as we run out of fossil fuels.
So if they reproduce asexually, do we still have to buy them dinner?
Stupid question. If she's stepping down as a chair, but retains a seat, is she demoted to a stool? A small blanket on the ground? A chair is already fairly low on the seating totem pole - maybe if she stepped down as a recliner, she'd have more options for retaining her seating status.
I, for one, welcome our new fictitious digital overlords?
I'm looking to build a terabyte+ NAS for home storage. Since I'm either at work or asleep for a good part of the day, I don't want to spin disks and use up power when I'm not around to enjoy it.
Will this solution go to sleep ( 5 watts) after 15-20 minutes of inactivity, shut down the fans, and go completely silent? And then wake up as soon as I try to retrieve data from it?
My current single-drive Tritton T-NAS box, being slowish and flaky, has a sleep mode. Buffalo Terastation has a sleep mode. Tritton ReadyNAS doesn't.
Ah yes, the early Half-Life CD's. I am under the impression the later versions of Installshield follow the "if this is not my file, I'm not touching it" philosophy.