Re:Best examples of heresy I can think of
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You honestly couldn't see my sarcasm?
Daniel Ehrenberg
Re:Best examples of heresy I can think of
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I agree completely. Here are some more things that I shouldn't say, but I will anyway.
Democracy is ruining America. We can't have unintelligent people running everything. If we have a small minority running the country, we could, as described in the beginning Ayn Rand's Anthem, take a small minority off to training to become a Leader.
Israel is just an excuse for genocide. They have already killed over 3 billion Arabs, but they have destroyed all evidence.
Civil "rights" don't help anyone. Just look back to before civil rights: everyone had their own personal slave to do whatever they wanted and we didn't have those pesky women, blacks, catholics, and jews taking our jobs.
We should take this with a grain of salt; this is the Washington Times we're dealing with. They have a history of making up news stories. I wouldn't trust them.
I admit, that sounds pretty bad. But just think of what the purposes and principles of the UN are. They're not to rule the world while imprisoning any dissidents; they're for peace and international soveriegnty. In order to have peace and international soveriegnty, we can't have one country controlling the Internet. Unless you're conspiring on the Internet to nuke every capital city in the world, I doubt the UN would do anything about it. Even then, they probably wouldn't catch it. In the United States, things aren't perfect either. It's illegal to threaten violence, and don't even get me started on the Patriot act.
No. I don't like SuSE. They don't allow for full ISO downloads. Morphix is a lot better. All you do is put the CD in, it boots Linux, then you press install, all within a modern, non-ncurses GUI. You can test it before, unlike with SuSE, or even use Morphix completely off the CD, with full functionality, if you are feeling indecicive.
They don't need to mess around with quantum encryption for too long. It's easy to get around. Quantum encryption is completely susceptible to an MITM attack.
How do you explain the cross that appeared when everyone was exploding with light in the end? And how do you explain how, in the very end, they were talking about how he can come again? It's obviously Christian.
If programmed correctly, computer ballots are much more accurate than hand-counted paper ballots. I'm still partial to the mechanical voting machines we use in New York State, though.
Well, if they're not using Windows or Mac, it's for the price. So they'd need a free one. That leaves *BSD and Linux. Linux much easier to set up for non-techies, it comes preloaded on some machines, and it is infinitely more prevalent in the private sector. Although they *could* be using Cygwin and GNOME/KDE/something else, why wouldn't they just use IE and the regular GUI?
Go away. You're not a hacker, you're a cracker (unless you're just joking, but it's still cracking)! You're what gives Linux people bad reputations and makes it so that everyone thinks hackers are people who break into your computer and steal people's credit card numbers.
Well, this can always be solved by some DRM. And then when the DRM fails, all we need to do is invoke then DMCA. That's the key to open-source: proprietary DRM and invoking unfair laws.
The Veteran's Administration is a government-run organization. It has tons of money to switch over to EMR. It's completely different in the private sector.
That's a bad analogy. We aren't pulled over for speeding on the internet. It's completely different. Plus, driving badly is dangerous to others (their lives, not just a hunk of silicon). And it would be terrible if they could track what each smartcard did. The interet should be our retreat to anarchy, not heavily controled like everything else is.
I agree with most of that, except NS3 mail and Thunderbird are completely different. Thunderbird was a rewrite of Mozilla's Mail component, which was a rewrite of Netscape's mail client. Thunderbird uses a programming lanugage that wasn't even around until Mozilla was created.
Acutally, 18,000 is 6.4% of 280,000. This is probably what he was getting at, but I'm not sure what he meant by 1%. You divided 280,000 by 18,000, and found that 280,000 is 15.6 of 18,000. But you should have divided 18,000 by 280,000. If you want to question the 1%, fine. But don't forget arithmetic.
There already is an open-source EMR (gnumed.org), but no doctors are using them, because the switchover is just too hard. My dad's a doctor, and he was promiced a free EMR, just pay for the hardware. In fact, it was the FIRST EMR ever made, but he would have to hire extra people to load the rooms of files he had into the computer. It was just too hard.
Well, I'm just playing devil's advocate, but users do need to be encouraged to download it.
But I personally still don't like how they call them service packs either, because it's just a cumulative bug fix, not anything new.sigs are stupid
That's a great idea, but that'd be conseding to Open Source, which is not A Good Think (tm) for Microsoft, after calling Linux a cancer and a virus. And what if SCO sued them? I bet SCO is gonna sue BSD and Mac, too.
Also, Mac's market share hasn't increaced since OS X. It's just hanging on to 10%. I think Mac will have that same market share forever. And although OS X is good, Red Hat is better.
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It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
You're such a Physicalist. You don't believe that anything human can act like a human, but that's utterly inaccurate. Just because machines don't ahve the same internal process doesn't mean that they can't "think". Only their external function matters, and that's what really determines whether it actually thinks or not. If we have no way of seeing what the internal process actually is, no way of really telling if it is actually thinking or just faking it, why should it matter? What's the difference between thinking and faking thinking?
Here's a thought experiment. Let's say 500 neurons died on a 40-year-old woman in a car crash (she is still alive; she can still think, just not as well; the number doesn't really matter, don't debate it), and she wants to go under experimental surgery to replace them. These neurons come with batteries stored in an external poutch. The neurons are replaced by electronic devices that work exactly the same. The woman still thinks. Gradually, all of her neurons are replaced by the electronic devices. When she dies, she doesn't become braindead as most people because her brain still has electricity to work. She is startled that she can still think, and the doctors eventually realise that she can think. They take her completely electronic, thinking brain and attatch it to a comuter, which simulates her being attached to a body. She knows she is in a computer simulation, but she still communicates to the outside world through the proxy of the computer. Essentially, it is a computer, her brain, that is thinking. Her brain is extended to provide capabilities such as shutting down ans starting up. When she restarts, the doctors-turned-computer-scientists find, she forgets things. Usually, these are in short term memory. With the woman's consent, the computer scientists turn off her brain until all memory is lost. When they turn it back on, she is a baby again. It turns out there was no need to have any kind of jump-start with first being a human, because her brain is the same as any human's (assuming not many brain cells grow after birth).
Although this is impractical, it does provide a counter-example to your argument. ---- "Woman" is now politically incorrect, in favor of "Female-Americans".
I learn tons of stuff from just browsing around wikipedia.org. They're a good site, just check the facts if they seem dubious. If it's wrong, change it! It's a wiki. Maybe it's not the *best* educational resource, but I think it's good enough! It has excelent math/science articles in particular, as well as the best today-in-history articles I've found on or off the web.
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You honestly couldn't see my sarcasm?
Daniel Ehrenberg
I agree completely. Here are some more things that I shouldn't say, but I will anyway.
Democracy is ruining America. We can't have unintelligent people running everything. If we have a small minority running the country, we could, as described in the beginning Ayn Rand's Anthem, take a small minority off to training to become a Leader.
Israel is just an excuse for genocide. They have already killed over 3 billion Arabs, but they have destroyed all evidence.
Civil "rights" don't help anyone. Just look back to before civil rights: everyone had their own personal slave to do whatever they wanted and we didn't have those pesky women, blacks, catholics, and jews taking our jobs.
Daniel Ehrenberg
We should take this with a grain of salt; this is the Washington Times we're dealing with. They have a history of making up news stories. I wouldn't trust them.
I admit, that sounds pretty bad. But just think of what the purposes and principles of the UN are. They're not to rule the world while imprisoning any dissidents; they're for peace and international soveriegnty. In order to have peace and international soveriegnty, we can't have one country controlling the Internet. Unless you're conspiring on the Internet to nuke every capital city in the world, I doubt the UN would do anything about it. Even then, they probably wouldn't catch it. In the United States, things aren't perfect either. It's illegal to threaten violence, and don't even get me started on the Patriot act.
Daniel Ehrenberg
What's wrong with this? The UN will follow the UNDHR for sure. Why would they censor it? It's much better the UN than the US
Daniel Ehrenberg
I don't think I'm the only person thinking this: what if SCO planted their code in Linux? Maybe they were planning this all along.
No. I don't like SuSE. They don't allow for full ISO downloads. Morphix is a lot better. All you do is put the CD in, it boots Linux, then you press install, all within a modern, non-ncurses GUI. You can test it before, unlike with SuSE, or even use Morphix completely off the CD, with full functionality, if you are feeling indecicive.
They don't need to mess around with quantum encryption for too long. It's easy to get around. Quantum encryption is completely susceptible to an MITM attack.
How do you explain the cross that appeared when everyone was exploding with light in the end? And how do you explain how, in the very end, they were talking about how he can come again? It's obviously Christian.
If programmed correctly, computer ballots are much more accurate than hand-counted paper ballots. I'm still partial to the mechanical voting machines we use in New York State, though.
It's open source, but it's not GPL and was developed with a traditional, proprietary model, not the community model.
I don't think you understand. The computers, if talking to a linux person, run Windows or something like that.
Well, if they're not using Windows or Mac, it's for the price. So they'd need a free one. That leaves *BSD and Linux. Linux much easier to set up for non-techies, it comes preloaded on some machines, and it is infinitely more prevalent in the private sector. Although they *could* be using Cygwin and GNOME/KDE/something else, why wouldn't they just use IE and the regular GUI?
Go away. You're not a hacker, you're a cracker (unless you're just joking, but it's still cracking)! You're what gives Linux people bad reputations and makes it so that everyone thinks hackers are people who break into your computer and steal people's credit card numbers.
Well, this can always be solved by some DRM. And then when the DRM fails, all we need to do is invoke then DMCA. That's the key to open-source: proprietary DRM and invoking unfair laws.
The Veteran's Administration is a government-run organization. It has tons of money to switch over to EMR. It's completely different in the private sector.
That's a bad analogy. We aren't pulled over for speeding on the internet. It's completely different. Plus, driving badly is dangerous to others (their lives, not just a hunk of silicon). And it would be terrible if they could track what each smartcard did. The interet should be our retreat to anarchy, not heavily controled like everything else is.
I agree with most of that, except NS3 mail and Thunderbird are completely different. Thunderbird was a rewrite of Mozilla's Mail component, which was a rewrite of Netscape's mail client. Thunderbird uses a programming lanugage that wasn't even around until Mozilla was created.
Acutally, 18,000 is 6.4% of 280,000. This is probably what he was getting at, but I'm not sure what he meant by 1%. You divided 280,000 by 18,000, and found that 280,000 is 15.6 of 18,000. But you should have divided 18,000 by 280,000. If you want to question the 1%, fine. But don't forget arithmetic.
There already is an open-source EMR (gnumed.org), but no doctors are using them, because the switchover is just too hard. My dad's a doctor, and he was promiced a free EMR, just pay for the hardware. In fact, it was the FIRST EMR ever made, but he would have to hire extra people to load the rooms of files he had into the computer. It was just too hard.
Well, I'm just playing devil's advocate, but users do need to be encouraged to download it. But I personally still don't like how they call them service packs either, because it's just a cumulative bug fix, not anything new .sigs are stupid
That's a great idea, but that'd be conseding to Open Source, which is not A Good Think (tm) for Microsoft, after calling Linux a cancer and a virus. And what if SCO sued them? I bet SCO is gonna sue BSD and Mac, too. Also, Mac's market share hasn't increaced since OS X. It's just hanging on to 10%. I think Mac will have that same market share forever. And although OS X is good, Red Hat is better. ---- It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
You're such a Physicalist. You don't believe that anything human can act like a human, but that's utterly inaccurate. Just because machines don't ahve the same internal process doesn't mean that they can't "think". Only their external function matters, and that's what really determines whether it actually thinks or not. If we have no way of seeing what the internal process actually is, no way of really telling if it is actually thinking or just faking it, why should it matter? What's the difference between thinking and faking thinking?
Here's a thought experiment. Let's say 500 neurons died on a 40-year-old woman in a car crash (she is still alive; she can still think, just not as well; the number doesn't really matter, don't debate it), and she wants to go under experimental surgery to replace them. These neurons come with batteries stored in an external poutch. The neurons are replaced by electronic devices that work exactly the same. The woman still thinks. Gradually, all of her neurons are replaced by the electronic devices. When she dies, she doesn't become braindead as most people because her brain still has electricity to work. She is startled that she can still think, and the doctors eventually realise that she can think. They take her completely electronic, thinking brain and attatch it to a comuter, which simulates her being attached to a body. She knows she is in a computer simulation, but she still communicates to the outside world through the proxy of the computer. Essentially, it is a computer, her brain, that is thinking. Her brain is extended to provide capabilities such as shutting down ans starting up. When she restarts, the doctors-turned-computer-scientists find, she forgets things. Usually, these are in short term memory. With the woman's consent, the computer scientists turn off her brain until all memory is lost. When they turn it back on, she is a baby again. It turns out there was no need to have any kind of jump-start with first being a human, because her brain is the same as any human's (assuming not many brain cells grow after birth).
Although this is impractical, it does provide a counter-example to your argument.
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"Woman" is now politically incorrect, in favor of "Female-Americans".
What did microsoft do for email and the web?
I learn tons of stuff from just browsing around wikipedia.org. They're a good site, just check the facts if they seem dubious. If it's wrong, change it! It's a wiki. Maybe it's not the *best* educational resource, but I think it's good enough! It has excelent math/science articles in particular, as well as the best today-in-history articles I've found on or off the web.