obviously they had a different understanding. one argument for their perspective is that it emphasizes our connection to the rest of the non-human world, how we are like animals. (for example, if children are not born human, does that make it okay to abort them? why? i know vegans who would say that it doesn't...)
the point isn't to fight it out (your perspective has obviously won in the US, hands down), but to consider what the different ways of looking at things have to offer us.
soviet psychologists (not remembering specific names now, sorry) argued that babies were not born human, but became human through socialization/growing up.
i always thought that perspective would have an interesting impact on abortion discussions.
jeez dude, way to intimidate people. who's going to feel up to your sarcasm after that?
(this is nice: Neither will commenters fall to the common fallacy of "recentism", believing that a recent event must necessarily be the worst such case of an event in the history of mankind; instead recognizing that the internet can simply deluge us with an increasingly unprecedented level of information about any person or group which may pique our interest, allowing a wide range of ever more specific issues and minutia to be amplified to levels never witnessed in the past.)
my favorite sentence from TFA:
"Rove said the first thing he plans to do after leaving the White House is "go dove hunting..."
i read the article and while i find sweeney believable (and refreshing), there are too many examples of new tech being used directly counter to the intent of its originators, when it suits the aims of the people running things.
how long will it take for identity angel to be used to gather information in exactly the way that she is trying to prevent?
(tin foil hats! getcher tin foil hats right here!)
from the USA today piece, the thing that strikes me is that there's all these choices but none of them mean much - with 80 different pain killers, at some point it becomes about packaging.
which means that some of us spend a lot of time figuring out what is meaningful difference and what isn't.
why does this make me think of the 2 party system?
the thing that struck me (especially because of getting referred to the article from/. home of the righteously security-conscious) was the whole different concept of privacy, and who knows your business - cause they're talking about scanning in your correspondance...
but then they're also talking about a person reading letters to the whole town...
"The FCC should watch and make sure the things we are doing voluntarily actually happen," said Tom Evslin, chairman of ITXC Corp., part of a new lobbying group opposing regulation of Internet phone services. "We do not believe it's necessary for the FCC to regulate in this area. I believe without regulation, we will be effective, and the result will be much better emergency services."
that some Ford, etc. systems use the same frequency as the military, so if it were a military cause, than perhaps only those keyless systems would be affected?
"We've got a jammer in the inventory, but I don't think we've got any out here, let alone flying," he said.
Even if electronic warfare aircraft were flying, they operate at much different frequencies than commercial devices, such as garage-door openers and remote keyless entry systems, Estrada explained.
"The military is certainly capable of fibbing about these things," Pike said. "But, for the military to have done it, they would have to have seriously miscalculated the effects of some test."
i think the parents argument is fine as far as it goes. yes, parents are a significant part of raising children (duh).
but there are two things that people who are making this argument don't address:
a) parents aren't exactly supported in this culture. most of the two parent families i know have both parents working, and the kids in daycare for a significant part of the time (cause the kids are young); and when the kids get older?
b) related to the above point - kids have LOTS of influences, not just parents, and it seems overly simple to just replace "games" with "parents" as the bad guys.
i was having this discussion yesterday about why HL is so good, and aside from all the more obvious reasons (great graphics, variety of puzzles, pacing changes, good story,etc) i was thinking that one of the reasons it's so cool is that the game play requires the kind of attitude that the character would need to have in order to survive. so there's a conherency between the player and the character that i haven't seen in any other game.
CS rules, and i've been known to get multiple headshots per game.
games don't replace conversation, but they are/can be a definite fun time, and if this couple is looking to connect, there're various ways of connecting that don't have to focus on heart-to-heart (which i agree wouldn't work out in an FPS).
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obviously they had a different understanding.
one argument for their perspective is that it emphasizes our connection to the rest of the non-human world, how we are like animals. (for example, if children are not born human, does that make it okay to abort them? why? i know vegans who would say that it doesn't...)
the point isn't to fight it out (your perspective has obviously won in the US, hands down), but to consider what the different ways of looking at things have to offer us.
i always thought that perspective would have an interesting impact on abortion discussions.
at least until ALF got involved :)
years ago it was rock music that was making kids crazy.
what'll those crazy demagogues come up with next...
jeez dude, way to intimidate people. who's going to feel up to your sarcasm after that?
(this is nice: Neither will commenters fall to the common fallacy of "recentism", believing that a recent event must necessarily be the worst such case of an event in the history of mankind; instead recognizing that the internet can simply deluge us with an increasingly unprecedented level of information about any person or group which may pique our interest, allowing a wide range of ever more specific issues and minutia to be amplified to levels never witnessed in the past.)
my favorite sentence from TFA: "Rove said the first thing he plans to do after leaving the White House is "go dove hunting..."
i read the article and while i find sweeney believable (and refreshing), there are too many examples of new tech being used directly counter to the intent of its originators, when it suits the aims of the people running things.
how long will it take for identity angel to be used to gather information in exactly the way that she is trying to prevent?
(tin foil hats! getcher tin foil hats right here!)
your sig begs the response - Atheists don't fly planes into buildings in the name of God. They do it in the name of Nietsche...
corruption and technology = completely incompatible. just look at the u.s.
just call me cynical.
which means that some of us spend a lot of time figuring out what is meaningful difference and what isn't.
why does this make me think of the 2 party system?
your sig made me laugh harder than i've laughed for a while. thanks.
WHO corrects everyone's grammer...
but then they're also talking about a person reading letters to the whole town...
a totally different paradigm.
does this mean that people will now own opinions?
moderating overgeneralizations 'interesting' is ridiculous.
"The FCC should watch and make sure the things we are doing voluntarily actually happen," said Tom Evslin, chairman of ITXC Corp., part of a new lobbying group opposing regulation of Internet phone services. "We do not believe it's necessary for the FCC to regulate in this area. I believe without regulation, we will be effective, and the result will be much better emergency services."
that some Ford, etc. systems use the same frequency as the military, so if it were a military cause, than perhaps only those keyless systems would be affected?
"The military is certainly capable of fibbing about these things," Pike said. "But, for the military to have done it, they would have to have seriously miscalculated the effects of some test."
oh no.
http://howtoons.net/
if it's your wife using your card - then she'd know your preferences too...
happened because people who had the first two names before they did; they got sued over phoenix.
but there are two things that people who are making this argument don't address:
a) parents aren't exactly supported in this culture. most of the two parent families i know have both parents working, and the kids in daycare for a significant part of the time (cause the kids are young); and when the kids get older?
b) related to the above point - kids have LOTS of influences, not just parents, and it seems overly simple to just replace "games" with "parents" as the bad guys.
i was having this discussion yesterday about why HL is so good, and aside from all the more obvious reasons (great graphics, variety of puzzles, pacing changes, good story,etc) i was thinking that one of the reasons it's so cool is that the game play requires the kind of attitude that the character would need to have in order to survive. so there's a conherency between the player and the character that i haven't seen in any other game.
CS rules, and i've been known to get multiple headshots per game. games don't replace conversation, but they are/can be a definite fun time, and if this couple is looking to connect, there're various ways of connecting that don't have to focus on heart-to-heart (which i agree wouldn't work out in an FPS).
Perhaps you were thinking of the law, which is supposed to be "not selective" (although it is, of course).
by combining rationales they save all that money they spent on previous propaganda...