hmm. so because you don't like the show, it should be canceled.
WRONG! You don't like it, you can go stuff your head in the sand. Just because you object to something, doesn't mean you have any right to try and remove it.
NSA is for fighting terrorism that the CIA and the US Army are responsible for generating. Just think, if we would have kept our hands out of the middle east, they wouldn't have a reason to hate us.
So who cares if they have oil, and won't let us have it cheap. What a great reason to find alternative forms of fuel!!
the reason they will never look at piracy as competition, is the reason they try to put their competition out of business. good capitalistic system, all companies naturally try to be monopolies, so they can make the most $$$.
any group of humans seems to be rather stupid. individually, people can seem brilliant, but lump them in a group, and tada, groupmind mentality takes over and they all act stupid.
what's to prevent the people who choose the ratings to be overly "influenced" by the "moral Majority"? if you look at the MPAA right now, the religious right controls a big chunk of that.
if parents are not willing to put the time into things themselves, to ensure that something questionable passes THEIR standards, then they shouldn't have kids. Too many people use ratings as the Final Definitive Word (tm) in things, and don't bother to look into it further. This is where ratings effectively = censorship.
Yes ratings can be a good thing. Look at slashdot's ratings aka moderation. it seems to work fairly well. it's when ratings are misused that problems come into play. it's hard for ratings to be misused if there are a huge pool of moderators/raters.
one of the tricky things that m$ is proposing here is the "free" use of it's software. or almost free. "because it's so easy to use, you won't need all those students running it, blah blah."
if this succedes, i can see how M$ would love that. "ok, no more free. it'll be $X this year" and the U's won't have a choice, because no one will know anything but M$.
That's because those that go against their own faith are labeled as heretics, etc. How the faith deals with them can be at times very Not Nice (TM)
>Humans are by nature a very brutal species-- religions are important institutions which can ameliorate this brutishness
true. humans are brutal. however, education is far better at making people play nice than forcing them to because their "god" told them too. Education lets them see that there are better ways to do things (they choose their path), whereas religion forces you along it's "chosen" path.
Plus, (and this applies mainly to the catholic religion) many religions make one of their founding points "humans are evil, you are evil" not a good thing for self esteem..
How likely is that? out of the 300 billion stars or so, (give or take a few billion) that our planet would be the only one? Come on... i'm not blaming you for this view, cause many people have it.. our society has it. It goes back to my point about religious arrogance.
face it people, we aren't the best, the smartest, etc. we are *nothing* compared to the universe. this is why people like the arrogance view better.. it suits their self esteem more.
People aren't being naive.. it's called arrogance. Specificly religious arrogance. The major religions have always tried to teach: 1) We are created like god(ess) therefor humans are unique 2) The universe revolves around us. We are the reason for the universe existing. 3) more that i can't think of...
At any rate, it is no suprise to me that the majority of people think of our planet as the only one to support life in the universe. and that WE are the definition of life. We meaning lifetypes here on earth. Carbon based and all that. Even science has been limited by religion, limiting our search for ETs and space exploration in general.
I always thought when i was a kid that there were millions of planets. of course most of what i read as a child was Sci-Fi, but when i started taking science classes and reading actual science litature, i relized how far we had to go yet.
i don't lump all christians as fundamentalists... Until i talk to someone, i try not to judge them. i have friends that are pagan, some are christian, etc.. I don't really care.
i have noticed that the catholic religion as a whole seems to be aimed at the destruction of all other forms of thought though.....
In all the Y2K hype/babble, I've never been worried about computer systems or whatnot failing. My main concern has always been what stupid people will do. (riot, bank crash, stock market fails, etc).
For those that have been preparing for armagenon (sp) and when it doesn't happen (sorry, potential power failure doens't = end of world) I fear they might try and bring it about themselves, via rioting and stuff.
My delima (sp is awful) is wether to prepare for people being stupid, (ie buy food rations and such to prepare for weeks of people being stupid) or just trust in the goodness of human nature.... on second thought....
But seriously, to prepare for the stupidity of others would only add fuel to the fire... so your screwed either way.
maybe it's time to put some people there that will listen. one's that don't get paid. of course we'd just have to change the system for that to work....... >;)
>But what counts as a 'stupid genetic problem'? >Anything that isn't the result of your >enviroment? Who gets to decide if something is a >problem?
I would say that you do for yourself. the point is moot however, unless we can figure out a way to keep the brain from decaying, there's no point in doing a brain transfer.
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hmm. i think the Darwin Awards are pretty funny.
hmm. so because you don't like the show, it should be canceled.
WRONG! You don't like it, you can go stuff your head in the sand. Just because you object to something, doesn't mean you have any right to try and remove it.
grr. people like you....
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NSA is for fighting terrorism that the CIA and the US Army are responsible for generating. Just think, if we would have kept our hands out of the middle east, they wouldn't have a reason to hate us.
So who cares if they have oil, and won't let us have it cheap. What a great reason to find alternative forms of fuel!!
the reason they will never look at piracy as competition, is the reason they try to put their competition out of business. good capitalistic system, all companies naturally try to be monopolies, so they can make the most $$$.
i would rather see a movie that didn't fit into what i "expected".
different pacing and style. why is that a bad thing? must all of our movies be cookie-cutter fashioned?
another reason is that educated women realize there is more (much much more) to life than making babies.
another reason to spread education!
Two words: Power Trip!
I just get this "MUUUAHAHAHA" feeling when i think of a 1Ghz power machine.
any group of humans seems to be rather stupid. individually, people can seem brilliant, but lump them in a group, and tada, groupmind mentality takes over and they all act stupid.
what's to prevent the people who choose the ratings to be overly "influenced" by the "moral Majority"? if you look at the MPAA right now, the religious right controls a big chunk of that.
if parents are not willing to put the time into things themselves, to ensure that something questionable passes THEIR standards, then they shouldn't have kids. Too many people use ratings as the Final Definitive Word (tm) in things, and don't bother to look into it further. This is where ratings effectively = censorship.
Yes ratings can be a good thing. Look at slashdot's ratings aka moderation. it seems to work fairly well. it's when ratings are misused that problems come into play. it's hard for ratings to be misused if there are a huge pool of moderators/raters.
ideas?
one of the tricky things that m$ is proposing here is the "free" use of it's software. or almost free. "because it's so easy to use, you won't need all those students running it, blah blah."
if this succedes, i can see how M$ would love that. "ok, no more free. it'll be $X this year" and the U's won't have a choice, because no one will know anything but M$.
if it succedes...
(i prob misspelt many words.)
That's because those that go against their own faith are labeled as heretics, etc. How the faith deals with them can be at times very Not Nice (TM)
>Humans are by nature a very brutal species-- religions are important institutions which can ameliorate this brutishness
true. humans are brutal. however, education is far better at making people play nice than forcing them to because their "god" told them too. Education lets them see that there are better ways to do things (they choose their path), whereas religion forces you along it's "chosen" path.
Plus, (and this applies mainly to the catholic religion) many religions make one of their founding points "humans are evil, you are evil" not a good thing for self esteem..
How likely is that? out of the 300 billion stars or so, (give or take a few billion) that our planet would be the only one? Come on... i'm not blaming you for this view, cause many people have it.. our society has it. It goes back to my point about religious arrogance.
face it people, we aren't the best, the smartest, etc. we are *nothing* compared to the universe. this is why people like the arrogance view better.. it suits their self esteem more.
1) We are created like god(ess) therefor humans are unique 2) The universe revolves around us. We are the reason for the universe existing. 3) more that i can't think of...
At any rate, it is no suprise to me that the majority of people think of our planet as the only one to support life in the universe. and that WE are the definition of life. We meaning lifetypes here on earth. Carbon based and all that. Even science has been limited by religion, limiting our search for ETs and space exploration in general.
I always thought when i was a kid that there were millions of planets. of course most of what i read as a child was Sci-Fi, but when i started taking science classes and reading actual science litature, i relized how far we had to go yet.
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i have noticed that the catholic religion as a whole seems to be aimed at the destruction of all other forms of thought though.....
why a big screen? just override the eyes for your screen... panoramic 360D....
Pagans really don't care if you believe what they believe, as long as you leave them in peace.
For those that have been preparing for armagenon (sp) and when it doesn't happen (sorry, potential power failure doens't = end of world) I fear they might try and bring it about themselves, via rioting and stuff.
My delima (sp is awful) is wether to prepare for people being stupid, (ie buy food rations and such to prepare for weeks of people being stupid) or just trust in the goodness of human nature. ... on second thought....
But seriously, to prepare for the stupidity of others would only add fuel to the fire... so your screwed either way.
maybe it's time to put some people there that will listen. one's that don't get paid. of course we'd just have to change the system for that to work....... >;)
>But what counts as a 'stupid genetic problem'?
>Anything that isn't the result of your
>enviroment? Who gets to decide if something is a
>problem?
I would say that you do for yourself. the point is moot however, unless we can figure out a way to keep the brain from decaying, there's no point in doing a brain transfer.
why scary? sounds like a damn good idea to me. rid our race of stupid geneitic problems...
I don't think the govn't should regulate anything.
They are so fucked up themselves, how can they judge what is right and wrong for the rest of us?
i think it's might soon be time for me to move to a more open minded country. before the US prevents it!
i'd rather have that startrek thingy that just makes it out of "matter"