Definitions of god on the Web:
the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in...
deity: any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force
a man of such superior qualities that he seems like a deity to other people; "he was a god among men"
idol: a material effigy that is worshipped; "thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image"; "money was his god"
Definitions of sin on the Web:
estrangement from god
an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will
sine: ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
(Akkadian) god of the Moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna
the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet
commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
drop the ball: commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake; "I blundered during the job interview"
violent and excited activity; "they began to fight like sin"
Are you kidding? It's quite easy to show where the consciousness arises. We can amputate, transplant, bypass or resect every part of the body except the brain (and cutting out parts of that is standard procedure as well). Guess what? When you transplant a heart the recipient body doesn't wake up with the donor's consciousness inside it.
But if you use drugs to suppress certain activities of the
brain? Bye bye consciousness.
If you use drugs to supress the heart conciense also goes away:P
Get back to me when they start transplating brains.
Kurzweil answers that question himself, and for what it's worth, I think he's right. The consciousness (which I'll use synonymously with soul, like he does) is an emergent property. Nobody would say that your hippocampus is intelligent, or your Broca's area, or your cerebral cortex, let alone your heart, lungs, and spleen. But somehow the parts of your body work together to produce consciousness. Accepting that consciousness exists doesn't require you to admit that it's a physical thing like your blood (or, for that matter, an imbalance of humours, or ether).
Phrased slightly differently, "Dammit, how am I supposed to see the forest when all these trees are in the way?"
You're free not to like the premise that consciousness is an emergent phenomenon. Plenty of people don't - John Searle comes to mind. But don't pretend that scientists (even atheists) are ducking the issue just because we can't point to a cluster of cells and say, "See that? That's your soul." We can't point at a specific thing and say "look! Democracy!" either, but most of us would like to think it exists.
You may not be ducking the issue but until you can point at that cluster of cells you haven't proven the issue either.
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I was able to choose to live in a completely different surrounding in which I NEVER HAVE TO SEE THESE DIMWITS EVER AGAIN.
Yeah but he you get harassed at a job you can quit or sue. But once you join the military, you're kinda stuck there awhile with nothing much one can do about it.
Yeah...if only there were some kind of military justice system.
We all drink recycled pee - there's only so much water on this planet and, according to some estimates, most of it has been drunk eight times already. So unless they were drinking outer space water, rather than earth water, they most certainly were drinking recycled pee for the past ten years.
Our destiny is clear we must mine Haleys Comet for water.
If we're wrong and Slashdot does not try to let scornful chiselers serve as our overlords, we'll be relieved. If we're right and it does, we'll be prepared..
It's not that it's not potentially a science... it's that it's not responsibly done, almost never peer reviewed, and traditionally appears in popular science magazines instead of journals.
The lack of factual basis for current research in the field makes it not science. The agendas of the people doing it make it immoral. The two are separate issues.
No, the problem is that these behaviors are so deeply rooted that no one is willing to acknowledge them when they're pointed out. I submit that competition as a classroom motivational tool alienates girls..
Why?
Are women less competivie than men?
If so that we would mean men and women have diffrences.
If so doesn't that undermine your whole argument.
As much as I like to nash Kohn(Yes I read his book) brining him up doesn't mean anything if both men and women are equally harmed by competiton or as the case may be equally unharmed
since Kohn was an unqualified git.
Try picking subjects which your male work colleges have no interest in and talk about them constantly to see how many get bored and stop trying to talk to you, anyone left either has very dull hobbies or is just interested in your tits.
*snore* Huh..what....no I wasn't staring I just feel asleep.
Yes it would, when you're taking minor biological differences and using them as an excuse not to try and give females the same math instruction as boys.
The problem is in this case you can't point to the actions of male teachers and students that are discriminatory against women. At least not enough of it to explain the major shortfall of women.
It pays less than it used to and they weren't all that interested to begin with. I think it's a safe bet that the 10% percent that dropped were doing it for the money.
It's their product, their design... When you design something yourself then you can be the judge of it yourself how easy some people tend to rip/misuse your designs.. As I said, you may not agree with them...
Wow you picked the wrong person to pull that against. I've submitted more than one DMCA take down notice in the course of my job and I would never dream of charging the website owner and yes
I had to subit URL's for every offending picture I wanted taken down.
If they tried this junk against a website with cash in the bank i.e. Facebook or Youtube, they would have been laughed out of court. They're taking advatage of a small company's inability to defend itself.
All I'm saying is that in a situation where an infringer should be the one to do extra work to make sure they are not infringing, that it makes sense for the rights owner to bill the infringer for a comprehensive list of infringements.
Agreed but as I pointed out the site owner isn't the infringer. It was the poeple who posted the content to the site. The DMCA gives safe haven to owners of such sites as long as they do not post the content themselves.
... he was told that for them to cite specifics (in order to file proper DMCA Takedown Notices), they would invoice Desktop Nexus for their labor."
My first reaction was, "What idiot laywers, no court would award them that. Maybe they hope that the website won't spend the money to fight them." But I thought about it for a few seconds, and if the onus is on the infringer to make sure that they are not infringing, then it makes sense for them to be billed.
I'm not saying it is the responsibility of the infringer to be sure they're not infringing, but if that's the case, then it's a little easier to see where this seemingly crazy statement actually came from.
Except the site owner isn't the infringer and the DMCA makes sure they can not be treated as such.
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deity: any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force
a man of such superior qualities that he seems like a deity to other people; "he was a god among men"
idol: a material effigy that is worshipped; "thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image"; "money was his god"
Definitions of god on the Web: the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in
Definitions of sin on the Web: estrangement from god an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will sine: ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle (Akkadian) god of the Moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law drop the ball: commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake; "I blundered during the job interview" violent and excited activity; "they began to fight like sin"
Are you kidding? It's quite easy to show where the consciousness arises. We can amputate, transplant, bypass or resect every part of the body except the brain (and cutting out parts of that is standard procedure as well). Guess what? When you transplant a heart the recipient body doesn't wake up with the donor's consciousness inside it.
But if you use drugs to suppress certain activities of the brain? Bye bye consciousness.
If you use drugs to supress the heart conciense also goes away :P
Get back to me when they start transplating brains.
Kurzweil answers that question himself, and for what it's worth, I think he's right. The consciousness (which I'll use synonymously with soul, like he does) is an emergent property. Nobody would say that your hippocampus is intelligent, or your Broca's area, or your cerebral cortex, let alone your heart, lungs, and spleen. But somehow the parts of your body work together to produce consciousness. Accepting that consciousness exists doesn't require you to admit that it's a physical thing like your blood (or, for that matter, an imbalance of humours, or ether).
Phrased slightly differently, "Dammit, how am I supposed to see the forest when all these trees are in the way?"
You're free not to like the premise that consciousness is an emergent phenomenon. Plenty of people don't - John Searle comes to mind. But don't pretend that scientists (even atheists) are ducking the issue just because we can't point to a cluster of cells and say, "See that? That's your soul." We can't point at a specific thing and say "look! Democracy!" either, but most of us would like to think it exists.
You may not be ducking the issue but until you can point at that cluster of cells you haven't proven the issue either.
I was able to choose to live in a completely different surrounding in which I NEVER HAVE TO SEE THESE DIMWITS EVER AGAIN.
And to that I say: WOOT ;-)
Don't worry that's what facebook is for.
*feel asleep.
I mean fell asleep!
Darn Freudian slip.
Yeah but he you get harassed at a job you can quit or sue. But once you join the military, you're kinda stuck there awhile with nothing much one can do about it.
Yeah...if only there were some kind of military justice system.
We all drink recycled pee - there's only so much water on this planet and, according to some estimates, most of it has been drunk eight times already. So unless they were drinking outer space water, rather than earth water, they most certainly were drinking recycled pee for the past ten years.
Our destiny is clear we must mine Haleys Comet for water.
If we're wrong and Slashdot does not try to let scornful chiselers serve as our overlords, we'll be relieved. If we're right and it does, we'll be prepared..
You should put that on a T-shirt.
should I get pissed when someone calls me an American Man?
Yes if we have use the terms Asian American and African American I demmand to be called an American American.
Ask them to do a proper design or profile and optimise their code and you might as well forget it..
So basically there like every business developer I've ever met.
It's not that it's not potentially a science... it's that it's not responsibly done, almost never peer reviewed, and traditionally appears in popular science magazines instead of journals.
The lack of factual basis for current research in the field makes it not science. The agendas of the people doing it make it immoral. The two are separate issues.
And yet you can teach it in public schools.....
only stepping stones on the path to more money.
No, the problem is that these behaviors are so deeply rooted that no one is willing to acknowledge them when they're pointed out. I submit that competition as a classroom motivational tool alienates girls. .
Why? Are women less competivie than men? If so that we would mean men and women have diffrences. If so doesn't that undermine your whole argument. As much as I like to nash Kohn(Yes I read his book) brining him up doesn't mean anything if both men and women are equally harmed by competiton or as the case may be equally unharmed since Kohn was an unqualified git.
Try giving your little girl a toy gun. She'll put it to bed and tuck it in and give it a kiss good night.
Little creepy.
Try picking subjects which your male work colleges have no interest in and talk about them constantly to see how many get bored and stop trying to talk to you, anyone left either has very dull hobbies or is just interested in your tits.
*snore* Huh..what....no I wasn't staring I just feel asleep.
>While we're Blue Skying, I'd also like to call for wider adoption of deodorant in the CS field.
Would you accept a friendly amendment to you motion to call for wider adoption of regular bathing and clothes laundering?
Ok but I'm not going to iron my shirt.
If women make up 10% of CS classes I would consider that a signifcant difference.
The same goes for the lack of men in female dominated careers.
Yes it would, when you're taking minor biological differences and using them as an excuse not to try and give females the same math instruction as boys.
The problem is in this case you can't point to the actions of male teachers and students that are discriminatory against women. At least not enough of it to explain the major shortfall of women.
It pays less than it used to and they weren't all that interested to begin with. I think it's a safe bet that the 10% percent that dropped were doing it for the money.
Oh, now I made a grammatical error. That must mean I'm a complete idiot!
Yup....
It's their product, their design... When you design something yourself then you can be the judge of it yourself how easy some people tend to rip/misuse your designs.. As I said, you may not agree with them...
Wow you picked the wrong person to pull that against. I've submitted more than one DMCA take down notice in the course of my job and I would never dream of charging the website owner and yes I had to subit URL's for every offending picture I wanted taken down.
If they tried this junk against a website with cash in the bank i.e. Facebook or Youtube, they would have been laughed out of court. They're taking advatage of a small company's inability to defend itself.
I don't think I'm God because as opposed to God I'm relatively sure I exist.
but can you prove it.....
All I'm saying is that in a situation where an infringer should be the one to do extra work to make sure they are not infringing, that it makes sense for the rights owner to bill the infringer for a comprehensive list of infringements.
Agreed but as I pointed out the site owner isn't the infringer. It was the poeple who posted the content to the site. The DMCA gives safe haven to owners of such sites as long as they do not post the content themselves.
You may not agree with Toyota, but they are fully in their right to demand it..
How exactly?
This seems like a blatent end run around the DMCA.
... he was told that for them to cite specifics (in order to file proper DMCA Takedown Notices), they would invoice Desktop Nexus for their labor."
My first reaction was, "What idiot laywers, no court would award them that. Maybe they hope that the website won't spend the money to fight them." But I thought about it for a few seconds, and if the onus is on the infringer to make sure that they are not infringing, then it makes sense for them to be billed. I'm not saying it is the responsibility of the infringer to be sure they're not infringing, but if that's the case, then it's a little easier to see where this seemingly crazy statement actually came from.
Except the site owner isn't the infringer and the DMCA makes sure they can not be treated as such.