They've got to do it twice with two passengers on board, no? There were no passengers on this flight, right? Hence, they have yet to begin actual runs for the X Prize.
What if..? What if..? How about we do a thorough survey and jump in? Where's the exploratory spirit?! Seems to me that humanity, in general, is losing its adventurism and ambition now that the whole of our planet has been visited. Put me on a rocket to Mars. If I die of some crazy Martian disease, I'd die happier than if I died sitting in front of my computer back here on Earth!
Yeah.. We all want things, but if there's anything that Harvard education should have given ya' is an understanding that humans are a territorial, combative and violent species. I would suggest you rethink your priorities.
Personally, I feel that there will ALWAYS be a way to circumvent CD protections. So, as a relatively bright guy with extensive knowledge of computing and active in the software/CD piracy scene, I'm not gonna worry about it. Let the RIAA and MPAA feel that they are successful as people are still buying CDs and living by DRM laws. I will sit quietly here in the corner and circumvent their protections and rip their music and DVDs for my personal pleasure. I'm not even scared of hardware designed for DRM. There will always be a market for hardware that bypasses the protections and it will be available.
Basically, anything that can be built by a man, can be unbuilt by another. So no worries here.
Let's have a special law saying that one cannot deny the fact that American government was wrong in pushing the "natives" west and eventually putting them on tiny reservations where they live in squalor. Yeah.. That sounds good to me. While we're at it, let's make sure we stop people from denying that AIDS is an epidemic of biblical scale (perhaps not). The point is, where do you draw the line?
Censorship in any form at any level above the personal or familial level is unsustainable and wrong. In the case of the Germans and the Holocoust, if the German populace, as a whole, slowly forgets the Holocoust ever happened, that's their perrogative and who is the government to stop them?
Nope.. Teach it in school as a historical fact ('cause it did happen, after all), perhaps have a rememberance day.. but government should avoid pandering to specific groups or doing anything special for any group other than the whole. I mean, I'm a white, I'm male and I'm an atheist. Where's my special treatment? Granted, this law being spoken of can be expanded to any situation in which 6 million+ of any group was slaughtered, and the Jews happen to be the only current example. But that doesn't mean government should be involved with forcing people to only speak the way the government wants you to speak.
If you couldn't tell, I'm an advocate of small government. The smaller, the better..:-)
Though I agree with you on a personal level, you must admit that morality has no real definition. Morality can and will be different amongst different people. It is subjective to the culture one lives in.
The least we could do? There is, IMO, no reason that we SHOULD do or are obligated to do anything for anyone. I mean, people have been murdering others for the entirety of human history. How is forcing people to remember the Holocoust gonna change that? It won't. People will still murder others like crazy.. sometimes it will amount to mass genocide.
What if I truly want to disbelieve that the whole thing ever happened? Government agencies can pass all the laws they want, but making it illegal to say something didn't happen isn't going to convince me or anyone else that it did, in fact, happen.
The point is that government is not and should not be there to limit the freedoms of anyone. Me saying that the Holocoust didn't happen doesn't affect anyone else's freedoms. It may offend some people, but that is their problem. They choose to be offended at what I say. Therefore, it's their problem.
Sounds like a good idea! Get off your duff and make it happen!:-) Seriously, though..
This does sound like a wonderful idea. You would certainly need a way to verify that someone is an "expert." Perhaps that would be a reputation system like Slashdot karma or eBay seller ratings. That is definitely an interesting idea and I don't think it would be too difficult to create and establish. There are plenty of live chat systems out there to make use of.. Hmmm..
Are they shooting to get the whole of human knowledge down in a free textbook? How about they call it OpenTextBooks and have multiple bokos on multiple topics? And what are they shooting for as far as readability? Do they want 5th graders to pick up the math section and learn their multiplication tables or are we looking towards PhDs and such?
Parent is absolutely right. My inbox is not a public forum. As such, I have the right to keep people out of it. At the moment I have a bitchin' filter performing security duties for my inbox, but I'm sure it'd like it very much if some of the miscreants it's booting out of my inbox and into my junk email folder didn't even try to get in. Ya' know?
I don't know about you guys, but I run a bayesian filter on my inbox and I simply do not get any more spam. I have never seen it misidentify email and I am more than happy with it.
With that said, I think the federal government needs to stay out of it all together. I mean, for me, spam is such a minor issue that I'm more concerned about the funk coming from my neighbor's garbage cans! Seriously, if the federal government wants to do something useful, why not eliminate unsolicited mail in my mailbox? I can't tell you how many advertisements and mailers and coupon books I get in my standard mail. That shit pisses me off more so than spam 'cause I must actually bring it into the house and throw it away. At least I can remove spam with a simple click or a well coded filter!
Join (or attempt to join) Mensa. There are loads and loads of intelligent people here. I'm a member and, though I don't get too involved with my local chapter, I find the time I do spend with others in the organization to always be stimulating and thought provoking. And if nothing else, it's something for your resume!
My pet peeve is "decimate." We have distorted the meaning a bit and it bugs the shit out of me. We use it to speak of mass destruction, but it clearly has a very precise meaning and that is to destroy 1/10th of something. Notice how it begins with "deci-". _
1) I detest how the word decimate has come to mean the destruction of large groups. It, in fact, has a very precide meaning. It means to destroy/kill one of every ten of something. Notice how it begins with deci-.
Anyhow.. I agree with you completely. Humans, though certainly having the most impressive mind ever to inhabit this planet, are not special. In fact, we aren't even average aside from our brain. We can't smell for shit. We can't see for shit. Our sense of touch is mediocre. Good thing we have a kick-ass mind, eh?
And who says other creatres aren't self-aware? Chimps and other great apes have already shown that they can be so. We all know animals the world over are emotional. Hell, my dog gets all bummed out when I'm gone for a while. That's proof enough. My dog would also attack anyone intruding into my home or someone who was assaulting me. That may be because of the pack nature of dogs, but that's emotion. There is a bond between my dog and my family and we all know it. I guarantee others experience this, too.
I will grant that humans are far and away the most intelligent creatures to inhabit this planet. I also think it's foolish to try and get dogs to think and reason in the same fashion humans do. A dog is not going to ever be as us humans. Will they ever create civilization? No. Will they ever build bridges and other structures? No. And that's all there is to it.
A soul is arbitrary. You see, there is no magical ghost floating around inside anyone or anything. It's a nice little thing people have created for those times that they feel emotions strong enough that it "hurts." You know those humans.. always needing an explanation for EVERYTHING!!
Why put the acronym followed by the full name when the standard is the other way around? It should read Live Performance Industry Association of America (LPIAA).
Our political candidates do it and now Microsoft. Instead of busting the myths about Windows and showing the world how their product is better, their intention is go out and show how *NIX is worse. Now, I know Microsoft isn't the most ethical of companies in the world so I can't expect them to be front-runners here, but will we as a civilization ever reach that ethical ideal?
Comparing the Bush administration to Hitler is outright ludicrous. If I had mod points I'd nail you with a -1 Troll. There is no comparison betwixt GW Bush and hitler, the man who orchestrated the systematic deaths of more than 6 million Jews and millions of other "undesirables." Get off the fucking (Bush == Hitler) trip and start thinking for yourself.
If the residents of a certain locale don't like the profanity and/or indecency, they won't listen. If rhey don't listen, advertisers will soon abandon the station and the station will shutdown. The free market, that which got America where it is today, is a powerful machine capable of incredible change. Why government tries to regulate and fight against this machine, I have no freakin' idea. let the peple decide, damnit!
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They've got to do it twice with two passengers on board, no? There were no passengers on this flight, right? Hence, they have yet to begin actual runs for the X Prize.
What if..? What if..? How about we do a thorough survey and jump in? Where's the exploratory spirit?! Seems to me that humanity, in general, is losing its adventurism and ambition now that the whole of our planet has been visited. Put me on a rocket to Mars. If I die of some crazy Martian disease, I'd die happier than if I died sitting in front of my computer back here on Earth!
Yeah.. We all want things, but if there's anything that Harvard education should have given ya' is an understanding that humans are a territorial, combative and violent species. I would suggest you rethink your priorities.
Personally, I feel that there will ALWAYS be a way to circumvent CD protections. So, as a relatively bright guy with extensive knowledge of computing and active in the software/CD piracy scene, I'm not gonna worry about it. Let the RIAA and MPAA feel that they are successful as people are still buying CDs and living by DRM laws. I will sit quietly here in the corner and circumvent their protections and rip their music and DVDs for my personal pleasure. I'm not even scared of hardware designed for DRM. There will always be a market for hardware that bypasses the protections and it will be available.
Basically, anything that can be built by a man, can be unbuilt by another. So no worries here.
Let's have a special law saying that one cannot deny the fact that American government was wrong in pushing the "natives" west and eventually putting them on tiny reservations where they live in squalor. Yeah.. That sounds good to me. While we're at it, let's make sure we stop people from denying that AIDS is an epidemic of biblical scale (perhaps not). The point is, where do you draw the line?
Censorship in any form at any level above the personal or familial level is unsustainable and wrong. In the case of the Germans and the Holocoust, if the German populace, as a whole, slowly forgets the Holocoust ever happened, that's their perrogative and who is the government to stop them?
Nope.. Teach it in school as a historical fact ('cause it did happen, after all), perhaps have a rememberance day.. but government should avoid pandering to specific groups or doing anything special for any group other than the whole. I mean, I'm a white, I'm male and I'm an atheist. Where's my special treatment? Granted, this law being spoken of can be expanded to any situation in which 6 million+ of any group was slaughtered, and the Jews happen to be the only current example. But that doesn't mean government should be involved with forcing people to only speak the way the government wants you to speak.
If you couldn't tell, I'm an advocate of small government. The smaller, the better.. :-)
Though I agree with you on a personal level, you must admit that morality has no real definition. Morality can and will be different amongst different people. It is subjective to the culture one lives in.
The least we could do? There is, IMO, no reason that we SHOULD do or are obligated to do anything for anyone. I mean, people have been murdering others for the entirety of human history. How is forcing people to remember the Holocoust gonna change that? It won't. People will still murder others like crazy.. sometimes it will amount to mass genocide.
What if I truly want to disbelieve that the whole thing ever happened? Government agencies can pass all the laws they want, but making it illegal to say something didn't happen isn't going to convince me or anyone else that it did, in fact, happen.
The point is that government is not and should not be there to limit the freedoms of anyone. Me saying that the Holocoust didn't happen doesn't affect anyone else's freedoms. It may offend some people, but that is their problem. They choose to be offended at what I say. Therefore, it's their problem.
Here comes the -1: Troll!
Silly Afghans can't tell the difference between a weapon and an MRE.. See what happens when your nation is governed by religious fanatics?
Sounds like a good idea! Get off your duff and make it happen! :-) Seriously, though..
This does sound like a wonderful idea. You would certainly need a way to verify that someone is an "expert." Perhaps that would be a reputation system like Slashdot karma or eBay seller ratings. That is definitely an interesting idea and I don't think it would be too difficult to create and establish. There are plenty of live chat systems out there to make use of.. Hmmm..
Are they shooting to get the whole of human knowledge down in a free textbook? How about they call it OpenTextBooks and have multiple bokos on multiple topics? And what are they shooting for as far as readability? Do they want 5th graders to pick up the math section and learn their multiplication tables or are we looking towards PhDs and such?
Parent is absolutely right. My inbox is not a public forum. As such, I have the right to keep people out of it. At the moment I have a bitchin' filter performing security duties for my inbox, but I'm sure it'd like it very much if some of the miscreants it's booting out of my inbox and into my junk email folder didn't even try to get in. Ya' know?
I don't know about you guys, but I run a bayesian filter on my inbox and I simply do not get any more spam. I have never seen it misidentify email and I am more than happy with it.
With that said, I think the federal government needs to stay out of it all together. I mean, for me, spam is such a minor issue that I'm more concerned about the funk coming from my neighbor's garbage cans! Seriously, if the federal government wants to do something useful, why not eliminate unsolicited mail in my mailbox? I can't tell you how many advertisements and mailers and coupon books I get in my standard mail. That shit pisses me off more so than spam 'cause I must actually bring it into the house and throw it away. At least I can remove spam with a simple click or a well coded filter!
Join (or attempt to join) Mensa. There are loads and loads of intelligent people here. I'm a member and, though I don't get too involved with my local chapter, I find the time I do spend with others in the organization to always be stimulating and thought provoking. And if nothing else, it's something for your resume!
Everything is a fuckin' syndrome these days. He doesn't have a syndrome you psycho-babbling clod!
My pet peeve is "decimate." We have distorted the meaning a bit and it bugs the shit out of me. We use it to speak of mass destruction, but it clearly has a very precise meaning and that is to destroy 1/10th of something. Notice how it begins with "deci-". _
1) I detest how the word decimate has come to mean the destruction of large groups. It, in fact, has a very precide meaning. It means to destroy/kill one of every ten of something. Notice how it begins with deci-.
Anyhow.. I agree with you completely. Humans, though certainly having the most impressive mind ever to inhabit this planet, are not special. In fact, we aren't even average aside from our brain. We can't smell for shit. We can't see for shit. Our sense of touch is mediocre. Good thing we have a kick-ass mind, eh?
And who says other creatres aren't self-aware? Chimps and other great apes have already shown that they can be so. We all know animals the world over are emotional. Hell, my dog gets all bummed out when I'm gone for a while. That's proof enough. My dog would also attack anyone intruding into my home or someone who was assaulting me. That may be because of the pack nature of dogs, but that's emotion. There is a bond between my dog and my family and we all know it. I guarantee others experience this, too.
I will grant that humans are far and away the most intelligent creatures to inhabit this planet. I also think it's foolish to try and get dogs to think and reason in the same fashion humans do. A dog is not going to ever be as us humans. Will they ever create civilization? No. Will they ever build bridges and other structures? No. And that's all there is to it.
A soul is arbitrary. You see, there is no magical ghost floating around inside anyone or anything. It's a nice little thing people have created for those times that they feel emotions strong enough that it "hurts." You know those humans.. always needing an explanation for EVERYTHING!!
Why put the acronym followed by the full name when the standard is the other way around? It should read Live Performance Industry Association of America (LPIAA).
I love innovation.
Dude.. cut file size with VBR!!
Our political candidates do it and now Microsoft. Instead of busting the myths about Windows and showing the world how their product is better, their intention is go out and show how *NIX is worse. Now, I know Microsoft isn't the most ethical of companies in the world so I can't expect them to be front-runners here, but will we as a civilization ever reach that ethical ideal?
Stop the shmear campaigns!
Congrats, but is this story not about the FCC and ClearChannel?
Comparing the Bush administration to Hitler is outright ludicrous. If I had mod points I'd nail you with a -1 Troll. There is no comparison betwixt GW Bush and hitler, the man who orchestrated the systematic deaths of more than 6 million Jews and millions of other "undesirables." Get off the fucking (Bush == Hitler) trip and start thinking for yourself.
If the residents of a certain locale don't like the profanity and/or indecency, they won't listen. If rhey don't listen, advertisers will soon abandon the station and the station will shutdown. The free market, that which got America where it is today, is a powerful machine capable of incredible change. Why government tries to regulate and fight against this machine, I have no freakin' idea. let the peple decide, damnit!