That's what I was thinking. On the other hand, if this is the kind of evidence that's left lying around, just imagine the contents of the documents that they've destroyed or don't acknowledge the existence of!
Who needs thinking? According to lots of anime, people can win intense boxing and martial arts matches after being knocked unconcious. How? Muscle memory.
I think the definition is very simple. If the universe is entirely predictable, then there cannot be free will. If truly random events can occur, then "free will" is possible, though not necessary.
How would randomness make free will possible? So there are three possibilities for where your decisions come from:
1. Predetermined through cause and effect. 2. Random through quantum phenomena or some other process. 3. Some combination of the above.
Where exactly is there room for "free will"? Where is the room for choice? Is a random choice really "free will"? That's like saying the cat chooses to be either dead or alive when the box is opened.
Only with raytracing do you get the surreal Live-or-memorex feeling of not being able to tell a rendered scene from a photo, except for the fact that the realistic scene depicts something that might be physically impossible.
Photos, maybe. But we're still a loooooong way off for real time video when you consider that it is still relatively easy to tell CGI from live action in the highest budget prerendered movies. At close-ups anyway.
Exactly. I expect that if we could look into the moments immediately prior to the Big Bang, we'd see a bunch of scientists flipping a switch on the highest energy particle-accelerator of their universe.
To be honest, its hard to get excited about this with the LHC coming online soon.
True, what's the most this laser could do, cut the Earth in half? Pretty tame compared with the LHC recreating the Big Bang and destroying the universe as we know it.
For all we know, we ARE getting the real mean time. Say 9/10 hard drive fails within an hour, and the last hard drive lasts 10 million hours. There you have it, mean time of 1 million hours. I bet there's at least one hard drive of just about any model, that's never failed. How do you know it won't last a few billion years?
Honestly, there must be a limit somewhere. I'm sure you agree that while only allowing muskets is not enough, allowing private citizens to own nukes would be just a little too much freedom. So where exactly do we draw the line?
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Cussin? Haven't you heard, there's no cussing in Japan. Not real cussing.
That's what I was thinking. On the other hand, if this is the kind of evidence that's left lying around, just imagine the contents of the documents that they've destroyed or don't acknowledge the existence of!
Nope, by a promise of a big check. If they get the money right away, what would be their incentive?
Haven't you heard the story of the pet cat/rabbit/whatever in the microwave? Do you really wanna do that to whole cities at a time?
You'd have to weigh it at the end of the race to make sure they didn't burn parts of it for fuel.
Forget it - that line of reasoning didn't work for me in front of the judge after the whole girl scout thing, either.
Don't blame the judge, it's not like he had the free will to acquit you.
Who needs thinking? According to lots of anime, people can win intense boxing and martial arts matches after being knocked unconcious. How? Muscle memory.
I think the definition is very simple. If the universe is entirely predictable, then there cannot be free will. If truly random events can occur, then "free will" is possible, though not necessary.
How would randomness make free will possible? So there are three possibilities for where your decisions come from:
1. Predetermined through cause and effect.
2. Random through quantum phenomena or some other process.
3. Some combination of the above.
Where exactly is there room for "free will"? Where is the room for choice? Is a random choice really "free will"? That's like saying the cat chooses to be either dead or alive when the box is opened.
Only with raytracing do you get the surreal Live-or-memorex feeling of not being able to tell a rendered scene from a photo, except for the fact that the realistic scene depicts something that might be physically impossible.
Photos, maybe. But we're still a loooooong way off for real time video when you consider that it is still relatively easy to tell CGI from live action in the highest budget prerendered movies. At close-ups anyway.
rear end collisions tend to be very damaging to senior citizens.
Especially if they're still driving Ford Pintos.
How does this work? Was it using the autoplay functionality that's such a pain in the ass in Windows? Or some automatic driver install?
Exactly. I expect that if we could look into the moments immediately prior to the Big Bang, we'd see a bunch of scientists flipping a switch on the highest energy particle-accelerator of their universe.
So how would this CPU compare to a Core2Duo E8400 overclocked to 5GHz?
To be honest, its hard to get excited about this with the LHC coming online soon.
True, what's the most this laser could do, cut the Earth in half? Pretty tame compared with the LHC recreating the Big Bang and destroying the universe as we know it.
Heh, I knew I got that from somewhere, I just forgot where :)
Given the interest rates most cards charge, only a mentally defective person would carry a balance on a card and pay it off over time.
That's why you get a new credit card to pay for the old one, you n00b!
Exactly. Slapping him will cost $4300. To the politician.
But is the school the best place for that? I agree that the school has all the kids under one roof, but parents need to step up too. It cuts both ways
Yes, parents need to step up, but, um, what was the point of school again? I thought it had something to do with educating kids or some such.....
To remove the blood and dehumanize the enemy so that we don't feel like real humans are being killed by the hundreds and the movies can be rated PG.
and (if this matters to you) they're carbon neutral.
I'm sorry, but I'm not familiar with that alignment. Is that like "True Neutral", or does it lean towards "Lawful" or "Chaotic" ends?
For all we know, we ARE getting the real mean time. Say 9/10 hard drive fails within an hour, and the last hard drive lasts 10 million hours. There you have it, mean time of 1 million hours. I bet there's at least one hard drive of just about any model, that's never failed. How do you know it won't last a few billion years?
Honestly, there must be a limit somewhere. I'm sure you agree that while only allowing muskets is not enough, allowing private citizens to own nukes would be just a little too much freedom. So where exactly do we draw the line?
But maybe we should cut Little Napoleans a break. Perhaps they can't help it, genetically speaking.
Sorry, my genes will not allow me to cut jerks like that a break.
Depends, are we talking the original series or the Red Alert spin-off?
Yup, and all booleans will officially have three allowable values: TRUE, FALSE, FILE_NOT_FOUND