That's just it - you are punished even if you don't fight back. So if you're going to get punished by the system anyway, may as well beat the crap out of the bully and not have it happen again.
I disagree. Bullies are scum, this is true. But a person with a psychological disorder is not automatically scum. I would say it should be your actions that dictate judgment on you, not some underlying disorder (even psychopathy).
While it may be true that a disproportionate number of people with psychopathy are scum, I don't think you can just make a blanket statement like that. One may not be able to empathize, but at the same time that person may, out of self interest and an understanding of how society works, decide *not* to do things which may have an adverse affect on his own self (incarceration, social ostracism, being fired, etc.). I strongly suspect that there are a large number of well-adjusted people with psychopathy that just live out their lives.
But, the game presumably doesn't run if you don't have the disc in the drive, right? That's DRM, you can't run the copy on your laptop if you forgot the disc at home.
It's worked for me for all of those DRM-lite only requires the disc checks. Rip the CD to an ISO, save that on the hard-drive, mount it up when you want to play the game. Now, I still properly own the game, it just makes it simpler when I want to play it and don't want to go flipping through my CD binder.
Picking up trash on the highway 4 hours each Saturday for 5 weeks =/= removing someone from full-time gainful employment. It's not an either/or proposition.
The laws as implemented shoot themselves in the foot. You are equally distracted while talking on a bluetooth device, but, in California at least, that is still perfectly permissible. So, yeah, you won't see any reduction in accidents because people are either a). ignoring the law and chatting with the phone to their heads, or b). following the law and chatting it up on a bluetooth device. There's no real reduction in the root behavior that causes the problem in the first place so naturally there's no reduction in the accidents resulting from it.
You don't have to build a tower though, Tennessee is chock full of hills and such. They are vastly more stable than a constructed tower and require less upfront cost to modify for such systems.
Or perhaps more notably, inherently incomprehensible because we cannot observe/test/measure/study consciousness without using consciousness and that is at once limiting and corrupting of our view of it. Brains we can understand, but consciousness is somehow a part of the human experience but not of many (perhaps all) forms of lower life - what makes an organism self-aware? Perhaps it is not a question for science at all.
That doesn't mean that science shouldn't try, but I suggest that it *may* be beyond science's ability.
You can instruct the jury all you want, but AFAIK they are not obliged to abide that instruction. In theory a juror could decide to find someone innocent even with a signed confession, blood still on their hands, and 50 eye witnesses just because the magic purple leprechaun fairy told them to.
That's the goofy end of the spectrum, of course, but ultimately the idea of a trial by jury was so that your fate would be in human hands in the end, and not the cold faceless machinery of the justice system.
Hmm... Do you think that medical ethicists would whine if insulin pumps were replaced with tiny little stunted clone fetuses, permanently grafted into the host's circulatory system? You could even dress them up in adorable little baby clothes!
Hmm...given that real fetuses currently can induce gestational diabetes I'm not sure your fetal insulin pump replacement plan is going to work like you hope.
Probably just matters how you write up the grant paper work though.
My understanding was that MS Office's implementation of ODF (at least in Excel specifically) had some serious issues. Maybe that's been improved since they first implemented it, but given MS's track record I kind of doubt it.
And you believe that a digital readout contains no error, why???
I can picture you watching "Back to the Future" as a kid - oh wow, it travels through time, oooh he timed it perfectly so he hit the lightning wire at the precise moment of the strike to power the flux capacitor!
Wait a minute...the speedometer reads *exactly* 88mph and is perfectly calibrated?!?!? Oh fuck this movie, I don't believe it anymore!
Unless we start addressing every individual atom on earth I don't see it being a problem. There are ~3.4*10^38 addresses available in the IPv6 space, so even if every person on earth had a billion devices to uniquely address we'd *still* only use 7*10^18 addresses which would only be a millionth ( < 0.0001%) of the available address space.
So, yeah, I think we're good for a while on it.
Of course, if you desperately need to individually address every single atom in the known observable universe, you could eventually extend it to a 512-bit address space to easily cover that possibility.
Actually the moon is fairly rich in titanium - enough to mine.
As it happens, most white paints use titanium oxide as the whitening agent, IIRC it's about the 8th most common element in the earth's crust (iron being the most common), but the great expense is in processing and refining it into something usable prevents it from become anything near common in building materials.
It think what's ultimately going to get us back to the moon is setting up a permanent station to support either:
a). Power stations beaming energy back to earth b). Lower gravity well and launch costs for kicking off deep space missions (presuming suitable fuel materials can be found there) or c). A dick measuring contest with some upstart nation (China or India perhaps) and we decide to out of national pride
Ubisoft was involved in Everquest? I thought it went from Verant --> Sony and hasn't changed hands since? Or is Ubisoft a parent company or subsidiary somewhere along the way that I missed?
Which you would in this case because we're talking about stored energy : weight ratios in a closed system. It wouldn't matter if the power for the batteries was generated at 5% efficiency, it wouldn't change the fact that the energy density in the batteries is significantly less than that of gasoline, nor that your operational efficiencies are 3-4 times as high in an electric motor.
I do agree from a political perspective though, electric cars are not that good for the environment given what we currently use to produce electricity. Any gains you make in lowered auto emissions on your "green" car are canceled out by the extra coal being burned to power the stupid thing.
Don't blame the teachers for that, all of that crap is state-mandated. I promise you, most teachers are just as upset about this as you are, but their hands are tied.
Ironically, the states then blame the teachers for poor performing students and then clamp down further in their preventing the teachers from giving a good education by handing down more mandates. It's the circle of life.
I have to agree, internet on a phone is kind of an "emergency use only" scenario for me. If I have the time I'd rather use it as a tethered modem than browse directly on the substandard screen in the graphics-rich internet we have today. Most sites don't have a decent "mobile version". Well, that and my phone is AT&T which means I'm stuck on the ghetto-fabulous "Edge" network most of the time.
Basically, they're saying that one area is involved in multitasking, whereas another area is responsible for more basic hand-eye coordination. You have to generalize the result a little bit, but it's very cool to have it broken down further that way.
If you want to write optimal code you really need to understand the mathematics behind it. Further, any more than the tiniest steps into the sea of network design will have you absolutely ass-deep in graph theory (which is usually a sophomore-junior level undergrad math course). Boolean algebra plays heavily even on the coding end, you're familiar with it even if you didn't know it was called that. Math is everywhere in coding (and even DB work generally) - even if you don't recognize it as such it is under-girding everything you're doing.
Yikes, a 2Kbit key. A 2Mbit key probably won't be necessary for another few thousand years (unless we finally get quantum computing up and running properly).
Well, maybe, but it'll take at least 12 years time to get over there (6 before earth even knows and 6 years to get back to Pandora), and probably quite a while to create/prep the ships for the expedition.
During that time, with the knowledge humanity left behind to back them, small outposts can be created, manned, and ready to at least knock a hole in one of those spaceships (and let's face it, it's a lot easier/cheaper to wreck something than to build it) - and very quickly it's not economically viable to wage a war 6 light-years distant.
All it takes is a sociopath. You're approaching this with the assumption that there's a conscience involved somewhere. Sociopaths aren't burdened by this drawback of normal human functioning.
You're mixing logic and reason in with pragmatism - both are dispassionate, but human actions are inherently beyond the realm of logic, as the GP said.
Your biggest problem here is that you're assuming a base desirable (malformed babies are bad) and *then* using logic to reach a conclusion (therefore incest should be prohibited). While I agree in principle that logic can help you arrive at good, solid ways to define a set of rules to properly guide human behavior, it can in no way assist you in defining fundamental objectives to try to fulfill.
Humans depend on leadership to govern and guide them. Those in authority need to dictate the terms of what would be right and proper and "best" for society. Logic cannot tell you what is best, cold reason cannot show you what will make society function properly. People are inherently irrational and solutions are often counter-intuitive (or illogical, if you will).
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That's just it - you are punished even if you don't fight back. So if you're going to get punished by the system anyway, may as well beat the crap out of the bully and not have it happen again.
Some bullies are sociopaths. Sociopaths are scum.
I disagree. Bullies are scum, this is true. But a person with a psychological disorder is not automatically scum. I would say it should be your actions that dictate judgment on you, not some underlying disorder (even psychopathy).
While it may be true that a disproportionate number of people with psychopathy are scum, I don't think you can just make a blanket statement like that. One may not be able to empathize, but at the same time that person may, out of self interest and an understanding of how society works, decide *not* to do things which may have an adverse affect on his own self (incarceration, social ostracism, being fired, etc.). I strongly suspect that there are a large number of well-adjusted people with psychopathy that just live out their lives.
But, the game presumably doesn't run if you don't have the disc in the drive, right? That's DRM, you can't run the copy on your laptop if you forgot the disc at home.
*cough* MagicDisc *cough*
It's worked for me for all of those DRM-lite only requires the disc checks. Rip the CD to an ISO, save that on the hard-drive, mount it up when you want to play the game. Now, I still properly own the game, it just makes it simpler when I want to play it and don't want to go flipping through my CD binder.
Picking up trash on the highway 4 hours each Saturday for 5 weeks =/= removing someone from full-time gainful employment. It's not an either/or proposition.
The laws as implemented shoot themselves in the foot. You are equally distracted while talking on a bluetooth device, but, in California at least, that is still perfectly permissible. So, yeah, you won't see any reduction in accidents because people are either a). ignoring the law and chatting with the phone to their heads, or b). following the law and chatting it up on a bluetooth device. There's no real reduction in the root behavior that causes the problem in the first place so naturally there's no reduction in the accidents resulting from it.
You don't have to build a tower though, Tennessee is chock full of hills and such. They are vastly more stable than a constructed tower and require less upfront cost to modify for such systems.
You're right, it's *magic*!
Or perhaps more notably, inherently incomprehensible because we cannot observe/test/measure/study consciousness without using consciousness and that is at once limiting and corrupting of our view of it. Brains we can understand, but consciousness is somehow a part of the human experience but not of many (perhaps all) forms of lower life - what makes an organism self-aware? Perhaps it is not a question for science at all.
That doesn't mean that science shouldn't try, but I suggest that it *may* be beyond science's ability.
You can instruct the jury all you want, but AFAIK they are not obliged to abide that instruction. In theory a juror could decide to find someone innocent even with a signed confession, blood still on their hands, and 50 eye witnesses just because the magic purple leprechaun fairy told them to.
That's the goofy end of the spectrum, of course, but ultimately the idea of a trial by jury was so that your fate would be in human hands in the end, and not the cold faceless machinery of the justice system.
Hmm... Do you think that medical ethicists would whine if insulin pumps were replaced with tiny little stunted clone fetuses, permanently grafted into the host's circulatory system? You could even dress them up in adorable little baby clothes!
Hmm...given that real fetuses currently can induce gestational diabetes I'm not sure your fetal insulin pump replacement plan is going to work like you hope.
Probably just matters how you write up the grant paper work though.
My understanding was that MS Office's implementation of ODF (at least in Excel specifically) had some serious issues. Maybe that's been improved since they first implemented it, but given MS's track record I kind of doubt it.
And you believe that a digital readout contains no error, why???
I can picture you watching "Back to the Future" as a kid - oh wow, it travels through time, oooh he timed it perfectly so he hit the lightning wire at the precise moment of the strike to power the flux capacitor!
Wait a minute...the speedometer reads *exactly* 88mph and is perfectly calibrated?!?!? Oh fuck this movie, I don't believe it anymore!
Unless we start addressing every individual atom on earth I don't see it being a problem. There are ~3.4*10^38 addresses available in the IPv6 space, so even if every person on earth had a billion devices to uniquely address we'd *still* only use 7*10^18 addresses which would only be a millionth ( < 0.0001%) of the available address space.
So, yeah, I think we're good for a while on it.
Of course, if you desperately need to individually address every single atom in the known observable universe, you could eventually extend it to a 512-bit address space to easily cover that possibility.
Actually the moon is fairly rich in titanium - enough to mine.
As it happens, most white paints use titanium oxide as the whitening agent, IIRC it's about the 8th most common element in the earth's crust (iron being the most common), but the great expense is in processing and refining it into something usable prevents it from become anything near common in building materials.
It think what's ultimately going to get us back to the moon is setting up a permanent station to support either:
a). Power stations beaming energy back to earth
b). Lower gravity well and launch costs for kicking off deep space missions (presuming suitable fuel materials can be found there) or
c). A dick measuring contest with some upstart nation (China or India perhaps) and we decide to out of national pride
Ubisoft was involved in Everquest? I thought it went from Verant --> Sony and hasn't changed hands since? Or is Ubisoft a parent company or subsidiary somewhere along the way that I missed?
Can Chuck Norris create a password SO strong that he, himself, cannot crack it?????
Yes.
And then he can crack it.
Which you would in this case because we're talking about stored energy : weight ratios in a closed system. It wouldn't matter if the power for the batteries was generated at 5% efficiency, it wouldn't change the fact that the energy density in the batteries is significantly less than that of gasoline, nor that your operational efficiencies are 3-4 times as high in an electric motor.
I do agree from a political perspective though, electric cars are not that good for the environment given what we currently use to produce electricity. Any gains you make in lowered auto emissions on your "green" car are canceled out by the extra coal being burned to power the stupid thing.
The internet has an ever increasing influence on political and philosophical thought.
Oh God help us.
I'm moving to Mars the day I see the candidate from the "4chan" party taking an oath of office.
Don't blame the teachers for that, all of that crap is state-mandated. I promise you, most teachers are just as upset about this as you are, but their hands are tied.
Ironically, the states then blame the teachers for poor performing students and then clamp down further in their preventing the teachers from giving a good education by handing down more mandates. It's the circle of life.
I have to agree, internet on a phone is kind of an "emergency use only" scenario for me. If I have the time I'd rather use it as a tethered modem than browse directly on the substandard screen in the graphics-rich internet we have today. Most sites don't have a decent "mobile version". Well, that and my phone is AT&T which means I'm stuck on the ghetto-fabulous "Edge" network most of the time.
Basically, they're saying that one area is involved in multitasking, whereas another area is responsible for more basic hand-eye coordination. You have to generalize the result a little bit, but it's very cool to have it broken down further that way.
If you want to write optimal code you really need to understand the mathematics behind it. Further, any more than the tiniest steps into the sea of network design will have you absolutely ass-deep in graph theory (which is usually a sophomore-junior level undergrad math course). Boolean algebra plays heavily even on the coding end, you're familiar with it even if you didn't know it was called that. Math is everywhere in coding (and even DB work generally) - even if you don't recognize it as such it is under-girding everything you're doing.
Yikes, a 2Kbit key. A 2Mbit key probably won't be necessary for another few thousand years (unless we finally get quantum computing up and running properly).
Well, maybe, but it'll take at least 12 years time to get over there (6 before earth even knows and 6 years to get back to Pandora), and probably quite a while to create/prep the ships for the expedition.
During that time, with the knowledge humanity left behind to back them, small outposts can be created, manned, and ready to at least knock a hole in one of those spaceships (and let's face it, it's a lot easier/cheaper to wreck something than to build it) - and very quickly it's not economically viable to wage a war 6 light-years distant.
All it takes is a sociopath. You're approaching this with the assumption that there's a conscience involved somewhere. Sociopaths aren't burdened by this drawback of normal human functioning.
You're mixing logic and reason in with pragmatism - both are dispassionate, but human actions are inherently beyond the realm of logic, as the GP said.
Your biggest problem here is that you're assuming a base desirable (malformed babies are bad) and *then* using logic to reach a conclusion (therefore incest should be prohibited). While I agree in principle that logic can help you arrive at good, solid ways to define a set of rules to properly guide human behavior, it can in no way assist you in defining fundamental objectives to try to fulfill.
Humans depend on leadership to govern and guide them. Those in authority need to dictate the terms of what would be right and proper and "best" for society. Logic cannot tell you what is best, cold reason cannot show you what will make society function properly. People are inherently irrational and solutions are often counter-intuitive (or illogical, if you will).