What the hell is going on here? Comment dupe. And I've seen other comments from the math and cancer discussion all over the place. Is this some new subtle form of trolling, meant to slightly perturb us, like in Amelie? Or is/. broken? Maybe the crapflooders in 20721 are breaking it. I wouldn't be surprised if that's why they added captchas (which already seem to be broken). Actually I'm more surprised they don't just delete Trolltalk.
Firefighters and policemen aren't charity workers--it is their job to protect people, even at the risk of their own lives. It is not necessarily a sacrifice to give your life for values you believe in; Rand specifically argued that soldiers who die for their country in war are not sacrificing at all, and that "sacrifice" is a misnomer in such a case. Also, Rand specifically wrote about helping others in emergencies in "The Ethics of Emergencies" in The Virtue of Selfishness. I haven't read it in a while, so I don't remember what she specifically wrote, but personally I believe in helping others while putting yourself only at a level of risk proportional to your care for the other person. One can argue that there is some level of benevolence between strangers simply by being fellow humans, and that one should be willing to undergo a minimal amount of risk to help them. On the other hand, you would value a friend's life more, and be willing to risk more for them. A lot of parents value their children's lives more than their own and would quite rationally be willing to undertake enormous risk to save them.
The point is that one shouldn't help others because one doesn't value their own life, but because they value the lives of others. Convicts deserve to live too, but if the planes had crashed into a prison, there would probably be a lot less sympathy for the victims and even for the rescue workers, and not without cause. While I don't agree with all of the ethics of Objectivism, their form of selfishness is not a "screw you for my own sake" code, but more of an Adam Smith-like "it would be mutually beneficial if everyone pursued their own rational self-interest."
Mainstream Objectivists dislike being grouped with Libertarians because they consider Objectivism a "closed" philosophy. They argue that Libertarians' ad hoc defense of freedom despite their varied justifications lacks credibility. I agree, but I tend to dissociate myself from both groups.
In fact Objectivism espouses helping others in emergencies. I used to be an Objectivist, but I am not anymore because I found them to be rather and one-sided, characterizing the beliefs of others in their own oversimplistic manner, rather than giving them serious consideration.
Hey, at least it's not GoldenEye. Crates, boxes, and barrels everwhere, and they all explode.
"Hey, is that the new server?"
"Yeah, we're using it to store our secret data."
"What's in the box over there?"
"Oh, I decided it would be a good idea to keep some TNT in the server room."
I'm sure the Russian government isn't quite that stupid.
I don't think any reasonable people are concerned that life on Earth will be threatened. But people themselves could be threatened, and fancying myself a person, I kind of feel that it concerns me.
This reminds me of Marathon Pinky--the game used control as the run modifier. It never made my wrist hurt, but it made it hard to bend my pinky halfway.
The United Nations hopes that it can halve poverty by 2015, and this is assuming that industrialized nations contribute 0.7% of their GDP toward Millennium Development Goals annually. Even so, it is optimistic to think that this will halve poverty, much less solve hunger or disease, or even marginalize either. And while few countries have contributed as much as they have agreed to, the proposed figure amounts to far more than what Microsoft is worth.
Poverty, disease, and hunger are not just a matter of not enough money being thrown at the problems; while more money can always help more, it is not even necessarily a lack of money that is always the primary obstacle to development. There are already hundreds of billions of dollars spent on aid, and brilliant people doing their best to make the world a better place. And yes, the world still sucks. But the victories are not always things that are heard of in popular culture. Norman Borlaug sure isn't a billionaire.
I once tried to corner the market on bits, but there were too many people who already had access to electrons. I agree that Microsoft uses anti-competitive tactics, but they are only able to succeed with them because people still choose Microsoft.
EA combined their own servers with Live aware features. They were the first to be allowed to do so, and frankly the experience is markedly worse than any Live games which I've played.
All DRM schemes will be broken. The result is that pirates have a better experience than honest people. The media companies would like to punish pirates, and I would have no problem with them doing so, but they cannot. Instead they punish honest customers, while pirates get a better experience. I doubt that any DRM can be restrictive enough to deter pirates more than honest customers. It is simply a failed concept.
If a shopkeeper locks his store during the day, it will keep more customers out than robbers.
Far more U.S. films are shown overseas than films from any other country. While Bollywood may be more prolific, Hollywood actually does have the farthest-reaching audience.
I wouldn't mind paralyzing the pork distribution process. But obviously Congress won't let that happen. However, from what I have learned about government from watching The Simpsons, we can help to ameliorate the situation by stealing all of their paper clips.
So has anybody told Bungie yet they are releasing another game in less than a year? Even people who believe in Santa Claus believes that he has elves building toys for him--they don't just come out of thin air. It took more than a year to make Halo 1, and more than a year to make Halo 2. Bungie hasn't even officially announced their next game yet. In fact they have been working on fixing Halo 2 and making new maps until recently. If they plan on releasing Halo 3 even more sloppily than Halo 2 (I'm not trying to flame, after all, they did fix it eventually), I doubt it will do much to the PS3.
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This is an outrage. Why do the call it a "black" FPS? Would other FPS's like to be called a "white" FPS?
It takes even less time to read the summary than it takes to check the spelling in one's post.
What the hell is going on here? Comment dupe. And I've seen other comments from the math and cancer discussion all over the place. Is this some new subtle form of trolling, meant to slightly perturb us, like in Amelie? Or is /. broken? Maybe the crapflooders in 20721 are breaking it. I wouldn't be surprised if that's why they added captchas (which already seem to be broken). Actually I'm more surprised they don't just delete Trolltalk.
The point is that one shouldn't help others because one doesn't value their own life, but because they value the lives of others. Convicts deserve to live too, but if the planes had crashed into a prison, there would probably be a lot less sympathy for the victims and even for the rescue workers, and not without cause. While I don't agree with all of the ethics of Objectivism, their form of selfishness is not a "screw you for my own sake" code, but more of an Adam Smith-like "it would be mutually beneficial if everyone pursued their own rational self-interest."
Mainstream Objectivists dislike being grouped with Libertarians because they consider Objectivism a "closed" philosophy. They argue that Libertarians' ad hoc defense of freedom despite their varied justifications lacks credibility. I agree, but I tend to dissociate myself from both groups.
Kind of like you.
"Hey, is that the new server?"
"Yeah, we're using it to store our secret data."
"What's in the box over there?"
"Oh, I decided it would be a good idea to keep some TNT in the server room."
I'm sure the Russian government isn't quite that stupid.
I don't think any reasonable people are concerned that life on Earth will be threatened. But people themselves could be threatened, and fancying myself a person, I kind of feel that it concerns me.
Actually the source languages for the Bible are Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.
Haven't you ever watched The Jetsons? We'll have fully autonomous, sentient robots before we have decent voice synthesis.
This reminds me of Marathon Pinky--the game used control as the run modifier. It never made my wrist hurt, but it made it hard to bend my pinky halfway.
Poverty, disease, and hunger are not just a matter of not enough money being thrown at the problems; while more money can always help more, it is not even necessarily a lack of money that is always the primary obstacle to development. There are already hundreds of billions of dollars spent on aid, and brilliant people doing their best to make the world a better place. And yes, the world still sucks. But the victories are not always things that are heard of in popular culture. Norman Borlaug sure isn't a billionaire.
I once tried to corner the market on bits, but there were too many people who already had access to electrons. I agree that Microsoft uses anti-competitive tactics, but they are only able to succeed with them because people still choose Microsoft.
It must be because it uses RISC instead of CISC.
There's less gravity on the Moon than on your Earth; I don't know if your feeble mind can comprehend that. Our vertical leap is beyond measure.
EA combined their own servers with Live aware features. They were the first to be allowed to do so, and frankly the experience is markedly worse than any Live games which I've played.
If a shopkeeper locks his store during the day, it will keep more customers out than robbers.
Poor Whites tend to live in rural as opposed to urban areas, however. In rural areas, voter fraud does not have as big of a payoff.
Far more U.S. films are shown overseas than films from any other country. While Bollywood may be more prolific, Hollywood actually does have the farthest-reaching audience.
Not quite as long as a parsec, I suppose.
They also seem to have stopped allowing you to read articles without registration if you set your user agent to googlebot.
In fact this technology not only exists, but is already considered antiquated by the youth in South Korea.
I wouldn't mind paralyzing the pork distribution process. But obviously Congress won't let that happen. However, from what I have learned about government from watching The Simpsons, we can help to ameliorate the situation by stealing all of their paper clips.
So has anybody told Bungie yet they are releasing another game in less than a year? Even people who believe in Santa Claus believes that he has elves building toys for him--they don't just come out of thin air. It took more than a year to make Halo 1, and more than a year to make Halo 2. Bungie hasn't even officially announced their next game yet. In fact they have been working on fixing Halo 2 and making new maps until recently. If they plan on releasing Halo 3 even more sloppily than Halo 2 (I'm not trying to flame, after all, they did fix it eventually), I doubt it will do much to the PS3.
Nobody likes a smartass.