I bought a Samsung color laser for $200 three years ago, and the original toner cartridges that came with it lasted for 5 boxes (2500 sheets) of prints.
Fast, excellent image quality, rock solid reliable.
At that price, an ink jet is like throwing money away.
We know a few things about how the brain functions.
Everything else, we call "free will".
That doesn't mean it doesn't exist - only that its existence is an unanswerable question.
Correct. The author lists a series of questions that supposedly determine the ability to have free will. He then goes on to say:
Provided you - or your iPhone - answer honestly, the answers give a straightforward indication about free will.
But what does
"answer honestly" mean, anyway? What if the questions are ambiguous (they are)? What if I answer some of these questions in a way that the author disagrees with?
What if I don't understand what he means? Why would that affect whether I have free will?
Beware of physicists who think they are philosophers.
Bullies are always cowards, and as such, attack their victims in gangs. How do you "stand up" to an entire gang? Also, the people most vulnerable to bullying are frequently handicapped in some way.
If these bullies think it is amusing to crack jokes about the fact that they bullied another girl to death, then something in their minds is deeply wrong.
Some kind of intervention is needed, or they (or others like them) will do it again. And that would be a shame.
So suppose people care about the information, and maintain the machines that access it for the next million years. Then human civilization collapses and we devolve into savages. Then 900,000,000 years goes by with nobody around to care or maintain the equipment that reads the data. Then a new civilization arises that would care about the information if only there were a way to make sense of it....
Except in the case of children - who lack the experience to make proper judgments about their own health. In that case, the state definitely has a responsibility to protect them from ignorant parents.
Also note that in this case, the father was in favor of the immunization - only the mother objected.
What makes you think anyone would ever tolerate using robots on civilians?
Of course: they just have to claim that the civilians are "terrorists".
Of course, entire books and movies have covered the subject for decades, meaning anybody working on one is highly cognizant of the possibility and likely to do their damnedest to make sure that doesn't happen.
What happens when the other side has autonomous killer robots with faster reactions than our man-controlled robots? Will we stick with non-autonomous machines and get our asses handed to us by the other guys? Of course not.
So if you were born into a society where promoting cultural relativism could lead you to being arrested, tortured and imprisoned, you would be cool with that? How about a culture where people who look like you are denied all civil rights? Or where people with a last name like yours can be subject to genocide?
That's the trouble with cultural relativists: they always assume that outrages like these only happen to other people.
The only "physical reality" of life is: be born, exist a few years, die. It has nothing to do with ethics or morality
Morality is about living as long and productively as possible while doing the least harm to others. Humanity advances when this is practiced, and retards when it isn't.
The essence of cultural relativism is the idea that misery, injustice and ignorance are just as "good" as happiness, success and wisdom. If you really believe that, fine. Everyone is entitled to be an asshole.
Everybody has the right define what kinds of behavior they consider barbaric, and thus unacceptable. To me, such actions as genocide, rape and child abuse are not only barbaric, but manifestly evil. And if there are cultures that allow, and even encourage, such behavior, then those cultures are evil and should be opposed.
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I bought a Samsung color laser for $200 three years ago, and the original toner cartridges that came with it lasted for 5 boxes (2500 sheets) of prints.
Fast, excellent image quality, rock solid reliable.
At that price, an ink jet is like throwing money away.
Ah, once again sumdumass wins the /. most-apt-user-name award!
I'd trust Schneier before I'd trust Timothy.
We know a few things about how the brain functions. Everything else, we call "free will".
That doesn't mean it doesn't exist - only that its existence is an unanswerable question.
Narcc is an idiot troll who only knows how to insult other people, and he does that about as well as an average 8 year old.
Ignore him.
The author lists a series of questions that supposedly determine the ability to have free will.
He then goes on to say:
But what does "answer honestly" mean, anyway?
What if the questions are ambiguous (they are)?
What if I answer some of these questions in a way that the author disagrees with?
What if I don't understand what he means?
Why would that affect whether I have free will?
Beware of physicists who think they are philosophers.
Nobody like that exists. There is just a number of aholes who think they are a "virtuoso multi-tasker".
While you apparently trust the DailyCaller.
ROTFL!!!
What I don't get is that MPAA is American, while IsoHunt is run by a Canadian in Canada. How do they have jurisdiction?
Bullies are always cowards, and as such, attack their victims in gangs. How do you "stand up" to an entire gang?
Also, the people most vulnerable to bullying are frequently handicapped in some way.
All morals and ethics come from society. So what?
If these bullies think it is amusing to crack jokes about the fact that they bullied another girl to death,
then something in their minds is deeply wrong.
Some kind of intervention is needed, or they (or others like them) will do it again. And that would be a shame.
Right. That's all we need.
Does she spell better than you do?
Oh, smart guy, eh?
Bake 'em away, Toys.
If they learn about the Tea Party, they will give up right there.
So suppose people care about the information, and maintain the machines that access it for the next million years. ....
Then human civilization collapses and we devolve into savages.
Then 900,000,000 years goes by with nobody around to care or maintain the equipment that reads the data.
Then a new civilization arises that would care about the information if only there were a way to make sense of it
Except in the case of children - who lack the experience to make proper judgments about their own health.
In that case, the state definitely has a responsibility to protect them from ignorant parents.
Also note that in this case, the father was in favor of the immunization - only the mother objected.
Of course: they just have to claim that the civilians are "terrorists".
And they will fail.
What happens when the other side has autonomous killer robots with faster reactions than our man-controlled robots?
Will we stick with non-autonomous machines and get our asses handed to us by the other guys?
Of course not.
FTFY.
No, he has never been charged with anything.
So if you were born into a society where promoting cultural relativism could lead you to being arrested, tortured and imprisoned, you would be cool with that?
How about a culture where people who look like you are denied all civil rights? Or where people with a last name like yours can be subject to genocide?
That's the trouble with cultural relativists: they always assume that outrages like these only happen to other people.
The only "physical reality" of life is: be born, exist a few years, die. It has nothing to do with ethics or morality
Morality is about living as long and productively as possible while doing the least harm to others.
Humanity advances when this is practiced, and retards when it isn't.
The essence of cultural relativism is the idea that misery, injustice and ignorance are just as "good"
as happiness, success and wisdom. If you really believe that, fine.
Everyone is entitled to be an asshole.
Stop sucking up to them economically.
Of course, that would cost Exxon a lot of money, so it will never happen.
Everybody has the right define what kinds of behavior they consider barbaric, and thus unacceptable.
To me, such actions as genocide, rape and child abuse are not only barbaric, but manifestly evil.
And if there are cultures that allow, and even encourage, such behavior, then those cultures are evil and should be opposed.