I'm assuming there is some reason why you rewound the tape after each viewing.
Personally, I had to recall the exact time offset and rewind to there so my parents wouldn't pop in the tape and it be in a different spot (call me paranoid). They never caught me on that. But (as Chris Rock has alluded to), I did leave it in the VCR one day.
Its not so much that capitalism is "bad" because nothing is sacred (that is, everything is a commodity), but that it is unsustainable because long-term conseqences (often referred to as externalities) are not factored into the decision making process.
Of what we've seen in the past few years, it seems that Marx was right. Capitalism will collapse under its own weight.
I have been very interested in MWI, but haven't had the time (or found good resources on) it.
It is my understanding that we define probability because we can only observe the universe we currently inhabit. For example, in a different universe I chose not to post this story, but in this one I did, which split the universe I "was" in into two different universes. So in a sense, the "probablitity" of any event happening over all universes is both 0 and 1 since in at least one universe it did happen and in at least one universe it did not happen.
I find LJ to be all I need in a blogging service. I type, click post, etc. Friends read it, comment, inside jokes abound, etc., etc.
As far as community goes, you need to really pick and choose which communities you watch. Many of them are, as a recent poster said, 12 year-old girls whining about their parents. Also, it tends to be popular with the emo-punk crowd (which may be good or bad in your opinion).
I got in just after it became a free for all service (before you needed a referral from a pay account or some $$$). I really only use it as a way to let distant friends/relatives what's new and/or interesting IMHO.
But if an average person were to follow their beliefs through to the logical conclusion, they would often find that it simply wasn't worth it. I think the trick is finding a set of beliefs that you can take pretty far downstream without feeling like you're following them to the great expense of your own life.
I don't know about you, but my beliefs and morals are designed to limit myself (so to speak).
For instance, I believe that murder is wrong. That is a limit on what I can do as a person imposed on myself. Oddly enough, the more limitations I impose on myself, the happier I tend to be. It feels good to know that I have a strict set of beliefs that I wouldn't betray for any sum of money. Does it make my life harder? Of course it does, but the important thing is that it makes my life better.
You probably buy products made by child and/or slave labor. I do, too. I know its wrong, but I'm working toward making sure I don't in the future.
If you decided that it is wrong to kill people, and that made your goals out of reach, would you just decide to change your goals or your morals?
I know you're just making a joke, but I get free dial-up from my university but I'd still pay for DSL. Once I move out of my shitty apartment, I most certainly will.
How do we nurture this art form in a world where the costs of production cannot... be recovered?
Art has always been made, regardless of production costs. It will continue to be made until the day the human race becomes extinct. It is not guaranteed a profit.
Oddly enough, you speak as if art cannot exist without monetary compensation for the artist. It seems most (if not all) artists do not work for money, but simply to make art. Money is a fringe benefit that does not figure into the equation.
What do you say to the investors that took enormous financial risk in funding the production of the movie you are copying? How are they supposed to recover their cost of production in a world where you are making free copies without their persmission?
Capitalism doesn't work for me, good friend, so I don't work for capitalism.
Note: Socialism and Communism, also, do not work for me.
First, there is absolutely no need to have electronic voting systems. Making voting "fun" is not a good reason.
I volunteered as a recount observer for the Ohio recount. I've seen how the process is done first-hand. I must say security and integrity is lacking (at least in the counties I visited). I'm not saying the poll workers are not trying their best; I'm saying that there are simply not enough checks and balances in place to ensure a completely fair election.
By far, the most accurate method is a hand count of paper ballots. Rotate the poll workers so that no one works anymore than 2 hours straight. Count for 12 hours each weekday until the count is done. Its all very simple, accurate, but extremely slow. Unfortunately, its the only way to be sure that the totals are correct down to the last vote.
I believe that our punch-card machines are 98% accurate, so most people would be fine with using them so long as the margin of victory is 2%. I obviously disagree because I believe every vote counts. If my vote is not counted due to random error, I am still "disenfranchised".
Indeed, I made a write-in vote for US Senate. I was presumably the only person in the entire county who voted for her. Had I not seen at least 1 vote for my candidate in the official returns, I would have been at the Board of Elections raising hell.
In the first count, Rossi was ahead by 261 votes. In the second count, Rossi ended up ahead by 42 votes. In the final count, Gregoire was ahead by 129 votes. The total number of votes cast were 2.8 million. Anyone see a problem here?
The problem is that the system doesn't work properly. If Libertarian candidate Ruth Bennett got exactly 63,416 votes, then there had damn well better be exactly 63,416 people who voted for her. Just the same as if George W. Bush got exactly 19,007 votes in DC. There had better be exactly 19,007 people who voted for him.
In other words, it doesn't matter if the election results are not changed, we need to know EXACTLY how many people voted for each candidate.
The hypocrisy of the Democrats here would be stunning if it weren't so predictable.
Hehe those of us outside the two party system see it for what it really is.
The Democrats and Republicans are simply trying to make sure their person wins. Does it matter if they actually won? Hell No!!! If we've seen anything there is no such thing as morality in politics. The ends always justify the means.
Its okay if we stuff the ballot with our candidate because the other side is probably doing it too, and even then, their candidate is just good at making people believe his lies, so we're actually doing the public a favor by cheating.
I KNOW people who would agree that cheating is morally acceptable for those reasons. Its sickening.
if you want to get REAL technical, we all migrated at one point from the area now known as the middle east.
And if you like to be even more technical, "real" is not the correct word to use as it is not the proper adjective. "Really" is the correct word... unless you are distinguishing between 'fake technical' and 'real technical'.;-)
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I mostly take mine from Immanuel Kant. Shakespeare just had a witty quote ;-)
Better yet, install the Firefox BugMeNot plugin and have at it.
If IBM is doing good then it makes the world a better place. It does not matter what their intentions are.
Spoken like a true utilitarian.
"Doing the right thing for the wrong reason is the last and greatest treason." -- Bill Shakespeare
The one my Mom had did not do such a thing while my Dad's did.
Needless to say I appreciated it when I had forgotten the offset.
Smart money is on "screw-job".
I'm assuming there is some reason why you rewound the tape after each viewing.
Personally, I had to recall the exact time offset and rewind to there so my parents wouldn't pop in the tape and it be in a different spot (call me paranoid). They never caught me on that. But (as Chris Rock has alluded to), I did leave it in the VCR one day.
Alas.
...relying on the fact that the law could not be effectively enforced to get away with it
If the law cannot be effectively enforced, then what business did the legislature have making the law?
I think you missed the point of the parent.
Its not so much that capitalism is "bad" because nothing is sacred (that is, everything is a commodity), but that it is unsustainable because long-term conseqences (often referred to as externalities) are not factored into the decision making process.
Of what we've seen in the past few years, it seems that Marx was right. Capitalism will collapse under its own weight.
Its very possible that CD sales are up for indie labels, but down for RIAA bands.
I have been very interested in MWI, but haven't had the time (or found good resources on) it.
It is my understanding that we define probability because we can only observe the universe we currently inhabit. For example, in a different universe I chose not to post this story, but in this one I did, which split the universe I "was" in into two different universes. So in a sense, the "probablitity" of any event happening over all universes is both 0 and 1 since in at least one universe it did happen and in at least one universe it did not happen.
Follow?
It seems to me that that is a good way to make friends.
I find LJ to be all I need in a blogging service. I type, click post, etc. Friends read it, comment, inside jokes abound, etc., etc.
As far as community goes, you need to really pick and choose which communities you watch. Many of them are, as a recent poster said, 12 year-old girls whining about their parents. Also, it tends to be popular with the emo-punk crowd (which may be good or bad in your opinion).
I got in just after it became a free for all service (before you needed a referral from a pay account or some $$$). I really only use it as a way to let distant friends/relatives what's new and/or interesting IMHO.
People got all bent out of shape because he would not sell the plans for it. His comment was "I built what I wanted you can do the same."
That isn't a good analogy. It would be better if he sold the plans, but wouldn't let to change them to better suit your individual needs.
But if an average person were to follow their beliefs through to the logical conclusion, they would often find that it simply wasn't worth it. I think the trick is finding a set of beliefs that you can take pretty far downstream without feeling like you're following them to the great expense of your own life.
I don't know about you, but my beliefs and morals are designed to limit myself (so to speak).
For instance, I believe that murder is wrong. That is a limit on what I can do as a person imposed on myself. Oddly enough, the more limitations I impose on myself, the happier I tend to be. It feels good to know that I have a strict set of beliefs that I wouldn't betray for any sum of money. Does it make my life harder? Of course it does, but the important thing is that it makes my life better.
You probably buy products made by child and/or slave labor. I do, too. I know its wrong, but I'm working toward making sure I don't in the future.
If you decided that it is wrong to kill people, and that made your goals out of reach, would you just decide to change your goals or your morals?
I refuse to work for any organization that develops weapons systems or supports them.
As do I. It is refreshing to see such integrity in the age of "WORK CONSUME REPEAT".
Islam prohibits usury, fixing the rate would be somewhat problematic.
Christianity also prohibits usury, but many Christians have conveniently blocked out that portion of The Bible.
Where there is money to be made using little to no labor, morals are fast and loose.
I know you're just making a joke, but I get free dial-up from my university but I'd still pay for DSL. Once I move out of my shitty apartment, I most certainly will.
How do we nurture this art form in a world where the costs of production cannot ... be recovered?
Art has always been made, regardless of production costs. It will continue to be made until the day the human race becomes extinct. It is not guaranteed a profit.
Oddly enough, you speak as if art cannot exist without monetary compensation for the artist. It seems most (if not all) artists do not work for money, but simply to make art. Money is a fringe benefit that does not figure into the equation.
What do you say to the investors that took enormous financial risk in funding the production of the movie you are copying? How are they supposed to recover their cost of production in a world where you are making free copies without their persmission?
Capitalism doesn't work for me, good friend, so I don't work for capitalism.
Note: Socialism and Communism, also, do not work for me.
First, there is absolutely no need to have electronic voting systems. Making voting "fun" is not a good reason.
I volunteered as a recount observer for the Ohio recount. I've seen how the process is done first-hand. I must say security and integrity is lacking (at least in the counties I visited). I'm not saying the poll workers are not trying their best; I'm saying that there are simply not enough checks and balances in place to ensure a completely fair election.
By far, the most accurate method is a hand count of paper ballots. Rotate the poll workers so that no one works anymore than 2 hours straight. Count for 12 hours each weekday until the count is done. Its all very simple, accurate, but extremely slow. Unfortunately, its the only way to be sure that the totals are correct down to the last vote.
I believe that our punch-card machines are 98% accurate, so most people would be fine with using them so long as the margin of victory is 2%. I obviously disagree because I believe every vote counts. If my vote is not counted due to random error, I am still "disenfranchised".
Indeed, I made a write-in vote for US Senate. I was presumably the only person in the entire county who voted for her. Had I not seen at least 1 vote for my candidate in the official returns, I would have been at the Board of Elections raising hell.
In the first count, Rossi was ahead by 261 votes. In the second count, Rossi ended up ahead by 42 votes. In the final count, Gregoire was ahead by 129 votes. The total number of votes cast were 2.8 million. Anyone see a problem here?
The problem is that the system doesn't work properly. If Libertarian candidate Ruth Bennett got exactly 63,416 votes, then there had damn well better be exactly 63,416 people who voted for her. Just the same as if George W. Bush got exactly 19,007 votes in DC. There had better be exactly 19,007 people who voted for him.
In other words, it doesn't matter if the election results are not changed, we need to know EXACTLY how many people voted for each candidate.
The hypocrisy of the Democrats here would be stunning if it weren't so predictable.
Hehe those of us outside the two party system see it for what it really is.
The Democrats and Republicans are simply trying to make sure their person wins. Does it matter if they actually won? Hell No!!! If we've seen anything there is no such thing as morality in politics. The ends always justify the means.
Its okay if we stuff the ballot with our candidate because the other side is probably doing it too, and even then, their candidate is just good at making people believe his lies, so we're actually doing the public a favor by cheating.
I KNOW people who would agree that cheating is morally acceptable for those reasons. Its sickening.
There are so many different distributed processing programs out there ... I find myself wondering which to choose.
I've been stuck on SETI for awhile because others had a poor client (Folding@Home) or did research for agencies that I refuse to help (DoD).
Since disease reseach is, IMO, more important than finding aliens, I think I might stick with this one.
I never thought it was too bloated, but now that the installer is ~9MB (up from ~1.4MB), I might be inclined to agree with you.
if you want to get REAL technical, we all migrated at one point from the area now known as the middle east.
... unless you are distinguishing between 'fake technical' and 'real technical'. ;-)
And if you like to be even more technical, "real" is not the correct word to use as it is not the proper adjective. "Really" is the correct word