You know, I do appreciate the work of Mr Cummings, but I really don't understand how yelling "Sheena is a punk, a punk rocker" into a microphone twenty or thirty times counts as high art on the level of Mozart. Of course, to be fair, I don't really know why Mozart counts as high art either. Is it just because they're both so darn catchy? Cause then Justin Timberlake should count with his clever Motherlovin' song, regardless of Rivers Cuomo's opinion of his work.
Funny how these artificial music things always start with those most artless hacks of all, like Mozart and Beethoven. It's just easier when you start with the trashy stuff, ya?
I did this for my "Hibernate" key, which was brilliantly placed right above my Esc key. A little duct tape over the hole, and it has most definitely eliminated all issues.
Man, I checked out that pizza link in your sig, and that is so cool! I wish the pizza place would be that good around here. I live in NYC and I can't even get them to leave their car to deliver pizza to my door, let alone all those other handy features they show there.
If A implies B, B can still be true even if A is false.
Yes, but it doesn't actually prove anything. B is still just as unknown as before.
In theory, you could analysis the probability of every situation that might cause B to be true, and combine them to provide a statistical estimate for the validity of assuming B to be true, given the likelihood of your unknowns. That's probably the best way to go about it.
Or you could do a kind of risk analysis and say that even if there's only a 1% chance that the universe is real, and a 99% chance that it's not, then going with the 1% shot gives you a 99% chance of losing nothing. Going with the nothing gives you a 1% chance of losing everything. Assuming the world doesn't exist only has risk, and assuming it does only has gain.
But you can't just say "A big, happy white guy with a beard up in the sky says that everything in hunky dory, so I'm gonna go with it!" That's just ridiculous, even if B is true for some other, unknown reason.
Likewise, for your second quote:
No freeman shall be taken, imprisoned,...or in any other way destroyed...except by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
If you look at the analysis of correction versus punishment as an effective means of reducing unethical or criminal behavior, it becomes clear that arbitrary penalty of any kind is counter to the benefit of society. If you establish the benefit of society as an arbitrary goal (or use a similar, reasonable analysis to determine it a worthwhile goal), then that same conclusion is found without resorting to meaningless assumptions.
As for "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness," well, each require its own analysis with respect to your stated goal of benefiting society (or whatever particular goal is ultimately determined best). Just saying "it should be obvious" is, again, not reasonable. It sounds good, which is more effective for instigating social change, but is a poor decision making system.
But it doesn't prove he exists. It's valid logically but it's invalid as an argument for existence. As you say, it's true for any value of P, he exist or he doesn't. I apologize for misusing the logical term "invalid." I should have been more clear in my meaning.
Did you know that they actually made a TV Show after that film? Needless to say, it was not a smash hit. It did have Jennifer Aniston, though, in her first significant role. Interesting trivia, eh?
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Beads are all doughnuts.
Spheres do not have holes in them.
The sets are disjoint.
Only if you save it under httpd/html.
Psh, I'd hit it like a cymbal.
You know, I do appreciate the work of Mr Cummings, but I really don't understand how yelling "Sheena is a punk, a punk rocker" into a microphone twenty or thirty times counts as high art on the level of Mozart. Of course, to be fair, I don't really know why Mozart counts as high art either. Is it just because they're both so darn catchy? Cause then Justin Timberlake should count with his clever Motherlovin' song, regardless of Rivers Cuomo's opinion of his work.
In the US, we don't water board schoolchildren for loitering, regardless of whether or not we even water board enemies of the state anymore.
If only he had read the sign... Why do they never read the sign? It's there for a reason!
Funny how these artificial music things always start with those most artless hacks of all, like Mozart and Beethoven. It's just easier when you start with the trashy stuff, ya?
I did this for my "Hibernate" key, which was brilliantly placed right above my Esc key. A little duct tape over the hole, and it has most definitely eliminated all issues.
Man, I checked out that pizza link in your sig, and that is so cool! I wish the pizza place would be that good around here. I live in NYC and I can't even get them to leave their car to deliver pizza to my door, let alone all those other handy features they show there.
Major attack preventer: Google docs PDF reader.
FTFS
FTFW
My, aren't you tardy to the party.
*woosh*
Mine was "I hope no one tries to post a picture of the Korean War Memorial."
If A implies B, B can still be true even if A is false.
Yes, but it doesn't actually prove anything. B is still just as unknown as before.
In theory, you could analysis the probability of every situation that might cause B to be true, and combine them to provide a statistical estimate for the validity of assuming B to be true, given the likelihood of your unknowns. That's probably the best way to go about it.
Or you could do a kind of risk analysis and say that even if there's only a 1% chance that the universe is real, and a 99% chance that it's not, then going with the 1% shot gives you a 99% chance of losing nothing. Going with the nothing gives you a 1% chance of losing everything. Assuming the world doesn't exist only has risk, and assuming it does only has gain.
But you can't just say "A big, happy white guy with a beard up in the sky says that everything in hunky dory, so I'm gonna go with it!" That's just ridiculous, even if B is true for some other, unknown reason.
Likewise, for your second quote:
No freeman shall be taken, imprisoned,...or in any other way destroyed...except by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
If you look at the analysis of correction versus punishment as an effective means of reducing unethical or criminal behavior, it becomes clear that arbitrary penalty of any kind is counter to the benefit of society. If you establish the benefit of society as an arbitrary goal (or use a similar, reasonable analysis to determine it a worthwhile goal), then that same conclusion is found without resorting to meaningless assumptions.
As for "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness," well, each require its own analysis with respect to your stated goal of benefiting society (or whatever particular goal is ultimately determined best). Just saying "it should be obvious" is, again, not reasonable. It sounds good, which is more effective for instigating social change, but is a poor decision making system.
That's not the same kind of POST.
But it doesn't prove he exists. It's valid logically but it's invalid as an argument for existence. As you say, it's true for any value of P, he exist or he doesn't. I apologize for misusing the logical term "invalid." I should have been more clear in my meaning.
A brain the size of a planet and I can't even manage to be anonymous on the internet.
But it's so much easier to cobble together your own toaster from spare parts!
Even the digital music must be converted to analog before you can hear it.
Psh. I listen to all my music as a series of logic pulses directly output from the MP3, and decode it in my head.
Clearly, you are unfamiliar with the Cartesian Circle. It effectively argues that God exists, therefore letters exist.
So he shifted his flawed argument from "I exist, therefore I exist" to "God exists, therefore I exist?" That's still completely invalid.
I believe his concern is that if you start on false premises, your argument is effectively meaningless. You could derive anything.
Oh, that's not a problem. You can hear it.
Did you know that they actually made a TV Show after that film? Needless to say, it was not a smash hit. It did have Jennifer Aniston, though, in her first significant role. Interesting trivia, eh?