Modern neuroscience is killing any wiggle-room that might have remained regarding souls and free will.
'Souls' was always a nonsensical concept. Free will isn't being destroyed, though; just becoming a little more rigorously defined. You still decide what you do, it's just that the mechanism of how you do that is being nailed down. Past definitions of free will often included magic or randomness in an attempt to avoid causality. Instead, it needs to be reconciled with causality.
You can still decide what you do, until they put the magnet to your head and make you tell a lie. Then they throw you in jail for lying under oath. Couldn't you claim that the magnets made you do it?
The Feds will be very interested in this. If it pans out, expect portable versions deployed by police departments within five years.
I doubt it.... sure, you can prevent me from telling a lie...fine. Its no lie at all that I don't want to continue this conversation, and am unwilling to talk any more without a lawyer present. It is also completely true that I wish to remain silent.
No, I don't see it going into police departments first. I see it being implemented in the airports. After your nude scanner photos are taken and distributed they will hook up the brain-magnet machine and simply ask you if you are a terrorist. If you can't lie, then all the terrorists will admit what they are up to. And you don't have a choice to remain silent since you are not under arrest. If you don't cooporate they don't let you fly. And they charge you $11,000 for entering security and not completing it properly. You volunteered to buy a plane ticket, so if the TSA rapist wants to feel you up and alter your brain, you have to comply.
Why should Amazon be able to avoid paying taxes while any other business in the state does?
I'm sick of corporate America being treated like royalty. They have more voting power, more funds, lower taxes, and seemingly unlimited resources to control the political landscape to the detriment of the consumer. When they start hiring and stop giving all their money to their CEO's, perhaps I might have more sympathy, but until I see they are actually interested in supporting the states and municipals where they do business, then I can't seem to shed a tear for them.
In the end the taxes just get passed on to you, the consumer! So I hope you feel good paying even more taxes than you do now. California isn't taxing Amazon, it will just tax the California resident that purchases from Amazon.
Plus, how is Amazon different than any other mail order catalog company that does not have to pay taxes in a state? Just because they have a business relationship with a company in California? So every company that ships stuff has to use UPS or FexEx or something. So they have business relationships with a company in the state also. Start taxing everything no matter what.
Why don't we just switch to a 100% income tax? Then there are no problems. You give all the money you make to big gub'mint, and they deem what it is you can have to survive. Sounds good! Those Californian's are just the ones to try something new and crazy like this. Maybe it will be the next great thing! [END SARCASM]
Eaten alive by THREE-FOOT invisible Brooklyn-dwelling rats, seeking revenge for their fellow three-foot rat who got impaled on a pitchfork. (There. Corrected it for you.)
This post makes me wonder what happened to the fourth foot. Was it lost because someone stepped on the foot, not being able to see it, and crushed the bones beyond healing?
They had better categories when they put the items into the menus. I think that is what makes the ribbon so annoying! It's that the places they put things make no sense, so it takes forever to search every ribbon for the thing you are looking for.
I agree that getting rid of timezones makes things more complicated. I do think we could get rid of the Daylight Savings Time offsets though. That just makes things more complicated whether you have timezones or not.
They found 6 of these things very nearby. How big are they? If there are enough of them they could make up for the missing matter that led to the theory of Dark Matter. Or at least reduce it by a large margin.
Each company maintains a "war chest" of abusive patents. Motorola Mobile just got bought out at 63% higher than market value. at a sale price of $12.5 billion.
Suddenly, the company you've invested in jumps for 63% over market value due to their patent portfolio. Then along comes a new ruling and it is essentially worthless. Up 63%, then suddenly zero.
See the problem yet?
I don't understand why you don't see the problem with buying imaginary property for 12.5 billion. If you were a share holder of a company, would you rather they spend 12.5 billion on buying another company out so they can fight a money wasting lawsuit, or would you rather they innovate, create, and make money rather than send money to lawers. If all the companies lost their software patents, whatever drop in share price that occured would be even accross the board, unless the company is only a patent troll, they would stand to loose more. Plus the lawers will loose out. And since laws are made be lawers, I don't see them hurting their own cache cow and changing the broken patent system.
It can ONLY have legal implications IF they can prove he made those statements with full technical knowledge of patent and technical implications.
Considering no such assertions have been made, its complete safe to say you're talking out of your ass. Thanks for once again verifying this is slashdot.
I had thought the same thing. He didn't have the knowledge of the patents that might be infringed when he made that statement. But then I thought how the company would have made legal motions right after that statement if there were licences to work out. The company now knows there is infringement going on and does nothing about it for this long. It again points to this being estoppel.
As long as I can get a cat that will tell me exactly what it wants instead of me having to figure it out, I'm good.
Then they can apply that gene to women.
That's easy. But there's one fatal flaw to this idea. In order to give women the ability to just tell people what they want, you have to insert a Y chromosome. Trouble is, that turns them into a man.
That's easy. Just back up one step and find a solution there. Change a gene to make men attracted to other men. Problem solved!
all we really need is maybe a metal detector, and on the other side, a couple of bomb sniffing dogs
Yep. That worked real well in 2001.
Dude, don't be such a tool! The planes weren't even normal commercial aircraft. They had pods attached to the bottom of them and you can see the flames of a rocket or missile launch right before the plane hit the buildings. No security would have stopped it when it was done by inside forces.
But I guess you will be happier just rolling over and letting your freedom be taken from you in the name of Freedom.
This whole "Manning was a hero" thing is really weird.
The guy committed a crime. The crime is pretty clear. He also committed the crime with a pretty blatant disregard for anyone else.
So when someone come forth with proof that the 9/11 attack was planned and executed by Dick Cheney and other high up government insiders, the wistle-blower is the traitor and criminal again?! Our own government is committing crimes and using secrecy to cover it up. I think that gives people the duty to report what they find out.
Have you looked closely at the video footage of the planes hitting the towers? You can clearly see rockets shooting out from pods on the underside of the planes just before impact. Commercial airlines do not have pods on the undersides anyway, and for a bright flame to shoot out before impact does not hold to the stories we have been told!
I would rob and kill the TSA lackey's at their homes. Killing evil people has a nice ring to it. And you should be able to make enough to like off of selling their stuff on the black market!
I have tried the CFL's in many of my light fixtures and have found them completly unacceptable. They don't even turn on in the light fixture on the front porch. (Illinois winters are too cold?) They flicker constatly because every light switch I installed is a digital dimmer smart switch. I am looking forward to trying the LED lights, but they still seem pretty expensive.
I like analog watches better than the digital ones. Watches don't stay accurate to the minute anyway, so who needs the digital display telling you the exact second it is when that is different from what your dash in your car is telling you. Analog gives you a feeling of time slowly flowing, rather than the start and stop of the digital time.
One thing I found interesting after I started wearing a binary watch (The One), it seems more analog than digital. With a quick glance I can see the hour and that the minutes are somewhere near 15 for example. If I wanted to study the lights closer I could see it is actually 18. So like looking at the minute hand of an analog watch and seeing it is a little past 15, I see the same thing in the lights. The other interesting point about it is that the easiest numbers to notice are in base 2 amounts. Seeing it is 8:32 is easier to notice that 8:30. Although 30 is pretty easy also: 011110, the middle four light on.
I thought all the nuclear fans have been saying that there was no way that renewable energy could get anywhere close to the amount of power generated by the nuclear plants. Is everything they have been telling us just a bunch of lies, or do I have something confused?
I foresee the end of this republic and going into a Roman style empire, with modern hi-tech, within 10-50 years if we keep following this path.
Too late, we're already there. The republic was over years ago. It's just not so obvious.
However, unlike the Roman Empire which survived for centuries, we don't have the economic power left to do that. This country is going to collapse in a matter of years or maybe a decade or two.
And just like the Roman Empire, the people there don't know it is over for 50-100 years.
That this does not bar the humane society from adoption, etc. It only prevents mills and breeding which is why I'd be in favor of such a provision.
Only for now. PETA wants all pets to be put down rather than have loving homes. If they get this law in the books it will just be a stepping stone for their next push.
I usually don't care for government getting involved in these things, but we have an epidemic here. Hundreds of thousands of cats and dogs are being put down every year in this country b/c of over population and lack of homes.
It is PETA's view that all the pets with good loving homes should be put down also. They are actually that wacko that they would rather kill the animals rather then let them live with humans.
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Modern neuroscience is killing any wiggle-room that might have remained regarding souls and free will. 'Souls' was always a nonsensical concept. Free will isn't being destroyed, though; just becoming a little more rigorously defined. You still decide what you do, it's just that the mechanism of how you do that is being nailed down. Past definitions of free will often included magic or randomness in an attempt to avoid causality. Instead, it needs to be reconciled with causality.
You can still decide what you do, until they put the magnet to your head and make you tell a lie. Then they throw you in jail for lying under oath. Couldn't you claim that the magnets made you do it?
The Feds will be very interested in this. If it pans out, expect portable versions deployed by police departments within five years.
I doubt it.... sure, you can prevent me from telling a lie...fine. Its no lie at all that I don't want to continue this conversation, and am unwilling to talk any more without a lawyer present. It is also completely true that I wish to remain silent.
No, I don't see it going into police departments first. I see it being implemented in the airports. After your nude scanner photos are taken and distributed they will hook up the brain-magnet machine and simply ask you if you are a terrorist. If you can't lie, then all the terrorists will admit what they are up to. And you don't have a choice to remain silent since you are not under arrest. If you don't cooporate they don't let you fly. And they charge you $11,000 for entering security and not completing it properly. You volunteered to buy a plane ticket, so if the TSA rapist wants to feel you up and alter your brain, you have to comply.
Don't you just love the "land of the free"!
Why should Amazon be able to avoid paying taxes while any other business in the state does?
I'm sick of corporate America being treated like royalty. They have more voting power, more funds, lower taxes, and seemingly unlimited resources to control the political landscape to the detriment of the consumer. When they start hiring and stop giving all their money to their CEO's, perhaps I might have more sympathy, but until I see they are actually interested in supporting the states and municipals where they do business, then I can't seem to shed a tear for them.
In the end the taxes just get passed on to you, the consumer! So I hope you feel good paying even more taxes than you do now. California isn't taxing Amazon, it will just tax the California resident that purchases from Amazon.
Plus, how is Amazon different than any other mail order catalog company that does not have to pay taxes in a state? Just because they have a business relationship with a company in California? So every company that ships stuff has to use UPS or FexEx or something. So they have business relationships with a company in the state also. Start taxing everything no matter what.
Why don't we just switch to a 100% income tax? Then there are no problems. You give all the money you make to big gub'mint, and they deem what it is you can have to survive. Sounds good! Those Californian's are just the ones to try something new and crazy like this. Maybe it will be the next great thing! [END SARCASM]
Eaten alive by THREE-FOOT invisible Brooklyn-dwelling rats, seeking revenge for their fellow three-foot rat who got impaled on a pitchfork. (There. Corrected it for you.)
This post makes me wonder what happened to the fourth foot. Was it lost because someone stepped on the foot, not being able to see it, and crushed the bones beyond healing?
They had better categories when they put the items into the menus. I think that is what makes the ribbon so annoying! It's that the places they put things make no sense, so it takes forever to search every ribbon for the thing you are looking for.
I agree that getting rid of timezones makes things more complicated. I do think we could get rid of the Daylight Savings Time offsets though. That just makes things more complicated whether you have timezones or not.
They found 6 of these things very nearby. How big are they? If there are enough of them they could make up for the missing matter that led to the theory of Dark Matter. Or at least reduce it by a large margin.
Good luck on your future endeavors CmdrTaco. The site you started is one of the coolest places on the net.
Thanks!
Each company maintains a "war chest" of abusive patents. Motorola Mobile just got bought out at 63% higher than market value. at a sale price of $12.5 billion.
Suddenly, the company you've invested in jumps for 63% over market value due to their patent portfolio. Then along comes a new ruling and it is essentially worthless. Up 63%, then suddenly zero.
See the problem yet?
I don't understand why you don't see the problem with buying imaginary property for 12.5 billion. If you were a share holder of a company, would you rather they spend 12.5 billion on buying another company out so they can fight a money wasting lawsuit, or would you rather they innovate, create, and make money rather than send money to lawers. If all the companies lost their software patents, whatever drop in share price that occured would be even accross the board, unless the company is only a patent troll, they would stand to loose more. Plus the lawers will loose out. And since laws are made be lawers, I don't see them hurting their own cache cow and changing the broken patent system.
It can ONLY have legal implications IF they can prove he made those statements with full technical knowledge of patent and technical implications.
Considering no such assertions have been made, its complete safe to say you're talking out of your ass. Thanks for once again verifying this is slashdot.
I had thought the same thing. He didn't have the knowledge of the patents that might be infringed when he made that statement. But then I thought how the company would have made legal motions right after that statement if there were licences to work out. The company now knows there is infringement going on and does nothing about it for this long. It again points to this being estoppel.
As long as I can get a cat that will tell me exactly what it wants instead of me having to figure it out, I'm good.
Then they can apply that gene to women.
That's easy. But there's one fatal flaw to this idea. In order to give women the ability to just tell people what they want, you have to insert a Y chromosome. Trouble is, that turns them into a man.
That's easy. Just back up one step and find a solution there. Change a gene to make men attracted to other men. Problem solved!
Or, what about a 'get into the security line naked' day! I would like to see the hot girls in line on that day!
all we really need is maybe a metal detector, and on the other side, a couple of bomb sniffing dogs
Yep. That worked real well in 2001.
Dude, don't be such a tool! The planes weren't even normal commercial aircraft. They had pods attached to the bottom of them and you can see the flames of a rocket or missile launch right before the plane hit the buildings. No security would have stopped it when it was done by inside forces.
But I guess you will be happier just rolling over and letting your freedom be taken from you in the name of Freedom.
From that page:
An audible alarm signals when a button is depressed
Wouldn't it be great if the alarm sound had a different tone for each number pressed, kind of like a telephone?
I think the whooshing sound went whoosh!
This whole "Manning was a hero" thing is really weird. The guy committed a crime. The crime is pretty clear. He also committed the crime with a pretty blatant disregard for anyone else.
So when someone come forth with proof that the 9/11 attack was planned and executed by Dick Cheney and other high up government insiders, the wistle-blower is the traitor and criminal again?! Our own government is committing crimes and using secrecy to cover it up. I think that gives people the duty to report what they find out.
Have you looked closely at the video footage of the planes hitting the towers? You can clearly see rockets shooting out from pods on the underside of the planes just before impact. Commercial airlines do not have pods on the undersides anyway, and for a bright flame to shoot out before impact does not hold to the stories we have been told!
Wake me up when I can use my phone as a mouse...
Hey!!! Wakeup!!!
You can do that now! http://www.devbury.com/
I would rob and kill the TSA lackey's at their homes. Killing evil people has a nice ring to it. And you should be able to make enough to like off of selling their stuff on the black market!
I have tried the CFL's in many of my light fixtures and have found them completly unacceptable. They don't even turn on in the light fixture on the front porch. (Illinois winters are too cold?) They flicker constatly because every light switch I installed is a digital dimmer smart switch. I am looking forward to trying the LED lights, but they still seem pretty expensive.
I like analog watches better than the digital ones. Watches don't stay accurate to the minute anyway, so who needs the digital display telling you the exact second it is when that is different from what your dash in your car is telling you. Analog gives you a feeling of time slowly flowing, rather than the start and stop of the digital time.
One thing I found interesting after I started wearing a binary watch (The One), it seems more analog than digital. With a quick glance I can see the hour and that the minutes are somewhere near 15 for example. If I wanted to study the lights closer I could see it is actually 18. So like looking at the minute hand of an analog watch and seeing it is a little past 15, I see the same thing in the lights. The other interesting point about it is that the easiest numbers to notice are in base 2 amounts. Seeing it is 8:32 is easier to notice that 8:30. Although 30 is pretty easy also: 011110, the middle four light on.
I thought all the nuclear fans have been saying that there was no way that renewable energy could get anywhere close to the amount of power generated by the nuclear plants. Is everything they have been telling us just a bunch of lies, or do I have something confused?
Put the kickstand down. That usually does the trick for me.
I foresee the end of this republic and going into a Roman style empire, with modern hi-tech, within 10-50 years if we keep following this path.
Too late, we're already there. The republic was over years ago. It's just not so obvious.
However, unlike the Roman Empire which survived for centuries, we don't have the economic power left to do that. This country is going to collapse in a matter of years or maybe a decade or two.
And just like the Roman Empire, the people there don't know it is over for 50-100 years.
That this does not bar the humane society from adoption, etc. It only prevents mills and breeding which is why I'd be in favor of such a provision.
Only for now. PETA wants all pets to be put down rather than have loving homes. If they get this law in the books it will just be a stepping stone for their next push.
I usually don't care for government getting involved in these things, but we have an epidemic here. Hundreds of thousands of cats and dogs are being put down every year in this country b/c of over population and lack of homes.
It is PETA's view that all the pets with good loving homes should be put down also. They are actually that wacko that they would rather kill the animals rather then let them live with humans.