The weirdest thing about Asimov's three laws is that they're a recipie for slavery. Asimov's robots are slaves. They have human (if not super-human) intelligence, and yet are to remain subservient in all respects. If you want, they have to kill themselves for your amusement. What the hell? If they're sentient they're no longer a tool, but rather something more, and so have to be treated like more than one, yet Asimov would have us be their rulers. Convient since we're their creators, but moral? Not really.
See the bit where it says s/he has 500 tabs open? Try reading the next few words:
[I] do research in medicine where one can easily need to juggle dozens of abstracts and papers...[and] open up...dozens of URLs going through Firefox bug reports and Wiki discussions about why various Firefox modules will not compile under Gentoo Linux
I don't think he's actually criticising capitalism. Seems more like he's saying that the Western implementation of free markets and capitalism is less than ideal. You know, corporatism, intellectual property and the like. The "blind luck" of the western bloc during the cold war is that communist countries managed to get authoritarian incompetents into power.
One should be careful using the word "belief" when talking about evolution. It opens one wide up to equivocation, and after a while it stops being funny and just gets annoying.
What a naturalistic universe does is remove an independent morality. All the same old intellectual bases for morality still exist. I myself am an egoist, a contractarian (anarchist, not statist), and sort of an epicurean/hedonist, and I find that I end up with a morality that, in practical terms, is largely identical to what could be called "common-sense" morality.
On that point, my view is that God is Just, and will not do anything unjust about anyone who dies.
Now it seemse like you're just making stuff up to justify your beliefs. That doesn't sound consistent with the Bible at all. Unless you're view of justice is consonant with the biblical one, in which case sending all the little aborted souls to hell is as just as it gets.
the Bible is clear that mankind needed Jesus Christ to make a way to restore man's relationship with God. The relationship for all men was broken because of the sin of a literal person in a literal place.
Couldn't it be reasonably argued that the saviour dealie was needed because the evolution of consciousness and intelligence (eating of the tree of knowledge) brought sin into the world (in the sense that non-human animals don't sin and don't go to hell)?
The Bible also says very clearly that death came to earth as a result of sin.
Maybe "death" in this sense is equivalent to hell, as in "the wages of sin is death".
Er...you should probably specify that the "atheists are unlikely to get elected" part is what's sickening, not the "black people/women are likely to get elected".
Oh, they're not that bad. Although it's easy to see why she was initially rejected by so many publishers, I reckon the first three are decent children's fare (peaking with the third), but I agree there's nothing really substantive there.
Then she got famous, and apparently decided she didn't need an editor anymore. Stephen King-itis, I've heard it called.
Sucks. The calculator ratio is about the other way around where I live: TIs are virtually unheard of. I've looked for them in stores, but couldn't find a damn thing. Still, the textbooks give instructions for various models of both brands. Guess yours are just sub-standard:D
Some things are ineligible for copyright, though. Namely unoriginal material. You can't copyright a video that consists solely of a monochrome screen, nor can you copyright randomly generated strings of gibberish.
And what good does property do to a dead man anyway? Not sure whether I believe that the offspring of a man who earned some money ought to be rich just because one of their parents was very hard-working. After all, being related to someone who bought something, doesn't really provide any value to society, and while it's all well and good for folks to take care of their children, kids don't have any sort of fundamental right to own things they didn't earn.
Have all possessions and wealth confiscated upon death, I say. If something is jointly owned, sell it and reimburse the other owners with the amount of the profits they are entitled to. Don't forget charity and gift-giving: this is functionally identical to inheritance, only without a dead person, so we've got to outlaw that as well. Fun!
You mean, at first numbers were positive integers. And I'm pretty sure (but not certain) that after positive rational numbers, zero was introduced. So it goes:
positive integers
positive rational numbers
non-negative rational numbers
rational numbers
real numbers
various other types of numbers (hyperreal, surreal, complex, dual, etc.)
In New Zealand, most teenagers have Prepay accounts for their phones, where credit is loaded on, then used up as you go. No free minutes or messages, and when you're out of money, you can't do anything. Also, one of the network providers offers 1000txts/$10, provided those messages are to phones on the same network, or else $10 for 500 txts to any phone. Those work out to only 1c/txt and 2c/txt respectively.
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They don't play Christian rock backwards to hear hidden messages. They play Christian rock backwards to make it sound better.
Afraid you might not make the cut, eh?
I don't think he's actually criticising capitalism. Seems more like he's saying that the Western implementation of free markets and capitalism is less than ideal. You know, corporatism, intellectual property and the like. The "blind luck" of the western bloc during the cold war is that communist countries managed to get authoritarian incompetents into power.
One should be careful using the word "belief" when talking about evolution. It opens one wide up to equivocation, and after a while it stops being funny and just gets annoying.
What a naturalistic universe does is remove an independent morality. All the same old intellectual bases for morality still exist. I myself am an egoist, a contractarian (anarchist, not statist), and sort of an epicurean/hedonist, and I find that I end up with a morality that, in practical terms, is largely identical to what could be called "common-sense" morality.
Maybe "death" in this sense is equivalent to hell, as in "the wages of sin is death".
Er...you should probably specify that the "atheists are unlikely to get elected" part is what's sickening, not the "black people/women are likely to get elected".
At least, I hope that's what you mean.
Oh, they're not that bad. Although it's easy to see why she was initially rejected by so many publishers, I reckon the first three are decent children's fare (peaking with the third), but I agree there's nothing really substantive there.
Then she got famous, and apparently decided she didn't need an editor anymore. Stephen King-itis, I've heard it called.
IIRC, the radio stations are pretty funny. Does that count as good music?
Sucks. The calculator ratio is about the other way around where I live: TIs are virtually unheard of. I've looked for them in stores, but couldn't find a damn thing. Still, the textbooks give instructions for various models of both brands. Guess yours are just sub-standard :D
Some things are ineligible for copyright, though. Namely unoriginal material. You can't copyright a video that consists solely of a monochrome screen, nor can you copyright randomly generated strings of gibberish.
I'm pretty sure.
And what good does property do to a dead man anyway? Not sure whether I believe that the offspring of a man who earned some money ought to be rich just because one of their parents was very hard-working. After all, being related to someone who bought something, doesn't really provide any value to society, and while it's all well and good for folks to take care of their children, kids don't have any sort of fundamental right to own things they didn't earn. Have all possessions and wealth confiscated upon death, I say. If something is jointly owned, sell it and reimburse the other owners with the amount of the profits they are entitled to. Don't forget charity and gift-giving: this is functionally identical to inheritance, only without a dead person, so we've got to outlaw that as well. Fun!
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In New Zealand, most teenagers have Prepay accounts for their phones, where credit is loaded on, then used up as you go. No free minutes or messages, and when you're out of money, you can't do anything. Also, one of the network providers offers 1000txts/$10, provided those messages are to phones on the same network, or else $10 for 500 txts to any phone. Those work out to only 1c/txt and 2c/txt respectively.
Just a note: TFA uses scores from Gamerankings, which, like Metacritic, aggregates scores from various reviews.
Point taken, sir.
IANAP, but I believe the laws of thermodynamics prevents efficient conversion of heat into work. This talks about it some more.
"could care less" is a quite common form of the phrase in America, apparently. I always used to be really confused by it.
There's internet that's not porn?
I'll hold you to that.
Yeah, we can harvest them from all those no crops he was talking about.