I can't help but think the big difference between artificial life and our consciousness is the ability to feel.
Or the abitlity to have an idea. Or imagination, creativity, dreams, and everything else we can't explain without religion. We won't be able to reproduce them until we take them into account, that's for sure.
I don't know how much clearer I could make this, but I will try.
I did NOT need a passport, in fact, I don't even have one. I DID need an ID entering and leaving the UK, both flying to and from Hungary, and crossing the Eurotunnel. I DID NOT need ANY identification crossing the France-Belgium, the Belgium-Netherlands, the Netherlands-Germany, the Germany-Austria, and the Austria-Hungary border. The only indication you're leaving a country was a sign, and the changing language of the advertisements along the road. There were no border checks at all.
No it doesn't. And the UK isn't part of the Schengen Agreement.
Meh. The EU abolished the need for a *passport*, if you have a valid ID. Schengen abolished the checks at the borders between those countries: if you're welcome in France, you're assumed to be welcome in Belgium, Germany, Austria and Hungary too.
And please don't cite me Wikipedia, I just did that trip.
I still don't understand the "Because it can be done easily is is my right to do it" attitude of the pirate defenders.
Easy. You're criminalizing a big chunk of society, who are actually decent people. Because it's so easy to do it, there's no moral backlash, no higher ethics forbidding it like murder. How could it be illegal to use the internet you paid for, after all?
Do you really want to ruin university students' (read: theoretically the best and brightest of their age range with the most promising future ahead of them) lives because they downloaded some music to go with the exam material? Do you really want the police state needed to enforce these laws today?
Copyright was invented to protect those who owned a printing machine from each other. You don't think those rules should apply today, do you? And if you're worried about the author, ask them next time how much of the retail price they get to keep. They'd be better off if you sent one of them $100 and pirated for the rest of your life.
And if you're still brainwashed enough to defend copyright, google up all the ancient Greek works that were destroyed, and only their copies survived.
Fair use? We're using computers, which do copying for even the most trivial operations, so we have to throw the idea out and look for something else.
Which is exactly why we need to extend the concept to computers en masse. The current laws are impossible to enforce without a police state. Which one would you want?
One of the general problems is that as soon as a computer is introduced to a subject area, all precedent is forgotten, chants of "That's different!" are heard repeatedly, and we humans must relearn every social lesson that we so laboriously worked out over the centuries.
Yes, but that's not a bad thing. The lessons our ancestors learned are different from today's. Our ancestors didn't have instant and truly anonymous speech from 10000 miles away in a country with no extradition treaty. Our ancestors didn't have access to so many types of entertainment competing for their attention span it's humanly impossible to even know about them all. We need to learn our own lessons about the Internet, because we're the ones who experience it.
If you lean too much on tradition you'll end up like Hungary in WW2: a Kingdom without a king, lead by an admiral without a fleet, in a country without a coastline, fighting against enemies we have no problems with, with countries as our ally we do have problems with.
This way the company will have a (more) legitimate excuse if they fire you for something said about the company. They'd fire you anyways, but this just gives them more 'grounds' in case you go back and try to sue them.
So, after firing you for no legally acceptable reason, if they cite a legally unenforceable piece of paper makes their position stronger? How? Any decent lawyer would argue this is a means of circumventing employment laws and as such, should be penalized.
wha? you produce vitamin D in your skin. you get vitamin A from plant sources, pro vitamines like carotenes. vitamin E is available in avocado and nuts. vitamin K in bananas.
Hmm. My biology teacher has failed me, it seems. My point still stands: if the artificial ecosystem doesn't contain everything the human body needs in the long run, expect failure, and lots of it. There's no point having a fusion reactor in space if everyone basically starves.
The book publishing industry will go the way of the music and movie industries, just a bit slower since reading text on a monitor is still not quite as easy as a real book.
First we need some laws on the subject that were not distorted from 200 years ago to fit the internet. We also need to realize culture cannot be monopolized, and any attempt to do that is doomed, even if people who demonstrate the freely copyable nature of any information are compared to other people who steal shit on the high seas.
If we want off earth for any length of time, we need a power plant that will sustain a manned spacecraft for a long journey. Fusion beats the hell out of fission in that department.
Actually, we need waaaaaay more than that. The human body is a lot more sophisticated than scientists would have us believe, and we need an ecosystem big enough to sustain it.
You do need a passport. Well, not need need, since no one is checking it at the borders, but if the police in another EU country ask for it you need to be able to present it. Some places a EU citizenship card doubles as a passport but they don't have those in the UK or eastern europe.
Bullshit. I've spent 8 months in the UK with no passport. EU law says if you have an EU citizenship, your ID is fully functional as a passsport throughout the EU. The only place they checked my papers from London to Budapest was the UK-French border, and even there the driver remarked that they're only doing that because we have a lot of dark-skinned passengers with an apparent genome line not originally from Europe.
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I fail to see how getting busted on copyright infringement will somehow cause you to lose your job
Two words: company policy.
Well, that's what you get for buying content instead of just copying it from pirate bay or whatever.
True. Except when that option can get you in more serious trouble than a copyright suit, e.g. losing your job.
I think that's the summary for the entire series.
That would be random chaotic funny and entertaining shit.
The advertising companies are very concerned about not sending unwanted messages to anyone.
You owe me a new keyboard.
... if George R.R. Martin would just finish writing the damn series!!!
Are you sure you'd be happy with it if it came prematurely? Mostly Harmless comes to mind. Summary: Random chaotic shit, and everyone dies at the end.
The '90s are over. Java is now one of the fastest languages around.
Around where?
So they designed and wrote a neural network for the sole purpose of identifying a limited set of icons? Seriously?
IN JAVA. Speed was obviously not in the design criteria.
Ohhh, can it tell me when to move and shoot as well?
It's emulating the human brain in a VM.
My equivalent implementation: while(true) {sleep(HALF_AN_HOUR); printf("You need to respawn.");}
I can't help but think the big difference between artificial life and our consciousness is the ability to feel.
Or the abitlity to have an idea. Or imagination, creativity, dreams, and everything else we can't explain without religion. We won't be able to reproduce them until we take them into account, that's for sure.
I don't know how much clearer I could make this, but I will try.
I did NOT need a passport, in fact, I don't even have one.
I DID need an ID entering and leaving the UK, both flying to and from Hungary, and crossing the Eurotunnel.
I DID NOT need ANY identification crossing the France-Belgium, the Belgium-Netherlands, the Netherlands-Germany, the Germany-Austria, and the Austria-Hungary border. The only indication you're leaving a country was a sign, and the changing language of the advertisements along the road. There were no border checks at all.
Close your fucking curtains! It's already safest to assume that everyone has a camera, because practically everyone does.
Also, there is the issue of what Greece will do if they find out Google is keeping detailed imagery against the ban. Sue them in the US?
And of course duch data is already collected by satellites that don't exist officially.
No it doesn't. And the UK isn't part of the Schengen Agreement.
Meh. The EU abolished the need for a *passport*, if you have a valid ID. Schengen abolished the checks at the borders between those countries: if you're welcome in France, you're assumed to be welcome in Belgium, Germany, Austria and Hungary too.
And please don't cite me Wikipedia, I just did that trip.
I still don't understand the "Because it can be done easily is is my right to do it" attitude of the pirate defenders.
Easy. You're criminalizing a big chunk of society, who are actually decent people. Because it's so easy to do it, there's no moral backlash, no higher ethics forbidding it like murder. How could it be illegal to use the internet you paid for, after all?
Do you really want to ruin university students' (read: theoretically the best and brightest of their age range with the most promising future ahead of them) lives because they downloaded some music to go with the exam material? Do you really want the police state needed to enforce these laws today?
Copyright was invented to protect those who owned a printing machine from each other. You don't think those rules should apply today, do you? And if you're worried about the author, ask them next time how much of the retail price they get to keep. They'd be better off if you sent one of them $100 and pirated for the rest of your life.
And if you're still brainwashed enough to defend copyright, google up all the ancient Greek works that were destroyed, and only their copies survived.
Fair use? We're using computers, which do copying for even the most trivial operations, so we have to throw the idea out and look for something else.
Which is exactly why we need to extend the concept to computers en masse. The current laws are impossible to enforce without a police state. Which one would you want?
One of the general problems is that as soon as a computer is introduced to a subject area, all precedent is forgotten, chants of "That's different!" are heard repeatedly, and we humans must relearn every social lesson that we so laboriously worked out over the centuries.
Yes, but that's not a bad thing. The lessons our ancestors learned are different from today's. Our ancestors didn't have instant and truly anonymous speech from 10000 miles away in a country with no extradition treaty. Our ancestors didn't have access to so many types of entertainment competing for their attention span it's humanly impossible to even know about them all. We need to learn our own lessons about the Internet, because we're the ones who experience it.
If you lean too much on tradition you'll end up like Hungary in WW2: a Kingdom without a king, lead by an admiral without a fleet, in a country without a coastline, fighting against enemies we have no problems with, with countries as our ally we do have problems with.
This way the company will have a (more) legitimate excuse if they fire you for something said about the company. They'd fire you anyways, but this just gives them more 'grounds' in case you go back and try to sue them.
So, after firing you for no legally acceptable reason, if they cite a legally unenforceable piece of paper makes their position stronger? How? Any decent lawyer would argue this is a means of circumventing employment laws and as such, should be penalized.
Rule #1 of internet discussions: if you're not sure about something, act like it, and people will research the answer for you.
wha? you produce vitamin D in your skin. you get vitamin A from plant sources, pro vitamines like carotenes. vitamin E is available in avocado and nuts. vitamin K in bananas.
Hmm. My biology teacher has failed me, it seems. My point still stands: if the artificial ecosystem doesn't contain everything the human body needs in the long run, expect failure, and lots of it. There's no point having a fusion reactor in space if everyone basically starves.
The book publishing industry will go the way of the music and movie industries, just a bit slower since reading text on a monitor is still not quite as easy as a real book.
First we need some laws on the subject that were not distorted from 200 years ago to fit the internet. We also need to realize culture cannot be monopolized, and any attempt to do that is doomed, even if people who demonstrate the freely copyable nature of any information are compared to other people who steal shit on the high seas.
So ... if you're right, and he really was being serious ... well, I don't know how to put it any more politely than "he's an idiot".
I'll say it again:
Vitamins A,D,E and K only dissolve in fat, and as such, only come from animals.
Uh. That was a joke, right?
Vitamins A,D,E and K only dissolve in fat, and as such, only come from animals.
If we want off earth for any length of time, we need a power plant that will sustain a manned spacecraft for a long journey. Fusion beats the hell out of fission in that department.
Actually, we need waaaaaay more than that. The human body is a lot more sophisticated than scientists would have us believe, and we need an ecosystem big enough to sustain it.
Vitamins don't grow on trees. Nor do micronutrients.
You do need a passport. Well, not need need, since no one is checking it at the borders, but if the police in another EU country ask for it you need to be able to present it. Some places a EU citizenship card doubles as a passport but they don't have those in the UK or eastern europe.
Bullshit. I've spent 8 months in the UK with no passport. EU law says if you have an EU citizenship, your ID is fully functional as a passsport throughout the EU. The only place they checked my papers from London to Budapest was the UK-French border, and even there the driver remarked that they're only doing that because we have a lot of dark-skinned passengers with an apparent genome line not originally from Europe.
Yes, racism exists, and it's based on experience.
Does that show historical values, like, say, WW2?
What makes you think we haven't? How far can you go without a passport?
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=worcester,+uk&daddr=p%C3%A9cs&hl=en&geocode=&mra=ls&sll=48.785735,9.39988&sspn=13.587171,28.300781&ie=UTF8&ll=49.21042,8.349609&spn=13.470776,28.300781&z=5
Big enough prison for me, thank you.
Whenever you pull the pendulum in one direction, it always swings back in the other one.
Or they could just make a law against encryption, like some countries did against owning big amounts of gold after they left the gold standard.