Small nitpick but they aren't 'murderers' when they were found innocent by a jury of their peers.
In the eyes of the law perhaps (as it should be). But never confuse law with reason. That will get you nowhere. Just because a court finds that grass does not reflect green light does not make it so.
If the coast land slowly floods, people will move (to the new coast land). If the seas rise 15 feet tomorrow, that would be a disaster. So long as humanity has sufficient time to adapt, I am 100% confident that they will. Few people starve today for lack of global food production. They starve for lack of efficient usage of the food we have. The US alone throws away enough food to feed entire populations. And that's not even considering the excess that we eat.
Unfortunate, illegal, annoying, globally disruptive, even unethical perhaps. But none of that sounds like the horrible disasters I am being told of. When we're talking about significant probability of total human annihilation, maybe I'll be concerned.
I'm still waiting for them to come up with something that's actually disastrous. Admittedly, my view of what disastrous is probably starkly differs from most people. I don't see species extinction as a problem (untold numbers of species have gone extinct in the history of our planet), ice ages come and go, and populations wax and wane (even human populations) for various reasons. Where is the real disaster?
When Siddhartha joined the Aesthetics, he learned to free his mind from the physical realm and take many forms. In the end though, it was the river that taught him the nature of the universe.
Few people doubt that global warming is happening anymore. The new battle ground is whether or not we're causing it and whether or not the consequences are really as dire as they want us to believe.
Or the ones who scream that there isn't are almost always getting the funding for their research from oil companies.
What Al Gore and other non-scientists do or don't do have no bearing on the veracity of the research done by the actual climate scientists.
So you admit that climate scientists being paid by oil companies has no bearing on the veracity of their research? Just checking. Actually most climate scientists that I talk to openly tell me that no one has any freaking clue as to what is going on with global warming, whether it's man made or not. Everyone else is speculating or is in someone's wallet.
I'm curious to know if these journals are real respected peer reviewed publications. If so, they should be reviewing their peer review policies and/or looking at whether or not they were defrauded by the authors.
One also has to wonder about the effects resulting from survival instinct. Even if a computer became self aware enough to be capable of being concerned with its own survival, is a will to survive really as fundamental and granted as we often seem to believe it to be?
It's also interesting to keep in mind that the human brain is completely and totally useless without all of the other complex parts that allow it to interface with the outside world. A computer with the capacity of a human brain is uninteresting until it can receive a complicated set of stimuli and then also manipulate the world around itself in response.
When did the Chinese government select this kid? His father voluntarily sought out the camp and paid $1024 without so much as a call from the government. Though honestly, that's almost more horrifying for the family. At least when the government forces your kid into a deathtrap, the family doesn't feel like it was their fault it happen.
i'm sure there are holidays camps or scouts or whatever goes hiking away from wifi
In China? Maybe. I don't really know what is available for kids in China. However, if we're talking about clinical addiction, such a simplistic view of a cure is just as bad as this approach. I'll agree that parents are likely to blame because they are the most likely enabler for the addicted child. But once you have reached clinical addiction levels, it is extremely difficult to break, and most people will struggle with it for most of their lives.
This is especially sad to me because I'm not really against the idea of an "Internet addiction camp" in general. Real addiction can come in many forms, and it deserves being considered for treatment. But this just shows once again how (in this case very ironically) out of touch Chinese officials are with the concept of moderation.
There's a huge leap between the officers and officials who set policy and are responsible for implementing orders and the guys on the ground who truly are just riding on the waves. In this case, look to the district attorney and the elected officials.
Juries should just hand out the heaviest possible judgment in all of these cases. 600k or 4.5 million is all the same to my bank account. I would rather the jury keep handing out multi-million awards so that the RIAA just looks like a bunch of nut cases to the general public.
I don't like your attitude. You think the Quality Assurance department gets congratulated when federal regulators don't decide to cite violations? You think the equipment engineers get congratulated when their systems don't breakdown on high volume three shifts per day production lines? You think the hospital systems engineer gets congratulated when their nurse alarm systems don't fail resulting in patient death? Where is the manufacturing appreciation day? The product development engineer appreciation day? If you don't find much satisfaction in facilitating a high efficiency or high reliability system, maybe you should consider why you went into IT to begin with.
Occasionally we all will be thanked for a success (or at least I should hope). But for the most part all of our successes are seen as expected outputs from what we are employed to do. That applies to janitors all the way to managers. Some jobs are higher paid because they require special expertise, experience, and/or higher responsibility.
Freedom has it's price, both in your convenience and in your finances. Social maladjustment? I honestly believe that high school did more to cause any maladjustment in my life than to prevent it. Adults are far better role models on how one should behave in society and appropriately deal with disagreements. In high school I learned that the proper way to deal with someone who does you wrong is to spread nasty rumors and have others ostracize them. In the real world I learned that this is incorrect and that usually the most appropriate action is to simply forget it and move on.
The point is that the system is a team. IT is no more or less important than the functions of a company that produce, design, and sell their product. If any member of the team is not being appreciated on a daily basis, then that company is running inefficiently and the stock holders should be raising hell.
Actually it's more like 16x what I make, I'm not peeved about it, and it's not "some idiotic guy" (thank you for insulting IT staff that you know nothing about). We contract IT service from a full IT team. I have little other than praise for the IT help that we have. However, for the scale of our company and what we genuinely need, what we have is excessive. We need IT because the people here who have the knowledge to keep our networks running are too busy with their primary duties to deal with it. Only hundreds of hours of study and practice? You must be new since a full time job should have you working about 2,000 hours a year, almost all of which should be a learning and refining experience in some way or another.
I never have treated IT like inferior beings and I get along just fine with the IT guys I have worked with. Though thanks to your hot headed response, I might change my tune. Perhaps I don't know them as well as I thought I did.
For what the small company I work for pays for IT services, I would gladly take over the contract, half their fee, hire two guys, and pay for most new equipment out of my own pocket.
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He just never learned about implication functions.
Actually it's more like the following implication function: Innocent => Not Guilty
Small nitpick but they aren't 'murderers' when they were found innocent by a jury of their peers.
In the eyes of the law perhaps (as it should be). But never confuse law with reason. That will get you nowhere. Just because a court finds that grass does not reflect green light does not make it so.
Please explain to me how rising waters and global temperatures is going to directly result in 100 million deaths. I need statistical analysis here.
If the coast land slowly floods, people will move (to the new coast land). If the seas rise 15 feet tomorrow, that would be a disaster. So long as humanity has sufficient time to adapt, I am 100% confident that they will. Few people starve today for lack of global food production. They starve for lack of efficient usage of the food we have. The US alone throws away enough food to feed entire populations. And that's not even considering the excess that we eat.
Unfortunate, illegal, annoying, globally disruptive, even unethical perhaps. But none of that sounds like the horrible disasters I am being told of. When we're talking about significant probability of total human annihilation, maybe I'll be concerned.
I'm still waiting for them to come up with something that's actually disastrous. Admittedly, my view of what disastrous is probably starkly differs from most people. I don't see species extinction as a problem (untold numbers of species have gone extinct in the history of our planet), ice ages come and go, and populations wax and wane (even human populations) for various reasons. Where is the real disaster?
When Siddhartha joined the Aesthetics, he learned to free his mind from the physical realm and take many forms. In the end though, it was the river that taught him the nature of the universe.
Few people doubt that global warming is happening anymore. The new battle ground is whether or not we're causing it and whether or not the consequences are really as dire as they want us to believe.
Or the ones who scream that there isn't are almost always getting the funding for their research from oil companies.
What Al Gore and other non-scientists do or don't do have no bearing on the veracity of the research done by the actual climate scientists.
So you admit that climate scientists being paid by oil companies has no bearing on the veracity of their research? Just checking. Actually most climate scientists that I talk to openly tell me that no one has any freaking clue as to what is going on with global warming, whether it's man made or not. Everyone else is speculating or is in someone's wallet.
I'm curious to know if these journals are real respected peer reviewed publications. If so, they should be reviewing their peer review policies and/or looking at whether or not they were defrauded by the authors.
"What path would that intelligence take to 'solve' that problem?"
Greetings. Shall we play a game?
One also has to wonder about the effects resulting from survival instinct. Even if a computer became self aware enough to be capable of being concerned with its own survival, is a will to survive really as fundamental and granted as we often seem to believe it to be?
It's also interesting to keep in mind that the human brain is completely and totally useless without all of the other complex parts that allow it to interface with the outside world. A computer with the capacity of a human brain is uninteresting until it can receive a complicated set of stimuli and then also manipulate the world around itself in response.
When did the Chinese government select this kid? His father voluntarily sought out the camp and paid $1024 without so much as a call from the government. Though honestly, that's almost more horrifying for the family. At least when the government forces your kid into a deathtrap, the family doesn't feel like it was their fault it happen.
I'm not 100% certain about this camp, but a more expensive camp (10,000 yuan) in Daxing County is government funded and "run by an army colonel under the Beijing Military Hospital"
i'm sure there are holidays camps or scouts or whatever goes hiking away from wifi
In China? Maybe. I don't really know what is available for kids in China. However, if we're talking about clinical addiction, such a simplistic view of a cure is just as bad as this approach. I'll agree that parents are likely to blame because they are the most likely enabler for the addicted child. But once you have reached clinical addiction levels, it is extremely difficult to break, and most people will struggle with it for most of their lives.
This is especially sad to me because I'm not really against the idea of an "Internet addiction camp" in general. Real addiction can come in many forms, and it deserves being considered for treatment. But this just shows once again how (in this case very ironically) out of touch Chinese officials are with the concept of moderation.
There's a huge leap between the officers and officials who set policy and are responsible for implementing orders and the guys on the ground who truly are just riding on the waves. In this case, look to the district attorney and the elected officials.
Juries should just hand out the heaviest possible judgment in all of these cases. 600k or 4.5 million is all the same to my bank account. I would rather the jury keep handing out multi-million awards so that the RIAA just looks like a bunch of nut cases to the general public.
I don't like your attitude. You think the Quality Assurance department gets congratulated when federal regulators don't decide to cite violations? You think the equipment engineers get congratulated when their systems don't breakdown on high volume three shifts per day production lines? You think the hospital systems engineer gets congratulated when their nurse alarm systems don't fail resulting in patient death? Where is the manufacturing appreciation day? The product development engineer appreciation day? If you don't find much satisfaction in facilitating a high efficiency or high reliability system, maybe you should consider why you went into IT to begin with.
Occasionally we all will be thanked for a success (or at least I should hope). But for the most part all of our successes are seen as expected outputs from what we are employed to do. That applies to janitors all the way to managers. Some jobs are higher paid because they require special expertise, experience, and/or higher responsibility.
Freedom has it's price, both in your convenience and in your finances. Social maladjustment? I honestly believe that high school did more to cause any maladjustment in my life than to prevent it. Adults are far better role models on how one should behave in society and appropriately deal with disagreements. In high school I learned that the proper way to deal with someone who does you wrong is to spread nasty rumors and have others ostracize them. In the real world I learned that this is incorrect and that usually the most appropriate action is to simply forget it and move on.
The point is that the system is a team. IT is no more or less important than the functions of a company that produce, design, and sell their product. If any member of the team is not being appreciated on a daily basis, then that company is running inefficiently and the stock holders should be raising hell.
Actually it's more like 16x what I make, I'm not peeved about it, and it's not "some idiotic guy" (thank you for insulting IT staff that you know nothing about). We contract IT service from a full IT team. I have little other than praise for the IT help that we have. However, for the scale of our company and what we genuinely need, what we have is excessive. We need IT because the people here who have the knowledge to keep our networks running are too busy with their primary duties to deal with it. Only hundreds of hours of study and practice? You must be new since a full time job should have you working about 2,000 hours a year, almost all of which should be a learning and refining experience in some way or another.
I never have treated IT like inferior beings and I get along just fine with the IT guys I have worked with. Though thanks to your hot headed response, I might change my tune. Perhaps I don't know them as well as I thought I did.
For what the small company I work for pays for IT services, I would gladly take over the contract, half their fee, hire two guys, and pay for most new equipment out of my own pocket.