In order to explain the relative failure of democracy, I'd say that it's like, put a whole look of people on a boat, right in the middle of some ocean they don't know, and let them vote on which direction to go to reach the closest land, them not knowing where they at, and giving them misleading clues about where the closest land might be.
Maybe I could have found a better example, but the main idea is there, the people on the boat hardly could get to vote for the right direction(s) (many paths lead to Rome, not all tho).
Concretly, in politics, people can chose the bad direction because they're facing a problem they can't handle. I got a very precise example for it, and it's the referendum on the europeean constitution.
Basically, as about 90% of politicians were voting Yes, 55% of us the people voted No. The reason for that is that we, as non-professionals of politics, we're trying to answer to a question that we couldn't handle, due to it's complexity, and for alot of people it turned into an approval vote on the governement or on europe, or for many people it was No because they got pissed off with everybody on TV telling them to vote Yes.
I think that my point is that democracy fails when we aren't fully able to decide, because we are mislead, and because we don't know anything we need to know to decide properly.
By putting the potential-life concept to its end, you'll end up crying each of your spermatozoids and want to turn each ovule into a baby.
"When you are sleeping or unconcious, you do not have sufficient intellect to earn rights"
Let me laugh. When you are sleeping, you're still being intelligent, period. if you were not, you simply couldn't breathe by yourself during sleep. "sufficient intellect", wtf you think, that there is such a thing as a trigger level of "intellect"?
"Imagine you had a real AI"
NEVER gonna happen, pure science-fiction, PERIOD. Excuse the authoritary way I say it, but I have the feeling that I do know what I'm talking about, and if you doubt it, i'm ready to bet any amount of money you want that we will not see any "real AI" during the amount of years you choose.
"Another problem with your logic is that humans do not become intelligent enough to deserve rights until well after birth"
You need to understand that there's no such thing as "intelligent enough". There is no trigger intelligence level or whatever you want, you're either intelligent or you're not. And you become intelligent once you have a brain, that's how it is for us, the animals.
"So now, you either are stuck with arresting people for manslaughter when they run over a cat"
Didn't you realize that there is "man" in "manslaughter"? That's like saying that killing cows is a genocide, since a genocide is only for people.
"[...] or permitting infanticide"
That's all about what age a baby can be killed without it being a murder or something like that. Depending on the age, that's just plain old abortion. But you'll surely argue that babies that just bore are not "intelligent enough"
I think the whole article is bullshit. And the Scenerio 4, Google is God, is incredibly ridiculous, about as ridiculous as thinking that Google will offer time-travel services.
Other than that, predicting future is a particularly hard task, and in the IT world it's purely impossible to tell what's gonna happen 15 years from now. The problem with trying to imagine future, is that what you're gonna come up with is only going to be a projection of your present concerns. The perfect example to illustrate this is a movie from the 60's about a man from the late 19th century to a few years after the movie was done, where some nuclear WWIII was beginning, and then travelling much farther in time, to find a world annihilated by the WWIII and populated by brainless hippies.
Just like if you try to imagine life in 2106, your concerns about global warming will surely appear, just because global warming seems like a problem that you couldn't avoid, just like a nuclear WWIII was something that was likely to happen anytime soon in the early 60's.
That's the reason why I think TFA is total bullshit, and that it hardly contains any prediction that will happen.
Trying to predict future is pointless, unless you are a great visionnary genius and gonna make million dollars off the shit you can imagine.
Come up with a decent GUI? Wow, well, now I'd really like to see a GUI made by Google and that could rival with Gnome (forget KDE, not that I want to argue about which is better again tho)
Matter of fact I used to disable JavaScript. Back then it hardly even had any use besides to piss you off with pop-ups. I just remembered that not only I used to disable JavaScript, but also images. lol, my 75 MHz computer with the 33.6 modem was suffering so much.
Quit missing your Sega http://gens.consolemul.com/ (Sega Genesis emulator). Then get yourself a big pack of ROMs off eMule.
I still play DuckHunt on MAME, and best believe me, it's tricky with a mouse, I liked it much better with the light gun. And anyways do like me, instead of asking Santa, ask eMule
Oh and how could I forget Duke Nukem 3D, Wolfenstein 3D, Dope Wars, Doom II, Reckless Drivin', Deus Ex and well all the old games I don't know for so long but keep playing all the time (does it count?) like Glider, Scarab of RA, Lunar Phantom, MAME games (mostly Spacewar, playing it while listening to the Blue Danube r0x!), Streets of Rage, Yoshi's Island, Wario Land etc...
Actually I must be spending more time playing games in emulators than natively.
"There has to be a good reason to use speech, maybe you're hands are full [like in the case of driving a car]"
When they said "maybe you're hands are full" (btw, noticed the you're/your typo?) I admitt that the first example that went through my mind wasn't the case of driving a car.
Many people out here must know how it can be unconvenient to type with one hand, mostly when it's the left hand, and as for the car example, what would you need speech recognition for anyways, doing word processing while driving, or driving while you have both of your arms broken?
At the risk of being badly modded, I agree, and I even wonder, why do they still bother with developping their browser? Nobody cares about it anymore. Netscape Communicator was at its best at 4.x.
"If you ignore the fact that mass producing of Child porn only fuels the interest for more child porn, adding 'fuel' to their proverbial 'fire'."
I don't know. You're basically saying that more child porn makes "them" want more child porn. Maybe, idk. But if there was less porn, would I want more porn than I do now or less? I think I'd want more. And as long as I'll have all of the testosterone I have, I'll always want porn, no matter whether I got TB's of it or KB's. I guess it goes the same way for those into child porn.
Um.. not sure this is a question, but if there is such a thing as gravitons, what's up with einstein's curvature of space-time, and then, how come they could "escape" from black holes that easily? Just asking whatever's going through my mind..
This is a worthless poll. The reason for that is that the only way for an europeean to hear about that debate is to be interested in science. Am I wrong? Does any major europeean channel broadcast anything about the debate that may make anyone aware of the debate?
Britons and also all europeeans can't answer to such a poll because we don't know what it's all about, except for us who care about science.
This poll is therefore worthless and not representative of anything, since almost nobody in Europe knows what ID is.
Also, the UK is the most un-christian country around. It's one of the rare traditionally christian countries out here that has more mosque-goers than church-goers.
Dude, sorry if I sound rude, but 4, Informative for that? All you're talking about is legalness of that but don't nobody care. We've been running leaked versions of Mac OS x86 since last summer. http://www.osx86project.org/
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Maybe I could have found a better example, but the main idea is there, the people on the boat hardly could get to vote for the right direction(s) (many paths lead to Rome, not all tho).
Concretly, in politics, people can chose the bad direction because they're facing a problem they can't handle. I got a very precise example for it, and it's the referendum on the europeean constitution.
Basically, as about 90% of politicians were voting Yes, 55% of us the people voted No. The reason for that is that we, as non-professionals of politics, we're trying to answer to a question that we couldn't handle, due to it's complexity, and for alot of people it turned into an approval vote on the governement or on europe, or for many people it was No because they got pissed off with everybody on TV telling them to vote Yes.
I think that my point is that democracy fails when we aren't fully able to decide, because we are mislead, and because we don't know anything we need to know to decide properly.
By putting the potential-life concept to its end, you'll end up crying each of your spermatozoids and want to turn each ovule into a baby.
"When you are sleeping or unconcious, you do not have sufficient intellect to earn rights"
Let me laugh. When you are sleeping, you're still being intelligent, period. if you were not, you simply couldn't breathe by yourself during sleep. "sufficient intellect", wtf you think, that there is such a thing as a trigger level of "intellect"?
"Imagine you had a real AI"
NEVER gonna happen, pure science-fiction, PERIOD. Excuse the authoritary way I say it, but I have the feeling that I do know what I'm talking about, and if you doubt it, i'm ready to bet any amount of money you want that we will not see any "real AI" during the amount of years you choose.
"Another problem with your logic is that humans do not become intelligent enough to deserve rights until well after birth"
You need to understand that there's no such thing as "intelligent enough". There is no trigger intelligence level or whatever you want, you're either intelligent or you're not. And you become intelligent once you have a brain, that's how it is for us, the animals.
"So now, you either are stuck with arresting people for manslaughter when they run over a cat"
Didn't you realize that there is "man" in "manslaughter"? That's like saying that killing cows is a genocide, since a genocide is only for people.
"[...] or permitting infanticide"
That's all about what age a baby can be killed without it being a murder or something like that. Depending on the age, that's just plain old abortion. But you'll surely argue that babies that just bore are not "intelligent enough"
Other than that, predicting future is a particularly hard task, and in the IT world it's purely impossible to tell what's gonna happen 15 years from now. The problem with trying to imagine future, is that what you're gonna come up with is only going to be a projection of your present concerns. The perfect example to illustrate this is a movie from the 60's about a man from the late 19th century to a few years after the movie was done, where some nuclear WWIII was beginning, and then travelling much farther in time, to find a world annihilated by the WWIII and populated by brainless hippies.
Just like if you try to imagine life in 2106, your concerns about global warming will surely appear, just because global warming seems like a problem that you couldn't avoid, just like a nuclear WWIII was something that was likely to happen anytime soon in the early 60's.
That's the reason why I think TFA is total bullshit, and that it hardly contains any prediction that will happen.
Trying to predict future is pointless, unless you are a great visionnary genius and gonna make million dollars off the shit you can imagine.
Come up with a decent GUI? Wow, well, now I'd really like to see a GUI made by Google and that could rival with Gnome (forget KDE, not that I want to argue about which is better again tho)
Matter of fact I used to disable JavaScript. Back then it hardly even had any use besides to piss you off with pop-ups. I just remembered that not only I used to disable JavaScript, but also images. lol, my 75 MHz computer with the 33.6 modem was suffering so much.
I still play DuckHunt on MAME, and best believe me, it's tricky with a mouse, I liked it much better with the light gun. And anyways do like me, instead of asking Santa, ask eMule
Actually I must be spending more time playing games in emulators than natively.
Super Maze Wars, SimCity 2000, Sonic (on Genesis), Super Mario Kart (on GBA), GTA III, and pretty much all of the games I used to play years ago.
When they said "maybe you're hands are full" (btw, noticed the you're/your typo?) I admitt that the first example that went through my mind wasn't the case of driving a car.
Many people out here must know how it can be unconvenient to type with one hand, mostly when it's the left hand, and as for the car example, what would you need speech recognition for anyways, doing word processing while driving, or driving while you have both of your arms broken?
At the risk of being badly modded, I agree, and I even wonder, why do they still bother with developping their browser? Nobody cares about it anymore. Netscape Communicator was at its best at 4.x.
I don't know. You're basically saying that more child porn makes "them" want more child porn. Maybe, idk. But if there was less porn, would I want more porn than I do now or less? I think I'd want more. And as long as I'll have all of the testosterone I have, I'll always want porn, no matter whether I got TB's of it or KB's. I guess it goes the same way for those into child porn.
So why won't I get any money for all of the good stuff that I made, uh? Who can I sue to get my money?
Err.. am I the only one not able to imagine that happening?
Ever watched a Saturn V power its way into space? No? Me neither, but I'm ready to bet that it would kick your space shuttle launch's ass
I wish someone would tell me how well it pays..
UZUMYMW, BAGUVIX
Feelin' better now?
Um.. not sure this is a question, but if there is such a thing as gravitons, what's up with einstein's curvature of space-time, and then, how come they could "escape" from black holes that easily? Just asking whatever's going through my mind..
The neutrino is a particle, but can we shield against it?
Some people will argue that some sequels suck compared to previous versions. Personally, I think Quake III is much better than Quake IV
Britons and also all europeeans can't answer to such a poll because we don't know what it's all about, except for us who care about science.
This poll is therefore worthless and not representative of anything, since almost nobody in Europe knows what ID is.
Also, the UK is the most un-christian country around. It's one of the rare traditionally christian countries out here that has more mosque-goers than church-goers.
no man, really, nobody cares, ask anyone on that site that i provided the link.
Dude, sorry if I sound rude, but 4, Informative for that? All you're talking about is legalness of that but don't nobody care. We've been running leaked versions of Mac OS x86 since last summer. http://www.osx86project.org/
This link is all you need http://www.osx86project.org/
Do you prefer to edit your code with vi or emacs?
*ducks*
What's new? Does it imitates Firefox less than on Vista Beta 1? Is it less sluggish than on Vista Beta 1? No?
OK people, move along there's nothing to see here