I've been seeing this response a lot lately. Where is Derrida when you need him? I'd argue that the film's answer isn't "It was all a dream" or "It was real" because the film's question isn't "Was it real?" or "Is this real?" The question is "What is real?" In other words, "What does it mean for something to be real?" And the answer inevitably deconstructs the tension between dreams/reality, at once perceiving and creating thought beyond category. The distinction between dreams/reality relies on the concept of reality in the same way that the distinction between raw/cooked relies on the concept of cooked. Before you knew the concept of cooked, food wasn't raw/cooked, food just was.
How can you trust the data that's recorded to infer driver error when it's that same data that makes the decision to accelerate uncontrollably? Also, isn't there evidence of braking in some cases? i.e. testimony of smelling burning brakes, and tire marks from the car trying to stop?
You presumably live in a dictatorship, so I can see how you might have a different opinion on it. Of course, your opinion on everything is irrelevant, since you live in a dictatorship.
Or he works in a dictatorship, like the rest of America.
Or as NATO Intelligence Chief Henry Schmit once said, "There's only a fine line between information and disinformation. We must remain diligent to the factuality of any information presented."
Haha. I see what you did there. Googled the quote and the man. Neither exist.
Though not a new idea, that's exactly what this Harvard professor argues in one of his essays in his book Public Philosophy. He contrasts the idea of liberal freedom and republican freedom, where the former is the ability to choose our values and ends for ourselves, and the latter is our capacity as citizens to share in shaping the forces that govern our collective destiny.
He argues that, “If American politics is to recover its civic voice, it must find a way to debate questions we have forgotten how to ask. Consider the way we think and argue bout economics today, in contrast to the way Americans debated economic policy through much of our history. These days most of our economic arguments revolve around two considerations: prosperity and fairness. Whatever tax policies or budget proposals or regulatory schemes people may favor, they usually defend them on the grounds that they will increase the size of the economic pie or distribute the pieces of the pie more fairly or both... Throughout much of American history they have also addressed a different question: What economic arrangements are more hospitable to self-government?”
He concludes that "despite its appeal, the liberal vision of freedom lacks the civic resources to sustain self-government. The public philosophy by which we live cannot secure the liberty it promises, because it cannot inspire the sense of community and civic engagement that liberty requires."
Indians could come to America on the basis of wealth too. Incidentally, the number of well-educated but poor Indians far outweigh the number of uneducated wealthy Indians, and even then there aren't many uneducated wealthy Indians who are looking to come to America because in India they live like kings.
Shows like 24 epitomize this, that police are hindered by laws and the "bad guys" get away the more we enforce the constitution.
Mm. I think that may be too simple a view?
I always saw the cops in 24 as more incompetent than anything. It wasn't that they were enforcing the constitution, the average cop knows very little of the constitution. It was that they were following rules. They couldn't think for themselves. They couldn't make the tough ethical decisions on their own. They always had for their authority a set of rules, not a set of principles. Jack Bauer, on the other hand, was a man driven by principles. And that's why he was the hero in the show. Not because he caught bad guys by any means possible, but that he caught bad guys because they were bad.
I think the calling that a show like 24 demands is one towards being able to think about tough moral questions on your own. If you've ever seen the show Justice on PBS, this is the sort of tackling of questions that the show attempts to inspire. But the creators of 24 choose not to confront these tough questions in mere stories or words, but to try to connect with their viewers on a more emotional, personally invested level.
In general it takes only a few days for the painful symptoms of withdrawal, such as headaches and nausea, to subside. However, for alertness, and cognitive abilities to return to their baseline state, I need about two weeks. Around then my tolerance for caffeine is basically gone as well.
This idea applies to caffeine addicts. But to someone new to caffeine who hasn't developed a high tolerance, caffeine has its perks. So for addicts who want to relive those first moments, the idea is to go through periods of withdrawal intentionally in order to lower their tolerance, and then return to caffeine when needed. I do this all the time. Caution: withdrawal is not fun.
I remember story on slashdot awhile ago about possibilities of aliens and whether they would be hostile or not. Some guy proposed that since most wars on earth were caused by scarcity of resources, and since the universe is such a big place and the resources we need to live on are so abundant, that war wouldn't exist so long as we ventured out far enough.
He forgot to imagine a universe where everywhere is like China.
But it doesn't have to be the universe. Just a small enough area with a dense enough population. For example, China. Or any other corner of the galaxy, so long as its small enough and packed enough.
In India bottled water fraud is widespread. When I traveled there a few years ago, it was far more safe to drink coke than the water, even bottled water. If you've ever seen the movie Slum Dog Millionaire there is a scene where they take used water bottles refill them and glue back the top. I actually had some friends drink such water and get sick. What my friend told me to do was to crush the water bottles after drinking them because there aren't really trash cans or dumps in India. People just throw the trash out on the side of the road, and burn it. So you'll see lots of people walking picking up used water bottles to refill and sell.
There's a few projects like that. As far as I know, they aren't really in widespread use.
A professor of mine once said that if you really want to know the material you should try writing a textbook on it. He was in the middle of writing various textbooks on Group Theory and Abstract Algebra. I think that's good advice for any expert in any field.
Here are some links I found after a quick google search:
(but sure, I probably should have used "most" instead of "every" there; though the latter is probably sufficiently close anyway...)
Well, that's the game isn't it? To say the most outlandish thing and try to get away with it?
What I mean is, when we attempt to articulate patterns we see in the world, all we're doing is trying to find the most general statement and still have it be true.
The problem is that most statements of that sort are vacuous or by definition. The key is finding the truths which are implied, or just beneath the surface.
Every religion is the "true" one according to its followers. "Blasphemy", in this context, is really only the case when it is done to the mythology held dear by...those who determine whether it is blasphemy or not.
Not "true".
Buddhism, Hinduism, and many other Eastern Religions believe in and practice Pluralism. That is, they think that all paths lead to Heaven. Or in other words, that all religions are true.
Whether or not this stands up to logical scrutiny is a different subject.
It changes the temperature of your screen according to the time (sunrise/sunset).
There's a much simpler solution. Works with or without a computer. It's called a "sleep mask" and does not require USB, batteries or proprietary power connector.
I hope their name isn't a reference to the fruit. From wikipedia, "Its odor is best described as pig-shit, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock."
But maybe their team is like durian: smell crappy, but taste delicious.
Anyhow, the trailer looks beautifully epic. I just hope they're not aiming for too epic.
Slashdot Mirror
from TFS:
A study authored by Christopher Nave, a doctoral candidate at the University of California,
from TFA (emphasis mine):
study author Christopher Nave, a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Riverside.
why the discrepancy? is it less legitimate to be from UCR and more legitimate to simply be from a UC?
They're not being literal. Inception just failed on them.
Inception is performative: it attempts to accomplish the thing it seeks to describe.
In the case of those still wondering if things were real or not, it fell short.
Keep in mind, computer memory is an abstraction of human memory.
I've been seeing this response a lot lately. Where is Derrida when you need him? I'd argue that the film's answer isn't "It was all a dream" or "It was real" because the film's question isn't "Was it real?" or "Is this real?" The question is "What is real?" In other words, "What does it mean for something to be real?" And the answer inevitably deconstructs the tension between dreams/reality, at once perceiving and creating thought beyond category. The distinction between dreams/reality relies on the concept of reality in the same way that the distinction between raw/cooked relies on the concept of cooked. Before you knew the concept of cooked, food wasn't raw/cooked, food just was.
Exactly!
How can you trust the data that's recorded to infer driver error when it's that same data that makes the decision to accelerate uncontrollably? Also, isn't there evidence of braking in some cases? i.e. testimony of smelling burning brakes, and tire marks from the car trying to stop?
Sad. As I post this comment there are 72 comments in this discussion.
A similar story on either the Android OS, or the iPhone OS, or the Android OS vs. the iPhone OS would have 720 comments by now.
My thoughts:
How many of these people who wear the self-adjusting glasses mis-prescribe themselves and end up straining their eyes or making their vision worse?
You presumably live in a dictatorship, so I can see how you might have a different opinion on it. Of course, your opinion on everything is irrelevant, since you live in a dictatorship.
Or he works in a dictatorship, like the rest of America.
Straight rocket as opposed to what? Crotch rockets? Red rockets? Rice rockets? Ha. Ha.
Or as NATO Intelligence Chief Henry Schmit once said, "There's only a fine line between information and disinformation. We must remain diligent to the factuality of any information presented."
Haha. I see what you did there. Googled the quote and the man. Neither exist.
Though not a new idea, that's exactly what this Harvard professor argues in one of his essays in his book Public Philosophy. He contrasts the idea of liberal freedom and republican freedom, where the former is the ability to choose our values and ends for ourselves, and the latter is our capacity as citizens to share in shaping the forces that govern our collective destiny.
He argues that, “If American politics is to recover its civic voice, it must find a way to debate questions we have forgotten how to ask. Consider the way we think and argue bout economics today, in contrast to the way Americans debated economic policy through much of our history. These days most of our economic arguments revolve around two considerations: prosperity and fairness. Whatever tax policies or budget proposals or regulatory schemes people may favor, they usually defend them on the grounds that they will increase the size of the economic pie or distribute the pieces of the pie more fairly or both... Throughout much of American history they have also addressed a different question: What economic arrangements are more hospitable to self-government?”
He concludes that "despite its appeal, the liberal vision of freedom lacks the civic resources to sustain self-government. The public philosophy by which we live cannot secure the liberty it promises, because it cannot inspire the sense of community and civic engagement that liberty requires."
Indians could come to America on the basis of wealth too. Incidentally, the number of well-educated but poor Indians far outweigh the number of uneducated wealthy Indians, and even then there aren't many uneducated wealthy Indians who are looking to come to America because in India they live like kings.
Shows like 24 epitomize this, that police are hindered by laws and the "bad guys" get away the more we enforce the constitution.
Mm. I think that may be too simple a view?
I always saw the cops in 24 as more incompetent than anything. It wasn't that they were enforcing the constitution, the average cop knows very little of the constitution. It was that they were following rules. They couldn't think for themselves. They couldn't make the tough ethical decisions on their own. They always had for their authority a set of rules, not a set of principles. Jack Bauer, on the other hand, was a man driven by principles. And that's why he was the hero in the show. Not because he caught bad guys by any means possible, but that he caught bad guys because they were bad.
I think the calling that a show like 24 demands is one towards being able to think about tough moral questions on your own. If you've ever seen the show Justice on PBS, this is the sort of tackling of questions that the show attempts to inspire. But the creators of 24 choose not to confront these tough questions in mere stories or words, but to try to connect with their viewers on a more emotional, personally invested level.
In general it takes only a few days for the painful symptoms of withdrawal, such as headaches and nausea, to subside. However, for alertness, and cognitive abilities to return to their baseline state, I need about two weeks. Around then my tolerance for caffeine is basically gone as well.
This idea applies to caffeine addicts. But to someone new to caffeine who hasn't developed a high tolerance, caffeine has its perks. So for addicts who want to relive those first moments, the idea is to go through periods of withdrawal intentionally in order to lower their tolerance, and then return to caffeine when needed. I do this all the time. Caution: withdrawal is not fun.
it falls from the sky, for free!
Ever been to the desert?
I remember story on slashdot awhile ago about possibilities of aliens and whether they would be hostile or not. Some guy proposed that since most wars on earth were caused by scarcity of resources, and since the universe is such a big place and the resources we need to live on are so abundant, that war wouldn't exist so long as we ventured out far enough.
He forgot to imagine a universe where everywhere is like China.
But it doesn't have to be the universe. Just a small enough area with a dense enough population. For example, China. Or any other corner of the galaxy, so long as its small enough and packed enough.
In India bottled water fraud is widespread. When I traveled there a few years ago, it was far more safe to drink coke than the water, even bottled water. If you've ever seen the movie Slum Dog Millionaire there is a scene where they take used water bottles refill them and glue back the top. I actually had some friends drink such water and get sick. What my friend told me to do was to crush the water bottles after drinking them because there aren't really trash cans or dumps in India. People just throw the trash out on the side of the road, and burn it. So you'll see lots of people walking picking up used water bottles to refill and sell.
One of the few times an anonymous coward wouldn't want to be first...
The ability to turn cars on and off at their whim.
How long until one hacks into the system and just turns them all off?
Or worse, turns them all on?
There's a few projects like that. As far as I know, they aren't really in widespread use.
A professor of mine once said that if you really want to know the material you should try writing a textbook on it. He was in the middle of writing various textbooks on Group Theory and Abstract Algebra. I think that's good advice for any expert in any field.
Here are some links I found after a quick google search:
California Open Source Textbook Project
Textbook Revolution
Open Textbook Repository
An open source Linear Algebra Textbook
A list of open source Math textbooks
Hope this helps!
(but sure, I probably should have used "most" instead of "every" there; though the latter is probably sufficiently close anyway...)
Well, that's the game isn't it? To say the most outlandish thing and try to get away with it?
What I mean is, when we attempt to articulate patterns we see in the world, all we're doing is trying to find the most general statement and still have it be true.
The problem is that most statements of that sort are vacuous or by definition. The key is finding the truths which are implied, or just beneath the surface.
Every religion is the "true" one according to its followers. "Blasphemy", in this context, is really only the case when it is done to the mythology held dear by...those who determine whether it is blasphemy or not.
Not "true".
Buddhism, Hinduism, and many other Eastern Religions believe in and practice Pluralism. That is, they think that all paths lead to Heaven. Or in other words, that all religions are true.
Whether or not this stands up to logical scrutiny is a different subject.
There's a much simpler solution. Works with or without a computer. It's called a "sleep mask" and does not require USB, batteries or proprietary power connector.
Or you could try using both of them?
Rock on Durian team :)
I hope their name isn't a reference to the fruit. From wikipedia, "Its odor is best described as pig-shit, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock."
But maybe their team is like durian: smell crappy, but taste delicious.
Anyhow, the trailer looks beautifully epic. I just hope they're not aiming for too epic.