Actually, the theory of evolution doesn't fly you anywhere. In fact, I'm willing to place hard money on a substantial amount of the Apollo project not believing in evolution.
Actually, the American way is to say that safety concerns are not an issue when I can't imagine they didn't know they are, just because this is what their customers want to hear.
What you really need is an agenda that keeps to a minimum the number of people who wake up one morning and say - "Alright, this is it. Society has chewed me up, stepped on me, brought me to such rage that the only thing I can think of is blind rage. I want to die and take as many other people with me as I can". If someone gets to that point and is even mildly resourceful, he will find a way to get what he wants, guns or no guns.
Why on earth would you want to suck out the broccoli? This gadget needs a fiberscopic camera that will allow you to view the semi-digested morsels and suck out the ones you don't want to keep.
Your analogy is flawed - in analogy to an ideal cap/trade system, the farmer pays taxes for borrowing from the future too - if he abuses his land in a way that harms the sustainability of his farmland in his children's time, he gets fined/taxed for it. So it does go into the equation RIGHT NOW.
What does that massive resource sink have on its list of achievements in, say, the last 30 years? Might as well give it OBL, at least he can do *something*.
That's possibly true, but sun reflection is much more of an issue closer to the equator where reflecting the sun will have a more pronounced effect. Even more so given the price in energy of producing concrete (I believe it's 1 ton CO2 per one ton cement, or concrete).
So asphalt away, Canada.
Disclosure: I'm a pork-eating Jew (read: member of the Jewish people, atheist as the lot of you).
I remember reading an article in an Israeli newspaper about genetically modifying food, and one of the things they checked is the opinions Rabbis have about its Kosherness. So one Rabbi they asked, which was also a biologist by training, said that it was perfectly OK to eat, for example, a tomato that expresses genes from a bug (totally unkosher, the latter).
The reasoning: expressing bug-genes is, according to his interpretation of the Halacha, not substantially different then a chicken that pecks on the ground and swallows a bug. The bugs flesh is then incorporated in the body of the chicken, the same as the bug proteins are in case of the buggy tomato. Both are fine to eat (although I'm pretty convinced one tastes better...)
Dropping the word "intelligence", and just talking about the subjective experience of a being, would you say that a computer, wired completely differently, but behaving in the same way as a human, would have the same subjective experience as a human?
I can't tell that even when it's another human you're talking about, either. How can you tell if another human has some sort of subjective experience even remotely similar to what you have, if at all, without analyzing its behavior? You assume he does, but that's just an assumtion, no better than my assumption that the computer you mention does.
I've always sought a career in making rats happier. Or was it humans? I not sure anymore. Anyways, you can leave some cheese outside this evening if it makes you feel better.
Um, I'm pretty sure nobody was referring to the color of the beverage.
But, on a similar note, I think what's even more revolutionary is that they developed a friendly method. Imagine that - you come into your brewery and the method comes up to you and says "Howdy, Sam! Wanna be friends?"
Following your logic, we should ban anything useful that could be used to kill a person. Let's see, where do we start? Knives? Axes? Baseball bats? Crowbars? Darts (put on your poison of choice)? Syringes and needles (see previous)? Cars? Gasoline and lighters?
Fact is, there are many usefull things that could be used to harm people, or to kill them. It's called murder. Of course murdering with a knife could be done as discreetly as killing your victim with a radio-programmable pacemaker, except that in the latter case, defending the victim is orders of magnitude easier.
The only difference between my examples and these pacemakers, are that they involve technology, which, as we all know, should be feared and prevented from being implemented in modern society.
You're right, I should have used ee (I understand you think I was writing in Italian, but I was actually using English).
Such a nice thing, the dictionary
I guess the point about this whole story is not the intended malice of Symantec, but rather that ye-old first principle of medical science: If you're a doctor, trying to keep a system healthy, primum non nocere. First of all, do not harm.
From this point of view, Symantec is actually worse than Sony, because the latter never claims to protect your system (not that I'm saying Sony are angels). True, the reaction by Sony was just before they had a gun pointed at their company's head, but how serious can you take a security-software company that has a rootkit in their software, acknowledges that due to developments in hacker-tech this has become a serious vulnerability (is this news at Symantec?), but still waits for some external source to publish their hole in order to fix it?
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You missed out d) inheritable variations in the population
Actually, the theory of evolution doesn't fly you anywhere. In fact, I'm willing to place hard money on a substantial amount of the Apollo project not believing in evolution.
Hello, (Subaru) Forester.
Actually, the American way is to say that safety concerns are not an issue when I can't imagine they didn't know they are, just because this is what their customers want to hear.
What you really need is an agenda that keeps to a minimum the number of people who wake up one morning and say - "Alright, this is it. Society has chewed me up, stepped on me, brought me to such rage that the only thing I can think of is blind rage. I want to die and take as many other people with me as I can". If someone gets to that point and is even mildly resourceful, he will find a way to get what he wants, guns or no guns.
That's amazing. I'm a biologist and you are describing exactly what happened in my discipline due to over-regulation.
Why on earth would you want to suck out the broccoli? This gadget needs a fiberscopic camera that will allow you to view the semi-digested morsels and suck out the ones you don't want to keep.
Your analogy is flawed - in analogy to an ideal cap/trade system, the farmer pays taxes for borrowing from the future too - if he abuses his land in a way that harms the sustainability of his farmland in his children's time, he gets fined/taxed for it. So it does go into the equation RIGHT NOW.
You cannot say that online! Disgusting! I just spat chocolate ice cream all over the keyboard!!
What does that massive resource sink have on its list of achievements in, say, the last 30 years? Might as well give it OBL, at least he can do *something*.
That's possibly true, but sun reflection is much more of an issue closer to the equator where reflecting the sun will have a more pronounced effect. Even more so given the price in energy of producing concrete (I believe it's 1 ton CO2 per one ton cement, or concrete). So asphalt away, Canada.
Disclosure: I'm a pork-eating Jew (read: member of the Jewish people, atheist as the lot of you). I remember reading an article in an Israeli newspaper about genetically modifying food, and one of the things they checked is the opinions Rabbis have about its Kosherness. So one Rabbi they asked, which was also a biologist by training, said that it was perfectly OK to eat, for example, a tomato that expresses genes from a bug (totally unkosher, the latter). The reasoning: expressing bug-genes is, according to his interpretation of the Halacha, not substantially different then a chicken that pecks on the ground and swallows a bug. The bugs flesh is then incorporated in the body of the chicken, the same as the bug proteins are in case of the buggy tomato. Both are fine to eat (although I'm pretty convinced one tastes better...)
I've always sought a career in making rats happier. Or was it humans? I not sure anymore. Anyways, you can leave some cheese outside this evening if it makes you feel better.
Stuff that's not matter.
Um, I'm pretty sure nobody was referring to the color of the beverage. But, on a similar note, I think what's even more revolutionary is that they developed a friendly method. Imagine that - you come into your brewery and the method comes up to you and says "Howdy, Sam! Wanna be friends?"
Following your logic, we should ban anything useful that could be used to kill a person. Let's see, where do we start? Knives? Axes? Baseball bats? Crowbars? Darts (put on your poison of choice)? Syringes and needles (see previous)? Cars? Gasoline and lighters? Fact is, there are many usefull things that could be used to harm people, or to kill them. It's called murder. Of course murdering with a knife could be done as discreetly as killing your victim with a radio-programmable pacemaker, except that in the latter case, defending the victim is orders of magnitude easier. The only difference between my examples and these pacemakers, are that they involve technology, which, as we all know, should be feared and prevented from being implemented in modern society.
You're right, I should have used ee (I understand you think I was writing in Italian, but I was actually using English). Such a nice thing, the dictionary
This is news only in the retarded world of business. I think we in the natural sciences have capished this quite a while ago.
From TFA:
From this point of view, Symantec is actually worse than Sony, because the latter never claims to protect your system (not that I'm saying Sony are angels). True, the reaction by Sony was just before they had a gun pointed at their company's head, but how serious can you take a security-software company that has a rootkit in their software, acknowledges that due to developments in hacker-tech this has become a serious vulnerability (is this news at Symantec?), but still waits for some external source to publish their hole in order to fix it?
Talk about frying your motherboard...