No, what you've noticed is that some people, some times, exhibit that double standard in judgement. Then you just arbitrarily glossed a gigantic generalisation over some nebulous ill-defined boogeyman you've labelled "Liberals".
Abstinence and faithfulness aren't the "best" way to contain the disease. There is a difference between "most effective on an individual level" and "best".
The "best" solution is one that protects as many people as possible, and has a realistic chance of actually happening, rather than relying on people struggling against fundamental human behaviour. A lot of people who decide to try to modify their behaviour in this way find it a constant battle, let alone the billions who really aren't interested in monogamy at all.
Even though the government gets away with flouting data privacy laws on an ad-hoc basis when they want to compile information on specific individuals, they systems they cross reference are impossible to apply some kind of systematic continuous data mining to, in order to weed out people who might be doing something they dont like. I know plenty of people who are telling one government agency one thing and one government agency another and yet still don't get caught out. And it's really shocking, blatant stuff too. None of this stuff is cross-referenced automatically, or there would be no way to get away with this stuff. I won't go into specifics.
In order to do data mining like that they either need one big database, or they need to overcome colossal bureaucracy between many disparate agencies and to engage in such a wholesale flouting of the law that they would need to change the law.
yeah but all those database are separate entities and there is practically impenetrable firewall of bureaucracy and privacy laws stopping them being cross referenced.
I'm genuinely curious - what on earth makes you use that font for your posts? It's horrifically painful to even look at, let alone try and read. What's wrong with the default font? Or, why not use a non-monospace alternative?
those are some pretty weak rationalisations. it's more difficult to clean an uncircumcised penis to the same extent that it's more difficult to vacuum under a rug, ie absolutely trivial. i'm pretty sure that the future possibility being briefly slightly confused and upset is no justification for unnecessary surgery on a new born infant.
this podcast explains the fundamentals of being attractive to women. After about 10eps you realise why you never got a date at high school. After a little troubleshooting of your appearance and behaviour, women actually starting chasing after you. it's wierd.
it's a good job you specified "AD" as I may have been confused by the ambiguity and perhaps thought that internet explorer 6 was first released in the middle of the fucking bronze age
Anything that can be conceived can be believed. So if that is your only metric to be used when evaluating the veracity of a claim, every single claim ever believed by anyone is exactly as valid as every other claim ever believed by anyone else. Even the claims that directly contradict one another. The fact that you have to retreat to the position of "you can't prove it's impossible" rather than having something, anything, at all to back up your claim speaks vast volumes about whether there is any reason at all to accept it.
The bigger point is still being missed. The 2nd amendment wasn't there because they thought a militia was a good solution to national security, or just a good balance of power between government and populace. The reason they chose a militia was because if everyone is in the "army" then it is far less likely that the government could convince the country to go to war. They wanted to prevent "team america, world police" because they learned the lesson from history that every large world power has eventually fallen due to their own imperialism and interventionism in the rest of the world and didn't want that to happen to america. But since the american army never disbanded after world war II, the military-industrial complex has kept its stranglehold on the american tax dollar. Exactly what the founding fathers feared as the probable downfall of a large, prosperous america has come to pass. Dwight Eisenhower even warned specifically about this after his term as president.
I always love the irony-meter overload of someone disputing the validity of the standard model via the medium of a computer, which is composed of transistors, which rely totally on the standard model being valid. I imagine irony-meters also contain transistors.
i always love mentally picturing what people describe when they use the word "screaming" on slashdot. now imagine all these people are asking for 8 core xeons, and ask yourself would anyone ever want an 8 core xeon to the extent that they would make that kind of noise?
Occam's razor is a bit more specific and logically rigorous than the airy-fairy rule of thumb that you're making it out to be. It states that the explanation containing the least number of assumptions is most likely to be correct. Statistically speaking this is rigorous, since each extra assumption has a non zero chance of being wrong - so every new assumption increases the chances that the explanation is wrong. The most rational choice of explanations is the one that, given all the information you have to hand, is the most statistically likely to be true.
Of course, the fact that it isn't a certainty still doesn't change the fact that it is a more likely explanation than all the other less likely explanations. The fact that you prefer to believe one of the less likely explanations doesn't justify writing off occams razor as "not meaning jack shit"
you assume ATMs are perfect. perfection is impossible. the question is, is the margin of error on ATMs (which have been around for decades) lower than you would expect compared to voting machines (which are relatively new).
back then piracy was what people did when they made hundreds of dupes and sold them on a market stall. taping an album off your friend was just taping an album off your friend.
half of my dad's music collection was lp's and recorded tapes, half were dupes an blank tapes. the same went for everyone i knew. there was never even the inkling that there was something wrong with this.
now all of a sudden anyone who obtains dupes for free is a vicious evil greedy selfish thieving pirate and deserves to be financially ruined and/or imprisoned.
says who? it seems to me that it's a precursor to a human life, much like a sperm or an egg. surely the key component of a human is their conciousness. something that neither a sperm or an embryo possess.
if a person doesn't exist yet, then you can't hurt them, kill them, or infringe on their rights. They don't exist. An embryo is not a person, it is a sack of chemicals. Until those chemical attain conciousness, they are not a person. Do you consider using a condom as murdering a baby? because exactly the same thing is happening - you are engaging a process that may result in a concious entity being created, but taking steps to prevent that eventuality from occurring.
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there's a podcast of sci fi stories read out on the radio in the 1950s. A logic named Joe is on one of them.
No, what you've noticed is that some people, some times, exhibit that double standard in judgement. Then you just arbitrarily glossed a gigantic generalisation over some nebulous ill-defined boogeyman you've labelled "Liberals".
Abstinence and faithfulness aren't the "best" way to contain the disease. There is a difference between "most effective on an individual level" and "best".
The "best" solution is one that protects as many people as possible, and has a realistic chance of actually happening, rather than relying on people struggling against fundamental human behaviour. A lot of people who decide to try to modify their behaviour in this way find it a constant battle, let alone the billions who really aren't interested in monogamy at all.
Even though the government gets away with flouting data privacy laws on an ad-hoc basis when they want to compile information on specific individuals, they systems they cross reference are impossible to apply some kind of systematic continuous data mining to, in order to weed out people who might be doing something they dont like. I know plenty of people who are telling one government agency one thing and one government agency another and yet still don't get caught out. And it's really shocking, blatant stuff too. None of this stuff is cross-referenced automatically, or there would be no way to get away with this stuff. I won't go into specifics.
In order to do data mining like that they either need one big database, or they need to overcome colossal bureaucracy between many disparate agencies and to engage in such a wholesale flouting of the law that they would need to change the law.
yeah but all those database are separate entities and there is practically impenetrable firewall of bureaucracy and privacy laws stopping them being cross referenced.
I'm genuinely curious - what on earth makes you use that font for your posts? It's horrifically painful to even look at, let alone try and read. What's wrong with the default font? Or, why not use a non-monospace alternative?
those are some pretty weak rationalisations. it's more difficult to clean an uncircumcised penis to the same extent that it's more difficult to vacuum under a rug, ie absolutely trivial. i'm pretty sure that the future possibility being briefly slightly confused and upset is no justification for unnecessary surgery on a new born infant.
this podcast explains the fundamentals of being attractive to women. After about 10eps you realise why you never got a date at high school. After a little troubleshooting of your appearance and behaviour, women actually starting chasing after you. it's wierd.
The question is, why didn't they summon a creature with vigilance, to avoid having to tap him in the first place.
What precisely is though control? Don't you need no spelling education?
it's a good job you specified "AD" as I may have been confused by the ambiguity and perhaps thought that internet explorer 6 was first released in the middle of the fucking bronze age
Anything that can be conceived can be believed. So if that is your only metric to be used when evaluating the veracity of a claim, every single claim ever believed by anyone is exactly as valid as every other claim ever believed by anyone else. Even the claims that directly contradict one another. The fact that you have to retreat to the position of "you can't prove it's impossible" rather than having something, anything, at all to back up your claim speaks vast volumes about whether there is any reason at all to accept it.
The bigger point is still being missed. The 2nd amendment wasn't there because they thought a militia was a good solution to national security, or just a good balance of power between government and populace. The reason they chose a militia was because if everyone is in the "army" then it is far less likely that the government could convince the country to go to war. They wanted to prevent "team america, world police" because they learned the lesson from history that every large world power has eventually fallen due to their own imperialism and interventionism in the rest of the world and didn't want that to happen to america. But since the american army never disbanded after world war II, the military-industrial complex has kept its stranglehold on the american tax dollar. Exactly what the founding fathers feared as the probable downfall of a large, prosperous america has come to pass. Dwight Eisenhower even warned specifically about this after his term as president.
I always love the irony-meter overload of someone disputing the validity of the standard model via the medium of a computer, which is composed of transistors, which rely totally on the standard model being valid. I imagine irony-meters also contain transistors.
i always love mentally picturing what people describe when they use the word "screaming" on slashdot. now imagine all these people are asking for 8 core xeons, and ask yourself would anyone ever want an 8 core xeon to the extent that they would make that kind of noise?
are you a fucking retard? or do you just live in opposite-land?
so what is the error rate for ATMs, and what is the error rate for voting machines?
Occam's razor is a bit more specific and logically rigorous than the airy-fairy rule of thumb that you're making it out to be. It states that the explanation containing the least number of assumptions is most likely to be correct. Statistically speaking this is rigorous, since each extra assumption has a non zero chance of being wrong - so every new assumption increases the chances that the explanation is wrong. The most rational choice of explanations is the one that, given all the information you have to hand, is the most statistically likely to be true.
Of course, the fact that it isn't a certainty still doesn't change the fact that it is a more likely explanation than all the other less likely explanations. The fact that you prefer to believe one of the less likely explanations doesn't justify writing off occams razor as "not meaning jack shit"
what i find weird is that steve ballmer is a big fan of "friends" and named it after his favourite character..
unfortunately, an encouraging success like this is tempered by the fact that the holocaust denying, convicted rapists and genuine terrorists of the british nazi party now have an MEP as well. a sad and terrifying day for britain and europe.
like hitler?
you assume ATMs are perfect. perfection is impossible. the question is, is the margin of error on ATMs (which have been around for decades) lower than you would expect compared to voting machines (which are relatively new).
tell the dentist about spotify and whatever the one is that lets you pay a quid to download an mp3
back then piracy was what people did when they made hundreds of dupes and sold them on a market stall. taping an album off your friend was just taping an album off your friend.
half of my dad's music collection was lp's and recorded tapes, half were dupes an blank tapes. the same went for everyone i knew. there was never even the inkling that there was something wrong with this.
now all of a sudden anyone who obtains dupes for free is a vicious evil greedy selfish thieving pirate and deserves to be financially ruined and/or imprisoned.
fucking absurd.
says who? it seems to me that it's a precursor to a human life, much like a sperm or an egg. surely the key component of a human is their conciousness. something that neither a sperm or an embryo possess.
if a person doesn't exist yet, then you can't hurt them, kill them, or infringe on their rights. They don't exist. An embryo is not a person, it is a sack of chemicals. Until those chemical attain conciousness, they are not a person. Do you consider using a condom as murdering a baby? because exactly the same thing is happening - you are engaging a process that may result in a concious entity being created, but taking steps to prevent that eventuality from occurring.