can your bookshelf play music and movies while at the same time sending them out to various people
No, and it can't dance the cha-cha either, but it still stores stuff.
The original poster said that if the computer is not a recording device then the information it stores cannot be called recorded music. I was attempting to point out the logical flaw in that idea.
"Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders, and love chatter in places of exercise. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates, 469-399 B.C.).
Yours basically reads like this:
"Any insufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
No it doesn't. He's wrong, but so is this explanation of why. Your orignal point still stands, unless he's trying to make the point that a really really advanced technology would seem better than magic. If so, then it's just silly.
I didn't mean to imply I was specifically addressing the moderation of your post. I was speaking in general. There certainly has been more than one occasion when I would like to have attached an explanation to a moderation I've made.
As a side note: -1, Overrated is for cowards. If you're going to mod me down, at least have the conviction to explain *why* by picking something more appropriate.
Often there is nothing more appropriate. There are no "Not Funny," "Uninsightful," or "Uninteresting" options. If someone posts something that gets whacked up to +5, Informative, and then someone else proves that information wrong, the only way to correct is to mark it overrated.
This is NOT factual, and does NOT deserve to be +5.
Could you be more specific? I mean, you seem to have omitted your actual argument.
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It might work one of the mentioned pills for an insect which eats the manipulated rice and might cause the insect to mutate....I'd really love to get cleared up on this from anyone who did more work in this area than I did...
Do not be alarmed, Huma...uh, Buddy. We^H^H They don't exist. No insects have mutated in sentient beings poised to take over the world as soon as you drop your.... I mean as soon as We drop Our guard. Really. Take it from me. Honest. Here, have some rice.
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Please guys..._don't_ mess around with things before you _really_ understand them.
Another good reason for colonizing other planets. Experiment all you like. As long as you don't develop rice that can build a spaceship and conquer Earth, you should be OK.
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However, it can be
had to knwo what you want.
I know what I want. I want you to not post using all bold.
Do you know how the common "partial-birth abortion" is performed? In a nutshell, the "doctor" puctures the infant's skull with a sharp instrument, vacuums out the brain and cerebral fluid, then pulls out that body.
Another guy who argues with emotion instead of reason. Would you still be against abortion if it happened in some more pleasant manner? I don't think you would. And if not, then you shouldn't be using this as your argument, because it has nothing to do with your stance.
At first they tended to commit suicide but apparently selling off kidneys has become a more popular option
Oh please. Knock this crap off. You just might get taken a little more seriously if you tried using reason instead of emotion to make your points.
The only alternative to being a farmer is suicide or selling off your own body parts? I'm not a farmer, but I have a specific job, and if for some reason I couldn't do that job (even if it was because of some Evil Greedy Corporation) I wouldn't say "Damn. What a gyp. Now I have to sell my kidney."
All these companies suffering from this problem ought to organize. Their collective bargaining power would be able squash any of this pesky "union" noise.
On a side note, notice that he did post it anyway, even though he didn't find it interesting. And he did it because enough readers considered it to be important.
Actually he says he posted it to minimize further submissions of it, so the criteria for story rejection/acceptance seems to have been reduced to that which is less of a hassle.
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Copyright is not about protecting information. It's about protecting its presentation.
No, and it can't dance the cha-cha either, but it still stores stuff.
The original poster said that if the computer is not a recording device then the information it stores cannot be called recorded music. I was attempting to point out the logical flaw in that idea.
He did start out spelling correctly, he just didn't finish that way.
No it doesn't. He's wrong, but so is this explanation of why. Your orignal point still stands, unless he's trying to make the point that a really really advanced technology would seem better than magic. If so, then it's just silly.
Anything can be reduced to absurdity. Food is just stuff you eat. And Linux and Windows are just ones and zeroes.
Often there is nothing more appropriate. There are no "Not Funny," "Uninsightful," or "Uninteresting" options. If someone posts something that gets whacked up to +5, Informative, and then someone else proves that information wrong, the only way to correct is to mark it overrated.
A what?
Could you be more specific? I mean, you seem to have omitted your actual argument.
Do not be alarmed, Huma...uh, Buddy. We^H^H They don't exist. No insects have mutated in sentient beings poised to take over the world as soon as you drop your.... I mean as soon as We drop Our guard. Really. Take it from me. Honest. Here, have some rice.
Another good reason for colonizing other planets. Experiment all you like. As long as you don't develop rice that can build a spaceship and conquer Earth, you should be OK.
I know what I want. I want you to not post using all bold.
Another guy who argues with emotion instead of reason. Would you still be against abortion if it happened in some more pleasant manner? I don't think you would. And if not, then you shouldn't be using this as your argument, because it has nothing to do with your stance.
Oh please. Knock this crap off. You just might get taken a little more seriously if you tried using reason instead of emotion to make your points.
The only alternative to being a farmer is suicide or selling off your own body parts? I'm not a farmer, but I have a specific job, and if for some reason I couldn't do that job (even if it was because of some Evil Greedy Corporation) I wouldn't say "Damn. What a gyp. Now I have to sell my kidney."
I believe the current phrase is "All-right-tee!", but I'm not 100% certain because sometimes I'm a little behind the times.
You wouldn't want to have to say stuff like "Everybody are stupid," wouldja?
What's the plural form? Everybodies?
They ain't none. How can you have more than one everybody?
Actually he says he posted it to minimize further submissions of it, so the criteria for story rejection/acceptance seems to have been reduced to that which is less of a hassle.