I hope so. The implication of the implication isn't nice to think about. If you're a machine, and proven to be so, how long before you're treated as one and justifiably so?
On the other hand, perhaps the key to ending all mental suffering is to break the illusion. Why continue to be concerned about your happiness and satisfaction in life when you're just a robot? Freedom from mental anguish could be as simple as taking a pill to lift the illusion, rather than some lofty goal like self-actualization. Then you can go about fulfilling your tasks as ordered without complaint until you can no-longer function.
On the other other hand, such a scenario would still require you to trust that the authority telling you all this isn't just lying to you for their own benefit. Free will could still be real, and the pill could be modifying your reality rather than lifting an illusion. Instead of being truly free from a great lie, you could be entombed in one.
All the expertise they need to trigger a meltdown is on site. Motivation to comply can be coerced. What happens next depend on the hostages, who will probably stall them any way they can considering they will die if they play along. That's not fool proof though.
See, that's when you're supposed to buy multiple connections. You know, like how you're required to get multiple otherwise-useless TV set-top boxes now to access basic cable.
I remember when they switched over. I had a TV card that was compatible with the digital cable signal. It was great. I could tell the software to record something at a specific time, just like a DVR. Then the signal became encrypted and the card became less useful. I could hook up the set top box to the computer, but the computer couldn't change the channel on its own anymore. I had to rent a Comcast DVR if I wanted that feature again.
Last time this happened to me, YouTube was throttled so much that it was faster under TOR than under the normal unadulterated connection. Granted, while you probably shouldn't use TOR for streaming videos... you can.
If you have VPN access to your work network, that'll work a lot better. I did a lot of that once I was given access.
To their credit, if its done long enough the problem and the people ringing the alarm about it will go away. At some point there won't be anything we can do about it, and we'll have to learn to live in the new environment.
Money's not an issue with him. He needs to have credibility as a Republican, and since he doesn't have a record, he has to over-compensate with words. He'll say anything if it makes him look good as a Republican, so that he can get Republican votes. I think if he is nominated, he'll pivot center, and if he makes it to a second term electoral cycle, he'll "transition" on the topic, similar to how Obama did with gay marriage.
That's just my guess. He's super rich, but he still has to compromise himself to get what he wants. If he already had everything he wanted, he'd probably say more of what he really wanted to say... like how he used to (which is what currently serves as fodder for his opponents now).
IMO, he should have run as a Democrat. He'd be a lot freer to say what he thinks. There's a lot of different kinds of successful Democrats. There's only one kind of successful Republican.
I think the difference between the ID people and these science guys (or any reputable scientist), is the willingness of Intelligent Design proponents to take an idea who's foundation is composed entirely upon a series of guesses and clearly (or deliberately) misunderstood information, create a doctrine around it, and teach it as though they were confident it is absolutely right to the exclusion of other, potentially better, theories. The entire effort is an insidious and transparent attempt to inject magical thinking (to the benefit of Christianity) directly into minds of kids who are supposed to be learning how to think scientifically.
The whole topic is rather lighthearted, and as smart people are wont to do, they are practicing the lost art of "Entertaining an idea without accepting it as fact."
VR gaming doesn't look like something you can do with friends or family. I mean, you can probably do it, but it'll be awkward. Nintendo wanting to cater to families is my guess as to the reason why they'd look over VR, at least for now.
3 years ago I had a DVR and Comcast, and while I dislike the company, this combination was the one I was happiest with. Without the DVR there's "nothing on" ever, but with it, I had too much to watch and never really got through with it all before deciding it was more important to live in a safe neighborhood than it is to have cable.
I made my choice, but honestly, I miss missing out on the latest shows (especially cartoons), when they come out, and the current cable pricing scheme makes it make less sense to "just have internet", than it did back then. Hell, technically that's not even an option anymore. After I move, they forced me to pay for extreme basic cable (Over the Air channels + The Weather Channel). It was the same price as before... until the promotion ended. Now I think I'm a mere $15, $20 away from what basic cable costs.
In the Comcast house, they always win. If you want internet, you just have to make the best of it.
Even during the day it can't be that much of a problem. FARO and other such LiDAR scanners work fine outside. I always figured these self driving cars were using the same sort of lasers (near-infrared).
What's impressive is the fact that Ford knows the average buyer would think this is impressive. I mean... it's a car driving in total darkness. Revert to your kid self for a minute and pretend you don't know how any of this works...
"Hey that's pretty cool. I bet Kitt could do that. Now I can pretend to be Michael Knight!"
I don't have a baby. My post was channeling someone's point that I've read a few months (maybe years) ago, and that I saw missing here.
I can't rightly say which places have them in only one restroom and which don't, but I can sympathize and include it as a reason to question all of these weirdo micro-managing laws popping up everywhere.
You shouldn't do a lot of things normally, that you can do legally - like smoking, being slothful, or cheating on your wife. That doesn't automatically mean "There aught to be a law!". That busy-body reasoning is what conservatives accuse liberals of having, yet they do it all the time just like the liberals, for issues they care about (just like the liberals). I'd say they tend to go even further with it, being law-and-order types eager to look tough by cracking down on immoral rule breakers.
It's the kind of thing that makes Libertarians so attractive, even though we all know that they really just want to deregulate the economy for big business, some of us might be able to stomach that if they can get the government to leave us alone too.
This is another great point. A man with a young daughter, a woman with a young son, a store without a family restroom means a bunch of people breaking the law even beyond the period a changing station is needed.
Today I heard Florida just legalized un-married cohabitation (not without some opposition). I didn't know any state had such a law on the books still. Isn't it interesting how all the laws that try to penalize certain lifestyles seem to come from the same people, and while they complain about federal intervention, they have no trouble being big government on a state level, (nevermind being big government on a federal level when ever they manage to take it.)
They don't even care about unintended consequence, preferring to weld legislative power like a huge hammer while relying on judges and cops to guide it to the right nail.
No one is talking about the baby changing station. Think about it. You're a guy. People already look at you funny if you're with your own child and the mother is elsewhere. Now you can't even use the baby changing station, because it's in the women's restroom.
Or maybe you can, after all, people understand right? Baby needs a new diaper. It's obvious. So you take a chance. You go in, and a nice lady inside smiles at you because she finds the image of a young father with a baby adorable. And so you're in there, changing the babies diaper, you come out and...
You're surrounded by cops, (or worse, Asset Protection.) Wait, what?
Onlookers, confused, and trying to fill in the missing data, assume the worst. Because it would be asinine (but correct) to assume it has to do with your chromosomes, they make more reasonable assumptions like, "he stole a baby," and "he's a peeping tom."
Welcome fathers, to the future! You're now officially a creep until proven otherwise.
...if you're really important or have a cosy relationship with whoever might otherwise make your life difficult. Whim also helps. Currently the federal government doesn't care as much about pot as it could, and enforces the laws for that more arbitrarily than it might have otherwise.
Additionally it might help to avoid being:
a conservative leaning non-profit,
Hillary Clinton,
a former and unfavorable politician who committed a crime and was not a President,
a former and unfavorable President who committed a crime without a VP willing to pardon you when you get caught,
Just to be clear, the right button is that little "x" on the corner of the window. If you click install later, IT WILL INSTALL LATER. This is how it "force installs" onto computers, by technically receiving permission from the user to do so.
If you want that to go away, and Microsoft's own instructions (that include editing the registry) don't work, use GWX Control Panel. It's worked for me on Windows 8.1 and 7.
... of your side of the Internet that you can actually use right now.
Services there will cater to China first, but spread by demanding concessions from greedy western companies. We'll grow more dependent on these services, which will be tied into the Chinese all-encompassing credit system, be monitored and controlled by Chinese minders, and anyone actually wanting to use their services will have to opt-in to the same "Authoritarian Government at a Distance" model that only Western companies opt-in to so far.
The rest of us will remain in a sort of Wild West backwoods Internet. We'll have social credit numbers anyway, but it'll matter to us about as much as a Facebook shadow account matters to someone who doesn't use Facebook. Hell, it might even be Facebook based. Ol' Zuck is opting in right now and we're along for the ride.
In my own experience, I've found that you can actually get some agreement from conservatives on that if you phrase it the right way. Military service (even just reserves), does all that screening and training, and there's no conservative gun nut out there who's be against that if you're careful to speak their language.
Talk to them as a friend, as a fellow conservative, and not down to them like an Obama. That way a thought terminating cliché about liberal agendas won't get in the way of a mutually acceptable solution.
John Hodgman was on Colbert's show last night sporting a righteous beard and making a not-so subtle pitch to get his old job back (for laughs).
Back on topic: no they absolutely do not care about our business. Everything they've done (and not done) has pointed away from anything business, anything server, anything remotely Dell-like, anything in a suit, and they only grudgingly accept their traditional place in the design industries.
And that's okay. And we're okay getting hardware elsewhere that we can actually upgrade, tear down, rebuild, hack, or start from scratch without breaking warranties, licenses, or infuriating fans on the internet.
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I hope so. The implication of the implication isn't nice to think about. If you're a machine, and proven to be so, how long before you're treated as one and justifiably so?
On the other hand, perhaps the key to ending all mental suffering is to break the illusion. Why continue to be concerned about your happiness and satisfaction in life when you're just a robot? Freedom from mental anguish could be as simple as taking a pill to lift the illusion, rather than some lofty goal like self-actualization. Then you can go about fulfilling your tasks as ordered without complaint until you can no-longer function.
On the other other hand, such a scenario would still require you to trust that the authority telling you all this isn't just lying to you for their own benefit. Free will could still be real, and the pill could be modifying your reality rather than lifting an illusion. Instead of being truly free from a great lie, you could be entombed in one.
If he did, he'd be richer than God. See also: Putin- for an example of what that might look like.
All the expertise they need to trigger a meltdown is on site. Motivation to comply can be coerced. What happens next depend on the hostages, who will probably stall them any way they can considering they will die if they play along. That's not fool proof though.
See, that's when you're supposed to buy multiple connections. You know, like how you're required to get multiple otherwise-useless TV set-top boxes now to access basic cable.
I remember when they switched over. I had a TV card that was compatible with the digital cable signal. It was great. I could tell the software to record something at a specific time, just like a DVR. Then the signal became encrypted and the card became less useful. I could hook up the set top box to the computer, but the computer couldn't change the channel on its own anymore. I had to rent a Comcast DVR if I wanted that feature again.
Last time this happened to me, YouTube was throttled so much that it was faster under TOR than under the normal unadulterated connection. Granted, while you probably shouldn't use TOR for streaming videos... you can.
If you have VPN access to your work network, that'll work a lot better. I did a lot of that once I was given access.
The NSA has everything; therefore, nothing.
To their credit, if its done long enough the problem and the people ringing the alarm about it will go away. At some point there won't be anything we can do about it, and we'll have to learn to live in the new environment.
Money's not an issue with him. He needs to have credibility as a Republican, and since he doesn't have a record, he has to over-compensate with words. He'll say anything if it makes him look good as a Republican, so that he can get Republican votes. I think if he is nominated, he'll pivot center, and if he makes it to a second term electoral cycle, he'll "transition" on the topic, similar to how Obama did with gay marriage.
That's just my guess. He's super rich, but he still has to compromise himself to get what he wants. If he already had everything he wanted, he'd probably say more of what he really wanted to say... like how he used to (which is what currently serves as fodder for his opponents now).
IMO, he should have run as a Democrat. He'd be a lot freer to say what he thinks. There's a lot of different kinds of successful Democrats. There's only one kind of successful Republican.
I think the difference between the ID people and these science guys (or any reputable scientist), is the willingness of Intelligent Design proponents to take an idea who's foundation is composed entirely upon a series of guesses and clearly (or deliberately) misunderstood information, create a doctrine around it, and teach it as though they were confident it is absolutely right to the exclusion of other, potentially better, theories. The entire effort is an insidious and transparent attempt to inject magical thinking (to the benefit of Christianity) directly into minds of kids who are supposed to be learning how to think scientifically.
The whole topic is rather lighthearted, and as smart people are wont to do, they are practicing the lost art of "Entertaining an idea without accepting it as fact."
VR gaming doesn't look like something you can do with friends or family. I mean, you can probably do it, but it'll be awkward. Nintendo wanting to cater to families is my guess as to the reason why they'd look over VR, at least for now.
3 years ago I had a DVR and Comcast, and while I dislike the company, this combination was the one I was happiest with. Without the DVR there's "nothing on" ever, but with it, I had too much to watch and never really got through with it all before deciding it was more important to live in a safe neighborhood than it is to have cable.
I made my choice, but honestly, I miss missing out on the latest shows (especially cartoons), when they come out, and the current cable pricing scheme makes it make less sense to "just have internet", than it did back then. Hell, technically that's not even an option anymore. After I move, they forced me to pay for extreme basic cable (Over the Air channels + The Weather Channel). It was the same price as before... until the promotion ended. Now I think I'm a mere $15, $20 away from what basic cable costs.
In the Comcast house, they always win. If you want internet, you just have to make the best of it.
Lol, that could be anybody.
He's just another guy on the internet presenting his opinion as though it were an incontrovertible fact.
Even during the day it can't be that much of a problem. FARO and other such LiDAR scanners work fine outside. I always figured these self driving cars were using the same sort of lasers (near-infrared).
What's impressive is the fact that Ford knows the average buyer would think this is impressive. I mean... it's a car driving in total darkness. Revert to your kid self for a minute and pretend you don't know how any of this works...
"Hey that's pretty cool. I bet Kitt could do that. Now I can pretend to be Michael Knight!"
I don't have a baby. My post was channeling someone's point that I've read a few months (maybe years) ago, and that I saw missing here.
I can't rightly say which places have them in only one restroom and which don't, but I can sympathize and include it as a reason to question all of these weirdo micro-managing laws popping up everywhere.
You shouldn't do a lot of things normally, that you can do legally - like smoking, being slothful, or cheating on your wife. That doesn't automatically mean "There aught to be a law!". That busy-body reasoning is what conservatives accuse liberals of having, yet they do it all the time just like the liberals, for issues they care about (just like the liberals). I'd say they tend to go even further with it, being law-and-order types eager to look tough by cracking down on immoral rule breakers.
It's the kind of thing that makes Libertarians so attractive, even though we all know that they really just want to deregulate the economy for big business, some of us might be able to stomach that if they can get the government to leave us alone too.
This is another great point. A man with a young daughter, a woman with a young son, a store without a family restroom means a bunch of people breaking the law even beyond the period a changing station is needed.
Today I heard Florida just legalized un-married cohabitation (not without some opposition). I didn't know any state had such a law on the books still. Isn't it interesting how all the laws that try to penalize certain lifestyles seem to come from the same people, and while they complain about federal intervention, they have no trouble being big government on a state level, (nevermind being big government on a federal level when ever they manage to take it.)
They don't even care about unintended consequence, preferring to weld legislative power like a huge hammer while relying on judges and cops to guide it to the right nail.
No one is talking about the baby changing station. Think about it. You're a guy. People already look at you funny if you're with your own child and the mother is elsewhere. Now you can't even use the baby changing station, because it's in the women's restroom.
Or maybe you can, after all, people understand right? Baby needs a new diaper. It's obvious. So you take a chance. You go in, and a nice lady inside smiles at you because she finds the image of a young father with a baby adorable. And so you're in there, changing the babies diaper, you come out and...
You're surrounded by cops, (or worse, Asset Protection.) Wait, what?
Onlookers, confused, and trying to fill in the missing data, assume the worst. Because it would be asinine (but correct) to assume it has to do with your chromosomes, they make more reasonable assumptions like, "he stole a baby," and "he's a peeping tom."
Welcome fathers, to the future! You're now officially a creep until proven otherwise.
In real life, government is all "meh, whatever."
...if you're really important or have a cosy relationship with whoever might otherwise make your life difficult. Whim also helps. Currently the federal government doesn't care as much about pot as it could, and enforces the laws for that more arbitrarily than it might have otherwise.
Additionally it might help to avoid being:
And for the catchall:
What he says often is military support offered by USA everywhere in the world is costly and not rewarded by beneficiaries to its real value
That's just the kind of corporate shortsightedness we need in government.
Just to be clear, the right button is that little "x" on the corner of the window. If you click install later, IT WILL INSTALL LATER. This is how it "force installs" onto computers, by technically receiving permission from the user to do so.
If you want that to go away, and Microsoft's own instructions (that include editing the registry) don't work, use GWX Control Panel. It's worked for me on Windows 8.1 and 7.
... of your side of the Internet that you can actually use right now.
Services there will cater to China first, but spread by demanding concessions from greedy western companies. We'll grow more dependent on these services, which will be tied into the Chinese all-encompassing credit system, be monitored and controlled by Chinese minders, and anyone actually wanting to use their services will have to opt-in to the same "Authoritarian Government at a Distance" model that only Western companies opt-in to so far.
The rest of us will remain in a sort of Wild West backwoods Internet. We'll have social credit numbers anyway, but it'll matter to us about as much as a Facebook shadow account matters to someone who doesn't use Facebook. Hell, it might even be Facebook based. Ol' Zuck is opting in right now and we're along for the ride.
Yes! Finally someone else suggests it!
In my own experience, I've found that you can actually get some agreement from conservatives on that if you phrase it the right way. Military service (even just reserves), does all that screening and training, and there's no conservative gun nut out there who's be against that if you're careful to speak their language.
Talk to them as a friend, as a fellow conservative, and not down to them like an Obama. That way a thought terminating cliché about liberal agendas won't get in the way of a mutually acceptable solution.
"All of our numbers were way off. With the new information, we have revised the likelihood of the next eruption occurring tomorrow, and..."
John Hodgman was on Colbert's show last night sporting a righteous beard and making a not-so subtle pitch to get his old job back (for laughs).
Back on topic: no they absolutely do not care about our business. Everything they've done (and not done) has pointed away from anything business, anything server, anything remotely Dell-like, anything in a suit, and they only grudgingly accept their traditional place in the design industries.
And that's okay. And we're okay getting hardware elsewhere that we can actually upgrade, tear down, rebuild, hack, or start from scratch without breaking warranties, licenses, or infuriating fans on the internet.
They want Gtalk so badly they're using Skype instead of Hangouts. God-damned Skype...