Once again, there are remarkably few sightings of the Virgin Mary in areas with no Catholics.
Or maybe there are plenty of sightings, but no one thinks she's any different than anyone else.
In the GP's example, the cars are real. They've been there the whole time, but are largely ignored. Once the mind is thinking about those cars, POW, they're all standing out from the crowd.
Democracy is more important to me (and I hope you as well) than my personal safety or material comforts.
It wasn't even important to the founders until their material comforts (cost of tea taxes) were affected. Material comforts are pretty good. When the future President for Life of America starts taking away our material comforts, I'll join the neo revolution. Until then, I'm... comfortable.
I never thought I was a fictional character, but now I realize I am living in a dystopic science fiction story. [...] Would whoever is writing this book please come up with a less predictable plot device?
Hate to break it to you, but that's just back-story. This world is really a Harlequin Romance set in a computer research lab. They're creating the ultimate bad-boy for the cover of the book. The protagonist realizes that she really loves the nerdy computer tech in final chapter.
Truly pure evil is insanity. Anyone or anything real or fictional described as evil usually has a good goal, thus a kernel of goodness. Take Satan as an extreme example: His original role in the OT is as a prosecutor saying "Man (Job specifically) will hate God". He wants to be right, which in and of itself is a good desire. Unfortunately, he starts engaging in entrapment "Just let me send boils... kill his cattle... kill his family... cripple him... he'll start hating God any second now, and I'll be right. I'll win the case!" Less extreme: A cannibal. Evil by most of our cultures' accounts, but satiating hunger is a primal good desire. Twist it slightly (make food from people), and you get evil.
But... destruction without a good aim ("pure" evil) is not sane or rational. Such an artificial intelligence wouldn't be intelligent (unless you use that other researcher's redefined "survival==intelligence" idea), so there's not much we could learn from it. You can pity it, fear it, put it down, contain it, but you can't hope to train it because there's no kernel of good to reward. Of course, that assumes that destruction doesn't cause pleasure within the AI. If it did, you could possibly train it with promise of greater destruction if it stays its hand for the moment, but then the AI's not purely evil.
I also don't buy it. Westerners instantly recognize ^_^ as a smile, even if they don't think of the eyes an the most important part of a smile. "smiling eyes" are a well known facial expression.
In other words, they told you about it in documentation you agreed to and said your read but didn't.
And if the Digsby devs weren't sociopathic assholes, they'd have advertised the "price" for their software instead of trying to hide it under multiple layers, doing only the bare legal minimum to cover their butts. I'm sure plenty of people would have been happy to let their computer do some number crunching if Digsby were up front about it.
It is called due diligence and everyone should practice it, not just lawyers and businesses.
You're joking, right? No one except the very rich or the very poor has the time to read through all the legalese presented to them at least ten times daily (every purchase signed receipt, signs on entryways and exits, software installations [multiplied by five if you're a sysadmin], etc). Each one of these documents has a Lawyer behind it whose full time job it is to use their years of school and experience to create stuff people can't read. Unless you don't have a job, you can't parse through all of these things looking for crap like Digsby is pulling.
users should not complain because the client software is 'free.'
A malware spreader saying this is like a person who knowingly spreads HIV saying his victims shouldn't complain because they got sex for free. I was going to say "rapist" but digsby doesn't install via drive-by download.
Perhaps you need two admins. One the outsource company that obviously would have technical abilities you don't have, but maybe another one that you do trust that at least has minimal abilities to at least monitor for anything unusual?
Minimal abilities won't spot diddly. If a local sysadmin can spot a legitimate remote sysadmin for the system doing something hinky, then the remote admin shouldn't be needed.
I predict it spiraling out of control as different parties try to "get in on the action" and see a chance to turn a profit instead of just giving the money to charity.
Yahoo is betting on that. The steps they'll take:
Charge 1 cent per email opt-in sent to charitable org
Pretend 1 cent isn't enough while the real reason is that other email systems don't implement similar setup and because spammers don't opt-in. Charge 2 charitable cents per email
Charge 3 charitable cents per email. Make the system opt-out.
Make the system mandatory. Reduce price to 2 charitable cents per email. The people rejoice!
Now that everyone's been used to paying money per email, raise price to 3 cents, but only 2 cents of the charge are donated (processing donations takes money from Yahoo).
...
Collusion between Cell phone companies and ISPs on the price of SMS/email: 25 cents per each. US Postal Service goes postal and wants in on the deal.
It was probably something about current or recent popular culture, which Wikipedia admins consider not-notable, but sociology students 20-30 years from now would find incredibly useful.
Yet another example of an amoral corporation not giving a shit about their customers.
I disagree. They care about you so much that they want to know where you are all the time. Next step is to turn on the voice recording feature in the middle of the night to make sure you're still breathing.
This is not Apologetics, even when using original material. The tipping point is the "hostile websites" requirement. If a town doesn't want to listen, kick the dust off your sandals and move on.
Slashdot Mirror
Some of the nicest and funniest people I have met looked just as bad or worse than this guy.
And they would have happily supplied ID. Asking for ID never hurts... unless you're dealing with a psycho who's supposed to be there.
Once again, there are remarkably few sightings of the Virgin Mary in areas with no Catholics.
Or maybe there are plenty of sightings, but no one thinks she's any different than anyone else.
In the GP's example, the cars are real. They've been there the whole time, but are largely ignored. Once the mind is thinking about those cars, POW, they're all standing out from the crowd.
Democracy is more important to me (and I hope you as well) than my personal safety or material comforts.
It wasn't even important to the founders until their material comforts (cost of tea taxes) were affected. Material comforts are pretty good. When the future President for Life of America starts taking away our material comforts, I'll join the neo revolution. Until then, I'm... comfortable.
Ninja don't hate pirates. It's just a job...
Why don't sysadmins get any women stalkers? *sigh*
Steamboat Willie is STILL under copyright! The man has been worm food (or a popsicle, your choice) for nearly a half century
Maybe neither dead nor frozen. If he's still alive, that explains the copyright status. Elian! Elian!
I have been raptly awaiting Pegatron's $200 arm netbook with an 8 hour runtime:
I'll buy anything from Megatron.
I never thought I was a fictional character, but now I realize I am living in a dystopic science fiction story. [...] Would whoever is writing this book please come up with a less predictable plot device?
Hate to break it to you, but that's just back-story. This world is really a Harlequin Romance set in a computer research lab. They're creating the ultimate bad-boy for the cover of the book. The protagonist realizes that she really loves the nerdy computer tech in final chapter.
If you think about it, white male is the only possibility for them to avoid accusations of racism or sexism.
They could have gone bright-red with five-foot long horns like the evil dude in Legend. Of course, then they'd be accused of satanism. Ba Dum Bum!
Truly pure evil is insanity. Anyone or anything real or fictional described as evil usually has a good goal, thus a kernel of goodness. Take Satan as an extreme example: His original role in the OT is as a prosecutor saying "Man (Job specifically) will hate God". He wants to be right, which in and of itself is a good desire. Unfortunately, he starts engaging in entrapment "Just let me send boils ... kill his cattle ... kill his family ... cripple him ... he'll start hating God any second now, and I'll be right. I'll win the case!" Less extreme: A cannibal. Evil by most of our cultures' accounts, but satiating hunger is a primal good desire. Twist it slightly (make food from people), and you get evil.
But... destruction without a good aim ("pure" evil) is not sane or rational. Such an artificial intelligence wouldn't be intelligent (unless you use that other researcher's redefined "survival==intelligence" idea), so there's not much we could learn from it. You can pity it, fear it, put it down, contain it, but you can't hope to train it because there's no kernel of good to reward. Of course, that assumes that destruction doesn't cause pleasure within the AI. If it did, you could possibly train it with promise of greater destruction if it stays its hand for the moment, but then the AI's not purely evil.
I was going to say "rapist" but digsby doesn't install via drive-by download.
Apparently, it installed via auto-update with no warning for those who already had it. Is that close enough for you?
Good call. Date Rape! Date Rape!
I also don't buy it. Westerners instantly recognize ^_^ as a smile, even if they don't think of the eyes an the most important part of a smile. "smiling eyes" are a well known facial expression.
In other words, they told you about it in documentation you agreed to and said your read but didn't.
And if the Digsby devs weren't sociopathic assholes, they'd have advertised the "price" for their software instead of trying to hide it under multiple layers, doing only the bare legal minimum to cover their butts. I'm sure plenty of people would have been happy to let their computer do some number crunching if Digsby were up front about it.
It is called due diligence and everyone should practice it, not just lawyers and businesses.
You're joking, right? No one except the very rich or the very poor has the time to read through all the legalese presented to them at least ten times daily (every purchase signed receipt, signs on entryways and exits, software installations [multiplied by five if you're a sysadmin], etc). Each one of these documents has a Lawyer behind it whose full time job it is to use their years of school and experience to create stuff people can't read. Unless you don't have a job, you can't parse through all of these things looking for crap like Digsby is pulling.
users should not complain because the client software is 'free.'
A malware spreader saying this is like a person who knowingly spreads HIV saying his victims shouldn't complain because they got sex for free. I was going to say "rapist" but digsby doesn't install via drive-by download.
Perhaps you need two admins. One the outsource company that obviously would have technical abilities you don't have, but maybe another one that you do trust that at least has minimal abilities to at least monitor for anything unusual?
Minimal abilities won't spot diddly. If a local sysadmin can spot a legitimate remote sysadmin for the system doing something hinky, then the remote admin shouldn't be needed.
I predict it spiraling out of control as different parties try to "get in on the action" and see a chance to turn a profit instead of just giving the money to charity.
Yahoo is betting on that. The steps they'll take:
You don't really understand Godwin's law, do you?
You Godwin's Law Nazi!
It was probably something about current or recent popular culture, which Wikipedia admins consider not-notable, but sociology students 20-30 years from now would find incredibly useful.
They remember to breathe by breathing along with every breath you take. They'll be watching you.
Yet another example of an amoral corporation not giving a shit about their customers.
I disagree. They care about you so much that they want to know where you are all the time. Next step is to turn on the voice recording feature in the middle of the night to make sure you're still breathing.
I've still got a backlog of VCR tapes of news programs to watch. Don't tell me who won the 2008 presidential election yet, I want it to be a surprise.
This is not Apologetics, even when using original material. The tipping point is the "hostile websites" requirement. If a town doesn't want to listen, kick the dust off your sandals and move on.
Cats are Monarchists, the original "conservatives".
Planning for Gencon started many months ago. Anyone changing plans now will screw themselves.