If they tell me to choose between a civil servant who jumps naked off filing cabinets and another who does windows+IE+[possible pwning site] I'd pick servant A every time.
The screwing in lavatories thing is very strange tho. Are they gay?
I won't go much further, as you have misunderstood my intentions. This is in no way a structured argument to believing in God. Rather, I wanted to show that some nihilist understading of the universe is not only more profound than the original parent seems to have understood, but in fact unanswerable given an entirely athiest disposition.
I must point out though that your final words on finding the "courage" to "create" purpose - or meaning - prove my argument was actually well directed. Meaning does not exist, you have to make it up. This is not courage at all, but a lack of both imagination and courage to face reality. Again: We (as organisms) originated as a result of an accident, developed by way of mutation and are what we are as a result of innumerable coincidental events that have no direction - let alone meaning - altogether. Everything in us, every single electric signal jolting through our neurons right now, is to no end.
That may mean death is just as logical a choice as just pulling yourself out of bed another day, and it may also mean embracing a nihilist/hedonist hybrid approach (where one just lives to attain pleasure/utility, while understanding the lack of ultimate purpose) can be an option.
You can think of energy in a kazillion different ways...so why is TNT the first thing to come to mind? Unless NASA is mad about blowing shit up, that is?
You're trying to say that the inherent complexity in psychological processes - namely those involved in "complex circumstances" - lends purpose to them owing to the fact that they may not be directly related to instinct.
But that's like saying Java is not a programming language because you can't see the opcodes.
You will realise that even those "value-systems" that are handed down artificially through culture are developed (and maintained) as part of the normal operation of survival mechanisms that are inevitably linked to biology, hence chemistry and ultimately (meaningless) physical reality. What you see as value derived from utility is nothing more than instinct in disguise - you benefit from creating more of this "happy circumstance" all in the interest of either survival, or another (equally meaningless) principle that arbitrarily engraved itself into your psychology.
The hopelessness of existensialism and similar lines of thought lies in the fact that you INSTINCTIVELY wish to survive, and so are trying to find reasons why that would be of some purpose...yet the only reason you have this disposition is a movement of a piece of rock 10 million years back, or a cold breeze, or the precise temperature created by innumerable haphazardous and unrelated environmental reactions at one point in your evolutionary history.
The brave agnostic, therefore, cannot escape the meaningless nature of his (or any other's) existence, and cannot argue for the correctness of staying alive any more than he can for the incorrectness of dying immediately.
You should look a little more into nihilism. You seem to understand that while there is no logical universal reason (or meaning) for the human race to continue, people seem pressed to keep those genes alive.
What you're missing is that the "warm and fuzzy feeling" you refer to is no more than an instinctive emotion - an accumulation of millions of years of mutation upon arbitrary physiological mutation. There is absolutely no significance to this feeling to the intelligent agnostic.
As an enthusiast I would not like to see this go down. AMD is great, but not everyone likes ATI. Buggy drivers, slow to catch on tech development(only recently got Pixel Shader 3.0) and relatively sensitive boards(personal experience)..these phrases are what come to mind.
Granted, nvidia is slightly evil (their Software Product Manager goes by the name of Andrew Fear) but that just makes them badass, and gamers couldn't care less for their association with MS. Try
What's with the headlines though? Sounded like "celebrity frolicking" gossip. Will they hold conferences in Namibia?
A standardised code segment with broad instruction type usage and a long time to complete(to minimize differences/errors). If everybody is using the same reference instruction sequence on all processors for the same amount of time, no debate ensues. Right?
What you said is actually possible, but to what end? World domination? Come on now, that's just lame. Much more likely is a telecom attack where they deliver propaganda through the media and scare everybody shitless, which would be doing G.W a big favor.
And if they ever do that, I hope they use Fox as a HQ.
After climbing a little higher, he found a large, glowing piece of rock. He walked around it, astonished, and from one angle you could see an unmistakable engraving on the side.
I am not a fan of this. It's like having the business cards of all major heroin dealers in the country all stashed in your desk.
It's a lot easier to require encrypted communication from the website/service you're accessing. Market forces. But it will not happen until the people at MySpace can understand the need for this, and that won't be soon.
MySpace, YouTube et al cannot be datamined. These things give an entirely different meaning to "unrelated data". I for one, enjoy knowing that for the next few months NSA will be less occupied with my telephone, and more with their crashing algorithms, overflowing databases, and decreased morale at the Agency due to prolonged exposure to MySpace users.
And since this is a prime opportunity to make fun of myspace users, here's a sample of personal profile data, comments by yours truly.
HI! my name is [-]. I love singning singing is my favoriite Wow. That's the greatest.
HEY [-] its so great your here i LOVVVEEE your page!!!!!!!!11 I LOVVVEEE your page too.
SUP BABY JUST THOUGHT LIKE I LACE YOUR PAGE WITH SOME DARK LUV GIRL. Where's ya capslock at, dawg?
Yay!! i popped your cherry!!! nice page!! OMG!!! LOL
I'm here to meet people who I feel can make me a better person Take a U-turn, buddy, and push the pedal down hard.
Heroes: my parents, who got me to where i am today (This is my favorite one) You don't have to rub it in their face, sweetie. I'm sure they like your red undergarments, but..
Alright, maybe you are right..after considering the immense and incomparable power of slashdot. We may have killed 200GB worth of server threads, but I was just saying that more likely windows screwed up and pissed on IIS. No hard feelings:)
Slashdot Mirror
Mod parent up. These guys are serious BUT..
If they tell me to choose between a civil servant who jumps naked off filing cabinets and another who does windows+IE+[possible pwning site] I'd pick servant A every time.
The screwing in lavatories thing is very strange tho. Are they gay?
Was about to make fun of Oregon. Saw this. Changed mind.
I won't go much further, as you have misunderstood my intentions. This is in no way a structured argument to believing in God. Rather, I wanted to show that some nihilist understading of the universe is not only more profound than the original parent seems to have understood, but in fact unanswerable given an entirely athiest disposition.
I must point out though that your final words on finding the "courage" to "create" purpose - or meaning - prove my argument was actually well directed. Meaning does not exist, you have to make it up. This is not courage at all, but a lack of both imagination and courage to face reality.
Again: We (as organisms) originated as a result of an accident, developed by way of mutation and are what we are as a result of innumerable coincidental events that have no direction - let alone meaning - altogether. Everything in us, every single electric signal jolting through our neurons right now, is to no end.
That may mean death is just as logical a choice as just pulling yourself out of bed another day, and it may also mean embracing a nihilist/hedonist hybrid approach (where one just lives to attain pleasure/utility, while understanding the lack of ultimate purpose) can be an option.
Well I said 90% of the time didn't I? And he could have used calories, which are also standard. /*hides
They've proved us right!
You can think of energy in a kazillion different ways...so why is TNT the first thing to come to mind? Unless NASA is mad about blowing shit up, that is?
Slashdotters are always right 90% of the time.
No.
You're trying to say that the inherent complexity in psychological processes - namely those involved in "complex circumstances" - lends purpose to them owing to the fact that they may not be directly related to instinct.
But that's like saying Java is not a programming language because you can't see the opcodes.
You will realise that even those "value-systems" that are handed down artificially through culture are developed (and maintained) as part of the normal operation of survival mechanisms that are inevitably linked to biology, hence chemistry and ultimately (meaningless) physical reality. What you see as value derived from utility is nothing more than instinct in disguise - you benefit from creating more of this "happy circumstance" all in the interest of either survival, or another (equally meaningless) principle that arbitrarily engraved itself into your psychology.
The hopelessness of existensialism and similar lines of thought lies in the fact that you INSTINCTIVELY wish to survive, and so are trying to find reasons why that would be of some purpose...yet the only reason you have this disposition is a movement of a piece of rock 10 million years back, or a cold breeze, or the precise temperature created by innumerable haphazardous and unrelated environmental reactions at one point in your evolutionary history.
The brave agnostic, therefore, cannot escape the meaningless nature of his (or any other's) existence, and cannot argue for the correctness of staying alive any more than he can for the incorrectness of dying immediately.
And that is depressing, no?
If we ever get there, a few specimens such as these would be indispensable.
1) I refuse to RTFA
2) What if I don't WANT to be part of this?
3) Do they realise that porn thumbnail images and MySpace profile entries will become intellectual property?
4) Please join me in welcoming our new [un]Intellectual Property Pimpin Overlords.
You should look a little more into nihilism.
You seem to understand that while there is no logical universal reason (or meaning) for the human race to continue, people seem pressed to keep those genes alive.
What you're missing is that the "warm and fuzzy feeling" you refer to is no more than an instinctive emotion - an accumulation of millions of years of mutation upon arbitrary physiological mutation. There is absolutely no significance to this feeling to the intelligent agnostic.
Depressing, no?
-A
We take no prisoners. Only source, no prisoners.
As an enthusiast I would not like to see this go down. AMD is great, but not everyone likes ATI. Buggy drivers, slow to catch on tech development(only recently got Pixel Shader 3.0) and relatively sensitive boards(personal experience)..these phrases are what come to mind.
Granted, nvidia is slightly evil (their Software Product Manager goes by the name of Andrew Fear) but that just makes them badass, and gamers couldn't care less for their association with MS. Try
What's with the headlines though? Sounded like "celebrity frolicking" gossip. Will they hold conferences in Namibia?
Speaking of K , does anyone know why they call their "geographic mark-up language" KML?
Mod parent up. Few in the world know what the present perfect simple tense is, and the road to shutting MySpace down starts here.
I [have] just posted a troll, didn't I?
Pot is different.
Not optimised at all. Competition cannot complain if the same standard instruction set is being used by everyone.
My solution, that is:
A standardised code segment with broad instruction type usage and a long time to complete(to minimize differences/errors). If everybody is using the same reference instruction sequence on all processors for the same amount of time, no debate ensues. Right?
And the summer movie fest hasn't even started...
What you said is actually possible, but to what end? World domination? Come on now, that's just lame.
Much more likely is a telecom attack where they deliver propaganda through the media and scare everybody shitless, which would be doing G.W a big favor.
And if they ever do that, I hope they use Fox as a HQ.
Dazzled, he walked onwards, only to find another large chunk of meteorite not far from the first. On this one the etchings read:
SORRY. WRONG NUMBER
After climbing a little higher, he found a large, glowing piece of rock. He walked around it, astonished, and from one angle you could see an unmistakable engraving on the side.
LEAVE THE PIRATES ALONE
How about the holocaust, where they made to put their mates' remains in the oven?
Wait, I'm siding with the Indians there..
Planet: Biggish piece of rock.
/*ducks
Moon: Smallish piece of rock.
Meteor: Really tiny little bastard.
U.K: You don't want to know.
I am not a fan of this. It's like having the business cards of all major heroin dealers in the country all stashed in your desk.
It's a lot easier to require encrypted communication from the website/service you're accessing. Market forces. But it will not happen until the people at MySpace can understand the need for this, and that won't be soon.
They have my heartiest support.
MySpace, YouTube et al cannot be datamined. These things give an entirely different meaning to "unrelated data". I for one, enjoy knowing that for the next few months NSA will be less occupied with my telephone, and more with their crashing algorithms, overflowing databases, and decreased morale at the Agency due to prolonged exposure to MySpace users.
And since this is a prime opportunity to make fun of myspace users, here's a sample of personal profile data, comments by yours truly.
HI! my name is [-]. I love singning singing is my favoriite
Wow. That's the greatest.
HEY [-] its so great your here i LOVVVEEE your page!!!!!!!!11
I LOVVVEEE your page too.
SUP BABY JUST THOUGHT LIKE I LACE YOUR PAGE WITH SOME DARK LUV GIRL.
Where's ya capslock at, dawg?
Yay!! i popped your cherry!!! nice page!!
OMG!!! LOL
I'm here to meet people who I feel can make me a better person
Take a U-turn, buddy, and push the pedal down hard.
Heroes: my parents, who got me to where i am today (This is my favorite one)
You don't have to rub it in their face, sweetie. I'm sure they like your red undergarments, but..
Alright, maybe you are right..after considering the immense and incomparable power of slashdot. We may have killed 200GB worth of server threads, but I was just saying that more likely windows screwed up and pissed on IIS. No hard feelings :)
There's this little thing called virtual memory, and a really great module or two for memory management.
Windows memory management is not the best in the business.