The problem with explaining consciousness in terms of mathematics and postulates is that, while they will describe it, you still don't truly understand where the ghost in the machine is. Kind of like inertia.
What if the girl was ALSO a superhacker? Then she'd be wise to the tricks. OTOH, she'd probably use her feminine wiles to steal the credit card of the male superhacker. Oh well.
Well, they are still people. Why not give them a fraction of a vote? That way if politicians piss enough of them off, then they WILL be some accountability.
Definitions:
p = Full citizen
q = full responsibilities
M = can be drafted
D = must fulfill all duties other than draft
m = male
f = female
Given:
p (1, given)
q (2, given)
p -> q (3, given)
(M/\ D) q (4, given)
m -> (M/\ D) (5, given)
f -> (D/\ ~M) (6, given)
m -> ~f (7, given [law of the excluded middle (see note)])
Part 1:
m -> q (8, by 2 and 3 and the chain rule (law of syllogism))
m -> p (9, by 3 and 8, chain rule) [therefore men are full citizens] Part 2:
f -> (D/\ ~M) (10, restatement of given)
f -> q = F (11, wasn't sure what the exact logic rule was so I used a truth table:D, it's probably something obvious I overlooked)
f -> p = F (12, by 11)
Therefore, men are full citizens, and women are not full citizens in the eyes of the government.
Here is the answer professor. I think I may have made a mistake or two, but intuition tells me this is correct.
NOTE: simplifying assumption, I guess f can also mean gays, transsexuals etc too in retrospect. Although in the case of gays, you'd have to use fuzzy logic because some obviously are in the military, or the guberment doesn't know they are gay etc.
Wait a minute, are you saying that people who speak out against free speech should be punished?
I believe what he was trying to say was that there are other places where they'd be more comfortable and it really puzzles him why they are here. After all, if a better solution already exists, why not just move there?
Of course the counter argument goes:
1) They don't have the money or the gumption to actually go there (pussies, they could stow away in a plane somehow).
2) They are radical and wish to convert the unwashed (or in some cases the washed) to their philosophy.
3) They only believe enough in what they say to rant about it on the internets.
Of course, that's what I'm doing....for the moment.....
Really? I've gotten mod points several times in the past few months. Are you always posting AC? That might explain it:D
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Google wouldn't do that unless they were desperate (provided they play by their current rules). After all, if they gave you some pizzeria that was all the way across town, that wouldn't be very useful so people wouldn't use the service.
Did you notice how in one of the pictures theres an attractive girl delivering the Gmail paper package to a fat guy? Google is playing slashdot's weaknesses against it.
I dunno about you, but using an HP photosmart with their vivera ink (which is admittedly expensive) and their sample photo paper, my prints came out looking amazing. Of course, I don't print that many pictures that actually need special photo paper, I usually go with regular printer paper:P
That doesn't work so well in the middle of engineering calculations.
1,000d^2V/dt^2 + 20.003dV/dt + 3,450V = 0
Can look confusing when written like:
1 000d^2V/dt^2 + 20,003dV/dt + 3 450V = 0
The last term looks a bit like 3*450 if you are writing sloppy (and odds are you are if you're rushing to solve this baby with a laplace transform >.). NOTE: They force me to use that method in class this unit.
I personally prefer the '.' as decimal, ',' as thousands separator and space to separate terms. Maybe you can invert the '.' and the ',' , but ' ' is too general to use a digit spacer.
NYC's transit system makes me think that having a car is just a waste of money. Not only does it drop you off near where you want to, if you manage to get a seat, it's great downtime. If you happen to need to go someplace that is far from your stop, you get some exercise out of the deal. GOOD public transit is amazing. I've been to other cities and they have things like one rail line and sparse bus routes. If you don't have a car, it's amazingly hard to get around. More cities should copy NYC's model.
Perhaps if someone wrote a program that could write a working driver from the specifications, possibly using genetic algorithms, linux would rock the world.... I doubt it will happen though, that's kind of a hard problem.
Just because you were in a position to see that doesn't mean that these kids knew that. When I send an email, even if I'm not using PGP or something, I believe I have a reasonable expectation that no one is personally looking at what I'm sending. Maybe the FBI or some hacker is gathering data, but I'm pretty sure no one is personally interested in me, and I am reasonably sure that it'll stay private and not bite me in the ass coming from a 3rd party provided it was legal content.
These kids may not even understand that their communications could be intercepted. Even if they do, I still think they have a reasonable expectation that their communication is between them.
If someone did intercept those pictures and started distributing them, what are the odds that they would ever be connected to this specific couple? Some asshole pedophile might be *ahem* using the pictures, but the girl and boy would never know, and would never be directly harmed.
Anyway, this law is stupid. My 2 cents.
Well the problem with implementing it as a tree is that would probably mean linking things with different subject names together based on content and context (in time and in terms of information). If you manage to do that, I have a Turing award for you.
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that anything produced/owned by the government (barring state secrets maybe) is public domain material. It wouldn't make sense if the government could charge you for royalties on copies of the constitution:P
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The problem with explaining consciousness in terms of mathematics and postulates is that, while they will describe it, you still don't truly understand where the ghost in the machine is. Kind of like inertia.
What if the girl was ALSO a superhacker? Then she'd be wise to the tricks. OTOH, she'd probably use her feminine wiles to steal the credit card of the male superhacker. Oh well.
Well, they are still people. Why not give them a fraction of a vote? That way if politicians piss enough of them off, then they WILL be some accountability.
Definitions:
/\ D) q (4, given) /\ D) (5, given) /\ ~M) (6, given)
/\ ~M) (10, restatement of given) :D, it's probably something obvious I overlooked)
p = Full citizen
q = full responsibilities
M = can be drafted
D = must fulfill all duties other than draft
m = male
f = female
Given:
p (1, given)
q (2, given)
p -> q (3, given)
(M
m -> (M
f -> (D
m -> ~f (7, given [law of the excluded middle (see note)])
Part 1:
m -> q (8, by 2 and 3 and the chain rule (law of syllogism))
m -> p (9, by 3 and 8, chain rule) [therefore men are full citizens]
Part 2:
f -> (D
f -> q = F (11, wasn't sure what the exact logic rule was so I used a truth table
f -> p = F (12, by 11)
Therefore, men are full citizens, and women are not full citizens in the eyes of the government.
Here is the answer professor. I think I may have made a mistake or two, but intuition tells me this is correct.
NOTE: simplifying assumption, I guess f can also mean gays, transsexuals etc too in retrospect. Although in the case of gays, you'd have to use fuzzy logic because some obviously are in the military, or the guberment doesn't know they are gay etc.
I believe what he was trying to say was that there are other places where they'd be more comfortable and it really puzzles him why they are here. After all, if a better solution already exists, why not just move there?
Of course the counter argument goes:1) They don't have the money or the gumption to actually go there (pussies, they could stow away in a plane somehow).
2) They are radical and wish to convert the unwashed (or in some cases the washed) to their philosophy.
3) They only believe enough in what they say to rant about it on the internets.
Of course, that's what I'm doing....for the moment.....
Really? I've gotten mod points several times in the past few months. Are you always posting AC? That might explain it :D
Google wouldn't do that unless they were desperate (provided they play by their current rules). After all, if they gave you some pizzeria that was all the way across town, that wouldn't be very useful so people wouldn't use the service.
I lost
I think this is a joke because I'm pretty sure I've seen this in another news story. I think it was the one about gmail paper.
Did you notice how in one of the pictures theres an attractive girl delivering the Gmail paper package to a fat guy? Google is playing slashdot's weaknesses against it.
I dunno about you, but using an HP photosmart with their vivera ink (which is admittedly expensive) and their sample photo paper, my prints came out looking amazing. Of course, I don't print that many pictures that actually need special photo paper, I usually go with regular printer paper :P
What terms were they specifically?
That doesn't work so well in the middle of engineering calculations.
1,000d^2V/dt^2 + 20.003dV/dt + 3,450V = 0
Can look confusing when written like:
1 000d^2V/dt^2 + 20,003dV/dt + 3 450V = 0
The last term looks a bit like 3*450 if you are writing sloppy (and odds are you are if you're rushing to solve this baby with a laplace transform >.). NOTE: They force me to use that method in class this unit.
I personally prefer the '.' as decimal, ',' as thousands separator and space to separate terms.
Maybe you can invert the '.' and the ',' , but ' ' is too general to use a digit spacer.
NYC's transit system makes me think that having a car is just a waste of money. Not only does it drop you off near where you want to, if you manage to get a seat, it's great downtime. If you happen to need to go someplace that is far from your stop, you get some exercise out of the deal. GOOD public transit is amazing. I've been to other cities and they have things like one rail line and sparse bus routes. If you don't have a car, it's amazingly hard to get around. More cities should copy NYC's model.
LOL that made my day.
If the computer can't tell the difference... hey....
Perhaps the people who haven't died are self selecting for posting frequency.
Perhaps if someone wrote a program that could write a working driver from the specifications, possibly using genetic algorithms, linux would rock the world.... I doubt it will happen though, that's kind of a hard problem.
It still might be useful to energize the evangelicals to not let this happen :P
I'm white and I thought Jade was asian....
Just because you were in a position to see that doesn't mean that these kids knew that. When I send an email, even if I'm not using PGP or something, I believe I have a reasonable expectation that no one is personally looking at what I'm sending. Maybe the FBI or some hacker is gathering data, but I'm pretty sure no one is personally interested in me, and I am reasonably sure that it'll stay private and not bite me in the ass coming from a 3rd party provided it was legal content. These kids may not even understand that their communications could be intercepted. Even if they do, I still think they have a reasonable expectation that their communication is between them. If someone did intercept those pictures and started distributing them, what are the odds that they would ever be connected to this specific couple? Some asshole pedophile might be *ahem* using the pictures, but the girl and boy would never know, and would never be directly harmed. Anyway, this law is stupid. My 2 cents.
Well the problem with implementing it as a tree is that would probably mean linking things with different subject names together based on content and context (in time and in terms of information). If you manage to do that, I have a Turing award for you.
Nor for me in Windows XP using Firefox 2.0.0.1. I'm inclined to agree with your analysis.
Actually, I almost never go to the slashdot main page. I use the RSS feed from gmail.
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that anything produced/owned by the government (barring state secrets maybe) is public domain material. It wouldn't make sense if the government could charge you for royalties on copies of the constitution :P