It sounds luddite because it is luddite. The same has been said just about everything new, that it removes us from nature, that it distances us from our humanity or that it creates a dependence on something new.
You could easily apply your argument to say cellphones or the automobile. The cellphone seemingly adds value by enabling us to communicate at any time but in reality it detracts from the value of real conversation. The automobile apparently adds value but in reality it detracts from the value of a four hour treck to go swimming.
My current computer (motherboard, RAM, GPU, CPU, quiter CPU-cooler) cost me $360 a new game costs about $55 where I live which means that I can get a new computer for seven games. Eight to ten games if I need a new PSU as well.
But why is violent crime going down all throughout the western world? Gaming have risen by probably thousands of percent and still violent crime is decreasing.
The problem today is the same. The earth only has so much arable land, and that can only sustain so many people. It doesn't help that environmentalists are continually placing new artificial restrictions on what land can be farmed.
Not really. The Romans got their wealth from loot, we create wealth. Yes arable land is finite but we still manage to increase yield on existing land. When yield increases have stopped completely you have a point. You also have to argue that population will continue to rise when all countries are as rich as we are now.
People today have a bad habit of expecting new technology. It may be possible to produce food more efficiently from bacteria or artificial proteins or some such technology, but then again it may not be. We should wait until we actually have the technology before we plan on using it. Depending on future technologies to solve our problems, when we could solve them with today's, is foolish.
Technology usually comes from a pressing need. If overpopulation is a threat it needs to be controlled in some way but that is not the state of the world currently or in the foreseeable future.
To say that the market cannot keep growing for a long long time is saying we will cease to discover anything new, refine existing things and never be able to use more energy or be more efficient in our energy usage. If you're talking about inflationary "growth", I agree.
Are you telling me a space marine can't jury rig a way to attach a flashlight to a shotgun? And even if the future was bereft of all kinds of tape, wire, string, strips och clothing and glue, he could still put the damn flashlight in his mouth.
Troubleshoot this then. A computer works fine when running, at one time going 60+ days without a reboot. That same computer will not boot from a power down. It locks up before or slightly after the POST, sometimes it complains about CMOS checksum and sometimes it doesn't. A few times it was possible to start it with 15-20 retries but most often not. The only way to get it to reliably start was to power it off and yank the power cable and leave it that way for a few hours. Restarting after a successful boot always works. The RAM, GPU, DVD-drive and power supply worked flawlessly in another computer. The motherboard was sent to the vendor who ran 3dmark on it for 24 hours without problem.
Hmmm... looks like you're right. The normal behavior for STEAM is to just fall back to offline mode when it can't reach the servers. I just disabled my network connection and tried to start STEAM and it wouldn't run in offline mode. After going online without updating anything and then trying again offline mode worked fine. Perhaps there is some silly timeout or maybe it bugs out but that behavior isn't acceptable. Try contacting customer support and ask what the hell is up.
Timmy gets punished? We deal with the externalities the best we can because the alternative is worse? Timmy doesn't pour shit down the drain because he knows it is harmul?
When was the last time you poured turpentine down the drain or in a lake? It is readily available and highly poisonous to fish.
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It probably has to do with the fact that over half of our generated electricity is hydro and a large chunk of the rest is nuclear...
I only decorate my keyboard with pearl jam but it wears off so you need to retouch it from time to time.
Can you provide a source for this?
Both of my examples were picked to be obviously false. I'm of the opinion that progress is generally a single edged sword in the long term.
It sounds luddite because it is luddite. The same has been said just about everything new, that it removes us from nature, that it distances us from our humanity or that it creates a dependence on something new.
You could easily apply your argument to say cellphones or the automobile. The cellphone seemingly adds value by enabling us to communicate at any time but in reality it detracts from the value of real conversation. The automobile apparently adds value but in reality it detracts from the value of a four hour treck to go swimming.
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My current computer (motherboard, RAM, GPU, CPU, quiter CPU-cooler) cost me $360 a new game costs about $55 where I live which means that I can get a new computer for seven games. Eight to ten games if I need a new PSU as well.
But why is violent crime going down all throughout the western world? Gaming have risen by probably thousands of percent and still violent crime is decreasing.
The problem today is the same. The earth only has so much arable land, and that can only sustain so many people. It doesn't help that environmentalists are continually placing new artificial restrictions on what land can be farmed.
Not really. The Romans got their wealth from loot, we create wealth. Yes arable land is finite but we still manage to increase yield on existing land. When yield increases have stopped completely you have a point. You also have to argue that population will continue to rise when all countries are as rich as we are now.
People today have a bad habit of expecting new technology. It may be possible to produce food more efficiently from bacteria or artificial proteins or some such technology, but then again it may not be. We should wait until we actually have the technology before we plan on using it. Depending on future technologies to solve our problems, when we could solve them with today's, is foolish.
Technology usually comes from a pressing need. If overpopulation is a threat it needs to be controlled in some way but that is not the state of the world currently or in the foreseeable future.
To say that the market cannot keep growing for a long long time is saying we will cease to discover anything new, refine existing things and never be able to use more energy or be more efficient in our energy usage. If you're talking about inflationary "growth", I agree.
Ever met a tank on expert? Do you have an expectation to survive the endgame on expert?
Are you telling me a space marine can't jury rig a way to attach a flashlight to a shotgun? And even if the future was bereft of all kinds of tape, wire, string, strips och clothing and glue, he could still put the damn flashlight in his mouth.
Do you type nigger so often you automatically bleep out part of the word?
Why would costs need to go down if solar is already as cheap as nuclear power?
Troubleshoot this then. A computer works fine when running, at one time going 60+ days without a reboot. That same computer will not boot from a power down. It locks up before or slightly after the POST, sometimes it complains about CMOS checksum and sometimes it doesn't. A few times it was possible to start it with 15-20 retries but most often not. The only way to get it to reliably start was to power it off and yank the power cable and leave it that way for a few hours. Restarting after a successful boot always works. The RAM, GPU, DVD-drive and power supply worked flawlessly in another computer. The motherboard was sent to the vendor who ran 3dmark on it for 24 hours without problem.
Since when is argumentum ad populum insightful?
Hmmm... looks like you're right. The normal behavior for STEAM is to just fall back to offline mode when it can't reach the servers. I just disabled my network connection and tried to start STEAM and it wouldn't run in offline mode. After going online without updating anything and then trying again offline mode worked fine. Perhaps there is some silly timeout or maybe it bugs out but that behavior isn't acceptable. Try contacting customer support and ask what the hell is up.
Why the hell do you think I joined the military, to get college money?
That's what I and my 20 friends said when we raped that girl.
I like how you didn't manage to come up with a single concrete example...
Prove that. Seriously, prove that that applies to anyone at any time.
Timmy gets punished? We deal with the externalities the best we can because the alternative is worse? Timmy doesn't pour shit down the drain because he knows it is harmul?
When was the last time you poured turpentine down the drain or in a lake? It is readily available and highly poisonous to fish.
If you're going to take that route then the Washington sniper is a lot more recent.
What is that ballsack-for-a-mouth smiley supposed to mean?
What legislation would that be?