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I like the way you present your ideas, but I find them quite difficult to agree with. Unfortunately I'm not sure I can articulate the precise technicalities of why within the confines of a blog comment, but perhaps if we could have tea together and take things one piece at a time, we'd both emerge more enlightened for it.
For one, I fail to see how a worldview that absolves everyone of personal responsibility and the need to better themselves can possibly be good. For me, it brings to mind a scene from Red Dwarf 8 where Christine Kochansky is lying nude in bed, saying, "I'm not sure about this. This is the first time I've been seduced by predeterminism theory." You talk about giving kind words and helping hands to strangers, but you seem to advocate this in spite of your views, not because of them. There's a leap in logic there that's unaccounted for.
I do kinda respect you for being thorough, polite, and articulate, but I fear you use mathematics the same way a munchkin uses numbers and rules to cheat and metagame at a tabletop RPG session. Sometimes one's accumulated knowledge only serves to make one more ignorant, depending on how it is wielded.
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Ah, so this is ultimately a study in religious beliefs. Or at least, that's what it sounds like, for all intents and purposes.
Saying there's no such thing as free will is a very hard thing to prove though. Boiling everything down to electrical and chemical impulses in the brain oversimplifies things to the point of misinformation. I don't think that view is supported by quantum mechanics, for one, and even in linear stories, characters exercise free will. A good author merely follows along behind his characters and records what they do while occasionally giving events around them a nudge to keep the plot moving.
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See, the problem there is if that is all respect really is, then what good is it to anyone? You describe it as merely a blip on a radar or a flashing light, something that's a mere novelty at best, and that's a clear lie. It wouldn't be so widely sought after if its meaning was that shallow.
Respect is symbiotic state between two parties. The party exercising respect uses the other party as a role model to pattern his life after, and the party receiving respect gains support and clout it can use to overcome future hardships. The vampiric sapping of good feelings you describe plays no part in respect. In fact, it's really hard to respect someone with such a short-sighted, unwise, robotic viewpoint.
You encounter a similar problem with people who believe that love is an emotion. If that's true, then does that mean that when you get angry with your wife, you stop loving her? Of course not. Any marriage counselor in the world will tell you that's bull. Love is a choice to stick by someone even when they're driving you crazy, not a feeling.
Remember that the movie theaters were the ones to reject The Interview before Sony first decided to pull it from circulation. I wonder if, years from now, this film will be seen as one of the landmark moments in the long, drawn-out death of the traditional cinema.
See, the reason you always lose these arguments as soon as you start to type is because... OK, let's assume, for arguments' sake, that Mike really is dishonest. What's the alternative? Listening to you? Yeah, you sure sound real honest yourself the way you come marching in thumping your bible, all determined to convert the lost souls here to the way of truth and light.
It's because people like you are always barking up the wrong tree. When you thoughtlessly label something as the devil, you only force people to play devil's advocate.
I want to believe this. I want to believe that the police over there are honest and dependable, but if this is true, then why is it that everything the law and government have done during the case has seemed specifically designed to make the disaster worse?
At best, Ferguson seems a situation where neither side wants peace at all. If anyone over there still loves their fellow man, they should escape immediately.
I really think you need to try something other than such wooden responses, for one. Is it any wonder that people don't trust the government when its representatives act like robots bent on humanity's annihilation?
1.) One of the article's points is that the internet is many, many times bigger than Google. Everyone who actually knows how to use torrents has been avoiding Google for some time now.
2.) Everyone who doesn't know how to use torrents is suddenly ripe for being exploited by a bunch of malware sites, and the only way to combat said sites is with a futile game of whack-a-mole. I don't think you're going to see Torrent Freak engaging in the same ineffective strategy that the MPAA and RIAA keeping falling back on.
Re: Isn't this exactly what we'd expect Comcast to say?
It's like Comcast is run by Grunkle Stan. Remember the episode "Boss Mabel" where it was revealed that he sees his customers as wallets with arms and legs?
...well, actually, make that an evil version of Grunkle Stan, assuming such a thing is even able to exist.
I'm seeing a lot of people here figuratively spitting in Obama's face over this, and I can't blame you for how you feel, but that is absolutely not the appropriate response to this story.
Governments and corporations should be treated like pets: praise them when they are good and punish them when they are bad. Throw Obama a treat for this action and save the newspaper and shock collar for that shady TPP he seems bent on pushing through.
Re: It's quite true that no tool ever completely dies.
Sometimes the tools improve by using better kinds of stone too. Obsidian is sharper than any metal knife, so though it does wear out much faster, surgeons use it all the time to make quick clean cuts without anesthetic.
I'm not a big fan of alternate input methods after watching motion control come and go with the Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Kinect. Buttons became popular as a control scheme because they standardize everything; there are no skill gates keeping you from using equipment because you aren't good enough at speaking or pantomiming actions or something else. Most people who invent these things also seem to underestimate how important sensory feedback, like the feel of a key compressing under your fingertip, is to a good control system.
That said though, there are many kinds of people in the world other than myself, and the Kinect's potential seemed to make it useful for all kind of things... except video games.
Re: It just isnt special to be gay anymore, sorry.
I think I understand what you mean. Heck, when J.K. Rowling declared that Dumbledore was gay, that was just inane fanservice that added nothing to the character. Personally, between society's endless obsessions with gays and boobs, I've become pretty much asexual by this point.
But your argument fails firstly because of your blatant disdain for your fellow man, and secondly because repression of homosexuality is still a very real problem in the world, and in this case it's happening in one of the most oppressive countries in the world. There is no equality yet.
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For one, I fail to see how a worldview that absolves everyone of personal responsibility and the need to better themselves can possibly be good. For me, it brings to mind a scene from Red Dwarf 8 where Christine Kochansky is lying nude in bed, saying, "I'm not sure about this. This is the first time I've been seduced by predeterminism theory." You talk about giving kind words and helping hands to strangers, but you seem to advocate this in spite of your views, not because of them. There's a leap in logic there that's unaccounted for.
I do kinda respect you for being thorough, polite, and articulate, but I fear you use mathematics the same way a munchkin uses numbers and rules to cheat and metagame at a tabletop RPG session. Sometimes one's accumulated knowledge only serves to make one more ignorant, depending on how it is wielded.
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Saying there's no such thing as free will is a very hard thing to prove though. Boiling everything down to electrical and chemical impulses in the brain oversimplifies things to the point of misinformation. I don't think that view is supported by quantum mechanics, for one, and even in linear stories, characters exercise free will. A good author merely follows along behind his characters and records what they do while occasionally giving events around them a nudge to keep the plot moving.
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Respect is symbiotic state between two parties. The party exercising respect uses the other party as a role model to pattern his life after, and the party receiving respect gains support and clout it can use to overcome future hardships. The vampiric sapping of good feelings you describe plays no part in respect. In fact, it's really hard to respect someone with such a short-sighted, unwise, robotic viewpoint.
You encounter a similar problem with people who believe that love is an emotion. If that's true, then does that mean that when you get angry with your wife, you stop loving her? Of course not. Any marriage counselor in the world will tell you that's bull. Love is a choice to stick by someone even when they're driving you crazy, not a feeling.
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At best, Ferguson seems a situation where neither side wants peace at all. If anyone over there still loves their fellow man, they should escape immediately.
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1.) One of the article's points is that the internet is many, many times bigger than Google. Everyone who actually knows how to use torrents has been avoiding Google for some time now.
2.) Everyone who doesn't know how to use torrents is suddenly ripe for being exploited by a bunch of malware sites, and the only way to combat said sites is with a futile game of whack-a-mole. I don't think you're going to see Torrent Freak engaging in the same ineffective strategy that the MPAA and RIAA keeping falling back on.
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...well, actually, make that an evil version of Grunkle Stan, assuming such a thing is even able to exist.
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This is not the time to be sour.
Governments and corporations should be treated like pets: praise them when they are good and punish them when they are bad. Throw Obama a treat for this action and save the newspaper and shock collar for that shady TPP he seems bent on pushing through.
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That said though, there are many kinds of people in the world other than myself, and the Kinect's potential seemed to make it useful for all kind of things... except video games.
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Re: It just isnt special to be gay anymore, sorry.
But your argument fails firstly because of your blatant disdain for your fellow man, and secondly because repression of homosexuality is still a very real problem in the world, and in this case it's happening in one of the most oppressive countries in the world. There is no equality yet.
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