Recent content by micahrp

That's depression?!? Can I have that please? That, as described, is a simple chemical imbalance in an otherwise functional societal situation. Change him into someone who sees and acts with extreme clarity and can't find any truth anywhere, only lies that lead to denegration/backlash when exposed.

Reading the wiki on Searle Chinese Room (sounds familiar but I dont remember it from class), all that is shown is that learning cannot be done without context which is as true for humans as it is for machines. The english speaking human would learn what the symbols meant if someone else pulled...

There is a new book I gave away to other programmers I know for chistmas titled "How to Create a Mind - The Secret of Human Thought Revealed" by Ray Kurzweil, author of "The Singularity is Near" and the person we can trace the modern functional AIs back to (like right out of the box working...

Not the fastest but plenty zippy for me plus loads of fun on turns, love the low center of gravity. Can't wait to get it on some twisted tracks this summer.

Why act in public in a way you wouldn't want your grandmother, employer, future spouse or the whole world to see? The bar owner cited some sleazy actions being taken at his bar and he wants to encourage that by trying to keep the acts from being publicly displayed. How about making the club a...

Oh sorry I didn't make myself clear. I was not commenting on the senario you presented, rather I am asking the people here what their deeper principle is that lets them act in a way that appears hypocritical.

What deeper principle I am missing? All I see from the responses here is "targetting certain groups you don't like makes a criminal act against them justified" and so many in these forums seem to be against even feeling certain ways about groups you don't agree with, much less criminal acts.

This is only the passive question, go for the active question! Such as, "You find a wallet full of credit cards and you know the local appliance/electronics/grocery store has no cameras and the clerks don't try to verify card ownership. Do you go on an spending spree till the cards are...

Fair. It rarely comes with a basis of comparison and even more rarely admits to the full picture of the situation. Politicians that use it without addressing both of those need to be penalized in some way.

If you need a fix of it, I'd point to Velvet Goldmine. A very early Ewan McGregor and Christian Bale movie set in the 70s Glam movement.

How about looking at them as the balancing out of the slant of the Yahoo article itself. Every extreme seems to invoke that which balances it out.

First off, thank you I actually enjoyed reading this one. I apologize if my posts are like nails on chalkboards. The internet as public domain would be fully wonderful and totally possible as long as people only upload what they create or have permission to upload. Just convince the...

Where did I say illegal or legal? I proved public versus private. Are you saying this privacy is immoral and should be illegal? We all have ignored examples, but I do try to only remove my part of the pervious responses so I can go section by section of the other persons posts and both...

For the data you just happen perchance to see you can side with the copyright holder and report it just the same way you would report a mugging you happen to have a perchance to see. I refer you to the episode of Seinfeld where the group witnesses a mugging and ignores it and are held in...

I am confused about bought versus pirate digital content. If you meant "Show me a person who has never pirated digital content." without the bought part I would volunteer myself. Every game on my pc was either bought by me or written by me. All the other programs on my computer either came...