Allocator2008

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by Allocator2008 18y ago
History remembers the risk takers more or less. Even if you fail, lose, are dead wrong, etc., if you have dared or risked greatly you will be remembered for that. Fred Hoyle might have been "wrong" about steady state theory, in that the sta
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
Dude you should be Treasury Secretary. Good stuff.
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
Why is Soviet hacker Linus Torvalds listed as "white hat"? The man is a criminal. He copy/pastes UNIX code, renames it to LINUX, and styles himself as the purveyor of a "new" operating system. SCO Group should get all this criminal's assets
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
Jobs and Apple constitutes a good example of Ayn Rand's individual vs. collective conflict. There is no "collective mind". There is only the individual mind. Apple is the product of the mind of one individual, Steve Jobs. It is not the prod
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
Listen people, I'm serial. Man-Bear-Pig is a huge threat, and if you can't see that, and you continue to down vote this thread, I will demand a recount of your down votes. If I don't like that recount, I will appeal to the Imperial Senate a
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
What about Man-Bear-Pig? Man-Bear-Pig poses a huge threat to this planet. I'm serial, people. I'm totally serial!
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
The library of Alexandria was perhaps the noblest human achievement ever, compounding the greatest of our knowledge, historical, scientific, etc. into one location.
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
I think the author is right, but in the wrong way. He posits that mind vs. world dualism is mistaken because I can for example map addresses on my iPhone, thereby allowing me to store memories of different locations in my iPhone instead of
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
The evolutionary consequence of a species ceasing to age is that it also ceases to replicate. Replication is needed to replace the older generation. If no replacement is needed, no replication is needed. In simpler terms, the trade off here
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
"I've got four words for you: I LOVE THIS [PLATFORM]!"
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
Thanks Ekpyrotic. Good food for thought. Regarding 1), I would be certainly interested in what X can be shown to be true within Objectivism such that its establishment would undermine the system or cause a contradiction. As it is based on t
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
Regarding error, from the wikipedia link: "She held that objective identification of the values of attributes of existents is obtained by measurement, broadly defined as procedures whose perceptual component, the comparison of the attribute
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
This is bullshit. BULLSHIT. This is right up there with the people who thought that we could never travel at speeds of 40 MPH or above because then we would suffocate. Psuedo-science at its best (or worst). Teachers who can't teach blame fa
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_(Ayn_Rand)#Epistemo... Objectivist epistemology is the only epistemology that is worth a shit to me, i.e., in that any attempt to refute it necessarily ends up pre-supposing one of its precepts, er
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
Dick Laurent is dead.
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
Who needs sleep when there is caffeine pills to take instead? :-)
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
I thought "web 3.0" meant context-aware search and things like that? Such as being able to search for string "hot cars in Detroit" and the search engine be smart enough to search for dealerships in Detroit, interpreting substring "hot" as b
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
Some designer you have. 95% of DNA is JUNK, entirely useless for the production of amino acids. Cells, animals, apes, including that ridiculous naked ape who calls himself Man, are nothing more than gene carrying robots, carrying around jun
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
This question of talent can be rephrased in another way: are humans the product of genetic selfish replicators alone? The answer seems to be no, that memetic replication has a role as well. If only genes were the factors in what makes a per
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
The recent case of 27 year old British Reality Television star Jade Goody being diagnosed with terminal cervical cancer ( http://www.stuff.co.nz/4853891a1860.html ) demonstrates how ridiculous this poll is. Sure we might all "expect" to liv
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
Each man has a right to his own property, including his intellectual property. Therefore it is wrong to "hack" if this means breaking into somebody's system without their permission, because it is a violation of the right to property. A cop
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
Just because a study of college students showed that the wealthier ones were a bit more "stand-offish" does not mean that the way their parents generated wealth in the first place was by being rude. Yes, it makes sense if one has wealth one
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
Who would pay the hosting costs in such a scenario? Costs have to be offset some way or other. Unless users want to do "donations" or something like that, as what wikipedia recently did.
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My numerical analysis of automobile vs. air safety(blogkinnetic.blogspot.com)
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
While we are on the subject of philosophy, I find on something of a philosophical note, the interesting ways and manners in which truth can unveil itself. Of course "unveiling" has a distinct meaning in Heidegger, but I am using this more g
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
A colleague once pointed out to me that my preference for flat file systems over relational databases was likely why I tended to have trouble forming and maintaining relationships. This I could not dispute, but nor has the knowledge altered
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
U-Turn belongs there too.
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Complete Rand interview with Mike Wallace(youtube.com)
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
Here is to whatever retards down voted this comment. If you do not happen to get a literary reference do not cause others to suffer from your ignorance. You parasites are not worthy to be on the same f*in planet as John Galt.
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
I have an idea. A public - private (government - investor) fund to buy toxic assets from banks was proposed as a way to get banks stable again. Why not have something like that but entirely private? No tax dollars involved. In a sense the i

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