anon_for_this_1

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by anon_for_this_1 15y ago
Interesting thought... Personally, I think we're affected by all media to a greater or lesser degree. A colleague disagreed with me so we discussed his movie viewing habits. He likes horror movies. When he started watching them, they re
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by anon_for_this_1 15y ago
I don't know anything about this, so yes I'm naive. But when I read this, I think about the Wright brothers. They were told something was impossible, and it was right up until they did it. So possible to communicate faster than light??
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by anon_for_this_1 15y ago
So they went from selling to 3 corporations to 5? Meaningless stat...
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by anon_for_this_1 15y ago
The USA is a huge economy, but debt can't just be swept under the rug forever -- interest payments are huge and getting bigger. Everyone is starting to realize we can't keep borrowing forever -- we're nearing the end of that way of living.
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by anon_for_this_1 16y ago
OK, so piracy is breach of contract. Still against the law and immoral, no?
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by anon_for_this_1 16y ago
So if someone hires me to do some work for them, and I do the work, but they don't pay me, what is that? There is no 'thing' in that case. Piracy is similar. A band, video game maker, software producer, creates something for an audience w
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by anon_for_this_1 16y ago
Ahh the Vic 20. Warms my heart just hearing about it :) My parents bribed me to do some stuff when I was younger with the reward of a floppy disk drive. I was living like a boss when I got that drive!
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by anon_for_this_1 16y ago
I'm not trying to equivocate at all. I'm just trying to show that 'evidence' works fine in the large -- at the society level. But it doesn't work at the individual level since most individuals don't actually have evidence -- they choose t
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by anon_for_this_1 16y ago
"a belief in Australia and a belief in unicorns are both lumped under the category of blind faith, which I think is a really silly classification." I'm not lumping them together. Lots of people that I trust tell me they've been to Australi
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by anon_for_this_1 16y ago
I don't think you're following my line of reason. You and I believe that red point is a planet because someone else taught us that. We don't have any independent evidence -- we simply believe what others have told us. I'm not arguing abo
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by anon_for_this_1 16y ago
It is faith for _me_ since I've never looked through a telescope and seen that it is indeed a nearer-mass/rock, and not a star as it appears in the sky. Unless you have seen it with your own eyes, you too are believing based on the words
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by anon_for_this_1 16y ago
Evolution is a good example. Why do you believe it happened? Because someone told you. You read someone else's words. It sort of makes sense. You saw what you assume are dinosaur bones in a museum. All of that is faith, and perhaps bl
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by anon_for_this_1 16y ago
I, personally, have no _evidence_ that the big bang really happened. I have heard people tell me it's so. I've read books claiming it's so. I have to have faith in these books and these people. That's the essence of my argument -- very,
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by anon_for_this_1 16y ago
... says the "astronomy priest" to me :) I have to take your word for it. I know there is what appears to be a star that looks brighter than most others. I, personally, don't have a means at my disposal to know it's mars. I just have to
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by anon_for_this_1 16y ago
I agree with cookiecaper. I've never seen mars. I believe (blindly) that the books, pictures and lectures I've seen are real, and that other people's pronouncements (from NASA, etc) are real too, so I believe (ie have blind faith) that ma
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by anon_for_this_1 16y ago
OK, agreed. And did that guy just get up one day and decide to do this out of the blue? No way -- he fantasized about it first. Thoughts lead to actions -- it's always worked that way. Granted, not ALL thoughts lead to ALL actions, but
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by anon_for_this_1 16y ago
Damn. Getting all teary-eyed reading the posts in the other thread. Life on this little rock can be so hard sometimes... RIP Bill.
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by anon_for_this_1 16y ago
Like my other account is any less anonymous? (didn't realize I was signed in with this account). Journalistic convention is more related to the topic?? We've just found out about someone that suffered through a hell-filled life because of s
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by anon_for_this_1 16y ago
Drivers licenses are mandatory, and you get heavily fined if caught driving without it. This on the other hand is supposed to be voluntary. I certainly won't be volunteering any time soon.
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by anon_for_this_1 16y ago
That was really sad. I'm a Christian, but fully recognize there is some sickening hypocrisy in the 'Christian' world (and probably all religious and non-religious groups), but it's especially sick when these attitudes are propagated by sup
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by anon_for_this_1 16y ago
Man, I hate hearing about someone so gifted throwing their life away. Can you imagine if he had gotten interested in stopping the spam epidemic? That would have been awesome.
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by anon_for_this_1 16y ago
You just described the reason my father-in-law (and now I) believe that the best outcome is no movement. Thus we both vote (in the US) to try and create a stalemate in house vs Senate - both parties are so screwed up they damage everything
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Ask HN: What would you do with a profitable software company?
6 points by anon_for_this_1 16y ago|2 comments