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"BTW, Bobby, if you're still wondering why Dogbert's ears are up, they're permanently stuck that way from being held up by them (see avatar for reference). "

That is just too cute. Must keep wife from seeing picture or she will change mind about trying for a girl child.

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That is just too cute. Must keep wife from seeing picture or she will change mind about trying for a girl child.

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She doesn't look like you at all.

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She doesn't look like you at all.

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heh...actually, the avatar that I'm working on at the moment will be even better than that one.

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Nice touch.

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My affair with Linux has, unfortunately, come to a tentative halt. I got tired of configuring and just wanted to get stuff done (like watching TV). If my computer had a standard video card and a simple CDRW, I wouldn't have done windows. Unfortunately, I'm enjoying windows too much to be able to consider myself an open source zealot. I'm just coming down from the cold from hell and am not quite right in the head, and, as such, feel that this is the perfect opportunity to define a credo toward which I spend the rest of my life trying to attain. Anyone have any good ones?

aside: I realize trying to revive this thread after the abuse it was put through last time is a dicey proposition, but I really feel it must be done. It may just be perception, but VC has seemed slow since I got sick.

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My affair with Linux has, unfortunately, come to a tentative halt. I got tired of configuring and just wanted to get stuff done (like watching TV). If my computer had a standard video card and a simple CDRW, I wouldn't have done windows. Unfortunately, I'm enjoying windows too much to be able to consider myself an open source zealot.

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The pay and the hours for zealotry suck.

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I'm just coming down from the cold from hell and am not quite right in the head, and, as such, feel that this is the perfect opportunity to define a credo toward which I spend the rest of my life trying to attain. Anyone have any good ones?

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So long as it does not harm another, do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

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aside: I realize trying to revive this thread after the abuse it was put through last time is a dicey proposition, but I really feel it must be done. It may just be perception, but VC has seemed slow since I got sick.

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VC has been pretty slow since the initial hubbub about Dubinsky's slip of the lip. The Treo forums are where the 'cool' people are.

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The pay and the hours for zealotry suck.

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Yes, but I hear it's fulfilling.

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So long as it does not harm another, do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

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I'm not sure if that's the criterion for choosing a credo, or a suggestion for one. I'll go with the later. Thanks.

Dare we go into what constitutes 'another'? I like fishing.

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VC has been pretty slow since the initial hubbub about Dubinsky's slip of the lip. The Treo forums are where the 'cool' people are.

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And Dr. Bohn is there?

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And Dr. Bohn is there?

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you know what? (totalyl unrelated to the discussion) WHY do I always skip over this thread, except when I'm reading past midnight?!?! WHY? it is a history. It is the discussion..
WTF am I talking about? I jsut wrote my english paper. ick.. Literary critisism sucks. night

wtf am I writing?

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wtf am I writing?

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[...] I'm not sure if that's the criterion for choosing a credo, or a suggestion for one. I'll go with the later. Thanks.

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It could be both, but it was intended as the latter.

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Dare we go into what constitutes 'another'? I like fishing.

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'Another' would seem to be another in your species. Personally, I prefer to apply it to everything except for bugs that are trying to bite me and cattle.

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Note that cool was in single quotes denoting that it was a word that others might use, but I wouldn't necessarily.

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Note that cool was in single quotes denoting that it was a word that others might use, but I wouldn't necessarily.

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WTF am I talking about? I jsut wrote my english paper. ick.. Literary critisism sucks. night

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[...] Here's something for y'all to suck on: at what point does having a defined philosophy limit your ability to make choices. [...]

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At the point in which it becomes defined. Once one delegates decision-making to a defined set of philosophical rules, one becomes a program. If A, then B. Being able to bend or break ones own rules when the need arises (and being able to judge when that need exists) is part of what makes one human. For an example, see my post in which I say that I'm about to purchase a computer running Windows XP.

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Sartre believe that 95% percent of people are objects, not subject, and therefore don't even qualify as humans.

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"WTF am I talking about? I jsut wrote my english paper. ick.. Literary critisism sucks. night "

I guess you're right as long as you don't want to grow up to be a Literary Critic. For the rest of us it's pretty useless (don't listen to DB, he just realized he'll never get out of school).

"At the point in which it becomes defined. Once one delegates decision-making to a defined set of philosophical rules, one becomes a program. If A, then B. Being able to bend or break ones own rules when the need arises (and being able to judge when that need exists) is part of what makes one human. "

Which is why I believe AI will never be able to really duplicate the Human thought process. We can simulate, but how can we duplicate the ineffable?

Sarte was a dyspeptic and morose French guy, of course he thought that way. And of course he believed he was a five percenter.

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Which is why I believe AI will never be able to really duplicate the Human thought process. We can simulate, but how can we duplicate the ineffable?

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Josh-

the word for your sig is eugenics.

yup.

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Josh-

the word for your sig is eugenics.

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Partly. 'Eugenics' connotes intent.

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