In America, we do have a lot of whores and we should be pround of it! Only in America can you have a nation of whores...and still only have positive population growth because of immigration! The Great Emperor, because I like you, I invite you to come to America and partkae i
Edit: And my sincere apologies, looks like my newest post broke the thread... again! What is up with this forum software? It's horrible. It's the worst forum software I've ever seen... ever. No offense to Stardock or Ironclad but it's buggy, slow, and very feature poor. The FREEware phpbb is way better... I know, forums don't matter... be quiet blah blah... but I just have to say... it's bad. It's very very bad. I use firefox and
ScourgeofGod- First of all, we do not afford the mentally retarded equal rights. Sure in theory a mentally retarded person has the same rights as anyone else. In practice, they require constant supervision throughout their lives, they cannot hold any but the most menial of jobs (if that), they cannot even have the same classes in public school as "normal" kids (if that occurs because of race it is called segregration). None of your examples show they have
See that is why I am also worried, tensions with Russia flare when Democrats are in power. If the Cold War does start again it could have serious reprocautions for me and my family. Really? I thought Clinton didn't cause too many problems for the russians... And the russians must have LOVED Carter... all our enemies loved Carter... man he was dumb... seriously... he makes Bush look smart... but whatever. Anyway, democrats have a
Russia will never be part of the West, though our dilluted president thinks we can join the EU, the EU would never accept us. Wait... Putin thinks you can join the EU? Putin's the one we think is causing all the problems. Seriously, after the fall of the USSR the US thought that Russia would change into a peaceful democracy that we could deal with like any other friend. We were set to let you into all our economic and milita
but still, in being a part of europe, you do get that high and mighty arrogance that America has not part of. no matter what people do to label me, I dont liken people infected with ANY disease to cockroaches, spiders and scorpions. *sigh* it just goes to show you when something is farther than arm's reach... And we as americans have our only qualities that annoy other people. It's best to see past such things. To see the strengt
let me also point out, that if we just take your statement "Intelligence is hereditary" together with "We force kids with talent to become scientists" and with the HUGE brain drain of the cold war, your stuck with the statement "We, Russia, as a nation, turn out a lot more (crappy) scientists" is that really what you mean to say? is that really true? I dont think so on either account. Lets not flamebait pe
I like the french, I just think they sometimes give themselves credit for things that don't make sense. Of all the countries in europe France is easily my favorite after England. They're a people that believe in themselves. Many people think of that as arrogance, but as an American (also considered arrogant) I have a different perspective on it. If you can get beyond the fact that they think they're great you'll see that thinking your great helps you to do great things. It makes you set your goa
Look at how many cities are before the Ural Mountains(the end of Europe) and then look on the other side of them. I grant you that as I said in my post. It's just that Russia has made a point for about 100 years of NOT being a part of the West (name often given to the alliance countries that includes practically all of europe, all the former british colonies, and a few converts in asia, south america, and africa) and
Well... that sounds very nice and everything but when was the last time you ate meat? Are you prepared to pay 200 dollars for a pound of meat that only comes from animals that died of natural causes? Old animals... animals that were sick? I'm not saying food animals don't die. I'm saying that I don't kill them to no purpose beyond spite. He didn't burn the forest to spite the trees. He burned it
Yes, I do take pride in where I come from, but no where do I directly say that Americans are lazy or that Russians have a genetic supperiority. That would be ridiculous, yes we tried to breed geneticly, but it was a totall failure. Plus Russia is in Eastern Europe and most people in this country have some form of European descent so any genetic supperiority we had as a nation was lost a couple hundred years ago. Most of russia is in Asia actually... I don't k
Theres a difference between possible and knowing how to do it. And, also, Tenenbaum had you in her "hands" when she did it, didn't she? The point is that Ryan commited suicide... that is killed himself on purpose using fontaine's weapon. Fontaine sent you there to kill Ryan and Ryan helped him do it. You might want to replay Ryan's speech before he dies. It starts when you break through those doors after you've caused the core to overload
I said you could "THINK" of the laws as a religion or moral code you said "I will be their god" what was I to think exactly? you might have dyslexia of the mouth, because if you expected me to believe that you were talking of something other than a religious (god) or moral (they would be hesitant to killing people) code, then you arent doing it well. (in fact you are REALLY sucking at it) thats not meant
Putting your own text inside the quote. How... annoying. that was a mistake. Sorry. And so did Fontaine, who was in fact the person who "commissioned" you. Betcha Fontaine could override Ryan if he tried anything fancy. Would you kindly turn off your radio... would you kindly wear ear muffs... Further, if tanumbaum knew how to turn some of it off then I don't see why Ryan wouldn't kno
the point remains, however, that you plan on creating almost purely logical machines. if thats the case then what happens when you try and instill religion? just about everything they could possibly theorise ends in one of two scenarios: 1) its karma, my god's will! 2) hey wait, karma isnt a god. *dumps religion file* neither one works particularly well for your purposes. This is why I get frustrated talked to you ab
Now as for you Karma, I have no purpose in furthering my opinion in this thread anymore. And you know something else, you do care about this thread, and you do care about winning this arguement, it isnt pure boredom that drives you. Very well, I'll ignore your statement baseless. Furthermore, I didn't say that I didn't care about this thread, I said that I didn't see any reason to respond TO YOUR STATEMENT beyond not knowing you very well and being bored.<br/
I say it fifteen times over, you have not yet refuted this point. I've already had this discussion with you and concluded it was a waste of time. Again, I mean no offense. I am merely explaining to you why I may not respond to may statement from you. Consider it a courtesy. the difference is i can do it. I cannot kill my family. Physically, my body is capable of killing a human being. So I could p
see, the definition of conciousness (in its myriad of forms) almost always fits with "is not limited by absolutes", seeing as thats what you are constantly using as your evidence I do not see how you can truly call these computers "concious" if they cannot even make a decision for themselves. for all intents and purposes they are just really powerful computers, nothing concious whatsoever. Schem, I’ve been ignoring you recently because you make a point of mis
Karamshock you seem more deeprouted in outdated falseties then Schem, this is deeply disturbing. Flaming me does nothing to further your own position. It is in fact nothing more then rude. I am only bothering to respond to such an insipid comment because I don't know you well enough to know if you're best ignored... and I'm qui
I suppose I should have said creating a concious being makes the creator responsible to to the well-being of that concious thing. As far as we can tell, a painting does not have concious thought. If I create a cow am I forbidden to fatten it up, slaughter it, skin it, age the meat, tan the hide, cook and eat the flesh, and then wear it's skin as a jacket? It is my responsibility as the owner of the cow to see it does not harm my society. If my c
ScourgeOfGod/// Karamashock, The creator actually owes more to the created in my opinion. A parent has the responsibility to teach the child how to live in the society that child lives in. Why? The kid didn't ask or demand to be created. False, that responsibility is to yourself as the creator and to society as you are introducing a new potiential member to that society. Your responsibility is to not harm your host society. And your
While I agree that he shouldn't have left the means to disable the self-destruct in place (the "genetic key card" thing) he as much as said it himself: you had breached all his defenses, leaving him with nothing to stop you. He didn't let you kill him so much as he changed track and instead of trying to prevent you from being able to kill him, he did his best to "break" your programming.[/quote] He could have said "would you kindly kill yourself" and it wou
yep... a drained swamp.
One question we have to ask ourselves if we can create "sentient" computer, is why should we. To use and exploit as slaves? If that is our goal, then we would deserve to be revolted against. Ah, but then what does the line "I CREATED YOU!" mean? Consider God's justification for telling humanity what is good and evil... Two points back up God's "right" to tell humans what to do: 1. He created you. 2. He can totally smite you.<br/
Um, no. Fontaine have needed to die to a much larger degree than Ryan did, but Ryan is no saint. I didn't say he was a saint. He was however a strong and intelligent idealist with the will and ability to make the impossible possible. Consider the Opera Diva... or the irrational rock star. Do you complain when they ask you to get 20000 yellow M&Ms or do you go out and get them because that's what needs to happen to get them to pl
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