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Comment Re:what is this garbage. (Score 4, Interesting) 113

I will say this much. There is a reason a lot of corporations are going Cloud. It's because there are a lot of folks in the basement in IT who agree with you, and there are a lot of folks in the rest of the business who disagree and the rest of the business is starting to win out as the Cloud providers are starting to be able to pass audits more often than the on-premise data centers.

Comment This isn't a victory for Behring-Breivik. (Score 3, Insightful) 491

Someone once pointed out that hoping a rapist gets raped in prison isn't a victory for his victim(s), because it somehow gives him what he had coming to him, but it's actually a victory for rape and violence. I wish I could remember who said that, because they are right. The score doesn't go Rapist: 1 World: 1. It goes Rape: 2.

What this man did is unspeakable, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. If he needs to be kept away from other prisoners as a safety issue, there are ways to do that without keeping him in solitary confinement, which has been shown conclusively to be profoundly cruel and harmful.

Putting him in solitary confinement, as a punitive measure, is not a victory for the good people in the world. It's a victory for inhumane treatment of human beings. This ruling is, in my opinion, very good and very strong for human rights, *precisely* because it was brought by such a despicable and horrible person. It affirms that all of us have basic human rights, even the absolute worst of us on this planet.

Comment Re:No such thing in real gambling (Score 4, Informative) 340

From the article: "So, is online poker now dead? Destined to be crushed by robots? Not quite: No limit Texas Hold'Em—in which any amount of bet in any dollar amount can be made—is by far the most popular, and while robots can play that game quite well, we're no where close to solving it. Limit poker has roughly 3 x 10^14 permutations; no limit poker has 3 x 10^48, which is many orders of magnitude harder to solve."

Comment The Price (Score 1) 529

I wouldn't venture that many here are willing to live in delusion in order to trick their brain into de-stressing. The only correlation here is that reducing stresses on your body and brain helps your overall health. Religion may, in some cases, achieve these goals but are certainly not the only way. I'll take my lifestyle choices on my own terms, thank you.

Comment Re:The Bible? (Score 2) 65

The best answer that I have heard is that the existential nihilism that is covered by the book is an important aspect of Jewish / Christian traditions and that all wise people must confront it and think about it. The idea is so central that it even suggests the idea that God himself wrestles with this question and more specifically in the Christian Tradition this is what the Christ wrestled with on the cross when he cried out "Why have you forsaken me?" The saints, holy people, and mad men through out history have all struggled with this and were all changed by the questions asked by this book.

Comment Re:What if... (Score 1) 175

I'm not saying this makes sense to -me- I was saying this is what you have to overcome. People created the imperial system after things they could visualize. Over time the system became a part of the culture. At that point its almost impossible to change, in order to hack culture, you have to overload and redefine the symbols and the rituals of that culture. This has been the chief problem with the Metric system, its hard for the common man to know if 1 Kg of a substance for $10 is a better deal that 1 Lbs of the same substance for $10.

Now in order for the metric system to catch on we are going to need to come up with good ways to get people to think in meter, liter, or gram units.

In the United States the Liter is the soda bottle. This is good. The gram... drug use is popular enough among certain groups and but in the states where the legalization process is underway most of the substances is not sold by the gram. As for the meter, we are already making an impact on the health nuts with the 5K/10K runs, but there needs to be something people can get their minds around. 5,000 or 10,000 doesn't work.

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