Recent content by Jotto999

Unfortunately, people sometimes toss out things like "X is immoral", or "X violates our rights!". But if someone was going to actually buy that, it would either require them already sharing your priors anyway, or them being very impressionable. It's not much more clear than saying "I think X...

My stone-age computer won't handle it, and it's not clear when I'm getting a new one (not for at least 6 months). :cry: Would you recommend Oblivion to someone who doesn't mind modding it? I've played Morrowind and I couldn't stand the game without loads of mods (like an economy realism mod...

Yes that is true, and I'll quit kidding now and say something more relevant. In reality the sex drive is hardwired into us. The rule, I would argue, makes the assertion that you can simply decide to shut off or ignore your sex drive, which you physically cannot, making the law pointless. Any...

^^^ My position will rest at that until you demonstrate with empirical evidence that prayer does anything paranormal of any kind.

Either I cum in a controlled manner, or it'll eventually happen in my sleep. Either way, it's going to happen. I'd ask the rule maker why conscious is so much worse than while unconscious.

The toughest imposter to work around would be some alien civilization with scientific mastery. Still, they can't calculate faster than all the atoms in the universe used as a colossal quantum computer. But that's unnecessary since the parts light years (or even light minutes) apart would not...

I blabbered on for a paragraph or so, but then realized that I will feel embarassed about it the next day, when the alcohol wears off. So instead, this smiley, I think. :D Happy near year! Now there's less than a year until December 22nd, 2012, when we all wake up and facepalm at the people...

So? (Yes, I know what it is).

Well I can't speak for the UK, but people mistakenly say that the US has free market capitalism, which it certainly does not. There's a corporatocracy, a plutocracy. Company lobbyists are constantly monkeying around with things. And that sure isn't free market capitalism. I think it's...

Haha, yeah. Evolutionarily, the evidence suggests the brain has been trying hard to save space (for example, that's why it has those wrinkles and folds, this allows more computation for less space than just a big even heap). Which wouldn't be necessary if 90% of it was unneeded fluff. That'd...

This simple but powerful quote is giving me lots of think about. Thanks. By the way, welcome to LoR.

I think you're wrong. One of the few things that helps people is education. At least, in the long run. There are many things wrong with schools. Education has not reached it's perfection, not by a very long shot. Developments in neurology alone should change education hugely, assuming...

In that case, I agree.

I agree that it would have been more consistent if ArthurWilborn hadn't used an insult. Yet I think what he said was totally correct. There are some people on this site (not naming anyone, nor excluding myself necessarily) that have issues in the way they handle the discussions. I think it...

That's quite possible, I suspected they might just mean "you have none". I just thought the term was misleading. Of course... I never do, this thread is the first time I've ever brought it up to anyone.