Posts by Steve Barnes
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I must add that I output all this digital goodness via HDMI to the 32inch LCD in the living room rather than sit and watch it on the 15inch desktop monitors in the office.
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I've been using GB-PVR since freeview went to air and apart from a steep learning curve with all the config. options it works flawlessly. It can also transcode (DivX Xvid etc. thus saving HD space) while you sleep (you can choose that option when setting up record) it also does series record and offers the option of how many episodes to keep, this is handy for recording the news where you only want to save the last couple of days or so. It does auto comskip (cutting out adds on either record or playback) you can record in 1080i to your hard drive and add as many tuners as you have slots in your comp.
A bit geeky I know, but that's half the fun.
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Yes Jackie was right and I was just a kid. My point was, really, that there is no such thing as "Best" and it is the same with moral questions.
If you take the Hippocratic oath at face value, as written, Doctors should not charge for their services nor charge for teaching their craft, neither should they perform abortions. Today Doctors still take a form of that oath but the morals have changed to suit the mores of our times.
Like I said, do we know if we are moving to "better" or badder times? and who can honestly judge? -
Why can't we have an edit button that allows us to edit AFTER dinner.
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think about people who sample cars widely and lovingly - are they necessarily better judges of a better car? If you jump in a car and love it, but the connoisseur hates it, are you wrong?
This reminds me of a happening many years ago whin I were just a kid. We had a visit from some famous racing driver, Jackie Stuart if I remember correctly, at our yoof club. When it came to questins I aske what he thought was the best car. His answer frustrated me at the time, he said "It depends on what you want the car for" so I said "well, there must be a car that is better than all the others" he stuck to his guns. My point was and probably still is, there must be an ultimate peice of engineering that is the best car, where everything works perfectly all the time and lasts forever. Like the human condition on morals, we ain't there yet and maybe we never will. Do we even know whether we are heading in the right direction, or is that the wrong direction, hmmmm...
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The scenes can change, the landscape, the time periods, but the players aren’t allowed to notice or remember any of this. They just play their parts.
Reminds me of Dark City They just want to learn what it's like to be human. So far it's mega fail.
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Interesting discussion, if a little academic and over intelectualised but what the hey. ;-)
The concept of "Do as you would be done by" has always worked for me.
I would not like my stuff stolen, so I would not steal from others and hope that my example would be followed, if you see what i mean.
The whole 10 commandments thing is an extension of this but in a more proscriptive form and the thing runs like a stream through Judeaic culture.
We could try to deconstruct the moral aspect and say things like "It is wrong for me to kill because I would not like to be killed but if a person is willing to die for a cause the would he have the moral right to kill for that same cause?" which is a justification for war.
So could a person say "I would not like to be poor therefore I must work hard and become rich" here, in my book at least, is were complex moral codes become excuses for behaviour. Because to become rich, as opposed to being comfortably well off, means the exploitation of others. Calvinism is a case in point here, the protestant work ethic and the "God" given right to rule etc.. -
Although men are more accepting of sex outside of marriage, women are more accepting of divorce.
Modus Penis?
Yes I have been reading, ;-)Any of you guys been in the position of an executor of a will backing out and leaving a legal vacuum?
WTF?
Anyhoo, like the new site so far and thanks for the edit button, who thought of that?.
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Sorry about the bad txt butthis eeepc is not as robust as is klamed (sic) ;-)
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Must add that the machine was working when my sister got her but malfnkshund when i got to it.
No real regrets after tasting her over heated watery example.
I, as always, wil follow the rcomendtions of the enlightened ones on PAS.
Cheers S