He reminds me of the TimeCube guy, except that he was willing to hurt others and die in order to get his message out there.

Doesn't seem so appropriate for the reincarnated Gandhi...

Born again penguin? Surely you've heard of the Doctrine of Original Sin?

Anyone is capable of any evil act.

from TFS:

from TFA (emphasis mine):

why the discrepancy? is it less legitimate to be from UCR and more legitimate to simply be from a UC?

They're not being literal. Inception just failed on them.

Inception is performative: it attempts to accomplish the thing it seeks to describe.

In the case of those still wondering if things were real or not, it fell short.

Keep in mind, computer memory is an abstraction of human memory.

I've been seeing this response a lot lately. Where is Derrida when you need him? I'd argue that the film's answer isn't "It was all a dream" or "It was real" because the film's question isn't "Was it real?" or "Is this real?" The question is "What is real?" In other words, "What does it mean for something to be real?" And the answer inevitably deconstructs the tension between dreams/reality, at once perceiving and creating thought beyond category. The distinction between dreams/reality relies on the concept of reality in the same way that the distinction between raw/cooked relies on the concept of cooked. Before you knew the concept of cooked, food wasn't raw/cooked, food just was.

Exactly!

How can you trust the data that's recorded to infer driver error when it's that same data that makes the decision to accelerate uncontrollably? Also, isn't there evidence of braking in some cases? i.e. testimony of smelling burning brakes, and tire marks from the car trying to stop?

Sad. As I post this comment there are 72 comments in this discussion.

A similar story on either the Android OS, or the iPhone OS, or the Android OS vs. the iPhone OS would have 720 comments by now.

My thoughts:

How many of these people who wear the self-adjusting glasses mis-prescribe themselves and end up straining their eyes or making their vision worse?

Or he works in a dictatorship, like the rest of America.

Straight rocket as opposed to what? Crotch rockets? Red rockets? Rice rockets? Ha. Ha.

I undervolted my macbook and got a good 30 minutes to an hour increase on the battery life. More info here.

But more than that I just like that my CPU runs cooler, and as a result, my laptop runs quieter.

Haha. I see what you did there. Googled the quote and the man. Neither exist.

Though not a new idea, that's exactly what this Harvard professor argues in one of his essays in his book Public Philosophy. He contrasts the idea of liberal freedom and republican freedom, where the former is the ability to choose our values and ends for ourselves, and the latter is our capacity as citizens to share in shaping the forces that govern our collective destiny.

He argues that, “If American politics is to recover its civic voice, it must find a way to debate questions we have forgotten how to ask. Consider the way we think and argue bout economics today, in contrast to the way Americans debated economic policy through much of our history. These days most of our economic arguments revolve around two considerations: prosperity and fairness. Whatever tax policies or budget proposals or regulatory schemes people may favor, they usually defend them on the grounds that they will increase the size of the economic pie or distribute the pieces of the pie more fairly or both... Throughout much of American history they have also addressed a different question: What economic arrangements are more hospitable to self-government?”

He concludes that "despite its appeal, the liberal vision of freedom lacks the civic resources to sustain self-government. The public philosophy by which we live cannot secure the liberty it promises, because it cannot inspire the sense of community and civic engagement that liberty requires."