Right, but it does mean that they are not "free" choices. They are constrained by the laws of physics.

And yet they can apparently still hold office.

I also thought that the supercharger network was dumb, reasoning that I wouldn't want to wait 50 minutes to recharge my car in the middle of a trip. The article made me rethink that as well. On a drive of >300 miles I almost always stop somewhere for lunch. Basically the cars range just enforces a break every few hundred miles.. not that bad a thing.

If it takes 5 minutes to fill up a gas vehicle, and 50 minutes to fill up an EV, it takes 10 times the charging stations to service the same number of vehicles. And when *everyone* wants to charge their EV at "lunchtime", that's only going to increase contention.

Sure, and notepad is a really great tool for making quick edits to simple text files. In either case, if you do anything non-trivial, you need a real tool.

Where physics is not deterministic, it is random. If free will were implemented through quantum physics, it would violate the laws of probability.

And the loss of every open-source software project in the world, as well, because copyright oddly protects them as well.

Copyright only protects open source because our software freedoms aren't enshrined in law as they should be. Make the four software freedoms the law of the land and copyright will be completely useless.

So, she's a hypocrit. How is that hard to understand? Thomas Jefferson said that "all men are created equal", and yet he held slaves. Gloria Steinem is as much a feminist as Jefferson was egalitarian.

There is a sad lack of utilitarianism these days

Utilitarianism is what I'm asking for. Provide evidence of the utility of banning porn.

Spreadsheets are bad at just about everything. Use R instead. If you really need a spreadsheet, there are modules that act like a spreadsheet. But you'll be doing yourself a favor if you wean yourself off the spreadsheet teat.

R is better suited to this type of task than general purpose languages like Python. Most variables and functions in R are vectorised. It's very rare to ever have to write a for loop, which makes the language much more readable.

R is so good at this kind of thing that you don't need anything special to do a pivot table. Just use tapply() and sum(). There's also a 'reshape' package that is far more flexible than anything found in Excel.

None of those groups are actually feminists. That they argue for positions that disempower females is proof of that. They may claim to be feminists, but that doesn't change what they actually advocate.

Itâ(TM)s not âoeWhen marginal cost is zero, price is zeroâ â" you have to factor in fixed costs

Fixed costs only matter for that first copy. Charge enough for that first copy to meet your fixed costs.

And when you say the price of something is nothing, you are saying it has no value.

Air is free, and yet it has value. Price is not value. Getting something valueable for free is a good deal.

Then take a look at the supply curve - when price is zero supply is zero.

That's OK. If supply of copies ever dries up, we can choose to pay for a copy. If people want it, they will pay for it. If they don't, then nothing of value was lost.

That would be the 9 people raping the 10th person.

See, the thing is, there is an absolute sovereign here. Each individual is absolute sovereign of their own body. You don't get to democratically decide what I do with my body because you have no legitimate claim to it.

You believe there are conditions where the minority should rule over the majority? Then you don't believe in democracy. End of story.

I guess you're right. After all, 9 out of 10 people enjoy gang rape.

So something forced you to post those words? Fate, karma, predestination?

The laws of physics. There's no free will term in f=ma.

That whole "there is no free will" philosophy was dreamed up by people who refuse to be responsible for their own actions.

What makes you think I'm claiming I'm not responsible for my own actions? Holding people accountable when they hurt others has an observable positive effect on society. Whether we have free will or not is entirely irrelevant.

Banning porn outright doesn't seem likely to work, but regulating it to a safe and dignified state seems pretty reasonable. And banning porn that doesn't live up to those standards isn't unreasonable.

I totally agree, as long as its the participants who decide what is dignified. There's absolutely nothing dignifying about the government taking away your right to make the kind of film you want, and share or sell it to people who want that kind of film. The government has no place forcing its idea of dignity on what should be free people.