Here's new service that I would definitely jump on.
Any opportunity I can find to get rid of cable while keeping a good supply of tv entertainment on the cheap is my kind of product.
The only thing keeping me from dumping cable is the broadband.
DSL sucks because you must have a phone line.
Since Tennessee passed a law prohibiting municipalities from putting in free, citywide, WiFi (thanks to the generous contributions to our venal state legislature by wireless providers who didn't want the competition...) we've been left with cable broadband (from one provider!) dsl, dial-up, or wireless broadband with low download limits. None of the above cut it except the cable broadband, but then you have only one choice.
I don't know about you, but I'm a big fan of competition in communications and any service that gives me the choice of paying for shows or accepting advertising sounds good.
Sign me up.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Morality is a primitive emotion without need for a higher power.
A new study mentioned in Science Daily shows that morality might arise from rather primitive brain functions.
The importance of this find cannot be understated for the simple fact that some philosophers and theologians have contended for centuries that morality comes from some higher source.
I've been in arguments with people who argued that morality couldn't exist without some higher authority, viz., God. I always found that position weak and opted for the more parsimonious view, viz., morality is innate.
The argument goes that without God, one can't be moral with the implication that atheists and agnostics lack morality.
I call bullshit on that view because the facts show otherwise. Furthermore, is it moral to be scared into doing right or doing right because it's the right thing to do? I think the latter is the higher morality, while the former is the view of the religious moralists.
Many of the atheists and agnostics I know have a better grip on morality than a lot of the religious folks running around.
Interesting study that scores another point for secular humanism.
The importance of this find cannot be understated for the simple fact that some philosophers and theologians have contended for centuries that morality comes from some higher source.
I've been in arguments with people who argued that morality couldn't exist without some higher authority, viz., God. I always found that position weak and opted for the more parsimonious view, viz., morality is innate.
The argument goes that without God, one can't be moral with the implication that atheists and agnostics lack morality.
I call bullshit on that view because the facts show otherwise. Furthermore, is it moral to be scared into doing right or doing right because it's the right thing to do? I think the latter is the higher morality, while the former is the view of the religious moralists.
Many of the atheists and agnostics I know have a better grip on morality than a lot of the religious folks running around.
Interesting study that scores another point for secular humanism.
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