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Yes, you do. If you have the toys, then you can make a prototype, and if you make a prototype, then you can start a Kickstarter fund to help you develop it further; therefore, you have the cash, just not on hand. So unless you don't have the cash to develop a prototype, let's get practical...

V = p1(q1) + p2(q2) + p3(q3) ... + pn(qn) Where V is the value of an action, qn is the value of the nth possible exclusive outcome of an action, and pn is the probability of qn occurring. If the nth outcome is favorable, then qn is positive; if it is meaningless, then qn is zero; if it is...

Alright, so you've got the toys, and you've got the cash. Now what? I mean this question in the most hideously practical and concrete way. -Duxwing

Your suggestions would, if enacted, create massive opportunities for discrimination and oppression and require Orwellian levels of surveillance as BAP and I have demonstrated earlier; however, if the system that you designed to execute your suggestions were perfect--and nothing less--then we...

Welcome, ActiveMind! :) Now for the not-so-easy step: finding that dream job in the real world. Yes, I know that practical planning and follow-through are not easy for INTPs, but they are essentially the only way to get what you want--barring blind, dumb luck. So just take the process of...

Ask Architect, our resident computer wizard. :) -Duxwing

I've just finished the walkthrough... oh my goodness. O_O -Duxwing

And I'm still waiting to finish FrankieOnPCIn1080p's walkthrough series. He's such a better player than I am, and the commentary is great; I just wish that he weren't so much like Joel--I wish that he stopped the gameplay to appreciate Ellie's moments. I wonder, would The Last of Us have been...

While the influence of money and propaganda on politics on foreign policy is regrettable (I presume that you're not saying that money and propaganda explain every human action) politics and foreign policy do not comprise the entirety of human existence. People consider more than money when...

Dogs are allowed at night because banning them completely would have been overkill: most people walk their dogs in the daytime. Knowing would require an entire Bureau of Dog Turds and all its requisite surveillance. Like I said, a noble aim, but one that is not always possible to achieve...

The Last of Us made me think about the difficulties and traditions of parenting, childhood, and growing up in the United States. Watching Ellie grow up, especially early in the game, is an adorable a time full of firsts: first time in the woods, first time playing with fireflies, first time...

If you want a more precise term, then use 'a properly functioning constitutional republic'. We already do that with felonies, etc. However, not all cases are so clear-cut, thereby opening the door for corruption and injustice. Nevertheless, I appreciate your idea: the law should be...

When did I mention the majority? And yes, but you're begging the question because you haven't defined what would cause such a massive inconvenience: for example, prosecuting one murder might preclude the prosecution of others, so utilitarian ethics dictate that we sacrifice one chance at...

Yes, if the inconvenience to the State and the People involved in maintaining them exceeds the benefit of the right: to use your examples, tracking every psyche and dog turd would require an almost Orwellian level of surveillance and psychoanalysis of the People by the State, so rather than have...

We seem to have curiously placed ourselves at the top of the pile. I'd like to add a few things about our forum: --Plenty of Ni-doms who don't masquerade as INTPs, but rather accept their type and come here anyway; I'm surprised because the differently typed forums exist so that like-minded...

Could you rephrase this sentence? I think that you fused the beginning of one and the end of another, omitting the intervening words. But wait, a collective unconscious and archetypes have been demonstrated to exist (given the axioms of science)? I thought that those were just Plato's Forms...

But what's the alternative? Arbitrary restrictions on medium, style, message, and technique? And moreover, do you think that the postmodernists really meant their statement logically, if they ever said "anything can be art" (and if a spokesperson for the postmodernist movement exists) at all...

Check the Formal Debates Sub-Forum. :) EDIT: Or not... Check your PMs. -Duxwing

Ohhh the irony. :p -Duxwing

I thought that I'd addressed that point before, but I can't find my rebuttal in this thread (perhaps I rebutted in the beauty thread); consider the following paragraphs a belated reply to his words. :o The statement "anything can be art" does not remove all criteria from the concept of art...

I'm the same. :) Welcome! -Duxwing

You would be surprised about what I know. Companies market over the long term in order to raise consumer brand awareness over the long term: if consumers later remember that the company makes something that they want, then they might buy it from that company. If the companies can actually...

What detriment would that be? Google puts ads on regardless; they may as well be relevant--you might find something that you like! :) Again, you would have bought stuff regardless. The supermarkets just don't want to buy inventory that they can't sell. I find this one hard to believe...

Just type the word "quote" between two brackets to begin a quote, and close it with "/quote" between the same. And the first letter of a sentence is more important than the others because it marks the beginning of a new thought. Anecdotal data by itself tends to be biased, and the...

*gulp* And each of them who wasn't a grandparent expected to be the one to watch their relatives die. -Duxwing

Also, maybe taxidermied. Pack me full of sand and put me on display somewhere. -Duxwing

"This is the weakest thing I've ever heard. ... Fool." And BOOM goes the dynamite! -Duxwing

own8ge is an INFJ who thinks that he has some philosophical knowledge. Disagreeing with him is, in his view, tantamount to declaring oneself insane. -Duxwing

Why were you confused? -Duxwing

Why don't you capitalize? :headscratch Wait, so you don't even have anecdotal data? Why can't content exist without criteria, and why is presentation not an artform in itself? Though social standing really does give me the feeling of grinding gears. So you're saying that art, to the...

Engineering is about solving practical problems, not building things. :) It's kind of science then, I guess. -Duxwing

That's not science. That's engineering. :) -Duxwing

Cool, thanks! :) -Duxwing

You're not a native English speaker? O.O Your vocabulary is extensive and flow exceptional, then. Advice you needn't read: I wonder if we could find any hard data on this. Nevertheless, you seem to have expertise. Eesh, deciding this point is hard. Why is such art necessarily...

How do you know that some people don't thoroughly enjoy it? You've evidently thought about this subject a great deal: What do all of these words mean? I can't even begin to agree or disagree. But here I can: Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Could you clarify? -Duxwing

So post-postmodernism? A movement in the retrograde, where formulaic works and tropes abound? :confused: Forgive my ignorance; I don't know much about art. -Duxwing

Perhaps postmodern art is intended to elicit psychological projections from its audience, much like a Rorsharch test elicits imaginings from mental health patients. Therefore, form, medium, and intention would all be meaningless to postmodern artists. But I don't like postmodern art very...

Ask your wife to hold your lovehandles while making love when you get leave again. -Duxwing

I agree that religion is a mental disease (folie a deux) that ought to be wiped from the minds of the world, but reason is superior to mockery: history has proven that intolerance and persecution have led to far more harm than good. -Duxwing

Then you have yet to read own8ge on philosophy. Also, how is stubbornness have related to Chad, own8ge, and s0cratus being loonies? -Duxwing

He's probably a loony INFJ like own8ge and s0cratus. :/ -Duxwing

Don't bother with Chad. There's something screwy in his head. -Duxwing

Pssst. Montresor is an ISFP. -Duxwing

If you want an exorcism, then walk over to them, shaking, eyes swirling in their sockets. As they gaze upon you in confusion, turn your head up and back and left and right, tongue hanging out. Then, in a flash, drop on your back and start speaking in tongues. -Duxwing

I can help you in this: --Advance the state of the art of grain silo construction and then build a prototype grain silo based on your ideas. --Understand and protect the habitat and communities of local amphibians. --Develop a new tractor tire that doesn't smell like melting rubber when...

*salutes Marie* Per aspera ad veritas. -Duxwing

Greet positively identified proselytizers with "Zieg, Heil!" and a Nazi salute, or if you're feeling more adventurous, "War is Peace! Freedom is Slavery! Ignorance is Strength!". They'll get the message eventually. -Duxwing

That's a question.... OF SCIENCE! :D Exactly. :) -Duxwing

PAIN PAIN PAIN PAIN PAIN! WHERE'S MY AAAAAAARM!? -Duxwing

It's also looking very close and very hard. :( -Duxwing