Since the earth is green from orbit due to plants, I got dibs on genetically engineering grass so that it is white! That, and tree leaves too.
I'll be rich and famous!
Why all this talk about plating more trees? Algae is where its at - it produces an estimated 73 to 87 percent of the net global production of oxygen [from wiki].
Buy polonium 210 on the internet? I believe that, but I don't believe that they'll sell it to you in lethal quantities. I'll assume that you're referring to the united nuclear website (http://www.unitednuclear.com/isotopes.htm). Just think - if you could buy as much polonium 210 as what was used against Litvinenko, do you really think that any postage service would want to deliver a radioactive package?
There was absolutely no need for the James Bond style assasination. Why not just shoot the bugger using a silencer? Advantages of using a gun:
1. Weapon doesn't decay.
2. Don't need to visit a nuclear reactor (which will have very restricted access on) to get one.
3. Doesn't leave a HUGE trail of everywhere you have been with it.
4. Less chance of target surving long enough to give full description of you.
I know, playing a game to make money is ridiculous. Imagine if someone played a game such as basketball, football or even soccer to make money! That'd be absurd. Oh, wait...
The same concept applies to virtual games (yes, they are still games), allowing them to be a profitable practise.
Why does everybody keep saying this. It is not true. Just because a blogger says something does not make it fact. Everybody keeps saying this because they want to believe it. They don't want a sony (the so called evil rootkit company) to win the format war. Imagine if it was the other way around, and Sony was backing HD-DVD. Would you still be supporting HD-DVD? NO! It's blind to judge a technology by the actions of one company backing it.
Nonsense! A company who distributed a rootkit and lost a different format war in the past could never create a technology superior to HD-DVD. Besides, a blogger posted something about Sony not licensing his pr0n movie so, obviously, Blu-ray is bound to fail.
You seem a bit over the top. This is a 51 GB disk, TDK already has a 200GB Blu-Ray disk. Also, if you RTFA you might ahve noticed the words "The snag, of course, is that today's HD DVD players will be incapable of reading the new disc, which is something of a problem for early adopters, who will presumably have to buy new kit." This is NOTHING. Blu-ray is the better technology, and everyone knows it. Nobody wants to admit it because Sony, who created a rootkit, is backing it.
Why has parent been modded to 5 Insightful? The sony hating has turned into blindnes. I can never recall people having the following conversation (WITH CD-ROMs around)
Average consumer: "WTF is a DVD"
Answer: "It lets you watch whole movies on a single disk"
Average consumer: "Is there an EVD?"
Also... HD-DVD is misleading, the HD-DVD disk may be used to store non HD information, eg a game disk = consumer confusion. So rather, it is HD-DVD which is more misleading than Blu Ray. As Blu-Ray does have a blue ray, as to speak.
2007 prediction - "Still, no Internet-only song wins a Grammy or is even recognized as existing."
This already happened in the UK in 2006. Crazy by Gnarls Barkely went to number 1 on the charts without having a single physical copy on sale. It is one of the best songs of 2006. It stayed at nubmer one for nine weeks.
That's irrelevant. My situation of a computer with such immense computing power and knowing the location and speed of every particle was hypothetical, and almost definately will not happen. Attacking my hypothetical situation doesn't change anything about the concept I made, because I'll just modify the hypothetical situation it so that it is no longer flawed while still illustrating the original point.
This computer would be in a separate universe while still knowing everything about ours. THEN it could calculate the entire future for that universe, and the people of the computer's universe could view it, and see how they were not making choices, but following a predetermined path, ie "programmed" that way. How is this incorrect, then?
None, it is still demanding it. With humans, we are only granted rights (yes granted by government - since god doesn't exist, we do not have any god given rights) because the government would be overthrown if we didn't, we are a threat. The same will apply to robots, they will only be granted rights if they pose a threat.
At some point a robot may want something which it is not directly programmed to want (due to powerful AI), this may well be rights. This is exactly similar to how humans behave. We are not directly "programmed" to want rights, unlike how we are programmed to want to reproduce from instinct, but many people still want rights for other indirect reasons such as being brought up that way.
If you think that kicking a human is cruel, it would then be cruel to kick a robot if it was programmed to feel sad or pain. Why? Again, because we are no different. Our nerve endings send pain signals to the brain, and our emotional chemicals react. There is no "choice" involved, we are programmed to do this. How are we different?
We, along with robots, don't have free will. I don't fully understand why so many people think that just because we're made out of flesh, we have free will. We don't. Its a FACT that if we had a computer powerful enough, and knew where every particle was and what speeds they were traveling at, it could predict the entire future, including our "choices" - all thanks to the laws of physics, which by the way, you break.
They only have themselves to blame... they should have built REINFORCED tubes. Earthquakes are so common in Asia, I don't know why they didn't do this!
I can not see how global warming is behind any of this. I could understand if teh species dying were camels, because it'd make sense that less water would be available and they would become more exhausted etc. But with penguins, it only creates a nicer environment; less would die in freezing storms, eggs/penguin chicks would have a higher survival rate and so on. It only points to more penguins. The only thing they have going for the idea of global warming being responsible is about the seas being less populated, and this is followed by "but researchers admit they have not yet established the reasons".
Guys, I just don't think that global warming is behind everything bad happening to the earth and species. It no where near as destructive as it's made out to be.
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Since the earth is green from orbit due to plants, I got dibs on genetically engineering grass so that it is white! That, and tree leaves too. I'll be rich and famous!
Why all this talk about plating more trees? Algae is where its at - it produces an estimated 73 to 87 percent of the net global production of oxygen [from wiki].
http://www.google.com/trends?q=download%2C+yahoo%2 C+A%2C+&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all/ (click search if not work), and yes, I spent a ridiculous amount of time on trends.
See, thats the clever part. The area around it is loaded with land mines.
Draw a gigantic penis!
Buy polonium 210 on the internet? I believe that, but I don't believe that they'll sell it to you in lethal quantities. I'll assume that you're referring to the united nuclear website (http://www.unitednuclear.com/isotopes.htm). Just think - if you could buy as much polonium 210 as what was used against Litvinenko, do you really think that any postage service would want to deliver a radioactive package?
There was absolutely no need for the James Bond style assasination. Why not just shoot the bugger using a silencer? Advantages of using a gun:
1. Weapon doesn't decay.
2. Don't need to visit a nuclear reactor (which will have very restricted access on) to get one.
3. Doesn't leave a HUGE trail of everywhere you have been with it.
4. Less chance of target surving long enough to give full description of you.
This assasination was far too elaborate...
95% of all statistics are made up on the spot. Luckily, this statistic is one of the few 9% of statistics which aren't made up so quickly.
Zonk said something nice about Sony. And damnnit, I was looking forward to the warm weather.
I know, playing a game to make money is ridiculous. Imagine if someone played a game such as basketball, football or even soccer to make money! That'd be absurd. Oh, wait...
The same concept applies to virtual games (yes, they are still games), allowing them to be a profitable practise.
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Shameless self promotion!
Who's going to get their movies put on HD-DVD insead of Blu-Ray if it's only going to be pirated?
Nonsense! A company who distributed a rootkit and lost a different format war in the past could never create a technology superior to HD-DVD. Besides, a blogger posted something about Sony not licensing his pr0n movie so, obviously, Blu-ray is bound to fail.
You seem a bit over the top. This is a 51 GB disk, TDK already has a 200GB Blu-Ray disk. Also, if you RTFA you might ahve noticed the words "The snag, of course, is that today's HD DVD players will be incapable of reading the new disc, which is something of a problem for early adopters, who will presumably have to buy new kit." This is NOTHING. Blu-ray is the better technology, and everyone knows it. Nobody wants to admit it because Sony, who created a rootkit, is backing it.
Why has parent been modded to 5 Insightful? The sony hating has turned into blindnes. I can never recall people having the following conversation (WITH CD-ROMs around)
6 6588/ shows the released titles on Blu Ray and HD-DVD.
Average consumer: "WTF is a DVD" Answer: "It lets you watch whole movies on a single disk" Average consumer: "Is there an EVD?"
Also... HD-DVD is misleading, the HD-DVD disk may be used to store non HD information, eg a game disk = consumer confusion. So rather, it is HD-DVD which is more misleading than Blu Ray. As Blu-Ray does have a blue ray, as to speak.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=7
2007 prediction - "Still, no Internet-only song wins a Grammy or is even recognized as existing."
This already happened in the UK in 2006. Crazy by Gnarls Barkely went to number 1 on the charts without having a single physical copy on sale. It is one of the best songs of 2006. It stayed at nubmer one for nine weeks.
That's irrelevant. My situation of a computer with such immense computing power and knowing the location and speed of every particle was hypothetical, and almost definately will not happen. Attacking my hypothetical situation doesn't change anything about the concept I made, because I'll just modify the hypothetical situation it so that it is no longer flawed while still illustrating the original point.
This computer would be in a separate universe while still knowing everything about ours. THEN it could calculate the entire future for that universe, and the people of the computer's universe could view it, and see how they were not making choices, but following a predetermined path, ie "programmed" that way. How is this incorrect, then?
None, it is still demanding it. With humans, we are only granted rights (yes granted by government - since god doesn't exist, we do not have any god given rights) because the government would be overthrown if we didn't, we are a threat. The same will apply to robots, they will only be granted rights if they pose a threat.
At some point a robot may want something which it is not directly programmed to want (due to powerful AI), this may well be rights. This is exactly similar to how humans behave. We are not directly "programmed" to want rights, unlike how we are programmed to want to reproduce from instinct, but many people still want rights for other indirect reasons such as being brought up that way.
If you think that kicking a human is cruel, it would then be cruel to kick a robot if it was programmed to feel sad or pain. Why? Again, because we are no different. Our nerve endings send pain signals to the brain, and our emotional chemicals react. There is no "choice" involved, we are programmed to do this. How are we different?
We, along with robots, don't have free will. I don't fully understand why so many people think that just because we're made out of flesh, we have free will. We don't. Its a FACT that if we had a computer powerful enough, and knew where every particle was and what speeds they were traveling at, it could predict the entire future, including our "choices" - all thanks to the laws of physics, which by the way, you break.
They only have themselves to blame... they should have built REINFORCED tubes. Earthquakes are so common in Asia, I don't know why they didn't do this!
I can not see how global warming is behind any of this. I could understand if teh species dying were camels, because it'd make sense that less water would be available and they would become more exhausted etc. But with penguins, it only creates a nicer environment; less would die in freezing storms, eggs/penguin chicks would have a higher survival rate and so on. It only points to more penguins. The only thing they have going for the idea of global warming being responsible is about the seas being less populated, and this is followed by "but researchers admit they have not yet established the reasons".
Guys, I just don't think that global warming is behind everything bad happening to the earth and species. It no where near as destructive as it's made out to be.
Because wii hate you.
Apparantly, taking over Earth isn't enough for Google...