I could be wrong, but the energy density is way too low for that kind of generator to work picture every corn field in the US converted to power production was how it was once described to me.
The trouble is that with the current proposed filter, the way the filter tries to fix the problem with your site is to block Australia entirely from accessing it. No notification, no oversite, no appeal. Suddenly you just lose all your Australian audience and don't know why.
Unfortunately as far as I'm concerned you basically discribed high school english lit. I remember always sitting there thinking, "Yeah, sure it could be a metaphor for his penis, but how did you know the author didn't just really like bannannas?" Well, ok maybe not that exactly but it's close enough.
Funniest thing I always take away from all the highest grossing movie bragging that the studios always do is that if they are grossing more each time, doesn't that mean the sales are going up? Or is the "highest grossing" concept complete BS they use simply to sell their movies. I lean more toward the latter.
but how is this any different from some kind of redundancy based file system stored on a USB key in the same file safe other than that the USB is probably a lot faster?
Forgetting the rant about pot, what you are saying is that if you are a fugitive, currently traveling the country to avoid detainment, the police shouldn't be allowed to track you by your Xbox? Me, I'd be more worried about my C/C, bank account, cell phone, liscence plate, passport, email, photo on the evening news.
It is perfectly OK for law enforcement to track people by using public/private resources. As long as they have proper reason/warrants.
Agreed on both counts, if a user is casual enough to not find something on an alternate site then they are probably searching for torrents on Google anyway.
Forgetting the obvious falacy that the USA needs to "beat" China, or even for that matter can "beat" China.
China GDP: US$4.6 trillion (nominal; ranked 3rd; 2008)
USA GDP: $14.441 trillion (2008
From the summary the entertainment industry is 4% of GDP or 0.576 trillion. Even completely without that, USA would be blowing china out of the water. I don't see how you can claim that "china wins massively" if the US entertainment industry fails.
That's a very good point, I admit to only a very simplistic view of evolution but I get what you're saying. I've been thinking about it a bit and the only conclusion that I can come up with is that limiting people from communicating also limits a beneficial relationship, possibly the predator/prey or some animal/plat thing.
I've also realised just how interesting it is to discuss theoretical evolution of Sci-fi creatures.
I don't see it as an ability of the creature, they could have the bonding process for mating and hunting. I see it more as an ability of the dominating life-form. Essentially an evolution of the na'vi that allows them to agressively use the mating bond that exists on the lower lifeforms to control them. They explain that the creature will only bond with one na'vi and that it is for life, I assumed they were taking the place of a natural mate. Though you are right that that would cause the bond to be selected out, it persists becuase it is useful for other purposes as well
It's kind of like how ducklings will become bonded to humans, the mechanics are there for a good reason, it's just possible to use it differently.
How about the rise of what is essentially this age's Rome? The nation that had a major contribution in stopping the largest mass-killings of recent history.
People conquer, it is what we do, usually it speeds up human technological evolution by giving resources and space to the most advanced civilisation. Rome conquered large chunks of Europe and Europe thrived, The English conquered huge chunks of the world and their impact lingers today.
Harsh as the loss of life seems, without the suppression and, yes, murder of extremely under developed (technology wise) peoples, humanity would be nowhere near as developed as we are today. Now whether that is a good thing or a bad thing is entirely a matter of opinion, but I personally like having the possibility of being able to go into space before I die (as an example).
I think it's pretty easy to explain as an evolutionary process.
Animals mutate the feature as a method of increased mate-bonding. Duo cooperation greatly increases survivability of breeding pairs.
Plants evolve symbiotic bonding process with herbivores, making herbivores better able to locate healthy plants and propagate them more effectively.
Carnivores evolve "aggressive" version of the bonding process to "sedate" captured prey more effectively. Similar to toxins employed by snakes.
Blue guys further evolve their aggressive bond to telepathic levels.
I think it's more a case of "1 in 4 children have seen somehting on the internet of a sexual nature that the creator of the study considered to be inappropriate for their age group" but that was too wordy for a 5 second sound bite.
Actually, it's a pretty cool Sciencey-fiction plot. Ever see the butterfly effect? Think about it, human kind invents time travel, almost wipes itself out because of it so goes back and prevents the original invention. Pick a point of failure that is sufficiently essoteric like the higgs boson and humanity might come to believe time travel is not even possible.
Cool for fiction, not so sure I'd want to be the one to suggest time traveling ninja assasins as the reason I failed at my lab work.
I agree that whatever risks exist with imunisations, they are worth it. However your post got me thinking. Wouldn't a lethal reaciton to a flu vaccine simply appear to be a case of the flu? I have no medical knowledge whatsoever but it seems like the body would react to the vaccine in the same way it reacts to the virus
Actually that always confused me. That main deflector dish is more reconfigurable than pretty much any damn thing, given the number of X particle pulses it is used for, why do they not have speed dial on the most used settings or at least protocols and equipment ready to change it.
Generally speaking reconfigurable devices are either designed that way or almost impossible to jury rig. I can't imagine how I'd go about tweaking my mobile phone to pick up HAM radio for instance.
Wow, from reading that the "vexatious" actions Ray was taking was demanding that a court order be issued before the RIAA seized a private citizen's property and that a court appointed obseerver be present before the RIAA access said property. Curse him for forcing good manners upon the poor RIAA. Jeez, he also tried to exclude evidence that may have been false and get further information proving said evidence's falibility. Is there no end to Ray's depravity.
Did this kind of BS from the RIAA even have a chance of working or were they just being vexatious themselves?
If you'd actually read the series you'd know that it is nothing like Dune, those books had a clear ending, wheel of time basically left the whole series one or two books away from the climax. The people that have read the 13 books would really like to see some kind of finish line even if it isn't Jordan's.
Yeah, it didn't ring right with me either, he's basically saying: we shouldn't measure [Human style]intelligence by equating it to human intelligence.
AI is not about making something that can survive but rather making something that can get you a turkey on rye when you tell it "go make me a sammich!"
You're assuming that people don't lie. It's natural to sugar coat youor answers to raise someone's opion of you, if you know they expect you to see a bunny then you're more likely to say bunny then you are to say pool of blood. In fact I'd expect given the highly subjective nature of the test you're more likely to SEE a bunny if you think that is what you are supposed to see.
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I could be wrong, but the energy density is way too low for that kind of generator to work picture every corn field in the US converted to power production was how it was once described to me.
Which is even more fun, eveer tried to track down Bob from accounting during his lunch break to get him out of that file you need to submit by 1pm?
Almost embarassed to admit that you are not alone on this one.
Now all you need is to find me a canon jedi text that states you must be hooded in public.
The trouble is that with the current proposed filter, the way the filter tries to fix the problem with your site is to block Australia entirely from accessing it. No notification, no oversite, no appeal. Suddenly you just lose all your Australian audience and don't know why.
Unfortunately as far as I'm concerned you basically discribed high school english lit. I remember always sitting there thinking, "Yeah, sure it could be a metaphor for his penis, but how did you know the author didn't just really like bannannas?" Well, ok maybe not that exactly but it's close enough.
Funniest thing I always take away from all the highest grossing movie bragging that the studios always do is that if they are grossing more each time, doesn't that mean the sales are going up? Or is the "highest grossing" concept complete BS they use simply to sell their movies. I lean more toward the latter.
but how is this any different from some kind of redundancy based file system stored on a USB key in the same file safe other than that the USB is probably a lot faster?
Forgetting the rant about pot, what you are saying is that if you are a fugitive, currently traveling the country to avoid detainment, the police shouldn't be allowed to track you by your Xbox? Me, I'd be more worried about my C/C, bank account, cell phone, liscence plate, passport, email, photo on the evening news.
It is perfectly OK for law enforcement to track people by using public/private resources. As long as they have proper reason/warrants.
Agreed on both counts, if a user is casual enough to not find something on an alternate site then they are probably searching for torrents on Google anyway.
Forget that, think thepiratemirror.org problem solved.
Honestly, if you're going to have a supreme court case over something, don't make it blacklisting one domain.
Forgetting the obvious falacy that the USA needs to "beat" China, or even for that matter can "beat" China.
China GDP: US$4.6 trillion (nominal; ranked 3rd; 2008)
USA GDP: $14.441 trillion (2008
From the summary the entertainment industry is 4% of GDP or 0.576 trillion. Even completely without that, USA would be blowing china out of the water. I don't see how you can claim that "china wins massively" if the US entertainment industry fails.
That's a very good point, I admit to only a very simplistic view of evolution but I get what you're saying. I've been thinking about it a bit and the only conclusion that I can come up with is that limiting people from communicating also limits a beneficial relationship, possibly the predator/prey or some animal/plat thing.
I've also realised just how interesting it is to discuss theoretical evolution of Sci-fi creatures.
I don't see it as an ability of the creature, they could have the bonding process for mating and hunting. I see it more as an ability of the dominating life-form. Essentially an evolution of the na'vi that allows them to agressively use the mating bond that exists on the lower lifeforms to control them. They explain that the creature will only bond with one na'vi and that it is for life, I assumed they were taking the place of a natural mate. Though you are right that that would cause the bond to be selected out, it persists becuase it is useful for other purposes as well
It's kind of like how ducklings will become bonded to humans, the mechanics are there for a good reason, it's just possible to use it differently.
What good?
How about the rise of what is essentially this age's Rome? The nation that had a major contribution in stopping the largest mass-killings of recent history.
People conquer, it is what we do, usually it speeds up human technological evolution by giving resources and space to the most advanced civilisation. Rome conquered large chunks of Europe and Europe thrived, The English conquered huge chunks of the world and their impact lingers today.
Harsh as the loss of life seems, without the suppression and, yes, murder of extremely under developed (technology wise) peoples, humanity would be nowhere near as developed as we are today. Now whether that is a good thing or a bad thing is entirely a matter of opinion, but I personally like having the possibility of being able to go into space before I die (as an example).
I think it's pretty easy to explain as an evolutionary process.
Animals mutate the feature as a method of increased mate-bonding. Duo cooperation greatly increases survivability of breeding pairs.
Plants evolve symbiotic bonding process with herbivores, making herbivores better able to locate healthy plants and propagate them more effectively.
Carnivores evolve "aggressive" version of the bonding process to "sedate" captured prey more effectively. Similar to toxins employed by snakes.
Blue guys further evolve their aggressive bond to telepathic levels.
It's a pretty cool concept.
Then the obvious question is why didn't you bill yourself out at $200, hell even $100?
Essentially you were paying your boss $150 to find you work to do.
I think it's more a case of "1 in 4 children have seen somehting on the internet of a sexual nature that the creator of the study considered to be inappropriate for their age group" but that was too wordy for a 5 second sound bite.
Actually, it's a pretty cool Sciencey-fiction plot. Ever see the butterfly effect? Think about it, human kind invents time travel, almost wipes itself out because of it so goes back and prevents the original invention. Pick a point of failure that is sufficiently essoteric like the higgs boson and humanity might come to believe time travel is not even possible.
Cool for fiction, not so sure I'd want to be the one to suggest time traveling ninja assasins as the reason I failed at my lab work.
I agree that whatever risks exist with imunisations, they are worth it. However your post got me thinking. Wouldn't a lethal reaciton to a flu vaccine simply appear to be a case of the flu? I have no medical knowledge whatsoever but it seems like the body would react to the vaccine in the same way it reacts to the virus
Am I right in that thinking?
Actually that always confused me. That main deflector dish is more reconfigurable than pretty much any damn thing, given the number of X particle pulses it is used for, why do they not have speed dial on the most used settings or at least protocols and equipment ready to change it.
Generally speaking reconfigurable devices are either designed that way or almost impossible to jury rig. I can't imagine how I'd go about tweaking my mobile phone to pick up HAM radio for instance.
Wow, from reading that the "vexatious" actions Ray was taking was demanding that a court order be issued before the RIAA seized a private citizen's property and that a court appointed obseerver be present before the RIAA access said property. Curse him for forcing good manners upon the poor RIAA.
Jeez, he also tried to exclude evidence that may have been false and get further information proving said evidence's falibility. Is there no end to Ray's depravity.
Did this kind of BS from the RIAA even have a chance of working or were they just being vexatious themselves?
If you'd actually read the series you'd know that it is nothing like Dune, those books had a clear ending, wheel of time basically left the whole series one or two books away from the climax. The people that have read the 13 books would really like to see some kind of finish line even if it isn't Jordan's.
Yeah, it didn't ring right with me either, he's basically saying: we shouldn't measure [Human style]intelligence by equating it to human intelligence.
AI is not about making something that can survive but rather making something that can get you a turkey on rye when you tell it "go make me a sammich!"
You're assuming that people don't lie. It's natural to sugar coat youor answers to raise someone's opion of you, if you know they expect you to see a bunny then you're more likely to say bunny then you are to say pool of blood. In fact I'd expect given the highly subjective nature of the test you're more likely to SEE a bunny if you think that is what you are supposed to see.