Just using numbers from wikipedia, the number of Taliban casualties in Afghanistan is 38,000 and number of civilian casualties is 14,000 to 34,000. So about a 2:1 or 1:1 ratio between military and civilian deaths.
Compare to WWII where the number Axis military deaths is 12 million and the number of Axis civilian deaths is 4 million; about a 2:1 ratio again.
In the Vietnam war, we inflicted about 1.1 million military casualties and a mid-level estimate of 800,000 civilian deaths due to action by the US/South Vietnam side.
My point is that the ratio between military and civilian causalities really hasn't improved over the years.
Tidal forces are a big part of it. Both with the sea and with the liquid mantle. Before life at thermal vents was discovered, tidal pools were the chief candidates for the environment where life first evolved. They are a convenient interface between the sea, land and atmosphere. With no moon, there would be no tidal pools. Tidal interaction with the mantle is complex, but it may be the reason we have a strong magnetic field, unlike Mars or Venus.
This is just a computer simulation regarding the stabilization of the axial tilt. It doesn't take into account other contributions the moon would have on the development of life. Tidal forces, both with the ocean and the liquid mantle, are believed to have had a major contribution to the formation of life.
"Given enough computational power there is no reason why some kind of entity couldn't emerge (or be created) within this environment that was capable of pondering it's own existence and studying it's own environment scientifically. "
That's a pretty big assumption. That's the whole point of many people's argument: that consciousness is something that can't be reduced to computation.
Basically what you're saying is that there are hidden variables to quantum mechanics. Something that is behind all the randomness, but we cannot measure. You might want to look up some information about Bell's Inequality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell's_theorem
Your MIT genius is still missing the point. In the real world, its almost never enough simply to be right; you have to show *why* you are right. For mathematical problems, that requires showing your work to a sufficient degree. Again, in the real world, skipping a few steps of simple algebra might be ok. But part of the point of a college class is to train these skills up using simple problems so that you will continue to apply the same principles to hard problems.
When I was in grad school, I had a situation where I thought it was obvious that an particular equation could be rewritten in another, more convenient, form. But when a professor called me out of it, I spent a day trying to do the transformation and came up with nothing. I had intuited the correct answer without really understanding the central problem. Which is a easy mistake for smart people to make when they're not in the habit of showing their work.
I don't see that part of the Constitution at all. The only part of the Constitution that mentions US citizens are the qualifications for holding office.
Ok, but if it takes a large team to make the same kind of advances that used to be accomplished by a small team, then the value of each individual member of that large team is significantly less. And I think the pay scale reflects that. There are still super-star scientists who lead the large teams and make the big bucks, but most PhDs end up as replaceable cogs in the research machine.
It isn't just that the science grads aren't good enough, its that the science itself it harder than it's ever been before. All the low hanging fruit that could be figured out by an individual or small team as already been done.
"It was a game, a very interesting game one could play. Whenever one solved of the little problems, one could write a paper about it. It was very easy in those days for any second-rate physicist to do first-rate work. There has not been such a glorious time since. It is very difficult now for a first-rate physicist to do second-rate work." -- P.A.M Dirac, DIRECTIONS IN PHYSICS, 1978, P. 7
I don't know why you think there will be a 1:1 ratio of job creation:destruction. For example, Blockbuster Video use to employ 60,000 people. Hollywood Video was roughly the same. Netflix, the company that effectively replaced video rental, only employees 2000 people. Most of those are stuffing DVDs into envelopes.
Travel agents, bank tellers, book stores: these are not jobs that getting replaced.
Futurama really shines when it takes a classic sci-fi story and give it a comic twist. Like The last season had The Late Philip J. Fry, which was almost directly cribbed from Flight to Forever by Poul Anderson. That seems like a pretty easy formula to follow so I hope they keep it up.
Maybe you've never gotten request for TeX because it's free. I'm an academic (post-doc) and I use tech every day, but I've never ask computer support people for it.
Kind of reminds me of the path that movie channels like HBO, Showtime and AMC took. They all started out as just showing movies, but began to differentiate from each other by producing exclusive original content. And a lot that original content has been high quality stuff, like The Sopranos, The Wire, Mad Men, Breaking Bad. Maybe this will be the same way that distributors of online content will start to compete for customers?
A thousand years from now the American space program will be a historical footnote, like the Viking discovery of North America. A few hundred years from now, some other country will do a space program right. Probably by using nuclear propulsion instead of chemical rockets. And that will be the real space age.
God (an infinite being beyond space and time) is perhaps the most complicated and paradoxical concept ever conceived by man. It can never be simplest explanation if there in any other explanation for a given phenomenon.
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Compare to WWII where the number Axis military deaths is 12 million and the number of Axis civilian deaths is 4 million; about a 2:1 ratio again.
In the Vietnam war, we inflicted about 1.1 million military casualties and a mid-level estimate of 800,000 civilian deaths due to action by the US/South Vietnam side.
My point is that the ratio between military and civilian causalities really hasn't improved over the years.
Tidal forces are a big part of it. Both with the sea and with the liquid mantle. Before life at thermal vents was discovered, tidal pools were the chief candidates for the environment where life first evolved. They are a convenient interface between the sea, land and atmosphere. With no moon, there would be no tidal pools. Tidal interaction with the mantle is complex, but it may be the reason we have a strong magnetic field, unlike Mars or Venus.
This is just a computer simulation regarding the stabilization of the axial tilt. It doesn't take into account other contributions the moon would have on the development of life. Tidal forces, both with the ocean and the liquid mantle, are believed to have had a major contribution to the formation of life.
Sorry, I got my numbers wrong, but my point still stands. 23 voted against, 18 were Democrats. http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/112/senate/1/84
I don't know what you mean by "actively trying to stop it", but out of the 18 Senators who voted against it, 13 were Democrats.
WOW. That is first correct usage of the phrase "begging the question" that I've read in years. You should get some sort of medal.
"Given enough computational power there is no reason why some kind of entity couldn't emerge (or be created) within this environment that was capable of pondering it's own existence and studying it's own environment scientifically. " That's a pretty big assumption. That's the whole point of many people's argument: that consciousness is something that can't be reduced to computation.
Basically what you're saying is that there are hidden variables to quantum mechanics. Something that is behind all the randomness, but we cannot measure. You might want to look up some information about Bell's Inequality. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell's_theorem
There's still sexual selection. People don't all breed and reproduce at the same rate.
When I was in grad school, I had a situation where I thought it was obvious that an particular equation could be rewritten in another, more convenient, form. But when a professor called me out of it, I spent a day trying to do the transformation and came up with nothing. I had intuited the correct answer without really understanding the central problem. Which is a easy mistake for smart people to make when they're not in the habit of showing their work.
I don't see that part of the Constitution at all. The only part of the Constitution that mentions US citizens are the qualifications for holding office.
But did they have a space station? In a lot of ways, having a permanent space station is a harder task that putting someone on the moon.
Ok, but if it takes a large team to make the same kind of advances that used to be accomplished by a small team, then the value of each individual member of that large team is significantly less. And I think the pay scale reflects that. There are still super-star scientists who lead the large teams and make the big bucks, but most PhDs end up as replaceable cogs in the research machine.
"It was a game, a very interesting game one could play. Whenever one solved of the little problems, one could write a paper about it. It was very easy in those days for any second-rate physicist to do first-rate work. There has not been such a glorious time since. It is very difficult now for a first-rate physicist to do second-rate work." -- P.A.M Dirac, DIRECTIONS IN PHYSICS, 1978, P. 7
Travel agents, bank tellers, book stores: these are not jobs that getting replaced.
If you can't get into a grad program that covers your tuition and pays a stipend, they you're really not cut out for a PhD.
Futurama really shines when it takes a classic sci-fi story and give it a comic twist. Like The last season had The Late Philip J. Fry, which was almost directly cribbed from Flight to Forever by Poul Anderson. That seems like a pretty easy formula to follow so I hope they keep it up.
Maybe you've never gotten request for TeX because it's free. I'm an academic (post-doc) and I use tech every day, but I've never ask computer support people for it.
Nah. The way you describe it, it would take someone actually competent to be running things.
Kind of reminds me of the path that movie channels like HBO, Showtime and AMC took. They all started out as just showing movies, but began to differentiate from each other by producing exclusive original content. And a lot that original content has been high quality stuff, like The Sopranos, The Wire, Mad Men, Breaking Bad. Maybe this will be the same way that distributors of online content will start to compete for customers?
A thousand years from now the American space program will be a historical footnote, like the Viking discovery of North America. A few hundred years from now, some other country will do a space program right. Probably by using nuclear propulsion instead of chemical rockets. And that will be the real space age.
A robot doesn't have to perfectly mimic a human to be commercially viable, just be close enough to be convincing in the dark.
God (an infinite being beyond space and time) is perhaps the most complicated and paradoxical concept ever conceived by man. It can never be simplest explanation if there in any other explanation for a given phenomenon.
What privately run IT training programs? I hope you're not talking about Devry or some certification camp.
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