What's wrong with getting rid of leaders? Do you require somebody to follow for your well-being? Do you depend on having followers for your own well-being?
"I do not have enough time... to actually verify what scientist have told me,... So I therefor am going on faith"
I guess you can call that faith, but it's entirely different than religious faith because you *could* verify (or falsify) what the scientists are saying. And even if you don't do it yourself, others will, and will build on this work.
Neither your mother nor you nor anyone else could do that for religious beliefs. Religion is set up and religious faith is defined to make that impossible.
So your "faith" in math and science has little to do with your mother's "faith" in her religion.
For those who can't be bothered to read the summary, this is not about FO communications. Some guys are using the properties of fiber optics and light to figure out the temperature along a length of cable they dropped down a bore shaft to the ocean.
"If your salary is paid from the taxes of those of us who do work for money, maybe don't bite the hand that feeds you?"
He didn't bite you. He wasn't rude. He didn't call you stupid.
If his post stung, or caused you to feel stupid, perhaps deep down you feel there's another way of life that might suit you better. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to re-assess priorities and perhaps try another path. Seriously.
" let the next generation take care of it." If there's one thing I love about America, it's our eternal self-assurance that there's no mess we can make that our kids won't clean up.
"I have 20 toxic chemicals in my body, and all I did today was take my medication, eat at Mcdonald's and smoke a cigarette.
Nosebleeds? Vomitting white foam? Blood pressure issues? Yea, I've got all of those too!"
Your support of truth, justice, and fossil fuel, fast food, tobacco, and pharmaceutical industries is noble, but I don't grok the long drawn-out suicide by torture thing.
Please consider making a healthy diet, breathing fresh air, and exercising a higher priority than trolling slashdot.
>.just give incentives You nailed it. But our priorities are exactly the opposite. And by listing how the priorities should be, I'll upset people.
But here are a few ways we could encourage lower birth rates.
Birth control should be subsidized. Abortions, The Pill, hysterectomies, and vasectomies should be free.
There should be an annual tax on the biological father and biological mother for each child they bring into the world. Child Tax Credits only apply to adopted/foster kids.
Conceiving and bearing a child while on welfare should disqualify the familty from welfare.
Do you mean the 85 chaper "The Federalist"? Or its contemporary Anti-Federalist papers (the ones that argued for a Bill of Rights)?
Either way that's a lot of reading. Could you narrow it down a bit? Like point us to the chapter which explains "the original intent of the 2nd Amendment"?
If people were willing to finance some planetary climate engineering experiment, one would think they'd also be willing to try the more conservative course of exacerbating the problem no further.
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You learned predicate calculus.
NAND gates won't point out to you the fallacious thought traps to which the human brain is susceptible.
Also, supply is up. The US has been stockpiling oil. Now our reserves are full so our output is hitting the open market, causing a glut.
Health problems, including obesity, may be caused by what's in (or missing from) gut bacteria.
legal != good
"it'll be able to show what you were supposed to be "
I shoulda been a gynecologist.
What's wrong with getting rid of leaders? Do you require somebody to follow for your well-being? Do you depend on having followers for your own well-being?
"I do not have enough time... to actually verify what scientist have told me, ... So I therefor am going on faith"
I guess you can call that faith, but it's entirely different than religious faith because you *could* verify (or falsify) what the scientists are saying. And even if you don't do it yourself, others will, and will build on this work.
Neither your mother nor you nor anyone else could do that for religious beliefs. Religion is set up and religious faith is defined to make that impossible.
So your "faith" in math and science has little to do with your mother's "faith" in her religion.
This is +4 informative? Seriously?
For those who can't be bothered to read the summary, this is not about FO communications. Some guys are using the properties of fiber optics and light to figure out the temperature along a length of cable they dropped down a bore shaft to the ocean.
For some of us die-hard old bigots, "Ebola" actually conjures an image that positively rivals "Microsoft".
Each one costs a quarter million dollars to raise, so they're great for the economy. You know, like broken windows.
Plus some of them breastfeed.
"I still find unending amusement in the fact that we "know" so much based on observing distance objects"
I know, huh? Things were better back in the old days when we "knew" the cosmos without all this painstaking observation and maths and stuff.
"The best case is something solidly attached to the sea floor"
Then you should mount it to the dock, not the boat.
"If your salary is paid from the taxes of those of us who do work for money, maybe don't bite the hand that feeds you?"
He didn't bite you. He wasn't rude. He didn't call you stupid.
If his post stung, or caused you to feel stupid, perhaps deep down you feel there's another way of life that might suit you better. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to re-assess priorities and perhaps try another path. Seriously.
Do explain. Other than making you a novelty at parties, I don't see how your ride would significantly impact your life.
Or maybe he started out with a ruthless bloodlust for destroying all competitors and slowly grew up. And retired and tried to do something useful.
And figured out that his MSFT business approach was counter-productive as far as bettering the world goes.
Hey, it could happen. Maybe.
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They got 30% of the people to think they were texting with a child with limited language skills. I don't think that's what Alan Turing had in mind.
"This is like the military drawing up plans for kaiju attacks and zombiepocalypses.":
No, those are tongue-in-cheek thought experiments.
What we have here is scientists using empirical data to project a range of future possible outcomes. No mythical creatures involved.
"You're job is not to inject your opinion into slashdot posts."
Actually, part of the job of editors is to editorialize.
" let the next generation take care of it."
If there's one thing I love about America, it's our eternal self-assurance that there's no mess we can make that our kids won't clean up.
You see AC's commentary on the value of secrecy.
"I have 20 toxic chemicals in my body, and all I did today was take my medication, eat at Mcdonald's and smoke a cigarette.
Nosebleeds? Vomitting white foam? Blood pressure issues? Yea, I've got all of those too!"
Your support of truth, justice, and fossil fuel, fast food, tobacco, and pharmaceutical industries is noble, but I don't grok the long drawn-out suicide by torture thing.
Please consider making a healthy diet, breathing fresh air, and exercising a higher priority than trolling slashdot.
> .just give incentives
You nailed it. But our priorities are exactly the opposite. And by listing how the priorities should be, I'll upset people.
But here are a few ways we could encourage lower birth rates.
Birth control should be subsidized. Abortions, The Pill, hysterectomies, and vasectomies should be free.
There should be an annual tax on the biological father and biological mother for each child they bring into the world. Child Tax Credits only apply to adopted/foster kids.
Conceiving and bearing a child while on welfare should disqualify the familty from welfare.
> Please go read the Federal Papers
"Federal Papers"?
Do you mean the 85 chaper "The Federalist"? Or its contemporary Anti-Federalist papers (the ones that argued for a Bill of Rights)?
Either way that's a lot of reading. Could you narrow it down a bit? Like point us to the chapter which explains "the original intent of the 2nd Amendment"?
If people were willing to finance some planetary climate engineering experiment, one would think they'd also be willing to try the more conservative course of exacerbating the problem no further.