Anyone remember the book "Contact"? Isn't this similiar to what Hadden did? And it destroyed all the networks. There was only one left, I don't remember which one though.
Please don't say things when you have no idea what you're talking about. First off, we're obviously not going to find any ET life that doesn't isn't sending out radio waves for us to detect, so they're not going to be brainless as a rock. Secondly, if we pick up their radio waves, we are pickiing up signals that were sent out many years ago. So maybe those radio waves were made 100 or 1000 or more years ago(depending on how far away they are). Therefore: any ET life we detect will almost definitely be far more advanced than us(there are other factors that lead to this belied that I will not bother going into). Npw, about whether they will destroy us. I doubt it. The first thing to remember is that they are many years away even traveling at the speed of light(it's doubtful that they could travel faster). But even if they somehow could travel faster than the speed of light, what reason would they have for spending all that effort just to destroy us. As Ellie says in the movie Contact(the book is way better though): "It would be like going out of their way to destroy some microbes on an anthill in Africa".
...does bill gates birthday co-inciede with roswell does it?
Actually the French did help save our asses in the Revolutionary War. In more ways than one, in fact. IIRC, England didn't feel like being all tied up here when they were fightin France in Europe or thought they would be soon. That, in addition to the fact that the French sent over military aid, helped us win.
whatever, I don't care. What the Nazi's were doing justified that. The fact that we were in war justified it. When the gov't purposely targets civilians, that's wrong. When they bomb a city, my feeling is that it's too bad but that's why wars suck. I wish all these people whining about a couple dozen Serbs getting killed when we bomb would look at those mass graves and shut the fuck up.
the body wouldnt live without the brain. So some type of artificial brian would be needed. It would just keep the body alive while the testing was done. The only problem is that this would be incredibly expensive and we are not even close to this point technologically.
umm what are you talking about? AIDS kills your immune system so if you start off w/o one it really doesn't matter b/c it's just as bad or worse than having AIDS.
That may be gramatically correct, but to me it seems like you're implying that three meters is a measure of temperature. Let's just stop criticising small lapses in each other's grammer. Research doesn't fall into a range of money any more than it would fall into a range of temperature. "Nanotech research currently in the quarter billion dollar range" makes as much sense as "Nanotech research currently in the three meter range." Research isn't quantifiable; its funding is.
Wait! Am I correct in inferring that the anti-piracy stuff will not work with the Mac version? All I have to say is OH HELL YEAH. Not that I actually do pirate anything...
But I try to judge people by what they do less than what they say. And he seems to have done good things in the past and continues to, so I'll choose to attribute his puffiness to 1) the fact that he really did do some amazing things 2) that he didn't realize how it sounded
If you knew what you were talking about, you would have said MacAddict magazine. Many Mac users are currently very pissed at MacWorld because they have been doing unfiar tests and comparisons.(For instance when comparing servers they compared a Dual 500MHz P3 to a G3 400. They said that the Dual 500 was the best they could do to find a fair one, but then mocked Apple because it lost the performance contest.
"This is a fundamental error committed by many people (including, it seems, you): that they have the right to judge whether the Bible is God's Word, and whether it's true.
You don't have such a right. You are obligated to submit to it."
Even assuming that I would take something on faith and not question it at all, how am I supposed to know who to believe. There are probably at least hundreds of different groups of people who claim to know God's word. Why should I believe Christians? If I don't question what's in the Bible, what right do I have to question what's in the Koran or the teachings of Buddha or anything? If you don't even ask yourself how reasonable the word of God is, how could you possibly know that the Bible is the word of God?
Seems ridiculous to me to. How "just" of God to send an unborn child to eteranal suffering when he/she had no choice.
I also think it's BS that Adam is our "representative". What? I didn't ask for that. Who is Adam to represent billion of people for millenia.
And I also don't understand why God couldn't have just said thing in the Bible that nobody back then would have had any clue of. How about: "The earth is round and goes around the sun and is not the center of the universe". If it said that, I'd be much more convinced. Right now it doesn't seem like anything in the Bible is definitely or even probably God's word, or anything that couldn't have very easily have been made up by people who were delusional or stupid or trying a power grab or anything. Why is the Bible any more or less true than many other religous texts or than something I could type up right now?
"And what about identical twins? Same genetics, same environment, and they still end up with different personalities."
No, they have different names, one was born first, they will probably sleep in different rooms, one will probably be favored by the parents, etc. The only way to test your hypothesis, IMO, would be to make a computer simulation that ran exactly the same every time, and put two people w/ identical DNA in it from before birth. Meaning, they are born into the simulation and have no different outside influences before the simulation begins. Doing that would be horribly wrong though, so maybe we'll never be sure.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems to me that unless everyone made a clone of just a few people, there would be no problem of inbreeding. As long as you make a clone of yourself, it shouldn't be a problem(although I wouldn't want a clone of myself that I would actually raise, I'd want one w/o a brain that I could just use for spare parts, but I doubt they'll be able to do that any time soon.)
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Anyone remember the book "Contact"? Isn't this similiar to what Hadden did? And it destroyed all the networks. There was only one left, I don't remember which one though.
What the hell are you talking about?
It's just a text file w/ the html in it. They can just copy it and put it back as html. No problem.
THis article has tons of images of the imac look-alike. It is obvious that they copied Apple down to the keyboard. I hope Apple wins.
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http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/9906/imac-ri
Actually the French did help save our asses in the Revolutionary War. In more ways than one, in fact. IIRC, England didn't feel like being all tied up here when they were fightin France in Europe or thought they would be soon. That, in addition to the fact that the French sent over military aid, helped us win.
spelling?
whatever, I don't care. What the Nazi's were doing justified that. The fact that we were in war justified it. When the gov't purposely targets civilians, that's wrong. When they bomb a city, my feeling is that it's too bad but that's why wars suck. I wish all these people whining about a couple dozen Serbs getting killed when we bomb would look at those mass graves and shut the fuck up.
the body wouldnt live without the brain. So some type of artificial brian would be needed. It would just keep the body alive while the testing was done. The only problem is that this would be incredibly expensive and we are not even close to this point technologically.
umm what are you talking about? AIDS kills your immune system so if you start off w/o one it really doesn't matter b/c it's just as bad or worse than having AIDS.
lets have Space Balls Episode 1
now that would be awesome
That may be gramatically correct, but to me it seems like you're implying that three meters is a measure of temperature. Let's just stop criticising small lapses in each other's grammer. Research doesn't fall into a range of money any more than it would fall into a range of temperature. "Nanotech research currently in the quarter billion dollar range" makes as much sense as "Nanotech research currently in the three meter range." Research isn't quantifiable; its funding is.
Everyone was making fun of these screwups just a couple of days ago on the hard drive speed discussion. It's a hoax. Look:
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=99/06/25/15
I like the ads at the top of Slashdot. Now that's cool :)
Wait! Am I correct in inferring that the anti-piracy stuff will not work with the Mac version? All I have to say is OH HELL YEAH. Not that I actually do pirate anything...
But I try to judge people by what they do less than what they say. And he seems to have done good things in the past and continues to, so I'll choose to attribute his puffiness to
1) the fact that he really did do some amazing things
2) that he didn't realize how it sounded
If you knew what you were talking about, you would have said MacAddict magazine. Many Mac users are currently very pissed at MacWorld because they have been doing unfiar tests and comparisons.(For instance when comparing servers they compared a Dual 500MHz P3 to a G3 400. They said that the Dual 500 was the best they could do to find a fair one, but then mocked Apple because it lost the performance contest.
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"This is a fundamental error committed by many people (including, it seems, you): that they have the right to judge whether the Bible is God's Word, and whether it's true.
You don't have such a right. You are obligated to submit to it."
Even assuming that I would take something on faith and not question it at all, how am I supposed to know who to believe. There are probably at least hundreds of different groups of people who claim to know God's word. Why should I believe Christians? If I don't question what's in the Bible, what right do I have to question what's in the Koran or the teachings of Buddha or anything? If you don't even ask yourself how reasonable the word of God is, how could you possibly know that the Bible is the word of God?
Seems ridiculous to me to. How "just" of God to send an unborn child to eteranal suffering when he/she had no choice.
I also think it's BS that Adam is our "representative". What? I didn't ask for that. Who is Adam to represent billion of people for millenia.
And I also don't understand why God couldn't have just said thing in the Bible that nobody back then would have had any clue of. How about: "The earth is round and goes around the sun and is not the center of the universe". If it said that, I'd be much more convinced. Right now it doesn't seem like anything in the Bible is definitely or even probably God's word, or anything that couldn't have very easily have been made up by people who were delusional or stupid or trying a power grab or anything. Why is the Bible any more or less true than many other religous texts or than something I could type up right now?
I want to hear this
they just had an ad today in something... damnit my memory sucks
heh
"And what about identical twins? Same genetics, same environment, and they still end up with different personalities."
No, they have different names, one was born first, they will probably sleep in different rooms, one will probably be favored by the parents, etc. The only way to test your hypothesis, IMO, would be to make a computer simulation that ran exactly the same every time, and put two people w/ identical DNA in it from before birth. Meaning, they are born into the simulation and have no different outside influences before the simulation begins. Doing that would be horribly wrong though, so maybe we'll never be sure.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems to me that unless everyone made a clone of just a few people, there would be no problem of inbreeding. As long as you make a clone of yourself, it shouldn't be a problem(although I wouldn't want a clone of myself that I would actually raise, I'd want one w/o a brain that I could just use for spare parts, but I doubt they'll be able to do that any time soon.)
"Clearly they are discrete individuals"
hehehehe
I think you mean "distinct" maybe?
that just struck me as funny
Here ya go:
http://cosm.mithral.com/