Carl Sagan isn't one to quote for the reality of Christianity. He's known to have said, "Either life on this planet is super-abundant elsewhere, or we're on one really special planet." (Paraphrasing, of course)
The truth is, there's something VERY special about this planet, and to some of us it's spectacularly clear. We've looked for decades for other planets similar to ours without finding them. (No,like us plus 15G gravity doesn't count.) And of the stars in the sky only 10 percent or less even have _land_ much less similar planets.
I know 99% of you guys want us to grow into a Star Trek/Star Wars reality (the other 1% hoping for B5!) but it's not gonna happen. Space is, other than commodities stored in places, worthless. Dangerous. And all but.00001% of it out of reach.
Famous deathsquads. We'll compare them to stormtroopers from other people and other parts of time...
Sorry guys, I just can't give the BSA any more resepct than I do. Maybe I've been paying too much attention as they leave small businesses in shambles, and relieved of 100.000 each time.
It's kinda like comparing the Waffen SS with the General SS. So there's this slight difference....so what?
No? I could have sworn that's what my ex-wife's new child was playing that on...could be something else. The point being, it's not the same game on all platforms, unless it was on PC or Linux.
I think it's safe to say there's a number of differences between the DirectX nature of Windows (98 and family) verus Linux of circa 1995-2000.
Yet in JUST TWO MONTHS, this company would get a title, and in about the time it took to get the boxart produced, the game was running under Linux. Now this isn't a simple process, but they did it, and they did it quickly.
Best yet, it didn't require the game getting watered down. Remember UnrealTournament? Now, remember UnrealTournament for XBox? See what I mean?
That wasn't the case in any of the Lokisoft games I bought before the turn of the century. I'm still amazed.
There was this ball game the other day...no, really! And since no one was paying attention, and no one was permitted to share in the reality, NOBODY SHOWED UP.
Are these the same boneheads who though the Federal government were smart enough to blow 20,000 to 30,000 times the "Cash for Clunkers" program, yet Clunkers was a dismal failure? (The fed is inept, period. No matter which country you talk about.)
Seriously though; how hard can this be? Everyone has their own definition of 'evil', but it always comes down to the main-and-the-plain:
Murder: kill a person, make an entire family miserable. Truncate the family tree, possibly cut-off income for children with potential. Many times, retribution comes. (My sister was shot and killed; I have a good handle on this.)
Theft: some people don't have much to begin with. Steal from them, and you'll find them coming after you. Again, not hard, and universal.
Lie: weasel your way out of something; misrepresent the truth and you metaphorically kill someone, somewhere. And what's it inspire?
Adultery. Have sex with people other than your wife, and you'll piss her off, or a family member. Here's were I list all the diseases that this practice permits, and let's not forget the ocean of single-parent children who wind up in jail. That sounds constructive.
Worship things that aren't god. Gambling, WOW-ing, drinking, crack, porn? Consuming your presence with the family? You need to be in the game, not distracted by addictions and things like celebrity worship. Do I really have to list the misery that comes from all these things?
Disrespect your parents; ignore all the good they're trying to do for you and spit in their face. They'll feel obligated to return in kind. Lose that family unit structure, and a nation goes from 50s America to today's Yemen.
Pretty clear advice, isn't it? So wouldn't the desire to program an 'evil AI' just break these? 'Evil' is about making mankind miserable.
These are seven of the ten commandments.
Think Christianity is a hoax? How long did Milli Vanilli last? What's the longest-lasting hoax you can recall? If it were lies, would non-drugged people be dying for Him to this very day?
There's all kinds of check-ability in the Bible; but most of you can't develop the curiosity to see if the assertions against it are true. Now THAT takes faith.
[And yes, I understand the distal meaning of the article is more along the lines of 'sadistic' not 'evil' for making monsters mean. I'm more interested in making sadistic monsters nice.]
What are you talking about? We hear about these all the time! Like stories where dogs bite people, it's just not news anymore.
It's, sure, granted, BORING that it's just another local-only problem (most Linux ones are: if you have access to the machine, you can do anything you want, anyway.) Windows has these, remotely available all the time.
NOW WHERE THE DIFFERENCE LIES...
Linux will patch this bug, and it's improvement will be carried on to the next revision. Windows hacks out and adds new all the time: a problem there is *always* likely.
Isn't it clear by now? Where ELSE do you go buy something, then buy a component of the competitor, just to make sure it gets through the day? Microsoft people know you get an AV program, or you'll have to reload.
Windows is a very fragile product, it has been for two decades, and it shows no signs of changing any time soon. I've been in the marketplace since 1978; this whole thing is just so clear.
Go to the local Linux user's group. Not only will you find guys that know the network because of standards, not just Microsoft ways of doing things, they tend to be really honest: give one of these guys a stake in the company (instead of money, or with a little money) and he'll be happy to help out.
Learning the good ones from the dumb ones isn't hard; go talk to them. See who's quiet, and who's helpful. At the end of the meeting, drop off a business card and tell'em about the opening. Typically, they're happy to get into it, even if it's just a side-job, assuming they have the time.
"Unix" a friend of mine used to say, "is a humbling experience. You learn that you're NOT the baddest programmer on the planet when others come and show you how to do it better. And they always will. You're never the 'fastest gun' and you never will be." Over the last 25 years, I've found that to be true. Look for a helpful, humble guy. He'll be the one that has the experience.
And no...as much as I'd LOVE to get back into the adrenline-pumping world of startups again, I have to stay here and take care of Mom. (79, broken ankle, etc)
You mean the skirt-chasing, sometimes drunk pilots? They're a little over-rated.
We're not talking about split-second decisions here, surprisingly. A drone can be sent the long way around the thundercloud completely removing it from concern, instead of a pilot who's 'sure' he can make it. The drone has no ego, nowhere else to be; while it can't be perfect (it's made by man) it can do a really, really good job.
There's actually an entire squadron formed just a few months back, in the Air Force for robotic aircraft. And there's more in Iraq than manned aircraft. It's not like they've had no experience in this arena.
ONE KEY, SHOWSTOPPING PART, THOUGH: we have to settle on GPS trackers on the squawk. There's a transponder that traditionally shows altitude and airspeed to the control towers.
Part of the ground-level failures that happen is when a plane goes down to land, and is taxiing to the hangar, as well as coming off the ground. Radar is unpredictable, and encoding the GPS coords into the transponder could stop all those problems.
If it were in place, system-wide, the mid-air crash the other day wouldn't have happened: both craft, and the tower, would have seen each other. The tech has been out for a long time, but aviation is long to settle on new technology- they've been using it here on FedEx planes flying out of EVV (Evansville, Indiana) for several years now.
The gut-level, human instinct is to say no to the idea of unmanned flight. But as well as lowering the costs, it side-steps the problem of tired crews, (See: last week's NINE HOURS stuck on a plane) and can open up the industry.
Pilots and their bosses are making this change...not Detroit's car makers. We all remember how much 'fun' the new, 'smart', talking cars were, aye?
Remember when the concern was about a.xxx or.sex domain? No, we couldn't do that, and move everyone to that TLD for easy firewalling- that would make too much sense!
NOW TELL ME how you'll keep a person in *any* locale to stay off the nets, social or otherwise? We can't keep them from being 46 and perverted and looking like a 16YO boy!
Fossil records didn't show an increase in CO2 **after** the Earth's atmosphere getting hotter, being exuded from the oceans (3/4 of the Earth's surface) and COOLING THE PLANET.
This whole C02 thing is driving people to fight for such STUPID things.
It's another site where religion inhabits science: whether it gets ultra cold or ultra warm, BOTH SOMEHOW indicate ManMadeGlobalWarming(TM) that will surely kill us in a huge, heroic, 100ft tidal wave of death.
Guys- let's get back to science. And on the way there, let's stop off in a little town called Propogandaville where scientists are paid to make ANY oddball speculation with computer models attempting to come up with doomsday to cause people to send money to their governments.
THIS IS A HOAX, just like KillerBees(TM), AcidRain(TM), and TheOzoneHole(TM). It's been a long-standing parade of bullshit that lay people can't prove, to stimulate panic and give more power to the national, then world governments.
If you think you're intellectually honest enough, see "The Great Global Warming Swindle" at a torrent site near you. I promise you, you won't hate it.
I find these things annoying. The repetition of this theme is ritual.
Back around 1940 or so, some well-paid and honest-sounding scientists declared "Modern science has found all it will find." Then came the transistor, television, space flight, and so on. And let's not forget the IGY: The International Geophysical Year, 1976 when we all have spandex jackets, one for everyone, and New York to Paris in 20 minutes- more lesiure time for artists everywhere. (Thanks, Don)
It's really two things that bother me about this:
1-Considering man's been around about 100,000 years, doesn't measuring things in BILLIONS of years seem anything but a short time?
2-My day was already complex enough; did I need something more to think about?
See also the "planets might soon collide" story in a similar vein. Again, twofold:
1- Long, LONG time away 2- Unnecessary disturbance
Why must we be Cassandras, always ready to think it's over, and ignore ALL OUR ANCESTORS WILL BE DEAD BY THEN? I mean, considering all the national hoaxes guaranteed to kill us before 1999 (Killer Bees, Acid Rain, Ozone Hole, ManMadeGlobalWarming(TM) and others) what kind of accuracy do they have, anyway?
I used to guard a freshwater facility; carbon (the element) is available in huge, I mean 100 pound bag quantities. If the object is "almost completely carbon", does it matter the original source?
I'm not a chemist, but isn't burning almost anything gonna create/expose carbon?
What, are you joking? Right now, thanks to the Progressives, anyone who makes a profit is now a target on primetime TV. In the last three episodes of Leverage, for example, the bad guys are the ones with money. The last two episodes of The Philanthropist, not only was the bad guy the ones with money, but they had some kind of charicature of Rush Limbaugh acting like ANYONE but Rush Limbaugh, all to serve a mindset. Nevermind that the heros of all of this also made near-infinite money as well.
So when we talk about a company that exists for the soul purpose of dumping green goo anywhere it shouldn't be, understand it was teaching your peers just how evil those who make money truly are! Don't you know it's wrong to make money! Why, Fox News is an "enormous organization dedicated to propoganda" while ABC, NBC and CBS as well as CNN and MSN are merely lemonade stands meant to 'increase awareness'.
The point of all of this is that brainwashing is underway.
Tell me, your bosses- in all your life...was any one of them on Welfare? Or is it more accurate to say they were all wanting to make more money, by hiring you? This is key. And getting more overlooked in the media to take our freedoms.
Anyone here old enough to remember the first ecology movement? It, too, was lame, with it's own lame, green flag. Just green-n-white bars like the US flag, but a silly character in the middle of the field.
Being good stewards, yes. Endocrinating young children into fairy tales, no. Things like Captain Planet get under my skin. The science they point to is grey at best, and it all serves political parties.
I mean, whether it's hotter than usual, or colder than usual, BOTH are a sign of ManMadeGlobalWarming(TM) for which money must be sent to Washington. That's not science, that's religion!
Who needs a tuner? Get a tuner card, get a nice, fat computer screen and put it on a Linux box running XBMC. You'll never waste a night on viruses or wondering what went wrong, you'll constantly have plenty to watch, NO MATTER WHAT TIME OR DAY, and all will be well.
We have several machines like this in the house, now. Those video plugins for Universal, YouTube and others are all pretty good. And the demand there gives programming-people reason to keep series you actually watch, if you don't merely download them.
Remember all the flak about "With the new 286 processor, everything will become real-mode!" and "One day we'll have flying cars!"
Every discussion I've seen here is about SciFi legends. When it's all over, they tend to have little to do with the outcome, except in the most generic sense. SciFi fuels our interest in topics, rarely does it ever become a template of the future.
Right now machines are, and have been, hundreds of times more effective at things humans do...like math...and while this has eventually given us great things, it also brought the dot-com boom, the bust, and one manufacturer who hogs the market for anything that runs on computers: Microsoft. I don't remember a show on SciFi called "Monopoly!" so I'm pretty sure SciFi didn't nail this one.
Science *pretends* to understand the brain. They claim, like Sheldon, "Penny: I'm a physicist. I understand the entire universe and everything inside it." "Yeah? Who's RadioHead?"
Ever see these scientist take the first 20 years of a person's life 'offline' so they can work on the brain? They can't. Ever see fond memories spliced-in so as to retrieve a lost person from anguish that's all-controlling? They can't.
Even if they can create a silicon chip that's 100 times faster (in theory) than the human brain, nothing says it will WORK like the human brain. Without ROMs, our computers are in their own world....so the future mega-man is only as good as it's human programmers, no?
This is fun stuff to think about; you can't take it too seriously.
There's a lot of conjecture of what we're doing here, and only one is supported by documentation talking about this reality starting with light, how the continents parted, and about 20-30 other things it couldn't have known.
This reality is a petri dish; what are petri dishes made for?
Now that, too, makes a lot of sense. But I thought in the 70's people started realizing this and putting them in the budget...perhaps even more than just being a good idea, they should get an incentive to both tear down the old, but to make new, with a contingency plan for it's removal at EOL?
Now THAT would be something worth paying $10B for. Nuclear power is fabulous! And with things like electric cars coming online, it's got to be powered with something!
When coal is such a no-no that our president has said he wants to "necessarily" bankrupt them with red tape and taxes, why would we de-com any nuclear power plants?
I don't have to tell most of the audience here that it's carbon-free (as if that mattered) and that the waste trail has been cleaned up significantly, as well as being just about the cheapest form of electricity we can find.
Presidential assassins are on the same side of this president: Leftist.
Sure, there's the odd anti-abortion bomber here and there, but those actually on the Right have no interest in changing the government with a gun wait until they've tried every other way.
Remember the guy that attacked in the recent Holocaust museum thing? A Jew hater- not a Christian. In fact he had SO much more to share with the president, it was scary.
(I was gonna use "anti-semite" there, but "Semite" refers to sand dwelling people, both Arab and Israeli.)
Christians, or those on the Right who pick up a gun leave the movement at that moment; both groups have a strict doctrine against killing the innocent. Anyone who tells you differently has an agenda.
The Left, however loves death. See Abortion, a eugenics for the poor ethnic classes. (Margret Sanger founded Planned Parenthood on this intent). They also hate to keep the old around, as well as the deformed. This is the concept of INCONVENIENT PEOPLE. You may be aware of other civilizations who found these, too.
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Carl Sagan isn't one to quote for the reality of Christianity. He's known to have said, "Either life on this planet is super-abundant elsewhere, or we're on one really special planet." (Paraphrasing, of course)
The truth is, there's something VERY special about this planet, and to some of us it's spectacularly clear. We've looked for decades for other planets similar to ours without finding them. (No,like us plus 15G gravity doesn't count.) And of the stars in the sky only 10 percent or less even have _land_ much less similar planets.
I know 99% of you guys want us to grow into a Star Trek/Star Wars reality (the other 1% hoping for B5!) but it's not gonna happen. Space is, other than commodities stored in places, worthless. Dangerous. And all but .00001% of it out of reach.
Famous deathsquads. We'll compare them to stormtroopers from other people and other parts of time...
Sorry guys, I just can't give the BSA any more resepct than I do. Maybe I've been paying too much attention as they leave small businesses in shambles, and relieved of 100.000 each time.
It's kinda like comparing the Waffen SS with the General SS. So there's this slight difference....so what?
No? I could have sworn that's what my ex-wife's new child was playing that on...could be something else. The point being, it's not the same game on all platforms, unless it was on PC or Linux.
I think it's safe to say there's a number of differences between the DirectX nature of Windows (98 and family) verus Linux of circa 1995-2000.
Yet in JUST TWO MONTHS, this company would get a title, and in about the time it took to get the boxart produced, the game was running under Linux. Now this isn't a simple process, but they did it, and they did it quickly.
Best yet, it didn't require the game getting watered down. Remember UnrealTournament? Now, remember UnrealTournament for XBox? See what I mean?
That wasn't the case in any of the Lokisoft games I bought before the turn of the century. I'm still amazed.
There was this ball game the other day...no, really! And since no one was paying attention, and no one was permitted to share in the reality, NOBODY SHOWED UP.
Are these the same boneheads who though the Federal government were smart enough to blow 20,000 to 30,000 times the "Cash for Clunkers" program, yet Clunkers was a dismal failure? (The fed is inept, period. No matter which country you talk about.)
These people smell like the RIAA...
How many sci-fi shows started this way? :)
Seriously though; how hard can this be? Everyone has their own definition of 'evil', but it always comes down to the main-and-the-plain:
Murder: kill a person, make an entire family miserable. Truncate the family tree, possibly cut-off income for children with potential. Many times, retribution comes. (My sister was shot and killed; I have a good handle on this.)
Theft: some people don't have much to begin with. Steal from them, and you'll find them coming after you. Again, not hard, and universal.
Lie: weasel your way out of something; misrepresent the truth and you metaphorically kill someone, somewhere. And what's it inspire?
Adultery. Have sex with people other than your wife, and you'll piss her off, or a family member. Here's were I list all the diseases that this practice permits, and let's not forget the ocean of single-parent children who wind up in jail. That sounds constructive.
Worship things that aren't god. Gambling, WOW-ing, drinking, crack, porn? Consuming your presence with the family? You need to be in the game, not distracted by addictions and things like celebrity worship. Do I really have to list the misery that comes from all these things?
Disrespect your parents; ignore all the good they're trying to do for you and spit in their face. They'll feel obligated to return in kind. Lose that family unit structure, and a nation goes from 50s America to today's Yemen.
Pretty clear advice, isn't it? So wouldn't the desire to program an 'evil AI' just break these? 'Evil' is about making mankind miserable.
These are seven of the ten commandments.
Think Christianity is a hoax? How long did Milli Vanilli last? What's the longest-lasting hoax you can recall? If it were lies, would non-drugged people be dying for Him to this very day?
There's all kinds of check-ability in the Bible; but most of you can't develop the curiosity to see if the assertions against it are true. Now THAT takes faith.
[And yes, I understand the distal meaning of the article is more along the lines of 'sadistic' not 'evil' for making monsters mean. I'm more interested in making sadistic monsters nice.]
What are you talking about? We hear about these all the time! Like stories where dogs bite people, it's just not news anymore.
It's, sure, granted, BORING that it's just another local-only problem (most Linux ones are: if you have access to the machine, you can do anything you want, anyway.) Windows has these, remotely available all the time.
NOW WHERE THE DIFFERENCE LIES...
Linux will patch this bug, and it's improvement will be carried on to the next revision. Windows hacks out and adds new all the time: a problem there is *always* likely.
Isn't it clear by now? Where ELSE do you go buy something, then buy a component of the competitor, just to make sure it gets through the day? Microsoft people know you get an AV program, or you'll have to reload.
Windows is a very fragile product, it has been for two decades, and it shows no signs of changing any time soon. I've been in the marketplace since 1978; this whole thing is just so clear.
Go to the local Linux user's group. Not only will you find guys that know the network because of standards, not just Microsoft ways of doing things, they tend to be really honest: give one of these guys a stake in the company (instead of money, or with a little money) and he'll be happy to help out.
Learning the good ones from the dumb ones isn't hard; go talk to them. See who's quiet, and who's helpful. At the end of the meeting, drop off a business card and tell'em about the opening. Typically, they're happy to get into it, even if it's just a side-job, assuming they have the time.
"Unix" a friend of mine used to say, "is a humbling experience. You learn that you're NOT the baddest programmer on the planet when others come and show you how to do it better. And they always will. You're never the 'fastest gun' and you never will be." Over the last 25 years, I've found that to be true. Look for a helpful, humble guy. He'll be the one that has the experience.
And no...as much as I'd LOVE to get back into the adrenline-pumping world of startups again, I have to stay here and take care of Mom. (79, broken ankle, etc)
You mean the skirt-chasing, sometimes drunk pilots? They're a little over-rated.
We're not talking about split-second decisions here, surprisingly. A drone can be sent the long way around the thundercloud completely removing it from concern, instead of a pilot who's 'sure' he can make it. The drone has no ego, nowhere else to be; while it can't be perfect (it's made by man) it can do a really, really good job.
There's actually an entire squadron formed just a few months back, in the Air Force for robotic aircraft. And there's more in Iraq than manned aircraft. It's not like they've had no experience in this arena.
ONE KEY, SHOWSTOPPING PART, THOUGH: we have to settle on GPS trackers on the squawk. There's a transponder that traditionally shows altitude and airspeed to the control towers.
Part of the ground-level failures that happen is when a plane goes down to land, and is taxiing to the hangar, as well as coming off the ground. Radar is unpredictable, and encoding the GPS coords into the transponder could stop all those problems.
If it were in place, system-wide, the mid-air crash the other day wouldn't have happened: both craft, and the tower, would have seen each other. The tech has been out for a long time, but aviation is long to settle on new technology- they've been using it here on FedEx planes flying out of EVV (Evansville, Indiana) for several years now.
The gut-level, human instinct is to say no to the idea of unmanned flight. But as well as lowering the costs, it side-steps the problem of tired crews, (See: last week's NINE HOURS stuck on a plane) and can open up the industry.
Pilots and their bosses are making this change...not Detroit's car makers. We all remember how much 'fun' the new, 'smart', talking cars were, aye?
Remember when the concern was about a .xxx or .sex domain? No, we couldn't do that, and move everyone to that TLD for easy firewalling- that would make too much sense!
NOW TELL ME how you'll keep a person in *any* locale to stay off the nets, social or otherwise? We can't keep them from being 46 and perverted and looking like a 16YO boy!
Have these poeople ever _BEEN_ on the net?
Fossil records didn't show an increase in CO2 **after** the Earth's atmosphere getting hotter, being exuded from the oceans (3/4 of the Earth's surface) and COOLING THE PLANET.
This whole C02 thing is driving people to fight for such STUPID things.
It's another site where religion inhabits science: whether it gets ultra cold or ultra warm, BOTH SOMEHOW indicate ManMadeGlobalWarming(TM) that will surely kill us in a huge, heroic, 100ft tidal wave of death.
Guys- let's get back to science. And on the way there, let's stop off in a little town called Propogandaville where scientists are paid to make ANY oddball speculation with computer models attempting to come up with doomsday to cause people to send money to their governments.
THIS IS A HOAX, just like KillerBees(TM), AcidRain(TM), and TheOzoneHole(TM). It's been a long-standing parade of bullshit that lay people can't prove, to stimulate panic and give more power to the national, then world governments.
If you think you're intellectually honest enough, see "The Great Global Warming Swindle" at a torrent site near you. I promise you, you won't hate it.
I find these things annoying. The repetition of this theme is ritual.
Back around 1940 or so, some well-paid and honest-sounding scientists declared "Modern science has found all it will find." Then came the transistor, television, space flight, and so on. And let's not forget the IGY: The International Geophysical Year, 1976 when we all have spandex jackets, one for everyone, and New York to Paris in 20 minutes- more lesiure time for artists everywhere. (Thanks, Don)
It's really two things that bother me about this:
1-Considering man's been around about 100,000 years, doesn't measuring things in BILLIONS of years seem anything but a short time?
2-My day was already complex enough; did I need something more to think about?
See also the "planets might soon collide" story in a similar vein. Again, twofold:
1- Long, LONG time away
2- Unnecessary disturbance
Why must we be Cassandras, always ready to think it's over, and ignore ALL OUR ANCESTORS WILL BE DEAD BY THEN? I mean, considering all the national hoaxes guaranteed to kill us before 1999 (Killer Bees, Acid Rain, Ozone Hole, ManMadeGlobalWarming(TM) and others) what kind of accuracy do they have, anyway?
I used to guard a freshwater facility; carbon (the element) is available in huge, I mean 100 pound bag quantities. If the object is "almost completely carbon", does it matter the original source?
I'm not a chemist, but isn't burning almost anything gonna create/expose carbon?
"Heating them until they're almost pure carbon..."
Why not just use carbon? Why start with wood at all?
What, are you joking? Right now, thanks to the Progressives, anyone who makes a profit is now a target on primetime TV. In the last three episodes of Leverage, for example, the bad guys are the ones with money. The last two episodes of The Philanthropist, not only was the bad guy the ones with money, but they had some kind of charicature of Rush Limbaugh acting like ANYONE but Rush Limbaugh, all to serve a mindset. Nevermind that the heros of all of this also made near-infinite money as well.
So when we talk about a company that exists for the soul purpose of dumping green goo anywhere it shouldn't be, understand it was teaching your peers just how evil those who make money truly are! Don't you know it's wrong to make money! Why, Fox News is an "enormous organization dedicated to propoganda" while ABC, NBC and CBS as well as CNN and MSN are merely lemonade stands meant to 'increase awareness'.
The point of all of this is that brainwashing is underway.
Tell me, your bosses- in all your life...was any one of them on Welfare? Or is it more accurate to say they were all wanting to make more money, by hiring you? This is key. And getting more overlooked in the media to take our freedoms.
Anyone here old enough to remember the first ecology movement? It, too, was lame, with it's own lame, green flag. Just green-n-white bars like the US flag, but a silly character in the middle of the field.
Being good stewards, yes. Endocrinating young children into fairy tales, no. Things like Captain Planet get under my skin. The science they point to is grey at best, and it all serves political parties.
I mean, whether it's hotter than usual, or colder than usual, BOTH are a sign of ManMadeGlobalWarming(TM) for which money must be sent to Washington. That's not science, that's religion!
Who needs a tuner? Get a tuner card, get a nice, fat computer screen and put it on a Linux box running XBMC. You'll never waste a night on viruses or wondering what went wrong, you'll constantly have plenty to watch, NO MATTER WHAT TIME OR DAY, and all will be well.
We have several machines like this in the house, now. Those video plugins for Universal, YouTube and others are all pretty good. And the demand there gives programming-people reason to keep series you actually watch, if you don't merely download them.
It's a really sweet life!
It comes with a logo; looks like a window. :)
Remember all the flak about "With the new 286 processor, everything will become real-mode!" and "One day we'll have flying cars!"
Every discussion I've seen here is about SciFi legends. When it's all over, they tend to have little to do with the outcome, except in the most generic sense. SciFi fuels our interest in topics, rarely does it ever become a template of the future.
Right now machines are, and have been, hundreds of times more effective at things humans do...like math...and while this has eventually given us great things, it also brought the dot-com boom, the bust, and one manufacturer who hogs the market for anything that runs on computers: Microsoft. I don't remember a show on SciFi called "Monopoly!" so I'm pretty sure SciFi didn't nail this one.
Science *pretends* to understand the brain. They claim, like Sheldon, "Penny: I'm a physicist. I understand the entire universe and everything inside it." "Yeah? Who's RadioHead?"
Ever see these scientist take the first 20 years of a person's life 'offline' so they can work on the brain? They can't. Ever see fond memories spliced-in so as to retrieve a lost person from anguish that's all-controlling? They can't.
Even if they can create a silicon chip that's 100 times faster (in theory) than the human brain, nothing says it will WORK like the human brain. Without ROMs, our computers are in their own world....so the future mega-man is only as good as it's human programmers, no?
This is fun stuff to think about; you can't take it too seriously.
Agree. I would expect nothing less. 20 years of fooling people doesn't mean you can sneak up on them, anymore.
There's a lot of conjecture of what we're doing here, and only one is supported by documentation talking about this reality starting with light, how the continents parted, and about 20-30 other things it couldn't have known.
This reality is a petri dish; what are petri dishes made for?
Welcome home. I hope you do well!
Now that, too, makes a lot of sense. But I thought in the 70's people started realizing this and putting them in the budget...perhaps even more than just being a good idea, they should get an incentive to both tear down the old, but to make new, with a contingency plan for it's removal at EOL?
Now THAT would be something worth paying $10B for. Nuclear power is fabulous! And with things like electric cars coming online, it's got to be powered with something!
Thank you! Concise, non-agenda driven once-common sense. :> Thanks again!
When coal is such a no-no that our president has said he wants to "necessarily" bankrupt them with red tape and taxes, why would we de-com any nuclear power plants?
I don't have to tell most of the audience here that it's carbon-free (as if that mattered) and that the waste trail has been cleaned up significantly, as well as being just about the cheapest form of electricity we can find.
And there is ****19**** of them shut down now?
Presidential assassins are on the same side of this president: Leftist.
Sure, there's the odd anti-abortion bomber here and there, but those actually on the Right have no interest in changing the government with a gun wait until they've tried every other way.
Remember the guy that attacked in the recent Holocaust museum thing? A Jew hater- not a Christian. In fact he had SO much more to share with the president, it was scary.
(I was gonna use "anti-semite" there, but "Semite" refers to sand dwelling people, both Arab and Israeli.)
Christians, or those on the Right who pick up a gun leave the movement at that moment; both groups have a strict doctrine against killing the innocent. Anyone who tells you differently has an agenda.
The Left, however loves death. See Abortion, a eugenics for the poor ethnic classes. (Margret Sanger founded Planned Parenthood on this intent). They also hate to keep the old around, as well as the deformed. This is the concept of INCONVENIENT PEOPLE. You may be aware of other civilizations who found these, too.