Doesn't sound like much, but that will be enough to quadruple the in-store crowds around here.
I can't walk by the Sony Store in the local mall without comparing it to the Apple store a few steps away and guffawing at how far Sony has fallen from relevance. If it weren't for their gaming division, they'd be no different from Generic South Korean Electronics Co., Ltd.
And if gamers would just stop giving them money the company might actually be forced to take stock of its own behavior.
Whatever. If you think they'd have agreed that searches and seizures occurring within 100 miles of any US border are exempt from Fourth Amendment considerations, you've either been reading some unconventional history books or smoking some nonstandard tobacco.
Are we at war with anyone with submarines this week? Didn't get that memo.
Yes, actually, we are... or at least the multi-hundred billion dollar 'defense' sector charged with defending the free world from unlicensed botanical products is.
Exactly. Belief in a process -- one which has given us practically everything we have -- is very different, and much more defensible, than belief in an invisible sky cop who, like all cops, never seems to be around when you need one.
Yes, I see that you made a claim not apparently supported by evidence. The burden of proof is on you to prove the claim, not on me to refute it. Still, I'll get things started:
# of their own customers sued or criminally charged by Apple for jailbreaking or otherwise hacking legitimately purchased devices: 0.
# of rootkits intentionally distributed with Apple software or hardware: 0.
# of documented, advertised features removed from equipment by Apple under the guise of "free updates": 0.
Sorry -- just can't crank up the dudgeon until I hear this from multiple credible sources. Too much competition for my outrage these days.
I can find some pretty damned goofy stuff from "professional journalism photographers" on YouTube, any day of the week. And we all know how credible eyewitness testimony is.
Who's going to drop US$50,000 on a car that they don't get to drive?
Movie stars, sports figures, corporate executives...
Like cell phones, this strikes me as just another example of a technology trickling down to the masses after being developed as an expensive luxury for the few.
It probably won't happen, though, because the worst thing we could do is mix human and AI drivers on the same roads. Drivers need to be 100% human or 100% networked machines; there's no middle path that won't lead to disaster. And I don't think you'll get 100% of drivers to give up their cars anytime soon.
Nuclear Ginza [google.com] is a documentary describing how the Japanese nuclear industry kills people annually as well. They actually hire homeless people off the streets, send them into reactor cores to perform yearly maintenance, and then let them die in obscurity, offering hush money or threatening them with Yakuza violence if they complain too loudly when their teeth start falling out. That's how humans handle the responsibility of nuclear safety.
Sorry, but while I agree that this would be an outrageous scenario that would demand immediate and drastic action, it also falls into the category of "extraordinary claims" that require "extraordinary proof." An amateur documentary on Google Video isn't sufficient.
Yes, I get it. I get that one energy source kills dozens of people every year and spews radioactive waste into the air in the course of normal operation, and the other energy source might or might not cause some localized deaths and contamination when a plant is hit by a 9.0 earthquake followed by a tsunami.
The lesson is we (humanity) should learn, it that we have only this one nest.
If we don't solve that problem, we deserve whatever happens to us.
We can't afford to foul it up (that is, any more than we have already.)
So you'll be turning off your computer and lights in 5, 4, 3... Oh, yeah, I forgot. Solar, wind, and geothermal will give all six billion of us all the electricity we need, so I guess you can leave that stuff powered up.
BTW, nothing in the above post should be construed as questioning Dr. Kaku's medical history, academic qualifications, professional competence, or personal behavior, only his motivations and past activity as a highly visible public figure in scientific and technological fields.
Everybody seems to have forgotten this one in particular, in which the Cassini-Huygens mission held the seeds of mankind's destruction.
Based on his track record it simply does not make sense to give Kaku access to any form of publicity. He may have done some good physics work at one point, but he left rationality behind when he tried to stop the Cassini mission with wild-eyed hand waving.
Leave the goalposts alone, please. Your comment specifically called out evolutionary biology as being unscientific because it didn't address "the first picosecond." Be specific: why are you holding evolutionary biology to this rather ridiculous standard, but not other scientific fields?
More to the point, why do you hold your pastor to one standard of evidence and your science teachers to another?
Likewise, organic chemistry also doesn't tell us anything about the first picosecond of existence. Is organic chemistry also not a science, in your view?
It's to protect scientists that are studying Intelligent Design
Intelligent design "theory" offers no testable predictions that can be used to falsify it, nor are any avenues of research available that may yield such predictions in the future. Consequently it is not studied by any legitimate scientists.
If you want your creation stories taught in public school, you'd better be prepared to make room for everybody else's, too. I don't think you're going to like mine very much.
Also, the documentary "Expelled, No Intelligence Allowed" goes through the aspects of intelligent design and the discrimination that occurs in the scientific culture
You've been lied to and pandered to. You should be pissed about that. Why aren't you?
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Doesn't sound like much, but that will be enough to quadruple the in-store crowds around here.
I can't walk by the Sony Store in the local mall without comparing it to the Apple store a few steps away and guffawing at how far Sony has fallen from relevance. If it weren't for their gaming division, they'd be no different from Generic South Korean Electronics Co., Ltd.
And if gamers would just stop giving them money the company might actually be forced to take stock of its own behavior.
Whatever. If you think they'd have agreed that searches and seizures occurring within 100 miles of any US border are exempt from Fourth Amendment considerations, you've either been reading some unconventional history books or smoking some nonstandard tobacco.
They would almost certainly say that the 4th amendment was not intended to apply to traffic across the national boundary
Kind of funny that they didn't, then.
California has a coast, and the coast is the border.
Boston has a coast, too. I wonder how the founders of America would have reacted to the idea that Boston is a Constitution-free zone?
We've basically done some live bombing practice and sent in a handful of trainers and some covert troops
Yeah, because no recent wars ever started exactly that way.
B...b...b...but credit-card reform!
Are we at war with anyone with submarines this week? Didn't get that memo.
Yes, actually, we are... or at least the multi-hundred billion dollar 'defense' sector charged with defending the free world from unlicensed botanical products is.
Exactly. Belief in a process -- one which has given us practically everything we have -- is very different, and much more defensible, than belief in an invisible sky cop who, like all cops, never seems to be around when you need one.
However the capabilities are also going up.
Relevant
Yes, they have. (see what i did there?)
Yes, I see that you made a claim not apparently supported by evidence. The burden of proof is on you to prove the claim, not on me to refute it. Still, I'll get things started:
# of their own customers sued or criminally charged by Apple for jailbreaking or otherwise hacking legitimately purchased devices: 0.
# of rootkits intentionally distributed with Apple software or hardware: 0.
# of documented, advertised features removed from equipment by Apple under the guise of "free updates": 0.
No disaster yet.
It's only going to take one.
Sorry -- just can't crank up the dudgeon until I hear this from multiple credible sources. Too much competition for my outrage these days.
I can find some pretty damned goofy stuff from "professional journalism photographers" on YouTube, any day of the week. And we all know how credible eyewitness testimony is.
Apple has been every bit as evil as Sony
No, they haven't. Not even close.
Who's going to drop US$50,000 on a car that they don't get to drive?
Movie stars, sports figures, corporate executives...
Like cell phones, this strikes me as just another example of a technology trickling down to the masses after being developed as an expensive luxury for the few.
It probably won't happen, though, because the worst thing we could do is mix human and AI drivers on the same roads. Drivers need to be 100% human or 100% networked machines; there's no middle path that won't lead to disaster. And I don't think you'll get 100% of drivers to give up their cars anytime soon.
Nuclear Ginza [google.com] is a documentary describing how the Japanese nuclear industry kills people annually as well. They actually hire homeless people off the streets, send them into reactor cores to perform yearly maintenance, and then let them die in obscurity, offering hush money or threatening them with Yakuza violence if they complain too loudly when their teeth start falling out. That's how humans handle the responsibility of nuclear safety.
Sorry, but while I agree that this would be an outrageous scenario that would demand immediate and drastic action, it also falls into the category of "extraordinary claims" that require "extraordinary proof." An amateur documentary on Google Video isn't sufficient.
Yes, I get it. I get that one energy source kills dozens of people every year and spews radioactive waste into the air in the course of normal operation, and the other energy source might or might not cause some localized deaths and contamination when a plant is hit by a 9.0 earthquake followed by a tsunami.
Now, what exactly am I not getting?
The lesson is we (humanity) should learn, it that we have only this one nest.
If we don't solve that problem, we deserve whatever happens to us.
We can't afford to foul it up (that is, any more than we have already.)
So you'll be turning off your computer and lights in 5, 4, 3... Oh, yeah, I forgot. Solar, wind, and geothermal will give all six billion of us all the electricity we need, so I guess you can leave that stuff powered up.
... kills as many people as the coal-mining industry did in its best year to date (2005).
And how's that been working out lately for the CD peddlers?
BTW, nothing in the above post should be construed as questioning Dr. Kaku's medical history, academic qualifications, professional competence, or personal behavior, only his motivations and past activity as a highly visible public figure in scientific and technological fields.
Everybody seems to have forgotten this one in particular, in which the Cassini-Huygens mission held the seeds of mankind's destruction.
Based on his track record it simply does not make sense to give Kaku access to any form of publicity. He may have done some good physics work at one point, but he left rationality behind when he tried to stop the Cassini mission with wild-eyed hand waving.
Translation: "I hold scientists to one standard, and priests to another. I'm pretty much a dumbass."
Leave the goalposts alone, please. Your comment specifically called out evolutionary biology as being unscientific because it didn't address "the first picosecond." Be specific: why are you holding evolutionary biology to this rather ridiculous standard, but not other scientific fields?
More to the point, why do you hold your pastor to one standard of evidence and your science teachers to another?
Likewise, organic chemistry also doesn't tell us anything about the first picosecond of existence. Is organic chemistry also not a science, in your view?
Intelligent design "theory" offers no testable predictions that can be used to falsify it, nor are any avenues of research available that may yield such predictions in the future. Consequently it is not studied by any legitimate scientists.
If you want your creation stories taught in public school, you'd better be prepared to make room for everybody else's, too. I don't think you're going to like mine very much.
You've been lied to and pandered to. You should be pissed about that. Why aren't you?