Placebo effect is certainly real and effects some things, but I doubt it can really do much in this case. Or with any other prosthetics.
You can somehow motivate your immune system to work harder if you think you're eating drugs, even if they're only sugar.
But the same doesn't hold true for replacing whole body parts, your body is not automagically going to grow itself a new hippocampus/leg/eye/whatever even if it knows it should have one.
There's no other way to recover memories or even check they are there than trough that "buggy software" so until there is a fixed, absolutely perfect version (which isn't going to happen) there is also no way to know whether or not IS able to store and/or recover everything or not.
Huge collection of knowledge is not really smartness, even sort of type..
The search algorithms and things it uses are just that, fixed set of commands, it has no intuition, if you can some day command google by speaking it (like you would speak to human, not by few predefined command words), or it starts regognizing bad search results by looking at their contents like you would instead of only checking how many other pages happen to link into it, I'll grant you it's intelligent, but not yet.
Well, I didn't mean to imply they were on a sunday walk and accidentally stumbled upon a continent. It certainly wasn't easy.
Yet, those people did probably live on that tundra even before they started this particular journey and had to had previously learn how to survive there and people of that era were nomads, crossing large distances by walking wasn't strange to them either.
But you know, they've invented some funny artificial things few hundred years back and kept perfecting them and inventing different ones. Ever heard of 'em? Lots and lots of people keep using those things so they may do the kid-making thing without kids. Especially people who want pleasure without responsibility, and somehow I got just that impression from the grantparent post.
Nothing ever gets so good that it couldn't be made even better.
I recently used a nightly build of mozilla some time, because it fixed something that has bothered me for a long time (word-break detection, eg. in url-bar it's very useful to have ctrl-right/left to stop at all regularly used separators,/,=,&,?,. etc. After the next release came along, I started using that, but even this is 1.3b, there still isn't a stable with this "bug" fixed.
No superiority complexes, I wanted something and to get it I had to use cutting edge stuff.
And I will do same again if they, for example, fix type-ahead find so it works on pages with frames.
Depends. If one would borrow genes from different species, it might in theory open a possibility for disease natural to that species to infect you, and possibly mutate to general human variant within you.
But if one would create a patchwork superman with best traits humanity has to offer, or artificial genes that do not exist in any natural organism, a human virus would not benefit anything from that persons gene sequences, as it can already infect humans.
So it's better to cheat that primitivity by, for example, giving the burn victim a new face.
And if it happened to be the "terrible accident that no one could have prevented", instead of stupidity, and the victim happened to be not only beautiful but also very intelligent etc, then in that case it would be _advancing_ evolution by allowing those good genes to stay in pool despite the accident, by circumventing those stupid natural instincts.
So your post (disrupting evolution by artificially altering looks), may be relevant in some cases but on others its quite the opposite, generalization that large just doesn't work.
Alarmist? Huh. Seemed perfectly non-alarming post to me. He just stated a fact: methanol is a poison. Nothing more, nothing less.
Besides, methanol is probably extremely wildlife friendly compared to those batteries, poison to humans it may be, but it's still organic compound, and is created all the time in small amounts by natural processes, and will break down as well.
People aren't yelling about how scary and flammable vodka, or any other strong ethanol containing liquid is, but for some reason when they hear the word "methanol" associated with fuel cells it only takes nanoseconds before someone is screaming about safety...
If you live somewhere with cold weather you've probably used diluted methanol in your windshield washer for godssake! Did it explode then?
Having this thing on your lap is no bigger deal than carrying one of those miniature bottles of booze. Horrified about danger of explosion when holding one of those? No? Thought so.
And yes, you could run your lawnmower on ethanol just as well as on methanol.
Airline certainly doesn't seem to have anything against selling you ethanol for your lap on flight themselves, either.
Well, with M$:s track record of mutilating standards, it may even be a good thing.
At least this way they didn't get their hands on OpenGL and create some half-assed noncompatible variant of it like they've done with just about every technology on the planet.
Sorry pal, but we've squatted here on Earth for over hundred thousand years and we still don't know everything that's here.
And you think you know everything that's up in the moon by spending what, few hours, there. Get real.
And what comes to Columbus, funny that you took him up in an effort to try belittle this when it's perfectly the opposite... people had been to America before him - Columbus is not a forerunner, he came after others and still he was the one that initiated the real change, not those that were first - he is equal to the EU and China in this one not the US.
Well, the "natives" had it easy - they could WALK into there, if the same land bridge would have existed into our times there would've been no need to "discover" anything, either.
It's bit harder to find something when you need to sail for months, and not even know there is something than when you can just follow the ground and wonder, what's after THAT hill and the next and..., no?
Go and learn something yourself, and stop babbling marketing nonsense trinket manufacturers have filled your head with.
_Any_ high voltage electrical device operated where oxygen is present WILL create ozone, whether it's called tesla coil, photocopier or "ion generator".
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It wouldn't all end up in poles, as you said, the ozone layer is naturally thinner there, and if all released chlorides disperse evenly into entire globe, the first holes will naturally be formed in wherever the thinnest spots were.
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I think that the vulnerable monocultures are the reason that insects like these develop, and that long term we have to look at other means of agriculture.
Those insects have developed millions of years before humans ever got here and had an idea to start growing their favourite plants en masse.
Sure, our techniques and poisons may have given 'em neat "eat as much as you can" -buffet and resistive mutations, but mostly they are same bugs that have been praying on natural plants long before any kind of farming has existed.
And they are not going to go away either just because we start growing different plants on the same fields instead of only one variety at time.
Speaking of the former, shouldn't we still be trying to find him?
Nah. Why bother even trying, as long as he's loose, you can always choose another country as target to your reign of terror and bomb it back to stone age with an excuse of hiding him and supporting "terrorism".
There are already millions of symbiotic bacteria inside you, and none of those are "there in the first place", they don't share your DNA, nor does your body in any other way automagically create them.
You do usually get them very early (mothers milk, etc.), but they are nevertheless foreign. And they may get lost even at adult age from eg. antibiots and after you regain them, they still are not rejected.
Of course they stay where they are, most in digestive track, and at least some of the even normally beneficial bacteria could cause fatal infection if it somehow slipped into bloodstream, and in that case, immune system naturally would fight against it.
And you are not exactly showing your alleged smarts by believing symbionts living in internal organs (eg. brains) would somehow cause "tubers" or "mushrooms" to grow out of your head, either.
They don't need to sell user lists for you to get spam. Spammers do brute-force bombard popular domains, trying random or semi-random usernames... why would they care if some of addresses they invent don't work, it's not like they are there to read the bounces.
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Placebo effect is certainly real and effects some things, but I doubt it can really do much in this case. Or with any other prosthetics.
You can somehow motivate your immune system to work harder if you think you're eating drugs, even if they're only sugar.
But the same doesn't hold true for replacing whole body parts, your body is not automagically going to grow itself a new hippocampus/leg/eye/whatever even if it knows it should have one.
How do you prove something like that?
There's no other way to recover memories or even check they are there than trough that "buggy software" so until there is a fixed, absolutely perfect version (which isn't going to happen) there is also no way to know whether or not IS able to store and/or recover everything or not.
Well, not really.
Huge collection of knowledge is not really smartness, even sort of type..
The search algorithms and things it uses are just that, fixed set of commands, it has no intuition, if you can some day command google by speaking it (like you would speak to human, not by few predefined command words), or it starts regognizing bad search results by looking at their contents like you would instead of only checking how many other pages happen to link into it, I'll grant you it's intelligent, but not yet.
Care to account for your claims?
Excepting the thing parent post already stated.
Well, I didn't mean to imply they were on a sunday walk and accidentally stumbled upon a continent. It certainly wasn't easy.
Yet, those people did probably live on that tundra even before they started this particular journey and had to had previously learn how to survive there and people of that era were nomads, crossing large distances by walking wasn't strange to them either.
I know perfectly well how kids are made.
But you know, they've invented some funny artificial things few hundred years back and kept perfecting them and inventing different ones. Ever heard of 'em? Lots and lots of people keep using those things so they may do the kid-making thing without kids. Especially people who want pleasure without responsibility, and somehow I got just that impression from the grantparent post.
Think about it.
Nothing ever gets so good that it couldn't be made even better.
/,=,&,?,. etc. After the next release came along, I started using that, but even this is 1.3b, there still isn't a stable with this "bug" fixed.
I recently used a nightly build of mozilla some time, because it fixed something that has bothered me for a long time (word-break detection, eg. in url-bar it's very useful to have ctrl-right/left to stop at all regularly used separators,
No superiority complexes, I wanted something and to get it I had to use cutting edge stuff.
And I will do same again if they, for example, fix type-ahead find so it works on pages with frames.
More offspring, actually... bigger changes that some of them stay alive.
So if you're doing it for fun instead of kids, no dice.
Depends. If one would borrow genes from different species, it might in theory open a possibility for disease natural to that species to infect you, and possibly mutate to general human variant within you.
But if one would create a patchwork superman with best traits humanity has to offer, or artificial genes that do not exist in any natural organism, a human virus would not benefit anything from that persons gene sequences, as it can already infect humans.
So it's better to cheat that primitivity by, for example, giving the burn victim a new face.
And if it happened to be the "terrible accident that no one could have prevented", instead of stupidity, and the victim happened to be not only beautiful but also very intelligent etc, then in that case it would be _advancing_ evolution by allowing those good genes to stay in pool despite the accident, by circumventing those stupid natural instincts.
So your post (disrupting evolution by artificially altering looks), may be relevant in some cases but on others its quite the opposite, generalization that large just doesn't work.
Alarmist? Huh. Seemed perfectly non-alarming post to me. He just stated a fact: methanol is a poison. Nothing more, nothing less.
Besides, methanol is probably extremely wildlife friendly compared to those batteries, poison to humans it may be, but it's still organic compound, and is created all the time in small amounts by natural processes, and will break down as well.
Very safe.
People aren't yelling about how scary and flammable vodka, or any other strong ethanol containing liquid is, but for some reason when they hear the word "methanol" associated with fuel cells it only takes nanoseconds before someone is screaming about safety...
If you live somewhere with cold weather you've probably used diluted methanol in your windshield washer for godssake! Did it explode then?
It's alcohol, not dynamite.
Having this thing on your lap is no bigger deal than carrying one of those miniature bottles of booze. Horrified about danger of explosion when holding one of those? No? Thought so.
And yes, you could run your lawnmower on ethanol just as well as on methanol.
Airline certainly doesn't seem to have anything against selling you ethanol for your lap on flight themselves, either.
Well, with M$:s track record of mutilating standards, it may even be a good thing.
At least this way they didn't get their hands on OpenGL and create some half-assed noncompatible variant of it like they've done with just about every technology on the planet.
We know what's up there
... people had been to America before him - Columbus is not a forerunner, he came after others and still he was the one that initiated the real change, not those that were first - he is equal to the EU and China in this one not the US.
Huh? We do?
Sorry pal, but we've squatted here on Earth for over hundred thousand years and we still don't know everything that's here.
And you think you know everything that's up in the moon by spending what, few hours, there. Get real.
And what comes to Columbus, funny that you took him up in an effort to try belittle this when it's perfectly the opposite
Well, the "natives" had it easy - they could WALK into there, if the same land bridge would have existed into our times there would've been no need to "discover" anything, either.
It's bit harder to find something when you need to sail for months, and not even know there is something than when you can just follow the ground and wonder, what's after THAT hill and the next and..., no?
Thinness, maybe.
But can you see anything if you look at your neat little display at 30 degree angle like the second photo? No.
Go and learn something yourself, and stop babbling marketing nonsense trinket manufacturers have filled your head with.
_Any_ high voltage electrical device operated where oxygen is present WILL create ozone, whether it's called tesla coil, photocopier or "ion generator".
It wouldn't all end up in poles, as you said, the ozone layer is naturally thinner there, and if all released chlorides disperse evenly into entire globe, the first holes will naturally be formed in wherever the thinnest spots were.
I think that the vulnerable monocultures are the reason that insects like these develop, and that long term we have to look at other means of agriculture.
Those insects have developed millions of years before humans ever got here and had an idea to start growing their favourite plants en masse.
Sure, our techniques and poisons may have given 'em neat "eat as much as you can" -buffet and resistive mutations, but mostly they are same bugs that have been praying on natural plants long before any kind of farming has existed.
And they are not going to go away either just because we start growing different plants on the same fields instead of only one variety at time.
Speaking of the former, shouldn't we still be trying to find him?
Nah. Why bother even trying, as long as he's loose, you can always choose another country as target to your reign of terror and bomb it back to stone age with an excuse of hiding him and supporting "terrorism".
There are already millions of symbiotic bacteria inside you, and none of those are "there in the first place", they don't share your DNA, nor does your body in any other way automagically create them.
You do usually get them very early (mothers milk, etc.), but they are nevertheless foreign. And they may get lost even at adult age from eg. antibiots and after you regain them, they still are not rejected.
Of course they stay where they are, most in digestive track, and at least some of the even normally beneficial bacteria could cause fatal infection if it somehow slipped into bloodstream, and in that case, immune system naturally would fight against it.
And you are not exactly showing your alleged smarts by believing symbionts living in internal organs (eg. brains) would somehow cause "tubers" or "mushrooms" to grow out of your head, either.
They don't need to sell user lists for you to get spam. Spammers do brute-force bombard popular domains, trying random or semi-random usernames... why would they care if some of addresses they invent don't work, it's not like they are there to read the bounces.
Mouse _used_ to be obligatory for surfing, true, and for some small parts of it it still is, but type-ahead really did make that evil lot lesser.
Even if it would start, this, like any new game would probably be so slow that it would be unplayable anyway.
If you want to play the newest games, there's no way around but to upgrade your hw.