Compare these films to ones such as Blade Runner, which is undoubtedly one of the best movies I have ever seen. Although similarly violent, one is actually intellectually gratifying, and has none of the inane bias against robots evident in the Terminator films and their ilk.
Today, my father, knowing my unequivocally positive position on robot rights, claimed that there was a scene in Terminator Salvation in which a group of activists is protesting on behalf of this cause, and are then ironically killed by a Terminator. I was utterly convinced, because it seemed utterly plausible.
I must wonder what we can deduce about our societies relationship with the idea of non-human, but conscious, beings (particularly non-organic conscious computers) from our apparent acceptance of mindlessly anti-robot media like the Terminator series.
It would be difficult to go wrong like that. Also, sealed, kept away from light, and kept cool, CDs should last for quite a while, if I understand correctly, which I may not.
Also, I liked the suggestion of including a Mac Mini.:)
So why do we care that this MIcrosoft was bidding on Yahoo? IIRC, the big story was Microsoft bidding on Yahoo!... Of course, I'm surprised we didn't hear about Microsoft's competing bid for Yahoo, but I suppose that the obscurity of the latter could very well be the reason for that.
I'm not an expert by any means, but I would say that the vast distances between objects in space would pretty much preclude the possibility of this occurring. But, as I said, I'm not an expert.
...the average person will see this, think "Oh, well, it's a nuclear safety officer making these claims", and completely buy the entire swath of drivel.
Come on, people, it's only quantum mechanics, it's not that hard!
...got passed, I would move to Canada, I'm sorry. Or vote for Ron Paul, which I would not normally do. I have strange fiscal ideas.
Yes, I am aware that the last sentence was somewhat tangent.
Eh, when the people of 20,000,008 AD are reading through the Slashdot archives, and come across this item, I'm sure they'll travel back in time to retrieve you.
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Compare these films to ones such as Blade Runner, which is undoubtedly one of the best movies I have ever seen. Although similarly violent, one is actually intellectually gratifying, and has none of the inane bias against robots evident in the Terminator films and their ilk.
Today, my father, knowing my unequivocally positive position on robot rights, claimed that there was a scene in Terminator Salvation in which a group of activists is protesting on behalf of this cause, and are then ironically killed by a Terminator. I was utterly convinced, because it seemed utterly plausible.
I must wonder what we can deduce about our societies relationship with the idea of non-human, but conscious, beings (particularly non-organic conscious computers) from our apparent acceptance of mindlessly anti-robot media like the Terminator series.
Wouldn't it be two inches cubed?
It would be difficult to go wrong like that. Also, sealed, kept away from light, and kept cool, CDs should last for quite a while, if I understand correctly, which I may not.
Also, I liked the suggestion of including a Mac Mini. :)
But, but... isn't that what Linux is for?
Did I just find a typo that wasn't there?
Well, losing credibility generally implies that it was present in the first place, so...
So why do we care that this MIcrosoft was bidding on Yahoo? IIRC, the big story was Microsoft bidding on Yahoo!... Of course, I'm surprised we didn't hear about Microsoft's competing bid for Yahoo, but I suppose that the obscurity of the latter could very well be the reason for that.
"...black holes are not physically possible." Bwuh?
Ah, but how do we know that it isn't classified, and that the information that it is classified is classified itself?
I'm not an expert by any means, but I would say that the vast distances between objects in space would pretty much preclude the possibility of this occurring. But, as I said, I'm not an expert.
...the average person will see this, think "Oh, well, it's a nuclear safety officer making these claims", and completely buy the entire swath of drivel. Come on, people, it's only quantum mechanics, it's not that hard!
That's actually an interesting subset of that topology problem... which I totally forget the name of.
Why won't they learn? It's not that difficult a concept.
...got passed, I would move to Canada, I'm sorry. Or vote for Ron Paul, which I would not normally do. I have strange fiscal ideas. Yes, I am aware that the last sentence was somewhat tangent.
If I had any moderation points left, I would have used them here. Sadly, I don't, so I didn't.
By not subscribing to Young Earth Creationism?
Eh, when the people of 20,000,008 AD are reading through the Slashdot archives, and come across this item, I'm sure they'll travel back in time to retrieve you.