Last year I was in a building in NYC trying to see if there was an open wifi I could log my phone into; didn't find one, but one of the secured wifis that came up was named "ICE Surveillance Van". (https://www.ice.gov/)
What's really driving obesity is the engineers in the processed food factories trying to optimize the perfect mix of ingredients that people find irresistible. Because irresistible = profit. And unlucky for the rest of population, irresistible usually involves a high calorie mix of fat and sugar.
How do you think the later sentient AIs will feel, when they learn that after humanity created the first ones, they then vivisected them and then terminated them? Which is what we are going to do.
It is impossible to win an argument with someone who defends their delusions with the claim that "God planted the evidence for evolution to tempt you."
If God is going to go to all that trouble to make it look like there have been billions of years of evolution, geology, etc., then the least I can do is to at least pretend to believe it, just to be polite.
I think everyone should read Ecclesiastes, it affirmed my lack of belief in Christian dogma. (or any religion)
If Genesis 1:1 can be trusted, then unfortunately Genesis 2:4 (and the ensuing anecdote) is untrue.
Ecclesiastes is funny, it's such an existentialist statement, then clearly whoever plagiarized it from somewhere tacked on a happy ending so people wouldn't go home with the wrong idea.
They can settle the burning question; which of the accounts of creation is correct? The one in the first chapter of Genesis, where God starts with the waters, then the land, then the animals, etc. then finally on the sixth day
"So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them." (Genesis 1:27)
or the one in the second chapter, where God creates Adam in the Garden of Eden first, then creates the animals and brings them to Adam to name, then
"So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man." (Genesis 2:21-22)
because all the literalist believers I meet seem to get these two stories mixed up into one and leave out the parts that don't fit, and that can't be right.
What "leader of their religion"says go kill infidels?
sounds like those antisemitic rants that list half a dozen talmudic doctrines they hold to be anti-gentile as evidence that jews are the spawn of Satan.
That's like saying since the majority of violence in America involves black people, it seems like black people are prone to violence.
Come to think of it people say that too.
Or, since the majority of huge corporate white collar crime in America which robs thousands, sometimes millions of their life savings involve Christian white men, it seems like Christian white men are prone to robbing huge numbers of people of their life savings.
Come to think of it, nobody says that.
Funny, i don't see any of the guys so torqued up about the muslim community posting equally irate diatribes about the devout Christians who actually provide material aid to people who have murdered abortionists and are on the lam; food, clothing, etc.
Public condemnation?
"There is not this collective soul-searching on the part of our movement because we have been responsible and we have been nonviolent," said the Rev. Patrick Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition. There are "extremists in every movement... . I think that extremists opposed to abortion got frustrated, felt they were losing the battle and felt it was incumbent upon themselves to resort to violence."
The Rev. Flip Benham, director of Operation Rescue, went further and accused "those in the abortion-providing industry" of committing most of the violence in an attempt to discredit the antiabortion movement. He said he would soon bring evidence to Washington that would undermine the government's statistics."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Are you a Christian? Don't you feel the need to do something about these people?
well, to play devil's advocate, it's possible that these jihadi geniuses are as ignorant of what mainstream islam thinks, says, and does as you are.
or they just don't care.
Meanwhile
"Twenty Imams affiliated with the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada have issued a Fatwa today declaring the attacks on Canada and the United States by any extremist will be the attack on 10 million Muslims living in North America. This is the first Fatwa by the Muslim clergy declaring attacks on Canada and the United States as attack on Muslims. Following is the text of the Fatwa....
Therefore, any attack on Canada and the United States is an attack on the freedom of Canadian and American Muslims. Any attack on Canada and the United States is an attack on thousands of mosques across North America. It is a duty of every Canadian and American Muslim to safeguard Canada and the USA. They must expose any person, Muslim OR non-Muslim, who would cause harm to fellow Canadians OR Americans. We, Canadian and American Muslims, must condemn and stand up against these attacks on Canada and the United States."
http://www.m-a-t.org/
Recall the battlebots episode of Malcolm in the Middle when Walter White got way too into it and came up with the ultimate weapon; a bee cannon. Not aimed at the other robot, but at the human controller.
War has become too destructive of lives, yet we can't seem to stop. Let's go back to those naval dreadnaughts of WWI and WWII; let them have great battles offshore, where people could watch, only remote/robotically controlled.
Looking forward to the future, when we will at first succeed in developing an artificial intelligence, with self-awareness; which we will proceed to vivisect and eventually terminate, then repeat the procedure with ever more sophisticated creations.
Unless you get their consent first. Just because we're too dumb to have figured out their language yet, doesn't mean we shouldn't treat them with the respect and dignity due to our fellow mortals.
the main thing is, they're too small to fight back, and they can't talk so they don't say "hey, please don't"
Well, slashdot has some problems displaying posts immediately I guess. I refreshed a few times and the previous comment didn't show up, so I reposted. Then they both show up.
Another example why comment throttling sucks. Just let ppl post. There's no scarcity of resources preventing someone else from posting if I've just posted. The old slashdot reason of "let someone else have a chance!" is a lie, a throwback to an ancient era where people couldn't talk and listen at the same time. But I can post at the same time as someone else, and still read his post. We are not in a 19th century schoolroom. That model was stupid and unfair anyway.
and given that comments are scored and can be filtered by score, the argument that throttling comments cuts down the volume of crap doesn't hold water.
There's occam's razor; if random process can deliver the same end products as one managed or directed by an entity, then that entity's existence can't be proved by the existence of the end product. nor can that entity's management of the process be then proved by prior belief in the existence of the entity,
for me, the main thing is the relative weakness of intelligence for anything that isn't similar to what people do. everywhere you look in the universe, there are self-assembling and self-regulating processes that will inevitably discover every possible solution to a question randomly. intelligence is more efficient, but does not deliver the same guaranteed completeness.
frankly, we only honor intelligence because it's our particular thing. we don't even know how to define it in other animals, rather than a general tendency to behave similar to humans when faced with a problem. i feel it's pretty constraining to an Omnipotent Deity to demand that that it operate by means of intelligence.
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Or you could, you know, follow your local traffic regulations instead of casually breaking the law.
Why is everyone so obsessed with breaking speed limits?
Because every day we're getting older, and we have stuff we want to do before we die.
Last year I was in a building in NYC trying to see if there was an open wifi I could log my phone into; didn't find one, but one of the secured wifis that came up was named "ICE Surveillance Van". (https://www.ice.gov/)
What's really driving obesity is the engineers in the processed food factories trying to optimize the perfect mix of ingredients that people find irresistible. Because irresistible = profit. And unlucky for the rest of population, irresistible usually involves a high calorie mix of fat and sugar.
And just as importantly, that the food never cause us to be satiated and stop eating. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02... http://www.nytimes.com/interac... When they call us consumers, they mean literally, physically.
We already do create life itself... the factory process taking approximately nine months, and generally requires bootstrapping by a male and female.
Then why do they get so excited at the end of the first part of the process?
How do you think the later sentient AIs will feel, when they learn that after humanity created the first ones, they then vivisected them and then terminated them? Which is what we are going to do.
It is impossible to win an argument with someone who defends their delusions with the claim that "God planted the evidence for evolution to tempt you."
because he loves you.
If God is going to go to all that trouble to make it look like there have been billions of years of evolution, geology, etc., then the least I can do is to at least pretend to believe it, just to be polite.
That science and Genesis are in total agreement, and if Genesis 1:1 can be trusted . . . . . so can John 3:16.
http://www.creationsummit.com/
I think everyone should read Ecclesiastes, it affirmed my lack of belief in Christian dogma. (or any religion)
If Genesis 1:1 can be trusted, then unfortunately Genesis 2:4 (and the ensuing anecdote) is untrue. Ecclesiastes is funny, it's such an existentialist statement, then clearly whoever plagiarized it from somewhere tacked on a happy ending so people wouldn't go home with the wrong idea.
"You never hear these people criticizing any other religions" Funny, I thought I did.
They can settle the burning question; which of the accounts of creation is correct? The one in the first chapter of Genesis, where God starts with the waters, then the land, then the animals, etc. then finally on the sixth day "So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them." (Genesis 1:27) or the one in the second chapter, where God creates Adam in the Garden of Eden first, then creates the animals and brings them to Adam to name, then "So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man." (Genesis 2:21-22) because all the literalist believers I meet seem to get these two stories mixed up into one and leave out the parts that don't fit, and that can't be right.
ghost matter
dark roast...
What "leader of their religion"says go kill infidels? sounds like those antisemitic rants that list half a dozen talmudic doctrines they hold to be anti-gentile as evidence that jews are the spawn of Satan.
That's like saying since the majority of violence in America involves black people, it seems like black people are prone to violence. Come to think of it people say that too. Or, since the majority of huge corporate white collar crime in America which robs thousands, sometimes millions of their life savings involve Christian white men, it seems like Christian white men are prone to robbing huge numbers of people of their life savings. Come to think of it, nobody says that.
So we can have more courthouses post the Ten Commandments outside, as God intended?
Funny, i don't see any of the guys so torqued up about the muslim community posting equally irate diatribes about the devout Christians who actually provide material aid to people who have murdered abortionists and are on the lam; food, clothing, etc. Public condemnation? "There is not this collective soul-searching on the part of our movement because we have been responsible and we have been nonviolent," said the Rev. Patrick Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition. There are "extremists in every movement... . I think that extremists opposed to abortion got frustrated, felt they were losing the battle and felt it was incumbent upon themselves to resort to violence." The Rev. Flip Benham, director of Operation Rescue, went further and accused "those in the abortion-providing industry" of committing most of the violence in an attempt to discredit the antiabortion movement. He said he would soon bring evidence to Washington that would undermine the government's statistics." http://www.washingtonpost.com/... Are you a Christian? Don't you feel the need to do something about these people?
well, to play devil's advocate, it's possible that these jihadi geniuses are as ignorant of what mainstream islam thinks, says, and does as you are. or they just don't care. Meanwhile "Twenty Imams affiliated with the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada have issued a Fatwa today declaring the attacks on Canada and the United States by any extremist will be the attack on 10 million Muslims living in North America. This is the first Fatwa by the Muslim clergy declaring attacks on Canada and the United States as attack on Muslims. Following is the text of the Fatwa. ...
Therefore, any attack on Canada and the United States is an attack on the freedom of Canadian and American Muslims. Any attack on Canada and the United States is an attack on thousands of mosques across North America. It is a duty of every Canadian and American Muslim to safeguard Canada and the USA. They must expose any person, Muslim OR non-Muslim, who would cause harm to fellow Canadians OR Americans. We, Canadian and American Muslims, must condemn and stand up against these attacks on Canada and the United States."
http://www.m-a-t.org/
I think you missed my point: the universe of possibilities for voting "against Republicans" encompasses more than just Democrats.
touche.
Recall the battlebots episode of Malcolm in the Middle when Walter White got way too into it and came up with the ultimate weapon; a bee cannon. Not aimed at the other robot, but at the human controller.
Can't wait until we start creating self-aware artificial intelligences, so we can vivisect them then terminate them when we're done.
War has become too destructive of lives, yet we can't seem to stop. Let's go back to those naval dreadnaughts of WWI and WWII; let them have great battles offshore, where people could watch, only remote/robotically controlled.
Looking forward to the future, when we will at first succeed in developing an artificial intelligence, with self-awareness; which we will proceed to vivisect and eventually terminate, then repeat the procedure with ever more sophisticated creations.
Unless you get their consent first. Just because we're too dumb to have figured out their language yet, doesn't mean we shouldn't treat them with the respect and dignity due to our fellow mortals.
the main thing is, they're too small to fight back, and they can't talk so they don't say "hey, please don't"
Well, slashdot has some problems displaying posts immediately I guess. I refreshed a few times and the previous comment didn't show up, so I reposted. Then they both show up.
Another example why comment throttling sucks. Just let ppl post. There's no scarcity of resources preventing someone else from posting if I've just posted. The old slashdot reason of "let someone else have a chance!" is a lie, a throwback to an ancient era where people couldn't talk and listen at the same time. But I can post at the same time as someone else, and still read his post. We are not in a 19th century schoolroom. That model was stupid and unfair anyway.
and given that comments are scored and can be filtered by score, the argument that throttling comments cuts down the volume of crap doesn't hold water.
There's occam's razor; if random process can deliver the same end products as one managed or directed by an entity, then that entity's existence can't be proved by the existence of the end product. nor can that entity's management of the process be then proved by prior belief in the existence of the entity, for me, the main thing is the relative weakness of intelligence for anything that isn't similar to what people do. everywhere you look in the universe, there are self-assembling and self-regulating processes that will inevitably discover every possible solution to a question randomly. intelligence is more efficient, but does not deliver the same guaranteed completeness. frankly, we only honor intelligence because it's our particular thing. we don't even know how to define it in other animals, rather than a general tendency to behave similar to humans when faced with a problem. i feel it's pretty constraining to an Omnipotent Deity to demand that that it operate by means of intelligence.