"First Lady Nancy Reagan famously employed the services of an astrologer after the assassination attempt on her husband." and yet, the astrologer never told her that there were WMD in Iraq so we need to invade there, but not to worry it will be a smashing success, seed democracy in the Middle East, and leave us beloved of every Arab and/or Muslim on earth. She should have given the astrologer's phone number to Li'l Bush..
if astrology is the theory that the positions of the starts at your birth affect your life, then shouldn't geology be the theory that the positions of the rocks at your birth affect your life, and biology the theory that the positions of the living things at your birth affect your life?
The catch being that the scoring of whether there is interaction is done in your brain, which is halfway between the two events, and certainly small enough to allow for interactions between the perception of the one event and the perception of the other event. that would be one tricky universe though.
Interesting to ask people whether, if we could guarantee a person would never commit a crime again, they would still need to be punished. Lots of people say yes, but have trouble explaining why. They're too embarrassed to say they like the idea of revenge. On another note, C. S. Lewis points out in "That Hideous Strength", that when we set up punishment for crimes, the length of the sentence is specified; but if you repudiate this as primitive and barbaric and bring about new modern methods of rehabilitation, then you can keep the guy forever if he doesn't demonstrate proper rehabilitation.
Like the legal arguments which ensue on the occasional arrest of a mass shooter who does not die on the spot, as to whether he is insane or not. Oh, no, he shot up a dozen strangers and made no attempt to escape capture or death for good logical reasons.
don't worry, the second amendment will keep us all free. look how the armed citizens rose up and prevented the government from interning innocent Japanese-Americans in WWII. Or how they got together to chase the National Guard off the campuses in the 60s so that the shootings at Kent State and Jackson State didn't happen. oops, gotta go, i just got an email from Rand Paul telling me that Obama and the UN are going to take my guns. I'm not kidding, I really did just get that email.
the major fear infringing on people's freedom is fear of losing their job, losing their house, losing their medical insurance, losing their kids' tuition, and losing their retirement.
pretty much true for the old Audi sudden acceleration thing. but with drive by wire.... the onus is therefore on the manufacturer/programmer to demonstrate the impossibility of such behavior.
indeed. a safeguard for "sticky throttle in software" can't be impossible. I note that if you so much as tap on the brake pedal, the cruise control on every car lets go of the throttle. How hard can it be to do the same for drive by wire, so that if you tap on the brake, it let's the actual throttle actuator relax (i.e. shut?) regardless of the state of the throttle pedal to actuator software? Yeah, that'll make heel and toe impossible, but something tells me these vehicles are pretty much automatics.
if it were a liberal proposing the same bill, instead of trying to cripple the EPA it would be to require reproducible evidence that some other country was squirreling away WMD to use against us before we put the war we're already in on the back burner so we can go to war against this new country (and put it on our high interest credit card)
the people who deny global warming, evolution, etc all have plenty of science to trot out for you to defend their positions, they can't understand why you're ignoring it. you can't educate the crazy out of somebody.
Heck, I've been wondering for years where are all the corporate malware? I mean, back when MSWord was fighting of Word Perfect, for instance (kids, ask your parents) I would have bet that one side or the other would have issued some worn or virus or something that would have had some subtle effect like making the other product take an extra 20 seconds opening a file. I didn't think it would be management, mind you, but I can't believe that none of the programming nuts on either side went rogue. Not to mention any of the volunteer partisans out there in early netland.
And yet if your own brilliant self woke to find itself in sub-Saharan Africa, you'd probably be dead before 24 hours unless you could find one of these low IQ guys to save you. (48 hours if you had the all - important firearm)
Well that's the problem with "science" education in a lot of? most? schools is that science is not taught as a process or philosophy or means of discovery or anything like that, but just as a bunch of unrelated items to be memorized because "science says" they're true. "Everything is made of atoms which are made of electrons and protons. Science tells us that". Which I think is because the teachers don't have the understanding.
"If you call a dog's tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?" "4, because calling a dog's tail a leg doesn't make it one" Something else they apparently need to teach.
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"First Lady Nancy Reagan famously employed the services of an astrologer after the assassination attempt on her husband."
and yet, the astrologer never told her that there were WMD in Iraq so we need to invade there, but not to worry it will be a smashing success, seed democracy in the Middle East, and leave us beloved of every Arab and/or Muslim on earth.
She should have given the astrologer's phone number to Li'l Bush..
if astrology is the theory that the positions of the starts at your birth affect your life, then shouldn't geology be the theory that the positions of the rocks at your birth affect your life, and biology the theory that the positions of the living things at your birth affect your life?
The catch being that the scoring of whether there is interaction is done in your brain, which is halfway between the two events, and certainly small enough to allow for interactions between the perception of the one event and the perception of the other event.
that would be one tricky universe though.
Interesting to ask people whether, if we could guarantee a person would never commit a crime again, they would still need to be punished. Lots of people say yes, but have trouble explaining why. They're too embarrassed to say they like the idea of revenge.
On another note, C. S. Lewis points out in "That Hideous Strength", that when we set up punishment for crimes, the length of the sentence is specified; but if you repudiate this as primitive and barbaric and bring about new modern methods of rehabilitation, then you can keep the guy forever if he doesn't demonstrate proper rehabilitation.
Like the legal arguments which ensue on the occasional arrest of a mass shooter who does not die on the spot, as to whether he is insane or not. Oh, no, he shot up a dozen strangers and made no attempt to escape capture or death for good logical reasons.
Came to realize a while back, that we're all just teratomas on 30 foot long worms.
don't worry, the second amendment will keep us all free. look how the armed citizens rose up and prevented the government from interning innocent Japanese-Americans in WWII. Or how they got together to chase the National Guard off the campuses in the 60s so that the shootings at Kent State and Jackson State didn't happen.
oops, gotta go, i just got an email from Rand Paul telling me that Obama and the UN are going to take my guns. I'm not kidding, I really did just get that email.
the major fear infringing on people's freedom is fear of losing their job, losing their house, losing their medical insurance, losing their kids' tuition, and losing their retirement.
like god intended
pretty much true for the old Audi sudden acceleration thing. but with drive by wire.... the onus is therefore on the manufacturer/programmer to demonstrate the impossibility of such behavior.
indeed. a safeguard for "sticky throttle in software" can't be impossible. I note that if you so much as tap on the brake pedal, the cruise control on every car lets go of the throttle. How hard can it be to do the same for drive by wire, so that if you tap on the brake, it let's the actual throttle actuator relax (i.e. shut?) regardless of the state of the throttle pedal to actuator software? Yeah, that'll make heel and toe impossible, but something tells me these vehicles are pretty much automatics.
if it were a liberal proposing the same bill, instead of trying to cripple the EPA it would be to require reproducible evidence that some other country was squirreling away WMD to use against us before we put the war we're already in on the back burner so we can go to war against this new country (and put it on our high interest credit card)
the people who deny global warming, evolution, etc all have plenty of science to trot out for you to defend their positions, they can't understand why you're ignoring it.
you can't educate the crazy out of somebody.
since you can't reproduce speciation by evolution, that's out.
Otherwise the other guy would have finished it and they shouldn't be giving it to you.
all your life are belong to us.
Heck, I've been wondering for years where are all the corporate malware? I mean, back when MSWord was fighting of Word Perfect, for instance (kids, ask your parents) I would have bet that one side or the other would have issued some worn or virus or something that would have had some subtle effect like making the other product take an extra 20 seconds opening a file. I didn't think it would be management, mind you, but I can't believe that none of the programming nuts on either side went rogue. Not to mention any of the volunteer partisans out there in early netland.
If you've been high for six years no surprise you'd think AGW denialism makes sense.
And yet if your own brilliant self woke to find itself in sub-Saharan Africa, you'd probably be dead before 24 hours unless you could find one of these low IQ guys to save you. (48 hours if you had the all - important firearm)
I thought it was kind of funny. I've been known to joke that if you think Jews are white, you might not be a redneck.
The Jews and the Chinese; a couple of old - timers fondly regarding the antics of the youngsters.
Exactly. The same kind of thinking that is confused because the movie "Day of the Dead" didn't all take place in 24 hours.
Well that's the problem with "science" education in a lot of? most? schools is that science is not taught as a process or philosophy or means of discovery or anything like that, but just as a bunch of unrelated items to be memorized because "science says" they're true.
"Everything is made of atoms which are made of electrons and protons. Science tells us that".
Which I think is because the teachers don't have the understanding.
If you only know one language, then you don't really know that language. -Robert Heinlein.
"If you call a dog's tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?"
"4, because calling a dog's tail a leg doesn't make it one"
Something else they apparently need to teach.