And before you cite 1918 (as is ALWAYS cited in these pandemic scares), spare me. This isn't an era of shitty sanitation, poor understanding of viruses, awful medical treatment, and scores of people living in overcrowded tenements with no sewers and in crowded WWI-era military encampments.
Yeah, because I know when the regular seasonal flu comes around no one ever gets it. Never spreads at all.
Come on man. There's not some magical technology field that prevents diseases from spreading. Noravirus can spread to 100 people before the first carrier even knows their sick (my sister's wedding ended up with virtually every guest spending the next day in the bathroom). Schools regularly close down when the flu gets out of hand (twice when I was in high school when more than 50% of the student body was out sick). But hey, we've got sanitation and better hospitals, so I'm sure we can just ignore outbreaks and they'll take care of themselves.
Here's the thing. It takes one guy, anywhere in the world, to break DRM and post it somewhere. Does your DRM eventually decode to a format that a human being can see and hear? Then it will be broken. Someone will use audio/video capture devices if nothing else and all you've done is piss a bunch of people off. DRM for movies and music is fundamentally broken because at some point you've got to end up outputting all the information to the user (at least with SW it is theoretically possible to prevent unauthorized access).
The problem is that alcohol causes you to lose the capacity for rational thought while intoxicated and directly cause you to do things that you would probably never do sober. Things like rape and murder people. Additionally alcohol costs money. Alcoholics generally have a difficult time finding employment thanks to showing up drunk to work.
Quantum fluctuations are energy neutral, they don't require there to be existing energy to create, at least not beyond the vacuum energy. Of course, then the argument becomes where did the vacuum come from? Where did the laws of physics come from? But what Hawking is saying is that given an empty universe, the laws of physics, and lots and lots and lots of time (though in an empty universe time is pretty meaningless) quantum fluctuations will eventually produce a full universe.
Yeah, but the difference is, if something breaks, you can fix it.
Alternatively, if something breaks in Google's servers, it gets immediate attention by people who know a hell of a lot more than I do about maintaining a server. And things are multiply redundant, making something breaking comparatively unlikely.
There are other possible ways to explain the effects than dark matter. The evidence has slowly been building that dark matter is the best explanation, but at one point modifications to our understanding of gravity was also considered. This data adds another piece of evidence that there is mass floating out there that we don't understand, as opposed to there being a term missing from our equations. More interesting, since we've been pretty sure dark matter is the answer for a while now, if they know the energies of these electrons and positrons, we can start to narrow down exactly what kinds of particles actually make up dark matter
The good people at Boeing or Airbus would do unspeakable things if you could convince them you can lower one of their planes weight by 15% without affecting performance. They would hire you at a half million a year for 5% and six figures for 1%. Even a small weight reduction saves the operators millions. There is a reason so many airlines have started to rip out the 1' diameter bundle of comm lines and replace them with Ethernet connections, despite the increased complexity and engineering time.
And all that completely ignores the fact that this airline is talking about 9 passenger prop planes, in a country where 91% of adults are obese.
The planes they are flying are 9 passenger prop planes, and the country they are flying in is one with obesity rates in the 90+% range. It's entirely possible that they rarely have 9 passengers because of weight restrictions.
To be fair, if you are a very large business it's unlikely that your product will be used for primarily illegal activities; there simply aren't enough real criminals to make a questionably legal product profitable on a large scale. The only exception might be software...
People use meth because it is cheap, only the very very stupid don't realize the nasty effects that it has. If drugs like pot, MDMA, and other relatively harmless drugs were legally (and therefore cheaply) available meth use will plummet.
Ugh, the rapist and atheist being equally distrusted isn't an accurate interpretation there. They asked people if their parked car had a hit and run happen to it, which of the following would the runner most likely be: christian, Islamic, rapist, or atheist. There are are a lot more atheists than rapists probably a lot more atheists than Muslims in the US... people know this at a very basic level, it's going to affect how they answer a question like that.
The problem isn't laser lights. The problem is asshats putting people's lives at risk. Safety devices might prevent disaster, but it doesn't address the problem.
I bet if the brain scan identified people with pedophilia people would. We've already established that we're (as a society) ok with locking up people who think about children that way, even if they've never touched a child in their lives.
Every predomently atheist society has the same rules, even those rare cultures that have no concept of religion. You're trying to argue that religion and morality are the same thing, which they need not be. It's true to a certain extent, most religions codify those morals, but then again, so do most governments.
The fundamental difference between belief in science and belief in religion:
Lets say somehow the world's scientific knowledge was lost; completely wiped off the face of the world. After the inevitable chaos, death, and destruction from the lack of food, water, medical care, power generation, etc, etc, the world would get going on science again eventually. And after a few thousand years, the body of knowledge would be fundamentally the same as what it is now. There will, doubtless, be areas that are well advanced compared to what we know now, there will also be areas that are seriously degraded compared to what we have now. But the same fundamental truths would be known.
Now lets say somehow the worlds religious knowledge was lost; completely wiped off the face of the world. You'd have a few weeks of peace as several groups forget just what it is that they've been fighting about all these centuries (or more likely, the people in power would simply find a new thing to fight about because once you've been fighting for centuries it isn't easy to stop). Then I suspect that you'd have a long period of turmoil as a few million cults spring up, combine, fight, schism, and reform. And at the end, you'll have a religious landscape that is fundamentally different from what exists today. How do I know that? Because different cultures around the world have fundementally different religious beliefs. Even if you gave everyone a copy of the Bible, in a century you'd have 100 different translations and 50 different sects and I know that because, again, history shows it to be true.
First, even a few hours in small claims court is going to cost me more in lost wages (or vacation time) than the game costs, it would be a purely symbolic gesture. Second, most consumers are not aware of or are not willing to explore that option. Third, and most importantly, they shouldn't have to. Consumer protection laws that make sense would make this process exceedingly easy: take it back to the point of sale and say "this doesn't work as advertised", that is all that should be required to get your refund.
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And before you cite 1918 (as is ALWAYS cited in these pandemic scares), spare me. This isn't an era of shitty sanitation, poor understanding of viruses, awful medical treatment, and scores of people living in overcrowded tenements with no sewers and in crowded WWI-era military encampments.
Yeah, because I know when the regular seasonal flu comes around no one ever gets it. Never spreads at all.
Come on man. There's not some magical technology field that prevents diseases from spreading. Noravirus can spread to 100 people before the first carrier even knows their sick (my sister's wedding ended up with virtually every guest spending the next day in the bathroom). Schools regularly close down when the flu gets out of hand (twice when I was in high school when more than 50% of the student body was out sick). But hey, we've got sanitation and better hospitals, so I'm sure we can just ignore outbreaks and they'll take care of themselves.
Here's the thing. It takes one guy, anywhere in the world, to break DRM and post it somewhere. Does your DRM eventually decode to a format that a human being can see and hear? Then it will be broken. Someone will use audio/video capture devices if nothing else and all you've done is piss a bunch of people off. DRM for movies and music is fundamentally broken because at some point you've got to end up outputting all the information to the user (at least with SW it is theoretically possible to prevent unauthorized access).
Because freedom of movement is a basic human right. Seriously?
The active pursuit of risk of pain and discomfort.
Well, you can disable Google saving your search at all... so there is that.
The problem is that alcohol causes you to lose the capacity for rational thought while intoxicated and directly cause you to do things that you would probably never do sober. Things like rape and murder people. Additionally alcohol costs money. Alcoholics generally have a difficult time finding employment thanks to showing up drunk to work.
My wife has around 170 first cousins, plus god only knows how many second cousins and first cousins once removed. Sometimes families get big.
Quantum fluctuations are energy neutral, they don't require there to be existing energy to create, at least not beyond the vacuum energy. Of course, then the argument becomes where did the vacuum come from? Where did the laws of physics come from? But what Hawking is saying is that given an empty universe, the laws of physics, and lots and lots and lots of time (though in an empty universe time is pretty meaningless) quantum fluctuations will eventually produce a full universe.
Yeah, but the difference is, if something breaks, you can fix it.
Alternatively, if something breaks in Google's servers, it gets immediate attention by people who know a hell of a lot more than I do about maintaining a server. And things are multiply redundant, making something breaking comparatively unlikely.
There are other possible ways to explain the effects than dark matter. The evidence has slowly been building that dark matter is the best explanation, but at one point modifications to our understanding of gravity was also considered. This data adds another piece of evidence that there is mass floating out there that we don't understand, as opposed to there being a term missing from our equations. More interesting, since we've been pretty sure dark matter is the answer for a while now, if they know the energies of these electrons and positrons, we can start to narrow down exactly what kinds of particles actually make up dark matter
The good people at Boeing or Airbus would do unspeakable things if you could convince them you can lower one of their planes weight by 15% without affecting performance. They would hire you at a half million a year for 5% and six figures for 1%. Even a small weight reduction saves the operators millions. There is a reason so many airlines have started to rip out the 1' diameter bundle of comm lines and replace them with Ethernet connections, despite the increased complexity and engineering time.
And all that completely ignores the fact that this airline is talking about 9 passenger prop planes, in a country where 91% of adults are obese.
The planes they are flying are 9 passenger prop planes, and the country they are flying in is one with obesity rates in the 90+% range. It's entirely possible that they rarely have 9 passengers because of weight restrictions.
Which does nothing to explain why the areas of the US with high population densities don't have high speed rail either.
To be fair, if you are a very large business it's unlikely that your product will be used for primarily illegal activities; there simply aren't enough real criminals to make a questionably legal product profitable on a large scale. The only exception might be software...
People use meth because it is cheap, only the very very stupid don't realize the nasty effects that it has. If drugs like pot, MDMA, and other relatively harmless drugs were legally (and therefore cheaply) available meth use will plummet.
Are you going to marry her? Have kids? If so, yeah, it's worth discussing. If not, just let it go.
Yes, unless GOOGs very high priced, very well connected lawyers manage to convince a judge that the promise shouldn't be admissible in court.
Ugh, the rapist and atheist being equally distrusted isn't an accurate interpretation there. They asked people if their parked car had a hit and run happen to it, which of the following would the runner most likely be: christian, Islamic, rapist, or atheist. There are are a lot more atheists than rapists probably a lot more atheists than Muslims in the US... people know this at a very basic level, it's going to affect how they answer a question like that.
The problem isn't laser lights. The problem is asshats putting people's lives at risk. Safety devices might prevent disaster, but it doesn't address the problem.
I bet if the brain scan identified people with pedophilia people would. We've already established that we're (as a society) ok with locking up people who think about children that way, even if they've never touched a child in their lives.
Heck, I'd just be happy if they revived Mirror's Edge...
Every predomently atheist society has the same rules, even those rare cultures that have no concept of religion. You're trying to argue that religion and morality are the same thing, which they need not be. It's true to a certain extent, most religions codify those morals, but then again, so do most governments.
The fundamental difference between belief in science and belief in religion:
Lets say somehow the world's scientific knowledge was lost; completely wiped off the face of the world. After the inevitable chaos, death, and destruction from the lack of food, water, medical care, power generation, etc, etc, the world would get going on science again eventually. And after a few thousand years, the body of knowledge would be fundamentally the same as what it is now. There will, doubtless, be areas that are well advanced compared to what we know now, there will also be areas that are seriously degraded compared to what we have now. But the same fundamental truths would be known.
Now lets say somehow the worlds religious knowledge was lost; completely wiped off the face of the world. You'd have a few weeks of peace as several groups forget just what it is that they've been fighting about all these centuries (or more likely, the people in power would simply find a new thing to fight about because once you've been fighting for centuries it isn't easy to stop). Then I suspect that you'd have a long period of turmoil as a few million cults spring up, combine, fight, schism, and reform. And at the end, you'll have a religious landscape that is fundamentally different from what exists today. How do I know that? Because different cultures around the world have fundementally different religious beliefs. Even if you gave everyone a copy of the Bible, in a century you'd have 100 different translations and 50 different sects and I know that because, again, history shows it to be true.
Yes, Google was clearly guilty of the crime of writing down what people are yelling into a bullhorn for all to hear.
First, even a few hours in small claims court is going to cost me more in lost wages (or vacation time) than the game costs, it would be a purely symbolic gesture. Second, most consumers are not aware of or are not willing to explore that option. Third, and most importantly, they shouldn't have to. Consumer protection laws that make sense would make this process exceedingly easy: take it back to the point of sale and say "this doesn't work as advertised", that is all that should be required to get your refund.