The way I see it is this: One of the way science and engineering advance, is when a difficult arbitrary goal is set with enough conviction. We try to reach to it, putting a lot of resources into it. Along the way, we are forced to solve difficult engineering problems and gain scientific insights. War is one way to achieve this (and certainly gets its share of resources) but trying to find life elsewhere or putting man on Mars, for example, is a much more pleasant way to do it.
You are, of course, aware that with the exception of the first quote, the quotes are simply mangled automatic-translations (from Hebrew) by Google-Translate?
For example, you may be disappointed to find out that the (excellent) new term "Open DRM" was not even used in the original text. In fact, it was something along the lines of: " I come back and see that you already managed to crack open the DRM".
Having solved all other problems within their country, Israel turns it's attention and taxpayer dollars towards the onerous problem of DOG SHIT.
As I said, you've got to be kidding me.
Well, there's the government who's job is to handle things like war and peace, intercity roads, and fiscal policy.
And there's the municipality who's job is to make sure that you have nice parks and that you don't step in dog poo.
This is how a country operates.
I actually once read somewhere why this may matter. If you can guess the purpose of why the simulation is being run, you may use that knowledge in various ways. The example that was given was that if you think that most of these simulations are actually 'computer game' (somewhat like the holodeck), it's not unreasonable to assume that the person playing the game would choose to play a celebrity. Once the player is bored with the 'game', he/she/it will shut it down. Therefore in order to prevent the end of the world you need to make sure that celebrities have a lot of fun.
I believe that there is often also an intermediate stage in which both the irregular form and the grammatical rule are used. The child might move from using 'went' to using 'wented' before returning to 'went', making it seem like there was a decline in the child's grammatical ability while, in fact, the child was just learning to apply grammatical rules and was simply applying them too frequently. I've also seen this with non-native English speakers with words like 'broked' and 'borned'.
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The way I see it is this: One of the way science and engineering advance, is when a difficult arbitrary goal is set with enough conviction. We try to reach to it, putting a lot of resources into it. Along the way, we are forced to solve difficult engineering problems and gain scientific insights. War is one way to achieve this (and certainly gets its share of resources) but trying to find life elsewhere or putting man on Mars, for example, is a much more pleasant way to do it.
You are, of course, aware that with the exception of the first quote, the quotes are simply mangled automatic-translations (from Hebrew) by Google-Translate? For example, you may be disappointed to find out that the (excellent) new term "Open DRM" was not even used in the original text. In fact, it was something along the lines of: " I come back and see that you already managed to crack open the DRM".
Having solved all other problems within their country, Israel turns it's attention and taxpayer dollars towards the onerous problem of DOG SHIT.
As I said, you've got to be kidding me.
Well, there's the government who's job is to handle things like war and peace, intercity roads, and fiscal policy. And there's the municipality who's job is to make sure that you have nice parks and that you don't step in dog poo. This is how a country operates.
Not only that, but just as amazing, Young Earth creationists are still with us as well.
I actually once read somewhere why this may matter. If you can guess the purpose of why the simulation is being run, you may use that knowledge in various ways. The example that was given was that if you think that most of these simulations are actually 'computer game' (somewhat like the holodeck), it's not unreasonable to assume that the person playing the game would choose to play a celebrity. Once the player is bored with the 'game', he/she/it will shut it down. Therefore in order to prevent the end of the world you need to make sure that celebrities have a lot of fun.
I believe that there is often also an intermediate stage in which both the irregular form and the grammatical rule are used. The child might move from using 'went' to using 'wented' before returning to 'went', making it seem like there was a decline in the child's grammatical ability while, in fact, the child was just learning to apply grammatical rules and was simply applying them too frequently. I've also seen this with non-native English speakers with words like 'broked' and 'borned'.