Which implies that all roads would constantly be congested the exact same amount, relative to their size???
Because, you know, I have been to the real world. And there is this funny thing there where road congestion actually appears to have something to do with demand for travel between two points. And there are roads both huge and small that have no congestions problems at all. And single lane roads where traffic if backed up straight through two intersections.
That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. First off the road is not free. It already costs loads of money to maintain cars, insurance, and gas, and you pay for the road in your taxes. That is like saying the solution to house hold fires is to make people pay x thousand dollars before the firemen turn on the hoses. People do not want to commute in the first place, and they already shelled out the cash to buy those roads/firetrucks.
Preventing people from travelling/taxing it beyond reason is only something you would want to do if you wanted to stifle the economy.
There is not a infinite demand for roads. There are a finite number of people trying to go to a finite number of places. And all of them are either going somewhere to make money or to spend it. The only correct way to plan a cities transit system is to provide enough transit to accommodate all of these trips.
What type of matter most of the universe is made of? Past this particular gravity well of our sun, how do we tell that the rest of the planets and stars are not anti-matter planets and anti-matter stars?
Yes but the Listeria kills in a week and in severe cases has a 25% fatality rate.
Pancreatic cancer also has a high mortality rate, but you will not be killed overnight with it.
If yo had both, doctors could and would ignore the cancer which has a decent chance of killing you in a few months or years time, and focus on the Listeria, which has a decent chance of killing you in the next 8 hours.
And we have yet to spread our species to any other planetary bodies, while bacteria getting to earth either from Mars or other asteroids, is a reasonable theory.
We do not make particularly harmoniously and effective societies, and relative to our size our building endeavours are rather unimpressive. And relative to any size, our buildings are incredibly uncomfortable and inefficient.
"So it isn't surprising if we want to find intelligent life outside of earth, then we need to change the rules again"
I think you are underestimating the human ability to deny facts that are staring them in the face. We did not need to redefine intelligence when we learned that tool use is rather common. Or that a.5 pound bird might be better at mathematics than a college student.
" few exceptions like tortoises" More like 50% exceptions if you ignore bacteria which I assume make up 99% of all life.
And I do not know about more of your other sentences. There are lots of things that animals can do that no amount of machines have since let us do. For example, their is no machine yet built, that can, with or without a human occupant, can stamper up a tree and jump for branch to branch. Hell, we can hardly make a machine that can walk, or even operate on anything other than a road or floor (with wheels, legs, tentacles, jetpacks, or any other mode of transportation).
We have no flying devises that can span the Atlantic ocean on 5 calories of energy, nor any that can survive indefinably at teh deepest depths of the sea.
Well I doubt this is some scientist coming up with theories based on what he thinks it might be like in other universes. This is just some person trying to get another paper published and hoping no one calls him on his crap.
Or course you need a hell of a lot of entropy for life and even more for thought. A homogeneous plane is not a place were life would start, nor is it a place were intelligence would be useful.
And it is really strange when we starts talking about: "The findings describe a mathematical relationship that can "spontaneously induce remarkably sophisticated behaviours associated with the human 'cognitive niche,' including tool use and social cooperation, in simple physical systems,"" When everyone and their mother uses tools and cooperates socially.
This paper seems to hope that no one reads it with a knowledge of animal intelligence more recent than 50 years ago.
It is the correct response. insightful sarcasm aimed at this "scientist's" complete lack of any supporting evidence. because, of course, we have not discovered one, let alone the many, intelligence species in other universes. We do not even know if any other universes ever existed or ever will.
What! That is even more obviously stupid than what Wilson is saying.
A computer with R does not instantly make a incompetent idiot a scientist. Without a indepth and very good background in statistics: You cannot conduct proper experiments. You cannot properly program R. You cannot understand the results output by R.
Basically without a full understanding of Math and statistics all R lets you do is put your garage data thought garbage but impressive and complex looking algorithms and make it look pretty. Considering the number of garbage papers out there, and people who bull shit themselves though their jobs it might be enough to make you a success, but none of it will be scientifically valid.
"1st, they're going away from all of the Expanded Universe."
It was the right decision. Disney is obviously not going the same direction with the franchise as "Hand of Thrawn"; and the Sith vs Jedi will never be portrayed as not absolute good vs evil.
Disney saw how Star Wars would fit in their their brand with Jar Jar, and I guarantee you we will be seeing a lot more of him. And they will make far more money than if they produced anything close to what a fan would like or what would be considered good story telling.
I do not think you have very good examples. And lets call it what this is. They declared MARSHAL LAW. Instead of saying, stay in your homes or we will shoot you, they simply said, stay in your homes because if you don't we might accidentally shoot you.
How long until citywide curfews are common occurrence. When warrants are a thing of the past and police can bust down any door they like.
Depends on what you meant by "full scope of work". If you include secretaries, HR, ect I bet you would be right.
But primarily women are not drawn to engineering type jobs, and every single IT course in any technical college or university is filled with primarily men. Add to that the IQ difference that makes a 2:1 ratio of men to women who have high IQs and you get a natural situation where women are going to be a small minority.
One of his rules: "Don’t use identifying language that might unintentionally marginalize minority candidates such as “women engineers”—-they’re just “engineers.”" Which he then violates about 2 times for every single other rule, dozens more for the article, and again for his premise.
Sounds like just another, lets start taking gender into account when we are trying to fill a role, such that we get about a 50:50 ratio in our company.
Disproving God, since God is supposed to be omnibenevolent. And since you know exactly what is best for the entire universe, and what is actually happening, you know that God obviously cannot be benevolent; Therefore does not exist.
The entire point of a this type of desire if ads. When you pass a shop, or look at an item for sale is a store. You will get sale locations and prices, etc all. All this means is that ads will be a fundamental part of the device, and should not be adding in piecemeal by developers.
I guaranty you day one launch will filled with ads, portrayed as pertinent information.
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Which implies that all roads would constantly be congested the exact same amount, relative to their size???
Because, you know, I have been to the real world. And there is this funny thing there where road congestion actually appears to have something to do with demand for travel between two points. And there are roads both huge and small that have no congestions problems at all. And single lane roads where traffic if backed up straight through two intersections.
That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard.
First off the road is not free. It already costs loads of money to maintain cars, insurance, and gas, and you pay for the road in your taxes. That is like saying the solution to house hold fires is to make people pay x thousand dollars before the firemen turn on the hoses. People do not want to commute in the first place, and they already shelled out the cash to buy those roads/firetrucks.
Preventing people from travelling/taxing it beyond reason is only something you would want to do if you wanted to stifle the economy.
There is not a infinite demand for roads. There are a finite number of people trying to go to a finite number of places. And all of them are either going somewhere to make money or to spend it. The only correct way to plan a cities transit system is to provide enough transit to accommodate all of these trips.
But matter grouts together with indistinct borders that are not often crossed.
We are in the The Milky Way galaxy, it is probably fair to say that it is made of a vast majority of matter.
But how do well know that the Andromeda Galaxy is not made of a vast majority of antimatter.
What type of matter most of the universe is made of? Past this particular gravity well of our sun, how do we tell that the rest of the planets and stars are not anti-matter planets and anti-matter stars?
Yes but the Listeria kills in a week and in severe cases has a 25% fatality rate.
Pancreatic cancer also has a high mortality rate, but you will not be killed overnight with it.
If yo had both, doctors could and would ignore the cancer which has a decent chance of killing you in a few months or years time, and focus on the Listeria, which has a decent chance of killing you in the next 8 hours.
Seems like, to me, if those conditions existed then that would fit some reasonable definition of "another universe".
There are a lot of different ways to imagine different universes.
... our radiative bacteria controlled super mutant overloards.
A bacteria infection is a far more immediately lethal condition than cancer... And in some cases harder to treat.
But I imagine this particular type is less so in both cases.
And we have yet to spread our species to any other planetary bodies, while bacteria getting to earth either from Mars or other asteroids, is a reasonable theory.
We do not make particularly harmoniously and effective societies, and relative to our size our building endeavours are rather unimpressive. And relative to any size, our buildings are incredibly uncomfortable and inefficient.
"So it isn't surprising if we want to find intelligent life outside of earth, then we need to change the rules again"
I think you are underestimating the human ability to deny facts that are staring them in the face. We did not need to redefine intelligence when we learned that tool use is rather common. Or that a .5 pound bird might be better at mathematics than a college student.
" few exceptions like tortoises" More like 50% exceptions if you ignore bacteria which I assume make up 99% of all life.
And I do not know about more of your other sentences. There are lots of things that animals can do that no amount of machines have since let us do. For example, their is no machine yet built, that can, with or without a human occupant, can stamper up a tree and jump for branch to branch. Hell, we can hardly make a machine that can walk, or even operate on anything other than a road or floor (with wheels, legs, tentacles, jetpacks, or any other mode of transportation).
We have no flying devises that can span the Atlantic ocean on 5 calories of energy, nor any that can survive indefinably at teh deepest depths of the sea.
Well I doubt this is some scientist coming up with theories based on what he thinks it might be like in other universes. This is just some person trying to get another paper published and hoping no one calls him on his crap.
Or course you need a hell of a lot of entropy for life and even more for thought. A homogeneous plane is not a place were life would start, nor is it a place were intelligence would be useful.
And it is really strange when we starts talking about: "The findings describe a mathematical relationship that can "spontaneously induce remarkably sophisticated behaviours associated with the human 'cognitive niche,' including tool use and social cooperation, in simple physical systems,"" When everyone and their mother uses tools and cooperates socially.
This paper seems to hope that no one reads it with a knowledge of animal intelligence more recent than 50 years ago.
Why is this down modded?
It is the correct response. insightful sarcasm aimed at this "scientist's" complete lack of any supporting evidence. because, of course, we have not discovered one, let alone the many, intelligence species in other universes. We do not even know if any other universes ever existed or ever will.
What! That is even more obviously stupid than what Wilson is saying.
A computer with R does not instantly make a incompetent idiot a scientist. Without a indepth and very good background in statistics:
You cannot conduct proper experiments.
You cannot properly program R.
You cannot understand the results output by R.
Basically without a full understanding of Math and statistics all R lets you do is put your garage data thought garbage but impressive and complex looking algorithms and make it look pretty. Considering the number of garbage papers out there, and people who bull shit themselves though their jobs it might be enough to make you a success, but none of it will be scientifically valid.
Come up with some model of how you want it to work, then pay someone to try and make the math fit.
"1st, they're going away from all of the Expanded Universe."
It was the right decision. Disney is obviously not going the same direction with the franchise as "Hand of Thrawn"; and the Sith vs Jedi will never be portrayed as not absolute good vs evil.
Disney saw how Star Wars would fit in their their brand with Jar Jar, and I guarantee you we will be seeing a lot more of him. And they will make far more money than if they produced anything close to what a fan would like or what would be considered good story telling.
What does a software package that scores a game have to do with record keeping.
If you we were talking about record keeping we would be talking about storage, not software.
We are always going to need referees who know the rules of the game, so what purpose could this software ever serve?
I do not think you have very good examples. And lets call it what this is.
They declared MARSHAL LAW. Instead of saying, stay in your homes or we will shoot you, they simply said, stay in your homes because if you don't we might accidentally shoot you.
How long until citywide curfews are common occurrence. When warrants are a thing of the past and police can bust down any door they like.
Depends on what you meant by "full scope of work". If you include secretaries, HR, ect I bet you would be right.
But primarily women are not drawn to engineering type jobs, and every single IT course in any technical college or university is filled with primarily men. Add to that the IQ difference that makes a 2:1 ratio of men to women who have high IQs and you get a natural situation where women are going to be a small minority.
One of his rules: "Don’t use identifying language that might unintentionally marginalize minority candidates such as “women engineers”—-they’re just “engineers.”"
Which he then violates about 2 times for every single other rule, dozens more for the article, and again for his premise.
Sounds like just another, lets start taking gender into account when we are trying to fill a role, such that we get about a 50:50 ratio in our company.
And suggest that the explosion was likely caused by this aforementioned fire.
I hate this argument.
Disproving God, since God is supposed to be omnibenevolent. And since you know exactly what is best for the entire universe, and what is actually happening, you know that God obviously cannot be benevolent; Therefore does not exist.
You do not need a tin-foil hat for this.
The entire point of a this type of desire if ads. When you pass a shop, or look at an item for sale is a store. You will get sale locations and prices, etc all.
All this means is that ads will be a fundamental part of the device, and should not be adding in piecemeal by developers.
I guaranty you day one launch will filled with ads, portrayed as pertinent information.
Everyone is distantly related to everyone else....