People will take more guff from charismatic persons. The attractive are indirectly taught that they don't have to be as nice to other people, to be liked, as less attractive folk
No, they are taught that there are prejudiced people and start ignoring people like you.
Using the same armchair psychoanalysis, one could as well argue that women who are less physically attractive become envious and bitter. They are indirectly taught that it's no use being nice since they will always be less liked than more attractive folk.
The type of woman who has less sweetness and disposition and generosity is not a beautiful woman, it's a woman that makes an effort to become beautiful. That kind of person it could be argued that is egocentric and shallow, because she puts external appearance before other values.
Great-looking women are rarely great people on the inside though and the only teacher of that is experience
The act of classifying people by their appearance has a special name, it's called "racism".
According to my experience, looks have no correlation to character, however the plural of anecdote is not data, so YMMV.
It could well be that it's not that great-looking women are no good, it's you that don't treat them right.Perhaps you went after a number of great-looking women with just the intention of having sex with them and they treated you accordingly.
Q: What groups are "alive"? A: Those groups that Go masters agree are alive.
Q: Who is a Go master? A: People who know which groups are alive.
As I said, circular reasoning.
Assuming a set of rules that is unambiguous and algorithmic, then the problem of writing a perfect software for playing Go should be only a question of having enough machine power, just like for chess.
It's interesting that after machines started beating the top chess players they discovered some endings that were formerly thought to be draws that actually could be won if played perfectly, although it would take a large number of plays to win. I'm willing to bet that some day the same will be found to be true for Go.
"The difficulties Lehrer describes do not signal a failing of the scientific method, but a triumph: our knowledge is so good that new discoveries are increasingly hard to make, indicating that scientists really are converging on some objective truth."
In practice the problem you see (ambiguities in the endgame) are only really an issue for computer Go. Human players rarely disagree over when a game is "over", as typically the outcome becomes obvious long before each stone is played out to the absolute end.
How many times people have considered something "obvious" that later turns out to be wrong, when you analyze it to the absolute end? There seems to exist a consensus that some positions are better than others, but how do you know it unless you play it to the end?
I've never played go, but I often see comments on how difficult it seems to be to implement a good software to play go. Perhaps that's because go isn't really that well understood by humans either. When computers start playing go better than humans, some of these winning positions may not be so good after all.
Yes, for sure, government officials are much more likely to know what a balanced view is than us the common people. Thank God those poor Hungarians don't need to evaluate among different options at the newsstand, the Government has done that for them.
However, I pity those poor government censors who must look through all that pornography in order to censor it. Their brains will be fried in no time, as happens to everyone who sees pornographic text or images.
I have worked with geostationary satellite control for over twenty years, so I know a bit about this. The masses on the earth aren't distributed evenly, the higher density of the rock in some parts pull the satellite to the east or the west.
You are right in that the perturbation caused by the moon is several orders of magnitude larger than the one caused by this slight longitudinal asymmetry. It's only for satellites that are either in geostationary orbit or in 12 hour period orbits that this effect becomes significant.
For other orbits the pull in one direction is compensated by a pull in the opposite direction when the satellite comes around the earth. For geostationary orbits, however, the perturbation is always in the same direction, because the satellite is always in the same position with respect to the mass asymmetry, so the effect adds up in time.
Typically a geostationary satellite needs correcting East-West maneuvers every couple of weeks or so. These maneuvers consume about 10% of the total fuel budget for station keeping, inclination maneuvers consume the other 90%. This goes to show how stronger the perturbations caused by the sun, moon, and earth's ellipsoid shape, which cause the inclination of the orbit to increase, are compared to the triaxial density asymmetry.
As far as I know in Germany for example you are not allowed to publish porn on the net unless you make sure that people under 18 don't have access it. To confirm to this criteria it isn't enough to just add an agegate, but instead it requires things like sending credit card info
Hmmm, not quite. If you look closely at those sites that require your credit card info you'll see they have ulterior motives.
In the same page that says "this site is entirely FREE, we only need your credit card number to make sure you are over the age of 18" if you scroll all the way down you'll see in small letters "this site is free for three days, after that your credit card will be billed at the rate of $18 / month" or something like that.
No one asks for you credit card number unless they are intending to charge you.
Except for two stable points at 75 and 255 degrees east longitude, any geostationary satellite suffers an East-West (or West-East) perturbation due to the earth not being a perfect sphere. This is called "triaxiality" by experts in the field.
The result is that without correcting maneuvers the satellite longitudinal position oscillates around those two stable points, even if the orbit is exactly at the geostationary altitude.
I would think it would take a great amount of effort and persons to keep track of someone.
To keep track of someone at all times, yes. But they don't need to keep track of him at all times to completely fuck up his life.
For me, being included in the "no fly" list would be much worse than having someone following me everywhere. My life is an open book, I have no secrets to hide, but I do need to take a plane from time to time.
Or just picking strawberries when the crops are ripe for two weeks and it's just too fu*cking hot for humans to go out and pick them for 18 hours a day.
Or a million other things. But not playing a musical instrument. We already have Robert Fripp; we don't need a another robotic guitar player.
There are millions of people who were born and raised in tropical lands who would be glad to work in hot weather picking strawberries if they could, we don't need another robotic fruit picker.
The future is coming, many people will be left behind. The robotic guitar player may not be much today, but neither is the robotic fruit picker. We will one day machines that will pick only fruit that's exactly ripe, same as we will have robots that play guitar better than any human could.
The title should read "battery powered buses" instead, but thet's not a great advantage for a bus. A vehicle that always runs through the same route is very easily powered by cables strung along the road.
ROFLMDAO the image is the epitome of the Ubuntu install. Get it loaded up, try to play your music off your mp3 player while finishing it up and you get the damn codec error.
Funny thing is that in my Ubuntu computers all the media formats I try always work. OTOH, I recently gave a coworker a copy of a film I enjoyed and he couldn't play it in his windows computer because it was a Matroska video.
Why not take the same approach with the music industry that we took with the typewriter, camera film, and buggy-whip industries?
I parsed your post like this:
Storyline is about copyrights - typewriters can be used to copy text - camera film can be used to copy images hmmm, so far this about old methods used in the past to copy things buggy-whips? WTF?
The conspiracy theorist in me says that this is just a way for manufacturers to increase their revenues for ongoing maintenance (as these engines WILL need far more regular maintenance cycles)
When was the last time you sold a car because the engine had worn out? As opposed to selling it because the body rattles, the upholstery is worn, the doors leak water when it rains, the paint is scratched, the windshield is cracked, plastic parts are broken, the dashboard is crumbling?
This is basic, people, something we all should have learned no later than preschool: you make a mess, you clean it up.
It would be good if people demanded this of the coal and oil industries.
In the case of rare earths mining, the problem is only the absurd regulations that demand the radiation level in waste to be lower than what's found in nature.
I disagree, most of the abstract things we do for fun are things which are similar, identical or otherwise related to things that we had to do previously for survival.
It's funny that you disagree with me, because I agree with you;)
Music is another good one, while it seems completely impractical, if you want to know what predators are out there it's a good idea to be plugged into the news network. Back in olden times that was bird calls and various animal noises. Being able to understand and replicate them was quite useful if you wanted to not be eaten or find something to eat.
I think music has to do with turning away predators. Showing that you have the ability to act in unison as a large body is something that should scare away a predator that's bigger than a lone human, yet smaller than the assembled body of a human tribe.
Besides, anyone who has seen how cats and dogs fear thunder knows that animals fear loud noises. By singing and banging drums together the human tribes amplified the sound they could produce to scare away predators.
I don't know where TFS got this mention of "radioactive waste water", it was not in TFA.
However, what about it? The waste water contains what's left from refining the ore, all the radioactive components in the water were in the soil to begin with. What's the difference between letting the radioactive wastes in the ground and putting them back in the ground after you get the ore out?
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People will take more guff from charismatic persons. The attractive are indirectly taught that they don't have to be as nice to other people, to be liked, as less attractive folk
No, they are taught that there are prejudiced people and start ignoring people like you.
Using the same armchair psychoanalysis, one could as well argue that women who are less physically attractive become envious and bitter. They are indirectly taught that it's no use being nice since they will always be less liked than more attractive folk.
The type of woman who has less sweetness and disposition and generosity is not a beautiful woman, it's a woman that makes an effort to become beautiful. That kind of person it could be argued that is egocentric and shallow, because she puts external appearance before other values.
Great-looking women are rarely great people on the inside though and the only teacher of that is experience
The act of classifying people by their appearance has a special name, it's called "racism".
According to my experience, looks have no correlation to character, however the plural of anecdote is not data, so YMMV.
It could well be that it's not that great-looking women are no good, it's you that don't treat them right.Perhaps you went after a number of great-looking women with just the intention of having sex with them and they treated you accordingly.
Q: What groups are "alive"?
A: Those groups that Go masters agree are alive.
Q: Who is a Go master?
A: People who know which groups are alive.
As I said, circular reasoning.
Assuming a set of rules that is unambiguous and algorithmic, then the problem of writing a perfect software for playing Go should be only a question of having enough machine power, just like for chess.
It's interesting that after machines started beating the top chess players they discovered some endings that were formerly thought to be draws that actually could be won if played perfectly, although it would take a large number of plays to win. I'm willing to bet that some day the same will be found to be true for Go.
What's gong on at the Patent Office? I'm starting to think they all need to be drug tested.
They can't do it because a method for selecting patent office workers based on analysis of drug use has already been patented.
Is it possible that there has always been error, but it is just more noticeable now given that reporting is more accurate?
Precisely. As mentioned in a Scientific American blog:
"The difficulties Lehrer describes do not signal a failing of the scientific method, but a triumph: our knowledge is so good that new discoveries are increasingly hard to make, indicating that scientists really are converging on some objective truth."
In practice the problem you see (ambiguities in the endgame) are only really an issue for computer Go. Human players rarely disagree over when a game is "over", as typically the outcome becomes obvious long before each stone is played out to the absolute end.
How many times people have considered something "obvious" that later turns out to be wrong, when you analyze it to the absolute end? There seems to exist a consensus that some positions are better than others, but how do you know it unless you play it to the end?
I've never played go, but I often see comments on how difficult it seems to be to implement a good software to play go. Perhaps that's because go isn't really that well understood by humans either. When computers start playing go better than humans, some of these winning positions may not be so good after all.
Yes, for sure, government officials are much more likely to know what a balanced view is than us the common people. Thank God those poor Hungarians don't need to evaluate among different options at the newsstand, the Government has done that for them.
However, I pity those poor government censors who must look through all that pornography in order to censor it. Their brains will be fried in no time, as happens to everyone who sees pornographic text or images.
I have worked with geostationary satellite control for over twenty years, so I know a bit about this. The masses on the earth aren't distributed evenly, the higher density of the rock in some parts pull the satellite to the east or the west.
You are right in that the perturbation caused by the moon is several orders of magnitude larger than the one caused by this slight longitudinal asymmetry. It's only for satellites that are either in geostationary orbit or in 12 hour period orbits that this effect becomes significant.
For other orbits the pull in one direction is compensated by a pull in the opposite direction when the satellite comes around the earth. For geostationary orbits, however, the perturbation is always in the same direction, because the satellite is always in the same position with respect to the mass asymmetry, so the effect adds up in time.
Typically a geostationary satellite needs correcting East-West maneuvers every couple of weeks or so. These maneuvers consume about 10% of the total fuel budget for station keeping, inclination maneuvers consume the other 90%. This goes to show how stronger the perturbations caused by the sun, moon, and earth's ellipsoid shape, which cause the inclination of the orbit to increase, are compared to the triaxial density asymmetry.
As far as I know in Germany for example you are not allowed to publish porn on the net unless you make sure that people under 18 don't have access it. To confirm to this criteria it isn't enough to just add an agegate, but instead it requires things like sending credit card info
Hmmm, not quite. If you look closely at those sites that require your credit card info you'll see they have ulterior motives.
In the same page that says "this site is entirely FREE, we only need your credit card number to make sure you are over the age of 18" if you scroll all the way down you'll see in small letters "this site is free for three days, after that your credit card will be billed at the rate of $18 / month" or something like that.
No one asks for you credit card number unless they are intending to charge you.
Except for two stable points at 75 and 255 degrees east longitude, any geostationary satellite suffers an East-West (or West-East) perturbation due to the earth not being a perfect sphere. This is called "triaxiality" by experts in the field.
The result is that without correcting maneuvers the satellite longitudinal position oscillates around those two stable points, even if the orbit is exactly at the geostationary altitude.
I would think it would take a great amount of effort and persons to keep track of someone.
To keep track of someone at all times, yes. But they don't need to keep track of him at all times to completely fuck up his life.
For me, being included in the "no fly" list would be much worse than having someone following me everywhere. My life is an open book, I have no secrets to hide, but I do need to take a plane from time to time.
Just waiting to batch upload all the names of TSA agents. What will the Feds do then?
They will put your name on the top of the list.
Or just picking strawberries when the crops are ripe for two weeks and it's just too fu*cking hot for humans to go out and pick them for 18 hours a day.
Or a million other things. But not playing a musical instrument. We already have Robert Fripp; we don't need a another robotic guitar player.
There are millions of people who were born and raised in tropical lands who would be glad to work in hot weather picking strawberries if they could, we don't need another robotic fruit picker.
The future is coming, many people will be left behind. The robotic guitar player may not be much today, but neither is the robotic fruit picker. We will one day machines that will pick only fruit that's exactly ripe, same as we will have robots that play guitar better than any human could.
Many Vodka's are known for the trace mineral left in them from either the source water or from the distilling process (copper kettles mostly)
No, the residual taste comes mostly from fusel oils
All I have is my wife and a bottle of bourbon?
All *I* have is tap water and no wife
Sorry, but electric buses have existed for decades.
The title should read "battery powered buses" instead, but thet's not a great advantage for a bus. A vehicle that always runs through the same route is very easily powered by cables strung along the road.
ROFLMDAO the image is the epitome of the Ubuntu install. Get it loaded up, try to play your music off your mp3 player while finishing it up and you get the damn codec error.
Funny thing is that in my Ubuntu computers all the media formats I try always work. OTOH, I recently gave a coworker a copy of a film I enjoyed and he couldn't play it in his windows computer because it was a Matroska video.
Why not take the same approach with the music industry that we took with the typewriter, camera film, and buggy-whip industries?
I parsed your post like this:
Storyline is about copyrights
- typewriters can be used to copy text
- camera film can be used to copy images
hmmm, so far this about old methods used in the past to copy things
buggy-whips? WTF?
The conspiracy theorist in me says that this is just a way for manufacturers to increase their revenues for ongoing maintenance (as these engines WILL need far more regular maintenance cycles)
When was the last time you sold a car because the engine had worn out? As opposed to selling it because the body rattles, the upholstery is worn, the doors leak water when it rains, the paint is scratched, the windshield is cracked, plastic parts are broken, the dashboard is crumbling?
This is basic, people, something we all should have learned no later than preschool: you make a mess, you clean it up.
It would be good if people demanded this of the coal and oil industries.
In the case of rare earths mining, the problem is only the absurd regulations that demand the radiation level in waste to be lower than what's found in nature.
Luckily, when you spill thorium-laced water over a large area of desert, it never gradually turns into wind-borne radioactive dust...
You mean, like the naturally occurring monazite sands from which rare earth metals are mined?
I disagree, most of the abstract things we do for fun are things which are similar, identical or otherwise related to things that we had to do previously for survival.
It's funny that you disagree with me, because I agree with you ;)
Music is another good one, while it seems completely impractical, if you want to know what predators are out there it's a good idea to be plugged into the news network. Back in olden times that was bird calls and various animal noises. Being able to understand and replicate them was quite useful if you wanted to not be eaten or find something to eat.
I think music has to do with turning away predators. Showing that you have the ability to act in unison as a large body is something that should scare away a predator that's bigger than a lone human, yet smaller than the assembled body of a human tribe.
Besides, anyone who has seen how cats and dogs fear thunder knows that animals fear loud noises. By singing and banging drums together the human tribes amplified the sound they could produce to scare away predators.
I don't know where TFS got this mention of "radioactive waste water", it was not in TFA.
However, what about it? The waste water contains what's left from refining the ore, all the radioactive components in the water were in the soil to begin with. What's the difference between letting the radioactive wastes in the ground and putting them back in the ground after you get the ore out?
I had this weird mental image of a shark eating woodpeckers
Everyone knows that you regain stability by moving all your poles into the right hand plane.
Only if the positive portion of the plane is on the left side. In Australia, perhaps?