Remember that the US was part of the world supporting hitler. Henry Ford was selling to the Nazi's. We only entered the war in europe because the Nazi's refused to tolerate us selling to both sides.
The OS X stuff is fun, but you can't tell it to do enough yet to make it useful. For example, "Look up Bobcats on Wikipedia" is not a possible command unless you explicitly code in Bobcats... Which ruins the point.
Isn't it interesting though that the world has never seen a modern communist society... I wonder if one could actually work? People said a democracy would never work when the United States started and now most of it's residents would consider that statement to be false.
Well, I think the first major problem was that law 1 is provably contradictable. That's no good... I mean, you give a robot a rule they ALWAYS have to follow but which has various examples where it can't... That's called bad programming.
Actually, capturing the human to help put them in jail would break law 1. Law 1 is actually provably contradictable. It's logically impossible to be performed in all cases.
I hope you're planning on giving up the death penalty, inaction during genocide, cigarettes, alcohol, and cars when the robots obey rule 1 by acting like a babysitter and taking away all the guns, lethal injection equipment, tobacco plants, hops, and cars to keep us from harm.
Can you point to me the trucks that were the offending models of low farmer usability? Everything I've seen on the subject indicates that the standards were lowered before they went into effect, so I'm surprised to hear that the standards were rolled back due to poor products on the market. It's possible you and I are thinking of different reductions in the mileage standards, but I was only aware of Reagan dropping the standards once.
I find it interesting that you actually touch on one of the reasons we haven't really been working on 'alternative' energy: "regular/traditional energy was getting cheaper and cheaper". The stuff ('alternative energy') was/is more expensive. If you don't use it of course you aren't going to put the same R&D into it as if you do. I'm not sure why you're acting like people have made the best effort on this stuff that they can. They haven't, because even if they had done the best they could, it would still have been more expensive than cheap oil. And why would you do that? Climate change didn't become a serious scientific consensus until sometime in the 90s. There simply was very little incentive to prioritize green energy before the current administration. The current administration by the way has not made a pretense of considering climate change a real issue.
When oil is not economically viable the oil companies will switch to mainly alternatives instead of just tasting them now like they are.
That's the EXACT reason why I'm against opening any additional area for drilling. We will only switch when the money makes us. So why even try to make the money less painful than it is now? Make it hurt like hell because otherwise people won't do it.
Actually, oil futures really do affect the price. You're not paying for it's price in 10 years, you're paying some composite of it's value in 10 years vs the price today invested for 10 years. That being said... a few cents to the gallon of gas in 10 years is worth next to nothing today.
Run-off voting would keep the parties as they are more or less. You'd just see a few Democrats vs a few Republicans, so the major candidates might be Obama, Clinton, Huckabee, and Romney right now or something like that. People would often probably pick both candidates (or all three, four, five) from their party and then some independents they kinda like.
Well... People say she's dumb for a reason. A bridge on the other side of the river is pretty useless. By the time the oil drilling will make any difference we really need to be a lot greener already.
I'll agree that the technology isn't here today. That's why we really need to put money into researching it. I certainly don't think it's true that we've been working on this since the 30s. Quite a few of the most recent presidential administrations have been very unfriendly to the idea of saving energy, even going so far as to lower the EPA fuel standards during the Regan administration.
If they get a lower piracy rate to sale rate with Red Alert 3, it will tell them that DRM harms sales. Simple.
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It actually ties very poorly since the creature creator doesn't use the same rules for determining stats that the game does. More is better approach no longer being valid for example makes it so that placing 5-10 spikes for charging is no longer the valid equivalent of using a set of antlers. It's really a bit of a shame, the more is better technique really gave you a lot of creative freedom.
From TFA "based on data from over 250 planetary systems"
So once again, we get into this thing where we can only see gas giants closer to their sun than Mercury is to our sun... Because it's the only thing we can detect. It's like a person who can only hear noises below 400 Hz and then insists that in Bach, high notes are uncommon.
You could define winning as hitting the level cap. You could define winning as killing the last raid boss. You could define winning as collecting each kind of mount. There's no credit roll, but you can certainly have goals. When I finished clearing Karazhan with my guild I had a choice personally of "say I've won and quit, or play the next 'level'". I went to the next level but later quit and picked up music, which you also can't win...
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Remember that the US was part of the world supporting hitler. Henry Ford was selling to the Nazi's. We only entered the war in europe because the Nazi's refused to tolerate us selling to both sides.
The OS X stuff is fun, but you can't tell it to do enough yet to make it useful. For example, "Look up Bobcats on Wikipedia" is not a possible command unless you explicitly code in Bobcats... Which ruins the point.
I was kinda thinking that...
There are people who weigh 300 pounds and they function. I'm sure I could learn to function at that weight too.
Isn't it interesting though that the world has never seen a modern communist society... I wonder if one could actually work? People said a democracy would never work when the United States started and now most of it's residents would consider that statement to be false.
Well, I think the first major problem was that law 1 is provably contradictable. That's no good... I mean, you give a robot a rule they ALWAYS have to follow but which has various examples where it can't... That's called bad programming.
Actually, capturing the human to help put them in jail would break law 1. Law 1 is actually provably contradictable. It's logically impossible to be performed in all cases.
I hope you're planning on giving up the death penalty, inaction during genocide, cigarettes, alcohol, and cars when the robots obey rule 1 by acting like a babysitter and taking away all the guns, lethal injection equipment, tobacco plants, hops, and cars to keep us from harm.
Well damn, that was a poorly thought out rule...
Obsessed with the fact we haven't observed something we can't yet detect... This must be some sort of mis-post.
Can you point to me the trucks that were the offending models of low farmer usability? Everything I've seen on the subject indicates that the standards were lowered before they went into effect, so I'm surprised to hear that the standards were rolled back due to poor products on the market. It's possible you and I are thinking of different reductions in the mileage standards, but I was only aware of Reagan dropping the standards once.
I find it interesting that you actually touch on one of the reasons we haven't really been working on 'alternative' energy: "regular/traditional energy was getting cheaper and cheaper". The stuff ('alternative energy') was/is more expensive. If you don't use it of course you aren't going to put the same R&D into it as if you do. I'm not sure why you're acting like people have made the best effort on this stuff that they can. They haven't, because even if they had done the best they could, it would still have been more expensive than cheap oil. And why would you do that? Climate change didn't become a serious scientific consensus until sometime in the 90s. There simply was very little incentive to prioritize green energy before the current administration. The current administration by the way has not made a pretense of considering climate change a real issue.
When oil is not economically viable the oil companies will switch to mainly alternatives instead of just tasting them now like they are.
That's the EXACT reason why I'm against opening any additional area for drilling. We will only switch when the money makes us. So why even try to make the money less painful than it is now? Make it hurt like hell because otherwise people won't do it.
Actually, oil futures really do affect the price. You're not paying for it's price in 10 years, you're paying some composite of it's value in 10 years vs the price today invested for 10 years. That being said... a few cents to the gallon of gas in 10 years is worth next to nothing today.
Run-off voting would keep the parties as they are more or less. You'd just see a few Democrats vs a few Republicans, so the major candidates might be Obama, Clinton, Huckabee, and Romney right now or something like that. People would often probably pick both candidates (or all three, four, five) from their party and then some independents they kinda like.
How about a nice Multiple-candidate-single-vote/plurality-required?
I think the constitutional amendment was the topic of this particular sub-thread actually...
Well... People say she's dumb for a reason. A bridge on the other side of the river is pretty useless. By the time the oil drilling will make any difference we really need to be a lot greener already.
I'll agree that the technology isn't here today. That's why we really need to put money into researching it. I certainly don't think it's true that we've been working on this since the 30s. Quite a few of the most recent presidential administrations have been very unfriendly to the idea of saving energy, even going so far as to lower the EPA fuel standards during the Regan administration.
If it makes you feel better, I thought your comment was funny.
If they decrease DRM, and sales go up and piracy goes down... Now yeah, some business guys are dumb... but the obvious conclusion is...
If they get a lower piracy rate to sale rate with Red Alert 3, it will tell them that DRM harms sales. Simple.
It actually ties very poorly since the creature creator doesn't use the same rules for determining stats that the game does. More is better approach no longer being valid for example makes it so that placing 5-10 spikes for charging is no longer the valid equivalent of using a set of antlers. It's really a bit of a shame, the more is better technique really gave you a lot of creative freedom.
The ships would cost billions as well. It's time to bite the bullet and do what we need to do. Yes, it sucks, no we don't have a choice.
Not as much as they hate basketball though.
From TFA "based on data from over 250 planetary systems"
So once again, we get into this thing where we can only see gas giants closer to their sun than Mercury is to our sun... Because it's the only thing we can detect. It's like a person who can only hear noises below 400 Hz and then insists that in Bach, high notes are uncommon.
You could define winning as hitting the level cap. You could define winning as killing the last raid boss. You could define winning as collecting each kind of mount. There's no credit roll, but you can certainly have goals. When I finished clearing Karazhan with my guild I had a choice personally of "say I've won and quit, or play the next 'level'". I went to the next level but later quit and picked up music, which you also can't win...