"Only" about 4500 US soldiers have been killed so far in the Iraqi war, out of the hundreds of thousands of US soldiers that have been sent on their tours there. That makes it less than 10%.
Out of 300 million US people how many might try killing the President and have a chance of succeeding? What if the economy gets worse? Reagan might have died if he'd just been a bit unluckier.
LOL, and you'll be faster than Usain Bolt if you only practice harder and longer?
Fact is some things are harder than others. If you have to spend decades trying, you'll find you'd have got older and slower, and you'll have to accept that you'd never be good enough. If your fingers aren't even half as fast enough after 5 years of practising you're never going to be a great concert pianist (or a great tetris player: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHTO5PxCr98 ).
The day helicopters or other flying vehicles have AIs in control of them and humans use the AIs like a rider riding a horse, then maybe everyone can fly them. But until then it'll be a stupid idea to have tens of thousands of people flying through cities - they just aren't good enough to do that safely. Put thousands of average drivers in helicopters/flying-cars and your city will be like a war-zone, devastated buildings and craters everywhere (unless someone invents very effective shields).
Look at the drivers on the road, many can't stay in their lanes, or even park properly. Good luck getting them to land a helicopter running low on fuel, on a landing pad 20 storeys up, in gusty conditions. With current technology screwing up in the air is still a lot worse than screwing up on the ground.
One day flying vehicles might be ready for humans. But meanwhile most humans aren't good enough for current helicopters.
Just because 100 million others disagree with you doesn't mean the system isn't working properly. The 100 million could be wrong, but that's Democracy for you. It's a better system than in North Korea where the Dictator and his Generals are the only ones with "votes".
Democracy sucks but it's better than the alternatives. You don't like how the 100 million are voting, you and others like you should try to convince/educate the 100 million.
If you think all the candidates are bad, you can be a candidate. If you aren't able to be one then perhaps it really is true that the candidates are the best available. Unfortunately that's the real world. There are lots of decent qualified people who are not interested in being a candidate[1].
If the voters are only voting for candidates that get the most money/bribes from corporations, then that's what the voters want. I don't think anyone is forcing them at gunpoint to vote that way.
[1] FWIW "President of the USA" is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. 10% have died from job-related issues (aka people killing them). Try to find a more dangerous "legal" job. Everybody blames you for everything even if Congress etc stops you from getting most of what you want done.
Ill effects? The last I checked the Federal Reserve has created trillions since 2008. The USA isn't doing much worse than Europe. That's the advantage of the petrodollar (and not stupidly sticking to stuff like the gold standard) - you get to tax the whole world just by creating money.
I'm sure China is very unhappy about the trillions created, but since there's nothing much they can do about it, they aren't going to say too much about it in public - they have trillions in US dollars - bonds and reserves, so anything that makes US dollars worth less will hurt them. So they're not going to make other countries nervous about the US dollar.
Actually even if you use helis that are more stable (coaxial + gyros+ fly by wire etc) they'd be too difficult for the average person to fly _safely_.
Go look at the driving skills of the average driver. Many can't stay on their own lane or park properly!
So who in their right mind expects hundreds of them to fly together safely through cities with skyscrapers, and land successfully? You'd need technology that makes flying cars about as safe as lifts. Otherwise your city will soon be like a war zone.
You need AIs in charge of the car. Basically the redundant AIs would be like a non-suicidal horse that the driver controls. Try to ride a horse into a wall and the you'd find the horse rather unwilling to do so.
That sounds stupid and backwards to me. ECT seems more like scrambling the brain and hoping it comes back up less bad. That sort of treatment belongs in the dark ages.
Your job title might say "Software Engineer" but are you really one as defined by the survey?
From the first page of the article it says a Software Engineer "Researches, designs, develops and maintains software systems along with hardware development for medical, scientific, and industrial purposes."
If you're a Computer Systems Analyst it's #9 on the list, Web Developer you're #15, if you're a Computer Programmer it's #34. So which category do you really fall in?
FWIW, Web Developer is lower on the list at #15 and Computer Programmer is #34 on the next page.
Whereas the article says a Software Engineer "Researches, designs, develops and maintains software systems along with hardware development for medical, scientific, and industrial purposes".
You nailed it. On Slashdot you can see all these supposedly smart people who don't seem to realize that looking down on "ants" isn't going to help on election day.
Contempt isn't going to work well in convincing those "ant" voters to vote differently.
From the point of view of many religious people, it doesn't matter that much if an asteroid smashes them - they are going to heaven or they will be reincarnated or achieve nirvana or somethig. Many might be worried about the nonbelievers - but that's why they annoy the nonbelievers with tracts and evangelism efforts.
So if anyone thinks their votes and taxpayer dollars should be going elsewhere, he/she should come up with a better way of convincing them.
Don't fear irrational beliefs. They are a feature, not a bug.
Another thing to consider: 1) The placebo effect is proven to provide benefits in many scenarios 2) Certain sorts of religions/belief systems allow more easy access to the placebo effect. 3) Therefore if a belief system does not negatively impact the group or individual's evolutionary fitness (more likely to survive and reproduce), then members with that belief system might do better in the long run than those who are less able to access the placebo effect. That assumes all else remaining equal, which in practice may not be the case, but keep in mind that being so superbly rational and intelligent doesn't necessarily improve your likelihood of breeding or helping those who share more of your genes.
1 terabit per second is normal where you are? And some of you have faster connections? Where the heck are you? What switches are you all using and how much would they cost?
You really think with all the drones, spy satellites, wiretapped internet, hidden cameras and informants everywhere that they'd need to sit someone down in a room and interrogate them?
There are limitations to technology, and the cameras and wiretaps aren't everywhere yet.
When you're talking about crime why do you feel it's okay to interrogate any suspects? The suspect has a right to remain silent. There is no reason to interrogate anyone based on anything other than national security and I'm not convinced interrogation is the key to national security.
That's completely stupid. You interrogate people because even if they have a right to remain silent they still talk anyway! And very often people actually give you correct information that incriminates them.
It depends. If they haven't had children and they commit suicide there would be fewer people like them. After enough generations there might be significantly fewer suicides for those scenarios. And so many more deaths would be avoided in the long run.
So the question is whether we really want to select for the trait of "not committing suicide when depressed even when being egged on to suicide".
We might prefer to reduce the number of people who would egg on suicidal people. That might reduce even more deaths in the long run.
Women thinking men will change is stupid. If he's over 25, he is pretty much going to be the way he is now when he's 90.
From what I observe people do change as they get older. Mostly for the worse. If they are lucky a few things seem to improve for a while. Then they die.
But yeah, people expecting that their Significant Other to change for the better are stupid and/or delusional.
If you're marrying someone, you should do that expecting them to mostly get worse as time goes by, hopefully the few bits you really care about are not so likely to get worse so fast and maybe even get better.
The entire point here is that Dads need to be fucking MEN...
Nowadays that remark could be interpreted differently;).
Seriously. We do need ".local" TLDs reserved officially. But all ICANN does is money grabbing..local is for mDNS and similar stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local
They should also reserve a ".here" TLD for a RFC1918 style usage, for instance if people may want to run their own DNS and area servers so that airconditioner.here to refers to the airconditioners at their current area, and https://here/ goes to the main page for the current area. While people can do that already, a TLD (or more) should be reserved for such purposes. Just like while 10.x.x.x could have been used before RFC1918, RFC1918 officially reserved ranges of IPs for private use so that they should not ever clash with public IPs. So similarly one or more TLDs should be reserved for private use by everyone.
Also depends on how competitive the market is. Currently AMD isn't a strong competitor so Intel can do stuff like release software upgradeable CPUs. So no surprise if many recent Intel CPUs can be overclocked significantly. Seems like we're back in the days of 50% overclock (anyone remember the Celeron 300A?). Even Intel is officially selling overclockable CPUs.
I wonder if consciousness is what happens when we recursively simulate ourselves:).
Creating a model of the world allows organisms to predict what will happen and hopefully make better decisions than mere guessing. When the world includes others like you, predicting others and yourself becomes useful too.
Sometimes a VPN or proxy can help with network performance: a) The ISP is throttling certain traffic, and the VPN masks it. b) The normal route path could be by what is cheapest or most convenient for the ISPs involved not what is fastest for your traffic. A VPN could force the use of a better path.
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"Only" about 4500 US soldiers have been killed so far in the Iraqi war, out of the hundreds of thousands of US soldiers that have been sent on their tours there. That makes it less than 10%.
Also less than 10% for the Vietnam war:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_casualties#United_States_Armed_Forces
Out of 300 million US people how many might try killing the President and have a chance of succeeding? What if the economy gets worse? Reagan might have died if he'd just been a bit unluckier.
LOL, and you'll be faster than Usain Bolt if you only practice harder and longer?
Fact is some things are harder than others. If you have to spend decades trying, you'll find you'd have got older and slower, and you'll have to accept that you'd never be good enough. If your fingers aren't even half as fast enough after 5 years of practising you're never going to be a great concert pianist (or a great tetris player: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHTO5PxCr98 ).
The day helicopters or other flying vehicles have AIs in control of them and humans use the AIs like a rider riding a horse, then maybe everyone can fly them. But until then it'll be a stupid idea to have tens of thousands of people flying through cities - they just aren't good enough to do that safely. Put thousands of average drivers in helicopters/flying-cars and your city will be like a war-zone, devastated buildings and craters everywhere (unless someone invents very effective shields).
Look at the drivers on the road, many can't stay in their lanes, or even park properly. Good luck getting them to land a helicopter running low on fuel, on a landing pad 20 storeys up, in gusty conditions. With current technology screwing up in the air is still a lot worse than screwing up on the ground.
One day flying vehicles might be ready for humans. But meanwhile most humans aren't good enough for current helicopters.
Just because 100 million others disagree with you doesn't mean the system isn't working properly. The 100 million could be wrong, but that's Democracy for you. It's a better system than in North Korea where the Dictator and his Generals are the only ones with "votes".
Democracy sucks but it's better than the alternatives. You don't like how the 100 million are voting, you and others like you should try to convince/educate the 100 million.
If you think all the candidates are bad, you can be a candidate. If you aren't able to be one then perhaps it really is true that the candidates are the best available. Unfortunately that's the real world. There are lots of decent qualified people who are not interested in being a candidate[1].
If the voters are only voting for candidates that get the most money/bribes from corporations, then that's what the voters want. I don't think anyone is forcing them at gunpoint to vote that way.
[1] FWIW "President of the USA" is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. 10% have died from job-related issues (aka people killing them). Try to find a more dangerous "legal" job. Everybody blames you for everything even if Congress etc stops you from getting most of what you want done.
Ill effects? The last I checked the Federal Reserve has created trillions since 2008. The USA isn't doing much worse than Europe. That's the advantage of the petrodollar (and not stupidly sticking to stuff like the gold standard) - you get to tax the whole world just by creating money.
I'm sure China is very unhappy about the trillions created, but since there's nothing much they can do about it, they aren't going to say too much about it in public - they have trillions in US dollars - bonds and reserves, so anything that makes US dollars worth less will hurt them. So they're not going to make other countries nervous about the US dollar.
Actually even if you use helis that are more stable (coaxial + gyros+ fly by wire etc) they'd be too difficult for the average person to fly _safely_.
Go look at the driving skills of the average driver. Many can't stay on their own lane or park properly!
So who in their right mind expects hundreds of them to fly together safely through cities with skyscrapers, and land successfully? You'd need technology that makes flying cars about as safe as lifts. Otherwise your city will soon be like a war zone.
You need AIs in charge of the car. Basically the redundant AIs would be like a non-suicidal horse that the driver controls. Try to ride a horse into a wall and the you'd find the horse rather unwilling to do so.
That sounds stupid and backwards to me. ECT seems more like scrambling the brain and hoping it comes back up less bad. That sort of treatment belongs in the dark ages.
Your job title might say "Software Engineer" but are you really one as defined by the survey?
From the first page of the article it says a Software Engineer "Researches, designs, develops and maintains software systems along with hardware development for medical, scientific, and industrial purposes."
If you're a Computer Systems Analyst
it's #9 on the list, Web Developer you're #15, if you're a Computer Programmer it's #34. So which category do you really fall in?
FWIW, Web Developer is lower on the list at #15 and Computer Programmer is #34 on the next page.
Whereas the article says a Software Engineer "Researches, designs, develops and maintains software systems along with hardware development for medical, scientific, and industrial purposes".
You nailed it. On Slashdot you can see all these supposedly smart people who don't seem to realize that looking down on "ants" isn't going to help on election day.
Contempt isn't going to work well in convincing those "ant" voters to vote differently.
From the point of view of many religious people, it doesn't matter that much if an asteroid smashes them - they are going to heaven or they will be reincarnated or achieve nirvana or somethig. Many might be worried about the nonbelievers - but that's why they annoy the nonbelievers with tracts and evangelism efforts.
So if anyone thinks their votes and taxpayer dollars should be going elsewhere, he/she should come up with a better way of convincing them.
A single stalker can shutdown a project because of spam? Either it's a false story or kickstarter has a crappy system.
If it's really true I'm sure 4chan and gang might have a fun time shutting down ALL the kickstarter projects.
Don't fear irrational beliefs. They are a feature, not a bug.
Another thing to consider:
1) The placebo effect is proven to provide benefits in many scenarios
2) Certain sorts of religions/belief systems allow more easy access to the placebo effect.
3) Therefore if a belief system does not negatively impact the group or individual's evolutionary fitness (more likely to survive and reproduce), then members with that belief system might do better in the long run than those who are less able to access the placebo effect. That assumes all else remaining equal, which in practice may not be the case, but keep in mind that being so superbly rational and intelligent doesn't necessarily improve your likelihood of breeding or helping those who share more of your genes.
1 terabit per second is normal where you are? And some of you have faster connections? Where the heck are you? What switches are you all using and how much would they cost?
You really think with all the drones, spy satellites, wiretapped internet, hidden cameras and informants everywhere that they'd need to sit someone down in a room and interrogate them?
There are limitations to technology, and the cameras and wiretaps aren't everywhere yet.
When you're talking about crime why do you feel it's okay to interrogate any suspects? The suspect has a right to remain silent. There is no reason to interrogate anyone based on anything other than national security and I'm not convinced interrogation is the key to national security.
That's completely stupid. You interrogate people because even if they have a right to remain silent they still talk anyway! And very often people actually give you correct information that incriminates them.
Go watch this "Don't talk to the police" video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08fZQWjDVKE&feature=related
What if that entangled particle was part of you, and you change accordingly?
What is the limit of entanglement? Could the whole universe be entangled already?
It depends. If they haven't had children and they commit suicide there would be fewer people like them. After enough generations there might be significantly fewer suicides for those scenarios. And so many more deaths would be avoided in the long run.
So the question is whether we really want to select for the trait of "not committing suicide when depressed even when being egged on to suicide".
We might prefer to reduce the number of people who would egg on suicidal people. That might reduce even more deaths in the long run.
And so the unvaccinated kids are to only hang around with unvaccinated kids?
Women thinking men will change is stupid. If he's over 25, he is pretty much going to be the way he is now when he's 90.
From what I observe people do change as they get older. Mostly for the worse. If they are lucky a few things seem to improve for a while. Then they die.
But yeah, people expecting that their Significant Other to change for the better are stupid and/or delusional.
If you're marrying someone, you should do that expecting them to mostly get worse as time goes by, hopefully the few bits you really care about are not so likely to get worse so fast and maybe even get better.
The entire point here is that Dads need to be fucking MEN...
Nowadays that remark could be interpreted differently ;).
Seriously. We do need ".local" TLDs reserved officially. But all ICANN does is money grabbing. .local is for mDNS and similar stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local
They should also reserve a ".here" TLD for a RFC1918 style usage, for instance if people may want to run their own DNS and area servers so that airconditioner.here to refers to the airconditioners at their current area, and https://here/ goes to the main page for the current area. While people can do that already, a TLD (or more) should be reserved for such purposes. Just like while 10.x.x.x could have been used before RFC1918, RFC1918 officially reserved ranges of IPs for private use so that they should not ever clash with public IPs. So similarly one or more TLDs should be reserved for private use by everyone.
Also depends on how competitive the market is. Currently AMD isn't a strong competitor so Intel can do stuff like release software upgradeable CPUs. So no surprise if many recent Intel CPUs can be overclocked significantly. Seems like we're back in the days of 50% overclock (anyone remember the Celeron 300A?). Even Intel is officially selling overclockable CPUs.
Oh children can get the pensions too in some cases: http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/02/09/us-government-still-pays-two-civil-war-pensions
I thought the last widow died in 2003? Who are the two alive?
I wonder if consciousness is what happens when we recursively simulate ourselves :).
Creating a model of the world allows organisms to predict what will happen and hopefully make better decisions than mere guessing. When the world includes others like you, predicting others and yourself becomes useful too.
Sometimes a VPN or proxy can help with network performance:
a) The ISP is throttling certain traffic, and the VPN masks it.
b) The normal route path could be by what is cheapest or most convenient for the ISPs involved not what is fastest for your traffic. A VPN could force the use of a better path.
Actually you have this problem because people and organizations call it and treat it as "identity theft".
If someone is using your SSN to pretend to be you, because it's considered "identity theft" it becomes mainly YOUR problem.
Whereas if it's considered fraud, then it's no longer really your problem but that of the Bank or other Organization that's been tricked.
Then they'd have more motivation to not be tricked so easily - and they are the ones who shouldn't be tricked so easily.
Whereas you have no reasonable way of preventing an attacker from getting your SSN or other ID.
After all, I'm sure we all store thousands of social security numbers at home.
The hackers might. And maybe even at your home ;).