Y'know, we'll only laugh at you a little if you stop using caps like that. You're basically holding up a giant red sign that says "I am a paranoid schizophrenic" on it. Instead of complaining about the pharmaceutical industry, why don't you explain why you believe it is immoral that they rake in so much, or outline a plan to amend the current situation?
The simple answer is that all of the games will be free to play, at least in part. It kinda makes the piracy scare claims stand out as the obvious FUD they are, even if we don't like the idea of always-on DRM. Whoever keeps saying that the Ouya will lead to high piracy rates for games specifically targeting the thing must be very silly!
Well, that's the thing—it's actually quite easy to make a hypersonic rocket with a name, but unnaming such a rocket would require more energy than the sun's entire output for a year, as you'd have to eradicate to eliminate all evidence, thought, and mention of the rocket's name from history. It took DARPA contractors decades to come up with a novel method of paperwork shuffling so dense that they could create unnamed rockets that would be completely impenetrable to espionage. Unfortunately, they aren't perfect; it's still possible to give individual rockets names once they're loaded into a vehicle or turret for firing, as at that point they enter the realm of conscious human perception. Despite the potential dire consequences for captured vehicles and compromised air bases, all contractors were paid upfront for the usual budget overruns.
But strangely—probably the first time I've ever seen a lawsuit in the news with a huge amount of money involved and was able to say "I understand exactly how they arrived at that amount, given the circumstances, and in no way do I find it unreasonable or astronomical."
I admittedly don't know a lot about immunology, but I do know that once you have a disease the vaccine is useless. A vaccine is a training sample, meant to be employed in advance so your body knows what to target before the infection gets serious. If you're already infected you've got plenty of data all over the place, you just recognized it too late.
Viruses can most definitely combine in weird ways. There are even these things called coviruses (example), that depend on the presence of other viruses to infect the host cell. The general rule about viruses is that, since they're so unreliable at selecting the DNA they take up when they're recomposed, anything in the genome is a viable target.
However, we don't generally let that happen in medicine—a lot of precautions are taken to prevent bad mixtures like this from being released to the public. It's despicable that the poultry industry didn't test their vaccines more thoroughly before employing them in combination.
Combined vaccines really aren't that novel, actually. Catastrophic side-effects from combining them, on the other hand... well, in human medicine that kind of thing would be rigorously tested in a laboratory first. The use of antibiotics and vaccines in factory farming isn't exactly a health-conscious mindset.
I'm just going to go over here and hit the "please don't say things like that" alarm. That is extremely silly. Extremely, extremely silly. It could not possibly be relevant to this discussion.
Actually, it was more supposed to be a compromise than a "classics shall prevail forever." My perspective is more that as long as Romance languages survive, Latin will be decipherable, not that future generations will necessarily come pre-equipped with perfect knowledge. In present-day terms that gives it almost twice as much surface area as English does. I strongly expect that re-discovering the ability to translate Latin will come more easily than Greek.
Realistically I believe that the Information Age will be seen as a second classical era, only on a much larger scale. It seems almost certain that modern English is destined to be codified and preserved much like a new Koine, but until it's a dead language we can't say for certain we know exactly how it will be read—and if words like "suffer" and "protest" can still undergo dramatic twists in meaning like they have, I'd be adverse to using current speech as a standard. Latin, at least, is codified, whether it's classical, ecclesiastical, or modern scientific in form. We can say for certain what words have inverted in meaning in its descendent languages, and safe-guard against them or avoid them entirely.
Similar reasoning has revealed that rich people also hate waiting in line at the bank, filing their taxes, and telemarketers. In fact, rich people are a lot like you and I—it's just that they're the ones who will most likely be the first adopters of the cars being discussed.
But wow, what a summary. Not only did it start with a bizarre rhetorical question, it answered it, with a solution that was obvious to anyone who had ever seen Will Smith chase robots around for two hours! Now all we have left to discuss are minutiae like whether rich people enjoy sleeping in as much as everyone else. Bravo, submitter.
...maybe I should lay off the David Mitchell rants.
Sure, but only because we knew for certain that the images were merely superstitious. If you make a box with micron-perfect edges and then laser a giant death symbol on it, unless the source is discredited completely it's probably going to be taken more seriously than the temple grounds of a religion no one believes in any more.
Oi moi. I love Koine, and in the ancient world you're certainly right (although I don't think it's quite as important as you say it is in the West by the time of Charlemagne), but Latin would still be a better tool for the job today. Latin's influence (including through Vulgar Latin) and language communities far exceed those of Greek; English has far more Latin than Greek (some estimates say as much as 70% of Classical Latin roots could be found in English somewhere once), and 2168 million people speak English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, or Portuguese, and hence would be well-equipped to interpret words from a Latin root; Greek today cannot claim more than a fifth of that in influence (even generously counting Russian as heavily Greek-influenced), and, anyway, the meanings of the words have changed much more dramatically.
But, who knows. Maybe deleterion would carry better in a few hundred thousand years than virus. We'll find out, I guess?
I stole the idea from a post on 4chan's/g/, actually. I don't remember it exactly, but I think there are some newer MacBook Pros that are worse at it than older ones. PC keyboards, naturally, come in a range from $6 junk-heaps to $150 miracle machines—and sometimes the really cheap ones do better than some of the highly-priced ones!
Latin's done that job—and better—for more than two thousand years. If you're going to seriously use Esperanto for something so long-term, make sure it's mutually intelligible.
Personally I'd vote for Munch's The Scream, like was proposed at one point. Maybe with some H. R. Giger to really spook them.
On the contrary, good sir: I have a well-developed loathing for behavioural psychology of all kinds. The paper shoots itself to pieces in the third paragraph of the section on the Gateway Theory, by pointing out another study that found that marijuana usage was likely to precede alcohol or tobacco usage in environments where supervision is sufficiently low and availability is sufficiently high. The premises are garbage, and the authors know it, regardless of how sound the statistics afterwards actually are. We might as well blame coffee for all of society's ills, even though it would probably fail the methodology used in the paper.
But don't let that stop you from making unprovoked, limp-wristed ripostes.
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The claim that TECO does not already have malign sentience shocks and offends me.
Y'know, we'll only laugh at you a little if you stop using caps like that. You're basically holding up a giant red sign that says "I am a paranoid schizophrenic" on it. Instead of complaining about the pharmaceutical industry, why don't you explain why you believe it is immoral that they rake in so much, or outline a plan to amend the current situation?
Not in the OSI model, they're not! They're clearly a 7.
The simple answer is that all of the games will be free to play, at least in part. It kinda makes the piracy scare claims stand out as the obvious FUD they are, even if we don't like the idea of always-on DRM. Whoever keeps saying that the Ouya will lead to high piracy rates for games specifically targeting the thing must be very silly!
Wow. I'm really impressed with the maturity in all of these comments. Now if only other holy wars could be resolved the same way.
Such a shame, too, when Fiery And Large Crewless Orbital Nuisance is available. It's like they're not even trying to do their jobs!
Well, that's the thing—it's actually quite easy to make a hypersonic rocket with a name, but unnaming such a rocket would require more energy than the sun's entire output for a year, as you'd have to eradicate to eliminate all evidence, thought, and mention of the rocket's name from history. It took DARPA contractors decades to come up with a novel method of paperwork shuffling so dense that they could create unnamed rockets that would be completely impenetrable to espionage. Unfortunately, they aren't perfect; it's still possible to give individual rockets names once they're loaded into a vehicle or turret for firing, as at that point they enter the realm of conscious human perception. Despite the potential dire consequences for captured vehicles and compromised air bases, all contractors were paid upfront for the usual budget overruns.
Damn! You're right! Where's Arthur C. Clarke when you need him...
But strangely—probably the first time I've ever seen a lawsuit in the news with a huge amount of money involved and was able to say "I understand exactly how they arrived at that amount, given the circumstances, and in no way do I find it unreasonable or astronomical."
I admittedly don't know a lot about immunology, but I do know that once you have a disease the vaccine is useless. A vaccine is a training sample, meant to be employed in advance so your body knows what to target before the infection gets serious. If you're already infected you've got plenty of data all over the place, you just recognized it too late.
Viruses can most definitely combine in weird ways. There are even these things called coviruses (example), that depend on the presence of other viruses to infect the host cell. The general rule about viruses is that, since they're so unreliable at selecting the DNA they take up when they're recomposed, anything in the genome is a viable target.
However, we don't generally let that happen in medicine—a lot of precautions are taken to prevent bad mixtures like this from being released to the public. It's despicable that the poultry industry didn't test their vaccines more thoroughly before employing them in combination.
Combined vaccines really aren't that novel, actually. Catastrophic side-effects from combining them, on the other hand... well, in human medicine that kind of thing would be rigorously tested in a laboratory first. The use of antibiotics and vaccines in factory farming isn't exactly a health-conscious mindset.
I'm just going to go over here and hit the "please don't say things like that" alarm. That is extremely silly. Extremely, extremely silly. It could not possibly be relevant to this discussion.
Doesn't it bother you that you have to get up in the morning and put on pieces of flair?
Actually, it was more supposed to be a compromise than a "classics shall prevail forever." My perspective is more that as long as Romance languages survive, Latin will be decipherable, not that future generations will necessarily come pre-equipped with perfect knowledge. In present-day terms that gives it almost twice as much surface area as English does. I strongly expect that re-discovering the ability to translate Latin will come more easily than Greek.
Realistically I believe that the Information Age will be seen as a second classical era, only on a much larger scale. It seems almost certain that modern English is destined to be codified and preserved much like a new Koine, but until it's a dead language we can't say for certain we know exactly how it will be read—and if words like "suffer" and "protest" can still undergo dramatic twists in meaning like they have, I'd be adverse to using current speech as a standard. Latin, at least, is codified, whether it's classical, ecclesiastical, or modern scientific in form. We can say for certain what words have inverted in meaning in its descendent languages, and safe-guard against them or avoid them entirely.
I think the danger is more about them setting their internet access loose on the entire world, maybe? I mean, it must be pretty scuzzy.
Similar reasoning has revealed that rich people also hate waiting in line at the bank, filing their taxes, and telemarketers. In fact, rich people are a lot like you and I—it's just that they're the ones who will most likely be the first adopters of the cars being discussed.
But wow, what a summary. Not only did it start with a bizarre rhetorical question, it answered it, with a solution that was obvious to anyone who had ever seen Will Smith chase robots around for two hours! Now all we have left to discuss are minutiae like whether rich people enjoy sleeping in as much as everyone else. Bravo, submitter.
...maybe I should lay off the David Mitchell rants.
Sure, but only because we knew for certain that the images were merely superstitious. If you make a box with micron-perfect edges and then laser a giant death symbol on it, unless the source is discredited completely it's probably going to be taken more seriously than the temple grounds of a religion no one believes in any more.
Oi moi. I love Koine, and in the ancient world you're certainly right (although I don't think it's quite as important as you say it is in the West by the time of Charlemagne), but Latin would still be a better tool for the job today. Latin's influence (including through Vulgar Latin) and language communities far exceed those of Greek; English has far more Latin than Greek (some estimates say as much as 70% of Classical Latin roots could be found in English somewhere once), and 2168 million people speak English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, or Portuguese, and hence would be well-equipped to interpret words from a Latin root; Greek today cannot claim more than a fifth of that in influence (even generously counting Russian as heavily Greek-influenced), and, anyway, the meanings of the words have changed much more dramatically.
But, who knows. Maybe deleterion would carry better in a few hundred thousand years than virus. We'll find out, I guess?
I stole the idea from a post on 4chan's /g/, actually. I don't remember it exactly, but I think there are some newer MacBook Pros that are worse at it than older ones. PC keyboards, naturally, come in a range from $6 junk-heaps to $150 miracle machines—and sometimes the really cheap ones do better than some of the highly-priced ones!
It sadly is. But when you're suffering from sleep deprivation, there's always von Daniken to laugh about!
Latin's done that job—and better—for more than two thousand years. If you're going to seriously use Esperanto for something so long-term, make sure it's mutually intelligible.
Personally I'd vote for Munch's The Scream, like was proposed at one point. Maybe with some H. R. Giger to really spook them.
I sense sarcasm.
Well, at least we'll always have people who say "the El Alamo."
Sorta, but aren't they called senators?
On the contrary, good sir: I have a well-developed loathing for behavioural psychology of all kinds. The paper shoots itself to pieces in the third paragraph of the section on the Gateway Theory, by pointing out another study that found that marijuana usage was likely to precede alcohol or tobacco usage in environments where supervision is sufficiently low and availability is sufficiently high. The premises are garbage, and the authors know it, regardless of how sound the statistics afterwards actually are. We might as well blame coffee for all of society's ills, even though it would probably fail the methodology used in the paper.
But don't let that stop you from making unprovoked, limp-wristed ripostes.