Not sure where you're going with that. As for as I can tell, people often consider it an insult if you lower something like that to the level of a thing.
ethics plural noun: ethics; noun: ethics
1.
moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity.
"medical ethics also enter into the question"
synonyms: moral code, morals, morality, values, rights and wrongs, principles, ideals, standards (of behavior), value system, virtues, dictates of conscience
"your so-called newspaper is clearly not burdened by a sense of ethics"
the moral correctness of specified conduct.
"many scientists question the ethics of cruel experiments"
2.
the branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles.
Seconded. If he thinks computers will have human level intelligence in 12 years, then he might not be intelligent enough to understand, what human (or animal) intelligence is, and that computers aren't on that path.
"And no one on any side is brave enough to say the solution to reverse or at least slow down climate change is reducing the number of people on the planet"
No. The first thing to do is reduce the pollution, which is easy and makes sense socially, reducing the number of persons so others can go on polluting too much is an ideological non-solution and makes no sense socially.
Ah! as I implied, I hadn't thought it through. Maybe everyone could shift by a half hour, but I guess that depends at minimum on whether that would make sense for those living in equatorial regions.
In case I wasn't clear, I mean that instead of DST being a one hour change make it a half hour change then stick to that as standard time and don't change it anymore.
"You are.. seriously saying self-driving cars won't work for the "next few centuries"?... Once you have the code..."
That doesn't contradict what he said.
Maybe before that we'll have cars, and roads and stuff, talking to each other, in effect resulting in self driving cars, but that's not what people usually men these days by self driving cars.
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Where's the argument showing Trump has been the most truthful head of state.
Like most religions it can be interpreted as such, and like most religions it can also be interpreted and used as a political tool to motivate hate.
Not sure where you're going with that. As for as I can tell, people often consider it an insult if you lower something like that to the level of a thing.
You tell me. If Islam is a thing then it is nothing different than all the other things.
Is idiocy a thing like all other things?
"I wish it were as simple as deprecating islam"
I don't. Along with similar concepts. And Islam isn't a thing.
ethics
plural noun: ethics; noun: ethics
1.
moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity.
"medical ethics also enter into the question"
synonyms: moral code, morals, morality, values, rights and wrongs, principles, ideals, standards (of behavior), value system, virtues, dictates of conscience
"your so-called newspaper is clearly not burdened by a sense of ethics"
the moral correctness of specified conduct.
"many scientists question the ethics of cruel experiments"
2.
the branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles.
FFS, take an Ethics class. You have no clue.
If he released his 2005 tax return does that mean, his past claims that he can't release his tax returns because he's being audited, were all lies?
That was not what I meant. Not sure anymore what I actually meant. What I wrote is pretty meaningless.
and with turtle pigs, and white tie vultures, all together, out of Africa, and holding hands.
You know, like a daily, a rag, or a sheet
""How are people going to go about their daily lives when a machine will do a task requested of them by a person or machine?"
In high luxury? Because it will be the rich that have robots?
Not sure where you're going with your question or what 'people' your referring to.
Seconded. If he thinks computers will have human level intelligence in 12 years, then he might not be intelligent enough to understand, what human (or animal) intelligence is, and that computers aren't on that path.
"And no one on any side is brave enough to say the solution to reverse or at least slow down climate change is reducing the number of people on the planet"
No. The first thing to do is reduce the pollution, which is easy and makes sense socially, reducing the number of persons so others can go on polluting too much is an ideological non-solution and makes no sense socially.
Yes too
Ah! as I implied, I hadn't thought it through. Maybe everyone could shift by a half hour, but I guess that depends at minimum on whether that would make sense for those living in equatorial regions.
In case I wasn't clear, I mean that instead of DST being a one hour change make it a half hour change then stick to that as standard time and don't change it anymore.
What about setting time to halfway in between and then sticking to that.
Yes, that's exactly the kind of stuff I meant.
"You are.. seriously saying self-driving cars won't work for the "next few centuries"? ... Once you have the code ..."
That doesn't contradict what he said.
Maybe before that we'll have cars, and roads and stuff, talking to each other, in effect resulting in self driving cars, but that's not what people usually men these days by self driving cars.
or a democrat depending on your inclination, gotta love that intellectual sloth
"The text continues with that faulty implication which indicates the writer actually meant that rather than making the implication by mistake"
Could you tell me what you mean by 'that faulty implication' ?
2.45 ghz is the common frequency rating for microwave ovens. Food gets heated in a microwave mainly through the excitation of water molecules.
"2.45 ghz is the common frequency for microwave ovens, which excite water molecules"
Sounds about right to me.
Why do you question something he didn't say?