One problem with your hypothesis: If the entire race goes into a machine-aided trance of mindless hedonism and nothing breaks by the time the last man goes into his VR chair, then machines must be able to run the world all on their own. There would be no possible event that would destroy the machine civilization that wouldn't have destroyed a human civilization.
Normally, I'd say let them do what they want, but here the people who bought the PS3 for the Linux functionality had no idea that it would soon be taken away, so Sony made them throw away a few hundred dollars for nothing.
So, when exactly were all of these other institutions going to get around to providing any of this stuff? People keep saying if we got rid of the government the private sector would provide, but the fact is the private sector worked without significant government intervention for quite a long time, and it sucked ass for anyone not belonging to the moneyed elite
Correlation is not causation, big time. All of these changes happened in the last two centuries, which also happened to be the time when technology changed us from being an agrarian society with muskets to having a globalized, interconnected computer network transmitting millions of books' worth of information around every second. Don't you think most of the improvements in our society were because of that, rather than a few changes in government?
LD50 of Tetrahydrocannabinol (active ingredient in marijuana): 700 mg/kg LD50 of water: 9000 mg/kg LD50 of cyanide: 1.1 mg/kg LD50 of botulinum toxin: 0.000005 mg/kg
The scale is very wide, 150-200 and 40-60 are actually quite close.
And if c really is the speed limit, and space being that big, maybe nobody is interested in investing now in a ship which would return with the goods in 1000 years.
Or, alternatively:
Terran President: Ok, Alpha Centauri expedition, go to Alpha Centauri, and mine the resources and send 20% of what you get to us because you're our colony.
Alpha Centauri Expedition: Ok!
(15 years later)
ACE: Ok, we arrived at Alpha Centauri, let's start mining now.
ACE: Wait, why do we have to send 20% to them again? It's not like they're doing anything for us.
(30 years later, TP finally finds out what's going on)
TP: Wait, why aren't they doing their colonial duties? Let's send an interstellar war fleet and enforce our will with an iron fist! After all, they're just a puny colony.
ACE: Unfortunately for you, we, with our planet full of fresh unmined resources, have actually grown quite big...
(15 years later, TP and ACE's respective interstellar war fleets reach each other, nuclear war ensues, 4 billion casualties)
Rinse and repeat. Expansion would turn out to be a very slow and painful process if that were to happen.
Canada doesn't have a proportional system so it's not as much of a problem there.
We instead have the problem where if you have less than 15% of the vote, unless you're a single issue party dedicated to one region like the Bloc, you have no power at all (see: Green party). I prefer having actual democracy to cycling back and forth between two major parties as soon as the current one does too many things you don't like.
Property in this case refers to land. And there is nothing unreasonable about rejecting the idea that a person has a natural right to prevent 6.8 billion other people from even harmlessly treading on a certain patch of land just because.
Maybe am I just ancient, but is it a "sport" to repeatedly fall forward and catch yourself with alternating legs as fast as you can for 42 kilometers? When I grew up, sport was something that involved skill, not just raw muscle power.
I know, it'll be great. Let's go and ban all the other undesirable elements of society while we're at it, and productivity will shoot through the roof! I say start with alcohol.
1) It's a rule about a'po's'tro'phe usage, I don't know where you're getting this word "apostrophe" from. 2) You don't say "there was a memo", you say "they're was a memo"
Thank you, I was just about to say this. I always get surprised that people are willing to put up with an entertainment system that THEY have to maneuver their schedule around.
If IP businesses were taxed at 80% and redistributed in a Marxist-like system, then maybe there would be a connection between IP and overall employment, but not as it stands today.
I like Stallman's idea regarding this:
But the state should not distribute it in linear proportion to popularity, because that would give most of it to a few superstars, leaving little to support all the other artists. I therefore recommend using a cube-root function or something similar. With linear proportion, superstar A with 1000 times the popularity of a successful artist B will get 1000 times as much money as B. With the cube root, A will get 10 times as much as B. Thus, each superstar gets a larger share than a less popular artist, but most of the funds go to the artists who really need this support. This system will use our tax money efficiently to support the arts.
PS3 most definitely IS a computer. It has a processor and can (barring deliberate attempts to prevent it) run arbitrary code. If it's just a game console, then why do people use them to crack encryption/hashing algorithms?
It may be a locked down computer, but it's still a computer that works exactly like a desktop or laptop computer underneath.
"Forcing our schools to instruct children on how to utilize contraceptives encourages our children to engage in sexual behavior, whether as a victim or an offender," he wrote. "It is akin to teaching children about alcohol use, then instructing them on how to make mixed alcoholic drinks."
No, it's akin to teaching children about alcohol use, then teaching them how to say no to the second bottle of beer. They're not teaching people sex positions here, they're providing (or at least trying to provide) basic safety advice.
And here the correct one is precision. Accuracy implies the existence of an absolute standard of time to compare them to, which doesn't exist. If something is precise, it's not necessarily being accurate ("correct"), but it's being consistent.
A 128 bit key is not necessarily 128 bits of randomness. It could just as easily be a 16-character password than Wikileaks broke by assuming every character is in [A-Za-z0-9 ] and doing a more manageable brute force from there.
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One problem with your hypothesis: If the entire race goes into a machine-aided trance of mindless hedonism and nothing breaks by the time the last man goes into his VR chair, then machines must be able to run the world all on their own. There would be no possible event that would destroy the machine civilization that wouldn't have destroyed a human civilization.
Don't worry, I'm sure she's an expert at interplanetary relations. After all, she can see the moon from her house.
Normally, I'd say let them do what they want, but here the people who bought the PS3 for the Linux functionality had no idea that it would soon be taken away, so Sony made them throw away a few hundred dollars for nothing.
So, when exactly were all of these other institutions going to get around to providing any of this stuff? People keep saying if we got rid of the government the private sector would provide, but the fact is the private sector worked without significant government intervention for quite a long time, and it sucked ass for anyone not belonging to the moneyed elite
Correlation is not causation, big time. All of these changes happened in the last two centuries, which also happened to be the time when technology changed us from being an agrarian society with muskets to having a globalized, interconnected computer network transmitting millions of books' worth of information around every second. Don't you think most of the improvements in our society were because of that, rather than a few changes in government?
LD50 of Tetrahydrocannabinol (active ingredient in marijuana): 700 mg/kg
LD50 of water: 9000 mg/kg
LD50 of cyanide: 1.1 mg/kg
LD50 of botulinum toxin: 0.000005 mg/kg
The scale is very wide, 150-200 and 40-60 are actually quite close.
And if c really is the speed limit, and space being that big, maybe nobody is interested in investing now in a ship which would return with the goods in 1000 years.
Or, alternatively:
Terran President: Ok, Alpha Centauri expedition, go to Alpha Centauri, and mine the resources and send 20% of what you get to us because you're our colony.
Alpha Centauri Expedition: Ok!
(15 years later)
ACE: Ok, we arrived at Alpha Centauri, let's start mining now.
ACE: Wait, why do we have to send 20% to them again? It's not like they're doing anything for us.
(30 years later, TP finally finds out what's going on)
TP: Wait, why aren't they doing their colonial duties? Let's send an interstellar war fleet and enforce our will with an iron fist! After all, they're just a puny colony.
ACE: Unfortunately for you, we, with our planet full of fresh unmined resources, have actually grown quite big...
(15 years later, TP and ACE's respective interstellar war fleets reach each other, nuclear war ensues, 4 billion casualties)
Rinse and repeat. Expansion would turn out to be a very slow and painful process if that were to happen.
When does English get to become inflected again like all the cool languages?
Don't you mean:
When do English get to become inflect again like all the cool language?
Canada doesn't have a proportional system so it's not as much of a problem there.
We instead have the problem where if you have less than 15% of the vote, unless you're a single issue party dedicated to one region like the Bloc, you have no power at all (see: Green party). I prefer having actual democracy to cycling back and forth between two major parties as soon as the current one does too many things you don't like.
Property in this case refers to land. And there is nothing unreasonable about rejecting the idea that a person has a natural right to prevent 6.8 billion other people from even harmlessly treading on a certain patch of land just because.
Worst haiku ever
The winter of my disgust
is registered
Even worse haiku
The syllables don't even match up
Burma Shave
I tried to up my game, but instead I just lost it.
Maybe am I just ancient, but is it a "sport" to repeatedly fall forward and catch yourself with alternating legs as fast as you can for 42 kilometers? When I grew up, sport was something that involved skill, not just raw muscle power.
I know, it'll be great. Let's go and ban all the other undesirable elements of society while we're at it, and productivity will shoot through the roof! I say start with alcohol.
Yes the rules have changed, but:
1) It's a rule about a'po's'tro'phe usage, I don't know where you're getting this word "apostrophe" from.
2) You don't say "there was a memo", you say "they're was a memo"
Than'queue for you're co'operation.
Thank you, I was just about to say this. I always get surprised that people are willing to put up with an entertainment system that THEY have to maneuver their schedule around.
3x + 5
There, you know two binomials again.
With the kinds of things Bill Gates did, I don't know if even 640' C would be enough.
Hi, would you like to buy a copy of $BOOK_WE_NO_LONGER_CARE_ABOUT for $49,225?
If IP businesses were taxed at 80% and redistributed in a Marxist-like system, then maybe there would be a connection between IP and overall employment, but not as it stands today.
I like Stallman's idea regarding this:
But the state should not distribute it in linear proportion to popularity, because that would give most of it to a few superstars, leaving little to support all the other artists. I therefore recommend using a cube-root function or something similar. With linear proportion, superstar A with 1000 times the popularity of a successful artist B will get 1000 times as much money as B. With the cube root, A will get 10 times as much as B. Thus, each superstar gets a larger share than a less popular artist, but most of the funds go to the artists who really need this support. This system will use our tax money efficiently to support the arts.
PS3 most definitely IS a computer. It has a processor and can (barring deliberate attempts to prevent it) run arbitrary code. If it's just a game console, then why do people use them to crack encryption/hashing algorithms?
It may be a locked down computer, but it's still a computer that works exactly like a desktop or laptop computer underneath.
"Forcing our schools to instruct children on how to utilize contraceptives encourages our children to engage in sexual behavior, whether as a victim or an offender," he wrote. "It is akin to teaching children about alcohol use, then instructing them on how to make mixed alcoholic drinks."
No, it's akin to teaching children about alcohol use, then teaching them how to say no to the second bottle of beer. They're not teaching people sex positions here, they're providing (or at least trying to provide) basic safety advice.
Number of computer users worldwide = 1.2 billion (taken from various estimates)
Linux market share = 1.12% (composite of various sources)
Ubuntu market share = 50% of Linux (source = same Wikipedia article)
This gives us 1.2 billion * 0.0112 * 0.5 = 7 million Ubuntu users worldwide.
And here the correct one is precision. Accuracy implies the existence of an absolute standard of time to compare them to, which doesn't exist. If something is precise, it's not necessarily being accurate ("correct"), but it's being consistent.
A child that realizes this power and is willing to wield it....what could a parent really do?
Not create an adversarial relationship with your child?
A 128 bit key is not necessarily 128 bits of randomness. It could just as easily be a 16-character password than Wikileaks broke by assuming every character is in [A-Za-z0-9 ] and doing a more manageable brute force from there.