For laws that are even less specific, would you prefer to have the ability (or let others have the ability) to marry animals or inanimate objects?
False equivalence. One is a conscious, sentient adult, the other is an animal. Or an inanimate object.
Not that I want to be associated with the anti gay marriage crowd in the slightest.... but humans are animals, conscious/sentient (in the way I presume you intend) are extremely poorly defined, and all mammals I know of have a period of adulthood, many plants do too.
I have an idea... don't buy the DLC. We can call this exercise of freedom of choice in spending, hm... capital punishment, wait, no... capitalism maybe? Or we could call it a boycott, it doesn't roll off the tongue the same but the upside is that we can call not buying the game at all a mancott. Mancotts are powerful because you can use all that time saved from not gaming to build that DLCBS resistance movement. Mancotts are not to be confused with ascots, apricots, mascots, Madoffs, or men in cots, which are all powerful in various other respects for various other non-revolutionary reasons.
I used to be super-excited too, until I realized that there's probably nowhere near enough easily accessible copper to affordably produce hundreds of millions of electric motors big enough to push all these really heavy 5 passenger/1 occupant cars around.
Also, the Prius IS a fad; a 3,000 lb multi-engine 5-door hatchback is not a sustainable platform (even if you throw a dead-weight, useless solar panel on the roof). If we want a huge jump in energy efficiency, the first and technically easiest step is moving to ultralight single passenger vehicles, regardless of what fuel is used to power them. Less than 1% of the energy received from burning gasoline is used to propel the driver.
Not so much. I have a really loud stereo because *I* like it, not because I want attention; quite the opposite actually, I get really uncomfortable and stressed out when people focus on me (obviously, given that i'm posting here). A slashdot user with a loud stereo shouldn't be surprising... I like music, math, physics and electronics, and a serious car stereo is an obvious intersection of these sets. As a geek it's pretty exciting to blow a 65 amp fuse, to play with bridged amps, a big capacitor and 1-gauge wire.
It's strange that it costs the music industry so much to make music--I just made (and recorded!) 45 minutes of music and it cost me virtually nothing. How on earth can these people expect to remain profitable while having such a stupendously idiotic business model? OH wait I get it, just have the government add a "music tax" to products from completely separate sectors and the industry will never die, they wouldn't even have to produce music to make money anymore... it's genius.
YES!! One of these days clear thinking will prevail. It may not be The Final Solution, but it'd certainly put a big dent in the problem. I actually wrote a blog post somewhat frighteningly similar to your post back in July: http://rootproblem.blogspot.com/2009/07/stranger-than-fiction.html
Of course I couldn't begin to accuse you of plagiarizing my writing because, well, nobody reads my blog except for me:P
They should have learned from Apple and not made the same stupid mistake they made with the first "iPod phone," the Motorola E790 Apple iTunes phone.
Further, there are other phones that have features worthy of competing with the iPhone; just the other day somebody was showing me high-speed video of surprising quality (of a stray flying remote hitting someone in the face, incidentally), taken with their phone.
You know, the TV has an off button. It's the damnedest thing, you press it once and suddenly you have all kinds of time. Soon you realize that you don't have to waste your life watching television, that instead of approaching a comatose state in front of the blinky-flashy hypno box you are Free to pursue personally rewarding and meaningful activities. FSM knows the next Thomas Edison isn't going to be a TV watcher.
I recall from the "Battle of the X-Planes" Nova (here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/xplanes/ ) that Boeing had similar difficulties in forming the composite body for their JSF design. Since the composite was formed in-house, I don't think it makes sense to blame the contractor in this case. If anything, I think it just goes to show how difficult it is (for anyone) to produce carbon fiber composite to the degree of precision aircraft specifications require.
OTOH, what ever happened to the self-healing carbon composite I read about in Popular Science years ago?
Life's emergence from random molecular tidbits made of atoms which were forged in the center of stars, redistributed by supernovae to eventually coalesce into the planet Earth with adequate quantity and diversity for it to not only exist but thrive is beyond incredible, it's simply inconceivable. I'm glad you're realizing how absofuckinglutely amazing life really is though, not enough people do. Maybe if they did, the world could be a more pleasant place filled with people satisfied just to be experiencing this highly improbable thing called life... lol, yeah nevermind.
Sure, we could emulate the functioning of parts of the brain using our modern computers, but pretty soon it won't make a lot of sense; memristors have functionality that is reminiscent of neurons, and it is not difficult to imagine their utilization for a silicon implementation of the neocortex.
Just to nitpick, there are many ways in which these restrictions do not apply. For instance, in most states older cars do not need to pass any emissions tests, and some safety requirements are omitted as well - I have a vehicle made in 1964 and seatbelts are optional (as they were at the time, they constituted an upgrade option when purchasing the car). They might as well be optional anyway, no airbags, no headrest and a metal dashboard/steering wheel make the lap belts downright counter-productive. Just the same, when I dropped a new engine in the car and reconditioned the whole drivetrain I could have rolled back the odometer and presented it as accurate afaik, though I didn't bother.
There are still a few news outlets that publish real news regardless of what any government or corporation might think. I highly suggest Harper's magazine (harpers.org). Fairly often they publish something that has me frothing at the mouth and ready to riot. Even for more benign stories they have some astounding journalism going on.
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False equivalence. One is a conscious, sentient adult, the other is an animal. Or an inanimate object.
Not that I want to be associated with the anti gay marriage crowd in the slightest.... but humans are animals, conscious/sentient (in the way I presume you intend) are extremely poorly defined, and all mammals I know of have a period of adulthood, many plants do too.
I have an idea... don't buy the DLC. We can call this exercise of freedom of choice in spending, hm... capital punishment, wait, no... capitalism maybe? Or we could call it a boycott, it doesn't roll off the tongue the same but the upside is that we can call not buying the game at all a mancott. Mancotts are powerful because you can use all that time saved from not gaming to build that DLCBS resistance movement. Mancotts are not to be confused with ascots, apricots, mascots, Madoffs, or men in cots, which are all powerful in various other respects for various other non-revolutionary reasons.
I used to be super-excited too, until I realized that there's probably nowhere near enough easily accessible copper to affordably produce hundreds of millions of electric motors big enough to push all these really heavy 5 passenger/1 occupant cars around. Also, the Prius IS a fad; a 3,000 lb multi-engine 5-door hatchback is not a sustainable platform (even if you throw a dead-weight, useless solar panel on the roof). If we want a huge jump in energy efficiency, the first and technically easiest step is moving to ultralight single passenger vehicles, regardless of what fuel is used to power them. Less than 1% of the energy received from burning gasoline is used to propel the driver.
Not so much. I have a really loud stereo because *I* like it, not because I want attention; quite the opposite actually, I get really uncomfortable and stressed out when people focus on me (obviously, given that i'm posting here). A slashdot user with a loud stereo shouldn't be surprising... I like music, math, physics and electronics, and a serious car stereo is an obvious intersection of these sets. As a geek it's pretty exciting to blow a 65 amp fuse, to play with bridged amps, a big capacitor and 1-gauge wire.
It's strange that it costs the music industry so much to make music--I just made (and recorded!) 45 minutes of music and it cost me virtually nothing. How on earth can these people expect to remain profitable while having such a stupendously idiotic business model? OH wait I get it, just have the government add a "music tax" to products from completely separate sectors and the industry will never die, they wouldn't even have to produce music to make money anymore... it's genius.
YES!! One of these days clear thinking will prevail. It may not be The Final Solution, but it'd certainly put a big dent in the problem. I actually wrote a blog post somewhat frighteningly similar to your post back in July: http://rootproblem.blogspot.com/2009/07/stranger-than-fiction.html Of course I couldn't begin to accuse you of plagiarizing my writing because, well, nobody reads my blog except for me :P
They should have learned from Apple and not made the same stupid mistake they made with the first "iPod phone," the Motorola E790 Apple iTunes phone. Further, there are other phones that have features worthy of competing with the iPhone; just the other day somebody was showing me high-speed video of surprising quality (of a stray flying remote hitting someone in the face, incidentally), taken with their phone.
You've got me there, Cosmos pretty much changed my life, so I guess I owe television some credit.
You know, the TV has an off button. It's the damnedest thing, you press it once and suddenly you have all kinds of time. Soon you realize that you don't have to waste your life watching television, that instead of approaching a comatose state in front of the blinky-flashy hypno box you are Free to pursue personally rewarding and meaningful activities. FSM knows the next Thomas Edison isn't going to be a TV watcher.
I recall from the "Battle of the X-Planes" Nova (here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/xplanes/ ) that Boeing had similar difficulties in forming the composite body for their JSF design. Since the composite was formed in-house, I don't think it makes sense to blame the contractor in this case. If anything, I think it just goes to show how difficult it is (for anyone) to produce carbon fiber composite to the degree of precision aircraft specifications require. OTOH, what ever happened to the self-healing carbon composite I read about in Popular Science years ago?
Life's emergence from random molecular tidbits made of atoms which were forged in the center of stars, redistributed by supernovae to eventually coalesce into the planet Earth with adequate quantity and diversity for it to not only exist but thrive is beyond incredible, it's simply inconceivable. I'm glad you're realizing how absofuckinglutely amazing life really is though, not enough people do. Maybe if they did, the world could be a more pleasant place filled with people satisfied just to be experiencing this highly improbable thing called life... lol, yeah nevermind.
Sure, we could emulate the functioning of parts of the brain using our modern computers, but pretty soon it won't make a lot of sense; memristors have functionality that is reminiscent of neurons, and it is not difficult to imagine their utilization for a silicon implementation of the neocortex.
Just to nitpick, there are many ways in which these restrictions do not apply. For instance, in most states older cars do not need to pass any emissions tests, and some safety requirements are omitted as well - I have a vehicle made in 1964 and seatbelts are optional (as they were at the time, they constituted an upgrade option when purchasing the car). They might as well be optional anyway, no airbags, no headrest and a metal dashboard/steering wheel make the lap belts downright counter-productive. Just the same, when I dropped a new engine in the car and reconditioned the whole drivetrain I could have rolled back the odometer and presented it as accurate afaik, though I didn't bother.
There are still a few news outlets that publish real news regardless of what any government or corporation might think. I highly suggest Harper's magazine (harpers.org). Fairly often they publish something that has me frothing at the mouth and ready to riot. Even for more benign stories they have some astounding journalism going on.
Wait a minute, how do they plan on finding the nearest possible node? Isn't that an example of the traveling salesman problem?