Totally innocent people will inevitably be sacrificed, which is why this idea that you control your destiny is such a laugh.
As much as most, if not all, of what you're saying is spot on. Why try to draw a correlation between the loss of innocent life, and a philosophical perspective like Free-Will and control of your own Destiny? It's a completely different argument.
Robots were sent and it was on Slashdot at the time too. The problem is Robots don't work in radioactive environments unless they have been made for it. You can't harden every existing robot to radiation because they normally don't encounter that level of radiation working in a Car Manufacturing plant. Even we only have 1 facility that specializes in making that kind of equipment. If it's a matter of pride to Japan that "Their" robots didn't help they will find out that the cost to build and maintain that kind of facility is well beyond anything the private sector (Honda) will be willing to put forward.
You have a point. However, if the disease is crippling and ends up resulting in nonviable offspring like Cystic fibrosis then I see no harm in parents who have the risk of having a child with it going and doing IVF and only choosing the offspring that don't have it for conception. Some genetic diseases like Cycle Cell have advantages, but it would be bad to assume that all genetic diseases can result in a benefit.
If you lived in Idaho and watched it go down you'd know better.
The funds aren't being diverted from salaries. Sure salaries are being cut, but Salaries + Tech does not equal what their budget was. They were getting a budget cut ether way. Then Luna decided that this group that paid him money for his campaign should get their little Technology In the Classroom project forced in. The original plan was going to require the local schools to come up with the money coupled with a state wide cut to education which would have required firing some teachers and reducing the number of classes available. However, most of our Rural Schools out in the middle of no were with a population of less than 100 were going to have to find a way raise the funds. Parents also aren't too happy with the idea that they are cutting back on actual teaching even more in-favor of an idiot box baby sitter. I'm all for fixing out Education System but this is just more of the same Politics that has made our Education System what it is today.
PS Idaho is that state that tricked the people into approving a Sales Tax(1966) that would ALL go to education then turned around and said ohh all tax money goes into the General Fund per the State Constitution and the Legislature gets to decide how to spend it.
One thing they are all missing is how the elements relate to one another, and to the real world. A complaint I have about conventional teaching as well.
That's my point. If your options are Conventional Teaching vs Kahn Academy then Kahn Academy will replace Conventional Teaching. Small group peer instruction is far too expensive for anyone except the wealthy to implement, and they already get it and pay for it with private schools.
I'm not sure if I follow your logic in connecting Sexual Orientation Opinion to Libertarians is completely correct. Sure some may and probably do subscribe to that opinion but so do the bluest democrats.
From how Libertarians typically represent their view they present an Organized View of implementing a dismantalling of the government that would lead to exactly what Anarchists(as a political line of thought) want to do. Doing away with the banking system, and just about all forms of government services good or bad is what they like to represent themselves as in regards to Libertarians.
It's not so much that they couldn't buy it using a PC. They are just a different group of people who tend to spend more money then average people. I could have told you that about any Mac or Apple Addict 10 years ago.
So you're blaming the VGA awards? They only stuck to 11.11.11 to make it in time for a 2011 game of the year award, and someone there is crazy about numerology.
On the other hand my wife and I were holding off on merging our cell accounts into one account because of the threat of a merger. Now that the threat is over we can get her off of AT&T, and get her a new phone.
Name Two Wicked Actions That Were Committed In The Name of Eradicating Religion by Atheist.
You may have points against religion in general, but because of your tone you're incapable of seeing that you are as evil as them. Your logic will simply lead you down the same path it does them. Which is, I'm better then them therefore they are less then me. It is dehumanizing logic and is the actual source of the evil that religious people put against others to justify their actions. Atheism isn't immune to committing atrocities. They just have the advantage of saying "they don't represent me". Well if you can do that then the Catholic who has to put up with people hatting him because of some perverted priests molested someone can use the same logic. Which if that's permitted then your entire argument falls to pieces.
But Einstein proposed a way to test it and he was proven wrong with the EPR paradox. To Einstein and Scientists Data is King, and it would be interesting to know what Einstein would have said after the test was done. What you are proposing isn't like Einstein at all and is more like the Space-Genie hypothesis. Science also doesn't believe that "this is as deep as it goes!" otherwise why put any effort into the LHC, Opera, Fermi Lab, or the numerous other labs trying to go deeper? Every Scientist knows that Einsteins Relativity is wrong and that the Standard model is wrong but they are the best we have right now.
So you've gone with the later option. Even a simulation of a reality if reality exists would exist in that reality. My Video Games maybe just a simulation but they are also really just files and data ether in ram or on disk. They really do exist in my observed reality just not from the perspective in the game but from my perspective. If I'm just a simulation then I really do exist in a reality somewhere. However, as a programmer, this simulated reality is an big waste of computational power. It takes far more power to track down a probability waves position and interference in a probability wave as quantum physics outlines then it would have been to just implement a Newtonian version of reality.
Reality?
You doubt the existence of random numbers and your own reality? I would understand doubting one or the other but believing in determinism is the path to believing in an underlying reality. Uncertainty and randomness are the basis of doubting that an absolute underlying reality exists.
Are you trying to have your cake and eat it too?
Incorrectly applying the conservation of information. What you are saying wouldn't work and would violate the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. What would happen is as you did the measurements to that degree you would lose information on the motion of the particles involved as you gained the new information on the position hence the conservation of information. The uncertainty of the choices would still exist and you'd most likely get two different results if his choice had any quantum affects involved.
If you can disprove the uncertainty principal and put determinism back at center stage go ahead. I've yet to see any definitive rebuke of it as much as Einstein would have loved it to just go away.
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Since this is a random number generator deriving random number off of the uncertainty principal all I want to know is where can I get one.
It's mostly just information at the moment about what appears to be actually cyber warfare. Though, lackluster cyber warfare to me, but still cyber warfare. Duqu also clearly does something else but what that is is anyone's guess. It is a bit risky for even a government entry to just up and make a virus. There is always a risk of unintended consequences with them unless you're just some vandal who just wants to see computer systems halt with no real goal.
You're just nit picking now. Those are things that are all available to the public and from the science community they are still debating what those really mean (well some people). The petition was clearly intended to address those people who believe in aliens actively visiting the earth, and that the government is covering it up. Which is pointless because to those people any answer other then "yes there are aliens visiting use" only fuels the thought that the government is covering it up.
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Totally innocent people will inevitably be sacrificed, which is why this idea that you control your destiny is such a laugh.
As much as most, if not all, of what you're saying is spot on. Why try to draw a correlation between the loss of innocent life, and a philosophical perspective like Free-Will and control of your own Destiny? It's a completely different argument.
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Robots were sent and it was on Slashdot at the time too. The problem is Robots don't work in radioactive environments unless they have been made for it. You can't harden every existing robot to radiation because they normally don't encounter that level of radiation working in a Car Manufacturing plant. Even we only have 1 facility that specializes in making that kind of equipment. If it's a matter of pride to Japan that "Their" robots didn't help they will find out that the cost to build and maintain that kind of facility is well beyond anything the private sector (Honda) will be willing to put forward.
You have a point. However, if the disease is crippling and ends up resulting in nonviable offspring like Cystic fibrosis then I see no harm in parents who have the risk of having a child with it going and doing IVF and only choosing the offspring that don't have it for conception. Some genetic diseases like Cycle Cell have advantages, but it would be bad to assume that all genetic diseases can result in a benefit.
The funds aren't being diverted from salaries. Sure salaries are being cut, but Salaries + Tech does not equal what their budget was. They were getting a budget cut ether way. Then Luna decided that this group that paid him money for his campaign should get their little Technology In the Classroom project forced in. The original plan was going to require the local schools to come up with the money coupled with a state wide cut to education which would have required firing some teachers and reducing the number of classes available. However, most of our Rural Schools out in the middle of no were with a population of less than 100 were going to have to find a way raise the funds. Parents also aren't too happy with the idea that they are cutting back on actual teaching even more in-favor of an idiot box baby sitter. I'm all for fixing out Education System but this is just more of the same Politics that has made our Education System what it is today.
PS Idaho is that state that tricked the people into approving a Sales Tax(1966) that would ALL go to education then turned around and said ohh all tax money goes into the General Fund per the State Constitution and the Legislature gets to decide how to spend it.
One thing they are all missing is how the elements relate to one another, and to the real world. A complaint I have about conventional teaching as well.
That's my point. If your options are Conventional Teaching vs Kahn Academy then Kahn Academy will replace Conventional Teaching. Small group peer instruction is far too expensive for anyone except the wealthy to implement, and they already get it and pay for it with private schools.
Then Kahn Academy will replace all the schools given enough time.
I'm not sure if I follow your logic in connecting Sexual Orientation Opinion to Libertarians is completely correct. Sure some may and probably do subscribe to that opinion but so do the bluest democrats. From how Libertarians typically represent their view they present an Organized View of implementing a dismantalling of the government that would lead to exactly what Anarchists(as a political line of thought) want to do. Doing away with the banking system, and just about all forms of government services good or bad is what they like to represent themselves as in regards to Libertarians.
But it is a platform
It's not so much that they couldn't buy it using a PC. They are just a different group of people who tend to spend more money then average people. I could have told you that about any Mac or Apple Addict 10 years ago.
Have you run into any issues involving parallel programming in game design, and how did you over come them?
These aren't new though. They are pre-existing. We're just now finding out that many of the cancers out there are virally caused.
Can it be modified to cause autism in Jenny McCarthy?
So you're blaming the VGA awards? They only stuck to 11.11.11 to make it in time for a 2011 game of the year award, and someone there is crazy about numerology.
On the other hand my wife and I were holding off on merging our cell accounts into one account because of the threat of a merger. Now that the threat is over we can get her off of AT&T, and get her a new phone.
Name Two Wicked Actions That Were Committed In The Name of Eradicating Religion by Atheist. You may have points against religion in general, but because of your tone you're incapable of seeing that you are as evil as them. Your logic will simply lead you down the same path it does them. Which is, I'm better then them therefore they are less then me. It is dehumanizing logic and is the actual source of the evil that religious people put against others to justify their actions. Atheism isn't immune to committing atrocities. They just have the advantage of saying "they don't represent me". Well if you can do that then the Catholic who has to put up with people hatting him because of some perverted priests molested someone can use the same logic. Which if that's permitted then your entire argument falls to pieces.
If its being run under a quantum computer then it puts Uncertainty ahead of Determinism.
But Einstein proposed a way to test it and he was proven wrong with the EPR paradox. To Einstein and Scientists Data is King, and it would be interesting to know what Einstein would have said after the test was done. What you are proposing isn't like Einstein at all and is more like the Space-Genie hypothesis. Science also doesn't believe that "this is as deep as it goes!" otherwise why put any effort into the LHC, Opera, Fermi Lab, or the numerous other labs trying to go deeper? Every Scientist knows that Einsteins Relativity is wrong and that the Standard model is wrong but they are the best we have right now.
So you've gone with the later option. Even a simulation of a reality if reality exists would exist in that reality. My Video Games maybe just a simulation but they are also really just files and data ether in ram or on disk. They really do exist in my observed reality just not from the perspective in the game but from my perspective. If I'm just a simulation then I really do exist in a reality somewhere. However, as a programmer, this simulated reality is an big waste of computational power. It takes far more power to track down a probability waves position and interference in a probability wave as quantum physics outlines then it would have been to just implement a Newtonian version of reality.
Reality? You doubt the existence of random numbers and your own reality? I would understand doubting one or the other but believing in determinism is the path to believing in an underlying reality. Uncertainty and randomness are the basis of doubting that an absolute underlying reality exists. Are you trying to have your cake and eat it too?
Incorrectly applying the conservation of information. What you are saying wouldn't work and would violate the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. What would happen is as you did the measurements to that degree you would lose information on the motion of the particles involved as you gained the new information on the position hence the conservation of information. The uncertainty of the choices would still exist and you'd most likely get two different results if his choice had any quantum affects involved.
The Old One Doesn't Play Dice
Since this is a random number generator deriving random number off of the uncertainty principal all I want to know is where can I get one.
I see your Fermi Paradox and raise you one Universal Flu Vaccine
It's mostly just information at the moment about what appears to be actually cyber warfare. Though, lackluster cyber warfare to me, but still cyber warfare. Duqu also clearly does something else but what that is is anyone's guess. It is a bit risky for even a government entry to just up and make a virus. There is always a risk of unintended consequences with them unless you're just some vandal who just wants to see computer systems halt with no real goal.
You're just nit picking now. Those are things that are all available to the public and from the science community they are still debating what those really mean (well some people). The petition was clearly intended to address those people who believe in aliens actively visiting the earth, and that the government is covering it up. Which is pointless because to those people any answer other then "yes there are aliens visiting use" only fuels the thought that the government is covering it up.