Absolutely, the bolt gun used in slaughter houses is the best way. However a slit throat is not a "slow bleed". It's a nearly instantaneous loss of blood pressure to the brain. No blood pressure means no oxygen delivery to the brain.
Have you ever experience postural hypotension? That's where you stand up rapidly, and lose blood pressure to the brain for a few seconds until your blood can catch up. Normal people can get light headed from this, and those with low blood pressure can pass right out.
Now if that momentary decrease of blood pressure can cause someone to pass out that rapidly, what do you think cutting the source of blood is going to do?
Cutting the throat leads to a massive drop in blood pressure. That leads very rapidly to unconsciousness. The idea that one could remain conscious for a few seconds after decapitation is bunk.
Properly done, shooting is a better option as it will destroy parts of the brain that would perceive danger or pain. However that takes more skill. You could easily shoot the wrong part of the brain, and leave an incapacitated goat to slowly bleed out.
Goat is freaking awesome. Like mutton, but less grassy. The best thing about eating goat is that you're essentially guaranteed that it wasn't raised on a factory farm.
You'd think so, but people have successfully argued for trademarks on images of e.g. the exterior of the Empire State Building.
The real overreach here is the NYSE thinking that a trademark means they get to control all use of the trademark. In reality, trademarks only cover uses that could be confused with legitimate use.
If TPM were to open a stock trading floor, then they'd have something to worry about. As a publisher, they have as much right to publish photos of the NYSE floor as they do the Windows logo in a relevant article.
You could say the same about many industries. How many coal miners are there because they want to mine coal? It's because they have no other choices, are doing it for low pay, in bad conditions, and could even lose their lives. Therefore it's immoral to support an industry based on exploitation of human beings.
This isn't an argument against porn. It's an argument in favor of eliminating poverty and providing meaningful worker protections in all industries. I would very much agree with that form of the argument.
Absolutely correct. This is the true American Taliban. Even the Westboro Baptist Church is superior to these people, as even they are able to appreciate that free speech protects everyone.
Sure. Let them live by their own rules for a while and see how they like it. They argue that offensive subjects should be censored. I find censorship more offensive than anything that's ever been censored. Exposing children to pro-censorship beliefs is vastly more harmful than exposing them to pornography. Therefore, by their own argument their website should be taken down.
This is why free speech has to protect even the most offensive garbage you can imagine. No matter who you are, someone is going to find your speech offensive.
"Complaint mobs" are exactly the kind of tactic supposedly christian moralizers use to keep free expression off the airwaves. For instance, the Parents Television Council is responsible for 99% of FCC complaints.
As far as I'm concerned, it's time the pro-censorship crowd gets a taste of their own medicine.
I don't think I said anything with certainty about quantum mechanics. I remarked on Penrose's faulty logic and lack of evidence. It's certainly possible that QM is involved in consciousness, but until there's some evidence suggesting it I'll have to invoke Occam.
This is surprisingly common among physicists. Schrodinger for instance believed in vitalism. Which is essentially the same thing, but about 'life' instead of 'consciousness'.
Consciousness is weird. Quantum theory is weird. Therefore quantum theory must explain consciousness.
That's essentially the argument here, and it's pretty easily seen as fallacious. There's no actual evidence that consciousness requires quantum mechanics, besides the trivial fact that our brains are chemical computers and chemistry requires quantum mechanics.
Trumped by the commerce clause and general welfare clause
Hey, that's convenient. Any time you cross state lines, you're engaging in interstate commerce. That means the 4th amendment doesn't apply!
Hold on! Even if you're not crossing state lines, you might have drugs in the trunk! That means we can search your car due to the general welfare clause.
You could also argue it is not an unreasonable search
That would be a laugh!
If the commerce clause and general welfare clause work the way you think they do, than none of the protections in the constitution are any protection at all. We might as well scrap the entire bill of rights. Oh wait, we already have.
You are correct, but things do not actually work this way. Our Supreme Court is too corrupt to actually apply common sense when reading the Constitution.
Why? I know Ubuntu is the standard recommendation for grandma these days, but what makes you think it's particularly appropriate for a computational cluster? For instance, do you really need GNOME on a high performance cluster?
Yes, of course it does. There's a reason the Nintendo DS still ships with physical buttons. There's a reason no game console has shipped a touchscreen only controller.
The only real disadvantage of physical buttons is that you can't reconfigure their physical position in software. That is not actually very useful.
The 5.25" floppies probably are. I have a number of vintage computers. In my experience you can pretty much count on properly stored 5.25" floppies to work. 3.5" floppies are almost entirely unreadable on the other hand.
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If it's free fall, it would be 3 minutes of weightlessness. The end would be quite abrupt.
Absolutely, the bolt gun used in slaughter houses is the best way. However a slit throat is not a "slow bleed". It's a nearly instantaneous loss of blood pressure to the brain. No blood pressure means no oxygen delivery to the brain.
Have you ever experience postural hypotension? That's where you stand up rapidly, and lose blood pressure to the brain for a few seconds until your blood can catch up. Normal people can get light headed from this, and those with low blood pressure can pass right out.
Now if that momentary decrease of blood pressure can cause someone to pass out that rapidly, what do you think cutting the source of blood is going to do?
Cutting the throat leads to a massive drop in blood pressure. That leads very rapidly to unconsciousness. The idea that one could remain conscious for a few seconds after decapitation is bunk.
Properly done, shooting is a better option as it will destroy parts of the brain that would perceive danger or pain. However that takes more skill. You could easily shoot the wrong part of the brain, and leave an incapacitated goat to slowly bleed out.
Goat is freaking awesome. Like mutton, but less grassy. The best thing about eating goat is that you're essentially guaranteed that it wasn't raised on a factory farm.
You'd think so, but people have successfully argued for trademarks on images of e.g. the exterior of the Empire State Building.
The real overreach here is the NYSE thinking that a trademark means they get to control all use of the trademark. In reality, trademarks only cover uses that could be confused with legitimate use.
If TPM were to open a stock trading floor, then they'd have something to worry about. As a publisher, they have as much right to publish photos of the NYSE floor as they do the Windows logo in a relevant article.
Just to emphasize how bad ATM security is likely to be, most ATMs are made by Diebold. Yes, that Diebold.
Really? It's not so hard to understand. When the bully gets his ass handed to him, it's ok to cheer. Bullying is wrong, but turnabout is fair play.
Similarly, censorship is wrong, and it's OK to demonstrate that to the pro-censorship crowd by making them suffer the consequences of censorship.
Is that clear enough for you?
You could say the same about many industries. How many coal miners are there because they want to mine coal? It's because they have no other choices, are doing it for low pay, in bad conditions, and could even lose their lives. Therefore it's immoral to support an industry based on exploitation of human beings.
This isn't an argument against porn. It's an argument in favor of eliminating poverty and providing meaningful worker protections in all industries. I would very much agree with that form of the argument.
Absolutely correct. This is the true American Taliban. Even the Westboro Baptist Church is superior to these people, as even they are able to appreciate that free speech protects everyone.
Sure. Let them live by their own rules for a while and see how they like it. They argue that offensive subjects should be censored. I find censorship more offensive than anything that's ever been censored. Exposing children to pro-censorship beliefs is vastly more harmful than exposing them to pornography. Therefore, by their own argument their website should be taken down.
This is why free speech has to protect even the most offensive garbage you can imagine. No matter who you are, someone is going to find your speech offensive.
"Complaint mobs" are exactly the kind of tactic supposedly christian moralizers use to keep free expression off the airwaves. For instance, the Parents Television Council is responsible for 99% of FCC complaints.
As far as I'm concerned, it's time the pro-censorship crowd gets a taste of their own medicine.
I don't think I said anything with certainty about quantum mechanics. I remarked on Penrose's faulty logic and lack of evidence. It's certainly possible that QM is involved in consciousness, but until there's some evidence suggesting it I'll have to invoke Occam.
It's a store where you buy applications. Hence, "app store".
There is no free will.
Maybe he's a hipster and is posting goatse ironically.
This is surprisingly common among physicists. Schrodinger for instance believed in vitalism. Which is essentially the same thing, but about 'life' instead of 'consciousness'.
Consciousness is weird. Quantum theory is weird. Therefore quantum theory must explain consciousness.
That's essentially the argument here, and it's pretty easily seen as fallacious. There's no actual evidence that consciousness requires quantum mechanics, besides the trivial fact that our brains are chemical computers and chemistry requires quantum mechanics.
I'm really glad they did this. I've been getting terrible frame rates from my usual printer paper.
Trumped by the commerce clause and general welfare clause
Hey, that's convenient. Any time you cross state lines, you're engaging in interstate commerce. That means the 4th amendment doesn't apply!
Hold on! Even if you're not crossing state lines, you might have drugs in the trunk! That means we can search your car due to the general welfare clause.
You could also argue it is not an unreasonable search
That would be a laugh!
If the commerce clause and general welfare clause work the way you think they do, than none of the protections in the constitution are any protection at all. We might as well scrap the entire bill of rights. Oh wait, we already have.
You are correct, but things do not actually work this way. Our Supreme Court is too corrupt to actually apply common sense when reading the Constitution.
Why? I know Ubuntu is the standard recommendation for grandma these days, but what makes you think it's particularly appropriate for a computational cluster? For instance, do you really need GNOME on a high performance cluster?
Light press keyboards are not only quieter, but they are more ergonomic
Do you have a citation for that?
Yes, of course it does. There's a reason the Nintendo DS still ships with physical buttons. There's a reason no game console has shipped a touchscreen only controller.
The only real disadvantage of physical buttons is that you can't reconfigure their physical position in software. That is not actually very useful.
The 5.25" floppies probably are. I have a number of vintage computers. In my experience you can pretty much count on properly stored 5.25" floppies to work. 3.5" floppies are almost entirely unreadable on the other hand.
They're keeping it solely to piss people like you off. It seems to be working.