No, nothing here would cause cryogenics to become economically viable. What motivation would future generations have to unthaw you? They already have your money.
Chances are, you're getting the same quality treatment no matter which you see. Most of what a doctor sees is really pretty routine and can be handled by a nurse or PA just fine.
Oh dear, somebody needs to explain the concept of the Bell Curve to you. You see if Stupid is toward left part and Smart is to the right, then the maximal target audience is in the middle, not to the "Stupid" end.
If you're selling something that requires a certain amount of sophistication to appreciate, you're targeting everyone above that level of sophistication. You then maximize your audience by lowering the sophistication.
As regards your statement that just because lots of people like something it doesn't mean that it is good... please could you define "good" as regards music without referring to the quality of whether or not people like it, which would be self-referential.
I cannot provide a list of necessary and sufficient conditions for a work to be good, no. However plenty of examples exist to show that popularity is neither necessary nor sufficient for a work to be good.
You're right here. They really do like it. Why? Because they're stupid. The lowest common denominator is common after all.
This is why the phrase "50 million Frenchmen can't be wrong" is wrong. They can, and most likely are. Popularity has nothing to do with quality. Just because lots of people like it doesn't mean that it's good.
Right, so you don't think it would be more efficient to collect solar energy here on earth? There's no need for some convoluted scheme involving boiling methane if all you are doing is collecting solar energy.
French publishers have bit the hand that feeds them. The obvious solution is for Google to no longer digitize French books, and laugh as people buy less of them.
.. as soon as all of Europe has switched to drinking Blue
They don't really drink that in Canada do they? I figured it was like Fosters, brewed to American pisswater standards with an import label slapped on it for fake cred.
At McDs, they want to lure you in and keep you there as long as possible.
Really? I was under the impression that everything about the restaurant, from the decor, to the music, to the food, was designed to get you in and out fast. The less time you spend in the building, the more customers they can serve per hour.
Even if you don't order anything, at least you will be immersed in their branding.
I dunno what's the benefit of that, if you're not going to buy anything.
President Chavez "socialism, the other ghost that is probably wandering around this room, that's the way to save the planet, capitalism is the road to hell....let's fight against capitalism and make it obey us." He won a standing ovation.
Well, he's right. There's no profit in stopping global warming. We saw first hand last year how capitalism can lead us into long term disaster for short term gains.
His argument seems to pretty grossly overestimate the extent to which international law and institutions are really law and institutions in the sense they are within countries, versus looser arrangements that, when push comes to shove, get overriden by realpolitik.
Hmm, when you put it that way international law sounds exactly like national law. Notice how no one has been tried for violating FISA, torturing detainees, etc.
Carbon is the 4th most common element in our galaxy. It would be surprising if there weren't organic molecules on any rock of appreciable size. There's methane in all of the gas giants, and moons like Titan. No one claims that came from life.
The industry is learning. They're learning that there's room for more than yet another JRPG or FPS. Yeah, I'm not big on the QTE mechanic, and wish that adventure games would go back to point and click. But this is better than nothing. I'd still love to see a Shenmue III BTW.
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Maybe, but you'll still have to fight off the shambling hordes of caffeine addicts if anything serious happens to the supply.
No, nothing here would cause cryogenics to become economically viable. What motivation would future generations have to unthaw you? They already have your money.
Chances are, you're getting the same quality treatment no matter which you see. Most of what a doctor sees is really pretty routine and can be handled by a nurse or PA just fine.
Oh dear, somebody needs to explain the concept of the Bell Curve to you. You see if Stupid is toward left part and Smart is to the right, then the maximal target audience is in the middle, not to the "Stupid" end.
If you're selling something that requires a certain amount of sophistication to appreciate, you're targeting everyone above that level of sophistication. You then maximize your audience by lowering the sophistication.
As regards your statement that just because lots of people like something it doesn't mean that it is good... please could you define "good" as regards music without referring to the quality of whether or not people like it, which would be self-referential.
I cannot provide a list of necessary and sufficient conditions for a work to be good, no. However plenty of examples exist to show that popularity is neither necessary nor sufficient for a work to be good.
You're right here. They really do like it. Why? Because they're stupid. The lowest common denominator is common after all.
This is why the phrase "50 million Frenchmen can't be wrong" is wrong. They can, and most likely are. Popularity has nothing to do with quality. Just because lots of people like it doesn't mean that it's good.
I wanted something other than the bland, synthesised crap that we get as a christmas number 1 these last few years.
That IS a political statement. Please try to understand that.
Right, so you don't think it would be more efficient to collect solar energy here on earth? There's no need for some convoluted scheme involving boiling methane if all you are doing is collecting solar energy.
Actually, 3D is just about the only thing that can get me into a theater these days.
French publishers have bit the hand that feeds them. The obvious solution is for Google to no longer digitize French books, and laugh as people buy less of them.
.. as soon as all of Europe has switched to drinking Blue
They don't really drink that in Canada do they? I figured it was like Fosters, brewed to American pisswater standards with an import label slapped on it for fake cred.
At McDs, they want to lure you in and keep you there as long as possible.
Really? I was under the impression that everything about the restaurant, from the decor, to the music, to the food, was designed to get you in and out fast. The less time you spend in the building, the more customers they can serve per hour.
Even if you don't order anything, at least you will be immersed in their branding.
I dunno what's the benefit of that, if you're not going to buy anything.
Wouldn't it take as much (or more) energy to boil the methane as you would recover from the turbines? The laws of thermodynamics apply on Titan too.
it may well turn out that we are certainly alone in at least a 100 light year radius.
Which is still pretty small on the scale of the galaxy.
I think it's fair to say that there's not a country on Earth where a free man may live.
President Chavez "socialism, the other ghost that is probably wandering around this room, that's the way to save the planet, capitalism is the road to hell....let's fight against capitalism and make it obey us." He won a standing ovation.
Well, he's right. There's no profit in stopping global warming. We saw first hand last year how capitalism can lead us into long term disaster for short term gains.
His argument seems to pretty grossly overestimate the extent to which international law and institutions are really law and institutions in the sense they are within countries, versus looser arrangements that, when push comes to shove, get overriden by realpolitik.
Hmm, when you put it that way international law sounds exactly like national law. Notice how no one has been tried for violating FISA, torturing detainees, etc.
The odds of a massive asteroid strike in any given human lifetime are miniscule.
The odds of a massive asteroid strike in the lifetime of the human species are close to 1.
If you let the first fact discourage you from preparing for the second fact, you are dooming humanity to extinction. Long odds come in eventually.
And don't forget the Americans terrorizing the British East India Company in Boston.
Whether what Nidal Hasan did constitutes terrorism is still open for debate.
And entirely irrelevant. 12 people are dead whether it was terrorism or not.
Maybe we'll also find out if it's true that sex stops after marriage. It's been 4 days already, seems like a long time for newlyweds.
I've rigged my finger to tweet when it's pulled.
I think you'd be surprised at the amount of tail male nurses pull.
Excellent troll. Nice haul on that one.
Carbon is the 4th most common element in our galaxy. It would be surprising if there weren't organic molecules on any rock of appreciable size. There's methane in all of the gas giants, and moons like Titan. No one claims that came from life.
The industry is learning. They're learning that there's room for more than yet another JRPG or FPS. Yeah, I'm not big on the QTE mechanic, and wish that adventure games would go back to point and click. But this is better than nothing. I'd still love to see a Shenmue III BTW.