Why stop there? Let's implant a chip into brains of every citizen to stop them from swearing. The device will be designed to administer a mild electric shock to prevent any upcoming curse words as well as negative throughts of EU ruling body. Here's a short demonstratioin.
When someone asks me wether god... exists I answer 'I don't know'
I did that long time ago. And then there was an Artificial Intelligence class where I learned how brain works, and programmed a simple model. So, if brain is responsible for thoughts, the potential "immortal soul" is incapable of processing thought and is not much different from gases escaping a dead body. Since 90% of Christianity (and most other religions) is based on belief in immortal soul, the whole thing can be safely discaded as old wive's tales. This is my story. Your mileage may vary.
Yet people like Steve Jobs and Lou Gerstner managed to turn a large company around in a very short timespan. If you do not actively break working products/customer base built by people before you, a large company will slowly glide down until someone hopefully picks it up again.
There is one dangrously close to Cape Cod beaches right now! Quick, call the authorities! Please disregard the fact that 99.99% of sharks is not tagged and there is a number of them near beaches at all times.
Excellent. There are also different rules/customs in the city and subarbs, and sub-subarbs, but I like how slashdotters argue about their local rules being universal.
That's called a wave, a very natural phenomenon. Traffic movement resembles a liquid in many aspects, and propagation of a traffic jam as a wave is one of them.
Free up the roads from people who don't see driving as a chore and make an effort to drive properly.
That's what you should have said. That's what I thought you said. Driving is a dangerous and responsible business. It is not meant to be fun. As soon as I start to have fun, like weaving in and out of traffic I am driving dangerously. Every time you see people having fun when driving you just know they should be replaced with a robotic drone for everyone's safety. They can go and drive 70 mph on simulated city streets whenever they feel like.
Aren't human rights of cloned humans already covered by, you know, human rights? Same goes for all human laws created by humans for humans. We already have a plethora of unnatural ways of creating babies: artificial insemination, egg donors, implanting egg into surrogate mother, incubators... what makes you think cloning somehow breakes unprecedented new ground in application of laws?
P.S.: Making a clone of Lennon without his permission, as well as assigning parental rights is unprecedented, but, the areas that consern human rights of humans is pretty much covered.
Steve Jobs brought high(er) quality computing to masses vs. Elon Musk brought us Tesla and SpaceX. While I can understand your preferences, I would not trust Steve with anything requiring large scale mechanical engineering effort.
The idea of some artificial populatioin limit that our planet can support has been perpetuated for centuries with different random numbers thrown in -- we already outnumber many of them by orders of magnitude.
What our planet really cannot support is megatons of fossil fuel burning -- I mean the planet will be fine but we will find it increasinly difficult to survive and sustain -current- population levels when climate change finally takes off and accelerates.
Most of these "cycles" overlapped and different waves existed simultaneously for different purposes. From today's perspective:
- 2010: centralized computation (Web apps and cloud computing)
Most computation tasks are performed locally. Only centralized tasks are the ones where functionality requires this approach, i.e. posting on Slashdot, checking bank account balance, etc -- you cannot perform these locally.
New pocket computers will eclipse today's PCs in almost every aspect (almost happened already), yet nothing will change in terms of paradigm: tasks that can be performed locally will be, and things like posting on Slashdot will still require network communication.
Copper (steel?) wires do not melt easily. If current @ 220V flows through your skull the brain is guaranteed to melt much sooner. Do not count on wires to be a life-saving insulator!
According to a US NAVY story about and electrician who pierced his skin with a volmeter, 5.5V can kill you, but it is more likely that the charger shorted 220 to the metal antennae bezel.
Your forgot to mention rise of Communism in Russia. Not only did Germany directly sponsor the movement, but the war weakened Russian Empire enough to make toppling the government possible.
No citation needed -- it is common knowledge that everything grown today was raised on chemical fertilizers (sometimes on artificial soil), sprayed with pesticides and herbicides, some of it is generically altered, and finally the produce is waxed and painted your favourite color. This is the way that maximizes profit, and so it must be done. Now, as long as you cannot directly observe this process it probably does not bother you. There are some observable side effects, however: vegetables bought in grocery store are tasteless compared to those grown on a backyard, foreign tourists report rapidly gaining weight, etc, etc
From a man simply following him? Maybe it was a fan and wanted and autograph, or someone lost and wanted to ask directions? Intelligent humans usually talk first and do "jump and pound" as the last resort. So it was a volunteer neighbourhood watch, it could have been a hired security guard just as well (and the latter would also not hesitate to shoot you when getting jumped).
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Why stop there? Let's implant a chip into brains of every citizen to stop them from swearing. The device will be designed to administer a mild electric shock to prevent any upcoming curse words as well as negative throughts of EU ruling body. Here's a short demonstratioin.
...but the rest of us have menial jobs
You mean like bringing menu to the patrons? Spot on!
Apparently they still do in Japan.
1. Robots are made that can replace workers.
2. Employer fires workers and purchases robots.
3.All additional profit is pocketed by the former employer.
4. Workers find new jobs in the service sector (serving mostly former employers).
While this model is oversimplified, 68% of US jobs is in the service sector.
When someone asks me wether god ... exists I answer 'I don't know'
I did that long time ago. And then there was an Artificial Intelligence class where I learned how brain works, and programmed a simple model. So, if brain is responsible for thoughts, the potential "immortal soul" is incapable of processing thought and is not much different from gases escaping a dead body. Since 90% of Christianity (and most other religions) is based on belief in immortal soul, the whole thing can be safely discaded as old wive's tales. This is my story. Your mileage may vary.
Yet people like Steve Jobs and Lou Gerstner managed to turn a large company around in a very short timespan. If you do not actively break working products/customer base built by people before you, a large company will slowly glide down until someone hopefully picks it up again.
Thank you. Don't see anything about security risks in the first link. Both links advertise MS Access, which is a joke by itself.
There is one dangrously close to Cape Cod beaches right now! Quick, call the authorities! Please disregard the fact that 99.99% of sharks is not tagged and there is a number of them near beaches at all times.
Excellent. There are also different rules/customs in the city and subarbs, and sub-subarbs, but I like how slashdotters argue about their local rules being universal.
That's called a wave, a very natural phenomenon. Traffic movement resembles a liquid in many aspects, and propagation of a traffic jam as a wave is one of them.
Free up the roads from people who don't see driving as a chore and make an effort to drive properly.
That's what you should have said. That's what I thought you said. Driving is a dangerous and responsible business. It is not meant to be fun. As soon as I start to have fun, like weaving in and out of traffic I am driving dangerously. Every time you see people having fun when driving you just know they should be replaced with a robotic drone for everyone's safety. They can go and drive 70 mph on simulated city streets whenever they feel like.
Delle Colombe: ice ... more dense than water... buoyancy -- a matter of shape only
Galileo: Archimedes theory, shape of an object does not affect whether the object would sink or float
TFA: Galileo then went too far, had not accounted for surface tension
TFA went too far, in a spoken debate "ice floats because of shape" vs "density" the shape can and should be taken out of equation.
why don't they release it to the public? That way you they can still use it at defense.
In what way? They cannot use something that belongs to public to counter-sue anybody.
...always wondering why he couldn't ascend to the same level of recognition
That is why they should clone complete failures like myself instead -- to set the bar low from the start :)
Aren't human rights of cloned humans already covered by, you know, human rights? Same goes for all human laws created by humans for humans. We already have a plethora of unnatural ways of creating babies: artificial insemination, egg donors, implanting egg into surrogate mother, incubators... what makes you think cloning somehow breakes unprecedented new ground in application of laws?
P.S.: Making a clone of Lennon without his permission, as well as assigning parental rights is unprecedented, but, the areas that consern human rights of humans is pretty much covered.
Steve Jobs brought high(er) quality computing to masses vs. Elon Musk brought us Tesla and SpaceX. While I can understand your preferences, I would not trust Steve with anything requiring large scale mechanical engineering effort.
What our planet really cannot support is megatons of fossil fuel burning -- I mean the planet will be fine but we will find it increasinly difficult to survive and sustain -current- population levels when climate change finally takes off and accelerates.
- 2010: centralized computation (Web apps and cloud computing)
Most computation tasks are performed locally. Only centralized tasks are the ones where functionality requires this approach, i.e. posting on Slashdot, checking bank account balance, etc -- you cannot perform these locally.
- 2020: distributed computation (mobile computing)
New pocket computers will eclipse today's PCs in almost every aspect (almost happened already), yet nothing will change in terms of paradigm: tasks that can be performed locally will be, and things like posting on Slashdot will still require network communication.
speak friend and enter
Copper (steel?) wires do not melt easily. If current @ 220V flows through your skull the brain is guaranteed to melt much sooner. Do not count on wires to be a life-saving insulator!
According to a US NAVY story about and electrician who pierced his skin with a volmeter, 5.5V can kill you, but it is more likely that the charger shorted 220 to the metal antennae bezel.
Except I did not make any conclusions. Everything I said can be verified by a simple google search. Any conclusions are those of your own.
Your forgot to mention rise of Communism in Russia. Not only did Germany directly sponsor the movement, but the war weakened Russian Empire enough to make toppling the government possible.
No citation needed -- it is common knowledge that everything grown today was raised on chemical fertilizers (sometimes on artificial soil), sprayed with pesticides and herbicides, some of it is generically altered, and finally the produce is waxed and painted your favourite color. This is the way that maximizes profit, and so it must be done. Now, as long as you cannot directly observe this process it probably does not bother you. There are some observable side effects, however: vegetables bought in grocery store are tasteless compared to those grown on a backyard, foreign tourists report rapidly gaining weight, etc, etc
75% of American adults would rather read a book in traditional print format than in an ebook format.
suggest that the brick and mortar bookstore is not necessarily doomed."
Brick and mortar going out of business suggest otherwise.
a) some prefer to read paper but prefer to keep electronic
b) most of the rest buy paper books online -- saves a lot of time
Martin stood HIS ground.
From a man simply following him? Maybe it was a fan and wanted and autograph, or someone lost and wanted to ask directions? Intelligent humans usually talk first and do "jump and pound" as the last resort.
So it was a volunteer neighbourhood watch, it could have been a hired security guard just as well (and the latter would also not hesitate to shoot you when getting jumped).