Actually, no. The number of psychopaths will not increase above a certain level. If too many people leech and cheat on each other, society will crumble and be less reproductive.
(rickest) reinventing the wheel is exactly what allows us to travel 80mph without even feeling it. the original wheel fell apart at about 5mph after 100 yards. now they're rubber, self-healing, last 4000 times longer. whoever intended the phrase "you're reinventing the wheel" to be an insult was an idiot.
Sometimes it helps to wonder for a moment, if you really need Exchange functionality, or if this is just a) overkill and b) forcing the organisation in a direction you didn't intend anyway.
Panspermia is some idea that pops up here and there, but I guess it totally misses the point.
Organic compounds can form in abionic environments. So the null hypothesis should always be: Organic matter has formed where we found it.
Organic compounds are quite sensitive to high temperatures and get destroyed easily. Most of them burn or at least denaturate. Complex molecules are much more sensitive. A meteor impact will destroy almost all organic compounds but the simplest ones, and those form easily anyway.
To leave the Earth, the thrown out matter has to have a speed of at least 11.2 meters per second, and this means that air friction will heat the matter, making charcoal out of about every organic matter that happens to be thrown into space.
Wherever organic compounds are getting to, we can be sure that either they don't survive for long, or that the place already has its own share of organic compounds. The few newly arriving molecules don't really change anything.
If it is much colder (as on Europa or Titan), then the van't Hoff rule just lets us expect the evolution being much slower (about 2-3 times per 10 degrees).
Hm... Madagascar is separated from any other land mass since 150 mio years, and the evolution there, while quite different than in Africa, with almost all species being endemic, is not that different from other continents and islands. There are no different orders of species there, just families and genera are different (and endemic). I don't expect an evolution which lasted only 65 mio years, less than half that of Madagascar, to be radically different.
Of course we can construct some religious importance into Gengis Khan even for Westerners, but in general, there is none right now, quite different from the Ark of the Covenant or the Chalice of the Last Supper. You don't need any lenghty explanation (to us iudaeo-christian westerners) why those two objects could have world threatening magical powers. And aliens with supernatural abilities are a wellknown plot vehicle anyway, so no need to construct something new in the fourth movie either. The three crystals in the Temple of Doom were not hunted for by Nazis, making this movie quite different to the three others. In this movie, the power of the artifact is confined to the environment of the village and the Temple, which plays down on the magical abilities and thus saves the movie from a lengthy explanation of the importance of the artifact.
So either Indiana Jones and the Skull of the Khan is more like Temple of Doom (no Nazis, no World Domination from access to the Artifact), or it would be quite different from the current movie plots.
Probably because everything Indiana Jones seeks for has religious motives (and I include the aliens in the fourth one into religion) and magical powers. Gengis Khan instead is mainly a historical and political person. If there are any religious connotations around him, then they are without any real relevance to us. Gengis Khan might play a role in shamanistic rituals for mongolian tribes, but the main intended audience of Indiana Jones movies are not mongolians.
We do already from our ancestors. Old landfills are a bonanza for archaeologists. You only throw things on a landfill you have used before, and in the end, about 99% of all the things we ever made land in a landfill. A landfill is thus a concentrated overview of what we use, and how much of it we use. (And the dustbins of your enemy's premises are a goldmine for spy agencies. The real ones. Not the ones that just pile up large databases of every bit you send).
When cheap high density batteries hit the market, it's the utilities which will at first use them in large arrays, allowing them to leverage energy surplusses and redistribute them, and thus making their own cost of maintaining power much lower. Private energy systems won't be able to compete on price, making autarkic electric power systems an expensive toy for people with too much money at hand or too much paranoia in the brain.
There is enough energy to harvest. I remember when in the 1960ies, the electronic magazines were full of radios "with local radio tower power". We still have FM radio, right?
No. Each occupied prison place costs. Prison inmates are mainly unproductive, and if they do work, then it's mainly work where you not need any high education, and where you don't have any real responsibility, so the jobs are relatively low paying ones. Thus prison inmates mainly cost money. They have to be feed, they have to be medically threated, they have to be watched around the clock etc.pp.
The only people who earn money on prison inmates are prison operators who charge the government for each inmate they take.
The USSR had another important role. The USSR was the state which used mass surveillance and curtailed personal freedom to keep the own population in check. So the USSR was the projection screen where the U.S. saw their own shadow and defined what they liked about themselves and what not. The U.S. saw individual freedom as their biggest selling point, so they tried to label "individual freedom" on everything. And everything the U.S: was against was labeled "socialist" or "communist", completely independent of any normal definition of socialism or communism or even individual freedom. (Your employer being responsible for the insurance of your teeth? Come on! Your choice of health insurance should have nothing to do with the way you are employed.)
But at least always insisting on personal freedom and the right to privacy made the population sensitive for any infringment on both, keeping the surveillance in check.
Your view is somewhat skewed because you don't take in account how much the parents being alive influences the number of children who reach the procreative age and procreate themselves.
I don't see the point in arguing with a dead philosopher. I just quoted him to put the idea to rest that Karl Marx was solely an analytical person. He always understood himself as a very political character, he even insisted that any idea is only worth as much as it can be realized in practice. As he was an economical and political philosopher, this makes him a very political person.
Someone with a brain mod the grandparent flamebait. Poor planning doesn't kill. Planks falling down from houses do. Poor planning, overpopulation and lack of education just decrease the life expectation by increasing the chance of an early death.
Actually, he was very involved into politics. One of his most quoted sentences is "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." (11th Thesis on Feuerbach [1845], in the German original: Die Philosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden interpretiert; es kömmt drauf an, sie zu verändern.)
You are such a control freak that you assemble the IP packets sending your post to Slashdot by hand and check every router and switch on their way?
Actually, we trust computers all the time, and you do too. I don't check the result of the computer's computation of the square root of 75.354, I don't check the sum on my sales slip, I just check if it lists the right items. But I don't add it up myself, I trust the cashier machine to be ok. (And I still have a pretty good idea how much the contents of my shopping cart will cost anyway.)
I won't hesitate to hand over control of my car to the car's computer, as soon as it is feasible. I wouldn't even ask for a lower insurance. Getting rid of tedious work is reason enough.
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Actually, no. The number of psychopaths will not increase above a certain level. If too many people leech and cheat on each other, society will crumble and be less reproductive.
Your definition of "reinvention" differs strongly from mine.
Everyone wants to reinvent the wheel.
As the wise once said:
(rickest) reinventing the wheel is exactly what allows us to travel 80mph without even feeling it. the original wheel fell apart at about 5mph after 100 yards. now they're rubber, self-healing, last 4000 times longer. whoever intended the phrase "you're reinventing the wheel" to be an insult was an idiot.
Sometimes it helps to wonder for a moment, if you really need Exchange functionality, or if this is just a) overkill and b) forcing the organisation in a direction you didn't intend anyway.
Panspermia is some idea that pops up here and there, but I guess it totally misses the point.
If it is much colder (as on Europa or Titan), then the van't Hoff rule just lets us expect the evolution being much slower (about 2-3 times per 10 degrees).
Hm... Madagascar is separated from any other land mass since 150 mio years, and the evolution there, while quite different than in Africa, with almost all species being endemic, is not that different from other continents and islands. There are no different orders of species there, just families and genera are different (and endemic). I don't expect an evolution which lasted only 65 mio years, less than half that of Madagascar, to be radically different.
Of course we can construct some religious importance into Gengis Khan even for Westerners, but in general, there is none right now, quite different from the Ark of the Covenant or the Chalice of the Last Supper. You don't need any lenghty explanation (to us iudaeo-christian westerners) why those two objects could have world threatening magical powers. And aliens with supernatural abilities are a wellknown plot vehicle anyway, so no need to construct something new in the fourth movie either. The three crystals in the Temple of Doom were not hunted for by Nazis, making this movie quite different to the three others. In this movie, the power of the artifact is confined to the environment of the village and the Temple, which plays down on the magical abilities and thus saves the movie from a lengthy explanation of the importance of the artifact.
So either Indiana Jones and the Skull of the Khan is more like Temple of Doom (no Nazis, no World Domination from access to the Artifact), or it would be quite different from the current movie plots.
The Shadow does not in any way implore Gengis Khan as a plot vehicle or a religious symbol.
Probably because everything Indiana Jones seeks for has religious motives (and I include the aliens in the fourth one into religion) and magical powers. Gengis Khan instead is mainly a historical and political person. If there are any religious connotations around him, then they are without any real relevance to us. Gengis Khan might play a role in shamanistic rituals for mongolian tribes, but the main intended audience of Indiana Jones movies are not mongolians.
We do already from our ancestors. Old landfills are a bonanza for archaeologists. You only throw things on a landfill you have used before, and in the end, about 99% of all the things we ever made land in a landfill. A landfill is thus a concentrated overview of what we use, and how much of it we use. (And the dustbins of your enemy's premises are a goldmine for spy agencies. The real ones. Not the ones that just pile up large databases of every bit you send).
When cheap high density batteries hit the market, it's the utilities which will at first use them in large arrays, allowing them to leverage energy surplusses and redistribute them, and thus making their own cost of maintaining power much lower. Private energy systems won't be able to compete on price, making autarkic electric power systems an expensive toy for people with too much money at hand or too much paranoia in the brain.
There is enough energy to harvest. I remember when in the 1960ies, the electronic magazines were full of radios "with local radio tower power". We still have FM radio, right?
The only people who earn money on prison inmates are prison operators who charge the government for each inmate they take.
But at least always insisting on personal freedom and the right to privacy made the population sensitive for any infringment on both, keeping the surveillance in check.
Why would that be? Can a Tesla car not be neglected?
Read TFA, the numbers are right there. "One fire for every 20 million miles" is the stats for normal cars.
Your view is somewhat skewed because you don't take in account how much the parents being alive influences the number of children who reach the procreative age and procreate themselves.
Since when are there molecules in solid metal?
I don't see the point in arguing with a dead philosopher. I just quoted him to put the idea to rest that Karl Marx was solely an analytical person. He always understood himself as a very political character, he even insisted that any idea is only worth as much as it can be realized in practice. As he was an economical and political philosopher, this makes him a very political person.
Someone with a brain mod the grandparent flamebait. Poor planning doesn't kill. Planks falling down from houses do. Poor planning, overpopulation and lack of education just decrease the life expectation by increasing the chance of an early death.
Actually, he was very involved into politics. One of his most quoted sentences is "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." (11th Thesis on Feuerbach [1845], in the German original: Die Philosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden interpretiert; es kömmt drauf an, sie zu verändern.)
Web UIs suck if you have to mass deploy something. CLIs are predestined for such jobs.
Actually, we trust computers all the time, and you do too. I don't check the result of the computer's computation of the square root of 75.354, I don't check the sum on my sales slip, I just check if it lists the right items. But I don't add it up myself, I trust the cashier machine to be ok. (And I still have a pretty good idea how much the contents of my shopping cart will cost anyway.)
I won't hesitate to hand over control of my car to the car's computer, as soon as it is feasible. I wouldn't even ask for a lower insurance. Getting rid of tedious work is reason enough.
This is mainly an U.S. phenomenon. In many other countries, you can get pure plans and unlocked phones.