There is a MENU button on the remote if you should desire to go to the menu for any of the other content.
I agree completely.
While they're at it, they should make the menu cut-scenes optional, defaulted to off as well. I can recall the Rocky Horror Picture Show being particularly bad in this regard, moving through the menus was a chore.
I've read the former. Amazingly insightful, and approachable as well. The two examples stick with you: on a train traveling next to a platform, drop a stone and observe from a point on the train versus a point on the platform; and a man in outer space, in an opaque cubic box with a string attached to one surface; if someone pulls it at 9.8 m/(s*s), then the man experiences exactly what he would experience if the box were on the surface of the Earth. (Special and General, respectively.)
Seeing the gravitational effect on the massive bodies around it really wouldn't be news [...]
Agreed; but, seeing a star turn into dark matter, well, that would be news indeed.
Perhaps it's my paranoid upbringing:), but I can easily envision dark matter simply being stars surrounded by Dyson spheres or Matrioshka brains, using up the entirety of the star's output.
That might appear to us as merely a gravitational lensing effect, since we would not detect any electromagnetic frequencies.
So, if we watch a star "disappear" then we will have proof that not only alien intelligences exist, but also that they've already taken over the output of 90% or so of the available stars. We're barely off the planet, and only have 10% of the playground. Depressing (or inspiring?) news.
Maybe telepathy is not possible. Maybe it is. Maybe the human race is just on the cusp of beginning to evolve it, so experiments are unpredictable. Or maybe "work without effort" is something the human race strives for, and why I'm so into automation, and people just want to believe.
Well anyway, I'm borg now so you won't be hearing from me again.
I'm not karma whoring, but you asked for a scientific explanation. Rather than reposting, I'll refer you to the post I just made.
This is not double-blind, or anything majorly scientific; it's more of a thought experiment. My hope is that others can take this idea and run with it.
Around the turn of the century, I read two articles which forever changed my view of the possible.
The first said that the human brain works not only on chemical, electrical, and biological principles, but that it also takes advantage of quantum effects. So if we're going to design a machine as powerful as the human brain, we're going to need to understand quantum mechanics.
The second article said we had isolated one quantum effect in the lab, that being entanglement. Through a process, two electrons become "entangled", and when separated experimentally up to 10 km, when the spin on one is changed, the spin on the other is changed immediately--with no speed-of-light delay.
(It didn't stop at 10.1 km; they had success at all distances they tested, 10 km being the largest.)
So, if the human brain works on quantum principles, and one of those principles is communication at a distance, then that tells me that telepathy is possible.
So then I looked for evidence. We have a ton of anecdotes in which a mother knows when a child is in danger. However, we have zero anecdotes in which a father knows. This follows; the child spends 9 months in physical proximity to the mother, exchanging fluids; it's likely that entanglement is happening during that fluid exchange.
In addition, twins are much more closely linked than any mother and child; even one of the twins and the mother. Twins are said to have an "unspoken language" before they learn to speak. This also makes sense: twins develop within inches of each other, rather than the three feet or so that separates a developing baby from the mother's brain. So it makes sense that more entangled particles are shared between twins.
None of the above implies communication without energy.
Those SUV are great for making sure the other car gets completely destroyed and the occupants killed.
So, those people who choose air travel expect to cash in on their life insurance plans (as opposed to their medical insurance) in the event of mechanical failure?
And those people who drive cars instead of motorcycles expect to destroy and kill the drivers of those motorcycles they hit?
Dude. Microsoft will not do such a silly thing as allow you free use of windows. Unless it's trying to kill a competitor, in which case, its free. If you are using the Microsoft virtual server. NOT Vmware.
The text from the linked article, for those too lazy (emphasis mine):
The Next Round in the Virtualization Wars
Posted by samzenpus on 2006-07-13 0:23
from the in-this-corner dept. GvG writes
"After making Virtual Server available for free some time ago, Microsoft announced today it is offering Virtual PC as a free (as in beer) download. They also announced a change to the Vista license related to virtualization: Customers who deploy Windows Vista Enterprise have the ability to install up to four (4) copies of the operating system in a virtual machine for a single user on a single device. Even better, nothing in the license requires that Microsoft Virtualization technologies be used - if you want to use a competing product as your Virtualization solution, you still get the four extra licenses for use with VMs."
You also can't hide from a different installation of Windows that has the infected disk mounted. Rootkits hide themselves by hooking into the running kernel/fs drivers - inspect the disk with a clean install and they can't hide then either.
Interesting approach: install VMware Server (free), install Windows into a VM (free if you have 2003--IIRC*, Microsoft allows 4 instances, 1 host and 3 virtual), then connect the physical drive to the VM. Not sure whether VMware will bypass the drivers and allow you complete physical access as I haven't tried it but that's one of the options when creating a new virtual hard drive.
You probably don't want to run the VM from the same drive that you attach to it, though... I haven't tested this, but it might be a nice option for investigating without taking down any services that may happen to be running on the potentially-infected PC.
You mean, you won't be charged with copyright infringement.
Child pornography and terrorism are most definitely prosecuted under different laws, and in the latter case by different secret agencies, each one more secret than the last...
Lionel Hutz: Don't worry, Homer. I have a foolproof strategy to get you out of here. Surprise witnesses, each more surprising than the last. The judge won't know what hit him.
Guard: Pipe down in there Hutz!
So, a CEO that gets a ten million dollar severance package after canning half of his employees and outsourcing it to India is perfectly moral since he broke no law.
I agree.
"Canning half his employees" might have been necessary in order to keep the company from folding.
If it hadn't been, the board would surely not reward the departing CEO with such a generous severance package.
And, you're right, he broke no law. Business is business. And what about the other half of the employees that got to keep their jobs, since the company didn't fold? Would the option of folding the company and sending 100% of the employees out looking for jobs have been a better one?
I realize I'm perhaps using a strawman; not all business decisions are made based on life-or-death-of-the-company.
To expand: the (perhaps faulty) premise is that 90% of us are actually voting. The reported figures are that 30% of us are voting (these figures are manipulated). This could lead to voter apathy, and bring the actual number down to help the party manipulating the numbers. (But then, if they're manipulating the numbers to begin with, who's to say they're not manipulating the numbers that g0 int0 th1s p0st? And more seriously, they can just manipulate it towards a steady state of 60/40 or 70/30 -- not a landslide, but also not "close enough for a recount".)
Look at the percentage of people who actually vote in the elections.
You know, reading your statement made me wonder. What's a graph look like of voter participation over the years? Diebold was definitely working for 2000 and 2004, so how does it compare to the years before it?
What I'm getting at is, perhaps we've been conditioned to be apathetic by low voter turnout ratings in the polls, even though 90% of us are actually voting?
I have expressed no feelings about God, only about fellow humans who use religion as a means to control; this happens mostly through words intended to cause guilty feelings in the recipient, like "righteous judge". I never said I felt guilty, only that "guilt works, when used properly." I remained ambiguous as to whether you were using it properly.
Please do not preach in this forum.
You're adding no value to the discussion of the question "How can the human race survive the next hundred years?" Religion is not the answer, and in fact is likely to get us all killed as the US is becoming a theocracy (and has nukes, lots of 'em, and is building more).
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I agree completely.
While they're at it, they should make the menu cut-scenes optional, defaulted to off as well. I can recall the Rocky Horror Picture Show being particularly bad in this regard, moving through the menus was a chore.
Oh, but it's fiendishly clever.
We make smaller robots, to pick up the discarded bits from the bigger ones cleaning up after us.
I know, I know, what about their waste, well we just make even smaller robots. And then smaller still.
It's robots, all the way down.
There are two books of his freely downloadable from Project Gutenberg:
Relativity : the Special and General Theory
Sidelights on Relativity
I've read the former. Amazingly insightful, and approachable as well. The two examples stick with you: on a train traveling next to a platform, drop a stone and observe from a point on the train versus a point on the platform; and a man in outer space, in an opaque cubic box with a string attached to one surface; if someone pulls it at 9.8 m/(s*s), then the man experiences exactly what he would experience if the box were on the surface of the Earth. (Special and General, respectively.)
Agreed; but, seeing a star turn into dark matter, well, that would be news indeed.
Perhaps it's my paranoid upbringing :), but I can easily envision dark matter simply being stars surrounded by Dyson spheres or Matrioshka brains, using up the entirety of the star's output.
That might appear to us as merely a gravitational lensing effect, since we would not detect any electromagnetic frequencies.
So, if we watch a star "disappear" then we will have proof that not only alien intelligences exist, but also that they've already taken over the output of 90% or so of the available stars. We're barely off the planet, and only have 10% of the playground. Depressing (or inspiring?) news.
Boring? How about fascinating!
Maybe telepathy is not possible. Maybe it is. Maybe the human race is just on the cusp of beginning to evolve it, so experiments are unpredictable. Or maybe "work without effort" is something the human race strives for, and why I'm so into automation, and people just want to believe.
Well anyway, I'm borg now so you won't be hearing from me again.
You're right, which is why experimentation is the next step.
You're sick of hypotheses? How do we end up with theories?
I'm not karma whoring, but you asked for a scientific explanation. Rather than reposting, I'll refer you to the post I just made.
This is not double-blind, or anything majorly scientific; it's more of a thought experiment. My hope is that others can take this idea and run with it.
I haven't posted this in a while...
Around the turn of the century, I read two articles which forever changed my view of the possible.
The first said that the human brain works not only on chemical, electrical, and biological principles, but that it also takes advantage of quantum effects. So if we're going to design a machine as powerful as the human brain, we're going to need to understand quantum mechanics.
The second article said we had isolated one quantum effect in the lab, that being entanglement. Through a process, two electrons become "entangled", and when separated experimentally up to 10 km, when the spin on one is changed, the spin on the other is changed immediately--with no speed-of-light delay.
(It didn't stop at 10.1 km; they had success at all distances they tested, 10 km being the largest.)
So, if the human brain works on quantum principles, and one of those principles is communication at a distance, then that tells me that telepathy is possible.
So then I looked for evidence. We have a ton of anecdotes in which a mother knows when a child is in danger. However, we have zero anecdotes in which a father knows. This follows; the child spends 9 months in physical proximity to the mother, exchanging fluids; it's likely that entanglement is happening during that fluid exchange.
In addition, twins are much more closely linked than any mother and child; even one of the twins and the mother. Twins are said to have an "unspoken language" before they learn to speak. This also makes sense: twins develop within inches of each other, rather than the three feet or so that separates a developing baby from the mother's brain. So it makes sense that more entangled particles are shared between twins.
None of the above implies communication without energy.
Actually, Randi is the fraud.
I went to Florida to pass the test. My forte is precognition. I told him, "You're not going to give me the money."
I was right! He still didn't pay.
It must be; I've never seen emphasis at the end of a word like that. Generally I see something like *emphatic* adjustment.
Or, to use the markup that Slashdot allows, something like <b>bold</b> or <i>italics</i>...
Glad to help the milk come out of your nose. ;-)
Okay, ad hominem, good to know what kind of brain I'm debating with.
So, those people who choose air travel expect to cash in on their life insurance plans (as opposed to their medical insurance) in the event of mechanical failure?
And those people who drive cars instead of motorcycles expect to destroy and kill the drivers of those motorcycles they hit?
How'd you get insightful from a troll/flamebait?
If you ANAL it'll only get you sued in certain southern states, actually...
And deveined as well!
Thanks folks, I'm only here tonight and tomorrow!
(Noting that there's no double-asterisk explanation at the bottom...) Combined with your sig:
Hmm...Hate to break it to you, but you're wrong.
The text from the linked article, for those too lazy (emphasis mine):
What's that, Henny Youngman-style lending?
For those too young (ha!), see the first paragraph.
Interesting approach: install VMware Server (free), install Windows into a VM (free if you have 2003--IIRC*, Microsoft allows 4 instances, 1 host and 3 virtual), then connect the physical drive to the VM. Not sure whether VMware will bypass the drivers and allow you complete physical access as I haven't tried it but that's one of the options when creating a new virtual hard drive.
You probably don't want to run the VM from the same drive that you attach to it, though... I haven't tested this, but it might be a nice option for investigating without taking down any services that may happen to be running on the potentially-infected PC.
* -- is this the sound made by a crashing car?
You mean, you won't be charged with copyright infringement.
Child pornography and terrorism are most definitely prosecuted under different laws, and in the latter case by different secret agencies, each one more secret than the last...
I agree.
"Canning half his employees" might have been necessary in order to keep the company from folding.
If it hadn't been, the board would surely not reward the departing CEO with such a generous severance package.
And, you're right, he broke no law. Business is business. And what about the other half of the employees that got to keep their jobs, since the company didn't fold? Would the option of folding the company and sending 100% of the employees out looking for jobs have been a better one?
I realize I'm perhaps using a strawman; not all business decisions are made based on life-or-death-of-the-company.
To expand: the (perhaps faulty) premise is that 90% of us are actually voting. The reported figures are that 30% of us are voting (these figures are manipulated). This could lead to voter apathy, and bring the actual number down to help the party manipulating the numbers. (But then, if they're manipulating the numbers to begin with, who's to say they're not manipulating the numbers that g0 int0 th1s p0st? And more seriously, they can just manipulate it towards a steady state of 60/40 or 70/30 -- not a landslide, but also not "close enough for a recount".)
You know, reading your statement made me wonder. What's a graph look like of voter participation over the years? Diebold was definitely working for 2000 and 2004, so how does it compare to the years before it?
What I'm getting at is, perhaps we've been conditioned to be apathetic by low voter turnout ratings in the polls, even though 90% of us are actually voting?
I love conspiracies. They're so easy. ;-)
I'm sorry you misunderstood me.
Please do not preach in this forum.
I have expressed no feelings about God, only about fellow humans who use religion as a means to control; this happens mostly through words intended to cause guilty feelings in the recipient, like "righteous judge". I never said I felt guilty, only that "guilt works, when used properly." I remained ambiguous as to whether you were using it properly.
Please do not preach in this forum.
You're adding no value to the discussion of the question "How can the human race survive the next hundred years?" Religion is not the answer, and in fact is likely to get us all killed as the US is becoming a theocracy (and has nukes, lots of 'em, and is building more).
Please do not preach in this forum.