The mind body problem has plagued philosophy for many years
Actually, philosophy has proven that there is no mind-body-problem. The mind is not separate from the body, and not even actually a thing. It is rather a process that happens in a body.
What these scientists did is model parts of how the brain works with a computer, then modify its workings in accordance to a hypothesis about schizophrenia, and got the results the hypothesis predicts. You can't do these kinds of experiments on live humans for ethical reasons. Saying they made a computer schizophrenic is a misleading summary.
I mean, the fucking use of the word fuck is in and of itself a fucking difficult thing for the fuckers to fucking figure out -- until then, they're pretty much fucked. Try hard enough, and you can make fuck into every single fucking part of speech, except maybe for those fucked up articles.
Absofuckinglutely.
I imagine it cannot be a simple task for any NLP to determine when the word fucking is mere fluff in a sentence, and when it is necessary to convey the meaning, and when it is necessary, WTF it stands for.
(I know this is not very original, but I felt your post on the matter at hand was too short and could do with some enhancements. Not that the length of a post says anything about its qualities, really; short ones can be more satisfying than the longest rant if done expertly. What I meant to say was: the subject could stand some deeper contemplation, as we've only covered part of it. It should be more thoroughly probed to reveal all of its complexity. It should be appreciated, not belittled.)
(I also apologize for the lack of innuendo in this post. Everybody else seems to do it, but my imagination doesn't reach that far, so please , gentle reader, insert it where you feel it would be appropriate. That is all, thank you.)
I don't think my life has meaning and purpose beyond being the football in someone else's game; and my free will, no matter how determined, is limited to the choice of whose football I be, and to which rules I be kicked. Education just makes me more aware of the game. If I have become well-rounded, it is because of the ways in which I have been kicked.
If you live alone, cooking for just yourself is probably more wasteful than buying "prefab" food. You can not eat vegetables as fast as they rot. (And those raw materials for cooking are really processed foods as well.)
Most processed food is thrown away by supermarkets, because it did not sell before the expiry date.
A lot is also thrown away by restaurants.
The majority of the waste (which is really well beyond 30%) is neither from the consumers not the "developers". It is all the raw food produced (or caught) that the factories have no use for, and to a lesser degree the food products that are not consumed.
The reason ready-made food is less healthier than home-made food is because the global sugar production exceeds world wide demand sixfold, so they put excessive amounts of sugar in whatever they can, which of course is not healthy.
I don't appreciate the anti-American sentiment--your country, your fuckup people.
Not honoring agreements is a major fuckup, I would think.
I have no clue why the EU would agree to this in treaty form anyways.
Because: the USA had been buying sensitive data on EU citizens from SWIFT for years before anyway. When it was discovered that the USA was breaking EU law, they had to make it official to give it a veneer of legitimacy. The people were against it, but back then the EU citizens had even less of a say in EU policy than now.
After all, they or some EU member agency handed it over to the US,
No, it is a private company that sells the data to the US. A company that all banks in Europe rely on for interoperability.
Lastly, and the point of the article, the US probably isn't honoring the agreement.
The only good thing about the agreement was that now people could know if the US is spying on them. Except the US seems to think that they didn't need to change a thing from established procedure.
You should never have approved the treaty in the first place. If American stupidity or laziness means the treaty is pulled, then good, since you never should have agreed to this shit anyways.
Absolutely. Nobody should have agreed to it, and it should be cancelled retroactively. Given that this treaty was approved not by the people, but by ministers that apparently were bribed by the US, what do you think is more likely to happen: That the treaty is cancelled, or that the deal is altered further unilaterally?
First, your source does not mention communism, but socialism in general.
Second, your source defines socialism as the attempt to run a state as a business.
And the assertion that it does not scale is backed up by nothing more than the opinion that businesses, unlike democracies, can't grow beyond manageable size.
However, all but the last two paragraphs of your source are an interesting, completely off-topic read.
if you can write a sequence of instructions and have the desired result, is that not computer science.
If you can do read a word problem and write code to solve it you can write code, That in effect is computer science. Is it not?????
Correct: It is not. That is programming. That is not computer science. Programming is a strict subset of computer science. They are not identical, nor even equivalent.
That 1% is not a made-up number. It is from the 90-9-1-rule that was first observed with the first commercial graphical MUD "Habitat." It means that 90% of users are lurkers, 9% are involved with activities, and 1% are organizing things.
If browsers rely on OS codecs, then distributions of Linux would need to license H.264 and other proprietary codecs. The fact that these codecs are encumbered by patents (making them non-free) makes this an unlikely scenario.
Alternatively, instead of the distributors, the users themselves could buy licenses to just the codecs they need, which would really be the most sensible solution.
While religious motivations have been used as an excuse to start wars, I'd like to see any "proof" that the religion itself has been the root cause of the war and not some megalomaniac who got into a position to convince his co-believers into action.
Religion is what enabled those megalomaniacs to not only rise to positions of power, but convince their co-believers into action. Without religion, they wouldn't have had a leg to stand on.
Besides, when was the last "legitimate" crusade?
Trick question. There never was one.
I'd even say that the current "war on terror" is mostly a bunch of idiots who are trying to use the trappings of religion for political purposes, and it isn't the religion itself that is the motivating factor.
No, it is the enabling factor.
usually it is religious leaders who are crying for peace and patience.
Usually it is radical pacifists who are practicing peace and patience, and religious leaders blessing the weapons while preaching peace.
Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin, both professed atheists, can account for far more death, misery, wars, and famine than almost all religious leaders or even religiously inclined political leaders in the entire history of humanity combined.
Either you are trolling, or someone fed you propaganda.
Wait - weren't the votes recounted until the supreme court decided on the outcome? So, Bush/Cheney weren't actually democratically elected in 2004? And the elections of 2000 had been rigged, too?
How many people from Florida does it take to change a light bulb?
Anyway. How is this news for nerds?
Back to Russia:
I did notice that the manner of attack and even the bomb itself was identical to the Stockholm bomber. Except not botched. (And it looked nothing like in MW2.)
I thought mathematics had already proven that they can not. There are, in fact, no dominoes, just cumulative effects.
It does not matter, though, because economists rarely understand mathematics, and as long as some in that community think it could be done, they will invest in it, like the suckers they are.
This is a bubble. Estimates say that GS values each FB user at 100 USD. How much more can it rise? FB will soon be superceded by the Next Big Thing, but it seems GS aims to hurry that process along.
So far, a rap song by Ice-T has been forbidden. It's on. The radio station argues that no one understood the lyrics anyway. The opposition is suing the ruling party for translating it.
it was even then rotting from the inside and the regime yanked Zheng He back.
Because of the Mongol invasion, not because of the corruption. The money that had supported the Admiral's adventures that in turn inspired European exploration was needed for the war effort, and China never recovered from it.
The US doesn't have anything like that, except for the corruption part where some industries have orgs that lobby our government to do business with foreign governments that require their government to mediate such international trade, or where the US government does occasionally require our government to play that role in foreign trade, where the orgs use some method other than competitive bids/RFPs to pick which members get the business.
What do you mean? Those instances where military intelligence was used to make sure international contract bids went to Boeing, or where US industries and government wrote the legislation of foreign countries?
I find it odd that the ChiCom government should CARE about porn.
They don't. The lawmakers are politicians elected by the Chinese peoples. The Prescott papers are not required reading for them. If the people are against porn, the politicians and therefore the government are against porn - it makes them more popular.
Profiteering from the own populace is not a possible motive because, being communist, the money the government makes belongs to the people anyway, and not to the politicians. (Profiteering from foreigners is ok though, it makes the Chinese people richer.)
* Dropping out of the Kyoto protocol * Sabotaging the Copenhagen consensus * Starting 2 illegal wars in the last 10 years alone * Getting allied countries to provide soldiers for these illegal wars * Writing legislation for other countries and buying politicians to promote and pass it * Illegal renditions of foreign citizens from their home countries to torture camps * Gladio, 9/11/1973, Ajax, and other acts of supporting and perpetrating international terrorism
Of course, I could be wrong and it is just because "haeting on amercia" is a trending topic.
China's defense when critized is always "you are doing worse," which is true, but no excuse for the crimes the Chinese government does commit. It is however noteworthy that no matter what China does, it is always painted as somehow evil or stupid by the USA-led media, even if it is harmless or even benign. It is this hypocrisy that is attacked; an honest evaluation would point out the parallels, not demonify The Other. It also distracts from discussing the topic at hand.
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The mind body problem has plagued philosophy for many years
Actually, philosophy has proven that there is no mind-body-problem. The mind is not separate from the body, and not even actually a thing. It is rather a process that happens in a body.
What these scientists did is model parts of how the brain works with a computer, then modify its workings in accordance to a hypothesis about schizophrenia, and got the results the hypothesis predicts. You can't do these kinds of experiments on live humans for ethical reasons. Saying they made a computer schizophrenic is a misleading summary.
When it looks as though they are not actually authoritarians, it is usually just because they don't like that particular authority.
Are they allowed to do that?
I mean, the fucking use of the word fuck is in and of itself a fucking difficult thing for the fuckers to fucking figure out -- until then, they're pretty much fucked. Try hard enough, and you can make fuck into every single fucking part of speech, except maybe for those fucked up articles.
Absofuckinglutely.
I imagine it cannot be a simple task for any NLP to determine when the word fucking is mere fluff in a sentence, and when it is necessary to convey the meaning, and when it is necessary, WTF it stands for.
(I know this is not very original, but I felt your post on the matter at hand was too short and could do with some enhancements. Not that the length of a post says anything about its qualities, really; short ones can be more satisfying than the longest rant if done expertly. What I meant to say was: the subject could stand some deeper contemplation, as we've only covered part of it. It should be more thoroughly probed to reveal all of its complexity. It should be appreciated, not belittled.)
(I also apologize for the lack of innuendo in this post. Everybody else seems to do it, but my imagination doesn't reach that far, so please , gentle reader, insert it where you feel it would be appropriate. That is all, thank you.)
News for you: The Bretton-Woods agreement ended in 1973, because all the gold in Fort Knox couldn't cover the US debt to France alone.
The remaining power of the Dollar indeed rests solely on the oil trade.
I don't think my life has meaning and purpose beyond being the football in someone else's game; and my free will, no matter how determined, is limited to the choice of whose football I be, and to which rules I be kicked. Education just makes me more aware of the game. If I have become well-rounded, it is because of the ways in which I have been kicked.
Giving up on farming and buying food from abroad is no contradiction.
Subsidising farmers so they can sell their food cheaply and undercutting foreign markets are also not contradictions.
Especially not when global food prices are rising, giving the subsidized farmers an advantage.
If you live alone, cooking for just yourself is probably more wasteful than buying "prefab" food. You can not eat vegetables as fast as they rot. (And those raw materials for cooking are really processed foods as well.)
Most processed food is thrown away by supermarkets, because it did not sell before the expiry date.
A lot is also thrown away by restaurants.
The majority of the waste (which is really well beyond 30%) is neither from the consumers not the "developers". It is all the raw food produced (or caught) that the factories have no use for, and to a lesser degree the food products that are not consumed.
The reason ready-made food is less healthier than home-made food is because the global sugar production exceeds world wide demand sixfold, so they put excessive amounts of sugar in whatever they can, which of course is not healthy.
Programming is thus applied computer science.
Much like installing wiring is applied electrophysics.
I don't appreciate the anti-American sentiment--your country, your fuckup people.
Not honoring agreements is a major fuckup, I would think.
I have no clue why the EU would agree to this in treaty form anyways.
Because: the USA had been buying sensitive data on EU citizens from SWIFT for years before anyway. When it was discovered that the USA was breaking EU law, they had to make it official to give it a veneer of legitimacy. The people were against it, but back then the EU citizens had even less of a say in EU policy than now.
After all, they or some EU member agency handed it over to the US,
No, it is a private company that sells the data to the US. A company that all banks in Europe rely on for interoperability.
Lastly, and the point of the article, the US probably isn't honoring the agreement.
The only good thing about the agreement was that now people could know if the US is spying on them. Except the US seems to think that they didn't need to change a thing from established procedure.
You should never have approved the treaty in the first place. If American stupidity or laziness means the treaty is pulled, then good, since you never should have agreed to this shit anyways.
Absolutely. Nobody should have agreed to it, and it should be cancelled retroactively. Given that this treaty was approved not by the people, but by ministers that apparently were bribed by the US, what do you think is more likely to happen: That the treaty is cancelled, or that the deal is altered further unilaterally?
First, your source does not mention communism, but socialism in general.
Second, your source defines socialism as the attempt to run a state as a business.
And the assertion that it does not scale is backed up by nothing more than the opinion that businesses, unlike democracies, can't grow beyond manageable size.
However, all but the last two paragraphs of your source are an interesting, completely off-topic read.
if you can write a sequence of instructions and have the desired result, is that not computer science.
If you can do read a word problem and write code to solve it you can write code, That in effect is computer science. Is it not?????
Correct: It is not. That is programming. That is not computer science.
Programming is a strict subset of computer science.
They are not identical, nor even equivalent.
That 1% is not a made-up number. It is from the 90-9-1-rule that was first observed with the first commercial graphical MUD "Habitat." It means that 90% of users are lurkers, 9% are involved with activities, and 1% are organizing things.
And yes, with 4chan, that 1% is a huge number.
If browsers rely on OS codecs, then distributions of Linux would need to license H.264 and other proprietary codecs. The fact that these codecs are encumbered by patents (making them non-free) makes this an unlikely scenario.
Alternatively, instead of the distributors, the users themselves could buy licenses to just the codecs they need, which would really be the most sensible solution.
The thickness of an Issue of Mad Magazine #33 would make a fine and suitable base measure, methinks.
While religious motivations have been used as an excuse to start wars, I'd like to see any "proof" that the religion itself has been the root cause of the war and not some megalomaniac who got into a position to convince his co-believers into action.
Religion is what enabled those megalomaniacs to not only rise to positions of power, but convince their co-believers into action.
Without religion, they wouldn't have had a leg to stand on.
Besides, when was the last "legitimate" crusade?
Trick question. There never was one.
I'd even say that the current "war on terror" is mostly a bunch of idiots who are trying to use the trappings of religion for political purposes, and it isn't the religion itself that is the motivating factor.
No, it is the enabling factor.
usually it is religious leaders who are crying for peace and patience.
Usually it is radical pacifists who are practicing peace and patience, and religious leaders blessing the weapons while preaching peace.
Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin, both professed atheists, can account for far more death, misery, wars, and famine than almost all religious leaders or even religiously inclined political leaders in the entire history of humanity combined.
Either you are trolling, or someone fed you propaganda.
Wait - weren't the votes recounted until the supreme court decided on the outcome?
So, Bush/Cheney weren't actually democratically elected in 2004?
And the elections of 2000 had been rigged, too?
How many people from Florida does it take to change a light bulb?
Anyway. How is this news for nerds?
Back to Russia:
I did notice that the manner of attack and even the bomb itself was identical to the Stockholm bomber.
Except not botched.
(And it looked nothing like in MW2.)
No one said you are stupid for not knowing what those terms mean.
Stupidity is not the issue.
The issue is lack of education. (Not schooling, education.)
The terms themselves are not the important thing.
Why do you think the meaning of those term has no bearing on your life?
Probably for the same reason you think being kept ignorant is the same as being stupid.
No one is accusing you, so why so butthurt?
Then they can make it happen.
I thought mathematics had already proven that they can not.
There are, in fact, no dominoes, just cumulative effects.
It does not matter, though, because economists rarely understand mathematics, and as long as some in that community think it could be done, they will invest in it, like the suckers they are.
This is a bubble. Estimates say that GS values each FB user at 100 USD. How much more can it rise?
FB will soon be superceded by the Next Big Thing, but it seems GS aims to hurry that process along.
Can't they sue the official(s) that pocketed their money?
AFAIK corruption is a capital offense in China. Shouldn't that give them some leverage?
So far, a rap song by Ice-T has been forbidden. It's on.
The radio station argues that no one understood the lyrics anyway.
The opposition is suing the ruling party for translating it.
it was even then rotting from the inside and the regime yanked Zheng He back.
Because of the Mongol invasion, not because of the corruption.
The money that had supported the Admiral's adventures that in turn inspired European exploration was needed for the war effort, and China never recovered from it.
The US doesn't have anything like that, except for the corruption part where some industries have orgs that lobby our government to do business with foreign governments that require their government to mediate such international trade, or where the US government does occasionally require our government to play that role in foreign trade, where the orgs use some method other than competitive bids/RFPs to pick which members get the business.
What do you mean? Those instances where military intelligence was used to make sure international contract bids went to Boeing, or where US industries and government wrote the legislation of foreign countries?
I find it odd that the ChiCom government should CARE about porn.
They don't. The lawmakers are politicians elected by the Chinese peoples. The Prescott papers are not required reading for them. If the people are against porn, the politicians and therefore the government are against porn - it makes them more popular.
Profiteering from the own populace is not a possible motive because, being communist, the money the government makes belongs to the people anyway, and not to the politicians. (Profiteering from foreigners is ok though, it makes the Chinese people richer.)
I don't know why
I have some suspicions:
* Dropping out of the Kyoto protocol
* Sabotaging the Copenhagen consensus
* Starting 2 illegal wars in the last 10 years alone
* Getting allied countries to provide soldiers for these illegal wars
* Writing legislation for other countries and buying politicians to promote and pass it
* Illegal renditions of foreign citizens from their home countries to torture camps
* Gladio, 9/11/1973, Ajax, and other acts of supporting and perpetrating international terrorism
Of course, I could be wrong and it is just because "haeting on amercia" is a trending topic.
China's defense when critized is always "you are doing worse," which is true, but no excuse for the crimes the Chinese government does commit. It is however noteworthy that no matter what China does, it is always painted as somehow evil or stupid by the USA-led media, even if it is harmless or even benign. It is this hypocrisy that is attacked; an honest evaluation would point out the parallels, not demonify The Other. It also distracts from discussing the topic at hand.
However, worse crimes are done by US Officials and the judicial system does nearly nothing about it.
This is the kind of mind-blowing stupidity that make me lose all hope for humanity.
Don't. You can always move to a more democratic country.