? i've seen some amazing lightning storms that give you the "wow" factor every bit as much as this footage. perhaps you don't live in a particularly stormy area?
this! we are just chemical reactions capable processing input and output, and reasoning is just an illusion.
Like any other animal we have the hardware capable of doing some basic simulations, the scale, and complexity of the simulation is what changes as far as how "animals think" vs "how humans think", but it's fundamentally the same. that does however raise some pretty awkward questions about what consciousness actually is though.
its exactly the same, but its much easier to dismiss animals as not having similar thought function as humans (unable to think as abstractly as we can, but not completely void of abstract thought either.) so we can justify slaughtering millions a year.
er, if the bird portrays meaning in the noises it makes, that's communication. you're trying to demonstrate the difference between low level communication and complex structured language.
also, why the requirement to have other birds understand their meaning? bird communicate all the time to each other and often with very clear meaning, just because they don't use "human words" doesn't mean they don't communicate?
my cat appears to understand quite a lot of verbal communication and has her own tone and pitched responses depending on what i'm trying to communicate.
normally, when i say "you've already been fed" she has a sulky meow and looks away from me.
she also has a very specific meow when she greets me, to when she wants to play, when she is hungry, and when she is letting me know she is lying in the middle of the floor so i don't step on her by accident (as in, if i'm not looking, i can tell she is in the middle of the floor by the tone she uses, as its very different to the typical greeting).
most cats i've had communicate through body language, this is the first cat that doesn't bother with body language and just vocalists what she wants 90% of the time.
I'm pretty sure any company that finds out you've been torrenting their bandwidth will fire you. especially if they get legal threats from the MPAA. You could lose your job, which could cost you substantially more than your internet connection.
You do have a valid point. however companies do this anyway "with" patent laws, and the major problem being almost any idea is patentable, so good chance after I'd invested all my time and effort it would violate a patent anyway, leaving me with nothing, except the LAW says i can't go forward trying to compete in the market, instead of just a competitor trying to make it difficult for me.
with existing infastructure, whats stopping megacorp stealling my ideas, making a living mint in china and destroying my market advantage anyway in legals. Also, if megacorp didn't take my IP, doesn't mean my company would have been succesful anyway and i could have lost all the stuff you listed anyway without patents even coming into it... its just the risk of business.
however you completely missed my point... In this example, I'm a consumer. in which case I'm at no risk of loosing my lively hood to IP theft, which is why i get the most benefits straight away (free star wars movies!) and civilization (/business) be damned.
I really don't understand how this is a difficult concept to get or where the confusion is occurring. he is essentially saying that space travel is a political investment, not a scientific or financial investment. The return has always been political, anything else is just icing, but the focus and the goal should always be political.
Instead, the feds should have a fast-track system for patent filings which have a condition in them that they are licence-free.
so, whats the incentive to submit the "licence-free" patents then?
i do like the idea of a fixed cost patenting system though, a way to get your ideas out, and any company that wishes to use them while the patent is valid under you has to pay a fixed fee to the patent office or the individual instead of negotiating with the patent holder.
Do i have some exciting facts for you. Direct Deaths as a result of insurgent actions: 7,276 - 8,826 Direct Deaths from U.S-led military action: 6,215 - 9,007.
we are hardly more "gentlemen" then they are.
They have no doubts about who will come and slit their throats in the night if they show too much support for the Americans.
and if they show too much support for the Taliban, they get "disappeared" by US forces.
The only way to deal with an insurrection is the historically tested, tried and true way.
this is not even nearly a good answer, and simply removes the legitimacy of the occupying force.
You say this method is historically tried and tested? I'd like examples please, because by the looks of it "counter-insurgency", even violent ones appears to be a lot less effective than the insurgency is. Fighting insurgence is like trying to fight organized crime. until you remove the root cause of the problem, you will just be replacing one figurehead with the next.
yes, because the taliban are making such good ground... tanks are very effective at fighting an army, they aren't however good at policing an area unless "shoot on site" is an option.
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its not that those things aren't around anymore.. its the amount of crap you have to wade through to get to the goods that seems to be increasing.
considering we went from being stuck on to the ground to getting in space within a lifetime, i wouldn't write off long distance space travel just yet.
outlook doesn't really look that great though..
Possibly pointing the panels towards the moon to collect the reflected light?
? i've seen some amazing lightning storms that give you the "wow" factor every bit as much as this footage. perhaps you don't live in a particularly stormy area?
that's almost exactly like how my reoccurring nightmare starts..
this! we are just chemical reactions capable processing input and output, and reasoning is just an illusion.
Like any other animal we have the hardware capable of doing some basic simulations, the scale, and complexity of the simulation is what changes as far as how "animals think" vs "how humans think", but it's fundamentally the same.
that does however raise some pretty awkward questions about what consciousness actually is though.
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its exactly the same, but its much easier to dismiss animals as not having similar thought function as humans (unable to think as abstractly as we can, but not completely void of abstract thought either.) so we can justify slaughtering millions a year.
er, if the bird portrays meaning in the noises it makes, that's communication. you're trying to demonstrate the difference between low level communication and complex structured language.
also, why the requirement to have other birds understand their meaning? bird communicate all the time to each other and often with very clear meaning, just because they don't use "human words" doesn't mean they don't communicate?
my cat appears to understand quite a lot of verbal communication and has her own tone and pitched responses depending on what i'm trying to communicate.
normally, when i say "you've already been fed" she has a sulky meow and looks away from me.
she also has a very specific meow when she greets me, to when she wants to play, when she is hungry, and when she is letting me know she is lying in the middle of the floor so i don't step on her by accident (as in, if i'm not looking, i can tell she is in the middle of the floor by the tone she uses, as its very different to the typical greeting).
most cats i've had communicate through body language, this is the first cat that doesn't bother with body language and just vocalists what she wants 90% of the time.
how is downloading pirated software / movies not demonstrate premeditated circumvention of company policy.
Which puts you back at square one because encrypted naughty traffic could just be sent over 443 instead of 80.
You've no idea what you're talking about, we get T lines in Australia and don't use NANP.
I'm pretty sure any company that finds out you've been torrenting their bandwidth will fire you. especially if they get legal threats from the MPAA. You could lose your job, which could cost you substantially more than your internet connection.
If only they renamed it to the "enduring freedom" telescope it would be much easier to get budget approval.
You do have a valid point. however companies do this anyway "with" patent laws, and the major problem being almost any idea is patentable, so good chance after I'd invested all my time and effort it would violate a patent anyway, leaving me with nothing, except the LAW says i can't go forward trying to compete in the market, instead of just a competitor trying to make it difficult for me.
with existing infastructure, whats stopping megacorp stealling my ideas, making a living mint in china and destroying my market advantage anyway in legals. Also, if megacorp didn't take my IP, doesn't mean my company would have been succesful anyway and i could have lost all the stuff you listed anyway without patents even coming into it... its just the risk of business.
however you completely missed my point... In this example, I'm a consumer. in which case I'm at no risk of loosing my lively hood to IP theft, which is why i get the most benefits straight away (free star wars movies!) and civilization (/business) be damned.
probably, but the point is i have the most to gain in the short term by wiping out IP laws, society be damned...
My lack of knowledge that.. private industry is doing this?
yes, your lack of knowledge is that private industry ISN'T doing this YET at all... its not cheaper when it doesn't exist.
I really don't understand how this is a difficult concept to get or where the confusion is occurring. he is essentially saying that space travel is a political investment, not a scientific or financial investment. The return has always been political, anything else is just icing, but the focus and the goal should always be political.
because other countries don't always get along and its pretty important to gain the high ground in such disputes?
I see you've played this game before...
er...
Instead, the feds should have a fast-track system for patent filings which have a condition in them that they are licence-free.
so, whats the incentive to submit the "licence-free" patents then?
i do like the idea of a fixed cost patenting system though, a way to get your ideas out, and any company that wishes to use them while the patent is valid under you has to pay a fixed fee to the patent office or the individual instead of negotiating with the patent holder.
Do i have some exciting facts for you.
Direct Deaths as a result of insurgent actions: 7,276 - 8,826
Direct Deaths from U.S-led military action: 6,215 - 9,007.
we are hardly more "gentlemen" then they are.
They have no doubts about who will come and slit their throats in the night if they show too much support for the Americans.
and if they show too much support for the Taliban, they get "disappeared" by US forces.
The only way to deal with an insurrection is the historically tested, tried and true way.
this is not even nearly a good answer, and simply removes the legitimacy of the occupying force.
You say this method is historically tried and tested? I'd like examples please, because by the looks of it "counter-insurgency", even violent ones appears to be a lot less effective than the insurgency is. Fighting insurgence is like trying to fight organized crime. until you remove the root cause of the problem, you will just be replacing one figurehead with the next.
yes, because the taliban are making such good ground... tanks are very effective at fighting an army, they aren't however good at policing an area unless "shoot on site" is an option.
I wonder how an rkg-3 goes against the trophy defense system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophy_(countermeasure)
not well, I'd imagine.
world war 1 begs to differ.