I used Freedom with a capital F as a technical term. Actual freedom would be very good, as North Korea is one of the worst places in the world. Things like the 3-generation punishment policy, widespread famine, an insane ruler, prison camps, etc. etc. should just not exist anywhere on earth. However, my point was that the US does whatever it wants, not that NK isn't a horrible place.
Iraq didn't have WMDs, people are spirited away to Guantanamo Bay without being charged, and the NSA spies on literally the entire world without justifiable cause. The US just does what it wants, and right now it seems like it wants to inject some Freedom into North Korea.
Without coding, the movies and data wouldn't have been copied. Without the stick (release of more copied files) to back it up, the threat would have been ignored. There is a direct causal chain between the employ of coding as a skill by some group of people and a movie being pulled from release.
Now all we've learned is that you define school bus in an idiosyncratic way, which already differs from the one I replied to (that definition stipulated that school buses also need to be owned or operated by a school). And if we ask 10 more people, we're going to find 10 more definitions, and I'm sure I can think of counter examples to all of them (for example, your definition would include parent-driven SUVs or any other kind of car frequently used to move children to and from school, which definitely doesn't count). Nevertheless, school buses exist, and there are vehicles that are definitely school buses. Maybe the problem is not with school buses, but with definitions.
There were more than one actors in that movie, and I doubt their opinions are identical to each other. How do you decide between them? Surely only one of them can be right.
In other words, the fact that someone acted in a movie does not make their opinion more valuable than that of someone who hasn't.
Having seen blade runner myself, surely I am capable of judging the finished product without having to take the word of someone who has achieved fame by some method other than judging movie scripts?
This is not a mistake, this is what happens when you hold "good intentions" above everything, destroying priceless artifacts in the process through sheer ignorance. It's this way of thinking that's ruining the world, far more than whatever cause they were trying to draw attention to.
So BP is as despicable as Greenpeace, who irreversibly defiled an ancient monument and world heritage site, because they made a mistake? That sounds like a very reasonable assessment.
Just because you can arrange words grammatically in the form of a question doesn't mean you're actually asking anything sensible. Knowledge is valuable for knowledge's sake, even without a further use.
Thought experiments are not inherently meant to not give "real answers". Galileo used a thought experiment to prove Aristotle's theory of gravity wrong. Aristotle held that heavy objects fell faster than light ones. Galileo asked us to imagine a heavy object tied to a light object by a rope. Based on Aristotle's hypothesis, tying a light object to a heavy one would make the heavy one fall slower; as the light object would naturally fall more slowly than the heavy one, it would 'hold the heavy object back' in its fall. However, also based on Aristotle's hypothesis, tying a light object to a heavy object would make the heavy object fall faster, as its mass had now been increased by the mass of the light object. Given the fact that assuming the same premise ("Heavier objects fall faster than light ones") lead to opposite conclusions, Galileo reasoned that the premise had to be false, on the basis of the foregoing thought experiment.
Really? It was my understanding the Drake equation was just some back of the envelope shit, figuring in factors a human being could think of when it came to the possibility of extra-terrestrial life. Surely this has been modeled more accurately since?
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I used Freedom with a capital F as a technical term. Actual freedom would be very good, as North Korea is one of the worst places in the world. Things like the 3-generation punishment policy, widespread famine, an insane ruler, prison camps, etc. etc. should just not exist anywhere on earth. However, my point was that the US does whatever it wants, not that NK isn't a horrible place.
Iraq didn't have WMDs, people are spirited away to Guantanamo Bay without being charged, and the NSA spies on literally the entire world without justifiable cause. The US just does what it wants, and right now it seems like it wants to inject some Freedom into North Korea.
Those are starfish aliens, and not the mechanical kind.
Please enlighten me about where you get your malware from, because it's gotta be good if it just magically came into existence, no coding required.
Without coding, the movies and data wouldn't have been copied. Without the stick (release of more copied files) to back it up, the threat would have been ignored. There is a direct causal chain between the employ of coding as a skill by some group of people and a movie being pulled from release.
Living in a climate governed by the Mediterranean, I've never had to.
That's ridiculous. As weather prediction is notoriously bad, he would be far better off checking that information in his car, right before he leaves.
Why do you need weather maps in a clean room?
"we do not negotiate with terrorists."?
Dude, you don't understand. This is like acknowledging your stalker. It will never stop now.
Now all we've learned is that you define school bus in an idiosyncratic way, which already differs from the one I replied to (that definition stipulated that school buses also need to be owned or operated by a school). And if we ask 10 more people, we're going to find 10 more definitions, and I'm sure I can think of counter examples to all of them (for example, your definition would include parent-driven SUVs or any other kind of car frequently used to move children to and from school, which definitely doesn't count). Nevertheless, school buses exist, and there are vehicles that are definitely school buses. Maybe the problem is not with school buses, but with definitions.
I've seen a school bus in porn that neither drives kids to school nor is it owned or operated by one. Next definition.
Here is an article from Vice of all places about this research, from June http://motherboard.vice.com/re...
Research paper here: http://cs.nyu.edu/~zaremba/doc...
Also, a funny video demonstrating the rudimental nature of nintendo ds brain training pattern recognition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
There were more than one actors in that movie, and I doubt their opinions are identical to each other. How do you decide between them? Surely only one of them can be right.
In other words, the fact that someone acted in a movie does not make their opinion more valuable than that of someone who hasn't.
The beauty of math is that you don't have to believe in it, it will be true (if calculated/proved correctly) regardless.
Having seen blade runner myself, surely I am capable of judging the finished product without having to take the word of someone who has achieved fame by some method other than judging movie scripts?
Thanks for assuming I'm white you racist piece of shit.
Mirai means (far) future in japanese, as opposed to shourai, which means near future.
This is not a mistake, this is what happens when you hold "good intentions" above everything, destroying priceless artifacts in the process through sheer ignorance. It's this way of thinking that's ruining the world, far more than whatever cause they were trying to draw attention to.
So BP is as despicable as Greenpeace, who irreversibly defiled an ancient monument and world heritage site, because they made a mistake? That sounds like a very reasonable assessment.
What's the sound of mustard?
Just because you can arrange words grammatically in the form of a question doesn't mean you're actually asking anything sensible. Knowledge is valuable for knowledge's sake, even without a further use.
Best laugh I've had on slashdot in a while. Good job
What kind of reprobate uses bing?
Thought experiments are not inherently meant to not give "real answers". Galileo used a thought experiment to prove Aristotle's theory of gravity wrong. Aristotle held that heavy objects fell faster than light ones. Galileo asked us to imagine a heavy object tied to a light object by a rope. Based on Aristotle's hypothesis, tying a light object to a heavy one would make the heavy one fall slower; as the light object would naturally fall more slowly than the heavy one, it would 'hold the heavy object back' in its fall. However, also based on Aristotle's hypothesis, tying a light object to a heavy object would make the heavy object fall faster, as its mass had now been increased by the mass of the light object. Given the fact that assuming the same premise ("Heavier objects fall faster than light ones") lead to opposite conclusions, Galileo reasoned that the premise had to be false, on the basis of the foregoing thought experiment.
Really? It was my understanding the Drake equation was just some back of the envelope shit, figuring in factors a human being could think of when it came to the possibility of extra-terrestrial life. Surely this has been modeled more accurately since?
Did you just not see yourself making the case that it's "the other guy's fault"?