In the UK you could easily spend £50 on one night out, whereas a game costing the same would provide several days' pleasure at least without the hangover or any other hassles.
If your hangover doesn't last several days, it wasn't much of a night out.
60,000-75,000 years is well before when many anthropologists believe we started using language and symbolic thought. Either they're wrong, or these developments were made independently across different isolated populations.
Personally I find those arguments specious. First, I'm not so sure language depends on "symbolic thought" -- or whether the concept is even well defined. Second, people have been saying since forever that the Neandertals were incapable of symbolic thought because of a lack of artwork and ritualistic elements with their funerals, but stuff has been turning up here and there for the last few decades, so much so that I don't see how anyone can hold that view anymore.
I think there's a general tendency to see other species -- hominin or other animals -- as more different from us than they really are.
Oh... When I saw "homeless" and "whorulesamerica" I thought you were going to introduce us to a conspiracy theory about how a secret cabal of homeless men actually run the country.
There is nothing of greater threat to national security than a HOMELESS hacker. Though I guess it is good as any excuse to get such riff-raft off the curbs. Why just the other day I saw this homeless person and immediately thought; you know, that person is probably a real threat to my countries security and needs FBI involvement to justify their jailing.
It's easier to go after the kiddies than to address the real threats, such as the Russian mafia or whoever is doing the stuff from China.
Thanks for giving sadistic drug cartels power, DEA and DHS.
And voters who think it's a good idea to have the government force their morals on everyone else.
And politicians who cater to them.
But until US voters develop enough sense to put an end to the war on drugs, they should realize that every penny they spend on drugs is funding vicious criminals, whether in Mexico or in a neighborhood gang right here at home.
Your republicans are no different from democrats, just slightly different demographics they are pandering to.
I despise Democrats, but to say that they're no different from Republicans is the height of cluelessness.
The Republican party is dedicated to the philosophy that the proper role of government is to make sure the rich get richer faster than they would without a government. And since they have to win elections, they've got the problem of getting half the population to vote against their own best interests. Unfortunately they've chosen to appeal to people's worst instincts to make their knees jerk, so we get things like the Southern Strategy (appeal to White bigots unhappy with progress in civil rights), the alliance with the religious right (appeal to sex-obsessed control freaks), and now the new Southwestern Strategy (appeal to White bigots unhappy to be losing their majority status in the southwest). And of course, we have the ignorance of the Tea Party passing as a mainstream political movement.
The reason our country has become so divided is that the Republican party has spent the past 30 years fanning the flames of the culture wars for political gain.
The reason we have nutters cheering death during political debates is that the Republican party has been encouraging their knee jerks for political gain.
Democrats are letting our country die; Republicans are killing it.
And Evolution is still a theory because fossil can only prove a species existed not that it turned into another. That can't be proven empirically.
Uh... *nothing* can be proven empirically. Proofs use axioms and rules of logical inference. Theories use a more generic sort of inference from evidence.
And evolution is "still a theory" because theories are as good as it gets in the empirical sciences, and no evidence has come along to shoot that theory down.
Evolution, general relativity, and the atomic theory are "still theories"; phlogiston and the steady-state universe are not. "Theory" is the corner where we park the winners, not the losers.
ll those discoveries of the last 20 years or so, anti-evolutionary creationists still assure us that there are immutable boundaries between categories of life.
Newsflash: Creationism isn't an Evidence-Based Discipline.
What are you talking about? Privatization generally leads to more for less. Airport security has already been privatized in other countries; the U.S. would just be catching up in that regard.
There was another story a few weeks ago, about a state that took back a previously privatized prison that wasn't being maintained properly (i.e., the company was just cream-skimming), and much to their surprise they saved about a million dollars in the first year they had it back.
Also, notice that if you privatized the TSA you still have all the same expenses, *plus* the expectation of a profit on top of all that. They only way you get more for less by privatizing is by cutting corners - and you've got to cut enough to satisfy the profit motive just to break even.
Privatization isn't about smaller government, or even getting more for less. It's about putting public money in private pockets. Why do you think Republican politicians always favor it?
... all you have to do is memorize and rehearse lies in advance and imagine them and recall them as if they were memories. People get caught in lies because it's cognitively demanding to make it up on the spot unprepared.
From what I've read, you're supposed to randomly lie or tell the truth on the easy questions they ask at the start to gauge your response.
If you don't believe this consider religious faith. Many people I'm sure believe those falsehoods genuinely because they are well ingrained in their imaginations.
But all my religious beliefs are true; it's only other people's religions that are unfounded.
There is a character in that book who had his maid wake him up every morning by saying something like "time to get up you war criminal", so that when the authorities would question him about actually being a war criminal, he was so inured by the accusation that it caused no reaction in him at all - so he could happily deny being a war criminal.
So maybe that's why Mom used to always say, "Get up, you slacker!"
LYCEUM, Athens -- Researchers led by Aristotle have released a startling scroll detailing their findings on a beverage called "wine." Apparently, when consumed in sufficient quantities, wine can lead to loss of inhibition, poor judgement, and lascivious behavior. Combined with last year's discovery that head trauma can make a person "loopy," it appears that our cherished ideas about the soul and free will must be called into question.
I presume you're being sarcastic, but the fact that chemicals can influence moral judgment *should* have tipped people off that things with the mind, soul, morals, will, etc. aren't quite the way popular imagination would have them... let's see... about a day after the first batch of beer was brewed.
(That's probably when the first hangover remedy was invented, too.)
Modern neuroscience is killing any wiggle-room that might have remained regarding souls and free will. As I've mentioned before, neuroscientists, ethicists, and legal scholars are concerned that "my brain made me do it" will become a reasonable courtroom defense. (No, I'm not talking about the traditional "insanity defense".)
We will eventually be forced to re-think a lot of cherished beliefs about brains, minds, and behavior.
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In the UK you could easily spend £50 on one night out, whereas a game costing the same would provide several days' pleasure at least without the hangover or any other hassles.
If your hangover doesn't last several days, it wasn't much of a night out.
60,000-75,000 years is well before when many anthropologists believe we started using language and symbolic thought. Either they're wrong, or these developments were made independently across different isolated populations.
Personally I find those arguments specious. First, I'm not so sure language depends on "symbolic thought" -- or whether the concept is even well defined. Second, people have been saying since forever that the Neandertals were incapable of symbolic thought because of a lack of artwork and ritualistic elements with their funerals, but stuff has been turning up here and there for the last few decades, so much so that I don't see how anyone can hold that view anymore.
I think there's a general tendency to see other species -- hominin or other animals -- as more different from us than they really are.
Oh... When I saw "homeless" and "whorulesamerica" I thought you were going to introduce us to a conspiracy theory about how a secret cabal of homeless men actually run the country.
I would have thought being homeless was a pretty darn good evasion method.
My thought exactly.
Wonder what the warrant said... "Frequents the corner of 5th and Highland" ? "Drives an unmarked grocery basket"?
There is nothing of greater threat to national security than a HOMELESS hacker. Though I guess it is good as any excuse to get such riff-raft off the curbs. Why just the other day I saw this homeless person and immediately thought; you know, that person is probably a real threat to my countries security and needs FBI involvement to justify their jailing.
It's easier to go after the kiddies than to address the real threats, such as the Russian mafia or whoever is doing the stuff from China.
Horrible looking, but amazingly not an explosion.
Serious questions here: should we expect a plane like this to explode on impact?
Only if you've ever seen a movie.
BTW, condolences to the injured & bereaved.
What's funny about the word 'metrosexual' is that 'metro-' means 'mother'.
Not sure what we should make of that... just think it's funny.
Human females have been known to fuck any vegetable or plant matter shaped like a long cylinder, in-sight.
Yeah, I learned all I know about women from internet porn sites too.
Enterprise is still glued to Windows XP
Not Windows 95?
Thanks for giving sadistic drug cartels power, DEA and DHS.
And voters who think it's a good idea to have the government force their morals on everyone else.
And politicians who cater to them.
But until US voters develop enough sense to put an end to the war on drugs, they should realize that every penny they spend on drugs is funding vicious criminals, whether in Mexico or in a neighborhood gang right here at home.
Your republicans are no different from democrats, just slightly different demographics they are pandering to.
I despise Democrats, but to say that they're no different from Republicans is the height of cluelessness.
The Republican party is dedicated to the philosophy that the proper role of government is to make sure the rich get richer faster than they would without a government. And since they have to win elections, they've got the problem of getting half the population to vote against their own best interests. Unfortunately they've chosen to appeal to people's worst instincts to make their knees jerk, so we get things like the Southern Strategy (appeal to White bigots unhappy with progress in civil rights), the alliance with the religious right (appeal to sex-obsessed control freaks), and now the new Southwestern Strategy (appeal to White bigots unhappy to be losing their majority status in the southwest). And of course, we have the ignorance of the Tea Party passing as a mainstream political movement.
The reason our country has become so divided is that the Republican party has spent the past 30 years fanning the flames of the culture wars for political gain.
The reason we have nutters cheering death during political debates is that the Republican party has been encouraging their knee jerks for political gain.
Democrats are letting our country die; Republicans are killing it.
And Evolution is still a theory because fossil can only prove a species existed not that it turned into another. That can't be proven empirically.
Uh... *nothing* can be proven empirically. Proofs use axioms and rules of logical inference. Theories use a more generic sort of inference from evidence.
And evolution is "still a theory" because theories are as good as it gets in the empirical sciences, and no evidence has come along to shoot that theory down.
Evolution, general relativity, and the atomic theory are "still theories"; phlogiston and the steady-state universe are not. "Theory" is the corner where we park the winners, not the losers.
ll those discoveries of the last 20 years or so, anti-evolutionary creationists still assure us that there are immutable boundaries between categories of life.
Newsflash: Creationism isn't an Evidence-Based Discipline.
What are you talking about? Privatization generally leads to more for less. Airport security has already been privatized in other countries; the U.S. would just be catching up in that regard.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/us/13contractor.html?_r=4
There was another story a few weeks ago, about a state that took back a previously privatized prison that wasn't being maintained properly (i.e., the company was just cream-skimming), and much to their surprise they saved about a million dollars in the first year they had it back.
Also, notice that if you privatized the TSA you still have all the same expenses, *plus* the expectation of a profit on top of all that. They only way you get more for less by privatizing is by cutting corners - and you've got to cut enough to satisfy the profit motive just to break even.
Privatization isn't about smaller government, or even getting more for less. It's about putting public money in private pockets. Why do you think Republican politicians always favor it?
Seriously?
Uh, no.
This is Slashdot. We make fun of Slashdot here. Don't get your panties in a bunch over a perceived slight to your favorite software.
I was starting to worry that we'd have to go a whole 12 hours before we got another Windows 8 story.
... all you have to do is memorize and rehearse lies in advance and imagine them and recall them as if they were memories. People get caught in lies because it's cognitively demanding to make it up on the spot unprepared.
From what I've read, you're supposed to randomly lie or tell the truth on the easy questions they ask at the start to gauge your response.
If you don't believe this consider religious faith. Many people I'm sure believe those falsehoods genuinely because they are well ingrained in their imaginations.
But all my religious beliefs are true; it's only other people's religions that are unfounded.
There is a character in that book who had his maid wake him up every morning by saying something like "time to get up you war criminal", so that when the authorities would question him about actually being a war criminal, he was so inured by the accusation that it caused no reaction in him at all - so he could happily deny being a war criminal.
So maybe that's why Mom used to always say, "Get up, you slacker!"
It will be illegal to use this on politicians.
We already have a visual lie detecting algorithm for politicians: "Their mouth is moving."
It successfully discriminates between truth and lies in about two-thirds of cases
Does that mean you might be found 2/3 guilty of a crime, or will they roll a die and send you to prison on 1-4 ?
Well, there are many.
What few people seem to know is that the original test proposed in Turing's seminal paper, has a sort of gender-bender element to it.
(I know what you're thinking, and the answer is "Maybe, or maybe not.")
"1334 votes" eh? no chance this was a hacked-up result...? nah that's just crazy talk, that is.
Maybe Cleverbot isn't clever enough to pass for human, but is clever enough to hack the vote.
What's his take on this? Seriously..
I'm guessing he hasn't received his copy of Science yet.
LYCEUM, Athens -- Researchers led by Aristotle have released a startling scroll detailing their findings on a beverage called "wine." Apparently, when consumed in sufficient quantities, wine can lead to loss of inhibition, poor judgement, and lascivious behavior. Combined with last year's discovery that head trauma can make a person "loopy," it appears that our cherished ideas about the soul and free will must be called into question.
I presume you're being sarcastic, but the fact that chemicals can influence moral judgment *should* have tipped people off that things with the mind, soul, morals, will, etc. aren't quite the way popular imagination would have them... let's see... about a day after the first batch of beer was brewed.
(That's probably when the first hangover remedy was invented, too.)
Modern neuroscience is killing any wiggle-room that might have remained regarding souls and free will. As I've mentioned before, neuroscientists, ethicists, and legal scholars are concerned that "my brain made me do it" will become a reasonable courtroom defense. (No, I'm not talking about the traditional "insanity defense".)
We will eventually be forced to re-think a lot of cherished beliefs about brains, minds, and behavior.