Maybe we'll see the end of the Friday night "SJW" vs "MRA" clickbait fight where assertions are made that sitting typing in an office is "mens work", as if we are all 1920s lumberjacks or something.
Who put on women's clothing and hang around in bars?
So why are they helping companies get corporate welfare?
*checks calendar* oh wait, they must need donations for their upcoming election. Nevermind.
The core Republican political philosophy (before the insane took over the nut house) is that the proper role of government is to make sure the rich get richer quicker.
Of course they would never win elections if they ran on that platform, so they pretend they're actually about anything and everything else, in order sucker people into voting against their own self interests. But you see it in almost everything they do.
.... that there exist things that unknowable, then would that proof constitute proof of the nonexistence of an omniscient god? If an omniscient being knows it, then it seems to follow that whatever "it" is cannot be unknowable, and if "it" is truly not known, then the alleged being is not omniscient.
Knowability probably needs to be defined in terms of the characteristics of the know-er. Presumably humans can know things that our smaller-brained ancestors couldn't know, and presumably also some creature with a larger brain might be able to know something that wouldn't "fit" into the human brain.
Similarly, their might be things that are just too complex for us to wrap our brains around, whereas some superintelligent aliens might be able to.
As for omniscience, it would presumably take unbounded storage capacity, plus omnipresence and omnichronicity to be able to acquire knowledge that otherwise would not be reachable or storable. OTOH, if there are only a finite number and size of things to know, and if is possible for some being to know stuff without having to acquire the knowledge, then such a being with finite storage capacity might suffice.
Hey, I love Spiritual Computing as much as the next geek, but I have a degree in Computational Theology, so I speak with authority when I assure that the two devices are not spiritual equivalents.
More like kissing cousins with more than the expected amount of DNA in common.
Ignorant amateur here. ISTM that if a virtual pair appears straddling the event horizion, the one that gets away never was inside the black hole to begin with, and thus would not carry away any matter or energy. Isn't the black hole just working as an engine to extract matter/energy from the vacuum near the event horizon? Half of which goes in, making the BH bigger, and half of which escapes to the external universe.
In the unlikely event that that conception is correct, it would be interesting to think about what happens to the vacuum near the event horizion. Does it get depleted of its vacuum energy, or is it an infinite source? If depleted, does vacuum energy flow in from other nearby vacuum to replenish it?
Is the vacuum inside a black hole anything like the external vacuum?
of cootietainment, cootvertising, and cootolingiustic programming.
Studies have shown that people with happy cooties are 30% happier than people without cooties, and 70% happier than people with unhappy cooties.
Now we can entertain your cooties or sell them nanoproducts -- or march them away like the Pied Piper, if for some reason you would prefer to be cootie-free than to have the easy and affordable happiness bonus.
How do gravitons, even virtual ones, escape a black hole?
Do any of the other forces escape black holes? I remember that Larry Niven had a story about a Bond Villian type who used an ion engine to put an electrical charge on a black hole. Since light can't get out, it seems odd that electrical charge could. Was Niven wrong, or is there something interesting going on with black holes and forces.
And back to the question above: even if gravity is just curved space rather than a force, how does the space outside the event horizon know it's supposed to bend, and how much?
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Do you seriously hope to shame the editors with charges of amateurism?
Maybe we'll see the end of the Friday night "SJW" vs "MRA" clickbait fight where assertions are made that sitting typing in an office is "mens work", as if we are all 1920s lumberjacks or something.
Who put on women's clothing and hang around in bars?
So why are they helping companies get corporate welfare?
*checks calendar* oh wait, they must need donations for their upcoming election. Nevermind.
The core Republican political philosophy (before the insane took over the nut house) is that the proper role of government is to make sure the rich get richer quicker.
Of course they would never win elections if they ran on that platform, so they pretend they're actually about anything and everything else, in order sucker people into voting against their own self interests. But you see it in almost everything they do.
.... that there exist things that unknowable, then would that proof constitute proof of the nonexistence of an omniscient god? If an omniscient being knows it, then it seems to follow that whatever "it" is cannot be unknowable, and if "it" is truly not known, then the alleged being is not omniscient.
Knowability probably needs to be defined in terms of the characteristics of the know-er. Presumably humans can know things that our smaller-brained ancestors couldn't know, and presumably also some creature with a larger brain might be able to know something that wouldn't "fit" into the human brain.
Similarly, their might be things that are just too complex for us to wrap our brains around, whereas some superintelligent aliens might be able to.
As for omniscience, it would presumably take unbounded storage capacity, plus omnipresence and omnichronicity to be able to acquire knowledge that otherwise would not be reachable or storable. OTOH, if there are only a finite number and size of things to know, and if is possible for some being to know stuff without having to acquire the knowledge, then such a being with finite storage capacity might suffice.
...it will be on your foot.
That's impressive, but how do you block ads with it?
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if billions of heads just exploded.
A communist venture capitalist... what'll they think of next?
Complain about SWAB, get a story about the poop chute instead.
No, "acute intestinal blockage" comes from overeating Twinkies.
Probably gets you out of a social life.
Hey, I love Spiritual Computing as much as the next geek, but I have a degree in Computational Theology, so I speak with authority when I assure that the two devices are not spiritual equivalents.
More like kissing cousins with more than the expected amount of DNA in common.
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So much for those who say the editors don't do anything anymore.
Left me wondering what the unusual normal recourse is.
Apple hasn't had much pull in Switzerland since the days of William Tell.
Ignorant amateur here. ISTM that if a virtual pair appears straddling the event horizion, the one that gets away never was inside the black hole to begin with, and thus would not carry away any matter or energy. Isn't the black hole just working as an engine to extract matter/energy from the vacuum near the event horizon? Half of which goes in, making the BH bigger, and half of which escapes to the external universe.
In the unlikely event that that conception is correct, it would be interesting to think about what happens to the vacuum near the event horizion. Does it get depleted of its vacuum energy, or is it an infinite source? If depleted, does vacuum energy flow in from other nearby vacuum to replenish it?
Is the vacuum inside a black hole anything like the external vacuum?
for data compression.
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of cootietainment, cootvertising, and cootolingiustic programming.
Studies have shown that people with happy cooties are 30% happier than people without cooties, and 70% happier than people with unhappy cooties.
Now we can entertain your cooties or sell them nanoproducts -- or march them away like the Pied Piper, if for some reason you would prefer to be cootie-free than to have the easy and affordable happiness bonus.
How come *he* didn't peel them off before selling it.
Thank you for your careful replies!
A lot of public officials seem to think that encryption will just go away if they outlaw it.
Or maybe they think routers can automagically decrypt user messages.
How do gravitons, even virtual ones, escape a black hole?
Do any of the other forces escape black holes? I remember that Larry Niven had a story about a Bond Villian type who used an ion engine to put an electrical charge on a black hole. Since light can't get out, it seems odd that electrical charge could. Was Niven wrong, or is there something interesting going on with black holes and forces.
And back to the question above: even if gravity is just curved space rather than a force, how does the space outside the event horizon know it's supposed to bend, and how much?
far, far away?
don't let it stink smelly buttt.
I got dibs on the movie rights.