I don't need air conditioning here, and while it may be a little hotter down south in the US, Minneapolis has had a string of 90 degree F days for some time now.
My theory is that when people use air conditioning, they get used to it and develop an unnatural need for it. I never use it, so I'm used to the heat.
I was already going to make a snotty post about the fact that we are still killing other people, but the part about turning it on ourselves sickens me.
There's got to be someone controlling them or at least writing the AI; what makes you think they'll be such incorruptable saints?
Also, what is "fair" to one person is "unfair" to another. Who's right? Obviously, the one in control of the robots, but the complaints wouldn't stop.
Plus, it would be much more frustrating to have damn robots hassling you than a person. It would be downright humiliating.
We didn't bring Germany, Italy, and Japan, as well as Axis-held terretories into direct control, but we DID make them all governments friendly to the U.S. - Finland was the only Axis country to come out of WWII with its own government (it was not very aggressive but fought with Germany against the common enemy, the U.S.S.R.). The rest became U.S.-friendly with the exception of the Soviet-grabbed terretories, with which they did the same.
Mob rule is better than rule by the currupt elite out on a quest for power.
The only nonsense there is the fact that most of those electors aren't allowed to exercise free will. We've gone from a system where electors could have some sort of personal interaction with presidential candidates, the ability to ask and answer they're own questions instead of the ones the press deems important, to one where the guy who looks best on TV gets elected. Again, this is a good thing?
Replace "electors" with "voters" and it sounds like a good idea.
The justices of the Supreme Court of the United States should be accountable to the federal constitution and the federal constitution only!
I'd rather they tried to please voters to pick them than the presidents to pick them. Notice how liberals pick liberal judges; conservatives pick conservative judges.
Finally, you do have a point of how the voting system is quite corrupt in itself; but I think it would be just as corrupt no matter who is choosing; representatives or the masses of people.
The elected officials do not make a difference as to what NASA does. There's only two you can vote for; neither care.
Most democratic ever? What are you talking about? Parliaments are far more democratic in that one can choose from more than two candidates and expect it to win. Shit, Russia's elections in 1989 were more democratic! You could vote "no confidence" on a ballot and if it beat the other candidates, the election wouild have to be re run with new candidates. Of 800 elections, 200 had to be re run. That doesn't happen here. There are so many more democratic systems out there this entire post seems futile.
We'd use up a hell of a lot of energy accelerating the several thousand tons of mass to reach the sun, and also, there's a good chance of it failing in the sky (Challenger?), and the risk is larger than one we'd want to take.
Now 2 parents isn't enough for me? You've got to get a piece of the action too? Maybe kids CAN decide what's best for them. They'll have to do it someday...
There are plenty of bands out there besides those under the RIAA's grasp. To require a major label to do the job of throwing in music on your lap while being disgusted by big-business tactics is incredibly obtuse.
ftp.unixpunx.org is a good place for me to find music, but that doesn't mean it's for you. I challenge you to find good music.
Unless, of course, you mean you stopped buying cds and buy onlt vinyl. In that case, never mind.
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They should hire Linus Torvalds; his company isn't doing so well lately, and I hear he's got a similar project he's been working on...
The guy didn't use a program to translate; he just thought it out, using his head.
I don't need air conditioning here, and while it may be a little hotter down south in the US, Minneapolis has had a string of 90 degree F days for some time now.
My theory is that when people use air conditioning, they get used to it and develop an unnatural need for it. I never use it, so I'm used to the heat.
There is no problem with technology. Technology is neither good nor bad, it is just the application of science.
Nerd translation: chaotic neutral.
The Terrorist's Cookbook.
The wounded ARE casualties, in addition to the dead.
I was already going to make a snotty post about the fact that we are still killing other people, but the part about turning it on ourselves sickens me.
There's got to be someone controlling them or at least writing the AI; what makes you think they'll be such incorruptable saints?
Also, what is "fair" to one person is "unfair" to another. Who's right? Obviously, the one in control of the robots, but the complaints wouldn't stop.
Plus, it would be much more frustrating to have damn robots hassling you than a person. It would be downright humiliating.
At any rate, China does not care about starvation and would build such any army regardless, given the chance.
We didn't bring Germany, Italy, and Japan, as well as Axis-held terretories into direct control, but we DID make them all governments friendly to the U.S. - Finland was the only Axis country to come out of WWII with its own government (it was not very aggressive but fought with Germany against the common enemy, the U.S.S.R.). The rest became U.S.-friendly with the exception of the Soviet-grabbed terretories, with which they did the same.
Mob rule is better than rule by the currupt elite out on a quest for power.
The only nonsense there is the fact that most of those electors aren't allowed to exercise free will. We've gone from a system where electors could have some sort of personal interaction with presidential candidates, the ability to ask and answer they're own questions instead of the ones the press deems important, to one where the guy who looks best on TV gets elected. Again, this is a good thing?
Replace "electors" with "voters" and it sounds like a good idea.
The justices of the Supreme Court of the United States should be accountable to the federal constitution and the federal constitution only!
I'd rather they tried to please voters to pick them than the presidents to pick them. Notice how liberals pick liberal judges; conservatives pick conservative judges.
Finally, you do have a point of how the voting system is quite corrupt in itself; but I think it would be just as corrupt no matter who is choosing; representatives or the masses of people.
The elected officials do not make a difference as to what NASA does. There's only two you can vote for; neither care.
Most democratic ever? What are you talking about? Parliaments are far more democratic in that one can choose from more than two candidates and expect it to win. Shit, Russia's elections in 1989 were more democratic! You could vote "no confidence" on a ballot and if it beat the other candidates, the election wouild have to be re run with new candidates. Of 800 elections, 200 had to be re run. That doesn't happen here. There are so many more democratic systems out there this entire post seems futile.
The building costs would be insane, however, and I doubt anyone would ever want to take it on.
We'd use up a hell of a lot of energy accelerating the several thousand tons of mass to reach the sun, and also, there's a good chance of it failing in the sky (Challenger?), and the risk is larger than one we'd want to take.
It's called a bicycle!
I tell frat boys that they can run on beer when they yell at me.
That news has already been published, several times. People who read the news generally already know that.
And to everyone else nearby as well? You can't fucking point it at someone, jackass.
How about Hex or Octal? Base-2, man! It's extremely easy to visualize doubling (multiple times) something rather than multiplying by 2x2x3 or 12.
And I'm not sure what to think about the hand-licking.
But Telnet in my head makes it so much more useful!
World Cup Virtual Hooligan pretty much already exists.
Now 2 parents isn't enough for me? You've got to get a piece of the action too? Maybe kids CAN decide what's best for them. They'll have to do it someday...
That's the same article as the first.
There are plenty of bands out there besides those under the RIAA's grasp. To require a major label to do the job of throwing in music on your lap while being disgusted by big-business tactics is incredibly obtuse.
ftp.unixpunx.org is a good place for me to find music, but that doesn't mean it's for you. I challenge you to find good music.
Unless, of course, you mean you stopped buying cds and buy onlt vinyl. In that case, never mind.
There's no such thing as not having a bias; people generally interpret supporting the status quo as a lack of bias, and something original as biased.
We are at war with Afghanistan; allied with Russia. We have always been at war with Afghanistan and allied with Russia.