Huh? So if I get a list of random number ( say from nuclear decay ), but then write them down on a piece of paper, they are no longer random? Wow, that's interesting.
Yes, I'm sure you're on a par with Doug Lenat. Nobody knows whether intellegence and awareness are "more complex" than anything else. Intellegence and awareness could merely be an emergent property of complexity itself. It may not have human-like intellegence, but it may leap-frog human intellegence. Or it may merely be a useful tool.
Once again we have the never ending illusion of government as benevolent savior, delivery safety and predictability. Do you really believe that it's *less* likely that the government will put a chip in you than a private business. Give me a break. Better blow the dust off of your underused history books.
Agreed, however I'd suggest that the entire Bible is a heavily edited and revised folk tale. In fact several key areas to Catholics, such as the resurection and the virgin birth, were added long after Jesus's death.
You da man. In fact, I hate it when a real scientist even signifies silliness like "Creationism" with a comment. It gives it an air of legitimacy. There can be no "disproval" or "proving" of religious belief. The area beyond confirmation is precisely where these fantasies thrive. Sciences great contribution is to shrink the domain of religious "faith" to an area that doesn't interfere with the real world understanding, at least among people who can actually separate the evidence before them from their hopes and fantasies.
Sorry, there is no root of all evil. I still don't see how Monsanto "stole" anything. Since theft is a legal definition, certainly there is a law they broke, and can therefore be prosecuted under. Is such activity in progress?
I don't think Heinlein was right. "If you don't vote you will be wrong"? He's saying that the act of voting is a moral act in and of itself. I don't believe that's true under either of the two scenarios:
1) You have no idea what your voting for.
2) You don't vote in your own self-interest.
A vote under either of the circumstances unfavorably distorts the outcome of elections.
The whining is amazing. People want all the goodies, including the highest living standards in human history, and then they whine about 60 hour weeks. This 60hr week stuff is bullsh*t. Maybe if people didn't have three cars, 8 televisions, hotel vacations, restaurant diets, etc... they could work a lot less.
His analysis of human history was completely bogus, and his projections about the future were (especially in retrospect) rather silly. When will these communists realize that freedom is an *end* to be pursued for it's own sake, not a means of higher production efficiency. Freaking savages.
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Huh? So if I get a list of random number ( say from nuclear decay ), but then write them down on a piece of paper, they are no longer random? Wow, that's interesting.
Fortunately, the rest of the world simply doesn't matter.
Good analog. Collectivism is just like a bunch of children who refuse to grow up and fend for themselves, forever attached to their mothers teat.
Finally some common sense on the board.
No, because humans are a natural part of the equation. Nature adapts to the bizarre behavior of humans, just as it does to everything else.
I'll will go farther, and posit that Man himself is a part of nature, and therefore the concept of NATURAL diminishment is faulty.
Why not?
Yes, I'm sure you're on a par with Doug Lenat. Nobody knows whether intellegence and awareness are "more complex" than anything else. Intellegence and awareness could merely be an emergent property of complexity itself. It may not have human-like intellegence, but it may leap-frog human intellegence. Or it may merely be a useful tool.
Once again we have the never ending illusion of government as benevolent savior, delivery safety and predictability. Do you really believe that it's *less* likely that the government will put a chip in you than a private business. Give me a break. Better blow the dust off of your underused history books.
As much fun as any imaginary being can have, I suppose.
It was added long after all of the supposed witnesses deaths as well.
for it is man who created God in the first place.
Agreed, however I'd suggest that the entire Bible is a heavily edited and revised folk tale. In fact several key areas to Catholics, such as the resurection and the virgin birth, were added long after Jesus's death.
You da man. In fact, I hate it when a real scientist even signifies silliness like "Creationism" with a comment. It gives it an air of legitimacy. There can be no "disproval" or "proving" of religious belief. The area beyond confirmation is precisely where these fantasies thrive. Sciences great contribution is to shrink the domain of religious "faith" to an area that doesn't interfere with the real world understanding, at least among people who can actually separate the evidence before them from their hopes and fantasies.
given that we recently learned that felatio isn't sexual relations.
Sorry, there is no root of all evil. I still don't see how Monsanto "stole" anything. Since theft is a legal definition, certainly there is a law they broke, and can therefore be prosecuted under. Is such activity in progress?
They already take my stuff every paycheck, and being one of the "rich" (>38,000 income a year), the future is bleak.
I don't think Heinlein was right. "If you don't vote you will be wrong"? He's saying that the act of voting is a moral act in and of itself. I don't believe that's true under either of the two scenarios: 1) You have no idea what your voting for. 2) You don't vote in your own self-interest. A vote under either of the circumstances unfavorably distorts the outcome of elections.
Why not the single-nationals?
Well said. EOD (End Of Discussion).
One wonders how long it would take to make Canada habitable.
Embarassing. I acknowledge your criticism of my half baked emotional flailing ( except the part about learning ;0) ).
The whining is amazing. People want all the goodies, including the highest living standards in human history, and then they whine about 60 hour weeks. This 60hr week stuff is bullsh*t. Maybe if people didn't have three cars, 8 televisions, hotel vacations, restaurant diets, etc... they could work a lot less.
That's a remarkably stupid comment, comrade.
His analysis of human history was completely bogus, and his projections about the future were (especially in retrospect) rather silly. When will these communists realize that freedom is an *end* to be pursued for it's own sake, not a means of higher production efficiency. Freaking savages.