The CDC told the Huffington Post, "CDC does not know of a virus or condition that would reanimate the dead (or one that would present zombie-like symptoms)."
It's unjust to paint people with different priorities as generally anti-science. There could be many research on the topics on how to achieve greater crop yields, fight diseases, improve hygiene, build up infrastructure cheaply. Research only improves life when followed by a subsequent development and deployment of the discoveries.
Punishment is always a removal of human rights, the right to liberty, property heck in some places even the right to life. Why should free speech be different?
Someone could tell stories about how to molest children and maybe they write from experience and heck for sake of argument lets say a prisoner in prison for serial child molestation writes stories and books, should those books be banned?
Theoretically, yes. In practice, it's impossible to tell whether a book comes from experience. But this is already how it's done in my country, if you are convicted of anything you can't write a book, give an interview etc. about it as part of the punishment, based on the philosophy that noone should be able to profit from crime.
And by this logic, nobody should ever be punished because the damage is already done. Until we have Precrime, the only option is to punish criminals after the crime as a form of deterrence. Child porn consumers provide the incentive and money that drives the pedo porn industry.
There are many open wifi access points set up with the intent of giving internet access to anyone who happens to be there. How am I supposed to know that the owner of an open network wants to share it or not?
But I would like to see more of an option to "collapse" comments. I usually place a comment block above every functional block of code. Most of the time I just need to see a quick one-liner reminding me what all that block does. Other times I need specifics like "this stuff is set on entry, and these things are set on exit" etc. But the detailed comments eat up a lot of screen space and make it take longer to scroll through code looking for things. I'd like to be able to have expandable/collapsable comment details. On a global basis.
What I do is put my comments in the same line as the code. When I need to read the comment I just scroll right, but otherwise it doesn't distract me or eats up screen space. If it's too long, I split it up between different parts of the code. For example, I explain what a function does in the line before it, but I detail how it does that (if explanation is necessary) in the body after the lines.
There are many interesting scientific discoveries to be made by visiting other solar systems, other than pursuing the scifi dream of intelligent life. Even visiting Alpha Centauri could provide us with lots of information. Only by observing other systems can we determine what features of our system are general and what are unique. Yes, the distances between stars are huge, which is why we have to learn to be patient and launch probes that only future generations will see the results of.
As for calculating the orbits, you are right, we are far from being able to hit a star. Which is why the first priority should be improving both our observation accuracies and our models. It will take some time, but it's definitely possible given the will. Another approach could be the use of laser-driven light sails, that could alter their tajectory midflight.
But with chemicals you are limited to the amount of powder you can put in a cartridge, while electric guns can have big batteries attached to them. I still don't think portable electric guns are near, but on a stationary platform with lots of electricity (like ships) they could be effective.
The problem is that requiring a working prototype would make it impossible for an independent inventor to patent their product before shopping around for investments.
I'm guessing this is a preemptive patent, which Google may or may not use in the future. Currently, their face recognition software can't even differentiate between human and animal faces, let alone two human ones.
This could be more useful if combined with some kind of motor system that could move the carpet to prevent the fall, with an algorithm similar to what segways use.
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What about rabies?
It's unjust to paint people with different priorities as generally anti-science. There could be many research on the topics on how to achieve greater crop yields, fight diseases, improve hygiene, build up infrastructure cheaply. Research only improves life when followed by a subsequent development and deployment of the discoveries.
The Soviet Union had an amazing space program yet many Russians still live in poverty.
Exactly, there are bad professors IRL too.
Punishment is always a removal of human rights, the right to liberty, property heck in some places even the right to life. Why should free speech be different?
Someone could tell stories about how to molest children and maybe they write from experience and heck for sake of argument lets say a prisoner in prison for serial child molestation writes stories and books, should those books be banned?
Theoretically, yes. In practice, it's impossible to tell whether a book comes from experience. But this is already how it's done in my country, if you are convicted of anything you can't write a book, give an interview etc. about it as part of the punishment, based on the philosophy that noone should be able to profit from crime.
And by this logic, nobody should ever be punished because the damage is already done. Until we have Precrime, the only option is to punish criminals after the crime as a form of deterrence. Child porn consumers provide the incentive and money that drives the pedo porn industry.
The legality of pedophile cartoons varies between countries. I don't think they should be illegal, but that wasn't the original question.
Because they can be created without raping an actual child.
Defending child pornography will just make it easier for copyright lobbyists to claim that all pirates are pedophiles. This is a bad strategy.
but it also has lots of pesticides in it.
There are many open wifi access points set up with the intent of giving internet access to anyone who happens to be there. How am I supposed to know that the owner of an open network wants to share it or not?
that they checked heir cables before publishing this.
The security of "real" encryption hasn't been proved mathematically.
To believe that science is right and at the same time that man didn't land on the Moon would be a contradiction. No surprises here.
Coments that are only visible when you select them and otherwise don't distract you are not necessarily a bad idea (I use light grey for comments).
True, but documentation can also be achieved by other means than just comments.
But I would like to see more of an option to "collapse" comments. I usually place a comment block above every functional block of code. Most of the time I just need to see a quick one-liner reminding me what all that block does. Other times I need specifics like "this stuff is set on entry, and these things are set on exit" etc. But the detailed comments eat up a lot of screen space and make it take longer to scroll through code looking for things. I'd like to be able to have expandable/collapsable comment details. On a global basis.
What I do is put my comments in the same line as the code. When I need to read the comment I just scroll right, but otherwise it doesn't distract me or eats up screen space. If it's too long, I split it up between different parts of the code. For example, I explain what a function does in the line before it, but I detail how it does that (if explanation is necessary) in the body after the lines.
The fact that they are asking money means that their motivation is not really political.
There are many interesting scientific discoveries to be made by visiting other solar systems, other than pursuing the scifi dream of intelligent life. Even visiting Alpha Centauri could provide us with lots of information. Only by observing other systems can we determine what features of our system are general and what are unique. Yes, the distances between stars are huge, which is why we have to learn to be patient and launch probes that only future generations will see the results of.
As for calculating the orbits, you are right, we are far from being able to hit a star. Which is why the first priority should be improving both our observation accuracies and our models. It will take some time, but it's definitely possible given the will.
Another approach could be the use of laser-driven light sails, that could alter their tajectory midflight.
I think homeopathic medicine could be quite effective at curing hipochonders. Just not at its current ridiculosly inflated prices.
But with chemicals you are limited to the amount of powder you can put in a cartridge, while electric guns can have big batteries attached to them. I still don't think portable electric guns are near, but on a stationary platform with lots of electricity (like ships) they could be effective.
The problem is that requiring a working prototype would make it impossible for an independent inventor to patent their product before shopping around for investments.
I'm guessing this is a preemptive patent, which Google may or may not use in the future. Currently, their face recognition software can't even differentiate between human and animal faces, let alone two human ones.
This could be more useful if combined with some kind of motor system that could move the carpet to prevent the fall, with an algorithm similar to what segways use.
Because the Solar system doesn't have a clearcut borderline, crossing the heliosphere takes time.