Reposting AC's comment (as it's slightly more useful to do so than just reply with "mod parent up"):
No. Those elephants are tortured to submission to be controlled by their handler to paint the same paintings over and over again for the amusement of tourists.
Here is a 6 hour interview with Credo Mutwa, the Zulu Shaman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com] - Credo Mutwa interviewed by David Icke - The Reptilian Agenda
6 hours of two deluded people talking about their shared delusion doesn't constitute evidence, if that's what you were hoping we'd take it as.
I might appropriate "Credo" as a nickname for someone who'll believe anything.
No I didn't. It's funny (to me) not solely because I know what SQL injection is, since there's nothing inherently funny (to me) about SQL injection. It's the setting, the "characters" (such as they are), the conversation. "Little Bobby Tables, we call him," for example, is (to me) an amusingly colloquial interjection in itself, ironic in what would probably otherwise be a dry analysis of SQL injection, as is her stereotypically mom-like admonishment.
Just don't expect everyone to agree with you.
I don't. That's why I don't go around saying "this isn't funny" as if it's an objective fact and getting all uppity because other people like things I don't*.
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*except for Jersey Shore, because that is just shit.
Something I've wondered about is why we don't see more relativistic protons hitting earth or the ISS. So where are these missing showers on earth right now?
Are they missing? Why would you expect more than we get?
Is the relative velocity of everything in the universe extremely low? I don't think so.
Why not? The relative velocity of most things nearby - the solar system, the Milky Way, Andromeda - is all quite slow relative to us, isn't it?
Suppose the activation potential of a neuron is a quantum mechanical quantity that is probability driven
Or let's not suppose. Is it or isn't it? Even then, ultimately everything is probability driven, but that doesn't stop us doing very accurate simulations of physical phenomena. Balls interacting on a pool table touch and collide because they have molecules and atoms, but you don't need to calculate the position of every one of those to achieve realistic simulations.
Your computer can't model that to arbitrary precision, the probability density function is continuous, analog, not discrete.
Then model it with an analogue component - if you really do need such accuracy. It only really needs to be good enough that end result (consciousness in this case) is achievable.
Yes, a quantum model of your brain might choose vanilla where the real one would have chosen chocolate. Doesn't mean it's any less conscious.
All rather moot in any case, since the technological singularity only specifies that an intelligence beyond man's will come into being. Doesn't have to be human. Doesn't even have to be conscious in any sense that we'd recognise it.
The conditions may not be so "new" to the species. They might have evolved this developmental plasticity precisely because they've been exposed to this same variety of conditions in their evolutionary past.
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Reposting AC's comment (as it's slightly more useful to do so than just reply with "mod parent up"):
No. Those elephants are tortured to submission to be controlled by their handler to paint the same paintings over and over again for the amusement of tourists.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/a...
It was a brute force attack by bad baby eating state sponsored Russian hackers
That is a very bad baby.
Enough of your "facts"! I want to be unambiguously outraged!
Until you rise the fuck up.
Bloody freeloader.
Run for the hillth!
Where was Muttley?
Here is a 6 hour interview with Credo Mutwa, the Zulu Shaman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com] - Credo Mutwa interviewed by David Icke - The Reptilian Agenda
6 hours of two deluded people talking about their shared delusion doesn't constitute evidence, if that's what you were hoping we'd take it as.
I might appropriate "Credo" as a nickname for someone who'll believe anything.
Ironic that there's no F-ring near Uranus.
for a founder of a failed finance company
So close! The correct word to use here was "firm."
You missed this bit:
No I didn't. It's funny (to me) not solely because I know what SQL injection is, since there's nothing inherently funny (to me) about SQL injection. It's the setting, the "characters" (such as they are), the conversation. "Little Bobby Tables, we call him," for example, is (to me) an amusingly colloquial interjection in itself, ironic in what would probably otherwise be a dry analysis of SQL injection, as is her stereotypically mom-like admonishment.
Just don't expect everyone to agree with you.
I don't. That's why I don't go around saying "this isn't funny" as if it's an objective fact and getting all uppity because other people like things I don't*.
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*except for Jersey Shore, because that is just shit.
The "sudo make me a sandwich" one? Just not funny
... to you.
I "get" the "joke", it's just not even a little bit funny
... to you.
The "Bobby Tables" strip also isn't funny
... to you.
I did notice. I don't blame you. Reality is very difficult to face.
And apparently subjective opinion is a very difficult concept for you to grasp.
Also:
internet explorer
other mobile based messenger
-I think you mean "he died."
-No, first he died. Now he dead.
Bitch, whine, moan. Autonomous cars are a work in progress. Didn't anyone think they weren't?
Would you buy a self-driving car that couldn't drive itself in 99 percent of the country?
Of course not. But then, no-one's selling them yet, because they're STILL DEVELOPING THEM.
Something I've wondered about is why we don't see more relativistic protons hitting earth or the ISS. So where are these missing showers on earth right now?
Are they missing? Why would you expect more than we get?
Is the relative velocity of everything in the universe extremely low? I don't think so.
Why not? The relative velocity of most things nearby - the solar system, the Milky Way, Andromeda - is all quite slow relative to us, isn't it?
Note that this is also Faster than light can make the round trip.
Not from the light's point-of-view!
http://www.convertalot.com/rel...
I put some numbers in and got almost exactly 4 on-board years for the half-way trip, so 16 for the round trip.
The time you lost complaining also cost you more than the $10 you are claiming back.
Perhaps the satisfaction in, in some small way, causing trouble for a company that has treated him unfairly is also worth more than $10 to him.
Suppose the activation potential of a neuron is a quantum mechanical quantity that is probability driven
Or let's not suppose. Is it or isn't it? Even then, ultimately everything is probability driven, but that doesn't stop us doing very accurate simulations of physical phenomena. Balls interacting on a pool table touch and collide because they have molecules and atoms, but you don't need to calculate the position of every one of those to achieve realistic simulations.
Your computer can't model that to arbitrary precision, the probability density function is continuous, analog, not discrete.
Then model it with an analogue component - if you really do need such accuracy. It only really needs to be good enough that end result (consciousness in this case) is achievable.
Yes, a quantum model of your brain might choose vanilla where the real one would have chosen chocolate. Doesn't mean it's any less conscious.
All rather moot in any case, since the technological singularity only specifies that an intelligence beyond man's will come into being. Doesn't have to be human. Doesn't even have to be conscious in any sense that we'd recognise it.
So we let douchebags get away with being douchebags because we don't like the douchebags they're being douchebags to?
What could possibly go wrong?
Or maybe they do just want to do what they say, and they don't have a shadowy agenda.
Yeah, they meant composite.
Also, these are not "better graphics." They're the same graphics, upscaled differently.
bad integrated TV upscalers
They're not bad, they're just meant for - wait for it - upscaling TV pictures, not console games.
I don't know why the hell they omitted 240p/line doubling mode from HDTVs. It's truly a pain in the ass.
Because it's only a pain in the ass for a tiny proportion of users.
The conditions may not be so "new" to the species. They might have evolved this developmental plasticity precisely because they've been exposed to this same variety of conditions in their evolutionary past.
Blah!
Oh yeah, I know it's not a paradox, that's just its name. It's just a Weird Thing.
I guess if you have two clocks, and you accelerate one away from the other, you should be able to tell which one accerated and which didn't.
One will have more bugs splattered on it.