Dark matter is the proof of itself. You see we made up the phrase "dark matter" to describe a set of observations that appear to be repercussions of something we cannot directly (as of yet) observe. So the fact that it exists is a tautology, and is therefore impossible to argue with.
If only Bernie would have been elected! No need to rub it in now, as we know his political demise was arranged not by his enemies, but by his own support group.
Fucking non-transitive election preferences! Terribly disappointing that his rock would have beat both her (missing) paper and his (desperately needed) scissors. Sadly his campaign ended up just like the American electorate: he never had a chance.
Or who claimed or had their adherents claim that any criticism raised against them was based in racism?
Just remember, whenever a politician is speaking, the words they are using are not designed to make sense. They are designed to motivate, to control, and to manipulate. You are acting as if the language used by a politician is actual real English. Don't make that mistake again.
I think the most interesting impact will be during time period between collapse of the magnetosphere and re-establishment of normal magnetic operation of the earth's magnetic fields. Duration will be important, as well as the level of disorganization that is experienced. Unimpeded charged solar particles impacting the Earth could revolutionize the economy around the production, supply, and use of SPF-50000, Faraday cages for the home, and economically expedient euthanasia for the hopelessly lumpy and discolored due to rampant skin cancer.
Magnetic flips most likely don't have drastic effects on the climate. Mass extinctions seem to all be environmental disruptions on a global scale. There's the main difference.
Of course a magnetic flip could severely disrupt the ability of the Earth's magnetosphere to reroute solar radiation around the Earth. The rate of progression of the flip is very important. For instance, what if it takes a geologically insignificant amount of time, like say 1k years, for the poles to flip? Well, this could lead to fun effects like the northern/southern lights showing up around the equator, at ground level! Remember that an evening of northern lights watching is brought to you by electrical discharges that vastly outstrip the total electricity production of humankind since we started wearing woolen socks. Under the worst case scenario all of our electronics and power distribution systems would be completely destroyed. Not species threatening, in spite of our ubiquitous use of electronics. However, definitely not "nothing to worry about." Not even close to that.
It is equally infuriating to me when American companies use loopholes in our ridiculously complicated tax code to shelter revenues in foreign tax shelters to avoid paying taxes
So who are you infuriated at? The companies that take advantage of those loopholes, or the politicians that put them there? Fury doesn't help unless it is properly directed. Does your fury influence who you vote for?
You state this question as if politicians and companies have arrived at this current system without influence from each other. They are both responsible for the current system. Voting is irrelevant when both party's representatives are a) known to lie completely about what they stand for when running for election, b) never held accountable for their campaign promises by their own party and their voters, and c) known to put business interests first ahead of the voters. They instead rely on the media spin machine, propaganda mouthpieces in the partisan babble spaces, and outright voter ignorance to pick up the slack between reality and their oft misstated intentions.
Are you from a country other than the US? It appears that way, as you have no idea about how doggedly fascist leaning our government and business intertwining is, despite overt appearances of regulated divisions. Also, you seem to have have a woefully overoptimistic (or overly simplistic) viewpoint of our electorate's ability to directly influence policies through elections. A friend of mine likes to joke: There are two parties in the US. The corporatist party and the corporatist party. This whole article and the repercussions of the policies we have, an how they got to be in the law in the first place, are examples of the above.
Only in America do we allow foreign nationals with questionable pedigrees to run free throughout our country without oversight. Pretty much all other countries have rational and sane intelligence oversight of foreign nationals in their country.
Sticking your head in the sand, claiming ignorance in the face of a deluge of facts, and rejecting the truth based on your own highly irrational partisan belief system is not "numb."
Not saying you are doing that, but many people in the collective "we" are.
"Tit for tat" conditioning of the press and public? Could it be that he is a closet genius, maybe a savant innately applying the rules of game theory to the business and political realms? How else can you explain his inexplicable business acumen, social influence, and election to the presidency?
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha! I just made a plausible allusion to the possibility of unplumbed depths of Donald Trump's intellect. Of course we all know he is an abominable moron with no qualifications whatsoever and signifies the death-knell of the American Experiment. Were doomed!
Remarkably introspection-free, accusatory, and inflammatory postmortem examinations of the election outcomes, like this one, are the reason why you morons will continue to make the same mistakes over and over, ad nauseum.
There used to be a populist angle to the left that was a catch all for those disenchanted with the raging-capitalist/conservative/religious-right triumvirate that is the republican party.
Now those moderates that want a party to go with are too busy dodging accusations of white privilege, outright racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, islamophobia, mexiphobia, misogyny, etc. to be able to assimilate into the party of the left.
As you ratchet up the groundless accusations and give them the impetus of a political movement and encourage and support their indiscriminate and (even worse) intentional misapplication for political gains, you alienate people who would otherwise be on your side.
Being the voice of those who are seeking redress from the government is a good thing. Taking that voice and condemning others in a baseless and destructive fashion gets you thrown out of the political system, as it should.
A better way to put this: there are innumerable things you can use to criticize the established right in the US. Resorting to name calling and inflammatory statements that color entire groups of people as "deplorable" and "racist" and "sexist" just because they have conservative underpinnings, are white, and are male is just fucking stupid. If that is the best criticism you can muster for the right in the US, and if that is what it takes to get the support of the left leaning, minorities, and women we are all well and truly fucked. Trump will be a two term president and the CEO of Exxon/new secretary of state will be the next president.
Our government sees retired veterans as the greatest potential enemy of the state, thus their treatment. They are an armed, trained, and in many cases, rigidly Constitutional in their thinking. Government overreach is tempered by the presence of these people more than you might think.
Also, the only reason the VA is so bad is because all of us let it be that way. If we complained as much about the VA as homosexuals did about wanting the right to marry, we would have done something about it already.
It seems you are saying "Since we no longer abide by the Constitution we should abolish it." Even lip service to the Constitution is sufficient to maintain some of the freedoms which we are inherently entitled to.
What would you replace it with? And would you entrust the re-launching of the American political framework to the very people who transgress their own oaths and the Constitution daily as a matter of expedience?
If the NSA didn't have their heads so far up the American public's collective asses with the electronic surveillance equivalent of an electron microscope, maybe they would have the time to, hmm I don't know, defend us from foreign cyber attacks?!?!
We can have it both ways. We can have an NSA and protection from foreign forces attacking us through the global communications infrastructure. We just have to have politicians who follow existing public law and the constitution rather than secret laws and secret interpretations of the constitution which allow our government officials to justify spying on the American people.
All we have to do is get the infrastructure of the NSA directed toward overseas interests and origination, rather than moving into your living room. It really is that easy.
True statement, however they were just that, the extremes, relegated to the outer edges of the bell curve, deevs apart from the mainstream expression of the party ethic. Now both parties seem to have adopted extreme positions as their main charter. The thugginess is now enshrined in their core tenets, not some deniably convenient release valve for the more "avid" members.
If this inexorable slide into sensationalism and pseudo-fanaticism is where the future is heading, please excuse me while I DON'T keep up. You idiots can have it.
We have rules in place because they were imposed from above. Mobs never did anything good for anyone. Get over yourself, Trump supporter.
So the entire civil rights movement never did any good for anyone? Really, who is this stupid? Only the ubiquitous and ignorant AC.
Sounds like you are being paid by some factor of the authoritarian left to "Speak power to truth," squash and squelch any dissent, and spread the message that the government is the ultimate authority and they know what is Best.
I miss the days when liberalism included a broad base of people who questioned authority, who rejected the notion that the government knew better than the people, and that we should view with a rightfully jaundiced eye the power that the state holds over the people. Now its "toe this line or you will be branded an outcast!" Jack booted ideological thugs have taken over the "left" and turned it into a parody of what it was. You need look no further than this for why we have the parody of a republican as the president elect as well.
You contradict yourself and even the references you posted from Wikipedia. I suggest liberal doses of psilocybin, and some time away from whatever you have been reading.
Legs are definitely better, more force. However, the biggest impediment to breaking a car window is improper form. Most aim for the center of the window. This is, unfortunately the wrong place to hit. The edges of the window are where it is easiest to break. The center is designed to be the most resilient to pressure and damage. I have seen car side windows endure multiple hammer hits in the center. I have also seen a small magnet tossed casually at the edge of a window and it shattered instantly.
Scoring the glass can help as well. Any sharp metal, or even a diamond/other hard gem stone in a ring, that can make marks on the glass will result in a window that is substantially easier to break. Also, if you have some ceramic on hand the deal is as good as done. Score an X mark, tap the center of the mark, exit the vehicle.
The Integral Trees/Smoke Ring books explore a similar idea, though it is based around a gas torus surrounding a neutron star. Definitely a fun read as Niven incorporates the physics of such a system in his world building. He did the math and thought through the model exceptionally well.
Explores the relevance of consciousness to intelligence and highlights the possibility that alien life is so different from us that our mere attempts at communication could be considered an assault.
If you haven't read his other works I suggest the Starfish/Rifters series in it's entirety. Almost all of his works are free on his website www.rifters.com by the way.
This seems to say that by interlinking subsets of binary decision modules you can simulate (or create?) a silicon based system that will approximate the decision tree of a biological entity. Toss in an additive memory system that enhances pattern recognition based on past experience (machine learning compatible?) and you have a system that will grow in discernment the way biological systems do. The trick would seem to be in modeling the appropriate type and number of these underlying modules, designing them to revise their output based on the relevant memory experience, and then assigning priority to the outputs from those modules, giving self preservation and threat detection precedence for instance.
(Half cocked speculation) I can see custom cores designed to evaluate input based on their own narrow realm of specialization (food, friend/foe, threat/non-threat, shelter, etc. could be analogous to other machine relevant inputs) and with their own memory stores of experiential reference material. These feeder cores would process input with regard to their own specialization and then hand off their individual result to another coordinating core designed to integrate results from the feeder cores. The coordinating core would have a prioritization system to weight the inputs and handle conflicts. The coordinating core would also build an experiential database comprised of inputs from the other core modules and the results of the decisions made from those inputs and the viability of the decisions.
Emergent phenomena and complexity would seem to be a logical result of the combination of a large array of interacting modules provided the output space is varied and robust.
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A better response would be:
Dark matter is the proof of itself. You see we made up the phrase "dark matter" to describe a set of observations that appear to be repercussions of something we cannot directly (as of yet) observe. So the fact that it exists is a tautology, and is therefore impossible to argue with.
If only Bernie would have been elected! No need to rub it in now, as we know his political demise was arranged not by his enemies, but by his own support group.
Fucking non-transitive election preferences! Terribly disappointing that his rock would have beat both her (missing) paper and his (desperately needed) scissors. Sadly his campaign ended up just like the American electorate: he never had a chance.
Or who claimed or had their adherents claim that any criticism raised against them was based in racism?
Just remember, whenever a politician is speaking, the words they are using are not designed to make sense. They are designed to motivate, to control, and to manipulate. You are acting as if the language used by a politician is actual real English. Don't make that mistake again.
HA! Those are the concerns of a child.
Guess we know where you stopped maturing.
I would think it "rape by deception," not sexual assault. Great post.
I think the most interesting impact will be during time period between collapse of the magnetosphere and re-establishment of normal magnetic operation of the earth's magnetic fields. Duration will be important, as well as the level of disorganization that is experienced. Unimpeded charged solar particles impacting the Earth could revolutionize the economy around the production, supply, and use of SPF-50000, Faraday cages for the home, and economically expedient euthanasia for the hopelessly lumpy and discolored due to rampant skin cancer.
Magnetic flips most likely don't have drastic effects on the climate. Mass extinctions seem to all be environmental disruptions on a global scale. There's the main difference.
Of course a magnetic flip could severely disrupt the ability of the Earth's magnetosphere to reroute solar radiation around the Earth. The rate of progression of the flip is very important. For instance, what if it takes a geologically insignificant amount of time, like say 1k years, for the poles to flip? Well, this could lead to fun effects like the northern/southern lights showing up around the equator, at ground level! Remember that an evening of northern lights watching is brought to you by electrical discharges that vastly outstrip the total electricity production of humankind since we started wearing woolen socks. Under the worst case scenario all of our electronics and power distribution systems would be completely destroyed. Not species threatening, in spite of our ubiquitous use of electronics. However, definitely not "nothing to worry about." Not even close to that.
It is equally infuriating to me when American companies use loopholes in our ridiculously complicated tax code to shelter revenues in foreign tax shelters to avoid paying taxes
So who are you infuriated at? The companies that take advantage of those loopholes, or the politicians that put them there? Fury doesn't help unless it is properly directed. Does your fury influence who you vote for?
You state this question as if politicians and companies have arrived at this current system without influence from each other. They are both responsible for the current system. Voting is irrelevant when both party's representatives are a) known to lie completely about what they stand for when running for election, b) never held accountable for their campaign promises by their own party and their voters, and c) known to put business interests first ahead of the voters. They instead rely on the media spin machine, propaganda mouthpieces in the partisan babble spaces, and outright voter ignorance to pick up the slack between reality and their oft misstated intentions.
Are you from a country other than the US? It appears that way, as you have no idea about how doggedly fascist leaning our government and business intertwining is, despite overt appearances of regulated divisions. Also, you seem to have have a woefully overoptimistic (or overly simplistic) viewpoint of our electorate's ability to directly influence policies through elections. A friend of mine likes to joke: There are two parties in the US. The corporatist party and the corporatist party. This whole article and the repercussions of the policies we have, an how they got to be in the law in the first place, are examples of the above.
Only in America do we allow foreign nationals with questionable pedigrees to run free throughout our country without oversight. Pretty much all other countries have rational and sane intelligence oversight of foreign nationals in their country.
Sticking your head in the sand, claiming ignorance in the face of a deluge of facts, and rejecting the truth based on your own highly irrational partisan belief system is not "numb."
Not saying you are doing that, but many people in the collective "we" are.
"Tit for tat" conditioning of the press and public? Could it be that he is a closet genius, maybe a savant innately applying the rules of game theory to the business and political realms? How else can you explain his inexplicable business acumen, social influence, and election to the presidency?
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha! I just made a plausible allusion to the possibility of unplumbed depths of Donald Trump's intellect. Of course we all know he is an abominable moron with no qualifications whatsoever and signifies the death-knell of the American Experiment. Were doomed!
But, since he is coming through the porous northern border there will be no one to stop him!
Remarkably introspection-free, accusatory, and inflammatory postmortem examinations of the election outcomes, like this one, are the reason why you morons will continue to make the same mistakes over and over, ad nauseum.
There used to be a populist angle to the left that was a catch all for those disenchanted with the raging-capitalist/conservative/religious-right triumvirate that is the republican party.
Now those moderates that want a party to go with are too busy dodging accusations of white privilege, outright racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, islamophobia, mexiphobia, misogyny, etc. to be able to assimilate into the party of the left.
As you ratchet up the groundless accusations and give them the impetus of a political movement and encourage and support their indiscriminate and (even worse) intentional misapplication for political gains, you alienate people who would otherwise be on your side.
Being the voice of those who are seeking redress from the government is a good thing. Taking that voice and condemning others in a baseless and destructive fashion gets you thrown out of the political system, as it should.
A better way to put this: there are innumerable things you can use to criticize the established right in the US. Resorting to name calling and inflammatory statements that color entire groups of people as "deplorable" and "racist" and "sexist" just because they have conservative underpinnings, are white, and are male is just fucking stupid. If that is the best criticism you can muster for the right in the US, and if that is what it takes to get the support of the left leaning, minorities, and women we are all well and truly fucked. Trump will be a two term president and the CEO of Exxon/new secretary of state will be the next president.
Our government sees retired veterans as the greatest potential enemy of the state, thus their treatment. They are an armed, trained, and in many cases, rigidly Constitutional in their thinking. Government overreach is tempered by the presence of these people more than you might think.
Also, the only reason the VA is so bad is because all of us let it be that way. If we complained as much about the VA as homosexuals did about wanting the right to marry, we would have done something about it already.
It seems you are saying "Since we no longer abide by the Constitution we should abolish it." Even lip service to the Constitution is sufficient to maintain some of the freedoms which we are inherently entitled to.
What would you replace it with? And would you entrust the re-launching of the American political framework to the very people who transgress their own oaths and the Constitution daily as a matter of expedience?
If the NSA didn't have their heads so far up the American public's collective asses with the electronic surveillance equivalent of an electron microscope, maybe they would have the time to, hmm I don't know, defend us from foreign cyber attacks?!?!
We can have it both ways. We can have an NSA and protection from foreign forces attacking us through the global communications infrastructure. We just have to have politicians who follow existing public law and the constitution rather than secret laws and secret interpretations of the constitution which allow our government officials to justify spying on the American people.
All we have to do is get the infrastructure of the NSA directed toward overseas interests and origination, rather than moving into your living room. It really is that easy.
True statement, however they were just that, the extremes, relegated to the outer edges of the bell curve, deevs apart from the mainstream expression of the party ethic. Now both parties seem to have adopted extreme positions as their main charter. The thugginess is now enshrined in their core tenets, not some deniably convenient release valve for the more "avid" members.
If this inexorable slide into sensationalism and pseudo-fanaticism is where the future is heading, please excuse me while I DON'T keep up. You idiots can have it.
We have rules in place because they were imposed from above. Mobs never did anything good for anyone. Get over yourself, Trump supporter.
So the entire civil rights movement never did any good for anyone? Really, who is this stupid? Only the ubiquitous and ignorant AC.
Sounds like you are being paid by some factor of the authoritarian left to "Speak power to truth," squash and squelch any dissent, and spread the message that the government is the ultimate authority and they know what is Best.
I miss the days when liberalism included a broad base of people who questioned authority, who rejected the notion that the government knew better than the people, and that we should view with a rightfully jaundiced eye the power that the state holds over the people. Now its "toe this line or you will be branded an outcast!" Jack booted ideological thugs have taken over the "left" and turned it into a parody of what it was. You need look no further than this for why we have the parody of a republican as the president elect as well.
They wanted the tax deduction and the good press. Dicks.
You contradict yourself and even the references you posted from Wikipedia. I suggest liberal doses of psilocybin, and some time away from whatever you have been reading.
Legs are definitely better, more force. However, the biggest impediment to breaking a car window is improper form. Most aim for the center of the window. This is, unfortunately the wrong place to hit. The edges of the window are where it is easiest to break. The center is designed to be the most resilient to pressure and damage. I have seen car side windows endure multiple hammer hits in the center. I have also seen a small magnet tossed casually at the edge of a window and it shattered instantly.
Scoring the glass can help as well. Any sharp metal, or even a diamond/other hard gem stone in a ring, that can make marks on the glass will result in a window that is substantially easier to break. Also, if you have some ceramic on hand the deal is as good as done. Score an X mark, tap the center of the mark, exit the vehicle.
Odd. I thought the mummies were found predominantly in the Valley of the Kings, not in the pyramids.
Not that I think the pyramids were used to store grain mind you. Just that they weren't a place for mummified remains either.
"Not even wrong" comes to mind.
The Integral Trees/Smoke Ring books explore a similar idea, though it is based around a gas torus surrounding a neutron star. Definitely a fun read as Niven incorporates the physics of such a system in his world building. He did the math and thought through the model exceptionally well.
One of the best! (Maybe spoilerish!)
Explores the relevance of consciousness to intelligence and highlights the possibility that alien life is so different from us that our mere attempts at communication could be considered an assault.
If you haven't read his other works I suggest the Starfish/Rifters series in it's entirety. Almost all of his works are free on his website www.rifters.com by the way.
This seems to say that by interlinking subsets of binary decision modules you can simulate (or create?) a silicon based system that will approximate the decision tree of a biological entity. Toss in an additive memory system that enhances pattern recognition based on past experience (machine learning compatible?) and you have a system that will grow in discernment the way biological systems do. The trick would seem to be in modeling the appropriate type and number of these underlying modules, designing them to revise their output based on the relevant memory experience, and then assigning priority to the outputs from those modules, giving self preservation and threat detection precedence for instance.
(Half cocked speculation) I can see custom cores designed to evaluate input based on their own narrow realm of specialization (food, friend/foe, threat/non-threat, shelter, etc. could be analogous to other machine relevant inputs) and with their own memory stores of experiential reference material. These feeder cores would process input with regard to their own specialization and then hand off their individual result to another coordinating core designed to integrate results from the feeder cores. The coordinating core would have a prioritization system to weight the inputs and handle conflicts. The coordinating core would also build an experiential database comprised of inputs from the other core modules and the results of the decisions made from those inputs and the viability of the decisions.
Emergent phenomena and complexity would seem to be a logical result of the combination of a large array of interacting modules provided the output space is varied and robust.