In retrospect, I agree with you, I shouldn't have phrased it that way. I noticed you used the word 'they' - why is that? AFAIK, it's only one AC asking.
Not sure if that's "don't understand" or "don't want to understand", but I'll assume the first and try to explain as well as I can.
To me, production of a drug resistant bacteria is analogous to having a child with stronger muscles that can beat the stronger wood at each section.
Let's go for the 'stronger muscles', and put some specific evolutional pressure on that. You're right that there is a natural variation in how strong people are. In one generation, picking the stronger people isn't evolution, yet. But let's scale up this petri dish thing to human scale. Let's take an uninhabited Earth-like planet, with several empty islands, all habitable, and an alien scientist that drops a few million people on island #1. It's a nice island, but eventually it gets a bit crowded. If you're a really, really good swimmer, you might make it to the next island, but there's a very strong current in the wrong direction, and the evil alien scientist will prevent you from cheating by building a canoe. As the island gets severely overpopulated, many people desperately attempt to make it to the next island. Most of them drown. But a few hundred years later, island #2 is populated by the descendants of the best swimmers from island #1. Now, the same thing happens - except the current to island #3 is even stronger, and it isn't reachable except for those who have a truly remarkable talent for swimming. Eventually, island #3 is reached by a few people. It gets populated by descendants from a man with Marfan syndrome, and a woman with polydactylism. Unfortunately, both happen to be colourblind too. We're now two islands further. Eventually, a few thousand years in to the future, the last island gets populated. The population consists of people with extremely long and strong arms, on average 6.2 fingers on each hand - often with skin between them - and exceptionally short legs. They're all colourblind and, frankly speaking, usually not too bright. But they sure can swim fast.
Since when having bigger muscles is considered evolution?
Compare the normal people from island #1 with those from the last island. Are they still people? Sure, we'd recognise them as such, and (biological criterium) they could reproduce with normal people. Are they different? That too. A few thousand years of selection for being able to swim against the current surely has had some effects on them.
When you say evolution, i expect to see bacteria transforming to not bacteria but some other form, algea for example.
please correct me if i am wrong
Evolution doesn't necessarily mean a species transforms into another species. That's a relatively big step and nature takes its time. It does occur occasionally, but you'd probably have to try millions of petri dish experiments over a many years to even see that once.
If we had any leadership in the White House we would implement a regime change in North Korea.
Exactly who is itching for a fight here? It's not that the NK leadership is exactly peace-loving, but can we blame them for being somewhat suspicious about the US' intentions if this is an accepted way of thinking about foreign policy there?
But countries like North Korea with unstable leaders need to be silenced as well.
'Unstable leaders'... and this is coming from a country where Donald J. Trump could be chosen as the next president?
They'll be all like "Raaaah look at us we are like SUPER dangerous! Give us oil and food or we use our spooky new powers!"
That has indeed been their peculiar form of diplomacy during some past crises.
Besides there's a long way from a functional nuclear device to a missile deliverable one.
Also true, but how far are they on their way by now? They're determined, have been busy for years, have taken several tests, and announced they're done. Hard to verify, but that might actually be the case.
Not inevitable, but not impossible either, I think. The NK perspective/official party line is that they are under permanent threat and need to be able to defend themselves against SK, the US, and, through heinous manipulations, most of the rest of the world. That's a pretty paranoid perspective, and while it's defensive by nature, this can go wrong in many ways. The country is lead by a small, corrupt, misinformed elite, has a huge and soon nuclear-equipped army and, outside the capital, a poor and suppressed population. An internal crisis, or a diplomatic fuck-up, both seem realistic possibilities.
North Korea isn't that technologically adept, their regime certainly doesn't foster the kind of environment where the required talent can exist readily.
That's nonsense, or wishful thinking at best. Obviously there are talented people there too. I'm assuming the 'kind of environment' you refer to is the Western ideal one: creative, free, entrepreneurial etcetera. But people can be pretty creative is the alternative is horrible enough too, and that seems to work quite well there. As you can see, for example, here their computer technology may be somewhat outdated, but well past the 8" hard disk stage - more like beginning of the 21st century. Looks like the US has the 'handicap of a head start' here.
I'm curious too. I guess we'll have to wait and see if this is going to happen more often.
Unless you feel like experimenting by posting messages that would qualify for the same treatment, of course. Personally, I don't.
This is a scary piece of technology. Could potentially lead to space race 2.0. If russia has nukes in space, it's only a matter of time before we will too.
Not 'could' - it already did. In the article about the X-37B, you can find:
The robotic space plane launched atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on May 20, 2015, kicking off the X-37B program's fourth flight. This mission, dubbed OTV-4 (short for Orbital Test Vehicle-4), remains a clandestine affair.
"I can confirm the fourth OTV mission is approaching one year on orbit," Air Force spokeswoman Capt. Annmarie Annicelli said in response to Space.com's inquiry about the X-37B's activities.
So apparently a space race is already going on, initiated by the US (or possibly China), in which the US now has a head start of a few years on Russia. Same as with nukes, same as with H-bombs.
Providing people with a basic income is simply a good idea, period.
But calling it 'universal' is a bit of a misnomer unless anyone in the universe, or at least on Earth, gets it.
They mention at least one previously used: downloads of the 'free, unsupported' DirectMailer software. So they were apparently targeting people who wanted to send bulk email for free. Poetic injustice? Just guessing, but they could use the same trick with other 'free' products now.
From the report:
5.1. "Cracked" DirectMailer
On the homepage, Yellsoft makes sure to tell its visitors that the company doesn’t o er support for copies of the software downloaded from [link deleted], with a link to the page. This page is hosted on narod.ru, a free web hoster. Let’s see if we can get a copy of DirectMailer from there.
Figure 9 Softexp web page with DirectMailer download link as seen in 2014
Sure enough, in 2014 you could download a directmailer-retail.zip le with a copy of DirectMailer. Since ESET Anti-Virus products started detecting DirectMailer as malicious, the software is no longer being distributed on softexp.narod.ru.
The zip archive contains a dm.pl executable le. Despite the.pl extension, it is not a Perl script, but an ELF executable. This executable le contains a Perl script packed with the Mumblehard packer.
Analysis of the Perl script shows that a function called bdrp is invoked before the main program is started. This function has a uuencoded blob, which, once decoded, generates another ELF le. This ELF le is a packed Perl script consisting of the Mumblehard backdoor. It is written to the le system and a cron job is added to run it every 15 minutes.
guard is a new conditional statement that requires execution to exit the current block if the condition isn’t met.
You can exit the current block from an if-statement, of course. But it doesn't force you to.
Also, having a separate keyword for things like preconditions can make code more readable, because you can express your intent.
Impressive as it is, it's just the number of legal positions. It doesn't say anything about whether optimal play always results in black or white always winning or not.
Compare to the number 26,830 for tic-tac-toe, compared to saying it's a draw.
The idea of juche may be interesting from a philosophical point of view, but in the NK practice most suffering doesn't happen at the top level of the Party.
I agree nuking capitals is not a very bright idea or something to look forward to. However, I don't share your optimism about how far the Nato would be willing to go, if it came to a serious war. According to this article, well after Hiroshima, serious plans were made to nuke Moscow and Leningrad.
I don't have your deep understanding of the GP's credibility and undocumented insights into the as yet approved project
I don't think I claimed any insights into the project, and it's not your fault you never met the GP personally.
Having spent a number years living in Amsterdam: there are central areas where canals (kanaals) are not grachts;nor your "intuitions" about city marketing, determine where the final location will be.
Living there for thirty years now: true, but none that I could think of would make much sense for this project. Admittedly assuming that this is partly city marketing.
Don't be surprise if it winds up being built in Oog - the prophesies of Dutch politicians and the accuracy of news releases from the marketing departments of dutch engineering companies are no more reliable than those in other countries.
Not sure what you mean with 'Oog'; maybe Oost, after your spellchecker 'corrected' it? But, no argument about this not being certain. We'll see what gets built where and when.
Note that the "picture" that another poster mentions is not a real picture.
Yes, it's not exactly clean water, but now that all houses and house boats are supposed to be connected to the sewer system for a few decades, it's definitely less filthy than it used to be.
How many window-sitter prostitutes wind up in those a month?
Zero-point-something. Not nearly as many as drunk tourists.
Can you smoke cannabis on the streets of Amsterdam? Hashish?
Sure, it's not necessarily a healthy idea, but it's allowed (and done a lot).
Is there an age limit to smoke dope?
Drink spirits? Wine? Beer?
Sure, 18 years for alcohol/sigarettes, I assume for dope too, not sure.
You raise an interesting point. The article linked to in an earlier post quotes the robot manufacturer like this:
MX3D says it can 3D print strong, complex structures of durable material, and that the new technique is more cost-effective and scalable than current 3D printing methods.
Sounds that comes straight from the marketing department, which suggests that something built using their technology is, at the moment, a more brittle, less durable, and not as cost-effective and scalable as something built using the traditional way. On the other hand, they do claim this new technology is making progress on these fronts.
According to story you linked to (thanks, by the way), it'll be built 'in the centre of Amsterdam'. Which makes sense, from a city marketing perspective. This implies it will definitely be over a gracht. Call a it a canal or kannal if you like - but I can assure you you're wrong in assuming the original poster didn't know what she was talking about.
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That was my first thought too. You misspelled Kruger and could have added a link but otherwise, you basically said all there is to say to this.
Maybe he read Paolo Bacigalupi's novel
In retrospect, I agree with you, I shouldn't have phrased it that way. I noticed you used the word 'they' - why is that? AFAIK, it's only one AC asking.
I don't understand how this can be evolution.
Not sure if that's "don't understand" or "don't want to understand", but I'll assume the first and try to explain as well as I can.
To me, production of a drug resistant bacteria is analogous to having a child with stronger muscles that can beat the stronger wood at each section.
Let's go for the 'stronger muscles', and put some specific evolutional pressure on that. You're right that there is a natural variation in how strong people are. In one generation, picking the stronger people isn't evolution, yet. But let's scale up this petri dish thing to human scale. Let's take an uninhabited Earth-like planet, with several empty islands, all habitable, and an alien scientist that drops a few million people on island #1. It's a nice island, but eventually it gets a bit crowded. If you're a really, really good swimmer, you might make it to the next island, but there's a very strong current in the wrong direction, and the evil alien scientist will prevent you from cheating by building a canoe. As the island gets severely overpopulated, many people desperately attempt to make it to the next island. Most of them drown. But a few hundred years later, island #2 is populated by the descendants of the best swimmers from island #1. Now, the same thing happens - except the current to island #3 is even stronger, and it isn't reachable except for those who have a truly remarkable talent for swimming. Eventually, island #3 is reached by a few people. It gets populated by descendants from a man with Marfan syndrome, and a woman with polydactylism. Unfortunately, both happen to be colourblind too. We're now two islands further. Eventually, a few thousand years in to the future, the last island gets populated. The population consists of people with extremely long and strong arms, on average 6.2 fingers on each hand - often with skin between them - and exceptionally short legs. They're all colourblind and, frankly speaking, usually not too bright. But they sure can swim fast.
Since when having bigger muscles is considered evolution?
Compare the normal people from island #1 with those from the last island. Are they still people? Sure, we'd recognise them as such, and (biological criterium) they could reproduce with normal people. Are they different? That too. A few thousand years of selection for being able to swim against the current surely has had some effects on them.
When you say evolution, i expect to see bacteria transforming to not bacteria but some other form, algea for example.
please correct me if i am wrong
Evolution doesn't necessarily mean a species transforms into another species. That's a relatively big step and nature takes its time. It does occur occasionally, but you'd probably have to try millions of petri dish experiments over a many years to even see that once.
If we had any leadership in the White House we would implement a regime change in North Korea.
Exactly who is itching for a fight here? It's not that the NK leadership is exactly peace-loving, but can we blame them for being somewhat suspicious about the US' intentions if this is an accepted way of thinking about foreign policy there?
But countries like North Korea with unstable leaders need to be silenced as well.
'Unstable leaders' ... and this is coming from a country where Donald J. Trump could be chosen as the next president?
Their claims for what the test showed is false.
As a claim, yes, it's false. Which means we don't know whether they actually have those standardized nukes or not.
...so only a total F'ing moron would put one on a rocket.
Yes, indeed, he would.
They'll be all like "Raaaah look at us we are like SUPER dangerous! Give us oil and food or we use our spooky new powers!"
That has indeed been their peculiar form of diplomacy during some past crises.
Besides there's a long way from a functional nuclear device to a missile deliverable one.
Also true, but how far are they on their way by now? They're determined, have been busy for years, have taken several tests, and announced they're done. Hard to verify, but that might actually be the case.
Not inevitable, but not impossible either, I think. The NK perspective/official party line is that they are under permanent threat and need to be able to defend themselves against SK, the US, and, through heinous manipulations, most of the rest of the world. That's a pretty paranoid perspective, and while it's defensive by nature, this can go wrong in many ways. The country is lead by a small, corrupt, misinformed elite, has a huge and soon nuclear-equipped army and, outside the capital, a poor and suppressed population. An internal crisis, or a diplomatic fuck-up, both seem realistic possibilities.
North Korea isn't that technologically adept, their regime certainly doesn't foster the kind of environment where the required talent can exist readily.
That's nonsense, or wishful thinking at best. Obviously there are talented people there too. I'm assuming the 'kind of environment' you refer to is the Western ideal one: creative, free, entrepreneurial etcetera. But people can be pretty creative is the alternative is horrible enough too, and that seems to work quite well there. As you can see, for example, here their computer technology may be somewhat outdated, but well past the 8" hard disk stage - more like beginning of the 21st century. Looks like the US has the 'handicap of a head start' here.
I'm curious too. I guess we'll have to wait and see if this is going to happen more often. Unless you feel like experimenting by posting messages that would qualify for the same treatment, of course. Personally, I don't.
This is a scary piece of technology. Could potentially lead to space race 2.0. If russia has nukes in space, it's only a matter of time before we will too.
Not 'could' - it already did. In the article about the X-37B, you can find:
The robotic space plane launched atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on May 20, 2015, kicking off the X-37B program's fourth flight. This mission, dubbed OTV-4 (short for Orbital Test Vehicle-4), remains a clandestine affair. "I can confirm the fourth OTV mission is approaching one year on orbit," Air Force spokeswoman Capt. Annmarie Annicelli said in response to Space.com's inquiry about the X-37B's activities.
So apparently a space race is already going on, initiated by the US (or possibly China), in which the US now has a head start of a few years on Russia. Same as with nukes, same as with H-bombs.
Providing people with a basic income is simply a good idea, period. But calling it 'universal' is a bit of a misnomer unless anyone in the universe, or at least on Earth, gets it.
5.1. "Cracked" DirectMailer .pl extension, it is not a Perl script, but an ELF executable. This executable le contains a Perl script packed with the Mumblehard packer.
Analysis of the Perl script shows that a function called bdrp is invoked before the main program is started. This function has a uuencoded blob, which, once decoded, generates another ELF le. This ELF le is a packed Perl script consisting of the Mumblehard backdoor. It is written to the le system and a cron job is added to run it every 15 minutes.
On the homepage, Yellsoft makes sure to tell its visitors that the company doesn’t o er support for copies of the software downloaded from [link deleted], with a link to the page. This page is hosted on narod.ru, a free web hoster. Let’s see if we can get a copy of DirectMailer from there. Figure 9 Softexp web page with DirectMailer download link as seen in 2014 Sure enough, in 2014 you could download a directmailer-retail.zip le with a copy of DirectMailer. Since ESET Anti-Virus products started detecting DirectMailer as malicious, the software is no longer being distributed on softexp.narod.ru. The zip archive contains a dm.pl executable le. Despite the
guard is a new conditional statement that requires execution to exit the current block if the condition isn’t met.
You can exit the current block from an if-statement, of course. But it doesn't force you to. Also, having a separate keyword for things like preconditions can make code more readable, because you can express your intent.
Impressive as it is, it's just the number of legal positions. It doesn't say anything about whether optimal play always results in black or white always winning or not. Compare to the number 26,830 for tic-tac-toe, compared to saying it's a draw.
The idea of juche may be interesting from a philosophical point of view, but in the NK practice most suffering doesn't happen at the top level of the Party.
I agree nuking capitals is not a very bright idea or something to look forward to. However, I don't share your optimism about how far the Nato would be willing to go, if it came to a serious war. According to this article, well after Hiroshima, serious plans were made to nuke Moscow and Leningrad.
Parent simply looks like a nuanced opinion -possibly one that's not too popular here- to me.
Nothing in there that even remotely looks like trolling.
That's the title of this page and I found that to be truth in advertising - it's readable and informative.
I don't have your deep understanding of the GP's credibility and undocumented insights into the as yet approved project
I don't think I claimed any insights into the project, and it's not your fault you never met the GP personally.
Having spent a number years living in Amsterdam: there are central areas where canals (kanaals) are not grachts;nor your "intuitions" about city marketing, determine where the final location will be.
Living there for thirty years now: true, but none that I could think of would make much sense for this project. Admittedly assuming that this is partly city marketing.
Don't be surprise if it winds up being built in Oog - the prophesies of Dutch politicians and the accuracy of news releases from the marketing departments of dutch engineering companies are no more reliable than those in other countries.
Not sure what you mean with 'Oog'; maybe Oost, after your spellchecker 'corrected' it? But, no argument about this not being certain. We'll see what gets built where and when.
Note that the "picture" that another poster mentions is not a real picture.
Noted.
And live to tell?
Yes, it's not exactly clean water, but now that all houses and house boats are supposed to be connected to the sewer system for a few decades, it's definitely less filthy than it used to be.
How many window-sitter prostitutes wind up in those a month?
Zero-point-something. Not nearly as many as drunk tourists.
Can you smoke cannabis on the streets of Amsterdam? Hashish?
Sure, it's not necessarily a healthy idea, but it's allowed (and done a lot).
Is there an age limit to smoke dope?
Drink spirits? Wine? Beer?
Sure, 18 years for alcohol/sigarettes, I assume for dope too, not sure.
You raise an interesting point. The article linked to in an earlier post quotes the robot manufacturer like this:
MX3D says it can 3D print strong, complex structures of durable material, and that the new technique is more cost-effective and scalable than current 3D printing methods.
Sounds that comes straight from the marketing department, which suggests that something built using their technology is, at the moment, a more brittle, less durable, and not as cost-effective and scalable as something built using the traditional way. On the other hand, they do claim this new technology is making progress on these fronts.
According to story you linked to (thanks, by the way), it'll be built 'in the centre of Amsterdam'. Which makes sense, from a city marketing perspective. This implies it will definitely be over a gracht. Call a it a canal or kannal if you like - but I can assure you you're wrong in assuming the original poster didn't know what she was talking about.
Oops. Weird to hear about this on SlashDot first, I meant.
I just found a nice Q&A Page about this project.
Weird about this on SlashDot first, given that I live in Amsterdam...