Everyone out there knows darned well the robot football leagues of the Jetsons will take over from the human ones once robots become better at humans at manipulating reality.
IANS (I Am Not Sure) but aren't electrical wires behind the wall somewhat fire resistant? This is to stop them becoming conduits for fire to other floors (imagine a plastic-coated wire that caught on fire. It would quickly burn up the inside of the wall to the next floor. Not so good.)
So, are there fire resistant network cables? Are they available for the home user? Do these wall plate packages warn about this and to not just run standard across-the-floor cable?
> How far is it from there to a Brave new World of
> genetically engineered slaves and cannon fodder?
Nah, robot armies is the future, same for house workers.
I did read a sci-fi story once where, in the distant future, there really wasn't anything to do. So, to have something to do, people would be other people's houses. One guy was a street cleaner with a body designed to suck up garbage (which tasted really, really good to him) and he would process it and shit gems out onto the street.
Free will isn't about a meaningless spiritual freedom. It's about the freedom to do what you want. Now, setting "what you want" is another story...
> The idea is that China has a self-esteem problem.
That's all Communist fronts at the Olympics ever were.
Since (for most of last century) people in Communist countries were technically not "professionals" (even though training was their paid job) they typically did fairly well because of this. This, and the fact that life in a Communist country was clearly not up to the standards of the free countries the athletes saw and visited, lead the governments to ape capitalism by dangling carrots in front of their athletes, too, like being able to buy and keep stereos, etc. on foreign trips, and in many cases, giving the people their own actual house to live in, should the child do well and get a medal.
It was all a big joke, and the world played along.
2 years/tube / 20,000 tubes = less than an hour between repairs. 1 year/tube = less than a half hour between repair on average. This is an example of the tyrrany of numbers, especially w.r.t. the proliferation of ever more vacuum tubes in "new" models of computers.
What were you thinking I was saying? Your reluctance to be on the same planet as me is not my problem.
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Well, it would depend on their schedule for opening and matching up all the ATM envelopes, which might very well take a day or two (especially if one of the days is Saturday.)
As far as checks go, they do indeed immediately deposit your check in their own internal accounts (with other central banks) and don't wait for it to clear. Of course, some checks bounce, and they have to pay the penalty to the central bank, but the interest they get from depositing everyone's checks (but not crediting your account) for those couple of days outweighs the loss by a factor of a thousand.
Right, if an ancient computer takes twenty thousand vacuum tubes, and a vacuum tube lasts two years on average, how long will the computer run between breakdowns? You do the math.
They just got lazy and took the full installer (a common thing, that's all Microsoft product "upgrade packages" are) and slapped a wet Kleenex-strength wrapper around it.
Exactly my point. Since we're just making up the pluralization anyway (the scientific term for pulling it out of your ass) there's nothing wrong with using virii.
> have you ever heard anybody say that "male genital mutilation" is evil?
Yes, actually. I was one of those unfortunate males (by the tens of millions) who had his genitals mutilated without his permission for ritualistic religious reasons.
Had it been proposed as a new idea today, the proposers would be viewed as perverts, even given the "medical" arguments, and ethicists would loudly denounce such things.
> God does not want you to worship other "gods"
> because He does not want you to be duped by fakes.
Isn't it rather arrogant to believe that one little god would only start out with one little tribe, and leave the rest of humanity to see their wisdom or go to hell?
Remember that there were other actual Gods existant (and maybe so even unto today!) It was a real, Egyptian god that made "Pharoah's" priest's stick turn into two asps, not just some slight of hand easily detectable.
And then there's the demigods born when the gods walked the earth and mated with human women.
I do believe McAffee does monitor activities like trying to write into a.exe file and so on. Depending on the types of things the FBI is trying to do, they may trip McAffee. In that case, McAffee would have to recognize it and NOT flag the user, which is, of course, how hacks piggybacking the FBI trojan's ID will work.
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Everyone out there knows darned well the robot football leagues of the Jetsons will take over from the human ones once robots become better at humans at manipulating reality.
Let's go now to the Up Close and Personal...
> Cosmic Surgery? What's that all about then?
You know, breasts the size of a planet.
> No one has the right to tell you you can't.
Although there are plenty of people who think they do. See both candidates in the last presidential election for examples...
IANS (I Am Not Sure) but aren't electrical wires behind the wall somewhat fire resistant? This is to stop them becoming conduits for fire to other floors (imagine a plastic-coated wire that caught on fire. It would quickly burn up the inside of the wall to the next floor. Not so good.)
So, are there fire resistant network cables? Are they available for the home user? Do these wall plate packages warn about this and to not just run standard across-the-floor cable?
She removes a size 8, too.
> the guys bone breaks before his muscle is overcome
> - medics - is this possible?
No medics necessary. It happens in arm wrestling competitions from time to time.
Anyhoo, given that, at the end of the 100m dash, the athletes are topping 30 mph, the 2 minute mile would be a theoretical possibility.
> How far is it from there to a Brave new World of
> genetically engineered slaves and cannon fodder?
Nah, robot armies is the future, same for house workers.
I did read a sci-fi story once where, in the distant future, there really wasn't anything to do. So, to have something to do, people would be other people's houses. One guy was a street cleaner with a body designed to suck up garbage (which tasted really, really good to him) and he would process it and shit gems out onto the street.
Free will isn't about a meaningless spiritual freedom. It's about the freedom to do what you want. Now, setting "what you want" is another story...
> I draw the line at cyborgs though...
In competing with humans, of course. Now in their own division...
...which will be the new, Unlimited Division, then that will be good...
> The idea is that China has a self-esteem problem.
That's all Communist fronts at the Olympics ever were.
Since (for most of last century) people in Communist countries were technically not "professionals" (even though training was their paid job) they typically did fairly well because of this. This, and the fact that life in a Communist country was clearly not up to the standards of the free countries the athletes saw and visited, lead the governments to ape capitalism by dangling carrots in front of their athletes, too, like being able to buy and keep stereos, etc. on foreign trips, and in many cases, giving the people their own actual house to live in, should the child do well and get a medal.
It was all a big joke, and the world played along.
I must be missing something here.
2 years/tube / 20,000 tubes = less than an hour between repairs. 1 year/tube = less than a half hour between repair on average. This is an example of the tyrrany of numbers, especially w.r.t. the proliferation of ever more vacuum tubes in "new" models of computers.
What were you thinking I was saying? Your reluctance to be on the same planet as me is not my problem.
> Users and programmers were kept separate.
As they still are today!
Well, it would depend on their schedule for opening and matching up all the ATM envelopes, which might very well take a day or two (especially if one of the days is Saturday.)
As far as checks go, they do indeed immediately deposit your check in their own internal accounts (with other central banks) and don't wait for it to clear. Of course, some checks bounce, and they have to pay the penalty to the central bank, but the interest they get from depositing everyone's checks (but not crediting your account) for those couple of days outweighs the loss by a factor of a thousand.
Right, if an ancient computer takes twenty thousand vacuum tubes, and a vacuum tube lasts two years on average, how long will the computer run between breakdowns? You do the math.
And in Spanish it's "computador".
A cute, little computer boy would be "computadorito".
Hey, "Doritos" means "little gold ones."
> Why would you moderate something that is clearly funny as Offtopic?
I hit 'em and hit 'em hard with my +5 Singing Vorpal Sword of Metamoderation.
You can, too!
They just got lazy and took the full installer (a common thing, that's all Microsoft product "upgrade packages" are) and slapped a wet Kleenex-strength wrapper around it.
If they couldn't make it illegal to tell you how to build an atom bomb, how could they make it illegal to tell you how to delete one file?
For when 0.8 seconds to get your data around the world just ain't fast enuf.
Exactly my point. Since we're just making up the pluralization anyway (the scientific term for pulling it out of your ass) there's nothing wrong with using virii.
Iraq, for one, which may be next on the hitlist.
> have you ever heard anybody say that "male genital mutilation" is evil?
Yes, actually. I was one of those unfortunate males (by the tens of millions) who had his genitals mutilated without his permission for ritualistic religious reasons.
Had it been proposed as a new idea today, the proposers would be viewed as perverts, even given the "medical" arguments, and ethicists would loudly denounce such things.
> God does not want you to worship other "gods"
> because He does not want you to be duped by fakes.
Isn't it rather arrogant to believe that one little god would only start out with one little tribe, and leave the rest of humanity to see their wisdom or go to hell?
Remember that there were other actual Gods existant (and maybe so even unto today!) It was a real, Egyptian god that made "Pharoah's" priest's stick turn into two asps, not just some slight of hand easily detectable.
And then there's the demigods born when the gods walked the earth and mated with human women.
Please continue to use 'virii'. Since we're making up plurals, we might as well use the fun ones.
I do believe McAffee does monitor activities like trying to write into a .exe file and so on. Depending on the types of things the FBI is trying to do, they may trip McAffee. In that case, McAffee would have to recognize it and NOT flag the user, which is, of course, how hacks piggybacking the FBI trojan's ID will work.