As long as the cannible tribe had the permission of those they ate, I have no problem with it.
Your, their, everyone's definition of morality, propriety, and the like end where my nose begins. My life and my freedom are not contingent on getting your permission to live and be free.
Instead of wondering whether they have souls, we should be praying they think we have souls.
We're "some microbes on an anthill in Africa" wondering whether we sould grant them equal rights. Uhhhh, ok.
Any politician who thinks they shouldn't have rights should be INSTANTANEOUSLY executed for high treason, the likes of which this planet has never seen.
What was that big article on the CBC news last night?
Oh, yeah. Another whine about how Canadians are having to go to private clinics (where "allowed" by the gun-toting, we know what's best for you, and are willing to jail you to prove it-government, yee gods, what a horrid system) or to the States to get treatment.
And, just like the California power crisis, caused by government intervention, no doubt somehow someone will try to blame it on capitalism.
First of all, no human court or penal system could possibly force Satan, or probably even his minions, into jail. Thus penalties for perjury would be fruitless, and no statements by them considered valid.
Furthermore, even the "so help me God" and hoof-on-the-Bible wouldn't do anything since Satan and his minions are already under God damnification. You can't threaten someone with something they're already suffering under. Again, no meaningful threats to prevent perjury.
1. A few plants here or there, maybe one small, odd-shaped patch, perhaps interleaved with his own plants in that area, if any, not to mention a swath of plants growing right up to the edge of the road.
2. A rather large rectangular area clearly planted properly by machinery.
Someone should forward this to the brainy Canadian investigators. Then again, the brainy Canadian judges have stated it's his responsibility to regularly check his land and perform genetic tests on the plants growing there, and either destroy them or pay royalties if he finds any strays he hasn't properly secured.
It's too good to pass up -- Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these Beowulf Cluster Crays?
Anyway, a professor in grad school seven years ago told me Cray had all but died, cancelling their latest processor, because the fastest RAM they had back then would still cause their processor to idle for 350 cycles just to load one value.
Intelligent compilers at best can only use that wasted time performing maybe 10 instructions ahead, not the 350+ required of a superscalar vector computer. Hence, the processor was basically useless, starved of information. Project cancelled. Cray on Skid Row.
I presume they have licked this RAM-to-processor problem?
Ahhhh, but that's where this type of research can pay off. What is the mechanism to make cells age and die after so many divisions? If you can alter that, then you would be able to keep cells working properly for a long, long time, and you would cease to age.
Of course, I think I read somewhere that even if you never died of old age, the average human would have about a 6-20kiloyear halflife before an accident claimed them. Even everyone being exceedingly careful would only extend that by an order of magnitude or two. Millions of years, not to mention billions, would be statistically unrealistic except for a lucky few Lazuri.
I read a sci-fi story once, where when your heart stopped, your body chemically gooped itself up for long-term storage, indefinitely if necessary, until you could be rescued and reanimated. Combine something like that with a greatly ruggedized brain and brain case, and you'd survive just about everything short of pasting yourself against a planet in an out-of-control spaceship.
> I pray for your soul, too.
> I hope you will find the mercy in Christ one day.
I am sorry, but this is not a troll, and needs to be said.
There is no greatest infinity. Therefore, there is no most infinite god, and the concept of most powerful infinite being is meaningless.
Therefore, we need only find a more powerful god^H^H^Hinfinite being than God, and ask it for a super-duper, transfinite containment unit and open 'er up on Yaweh.
"The light is green, the trap is clean."
CYA, jerk-who-created-this-universe.
I wonder if Yaweh would squeal if we killed Him slowly. What would go through his infinite mind as finite mortals used far more infinite tools to execute him, deservedly, for this crappy, pain-filled universe? A booming voice comes down from the sky, "Noooooo! Noooo! This can't be happening! Owww! Owwwwwwww! Urrrghkkkk!"
And then Yaweh assumes room temprature.
Imagine the incredible stink from an infinite rotting corpse.
Again, this is not a Troll. These are legitimate ponderings as to how we could possibly end the illogical terror of this existance, as caused by a DEMONSTRABLY EVIL ENTITY.
It's been obvious to philosophers for centuries that God, or the gods that created this universe, is really more of a supervillian or a pervert who gets off on violence and torture, take your pick. Creating self-aware individuals and sticking them in a world where it's possible to harm each other is pretty sick.
(And your reward, if you live a life of helpfulness according to Christianity? Getting to spend all eternity in a perfect place where such skills are absolutely useless.)
Anyway, anything that flips off God is good in my book. Lightning rods (how dare you thwart the Wrath of God!) and pain killers during birth (God said in pain shall you labor) are noble predecessors. (Indeed, Isaac Asimov pointed out how early preachers spoke against lightning rods as thwarting Zeus^H^H^H^HYaweh's retributive bolts. Soon, only church steeples lacked them. Suddenly, those preacher's churches were the only buildings in town being burned down by the Wrath of God. Not too good if you've built your career on the charlatanism of being God's Own Channeler. Needless to say, rods went up on churches shortly thereafter.)
Why is any of this even an issue? Don't companies and producers of content (i.e. freelancers) have their contracts that specify where and when reprints and distribution occur, and for how long? Can't they just include a clause to allow CD distribution, or internet-database distribution?
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> NT at one time shipped in 4 flavours: x86, PPC,
> MIPS and Alpha. Only x86 continues to be
> developed.
That's because it accomplished its goal. It killed off other OS's on other platforms as serious corporate server contenders. If anything rises out of the ashes, NT will quickly be re-ported to it.
Quicksort would actually be very convertable to such a system, since every time you split the data and recurse, you naturally find a place to use further processors.
Or course, a sort algorithm that started out with a massive number of processors, merging later, would be better. "Unrolling," i.e. parallelizing, the merging of many subsections would speed things up quite a bit, too.
Well, if you could write a tight compiler that could be cloned across the surface of this chip, you might very well be able to compile every single one of the thousands of files in a large project simultaneously.
Individual cases would be difficult -- you'd have to track down a braggart on the Internet, get a search warrant, then tear them a new one.
However, to prove crime in general is being committed, and on a massive scale, it's trivial. They know exactly how many of each CD, tape, and so on they have produced, and I have no doubt they can show in thousands of cases that far more people are transferring a particular song than legally released copies.
Also, given that massive copying this way, even in the rare (but pretended to be huge) "legal" way, is clearly not what was envisioned by fair use laws, it may be time to tighten them up a bit.
Then you guys won't even have your phony argument to stand on.
> If I own the MiniPops' first album
> 0 and so does the person who's downloading my
> MP3, THEY ARE ALLOWED TO DO SO.
Yes, but the four thousand others who don't are stealing, and you are aiding them, knowingly, and so is Napster.
Again, if anyone exists at all who uses Napster "legally", they are a tiny fraction of the users. The vast majority are a destruction job on legitimate songwriters trying to earn a living.
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> But what if they also want to collect nazi memorabilia?
Oh, come on now! I can't think of any major science fiction movie where the aliens showed any interest in anything of the Nazis.
Oops, I left one "b" out of nibble.
As long as the cannible tribe had the permission of those they ate, I have no problem with it.
Your, their, everyone's definition of morality, propriety, and the like end where my nose begins. My life and my freedom are not contingent on getting your permission to live and be free.
Instead of wondering whether they have souls, we should be praying they think we have souls.
We're "some microbes on an anthill in Africa" wondering whether we sould grant them equal rights. Uhhhh, ok.
Any politician who thinks they shouldn't have rights should be INSTANTANEOUSLY executed for high treason, the likes of which this planet has never seen.
> Bullshit. I've been to the doctor about 10 times
> this year and the most I've waited is 20 minutes
10 times in one year, so far, and it's only March! So much for the high quality of socialized medicine in being able to fix problems.
What was that big article on the CBC news last night?
Oh, yeah. Another whine about how Canadians are having to go to private clinics (where "allowed" by the gun-toting, we know what's best for you, and are willing to jail you to prove it-government, yee gods, what a horrid system) or to the States to get treatment.
And, just like the California power crisis, caused by government intervention, no doubt somehow someone will try to blame it on capitalism.
It still won't make it far.
First of all, no human court or penal system could possibly force Satan, or probably even his minions, into jail. Thus penalties for perjury would be fruitless, and no statements by them considered valid.
Furthermore, even the "so help me God" and hoof-on-the-Bible wouldn't do anything since Satan and his minions are already under God damnification. You can't threaten someone with something they're already suffering under. Again, no meaningful threats to prevent perjury.
Couldn't either of you two neanderthals respond kindly to this guy?
"s33d h4x0rz"
Hahaha, I think you just coined a phrase, my friend.
I wonder how long it will be until other scientists start claiming genetic programmers aren't real scientists.
> the genetically altered seeds were "programmed" not to reproduce
"You and I, Baby, ain't nuthin' but herbals.
Let's do it like Richard Gere does it -- with his gerbils."
"Blew onto his land?"
Umm, one of these situations should be true:
1. A few plants here or there, maybe one small, odd-shaped patch, perhaps interleaved with his own plants in that area, if any, not to mention a swath of plants growing right up to the edge of the road.
2. A rather large rectangular area clearly planted properly by machinery.
Someone should forward this to the brainy Canadian investigators. Then again, the brainy Canadian judges have stated it's his responsibility to regularly check his land and perform genetic tests on the plants growing there, and either destroy them or pay royalties if he finds any strays he hasn't properly secured.
Oh, hell. Let's just do what we always do. Hijack a nuclear weapon and hold the world for ransom.
A proprietary OS on the main supercomputer is required to make sure every last thing is optimized.
I'm currently trying to get this started:
"Can you imagine what Taco Bell would have given out for free if one of THESE had landed on its target?"
Help me out here, peeps.
It's too good to pass up -- Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these Beowulf Cluster Crays?
Anyway, a professor in grad school seven years ago told me Cray had all but died, cancelling their latest processor, because the fastest RAM they had back then would still cause their processor to idle for 350 cycles just to load one value.
Intelligent compilers at best can only use that wasted time performing maybe 10 instructions ahead, not the 350+ required of a superscalar vector computer. Hence, the processor was basically useless, starved of information. Project cancelled. Cray on Skid Row.
I presume they have licked this RAM-to-processor problem?
Ahhhh, but that's where this type of research can pay off. What is the mechanism to make cells age and die after so many divisions? If you can alter that, then you would be able to keep cells working properly for a long, long time, and you would cease to age.
Of course, I think I read somewhere that even if you never died of old age, the average human would have about a 6-20kiloyear halflife before an accident claimed them. Even everyone being exceedingly careful would only extend that by an order of magnitude or two. Millions of years, not to mention billions, would be statistically unrealistic except for a lucky few Lazuri.
I read a sci-fi story once, where when your heart stopped, your body chemically gooped itself up for long-term storage, indefinitely if necessary, until you could be rescued and reanimated. Combine something like that with a greatly ruggedized brain and brain case, and you'd survive just about everything short of pasting yourself against a planet in an out-of-control spaceship.
> I pray for your soul, too.
> I hope you will find the mercy in Christ one day.
I am sorry, but this is not a troll, and needs to be said.
There is no greatest infinity. Therefore, there is no most infinite god, and the concept of most powerful infinite being is meaningless.
Therefore, we need only find a more powerful god^H^H^Hinfinite being than God, and ask it for a super-duper, transfinite containment unit and open 'er up on Yaweh.
"The light is green, the trap is clean."
CYA, jerk-who-created-this-universe.
I wonder if Yaweh would squeal if we killed Him slowly. What would go through his infinite mind as finite mortals used far more infinite tools to execute him, deservedly, for this crappy, pain-filled universe? A booming voice comes down from the sky, "Noooooo! Noooo! This can't be happening! Owww! Owwwwwwww! Urrrghkkkk!"
And then Yaweh assumes room temprature.
Imagine the incredible stink from an infinite rotting corpse.
Again, this is not a Troll. These are legitimate ponderings as to how we could possibly end the illogical terror of this existance, as caused by a DEMONSTRABLY EVIL ENTITY.
> You will surely die.
> - Genesis 2:17
It's been obvious to philosophers for centuries that God, or the gods that created this universe, is really more of a supervillian or a pervert who gets off on violence and torture, take your pick. Creating self-aware individuals and sticking them in a world where it's possible to harm each other is pretty sick.
(And your reward, if you live a life of helpfulness according to Christianity? Getting to spend all eternity in a perfect place where such skills are absolutely useless.)
Anyway, anything that flips off God is good in my book. Lightning rods (how dare you thwart the Wrath of God!) and pain killers during birth (God said in pain shall you labor) are noble predecessors. (Indeed, Isaac Asimov pointed out how early preachers spoke against lightning rods as thwarting Zeus^H^H^H^HYaweh's retributive bolts. Soon, only church steeples lacked them. Suddenly, those preacher's churches were the only buildings in town being burned down by the Wrath of God. Not too good if you've built your career on the charlatanism of being God's Own Channeler. Needless to say, rods went up on churches shortly thereafter.)
Why is any of this even an issue? Don't companies and producers of content (i.e. freelancers) have their contracts that specify where and when reprints and distribution occur, and for how long? Can't they just include a clause to allow CD distribution, or internet-database distribution?
> NT at one time shipped in 4 flavours: x86, PPC,
> MIPS and Alpha. Only x86 continues to be
> developed.
That's because it accomplished its goal. It killed off other OS's on other platforms as serious corporate server contenders. If anything rises out of the ashes, NT will quickly be re-ported to it.
Quicksort would actually be very convertable to such a system, since every time you split the data and recurse, you naturally find a place to use further processors.
Or course, a sort algorithm that started out with a massive number of processors, merging later, would be better. "Unrolling," i.e. parallelizing, the merging of many subsections would speed things up quite a bit, too.
And HAL was, supposedly, created by subtracting one letter from IBM.
Let's add one letter to MS. Hmmmmm. NT.
Well, if you could write a tight compiler that could be cloned across the surface of this chip, you might very well be able to compile every single one of the thousands of files in a large project simultaneously.
Individual cases would be difficult -- you'd have to track down a braggart on the Internet, get a search warrant, then tear them a new one.
However, to prove crime in general is being committed, and on a massive scale, it's trivial. They know exactly how many of each CD, tape, and so on they have produced, and I have no doubt they can show in thousands of cases that far more people are transferring a particular song than legally released copies.
Also, given that massive copying this way, even in the rare (but pretended to be huge) "legal" way, is clearly not what was envisioned by fair use laws, it may be time to tighten them up a bit.
Then you guys won't even have your phony argument to stand on.
> If I own the MiniPops' first album
> 0 and so does the person who's downloading my
> MP3, THEY ARE ALLOWED TO DO SO.
Yes, but the four thousand others who don't are stealing, and you are aiding them, knowingly, and so is Napster.
Again, if anyone exists at all who uses Napster "legally", they are a tiny fraction of the users. The vast majority are a destruction job on legitimate songwriters trying to earn a living.