You forget that what is right and wrong is largely determined by culture.
Poligamy used to be considered a perfectly normal and moral way of life. In fact, many cases demanded taking a second wife as the only moral option. For example, if your brother died, you were morally responsable to take his wife as your own.
The point is that the new generation is making their own morals. They may be different than yours. This does not give them any less weight. Right and wrong are shades of grey. The more people that accept an action as right, the lighter the shade becomes. When a group (however you want to define group) agrees that an action is right, then that action is moral within that group.
No good. It is not a bunker, it is an office building. Besides, there is no hiding from the clown. He will find you no matter where you go. And when he finds you, he _will_ eat you. Just like he ate me.
I have enough cds that it would likely take a month to listen to them all. Do I need this sheer volume of music? No. What I do want is the choice to listen to what I want when I want. I want the ability to say "I want to listen to this song" and have it available, even if it is from a cd that I seldom listen to. With 5 gigs, there is enough room to put somewhat obscure discs on it.
I won't listen to 80 hours of music straight, but I do want the ability to choose the music that I listen to.
And I don't want to have to anticipate my musical tastes and limit them to 10 songs. Bah.
Where can I get an opperating system that dosn't take control of my computer and data?
1) Put in a blank disk. 2) Hook up a microphone to your soundcard 3) Turn on computer 4) Yell at computer
If it feels like it, it will perform your commands. Be forewarned though, computers are fundamentally lazy devices and will seldom work unless something takes control of them.
The army already has guns. The farmer does not. Giving guns to the army doesn't change things much for them. It does change things alot for the farmer.
Very large net benifit for the farmer.
Of course, if the army knows that the farmer has a gun, they will likely just shoot him the next time they come for food.
If I was an evil person trying to undermine your system, I would try to jam all the accounts I could. Then the hospital would have to pay someone to unlock all those accounts. Once this was complete, I could jam all the accounts again.
Then all we have to do is alter the patent slightly so it is the geek look and feel aplied to the 21st century. Your pictures weren't in the 21st century, so they are obviously not prior art.
This would NOT disprove Church's Thesis. Any problem that can be accomplished by the massive parallel qualities of a quantum computer could be accomplished by searching through all possible quantum states with a turing machine.
Remember that computability theory does not care at all about speed. Just power. Quantum computing does not add any power.
What quantum computers do, is give us a method of building a non-deterministic turing machine. If someone could implement a non-deterministic turing machine with a quantum computer (I think it could be done), then programming many problems would be trivial.
We all know that Earth is one big computer that is calculating the question for life, the universe and everything. If it is a quantum computer, then when the mice read off the answer it will colapse the system and the earth will sudenly stop existing in it's current state of quantum flux.
If only Vorgon construction fleets had quantum state analizers as standard issue. It would save them alot of time. "we have to clear out this world for a highway. Lets just observe its quantum state and colapse it." Plus there would be much fewer pissed of mice in the universe.
The value that they add (manager speak) is removing the risk of buying celery chips for overclocking.
When you buy a chip, you are garanteed that it will work at the rated speed. Anything above that is a crap shoot. If you really want a 450Mhz cpu and you buy a 300A, there is a good chance you will get a chip that won't do it. If you get a bad chip, then you didn't get as much value as you might have. This company pretests the chips for you. You know that you are getting a 450 cpu. In essence, the company is taking the risk for you.
It is really no different than intell selling the same chip for different ammounts of money with different #s written on the box.
1) someone who supports a whack of very stupid policies
2) someone who supports a whack of very stupid policies.
The whacks of stupid policies overlap to a large degree.
The two party political system in the states sucks ass. But it is slightly better than the many party system here in Canada that effectively puts ALL the federal power in the hands of the primeminister. In Canada, convincing our local politicians won't help at all. All the decisions are made by the Prime Minister. If a member of government votes against the Prime Minister's law, then they get thrown out of the party and lose most of the power they have. If enough of them vote against the Prime Minister's law and it doesn't go through, everyone loses their jobs because parliment disolves from a "non-confidence" vote. All major power positions are appointed by the Prime Minister, and he can fire them on a whim. Unfortunately this will never change (no prime minister will want to give away his absolute power)
For a counter example, I only had to show that there was someone who would want to be the only X for any room. I showed that (I guess that in order to be complete, I should specify a room -> my bedroom).
If I was in a situation where I was naked in a train station, a police station, a bar, or a jail cell, for what ever reason, I do not think I would want other naked men there with me. I think that the word "most" holds. I cannot think of a situation where I would want to be in a room with other naked men.
I guess that if I was in a room with a rapist, I would want there to be a better looking naked man in the room to act as decoy as I made my cowardly escape (or hit said rapist over the head with a 2x4).
We would have to use planets with a smaller orbit than ours. It would suck to have jupiter's orbit degrade and cut through ours. A collision with a gas giant would not be a good thing.
"Last night the ozone layer was sucked off the earth by Jupiter's large gravitational well. Everyone is advised to start wearing spf5000 sun screen lotion for the next few days."
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You forget that what is right and wrong is largely determined by culture.
Poligamy used to be considered a perfectly normal and moral way of life. In fact, many cases demanded taking a second wife as the only moral option. For example, if your brother died, you were morally responsable to take his wife as your own.
The point is that the new generation is making their own morals. They may be different than yours. This does not give them any less weight. Right and wrong are shades of grey. The more people that accept an action as right, the lighter the shade becomes. When a group (however you want to define group) agrees that an action is right, then that action is moral within that group.
No good. It is not a bunker, it is an office building. Besides, there is no hiding from the clown. He will find you no matter where you go. And when he finds you, he _will_ eat you. Just like he ate me.
I have enough cds that it would likely take a month to listen to them all. Do I need this sheer volume of music? No. What I do want is the choice to listen to what I want when I want. I want the ability to say "I want to listen to this song" and have it available, even if it is from a cd that I seldom listen to. With 5 gigs, there is enough room to put somewhat obscure discs on it.
I won't listen to 80 hours of music straight, but I do want the ability to choose the music that I listen to.
And I don't want to have to anticipate my musical tastes and limit them to 10 songs. Bah.
Don't you get extra "points" if your post includes the word "troll" and you still get angry responses?
I remember that from my first excursions into Usenet.
Where can I get an opperating system that dosn't take control of my computer and data?
1) Put in a blank disk.
2) Hook up a microphone to your soundcard
3) Turn on computer
4) Yell at computer
If it feels like it, it will perform your commands. Be forewarned though, computers are fundamentally lazy devices and will seldom work unless something takes control of them.
The DVD ripper that I played with a while ago captured the VOB file (pure dvd MPEG-2) between the decryption layer and the display layer.
No loss had occured at this point.
The army already has guns. The farmer does not. Giving guns to the army doesn't change things much for them. It does change things alot for the farmer.
Very large net benifit for the farmer.
Of course, if the army knows that the farmer has a gun, they will likely just shoot him the next time they come for food.
If I was an evil person trying to undermine your system, I would try to jam all the accounts I could. Then the hospital would have to pay someone to unlock all those accounts. Once this was complete, I could jam all the accounts again.
It wont do them any good though because all the books will be shipped to your house.
Then all we have to do is alter the patent slightly so it is the geek look and feel aplied to the 21st century. Your pictures weren't in the 21st century, so they are obviously not prior art.
but ergonomic keyboards screw up my nethack game. The damn b is on the wrong side of the keyboard.
Pray tell, what book is this. I want to read it.
Actually, some of the quantum wackyness has been proven (demonstrated) by experiment.
I forget the exact details of the test, but it goes something like this:
1) fire a particle at a wall with 2 slits.
2) the particle will go through either one slit or the other (actually both)
3) the particle actually leaves a wave patern on the photo-sensitive wall behind. It went through both, and made an interferance pattern with itself.
4) now we observe the partice _AFTER_ it goes through the slits and behold, it only went through one. No interference pattern.
Wacky!
This would NOT disprove Church's Thesis. Any problem that can be accomplished by the massive parallel qualities of a quantum computer could be accomplished by searching through all possible quantum states with a turing machine.
Remember that computability theory does not care at all about speed. Just power. Quantum computing does not add any power.
What quantum computers do, is give us a method of building a non-deterministic turing machine. If someone could implement a non-deterministic turing machine with a quantum computer (I think it could be done), then programming many problems would be trivial.
We all know that Earth is one big computer that is calculating the question for life, the universe and everything. If it is a quantum computer, then when the mice read off the answer it will colapse the system and the earth will sudenly stop existing in it's current state of quantum flux.
If only Vorgon construction fleets had quantum state analizers as standard issue. It would save them alot of time. "we have to clear out this world for a highway. Lets just observe its quantum state and colapse it." Plus there would be much fewer pissed of mice in the universe.
The value that they add (manager speak) is removing the risk of buying celery chips for overclocking.
When you buy a chip, you are garanteed that it will work at the rated speed. Anything above that is a crap shoot. If you really want a 450Mhz cpu and you buy a 300A, there is a good chance you will get a chip that won't do it. If you get a bad chip, then you didn't get as much value as you might have. This company pretests the chips for you. You know that you are getting a 450 cpu. In essence, the company is taking the risk for you.
It is really no different than intell selling the same chip for different ammounts of money with different #s written on the box.
They have the choice of voting for:
1) someone who supports a whack of very stupid policies
2) someone who supports a whack of very stupid policies.
The whacks of stupid policies overlap to a large degree.
The two party political system in the states sucks ass. But it is slightly better than the many party system here in Canada that effectively puts ALL the federal power in the hands of the primeminister. In Canada, convincing our local politicians won't help at all. All the decisions are made by the Prime Minister. If a member of government votes against the Prime Minister's law, then they get thrown out of the party and lose most of the power they have. If enough of them vote against the Prime Minister's law and it doesn't go through, everyone loses their jobs because parliment disolves from a "non-confidence" vote. All major power positions are appointed by the Prime Minister, and he can fire them on a whim. Unfortunately this will never change (no prime minister will want to give away his absolute power)
end of rant
For a counter example, I only had to show that there was someone who would want to be the only X for any room. I showed that (I guess that in order to be complete, I should specify a room -> my bedroom).
If I was in a situation where I was naked in a train station, a police station, a bar, or a jail cell, for what ever reason, I do not think I would want other naked men there with me. I think that the word "most" holds. I cannot think of a situation where I would want to be in a room with other naked men.
I guess that if I was in a room with a rapist, I would want there to be a better looking naked man in the room to act as decoy as I made my cowardly escape (or hit said rapist over the head with a 2x4).
Did you inhale? I hear some people (read clinton) tried pot and didn't like it. They (read clinton) didn't inhale.
I tried heroin once and didn't like it. I think it might be because I didn't inject. It really didn't do anything for me.
Nobody wants to be the only X in the room, for any value of X
Let X = "naked man"
Therefore the statement reads "Nobody wants to be the only naked man in the room."
However, I perfer to be the only naked man in the room for most values of "room".
Therefore, by counter example, I have proved your statement wrong.
:)
I bet the undead could reach an agreement with casino management to reposess the brains of people that can't cover their gambling debts.
What else are they going to do with those miles upon miles of reposessed brains?
"Uhm, I have no chips left. My brain on black . . . . . Damn!"
Never underestimate the undead's love for human brains!!!!
We would have to use planets with a smaller orbit than ours. It would suck to have jupiter's orbit degrade and cut through ours. A collision with a gas giant would not be a good thing.
"Last night the ozone layer was sucked off the earth by Jupiter's large gravitational well. Everyone is advised to start wearing spf5000 sun screen lotion for the next few days."
Alien archeologists
something with that much gravity would have to be orbiting rather fast to stay in orbit.
Why not? He's got the room.