The problem is that the study author is a simpleton who cannot see that if an intervention is required it is not at the level of rewarding gifted children but at the level where those gifts are nurtured. i.e. The Program is not biased, the societies production of suitable candidates may be biased, but confirming that that requires a scientific study and skills greater than those possessed by the author of the original study.
Your private lives are bleeding out all over the Internet and the "Internet of things" boom hasn't even kicked in yet. If you want privacy you have to make it for yourself, it is social infrastructure, a convenience, and not a necessity of life.
I hope people can see the difference, you do have a right to defend your privacy in realms that you have a right to control, but to suggest that it is a universal right is a nonsense.
Probably not, you have contractual obligations with companies and governments all over the world and that could involve expensive cancellation clauses so you'd save some money at the cost of blowing a huge amount and getting nothing for it.
The linked Wikipedia say JLENS Unit cost is $175 million then we see the above quote "...destroying a grounded JLENS blimp that had cost about $182 million..." That looks like fact cherry picking to me.
Even $200 million is very cheap for a movable 3km high radar tower, and if it doesn't see everything the same radar gear on the ground is going to see even less.
I'm not surprised that Snowden would focus on a pet obsession and Neil deGrasse Tyson isn't an xeno-anthropologist, but surely both of them could have stop to ask themselves if radiated communications are the norm given how inefficient a use of energy that it is.
Only sustainable civilisations survive, now that is a hypothesis that is more likely, so extreme efficiency would be a very large factor in the difficulty in sensing such a civilisation. And as other's have pointed out this would require compression.
There is also a small issue with the "oh it is just encrypted" idea, you would still see an unnatural energy spectra.
There has been a recent development in the control of heat flow and if puny humans can do that why should puny humans even expect to detect waste heat from an advanced civilisation? Surely it would make more sense to dump it back into the nearest star? Not getting noticed would be a priority the moment a civilisation realised, or detected the possibility of a competing civilisation. Even being 50 years ahead of another star system (give or take propagation delays) would ensure a neighbour goes silent before they get noticed.
I'm pretty sure if the USA comes across something useful that they don't already have they will take it and make it their own too, in fact I am sure they do it. It is just that China started so far behind that they are working much harder to play catch-up. You could never trust either party and I can't see why you should now, just because they said they would behave themselves, because when has that been a guarantee of anything?
What about a 100 megawatt fusion reactor generating an artificial ionosphere, or more likely an elongated ionotorus? Plus tricks such as tungsten on Kevlar for suits. http://www.sciencedaily.com/re...
Yeah computers can interact with themselves faster and more accurately than humans can, what a surprise, not.
Oh well look on the bright side, the domestic robots of the future will be agile enough to keep up with the manoeuvres pulled by hyperactive two year olds while painlessly negotiating a floor covered with Lego blocks.
True, in fact if you can make it to Mars, and survive there in a sustainable manner, you have created the technology to allow you to not need to go to Mars, because you can survive anywhere. So why go unless there is something on Mars of value that can't be got from sources in shallower and more accessible gravity wells?
Well that was a worthless read, not the original book, just the article that says very little and demonstrates no insight in to the root causes of human brutality, things such as psychopathy. The lack of empathy that allows some people to victimise other people often has a measurable brain connectivity defect as it's cause and if one group has people like that in charge you have no choice but to destroy them before they destroy you.
I've got 3 boys and 2 girls and they all play and study together all day, every day, happily and productively including on their computers. My kids know mathematics is the foundation of all the cool technology they see being developed in the world and programming is how maths is applied in engineering. It is not hard, you just point out to them that if they don't own the robots the robots are going to end up owning them. Kids understand that very easily then accept what it will take to be the master rather than the pet.
He hit the car, the car was where is should have been, it is no different from riding into a brick wall, or off a cliff.
The Washington Post reported Saturday that he was killed in Howard County, Maryland, during a bicycle ride that raised money to fight cancer. Brewer apparently lost control of his bicycle at a sharp curve along the race course, crossed the double yellow line and had a collision with an oncoming vehicle.
I think that the driver of the car must be feeling bad enough without people misrepresenting facts.
It is a stupid story based on previous generation tech. motivated by the usual f-35 hate which is mostly political and counter factual.
The year is 2015 and bombs have an accuracy of a meter or less and can contain cameras with real-time feeds that allow for premature detonation or re-targeting should the target move or turn out to be friendly, or civilians are spotted moving toward the target.
The entire premise of the story is false.
And there is the fact that you could not get past the "My religion rejects the authority of science, as is my right under the constitution." type defence.
Without proof that the in-vitro-brain can develop consciousness there is no question of it experiencing anything let alone awareness of itself or suffering.
The carbon backbone of the molecule is the tank that holds the hydrogen (bonds) for you in a safer state than just compressing hydrogen gas. The problem is that if hydrocarbons do not burn cleanly they produce nano-particles that are harmful when inhaled, however plasmas can be created in exhaust systems, even for heavy diesel engines, that eliminate the particles. Not new either, the research is over ten years old.
From what I can see there is nothing special about him or what he did, he is just some cheeky kid who used a very naive way of getting attention and it got out of hand. All this talk of discrimination etc. seems like a beat-up and the poor kid will pay the price in the long run for all the manipulating adults have done to politically capitalise on his prank. Now he has the entire world watching him and expecting to live up to their expectations when there is no solid evidence he is gifted at all.
How is he going to have a normal and healthy adolescence with that weight on his shoulders? How many children pushed into the limelight crashed and burned as young adults when reality came along and burst their artificially inflated egos? How is messing with children like that in any way ethical regardless of the cause you think it is in aid of?
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The problem is that the study author is a simpleton who cannot see that if an intervention is required it is not at the level of rewarding gifted children but at the level where those gifts are nurtured. i.e. The Program is not biased, the societies production of suitable candidates may be biased, but confirming that that requires a scientific study and skills greater than those possessed by the author of the original study.
Your private lives are bleeding out all over the Internet and the "Internet of things" boom hasn't even kicked in yet. If you want privacy you have to make it for yourself, it is social infrastructure, a convenience, and not a necessity of life. I hope people can see the difference, you do have a right to defend your privacy in realms that you have a right to control, but to suggest that it is a universal right is a nonsense.
Provocare coronam auctoritate diadema ad periculum tuum pertinet .
I prefer to know what's in my pie.
Probably not, you have contractual obligations with companies and governments all over the world and that could involve expensive cancellation clauses so you'd save some money at the cost of blowing a huge amount and getting nothing for it.
Or figure out how bears hibernate and apply it to humans on the journey out and back.
The linked Wikipedia say JLENS Unit cost is $175 million then we see the above quote "...destroying a grounded JLENS blimp that had cost about $182 million..." That looks like fact cherry picking to me.
Even $200 million is very cheap for a movable 3km high radar tower, and if it doesn't see everything the same radar gear on the ground is going to see even less.
Yes but if you turn the lights on and off rapidly five times all your Perl code turns into Ruby.
I'm not surprised that Snowden would focus on a pet obsession and Neil deGrasse Tyson isn't an xeno-anthropologist, but surely both of them could have stop to ask themselves if radiated communications are the norm given how inefficient a use of energy that it is.
Only sustainable civilisations survive, now that is a hypothesis that is more likely, so extreme efficiency would be a very large factor in the difficulty in sensing such a civilisation. And as other's have pointed out this would require compression.
There is also a small issue with the "oh it is just encrypted" idea, you would still see an unnatural energy spectra.
There has been a recent development in the control of heat flow and if puny humans can do that why should puny humans even expect to detect waste heat from an advanced civilisation? Surely it would make more sense to dump it back into the nearest star? Not getting noticed would be a priority the moment a civilisation realised, or detected the possibility of a competing civilisation. Even being 50 years ahead of another star system (give or take propagation delays) would ensure a neighbour goes silent before they get noticed.
SETI is a monumental waste of time and money.
Next they will be prosecuting people for intra-cubical "fart rape".
I'm pretty sure if the USA comes across something useful that they don't already have they will take it and make it their own too, in fact I am sure they do it. It is just that China started so far behind that they are working much harder to play catch-up. You could never trust either party and I can't see why you should now, just because they said they would behave themselves, because when has that been a guarantee of anything?
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What about a 100 megawatt fusion reactor generating an artificial ionosphere, or more likely an elongated ionotorus? Plus tricks such as tungsten on Kevlar for suits. http://www.sciencedaily.com/re...
Yeah computers can interact with themselves faster and more accurately than humans can, what a surprise, not. Oh well look on the bright side, the domestic robots of the future will be agile enough to keep up with the manoeuvres pulled by hyperactive two year olds while painlessly negotiating a floor covered with Lego blocks.
I wonder, if they feed thousands of romance novels into it, will it learn what women want better than the average geek can?
True, in fact if you can make it to Mars, and survive there in a sustainable manner, you have created the technology to allow you to not need to go to Mars, because you can survive anywhere. So why go unless there is something on Mars of value that can't be got from sources in shallower and more accessible gravity wells?
Well that was a worthless read, not the original book, just the article that says very little and demonstrates no insight in to the root causes of human brutality, things such as psychopathy. The lack of empathy that allows some people to victimise other people often has a measurable brain connectivity defect as it's cause and if one group has people like that in charge you have no choice but to destroy them before they destroy you.
I've got 3 boys and 2 girls and they all play and study together all day, every day, happily and productively including on their computers. My kids know mathematics is the foundation of all the cool technology they see being developed in the world and programming is how maths is applied in engineering. It is not hard, you just point out to them that if they don't own the robots the robots are going to end up owning them. Kids understand that very easily then accept what it will take to be the master rather than the pet.
The Washington Post reported Saturday that he was killed in Howard County, Maryland, during a bicycle ride that raised money to fight cancer. Brewer apparently lost control of his bicycle at a sharp curve along the race course, crossed the double yellow line and had a collision with an oncoming vehicle.
I think that the driver of the car must be feeling bad enough without people misrepresenting facts.
It is a stupid story based on previous generation tech. motivated by the usual f-35 hate which is mostly political and counter factual. The year is 2015 and bombs have an accuracy of a meter or less and can contain cameras with real-time feeds that allow for premature detonation or re-targeting should the target move or turn out to be friendly, or civilians are spotted moving toward the target. The entire premise of the story is false.
Now does it still look like such a noble idea?
And there is the fact that you could not get past the "My religion rejects the authority of science, as is my right under the constitution." type defence.
Without proof that the in-vitro-brain can develop consciousness there is no question of it experiencing anything let alone awareness of itself or suffering.
The carbon backbone of the molecule is the tank that holds the hydrogen (bonds) for you in a safer state than just compressing hydrogen gas. The problem is that if hydrocarbons do not burn cleanly they produce nano-particles that are harmful when inhaled, however plasmas can be created in exhaust systems, even for heavy diesel engines, that eliminate the particles. Not new either, the research is over ten years old.
It could have been a strength to weight ratio advantage in the shell construction they used. Probably composite, carbon fiber etc.
From what I can see there is nothing special about him or what he did, he is just some cheeky kid who used a very naive way of getting attention and it got out of hand. All this talk of discrimination etc. seems like a beat-up and the poor kid will pay the price in the long run for all the manipulating adults have done to politically capitalise on his prank. Now he has the entire world watching him and expecting to live up to their expectations when there is no solid evidence he is gifted at all.
How is he going to have a normal and healthy adolescence with that weight on his shoulders? How many children pushed into the limelight crashed and burned as young adults when reality came along and burst their artificially inflated egos? How is messing with children like that in any way ethical regardless of the cause you think it is in aid of?