> Everyone makes decisions with the implicit belief that their decisions matter. Now, if > we have free will, then they actually do. If we don't have free will, then they actually > don't.
No. If we have free will then we actually make decisions. If we don't have free will, the we actually don't make decisions.
> They talk about it phoning home and downloading nasties, but really, even being able to > use the NIC card could be quite an undertaking if you're doing it "by hand" instead of > using drivers and OS calls. (so you're going to code a TCP/IP stack in the SMM are you?
No. You are going to use your powers to install a small trojan into the OS. It will take care of the "phoning" and downloading part.
The premise of government is that becoming part of it transforms one into a morally superior being qualified to determine what is in the best interests of the citizens.
>...the "contribution" of malaria et al seems minimal in comparison. plus its not like > ALL mosquitos carry malaria, there are plenty of geographical zones where they're just > pests and won't kill you?
Yes, it's pretty ineffective, isn't it? In fact, disease in general just isn't working. How about we whack 'em with a nice big asteroid and hope the ecology will recover in a few million years? (Sort of like spraying DDT in a swamp). Better act soon, though, or even that won't work. There is a serious risk that they will spread to other planets.
You might want to read up on the many species of mosquito and the many different places the lay their eggs. You might also want to consider the difficulty of eliminating all standing water (some species need only a few milliliters in the crotch of a tree or a curled leaf) in an area that gets many meters of rain per year.
Because millions of years of heavy predation by birds, bats, and other insects would not already have caused the mosquitos to be just as fast and hard to see as it is possible for them to be. Right.
> But I'm certain that some of the survivors of hiroshima that reproduced survived because > they were slightly more resistant to radiation-- just like the Voles above.
Most of the people who died in the Hiroshima bombing were not killed by the nuclear radiation.
> Am I the only one who thinks that humans need to stop fucking around the with the order > of things and deal with it?
Unfortunately, no.
> Finding a cure for malaria (in our own bodies, which we're at liberty to fuck with)
But then we won't be able to transmit it to mosquitos, which are also negatively affected by it. More mosquitos... but then pressure on other prey. Suddenly other species go extinct or apex predators populations explode because that of the oversupply of mosquitos.
The same argument can be applied to many diseases. Obviously, we must stop trying to control disease and just learn to deal with it.
Get this through your head: there is no "order of things." God/Gaia/Mother Nature does not exist and never did. Eden never happened.
I don't see any mention of taking prints remotely. This just appears to be a faster, more accurate, and less messy way to take prints than the traditional ink system.
The theory being tested predicts that the particle will be found somewhere in a specific energy range. Eventually the entire range will have been examined and the particle either found or ruled out.
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If you don't have free will you have no say in whether or not you worry about it.
> Everyone makes decisions with the implicit belief that their decisions matter. Now, if
> we have free will, then they actually do. If we don't have free will, then they actually
> don't.
No. If we have free will then we actually make decisions. If we don't have free will, the we actually don't make decisions.
> They talk about it phoning home and downloading nasties, but really, even being able to
> use the NIC card could be quite an undertaking if you're doing it "by hand" instead of
> using drivers and OS calls. (so you're going to code a TCP/IP stack in the SMM are you?
No. You are going to use your powers to install a small trojan into the OS. It will take care of the "phoning" and downloading part.
> What possible technical reason would there be to hide anything from the OS?
Hardware level debugging. You can, for example, set breakpoints without altering the running code (or its state) at all.
Looks to me like this expoit could be blocked with a soldering iron, though at the price of some functionality.
The premise of government is that becoming part of it transforms one into a morally superior being qualified to determine what is in the best interests of the citizens.
+5 Informative
Did you publish? Are your results available?
> ...the "contribution" of malaria et al seems minimal in comparison. plus its not like
> ALL mosquitos carry malaria, there are plenty of geographical zones where they're just
> pests and won't kill you?
Yes, it's pretty ineffective, isn't it? In fact, disease in general just isn't working. How about we whack 'em with a nice big asteroid and hope the ecology will recover in a few million years? (Sort of like spraying DDT in a swamp). Better act soon, though, or even that won't work. There is a serious risk that they will spread to other planets.
You might want to read up on the many species of mosquito and the many different places the lay their eggs. You might also want to consider the difficulty of eliminating all standing water (some species need only a few milliliters in the crotch of a tree or a curled leaf) in an area that gets many meters of rain per year.
Because millions of years of heavy predation by birds, bats, and other insects would not already have caused the mosquitos to be just as fast and hard to see as it is possible for them to be. Right.
> But I'm certain that some of the survivors of hiroshima that reproduced survived because
> they were slightly more resistant to radiation-- just like the Voles above.
Most of the people who died in the Hiroshima bombing were not killed by the nuclear radiation.
> You might get mosquitos that evade the targeting system --
Most likely by avoiding people[1], since that's where these things would be deployed. Uhm, do you see a problem with that?
[1] Mosquitos mostly prey on wild animals anyway, so avoiding people could be a very effective strategy.
> Wondering how this system is better than just doing this?
It kills only mosquitos and only when they come near people.
That wasn't a Texas mosquito. That was a Canadian mosquito that rode down on a goose to get away from the big ones back home.
+5 Funny
> what I want to know is, is there such a slot for the mosquito? what "purpose" do they
> serve?
They help control the human population.
> would there be problems for the ecosystem if the mosquito becomes extinct?
The planet would soon be overrun with people.
> I would think you'd need quite a jolt to kill a mosquito too...
I would think that you'd need quite a small jolt to kill a mosquito. The idea is just to kill it, not vaporize it.
> Am I the only one who thinks that humans need to stop fucking around the with the order
> of things and deal with it?
Unfortunately, no.
> Finding a cure for malaria (in our own bodies, which we're at liberty to fuck with)
But then we won't be able to transmit it to mosquitos, which are also negatively affected by it. More mosquitos... but then pressure on other prey. Suddenly other species go extinct or apex predators populations explode because that of the oversupply of mosquitos.
The same argument can be applied to many diseases. Obviously, we must stop trying to control disease and just learn to deal with it.
Get this through your head: there is no "order of things." God/Gaia/Mother Nature does not exist and never did. Eden never happened.
The employee has the right to cease being an employee at any time.
I don't see any mention of taking prints remotely. This just appears to be a faster, more accurate, and less messy way to take prints than the traditional ink system.
The theory being tested predicts that the particle will be found somewhere in a specific energy range. Eventually the entire range will have been examined and the particle either found or ruled out.
Gopher has survived. I've got Gopher open right now showing 16 servers.
I've thought likewise for years.
> You get no more than you would get driving down the street taking a few pictures.
No doubt he has plans to "regulate" that as well.
> The moment statistics get involved, yes.
And statistics always gets involved.