Which still leaves us at 'not falsifiable' and a Slashdot headline claiming the course was nevertheless going to 'debunk' it, which is just Slashdot misleadingness
Isn't it just that the class would "debunk" the ID *movement*? It seems to me that, while you can't disprove intelligent design itself, you can very clearly disprove whether ID, such as it is, is acceptable in the realm of scientific study.
I would say it is a (yet another) case of a Slashdot headline being unclear, rather than hypocritical.
It's most definitely not all about taxing the fuel that makes the difference here. If there is a good rail system, people use it. In the few places where there is a strong rail system in place (like New York, Chicago), people use that form of transportation all the time. In New York it's common not to own a car.
Unfortunately, it is now next to impossible to install a strong rail system in most places in the US where it is severely lacking. In any case, this factor must be considered when you compare auto use in Europe vs. the USA.
Yes, you're absolutely right of course. It would have been much more credible for the character not to have given a damn about his wife because at that point he's wearing a mask and cloak.
Yes, good point, because most people hold out their arms and yell "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" when they lose a loved one. It's not like that's a cliche that was commonly the punchline of jokes on shows like the Simpsons and Conan BEFORE the movie came out.
There were some other Tengen games that had the weird different cartridge, like that racing game that was a sort of a precursor to Off-Road but with cars... I can't remember the name.
It goes even beyond the tree huggers being indifferent to science. Most of them are very much *for* many emerging technologies, such as solar and wind power, hydrogen cars, advanced recycling programs, etc.-- technologies that many on the right seem to drag their feet about.
MS is legally known as a "de facto" monopoly, and this was verified in various courts. Did you think, after all those trials for Microsoft's monopoly abuse, that nobody thought of Apple or Linux until you just now?
Who do you think has been backing the Pro-Life movement in recent years? Establishing that unborn children are fully living citizens of the US paves the way for filing copyright lawsuits against them!
And shit man, I'm a Slashdotter. Most "normal";-) people only have 1 computer and they can barely function with it yet alone run automated weekly backups.
They don't have to be automated, and they don't have to be weekly. Plugging in a (cheap) external hard drive and copying a single folder by hand once a month would be a heck of a lot better than doing *nothing*. Don't tell me you bought your $1500 worth of music and lost it in less than a month. Or... if you are so convinced that an external drive would be hard for someone to master, how about putting in a blank CD, and then clicking "Burn" and burning the MP3s to a CD? Your 1500 songs would have fit on 3 CDs. Simple. No loss of quality.
So, let me just understand this. You have purchased *one thousand five hundred dollars* worth of music in the two years since the iTunes Music Store opened, but you could not find any way to afford a 100 GB external hard drive for $100 to back it up, and you could not cut out 30 minutes of your iTunes music browsing time to copy the music folder to the drive?
I mean there are lots of fancy ways to back up the music, but I just bought a drive, plugged in the USB cable, and dragged the icon of the music folder to the icon of the drive. How hard is that?
The number of downloaders is however many orders of magnitude larger than the number of uploaders, so you can focus your efforts. Plus if you choke the supply, that also hinders downloading, because you can't download what isn't there.
I'll change my thought patterns (on the fly) regarding what you said. I think we do agree, more or less-- computers are complex but fixed in many ways, while the human mind is abstract, fluid, and dynamic.
Heh, well, maybe that particular case didn't turn out so great for old Eliza. But still... I wouldn't say it's a whole lot worse than his response in terms of conveying understanding.
Why couldn't he mention things with real content having to do with music? Why could he not mention actual musicians in answering that question? The point is, he said "I don't know how to answer that, ask something else". That is exactly the kind of stuff a bot says. If he thought it was a totally stupid question, why couldn't he say "How do you expect me to answer the question of why I like music? It's like asking someone why they like food." Anything with actual specific content. That was my point. It's not impossible to respond to that question briefly and show that one is not a bot.
I don't quite follow your example. That is something that a computer could do easily. And in fact, once you told a computer that dog = canine, it would never need to be reminded once.
It seems to me that the difficult thing is getting a computer to take what it knows and go further with it that is the real hurdle-- say, to have the computer with knowledge of a dog read or hear some information about canines, notice the similarities, and figure out whether or not they might be the same thing.
One of them even calls him "worse than eliza" when he tries to argue that he's human.
The thing is... he is worse than Elize, at least in that snippet of conversation. The guy asks him about something specific, regarding music, and Eliza would have at least parsed the sentence or given some ready-made bit of music-related dialog. Instead, he gives a slightly longer version of a Magic 8 Ball's "Reply hazy - Ask again later".
Jeez, man, can't you even come up with a band you like or an anecdote or SOMETHING?
I agree completely. Kids will tend to think something is great fun when it is a video game. I think this could also be applied to gym class. Why not have Dance Dance Revolution setups in gym classes? It is a great workout, and lots of kids might enjoy what they are doing!
Not to say that gym class should be only this sort of thing... it just might be a worthwhile component.
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The only way he could bang regular chicks is with a kryptonite condom. But that would kill him.
I would say it is a (yet another) case of a Slashdot headline being unclear, rather than hypocritical.
No-one expects a Monty Python reference!
I don't understand... you can turn off the music store by checking a preference box, what else is it you wanted to do with it?
It's most definitely not all about taxing the fuel that makes the difference here. If there is a good rail system, people use it. In the few places where there is a strong rail system in place (like New York, Chicago), people use that form of transportation all the time. In New York it's common not to own a car.
Unfortunately, it is now next to impossible to install a strong rail system in most places in the US where it is severely lacking. In any case, this factor must be considered when you compare auto use in Europe vs. the USA.
But from my point of view, the Jedi are evil!
Damn... you said it before I got to :)
Isn't speech translation essentially the same as text translation, only with added layer of noise (figuring out the words indicated by the sounds)?
There were some other Tengen games that had the weird different cartridge, like that racing game that was a sort of a precursor to Off-Road but with cars... I can't remember the name.
It goes even beyond the tree huggers being indifferent to science. Most of them are very much *for* many emerging technologies, such as solar and wind power, hydrogen cars, advanced recycling programs, etc.-- technologies that many on the right seem to drag their feet about.
MS is legally known as a "de facto" monopoly, and this was verified in various courts. Did you think, after all those trials for Microsoft's monopoly abuse, that nobody thought of Apple or Linux until you just now?
Who do you think has been backing the Pro-Life movement in recent years? Establishing that unborn children are fully living citizens of the US paves the way for filing copyright lawsuits against them!
(It's a joke, lighten up!)
So, let me just understand this. You have purchased *one thousand five hundred dollars* worth of music in the two years since the iTunes Music Store opened, but you could not find any way to afford a 100 GB external hard drive for $100 to back it up, and you could not cut out 30 minutes of your iTunes music browsing time to copy the music folder to the drive?
I mean there are lots of fancy ways to back up the music, but I just bought a drive, plugged in the USB cable, and dragged the icon of the music folder to the icon of the drive. How hard is that?
The number of downloaders is however many orders of magnitude larger than the number of uploaders, so you can focus your efforts. Plus if you choke the supply, that also hinders downloading, because you can't download what isn't there.
Well, I'd imagine if these people were hiding in caves in Afghanistan, we would have had more difficulty locating them.
I'll change my thought patterns (on the fly) regarding what you said. I think we do agree, more or less-- computers are complex but fixed in many ways, while the human mind is abstract, fluid, and dynamic.
Heh, well, maybe that particular case didn't turn out so great for old Eliza. But still... I wouldn't say it's a whole lot worse than his response in terms of conveying understanding.
Why couldn't he mention things with real content having to do with music? Why could he not mention actual musicians in answering that question? The point is, he said "I don't know how to answer that, ask something else". That is exactly the kind of stuff a bot says. If he thought it was a totally stupid question, why couldn't he say "How do you expect me to answer the question of why I like music? It's like asking someone why they like food." Anything with actual specific content. That was my point. It's not impossible to respond to that question briefly and show that one is not a bot.
I don't quite follow your example. That is something that a computer could do easily. And in fact, once you told a computer that dog = canine, it would never need to be reminded once.
It seems to me that the difficult thing is getting a computer to take what it knows and go further with it that is the real hurdle-- say, to have the computer with knowledge of a dog read or hear some information about canines, notice the similarities, and figure out whether or not they might be the same thing.
Jeez, man, can't you even come up with a band you like or an anecdote or SOMETHING?
I agree completely. Kids will tend to think something is great fun when it is a video game. I think this could also be applied to gym class. Why not have Dance Dance Revolution setups in gym classes? It is a great workout, and lots of kids might enjoy what they are doing!
Not to say that gym class should be only this sort of thing... it just might be a worthwhile component.