2/3rds of the entire state's power went out... Meanwhile, find any home or business with power from any source
Right... 2/3rds of the ENTIRE state's power went out - so it naturally follows that you'll be able to "find any home or business with power" to charge - sure, got it... just checking.
Oh and I'm sure when everyone drives EVs in the future and the bulk load on the grid is EVs, that 1/3 of the remaining grid system will be up for operating at close to 300% capacity with everyone park-n-charging on it while the other 2/3rds is down. No doubt, not even a concern at all, nope.
Solar? A typical home residential array is about 2kW. Provided a perfect stranger is willing to let you monopolize the that power for a whole day, or generously 9 hours of "full" sun, that will charge an electric car at the rate of about 4mph, or give you about 36 miles of range to go find someone else to leach off of, provided that they're willing.
The natural gas genset you're talking about is too busy providing houses with lighting / refrigeration / AC, etc. to be monopolized by kW sucking EV, and leaching off someone's personal genset won't make a dent in your range, but will piss them off for wasting their fuel.
Alternatively, one nice thing that can be done with a gas car is this little thing called "preparing". I can keep 5 gallons of gas, stored long term with stabilizer, on-hand in my garage for such an occasion. I can increase the range of a gas car, one gallon at a time as easy as they'll fit in the trunk and back seat if necessary, and that car will out-range ANY EV for the foreseeable future.
I'd say the bottom line is: you're the one that needs to join us in the real world.
Tesla's own cars are the closest thing to autonomous killing robots out there - just tweak its sensors to target humans, preferably crowds, instead of avoiding them.
No... Fukushima's back up generators were submerged, which is what prevented back up power from being delivered.
Try submerging a massive lithium-ion bank in highly conductive salty sea water and see those cooling pumps get the juice they need.
"...because the Muslim community had reported him as a threat !"
No doubt those reports were handled by a douche bag like yourself, who almost certainly ignored the reports and characterized them as Islamophobic Tories trying to start something.
No, my point is that your outrage is inconsistent. I'm calling you a hypocrite.
You're calling parent's post "outrage"?? It was call to lower the temperature of rhetoric and debate in general. And surprise surprise, you're misrepresenting his post and doing exactly the opposite by "keeping score" and doing kill counts to feign righteous indignation over inconsistency.
I'm glad you got modded up because it's easy for everyone to see that you're full of shit.
This would likely come from coal, and while the CO2 mass may be less, radioactive particulate emissions from coal power plants such as thorium are still a factor above and beyond what comes out of cars' tail pipes.
The "policy"? BLM doesn't have a policy of anything. BLM is a loose of collection of thugs and closeted racists that hides itself behind false victimization.
Prove it? No... plenty of other people have already done that, and Colin Flaherty has done a prolific job of how black violence is wildly out of proportion to any other ethnic population by a huge margin.
From Google:
Colin Flaherty is an award winning writer whose work has been published in more than 1000 places around the globe, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, Washington Post, Bloomberg Business Week, Time magazine, and others.
He posts multiple videos daily, each one reviewing new local news broadcasts and articles. Here's just a few from the 195 videos he's posted in the just the last month alone:
You honestly believe that a guilty party is going to put evidence into a folder called "pay to play"?
You honestly believe that an innocent party is going smash its mobile devices with a ball pein hammer to destroy evidence? Or delete tens of thousands of emails from its email server and destroy every last bit of evidence on it with bleach bit, all AFTER a congressional investigation has requested said evidence?
He blew it? You'd rather go on having everyone believe that the DNC and the Clintons DIDN'T rip off the primary from Sanders? That HRC ISN'T a wanton criminal who, along with her aides and lawyers, criminally destroyed tens of thousands of emails (documents) and physically destroyed dozens of mobile devices AFTER congress requested them as part of their investigation? I mean, this stuff is straight out of a frickin' movie, it's stuff that she ACTUALLY DID, and YOU'RE STILL DEFENDING HER.
Now slither along to the next message board to have a go with your agitprop there, because your post here is a failure. And perhaps the DNC will spare you four bullets in the back if they really believe you're defending them like you mean it. They really like to be absolutely sure that you're on their side. Now, don't beat around the bush by trying to discredit a source like Assange - you need to clearly and affirmatively state your defense of HRC herself. Think of it as a little pro-tip from your shill colleagues. Anyway, I guess either way, they're going to get their message across. Nothing speaks more loudly and clearly to fellow DNC operatives than the cadaver of a DNC staffer suspected of less than enthusiastic support, found with four bullet holes in its back (perpetrated in broad daylight), has nothing stolen from it, and comes shortly after a disastrous info leak that exposes the DNC/HRC campaign
There could be 'unknown obvious' explanations, explanations that are not obvious because the engineers lack a full understanding of the rocket. Explanations are only obvious if you fully understand the thing that you're trying to explain.
Yes, SpaceX engineers only understand some of what they've created, the rest came together *very* last-minute while Charlie was drooling on the keyboard during a late night of drinking and designing - and oh boy, that guy does NOT like sharing with the rest of his design team. Now they're just waiting for him to tell them what the 'unknown obvious' explanation is for this damned explosion is!
The rifle theory is incredibly unlikely when you consider that new rocket designs (like the Falcon 9) tend to fail every now and then.
Um, no. That new rocket designs tend to fail every now and then is what's called a "baseline", which in turn leads the investigators to check for, wait for it... "obvious" (stuff they know about) problems that a new design might encounter, like things they've seen in past new design failures. Then they start to factor in evidence from this particular failure, like that they've already considered all the previous failures they've encountered and this one doesn't fit, and that there was a gunshot-like noise hear *just before* the rocket went kaboom, and that there's an as of yet unreleased video apparently showing odd activity on the roof of a nearby ULA building around the same time as the gunshot-like noise was heard.
But fortunately we have you to enlighten all of us that this is simply a matter of an 'unknown obvious' explanation, and that the rifle theory is unlikely... well because rockets tend to explode now and then so move along folks! (on, and it also depends on what the definition of "is" is.)
> A 14 year old kid took a clock apart and put it back together.
No, he did not put it back together again. He put it in a pencil box with exposed wires hanging everywhere. That's a key point behind why those at his school were concerned: it looked nothing like a clock.
Right off the bat, you misrepresent what happened to re-cast him as just a normal kid - you know, like "one of us". The rest of your sophistry can be safely ignored at this point, except for this little gem:
You state that, "The central point is that he is one of us, and we take care of our own." That's a balkanizing tribalistic, self segregating point of view, which is a mentality that drives racism. And then you feign distress when "incidents like this to happen if your skin has a bit of melanin in it." The cognitive dissonance priceless.
You see.... it's just that our instrumentation didn't detect the presence these GIANT galaxies until now.
But, you can rest assured that we've 100% definitely detected and accounted for all the matter *WITHIN* the galaxies that we've err... detected so far!
There is NO chance our instrumentation can miss....any... regular matter within these galaxies - NONE... because to explain away dark matter we'd have to miss something as big a whole galaxy! err.... damn.
Agreed, people aren't buying Teslas because they're "self driving", they're buying them because they're electric, have a charging network (that's free), and are range competitive with gas. They have great handling, performance, and look great.
Tesla, please stop wasting your capital on this over hyped, "self driving" CRAP!
How much more affordable would a Tesla be just the way it is right now, if instead those dollars were invested in simply making the already great Tesla that much more affordable, or the model 3 that much closer to market, and not had been blown on the "self driving" gimmick that now threatens Tesla with lawsuits?
Please, Elon, don't tank Tesla with this garbage before I can expect to actually buy one of your vehicles, all on account this type of B.S.
The implementation of this project is a thoughtless affront to conservation of Helium when a cheaper and far more plentiful alternative is readily available, i.e. Hydrogen. Wikipedia states that they will simply vent the helium into the atmosphere after each balloon's 100 day end of life estimate - it's completely diffused and irrecoverable.
Hydrogen is superior for this application - for example, weather balloons often use hydrogen due to cost, with side benefits being lower density and lower diffusion rates across the membrane; flammability is not a major concern.
(Wikipedia: The project uses high-altitude balloons placed in the stratosphere at an altitude of about 18 km (11 mi)...) If there were a fire incident while in service at that altitude, the hydrogen and combustible balloon material would be exhausted long before it posed a danger to anything on the ground.
I'm guessing the only thing preventing its usage here are the bad optics of hydrogeh, e.g. Hindenburg, which forever stigmatized hydrogen when there's any need to get the public on board with something, even when it's used in an innocuous component of the project (balloons to hold TX/RX nodes), i.e. these are like weather balloons, which again use hydrogen and pose no public threat.
Somewhat ironically, you can use Google to discover why there is a shortage of helium, and the many irreplaceable usages of it, including MRIs, superconducting magnets, industrial and medical CO2 lasers, and interestingly as well the manufacturing of semiconductors -
something I'd imagine a Silicon Valley tech giant might be interested in preserving if nothing else.
Learn how the BLM manages reserve stock that is dangerously depleted, and how it's the main source of all commercial acquisitions of the element since WWII.
Note that you can't recover helium from the atmosphere once it's diffused out of a balloon, the atmosphere simply doesn't retain it and it disperses into space. The only known earthly means of producing helium is via incredibly slow nuclear decay that occurs in some natural gas wells over time frames that make millennia seem like minutes.
Wikipedia:
When taken out of service, the balloon is guided to an easily reached location, and the helium is vented into the atmosphere. The balloons typically have a maximum life of about 100 days, although Google claims that its tweaked design can enable them to stay aloft for closer to 200 days.[24]
There's no need to imagine anything unusual at all actually.
There are no shortcuts taken when the atoms aren't observed, and by "observed" we mean interacted with by our external stimuli, i.e. our laser.
When not interacted with, or more appropriately, "interfered" with, the atoms' tunneling behavior proceeds as normal. It's a real and ongoing physical process (not an optimization such as a simulation CPU saving measure). But since any attempt to observe the atoms directly cause the tunneling behavior to cease, tunneling remains something out of the realm for us to observe directly.
For example, take a bullet in mid flight. Our eyes cannot see it due to a motion processing limitation within our brains. In order for us to observe it directly, we must probe for it (think of the laser) by using a solid object placed in what we calculate to be the bullet's trajectory based on a slew of factors.
Once we "probe" for the bullet, sure enough it stops and we can see it, but its motion is lost. There's nothing mysterious about this - at the atomic level, all we have are brick walls.
Now, tunneling may not be the same as motion, but simply because we cannot directly observe it does not mean it's not a real physical process and just an implementation trick to save on CPU cycles.
>The result is the same whether the brain is replaced a little at a time or all at once in a copy.
No, it's not the same at all. The whole point of uploading your brain is implicitly (the popular interpretation of doing so anyway) that continuity would be maintained - it's very key.
There are two continuums: the a) "copy and replace all at once" continuum, and the b) "transition to maintain continuity" continuum. What's key is that in "a", there are two distinct consciousnesses involved: the original, and the new - whereas in "b" there is always only one involved. Note that I'm using consciousness to simply mean the physical network of neurons from which the more popular definition of consciousness emerges.
At the extreme end of the copy & replace continuum, you could dispose of the original "all at once", or quite cruelly and gruesomely over an extended period of time. The result in both cases is always a *COPY* that no one can distinguish from the original, not even the copy, because continuity is maintained from its perspective and everyone else on the outside too. However, the original's continuity is broken when it's killed (whether slowly or instantly).
At the extremes of the "transition" continuum, if we swap one neuron out at a time with a functional equivalent and do it at a rate that is non-destructive to continuity (i.e. so that your brain is always still functioning correctly enough to perceive continuity), then an effective and seamless transition to your new implementation can be achieved, whether that's electronic neurons, or younger biological neurons, and the replacement could be over months or years (even though more and more impractical as it takes longer)
As for the sleeping and waking up, or being dead and then revived examples - these fall at the other extreme end of the "transition" continuum, i.e. they're equivalent to the transition being done instantly and with the exact same material. There is only ever one consciousnesses involved and the result again is that continuity is restored, even if broken for some period of time ( i.e. its physical implementation is maintained or reparable to its original state) It assumes that the revived person isn't damaged beyond being able to perceive continuity at some point. Once the ability to perceive continuity is lost, death of the original person has effectively occurred, even if memory/continuity is at some point later restored.
Amazing how many people credit this kid with "building" this clock, and the outrage is fall down laughable - I guarantee this is a political stunt or just plain carelessness on the kid's behalf. Let's see why:
Take a look at what readers are shown in picture #2 in the Dallas News story.
In the picture, there's a briefcase that contains what may look like a clock that a GENIUS put together - fancy circuit boards and wires - wow!!!!
But as an electronics hobbyist, I can tell you that what you're seeing in this brief case are the raw, unmodified (and slightly mangled) internals of a 15 to 20 dollar Jumbo LED alarm clock that you would find for sale at your local Walmart:
1. A jumbo four digit LED fixed to the inside of the lid of a small brief case
2. Gray wide-ribbon flatflex cable connects the LED to the main board that contains the LED display driver and clock integrated circuit
3. 9-volt back-up battery cable extends unconnected to the left (used to keep time during power outages, digits remain off on display, time is kept only internally)
4. A smaller flatflex ribbon connects a more slender circuit board that contains the set-time buttons, snooze button, alarm on-off switch, etc.
5. The cube shaped component sitting in the middle of the briefcase is the isolation transformer that provides the mains power 120V cord.
As a kid once myself, I've taken many of these same kinds of alarm clocks apart, and know these components like the back of my hand.
The alarm clock that this kid stuffed into a brief case isn't even modified to run off battery power - this is a 10 minute "project" period. Now, I'd give him more credit for adding battery power support, which is actually harder than it may seem since this type of clock keeps time based on the 60hz AC mains power frequency. So, an inverter would be necessary to allow this clock circuit and display to fully run off battery power alone.
The point here is simply that this looks exactly like what I, as a kid might have done, if I wanted to show off to my friends that maybe I built something that would make me look cool - and might result in this:
> At a joint press conference with Irving ISD, Chief Larry Boyd said the device — confiscated by an English teacher despite the teen’s insistence that it was a clock — was “certainly suspicious in nature.”
Fortunately for me, I thought ideas like that through by considering what other people might think, and it also helped that I didn't have a politically motivated father that might have coerced me to do such a thing knowing how foolish it could make the "natives" (re: EVIL WHITE PEOPLE) look.
So yeah - wow, shame on that ENGLISH teacher for trying to look out for her kids, OMGGGG!!!
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Right... 2/3rds of the ENTIRE state's power went out - so it naturally follows that you'll be able to "find any home or business with power" to charge - sure, got it... just checking.
Oh and I'm sure when everyone drives EVs in the future and the bulk load on the grid is EVs, that 1/3 of the remaining grid system will be up for operating at close to 300% capacity with everyone park-n-charging on it while the other 2/3rds is down. No doubt, not even a concern at all, nope.
Solar? A typical home residential array is about 2kW. Provided a perfect stranger is willing to let you monopolize the that power for a whole day, or generously 9 hours of "full" sun, that will charge an electric car at the rate of about 4mph, or give you about 36 miles of range to go find someone else to leach off of, provided that they're willing.
The natural gas genset you're talking about is too busy providing houses with lighting / refrigeration / AC, etc. to be monopolized by kW sucking EV, and leaching off someone's personal genset won't make a dent in your range, but will piss them off for wasting their fuel.
Alternatively, one nice thing that can be done with a gas car is this little thing called "preparing". I can keep 5 gallons of gas, stored long term with stabilizer, on-hand in my garage for such an occasion. I can increase the range of a gas car, one gallon at a time as easy as they'll fit in the trunk and back seat if necessary, and that car will out-range ANY EV for the foreseeable future.
I'd say the bottom line is: you're the one that needs to join us in the real world.
Tesla's own cars are the closest thing to autonomous killing robots out there - just tweak its sensors to target humans, preferably crowds, instead of avoiding them.
No... Fukushima's back up generators were submerged, which is what prevented back up power from being delivered. Try submerging a massive lithium-ion bank in highly conductive salty sea water and see those cooling pumps get the juice they need.
No doubt those reports were handled by a douche bag like yourself, who almost certainly ignored the reports and characterized them as Islamophobic Tories trying to start something.
You're calling parent's post "outrage"?? It was call to lower the temperature of rhetoric and debate in general. And surprise surprise, you're misrepresenting his post and doing exactly the opposite by "keeping score" and doing kill counts to feign righteous indignation over inconsistency. I'm glad you got modded up because it's easy for everyone to see that you're full of shit.
This would likely come from coal, and while the CO2 mass may be less, radioactive particulate emissions from coal power plants such as thorium are still a factor above and beyond what comes out of cars' tail pipes.
The "policy"? BLM doesn't have a policy of anything. BLM is a loose of collection of thugs and closeted racists that hides itself behind false victimization.
Prove it? No... plenty of other people have already done that, and Colin Flaherty has done a prolific job of how black violence is wildly out of proportion to any other ethnic population by a huge margin. From Google:
He posts multiple videos daily, each one reviewing new local news broadcasts and articles. Here's just a few from the 195 videos he's posted in the just the last month alone:
In Case You Missed It -- ICYMI -- Black Lives Matter leader arrested for beating his girlfriend
Black teen kills old white neighbor sets him on fire in Detroit
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Black man murders prominent Trump supporter in Alabama
AGAIN! Black man rapes white woman because she is white. In Pittsburgh
Black Lives Matter leader robbed in Houston -- begs for more police
But hey, I'm sure that asshole that was arrested for beating his girlfriend is definitely NOT representative of the average BLM constituent.
You honestly believe that an innocent party is going smash its mobile devices with a ball pein hammer to destroy evidence? Or delete tens of thousands of emails from its email server and destroy every last bit of evidence on it with bleach bit, all AFTER a congressional investigation has requested said evidence?
And your credibility == zero.
He blew it? You'd rather go on having everyone believe that the DNC and the Clintons DIDN'T rip off the primary from Sanders? That HRC ISN'T a wanton criminal who, along with her aides and lawyers, criminally destroyed tens of thousands of emails (documents) and physically destroyed dozens of mobile devices AFTER congress requested them as part of their investigation? I mean, this stuff is straight out of a frickin' movie, it's stuff that she ACTUALLY DID, and YOU'RE STILL DEFENDING HER.
Now slither along to the next message board to have a go with your agitprop there, because your post here is a failure. And perhaps the DNC will spare you four bullets in the back if they really believe you're defending them like you mean it. They really like to be absolutely sure that you're on their side. Now, don't beat around the bush by trying to discredit a source like Assange - you need to clearly and affirmatively state your defense of HRC herself. Think of it as a little pro-tip from your shill colleagues. Anyway, I guess either way, they're going to get their message across. Nothing speaks more loudly and clearly to fellow DNC operatives than the cadaver of a DNC staffer suspected of less than enthusiastic support, found with four bullet holes in its back (perpetrated in broad daylight), has nothing stolen from it, and comes shortly after a disastrous info leak that exposes the DNC/HRC campaign
Yes, SpaceX engineers only understand some of what they've created, the rest came together *very* last-minute while Charlie was drooling on the keyboard during a late night of drinking and designing - and oh boy, that guy does NOT like sharing with the rest of his design team. Now they're just waiting for him to tell them what the 'unknown obvious' explanation is for this damned explosion is!
Um, no. That new rocket designs tend to fail every now and then is what's called a "baseline", which in turn leads the investigators to check for, wait for it... "obvious" (stuff they know about) problems that a new design might encounter, like things they've seen in past new design failures. Then they start to factor in evidence from this particular failure, like that they've already considered all the previous failures they've encountered and this one doesn't fit, and that there was a gunshot-like noise hear *just before* the rocket went kaboom, and that there's an as of yet unreleased video apparently showing odd activity on the roof of a nearby ULA building around the same time as the gunshot-like noise was heard. But fortunately we have you to enlighten all of us that this is simply a matter of an 'unknown obvious' explanation, and that the rifle theory is unlikely... well because rockets tend to explode now and then so move along folks! (on, and it also depends on what the definition of "is" is.)
> For the life of me, I can't imagine a competitor a-sniping. Then you're not a very imaginative person.
> A 14 year old kid took a clock apart and put it back together. No, he did not put it back together again. He put it in a pencil box with exposed wires hanging everywhere. That's a key point behind why those at his school were concerned: it looked nothing like a clock. Right off the bat, you misrepresent what happened to re-cast him as just a normal kid - you know, like "one of us". The rest of your sophistry can be safely ignored at this point, except for this little gem: You state that, "The central point is that he is one of us, and we take care of our own." That's a balkanizing tribalistic, self segregating point of view, which is a mentality that drives racism. And then you feign distress when "incidents like this to happen if your skin has a bit of melanin in it." The cognitive dissonance priceless.
Yeah, I got that fortune cookie too.
You see.... it's just that our instrumentation didn't detect the presence these GIANT galaxies until now. But, you can rest assured that we've 100% definitely detected and accounted for all the matter *WITHIN* the galaxies that we've err... detected so far! There is NO chance our instrumentation can miss ....any... regular matter within these galaxies - NONE... because to explain away dark matter we'd have to miss something as big a whole galaxy! err.... damn.
Agreed, people aren't buying Teslas because they're "self driving", they're buying them because they're electric, have a charging network (that's free), and are range competitive with gas. They have great handling, performance, and look great.
Tesla, please stop wasting your capital on this over hyped, "self driving" CRAP!
How much more affordable would a Tesla be just the way it is right now, if instead those dollars were invested in simply making the already great Tesla that much more affordable, or the model 3 that much closer to market, and not had been blown on the "self driving" gimmick that now threatens Tesla with lawsuits?
Please, Elon, don't tank Tesla with this garbage before I can expect to actually buy one of your vehicles, all on account this type of B.S.
Bu.. bu.. bu.. bu.. but the USA does this all the time! And it does it more and worse!!! And the U. S. A. !!!! blah....
The implementation of this project is a thoughtless affront to conservation of Helium when a cheaper and far more plentiful alternative is readily available, i.e. Hydrogen. Wikipedia states that they will simply vent the helium into the atmosphere after each balloon's 100 day end of life estimate - it's completely diffused and irrecoverable.
...) If there were a fire incident while in service at that altitude, the hydrogen and combustible balloon material would be exhausted long before it posed a danger to anything on the ground.
Hydrogen is superior for this application - for example, weather balloons often use hydrogen due to cost, with side benefits being lower density and lower diffusion rates across the membrane; flammability is not a major concern.
(Wikipedia: The project uses high-altitude balloons placed in the stratosphere at an altitude of about 18 km (11 mi)
I'm guessing the only thing preventing its usage here are the bad optics of hydrogeh, e.g. Hindenburg, which forever stigmatized hydrogen when there's any need to get the public on board with something, even when it's used in an innocuous component of the project (balloons to hold TX/RX nodes), i.e. these are like weather balloons, which again use hydrogen and pose no public threat.
Somewhat ironically, you can use Google to discover why there is a shortage of helium, and the many irreplaceable usages of it, including MRIs, superconducting magnets, industrial and medical CO2 lasers, and interestingly as well the manufacturing of semiconductors - something I'd imagine a Silicon Valley tech giant might be interested in preserving if nothing else.
Learn how the BLM manages reserve stock that is dangerously depleted, and how it's the main source of all commercial acquisitions of the element since WWII.
Note that you can't recover helium from the atmosphere once it's diffused out of a balloon, the atmosphere simply doesn't retain it and it disperses into space. The only known earthly means of producing helium is via incredibly slow nuclear decay that occurs in some natural gas wells over time frames that make millennia seem like minutes.
Wikipedia:
When taken out of service, the balloon is guided to an easily reached location, and the helium is vented into the atmosphere. The balloons typically have a maximum life of about 100 days, although Google claims that its tweaked design can enable them to stay aloft for closer to 200 days.[24]
There's no need to imagine anything unusual at all actually. There are no shortcuts taken when the atoms aren't observed, and by "observed" we mean interacted with by our external stimuli, i.e. our laser. When not interacted with, or more appropriately, "interfered" with, the atoms' tunneling behavior proceeds as normal. It's a real and ongoing physical process (not an optimization such as a simulation CPU saving measure). But since any attempt to observe the atoms directly cause the tunneling behavior to cease, tunneling remains something out of the realm for us to observe directly. For example, take a bullet in mid flight. Our eyes cannot see it due to a motion processing limitation within our brains. In order for us to observe it directly, we must probe for it (think of the laser) by using a solid object placed in what we calculate to be the bullet's trajectory based on a slew of factors. Once we "probe" for the bullet, sure enough it stops and we can see it, but its motion is lost. There's nothing mysterious about this - at the atomic level, all we have are brick walls. Now, tunneling may not be the same as motion, but simply because we cannot directly observe it does not mean it's not a real physical process and just an implementation trick to save on CPU cycles.
>The result is the same whether the brain is replaced a little at a time or all at once in a copy.
No, it's not the same at all. The whole point of uploading your brain is implicitly (the popular interpretation of doing so anyway) that continuity would be maintained - it's very key.
There are two continuums: the a) "copy and replace all at once" continuum, and the b) "transition to maintain continuity" continuum. What's key is that in "a", there are two distinct consciousnesses involved: the original, and the new - whereas in "b" there is always only one involved. Note that I'm using consciousness to simply mean the physical network of neurons from which the more popular definition of consciousness emerges.
At the extreme end of the copy & replace continuum, you could dispose of the original "all at once", or quite cruelly and gruesomely over an extended period of time. The result in both cases is always a *COPY* that no one can distinguish from the original, not even the copy, because continuity is maintained from its perspective and everyone else on the outside too. However, the original's continuity is broken when it's killed (whether slowly or instantly).
At the extremes of the "transition" continuum, if we swap one neuron out at a time with a functional equivalent and do it at a rate that is non-destructive to continuity (i.e. so that your brain is always still functioning correctly enough to perceive continuity), then an effective and seamless transition to your new implementation can be achieved, whether that's electronic neurons, or younger biological neurons, and the replacement could be over months or years (even though more and more impractical as it takes longer)
As for the sleeping and waking up, or being dead and then revived examples - these fall at the other extreme end of the "transition" continuum, i.e. they're equivalent to the transition being done instantly and with the exact same material. There is only ever one consciousnesses involved and the result again is that continuity is restored, even if broken for some period of time ( i.e. its physical implementation is maintained or reparable to its original state) It assumes that the revived person isn't damaged beyond being able to perceive continuity at some point. Once the ability to perceive continuity is lost, death of the original person has effectively occurred, even if memory/continuity is at some point later restored.
Amazing how many people credit this kid with "building" this clock, and the outrage is fall down laughable - I guarantee this is a political stunt or just plain carelessness on the kid's behalf. Let's see why:
Take a look at what readers are shown in picture #2 in the Dallas News story.
In the picture, there's a briefcase that contains what may look like a clock that a GENIUS put together - fancy circuit boards and wires - wow!!!!
But as an electronics hobbyist, I can tell you that what you're seeing in this brief case are the raw, unmodified (and slightly mangled) internals of a 15 to 20 dollar Jumbo LED alarm clock that you would find for sale at your local Walmart:
1. A jumbo four digit LED fixed to the inside of the lid of a small brief case
2. Gray wide-ribbon flatflex cable connects the LED to the main board that contains the LED display driver and clock integrated circuit
3. 9-volt back-up battery cable extends unconnected to the left (used to keep time during power outages, digits remain off on display, time is kept only internally)
4. A smaller flatflex ribbon connects a more slender circuit board that contains the set-time buttons, snooze button, alarm on-off switch, etc.
5. The cube shaped component sitting in the middle of the briefcase is the isolation transformer that provides the mains power 120V cord.
As a kid once myself, I've taken many of these same kinds of alarm clocks apart, and know these components like the back of my hand.
The alarm clock that this kid stuffed into a brief case isn't even modified to run off battery power - this is a 10 minute "project" period. Now, I'd give him more credit for adding battery power support, which is actually harder than it may seem since this type of clock keeps time based on the 60hz AC mains power frequency. So, an inverter would be necessary to allow this clock circuit and display to fully run off battery power alone.
The point here is simply that this looks exactly like what I, as a kid might have done, if I wanted to show off to my friends that maybe I built something that would make me look cool - and might result in this:
> At a joint press conference with Irving ISD, Chief Larry Boyd said the device — confiscated by an English teacher despite the teen’s insistence that it was a clock — was “certainly suspicious in nature.”
Fortunately for me, I thought ideas like that through by considering what other people might think, and it also helped that I didn't have a politically motivated father that might have coerced me to do such a thing knowing how foolish it could make the "natives" (re: EVIL WHITE PEOPLE) look.
So yeah - wow, shame on that ENGLISH teacher for trying to look out for her kids, OMGGGG!!!