Better start practicing singing a song in your head to block out the thought police.
Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun.
The rules have been changed by us. An invisible force that cracks your neck has nothing to do with natural selection. Inevitably it will lead to extenction because they cannot adapt to something they can't see.
Leading to extinction is a possible outcome of natural selection. You still seem to misunderstand how it works. If you can't see a window, and it kills you, then the birds who CAN vaugely sense it will survive. Windows don't kill bats, for example, because they developed echo-location. The birds who are extra chipper and like sing while flying may hear thier echo just in the nick of time and survive, and that trait may be passed on to thier children.
There as no "rules" to be changed by us, there is only one "rule". That rule is simply, if you survive to bear children, you are fit to survive. A little circular, but that's how it works.
The world that these birds live in is not some static, unchanging thing that we came and interrupted. New bird diseases pop up all the time killing swaths of them. Predators start hunting in new locations. Forests they live in burn down. Skyscrapers are no different. Tons of things are constantly changing for these animals and the end result is always the same: those fit enough will survive and bear children.
Remember natural selection refers to nature. A skyscraper is not natural.
It's as natural as a beaver dam or a termite mound. Just because humans do it doesn't make it unnatural. Besides the process of selection is what "natural" refers to. Unnatural selection would be something like picking bird's names out of a hat and killing them... But even that could be a form of natural selection if "luck" were something you could pass on to your kids.
killing the fit and the unfit That's not how it works... If you die, you are unfit, by definition. Birds that can't see glass or can't withstand the impact are unfit for that environment. Fitness is not some subjective thing, it's a rule.
This will work just until the day either of these companies discover that they can reduce the postage considerably for "bulk" mail and still make a profit... and at that point you have an automatic list of guaranteed good addresses since people won't be so paranoid about spam.
I disagree, I think he is similar to Gandalf in that he knows the true horror of the ring, and can say that, with a clear head, he would not touch it. But put him alone on the side of the road with the ring and then, no doubt, he would find some justification to pick it up.
So, go buy yourself a cheap $5-$10 transistor radio, add some nice fresh batteries, tune it to SuperTejano 108.2 and dump it on the side of the road next to the sign. Enjoy the ensuing inexplicable rise in tamale flavored snack goods suddenly being tested out in your neighborhood.
'Less I'm mistaken, this means that people will be able to develop fully functional simple Windows executables by writing a few lines of script in XAML? I think that's a good idea. Sure we still need stuff like C for large projects, but why waste your time coding in C when all you want to develop is something like a simple caculator?
Love is a trait that was smiled upon by natural selection. Couples that mate for life (or at least for longer than it takes to hump) have a better chance of raising their offspring to adulthood and thus having their love-prone genes passed on.
Further, one could easily argue that a person does not control whether or not they fall in love - clearly we do have control over whether or not we climb a mountain or go to mars.
By that same token, the desire to explore and expand outside of your niche (as a species) is also a trait smiled upon by natural selection. It's much more difficult to wipe out a species seperated by jillions of miles of cold space than if they are all stuck in the same place.
I for one am glad the flying car has never made it. Some people can barely keep their cars on the road. Imagine if a distracted individual talking on his/her cell phone, screaming at their kids, eating a meal, and watching a DVD movie slammed into a chemical storage tank.
Yes, and imagine if some kids head got caught in a plastic bag... oh, woe, let's stop making plastic, the cost is too great.
Now, think about THIS: Once flying cars are ubiquitous, what's to stop you from just hopping over to Singapore for a weekend, or flying over to barbados after work... Or next time America starts a way, zipping on over to Bagdad to watch the fireworks?
Flying cars will decimate all concept of borders in an instant, and with that the world will suddenly become a much smaller place. Governments can't watch every inch of airspace when there are a billion vehicles in the air, thier laws (and differences) will slowly cease to mean so much anymore. The world will change dramatically, maybe for the good, maybe for the bad, but change in such a way that everythign you ever imagined you knew about the world will be turned on it's head.
A few drunk tree-dives is a small price to pay in th long run for a world-wide revolution.
Given the uproar created by the Segway, its not surprising that flying cars and jetpacks never "took off." This is not an issue of what engineers can do technologically, but an issue of what society says they can do in public.
I think the uproar behind teh segway was precisely BECAUSE it's not a flying car. All that expectation for a crappy scooter. If it WERE a flying car, governments would fall before the public allowed them to regulate it out of existance.
I've worked at three large banks before where the password for nearly every machine was "passw0rd" or "password!"... and now this. Where are the super villians who have the guts to go and take advantage of stuff like this? It's just a waste of a good election machine if the votes aren't being bought with gold coins by a dark moustachioed man with a Turkish accent of some kind.
I'm having a tought time deciding if this is all out fake, or just staged. Like the kids finishing eachother punch lines sounds like something someone would just make up out of thier own head, but one kid's partial AYB reference makes me think there may have been actual kids there. Scripts maybe?
When you consider that we went to the moon with Sixties technology, designed by guys (girls didn't do engineering back then) with slide rules, I don't think that the technology level poses an obstacle.
I don't know about that... do they even *make* Microsoft SlideRule (tm)?
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Better start practicing singing a song in your head to block out the thought police.
Eight, sir; seven, sir;
Six, sir; five, sir;
Four, sir; three, sir;
Two, sir; one!
Tenser, said the Tensor.
Tenser, said the Tensor.
Tension, apprehension,
And dissension have begun.
The rules have been changed by us. An invisible force that cracks your neck has nothing to do with natural selection. Inevitably it will lead to extenction because they cannot adapt to something they can't see.
Leading to extinction is a possible outcome of natural selection. You still seem to misunderstand how it works. If you can't see a window, and it kills you, then the birds who CAN vaugely sense it will survive. Windows don't kill bats, for example, because they developed echo-location. The birds who are extra chipper and like sing while flying may hear thier echo just in the nick of time and survive, and that trait may be passed on to thier children.
There as no "rules" to be changed by us, there is only one "rule". That rule is simply, if you survive to bear children, you are fit to survive. A little circular, but that's how it works.
The world that these birds live in is not some static, unchanging thing that we came and interrupted. New bird diseases pop up all the time killing swaths of them. Predators start hunting in new locations. Forests they live in burn down. Skyscrapers are no different. Tons of things are constantly changing for these animals and the end result is always the same: those fit enough will survive and bear children.
Remember natural selection refers to nature. A skyscraper is not natural.
It's as natural as a beaver dam or a termite mound. Just because humans do it doesn't make it unnatural. Besides the process of selection is what "natural" refers to. Unnatural selection would be something like picking bird's names out of a hat and killing them... But even that could be a form of natural selection if "luck" were something you could pass on to your kids.
killing the fit and the unfit That's not how it works... If you die, you are unfit, by definition. Birds that can't see glass or can't withstand the impact are unfit for that environment. Fitness is not some subjective thing, it's a rule.
This will work just until the day either of these companies discover that they can reduce the postage considerably for "bulk" mail and still make a profit... and at that point you have an automatic list of guaranteed good addresses since people won't be so paranoid about spam.
You had a turtle? We plunged forever into the nothingness of pure void. Uphill. Both ways.
Dude, it's tutles all the way down.
You had a quantum foam vacuum of pure nothingness to pop universes out of? I WISH I had a vacuum of pure nothingness to pop universes out of.
In my day all we had was this damn turtle.
Them: "Hmmmmm...." (They go buy it and tell me in a few months that it was an 'OK' or 'poor' choice.)
Not in my world... in a few months they get angry and come and tell me that I should have told them it was crappy in the first place.
I disagree, I think he is similar to Gandalf in that he knows the true horror of the ring, and can say that, with a clear head, he would not touch it. But put him alone on the side of the road with the ring and then, no doubt, he would find some justification to pick it up.
So, go buy yourself a cheap $5-$10 transistor radio, add some nice fresh batteries, tune it to SuperTejano 108.2 and dump it on the side of the road next to the sign. Enjoy the ensuing inexplicable rise in tamale flavored snack goods suddenly being tested out in your neighborhood.
'Less I'm mistaken, this means that people will be able to develop fully functional simple Windows executables by writing a few lines of script in XAML? I think that's a good idea. Sure we still need stuff like C for large projects, but why waste your time coding in C when all you want to develop is something like a simple caculator?
Or spell checker. (ducks)
Love is a trait that was smiled upon by natural selection. Couples that mate for life (or at least for longer than it takes to hump) have a better chance of raising their offspring to adulthood and thus having their love-prone genes passed on.
Further, one could easily argue that a person does not control whether or not they fall in love - clearly we do have control over whether or not we climb a mountain or go to mars.
By that same token, the desire to explore and expand outside of your niche (as a species) is also a trait smiled upon by natural selection. It's much more difficult to wipe out a species seperated by jillions of miles of cold space than if they are all stuck in the same place.
Once again, Alex Chiu proves he's ahead of the game.
Replicate it from dirt and trash. All the basic building blocks you ever wanted right under your toes.
As long as your making laws, why not make open mail-servers illegal and get rid of spam for good and for real?
iiiiii iiiiiiiii iiiii br-er-er-er-er
Not to be a grammar cop, but I think you meant:
iiiiii iiiiiBWOOOOO BWOOii iiiii br-er-er-er-er
Conjugation counts.
Yes, but how do they taste?
I for one am glad the flying car has never made it. Some people can barely keep their cars on the road. Imagine if a distracted individual talking on his/her cell phone, screaming at their kids, eating a meal, and watching a DVD movie slammed into a chemical storage tank.
Yes, and imagine if some kids head got caught in a plastic bag... oh, woe, let's stop making plastic, the cost is too great.
Now, think about THIS: Once flying cars are ubiquitous, what's to stop you from just hopping over to Singapore for a weekend, or flying over to barbados after work... Or next time America starts a way, zipping on over to Bagdad to watch the fireworks?
Flying cars will decimate all concept of borders in an instant, and with that the world will suddenly become a much smaller place. Governments can't watch every inch of airspace when there are a billion vehicles in the air, thier laws (and differences) will slowly cease to mean so much anymore. The world will change dramatically, maybe for the good, maybe for the bad, but change in such a way that everythign you ever imagined you knew about the world will be turned on it's head.
A few drunk tree-dives is a small price to pay in th long run for a world-wide revolution.
Given the uproar created by the Segway, its not surprising that flying cars and jetpacks never "took off." This is not an issue of what engineers can do technologically, but an issue of what society says they can do in public.
I think the uproar behind teh segway was precisely BECAUSE it's not a flying car. All that expectation for a crappy scooter. If it WERE a flying car, governments would fall before the public allowed them to regulate it out of existance.
Are you sure? I thought that was just an urban legend...
Well, there is usually a set fee after which they don't pay any more... So you aren't doing as much damage as you think.
I've worked at three large banks before where the password for nearly every machine was "passw0rd" or "password!"... and now this. Where are the super villians who have the guts to go and take advantage of stuff like this? It's just a waste of a good election machine if the votes aren't being bought with gold coins by a dark moustachioed man with a Turkish accent of some kind.
Looks more like tool marks than "carvings" to me. I think this is just a bunch of archeologists seeing what they want to see.
And this is new in archeology... how?
I'm having a tought time deciding if this is all out fake, or just staged. Like the kids finishing eachother punch lines sounds like something someone would just make up out of thier own head, but one kid's partial AYB reference makes me think there may have been actual kids there. Scripts maybe?
When you consider that we went to the moon with Sixties technology, designed by guys (girls didn't do engineering back then) with slide rules, I don't think that the technology level poses an obstacle.
I don't know about that... do they even *make* Microsoft SlideRule (tm)?
A team of scientists have found that to the brain, a social snub is just like stubbing a toe.'
The pain of rejection... the agony of da feet...