I wonder is this can provide help for sinking cities like Venice. I don't think the Venitian Lagoon is that sandy, but at some depth there might be enough to work with. As long as it doesnt just turn everything into a bigger rock that will sink faster.
So let's say I have a robot, and it's equal to or above the sentience of a higher mammal. If i reprogram it so it can not feel pain, does that mean i can then beat the crap out of it?
Now if I take a dog and block the pain receptors in the brain somehow. Does that mean it's then OK to kick the dog? What about the same with a human?
The base reason you don't kick a dog is because it hurts the dog, and the dog can't easily be repaired, in either programming or mechanicals. (Both of which are harmed.) You have damaged the dog and nothing can be done about it. So we have rules about letting you do it.
Then why do i bring my dog to the vet if she can't be "repaired?" And when my harddrive melts because of some virus, that's not too repairable. If i had a try sentient robot on that drive, how could i ressurect it?
Clearly repairability is not the issue. If you kick a dog, you do not get charged with destruction of property, but animal cruelty. If you kick a person you can get sued for pain and suffering, and not just 'repair costs.'
If you don't vote, that means that you don't disagree with what the outcome of the election will be. Politicians won't care that you didn't vote, they only care about votes that were not for her or him. If 5,000 people in a local election decided not to vote, noone would notice or care. If 5,000 people voted for a third party or for jar jar binks for that matter, then the politicians would take notice.
So if you want to change things, do something. Pretending that your staying at home and watching next top model is going to make a difference, think again.
Well, lets think for a moment where the E. coli involved in the spinach-related deaths came from. It's not normally living on spinach. It came from cattle on a nearby farm.
... has a way of balancing out, but that can also mean that many or all humans will be killed. The earth doesn't need us to have nature.
Plus, if we want to produce more food, we'd scrap the inefficient feeding-plants-to-animals step and just eat the plants. We waste 7-20 times the mass of the plants to feed them to animals. Course we aren't eating feces either (not directly atleast).
I work at a domain name registrar, and if someone doesnt have the username and password and the registrant is deceased, we need a death certificate along with our normal info to get the log-in. It's not a foolproof system, but it's been a pretty rare occurrence. Most of the Internet crowd is pretty young.
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I wonder is this can provide help for sinking cities like Venice. I don't think the Venitian Lagoon is that sandy, but at some depth there might be enough to work with. As long as it doesnt just turn everything into a bigger rock that will sink faster.
So let's say I have a robot, and it's equal to or above the sentience of a higher mammal. If i reprogram it so it can not feel pain, does that mean i can then beat the crap out of it?
Now if I take a dog and block the pain receptors in the brain somehow. Does that mean it's then OK to kick the dog? What about the same with a human?
I asked my 5-year-old niece and my gramma (who has alzheimers) and neither said they want human rights.
I then asked my cats if they wanted animal rights. One went back to sleep and the other ran under the bed because there was a loud noise outside.
Somehow I think asking is not the key. If i ask a robot what kind of rights it wants, the lack of a coherent response doesn't mean It isn't sentient.
If you don't vote, that means that you don't disagree with what the outcome of the election will be. Politicians won't care that you didn't vote, they only care about votes that were not for her or him. If 5,000 people in a local election decided not to vote, noone would notice or care. If 5,000 people voted for a third party or for jar jar binks for that matter, then the politicians would take notice.
So if you want to change things, do something. Pretending that your staying at home and watching next top model is going to make a difference, think again.
Well, lets think for a moment where the E. coli involved in the spinach-related deaths came from. It's not normally living on spinach. It came from cattle on a nearby farm.
... has a way of balancing out, but that can also mean that many or all humans will be killed. The earth doesn't need us to have nature.
Plus, if we want to produce more food, we'd scrap the inefficient feeding-plants-to-animals step and just eat the plants. We waste 7-20 times the mass of the plants to feed them to animals. Course we aren't eating feces either (not directly atleast).
we use 7-20 times as much plant matter to get the same mass of meat. Sounds like we're already have forgone maximum food capacity.
What is it's mission?
Am I the only visually-oriented person here? Where are the pictures of the windows?
I work at a domain name registrar, and if someone doesnt have the username and password and the registrant is deceased, we need a death certificate along with our normal info to get the log-in. It's not a foolproof system, but it's been a pretty rare occurrence. Most of the Internet crowd is pretty young.
I suppose it will take some time and go before the official naming group.
You have any ideas? It seems theyre out of names from Roman mythology, and moved on to Shakespeare's plays and "The Rape of the Lock."
But then there's always the option of naming them all "George Forman"
Offshore means in the ocean, like an oil platform, prhaps in internatinal wayers. don't they mean Overseas?