If slashdot doesn't want to create an official category for stories hyping technologies that seem somehow always to be that elusive 10-20 years away (eg robust A.I., fusion power, widespread adoption of fuel cells, anything Ray Kurzweil ever says not involving synthesizers), we need to agree on a good tag for it.
Candidates for such a tag include: "bs" "decade" "neverhappen" but I know we can find the right one in ten years or less if we just work together.
It's not a flame, it's a straw man. Which is a good thing since straw men are so flammable.
Next time you try to make an argument with "many atheists believe" you'll want to be more careful.
You aren't taking into account the limitations of energy and travel time. It may be that no technological civilization can "conquer" any galaxy due to these limitations.
I frequently see in slashdot replies that this or that could happen if enough folks decide to do it. People say things like "feeding the world is a political problem, not a resource problem." The problem is that political will and the ability to manipulate it are kind of like limitations based on laws of physics. Sure in theory we could steer the earth if we all jumped up and down at the right time. It just isn't possible to convince everyone to play.
Actually religious ideas have proven impervious to even the strongest contrary evidence. It always denies or adapts. Evidence of alien life is nothing compared to heliocentrism, yet the Catholic church is still going strong.
Look, you can go to a revival meeting where some mountebank is perpetrating a money-making fraud and debunk him on the spot, and the believers will run YOU out of town on a rail, not the "preacher." This whole idea that someone would cover up alien life because religions would be upset is superficial and ridiculous.
Then it's a good thing you aren't posting questions on the Urdu or Punjabi Yahoo answers sites. Or maybe you are and they have Flash movies of how stupid you sound there.
"A big part of it is the corrupt and bureaucratic government purchasing process"
The awful thing is that the bureaucracy was created to remove the corruption. Now it actually causes its own new kind of corruption. See the fabulous book called "The Death of Common Sense."
I agree that 1st world denizens, especially Americans, waste resources ridiculously.
But do you accept that pretty much everyone in the world who knows about it wants to have a lifestyle like Americans?
This is a serious question. If, as you contend, the developing world needs more people to have the kind of wealth of the developed world, won't they end up being the same kind of mega-consumers? So the eventual result will be an entire earth full of such people?
If not, why not?
You're just a sucker if you think the popuplar adulation of young children is in very much proportion to the actual goodness of anything. See Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Barney the Dinosaur, ad nauseum.
I'm happy your kids are cute and you have fun with them, but you could just as easily be playing "Last Starfighter" with them as "Episode One."
Breathless journalists are always demaning another "1984" from Apple. Well I've got news for you: there won't be any more 1984a in the computer industry. it's too mature
And especially not this. Apple changes the guts (to Intel) in a way that has no actual effect on the user interface and this is supposed to be like 1984 how?
Idiot.
Slashdot Mirror
On April fools day they should run only stories that would exist in a comic book world. The ones we slashdotters keep waiting for...
"Scientist successfully places human brain in Ape"
"Safe and inexpensive teleportation now available"
Everything that came after storyteller-by-the-fire was a big mistake.
Someone with points please mod this up.
A lot of good suggestions. "Inthefuture"'s my favorite.
If slashdot doesn't want to create an official category for stories hyping technologies that seem somehow always to be that elusive 10-20 years away (eg robust A.I., fusion power, widespread adoption of fuel cells, anything Ray Kurzweil ever says not involving synthesizers), we need to agree on a good tag for it.
Candidates for such a tag include: "bs" "decade" "neverhappen" but I know we can find the right one in ten years or less if we just work together.
It's not a flame, it's a straw man. Which is a good thing since straw men are so flammable. Next time you try to make an argument with "many atheists believe" you'll want to be more careful.
You aren't taking into account the limitations of energy and travel time. It may be that no technological civilization can "conquer" any galaxy due to these limitations.
"They've also looked at the GC geographically and seen it is highly likely it was in this new time scale and not due to erosion."
Really? That would be huge news. What is your source there?!? (Guessing source is Creation Museum or somesuch...)
Seattle toilets are to drug users and prostitutes as the internet is to spammers and hackers. Discuss.
I frequently see in slashdot replies that this or that could happen if enough folks decide to do it. People say things like "feeding the world is a political problem, not a resource problem." The problem is that political will and the ability to manipulate it are kind of like limitations based on laws of physics. Sure in theory we could steer the earth if we all jumped up and down at the right time. It just isn't possible to convince everyone to play.
Actually religious ideas have proven impervious to even the strongest contrary evidence. It always denies or adapts. Evidence of alien life is nothing compared to heliocentrism, yet the Catholic church is still going strong.
Look, you can go to a revival meeting where some mountebank is perpetrating a money-making fraud and debunk him on the spot, and the believers will run YOU out of town on a rail, not the "preacher." This whole idea that someone would cover up alien life because religions would be upset is superficial and ridiculous.
They need to do way instain poster!
The London public transit system sees payment for services as damage and routes around it. Or something like that.
Then it's a good thing you aren't posting questions on the Urdu or Punjabi Yahoo answers sites. Or maybe you are and they have Flash movies of how stupid you sound there.
I just hope that someday we could see a consensus on what exactly government is supposed to do...
"A big part of it is the corrupt and bureaucratic government purchasing process"
The awful thing is that the bureaucracy was created to remove the corruption. Now it actually causes its own new kind of corruption. See the fabulous book called "The Death of Common Sense."
I agree that 1st world denizens, especially Americans, waste resources ridiculously. But do you accept that pretty much everyone in the world who knows about it wants to have a lifestyle like Americans? This is a serious question. If, as you contend, the developing world needs more people to have the kind of wealth of the developed world, won't they end up being the same kind of mega-consumers? So the eventual result will be an entire earth full of such people? If not, why not?
Seems a little silly compared to this sort of thing.
"Does it ever had oil?"
I had no idea Jar-Jar Binks read Slashdot. Or maybe it's one of the cats from Can I Haz Cheezburger?
"All spelling and grammar errors are intentional. Grammar Nazis' need entertainment."
You did a nice job with the gratuitous incorrect apostrophe, but I think you mean "all spelling and grammar errors IS intentional."
16 hours before the flight? 16 hours before you land? When do you start eating again?
Can Slashdot please make a new category for things that are "around 20 years" away, like AI, Fusion Power, going to Mars, Hydrogen-powered cars, etc.
You're just a sucker if you think the popuplar adulation of young children is in very much proportion to the actual goodness of anything. See Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Barney the Dinosaur, ad nauseum.
I'm happy your kids are cute and you have fun with them, but you could just as easily be playing "Last Starfighter" with them as "Episode One."
Breathless journalists are always demaning another "1984" from Apple. Well I've got news for you: there won't be any more 1984a in the computer industry. it's too mature And especially not this. Apple changes the guts (to Intel) in a way that has no actual effect on the user interface and this is supposed to be like 1984 how? Idiot.
Are we sure the video blogger made that many IQ-lowering grammatical errors or did the transcriber add them as style points?