Drake equation and this all table everything on values for which we have no estimate. It is entirely possible that those values are overvalued (sic) and actually we are the only intelligent life, and that intelligent life is rare and gets wiped out quickly (on the universe time scale) such that there is only 1 at a time in the whole universe. We don't know. And we have no way at this point to know barring a signal of ET origin being caught by our various radio observatory. And they could be trying to listen hopelessly. This article like any other based on drake equation is fluff.
Define properly free will. And soon after you will detect that you have got a problem. Some of the definition of free will is actually the capacity of choice... But if that choice is already done by the time you consciously think about it, due to your past shaping your preference, then there is no such a thing as free will, but rather an electrochemical process weighing the choice and the largest or smallest weight being preponderant. Frankly free will does not exists and such study confirm it : our choice are dictated by our memory, education, past, and perception. There is no magic "free will daemon" dictating they today he will make a different choice, if the same situation was shown set up.
Full stop. If they "regrow" something it will be 100% a new person, most probably limited to basic baby like reaction. Now if they had spoken of persistent vegetative state that would be something else. But assuming a correct diagnose then brain dead == corpse with a beating heart maintained by machines.
One way or another we WILL go extinct. The universe is not eternal and be it heat death or something else at some point it will be unviable for biological being. Heck The sun will rise in luminosity and in a few hundred million year earth will be not viable anymore. Then meteor strike utterly killed dinosaurus. You think that could not happen to us if a manatan sized bollide collide with earth ? And illness evolve with time, and some of our way to fight them get obsolete. So yeah, we WILL all die sooner or later and humanity will go extinct. Now whether climate could do it is a question of assessement. if we go on like that not caring about CO2 , at some point in a few hundreds year it could be that climate become so chaotic due to the added heat, that our infrastrructure become unmaintanable. So that's back for us to low maintenance stuff. And then that is the point where high tech can be simply too costly to maintain, and that disaster CAN strike. If we can't maintain biological research and basteria/virus evolve, and they will continue unless you disbelieve evolution in addition to climate4 change, THEN disaster can strike.
If you think our tech advance can go and solve everything and we cannot fallback to lower tech , then that is fiction. Climate change could very well bring us to the brink of stress to tech and infrastructure, and somehting else make us go ovber the brink.
And knowing the horror the US government did in the past with its secret agencies, and the very very weak "proof" which were used to identify drone target, one can only conclude the the US government can not be trusted and you have to assume the worst.
Is that a poe ? No most probably the rejection comes from the excess of capitalism and very obvious inequalities which make no direction to be reverted, rather than anything else. Not about cultural amrxist whatever boogy men from the 50ies maccarthysm era.
Increased plant growth does not mean increased yield in food stapple, if we are still limited in Phosporus and nitrogen fixation. But even if it did, the water increase and climate chaotisation would far more offset that. What good is it that Florida could produce more orange, if it loses its coastal city and vast swath of the everglade, or land ? Or if the ocean pH changes destroy the food stapple (fishing) of many countries ? And that is only on top of my head. There are so many factor at play that your typical "AGW is not that bad" is sad.
There are diminishing return at some point, and other elements begins to be a limiting factor : nitrogen fixation and phosphorus for example. So it *may* produce some better plant growth some places, but for our agriculture it sounds doubtful.
I really don't care for example that they catch that I am trying to watch the daily show from germany or the rare few video which tells me "GEMA blocked blahblah youtube license not apid wahhwahhwambulance"
I will reserve that term when 1) I learn what is the content of the tank 2) the amount of becquerel released outside the plant if any. Without both those info it could be between catastrophic and "meh".
I am sorry to tell the obvious but among the "lower" level of dianetic or whatever it is called, they are trully believer. But at no level whatsoever people believe the FSM which is supposed to be an ironic point, not a religion. If people trully believed in the FSM it would be different. But they aren't and that is the point.
And then the world wide tech sector would get a boost , and the US tech sector go bust.
What ? I never said I carred for the US tech sector. I am seeing this from the perspective of somebody in another country tech sector withshing that US politician get what they want : give us all non US firm a lot of jobs.
"It took Apple more than four years to fix Siri's responses to questions about abortion services, and yet the company didn't seem to have any problem programming Siri to search for prostitutes and Viagra."
yeah, methink that the political climate surrounding abortion is far more explosive than prostitution , and some people might have exploded in anger far more quickly at women being helped getting an abortion (sorry "murder baby!") than at the other keyword. So it does not surprise me in the least.
"congress had an overall approval rating of 13%. Yet, 95% of the incumbents retained their seat." Only they don't call it cheating they call it gerrymandering. A nasty little way to make sure the districts are sliced in a way that popular voting does not count, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering "how to steal an election") you probably know that but I wanted to remind all our US friend how they get fucked in the ass by their politician.
Non-ct wait for evidence. CT people simply throw their claim without evidence backing it. That a broken clock is correct twice a day does not mean we should start using it to measure time.
"But it takes work. So nevermind. Just complain instead." people which are in the poorer job often work multiple job or longer hours and are far more tired or have no time to cook. Really I knew a few people working minimum wage job and they came back at 20h-21h with feeding 1 or 2 kids and in such case what would you do ? Remember as study showed over and over they can't get food reserve long in advance so food and essential stuff is bought on the last moment when it is needed with the money at hand. This means doing the grocery AND preparing the food which can and will take a long time if you add vegetables compared to a macdo which takes 15 minutes if you are in city. I timed myself, the easiest meal I prepare are 15 minutes vegetables preparation included, 15 to 20 minutes buying included. That's 30 minutes over a long day. And that's an easy to make meal but making the same over and over and you get mad. The more complicated one can take upward an hour with half of it washing and preparing various ingredients. I am betting that you have a enough money to buy stuff once per week in advance in nice enough quantity like I do. But some people don't. Look. It is not stupidity or lazyness which somestimes drives people to macdo or similar junk food. But simply the lack of time overall, because they already got physically and mentally drained by the terrible low wage job they got.
"What some may consider more surprising is that more than 25 percent of the world's severely obese men and almost 20 percent of the world's severely obese women are American" I am surprised that the rate is not higher. Who ever is surprised that it is at least 20%/25% has not visited the US in the last 10 years or has not been able to compare to other countries. I have flown all over the world. But when I am in the US, it is always shocking me with abandon.
At the moment it does not look to be going this way. Rather, the holder of wealth are content to let the unemployed die in a guter or die starving. After all, they would rather invest in robotic than a messy few dollar pay rise per hours.
"1) The german courts are ruling preferrentially in favor of german companies (surprise,it's captain obvious to the rescue)"
Not at all the reason of the judgement was a contractual basis. This has nothing to do with being a german company in fact the company ruled AGAINST was german.
it is not a flaw, it is a marketing design. You make something non standard, so that once you hooked the customer, it is difficult for him to leave you at a moment notice. If the connector are standard then your only way to compete can sometime be price, which may not be in favor. but if you got a special connector, it will be less a hassle to renew, than to refactor productions lines for a new one.
They are supposed to inform and they dropped the ball, then stampeded on it to finally set it on fire. Fucking news media is now an entertainment industry. They should be teaching/showing people WHY a dirt bomb is a stupid idea in practice but no.... "omgz nukluar !!!! dirtz bombz !". Whose fault it is ? The media for not informing. I don't expect everybody to learn that stuff on their own, but the news media should not pour gasoline on it and dance around the fire.
Allows apple to make an iOS version which is *effectively* the 8.1 or 7 or whatever, a downgrad of iOS, then have it loaded on the phone then let the FBI use the linked device ?
and to *me*. but not to those who have irrational thought about GMO. Or Hallal. Take it as a religion : how would you feel as a jewish person if people were adding pork stuff everywhere without labelling it ? Or Add in food stuff like, rind or pork grease, when you are a vegetarian by conviction,without noting it ? Same things here. If a majority of epople want it, then maybe it is us , the minority which recognize as GMO as being generally safe , which should hear and bow to the masses.
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Drake equation and this all table everything on values for which we have no estimate. It is entirely possible that those values are overvalued (sic) and actually we are the only intelligent life, and that intelligent life is rare and gets wiped out quickly (on the universe time scale) such that there is only 1 at a time in the whole universe. We don't know. And we have no way at this point to know barring a signal of ET origin being caught by our various radio observatory. And they could be trying to listen hopelessly. This article like any other based on drake equation is fluff.
Define properly free will. And soon after you will detect that you have got a problem. Some of the definition of free will is actually the capacity of choice... But if that choice is already done by the time you consciously think about it, due to your past shaping your preference, then there is no such a thing as free will, but rather an electrochemical process weighing the choice and the largest or smallest weight being preponderant. Frankly free will does not exists and such study confirm it : our choice are dictated by our memory, education, past, and perception. There is no magic "free will daemon" dictating they today he will make a different choice, if the same situation was shown set up.
Full stop. If they "regrow" something it will be 100% a new person, most probably limited to basic baby like reaction. Now if they had spoken of persistent vegetative state that would be something else. But assuming a correct diagnose then brain dead == corpse with a beating heart maintained by machines.
One way or another we WILL go extinct. The universe is not eternal and be it heat death or something else at some point it will be unviable for biological being. Heck The sun will rise in luminosity and in a few hundred million year earth will be not viable anymore. Then meteor strike utterly killed dinosaurus. You think that could not happen to us if a manatan sized bollide collide with earth ? And illness evolve with time, and some of our way to fight them get obsolete. So yeah, we WILL all die sooner or later and humanity will go extinct. Now whether climate could do it is a question of assessement. if we go on like that not caring about CO2 , at some point in a few hundreds year it could be that climate become so chaotic due to the added heat, that our infrastrructure become unmaintanable. So that's back for us to low maintenance stuff. And then that is the point where high tech can be simply too costly to maintain, and that disaster CAN strike. If we can't maintain biological research and basteria/virus evolve, and they will continue unless you disbelieve evolution in addition to climate4 change, THEN disaster can strike.
If you think our tech advance can go and solve everything and we cannot fallback to lower tech , then that is fiction. Climate change could very well bring us to the brink of stress to tech and infrastructure, and somehting else make us go ovber the brink.
And knowing the horror the US government did in the past with its secret agencies, and the very very weak "proof" which were used to identify drone target, one can only conclude the the US government can not be trusted and you have to assume the worst.
Is that a poe ? No most probably the rejection comes from the excess of capitalism and very obvious inequalities which make no direction to be reverted, rather than anything else. Not about cultural amrxist whatever boogy men from the 50ies maccarthysm era.
I remember darkly 2 to 3 decades ago teams at some university difracting some small amine molecules in a rudbidyum crystal. Similar problem & effects.
Increased plant growth does not mean increased yield in food stapple, if we are still limited in Phosporus and nitrogen fixation. But even if it did, the water increase and climate chaotisation would far more offset that. What good is it that Florida could produce more orange, if it loses its coastal city and vast swath of the everglade, or land ? Or if the ocean pH changes destroy the food stapple (fishing) of many countries ? And that is only on top of my head. There are so many factor at play that your typical "AGW is not that bad" is sad.
There are diminishing return at some point, and other elements begins to be a limiting factor : nitrogen fixation and phosphorus for example. So it *may* produce some better plant growth some places, but for our agriculture it sounds doubtful.
I really don't care for example that they catch that I am trying to watch the daily show from germany or the rare few video which tells me "GEMA blocked blahblah youtube license not apid wahhwahhwambulance"
I will reserve that term when 1) I learn what is the content of the tank 2) the amount of becquerel released outside the plant if any. Without both those info it could be between catastrophic and "meh".
I am sorry to tell the obvious but among the "lower" level of dianetic or whatever it is called, they are trully believer. But at no level whatsoever people believe the FSM which is supposed to be an ironic point, not a religion. If people trully believed in the FSM it would be different. But they aren't and that is the point.
And then the world wide tech sector would get a boost , and the US tech sector go bust.
What ? I never said I carred for the US tech sector. I am seeing this from the perspective of somebody in another country tech sector withshing that US politician get what they want : give us all non US firm a lot of jobs.
"It took Apple more than four years to fix Siri's responses to questions about abortion services, and yet the company didn't seem to have any problem programming Siri to search for prostitutes and Viagra."
yeah, methink that the political climate surrounding abortion is far more explosive than prostitution , and some people might have exploded in anger far more quickly at women being helped getting an abortion (sorry "murder baby!") than at the other keyword. So it does not surprise me in the least.
"congress had an overall approval rating of 13%. Yet, 95% of the incumbents retained their seat." Only they don't call it cheating they call it gerrymandering. A nasty little way to make sure the districts are sliced in a way that popular voting does not count, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering "how to steal an election") you probably know that but I wanted to remind all our US friend how they get fucked in the ass by their politician.
Non-ct wait for evidence. CT people simply throw their claim without evidence backing it. That a broken clock is correct twice a day does not mean we should start using it to measure time.
"But it takes work. So nevermind. Just complain instead." people which are in the poorer job often work multiple job or longer hours and are far more tired or have no time to cook. Really I knew a few people working minimum wage job and they came back at 20h-21h with feeding 1 or 2 kids and in such case what would you do ? Remember as study showed over and over they can't get food reserve long in advance so food and essential stuff is bought on the last moment when it is needed with the money at hand. This means doing the grocery AND preparing the food which can and will take a long time if you add vegetables compared to a macdo which takes 15 minutes if you are in city. I timed myself, the easiest meal I prepare are 15 minutes vegetables preparation included, 15 to 20 minutes buying included. That's 30 minutes over a long day. And that's an easy to make meal but making the same over and over and you get mad. The more complicated one can take upward an hour with half of it washing and preparing various ingredients. I am betting that you have a enough money to buy stuff once per week in advance in nice enough quantity like I do. But some people don't. Look. It is not stupidity or lazyness which somestimes drives people to macdo or similar junk food. But simply the lack of time overall, because they already got physically and mentally drained by the terrible low wage job they got.
"What some may consider more surprising is that more than 25 percent of the world's severely obese men and almost 20 percent of the world's severely obese women are American" I am surprised that the rate is not higher. Who ever is surprised that it is at least 20%/25% has not visited the US in the last 10 years or has not been able to compare to other countries. I have flown all over the world. But when I am in the US, it is always shocking me with abandon.
There is a reason they are called grammar nazi and similar names, and not holy nice defender of grammar. Same with spelling.
At the moment it does not look to be going this way. Rather, the holder of wealth are content to let the unemployed die in a guter or die starving. After all, they would rather invest in robotic than a messy few dollar pay rise per hours.
"1) The german courts are ruling preferrentially in favor of german companies (surprise,it's captain obvious to the rescue)"
Not at all the reason of the judgement was a contractual basis. This has nothing to do with being a german company in fact the company ruled AGAINST was german.
it is not a flaw, it is a marketing design. You make something non standard, so that once you hooked the customer, it is difficult for him to leave you at a moment notice. If the connector are standard then your only way to compete can sometime be price, which may not be in favor. but if you got a special connector, it will be less a hassle to renew, than to refactor productions lines for a new one.
They are supposed to inform and they dropped the ball, then stampeded on it to finally set it on fire. Fucking news media is now an entertainment industry. They should be teaching/showing people WHY a dirt bomb is a stupid idea in practice but no.... "omgz nukluar !!!! dirtz bombz !". Whose fault it is ? The media for not informing. I don't expect everybody to learn that stuff on their own, but the news media should not pour gasoline on it and dance around the fire.
Allows apple to make an iOS version which is *effectively* the 8.1 or 7 or whatever, a downgrad of iOS, then have it loaded on the phone then let the FBI use the linked device ?
and to *me*. but not to those who have irrational thought about GMO. Or Hallal. Take it as a religion : how would you feel as a jewish person if people were adding pork stuff everywhere without labelling it ? Or Add in food stuff like, rind or pork grease, when you are a vegetarian by conviction,without noting it ? Same things here. If a majority of epople want it, then maybe it is us , the minority which recognize as GMO as being generally safe , which should hear and bow to the masses.