Why do people always think that reducing the population requires some sort of genocide? You realize it's also possible to just have a birthrate below replacement level? Soylent Green entirely optional.
I don't think we're at the carrying capacity of the Earth yet, but I think Homo sapiens are the only species so far that will be capable of artificially surpassing the carrying capacity for a short amount of time which will lead to a period of...genocide....
It will not be a genocide in the sense which first occurs to us. It will just be Nature taking advantage of the huge human Petri dish we have set out for her to breed in. Population reduction will come in something like an HIV which is as persistent and as easily transmitted as a rhinovirus.
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As I understand it, the green M&M thing was a test to make sure the contract had been read. It was a good way to test that the stage was set up to specifications.
You know how I know you didn't read the contract or the article?
I don't see why the studios don't get together and implement a virtual theater where all their content is available. I go down to the local multiplex to view movies from every studio. I don't have to drive to the Sony Theater to see Sony productions, the Warner Theater to see Warner, etc.
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Because Netflix does that already, Mr. Obvious...
People were pissed enough when they heard that they'd have to go to two separate sites (Netflix and Kwikster) to get streaming versus mail delivery DVDs. I imagine there will be the same sort of reaction when we're told that if we want Sony movies, we go to Site A and pay $5.99 a month, and if we want Warner Brothers, we go to Site B and pay $5,49 a month, and if we want Disney we go to Site C and pay $7.99 a month. If that's the way things go in the future, I think a lot of people will go back to opting for Site D, also known as The Pirate Bay.
I don't see why the studios don't get together and implement a virtual theater where all their content is available. I go down to the local multiplex to view movies from every studio. I don't have to drive to the Sony Theater to see Sony productions, the Warner Theater to see Warner, etc.
Also, when doing so on public books, it's no longer math. It's divination, as the books are more cooked than last night's dinner.
Which is why GPP was correct when he said engineering math (or, you know, just math math) is more rigorous than MBA math. In real math, you start with axioms and theorems, and work your way to the conclusion. In business "math," you start with the conclusion, and then adjust the starting conditions to make the conclusion work. This may be difficult, and a lot of work, but it's not rigorous mathematics by any stretch of the imagination.
Real math has given us pretty much every technological advance that makes the modern world a better place to live than it was a couple of hundred years ago. Business "math" is the tool of people who are trying to drag the world back a couple of hundred years more, to the days of a small noble class living on the backs of a mass of starving peasants. It's not hard to figure out which one is more useful.
“The success of mathematical physics led the social scientist to be jealous of its power without quite understanding the intellectual attitudes that had contributed to this power. The use of mathematical formulae had accompanied the development of the natural sciences and become the mode in the social sciences. Just as primitive peoples adopt the Western modes of denationalized clothing and of parliamentarism out of a vague feeling that these magic rites and vestments will at once put them abreast of modern culture and technique, so the economists have developed the habit of dressing up their rather imprecise ideas in the language of the infinitesimal calculus.”
-- Norbert Wiener
Macs continue to have an irrelevant markeshare. They have gotten a minor bump by being able to run their competitor's dominant OS on their hardware.
The iPhone is getting destroyed by Android 2.5 to 1 in sales worldwide right now and the rate at which Android is leaving Apple in the dust in the cellphone market is rapidly growing.
The iPad has dropped from some 95 percent of the tablet market down to 65 percent in just a few months as Google does exactly what they did to the iPhone now to the iPad.
The rest of Jobs' products have been miserable failures like Apple TV and others.
The only real success Jobs ever had at Apple was the iPod.
His legacy will be nothing more than a footnote in the history of computing. A prick who sold overpriced consumer electronics to the hipster douchebag Starbucks crowd.
You would hope that PopSci, and all the other major news organizations that reported on this would know that a chimp is not a monkey.
I think even the dumbest journalist should know that a chimp isn't a monkey.
However, I don't know that Iran ever said what species they were launching. It could be there is no difference in translation and monkey/ape don't have seperate words.
In Iranian, monkey/ape/woman are the same noun. Even mullahs care about cute little monkeys - they might not have risked one of those.
The US intelligence community is simply applying Tom Clancy's Law to this situation: If it sounds like the prologue to one of his novels, then it is a bad idea.
They're Russians. If it hadn't been for us whining westerners the Russians would still be getting their money's worth out of the Mir station, simply patching it up as they go.
No - because they had to go and use 10 cent pencils instead of 10 grand space pens the electronics were all filled up with graphite dust and sparking up fires every hour or so. Kind of like when the Jupiter 2 would plunge through an asteroid field. Sooner or later you run out of CO2 in the extinguishers.
The Supreme Court is a body created by the Constitution. They do not have the authority to rewrite the Constitution, nor do they have the authority to be the sole arbiter of what the Constitution means.
From the Constitution of the United States:
Section. 2.
The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States....
No, they do not have the authority to rewrite the Constitution, but it is hard to see how they could exercise their mandated Power unless they are able to arbitrate what the Constitution means to say.
For good or bad, your professional image is forever stamped by your brief portrayal of Kirk. If you could go back and remake your career into that of an actor who has a successful career in smaller, more varied roles, would you?
Verizon asserts that it is committed to an open internet. Verizon believes the Federal Communications Commission has no business regulating communications. Verizon reports that the turd floating in the punchbowl is a Baby Ruth bar.
Sorry no. A patent troll is a non-practicing entity. Period. Microsoft does make operating systems that compete with Android. Like it or not, that makes them not a patent troll. An offensive (in both meanings) use of patents - sure. But they don't fit the definition of a troll in this case. Look it up.
Microsoft is not a patent troll. Microsoft is a patent gnome which figured out the missing step.
Europe's case is funny. Did you know that Germany's censorship was first introduced by the U.S. Army, which banned, confiscated and destroyed thousands of book titles, and censored the media?
So much for the US being a defender of Free Speech.
Yeah, the U.S. Army totally repressed the hell out of that Schicklgruber fellow.
Freshman physics discussion group, led by a postdoc from India. First day, he kept talking about "el squaw". The whole hour was about this Hispanic Indian maiden and her relationship to other constants. Went home and read the chapter. The young woman turned out to be L squared.
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Why do people always think that reducing the population requires some sort of genocide? You realize it's also possible to just have a birthrate below replacement level? Soylent Green entirely optional.
I don't think we're at the carrying capacity of the Earth yet, but I think Homo sapiens are the only species so far that will be capable of artificially surpassing the carrying capacity for a short amount of time which will lead to a period of...genocide....
It will not be a genocide in the sense which first occurs to us. It will just be Nature taking advantage of the huge human Petri dish we have set out for her to breed in. Population reduction will come in something like an HIV which is as persistent and as easily transmitted as a rhinovirus.
My fellow Americans, we are screwed, blued, and tattooed.
Seeing as how all content acquires copyright the moment it is created, then how is any ISP supposed to ban copyrighted material from its pipes?
The GNAA strike?
It's just the probe speaking.
If only we had a way to distribute audiovisual files to people. Oh well, maybe in the 21st century.
The Ig Nobel Prize committee is on line 1.
As I understand it, the green M&M thing was a test to make sure the contract had been read. It was a good way to test that the stage was set up to specifications.
You know how I know you didn't read the contract or the article?
How the hell did he convince anyone to fund a cold fusion reactor anyways?
Why do people buy Powerball tickets? Similar chance of success: both round to zero.
I don't see why the studios don't get together and implement a virtual theater where all their content is available. I go down to the local multiplex to view movies from every studio. I don't have to drive to the Sony Theater to see Sony productions, the Warner Theater to see Warner, etc.
.. Because Netflix does that already, Mr. Obvious...
But who owns Netflix?
People were pissed enough when they heard that they'd have to go to two separate sites (Netflix and Kwikster) to get streaming versus mail delivery DVDs. I imagine there will be the same sort of reaction when we're told that if we want Sony movies, we go to Site A and pay $5.99 a month, and if we want Warner Brothers, we go to Site B and pay $5,49 a month, and if we want Disney we go to Site C and pay $7.99 a month. If that's the way things go in the future, I think a lot of people will go back to opting for Site D, also known as The Pirate Bay.
I don't see why the studios don't get together and implement a virtual theater where all their content is available. I go down to the local multiplex to view movies from every studio. I don't have to drive to the Sony Theater to see Sony productions, the Warner Theater to see Warner, etc.
Also, when doing so on public books, it's no longer math. It's divination, as the books are more cooked than last night's dinner.
Which is why GPP was correct when he said engineering math (or, you know, just math math) is more rigorous than MBA math. In real math, you start with axioms and theorems, and work your way to the conclusion. In business "math," you start with the conclusion, and then adjust the starting conditions to make the conclusion work. This may be difficult, and a lot of work, but it's not rigorous mathematics by any stretch of the imagination.
Real math has given us pretty much every technological advance that makes the modern world a better place to live than it was a couple of hundred years ago. Business "math" is the tool of people who are trying to drag the world back a couple of hundred years more, to the days of a small noble class living on the backs of a mass of starving peasants. It's not hard to figure out which one is more useful.
“The success of mathematical physics led the social scientist to be jealous of its power without quite understanding the intellectual attitudes that had contributed to this power. The use of mathematical formulae had accompanied the development of the natural sciences and become the mode in the social sciences. Just as primitive peoples adopt the Western modes of denationalized clothing and of parliamentarism out of a vague feeling that these magic rites and vestments will at once put them abreast of modern culture and technique, so the economists have developed the habit of dressing up their rather imprecise ideas in the language of the infinitesimal calculus.” -- Norbert Wiener
Macs continue to have an irrelevant markeshare. They have gotten a minor bump by being able to run their competitor's dominant OS on their hardware.
The iPhone is getting destroyed by Android 2.5 to 1 in sales worldwide right now and the rate at which Android is leaving Apple in the dust in the cellphone market is rapidly growing.
The iPad has dropped from some 95 percent of the tablet market down to 65 percent in just a few months as Google does exactly what they did to the iPhone now to the iPad.
The rest of Jobs' products have been miserable failures like Apple TV and others.
The only real success Jobs ever had at Apple was the iPod.
His legacy will be nothing more than a footnote in the history of computing. A prick who sold overpriced consumer electronics to the hipster douchebag Starbucks crowd.
Somebody is bitter about not buying Apple at $10.
You would hope that PopSci, and all the other major news organizations that reported on this would know that a chimp is not a monkey.
I think even the dumbest journalist should know that a chimp isn't a monkey.
However, I don't know that Iran ever said what species they were launching. It could be there is no difference in translation and monkey/ape don't have seperate words.
In Iranian, monkey/ape/woman are the same noun. Even mullahs care about cute little monkeys - they might not have risked one of those.
Whooshski!
The US intelligence community is simply applying Tom Clancy's Law to this situation: If it sounds like the prologue to one of his novels, then it is a bad idea.
They're Russians. If it hadn't been for us whining westerners the Russians would still be getting their money's worth out of the Mir station, simply patching it up as they go.
No - because they had to go and use 10 cent pencils instead of 10 grand space pens the electronics were all filled up with graphite dust and sparking up fires every hour or so. Kind of like when the Jupiter 2 would plunge through an asteroid field. Sooner or later you run out of CO2 in the extinguishers.
The Supreme Court is a body created by the Constitution. They do not have the authority to rewrite the Constitution, nor do they have the authority to be the sole arbiter of what the Constitution means.
From the Constitution of the United States: Section. 2. The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States.... No, they do not have the authority to rewrite the Constitution, but it is hard to see how they could exercise their mandated Power unless they are able to arbitrate what the Constitution means to say.
For good or bad, your professional image is forever stamped by your brief portrayal of Kirk. If you could go back and remake your career into that of an actor who has a successful career in smaller, more varied roles, would you?
Verizon asserts that it is committed to an open internet. Verizon believes the Federal Communications Commission has no business regulating communications. Verizon reports that the turd floating in the punchbowl is a Baby Ruth bar.
Steve Ballmer, are you paying attention?!?
Was he ever?
If you have ever gone to see the IgNobels or watched them on video, you have seen the paper airplane blizzard. Here is a screenplay in which the paper airplanes play a pivotal role: http://www.scribd.com/doc/13651346/The-EightFoot-Bride-an-original-screenplay
Sorry no. A patent troll is a non-practicing entity. Period. Microsoft does make operating systems that compete with Android. Like it or not, that makes them not a patent troll. An offensive (in both meanings) use of patents - sure. But they don't fit the definition of a troll in this case. Look it up.
Microsoft is not a patent troll. Microsoft is a patent gnome which figured out the missing step.
Europe's case is funny. Did you know that Germany's censorship was first introduced by the U.S. Army, which banned, confiscated and destroyed thousands of book titles, and censored the media?
So much for the US being a defender of Free Speech.
Yeah, the U.S. Army totally repressed the hell out of that Schicklgruber fellow.
Freshman physics discussion group, led by a postdoc from India. First day, he kept talking about "el squaw". The whole hour was about this Hispanic Indian maiden and her relationship to other constants. Went home and read the chapter. The young woman turned out to be L squared.