seems to me like any survival advantage offered by this would be completely wiped out by the fact that depressed people kill themselves
But do they kill themselves before they procreate? As far as evolution is concerned, this is the largest factor. Now, since the advent of social groupings and constructs, the evolution of behaviors that enhance a group's survival have become a factor, but a trait's impact on procreation volume (or lack of getting in the way of it) is still significant.
Ah, those were the days. I worked for Microsoft phone tech support in the magic year of 1995. It was then I first met Clippy, but he wasn't a paper clip then. He was a bouncing red ball with a face. Do you know what we grunts of tech support called it?
Limits will never work, even if you cut off funding. It will slow research down, but will never stop it. Case in point: me. I don't have a PhD. (Tried, but my lack of discipline and other factors made it impossible.) I have no funding, other than my day job. But I'm making steady progress combining evolution and inference engines. If I'm successful will my ideas be adopted by anyone, on any appreciable scale? Doubtful. I'm just doing it for myself. But it shows that you can't stop this kind of research. It's not like the stem cell ban, where researchers needed special materials and equipment and supplies to do the research. All you need is a computer and internet connection. Without a court order barring AI researchers from contact with computers, I'll always have that, and I don't see such a thing happening any time soon.
So did my grandfather, who was a nuclear chemist at ORNL for several decades.
I encourage you to read the energy from thorium blog and nuclear green. I think you'll find it interesting I too don't think nuclear should replace everything, and that energy diversity is good. I just think that nuclear constantly gets short shrift even though it's a viable option, and has been for several decades.
Fusion is a pipe dream. Read about the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor in my original post. It solves many of the problems of standard nuclear reactors and the technology is 50 years old.
We can solve all of our energy problems with nuclear power right now. We have enough uranium fuel to last hundreds of years. If we switch to thorium there's ten thousand years of fuel just in the known reserves alone. Here's a little reading
I just saw it and the theater was nearly empty. In fact, when I got there ten minutes before the start the theater was completely empty. To contrast I saw Star Trek on te Friday and Sunday after it opened. Both times were completely packed. (In the same theater.)
I didn't much like it. The movie didn't hang together well. You know you're seeing a badly pieced together movie when the actors have generic dialog, like "Thanks for the thing you did before...you know...with the stuff..." It shows that the director is making bits and pieces he can rearrange and throw together easily. That happened more than once in Terminator Salvation. I liked the ending, and the ideas behind it, but it could have been darker. Dark Knight and Battlestar Galactica (and the previous terminator franchise movies) have shown us that a dark movie can be successful. Too bad they didn't follow that line with TS.
Geek movies live and die by word of mouth. The geeks see it first, then the non geeks on the geeks recommendation. No recommendation, no secondary audience. And I can't recommend this movie. It ain't the Star Trek 5 of the series, but that ain't sayin' much...
Ben wasn't my uncle for long, and I didn't know him well, but we lost him on Saturday in the most senseless way. My other uncle, who knew him since childhood, posted a tribute to him on his blog.
I only met Ben once, when my grandfather married his mother, but I could tell he was a great guy then. I wasn't the only one. Why people have to die like this is beyond me, but at least now more people can know who Ben was, and what he meant to his community.
'You have to make an environment that attracts the Justin McMurrys of the world, because that's where the magic happens,' says Mark Studness, director of e-commerce at Verizon
So you create an environment of such bad customer service that you basically require the charity of others to operate, and you call that "magic"?
I know people are going to try to compare the volunteer efforts of these folks to open source, but it's not the same. With open source, you're actually creating something, not propping up and enabling the bad practices of a corporation. It's the difference between giving a man a fish and giving him a fishing pole: if there's no goal of fixing the underlying problem then the charity can be worse than not helping at all.
Of course, the weasel words "due to wear and tear" let them get away with anything.
Weasel? Seriously? From the situation you described it sounds like Toyota is being proactive and fixing problems before they affect the customer. If that counts for "weasel," then sign me up for betrayer, blabbermouth, canary, deceiver, double-crosser, fink, informant, informer, narc, nark, rat, sneak, snitch, snitcher, source, squealer, stool pigeon, stoolie, tattler, tattletale, tipster, turncoat and whistle-blower.
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The book Shadow Syndromes is what you're looking for.
But do they kill themselves before they procreate? As far as evolution is concerned, this is the largest factor. Now, since the advent of social groupings and constructs, the evolution of behaviors that enhance a group's survival have become a factor, but a trait's impact on procreation volume (or lack of getting in the way of it) is still significant.
Wouldn't this be a universally bad idea?
Thanks you, thank you! I'll be here all week! ...unless they create a new big bang...
I'll forgive your cynicism, but you've got to work on your ignorance.
Ah, those were the days. I worked for Microsoft phone tech support in the magic year of 1995. It was then I first met Clippy, but he wasn't a paper clip then. He was a bouncing red ball with a face. Do you know what we grunts of tech support called it?
Stupid Fucking Red Ball
Not only that, but people would have more time to educate themselves and become economically viable.
Limits will never work, even if you cut off funding. It will slow research down, but will never stop it. Case in point: me. I don't have a PhD. (Tried, but my lack of discipline and other factors made it impossible.) I have no funding, other than my day job. But I'm making steady progress combining evolution and inference engines. If I'm successful will my ideas be adopted by anyone, on any appreciable scale? Doubtful. I'm just doing it for myself. But it shows that you can't stop this kind of research. It's not like the stem cell ban, where researchers needed special materials and equipment and supplies to do the research. All you need is a computer and internet connection. Without a court order barring AI researchers from contact with computers, I'll always have that, and I don't see such a thing happening any time soon.
So did my grandfather, who was a nuclear chemist at ORNL for several decades.
I encourage you to read the energy from thorium blog and nuclear green. I think you'll find it interesting I too don't think nuclear should replace everything, and that energy diversity is good. I just think that nuclear constantly gets short shrift even though it's a viable option, and has been for several decades.
Fusion is a pipe dream. Read about the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor in my original post. It solves many of the problems of standard nuclear reactors and the technology is 50 years old.
Just about anything but nuclear is a mistake.
My god, that would be a MERITOCRACY!
THE HORROR! KILL IT WITH FIRE
We can solve all of our energy problems with nuclear power right now. We have enough uranium fuel to last hundreds of years. If we switch to thorium there's ten thousand years of fuel just in the known reserves alone. Here's a little reading
I just saw it and the theater was nearly empty. In fact, when I got there ten minutes before the start the theater was completely empty. To contrast I saw Star Trek on te Friday and Sunday after it opened. Both times were completely packed. (In the same theater.)
I didn't much like it. The movie didn't hang together well. You know you're seeing a badly pieced together movie when the actors have generic dialog, like "Thanks for the thing you did before...you know...with the stuff..." It shows that the director is making bits and pieces he can rearrange and throw together easily. That happened more than once in Terminator Salvation. I liked the ending, and the ideas behind it, but it could have been darker. Dark Knight and Battlestar Galactica (and the previous terminator franchise movies) have shown us that a dark movie can be successful. Too bad they didn't follow that line with TS.
Geek movies live and die by word of mouth. The geeks see it first, then the non geeks on the geeks recommendation. No recommendation, no secondary audience. And I can't recommend this movie. It ain't the Star Trek 5 of the series, but that ain't sayin' much...
That's not what the FCC spokesman said in the article. He was not nearly that specific.
There is a slight EM field produced by the human brain. Do they have the right to inspect the inside of my head?
There, fixed that for you.
How odd that this story would come up today.
Ben wasn't my uncle for long, and I didn't know him well, but we lost him on Saturday in the most senseless way. My other uncle, who knew him since childhood, posted a tribute to him on his blog.
I only met Ben once, when my grandfather married his mother, but I could tell he was a great guy then. I wasn't the only one. Why people have to die like this is beyond me, but at least now more people can know who Ben was, and what he meant to his community.
So you create an environment of such bad customer service that you basically require the charity of others to operate, and you call that "magic"?
I know people are going to try to compare the volunteer efforts of these folks to open source, but it's not the same. With open source, you're actually creating something, not propping up and enabling the bad practices of a corporation. It's the difference between giving a man a fish and giving him a fishing pole: if there's no goal of fixing the underlying problem then the charity can be worse than not helping at all.
Weasel? Seriously? From the situation you described it sounds like Toyota is being proactive and fixing problems before they affect the customer. If that counts for "weasel," then sign me up for betrayer, blabbermouth, canary, deceiver, double-crosser, fink, informant, informer, narc, nark, rat, sneak, snitch, snitcher, source, squealer, stool pigeon, stoolie, tattler, tattletale, tipster, turncoat and whistle-blower.
Q: How do you know you're a crazy libertarian?
A: You're still cracking Bob Barr jokes.
A bill to ban SATAN.
Subjective.
"their" kids?
d00d, I hope you never reproduce. If your kids are not your #1 priority you don't deserve children.
I think you've already accomplished the first one.
...thought of this before...
Seriously, before I ditched windows entirely I burned through more than $700/year in personal labor costs just to keep M$ software functional.
There's a reason why I BUY macs for all of my relatives after their PCs have died. It saves me time and money.