You need to investigate the entire initiative Google is spearheading around its acquisition of Metaweb. They are building an ontology for human knowledge, and are ultimately building the semantic networks necessary for creating an inference system capable of human level contextual communication. The old story about the sad state of computers' contextual capacity, recounts the story of the computer that translates the phrase "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." from English to Russian and back and what they got was "The wine is good but the meat is rotten."
The new system won't have this problem. Because it will instantly know about the reference coming from the Bible. I will also know all the literary links to the phrase, the importance of its use in critical historical conversations, The work of the Saints, the despair of martyrs, in short an entire universe of context will spill out about the phrase and as it takes the conversational lead provided by the enquirer it will dance to deliver the most concise and cogent responses possible. In the same way, It will be able to apprehend the relationship between a core communication given in context 'A' and translate that conversation to context 'B' in a meaningful way.
Ray is a genius for boiling complex problems down into tractable solution sets. Combine Ray's genius with the semantic toy shop that Google has assembled, and the informational framework for an autonomous intellect will become. The real question is how you make something like that self aware. There's a another famous story about Helen Keller, before she had language. symbolic reference, she lived like an animal. Literally a bundle of emotions and instincts. One moment, one utterly earth shattering moment there was nothing, then Annie Sullivan her teacher placed her hand in a stream of cold water and signed water in her palm. Ellen understood... water. In the next moment Ellen was born as a distinct and conscious being, she learned that she had a name, that she was. I don't know what that moment will look like for machines, I just know its coming sooner than we think. I also can't be certain whether it will be humanities greatest achievement or our worst mistake. That awaits seeing.
In point of fact, its all relative. You are using the orbital velocity of the planet plus its gravity, to transfer momentum to your Voyager craft. Or in your case, do the same with the sun, you would have to figure out what the relative solar motion is with respect to your destination star. There would be galactic rotation and other more local motions to be considered. Finally, the closer you get to the source of the gravity the bigger the slingshot, however if the source of your gravity assist is a ball of plasma with a million degree corona... you might wanna keep a reasonable distance, which might put a damper on the amount of gravity assist you'd ultimately be able to coax from the attempt.
You could try doing several loops around the inner planets to get a solid kick (some of the more recent planetary explorers used that trick.) However, if you're gonna attempt relativistically significant velocities, you're gonna have to use a mother Ion motor, or great big laser or an Orion engine, or something you can keep thrusting with for years while at the same time providing you with a meaningful ISP. Chemical reactions are simply too weak.
Why stop there, lets send The entire Cabinet, Congress, The Senate and The Supreme Court so they all have one another to keep each other company... and if you can get Wall Street on the next bus, we should be pret-near perfect.
In a world where whistling the wrong tune in public could get you facing a lawyer for public performance of a copyrighted song, one expects that control of IP would cut both ways. Instead, you put you personal IP on a site that promises it will never crap on you, your IP, or your privacy, only to have that site sold to someone else who gleefully turns around and says your IP is now my IP to use as I please, to profit me and only me as I please, and if you don't want to that cute picture of your baby getting a bath used in a brochure by Russian Child Pornographers, then you better get your crappy pictures off my site in about 10 minutes.
You're right, this isn't parasitic, parasites serve a useful purpose in an ecosystem. This is a plague. A blight. An oozing running sore on the human condition, a pustulant rash that occurs at the intersections of power, hubris, and blind avarice. It's possible this is just one more ridiculously heavy handed EULA that explains you have no rights and are less than human in the eyes of the service provider, and that there are no other evil machinations in the works. Then let Facebook please come out and say as much, because from here it looks like the Mother of all uninvited ass rapings, and only a fool would leave any more than a snapshot of dog vomit on the site.
I think you two are arguing apple and oranges. There is nothing the Phelplings are doing that doesn't obey the letter of the law to be a "Baptist Church" by legal definition. There is also a minimum standard of conduct and behavior most Christians expect from a Christian church (eg. charity, forgiveness, grace, loving thy enemy, etc.) that these spawn fail at miserably (by the way, they aren't the only church to fail these standards.) So while they may be able to legally claim the name, they failed the accountability.
Seeing as there are a number of Christian evangelical splinter churches who have engaged in some very unChristian activities (i.e. bombing abortion clinics, murder doctors and nurses, killed gays and transgendered folks, etc.) and are still accepted by most as Christian extremist of for that matter folk in Ireland killing each other for over a century on both side accepted Christian sects, its fair to say not all Christians live inside the faith of doctrines of the teachings Jesus Christ.
Therefore, there is no way to say without examining the hearts of those at WestBoro to say whether any or all are Christian. What can be said is that what they do is evil, and if in fact it is evil in the name of God, they have a most unpleasant surprise coming at the pearly gates.
You may want to do a little research on "Passive HookSwitch Bypass Methods". Most require modifications to the phone itself, but not all, that is some of these methods can be accomplished between the phone and outside service line. Here's a quick list of the most common methods;
There was nothing to reference. Your criticism is empty. Virtually all articles in Wikipedia have a complete list of references from which you can do you own appraisal of the validity of an article and its sources. This makes Wikipedia traceable if not 100% reliable. Now the folks at Wikipedia are going through the contents to ensure rigorously high standards and reduce the content edits on the basis of personal slants and opinions. This means that Wikipedia if a fair source for information, and if you bother to follow up the links may be a superb source if information.
Nor would I, what I would like to see is a line up of about 500 healthy young jocks with baseball bats. And when these asshats open their stinking pie holes, get their teeth handed to them. When the whole lot end up before the local magistrate, the jocks plead temporary insanity, driven mad by grief and the affront to their dignity (and walk away with a wrist slap) while the Phelps clan get's brought up on charges of inciting a riot.
Perhaps that might convince them to hate by mail...
In fact, there are virtually no laws against hate speech, save speech that incites a riot. It acts of hate that are strictly controlled. If you check the Wikipedia article on Fred the wart Phelps, you'll find he and his followers have ultimately won almost every case involving free speech. Nonetheless, they are being closely monitored as a hate group.
These people are to Christianity what fungal crotch rot is to love making. Jesus spoke of love, forgiveness and spent his time trying to save the social scum of his society because he knew they needed him the most. The inbred followers of the Festering Boil on the Universe's Ass that was Fred Phelps wouldn't know Christian Charity if it landed on them like Dorthy's House from the Wizard of Oz.
I would personally like to bus in tens of thousands of drag queens to the Phelps Compound so we could stage a 24/7 semi naked gayCirque Du Soleil extravaganza surrounding the hellhole in Westboro. Day and Night, a continuous conveyor belt of nubile young gay men shaking their groove thang waving rainbow colored feather boas at the folks behind the walls. Until one by one, their pea brains exploded and we rid the world once and for all of this affront to human dignity. I realize there are a number of Fundamentalist Christians who might object to this harsh cure, but just consider it a form of atonement to wash the stain of Phelps and his spawn from the faith.
Great post! Its so funny watching these CMOs, CIOs, CTOs, COOs, CEOs passing around the same smoke their getting from trade rags, thinking if they can just build a walled garden like Apple they'll all be printing Benjamins like they're going out of style. Forgetting (or never appreciating in the first place) all the while that the one thing Steve got right was creating a beautiful user experience, and that his obsessive need to control every atom was the downside of his vision. These clowns want to implement the downside without ever creating a compelling upside. This is what we call a LOOSER. America has reached the smoke up its ass saturation point. How can you tell when Corporations are lying you... their lips are moving! I'll keep Win7 to run software as long as possible, but more and more of my Windows apps are becoming available as Mac versions and that Mac Mini Server is looking sweeter every day. Especially running fusion with a Linux and Win7 VM all singing all dancing. All the software I need, when I need it the way I want it. Thanks Win8, but no thanks.
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You need to investigate the entire initiative Google is spearheading around its acquisition of Metaweb. They are building an ontology for human knowledge, and are ultimately building the semantic networks necessary for creating an inference system capable of human level contextual communication. The old story about the sad state of computers' contextual capacity, recounts the story of the computer that translates the phrase "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." from English to Russian and back and what they got was "The wine is good but the meat is rotten."
The new system won't have this problem. Because it will instantly know about the reference coming from the Bible. I will also know all the literary links to the phrase, the importance of its use in critical historical conversations, The work of the Saints, the despair of martyrs, in short an entire universe of context will spill out about the phrase and as it takes the conversational lead provided by the enquirer it will dance to deliver the most concise and cogent responses possible. In the same way, It will be able to apprehend the relationship between a core communication given in context 'A' and translate that conversation to context 'B' in a meaningful way.
Ray is a genius for boiling complex problems down into tractable solution sets. Combine Ray's genius with the semantic toy shop that Google has assembled, and the informational framework for an autonomous intellect will become. The real question is how you make something like that self aware. There's a another famous story about Helen Keller, before she had language. symbolic reference, she lived like an animal. Literally a bundle of emotions and instincts. One moment, one utterly earth shattering moment there was nothing, then Annie Sullivan her teacher placed her hand in a stream of cold water and signed water in her palm. Ellen understood... water. In the next moment Ellen was born as a distinct and conscious being, she learned that she had a name, that she was. I don't know what that moment will look like for machines, I just know its coming sooner than we think. I also can't be certain whether it will be humanities greatest achievement or our worst mistake. That awaits seeing.
In point of fact, its all relative. You are using the orbital velocity of the planet plus its gravity, to transfer momentum to your Voyager craft. Or in your case, do the same with the sun, you would have to figure out what the relative solar motion is with respect to your destination star. There would be galactic rotation and other more local motions to be considered. Finally, the closer you get to the source of the gravity the bigger the slingshot, however if the source of your gravity assist is a ball of plasma with a million degree corona... you might wanna keep a reasonable distance, which might put a damper on the amount of gravity assist you'd ultimately be able to coax from the attempt.
You could try doing several loops around the inner planets to get a solid kick (some of the more recent planetary explorers used that trick.) However, if you're gonna attempt relativistically significant velocities, you're gonna have to use a mother Ion motor, or great big laser or an Orion engine, or something you can keep thrusting with for years while at the same time providing you with a meaningful ISP. Chemical reactions are simply too weak.
No, Spock won't be born for hundreds of years to calculate your trajectory and you could slingshot yourself back to the Flintstones...
Alliterative and Redundant, well played.
Why stop there, lets send The entire Cabinet, Congress, The Senate and The Supreme Court so they all have one another to keep each other company... and if you can get Wall Street on the next bus, we should be pret-near perfect.
Yeah, cuz Twitter is Twitter for people who can't write... you need a site for the other half of illiteracy.
In a world where whistling the wrong tune in public could get you facing a lawyer for public performance of a copyrighted song, one expects that control of IP would cut both ways. Instead, you put you personal IP on a site that promises it will never crap on you, your IP, or your privacy, only to have that site sold to someone else who gleefully turns around and says your IP is now my IP to use as I please, to profit me and only me as I please, and if you don't want to that cute picture of your baby getting a bath used in a brochure by Russian Child Pornographers, then you better get your crappy pictures off my site in about 10 minutes.
You're right, this isn't parasitic, parasites serve a useful purpose in an ecosystem. This is a plague. A blight. An oozing running sore on the human condition, a pustulant rash that occurs at the intersections of power, hubris, and blind avarice. It's possible this is just one more ridiculously heavy handed EULA that explains you have no rights and are less than human in the eyes of the service provider, and that there are no other evil machinations in the works. Then let Facebook please come out and say as much, because from here it looks like the Mother of all uninvited ass rapings, and only a fool would leave any more than a snapshot of dog vomit on the site.
Have you personally interviewed each alter boy? You can't go around making these snap judgements... ;-)
Or they're Giraffes
Masturbation will still be dicey, but the kissing gouramis are now hugging and kissing gouramis. My work is done!/p?
Now the Pythons will need to change the FISH scene in "The Meaning of Life" (ala George Lucas) and have the fish in the tank shaking hands.
The scientist would give them noses, they'd have something to do on those interminable waits between feedings.
New fish applaud scientist for hands...
Circue Du Soleil has clowns... but yeah...
Its a different skit you silly git ;-)
I think you two are arguing apple and oranges. There is nothing the Phelplings are doing that doesn't obey the letter of the law to be a "Baptist Church" by legal definition. There is also a minimum standard of conduct and behavior most Christians expect from a Christian church (eg. charity, forgiveness, grace, loving thy enemy, etc.) that these spawn fail at miserably (by the way, they aren't the only church to fail these standards.) So while they may be able to legally claim the name, they failed the accountability.
Seeing as there are a number of Christian evangelical splinter churches who have engaged in some very unChristian activities (i.e. bombing abortion clinics, murder doctors and nurses, killed gays and transgendered folks, etc.) and are still accepted by most as Christian extremist of for that matter folk in Ireland killing each other for over a century on both side accepted Christian sects, its fair to say not all Christians live inside the faith of doctrines of the teachings Jesus Christ.
Therefore, there is no way to say without examining the hearts of those at WestBoro to say whether any or all are Christian. What can be said is that what they do is evil, and if in fact it is evil in the name of God, they have a most unpleasant surprise coming at the pearly gates.
You will know the tree by the fruit it bears...
Heck with what the Bible says about gays, if there was ever a bunch human toxic scum one should whip a little Leviticus on, these are the said scum.
You may want to do a little research on "Passive HookSwitch Bypass Methods". Most require modifications to the phone itself, but not all, that is some of these methods can be accomplished between the phone and outside service line. Here's a quick list of the most common methods;
Lynching is bad, but damn sometimes its awful tempting.
There was nothing to reference. Your criticism is empty. Virtually all articles in Wikipedia have a complete list of references from which you can do you own appraisal of the validity of an article and its sources. This makes Wikipedia traceable if not 100% reliable. Now the folks at Wikipedia are going through the contents to ensure rigorously high standards and reduce the content edits on the basis of personal slants and opinions. This means that Wikipedia if a fair source for information, and if you bother to follow up the links may be a superb source if information.
Nor would I, what I would like to see is a line up of about 500 healthy young jocks with baseball bats. And when these asshats open their stinking pie holes, get their teeth handed to them. When the whole lot end up before the local magistrate, the jocks plead temporary insanity, driven mad by grief and the affront to their dignity (and walk away with a wrist slap) while the Phelps clan get's brought up on charges of inciting a riot.
Perhaps that might convince them to hate by mail...
In fact, there are virtually no laws against hate speech, save speech that incites a riot. It acts of hate that are strictly controlled. If you check the Wikipedia article on Fred the wart Phelps, you'll find he and his followers have ultimately won almost every case involving free speech. Nonetheless, they are being closely monitored as a hate group.
These people are to Christianity what fungal crotch rot is to love making. Jesus spoke of love, forgiveness and spent his time trying to save the social scum of his society because he knew they needed him the most. The inbred followers of the Festering Boil on the Universe's Ass that was Fred Phelps wouldn't know Christian Charity if it landed on them like Dorthy's House from the Wizard of Oz.
I would personally like to bus in tens of thousands of drag queens to the Phelps Compound so we could stage a 24/7 semi naked gayCirque Du Soleil extravaganza surrounding the hellhole in Westboro. Day and Night, a continuous conveyor belt of nubile young gay men shaking their groove thang waving rainbow colored feather boas at the folks behind the walls. Until one by one, their pea brains exploded and we rid the world once and for all of this affront to human dignity. I realize there are a number of Fundamentalist Christians who might object to this harsh cure, but just consider it a form of atonement to wash the stain of Phelps and his spawn from the faith.
Great post! Its so funny watching these CMOs, CIOs, CTOs, COOs, CEOs passing around the same smoke their getting from trade rags, thinking if they can just build a walled garden like Apple they'll all be printing Benjamins like they're going out of style. Forgetting (or never appreciating in the first place) all the while that the one thing Steve got right was creating a beautiful user experience, and that his obsessive need to control every atom was the downside of his vision. These clowns want to implement the downside without ever creating a compelling upside. This is what we call a LOOSER. America has reached the smoke up its ass saturation point. How can you tell when Corporations are lying you... their lips are moving! I'll keep Win7 to run software as long as possible, but more and more of my Windows apps are becoming available as Mac versions and that Mac Mini Server is looking sweeter every day. Especially running fusion with a Linux and Win7 VM all singing all dancing. All the software I need, when I need it the way I want it. Thanks Win8, but no thanks.