From my student experience, I have observed that a still takes more room than a small cannabis plantation (It is an appartment plant in a pot!). And both can be fitted in a student's room closet. (A reasonnably deep closet that you could stand in). Making LSD is said to be easy. I don't know anyone who claimed to succeed in doing it however. Opium is probably as easy as Marijuana to conceal, except it requires a bit more manual work. In theory, making heroine from opium is also a feasible amateur chemistry operation. Breeding coca must not be that hard. I don't know how easy cocaine refinery is, however.
The drugs that are forbidden are not especially hard to create. They just have a mythologic aura of "nefarious industrial byproducts that'll make your brain rot".
Society doesn't seem to think drugs need to be banned or even disapproved of just because they can have (extremely) undesirable side effects.
Except that it bans fairly benign drugs while authorizing the dangerous alcohol and the uninteresting dependency-hazard that is nicotine. I'd like some coherence here. According to a Lancet study, LSD, amphetamines, ecstasy or cannabis are all less dangerous than alcohol both in terms of dependence and side effects. Drugs is not just a think that is to be abused, they also have a lot of positive uses regarding creativity, sociability and conscious mood-alteration or introspection. I wish there was a permit to pass in order to take drugs (including the most dangerous ones like alcohol and tobacco) where I would get informed about risks, symptoms, what to do and not to do under some influences, bad mixes, etc... so that people could responsibly take drugs without being a danger to the society and without having to fund criminal organization for buying some.
Well, just wait until they can stimulate both the reward region and pleasure region of your brain...
Penises get tired after playing a while with them, direct stimulation of the brain, however, could very well mean the end of the civilization.
The James Webb Telescope planned to be on the Earth-Sun L2 point does it for me as well.
And I'll go on the trollish side and continue saying that Spirit and Opportunity do make me go "meh" : no innovations in automatics, no scientific use (the orbiters are where the real science happens), pitiful performances, no decision autonomy and therefore a ridiculous speed. It takes a DARPA Grand Challenge student team less than one megabuck to build an autonomous vehicule and NASA can't do it ? Please...
Well, to be fair, Bush's last moon program was bashed on this very website when it was announced : it was irrealistic and many people thought it was a way to dig NASA's grave while directing money to White House friends' pockets.
Alternatively, try to find a way to make Somalia a place that doesn't require a badly trained navy militia : the same pirates that collect "taxes" on behalf of a non-existent government are also the ones that chase down the fishing boats that illegally deplete Somalia's fish stocks, and who chase the tankers illegally dumping nuclear toxic wastes out of their coast. I say, we either tolerate both piracy and illegal foreign behavior, or we solve both at the time. Only slashing pirates could result in the next generation of Jihadists.
Also, interesting act : before the recent pitiful rescue operation by the French forces, not a single hostage has ever been armed by a pirate. Is it really fair to use lethal force against them ?
Stangely, I have never been as productive as during a 2 or 3 hours trip in train. Maybe it is the special seats, maybe the feeling that you are going somewhere, I'm not sure. When I am in the "perfect" working condition : no noise, ideal temperature, correct lights, comfortable seat, no one to interrupt me and good music, I was not that efficient.
They only know that the person X will connect on honeypot.fbi.gov, probably through a proxy. Catching this person can require a trojan that will try to send a "I am here" notice without going through the proxy.
Where don't we have a right to copy what we paid for ? To share it amongst friends ? Amongst strangers ?
Sure, artists deserve to get paid. But putting a work in a binary form in the age of internet and expecting people not to make copies is like putting all your belongings on the street and expecting people to not take it away : it doesn't work that way.
You don't want to be copied ? Don't publish it then !
So what is the solution ? Well, I don't know (though I have a few ideas) but let me put it this way : this is not my problem. Making a living out of music or movie making now requires an adaptation. Just do it. Maybe it will take us back before the time of the first vinyl discs, when artists couldn't earn millions on one song. What is so bad about it ?
I still don't understand why people consider it a toy. A lighting device that runs on 100 watts and that is capable of rivaling the sun itself is a very interesting thing.
I would answer "yes I belive so", "no I don't believe so" and "this is nonsense" to your three affirmations.
A neuroscientist can make predictions about what happens to someone who has a tumor at some parts of the brain. He can predict how to correct it. Determinism, dear friend, is not only compatible with neuroscience and modern scientific knowledge but it is also its basis and its raison d'etre.
The computer I am using currently uses quantum effects to operate, so I would be quite ignorant to say that quantum mechanics never have macroscopic effects.
Math of theories accurately describe our observations, past and future, and as much as we know, "the world" can be summed up by our observations. I am aware that some postmodernist movement challenge this latter claim. Fine. Challenge it. It is a claim that is just an interesting intellectual toy but that is completely incapable of proving itself right or wrong and that doesn't bear any interesting consequence. Exactly like the solipsist statement.
I'm also noticing a disturbing trend in "quantum mechanics" being spewed whenever we don't understand something.
I think this is spot on.
We are currently seeing attacks from some philosophers who refuse to admit the existence of neurosciences or that the brain can be ruled by deterministic phenomenon. Lacking a proper science background, these people get some factoids about quantum mechanics, strings theory, things that are hard to dismiss because they are complex objects, and entangle these with the things they wish they could have explained. Their torturous (sometimes postmodernist) prose takes a lot of time and patience to sort and prove wrong.
Philosophy, nowadays, can't be made without a proper scientific background. And, unfortunately, many philosophers wouldn't touch math with a 5-feet pole.
But, and many people fail to see that, iTunes is such a small, small market. To make a 30$ game profitable as a 1$ item, you would have to reach 30x more people. do you really think iTunes achieves this ?
I agree that the model is good. But the market has to grow if we expect to see Doom 5 as a 3$ game.
In saying that this was a utterly strange coincidence and saying that Iran was offline. He later made corrections, but was wrong in assuming for instance that one router offline meant Iran was disconnected. On this, he didn't played his role as an expert : he relied on sources who misinterpreted raw information.
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From my student experience, I have observed that a still takes more room than a small cannabis plantation (It is an appartment plant in a pot!). And both can be fitted in a student's room closet. (A reasonnably deep closet that you could stand in). Making LSD is said to be easy. I don't know anyone who claimed to succeed in doing it however. Opium is probably as easy as Marijuana to conceal, except it requires a bit more manual work. In theory, making heroine from opium is also a feasible amateur chemistry operation. Breeding coca must not be that hard. I don't know how easy cocaine refinery is, however.
The drugs that are forbidden are not especially hard to create. They just have a mythologic aura of "nefarious industrial byproducts that'll make your brain rot".
Society doesn't seem to think drugs need to be banned or even disapproved of just because they can have (extremely) undesirable side effects.
Except that it bans fairly benign drugs while authorizing the dangerous alcohol and the uninteresting dependency-hazard that is nicotine. I'd like some coherence here. According to a Lancet study, LSD, amphetamines, ecstasy or cannabis are all less dangerous than alcohol both in terms of dependence and side effects. Drugs is not just a think that is to be abused, they also have a lot of positive uses regarding creativity, sociability and conscious mood-alteration or introspection. I wish there was a permit to pass in order to take drugs (including the most dangerous ones like alcohol and tobacco) where I would get informed about risks, symptoms, what to do and not to do under some influences, bad mixes, etc... so that people could responsibly take drugs without being a danger to the society and without having to fund criminal organization for buying some.
And maybe companies will then start funding MORE artists instead on trying to maximize profits on a small number of popular ones.
Can we report cops misbeahviors ? I suspect this tool will mainly be used for that...
Well, just wait until they can stimulate both the reward region and pleasure region of your brain...
Penises get tired after playing a while with them, direct stimulation of the brain, however, could very well mean the end of the civilization.
The James Webb Telescope planned to be on the Earth-Sun L2 point does it for me as well.
And I'll go on the trollish side and continue saying that Spirit and Opportunity do make me go "meh" : no innovations in automatics, no scientific use (the orbiters are where the real science happens), pitiful performances, no decision autonomy and therefore a ridiculous speed. It takes a DARPA Grand Challenge student team less than one megabuck to build an autonomous vehicule and NASA can't do it ? Please...
Unless he is suspected of terrorism.
Well, to be fair, Bush's last moon program was bashed on this very website when it was announced : it was irrealistic and many people thought it was a way to dig NASA's grave while directing money to White House friends' pockets.
I say, use Gregorian fire for Greater Glory.
Alternatively, try to find a way to make Somalia a place that doesn't require a badly trained navy militia : the same pirates that collect "taxes" on behalf of a non-existent government are also the ones that chase down the fishing boats that illegally deplete Somalia's fish stocks, and who chase the tankers illegally dumping nuclear toxic wastes out of their coast. I say, we either tolerate both piracy and illegal foreign behavior, or we solve both at the time. Only slashing pirates could result in the next generation of Jihadists.
Also, interesting act : before the recent pitiful rescue operation by the French forces, not a single hostage has ever been armed by a pirate. Is it really fair to use lethal force against them ?
The sad part is that "good enough to run badly written hardware" is what everybody wants and that there is no limit to what it can consume.
Don't be sarcastic. Iraq war would have been very different if the GIs had a correct internationalization feature.
Stangely, I have never been as productive as during a 2 or 3 hours trip in train. Maybe it is the special seats, maybe the feeling that you are going somewhere, I'm not sure. When I am in the "perfect" working condition : no noise, ideal temperature, correct lights, comfortable seat, no one to interrupt me and good music, I was not that efficient.
They only know that the person X will connect on honeypot.fbi.gov, probably through a proxy. Catching this person can require a trojan that will try to send a "I am here" notice without going through the proxy.
Plus, I could enjoy religious nutjobs shouting "You put baby foetus in your eyes !" at me...
Where don't we have a right to copy what we paid for ? To share it amongst friends ? Amongst strangers ?
Sure, artists deserve to get paid. But putting a work in a binary form in the age of internet and expecting people not to make copies is like putting all your belongings on the street and expecting people to not take it away : it doesn't work that way.
You don't want to be copied ? Don't publish it then !
So what is the solution ? Well, I don't know (though I have a few ideas) but let me put it this way : this is not my problem. Making a living out of music or movie making now requires an adaptation. Just do it. Maybe it will take us back before the time of the first vinyl discs, when artists couldn't earn millions on one song. What is so bad about it ?
I still don't understand why people consider it a toy. A lighting device that runs on 100 watts and that is capable of rivaling the sun itself is a very interesting thing.
I would answer "yes I belive so", "no I don't believe so" and "this is nonsense" to your three affirmations.
A neuroscientist can make predictions about what happens to someone who has a tumor at some parts of the brain. He can predict how to correct it. Determinism, dear friend, is not only compatible with neuroscience and modern scientific knowledge but it is also its basis and its raison d'etre.
The computer I am using currently uses quantum effects to operate, so I would be quite ignorant to say that quantum mechanics never have macroscopic effects.
Math of theories accurately describe our observations, past and future, and as much as we know, "the world" can be summed up by our observations. I am aware that some postmodernist movement challenge this latter claim. Fine. Challenge it. It is a claim that is just an interesting intellectual toy but that is completely incapable of proving itself right or wrong and that doesn't bear any interesting consequence. Exactly like the solipsist statement.
I'm also noticing a disturbing trend in "quantum mechanics" being spewed whenever we don't understand something.
I think this is spot on.
We are currently seeing attacks from some philosophers who refuse to admit the existence of neurosciences or that the brain can be ruled by deterministic phenomenon. Lacking a proper science background, these people get some factoids about quantum mechanics, strings theory, things that are hard to dismiss because they are complex objects, and entangle these with the things they wish they could have explained. Their torturous (sometimes postmodernist) prose takes a lot of time and patience to sort and prove wrong.
Philosophy, nowadays, can't be made without a proper scientific background. And, unfortunately, many philosophers wouldn't touch math with a 5-feet pole.
Ditch the driver
See ?
We need to change copyright laws...
And it will be well deserved !
But, and many people fail to see that, iTunes is such a small, small market. To make a 30$ game profitable as a 1$ item, you would have to reach 30x more people. do you really think iTunes achieves this ?
I agree that the model is good. But the market has to grow if we expect to see Doom 5 as a 3$ game.
I meant "fossil" as in "put under the earth because of a long timescale process and doesn't replenish". I should have used "non-renewable", my bad.
In saying that this was a utterly strange coincidence and saying that Iran was offline. He later made corrections, but was wrong in assuming for instance that one router offline meant Iran was disconnected. On this, he didn't played his role as an expert : he relied on sources who misinterpreted raw information.