I read this short story. The androids decide not only that they fit the definintion of human or person, but that they are also the most indispensible. The outcome of that was largely left up to the imagination.
I think that was supposed to be the poorly phrased point. I, on the other hand, largely ignore the world ruling class distration except to form witty barbs aimed at all of them. I work for the day we all take a well-needed time-out and sit back and talk about the government we think the world should have and to that end I have created "The Pirate-Ninja-Zombie Party" Facebook group. http://facebook.com/profile.ph...
I'd much rather go to eBay or Amazon and order the textbooks from a Goodwill store in a college town for a college known fo good EE and use web resources in addition and learn it all on the cheap, you establishment-loving person, you!
When I'm buying old Win98/2000 books and am finding they mostly do a good enough job of teaching you how to make programs that are just as good if not better than the programs made using the most up-to-date libraries then something's very wrong.
No, when I think, in addition to what I am doing, I think about what I and others will and might do, what all the possible outcomes might be, countermoves, all sorts of pptential scenarios... so on and so forth, etc.
I just made a how cool is it that China is building islands post in the consumed resources day summary. They are also making forays into engineering the weather. My brother married a Chinese woman, but that's beside the point and more of a full disclosure issue. But anyways, I believe along with Jefferson that the Constitution is largely a bad thing and we all need to have a time out and sit down and discuss what form of governance in the world will best serve all our purposes. We may end up with a class of citizens above the Amish but below the technocrats and protected in their ignorance the way Chinese farmers are.
My Comcast connection is 25Mbps, When we lived with my uncle in another city we could use another provider that was cheaper and I chose the same speed which is all we need. Uptime is pretty high.
Whenever someone complains about AGW they seem to be confusing it with entropic waste heat which should start being brought up every time the talk turns negative which is usually around the time it get brought up. More effective than denying AGW.
I think people are also confusing heat, a portion of which can be harnessed to do work with entropic waste heat, none of which can, if the physics are correct and we are dealing with a "closed" system.
Are you counting the kids who die at various ages against the ones that make it to maturity to have kids of their own or actually be productive and have no kids? Units, people and how they factor into the overall big picture, please!
And the way that progress, technological or otherwise, happens, it will be cheaper to pay for it later. I just paid $99 for computing power that would have cost national budgets not that long ago.
China is building freaking islands! I may not entirely approve of the auspices under which China is building them, but China is building islands! Go, China!
One of us has his models wrong. In my model, energy from the sun travels through the CO2 one way bet is coverted to a form of heat that is then trapped by the CO2, not absorbed by it, like the windshield, though I admit in both cases some absorbtion takes place.
Oh, so they use that word for third derivative, TIL. But still everybody seems to be mangling and disregarding units all over the place. Won't somebody please consider the poor and relevant units without which our talks are meaningless?
The safety of eating animals from that 2/3 varies from place to place and there are areas where the wildlife has pretty much died out. But that's beside the real issue which is that there is still much untapped capacity for farming seafood and lab-grown food and bioengineering, all of which if done properly which there is the potential to do, will keep us in beer, skittles and other foodstuffs for quite some time.
Not if we breed so that the next generation is half the height. Or so goes an old short story in which is the line, "I want my muscles to be tiny and tight!"
Part of the problem is that we don't really think in terms beyond acceleration and another is that acceleration of one term is speed in another. So if the speed at which our growth is happening is decelerating, the nex level down is rate of consumption and the previous metric contributes to whether the speed of this one is accelerating or decelerating or holding constant. And an unmentioned mwtric is rate of production. We aren't "using up" water; we are turning usable water into water that is harder to make usable again. And that is metric the environmental people aren't thinking in terms of, for whatever reason.
The question everybody here seems to be assuming the answer to is "yes", is "Were the scenes in the movie similar enough to the scenes in the trailer for the trailer to not be false advertising?" This is one of my grudges with copyright: It encourages people not familliar with the source material to get involved thus resulting in a less satisfactory product for the actual fanbase.
To what shall I liken this generation? They are like children calling to each other in the streets: "I played a waltz for you and you did not dance. I played a dirge, and you did not mourn."
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I read this short story. The androids decide not only that they fit the definintion of human or person, but that they are also the most indispensible. The outcome of that was largely left up to the imagination.
But of course you can. You really need to work on your prepared post pile. I would, but I haven't yet added this topic to my pile. Back to work!
I think that was supposed to be the poorly phrased point. I, on the other hand, largely ignore the world ruling class distration except to form witty barbs aimed at all of them. I work for the day we all take a well-needed time-out and sit back and talk about the government we think the world should have and to that end I have created "The Pirate-Ninja-Zombie Party" Facebook group. http://facebook.com/profile.ph...
I'd much rather go to eBay or Amazon and order the textbooks from a Goodwill store in a college town for a college known fo good EE and use web resources in addition and learn it all on the cheap, you establishment-loving person, you!
Don't worry. I'm sure we'll be drinking that stuff plants supossedly crave soon enough, but we'll also coincidentally be out of french fries.
When I'm buying old Win98/2000 books and am finding they mostly do a good enough job of teaching you how to make programs that are just as good if not better than the programs made using the most up-to-date libraries then something's very wrong.
Yeah but whenever a headline refers sloppily to "chemicals" even attempting to read the summary becomes a chore.
The day they find yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day in my life. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...
No, when I think, in addition to what I am doing, I think about what I and others will and might do, what all the possible outcomes might be, countermoves, all sorts of pptential scenarios... so on and so forth, etc.
When those rocks are loaded with military and are between you and important ports? You mean those rocks?
I just made a how cool is it that China is building islands post in the consumed resources day summary. They are also making forays into engineering the weather. My brother married a Chinese woman, but that's beside the point and more of a full disclosure issue. But anyways, I believe along with Jefferson that the Constitution is largely a bad thing and we all need to have a time out and sit down and discuss what form of governance in the world will best serve all our purposes. We may end up with a class of citizens above the Amish but below the technocrats and protected in their ignorance the way Chinese farmers are.
My Comcast connection is 25Mbps, When we lived with my uncle in another city we could use another provider that was cheaper and I chose the same speed which is all we need. Uptime is pretty high.
I coud scrap all my computing machines and live off my cell phone... Wait, how is that standard of living defined again?8
Whenever someone complains about AGW they seem to be confusing it with entropic waste heat which should start being brought up every time the talk turns negative which is usually around the time it get brought up. More effective than denying AGW.
I think people are also confusing heat, a portion of which can be harnessed to do work with entropic waste heat, none of which can, if the physics are correct and we are dealing with a "closed" system.
Are you counting the kids who die at various ages against the ones that make it to maturity to have kids of their own or actually be productive and have no kids? Units, people and how they factor into the overall big picture, please!
And the way that progress, technological or otherwise, happens, it will be cheaper to pay for it later. I just paid $99 for computing power that would have cost national budgets not that long ago.
China is building freaking islands! I may not entirely approve of the auspices under which China is building them, but China is building islands! Go, China!
One of us has his models wrong. In my model, energy from the sun travels through the CO2 one way bet is coverted to a form of heat that is then trapped by the CO2, not absorbed by it, like the windshield, though I admit in both cases some absorbtion takes place.
Oh, so they use that word for third derivative, TIL. But still everybody seems to be mangling and disregarding units all over the place. Won't somebody please consider the poor and relevant units without which our talks are meaningless?
The safety of eating animals from that 2/3 varies from place to place and there are areas where the wildlife has pretty much died out. But that's beside the real issue which is that there is still much untapped capacity for farming seafood and lab-grown food and bioengineering, all of which if done properly which there is the potential to do, will keep us in beer, skittles and other foodstuffs for quite some time.
Not if we breed so that the next generation is half the height. Or so goes an old short story in which is the line, "I want my muscles to be tiny and tight!"
Part of the problem is that we don't really think in terms beyond acceleration and another is that acceleration of one term is speed in another. So if the speed at which our growth is happening is decelerating, the nex level down is rate of consumption and the previous metric contributes to whether the speed of this one is accelerating or decelerating or holding constant. And an unmentioned mwtric is rate of production. We aren't "using up" water; we are turning usable water into water that is harder to make usable again. And that is metric the environmental people aren't thinking in terms of, for whatever reason.
The question everybody here seems to be assuming the answer to is "yes", is "Were the scenes in the movie similar enough to the scenes in the trailer for the trailer to not be false advertising?" This is one of my grudges with copyright: It encourages people not familliar with the source material to get involved thus resulting in a less satisfactory product for the actual fanbase.
To what shall I liken this generation? They are like children calling to each other in the streets: "I played a waltz for you and you did not dance. I played a dirge, and you did not mourn."