TFA says he donated a bit over 1100 times over 60 years.
For the calendar-challenged among us, there are 3128 weeks in 60 years. And 1100 is NOT almost 3128....
Note that this should not be read to denigrate the phenomenal amount of blood this guy donated over the years. Just the idiots who put "nearly every week" into TFA....
Self-aware AI is science fiction, and science fiction is fiction.
Three centuries ago, human flight was science fiction. Now it's routine.
A century ago, travel to Luna was science fiction. Now it's history.
Fifty years ago, personal computers were science fiction. Now I'm typing this post on one....
Whether self-aware AI leaves the realm of science fiction in the near future or the not-so-near future, I can't guess. That it will, is a pretty much sure thing....
Yes, I want to find alien civilisations, but wouldn't it make more sense to invest in better instruments first?
And what, exactly, do you think they'll be actually spending money on in their search for aliens?
Assuming this gets past the talking and into the budgeting part of government, they'll be spending pretty much their entire budgets on better devices for detecting aliens.
Well, except for the parts they spend on schmoozing Congress for more budget, and the "going to international conventions" in places that are, coincidentally, really nice vacation spots....
Rate of 8% successful, meaning almost 1 in 10 people are correctly identified. Not that bad.
That is positively bad.
That is bad, IF the police are in the habit of just shooting suspects. While there are cities in the USA that I would expect to do that sort of thing, I've never heard that the Brits are all that big on "shoot first, question the corpse"...
On the other hand, if all they do is pass the pictures on to a human for follow-up (which follow-up does not include "shoot them, then ask questions"), then it's not that big a deal.
Seems perfectly reasonable to only allow citizens of a country to buy political adverts in that country during an election cycle.
First, it must be noted that anonymous political speech is one of those things the Supremes have REPEATEDLY ruled in favour of.
Second, finding a local dupe is easy, if you have a third of a billion people to select among.
Third, we're getting to the point that the "election cycle" is all the time, and this will essentially mean that ALL political speech would be government regulated.
IOW, I can't see how this could possibly go wrong....
Have you inadvertently given your phone number to anyone?
And just how useful is a phone number if noone knows it? Note that in the pre-digital days, we had this thing called the Phone Book, which was nothing more or less than a listing of pretty much every phone number (less the "unlisted numbers", which were meaningful right up until "caller ID" came along).
And did you really think that your friends never talked about you to their other friends? And those other friends to still others (we used to call it "gossip")....
How the fuck do they know vote tallies and the "integrity of the election" were not affected?
Because the voting machines weren't connected to the internet, as mentioned in the fourth paragraph of TFA?
What was affected wasn't the vote, but rather the county website. Which displayed the results so people didn't have to wait till the paper came out the next morning....
If I could capture and store 10kW per hour, I could easily exist on 240 kWh per day.
Hmm, based on my electric bill, I use rather less than 240 KWh per day. Closer to 40 KWh per day right now.
Admittedly, we're not into AC (air-conditioner) time yet, and the use will jump to pretty close to 200/day when we're running the A/C 24/7. Which problem, a house on Mars won't have, I expect....
At the time the rule or regulation was enacted, it seemed like a good idea. Just remember that, at the time, it seemed like a good idea. And someone or many someone were probably hurt that gave rise to the rule or regulation.
Alas, this is what happens when one tries to rule by rule/regulation rather than by law. The next guy gets to do the same, and his rules/regulations may not match your guy's ideas.
IOW, the rules/regulations in question should have been codified in law by Congress, since what one Pres can do, another can undo....
Lakes have topography. They're not cylinders. If you drain 10' of water from a lake, it gets a LOT smaller.
Depending on the shape of the lake, you might have a point.
Or not. Note, for the record, that 7000000 gallons per day, given the size of Lake Michigan, translates to... 0.5 MICROMETERS drop in the lake daily. So, if this plant operates without returning the water to the lake for a year, the lake's depth will drop a whole 0.16 millimeters.
So, in a century, the lake will drop the best part of an inch (16mm). If none of the water goes back into the lake...
Feel free to argue that the lake has such a gentle slope to its bottom that the 16mm/century drop rate (maximum) would have a meaningful effect on the size of the lake. Use numbers if you please. I'll take you way more seriously if you can show that the lake will lose, say, 1% of it's surface area in a century at that withdrawal rate....
Oh, wait, it's not. Lake Michigan is somewhere around 4500 cubic km of water. And seven million gallons per day means that, even if all the water removed is pumped to Arizona for disposal, it'll be 500,000 years before the lake goes dry.
And the water taken out won't be pumped to Arizona. Eventually, it'll go right back into the lake....
Color me unimpressed with the Environmental Catastrophe In The Making....
US has been in conflict with North Korea beginning 1866
Interesting notion. Especially since North Korea didn't exist until 1945. Before that, Korea was a single nation, ruled variously by the Chinese, the Japanese, and even occasionally the Koreans....
On-line dating sites should have checkboxes for these recessive genes, so people don't inadvertently pair up.
Why? If both parents carry the recessive, then there is one chance in four that the kid will have the gene reinforced. Not generally worth the bother of worrying about...
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I think not.
TFA says he donated a bit over 1100 times over 60 years.
For the calendar-challenged among us, there are 3128 weeks in 60 years. And 1100 is NOT almost 3128....
Note that this should not be read to denigrate the phenomenal amount of blood this guy donated over the years. Just the idiots who put "nearly every week" into TFA....
If the North Korean leadership thinks that, then they know less about nuclear weapons than they think they do. A LOT less....
I'm really curious as to how he managed that, even if the checks were mailed to his house.
Or are there really people dumb enough to mail off a check without bothering to fill in the "Pay to the Order of" line???
Three centuries ago, human flight was science fiction. Now it's routine.
A century ago, travel to Luna was science fiction. Now it's history.
Fifty years ago, personal computers were science fiction. Now I'm typing this post on one....
Whether self-aware AI leaves the realm of science fiction in the near future or the not-so-near future, I can't guess. That it will, is a pretty much sure thing....
Lose.
would've
The inability to spell on /. seems to be higher than in my daughter's elementary school class....
Yeah, yeah, I know. Spelling isn't important. Get off my lawn!
And what, exactly, do you think they'll be actually spending money on in their search for aliens?
Assuming this gets past the talking and into the budgeting part of government, they'll be spending pretty much their entire budgets on better devices for detecting aliens.
Well, except for the parts they spend on schmoozing Congress for more budget, and the "going to international conventions" in places that are, coincidentally, really nice vacation spots....
Set a useful default.
Then if the user wants to change from the default, then he can, if he doesn't give a rat's ass, then he doesn't have to think about it.
So, no, there's not really a good reason why it shouldn't be user-settable....
No, it should be user-specified. There's not a terribly good reason why you shouldn't be able to set 7 minutes, he sets 7 days, and I set 7 hours....
That is bad, IF the police are in the habit of just shooting suspects. While there are cities in the USA that I would expect to do that sort of thing, I've never heard that the Brits are all that big on "shoot first, question the corpse"...
On the other hand, if all they do is pass the pictures on to a human for follow-up (which follow-up does not include "shoot them, then ask questions"), then it's not that big a deal.
First, it must be noted that anonymous political speech is one of those things the Supremes have REPEATEDLY ruled in favour of.
Second, finding a local dupe is easy, if you have a third of a billion people to select among.
Third, we're getting to the point that the "election cycle" is all the time, and this will essentially mean that ALL political speech would be government regulated.
IOW, I can't see how this could possibly go wrong....
And just how useful is a phone number if noone knows it? Note that in the pre-digital days, we had this thing called the Phone Book, which was nothing more or less than a listing of pretty much every phone number (less the "unlisted numbers", which were meaningful right up until "caller ID" came along).
And did you really think that your friends never talked about you to their other friends? And those other friends to still others (we used to call it "gossip")....
Anecdotes? Or is there a poison involved in this discussion I missed?
Because the voting machines weren't connected to the internet, as mentioned in the fourth paragraph of TFA?
What was affected wasn't the vote, but rather the county website. Which displayed the results so people didn't have to wait till the paper came out the next morning....
Hmm, based on my electric bill, I use rather less than 240 KWh per day. Closer to 40 KWh per day right now.
Admittedly, we're not into AC (air-conditioner) time yet, and the use will jump to pretty close to 200/day when we're running the A/C 24/7. Which problem, a house on Mars won't have, I expect....
Well, one of the things that needs development before we do a space colony is a long-term power supply.
So, absent NASA wasting money developing this, we won't ever reach the point of needing to worry about powering a space colony.
Your knot?
You're not?
Something else entirely? Enquiring minds want to know...
Alas, this is what happens when one tries to rule by rule/regulation rather than by law. The next guy gets to do the same, and his rules/regulations may not match your guy's ideas.
IOW, the rules/regulations in question should have been codified in law by Congress, since what one Pres can do, another can undo....
Okay.
Government. No "u" in English spelling. Also we usually capitalize names of countries/nationalities.
Finally, it should be noted that your English seems to be better than most other people's English.
If I am argument? I think not....
Wish people could learn to spell things like "there", "their", "they're", "your", "you're", "where", "wear"....
Luckily, you aren't actually required to pay any attention whatsoever to the university sports, even if you go there.
Depending on the shape of the lake, you might have a point.
Or not. Note, for the record, that 7000000 gallons per day, given the size of Lake Michigan, translates to... 0.5 MICROMETERS drop in the lake daily. So, if this plant operates without returning the water to the lake for a year, the lake's depth will drop a whole 0.16 millimeters.
So, in a century, the lake will drop the best part of an inch (16mm). If none of the water goes back into the lake...
Feel free to argue that the lake has such a gentle slope to its bottom that the 16mm/century drop rate (maximum) would have a meaningful effect on the size of the lake. Use numbers if you please. I'll take you way more seriously if you can show that the lake will lose, say, 1% of it's surface area in a century at that withdrawal rate....
Oh, wait, it's not. Lake Michigan is somewhere around 4500 cubic km of water. And seven million gallons per day means that, even if all the water removed is pumped to Arizona for disposal, it'll be 500,000 years before the lake goes dry.
And the water taken out won't be pumped to Arizona. Eventually, it'll go right back into the lake....
Color me unimpressed with the Environmental Catastrophe In The Making....
Interesting notion. Especially since North Korea didn't exist until 1945. Before that, Korea was a single nation, ruled variously by the Chinese, the Japanese, and even occasionally the Koreans....
Why? If both parents carry the recessive, then there is one chance in four that the kid will have the gene reinforced. Not generally worth the bother of worrying about...
This suggests that education needs more funding, not less...a lot more.