No, I j'ever thought that. I j'ever did anything else. Does j'ever have something to do with actually reading his post? I don't think I'll j'ever do that. I'm sorry we are just far too nerdy to let spelling errors go.
It is more likely to wipe us out than an asteroid. The envoirnment is so complex that we do not know what will happen if we reduce biodiversity. It is very likely that global warming will lead to massive flooding which will cause soil errosion which will destroy agriculture which will lead to mass starvation.
Actually, the largest mass extinction on Earth was caused by global warming at the end of the Permian era.
Make no mistake, any significant change in the envoirnment would be at least a big problem for us and could wipe us out. If it is just a problem then it could still lead to war. A serious modern war could also easily wipe us out.
I think that in the future most acting will be done in front of blue-screens. Backgrounds put in place by computers, possibly using stock footage.
I don't think actors will go away. An actor produces complex patterns of faces and vocal tones far to complex for a computer for the concievable future.
This will most likely produce a golden age of indie films and it will be wonderful. It is very possible that indies often will be made and touched up if they become popular like George Lucas did to the first Star Wars.
Same calculation for global warming,
infinity*bigger number than the one for an asteroid == worry about that first
Keep in mind that we have limited resourses but we could probably think of causes of extinction until the cows come home. For example, bad guys could turn ebola into a powerful biological weapon, aliens could kill us all, we could get hit by a black hole, etc.
Your missing the point. Linus is real man. He is handsome, strong, confident, and most importantly Finnish. I am proud to be his bitch. Linus gets first post with me every time, if you know what I mean.
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I did some of the math for this, on the back of an envelope
why does everyone always do calculations on the backs of envelopes? It doesn't seem to be the right tool for the job. I always do mine on notebook paper, or printer paper if I can't find any. I occasionally do a short calculation in my textbook or completely on my computer. I don't know I'm strange. I hear Einstein liked to do calculations on the backs of envelopes. If he did it maybe there's something to it.
Writing of which, did you use classical mechanics or relevitistic mechanics for your calculation? I didn't check your calculation because I prefer to read my own writing over actual thinking. (Besides I can't find an envelope.) It might not matter anyway.
500-Year floods happen about once every 500 years, right?
No, they happen much more frequently now due to global warming. Consider this a reply to every one who replied to me. What I am trying to say is the time and money we devote to a problem should be roughly proportunate to the size of the danger times the probablity of it occuring.
I stand corrected on what I said about nuclear missles but this is still a small risk and we are faced with bigger ones.
I think I'm reacting not just to this article but a general obsession about what happens if an asteroid which is totally disproportunate to actual risk...Not to mention that bad movie with that bad Aeorsmith song.
This is worthwhile because the Earth gets hit by a giant asteriod a few times every hundred million years. If that asteroid is on a collision course with Earth in 2017 (which is unlikely), it would be good because we would have to use up our nuclear missles destroying it.
Come on, we face real dangers. We are far more likely to be killed by global warming or biological/nuclear/(fill in the blank) war. People are in such denial over these real threats that we do nothing about them; and then we spend lots of money on obscure unlikely threats. Either that or we build bigger militaries because hositility is kind of threat that are primitive brains are designed to deal with.
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Yeah, but they are clearly looting the company and it is bad for the stock.
Well, as Gandi said, "Poverty is the worst form of violence." Since the actions of Sullivan and these other thugs with MBA's are going to put countless people in poverty, they should be put in prison with other violent criminals. The tax payers won't have to support them for very long then...
How do you hook your computer to your PC? That seems like it would be cool in many ways. Any help would be appreciated.
That says a lot about his memory power.
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That says a lot about his memory power. I think grand masters do have a lot more brute calculating power than normal people, not to say that they don't use knowledge and creativity. However a guy that can remeber 56 boards can clearly see further ahead than most people.
When I programmed in FORTRAN the compiler didn't make you declare variable names. You could declare them implicitly in the code. So I was constantly misspelling variables and therefore creating new ones on accident. This led to tons of bugs even in small programs. There might be some compilers that don't allow this though. If there are use those, because misspelling variables is a gigantic source of errors.
Censorship would mean that the original work was banned. This is not happening, except censorship from parents to their own children which is fine. To purchase a work gives you rights over it except the right to make illegal copies. To sell a modified version isn't illegal. To stop one from selling the modified versions is censorship, though.
Their goal is to reduce fair use rights through legal decisions.
It is the same with the V-chip. The media cried censorship when it was introduced even though it is as plain as daylight that the V-chip does not amount to censorship, except censorship from parents to their own children which is fine.
Okay, it's positive but it still isn't nearly good enough, considering it costs money and does hurt the envoirnment in other ways.
What we need to do is eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels, regardless of cost. The corn subsides would be better spent on R&D for new technologies like fuel cells, solar energy, and fusion. This must become the new space program because humanity faces an enemy that will kill us all.
If Christopher Lloyd would just bring back one of those Mr. Fusions from the future, all would be okay. They even ran on garbage. The fact that he hasn't must mean that they will never be developed, which in turn means that mankind will go extinct. AAAHHH!
Maybe I should go back in time and kill my Dad for such an annoying comment.
Who's going to bribe politicans to get the government to use OSS? The tone of these articles suggest that the government would use it because it is better. Perhaps the author is trying to be funny.
We don't know how these aliens think. They may be curious and interested in us, or they may not. Their way of thinking may or may not be similar to ours. It is hard to know how they view the universe.
I don't think they will invade the Earth though. The amount of energy needed to come over means that it wouldn't make sense to come over for resourses and they don't need us for slaves if they can develop artifical intelligence technology.
The best reasons for contact would be curiosity and to share knowledge of mathematics and what not.
Not really, I don't want to come off as conspiracy freak but parent post reflects what the powers that be want you to think. In the popular media view, politics is essentially one-dimensional. One's political beliefs can supposedly be completely described as a degree of liberalism or conservatism.
Liberatians and Greens both want more personal freedom and both support many common sense policies which would benieft America. The D's and R's are both whore parties which are completely dominated by moneyed interests and which have no ideology or concern for America. The Liberatarians and Greens have more in common with each other than they do with the two-headed beast.
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No, I j'ever thought that. I j'ever did anything else. Does j'ever have something to do with actually reading his post? I don't think I'll j'ever do that. I'm sorry we are just far too nerdy to let spelling errors go.
Actually, the largest mass extinction on Earth was caused by global warming at the end of the Permian era.
Make no mistake, any significant change in the envoirnment would be at least a big problem for us and could wipe us out. If it is just a problem then it could still lead to war. A serious modern war could also easily wipe us out.
I don't think actors will go away. An actor produces complex patterns of faces and vocal tones far to complex for a computer for the concievable future.
This will most likely produce a golden age of indie films and it will be wonderful. It is very possible that indies often will be made and touched up if they become popular like George Lucas did to the first Star Wars.
infinity*bigger number than the one for an asteroid == worry about that first
Keep in mind that we have limited resourses but we could probably think of causes of extinction until the cows come home. For example, bad guys could turn ebola into a powerful biological weapon, aliens could kill us all, we could get hit by a black hole, etc.
Your missing the point. Linus is real man. He is handsome, strong, confident, and most importantly Finnish. I am proud to be his bitch. Linus gets first post with me every time, if you know what I mean.
why does everyone always do calculations on the backs of envelopes? It doesn't seem to be the right tool for the job. I always do mine on notebook paper, or printer paper if I can't find any. I occasionally do a short calculation in my textbook or completely on my computer. I don't know I'm strange. I hear Einstein liked to do calculations on the backs of envelopes. If he did it maybe there's something to it.
Writing of which, did you use classical mechanics or relevitistic mechanics for your calculation? I didn't check your calculation because I prefer to read my own writing over actual thinking. (Besides I can't find an envelope.) It might not matter anyway.
No, they happen much more frequently now due to global warming. Consider this a reply to every one who replied to me. What I am trying to say is the time and money we devote to a problem should be roughly proportunate to the size of the danger times the probablity of it occuring.
I stand corrected on what I said about nuclear missles but this is still a small risk and we are faced with bigger ones.
I think I'm reacting not just to this article but a general obsession about what happens if an asteroid which is totally disproportunate to actual risk.
Come on, we face real dangers. We are far more likely to be killed by global warming or biological/nuclear/(fill in the blank) war. People are in such denial over these real threats that we do nothing about them; and then we spend lots of money on obscure unlikely threats. Either that or we build bigger militaries because hositility is kind of threat that are primitive brains are designed to deal with.
Yeah, but they are clearly looting the company and it is bad for the stock.
Well, as Gandi said, "Poverty is the worst form of violence." Since the actions of Sullivan and these other thugs with MBA's are going to put countless people in poverty, they should be put in prison with other violent criminals. The tax payers won't have to support them for very long then...
Thanks for info everyone
How do you hook your computer to your PC? That seems like it would be cool in many ways. Any help would be appreciated.
That says a lot about his memory power. I think grand masters do have a lot more brute calculating power than normal people, not to say that they don't use knowledge and creativity. However a guy that can remeber 56 boards can clearly see further ahead than most people.
If they sent me an e-mail "Someone doesn't hate you," I might fall for that, but I doubt it.
When I programmed in FORTRAN the compiler didn't make you declare variable names. You could declare them implicitly in the code. So I was constantly misspelling variables and therefore creating new ones on accident. This led to tons of bugs even in small programs. There might be some compilers that don't allow this though. If there are use those, because misspelling variables is a gigantic source of errors.
Their goal is to reduce fair use rights through legal decisions.
It is the same with the V-chip. The media cried censorship when it was introduced even though it is as plain as daylight that the V-chip does not amount to censorship, except censorship from parents to their own children which is fine.
What we need to do is eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels, regardless of cost. The corn subsides would be better spent on R&D for new technologies like fuel cells, solar energy, and fusion. This must become the new space program because humanity faces an enemy that will kill us all.
Actually truck driver is a job which used to bew good but has gone down the tubes (from what I've heard).
Maybe I should go back in time and kill my Dad for such an annoying comment.
Click here for a bad joke that that reminds me of.
Strict law. Do we have the RIAA's lawyers and lobbyists on our side now?
Who's going to bribe politicans to get the government to use OSS? The tone of these articles suggest that the government would use it because it is better. Perhaps the author is trying to be funny.
I don't think they will invade the Earth though. The amount of energy needed to come over means that it wouldn't make sense to come over for resourses and they don't need us for slaves if they can develop artifical intelligence technology.
The best reasons for contact would be curiosity and to share knowledge of mathematics and what not.
Liberatians and Greens both want more personal freedom and both support many common sense policies which would benieft America. The D's and R's are both whore parties which are completely dominated by moneyed interests and which have no ideology or concern for America. The Liberatarians and Greens have more in common with each other than they do with the two-headed beast.