What do I care about DNA, after all? A sentient robot I might build is as much my offspring as a human child I might father.
This sounds good in theory, from the perspective of an objective observer, and for certain definitions of "offspring," i.e. "3. A result; a product." But my DNA makes me care about DNA. All those chemically generated emotions, you know. While it might be interesting to have superintelligent quantum-computing AI offspring, it would be, well, sad.
I realize that I am a bit different than most people when it comes to renting DVDs. I'd prefer to buy them. Target has great deals on movies (i.e. Pulp Fiction with extended crap for $10 and many random titles for $7.50). I spend a lot of time looking through the $5 bins at Walmart for movies. I also buy previously rented DVDs which are usually 3 or 4 for $20. I don't frequent Blockbuster as I always feel uncomfortable in their store. I prefer Hollywood Video because of their random titles that are $1 back if you return the movie within 24 hours.
A big price advantage of Netflix vs. purchase is for TV-series boxed sets (typically a season at a time on 2-6 DVDs). These come out at $30-50 and , in my experience, never seem to go below $20-30 on eBay. Blockbuster typically splits the sets up into 1 or 2 disc subsets, so they are expensive and inconvenient to rent that way, too.
In the radio play they go to Magrathea first and then go directly to Milliways, in the words of Marvin: "like a rock through a wet paper bag. I hate wet paper bags."
I think that as we invent new tools, those tools will make us evolve further, thus enabling us to invent better tools and further evolving...
This is what's been happening since we discovered how to make fire all by ourselves.
Our culture has certainly evolved since then, but have our genes? I would guess that we are slightly less hairy than when we first controlled fire. We are taller than we were in past centuries, but this is probably from a better diet.
By the time we were good enough to make the gray goo beat the God's Green Goo, we would have already made safeguards such as Gray Goo Cops, little nanites whose sole job it is to rome the world looking for rogue nanites and eat them and reproduce more Gray Cops.
"That's the beautiful part, the gorillas will
simply die in winter"
Since players were killing monsters or skinning bunnies every day, they were, in effect, creating wealth.
Something about that sentence doesn't seem quite right. If the government printed money and gave it to citizens that waited in line for it, that would not be creating wealth, would it? It would be more like redistributing wealth.
So, many companies have had to hire a project manager and design specification developer team for any major project, and the extra salary from these jobs, along with the communications delays that goes with it has often been a break-even situation.
So, before outsourcing, these companies were embarking on major projects *without* a project manager?
I find it amazing that nobody has been able to check out this 'anomaly' on the mountain that has been documented by the CIA and was classified for 50 years
That reminds me of the final scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark:
Major Eaton: We have top men working on it now.
Indiana: Who?
Major Eaton: Top... men.
In the short term, fileswappers are probably not having much effect on creativity one way or the other.
I would think that although much of the traffic is in top 40, there is some traffic that isn't (older stuff, rarer stuff, bootlegs maybe?). The swappers aren't really a force for creativity, but they are a force for wider distribution.
Where else can you take a tour that's half on land, half on water, SAME vehicle? Hmm?
The Duck Tour concept has spread to other cities. I know you can do something similar in Pittsburgh. Even though I live in Boston I've taken the Duck Tour (with a guest) and they really cram a lot of information and sight-seeing into a short time. It's no substitute for doing a city on foot, but it's a really nice addition.
That depends on the type of sale. Some libraries may only sell their retired books, but many also sell donated books that they don't want to add to their collection.
I think the quote is actually from the first one. I seem to recall Gandalf saying it...to Elrond maybe? He goes on: "An army that can travel by daylight, and cover great distance at speed."
The whole trilogy is distorted by having a woman deliver Aragorn's power to him.
Whoa big fella! The elves re-forged the sword. Since Aragorn did not break out his hammer and tongs, *somebody* had to deliver his power to him.
In Tolkien's time and place, nobody would find it odd that women didn't have much to do with important matters because that was mostly how the real world was then. Jackson's interpretation is consistent with the expectations of his audience. In present day civilized nations however, most people have no problem with women taking part in matters of "power." Most people.
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What do I care about DNA, after all? A sentient robot I might build is as much my offspring as a human child I might father.
This sounds good in theory, from the perspective of an objective observer, and for certain definitions of "offspring," i.e. "3. A result; a product." But my DNA makes me care about DNA. All those chemically generated emotions, you know. While it might be interesting to have superintelligent quantum-computing AI offspring, it would be, well, sad.
As a matter of fact, a quick google search on the term "prairy dog bubonic" will return quite a number of results
The most important result is probably:
Did you mean: prairie dog bubonic
Frankly, it'd be a better world if weapons were totally unnecessary, but I'll settle for now for them being merely prohibitively expensive.
Chris Rock summed that up on the micro-scale more or less like this: "If bullets cost $5,000 there would be no more shootings of innocent bystanders."
I realize that I am a bit different than most people when it comes to renting DVDs. I'd prefer to buy them. Target has great deals on movies (i.e. Pulp Fiction with extended crap for $10 and many random titles for $7.50). I spend a lot of time looking through the $5 bins at Walmart for movies. I also buy previously rented DVDs which are usually 3 or 4 for $20. I don't frequent Blockbuster as I always feel uncomfortable in their store. I prefer Hollywood Video because of their random titles that are $1 back if you return the movie within 24 hours.
A big price advantage of Netflix vs. purchase is for TV-series boxed sets (typically a season at a time on 2-6 DVDs). These come out at $30-50 and , in my experience, never seem to go below $20-30 on eBay. Blockbuster typically splits the sets up into 1 or 2 disc subsets, so they are expensive and inconvenient to rent that way, too.
In the radio play they go to Magrathea first and then go directly to Milliways, in the words of Marvin: "like a rock through a wet paper bag. I hate wet paper bags."
I think that as we invent new tools, those tools will make us evolve further, thus enabling us to invent better tools and further evolving...
This is what's been happening since we discovered how to make fire all by ourselves.
Our culture has certainly evolved since then, but have our genes? I would guess that we are slightly less hairy than when we first controlled fire. We are taller than we were in past centuries, but this is probably from a better diet.
By the time we were good enough to make the gray goo beat the God's Green Goo, we would have already made safeguards such as Gray Goo Cops, little nanites whose sole job it is to rome the world looking for rogue nanites and eat them and reproduce more Gray Cops.
"That's the beautiful part, the gorillas will simply die in winter"
Since players were killing monsters or skinning bunnies every day, they were, in effect, creating wealth.
Something about that sentence doesn't seem quite right. If the government printed money and gave it to citizens that waited in line for it, that would not be creating wealth, would it? It would be more like redistributing wealth.
So, many companies have had to hire a project manager and design specification developer team for any major project, and the extra salary from these jobs, along with the communications delays that goes with it has often been a break-even situation.
So, before outsourcing, these companies were embarking on major projects *without* a project manager?
I find it amazing that nobody has been able to check out this 'anomaly' on the mountain that has been documented by the CIA and was classified for 50 years
That reminds me of the final scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark:
Major Eaton: We have top men working on it now.Indiana: Who?
Major Eaton: Top... men.
In the short term, fileswappers are probably not having much effect on creativity one way or the other.
I would think that although much of the traffic is in top 40, there is some traffic that isn't (older stuff, rarer stuff, bootlegs maybe?). The swappers aren't really a force for creativity, but they are a force for wider distribution.
It's really a crying shame too because capitalism actually does drive innovation. Too bad it also drives greed.
In Soviet Russia capitalism drives greed!
..but in the rest of the world, I think it's pretty much the other way around, perhaps substituting "enlightened self-interest" for "greed."
I(very biased)MO this is the second most impossible movie after the Lord of Light.
Are you referring to this?
Yah, and I don't think I'd qualify "persay" as a word, per se.
I don't think I'd qualify "Yah" as a word, either.
I think you lose the "h" if you are denigrating something: "That's wack!"
Stress is a response, not a stimulus.
Its poor grammar.
I don't care what the Bush spinsters say.
You are wise to disregard them. Following the advice of unmarried elderly Republican women is a sure path to destruction!
Where else can you take a tour that's half on land, half on water, SAME vehicle? Hmm?
The Duck Tour concept has spread to other cities. I know you can do something similar in Pittsburgh. Even though I live in Boston I've taken the Duck Tour (with a guest) and they really cram a lot of information and sight-seeing into a short time. It's no substitute for doing a city on foot, but it's a really nice addition.
Cataloging and tracking the books is done.
That depends on the type of sale. Some libraries may only sell their retired books, but many also sell donated books that they don't want to add to their collection.
I think the quote is actually from the first one. I seem to recall Gandalf saying it...to Elrond maybe? He goes on: "An army that can travel by daylight, and cover great distance at speed."
In the movie I think it was said that they are a cross between orcs and "goblin men," whatever that is!
The whole trilogy is distorted by having a woman deliver Aragorn's power to him.
Whoa big fella! The elves re-forged the sword. Since Aragorn did not break out his hammer and tongs, *somebody* had to deliver his power to him.
In Tolkien's time and place, nobody would find it odd that women didn't have much to do with important matters because that was mostly how the real world was then. Jackson's interpretation is consistent with the expectations of his audience. In present day civilized nations however, most people have no problem with women taking part in matters of "power." Most people.
Sting is NOT a Hobbit blade
It is now! Who's going to take it away from Frodo?
Actually, there is a point in The Two Towers, where we see an orcs head on a stick
I believe it is an uruk-hai's head