None of the things you listed, save for the last one, are sufficient enough to raise the miles/time ratio to something high enough to lead to a traffic ticket. Speeding for a few seconds would not raise your readings high enough to determine anything. Speeding over an extended period of time would.
Meeting people online is a lot cheaper, safer, and easier than most real life methods. I don't like clubbing (who can afford $50/night to try to pick up drunk women who won't like you when they are sober), I don't go to school or church, I usually don't meet many people in my work as a programmer (especially single women), and most the people I hang out with are all geeks which means 95% male. I don't feel I have the time or money to invest in trying to pick women up in the old fshioned ways so online methods can be a big help.
[..]Sure you have some risk when you eventually do meet the people in real life but you get some chance to screen people before going out with them.
I LIKE YOU, I'M A WOMAN, MEET ME BEHIND THE WHEREHOUSE
This is what I don't get. It's clear that having a wireless notebook in class is a big distraction.
Not if you exercise a little (*gasp*!) self-discipline.
I am on my laptop with a wireless Internet connection in most of my classes. Sometimes, during times where the class drags, I'll be talking with someone. Other times, I'll be looking up data that has to do with what is being discussed. When your instructor is struggling to scribble a diagram of a binary search tree, it's nice to hop on Google and find one even before she's able to get her shit together. Or if a function in some API is being discussed and I'm not getting it, I can find documentation on it online in 10 seconds.
Sometimes, I goof off. Sometimes, I read Slashdot. But I'm usually on top of things. The times where I goof off are times where I would just lie my head down or read a magazine or doodle if I didn't have a laptop with me, so there's really no net change there.
So a mere mortal such as myself will probably not get to go to space, the mega rich will. In the next 20 years we should have atleast one space hotel, or I will be VERY disapointed! So I may not make it, but you can be Cher will!
And about the idea of putting a terminator in Colloseum in greece, whows that some people really should learn a little bit more about ancient history. Perhaps a simulation of ancioent rome would be better;)
If the Posthumans have the computing power to simulate a universe, why aren't they simulating themselves instead?
Why would we want to simulate ancient Greece? I mean, beyond satistic entertainment like "let's drop The Terminator into the Colosseum", which would be a short-term simulation that we'd terminate quickly anyway.
The article touches on the "why", but only seems to give decent reasoning in the "why not" department - rendering the whole thing quite possibly moot.
Slashdot Mirror
God knows there's too damn much of that "error checking" stuff in computing today...
There is some socializing in that remainder, but it is limited. Just because they speak English doesn't mean we all LIKE each other.
Mr. Pot, please leave Mr. Kettle alone.
Very similar to my current CS classes. :)
Over half of my classmates struggle to speak clear English.
You stupid mods. This was chickbait!
Casting call for leading ladies will be held in my apartment.
You don't have to worry about that - I already paid the $1 for that one.
Now, to sue some compiler/IDE companies....
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This was modden "Informative"?
Some mod has a twisted sense of humor.
Kind of an interesting idea though. Although I can already imagine the pedos listing N'Sync and Lizzie McGuire as their "interests"...
"But Mom, he was my "buddy"..."
Not if you exercise a little (*gasp*!) self-discipline.
I am on my laptop with a wireless Internet connection in most of my classes. Sometimes, during times where the class drags, I'll be talking with someone. Other times, I'll be looking up data that has to do with what is being discussed. When your instructor is struggling to scribble a diagram of a binary search tree, it's nice to hop on Google and find one even before she's able to get her shit together. Or if a function in some API is being discussed and I'm not getting it, I can find documentation on it online in 10 seconds.
Sometimes, I goof off. Sometimes, I read Slashdot. But I'm usually on top of things. The times where I goof off are times where I would just lie my head down or read a magazine or doodle if I didn't have a laptop with me, so there's really no net change there.
With any luck, she will be left there.
Doubtful. The thing about passenger jets is that they take you to places that you have business going to - places with stuff like oxygen.
How long will it be before "common" space flight is even possible, let alone with destinations to go to?
50 years is far too short.
LOL. Gimme a break, it was like 2am. :)
Why would we want to simulate ancient Greece? I mean, beyond satistic entertainment like "let's drop The Terminator into the Colosseum", which would be a short-term simulation that we'd terminate quickly anyway.
The article touches on the "why", but only seems to give decent reasoning in the "why not" department - rendering the whole thing quite possibly moot.
File under: "Poor Choice of Words".