Trickle-down economics doesn't work: jobs don't come from corporate initiatives, small-business owners, hard-working individuals, and a college education. Jobs come from consumer buying power
Just whom are you trying to mislead? Trickle-down is rich people having money to purchase stuff (consumer buying power), and those purchases are what drives the creation of jobs.
This is deliberate action by Apple. It would cost Apple a lot more if they did what they lead you to believe they're doing, copy your music onto a cloud in a place exclusively dedicated to you. Instead they're storing a link to one copy for everybody, and failing even to ensure that the content is identical. Dishonest, misleading, incompetent, lazy: computers for "the rest of us."
Earth is 39% farther from the Sun than Venus, so Venus receives 93% higher solar flux. That's a quantitative difference, and it's the quantity that matters.
There will always be some people who want to have sex. If civilization declines substantially, more people will be required to work in order to live. Such work is the "tradition role" that's the lynchpin in your hypothesis.
As long as we're considering science fiction, consider Mordecai Roshwald's Level Seven. The radiation seals of all seven layers deep into the earth fail, all die.
If the Cuba attack had been carried out, there wouldn't be eleven million Cubans living in the poverty of communist slavery today. The world would be a much better place.
You've neglected to include the effects of a 3.8 GHz clock on the i7-920, and newer chips tend to be more resistant to overclocking. Your point stands, but the advantages of the newer chips are smaller.
I'd buy a new machine, but the significant performance increase I'm looking for just isn't available. I'd like to see the single-thread instruction rate for moderate-sized programs (something that can be held in on-chip cache) double. There are optimizations that can be done to allow one core to go really fast, and I don't think they're being done.
When real anti-aging therapies become available they are going to be priced out of this world...literally priced for billionaries [sic]
Anti-aging therapies are already available. For about $2000 a year you can buy an extensive bunch of supplements and blood tests to direct your efforts in an effective manner. Current technology at that expense level ought to be good for (my guess) 10 to 20 years, far more effective per dollar than health insurance.
As are many things in the genetic realm, sexual orientation isn't "all or nothing" (if it were, there wouldn't be people called "bisexual", and there wouldn't be men who stick their penis into any available hole regardless of species or status as a living thing.)
Some people can choose either straight or homosexual. Some choose neither. Some try one, decide they don't like it, and go with the other. Some change due to a calamitous experience.
I've met people who've changed. Sometimes, it's a choice.
Telomere shortening is one technique among many to prevent defective gene replication; one thing many cancers do is preserve telomere length to allow unlimited reproduction. The body has other defenses against cancer.
There are testable biomarkers that are a fair indication of effective age. Many age remediation techniques show measurable improvements in a month or two.
Arthur C. Clarke's Against the Fall of Night (and its inferior remake, The City and the Stars) is one of the early novels assuming effective immortality. It's not overtly dystopic, it's a good read, but the conclusion is underwhelming.
"saving money" is no solution only if you live in fantasyland. Here on earth, if people continue populating the land there will be replacements, the young. If there are no young, humanity ends, and the point is moot.
Being too young is a more serious problem. JFK's cockups had much to do with his inexperience. Even allowing for his bad philosophy, Obama would have done less damage if he weren't so naive.
The problem is being in political power too long. Most people become corrupted by political power, many don't even realize it's happening. If you fall for "That's just how it's done here" you're already gone.
Telomere shortening does not always occur at the same rate, and generally the more healthy your body chemistry the slower is the rate of shortening.
Telomeres... have no natural way of being made longer.
That statement is false.
DNA repair would be nice, but it's not necessary. What does happen frequently is defective DNA is recognized by the immune system and the cell involved is destroyed.
As a general trend, wisdom comes with age. Most of the complaints about life-extension technology come from people who aren't wise now, and probably never will be.
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Just whom are you trying to mislead? Trickle-down is rich people having money to purchase stuff (consumer buying power), and those purchases are what drives the creation of jobs.
This is deliberate action by Apple. It would cost Apple a lot more if they did what they lead you to believe they're doing, copy your music onto a cloud in a place exclusively dedicated to you. Instead they're storing a link to one copy for everybody, and failing even to ensure that the content is identical. Dishonest, misleading, incompetent, lazy: computers for "the rest of us."
Just out of curiosity, how many times did you flunk chemistry?
You win the prize for invalid extrapolation based on incoherent hypothesis and no data. Congrats.
Earth is 39% farther from the Sun than Venus, so Venus receives 93% higher solar flux. That's a quantitative difference, and it's the quantity that matters.
There will always be some people who want to have sex. If civilization declines substantially, more people will be required to work in order to live. Such work is the "tradition role" that's the lynchpin in your hypothesis.
As long as we're considering science fiction, consider Mordecai Roshwald's Level Seven. The radiation seals of all seven layers deep into the earth fail, all die.
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We must not have a mine shaft gap
If the Cuba attack had been carried out, there wouldn't be eleven million Cubans living in the poverty of communist slavery today. The world would be a much better place.
You've neglected to include the effects of a 3.8 GHz clock on the i7-920, and newer chips tend to be more resistant to overclocking. Your point stands, but the advantages of the newer chips are smaller.
I'd buy a new machine, but the significant performance increase I'm looking for just isn't available. I'd like to see the single-thread instruction rate for moderate-sized programs (something that can be held in on-chip cache) double. There are optimizations that can be done to allow one core to go really fast, and I don't think they're being done.
Not only that, ageism is mandated by law. I wanted to earn money when I was 10 years old, and it was forbidden.
This guy's comments could have been replaced with a random phrase generator and made just as much sense. Every conclusion is a non sequitur.
And the feds would prove you've had anti-aging therapy how? Because you're healthy?
Anti-aging therapies are already available. For about $2000 a year you can buy an extensive bunch of supplements and blood tests to direct your efforts in an effective manner. Current technology at that expense level ought to be good for (my guess) 10 to 20 years, far more effective per dollar than health insurance.
As are many things in the genetic realm, sexual orientation isn't "all or nothing" (if it were, there wouldn't be people called "bisexual", and there wouldn't be men who stick their penis into any available hole regardless of species or status as a living thing.)
Some people can choose either straight or homosexual. Some choose neither. Some try one, decide they don't like it, and go with the other. Some change due to a calamitous experience.
I've met people who've changed. Sometimes, it's a choice.
Telomere shortening is one technique among many to prevent defective gene replication; one thing many cancers do is preserve telomere length to allow unlimited reproduction. The body has other defenses against cancer.
That is an oft-repeated speculation based on no evidence whatsoever.
There are testable biomarkers that are a fair indication of effective age. Many age remediation techniques show measurable improvements in a month or two.
Arthur C. Clarke's Against the Fall of Night (and its inferior remake, The City and the Stars) is one of the early novels assuming effective immortality. It's not overtly dystopic, it's a good read, but the conclusion is underwhelming.
"saving money" is no solution only if you live in fantasyland. Here on earth, if people continue populating the land there will be replacements, the young. If there are no young, humanity ends, and the point is moot.
Because there is no limit to a person's desires, there will be no end to scarcity.
Here's a word you need to learn: "counterweight".
Being too young is a more serious problem. JFK's cockups had much to do with his inexperience. Even allowing for his bad philosophy, Obama would have done less damage if he weren't so naive.
The problem is being in political power too long. Most people become corrupted by political power, many don't even realize it's happening. If you fall for "That's just how it's done here" you're already gone.
That statement is false.
DNA repair would be nice, but it's not necessary. What does happen frequently is defective DNA is recognized by the immune system and the cell involved is destroyed.
By whose standard? Vladimir Lenin?
As a general trend, wisdom comes with age. Most of the complaints about life-extension technology come from people who aren't wise now, and probably never will be.