Pain has developed as a mechanism to recognize and avoid damage to the organism experiencing the pain. It's reasonable to think that any organism intelligent enough to be even remotely considered for "personhood" will experience pain in a manner fairly close to how humans experience it.
I'm a human. My primary responsibility is to myself, then to people who are good to me, then to people nearby who don't harm me, then to people generally who don't harm me. After that, species that have aligned themselves to people (dogs). Whether chimps deserve a position above or below dogs is a difficult question, perhaps best handled on an individual basis.
The 68k lost because Motorola was unwilling or unable to make the investments necessary to keep it performance-competitive with the X86. That, in turn, was mostly due to the X86 having enough market share to provide the cash to do the continuing development. Note that the same thing happened with Motorola's PPC and an earlier Motorola RISC, the 8800.
Acceleration is not "just proper gearing". Power/weight sets a hard limit to possible acceleration. Anything below about 0.05 horsepower per pound make safe entry onto crowded highways very difficult.
Making vitamin C takes some energy, so not making it was an advantage if adequate dietary sources existed for long enough for the mutation to become dominant. Large dietary doses are not only good for us, they were essential for us to come into existence as a species that doesn't make its own vitamin C.
The diarrhea claim is a common one, and for those who know the truth and still make the claim, it is egregiously dishonest. Large doses of vitamin C in the form of ascorbic acid will cause diarrhea; that's why people who take large doses use sodium ascorbate, calcium ascorbate, ascorbyl palmitate, etc..
Humans have evolved to depend upon other antioxidants and dietary vitamin C, and the combination is adequate in many situations. However, many serious infectious diseases can be cured by huge doses of vitamin C. (I'm talking about 500 grams taken intravenously.) This is the sort of thing that shows the advantage of making your own.
I haven't yet read a review of the much-hyped recent studies, but results of that sort in the past have been the result of badly flawed science.
Due to the slack in couplings, the transmission only needs to get the locomotive into motion, with some extra allowance in the calculations for engineering sloppiness. A typical locomotive weighs about 10 times as much as a fully loaded boxcar. (Also, 200 car trains are not usually pulled by a single locomotive.) The requirement for starting the 200 car train is thus reduced by a factor of 200/10=20. Gear count goes down from 28 to 22. The initial speed is thus 0.24 mph, assuming wheel slip is not allowed. The torque problem is solved by having two matched engines rotating in opposite directions. That said, who would want a mechanical system subject to so many more wear mechanisms than an electrical system?
In further support of your point, trains don't start up all at once. There's some slack in the coupling between each car. The engine starts up, jerks the second car into motion, which jerks the third car into motion, and so on. A clutch should only have to slip while the engine starts moving.
Gliders are relatively quiet, and their wings are still providing lift. The aircar problem is that the total lift area is small and compact, so that it requires a great air velocity change to get adequate lift. Making the big velocity change causes noise.
Sailing ships make two-way journeys, even in the face of constant prevailing winds, because they can tack. They can tack because they get "traction" in the water and with angled sails can get a thrust vector partially into the wind. This is not the case with airships, where the choices are some combination of
use fuel
wait for the wind direction to change
follow prevailing winds completely around the globe.
The purpose of having words, sentences, and languages is to express thoughts. Throwing together phrases in defiance of sense defeats this purpose.
I know that cold hard facts should trump what we wish to be true, but for a question as fundamental as the origin of our own existence, maybe it works the other way.
This is just nonsense. For fundamental and crucial things, it is of the highest importance to use the rules of logic that make human understanding possible.
Use a wedge-shaped dovetail. Surface area can more than triple, and normal force can be hundreds of times the installation force. Just don't rely on ever having to separate the heatsink from the CPU, because once the thermal compound sets up a bit, the CPU and heatsink will be locked for life.
35 years ago I did a study of my home town (Stamford, Conn., founded 1640). The settlers bought the land from the Indians. Some years later, the Indians decided they weren't happy with the deal, so the settlers bought the land from the Indians again. A few more years later, they bought the land from the Indians a THIRD TIME.
No record exists of the thinking that went behind these actions; whether the Indians forgot what they had done, or something else. The theory has been proposed that the Indians simply lacked the concept of private real estate. If this is the case, the Indian society was not fit to develop into an advanced civilization. In any case, the settlers behaved quite generously in my opinion.
This means a 100 hp 40 mpg car becomes 300 hp 50 mpg. The economy does not degrade as other posters have suggested, because the hp rating is a peak rating, not the power the engine is developing most of the time (which is probably below 20 hp at highway speeds.) The higher economy comes from a better Carnot cycle profile; the higher horsepower comes from that and pumping much more air and fuel through the engine (by turbocharging).
Similar to this, a simpler codec that I was considering (perhaps in 1994?) made one passage sound better because it didn't encode an audible background hum.
In the U.S. there are many places where atheists are threatened (certainly more than the other way around). One such place is at work, where religious fanatics sometimes campaign to get an atheist fired or denied a promotion. In higher level poitics, atheism is a big negative. Atheists often find it necessary to hide their views in order to make their lives easier. No adult with children wants to lose a job because some jerk doesn't like his nonbelief.
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One of hepatitis B's modes of transmission is sex. So it's possible that HB came to humanity though monkeyf***ers.
The two most important differences between a 5 year old child and a chimp are humanity and potential.
I'm a human. My primary responsibility is to myself, then to people who are good to me, then to people nearby who don't harm me, then to people generally who don't harm me. After that, species that have aligned themselves to people (dogs). Whether chimps deserve a position above or below dogs is a difficult question, perhaps best handled on an individual basis.
We don't have inductively coupled connectors because they are lossy, expensive, and drain power even when not in use.
The 68k lost because Motorola was unwilling or unable to make the investments necessary to keep it performance-competitive with the X86. That, in turn, was mostly due to the X86 having enough market share to provide the cash to do the continuing development. Note that the same thing happened with Motorola's PPC and an earlier Motorola RISC, the 8800.
Acceleration is not "just proper gearing". Power/weight sets a hard limit to possible acceleration. Anything below about 0.05 horsepower per pound make safe entry onto crowded highways very difficult.
Making vitamin C takes some energy, so not making it was an advantage if adequate dietary sources existed for long enough for the mutation to become dominant. Large dietary doses are not only good for us, they were essential for us to come into existence as a species that doesn't make its own vitamin C.
The diarrhea claim is a common one, and for those who know the truth and still make the claim, it is egregiously dishonest. Large doses of vitamin C in the form of ascorbic acid will cause diarrhea; that's why people who take large doses use sodium ascorbate, calcium ascorbate, ascorbyl palmitate, etc..
I haven't yet read a review of the much-hyped recent studies, but results of that sort in the past have been the result of badly flawed science.
Due to the slack in couplings, the transmission only needs to get the locomotive into motion, with some extra allowance in the calculations for engineering sloppiness. A typical locomotive weighs about 10 times as much as a fully loaded boxcar. (Also, 200 car trains are not usually pulled by a single locomotive.) The requirement for starting the 200 car train is thus reduced by a factor of 200/10=20. Gear count goes down from 28 to 22. The initial speed is thus 0.24 mph, assuming wheel slip is not allowed. The torque problem is solved by having two matched engines rotating in opposite directions. That said, who would want a mechanical system subject to so many more wear mechanisms than an electrical system?
In further support of your point, trains don't start up all at once. There's some slack in the coupling between each car. The engine starts up, jerks the second car into motion, which jerks the third car into motion, and so on. A clutch should only have to slip while the engine starts moving.
You must not know many ethical systems. I refer you to Herbert Spencer's "Ethics" and Ayn Rand's "Capitalism, The Unknown Ideal"
Diffraction gratings.
Glass prisms.
Dichroic filters and dichroic mirrors.
Conventional filters based on the optical properties of various chemicals.
Do you consider a recon craft a weapon?
Gliders are relatively quiet, and their wings are still providing lift. The aircar problem is that the total lift area is small and compact, so that it requires a great air velocity change to get adequate lift. Making the big velocity change causes noise.
You would be bitterly opposed to this, which would be fast, economical, safe and fun? You must really hate human beings.
Charge a deposit on all satellite launches, refunded when the satellite is safely returned to earth or exceeds the sun's escape velocity.
Use a wedge-shaped dovetail. Surface area can more than triple, and normal force can be hundreds of times the installation force. Just don't rely on ever having to separate the heatsink from the CPU, because once the thermal compound sets up a bit, the CPU and heatsink will be locked for life.
No record exists of the thinking that went behind these actions; whether the Indians forgot what they had done, or something else. The theory has been proposed that the Indians simply lacked the concept of private real estate. If this is the case, the Indian society was not fit to develop into an advanced civilization. In any case, the settlers behaved quite generously in my opinion.
This means a 100 hp 40 mpg car becomes 300 hp 50 mpg. The economy does not degrade as other posters have suggested, because the hp rating is a peak rating, not the power the engine is developing most of the time (which is probably below 20 hp at highway speeds.) The higher economy comes from a better Carnot cycle profile; the higher horsepower comes from that and pumping much more air and fuel through the engine (by turbocharging).
Similar to this, a simpler codec that I was considering (perhaps in 1994?) made one passage sound better because it didn't encode an audible background hum.
In the U.S. there are many places where atheists are threatened (certainly more than the other way around). One such place is at work, where religious fanatics sometimes campaign to get an atheist fired or denied a promotion. In higher level poitics, atheism is a big negative. Atheists often find it necessary to hide their views in order to make their lives easier. No adult with children wants to lose a job because some jerk doesn't like his nonbelief.