Or, they could drop Napster, integrate Easy CD and Toast more tightly with iTunes and tap into the marginally profitable on-line music business with a highly profitable tie-in. You know, kind of following the business model of the company that is the market leader.
--- My silly hope is that they are gonna go: "There are aliens ? Really ? And they don't believe in $Deity ? REALLY ? Well, I guess we were wrong all along. Sorry guys". ---
Of course, it would be equally hilarious is the aliens landed and the first words out of their mouths were:
This is the world where Jesus Christ lived and died, right? Can you take us to the place where it all happened so we can worship? We've come a long way on this pilgrimage.
You conveniently forget that it takes time, energy and effort to keep your head at that static -390 F.
I can see it now.
"Due to budget cuts in our company, all frozen units for whom no living relative closer than three generations still exists will be removed from storage and cremated."
--- Oh, but there is a Big Difference, you would say. We cryonicists are from the past. ---
No, you cryonicists are dead. That's a big difference. You're dead, hoping that some time in the future, somebody will learn how to bring the dead back to life, because the freezing process has exploded every cell in your brain.
--- If these future people are so advanced as to be able to revive me, then it is in part because people from MY time helped build the foundations of that society. Maybe some of those future people are even distantly related to me. ---
The only interest they would likely have in you is anthropological/archaeological. And if they're advanced enough to repair the massive cellular damage you caused to yourself in freezing, and bring you back from the dead (because you wait until after you're declared legally dead to get frozen), they'll probably just be able to read your life's memories from your brain without ever starting you back up again anyway. I will admit that the more particularly interesting specimens might very well be reanimated for further study, however. Chances are very good you won't be one of the more interesting ones.
Then again, cultures might have shifted during those years you are frozen and you might all be declared abominations and summarily dumped into a bonfire.
All of which hangs on the assumption, of course, that if and when humans learn how to revive said corspe, they have even the slightest interest in doing so. What I find interesting is the ego of the person who freezes himself in thinking that someone will actually give a crap in 300 years and go to the time and effort to revive him.
Oh, please. What a load. The most unfit fathers will simply rape the woman. I mean, I know evolutionary theory is chock full of just so stories, but please, at least try thinking a little bit before making one up.
Yeah. That's all Neil Armstrong cared about. 20 years of science to do some grunt work on the Moon. Ditto John Glenn. Just wanting to go into space had nothing to do with it.
Fortunately, TurboLinux utilizes the/etc/sysconfig directory to hold most of the system settings, so it is very easy to configure the network by just using a text editor.
Linux is not ready for the desktop.
As long as reviewers keep saying that it is very easy to configure the network by just using a text editor, Linux will never be ready for the desktop.
What an asinine comment. Since no one can know what a voter's intent was except the voter himself, the best way to strive to represent voter intent IS to teach them how to cast a valid vote.
This is always what happens when you let hysteria and demagoguery drive your decisions.
Punch card balloting is an extremely accurate and economical way to tally votes.
Instead of being men and telling voters to read the damn ballot and punch the card completely next time, we get all boo-hooey over a few idiots who don't do either, and let ourselves get whipped up into making stupid decisions by political opportunists exploiting said idiots.
Spouting off uninformed talking points just makes you sound like an ass.
The FBI did not invoke terrorism. They used the provisions of the Patriot Act that allow for search warrants to obtain ISP information. That IS due process.
What really annoys me is that you may actually be old enough to vote your stupidity.
Your personal disagreement with a law does not make it an inappropriate law, unless you were recently appointed king.
Secondly, the Patriot Act is nothing more than streamlining the search warrant, wiretaps, and property seizure laws to bring them in line with modern technology.
Slashdotters constantly whine about how out of touch with technology gov't is. That is until it comes to law enforcement. Then they want the cops to be restricted to using laws designed for 1960 on criminals using technology from 2004.
Nothing "caused" abiogenesis, unless you're talking a form of intelligent design.
From a purely naturalistic point of view, you'd have to make the argument that the odds are that abiogenesis has occurred only once in the entire universe and we're it.
Or, if that bothers you, it occurred once in the entire universe, and has been transplanted from world to world through space. All it would take are some bacterial spores.
Which becomes absolutely hysterical and laughable when you actually start inserting real chemicals into that path.
>Or if you have the right chemicals present on a planet, the formation of life may actually be likely. Who knows?
We know, because we know what the right chemicals are, and we know the laws governing their reactions, and we can calculate the probabilities of formation. Granted, it's senior-level college chemistry, but not impossibly difficult to figure out.
If it were so easy, we would have already done it. (ditto the silly just-so path from chemical to bacteria you mentioned earlier.)
The most dangerous exposures to asbestos occurred in the process of removing it. The stuff is perfectly safe in slabs between sheetrock. When you start tearing it out you create all sorts of poisonous asbestos dust. But try telling that to Chicken Little Americans who go into hysterical panics over anything containing the phrase cancer-causing.
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How can science really yet show that the evolution of humanity is a statistical fluke? ---
Easy. Take a look at the odds of RNA forming via abiogenesis. The odds are ridiculously low. And just to forestall the inevitable arguments, these probabilities are created by examing the chances of formation for the various molecules involved. It's not guesswork.
Evolution can't start until you've got replicating systems that carry information. Looking at the chemistry involved for that to happen, calling life on Earth a statistical fluke is warranted.
Number of stars in the Milky way: 10^11 The fraction of stars with planets: 30% Planets per star capable of life: 1 Fraction of those planets where life evolves: 10^-80 (taken from the odds of RNA forming abiogenetically).
That gives an answer of 0, modified to 1 because we know that Earth has life.
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Or, they could drop Napster, integrate Easy CD and Toast more tightly with iTunes and tap into the marginally profitable on-line music business with a highly profitable tie-in. You know, kind of following the business model of the company that is the market leader.
The joke doesn't work. Mohammad was a prophet for this world. Christ is for the whole of creation.
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My silly hope is that they are gonna go: "There are aliens ? Really ? And they don't believe in $Deity ? REALLY ? Well, I guess we were wrong all along. Sorry guys".
---
Of course, it would be equally hilarious is the aliens landed and the first words out of their mouths were:
This is the world where Jesus Christ lived and died, right? Can you take us to the place where it all happened so we can worship? We've come a long way on this pilgrimage.
We got a lot of suckers to work for us for free!
...litigate!
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Essentially, nothing changes at -390 F.
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You conveniently forget that it takes time, energy and effort to keep your head at that static -390 F.
I can see it now.
"Due to budget cuts in our company, all frozen units for whom no living relative closer than three generations still exists will be removed from storage and cremated."
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Oh, but there is a Big Difference, you would say. We cryonicists are from the past.
---
No, you cryonicists are dead. That's a big difference. You're dead, hoping that some time in the future, somebody will learn how to bring the dead back to life, because the freezing process has exploded every cell in your brain.
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If these future people are so advanced as to be able to revive me, then it is in part because people from MY time helped build the foundations of that society. Maybe some of those future people are even distantly related to me.
---
The only interest they would likely have in you is anthropological/archaeological. And if they're advanced enough to repair the massive cellular damage you caused to yourself in freezing, and bring you back from the dead (because you wait until after you're declared legally dead to get frozen), they'll probably just be able to read your life's memories from your brain without ever starting you back up again anyway. I will admit that the more particularly interesting specimens might very well be reanimated for further study, however. Chances are very good you won't be one of the more interesting ones.
Then again, cultures might have shifted during those years you are frozen and you might all be declared abominations and summarily dumped into a bonfire.
Vestigial seasonal famine response? Where'd you get that load of crap?
Folks get fat in the winter because they sit around and watch TV a lot because it's too unpleasant to go outside in the cold.
For crying out loud. To use an analogy: Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
All of which hangs on the assumption, of course, that if and when humans learn how to revive said corspe, they have even the slightest interest in doing so. What I find interesting is the ego of the person who freezes himself in thinking that someone will actually give a crap in 300 years and go to the time and effort to revive him.
Yeah, right. Because we know that 8 hours is all the time we need to know for certain the first woman is pregnant before moving on to the next.
Good grief. Where do you people come up with this stuff. No wonder creationists just point and laugh at you guys.
Oh, please. What a load. The most unfit fathers will simply rape the woman. I mean, I know evolutionary theory is chock full of just so stories, but please, at least try thinking a little bit before making one up.
--- ...but it would be useless to 99.99% of the population.
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Which is different from now in exactly what way?
Yeah. That's all Neil Armstrong cared about. 20 years of science to do some grunt work on the Moon. Ditto John Glenn. Just wanting to go into space had nothing to do with it.
Fortunately, TurboLinux utilizes the /etc/sysconfig directory to hold most of the system settings, so it is very easy to configure the network by just using a text editor.
Linux is not ready for the desktop.
As long as reviewers keep saying that it is very easy to configure the network by just using a text editor, Linux will never be ready for the desktop.
What an asinine comment. Since no one can know what a voter's intent was except the voter himself, the best way to strive to represent voter intent IS to teach them how to cast a valid vote.
For crying out loud, China is a communist dictatorship. What do you expect them to do? OK. Stupid question. This is slashdot.
This is always what happens when you let hysteria and demagoguery drive your decisions.
Punch card balloting is an extremely accurate and economical way to tally votes.
Instead of being men and telling voters to read the damn ballot and punch the card completely next time, we get all boo-hooey over a few idiots who don't do either, and let ourselves get whipped up into making stupid decisions by political opportunists exploiting said idiots.
Economically, Libertarians are Republicans. Socially, they are Democrats. Foreign Policy wise, they are Wilsonian isolationists.
Spouting off uninformed talking points just makes you sound like an ass.
The FBI did not invoke terrorism. They used the provisions of the Patriot Act that allow for search warrants to obtain ISP information. That IS due process.
What really annoys me is that you may actually be old enough to vote your stupidity.
Your personal disagreement with a law does not make it an inappropriate law, unless you were recently appointed king.
Secondly, the Patriot Act is nothing more than streamlining the search warrant, wiretaps, and property seizure laws to bring them in line with modern technology.
Slashdotters constantly whine about how out of touch with technology gov't is. That is until it comes to law enforcement. Then they want the cops to be restricted to using laws designed for 1960 on criminals using technology from 2004.
Nothing "caused" abiogenesis, unless you're talking a form of intelligent design.
From a purely naturalistic point of view, you'd have to make the argument that the odds are that abiogenesis has occurred only once in the entire universe and we're it.
Or, if that bothers you, it occurred once in the entire universe, and has been transplanted from world to world through space. All it would take are some bacterial spores.
No, it's not a swag. These are calculated based on the known chemical properties of formation and reacton for the necessary chemicals.
"chemicals -> polymers -> replicating polymers -> hypercycle -> protobiont -> bacteria"."
Which becomes absolutely hysterical and laughable when you actually start inserting real chemicals into that path.
>Or if you have the right chemicals present on a planet, the formation of life may actually be likely. Who knows?
We know, because we know what the right chemicals are, and we know the laws governing their reactions, and we can calculate the probabilities of formation. Granted, it's senior-level college chemistry, but not impossibly difficult to figure out.
If it were so easy, we would have already done it. (ditto the silly just-so path from chemical to bacteria you mentioned earlier.)
The most dangerous exposures to asbestos occurred in the process of removing it. The stuff is perfectly safe in slabs between sheetrock. When you start tearing it out you create all sorts of poisonous asbestos dust. But try telling that to Chicken Little Americans who go into hysterical panics over anything containing the phrase cancer-causing.
So, what you're saying is that Turner is an admitted sell-out to Big Media. Interesting.
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How can science really yet show that the evolution of humanity is a statistical fluke?
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Easy. Take a look at the odds of RNA forming via abiogenesis. The odds are ridiculously low. And just to forestall the inevitable arguments, these probabilities are created by examing the chances of formation for the various molecules involved. It's not guesswork.
Evolution can't start until you've got replicating systems that carry information. Looking at the chemistry involved for that to happen, calling life on Earth a statistical fluke is warranted.
Easy.
Number of stars in the Milky way: 10^11
The fraction of stars with planets: 30%
Planets per star capable of life: 1
Fraction of those planets where life evolves: 10^-80 (taken from the odds of RNA forming abiogenetically).
That gives an answer of 0, modified to 1 because we know that Earth has life.
See how well considered that was?