If martian soil and conditions provided a perfect environment for some species of bacterium, how long would it take to cover the planet in such bacteria? (bet those dust devils would whip them about too)
I remember a few years ago reports that the number of websites were declining (around the time of the dotcom crash). Can this new record upsurge in webpages be the result of the new popularity of blogging?
Who needs to delete cookies? I just have a little program that overwrites the text with random text. Why? Well, spyware companies suck that's why. But you're not kicking them in the gut if you just delete the cookies. Nah, feed their databases with crap.
That's what I say.
Yeah but the thing is, some of those idiots are 30+ and still hiding in their parent's basement, shouting out, "KILL ALL N******!!" and that their numbers probably amount to millions. It's also these types of mental muttfucks that give the nation's cops good job security.
Evil Pete, I'm not going to argue with you (wouldn't be my inclination anyhow), but I find it funny that you write "...the article you are talking about is one of the longest ad hominem arguments I have ever seen", and then proceed to give an ad hominem argument yourself directed at Crichton.
What it reminded me of was an autocomplete feature. It suggests completions as the reading happens. Meanwhile, other cognitive processes are taking these suggestions as imputs. I imagine that it may be evolutionary advantageous in certain situations for certain cognitive machinery to have access to information prior to that information being fully processed. As reading progresses, the suggested imputs are progressively refined. This would explain the indecision of the computer users as displayed by the trajectory of the mouse-pointer.
Frankly, I do not see how this experiment could show that the brain is digital or not digital. For that matter, it is by no means clear to me what such assertions about the human brain *mean*. As usual, I suspect it would be most profitable to actually *read* the research article instead of debating about some idiot journalist reported on it.
I doubt that modularity as a theory of cognition is a lost cause, but I'm curious why you think it is. I'm more inclined to suppose that the mind is massively modular along the lines given by Dan Sperber in Explaining Culture.
in fact, who was building his nuke reactor? the frogs. who built his underground bunker? the krauts. who was doing secret deals with him for 12 years during sanctions? the frogs, krauts, and ruskies. get a clue. when we lose this war becasue of fuckheads like you, when achmed and his bearded buddies come and chop yor head off, he's not going to care that you opposed the "illegal war". he laugh, cut your head off, and shhout alihu akbar. as much as it would be cosmic justice, i'll still rather you keep your head, even though it serves as little more than a hatrack.,
Interesting attitudes for a highschool teacher. Do you also call your Japanese students, Japs, your Mexican students, Wetbacks, your Asian students Chinks, and your gay students Fags?
If you'll kindly give me your actual name and the name and address of your school I will be happy to notify your employer of your behavior. I'm sure that they will be quite willing to take measures correcting this deficiency in your character. I understand that such steps towards self-improvement are often very difficult if not impossible to correct on one's own or at one's own initiative.
There actually is a point here though. If you are mining the surface, you are going to create a lot of small debris that's going to float out and about. That could become a problem, don't you think?
lol, your confusing the moons and mars here buddy.
Unless you are making some obtuse joke, you are simply wrong. Mars is full of superfine dust. In fact the Rover was stuck in some, until recently. It had the fine-ness of talcum powder.
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If martian soil and conditions provided a perfect environment for some species of bacterium, how long would it take to cover the planet in such bacteria? (bet those dust devils would whip them about too)
I remember a few years ago reports that the number of websites were declining (around the time of the dotcom crash). Can this new record upsurge in webpages be the result of the new popularity of blogging?
Who needs to delete cookies? I just have a little program that overwrites the text with random text. Why? Well, spyware companies suck that's why. But you're not kicking them in the gut if you just delete the cookies. Nah, feed their databases with crap. That's what I say.
Oh, I thought they were the cops.
attribute it. I got confused by the contribute part, which means to give or add to.
Evil Pete, I'm not going to argue with you (wouldn't be my inclination anyhow), but I find it funny that you write "...the article you are talking about is one of the longest ad hominem arguments I have ever seen", and then proceed to give an ad hominem argument yourself directed at Crichton.
Maybe Bush should volunteer Karl Rove?
minimally better. but not really. mass is mass, and it still takes energy to move it. Shoving an anvil in zero-g can still be hard work.
It's that thing that sits on your piano and goes "tick tick tick" to help you keep the beat.
Ohhh, you mean a Metrognome. I had one of them. That bleepin nazi dyke. All she did was yell out "Hep one! Hep two! Hep three!"
Anyways she left she left me when she saw that my buddy had a bigger piano.
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Frankly, I do not see how this experiment could show that the brain is digital or not digital. For that matter, it is by no means clear to me what such assertions about the human brain *mean*. As usual, I suspect it would be most profitable to actually *read* the research article instead of debating about some idiot journalist reported on it.
I doubt that modularity as a theory of cognition is a lost cause, but I'm curious why you think it is. I'm more inclined to suppose that the mind is massively modular along the lines given by Dan Sperber in Explaining Culture.
Interesting attitudes for a highschool teacher. Do you also call your Japanese students, Japs, your Mexican students, Wetbacks, your Asian students Chinks, and your gay students Fags?
If you'll kindly give me your actual name and the name and address of your school I will be happy to notify your employer of your behavior. I'm sure that they will be quite willing to take measures correcting this deficiency in your character. I understand that such steps towards self-improvement are often very difficult if not impossible to correct on one's own or at one's own initiative.
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No, but you could have the Supreme Court be composed of a rotating group of Federal judges who sit on the court for a year each.
Slashdot knows now.
There actually is a point here though. If you are mining the surface, you are going to create a lot of small debris that's going to float out and about. That could become a problem, don't you think?
Unless you are making some obtuse joke, you are simply wrong. Mars is full of superfine dust. In fact the Rover was stuck in some, until recently. It had the fine-ness of talcum powder.
You forgot to provide a link.
TFA? You mean trans-fatty-acids?
All hail the grammar nazi.