"Leaking through walls" isn't a bug, it's a feature; I don't want to wire my whole house for Ethernet just to have wireless in every room, as that defeats the purpose.
Try Total Annihilation, it's the game that came up with most of what we take for granted in terms of RTS controls (and the spiritual ancestor of Supreme Commander). Unfortunately the AI is relatively predictable, but it's still great fun if you play against another person (especially with the 5000 unit cap patch).
That is pure speculation the parents came up with in order to avoid some measure of responsibility, and that the media is running with because of the spectacle.
The child is now dead, there is no way to ask her what she thought. The mother was not there - she said that the child "likely" confused the gun for a Wii controller - so she doesn't know. Basically, the whole "she thought it was a wii controller!" thing is some shit they made up because they can't handle the fact that they killed their child, and not grounded in reality.
The kid picked up the gun and started playing with it because that's what kids do, regardless of the presence of a Wii in the house. In fact, I would argue that if she killed herself, it is more likely that she was not pretending that the gun was a Wii controller - she would have pointed it away from herself if that was the case, because that's the only way you can get a real effect from one.
Seriously, take a closer look at the article - the Wii connection is obviously something the parents made up.
The most common reason I have heard for not doing that is because then people don't go to class.
Honestly though, I'm fine with that - if you provide lecture notes before class and I don't go to class, that's because your lecture sucks and the notes already have everything I need. If I do go to class, I'm glad that those douchebags who'd normally be going just for the lecture notes are absent. It's basically win-win no matter what.
That's not how it works at all - we only experience the realities in which the LHC hasn't destroyed reality. All other realities have been destroyed, so we're not around to experience them. No timestream editing required.
That's also why you aren't dead - you are not around to experience all of the realities in which you are dead, so you never will.
On a more rational note: in order for unlikely events to happen, you need time and space. The more space you have, the less time it takes for something unlikely to happen in that space. The LHC is an incredibly delicate, incredibly closely monitored, extremely large thing (there's 17 miles of some of the highest tech stuff ever in there). Of course weird stuff is going to happen to it.
Or! We could require that people in service industries be paid a reasonable, livable wage, and not be forced to rely on the vagaries of my poor math skills.
Man, one thing I loved doing in Ragnarok Online back before it required a subscription was taking my area of effect spellcaster dude out into the newbie fields and dropping some vendor trash. There's this wimpy little non-aggressive jelly in the game that seeks out trash on the ground and picks it up; some glitch in either the spawning AI or the jelly AI made it so that if you put a lot of trash on the ground, a ton of jellies would end up spawning and mobbing your trash pile. I'd spam my AOE attack, kill them all, and end up with even more vendor trash and some useful items. Rinse and repeat a couple of times, and you'd end up with three or four of the ultra rare item those jellies sometimes dropped, which made it worthwhile (and corralling all those jellies was fun, too). Sometimes one jelly would weather my attacks, grab everything, and run off before I could kill it - presumably to be killed by a very lucky newbie later on.
The only hard part was convincing the inquisitive newbies to leave the trash on the ground instead of picking it up and running off. Usually they eventually understood that by helping me bait the trap they could end up with even more cash afterwards (since the jellies weren't aggressive, they could pick off the stragglers and I'd let them have a share of the vendor trash), but some douchebags would just grab as much as they could and run off.
That's why we need to pass some legislation along the lines of "only one subject per bill" and "you must be present for a full reading of a bill before you are eligible to vote for it". It will never happen, of course, because that would remove most of the conniving involved in writing bills.
Also, if you live in Southern California, you usually get next-day shipping for free since their main warehouse is down here. I've ordered stuff Monday morning, paid $3 extra for rush shipping, and received it Tuesday afternoon.
By your argument, fertility clinics should also get the fertilized egg's consent before disposing of it, or before freezing it (which may lead to the destruction of the egg). We're already doing that no matter what; why is being used for science worse than being destroyed or frozen with only a slim chance of being revived before you are destroyed?
On the other hand, I think it is entirely appropriate to leave the decision of whether or not the egg can be used for science up to the egg's progenitors.
Using embryonic stem cells is not at all ethically questionable. They come from the left-over embryos from IVF treatments that would otherwise be thrown away or stored until someone else is willing to try using them.
When it becomes questionable is when these embryos are generated specifically for their stem cells. This is not, however, something that will happen in the foreseeable future.
IVF protocol involves creating multiple embryos, and attempting to implant them a few at a time. Because there's little marginal cost in generating many embryos over generating one embryo (while you're extracting eggs, you might as well get as many as you can), there are almost always leftovers which the genetic parents do not need. These are either disposed of or stored for people who cannot generate embryos.
There are something like 700,000 IVF treatments a year. That's enough to both supply people who cannot create their own embryos as well as any researchers, and if the scientists don't discover anything worthwhile with embryonic stem cells it won't be an issue - and if they do find some treatments that are worth the effort, then we can discuss the ethical implications.
2 weeks? At my company, we get maybe one. Unless you're an executive, at which point you can come in at noon and leave at four, and that still counts as a work day.
Right, because in a country the size of the United States, the government can only focus on one thing at a time ever. And because spending federal tax money is the only way to improve Internet speeds, instead of you know maybe encouraging the development of local municipal ISPs or perhaps more stringently regulating the existent telecom companies.
So? We've also got New York, LA, San Fransisco, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Houston, Phoenix... and none of them have the speeds that Tokyo does, or if they do you have to live in exactly the right spot.
It's funny - whenever someone on Slashdot says "yeah well I live in America and I have this really great plan through $ISP", $ISP is never Verizon, Comcast, AT&T, TWC or one of the other major providers (actually I'm not even sure there's a major provider I haven't listed here - Ma Bell is reconstituting herself). It's always some small provider like Roadrunner or Brighthouse out in the middle of nowhere.
In California, for instance, Brighthouse does offer some plans - if you live in Bakersfield. And all you can get is 7 Mbit/s down for $90 a month, bundled with a TV plan. Why? Because the big network providers have a stranglehold on California.
Just after they started selling games in those new small boxes, I was looking around in a Gamestop. I noticed that almost all of their copies of Morrowind looked kinda weird - kinda rough around the edges. I picked one up and looked at it.
Someone had come in, cut the seal open, and snuck the game CD out of the box. From the looks of things, this had happened to almost all of the boxes they had in stock.
Almost all matter observable from the Earth seems to be made of matter rather than antimatter.
So clearly we seem to have some way of discerning between matter and antimatter. From some more research, this result seems to come from the fact that we know what matter/antimatter annihilation looks like, and almost nothing we see in the cosmos looks like that (there's apparently a lot of it near the center of the galaxy, due to the intense gravity doing something-or-other). Therefore, almost everything we can see should be of the same type of matter, because it doesn't all explode constantly - and because it doesn't all explode constantly against us, it's probably all the same kind of matter as we are*.
Note that the link I cited is from 1998; here is a blog post that may more accurately reflect the current understanding of how the apparent disparity between matter and antimatter came about (I don't know, I'm not an astrophysicist).
*Seems like a good setup for a science fiction story, though - we finally develop FTL travel, but none of the ships ever come back. Eventually it turns out that oops the rest of the universe is made out of matter and we're the ones made out of antimatter.
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Lulz can neither be created nor destroyed, but can only be transferred along the meme-flux?
It would explain why old jokes get less funny over time, I guess.
A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire
Holy shit, apparently I live in the future and I didn't realize it.
"Leaking through walls" isn't a bug, it's a feature; I don't want to wire my whole house for Ethernet just to have wireless in every room, as that defeats the purpose.
Try Total Annihilation, it's the game that came up with most of what we take for granted in terms of RTS controls (and the spiritual ancestor of Supreme Commander). Unfortunately the AI is relatively predictable, but it's still great fun if you play against another person (especially with the 5000 unit cap patch).
That is pure speculation the parents came up with in order to avoid some measure of responsibility, and that the media is running with because of the spectacle.
The child is now dead, there is no way to ask her what she thought. The mother was not there - she said that the child "likely" confused the gun for a Wii controller - so she doesn't know. Basically, the whole "she thought it was a wii controller!" thing is some shit they made up because they can't handle the fact that they killed their child, and not grounded in reality.
The kid picked up the gun and started playing with it because that's what kids do, regardless of the presence of a Wii in the house. In fact, I would argue that if she killed herself, it is more likely that she was not pretending that the gun was a Wii controller - she would have pointed it away from herself if that was the case, because that's the only way you can get a real effect from one.
Seriously, take a closer look at the article - the Wii connection is obviously something the parents made up.
The most common reason I have heard for not doing that is because then people don't go to class.
Honestly though, I'm fine with that - if you provide lecture notes before class and I don't go to class, that's because your lecture sucks and the notes already have everything I need. If I do go to class, I'm glad that those douchebags who'd normally be going just for the lecture notes are absent. It's basically win-win no matter what.
That's not how it works at all - we only experience the realities in which the LHC hasn't destroyed reality. All other realities have been destroyed, so we're not around to experience them. No timestream editing required.
That's also why you aren't dead - you are not around to experience all of the realities in which you are dead, so you never will.
On a more rational note: in order for unlikely events to happen, you need time and space. The more space you have, the less time it takes for something unlikely to happen in that space. The LHC is an incredibly delicate, incredibly closely monitored, extremely large thing (there's 17 miles of some of the highest tech stuff ever in there). Of course weird stuff is going to happen to it.
Or! We could require that people in service industries be paid a reasonable, livable wage, and not be forced to rely on the vagaries of my poor math skills.
Man, one thing I loved doing in Ragnarok Online back before it required a subscription was taking my area of effect spellcaster dude out into the newbie fields and dropping some vendor trash. There's this wimpy little non-aggressive jelly in the game that seeks out trash on the ground and picks it up; some glitch in either the spawning AI or the jelly AI made it so that if you put a lot of trash on the ground, a ton of jellies would end up spawning and mobbing your trash pile. I'd spam my AOE attack, kill them all, and end up with even more vendor trash and some useful items. Rinse and repeat a couple of times, and you'd end up with three or four of the ultra rare item those jellies sometimes dropped, which made it worthwhile (and corralling all those jellies was fun, too). Sometimes one jelly would weather my attacks, grab everything, and run off before I could kill it - presumably to be killed by a very lucky newbie later on.
The only hard part was convincing the inquisitive newbies to leave the trash on the ground instead of picking it up and running off. Usually they eventually understood that by helping me bait the trap they could end up with even more cash afterwards (since the jellies weren't aggressive, they could pick off the stragglers and I'd let them have a share of the vendor trash), but some douchebags would just grab as much as they could and run off.
Where do you think I got the idea? I was just in too much of a rush to find the link.
That's why we need to pass some legislation along the lines of "only one subject per bill" and "you must be present for a full reading of a bill before you are eligible to vote for it". It will never happen, of course, because that would remove most of the conniving involved in writing bills.
Also, if you live in Southern California, you usually get next-day shipping for free since their main warehouse is down here. I've ordered stuff Monday morning, paid $3 extra for rush shipping, and received it Tuesday afternoon.
By your argument, fertility clinics should also get the fertilized egg's consent before disposing of it, or before freezing it (which may lead to the destruction of the egg). We're already doing that no matter what; why is being used for science worse than being destroyed or frozen with only a slim chance of being revived before you are destroyed?
On the other hand, I think it is entirely appropriate to leave the decision of whether or not the egg can be used for science up to the egg's progenitors.
Using embryonic stem cells is not at all ethically questionable. They come from the left-over embryos from IVF treatments that would otherwise be thrown away or stored until someone else is willing to try using them.
When it becomes questionable is when these embryos are generated specifically for their stem cells. This is not, however, something that will happen in the foreseeable future.
IVF protocol involves creating multiple embryos, and attempting to implant them a few at a time. Because there's little marginal cost in generating many embryos over generating one embryo (while you're extracting eggs, you might as well get as many as you can), there are almost always leftovers which the genetic parents do not need. These are either disposed of or stored for people who cannot generate embryos.
There are something like 700,000 IVF treatments a year. That's enough to both supply people who cannot create their own embryos as well as any researchers, and if the scientists don't discover anything worthwhile with embryonic stem cells it won't be an issue - and if they do find some treatments that are worth the effort, then we can discuss the ethical implications.
Well? Don't just leave me hanging here man!
2 weeks? At my company, we get maybe one. Unless you're an executive, at which point you can come in at noon and leave at four, and that still counts as a work day.
EA would never do that!
How about I called it, as (I assume) did anyone who gave the entire stupid scheme more than a moment's thought.
Right, because in a country the size of the United States, the government can only focus on one thing at a time ever. And because spending federal tax money is the only way to improve Internet speeds, instead of you know maybe encouraging the development of local municipal ISPs or perhaps more stringently regulating the existent telecom companies.
So? We've also got New York, LA, San Fransisco, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Houston, Phoenix... and none of them have the speeds that Tokyo does, or if they do you have to live in exactly the right spot.
It's funny - whenever someone on Slashdot says "yeah well I live in America and I have this really great plan through $ISP", $ISP is never Verizon, Comcast, AT&T, TWC or one of the other major providers (actually I'm not even sure there's a major provider I haven't listed here - Ma Bell is reconstituting herself). It's always some small provider like Roadrunner or Brighthouse out in the middle of nowhere.
In California, for instance, Brighthouse does offer some plans - if you live in Bakersfield. And all you can get is 7 Mbit/s down for $90 a month, bundled with a TV plan. Why? Because the big network providers have a stranglehold on California.
You know who else is "electro-hypersensitive"?
Dracula, that's who.
And he has about as good a chance of existing as a real "electro-hypersensitive" human being.
Just after they started selling games in those new small boxes, I was looking around in a Gamestop. I noticed that almost all of their copies of Morrowind looked kinda weird - kinda rough around the edges. I picked one up and looked at it.
Someone had come in, cut the seal open, and snuck the game CD out of the box. From the looks of things, this had happened to almost all of the boxes they had in stock.
And yet the Wikipedia article on Antimatter says,
So clearly we seem to have some way of discerning between matter and antimatter. From some more research, this result seems to come from the fact that we know what matter/antimatter annihilation looks like, and almost nothing we see in the cosmos looks like that (there's apparently a lot of it near the center of the galaxy, due to the intense gravity doing something-or-other). Therefore, almost everything we can see should be of the same type of matter, because it doesn't all explode constantly - and because it doesn't all explode constantly against us, it's probably all the same kind of matter as we are*.
Note that the link I cited is from 1998; here is a blog post that may more accurately reflect the current understanding of how the apparent disparity between matter and antimatter came about (I don't know, I'm not an astrophysicist).
*Seems like a good setup for a science fiction story, though - we finally develop FTL travel, but none of the ships ever come back. Eventually it turns out that oops the rest of the universe is made out of matter and we're the ones made out of antimatter.