If you think I'm going to post on/. to detail every incremental step on a path to an idological utopia... well, I'll be laughing at you instead of with you.
Use your imagination, would you? Us dreamers are the only hope this planet's got left.
Grow your hair long and think for yourself. Question authority.
With sun-powered desalination of sea water we can make the deserts bloom. With making the UN admit that they have lost the war on drugs we could make the deserts bloom with few pesticide AND cover it with a fibrous carpet to slow down erosion, by growing hemp. The fertilizer is easily provided by the world's industry lobbyists, put their bullshit to good use.
The seeds from oil hemp could power diesel cars, with a pleasant nutty aroma and byproducts of protein, vitamin, and fibrous cellulose.
Hemp is one of the fastest growing biomasses known,[6] producing up to 25 tonnes of dry matter per hectare per year,[7] and one of the earliest domesticated plants known.[8] For a crop, hemp is relatively environmentally friendly as it requires few pesticides[9] and no herbicides.[10]
Industrial hempseed oil is used in lubricants, paints, inks, fuel and plastics.... The oil is of high nutritional value because its 3:1 ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 essential fatty acids, which matches the balance required by the human body.[1]
If I glanced correctly at this article, which does ramble on, prions are rogue proteins which aren't just detrimental to the organism, but cause other proteins to mutate as well. It wasn't clear to me if they do this by altering the genetic code or the neighbouring proteins directly.
The host organism may apparently have DNA of such nature that a random mutation reliably triggers the disease symptoms. This indicates to me that the code molecules exist in a higher energetic state and them getting upset makes them fall to a predictable lower energetic state which happens to produce malignant proteins.
This doesn't seem to be about wether or not prions are alive, but if disease is living. I think that instead of giving life a broader sense, we need to split the concept up to be more specific. I would be comfortable calling things that have neurons and therefre possess intelligence "living", and everything else "biomass". That way a tree isn't alive, but it is capable of becoming dead biomass. A person in a coma isn't alive, but enters the category of biomass.
Of course more useful definitons are possible. This is just something to tickle your creativity.
I see two problems, one is greed and the other is the brain damage the lawyers must have incurred in not recognizing the simple fact you stated. That, or they know about it and their greed feeds off the greed of the PKD silverspoons.
If not, I'll start googling every cool word combination I've ever used online and start demand royalties. Knowing a bit about authorship, PKD probably shat them out on an assembly line and would put the spoiled brats he left behind over his knee if he found out about this, if for nothing else than their lack of imagination.
Unfortunately those who jump up to such defence are by majority much more enthusiastic than skillful or informed. They provide their detractors with a straw man to beat up, and get loud and obnoxious in their own failing. The detractor then promptly declares victory on false grounds. That such arguments are motivated by wanting to "win" it rather than wishing to learn something new speaks of their futility.
Having spoken with people who are very well-informed, and sometimes skilled, in spiritual arts I form the impression that they have very little inclination to 'defend' their views and tend to only open up into discussion with their peers.
A group worse than either of these are those who are in possession of a little knowledge and then dangerously use it to charm and influence others, even becoming cult leaders and other such false gurus. Then their hapless students pick an argument with a skeptic of any calibre and get their asses handed to them...
"Primitive" in regards to peoples is deprecated. The past few generations of our culture has consumed our resources as quickly as they could, without thought to our children, or our children's children. This is a failure, a divorce from nature, of darwinian proportions. I'm sad to note that some of our contemporaries that I have spoken to intend to procreate and still in their own lifetime use up the resources of their own offspring.
Speaking as a human male intent of protecting my young, I'm well within my rights to become a force of natural selection. We must soon advance on a personal level to no longer need more than the quintessential Australian aboriginal. Imagine, if you will, yourself in their clothes by the side of a road as a glutton in a SUV drives by, when re-evaluate the meaning of "primitive".
Speaking of dying cultures, I can hardly believe I'm reading comments like this modded up. I think we've come far in not being the ones who dismiss the knowledge of our ancestors. When I first became a reg on this site it felt like my fellow slashdotters were trying to wipe my memory and reinstall Linux when I voiced such opinions.:b
Knowledge for the sake of knowledge. Feels good man.
A matter flow could transfer the heat to a sink. With this level of technology it seems cost-effective.
Other than that, aren't the nannytubes slightly supraconductive or something? X-box hueg electron mobility, the internet told me. Shouldn't be there be much less powerloss this way?
And while I'm on it, a little bird told me that according to the physics only erasing bits 'costs' energy. Some real-world CPU design allows the system to return to any previous state by running backwards, since it hasn't erased any bits.
Did I just outline the theoretical limit for non-quantum computers?
"Islamic" is way too wide a generalization here. Consequence of similar is a confusion of terms leading to communications breakdown and more violence. I propose "extremist", "fundamentalist" without additional qualifier, and even "terrorist" as substitute.
I hope one day the Persians and their neighbours will realize the AK-47 is the image of evil. Things didn't escalate to this level of brutality when they solved their problems with long knives.
Perfect solution to the problems the Iranians are having with their gov't. Build it for them and they can voice no protest other than "we want the big bombs so the world will take us seriously."
The sparks from the plugs are inside the Faraday cage of the combustion chamber. If the leads to the plugs are shielded (I haven't gotten around to dissecting a set yet.), there should be no radiation.
Yes, but this is mathematics. We can't even use car analogies in this bat county.
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. - Bertrand Russell
Mathematics deals with concepts of Truth and Beauty, and it has no love for compromise. The symbolic language of mathematics exists because it is succinct, not because it is easy to comprehend, and human minds are more maellable than natural laws of causality and number. There is no pleasure greater than understanding, so even if Perleman took it upon himself to invest the wealth in question in development countries, the social status and good karma this would earn him pales in comparison to the satisfaction of his subtle accomplishment.
Maybe I should have rephrased that... Seriously though, many body-building women would probably love an alternative to beard growth. Maybe this could do away with some social stigmata.
Oooh... Very purty. An purtyness is important because everybody loves bright colours moving around. Just think about how many people stop to watch a house burning down.
I suspect with some qualifiers you could generate terrain which yields interesting tactics. High mountain ranges and water are obstacles to be reckoned with; quite unlike artifical and invisible barries which determine the end of the map. This way you could make an entire planet's worth of map and not have it take up eleventy terabytes.
How about automatically generating cities, roads, bridges, powerlines, pipelines, and whatnot? Population centers are weighted towards waterlines, preferring rivers... Rivers? So we need another algorithm to erode the landscape. This is getting complicated. >_>
Anybody know of a free terrain generator? How about a physics engine that does basic aerodynamics? I want to create a non-gore FPS game where indestructible robots from the far future go about their business Tribes-like, but it's sport instead of war and they leap 1 000 ft and glide through the air instead of using jet-packs.
It sounds so easy in my mind... And why shouldn't it be since so much of this stuff is already developed?
Let's roll. I just finished disassembling an Epson printer to clean the nozzles after I had its ink refilled by a local businessman specialized in the task. I now have an undying hatred for Epson, and planning on testing the killer machine I'll create from the parts at their HQ.
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"Well if google does it, it's OK."
Namespace is a natural resource. A renewable one?
If you think I'm going to post on /. to detail every incremental step on a path to an idological utopia... well, I'll be laughing at you instead of with you.
Use your imagination, would you? Us dreamers are the only hope this planet's got left.
Is there anything I can do to help?
Grow your hair long and think for yourself. Question authority.
With sun-powered desalination of sea water we can make the deserts bloom. With making the UN admit that they have lost the war on drugs we could make the deserts bloom with few pesticide AND cover it with a fibrous carpet to slow down erosion, by growing hemp.
The fertilizer is easily provided by the world's industry lobbyists, put their bullshit to good use.
The seeds from oil hemp could power diesel cars, with a pleasant nutty aroma and byproducts of protein, vitamin, and fibrous cellulose.
Hemp is one of the fastest growing biomasses known,[6] producing up to 25 tonnes of dry matter per hectare per year,[7] and one of the earliest domesticated plants known.[8] For a crop, hemp is relatively environmentally friendly as it requires few pesticides[9] and no herbicides.[10]
Industrial hempseed oil is used in lubricants, paints, inks, fuel and plastics. ... The oil is of high nutritional value because its 3:1 ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 essential fatty acids, which matches the balance required by the human body.[1]
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp_oil
And so a remnance of my empire once vast and impenetrable falls from the sky. Damn you Flash Gordon. Eventually I will get off this rock.
It's not a fallacy. It's a plain falsehood.
Arguably fallacy is a really nice word to use, but it's still not appropriate in this case.
Accurate simulation of proposed robot vs. human war:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life
Territorial dispute only exists in meatspace. With self-optimization 640k ought to be enough for anyone.
They make me drowsy and hungry. I asked for medical cannabis.
Oh, the ironing. It shirts.
If I glanced correctly at this article, which does ramble on, prions are rogue proteins which aren't just detrimental to the organism, but cause other proteins to mutate as well. It wasn't clear to me if they do this by altering the genetic code or the neighbouring proteins directly.
The host organism may apparently have DNA of such nature that a random mutation reliably triggers the disease symptoms. This indicates to me that the code molecules exist in a higher energetic state and them getting upset makes them fall to a predictable lower energetic state which happens to produce malignant proteins.
This doesn't seem to be about wether or not prions are alive, but if disease is living. I think that instead of giving life a broader sense, we need to split the concept up to be more specific. I would be comfortable calling things that have neurons and therefre possess intelligence "living", and everything else "biomass". That way a tree isn't alive, but it is capable of becoming dead biomass. A person in a coma isn't alive, but enters the category of biomass.
Of course more useful definitons are possible. This is just something to tickle your creativity.
I see two problems, one is greed and the other is the brain damage the lawyers must have incurred in not recognizing the simple fact you stated.
That, or they know about it and their greed feeds off the greed of the PKD silverspoons.
If not, I'll start googling every cool word combination I've ever used online and start demand royalties. Knowing a bit about authorship, PKD probably shat them out on an assembly line and would put the spoiled brats he left behind over his knee if he found out about this, if for nothing else than their lack of imagination.
Unfortunately those who jump up to such defence are by majority much more enthusiastic than skillful or informed. They provide their detractors with a straw man to beat up, and get loud and obnoxious in their own failing. The detractor then promptly declares victory on false grounds. That such arguments are motivated by wanting to "win" it rather than wishing to learn something new speaks of their futility.
Having spoken with people who are very well-informed, and sometimes skilled, in spiritual arts I form the impression that they have very little inclination to 'defend' their views and tend to only open up into discussion with their peers.
A group worse than either of these are those who are in possession of a little knowledge and then dangerously use it to charm and influence others, even becoming cult leaders and other such false gurus. Then their hapless students pick an argument with a skeptic of any calibre and get their asses handed to them...
No one said free thought was going to be easy.
"Primitive" in regards to peoples is deprecated. The past few generations of our culture has consumed our resources as quickly as they could, without thought to our children, or our children's children. This is a failure, a divorce from nature, of darwinian proportions. I'm sad to note that some of our contemporaries that I have spoken to intend to procreate and still in their own lifetime use up the resources of their own offspring.
Speaking as a human male intent of protecting my young, I'm well within my rights to become a force of natural selection. We must soon advance on a personal level to no longer need more than the quintessential Australian aboriginal. Imagine, if you will, yourself in their clothes by the side of a road as a glutton in a SUV drives by, when re-evaluate the meaning of "primitive".
Speaking of dying cultures, I can hardly believe I'm reading comments like this modded up. I think we've come far in not being the ones who dismiss the knowledge of our ancestors. When I first became a reg on this site it felt like my fellow slashdotters were trying to wipe my memory and reinstall Linux when I voiced such opinions. :b
Knowledge for the sake of knowledge. Feels good man.
A matter flow could transfer the heat to a sink. With this level of technology it seems cost-effective.
Other than that, aren't the nannytubes slightly supraconductive or something? X-box hueg electron mobility, the internet told me. Shouldn't be there be much less powerloss this way?
And while I'm on it, a little bird told me that according to the physics only erasing bits 'costs' energy. Some real-world CPU design allows the system to return to any previous state by running backwards, since it hasn't erased any bits.
Did I just outline the theoretical limit for non-quantum computers?
Could someone set up a torrent? I'll go buy a few external drives...
I want to know if Plato was just BSing us. Perhaps other lost civilizations could be found?
Perhaps 30 meters isn't enough?
"Islamic" is way too wide a generalization here. Consequence of similar is a confusion of terms leading to communications breakdown and more violence.
I propose "extremist", "fundamentalist" without additional qualifier, and even "terrorist" as substitute.
I hope one day the Persians and their neighbours will realize the AK-47 is the image of evil. Things didn't escalate to this level of brutality when they solved their problems with long knives.
Perfect solution to the problems the Iranians are having with their gov't. Build it for them and they can voice no protest other than "we want the big bombs so the world will take us seriously."
The sparks from the plugs are inside the Faraday cage of the combustion chamber. If the leads to the plugs are shielded (I haven't gotten around to dissecting a set yet.), there should be no radiation.
In Soviet Russia, drives war you!
This is a pretty pragmatic argument I'm making,
Yes, but this is mathematics. We can't even use car analogies in this bat county.
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
- Bertrand Russell
Mathematics deals with concepts of Truth and Beauty, and it has no love for compromise. The symbolic language of mathematics exists because it is succinct, not because it is easy to comprehend, and human minds are more maellable than natural laws of causality and number.
There is no pleasure greater than understanding, so even if Perleman took it upon himself to invest the wealth in question in development countries, the social status and good karma this would earn him pales in comparison to the satisfaction of his subtle accomplishment.
As an ordained Pope of Discordia, I hereby excommunicate this Vatican fellow from all the realms. That'll shut him up. Haha!
Am I the only one who has this fetish?
Maybe I should have rephrased that... Seriously though, many body-building women would probably love an alternative to beard growth. Maybe this could do away with some social stigmata.
Oooh... Very purty. An purtyness is important because everybody loves bright colours moving around. Just think about how many people stop to watch a house burning down.
I suspect with some qualifiers you could generate terrain which yields interesting tactics. High mountain ranges and water are obstacles to be reckoned with; quite unlike artifical and invisible barries which determine the end of the map. This way you could make an entire planet's worth of map and not have it take up eleventy terabytes.
How about automatically generating cities, roads, bridges, powerlines, pipelines, and whatnot? Population centers are weighted towards waterlines, preferring rivers... Rivers? So we need another algorithm to erode the landscape. This is getting complicated. >_>
Anybody know of a free terrain generator? How about a physics engine that does basic aerodynamics? I want to create a non-gore FPS game where indestructible robots from the far future go about their business Tribes-like, but it's sport instead of war and they leap 1 000 ft and glide through the air instead of using jet-packs.
It sounds so easy in my mind... And why shouldn't it be since so much of this stuff is already developed?
Let's roll. I just finished disassembling an Epson printer to clean the nozzles after I had its ink refilled by a local businessman specialized in the task. I now have an undying hatred for Epson, and planning on testing the killer machine I'll create from the parts at their HQ.
I think I'll call my creation the "Blood-Jet".