Yeah. If you hook one stranger chimp to an electrode and another chimp to a machine that will give them food but only by shocking the crap out of chimp #1. Chimp #2 will nearly starve itself. (even if the chimp isn't seen, and can just be heard)
They have plenty of compassion, and emotions. Emotions and morality aren't just human characteristics. We can even witness "moral" activity in plants. When one plant is attacked, they send out a chemical signal to other plants in the area warning of the impending attack, so that they can prepare themselves.
Nothing against egoism, but we should only declare that we kick ass to the extent that we kick ass.
So what if a hawk can see much better than I can. I shoot the hawk. So what if a cheetah can run must faster than I can. I shoot the cheetah. So what if a bird's cardiopulmonary system is better than mine. I can shoot the bird. So what if a dolphin can swim faster than I can. I shoot the dolphin. So what if most animals can fly and I can't. I shoot them. So what if I am restricted to land covering a tiny 25% of the Earth's surface. I shoot those water things. So what if bees can see ultraviolet colors. I crush them. So what if pit vipers can see infrared light. I will back away slowly. So what if owls can see 100 times better in the dark. I will shoot them. So what if dragonflies can see completely around themselves. I will crush them. So what if plants convert light into energy. I will eat them.
I rule over them all. I have tools. Better than otter tools. Better than chimp tools. Better than all other tool-users around... so only tool use matters. Suck it world of organisms with powers I obviously lack. I can't spit venom at you, or spin a web... but I can hit you with a shovel, and that's what really matters.
Not only are we animals. Properly we're apes. There's no valid grouping which could include chimps and gorillas but magically exclude humans. We're just one odd looking chimp. Third species of chimpanzee, less hair and better at tools.
Well, relativistically speaking, there's no difference between seven thousand years and seven thousand lightyears when talking about distance away in spacetime. If I were traveling at the speed of light, I would be there in no time (literally no time), though when you arrived it would be 7000 years later.
I stand by my comment. Eta Carinae is seven thousand years away.
Hm. If such a thing is constant then that star blew up years ago. It's seven thousand years away after all.
Wow, you really must be the youngest child...
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Average IQ is not the same thing as getting a higher degree. Simply because your brothers are laborers doesn't make them idiots. Though, the fact that you would "never believe a study that some moron publishes" doesn't go out of it's way to show how brilliant you are. Rather than finding some methodological problem with the study, you resort to calling the publisher a moron. Could it not be true that the study found higher IQs in the elder children because they were older, or because of the deaths of the previous eldest child. Studies have found that over ones lifespan the smartest people were still alive. They lost a set of Scottish IQ scores from about 50 years ago, found them again, then brought back in some of the people. The only people left were those who scored the highest on the test previously and they improved their scores for the most part. These two items could cause the skew in the study. The eldest child male might have been a died leaving a smarter second child to stand in his place, or the eldest male might have just been older and as a result done better on the test.
Though, all of that has nothing to do with your objections. You objected because it's doesn't apply in one case? How about all those people who kept cackling that "I'm the youngest and I'm not gay" - after that study which found rather than 3% youngest children stand a 5% chance of being gay. Average means it doesn't apply to everybody, just applies more often than it doesn't.
The cost of defending U.S. malpractice claims is estimated at $6.5 billion in 2001, only 0.46 percent of total health spending. The two most important reasons for higher U.S. spending appear to be higher incomes and higher medical care prices.
The medical insurance companies are making lots and lots of money, and that's not because they are giving services for the dollars they are taking in.
No. Guessing is simply the 25% bonus if you're one in four. The chance of passing the test is nearly null. You need to be 100 times smarter than that idiot who can only answer one question. Also, 2X as smart == 2X right answers? What the hell? My IQ is 140, find me somebody with an IQ of 70 and give us a test on anything. Sure as hell I'll get more than just twice as many right.
1 for right answer. -1/4 for wrong answer. 0 for no answer.
You know, Pluto had a good thing going until these stupid other transneptunian objects started to to clutter sky and make people turn on poor little Pluto. It's like being able exploit a flaw in a game. It works great for a while, but then a bunch of people do it and you're screwed.
No. It's a psychological barrier. They are going to kill us. The computer power doubles every 18 months the computer number doubles every five years and our intellect increases slowly by pure biological evolution (that's assuming it's even going in that direction). We're doomed!
There are statistics. They can tell you very valid information about groups of people without needing to ask all of them. A few thousand randomly selected people will do it. I personally don't know anybody who supports the war (even the staunch conservatives I know are opposed), nor would "people I know" be a qualified sample to make such a statement. Last poll found that, a majority of Republicans were against the war, honestly 51% of Republicans.
I didn't rip the number out of my ass, I took it from Gallop. The majority of people are to the left of the Democrats on the war. At least with this latest, lets keep funding this crap action taken the Dems in congress took. Independents oppose the war more than the Republicans and Democrats. For a group, that typically falls in the center that's pretty telling.
What? A skin cell can become an embryos and you think that there's nothing that comes to mind. Scratching ones arm is equivalent to genocide. In fact, the only thing cost us these precious lives is womb space. There's no excuses. All unoccupied wombs are murder!
No see, what happened there is we tried to send in the Kentucky folks. And they got crushed. He's saying that Alabamans could take you. That's something else. And besides I blame Napoleon for that loss anyhow. We were suppose to beat up the Dominion (Canada) with our navy, but Napoleon lost out and started to suck so all the Brits were there and we were in a lot more trouble.
We lost a war to the Dominion which was part of the British empire. Canada came long after...
Yeah, I can't support her because she's too right wing. So being lampooned as a left is downright amusing.
Though to be fair, oddly enough most everybody democrat today is to the right of the bulk of the American people on the Iraq War and several other issues.
Failure of imagination is an excuse. There was plenty of evidence that that was a very real possibility. It was widely known throughout the intelligence community.
Subject E-11 Blaster Rifle Calibration Still Off From Stormtrooper Commander 09731 Date A Long Time Ago 3:51 PM To Nardo Pace
As you know, the E-11 has come a long way since its initial prototype. Thanks to your hard work over the past three years the rifle no longer fires completely sideways, and with your latest revision, the number of casualties resulting from blaster fire being directed completely backwards has been drastically reduced.
That said, the E-11 still has some accuracy issues. We recently bolted one of the rifles to a testing mechanism so that it couldn't move even a millimeter, then set up a human-sized target six feet in front of the blaster's barrel. Shooting in two second intervals, we let the E-11 fire at the target continuously for three days.
The result? Not one shot hit the target. I realize you're busy, but perhaps we can go over the design one more time and iron this out.
Nah. You can add a slight weigh, perhaps a gun to the vest and it will be neutral buoyancy. I don't see how this could be seen as a disadvantage. The Kevlar is 1.4 the new vests are roughly neutral.
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Yeah. If you hook one stranger chimp to an electrode and another chimp to a machine that will give them food but only by shocking the crap out of chimp #1. Chimp #2 will nearly starve itself. (even if the chimp isn't seen, and can just be heard)
They have plenty of compassion, and emotions. Emotions and morality aren't just human characteristics. We can even witness "moral" activity in plants. When one plant is attacked, they send out a chemical signal to other plants in the area warning of the impending attack, so that they can prepare themselves.
Nothing against egoism, but we should only declare that we kick ass to the extent that we kick ass.
So what if a hawk can see much better than I can. I shoot the hawk.
So what if a cheetah can run must faster than I can. I shoot the cheetah.
So what if a bird's cardiopulmonary system is better than mine. I can shoot the bird.
So what if a dolphin can swim faster than I can. I shoot the dolphin.
So what if most animals can fly and I can't. I shoot them.
So what if I am restricted to land covering a tiny 25% of the Earth's surface. I shoot those water things.
So what if bees can see ultraviolet colors. I crush them.
So what if pit vipers can see infrared light. I will back away slowly.
So what if owls can see 100 times better in the dark. I will shoot them.
So what if dragonflies can see completely around themselves. I will crush them.
So what if plants convert light into energy. I will eat them.
I rule over them all. I have tools. Better than otter tools. Better than chimp tools. Better than all other tool-users around... so only tool use matters. Suck it world of organisms with powers I obviously lack. I can't spit venom at you, or spin a web... but I can hit you with a shovel, and that's what really matters.
Not only are we animals. Properly we're apes. There's no valid grouping which could include chimps and gorillas but magically exclude humans. We're just one odd looking chimp. Third species of chimpanzee, less hair and better at tools.
Well, relativistically speaking, there's no difference between seven thousand years and seven thousand lightyears when talking about distance away in spacetime. If I were traveling at the speed of light, I would be there in no time (literally no time), though when you arrived it would be 7000 years later.
I stand by my comment. Eta Carinae is seven thousand years away.
Hm. If such a thing is constant then that star blew up years ago. It's seven thousand years away after all.
Average IQ is not the same thing as getting a higher degree. Simply because your brothers are laborers doesn't make them idiots. Though, the fact that you would "never believe a study that some moron publishes" doesn't go out of it's way to show how brilliant you are. Rather than finding some methodological problem with the study, you resort to calling the publisher a moron. Could it not be true that the study found higher IQs in the elder children because they were older, or because of the deaths of the previous eldest child. Studies have found that over ones lifespan the smartest people were still alive. They lost a set of Scottish IQ scores from about 50 years ago, found them again, then brought back in some of the people. The only people left were those who scored the highest on the test previously and they improved their scores for the most part. These two items could cause the skew in the study. The eldest child male might have been a died leaving a smarter second child to stand in his place, or the eldest male might have just been older and as a result done better on the test.
Though, all of that has nothing to do with your objections. You objected because it's doesn't apply in one case? How about all those people who kept cackling that "I'm the youngest and I'm not gay" - after that study which found rather than 3% youngest children stand a 5% chance of being gay. Average means it doesn't apply to everybody, just applies more often than it doesn't.
Cuba has cigars not oil.
You see, the Cubans stole our casinos and overthrew our puppet government. Then they didn't let us take them back over. Fricking commies!
0.46% is litigation
The cost of defending U.S. malpractice claims is estimated at $6.5 billion in 2001, only 0.46 percent of total health spending. The two most important reasons for higher U.S. spending appear to be higher incomes and higher medical care prices.
The medical insurance companies are making lots and lots of money, and that's not because they are giving services for the dollars they are taking in.
This is a match made in heaven though. The mission critical nature of eVoting combined with the fantastic security of Microsoft.
There's a reason so many Computer Scientists oppose eVoting, we think we could steal an election if we tried... and that's just a wee bit too easy.
No. Guessing is simply the 25% bonus if you're one in four. The chance of passing the test is nearly null. You need to be 100 times smarter than that idiot who can only answer one question. Also, 2X as smart == 2X right answers? What the hell? My IQ is 140, find me somebody with an IQ of 70 and give us a test on anything. Sure as hell I'll get more than just twice as many right.
1 for right answer.
-1/4 for wrong answer.
0 for no answer.
Done.
Yeah, but Pluto got voted out... so now.
My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us NOTHING!
You know, Pluto had a good thing going until these stupid other transneptunian objects started to to clutter sky and make people turn on poor little Pluto. It's like being able exploit a flaw in a game. It works great for a while, but then a bunch of people do it and you're screwed.
No. It's a psychological barrier. They are going to kill us. The computer power doubles every 18 months the computer number doubles every five years and our intellect increases slowly by pure biological evolution (that's assuming it's even going in that direction). We're doomed!
Pah. Blind freaks can't tell a joke's a joke.
There are statistics. They can tell you very valid information about groups of people without needing to ask all of them. A few thousand randomly selected people will do it. I personally don't know anybody who supports the war (even the staunch conservatives I know are opposed), nor would "people I know" be a qualified sample to make such a statement. Last poll found that, a majority of Republicans were against the war, honestly 51% of Republicans.
I didn't rip the number out of my ass, I took it from Gallop. The majority of people are to the left of the Democrats on the war. At least with this latest, lets keep funding this crap action taken the Dems in congress took. Independents oppose the war more than the Republicans and Democrats. For a group, that typically falls in the center that's pretty telling.
What? A skin cell can become an embryos and you think that there's nothing that comes to mind. Scratching ones arm is equivalent to genocide. In fact, the only thing cost us these precious lives is womb space. There's no excuses. All unoccupied wombs are murder!
What's a Beavis and Butthead? I've heard my father talk about that, but not sure what it is.
No see, what happened there is we tried to send in the Kentucky folks. And they got crushed. He's saying that Alabamans could take you. That's something else. And besides I blame Napoleon for that loss anyhow. We were suppose to beat up the Dominion (Canada) with our navy, but Napoleon lost out and started to suck so all the Brits were there and we were in a lot more trouble.
We lost a war to the Dominion which was part of the British empire. Canada came long after...
Yeah, I can't support her because she's too right wing. So being lampooned as a left is downright amusing.
Though to be fair, oddly enough most everybody democrat today is to the right of the bulk of the American people on the Iraq War and several other issues.
if it wasn't for you meddling kids.
Failure of imagination is an excuse. There was plenty of evidence that that was a very real possibility. It was widely known throughout the intelligence community.
A computer programmer had just finished his project updating the COBOL code at his company, he was crossing the street and was hit by a bus.
Suddenly he found himself in a cryochamber with somebody standing in front of him saying "are you okay?"
"Why am I here?" the programmer asked.
"Well," the man replied... "The year in 9999, and we are preparing for the Y10K bug, and we heard you know COBOL."
No reason? Ahem, those IP addresses are going to get *VERY* valuable in about 3 years apparently.
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/nardo-design- empire.php
Subject E-11 Blaster Rifle Calibration Still Off
From Stormtrooper Commander 09731
Date A Long Time Ago 3:51 PM
To Nardo Pace
As you know, the E-11 has come a long way since its initial prototype. Thanks to your hard work over the past three years the rifle no longer fires completely sideways, and with your latest revision, the number of casualties resulting from blaster fire being directed completely backwards has been drastically reduced.
That said, the E-11 still has some accuracy issues. We recently bolted one of the rifles to a testing mechanism so that it couldn't move even a millimeter, then set up a human-sized target six feet in front of the blaster's barrel. Shooting in two second intervals, we let the E-11 fire at the target continuously for three days.
The result? Not one shot hit the target. I realize you're busy, but perhaps we can go over the design one more time and iron this out.
Nah. You can add a slight weigh, perhaps a gun to the vest and it will be neutral buoyancy. I don't see how this could be seen as a disadvantage. The Kevlar is 1.4 the new vests are roughly neutral.