>> The community is self-governing, relying primarily on social pressure to enforce the established core norms
The real trouble with this approach is not that a few people get control, but that it inevitably leads to a real bias in the Wikipedia entries themselves.
>> The problem I've got with room-scale isn't the tech so much as the games,
Jeez its hardly out yet give it a chance. With any new gaming device hitting the market the first games it ships with are always mostly crap. Exactly the same has happened so far with every version of Xbox and Playstation launch too.
Cool you have a solid reason thats great. It sounds like you haven't tried Vive yet. You need to before you write off "gimmicky" room-scale though. I kinda thought the same but after I tried a Vive my mind has very definitely been opened.
>>> The solution for some has now been to cancel their order, order Rift+PC bundles...and cancel the PC portion.
Seems to me the far better move would be to just order a Vive instead. You'd not only get it sooner but you'd also get room-scale VR, a front camera and hand controllers immediately instead of still having to wait for Touch to come out even after you finally received your Rift.
I would guess that the South Korean government would gladly trade a few hundred artillery shells hitting Seoul for the whole of North Korea getting nuked by the US. Of course they'd never admit that publicly because they have to be seen to believe that every South Korean life is sacred.
>> If the charge of, say, weapons of mass destruction, is real, I'm sure the US does not want to risk it.
It seems to me that if he proves he really does have significant nuclear capability and also keeps looking more and more like a psychopath by doing increasingly crazy/threatening shit, he's actually making it MORE likely to get a visit from the US military, not less likely.
nuclear battleground? If they dared to launch anything against the US, the whole of Nork would simply get reduced to a giant glowing crater within seconds, and Kim Jong is not yet delusional enough to not know this too. The show he's putting on is all to do with exerting control over his own people with fear of their own military. It has really nothing to do with the outside world.
...presuming those health studies aren't just a gravy train to keep executives employed, which many are. Most studies are run by drug companies, they explicitly don't want to find an actual cure for things, just ways to temporarily offset symptoms, because that means so they get residual payments for life, not just a one-time hit. More often than not drug companies are just looking for new patentable drugs that do the same job as those they already have because the ones they already have are falling out of patent so can't get as high prices (i.e. profit) in future because of new competition.
I think he's talking about his own conscious self-awareness, not his genes.
>> For millions of us there is no doubt that we'll live forever.
Given the number I'm assuming you're talking about Christianity? In which case, you're wrong about your own faith. There are many versions of Chrsitianity (Lutherans, Roman Catholics, Baptists, Quakers, Protestants, etc etc) and equally as many versions of what exactly will happen, but as far as I am aware, they all explicitly say you will NOT live forever, but that both believers and non-believers will be resurrected by God at some future date. Note that they also all conspicuously avoid making any promises about you retaining any of your prior memory, i.e. you remaining "yourself" as opposed to, say, being as a newborn or a zombie.
I guess you can stand up if you want. Thats about all I can think of. What I mostly see with this is more downsides than just a tower and a regular desk.
>> Kurzweil claims that he spends "a few thousand dollars per day" (or roughly a million dollar a year) on diet pills and eating right. Kurzweil takes 100 pills a day (down from 250 a few years ago...
Typical American "Money is the answer to everything" mindset. The obvious proof that it doesn't work is that he still actually looks his age. It seems to me that the best thing you can do for yourself is eat simply and regularly exercise, avoid drugs, live a happy stress-free life (which includes not worrying about things you can't change, such as aging/death and the insane belief that there's a pill for everything).
Difference is, when this was happening, Bradley Manning had been arrested by the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division, was still in the Army, and was being temporarily held in the Marine Corps base in Qunatico with POI status (Prevention of Injury), after being placed on suicide watch from his own actions while being detained in Kuwait earlier.
I dont have a credit card, have travelled quite a lot, and have never had that problem. I have a mortgage and have had car loans though, maybe something like that is enough.
well not really, I guess taste is in the eye of the beholder or whatever but I personally don't think its a great looking car either.
(except for the hideous wrap) Its certainly not ugly like all other EVs, and (except for the hideous wrap) it doesn't look metrosexual like all other EVs, so I guess thats a good thing.
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>> "wisdom of the crowd,"
Everything I've ever seen in my 52+ years of life confirms that sentence is an oxymoron.
>> The community is self-governing, relying primarily on social pressure to enforce the established core norms
The real trouble with this approach is not that a few people get control, but that it inevitably leads to a real bias in the Wikipedia entries themselves.
Clapper is a moron who is totally failing to see the bigger picture.
>> The problem I've got with room-scale isn't the tech so much as the games,
Jeez its hardly out yet give it a chance. With any new gaming device hitting the market the first games it ships with are always mostly crap. Exactly the same has happened so far with every version of Xbox and Playstation launch too.
Aw heck no you wont catch me doing any advocating.
Cool you have a solid reason thats great. It sounds like you haven't tried Vive yet. You need to before you write off "gimmicky" room-scale though. I kinda thought the same but after I tried a Vive my mind has very definitely been opened.
I think its a tightening mistook because like me he's concerned enough to use a smelling chekov
Yeah damn those new things to try. Everything is a lot easier if you just stay in bed all day and never move out of your parents basement.
>>> The solution for some has now been to cancel their order, order Rift+PC bundles...and cancel the PC portion.
Seems to me the far better move would be to just order a Vive instead. You'd not only get it sooner but you'd also get room-scale VR, a front camera and hand controllers immediately instead of still having to wait for Touch to come out even after you finally received your Rift.
That was exactly my point. I'm glad you picked up on it.
I would guess that the South Korean government would gladly trade a few hundred artillery shells hitting Seoul for the whole of North Korea getting nuked by the US.
Of course they'd never admit that publicly because they have to be seen to believe that every South Korean life is sacred.
>> If the charge of, say, weapons of mass destruction, is real, I'm sure the US does not want to risk it.
It seems to me that if he proves he really does have significant nuclear capability and also keeps looking more and more like a psychopath by doing increasingly crazy/threatening shit, he's actually making it MORE likely to get a visit from the US military, not less likely.
Chances are they would be sub-launched from the sea of Japan. THey wouldn't go anywhere near China.
nuclear battleground? If they dared to launch anything against the US, the whole of Nork would simply get reduced to a giant glowing crater within seconds, and Kim Jong is not yet delusional enough to not know this too.
The show he's putting on is all to do with exerting control over his own people with fear of their own military. It has really nothing to do with the outside world.
OK so which SF politicians just coincidentally also own a solar panel company?
Agreed, however there's something far worse about drug companies doing it since they're profiting directly from people's suffering and even death.
...presuming those health studies aren't just a gravy train to keep executives employed, which many are.
Most studies are run by drug companies, they explicitly don't want to find an actual cure for things, just ways to temporarily offset symptoms, because that means so they get residual payments for life, not just a one-time hit.
More often than not drug companies are just looking for new patentable drugs that do the same job as those they already have because the ones they already have are falling out of patent so can't get as high prices (i.e. profit) in future because of new competition.
I think he's talking about his own conscious self-awareness, not his genes.
>> For millions of us there is no doubt that we'll live forever.
Given the number I'm assuming you're talking about Christianity? In which case, you're wrong about your own faith. There are many versions of Chrsitianity (Lutherans, Roman Catholics, Baptists, Quakers, Protestants, etc etc) and equally as many versions of what exactly will happen, but as far as I am aware, they all explicitly say you will NOT live forever, but that both believers and non-believers will be resurrected by God at some future date.
Note that they also all conspicuously avoid making any promises about you retaining any of your prior memory, i.e. you remaining "yourself" as opposed to, say, being as a newborn or a zombie.
I guess you can stand up if you want. Thats about all I can think of.
What I mostly see with this is more downsides than just a tower and a regular desk.
>> Kurzweil claims that he spends "a few thousand dollars per day" (or roughly a million dollar a year) on diet pills and eating right. Kurzweil takes 100 pills a day (down from 250 a few years ago...
Typical American "Money is the answer to everything" mindset. The obvious proof that it doesn't work is that he still actually looks his age.
It seems to me that the best thing you can do for yourself is eat simply and regularly exercise, avoid drugs, live a happy stress-free life (which includes not worrying about things you can't change, such as aging/death and the insane belief that there's a pill for everything).
Nice vague arm-wavy random insult response to the actual facts there moron.
Difference is, when this was happening, Bradley Manning had been arrested by the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division, was still in the Army, and was being temporarily held in the Marine Corps base in Qunatico with POI status (Prevention of Injury), after being placed on suicide watch from his own actions while being detained in Kuwait earlier.
I dont have a credit card, have travelled quite a lot, and have never had that problem.
I have a mortgage and have had car loans though, maybe something like that is enough.
well not really, I guess taste is in the eye of the beholder or whatever but I personally don't think its a great looking car either.
(except for the hideous wrap) Its certainly not ugly like all other EVs, and (except for the hideous wrap) it doesn't look metrosexual like all other EVs, so I guess thats a good thing.
but its hardly practical or affordable by normal working people is it?