and who the hell are you to decide what should be legal or illegal? when did we declare you the decider? was there a vote or something? hey slashdot, you forgot to inform me of the vote to make this guy the decider!!!
How Slashdotters approach all scientific articles:
1. Abounding skepticism.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Being extraordinarily skeptical isn't a bad thing, and is part of the scientific method. It IS a good thing.
Extraordinary claims without skepticism isn't science, it is religion.
Which is all well and good as soon as everyone can agree on what is and is not extraordinary.
Why not send ant colonies into space? They're cheaper than robots, and more adaptable than humans. The individual ants are easily dispensable, and with their fast breeding cycle we just let evolution do the mission design work for us. There's really no downside once you think about it for a minute, citizen.
Ant's still need life support. There not cheaper than robots if you take that into consideration.
"Today’s voters, aged 18-29 are among the most influential political forces in the world. They are also the weakest segment of eligible voters in the US when it comes to actually exercising their right to vote. Chants of “democracy now” and dozens of slogans decrying the loss of democracy in the US have become the latest rallying cry of this group. Yet, only 1 in 5 of this group actually voted in the 2010 elections, despite being eligible. This has earned the movement the moniker: Romper Room Revolution."
In Germany, comdoms are available in packs of 7. (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday etc). In France, packs of 9. (Twice a day at weekends!) And in England, packs of 12! (Jan, Feb, Mar...)
Tragedy of the Commons is the whole Musical Chair effect.
I went after the very simple Murder 1 and 2 where some person/group simply sets out to end other people's lives for pure gain as my starting point of What Not To Do.
I agree that those "Everyone play nice with your cows in the field" effects are far harder, but I wanted to keep it simple.
....and I wanted to point out that once you point out that when you remove divine as a motivator morality isn't simple or even rational.
FF11 and FF14 never seemed like they were FF games in the first place, so they didn't tarnish my perception of the brand, at least as far as I'm aware. On the other hand, FFX, FFX-2, FF12, and FF13...
Hey now FFX was a good game and I'm pretty sure the sequel was just some lame fan fiction that people mistook for a real release.
Yes, so we can text during class, and send each other answers during the tests. Seriously, there is no reason a young child needs a cellphone at school. Land lines are (still) available in every office for emergencies, changes in plans for after school, etc.
What about out of school? When they're walking to/from school? When they're with friends, on a weekend? No, they don't *need* it, but that's not the point, nobody in the developed world *needs* a mobile phone, since there are payphones and landlines.
When you send your universities overseas, all the benefits that come from those universities also go overseas, such as the partnerships with companies in doing research. Why would students bother moving back to the high-COL US and working for a company here, when they can just stay in India and work there? The only reason they'd come back here is for a higher paycheck, but with the currency going down the toilet (which this move would accelerate), that won't be true for long. Pretty soon, the US is going to turn into a third-world country, with all the best and brightest moving out to places that have fewer problems.
That would be a problem if India didn't actively discourage the hiring of foreign help when they have plenty of qualified candidates already there.
This is all Matt Groening's fault. Before the "Abe Simpson" character debuted, older Americans were treated with respect in every industry, from modelling to aeronautics, as they are in every other nation in the world.
Was that back when people wore onions on there belts?
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Wow. Does that mean that everyone who is unemployed right now could get people's attention by just making their own nameless ID badge?
My own ID is 3 steps more classified than that, though. There's no bar code, no photo, and no ID number.
You don't need to know any more than that.
Pfff....... I don't even have a badge my "company" is so secret they can't risk giving them out.
Bottled water. You can't explain that!
Bottled water, how does it work!
and who the hell are you to decide what should be legal or illegal? when did we declare you the decider? was there a vote or something? hey slashdot, you forgot to inform me of the vote to make this guy the decider!!!
You can't decide he's not he decider!
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Being extraordinarily skeptical isn't a bad thing, and is part of the scientific method. It IS a good thing.
Extraordinary claims without skepticism isn't science, it is religion.
Which is all well and good as soon as everyone can agree on what is and is not extraordinary.
I suspected this earlier but now I'm sure I posted in the wrong thread.
It's not like the assignation of one man ever caused a world war.
Why not send ant colonies into space? They're cheaper than robots, and more adaptable than humans. The individual ants are easily dispensable, and with their fast breeding cycle we just let evolution do the mission design work for us. There's really no downside once you think about it for a minute, citizen.
Ant's still need life support. There not cheaper than robots if you take that into consideration.
. So unless you have a warp engine on the drawing board, you can pretty much forget that.
All we need to do is build a ship entirely out of neutrinos.
Here is a very good description of the protestors
"Today’s voters, aged 18-29 are among the most influential political forces in the world. They are also the weakest segment of eligible voters in the US when it comes to actually exercising their right to vote. Chants of “democracy now” and dozens of slogans decrying the loss of democracy in the US have become the latest rallying cry of this group. Yet, only 1 in 5 of this group actually voted in the 2010 elections, despite being eligible. This has earned the movement the moniker: Romper Room Revolution."
Yeah that pretty much sums it up.
Will Lenard do the voice over for Civilization VI?
Civ IV was the peak of his career and you all know it!
In Germany, comdoms are available in packs of 7. (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday etc). In France, packs of 9. (Twice a day at weekends!) And in England, packs of 12! (Jan, Feb, Mar ...)
That's too clever your one of them!
Breeding shall now be restricted to once every seven years. For some of us this will mean less mating. For some of us it will be much much more.
Tragedy of the Commons is the whole Musical Chair effect.
I went after the very simple Murder 1 and 2 where some person/group simply sets out to end other people's lives for pure gain as my starting point of What Not To Do.
I agree that those "Everyone play nice with your cows in the field" effects are far harder, but I wanted to keep it simple.
....and I wanted to point out that once you point out that when you remove divine as a motivator morality isn't simple or even rational.
Also you never answered my question.
Yes there certainly is a rational foundation for morality. Let's start with the easy ones.
Murder is Bad. Why? Because it's against Human Life. Theft is Bad. Why? Because it's against Human Progress, which makes Human Life harder.
Why should I care about human life and human progress as long as my own life and progress are doing well?
You can't solve the tragedy of the commons with arm chair philosophy.
I disagree, FF 1 thru 7 and still classics, it is when they changed and "innovated" that they went downhill.
FF8 was an awesome game. The level of difficulty just placed it our of the casual players reach.
FF11 and FF14 never seemed like they were FF games in the first place, so they didn't tarnish my perception of the brand, at least as far as I'm aware. On the other hand, FFX, FFX-2, FF12, and FF13...
Hey now FFX was a good game and I'm pretty sure the sequel was just some lame fan fiction that people mistook for a real release.
"ERROR DATABASE CONNECTION"
I was just thinking that.....amazing.
Yes, so we can text during class, and send each other answers during the tests. Seriously, there is no reason a young child needs a cellphone at school. Land lines are (still) available in every office for emergencies, changes in plans for after school, etc.
What about out of school? When they're walking to/from school? When they're with friends, on a weekend? No, they don't *need* it, but that's not the point, nobody in the developed world *needs* a mobile phone, since there are payphones and landlines.
What's a payphone?
I don't like the new layout either.
THERE ARE FOUR CORES!
I don't know how you could be so mistaken.
Are you sure? I don't know Scotty's back story.
Scotty was the chosen one foretold in prophesy.
You mad bro?
No I didn't.
It doesn't even respond to internet meme's.
Where's my hoverboard?
Right here where they have been for years.
When you send your universities overseas, all the benefits that come from those universities also go overseas, such as the partnerships with companies in doing research. Why would students bother moving back to the high-COL US and working for a company here, when they can just stay in India and work there? The only reason they'd come back here is for a higher paycheck, but with the currency going down the toilet (which this move would accelerate), that won't be true for long. Pretty soon, the US is going to turn into a third-world country, with all the best and brightest moving out to places that have fewer problems.
That would be a problem if India didn't actively discourage the hiring of foreign help when they have plenty of qualified candidates already there.
This is all Matt Groening's fault. Before the "Abe Simpson" character debuted, older Americans were treated with respect in every industry, from modelling to aeronautics, as they are in every other nation in the world.
Was that back when people wore onions on there belts?