You have to be careful with blanket statements like that though as some people group all alternative and non-western medicine in the same category as homeopathic medicine while in some cases, such as acupuncture (Scientific research into efficacy) there is a growing consensus that it does work for some disorders. Likewise, if you go back and look at the various other forms of treatment that people had in Europe prior to the rise of modern medicine, one of the more prominent was various forms of Herbalism which also have provable results. However, prior to the placebo effect being well known, it would be mistaken for something that actually worked, hence you have some historic recipes that claim to work for something and in fact don't.
The only problem with this is that they tend to be spottily enforced - I was walking around a museum one time with my camera bag and a couple security guards made sure to remind me not to take pictures (this museum had a spotty "You can take pictures here, but not here" with exhibit areas you could take pictures of clearly marked) but a young woman walking around with a basic point and shot with the flash on didn't get bothered in the no picture areas.
But as someone else pointed out - it might also just be a matter of them getting an error message when they try and lower the salary of someone using the application.
Officers can't get demoted to an enlisted rank - but they can be "dismissed" from service which, IIRC, also means that they forfeit their retirement pay plus all of the other perks. For a brigadier general, the retirement pay starts at about $30,000.
I disagree - the extent of walking and biking depends upon the part of the country you are in. For example, in Boston, MA there are a lot of people who will walk or bike where they need to go and it is due to the fact that it is a more convenient way to get around in the city than a car is. Plus, Boston is also a very pedestrian friendly city with the subway stops being (mostly) logically paced within a short walk of most places that you want to get to.
But that also might buy us enough time to figure out an efficient enough means of mining for minerals in other parts of the solar system. People always say that right now we "have no reason to go into space," but needing to mine minerals that are used in industry would be enough of a prompt to get us up in space that the argument would then be lost.
Wikipedia to the rescue - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge - London Bridge is actually pretty interesting as well as the original one was demolished, the second one was moved to Arizona, and the third one currently standing in London was built between 1967 and 1972.
Actually, the laws are a bit more in line with "Stop on yellow if you can safely to do so." So in other words, if you are not able to stop safely (ie. slamming on your breaks) then you shouldn't stop on yellow.
However, it does depend on where you live, and it usually isn't something you want to argue if you get pulled over.
I don't think it was the fact that they were drawing up a star chart to decide the case so much as the juror was indicating they were not basing their decision on the facts of the case presented in the trial. The juror would have likely been just as likely to be removed if they asked the judge for a coin to flip to make their decision with.
I'm not sure if the others have brought this up or not, but there is also a lack of medical oversight involved that is needed to ensure that the organs are suitable for transfer and that the individual did not have any undiagnosed illnesses.
There is a way to indicate the handling charges separate from the actual shipping charges in the bill. If the handling charges are necessary (i.e. packaging and the trip to the post office) then that should just be listed on its on with the actual postage separate. There is no reason that a DVD should have $10 worth of shipping costs associated with it if you are shipping media mail.
However, as another poster pointed out, the system could first place the simulation residents into a "paused" state, preform the universal state calculations, and once complete updated the residents of the simulation with the current universal state. Thus, the computation time to generate the state might increase, but from the perspective of residents the updates would be real time.
So then the only way of determining if the universe is a simulation is to find a bug in the system, which may or may not cause it to crash losing all data?
There are only a couple of planets in the solar system that are even potentially hospitable. If your concern is the future of the human race, then having a few thousand spinning colonies (and we can always build more) is a better risk than a couple of planets.
I think that might be debatable, but it all comes down to how fast you can move the orbital colonies out of the way of large rocks, and how they respond to getting hit by small rocks. If you can't move them out of the way than a planet is arguably a bit safer in the event of a meteor collision where as an entire orbital colony can be knocked out by a pebble sized rock.
I find that to be a bit pessimistic. Given the current state of technology you are likely close to accurate, although I would argue that the Moon will likely get colonized for Helium-3, but you are assuming that we aren't going to advance in terms of long distance travel. If the speed of light cannot be broken then I doubt that humans will get much farther than our only solar system (pure population will eventually start pushing us off planet or major wars will take place) but if the speed of light can be broken then it goes without saying that we will start looking for Earth-like planets - if any are found there would be people living there roughly the next day.
Of course, that always begs the question of "Who says that we haven't?" After all, a submersible carrier would be major tactical point in battle to the point that you would almost want it to be secret if you managed to accomplish it.
Probably would be irrelevant to the judge if the grandparent modified the contract before signing it - the company representatives should have reviewed signing. Once both parties signed the contract it becomes binding - if you update your contract to include a $10,000 termination bonus the company either has to refuse to sign the contract, or honor the agreement.
Why not just call them by their name (or profile name)? Mine is lena or lena_10326. Hello. That really isn't an acceptable solution either - think of it this way, when you are writing a business letter do you spell out people names all of the time? The answer is no, you may mention their name once or twice, but usually once you mention their name you refer to them by either their gender specific pronoun, or by a gender neutral pro-noun. As one of the grandparents pointed out, in English "he" can either be gender specific, or gender neutral and as such is acceptable if you don't know the gender of a person. If you want to go the politically correct route you use either "he/she" or "they" which may not may not be appropriate depending upon the circumstances - in the context of internet conversation, they are usual not appropriate. Thus, until such time that someone comes up with a new, widely accepted, gender neutral term, the default that people back on will likely be "he."
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You have to be careful with blanket statements like that though as some people group all alternative and non-western medicine in the same category as homeopathic medicine while in some cases, such as acupuncture (Scientific research into efficacy) there is a growing consensus that it does work for some disorders. Likewise, if you go back and look at the various other forms of treatment that people had in Europe prior to the rise of modern medicine, one of the more prominent was various forms of Herbalism which also have provable results. However, prior to the placebo effect being well known, it would be mistaken for something that actually worked, hence you have some historic recipes that claim to work for something and in fact don't.
I was actually thinking of Ghost in the Shell myself.
The only problem with this is that they tend to be spottily enforced - I was walking around a museum one time with my camera bag and a couple security guards made sure to remind me not to take pictures (this museum had a spotty "You can take pictures here, but not here" with exhibit areas you could take pictures of clearly marked) but a young woman walking around with a basic point and shot with the flash on didn't get bothered in the no picture areas.
This would suggest that the system was totally inflexable... which I doubt.
Except this happens to be a government system, so this makes perfect sense.
But as someone else pointed out - it might also just be a matter of them getting an error message when they try and lower the salary of someone using the application.
Officers can't get demoted to an enlisted rank - but they can be "dismissed" from service which, IIRC, also means that they forfeit their retirement pay plus all of the other perks. For a brigadier general, the retirement pay starts at about $30,000.
The enemy's gate is down.
I disagree - the extent of walking and biking depends upon the part of the country you are in. For example, in Boston, MA there are a lot of people who will walk or bike where they need to go and it is due to the fact that it is a more convenient way to get around in the city than a car is. Plus, Boston is also a very pedestrian friendly city with the subway stops being (mostly) logically paced within a short walk of most places that you want to get to.
But wouldn't that make it a series of tubes?
But that also might buy us enough time to figure out an efficient enough means of mining for minerals in other parts of the solar system. People always say that right now we "have no reason to go into space," but needing to mine minerals that are used in industry would be enough of a prompt to get us up in space that the argument would then be lost.
Wikipedia to the rescue - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge - London Bridge is actually pretty interesting as well as the original one was demolished, the second one was moved to Arizona, and the third one currently standing in London was built between 1967 and 1972.
Simple, one person wanted 15% the other one wanted 20% so they split it down the middle and rounded down.
Actually, the laws are a bit more in line with "Stop on yellow if you can safely to do so." So in other words, if you are not able to stop safely (ie. slamming on your breaks) then you shouldn't stop on yellow.
However, it does depend on where you live, and it usually isn't something you want to argue if you get pulled over.
I don't think it was the fact that they were drawing up a star chart to decide the case so much as the juror was indicating they were not basing their decision on the facts of the case presented in the trial. The juror would have likely been just as likely to be removed if they asked the judge for a coin to flip to make their decision with.
I'm not sure if the others have brought this up or not, but there is also a lack of medical oversight involved that is needed to ensure that the organs are suitable for transfer and that the individual did not have any undiagnosed illnesses.
There is a way to indicate the handling charges separate from the actual shipping charges in the bill. If the handling charges are necessary (i.e. packaging and the trip to the post office) then that should just be listed on its on with the actual postage separate. There is no reason that a DVD should have $10 worth of shipping costs associated with it if you are shipping media mail.
However, as another poster pointed out, the system could first place the simulation residents into a "paused" state, preform the universal state calculations, and once complete updated the residents of the simulation with the current universal state. Thus, the computation time to generate the state might increase, but from the perspective of residents the updates would be real time.
If you sit and wait long enough I can assure you that the cat will not be alive.
So then the only way of determining if the universe is a simulation is to find a bug in the system, which may or may not cause it to crash losing all data?
I think that might be debatable, but it all comes down to how fast you can move the orbital colonies out of the way of large rocks, and how they respond to getting hit by small rocks. If you can't move them out of the way than a planet is arguably a bit safer in the event of a meteor collision where as an entire orbital colony can be knocked out by a pebble sized rock.
I find that to be a bit pessimistic. Given the current state of technology you are likely close to accurate, although I would argue that the Moon will likely get colonized for Helium-3, but you are assuming that we aren't going to advance in terms of long distance travel. If the speed of light cannot be broken then I doubt that humans will get much farther than our only solar system (pure population will eventually start pushing us off planet or major wars will take place) but if the speed of light can be broken then it goes without saying that we will start looking for Earth-like planets - if any are found there would be people living there roughly the next day.
Of course, that always begs the question of "Who says that we haven't?" After all, a submersible carrier would be major tactical point in battle to the point that you would almost want it to be secret if you managed to accomplish it.
Probably would be irrelevant to the judge if the grandparent modified the contract before signing it - the company representatives should have reviewed signing. Once both parties signed the contract it becomes binding - if you update your contract to include a $10,000 termination bonus the company either has to refuse to sign the contract, or honor the agreement.
But can you convert that to Smoots?