I remember hearing about this information many many years ago, when they had managed to get the monkey to control a robot arm. It seems they are moving up in the world, or, as the poster above states, they are merely programming a robot to walk and a monkey to think "walk." Regardless, the six-year-old article, http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2000/monkeys-1206.html/ gives some context to what they have been doing.
Not quite right, either. The Soldier of the Future does wear light body armor, but he moves in with his squad of light infantry. Has at his disposal trucks and humvees, no tanks, no flybys. The metaphor for our current situation is "We are Goliath, and our enemies are acting like David." Who would YOU root for? The reason Iraq, and the reason Vietnam are/were such failures is because of a lack of ability in deescalating the situation. We need soldiers who don't act as marines, who are taught "When something doesn't work, get a better gun" but soldiers who are taught to act like Police, "At all costs, tone down the situation." The real problem with Iraq and Vietnam is that the people we were trying to liberate obviously didn't want us there. Things could have been different, however. We leveled entire cities dressed as ROBOcop, while the people we are fighting against are, to the Iraqi civilians, real human beings.
His base of operations is not a secret desert compound miles away from the indigenous peoples, it is in a city that has ACTUALLY been liberated. The soldier of the future uses his M16 against their AK-47, NOT his Sherman Tank. He carries chocolate for crying children. He picks up the language, and shops in the local stores. If we are going to act like we are liberating a country, we have to act like we did when we liberated Europe from the Nazis. Did we carpet bomb Paris? The soldier of the future kills only his enemies efficiently, quietly, and carefully, and does not make new ones to refill their ranks.
Quit your chirping. Remember the accuracy of lifelines in Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.
When contestants called to phone a friend, a trusted credible expert, that expert was correct 65% of the time;
however, when contestants instead opted to poll the audience, the audience was correct 91% of the time. What's that tell you? That when it comes to simple stuff like WWTBAM questions, or, say, News that's pertinent to the populous at large crowds kick the crap out of your so called "editors."
1. Make a legitimate looking Myspace account of person you would like to cyberbully.
2. Direct cyberbullying towards yourself in the name of your subject.
3. Watch as the haplessly ignorant administration lays down the law!
Exactly, human beings don't think in letters. We think words, concepts, even ideas at a time. Just imagine sounding out words letters at a time. It would have taken me three times as long to write this, but I guess we can look forward to a world where people are better at spelling....
or maybe just one where AOLer speak reigns supreme. Lol.
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I remember hearing about this information many many years ago, when they had managed to get the monkey to control a robot arm. It seems they are moving up in the world, or, as the poster above states, they are merely programming a robot to walk and a monkey to think "walk." Regardless, the six-year-old article, http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2000/monkeys-1206.html/ gives some context to what they have been doing.
Don't patronize us. We've all seen episode #45, The Gamesters of Triskelion.
Not quite right, either. The Soldier of the Future does wear light body armor, but he moves in with his squad of light infantry. Has at his disposal trucks and humvees, no tanks, no flybys. The metaphor for our current situation is "We are Goliath, and our enemies are acting like David." Who would YOU root for?
The reason Iraq, and the reason Vietnam are/were such failures is because of a lack of ability in deescalating the situation. We need soldiers who don't act as marines, who are taught "When something doesn't work, get a better gun" but soldiers who are taught to act like Police, "At all costs, tone down the situation." The real problem with Iraq and Vietnam is that the people we were trying to liberate obviously didn't want us there. Things could have been different, however. We leveled entire cities dressed as ROBOcop, while the people we are fighting against are, to the Iraqi civilians, real human beings.
His base of operations is not a secret desert compound miles away from the indigenous peoples, it is in a city that has ACTUALLY been liberated. The soldier of the future uses his M16 against their AK-47, NOT his Sherman Tank. He carries chocolate for crying children. He picks up the language, and shops in the local stores. If we are going to act like we are liberating a country, we have to act like we did when we liberated Europe from the Nazis. Did we carpet bomb Paris?
The soldier of the future kills only his enemies efficiently, quietly, and carefully, and does not make new ones to refill their ranks.
Quit your chirping. Remember the accuracy of lifelines in Who Wants To Be a Millionaire. When contestants called to phone a friend, a trusted credible expert, that expert was correct 65% of the time; however, when contestants instead opted to poll the audience, the audience was correct 91% of the time. What's that tell you? That when it comes to simple stuff like WWTBAM questions, or, say, News that's pertinent to the populous at large crowds kick the crap out of your so called "editors."
1. Make a legitimate looking Myspace account of person you would like to cyberbully. 2. Direct cyberbullying towards yourself in the name of your subject. 3. Watch as the haplessly ignorant administration lays down the law!
Exactly, human beings don't think in letters. We think words, concepts, even ideas at a time. Just imagine sounding out words letters at a time. It would have taken me three times as long to write this, but I guess we can look forward to a world where people are better at spelling.... or maybe just one where AOLer speak reigns supreme. Lol.