You might just write that paying for mistakes is also, in large part, paying for what was "given" in early years.
Too bad only in very few places people realise that there's some social contract involved...yelling at "elders" that you're paying for their life now (so it would be decent on their part not to meddle too much) doesn't seem to be common enough to do the trick (seems people can't escape mourning over past youth so much that they consider it a reward in itself...). But OTOH that would require realisation, on the part of young ones, why they have kids.
"Forced"? If it expects certain things at large (not going into specifics; it might, or might not be the one discussed in TFA), a.k.a. wants them, then it will take steps to make them happen...
/me raises hand (well, now not exactly a kid anymore...)
Mind you, as you almost wrote (not as strongly as you should though, IMHO) - not wishing to exist in the first place (crucial distinction) is absolutelly different thing from suicide (also a "pleasant" one)
It's "ok, I'd prefer not to exist on such terms...but I do exist (so now what?)". Or, to put it in different light, suicide would very strongly invalidate that wish by requiring a very focused, drastic action.
You live and undoubtedly get benefits from functioning in certain society. It's only reasonable that this society expects things in return; especially if those things (like getting a better educated members of it in the future) benefit the society.
Thing is, it "forced" people to choose only when their specific variant of beliefs rejects ad hoc current scientific knowledge (in which case those people would want to answer that way, no dillema for them).
Actually, how you portray it might be not accurate (yes, I've not only RTFA now, which doesn't give clear picture, but also source documents: deleted part of (unedited here) chapter in question
Notice that it seems the questions about evolution or Big Bang weren't put "against gods" at all. They were just of true/false statement form, about established scientific knowledge. There is no dichotomy with gods there! They don't even touch on the subject of gods at all! There is of course dichotomy with another statement, "god created everything in the past few thousand years"...but that has nothing to do really with belief in god.
Image the Earth drifting out beyond the Oort Cloud, frozen and dark with the sun nothing more than another star in the sky.
Earth would go into massive "ice age" (with even most of the atmosphere eventually freezing) and we would learn to live much more sustainably in what would be essentially underwater habitats, probably. Sure, population would be vastly reduced in the process, but we wouldn't die out...
Thanks to the solidifying of the atmosphere, reaching space would become much easier. Which we would use on the first appropriate occasion to reach something more habitable (if it would be even required for us by then)
How "direct" is the thermal engine in case of those underwater gliders that you mention? (and anyway, from what I've heard I was under impression that gliders generally store all required energy in batteries; why wouldn't they, if this new approach of thermal engine just showed up and seems is just in a buoy for now?)
I was wondering about very direct approach - using contraction and expansion of materials (specific for temperatures expected during particular mission) which don't follow "normal" thermal expansion, to directly affect buoyancy in desired way. Now that I think about it, even with buoyancy pump included anyway (to stay on the surface when required), it still might be worthwile considering the pump wouldn't have to work against nearly the same pressures?
Are you sure "nor penetrating the handset market" (of which Nokia has 40% wordwide...and that's all mobile phones, not only "smartphone") goes together with China lack of saturation?...
I wonder...with the temperatures in the deep quite predictable, likewise at the surface in targeted time period and location, perhaps underwater glider with buoyancy control via passive mass having "weird" thermal expansion properties would be also feasible? Who knows if worthwhile though, with less precision and need for control pump anyway, for surfacing...
Only partially true - neglecting surrounding infrastructure not present in PC world, Dirac the codec seems to be ready, "production" kind of ready. BBC apparently uses it for internal needs / transmission.
I'd guess it's mostly about 90->50% scenario; current ARMs are quite powerfull, certainly enough for video in resolutions which make sense on devices that are likely to play them. But for those devices battery is probably the most limiting thing nowadays...and ARM has great ways of conserving it; if it is given the chance, if not on constant high cpu usage.
Not a showstopper - you just provide most / all of the acceleration early in the flight (say, when the probe is still firmly in the Solar System), and after that use the source of propulsion for other probe...or even for beaming energy to Earth for use as electricity.
I wonder, can you give a quick answer how complete is tricking 3G into thinking it's 3GS? Do also the features that officially the hardware doesn't support, like video recording, suddenly work?
I'm sorry, what? What Apple intruduced isn't even full multitasking, doesn't put that much of a strain on CPU & RAM. Besides, other platforms could multitask just fine for a long time, om much more modest hardware...
Wouldn't it be easier to just mention by far the most popular products falling into general categories instead of two quite obscure ones?
Like...Nokia (they ship Webkit browser with S60, half of smartphone market, since forever; plus lately with mainstream "featurephone" S40) and Safari. Users of those should be pleased too, you know...
Christian fundies will read the Bible allright...but they will hold as fundamental from it only what they want (it's easy with all the ambiguities). If that's the conviction the end is near, so be it!
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So you don't benefit at all for living in a rather educated society?...
You might just write that paying for mistakes is also, in large part, paying for what was "given" in early years.
Too bad only in very few places people realise that there's some social contract involved...yelling at "elders" that you're paying for their life now (so it would be decent on their part not to meddle too much) doesn't seem to be common enough to do the trick (seems people can't escape mourning over past youth so much that they consider it a reward in itself...). But OTOH that would require realisation, on the part of young ones, why they have kids.
"Forced"? If it expects certain things at large (not going into specifics; it might, or might not be the one discussed in TFA), a.k.a. wants them, then it will take steps to make them happen...
/me raises hand (well, now not exactly a kid anymore...)
Mind you, as you almost wrote (not as strongly as you should though, IMHO) - not wishing to exist in the first place (crucial distinction) is absolutelly different thing from suicide (also a "pleasant" one)
It's "ok, I'd prefer not to exist on such terms...but I do exist (so now what?)". Or, to put it in different light, suicide would very strongly invalidate that wish by requiring a very focused, drastic action.
You live and undoubtedly get benefits from functioning in certain society. It's only reasonable that this society expects things in return; especially if those things (like getting a better educated members of it in the future) benefit the society.
Thing is, it "forced" people to choose only when their specific variant of beliefs rejects ad hoc current scientific knowledge (in which case those people would want to answer that way, no dillema for them).
(RTFA? Hm, I see you're rather new here... ;) )
Actually, how you portray it might be not accurate (yes, I've not only RTFA now, which doesn't give clear picture, but also source documents: deleted part of (unedited here) chapter in question
Notice that it seems the questions about evolution or Big Bang weren't put "against gods" at all. They were just of true/false statement form, about established scientific knowledge. There is no dichotomy with gods there! They don't even touch on the subject of gods at all! There is of course dichotomy with another statement, "god created everything in the past few thousand years"...but that has nothing to do really with belief in god.
It basically is the function of the body's gravitational field for bodies that are, basically, composed only of the atmosphere.
Actually, looking at oceans (and airborne bacteria)...you don't really need surface for life to thrive.
Image the Earth drifting out beyond the Oort Cloud, frozen and dark with the sun nothing more than another star in the sky.
Earth would go into massive "ice age" (with even most of the atmosphere eventually freezing) and we would learn to live much more sustainably in what would be essentially underwater habitats, probably. Sure, population would be vastly reduced in the process, but we wouldn't die out...
Thanks to the solidifying of the atmosphere, reaching space would become much easier. Which we would use on the first appropriate occasion to reach something more habitable (if it would be even required for us by then)
How "direct" is the thermal engine in case of those underwater gliders that you mention? (and anyway, from what I've heard I was under impression that gliders generally store all required energy in batteries; why wouldn't they, if this new approach of thermal engine just showed up and seems is just in a buoy for now?)
I was wondering about very direct approach - using contraction and expansion of materials (specific for temperatures expected during particular mission) which don't follow "normal" thermal expansion, to directly affect buoyancy in desired way. Now that I think about it, even with buoyancy pump included anyway (to stay on the surface when required), it still might be worthwile considering the pump wouldn't have to work against nearly the same pressures?
Are you sure "nor penetrating the handset market" (of which Nokia has 40% wordwide...and that's all mobile phones, not only "smartphone") goes together with China lack of saturation?...
I wonder...with the temperatures in the deep quite predictable, likewise at the surface in targeted time period and location, perhaps underwater glider with buoyancy control via passive mass having "weird" thermal expansion properties would be also feasible? Who knows if worthwhile though, with less precision and need for control pump anyway, for surfacing...
Only partially true - neglecting surrounding infrastructure not present in PC world, Dirac the codec seems to be ready, "production" kind of ready. BBC apparently uses it for internal needs / transmission.
I'd guess it's mostly about 90->50% scenario; current ARMs are quite powerfull, certainly enough for video in resolutions which make sense on devices that are likely to play them. But for those devices battery is probably the most limiting thing nowadays...and ARM has great ways of conserving it; if it is given the chance, if not on constant high cpu usage.
Even if we could do it, we should probably never try...lest it will be mistaken for an attack ;)
Not a showstopper - you just provide most / all of the acceleration early in the flight (say, when the probe is still firmly in the Solar System), and after that use the source of propulsion for other probe...or even for beaming energy to Earth for use as electricity.
That's kinda also what I've meant - they will read it allright...just the parts they want to read.
I wonder, can you give a quick answer how complete is tricking 3G into thinking it's 3GS? Do also the features that officially the hardware doesn't support, like video recording, suddenly work?
So...open sourcing Symbian or making Qt really free is also marketing?...
Rhetorical question: is my old Nokia E50 (211 MHz or so ARM11, 20 MB user ram) ability to run 3-5 apps without slowdown related to magic?
I'm sorry, what? What Apple intruduced isn't even full multitasking, doesn't put that much of a strain on CPU & RAM. Besides, other platforms could multitask just fine for a long time, om much more modest hardware...
Shame? It's a not bad starting point...
Wouldn't it be easier to just mention by far the most popular products falling into general categories instead of two quite obscure ones?
Like...Nokia (they ship Webkit browser with S60, half of smartphone market, since forever; plus lately with mainstream "featurephone" S40) and Safari. Users of those should be pleased too, you know...
Christian fundies will read the Bible allright...but they will hold as fundamental from it only what they want (it's easy with all the ambiguities). If that's the conviction the end is near, so be it!