Science has proven that homosexuality in women isn't as genetic as homosexuality in men. So we aren't at too much risk - we just have to not piss them off so much that they start experimenting. Unfortunately, that may also mean not encouraging them to make out with their friends when a camera is around.
I have strange trouble with some (but not all) WMV files. It disappears when I delete the ffmpeg plugin (because I guess it falls back directly on the Windows binary?), but then I can't play some other files that require ffmpeg. It drives me nuts, and caused me to install mplayer.
I tend to agree that "people kill people"; however, there is a point to be made about the correlation between extremism and a religion's age.
Let's take a look at the majority of "Jews". Yeah, not too religious. And "Catholics"? Nope. I could ramble off some more religions and sects, but you get the point. Yes, correlation doesn't equal causation and the rule doesn't hold true 100% of the time, but it's something interesting to think about.
My girlfriend's really smart/analytical but tends to not be a very good multitasker. For example, she can't think and avoid walking into objects at the same time.
If you could cite any studies on women vs men in this arena I'd be particularly interested.
Oh this will be awesome if they get AIDs from dirty needles! Not only will their immune system be helpless in the first place, but then it'll try to fight off the vicious cocaine.
Telling people to raise their own kids is not comparable to watching a house burn and not calling 911. If you think so, then you are a borderline fascist.
Ron Paul is no savior for this country, he is just another republican looking to weaken the government. More like... the only Republican looking to weaken the government. In fact, the only presidential candidate looking to weaken the government.
You either believe government should be in our lives, in which case you have to share its power between election cycles, or you believe government shouldn't be in our lives. Saying "I like big government doing X" means that in order to get X, you have to also inadvertently support Y since, eventually, it will be Y-supporter's turn to be in power.
Bush got his war, and it looks like Hillary will get her health care. Both sides get what they want, and the taxpayers are the ones who lose.
That's a good idea. Let's get rid of barcodes on medications too, because nurses most surely will always pick up the correct medications and give them to the correct patients.
Believe me, I make medical software, and you are living in a dream world.
until then it's just trained repetition which is not human like at all I disagree. Isn't pretty much everything "trained repetition" when you think of it? Look at neural nets... they train... by repetition... to do something "intelligent".
There's not much difference between training a dog to recognize photos of dogs and training a human child to recognize Latin characters. The only difference between us and dogs is neural capacity, learning rules, and societal environment.
What studies like this one do is help us to further understand what those hard-wired rules in animals are, allowing us to get a better grasp of the big learning picture across all forms of life.
Everyone complains about spammers, but for fuck sake, I get at least two credit card offers a week which I *have* to shred otherwise someone may end up rummaging through my garbage and taking out a credit card in my name. I get shit in my real mailbox that could easily make me miss a bill payment with all the clutter.
Why the fuck does everyone hate on email spammers when they're easily filtered out (for the most part), but they're okay allowing credit card companies and other companies to spam our mailboxes? I hit delete when I see a stock scam, whoop-de-fuckin'-do! But when I get credit card offers and magazines and shit I never asked for in my physical mailbox, I not only have to throw it away, but I have to make sure that no sensitive information is thrown away with it, AND I have to sort out what can be recycled and what can't be (if I feel environmentally conscious).
Beating up on e-spammers is in vogue, and nerds just eat it up and love it. However, physical spam is legal and done continuously with much greater consequences.
Waste an assload of money every step of the way to make sure it has an 8 or 9 digit budget They will make up the revenue by selling "The Sims 2: The Sims Movie Expansion Pack", which will contain approximately one new 'novel' item and about 100 of the objects you already have but in different colors. Perhaps they will include an Angelina Jolie model/skin. Then you can make her have lesbian sex with the neighbors. SIGN ME UP!!!
But you know... the way Microsoft treated Xbox 1 when the 360 came out kind of makes me wary of getting a 360.
Not that I'm a huge Sony fan either, but they did make a new slim design and games are still being made for it. A lot of those games would have probably been multi-platform too had the Xbox still been viable. Granted, Sony is probably keeping the PS2 alive for greedy reasons and slow PS3 uptake, but they are fulfilling a very important budget gaming market segment with the PS2 which could still be shared with Microsoft.
Instead, the Xbox is now the largest piece of electronic equipment in my house next to the refrigerator and completely irrelevant for modern gaming. It's only good for playing emulators. From what I've seen, the 360 probably won't be nearly as easy to mod... so if the cycle repeats, the 360 will be even more worthless when MS comes out with its new shiny console next generation.
You aren't a girl, are you? Well, neither am I. But when you look at the type of expectations they have to live up to just to be equal, and how they treat their 'friends' in middle/high school, you start to become a little more compassionate.
It's easy to say "raise your kids with more self-respect" but when the whole world is telling them they have to look like Barbie dolls in order to be worth-while human beings, and their friends are worse than enemies, it's not so simple.
Ugh, you expect people who don't understand garbage collection to understand C++ and stack vs heap allocated objects?
I used to be big on C++, but it tends to encourage more wasted time trying to do the perfect OO model, and most libraries are written in C anyway, which will often make you inclined to wrap them, which never works out very well and is a waste of time...
Not to mention, how much processing power will AT&T have to spend on analyzing our packets? I'd imagine they'd need to beef up their servers considerably. Unless they incorporate it into their NSA program... which could be likely with the new legislation that makes it the government's job to enforce copyright.
Otherwise, with tin-foil hat off, this sounds like a genius marketing plan doomed to fail but done to please certain people who don't have a clue.
If you're such a smarty-man, why did you post such a dumb question?:)
FWIW, my gut instinct is that most people wouldn't care to engineer the genome. First of all, my guess is that it'd have to be done at conception level, which means the people doing it wouldn't see any direct benefits. Though, I could see virus engineering reaching that level someday. Both methods would require rigorous testing, and testing on humans, which isn't looked upon very kindly. Additionally, there would be the ethical dilemma of who gets the treatment (6 billion people in the world right now, how many when such a theoretical invention materializes?). Obviously, the wealthy would come first, and that would cause all sorts of socio-political impacts that don't seem very favorable. All this in addition to overpopulation questions and moral issues (we have people who protest GM food, remember?).
No, I say we should stick to making old people healthier and more comfortable. The goal should be that everyone dies peacefully in their sleep (with a full head of hair and no wrinkles).
Knowledge can be stored in other ways without making uber humans.
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Science has proven that homosexuality in women isn't as genetic as homosexuality in men. So we aren't at too much risk - we just have to not piss them off so much that they start experimenting. Unfortunately, that may also mean not encouraging them to make out with their friends when a camera is around.
I have strange trouble with some (but not all) WMV files. It disappears when I delete the ffmpeg plugin (because I guess it falls back directly on the Windows binary?), but then I can't play some other files that require ffmpeg. It drives me nuts, and caused me to install mplayer.
I tend to agree that "people kill people"; however, there is a point to be made about the correlation between extremism and a religion's age.
Let's take a look at the majority of "Jews". Yeah, not too religious. And "Catholics"? Nope. I could ramble off some more religions and sects, but you get the point. Yes, correlation doesn't equal causation and the rule doesn't hold true 100% of the time, but it's something interesting to think about.
My girlfriend's really smart/analytical but tends to not be a very good multitasker. For example, she can't think and avoid walking into objects at the same time.
If you could cite any studies on women vs men in this arena I'd be particularly interested.
Yea, that's why he voted for it, right?
And then he voted for the Homegrown Terrorism Act.
Hmm, but if they're as stupid as you say, then they really wouldn't be voting for their best interests. :)
Now, I think we can all say that bringing all of our troops home from abroad benefits everyone...
Oh this will be awesome if they get AIDs from dirty needles! Not only will their immune system be helpless in the first place, but then it'll try to fight off the vicious cocaine.
At least stimulants heighten your driving abilities...
FAIL.
Telling people to raise their own kids is not comparable to watching a house burn and not calling 911. If you think so, then you are a borderline fascist.
He's saying TV is addictive to some people. Yes, it is. Just like gambling, smoking, fatty foods, and the internet.
So if there are people inclined to watch TV, then watching TV will most likely cause them to watch more TV.
TV is designed to captivate the audience.
The logical argument could be that no human has ever been created asexually.
I guess it's the difference between killing poor people to harvest their organs and growing humans in a lab to harvest their organs.
Just playin' devil's advocate...
You either believe government should be in our lives, in which case you have to share its power between election cycles, or you believe government shouldn't be in our lives. Saying "I like big government doing X" means that in order to get X, you have to also inadvertently support Y since, eventually, it will be Y-supporter's turn to be in power.
Bush got his war, and it looks like Hillary will get her health care. Both sides get what they want, and the taxpayers are the ones who lose.
It's definitely older than that. I remember it being a fad while I was playing Quake 2... before Quake 3 came out.
On a side note, is it sad that I am using Quake releases as a measure of time?
I'd imagine the argument goes something like:
la la la la NOT MACRO-EVOLUTION la la la la
That's a good idea. Let's get rid of barcodes on medications too, because nurses most surely will always pick up the correct medications and give them to the correct patients.
Believe me, I make medical software, and you are living in a dream world.
There's not much difference between training a dog to recognize photos of dogs and training a human child to recognize Latin characters. The only difference between us and dogs is neural capacity, learning rules, and societal environment.
What studies like this one do is help us to further understand what those hard-wired rules in animals are, allowing us to get a better grasp of the big learning picture across all forms of life.
Everyone complains about spammers, but for fuck sake, I get at least two credit card offers a week which I *have* to shred otherwise someone may end up rummaging through my garbage and taking out a credit card in my name. I get shit in my real mailbox that could easily make me miss a bill payment with all the clutter.
Why the fuck does everyone hate on email spammers when they're easily filtered out (for the most part), but they're okay allowing credit card companies and other companies to spam our mailboxes? I hit delete when I see a stock scam, whoop-de-fuckin'-do! But when I get credit card offers and magazines and shit I never asked for in my physical mailbox, I not only have to throw it away, but I have to make sure that no sensitive information is thrown away with it, AND I have to sort out what can be recycled and what can't be (if I feel environmentally conscious).
Beating up on e-spammers is in vogue, and nerds just eat it up and love it. However, physical spam is legal and done continuously with much greater consequences.
Wait, we're at war with the Sun now? Shit, I'm really behind on my current events! Last I heard we were still working on Terror.
Wow, that would make an awesome book title. "Of Mace and Men"
But you know... the way Microsoft treated Xbox 1 when the 360 came out kind of makes me wary of getting a 360.
Not that I'm a huge Sony fan either, but they did make a new slim design and games are still being made for it. A lot of those games would have probably been multi-platform too had the Xbox still been viable. Granted, Sony is probably keeping the PS2 alive for greedy reasons and slow PS3 uptake, but they are fulfilling a very important budget gaming market segment with the PS2 which could still be shared with Microsoft.
Instead, the Xbox is now the largest piece of electronic equipment in my house next to the refrigerator and completely irrelevant for modern gaming. It's only good for playing emulators. From what I've seen, the 360 probably won't be nearly as easy to mod... so if the cycle repeats, the 360 will be even more worthless when MS comes out with its new shiny console next generation.
You aren't a girl, are you? Well, neither am I. But when you look at the type of expectations they have to live up to just to be equal, and how they treat their 'friends' in middle/high school, you start to become a little more compassionate.
It's easy to say "raise your kids with more self-respect" but when the whole world is telling them they have to look like Barbie dolls in order to be worth-while human beings, and their friends are worse than enemies, it's not so simple.
Ugh, you expect people who don't understand garbage collection to understand C++ and stack vs heap allocated objects?
I used to be big on C++, but it tends to encourage more wasted time trying to do the perfect OO model, and most libraries are written in C anyway, which will often make you inclined to wrap them, which never works out very well and is a waste of time...
Not to mention, how much processing power will AT&T have to spend on analyzing our packets? I'd imagine they'd need to beef up their servers considerably. Unless they incorporate it into their NSA program... which could be likely with the new legislation that makes it the government's job to enforce copyright.
Otherwise, with tin-foil hat off, this sounds like a genius marketing plan doomed to fail but done to please certain people who don't have a clue.
If you're such a smarty-man, why did you post such a dumb question? :)
FWIW, my gut instinct is that most people wouldn't care to engineer the genome. First of all, my guess is that it'd have to be done at conception level, which means the people doing it wouldn't see any direct benefits. Though, I could see virus engineering reaching that level someday. Both methods would require rigorous testing, and testing on humans, which isn't looked upon very kindly. Additionally, there would be the ethical dilemma of who gets the treatment (6 billion people in the world right now, how many when such a theoretical invention materializes?). Obviously, the wealthy would come first, and that would cause all sorts of socio-political impacts that don't seem very favorable. All this in addition to overpopulation questions and moral issues (we have people who protest GM food, remember?).
No, I say we should stick to making old people healthier and more comfortable. The goal should be that everyone dies peacefully in their sleep (with a full head of hair and no wrinkles).
Knowledge can be stored in other ways without making uber humans.