I once heard of people in real life experiencing things like this after receiving organ transplants. They claim to have memories from the donor's life, some even claim to have changed preferences for things, like food. Upon investigation, they found out that the donor's preferences matched the ones they now preferred.
Preferences for I could believe. The body figures it needs something, so the hormones cause the craving or whatever. Memories..... unless it's a brain tissue transplant, I don't see how that could happen.
It's all true. Years and days were longer before. You see, the Sun started from a stand still and slowly picked up speed in it's rotation about the Earth as time went on.
I have never once heard someone with an explanation to these millennium-aged people; Adam lived 800 years, Seth lived 912 years, Enosh lived 905 years, Kenan lived 910 years, and so on and so forth.
*Playing God's Advocate*
It's actually pretty simple. God created humans with perfect genes. Then, over generations, mutations crept in and the genes were no longer perfect. This mutation was on the dominant genes, and people bred like rabbits with no contraceptives, so "pefection" never stood a chance.
For social meetings, etc, would a robot avatar be that much better than a virtual avatar? I can understand when physical actions are actually required on the other end. But meetings? That would just be creepy.
Where did you get the "fences" idea from? It should be more like "you're not free to take food from my farm and sell it at your farm". Except that this food is just a bunch of bits so you don't lose anything, right?
I love the fact that people who say terrorists don't deserve a trial never consider that a fair trial is needed to determine whether or not the person is a terrorist in the first place.
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Encrypted storage?
You must either have a very large living room, or play games with very small maps.
I once heard of people in real life experiencing things like this after receiving organ transplants. They claim to have memories from the donor's life, some even claim to have changed preferences for things, like food. Upon investigation, they found out that the donor's preferences matched the ones they now preferred.
Preferences for I could believe. The body figures it needs something, so the hormones cause the craving or whatever. Memories..... unless it's a brain tissue transplant, I don't see how that could happen.
People who claim the Earth is flat may have an "opinion", but since their opinion is directly falsifiable, it's not a very good opinion.
Only if you accept the falsification at face value. You know, since it can't be proven or anything ;)
It's all true. Years and days were longer before. You see, the Sun started from a stand still and slowly picked up speed in it's rotation about the Earth as time went on.
I have never once heard someone with an explanation to these millennium-aged people; Adam lived 800 years, Seth lived 912 years, Enosh lived 905 years, Kenan lived 910 years, and so on and so forth.
*Playing God's Advocate*
It's actually pretty simple. God created humans with perfect genes. Then, over generations, mutations crept in and the genes were no longer perfect. This mutation was on the dominant genes, and people bred like rabbits with no contraceptives, so "pefection" never stood a chance.
For social meetings, etc, would a robot avatar be that much better than a virtual avatar? I can understand when physical actions are actually required on the other end. But meetings? That would just be creepy.
Don't forget satisfied girlfriends.
let's wait for more information instead of jumping to conclusions.
More information from.... the Russian government? Are you also waiting for more information from China regarding the allegedly underage gymnast?
You realize it's not Vice Presiden't I'd Like to Frag, right?
What does philosophy have to do with science? Besides certain interpretations of quantum mechanics I mean.
this could be fun too
Where did you get the "fences" idea from? It should be more like "you're not free to take food from my farm and sell it at your farm". Except that this food is just a bunch of bits so you don't lose anything, right?
So you just take the first 1024 bits or so. I'm sure it'll be good enough...
Won't take that long to type up a script to pull the prime number from a web page.
I'm guessing they didn't visit EA.
I love the fact that people who say terrorists don't deserve a trial never consider that a fair trial is needed to determine whether or not the person is a terrorist in the first place.
Yes. An investment in fun.
Level 40? Wow, she should get her dice checked if she only has 36HP.....
I just love generalizations, don't you?
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$20 million? For a government contract job designed to protect us from the terrists? Multiply that by a factor of 5 and you'll probably be closer.
So do you wear diapers on transatlantic flights too? You know, in case of accidents.
I wonder if I'm the only SQL noob who had to look up the "drop database" command to see that indeed it is valid?
Why look it up when you can test it out for yourself?
Until the invention of Star-Trek like replicators you mean?
He and Asimov must've gotten along quite well indeed.