Yes but it's popular and sadly too many slashdotters not only feel that have too much nerd cool to ever be interested in something normal people are interested in but feel the need to tell us about it too.
It's similar to the hipster "I liked X before it was popular" thing. Intellectual snobbery.
I can only apologise on behalf of the New World Order government which recently passed the law requiring you to view and comment on this thread on pain of up to ten years imprisonment or an amusingly heavy fine.
Whenever a talking point like this hits every mainstream media outlet at the same time, now apparently Slashdot too, then I find myself wondering what poltical blunders are they trying to distract us from right now?
Yes, I too am utterly unable to think about more than one thing a day. There have been times when I followed a cute kitty link to other cute kitties literally did no work for a week, and once a particularly amusing Chuck Norris meme caused me to miss the entire Arab Spring.
That doesn't explain why two people looking at the same photo swear they see totally different colors.
Because one is a human being, and the other is a man-shaped robot from the future posing as a human as he plots to destroy the one man who can save the human race from enslavement?
Stick it in a photo editor and ask it what colour it is. It's white (with a faint blue tint) and pale gold. If the dress is blue and black, the photo is wrong.
You'd better tell the manufacturers about your interesting discovery, since from their point they only sell a black and navy blue version. But what would they know?
I am fairly convinced that those that claim the dress to be "distinctly blue" are just trolling the rest and extracting some weird sort of pleasure from it. The interesting aspect of this story is that there are sooo many people willing to troll others.
That would be a strong possibility, except for the inconvenient fact that the dress IS blue.
Us "blueys" are like Neo in The Matrix, piercing through the deliberate veils of convention to see the truth.
People who are going to actually commit suicide don't talk about it on Facebook, they do it, these people are rarely on Facebook in general. Yes, you hear about some kid once in a while that kills themselves and it gets blamed on Facebook 'bullies', but if someone typing some words causes you to off yourself, you weren't going to last in the real world anyway.
People talking about it on Facebook just seek attention and don't have the courage or conviction to actually do it, nor do they actually want to do it.
Wow, they certainly take a tougher line on the Samaritan training courses these days.
It's also not unique to humans. Many animals are obviously conscious, and anyone with a cat or dog knows. It seems to be pretty common for complex brains to be conscious.
I think you need to differentiate between consciousness and self-consciousness (or, rather, self-awareness). Animals are self evidently conscious of their surroundings (or they wouldn't be able to avoid predators, for instance), but that is not the same as saying they have human levels of intelligence or self-awareness.
I wonder about that. If you believe (for lack of a better word) in evolution then you'd think that a trait shared by the overwhelming majority of a species serves some roll in increasing their survival in a given environment. Something like 90% of humans believe in a god so following that logic, it seems religion served some evolutionary advantage.
Or maybe the religious humanoids just happened to band together first to burn all the heretics.
Religion may well have been useful in primitive times as a way of cementing social structures and allowing the development of civilization. Those days have now long gone, and we're left with the mental equivalent of our appendix - fundamentally useless, but potentially deadly when it goes wrong.
"But the free gift of God is Eternal life though Jesus Christ our lord." So salvation is not earned, it is free. And something given for free does not require the receiver to pay by word, deed or even cash to receive it so it cannot be about what you claim, control or power.
So it doesn't matter if you're an atheist, Christian, Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist or anything else, God/Jesus grants everybody Eternal life?
That's a sort of negative Pascal's Wager. Why bother believing in Jesus and being nice to other people if you and Hitler are both going to go to heaven anyway?
Long before non-squishy machines will have the ability of independent thought, which is mere science fiction today, I trust that we squishies will have looked embarrassed at our feet and admitted that the emperor has no clothes.
Religion should have died in 1789, but somehow it lingers on.
I'd show you formally, but you likely won't understand it, you just you'll disagree anyway, and slashdot will make it impossible to use standard symbols.
Are you an autodidact, by chance?
If you had such a formal proof, you could always just link to it. However, from your tone, I doubt that such a proof exists anywhere. So, while I don't absolutely disbelieve in your proof's existence, I certainly don't believe it exists. But all you have to do is show us.
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Yes but it's popular and sadly too many slashdotters not only feel that have too much nerd cool to ever be interested in something normal people are interested in but feel the need to tell us about it too.
It's similar to the hipster "I liked X before it was popular" thing. Intellectual snobbery.
I don't see colors, I see the electro-magnetic spectrum in the range of 380nm-740nm.
Colors are for artists.
Everyone say hi to slashdot's new GUI programmer.
For the first time ever, /. reported one of the uninteresting daily gossip from of girlfriend. SHAME ON YOU /. !!!!
Yeah, GF, sure. You could at least try to sound plausible.
I can only apologise on behalf of the New World Order government which recently passed the law requiring you to view and comment on this thread on pain of up to ten years imprisonment or an amusingly heavy fine.
This "____-gate" shit needs to stop. Now.
Since Watergate was back in 1972, I think your protest is a bit tardy.
Whenever a talking point like this hits every mainstream media outlet at the same time, now apparently Slashdot too, then I find myself wondering what poltical blunders are they trying to distract us from right now?
Yes, I too am utterly unable to think about more than one thing a day. There have been times when I followed a cute kitty link to other cute kitties literally did no work for a week, and once a particularly amusing Chuck Norris meme caused me to miss the entire Arab Spring.
You sound like one of the Reddit geniuses who identified the wrong Boston bomber.
That doesn't explain why two people looking at the same photo swear they see totally different colors.
Because one is a human being, and the other is a man-shaped robot from the future posing as a human as he plots to destroy the one man who can save the human race from enslavement?
gold is not a color
Gold is just shiny yellow, like silver is shiny grey.
And irony is colour blind people getting the real colours right more than those with normal vision.
when you can't be sure of something "I don't know" is perfectly acceptable as an answer.
No one's asking you to stake your mother's life on it, it's just your impression of a dress colour.
If I say "that bird looks black" no one's going to arrest me if it turns out to be dark brown with some dark blue flashes and a white tail feather.
Surely lighter black should just be grey.
What we see as black is often very dark blue or green or brown in reality.
Stick it in a photo editor and ask it what colour it is. It's white (with a faint blue tint) and pale gold. If the dress is blue and black, the photo is wrong.
You'd better tell the manufacturers about your interesting discovery, since from their point they only sell a black and navy blue version. But what would they know?
I am fairly convinced that those that claim the dress to be "distinctly blue" are just trolling the rest and extracting some weird sort of pleasure from it. The interesting aspect of this story is that there are sooo many people willing to troll others.
That would be a strong possibility, except for the inconvenient fact that the dress IS blue.
Us "blueys" are like Neo in The Matrix, piercing through the deliberate veils of convention to see the truth.
I'd say the normal people are the one who see it white and gold...
Literally Hitler.
I'm firmly in the "the dress appears blue and brown/black but is actually white and gold" camp.
I bet you and the rest of the white/gold fascists are feeling pretty stupid now you've seen a picture of the (undeniably) blue and black dress?
I knew I was right, I just fucking knew it. Finally, a victory for humanity against the powers of darkness!
People seeing it for the first time, on the same device, in the same room for several hours, see different colors.
Your experience is not enough to draw any conclusion from.
If you don't see it as blue and black, you are clearly some sort of alien lizard-being.
Worryingly, that means that only about a quarter of the people around me are actually human.
Considering there have been over 2000 nuclear tests
I think the only two live tests on mass groups of civilians were probably the ones they were thinking of.
People who are going to actually commit suicide don't talk about it on Facebook, they do it, these people are rarely on Facebook in general. Yes, you hear about some kid once in a while that kills themselves and it gets blamed on Facebook 'bullies', but if someone typing some words causes you to off yourself, you weren't going to last in the real world anyway.
People talking about it on Facebook just seek attention and don't have the courage or conviction to actually do it, nor do they actually want to do it.
Wow, they certainly take a tougher line on the Samaritan training courses these days.
The most ancient laptop I ever touched was a Compaq 386/16 with a 20MB 3.5" 1/2 height IDE drive.
I can remember when the concept of a laptop with a hard drive was fabulously exotic.
It's also not unique to humans. Many animals are obviously conscious, and anyone with a cat or dog knows. It seems to be pretty common for complex brains to be conscious.
I think you need to differentiate between consciousness and self-consciousness (or, rather, self-awareness). Animals are self evidently conscious of their surroundings (or they wouldn't be able to avoid predators, for instance), but that is not the same as saying they have human levels of intelligence or self-awareness.
By "far right" you mean anyone that is not a communist socialist that wants to enslave the world in their own utopia?
No, I think by "far right" he means anyone who believes that all communists and socialists want to enslave the world in their own utopia.
I wonder about that. If you believe (for lack of a better word) in evolution then you'd think that a trait shared by the overwhelming majority of a species serves some roll in increasing their survival in a given environment. Something like 90% of humans believe in a god so following that logic, it seems religion served some evolutionary advantage.
Or maybe the religious humanoids just happened to band together first to burn all the heretics.
Religion may well have been useful in primitive times as a way of cementing social structures and allowing the development of civilization. Those days have now long gone, and we're left with the mental equivalent of our appendix - fundamentally useless, but potentially deadly when it goes wrong.
"But the free gift of God is Eternal life though Jesus Christ our lord." So salvation is not earned, it is free. And something given for free does not require the receiver to pay by word, deed or even cash to receive it so it cannot be about what you claim, control or power.
So it doesn't matter if you're an atheist, Christian, Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist or anything else, God/Jesus grants everybody Eternal life?
That's a sort of negative Pascal's Wager. Why bother believing in Jesus and being nice to other people if you and Hitler are both going to go to heaven anyway?
Long before non-squishy machines will have the ability of independent thought, which is mere science fiction today, I trust that we squishies will have looked embarrassed at our feet and admitted that the emperor has no clothes.
Religion should have died in 1789, but somehow it lingers on.
Sigh... Well, I tried.
I'd show you formally, but you likely won't understand it, you just you'll disagree anyway, and slashdot will make it impossible to use standard symbols.
Are you an autodidact, by chance?
If you had such a formal proof, you could always just link to it. However, from your tone, I doubt that such a proof exists anywhere. So, while I don't absolutely disbelieve in your proof's existence, I certainly don't believe it exists. But all you have to do is show us.