Jack Griffin covered that when he noted higher physical activity causes greater CO2 production . Plus, to be realistic, the preparatory activities, like showing-off a GMC Sierra for masculine competition, or flying the girl to you from Bangkok to America, would have consequences in terms of CO2 production.
Also, if sex causes you to reproduce, that is, produce more people, it could have catastrophic CO2 consequences.
I'm being facetious. But if you want to be thorough, yes, almost every activity of a human in the modern world produces CO2. If electricity were made using nuclear energy or something "renewable", that wouldn't be the case.
The main reason why AI is "very weak in their criticism of Western targets" is for a very simple reason - Western societies have far lesser violations of issues AI works against.
The worst offender of the West, US is still far better than most of the third world in terms of due process available and incarceration.
When you make statements like that, and if you want to be accurate, you need to define what terms like "Western targets", "Western societies", and "the West" mean. Does it include Saudi Arabia, Poland, Qatar, Israel and Turkey? Certainly, those countries, although maybe not geographically west, all have decent arguments for being labeled as being in the Western sphere of influence.
And in your comparison, are you factoring in the size of the country?
Finally, you must know the US doesn't rate well in terms of incarceration, which is almost the definition of non-liberty. We (of the US) have the worst per-capita rate.
Regarding Amnesty International, I estimate their official opinion is roughly like that of a European country. It's more or less on the good-guy side, but is overly influenced by the US & UK governments.
Correct. It seems DNA will correct it'self by eventually dumping unnecessary data. What's not needed to be fit has no reason to be selected by the environment. Plus, what's to guarantee the species with the DNA will survive?
To keep the data indefinitely, you could easily put the storage medium in a stable orbit around the sun or something. It would survive, but I'm not sure if anybody would ever read it.
When... Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for doing... nothing, the entire credibility of all Nobel prizes took a swift kick...
I can't and won't get over that either. (BTW, I supported O's election considering the opposition.) Every time I hear "Nobel," I think tainted. And if O had any dignity, he would have declined accepting it.
...the problem is so much stuff gets sent by truck when rail would be cheaper and faster....
What makes you say that? Have you done any comparisons? What type of cargo are you referring to?
It would seem that using a steel wheel on a steel rail would be the most friction-less means of transportation and thus the cheapest, but the realities of shipping make the air-filled tire on the asphalt road to be preferable.
There are exceptions, though. I would suppose shipping by rail is most efficient when the cargo is comparatively heavy and the tracks go directly to the destination. Coal shipped from a mine to a power plant is my best example.
But for discrete manufactured items that need to go to a particular address, rail isn't efficient because tracks don't go to most places. This necessitates the cargo needing to be transferred from one transportation means to another for "the final mile".
Thus, because the cargo item needs to go through expensive transfers before it reaches its destination, rail comes out to be more expensive than truck.
Implementing autonomous vehicles AVs on the roadways will reduce the cost of transportation - not increase it.
Computer technology is already cheap enough to tackle the routines needed by an autonomous vehicle, and the sensors, even the lidar systems, are rapidly coming down in price.
Many modern new cars, particularly the high-end ones, already have many of the necessary systems: Vehicle tracking; adaptive braking; self-parking. Mass production will make these available and affordable on every new car or truck.
But it doesn't matter much what your opinion is on this issue. It has already been decided by economics and technological evolution. Autonomous vehicles are coming to your town soon.
I would argue that, "sign this or your fired", qualifies as duress.
It would be duress in the common sense, but it's debatable if it's legally considered illegal duress. Every day people have to agree to things to keep their jobs. If they don't like the deal, they can turn it down.
However, don't misunderstand me. I don't see how a company can claim it has rights over an employee's private activities.
Every "charity" that I've looked into was actually a money-making enterprise disguised as a benevolent one. Some of them have exposed publically, like Easter Seals, Boy's Home, and the Clinton Foundation. In these organizations, a small proportion of the collected money actually goes to the advertised cause, but that's just for show.
To add to the list, a guy was staying at my house for a while who previously worked for Make A Wish Foundation. He talked like almost 100% of the money went to those who collect it. In fact, while he was at the house, he was collecting for the Fire Department's book on fire safety for children. In reality, there was no such book.
Thus, anytime I hear the word "charity", I think "rip-off".
If you want to give money, find the recipient yourself and give directly. If you must use a big organization to move your funds, make sure it's ran by someone you trust.
Regarding the charity the article is about, I don't know anything. But, to me, it smells funny.
Seriously - Leonard Nimoy's Mr. Spock probably inspired more people to enter science, engineering, and intellectualism in general than any other figure in pop culture. He turned anti-intellectualism on its ear by making being a "nerd" not just cool, but even sexy.
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Maybe, but Nimoy was not a scientist; it was Spock who was the scientist. Indeed, Nimoy himself exclaimed this by titling his biography I Am Not Spock 1975. {But later when Nimoy realized he misjudged public reaction, titled the next volume I Am Spock(1995).}
After Star Trek, Nimoy MCed In Search of..., a show no real scientist would support. In the show, scientific explanations for witchcraft, alien abductions, or whatever, were given only footnote attention.
In terms of promoting science, the writers of Star Trek deserve more credit than the actors.
... the first moon landing.... the sign of gravity in the code was in with the wrong sign, and it was only discovered by accident the day before the launch.
Do you have the details on this? It's a pretty good one if true.
However, often you can't simply put it out front because that degrades your message. You need to slip it in. I clicked on the article in the hope of seeing a tit shot. I did, but it really wasn't that good. In any case, I read much of the article for no good reason. I now plan to use this audience-getting technique in my presentations in the future.
Pieces of various weapons have apparently been found...the answer isn't so black and white it seems..
You can argue that Saddam was a bad guy needing to be gone, and therefore the Bush admin was justified in generating a pretext to get the American public on board. But you can't seriously claim the pretext was valid. Even if your scant evidence is true, it's not enough. The Bush admin told us Saddam had a major operation going on.
I originally lost my license because I lost a civil suit and refused to pay (didn't have the ability either, but either way). I didn't get a traffic citation in that incident. In Kansas, you can lose your license for 10 years for failing to satisfy a civil judgement. That was 14 years ago. Since then, I've acquired a few driving-while-suspended convictions, each of which adds another year to the suspension.
I have a almost-perfect driving record (before and after the license suspension), and I spent much of my life driving overloaded suspension-enhanced small trucks in the axle business.
I don't understand the last part of your post. You need to read your own post when it's in preview. Nor do I understand what your point is.
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Unfortunately, despite some predictions to the contrary, it looks like it will be Hillary or Trump.
I'd be worried except I realize there's nothing I can do about it.
“If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.” Mark Twain
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Jack Griffin covered that when he noted higher physical activity causes greater CO2 production . Plus, to be realistic, the preparatory activities, like showing-off a GMC Sierra for masculine competition, or flying the girl to you from Bangkok to America, would have consequences in terms of CO2 production.
Also, if sex causes you to reproduce, that is, produce more people, it could have catastrophic CO2 consequences.
I'm being facetious. But if you want to be thorough, yes, almost every activity of a human in the modern world produces CO2. If electricity were made using nuclear energy or something "renewable", that wouldn't be the case.
The main reason why AI is "very weak in their criticism of Western targets" is for a very simple reason - Western societies have far lesser violations of issues AI works against.
The worst offender of the West, US is still far better than most of the third world in terms of due process available and incarceration.
When you make statements like that, and if you want to be accurate, you need to define what terms like "Western targets", "Western societies", and "the West" mean. Does it include Saudi Arabia, Poland, Qatar, Israel and Turkey? Certainly, those countries, although maybe not geographically west, all have decent arguments for being labeled as being in the Western sphere of influence.
And in your comparison, are you factoring in the size of the country?
Finally, you must know the US doesn't rate well in terms of incarceration, which is almost the definition of non-liberty. We (of the US) have the worst per-capita rate.
Regarding Amnesty International, I estimate their official opinion is roughly like that of a European country. It's more or less on the good-guy side, but is overly influenced by the US & UK governments.
In Sweden the rules that define rape are...than a call to the UK.
You don't need to be distracted by the (possible) details of the case. The timing blatantly exposes the Swedish prosecution as fake.
To keep the data indefinitely, you could easily put the storage medium in a stable orbit around the sun or something. It would survive, but I'm not sure if anybody would ever read it.
When... Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for doing ... nothing, the entire credibility of all Nobel prizes took a swift kick ...
I can't and won't get over that either. (BTW, I supported O's election considering the opposition.) Every time I hear "Nobel," I think tainted. And if O had any dignity, he would have declined accepting it.
...the problem is so much stuff gets sent by truck when rail would be cheaper and faster. ...
What makes you say that? Have you done any comparisons? What type of cargo are you referring to?
It would seem that using a steel wheel on a steel rail would be the most friction-less means of transportation and thus the cheapest, but the realities of shipping make the air-filled tire on the asphalt road to be preferable.
There are exceptions, though. I would suppose shipping by rail is most efficient when the cargo is comparatively heavy and the tracks go directly to the destination. Coal shipped from a mine to a power plant is my best example.
But for discrete manufactured items that need to go to a particular address, rail isn't efficient because tracks don't go to most places. This necessitates the cargo needing to be transferred from one transportation means to another for "the final mile".
Thus, because the cargo item needs to go through expensive transfers before it reaches its destination, rail comes out to be more expensive than truck.
Implementing autonomous vehicles AVs on the roadways will reduce the cost of transportation - not increase it. Computer technology is already cheap enough to tackle the routines needed by an autonomous vehicle, and the sensors, even the lidar systems, are rapidly coming down in price.
Many modern new cars, particularly the high-end ones, already have many of the necessary systems: Vehicle tracking; adaptive braking; self-parking. Mass production will make these available and affordable on every new car or truck.
But it doesn't matter much what your opinion is on this issue. It has already been decided by economics and technological evolution. Autonomous vehicles are coming to your town soon.
Mexico has, er, "had" a satelite?? I found that surprising.
It refused to learn English and insisted on listening to accordion polkas.
I, for one, welcome our new autonomous overlords. I'm not kidding. The problem with the transportation system is drivers.
... the vast majority of accidents involving trucks are caused by car drivers misbehaving around truck...
We're sorry to have offended your "brother", but the problem you cite is easy to deal with in this context. Just make the cars autonomous too.
Is she worth tracking? I mean... Is she cute? Let's face it, why would any guy want to track an un-cute chick?
In my lifetime the number of incarcerated Americans has risen about 300%.
You must be young.
I would argue that, "sign this or your fired", qualifies as duress.
It would be duress in the common sense, but it's debatable if it's legally considered illegal duress. Every day people have to agree to things to keep their jobs. If they don't like the deal, they can turn it down.
However, don't misunderstand me. I don't see how a company can claim it has rights over an employee's private activities.
Every "charity" that I've looked into was actually a money-making enterprise disguised as a benevolent one. Some of them have exposed publically, like Easter Seals, Boy's Home, and the Clinton Foundation. In these organizations, a small proportion of the collected money actually goes to the advertised cause, but that's just for show.
To add to the list, a guy was staying at my house for a while who previously worked for Make A Wish Foundation. He talked like almost 100% of the money went to those who collect it. In fact, while he was at the house, he was collecting for the Fire Department's book on fire safety for children. In reality, there was no such book.
Thus, anytime I hear the word "charity", I think "rip-off".
If you want to give money, find the recipient yourself and give directly. If you must use a big organization to move your funds, make sure it's ran by someone you trust.
Regarding the charity the article is about, I don't know anything. But, to me, it smells funny.
Ed, I know you're reading. Just stay in Russia. You're lucky to be there. Don't throw away your good fortune.
Seriously - Leonard Nimoy's Mr. Spock probably inspired more people to enter science, engineering, and intellectualism in general than any other figure in pop culture. He turned anti-intellectualism on its ear by making being a "nerd" not just cool, but even sexy.
...
Maybe, but Nimoy was not a scientist; it was Spock who was the scientist. Indeed, Nimoy himself exclaimed this by titling his biography I Am Not Spock 1975. {But later when Nimoy realized he misjudged public reaction, titled the next volume I Am Spock(1995).}
After Star Trek, Nimoy MCed In Search of..., a show no real scientist would support. In the show, scientific explanations for witchcraft, alien abductions, or whatever, were given only footnote attention.
In terms of promoting science, the writers of Star Trek deserve more credit than the actors.
... the first moon landing. ... the sign of gravity in the code was in with the wrong sign, and it was only discovered by accident the day before the launch.
Do you have the details on this? It's a pretty good one if true.
We can be pretty bloody sure after all these years in a box it's dead.
But you didn't "observe" that yet, did you? Thus, his cat is still in superposition.
Ha, when I was a kid in the 60s, my grandmother would always put on fresh lipstick before kissing me.
Yuck!
In Soviet Russia, you find the hotel.
In the the UK, the hotel fine YOU!
(So, it isn't that bad. Anyway, it's the best I could come up with.)
Sex sells; we all know.
However, often you can't simply put it out front because that degrades your message. You need to slip it in. I clicked on the article in the hope of seeing a tit shot. I did, but it really wasn't that good. In any case, I read much of the article for no good reason. I now plan to use this audience-getting technique in my presentations in the future.
Pieces of various weapons have apparently been found...the answer isn't so black and white it seems..
You can argue that Saddam was a bad guy needing to be gone, and therefore the Bush admin was justified in generating a pretext to get the American public on board. But you can't seriously claim the pretext was valid. Even if your scant evidence is true, it's not enough. The Bush admin told us Saddam had a major operation going on.
I originally lost my license because I lost a civil suit and refused to pay (didn't have the ability either, but either way). I didn't get a traffic citation in that incident. In Kansas, you can lose your license for 10 years for failing to satisfy a civil judgement. That was 14 years ago. Since then, I've acquired a few driving-while-suspended convictions, each of which adds another year to the suspension.
I have a almost-perfect driving record (before and after the license suspension), and I spent much of my life driving overloaded suspension-enhanced small trucks in the axle business.
I don't understand the last part of your post. You need to read your own post when it's in preview. Nor do I understand what your point is.
"You rolled through that stop sign back there" and my head spun so fast, I am surprised I didn't have a chiropractor trying to hand me his card.
"When did they put THAT in!?!" "Oh last night"
You should have thrown up your hand and kept repeating in a shouting voice, "Ferguson, Ferguson, Ferguson, (and so on)."