It is flamebait, unless you can tell us what "frustration from having to deal with the pathetic primitives" you've personally experienced, and as a bonus, what makes you so fisking superior.
Honestly, I can't believe this response. There are cultures around the world who thing marrying girls as young as 12 is perfectly acceptable, and probably think we have a ridiculous taboo. Before you start accusing aboriginals of having ridiculous customs, look hard at your own, and don't be so arrogant.
If you carefully consider the light rays, you may spot the difficulty you are having.
Photons have no mass of their own, so they cannot be directly influenced by gravity in the way we are. So the question is why do they seem to bend toward large gravitational influences?
The answer is that from the photon's point of view the curved line *is* the shortest distance between two points, from the light rays perspective it *is* moving in a straight line. It is only us, looking on, that can see that it is not.
The curvature explanation works not only because it resolves this paradox, but it happens to be how the equations fall out.
It looks like all of these variables can be traced to vibrations in the ground, resulting in small building deformations, which, in turn, lead to minor differences in distance between detectors over time.
So if they were able to isolate the experiment from the building somehow, then nearly all of this noise would disappear. Alternatively, send the experiment into space where no one will hear you vibrate.
Also SR can show that for an observer moving at relativistic speed, an event can appear to have not happened yet. But a stationary observer right next to him, this event has already happened.
If you are able to cross the frames of reference, then you can easily violate causality, fortunately, there is no practical way to do this, but you could in theory.
Finally, violation of causality is, as far as I can see, only an issue for us. I'm not convinced that the universe cares, particularly.
I'm always curious about this kind of perspective. Don't get me wrong, I admire it. I just can't get past the pointlessness of it all.
You see, no matter what you do, how you do it, when you do it. In a hundred years there will have been no appreciable difference. In fact its a good bet there'll be little or no evidence you even lived. In a thousand years, its a pretty safe bet that there'll be none at all.
Very few of us escape this over a thousand years, and I reckon absolutely none in a million. In fact in a million years there'll be some evidence that the human race existed, but very little of any consequence.
I know that there are extropians and they love to be optimistic, but I kinda think that they're a little too optimistic. I'm not trying to troll here, I'm genuinely perplexed, and sorta envious.
but you are allowed to drink on private property from the age of 5 is that right? In Australia, you cannot obtain alcohol on behalf of someone who is under the age of 18. Kinda weird, considering that you can join the army at 16.
My last one, seemed to be on a desert world, or at least a world rapidly desertifying. I seemed to be involved in a political struggle that led me to a vast bank of buildings surrounding a large dry lake bed. I was in a fight with a human-like creature, and made contact with people I apparently knew, though I don't recognise any of them when I think back on it now.
No idea what it meant, though it seemed vaguely supernatural.
Yeah, often people do go down party line, but not always. There is the concept of conscience voting, and pollies have crossed the floor, from time-to-time. As far as party recriminations go after that, it is purely circumstantial. A prime minister that punishes every minister that crosses the floor, would look mean and vendictive.
Yes, that's essentially correct, but illegal is a rather strong word. The worst penalty you'll get is a fine, if they even know where you are. Most of the time, if you are not enrolled, then you are also unknown to the Australian Electoral Commission. Even if they do fine you, they'll let you off if you can show reasonably why you're not enrolled.
So yeah, voting is compulsory, but they're not going to bust your balls if you don't.
you're pretty courageous posting this stuff to the hotbed of materialism that is Slashdot.
While there is some merit to your view point, your examples are pseudo-scientific, and they're gonna hate that.
but I prefer hardware I can interchange or mess with inside Actually, with most Apple machines, you can. I have upgraded RAM, hard drives, the video card, and the DVD drive in my G5 Mac. At no time did I have to take it back to base. I admit that the form factor requires apple only MOBOs, and there are a few other considerations, but this meme "becuase it's an Apple, you can't touch it", should go where the "Apple's are, like, really expensive" meme went.
at least they don't bulldoze down people's houses and give them almost nothing in return Actually the coloured survivors of Hurricane Katrina may have a differing opinion there.
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I dont know, I had a freind of mine play something like 12 elven cavaliers (think first ed here) in a row, because they were so darn kick arse.
as long as you can take mockery yourself
It is flamebait, unless you can tell us what "frustration from having to deal with the pathetic primitives" you've personally experienced, and as a bonus, what makes you so fisking superior.
Honestly, I can't believe this response. There are cultures around the world who thing marrying girls as young as 12 is perfectly acceptable, and probably think we have a ridiculous taboo. Before you start accusing aboriginals of having ridiculous customs, look hard at your own, and don't be so arrogant.
If you carefully consider the light rays, you may spot the difficulty you are having.
Photons have no mass of their own, so they cannot be directly influenced by gravity in the way we are. So the question is why do they seem to bend toward large gravitational influences?
The answer is that from the photon's point of view the curved line *is* the shortest distance between two points, from the light rays perspective it *is* moving in a straight line. It is only us, looking on, that can see that it is not.
The curvature explanation works not only because it resolves this paradox, but it happens to be how the equations fall out.
It looks like all of these variables can be traced to vibrations in the ground, resulting in small building deformations, which, in turn, lead to minor differences in distance between detectors over time. So if they were able to isolate the experiment from the building somehow, then nearly all of this noise would disappear. Alternatively, send the experiment into space where no one will hear you vibrate.
Also SR can show that for an observer moving at relativistic speed, an event can appear to have not happened yet. But a stationary observer right next to him, this event has already happened.
If you are able to cross the frames of reference, then you can easily violate causality, fortunately, there is no practical way to do this, but you could in theory.
Finally, violation of causality is, as far as I can see, only an issue for us. I'm not convinced that the universe cares, particularly.
I guess I would kneejerk and say that silver is best, as in "silver screen"?
gee...thanks...I hope you weren't modded up for that piece of flamebait. Next time if I want the dickhead response, I'll ask for you.
besides Stalin and Pol Pot were both athiests, and I reckon they caused a bit of misery, without needing any omnipotent beings at all.
I'm always curious about this kind of perspective. Don't get me wrong, I admire it. I just can't get past the pointlessness of it all.
You see, no matter what you do, how you do it, when you do it. In a hundred years there will have been no appreciable difference. In fact its a good bet there'll be little or no evidence you even lived. In a thousand years, its a pretty safe bet that there'll be none at all.
Very few of us escape this over a thousand years, and I reckon absolutely none in a million. In fact in a million years there'll be some evidence that the human race existed, but very little of any consequence.
I know that there are extropians and they love to be optimistic, but I kinda think that they're a little too optimistic. I'm not trying to troll here, I'm genuinely perplexed, and sorta envious.
you take the Vow of Poverty (in the Book of Exalted Deeds)
In an interview with Conan O'Brian, Vin Diesel said that he most often plays half-orcs
I still get them.
My last one, seemed to be on a desert world, or at least a world rapidly desertifying. I seemed to be involved in a political struggle that led me to a vast bank of buildings surrounding a large dry lake bed. I was in a fight with a human-like creature, and made contact with people I apparently knew, though I don't recognise any of them when I think back on it now.
No idea what it meant, though it seemed vaguely supernatural.
whiners? it looks like you've come here specifically to whine.
Yeah, often people do go down party line, but not always. There is the concept of conscience voting, and pollies have crossed the floor, from time-to-time. As far as party recriminations go after that, it is purely circumstantial. A prime minister that punishes every minister that crosses the floor, would look mean and vendictive.
Yes, that's essentially correct, but illegal is a rather strong word. The worst penalty you'll get is a fine, if they even know where you are. Most of the time, if you are not enrolled, then you are also unknown to the Australian Electoral Commission. Even if they do fine you, they'll let you off if you can show reasonably why you're not enrolled.
So yeah, voting is compulsory, but they're not going to bust your balls if you don't.
you're pretty courageous posting this stuff to the hotbed of materialism that is Slashdot. While there is some merit to your view point, your examples are pseudo-scientific, and they're gonna hate that.
monetize? woah, I mean whoah!
sure the holodeck, but come on. Duke Nukem Forever?