Recently having read the novel (I like to be dissappointed by movies based on books). I thought the three laws of robotics were
1. Never harm, nor through inaction allow harm to come to a human.
2. Always obey an order given by a human.
3. Self-Preservation.
It sounds to me like what Thomas Sowell really needs to do is learn how to use the VOL and MUTE buttons on his laptop. If he's unlucky, it requires some FN-key combination. If not, he's too dumb to keep on living
The reason for his gripe about the sound is stupid, but the gripe itself is not.
Suppose you install a video game with loud or bothersome sounds, but you want to listen to music from your computer. Using the Operating System's sound manager or physical volume controls wouldn't work because you couldn't hear the stuff you wanted to listen to.
that somebody will blame this on humans and their technology/pollution/environmentally disruptive tendencies.
Some hollywood bigwig will make a movie about it, in which New York will be devestated by something related to the phenomena.
"Reverse Polarity: the day the Earth's magentic field flipped." in theaters this Summer.
And celebrities will flock to the cause of CAMAGH (Celebrities Assisting Migratory Animals Get Home) Oh well, at least the African swallow won't be affected. It's non-migratory.
It's not ethical. It's a question of whether the tactic worked. Did they conquer the Federation? or the Romulans? No. So the hybrid programs lost their funding.
No somewhere there's an explanation (in one of the older Role-Playing Games). The Kingons were advanced geneticists. (they didn't have the whole "that testing isn't ethical" problem)
The Klingons in the original series where human/klingon hybrids. They also had Romulan/Klingon Hybrids. The logic being that first official contact would occur with beings resembling their newly found enemies. Thus when finally encountering the Imperial Klingons, their opponents would be caught off guard.
Has anybody considered that stories about what appear to be farcical exercises in military paranoia could be planted to make people believe the military is foolish, thus lulling the enemy into a false sense of security. And/or distract people actively trying to access classified and sensitive materials away from the true focus of the group that says. "Check you Coke cans" and "No Furbies". That way the enemy doesn't dig deeper for the "Hostile Intent Brain Wave Reader."
Anyway, these suggestions need to be made (at least to military personnel). Sure regulation states no recording or communications devices beyond this point. But this is a stuffed animal or just a can of Coke. Sometimes these thinmgs aren't necessarily obvious.
The problem is that some guys thought they were smart assigning a frequency band used by others for unlicensed use
It could be that most if not all frequencies have been assigned. And these guys had a list of frequencies like this: Police Band Citizens Band Radio Broadcasts Television Broadcasts Military/Governemnt
Note: This is fabricated list and no actual research went into its construction
Out of a list like that the one that's least likely to present a problem to the largest number of customers would be military. There's not a military base in every city, but there probably are regular broadcasts that could interfere on the others.
If it was up to me I would create an alien scurge that is so bad ass that their main claim to fame is that they completely wiped out the Daleks.
I think that's a decent idea to circumvent the restrictions on the use of the Dalleks. But would the show be allowed to even use the term "Dalek"? Are the producers restricted from even the mere mention of the race. Example: New Evil Villain(To hero)Your puny race is no match for our might. You shall crumble quicker than even those pitiful Daleks.
So yes, if you threw a baseball and a shotput in space, one of two things would happen:
You throw them both with the same force, and the baseball will move a lot faster.
You throw them at the same speed, and have to push a lot harder on the shotput.
Bot only that but the shotput would exert more force on you, and unless you were securely anchored to some other large object you would be moved farther back by throwing the shotput than throwing the baseball. Probably not very far or fast, but each action does have en equal and opposite reaction. It's just that gravity on Earth kepps you firmly anchored.
The dinosaurs from Jurassic Park that were called Velociraptors were actually closer to the Deinonychus. Maybe the author thought Velociraptor sounded cooler or was easier to pronounce or something.
If you wait a couple of millenia, this waste becomes priceless treasure for archeologists.
Or valuable fuel that people will fight over. (Note: this is not a statement for or against current political situations, just an observation on human nature.)
Wouldn't that be a kicker, the fossil fuels of the future are the landfills of today.
It exists to some extent for pay-sites. Unless, of course, the children in question already have their own credit cards or have parents thet are particularly lax with theirs.
Now it doesn't help with the free sites, but most of those nowadays have a you must be 18+ years of age, etc. warnings on the page just previous to content.
Maybe if the sites had a "Please enter the number from a state issued Identitifaction Card (Drivers License for example) and date of birth." section before entry. But how well will that work? They just enter bogus information. Not to mention the "tin foil hat" crowd being suspicious of the extra personal information being collected.
Other than that nothing short of strict parental monitoring of the internet use by their children or the dismantling of the internet will keep a motivated young person from veiwing pornography.
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They can't do that. Then nobody would be able to tell if a robot "turned".
Recently having read the novel (I like to be dissappointed by movies based on books). I thought the three laws of robotics were
1. Never harm, nor through inaction allow harm to come to a human.
2. Always obey an order given by a human.
3. Self-Preservation.
If you get deported from Japan to the US, do you have to pay the airfare?
It sounds to me like what Thomas Sowell really needs to do is learn how to use the VOL and MUTE buttons on his laptop. If he's unlucky, it requires some FN-key combination. If not, he's too dumb to keep on living
The reason for his gripe about the sound is stupid, but the gripe itself is not.
Suppose you install a video game with loud or bothersome sounds, but you want to listen to music from your computer. Using the Operating System's sound manager or physical volume controls wouldn't work because you couldn't hear the stuff you wanted to listen to.
Unless it's a significant height. Then it'll burn up before getting a chance to rapidly decelerate.
He probably means when this happens and society descends into anarchy. Not much time to watch movies when you need to find food.
that somebody will blame this on humans and their technology/pollution/environmentally disruptive tendencies.
Some hollywood bigwig will make a movie about it, in which New York will be devestated by something related to the phenomena.
"Reverse Polarity: the day the Earth's magentic field flipped." in theaters this Summer.
And celebrities will flock to the cause of CAMAGH (Celebrities Assisting Migratory Animals Get Home) Oh well, at least the African swallow won't be affected. It's non-migratory.
It's not ethical. It's a question of whether the tactic worked. Did they conquer the Federation? or the Romulans? No. So the hybrid programs lost their funding.
Simple. Makeup and prosthetics
No somewhere there's an explanation (in one of the older Role-Playing Games). The Kingons were advanced geneticists. (they didn't have the whole "that testing isn't ethical" problem)
The Klingons in the original series where human/klingon hybrids. They also had Romulan/Klingon Hybrids. The logic being that first official contact would occur with beings resembling their newly found enemies. Thus when finally encountering the Imperial Klingons, their opponents would be caught off guard.
I belive this is the one.
Has anybody considered that stories about what appear to be farcical exercises in military paranoia could be planted to make people believe the military is foolish, thus lulling the enemy into a false sense of security. And/or distract people actively trying to access classified and sensitive materials away from the true focus of the group that says. "Check you Coke cans" and "No Furbies". That way the enemy doesn't dig deeper for the "Hostile Intent Brain Wave Reader."
Anyway, these suggestions need to be made (at least to military personnel). Sure regulation states no recording or communications devices beyond this point. But this is a stuffed animal or just a can of Coke. Sometimes these thinmgs aren't necessarily obvious.
The problem is that some guys thought they were smart assigning a frequency band used by others for unlicensed use
It could be that most if not all frequencies have been assigned. And these guys had a list of frequencies like this:
Police Band
Citizens Band
Radio Broadcasts
Television Broadcasts
Military/Governemnt
Note: This is fabricated list and no actual research went into its construction
Out of a list like that the one that's least likely to present a problem to the largest number of customers would be military. There's not a military base in every city, but there probably are regular broadcasts that could interfere on the others.
If it was up to me I would create an alien scurge that is so bad ass that their main claim to fame is that they completely wiped out the Daleks.
I think that's a decent idea to circumvent the restrictions on the use of the Dalleks. But would the show be allowed to even use the term "Dalek"? Are the producers restricted from even the mere mention of the race.
Example:
New Evil Villain(To hero)Your puny race is no match for our might. You shall crumble quicker than even those pitiful Daleks.
So it's really just the US that's having problems, right? So now we'll be taking over countries for their VIN prefixes....
Yeah. Those conspiracy-lovers think it was all about oil. But in reality it was the unused VIN prefixes in Afghanistan and Iraq.
One Word: RUUUUUUNNNNN!!!
Three words. "Bounce Really Fast!"
So yes, if you threw a baseball and a shotput in space, one of two things would happen:
You throw them both with the same force, and the baseball will move a lot faster.
You throw them at the same speed, and have to push a lot harder on the shotput.
Bot only that but the shotput would exert more force on you, and unless you were securely anchored to some other large object you would be moved farther back by throwing the shotput than throwing the baseball. Probably not very far or fast, but each action does have en equal and opposite reaction. It's just that gravity on Earth kepps you firmly anchored.
They should work with the people building this
A little cooperation may help both projects.
The dinosaurs from Jurassic Park that were called Velociraptors were actually closer to the Deinonychus. Maybe the author thought Velociraptor sounded cooler or was easier to pronounce or something.
Why is it so large? If it is a scavenger, what advantage would size give it?
To keep what it finds.
isn't that what school is for?
If you wait a couple of millenia, this waste becomes priceless treasure for archeologists.
Or valuable fuel that people will fight over. (Note: this is not a statement for or against current political situations, just an observation on human nature.)
Wouldn't that be a kicker, the fossil fuels of the future are the landfills of today.
Wouldn't the fourth one just get modded redundant?
how is porn free speech?
Maybe it's not. It's probably more along the lines of Freedon of the press. (Note: still covered by first ammendmen)
As a matter of fact one of the camara effects from the matrix movies would not have existed if it were not for porn.
Which effect was that?
then an alternate method needs to be created!
It exists to some extent for pay-sites. Unless, of course, the children in question already have their own credit cards or have parents thet are particularly lax with theirs.
Now it doesn't help with the free sites, but most of those nowadays have a you must be 18+ years of age, etc. warnings on the page just previous to content.
Maybe if the sites had a "Please enter the number from a state issued Identitifaction Card (Drivers License for example) and date of birth." section before entry. But how well will that work? They just enter bogus information. Not to mention the "tin foil hat" crowd being suspicious of the extra personal information being collected.
Other than that nothing short of strict parental monitoring of the internet use by their children or the dismantling of the internet will keep a motivated young person from veiwing pornography.