I agree with you. I merely objected to the suggestion to ask a former heroin addict if the laws kept him from becoming addicted which is logically negative.
The official definition of IQ is stupid. It assumes that intelligence follows some sort of monotonic and smooth increase over age. (Clearly not the case once one reaches adulthood.)
I have rewritten the summary using simpler English for the benefit of the weak-minded. A few sacrifices in content were made.
"Using the tech that we have today, we cannot use algae (little green sea creatures) to make our fuel (for cars) because it would be bad for the Earth. Eggheads at National Research Council wrote a report that says so, using all sorts of sciencey terms. It takes more fuel to raise the little green sea creatures than it gives back in the fuel. It also needs lots of water and nitrogen (that's a chemical in bombs) and phosphorus (that's another chemical in bombs). We need to give the little green sea creatures 3 or more times as much water as we can get fuel from them. If we use all the nitrogen and phosphorus we make in the USA, it's only enough to make fuel for one tenth the cars we have."
It depends on how it plays out. My first thought was: your body, your rules. You can do whatever you want to your own body, for all I care. But, then I started looking at some possible future scenarios. Assuming the future is more competitive than today, we can envision a scenario where the only way to secure a job is to abuse work-enhancing drugs, without regard to long-term health. And if the drugs turn out to burn out your brain or turn you into a work automaton, well, that's better than starving. We should be using technological advances to improve the lives of people, not to extract more work out of them.
If you think Ahmadinejad is "batshit crazy" then you are heavily brainwashed, as it's clear that he's very much sane. (or are you talking about the Ayatollah?) In fact, the use of that term "batshit crazy" is not new, and clearly was implanted into your skull at some point.
That's interesting. Wikiquote has a very much opposite quote. "We do not wish, we do not need to expel the Arabs and take their place. All our aspirations are built upon the assumption — proven throughout all our activity in the Land — that there is enough room in the country for ourselves and the Arabs. " https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Ben-Gurion
It doesn't make economic sense to have both oil burning power plants and an oil generation plant operating simultaneously, since you are doing wasteful conversions for no net gain. Granted, gasoline isn't the same as oil, but it's close enough. Either society places higher economic value on electricity in the grid than oil, or on oil instead of electricity. If oil is really so useful for cars and what not, then stop burning it for electricity! It's true that the oil generation plant can run on alternative energy. That doesn't change the point because electricity is extremely fungible. The alternative energy could be used to power whatever you were burning oil to power.
The brightness of a large object won't change, but the resolution will drop by a factor 2 in each direction, so a factor of 4. The magnitude of a small object (sub-pixel) will drop by a factor of 4.
Light can only be adjusted down, not up. Well, you can integrate for longer, but then you lose temporal resolution, which could be a problem if you are moving.
You might be joking, but chemistry is serious business in bread making. Check out this wizened tome; you can't traverse one page without chemistry. http://archive.org/details/cu31924003595802
I came across this while searching for the reference to another bread making tome my friend once showed me. The text was all in Chinese, but it didn't require knowing Chinese to see that every page had some chemical formula or table of chemical compositions or some chem eng processes. Hell, the first chapter was a primer on chemistry. I couldn't find the reference to the book because it had a very common name "Bread Making" and I didn't know the author or year, but the above link has a lot of the same flavor.
Clearly you've never been on a school playground. People don't need religion to be bigoted with regards to gays, mexicans, whites, blacks, yellows, poor kids, rich kids... anyone who isn't like themselves..
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But I bet most people can tell the difference between 15 FPS and 30 FPS. Up the complexity, and the rendering slows down.
no need to be an ass about it
I agree with you. I merely objected to the suggestion to ask a former heroin addict if the laws kept him from becoming addicted which is logically negative.
What is the justification for allowing states lawmakers to choose how the state will vote? I don't see how the correct answer depends on locality.
Clearly, if you ask a heroin addict if the current policies have kept him from being addicted, the answer is no. Try asking some non-heroin addicts.
The problem is that individuals cannot afford legal protection.
I want one, but parking and security seems like a real problem. The problem with the price is that there's a risk of having it stolen or destroyed.
The official definition of IQ is stupid. It assumes that intelligence follows some sort of monotonic and smooth increase over age. (Clearly not the case once one reaches adulthood.)
I have rewritten the summary using simpler English for the benefit of the weak-minded. A few sacrifices in content were made.
"Using the tech that we have today, we cannot use algae (little green sea creatures) to make our fuel (for cars) because it would be bad for the Earth. Eggheads at National Research Council wrote a report that says so, using all sorts of sciencey terms. It takes more fuel to raise the little green sea creatures than it gives back in the fuel. It also needs lots of water and nitrogen (that's a chemical in bombs) and phosphorus (that's another chemical in bombs). We need to give the little green sea creatures 3 or more times as much water as we can get fuel from them. If we use all the nitrogen and phosphorus we make in the USA, it's only enough to make fuel for one tenth the cars we have."
Yeah, but you'll have to step out of the fantasy of what should be into reality where corrupt forces write the laws, and the courts enforce them.
Well, then you aren't imaginative enough. Behavior modification chips/drugs, implanted recording and tracking devices.
It depends on how it plays out.
My first thought was: your body, your rules. You can do whatever you want to your own body, for all I care. But, then I started looking at some possible future scenarios. Assuming the future is more competitive than today, we can envision a scenario where the only way to secure a job is to abuse work-enhancing drugs, without regard to long-term health. And if the drugs turn out to burn out your brain or turn you into a work automaton, well, that's better than starving.
We should be using technological advances to improve the lives of people, not to extract more work out of them.
If scientists and doctors save a person's life, people thank God for the miracle.
If an "act of God" kills people, then people blame the scientists.
If you think Ahmadinejad is "batshit crazy" then you are heavily brainwashed, as it's clear that he's very much sane. (or are you talking about the Ayatollah?) In fact, the use of that term "batshit crazy" is not new, and clearly was implanted into your skull at some point.
That's interesting. Wikiquote has a very much opposite quote.
"We do not wish, we do not need to expel the Arabs and take their place. All our aspirations are built upon the assumption — proven throughout all our activity in the Land — that there is enough room in the country for ourselves and the Arabs. "
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Ben-Gurion
Wow, the PHB shows quite a bit of acuity.
It doesn't make economic sense to have both oil burning power plants and an oil generation plant operating simultaneously, since you are doing wasteful conversions for no net gain. Granted, gasoline isn't the same as oil, but it's close enough. Either society places higher economic value on electricity in the grid than oil, or on oil instead of electricity. If oil is really so useful for cars and what not, then stop burning it for electricity! It's true that the oil generation plant can run on alternative energy. That doesn't change the point because electricity is extremely fungible. The alternative energy could be used to power whatever you were burning oil to power.
Intelligence is still support.
If I learned one thing from history, it is that might makes right.
The brightness of a large object won't change, but the resolution will drop by a factor 2 in each direction, so a factor of 4. The magnitude of a small object (sub-pixel) will drop by a factor of 4.
Light can only be adjusted down, not up. Well, you can integrate for longer, but then you lose temporal resolution, which could be a problem if you are moving.
I thought if you fly twice as far, your camera will work 1/4 as well, not 1/2.
You might be joking, but chemistry is serious business in bread making. Check out this wizened tome; you can't traverse one page without chemistry. http://archive.org/details/cu31924003595802
I came across this while searching for the reference to another bread making tome my friend once showed me. The text was all in Chinese, but it didn't require knowing Chinese to see that every page had some chemical formula or table of chemical compositions or some chem eng processes. Hell, the first chapter was a primer on chemistry. I couldn't find the reference to the book because it had a very common name "Bread Making" and I didn't know the author or year, but the above link has a lot of the same flavor.
Clearly you've never been on a school playground. People don't need religion to be bigoted with regards to gays, mexicans, whites, blacks, yellows, poor kids, rich kids... anyone who isn't like themselves..
1. Patent something nobody wants.
2. Write legislation that requires everyone to use your patent.
3. Profit.
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