Being on duty "24/7" doesn't mean that you are at work every hour of every day of the year. It means being on duty around the clock for a few days, then being off duty for a few days, and so on.
Race itself is considered a social construct, not a biological or genetic one.
By who? Forensic scientists routinely identify the most likely race of a person based on the skeletal measurements of a corpse. Here "race" just refers to where in the world the majority of the person's ancient ancestors lived (Europe, Africa, South Asia, East Asia, etc.). This affects their likely appearance and is an important aid in identifying their remains.
Technically, there are no human 'races', as we can all interbreed.
Interbreeding is irrelevant to the concept of race, which is a statistical concept relating to where in the world the majority of your ancient (>1000 years) lived. However, it is true that there is no reliable difference between races in terms of intellectual talent.
If you call up your representative and tell them how bad the pollution has got in the stream running behind your house downhill from the factory, etc... you're lobbying
That's a long, long way from being a professional lobbyist who will push any agenda that anybody is willing to pay for.
The "solid justification" is that anything faster than the speed of light would, in some reference frame, be equivalent to travelling backwards in time, which would break causality
Which means nothing, since causality can only be determined in the reference frame where the action (i.e. the acceleration) is occurring. The fact that causality may appear to be broken from some other reference frame is all very interesting, but ultimately irrelevant.
No you can't. If you try sweeping the beam, you will see the spot on the moon stay where it was for 2.6 seconds (1.3 light seconds each way), then move to the next position. A 2.6 second delay is not "faster than light", it is exactly what you would expect with light travelling at c.
This is not something they can control, so cannot "switch empathy on and off".
It's not the empathy, but the illusion of empathy that they turn on and off. And they can do it so well that even trained professionals (e.g. psychiatrists) are routinely fooled.
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Want to bet this appears on next year's igNobel awards?
Cruise missiles are autonomous drones - having no human pilot - and they carry nuclear missiles.
I would say that Slashdot has a strong *libertarian* bent
It's not that common.
It's just that retards like roman_meal below make so much noise in that direction
Hell, Yeah!
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Then I gets to shoot anybody I pleases!
Course, then they gets to shoot me. Wait a minute
I think there is a terminology problem.
Being on duty "24/7" doesn't mean that you are at work every hour of every day of the year.
It means being on duty around the clock for a few days, then being off duty for a few days, and so on.
everything is stationary relative to itself.
Can't argue with that!
OTOH the planet easily can hold 3 - 5 times the population.
Sure, with 3-5 times as much pollution, which is already bad enough to
make the lives of 95% of the world's population a living hell.
But you don't care about that, do you? Just go on parroting the nonsense you hear in church.
Getting a jump on next year's igNobel awards, eh?
Race itself is considered a social construct, not a biological or genetic one.
By who?
Forensic scientists routinely identify the most likely race of a person based on the skeletal measurements of a corpse.
Here "race" just refers to where in the world the majority of the person's ancient ancestors lived
(Europe, Africa, South Asia, East Asia, etc.). This affects their likely appearance and is an important aid in identifying their remains.
Technically, there are no human 'races', as we can all interbreed.
Interbreeding is irrelevant to the concept of race, which is a statistical concept relating to where in the world the majority of your ancient (>1000 years) lived.
However, it is true that there is no reliable difference between races in terms of intellectual talent.
However, solar will alter the weather and climate on the planet after a certain threshold is reached.
Citation?
And so you repeat those without really understanding any of them, their significance, or how they may or may not apply to the Chinese pebble bed.
Assuming you have the required understanding, let's hear why mspohr is wrong.
Did anybody check to see if there is a gigantic vacuum cleaner in orbit?
You write it down on another piece of paper, and put that in another safe, of course!
It's safes all the way down.
If you call up your representative and tell them how bad the pollution has got in the stream running behind your house downhill from the factory, etc... you're lobbying
That's a long, long way from being a professional lobbyist who will push any agenda that anybody is willing to pay for.
It is obvious the vast majority of us have adapted to dying young and in agony.
FTFY.
So, playing devil's advocate for a moment, maybe copyright infringement should be a crime, treated similar to other financial crimes like fraud
It is, if conducted at a commercial level.
The "solid justification" is that anything faster than the speed of light would, in some reference frame, be equivalent to travelling backwards in time, which would break causality
Which means nothing, since causality can only be determined in the reference frame where the action (i.e. the acceleration) is occurring.
The fact that causality may appear to be broken from some other reference frame is all very interesting, but ultimately irrelevant.
No you can't.
If you try sweeping the beam, you will see the spot on the moon stay where it was for 2.6 seconds (1.3 light seconds each way), then move to the next position.
A 2.6 second delay is not "faster than light", it is exactly what you would expect with light travelling at c.
This is not something they can control, so cannot "switch empathy on and off".
It's not the empathy, but the illusion of empathy that they turn on and off.
And they can do it so well that even trained professionals (e.g. psychiatrists) are routinely fooled.
I can also, with a consistently high success rate, predict how people I'm around will react to most things
It's called confirmation bias.
We recently crossed a threshold where more than half the world's population lives in urban areas. Just sayin'
That still leaves 3 1/2 billion who don't. Just sayin'.
Good research!
I'd mod you up if I knew how.
I just want an iPhone with the bigger GBs.
I just want a girlfriend with bigger Bs.
"blind" yes,
"seer" no.