Not one of these references describe anything but some reporter saying "Gee, if they can do these trivial experiments now, maybe they can do something important later!".
The are a number of well-regarded M.D.'s that are strict young-earth creationists.
I asked one (who was a friend of mine) how could study and master that much biology while rejecting evolution. He looked uncomfortable, then said "it's just a matter of faith".
For people like him, the definition of "faith" must be "a fervent belief in something that you know perfectly well isn't true".
You are forgetting about the legal concept of "theft of service".
For example, suppose you are driving a bus. You pull up to the bus stop, and a guy gets on.
But, instead of paying the fare, he just sits down at the back of the bus.
You say, "Hey, buddy, aren't you going to pay the fare?"
He replies, "Of course not. There were empty seats at the back, so I'm not taking anything from anybody."
Now while there may be a certain logic to that, the fact remains that a bus service just can't be run that way. Legally, the freeloading bus rider is guilty of "theft of service" even though he didn't take anything away from another person. If the cost of running the bus isn't compensated somehow, the service will be discontinued. And then everyone suffers, payers and freeloaders alike.
Media companies are like bus companies. No pay -> no service. It has nothing to do with whether other music or film fans are being deprived of anything. The fact that the media companies are gangs of filthy swine and deserve whatever they get is a separate issue.
I would challenge the writer, David P. Barash, to give one example of an established scientist who maintains that "we know pretty much everything". And of course, I mean a first-hand quotation, not a reference to another article that makes the same specious claim. The whole point of science is to explore what we don't know.
Searle's "Chinese Room" argument, which you seem to accept, can be boiled down to:
"A machine cannot be intelligent because I define intelligence to be a property of a living thing, and a machine isn't alive"
OK, but really who cares how Searle (or anyone else) defines the term? This is just philosophical navel-gazing at its worst.
Quite a number of prominent philosophers(e.g. Dennet, Hauser, Nillson) have analyzed Searle's work, and have come to the same conclusion: the Chinese Room argument is sophist nonsense.
It's the same in medicine. Junior docs (interns) make shit pay (45K a year @ 100 hrs/week = $8.70 an hour). Even senior (4th year) residents only make about $12 an hour.
Same experience. I recently flew from Vancouver to Rome, and back via Venice. Every flight was comfortable, good food and good service. Munich airport was a nightmare (way too big) but the security was always fast and polite.
Of course, I was careful to choose flights that did not overfly U.S. territory.
The U.S. has gone totally fucking insane since 9/11, just as Bin Laden predicted.
Once again:
Assange
has
not
been
charged
with
any
crime! If the Swedish prosecutor just wants to question Assange, he could just hop a plane to England. Assange has already said that he will gladly do this. The fact that the prosecutor refuses is clear evidence that
a deal was made to hand him over to the U.S.
I once calculated that a freight train, consisting of standard boxcars stuffed to the roof with terrabyte hard drives, and travelling at 100 km/hr, would have an average data rate of around 2000 terrabytes per second.
Look at NASA, a government agency full of scientists and engineers, management made up of mostly ex-sci/eng people, and they still lost two Shuttles. Human nature I'm afraid.
Because Washington-appointed bureaucrats dismissed the concerns of those engineers and scientists.
Thiokol management initially supported its engineers' recommendation to postpone the launch, but NASA staff opposed a delay. During the conference call [project manager]Hardy told Thiokol "I am appalled. I am appalled by your recommendation." [project manager]Mulloy said "My God, Thiokol, when do you want me to launch — next April?"
Nobody wants to insure nuclear power plants. That's an indicator from an unbiased source that they are a bad idea.
And nobody wants to invest in them either. In an age where ROI is normally measured in years, if not quarters, nuke plants take decades to break even unless the taxpayer picks up at least part of the tab.
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Not one of these references describe anything but some reporter saying "Gee, if they can do these trivial experiments now, maybe they can do something important later!".
How long could a robot like this run - and how fast - if it did not have an external power supply?
About 67 attoseconds.
Cheese that is likely Velveeta with trans fat.
That's the last thing I would put on a burger. Howsabout a nice gouda or chedder?
It sounds like you are making your own burger out of good ingredients. That definitely is OK.
Didn't you mean Muslim and Jewish? Christians outside of the U.S. are rarely circumsized.
The are a number of well-regarded M.D.'s that are strict young-earth creationists.
I asked one (who was a friend of mine) how could study and master that much biology while rejecting evolution. He looked uncomfortable, then said "it's just a matter of faith".
For people like him, the definition of "faith" must be "a fervent belief in something that you know perfectly well isn't true".
I would say 120 years, actually.
OK, we'll ask you again when you hit 119. If you are still fit and healthy then, I doubt if you would want to die at 120.
Unless you are too sick or disabled to kill yourself. That is the whole point.
You sound clinically depressed. Go hiking in the mountains or something.
You are forgetting about the legal concept of "theft of service".
For example, suppose you are driving a bus. You pull up to the bus stop, and a guy gets on. But, instead of paying the fare, he just sits down at the back of the bus.
You say, "Hey, buddy, aren't you going to pay the fare?"
He replies, "Of course not. There were empty seats at the back, so I'm not taking anything from anybody."
Now while there may be a certain logic to that, the fact remains that a bus service just can't be run that way. Legally, the freeloading bus rider is guilty of "theft of service" even though he didn't take anything away from another person. If the cost of running the bus isn't compensated somehow, the service will be discontinued. And then everyone suffers, payers and freeloaders alike.
Media companies are like bus companies. No pay -> no service. It has nothing to do with whether other music or film fans are being deprived of anything.
The fact that the media companies are gangs of filthy swine and deserve whatever they get is a separate issue.
I would challenge the writer, David P. Barash, to give one example of an established scientist who maintains that "we know pretty much everything". And of course, I mean a first-hand quotation, not a reference to another article that makes the same specious claim. The whole point of science is to explore what we don't know.
Or maybe a lot of C4 plants, the ones that use crazy amounts of CO2 and do really well when CO2 is high
Wow! I didn't know that C4 comes from a plant. Better not step on it.
Searle's "Chinese Room" argument, which you seem to accept, can be boiled down to:
"A machine cannot be intelligent because I define intelligence to be a property of a living thing, and a machine isn't alive"
OK, but really who cares how Searle (or anyone else) defines the term? This is just philosophical navel-gazing at its worst.
Quite a number of prominent philosophers(e.g. Dennet, Hauser, Nillson) have analyzed Searle's work, and have come to the same conclusion: the Chinese Room argument is sophist nonsense.
It's the same in medicine. Junior docs (interns) make shit pay (45K a year @ 100 hrs/week = $8.70 an hour). Even senior (4th year) residents only make about $12 an hour.
Same experience. I recently flew from Vancouver to Rome, and back via Venice. Every flight was comfortable, good food and good service. Munich airport was a nightmare (way too big) but the security was always fast and polite.
Of course, I was careful to choose flights that did not overfly U.S. territory.
The U.S. has gone totally fucking insane since 9/11, just as Bin Laden predicted.
People joyfully CHOSE the afflictions BEFORE they were born.
Uh, WTF are you talking about?
The accusation of rape or sexual misconduct isn't alleged, the accusations are very real.
You clearly have no idea what the word "alleged" means. The word "accusation" and "allegation" are essentially synonyms.
Why he can't be questioned in the embassy, I don't know.
Because the Swedish authorities refused to.
Once again:
Assange has not been charged with any crime!
If the Swedish prosecutor just wants to question Assange, he could just hop a plane to England. Assange has already said that he will gladly do this.
The fact that the prosecutor refuses is clear evidence that a deal was made to hand him over to the U.S.
Horseshit.
Like a broken clock being right twice a day.
Everything is scary in Utah.
Move.
Yaarh! Tis my data center now, laddies.
I once calculated that a freight train, consisting of standard boxcars stuffed to the roof with terrabyte hard drives, and travelling at 100 km/hr, would have an average data rate of around 2000 terrabytes per second.
Ping time: around two weeks.
Look at NASA, a government agency full of scientists and engineers, management made up of mostly ex-sci/eng people, and they still lost two Shuttles. Human nature I'm afraid.
Because Washington-appointed bureaucrats dismissed the concerns of those engineers and scientists.
Thiokol management initially supported its engineers' recommendation to postpone the launch, but NASA staff opposed a delay.
During the conference call [project manager]Hardy told Thiokol "I am appalled. I am appalled by your recommendation."
[project manager]Mulloy said "My God, Thiokol, when do you want me to launch — next April?"
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Nobody wants to insure nuclear power plants. That's an indicator from an unbiased source that they are a bad idea.
And nobody wants to invest in them either.
In an age where ROI is normally measured in years, if not quarters, nuke plants take decades to break even unless the taxpayer picks up at least part of the tab.