I would start over with nuclear fueled nano-bot sludge. Something similar to the T-1000. Add in your memory and personality backup being distributed throughout all your cells as well as the cells of others and you wouldn't need to eat (except to replenish your radioactive fuel every few thousand years). Death would be pretty rare when it would mean not only was every cell destroyed but also simultaneously millions of other individuals in order to prevent your memories from being rebuilt.
Go through the list of 'sins' and such an arrangement would make them silly and laughable. The only reason we see 'evil' in this world is because we're so embarrassingly frail both physically and emotionally.
What's "murder" when they'll just reform? An inconvenience. What's a 10m tsunami? Inconvenience. What's a few months when you're nigh on immortal? Effectively instantaneous.
If we're the product of a creator--he must really really hate us, be completely unaware of our existence or a complete idiot. None of those are worthy of "God" status in my books.
Every creationist regardless of religious orientation depends on a logical fallacy to advance their beliefs. Which is essentially a form of lunacy as the OP advanced.
As soon as you reject occum's razor and introduce non-empirical shenanigans every theory is subject to the Spaghetti Monster/Last Tuesday fallacies.
Ahhhh my teen years. No there can be intelligent people who believe in God. But they just haven't spent enough time thinking about all of that to realize that such a God is a complete and utter asshole who you better errr... pray, doesn't actually exist.
Think about it. He's all powerful. He's all caring. He creates a universe with deterministic laws which will undoubtedly create a very specific result... and we're the best he could do?
Any engineer who isn't a raving lunatic could sketch the basic design for a new species you want evolved which isn't subject to so much pain and suffering in about 3 minutes.
If we're the product of a divine plan set to unfold over billions of years than God is a callous asshole without any ethics.
Furthermore if you assume that God used science (and a deterministic universe) to create us that we have no free will. Without free will we all are behaving exactly as programmed and once again God is responsible for all of our actions. Which means when Hitler exterminated the Jews... God. When the Tsunami washed across Japan... God. Etc...
I started in Sprint. Had 0 coverage in my apartment. Switched to AT&T and got intermittent and bad coverage. Switched to T-Mobile and could finally have a 10 minute conversation. And I also use their discounted month to month data plan since I provided my own phone and save $$.
Where else can you get an unlimited Data plan for $20? Evidently nowhere next year. Yay consolidation!
And if our politicians make any efforts to free us from any collusion or abuse a majority of Americans rise up in arms to stop their "Fascist, communist, anti-business agenda."
Consumer protection in the united states is seen as tantamount to tyranny. Our government isn't in the pocket of big business... our citizens are. They've been convinced by savvy lobbyists that anything which protects them will ultimately ruin their lives.
"You want to regulate toxic chemicals leaching into your water supply? Well you *could* regulate us but then you would be unemployed, your children would be in concentration camps and you'll starve on the street destitute!" "Oh my God, no, keep dumping!"
No argument from me. However, culturally that stupidity, hypocrisy and self-serving attitude can be mitigated by social constraints. Americans unfortunately get their stupidity and greed preened and polished by our culture.
An example being that it's very difficult to find sociopaths in Eastern Asia. It's believed that they exist in the same proportions but they're so heavily conditioned by society that they have to act responsibly in order to not reveal themselves.
It's not always positive to have strong social expectations but certainly our rejection of murder, rape and slavery by and large is a positive social pressure.
Being gullible isn't a problem if you surround yourself with smart people. We need to improve the default attitudes so that stupid gullible people at least start off believing the right things -- if perhaps for the wrong reasons.
Well they should. The reason our politicians act the way they do... is because it's the way we want them to act.
As much as I would love to believe that Obama was elected in order to actually do the things he campaigned on--I know most a significant portion of his voters also voted for George Bush.
The American People:
- Will have your head on a pike if you touch their government provided health insurance (Medicare) - Will recall you if you reduce Social Security benefits. - Demand insurance companies cover every pre-existing condition. - Will revolt if you raise their taxes.
In other words they're stupid, hypocritical and self serving. What else is new. I have no idea what they saw in Obama that persuaded them to vote for him. And I had no idea what they saw in Bush that persuaded them to for him. I'm not saying both presidents were the same (quite the opposite) just that I have no clue what guided most people's votes since it doesn't seem to be based on any policy, ideological or intrinsic merit.
Speaking of the right. If this can get you sued for getting some fired for the truth... does that mean Fox News and all of the pundits out to fire every Obama appointee are liable. Often those firings aren't even based on truth.
As I understand it, you're correct in that it's not the wave simulation itself that's difficult to model. It's reverse engineering the tsunami trigger event.
Sort of like predicting where a bullet is going to hit without being able to see the gun.
Or since we're monogamous... somewhat and men defended their mates they were no longer selected for and was just a weak gene.
The point of the spines assumes that the females are mating with multiple males within a very short time period. Sociologically speaking that isn't thought to be common in human civilization.
Instead of multiple matings, we just club the other guy before he gets around to any funny business.
I would be curious if other mammals with similar social structures where males are prevented from mating by an alpha male have spines.
The codes were generated I believe on a MS service that was tricked into generating codes based on existing codes.
From Kotaku:
With Microsoft able to track the generated codes, that means they can also track accounts that cashed in the generated codes for points.
And since they can track the damage, they are qualified to tell us that the $1.2 million figure being thrown about is far from the actual number. "We can't share specific numbers, but the figure is nowhere near the amount that has been reported."
[...]
"We take safety and security very seriously and require that Xbox LIVE members use the service in compliance with applicable laws and specifically prohibit people from engaging in illegal activity as a part of our Terms of Use and Code of Conduct," the statement continued. Our Policy and Enforcement team is evaluating whether or not certain individuals have violated the Terms of Use for Xbox LIVE and will take the appropriate enforcement on an individual basis."
"The internet would have been better if AOL and Compuserve had incompatible competing networks and all internet services were provided by one of two mega corporations."
Yes. I agree, I would have felt much more comfortable with AOL guiding us into their glorious future.
P.S. Nobody interfered with AOL and Compuserve. They died all on their own.
So it's not The United States of America either? Ladies and Gentlemen, Benjamin Franklin failed to acknowledge that the United States was anything except for "a republic". Hence forth the USA shall be called simply: "Republic".
Things can be more than one thing--at the same time. I know, it's a difficult concept so I'll wait to cover "gray areas" on a future date and other even more advanced topics.
Well not really. It was undoubtedly insured. So some money was lost but not half a billion in this incident since the successful launches helped cover this failure.
Yes. Great plan. So good even the Greeks thought it was unfair and immoral.
Because as we all know giving up one of your 10 houses is roughly equivalent to not eating anything for 5 days a month if you can't afford groceries on 90% of your income.
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Even geeks are lazy. If 'easier' results in more donations it is more effective.
I would start over with nuclear fueled nano-bot sludge. Something similar to the T-1000. Add in your memory and personality backup being distributed throughout all your cells as well as the cells of others and you wouldn't need to eat (except to replenish your radioactive fuel every few thousand years). Death would be pretty rare when it would mean not only was every cell destroyed but also simultaneously millions of other individuals in order to prevent your memories from being rebuilt.
Go through the list of 'sins' and such an arrangement would make them silly and laughable. The only reason we see 'evil' in this world is because we're so embarrassingly frail both physically and emotionally.
What's "murder" when they'll just reform? An inconvenience. What's a 10m tsunami? Inconvenience. What's a few months when you're nigh on immortal? Effectively instantaneous.
If we're the product of a creator--he must really really hate us, be completely unaware of our existence or a complete idiot. None of those are worthy of "God" status in my books.
Every creationist regardless of religious orientation depends on a logical fallacy to advance their beliefs. Which is essentially a form of lunacy as the OP advanced.
As soon as you reject occum's razor and introduce non-empirical shenanigans every theory is subject to the Spaghetti Monster/Last Tuesday fallacies.
If it had gone into safe mode for more than ## Days does it have a "return to factory defaults" subroutine?
Ahhhh my teen years. No there can be intelligent people who believe in God. But they just haven't spent enough time thinking about all of that to realize that such a God is a complete and utter asshole who you better errr... pray, doesn't actually exist.
Think about it. He's all powerful. He's all caring. He creates a universe with deterministic laws which will undoubtedly create a very specific result... and we're the best he could do?
Any engineer who isn't a raving lunatic could sketch the basic design for a new species you want evolved which isn't subject to so much pain and suffering in about 3 minutes.
If we're the product of a divine plan set to unfold over billions of years than God is a callous asshole without any ethics.
Furthermore if you assume that God used science (and a deterministic universe) to create us that we have no free will. Without free will we all are behaving exactly as programmed and once again God is responsible for all of our actions. Which means when Hitler exterminated the Jews... God. When the Tsunami washed across Japan... God. Etc...
http://earth911.com/news/2009/07/01/sears-tower-retrofit-to-reduce-energy-use/
Says 80% reduction in energy use equal to 52 million kWh per year. So in other words 65 million kWh per year.
65 million kWh / 365 days /24 hours
~= 178,000 kWh per day.
~= 7.4 megawatt average draw.
That means the solar panels would contribute about 27% of the buildings pre-existing power requirements.
Additional energy efficiency efforts I guess will contribute the other 43%,
You don't want the GPU equivalent of assembly language, you want the GPU equivalent of C
You mean something like CUDA?
Seattle, WA
I started in Sprint. Had 0 coverage in my apartment. Switched to AT&T and got intermittent and bad coverage. Switched to T-Mobile and could finally have a 10 minute conversation. And I also use their discounted month to month data plan since I provided my own phone and save $$.
Where else can you get an unlimited Data plan for $20? Evidently nowhere next year. Yay consolidation!
And if our politicians make any efforts to free us from any collusion or abuse a majority of Americans rise up in arms to stop their "Fascist, communist, anti-business agenda."
Consumer protection in the united states is seen as tantamount to tyranny. Our government isn't in the pocket of big business... our citizens are. They've been convinced by savvy lobbyists that anything which protects them will ultimately ruin their lives.
"You want to regulate toxic chemicals leaching into your water supply? Well you *could* regulate us but then you would be unemployed, your children would be in concentration camps and you'll starve on the street destitute!"
"Oh my God, no, keep dumping!"
Just like the rest of the world!
No argument from me. However, culturally that stupidity, hypocrisy and self-serving attitude can be mitigated by social constraints. Americans unfortunately get their stupidity and greed preened and polished by our culture.
An example being that it's very difficult to find sociopaths in Eastern Asia. It's believed that they exist in the same proportions but they're so heavily conditioned by society that they have to act responsibly in order to not reveal themselves.
It's not always positive to have strong social expectations but certainly our rejection of murder, rape and slavery by and large is a positive social pressure.
Being gullible isn't a problem if you surround yourself with smart people. We need to improve the default attitudes so that stupid gullible people at least start off believing the right things -- if perhaps for the wrong reasons.
People would rather have an unprincipled representative who does what they want, than one who is principled and does what they don't want.
It's almost as if you were trying to define what makes a good representative in a Democratic Republic.
Ironic, I would have included Ron Paul and his Supporters near the top of my "reasons the public sucks" list.
Well they should. The reason our politicians act the way they do... is because it's the way we want them to act.
As much as I would love to believe that Obama was elected in order to actually do the things he campaigned on--I know most a significant portion of his voters also voted for George Bush.
The American People:
- Will have your head on a pike if you touch their government provided health insurance (Medicare)
- Will recall you if you reduce Social Security benefits.
- Demand insurance companies cover every pre-existing condition.
- Will revolt if you raise their taxes.
In other words they're stupid, hypocritical and self serving. What else is new. I have no idea what they saw in Obama that persuaded them to vote for him. And I had no idea what they saw in Bush that persuaded them to for him. I'm not saying both presidents were the same (quite the opposite) just that I have no clue what guided most people's votes since it doesn't seem to be based on any policy, ideological or intrinsic merit.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess it's because India has no rocket to launch said astronauts.
SpaceX is closer and it has the positive benefit of going into an American company.
Your argument amounts to: We should outsource all of our jobs so that they become skilled in them and we don't have to outsource them anymore.
On the bright side nobody can attacked for not reading TFA--seeing as there is nothing to read.
Speaking of the right. If this can get you sued for getting some fired for the truth... does that mean Fox News and all of the pundits out to fire every Obama appointee are liable. Often those firings aren't even based on truth.
And O'Keefe I imagine doubly vulnerable.
As I understand it, you're correct in that it's not the wave simulation itself that's difficult to model. It's reverse engineering the tsunami trigger event.
Sort of like predicting where a bullet is going to hit without being able to see the gun.
So because one customer somewhere was mistreated it's OK to pirate it. Yep. Completely clear.
You know... you could buy it. And then crack it.
Or since we're monogamous... somewhat and men defended their mates they were no longer selected for and was just a weak gene.
The point of the spines assumes that the females are mating with multiple males within a very short time period. Sociologically speaking that isn't thought to be common in human civilization.
Instead of multiple matings, we just club the other guy before he gets around to any funny business.
I would be curious if other mammals with similar social structures where males are prevented from mating by an alpha male have spines.
The codes were generated I believe on a MS service that was tricked into generating codes based on existing codes.
From Kotaku:
With Microsoft able to track the generated codes, that means they can also track accounts that cashed in the generated codes for points.
And since they can track the damage, they are qualified to tell us that the $1.2 million figure being thrown about is far from the actual number. "We can't share specific numbers, but the figure is nowhere near the amount that has been reported."
[...]
"We take safety and security very seriously and require that Xbox LIVE members use the service in compliance with applicable laws and specifically prohibit people from engaging in illegal activity as a part of our Terms of Use and Code of Conduct," the statement continued. Our Policy and Enforcement team is evaluating whether or not certain individuals have violated the Terms of Use for Xbox LIVE and will take the appropriate enforcement on an individual basis."
http://kotaku.com/#!5780686
So to summarize your argument:
"The internet would have been better if AOL and Compuserve had incompatible competing networks and all internet services were provided by one of two mega corporations."
Yes. I agree, I would have felt much more comfortable with AOL guiding us into their glorious future.
P.S. Nobody interfered with AOL and Compuserve. They died all on their own.
So it's not The United States of America either? Ladies and Gentlemen, Benjamin Franklin failed to acknowledge that the United States was anything except for "a republic". Hence forth the USA shall be called simply: "Republic".
Things can be more than one thing--at the same time. I know, it's a difficult concept so I'll wait to cover "gray areas" on a future date and other even more advanced topics.
I'm not disagreeing, but on the other hand 30-40 years ago if a teacher had been molesting a student they wouldn't have gotten in much trouble.
Well not really. It was undoubtedly insured. So some money was lost but not half a billion in this incident since the successful launches helped cover this failure.
Yes. Great plan. So good even the Greeks thought it was unfair and immoral.
Because as we all know giving up one of your 10 houses is roughly equivalent to not eating anything for 5 days a month if you can't afford groceries on 90% of your income.