Those NZ guys are always lying about stuff before it comes out. Like that one crazy guy who claimed to "fly" in March of 1903. Everyone knows the Americans invented flight in December. What boloney.
Ah, yes, being a Doctor of Cryptozoology, I feel it is my responsibility to help with this "liger" reproduction issue. You see, technically, they can reproduce. Just not with each other.
My point is that life is a word, and that it does mean something very specific. I would argue that it might be best to use a different word to describe what we're talking about here. Likewise with the concept of intelligence. Both "life" and "intelligence" are too loaded with historic and cultural nonsense for us to redefine them with more broad-spectrum significance. This is why people who study such fields create their own nomenclature.
In short, life is a term which only really meaningfully applies to biological life. We should use a different term, to keep from confusing dumb people.
I would lump this together with String Theory in the "cute, but doesn't get us anywhere category" but at least String Theory uses some kind of math to back itself up.
I'm sorry, but as much as I appreciate you not preaching a Judeo-Christian system, you're still just proselytizing.
Although Mikkeles does cover the concept, he doesn't specify that this process is called "subitizing" (as referred to TFS) and has to do with the underlying method in which the human brain interprets data. See The Discrimination of Visual Number, Kaufman et al.
Well, the camera would bother me if Apple used it to record me voiding the warranty, and watched a playback of everything it had recorded when I took the iPhone in for service. That would not be cool.
But these LCIs, that's what they do on a very basic level. For some reason, I'm not comfortable with that. Maybe I'm just not indoctrinated into this new privacy-free culture enough.
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Yes, and firetrucks are red because they're red. We define that color as red, then paint them red. That's how names for things work.
Those things, they aren't alive. Thus the definition.
It's possible he was applying Rule 34...
I would posit that more peoples lives are ruined by the direct action of the RIAA than terrorists in the United States.
I think he was referring to the management as getting the gold-plated toilets, or parachutes as the case may be.
Ya, well, it was supposed to sound funnier...
Those NZ guys are always lying about stuff before it comes out. Like that one crazy guy who claimed to "fly" in March of 1903. Everyone knows the Americans invented flight in December. What boloney.
Can't trust'em.
If one of your less technologically-savvy friends on Facebook happens to fall for this scheme
Ha, your logic is flawed. No one here has friends!
wolves
Shouldn't that be "wovles?" It would make more sense for "wovles" to prey on "sheeple."
Not always.
LedgerSMB: Open source accounting and E
Open source? Accounting? Narcotics? ... is this legal?
Ah, yes, being a Doctor of Cryptozoology, I feel it is my responsibility to help with this "liger" reproduction issue. You see, technically, they can reproduce. Just not with each other.
My point is that life is a word, and that it does mean something very specific. I would argue that it might be best to use a different word to describe what we're talking about here. Likewise with the concept of intelligence. Both "life" and "intelligence" are too loaded with historic and cultural nonsense for us to redefine them with more broad-spectrum significance. This is why people who study such fields create their own nomenclature.
In short, life is a term which only really meaningfully applies to biological life. We should use a different term, to keep from confusing dumb people.
Or really tiny rocks.
I would lump this together with String Theory in the "cute, but doesn't get us anywhere category" but at least String Theory uses some kind of math to back itself up.
I'm sorry, but as much as I appreciate you not preaching a Judeo-Christian system, you're still just proselytizing.
Although Mikkeles does cover the concept, he doesn't specify that this process is called "subitizing" (as referred to TFS) and has to do with the underlying method in which the human brain interprets data. See The Discrimination of Visual Number, Kaufman et al.
In biology, life is defined as have the following characteristics:
Having these characteristics defines something as being "alive." See, not magic.
There never was a south park reference joke so beautifully setup before this
That's not true. If you're looking for the best South Park joke setup, the Simpsons did it.
Well, the way in which a Segway balances is not exactly comparable to the manner in which a biped balances. What with the wheels and all.
I believe the saying you're looking for is:
Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.
- Former President Bush
I was explicitly referring to cheaters.
I realize that. I was not.
Psh, with iPhones for $40, who needs warranties?
Psh, car insurance is for sissies!
Well, the camera would bother me if Apple used it to record me voiding the warranty, and watched a playback of everything it had recorded when I took the iPhone in for service. That would not be cool.
But these LCIs, that's what they do on a very basic level. For some reason, I'm not comfortable with that. Maybe I'm just not indoctrinated into this new privacy-free culture enough.
You gotta use HTML kinda tags, not BBCode kinda tags. Also, the preview button lets you, you know, preview it.