Nonsense. You are NOT bound to your brain. If I make a copy of my brain into a cloned brain or electronic brain, and booted it up at the same time I shut down my original, then I would regain consciousness AS ME. Me with my new immortal brain. It would me a smooth transition. If I happen to keep the original brain "alive" at the time I booted up the new one, then there would be simply two me's who perceive themselves to be genuine. ______ rfbeck
"So you're bound to your brain. You cannot live forever unless your particular, specific, physical brain stays in tact. If I copy your brain to another cloned brain, yank yours out, and replace it with the clone, everyone else will interact with you as if you were you, no difference; but YOU would vanish into the blackness, you'd stop living, you'd die."
I'd argue that throwing rocks and bottles never helps anything...
I'd argue that you're wrong. Throwing rocks (and flammable liquids and bombs) is very effective. Violent civil disobedience, whether you like it or not, works. Famous rock thrower Yasir Arafat is now in charge of a semi-autonomous Palestinian state. Rock tossing members of the IRA have almost got themselves a deal for a unified Ireland. Bottle throwing ANC leaders got themselves majority rule in South Africa. And, oh yeah, a few very VIOLENT stone casters got themselves a country a few centuries ago- the United States they called it. So, let's not be too mamby pamby. And let's remember that when it comes to OUR freedoms that the DMCA tries to snuff, well... does "by any means necessary" strike any chords?
Re:Etymology of "nerd"and "geek"
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Well, my father told me that when he was growing up in North Dakota in the '20's that "geek" meant someone who bit the heads off chickens in circus sideshows. And strangely, a "nerd" was someone who went around smelling girl's bicycle seats. So, at least in 1920's North Dakota, being a nerd or geek was definitly NOT cool.
Fusion is nothing but sex misspelled. After so long, the fusion reactor itself becomes radioactive and must be replaced. No way around this. And I'm sure this is "orders of magnitude less waste than fission reactors produce"; BUT it's still "high level" waste. The U.S. still hasn't had the guts to find a solution to dispose of said waste (and there are many good ways to do it but, are no-no'd by NIMBYs). So until we do find the disposal solution, I say keep on researching all you want but don't start building them until you find a solution to the waste problem.
Oh that is such bullshit. Where do you get the statistic for this "military is 10 years ahead of public" nonsense? Didn't think so. Sure, the military has its secret projects, but scientific research NEVER operates in a vacuum. The basic research the military has access to is widely published in the scientific peer reviewed journals. This "secret military AREA 51" type mythology is sooo urban ledgend. Get a clue. If the military had working fusion reactors, the amount of people knowing about it, and working on it... it would be public domain by know. http://www.urbanlegends.com/
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Nonsense. You are NOT bound to your brain. If I make a copy of my brain into a cloned brain or electronic brain, and booted it up at the same time I shut down my original, then I would regain consciousness AS ME. Me with my new immortal brain. It would me a smooth transition. If I happen to keep the original brain "alive" at the time I booted up the new one, then there would be simply two me's who perceive themselves to be genuine.
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rfbeck
"So you're bound to your brain. You cannot live forever unless your particular, specific, physical brain stays in tact. If I copy your brain to another cloned brain, yank yours out, and replace it with the clone, everyone else will interact with you as if you were you, no difference; but YOU would vanish into the blackness, you'd stop living, you'd die."
I just dug up that Kerr was the supervisor on the FBI's Carnivore program while he was Assistant FBI director.
See http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/09/06/carnivore.hearing/
I'd argue that throwing rocks and bottles never helps anything...
I'd argue that you're wrong. Throwing rocks (and flammable liquids and bombs) is very effective. Violent civil disobedience, whether you like it or not, works.
Famous rock thrower Yasir Arafat is now in charge of a semi-autonomous Palestinian state. Rock tossing members of the IRA have almost got themselves a deal for a unified Ireland. Bottle throwing ANC leaders got themselves majority rule in South Africa. And, oh yeah, a few very VIOLENT stone casters got themselves a country a few centuries ago- the United States they called it. So, let's not be too mamby pamby. And let's remember that when it comes to OUR freedoms that the DMCA tries to snuff, well... does "by any means necessary" strike any chords?
Well, my father told me that when he was growing up in North Dakota in the '20's that "geek" meant someone who bit the heads off chickens in circus sideshows. And strangely, a "nerd" was someone who went around smelling girl's bicycle seats.
So, at least in 1920's North Dakota, being a nerd or geek was definitly NOT cool.
Fusion is nothing but sex misspelled.
After so long, the fusion reactor itself becomes radioactive and must be replaced. No way around this. And I'm sure this is "orders of magnitude less waste than fission reactors produce"; BUT it's still "high level" waste. The U.S. still hasn't had the guts to find a solution to dispose of said waste (and there are many good ways to do it but, are no-no'd by NIMBYs).
So until we do find the disposal solution, I say keep on researching all you want but don't start building them until you find a solution to the waste problem.
Oh that is such bullshit. Where do you get the statistic for this "military is 10 years ahead of public" nonsense? Didn't think so.
Sure, the military has its secret projects, but scientific research NEVER operates in a vacuum. The basic research the military has access to is widely published in the scientific peer reviewed journals. This "secret military AREA 51" type mythology is sooo urban ledgend. Get a clue.
If the military had working fusion reactors, the amount of people knowing about it, and working on it... it would be public domain by know.
http://www.urbanlegends.com/