But the same types will want to ban it for everyone. Government funding for abortion will be cut before the procedure is banned as well. My libertarian leanings say getting government out of it is good, but the banning comes later.
This is fascinating, but the writeup is pure flamebait. I know most geeks are atheists who don't grock all this "religion", but we'd do better to ignore the religious types who won't have any part in the future anyway. This stuff will just move to Singapore or the like as the backwards people oppose it. I'm studying neuroscience, and I have more problems with rat-rights or monkey-rights people (who may be in a different political party).
Oh you heard of the Tsunami a couple of months ago which killed just under three hundred thousand people and you are all clued up on the state of the world?
Talk about being insular....o0(Bloody yanks, *rolls eyes*.)
17 million people die of starvation and easily preventible diseases every year.
--Easily preventable disease and starvation. See, in this game, game over happens even though the cheat codes are available (technology technology technology).
3 billion people have to live on on less than 1.50 UKP a day.
--I've taken to drinking liquid nutrition. Keeps me from not dying. Can get full supply for maybe $2 a day. Mass produce this (technology again) and you can feed the world easy.
That is not fucking entertainment mate, and it's not a one off event.
And no, even with all the tourism and development money they are going to get, the victims of the Tsunami are still not going to 'win'.
I suppose the 11 million children that die every year of starvation and trival diseases are just too stupid to know the rules.
--Bad spawn point man.
Maybe you should get off your ass, travel to Africa and enlighten them, I'm sure they would all appreciate your marvelous wisdom.
Because maybe some of us realise how shitty life is for others less fortunate than us, and that it's definately not a game for them.
Sure it is, they're just on the losing end at the moment. Look at the tsunami. Turns out it will be great for their economy. Jobs, new houses, all this attention! Game.
I don't see how you can look at a quarter billion going to Pay-Rod and think life is anything but a game. You still see all those emotional reactions (bizarre! wierd! loser!) to MMOG item selling. Well this "loser" is laughing all the way to the bank.
Humans are a subset of animals. Get it? It looks the article actually recognizes this, which is refreshing but rare. It's hard to even have a talk about important issues such as consciousness and genetics when we can't get even get passed a basic fact.
Hey this is interesting! With stories about hearing being revived by connection of a machine to the brainstem, we'll soon be able to raise people in a true virtual simulation. But I think we're real. Anyone who would be running the show would have been quite bored by now.
Bubble fusion (Newscientist) may be real, meaning local power. Apparently these pebble beds can be smaller as well. Local is good, as are all the things you mention. Let's move forward.
Sure, but at least our numbers are somewhat standardized. You'll never get a phone number that's too big to store in a certain slot. I'm hoping we go to hexadecimal!
There's an interesting prospect. RAW actually takes up less space than TIFF even though it holds potentially more information. But decoding it takes a lot of CPU time.
These kinds of articles never seem to get a very basic problem--natural languages. English is full of words that trip even humans. "Right" the direction versus "right" the judgement is a good example. In wartime something as simple as that may have lead to death. It's the elephant in the living room. Huge, important problem that nobody wants to talk about. There are alternatives, such as lojban which can be parsed like any computer program.
The article mentions English-Spanish translation. When one language is ambiguous (from a bit of Spanish I had in HS I'm guessing English is far more ambiguous), there is no hope of easy translation. And it's worse because the bigger application may be translating the many English pages (ambiguous) to Spanish.
I used the EDGE from Cingular wireless data plan. $80 (0x50 dollars) a month! It worked decent but the worst part was the latency. I was getting 1-2 second latencies. Do not try to game with it at all. Yet I'd still like a single everywhere-network rather than dealing with lots of accounts with various wi-fi hotspots. If they could just get the latency down and improve reception (if your cell is showing half power don't even bother with trying data).
This is the key issue. Did they charge for the bits? Having to upload other stuff doesn't count at all of course. If this guy charged $money$ for the bits, my opinion of him would change for the worse drastically.
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"Non-human animal" works but is cumbersome. Maybe "creature" will catch on.
Humans are animals. Language affects thought, and if we keep implying humans aren't animals, we'll get nowhere.
They tend to be the same one hugging trees. Just one example of many: http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?web cat=features&enewsid=4839 .
But the same types will want to ban it for everyone. Government funding for abortion will be cut before the procedure is banned as well. My libertarian leanings say getting government out of it is good, but the banning comes later.
That is?
Will leave both the religious and new-age types behind.
And emotional. That's what's dangerous.
This is fascinating, but the writeup is pure flamebait. I know most geeks are atheists who don't grock all this "religion", but we'd do better to ignore the religious types who won't have any part in the future anyway. This stuff will just move to Singapore or the like as the backwards people oppose it. I'm studying neuroscience, and I have more problems with rat-rights or monkey-rights people (who may be in a different political party).
How does decimal keep creeping into these nice binary number discussions? Maybe use hexadecimal if you really need to.
I haven't a response as generic in awhile. I guess thinking about things hurts.
Oh you heard of the Tsunami a couple of months ago which killed just under three hundred thousand people and you are all clued up on the state of the world?
.o0(Bloody yanks, *rolls eyes*.)
Talk about being insular...
17 million people die of starvation and easily preventible diseases every year.
--Easily preventable disease and starvation. See, in this game, game over happens even though the cheat codes are available (technology technology technology).
3 billion people have to live on on less than 1.50 UKP a day.
--I've taken to drinking liquid nutrition. Keeps me from not dying. Can get full supply for maybe $2 a day. Mass produce this (technology again) and you can feed the world easy.
That is not fucking entertainment mate, and it's not a one off event.
And no, even with all the tourism and development money they are going to get, the victims of the Tsunami are still not going to 'win'.
I suppose the 11 million children that die every year of starvation and trival diseases are just too stupid to know the rules.
--Bad spawn point man.
Maybe you should get off your ass, travel to Africa and enlighten them, I'm sure they would all appreciate your marvelous wisdom.
There's more money in DVD than the theater now. Well they do get rather cheap. Often they are well below the soundtrack CD.
On-Demand will be nice. Been trying it out lately (Comcast)--it's even available in widescreen and HD now.
Sure it is, they're just on the losing end at the moment. Look at the tsunami. Turns out it will be great for their economy. Jobs, new houses, all this attention! Game.
I don't see how you can look at a quarter billion going to Pay-Rod and think life is anything but a game. You still see all those emotional reactions (bizarre! wierd! loser!) to MMOG item selling. Well this "loser" is laughing all the way to the bank.
Humans are a subset of animals. Get it? It looks the article actually recognizes this, which is refreshing but rare. It's hard to even have a talk about important issues such as consciousness and genetics when we can't get even get passed a basic fact.
Hey this is interesting! With stories about hearing being revived by connection of a machine to the brainstem, we'll soon be able to raise people in a true virtual simulation. But I think we're real. Anyone who would be running the show would have been quite bored by now.
Bubble fusion (Newscientist) may be real, meaning local power. Apparently these pebble beds can be smaller as well. Local is good, as are all the things you mention. Let's move forward.
Sure, but at least our numbers are somewhat standardized. You'll never get a phone number that's too big to store in a certain slot. I'm hoping we go to hexadecimal!
There's an interesting prospect. RAW actually takes up less space than TIFF even though it holds potentially more information. But decoding it takes a lot of CPU time.
These kinds of articles never seem to get a very basic problem--natural languages. English is full of words that trip even humans. "Right" the direction versus "right" the judgement is a good example. In wartime something as simple as that may have lead to death. It's the elephant in the living room. Huge, important problem that nobody wants to talk about. There are alternatives, such as lojban which can be parsed like any computer program.
The article mentions English-Spanish translation. When one language is ambiguous (from a bit of Spanish I had in HS I'm guessing English is far more ambiguous), there is no hope of easy translation. And it's worse because the bigger application may be translating the many English pages (ambiguous) to Spanish.
I used the EDGE from Cingular wireless data plan. $80 (0x50 dollars) a month! It worked decent but the worst part was the latency. I was getting 1-2 second latencies. Do not try to game with it at all. Yet I'd still like a single everywhere-network rather than dealing with lots of accounts with various wi-fi hotspots. If they could just get the latency down and improve reception (if your cell is showing half power don't even bother with trying data).
Not that I last checked. Maybe it's some rich kid who pays thousands to get it first.
This is the key issue. Did they charge for the bits? Having to upload other stuff doesn't count at all of course. If this guy charged $money$ for the bits, my opinion of him would change for the worse drastically.