I think the one flaw most complained about the M16 (especially during the US Somali operations) was that it was designed to penetrate, but no stopage. Like where the bullet impacts and then spreads out and causes more damage.
So basically, they were shooting people, but if they didn't hit a vital organ it would go cleanly through them. I don't know if that has been corrected in modern versions, but one of the plusses about the AK-47 round was that it spiraled very nastily causing a great deal of stoppage and damage to the target.
Of course if it didn't kill you it would cause more painful wounds.
Nah. I'm just guy whose worked in computer repair for about 8 years and then 2 years as a phone money and then over a years at a corporate desk.
I've just listed all those to say that I've had a mainly windows background to let everyone know I'm not biased towards OS X. I just think it's quite better than most everything else I've come across.
If I wanted respect I'd run a Sparc or Alpha proc with BeOS or BDS and learn to use Vi instead of Pico.
I ask not because I'm trying to trumpet OS X; I'm trying to understand whether there's real innovation here, or whether this is being touted only because it's more advanced than Gnome/KDE.
Well, it's not really an innovation, but a welcome design change (at least IMO) to copy OS X rather than Windows. Even though I have used Windows 95, 98, 2000, and XP and only recently bought a Mac in 2003 (I have a PC with Ubuntu on it if anyone is curious) and found the interface just seems more logical once you get used to it and have bought your own two button mouse (hey, I can't give that up).
I'm sure Apple spent a large sum of money on some sort of Gui Guru to come up with what they did and I think most other OS's should kind of at least barrow some of those concepts.
Heck.. Ubuntu has the Gnome foot up in the left hand corner like the apple. Now if they'd only move their menu commands up to the top menu bar as well and get a dock too... There might already be a way, but I haven't researched it yet since I just play games on my Ubuntu box.
Exactly. To motivate rich people, you pay them more- with poor people, you pay them less.
You forgot the compulsary beatings...
But seriously... Why are million dollar CEO's any better than the next Joe Six pack? Well, it's more or less due to Figurehead syndrome and the thinking that in order to run a large business you need some sort of "super star leader" to run the ship.
In truth companies hire CEO's to appease the stockholders while most CEOs real value is making it appear the company is actually making money even though is policies maybe cannabalising the company in short term while he's got his plane tickets to Aruba before the entire company files chapter 11 next month. Now both the stockholders and workers are screwed except for the inside traders...
Well thats capitalism for you... Most corporations never make it past their 10th birthday because of things like mentioned above. Usually the ones that do survive are the ones owned by a small group of stock investors who have a hard controlled reign on the board of directors or have a single or at least major stock holder.
Take Microsoft for example... Even though they have questionable business practices they don't really play the stock and Excel chart figures manipulation to prove they have higher profits... Well mostly because they are crushing all forms of competition so it's impossible to not have some sort of profits, but you know what I mean.
This is the one reason I perfer to work for companies who haven't gone public.
In reality, you just need someone who can determine how the company can make money without spending a great deal in the proccess (you know make profit) and sometimes that really doesn't take a $300 million superstar CEO to do that.
"Google is hated by these guys now for the same reason academics look down their noses at their equivalents in the professional world."
I always thought it was the other way around... People in academics usually don't have to worry about business issues while people in the business world often have their creativity crumpled and their budgets cut to make stock holders happy.
I couldn't really see University Engineers being jealous of their equivalent in the "real world" unless they are in their profession for money rather than the spirit of science and learning.
With that kind of price tag however, anyone who breaks in will most certainly steal the bot first.
I would disagree. Unless the criminal is stupid...
Well since the bot has cell phone technology, as soon as you turn it on they can track you through the EMS service. That and there are third party technologies than can track your location based of the speed of your relay signal to one cell tower compared to another even though its a slight difference of a few milliseconds. (that's triangulating for you)
If you were planning on stealing it, the first smart thing to do would be turn it off without it detecting you. Then you'd have to know someone who can hack it or have the knowhow to reset the cell phone information and then you'd have to somehow find a way to sell the thing without being trace. If you sold it and they traced the signal to someone else they'd most likely tell the cops who sold it to them out of fear of prosecution.
The ubersmart theif would most likley find a way to disable the system remotley and make it seem there was no breakin whatsoever and if they later arrest you and then get your lawyer to demand to see the recordings which will show everything fine at the time of the breakin.
But... I think that would be someone stealing for the thrill of it rather than monetary gain and those people are very rare and Japan has a minimal crime rate as it is compared to the US.
That would more like experimenting on people after they were gassed. Embryos aren't technially sentient beings yet. Only potentionally... Just like every cell in your body is.
Exterminating concioussness for self gain is actually considered murder (more so in Buddhism towards all forms of life). In the old testament God does not proscribe killing since he often commanded it. I think we have to get back to the original Hebrew word they have in the 10 commandments. But that aside... If you kill something that does not have conciousness then does it have a soul? A soul entails that a being has some sort of free will otherwise it cannot choose to be saved or not.
And this part is not towards you directly, but for the rest of people who dwell on the fact of punishment of life after death.
If you say these embryos have souls with modern Christian thinking then you must agree either they go to heaven or hell and if they never had free will in the matter will you say they go to heaven or would god send them to hell for things beyond their control?
Might I add. Hell is no where mentioned in the Old Testament. Just seperation from God... Do you think God would warn his chosen people from such a horrid fate?
Tell me. Where does your morality stand on this issue?
The mind doesn't own a body, but the mind's consciousness and the body are two separate unique beings but both must be present to be aware of reality.
The body can function without a conscious mind (on life support and feeding tube), but consciousness must have the mind to function, as we know it. You are that consciousness and well... If you don't have that consciousness then you don't exist now do you? Of course this leads to the debate whether other people exist or not, but in truth you can only prove to yourself that you alone exist and must assume that everyone else exists and you cannot even prove that you do not exist and if you are even aware of this fact than it's obvious that you are conscious and somewhat aware and therefore do exist.
As a Buddhist saying goes "You are neither body or mind, but neither are you not the body or mind." (Strange double negative saying)
I've often thought about why we still have certain primal signals.
It's evolutionary. We don't actually need a lot of things with the human body. Take the appendix for example... However, it would take a lot of technology to get around this.
The best case scenario would be to replace the body with something totally synthetic. Think Ghost in the Shell where the brain is encapsulated in a vat or cyberbrain enclosure.
With a total machine or prosthetic body you would no longer need to sleep, eat, feel pain, go to the bathroom and various other things. Of course that level of technology may not exist for another 50 years or so and will open it's own can of worms. I would suggest reading up on Transhumanism which is mostly about Philosophy on what happens to humans after that get rid of the physical limitations of being human.
On a more serious level I would agree. I was joking about the unemployement part and staying up and playing WoW, I haven't been unemployed for a long time for about 4 years now, but I do miss not being able to sleep whenever I want to when I was and back then I was playing Ultima Online and not Wow, but...
I think that it might be genetic, habbit, or enviorment related with when one does their best work. I find myself geared up in the Afternoon rather than the morning, but mostly because most of my prior jobs were late shifts such as 2pm to 11pm at night kind of range which led me to either learn to be personally productive after work at very late hours.
I think there was a study done on people who perfer to do mental work in the morning, afternoon, or late at night but I can't remember what it concluded but there seems to be a difference between most people.
It doesn't matter what time you go to sleep. It is the time when you wake up that counts.
You could go to sleep at 4am and still be refreshed the next morning... Err... Afternoon. Well.. As long as it's after 2pm and you have to get up to go to the bathroom and can't sleep anymore and since you're in the bathroom you might as well take a shower and maybe since you are already up you might as well check your email... Next thing you know it's 3am and you start to think that maybe you should stop playing WoW at this point, but you're this close to the next level... Argh...
Ah the joys of unemployement... Not that I am talking on personal experience or anything. *coughs*
Not really. They just watch a lot of religious programming and go to Church on Sundays and listen to some man prattle about how they are going to heaven and the rest of the world isn't. Satisfied with this answer, they go about their lives without taking any of their religion into consideration.
Real Puritans on the other hand hold witch trials and put drunkars in the stocks and brand adulters... Oh those silly Puritans.;)
There is a reason this took off in Vietnam and will most likley stay in Vietnam even with angry US Companies at the gates.
Key word here is "Vietnam". You know... The nation which most people have lost a relative to some of involvement to a certain nation a few decades ago. *coughs*
I think it's safe to say which side the Vietmanese courts will go with.
Or do you expect someone here to admire you for...what...nothing really.
If he has given up a form of entertainment because he feels that they violate his rights and instead of just complaining, he has actually given them up (and then complained)... Then he is stronger than you or I. Frankly, I would admire him for that and wish that the world was inhabited with more people like him.
Let's see you go without some form of entertainment to make a point to a world that doesn't act like it cares about whether if you live or die. I know I couldn't.
I doubt very much that will be (legally) in any OSS drivers.
Legal? Bah. With the hundreds of thousands of laws on the books, everyone single one of us can hardly go about the day without breaking some legal code. Not getting caught is the more important part of life.
And before any of you throw a stone how many of you have never broken a law? speeding? not paid taxes on time? avoided sales tax? used laundry detegent for any other reason than washing clothes? had any other sexual position other than missionary in most of the Southern States? Let's not talk about tax evasion and various other legal code things...
But the point of the matter is that these corporations are trying to make you believe that "Illegal = Morally Wrong", but in truth it's them making their profit margins into written law. With that in mind there are no moral obligations to adhear to any injust laws that do not benefit fellow man, but I might add the best route is not to fight the law, but just ignore it and find to avoid getting caught.
Does that make it alright for Mengle to perform his medical testing on them?
Actually, Dr. Josef Mengele usually killed them as a result of the experiment and not the other way around. It's not certain wheather or not they would have survived starvation, forced, labor, and possible execution, but I don't think Dr. Mengele justified the killings that way. To him they were no more than lab animals in his demented mind.
Although, to answer your question would be better put:
Should we throw away the knoweledge gained through evil acts even if it saves lives and prevents suffering of people alive today?
Scarily enough, most modern medical knowledge have some influence on his detailed studies of the inner working of anatomy.
I was about to say myself. It's one thing to get modded Troll or Flamebait when trying to be funny... And interesting I could understand... But informative just makes me scratch my head and wonder if someone believed what I said to be real life and not comedy.
Very interesting link. It certainly makes me believe that much of the objection to stem cell research comes from common misunderstandings.
That or the majority of Fundementalists don't know how to use a computer.;)
No, but seriously, why don't I see any Muslim, Jewish, Agnostic, Buddhist, or any other faiths mentioned in the poll? Is abortion just a Christian issue to be dealt with by a Christian society? I don't think it's that simple.
Please keep that in mind before you start bitching about us Christians being anti-science.
Ever thought about taking up Buddhism? No, but seriously as long as the abortion wasn't initiated for the fact of getting stem cells then it's just a sin to let them go to waste instead of using them for research that could save or prolong the life or ease the suffering of those who are now living.
Sony later described the main reason they decided to compete was because the iTunes slogans had a sensible grasp of the English language and would not fly with the Japanese public. Sony PR Manager was quoted saying their slogan would be "Music Sample Download in You!"
* Why to air forces the world round rely on C130 Hercules aircraft for transport?
Mostly because we aren't loosing them to mechanical failures and they seem to last. It's not that it takes time to develop them it's just there isn't a need. If we were at war with another power (say China who would also have designed a similar but maybe one uped version of the C130) and we lost them on a daily basis we'd most likley come up with a new design. Take the M1Abrahms tank... The thing was designed in the 70's and works great. It beats Soviet models hands down, but on the same token it has never been face to face with the German Leopard II models and possibly the new Chinese ones being modeled. If we had a threat from a nation that had a superior model of tank we'd toss the M1Abrahms design in a heart beat, but I don't see that happening anytime soon.
* Why do we communicate with a 30 year old communication protocol?
Good question. I'm assuming you are talking about IPv4? Well again... Not because the design is that great, but because it works and we aren't hitting the limit that we needed IPv6 for because NAT is tiding us over. Doesn't mean we need to upgrade eventually.
* Why do I drive a car which is 10 years old but for which the basic design is more than 20 years old?
Well... That's a personal preference. Personally, I like my cars old and my computer hardware new.;)
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I think the one flaw most complained about the M16 (especially during the US Somali operations) was that it was designed to penetrate, but no stopage. Like where the bullet impacts and then spreads out and causes more damage.
So basically, they were shooting people, but if they didn't hit a vital organ it would go cleanly through them. I don't know if that has been corrected in modern versions, but one of the plusses about the AK-47 round was that it spiraled very nastily causing a great deal of stoppage and damage to the target.
Of course if it didn't kill you it would cause more painful wounds.
People do not have to dehumanize anyone to kill them.
Neither do robots and aliens. Frankly, it makes it easier for them to just leave the filthy humans classified as is and get extermination over with.
Nah. I'm just guy whose worked in computer repair for about 8 years and then 2 years as a phone money and then over a years at a corporate desk.
I've just listed all those to say that I've had a mainly windows background to let everyone know I'm not biased towards OS X. I just think it's quite better than most everything else I've come across.
If I wanted respect I'd run a Sparc or Alpha proc with BeOS or BDS and learn to use Vi instead of Pico.
I ask not because I'm trying to trumpet OS X; I'm trying to understand whether there's real innovation here, or whether this is being touted only because it's more advanced than Gnome/KDE.
Well, it's not really an innovation, but a welcome design change (at least IMO) to copy OS X rather than Windows. Even though I have used Windows 95, 98, 2000, and XP and only recently bought a Mac in 2003 (I have a PC with Ubuntu on it if anyone is curious) and found the interface just seems more logical once you get used to it and have bought your own two button mouse (hey, I can't give that up).
I'm sure Apple spent a large sum of money on some sort of Gui Guru to come up with what they did and I think most other OS's should kind of at least barrow some of those concepts.
Heck.. Ubuntu has the Gnome foot up in the left hand corner like the apple. Now if they'd only move their menu commands up to the top menu bar as well and get a dock too... There might already be a way, but I haven't researched it yet since I just play games on my Ubuntu box.
Exactly. To motivate rich people, you pay them more- with poor people, you pay them less.
You forgot the compulsary beatings...
But seriously... Why are million dollar CEO's any better than the next Joe Six pack? Well, it's more or less due to Figurehead syndrome and the thinking that in order to run a large business you need some sort of "super star leader" to run the ship.
In truth companies hire CEO's to appease the stockholders while most CEOs real value is making it appear the company is actually making money even though is policies maybe cannabalising the company in short term while he's got his plane tickets to Aruba before the entire company files chapter 11 next month. Now both the stockholders and workers are screwed except for the inside traders...
Well thats capitalism for you... Most corporations never make it past their 10th birthday because of things like mentioned above. Usually the ones that do survive are the ones owned by a small group of stock investors who have a hard controlled reign on the board of directors or have a single or at least major stock holder.
Take Microsoft for example... Even though they have questionable business practices they don't really play the stock and Excel chart figures manipulation to prove they have higher profits... Well mostly because they are crushing all forms of competition so it's impossible to not have some sort of profits, but you know what I mean.
This is the one reason I perfer to work for companies who haven't gone public.
In reality, you just need someone who can determine how the company can make money without spending a great deal in the proccess (you know make profit) and sometimes that really doesn't take a $300 million superstar CEO to do that.
"Google is hated by these guys now for the same reason academics look down their noses at their equivalents in the professional world."
I always thought it was the other way around... People in academics usually don't have to worry about business issues while people in the business world often have their creativity crumpled and their budgets cut to make stock holders happy.
I couldn't really see University Engineers being jealous of their equivalent in the "real world" unless they are in their profession for money rather than the spirit of science and learning.
With that kind of price tag however, anyone who breaks in will most certainly steal the bot first.
I would disagree. Unless the criminal is stupid...
Well since the bot has cell phone technology, as soon as you turn it on they can track you through the EMS service. That and there are third party technologies than can track your location based of the speed of your relay signal to one cell tower compared to another even though its a slight difference of a few milliseconds. (that's triangulating for you)
If you were planning on stealing it, the first smart thing to do would be turn it off without it detecting you. Then you'd have to know someone who can hack it or have the knowhow to reset the cell phone information and then you'd have to somehow find a way to sell the thing without being trace. If you sold it and they traced the signal to someone else they'd most likely tell the cops who sold it to them out of fear of prosecution.
The ubersmart theif would most likley find a way to disable the system remotley and make it seem there was no breakin whatsoever and if they later arrest you and then get your lawyer to demand to see the recordings which will show everything fine at the time of the breakin.
But... I think that would be someone stealing for the thrill of it rather than monetary gain and those people are very rare and Japan has a minimal crime rate as it is compared to the US.
No, but it's cheaper than buying a sentry gun in each room.
That would more like experimenting on people after they were gassed. Embryos aren't technially sentient beings yet. Only potentionally... Just like every cell in your body is.
Exterminating concioussness for self gain is actually considered murder (more so in Buddhism towards all forms of life). In the old testament God does not proscribe killing since he often commanded it. I think we have to get back to the original Hebrew word they have in the 10 commandments. But that aside... If you kill something that does not have conciousness then does it have a soul? A soul entails that a being has some sort of free will otherwise it cannot choose to be saved or not.
And this part is not towards you directly, but for the rest of people who dwell on the fact of punishment of life after death.
If you say these embryos have souls with modern Christian thinking then you must agree either they go to heaven or hell and if they never had free will in the matter will you say they go to heaven or would god send them to hell for things beyond their control?
Might I add. Hell is no where mentioned in the Old Testament. Just seperation from God... Do you think God would warn his chosen people from such a horrid fate?
Tell me. Where does your morality stand on this issue?
I'd be a large sum of money that:
1. They don't use Halo like Armor even thought it readily available. Like this armor.
2. And either way they'll have the star take off the mask after the first 5 minutes of the movie to show the star's useless mugg.
You know what... I don't care who plays master Chef, but it would make me feel better if they kept his helmet on during the majority of the movie.
Hah! You don't have a body, you are a body!
The mind doesn't own a body, but the mind's consciousness and the body are two separate unique beings but both must be present to be aware of reality.
The body can function without a conscious mind (on life support and feeding tube), but consciousness must have the mind to function, as we know it. You are that consciousness and well... If you don't have that consciousness then you don't exist now do you? Of course this leads to the debate whether other people exist or not, but in truth you can only prove to yourself that you alone exist and must assume that everyone else exists and you cannot even prove that you do not exist and if you are even aware of this fact than it's obvious that you are conscious and somewhat aware and therefore do exist.
As a Buddhist saying goes "You are neither body or mind, but neither are you not the body or mind." (Strange double negative saying)
I've often thought about why we still have certain primal signals.
It's evolutionary. We don't actually need a lot of things with the human body. Take the appendix for example... However, it would take a lot of technology to get around this.
The best case scenario would be to replace the body with something totally synthetic. Think Ghost in the Shell where the brain is encapsulated in a vat or cyberbrain enclosure.
With a total machine or prosthetic body you would no longer need to sleep, eat, feel pain, go to the bathroom and various other things. Of course that level of technology may not exist for another 50 years or so and will open it's own can of worms. I would suggest reading up on Transhumanism which is mostly about Philosophy on what happens to humans after that get rid of the physical limitations of being human.
On a more serious level I would agree. I was joking about the unemployement part and staying up and playing WoW, I haven't been unemployed for a long time for about 4 years now, but I do miss not being able to sleep whenever I want to when I was and back then I was playing Ultima Online and not Wow, but...
I think that it might be genetic, habbit, or enviorment related with when one does their best work. I find myself geared up in the Afternoon rather than the morning, but mostly because most of my prior jobs were late shifts such as 2pm to 11pm at night kind of range which led me to either learn to be personally productive after work at very late hours.
I think there was a study done on people who perfer to do mental work in the morning, afternoon, or late at night but I can't remember what it concluded but there seems to be a difference between most people.
It doesn't matter what time you go to sleep. It is the time when you wake up that counts.
You could go to sleep at 4am and still be refreshed the next morning... Err... Afternoon. Well.. As long as it's after 2pm and you have to get up to go to the bathroom and can't sleep anymore and since you're in the bathroom you might as well take a shower and maybe since you are already up you might as well check your email... Next thing you know it's 3am and you start to think that maybe you should stop playing WoW at this point, but you're this close to the next level... Argh...
Ah the joys of unemployement... Not that I am talking on personal experience or anything. *coughs*
On one hand the US is ultra-religious.
;)
Not really. They just watch a lot of religious programming and go to Church on Sundays and listen to some man prattle about how they are going to heaven and the rest of the world isn't. Satisfied with this answer, they go about their lives without taking any of their religion into consideration.
Real Puritans on the other hand hold witch trials and put drunkars in the stocks and brand adulters... Oh those silly Puritans.
Tomorrow some american company will sue him
There is a reason this took off in Vietnam and will most likley stay in Vietnam even with angry US Companies at the gates.
Key word here is "Vietnam". You know... The nation which most people have lost a relative to some of involvement to a certain nation a few decades ago. *coughs*
I think it's safe to say which side the Vietmanese courts will go with.
Or do you expect someone here to admire you for...what...nothing really.
If he has given up a form of entertainment because he feels that they violate his rights and instead of just complaining, he has actually given them up (and then complained)... Then he is stronger than you or I. Frankly, I would admire him for that and wish that the world was inhabited with more people like him.
Let's see you go without some form of entertainment to make a point to a world that doesn't act like it cares about whether if you live or die. I know I couldn't.
I doubt very much that will be (legally) in any OSS drivers.
Legal? Bah. With the hundreds of thousands of laws on the books, everyone single one of us can hardly go about the day without breaking some legal code. Not getting caught is the more important part of life.
And before any of you throw a stone how many of you have never broken a law? speeding? not paid taxes on time? avoided sales tax? used laundry detegent for any other reason than washing clothes? had any other sexual position other than missionary in most of the Southern States? Let's not talk about tax evasion and various other legal code things...
But the point of the matter is that these corporations are trying to make you believe that "Illegal = Morally Wrong", but in truth it's them making their profit margins into written law. With that in mind there are no moral obligations to adhear to any injust laws that do not benefit fellow man, but I might add the best route is not to fight the law, but just ignore it and find to avoid getting caught.
Hey, it worked for prohibition.
Does that make it alright for Mengle to perform his medical testing on them?
Actually, Dr. Josef Mengele usually killed them as a result of the experiment and not the other way around. It's not certain wheather or not they would have survived starvation, forced, labor, and possible execution, but I don't think Dr. Mengele justified the killings that way. To him they were no more than lab animals in his demented mind.
Although, to answer your question would be better put:
Should we throw away the knoweledge gained through evil acts even if it saves lives and prevents suffering of people alive today?
Scarily enough, most modern medical knowledge have some influence on his detailed studies of the inner working of anatomy.
I was about to say myself. It's one thing to get modded Troll or Flamebait when trying to be funny... And interesting I could understand... But informative just makes me scratch my head and wonder if someone believed what I said to be real life and not comedy.
Very interesting link. It certainly makes me believe that much of the objection to stem cell research comes from common misunderstandings.
;)
That or the majority of Fundementalists don't know how to use a computer.
No, but seriously, why don't I see any Muslim, Jewish, Agnostic, Buddhist, or any other faiths mentioned in the poll? Is abortion just a Christian issue to be dealt with by a Christian society? I don't think it's that simple.
Please keep that in mind before you start bitching about us Christians being anti-science.
Ever thought about taking up Buddhism? No, but seriously as long as the abortion wasn't initiated for the fact of getting stem cells then it's just a sin to let them go to waste instead of using them for research that could save or prolong the life or ease the suffering of those who are now living.
Sony later described the main reason they decided to compete was because the iTunes slogans had a sensible grasp of the English language and would not fly with the Japanese public. Sony PR Manager was quoted saying their slogan would be "Music Sample Download in You!"
Not like they'd be doing it... In the... Chat interface... without the use of... VOIP.
* Why to air forces the world round rely on C130 Hercules aircraft for transport?
;)
Mostly because we aren't loosing them to mechanical failures and they seem to last. It's not that it takes time to develop them it's just there isn't a need. If we were at war with another power (say China who would also have designed a similar but maybe one uped version of the C130) and we lost them on a daily basis we'd most likley come up with a new design. Take the M1Abrahms tank... The thing was designed in the 70's and works great. It beats Soviet models hands down, but on the same token it has never been face to face with the German Leopard II models and possibly the new Chinese ones being modeled. If we had a threat from a nation that had a superior model of tank we'd toss the M1Abrahms design in a heart beat, but I don't see that happening anytime soon.
* Why do we communicate with a 30 year old communication protocol?
Good question. I'm assuming you are talking about IPv4? Well again... Not because the design is that great, but because it works and we aren't hitting the limit that we needed IPv6 for because NAT is tiding us over. Doesn't mean we need to upgrade eventually.
* Why do I drive a car which is 10 years old but for which the basic design is more than 20 years old?
Well... That's a personal preference. Personally, I like my cars old and my computer hardware new.