Have parrots successfully passed the Turing test... this seems like very much the same approach as cleverbot... robottically repeating sounds and phrases that it once heard without any read understanding of meaning
Chaos and Order... Chaos contains the seeds of infinite possibility yet Order only contains the seeds of incremental change... It is through Chaos that we are forced to evolve but it through evolution that we have establish Order... it is the Tao of Order and Chaos defines our reality...
Well price goes down to a penny and they both cover their costs via the £2.75 postage and packaging. It does happen reasonably often with certain books.
It could also be on the assumption that the competitor only has limited stock of each "used" book, combined with the preference to maximize profit per book rather than turnover. Mark my price a little higher than my competitor and once he has sold out, I will then become the cheapest and also know that my price is still "market rates" and thus I will make slightly more profit than my competitor.
I believe the fetish for Greek and Latin actually traces back the middle ages and the origins on universities.
Following the invention of the printing press, many books from the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome where brought to Europe and mass produced via the printing press. To read these "new" books required learning how to read ancient Greek and Latin. Much of what had been know in ancient times had been lost or forgotten in the middle ages, and scholars resided in the monasteries where they could spend their time reading, these monasteries formed the first universities.
Unlike today, where the primary source of knowledge is new research, written mostly in English. A few hundred years ago the primary source of new knowledge was this treasure trove of knowledge from the old civilizations. In 1869 Euclid's Elements probably would have still been required reading, a book written in 300BC. There would have been English translations of important works such as this, but knowing Greek and Latin was still considered important for a scholar.
Strangely enough that sounds alot like the description for Al Qaeda.
Yet for groups such as media and government, where the predominant form of organization is a centralized hierarchy, by giving the collective a "name", the default projection is the organizational structure that everybody else is familiar with.
News at 11, a group of unidentified people choosing to use the label Anonymous, who may or may be not be connected to other people who have previously used the same label, have directly challenged a centralized hierarchical Government-like group they have deemed "morally dubious", and vows to bring an end to this group. Government has labeled the methods of Anonymous as "morally dubious" and vows to prevent such activities from happening again. Government is responding to Anonymous as if it is a centralized hierarchical organization, because the concept of Anarchy is completely alien to them. Spokespersons claiming to use the labels "Government" and "Anonymous", have both publicly stated that they where impervious to attacks for the other side, and will soon be dealing a crippling blow to the enemy.
Suppose that for crimes such as murder, the level of punishment for getting caught is already so high that the difference between them (life in prision vs execution) has negligible additional deterrence effect. If you are a contract killer or serial armed robber, you might think about the consequences in advance, but I recon that most murderers don't tend to think about the consequences of their actions until after the fact, at which point its too late, or they simply believe that they will never get caught.
Instead the people who think most about crime and punishment are the politicians, and they are the ones who make the laws. In North Dakota, murder is not an issue on most peoples minds, so politicians tend to leave the issue alone, assuming the existing system is doing its job. In Texas, the murder rate is obviously much more of an issue, and if people keep murdering each other, it obviously means the existing system isn't providing enough of a deterrence. So the obvious solution, and an election winning platform is to be "tough on crime", and lets just keep raising the penalties until people start to paying attention to them.
Now assume that there is some science behind astrology, but that not all astrologers are experts.
A physicist would be expected to have a PHD and be publish in peer reviewed journals, before he could really call himself a physicist.
Astrology is also often guided much more by right brain intuition than left brain logic (intuition has its place in science too, its often the first step later to be backed up by logic). Its very easy to call yourself an astrologer, and its a complex subject if done properly, but if you know nothing of it yourself, how can you tell an amateur from a true expert.
Your comment is like suggesting that having logged onto a script kiddy forum, that computer science is bunk because these guys don't really know what they are talking about.
Well the obvious solution would be for the Emperor to simply admit that he not been wearing anything, that he had us dupped all along, and that hes going to act and dress in private the same way he acts and dresses in public. Maybe the solution is more cameras and not less.
We received a call today from a SIPA alumnus who is working at the State Department. He asked us to pass along the following information to anyone who will be applying for jobs in the federal government, since all would require a background investigation and in some instances a security clearance.
The documents released during the past few months through Wikileaks are still considered classified documents. He recommends that you DO NOT post links to these documents nor make comments on social media sites such as Facebook or through Twitter. Engaging in these activities would call into question your ability to deal with confidential information, which is part of most positions with the federal government.
But Dominos are offering a position for $2.5 million yen an hour at one of their Japanese stores... thus making this job one of the highest paying in the world
When you download a copyright music file for free.. the music industry loses its scarcity. Its this very concept of artificial scarcity that allows the record labels to set an arbitrary price on a song, far above the cost of reproduction. If people start believing that music is abundant and "free", then more than just losing a sale, you are undermining their entire business model, of charging inflated prices for something that could potentially be free. This is why they would prefer a pirate who charged money, and at least kept the perceived value up, rather than a bunch of college kids swapping songs for free.
Historically religion, culture and power politics have been heavily intertwined. Recently in the west, the separation of church and state has mostly taken politics out of theology and vice versa (at least overtly).
This is not true in Iran, where theology and politics are one. If you look back to Judaism at the time of Christ, the same was true there as well. The Church of Scientology is not just a passive advocate of theology, but fundamentalist organization seeking sovereign power. They are pretty new to the game, and subtlety often comes with age.
If you look at Iran, its probably a good example of what things would be like if Scientology ran a country. The purpose of the power is to safeguard the theology, and the theology is perfect and beyond question. Because power and theology are intertwined, the power must also seek to safeguard itself, in order to safeguard the theology, at any cost.
"The only way to control people is to lie to them" - Iran was willing to rig an election to control its people - the same is common in the west, but just alot more subtle
"The point of a law suit... is to harass... and utterly destroy [your critics]" - Iran doesn't need lawsuits, it can directly arrest, torture and rape to harass and destroy its critics - its also a common tactic of power politics
"The Christ is a lie. Mohamed reacted to an ancient alien implant with the resonator. Everything you believe is an alien implant." - This was one idea is pure Hubbard.
As for "If your (father/sister/best friend) isn't Jewish, you need to handle the person or disconnect." - unless a person has been excommunicated, such rules are enforced informally through social pressure, and if you are a from a "respectable" orthodox Jewish family and live in a "respectable" Jewish community, try marrying/dating an non-Jew and see how "respectable" you are still considered.
As for the official/unofficial policy thing, the Catholic church did much the same thing when it had the small issue of pedophile priests. It took them a while to admit that they unofficial policy was simply to move the priests around after a complaint (which would not have looked to good if that was their "official" policy).
If you stop thinking of the Church of Scientology as a passive religion but rather someone trying to actively play the game of power politics (just like Iran, they consider eternal salvation for all to be at stake) then they will seem just a little less weird, though maybe just a little more scary.
The problem is that unless you are going to do fairly significant amounts of exercise on a daily basis, your will only burn a small number of extra calories compared to your base metabolism.
To gain a pound of fat, you need to eat and accumulate about 3500 calories above your metabolic rate. To lose a pound of fat, you need to burn an additional 3500 calories beyond your food intake. A quick google suggests the figures for muscle are 3500 calories to gain, and 600 to burn (though not sure how accurate these are - though muscle is far denser than fat).
So to answer your question, exercise can make you lose weight, but its going to take 5 hours worth of jogging to lose a pound of fat, assuming that your weight is already stable and your food intake is balanced with your metabolic rate. An hour a day for a month, will burn about 6 pounds, but that assumes you don't get lazy and start skipping days.
However reducing your calorific intake and getting feedback by measuring the results (using a weighted average), will over a period of time, produce results with far less effort. This is what is meant by exercise is for keeping healthy, and dieting is for losing weight.
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$50,000,000 / $80,000 * 0.98 USD/CAD = 612 MP3s
612 MP3s * 6Mb = 3.675 Gb
In other words, this is the price of a single pirated iPod shuffle.
Shit.. where is Mario when you need him!
Have parrots successfully passed the Turing test... this seems like very much the same approach as cleverbot... robottically repeating sounds and phrases that it once heard without any read understanding of meaning
Chaos and Order... Chaos contains the seeds of infinite possibility yet Order only contains the seeds of incremental change... It is through Chaos that we are forced to evolve but it through evolution that we have establish Order... it is the Tao of Order and Chaos defines our reality...
Well price goes down to a penny and they both cover their costs via the £2.75 postage and packaging. It does happen reasonably often with certain books.
It could also be on the assumption that the competitor only has limited stock of each "used" book, combined with the preference to maximize profit per book rather than turnover. Mark my price a little higher than my competitor and once he has sold out, I will then become the cheapest and also know that my price is still "market rates" and thus I will make slightly more profit than my competitor.
This ain't rocket science!
I believe the fetish for Greek and Latin actually traces back the middle ages and the origins on universities.
Following the invention of the printing press, many books from the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome where brought to Europe and mass produced via the printing press. To read these "new" books required learning how to read ancient Greek and Latin. Much of what had been know in ancient times had been lost or forgotten in the middle ages, and scholars resided in the monasteries where they could spend their time reading, these monasteries formed the first universities.
Unlike today, where the primary source of knowledge is new research, written mostly in English. A few hundred years ago the primary source of new knowledge was this treasure trove of knowledge from the old civilizations. In 1869 Euclid's Elements probably would have still been required reading, a book written in 300BC. There would have been English translations of important works such as this, but knowing Greek and Latin was still considered important for a scholar.
Nice try though!
"its complicated"
Strangely enough that sounds alot like the description for Al Qaeda.
Yet for groups such as media and government, where the predominant form of organization is a centralized hierarchy, by giving the collective a "name", the default projection is the organizational structure that everybody else is familiar with.
News at 11, a group of unidentified people choosing to use the label Anonymous, who may or may be not be connected to other people who have previously used the same label, have directly challenged a centralized hierarchical Government-like group they have deemed "morally dubious", and vows to bring an end to this group. Government has labeled the methods of Anonymous as "morally dubious" and vows to prevent such activities from happening again. Government is responding to Anonymous as if it is a centralized hierarchical organization, because the concept of Anarchy is completely alien to them. Spokespersons claiming to use the labels "Government" and "Anonymous", have both publicly stated that they where impervious to attacks for the other side, and will soon be dealing a crippling blow to the enemy.
Suppose that for crimes such as murder, the level of punishment for getting caught is already so high that the difference between them (life in prision vs execution) has negligible additional deterrence effect. If you are a contract killer or serial armed robber, you might think about the consequences in advance, but I recon that most murderers don't tend to think about the consequences of their actions until after the fact, at which point its too late, or they simply believe that they will never get caught.
Instead the people who think most about crime and punishment are the politicians, and they are the ones who make the laws. In North Dakota, murder is not an issue on most peoples minds, so politicians tend to leave the issue alone, assuming the existing system is doing its job. In Texas, the murder rate is obviously much more of an issue, and if people keep murdering each other, it obviously means the existing system isn't providing enough of a deterrence. So the obvious solution, and an election winning platform is to be "tough on crime", and lets just keep raising the penalties until people start to paying attention to them.
Now assume that there is some science behind astrology, but that not all astrologers are experts.
A physicist would be expected to have a PHD and be publish in peer reviewed journals, before he could really call himself a physicist.
Astrology is also often guided much more by right brain intuition than left brain logic (intuition has its place in science too, its often the first step later to be backed up by logic). Its very easy to call yourself an astrologer, and its a complex subject if done properly, but if you know nothing of it yourself, how can you tell an amateur from a true expert.
Your comment is like suggesting that having logged onto a script kiddy forum, that computer science is bunk because these guys don't really know what they are talking about.
55 km per year = 10.5 furlongs per fortnight
Well the obvious solution would be for the Emperor to simply admit that he not been wearing anything, that he had us dupped all along, and that hes going to act and dress in private the same way he acts and dresses in public. Maybe the solution is more cameras and not less.
You can only be a terrorist or a criminal if you are fighting for the enemy. I guess it depends which side of the propaganda fence you are sitting on
Actually XKCD predicted this only a few months back:
http://www.xkcd.com/792/
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We received a call today from a SIPA alumnus who is working at the State Department. He asked us to pass along the following information to anyone who will be applying for jobs in the federal government, since all would require a background investigation and in some instances a security clearance.
The documents released during the past few months through Wikileaks are still considered classified documents. He recommends that you DO NOT post links to these documents nor make comments on social media sites such as Facebook or through Twitter. Engaging in these activities would call into question your ability to deal with confidential information, which is part of most positions with the federal government.
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Well if the TSA can't see your naughty bits by remote, then I think their response would be "step aside sir, we are going to have to do this by hand"
Now the real trick would be to have spiky metal underwear, and let them see how hard they grope then
But Dominos are offering a position for $2.5 million yen an hour at one of their Japanese stores... thus making this job one of the highest paying in the world
http://www.250man.jp/
When you download a copyright music file for free.. the music industry loses its scarcity. Its this very concept of artificial scarcity that allows the record labels to set an arbitrary price on a song, far above the cost of reproduction. If people start believing that music is abundant and "free", then more than just losing a sale, you are undermining their entire business model, of charging inflated prices for something that could potentially be free. This is why they would prefer a pirate who charged money, and at least kept the perceived value up, rather than a bunch of college kids swapping songs for free.
The assumption doesn't need to be correct 100% of the time, just statistically significant based on existing data.
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Historically religion, culture and power politics have been heavily intertwined. Recently in the west, the separation of church and state has mostly taken politics out of theology and vice versa (at least overtly).
This is not true in Iran, where theology and politics are one. If you look back to Judaism at the time of Christ, the same was true there as well. The Church of Scientology is not just a passive advocate of theology, but fundamentalist organization seeking sovereign power. They are pretty new to the game, and subtlety often comes with age.
If you look at Iran, its probably a good example of what things would be like if Scientology ran a country. The purpose of the power is to safeguard the theology, and the theology is perfect and beyond question. Because power and theology are intertwined, the power must also seek to safeguard itself, in order to safeguard the theology, at any cost.
"The only way to control people is to lie to them" - Iran was willing to rig an election to control its people - the same is common in the west, but just alot more subtle
"The point of a law suit ... is to harass ... and utterly destroy [your critics]" - Iran doesn't need lawsuits, it can directly arrest, torture and rape to harass and destroy its critics - its also a common tactic of power politics
"The Christ is a lie. Mohamed reacted to an ancient alien implant with the resonator. Everything you believe is an alien implant." - This was one idea is pure Hubbard.
As for "If your (father/sister/best friend) isn't Jewish, you need to handle the person or disconnect." - unless a person has been excommunicated, such rules are enforced informally through social pressure, and if you are a from a "respectable" orthodox Jewish family and live in a "respectable" Jewish community, try marrying/dating an non-Jew and see how "respectable" you are still considered.
As for the official/unofficial policy thing, the Catholic church did much the same thing when it had the small issue of pedophile priests. It took them a while to admit that they unofficial policy was simply to move the priests around after a complaint (which would not have looked to good if that was their "official" policy).
If you stop thinking of the Church of Scientology as a passive religion but rather someone trying to actively play the game of power politics (just like Iran, they consider eternal salvation for all to be at stake) then they will seem just a little less weird, though maybe just a little more scary.
The problem is that unless you are going to do fairly significant amounts of exercise on a daily basis, your will only burn a small number of extra calories compared to your base metabolism.
For a medium frame man, 6ft tall, you will burn through metabolism around 2059â"2574 calories without significant exercise.
http://ftp.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/rubberbag.html
An hours worth of walking will burn an additional 300 calories, swimming 500, and a hour of jogging will burn 700 calories.
http://ftp.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/exercise.html
To gain a pound of fat, you need to eat and accumulate about 3500 calories above your metabolic rate. To lose a pound of fat, you need to burn an additional 3500 calories beyond your food intake. A quick google suggests the figures for muscle are 3500 calories to gain, and 600 to burn (though not sure how accurate these are - though muscle is far denser than fat).
So to answer your question, exercise can make you lose weight, but its going to take 5 hours worth of jogging to lose a pound of fat, assuming that your weight is already stable and your food intake is balanced with your metabolic rate. An hour a day for a month, will burn about 6 pounds, but that assumes you don't get lazy and start skipping days.
However reducing your calorific intake and getting feedback by measuring the results (using a weighted average), will over a period of time, produce results with far less effort. This is what is meant by exercise is for keeping healthy, and dieting is for losing weight.