Humanity!!!
Why are there so many people who don't bother to learn what they are talking about before leaping to 'correct' people who are already correct?
"We proactively suspended our self-driving operations, including in California, immediately following the Tempe incident," an Uber spokesperson told TechCrunch"
The word this spokesperson wanted was "REACTIVELY". You don't proactively do things in immediate response to events. That's called reacting.
This test was to determine whether a person's time sense, their experience of time, altered speed in a stressful situation.
They tested it wrong didn't they?
Extraordinary abilities in moments of stress are related to the situation and extricating oneself from it, not checking out what time it is. If, instead, they dropped a person off a cliff and tested whether the person could quickly grab a rope as it swung by at a pace they couldn't ordinarily perceive, they'd have a fun and useful test.
Here is another version of their test: I drop a big rock that you couldn't ordinarily lift on your mom. Then, I ask you what time it says on the 700 pound clock that is face down on the other side of the rock.
Well, yes - I agree there is a very large question about Deckard's humanity. It does start out as a doubt whether he's a replicant. But I think the question ends up - in the novel- as "Is Deckard's strained and weak humanity, better or worse than Roy Baty's manufactured humanity?"
I'm pretty sure that the original film asks the question of Deckard's humanity but leaves us doubt - and room for thought.
The second film seems to want to remove the doubt and the room it creates for thought.
You said: Not only was Deckard a replicant in the Philip K. Dick story the movie is based on, another bladerunner comes looking for Deckard.
I'm sorry, but it appears you never read the "story". Its actually a novel called Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
And Deckard's humanity is central to the story. He can and does join with Mercerism, something no Android can do.
Sure, the question about his humanity is raised but it ends up more as a comparison. His deadened humanity vs. Roy's life-affirming artificiality.
Its better to support your arguments with facts rather than recycled hearsay.
Schools don't allow kids to use music players, video games, or communication devices during class?
Holy crap!
Its a good point that public school is a little behind technology but does teaching mathematics, reading comprehension, and writing skills actually need to keep pace with technological innovation?
OR
do some tech company execs really want to turn our schools into breeding grounds for the next generation of tech workers etc etc.
I travel quite a bit. In the past 2 years I've been to 12 countries in Asia, Europe, South America, North America. Never have I been treated poorly for being an American.
In my experience it is ALL about approach. I am interested in my hosts and their ways. I like to eat their way, drink their way. I can't tell you how many times I have been told that they expected me to just want Americanized experiences, American food. People are pleasantly surprised when you don't insist on the American Way and are instead open and interested.
Try to blend. Try to experience what is there instead of comparing it to what we have in the US.
Make no mistake. Most Americans are annoying. However, this is because most PEOPLE are annoying.
Our government is powerful and corrupt. This makes us a focal point. Don't be a focal point when you are traveling.
That comment was beautiful. I was starting to think I needed to go outside and breathe the fresh air instead of wallowing in fear and hate. I'm ok now.
Why did most of these countries who *believed* Saddam had WMD refuse to go to war in Iraq? - - -
While it's true that many governments suspected Saddam had WMD, there was no agreement as to what his actual capabilities were, or on what to do about it. Further, simply believing something to be true does not make it so, and certainly does not form a basis for war.
The administration never had a "smoking gun" to prove Saddam had WMD, and in fact the intelligence supporting the administration's view was alarmingly thin. As we now know from various reports, US intelligence affirming WMD frequently came from paid informants who, in some cases, were later proven to be fabricators. There was virtually no intelligence coming out of Iraq itself--the country was impenetrable, leaving the US and others with little in the way of credible sources.
It is also worth noting that while there was a range of opinion (and widespread error) as to Saddam's chemical and biological weapons capability, there certainly was not a consensus. The issue of nuclear weapons is a different story. Here, the US and UK stood nearly alone in their dire assessment. It was also on this issue that the administration demonstrated its willingness to use highly dubious intelligence reports by claiming that Iraq had sought nuclear material from Niger. This claim, of course, was based on crudely forged documents and should never have been made. The fact that the President did made this claim, and did so in a State of the Union address, is all the more troubling, especially given that the same statement was pulled from a speech he gave just a few months earlier.
Maybe this didn't reach newspapers outside the USA, but Clinton did not get "sacked".
Clinton was able to finish his full two terms in high style, ending with a yardsale which featured pardons for the highest bidding criminals.
He would have been re-elected if he could have sought a 3rd term too.
Armed with knowledge, its easy to see how we'd allow an escalation to a man who does not deny he has been breaking many laws held sacred by this country, but instead claims they don't apply to him.
Even though the false fossil record argument seems ridiculous at first glance, it is actually the favorite in my collection of seemingly valueless beliefs.
It posits a God with a sense of aesthetics.
This God finds the idea of presto! creation cheap and unattractive. Any child can fashion a man from mud and then breathe on it. Even though this is the medium he must work in, he does what he can to imply the possibility of something much more elegant. A creative process which starts with molecular seeds, an intricate plan, and a dream. Perhaps this is that God's way of telling us he, too believes in God. A God who created him/her but remains hidden.
Simple example of technology gone awry:
Your phone: You are talking on the phone and someone else calls. It interrupts your conversation with beeping. You interrupt the person you are talking to in order to look at caller ID to see who is talking. You click over to tell them you are talking on the phone and will call them back.
End result - ball's in your court.
My phone: Automated response system known as busy signal. Ball is firmly in caller's court.
Actually the headset wires act as an antenna focussing just as much, if not more, radiation at your head.
Look: http://cellphones.about.com/library/weekly/aa08060 0b.htm
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I think the word your looking for is blinders.
Humanity!!! Why are there so many people who don't bother to learn what they are talking about before leaping to 'correct' people who are already correct?
what about Monster Munch? Can we still advertise that?
Woman laughing alone with salad.
Google it.
oh my god.
"We proactively suspended our self-driving operations, including in California, immediately following the Tempe incident," an Uber spokesperson told TechCrunch"
The word this spokesperson wanted was "REACTIVELY".
You don't proactively do things in immediate response to events. That's called reacting.
They tested it wrong didn't they?
Extraordinary abilities in moments of stress are related to the situation and extricating oneself from it, not checking out what time it is. If, instead, they dropped a person off a cliff and tested whether the person could quickly grab a rope as it swung by at a pace they couldn't ordinarily perceive, they'd have a fun and useful test.
Here is another version of their test: I drop a big rock that you couldn't ordinarily lift on your mom. Then, I ask you what time it says on the 700 pound clock that is face down on the other side of the rock.
Well, yes - I agree there is a very large question about Deckard's humanity. It does start out as a doubt whether he's a replicant. But I think the question ends up - in the novel- as "Is Deckard's strained and weak humanity, better or worse than Roy Baty's manufactured humanity?" I'm pretty sure that the original film asks the question of Deckard's humanity but leaves us doubt - and room for thought. The second film seems to want to remove the doubt and the room it creates for thought.
I'm sorry, but it appears you never read the "story". Its actually a novel called Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
And Deckard's humanity is central to the story. He can and does join with Mercerism, something no Android can do.
Sure, the question about his humanity is raised but it ends up more as a comparison. His deadened humanity vs. Roy's life-affirming artificiality.
Its better to support your arguments with facts rather than recycled hearsay.
Holy crap!
Its a good point that public school is a little behind technology but does teaching mathematics, reading comprehension, and writing skills actually need to keep pace with technological innovation?
OR
do some tech company execs really want to turn our schools into breeding grounds for the next generation of tech workers etc etc.
Is school education or job training?
I travel quite a bit. In the past 2 years I've been to 12 countries in Asia, Europe, South America, North America. Never have I been treated poorly for being an American.
In my experience it is ALL about approach. I am interested in my hosts and their ways. I like to eat their way, drink their way. I can't tell you how many times I have been told that they expected me to just want Americanized experiences, American food. People are pleasantly surprised when you don't insist on the American Way and are instead open and interested.
Try to blend. Try to experience what is there instead of comparing it to what we have in the US.
Make no mistake. Most Americans are annoying. However, this is because most PEOPLE are annoying.
Our government is powerful and corrupt. This makes us a focal point. Don't be a focal point when you are traveling.
That comment was beautiful. I was starting to think I needed to go outside and breathe the fresh air instead of wallowing in fear and hate. I'm ok now.
While it's true that many governments suspected Saddam had WMD, there was no agreement as to what his actual capabilities were, or on what to do about it. Further, simply believing something to be true does not make it so, and certainly does not form a basis for war.
The administration never had a "smoking gun" to prove Saddam had WMD, and in fact the intelligence supporting the administration's view was alarmingly thin. As we now know from various reports, US intelligence affirming WMD frequently came from paid informants who, in some cases, were later proven to be fabricators. There was virtually no intelligence coming out of Iraq itself--the country was impenetrable, leaving the US and others with little in the way of credible sources.
It is also worth noting that while there was a range of opinion (and widespread error) as to Saddam's chemical and biological weapons capability, there certainly was not a consensus. The issue of nuclear weapons is a different story. Here, the US and UK stood nearly alone in their dire assessment. It was also on this issue that the administration demonstrated its willingness to use highly dubious intelligence reports by claiming that Iraq had sought nuclear material from Niger. This claim, of course, was based on crudely forged documents and should never have been made. The fact that the President did made this claim, and did so in a State of the Union address, is all the more troubling, especially given that the same statement was pulled from a speech he gave just a few months earlier.
http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/realitycheck.htm
Maybe this didn't reach newspapers outside the USA, but Clinton did not get "sacked". Clinton was able to finish his full two terms in high style, ending with a yardsale which featured pardons for the highest bidding criminals.
He would have been re-elected if he could have sought a 3rd term too.
Armed with knowledge, its easy to see how we'd allow an escalation to a man who does not deny he has been breaking many laws held sacred by this country, but instead claims they don't apply to him.
It posits a God with a sense of aesthetics.
This God finds the idea of presto! creation cheap and unattractive.
Any child can fashion a man from mud and then breathe on it. Even though this is the medium he must work in, he does what he can to imply the possibility of something much more elegant. A creative process which starts with molecular seeds, an intricate plan, and a dream.
Perhaps this is that God's way of telling us he, too believes in God. A God who created him/her but remains hidden.
Almost.
They just required a ROM chip out of an SE or plus. They made a motherboard but the ROM was the key to the Mac OS.
That's just not true.
The Outbound Notebook was an unauthorized clone. Not a licensee.
In fact, here: http://lowendmac.com/clones/index.shtml
Simple example of technology gone awry: Your phone: You are talking on the phone and someone else calls. It interrupts your conversation with beeping. You interrupt the person you are talking to in order to look at caller ID to see who is talking. You click over to tell them you are talking on the phone and will call them back. End result - ball's in your court. My phone: Automated response system known as busy signal. Ball is firmly in caller's court.
Actually the headset wires act as an antenna focussing just as much, if not more, radiation at your head. Look: http://cellphones.about.com/library/weekly/aa08060 0b.htm