will be more of the same, only different. And I sincerely doubt "consciousness" will arrive in machines in 20 years--or ever. We may cleverly program them to seem conscious, but that is not consciousness. We must not confuse the appearance with the fact out of enthusiasm. Just more over prediction and kind of boring.
Any humans there? No. Intelligence is not a module you can plug into any species -- unless you are a child watching cartoons with talking dinosaurs and squirrels.
Go to a kiosk. Print out the ones you want. Past them in a scrapbook. This is an ages proven way of keeping memories that works, is simple, and will be easy to access in the future.
Are you under indictment or investigation? If not, nobody cares, throw them into the trash. And let's not be naive about how much actual recyling is done--even by the recycling companies.
Eight billion for a telescope, and the Congress is willing to let a constitutional entity, the United States Postal Service, go bankrupt and disappear for lack of a few billion dollars to tide it over until the economy and the mail volume recover. I'm beginning to doubt the very structure of our government. Is it obsolete?
I have a problem with the interbreeding of neanderthals and sapiens. It is this. Children need years of care to survive and pass on their genes. What did sapiens guy do to support this?? Did he bring his ugly, mentally challenged pregnant neanderthal female home to his sapiens village amd the open loving arms of his community? Not likely. Did he live with the neanderthals? Not likely. That leaves rape of neanderthal women who bore and raised the resulting child under the protection of the neanderthal group. Not likely. So, what exactly is the mechanism of this so-called interbreeding?
Look, Bitcoin is just an excuse for busytechers to do busytech. And you people overanalysing their activities are busythinking the busytechers. If all the thinking power put into this useless subject could be harnessed, Amazon would not need a single server farm power supply.
It seems to me the problem is really just that TDL-4 etc. can depend on the MBR being in the same place on all computers. Manufacturers should take a page from communications and "spread spectrum" the MBR over different sectors, and make those sectors unique to each drive. Make sure the sequence of sectors is not readable from the net. Perhaps change the sequence from power up to power up. End of problem.
This is news? I've taken over-the-counter pain remedies for emotional pain for decades. And why do they think opiates are attractive to people who become addicts? Duh.
I suggest it is more a comment on his value to the company than a denial of a needed asset to a producing employee. Can anyone imagine a truly productive coder being denied anything as unimportant as a second monitor? Time to start looking for a new job.
Homeland Security should provide the threat level via WWVB, the time hack sent out of Colorado. This threat level device or something like it could update nationally in real time automatically like a clock.
So who's doubting the human need for play? I'm criticizing the carrying of childish play into adulthood. I don't doubt the natural play value of a game to a 15-year-old dying a hundred times in a shooter game. Slaying dragons at ten probably teaches many things too. But a 40-year-old doing the same things is arrested. Sooner or later you learn what you can from a thing and move on. Some don't, stuck in 15-year-old-land, constantly learning the same things over and over again. Adults move from childish consequence-less games to those with consequences. More and more they crave reality, which always has consequences - for power comes from behaviors with consequences.
And must you raise the crossed fingers of football to hold off the vampire of intellectualism? You sound like Matt Damon in the bar scene confrontation of "Good Will Hunting" ending in an invitation to take it to the alley -- only you're losing.
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
--C.S. Lewis
From Wikipedia:
"Jane Moore
While being trained for the army Lewis shared a room with another cadet, Edward Courtnay Francis "Paddy" Moore (1898–1918). Maureen Moore, Paddy's sister, said that the two made a mutual pact[21] that if either died during the war, the survivor would take care of both their families. Paddy was killed in action in 1918 and Lewis kept his promise. Paddy had earlier introduced Lewis to his mother, Jane King Moore, and a friendship quickly sprang up between Lewis, who was 18 when they met, and Jane, who was 45. The friendship with Mrs Moore was particularly important to Lewis while he was recovering from his wounds in hospital, as his father did not visit Lewis.
Lewis lived with and cared for Mrs Moore until she was hospitalized in the late 1940s. He routinely introduced her as his "mother", and referred to her as such in letters. Lewis, whose own mother had died when he was a child and whose father was distant, demanding and eccentric, developed a deeply affectionate friendship with Mrs Moore.
Speculation regarding their relationship re-surfaced with the publication of A. N. Wilson's biography of Lewis. Wilson (who had never met Lewis) attempted to make a case for their having been lovers for a time. Wilson's biography was not the first to address the question of Lewis's relationship with Mrs. Moore. George Sayer, who knew Lewis for 29 years, sought to shed light on the relationship during the period of 14 years prior to Lewis's conversion to Christianity, in his biography Jack: A Life of C. S. Lewis, in which he wrote:
Were they lovers? Owen Barfield, who knew Jack well in the 1920s, once said that he thought the likelihood was "fifty-fifty." Although she was twenty-six years older than Jack, she was still a handsome woman, and he was certainly infatuated with her. But it seems very odd, if they were lovers, that he would call her "mother." We know, too, that they did not share the same bedroom. It seems most likely that he was bound to her by the promise he had given to Paddy and that his promise was reinforced by his love for her as his second mother.[22]
Later Sayer changed his mind. In the introduction to the 1997 edition of his biography of Lewis he wrote:
I have had to alter my opinion of Lewis's relationship with Mrs. Moore. In chapter eight of this book I wrote that I was uncertain about whether they were lovers. Now after conversations with Mrs. Moore's daughter, Maureen, and a consideration of the way in which their bedrooms were arranged at The Kilns, I am quite certain that they were."
In the light of this information we can see that Lewis's comments as you quoted above were justification for his own rather sick, incestuous, mommy-loving, infantilism. He never grew up.
"When I was a child I spoke as a child
I understood as a child I thought as a child;
but when I became a man I put away childish things."
I Cor. xiii. 11
More evidence that high intelligence is pathological in a species and that nature actually works to suppress the development of intelligence beyond a certain rudimentary level. Look how long dinosaurs ruled the Earth without intelligence. Understand how long they had to develop it and did not. Humans somehow got off the reservation a couple of hundred thousand years ago. Not only did we develop vast intelligence, but we developed abilities that ANTICIPATED the need for them. Why did we develop the ability to drive 60, 70,-100 miles per hour or more while weaving in and out of traffic? Unless you are a cheetah, there is no need for that ability. Yet we as cavemen do that easily every day (at least the nut jobs among us do.) The abilities that humans evolved, evolved long before there was any need for them and they far exceeded the need for mere survival. Evolving the ability to evolve and evolving the ability to anticipate need and change for it ahead of time is not conforming to Darwin's theory of evolution as I know it. Something is not understood. This gene merely illustrates that once again.
More anti-male blindness, demonizing, and beyond-the-pale gynocentrism. It doesn't seem to matter that everything we have as far as science, industry, technology, and government comes from male agressive creativity -- testosterone mediated inventive behaviors. The passive "doership" of the estrogenoni seems to be the only good and useful thing in our politically correct society. I guess James Watt, Maudsley, Edison, Ford, Einstein, Jobs, Gates.....were all making bad testosterone-filled mistakes. Far from mistakes, they made good, aggressive, risk-taking decisions driven by testosterone. It is more likely that the half of the human population that does not do these things is poisoned by its estrogen into being passive to the point of making NO decisions than possibly wrong aggressively creative decisions. Researchers, stop the constant male bashing.
Apple is the King of "busytech" and "overtech". When are people going to wise up?? We NEEDS this stuff?? High tech consumer electronics companies have cleverly culturized their products with the breathless help of media companies, making them must have items, like a diamond engagement ring from DeBeers, or that baseball hat from "your" sports team. Young children have powerful computer-phones for texting nonsense to each other minutely at high monthly cost. A woman I work around who doesn't make that much money told me that her children have a PSP, XBOX, WiII, and expensive modern cell phones. She uses none of it. She barely uses a computer: BECAUSE SHE DOESN'T NEED ONE. Mindless busytech-buying puppets. Use what you actually need. Pay for what you actually need. Grow the hell up. All of us.
I haven't heard about any bus accidents in India lately. Have they stopped driving buses in India? I'm concerned about the current lack of such information coming out of India.
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will be more of the same, only different. And I sincerely doubt "consciousness" will arrive in machines in 20 years--or ever. We may cleverly program them to seem conscious, but that is not consciousness. We must not confuse the appearance with the fact out of enthusiasm. Just more over prediction and kind of boring.
Any humans there? No. Intelligence is not a module you can plug into any species -- unless you are a child watching cartoons with talking dinosaurs and squirrels.
Go to a kiosk. Print out the ones you want. Past them in a scrapbook. This is an ages proven way of keeping memories that works, is simple, and will be easy to access in the future.
Are you under indictment or investigation? If not, nobody cares, throw them into the trash. And let's not be naive about how much actual recyling is done--even by the recycling companies.
Eight billion for a telescope, and the Congress is willing to let a constitutional entity, the United States Postal Service, go bankrupt and disappear for lack of a few billion dollars to tide it over until the economy and the mail volume recover. I'm beginning to doubt the very structure of our government. Is it obsolete?
Seems it would have to be Neanderthals capturing Sapiens women.
I have a problem with the interbreeding of neanderthals and sapiens. It is this. Children need years of care to survive and pass on their genes. What did sapiens guy do to support this?? Did he bring his ugly, mentally challenged pregnant neanderthal female home to his sapiens village amd the open loving arms of his community? Not likely. Did he live with the neanderthals? Not likely. That leaves rape of neanderthal women who bore and raised the resulting child under the protection of the neanderthal group. Not likely. So, what exactly is the mechanism of this so-called interbreeding?
Not if they did not share the same common ancestor.
Can it be that instead of having interbred, we merely share a common distant ancestor?
Look, Bitcoin is just an excuse for busytechers to do busytech. And you people overanalysing their activities are busythinking the busytechers. If all the thinking power put into this useless subject could be harnessed, Amazon would not need a single server farm power supply.
It seems to me the problem is really just that TDL-4 etc. can depend on the MBR being in the same place on all computers. Manufacturers should take a page from communications and "spread spectrum" the MBR over different sectors, and make those sectors unique to each drive. Make sure the sequence of sectors is not readable from the net. Perhaps change the sequence from power up to power up. End of problem.
It's a natural process and all the handwringing and calls for change in the world are not going to stop the progression. So chill and watch the movie.
This is news? I've taken over-the-counter pain remedies for emotional pain for decades. And why do they think opiates are attractive to people who become addicts? Duh.
I suggest it is more a comment on his value to the company than a denial of a needed asset to a producing employee. Can anyone imagine a truly productive coder being denied anything as unimportant as a second monitor? Time to start looking for a new job.
Homeland Security should provide the threat level via WWVB, the time hack sent out of Colorado. This threat level device or something like it could update nationally in real time automatically like a clock.
So who's doubting the human need for play? I'm criticizing the carrying of childish play into adulthood. I don't doubt the natural play value of a game to a 15-year-old dying a hundred times in a shooter game. Slaying dragons at ten probably teaches many things too. But a 40-year-old doing the same things is arrested. Sooner or later you learn what you can from a thing and move on. Some don't, stuck in 15-year-old-land, constantly learning the same things over and over again. Adults move from childish consequence-less games to those with consequences. More and more they crave reality, which always has consequences - for power comes from behaviors with consequences.
And must you raise the crossed fingers of football to hold off the vampire of intellectualism? You sound like Matt Damon in the bar scene confrontation of "Good Will Hunting" ending in an invitation to take it to the alley -- only you're losing.
From Wikipedia:
"Jane Moore
While being trained for the army Lewis shared a room with another cadet, Edward Courtnay Francis "Paddy" Moore (1898–1918). Maureen Moore, Paddy's sister, said that the two made a mutual pact[21] that if either died during the war, the survivor would take care of both their families. Paddy was killed in action in 1918 and Lewis kept his promise. Paddy had earlier introduced Lewis to his mother, Jane King Moore, and a friendship quickly sprang up between Lewis, who was 18 when they met, and Jane, who was 45. The friendship with Mrs Moore was particularly important to Lewis while he was recovering from his wounds in hospital, as his father did not visit Lewis.
Lewis lived with and cared for Mrs Moore until she was hospitalized in the late 1940s. He routinely introduced her as his "mother", and referred to her as such in letters. Lewis, whose own mother had died when he was a child and whose father was distant, demanding and eccentric, developed a deeply affectionate friendship with Mrs Moore.
Speculation regarding their relationship re-surfaced with the publication of A. N. Wilson's biography of Lewis. Wilson (who had never met Lewis) attempted to make a case for their having been lovers for a time. Wilson's biography was not the first to address the question of Lewis's relationship with Mrs. Moore. George Sayer, who knew Lewis for 29 years, sought to shed light on the relationship during the period of 14 years prior to Lewis's conversion to Christianity, in his biography Jack: A Life of C. S. Lewis, in which he wrote:
Were they lovers? Owen Barfield, who knew Jack well in the 1920s, once said that he thought the likelihood was "fifty-fifty." Although she was twenty-six years older than Jack, she was still a handsome woman, and he was certainly infatuated with her. But it seems very odd, if they were lovers, that he would call her "mother." We know, too, that they did not share the same bedroom. It seems most likely that he was bound to her by the promise he had given to Paddy and that his promise was reinforced by his love for her as his second mother.[22]
Later Sayer changed his mind. In the introduction to the 1997 edition of his biography of Lewis he wrote:
I have had to alter my opinion of Lewis's relationship with Mrs. Moore. In chapter eight of this book I wrote that I was uncertain about whether they were lovers. Now after conversations with Mrs. Moore's daughter, Maureen, and a consideration of the way in which their bedrooms were arranged at The Kilns, I am quite certain that they were."
In the light of this information we can see that Lewis's comments as you quoted above were justification for his own rather sick, incestuous, mommy-loving, infantilism. He never grew up.
"When I was a child I spoke as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child; but when I became a man I put away childish things." I Cor. xiii. 11
You could have an armed nuclear weapon in your living room and your tv set would be more a danger to you.
More evidence that high intelligence is pathological in a species and that nature actually works to suppress the development of intelligence beyond a certain rudimentary level. Look how long dinosaurs ruled the Earth without intelligence. Understand how long they had to develop it and did not. Humans somehow got off the reservation a couple of hundred thousand years ago. Not only did we develop vast intelligence, but we developed abilities that ANTICIPATED the need for them. Why did we develop the ability to drive 60, 70,-100 miles per hour or more while weaving in and out of traffic? Unless you are a cheetah, there is no need for that ability. Yet we as cavemen do that easily every day (at least the nut jobs among us do.) The abilities that humans evolved, evolved long before there was any need for them and they far exceeded the need for mere survival. Evolving the ability to evolve and evolving the ability to anticipate need and change for it ahead of time is not conforming to Darwin's theory of evolution as I know it. Something is not understood. This gene merely illustrates that once again.
I'd bet that Madame Curie - two times Nobel Prize winner in physics in the early 1900s had hair on her upper lip too.
More anti-male blindness, demonizing, and beyond-the-pale gynocentrism. It doesn't seem to matter that everything we have as far as science, industry, technology, and government comes from male agressive creativity -- testosterone mediated inventive behaviors. The passive "doership" of the estrogenoni seems to be the only good and useful thing in our politically correct society. I guess James Watt, Maudsley, Edison, Ford, Einstein, Jobs, Gates.....were all making bad testosterone-filled mistakes. Far from mistakes, they made good, aggressive, risk-taking decisions driven by testosterone. It is more likely that the half of the human population that does not do these things is poisoned by its estrogen into being passive to the point of making NO decisions than possibly wrong aggressively creative decisions. Researchers, stop the constant male bashing.
Apple is the King of "busytech" and "overtech". When are people going to wise up?? We NEEDS this stuff?? High tech consumer electronics companies have cleverly culturized their products with the breathless help of media companies, making them must have items, like a diamond engagement ring from DeBeers, or that baseball hat from "your" sports team. Young children have powerful computer-phones for texting nonsense to each other minutely at high monthly cost. A woman I work around who doesn't make that much money told me that her children have a PSP, XBOX, WiII, and expensive modern cell phones. She uses none of it. She barely uses a computer: BECAUSE SHE DOESN'T NEED ONE. Mindless busytech-buying puppets. Use what you actually need. Pay for what you actually need. Grow the hell up. All of us.
We forget for a reason. Don't inflict this on your daughters and yourself.
I haven't heard about any bus accidents in India lately. Have they stopped driving buses in India? I'm concerned about the current lack of such information coming out of India.