They will obviously require AI pilots. If we can solve all the other problems first I think getting a computer to fly a light aircraft is relatively simple compared. I can't wait for AI drivers too.
This is the same shit they do with the PMITA prisons. Our society actively encourages male rape in prison. Hell, we pretty much accept, no, DEMAND it as part of the punishment. We're barely out of the jungle yet folks. There ain't no justice like ignorant misinformed vigilante justice.
Right, I think the difference between me and many other people is that I don't try to legislate my personal opinions on others. Call me crazy but what's the point in life if all the tough and/or dangerous choices are made for you?
Name one important thing that hasn't been proven to be impossible that we've given up on. Whatever you can think of, there's at least one guy in his garage somewhere working on it.
What exactly makes Iran so much crazier than the USA? Is it because they believe in a different set of rules that the invisible man in the sky gave them?
I thought the whole point of taxing individual services was so that the incoming tax money was directly proportional to the outgoing expenses? For whatever reason we needed a tax on POTS, fine. Now, if that tax money is no longer needed to maintain POTS then why do you still need that money for VOIP?! Also, if this shit isn't supposed to matter then why bother breaking the taxes up at all? Why not just increase the income tax? Makes so sense having separate taxes for services that don't actually reflect their usage, even if the goal was to keep the state coffers full.
What you see as one big group of identical Muslims is, to them, several completely different groups that all call themselves Muslims (though, really our group has the only real faith). Where have a I heard that? Oh yes, in my previous fucking comment when I said "The problem with your naive notion is that even in groups of Christians and Muslims there are separate groups." So now you're going to parrot my argument back to me and act like it was your idea? Delusional.
Tell that to the old orthodox monks and their families in Russia and Eastern Europe. Or to the buddhists in Tibet. The number becomes huge if you add the people who were sent to do unbelievably hard labour in incredibly poor conditions for years on end in order to "correct their misguided belief in irrational fairy-tales". I asked how many. Weigh that against the people that have died because of enforcing their religion. You point at a handful of examples of injustice that were based on other ideologies, not atheism. You completely ignored the question and I find that dishonest.
Religion is a big part of what keeps societies stable - a point that isn't invalidated just because we happen to live in one of the few societies that's managed to enshrine most of its values elsewhere. That's just an assertion. I can make one too. No, it's not. Wake up. Even if religion were somehow beneficial and outweighed the bad. It's still utter bullshit. If God wants you to know or do something he doesn't have to write it down in a book. People like yourself will probably never grasp that simple concept however.
I'm sure the Muslims blowing up other Muslims will disagree with you.
The problem with your naive notion is that even in groups of Christians and Muslims there are separate groups.
Believing in an eternal afterlife with a big supernatural single parent in the sky does not make you less likely to kill. It makes you more likely to kill because death becomes less important to you.
As soon as you put some figurehead above human morality everything else goes to shit because you are just "following orders".
Ask yourself this, how many person B's have been killed because person A didn't believe in God and person B did? A handle of people under communism and other ideologies? Again sounds like the problem wasn't really atheism.
That conclusion goes against millions of years of evolution and modern computers. There is nothing uncommon about inferior mechanisms creating superior mechanisms. How do you think we got here today?
Stop trying to get in the way of my X-RAY VISION and the STRENGTH OF 5 GORILLAS!!!
Apple would be stupid if they see gamers as a few percentage points. I see gamers being the 80/20 of hardware sales. I wasn't implying that gamers aren't a huge percentage but to Apple they're worthless because they can't do anything for them except be worse than or just the same as PC gaming.
Apple can't just match PC gaming, they would have to actually outperform the PC market if they expect gamers to switch on that standpoint alone. Your typical gamer isn't going to switch to OS X just to get the exact same performance they could with Windows, with fewer games, higher cost and more effort. It would only matter if they were already looking to switch to OS X.
The problem I think is pricing. The base configuration of a high-end Mac Pro costs what I normally spend on a fully decked out SLI rig. I think the problem Apple faces (and knows) is that gamers aren't morons about hardware (most of us) and are unlikely to spend that much extra just for a Mac shell.
After all, no gamer goes.. oohh I want a Dell XPS. No, they say, oohh I want a quad core Kentsfield and a 8800 GTX SLI blah blah blah.
Apple just doesn't have the insight or ability to take Mac gaming BEYOND PC gaming. Coming in as a tie won't matter much but it will get a few people to jump ship that only hang around Windows for the next Tomb Raider game or whatever genre they like. Apple is not stupid, they know that gaming on a Mac won't add much, however it is inevitable if Mac is ever going to be viable in the mass market. No those few percentage points don't count.
Queue Mac trolls telling me how I just don't get it..
The student was Neils Bohr. Any relation to Niels Bohr? No, to be serious, that's just a legend and only recently have people started tacking Niels Bohr at the end, just to give the entire story a feeling of vindication.
Apple is a company that's trying to maximize its profits? Wha???? That's all well and good if you own stock in that company but pretty fucking stupid for the hundreds of consumer fanboy trolls that defend even the slightest mention... oh shit you're one of them!!!
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They will obviously require AI pilots. If we can solve all the other problems first I think getting a computer to fly a light aircraft is relatively simple compared. I can't wait for AI drivers too.
This is the same shit they do with the PMITA prisons. Our society actively encourages male rape in prison. Hell, we pretty much accept, no, DEMAND it as part of the punishment. We're barely out of the jungle yet folks. There ain't no justice like ignorant misinformed vigilante justice.
"One foot on the moon, one foot in the cave."
Right, I think the difference between me and many other people is that I don't try to legislate my personal opinions on others. Call me crazy but what's the point in life if all the tough and/or dangerous choices are made for you?
It's actually a pretty fun game. The gore is just an added bonus but it's really a game of stealth.
Dumb sound. Dumb story. What the fuck?
You can't quantify such things so getting angry because he overlooked them in this context is kind of pointless.
How much is multi-touch worth vs. single-touch? It's subjective. To me it's worth nothing.
That's because you haven't formed a hypothesis, SETI has...
It's called observation and it is a fundamental part of the scientific method. I don't know where you went to school but I hope it burned down.
Name one important thing that hasn't been proven to be impossible that we've given up on. Whatever you can think of, there's at least one guy in his garage somewhere working on it.
What exactly makes Iran so much crazier than the USA? Is it because they believe in a different set of rules that the invisible man in the sky gave them?
Just think about that for a second.
We'd still have the industry, it just wouldn't be so bloated and wasteful.
I don't think it really happened like that.
Don't ask me why. Just, some things don't add up about that explanation.
I thought the whole point of taxing individual services was so that the incoming tax money was directly proportional to the outgoing expenses? For whatever reason we needed a tax on POTS, fine. Now, if that tax money is no longer needed to maintain POTS then why do you still need that money for VOIP?! Also, if this shit isn't supposed to matter then why bother breaking the taxes up at all? Why not just increase the income tax? Makes so sense having separate taxes for services that don't actually reflect their usage, even if the goal was to keep the state coffers full.
Yes, at least within a group of believers
I'm sure the Muslims blowing up other Muslims will disagree with you.
The problem with your naive notion is that even in groups of Christians and Muslims there are separate groups.
Believing in an eternal afterlife with a big supernatural single parent in the sky does not make you less likely to kill. It makes you more likely to kill because death becomes less important to you.
As soon as you put some figurehead above human morality everything else goes to shit because you are just "following orders".
Ask yourself this, how many person B's have been killed because person A didn't believe in God and person B did? A handle of people under communism and other ideologies? Again sounds like the problem wasn't really atheism.
That conclusion goes against millions of years of evolution and modern computers. There is nothing uncommon about inferior mechanisms creating superior mechanisms. How do you think we got here today?
Stop trying to get in the way of my X-RAY VISION and the STRENGTH OF 5 GORILLAS!!!
Apple can't just match PC gaming, they would have to actually outperform the PC market if they expect gamers to switch on that standpoint alone. Your typical gamer isn't going to switch to OS X just to get the exact same performance they could with Windows, with fewer games, higher cost and more effort. It would only matter if they were already looking to switch to OS X.
The problem I think is pricing. The base configuration of a high-end Mac Pro costs what I normally spend on a fully decked out SLI rig. I think the problem Apple faces (and knows) is that gamers aren't morons about hardware (most of us) and are unlikely to spend that much extra just for a Mac shell.
After all, no gamer goes.. oohh I want a Dell XPS. No, they say, oohh I want a quad core Kentsfield and a 8800 GTX SLI blah blah blah.
Apple just doesn't have the insight or ability to take Mac gaming BEYOND PC gaming. Coming in as a tie won't matter much but it will get a few people to jump ship that only hang around Windows for the next Tomb Raider game or whatever genre they like. Apple is not stupid, they know that gaming on a Mac won't add much, however it is inevitable if Mac is ever going to be viable in the mass market. No those few percentage points don't count.
Queue Mac trolls telling me how I just don't get it..
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ya but for how long do they last
If I was serious, yes that is what I would be saying.
That's because having emotions is for sick people.