"man-made" is an overtly narrow definition, because by that definition machine-made stuff is suddenly not artificial anymore. Thus it makes more sense to use the actual etymological root of this word ("made by art or skill").
As for the wasp, the wasp itself is natural, the caterpillar as well. The genetic modification performed by the wasp is anything but. It introduces completely new treats and would have created a new species if not the fact that the caterpillars are doomed after the sting anyway.
You are so busy setting up your straw man that you don't even recognize that there is nothing natural about being stung by a parasitic wasp and having forcefully modified one's DNA. It is as artificial as it gets.
I mean, if we follow your path of thought to its logical conclusion then having me beating you up with a club would be having you evolved broken bones naturally.
The English word "slavery" has a completely different root, it came originally from the Greek "sklabos". Slav as in ethnicity comes from the slavic word "slovo", meaning "word" - as in people speaking an understandable language. In fact, even today, after more than a millennium of separation all Slavic languages are still partially mutually intelligible.
I think you are vastly underestimating the radiation levels in the exclusion zone. Maybe you should try to go there once, with a dosimeter. A day tour from Kiev is easily doable, but if you go offroad, prepare to discard your clothes afterwards.
Why? Because what you fail do understand is that the background radiation is the least of your worries. Radionuclides in the dust, in the soil and generally in the environment are. You will contaminate your clothes, that is for sure. You can easily contaminate your food if you are not very careful and there is a good chance to breathe in radioactive dust.
Anyway, if you have balls to try it out, you better speak some Russian, though, because Ukrainians usually don't speak English well, if at all. That is the case even among the younger population. You will also see how the locals don't give a damn about their safety (crazy driving habits and so on).
As long as there is no true AI, unethical robots cannot exist, only unethical use of a robot. And with a true AI, using robots would be slavery, thus unethical from the very beginning.
There are people living in landfills. Doesn't mean the landfills are habitable, only that people are desperate. The roads in the zone are generally safe, but outside roads it is fair game. There are very dangerous invisible radiation hotspots and if you find an animal carcass you can bet it is pretty radioactive as well.
Well, this rating is more for the industry so the consumer grade products can be used in certain industrial settings. Like, for example, consumer grade phones for vehicle tracking. An IP67 phone is what some companies use for that, although for certain use cases the hardware has to have an ATEX certification (say vehicle tracking for fuel trucks), but there are manufacturers that, in fact, repackage consumer phones and tablets into ATEX compliant casing.
You are mistaken. IP standards aren't idiotic, but they never were meant for the consumers. It is a protection standard for industrial electric stuff, like the consoles of heavy machinery, light switches in swimming pools, on-board computers of trucks and so on.
Fascists and Nazis had a lighter touch when it came to religion than the Communists did. They often went through the motions of public religious observance. None of that stuff indicates a belief in Christianity.
A lighter touch? Do you actually read what I have written? Catholicism was the state religion of fascist Italy and atheists were oppressed in nazi Germany.
Notice the Christian-like appeal to God? I don't either.
This is the "no true Scotsman" fallacy. Unchristian behavior was the norm in every christian country as long as Christianity existed. Ghandi summed it up well when he said "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
By the way, here is another private Hitler quote:
I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.
You are a liar. Mussolini and the Catholic church were best buddies. His both children were baptized, Catholicism was the state religion and marriage was controlled by the church.
Maybe you mean the nazis? But no, most of them were Christian. Hitler was a Catholic, as most Austrians were at that time. There was a concordat between the nazi Germany and Vatican, "Gott mit uns" was the official slogan of Wehrmacht, and Hitler's Jew hate was very typical for the contemporary Catholics. Germany never was secular and even today out of 15-16 holidays only three aren't religious. Even "the third Reich" only meant the third iteration of the holy Roman empire.
So my suggestion is to remove the driver airbag and install a large steel spike into the steering wheel. That will help getting distracted drivers off the road rather quickly and for good.
The thing is, you are assuming that the car that is turning won't be there anymore. This is not given. The car might abort the turn for some reason, it might stall, it might take longer than you expect. Better to slow down.
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What's next? A dowsing rod to help searching for explosives?
You think so? I had the impression that they both are pretty isolationist.
Honestly, I'd love to see this. From a safe distance, obviously. Would be a lot of fun to watch.
If you are a charitable person, you have to visit California for a few weeks.
Well, you have to stick to a certain standard transliteration, otherwise it only will end up like this.
"man-made" is an overtly narrow definition, because by that definition machine-made stuff is suddenly not artificial anymore. Thus it makes more sense to use the actual etymological root of this word ("made by art or skill").
As for the wasp, the wasp itself is natural, the caterpillar as well. The genetic modification performed by the wasp is anything but. It introduces completely new treats and would have created a new species if not the fact that the caterpillars are doomed after the sting anyway.
http://www.merriam-webster.com...
"not natural or real : made, produced, or done to seem like something natural"
Not natural indeed.
You are so busy setting up your straw man that you don't even recognize that there is nothing natural about being stung by a parasitic wasp and having forcefully modified one's DNA. It is as artificial as it gets.
I mean, if we follow your path of thought to its logical conclusion then having me beating you up with a club would be having you evolved broken bones naturally.
Kriegsmarine was the least nazified Wehrmacht branch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The English word "slavery" has a completely different root, it came originally from the Greek "sklabos". Slav as in ethnicity comes from the slavic word "slovo", meaning "word" - as in people speaking an understandable language. In fact, even today, after more than a millennium of separation all Slavic languages are still partially mutually intelligible.
It is not the public school system that is broken - it's only a symptom of a larger problem. The society is broken.
I think you are vastly underestimating the radiation levels in the exclusion zone. Maybe you should try to go there once, with a dosimeter. A day tour from Kiev is easily doable, but if you go offroad, prepare to discard your clothes afterwards.
Why? Because what you fail do understand is that the background radiation is the least of your worries. Radionuclides in the dust, in the soil and generally in the environment are. You will contaminate your clothes, that is for sure. You can easily contaminate your food if you are not very careful and there is a good chance to breathe in radioactive dust.
Anyway, if you have balls to try it out, you better speak some Russian, though, because Ukrainians usually don't speak English well, if at all. That is the case even among the younger population. You will also see how the locals don't give a damn about their safety (crazy driving habits and so on).
As long as there is no true AI, unethical robots cannot exist, only unethical use of a robot. And with a true AI, using robots would be slavery, thus unethical from the very beginning.
There are people living in landfills. Doesn't mean the landfills are habitable, only that people are desperate.
The roads in the zone are generally safe, but outside roads it is fair game. There are very dangerous invisible radiation hotspots and if you find an animal carcass you can bet it is pretty radioactive as well.
Well, this rating is more for the industry so the consumer grade products can be used in certain industrial settings.
Like, for example, consumer grade phones for vehicle tracking. An IP67 phone is what some companies use for that, although for certain use cases the hardware has to have an ATEX certification (say vehicle tracking for fuel trucks), but there are manufacturers that, in fact, repackage consumer phones and tablets into ATEX compliant casing.
Not at all. I've been to Soviet Russia two times, in the mid 1980ies, as it is. It was a completely different country.
Oh wow, a message from the 1980ies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You are mistaken. IP standards aren't idiotic, but they never were meant for the consumers. It is a protection standard for industrial electric stuff, like the consoles of heavy machinery, light switches in swimming pools, on-board computers of trucks and so on.
Stalin was actually a seminarist in his early years.
A lighter touch? Do you actually read what I have written? Catholicism was the state religion of fascist Italy and atheists were oppressed in nazi Germany.
This is the "no true Scotsman" fallacy. Unchristian behavior was the norm in every christian country as long as Christianity existed. Ghandi summed it up well when he said "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
By the way, here is another private Hitler quote:
I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.
Adolf Hitler in 1941 to General Gerhart Engel.
Sapienti sat.
You are a liar. Mussolini and the Catholic church were best buddies. His both children were baptized, Catholicism was the state religion and marriage was controlled by the church.
Maybe you mean the nazis? But no, most of them were Christian. Hitler was a Catholic, as most Austrians were at that time. There was a concordat between the nazi Germany and Vatican, "Gott mit uns" was the official slogan of Wehrmacht, and Hitler's Jew hate was very typical for the contemporary Catholics. Germany never was secular and even today out of 15-16 holidays only three aren't religious. Even "the third Reich" only meant the third iteration of the holy Roman empire.
So my suggestion is to remove the driver airbag and install a large steel spike into the steering wheel. That will help getting distracted drivers off the road rather quickly and for good.
The thing is, you are assuming that the car that is turning won't be there anymore. This is not given. The car might abort the turn for some reason, it might stall, it might take longer than you expect. Better to slow down.