We just had a story a short while ago about Wikipedia having plateaued. With the current system, barely any revisions by members outside the WP "elite" actually make it through. Now with forced moderation, that will likely drop to zero. There's a distinct line between janitor and censor that I believe is being crossed here. I can understand the community trying to rid WP of garbage. That follows with the protection of some commonly vandalized articles. I just think that protection of articles was supposed to be the exception; this change makes it the rule. Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that anyone can try to edit.
Before we get into proving how someone is female, can we first all agree on what female means? Even with a Y chromosome, I seem to recall that nonfunctional hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase can result in a fully reproductively capable female who looks the part. What sort of female do you need to be to qualify for women's athletics? XX? Functioning ovaries?
Sure, we can probably come to a consensus over a test with some deliberation. But what exactly should the criteria be?
Doesn't that other perspective contradict your former point? While it may be more likely for life to develop at approximately the same rates, the creation of an "advanced" civilization is governed just as much by history as by biological evolution. A race biologically identical to ours in any given solar system may be as physically evolved as we are, but notably superior technologically having not suffered the loss of their own Library of Alexandria, or a complete lack of their own Dark Ages. Perhaps it's just as likely that a lack of notable celestial bodies in their system slowed the development of astronomy and perhaps even modern science as a whole, shunting their growth by centuries compared to our own.
I think it was fair to say that the probabilities of predicting when advanced civilizations exist is truly unknown, but that extends to any conjectures about whether this "timing" is more or less likely for whatever set of reasons.
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We just had a story a short while ago about Wikipedia having plateaued. With the current system, barely any revisions by members outside the WP "elite" actually make it through. Now with forced moderation, that will likely drop to zero. There's a distinct line between janitor and censor that I believe is being crossed here. I can understand the community trying to rid WP of garbage. That follows with the protection of some commonly vandalized articles. I just think that protection of articles was supposed to be the exception; this change makes it the rule. Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that anyone can try to edit.
Before we get into proving how someone is female, can we first all agree on what female means? Even with a Y chromosome, I seem to recall that nonfunctional hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase can result in a fully reproductively capable female who looks the part. What sort of female do you need to be to qualify for women's athletics? XX? Functioning ovaries? Sure, we can probably come to a consensus over a test with some deliberation. But what exactly should the criteria be?
I'd be wary about the use of "defined" here. Pi is defined as the ratio between the circumference of a circle and its diameter.
Doesn't that other perspective contradict your former point? While it may be more likely for life to develop at approximately the same rates, the creation of an "advanced" civilization is governed just as much by history as by biological evolution. A race biologically identical to ours in any given solar system may be as physically evolved as we are, but notably superior technologically having not suffered the loss of their own Library of Alexandria, or a complete lack of their own Dark Ages. Perhaps it's just as likely that a lack of notable celestial bodies in their system slowed the development of astronomy and perhaps even modern science as a whole, shunting their growth by centuries compared to our own.
I think it was fair to say that the probabilities of predicting when advanced civilizations exist is truly unknown, but that extends to any conjectures about whether this "timing" is more or less likely for whatever set of reasons.
That definitely takes the cake over the scanner.
Armin Shimmerman without a shirt on...sounds like the beginning to a twisted holosuite program left on the DS9 cutting room floor.
They're...mutated...dolphins.