Oh I just didn't remember how far the magnetosphere really protected us/that the protection in current vehicles wouldn't be enough. And we've never been further than orbiting behind the Moon, i.e. think Michael Collins' solo trip.
Cause, you can't really have a first man to walk on the bottom of the ocean, I mean, pretty much any beach goer does that. Whereas you can have a first man to walk on the Moon/Mars/an asteroid. My point is, regardless of the scientific interest, space is just more sensational. The depths of the ocean are just creepy.
They started drinking their own pee, and now they're gonna eat silkworms? No wonder why kids don't dream of becoming astronauts anymore, this thing is more awful than Survivor!
Don't worry about it. I used to show my penis to every girl in the bathroom in pre-school when I was barely 3 (it was like a daily routine for them to ask me "show me the pink" or "say hello", lol...), now I'm 22 and still a virgin. For now teaching them about appropriateness should be enough;-).
May I suggest that we also prevent children from being able to see or touch their genitals before they reach the age of consent? I mean you know, we don't want them to experience anything erotic or sexual before they reach a certain age, for the sake of their own mental development and health, of course.
I've already done my part by donating money to the Jack Thompson Retirement Fund so we can alleviate his boredom and take his disbarment off his mind by offering him a video game console. And a copy of GTA IV (you saw that one coming admit it).
Well I'm a very consistent person, so in the same way that I make sure that my children cannot see anything that may disturb them a bit (OMG what if my children saw a grown man's wee wee? It would surely traumatise them for life), I don't let my children play on the playground with anything short of an American football player's protection gear (OMG what if they scrapped their knee and in resulted in tendon infection and we had to amputate their leg or something!)
I think that anyone who falls short of such measures of protection is a monster more than a parent and might as well push their children from the top of the helter skelter or show them a woman's breast.
Do you know how easy it is to stumble across these things?
Yeah, it's only too easy, mainly when you look them up on Google.
A six year old player Counter Strike? How do you know he was six, did he type something like "Greetings my fellow players, it is I, Jimmy the 6-year old Counter Strike player"? Oh and thanks a lot for all the porny keywords, I'm only 3 and a half, you bastard!
By the way, wouldn't you know which letter comes after G? I need that for my school homework.
What's next? Next thing you know they'll find out it's actually pretty hard to come by child porn, that it's not that easy to build a bomb off Internet instructions or that a "skilled hacker" cannot just infiltrate anything and do anything by typing onto his keyboard for 20 seconds.
Please, don't take our societal innocence away by destroying our misconceptions and delusions about the Internet.
Malware isn't as lame as you make it seem. I just got infected by a virus. It doesn't do much, except a few things : when you log into FTP to upload to your website, it sniffs the FTP packets so it can itself login again and deface your website by inserting malware in it (which results in a Google malware warning that I currently still have on this site (the site is still "infected")). It does one other thing, it prevents your web browsers (although not your entire system, nslookup still works) from resolving the domains of all the antivirus vendors as well as microsoft.com.
That's discreet, subtle and cunning, and I had to boot into another copy of Windows to run an online scan. We're not in 1998 anymore, malware isn't just casino pop ups anymore, it's some very serious stuff.
Oh, well, they can hack their own vehicles at their own risk, but I'm pretty sure that the eventual legal frame for these hypothetical vehicles would be pretty restrictive about manual piloting.
Well these rules can be simple, but it's not in 1 minute that I'll define a viable set of rules. But they can be deterministically determined pathways, and surveying the area to make sure you're on no collision course with anything (in which case another deterministic thing would determine what each should do). It's just like road rules, except respected by machines. Keeping in mind that in the air your road can be 1,000 feet wide and only one way, I mean, at that point you make the machines do whatever you want.
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Damn those liberals who won't give your children the freedom to crash through the windshield!!
Oh I just didn't remember how far the magnetosphere really protected us/that the protection in current vehicles wouldn't be enough. And we've never been further than orbiting behind the Moon, i.e. think Michael Collins' solo trip.
And so is Antartica!
Let's send those damn penguins, err, I mean, our penguin friends, some blankets to "keep them warm" during these cold Antarctic nights.
Cause, you can't really have a first man to walk on the bottom of the ocean, I mean, pretty much any beach goer does that. Whereas you can have a first man to walk on the Moon/Mars/an asteroid. My point is, regardless of the scientific interest, space is just more sensational. The depths of the ocean are just creepy.
Huh? Already worked out!? Astronauts have already been to space, I don't know if you've received the memo..
They started drinking their own pee, and now they're gonna eat silkworms? No wonder why kids don't dream of becoming astronauts anymore, this thing is more awful than Survivor!
Don't worry about it. I used to show my penis to every girl in the bathroom in pre-school when I was barely 3 (it was like a daily routine for them to ask me "show me the pink" or "say hello", lol...), now I'm 22 and still a virgin. For now teaching them about appropriateness should be enough ;-).
Actually, all the things you referenced are as trivial to find on the Internet as they are in your local library.
Wait.. they have child porn at your local library?? And documentation on how to easily hack into government agencies??
Ooooooh, wait nevermind, I get it, that was a subtle way to say it's not trivial to find at all, right?
That's what SHE said!
I understand the feeling, my last reality cheque got bounced
It's just obvious that it's simpler. Except maybe for the weather part.
What?? I'm talking about algorithms here, comparing algorithms. No idea what you're on.
Dear God,
May I suggest that we also prevent children from being able to see or touch their genitals before they reach the age of consent? I mean you know, we don't want them to experience anything erotic or sexual before they reach a certain age, for the sake of their own mental development and health, of course.
Thanks a lot Captain Obvious, it's as if you almost caught the point of the original remark!
I've already done my part by donating money to the Jack Thompson Retirement Fund so we can alleviate his boredom and take his disbarment off his mind by offering him a video game console. And a copy of GTA IV (you saw that one coming admit it).
Well I'm a very consistent person, so in the same way that I make sure that my children cannot see anything that may disturb them a bit (OMG what if my children saw a grown man's wee wee? It would surely traumatise them for life), I don't let my children play on the playground with anything short of an American football player's protection gear (OMG what if they scrapped their knee and in resulted in tendon infection and we had to amputate their leg or something!)
I think that anyone who falls short of such measures of protection is a monster more than a parent and might as well push their children from the top of the helter skelter or show them a woman's breast.
But can you do it with a gun up to your head?
Do you know how easy it is to stumble across these things?
Yeah, it's only too easy, mainly when you look them up on Google.
A six year old player Counter Strike? How do you know he was six, did he type something like "Greetings my fellow players, it is I, Jimmy the 6-year old Counter Strike player"? Oh and thanks a lot for all the porny keywords, I'm only 3 and a half, you bastard!
By the way, wouldn't you know which letter comes after G? I need that for my school homework.
What's next? Next thing you know they'll find out it's actually pretty hard to come by child porn, that it's not that easy to build a bomb off Internet instructions or that a "skilled hacker" cannot just infiltrate anything and do anything by typing onto his keyboard for 20 seconds.
Please, don't take our societal innocence away by destroying our misconceptions and delusions about the Internet.
But.. who are we going to have to think of now?
Everyone knows that you need an Apple PowerBook 5300 to infect alien computer systems!
Malware isn't as lame as you make it seem. I just got infected by a virus. It doesn't do much, except a few things : when you log into FTP to upload to your website, it sniffs the FTP packets so it can itself login again and deface your website by inserting malware in it (which results in a Google malware warning that I currently still have on this site (the site is still "infected")). It does one other thing, it prevents your web browsers (although not your entire system, nslookup still works) from resolving the domains of all the antivirus vendors as well as microsoft.com.
That's discreet, subtle and cunning, and I had to boot into another copy of Windows to run an online scan. We're not in 1998 anymore, malware isn't just casino pop ups anymore, it's some very serious stuff.
Like I said, all of this is relatively trivial compared to self driving road cars.
Oh, well, they can hack their own vehicles at their own risk, but I'm pretty sure that the eventual legal frame for these hypothetical vehicles would be pretty restrictive about manual piloting.
Well these rules can be simple, but it's not in 1 minute that I'll define a viable set of rules. But they can be deterministically determined pathways, and surveying the area to make sure you're on no collision course with anything (in which case another deterministic thing would determine what each should do). It's just like road rules, except respected by machines. Keeping in mind that in the air your road can be 1,000 feet wide and only one way, I mean, at that point you make the machines do whatever you want.