The genocide of Armenia, Greeks and Kurds was far more organized than the American Indian Wars that lead to the conquest of the United States. 600,000 Armenians "died or were massacred during deportation" in the years 1915–1916.
I have no interest in getting into a debate about which crime was worse, but people have estimated that over 10 Million indigenous people died through war and disease because of the colonization of America.
I agree, but I'd say the same of, say, Turkey. Only they were a bit more genocidal about "solving" their Greek and Armenian problem, so, perversely, they don't get as much shit about it anymore--- Israel was much nicer to its domestic minorities, so gets more shit about it.
So true. And really, what happened in Turkey happened in America. Both Canada and the US are lands colonized by Europeans. Telling the Jews to leave Israel is like telling the Europeans to leave America. The Europeans killed enough of the native population in North America to subdue them (+ alcohol and casinos....)......
You appear to be advocating "protecting terminally ill patients from themselves". Seeing as how they are already terminally ill that seems just a bit silly. Who better to experiment on than a terminally patient with nothing to lose who is willing to give it a shot?
It would be one thing if the treatment was a pro bono experimental treatment conducted at a legitimate medical institution. It's another thing if the patient's family has to go into debt to pay for it.
Also, there is a real psychological cost to being told there is hope when there is none. Instead of coming to terms with the loss and saying goodbye while the patient is alive patients and their families can live in denial, only to be devastated when these long shots fail.
The iMac has always been a better deal than the mini in terms of what you get for the money. For me the biggest reason to go with a mini instead of the iMac is so i can have a Dell monitor with multiple inputs (for my PC or Wii).
I've had a mini for years, and i love it. It is quiet, the form factor is amazing and it runs MacOSX.
Personally, if I was going to redesign the mini, i would not have made it smaller. I would have added discrete graphics so that it is better for gaming.
However, i do love the unibody aluminum look, and i love that they made the RAM user upgradable. I upgraded the RAM and the CPU on my mini and it was an adventure.
As for the so f*&%ing beaten to death debate of the "mac tax": If you get a Dell or whatever else you have to pay extra to get software that comes with the Mac: iMovie, iDVD, iPhoto all come with a new mac. Last time i checked there was not equivalent easy to use content generation software for a windows or linux box. If you are using it STRICTLY as an HTPC, than a cheaper box will probably do.
If we can make a copy like above, we can experiment the hell out of it, leave all kinds of parts 'turned off'.
You aren't hurting a real human, are you ? Hmm, interresting ethics debate that's gonna be.
Those are great questions. If we do a proper job at emulation, you certainly could cause pain by manipulating the activity in the circuit. If we emulate the full body experience then taking away breathing or heart beat might be quite disturbing even though it shouldn't "harm" the mind. Ya... the future is going to be an interesting place!
It occurs to me that much of what our brain is doing involves things like breathing, standing upright, and processing sensory input. If we really understood the brain, we might be able to ignore the parts that would not be needed for a disembodied brain.... reduce the storage and the computational requirements.....
It is hard for me, and yes, i am a neuroscientist, to guess how far away we are from understanding the brain enough to safely exclude bits.
While fMRI is currently the dominant technique for scanning brain activity, it wouldn't be used for "uploading your brain". In order to preserve the information in your brain we really need the network diagram. Currently there a few groups in the world automating the process of cutting and scanning neural tissue with electron microscopy: Dr. Winfried Denk - serial block-face scanning electron microscopy and Dr. Clay Reid, to name two. Currently, they can only scan a 1mm^3 piece of brain. But it's really at this point just an engineering problem to do the whole brain.
An important issue that few people discuss is that even if you had a full network diagram of your brain and the hard disks to store it on (It's estimated that humans have on the order of 10^16 neural connections. If we say that we just need one byte per connection we would still need 10 petabytes per brain. And this is a reduced representation. During the actual scan we would need far more storage to trace all the physical connections) you would need some very impressive hardware to RUN your consciousness. Some have estimated that all of the CPUs currently connected to the internet have about the processing power of a single human brain. So, unless you are fabulously wealthy, you won't be able to pay for the hardware and electric bill of running your immortal consciousness.
Even Windows in a VM requires an exception - to the detriment of their support groups that HAVE to support customers on Windows infrastructure.
I'm gonna have to ask for a citation on this one. I just cannot believe that google doesn't do a huge amount of testing in VMs running all flavors of windows and IE. Or at least the versions that still have significant market share. It would be insane.
There are a few Keanu movies that are terrible, that i still enjoy, that i refrained from listing.
Devil's Advocate is pretty terrible, but i kind of like it. Constantine had nothing to do with the comic, but i enjoyed it as a film. Speed is kind of a classic A scanner darkly is awesome. forgot about that one.
I know people love to hate Keanu. But who else could have played Neo? The Matrix was amazing, and he played a big part in that and he can make as many november rains as he wants and i'll still love him.
Also: point break. bill and ted's. my own private idaho.
it always escalates. always. and you dont know the price you will pay "later" when they see a few weeks later and they have a posse 12 deep
I respectfully disagree. I grew up in a safe middle class neighbourhood in Canada. Kids didn't have guns or knives (at least not to stab someone with). But there were still bullies. Standing up to them was certainly a good idea, and yes sometimes you would get punched, but more often than not they would bother someone who wouldn't bother to fight back.
So, i think the advice to stand up to a bully, depends on the situation.
Getting arrested or detained does not make you guilty. You'll still have your day in court or clear things up at the station.Think of it like a beefed up curfew law for minors.
Getting detained doesn't make you guilty, but you could lose your job for not showing up at work.
if the courts are a scalpel, and the army a broadsword, then 4chan is a rabid 3 legged badger with chronic flatulence.
When you put it like that it seems the perfect match for revolutionmuslim.com!
I watched an interview with them at cnn.com and i'm not sure they are true believers. They might be trying to "out" extremists by saying in public what others might be saying in private. Also their site is monitored by the FBI so anyone dumb enough to comment on there is basically under surveillance.
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The genocide of Armenia, Greeks and Kurds was far more organized than the American Indian Wars that lead to the conquest of the United States. 600,000 Armenians "died or were massacred during deportation" in the years 1915–1916.
I have no interest in getting into a debate about which crime was worse, but people have estimated that over 10 Million indigenous people died through war and disease because of the colonization of America.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history#Americas
i've been in a holding cell and i've never used ICQ.
(Although i wasn't actually convicted... so maybe we'll need someone else to come forward)
I agree, but I'd say the same of, say, Turkey. Only they were a bit more genocidal about "solving" their Greek and Armenian problem, so, perversely, they don't get as much shit about it anymore--- Israel was much nicer to its domestic minorities, so gets more shit about it.
So true. ......
And really, what happened in Turkey happened in America. Both Canada and the US are lands colonized by Europeans. Telling the Jews to leave Israel is like telling the Europeans to leave America. The Europeans killed enough of the native population in North America to subdue them (+ alcohol and casinos....)
i'm too lazy to google it but i'd bet that all of those "burgers" are available somewhere in the US of A.
god bless america.
You appear to be advocating "protecting terminally ill patients from themselves". Seeing as how they are already terminally ill that seems just a bit silly. Who better to experiment on than a terminally patient with nothing to lose who is willing to give it a shot?
It would be one thing if the treatment was a pro bono experimental treatment conducted at a legitimate medical institution. It's another thing if the patient's family has to go into debt to pay for it.
Also, there is a real psychological cost to being told there is hope when there is none. Instead of coming to terms with the loss and saying goodbye while the patient is alive patients and their families can live in denial, only to be devastated when these long shots fail.
The iMac has always been a better deal than the mini in terms of what you get for the money. For me the biggest reason to go with a mini instead of the iMac is so i can have a Dell monitor with multiple inputs (for my PC or Wii).
I've had a mini for years, and i love it. It is quiet, the form factor is amazing and it runs MacOSX.
Personally, if I was going to redesign the mini, i would not have made it smaller. I would have added discrete graphics so that it is better for gaming.
However, i do love the unibody aluminum look, and i love that they made the RAM user upgradable. I upgraded the RAM and the CPU on my mini and it was an adventure.
As for the so f*&%ing beaten to death debate of the "mac tax": If you get a Dell or whatever else you have to pay extra to get software that comes with the Mac: iMovie, iDVD, iPhoto all come with a new mac. Last time i checked there was not equivalent easy to use content generation software for a windows or linux box. If you are using it STRICTLY as an HTPC, than a cheaper box will probably do.
If we can make a copy like above, we can experiment the hell out of it, leave all kinds of parts 'turned off'.
You aren't hurting a real human, are you ? Hmm, interresting ethics debate that's gonna be.
Those are great questions. If we do a proper job at emulation, you certainly could cause pain by manipulating the activity in the circuit. If we emulate the full body experience then taking away breathing or heart beat might be quite disturbing even though it shouldn't "harm" the mind. Ya... the future is going to be an interesting place!
It occurs to me that much of what our brain is doing involves things like breathing, standing upright, and processing sensory input. If we really understood the brain, we might be able to ignore the parts that would not be needed for a disembodied brain.... reduce the storage and the computational requirements.....
It is hard for me, and yes, i am a neuroscientist, to guess how far away we are from understanding the brain enough to safely exclude bits.
Fmri is still king of brain scanning.
While fMRI is currently the dominant technique for scanning brain activity, it wouldn't be used for "uploading your brain". In order to preserve the information in your brain we really need the network diagram. Currently there a few groups in the world automating the process of cutting and scanning neural tissue with electron microscopy: Dr. Winfried Denk - serial block-face scanning electron microscopy and Dr. Clay Reid, to name two. Currently, they can only scan a 1mm^3 piece of brain. But it's really at this point just an engineering problem to do the whole brain.
An important issue that few people discuss is that even if you had a full network diagram of your brain and the hard disks to store it on (It's estimated that humans have on the order of 10^16 neural connections. If we say that we just need one byte per connection we would still need 10 petabytes per brain. And this is a reduced representation. During the actual scan we would need far more storage to trace all the physical connections) you would need some very impressive hardware to RUN your consciousness. Some have estimated that all of the CPUs currently connected to the internet have about the processing power of a single human brain. So, unless you are fabulously wealthy, you won't be able to pay for the hardware and electric bill of running your immortal consciousness.
Even Windows in a VM requires an exception - to the detriment of their support groups that HAVE to support customers on Windows infrastructure.
I'm gonna have to ask for a citation on this one. I just cannot believe that google doesn't do a huge amount of testing in VMs running all flavors of windows and IE. Or at least the versions that still have significant market share. It would be insane.
mod parent up, informative!!!
and The Devils Advocate
There are a few Keanu movies that are terrible, that i still enjoy, that i refrained from listing.
Devil's Advocate is pretty terrible, but i kind of like it.
Constantine had nothing to do with the comic, but i enjoyed it as a film.
Speed is kind of a classic
A scanner darkly is awesome. forgot about that one.
It seems to be EXACTLY the same movie as "Species". I can only hope they have as much T&A.
I thought the same thing. The splice alien is not hot unfortuantely. i'll take a pass.
Watch Jumpers, Christensen did a very good job in that.
You musta been on some seriously good drugs while watching jumpers if you thought Christensen could act.
Can you hook me up with your dealer?
I know people love to hate Keanu. But who else could have played Neo? The Matrix was amazing, and he played a big part in that and he can make as many november rains as he wants and i'll still love him.
Also: point break. bill and ted's. my own private idaho.
I take it you were in school back when there is no zero-tolerant policy?
I'm not sure there are such policies in Canada... but there certainly were not when i was in school.
Actually there were 2 incidences where teachers and students got into fights!
lol. well played.
too bad about Peter Watts, though. :(
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Ya. Well, when the bully in question is an "officer of the law" standing up to them is definitely NOT a good idea.
I'm pretty sure that they didn't measure the position and momentum to better than half of Planck's Constant.
it always escalates. always. and you dont know the price you will pay "later" when they see a few weeks later and they have a posse 12 deep
I respectfully disagree. I grew up in a safe middle class neighbourhood in Canada. Kids didn't have guns or knives (at least not to stab someone with). But there were still bullies. Standing up to them was certainly a good idea, and yes sometimes you would get punched, but more often than not they would bother someone who wouldn't bother to fight back.
So, i think the advice to stand up to a bully, depends on the situation.
Getting arrested or detained does not make you guilty. You'll still have your day in court or clear things up at the station.Think of it like a beefed up curfew law for minors.
Getting detained doesn't make you guilty, but you could lose your job for not showing up at work.
if the courts are a scalpel, and the army a broadsword, then 4chan is a rabid 3 legged badger with chronic flatulence.
When you put it like that it seems the perfect match for revolutionmuslim.com!
I watched an interview with them at cnn.com and i'm not sure they are true believers. They might be trying to "out" extremists by saying in public what others might be saying in private. Also their site is monitored by the FBI so anyone dumb enough to comment on there is basically under surveillance.
ya. can't we sic the 4chan on them?
When i was 9 i was doing BASIC programming on my Commodore 64!
I suspect this was far less of a hypothesis about aliens and far more social commentary on humans.
Yes. In fact, it reeks of the view of future earth described in H.G. Well's Time Machine
I agree. My mac mini is pretty much silent. Unfortunately the cheap external hard drives that i have attached to it are not.