Whatever his ability as a writer, Asimov's laws are a ridiculous piece of fiction. The notion that for some reason a positronic brain would have to obey these laws is nothing but a fictional contrivance. Taking these laws seriously in the real world is about as silly as wondering if the girl sitting in the next room is actually Jane Eyre. So how did these 'laws' gain any kind of currency? I guess simply because Asimov was so famous. He was so well respected, in his day, that he could spout nonsense and have thousands of people take him literally at his word. With behaviour like this it's easy to see how religions get started.
Actually, Mohammed wasn't the last prophet. I am the last prophet, the last prophet of Expert Determinism. Mohammed, Jesus and Moses were just members of a long line of prophets of Expert Determinism which only finds its true perfection in me.
...in my ideal home. Those Arabs knew a thing or two when they came up with this concept: a harem. Fully populated of course. But this is/. so I need to make my comment pertinent. A harem running Linux.
Isn't it supposed to say how this probe might discover signs of alien life like every other story about space in the last decade? Leaving that out is like leaving out the period at the end of a sentence.
I really recommend Silk and Cyanide. It's all very well reading books with lots of theory about codes but Silk and Cyanide tells you how it really is down on the ground. It was interesting how much effort was expended by the British in cracking their own codes. Out in the field agents were encrypting messages by hand and frequently made mistakes rendering messages unreadable. Part of Leo Marks's work was deciphering these messages. Leo Marks also worked on introducing the one-time-pad and it's interesting to read the reaction to this. All in all, a great book.
What are you talking about? Because they picked lower budget movies they must have integrity because all low budget movies are good? They picked the movies they did, not because they were good movies, but for political reasons. If a movie is about oppression of Blacks, or oppression of gays, or oppression of women, it's sure to have a chance at an Oscar. That's how it's been for the last few years anyway.
Pluto is made of solid matter. The Earth is made of solid matter (it least its surface has a large solid component). There are computers on Earth. So maybe there are computers on Pluto. I vote that we allocate funds to NASA to research this hypothesis.
...web site as creepy as I do? It's like an ad for getting a spy implant embedded in your brain in a totalitarian society. I could just imagine that ad playing in the background on a billboard in some PhilDickian dystopian future. "Whatever you think, whenever you think it, we'll be there to keep you on the right track..."
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Maybe my great grandchildren, after several generations of computer programming, will become clostrophiles who like to live in cubicles sitting on cheap workstation chairs.
Just start a family tradition of poisoning the members of your family who don't fit this category. Within a few generations you'll have a perfectly adapted family.
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I would have though genetic evolution in humans would have slowed to a crawl
Quite the opposite. Almost all humans are in a radically different environment to the one they inhabited just 2,000 years ago. I imagine humans are going through dramatic changes and that in 2,000 years we've seen more changes than in all of the 20,000 years before that.
Um...and this is offtopic...is that a banner ad for a bra on the top of this/. page? Surely I hallucinate.
I hear that if you join the military they can ask you to do stuff that's dangerous. You might even get shot or blown up. Given that you've given up sovereignty of your own body, do you really care whether or not you can get to Al Franken's web site?
Any non-geek user doesn't understand what is wrong with IE. You can't verbally demonstrate what is wrong with it.
You know, if you're not able to demonstrate what's wrong with something, you really need consider, quite seriously, exactly what you mean by "wrong". Otherwise it sounds like the proverbial pink fairies that live in our garden but which always vanish whenever I try to show them to people.
I'd be willing to bet that if you observed seniors in the US the same way
How could I observe seniors differently? (Serious, not rhetorical question BTW) I'm reporting on observations of people around me on the streets, at the gym, in places that provide entertainment and so on. Apart from seeing the aging members of my family, in their homes, in the UK, I don't think I'm observing differently between the UK and US. Older British people seem to believe that they're not allowed to have fun. Just look at how older Brits dress - drab grey clothing. Where I live in California I see older people, in places like the supermarkets or on the streets, still trying to look glitzy and glamourous. At the gym I see old guys who you'd think could barely walk still trying to pump iron (maybe not the heaviest weights). I'm amazed by these people and seeing them is incredibly motivating.
BTW I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area - I expect this is area is atypical of the US as a whole.
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Confirm doesn't imply 'prove'.
So you've been playing for less than a year?
Whatever his ability as a writer, Asimov's laws are a ridiculous piece of fiction. The notion that for some reason a positronic brain would have to obey these laws is nothing but a fictional contrivance. Taking these laws seriously in the real world is about as silly as wondering if the girl sitting in the next room is actually Jane Eyre. So how did these 'laws' gain any kind of currency? I guess simply because Asimov was so famous. He was so well respected, in his day, that he could spout nonsense and have thousands of people take him literally at his word. With behaviour like this it's easy to see how religions get started.
Here. They're just looking at what holds together the structure of the virus.
Actually, Mohammed wasn't the last prophet. I am the last prophet, the last prophet of Expert Determinism. Mohammed, Jesus and Moses were just members of a long line of prophets of Expert Determinism which only finds its true perfection in me.
...as many in just one year. So can someone tell me where the nearest church of Islam is so that I can convert?
Hello. Did you just wake from 3000 years of cryogenic suspension?
..."it's dinner time soon" or 'soon' as in "we expect our fusion reactor to achieve a positive return very soon".
...in my ideal home. Those Arabs knew a thing or two when they came up with this concept: a harem. Fully populated of course. But this is /. so I need to make my comment pertinent. A harem running Linux.
Isn't it supposed to say how this probe might discover signs of alien life like every other story about space in the last decade? Leaving that out is like leaving out the period at the end of a sentence.
I really recommend Silk and Cyanide. It's all very well reading books with lots of theory about codes but Silk and Cyanide tells you how it really is down on the ground. It was interesting how much effort was expended by the British in cracking their own codes. Out in the field agents were encrypting messages by hand and frequently made mistakes rendering messages unreadable. Part of Leo Marks's work was deciphering these messages. Leo Marks also worked on introducing the one-time-pad and it's interesting to read the reaction to this. All in all, a great book.
33. Pepe le Peu
By using a square control nobody will ever notice that this is an iPod nano ripoff. They're pretty cunning those folks at Samsung.
What are you talking about? Because they picked lower budget movies they must have integrity because all low budget movies are good? They picked the movies they did, not because they were good movies, but for political reasons. If a movie is about oppression of Blacks, or oppression of gays, or oppression of women, it's sure to have a chance at an Oscar. That's how it's been for the last few years anyway.
Pluto is made of solid matter. The Earth is made of solid matter (it least its surface has a large solid component). There are computers on Earth. So maybe there are computers on Pluto. I vote that we allocate funds to NASA to research this hypothesis.
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...web site as creepy as I do? It's like an ad for getting a spy implant embedded in your brain in a totalitarian society. I could just imagine that ad playing in the background on a billboard in some PhilDickian dystopian future. "Whatever you think, whenever you think it, we'll be there to keep you on the right track..."
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Um...and this is offtopic...is that a banner ad for a bra on the top of this /. page? Surely I hallucinate.
Personally I think murder is murder. But that's not the view of the British public and things may change. You may find this story interesting.
I hear that if you join the military they can ask you to do stuff that's dangerous. You might even get shot or blown up. Given that you've given up sovereignty of your own body, do you really care whether or not you can get to Al Franken's web site?
Yes. Talking about stuff is actually a very good way to get that much needed (dis)confirmation.
BTW I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area - I expect this is area is atypical of the US as a whole.