In the academic or IQ sense you are probably right. However, most humans can navigate and manipulate most physical objects far better than any current AI (aside from highly specialized tasks).
Further, it appears that most human minds have a lot of processing and memory devoted to socializing, but us slashdotters tend to dismiss that or not notice or even recognize such skills.
"I can solve a Rubix cube blindfolded, so why can't I get a real date?"
That's still a "fist", it's just that pounding uses the bottom of the fist. It may be that early humans relied on spears for hunting (probably smaller game), making their muscles optimized for forward thrust, and that's why we transitioned to using the front of our fist instead of the bottom; and thus the corresponding changes in our hands and face, the face being the receiving end of a frontal fist.
Pounding tends to hit the top or back of the head such that the front face is not at great risk of repeated pounding. But this all changes with a frontal fists.
This would suggest that specialization in spear usage is what triggered our divergence from chimp-like apes. I don't know of any other selection force that would change proto-humans into frontal hitters. Throwing rocks longer distances, perhaps, but that's a cousin of spear-throwing.
Current apes fight also, so why don't they have such features? I suspect it's because apes tend to fight by pushing and kicking more so than slugging: they wrestle.
It's over-simplistic thinking to say "gov't always bad, corporation always good". I've worked for some really stupid and sleazy corporations: assholery is not limited to gov't. Both types of orgs each have their role with various trade-offs.
Canada can buy both. Because they largely avoided the mortgage crash due to sufficient buyer screening regulations, and because of oil profits, they have some shoppin' money.
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It's kind of like the T. S.A.: jillions spent to catch one guy every 3 years.
In the academic or IQ sense you are probably right. However, most humans can navigate and manipulate most physical objects far better than any current AI (aside from highly specialized tasks).
Further, it appears that most human minds have a lot of processing and memory devoted to socializing, but us slashdotters tend to dismiss that or not notice or even recognize such skills.
"I can solve a Rubix cube blindfolded, so why can't I get a real date?"
In short, "stupid" is relative.
Farming and sailing are for those who can't punch.
Careful, their lawyers are better evolved than yours.
That's still a "fist", it's just that pounding uses the bottom of the fist. It may be that early humans relied on spears for hunting (probably smaller game), making their muscles optimized for forward thrust, and that's why we transitioned to using the front of our fist instead of the bottom; and thus the corresponding changes in our hands and face, the face being the receiving end of a frontal fist.
Pounding tends to hit the top or back of the head such that the front face is not at great risk of repeated pounding. But this all changes with a frontal fists.
This would suggest that specialization in spear usage is what triggered our divergence from chimp-like apes. I don't know of any other selection force that would change proto-humans into frontal hitters. Throwing rocks longer distances, perhaps, but that's a cousin of spear-throwing.
We solved it! Where's our Nobel! I get 70%, Dude.
Current apes fight also, so why don't they have such features? I suspect it's because apes tend to fight by pushing and kicking more so than slugging: they wrestle.
Don't worry, if you don't figure it out, hackers will.
Now here come all the Global Zombie Deniers...
One dog would have if it wasn't for those meddling kids.
If virtual kids are allowed, I can make a bot pass easily:
Tester: "What's your name?"
Bot: "Goo goo ga ga"
Tester: "Oh, so you are a baby?"
Bot: "Glergggg ba ba!"
Tester: "Oh, how cuuuute!"
Screw the World Trade Organization! Nobody elected them; mostly plutocrats put them in place. We should tell them to take a hike.
That's a myth.
Who said voters are logical?
So there are no giant human-eating bird-dragons, it was just a moth on the lens.
...cows are afraid of catching Mad Bundy Disease.
Cows and corporations are people.
You are a fucking Yugo.
It's over-simplistic thinking to say "gov't always bad, corporation always good". I've worked for some really stupid and sleazy corporations: assholery is not limited to gov't. Both types of orgs each have their role with various trade-offs.
Americans on average are not ready to fund a big space shot. People are still recovering from the financial meltdown and recession.
Maybe if and when China starts to show us up, THEN the collective will shall come.
Canada can buy both. Because they largely avoided the mortgage crash due to sufficient buyer screening regulations, and because of oil profits, they have some shoppin' money.
Like an H1B job ad, eh.
I agree with Obama: we already went to the moon. But, Mars is too far off (and too expensive) so an asteroid mission is a better intermediate goal.
Horta
...fogettaboudit
Hell no! On Mars you can drink on Sundays.