Not shitty, just modestly spec'd and priced. Most games don't need all that extra power, and for the ones that do I have my PC. I never even touch my 360 anymore, just Wii and PC. Wii is perfect for hanging out in the living room with my kids and playing games. PC is perfect for late nights up in the bedroom, headphones. Best of both worlds..
Do you have any idea how many things there are that make it safe to kill? We can't just ban everything that has the potential to be used in warfare, there would be nothing left. What is required is a total shift in human consciousness away from even needing such machines. Our lust for war/power/goods is the real problem. Obviously in the meantime we need to defend ourselves, but banning things like this won't make that any easier, and will only stunt our technological progress. If we don't build ThingX some other country WILL decide to build it, and we'll be at a disadvantage. It's sad game of deterrence, yes, but until people learn to stop fighting each other and start working together, it's a necessary evil...
Investors don't care about inertia. They care about growth. Microsoft really has nowhere left to grow, at least nowhere that hasn't already been solidly claimed by another company. Their stock has been flat for 10 years. That's a long fucking time. Who wants to invest in a company without much real visible future growth potential? So the investors will pull out, and MS will coast on "inertia" for a while, but then what? What's their long-term plan for growth? I don't see them competing effectively in any market, at least with Ballmer at the wheel.
Ignoring them, and thus creating the slew of media pieces, brings valuable public awareness to the issue which is good. I, for one, have never heard of this regulation until now, and now that I have I can say I'm opposed to it. It's not in my interest as a consumer, and I don't feel like we need to legislate lockouts like this. So I say ignore them until they make you, but this whole debacle, although frustrating for Tesla, will ultimately have a positive consequence...
Biological material != life, and by all accounts actually making that transition requires very specific environmental conditions
A lot can happen in billions of years. So much in fact that I would guess we really have no clue about what kinds of crazy shit has happened since the solar system formed, let alone the universe...
It is completely ridiculous to think that life on Mars would use "DNA" and even "cells."
I would say it's completely ridiculous to close your mind to such possibilities. There was a time when people thought it was ridiculous to think the Earth revolved around the sun. You would have been one of those numbskulls, had you been born a while earlier... Stop presuming to know everything.
Well there was nothing unintentional about our breeding of pets, and it doesn't matter how we did it, we still did it. But whatever, if you're not happy with the lobotimization scenario, just imagine instead if there was some superior race of creatures that came here, and started selectively breeding humans to behave better instead of something surgical. Or better yet, forget about how it happened, just imagine that they treat humans the way we treat animals. You ready to volunteer? Look, I'm not saying it's bad that you treat your cat good -- it might as well have some sort of decent life now that it's here. What I'm saying is that we should stop breeding these animals and treating them like commodities. Imagine if humans were bought/sold, bred/killed, neglected/abused, eaten/wasted, etc... in exactly the same way we do to other animals. I don't think anyone would be OK with it... In fact, we used to do that didn't we? And the world has pretty much unanimously decided that it's "bad". Why is this different for animals?
It is logical fallacy to say the message is false because of who is delivering it.
Well you're wrong, but this isn't a discussion that has anything to do with logic anyway. This is about opinion, some people have one, some people have another. Both sides will lie to further their cause, so the only question becomes, which side do you trust more? Which side feels more "right"? Even though PETA has some crackpot members, at least their goal is for a positive change in the way we treat animals. The CCF's goal is basically to just get more of your money into their clients' bank accounts.
The only thing I truly find abhorrent is having them declawed. If you have to hack a cat that much to keep it, get something else.
So nothing wrong with surgically ripping out their reproductive organs? I'm sure you got your cat's approval first, right? You do realize that the only reason your cat is so happy to live in your house is because they have been selectively bred, by humans, on purpose, over hundreds of years, to be docile and compliant, yes? There's a reason you don't have any wild cats willingly coming to cuddle on the couch with you. We've basically "created" domestic cats, we make all their decisions for them, we decide when they live or die, if they escape we catch them and bring them back, if they don't pee in the right place they are punished or re-programmed, etc... If left to their own devices most would starve to death or get eaten because we've also destroyed their survival instincts. This sounds a lot like slavery to me... I know, you'll say, "But my cat has a great life!" which may be true, but the fact remains that we've forcibly stripped away whatever natural wildness was ever originally in the animal.
Imagine if aliens came here, and started creating lobotomized versions of humans to be pets. I'm sure you'd be the first in line to sign up..?
Space itself can expand FTL, but anything inside that space is limited to c. This also means that at any given point in the universe, there is a boundary where you can never reach beyond, because the space itself is expanding away FTL, so you can never catch up to observe anything beyond that boundary...
there is only one solution that really works: more mass
Except that's not a solution that works. I think you mean, more sound dampening material. I could easily build a 12" thick concrete wall that would transmit sound better than a 4" cavity filled with old jeans. One of them has significantly more mass than the other...
Because somewhere in the hypocrisy of America, we have been programmed to believe that showing real life versions of certain things on television is somehow inappropriate, yet real life versions of other bad things are acceptable. It seems in most cases, people aren't prepared to deal with real life, or real death. We're kind of a nation of pussies now, for better or worse...
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Not shitty, just modestly spec'd and priced. Most games don't need all that extra power, and for the ones that do I have my PC. I never even touch my 360 anymore, just Wii and PC. Wii is perfect for hanging out in the living room with my kids and playing games. PC is perfect for late nights up in the bedroom, headphones. Best of both worlds..
I don't see how installing an electric fence would be any cheaper/easier...
Do you have any idea how many things there are that make it safe to kill? We can't just ban everything that has the potential to be used in warfare, there would be nothing left. What is required is a total shift in human consciousness away from even needing such machines. Our lust for war/power/goods is the real problem. Obviously in the meantime we need to defend ourselves, but banning things like this won't make that any easier, and will only stunt our technological progress. If we don't build ThingX some other country WILL decide to build it, and we'll be at a disadvantage. It's sad game of deterrence, yes, but until people learn to stop fighting each other and start working together, it's a necessary evil...
Investors don't care about inertia. They care about growth. Microsoft really has nowhere left to grow, at least nowhere that hasn't already been solidly claimed by another company. Their stock has been flat for 10 years. That's a long fucking time. Who wants to invest in a company without much real visible future growth potential? So the investors will pull out, and MS will coast on "inertia" for a while, but then what? What's their long-term plan for growth? I don't see them competing effectively in any market, at least with Ballmer at the wheel.
you mean, "how long ago"
Ignoring them, and thus creating the slew of media pieces, brings valuable public awareness to the issue which is good. I, for one, have never heard of this regulation until now, and now that I have I can say I'm opposed to it. It's not in my interest as a consumer, and I don't feel like we need to legislate lockouts like this. So I say ignore them until they make you, but this whole debacle, although frustrating for Tesla, will ultimately have a positive consequence...
Unless the two in the bush are dead or infected
"Do you have a code sample I can look at?"
Maybe we should just let kids start choosing their own curriculum at grade 1. What could possibly go wrong?
At least someone is trying.
Biological material != life, and by all accounts actually making that transition requires very specific environmental conditions
A lot can happen in billions of years. So much in fact that I would guess we really have no clue about what kinds of crazy shit has happened since the solar system formed, let alone the universe...
It is completely ridiculous to think that life on Mars would use "DNA" and even "cells."
I would say it's completely ridiculous to close your mind to such possibilities. There was a time when people thought it was ridiculous to think the Earth revolved around the sun. You would have been one of those numbskulls, had you been born a while earlier... Stop presuming to know everything.
There was barely any time to do what I wanted to do.
That's what college is for. High school is there to prep you for college.
Well there was nothing unintentional about our breeding of pets, and it doesn't matter how we did it, we still did it. But whatever, if you're not happy with the lobotimization scenario, just imagine instead if there was some superior race of creatures that came here, and started selectively breeding humans to behave better instead of something surgical. Or better yet, forget about how it happened, just imagine that they treat humans the way we treat animals. You ready to volunteer? Look, I'm not saying it's bad that you treat your cat good -- it might as well have some sort of decent life now that it's here. What I'm saying is that we should stop breeding these animals and treating them like commodities. Imagine if humans were bought/sold, bred/killed, neglected/abused, eaten/wasted, etc... in exactly the same way we do to other animals. I don't think anyone would be OK with it... In fact, we used to do that didn't we? And the world has pretty much unanimously decided that it's "bad". Why is this different for animals?
It is logical fallacy to say the message is false because of who is delivering it.
Well you're wrong, but this isn't a discussion that has anything to do with logic anyway. This is about opinion, some people have one, some people have another. Both sides will lie to further their cause, so the only question becomes, which side do you trust more? Which side feels more "right"? Even though PETA has some crackpot members, at least their goal is for a positive change in the way we treat animals. The CCF's goal is basically to just get more of your money into their clients' bank accounts.
The only thing I truly find abhorrent is having them declawed. If you have to hack a cat that much to keep it, get something else.
So nothing wrong with surgically ripping out their reproductive organs? I'm sure you got your cat's approval first, right? You do realize that the only reason your cat is so happy to live in your house is because they have been selectively bred, by humans, on purpose, over hundreds of years, to be docile and compliant, yes? There's a reason you don't have any wild cats willingly coming to cuddle on the couch with you. We've basically "created" domestic cats, we make all their decisions for them, we decide when they live or die, if they escape we catch them and bring them back, if they don't pee in the right place they are punished or re-programmed, etc... If left to their own devices most would starve to death or get eaten because we've also destroyed their survival instincts. This sounds a lot like slavery to me... I know, you'll say, "But my cat has a great life!" which may be true, but the fact remains that we've forcibly stripped away whatever natural wildness was ever originally in the animal.
Imagine if aliens came here, and started creating lobotomized versions of humans to be pets. I'm sure you'd be the first in line to sign up..?
Space itself can expand FTL, but anything inside that space is limited to c. This also means that at any given point in the universe, there is a boundary where you can never reach beyond, because the space itself is expanding away FTL, so you can never catch up to observe anything beyond that boundary...
3) We're completely off topic.
You must be new here
time to ban shoelaces i guess
Don't quit your day job...
The New York Wheel will be an attraction unlike any other in New York City even unlike any other on the planet
I guess that's true if you don't count London or Shanghai as being on this planet...
there is only one solution that really works: more mass
Except that's not a solution that works. I think you mean, more sound dampening material. I could easily build a 12" thick concrete wall that would transmit sound better than a 4" cavity filled with old jeans. One of them has significantly more mass than the other...
Because somewhere in the hypocrisy of America, we have been programmed to believe that showing real life versions of certain things on television is somehow inappropriate, yet real life versions of other bad things are acceptable. It seems in most cases, people aren't prepared to deal with real life, or real death. We're kind of a nation of pussies now, for better or worse...
Just remove the DRM. Problem solved. Money saved.
I hadn't seen that. Thanks for the laugh!