I think the problem comes because "put down one's tools" in American English implies a polite setting down of tools. The term used for quitting in America is to "drop one's tools". It implies an immediacy that pairs well with quitting without notice.
In an article where the tools explicitly described are coffee and Mountain Dew, and the standard American use of "downing X" means to "drink X", I can see the confusion (and was confused myself).
And then you end up with cops with martyr complexes willing to go to jail for two years to nail a criminal without due process. It allows for a perverse interest to break the law to uphold the law. Even if the punishment is the same as the criminal receives (cop gets death sentence for breaking due process in mass-murder case), there are some who would do it. Better to disallow the evidence.
Self-fulfilling prophecies cause the events they predict. Saying "Labs will release viruses!" doesn't seem to cause the virus releases in any way I can see. If anything, it makes the controls more stringent.
So far he's killed... Generator Rex. Ben 10. Teen titans.
These three were cartoons geared toward a demographic that quickly outgrows their current favorite shows. I happened to like them as an adult, but when they were canceled (or altered as in Ben 10 and Teen Titans), I didn't complain because I knew the target audience had changed.
It probably does, but the adults have evolved past the point of using language that way. For a modern example, imagine a group of nerds who haven't seen each other for a long time. They'll reminisce about days long past referring to common experiences, technical jargon, and Monty Python quotes. Most English speakers will find the conversation incomprehensible.
The unbelievable part is that the Tamarian's were advanced enough to built interstellar spacecraft and transporters but somehow they weren't smart enough to say to themselves "hmm, you know what, I bet they can't understand us because we only speak in metaphors".
They did, but it came out as "Shaka, when the walls fell."
It's all the computer. The people making/training the system could be only 50% at their pain discrimination, but the computer can be trained up to 85% because it's a neural net doing the computer vision matches, and it gets trained. The computer is shown a billion videos of real pain, and told it is real pain. Then a billion videos of fake pain and told it's fake pain. A human might be able to do it at 85% (or better) if they looked at two billion videos to learn from. We shouldn't expect a human's instinctual awareness of pained facial features to be better than a trained professional's awareness of pained facial features, whether it's a human or computer doing the analysis.
Leela: We recycle everything. Robots are made from old beer cans.
Bender: Yeah! And this beer can is made outta old robots.
Leela: And that tech worker is made of old discarded tech workers. Nothing just gets thrown away.
Fry: The future is disgusting!
Why not mix it up a bit. Have alternating periods of drug induced 'extended' solitary confinement that last about a subjective week
Because even in real solitary, you get exercise time, can talk occasionally to a guard, and sometimes can get something to read. This chemically induced "solitary" is closer to being locked in an isolation chamber. It's only purpose can be torture. It keep the criminal away from population (prison or civilian) for real extended periods, and it doesn't help the criminal better themselves in any way.
Sure they can go right back to their gangs, but that would probably serve as a better deterrent than any death penalty : the stores of years of boredom and talking with psychiatrists.
How much rehabilitation/correction do you think will happen with 30 years of solitary confinement? They won't be talking to people in this altered state, or using the yard every day, or even reading. Everything will be in their head for thirty years. Their first act as free men will be murder or suicide.
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I think the problem comes because "put down one's tools" in American English implies a polite setting down of tools. The term used for quitting in America is to "drop one's tools". It implies an immediacy that pairs well with quitting without notice.
In an article where the tools explicitly described are coffee and Mountain Dew, and the standard American use of "downing X" means to "drink X", I can see the confusion (and was confused myself).
And then you end up with cops with martyr complexes willing to go to jail for two years to nail a criminal without due process. It allows for a perverse interest to break the law to uphold the law. Even if the punishment is the same as the criminal receives (cop gets death sentence for breaking due process in mass-murder case), there are some who would do it. Better to disallow the evidence.
Self-fulfilling prophecies cause the events they predict. Saying "Labs will release viruses!" doesn't seem to cause the virus releases in any way I can see. If anything, it makes the controls more stringent.
So far he's killed ... Generator Rex. Ben 10. Teen titans.
These three were cartoons geared toward a demographic that quickly outgrows their current favorite shows. I happened to like them as an adult, but when they were canceled (or altered as in Ben 10 and Teen Titans), I didn't complain because I knew the target audience had changed.
Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/16/
It probably does, but the adults have evolved past the point of using language that way. For a modern example, imagine a group of nerds who haven't seen each other for a long time. They'll reminisce about days long past referring to common experiences, technical jargon, and Monty Python quotes. Most English speakers will find the conversation incomprehensible.
The unbelievable part is that the Tamarian's were advanced enough to built interstellar spacecraft and transporters but somehow they weren't smart enough to say to themselves "hmm, you know what, I bet they can't understand us because we only speak in metaphors".
They did, but it came out as "Shaka, when the walls fell."
"What's our iceberg preparedness response again?"
Seems like the misspelling shouldn't have mattered.
That's why they released the source code starting the mozilla project (not the same as mozilla).
It can't print all the parts. Only some gears and stuff.
It's all the computer. The people making/training the system could be only 50% at their pain discrimination, but the computer can be trained up to 85% because it's a neural net doing the computer vision matches, and it gets trained. The computer is shown a billion videos of real pain, and told it is real pain. Then a billion videos of fake pain and told it's fake pain. A human might be able to do it at 85% (or better) if they looked at two billion videos to learn from. We shouldn't expect a human's instinctual awareness of pained facial features to be better than a trained professional's awareness of pained facial features, whether it's a human or computer doing the analysis.
Still not good enough to easily deny someone pain meds.
It's not on gentoo. Annoyed the hell out of me when I did a gentoo install from the ground up; had to edit everything with nano.
How? By sending them to Soylent News?
Leela: We recycle everything. Robots are made from old beer cans.
Bender: Yeah! And this beer can is made outta old robots.
Leela: And that tech worker is made of old discarded tech workers. Nothing just gets thrown away.
Fry: The future is disgusting!
Don't throw your disposable tech workers in the trash. Recycle!
#sudo gvmemny -t\$ -n1000000
Why not mix it up a bit. Have alternating periods of drug induced 'extended' solitary confinement that last about a subjective week
Because even in real solitary, you get exercise time, can talk occasionally to a guard, and sometimes can get something to read. This chemically induced "solitary" is closer to being locked in an isolation chamber. It's only purpose can be torture. It keep the criminal away from population (prison or civilian) for real extended periods, and it doesn't help the criminal better themselves in any way.
Sure they can go right back to their gangs, but that would probably serve as a better deterrent than any death penalty : the stores of years of boredom and talking with psychiatrists.
Just like torture. Oh wait.
How much rehabilitation/correction do you think will happen with 30 years of solitary confinement? They won't be talking to people in this altered state, or using the yard every day, or even reading. Everything will be in their head for thirty years. Their first act as free men will be murder or suicide.
Is there a way that both sides can lose a lawsuit?
Yes. A judgment that doesn't cover legal fees would probably be a loss for both sides.
Make it a clockwork robot?
Some madman fires nukes at you because he thinks you think you have a bigger dick than he does.
And suddenly Anthony Weiner is the hero. "Mr. Weiner, please explain how we can send photos of our penises to this madman to reassure him!"
most of the kids who graduated from high school could at least name all the planets in order of distance from the sun.
And the sequence ended in pizza or pancakes. Now it ends in nachos. Nachos are not a meal!
Space is cold!