I also highly doubt cavemen (or cavewomen for that matter) had the skill or technology to time travel back to the Paleocene. Afaik only genetically enhanced laboratory mice can do that.
The Neanderthals did.
However, they decided that it was easier to use their time machines to go back in time and settle on a continent which is now Antarctica. They built cities underground so that they could avoid disturbing their own ancestors as they continued to develop. Just when the asteroid that wiped out the Dinosaurs was about to hit, they used their now 500 million year advanced technology to leave this planet.
A few come back from time to time to play pratical jokes on their cousins. Kind of like becoming fantastically wealthy and heading back to your HS reunion.
Do you know what 2 week old dead dinosaur smells like? Maybe they could scavenge for awhile but after that I'm sure the mammals would be too disgusted.
You obviously haven't met my dog.
I submit as evidence: 1 dog owned by IndustrialComplex 1 cat litterbox also owned by IndustrialComplex
So it's not about 51% taking away the rights of 49%. It's about the 75% say, making sure that the 25% don't get mega rich at the expense of others. Or even that the 5% of the people can't own 50% of the wealth. That sort of thing.
That sort of thing. Like the 75% deciding that they don't like what the 25% is doing?
The problem with your arguement, is that the 75% vs the 25% isn't limited to wealth. It can be all things, race, religion, political views. Anything.
Disrupting the structural integrity of the 747 so it became lots of little pieces of 747 would greatly lessen the damage it could do to a building. The engines and other large chunks might cause a few people to have a very bad day but the building would be fine.
Out of curiosity, do you know how they would do that?
Where do you shoot a 747 to 'disrupt the structural integrity'? Do you think an F-16 has enough firepower to pelletize a 747 within the 10s it would take for it to reach a building?
No there isn't. It's one of those once-in-a-lifetime events. I could be worried about an elevator car falling 20 stories and killing me in the fall, or being hit by lightning
Would you stand in a field during a thunderstorm?
I'm not worried about the single aircraft being escorted by fighters. I'd be worried because last time... there were two.
Your Algorithm seems to misspell "algorithm" as "algorythm" whenever it is referring to Fark, but not Slashdot. I think you should debug it.
Comment excerpt:
It would be interesting to succeed in a posthumous Turing test. I should probably include a method for inserting puns into my comments for the occasional +5 funny moderation.
pps:
When a -1 Troll/flamebait mod is due, mention that you applied for a patent of that method.
Basic employee? Is that like an employee you hire without any frills? Like basic cable? Wow, so you went from an unskilled employee and then started Adderall and suddenly became skilled? Gosh, and I had to study to become skilled.
I still don't received 10% merit increases, though. Maybe I should take some Adderall!
It's a rating scale. Basic means you get your job done, but you really aren't pushing any boundaries. There are a few levels higher than that, and a few lower. It's kind of like getting graded as "Satisfactory".
A bit of warning about the Adderall, when I was on it my Slasdot browsing dropped to record lows. So a bit of a warning.
Of course, had I not gone off it, I wouldn't have been here to tell you the benefits. Not quite as cool as time travel and killing your great-grandfather though...
This is pretty old stuff. Just before I died I configured a server to send out updates of my status and opinions to various online sites like Fark and Slashdot. It even alters the content based on the site. For Fark, it takes into account my general state of decay and runs the algorythm to come up with just the right level of troll and anti-social behavior.
For Slashdot, it takes the measurements from my corpse and runs it through a similar algorithm that pulls in the date, the most recently updated wikipedia entry, and combines the information from "Define:" google searches and returns the result.
So far the results have been promising. My Fark Algorythm has succeeded in broadcasting just the right amount of vile comments to hook a few responders and my Slashdot Algorithm has reposted just the right amount of plagiarized wikipedia entries to earn me enough "Insightful/Informative" comments to earn me enough karma for a comforable after-net-life.
Don't think I've forgotten about power. I requested that I be burried next to Edward R. Murrow and that a few loops be placed around his grave. With a simple RSS feed to our current 'news' sites like Fox, CNN, etc. I think this server is set to run into the next millenium.
I took adderall for a while. It was a lifesafer (no, actually it helped me keep focus while I was working on some flight safety critical items).
The point of it for me was that I would feel an incredible draw to do something else. I always had to switch to a new task, I'd do 10%, 10%, 10%, 10%, 10% of five different tasks. Always switching from one to another. For me, it was a partial combination of a very low dose of aderall, and some practice at organization. (I literally keep my desk empty of everything but keyboard, mouse and monitor) A very limited notebook (I restrict what I write in there to very specific things like Task, Deadline)
I quite literally couldn't do my job, at least, not as well as I knew I could do my job. It helped me move from "basic employee" to getting 10% merit raises each year.
It even helped me cut down on the time I actually spent at work, with the new organization and an ability to stick on a task, I worked fewer hours and got a lot more done.
I've been off it for 6 months to see if it, or the organization was the result, and I do find myself task hopping too often again.
It's possible it arose twice and both happened to be left-handed, of course...
That's interesting. I wouldn't be too surprised to find a very localized think like Archaea that could be traced to a different source. (Well I would be surprised, but I wouldn't be "That's impossible surprised")
Um, you're flaw is that the only things left to tax are not necessities, and thus rich people can hold back spending. Just because I have a million doesn't mean I buy the most expensive house I can afford.
What's the use of the money then? Will we have a surge in CEOs wearing fruit of the loom t-shirts with flipflops and a casio watch?
Or they buy overseas, but then they have to pay a tariff.
For some reason I think I've read that were Jupiter a star at its present size, if such a thing were even possible, at the distance to the earth it wouldn't be too horrible. The closest approach between Jupiter and Earth places is nearly twice as far as the Sun is from Mars. It might jack up the temperature by a degree and melt all the icecaps on earth, but other than that, it wouldn't be too big of a deal...
For a Brown Dwarf star, you aren't that far off. Here is how it would work:
Lets say you increase the mass of Jupiter 18-20x. It wouldn't just expand, it would actually contract. The increased gravity (and small starting volume) would cause the object to collapse inward to something near Jupiter's size. Eventually the contraction would heat up the core enough to start fusing the hydrogen. This would result in a sudden outburst of energy, and likely cause the object to expand to a volume where the force of gravity was equal to the forces pushing outward.
But here is the neat part, sure, it is technically a star, but it isn't fusing all that much material to heat up all that mass. The surface of the star could actually be below 1000C. In fact, these stars wouldn't be visible to the naked eye, the light they would emit would mostly be in the infrared spectrum.
At the distance that Jupiter is from Earth, I would be surprised if it had a measurable effect on Earth.
I like your idea. It would be a great way to find women or men, whatever floats one's boat, that do things that you're into without the awkwardness of beating around the bush to find out if they are.
Until you start seeing those telltale signs on the guy that prepares your food.
I am not a female, but I seem to notice that women do seem to be pretty able to handle their workforce chores quite well during the gestation period. It's the time they need after the little squirt comes out that makes them need to take a few extra days off.
As my wife is currently near 7 months and still working. I'll point out some of the observations of my wife:
1. She feels forgetful. Enough to notice that there is a difference. 2. She has to keep her feet elevated (not much of an issue) 3. She had to get a different vehicle as she was getting too close to the wheel. (Nissan Murano with adjustable pedals helped a lot) 4. Distractions, and there is a lot of extra work to do. Even though I pretty much take care of everything at home now, there are still things that take up time.
Then comes the risk of being ordered home from work. My mother was sent home a month early when I was born. Then if a C-section is required, you can expect to not return up to 12 weeks from the birth.
It's not so much of a hurt on your career, but it basically takes a 6 month chunk out of time where you could be performing (impressing the boss).
A system like that would be useful in a smaller area, but the stops at the end of the rails in the US could leave you with 200 to 400 kilometers of travel still to go. It's only of use if the train stops within 50 km of your destination.
Also IANAL, but isn't congress not supposed to make laws about interstate commerce?
That's actually one of the very few things that Congress IS allowed to regulate. It is also one of the most wildly stretched clauses to allow Congress to regulate any aspect of your life that they care to regulate. That's an arguement for a different thread, however.
Don't be ridiculous. The brain is NOT a good source of 'true' randomness. The neurons behave according to well-defined rules, and many areas of the brain are quite predictable. Complex != random.
I would be interested to see if you could do the following (of course, this is theoretically impossible)
1. Model/simulate a human brain. Mapped from a source perfectly down to every synapse. 2. Pick a decision for it to make, one that appears to be random. (ie Pick even or odd) 3. Run the simulation a significant number of times for the decision with known inputs
It's the only way to be sure.
Then:
4. Tell the simulation the result of step 3. (effectively, telling it its fate) 5. rerun the simulation.
If these guys are that good, then it is the RIAA's loss so that's good. Lawyer's are not usually paid to represent their own positions. They are hired by clients to represent theirs. A defense lawyer for a murderer isn't necessarily a murder or in favor of murder. The defense lawyer may even believe the client is guilty, but legal representation if still their right.
So we should be even more upset. Because not only do they have a record for representing their clients in some very vile ways, they didn't seem to be very good at it.
So we get guys who represented creeps poorly hired to represent the US. I'm not feeling too good about that.
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Maybe he meant that on the X and Y axis, the universe was finite. But don't look down the Z axis, there in lies the path of madness.
Were Kristen's holes used solely by the Guvner? You left this out from your calculation.
At $4k/day I'm sure you could negotiate an exclusivity agreement.
I also highly doubt cavemen (or cavewomen for that matter) had the skill or technology to time travel back to the Paleocene. Afaik only genetically enhanced laboratory mice can do that.
The Neanderthals did.
However, they decided that it was easier to use their time machines to go back in time and settle on a continent which is now Antarctica. They built cities underground so that they could avoid disturbing their own ancestors as they continued to develop. Just when the asteroid that wiped out the Dinosaurs was about to hit, they used their now 500 million year advanced technology to leave this planet.
A few come back from time to time to play pratical jokes on their cousins. Kind of like becoming fantastically wealthy and heading back to your HS reunion.
Do you know what 2 week old dead dinosaur smells like? Maybe they could scavenge for awhile but after that I'm sure the mammals would be too disgusted.
You obviously haven't met my dog.
I submit as evidence:
1 dog owned by IndustrialComplex
1 cat litterbox also owned by IndustrialComplex
Conclusion:
IndustrialComplex is disgusted.
So it's not about 51% taking away the rights of 49%. It's about the 75% say, making sure that the 25% don't get mega rich at the expense of others. Or even that the 5% of the people can't own 50% of the wealth. That sort of thing.
That sort of thing. Like the 75% deciding that they don't like what the 25% is doing?
The problem with your arguement, is that the 75% vs the 25% isn't limited to wealth. It can be all things, race, religion, political views. Anything.
Disrupting the structural integrity of the 747 so it became lots of little pieces of 747 would greatly lessen the damage it could do to a building. The engines and other large chunks might cause a few people to have a very bad day but the building would be fine.
Out of curiosity, do you know how they would do that?
Where do you shoot a 747 to 'disrupt the structural integrity'? Do you think an F-16 has enough firepower to pelletize a 747 within the 10s it would take for it to reach a building?
No there isn't. It's one of those once-in-a-lifetime events. I could be worried about an elevator car falling 20 stories and killing me in the fall, or being hit by lightning
Would you stand in a field during a thunderstorm?
I'm not worried about the single aircraft being escorted by fighters. I'd be worried because last time... there were two.
Next time that shit happens, I'm first in line at the ferry (excepting the elderly, the very young, and the preggers).
Note to self:
Bribe someone to do a flyby.
Target the ferry.
Your Algorithm seems to misspell "algorithm" as "algorythm" whenever it is referring to Fark, but not Slashdot. I think you should debug it.
Comment excerpt:
It would be interesting to succeed in a posthumous Turing test. I should probably include a method for inserting puns into my comments for the occasional +5 funny moderation.
pps:
When a -1 Troll/flamebait mod is due, mention that you applied for a patent of that method.
Basic employee? Is that like an employee you hire without any frills? Like basic cable? Wow, so you went from an unskilled employee and then started Adderall and suddenly became skilled? Gosh, and I had to study to become skilled.
I still don't received 10% merit increases, though. Maybe I should take some Adderall!
It's a rating scale. Basic means you get your job done, but you really aren't pushing any boundaries. There are a few levels higher than that, and a few lower. It's kind of like getting graded as "Satisfactory".
A bit of warning about the Adderall, when I was on it my Slasdot browsing dropped to record lows. So a bit of a warning.
Of course, had I not gone off it, I wouldn't have been here to tell you the benefits. Not quite as cool as time travel and killing your great-grandfather though...
This is pretty old stuff. Just before I died I configured a server to send out updates of my status and opinions to various online sites like Fark and Slashdot. It even alters the content based on the site. For Fark, it takes into account my general state of decay and runs the algorythm to come up with just the right level of troll and anti-social behavior.
For Slashdot, it takes the measurements from my corpse and runs it through a similar algorithm that pulls in the date, the most recently updated wikipedia entry, and combines the information from "Define:" google searches and returns the result.
So far the results have been promising. My Fark Algorythm has succeeded in broadcasting just the right amount of vile comments to hook a few responders and my Slashdot Algorithm has reposted just the right amount of plagiarized wikipedia entries to earn me enough "Insightful/Informative" comments to earn me enough karma for a comforable after-net-life.
Don't think I've forgotten about power. I requested that I be burried next to Edward R. Murrow and that a few loops be placed around his grave. With a simple RSS feed to our current 'news' sites like Fox, CNN, etc. I think this server is set to run into the next millenium.
I took adderall for a while. It was a lifesafer (no, actually it helped me keep focus while I was working on some flight safety critical items).
The point of it for me was that I would feel an incredible draw to do something else. I always had to switch to a new task, I'd do 10%, 10%, 10%, 10%, 10% of five different tasks. Always switching from one to another. For me, it was a partial combination of a very low dose of aderall, and some practice at organization. (I literally keep my desk empty of everything but keyboard, mouse and monitor) A very limited notebook (I restrict what I write in there to very specific things like Task, Deadline)
I quite literally couldn't do my job, at least, not as well as I knew I could do my job. It helped me move from "basic employee" to getting 10% merit raises each year.
It even helped me cut down on the time I actually spent at work, with the new organization and an ability to stick on a task, I worked fewer hours and got a lot more done.
I've been off it for 6 months to see if it, or the organization was the result, and I do find myself task hopping too often again.
But if we detect they're right handed, we can at least be sure they won't eat us (or rather, won't get any nutritional value from eating us :-)
Until the unfortunate discovery that the source image was flipped.
Isn't science fun? In the meantime the religious crazies are still waiting on Jesus.... 2000+ years and counting... tick tock tick tock
Hmm? We waited 4000+ years the first time.
Kids these millennia, always in such a hurry.
OTOH, if life was designed by a creator, then one would expect that creator to have some preference for one handedness over the other.
Why would you expect that?
It's possible it arose twice and both happened to be left-handed, of course...
That's interesting. I wouldn't be too surprised to find a very localized think like Archaea that could be traced to a different source. (Well I would be surprised, but I wouldn't be "That's impossible surprised")
Um, you're flaw is that the only things left to tax are not necessities, and thus rich people can hold back spending. Just because I have a million doesn't mean I buy the most expensive house I can afford.
What's the use of the money then? Will we have a surge in CEOs wearing fruit of the loom t-shirts with flipflops and a casio watch?
Or they buy overseas, but then they have to pay a tariff.
For some reason I think I've read that were Jupiter a star at its present size, if such a thing were even possible, at the distance to the earth it wouldn't be too horrible. The closest approach between Jupiter and Earth places is nearly twice as far as the Sun is from Mars. It might jack up the temperature by a degree and melt all the icecaps on earth, but other than that, it wouldn't be too big of a deal...
For a Brown Dwarf star, you aren't that far off. Here is how it would work:
Lets say you increase the mass of Jupiter 18-20x. It wouldn't just expand, it would actually contract. The increased gravity (and small starting volume) would cause the object to collapse inward to something near Jupiter's size. Eventually the contraction would heat up the core enough to start fusing the hydrogen. This would result in a sudden outburst of energy, and likely cause the object to expand to a volume where the force of gravity was equal to the forces pushing outward.
But here is the neat part, sure, it is technically a star, but it isn't fusing all that much material to heat up all that mass. The surface of the star could actually be below 1000C. In fact, these stars wouldn't be visible to the naked eye, the light they would emit would mostly be in the infrared spectrum.
At the distance that Jupiter is from Earth, I would be surprised if it had a measurable effect on Earth.
I like your idea. It would be a great way to find women or men, whatever floats one's boat, that do things that you're into without the awkwardness of beating around the bush to find out if they are.
Until you start seeing those telltale signs on the guy that prepares your food.
I am not a female, but I seem to notice that women do seem to be pretty able to handle their workforce chores quite well during the gestation period. It's the time they need after the little squirt comes out that makes them need to take a few extra days off.
As my wife is currently near 7 months and still working. I'll point out some of the observations of my wife:
1. She feels forgetful. Enough to notice that there is a difference.
2. She has to keep her feet elevated (not much of an issue)
3. She had to get a different vehicle as she was getting too close to the wheel. (Nissan Murano with adjustable pedals helped a lot)
4. Distractions, and there is a lot of extra work to do. Even though I pretty much take care of everything at home now, there are still things that take up time.
Then comes the risk of being ordered home from work. My mother was sent home a month early when I was born. Then if a C-section is required, you can expect to not return up to 12 weeks from the birth.
It's not so much of a hurt on your career, but it basically takes a 6 month chunk out of time where you could be performing (impressing the boss).
Well your advantage is being in the Netherlands.
A system like that would be useful in a smaller area, but the stops at the end of the rails in the US could leave you with 200 to 400 kilometers of travel still to go. It's only of use if the train stops within 50 km of your destination.
Also IANAL, but isn't congress not supposed to make laws about interstate commerce?
That's actually one of the very few things that Congress IS allowed to regulate. It is also one of the most wildly stretched clauses to allow Congress to regulate any aspect of your life that they care to regulate. That's an arguement for a different thread, however.
Don't be ridiculous. The brain is NOT a good source of 'true' randomness. The neurons behave according to well-defined rules, and many areas of the brain are quite predictable. Complex != random.
I would be interested to see if you could do the following (of course, this is theoretically impossible)
1. Model/simulate a human brain. Mapped from a source perfectly down to every synapse.
2. Pick a decision for it to make, one that appears to be random. (ie Pick even or odd)
3. Run the simulation a significant number of times for the decision with known inputs
It's the only way to be sure.
Then:
4. Tell the simulation the result of step 3. (effectively, telling it its fate)
5. rerun the simulation.
Observe the results.
Personally, I won't be impressed unless I see light bend through space-time. THAT would be a feat!
Meh. I already saw that next year.
If these guys are that good, then it is the RIAA's loss so that's good. Lawyer's are not usually paid to represent their own positions. They are hired by clients to represent theirs. A defense lawyer for a murderer isn't necessarily a murder or in favor of murder. The defense lawyer may even believe the client is guilty, but legal representation if still their right.
So we should be even more upset. Because not only do they have a record for representing their clients in some very vile ways, they didn't seem to be very good at it.
So we get guys who represented creeps poorly hired to represent the US. I'm not feeling too good about that.