Studies around the world for years and years have shown smacking your kids to be detrimental to them in the long run. Same with spanking. I'm pretty surprised there are atleast 3 people on/. that are pro-hitting children.... in canada its called child abuse so this is pretty shocking to me.
wow you really must hate teenagers. I dont see why you would need to interrogate an 18yr old before he could have a beer. After age 16 a few drinks should be fine. Covering your ass and checking ID is one thing but being THAT anal is just mean. Also in alot of bars most people cant sum their zipcode so that doesnt prove anything at all. Also i'm not sure what the law says about unverifiable IDs but you might get a discrimination suit. Its not as if in state IDs are verifiable by means other than you glowering at the guy.
Canada is good still... If he gets re-elected i'd be worried though. Harper atm is making things worse but he only got 32% of the vote so its hard for him to mess up too badly.
smacking your kids is a childrens right/human right law. Its not to do with nanny state. Nanny states stop you from doing things that harm yourself, like not allowing you to smoke pot or drink in excess. Not allowing you to smack your kid is there to protect the child so that its rights are infringed upon. They arent related at all ^^;; unless you think of a child as your property like a car or something.
Thats a point SO many people miss. When i made fake IDs (mostly for fun.... i could get beer anyways)... I ALWAYS reproduced ID of a different country. Make a pakistani ID to get into a bar. It doesnt even have to be in english. And if you have shitty quality it doesnt matter since pakistani ID probably isnt as nice anyways. Plus they've certainly never seen it before so they wouldnt know any better. *shrug* it always confused me people going through complex processes to make a realistic fake ID.
woah that woosh noise was so loud my ears are ringing. It was just a stupid example not an attack on the american governmental system. Anyways as for checks and balances war on iraq?... Atleast your last line was ontopic and made sense.
Thanks for the info on planes... i kinda assumed it would take more energy to you know keep the big piece of metal in the air. But i guess its not that big a deal. And i'm sure i could think of tons of legal problems for flying cars as well i just wanted to show it wasnt a technological issue. They dont exist because its stupid and unusable. And you are probably right about the chips which i pretty much figured. Networking them or making them essential in any way wouldnt happen for alooooot longer so i wasnt even considering that. Getting groceries in a plane sound pretty fun though:p.... i still want to apply rollercoaster technology to public transit before having flying cars though.
Word problems are examples. They are known to the reader to be made up scenarios. The bible on the other hand is not clear cut. '6000years old' - myth. 'god turns people to salt' - metaphor. 'methusulah really old' - fable. 'country of good people in the sky' - metaphor?... 'giant man in the sky controls the universe' - uhhh...
You see my point. If they neatly broke the bible or books into sections you were supposed to believe and sections that were made up. I could buy this. But as there is no way to distinguish them. No guide. They are as misleading as i said.
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There have been flying cars.... I hate people using this. We have the technology to make flying cars we have for a long time. The reason you dont see them is because they are expensive. If you think a hummer gets bad mileage a flying car gets much worse. Since it doesnt use wings for lift (the type envisioned by most people) you need to expend many times more fuel than a plane which uses too much already. Then of course you need to expend lots of effort making it lightweight. And its doomed to being a one seater unless you make it bigger than a regular car. If a product is doomed to lose money with total certainty. Why would any company make it? As well it costs millions for RnD so you cant make it just for novelty sake. It is NOT a technological problem, its economic.
AI is completely different. The cost is in computing power not dollars. Computing power is being driven down by forces around the world funneling billions into computers. Ai is also used around the world as it can be developed incrementally not leap to turing ready. Its used many decision making computer systems which again have billions of dollars being funneled to them. So we are constantly improving AI already. As for chips in our brains. There again are supporting technologies to work this out. There was an article about mind reading robots a few days ago, study on the brain is big. Of course cellphones for miniaturization. Mind controlled limbs coming out. Sure it is more difficult but the forces of capitalism are on ourside. And it tends to get its way.
That said i think his timescale is way off. We will have computers as fast as the brain in 2029 perhaps but they'll need to become more common place before we could expend that playing with and testing AI. So i'd say late 203x. Chips in the brain has one obvious setback, like genetic modification the government will surely stand in the way of science. If people arent comfortable with the idea it'll get bogged down in testing phases. After that it wont get enough funding because well there probably isnt a big market outside/. for putting chips in your brain. So i'd say we are a while off from seeing that. Immortality might be easier than chip in the head ironically because it makes less people feel queasy.
I don't think i did or i still am haha. If a book was found to be wrong or misleading many times. Is poorly translated, filled with metaphor and poorly documented to begin with. Then why after seeing 20 things i know are wrong would i blindly trust other things in the book? I would count it as an unreliable source.... just like a known liar. Though i suppose the wording was a bit harsh. And i never thought you were religious, you said you studied its history which is really unlikely for a religious person to do.
Oh and just for you http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=254.... it seems 6% of evangelicals and 1/3 of other christians believe in natural selection. So i doubt the number believing in a 6000year old earth will be 'very tiny' as sad as that may seem.
:/ you can't DISPROVE god.... but thats not the point, you can't PROVE god is. The burden of proof is on the religious....
Also i could probably prove the DM exists in most D&D campaigns from the characters POV.... though i do like the analogy, it should replace cars on slashdot to represent the world. Nerdier than cars and if anything weird happened we could blame it on gnomes.
Well that certainly is convenient. I wonder why the bible has so many specific dates if its not literal. Anyways if you read any book that was filled with non-literal stories why would you believe any of it. Thats the exact same as trusting a known liar. If creation is just a metaphor then so is god, jesus and everything else in the bible. Either believe it all or none of it. I hate pick and choose believers. Too cowardly to abandon an ancient book yet too sensible to believe it.
I'm sure i'll get modded down for bashing the religious folk. Before you do, re-read it and pretend i was talking about a religion you don't like such as satanism or.... wicca.
to be fair i'm a cheapskate/collector. But i dont know if i represent a loss to the industry. Cause i'd still be a cheapskate if i couldnt get music online and wouldnt spend the money. I'd be happy to pay 20~30$ a month for all my music but i listen to a few hours of music a day with no repeats. To reproduce that with cds would cost me over 2000$ a month. I'll be stuck to listening to radio.
THE service that needs to be offered is 'online radio' and i don't mean the pointless reproduction of the stuff that comes in waves. I mean access to the companies entire library of 200,000+ songs. You pay by the minute/hour/month OR like regular radio its ad supported. It pisses me off that none of the big companies have done this yet. Hell I'd set it up if it didnt involve making deals with big name companies who would charge me several million for the pleasure of making them money.
True BUT and this is a big but... they never said anything about throttling in their fine print. They say "Speeds may vary with your technical configuration, Internet traffic, server or other factors." I suppose you could throw throttling into 'other factors'. However with the way its written all the factors are unavoidable and not CAUSED by them. Thats like if i was a mailman and promised mail would be delivered except on holidays, disaster , improper postage and other factors. Then didn't send any bills to people since its an 'other factor'. It is still dishonest business
the only reason cars arent 100% robot made is because in some steps humans are cheaper than building more robots. And that just refers to assembly, pretty much all the fabrication has no humans involved. Though so you know people wouldnt do any milling in most places... They run a laser across all products to check for deformity... if there is any they just get rejected and recycled. So no humans involved there. And to be honest you should be able to email cadcam designs and get the product back.... i worked in a place that milled wood products and you could put your own designs in after hours so long as they matched the capabilities of the machine.... and boss didnt catch you.
Ehh lebanon was stable comparatively throughout the syrian occupation even. They never did as much damage as the israeli invasion.
Fine palestine is not a nation. But palestine is often easier defined than the gaza strip what with the borders moving all the time. mostly i was simply refering to the region anyways so i dont see your problem...
most recently lebanon and palestine... dont read the news much?
anyways theres infighting in palestine because israel is strangling the country to death. Half are calling it quits and half refuse to bow to pressure. So israel gives weapons to some of them. And if a peace might be forming they go in with a few hundred troops and obliterate a town to increase ire. Then to suck up to the reasonable palestinians they say they'll talk peace.... but that doesnt stop them from building cities on palestinian land or running more tank raids into towns.
Lebanon was kown as the gem of the middle east since the 80s.... after israel bombed the to near oblivion they built up into a good country. They were doing well in tourism. Recently israel again bombed them "into the stone age" (quote from israels military leader). So the strife that resulted has caused some infighting. The group that stopped lebanon from being obliterated like in the 80s are folk heros in the area. And are regarded internationally as terrorists thanks to american support of israel. Now lebanon is split between people wanting to support their heros and those who are in complete fear of israel turning them into a palestine. (remember hamas was a legitimately voted in government which palestine got attacked violently for).
Any country that applauds getting 15:1 kill ratios in a battle is not a good guy. Please think about it.
This is why the world is afraid of the states. In no other first world country do you need to 'defend' your home its purely an american thing. Getting a gun to do so would be entirely unheard of were it not for movies glorifying guns.
If your home is such a big problem that you NEED a shotgun to protect yourself you really NEED to move. Apparently you are living in some sort of post-apocalyptic nightmare where firearms are needed to stop your neighbors.
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Studies around the world for years and years have shown smacking your kids to be detrimental to them in the long run. Same with spanking. I'm pretty surprised there are atleast 3 people on /. that are pro-hitting children.... in canada its called child abuse so this is pretty shocking to me.
wow you really must hate teenagers. I dont see why you would need to interrogate an 18yr old before he could have a beer. After age 16 a few drinks should be fine. Covering your ass and checking ID is one thing but being THAT anal is just mean. Also in alot of bars most people cant sum their zipcode so that doesnt prove anything at all. Also i'm not sure what the law says about unverifiable IDs but you might get a discrimination suit. Its not as if in state IDs are verifiable by means other than you glowering at the guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyvIlKSA0BA
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Canada is good still... If he gets re-elected i'd be worried though. Harper atm is making things worse but he only got 32% of the vote so its hard for him to mess up too badly.
smacking your kids is a childrens right/human right law. Its not to do with nanny state. Nanny states stop you from doing things that harm yourself, like not allowing you to smoke pot or drink in excess. Not allowing you to smack your kid is there to protect the child so that its rights are infringed upon. They arent related at all ^^;; unless you think of a child as your property like a car or something.
Thats a point SO many people miss. When i made fake IDs (mostly for fun.... i could get beer anyways)... I ALWAYS reproduced ID of a different country. Make a pakistani ID to get into a bar. It doesnt even have to be in english. And if you have shitty quality it doesnt matter since pakistani ID probably isnt as nice anyways. Plus they've certainly never seen it before so they wouldnt know any better. *shrug* it always confused me people going through complex processes to make a realistic fake ID.
Yes but even if the magic elves DID exist the policy would do nothing.
you cant give him shit for quoting the article....
they'll prolly mix it up and end up exploding.
woah that woosh noise was so loud my ears are ringing. It was just a stupid example not an attack on the american governmental system. Anyways as for checks and balances war on iraq?... Atleast your last line was ontopic and made sense.
making a mistake then accidentally hitting accept 3 times in a row is worse than indecision. Are there rules about voting while high?
really the vote should be canceled i dont want someone that undecided voting at all.
Thanks for the info on planes... i kinda assumed it would take more energy to you know keep the big piece of metal in the air. But i guess its not that big a deal. And i'm sure i could think of tons of legal problems for flying cars as well i just wanted to show it wasnt a technological issue. They dont exist because its stupid and unusable. And you are probably right about the chips which i pretty much figured. Networking them or making them essential in any way wouldnt happen for alooooot longer so i wasnt even considering that. Getting groceries in a plane sound pretty fun though :p .... i still want to apply rollercoaster technology to public transit before having flying cars though.
Word problems are examples. They are known to the reader to be made up scenarios. The bible on the other hand is not clear cut. '6000years old' - myth. 'god turns people to salt' - metaphor. 'methusulah really old' - fable. 'country of good people in the sky' - metaphor? ... 'giant man in the sky controls the universe' - uhhh...
You see my point. If they neatly broke the bible or books into sections you were supposed to believe and sections that were made up. I could buy this. But as there is no way to distinguish them. No guide. They are as misleading as i said.
There have been flying cars .... I hate people using this. We have the technology to make flying cars we have for a long time. The reason you dont see them is because they are expensive. If you think a hummer gets bad mileage a flying car gets much worse. Since it doesnt use wings for lift (the type envisioned by most people) you need to expend many times more fuel than a plane which uses too much already. Then of course you need to expend lots of effort making it lightweight. And its doomed to being a one seater unless you make it bigger than a regular car. If a product is doomed to lose money with total certainty. Why would any company make it? As well it costs millions for RnD so you cant make it just for novelty sake. It is NOT a technological problem, its economic.
/. for putting chips in your brain. So i'd say we are a while off from seeing that. Immortality might be easier than chip in the head ironically because it makes less people feel queasy.
AI is completely different. The cost is in computing power not dollars. Computing power is being driven down by forces around the world funneling billions into computers. Ai is also used around the world as it can be developed incrementally not leap to turing ready. Its used many decision making computer systems which again have billions of dollars being funneled to them. So we are constantly improving AI already. As for chips in our brains. There again are supporting technologies to work this out. There was an article about mind reading robots a few days ago, study on the brain is big. Of course cellphones for miniaturization. Mind controlled limbs coming out. Sure it is more difficult but the forces of capitalism are on ourside. And it tends to get its way.
That said i think his timescale is way off. We will have computers as fast as the brain in 2029 perhaps but they'll need to become more common place before we could expend that playing with and testing AI. So i'd say late 203x. Chips in the brain has one obvious setback, like genetic modification the government will surely stand in the way of science. If people arent comfortable with the idea it'll get bogged down in testing phases. After that it wont get enough funding because well there probably isnt a big market outside
I don't think i did or i still am haha. If a book was found to be wrong or misleading many times. Is poorly translated, filled with metaphor and poorly documented to begin with. Then why after seeing 20 things i know are wrong would i blindly trust other things in the book? I would count it as an unreliable source.... just like a known liar. Though i suppose the wording was a bit harsh. And i never thought you were religious, you said you studied its history which is really unlikely for a religious person to do.
.... it seems 6% of evangelicals and 1/3 of other christians believe in natural selection. So i doubt the number believing in a 6000year old earth will be 'very tiny' as sad as that may seem.
Oh and just for you http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=254
:/ you can't DISPROVE god.... but thats not the point, you can't PROVE god is. The burden of proof is on the religious....
Also i could probably prove the DM exists in most D&D campaigns from the characters POV.... though i do like the analogy, it should replace cars on slashdot to represent the world. Nerdier than cars and if anything weird happened we could blame it on gnomes.
Well that certainly is convenient. I wonder why the bible has so many specific dates if its not literal. Anyways if you read any book that was filled with non-literal stories why would you believe any of it. Thats the exact same as trusting a known liar. If creation is just a metaphor then so is god, jesus and everything else in the bible. Either believe it all or none of it. I hate pick and choose believers. Too cowardly to abandon an ancient book yet too sensible to believe it.
.... wicca.
I'm sure i'll get modded down for bashing the religious folk. Before you do, re-read it and pretend i was talking about a religion you don't like such as satanism or
to be fair i'm a cheapskate/collector. But i dont know if i represent a loss to the industry. Cause i'd still be a cheapskate if i couldnt get music online and wouldnt spend the money. I'd be happy to pay 20~30$ a month for all my music but i listen to a few hours of music a day with no repeats. To reproduce that with cds would cost me over 2000$ a month. I'll be stuck to listening to radio.
THE service that needs to be offered is 'online radio' and i don't mean the pointless reproduction of the stuff that comes in waves. I mean access to the companies entire library of 200,000+ songs. You pay by the minute/hour/month OR like regular radio its ad supported. It pisses me off that none of the big companies have done this yet. Hell I'd set it up if it didnt involve making deals with big name companies who would charge me several million for the pleasure of making them money.
Its neat how any post that says it will be modded down gets modded up. It is a fundamental /. principle. On that not, mod me offtopic, i DARE you.
True BUT and this is a big but... they never said anything about throttling in their fine print. They say "Speeds may vary with your technical configuration, Internet traffic, server or other factors." I suppose you could throw throttling into 'other factors'. However with the way its written all the factors are unavoidable and not CAUSED by them. Thats like if i was a mailman and promised mail would be delivered except on holidays, disaster , improper postage and other factors. Then didn't send any bills to people since its an 'other factor'. It is still dishonest business
the only reason cars arent 100% robot made is because in some steps humans are cheaper than building more robots. And that just refers to assembly, pretty much all the fabrication has no humans involved. Though so you know people wouldnt do any milling in most places... They run a laser across all products to check for deformity... if there is any they just get rejected and recycled. So no humans involved there. And to be honest you should be able to email cadcam designs and get the product back.... i worked in a place that milled wood products and you could put your own designs in after hours so long as they matched the capabilities of the machine.... and boss didnt catch you.
Ehh lebanon was stable comparatively throughout the syrian occupation even. They never did as much damage as the israeli invasion.
Fine palestine is not a nation. But palestine is often easier defined than the gaza strip what with the borders moving all the time. mostly i was simply refering to the region anyways so i dont see your problem...
most recently lebanon and palestine ... dont read the news much?
.... after israel bombed the to near oblivion they built up into a good country. They were doing well in tourism. Recently israel again bombed them "into the stone age" (quote from israels military leader). So the strife that resulted has caused some infighting. The group that stopped lebanon from being obliterated like in the 80s are folk heros in the area. And are regarded internationally as terrorists thanks to american support of israel. Now lebanon is split between people wanting to support their heros and those who are in complete fear of israel turning them into a palestine. (remember hamas was a legitimately voted in government which palestine got attacked violently for).
anyways theres infighting in palestine because israel is strangling the country to death. Half are calling it quits and half refuse to bow to pressure. So israel gives weapons to some of them. And if a peace might be forming they go in with a few hundred troops and obliterate a town to increase ire. Then to suck up to the reasonable palestinians they say they'll talk peace.... but that doesnt stop them from building cities on palestinian land or running more tank raids into towns.
Lebanon was kown as the gem of the middle east since the 80s
Any country that applauds getting 15:1 kill ratios in a battle is not a good guy. Please think about it.
This is why the world is afraid of the states. In no other first world country do you need to 'defend' your home its purely an american thing. Getting a gun to do so would be entirely unheard of were it not for movies glorifying guns.
If your home is such a big problem that you NEED a shotgun to protect yourself you really NEED to move. Apparently you are living in some sort of post-apocalyptic nightmare where firearms are needed to stop your neighbors.
Honestly, just move to where its not needed.