Yes, I think they were solving the wrong problem here. Men get turned on by anything. Shit too probably.
I think the real problem here is how to find a woman and get her to have sex. Maybe some men have mastered that, but those that haven't hang around on/. taking about it!
As for me, I find that lowering my standards increases my chances considerably. But hey, as a drunk frat guy once said, Once you get fussy, you stop getting *****. Besides, that's why light switches were invented.
the part
How is this going to help me find Natalie Portman get all these hot grits out of my pants?
is easy!
As Billy Joel said sometime in the 1970's, "All it takes is good looks and a whole lot of money."
The other question takes computer cognition and [computer simulated] understanding, One approach is to that is we have to map out and understand the human brain and thought process, and implement it in wetware. Another approach is that we have design computers which can evolve sufficiently to acquire an intelligence of their own accord.
In 1985, I read an article where scientists were able to splice in the gene from a fire fly which makes it glow into a tabacco plant. Later on, scientists were able to splice that gene into mice. The mice only gowed under a light, but did, so I would think getting the gene into a tree should not be harder.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/01/0111_020111genmice.html
Well, we have perfected the art of scraping off gold and selling it.
Isn't that what most financial analysts do. They have gotten so good that they don't need to deface the physical currency.
Now, we have taken it to a new high in that we will bail out AIG or banks [more so in 1993 for pushing laws which allow them to get into ever moreso highly speculative and highly rewarding endeavors] if they fail. But we let them keep their nice profits when they are successful.
Prior to money, goods and services were exchanged by bartering. Money and financial contracts is the media which allows governments to play this game on its society and to everyone who deals with its currency, and to centralize the decision making to a few individuals. By issuing more money then they collect, governments are able to finance projects which might have been unobtainable in the past.
Gold held its value. If you scraped off some or mixed it with lead, you had less gold.
I don't know if this is true, but "Star Trek, Save the Whales" talked about training dolphis and whales to recover unexploded torpedeos. Sounds logical enough to attempt, especially after knowing all sorts of stuff that is already being done, i.e. very strong sub detection sonar which kills marine life for a hundred miles.
The comment about Hawkins being past his prime is really ugly, especially coming from you. I think Hawkins is honest enough to say that he does not know or understand something if he doesn't. Hawkins refered to himself as being lazy in his early years in college, so he does admit some of his shortcomings. Ronnie Reagan was often ignorant of the facts, but he said them with such conviction that even people who knew had to go back to check their references before retorting. We survived Ronnie, so I'm more inclined to trust Hawkins.
It might be that it takes a lifetime to learn enough physics in order to make a statement like that. Also, as someone said, the theory of everything might fall into Godel's incompleteness type of problem. Quantum physics is a patchwork of knowledge without enough theory to explain itself. Or the theory could be beyond Human understanding.
The comment about Hawkins being past his prime is really ugly, especially coming from you. I think Hawkins is honest enough to say that he does not know or understand something if he doesn't. Hawkins refered to himself as being lazy in his early years in college, so he does admit some of his shortcomings. Ronnie Reagan was often ignorant of the facts, but he said them with such conviction that even people who knew had to go back to check their references before retorting. We survived Ronnie, so I'm more inclined to trust Hawkins.
It might be that it takes a lifetime to learn enough physics in order to make a statement like that. Also, as someone said, the theory of everything might fall into Godel's incompleteness type of problem. Quantum physics is a patchwork of knowledge without enough theory to explain itself. Or the theory could be beyond Human understanding.
I thought the great advantage of ternary logic was the storage advantage. Somewhere out there, I heard of a proof of the number of bits used to encode and the obtain a storage density maximum. The solution to this equation was e (2.71...), the basis of the natural logorithm system. Moreover, encoding in 3 bits achieved greater packing efficiency over 2 bits.
However, as people have pointed out, theoretic advantages are not always practically implemented.
I thought the great advantage of ternary logic was the storage advantage. Somewhere out there, I heard of a proof of the number of bits used to encode and the obtain a storage density maximum. The solution to this equation was e (2.71...), the basis of the natural logorithm system.
However, as people have pointed out, theoretic advantages are not always practically implemented.
I got a chuckle out of the fact that Stony Brook U's main library had Playboy. Great because I would never pay for it. I never asked if I could take it to the john though? Who knows, maybe my classmates did, in which case I wouldn't want to touch it.
I guess we can outsource our military development to India. Hitler's German was prohibited from making weapons prior to WWII (part of the WW1 peace treaty), so he outsourced the industry to Russia, and used the weapons against it. Obviously, after WWII got started, Germany developed its own military industry.
Better yet, last night on "Mad Money with Jim Cramer", someone pointed out that Goldman-Sacks research recommended selling all assets of HOG, yet looking at insider activity of their holdings, GS increased its holdings of HOG from.5M to 4M. Cramer attributed this to different divisions of GS advocating different positions. However, I think most viewers thought that GS is trying to get everyone to sell its shares of HOG so that GS can get them on the cheap.
Yes, as critical intelectuals, we are able to look at ourselves in this critical manner. However, really successful people, e.g. lawyers, politicians, psychologists, & salespeople never have this drawback. I remember Ronald Reagan talking about various issues and being absolutely wrong. However, he said it with such conviction and determination that I had to go back and check the facts. But apparently, he never did. Another time, I remember reading about using DNA to cross check previous serious crime conviction. Judges and politician refuse to open closed cases, because doing so undermines the fact that maybe the justice system might be quite faulty. Rather than worrying about incarcerating innociant people, the legal profession was more worried about protecting their own future revenue stream. Now, salespeople, no matter how professional and honest they might seem, are taught to never let a sucker get an even break. Doctors too, are often taught that you should never allow the impression that you might be wrong to be formed in people's minds. Last year, NOVA had a episode about the practice of performing lobotomies on mentally ill people. One part of the story focused on treating one of the Kennendy girls during the 1960s. The girl had definite problems. However, the real tragedy of the story was how Harvard and Johns Hopkins cream of the cream doctors turned a girl with an IQ of a little girl into that of a vegatable. Although there were no scientific cases of a lobotomy of curing anyone with her problems, the doctors went ahead and preformed the procedures anyway. Well, the biggest irony of this was if these were the best doctors that money can buy, I shutter to think what would happened to people in mental institutes for the indigent and politically unconnected run by doctors graduating from state universities and military institutes.
If we wait another 20 years for special effects to really outdo our current gendra, I might support remaking Dune. In the meantime, lets make other SF movies of books that are popular but have not been made into movies. I am a great believer of diversification. Besides, if the producers mess it up, it will really kill the franchise, something at which Brian Herbert is doing a good job accomplishing all by himself.
I think there is something to be said for the fact that the two medias each have their strengths and weaknesses. Film is good for visual effects and in your face drama. Books appeal more to our imagination and narration. What made the book great was the narration and F. Herbert's ability to immerse the reader in his world so as to make it believeable. The film came off as too contrived and forced. It lacked being able to make the reader believe the characters and surroundings. On the other hand, the movie effects of sandriding should have been cut. Even the hunter seeker in Paul's bedroom sceen sucked. I did like the floating fat man scenes. I liked Sting in his speedos, but that must be due to my latent homosexuality which is going to come out at some later point in my life, like right after some georgous blond chick asks me to bed. Some of the believabilty of the book depends on the age of the reader. F. Herbert wrote Dune about a 20 year old boy coming of age as the main characther, so that is the demographic to which it appeals. I just don't think it probably appeals to young girls as much. Maybe girls might relate better to a Queen Elizabeth story?
I am saddened to think that "we" did not consider outsourcing our banking industry to India and China. Had we let AIG and other US banks fail, there would have been opportunities for foreign banks to compete in the USA. Better yet, if non-US banks ran into problems, there would be far less of an incentative by our "elected officials" to bail out those capitalistic institutions. We could have stuck China with a $700B gamble. I am sure that executives of Chinese banks are willing to work for much cheaper than their American counterparts and have a higher rate of solvency and integrity.
We should work on ways to allow foreign banks to compete in the USA. After all, BoA and Citicorp compete worldwide.
I bought a house which unbeknownst to me, use to have a cat. I was highly allergic to the cat dander and told the real estate agent that this was a notious substance. I was told to paint the house, replace the almost new carpeting, and clean out the ducts.
Before signing the contract, the lawyer did not send me the form a week prior to the signing, as I had asked explicitly. During the signing, the lawyer and real estate agent were talking like a bunch of women at a tea party, except that I was paying $750 for the deal. I complained, but the lawyer told me that I did not have the time to read the whole contract and that she would represent my interests. In case she mucked up, I also had to get mortgage insurance. Worse yet, the contract that I signed had a clause stating that I could not cancel the sale because of allergies to cat dander.
I am sure that in this worldwide depression, Google can easily find people willing to carefully place and turn books for $1/day. Sugar cane farmers in S. America work for $1/day. I would think being a book scanner would be a highly sought after position. Si Senor, the room has AC to keep the books comfortable?
I had a similar incident with "The Ladder". I signed up for their free one month trial. As soon as the month was coming to an end, I noticed that their "cancel service" button was "not working". I quickly canceled my credit card, only to be charged anyway. I had to fight to get this charge removed. My credit card did not just cide with me. They instructed me to "work this out with the merchant". Finally, after much haggeling and telephone calls, I got them to stop charging me.
In the end, this free service cost me lost of time and aggrevation. As they say, there is not such thing as a free lunch!
As a child, cigarette smoke bothered me. My nose would run and my eyes would itch. I got use to it, but I avoid it. I am glad that laws on restaurants and bars banned it. Even before the bans came into being, most people did not smoke, but would patron a restaurant/air carrier which had smokers. Somehow, the business owners would not risk offending the minority of smokers, knowing that no other businesses banned smoking. I guess now if the ban were rescinded, most restaurants would sway the other way, aiming to please the majority of non-smokers.
Person 1: Do you mind if I smoke?
Person 2: No.
Person 2: Do you mind if I fart?
-Steve Martin
I am surprised that the malware did not erase itself after about populating the files with stuff. What sort of idiot would not think of adding that feature it its repertoire?
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Yes, I think they were solving the wrong problem here. Men get turned on by anything. Shit too probably. /. taking about it!
I think the real problem here is how to find a woman and get her to have sex. Maybe some men have mastered that, but those that haven't hang around on
As for me, I find that lowering my standards increases my chances considerably. But hey, as a drunk frat guy once said, Once you get fussy, you stop getting *****. Besides, that's why light switches were invented.
the part
How is this going to help me find Natalie Portman get all these hot grits out of my pants?
is easy!
As Billy Joel said sometime in the 1970's, "All it takes is good looks and a whole lot of money."
The other question takes computer cognition and [computer simulated] understanding, One approach is to that is we have to map out and understand the human brain and thought process, and implement it in wetware. Another approach is that we have design computers which can evolve sufficiently to acquire an intelligence of their own accord.
In 1985, I read an article where scientists were able to splice in the gene from a fire fly which makes it glow into a tabacco plant. Later on, scientists were able to splice that gene into mice. The mice only gowed under a light, but did, so I would think getting the gene into a tree should not be harder.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/01/0111_020111genmice.html
And the solar system moves [considerably more] [tranlationally and rotationally] in the galaxy. And our galaxy moves in space!!!
Well, we have perfected the art of scraping off gold and selling it.
Isn't that what most financial analysts do. They have gotten so good that they don't need to deface the physical currency.
Now, we have taken it to a new high in that we will bail out AIG or banks [more so in 1993 for pushing laws which allow them to get into ever moreso highly speculative and highly rewarding endeavors] if they fail. But we let them keep their nice profits when they are successful.
Prior to money, goods and services were exchanged by bartering. Money and financial contracts is the media which allows governments to play this game on its society and to everyone who deals with its currency, and to centralize the decision making to a few individuals. By issuing more money then they collect, governments are able to finance projects which might have been unobtainable in the past.
Gold held its value. If you scraped off some or mixed it with lead, you had less gold.
That's no moon.
That's Uranus!
I don't know if this is true, but "Star Trek, Save the Whales" talked about training dolphis and whales to recover unexploded torpedeos. Sounds logical enough to attempt, especially after knowing all sorts of stuff that is already being done, i.e. very strong sub detection sonar which kills marine life for a hundred miles.
The comment about Hawkins being past his prime is really ugly, especially coming from you. I think Hawkins is honest enough to say that he does not know or understand something if he doesn't. Hawkins refered to himself as being lazy in his early years in college, so he does admit some of his shortcomings. Ronnie Reagan was often ignorant of the facts, but he said them with such conviction that even people who knew had to go back to check their references before retorting. We survived Ronnie, so I'm more inclined to trust Hawkins.
It might be that it takes a lifetime to learn enough physics in order to make a statement like that. Also, as someone said, the theory of everything might fall into Godel's incompleteness type of problem. Quantum physics is a patchwork of knowledge without enough theory to explain itself. Or the theory could be beyond Human understanding.
The comment about Hawkins being past his prime is really ugly, especially coming from you. I think Hawkins is honest enough to say that he does not know or understand something if he doesn't. Hawkins refered to himself as being lazy in his early years in college, so he does admit some of his shortcomings. Ronnie Reagan was often ignorant of the facts, but he said them with such conviction that even people who knew had to go back to check their references before retorting. We survived Ronnie, so I'm more inclined to trust Hawkins.
It might be that it takes a lifetime to learn enough physics in order to make a statement like that. Also, as someone said, the theory of everything might fall into Godel's incompleteness type of problem. Quantum physics is a patchwork of knowledge without enough theory to explain itself. Or the theory could be beyond Human understanding.
I guess he won't be show on "Wacked Out Sports" next to the guy who tries a jump and almost has a 800lb snowmobile come crashing down on him.
I thought the great advantage of ternary logic was the storage advantage. Somewhere out there, I heard of a proof of the number of bits used to encode and the obtain a storage density maximum. The solution to this equation was e (2.71...), the basis of the natural logorithm system. Moreover, encoding in 3 bits achieved greater packing efficiency over 2 bits.
However, as people have pointed out, theoretic advantages are not always practically implemented.
I thought the great advantage of ternary logic was the storage advantage. Somewhere out there, I heard of a proof of the number of bits used to encode and the obtain a storage density maximum. The solution to this equation was e (2.71...), the basis of the natural logorithm system.
However, as people have pointed out, theoretic advantages are not always practically implemented.
I got a chuckle out of the fact that Stony Brook U's main library had Playboy. Great because I would never pay for it. I never asked if I could take it to the john though? Who knows, maybe my classmates did, in which case I wouldn't want to touch it.
I guess we can outsource our military development to India. Hitler's German was prohibited from making weapons prior to WWII (part of the WW1 peace treaty), so he outsourced the industry to Russia, and used the weapons against it. Obviously, after WWII got started, Germany developed its own military industry.
Better yet, last night on "Mad Money with Jim Cramer", someone pointed out that Goldman-Sacks research recommended selling all assets of HOG, yet looking at insider activity of their holdings, GS increased its holdings of HOG from .5M to 4M. Cramer attributed this to different divisions of GS advocating different positions. However, I think most viewers thought that GS is trying to get everyone to sell its shares of HOG so that GS can get them on the cheap.
Yes, as critical intelectuals, we are able to look at ourselves in this critical manner. However, really successful people, e.g. lawyers, politicians, psychologists, & salespeople never have this drawback. I remember Ronald Reagan talking about various issues and being absolutely wrong. However, he said it with such conviction and determination that I had to go back and check the facts. But apparently, he never did.
Another time, I remember reading about using DNA to cross check previous serious crime conviction. Judges and politician refuse to open closed cases, because doing so undermines the fact that maybe the justice system might be quite faulty. Rather than worrying about incarcerating innociant people, the legal profession was more worried about protecting their own future revenue stream.
Now, salespeople, no matter how professional and honest they might seem, are taught to never let a sucker get an even break. Doctors too, are often taught that you should never allow the impression that you might be wrong to be formed in people's minds.
Last year, NOVA had a episode about the practice of performing lobotomies on mentally ill people. One part of the story focused on treating one of the Kennendy girls during the 1960s. The girl had definite problems. However, the real tragedy of the story was how Harvard and Johns Hopkins cream of the cream doctors turned a girl with an IQ of a little girl into that of a vegatable. Although there were no scientific cases of a lobotomy of curing anyone with her problems, the doctors went ahead and preformed the procedures anyway. Well, the biggest irony of this was if these were the best doctors that money can buy, I shutter to think what would happened to people in mental institutes for the indigent and politically unconnected run by doctors graduating from state universities and military institutes.
If we wait another 20 years for special effects to really outdo our current gendra, I might support remaking Dune. In the meantime, lets make other SF movies of books that are popular but have not been made into movies. I am a great believer of diversification. Besides, if the producers mess it up, it will really kill the franchise, something at which Brian Herbert is doing a good job accomplishing all by himself.
I think there is something to be said for the fact that the two medias each have their strengths and weaknesses. Film is good for visual effects and in your face drama. Books appeal more to our imagination and narration. What made the book great was the narration and F. Herbert's ability to immerse the reader in his world so as to make it believeable. The film came off as too contrived and forced. It lacked being able to make the reader believe the characters and surroundings. On the other hand, the movie effects of sandriding should have been cut. Even the hunter seeker in Paul's bedroom sceen sucked. I did like the floating fat man scenes. I liked Sting in his speedos, but that must be due to my latent homosexuality which is going to come out at some later point in my life, like right after some georgous blond chick asks me to bed. Some of the believabilty of the book depends on the age of the reader. F. Herbert wrote Dune about a 20 year old boy coming of age as the main characther, so that is the demographic to which it appeals. I just don't think it probably appeals to young girls as much. Maybe girls might relate better to a Queen Elizabeth story?
Bring it back so that we can eat it to extinction like the carrier piegon.
I am saddened to think that "we" did not consider outsourcing our banking industry to India and China. Had we let AIG and other US banks fail, there would have been opportunities for foreign banks to compete in the USA. Better yet, if non-US banks ran into problems, there would be far less of an incentative by our "elected officials" to bail out those capitalistic institutions. We could have stuck China with a $700B gamble. I am sure that executives of Chinese banks are willing to work for much cheaper than their American counterparts and have a higher rate of solvency and integrity.
We should work on ways to allow foreign banks to compete in the USA. After all, BoA and Citicorp compete worldwide.
I bought a house which unbeknownst to me, use to have a cat. I was highly allergic to the cat dander and told the real estate agent that this was a notious substance. I was told to paint the house, replace the almost new carpeting, and clean out the ducts.
Before signing the contract, the lawyer did not send me the form a week prior to the signing, as I had asked explicitly. During the signing, the lawyer and real estate agent were talking like a bunch of women at a tea party, except that I was paying $750 for the deal. I complained, but the lawyer told me that I did not have the time to read the whole contract and that she would represent my interests. In case she mucked up, I also had to get mortgage insurance. Worse yet, the contract that I signed had a clause stating that I could not cancel the sale because of allergies to cat dander.
I am sure that in this worldwide depression, Google can easily find people willing to carefully place and turn books for $1/day. Sugar cane farmers in S. America work for $1/day. I would think being a book scanner would be a highly sought after position. Si Senor, the room has AC to keep the books comfortable?
I had a similar incident with "The Ladder". I signed up for their free one month trial. As soon as the month was coming to an end, I noticed that their "cancel service" button was "not working". I quickly canceled my credit card, only to be charged anyway. I had to fight to get this charge removed. My credit card did not just cide with me. They instructed me to "work this out with the merchant". Finally, after much haggeling and telephone calls, I got them to stop charging me.
In the end, this free service cost me lost of time and aggrevation. As they say, there is not such thing as a free lunch!
After some thought, I think we as tax payers have decide not to bail out AIG.
As a child, cigarette smoke bothered me. My nose would run and my eyes would itch. I got use to it, but I avoid it. I am glad that laws on restaurants and bars banned it. Even before the bans came into being, most people did not smoke, but would patron a restaurant/air carrier which had smokers. Somehow, the business owners would not risk offending the minority of smokers, knowing that no other businesses banned smoking. I guess now if the ban were rescinded, most restaurants would sway the other way, aiming to please the majority of non-smokers.
Person 1: Do you mind if I smoke?
Person 2: No.
Person 2: Do you mind if I fart?
-Steve Martin
I am surprised that the malware did not erase itself after about populating the files with stuff. What sort of idiot would not think of adding that feature it its repertoire?