Re: Commercializing... Yes! Where I live, there is a wave pool that has one of those wave machines and it's lots of fun. Unfortunately, I don't think that a typical wave tank is designed with swimmers in mind, so it would probably be quite expensive to adapt it.
It does increase security a little bit. Don't forget: What really protects you, the consumer, is that fact that you're almost never responsible for fraudulent charges on your card unless you were grossly negligent.
The credit card companies don't want to (and cannot) completely prevent fraud. All they need is something to keep it at a manageable level so their high profits remain high. And chip-and-PIN is a little better than mag-stripe.
She's actually probably right about sex robots not being a benefit to society, but trying to block them is like trying to stop human nature in its tracks. Good luck with that.
I don't know where we draw the line. It has to be decided on a case-by-case basis. The real world, unfortunately, is full of hard problems that don't have simple answers. That's a rather unpopular sentiment in the US if you're trying to get elected, however.
I think some types of genetic engineering such as, say, creating a strain of HIV that's as easily transmissible as the common cold, would be the scientific equivalent of shouting "Fire!" in a crowded room and are thus not protected forms of expression.
Even in 600AD when Islam was just getting going, misogyny was the rule under Islam. So no, I don't think the results would have been all that different.
I know plenty because I have met lots of women who have escaped to Canada to get away from Islam. The stories they tell, and the stories told in "Cruel and Usual Punishment" by Nonie Darwish show the true evil of Islam.
It may be a "horrible cultural thing", but the religion is complicit in the demeaning and dehumanizing of women that permits such horrible cultural practices to thrive. These things do not take place in a vacuum.
Again, what is your point? Because Christianity is misogynistic also that Islam isn't? Or that Islam's "not so bad" because other religions are misogynistic?
No, Islam is specifically misogynistic. Sharia law values the testimony of women less than of men. A man can divorce his wife just by uttering words; a woman cannot divorce her husband.
A quote from the Koran: "Men are managers of the affairs of women because Allah has made the one superior to the other."
A quote from the Koran regarding inheritance: "The share of the male shall be twice that of a female."
Islam is also misanthropic, but it reserves special vilification for women. So my comment is the truth and no "lie of omission".
Standard Islamist apologist. I assume you are not a woman. Now imagine that you are a woman. Would you rather live in a Muslim-dominated society? Or a secular Western society?
I was studying for my M.Eng in electronics and we were using Sun workstations for EDA software. After I graduated, I joined a startup company that produced chip layout software. We had purchased a bunch of Sun workstations, but they were going to take weeks to arrive.
So we loaded up a few PCs with Slackware Linux from about 40 floppy disks (took two of us an entire day to finish all the installations) and started our development on the PCs while we waited for the Suns to arrive.
atheism is really just the name for their hate of christians
Nonsense. I'm atheist and dislike all religions, though I confess I have a special hatred for Islam in particular, given the disgusting behavior of a small minority of its adherents and the silence and blame-deflecting of most of its adherents.
Unfortunately, it's true that a lot of leftists cry about "Islamophobia" and that's too bad. Islam is a fascist ideology diametrically opposed to everything leftists say they hold dear, so I really can't understand how they can maintain the cognitive dissonance.
I think it's clothing design that's to blame, not thermostats. Women's casual business clothes tend to be a lot thinner and flimsier than men's. Skirts are cooler than pants. Women's t-shirts have lower necklines and much shorter sleeves than men's. And women's clothes in general emphasize display more than comfort and tend to expose a lot more flesh than men's.
Regarding another poster writing about Arizona: Definitely! I was in Phoenix for a conference a while back and I happened to have a nasty cold. I had the choice of suffering in 38C heat outside or freezing at what felt like about 17C inside. It was crazy!
... someone will send you an email which will be turned into Mojibake and you'll discover that your correspondent is allergic to the Euro, the exclamation mark, the pound symbol, and to the Hebrew letter Gimel.
Same thing in Ottawa. Taxi plates are artificially scarce, which drives up the cost of obtaining them to stratospheric levels. Taxi drivers rent the plates from investors and they have to work like hell to make very little money because their expenses are so high, even though cab fares are high too.
The correct thing to do would be to eliminate the artificial scarcity. Let anyone who is willing and able to comply with the safety, insurance and knowledge regulations drive a cab. That will bring market forces back into play and taxi fares will settle down to something reasonable and sustainable, and Uber would no longer be necessary.
Unfortunately, the people lobbying against Uber are the plate-holding investors who would take a huge loss if the taxi industry were allowed to run like any normal industry, so they spend tons of bucks to protect their investments.
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Re: Commercializing... Yes! Where I live, there is a wave pool that has one of those wave machines and it's lots of fun. Unfortunately, I don't think that a typical wave tank is designed with swimmers in mind, so it would probably be quite expensive to adapt it.
It does increase security a little bit. Don't forget: What really protects you, the consumer, is that fact that you're almost never responsible for fraudulent charges on your card unless you were grossly negligent.
The credit card companies don't want to (and cannot) completely prevent fraud. All they need is something to keep it at a manageable level so their high profits remain high. And chip-and-PIN is a little better than mag-stripe.
The data in question is not personal data about citizens. It's valuable scientific and historical data that should be used to inform policies.
She's actually probably right about sex robots not being a benefit to society, but trying to block them is like trying to stop human nature in its tracks. Good luck with that.
I would never have predicted that. I would have thought students would do much better. After all, computers are shiny.
I don't know where we draw the line. It has to be decided on a case-by-case basis. The real world, unfortunately, is full of hard problems that don't have simple answers. That's a rather unpopular sentiment in the US if you're trying to get elected, however.
I think some types of genetic engineering such as, say, creating a strain of HIV that's as easily transmissible as the common cold, would be the scientific equivalent of shouting "Fire!" in a crowded room and are thus not protected forms of expression.
Even in 600AD when Islam was just getting going, misogyny was the rule under Islam. So no, I don't think the results would have been all that different.
I know plenty because I have met lots of women who have escaped to Canada to get away from Islam. The stories they tell, and the stories told in "Cruel and Usual Punishment" by Nonie Darwish show the true evil of Islam.
It may be a "horrible cultural thing", but the religion is complicit in the demeaning and dehumanizing of women that permits such horrible cultural practices to thrive. These things do not take place in a vacuum.
Again, what is your point? Because Christianity is misogynistic also that Islam isn't? Or that Islam's "not so bad" because other religions are misogynistic?
No, Islam is specifically misogynistic. Sharia law values the testimony of women less than of men. A man can divorce his wife just by uttering words; a woman cannot divorce her husband.
A quote from the Koran: "Men are managers of the affairs of women because Allah has made the one superior to the other."
A quote from the Koran regarding inheritance: "The share of the male shall be twice that of a female."
Islam is also misanthropic, but it reserves special vilification for women. So my comment is the truth and no "lie of omission".
What is your point? That because Muslims circumcise males, the Koran is not misogynistic hateful evil bullshit?
Because the Koran is all of those things.
Lots of Muslim countries mutilate their girls' genitals. And a clitorectomy is a hell of a lot more radical than circumcision.
Standard Islamist apologist. I assume you are not a woman. Now imagine that you are a woman. Would you rather live in a Muslim-dominated society? Or a secular Western society?
To sum up: Book of hateful, evil, misogynistic bullshit found to have been copied from an earlier draft of hateful, evil, misogynistic bullshit.
Compress his comment and all the redundancy will be gone.
I was studying for my M.Eng in electronics and we were using Sun workstations for EDA software. After I graduated, I joined a startup company that produced chip layout software. We had purchased a bunch of Sun workstations, but they were going to take weeks to arrive.
So we loaded up a few PCs with Slackware Linux from about 40 floppy disks (took two of us an entire day to finish all the installations) and started our development on the PCs while we waited for the Suns to arrive.
atheism is really just the name for their hate of christians
Nonsense. I'm atheist and dislike all religions, though I confess I have a special hatred for Islam in particular, given the disgusting behavior of a small minority of its adherents and the silence and blame-deflecting of most of its adherents.
Unfortunately, it's true that a lot of leftists cry about "Islamophobia" and that's too bad. Islam is a fascist ideology diametrically opposed to everything leftists say they hold dear, so I really can't understand how they can maintain the cognitive dissonance.
That's OK. Electrical receptacles are nice and female, so it balances out the phalluses.
That defeats their goal, though... better to keep the office nice and toasty if you want women to wear skimpier clothes! :)
I think it's clothing design that's to blame, not thermostats. Women's casual business clothes tend to be a lot thinner and flimsier than men's. Skirts are cooler than pants. Women's t-shirts have lower necklines and much shorter sleeves than men's. And women's clothes in general emphasize display more than comfort and tend to expose a lot more flesh than men's.
Regarding another poster writing about Arizona: Definitely! I was in Phoenix for a conference a while back and I happened to have a nasty cold. I had the choice of suffering in 38C heat outside or freezing at what felt like about 17C inside. It was crazy!
... someone will send you an email which will be turned into Mojibake and you'll discover that your correspondent is allergic to the Euro, the exclamation mark, the pound symbol, and to the Hebrew letter Gimel.
Very comfy in summer. I wear them pretty much all the time in hot weather.
Same thing in Ottawa. Taxi plates are artificially scarce, which drives up the cost of obtaining them to stratospheric levels. Taxi drivers rent the plates from investors and they have to work like hell to make very little money because their expenses are so high, even though cab fares are high too.
The correct thing to do would be to eliminate the artificial scarcity. Let anyone who is willing and able to comply with the safety, insurance and knowledge regulations drive a cab. That will bring market forces back into play and taxi fares will settle down to something reasonable and sustainable, and Uber would no longer be necessary.
Unfortunately, the people lobbying against Uber are the plate-holding investors who would take a huge loss if the taxi industry were allowed to run like any normal industry, so they spend tons of bucks to protect their investments.