Yeah, we need taxes to pay for the military so we can go murder brown people. Great justification there, sparky.
You don't want to hear about how bad government regulation is? You don't care what it is so long as its there? What if a new regulation forbade people from starting new businesses? What if there was a regulation requiring that you submit to cavity searches to travel? Oh, you don't care, because it comes from a source of authority.
Nuclear regulations are so overbearing that nuclear operators can't do anything. They are forced to use existing designs, even though they are unsafe. They are forced to use existing reactors, even though they are 40 years past their designated lifetime. They can't move spent fuel off site to safe storage. No, they just sit there, getting more and more dangerous, until something blows up.
False dichotomies, false dichotomies everywhere. You say that regulations are super good, while another says they are super bad, when the fact is that there are simply FAR TOO MANY OF THEM, so much so that no-one can get anything done, especially in the nuclear power space.
Actually, regulations let the companies shrug off the responsibility, as following the letter of said regulations shields them from liability in many cases. No, simple lawsuits would be effective. Even more effective if you got rid of the corporate veil and allowed judgements to attach the assets of company owners (ie shareholders). You can bet that those companies will really and truly be committed to safety at that point.
Thank you, mighty government, for looking out for my best interests and just laying down blanket "NO!"s to things you don't understand! No need to let people experiment, or allow technology to change or advance in ways that would make our lives better, but might hurt some precious lobby of yours.
Jesus knows that people are all so stupid they would just up and kill themselves in five minutes without big brother's firm guiding hand up their keysters.
How much would someone have benefited from having a car that cost 1/10th of what you paid but without many of those safety features? Someone then able to get to a job, who could then earn more, save more, and eventually afford a nice, safe car like yours. But now he can't, because the price of a car is too much.
People always look at things like that and think they wouldn't exist at all without the government sticking a gun in the face of the car companies, as if the people running companies had no sense, and that the people buying their products don't have any either. But yeah, sure, the government knows best. Don't question their ultimate authority, or else.
So people being forced to eat insects because meat is too expensive is not a sign of economic decline?
Meat doesn't have "scalability issues". Just a couple of years ago, everyone in the first world could afford meat. I guess that is still the case, it's just that the West has largely fallen from first world status.
And so the economic decline of America continues. Just business as usual. Now we are here discussing eating insects because meat is too expensive.
Yes, we don't insects because of purely cultural taboos. I personally will try anything once. But cultural taboos don't change because we think it they should, they change because they are forced to, either physically (like conquerors forcing natives to adopt their religion) or economically (countries sinking into abject poverty have to start eating insects because they can't afford conventional high quality protein).
That aside, insects are neat in that they convert things like cardboard into high quality protein (ie you can feed cardboard to termites kept in a plastic box). The animals we have used for food in the past have usually either converted inedible biomass like grass or waste food (think pigs) into tasty protein. Insects broaden the potential input sources. Rather than having all that cardboard and presumably paper go to rot in a landfill, why not use it as a feedstock? Even if humans aren't the target, I'd bet it would work well in dog and cat food, or even cattle feed.
Not really. The moon is gravitational high ground. Their punches will hit with much more force than would the Earth's, like trying to use a catapult to attack the top of a mountain, while the guys on the mountain just roll rocks downhill, smashing your catapult to tiny bits.
Let me be the first to say "fuck your God-blasted brats". You are allowing the creation of a totalitarian state in their name. When they grow up, they will be publicly vivisected for speaking out against the state, and it will be all your fucking fault.
Lately they have been a lot more right than wrong. In fact, our governments have become so secretive and authoritarian that really EVERYTHING THEY DO or are even involved in becomes a conspiracy.
My question is: when did conspiracies become out of the question? Those in power have ALWAYS employed conspiracies to extend and preserve their power, since the scribe caste of Egypt invented an overly complex writing system to prevent competition.
Unless the perpetrator is a TBTF bank, in which case they aren't allowed to intervene.
Sounds like bullshit, but government officials have said as much openly and on the record. How ANYONE could have ANY money in a system like that, I will never know.
I think it is probably more about balance, especially between sodium and potassium. I know I started feeling a LOT better, and my blood pressure fell when I started using KCl instead of table salt.
As I recall, there is a tribe in South America that gets practically all of their electrolytes through KCl, and they have something like zero incidence of heart disease.
A poor indication of MACHINE intelligence. Which is natural, as it was not meant to test machine intelligence. It's like testing a car according to a children's physical fitness test. It will excel wildly in some areas, while falling completely flat in others.
"You don't need that" and "You're not allowed to have that" should be separate concepts. You don't really "need" electricity, or indoor plumbing, or personal hygiene products, but they certainly increase your standard of living.
But I guess calling people who have more than you "uneducated" while dictating what they "need" makes some people feel superior.
And more than half of those don't have access to clean water or enough food. I guess we should mandate no plumbing and disallow stores that sell food too?
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Yeah, we need taxes to pay for the military so we can go murder brown people. Great justification there, sparky.
You don't want to hear about how bad government regulation is? You don't care what it is so long as its there? What if a new regulation forbade people from starting new businesses? What if there was a regulation requiring that you submit to cavity searches to travel? Oh, you don't care, because it comes from a source of authority.
You sicken me. Hypocrite. Toady. Destroyer.
Nuclear regulations are so overbearing that nuclear operators can't do anything. They are forced to use existing designs, even though they are unsafe. They are forced to use existing reactors, even though they are 40 years past their designated lifetime. They can't move spent fuel off site to safe storage. No, they just sit there, getting more and more dangerous, until something blows up.
False dichotomies, false dichotomies everywhere. You say that regulations are super good, while another says they are super bad, when the fact is that there are simply FAR TOO MANY OF THEM, so much so that no-one can get anything done, especially in the nuclear power space.
Actually, regulations let the companies shrug off the responsibility, as following the letter of said regulations shields them from liability in many cases. No, simple lawsuits would be effective. Even more effective if you got rid of the corporate veil and allowed judgements to attach the assets of company owners (ie shareholders). You can bet that those companies will really and truly be committed to safety at that point.
Thank you, mighty government, for looking out for my best interests and just laying down blanket "NO!"s to things you don't understand! No need to let people experiment, or allow technology to change or advance in ways that would make our lives better, but might hurt some precious lobby of yours.
Jesus knows that people are all so stupid they would just up and kill themselves in five minutes without big brother's firm guiding hand up their keysters.
How much would someone have benefited from having a car that cost 1/10th of what you paid but without many of those safety features? Someone then able to get to a job, who could then earn more, save more, and eventually afford a nice, safe car like yours. But now he can't, because the price of a car is too much.
People always look at things like that and think they wouldn't exist at all without the government sticking a gun in the face of the car companies, as if the people running companies had no sense, and that the people buying their products don't have any either. But yeah, sure, the government knows best. Don't question their ultimate authority, or else.
Who's we, kemosabe? 80% of Americans will face poverty in their lifetimes according to a new study.
Lots of people eat insects, sure. But lots of people wipe their asses with their hands and drink foul water too.
So people being forced to eat insects because meat is too expensive is not a sign of economic decline?
Meat doesn't have "scalability issues". Just a couple of years ago, everyone in the first world could afford meat. I guess that is still the case, it's just that the West has largely fallen from first world status.
And so the economic decline of America continues. Just business as usual. Now we are here discussing eating insects because meat is too expensive.
Yes, we don't insects because of purely cultural taboos. I personally will try anything once. But cultural taboos don't change because we think it they should, they change because they are forced to, either physically (like conquerors forcing natives to adopt their religion) or economically (countries sinking into abject poverty have to start eating insects because they can't afford conventional high quality protein).
That aside, insects are neat in that they convert things like cardboard into high quality protein (ie you can feed cardboard to termites kept in a plastic box). The animals we have used for food in the past have usually either converted inedible biomass like grass or waste food (think pigs) into tasty protein. Insects broaden the potential input sources. Rather than having all that cardboard and presumably paper go to rot in a landfill, why not use it as a feedstock? Even if humans aren't the target, I'd bet it would work well in dog and cat food, or even cattle feed.
Stop anthropomorphizing space. It hates it when you do that.
Not really. The moon is gravitational high ground. Their punches will hit with much more force than would the Earth's, like trying to use a catapult to attack the top of a mountain, while the guys on the mountain just roll rocks downhill, smashing your catapult to tiny bits.
Let me be the first to say "fuck your God-blasted brats". You are allowing the creation of a totalitarian state in their name. When they grow up, they will be publicly vivisected for speaking out against the state, and it will be all your fucking fault.
Lately they have been a lot more right than wrong. In fact, our governments have become so secretive and authoritarian that really EVERYTHING THEY DO or are even involved in becomes a conspiracy.
My question is: when did conspiracies become out of the question? Those in power have ALWAYS employed conspiracies to extend and preserve their power, since the scribe caste of Egypt invented an overly complex writing system to prevent competition.
"This guy sure loves porno!"
Unless the perpetrator is a TBTF bank, in which case they aren't allowed to intervene.
Sounds like bullshit, but government officials have said as much openly and on the record. How ANYONE could have ANY money in a system like that, I will never know.
Clearly you have never had the pleasure of visiting Lake Woebegone.
Because you can only do one or the other, apparently.
Put a gram and a half of salt and a half in a cup of coffee and drink it.
Yeah, and those damn Greek boy-lovers too. FUCK GREECE FUCK DEMOCRACY! Oh wait, I forgot, ad hominem is a fallacy.
I think it is probably more about balance, especially between sodium and potassium. I know I started feeling a LOT better, and my blood pressure fell when I started using KCl instead of table salt.
As I recall, there is a tribe in South America that gets practically all of their electrolytes through KCl, and they have something like zero incidence of heart disease.
A poor indication of MACHINE intelligence. Which is natural, as it was not meant to test machine intelligence. It's like testing a car according to a children's physical fitness test. It will excel wildly in some areas, while falling completely flat in others.
Yeah, I had a sudden jolt of existential terror when I read the headline. All was calm again after reading the article.
For those NOT utterly terrified at the concept of a strong AI, I suggest you read some of Yudkowsky's writings on the subject here.
There wouldn't be such a high demand for apartments in Manhattan if drug dealers didn't need to stash their money in real estate, actually.
I also like how you assume that no-one "needs" to have children.
"You don't need that" and "You're not allowed to have that" should be separate concepts. You don't really "need" electricity, or indoor plumbing, or personal hygiene products, but they certainly increase your standard of living.
But I guess calling people who have more than you "uneducated" while dictating what they "need" makes some people feel superior.
And more than half of those don't have access to clean water or enough food. I guess we should mandate no plumbing and disallow stores that sell food too?
You have never dealt with city authorities, I see. Kids can't so much as run a lemonaide stand without being lead away in manacles.