I would argue that "simple fact". IMHO any pilot who decides to fly directly into a large thunderstorm when going over it is a viable alternative has already committed pilot error, the computer probably let him fly further before crashing than he would have solo.
I would rather trust my life to a computer whose bugs can be ironed out and which will always perform the same way in a situation than a pilot who may or may not have gotten enough sleep, be drunk, or somehow be distracted. I've seen enough car crashes to know that humans are not the godlike infallible beings that the anti-computer controlled planes group seems to be preaching. Pilot error was blamed for almost 80% of crashes in '04...why would you want to trust your life to something that statistics alone dictate to be more likely to crash?
It's not voltage that kills things, it's current. How you do you suppose non-cybernetic birds survive the experience?
Uh, by not carrying the current at all? Touch one powerline while not grounded or connected to any potential place for the charge on it to flow and nothing will happen, touch one while grounded and you're dead. Birds don't experience any current because there's no place for the current to flow.
You're right that it's the current that kills, but in this case the birds experience neither current nor voltage, so it's an irrelevant answer.
Seriously, given how many times I've walked outside, discovered it was cold, then remembered where my jacket is, I don't see how that process is any different from the average person. I propose a new theory to explain why a toddler would run outside before getting their jacket, Toddlers don't have weather ESP.
As for the whole in one ear and out the other thing, that's not unique to toddlers by any means. Ask any parent of a teenager, or a kid between toddler and teenager, or the teacher of a lazy college student. Where did the idea of toddlers being the only humans like that come from?
"Now selecting a non-airport landing site, or landing someplace without well-defined runways or approaches is another problem altogether."
Not really. That's a perfectly computable problem, all you need to do is have the autopilot contain a model of the nearby geography within its memory, know its own location (GPS), and either analyze nearby areas for flatness over a long stretch, or, better yet, simply do the analysis beforehand, find locations within x distance of one another which could serve as emergency landing sites and rank them preferentially in the autopilot's database.
As for landing without a well-defined runway all the autopilot needs to do is follow the same rules that pilots follow when landing without a well defined runway. While it would likely be safer to have a human at the controls 90% of the time it's not an incomputable problem by any means.
A weak spot sealed up with solid rock, of the same composition which makes up all the other walls around it.
If the magma was under enough pressure to burst through solid rock of the type created when it cools then it would have already burst out, tunnel or no tunnel.
Wrong. The GP (parent of my last post) was committing the fallacy of authority. The argument being made was:
Doctors once recommended things we now know to be foolish therefore listening to writers who have done the bare minimum research is a good idea.
If you take his post completely out of context then it is accurate, but irrelevant. When you look at it within the context of what he was arguing about (whether we should listen to trained physicians or untrained writers) then it's the fallacy of using an outdated authority on a matter to discuss current authorities, sort of an inverse fallacy of authority.
Not to mention that the GP committed no fallacy. Saying that doctors know more about vaccines than anyone else is not the fallacy of authority, it's a proper argument as doctors should know more about vaccines than anyone else.
Tell me, were there many writers talking about the dangers of radium rods and cigarettes back then?
Those examples fail because nobody (or at least nobody who we would consider an authority on the matter) knew they were bad at the time, listening to a writer from back then would have STILL been worse than listening to the physicians.
Fallacy of authority (specifically outdated authorities).
"but doing something unintentionally can be, in some cases, even worse than doing it intentionally, as it means that the problem is rooted in the fabric of the culture rather than one or two bigoted individuals."
Or, perhaps, your game is set in a nation of predominantly African-American (I hate that term btw) individuals and so, when choosing the predominant inhabitants of that region within your game you went with realism.
Not a single person ever complained about racism in RE's 1-4 which had predominantly white zombie bad guys. Just something to chew on.
Except D is completed irrelevant. Spending per person equals income per person? Okay...I guess that's true...but is it useful knowledge? Not really, since the amount of money spent on the average individual by the government (counting everything government supported that they use) will almost certainly be less than the amount that person spends.
I mean sure, if you take a number, multiply it by the population of the US, then divide by the population you'll get the number back...but that says absolutely nothing about the number.
"Linux is the guy who drives a big truck full of car batteries to the nearest power plant, pays to charge them all up, then drives back home and hooks them up to run his house for another couple of days."
I'm sorry...but that analogy fails epicly. If that were true it would mean that linux users would be relying on microsoft to keep their computers running, seeing as how the linux person in your analogy is driving to an MS owned power station to get power.
I am not disputing that microsoft has a virtual monopoly in the OS market, simply that you are equivocating a virtual monopoly (monopoly by merit of having the majority of the marketshare) with a true monopoly (defined as having exclusive ownership through legal privilege). As long as alternatives exist MS does not have a true monopoly, they have what is effectively a monopoly by merit of being on most computers but that is not the same as them being the only choice.
If MS makes too many bad calls they won't have a virtual monopoly anymore...or do you dispute that simple argument?
What monopoly? Last time I checked Mac and Linux existed. MS has a virtual monopoly by merit of being the most used but that's not the same as an actual monopoly. As long as other choices exist any monopoly argument falls apart. More akin to there being 3 power companies and one following the practices you describe while the others don't, and people just being too lazy, stupid, or in the dark to switch to another company.
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I would argue that "simple fact". IMHO any pilot who decides to fly directly into a large thunderstorm when going over it is a viable alternative has already committed pilot error, the computer probably let him fly further before crashing than he would have solo.
I would rather trust my life to a computer whose bugs can be ironed out and which will always perform the same way in a situation than a pilot who may or may not have gotten enough sleep, be drunk, or somehow be distracted. I've seen enough car crashes to know that humans are not the godlike infallible beings that the anti-computer controlled planes group seems to be preaching. Pilot error was blamed for almost 80% of crashes in '04...why would you want to trust your life to something that statistics alone dictate to be more likely to crash?
It's not voltage that kills things, it's current. How you do you suppose non-cybernetic birds survive the experience?
Uh, by not carrying the current at all? Touch one powerline while not grounded or connected to any potential place for the charge on it to flow and nothing will happen, touch one while grounded and you're dead. Birds don't experience any current because there's no place for the current to flow.
You're right that it's the current that kills, but in this case the birds experience neither current nor voltage, so it's an irrelevant answer.
Accrue interest in your account, not in your hand?
What kind of Document Filling do you do if it's Ballistic?
Seriously, given how many times I've walked outside, discovered it was cold, then remembered where my jacket is, I don't see how that process is any different from the average person. I propose a new theory to explain why a toddler would run outside before getting their jacket, Toddlers don't have weather ESP.
As for the whole in one ear and out the other thing, that's not unique to toddlers by any means. Ask any parent of a teenager, or a kid between toddler and teenager, or the teacher of a lazy college student. Where did the idea of toddlers being the only humans like that come from?
Except, you know, the GGP said you can't do it with any games and the GP said you can do it with some...which is useful information.
"Now selecting a non-airport landing site, or landing someplace without well-defined runways or approaches is another problem altogether."
Not really. That's a perfectly computable problem, all you need to do is have the autopilot contain a model of the nearby geography within its memory, know its own location (GPS), and either analyze nearby areas for flatness over a long stretch, or, better yet, simply do the analysis beforehand, find locations within x distance of one another which could serve as emergency landing sites and rank them preferentially in the autopilot's database.
As for landing without a well-defined runway all the autopilot needs to do is follow the same rules that pilots follow when landing without a well defined runway. While it would likely be safer to have a human at the controls 90% of the time it's not an incomputable problem by any means.
Remote Control? For an autopilot? Since when?
Precisely. Thinking upsets the house odds :P.
A Shrubbery?
A weak spot sealed up with solid rock, of the same composition which makes up all the other walls around it.
If the magma was under enough pressure to burst through solid rock of the type created when it cools then it would have already burst out, tunnel or no tunnel.
"You can't scream when you are already dead"
That's just what Jimmy kept saying...
Not to mention that just turning off your phones bluetooth (generally a menu option) should foil it.
Wrong. The GP (parent of my last post) was committing the fallacy of authority. The argument being made was:
Doctors once recommended things we now know to be foolish therefore listening to writers who have done the bare minimum research is a good idea.
If you take his post completely out of context then it is accurate, but irrelevant. When you look at it within the context of what he was arguing about (whether we should listen to trained physicians or untrained writers) then it's the fallacy of using an outdated authority on a matter to discuss current authorities, sort of an inverse fallacy of authority.
Not to mention that the GP committed no fallacy. Saying that doctors know more about vaccines than anyone else is not the fallacy of authority, it's a proper argument as doctors should know more about vaccines than anyone else.
Tell me, were there many writers talking about the dangers of radium rods and cigarettes back then?
Those examples fail because nobody (or at least nobody who we would consider an authority on the matter) knew they were bad at the time, listening to a writer from back then would have STILL been worse than listening to the physicians.
Fallacy of authority (specifically outdated authorities).
Live != Active
I can't think of a single vaccine that's made from a completely live virus (that would be called a virus, not a vaccine).
In addition the term live virus is a bit of a non-sequitur in and of itself btw.
"but doing something unintentionally can be, in some cases, even worse than doing it intentionally, as it means that the problem is rooted in the fabric of the culture rather than one or two bigoted individuals."
Or, perhaps, your game is set in a nation of predominantly African-American (I hate that term btw) individuals and so, when choosing the predominant inhabitants of that region within your game you went with realism.
Not a single person ever complained about racism in RE's 1-4 which had predominantly white zombie bad guys. Just something to chew on.
Don't worry, we've logged your logging of our logs and will be discussion your logging policies in the future.
Except D is completed irrelevant. Spending per person equals income per person? Okay...I guess that's true...but is it useful knowledge? Not really, since the amount of money spent on the average individual by the government (counting everything government supported that they use) will almost certainly be less than the amount that person spends.
I mean sure, if you take a number, multiply it by the population of the US, then divide by the population you'll get the number back...but that says absolutely nothing about the number.
It's a worthless question.
"'i' is on the right side of the keyboard."
That's your only complaint about that word?
So what you're saying is that I should dereprioritize my prefixication of words?
And just think of the possibilities for recursion if we're too allow such grammer.
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You think those spiders just reached the edge of the box and saw a vast empty space station?
"Linux is the guy who drives a big truck full of car batteries to the nearest power plant, pays to charge them all up, then drives back home and hooks them up to run his house for another couple of days."
I'm sorry...but that analogy fails epicly. If that were true it would mean that linux users would be relying on microsoft to keep their computers running, seeing as how the linux person in your analogy is driving to an MS owned power station to get power.
I am not disputing that microsoft has a virtual monopoly in the OS market, simply that you are equivocating a virtual monopoly (monopoly by merit of having the majority of the marketshare) with a true monopoly (defined as having exclusive ownership through legal privilege). As long as alternatives exist MS does not have a true monopoly, they have what is effectively a monopoly by merit of being on most computers but that is not the same as them being the only choice.
If MS makes too many bad calls they won't have a virtual monopoly anymore...or do you dispute that simple argument?
What monopoly? Last time I checked Mac and Linux existed. MS has a virtual monopoly by merit of being the most used but that's not the same as an actual monopoly. As long as other choices exist any monopoly argument falls apart. More akin to there being 3 power companies and one following the practices you describe while the others don't, and people just being too lazy, stupid, or in the dark to switch to another company.