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  1. dreamdancer
    I did And you re-posted it and you made a fucked up assumption i see no arguement from you
  2. dreamdancer
    what has this got to do with 'the right wing is losing it'
  3. dreamdancer
    crickets? stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  4. dreamdancer
    yep
  5. dreamdancer
    I have a problem with the analogy, but maybe that also points out a problem with observing the strip of metal. If I spin a wheel, I can make it appear to be spinning or not via observation simply based on the amount of time I look at it. Flash a strobe light and I can make it appear to stop although it's not stopped at all. I can also make it appear as if the wheel is stopped by taking a very short photographic exposure of it. Is it possible that something similar is happening with the strip of metal in the experiment? if they got the experiment right then the strip is oscillating and not oscillating at the same time. my interpretation of this is that in one reality the strip is oscillating and in another it isn't oscillating. what the entangled qubit does is connect these two realities (of the multiverse) together so that the strip is in both states. the moment the strip is observed (by us) the strip collapses into either oscillating/not oscillating 'unconnecting' the two realities
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    i'm here. no, i'm not. i'm here. no, i'm not... http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18669-first-quantum-effects-seen-in-visible-object.html stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  7. dreamdancer
    C'mon dude laymen's terms. I didn't go to college Sighh, fine. He's referring to Borg, Terminators and Cylons. i'm thinking more of software. stuff like air traffic control, share trading, identification, medical intervention. all these things are going to go over to algorithms that are going to become more and more 'black box' - meaning we (people) will become increasingly unable to open up these controlling algorithms. the best ones will survive and evolve without us knowing how they work. just that they do. stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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    i think that, whatever we do, we're going to be 'directed' by increasingly independent algorithms. we have a few decades left to tweak them in our favour and then they run the show completely. stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  9. dreamdancer
    http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/24-4 stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  10. dreamdancer
    indeed, magicians seem to cut their volunteers in half
  11. dreamdancer
    http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/22-2 stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  12. dreamdancer
    http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/03/09/racist-rush-at-it-again-paterson-gets-to-play-massa/ Um... I think he was talking to you too. i think he was just being polite
  13. dreamdancer
    more good news
  14. dreamdancer
    http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/22-6 stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  15. dreamdancer
    they certainly seem a trifle perturbed... http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/20-6 stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  16. dreamdancer
    indeed, magicians seem to cut their volunteers in half
  17. dreamdancer
    and notice who did the taxing back then - the king and his super rich buddies
  18. dreamdancer
    i'll concede that then
  19. dreamdancer
    I was wondering where you got your economics; now I'm wondering where you get your history. There was nothing "sudden" about huge agricultural surpluses. They began to occur as farming methods improved, which took place in fits and starts over several millenia. You are correct though in that the successes of early agriculrure were the foundation for civilization, the beginnings of commerce, and the founding of the first things we would eventually call states. Wrong about that leading to warloards though. They were not dependent on agriculture, or even on others that practiced agricultrure. They were just as happy to slaughter other nomadic foragers and herders as they were to slaughter city folk. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/about/transcripts/episode12/ stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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    evolution will produce a winner... http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527524.300-credit-card-theft-theres-an-app-for-that.html stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  21. dreamdancer
    they laugh at?
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    interesting... http://www.alternet.org/media/146040/what_white_people_fear_ stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  23. dreamdancer
    there is no time element involved in barter. i have a good - you have a good. we swap - we walk away immediately satisfied. now, we can have an imperfect barter trade along the lines of - i only have 2 sheep at the moment but i will give you 3 more sheep later for that single cow at the moment. the trader with the cow accepts the trade and walks away with 2 sheep and a promise/iou/money in his pocket for 3 more sheep to cash in at the next market
  24. dreamdancer
    yes it does
  25. dreamdancer
    have the israelis gone too far... http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/16-1 stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding