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by superobserver 12y ago
Isn't the main issue with Mars not it's atmosphere or landscape but rather the fact that it has no magnetic field to speak of? That poses an issue for electronics as well as any living beings that aren't tardigrades. Edit: th
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by superobserver 12y ago
Some might find the game plan partly shared (in addition to the main angle on Snowden revelations) by Kim Dotcom and the Internet Party of New Zealand: http://kim.com
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by superobserver 12y ago
Passive voice has a sense of "objectivity" to it, which would explain its prevalence. In my opinion, it is harmful in the sense that experiments (papers) are by no means truly objective, but rather attempts at raising subjectivity
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by superobserver 12y ago
Entertaining find.
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by superobserver 12y ago
I guess we can see the level of ethics Mitchell possesses and how well equipped he is to aid and abet the dissolution of anyone's ego-strength for the powers that be. If I were asked - and while I'm no psychologist - you can be su
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by superobserver 12y ago
That made me LOL. This might actually make for an interesting way (via A.I.) to find loopholes in law, seeing law as a programmatic way to determine acceptable societal PID's.
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by superobserver 12y ago
The machine (software program) lacks sufficient awareness beyond mechanical execution of the programmer's own will; therefore, it holds infinitesimal responsibility for its actions. In order to prevent further violations of law, it sho
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by superobserver 12y ago
Thanks. Reminds me of this book, which I also highly recommend in the same vein: http://www.amazon.com/The-Master-His-Emissary-Divided/dp/030... .
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by superobserver 12y ago
Visual thinking, a more closely related subset of diagrammatic reasoning (which need not be visual, incidentally), is in no shape or form "privileged". Visual thought is in fact closer to the general form of thinking that might be
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by superobserver 12y ago
My statement wasn't polemical. And contrary to the body of literature that likes to tout that "all is literature/language", there are many conceptual schemes that do not comport themselves to linguistic expression, which
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by superobserver 12y ago
Language is not the basis of thought. If someone thinks only with a mental narrative (in words, some language), then they're not really thinking in the broadest sense.
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by superobserver 12y ago
Does he at least consider Thorium as a nuclear power source?
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by superobserver 12y ago
Not non-intuitive at all. Reminds me of Rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock but in dice form.
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by superobserver 12y ago
My personal experience as a UNIX convert - straight from a Liberal Arts background - forged by years of intuited computer know-how seems to bear this out. I haven't had much use of this yet, but supposing others aren't aware of it