Where does the operating system and software come from, if not from the CPU? Is computer software just an illusion being experienced by a computer?
Computer operating systems, CPUs,and software are expressions of consciousness. In fact, all technology is an expression of consciousness. I assume you believe that the software and operating system are also separate from the CPU and memory they are running on? Well, when you go to the store, can you buy software and operating systems independent of CPUs and memory? Sure, they're different. Oh, so is that how you see our "cosciousness," just software running on a computer, and the computer being (eventually, far in the future) swappable? |
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The key is that radical environmentalists/feminists are annoying. I'm pro recycling/sustainable practices/anti littering, and pro equal rights/equal pay etc, but those people who tell me that I'm a bad person for not driving a hybrid, or that think that women deserve to be better than men due to past descrimination, are the stereotype that people have come to hate. Not to turn this into a religious debate, but for example theres nothing exciting about a Muslim family doing their religious things in their own homes and places of worship, however the things that radicals do are what people hear about, and thats what sticks as common perception.
Recycling and sustainable practices are actually small contributions to helping the environment. But by all means, don't stop. The real killers are industry, legal and illegal. Dams, fishing practices, logging, poaching, highway construction, suburban sprawl, economic growth, factory emissions, deforestation, ecosystem fracturing due to edge effects, agriculture, pesticides, mining and drilling and the necessary attendant infrastructure which brings about edge effects, industrial accidents, oil spills... The only possible solution to that list is to drastically reduce the population numbers. Oh well. That's the truth of it. Economic growth and population growth aren't good for the environment. It's a good thing some of us have goals beyond just "the environment." Spaaaaaaaaaace! |
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A huge purpose for a price, whether that is for a product or for a job, is to signal the demand for it. Lower wages in certain jobs indicates their demand, or need, in a society. Obviously a teacher is way more important to society and economy than a garbage collector or a janitor. If this gets implemented, the result may be huge distortions in labor wage signals. Basically the reason some jobs pay more than others is because some jobs are more needed that others, and things that people may just want to do as a hobby, which may normally not pay enough, are just not needed in society. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people decide to work as videogame testers, for pennies an hour (huge influx of such workers = reduced wages), which would basically really stagnate their economy.
This is already happening anyway. Competence being equal, you are usually paid less to do a job which more people want to do, because more people apply to position, lowering the salary. It wouldn't change anything. But the low wage still signals to potential employees that the supply of labor for that particulat type of job is too high, and thus they would be better off educating or specializing themselves into a field that is in higher demand in that economy. If there are too few people who can do surgery or programming, and plenty of people who can do janitoreal work, the wages reflect that, and people strive to get into the higher paying jobs, until that job market gets saturated (it has enough workers to satisfy demand), at which point they distribute to other jobs that are in demand. If both of those jobs pay nearly the same, or even if the difference in wage is not as high as it would be in a "natural" state, people may either believe that surgeons/programmers aren't in as high demand as they really are, or that janitors are in a much higher demand than they are. This will cause high unemployment among janitors (too many people seeking too few such easy jobs), and a shortage of skilled labor (too few people looking for such a position, and pay difference is not high enough to compensate for the vastly increased level of skill required). |
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Where does the operating system and software come from, if not from the CPU? Is computer software just an illusion being experienced by a computer?
Computer operating systems, CPUs,and software are expressions of consciousness. In fact, all technology is an expression of consciousness. I assume you believe that the software and operating system are also separate from the CPU and memory they are running on? |
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A huge purpose for a price, whether that is for a product or for a job, is to signal the demand for it. Lower wages in certain jobs indicates their demand, or need, in a society. Obviously a teacher is way more important to society and economy than a garbage collector or a janitor. If this gets implemented, the result may be huge distortions in labor wage signals. Basically the reason some jobs pay more than others is because some jobs are more needed than others, and things that people may just want to do as a hobby, which may normally not pay enough, are just not needed in society. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people decide to work as videogame testers, for pennies an hour (huge influx of such workers = reduced wages), which would basically really stagnate their economy.
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They'll impeach obama before any real solution happens and that'll be impossible with all the democrats in office atm
That would require Obama to actually do something illegal. And Bush Jr. has set such a high bar with that, that I doubt any president will ever be successfully impeached. |
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The key is that radical environmentalists/feminists are annoying. I'm pro recycling/sustainable practices/anti littering, and pro equal rights/equal pay etc, but those people who tell me that I'm a bad person for not driving a hybrid, or that think that women deserve to be better than men due to past descrimination, are the stereotype that people have come to hate. Not to turn this into a religious debate, but for example theres nothing exciting about a Muslim family doing their religious things in their own homes and places of worship, however the things that radicals do are what people hear about, and thats what sticks as common perception.
Recycling and sustainable practices are actually small contributions to helping the environment. But by all means, don't stop. The real killers are industry, legal and illegal. Dams, fishing practices, logging, poaching, highway construction, suburban sprawl, economic growth, factory emissions, deforestation, ecosystem fracturing due to edge effects, agriculture, pesticides, mining and drilling and the necessary attendant infrastructure which brings about edge effects, industrial accidents, oil spills... The only possible solution to that list is to drastically reduce the population numbers. Oh well. |
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Just sit back and enjoy watching the entertaining drama.
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Where does the operating system and software come from, if not from the CPU? Is computer software just an illusion being experienced by a computer?
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People, lol! You all just ignore my messages but your ideas clearly point to dianna-project.org
Take a hint and stop spamming your thing on this topic? Go bump your own topic, and hope others join in. |
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I hope people don't judge me that way because I drive a Prius (though I do get a bit of road rage aimed at me now and then). My buying it had nothing to do with environmentalism, and was entirely for financial reasons (saving a ton of money), and because I'm a tech junkie, and that thing is practically a smartphone on wheels.
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Not sure about floating...
...but on about a half-dozen occasions, I've successfully cured myself from various colds/flus/bronchial infections in approximately an hour through meditation. It hasn't always worked, and success seems contingent upon my motivation and concentration during each attempt.
Are you sure it wasn't just a temporary allergy? Something had to have happened to all those virus cells in your body. They can't just disappear because you thought about it in some special way. |
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Still, I don't want to harm my thoughts either, which is what a psychedelic does.
Agreed. I value my mind, and my ability to think clearly, so much that I refuse to take any such drugs, or even to get drunk on alcohol. I only have a few decades to use my brain cells (unless we hit singularity). I don't want to burn them out too quickly. |
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I have hallucinated on demand many times of the same object, I know it can be replicated.
That's nice. That's not what is meant by "replicated" though. Get 5 others to hallucinate the exact same thing while being in separate environments away from each other, and maybe someone somewhere will give a shit. I can't let doubt bring me down if I'm going to fly. I know what's true. And no, it won't be off a roof but on a stage with many people watching.
Easy enough. Just have to fall, and get distracted by something else so much that you miss the ground. Or how about my friend who has floated while on mushrooms? Several people witnessed the event. Would you give a shit then? How about if it was repeated in front of many people? Do you really need proof or can you just have faith I may know what I'm talking about? Yes, I really need proof. Though I am willing to take the word of people who have a respectable reputation. You and your friends do not, so with you id need proof. Moreso, I would need the exact steps needed to recreate this scenario. "He just got lucky, and somehow managed to do it" won't cut it. I need something that you know will make anyone who tries the same thing float. |
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I have hallucinated on demand many times of the same object, I know it can be replicated.
That's nice. That's not what is meant by "replicated" though. Get 5 others to hallucinate the exact same thing while being in separate environments away from each other, and maybe someone somewhere will give a shit. I can't let doubt bring me down if I'm going to fly. I know what's true. And no, it won't be off a roof but on a stage with many people watching.
Easy enough. Just have to fall, and get distracted by something else so much that you miss the ground. |
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I'm not interested in harming my body even if it makes me believe in god. Do you not realize this? You are ingesting ACID! You're killing yourself, literally, cell by cell. Acids destroy living cells!
Uh, dude, the acid in your stomach is hundreds if not thousands of times more potent than the stuff in the psychedelic. Plus we drink carbonic acid in carbonated soft drinks, lactic acid in milk, and citric acid in orange juice and a ton of other things. Acids aren't a problem. Psychedelics are. |
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That's one area where Namecoin was very weak. Its blockchain may have started out smaller, but its scalability is no better than Bitcoin's, and it'll eventually have the same problems (like all Bitcoin-based altcoins). But if your decentralized DNS doesn't include a currency, then old data about domain ownership can be more easily forgotten. For example, if you require that registrants renew their domains weekly, then resolvers only need the last few weeks of full blockchain data (plus headers to verify the chain). There may also be better ways of doing this that don't require frequent renewal. (You can also do this sort of renewal thing with BTC in order to reduce download requirements, but it'd be really unpopular.)
Well, Namecoin name registrations are rather short term (3 or 6 months?), so I wonder if that can't be implemented in some way, the same way Bitcoin will do pruning. |
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Given that soon Plunder Woman is to be "in charge" of the USD, it might be better to forget about the USD cross altogether and consider: - [When] will bitcoin reach gold-ounce parity?
- [When] will bitcoin reach gold-pound (twelve ozt) parity?
- [When] will bitcoin reach gold-kilo-bar parity?
And so on. When Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Bill Gates, and a few others get their space mining operation off the ground  |
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I liked your post rassah, but I beg to differ that personal encounters of god are proof of existence. How else can you explain something ripping a hole into this dimension and interacting with you?
I don't have to explain it. You don't either. You just have to make it happen again and again, so we can test it, and see what is going on. Until you do that, there is nothing to explain, or even talk about. I can explain how evolution in consciousness leads to evolved physical states.
Lost 50 pounds in 6 months after finding my soul and soul mate. No working out, just being positive and with psychedelics which evolves consciousness. I had invega, an anti-psychotic that blocks out your brain, shot into me against my will and I gained 20-30 pounds in a matter of weeks. Now invega is nearly 70-80% out of me and I am getting back in shape fast.
This works on every scale.
Your DNA is still the same, and you are still (sadly) capable of reproducing with the human species, so you haven't evolved in the slightest. |
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I was really hoping someone would give me a counter argument that it is mathematically impossible for the earth to evolve by chance. The calculations of British mathematician Roger Penrose show that the probability of universe conducive to life occurring by chance is in 10 to the 10123 power. The phrase "extremely unlikely" is inadequate to describe this possibility. http://www.faizani.com/news/news_2003/math_impossibility.htmlCall God imaginary if you want. But if it was not God, there is still an intelligent designer. It is mathematically proven. First of all, this is for abiogenesis (life being formed spontaneously), not evolution. But this is another example of, "It is extremely improbable, yet here we are," and not "it is extremely improbable, so the Christian god did it." The answers to this argument could be any of the following: * The calculation was wrong, because he didn't take into account the correct number of planets in the universe, the correct number of attempts that could happen every second, or some other mathematical fluke * He may not have understood the abiogenesis process correctly, and the requirements for creating life may be much simpler than what we understood when he calculated that. * Despite the extremely small probability, since the probability is >0, we got lucky * Some god or alien being from another universe, where the chances of life creation are much higher, came into our unverse and created the first seeds of like, then left a very long time ago * Some god-like deity, like what Christians and Jews believe in, created us millions of years ago, and have had no contact with us for the hundreds of thousands of years ever since, except for maybe that one time 2000 years ago. * We are all just a figment of someone's immagination. * Something completely different we haven't even thought or coonceived of yet Plus a ton more I'm too lazy to think up of. Point is, Not(A) does not automatically equal B. |
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