Originally envisioned, as you say. I would encourage you to focus more on actuality too. Yet I presume that as the anti-gun lobby has also raised simi...
Well, above you did say that the original intention of the 2nd amendment was for the citizens to stop the government, here meaning their own governmen...
Frank, you just promote the (cartoon?) image of Americans that think the biggest threat to them is the US government, but having guns solves the probl...
Basically a free market system leads to oligopoly competition. This is a fact, just look at any industry or sector and the ten biggest companies domin...
Then the question, which is obvious even from the Wikipedia article, was the fear against a standing professional army, which btw you have now as the ...
Yeah, ton of literature especially pushed out by the gun lobby. Yet the argument is simply nuts if you would stop and think about it. Because if you h...
Which then goes against the "well regulated militia part" intended for the protection of the state, if you haven't noticed. Or, wait a minute, does it...
The continuation of the species? Or is that too classical? I've noticed that this antinatalism idea creates a lot of debate here. I think it's just a ...
To state the absurdity of the lunatic fantasies of some gunowners in the US has nothing to do with the case of District of Columbia vs Heller, actuall...
If eye-witnesses claim something and we cannot immediately explain it, why should we in the first place assume it's supernatural? There are still a lo...
Naturally emotional reasoning is quite logical if the issue at hand is about emotions. Hence the relationship with your spouse is about feelings towar...
Seems you like trolling I think the amendment is quite clear, but a lot of people suffer from dyslexia when it comes to the 2nd Amendment. Sure, peopl...
Actually, that chart shows precisely when China started it's economic reforms, which happened in 1978. Then it started (and succeeded) to throw away t...
So Trump's new fight is with Chief Justice John Roberts and the "total & complete disaster 9th Circuit". Of course Trump has a history of attacking th...
Exactly. Especially when you think about the historical alternative to capitalism, the autocratic central planned economies of socialism. If something...
I didn't mean that we shouldn't talk if our togethereness is only virtual. It was much more of a remark on the value choices that we make how we spend...
Is there any irony in that this debate we are having is all thanks to the internet? No other possible media would have brought total strangers to talk...
Seems to me that we are finding some kind of common ground here. Cool. So the point here is that you just remember that if there is one black swan, no...
I think that Preussia was first (or one of the first) nations to have a modern education system with things like having grades starting education from...
To be vague or in other ways to leave their space for interpretation can be useful sometimes. Especially in diplomacy, a multilateral agreement might ...
Last greats? a) Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber from 1936. b) While have drawn cartoons once for the university paper, here's my pick for the last...
You nailed it Apokrisis, this is exactly what has been done. It's been the assumption that with better models and in time things like this can be avoi...
Is it? At least the US is more corrupt than many European countries. By the Corruption Perception Index, the least corrupt states are in order (with E...
Ok, I'll try to explain again, thanks for having the interest and hopefully you'll get through this long answer and understand it. Let's look at the b...
Are you serious? Well, to give an easy example: if you would model reality with just Newtonian physics, your GPS-system wouldn't be so accurate as the...
Poetry that touches people tells something about their lives and their feelings. Hence poetry from the WW1 era is from an age we have problems to rela...
Yep. Here the ecological succession of a forest takes roughly about 100-200 years. And if you ever have been in a forest that has been left to it's na...
Um, outside your home lawn I don't think Finns do that. Of course except for particular nature reserves, the forests are from time to time cut down an...
Yet we know that the reality cannot be at all times accurately modelled with the idea of a clock-work mechanical universe. Quantum Physics and relativ...
Well, Preussia unified Germany and had a long military tradition, however just to put this to be a Preussian issue doesn't tell the truth of pre-WW1 E...
No. I'm just explaining the limitations of computation and using algorithms. Again no. Look, if I were to say that not everything is purely mechanical...
Ah, Trump has mentioned my puny little country! Perhaps California is a little bit different from Finland with things like the climate. .................
Bitter Crank, gorilla or guerilla? I think that guerillas are far more dangerous than gorillas, even if there actually are quite few of them also. Yet...
With the way the algorithm instructs them to do. Notice the part "which wasn't at all described in the first program to be done". That part you see me...
Fair enough. I'm not implying that there is any magic either, only that our current Turing Machines called computers have severe limitations in being ...
SteveKlinko, The problem is that people see in your argument just the words "Science has zero understanding" and they stop reading there as they are o...
I would say then that computers really can think, but I assume that I would be just confusing you. Ok. Assume a computer that you give a program to ru...
Neither have you my post. You see the definition of a computer, a Turing Machine, matters. It's not a synonym for agent. Computation has it's limits. ...
Yet how the handle the data has to be in the algorithm. There surely can be feedback loops even in very simple computer programs, that in the old days...
Again: Definitions of an algorithm: "A process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a com...
My have to go soon to sleep. That is in a way a totally different time and not only in Germany. Europeans hadn't seen a major war since the Napoleonic...
I think that you aren't grasping the fact that this is basic and a fundamental issue in Computer science and computational theory. An algorithm is sim...
Yes. And there's exactly the problem. Just from the Wikipedia link you gave me: As I said, the Computer has to have an algorithm. It cannot do anythin...
Yeah, but unlike computers which follow orders and basically use algorithms, we being conscious can look at those rules/algorithms and create somethin...
Well, the last veterans of WW1 have already died. In the US there are less than half a million veterans of WW2 alive from the 16 million that served i...
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