Icefire

I'm pretty sure the easiest quiz is:

Is this a quiz? (Yes/No)

but oh, well.

I got 3,4,6, and 8 correct on first try giving me a score of 65%

second try was 90% (#10), third was 100%

They should be treated the same and they can live among humans (but probably in a less... strict society); just that if they wanted to build a summer home on the moon it would be significantly cheaper because they would not require an atmosphere.

So are you suggesting that we deport androids to distant planets?

Not really. But if they felt that they would like to have their own country one with an environment less likely to rust, decompose, or just short-circuit them may be a better solution.

I'm an Orthodox Agnostic ( believe there is a god but I doubt the bible is the truth), and I consider that women should receive equal treatment, and should actually be treated better because science can make the man unneeded to reproduce, but women cannot be replaced with something else.

To me the major side effects of creating androids would be how the world reacts to them. I doubt that they could walk around living their daily lives like any other human because more extremist groups, such as the Westboro "Baptist" Church, would claim that the Android has no soul, is an abomination, and must be destroyed. However, giving their abilities to exist in an environment without an atmosphere, androids would be well suited for space travel, and they could colonize the moon easily because all they need is a power source, and maybe shelter from the sun when it's at it's brightest.

It's like a bowl of cherries.

My thoughts are:

While Healthcare reform was all the rage in the 60's or so, the USA was in the middle of the war and never got in vogue. By the time that the war was finished, healthcare reform dropped out of style and so the States never got on the bandwagon. After that the two parties continued to try to use anything possible to colour the opposing party as evil, so anything significant was never passed because the parties would never agree and they would try to paint the New Change as something evil. Then after The Era of Bush the US citizens realized that their president was an idiot and some got the impression that the country was falling apart, so they elected a president that was obviously different then the rest and promised change. Then when the new president came in power, he went on to tackle the biggest change in the history of America, which the opposing party tied to convince the people that it was an evil attempt to take over the lives of the people. now the wars with [del]socalist[/del] Totalist USSR, [del]socalist[/del] Totalist Vietnam, [del]socalist[/del] Totalist Iraq, etc the majority of the american have been inflicted with propaganda that painted everything socialist as evil, so they tried to reject the reform as much as possible. then the president modified the more extreme parts, and then finally managed to get it passed.

The End.

johny was a chemist son

but now he is no more

for what he thought was h2o

was h2so4

I've ridden in a boat that looks like a giant tricycle. It is easy to use (just pedal) but not very fast.

Me to. When I was a kid we always went camping at Long Lake (northern Alberta) because it was the cheapest campground while still being pretty decent. the boat rental house had those alongside what looks like a bicycle on top of a kayak.

All that I know is that here in Canada we get a lot of Asian students, and that our student loan programs are pretty decent.

Other than that sorry can't help.

[math]person \neq human[/math]

 

Yes, we can have silicon people too. They'll think like people, act like people, and probably be far smarter and more virtuous than normal humans.

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To me this is the only truth possible without going against my heritage and country.

I have never used one and I'm pretty sure that in Alberta there is only a hundred or so in private homes and high-end hotels. To me bidets are a tad creepy, and I'm slightly terrified of accidentally bruising a ball with a high pressure jet.

Also keep in mind, online MMO's require being online - and those games might leave a port open that anyone can just reach into and grab your account info (although it might be a waste of time if all you do is game, there won't be much sensative data)

 

I'd at least get a firewall

agreed, tho once the virus is in place your performance benefits go down the drainb.

So how do we reproduce if we all end up as androids?

most likely two androids wouls plug into each other and combine their codebase into an entirely new codebase based on the other two. then the codebase would be uploaded into a new body, which may have been built using the combined blueprints of the original two androids.

I am not beautiful ,but i am a happy girl!

And that's all that matters.

if you're nice to be around, then people will like you no matter what you look like.

I doubt it. some of those patches are to prevent your computer from being compromised by sniffers, and if you got to even ONE page hosting malware (even a "safe" site can be compromised), your computer is a goner.

the nbest plan is to keep it up to date, but use nLite to remove unnecessary rescources

It requires too much energy to leave gravity wells such as Earth.

Which is probably a good thing, because with enough space travel we run he risk of eventually dissipating earth's mass into the void.

To me it really depends on how close the copy is to being able to function like a human and relate to others. For example: if a copy ends up being significantly limited in it's cognitive abilities but it still can understand and relate to flesh and bone people and understand what makes them happy or sad, then it can still be considered a person. However if the copy has near perfect cognitive abilities but the only way it understands and relates to other people is to achieve it's own goals and needs then I have a hard time considering it to be more than an animal, and it could be as hazardous as the sharks from Deep Blue Sea or Vicki from I, Robot.

The only thing I can think of is that it stems from depression/stress. Do this for ten minutes every day and see if it helps. Couldn't hurt.

It's big.

Basically the change is that in almost all cases the compiler/gui is in complete control over the layout of a window. This means that instead of an application declaring where every window element would be, it would have a file that would declare every element. Here's some examples using pictures from Apple's HI guideline.

WindowNoResize (Settings, "Imagetype Changer Preference"); //declares a standard window with no resizing handles, dimensions are automatic. also declares the title of the window and the call function (Settings).
Include Help (manual.pdf); //declares that there is a help button included, which in this case launches the pdf manual
section 1 ("General Editing") //creates the first section and gives it a title. the following is it's contents
radio (ImageOption, 0="Select existing image", 1="Add a margin around image") //declares a radio button with two option, sets the result to ImageOption 
InputBox Integer ( "Size:", ImageSize, "points") //declares an inputbox for numbers, surrounding text, and location where to store the result.
CheckBox (ReposChange, "Reposition windows after change") //declares a checkbox and sends the result (TRUE/FALSE) to ReposChange
CheckBox (Remember, "Remember recent items") //declares a checkbox and sends the result to Remember
end section 1; //finishes section
section 2 ("Clipboard settings") //declares section two
Radio (ClipOpt, 0="Copy selection from image only", 1="Erase section from Image") //declares radio, sends results to ClipOpt
CheckBox (Dither, "Dither content of clipboard") //declares checkbox, sends results to Dither
end section 2;
section 3 ("Color Optimization:") //declares section three
CheckBox (Calc, "Calculate best color table")
CheckBox (Ver, "Verify color table integrity")
CheckBox (NoteLoss, "Notify on loss of color information")
CheckBox (NoteBef, "Notify before CMYK to RGB conversion")
end section 3;
end window //declres the end of the window's code.

then the compiler or the Operating System's GUI will use this information to render the following window:

This will also be a boon for cross-platform programming because the compiler and GUI have full control, so they can make the code follow the Interface guidelines of the OS being compiled for (or that the program is sunning on, in the case of java and other cross-platform executables).

and yes, I know that there are serious flows in the code itself, but I'm not really a programmer.

Is it wrong that I thought that you were asking how Expansion Packs for The Sims work?

i think we need to investigate the oceans a lot more before going out and spending billions on space, i think we have lots to learn about the oceans that will aid in our search for life elsewhere.

Agreed. for all we know there could be a civilization of sentient organisms hiding in the deepest parts.

Probably, but I'd like to see how exactly the cells can function without oxygen before going out to find life in the diamond seas of distant worlds.

No.

autoclaving volatile elements such as Ether is not recommended because doing so will cause the Ether to destabilize, which will end up damaging the structural integrity of surrounding matter due to the rate of dispersion.