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People are quick to forget that the human mind is a firewall in computing environments. A car that can be remotely turned off by satellite signal is not a car with which I would wa…

I consider all distinguishing characteristics between people or groups of people to be projections utilized by human minds to motivate and bring forth highly-ritualized purifying v…

Perhaps divine retribution is a better explanation than ritual sacrifice in theocratic regimes, in the case that a god or a group of gods require the death of the mortal body so th…

Disagree completely. Capital punishment has always been little more than ritual sacrifice. War itself may be little more than ritual sacrifice.

Because it evolved. You cannot outrun these.

...But could you match a platform to a slipcoach's velocity?

...It's unusual to me that Australians do police.

I have someone to chat to and they're aren't a bot, and maybe they have like a lifetime of experiences from a nation I will never really know and cannot really imagine. It's cool a…

MIT developed a molten glass extruder recently although I'm not sure it can do borosilicate: http://matter.media.mit.edu/environments/details/glass-ii I am interested in the amount…

What about individuals who prefer tent dwelling and regular work (paid and volunteer) but eschew both illegal drug use and unemployment? I have a tent I could call a home but am no…

Excellent question. I think there's no philosophy to discuss, it is simply, "That person is driving a car in their clothes."

It's the cargo cult of Western Civilization, when Plato, Aristotle, Greece, and Rome are taught. Universities and teachers invoke the grandeur and largesse of ancient empires and p…

I've known one U.S. karoshi. Beyond that, I know maybe four or five individuals, myself included, in private and public sector U.S. roles, who have overwork habits: cigarettes and/…

I agree with the second statement. As for the first one, there's some other stuff in there too: Mythologies, religions, Foucault, philosophy of science. Why some wear t-shirts and …

The lesson that one should never take candy from strangers does not seem like an acceptable place to practice human experimentation, especially on children.

Pre-undergraduate education is nothing like the University level. Some of the students have never been in a laboratory, some of them didn't have user-serviceable cars or bicycles o…

It used to be said that certain kings or personages were made of glass and that if you touched them, they would shatter and the kingdom would fall. Much like a regular private hot …

I grew up in the Danger Zone and it was dull.

I could tell you but it'd void your cake's warranty.

I wonder what the competing groups were eating. Also a very standard practice to replace the Conquered's diet with that of the Conquerors.

I think it's "Survival of the Fittest Ecosystem," actually. So not like, "Humans are fittest," but instead, "Human eating corn cow sheep soy etc. while building machines is fittest…

It's all about self-refueling self-replicating water-burning probes. Map the Oort Cloud like that and you'll make a penny!!