I've seen a school bus in porn that neither drives kids to school nor is it owned or operated by one. Next definition.

Here is an article from Vice of all places about this research, from June http://motherboard.vice.com/re...

Research paper here: http://cs.nyu.edu/~zaremba/doc...

Also, a funny video demonstrating the rudimental nature of nintendo ds brain training pattern recognition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

There were more than one actors in that movie, and I doubt their opinions are identical to each other. How do you decide between them? Surely only one of them can be right.

In other words, the fact that someone acted in a movie does not make their opinion more valuable than that of someone who hasn't.

The beauty of math is that you don't have to believe in it, it will be true (if calculated/proved correctly) regardless.

Having seen blade runner myself, surely I am capable of judging the finished product without having to take the word of someone who has achieved fame by some method other than judging movie scripts?

Thanks for assuming I'm white you racist piece of shit.

Mirai means (far) future in japanese, as opposed to shourai, which means near future.

This is not a mistake, this is what happens when you hold "good intentions" above everything, destroying priceless artifacts in the process through sheer ignorance. It's this way of thinking that's ruining the world, far more than whatever cause they were trying to draw attention to.

So BP is as despicable as Greenpeace, who irreversibly defiled an ancient monument and world heritage site, because they made a mistake? That sounds like a very reasonable assessment.

What's the sound of mustard?

Just because you can arrange words grammatically in the form of a question doesn't mean you're actually asking anything sensible. Knowledge is valuable for knowledge's sake, even without a further use.

I'd love to play the game with the Giant. I can't imagine a more interesting game.

To not like games is to not like life. Everything is a game. At work I try to find the flaws in arguments proposed by others, and attempt to propose flawless arguments of my own. When I ride my bike home I try to dodge as many pedestrians and other road users as I can, and then when I get home I try to minimize the amount of time engaged in activities I don't find enjoyable. Everything here revolves around optimal resource allocation. Even what I'm doing right now is a game. I send my thoughts across the world, in an attempt to harvest thoughtful replies. Sometimes I'm successful, sometimes I'm less successful, but no matter what happens, I'm rewarded proportionally to my achievement.

Not liking games is like not liking music. I guess there must be some people who don't, but they're as aberrant as autists or psychopaths. If you do not like games you're missing a basic component of what it means to be human.

Best laugh I've had on slashdot in a while. Good job

What kind of reprobate uses bing?

Thought experiments are not inherently meant to not give "real answers". Galileo used a thought experiment to prove Aristotle's theory of gravity wrong. Aristotle held that heavy objects fell faster than light ones. Galileo asked us to imagine a heavy object tied to a light object by a rope. Based on Aristotle's hypothesis, tying a light object to a heavy one would make the heavy one fall slower; as the light object would naturally fall more slowly than the heavy one, it would 'hold the heavy object back' in its fall. However, also based on Aristotle's hypothesis, tying a light object to a heavy object would make the heavy object fall faster, as its mass had now been increased by the mass of the light object. Given the fact that assuming the same premise ("Heavier objects fall faster than light ones") lead to opposite conclusions, Galileo reasoned that the premise had to be false, on the basis of the foregoing thought experiment.