Well. In the end, it depends upon the definition of 'religion', right? But at least some variations of Buddhism are exactly as I have described it. There are definitely some branches which are just as entrenched in magical thinking as the Abrahamic faiths - but then there are atheists who believe in crystal healing, gray aliens, or other magical things - nobody can win every battle.

You know, there is at least one religion that says "There is no god: You are responsible for the mess you are in. Do something about it. Think for yourself - learn to develop and use critical thinking; and don't give me your money. If you want to show respect, follow my advice."

Oi! Some of us are old enough to remember 1953.

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While I couldn't agree with you more, if we are willing to take the phrase out of context, in this context, the phrase 'miscarriage of justice' occurs when an unfair outcome occurs in a criminal or civil proceeding, such as the conviction and punishment of a person for a crime they did not commit. In US Law, this is called a 'wrongful conviction'.

It is, of course, relevant to consider the death penalty. For those countries that still adhere to capital punishment, every wrongful execution is a miscarriage of justice of huge ramifications. So, in terms of 'British History' itself, we should be limiting ourselves to miscarriages of justice that took place after The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965. Then for specific crimes, I guess one could look at the length of incarceration.. Stefan Kiszko, for instance, spent 16 horrible years in prison being blamed for murdering a schoolgirl. However, the there were over 900 subpostmasters convicted - this job is one of many low-paid, low-management, but high responsibility positions given to those who really want to serve their local community. Most of them were not educated in their rights and privileges, and had signed contracts that were punitive to say the least. The organisation responsible for their situation was - ultimately - the UK government. It was a royally assented cock-up of huge proportions.

Of course this doesn't compare to what the British Empire did in South Africa. But it doesn't make it ok.

No, that is because you are a shape-shifting alien lizard. It's the only answer.

It surprises me. I don't know why. TV stations love to palm off their latest documentaries as news. The BBC are unashamed at it, and looked here - yet another one getting all excited over DBCooper. I guess in 20 odd years we will have something about a scuff on princess diana's left shoe pointing to some conspiracy. Good investigative news deals with current affairs - Spotlight, for instance, rewrote the catholic church. But this? Hmmm.

Stepping aside from the steam wars and PC vs Apple wars stuff going on here, Apple made history in the past with many early games starting on its hardware. The challenge I have with the steam/pc arguments is that there's a cyclic reinforcement which is strongly indicative of vendor tie-in. Ports onto eg switch or PS are notoriously overpriced compared to the PC variants. Most publishing houses look at the main market (pc on steam) and develop for that. It doesn't mean that either steam or PC are particularly good: it's just hard to know how best to exploit a break out from that cycle. I would argue in favour of Steam here, but I would also suggest that PC / active-x architecture is coming to end of life: In fact it's way beyond end of life and is merely being propped up by the inertia of glory's gaming community. This is merely my opinion - yet I think that we are almost ready for revolutionary approaches to gaming: eg in situ multi device concurrent RT sitational experiences, modifications in the meaning of identity as 'a player' - not so much MMORG but massive network interconnectivity using completely novel architectures. If we are still 'is it apple/console/pc/mobile' we have missed the point.

thanks for an intelligent explanation of the USA for those who don't live there (possibly for some who do). Economically, the problem with tipping and service charges is that they are unregulated, and offer no protection to the workers that are governed that way. Many of these workers do not get holiday pay or sick pay, and likewise have no governing work contract that protects their right to work. This, I believe, is what is wrong with a tipping culture. In the U.K. (where I live) management takes a huge chunk of the tips and service charge. Serving staff that pocket cash tips have to be careful not to lose their jobs; and server behaviour does not affect how much they are given from the weekly yield. Therefore the 'incentive' argument is dissolved. It's merely a means of adding a 15-20% charge to the menu prices. Moreover, double charging has become more common too, with both a default service charge added to the bill, and a tip expected at the table. It's not just the customer that is uncomfortable with this. The tax man takes his 20% off the menu price, (which most restaurants claim back off expenses, being VAT registered) but service charges and tips are 'grey' payments that mainly go directly into the personal profits of the proprietor.

Those aren't even interesting mappings. Try this - it's a reinterpretation of the bresenham line algorithm. ``` using Python3.10, write a function that, given parameter n (a positive integer), follows these criteria: (01) return a list of 2n+2 strings (zero-indexed, from 0 to 2n+1) (02) each element of the list is a string of 2n+1 characters (03) all characters are either 1 or 0. (04) each string is a palindrome (05) for odd-index strings, the central character is a 1. (06) for even-index strings, the central character is a 0. (07) the count of 1 in each string is equal to its index. (08) the string at index i is a 1's complement of string (2n+1)-i. (09) for strings at index = n, each '1' separates the string into substrings of 0's such that their lengths are as equal as possible. Here are some examples for n=1,2,3,7. n=1 would return: ['000', '010', '101','111'] n=2 would return: ['00000','00100','01010','10101','11011','11111'] n=3 would return: ['0000000','0001000','0010100','0101010','1010101','1101011','1110111','1111111'], n=7 could return: ['000000000000000', '000000010000000', '000010000010000', '000100010001000', '001001000100100', '010010010010010', '010100101001010', '010101010101010', '101010101010101', '101011010110101', '101101101101101', '110110111011011', '111011101110111', '111101111101111', '111111101111111', '111111111111111'] ```

I could not agree less. I recently asked chatGPT to tell me how many '1' digits are in the string "000100". It's response? "2".
Actually, anything that involves any form of analysis demonstrates the inability of LLM AI. If you want an AI to write a quicksort algorithm in python, it will have a go -because it's got great examples to choose from. However, if you provide a set of inputs and their corresponding outputs, and ask the AI to identify the underlying function, it will fail dismally. Even pretty simple mappings, easily identifiable by students, are not going to be found. So, in brief, LLM AIs are great for resynthesising content -but no good for analysis. There are other machine learning methods for some things, but the current status of AI remains deeply underwhelming.

I see many intelligent comments, but most have a strong agenda, including the OP. Let's review some basic facts which should be inarguable for most people by now.
* Fossil fuels are the fundamental cause of the holocene extinction.
* Fossil fuels, mainly via CO2 release, are attributable to climate change and global warming
* Fossil fuels provide (in the immediate term) the cheapest, most compact form of energy available to us.
* The entire logistic infrastructures of most countries depend upon fossil fuels.
* Almost all (if not all) large industry depends upon fossil fuels. (Eg: agriculture, via the Haber process as well as for large machinery).
* It follows that the last nations to stop fossil fuels will have an economic advantage over any others.
* All substitute energy sources are faced with problems - easily demonstrated by their economic cost differential.
* There is no doubt that the economic strain caused by any forced withdrawal of fossil fuels (and their dependencies) will impact everyone not protected by wealth.
* This last fact means that most democracies do not dare to implement the draconian laws that would be necessary to mitigate the consequences of fossil fuels.
* As a global change requires a consensus of all countries, all of whom know that any measures made will cause a domestic economic crisis, and remove the comforts we are all used to, there is very little political will to do anything about it.
* Therefore, we are doomed to see an end to low-lying countries (eg, the Maldives) and coastal areas (Miami), an increase in coastal erosion, a destructive change to weather patterns, collapse of the Gulf Stream, a massive loss of biodiversity - all this over the next 50 years - most of which is unavoidable now, anyway.
* Medium term, the collapse of our current global economic civilisation will probably take a hundred years or so.
* In the long term, we will be extinct. That's always going to happen anyway, but we are probably looking at species collapse in the next 5 to 10 thousand years.

Like so many things, the earlier we invest in our future, the cheaper the cost will be for us and our descendants. But that doesn't bode well. Look at the debt industry in countries such as the USA – it thrives on keeping the poor locked into basic economic slavery, driven mainly by keeping the population uneducated in matters of critical thinking, political communications, and civil empowerment. In my travels, I have never seen a country worse off for news coverage than the USA: On all major channels, for every ten minutes given to a puppy saved from drowning, or the latest celebrity gossip, or the current sports surprises, there are less than a few seconds given to major policy decisions, rulings, or business regulations. It seems that in America, News is an entertainment programme.

/. just ain't what it used to be. (tumbleweed drifts by). I remember when a joke like this would f he she got 5* and any related article would be inaccessible due to the slashdot DDOS. Now - this place is a ghost town. Just you, me, and a couple of old zombies that just don't want to live on ticktock

since I am already using whisper on MacOS, which up to now studiously ignored the ML features of Apple silicon, I am really excited to hear about this. About time.

Erm.. yeah, and that makes no sense whatsoever to me. Maybe they are looking at adding multiple dimensionalities to a single entanglement - effectively using a multiqubit entanglement, rather than connecting singly entangled qubits. Who knows? Certainly not the OP.