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Comment Re:Wait! You mean the enemy has (Score 1) 188

Large Scale firepower? A couple of old soviet jets/tanks doesn't really compare to a full out war between superpowers.

Exactly how would having laser guns suddenly have helped in any of the above mentioned wars? It's not like we need to spend billions in R&D to beat north Korea for example.

Comment Re:Wait! You mean the enemy has (Score 1) 188

A lot has changed in the aftermath of WW2 and the Cold War. The political climate today is such that war between superpowers is extremely unlikely/borderline impossible. I kinda see it as the US being a lone kid playing rock, paper, scissors, tank, airplane, nuclear bomb... all the while the rest of the kids in the playground have realized how silly that game was getting and moved on to better things.

Comment Re:Apple Stores (Score 1) 636

For example, every time I go to a doctor, he gives me a diagnosis, and I accept on faith that he is giving me the right treatment. It could be called faith, as I don't have necessary education to really test is. But if it is faith, it's definitely not a blind faith. That's the difference between faith in a doctor and faith in a God. It's okay to be 95% sure that the doctor is right, and believe what he says, while still keeping your mind open to the possibilities that he could be wrong. But there is still evidence at hand to base my conclusions on, namely the fact that he's been to school, that his diagnosis makes sense, that its corroborated by other doctors, that going to the doctors has repeatedly ended up in the curing of my ailment. Sure, I can't prove 100% that the cream he's giving me for my rash is going to work, but that's not the evidence I'm basing decision on. It's all the other things.

This is a blind faith based on nothing more than stories handed down through generations with no anchor in tangibility.

The difference is all there in your opinion. Faith in God has credentials, but you don't acknowledge them as being valid. It's not "blind faith", only a matter of people viewing the credentials in an entirely different manner.

Comment Re:If my clients are any indication few will notic (Score 1) 417

The system has worked just fine for countless other users who are capable of logical, rational thought processes. Just because a bunch of morons now have access to computers doesn't mean we need to change them.

In summary: stop trying to dumb everything down for the stupidest members of society. If we do that everywhere, then we'll train everyone to not use their brains, and everyone will be equally stupid, and then society will crumble and collapse as there's no way a society run by idiots can succeed. Brains are like muscles: use them or lose them. Even if you're born a smart kid, it's pretty easy to become a moron adult by being coddled and treated like one, and never being pushed to exercise your brain.

By this logic, the GUI should never have been invented, and computer code should be typed in assembly. And only people with a degree from MIT should be able to operate them because dumbing it down so the general population can use it is sooooo not kosher. Simplification is a good thing, it frees up more time you can spend actually thinking about the stuff you're doing, and less time spent wrestling with an obfuscated and overly difficult system.

Comment Re:1 event, multiple accurate versions (Score 1) 336

Even "facts" can be distorted. There's a lot of wiggle room in picking which statistical interpretation to say is "correct" and which is "not correct". People use that all the time to bias the argument. If it became a government organization, I would imagine it would take all of two seconds before it becomes a tool for +1-ing statistical interpretations that support the party line.

Comment Re:Not yet. (Score 1) 275

Think of chess, small set number of pieces and places to move, but the number of combinations can quickly scale beyond what most modern computers excepting supercomputers can do.

There are vastly more scenario combinations that can occur on the open road with hundreds of cars and a whole slew of weather conditions.

It "can" be done, but it is by no means an easy task. The human brain is pretty amazing, we're not anywhere close to training machines how to react as well as we do in bizarre situations.

Comment Re:another cycle (Score 1) 729

I find the Win2k theme to be a lot like Mac OS9 was. It's space efficient (a little too much so, buttons were hard to click/fonts hard to read at higher resolutions), drab, and unappealing to the eye.

I can understand why people would use it, I just don't like it all that much myself. Given how bad the XP interface was I can't say that I blame people for doing ANYTHING to avoid the Fisher-Price.

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