You are MUCH more likely to dieor seriously injure someone while driving at high speed than in slow stop and go traffic
This doesn't invalidate your point, but most motorcycle deaths occur on 60 km/h roads
Were you told there would be no math? RTFS and DTFA.
FTFY
In America almost every family can afford cars. Not true in most Asian societies. (Yes there are exceptions, such as Singapore, hence I said most.)
I don't know how many people in Singapore can actually afford a car but I can tell you that the certificate required to own a car costs $93k for 10 years and the cost of the car can be as much as triple that of a "Western" nation. A lot of people catch cabs.
Despite Buddhisms many wrong notions (like reincarnation)
We do not know that, and neither do you. We live in a mystery in that regard. All we can do if we want to be truthful is admit we don't know what happens after death. We simply don't know. That's the truth
There's lots of evidence that thinking and consciousness require a functioning brain, therefore it is reasonable to believe that you cease to exist if your brain decomposes. At this point, if you want to believe in an afterlife, you need to propose a mechanism for transmigration. The wikipedia page on Bardo says "The intermediate being
you are clinging to your notions the same way religious fundamentals cling to theirs
You're making wild assumptions about my convictions. I was open to the idea of reincarnation for many years, now once again I'm open to the idea that our universe is statistically likely to be a simulation, therefore an afterlife is possible. It's just that there's only worthless evidence for an afterlife and strong evidence against it.
Myanmar. 'Nuff said. Look it up. The Buddhist right wing clergy are being assholes.
That's disingenuous. Those assholes are dressing up as monks for fun and for profit, not "in the name of Buddhism" (even if that's what they say), and despite the great incentives in that country for assholes to dress up as monks, many of those monks are genuine Buddhists.
Despite Buddhisms many wrong notions (like reincarnation), meditation is immensely powerful. It's like martial arts for your brain. It significantly improves concentration, focus and clarity as well as being a tool that can readily create happiness. Buddhism has done so much to improve peoples lives that assholes in Burma and Thailand don't make it bad.
what causes my Win 7 to take 10 minutes to boot
Holy fuck. I've seen servers with extensive startup scripts but no desktop should take that long. My windows 8 gets from power button to password in in 6 seconds, it's usable immediately. I could boot and shut down over 50 times while you boot up once!
You need to analyze all the running processes and then uninstall them. All of them. Except the virus scanner (you haven't got 2 virus scanners doing realtime have you?). You also don't have enough RAM
We know the splitter changes it
I don't see how that's relevant. They're still measuring it.
how is the UN going to protect anybodys privacy?
with the cunning use of words
Of course fire investigators will point to a piece of new technology as the cause of the fire
Bullshit. My uneducated guess is that they will instead use the analisys techniques outlined here
The street is where you keep your car.
Yeh, it's so convenient to keep your Tesla charging apparatus on the street.
and link to something.. ANYTHING slashdot has done in the last few years.
what does slashdot do?
Scratch that. We pontificate. We're very good at that.
DRM is bad.
I was watching this recently posted video of Ray Kurzweil interviewing Robert Freitas, a "nanobot theoretician", about the current state of nanotech. Freitas suggested the use of DRM techniques as a way of preventing the malicious use of nanotechnology. Seems like a "good" application to me. There's another video of RK interviewing Eric Drexler whichh is also interesting.
Conducting that research, however, is what science is all about: test claims to see if they're correct.
No. They spent a billion dollars on it. They were clutching at shadows after the lights were turned on.
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. -- Plato
