"what they actually did was use actual electrons to model the behaviour of the ones in the molecule"

yes, one could even say that the actual electrons were used to uhh "compute" the behavior of the modeled molecule.

wow. i guess they're really ashamed of their owners. rofl

Test using âoeb i z xâ (remove spaces) instead. This is the name of slashdot's corporate owner.

Slashdot will not allow you to comment the name of their corporate owner, b i z x (remove spaces). Your comment will hit the lameness filter until the offending name is removed.

Communist.

Our masters, obviously.

of easy second-hand shopping

roflmao

so brave. much mission.

Corporations are people and also a superior form of person! They deserve the $$$.

"We" only refers to teachers.

I think children could still discuss it amongst themselves. The teachers are being censored, but otoh technically public school is a prison.

Even that hypothetical experiment may be insufficient, as many such as Kurt Gödel have observed.

Simply making the same exact choice every time, does not mean that it isn't a choice. Perfectly predictable behavior does not contradict free will, just as random or chaotic behavior does not indicate free will.

why even bother? he seems happy with his myth.

it follows trivially that his ethos promotes starvation as desirable, of course.

the question is whether He is right. and of course He is. He is a trillionaire and we are not to question Them.

any more dumb questions?

ackshually... casinos are much more tightly regulated.

It doesn't need to be. There are other reasons to wean off x86.

Sure. If you completely ignore the context that it is only intended for automated crawlers and misread it as referring to everyone then, yes, I agree that would be ridiculous...

(It's also kind of ridiculous in these days to have an essentially-voluntary anti-bot system and expect it to do anything, but that's another topic.)