I did a quick search, it's a full page, bright purple anthro-dragon in a suit.
I say bright purple, but obviously it's a little washed out because it's a watermark, but it's neither discreet nor subtle.
Are you not familiar with TV pickup?
The grids in the UK, and also in Ireland, regularly needs to deal with many (or even almost every household) turning on 3kW electric kettles almost simultaneously. Half time of sporting events. Quick, put the kettle on.
Ad breaks in popular TV shows.
Quick, put the kettle on.
Shocking News!
Quick, put the kettle on.
Millions of houses suddenly demanding an extra 3 kilowatts all coordinated by the News, or a major sporting event. Sure, that's largely predictable, but also, not perfectly.
One particular sporting event caused a 2.8 gigawatt increase in demand. And because kettles are only on for a few minutes these are short demands. The grid has to be ready for them.
Don't get me started on Linus and his "Tim the Toolman Taylor"-esque blundering.
During that install he literally read outloud what it said on the screen, which was basically "are you sure you want to continue with this action it will remove the following (x many) essential packages" he even comments that to proceed with it he didn't just have to type yes, but rather a whole sentence to override the warning.
I feel sorry for his long suffering staff who have to put up with his petty shenanigans.
Casually dropping component, pulling power cords out of booting servers so that he can be the one to power it up, and so on.
So, by your reasoning, it would not be the same person. Transferring memories around like this does NOT transfer people around like this, since the particles that make up their bodies and brains are entirely different. The fact that they "feel" that they are the same person in a new body is irrelevant.
They also sometimes spin people up inside virtual reality environments, with no body at all. I guess in that case the person isn't actually there at all. There is no person, there is just a computer program running as if it were a person. And when that hard drive gets inserted into a new body, including the memories of its activities in virtual reality, all that has really happened is that "someone else" who has been in a coma until now just woke up with a convincing set of false memories.
This.....doesn't seem to suit our intuitions. The general reception to this scifi is that the "person" is in that hard drive, and the aptly named "sleeve" (body) is not part of the personal identity. If we accept your analysis of star trek then we must reject this analysis of Altered Carbon, and vice versa. These two intuitions for what constitutes a "person" are directly contradictory, even though they both seem to make sense in context.
You are not a ghost riding a corpse, you are your body.
Your brain is part of your body, and your mind is an emergent property of activity in your body... Your brain being a part of your body after all
The People* in Altered Carbon aren't Humans.
They are memetic parasites.
They are still people, and by law personhood follows the movement of the DHF Digital Human Freight.
When a mind in AC is backed up, and loaded into a new body the thinking isn't done by the stack in their neck, that is a storage cache and transmission device. An interface between brain and machine.
The actual work of thinking is conducted by the brain of the sleeve, which is why drugs still make them high.
Also the body retains it's own reflex arcs and muscle memories.
In the books there is a character training up a young sleeve to be a great surfer for a wealthy person, he's training up the muscle memories and so on, and when the sleeve is adult and knows how to surf at a champion level, he has to return it.
At the end of the first book when Takashi has to give Rikker's body back and he's in a new body, he doesn't feel the same way about Ortega because the hormone mix is different. Pheromones aren't ticking the same neural switches.
Re-sleeving replaces the higher functions of the brain, but not things going on in the lizard brain or the "gut".
There isn't some magical soul energy in AC.
The stack copies the current brain, then wipes it through some techno-electro-stimulation wizardry.
And then injects the new data.
When they run people in virtual they don't just spin the stack up, they create a virtual body/brain, and spin the mind up on that like a VM. Which is why in the book they spin Tak up in a vitural female body complete with virtual PMS in an attempt to keep him in an unfamiliar situation.
*This is why the people are protesting, it's not because they are annoyed about "the dead testifying" rather they are protesting because every time they get arrested for anything that requires being held for any period of time, they are "spun down", and their bodies are rented out by the state to people who want a fresh body for the weekend/month/length of time they are in custody.
For the religious people who see the mind wipe aspect as death, they see all crimes being punished by death.
There are more minds then there are bodies,
if you are old and wealthy, but not so wealthy that you can afford a custom sleeve like the meths get, then you hire a nice fresh sleeve that some poor had to leave when they went to prison for a hit and run.
Oh? they're on stack for 50 years? well that's plenty of time for you to use their early 20s body that they kept in great shape. Then when they get out, you've been using their body for 50 years, and have put a lot of miles on it, and they're suddenly 50 with no money for a nice fresh body. If they even get their original body back, maybe it died, and they get whatever is left in stock. Like the "old lady" in the first episode... and she wasn't even a criminal.
Mind Transfer in Altered Carbon is not soul transfer.
It is a terrifying dystopia.
You are a gestalt of body and mind.
Not a collection of memories.
A standard drink is a defined thing for many countries.
In Australia it's 10g of alcohol in a glass, with some amount of other potable liquid.
Now, that might be confusing so the can or bottle will often say how many units there are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Ireland also uses 10g as the standard.
In the UK standard drink has 8g of alcohol.
So in Ireland it's not uncommon to see both listed.
A 330ml can of Guinness (4.2% by volume)
has 1.1 Standard Drinks(Irish) or 1.4 units (UK)
So local guide lines vary, because one country might say 20 Units, the other country might say 17 Standard Drinks.
Over all the point is to pay attention to how much you are actually drinking.
It's also worth noting that Old World Pints and New World Pints are different sizes.
So If you order a pint in Ireland you get 568 ml, but a pint in America is 473 ml.
500 ml is 500 ml everywhere.
You're not sitting in the pub saying "Wait! I've had two pints, but each pint is 2.2 units, so I've had 4.4 units, and so can only one more half pint to keep under the 6 unit safety margin..."
It's just there to keep you aware of your drinking.
also "young systems with lots of free orbiting objects, are more likely to eject some objects than older systems where most of the objects have been shed, or collided with/aggregated into larger objects" seem trivially obvious.
I'm all for working on climate change and a better internet, but please use valid reasoning.
Very worst case in the worst areas predict a 2" rise in sea levels in the US by 2050. I don't think a 2" rise will much affect the status of the internet.
The link you provide shows 2' rise as the worst case, and goes onto use a 1' rise for its estimates of increased frequency and severity of flooding. 2' == 24''.
Two feet is about 60 cm.
Two inches is ~5 cm.
Whichever units you like to use the link you've provided is talking about increases that are 12 times higher than the numbers you are using in your post.
Two feet of Sea Level Rise is of the average sea level.
So it means even higher flood levels.
And it means more frequent flood levels.
It increases the likelihood that underground cables in coastal areas get damaged.
Hold on... why would there be no need to change a birthdate? It is highly possible that some data entry mistake could happen and you would need to amend a mistake. For example you could have an employee or customer who is used to MMDDYY using a system that is DDMMYY and need to fix that.
How much money do the American officials expect you to have on you?
I remember the first time I flew to Las Vegas, I had a few hundred dollars and a some Euros, the official seemed suspicious, "is that all? Do you think that will be enough for your stay?"
So I said "yeah, well, that's all the cash I have but I have my bank and credit cards so I mean technically I have all my money" which seemed to satisfy him.
Everytime I've flown to the States they've been interested in whether I have enough cash money for my stay.
isnt this what happened in pompeii?
No. Pompeii was destroyed by a pyroclastic flow, which is only a danger in the immediate vicinity of the eruption. The danger from Yellowstone is that it could blanket much of the continent with ash.
Well... my understanding is that Pompeii was covered in hot falling ash over a period of about 6 hours, Herculaneum was hit by pyroclastic flows.
State Dependent Memory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
If you learn to play while drunk you improve your skills while drunk but not while sober.
In order to be good while sober you need to learn while sober.
The fun part is that you learn lots of things while in different states.
You learn to do something only while heavily caffeinated/drunk/high? Then it only comes to you easily while you are caffeinated, drunk or high...
Caffeine and coding.
Drink and darts.
... if someone tells you something is broken don't tell them that it was working earlier, say "I'll find out what's happening and get back to you ASAP" and maybe something like "... I should have been notified if it was a server crash, hopefully it's not too serious and we can get everything back in order a soon as possible, to minimise the downtime".
Never tell someone who comes to you with a problem that there is/was no problem.
Why are the cranky ones so often wrong?
And finally, I might have missed a good networking opportunity and party when I decided not to print out the invitation and go to a reunion for some M.Scs that had graduated before my parents had even met....
I just wonder what the legal implications would be if I "played along" for a while. Could I have plausible deniability by pretending to be a little obtuse and thinking that the e-mails really were meant for me...
Always go to things you are invited to!
Do not pretend to be the person though
Always, always respond to them.
Always be nice about it.
Why?
Well... last year I got yet another misaddressed email, and as usual I responded to it and the situation snowballed and some lovely people had a whip around and flew me from Ireland to Boston to go to the party to which they had accidentally invited me...
Luckily I had a visa waiver still in place and had some spare vacation days...
One of the craziest things to ever happen to me... I'm hard pressed to think of anything crazier. I met one of the fellows with the same name as me, ate some good food, met some great people...
Thanks guys!
I was logged in! honest I was!
The trip to Boston was great, I don't think I've ever felt so lucky or grateful...
I see lots of people here saying things like "if it's not for you it's spam" and "log in to the service, change their password and change the email address"...
To be honest I think these are jerk ass moves.
If it's an honest mistake then you should try to help the person out.
If it's important then you would want them to help you.
Sure it's not a mistake you might make but you make other mistakes in life and it's handy when people catch them before the shit hits the fan...
and not in a "Ha Ha! you made a mistake and now I can make you look bad" kind of way but in a "uh oh, this guy dropped his wallet with the only pictures of someone important, I'd better get it back to him"...
There is always something that you'll need help with.
In any formula, constants (especially those obtained from handbooks) are to be treated as variables.
