Recent content by aMarshall

I like Wensleydale with cranberries, and Dubliner.

A metaphor if I may: A small company starts out selling fishing supplies. They eventually and slowly expand to fishing boats, and acquire other companies. They expand into farming equipment and acquire further. They expand in several other fields as well. Eventually they start focusing in...

None, because I like to use the bathroom as a place for thinking and introspection, in fact I thought to reply to this thread while in the bathroom just now, true story.

This was very interesting, thanks a lot for the exposure.

At some point when people started pointing out that his hair looked like shit to him, he must've stopped and thought, "Hmm, I could afford the best of hair replacement cosmetic surgery... but the enlightened individual cares not about perceived physical imperfections... or I could let it stay...

So it begins. But in seriousness, I was also disappointed by those people fervently celebrating his death. It is good in that it will likely be a catalyst (excuse) to get the US military out of there sooner.

I suppose the technical reason is that until the age of maturity, the social contract is inherited from parents as another thing that they control as part of a child's life, and that at maturity one can decide to leave the country. Course this isn't reasonable since there's not that many...

Just a small change. The only things required to take on 'faith' for someone to accept the methodology of science (and hence any theory that is currently best able to describe something) are a few basic assumptions about the nature of reality. People do this in different ways (most just...

1. See new dotoree post 2. ctrl-f for "1%" 3. am happy 4. ctrl-f for "court case" 5. am not happy

Oh did all the water fall off? I don't watch any news so I wouldn't know.

Obama 2012: Compromise and a bit of change you can believe in! Obama 2012: Actually screw that, still Change You Can Believe In! (suckers) Obama 2012: what party am I running... ok uhh... Democrats Unite! Obama 2012: We probably don't even have to campaign that much this time, but I better look...

None for evolution. The reason they program the initial functionality starting with an AI is to 'cut in line' so to speak. They could theoretically start at the big bang and have it play out from there, but that would require a much more robust simulation environment, and tons more computing...

Hm, I 'm not really that libertarian, I swear. xkcd The test isn't a diamond, but I'm just gonna attribute that to them not knowing how to program it to be rotated 45 degrees.

As has been already pointed out, the more capable a society would be to enact a lottery system for forced sterilization, the less in danger it is of an overpopulation crisis. This is on account of many, many factors related to high industrialization and management ability that lead to lower...

Hatred! huh-yeah What is it good for? Absolutely nothing Uh-huh Sorry couldn't help it.