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| Re: Might be old, but what the hell? Shift Happens. [message #251176 is a reply to message #251163] |
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The world is too reliant on electronics. We are going to destroy ourselves in the near future, and I believe, we are going to create something that we won't be able to control.
David Anderson
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| Re: Might be old, but what the hell? Shift Happens. [message #251197 is a reply to message #251163] |
Fri, 23 March 2007 00:51 |
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Yep. Already people rely on the computer to do all their work and all they do is sit in their chairs. Maybe people won't die from a cyborg or anything like that anytime soon, but people will definately die from obesity and muscle deterioration.
"I wumbo, you wumbo, he, she, wombo, wombo, wombo-ing, wobology, the study of wombo, it's first grade SpongeBob" - Patrick Star.
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| Re: Might be old, but what the hell? Shift Happens. [message #251204 is a reply to message #251163] |
Fri, 23 March 2007 01:53 |
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I've seen the obese people who actually have a disorder, which is understandable. Here where I live though, I've noticed almost over 20-30 people I knew from junior high have become overweight over the years. ...And that's just the people I know and recognize. Even if people's obesity is related to genetics, they still have the choice to exercise, eat right, and better improve their physical well being.
David Anderson
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| Re: Might be old, but what the hell? Shift Happens. [message #251219 is a reply to message #251176] |
Fri, 23 March 2007 05:05 |
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| Dave Anderson wrote on Thu, 22 March 2007 22:00 |
The world is too reliant on electronics. We are going to destroy ourselves in the near future, and I believe, we are going to create something that we won't be able to control.
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im pretty sure people would have said something similar when the first steam powered drag line plow was created.
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| Re: Might be old, but what the hell? Shift Happens. [message #251232 is a reply to message #251225] |
Fri, 23 March 2007 05:51 |
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| mrpirate wrote on Fri, 23 March 2007 06:19 |
genetics is only part of the problem.
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Genetics is the least of the problem. Unhealthy eating habits, lack of exercise, lack of water, and other unhealthy habits all contribute to obesity.
To reinforce the second part of what you said, for instance, some research group did a recent study on China since they started the Westernization of China and the results showed that the average Chinese person weighs much more than before the Westernization of China. That says something right there...
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| Re: Might be old, but what the hell? Shift Happens. [message #251249 is a reply to message #251246] |
Fri, 23 March 2007 07:15 |
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The thing is, even with such a supercomputer, I don't think the machines we create will ever rise up against us. But they sure as hell can be a threat to our jobs.
They will make the need for human input in decision-making obsolete. If a computer can think better than humans, then it will conquer, for example, the business world and all the decision-making processes that goes along with it.
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| Re: Might be old, but what the hell? Shift Happens. [message #251258 is a reply to message #251176] |
Fri, 23 March 2007 08:08 |
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| Dave Anderson wrote on Thu, 22 March 2007 23:00 |
The world is too reliant on electronics. We are going to destroy ourselves in the near future, and I believe, we are going to create something that we won't be able to control.
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sounds like a good way to die to me
Oderint, dum metuant.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. - Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
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| Re: Might be old, but what the hell? Shift Happens. [message #251268 is a reply to message #251266] |
Fri, 23 March 2007 09:37 |
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| Doitle wrote on Fri, 23 March 2007 12:33 |
FUCK. I wrote a really well thought out long analysis of this video including analyzations of Job security, placement, education, Internet proliferation and general debunkery. Then I pressed the back button on my mouse on accident and lost the whole thing. Now I'm really mad. This blows...
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DAMN! That sucks balls! That's why for longer posts, I write in Notepad first and then copy it back in.
Lol! I feel sorry for you. 
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