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Post by jasmijn on Jun 22, 2011 20:52:20 GMT
Actually, this reminds me of an interesting point: in all likelihood, TRUE immortality is a complete impossibility for intelligent creatures. The reason for this is the very implications that "living forever" holds. If you exist infinitely, then there is an infinite chance that at some point, something fatal will happen to you, in some form or fashion. To put it more simply: eventually, some freak occurrence WILL kill you. Therefor, immortality is impossible. An infinite chance? I am not sure how one would get above 1, much less to infinity, with probabilities... And it's not necessarily true. Suppose, in a "magical universe" (that is, we're not bounded by the laws of nature of our universe, and we can change the rules for the sake of argument -- except those of logic, of course), we could make freak accidents non-occurring, or simply make our immortal invulnerable to anything. Then the only thing limiting would be the end of the universe, which we could avoid by letting our magical universe never end, or be circular of some kind.
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Post by jasmijn on Jun 22, 2011 20:38:28 GMT
What I think is that it isn't the "killing" that upsets Kat, it is Frank's rejection of life -- and that she is asked to enable that rejection. Off really is dead if you're not turned on again. It matters not that he could be revived, it matters that he doesn't want to be revived and is effectively dead in the Off-state.
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Post by jasmijn on Jun 15, 2011 13:12:54 GMT
If only Diego had figured out that Jeanne would never love him. He could have created his own robot love. With aetheric/science technology embedded, they could have had a passel of little cyborgs to raise. Ew. Also: Frank is awesome.
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Post by jasmijn on Jun 13, 2011 8:31:24 GMT
Frankenbot needs a somewhat better name IMO since Frankenbot no longer quite seems to fit, despite the obvious reference to Frankenstein. How about just Frank?
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Post by jasmijn on Jun 10, 2011 17:52:54 GMT
Wild Spec: Frankenbot will make his way to the river and 'fanboy' over Jeanne... who will get very annoyed when all attempts to kill him fail. They eventually form an uneasy friendship then travel the world fighting crime. This.
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Post by jasmijn on May 23, 2011 15:44:55 GMT
P.S.: Also, Annie now has a red Joker in her sleeve... What are you talking about? Her "fire elemental" race card. I think it's a joke that didn't completely survive the language barrier.
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Post by jasmijn on May 13, 2011 7:30:47 GMT
Weren't the Blade Runner robots completely biological? Or am I confused with R.U.R. now?
EDIT: Wikipedia says: "[the replicants in Blade Runner are] genetically engineered organic robots"
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Post by jasmijn on May 2, 2011 8:40:30 GMT
I wish my friends and I had rooftops to hang out on I wish my rooftops and I had friends to hang out with. I wish my friends and rooftops had hangs to out with. ... wait.
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Post by jasmijn on Apr 29, 2011 12:29:14 GMT
Being a hunter does not make one a warrior, but that's an interesting line of thought there.
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Post by jasmijn on Apr 29, 2011 12:27:59 GMT
No lipstick = awesome, but I didn't bother to save the image, because I knew someone else would
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Post by jasmijn on Apr 28, 2011 23:24:07 GMT
Much like, e.g., "experimental algebra". Not to be confused with "extreme algebra", which isn't an oxymoron, just very awesome.
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Post by jasmijn on Apr 27, 2011 12:48:53 GMT
Also: Now we have "The unique page which was not included into the fourth book"))))) ;D Saving it, guys) You can get a fortune for that in 50 years.
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Post by jasmijn on Apr 25, 2011 20:46:38 GMT
I do love Tom's art. Oh, how I remember these conversations from my schoolyard days "So... you're descended from a fire spirit?"
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Post by jasmijn on Apr 17, 2011 19:13:59 GMT
Let me start by saying that I'm not a lawyer of any kind.
Copyright law is complicated and confusing matter. Made much more complex because there are a lot of countries in the world and a lot of different implementations of copyright law. Made much worse by the addition of the internet, which causes one to ask all sorts of interesting questions about copyright which today's laws can't answer (and the attempts to answer them thusfar have generally been awful). It's pretty much impossible to stop piracy.
The question here is mainly about derivative works. The logo AluK presented is, AFAIK (but I'm not a lawyer), an original work because it is not made by manipulating the original. I may very well be mistaken here.
One thing's for sure: giving credit does *NOT* give you a free pass in general. In specific cases, credit might be all you need (see: the Creative Commons attribution license)
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Post by jasmijn on Apr 16, 2011 7:41:39 GMT
A "scorching" 70 degrees Fahrenheit? Where are you FROM? I'm from the 2nd coldest city in the continental United States in Minnesota and I would hardly describe 70 degrees as scorching. 70 degrees is room temperature. (I had to look it up -- 70° F is ~21° C, indeed room temperature) Did you read that link? It seems that warrl is ironic. ;) Edit: Max ninja'd me. How rude of this forum software not to show that! :-X
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Post by jasmijn on Apr 11, 2011 8:24:31 GMT
Too often coders don't take GUIs seriously enough. Well, if you let coders design GUIs you're doing something wrong. Not to say one person can't be both a coder and a GUI designer, though. But a GUI designer will take the designing of the GUI seriously enough.
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Post by jasmijn on Apr 6, 2011 8:32:57 GMT
If a thread on science isn't melting some brains then it's not doing its job. My name is Robin and I approve of this message.
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Post by jasmijn on Apr 6, 2011 8:32:40 GMT
So... much... epicness...
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Post by jasmijn on Apr 4, 2011 15:30:47 GMT
I'm still waiting for someone to take today's update and replace "OKAY THAT IS QUITE ENOUGH THANK YOU" with "HELLOOOO". Not doing it myself, it didn't go to well last time I tried that.
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Post by jasmijn on Apr 4, 2011 15:28:43 GMT
I imagine this thing has a British accent, just like them. I imagine a computery accent? Anyway, I don't think Rey knows the crab. Remember all the foreshadowing? Rey being all "I think I saw something move in the water". I doubt they have been socialising. But perhaps he recognises the species, up close? Would you eat a crab that grabbed a laptop and typed "hello how are you" to you? or "DON'T EAT ME!!!!!!1!" If they were that obnoxious, I'd eat them out of spite.
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Post by jasmijn on Apr 3, 2011 8:36:48 GMT
What, both at the same time?
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Post by jasmijn on Apr 1, 2011 6:47:52 GMT
And real proof can't depend on how vaguely someone has phrased the question. It can if people can't agree on what a soul is. (I think we're done with that subject, though.) A lot has been said in the main time, but I think King Mir has made some solid points.
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Post by jasmijn on Mar 31, 2011 15:54:25 GMT
Am I the only one who just stares whenever tom posts in the forums? Like your avatar?
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Post by jasmijn on Mar 31, 2011 15:53:51 GMT
I disagree with the claim that everything can be subjected to scientific study. As long as you phrase the question vaguely enough, science can't give an answer (see: soul). By having the above discussion, we attempted to refine the question to something more concrete, so it could be answered by science. (Regarding the proposed experiment by replacing the brain with electronics: I don't think experiments requiring the Singularity to occur need to be considered. ) Ofcourse it does. The Presidency of the United States exists because the law says it does. The Supreme Court exists because the law says it does. Ofcourse they aren't "concrete objects". Not quite. There is no presidency if everyone ignores the law. Writing something down doesn't magically make it happen. It needs to be enforced in some way (which might even be something like peer pressure).
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Post by jasmijn on Mar 31, 2011 15:34:38 GMT
jasmijn: In the post above you were talking about 5 67, not 5 76 Oh, right. Should've been 576. Still, 567 is not on the page (while it is on the image), and the page and the image claim something completely different for 576.
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Post by jasmijn on Mar 31, 2011 5:55:39 GMT
When I last checked, 576 wasn't there. Now it is is, but the data are completely different. Problem with the forum software, maybe?
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Post by jasmijn on Mar 31, 2011 5:52:30 GMT
Did Einstein claim water is ice? Nope, that was me! That's just how I understand how the same thing can be in different states and seem to be different. Ice is water is vapor! But ice is "H2O in a solid state", while water refers to "H2O in a liquid state". Those two are not the same. Although they are more the same than matter and energy, because on molecular level, they are the same, while matter and energy aren't. Energy isn't even made of molecules. Yeah but matter has form. Energy doesn't have form. How would energy maintain a configuration? You can carve ice, but you can't carve water. I don't know. But I didn't propose souls could be made of energy.
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Post by jasmijn on Mar 30, 2011 22:11:47 GMT
Funny how much discussion was about 567, as it is not at all dramatic or cliff-hangery, which I had assumed before looking at the comic. It seems the page doesn't include all the comics.
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Post by jasmijn on Mar 30, 2011 22:06:35 GMT
Blame Einstein! Did Einstein claim water is ice? I'm not sure what you mean by "configuration of energy" How do you configure energy? Physical things like our bodies are configurations of matter. Wouldn't it make sense for souls (if they are made from energy) to be configurations of energy in the same or an equivalent way?
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Post by jasmijn on Mar 30, 2011 8:02:30 GMT
Those faces. I love them!
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