dangerdan
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It's got be Google Chrome for the win! Stylish and sleek (more importantly clean, i.e. no annoying toolbars or search boxes) interface, the ease of bookmarking and the fact the URL input box is also a google search. Tabs are done nicely and can be drag and dropped. Incognito mode (no history - sometimes known as p*rn mode). Upon opening a new tab you get 9 boxes of your most visited websites.I got Google Chrome about 4/5 months ago and haven't looked back! IE and Firefox just don't compare in my opinion.The ONLY issue with Chrome is it has relatively less compatibility and make need different or extra plugins - but this is a problem that will be solved with time.
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The North Korea Situation. What should be done?
dangerdan replied to dangerdan's topic in Science and Technology
I'm sorry but who is "Youknowwho" are you referring to Kim Jong-Il? or Lord Voldemort? (jokes)I assume your talking about Kim Jong-Il. I don't think kidnapping him is really an option, for a start getting into North Korea is a problem. Secondly getting anywhere near close enough to Kim Jong-Il is practically impossible.Also, what about North Korea's sovereignty? The major problem in my opinion is that we don't know what the North Korean's think about Jong-Il or his foreign or domestic policy.They may be very supportive of his aggressive foreign policy, on the other hand there could (probably are!) be abuses of human rights. I'd have to agree that he probably is just doing it as some kind of a threat to the rest of the world. -
North Korea has recently tested nuclear technology to virtual worldwide condemnation. It also announced a 50 year old truce with South Korea was over. They seem undeterred by any international sanctions. Possibly the most rogue nation-state on the planet, Kim Jong-Il has, according to the South Korean media, announced his youngest son - Kim Jong-Un - as his successor.What are your views on North Korea? i.e. options like military intervention, Kim Jong-Ils departure,
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Firstly, GIGO is a brilliant computing analogy. Secondly, its somewhat misleading to claim that robots "are more intelligent" than humans. There are several ways of measuring intelligence - emotional, interpersonal, existential, spatial.Maybe in terms of performing mundane, repetitive tasks or large scale data recall robots are better than humans - but critically I don't think this makes them more intelligent.Emotional - robots have no true sensory inputs or strict consciousness and thus can not be emotional. Interpersonal - a robot will never(maybe? certainly can't at the moment) be able to communicate with humans at anywhere near the level of humans.Existential - a robot can not question its own existence, purpose or consciousness.Spatial - robots can not conceptualize 3D objects or consider consequence.Robotic technology is advancing very quickly, and maybe robots will be capable of these things in years to come but until that day I am adamant I am more intelligent than any 'robot' can recall facts quickly, or solve equations - that's not intelligence.
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i don't get how to quote but.....I would like to rephrase this piece of advice into this: don't blindly agree or disagree with anything until you consciously understand why why you're agreeing or disagreeing. How does that sound? Exactly! I would just urge everyone to think critically about what your told in the media, especially in the Western world. DO NOT BLINDLY BELIEVE!
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Firstly, by the end of Hitler's tenure as German Fuhrer the country was left in absolute ruins by the reparations (around £6, 600m) it was forced to pay other countries following the second world war. The country was divided into East and West for 30 years as the epicentre of the Cold War. So Hitler certainly didn't leave the country in a very good state....As for during his reign, there is a lot of evidence to suggest that Hitler was extremely popular in German, after all he did win the popular vote in what could loosely be defined as 'democracy' - though there are the obvious allegations of scare campaigns and the like. Hitler did create a lot of jobs and almost unarguably increased the standard of living in Germany - for 'Ayran' German citizens at least - but Hitler was building a wartime economy. Let's not forget millions of Jews, Gypsies, Gays and the Disabled were forced to flee Germany and the surrounding countries as World War II raged on.Thirdly, Germany is now the worlds largest exporter (surpassing even the USA and China) and arguably NO country has recovered quicker, or better, from WWII than Germany and it is now one of the strongest economies in the world and the heart of the Eurozone.And finally, your comparisons between the likes of George Bush, Tony Blair and Usama Bin Ladin, Saddam Hussein are ones to which their is certainly some weight behind. The International condemned the war in Iraq with almost as much vigour as they condemned the 9/11 attacks. Bush will remain the quintessential example of a 'Western war criminal' for the war on terror based on the premise of WMDs it later emerged they didn't have, and all arguably in the guise of protecting US interest in the Middle East - particularly regarding their oil interests. The fact Usama Bin Ladin is a terrorist and should be bought to justice is undeniable.You do raise some interesting points, however, my only criticism would be in that you do it in a way that seems to suggest you condone the Nazi era of German as well as global terrorist and terrorism.