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It is Known as the "Pool of Death"
MonkeySpank says...Tell you what, we should all just have a beer and chill back. I'd buy you one if you were close by and we'd forget about all of this.
Just calling it like I see it , just as the "smart" people seem to have the right to.
Maybe I have no patience for those who sling insults and or negativity?
;-)
Girlfriend takes dumb to a whole new level
MonkeySpank says...CTRL-F "Brexit ". Nope, no Brexit comment here...
It is Known as the "Pool of Death"
MonkeySpank says...Take it easy bud, this is not the Yahoo! comment section.
Yeah just sit in your house and get fatter slobs.
Gene pool of wimpiness and sarcasm.
Face it some people like to challenge themselves and are equipped to do so.
How High Can You Hear? [test]
MonkeySpank says...19,120Hz @ 41 on my AE2 Bose Headphones. Headphones might play a big role here boys and girls; don't be quick to judge your hearing.
Nobody's Exactly Sure How Much A Kilogram Is Right Now
MonkeySpank says...This only applies to the metric system. For the empirical system, it gets even more confusing. Here's a simple quote from NASA's Pre-Jesus era website:
The effective acceleration of gravity at the poles is 980.665 cm/sec/sec while at the equator it is 3.39 cm/sec/sec less due to the centrifugal force. If you weighed 100 pounds at the north pole on a spring scale, at the equator you would weigh 99.65 pounds, or 5.5 ounces less.
Whenever we talk about weight in pounds, we need to define where with respect to the center of our little bluey.
Unity Adam Demo - real time
MonkeySpank says...They cannot make a game from this. This has a fixed PVS which allows them to pool all resources in the shot where the camera is facing. It's still real-time, but you can't free roam. There are some neat shaders applied here, but I'm more impressed with the sound than anything else.
If this is a game, I'd buy it.
If this is a movie, I'd rent it.
If this is a tech demo, I'd demand they make a game or a movie from it. This is an interesting universe.
Eating Free Range chicken vs Miserable chicken
MonkeySpank says...This!
It is Known as the "Pool of Death"
MonkeySpank says...Yeah, I know people have died there, but I think those kids are regulars. The last kid jumped in just for the heck of it... The father, presumably filming them, didn't seem too worried to me. I think those boys have done that before. Crazy in my book, but maybe not in theirs.
It is now known as Queen's Bath, but it isn't the original. The original one was destroyed by lava in the 80's, so they just renamed the pool of death.
They are definitely locals and skilled swimmers. Others have died during the winter when the surf is routinely high, like in this video.
It is Known as the "Pool of Death"
MonkeySpank says...Those are Kauai locals swimming in Queen's bath.
They know what they're doing. Here is another video .
I just can't see these kids have much of a future to look forward to, if they fail such a simple intelligence test.
Blur - Coffee & TV
MonkeySpank says...Damn, brings back memories...
Bear walking like a man
MonkeySpank says...What a sad scene
Poor bear probably leaves alone with that injury. This is one of those rare cases where I think human intervention would be welcome. I'd gladly throw money at any charity that makes the rest of his life a little happier. :'(
Rolls Royce New Space Age Car
MonkeySpank jokingly says...This is exactly how people pictured futuristic ads in the sci-fi movies of the 80s. I'm glad we're aiming for the cliché rather than substance.
Bill Maher: Who Needs Guns?
MonkeySpank says...Some people hold the constitution and the bible as infallible documents. Many of us sit on the sidelines and lament the stupidity of organized religion, whether it be political or spiritual.
2nd amendment.... why can't they just amend it again?
Bill Maher: New Rule – Don't Romanticize Socialism
MonkeySpank says...Go fund yourselves everyone!
What Are You? - Kurzgesagt
MonkeySpank says...To me, the problem reduces to this:
1) Brain is the hardware
2) Current charge of neurons is the software that we like to call consciousness.
Consciousness, just like software, is intangible. This video about cells didn't bother to distinguish the "who" from the "what" when it talks about "us".
There are established fields in ontology and epistemology that address this very problem better than the "cells" argument. For anyone interested, I'd start here first.
Cells have no "purpose"?
I think that depends on how you define "purpose". I don't think humans (or other animals / organisms) have any particular intrinsic purpose. At least, nothing granted to us by a higher power or outside influence or whatever. We assign purpose to ourselves, and to other fuzzy-boundary collections of things. Things that are "alive" exist to use energy, move, reproduce, etc. Things that are "tools" exist to be a preferable means of accomplishing some task. Etc.
If any of those things have "purpose", certainly cells can have a "purpose" as well. Neurons exist to transfer bio-electric currents. Rod and cone cells in our eyes exist to react to light in general or particular wavelengths of light.
I don't think that we have any physical or intangible soul that serves as the core of our being. We have cells, organs, and organ systems that make up a "meat computer" that provides us with consciousness (a word that we invented, but which describes a fairly concrete idea), and I would argue that consciousness is the closest thing that we have to a "soul".
At some point, if we can create a machine that emulates / replaces the functionality of all those cells, organs, and organ systems that are responsible for consciousness, and copy a snapshot of the states of all of that in an organic being (like us) into a mechanical counterpart, then ... yeah. I think that machine would be the organic being that it was a copy of, in a far more meaningful way than Henrietta's cancer cells are "her".