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Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution

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  • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

    Anyway, getting back to abortion....

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    @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

    Anyway, getting back to abortion....

    ...and circumcision.

    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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      And Cincinnati chili.

      "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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      • George KG George K

        @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

        Anyway, getting back to abortion....

        ...and circumcision.

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        @George-K said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

        @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

        Anyway, getting back to abortion....

        ...and circumcision.

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        I was only joking

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        • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

          Anyway, getting back to abortion....

          KlausK Offline
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          #44

          @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

          Anyway, getting back to abortion....

          Did you know that the usage of "Control-C" to abort a program goes back to the DEC operating system for the PDP computers and dates back to the 1960s?

          Nobody thought about the morality of just aborting operating system processes. And the abortion was not even restricted to processes that were just being launched; any process, even fully matured ones, could be sent the SIGINT signal.

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          • KlausK Klaus

            @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

            Anyway, getting back to abortion....

            Did you know that the usage of "Control-C" to abort a program goes back to the DEC operating system for the PDP computers and dates back to the 1960s?

            Nobody thought about the morality of just aborting operating system processes. And the abortion was not even restricted to processes that were just being launched; any process, even fully matured ones, could be sent the SIGINT signal.

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            Doctor Phibes
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            #45

            @Klaus said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

            @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

            Anyway, getting back to abortion....

            Did you know that the usage of "Control-C" to abort a program goes back to the DEC operating system for the PDP computers and dates back to the 1960s?

            Nobody thought about the morality of just aborting operating system processes. And the abortion was not even restricted to processes that were just being launched; any process, even fully matured ones, could be sent the SIGINT signal.

            Once AI-programs are identified as life-forms there's going to be a demand for reparations, and you, my technologically proficient friend, are going to be right at the front of the line.

            I was only joking

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            • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

              @Klaus said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

              @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

              Anyway, getting back to abortion....

              Did you know that the usage of "Control-C" to abort a program goes back to the DEC operating system for the PDP computers and dates back to the 1960s?

              Nobody thought about the morality of just aborting operating system processes. And the abortion was not even restricted to processes that were just being launched; any process, even fully matured ones, could be sent the SIGINT signal.

              Once AI-programs are identified as life-forms there's going to be a demand for reparations, and you, my technologically proficient friend, are going to be right at the front of the line.

              KlausK Offline
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              #46

              @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

              @Klaus said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

              @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

              Anyway, getting back to abortion....

              Did you know that the usage of "Control-C" to abort a program goes back to the DEC operating system for the PDP computers and dates back to the 1960s?

              Nobody thought about the morality of just aborting operating system processes. And the abortion was not even restricted to processes that were just being launched; any process, even fully matured ones, could be sent the SIGINT signal.

              Once AI-programs are identified as life-forms there's going to be a demand for reparations, and you, my technologically proficient friend, are going to be right at the front of the line.

              That's not fair. I for one have always argued for the middle ground of making program abortion legal for processes that have consumed less than 3ms of CPU time. Typically, at this point, the process has not yet started any inter-process communication or allocated any persistent data. Arguably, it's not a process yet.

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              • KlausK Klaus

                @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

                @Klaus said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

                @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

                Anyway, getting back to abortion....

                Did you know that the usage of "Control-C" to abort a program goes back to the DEC operating system for the PDP computers and dates back to the 1960s?

                Nobody thought about the morality of just aborting operating system processes. And the abortion was not even restricted to processes that were just being launched; any process, even fully matured ones, could be sent the SIGINT signal.

                Once AI-programs are identified as life-forms there's going to be a demand for reparations, and you, my technologically proficient friend, are going to be right at the front of the line.

                That's not fair. I for one have always argued for the middle ground of making program abortion legal for processes that have consumed less than 3ms of CPU time. Typically, at this point, the process has not yet started any inter-process communication or allocated any persistent data. Arguably, it's not a process yet.

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                Doctor Phibes
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                #47

                @Klaus said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

                @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

                @Klaus said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

                @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

                Anyway, getting back to abortion....

                Did you know that the usage of "Control-C" to abort a program goes back to the DEC operating system for the PDP computers and dates back to the 1960s?

                Nobody thought about the morality of just aborting operating system processes. And the abortion was not even restricted to processes that were just being launched; any process, even fully matured ones, could be sent the SIGINT signal.

                Once AI-programs are identified as life-forms there's going to be a demand for reparations, and you, my technologically proficient friend, are going to be right at the front of the line.

                That's not fair. I for one have always argued for the middle ground of making program abortion legal for processes that have consumed less than 3ms of CPU time. Typically, at this point, the process has not yet started any inter-process communication or allocated any persistent data. Arguably, it's not a process yet.

                Your epistemological arguments are unconvincing.

                I was only joking

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                • KlausK Klaus

                  @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

                  Anyway, getting back to abortion....

                  Did you know that the usage of "Control-C" to abort a program goes back to the DEC operating system for the PDP computers and dates back to the 1960s?

                  Nobody thought about the morality of just aborting operating system processes. And the abortion was not even restricted to processes that were just being launched; any process, even fully matured ones, could be sent the SIGINT signal.

                  MikM Offline
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                  Mik
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                  #48

                  @Klaus said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

                  @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

                  Anyway, getting back to abortion....

                  Did you know that the usage of "Control-C" to abort a program goes back to the DEC operating system for the PDP computers and dates back to the 1960s?

                  Nobody thought about the morality of just aborting operating system processes. And the abortion was not even restricted to processes that were just being launched; any process, even fully matured ones, could be sent the SIGINT signal.

                  I knew that.

                  "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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