What has all the fuss about the most pseudo scientist of the last decade to do with interesting news here?
Is it only because he is -- very handicapped?
Living in Europe, the scene here is very contradicting: most handicapped people here are 'asked' (more-or-less) to be helped to die soon -- you know, costs etc... (just like with Hitler, only in a more-modern version...)
Could anybody here please bring some credible experience from this field?
You know, just like the Christians, who are able to report even daily experiences (see Medjugorje).
I never ever heard of anything less proven than parallel universes in my whole lifetime.
Following all kinds of human intercommunication, I'd say that this percentage only reflects the equivalent of really important communication on the positive side, and trash twitter (of our everyday life) on the other one.
"Fail" is the wrong term. The sincere love between a "male" and a "female" human being (if I name them "man" and "woman", maybe you won't understand, would you?) isn't considered a value anymore...
If it were some business, we would care much much more, and this says it all about current priorities in "modern" society.
Future generations will write about current society: "They destroyed themselves by starting to hate, inside of the most atomic value in human society: The Family..."
There are lots of possible candidates for it, but communism ruined it all in China.
Anyway, left are:
1) Africa (don't underestimate it, it could grow much faster than any other country, iff it only could free itself from all those nasty colonialism consequences...)
2) Europe, united with all of its parts (and I mean especially the eastern ones)
3) Middle East + India; may seem strange (to some of you), but there you can find the top of the top of human-brewn Culture -- no other region on earth can beat this.
America, you have to "die" (read: take the last place on earth for some decade), because it was you trashing whole world in this financial disaster. This is not popular, so you people will not agree -- the same as children never agree when it comes to take some bitter medicine...
You got it all wrong: native English folks should be forbidden to vote on this comment.
Anyway, believe me or not: you English ones are certainly the most ignorant in culture anyways; all of non english folks around the world would agree on this...
The English language is certainly one of the most flexible ones, on the positive side, and one of loosest ones, on the negative side.
In English, even the most stupid thoughts sound right, just because of the language-culture itself.
So, it would certainly be very exciting to have e.g. a perfect programming language, expressing itself in say Arabic or Hebrew; but, on the other side, computers and real intelligence (or: AI and Real Human Intelligence) are so far away from each other, that it really doesn't matter how 'stupid' the programming-language-language is...
HN is slow lately because PG is a dreamer and too much tied to personal and insignificant taste details (which never combine with a greater user base):
Time only needs a beginning, it doesn't need and end.
Nobody can prove the Big Bang theory without-a-doubt: we only could rise theories against it, or bring facts against it, but it will stay an unproven theory forever, very similar to math theories: you can't prove them without-a-doubt, you only can give it credit currently, and because there hasn't been found any counter example yet.
And how would you try to express something which is outside of our own possible experience? Sure, you could say "eternal present" or something; doesn't seem to sound much better...
What the future will bring us: nobody knows, there has never been anything really similar in history...
The causes are very simple to describe: our (temporary) so successful economic system didn't follow many moral rules. And now we are all (the responsible and non) forced to pay for that (silly) mistake.
You may not agree with me, but I'm convinced that this will be the summary of our current situation, reviewed in about 50 years.
Sure, because all of technology and all of science don't really feed our soul: so, our souls grow thinner and thinner, and our heads feel more and more overweight.
It's like eating straw all day long: at the end you are full of nothing (really important).
Is it only because he is -- very handicapped?
Living in Europe, the scene here is very contradicting: most handicapped people here are 'asked' (more-or-less) to be helped to die soon -- you know, costs etc... (just like with Hitler, only in a more-modern version...)