davism97's Comments (343)

“Perhaps at this level, it will show up???

I did AI as an undergraduate at MIT. I did intelligent control in High school. It's just not true. I have worked with great PhDs, and Even greater high school graduates. Really. The HS folks can't "rest on their Laurels" and the good ones never stop learning. Lazy PhDs haven't learned anything since college, and erroneously think their knowledge is still current. They tend to make mistakes by not listening to others as well. iRobot is a great example of what's wrong with PhDs. The iRobot vacuums are permanently destroyed by strong magnets.”

“No, But inventiveness seems to peak in the third year of college.

There are great inventive PhDs, but there are more inventive "some College" folks. At least that was the conclusion of studies a few years back.

Hire the best people, degree or not.”

“She also has narcissistic personality disorder.”

“uh we are heavily contributing to all that christian care--75% in dc alone. this is from dc church-gay marriage hearings..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVj50a2dt4Y&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaYkLux1798&feature=related”

“Then? The gay marriage ban is a form of discrimination and violates the tax exemption policy.

The holding of the homeless (whom they also receive tax dollars for providing) hostage is just shocking and deplorable.

I understand that it is the biggest and possibly the last obstacle for the church to overcome in order to be a truly inclusive institution.
If not, then this will remain as a huge scar to them. And eventually this prejudice can be brought to court not only by the Constitution, but where it may hurt the most; the tax exemption policy.

If all else fails the gay community may want to form their own inclusive religion.”

“They did that in my town a long time ago. And the drop out rate hasn't changed a bit.”

“Well, I agree, but only to a point. Children who are taught to enjoy learning will concentrate regardless of the amount of sugar in their system - up to a point, of course.”

“Change "ghost" to "God" or "soul" and ask why our world is so willing to die over one non-physical apparition and willing to scoff at anyone who believes in the other as being a kook. Or even vice versa.”

“Couldn't we make the same argument for the mind? Does it really exist if its not physical?”

“The exact same questions I ask. Questions to which I find no rational answer.

My only possible explanation--again for the sake of argument--is that spirits exist with "spirits" defined as collections of things with no mass either individually or in sum with the ability to influence thought--things that are just barely things....”

“Agreed. Empirical and testable evidence is a must.”

“Again, how about religion? Do gods have physical evidence? All we have are "personal stories" from hundreds and thousands of years ago to tell us that gods even spoke to us, or cared about our existence, and yet people are willing to die every day for those personal stories with no physical evidence.

How can you have faith to believe in gods and be totally dismissive of ghosts?

There certainly cant be a "Holy Ghost" without their being ghosts, can there?

Maybe you just dont believe in the unseen at all, and thats ok, but you really cant put stock in one and be totally dismissive of the other.”

“Spirit is not physical. It's ethereal. So -- no physical evidence.”

“I tend to agree: Show me the physical evidence.

Except: How do you find physical evidence of something that is not physical?

A thought can be considered physical if you really stretch the meaning as at least electrically it did exist for an instant and electrons are physical objects.

I say only for purpose of discussion: What if "ghosts" are collections of photons--things that act like things but cannot exist physically--images; reflections--non physical from without that evoke physical within?”

“I think I know what John is talking about because I had 1 teacher, count it, 1 teacher all through school that could actually teach math where I could understand it and I absolutely loved math after that. Then we moved to Florida and the teacher I had there couldn't teach worth a damn and my love affair with math ended. He made it alot more complicated than it needed to be. He was fired after the majority of the class failed but the damage was already done. I'll definitely look into the JUMP program for my son. Thanks for writing on this subject.”

“So is prosecuting Black Panthers who intimidate voters.”

“Of course it's oversimplified, but it is the root of the problem. Do you think otherwise?”

“You were the only one who saw Bush for what he was???? Wow.”

“The life insurance thing isn't because they want to profit off of death out of sheer malevolence. It's because of the psycho-crazy way that the tax code treats life insurance. It is (I kid you not) TAX FREE. Basically, these policies are a tax-free investment vehicle. I don't think the crime is that they're taking out life insurance policies on people, even though the idea of profiting from death is fairly grisly. Not to mention your employers having a good reason to hope that you die before your time. But no, the real sick thing is that they're dodging taxes because of a completely stupid loophole in the tax code. If the tax code gets reformed so they have to pay taxes on these policies, they'll stop doing it.

As for pilots, isn't the problem based on how they are only flying some of the time? A friend of mine roomed with a pilot, and he'd be totally gone for a few weeks, and then he'd be sitting at home with nothing to do for a few weeks. With airlines suffering so much, it's easy to see how pilots could get too little flight time, and thus not much money. How do we fix it though? The airlines are suffering because they treat people like dirt, and I don't see how we could make them stop, short of a government takeover of airlines..­.”

“It was Wal-Mart that was highlighted in Moore's film for doing that.”