Re: We are all naturally racists. Political correctness is likely to get you killed.

2013-07-25 Thread Chris de Morsella
You mischaracterize choosing not to use ugly stereotypes and racial insults etc. as an industry, when it is instead an important facet of basic common human decency. There is no good reason for using this hurtful language that is intended to convey negative intent, disparagement, or insult --

Re: Can someone explain why this doesn't work?

2013-07-25 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: To me it seems that must be incorrect, because it would enable super luminal communication. By sending a continuous stream of entangled photons in opposite directions I can't send a message that way because I have no way of

Re: Quick question

2013-07-25 Thread Joseph Knight
So is physics best understood as a computer program with access to a random oracle? (Coming from 1-indeterminacy.) On Mar 31, 2013 8:13 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 31 Mar 2013, at 01:15, Joseph Knight wrote: Sorry for the vagueness of my question; I would not count pi as a

Re: Quick question

2013-07-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 25 Jul 2013, at 23:01, Joseph Knight wrote: So is physics best understood as a computer program with access to a random oracle? (Coming from 1-indeterminacy.) That is possible but should remain to be proved. A priori, physics emerges from all computations, and the mixing of