Doc Dutch (12-05-2021)
…[O]ne of the earliest [applications] of dither came in World War II. Airplane bombers used mechanical computers to perform navigation and bomb trajectory calculations. Curiously, these computers (boxes filled with hundreds of gears and cogs) performed more accurately when flying on board the aircraft, and less well on ground. Engineers realized that the vibration from the aircraft reduced the error from sticky moving parts. Instead of moving in short jerks, they moved more continuously. Small vibrating motors were built into the computers, and their vibration was called dither from the Middle English verb "didderen," meaning "to tremble." Today, when you tap a mechanical meter to increase its accuracy, you are applying dither, and modern dictionaries define dither as a highly nervous, confused, or agitated state. In minute quantities, dither successfully makes a digitization system a little more analog in the good sense of the word.
— Ken Pohlmann, Principles of Digital Audio
Doc Dutch (12-05-2021)
They don't even have a glimmer of consciousness until after birth. In the case of some JPPers, they lose it in their 60s.
https://www.science.org/content/arti...come-conscious
New research shows that babies display glimmers of consciousness and memory as early as 5 months old.
For decades, neuroscientists have been searching for an unmistakable signal of consciousness in electrical brain activity. Such a sign could determine whether minimally conscious or anesthetized adults are aware—and when consciousness begins in babies.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
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AProudLefty (12-05-2021), ThatOwlWoman (12-05-2021)
Doc Dutch finally admits he is a steaming pile of chickenshit!
AProudLefty (12-05-2021)
You post like a Democrat.
It's not murder, premeditated or otherwise. Murder is one human being killing another. A zygote or blastocyst are not human beings.
Besides your Catholic religious Sharia Law, what logic do you use for telling a woman she can't have an abortion?
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
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Doc Dutch (12-05-2021), ThatOwlWoman (12-05-2021)
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