StringJunky

You learned something about him. Absorb it and don't do it again with him. Being family does not automatically mean one will receive honesty. C'est la vie.

I made a recovery partition the drive with Macrium Reflect Free, with dividing up the drive into 60GB Windows, 30GB Recovery and the rest in a Data drive. On starting up I am presented with going into Windows or Recovery. There is an option to select this in Macrium Reflect. The Recovery drive contains roughly 15GB system recovery images which contain my images.

I don't know.

No prob. More simply, a clone is as big as the drive and an image is only as big as the live OS and user information in that. Imagine cloning a 1TB drive with only 50BG of data and OS on it. It's a waste of most peoples time unless it's essential that all information is forensically extracted, whether the information a part of the present OS space or not. Unless you wipe sector by sector beforehand, any old data from a previous OS is still on the empty sectors not currently used by Windows and cloning can record that, but imaging ignores them.

AFAIK The only difference between AEOMI/Macrium backup mode and clone is cloning records each sector verbatim, including with the info in the empty spaces as well. The cloning of empty sectors necessitates that the final image is much larger and slower to create and transfer than imaging. Imaging just records the sectors being used by the current OS during the imaging session, ignoring the empty sectors.

I thought this covered the subjective experience element: 'We' are our brains configurations.

The perception of colour has three elements, I think: Wavelength of incident light, wavelength of the reflected light and then how the brain processes it. That's room for a lot of variability between individual observers.

RGB is white in mixed light photon terms and brown in pigments.

There is probably an emotional element sometimes, 'colouring' thoughts, funnily enough. I think, the things one sees is limited by what you know, or the ability to see increasing nuances comes with increasing experience. I don't think our visual system is anything like the passive recording with a camera.

It depends on the prior experience of the observer how they see the colour red and what it means to them.

There may well come a time when the the refrain from the accused will be "Deepfake!"

They are in states of different density and electrostatic attraction..

A state records a point in time or fragment of a process.

A state is a point in time of a process. A state is a sub-ordinate to a process in level of complexity. We don't get to redefine what these things mean.

it's a radio device.

For clarity. Mind you, I rang a local chap in NW Scotland and he flummoxed me totally. I apologised for not understanding him and he sent me an email instead!

Maybe they will think about about insisting on fireproof roof coverings, rather than 'fire resistant' ones that will eventually auto-ignite given a high enough temperature. Apparently, flaming material was carried in the wind and deposited on these roofs... you know what happens next. This house has a metal roof and the owners cleared brush around it just as a tidying up exercise, not for fire prevention.

The UK has now recognized Taiwan as an independent country.

No idea, but somebody will make the decision when current democratic norms become part of the past, as resources and space become scarcer. As things get worse, people will become more selfish. It will become more about 'me' and less about 'us'

You might be looking at the wrong end of the life scale. Preventing lives from starting in the first place would be ethically easier to reduce the population. I think if we collectively wring our hands and reach a tipping point where Darwin rules increasingly, then this kind of discussion will be moot. The biggest, richest and meanest will prevail.

Will, I think, fail because no man can step in the same river twice, which is what they are trying to do. Do people think this carries any weight? The quote I'm drawing from is, apparently, from Heraclitus.

Same with Big Pharma, they want repeat prescriptions. Curing ailments is not in their long-term interest.

If the mortality rate dropped from having having better resource access, the poorer inhabitants won't need to produce more children to ensure they have somebody to look after them in old age. State pensions aren't a thing everywhere. This is only one element in a complex problem, but that's probably not an insignificant driver.

Your assumption seems to be that we don't need representatives to leave Earth to maximize our survivability.. It's just going to stay the same for all time and existential anxieties are just that.... figments of the imagination. I'm for spreading my bets.

Also, they aren't going to blow up the flight crew for nothing.