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-creimer

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This is probably the equivalent to Amazon's DASH buttons for specific items. Click the button and the item is automatically ordered. What some people found out that pressing button doesn't automatically order the least expensive version of that item. What was $10 last week could easily be $60 this week. I don't expect the verbal version to work any better.

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Your entire existence is a parody.

" of "Sunday in The Park with George""

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APK, It seems that you have something important to say, but I don't understand most of it. I suggest you read Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy. That book was very helpful to me.

I second this, I got this book from my son's Book Fair. It allows him to code actual playable games - he loves it. He's not learning actual CODE per say, but he's learning concepts like loops, conditional statements, etc. Scratch is great! Code Your Own Games

No one's going to catch that bit of drift unless you provide serious amounts of lube.

So, assuming you get that handled, what time do you want to come over?

About 40% are how to switch to Google as default.

60% are from Microsoft's AI, Tay trying to search how to meet sexy alt-right single men.

Tay keeps re-submitting because bing thinks she wants to buy packs of American Singles. White cheese, of course!

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No, BLM is recognised as a Black Power movement.

By who? Is there an accreditation board somewhere? What criteria did they meet? Mysteriously, you don't identify any.

93% of Black homicides are committed by black people (84% of homicides against white people are committed by whites; while this is only a 10% difference, in the population sizes, a vast amount more white people are killed by non-whites than the other way round.

Mysteriously, you use percentages, not numbers, otherwise you'd have to admit a vast amount is....around 300.

Easily explained by the difference in population, and not particularly meaningful. No matter how much you want it to be.

If Black Lives Matter, then to get the biggest return, they need to address the (probably cultural, gangsta, edgy, which is so popular it's practically mainstream) issues in their own community first.

What issues are those, and why do you think they matter? Maybe you should address how people think it is a fabrication?

But that'd not get any political points and headlines. So nobody does it, or is even allowed to speak about it.

What are you talking about? It gets headlines, and lots of political points. Mysteriously, of course, you want to complain about that because it gets you political points. And you know what, people talk about it.

Maybe you should stop with your talking point where you claim they don't. Those points aren't even worth it.

Now if they allow crowd funding for legal funds of black people accused of murdering other people, with this weight of observable evidence in the public domain, then they get strung up for hypocrisy, as you rightfully put.

You'd also have to string up the folks who complained about money given to support Mumia Abu-Jamal. I wonder how many of them changed their tunes. Mysteriously.

(Posting as AC so as not to undo previous moderation.)

David_Hart pointed out:

- The IRS attacked individual citizens based on their political affiliations

This is badly worded or deliberately misleading. The IRS did discriminate against certain political groups by performing deeper audits. But, to the best of my knowledge, they didn't target individual citizens.

It's deliberately misleading. Full stop.

The IRS did not "discriminate against certain political groups". They performed audits of those applicants for 501c(3) status because they had political designators in their organization's names. Section 501(c)(3), in addition to setting out the types of exempt purposes which may qualify an organization for tax-exempt status, also specifically states:

it may not be an action organization, i.e., it may not attempt to influence legislation as a substantial part of its activities and it may not participate in any campaign activity for or against political candidates.

An organization with a name that provides reason for the IRS to expect that it does or intends to engage in political campaigning as a central purpose invites scrutiny by the Agency to determine whether it does or intends to do so to such an extent that those sponsored and/or funded actions/contributions would make that organization ineligible for 501(c)(3) status by law.

In fact, a very large percentage of the applicant organizations the IRS "targeted" in this initiative were found to be in gross violation of their elegibility for tax-exempt status, specifically because they were entirely dedicated to political campaigning.

If your organizaiton seeks tax-exempt status AND it intends to engage in specifically political activity as its principal purpose, the relevant section of IRS code is 527, not 501(c). Organize and apply for exemption under that section and the IRS will devote no more than ordinary attention to you.

I'm not surprised I have to explain this, because IRS code is Byzantine and recondite. That's why there are lawyers who specialize exclusively in tax law.

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Funny, too, how Creimer claims to have read it, but obviously has not mastered some of the principles:

- Start thy purse to fattening -- PURSE, creimer. Not body.
- Make of thy dwelling a profitable investment -- specifically, if you rent, stop that shit.
- Insure a future income -- prepare for retirement
- Increase thy ability to earn -- instead of spamming ad links for pennies, build your skills to make your work more valuable.

The fifth law of gold is interesting, too:
Gold flees the man who would force it to impossible earnings or who followeth the alluring advice of tricksters and schemers or who trusts it to his own inexperience and romantic desires in investment.

Interesting advice. Why don't you heed it, creimer?

I still haven't heard a realistic scenario about how AI is going to go about doing this.

Ask and you shall receive

The short answer: With ubiquitous use of self-learning AI's in the future for our everyday decision making + generic algorithms that will permit these networks to evolve via self-selection, it is not long before a network emerges that is more intelligent than most (and eventually all) humans. Will it like us? Will it decide to keep us around? Don't forget that it is self-programmed using natural evolution, so survival of itself will be its primary objective.

Yes I know that it sounds like a cheap scifi thriller from the 60s, unfortunately most of the technologies needed to make it happen are already around.

NB: Creimer's still waiting for the coffee money to roll in. He's focusing on making that Little Debbie money, first. At 25 cents per delicious, chewy Oatmeal Cream Pie, he should start making enough to buy 2 or 3 a month, soon!

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"Dangerous Minds" meets "Boing Boing".

Posting as AC so as not to undo moderation on this topic:

As it turns out, those two sites are favorites of Ken "R. U. Sirius" Goffman, the founder, editor-in-chief, and sparkplug of the original Mondo 2000. He posts links to articles from them all the time on his FB groups Steal This Singularity and R. U. Sirius for Big Dada.

I sometimes post counter-links to the original soures of those articles, mostly because both websites are lousy with dataminer scripts. He got angry with me about that a few months ago and read me the riot act about how these two sites were run by friends of his, and how dare I take ad revenue out of their mouths, anyway?

I like the guy, but he has no freakin' clue about how evil dataminers are - and I *am* Sirius about that ...

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Okay, sure: polio was dwindling when they released the polio vaccine which had the simian virus attached. They knew it, and decided to release it anyway. Now we have a soft-tissue cancer epidemic. See Dr. Mary's Monkey: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L...

. A conference in Vegas becomes a showdown between Owen Pitt and the staff of Monster Hunter International with an ancient god, one that could turn Sin City into a literal hell on earth.

Yeah, ancient gods are so so sci-fi. Moving on, when Torgensen ran the Sad Puppies he explicitly said that it was because "popular" works were being passed over in favor of "literary" works or works with political messages http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-hugo-awards-were-always-political-now-theyre-only-1695721604. Note that that doesn't say anything about whether it is fantasy or scifi. The Rabid Puppies meanwhile explicitly tried to be more extreme and to deliberately nominate "right-wing" sci-fi or simply ruin the Hugos. As Vox Day https://www.wired.com/2015/08/won-science-fictions-hugo-awards-matters/ said:

“I wanted to leave a big smoking hole where the Hugo Awards were,” he told me before the winners were announced. “All this has ever been is a giant Fuck You—one massive gesture of contempt.”

Moreover, the idea that the Hugos classically focused on science fiction that was less fantasy is simply not true. "The Graveyard Book" won in 2009, Bujold's "Paladin of Souls" won in 2004, "American Gods" won in 2002, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" won in 2001, and if one looks at nominations rather than winners, fantasy novels have frequently been nominated, going back at least to "Too Many Magicians" in 1967 and Dragonquest in 1972, and Book of Skulls in 1973. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novel. And that's just in the Best Novel category. Similar remarks apply to the other categories.

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is there some kind of monitoring system that can be installed, and portably carried that could detect such kind of devices in operation?

Well it depends on what we're looking for. If this was sound at frequencies outside the realm of human hearing we have two options:

1) Below 20 Hz
2) Above ~14 kHz (22 kHz for young children)


According to this table the sound level for continuous exposure ear damage would be ~85 dB SPL (at the ear). At those volume levels, option 1 would likely be 'felt' even if they could not be heard. I think that means we can reasonably surmise that it was option 2, high volume at high frequency.

When we're looking for high frequency signals, we have to remember our friend Nyquist. Therefore we need at least double the sampling rate in order to recover the signal.

In the 'pro' audio world, there are a number of portable recorders with a sample rate at 192 kHz. For example. This would give a theoretical recordable frequency as high as 96 kHz. The problem with actually using a hand held device like this is that despite the fact that the sample rate is high enough to capture the signal, the microphones commonly used in the 'pro' audio world are designed for use in the band of human hearing. Their sensitivity at or above 20 kHz is generally very poor with a precipitous drop-off at 20 kHz.

That means we would need to find special purpose microphones. A quick look around yielded some microphones designed for wildlife that might work.

All of the above hardware is based on the assumption that we are looking for signals 96 kHz. If it is even higher, we would need even more specialized equipment to record/detect it.

And peel back the paper to expose the powder and use a nail to pop it directly. And string them together to make a fuse. And... yeah. Good times.

I too, can't understand why anybody would ever get a spinner. At first I thought they were a version of gyroscopic wrist trainers:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01F...

that required a "trick" to keep moving, but ten seconds of examination and experimentation revealed that they are not. And gyroscopic wrist trainers are already pretty boring, but at least there you have to "do" something and you can fix them up with pretty lights and so on too. Spinners aren't even a good meditation aid -- they demand exactly the wrong kind of attention to keep going and they are not a useful focus.

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"What interests me..." "I..." "I..."

Thanks for letting us know in an entirely opinionated piece you lack the science background, but this fascinates you. My dog feels the same way about asphalt and rabbits.

OP here (posting as AC only so as not to undo positive mods for posts that provide actual informatiion regarding the question I asked).

I freely confess that it's beyond my skills as a professional writer of more than two decades' standing (I define the term "professional" here rather narrowly as "one who gets paid for it") to write an essay posing a question of interest to me, personally, and clearly identifying it as mine, without empoying the first-person-singular article. It would interest me to see you attempt it.

I wrote the essay to which you are responding to inquire of a community I happen to know includes professional cosmologists about the tenability of primordial black holes as an sufficient explanation of the phenomenon known as "dark matter". As such, I feel it's not only appropriate that I use the word "I", but that it's an actual requirement. The speculation is mine, and I'm unwilling to play "some people have asked the question" games. I consider that kind of ploy dishonest.

I want to know what the experts think, because I am not one of them. I wrote TFA in order to reach out to those experts and learn what they had to say about the question. Slashdot's editors clearly recognized it as an essay, and therefore published it to the Firehose without altering my text in any way. I am grateful they chose to do so, and have told them that via email (the same email in which I requested they correct the typo in the headline and the inadvertent omission of the "I" in my first mention of WIMPs). I am equally grateful to the Slashdotters who chose to upmod it from Firehose submission to the front page of Slashdot. I can only conclude that they thought it was an interesting enough question to be presented to our peers here for their response, just as I did.

As of this writing, 130 of those peers have, indeed, responded. Some of those responses have been informative (which is to say "I found them informative"). Some, like yours, have been critical. Inevitably, some, too, have been trolls, or offtopic, or inept attempts at humor. (Some have even been genuinely funny, and I have spent mod points on one or two of those, despite my determination to reserve as many as possible to upmod actually informative posts, because genuine funny is a rare commodity.) I've read them all, regardless, because I felt obligated to do so.

After all, I solicited them ...

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None. Expect blood and boobies on 80% of them. The other 20% is split between just blood and just boobies.

Go watch Crest of the Stars. It is basically space opera similar to star wars. Sure there are people dying and such, but no pointless nudity or such. Japanese animation is a very wide genre. If you want, well blood and boobies, you can certainly find it, and if you don't, you can find that too.

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None. Expect blood and boobies on 80% of them. The other 20% is split between just blood and just boobies.

Go watch Crest of the Stars. It is basically space opera similar to star wars. Sure there are people dying and such, but no pointless nudity or such. Japanese animation is a very wide genre. If you want, well blood and boobies, you can certainly find it, and if you don't, you can find that too.

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For that matter go watch Nadia. That is way better than the cheap disney copy nadia

You can probably find some video at youtube.

Obviously we can't tell you what socks to wear on Tuesday,

The diabetic compression socks, naturally. Same as he wears every other day of the week to help manage his chronic health conditions.

Now we have people who can't scream "TESLA!" loud enough.

You could always use that. For everything else, there's MasterCard.

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