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No, not sarcasm. I really mean it. Well done Nintendo. $10 is chicken feed. Seriously.
As an independent App developer I often feel like a sweat shop worker. Or a ant being tortured by a child with a magnifying glass.
You write an App, that people really like and want, but the shit you have to put up with because you don't give it away for FREE is soul destroying.
I've tried offering two options, pay for full function or use with interstitial Ads.
The 1 star ratings keep coming in with comments like "Remove those annoying Ads and I'll give you 5 stars".
Oh thanks. I can feed myself and family on your generous 5 star rating?

The App eco-system is probably the most under valued product market place in modern society.
People think nothing of chucking 99c at a street busker or homeless beggar but balk at the thought of handing over a penny for an App they really want.

Nintendo could have been more underhanded, like some other games who can afford big names and tv adverts, but they chose instead to offer a freemium product with a single purchase option and not try to milk you for millions.
The game might suck, but their business ethics and mentality are sound.
No doubt their strategy going forward is to offer discount days and other price promotions to increase the conversion ratio.
You can only do that though from starting with a premium price.

Thank you Nintendo for not going to the lowest price point and perpetuating what has become an industry trend that's slowly suffocating itself to death.

Off topic, but regarding the gun stockpiling: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...

Actually active ones? Difficult to tell, but over a quarter think the Charlie Hebdo attacks were justified.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-312...

What percentage of terrorists are muslims? Nearly all.

> They just went as far as demanding a German school in Turkey to ban any mention or celebration of Christmas.

Oh look. The truth isn't anything like what you are claiming.
What a surprise!

But the school disputed the media's version of events, in particular an assertion that the school's choir had to cancel its appearance at the German Consulate's traditional Christmas concert in Istanbul.

In a statement, the school said it was allowed to take place under the supervision of the Turkish education ministry and with individual pupils' parental permission - but that the teachers pulled out of the appearance without giving a reason.

The statement concluded: "it must be asked who these provocations are useful for. It is clear they do not serve Turkish-German relations."
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38364817

http://www.bbc.com/news/live/b...
It says: "It’s been clear since the start of this case there was a pre-determined outcome. The Commission took unilateral action and retroactively changed the rules, disregarding decades of Irish tax law, US tax law, as well as global consensus on tax policy, that everyone has relied on.

So I am surprised Musk and Kalanick decided to work with him. Did they forget what happened to Brendan Eich?

They're not campaigning for him, they are advising (read lobbying) him. Like it or not, Trump will be President. If you get the opportunity to voice your opinion to the President, you take it.

Furthermore, Trump seems to be in a state of flux where he can be easily persuaded. With a good enough argument, they might be able to persuade him to be favorable to their causes.

Here you go:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
- http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

And don't get me started on the subsidies nuclear has received since its inception because... strategic.

Since you seem to be very factually challenged.

You make a very brazen assumption that they found him due to all of this domestic spying the GCHQ and NSA do. The article makes no mention of how he was found and killed. He may have been targeted and killed on accident. If it was a deliberate act, it is most likely that he was found via leaks on the ground. These terrorist organizations almost never use technology like cell phones, email, etc. They're very careful about it. The smart terrorists evade detection for years through these means. Just look at Osama Bin Laden. He was found by a CIA agent posing as a doctor in Pakistan, not by intercepts and spying in the US, UK, or any other country. I am more inclined to believe Patent Lover is correct - that they've found nearly zero terrorists of any significant value in this way. They can't even find clowns like the shoe bomber using all this illegal spying.

Since you seem to be very factually challenged.

This is a single piece of propaganda easily traceable to the russians.
Enjoy.
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-...
P.S.
Posted this as anonymous coward, but suddenly remembered my old login.
D.S.

This story presents facts about Russia's troll factory in St. Petersburg, just as I have done in numerous previous postings and got hammered by the Russian trolls. Go ahead, check my most recent postings to see how the trolls mindlessly mod me down for reporting facts about this troll factory, about the continuing shipments of cargo 200 from Ukraine (i.e. dead Russian soldiers), the terrorists in Ukraine who openly admit Russian soldiers are fighting there and supplying them with arms and munitions, or the Russian soldiers who state they have been sent to Ukraine and have fought there, and finally, the law which Putin signed which bars Russian mothers from talking about their sons who have died while fighting in Ukraine or even talking with other mothers about these deaths. Or course the graves of these dead Russian soldiers say otherwise, as do reports from eyewitnesses and families.

This story need to be modded down in like fashion. Wouldn't want the Russian trolls to have to see the facts of their dear leader's propaganda industry.

Rumors about Pizzagate hit the internet. Twitter removes people talking about it. Reddit deletes the group talking about it (but leaves actual groups of pedophiles online!). Even 4chan, the internet's cess pit is trying to censor it. The MSM won't touch it. Suddenly there's a big war on "fake" news, simultaneously by the new media, the old media, and now the government.

This much censorship makes it MORE likely there's something to the allegations, not less. Nobody cares when the National Enquirer makes up nonsense about Brangelina or the Weekly World News claims to have found aliens.

Media should ignore fake news when possible. Reporting it, even to debunk it, tends to give the story more credibility and make the target look more suspicious.

Pizzagate is a great example. It's fake news, a particularly ridiculous piece of fake news where people have invented a massive pedophile network all because they didn't understand why a restaurant owner (who was also a fundraiser) was mentioned in an email.

Pizzagate isn't a scandal. It's a trashy detective model where the characters have been given names of real people.

Now were Twitter and Reddit right to censor those discussions? I don't know. Going by the fact I've been spared knowing about this particular piece of stupidity until now I can't say they're wrong.

In 2005, there was a prediction that 50 million people would be displaced by global warming by 2010. Didn't even come close to coming true.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/feared-migration-hasn-t-happened-un-embarrassed-by-forecast-on-climate-refugees-a-757713.html

This article has a rather strident tone but has solid links to document the above story.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/04/15/the-un-disappears-50-million-climate-refugees-then-botches-the-disappearing-attempt/

These claims were put forward by Norman Myers. After the prediction didn't pan out for 2010, he made updated claims: now it will be 200 million displaced, by 2050.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23899195

I'm not a climate scientist, but as far as I can tell, the worries about catastrophic anthropogenic global warming have led to very few testable predictions, and the few that have been tested have not proven out. The predicted sea level rise and flooding by 2010 didn't happen, and the computer models that try to predict warming due to carbon dioxide are very far off their predictions.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/01/13/the-abject-failure-of-official-global-warming-predictions/

People argue over whether there was a "global warming pause" or not, but I think it's pretty clear that even if global warming didn't pause, the total carbon dioxide concentration went up a lot during that time yet the predicted temperature rises didn't occur.

There is a saying: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I'm not convinced that the claims of global warming problems even rise to the level of ordinary evidence, let alone extraordinary.

So if someone could please post links to the most persuasive proof that we should all be worried about carbon dioxide levels, I'll take a look. But at the moment, I think we have plenty of other worries that are higher priority.

P.S. The article suggests that Boko Haram is being driven by climate change. Boko Haram itself says that it is driven by a desire to create an Islamic state and to impose Sharia law. I view this attempt to form a linkage between climate change and Boko Haram as unsubstantiated hand-waving. As I understand it, the claimed link is that global warming leads to displaced and impoverished people who are more likely to join Boko Haram, but I'd like to see some evidence. Are there any factors other than climate change that might lead to people being displaced and impoverished? How do you control for such factors in any predictions?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boko_Haram#Ideology

The BBC has multiple stories on this. Maybe you should dislodge your head from your ass?

From here:

Blogger Chris Yiu compiled a list of the 48 organisations and departments that will be able to access the browsing records of individuals without a warrant.
They include various police, military, government and NHS departments as well as the Food Standards Agency, the Gambling Commission, the Financial Conduct Authority and the Health and Safety Executive.

I found this article in about 20 seconds.

Some alternate sources:
Australia: http://www.news.com.au/technol...
BBC: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article...

Are you talking about this story dated 2013? There is no mention of super fit cross-country runner. But other than that, thanks for sharing. Very informative. Is there another similar story? Please post the link if you have it.

Will the SJW in the west try a ranking system within their own brand?
China 'social credit': Beijing sets up huge system (26 October 2015)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
If a SJW does not like a site and they delist it could they get some reward points?
The more sites they report and ban the more glorious and exclusive the company rewards for heroic efforts?
Some sort of GUI to track their reward points?

Gun control has less than nothing in common with slavery.

Other than both were targeted towards black people in the United States.

The reducto ad absurdum is meant to make you think - does making an evil "universal" make it moral, whereas when it is targeted it is not?

The UK has done exactly that. Their police are not armed.

They do a great job of shooting people without being armed :)

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-226...

"A man has been killed in a machete attack and two suspects shot and wounded by police in Woolwich, south-east London."

And in case you missed it - the government IS privileged above the people by definition: they get to make laws and you don't.

But surely you agree they shouldn't make laws that don't apply to them, and *target* only the masses, right?

It could for example be wasp's eggs http://www.bbc.com/news/techno... . Or garlic infusion, tabacco infusion, etc.

A digital transformation for next gen propaganda. The UK wants its version of the news to be spread far and wide to get past traditional blocking in some nations e.g. the use of short and medium waves.
Rather than call nations out on jamming, blocking policies the UK hopes to also use the internet without endangering trade.
Its all part of the biggest expansion 'since the 1940s' with more funding. (16 November 2016) http://www.bbc.com/news/entert...
The UK was always aware of trade deals, jobs and the political issues of direct broadcasts into nations. With the internet a user has to find UK content rather than the UK pushing into a nations spectrum.

Samsung HQ raided? It must be Wednesday!

Also I think calling Korea one of the most corrupt countries is really exaggerating it when the world outside of Western Europe and North America exists. It's similar to Spain and Czech Republic, better than Italy and waay better than most of everything else.

But really the whole situation is much more interesting than the company having a slush fund for bribes. An old friend of the president is accused of running a cult and influencing the president among other stuff. It's really bizarre:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37971085
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37820112

Samsung HQ raided? It must be Wednesday!

Also I think calling Korea one of the most corrupt countries is really exaggerating it when the world outside of Western Europe and North America exists. It's similar to Spain and Czech Republic, better than Italy and waay better than most of everything else.

But really the whole situation is much more interesting than the company having a slush fund for bribes. An old friend of the president is accused of running a cult and influencing the president among other stuff. It's really bizarre:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37971085
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37820112

Only his actions matter (and they've yet to unfold).

That's not exactly true. We've seen some of his actions already:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

It's not my magic way. It's VW's magic way. You do know they admitted to this don't you?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/v...

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-n...

But the alt-right was just kicked off the Trump Train. :(

It's not 'good schmuck bait', it is a perfectly valid point that people want to know the financial situation of a presidential candidate. Not that another hypocrisy would've mattered for most of his voters, it is healthy to worry about the financials of a man taking one of the most important government positions in the world in the same way it is perfectly healthy to weigh the words of your President on truthness (ergo the "can't pardon him" is a lie).

Well, let's see now:

The wildest projections for global temperatures predict a max of 5C global temperature increase

The strongest RCP 8.5 scenario assumes continued and increasing (business-as-usual) emissions reaching 936ppm CO2 by 2100. This is likely to result in 3 to 5 degrees temperature increase by 2100 - but will certainly keep increasing well beyond that, even if we suddenly stopped all our emissions. So no, 5 is not the max. Also, that's an average, and thus specific areas can climb well beyond 5C (see Fig SPM 8 [a]).

never mind that these models have been wrong and every 10 years they have to turn them down to avoid losing all credibility

Citation needed. The first IPCC report in 1990 predicted a temperature increase between 1 and 2 degrees above pre-industrial temperatures (see Figure 8), with a rise rate of 0.1 to 0.2 degrees per decade. Right now we're about 1.2 degrees above pre-industrial temperatures, and rising at 1.7 degrees per decade.

the tropics aren't going to get much hotter due to the effects of evaporation, most of the rise will be seen at the poles and further latitudes

Again, citation needed, because Fig SPM 8 (a) shows pretty clearly that tropical land temperatures can expect 4C to 7C average rises (again under RCP 8.5).

The past is massively important to what we are currently seeing.

But solely for the purpose of identifying past forcings, so that we can evaluate them in the context of today's increases (obviously there is no direct effect). Past changes can (and did) have entirely different causes to current changes. Every natural and cyclical cause that we've identified from the paleontological record has been evaluated in the context of modern warming, and found to be insufficient to cause the observed changes.

If this global warming is due to increased solar flux/frequency shift

It definitely isn't (surely you knew that much?) See IPCC AR5 WGI Chapter 8, particularly section 8.5.

a myriad of other factors not directly or indirectly caused by man

I welcome any suggestions that climatologists may not have considered. But considering you seem to believe they didn't even check solar flux, I'm not hopeful you'll think of anything new.

that argument can be made easily looking at the global temperatures over the past 500k years; hint: palm trees used to grow on Antarctica)

Again I say: so? Why do you think that current climate changes must have the same cause as past changes? Is it not conceivable to you that we could be seeing an entirely different proximate cause? I remind you once again that we've accounted for all known natural forcings, and found them insufficient to cause current observations.

BTW, palm trees grew on Antarctica 52 million years ago (not 500k), and atmospheric CO2 was at least 600ppm. That doesn't bode well for the scope of changes we're likely to see.

all the resources we pour into fighting global warming are 100% wasted

Even if we assume (against all evidence) that current warming is unrelated to human activity, transitioning our energy infrastructure to renewable and/or carbon-neutral sources is hardly wasted. Simply getting off coal will save hundreds of billions in health costs every year, in the US alone. Removing oil-burni

Foxconn uses enormous amounts of robotics in manufacturing but it also requires large numbers of hand laborers. Can all of that be eliminated by automation? Probably not.

Of course those jobs can be eliminated, and they will be when it makes economic sense to do so. Just a few months ago there was a story going around that Foxconn replaced 60,000 jobs with automation and it's only going to accelerate as automation and AI gets better. You're right that not ALL jobs will be eliminated, but enough of them will that it will cause societal problems.

WhatsApp in the meantime is there on many more platforms.

Of which most are soon-to-be-deprecated (like S60, BlackBerry, etc. basically anything that isn't iOS nor Android)

Or are nothing more than a glorified remote viewer-over-html (for Windows/Mac OS X/Linux) and needs to be used together with the phone app.

So, all things said, WhatsApp only supports iOS and Android officially too, like everyone else.

And although they started as a variant of Jabber/XMPP, WhatsApp has been extremely active in trying to shut down and perma-ban any attempt at a 3rd party client.

This reminds me of a story I read where Stalin had a special toilet installed for a diplomatic visit from Mao. The toilet didn't drain into the sewer, but into a special tank. Then the Soviets did nothing with Mao but feed him as much food as he could possibly eat for ten days. At some point he angrily shouted that he was in Russia to do more than just eat and shit. Meanwhile Stalin had a crack team of scientists secretly collect and analyse Mao's stool samples for clues into his personality. They took it so seriously that they decided not to sign a trade agreement or something. Source.

No, it's not "the basis of high frequency trading". Sarao was not engaged in HFT. No one can conduct HFT against the Chicago Mercantile from London (if the orders are actually being made from London, as Sarao's were). The latency is much, much, much too high.

Sarao was manipulating simplistic HFT and other automatic-trading algorithms by placing and cancelling large volumes of trades in a particular direction. HFT systems place a lot of trades, but they're hedged positions, not all going in the same direction; then most of them are cancelled as soon as the price moves. In fact, it's likely real HFT systems were less vulnerable than non-HFT automatic-trading ones to Sarao's manipulations, since HFT trades are hedged and operate on a much finer time grain.

Just look at this typical story on Sarao, which claims that his process operated "hundreds of times per hour". That's not HFT. That's barely even automation speed. Even if they're off by a couple of orders of magnitude, it's still not HFT. (And it couldn't be, unless Sarao was running a C&C locally but the actual trading-terminal software was running in Chicago.)

A lot of people seem to have rather a rather simplistic understanding of HFT based on sources like Flash Boys or Automate This, which no doubt are fine middlebrow popular treatments; but for technical accuracy, it's much better to consult journal articles such as this piece from CACM .

It may be possible to impeach a government official for violating the Oath of Office, which includes swearing to protect and defend the Constitution. Trump has made no secret of the violations he intends to commit, after taking office. For example, Constitution specifies that one of its purposes is to "promote the general Welfare" --which does not mean promoting only the welfare of the rich, and it is mostly the rich who desperately want all the data about Anthropogenic Global Warming to be ignored, so they can keep getting richer, while ocean levels rise and drown the home of millions of ordinary citizens.
Next, Trump claims to want to make America great again, but then he goes and starts appointing people who promote ignorance, not knowledge. Knowledge Is Power! --not ignorance. It is know-how that was one of the factors that made America great in the first place. To promote ignorance is to not-hardly be consistent with the Oath of Office, to defend the Constitution and consequently promote the general Welfare!
The last thing I'll mention is Trump's claim to oppose abortion --and that means enslaving pregnant women, when they don't want to stay pregnant, in violation of the 13th Amendment. Note that the Constitution requires a Census of ALL persons ("except Indians not taxed") every 10 years, and the Founding Fathers were right there in 1790 to specify the details of how the very first Census would be done. No unborn human has ever been counted in any Census! This means that the Founding Fathers did not consider the unborn to be persons, a Constitutional Precedent far predating the Roe v Wade decision. And modern scientific data about what we might call "generic personhood" indicates that dolphins are vastly more likely to qualify as persons, before any unborn human. Our unborn are mere-animal entities, nothing more than that, and to enslave women as life-support systems for mindless animals would be a heinous crime quite worthy of impeachment.

In fact if you removed California, Trump overall received over two MILLION more total votes than Hillary.

Actually, California is underrepresented in the electoral college. If anything, California is treated quite unfairly by the presidential election system. Sorry you just don't happen to agree with the way their residents vote. There's an ever-so-slim chance you'll get your wish of "removing California" and they'll take their avocados and go home.

It's a shame you can't admit the truth just because you are blinded by rage...

Under Obama's watch I've been laid off, had to short-sell my upside-down home, and don't make enough at my current employer to afford adequate health insurance. I know better than most, why people found comfort in Trump's vision of an America that is "Great Again." But that vision is a mirage. A modicum of understanding about the workings of capitalism will tell you the president does not control such things. Already, Trump looks like a man who has had his hopes dashed.

When the better option (Sanders) lost, we voted for the status quo. You voted for change. Give it 4 years and we'll see who ends up more disappointed.

It's not so much a direct result of the viral news & posts that get passed around social media, but the echo chamber people find themselves in.

Was it Facebook 'wot won it'?

Now you could say the same filtering has always applied - liberal people tended to read liberal newspapers, conservatives got their views reflected back in what they read.

The difference was that most editors have tried to do two things - present at least some alternative views and make sure that the facts in any story stand up to scrutiny.

Neither applies on Facebook. The News Feed algorithm serves you up whatever it thinks you and your friends want to believe and it certainly does not do any fact-checking.

Stories that accused the Clintons of murder or maintained that Barack Obama was a Muslim will have cropped up in the feeds of millions of people inclined to support Mr Trump.

This cuts both ways - a made-up quote from Mr Trump saying in 1998 that he might one day run as a Republican because "they're the dumbest group of voters in the country" is still being widely shared on social media by his opponents.

Both the Democrats and Republicans have long made ample use of Facebook - indeed it was the Obama campaign of 2008 that pioneered the use of social media in elections.

But for a Trump campaign that saw much of the mainstream media as hostile and biased, both Facebook and Twitter offered a powerful way of getting its message direct to voters unchallenged by any pesky journalists.

Isn't that the satellite that's raining debris all over Eur... err, Myanmar?

It is not just google.

Canadian Immigration servers have crashed.

http://www.businessinsider.com...
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/09/...
http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...

As a tech (in a bubble?), I wonder what OS they are using.

false, India provided alot of troops and money for the UK, among other contributions. It did do relatively well after the war. China was pillaged by Japan. You've never heard of "The Rape of Nanking"?
That immediately tells me you have little concept of history.

The bumps also help me keep my data private if the machine ever needs to go to the shop for service. I try not to have any personal files on the internal SSD. Check out the news story on Apple's stuff sharing intimate photos in an Australia store if you're not convinced.

Maybely?

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...

Granted, that is speculation and unnamed sources. But that seems to be all that is needed these days.

You mean your comment? Yes, that would make sense. But the fact that Russians love Trump for some weird reason is well known.

The tip of the iceberg.

Could be. Direct mass consequences may be starting:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

Really? Here, let me help you out with that. [dhs.gov]

That DHS supports Clinton's line does not prove anything. Their boss wishes her to win — and so, likely, wish most of the DHS own officials. She is from the Party of Government.

It may be truth, or it may be truthiness, but they'll say the same thing in any event.

Have some nice charts [nytimes.com]

NY Times has not endorsed a Republican for President since Eisenhower. They are careful to skew their news-coverage and opinion-pages to help Democrats.

If/when NY Times or WaPo or a government agency (like FBI) do/say something harmful to Clinton, you can be sure, it is genuine (if understated). When she gets help from them, that does not prove anything...

Either your [sic] misinformed or have an axe to grind.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

Well, the BBC certainly has an axe to grind. I don't need to visit that (or any other) BBC link to have a very good idea of what it says. But I'm not buying.

> I know we heard various things on this, but I seriously doubt we can ever be certain about who shot down an aircraft over a region in civil war.

This has been pretty conclusively settled. Either your misinformed or have an axe to grind.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

According to the investigation, only three emails on server had any classified marking on them.

She was bribing people to get things marked as unclassified. Look, I admire your ardent defense of the Clintons, but at this point it's like trying to defend the legitimacy of Bush's invasion of Iraq (you can't prove that the WMDs weren't shipped out to Syria!)

http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...

So what's "noticeable"? The problem is that the changes occur so slowly we aren't likely to notice.

Yep we won't notice In case you're too lazy to read those, they go from pending flooding to already uninhabitable and cover descriptions of vanishing land due to rising seas over the last 80 or so years.

I live in a major city - we had our first major snowfall over two weeks ago and temperatures have been at or below 0C for nearly a month. There are still THOUSANDS of kilometers of land (many million square km) between me and the north pole, btw. Also, this snow cover will likely last until next May (8 months out of the year).

So, from this we can surmise that you live at least 3k km south of the north pole. Given that London or Tokyo are also just over 3000 km south of the north pole and aren't covered by snow for 8 months, we can also surmise that you live inland and possibly at altitude. You might just as well complain that you suffer from heat, year round snow, or daily rainfall and high humidity and live 13k km south of the north pole (all are possible, it's merely geography)

A warming trend seems like a good thing, and if you're telling me I'll live to see a point where we don't have winter like conditions for over two thirds of the year, we're all just going to laugh.

You could just move as it appears you severely dislike your climate instead of advocating that the rest of the world become potentially uninhabitable to make your apparently miserable location bearable.

As for "aggressively tackling" I have to ROFLMAO. Asia continues to build a new coal fire plant every week.

Got a citation for that? Here's one: China is building two wind turbines every hour.

A) I didn't write the OP, 0100010001010011 did. Not a great track record so far.
B) Sharia law, as implemented in such countries, includes many things that would be considered against human rights here.

Tell me, can you explain why complaining about things like this is "bigotry"? The complaint is about the legal system, specifically their implementation of Sharia law, not the people themselves. The problem is what the law permits, not the actions of the people, though I will present some such actions as illustrations of what is considered acceptable under that law in just a bit.

Are you not aware that they still enslave people? Are you not aware of, say, the Saudi princess and her housekeeper in France?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

Such things are very much acceptable there due to bad laws. Go look up what happened to the workers prepping for the World Cup:

https://www.theguardian.com/fo...

How is it "bigotry" to complain about bad laws? Are you capable of engaging in a conversation with anything but insults designed to stop people from thinking? Or do you just error out on a stop word every time? "How dare they criticize a legal system that permits slavery! Bigot!!!"

Note that the slavery referred to here is mostly a matter of status and economics, such as being held in debt slavery under false promises and unable to leave the country, roughly equivalent to the company towns the USA had long ago. There's also another type of slavery under Sharia law that essentially no longer exists for men & women literally conquered during Jihad. That probably only exists with groups like Boko Haram nowadays. It's also bad to allow that, but at least there aren't many of that type any longer.

Stephen Hawking's initial comments about AI and the future were taken out of context pretty badly. This is a much better quote that more accurately (I believe) summarizes the opinion many smart people have about AI: that it'll induce change, probably radical change, and change is only sometimes good... and it often gets worse before it gets better.