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Hate Speech
noun
1 : the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for Progressive God
2 : irreverence toward something considered sacred or inviolable

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We're bringing back religion into the criminal code and it's called "progress".

Rick, you are wrong. Check out this definition of imitate:

to be or appear like : RESEMBLE

OP was exactly right. Words have meanings, you see. In order for us to communicate effectively, we need to be using the same meanings for our words.

And, for what it it is worth, both the OP and my own post provide citations from a legit source. You have provided nothing but an insult. This is an argument technique used by people who are out of ideas.

Your definition of "AI" is incorrect, which is exactly why you believe we do not have it today.

Here is the actual definition:

AI: the capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior.

(emphasis mine).

Something "imitates" something when it isn't actually that thing. A machine does not actually need to be intelligent in order to imitate intelligence. This is why we call it "artificial" intelligence and not "machine" intelligence.

A simple chess program is imitating intelligence. Intelligent people make intelligent decisions when playing chess. A program, which is not intelligent and is not making intelligent decisions, nonetheless moves chess pieces around in a way that often leads to victory. That absolutely and completely qualifies as "artificial intelligence," under the definition given above, straight out of the dictionary.

The fact that it is an algorithm written by a human does not change the fact that it imitates intelligence.

I really wish you and your ilk could get this through your heads.

Onus probandi or Burden of Proof - is a principle in philosophy, science, and law.

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Whether Musk chose to fight the SEC at the time or settle is of no consequence. Freedom of speech is an inalienable right. The government can not take away his, or anyone else's right to free speech. Nor can Musk sign away his right to free speech. Inalienable rights are, by definition, incapable of being surrendered or transferred.

Other CEOs voluntarily self-restrict their speech because they are conformists (much like you). Musk is clearly a non-conformist. In that sense, Musk IS special.

> I just want to know who the hell decided that meme is one syllable.

Uh, that would be Richard Dawkins, the guy who coined it.

In his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, British scientist Richard Dawkins defended his newly coined word meme, which he defined as "a unit of cultural transmission." Having first considered, then rejected, "mimeme," he wrote: "‘Mimeme’ comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like ‘gene.’ I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate ‘mimeme’ to ‘meme.’"

Nepotism is favoring family members, typically in matters of business. Neither the above nor affirmative action are examples of nepotism...

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"Having your star go on every talk show bragging about it being a feminist film, insisting on dividing her interviewers up by race and gender, and releasing it on International Women's Day are not suggestive of a studio "not looking to spread division.""

See, here's the problem. There are people out there who hear "feminism" and some how come to the conclusion that something divisive is happening. Since you seem to be of this group here's the definition of feminism just so we can both be on the same page in regards to what you and yours are outraged about. https://www.merriam-webster.co...

What you're illustrating in your post is how elements of our country have spun a concept most Americans are perfectly fine with into their outrage machine in an attempt to diminish it or simply as a way of being outraged about something.

Also, your signature is stupid. Of the top 10 games of 2018 https://www.fool.com/investing... you play as either a character of your choice with "white male" being available or exclusively as a white male.

> The demonstrations did absolutely nothing but ferment more hatred

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foment

So, explain to me...

You actually need sarcasm explained to you? Are you so steeped in it that you can't recognize it anymore? Well, here goes...

Definition of sarcasm: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain.

Definition of irony: the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning.

So, you (or whoever it may have been) posted "Check out the big brain on Brad!" The literal meaning of this is that the OP has a large brain, and that you are impressed by it. This is a way of saying that one is very intelligent, and that you are impressed by this intelligence. Of course, you meant the exact opposite, as you re-affirmed in your prior post when you called it obvious. So, you used words to express the opposite of their literal meaning. This qualifies as sarcasm by the definitions given above.

The fact that this is also a quote from Pulp Fiction has no relevance.

I hope that helps. You clearly need some.

So, explain to me...

You actually need sarcasm explained to you? Are you so steeped in it that you can't recognize it anymore? Well, here goes...

Definition of sarcasm: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain.

Definition of irony: the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning.

So, you (or whoever it may have been) posted "Check out the big brain on Brad!" The literal meaning of this is that the OP has a large brain, and that you are impressed by it. This is a way of saying that one is very intelligent, and that you are impressed by this intelligence. Of course, you meant the exact opposite, as you re-affirmed in your prior post when you called it obvious. So, you used words to express the opposite of their literal meaning. This qualifies as sarcasm by the definitions given above.

The fact that this is also a quote from Pulp Fiction has no relevance.

I hope that helps. You clearly need some.

FTC, Your base belong to the Zuck.

Perhaps you need to look up the definition of the word monopoly. Nothing prevents users from leaving the site for competing social media platforms, and in fact the younger generation doesn't really like Facebook.

When you don't invent the term, which was provably in use before the leading lights of the OSI claimed to have coined it, you don't get to define it.

Yes, in fact, you do. The first person to use a term does not obtain a perpetual monopoly concerning its meaning, especially when they put no substantial investment into promoting that meaning. English is a consensus based language, and the consensus has long favored the OSI definition.

You can set yourself on fire over this issue all you wish, but the majority wins the argument, every time.

Seriously though, bollocks. A nationalist is "a person who strongly identifies with their own nation and vigorously supports its interests

True, and exactly what I said.

especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.

Fake News propagated by people that hate peace and diversity loving nationalists.

As I said, people against nationalism want to stamp out any uniqueness or individuality everywhere. They are the villains from pretty much every SciFi movie looking to conquer Earth and make it in their own image, having utter dominion over all inhabitants.

We will fight you, Bland Man Group, to the last man, woman and child.

Do you know what you're saying is fundamentally wrong?

Turns out it's not .

Guess that makes you the stupid one. At least I can figure out how to post a link.

I'll let you have the last response, since stupid people like to chatter on and on and on and cannot understand how truly stupid they have become, so it's kind of a waste of my time to try and help you any further. Sad.

Its Apple's new strategy to nickel and dime its customers. Even if you dont buy the adapter/cable from Apple any certified cable has gone through Apple's paid program so its win-win for them.

This is how they boost their accessory/MFi program business.

This comment is 100% false. How are you defining X when you don't even know what X is...

socialism noun
Definition of socialism
1 : any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods

Take it up with Merriam-Webster.

AI isn't supposed to "show intelligence." It is supposed to mimic intelligence. As in....fake it....through engineering.

That is why the "A" in "AI" stands for "artificial." You know...as in "not real." It isn't actually intelligent, and it isn't supposed to be. Straight from the dictionary, AI is:

the capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior

If the machines were actually intelligent, then we wouldn't call it "artificial intelligence." We would call it "synthetic intelligence." But we don't call it that, because that isn't what we have created. Not even close. So we give it the much more accurate name "artificial intelligence" instead.

Please learn basic English. A transponder:

a radio or radar set that upon receiving a designated signal emits a radio signal of its own and that is used especially for the detection, identification, and location of objects and in satellites for relaying communications signals

Well, what do you know! You send a signal to the GPS transponder I linked, and it will send back its own signal. That is the very definition of a transponder. You ping it - it gives back data. In this case, it gives back GPS data related to the position not of the requester, but of the GPS transponder.

You can definitely send GPS data - it's done all the time. By GPS transponders. These things do exist. It's solid nomenclature, to the point it's actually used in the trade as I linked.

"Really? Where?"

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"Yes, and?"
And that makes this tree thing different from hearing.

> Dirt is dead. Soil is alive.

'Dirt' and 'soil' mean exactly the same thing.

They might even be ... synonyms!

There's a reason I linked to the definition of a subsidy. I guess you consider yourself subsidized because you take an income tax deduction? Subsidies are a cash grant; only an idiot or liar would claim that a cut in taxes (meaning you pay less, but you still pay) is a subsidy. So which are you?

Here we go again.

One meaning of "dark", when referencing places, is "not known or explored because of remoteness".

See definition #4: https://www.merriam-webster.co...

Using that definition of "dark", "dark side" and "far side" are the same thing, so the original post is still wrong.

dark adjective
\därk \
Definition of dark ....
4a : not clear to the understanding
b : not known or explored because of remoteness
the darkest reaches of the continent

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Here we go again.

One meaning of "dark", when referencing places, is "not known or explored because of remoteness".

See definition #4:
https://www.merriam-webster.co...

What are the subsidies given to the oil companies? Please list them, and explain how they are exclusive to just the oil companies and not all corporations.

... having a yard is objectively a good thing ....

Now that the word "literally" has become meaningless, "objectively" seems to have become the new target to be destroyed. I don't think that word means what you think it means.

Objective: "having reality independent of the mind .... expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations"

> CAP === 'defocus' <<== not even a word - 'come on /.

Try looking in a fucking dictionary next time.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/defocus

> Wrong. You've just defined communism, not socialism.

socialism noun
1 : any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods

Wrong.

For starters, when it comes to God and what not, please believe what ever you want.

With that said, words have fixed meanings and your "personal deffinition" of agnostic is wrong. Here is a correct one https://www.merriam-webster.co... .

Agnostic - a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable

The definition of a parasite is that it provides no benefit to the host.

Oxford: An organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense.

Cambridge: an animal or plant that lives on or in another animal or plant of a different type and feeds from it

Merriam-Webster: an organism living in, with, or on another organism in parasitism (an intimate association between organisms of two or more kinds especially: one in which a parasite obtains benefits from a host which it usually injures)

Dictionary definitions don't seem to agree with you.

(Notably, the alternate definition in each of those, when applied to non-biological parasites, implies a derogatory "without benefiting the host", but the biological definition never includes it.)

Under no circumstances should it be possible to sell a right. (In a non competes case the purchase price would be the original job.)

You also shouldn't be able to be bought off by the rich and powerful to silence your story. They can pay and ask you not to speak, but they shouldn't be able to go after you if you do it anyway.

This is why I think we should eliminate the fungibility of intellectual property. If patents and copyrights were an inalienable personal right of the creator rather than being real estate, any exploiting IP that you created would have to maintain a personal contractual relationship with you, and only within your lifetime. No more having to sign away your IP rights on employment and then having the company kick you to the curb and plug in a cheap offshore replacement. No more patent troll companies hoarding the inventions of others.

This is why I think we should eliminate the fungibility of intellectual property. If patents and copyrights were an inalienable personal right of the creator rather than being real estate, any exploiting IP that you created would have to maintain a personal contractual relationship with you, and only within your lifetime. No more having to sign away your IP rights on employment and then having the company kick you to the curb and plug in a cheap offshore replacement. No more patent troll companies hoarding the inventions of others.

"Fungibility" presumably isn't the word you're looking for, which more-or-less means "interchangeable." Money is fungible, because $1 from one source can be interchanged with $1 from another source, and one usually doesn't care exactly where any given dollar came from.

On the other hand, any particular valid patent is by definition novel (or it would be invalid, see 35 U.S.C. 102) and therefore not "fungible" with another.

I suspect you mean "alienability," which refers to the ability of an owner of a right to sell or otherwise transfer it (and which I see you also use).

Yes. The fact someone is after you does not affirm nor refute the fact you are paranoid. They are independent facts! Therefore, the original point is not accurate, because it implies a relationship that does not exist.

They're dependent facts, and the relationship does exist by definition.

When someone is "after you" it is no longer a delusion, and also not necessarily excessive or irrational to distrust them.

An ocean of false positives is not efficient

Efficacy != efficiency.

Efficacy
Efficiency

An ocean of false positives is not efficient

Efficacy != efficiency.

Efficacy
Efficiency

Yes, really. I saw it right here -> https://www.merriam-webster.co...

I've left threats of physical violence in comments, for good reason.

Well that's more than a few levels above an f-bomb. Someone who does that shouldn't just be fired. They should be served a restraining order.

I don't 'act' professional, I am professional.

Given the nuanced distinction between acting professional and being professional, I must agree.

From: https://www.merriam-webster.co...

windmill noun
windÂâmill | \Ëwin(d)-ËOEmil \
Definition of windmill

(Entry 1 of 2)

1a : a mill or machine operated by the wind usually acting on oblique vanes or sails that radiate from a horizontal shaft especially : a wind-driven water pump or electric generator

b : the wind-driven wheel of a windmill

2 : something that resembles or suggests a windmill especially : a calisthenic exercise that involves alternately lowering each outstretched hand to touch the toes of the opposite foot

3 [ from the episode in Don Quixote by Cervantes in which the hero attacks windmills under the illusion that they are giants ] : an imaginary wrong, evil, or opponent â"usually used in the phrase to tilt at windmills

It's a fucking windmill and so I'm going to call it a windmill.

Well, Merriam-Webster has an entry for moonquake. Oxford lists marsquake. The Free Dictionary has sunquake. Dictionary.com lists starquake.

While the 14th century usage may have meant something else, it's certainly well known that the entire planet Earth does in fact quake during an earthquake. Why do you think remote sensors can detect earthquakes half way around the planet? Definitions of words change over a couple of years, let alone several centuries. In this case, I'd say the term "earthquake" as in the planet is more accurate than the original definition. But it becomes problematic when you're talking about a quake on another celestial body.

I also believe the "earth", as in dirt, that was referred to in the 14th century was generally referring to cultivable topsoil. You're not going to find much of that on the moon, mars, or a star.

They never said secret. They said private.

This makes no sense. Private and secret are synonyms within the English language.

https://www.thesaurus.com/brow...

Hell, even Merriam Webster uses secret in one of its definitions of private:

not known or intended to be known publicly : SECRET

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Your post is as dumb as saying that water is wet but not moist.

Bribery doesn't necessarily imply illegality.

bribe noun
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Definition of bribe

(Entry 1 of 2)

1 : money or favor given or promised in order to influence the judgment or conduct of a person in a position of trust police officers accused of taking bribes

2 : something that serves to induce or influence offered the kid a bribe to finish his homework

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As long as there is an inducement or influence being offered it can be considered a bribe. After all I don't think it is illegal to bribe your kids with candy or a toy if they do something you want them to (although maybe it should be).

Skyjacking is a specific term that came into use in the 1960s to describe the rash of airplane hijackings that occurred in the late 60s and 70s. I count 20 skyjackings that involved the United States in just the decade of 1970. It is a specific type of hijacking that involves airplanes, and which typically takes place while the plane is in the sky during flight. Thus the plane is redirected to some other destination because the risk of the threat being real must be taken seriously.

I presume you are in your 20s to have not encountered this word, which is defined in pretty much every English dictionary there is. If you prefer "A hijacking that occurs on an airplane while the plane is in flight" over "skyjacking" then feel free to use the longer phrase in your writings and conversation. However your lack of exposure to this word hardly makes it "tabloid-headline made-up".

To totally beat this point to death, here are some various dictionary entries.
https://www.merriam-webster.co...
https://dictionary.cambridge.o...
https://en.oxforddictionaries....
https://www.dictionary.com/bro...
https://www.thefreedictionary....
https://www.macmillandictionar...

I also note that the Chome spellchecker knows this word by default as well.

Do they have public surveillance in Crete? No.

Oh really? https://www.researchgate.net/p...

Do they even have good cell phone access in Crete? No.

Crete is actually rather small and has cell phone coverage everywhere.

If you can manage to comprehend the story, this is being done by Fucking Texans!

Texans? What a bunch of cretins.

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sooth adjective [süth]

(Entry 1 of 2)

1 archaic : true

2 archaic : soft, sweet

sooth noun

Definition of sooth (Entry 2 of 2)

1 : truth, reality

2 obsolete : blandishment

Not really. The term jay-walker descended from jay-driver. People who would refuse to abide by the rules of the road when operating motor vehicles or horse-drawn carriages. Jay-walker was applied to people who had no 'sidewalk etiquette' as well as those who wandered into the roadway. Jay-driver dropped out of use as motor vehicle faux pas began to be referred to by official violation names. Whereas jay-walking remained in our lexicon specifically because the laws were slow to codify pedestrian misbehavior.

The Adam Ruins Everything video is just one of a number of politicized anti-car rants

"Don't get so butthurt, princess."

If you don't want people treating you like an asshole then don't lie to them.

Here is the M-W entry on this term.
https://www.merriam-webster.co...

Here's what makes you wrong there
": the effect that a powerful country or group of countries has in changing or influencing the way people live in other, poorer countries"

I notice you still don't post links because you're still picking and choosing what you want from where ever you want. I'm fairly certain you don't even understand why siting sources is important in any critical context.

Technically, *everything* about cars is "tech".

Scientist !== Science

Engineer !== Science

A good engineer ALSO has morals. A bad one doesn't.

/sarcasm Gee, if only there was a way to lookup the definition of Science: ...

the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.

Or, https://www.merriam-webster.co...

1. the state of knowing : knowledge as distinguished from ignorance or misunderstanding
2. a) department of systematized knowledge as an object of study
2. b) something (such as a sport or technique) that may be studied or learned like systematized knowledge
3. a) knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through scientific method
3. b) such knowledge or such a system of knowledge concerned with the physical world and its phenomena
4. a system or method reconciling practical ends with scientific laws

Or, https://sciencecouncil.org/abo...

Science is the pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world following a systematic methodology based on evidence

Scientific methodology includes the following:

* Objective observation: Measurement and data (possibly although not necessarily using mathematics as a tool)
* Evidence
* Experiment and/or observation as benchmarks for testing hypotheses
* Induction: reasoning to establish general rules or conclusions drawn from facts or examples
* Repetition
* Critical analysis
* Verification and testing: critical exposure to scrutiny, peer review and assessment

Morals are mentioned WHERE again ???

Hint: They AREN'T.

Name Check: to mention approvingly by name

I have to say that namecheck, press-ganged into a verb, with the mainsail of semantic drift inflated to a D cup, made me throw up a little bit in my mouth.

Perhaps "blamecheck" could step into the breech, initially sounding twice as hipster refurb, though about 10% as asinine.

Your rationalization is a prime example of the kind of mental gymnastics it takes to believe in these ancient fairy tales.

Religious nuts like you must have a gene that makes you immune to cognitive dissonance.

In the beginning was the word.