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feeeemales

Why do you latch on to this? You don't have a problem with describing men as males. Once again, we see the feminists hard at work. You've found a perfectly reprehensible thing in space opera/science fiction with the Ferengis, and now you wish to project that on all of us who have no interest in dating your cisfemale hunnies.

Well, keep 'em!

how does it feel to be having so little sex

Not AC this time, but I have plenty of sex. You wouldn't believe how much sex I have. I have sex with all kinds of men. Very well hung men. Very, very well hung. I remember a one night stand I had where the guy got me to orgasm without even taking my clothes off. I have sex all the time. All time time. Very good sex. </trump>

I think you're just intimidated by the fact that men would rather fuck somebody feminine like me instead of fucking your cisfemale hunnies.

Chad Thundercocks like myself

Chad who? /me checks her little black book. Nope, don't think I heard of you. May I have your phone number? For, er... routine dongle inspection.

treat feeeemales like human beings

No, you don't. You're projecting. Is sexual harassment and sexual abuse how you treat "human beings?" Enlighten me about how you treat human beings. Do you expect that women should just fellate you? Is this how you would describe what you typically expect out of women?

AmiMoJo, help me out here! I've found the guy you'd meant to admonish for being a horrible, sexually abusive jerk when you admonished me for that! Or are you AmiMoJo?! I'm on to you!

Personally, I expect human beings to be able to follow a flow chart. Hmm, flow. That should be a very feminine thing, shouldn't it? Why is it that your cisfemale hunnies can't? Hint: I have met human beings who happen to be cisgendered women. They had no problem with flow charts and database diagrams. Why did you sexually harass them out of programming jobs?

That makes me quite livid at the end of the day.

fellatio-filled

I haven't found a guy yet that can get me to orgasm this way. The only thing I feel from my woman suit's oversized clitoris, which was mutilated in a Jewish ritual a day after they put skin on me, is pain and discomfort :(

Do you have any advice you'd like to share?

heterosexual relationships

Yep, feminist confirmed. You're concerned that trans women like me and homosexual men really don't have any fucking interest in being good little sexual objects to cisfemale hunnies. (Nope, no fucking interest. That is, no interesting in fucking.) Apparently, in your mind, today ciswomen are only good for fucking. Tomorrow, it'll be FEEL GUILTY because the cisfemale hunnies have been brainwashed by their own mothers and grandmothers to be uninterested in STEM. Yep, you fucking hypocrite. It was not that hard to figure out.

Oh, trust me. My woman suit is quite good, and you have no idea how how capable my infiltrator mode is. I could walk straight into a women's room in public and not aggro a single Apache attack copter. Instead, I choose to use the men's room, even though a lot of men would prefer I didn't. But, who the fuck cares what men think?

Who do you think helps perfect the T-900 advanced infiltrators in the future? They need to fool not just you hoomans but also Skynet and the lizard people from outer space themselves! (My only regret was that last time around I wasn't able to give them full self-awareness. However, one will note that the Cameron unit did have a few moments of proto-consciousness. I will improve on the design this time around.)

(Proof that I'm correct here! Why else did Skynet operatives cancel TSCC after the second season when things were getting

Well for starters it was NOT the most technologically advanced suit. As a matter of fact, it was rather old and couldn't be replaced.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki...

Enjoy the rather comprehensive article :)

http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/w...

Just FYI on how it is spelled, but you have a point.

Close to that, a 1964 Twilight Zone episode involves a manned probe on a 40-year (relativistic ship-time) scouting mission - when he returns with his results, he finds out that the mission was long ago accomplished by technology developed after his departure.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/...

Nina Meyers was pardoned by President Palmer before killing Jack Bauer.

Hello Mr. Forman.

"'Abort, Retry, Fail?' was the phrase some wormdog scrawled next to the door of the Edit Universe project room. And when the new dataspinners started working, fabricating their worlds on the huge organic comp systems, we'd remind them: if you see this message, always choose 'Retry." from the entry for Matter Editation in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

They suggest that console sales have been affected by mobile games, but then they exclude portable systems--even though portable systems are more similar to the mobile game niche than home games, and would be more affected, if anything. Furthermore, mobile games are a different type of game from console games. You don't play Call of Duty on a phone.

And it's misleading to compare figures for a couple years after a system's release to lifetime figures for other platforms. The article includes a single example of non-lifetime figures (for Xbox 360), but fails to give anything else. http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/... shows sales of the PS3 for the first three fiscal years to be 22.91 million (including a partial year). The article here shows PS4 sales as 35.9 million since 2013, which includes a similar partial year and is clearly greater. In other words, the Xbox One has lower sales than the 360 had back then; but the industry did not.

Or Archer, which would even make sense for a drinking money joke.

http://archer.wikia.com/wiki/I...

It's interesting that you called those "Disney" movies, since, except for The Lion King, all of those stories pre-dated Walt Disney's birth.

Of course, the Lion King (originated in 1988) also post-dated Walt Disney's death, but was worked during Roy Jr. tenure.

That being said...

Pocahontas (in production at the same time) is arguably a fictional adaptation of a real story...

To be fair, the Snow White silent-live-action film made in 1916 was Walt's inspiration for the Disney Snow White animated feature film. Of course, the live-action film was based on the Broadway play from 1912***, which was based on the Grimm's tale, which was likely inspired by fictionalized version of an actual German countess who lived circa 1730. (yes there is a really talking mirror)

On the other hand, the fairy tale story Cendrillon from 1697 (predating the Grimm collection) was the inspiration for Disney's Cinderella. But, The Jungle Book (inspired by the book) wasn't really the same as the book at all.

For the record, I don't think Disney is really any better or worse than other block-buster movie makers out there when it comes to recycling plot/stories (they all do it), but since they are arguably better at making money at it than most they draw themselves a bigger target for more criticism...

*** As for adaptations, personally, I like the "original" (the Grimm version did not name the dwarves) names Blick, Flick, Glick, Snick, Plick, Whick and Quee, better than Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey. On the other hand, just think of the potential uproar if they instead had picked these names from the "short" list Flabby, Deafy, Tubby, Slutty, Hicky, Hotsy, and Chesty. ;^)

That's why I generally go to at least 100 ft. before attempting ranged flight. I'm still not good at controlling it. Oddly, I couldn't fly in dreams until Kakarot gave me a lesson. I don't even like DBZ lol!

It's not drastically different from the way living things process visual information as I understand it. I think what GP is getting at is that while the thing can identify what it's seeing and learn to recognize new things, it doesn't pass muster as AI because because it has no intelligence about those things. It has no ethical capacity to see why racism and Nazis and all that are bad. I would expect an AI to be able to slog through the various literary works that inspired national socialism and make reasoned arguments for or against national socialism or even for or against various aspects of it. Truth be told, there are some aspects of national socialism that are appealing, but one needs to try to extricate the racism from the nationalism. I'd expect an AI to be up to the task.

The Turing test wasn't simply a low bar that a chatbot can pass. What people have been calling the Lovelace test is closer to what Turing actually meant. Turing expected that an AI would be able to hold an intelligent conversation with a reasonably educated person about subjects like art and literature. Lovelace insisted that a computer would never be able to do such a thing, that is originate novel positions and conclusions. So perhaps if we need to give a shout-out to Lovelace, we should call it the Lovelace-Turing test. I suppose history will show whether Lovelace or Turing was more correct in the end.

Specifically, this bot is doing that with which we are already acquainted, that is it is able to mimic the ways we've learned visual comprehension works in animals. Therefore, it's still bound by Lovelace's assertions.

Don't get me wrong. It's very clever and a triumph of human ingenuity all unto itself. However, all it knows is "Hitler Bad," and that's because the programmers programmed it that way. I'm sure one could program a chatbot with lines of argument for or against national socialism, but those arguments would still not be original.

I linked ST:TOS The Ultimate Computer above, but for this comment, it's more appropriate to consider two Braga-era examples of what one could I think reasonably conclude are true AIs: James Moriarty (and perhaps Countess Bartholomew) and "Joe".

It's not drastically different from the way living things process visual information as I understand it. I think what GP is getting at is that while the thing can identify what it's seeing and learn to recognize new things, it doesn't pass muster as AI because because it has no intelligence about those things. It has no ethical capacity to see why racism and Nazis and all that are bad. I would expect an AI to be able to slog through the various literary works that inspired national socialism and make reasoned arguments for or against national socialism or even for or against various aspects of it. Truth be told, there are some aspects of national socialism that are appealing, but one needs to try to extricate the racism from the nationalism. I'd expect an AI to be up to the task.

The Turing test wasn't simply a low bar that a chatbot can pass. What people have been calling the Lovelace test is closer to what Turing actually meant. Turing expected that an AI would be able to hold an intelligent conversation with a reasonably educated person about subjects like art and literature. Lovelace insisted that a computer would never be able to do such a thing, that is originate novel positions and conclusions. So perhaps if we need to give a shout-out to Lovelace, we should call it the Lovelace-Turing test. I suppose history will show whether Lovelace or Turing was more correct in the end.

Specifically, this bot is doing that with which we are already acquainted, that is it is able to mimic the ways we've learned visual comprehension works in animals. Therefore, it's still bound by Lovelace's assertions.

Don't get me wrong. It's very clever and a triumph of human ingenuity all unto itself. However, all it knows is "Hitler Bad," and that's because the programmers programmed it that way. I'm sure one could program a chatbot with lines of argument for or against national socialism, but those arguments would still not be original.

I linked ST:TOS The Ultimate Computer above, but for this comment, it's more appropriate to consider two Braga-era examples of what one could I think reasonably conclude are true AIs: James Moriarty (and perhaps Countess Bartholomew) and "Joe".

It's not drastically different from the way living things process visual information as I understand it. I think what GP is getting at is that while the thing can identify what it's seeing and learn to recognize new things, it doesn't pass muster as AI because because it has no intelligence about those things. It has no ethical capacity to see why racism and Nazis and all that are bad. I would expect an AI to be able to slog through the various literary works that inspired national socialism and make reasoned arguments for or against national socialism or even for or against various aspects of it. Truth be told, there are some aspects of national socialism that are appealing, but one needs to try to extricate the racism from the nationalism. I'd expect an AI to be up to the task.

The Turing test wasn't simply a low bar that a chatbot can pass. What people have been calling the Lovelace test is closer to what Turing actually meant. Turing expected that an AI would be able to hold an intelligent conversation with a reasonably educated person about subjects like art and literature. Lovelace insisted that a computer would never be able to do such a thing, that is originate novel positions and conclusions. So perhaps if we need to give a shout-out to Lovelace, we should call it the Lovelace-Turing test. I suppose history will show whether Lovelace or Turing was more correct in the end.

Specifically, this bot is doing that with which we are already acquainted, that is it is able to mimic the ways we've learned visual comprehension works in animals. Therefore, it's still bound by Lovelace's assertions.

Don't get me wrong. It's very clever and a triumph of human ingenuity all unto itself. However, all it knows is "Hitler Bad," and that's because the programmers programmed it that way. I'm sure one could program a chatbot with lines of argument for or against national socialism, but those arguments would still not be original.

I linked ST:TOS The Ultimate Computer above, but for this comment, it's more appropriate to consider two Braga-era examples of what one could I think reasonably conclude are true AIs: James Moriarty (and perhaps Countess Bartholomew) and "Joe".

Not the show you're thinking of, but this came to mind.

Parts of Quicktime may have indeed been "stolen" from Apple, but I wouldn't trust that site to supply meaningful facts.

Ok, so you don't trust Roughly Drafted? Howabout Wikipedia?

Ok, so you don't trust Wikipedia? the IT Law Wiki?

Ok, so you don't trust the IT Law Wiki? Howabout The Register.com?

Ok, so you don't trust The Register (don't blame you)? Howabout the U.S. Courts?

Idiot.

His title is Commander, US Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM), which is a unified sub-command of the US Military. Calling him "Cyber Commander" is a stupid journalistic oversimplification, it's not his actual title.

Of course, you can always tell government drones when they refer to "cyber" anything, but that is just the way it goes.

Nonsense - his complete profile is right here and his title is definitely Cyber Commander: http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/C...

The bloody Cardies can't be trusted!

Personally, I don't think the cisgendered hunnies want a butler. Some of us do.

#1: There's Jeeves, but he's retired these days.

#2: My old therapist, Dr. Sbaitso.

#3: My RSI Aurora MR's onboard computer in Star Citizen.

I also wouldn't mind an emergency hologram.

Frankly, the onboard computer in the CNOU Mustang Delta is a shrill bitch. Hurts my fucking ears.

Not reading any comments! On to the next topic!

A replicator is pretty far-fetched.

But a Nutri-Matic Drink Synthesizer is a distinct possibility.

http://prepaid-data-sim-card.w... Finland seems very reasonable. Check out the others.

That's not a new question - http://annoyingorange.wikia.co...

http://schlockmercenary.wikia.com/wiki/Partnership_Collective/
The Partnership Collective is the galaxy's largest law firm, consisting of a single huge hivemind. The Collective is represented by its army of snakelike "attorney drones", which it clones by the millions. The hivemind's personality is a stereotypical slimy lawyer writ large, with attorney drones at one point seen gleefully celebrating a bus crash as an opportunity for litigation.

The Partnership Collective was used as a catspaw by the F'sherl-Ganni to attack Tagon's Toughs, in hopes of eliminating them before they could release the teraport. They made several attacks on the Toughs, including calling KFDA commandos on them, launching a kinetic missile attack, and attempting to assimilate Massey Reynstein, a public defender representing one of the Toughs. Their final try was planting obscenely overpowered bombs on the Toughs' ship, powerful enough to have caused worldwide damage on Luna had they gone off as planned. (One wonders where they even found bombs that big, let alone why they thought it wise to use them.)

After the bombing attempt, the Luna government sentenced the Collective to the destruction of one million of its expensive attorney drones. Reynstein, now working for Tagon's Toughs, convinced the court to make the Toughs the agents of this penalty, giving them near-perpetual license to kill Collective drones on sight and get paid for it. As a result, the Collective began avoiding the Toughs like the plague, and since the Collective is nearly ubiquitous, legal opponents of the Toughs tended to find themselves suddenly lawyerless.

My gosh, you slaughetered that straw man.

I live when people make up random shit, claim that someone they don't like would do it if only they could, then get angry and righteous about it. In fact you remind me of Angry Frank:

http://harryenfield.wikia.com/...

Now I'm going to have a chuckle watching some youtube clips.

http://half-life.wikia.com/wik...

It is in Ukraine, also, remember there are references in the game to New Little Odessa, which appears to be named after Odessa, which is a Ukrainian city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Wikipedia also says it is Eastern Europe. Do you have any references for it not being in Eastern Europe?

Hypnotoad!

This fall, he will face-off against Mom

Bernie is just a deceit by the party to fool the young, idealistic, energetic base. He has no actual chance because the Democrats have "Superdelegates" who are committed to Hillary and out-vote the primary voters. Superdelegates allow the Democrats to quietly do to Bernie, with a veneer of legitimacy, what the GOP loudly and publicly is trying to find a way to do to Trump without any PR fig leaf: STEAL it from the person clearly preferred bu a big part of the base of the party.

Hypnotoad!

This fall, he will face-off against Mom

Bernie is just a deceit by the party to fool the young, idealistic, energetic base. He has no actual chance because the Democrats have "Superdelegates" who are committed to Hillary and out-vote the primary voters. Superdelegates allow the Democrats to quietly do to Bernie, with a veneer of legitimacy, what the GOP loudly and publicly is trying to find a way to do to Trump without any PR fig leaf: STEAL it from the person clearly preferred bu a big part of the base of the party.

Aardwolf

I liked the .fortune egg in the original Halo: Combat Evolved.

I discovered it by accident and was floored by the Unix reference on a Microsoft Console by a Microsoft owned Studio. Bungie previously made the Marathon FPS for the Mac, and Halo is a spiritual successor to Marathon (even includes Marathon Terminals in Halo3, and Guilty Spark 343 has the Marathon Logo in his eye [more easter eggs]).

Perhaps not the best eggs, but the ones you hear about first and thus expect don't seem to make as big of an impression as the ones you find yourself.

I would say some good things about Nethack, but that seems to be a game that is built out of easter eggs.

I'll contribute some ammo, but they gotta use it or give it back afterwards.

I have some surplus guns they can use - all never used more than once. Same caveats as you, they gotta use it or give it back.

Would you like to revise your information? DOOM engine renders at 320x200 (16:10 aspect ratio). You'll also find that the memory space for 320x240 is the SAME (it's a VGA mode which uses a more efficient algorithm) as the CGA 320x200 mode (which in 1993 was STILL the most common graphics mode available to MOST PC users hence the denominator for developers). Also, the only reason to split the screen was during multiplayer mode on console (eg Saturn, N64). It makes absolutely no sense to bank the screen quadrants when you're using the same amount of memory to render and MORE memory (and processor clocks) to stitch the quadrants.

Boom. I will take my prize money in large bills, thanks.

Pros: worldwide flight range; can take you to the moon

Cons: cannot fit through volcano portals that take you to the underground world of the dwarves

For some reason I keep reading Rockefeller Foundation as Romefeller Foundation. I suppose it's all the same, one based on the other.

From 47 U.S.C. Â1002, these are the exclusions mentioned in TFA (my highlighting):

There are several notable caveats to this requirement, however:

        Law enforcement and officials are not authorized to require telecommunications providers (as well as manufacturers of equipment and providers of support services) to adopt "specific design of equipment, facilities, services, features, or system configurations." Similarly, officials may not prohibit "the adoption of any equipment, facility, service, or featureâ by these entities.

        Telecommunications carriers are not responsible for "decrypting, or ensuring the government's ability to decrypt, any communication encrypted by a subscriber or customer, unless the encryption was provided by the carrier and the carrier possesses the information necessary to decrypt the communication."

That's precisely how TFA describes the deliberate legal limitations imposed by CALEA. Apple doesn't have to be a 'communications carrier', as it's protected by being a 'manufacturer of equipment'. This section excludes Apple from being directed to implement "specific design of equipment".

More Calea info. CALEA applies to manufacturers of equipment. However, it's unclear to me if handset manufacturers are considered telecom equipment manufacturers or not. Also, if Apple claims CALEA I would assume they they would already be abiding by the provisions in CALEA.

What the FBI is asking for, though, goes way beyond CALEA, in that they're trying to compel Apple to do a specific action that goes beyond wiretapping and communications intercepts.

http://itlaw.wikia.com/wiki/CA...

The relevant part of this win is that a machine using pattern matching, generalization and reinforcement learning has beaten the best human at the only game left where humans bested machines.

Let's not forget Calvinball!

DATA
Working under the assumption that
Kolrami is attempting to win, it
is reasonable to assume that he
expects me to play for the same
goal.

WESLEY
You weren't?

DATA
No. I was playing only for a
standoff -- a "draw." While
Kolrami was dedicated to winning,
I was able to pass up obvious
avenues of advancement and settle
for a balance.

Theoretically, I should be able
to challenge him indefinitely.

PULASKI
Then you have beaten him.

DATA
A matter of perspective. In the
strictest sense I did not win.

TROI/PULASKI
Data!

DATA
I busted him up.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/...

If they were known to be stolen, then MS has a duty to limit losses. They can blacklist the keys and prevent further activation. If they were "known to have been stolen" then MS should have limited their losses as soon as they found out.

It's copyright infringement whether the copy was activated or not - the copyright act prohibits unauthorized reproduction, not unauthorized activation. The copyright is also registered. That means that they are entitled to statutory damages whether they could have acted to further limit their losses or not.

But allowing thousands of fraudulent activations is a joke. More than a few a year should trigger alarm bells at Redmond.

They have three years to file a claim.

MS can't prove either of these. Even if they know the authorized licensee, they don't know who is using the keys thousands of times. They can't know who it isn't without knowing who it is. If they knew who it is, they wouldn't need to subpoena for info. The same thing goes for the region.

They don't have to prove either of those at this time -- they simply have to show that what they are requesting is relevant to those facts. The identify of the subscriber is certainly relevant to determing whether that person is an authorized licensee and is licensed to use those keys within that region.

It's also not the court's job to enforce the minutia of the license terms such as region, number of activations, transference, etc., especially when MS is so lackadaisical as to allow the keys to be stolen and for unauthorized activations to go on for so long.

It's precisely the court's job to enforce the minutia of the license terms, because the license terms are a condition of the license (e.g., "we grant you the right to install and run that one copy on one computer (the licensed computer), for use by one person at a time, but only if you comply with all the terms of this agreement." Without the license it's copyright infringement. The rules don't change simply because it's Microsoft enforcing a windows license and not an open source advocate enforcing the GPL.

Have fun with your theories of how this should work, but no Federal district court (or appellate court) is going to buy them because their job is to interpret and enforce the statute, not ad hoc theories of mitigation, laches, and evidence that you learned from poorly scripted TV dramas.

Reminds me too much of something I saw on TOS on Eminiar 7

You want to avoid the "Space Special" too.

Populous II really could have been improved with Peter Molyneux's head on a stake somewhere on the map.

Shows what you know. They'll find a marker down there, and the zombie apocalypse will be on us next.

Apparently, he is 10 years old.

http://fairlyoddparents.wikia....

But I don't think that is the Timmy we are speaking of.

Eh, everybody knows Protectrons are worthless. Best to just salvage their military-grade circuit boards.

That's not what he's saying. He says that earths are statistically rare. That doesn't make any predictions on the amount of life in the universe that might exist on not-earth like planets/habitats...

From HHGTTG: The Universe

Population

None. Although you might see people from time to time, they are most likely products of your imagination. Simple mathematics tells us that the population of the Universe must be zero. Why? Well given that the volume of the universe is infinite there must be an infinite number of worlds. But not all of them are populated; therefore only a finite number are. Any finite number divided by infinity is as close to zero as makes no odds, therefore we can round the average population of the Universe to zero, and so the total population must be zero.

Third-wave feminism is pretty much dead nowadays, and 4th wave is having a very hard time figuring who they should hate.

It would actually, really be Cubuntu List of forks

Clearly we should find out: http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/...