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I don't understand your reasoning. How does that strategy enrich the police union, the prison guard union, the owners of private prisons, fund black-ops programs or impose arbitrary authority on people to make sure they know who their masters are?

That sounds more like the Portugal solution and they saw a 95% drop in drug crime, so this plan of yours sounds really bad for a lot of people. Are you against good American jobs?

I don't understand your reasoning. How does that strategy enrich the police union, the prison guard union, the owners of private prisons, fund black-ops programs or impose arbitrary authority on people to make sure they know who their masters are?

That sounds more like the Portugal solution and they saw a 95% drop in drug crime, so this plan of yours sounds really bad for a lot of people. Are you against good American jobs?

Remember Domino's sorta-brilliant "Failure is an Option." campaign? Trying new things that might not work moved a moribund business into a pizza to be reckoned with.

I have never used that site, but this video seems quite descriptive of what they are up to.

Disclaimer: anyone interested in disclaimers and/or with understanding limitations should be able to easily adapt one of these samples to this post.

It appears you misunderstand.

Marx and Engels called for killing people because of their race, and called for killing people because of their class. That is not "the elimination of race."

It doesn't matter if race represents anything "scientifically concrete", people make use of it every day.

I suggest you watch this.

I was reminded of the 1-X Robot from Futurama.

Neil Armstrong also nearly killed himself when trying to perform a similar landing on the Earth. You can see Neil Armstrong at the 2:30 time mark.

So if no banks will loan Trump money, why would Russia or China take those loans? Surely they know its bad business.

It's because of their secret, long running master plan to make Donald Trump president of the US! Even though the entire US intelligentsia was firmly convinced Trump didn't have a chance right until the election, those Russians already had their perfect master plan constructed years earlier! I mean, in order to make this work out, they had to start years ago, investing billions in Trump's businesses.

They masterfully created the Benghazi controversy, then they tempted Hillary with $250k Wall St speeches, they propped up Sanders and then bribed Democratic delegates to vote against him so that Hillary would be damaged, they paid off Democratic party operatives to send damaging E-mails to Podesta and Hillary! Heck, they even planted the "grab them by the pussy video" so that Trump would have a chance to highlight Bill's sexual harassment! And then they sent over their finest PR handlers and makeup artists to give Donald Trump that winning personality, those eloquent speeches, and that irresistible orange hue! And don't forget the secret mind control rays they must have been beaming into American brains via cell phones and bluetooth headsets for years!

Oh, those masterful Russian manipulators and their devious long-term plans!

Of course they will. Did anyone think otherwise?

Yes

hell, the Nazis had the German people convinced they were Socialists...

Do you think it had anything to do with their program and how they interacted with other socialists?

Before you take too much at face value from him you might want to watch: The Soviet Story - an award winning documentary supported by the European Parliament. (A library copy would be better so the subtitles are available, but it is still well worth the time.)

There is more to the Night of the Long Knives than a hard core Leftist like dunkelfalke cares to let on. The actions of the leadership of the SA were a direct threat to continued Nazi rule and threatened a revolution.

Communist and fascist regimes are well known for faction wars, including the brutal extermination of enemies in other factions of the party. Just for starters you can look at the Soviet treatment of the Mensheviks, the Old Bolsheviks, the Trotskyites, and others.

National Socialists repressed international socialists, a.k.a. Communists, as well as a faction within the Nazi party that both threatened Nazi rule and pursued a more radical ideology. Faction wars are a common part of rule by communists, fascists, and various other ideologies. Maybe you should look into how the Soviets treated other socialists, such as the Mensheviks, the Old Bolsheviks, the Trotskyites, and various other factions in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

You do know that early Nazi propaganda declared Lenin a great man second only to Hitler?

There are a few other things you skip over, such as the non-aggression pact with the Communists in the Soviet Union, the subsequent division of Europe, and partitioning of Poland. There was also the cooperation with French communists after the invasion and occupation of France.

The European Parliament supported the production of this documentary, you might want to watch it sometime. (A copy from the library would be better so the subtitles are available.)

So your great source of "social media strategy" is from someone no one has ever heard of?

Guy Kawasaki — former Apple evangelist, author and speaker.

You must not be a real nerd. Turn in your geek cred and don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

One single guy who is quite possibly almost as narcissistic and pathological as you?

You're thinking of Trump, who could learn a few things from Guy Kawasaki about social media.

Yes, the accord itself is a tranquilizer dart aimed at what there is of a legitimate environmental movement, nothing but extortion . Don't believe me? Check out the travel and lodging accommodations and all the other little amenities for the participants. Hookers and blow... But... what goes in Vegas stays in Vegas.

Here are some really cool videos of SpaceX landing the first stage of their rockets (on land and on sea). They've done it 11 times by now, and have already re-flown one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (sped up barge landing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (real-time land landing)

Here are some really cool videos of SpaceX landing the first stage of their rockets (on land and on sea). They've done it 11 times by now, and have already re-flown one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (sped up barge landing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (real-time land landing)

One of the most popular technology teachers on youtube sticks to mechanical technology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I'd really like to see the top 25 real estate cities for this stuff. Obviously not San Jose. SF, maybe; it wouldn't be the oddest thing in Golden Gate Park.

> Would you elaborate please because that is no different from someone saying the complete opposite and asking me to trust them.

My bad - I neglected to mention that I'm familiar with Linda and the subject matter. I love to watch that stuff.

Anyhow, what you have from her is conjecture, supposition, and willful ignorance. Well, I assume it's willful - it appears to be.

In the case of livestock mutilations, the damage has perfectly normal reasons. There's predation, vultures, and insects. There's bloating which, if you've not seen it in person, does all sorts of horrific looking things to corpses. The blood isn't missing - it's pooled, leaked, and/or consumed.

For crop circles, those are made by humans. We've had many humans come forth and tell us how they created them - they'll even show you how they created them. It's pretty neat and often involves things like a plank of wood and some rope. I'm kinda impressed with their creativity and the simple methods that they use.

Anyhow, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. She just takes evidence and decides it means what she wants it to mean and then ties things together when there's no association between them.

I... Umm... My guilty pleasure is watching all this stuff. Very, very few of the mysteries they cover are actually mysteries. Usually, there's a handy Wikipedia article that has actual sources at the bottom of the page.

I have actually spoken on this subject, to a crowd of ufologists. My talk was about the mathematical probabilities of intelligent life existing on other planets. In my talk, I conclude that I have zero reason to doubt the existence of said life. (I was redacting this last night, 'cause it can raise a whole lot of questions from a bunch of ACs and I don't feel like answering them all today.) In my talk, we discussed things like the Drake equation.

I have no doubt that intelligent life exists on more planets than Earth. However, I see zero evidence that suggests extraterrestrial activity on this planet.

Let's try a simple thought experiment...

Why would an alien species come to the planet and make crop circles or mutilate cows? Surely, they have better methods of communication. Surely, they've had time to study our communication. Surely, they've had time to observe our behaviors. To even get here, they'd have to be intelligent.

Why would they abduct us? How could all these governments keep it a secret? Why wouldn't they just tell us that they're here - or avoid us entirely?

The problem is, as I see it, people trying to invent something bigger than themselves. I *want* credible evidence that suggests aliens are here. I *want* to believe.

So far, no evidence exists - that I'm aware of. We have a method to establish belief. It's called science. Nobody is going to lose their career by proving extraterrestrial activity. In fact, proving it would rocket them to fame and fortune.

Which should not be seen as me suggesting you stop looking or believing. I'm just telling you why I don't currently believe. I keep an open mind.

That said, I love the stuff. I watch way more of that sort of stuff than I want to admit to. You may already know of these folks, but here's a link - just in case you don't:

Rabbit hole.

At this time, however, there's just conjecture, speculation, and (probably) disparate events that people use to make claims without actually providing proof. I have her talk playing now - but she's spoken on this subject before. She's been in the circuit for a while now. She's fun to watch but she's not a scientist. By that, I don't mean that she doesn't have the degree, I mean she's not using the scientific method.

So in other words, you're just talking to hear yourself talk?

If I wanted to hear myself talk, I wouldn't be writing comments on Slashdot. However, I do have a YouTube channel. Once I figured out my angle for vlogging (which won't be anytime soon), you too can hear me talk as well. Don't forget to comment, like and subscribe. Thank you for giving me another opportunity to promote my personal brand.

I can't wait to read the next article about the grid [...]

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-power-grid-20170315-story.html

Yes, this is a dupe. Here is a brief synopsis of the previous discussion:
1. Many people do not think AI today is analogous to the "web" in 1993.
2. Machine learning is much harder than editing HTML. You aren't going to learn it in a 21 day "bootcamp".
3. If you are serious this is what you should do:
  a. Learn plenty of linear algebra
  b. Learn how to program GPUs using CUDA and OpenCL.
  c. Learn basic theory, like backprop and autoencoders.
  d. Write some code, read some books, write more code.

Here are some good resources:
MIT Artificial Intelligence Course
Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Begino
Geoffrey Hinton's 2006 Science Paper that triggered the "deep learning" revolution.

That will get you started.

The Nazis weren't internationalist socialist.

FTFY

They pretended to be, adopted popular socialist policies

So they adopted socialists policies . . .

...and claimed to represent the people against the establishment.

The treatment of workers and unions under National Socialism would be familiar to workers and Unions in the Soviet Union at the time.

As soon as they got into power they dropped the pretence.

After the National Socialists rose to power they began collaborating with the Communists in the Soviet Union. They signed a non-aggression treaty, conspired in the invasion of Poland and the splitting of its territory, exchanged political prisoners of interest to each other. When the National Socialists invaded France, the French Communist party applauded their actions and worked with them.

After taking power the National Socialists, like the Communists, began killing. The Communists mainly killed by class, the National Socialists by race. Marx and Engels called for both the killing by class and by race.

Maybe you should watch The Soviet Story, there seem to be some gaps in your knowledge. (It would be better to watch a copy from the library so you can to get the subtitles.)

In your thinking "socialism" seems to be either a substitute for, or conflated with, "good". It still baffles me how you regularly defend the evil regime in North Korea.

Revealed: the gas chamber horror of North Korea's gulag

Even the Guardian gets it. If you can defend North Korea as "not so bad," (as you did some months ago) is there anything Stalin did that you personally couldn't defend? I'm not sure how there could be other than the fact the DPRK exists and Stalin's USSR doesn't.

The thing is, that's who he is.

True, to the extent that people have been making him the subject of earnest mockery and derision, he has been known and recognized for who he is for decades. Since the 1980s at least.

He decided to become President, and did it pretty much by himself with the help of family and friends, and with his own money.

He did it by embracing the ever-popular aggrandizement of the Republican party, without even the principles of a Perot, and they ate it up, because it was what they wanted.

Desperately. They wanted somebody to promise them the skies, and denounce the evil liberals, and they got it. The Birther-in-Chief.

But yes, he was wealthy enough to get attention, that certainly helped him. He should thank his father. And all the victims of his cons.

He had a tiny team of volunteers compared to Clinton; his own party didn't want him there and tried to get rid of him even after the primaries.

LOL, his own party? Trump isn't a Republican any more than he's a Blue Mongoose. But the party leadership? It's been sycophantic to him since he decided to run, let alone since he took office. They've neither reined him in nor tried to shrink his head. They've been failing the party and its alleged principles for years, but they really took the prize when it came to Trump.

They may be privately dismayed, perhaps, though I doubt they have the intelligence or wisdom for that, but otherwise? No, their actions on Trumpcare, the Muslim Ban, the tweeting, the whole business with Russia, with NATO, they're worse than when they tried to kill the Iran deal just because Obama made it.

He's been like that his whole life. We're talking about a guy who literally fought for decades with bureaucrats to develop some land that he bought in NYC. He's not a sweet-talker that sugarcoated his way to power. He's in-your-face, doesn't-bend-over kind of guy.

Like that his whole life? Yes, I agree, he hasn't changed in character (though in quality, age seems to have taken its toll). He's certainly in your face, but he hides things behind all of that bluster, in fact, he's less honest than you would ever admit. What he's done in New York City, like everywhere else, is find a way to enrich himself, and run rough-shod over the poor and weak to do it. (The AC who endorsed him as only socking the rich, is wrong, he's taken advantage of the poor all the time. His workers HAVE complained.) He isn't sugar-coated, he's slime-coated, and he has slinked his way to power like a slug oozing through a crack, and bent over a lot of people because of who he is, a man who likes to screw people.

He doesn't try to hide things because that's who he is.

The guy has falsely portrayed almost everything he is.

But there's more to the guy.

There's less to the guy.

Have you seen this thing that happened at a debate during the primaries? He saw that Carson was confused and stayed back to let him make a dignified entrance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Did you see the actual debates? Or better yet read them? Such empty pompous bombast was revolting. He complained more about the evils of "Political Correctness" than he offered real policy.

It's rather telling that you think your video is important, when what he said up on that stage is what truly matters.

It was an act, sure, but being willing to make that act? Terrible.

That we now have months of a presidential administration to look upon, and you still can

That's a pretty disingenuous definition of the Nazi's over-all goals. Your statement would lead some to think you are whitewashing history, and might even be a Nazi ideology sympathizer.

Your statement would lead some to think you are engaging in the commonly used tactic on the Left of smearing people whose politics they disagree with in an effort to shut down debate. Do you think it would be fair to add something like, "It might even raise the question of you being a Communist sympathizer, prone to supporting all of the evil excesses it has demonstrated"?

. Socialism can also be the means of production "regulated by the community as a whole". Their socialism was nothing more than a smokescreen for their true goals of a "pure Aryan race" motherland,

How little you know. Marx called for the destruction of both classes and races. The Communists murdered by class, the Nazis by race. Both Communism and Nazism tried to create a new breed of humanity. Have you not heard of "The New Soviet Man"? Early Nazi propaganda declared Lenin was a great man, second only to Hitler. The Communists and Nazis made common cause for years. The Soviets worked with the Germans to destroy Poland. After the German occupation of France the French Communists applauded the German National Socialists and worked with them.

Maybe you should watch The Soviet Story. (Supported by the EU parliament by the way.)

First off let me start by saying unions are necessary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

then finish by saying the idea is great the implementation always fails in the long haul. Nothing destroys like unadulterated success. /. captcha lashings ./ fortune the end of labor is to gain leisure

The thing is, that's who he is. He decided to become President, and did it pretty much by himself with the help of family and friends, and with his own money. He had a tiny team of volunteers compared to Clinton; his own party didn't want him there and tried to get rid of him even after the primaries.

He's been like that his whole life. We're talking about a guy who literally fought for decades with bureaucrats to develop some land that he bought in NYC. He's not a sweet-talker that sugarcoated his way to power. He's in-your-face, doesn't-bend-over kind of guy. He doesn't try to hide things because that's who he is.

But there's more to the guy. Have you seen this thing that happened at a debate during the primaries? He saw that Carson was confused and stayed back to let him make a dignified entrance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

First time in forever that there's a WYSIWYG president. It's refreshing, it's not the end of the world.

Yes, yes, your unhinged level of despite for Obama is quite evident, that's why you're stuck with your freak-out over a simple misstatement that you turned into some insane conspiracy theory, your rampant birther-ism, and you even managed to freak out over a bunch of drapes from the Kennedy administration, a bust of Winston Churchill and fell for a bad photoshop of the pledge of allegiance. The teleprompters was just the tip of the hypocrisy, the real depths were elsewhere in the labyrinthine convolutions of your diatribes. That's the reality of the histrionics you spent 8 years screeching over.

All while hoping for a revolution, since Obama won a Nobel Prize that was awarded just to spite George W.

And now you have thrown your unstinting devotion to a pompous fool who if we're lucky, doesn't hit the wrong button in the toilet.

Maybe they'll give him another one for not being Donald Trump. Maybe they'll give Kim Jung-il one for not being Donald Trump. Maybe they'll give YOU one for not being Donald Trump.

Unfortunately CGP Grey's outstanding videos on the topic were not available during that campaign :(

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxFhQeZJUFaAI03-xYNgqesjEEZuU6mZY

Without you know, actually managing a coherent sentence, but who cares about that?

Dude, have you ever heard Obama talk without a teleprompter?

Educate yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If you manage to watch the whole 5 minutes of his babbling without feeling ice coming up your spine as you realize what kind of person was in the oval office for 8 years, well done. We're not talking about funny missquote like GWB, we're talking about a full-blown retard who can't talk without a cue card written by someone else.

The odds of it being from an intelligent source, are REALLY fucking low. If they were gonna send us something, they'd probably send something with more bits, unless they figured we could (and would) decode it from that. Dunno but I bet any aliens sending messages aren't stupid. They're gonna make it easy to decode. Call it a hunch...

I watched a lecture by Linda Howe, a journalist who started investigating cattle mutilations, on binary messages from, crop circles and abductees. Its a 2 hour lecture with much of it spent building the necessary context about several binary messages delivering a warning that at least one alien species is extremely hostile to humanity and we should not be transmitting *anything*. Ironically, one of the things she shows was a crop circle with a binary code in it reported here on slashdot years ago.

As for SETI itself, considering that we already know how often governments lie to us I don't think we're going to get any help from them. Politicians are too spineless to tell us what the truth is about the evidence that has already been discovered about corporate behavior, so why the fuck would we expect the truth about ETIs, if they actually did find evidence. For all we know SETI is a project with a goal of making us feel safe in our complacency whilst our governments continue to pathologize us with stories of terror and the need monitor our every move to ensure lies become beliefs.

Recent discovery of a modern human skull dated at over 300,000 years old calls into question our presumed understanding of evolution and the actual age of the human race. If it took us less than 100 years to get from flight to landing on the moon, what the fuck has humanity been doing in this form for the last 299,900 years. We don't even know what *WE* are other than slightly evolved monkeys struggling to evolve past our petty warlike nature.

So even if ETIs do exist, it would be completely naive to expect a message from our leaders saying "Yep, they're out there".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

There needs to be a compelling reason to restrict freedom. What compelling reason is there to prevent me from flying a drone within my own house?

For an 8 year old nerd who saw the original broadcasts (or soon after), Batman was a delight with all those single purpose bat-computers and bat-gadgets and of course the rocket-firing Batmobile. I'm sure I made my first grappling-hook because of Batman but walking up walls wasn't as easy as it looked.

I'm not sure how much of what makes it still fun to watch I understood then: the cartoonish pop-art design, the mad plots, ubiquitous bat-prefixes, nobody dying, but probably not the main attraction, the deadpan acting of the cast - no matter how ridiculous the lines - especially Adam West's straight-faced moralistic explanations to the ever-puzzled Robin (there's something of him in Father Dougal), though now I see the twinkle in his eye. I wasn't interested in Batgirl or Catwoman though.

It's not quite up there with Star Trek but it deserves a place in the nerd's Pantheon.

(*No, that's not a cremation joke).

Is it a Cannibalism joke?

Fun fact, the cast of Batman and Gilligan's Island competed on an episode of Family Feud.

If anyone doubts Adam West was the greatest, here is the definitive analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Holy heart failure!

51 year time bomb.

looks like you'll need to investigate a local micro grid to work with your neighbours - here's an example of one in a business park https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

• LG introduced the first touchscreen-only phone, beating the iPhone by a half year. But most people mistakenly believe Apple did it first.
• Gesture controls like pinch to zoom have been around since the 1980s. But most people mistakenly believe Apple invented them.
• Motorola had fingerprint unlock on one of its earlier phones, but it was dismissed. Until Apple copied it about 5 years later, and suddenly it was the best thing since sliced bread.
• The original iPad had 1024x768 resolution. When Android tablets came out with 1536x1024 and even 1920x1080 screens, they were dismissed because 1024x768 was "good enough." Until the Retina iPad was released, and suddenly having a high resolution screen became important.
• Google had a voice assistant on Android a year before Siri (they just didn't think of anthropomorphizing it with a spiffy name), but it was ignored. Until Siri came out and suddenly it was the best thing since sliced bread.
• Samsung has had OLED screens on its flagship phones since the original Galaxy S, but it's mostly become an afterthought with most people not even noticing the different display technology. How much you want to bet when the iPhone (finally) gets OLED screens it'll suddenly become the single greatest improvement in screen technology, making LCDs obsolete?
• Heck, the appearance of the front face of Samsung's tablets was based on their digital picture frame which they released two years before the iPad. Apple came up with pretty much the same thing, then turned around and claimed Samsung copied them. It doesn't matter that it obviously wasn't true and Apple eventually lost in court - legions of Apple faithful still believe Samsung copied Apple when if anything it was the other way around.

Don't eat that humble pie. You guys need to exit. You lost your rights as a country, you're being ruled from Brussels. That's why you have entire sections of London being take over by Muslims that have absolutely no desire to become a Britain, they have every desire to take your country over and kill you. It's in the Koran if you read it. Killing Infidels is ok, they teach that to their kids from the age of 3. It's not too late, your country could get rid of the invasion force. That's what they are by the way, invaders, not refugees. Refugees cannot return to their country or they'll be killed. We know muslims go back all the time. Here the left is bringing in invaders under the guise of refugees illegally - https://www.youtube.com/watch?... . They end up in GB too.

Abolishing war by becoming a unified state was a good idea, didn't work out though. Leftists got in the way, just as they are getting in the way in the US.

TV channels in the U.S. are required to identify themselves in their broadcasts at least once an hour. Many do it more frequently, both to build up branding and so they won't get in trouble with the FCC if they miss an ID broadcast. You have to have seen these if you watch any cable or over-the-air TV broadcasts.

"So can you create a computer program that would 'act' out and entire program based upon scripts provided,"

xtranormal tried this. It sucked and they failed.

Youtube has an endless catalog of disasters of what resulted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwC_jP-rJrg

All we have are systems with an ever increasing number of if statements.

You must be completely unaware of what's happening in the field, if you believe that. Here's an example of how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

There are robotic cleaners for solar panels. They can easily get rid of snow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You're the moron.

There are robotic cleaners for solar panels. They can easily get rid of snow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You're the moron.

A good (and often funny) book to read on this subject is "From Bauhaus to Our House" by Tom Wolfe.

I really enjoyed James Kunstler's Geography of Nowhere and Home from Nowhere where he talks about the disaster of post-war suburban planning and "undoing the damage of modernism."

If you can spare 22 minutes, see his TED talk How bad architecture wrecked cities.

No, Pepe, you mustn't touch my apps! https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (When Your Smartphone is Salty AF (i9000) by Joy Camp)

Guess where the SCHAFT name comes from?

I've always liked comedian Bo Burnham's advice. He clearly gets it.

I got two systems in my collection / office ;-) Each time I read Intel press like this I power them up just for the warm feeling :-) https://www.t2-project.org/har... https://www.t2-project.org/har... They are also visible on my desk in some of my recent videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/r...

Transmeta became a Patent Licensing organization, and licensed their tech to AMD and other chip manufacturers during the conversion. So, no - they didn't fail as Intel claims.

I hope Apple doesn't find out about this!

I haven't had a chance to watch this trailer yet but I thought Dead Island had one of the best trailers I had ever seen at that point in time. I've never had a chance to play the game, but the trailer was very emotionally evocative.

If you want to see a trailer that does deserve nomination, you should look at the trailer for Crawl. Excellent voice acting and writing, and it describes the game really well.