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Like Lightman's teacher in Wargames

Now he sells knots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Earlier today, Melinda Taylor (one of Julian Assange's lawyers) spoke to RT from The Hague. But unfortunately the interviewer stacked so many different questions on top of each other in his interview with Taylor, she could easily escape having to plainly answer whether Assange will turn himself in to the US sometime in May after Manning walks free. At one point (2m06s) the interviewer asked:

Right, so what is the likely outcome of that going to be? What's your best guess at the moment, you are one of his lawyers, what do you think is gonna happen next? Are we gonna see him going off to America? Is there some sort of deal behind the scenes as well, you think? There has been some surmising that there may be some kind of behind-the-scenes deal in Obama's last few days to finally try to get him to go over to America. Is that—any mileage in that or not?

RT's article about this (https://www.rt.com/on-air/374100-assanges-lawyer-melinda-taylor/) currently redirects to their news page instead of showing the article "Assange's lawyer Melinda Taylor talks to RT".

In this Youtube video "Surviving in the Siberian Wilderness for 70 Years" it is shown how a woman lives in Siberian wilderness alone:

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

In my opinion, a similar place could be an option for Chelsea Manning. S/he could live safely there. There are still such places in Siberia.

Since this is turning "serious", in the interests of proper credit for the inspiration of the humor, as well as rebuttal, here's the more-credentialed Nobel Laureate.

Now the NOAA is the one These guys are pushing hard as the stat bearers. The same guys who own the entire media and scientific establishment.

Exhale c02? You are damaging the enviornment!!! You should be personally taxed for destroying the environment with your man made exhales.

The same guys who also brought you the federal reserve with Warburg as the front man, taxing you so blindly every week :)

Rules for Rulers might help explain why the CIA is able to replace democracies with dictatorships so easily.

You might say Republican is a tinny word and Democrat is a woody word.

Woody and tinny words

obligatory Futurama reference

This robot will cook your dinner!

NAO robot drives autonomously it's own car

Are Robot Composers The Future of Music? Nope, they're here now!

Book Reading Robot by Web-cam System

Robot building a brick wall

autoportrait; robot painting a portrait

Oh, did you mean one robot that does all these things? Just cram them all into one chassis.

This robot will cook your dinner!

NAO robot drives autonomously it's own car

Are Robot Composers The Future of Music? Nope, they're here now!

Book Reading Robot by Web-cam System

Robot building a brick wall

autoportrait; robot painting a portrait

Oh, did you mean one robot that does all these things? Just cram them all into one chassis.

This robot will cook your dinner!

NAO robot drives autonomously it's own car

Are Robot Composers The Future of Music? Nope, they're here now!

Book Reading Robot by Web-cam System

Robot building a brick wall

autoportrait; robot painting a portrait

Oh, did you mean one robot that does all these things? Just cram them all into one chassis.

This robot will cook your dinner!

NAO robot drives autonomously it's own car

Are Robot Composers The Future of Music? Nope, they're here now!

Book Reading Robot by Web-cam System

Robot building a brick wall

autoportrait; robot painting a portrait

Oh, did you mean one robot that does all these things? Just cram them all into one chassis.

This robot will cook your dinner!

NAO robot drives autonomously it's own car

Are Robot Composers The Future of Music? Nope, they're here now!

Book Reading Robot by Web-cam System

Robot building a brick wall

autoportrait; robot painting a portrait

Oh, did you mean one robot that does all these things? Just cram them all into one chassis.

This robot will cook your dinner!

NAO robot drives autonomously it's own car

Are Robot Composers The Future of Music? Nope, they're here now!

Book Reading Robot by Web-cam System

Robot building a brick wall

autoportrait; robot painting a portrait

Oh, did you mean one robot that does all these things? Just cram them all into one chassis.

I don't normally post as an AC, but this is so politically-charged that I really don't want to end up a virtual fine red mist all over the Internets..

Current evidence is suggesting that Trump, being a wealthy, 'successful' Western businessman, who has little self control, little self discipline, little situational awareness, and impulsive as hell, went to Russia at some point, allowed himself to get drawn into one or more highly compromising situations (wouldn't at all be surprised if he killed someone, or was made to look like he killed someone, probably a prostitute), and Putin, being ex-KGB, did what KGB does: blackmailed the living hell out of Trump...

Bob Woodard - one of the Watergate reporters himself and hardly a Republican - calls those papers garbage documents.

Soak your FAKE NEWS in gasoline. Then shove it up your ass. Then light it on fire.

Not actual radio-like telepathy like in sci-fi stories, but an inbuilt capacity to actually experience what our brains think other people are experiencing.

One of the classic experiments like this is to get a subject wearing goggles to identify with a mannequin. Of course this is artificially induced; we didn't evolve in a world with 3D goggles and cameras. But there is a condition called "mirror-touch synesthesia" in which this occurs naturally, in which people spontaneously experience what someone else is experiencing.

The parallel element I see is the brain somehow generates a sensation without an appropriate physical input, and the phenomenon of mirror touch synesthesia suggests to me this isn't just a curious bug in our brain architecture. The 1.6% of people who report spontaneous mirror synesthesia also score higher than the general population on measures of empathy. I suspect it may also be linked in some way to our ability to learn by copying what others do.

This is a really exciting time in neuroscience, and synesthesia seems like an interesting target for DIY brain hackers. Mirror-type synesthesia particularly so because it's easy to induce. The rubber hand illusion is probably the easiest dramatic effect to produce at home.

Not actual radio-like telepathy like in sci-fi stories, but an inbuilt capacity to actually experience what our brains think other people are experiencing.

One of the classic experiments like this is to get a subject wearing goggles to identify with a mannequin. Of course this is artificially induced; we didn't evolve in a world with 3D goggles and cameras. But there is a condition called "mirror-touch synesthesia" in which this occurs naturally, in which people spontaneously experience what someone else is experiencing.

The parallel element I see is the brain somehow generates a sensation without an appropriate physical input, and the phenomenon of mirror touch synesthesia suggests to me this isn't just a curious bug in our brain architecture. The 1.6% of people who report spontaneous mirror synesthesia also score higher than the general population on measures of empathy. I suspect it may also be linked in some way to our ability to learn by copying what others do.

This is a really exciting time in neuroscience, and synesthesia seems like an interesting target for DIY brain hackers. Mirror-type synesthesia particularly so because it's easy to induce. The rubber hand illusion is probably the easiest dramatic effect to produce at home.

Main screen turn on you say? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Redmond, Start Your Copiers!!! Again...

True then, true now.

Obligatory quote from one of the greatest movies of all time!

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

>> we cannot say for sure what his motivations were.

Sure we can. There are plenty of interviews with him around the web such as this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
  You can even hear it in his own words.

Or this one

You remind me of this guy right now.

You're running that Obamabot crap up the wrong flagpole, son. This is the same president that can out-conservative Reagan any day of the weak. Reagan publicly stated - repeatedly - that Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit. Yet Obama appointed his Catfood Commission (because the only thing seniors could afford to eat after it was cat food) to reduce the deficit centered around those who want to cut Social Security.

Reagan granted amnesty to millions of undocumented immigrants.
Obama deported them in record numbers.
Reagan withdrew from Lebanon.
Obama arranged to continue Afghanistan occupation until after his predecessor's predecessor.
Reagan signed arms reduction treaties with the USSR.
Obama started a trillion dollar upgrade program of America's nuclear arsenal.
Reagan signed a treaty requiring the prosecution of those who commit torture.
Obama immunized officials from torture and other crimes against humanity.
Obama started a war without Congressional authorization
Obama repealed habeas corpus with an NDAA
Obama wanted to re-legalize whaling when there isn't even a whaling industry to pander to

I could go on all day, Obamabot. You might want to put the shovel down now.

Why are gays bundled with transpeople? They are not remotely similar. Being gay is a manner of attraction, which you develop as part of your subconscious by subconsciously rejecting your biological drive to reproduce. Being trans equates to denying your DNA. You're quite literally rejecting your body. You wouldn't tell someone suffering from bulimia that they do look fat, nor should you tell someone suffering from thinking they're the opposite gender. Clearly, they're really the other gender that requires a lifetime of medicine to sustain.

Are you even listening to yourself? Your rant against trans people employs the exact same reasoning that is employed against gay people, with a couple words switched around.

Also, pretending that a 2-year old is actually picking their gender is bizarre.

Yes, it is bizarre that you would bring up something like that.

just like people do not deserve to get rhinoplasty at taxpayer expense

You get your degree in absurd false equivalencies from Ben Shapiro or Pete Hoekstra?

You mean this one?

Is Kabletown getting a new owner?

"Your winnings, sir."

There are people whose chromosomes are of one gender but whose external genitalia are of another, as a matter of fetal development. Sexuality is more than genitals and chromosomes, even without the involvement of surgery.

There's a good reason for this. At conception, we are all female. For the first few weeks, we will have estrogen, ovaries and vaginas. This is because of genetics. You all know a female has an XX chromosome pair, while a male is XY. But the X chromosome details female characteristics. The Y details male characteristics. But that means if you have an XY pair, the Y chromosome needs to deactivate genes in the X chromosome. But that takes a few weeks to happen, so in the meantime, the fetus develops as if they're a female. When the Y chromosome 6takes over, then the adaptations begin. The ovaries shrivel and descent, becoming the testes, and the vagina "pops out" becoming the penis. Likewise, estrogen levels go down, testosterone levels rise.

Most of the time the transformation is complete, but since it's genetics and subject to random variation, it's entirely possible the genetic suppression isn't complete, leading to homosexuality, transgenderism, etc.

Maleness is simply a genetic patch on females. As everyone knows, sometimes patches don't apply cleanly.

Obama is a hard core neoliberal neocon freakshow. This is the guy that bombed more countries than Bush, make the Patriot Act look like the Magna Carta by repealing Habeas Corpus with an NDAA, and started a war in Libya without Congressional authorization. Which his own VP said he would have supported Bush's impeachment if he had done the same thing with Iran.

For not being progressive, well, here you go.

You mean after he tortured Manning for a year with solitary confinement, and committed unlawful command influence by declaring Manning guilty before a conviction - and promoted the judge during the trial. But now, after seven years in prison, with consistent humiliation (and a little torture mixed in) is he not merciful?

Because some people got scammed by /pol into believing that hookers were paid to pee on Obama's bed in Moscow. Which of course the media decides to devote 24-7 coverage to. They've investigated it for months and have yet to produce any corroborating evidence worth a damn, and instead have only managed to inform us of the obvious, that Russia runs RT, America runs PBS and the Brits run the BBC. That said, I will give them credit for nothing that, "Disclosures through WikiLeaks did not contain any evident forgeries" (p. 13).

Meanwhile, good luck finding stories about the DisruptJ20 people who were caught plotting to gas people with butyric acid by pumping it into ventilation shafts. Be sure to read the MSDS on what that stuff is.

Can't beat two girls playing with a big snake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpmZKwTu6pI

ike I said, to keep it sexy and keep the money flowing, AI researchers have changed the definition of AI to

The definition has been consistent since the 60s. Really, do you imagine universities and tech companies have been trying to create machine consciousness for all this time? What would be the point? They've been working on practical stuff all along.

As an aside, you do know that "quants" don't "predict" anything, right? There's a (or many) formula(e) that determine whether a stock is "undervalued".

No, that's the opposite of what a quant does, as those terms are normally used. Caring about whether a stock is "undervalued" is all about the stock's fundamentals. Value guys use words like "undervalued". But maybe that's just semantics. Quants look at movement of stock prices in the abstract, it's why there are names for every second derivative of the theoretical value of an option. Predictions of change in price or uncertainty of price or price volatility or what-have-you over time, over price, as volatility changes. Every sort of quantitative prediction you can name has been researched to death. James Simons turned his math skills into 14 billion dollars, and the whole industry followed.

video clip in the article:
D:\_learning>youtube-dl.exe -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ...
266 mp4 3840x2160 DASH video 11632k , avc1.640033, 24fps, video only, 152.17MiB
313 webm 3840x2160 DASH video 16250k , vp9, 24fps, video only, 175.23MiB ...

so 4K is indeed just hidden in the YT player, but present in the manifest

  Quack, quack, quack!

Calling something AI as a marketing term doesn't make it real.

I think Paul Simon did a song about that...

I don't have a particular comeback for the first two, but as for the third, throughout the entire Star Trek universe, Sisko was the only one who had the balls to punch Q.

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

But as a parent, I'd dread giving my kids a $300 portable device that looks as if it would snap in half if dropped

Doesn't matter.
Since you are a parent, here is your system selling feature. A linked parental control app.

Blasphemous as it is, if aired on TV, this ad will ship millions of units.

No kidding, I couldn't help but remember this after reading your comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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

Lead Balloons are only impractical if you have insufficiently insane engineers.

The Secrets of Isis.

Yes, I owe you a coke

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Let the discussion begin

Yep, I ditched "Ma Bell" too several years ago. Had their DSL back in the day, and at&t as my cellphone. Dropped them both! Now, it's just a 50 buck charge for my smartphone, and the kicker is I get to use the at&t towers with my MVNO. Their coverage is better where I live than anyone else. Amazing, I remember "Ma Bell" being broken up in the early 80's and it's been a little over 30 years, and they along with Verizon, have pretty much gobbled up everyone else. Oh, if you were ever a fan of WKRP in Cincinnati, "Dr. Johnny Fever" can clue you in on how Ma Bell works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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

Tendency to dice: (NSFW) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Now this is a small helicopter. The "flying car" is going to be even smaller. If the rotors are low to the ground as depicted in the article then I can totally see a flying meat grinder.