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No, this is called Punitive Damages

Good...the cesspool of political correctness is blowing up in their faces

While I don't agree with political correctness either (and do agree with what John Cleese says on the subject) , the Twitter problem is more general than that: Twitter's decision to police speech on their platform at all was the idiot move there. While their customers do reasonably want filters, those customers should be able to collectively create and individually select those filters, or none at all. Consider in comparison the Slashdot rating system: it is primitive and flawed, but its is the right kind of approach and more-or-less sort of works to permit free speech while de-emphasizing crap. The Slashdot editors censor and some great points get modded down by unfair moderators, but usually the better posts do percolate to the top.

Milo Yiannopoulos has made the point that Twitter's most controversial posters are also its biggest draws, so that therefore banning them is stupid for the platform and stupid for business. He's predicted its financial decline on that basis since he was banned on Twitter in July. Twitter stock has mostly hovered under $20/share since, so not down, but not the growth they need.

You once again prove you don't know what you're talking about. Claiming a 20% success rate is grounds for a malpractice suit is really, really stupid. It's also not based in reality. According to your way of thinking, we should also abandon CPR in hospitals because the survival rate is less than 20%. And it gets worse outside hospitals.

Of course MDMA was being used in therapists offices and not for daily use. The idea is to get the patient into a mental state where they can FIX their problems with help, not keep them in an altered state of mind for the rest of their lives. I've already stated as much elsewhere. But of course you really don't want to fix the problem, because that would go against your narrative, that everybody must get stoned. Good song, shitty day-to-day lifestyle.

I NEVER said Prozac was useful for anything, so why do you keep bringing it up? Are you delusional?

I'll repeat myself - major depressive disorder has many causes, and many comorbid conditions. There will NEVER be a one-size-fits-all solution. So 10% here, 5% there, 20% elsewhere, it's the best we can expect. Anything else is fantasy.

But how much memory can these processes share, so that duplicate content doesn't spill out of RAM and into swap? Reference counting turns copy-on-write into copy-on-read, as Benjamin Peterson explains in a talk about CPython's garbage collector.

Have you not heard? Lawyers are next, right after the taxi drivers, truck drivers and bus drivers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Some reason I get the picture of Office Space.

Damn it!
"The man with the golden pipes", Gary Owens passed away last year. He is best known for Laugh-In, Space Ghost, and the Space Quest narrator.

If he just lasted a little longer, his voice could have been preserved forever with this kind of technology.

And a product that gives snarky, sarcastic, yet funny responses in an awesome sounding voice would be fun.

User: "What is the weather like today?"
Gary Owens response: "The air smells damp and oppressive, like a wet nun."

RIP Gary Owens

====
A Tribute to Gary Owens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Funny Radio Liners By Gary Owens - Comedy Commercials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Ways to die Space Quest 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Memorable Moments and Lines from Space Quest 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Memorable Moments and Lines from Space Quest 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Damn it!
"The man with the golden pipes", Gary Owens passed away last year. He is best known for Laugh-In, Space Ghost, and the Space Quest narrator.

If he just lasted a little longer, his voice could have been preserved forever with this kind of technology.

And a product that gives snarky, sarcastic, yet funny responses in an awesome sounding voice would be fun.

User: "What is the weather like today?"
Gary Owens response: "The air smells damp and oppressive, like a wet nun."

RIP Gary Owens

====
A Tribute to Gary Owens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Funny Radio Liners By Gary Owens - Comedy Commercials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Ways to die Space Quest 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Memorable Moments and Lines from Space Quest 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Memorable Moments and Lines from Space Quest 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Damn it!
"The man with the golden pipes", Gary Owens passed away last year. He is best known for Laugh-In, Space Ghost, and the Space Quest narrator.

If he just lasted a little longer, his voice could have been preserved forever with this kind of technology.

And a product that gives snarky, sarcastic, yet funny responses in an awesome sounding voice would be fun.

User: "What is the weather like today?"
Gary Owens response: "The air smells damp and oppressive, like a wet nun."

RIP Gary Owens

====
A Tribute to Gary Owens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Funny Radio Liners By Gary Owens - Comedy Commercials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Ways to die Space Quest 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Memorable Moments and Lines from Space Quest 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Memorable Moments and Lines from Space Quest 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Damn it!
"The man with the golden pipes", Gary Owens passed away last year. He is best known for Laugh-In, Space Ghost, and the Space Quest narrator.

If he just lasted a little longer, his voice could have been preserved forever with this kind of technology.

And a product that gives snarky, sarcastic, yet funny responses in an awesome sounding voice would be fun.

User: "What is the weather like today?"
Gary Owens response: "The air smells damp and oppressive, like a wet nun."

RIP Gary Owens

====
A Tribute to Gary Owens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Funny Radio Liners By Gary Owens - Comedy Commercials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Ways to die Space Quest 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Memorable Moments and Lines from Space Quest 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Memorable Moments and Lines from Space Quest 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Damn it!
"The man with the golden pipes", Gary Owens passed away last year. He is best known for Laugh-In, Space Ghost, and the Space Quest narrator.

If he just lasted a little longer, his voice could have been preserved forever with this kind of technology.

And a product that gives snarky, sarcastic, yet funny responses in an awesome sounding voice would be fun.

User: "What is the weather like today?"
Gary Owens response: "The air smells damp and oppressive, like a wet nun."

RIP Gary Owens

====
A Tribute to Gary Owens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Funny Radio Liners By Gary Owens - Comedy Commercials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Ways to die Space Quest 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Memorable Moments and Lines from Space Quest 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Memorable Moments and Lines from Space Quest 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I think he's referring to Go the fuck to sleep as read by Samuel L Jackson.

Keep your cat indoors . . .

But if I keep my cat indoors, who'll catch the mice?

The chicken.

Why else would it cross the road?

Consider the Mouse utopia , but instead of physical overcrowding our brains get overloaded with virtual associates. Now look at how people are behaving as more and more of their social world goes online - disinterest, lack of face-to-face interaction, comparing self with 'higher status' celebrities, sexual confusion - and you'll see the parallels with the unfortunate rodents.

If he can do that - all by himself as he states - in order to run a company and develop an advanced AI, he must be doing some kind of super-meth [...]

How does he do it? He takes speed.

Titty Sprinkles explained.

Oh come on? Don't you mean... Oh Geez?

Fascinating technology.

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

Not all cyclists are assholes. Only some are and they get noticed more than the ones who actually follow the rules.

It's like me saying all AC's are pussy douchebags who hide behind anonymity. It's not true, but there's more asshole AC's than not.

Yea, well the cyclists that do obey get a bad reputation from the other 99%. Even pedestrians obey traffic laws better than cyclists....

Running red lights and ignoring stop signs, and going the wrong way down the street, and generally dangerously obnoxious behavior is the norm for them.

So, in a thread about two-ton CARS ignoring traffic laws, your small parochial mind gloms onto a few instances of much-less-dangerous bicycles doing the same?

Call me when a terrorist rides a bike through a crowd of people trying to crush them to death.

Moron.

I'd say you need to think but that's probably aiming too high.

Not all cyclists are assholes. Only some are and they get noticed more than the ones who actually follow the rules.

It's like me saying all AC's are pussy douchebags who hide behind anonymity. It's not true, but there's more asshole AC's than not.

Yea, well the cyclists that do obey get a bad reputation from the other 99%. Even pedestrians obey traffic laws better than cyclists....

Running red lights and ignoring stop signs, and going the wrong way down the street, and generally dangerously obnoxious behavior is the norm for them.

So, in a thread about two-ton CARS ignoring traffic laws, your small parochial mind gloms onto a few instances of much-less-dangerous bicycles doing the same?

Call me when a terrorist rides a bike through a crowd of people trying to crush them to death.

Moron.

I'd say you need to think but that's probably aiming too high.

Not all cyclists are assholes. Only some are and they get noticed more than the ones who actually follow the rules.

It's like me saying all AC's are pussy douchebags who hide behind anonymity. It's not true, but there's more asshole AC's than not.

Yea, well the cyclists that do obey get a bad reputation from the other 99%. Even pedestrians obey traffic laws better than cyclists....

Running red lights and ignoring stop signs, and going the wrong way down the street, and generally dangerously obnoxious behavior is the norm for them.

So, in a thread about two-ton CARS ignoring traffic laws, your small parochial mind gloms onto a few instances of much-less-dangerous bicycles doing the same?

Call me when a terrorist rides a bike through a crowd of people trying to crush them to death.

Moron.

I'd say you need to think but that's probably aiming too high.

Not all cyclists are assholes. Only some are and they get noticed more than the ones who actually follow the rules.

It's like me saying all AC's are pussy douchebags who hide behind anonymity. It's not true, but there's more asshole AC's than not.

Yea, well the cyclists that do obey get a bad reputation from the other 99%. Even pedestrians obey traffic laws better than cyclists....

Running red lights and ignoring stop signs, and going the wrong way down the street, and generally dangerously obnoxious behavior is the norm for them.

So, in a thread about two-ton CARS ignoring traffic laws, your small parochial mind gloms onto a few instances of much-less-dangerous bicycles doing the same?

Call me when a terrorist rides a bike through a crowd of people trying to crush them to death.

Moron.

I'd say you need to think but that's probably aiming too high.

Not all cyclists are assholes. Only some are and they get noticed more than the ones who actually follow the rules.

It's like me saying all AC's are pussy douchebags who hide behind anonymity. It's not true, but there's more asshole AC's than not.

Yea, well the cyclists that do obey get a bad reputation from the other 99%. Even pedestrians obey traffic laws better than cyclists....

Running red lights and ignoring stop signs, and going the wrong way down the street, and generally dangerously obnoxious behavior is the norm for them.

Not all cyclists are assholes. Only some are and they get noticed more than the ones who actually follow the rules.

It's like me saying all AC's are pussy douchebags who hide behind anonymity. It's not true, but there's more asshole AC's than not.

Yea, well the cyclists that do obey get a bad reputation from the other 99%. Even pedestrians obey traffic laws better than cyclists....

Running red lights and ignoring stop signs, and going the wrong way down the street, and generally dangerously obnoxious behavior is the norm for them.

Not all cyclists are assholes. Only some are and they get noticed more than the ones who actually follow the rules.

It's like me saying all AC's are pussy douchebags who hide behind anonymity. It's not true, but there's more asshole AC's than not.

Yea, well the cyclists that do obey get a bad reputation from the other 99%. Even pedestrians obey traffic laws better than cyclists....

Running red lights and ignoring stop signs, and going the wrong way down the street, and generally dangerously obnoxious behavior is the norm for them.

Not all cyclists are assholes. Only some are and they get noticed more than the ones who actually follow the rules.

It's like me saying all AC's are pussy douchebags who hide behind anonymity. It's not true, but there's more asshole AC's than not.

Yea, well the cyclists that do obey get a bad reputation from the other 99%. Even pedestrians obey traffic laws better than cyclists....

Running red lights and ignoring stop signs, and going the wrong way down the street, and generally dangerously obnoxious behavior is the norm for them.

I think I have a reasonable expectation that ranking of search results should be based in some part on whether the site is telling the truth or a pack of lies.

Got an algorithm for that? If so, got any idea what kind of shitstorm that would create? Sure, in the case of the Holocaust there's not much controversy, but imagine applying it in politics or global warming. Worse, imagine if the algorithm ever got it wrong or if it was a genuine toss-up!

Not just in the area of history or politics. Imagine the lawsuits flying if someone searches on "the best [product]"! One very happy producer of [product] and a bunch of lawsuits from the others.

obligatory meme

Unless Google can come up with an absolutely positively mathematically provably infallible truth determining algorithm, they're much better off making no claims of truth and just returning links to sites responsive to the search terms.

How fortunate then that there is no such algorithm. There cannot be. The best minds in the world acting in good faith cannot always determine the truth, why do you expect it of a search engine?

I'm looking forward to seeing your HD footage of the bottom of a car on Youtube.

I love GoPro

Critical Mass! Obnoxious bicyclists own the road!

I'm looking forward to seeing your HD footage of the bottom of a car on Youtube.

I love GoPro

Critical Mass! Obnoxious bicyclists own the road!

Where's our jetpack?

Here. There's only one, so you'll have to share.

You'd have thought something like a keyboard would be indespensible, but the folks at Apple are visionaries and if they want us to work without a keyboard I expect we'll find a way

Funny you should say that

I've probably watched 100 episodes of the Young Turks. I would not call them "shouting heads". They are just normal people talking about the news they find.

If you really believe that you scare me. It means you see his narrow minded bigotry and hate as normal or justified. Here's at least some snippets of a video of him getting himself thrown off a flight on American Airlines. He removed it from his own channel after awhile. He had it there back when it first happened because I guess he thought it made him look good initially, and then he changed his mind after people started seeing it. Here's a more full cut too.

The Onion. It's sort of like rule 34.

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

No, he advocated for an immigration registry to help with the immigration vetting process. The "Muslim Registry" was part of that fake news that people seem to think helped Trump win the election.

I must call you out on this: it is not "fake news". It is actual news based on something he said. The transcript is here. It's clear that to a degree he is being led on by the reporter and, as is often the case, isn't really thinking about the answers he's giving. He provides vague replies about "management" being the solution and appears distracted. Nonetheless, what's most striking is that he doesn't attach much significance to the concept of a Muslim database. It seems like a totally reasonable idea to him. If I was a Muslim in the US, this is what would worry me. My worry would be compounded by his reaction to the questions in the second half of this video. He's asked about the racial discrimination which a database might bring about and repeatedly avoids the question. He has an opportunity to clarify his views and reassure, but he doesn't take it. It is worrying when someone reacts in the way that he does and none of this information is in any way "fake".

Your video really more shows the opposite of what you claim. Trump never volunteers anything about a "Muslim Registry". The interviewer instead opens with the question "would you support a database for tracking muslims", which is clearly trying to call him out, reveal his racism, or put words in his mouth depending how you want to view it. Trump agrees, but his later comments put some question on what he was agreeing to. He repeatedly references it as a method for stopping illegal immigration. It sounds as though the interviewer is talking about a 'muslim' database but Trump is responding and talking about an immigration database.

Plainly the interview doesn't give you warm fuzzies for Trump, but it's not exactly a smoking gun for him supporting a Muslim registry either, it looks equally strongly like a 'fake' news attempt to make it look like he supports one.

Do you have some better, less nuanced sources? We have video/audio recordings of blaming climate change on a chinese conspiracy, and about grabbing women by there private parts. Surely if Trump supports a muslim registry there is something more conclusive than what looks like a baited question that Trumps mind translated over to immigration database instead of muslim registry.

Will we have to invent an anti-shark, or should we get the anti-Pope to fire it?

Do not invoke the anti-pope in public.

Christian scripture does not compel Christians to these acts. Islamic law does — and that's the difference.

Or perhaps you just filter out when Christians claims to do things in the name of God because you are so used to it.
President Bush Announces Start of Iraq War Do you notice how Bush ends his speech with "May God bless our country."
An interesting parallel is the recent murder that happened in Turkey. In the beginning of his speech the murderer shouts "Allahu akbar". The rest of the speech is clearly political, not religious.
I suspect a lot of people will grab on to the "Allahu akbar" part and say that this is an act of a fundamental Islamist when it is pretty clear that it is not.

Do not assume that things where done for religious reasons just because someone mentioned a god. It is just a figure of speech.

"van der Meer had the unfortunate pleasure of having his phone stolen while having launch in Amsterdam."

You really got to watch out for that... Having Launch. That's what sent Bob Denver into space.

Voter ID laws are racist

Surprise--you're the one who is racist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Please consider this sampling of CA voters... https://www.youtube.com/playli... Thank you FF's for the EC...

Here's the "popular" votes she won... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

But Trump's opponents appear to be almost entirely comprised of racists.

As they say on Avenue Q, everyone is a little bit racist. Denying the obvious doesn't help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RovF1zsDoeM

That's right, loser. My candidate won! My candidate deserved to win given the criminal you had running.

Since the vote, my stock portfolio has soared like a noble eagle. I also look forward to the death of the trans-pacific partnership, retention of my gun-ownership rights, federal marijuana legalization, reduction in wasteful government spending, and an increase in jobs for Americans.

You are bitter because you lost, I get it. You also hate Trump because he is a social boor who speaks before thinking. I get that too. I like the core of Trump's promises and think a solid conservative push-back is long overdue.

You can heap all the blame you want on me, just remember that I also get the credit for every awesome thing Trump does.

And all you get is the blame for picking the worst possible candidate in the primaries.

America, Fuck Yeah!

Obama weaponized the IRS against his foes, he expanded all the spying regimes, started killing US citizens with drones in deliberately targeted attacks, and prosecuted more leakers than ever. Inasmuch as this is the most transparent administration ever, we have Wikileaks to thank for that.

What kind of fake news have you been watching, CNN?

For a god laugh, and to see how bad LA used to be, take a look at this episode of Battlestar Galactica (1980 remake). Specifically, the 7:50 mark when these lines are spoken:

What's that odd-looking brown haze hanging over the city?

Must be some sort of defense shield.

Eliminate the ones not producing. Forced sterilization and procreation limits will fix this in the long term..

Except it will not. The amount of people 'not producing' will keep growing as automation grows, and when we hit AI* the machines will be more skilled and efficient in doing ALL work, including all intellectual work, at which point according to your great 'solution' humanity would have to go extinct.

Which is not to say all limits on population growth are a bad thing, and might certainly be required in such a situation, but the core of the problems is we're so good at encoding and improving the learning capabilities and intelligence of our machines and software that we will eventually engineer human intelligence out of the loop.

*=if someone still thinks general AI cannot be reached then as Sam Harris points out here you must find something wrong with the following three premises:

1. Intelligence is a matter of information processing in physical systems
2. We will keep improving the information processing/intelligence of our machines
3. We (homo sapiens sapiens) are not near the summit of possible intelligence

Whether it takes 50 years or a 150 years is another matter, but seeing the pace of advances currently being made, unless technological advancement is brought to halt entirely by a global catastrophe/war, we will eventually be capable of developing a human level AI at which point it will take over its own development and surpass us quickly, at which point if we went by your fancy idea we'd have to commit species-wide suicide because none of us have to be 'productive' again and that apparently somehow means we lose all value/meaning in life if we don't get to enjoy the wonders of working 8 hours a day.

I started a petition at Goa Tse Justice to force Congress to dock South Carolina's state status and demote them to a territory. Home of Nikki Haley and Lindsey Graham, 'nuff said! The drivers there all do 10 under the speed limit and apply their brakes if you flash your lights. More material of Miss Teen USA not knowing how to form complete sentences under any circumstance. And she's basically their elected queen as of 2007.

So what is this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

What is that? That is a biased youtube video from the young terks containing an edited, difficult-to-follow interview with Donald Trump. Do you have any other questions?

MSNBC "Racism!" drinking game. Sorry pal, but you just dont remember it because you werent the target of constantly being called racist for 8 years.

That is just a collection of 1 second clips showing news anchors using the word "racism". There is no context whatsoever. There is racism in the US. Your video means nothing. A minority of "criticisms" of Obama were indeed racist. Most were not. The political debate during his presidency was not obviously influenced by racism in his opponents. I suspect most racist comments would have come from the media and the pundits.

They were hilarious to watch on election night - very entertaining

For anyone curious; https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Is hilarious.