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Oh yeah? robots can already smoke and that's just the prototype. If they put their minds to it, they'll have robots that smoke *all* the marijuana, then what are you going to do?

Anytime someone mentions the Singularity and immortality through a cyber avatar, I think of this absolutely hilarious skit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Watched this, hoping it would eventually get good or funny. YOU LIED TO US! Absolutely hilarious? It SUCKED!

Luckily, I had, "watch some bullshit that isn't even remotely funny," on my schedule today, so seeing this saved me an hour's worth of aggravation watching the NEWS!

I'll just leave my usual links here. You've probably seen most of them before

In Praise of Idleness, essay
A town in Canada tried it.
Humans Need Not Apply
Ooh, a new one. Canada is going large-scale now? linky
Sweden is starting to take it seriously as a political issue. linky

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

Anytime someone mentions the Singularity and immortality through a cyber avatar, I think of this absolutely hilarious skit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

...and, after all, who wants to live forever?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... He did this with a couple Wii-motes and the tracking bar. Totally wearable.

This idea is similar to "Stormy Clouds", with the addition that on an information-theoretical basis, maximal distance separation codes can provide more entropy that traditional symmetric encryption: [paper] [presentation]

We need to ban all internet sites. THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

Think of the children? What are you, a paedophile? You have been reported, and will be found guilty by the Paedofinder General.

So the banking crisis that began in the US with sub prime loans and credit default swaps was caused by German banks lending money to Greece?

There are several crises: the US financial "crisis" and its worldwide consequences, and the Eurozone "crisis". In the context of EU discussions, I was assuming NotInHere was referring to the latter.

The Eurozone crisis was caused by irresponsible lending with in Europe due to European government interference; that is, European governments pressured lenders to make loans to risky countries in order to spur export. The US financial crisis was caused by irresponsible lending within the US due to US government interference; that is, the US government pressured lenders to make loans to high risk customers in order to get home ownership rates up and satisfy activists. In their own words.

I am wondering if it is because of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytpK6nhsfqI

I saw a video not too long ago, the speakers were several Intelligence community whistle-blowers from the past. Their basic thesis was, the war on drugs is ending because the intelligence community no longer needs it to justify everything they want, terrorism is much more effective.

Ahhh here we go...found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Imagine an alternate track where our electronics had been developed on a tiny scale, but there was this burning human desire to increase the scale over time so we could walk beside and through the individual components. If anyone made anything smaller people would just shrug and say, "What's the point of that?" There would be electron theme parks where you purchase units of charge to propel you through the rides. The thought of a clock strapped to the wrist would seem uncomfortable or disgusting... to discover the Time rational people make a pilgrimage to a Clock. Also imagine that in place of countless tiny mass-produced things, there was but one of each type of thing in the world, and folks would geographically converge to perfect it.

What if football, baseball, basketball and all participation sports are evolved from games devised by the ancients as a means for human participants to engage in simple algorithmic operations to compute the solution of some larger problem... with resulting regional and global metrics of the tournaments to be fed into some other apparatus (which has been lost) that compiles the partial results and alerts when the problem has been solved? What if the apparatus has not been lost, but we simply gaze upon it, having forgotten its function?

What if the Universe itself is the machine? No 42 jokes please.

There is evidence that an ancient civilization attempted to up-scale their electronics, perhaps with the help of aliens only Ljuba Stojanovic can now communicate with.
https://vimeo.com/163010009
http://www.cracktwo.com/2011/0...

Of course this sentiment exists and is happening in Minecraft with Medieval and Modern virtual technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Imagine an alternate track where our electronics had been developed on a tiny scale, but there was this burning human desire to increase the scale over time so we could walk beside and through the individual components. If anyone made anything smaller people would just shrug and say, "What's the point of that?" There would be electron theme parks where you purchase units of charge to propel you through the rides. The thought of a clock strapped to the wrist would seem uncomfortable or disgusting... to discover the Time rational people make a pilgrimage to a Clock. Also imagine that in place of countless tiny mass-produced things, there was but one of each type of thing in the world, and folks would geographically converge to perfect it.

What if football, baseball, basketball and all participation sports are evolved from games devised by the ancients as a means for human participants to engage in simple algorithmic operations to compute the solution of some larger problem... with resulting regional and global metrics of the tournaments to be fed into some other apparatus (which has been lost) that compiles the partial results and alerts when the problem has been solved? What if the apparatus has not been lost, but we simply gaze upon it, having forgotten its function?

What if the Universe itself is the machine? No 42 jokes please.

There is evidence that an ancient civilization attempted to up-scale their electronics, perhaps with the help of aliens only Ljuba Stojanovic can now communicate with.
https://vimeo.com/163010009
http://www.cracktwo.com/2011/0...

Of course this sentiment exists and is happening in Minecraft with Medieval and Modern virtual technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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

"War", by Gwynne Dyer

Episode 2 - "Anybody's Son Will Do".

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

Regarding that military assault, if you haven't seen it yet you might enjoy this:

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

Back off, man. I'm a scientist.

Overly strict thorium regulations are the reason why America is losing jobs to China. It's found where rare earth materials like neodymium and dysprosium are found, and so it hampers US mining. Thorium reactors are far safer than uranium reactors, they don't have a pressure vessel to explode, and shut themselves down if they overheat or lose power. Thorium salt reactors can reduce nuclear waste by using it as fuel. You can't manufacture wind generators, cars, smartphones, solar pannels, etc. unless you have access to rare earth minerals. China has a corner on the MFG market because it allows rare earth mining and is building Thorium reactors... They'll have all the patents on the tech if we don't step up our game.

Thorium is wrongly classified as a source material for making nuclear bombs: It's not a source material or we'd have made bombs out of Thorium instead of plutonium and uranium. The old rickety uranium nuclear reactors are more dangerous because they operate under pressure, they only use 5% of a fuel rod, but they were built because we needed the enriched uranium to make nuclear weapons.

We need to have thorium reactors.

I mean, this is a problem that can be solved if you put out a product that is less damaging

I mean, other people are doing it [not specifically NSFW, but... it is about porn]

What is the "real proven danger" of someone in solitary confinement or in prison

You're only safe till the next election

Sex ed in schools is absolutely the right way to go, but John Oliver has pointed out in his sex education monologue that FUD based in personal hangups amongst school administrators and policy makers still get in the way of objective sex education in public schools.

these guys:

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

Yep, i believe that's where they speak three languages; um... I think French, German and this...

I think a Dodge Aires would be a good target:

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

Slashdot is a social network.

Social networks are what you make of them. I have not read his essay, ....

Social networks are just noise. It's just people all screaming in the net to have their uninformed two-bit opinions heard and their pathetic little lives recognized.

Social media is just like an addictive drug but worth less.

I'm just gonna leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

DO NOT search YouTube for videos of flesh-rotting and live-limb-cutting (to avoid sepsis) un-anesthetized. Unless you have a strong stomach.

Here is a link to test your mettle (excitement begins at 2:20.

But god-forbid that a nipple is visible in a YouTube video (in the US)! That could scandalize someone –especially a child under the age of two!

Due to the krokodil epidemic, the Russian Government put very strict controls on the availability of codeine tablets. It's not over-the-counter any more, so obtaining the main ingredient to home-brew your own highly impure batch of krokodil has become very difficult. That is good.

The active component in krokodil is desomorphine – an opiate discovered about 90 years ago in a search for less addicting painkillers. As it turned out, desomorphine was w-a-a-a-ay more addictive. It is illegal in most countries, even as a hospital-administered pain-management drug. Morphine and dilaudid are what provide the most pain-relief per addictive potential. After surgery, you'll get a push-button morphine drip, but only for three days, to avoid addiction.

Rehabilitation is not easy, especially with such high unemployment. But basically, give them a two-day series of naloxone, plus benzos because accelerated withdrawal sucks. Then keep them on naltrexone for a couple of years. But such programs must include re-entry into society, leading to employment or something that feels meaningful—It was desperation tht drove the to krokodil in the first place.

DO NOT search YouTube for videos of flesh-rotting and live-limb-cutting (to avoid sepsis) un-anesthetized. Unless you have a strong stomach.

Here is a link to test your mettle (excitement begins at 2:20.

Changing fluids, transmission included, is a regular service for any car - or any machine for that matter. As for parts you can't replace... I hate to tell you that but that's sort of a staple of German cars. It's practically a running joke that you can buy an older M series BMW for peanuts, then have to sell an organ to get it in running order.

Look at cars like the GT86/BRZ - practically every part on that car has at least one 3rd party manufacturer replacement. In fact Toyota/Subaru literally have specification documents they released with the specifications for different parts of the car so 3rd party manufacturers could make customized parts. Same goes for the Mazda Roadster (Miata), Honda Civic, Toyota Hilux, Subaru Impreza/WRX STI, Lexus RF-C, Mitsubishi Lancer, etc. etc.. Having 3rd party parts available and long-going active communities around the car make maintenance a much more accessible task.

I've got an early model MR-S that's been treated like trash, thrown around, and generally treated poorly. I've only had to replace a few parts on it but all were purchased new out of parts catalogues almost 17 years after the car was made. And this is a car that is notorious for requiring a lot of maintenance for a Toyota. Definitely no headaches in the maintenance department for me.

If you haven't yet you should check out "Regular Car Reviews" on YouTube. It's hilarious but he also goes into a lot of history on cars, explains the reasons behind different defects and quirks, etc. No review for the older A8 but there is one for the A4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If there were thought reading devices (and I'm sure there will be one day), they'd want them to be used as well.

Oh, ye of little awareness. They've such devices since the 70's, and can even make you hear sounds or voices or feel fear, anxiety, aggression, arousal, etc. baser emotions. Once used for only COINTELPRO, now it's not uncommon to find directed energy beam systems in Jails and prisons. Even the academic community is getting in on the tech. You poor soul, have you been living under a rock for 50 years?

/me dons his tinfoil hat.
I guess you thought the "tinfoil hat" meme was completely baseless? Typical meatpuppet, doesn't question anything.
Would you like to know more?

I was about to say precisely this. In fact I've just finished watching a wonderful talk by a fish palaeontologist on more or less this very subject.

Coincidentally, I just came across this Ted talk from Alex Winter the other day. It was most excellent. (Sorry, I couldn't resist.) He made a very compelling argument for the value of privacy in the marketplace, why Dark Web vendors such as Silk Road (which he made a documentary on) and others are battling to protect it, and why privacy needs to be protected.

Right. The idea behind such sites are to make money by doing things that are illegal.

Are you happy right now with private businesses, credit bureaus, banks, and the government all logging, monitoring, and referencing your entire financial history? Would you like it any more if any of these institutions were hacked, and all your data was made public? If you aren't, then you should be mourning the loss of a private marketplace.

First: you are using a very specific meaning to the phrase "private marketplace", something that actually never existed except as a rendezvous between two (pseduo-)anonymous parties trading non-traceable goods. Even that case isn't private as the people involved can be traced and identified.

In reality what one can have is transactions that are reasonably private, limiting information sharing on a need-to-know basis.

You were saying?

They knew exactly what they were doing. For a technical explanation of how the controller was reverse-engineered see the 32c3 conference lecture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZSU1FPDiao

If you're in a hurry you can skip the first 30 minutes, but a good engineer gets the background info.

As to various governents not on the same side all not talking, that could easily be explained by: a) only being known at the highest levels and/or in some deep state black ops agency in each country b) the alien equivalent to trinkets the european explorers gave to the less advanced cultures they encountered that they don't want to share because it gives them an advantage

It could also be that when a government does speak up, nobody listens anymore since it is just assumed to be a story told by whack-jobs. The Canadian Minister of Defense has come out and told everyone that governments are covering it up. There are plenty of high up US military personnel that have come out with stories also. But they end up on the alien conspiracy shows so everyone believes it must be fake.

Coincidentally, I just came across this Ted talk from Alex Winter the other day. It was most excellent. (Sorry, I couldn't resist.) He made a very compelling argument for the value of privacy in the marketplace, why Dark Web vendors such as Silk Road (which he made a documentary on) and others are battling to protect it, and why privacy needs to be protected.

Are you happy right now with private businesses, credit bureaus, banks, and the government all logging, monitoring, and referencing your entire financial history? Would you like it any more if any of these institutions were hacked, and all your data was made public? If you aren't, then you should be mourning the loss of a private marketplace.

I know you're making a joke. That said, I'd use the singular "wave" to describe one period, a crest and a trough. When multiple periods are involved, I'd use the plural "waves" to describe it. I don't expect that the ordinary person will actually know or care about the difference between gravity waves and gravitational waves. However, Slashdot isn't a community of ordinary people. Slashdot is a community of Nerds, who care about being accurate about science and technology. Besides, it's my one opportunity to contribute something meaningful to the discussion. :)

Here are some videos of actual gravity waves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrplJBbUSZM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXnkzeCU3bE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMMMCCBIsXc

That last one is a satellite loop; look over southern Nebraska and you'll see the overshooting tops of tornadic thunderstorms above the anvils. And then you'll see gravity waves coming off those overshooting tops.

I know you're making a joke. That said, I'd use the singular "wave" to describe one period, a crest and a trough. When multiple periods are involved, I'd use the plural "waves" to describe it. I don't expect that the ordinary person will actually know or care about the difference between gravity waves and gravitational waves. However, Slashdot isn't a community of ordinary people. Slashdot is a community of Nerds, who care about being accurate about science and technology. Besides, it's my one opportunity to contribute something meaningful to the discussion. :)

Here are some videos of actual gravity waves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrplJBbUSZM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXnkzeCU3bE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMMMCCBIsXc

That last one is a satellite loop; look over southern Nebraska and you'll see the overshooting tops of tornadic thunderstorms above the anvils. And then you'll see gravity waves coming off those overshooting tops.

I know you're making a joke. That said, I'd use the singular "wave" to describe one period, a crest and a trough. When multiple periods are involved, I'd use the plural "waves" to describe it. I don't expect that the ordinary person will actually know or care about the difference between gravity waves and gravitational waves. However, Slashdot isn't a community of ordinary people. Slashdot is a community of Nerds, who care about being accurate about science and technology. Besides, it's my one opportunity to contribute something meaningful to the discussion. :)

Here are some videos of actual gravity waves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrplJBbUSZM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXnkzeCU3bE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMMMCCBIsXc

That last one is a satellite loop; look over southern Nebraska and you'll see the overshooting tops of tornadic thunderstorms above the anvils. And then you'll see gravity waves coming off those overshooting tops.

Well, that's the rub, isn't it? We don't want them going to the Russians or the Chinese... Oy! The things we do for love...

Nuke em` and they won't be going anywhere.

Are you seriously suggesting we attack Saudi Arabia with nuclear weapons?

*Looks at member number*

Oh, no you're not seriously suggesting that. You're just young enough to say something that stupid.

Neil Tyson talks about UFOs and the argument from ignorance "UFO. The U stands for unidentified. You can't say 'I don't know what it is, so it must be an alien from outerspace visiting from another planet.' If you don't know what it is... "- https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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

The "gravitational waves" were also detected at different times with a difference far greater than the speed of light, making me doubt their detection.

Furthermore, the fallacy that you can isolate an EM beam of light from the planetary EM field is quite silly. A solar flare with its neutrinos, and charged particles (which have measurable and sometimes visible effects when interacting with the EM field of Earth), seems the most likely explanation.

Captcha: Implying
Indeed, captcha, implying gravity is real.

Well, that's the rub, isn't it? We don't want them going to the Russians or the Chinese... Oy! The things we do for love...

Nuke em` and they won't be going anywhere.

Donald Trump, is that you?

1. This is several claims and a couple of them are questionable.
a. Strong? not sure about that.
b. Peer reviewed? Often by a circle jerk of a few scientists that peer review each other. What is more, several of the more powerful ones are on record threatening Journals that publish anything that calls their work into question. That undermines the whole process. What is more, a major problem with peer review is that who is peer reviewing is often kept secret. This is cited as a benefit because they don't have to fear reprisals from peers. However, it also allows for a misunderstanding as to how much rigor is in the process. Further conflicts of interest are utterly hidden. I have a problem with that.
c. just a repeat effectively of point a.
d. just a repeat of point b apparently.

2. Well, a major part of the outcry is the obvious political entanglements that damage the credibility of the whole thing.
a. As to kooks... that's merely ad hominem and has no meaning in actual science. That you cite ad hominem as an argument for your position is really just evidence against your own credibility.
b. As to not having papers challenge stuff, there are a lot of papers that challenge a lot of things in AGW and a lot of them are sustained. A big problem with challenging a lot of the stuff they do is that people like you have made it political. Lets say I have iron clad proof that you're full of shit as a scientist... is it in my interest for my career to publish that if I believe there is corruption in the peer review process, that there are conflicts of interest in the universities because of funding, and if I think that there are political issues that might get me blackballed by politicians? Best to keep my head down no? Still, people do get into it. Mostly older scientists because they have less to lose. If you destroy their career they don't care because they were retiring anyway. The younger scientists fear that people like you will see that they are flipping burgers with a PhD. Your consensus is a self fulling prophecy to a certain extent because you've created a climate of fear.

3. As to things being verified, that's actually over stated. I'll cite this by Richard Feynman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Science isn't about blind faith and dogma. You have to verify and check and be skeptical and question. Its a pity you probably won't listen to what I posted. Its entertaining on top of everything else. Shrugs.

4. More ad hominem.

As to what is and is not rational. You haven't been making rational statements. So I don't know where you get off calling anyone else rational or not. You've been spouting fallacies. Those are text book IRRATIONAL statements.

Any news yet on the massive Verizon employee strike and protest?

There's also a large protest in DC that few media outlets are covering... I wonder if its sponsored by George Soros, like #BlackLivesMatter?

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

STFU...

Whoooosh!

Monty Python

So... how's that 9/11 Commission due process working out for everyone?

Whistler: I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
Bernard Abbott: Oh, this is ridiculous.
Martin Bishop: He's serious.
Whistler: I want peace on earth and goodwill toward men.
Bernard Abbott: We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
~From the movie 'Sneakers', 1992

If the pages should become leaked, there are several respected lawmakers who have seen them and are presently on record as supporting their public release. Those are the people who can attest to the veracity of what is leaked, and help sort through any bogus versions that may appear also. As one who has seriously researched the bizarre circumstances (and odd coincidences) of 9/11 I was really disgusted by Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 'thing', in which Moore clumsily attempts to smear Saudi Arabia with complicity without any real foundation. He disguised his Bush-rant it as a 9/11 truth documentary to score at the Box Office. Meanwhile many a more reasonable approach and fascinating film has gone unseen.

It may be that certain Saudis participated in the funding and planning of 9/11, just as certain Pakistanis seemed to be in the loop, and some bizarre murders may have an explanation to do with the events of 9/11. More likely than not the (presumed) Saudis were not acting on behalf of or with full knowledge of their government, but it's time for the information to be aired publicly. Saudi Arabia is the head-choppingoffest country around these days and it would be interesting to see that if true evidence surfaces, whether they consider 9/11 complicity to be worth losing one's head over.

The way to do it if for the pages to be leaked. The way not to do it is to pass a bill that nurtures a growing vilification/sanction 'industry' such as the PNAC wet dream which sent us headlong into the Middle East for oil (ostensibly, revenge). I remember the good old days when acts of terrorism were met with efforts to trace and bring to justice the individuals and specific organizations involved.