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Cause MH17 and MH370 are actually the same plane.

It's all a conspiracy by CIA and secret reptilian government to discredit Putin and thus prevent him from his crane-leading endeavors.

Yes, I agree my examples were absurd. I brainstorm the most absurd extremes when reading/writing specifications or code as a form of due-diligence to determine if a definition lacks specificity or not. I annoy a lot of people.

I'm honest in saying I don't understand what is included or excluded here. To split hairs, what is the definition of 'navigable airspace'?

Then again, I'm glad this guy wasn't jumping:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
   

Even if Microsoft has some decent technology, they're definitely losing on the marketing front, they are making themselves look like dancing monkey cousins.

That's just because they are just that.

Pichai vs Catz https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Can it possibly be as bad as THIS?

Obligatory Cheech and Chong bit

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

Sure, Carl Douglas' "Kung Fu Fighting" was a hit single, but the Emperors' earlier "Karate" was the musical basis of Santana's "Everybody's Everything."

Sure, Carl Douglas' "Kung Fu Fighting" was a hit single, but the Emperors' earlier "Karate" was the musical basis of Santana's "Everybody's Everything."

What about Crackpot Religions (Ltd.)? "We have ways of making them join."

The folks in Nebraska have made an interpetation. If you don't understand, here is an interpretation of their interpretation.

They are telling you to stop going to church, unless you have a highly communicable illness.

You should never mock another man's faith.

Bill Nye, and many others, have said that "deniers" should be punished or charged.

But did Bill Nye really say that all deniers should be charged? Just watch the video where he was asked about this.Firstly, look at the expression on his face when he hears the question. He looked rather surprised to get that question. This wasn't him making any grand proclamations, but rather just answering a question about what Robert F. Kennedy Jnr said.

Secondly, the question specifically mentioned energy CEOs and not all deniers. It is not about jailing any old Joe average who makes a statement against climate change, but about the heads of the large corporations spend millions of dollars spreading FUD and misinformation. Nye's answer even mentions the similar actions taken against the tobacco groups who did similar campaigns against health regulations when they knew that their products caused cancer. This refers precisely to what Kennedy said about the subject.

If you want to claim that this is an attempt to silence all critics, then you are either stretching the truth yourself or don't understand what was actually said.

Indeed, and to be clear he always was an entertainer. Some people seem to think that he "fell into" being an entertainer. He was comedic entertainer before "Bill Nye the Science Guy."

For instance, here he is in the early 1980's. There isnt any "science" here. Just a comedy skit where 4 guys jump around giving themselves high-fives.

Bill Nye the sweater-wearing high-fivin white-guy

Python and Ruby are similar languages, and yet the cultures around the two are very different. A certain segment of Ruby has moved to node.js now.

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

I agree. That "human" part really needs more evidence. I saw a movie about her and it certainly looked as if she wasn't human.

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

"I used to think Michael Palin was the funniest Palin alive."

Accually, right now it $39.+change/g. aint metal cool? and holds its value!

Did you miss her bordering-on-fellatio speech for Trump? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You don't "contract" a willingness to blow yourself up in support of a cause. Christ, if that's how fucked US thinking is on the matter, you may as well vote Trump now and get it over with. I mean, seriously that has to the the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Ever.

/facepalm

That's not what he said.

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

Intelligence is the outcome, not the process.

Do you consider a mechanical governor to be artificial intelligence? This is how they work. The job of the governor is to keep speed constant regardless of load.

A mechanical governor has the same transfer function as an artificial intelligence programmed for the job of keeping speed constant regardless of load. Input and outputs of both black boxes are indistinguishable by definition.

He's actually quite good. He presents as much data as he has, and as his current audience can handle, in clear language and good logic. It's difficult to get every scientific detail explained in full in a public forum of any sort, but he does and has done clear scientific analysis for decades now, and he does his research to be prepared for the presentations.

He's done public debates with science denying fools before: there was an infamous debate with a creationist leader, at:

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

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

he's a goose-stepping commie that wants to throw "climate change deniers" into prison.

He has Oriental connections

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

Well both of those actually are perfect examples of racism.

Islam isn't a race. Imbecile.

Theyâ(TM)re bringing crime. Theyâ(TM)re rapists."

Imbecile.

*He refused to denounce the KKK. I can't blame a man for who decides to endorse him, but when directly asked he refused to denounce them.

So you're either too stupid to use google, or you're just flat out dishonest.

As for the rest of your comment: [citation needed]

For the record, I despise Trump.

Thorium is regulated under strict nuclear non proliferation despite it not being a viable source for atomic bombs. Thorium is found where raw earth minerals are found. Thus China and other countries are eating our lunch in terms of productivity because we can't compete in rare earth minerals. Everything needs rare earth minerals these days from cars to computers to cell phones, robotics, 3D printers -- You name it. If a product doesn't use rare earth minerals directly it uses them in the machines that are used to produce it. It's far cheaper to manufacture near where the raw material is unearthed. Since the US is suffering from regulatory capture by big energy giants, all the rest of our manufacturing is suffering as well.

If the energy industry would stop fearmongering about "nuclear" and lobbying against it, and our government would let us build safe Thorium reactors that can't go critical and actually consume nuclear wastes, then we'd have a use for Thorium (rather than just stuffing back under ground). If we allowed a market for Thorium to exist then mining rare earth minerals wouldn't be so expensive as it is today, and we could bring manufacturing (and productivity) back to America. The more manufacturing we do here, the less chance for our foreign competitors have a chance to steal our trade secrets. Currently we have to mobilize massive legal machinery and push though crap like TPP in order to enforce policy globally because we are engineering things here, but are forced to manufacture them over seas (and then ship them back here to sell them to our own people -- just think of all that waste in shipping).

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Intelligence is the outcome, not the process.

Do you consider a mechanical governor to be artificial intelligence? This is how they work. The job of the governor is to keep speed constant regardless of load.

I wonder what s/he/it considers them to be?

Maybe just a control system like how a governor regulates the speed on a steam engine. As the load is increased, the speed of the balls drop (centrifugal force) causing the steam valve to open more keeping the RPMs constant. It's an area of mathematics known as Control Theory and is hundreds of years old. More commonly known as feedback. This is used in everything from frequency tuning on your cable modem to cruise control in your car to rockets. It's somewhat math and differential equation heavy.

Want better politicians, don't elect fucking morons.

What else can we expect when our representatives have to spend 50-75% of their work time in a call center begging for money for the next cycle?
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Congressional Fundraising (HBO)

Rather: Support campaign finance reform, with public funding for political campaigns.

Then maybe we can elect people who can focus on being good stateswomen.

Yeah, it was an ad for The Alamo Drafthouse... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If you watch the full video that I linked above, it's really pretty clear. Here it is again. At 4:59 the mob gets up and surrounds the police, then sits in a ring around them, with those people who were arrested in the center. At 7:08 the crowd says, "If you let them go, we will let you leave." At 7:26 the officer is explaining to a portion of the people who are sitting in the ring, the portion who is sitting across the road, that they need to bring in a squad car to retrieve those people who had been arrested. The squad car, unsurprisingly, needs to travel on the road. He explains to each one of them that if they still refuse to move when the car comes then they will have to be removed. Really, he was very civil under the circumstances. I'm impressed with his professionalism.

There are many bad things to be said about search engine optimization, and some bad things to be said about PR in general, but you are exaggerating.

the group of students who were preventing the officers from leaving.

Huh? The cops were surrounded by students at a couple points, yeah, but the ones they sprayed were the ones sitting in on the ground. Not the ones surrounding them.

Then a mob surrounded the officers to block them from leaving and demanded the release of the people who had been arrested. It's those people, the mob, who got sprayed. Watch the video if you're still confused.

Uh, huh.... Was there another spraying incident I'm not aware of? Man, if only someone hadn't tried to fuck with the search results.

Hiring an SEO company to bury your embarrassing search results IS trying to erase it from the internet. As best they can at least.

Watch the three videos from jhweather (part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...), and the other videos linked in the report (https://localwiki.org/davis/Reynoso_report). Note, those videos have less than 10,000 views. The footage from the police camera man and the student TV camera have not been released AFAIK.

The students had surrounded the police, and when the pepper spray threat was issued, the students sitting in the line got up and were replaced by students that wanted to be sprayed...

That is not to say that the actions of the UC Davis police were justified, right or just plain stupid. They were not under threat (in fact in one of the videos a cop answers his phone, steps over the line of students - while on the phone - and walks off into the crowd seconds before the incident).

Regards,
-Jeremy

Consider the neural networks we've developed to be specialized brains, or even a lobe or module of a greater brain. Nature never gave us a reason to evolve a Go-playing brain module, so we didn't. We did, however, have reason to develop a visual cortex and all the other parts that work together to accomplish pattern recognition and long-term memory storage. Those components are what's necessary to 'pick up a book' and learn Go from it.

As it turns out you can win a game of Go against that wetware system with a much simpler dedicated module (and some hardware).

Is the Go-brain as multi-purpose as what's in our heads? Nope, not nearly. But it isn't as simple as you make it out to be either. The same circuits have been used for other games, in wildly different contexts.

Think about what others have said here. You're getting stuck on a confliction of terms, and a misunderstanding of the science. Don't be a luddite.

Also look into One-shot learning.

I don't know if you saw the picture, but the protesters here were sitting down with linked arms, not in any way threatening the "peace" officer or pushing him to his limit. So while your point may be justified in some contexts, this isn't one of them.

I could be wrong, but isn't this the protest where the security guard looked the protesters in the eyes and said "if you do not disperse I will spray you with pepper spray" and then sprayed them when they didn't disperse?

Stephen Hawking should stick to hard science because he doesn't know what the fuck he is talking about. Namely:

* "He doesn't know what other people DO know."

Gee, if only we had credible, witnesses,

The problem with (official) "First Contact" is that will cause MORE problems then it will solve. :-/ Everything from Mathematics, Money, Religion, Science will need to be re-evaluated. Most people are not ready to have their false belief system blown apart.

Proof will be given in ~2024 when we can end these stupid discussion once and for all and focus on the more important issues like why is most of life bipedal humanoid in the galaxy? Why were humans genetically engineered? Why is Earth one of the only few places with Free Will ?

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If animals can live millions of years on Earth without money, why can't stupid humans?

Damn. Does anyone else have some dried frog pills for my friend here? I seem to have run out.

Stephen Hawking should stick to hard science because he doesn't know what the fuck he is talking about. Namely:

* "He doesn't know what other people DO know."

Gee, if only we had credible, witnesses,

The problem with (official) "First Contact" is that will cause MORE problems then it will solve. :-/ Everything from Mathematics, Money, Religion, Science will need to be re-evaluated. Most people are not ready to have their false belief system blown apart.

Proof will be given in ~2024 when we can end these stupid discussion once and for all and focus on the more important issues like why is most of life bipedal humanoid in the galaxy? Why were humans genetically engineered? Why is Earth one of the only few places with Free Will ?

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If animals can live millions of years on Earth without money, why can't stupid humans?

Damn. Does anyone else have some dried frog pills for my friend here? I seem to have run out.

Stephen Hawking should stick to hard science because he doesn't know what the fuck he is talking about. Namely:

* "He doesn't know what other people DO know."

Gee, if only we had credible, witnesses,

The problem with (official) "First Contact" is that will cause MORE problems then it will solve. :-/ Everything from Mathematics, Money, Religion, Science will need to be re-evaluated. Most people are not ready to have their false belief system blown apart.

Proof will be given in ~2024 when we can end these stupid discussion once and for all and focus on the more important issues like why is most of life bipedal humanoid in the galaxy? Why were humans genetically engineered? Why is Earth one of the only few places with Free Will ?

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If animals can live millions of years on Earth without money, why can't stupid humans?

Stephen Hawking should stick to hard science because he doesn't know what the fuck he is talking about. Namely:

* "He doesn't know what other people DO know."

Gee, if only we had credible, witnesses,

The problem with (official) "First Contact" is that will cause MORE problems then it will solve. :-/ Everything from Mathematics, Money, Religion, Science will need to be re-evaluated. Most people are not ready to have their false belief system blown apart.

Proof will be given in ~2024 when we can end these stupid discussion once and for all and focus on the more important issues like why is most of life bipedal humanoid in the galaxy? Why were humans genetically engineered? Why is Earth one of the only few places with Free Will ?

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If animals can live millions of years on Earth without money, why can't stupid humans?

They changed the design, obviously because the old design was crap.

This video documents the original design, which as the GP states, is impossible to use without touching.

The *best* hand dryer in my opinion are these: Xcelerator. They probably suffer from the same problems reported in TFA as the Dyson, due to high speed air flow, but man they dry hands really nice and fast and there's nothing to touch.

They changed the design, obviously because the old design was crap.

This video documents the original design, which as the GP states, is impossible to use without touching.

The *best* hand dryer in my opinion are these: Xcelerator. They probably suffer from the same problems reported in TFA as the Dyson, due to high speed air flow, but man they dry hands really nice and fast and there's nothing to touch.

The funny thing is that you can do exactly the same (it's the first talk in that video) to datamine the CIA, FBI, ... and their subcontractors. The resulting project names you find range from scary-but-expected ("Panopticon") to downright disturbing ("Never shake a baby").

That's best done via threats, empty promises and reducing the number of available jobs while increasing the number of people.

Please don't vote, because I suspect you'll be voting for Bernie, who views success as failure, and failures as success.

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

How anyone can vote for him after watching that is beyond me.

Is landing on barges AI or an embedded control system like has been used for a hundred years?

There is a video of the incident. The officers are walking uninhibited through the crowd with their backs turned to many protesters and don't appear to feel like they are threatened at all. This was civil disobedience. The university could have handled it in many ways, allowing the kids to make their point without sending thugs in with riot gear. They obviously realized that otherwise they wouldn't have paid to try to scrub it from the internet. Where will we draw the line? Will it take another Kent State massacre to say enough is enough?

Clearly, you did not see the video.

Here is the fucking video this lying fuck thinks people havent watched.

Dont be a lying fuck any more, fucker.

It's probably a good idea to link to some references about the University of California, Davis pepper spray incident.

This is just naive. Some students were arrested and they were being taken away, but the police were surrounded by others who demanded that those arrested be released. Here's the video. What are they supposed to do there? Ask nicely? They did. Point out that a chanting mob does not get to dictate who can and can't be arrested?

Pepper spray looks bad, and is bad in some respects, but it's the least dangerous means of force which they can employ. It's less likely to cause injury than a taser, and a lot less likely than a baton. The officer went up to each student individually before spraying any of them and explained exactly what was going to happen and gave them time to leave. The action they took was reasonable under the circumstances.

I'll point out that someone is much more likely to claim something unpleasant and--especially--frightening is torture if someone else has suggested that, just like people claim every little thing anyone does now is terrorism. That's a stabilizing argument, not a counter-argument: I'm pointing out a weakness in your argument based on the specific situation in which it most frequently applies, which is not the same as defining a reason your conclusion is wrong.

My point is that, yes, we have fuzzy lines, and we haven't sat down and decided where we want to actually draw them or how we want to redraw them when the lines are questioned. What we have, instead, is a popularity contest: if we were to set up stands and subject people to waterboarding in a controlled environment, most people would discover that cold water to the face is unpleasant and that the experience is kind of disturbing, but that they're not that terribly upset about it; do this enough and publicize their testimonials and you can change the media dialogue, and the public will re-define waterboarding as not torture.

The politicians can and do respond to this. If the public never made a huge deal out of waterboarding, it's likely the current CIA manuals would include a small section detailing the concern, the evidence (media circus), and the conclusion that waterboarding is not torture and is simply an effective interrogation technique. As I've shown, we can produce such a situation simply by modifying the media dialogue.

A few zaps to the arm and you'll probably laugh it off, but the same stimulation in an interrogation setting is an infliction of pain and fear which produces acute and, possibly, long-term psychiatric trauma and thus is torture... or, well, it's not torture, because we've gone around with the CIA PR booth zapping people and making funny YouTube videos and explained that this is merely an "annoyance" that will "encourage" POWs to cooperate.

Do you see the problem?

Ok, my dear fascist, do tell me how people sitting on the ground can "surround" an officer.

Clearly, you need to look up the definition of the word "surround." There were a LOT more students and officers. Given that the officers do not have wings, and could probably not pole-vault even if they had the poles, surrounding is certainly possible.

Here is a video showing what happened; not just the pepper spraying, but everything leading up to it. Around 7:30 you can see the officer telling the protestors individually that if they do not move, they will be sprayed and then saying "Do you understand?" Yeah, how horrible of him, giving them every chance to avoid being sprayed.

People certainly have the right to protest, but they have no right to impede those who are not involved in the protest. You can see them blocking the walkway. There was PLENTY of grass there. Stay on the grass, and don't block the people not involved in the protest.

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