I won't speak to US related regime change in the Middle East, but here's the list of our activities in South America.
There are 11 countries listed. I didn't read the whole thing, but 30,000 people "disappeared" when the US helped overthrow a democratically elected president in Argentina (circa 1976).
I understand the energy storage of coal and oil, and gas.
But we never seen to consider the volume of such and the infrastructure required to use these are power sources (rail lines, piplines, shipping, refining, etc.).
Massive batteries make more sense to me.
The world needs more molten salt plants. They look awesome and can provide baseline power.
China and also Saudi Arabia are favored trade partners.
Repeating your question from that perspective: Should the US government allow a US company to offer this sort of service (trade/tax income) to another government?
And the answer is the same to both, and is part of your next question.
Profits.
And you don't even have to resort to companies, the governments themselves are complicit, Iran-Contra Affair, 'nuff said (oh, what's that, there's an arms embargo?).
Last weekend we visited Houston and went to NASA. I got to see a real Saturn 5 rocket. Perspective from photos is nothing compared to personal perspective. Holy Shit! That thing is huge! The mock space shuttle (attached to one of the 747s they did use to move actual shuttles) could fit inside the first stage.
How about hiking up mountains (not mountain climbing)? We've done that in Arizona and Colorado, the climb is the experience, the vista is just a touch of icing (and then a thunderstorm forms out of no where, temps drop 40f, and we use emergency gear for the first time).
And we went to the Galapagos. Seven day cruise, visited about 12 islands. Yeah, travel sucked, Quito, Ecuador is really dangerous (armor clad shotgun carrying guard outside of a not-high-end shoe shop?). But once on the ship (20 passengers, 9 crew) it became a surreal experience. My own photos of boobies (a bird), penguins, and flamingos (yeah, they are all there in a very small biome) take me back.
Travel sucks. I don't mind road trips though, but we did have a particularly nasty hotel on our way home from Houston.
We don't travel much, but we travel well when we do.
In a trade war both sides raise taxes/tariffs. These, at least in the US are collected by the Treasury and go into the general fund.
So: * Citizens purchasing foreign goods pay more (tariff is a tax) * Companies importing raw materials (for example, steel and aluminum) pay more (tariff is a tax), and will have to charge more for products (indirect tax)
The goal of course is to move manufacturing into the US.
But wage disparities cripple this in many cases. We could probably handle things like chip manufacturing competitively, but putting things together via humans is far more expensive in the US. Maybe robots are the answer (they are).
The problem to me is timing. It takes a long time to move the product and processes the tariffs are targeting. And raw materials? Wage disparity again.
Anyway, the tariffs are just a way to increase Federal income, from March through July it was about $1.4 billion from steel and aluminum: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/1...
And per the Congressional Budget Office's Monthly Budget Review, "Other Income" was up by $1 billion (includes tariffs), about 1%. Corporate taxes dropped by $92 billion, about 31%.
Anyway, corporate tax rate drop was a gift to the already wealthy ($92 billion!) and the tariffs are a tax on the citizens and revenue for the Federal government.
The article says there are 170 million surveillance cameras for 1.4 billion people. That's about 1 camera for every 8.2 people.
Further, it says there could be up to 450 million cameras by 2020. Keeping the population the same, that's 1 camera for every 3.1 people.
For a comparison, using Wikipedia, the UK has about 4.2 million cameras (500,000 in London), about 1 for every 14 people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Everything is art. But the human determination of such is a matter of physics and economics.
Nature can be art, as perceived by one observing. A tree is art. The leaves on the ground are art (wind is the painter). A human didn't necessarily intervene (what if you planted the tree?), but it's our perception of beauty and emotion.
A photograph of a tree or vista can be art (Ansel Adams anyone?), whether taken by a human or a Google car autonomously (the driver isn't the artist, is the person who programmed the timing of the photos?).
Anything can be art.
So a computer making art isn't a surprise, it should be expected. It might not be born of human emotion, but that isn't necessary.
Art doesn't require a specific act to create it. Accidents can be art. Mistakes can be art.
Regarding economics, is it worth money? Then it's art...
Interesting. In Missouri, I only just found out a few days ago that there are THREE medical MJ items on the ballot, two that change the state Constitution and one that is a law change.
Only one can win (per a couple of articles I've been reading).
Everyone against such will vote no on all three. Other people might have a favorite (and split the votes that are in favor).
No news coverage, no politician mention, nothing. Silence. A couple of medical groups and police associations have put forth opinions (for and against respectively), but this doesn't see mass media coverage since the mass media is just candidates calling each other names.
Iâ(TM)m sick and fucking tired of pansy-ass punk waiters refilling my tea before Iâ(TM)m ready for a refill. If I told you once, I told you a million times to stop fucking with my Equal-ibrium. I get that perfect balance, that perfect ratio of tea to sweetener and you come along and screw it up. I find that sweet spot and you take a shit in my glass. I want to kill you.
Itâ(TM)s not easy to get that perfection in the glass. Sometimes it can take a good five to ten minutes to let the ice melt just a little so the tea hits itâ(TM)s plateau. Then it takes a few more adding the Equal until I get that taste I like. So I spent some 15 minutes perfecting this glass on my table, and damn, itâ(TM)s good. Iâ(TM)m thinking about how well itâ(TM)s going to work with the bread and the spaghetti. Itâ(TM)s gonna be fucking awesome.
So I have a couple of drinks, closing my eyes and just whisking by on the magic carpet that is a perfect glass of tea.
Then you come up and start pouring first, and then ask, âoeMore tea, sir?â
âoeFuck no,â I reply. Now since youâ(TM)re already pouring you gonna realize that somethingâ(TM)s up.
But when I stand up and smash your head with my fists you gonna be thinking you shouldnâ(TM)t have topped off my glass.
As I poke our your eyes you gonna wish you ainâ(TM)t never seem me or my glass of tea.
As I cut out your tongue you gonna wish you never asked to take my order.
As I gouge your stomach with my fork you gonna be thinking you shouldnâ(TM)t have had that bagel for breakfast. They ainâ(TM)t as good as people make them up to be.
As I come back from my car with the chainsaw and start dismembering your body you gonna wish you never worked this dead-end job in the first place. Ainâ(TM)t no living making minimum wage.
And when I finally douse your corpse with gasoline, right there in the dining area, and light it up you ainâ(TM)t gonna be wishing or thinking anything. Cause youâ(TM)ll be dead, you sorry-ass tea-refilling mother-fucker.
Itâ(TM)ll be worth going back to prison. In the joint you refill you own glass. And thatâ(TM)s the way it should be.
Machine learning, or AI, or whatever can learn patterns for things such as vision or hearing. But itâ(TM)s low level stuff like, âoeHey, look, a face!â. A newborn does this with baked in brain contents. âoeMake a low light picture look nice!â, a babyâ(TM)s eyes do this way beyond our photography tech (including AI assisted stuff).
Tangent with a point: Young children are sponges, they absorb everything they see, hear, smell, taste, and feel and note it in some fashion. They coalesce sensations into an understanding of the world. Attempting to simulate human sense response and understanding is why beyond our technical capabilities, excepting very specific scenarios that we target.
Photography improvements (commonly "AI") are simply pattern matching/task routines. They may be more complex than we explain, but they are task oriented with a super specific understanding area.
We should be focusing on AI research based around text and no other inputs. Words, semantics, descriptions of things. Describe see a sunset. Describe a scent. Describe having a feather brushed against an arm.
Describe the world. Donâ(TM)t try and show it to the technology.
Then let it try and play Zork.
I havenâ(TM)t finished reading this (searched for "ai to play zork"), but people are trying to solve parsed interactive fiction in this manner: http://www.spagmag.org/issue-6...
The article also reminded of Minsky's Society of Mind. I've read that three times but never finished it.
Same here. We've gone through about 7 Nexus 5 phones as my wife has a "subscription" on destroying them. We still use them and I keep two around as backups. Swappa FTW...
I've got all of the tools, I should start replacing batteries.
Fate is the who, where, when, and how (much money) one is born into.
But we make enough food for the humans, at the expense of nature.
Immigration isn't a bad thing, but it does need to be controlled (Example: the whole USA thing, tears for the natives at the time, they couldn't handle European diseases or our ignorance and hatred that they were equal persons).
We should be carpet bombing the entire world with condoms and instructions for such. Population growth reduction is the only answer. Religion is a HUGE problem with this, they want to live in the middle-ages but with iPhones it seems to me.
And regarding population control we face freedom. And raising kids is fun, they are so interesting (I have twins, wife got fixed after that).
People shouldn't post photos of toddlers in the bath on Facebook
People shouldn't post photos of naked children on Facebook,even if burned during a war. It's not an art or history site. It's the worst possible place to share such things. Post a link, that's fine.
Facebook is for "Social Media". Keep it to day-to-day stuff, without naked children.
Facebook is trying hard to be more than it is, and it's comical the ends they will go to in order to attempt this.
Facebook is where people comment about a restaurant or a trip to the bathroom. Nothing More.
Slashdot Mirror
I won't speak to US related regime change in the Middle East, but here's the list of our activities in South America.
There are 11 countries listed. I didn't read the whole thing, but 30,000 people "disappeared" when the US helped overthrow a democratically elected president in Argentina (circa 1976).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
China does play with their citizens and their neighbors. The US does this stuff world wide (secret prisons, abductions, etc.).
I understand the energy storage of coal and oil, and gas.
But we never seen to consider the volume of such and the infrastructure required to use these are power sources (rail lines, piplines, shipping, refining, etc.).
Massive batteries make more sense to me.
The world needs more molten salt plants. They look awesome and can provide baseline power.
Office 2010 was the peak of productive MS Office. Now much time is wasted navigating the horrible UI.
I use 2010 on the home machines (and Windows 10 with Classic Shell). At work I suffer with Office 365 (it's a pain in the ass all year 'round!).
The movie Surrogates is just this.
China and also Saudi Arabia are favored trade partners.
Repeating your question from that perspective: Should the US government allow a US company to offer this sort of service (trade/tax income) to another government?
And the answer is the same to both, and is part of your next question.
Profits.
And you don't even have to resort to companies, the governments themselves are complicit, Iran-Contra Affair, 'nuff said (oh, what's that, there's an arms embargo?).
You're kidding right?
Last weekend we visited Houston and went to NASA. I got to see a real Saturn 5 rocket. Perspective from photos is nothing compared to personal perspective. Holy Shit! That thing is huge! The mock space shuttle (attached to one of the 747s they did use to move actual shuttles) could fit inside the first stage.
How about hiking up mountains (not mountain climbing)? We've done that in Arizona and Colorado, the climb is the experience, the vista is just a touch of icing (and then a thunderstorm forms out of no where, temps drop 40f, and we use emergency gear for the first time).
And we went to the Galapagos. Seven day cruise, visited about 12 islands. Yeah, travel sucked, Quito, Ecuador is really dangerous (armor clad shotgun carrying guard outside of a not-high-end shoe shop?). But once on the ship (20 passengers, 9 crew) it became a surreal experience. My own photos of boobies (a bird), penguins, and flamingos (yeah, they are all there in a very small biome) take me back.
Travel sucks. I don't mind road trips though, but we did have a particularly nasty hotel on our way home from Houston.
We don't travel much, but we travel well when we do.
In a trade war both sides raise taxes/tariffs. These, at least in the US are collected by the Treasury and go into the general fund.
So:
* Citizens purchasing foreign goods pay more (tariff is a tax)
* Companies importing raw materials (for example, steel and aluminum) pay more (tariff is a tax), and will have to charge more for products (indirect tax)
The goal of course is to move manufacturing into the US.
But wage disparities cripple this in many cases. We could probably handle things like chip manufacturing competitively, but putting things together via humans is far more expensive in the US. Maybe robots are the answer (they are).
The problem to me is timing. It takes a long time to move the product and processes the tariffs are targeting. And raw materials? Wage disparity again.
Anyway, the tariffs are just a way to increase Federal income, from March through July it was about $1.4 billion from steel and aluminum:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/1...
And per the Congressional Budget Office's Monthly Budget Review, "Other Income" was up by $1 billion (includes tariffs), about 1%. Corporate taxes dropped by $92 billion, about 31%.
https://www.cbo.gov/system/fil...
Anyway, corporate tax rate drop was a gift to the already wealthy ($92 billion!) and the tariffs are a tax on the citizens and revenue for the Federal government.
The article says there are 170 million surveillance cameras for 1.4 billion people. That's about 1 camera for every 8.2 people.
Further, it says there could be up to 450 million cameras by 2020. Keeping the population the same, that's 1 camera for every 3.1 people.
For a comparison, using Wikipedia, the UK has about 4.2 million cameras (500,000 in London), about 1 for every 14 people:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'd call it a pilot program. 100 people would have been a better target though.
They took 'er, wait, hold on, gave 'er jobs?
Mid-sized markets never had a chance, this is known. And Bezos already owns mansions in DC (the Obama's are neighbors) and New York (Manhattan).
https://www.cheatsheet.com/mon...
Everything is art. But the human determination of such is a matter of physics and economics.
Nature can be art, as perceived by one observing. A tree is art. The leaves on the ground are art (wind is the painter). A human didn't necessarily intervene (what if you planted the tree?), but it's our perception of beauty and emotion.
A photograph of a tree or vista can be art (Ansel Adams anyone?), whether taken by a human or a Google car autonomously (the driver isn't the artist, is the person who programmed the timing of the photos?).
Anything can be art.
So a computer making art isn't a surprise, it should be expected. It might not be born of human emotion, but that isn't necessary.
Art doesn't require a specific act to create it. Accidents can be art. Mistakes can be art.
Regarding economics, is it worth money? Then it's art...
Interesting. In Missouri, I only just found out a few days ago that there are THREE medical MJ items on the ballot, two that change the state Constitution and one that is a law change.
Only one can win (per a couple of articles I've been reading).
Everyone against such will vote no on all three. Other people might have a favorite (and split the votes that are in favor).
No news coverage, no politician mention, nothing. Silence. A couple of medical groups and police associations have put forth opinions (for and against respectively), but this doesn't see mass media coverage since the mass media is just candidates calling each other names.
I wrote this back in 2000, regarding my iced tea.
https://web.archive.org/web/20...
Iâ(TM)m sick and fucking tired of pansy-ass punk waiters refilling my tea before Iâ(TM)m ready for a refill. If I told you once, I told you a million times to stop fucking with my Equal-ibrium. I get that perfect balance, that perfect ratio of tea to sweetener and you come along and screw it up. I find that sweet spot and you take a shit in my glass. I want to kill you.
Itâ(TM)s not easy to get that perfection in the glass. Sometimes it can take a good five to ten minutes to let the ice melt just a little so the tea hits itâ(TM)s plateau. Then it takes a few more adding the Equal until I get that taste I like. So I spent some 15 minutes perfecting this glass on my table, and damn, itâ(TM)s good. Iâ(TM)m thinking about how well itâ(TM)s going to work with the bread and the spaghetti. Itâ(TM)s gonna be fucking awesome.
So I have a couple of drinks, closing my eyes and just whisking by on the magic carpet that is a perfect glass of tea.
Then you come up and start pouring first, and then ask, âoeMore tea, sir?â
âoeFuck no,â I reply. Now since youâ(TM)re already pouring you gonna realize that somethingâ(TM)s up.
But when I stand up and smash your head with my fists you gonna be thinking you shouldnâ(TM)t have topped off my glass.
As I poke our your eyes you gonna wish you ainâ(TM)t never seem me or my glass of tea.
As I cut out your tongue you gonna wish you never asked to take my order.
As I gouge your stomach with my fork you gonna be thinking you shouldnâ(TM)t have had that bagel for breakfast. They ainâ(TM)t as good as people make them up to be.
As I come back from my car with the chainsaw and start dismembering your body you gonna wish you never worked this dead-end job in the first place. Ainâ(TM)t no living making minimum wage.
And when I finally douse your corpse with gasoline, right there in the dining area, and light it up you ainâ(TM)t gonna be wishing or thinking anything. Cause youâ(TM)ll be dead, you sorry-ass tea-refilling mother-fucker.
Itâ(TM)ll be worth going back to prison. In the joint you refill you own glass. And thatâ(TM)s the way it should be.
Are these computers trying to trap me? I like the speaker-box theme, how do they know I like music so much.
Have they seen the Greatest Showman? Do they know I have? And how many times?
Step away from my personality! You can take it from my cold, dead... oh wait... that's how it works.
And don't use Microsoft Word to pre-type things for Slashdot. Slashdot's AI can't handle complicated text symbols like facing quote marks. Sad.
Stop with it with videos. Stick with ASCII text.
Machine learning, or AI, or whatever can learn patterns for things such as vision or hearing. But itâ(TM)s low level stuff like, âoeHey, look, a face!â. A newborn does this with baked in brain contents. âoeMake a low light picture look nice!â, a babyâ(TM)s eyes do this way beyond our photography tech (including AI assisted stuff).
Tangent with a point: Young children are sponges, they absorb everything they see, hear, smell, taste, and feel and note it in some fashion. They coalesce sensations into an understanding of the world. Attempting to simulate human sense response and understanding is why beyond our technical capabilities, excepting very specific scenarios that we target.
Photography improvements (commonly "AI") are simply pattern matching/task routines. They may be more complex than we explain, but they are task oriented with a super specific understanding area.
We should be focusing on AI research based around text and no other inputs. Words, semantics, descriptions of things. Describe see a sunset. Describe a scent. Describe having a feather brushed against an arm.
Describe the world. Donâ(TM)t try and show it to the technology.
Then let it try and play Zork.
I havenâ(TM)t finished reading this (searched for "ai to play zork"), but people are trying to solve parsed interactive fiction in this manner:
http://www.spagmag.org/issue-6...
The article also reminded of Minsky's Society of Mind. I've read that three times but never finished it.
Same here. We've gone through about 7 Nexus 5 phones as my wife has a "subscription" on destroying them. We still use them and I keep two around as backups. Swappa FTW...
I've got all of the tools, I should start replacing batteries.
Alligator Wrestling of course.
I'm conflicted.
Fate is the who, where, when, and how (much money) one is born into.
But we make enough food for the humans, at the expense of nature.
Immigration isn't a bad thing, but it does need to be controlled (Example: the whole USA thing, tears for the natives at the time, they couldn't handle European diseases or our ignorance and hatred that they were equal persons).
We should be carpet bombing the entire world with condoms and instructions for such. Population growth reduction is the only answer. Religion is a HUGE problem with this, they want to live in the middle-ages but with iPhones it seems to me.
And regarding population control we face freedom. And raising kids is fun, they are so interesting (I have twins, wife got fixed after that).
Very conflicted.
He's mention in TFA as the originating planner. Thanks for the link, now I have to read up on Palmersaurus, his animatronic dinosaur park...
Interesting, I thought it was generally available for letter mail.
And what are they hiding? They probably don't want to tip you off of their awareness of your untoward and tawdry mail contents...
Maybe it's only in urban areas, but they have to scan everything anyway for sorting purposes.
It's called Informed Delivery. They email you images of what's arriving that day.
https://informeddelivery.usps....
My wife signed up for it, it's sort of creepy and exciting (at first).
I would assume they image everything (at least letter sized) as part of sorting.
I read the article, a lot of words for so little information.
It's also pretty easy to avoid the ghosts when then are trying to avoid the player.
If they land it, the booster will need a movie of some sort, maybe something with aliens and people from the past.
It doesn't phone home, it just goes home.
People shouldn't post photos of toddlers in the bath on Facebook
People shouldn't post photos of naked children on Facebook,even if burned during a war. It's not an art or history site. It's the worst possible place to share such things. Post a link, that's fine.
Facebook is for "Social Media". Keep it to day-to-day stuff, without naked children.
Facebook is trying hard to be more than it is, and it's comical the ends they will go to in order to attempt this.
Facebook is where people comment about a restaurant or a trip to the bathroom. Nothing More.