Proof of Intelligence on Earth! Here we have proof that plants communicate. They have feelings too. Plants are sentient! Time for those namby-pamby vegans and vegetarians to stop killing plants. Please give peas a chance! Lettuce stop the senseless violence against the great kingdom of plants - eat bacon!
I picked where to live over 30 years ago using math, Venn Diagrams and weighted analysis. Decades later I'm very happy where I am. Works for those of us of the mathematical, logical, engineering bend. Emoties could learn a lot from math.
Bitcoins are just in your imagination. USDollars are merely imagined by the USGovernment. Gold has no real value other than using it for things like electrical contacts, etc. None of this is real money. If you want real value, get a basket of eggs, hatch the chicks, raise them up, feed them pasture, your other asset - you are landed I hope - and they'll lay more eggs. Now you're in business and can feed yourself. When you succeed at that start feeding other people and they'll give you something of real value like a pork chop or firewood to stay warm with. What ever you do, don't accept cash, bitcoins, gold or other fraudulent currencies for your eggs. You want real value for your real things.
You miss the basic issue that the machine is just another person. It produces, consumes, pays taxes, makes decisions, votes, hums and contributes to society. It is not removing anything from the world but adding to it just like other people.
Luddites have complained for millennia that machines were replacing people and putting workers out of work, denying their rights to income. It's all a farce. What is a machine? What is a robot?
Early man grubbed in the dirt with his hands to dig up a tuber to eat. Then along came the rock and stick for easier digging! Egads! People were digging up more tubers faster using this new machine! This put some people out of work as tuber diggers. But wait, some of them became story tellers, potters, shaman, etc and society and the individuals were all better off.
The potters made vessels for carrying water which reduced our labor freeing up more people who discovered flint napping and made better spears. Suddenly we were able to hunt better, eat more protein and lipid rich meats that kept more people alive through the brutal winters letting us expand northward despite the ice age. Dam those flint knapped machines that threw all those rabbit stranglers out of jobs - of course they liked being able to catch bigger prey easier.
Later the wheel came along and let us carry more than we could on our back. Voila! People were out of work as transporters but those people found new work mining iron ore and the next revolution was born. (Pun intended.)
Each advancement of machines has let us move forward to new heights. Yes, some people get upset. Some inventions aren't so great too. But over all, over time, it works out. You may be out of a job when the floor sweeper machine takes your post but maybe you can do something new and different. After all, like the cockroach you are a survivor, right?!?
Cap & Trade and Carbon Markets are Frauds. They merely shuffle around the money doing little to nothing to really reduce pollution. It's a scam to get rich by the players.
I used to think of the Discovery Channel as being good - I've bought a lot of their DVDs for our kids over the years. But the distortion is a real problem.
These are presented as factual, scientific documentaries but they're filled with sensational half-truths and outright lies. I have had seven different documentary companies approach me about documenting our family farm in made for TV specials or even a 13 week series. But because of the distortions I've read about (e.g., Mermaid incident and others) I don't trust them to do it right so the answer has always been no.
Besides, I have farming, homeschooling and family time to attend to. I don't even have or watch TV.
"Kindle Unlimited is stocked almost entirely with indie titles, with a handful of major titles thrown in."
My, my, your arrogance is showing. The big publishing houses have no monopoly on good literature. "Indie Titles" represent a tremendous amount of really great reading. Broaden your mind.
Besides, the public library is way the heck in town. That's a long drive for many of us in rural areas and those public libraries that are that mere long drive are not very big.
Fortunately, the web, iBooks, Kindle and public libraries and our own bookshelves can all happily coexist. It is not a matter of either-or. We can have it all.
Ethnicity surveys are bogus. They almost always want us to pick ONE (1) box. I am many ethnicities. Most of all, I'm American. My people met my people at the shore, interbred and mixed it up. That is how it is for a great many people in our great country. That mixing is part of what makes America great. We are a blended family.
Ethnicity questions should be deleted from all these sorts of reports and surveys.
Skip the optional ones. Lie to the rest. Give them the data they deserve.
Yes! Finally, a programming language and development system from a serious organization we can all trust to help us produce secure applications! I am so happy I'm doing the little Snoopy Dog House Dance! Oh-Joy! More Exclamation Points Please!!!
Homeschooling is all day, all week, all year, for life.
We homeschool. We started when our kids were born. They learn every day. Every day of the week. Every week of the year. It's lifetime learning.
They still get to be kids. And they work on our farm. Their mastery is far above public, and private, school levels for the same age. They don't spend weeks and months forgetting stuff over vacations and summer. They don't waste gobs of time on wait-wait-wait and sitting around as is the way of modern schooling. They take responsibility for learning as they develop that ability rather than being tracked by an artificial curriculum which wastes time on politically correct nonsense. They learn real science untainted by PC sensitivities. They love learning. The joy of it isn't killed by the grey public school agenda.
This is like life used to be and better than the disconnected of today which is a result of the dystopia of urban culture.
Don't travel to conferences. Waste of time, money and other resources. Far better to use discussion groups, forums, webinars, email, etc. Physical conferences are dinosaurs. Most have died off. Some just don't know they're zombies but will soon fall apart. This is particularly true for tech conferences. We don't need to be in a place to communicate and techies know that better than anyone.
What is particularly obscene is the conferences by politicos and ecos to solve world hunger, solve pollution, solve global warming, etc. They jet around the world polluting all the way, eat huge fancy meals and declare what the rest of us should do to fix things. Hypocrites.
Sometimes people on this site seem to have an instinctual fan-boy reflex that by-passes rational thought. Even a small amount of thought would point out:
-The Sony eReaders will die eventually - Bye-bye books for most people who aren't sophisticated enough to transfer to other formats and devices. -DRM will prevent a lot of people, the majority of people, from accessing their documents. bye-bye books!
It would be really nice if fan-boys or stooges and plants for Sony didn't spread misinformation.
"With a 3-hour battery life, the exoskeleton allows users to walk at a normal pace and, in its prototype form, it can lift objects with a mass of up to 30 kilograms."
Wow. Color me very unimpressed so far. My biological battery lasts 48 hours (extreme) and lets me lift about 120 Kg fully and regularly as well as a lot more occasionally. I can also run.
Seriously though, while this is not "Super Strength" as the headline claims it is an interesting advancement. What we need next is a "Robot Suit that gives Editors Super Human Writing Powers" so they can actually write headlines.
It is rather odd for them to try and tax people for talking about them, which is what this amounts to being. Even worse, they are taxing the people who are polite enough to provide a referential link back that would allow the reader to go to the source which then enables the source to earn something be it reputation, selling something or serving ad copy up which is how newspapers traditionally paid for their paper and ink.
Myself, I love being linked to. Please, link away because that's how the love is spread and the web grows.
I would like to suggest that Google forget the European regulators. That solves the problem.
The Europeans have not right to hide information from the world nor do they have any right to determine how things are happening outside their countries. Google should simply refuse to 'forget'. At the very least 'forgetting' should only be for requests within the European dimwits's borders. The rest of the world should remember, remember...
Did you ever seriously doubt that the CIA was lying? They are paid to do this sort of work. Yes, yes, it says international and all that goody stuff in the contract but that is just for show. To feel safe the government is going to violate. Violate what? Everything. Including you and itself.
What if one of the users is a computer AI. It takes over the body of the other by providing those stimulations that force the user to move their body. Now the computer has a body. Rather than a simulation it is possession and possession is 9/10ths of the law...
I've never, ever heard someone ask for a slideout keyboard on their phone. Mechanical buttons are just one more thing to break down. The touch screens are much more reliable. If you really want a keyboard, just use a bluetooth keyboard. I do have one of those which is nice for writing long documents but not something I want all the time, not even 0.1% of the time.
Nice but I need more range. 800 miles would be ideal. Alternatively I need a 10 minute charge time and 300 miles. This would be for a light delivery truck. There are a lot of light delivery vehicles out there. (How else did you think photos got from the sun to here...)
This is one of many things that causes power outages and loss of communications. In the urban areas, in the cities, people take the stability of the system for granted. Out in rural areas we live with the knowledge that the grid goes down on a regular basis and sometimes stays down for weeks. No power. No phone. No cell phone. No internet. No outside source of water, sewer, emergency services, etc. We make do. We live to survive these events. A solar storm could produce a much more significant event. People in urban areas really need to start being more prepared. The history of stability is very short.
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Proof of Intelligence on Earth!
Here we have proof that plants communicate. They have feelings too. Plants are sentient! Time for those namby-pamby vegans and vegetarians to stop killing plants. Please give peas a chance! Lettuce stop the senseless violence against the great kingdom of plants - eat bacon!
I picked where to live over 30 years ago using math, Venn Diagrams and weighted analysis. Decades later I'm very happy where I am. Works for those of us of the mathematical, logical, engineering bend. Emoties could learn a lot from math.
All of this is funny money.
Bitcoins are just in your imagination.
USDollars are merely imagined by the USGovernment.
Gold has no real value other than using it for things like electrical contacts, etc.
None of this is real money.
If you want real value, get a basket of eggs, hatch the chicks, raise them up, feed them pasture, your other asset - you are landed I hope - and they'll lay more eggs. Now you're in business and can feed yourself. When you succeed at that start feeding other people and they'll give you something of real value like a pork chop or firewood to stay warm with. What ever you do, don't accept cash, bitcoins, gold or other fraudulent currencies for your eggs. You want real value for your real things.
Ergo, homeschooling is the way to go.
You miss the basic issue that the machine is just another person. It produces, consumes, pays taxes, makes decisions, votes, hums and contributes to society. It is not removing anything from the world but adding to it just like other people.
Luddites have complained for millennia that machines were replacing people and putting workers out of work, denying their rights to income. It's all a farce. What is a machine? What is a robot?
Early man grubbed in the dirt with his hands to dig up a tuber to eat. Then along came the rock and stick for easier digging! Egads! People were digging up more tubers faster using this new machine! This put some people out of work as tuber diggers. But wait, some of them became story tellers, potters, shaman, etc and society and the individuals were all better off.
The potters made vessels for carrying water which reduced our labor freeing up more people who discovered flint napping and made better spears. Suddenly we were able to hunt better, eat more protein and lipid rich meats that kept more people alive through the brutal winters letting us expand northward despite the ice age. Dam those flint knapped machines that threw all those rabbit stranglers out of jobs - of course they liked being able to catch bigger prey easier.
Later the wheel came along and let us carry more than we could on our back. Voila! People were out of work as transporters but those people found new work mining iron ore and the next revolution was born. (Pun intended.)
Each advancement of machines has let us move forward to new heights. Yes, some people get upset. Some inventions aren't so great too. But over all, over time, it works out. You may be out of a job when the floor sweeper machine takes your post but maybe you can do something new and different. After all, like the cockroach you are a survivor, right?!?
Cap & Trade and Carbon Markets are Frauds. They merely shuffle around the money doing little to nothing to really reduce pollution. It's a scam to get rich by the players.
I used to think of the Discovery Channel as being good - I've bought a lot of their DVDs for our kids over the years. But the distortion is a real problem.
These are presented as factual, scientific documentaries but they're filled with sensational half-truths and outright lies. I have had seven different documentary companies approach me about documenting our family farm in made for TV specials or even a 13 week series. But because of the distortions I've read about (e.g., Mermaid incident and others) I don't trust them to do it right so the answer has always been no.
Besides, I have farming, homeschooling and family time to attend to. I don't even have or watch TV.
"Kindle Unlimited is stocked almost entirely with indie titles, with a handful of major titles thrown in."
My, my, your arrogance is showing. The big publishing houses have no monopoly on good literature. "Indie Titles" represent a tremendous amount of really great reading. Broaden your mind.
Besides, the public library is way the heck in town. That's a long drive for many of us in rural areas and those public libraries that are that mere long drive are not very big.
Fortunately, the web, iBooks, Kindle and public libraries and our own bookshelves can all happily coexist. It is not a matter of either-or. We can have it all.
Ethnicity surveys are bogus.
They almost always want us to pick ONE (1) box.
I am many ethnicities.
Most of all, I'm American.
My people met my people at the shore, interbred and mixed it up.
That is how it is for a great many people in our great country.
That mixing is part of what makes America great.
We are a blended family.
Ethnicity questions should be deleted from all these sorts of reports and surveys.
Skip the optional ones. Lie to the rest. Give them the data they deserve.
Censorship creates clever communications.
There are many clever ways to override the censors. It's an arms race the governments never win.
Yes! Finally, a programming language and development system from a serious organization we can all trust to help us produce secure applications! I am so happy I'm doing the little Snoopy Dog House Dance! Oh-Joy! More Exclamation Points Please!!!
Homeschooling is all day, all week, all year, for life.
We homeschool.
We started when our kids were born.
They learn every day.
Every day of the week.
Every week of the year.
It's lifetime learning.
They still get to be kids.
And they work on our farm.
Their mastery is far above public, and private, school levels for the same age.
They don't spend weeks and months forgetting stuff over vacations and summer.
They don't waste gobs of time on wait-wait-wait and sitting around as is the way of modern schooling.
They take responsibility for learning as they develop that ability rather than being tracked by an artificial curriculum which wastes time on politically correct nonsense.
They learn real science untainted by PC sensitivities.
They love learning. The joy of it isn't killed by the grey public school agenda.
This is like life used to be and better than the disconnected of today which is a result of the dystopia of urban culture.
Don't travel to conferences. Waste of time, money and other resources. Far better to use discussion groups, forums, webinars, email, etc. Physical conferences are dinosaurs. Most have died off. Some just don't know they're zombies but will soon fall apart. This is particularly true for tech conferences. We don't need to be in a place to communicate and techies know that better than anyone.
What is particularly obscene is the conferences by politicos and ecos to solve world hunger, solve pollution, solve global warming, etc. They jet around the world polluting all the way, eat huge fancy meals and declare what the rest of us should do to fix things. Hypocrites.
Sometimes people on this site seem to have an instinctual fan-boy reflex that by-passes rational thought. Even a small amount of thought would point out:
-The Sony eReaders will die eventually - Bye-bye books for most people who aren't sophisticated enough to transfer to other formats and devices.
-DRM will prevent a lot of people, the majority of people, from accessing their documents. bye-bye books!
It would be really nice if fan-boys or stooges and plants for Sony didn't spread misinformation.
For three hours.
This is the reason not to buy eBooks. Bye-bye library collection. Bother.
"With a 3-hour battery life, the exoskeleton allows users to walk at a normal pace and, in its prototype form, it can lift objects with a mass of up to 30 kilograms."
Wow. Color me very unimpressed so far. My biological battery lasts 48 hours (extreme) and lets me lift about 120 Kg fully and regularly as well as a lot more occasionally. I can also run.
Seriously though, while this is not "Super Strength" as the headline claims it is an interesting advancement. What we need next is a "Robot Suit that gives Editors Super Human Writing Powers" so they can actually write headlines.
It is rather odd for them to try and tax people for talking about them, which is what this amounts to being. Even worse, they are taxing the people who are polite enough to provide a referential link back that would allow the reader to go to the source which then enables the source to earn something be it reputation, selling something or serving ad copy up which is how newspapers traditionally paid for their paper and ink.
Myself, I love being linked to. Please, link away because that's how the love is spread and the web grows.
I would like to suggest that Google forget the European regulators. That solves the problem.
The Europeans have not right to hide information from the world nor do they have any right to determine how things are happening outside their countries. Google should simply refuse to 'forget'. At the very least 'forgetting' should only be for requests within the European dimwits's borders. The rest of the world should remember, remember...
Did you ever seriously doubt that the CIA was lying? They are paid to do this sort of work. Yes, yes, it says international and all that goody stuff in the contract but that is just for show. To feel safe the government is going to violate. Violate what? Everything. Including you and itself.
What if one of the users is a computer AI. It takes over the body of the other by providing those stimulations that force the user to move their body. Now the computer has a body. Rather than a simulation it is possession and possession is 9/10ths of the law...
I've never, ever heard someone ask for a slideout keyboard on their phone. Mechanical buttons are just one more thing to break down. The touch screens are much more reliable. If you really want a keyboard, just use a bluetooth keyboard. I do have one of those which is nice for writing long documents but not something I want all the time, not even 0.1% of the time.
Nice but I need more range. 800 miles would be ideal. Alternatively I need a 10 minute charge time and 300 miles. This would be for a light delivery truck. There are a lot of light delivery vehicles out there. (How else did you think photos got from the sun to here...)
This is one of many things that causes power outages and loss of communications. In the urban areas, in the cities, people take the stability of the system for granted. Out in rural areas we live with the knowledge that the grid goes down on a regular basis and sometimes stays down for weeks. No power. No phone. No cell phone. No internet. No outside source of water, sewer, emergency services, etc. We make do. We live to survive these events. A solar storm could produce a much more significant event. People in urban areas really need to start being more prepared. The history of stability is very short.