I have mixed feelings about this: On the one hand, uncle Charlie tapped him on the shoulder, and gave him his eponymous prize; on the other hand, maybe an individual, as long as they don't pose a threat to others should be able to test something on themselves - personal choice and all that. Bleh.
While I agree with your comments, I also don't consider the new logo an improvement over the silly gopher. It's hard to think of anything good at all to say about it except, perhaps, at least they didn't color the font the same as the background.
Well they do say:
Do no choose a color that would
render it difficult to read.
You were a bit more ambitious than I was! I wrote some lame rocket launch simulator (fast mode), re-wrote that blobby comet game, and some sinking fund calculator to tease me about how much money I could have with reinvestment, if I had any money to begin with. Good times! : )
I still have delightfully frustrating memories of building and coding for a ZX81, right after the kit came out - 129.99 for the pre-built & I was young &poor!
So instead we should all wallow in an overpopulated cesspool of poverty, disease, and starvation...
The earth cannot sustain infinite human growth. It can't even sustain what we have now. The inequality that you see is a direct result of this. The only solution is mass population control, and it's only logical that the best and brightest should reproduce.
It's been my experience that those with the money - hence, influence (the 1%) - aren't always "the best and the brightest". So now how do we decide who is "the best and the brightest"? "Big gun, big man" usually ends up as the final decider during draconian times, and then we start the whole mess all over again, minus the smarter people (the "best and brightest" intellectually, if not physically) who are the keepers of accurate history. The others will simply "Soviet airbrush" into existence that which they wish to believe.
Objectively speaking this could be good. With 99% of the human population gone, mankind will become highly sustainable and the 1% is still geneticalky diverse enough to prevent inbreeding. It may well be that the endgame is this: paradise on Earth for the chosen few. And why not?
That's easy enough for you to say now - but what if you were one of the 99% in the future? I'm sure that it would feel quite unfair to you (awww). Alternatively, future 99%ers may decide to pass "compassionate" laws that only allow for the reproduction of the glorious 1%ers, so the 99%ers children don't feel badly about themselves while all of the adults gets their nads snipped! Yeah that sounds realistic - sign me up*!
Agreed. These people are worth more pieced out as donor organs. Put simply, in this case the sum of the parts is worth more than the whole. There really is no reason to continue to participate in society if they are not contributing, and this is a way that they can contribute in a very beneficial way.
This prompts a thought: How many people would go for the equivalent of a reverse mortgage, with their organs? I mean, they own their organs, so make a promissory deal with some company for a fixed quarterly income. I suspect the company would want to micro-manage their health care - hell they may even pay for it - but the donor would have to live a "managed" lifestyle: Minimal alcohol consumption, no drugs except as approved by Big Organ(TM), no risky hobbies or sports beyond jogging & aerobics etc. 'Course, if a surgery happened to go awry at a young age when the donor's organs are young & fresh, and worth more, or their sdc had a hiccup on a sharp curve...sounds like a science fiction story (*cough Coma *cough).
Hey leave my asshole outa this! : ) I was just carrying the torch of pedantry forward-there are limits to the precision of our measurements. Personally, I read "perfect circle" as visually "close enough" to a circle, to count as perfect. 0..o..O...there we go!
What evidence is there of a warning? Why didn't Tesla cite this evidence already?
All they said was that there multiple warnings that day, but not specifically in the six seconds before the crash when he had his hands off the wheel. It's a classic misleading statement.
If I receive multiple warnings during the day, I would be white-knuckled on that steering wheel for the rest of my trip. I'm sorry for the family's loss, but keep your hands on the *$#@! wheel (especially if you're in front of me, or coming towards me in the other lane). Autopilot, imo is a work in progress, and should not be fully, or even mostly trusted. Condolences to the family.
I'm not asking for perfect. If visibility was as good as Tesla says it was, why couldn't the car stay in its lane, and why did it steer into an obstruction?
I could be mistaken, but after that one Tesla drove into a tractor-trailer, wasn't Tesla very clear that autopilot was not the same as an sdc, and that the driver of a Tesla should always be attentive, with hands on the wheel? From that point forward, I wouldn't drive a Tesla hands-free (that's an oxymoron). Or sleeping.
There was a '68 Impala I had, the power steering pump went out; I simply took a knife to the dedicated belt. Yeah the low speed steering was harder, luckily my previous car had non-power steering, so I was used to it - and yes on the freeway, I didn't notice much difference at all.
I simply think of the names "Dark Matter" & "Dark Energy" as placeholder terms, until more information is gathered, analyzed, & interpreted. They may well change the nomenclature in the future, as well - another good reason not to lose any sleep over the names. Since I'm not a physicist, that's good enough for me, I'll just keep reading shit about this stuff, and try to wrap my little brain around all of the new developments.
Forget algorithms. Computers are stupid. You can always game any automated system. Put people to work. Require verification of news posts, you know, like actual journalists always did before the inter-webs put them out of their jobs.
"Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter."
"Also you can't tell me there's never been a transporter operator that has made a copy of someone they want to have sex with and beamed them off somewhere to rape them. Takes #MeToo to a whole different place."
That's what the holodeck is for, and with built in compliance. Huh. That sounds creepy.
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I have mixed feelings about this: On the one hand, uncle Charlie tapped him on the shoulder, and gave him his eponymous prize; on the other hand, maybe an individual, as long as they don't pose a threat to others should be able to test something on themselves - personal choice and all that. Bleh.
"What the actual goddamned fucking hell is that supposed to mean?! Some hippy crystal shit right there. Like, the universe remembers, man."
It means like, anything you want it to, man.
It's because of idiots like him that we need to get to self-driving cars ASAP.
Which would be... "The nice things". Well played!
While I agree with your comments, I also don't consider the new logo an improvement over the silly gopher. It's hard to think of anything good at all to say about it except, perhaps, at least they didn't color the font the same as the background.
Well they do say:
Do no choose a color that would render it difficult to read.
No really I copy/pasted that.
You were a bit more ambitious than I was! I wrote some lame rocket launch simulator (fast mode), re-wrote that blobby comet game, and some sinking fund calculator to tease me about how much money I could have with reinvestment, if I had any money to begin with. Good times! : )
But I have definite plans this fine Friday night to make an in utero injection or two.
Your sig seems to contradict your Friday night's endeavor.
I still have delightfully frustrating memories of building and coding for a ZX81, right after the kit came out - 129.99 for the pre-built & I was young &poor!
Human civilization was made by nutters, one footstep at a time. Then the practical naysayers came along and just ruined everything.
So instead we should all wallow in an overpopulated cesspool of poverty, disease, and starvation...
The earth cannot sustain infinite human growth. It can't even sustain what we have now. The inequality that you see is a direct result of this. The only solution is mass population control, and it's only logical that the best and brightest should reproduce.
It's been my experience that those with the money - hence, influence (the 1%) - aren't always "the best and the brightest". So now how do we decide who is "the best and the brightest"? "Big gun, big man" usually ends up as the final decider during draconian times, and then we start the whole mess all over again, minus the smarter people (the "best and brightest" intellectually, if not physically) who are the keepers of accurate history. The others will simply "Soviet airbrush" into existence that which they wish to believe.
Sorry, but, "... hominims..." is wrong.
However, "hominin" (or at a stretch "hominid") would be correct. See the diagram at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and see the original article that uses "hominin" liberally: http://science.sciencemag.org/...
Meh close enough, they sound alike! ; )
Objectively speaking this could be good. With 99% of the human population gone, mankind will become highly sustainable and the 1% is still geneticalky diverse enough to prevent inbreeding. It may well be that the endgame is this: paradise on Earth for the chosen few. And why not?
That's easy enough for you to say now - but what if you were one of the 99% in the future? I'm sure that it would feel quite unfair to you (awww). Alternatively, future 99%ers may decide to pass "compassionate" laws that only allow for the reproduction of the glorious 1%ers, so the 99%ers children don't feel badly about themselves while all of the adults gets their nads snipped! Yeah that sounds realistic - sign me up*!
*snipsnip
Agreed. These people are worth more pieced out as donor organs. Put simply, in this case the sum of the parts is worth more than the whole. There really is no reason to continue to participate in society if they are not contributing, and this is a way that they can contribute in a very beneficial way.
This prompts a thought: How many people would go for the equivalent of a reverse mortgage, with their organs? I mean, they own their organs, so make a promissory deal with some company for a fixed quarterly income. I suspect the company would want to micro-manage their health care - hell they may even pay for it - but the donor would have to live a "managed" lifestyle: Minimal alcohol consumption, no drugs except as approved by Big Organ(TM), no risky hobbies or sports beyond jogging & aerobics etc. 'Course, if a surgery happened to go awry at a young age when the donor's organs are young & fresh, and worth more, or their sdc had a hiccup on a sharp curve...sounds like a science fiction story (*cough Coma *cough).
Hey leave my asshole outa this! : ) I was just carrying the torch of pedantry forward-there are limits to the precision of our measurements. Personally, I read "perfect circle" as visually "close enough" to a circle, to count as perfect. 0..o..O...there we go!
"...and the circle is not perfect."
No such thing as a perfect circle anywhere, except maybe in just the math itself - and pi goes on & on...
"Have you ever noticed that some folks are made and then just sit on the studio shelf for a while."
When I was made, I didn't sit on a shelf for awhile! : )
What evidence is there of a warning? Why didn't Tesla cite this evidence already?
All they said was that there multiple warnings that day, but not specifically in the six seconds before the crash when he had his hands off the wheel. It's a classic misleading statement.
If I receive multiple warnings during the day, I would be white-knuckled on that steering wheel for the rest of my trip. I'm sorry for the family's loss, but keep your hands on the *$#@! wheel (especially if you're in front of me, or coming towards me in the other lane). Autopilot, imo is a work in progress, and should not be fully, or even mostly trusted. Condolences to the family.
I'm not asking for perfect. If visibility was as good as Tesla says it was, why couldn't the car stay in its lane, and why did it steer into an obstruction?
I could be mistaken, but after that one Tesla drove into a tractor-trailer, wasn't Tesla very clear that autopilot was not the same as an sdc, and that the driver of a Tesla should always be attentive, with hands on the wheel? From that point forward, I wouldn't drive a Tesla hands-free (that's an oxymoron). Or sleeping.
And furthermore, I always thought that people STARTED growing neurons after adolescence.
Heh, took me a few seconds to stop being so literal, get the joke - gettin' old, I guess.
Alternatively, to get smarter one could always pull a Canadian brain heist.
Nyet - drone like vwodka.
"... we should make sure they won't cause any problems."
Like being a mobile bioreactor for pathogens that outcompete us...
There was a '68 Impala I had, the power steering pump went out; I simply took a knife to the dedicated belt. Yeah the low speed steering was harder, luckily my previous car had non-power steering, so I was used to it - and yes on the freeway, I didn't notice much difference at all.
I simply think of the names "Dark Matter" & "Dark Energy" as placeholder terms, until more information is gathered, analyzed, & interpreted. They may well change the nomenclature in the future, as well - another good reason not to lose any sleep over the names. Since I'm not a physicist, that's good enough for me, I'll just keep reading shit about this stuff, and try to wrap my little brain around all of the new developments.
Forget algorithms. Computers are stupid. You can always game any automated system. Put people to work. Require verification of news posts, you know, like actual journalists always did before the inter-webs put them out of their jobs.
"Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter."
Next you'll tell me Paul McCartney is still alive...
Well thankfully Abe Vigoda is still alive.
"Also you can't tell me there's never been a transporter operator that has made a copy of someone they want to have sex with and beamed them off somewhere to rape them. Takes #MeToo to a whole different place."
That's what the holodeck is for, and with built in compliance. Huh. That sounds creepy.