Sounds like the second point is the root of the problem, incumbents shouldn't have more access to public campaign finance than any other candidate. So more campaign finance reform is needed to target that.
How is that? I'd think it would level the playing field somewhat between the incumbents who could receive super-PAC money and the newcomers who couldn't.
Google's self-driving car only has to identify An Object and avoid it, on top of driving along a set course with GPS assistance. A killbot has to identify what The Object is, find out if it's a threat, then check if it's a friend or foe somehow, hopefully assess the possibilities of collateral damage and what war crimes it may be committing by attacking the target...what Google's self driving car can do is just the first step.
I agree that autonomous killbots are close to being possible, but this is a terrible argument. A videogame AI has access to neatly formatted data about anything in its world. A real killbot has to make sense of inputs from a few sensors.
Serious answer: painted-on eyelashes and big lips on the minifig head piece, long hair piece on top. Male & female minifig leg & torso pieces are completely interchangeable.
This.Banning him and thus forcing him to sell the team removes his involvement and future ability to profit from the team, and therefore the incentive for a boycott. Problem solved, move along...
Oh har har, nice Godwin. But I do have a solution, it's called responsible reproduction combined with patience. I won't have more than 2 kids so I'm doing my part.
So why strain our resources to the limit just for the sake of supporting a bigger population? To try to support economic growth a little longer, leading to a nastier population bust? To try to brute-force another Einstein into existence as if some "jackpot" combination of genes is needed, when there are already millions of potential Einsteins around who simply don't have the resources to pursue similar pursuits? For the warm n' fuzzies of not telling anyone to reproduce responsibly while our environment breaks under our strain around us? Without radically different energy sources - which are totally possible right now but not politically likely - the current level of industrialization is already unsustainable.
If we're not growing the population just for the sake of growing it and we run into any energy limitations in the future, we'll simply have to consider having no-recreational-mech-battles Mondays.
Furthermore I can't see how the gambling-addicted nutjobs aren't harming us. If the number of dollars in circulation increases, that's inflation. So mathematically, by obtaining dollars, they're either siphoning money from the rest of us with their stupid game or driving inflation while creating no value, devaluing the dollars the rest of us hold - just like making counterfeit notes.
The "professional experts" are a bunch of junkies jonesing like crazy who will do anything for a fix, be it crashing economies, systematically impoverishing populations or overpopulating the planet to destruction rather than accepting the impossibility of infinite growth in a finite world. Their opinions are worth no more than any layman's, at best.
I have developed a program that cracks goatsecret output: goatsextract. It is able to automatically extract the data from a frenchman's gaping asshole, without the user ever viewing the goatsecret image. Requires imagemagick, tesseract and leptonica.
Minimum wages only help people with jobs. They increase the incentive to automate. And if 2014 wasn't late enough, these laws won't take effect for years.
Exactly. I wonder why Google and Facebook haven't figured out what Hulu has down to a science...but anyway I hope they generously continue to bleed money onto the world's impoverished masses!
"You're an idiot if you're not trying to rob me too!" said the burglar to the victim.
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But doing a massive document dump that included things the NSA is *supposed* to do - spy on non-US countries
It's hilarious how Americans are not at all bothered by the US spying on the whole rest of the world, including their own allies.
Fuck those guys right? Only Americans deserve any privacy that doesn't need to be taken through digital superiority.
Nah I'm just kidding, it's actually worse than that. They don't think about how many foreigners' privacy they invade any more than they think about how many ants they run over on their morning commute.
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Sounds like the second point is the root of the problem, incumbents shouldn't have more access to public campaign finance than any other candidate. So more campaign finance reform is needed to target that.
How is that? I'd think it would level the playing field somewhat between the incumbents who could receive super-PAC money and the newcomers who couldn't.
Google's self-driving car only has to identify An Object and avoid it, on top of driving along a set course with GPS assistance. A killbot has to identify what The Object is, find out if it's a threat, then check if it's a friend or foe somehow, hopefully assess the possibilities of collateral damage and what war crimes it may be committing by attacking the target...what Google's self driving car can do is just the first step.
Just look at the AI of current video games.
I agree that autonomous killbots are close to being possible, but this is a terrible argument. A videogame AI has access to neatly formatted data about anything in its world. A real killbot has to make sense of inputs from a few sensors.
Next contender: Half-life 3!
Based on my experience with Lego sets, the set will probably feature a lego shark in a cage with some kind of death ray looking thing pointed at it.
And with a more recent Lego shark, you can indeed put a frickin' laser on his head!
Serious answer: painted-on eyelashes and big lips on the minifig head piece, long hair piece on top. Male & female minifig leg & torso pieces are completely interchangeable.
Sorry that sounds too much like the reasoning behind the fundamentalist Christian quiverfull movement:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Playing population-chicken isn't worth it.
I thought it was just a bunch of libertarians and/or technologically illiterate businessmen.
This.Banning him and thus forcing him to sell the team removes his involvement and future ability to profit from the team, and therefore the incentive for a boycott. Problem solved, move along...
Oh har har, nice Godwin. But I do have a solution, it's called responsible reproduction combined with patience. I won't have more than 2 kids so I'm doing my part.
So why strain our resources to the limit just for the sake of supporting a bigger population? To try to support economic growth a little longer, leading to a nastier population bust? To try to brute-force another Einstein into existence as if some "jackpot" combination of genes is needed, when there are already millions of potential Einsteins around who simply don't have the resources to pursue similar pursuits? For the warm n' fuzzies of not telling anyone to reproduce responsibly while our environment breaks under our strain around us? Without radically different energy sources - which are totally possible right now but not politically likely - the current level of industrialization is already unsustainable.
If we're not growing the population just for the sake of growing it and we run into any energy limitations in the future, we'll simply have to consider having no-recreational-mech-battles Mondays.
Furthermore I can't see how the gambling-addicted nutjobs aren't harming us. If the number of dollars in circulation increases, that's inflation. So mathematically, by obtaining dollars, they're either siphoning money from the rest of us with their stupid game or driving inflation while creating no value, devaluing the dollars the rest of us hold - just like making counterfeit notes.
Greater efficiency with the same resources to support a bigger population is pointless, it achieves nothing. Here's a good article on the topic:
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05...
The "professional experts" are a bunch of junkies jonesing like crazy who will do anything for a fix, be it crashing economies, systematically impoverishing populations or overpopulating the planet to destruction rather than accepting the impossibility of infinite growth in a finite world. Their opinions are worth no more than any layman's, at best.
...and it was like ten Christmases to them. They're probably really down that they just lost one of their best toys.
That's right, it affects all versions that are anywhere close to current.
I have developed a program that cracks goatsecret output: goatsextract. It is able to automatically extract the data from a frenchman's gaping asshole, without the user ever viewing the goatsecret image. Requires imagemagick, tesseract and leptonica.
Minimum wages only help people with jobs. They increase the incentive to automate. And if 2014 wasn't late enough, these laws won't take effect for years.
Exactly. I wonder why Google and Facebook haven't figured out what Hulu has down to a science...but anyway I hope they generously continue to bleed money onto the world's impoverished masses!
Your employer is a being composed of concentrated evil O_O
Slashdot publishes flamebait articles with some regularity, it just feels worse today because we've had two consecutively.
"You're an idiot if you're not trying to rob me too!" said the burglar to the victim.
But doing a massive document dump that included things the NSA is *supposed* to do - spy on non-US countries
It's hilarious how Americans are not at all bothered by the US spying on the whole rest of the world, including their own allies.
Fuck those guys right? Only Americans deserve any privacy that doesn't need to be taken through digital superiority.
Nah I'm just kidding, it's actually worse than that. They don't think about how many foreigners' privacy they invade any more than they think about how many ants they run over on their morning commute.
http://www.cracked.com/article...
Isn't that more like a modern composite than "wood" though? That's about as different from wood as fiberglass is from glass.