I know only one kind of people who are against internet porn. Those that sell porn and want to eliminate their worst rival.
My sister divorced the father of her children because he wouldn't give up Internet porn. She doesn't sell porn. She just has a special kind of relationship with Jesus. They're not alone; he was in classes to help him "recover".
And all of those "poor" people don't seem to have any problem finding plenty of money to buy liquor, cigarettes, lottery tickets, crack, weed and other "necessities".
You seem to know a lot about "all of those 'poor' people." Don't believe everything you read on Breitbart.
But then I'd have to use a Chromecast to watch Netflix!
Why not an Amazon FireTV or Roku?
Sure, why not? Do those offer me advantages over my Chromecast? I can cast Plex, Netflix, Pandora, and YouTube all from my phone. Or mirror my phone's display. I don't know what else I'd want.
For free? It's been a while since I checked the exchange rate, but 1/. mod point is worth at least 2 FB 'likes'. Replies trade even unless it comes from an AC - Nobody cares about those. We're not posting for free; we're posting for ego strokes.
If you define AI as a computer sentience, it will only ever exist in the world of sci-fi. I prefer more relaxed definitions for what constitutes AI. If "AI" descibes an unattainable state, it ceases to be a useful term.
It isn't the poor people, at least not in the 1st world, they are all sitting at home on welfare.
There are plenty of poor people in the U.S. that work very hard. They certainly aren't "all sitting at home on welfare." You can't believe everything you read on Breitbart.
Are we off representing forces with symbols and on to magic? Did I defend magic? Never mind; I will try.
Just because we do not have a sensible explanation for something yet doesn't make it mysterious or magical. It makes it unknown.
To me, the unknown is mysterious. If the unknown isn't mysterious, what is? It's practically the definition.
400 years ago the forces behind lightning were mysterious and terrifying... Today we know that it's simply charged particles that interact. Nothing mysterious, no magical, supernatural forces... Why should it be different with things like gravity?
Doesn't have to be. Maybe one day gravity will be mundane. Right now, it's as close to magic as it gets. I don't think there's anything "supernatural" going on - Gravity's as "natural" as it gets. But, at my present level of understanding, it's indistinguishable from magic. Whether gravity actually is magic is entirely a matter of perspective and is unimportant to our relationship with it.
When I was a kid, east of the Mississippi, a 'dime bag' was traditionally a quarter ounce. Already cost $25 and up.
A $25 quarter ounce is a "dime"? Seems like common sense to me to call that a "quarter." That's what weed cost me in high school ('93-'95) and that's what we called it. It got much cheaper when I moved close to the Mexican border for college and got much more expensive (and better quality) when I started getting it from the dispensary further north.
Not in common useage anymore as far as I can tell. Gone the way of 'a lid'.
Been a while (15+ years) since I bought weed on the street, but "dime bag" was common then/there and meant a $10 sack. I'm familiar with the term "lid," but it predates me.
There are forces we don't understand yet... But I don't go from "I don't know" to "a wizard did it".
Neither do I. No wizards involved. Forces that may as well be magic, but no wizard and nobody "doing it." Just an abstract symbol that makes it easier to conceptualize the mysterious forces involved.
Symbols have no meaning. They get a meaning by us giving them one, but by themselves they have no meaning. Humans create symbols because we think easier in images and can operate with abstract concepts more easily if we give them a symbol or icon to represent them. But by themselves, they have no meaning at all.
Glad we're on the same page.
Wind has no persona.
No argument there. The force behind wind/gravity/electrons spinning/etc. follows a very strict and specific set of rules and couldn't care less about prayers or consequences.
Using the word "symbolic" instead of "imaginary" does not make them real.
Not trying to say anything's "real" except for the forces being described. For me, the gods are tools for shaping the way I view the world. It's not important that they make sense to anyone but me - I have no reason to try to persuade anyone.
For example, I perceive a force that allows me to do calculus while my distant relatives were still struggling with fire. It's a force that exists because of the combined efforts of many men and women. It has disciples in the form of students and professors. It has temples in the form of schools. It rewards prayers in the form of studying. It's just one way to conceptualize human knowledge; one that makes sense to me. If you're not buying it, that's fine; I'm not selling it.
In my circles, a dime bag is still $10. The size changes, not the price. A dime's about a gram of medicinal-grade weed. In college, a dime was about a quarter ounce of schwag.
There are forces we don't understand. If gravity's not magic, I don't know what is. It's easiest for me to conceptualize that force as a god - The same one that decides where hurricanes go. It does require belief in a mysterious force that does things like pulling massive bodies toward each other. No imagination necessary - I don't picture something with fingers and toes that I can hold a conversation with.
The donkey is the symbol of the Democratic party. There isn't an actual donkey making policy decisions. I can recognize what that donkey stands for without imagining an actual braying beast in my head. If you can't recognize a symbol without engaging your imagination, we're on different pages. Are you familiar with the peace symbol? How do you "imagine" it? Or does "peace" not exist?
I recognize more than one force greater than myself and treat them similarly. The one in charge of gravity and hurricanes is the only one that does magic and, unfortunately, doesn't give a shit about us.
I play Words With Friends (on-line Scrabble). The lag isn't too crippling. If I needed bandwidth I'd claim it, but I rarely do. (Actually the only time my bandwidth is a limit is the same time the VPN is most important.) I don't think I need to preach the virtues of piping your traffic through a VPN here. Different priorities dictate different solutions.
I posted that comment with the VPN down (I turned it off to do a bandwidth test). Wanna guess how much time I saved posting that comment with my improved connection? And that 128kbps from Pandora was just FLYING in.
Maybe I was unclear. By "transparent", I meant it doesn't slow down my typical operations. General surfing, streaming music/video are unaffected. I'm not under the delusion that I'm not gimping my connection, I just prefer the benefits of using a VPN when it's not in my way. If I need bandwidth and I'm not doing something shady, there's always the option to turn it off. But I rarely do.
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I know only one kind of people who are against internet porn. Those that sell porn and want to eliminate their worst rival.
My sister divorced the father of her children because he wouldn't give up Internet porn. She doesn't sell porn. She just has a special kind of relationship with Jesus. They're not alone; he was in classes to help him "recover".
It'll tell us whatever it's programmed and conditioned to tell us. Just like me.
Actually, I think taxing was *invented* by religion (tithing)...
10% off the top is a bargain for eternal salvation! I think there's a money-back guarantee if you die and prove you didn't go to heaven.
You sound just like those feminists who say science is a white male conspiracy to keep oppressed people down.
Congratulations on that impressive stretch; pulling gender & race from all the way in left field.
...here in America, we're losing English of any sort out to Spanish.
English proficiency is rising among U.S. Latinos. The share of Latinos who speak Spanish is declining.
And all of those "poor" people don't seem to have any problem finding plenty of money to buy liquor, cigarettes, lottery tickets, crack, weed and other "necessities".
You seem to know a lot about "all of those 'poor' people." Don't believe everything you read on Breitbart.
Why not an Amazon FireTV or Roku?
Sure, why not? Do those offer me advantages over my Chromecast? I can cast Plex, Netflix, Pandora, and YouTube all from my phone. Or mirror my phone's display. I don't know what else I'd want.
Just never connect the TV to the internet....
But then I'd have to use a Chromecast to watch Netflix! I'd have to switch inputs!
I pretty much expect the standard first program that everyone rights "hello world" to be classed as AI these days.
"Hello world!" isn't good enough. To be AI, your program has to output, "I think therefore I am."
For free? It's been a while since I checked the exchange rate, but 1 /. mod point is worth at least 2 FB 'likes'. Replies trade even unless it comes from an AC - Nobody cares about those. We're not posting for free; we're posting for ego strokes.
If you define AI as a computer sentience, it will only ever exist in the world of sci-fi. I prefer more relaxed definitions for what constitutes AI. If "AI" descibes an unattainable state, it ceases to be a useful term.
Apparently the Christians get more schooling than the Muslims.
In sub-Saharan Africa, Christians average six years of formal schooling, compared with fewer than three years for Muslims.
It isn't the poor people, at least not in the 1st world, they are all sitting at home on welfare.
There are plenty of poor people in the U.S. that work very hard. They certainly aren't " all sitting at home on welfare." You can't believe everything you read on Breitbart.
Presumably, in the case of a mismatch that they determine was due to cheating, either the driver or passenger would be banned.
Are we off representing forces with symbols and on to magic? Did I defend magic? Never mind; I will try.
Just because we do not have a sensible explanation for something yet doesn't make it mysterious or magical. It makes it unknown.
To me, the unknown is mysterious. If the unknown isn't mysterious, what is? It's practically the definition.
400 years ago the forces behind lightning were mysterious and terrifying... Today we know that it's simply charged particles that interact. Nothing mysterious, no magical, supernatural forces... Why should it be different with things like gravity?
Doesn't have to be. Maybe one day gravity will be mundane. Right now, it's as close to magic as it gets. I don't think there's anything "supernatural" going on - Gravity's as "natural" as it gets. But, at my present level of understanding, it's indistinguishable from magic. Whether gravity actually is magic is entirely a matter of perspective and is unimportant to our relationship with it.
When I was a kid, east of the Mississippi, a 'dime bag' was traditionally a quarter ounce. Already cost $25 and up.
A $25 quarter ounce is a "dime"? Seems like common sense to me to call that a "quarter." That's what weed cost me in high school ('93-'95) and that's what we called it. It got much cheaper when I moved close to the Mexican border for college and got much more expensive (and better quality) when I started getting it from the dispensary further north.
Not in common useage anymore as far as I can tell. Gone the way of 'a lid'.
Been a while (15+ years) since I bought weed on the street, but "dime bag" was common then/there and meant a $10 sack. I'm familiar with the term "lid," but it predates me.
There are forces we don't understand yet... But I don't go from "I don't know" to "a wizard did it".
Neither do I. No wizards involved. Forces that may as well be magic, but no wizard and nobody "doing it." Just an abstract symbol that makes it easier to conceptualize the mysterious forces involved.
Symbols have no meaning. They get a meaning by us giving them one, but by themselves they have no meaning. Humans create symbols because we think easier in images and can operate with abstract concepts more easily if we give them a symbol or icon to represent them. But by themselves, they have no meaning at all.
Glad we're on the same page.
Wind has no persona.
No argument there. The force behind wind/gravity/electrons spinning/etc. follows a very strict and specific set of rules and couldn't care less about prayers or consequences.
Using the word "symbolic" instead of "imaginary" does not make them real.
Not trying to say anything's "real" except for the forces being described. For me, the gods are tools for shaping the way I view the world. It's not important that they make sense to anyone but me - I have no reason to try to persuade anyone.
For example, I perceive a force that allows me to do calculus while my distant relatives were still struggling with fire. It's a force that exists because of the combined efforts of many men and women. It has disciples in the form of students and professors. It has temples in the form of schools. It rewards prayers in the form of studying. It's just one way to conceptualize human knowledge; one that makes sense to me. If you're not buying it, that's fine; I'm not selling it.
Dime bags were $10 in the 1970s.
In my circles, a dime bag is still $10. The size changes, not the price. A dime's about a gram of medicinal-grade weed. In college, a dime was about a quarter ounce of schwag.
There are forces we don't understand. If gravity's not magic, I don't know what is. It's easiest for me to conceptualize that force as a god - The same one that decides where hurricanes go. It does require belief in a mysterious force that does things like pulling massive bodies toward each other. No imagination necessary - I don't picture something with fingers and toes that I can hold a conversation with.
The donkey is the symbol of the Democratic party. There isn't an actual donkey making policy decisions. I can recognize what that donkey stands for without imagining an actual braying beast in my head. If you can't recognize a symbol without engaging your imagination, we're on different pages. Are you familiar with the peace symbol? How do you "imagine" it? Or does "peace" not exist?
I recognize more than one force greater than myself and treat them similarly. The one in charge of gravity and hurricanes is the only one that does magic and, unfortunately, doesn't give a shit about us.
...can we just off everyone with an imaginary friend?
I have gods. They're not imaginary; they're symbolic.
I could give a rat's ass about the government. I don't like being mined by my ISP.
I play Words With Friends (on-line Scrabble). The lag isn't too crippling. If I needed bandwidth I'd claim it, but I rarely do. (Actually the only time my bandwidth is a limit is the same time the VPN is most important.) I don't think I need to preach the virtues of piping your traffic through a VPN here. Different priorities dictate different solutions.
I posted that comment with the VPN down (I turned it off to do a bandwidth test). Wanna guess how much time I saved posting that comment with my improved connection? And that 128kbps from Pandora was just FLYING in.
Maybe I was unclear. By "transparent", I meant it doesn't slow down my typical operations. General surfing, streaming music/video are unaffected. I'm not under the delusion that I'm not gimping my connection, I just prefer the benefits of using a VPN when it's not in my way. If I need bandwidth and I'm not doing something shady, there's always the option to turn it off. But I rarely do.