Like the part where we don't even have the Concorde anymore, no one's been to the Moon in almost as long, and all we do is send trained monkeys into Low Earth Orbit?
Or maybe like the part where NASA has the launch of a Mars probe scheduled for about 3 weeks from now on May 5th?
Oh, wait, that really fucks up your argument, doesn't it?
See that is the real underlying issue that is only be started to be discussed. Why does anyone need a humanoid robot, why the fetish for a synthetic human slave, really at it's core extremely disturbing. Why would any one feel the need or desire to emulate a human slave, we know the 1% want to treat all of us like that but should we desire that at all.
It's only disturbing because you're conflating self-aware intelligence with robotics. This story has nothing to do with robots being self-aware and everything to do with companies wanting to shift liability away from themselves. They're completely happy with dumb, automated machines as long as the law holds the machine accountable for damages and not the company that owns it.
A human shaped robot running a fixed program is no more a slave than a Roomba. It just reminds you that slavery is a thing that exists, which is uncomfortable.
Personally a series of automated devices seem much more logically. Auto vacuum cleaners, auto floor polishers, maybe a couple of robot kitchen arms bolted to the ceiling. A mobile arm platform, as a picker upper and put downer. So more an automated house tied into the home computer server. For those that feel the need, a robot arm above their beds.
So you'd rather have dozens of devices that can all break and all require parts which are largely not interchangeable with the parts from the other devices? And how much time and money are you willing to invest in learning to use them all, perform routine maintenance on them all, keep up with service contracts or extended warranties on them all, etc.?
Humans are very versatile and there's a lot of chores that we would rather have done for us. Doing those chores requires either a thousand specialized devices or one very versatile device that can do most of what a human does. it's hard to create anything that's as versatile as a human without it being fairly human in shape and size.
Nobody wants to create something that suffers (well, almost nobody... there are some horrible people out there). We would be perfectly happy with a dumb, automated machine as long as it does all the chores for us. It doesn't need intelligence, feelings or self-awareness. It doesn't need to be a slave. It just needs to be a better Roomba.
New York-based 7Park Data, founded in 2012, is backed by investors including Mueller Ventures. The company sells data tracking Netflix, Hulu and Amazon VOD viewing to clients across the entertainment industry including studios, TV networks, production companies, and talent agencies.
It is absolutely stunning that a company whose clients include a lot of studios would produce a study that reassures studios that the bulk of Netflix users are watching studio properties.
It's also kind of amazing how absolutely devoid of any hint of methodology 7park's website is. They go on about "Streaming Audience Intelligence" and how it'll do everything short of blowing your dog, but never explain anything about how it's supposed to work other than some creatively worded statements that say it's better than a survey which are probably supposed to suggest that it's not a survey. I'm pretty sure it's a survey.
Social media shouldn't be used to replace contact with the people you're close to, but it is useful for keeping in touch with people you aren't close to.
For me, social media is mainly useful for keeping tabs on musicians, authors and actors that I like. I like being able to find about their upcoming projects and appearances without spending hours of my time checking individual websites or hoping a news site will mention them. Even better, I can interact with
Right now, there isn't anything that comes close to replacing social media for that.
And where in all that do you see a reason for a 2016 deadline for prefunding when they're okay out to 2030 (which is the figure you cited)?
Put simply, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 set up a short deadline which has made it impossible for USPS to cover the required payments. If the prefunding were done with smaller payments over a longer period, it's entirely possible they wouldn't have defaulted on their payment last year.
Really? Let's see you pre-fund your household expenses for the next 75 years with a 10 year deadline for the prefunding to be done. It's the fiscally responsible thing for you to do, after all.
If your friends have steam accounts, they've got profiles regardless of whether they ever added anything to them (which is why you can see their list of games and time played). If they never edited their profile, they wouldn't have seen the option to make it private but that doesn't mean the option wasn't there all along.
The changes Steam is making have made some things private that were public by default. I had to edit my profile to make a few things public that I want to be public because they'd been switched to private.
it will also specifically let players hide both game ownership and gameplay time counts from friends
I can finally purchase Secret of the Magic Crystals and breed new ponies to my heart's content without everyone giving me a hard time about trying to breed a unicorn!
US law has been written by corporations for decades and virtually nobody ever goes to jail for corporate fraud. The US government handed out billions to banks and bought up all the toxic assets they'd created through the most massive fraud in the history of the nation and only senior figure went to jail (and then only for 2.5 years). And now we're rolling back the minimal regulations that were put in place to prevent that type of fraud so it can happen again.
Why would you think that it would be any different for the CEO of Theranos? I'm surprised we didn't pay off her debts and buy her a house in the Bahamas.
Most secret questions can be looked up or guessed if you can read through people's social media accounts. The answers to the secret questions should be lies. Mother's maiden name? Rumpelstiltskin. Place of birth? Sunnydale Hellmouth. First pet? Epileptic sea cucumber.
At least some are bots. You can't get any significant number of followers without bots slipping in. There are only 20 people following me (most are friends or bands I know members of) but one is almost certainly a bot that only ran for one day last August, tweeting 5 times and following 668 other people, before going silent. God only knows what the person behind it was trying to accomplish.
Still, over 60 million people voted for Obama in each election, so a large chunk of the 100 million followers are likely to be real.
As far as who runs his account? Probably managed by a PR person, but at least some of the content is provided by Obama. The back and forth between him and George W Bush about NCAA brackets was amusingly mundane. I don't think a PR team would have been able to resist trying to make it more interesting.
Nah. There are lots of famous people who don't post nudes who have tons of followers. Obama, for example, has 102 million followers and I'm quite sure he's never posted nudes.
Still better than the NY Post article which translated it to "10Ã--139 years." Then again, considering how stupid we act as a race, ending it all and starting over in 1400 years might not be the worst idea, so maybe they're on to something.
Of course SESTA is necessary. You just don't understand the big picture.
Making ISPs and web hosting companies responsible for all illegal human trafficking related content that travels across their systems is the first step. Afterwards, that responsibility will be expanded to included copyrighted materials so that the big media companies can bankrupt anyone who doesn't help them enforce whatever draconian copyright protection schemes they choose to impose.
This is the goal. It has always been the goal. It's the reason the MPAA and RIAA have quietly backed SESTA and FOSTA, throwing millions of dollars of lobbying money behind both bills.
Some of your questions are good, but it's very unlikely that they would get asked because you didn't adhere to the "one per comment" rule. You might want to pick the ones you're most interested in and post them separately.
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Like the part where we don't even have the Concorde anymore, no one's been to the Moon in almost as long, and all we do is send trained monkeys into Low Earth Orbit?
Or maybe like the part where NASA has the launch of a Mars probe scheduled for about 3 weeks from now on May 5th?
Oh, wait, that really fucks up your argument, doesn't it?
Especially when they're alien diamonds coming down in a rain of fire from the sky
See that is the real underlying issue that is only be started to be discussed. Why does anyone need a humanoid robot, why the fetish for a synthetic human slave, really at it's core extremely disturbing. Why would any one feel the need or desire to emulate a human slave, we know the 1% want to treat all of us like that but should we desire that at all.
It's only disturbing because you're conflating self-aware intelligence with robotics. This story has nothing to do with robots being self-aware and everything to do with companies wanting to shift liability away from themselves. They're completely happy with dumb, automated machines as long as the law holds the machine accountable for damages and not the company that owns it.
A human shaped robot running a fixed program is no more a slave than a Roomba. It just reminds you that slavery is a thing that exists, which is uncomfortable.
Personally a series of automated devices seem much more logically. Auto vacuum cleaners, auto floor polishers, maybe a couple of robot kitchen arms bolted to the ceiling. A mobile arm platform, as a picker upper and put downer. So more an automated house tied into the home computer server. For those that feel the need, a robot arm above their beds.
So you'd rather have dozens of devices that can all break and all require parts which are largely not interchangeable with the parts from the other devices? And how much time and money are you willing to invest in learning to use them all, perform routine maintenance on them all, keep up with service contracts or extended warranties on them all, etc.?
Humans are very versatile and there's a lot of chores that we would rather have done for us. Doing those chores requires either a thousand specialized devices or one very versatile device that can do most of what a human does. it's hard to create anything that's as versatile as a human without it being fairly human in shape and size.
Nobody wants to create something that suffers (well, almost nobody... there are some horrible people out there). We would be perfectly happy with a dumb, automated machine as long as it does all the chores for us. It doesn't need intelligence, feelings or self-awareness. It doesn't need to be a slave. It just needs to be a better Roomba.
It looks like this is the electric rickshaw they're talking about.
New York-based 7Park Data, founded in 2012, is backed by investors including Mueller Ventures. The company sells data tracking Netflix, Hulu and Amazon VOD viewing to clients across the entertainment industry including studios, TV networks, production companies, and talent agencies.
It is absolutely stunning that a company whose clients include a lot of studios would produce a study that reassures studios that the bulk of Netflix users are watching studio properties.
It's also kind of amazing how absolutely devoid of any hint of methodology 7park's website is. They go on about "Streaming Audience Intelligence" and how it'll do everything short of blowing your dog, but never explain anything about how it's supposed to work other than some creatively worded statements that say it's better than a survey which are probably supposed to suggest that it's not a survey. I'm pretty sure it's a survey.
The gravy at Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken is good.
Social media shouldn't be used to replace contact with the people you're close to, but it is useful for keeping in touch with people you aren't close to.
For me, social media is mainly useful for keeping tabs on musicians, authors and actors that I like. I like being able to find about their upcoming projects and appearances without spending hours of my time checking individual websites or hoping a news site will mention them. Even better, I can interact with
Right now, there isn't anything that comes close to replacing social media for that.
And where in all that do you see a reason for a 2016 deadline for prefunding when they're okay out to 2030 (which is the figure you cited)?
Put simply, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 set up a short deadline which has made it impossible for USPS to cover the required payments. If the prefunding were done with smaller payments over a longer period, it's entirely possible they wouldn't have defaulted on their payment last year.
The High Definition Compatible Digital and Super Audio CD formats were lonely and needed a new companion on the pile of failed formats.
Really? Let's see you pre-fund your household expenses for the next 75 years with a 10 year deadline for the prefunding to be done. It's the fiscally responsible thing for you to do, after all.
I want them to listen to 4 rings and then have their call center hit with an EMP blast that fries all of the electronics in the building.
If your friends have steam accounts, they've got profiles regardless of whether they ever added anything to them (which is why you can see their list of games and time played). If they never edited their profile, they wouldn't have seen the option to make it private but that doesn't mean the option wasn't there all along.
The changes Steam is making have made some things private that were public by default. I had to edit my profile to make a few things public that I want to be public because they'd been switched to private.
it will also specifically let players hide both game ownership and gameplay time counts from friends
I can finally purchase Secret of the Magic Crystals and breed new ponies to my heart's content without everyone giving me a hard time about trying to breed a unicorn!
Why isn't she going to jail ?
US law has been written by corporations for decades and virtually nobody ever goes to jail for corporate fraud. The US government handed out billions to banks and bought up all the toxic assets they'd created through the most massive fraud in the history of the nation and only senior figure went to jail (and then only for 2.5 years). And now we're rolling back the minimal regulations that were put in place to prevent that type of fraud so it can happen again.
Why would you think that it would be any different for the CEO of Theranos? I'm surprised we didn't pay off her debts and buy her a house in the Bahamas.
Most secret questions can be looked up or guessed if you can read through people's social media accounts. The answers to the secret questions should be lies. Mother's maiden name? Rumpelstiltskin. Place of birth? Sunnydale Hellmouth. First pet? Epileptic sea cucumber.
A PR team would at least use a spell checker, so I believe you're correct.
At least some are bots. You can't get any significant number of followers without bots slipping in. There are only 20 people following me (most are friends or bands I know members of) but one is almost certainly a bot that only ran for one day last August, tweeting 5 times and following 668 other people, before going silent. God only knows what the person behind it was trying to accomplish.
Still, over 60 million people voted for Obama in each election, so a large chunk of the 100 million followers are likely to be real.
As far as who runs his account? Probably managed by a PR person, but at least some of the content is provided by Obama. The back and forth between him and George W Bush about NCAA brackets was amusingly mundane. I don't think a PR team would have been able to resist trying to make it more interesting.
No bullshit. Just ostrich shit and lion shit.
Nah. There are lots of famous people who don't post nudes who have tons of followers. Obama, for example, has 102 million followers and I'm quite sure he's never posted nudes.
Still better than the NY Post article which translated it to "10Ã--139 years."
Then again, considering how stupid we act as a race, ending it all and starting over in 1400 years might not be the worst idea, so maybe they're on to something.
Of course SESTA is necessary. You just don't understand the big picture.
Making ISPs and web hosting companies responsible for all illegal human trafficking related content that travels across their systems is the first step. Afterwards, that responsibility will be expanded to included copyrighted materials so that the big media companies can bankrupt anyone who doesn't help them enforce whatever draconian copyright protection schemes they choose to impose.
This is the goal. It has always been the goal. It's the reason the MPAA and RIAA have quietly backed SESTA and FOSTA, throwing millions of dollars of lobbying money behind both bills.
And how does you not using your present card prevent someone from intercepting a new card sent to you in the mail when your card expires?
You're as vulnerable to the scam described here as everyone else.
No, but they did create moss that smells faintly like patchouli.
https://www.theatlantic.com/sc...
You're shocked that the current administration rolled back rules set during the Obama administration and took the opposite stance?
Some of your questions are good, but it's very unlikely that they would get asked because you didn't adhere to the "one per comment" rule. You might want to pick the ones you're most interested in and post them separately.