If the ranchers and their pals hadn't been armed to the teeth, the Feds would have just hoovered them up off the land with Soylent Green Scoopers. A wise Fed realized that a shootout with them would have been seriously bad news, and decided to draw down.
A federal court later decided in favor of the ranchers. Please note, if the ranchers had not been seriously armed, the case would have been swept away under the rug, and the ranchers would have never had a chance to present their case before a court.
I'm not exactly thrilled with all the civilians in the US walking around with guns . . . but I am even less thrilled at the thought of local or federal government having a monopoly on guns either. American law enforcement officers have quite a dubious record. They are not your cheerful British Bobbies.
Just as we have free public schooling, we need free job training or else you'll see violence.
Bring on the violence, please. English citizens don't have guns. What are they going to do? Throw rocks and Molotov cocktails at the police? British soccer hooligans are good at whipping up a wee bit of mayhem, but when the police and army return fire with SA80's . . . the hooligans will hatch a new plan and return to the Winchester for the night.
"The Crown" will have no qualms about slaughtering their own citizens if their regency feels threatened. That Prince William may have a nice smile, but he's got that true bloodline of despotic dictators in him. This experience with the Brits is why the Founding Fathers of the US decided that they needed liberal gun laws.
But thankfully won't come to this. The same thing was supposed to happen during the industrial revolution in the late 1800's . . . and none of those dire prophecies became reality. Human beings are like weeds and toenail fungus: incredibly resilient. Folks will adjust to the new environment and find new jobs.
“Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals: so that, unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape — he is a shaper of the landscape.”
Jacob Bronowski
However, when it completely falls on its face I bet it will be even funnier than the way content-aware fill blows up.
I tried the prototype, and it filled all the holes with pictures and outrageously fake quoted statements from Donald and Hillary. The system must have been hacked by Russians already.
The pictures will probably be updated really soon with pictures of the new presidential candidates, Oprah Winfrey and Zuckerberg.
The more likely explanation is that people just don't have the disposable income they used to, in fact, it has been declining for years.
Nonsense! Disposable income is increasing thanks to Bitcoin! People are wisely investing any leftover cash in this miracle new currency instead of buying new smartphones. Next year, their Bitcoin profits will increase their disposable income so much that they can then afford to buy 100 new smartphones, instead of just one!
Smartphone vendors really need to come out with phones that spew out cryptocoins in their spare time! Then folks will buy new smartphones. If it can't mine cryptocoins in its spare time, your "smartphone" is not "smart" enough!
If Chinese "tech" is so good, then where are the patents?
If American "patents" are so good, then where is the tech?
A lot of patents are granted for stuff that never has been or never will be built.
An idea doesn't necessarily have to be useful for it to receive a patent. Go ahead and patent a laser head mount for sharks. We'll talk about it here on Slashdot a lot, but you'll never see a real shark wearing one.
I'm surprised that Indian coffee farmers let birds chow down on their precious crops. I don't understand . . . a country with > one billion people, and they don't have any shotguns?
If I was an Indian coffee farmer, I'd arm the local urchins with Mossberg Youth shotguns, and send them out to patrol the coffee fields. In India, cows, monkeys, snakes, elephants and tigers are holy, so you can't go out and plink them, but you birds aren't holy, so can go out and blast as many as you like.
I don't think humans are holy either, so if someone sneaks on to your plantation, and steals some coffee beans to make some brew, feel free to shoot them as well.
Given the only truly unique resource we have is our media, there is a possibility that the aliens would be here just to pirate everything, fly away and sell it on some space market.
I'm thinking that the aliens will be interested in our socialist media. They will hack Facebook and meddle with the world's election systems to get themselves elected. Then we will all be enslaved building pyramid alien monuments, and be slowing siphoned off as food.
Well, the Russians don't give a rat's ass about any charges filed by US Justice Department in a US court. Russia will formally invite them to kiss their hairy asses.
I'm seeing the scene in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" where King Arthur is in front of the castle being taunted and insulted by the laughing French while they throw shit on him.
Replace King Arthur with the Americans and the French with the Russians.
I guess the US government wants to pretend that they are doing something about the Russian hackers.
The technology originally created by the government to monitor and improve the lives of its citizens using social credit score is being used by private companies for profit.
Hey, wait are you calling Chinese citizens pigs!?!
At any rate, AI Bacon is a geek's dream come true.
Now I just need Blockchain Lettuce and Autonomous Tomato for a perfect Hype Sandwich!
If the social media service (or 3rd party client), when User B shares a link to a page containing the image, automatically adds the image to the post, thus resulting in an inadvertent copyright violation on the user's behalf, should the social media service (or 3rd party client) be held liable,
Hold the social media service liable. Sharing photos should be banned on socialist media sites, since the only purpose of sharing is copyright violation. It's just like torrent sites whose sole purpose is piracy.
Ban all sharing on socialist media! This will also save incredible amounts of bandwidth on the Internet.
So your friend has a cute picture of his cat and can't share it with you. Too bad. If you really want see the damn cat, go visit your friend, instead of committing piracy copyright violations.
All copyrights on pictures belong to the manufacturer of the camera. That's nice and simple.
Almost 99.99% of those trees will die in 60 years and decompose while releasing their co2 content back to the atmosphere, a small percentage will be covered by soil, water and decompose slowly for future oil and coal.
Nonsense! 99.99% of the trees will be chopped down and used for firewood for heating and cooking, so they won't have a chance to die and decompose. Stuff tastes better when cooked on an open fire. And a an open fireplace is much more pleasant than heat from a radiator.
The soldiers are from the People's Liberation Army,
Have you ever noticed that whenever someone calls something People's it isn't? Like a People's Democratic Republic usually isn't.
Anyway, I think the pollution story is fake. The People's Liberation Army is really developing a new form of tree warfare. However, the US is developing counter measures with its new Johnny Appleseed corps.
along with some of the nation's armed police force.
Oh, with all the police out planting trees, doughnut sales will be down in China. Short Chinese doughnut stocks.
So if you call the police in China, you will get a recorded message that the police are out planting trees? It seems like it will be a good time to be a criminal in China.
If the SETI work is more important than the crypto mining work, then they should be able to justify paying more per graphics card than the miners, thus the GPU power will go to SETI.
There is no point in doing any SETI right now. The Aliens are not broadcasting anything for us to hear.
They are too busy mining and trading Cryptocoins, like everyone else. Aliens aren't stupid and are convinced that they will be able to predict the bubble collapse, and get out in time with a tidy profit.
Note that this character was developed by the Indian military industry in a project with similar goals as the "Killer Joke": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The intent is that people reading the character die.
Joke warfare is officially banned by the Geneva Convention, but India's archenemy Pakistan has been working on their own form of joke warfare involving a schoolgirl and a Nobel Peace Prize, and India felt threatened.
Offer more money and more hardware will get manufactured.
Well, why aren't the manufacturers investing in new factories to increase capacity? Probably because they see the current high demand as a passing fad, and that demand for their cards will return to normal levels after the bubble burst. They don't want to get stuck with a big new factory, when no one is buying cards for mining any more.
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I.e. realize that armed uprising hasn't been viable for at least 100 years.
In the US, in 2014, actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If the ranchers and their pals hadn't been armed to the teeth, the Feds would have just hoovered them up off the land with Soylent Green Scoopers. A wise Fed realized that a shootout with them would have been seriously bad news, and decided to draw down.
A federal court later decided in favor of the ranchers. Please note, if the ranchers had not been seriously armed, the case would have been swept away under the rug, and the ranchers would have never had a chance to present their case before a court.
I'm not exactly thrilled with all the civilians in the US walking around with guns . . . but I am even less thrilled at the thought of local or federal government having a monopoly on guns either. American law enforcement officers have quite a dubious record. They are not your cheerful British Bobbies.
Just as we have free public schooling, we need free job training or else you'll see violence.
Bring on the violence, please. English citizens don't have guns. What are they going to do? Throw rocks and Molotov cocktails at the police? British soccer hooligans are good at whipping up a wee bit of mayhem, but when the police and army return fire with SA80's . . . the hooligans will hatch a new plan and return to the Winchester for the night.
"The Crown" will have no qualms about slaughtering their own citizens if their regency feels threatened. That Prince William may have a nice smile, but he's got that true bloodline of despotic dictators in him. This experience with the Brits is why the Founding Fathers of the US decided that they needed liberal gun laws.
But thankfully won't come to this. The same thing was supposed to happen during the industrial revolution in the late 1800's . . . and none of those dire prophecies became reality. Human beings are like weeds and toenail fungus: incredibly resilient. Folks will adjust to the new environment and find new jobs.
“Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals: so that, unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape — he is a shaper of the landscape.” Jacob Bronowski
let student loans be dishcahnged in bankruptcy!
Oh, that plan worked out just grand with the sub-prime mortgage industry.
When a bankruptcy occurs, the debts don't simply disappear. Someone ends up loosing money on them or paying for them.
In this case, it will end up being the general taxpayers . . . again.
However, when it completely falls on its face I bet it will be even funnier than the way content-aware fill blows up.
I tried the prototype, and it filled all the holes with pictures and outrageously fake quoted statements from Donald and Hillary. The system must have been hacked by Russians already.
The pictures will probably be updated really soon with pictures of the new presidential candidates, Oprah Winfrey and Zuckerberg.
The more likely explanation is that people just don't have the disposable income they used to, in fact, it has been declining for years.
Nonsense! Disposable income is increasing thanks to Bitcoin! People are wisely investing any leftover cash in this miracle new currency instead of buying new smartphones. Next year, their Bitcoin profits will increase their disposable income so much that they can then afford to buy 100 new smartphones, instead of just one!
Smartphone vendors really need to come out with phones that spew out cryptocoins in their spare time! Then folks will buy new smartphones. If it can't mine cryptocoins in its spare time, your "smartphone" is not "smart" enough!
If Chinese "tech" is so good, then where are the patents?
If American "patents" are so good, then where is the tech?
A lot of patents are granted for stuff that never has been or never will be built.
An idea doesn't necessarily have to be useful for it to receive a patent. Go ahead and patent a laser head mount for sharks. We'll talk about it here on Slashdot a lot, but you'll never see a real shark wearing one.
I'm surprised that Indian coffee farmers let birds chow down on their precious crops. I don't understand . . . a country with > one billion people, and they don't have any shotguns?
If I was an Indian coffee farmer, I'd arm the local urchins with Mossberg Youth shotguns, and send them out to patrol the coffee fields. In India, cows, monkeys, snakes, elephants and tigers are holy, so you can't go out and plink them, but you birds aren't holy, so can go out and blast as many as you like.
I don't think humans are holy either, so if someone sneaks on to your plantation, and steals some coffee beans to make some brew, feel free to shoot them as well.
Given the only truly unique resource we have is our media, there is a possibility that the aliens would be here just to pirate everything, fly away and sell it on some space market.
I'm thinking that the aliens will be interested in our socialist media. They will hack Facebook and meddle with the world's election systems to get themselves elected. Then we will all be enslaved building pyramid alien monuments, and be slowing siphoned off as food.
Don't blame me. I voted for Kodos.
This is going to get laughed out of court.
Well, the Russians don't give a rat's ass about any charges filed by US Justice Department in a US court. Russia will formally invite them to kiss their hairy asses.
I'm seeing the scene in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" where King Arthur is in front of the castle being taunted and insulted by the laughing French while they throw shit on him.
Replace King Arthur with the Americans and the French with the Russians.
I guess the US government wants to pretend that they are doing something about the Russian hackers.
The technology originally created by the government to monitor and improve the lives of its citizens using social credit score is being used by private companies for profit.
Hey, wait are you calling Chinese citizens pigs!?!
At any rate, AI Bacon is a geek's dream come true.
Now I just need Blockchain Lettuce and Autonomous Tomato for a perfect Hype Sandwich!
If the social media service (or 3rd party client), when User B shares a link to a page containing the image, automatically adds the image to the post, thus resulting in an inadvertent copyright violation on the user's behalf, should the social media service (or 3rd party client) be held liable,
Hold the social media service liable. Sharing photos should be banned on socialist media sites, since the only purpose of sharing is copyright violation. It's just like torrent sites whose sole purpose is piracy.
Ban all sharing on socialist media! This will also save incredible amounts of bandwidth on the Internet.
So your friend has a cute picture of his cat and can't share it with you. Too bad. If you really want see the damn cat, go visit your friend, instead of committing piracy copyright violations.
All copyrights on pictures belong to the manufacturer of the camera. That's nice and simple.
Almost 99.99% of those trees will die in 60 years and decompose while releasing their co2 content back to the atmosphere, a small percentage will be covered by soil, water and decompose slowly for future oil and coal.
Nonsense! 99.99% of the trees will be chopped down and used for firewood for heating and cooking, so they won't have a chance to die and decompose. Stuff tastes better when cooked on an open fire. And a an open fireplace is much more pleasant than heat from a radiator.
The soldiers are from the People's Liberation Army,
Have you ever noticed that whenever someone calls something People's it isn't? Like a People's Democratic Republic usually isn't.
Anyway, I think the pollution story is fake. The People's Liberation Army is really developing a new form of tree warfare. However, the US is developing counter measures with its new Johnny Appleseed corps.
along with some of the nation's armed police force.
Oh, with all the police out planting trees, doughnut sales will be down in China. Short Chinese doughnut stocks.
So if you call the police in China, you will get a recorded message that the police are out planting trees? It seems like it will be a good time to be a criminal in China.
No.... that's blockchain.
Ah! I get it! So it's the blockchain miners who are causing all the earthquakes with all their digging.
If the SETI work is more important than the crypto mining work, then they should be able to justify paying more per graphics card than the miners, thus the GPU power will go to SETI.
There is no point in doing any SETI right now. The Aliens are not broadcasting anything for us to hear.
They are too busy mining and trading Cryptocoins, like everyone else. Aliens aren't stupid and are convinced that they will be able to predict the bubble collapse, and get out in time with a tidy profit.
I'm sure its there, in the EULA we don't read.
If you take the time to read the EULA, Microsoft makes it perfectly clear that "your" PC isn't "yours" any more.
So just ignore stuff that they are doing with "their" PC.
Now, these kids today...one character.
POOF!
Note that this character was developed by the Indian military industry in a project with similar goals as the "Killer Joke": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The intent is that people reading the character die.
Joke warfare is officially banned by the Geneva Convention, but India's archenemy Pakistan has been working on their own form of joke warfare involving a schoolgirl and a Nobel Peace Prize, and India felt threatened.
Oh, well ... if they won't tolerate it, that's different.
We are so sorry, comrade!
No Royal Wedding invitations for you!
That'll show 'em!
Maybe the SAS can toss some Corgis at Russians, as well.
Offer more money and more hardware will get manufactured.
Well, why aren't the manufacturers investing in new factories to increase capacity? Probably because they see the current high demand as a passing fad, and that demand for their cards will return to normal levels after the bubble burst. They don't want to get stuck with a big new factory, when no one is buying cards for mining any more.
I live in a van, and I kept my job. Works for me!
Apple and Google engineers should all be given shovels . . . dig your own Hobbit Hole!
I cant believe 10,000 people changed their minds in 24 hours
In Putinist Russia, mind changes you!
IThey should stop this nonsense and just let the cryptocurrency miners have the GPUs.
The SETI folks can get all the graphics cards they need from the Aliens. All they need to do is to broadcast messages into outer space:
"We need graphics cards! Please send us graphics cards!"
However, maybe the Aliens don't want to be found by us, and they won't send shit.
Isn't fighting a fatal infection somewhat of a waste of resources?
If the patient dies, but is infected with a zombie virus, you might want to continue treatment to prevent the corpse from turning into a zombie.
Either that or just flamethrower the bastard.
"powerful" is not something I can immediately quantify when it comes to time keeping. :-|
It has a Dr. Who inside.
Jodie Whittaker has complained that Apple's newest update slowed her down.
What a vanity mission! We can see the influence of the Facebook indoctrinated generation here:
We sent up an expensive space probe to take a selfie!
Yes, it is definitely a better move to wait for Oprah Winfrey's VPN service.