That is actually how an RPG works. Modern tanks have of course been designed with defending against those kinds of attacks in mind. The effectiveness of a shaped charge projectile is highly dependent on it being detonated at the right time. If detonation happens to early then the plasma jet won't be effective on contact, and the same is true if the detonation is too late. The larger in diameter your shaped charge is the longer your plasma jet will be and so the more leeway you have in timing the detonation. Man portable systems are necessarily restricted in their size because obviously a person has to be able to carry it along with all their other gear. If you've seen pictures of modern anti-tank infantry systems you'll notice that they've gotten pretty rotund, and that is so that they will produce a more useful plasma jet.
Even back in WWII tanks were utilizing systems designed to cause premature detonation of the shaped charges. I'd bet dollars to donuts that modern tanks are using protective measures that still try to accomplish early detonation. On top of that armor plating is no longer just steel plates, instead armor is made of layers upon layers of composite materials that are designed to resist a plasma jet much more effectively. The result is a modern tank can withstand quite the pummeling from small RPGs, and even larger more modern HEAT weapons aren't guaranteed one hit kills.
For the time being I think the risk of such hacking is only a major concern when it comes to other nation states. Sure an individual or small group of hackers might find their way into a.mil system every once in awhile but they aren't likely to find a way into anything mission critical that way. Other nation states though have the resources to both develop intelligence gathering networks and possibly acquire example systems. I suppose if such systems were involved in conflicts in enough numbers with enough losses then you might see civilian hackers begin to work their way in. As it is the surface area that gets exposed to private individuals with the right tools and the inclination to poke at such systems is going to be pretty small.
I don't really even mind the bloat all that much on my PC. I can readily upgrade parts that become obsolete and it is easy to manage space because I can always have root level access to everything in the filesystem. Where all this bloat pisses me off is the handheld devices the rest of my family uses that I'm expected to troubleshoot.
For instance my youngest has a fire tablet that came with 8GB of internal memory, and we installed a 32 or 64GB memory card in it. We made sure it was configured to use the memory card whenever and wherever possible. Then the default OS takes up nearly half the space. In the end practically every application that he installs insists that it needs to be on the internal memory and only stores a few KBs of data on the card. Even shit like a cartoon episode installs its self as an application in the internal memory.
Then there is the ridiculousness of identical apps all from the same publisher with the only difference being the theme or skin, there is one for puppies, another for kittens, one for pandas, and then another for tropical fish and the list goes on and on. Instead of making one app that you install and then pick a skin/theme for you instead install the same app 20 times.
The built in management system for apps and the filesystem is just atrocious as well. Everything takes ages to happen and there are three or four different ways to get to the same information but you can only use one of those views to perform whatever function. And at some point they decided to force the installation of worthless bloat like Alexa chewing up a large chunk of the precious internal memory.
As others have pointed out already, the Model 3 earned a 5 star rating in every category, which is a rare accomplishment. The NHTSA frequently hands out overall 5 star ratings to vehicles that had lower marks in a number of categories.
It's always been a hypothetical based on the idea of a future where robots and computers are doing all or nearly all of the work. It has been predicted many times through out history and never actually come about because new work was always found to be done. It is entirely possible that the same will happen this time, though there is of course no guarantee.
It bears mentioning that I'm just talking about UBI as a sole source of income for most people. UBI doesn't actually have to start as a large enough subsidy to survive on. There have been experiments done where it was shown that a small UBI improved things and actually did not result in less work getting done.
Having a strong economy doesn't necessarily correlate with a low amount of poverty. Mass shootings represent a tiny portion of the firearms related homicides in the USA, and as such aren't worth really focusing on.
I don't particularly care if you have heroin so long as you aren't pushing it on children, and use it responsibly. I also don't care if you have a radio jammer of any type, so long as you don't use it illegally.
Nuclear weapons are a bit more of an issue because a single bomb can pose an ongoing constant risk to possibly millions of people at any given moment. They also require constant maintenance from very specialized technicians to ensure they don't become a more unstable risk. All that said you can still kind of posses a nuclear weapon if you really want to and have the money. You would have to setup a company to produce and maintain such weapons for some government though.
How is that a problem? The whole premise for Universal Basic Income is that we'll have far more people than work for those people to do. So where is the harm in them not working? Provided that the population numbers are managed such that the demand doesn't out stripe production we shouldn't have any problem.
Obeying the law and having a clearance are only vaguely related. A clearance is essentially a certification of the Governments ability to trust a person to keep a secret. Drug use poses a threat to a clearance in a few ways. First, when a person is high they might be more readily influenced to share information they shouldn't. Second, because drug use is against Federal Law, and generally prohibited as a term of employment it can be used for blackmail material. Third, there is the liability concern when an employee is impaired on the job and makes some critical error, which could be more serious when dealing with classified information.
In my experience the Government seems to actually not be all that concerned about people spilling their guts when high. But are concerned that other bad decisions would be made, which could spiral into other more serious blackmail situations.
But you seem to have hit on the biggest factor when it comes to dealing with the Government. Those in power will overlook just about anything when it comes to getting what they want.
I am most certainly not excusing anyone from their current racist behavior. If anything they are more to blame because they can look back and should be able to see the clear parallels between the evil that was done historically and the only slightly less evil shit they pull today. In fact I suppose the argument could be made the behavior today is more evil than slavery was because it is more apparent than ever before how wrong it is, and so continuing in such behavior constitutes a more deliberate intention.
This kind of article always makes me think about my own life and whether or not I'm treading too close to some line. I probably clock up similar hours on various videos games. But I usually get my share of the household chores done without complaint along with my parental duties. I did give up MMO's though shortly after getting married, I need to be able to pause or walk away from a game at the drop of a hat to take care of whatever thing has come up, and I'd feel badly doing that to a dozen or more people in an MMO raid situation or group dungeon. My Wife complains sometimes when I get in a particularly marathon session or the kids have been particularly bad. But she's also pointed out a number of times how glad she is that I'm not a big sports fan or hunter. She has friends whose husbands expect them to host or attend football parties throughout the whole season. And others that joke about being hunting widows whenever deer season rolls around. While I might always be playing a video game, she always knows where I am and can get my attention at a moments notice.
I don't know if they are still taking them but I turned in a couple large CRT monitors at Best Buy a few years back. So far as I've seen they'll take most all electronics waste. In fact I've got an old PC tower in the trunk of my car waiting for the next time I'm in the part of town.
I've got a bread machine that actually reduces the whole process to measuring ingredients and then slicing the bread when it's done. And of course it hasn't been used in years now, though I mainly feel that comes down to the fact that we don't use a lot of bread in my house and that slicing the bread evenly by hand is kind of a pain in the ass. I don't know what is going on but the only bread knifes I can seem to find have an edge that is only beveled on one side and so the blade constantly tries to cut on a curve. When I was a kid we had a bread knife with saw like serrations interspersed with smooth bits beveled on both sides, the serrations alternated sides.
On the topic of knowing how to prepare your meals more cheaply than fast food. We get at least one rotisserie cooked chicken each week. When I get a few minutes I carve it up into the usual parts and strip whats left of little bits of meat for cooking with. Depending on the kids mood they might eat some pieces whole. At least some of it ends up being choped into bit size bits and cooked up with noodles and sauce or put in a soup. What's funny to me about that is you'd think it wouldn't take any skill or special knowledge to carve up a chicken without a lot of waste. But I'd never seen someone do it properly until I realized I didn't know how to carve a Turkey and turned to YouTube. Turkeys and chickens aren't so different when it comes to carving them and it is really surprising how quickly and easily you can carve and strip a fowl carcass once you know how. Whenever I had tried before it took much longer and the results hardly seemed worth the effort. The same is true in some degree to chopping various vegetables, even the proper technique for holding and moving the knife can make a huge difference. When I look back at it now my home econ class was woefully inadequate.
All of those issues are lingering after affects from Slavery. Freed slaves were broke as hell. Boot strapping yourself out of absolute poverty is possible but incredibly difficult. That boot strapping was additionally hampered by more than a century of deliberate legal oppression by the white majorities throughout much of the country. And it is still ongoing today to a lesser degree with the drug war, banks redlining communities and all kinds of other garbage. All of that is a direct de-escalation from Slavery. Pretending that Racism in America exists as some sort of bubble unconnected with Slavery is just delusional.
I read the first few books in that series when they came out, and had no idea she had continued publishing more. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
You must live in a different universe than many of the rest of us. The echos of slavery are still easily audible today in the USA, and have a clear impact on large parts of the population still. While slavery was abolished more than 150 years ago blacks were still facing systemic racism deliberately built into and maintained in government until the civil rights movement forced a change. Even today our Federal Government and many complicit State Governments continue the War on Drugs which was founded as a way to persecute minorities and is still having a devastating affect today. Then you have businesses deliberately preying on minorities, for instance Car Insurance companies have been found charging higher rates in zip codes populated by minorities compared to zip codes with identical risk scores but populated by whites.
Racism, personal and systemic, is largely tied nearly directly to Slavery. Just because the slaves were freed didn't mean that magically everything was made equal or fair. For more than the next century black people were actively and openly discriminated against and usually it was legal if not de facto legal. When I was growing up we were only just getting to the point that we could be said to be a generation past that. We're still in a period though where many of those people are still around and their age group holds a lot of the wealth and power in this society. With the way that wealth distribution works in our country I don't think we're likely to see the racism situation improve much as those views are really rooted in the affects of poverty. The single thing we might actually accomplish in my lifetime that could make a difference would be killing the war on drugs and revoking many of the convictions that relate to it for non-violent offenders.
Smart is not the opposite of poor. You are making a huge assumption there that a poor kid can't be smart. I obviously can't speak for every school system. But even the broke as hell school system where I live has special educational tracks laid out for the smart kids to follow. Hell, they even have entire schools that are dedicated to just the smart kids. Additionally when it comes to getting into and paying for college the smart kids are by and large always at an advantage over their peers.
If you were half as smart as you evidently think you are, you wouldn't be sweating the diversity and quota hiring systems some employers use. Getting rich is a lot more about knowing how to manage your finances than getting lucky by catching a sweet job.
If AI and humans wanted the same resources there could be conflict. That's really just the most obvious issue. What I would definitely place my bets on though would be some group of humans being militantly opposed to AI and actively trying to destroy it. It would then come down to how well the AI could cope with the existential risk, no matter how small.
I was recently shopping for a new desk chair. Because I'm a fat ass I specifically entered a minimum weight limit into google. Google pointed me to an Amazon search for essentially the same thing but with slightly different wording, although still with the same weight capacity as a minimum. The first several chairs listed specified max weights 50 lbs lower than I required. To add insult the top result actually had an even lower capacity if you read the technical details as opposed to the item summary at the top. And that was an Amazon branded chair.
I don't think I'd mind the adds so much if they were actually labeled as advertisements, like they are on Googles search results.
Satellite service is absolute shit. I've got family that has it and whenever we go to visit it amounts to a few days of being digitally disconnected. First, the latency is reminiscent of dialup days of yore, which is frustrating to use for any purpose and makes any game that isn't a slow paced turn based thing impossible. Second, watching 15 minutes of streaming video is enough to hit a soft cap where the connection gets throttled back to something measured in 10's of KB's. I pay half the cost for the bottom of the barrel cable connection and get 20Mb or better 24/7, in a house with 4 users streaming stuff all evening. Third, if the weather is anything but clear and calm everything stops working.
An artificial intelligence is possibly scary for a few reasons. First and probably foremost is that since we don't know precisely what governs our own morals and how to engineer a new mind, early AI's could be completely self centered, altruistic, or apathetic in any combination or extreme. As such we can't really judge how they would react to anything. Humans don't by and large don't have a great track record with dealing with the unknown.
The second thing that makes AI scary for us is that it is quite possible that an AI's level of intelligence would be reliant on the resources made available to it. Hence an AI could possibly be developed that would out class us by such a degree that we would be less than ants compared to it. With such a large disparity there is no reason to believe it would consider us worth keeping around. Such a situation would put even more importance on understanding how to control an AI's moral compass.
Deep State was originally being used to describe the bureaucrats that were the constant between administrations regardless of which political party was in power. This would include to some extent political appointees which were moderate enough to not warrant replacing. For the most part though the deep state would be made up of the millions of regular civil servants, and contractors, exercising whatever discretionary power they have in their day to day duties.
For this specific situation the Deep State doesn't really factor in because all of the likely parties involved were hand picked by Trump. It's actually kind of a paradox. Trump insists he's an excellent judge of talent/character and makes all the best decisions. Then gets upset when the people he picked actively work behind his back to de-fang his decisions.
And on the topic of dampening the affects of a deep state, Trump has apparently done a very bad job of filling political appointee positions. I believe Pro Publica has a running series of articles regarding the issue. It all boils down to Trump leaving a lot of appointee positions unfilled, which would seem to me has to lead to him having less control over his branch of government than previous administrations.
It honestly started long before his inauguration. If the Bad Lip Reading YouTube channel put out a video of his own interpretation of a trump speech, and then another where he simply read the transcript, I'd wager most people wouldn't be able to reliably determine which was which. Trump has always made other bad speakers like Bush sound like legendary orators. He clearly can't hold a thought long enough to form a few proper sentences to express it.
In grade school, I once was witness to another 13 year old kid pranking a substitute teacher in our home room with a similar name. Once the roll had been called he asked her about a supposed new kid who wasn't present and she hadn't called for. The new kid was Michael Hunt, although this helpful student said he preferred to go by Mike. The poor substitute mussed over this seeming clerical error for a minute before she got on the PA to call the office and asked several times rather loudly if they knew about or had seen Mike Hunt. I think most of us in the class realized what was going on about the same time she did and to everyone's credit I don't remember anyone laughing out loud. The Substitute recognized the prank and just dropped it and moved on with the lesson, never even giving the kid the satisfaction of seeing her blood pressure rise.
Luckily for me my parents wouldn't put up with that kind of silliness just to Puritanize the internet when I was growing up. They tried installing some kid safe net nanny software suite when I was a teenager and we first got an internet connection. My Parents got sick of deciphering emails that had strange parts cut out. The software was reading text without spaces and punctuation then cutting out swear words. So, for example, whenever the word "it" was preceded by a word ending in "sh" you'd be missing some characters and have a masking censored blurb.
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That is actually how an RPG works. Modern tanks have of course been designed with defending against those kinds of attacks in mind. The effectiveness of a shaped charge projectile is highly dependent on it being detonated at the right time. If detonation happens to early then the plasma jet won't be effective on contact, and the same is true if the detonation is too late. The larger in diameter your shaped charge is the longer your plasma jet will be and so the more leeway you have in timing the detonation. Man portable systems are necessarily restricted in their size because obviously a person has to be able to carry it along with all their other gear. If you've seen pictures of modern anti-tank infantry systems you'll notice that they've gotten pretty rotund, and that is so that they will produce a more useful plasma jet.
Even back in WWII tanks were utilizing systems designed to cause premature detonation of the shaped charges. I'd bet dollars to donuts that modern tanks are using protective measures that still try to accomplish early detonation. On top of that armor plating is no longer just steel plates, instead armor is made of layers upon layers of composite materials that are designed to resist a plasma jet much more effectively. The result is a modern tank can withstand quite the pummeling from small RPGs, and even larger more modern HEAT weapons aren't guaranteed one hit kills.
For the time being I think the risk of such hacking is only a major concern when it comes to other nation states. Sure an individual or small group of hackers might find their way into a .mil system every once in awhile but they aren't likely to find a way into anything mission critical that way. Other nation states though have the resources to both develop intelligence gathering networks and possibly acquire example systems. I suppose if such systems were involved in conflicts in enough numbers with enough losses then you might see civilian hackers begin to work their way in. As it is the surface area that gets exposed to private individuals with the right tools and the inclination to poke at such systems is going to be pretty small.
I don't really even mind the bloat all that much on my PC. I can readily upgrade parts that become obsolete and it is easy to manage space because I can always have root level access to everything in the filesystem. Where all this bloat pisses me off is the handheld devices the rest of my family uses that I'm expected to troubleshoot.
For instance my youngest has a fire tablet that came with 8GB of internal memory, and we installed a 32 or 64GB memory card in it. We made sure it was configured to use the memory card whenever and wherever possible. Then the default OS takes up nearly half the space. In the end practically every application that he installs insists that it needs to be on the internal memory and only stores a few KBs of data on the card. Even shit like a cartoon episode installs its self as an application in the internal memory.
Then there is the ridiculousness of identical apps all from the same publisher with the only difference being the theme or skin, there is one for puppies, another for kittens, one for pandas, and then another for tropical fish and the list goes on and on. Instead of making one app that you install and then pick a skin/theme for you instead install the same app 20 times.
The built in management system for apps and the filesystem is just atrocious as well. Everything takes ages to happen and there are three or four different ways to get to the same information but you can only use one of those views to perform whatever function. And at some point they decided to force the installation of worthless bloat like Alexa chewing up a large chunk of the precious internal memory.
As others have pointed out already, the Model 3 earned a 5 star rating in every category, which is a rare accomplishment. The NHTSA frequently hands out overall 5 star ratings to vehicles that had lower marks in a number of categories.
It's always been a hypothetical based on the idea of a future where robots and computers are doing all or nearly all of the work. It has been predicted many times through out history and never actually come about because new work was always found to be done. It is entirely possible that the same will happen this time, though there is of course no guarantee.
It bears mentioning that I'm just talking about UBI as a sole source of income for most people. UBI doesn't actually have to start as a large enough subsidy to survive on. There have been experiments done where it was shown that a small UBI improved things and actually did not result in less work getting done.
Having a strong economy doesn't necessarily correlate with a low amount of poverty. Mass shootings represent a tiny portion of the firearms related homicides in the USA, and as such aren't worth really focusing on.
I don't particularly care if you have heroin so long as you aren't pushing it on children, and use it responsibly. I also don't care if you have a radio jammer of any type, so long as you don't use it illegally.
Nuclear weapons are a bit more of an issue because a single bomb can pose an ongoing constant risk to possibly millions of people at any given moment. They also require constant maintenance from very specialized technicians to ensure they don't become a more unstable risk. All that said you can still kind of posses a nuclear weapon if you really want to and have the money. You would have to setup a company to produce and maintain such weapons for some government though.
How is that a problem? The whole premise for Universal Basic Income is that we'll have far more people than work for those people to do. So where is the harm in them not working? Provided that the population numbers are managed such that the demand doesn't out stripe production we shouldn't have any problem.
Obeying the law and having a clearance are only vaguely related. A clearance is essentially a certification of the Governments ability to trust a person to keep a secret. Drug use poses a threat to a clearance in a few ways. First, when a person is high they might be more readily influenced to share information they shouldn't. Second, because drug use is against Federal Law, and generally prohibited as a term of employment it can be used for blackmail material. Third, there is the liability concern when an employee is impaired on the job and makes some critical error, which could be more serious when dealing with classified information.
In my experience the Government seems to actually not be all that concerned about people spilling their guts when high. But are concerned that other bad decisions would be made, which could spiral into other more serious blackmail situations.
But you seem to have hit on the biggest factor when it comes to dealing with the Government. Those in power will overlook just about anything when it comes to getting what they want.
I am most certainly not excusing anyone from their current racist behavior. If anything they are more to blame because they can look back and should be able to see the clear parallels between the evil that was done historically and the only slightly less evil shit they pull today. In fact I suppose the argument could be made the behavior today is more evil than slavery was because it is more apparent than ever before how wrong it is, and so continuing in such behavior constitutes a more deliberate intention.
This kind of article always makes me think about my own life and whether or not I'm treading too close to some line. I probably clock up similar hours on various videos games. But I usually get my share of the household chores done without complaint along with my parental duties. I did give up MMO's though shortly after getting married, I need to be able to pause or walk away from a game at the drop of a hat to take care of whatever thing has come up, and I'd feel badly doing that to a dozen or more people in an MMO raid situation or group dungeon. My Wife complains sometimes when I get in a particularly marathon session or the kids have been particularly bad. But she's also pointed out a number of times how glad she is that I'm not a big sports fan or hunter. She has friends whose husbands expect them to host or attend football parties throughout the whole season. And others that joke about being hunting widows whenever deer season rolls around. While I might always be playing a video game, she always knows where I am and can get my attention at a moments notice.
I don't know if they are still taking them but I turned in a couple large CRT monitors at Best Buy a few years back. So far as I've seen they'll take most all electronics waste. In fact I've got an old PC tower in the trunk of my car waiting for the next time I'm in the part of town.
I've got a bread machine that actually reduces the whole process to measuring ingredients and then slicing the bread when it's done. And of course it hasn't been used in years now, though I mainly feel that comes down to the fact that we don't use a lot of bread in my house and that slicing the bread evenly by hand is kind of a pain in the ass. I don't know what is going on but the only bread knifes I can seem to find have an edge that is only beveled on one side and so the blade constantly tries to cut on a curve. When I was a kid we had a bread knife with saw like serrations interspersed with smooth bits beveled on both sides, the serrations alternated sides.
On the topic of knowing how to prepare your meals more cheaply than fast food. We get at least one rotisserie cooked chicken each week. When I get a few minutes I carve it up into the usual parts and strip whats left of little bits of meat for cooking with. Depending on the kids mood they might eat some pieces whole. At least some of it ends up being choped into bit size bits and cooked up with noodles and sauce or put in a soup. What's funny to me about that is you'd think it wouldn't take any skill or special knowledge to carve up a chicken without a lot of waste. But I'd never seen someone do it properly until I realized I didn't know how to carve a Turkey and turned to YouTube. Turkeys and chickens aren't so different when it comes to carving them and it is really surprising how quickly and easily you can carve and strip a fowl carcass once you know how. Whenever I had tried before it took much longer and the results hardly seemed worth the effort. The same is true in some degree to chopping various vegetables, even the proper technique for holding and moving the knife can make a huge difference. When I look back at it now my home econ class was woefully inadequate.
All of those issues are lingering after affects from Slavery. Freed slaves were broke as hell. Boot strapping yourself out of absolute poverty is possible but incredibly difficult. That boot strapping was additionally hampered by more than a century of deliberate legal oppression by the white majorities throughout much of the country. And it is still ongoing today to a lesser degree with the drug war, banks redlining communities and all kinds of other garbage. All of that is a direct de-escalation from Slavery. Pretending that Racism in America exists as some sort of bubble unconnected with Slavery is just delusional.
I read the first few books in that series when they came out, and had no idea she had continued publishing more. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
You must live in a different universe than many of the rest of us. The echos of slavery are still easily audible today in the USA, and have a clear impact on large parts of the population still. While slavery was abolished more than 150 years ago blacks were still facing systemic racism deliberately built into and maintained in government until the civil rights movement forced a change. Even today our Federal Government and many complicit State Governments continue the War on Drugs which was founded as a way to persecute minorities and is still having a devastating affect today. Then you have businesses deliberately preying on minorities, for instance Car Insurance companies have been found charging higher rates in zip codes populated by minorities compared to zip codes with identical risk scores but populated by whites.
Racism, personal and systemic, is largely tied nearly directly to Slavery. Just because the slaves were freed didn't mean that magically everything was made equal or fair. For more than the next century black people were actively and openly discriminated against and usually it was legal if not de facto legal. When I was growing up we were only just getting to the point that we could be said to be a generation past that. We're still in a period though where many of those people are still around and their age group holds a lot of the wealth and power in this society. With the way that wealth distribution works in our country I don't think we're likely to see the racism situation improve much as those views are really rooted in the affects of poverty. The single thing we might actually accomplish in my lifetime that could make a difference would be killing the war on drugs and revoking many of the convictions that relate to it for non-violent offenders.
Smart is not the opposite of poor. You are making a huge assumption there that a poor kid can't be smart. I obviously can't speak for every school system. But even the broke as hell school system where I live has special educational tracks laid out for the smart kids to follow. Hell, they even have entire schools that are dedicated to just the smart kids. Additionally when it comes to getting into and paying for college the smart kids are by and large always at an advantage over their peers.
If you were half as smart as you evidently think you are, you wouldn't be sweating the diversity and quota hiring systems some employers use. Getting rich is a lot more about knowing how to manage your finances than getting lucky by catching a sweet job.
If AI and humans wanted the same resources there could be conflict. That's really just the most obvious issue. What I would definitely place my bets on though would be some group of humans being militantly opposed to AI and actively trying to destroy it. It would then come down to how well the AI could cope with the existential risk, no matter how small.
I was recently shopping for a new desk chair. Because I'm a fat ass I specifically entered a minimum weight limit into google. Google pointed me to an Amazon search for essentially the same thing but with slightly different wording, although still with the same weight capacity as a minimum. The first several chairs listed specified max weights 50 lbs lower than I required. To add insult the top result actually had an even lower capacity if you read the technical details as opposed to the item summary at the top. And that was an Amazon branded chair.
I don't think I'd mind the adds so much if they were actually labeled as advertisements, like they are on Googles search results.
Satellite service is absolute shit. I've got family that has it and whenever we go to visit it amounts to a few days of being digitally disconnected. First, the latency is reminiscent of dialup days of yore, which is frustrating to use for any purpose and makes any game that isn't a slow paced turn based thing impossible. Second, watching 15 minutes of streaming video is enough to hit a soft cap where the connection gets throttled back to something measured in 10's of KB's. I pay half the cost for the bottom of the barrel cable connection and get 20Mb or better 24/7, in a house with 4 users streaming stuff all evening. Third, if the weather is anything but clear and calm everything stops working.
An artificial intelligence is possibly scary for a few reasons. First and probably foremost is that since we don't know precisely what governs our own morals and how to engineer a new mind, early AI's could be completely self centered, altruistic, or apathetic in any combination or extreme. As such we can't really judge how they would react to anything. Humans don't by and large don't have a great track record with dealing with the unknown.
The second thing that makes AI scary for us is that it is quite possible that an AI's level of intelligence would be reliant on the resources made available to it. Hence an AI could possibly be developed that would out class us by such a degree that we would be less than ants compared to it. With such a large disparity there is no reason to believe it would consider us worth keeping around. Such a situation would put even more importance on understanding how to control an AI's moral compass.
Deep State was originally being used to describe the bureaucrats that were the constant between administrations regardless of which political party was in power. This would include to some extent political appointees which were moderate enough to not warrant replacing. For the most part though the deep state would be made up of the millions of regular civil servants, and contractors, exercising whatever discretionary power they have in their day to day duties.
For this specific situation the Deep State doesn't really factor in because all of the likely parties involved were hand picked by Trump. It's actually kind of a paradox. Trump insists he's an excellent judge of talent/character and makes all the best decisions. Then gets upset when the people he picked actively work behind his back to de-fang his decisions.
And on the topic of dampening the affects of a deep state, Trump has apparently done a very bad job of filling political appointee positions. I believe Pro Publica has a running series of articles regarding the issue. It all boils down to Trump leaving a lot of appointee positions unfilled, which would seem to me has to lead to him having less control over his branch of government than previous administrations.
It honestly started long before his inauguration. If the Bad Lip Reading YouTube channel put out a video of his own interpretation of a trump speech, and then another where he simply read the transcript, I'd wager most people wouldn't be able to reliably determine which was which. Trump has always made other bad speakers like Bush sound like legendary orators. He clearly can't hold a thought long enough to form a few proper sentences to express it.
In grade school, I once was witness to another 13 year old kid pranking a substitute teacher in our home room with a similar name. Once the roll had been called he asked her about a supposed new kid who wasn't present and she hadn't called for. The new kid was Michael Hunt, although this helpful student said he preferred to go by Mike. The poor substitute mussed over this seeming clerical error for a minute before she got on the PA to call the office and asked several times rather loudly if they knew about or had seen Mike Hunt. I think most of us in the class realized what was going on about the same time she did and to everyone's credit I don't remember anyone laughing out loud. The Substitute recognized the prank and just dropped it and moved on with the lesson, never even giving the kid the satisfaction of seeing her blood pressure rise.
Luckily for me my parents wouldn't put up with that kind of silliness just to Puritanize the internet when I was growing up. They tried installing some kid safe net nanny software suite when I was a teenager and we first got an internet connection. My Parents got sick of deciphering emails that had strange parts cut out. The software was reading text without spaces and punctuation then cutting out swear words. So, for example, whenever the word "it" was preceded by a word ending in "sh" you'd be missing some characters and have a masking censored blurb.