Okay guys... stop using those words, they don't mean what you think they mean!
At best we have advance algorithms... but nothing is actually learning... yet.
Like Quantum computing... we have been promised AI for decades and it still is not here. Even getting anything close enough to potentially pass the Turing test requires massive hardware and resources. You want something intelligent go and have sex and wait several years... and you MIGHT get something smart. But you are most likely only going to get something that is not smart but thinks it is anyways!
I have never met a smart human, seen many dumb-asses and morons though... including in the mirror.
This is the natural result of a fear driven society. We are so risk adverse that we are steadily introducing and inviting more and more tyranny... and everyone knows that leads to misery, suffering, and conflict.
This is utter flapping bullshit. Religion is not the problem, never has been.
Evil people are evil, they just USE religion as an excuse to be or act out what they ALREADY ARE! You don't need religion to justify it either, secular people have no problem murdering, hurting, trash talking, abusing, and marginalizing other people just the same as people with a religion.
At the very end there is only 1 religion. the religion of you trying to make people live the way you want them to... its called society... that IS the religion and the only one that exists. You can center it around 1 god, multiple gods, no gods, or humans. It is all the same... people coming up with some excuse, scheme, idea, policy, law, regulation, or rule people have to follow to be accepted into that society or risk getting excluded. Every religion and non-religious group has jails and a desire to put anyone they decide they do not like in jails so they are out of society.
Saying religion is the root of all evil when it is actually just "humans" being evil just shows that you have a nasty bias that creates a serious deficit of intellectual honesty in your logic!
I am not even sure it is worth responding to you because your entire argument is a strawman fallcy and total non-sequitur all mixed up in a fantasy load of ignorance.
"except this isn't bandwidth to a central server, where you need capacity for all your customers." > non-sequitur you clearly missed the point of what I said, perhaps I should have detailed my post more to an excruciating and exacting degree to avoid folks like you that like to get into ultra meaningless minutiae from trying to fluff the commentary with meaningless prattle.
"this is bandwidth between a cellphone and the local cell tower,"
Exactly and the ONLY thing I am discussing here. It is simple science fact, not a mystery of any kind. The faster a wireless user can complete their data transaction and end their portion of consumption of the air space, the lower latency will be experienced overall by all parties participating in that same airspace.
Think of it like a road, where even though the speed limit is always the same, it still takes you longer to get where you want to go when a lot of people are also using that road. You have added latency from collisions (yes data has those), you also have latency from people entering and exiting the road way (guess what... data does that fucking shit too!), and you have other things like road hazards that cause trouble (say holy shit to nature just being nature cause DATA HAS THAT PROBLEM TOO!). Guess what... if the speed limit got increased or the "lanes" are increase the latency goes down if the same number of cars are using it. The same actual scientifically already proven principle applies here as well!
The rest of your post is entirely not even important for this discussion.
There actually are many potential applications for these speeds, but lets break it down to a couple of simple use case senarios.
Total throughput alone is enough to justify it. The reason for increasing bandwidth also reduces latency because more per second can be transmitted and received. Or in laymens terms... (yes this will be a gross over simplification so don't go crazy about it) If your can only do 1G speeds and everyone needs at least 0.01G to function then only 100 people can effectively use that network at any given time. If usage is low, then yea this is find. But if the business has 1000 customers and they all try to use it at the same time... a lot of people are going to have problems due to congestion. Now... if you move to 5G and people still really only need 0.01G to function you can now support 5 times as many or 500 active users. Which means that the network could support more people and folks will have less latency because when they do receive data it gets to them faster, even if its only a little bit, and they get their usage done before the next group of folks try to use it.
So, does everyone need 250MB/s of through put? The answer is yes, even when they do not think they do. Air space has limited bandwidth depending on the protocols and technology, this means you share the same wire up if you are using the same tower as those around you and you have to share that bandwidth. And when you can download that 25kb web page in 1/2 a second on 1G you can download that page in 1/8 of a second on 5G, that really is important!
Are you claiming that it is suicide for the Government to actually follow the constitution? If so, when you should tell us which laws you consider valid and which you do not consider valid. And once you are done with that, you need to also explain why you have a right to complain when someone else decides that the laws saying they cannot harm you should be upheld? After all you have arbitrarily decided others should not be upheld, considering that would be suicide... maybe they think letting you live free is equally suicide?
"When there is proof that someone has been grievously injured by the governments actions you are free to use the press and judicial systems to publicize and address your grievances."
Strawman Fallacy. When you break the law by speeding, why don't they have to prove that you harmed someone before you can be fined/charged? The simple fact is that the law was broken. The "proving someone was harmed" requirement is an intellectual dishonesty, that the government has assumed is valid in its defense and a farce you have bought for no gain of any kind. If we truly hold this standard then breaking the law should be perfectly fine until someone can prove they were harmed and that is not that easy, especially for poor people now is it?
"Preventing the NSA from conducting surveillance and collecting meta data on specific individuals and their associates would cripple the NSA and prevent them from fulfilling their congressionally approved mandate."
Another strawman fallacy. They can still get warrants just as the constitution demands. The metadata program is NOT this and you know it.
You seem to lack the ability to know the difference between blanket surveillance, something that is expressly prohibited by the 4th, and targeted surveillance, something the 4th does support provided the law is followed.
If it is okay to break the law for expedience, then we do not actually have the rule of law then do we? Which begs the next question... why do you even need government? It's first job is to enforce the law, if it's busy ignoring one of its most important duties... how can you trust it? Truly a fitting example of you deserving the government you have.
Agree, if metadata was not that big of a deal then why are they willing to crap all over the constitution to get hold of it. Additionally, the fact that Government regulates telephony to a high degree telecom essentially serves as an extension of law enforcement as well. Knowing that the government has mandated collection in advance without warrant is more than enough to call it a breach of the 4th. Collection of data is a seizure of it, the moment they make a law to require businesses to keep them they overstepped.
Now if a businesses decided to collect and keep it for their own purposes that is another story, but we all know that there are multiple ways to skin a cat. The result is the same... the government the one the constitution expressly says cannot perform a collection of data without warrant specifying the person, place, and things to be searched or seized. The gimmick of saying a business has to do it, is really just a smoke an mirrors act to "knowingly and intentionally" breach the constitution.
Heck that alone is proof that people will willingly give up their liberty. You can drive people to give up everything and willingly submit to slavery if you promise then enough security and protection.
Why do people even bother with this? What are you actually going to do about it if they don't stop and keep breaking the law? The government has been breaking the law for a long time regardless of party in power and nothing gets done about it either way. At best when a citizen is wronged they sue the government and the citizens pay for that lawsuit along with paying the payout the wronged citizen receives. Not only that most people do not even challenge the charges the government brings against people they charge? The court treats government employees as people that have no reason to lie. The only thing keeping "some" innocents out of jail is because every once in a while a Judge makes the state prove it's case when a citizen manages to overcome the onslaught of charges the DA is going to throw at them if they don't take a plea deal and goes to trial. The presence of a jury changes little, most jurors are pissed off they got stuck in jury duty, don't give a shit about their fellow citizens and many believe in passing a guilty verdict because the defendant is guilty of something so they might as well fuck them over whatever that may be.
That is because no one wants you thinking for yourself. You parents are involved with raising you and helping set your moral compass. School also tries to do this, College tries to do this, your friends try to do this, and government threatens to hurts you if you don't do this.
If you reveal a view that is not fitting into a groups cookie cutter mantra you get labeled immediately, called names, and generally disrespected as well as at risk for being oppressed by government types.
I use them both interchangeably depending on my needs.
Firefox with NoScript is my default, searching browser. I use Brave for a few other things when I get tired of dealing with the alphabet script soup I deal with on some websites and it had a built in AD block, tracker block, anti-phish, anti fingerprinting, and HTTPS anywhere stuff.
Google Chrome is spyware and its not even a secret.
Notice that line item on your receipts that say "Tax:$$$"... you pay that, not the business... they just collect for uncle sam from you. Did you also know that businesses calculate the total cost of a product they buy from whole-sellers and vendors, which they paid taxes on, which is a cost they transfer to the consumer that buys the end product?
Did you know that when you cheer on a business paying MORE tax you are actually just cheering on the poor paying more for all of their products? People cheered windfall taxes... prices at the pumps when up... then they cried about it. I was like... huh? you cheered for this you numb-nuts!
The poor tax is real, and it has everything to do with being ignorant about how the economy works. Microsoft is a big company, the money they make filters down to you... the lowly consumer, and NO you do not escape that cost just because you don't use windows. You buy food, your store might use Windows, you pay bills, that company might be using Windows. They all pass down the cost of buying their licenses from Microsoft to you... their customer.
Have you wondered why your dollars do not go as far as they used to? It's not just inflation... inflation is just one component, in fact inflation is more a tax on your savings than anything else.
Let's make this simple.
You own a Burger Joint. Taxes today for a $5 burger is 10% Customer pays $5.50 for that burger. Taxes tomorrow for a $5 burger is 15% Customer now pays $5.75 for that burger. Those that cheer for taxes like this, is like the customer cheering that their burger just went up 25 cents. Hurray for you, your senators thank you for your gullibility! They will happily take 20 cents of that 25 and give it to their cronies... D or R it matters not.
It is not a joke when they say that the poor pay for everything and it is not a joke when a reasonable minimum wage is enforced to ensure a minimum viable economy, because if the poor have no money the rich soon lose theirs as well. Look at how many rich folks also suffered in Venezuela when it ran out. Only the super rich are finding ways to survive and that is mostly because they are connected to power, not just because they have $$$.
Couple this with the fact that another poster mentioned that Americans already pay more than enough for education, you might as well call that more than enough evidence that foul play is afoot and you need a sanity check to cheer this on any longer.
And lets not forgot how many businesses that still get out of paying taxes through loophole laws, brought to you by none other that the very elected officials everyone that cheers for this voted in. Do you feel the daggers in your backs yet? No? Okay, that's great... it means they can dig it in further and twist a little more!
"Nothing in science is taken 'on faith' without any proof like in religion."
Yea, gonna have to stop you right there and called that a bald faced lie. There is even a famous yak about just this exact thing.
---The German physicist Max Planck said that science advances one funeral at a time. Or more precisely: "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."---
Scientists are humans too... and many scientists are religious or agnostic. In many ways a scientist that is an atheist is the worst scientist of all because they take the non-existence of any superior beings on faith alone. The absence of evidence is no proof of anything, and you seem to lack the understanding of why this is.
Until I see new information that indicates otherwise I have a high degree of certainty that Software is not enough. We may not be able to point to a hard drive in our own brains, but there does seem to be some kind of an OS at work here with a storage medium and computational structure we are only just beginning to understand.
The primary reason that remapping by hardware is required is so that the software can process more efficiently. If software has to overcome the limitations of the hardware then we begin to introduce major lags in processing. Each section of the brain has RISC like processing dedicated to certain skills, sensory, knowledge, understanding, and logic. But also shows CISC like adaptability as we also have evidence of an area of the brain remapping to perform other tasks not originally processed there. This does not even account for the limitations that Binary places on our mechanical computing capacities. Our neurons communicate in more that just binary, in fact we are not even entirely sure how many "bits" our neurons do communicate in.
Luck sometimes is a component, but often times only after plenty of effort and work has already gone into things. If you think Trump is stupid then you are shallow. Trump is by no means stupid, he is quite capable of saying things and getting by with it in several ways and has managed to play on the biases of the media to elevate himself. He is at least smart enough to play them or smart enough to hire someone smart enough to show him how to play them.
Trump won because and entire group of democrats were dumb enough to think they could laugh Trump out of the election... at least John Oliver mentions his regret for his flamboyant ignorance when he cheered Trump on for running for President so he could farm the situation for laughs.
"How could any of that really be possible if it was not possible to essentially re-wire your brain?"
Well, this is NEW neurons, not remapping per se...
But yea, you are mostly on target here with your post. The ability for neurons to grow and remap are a key components to our intelligence as well, one of the major hurdles for any real Artificial Intelligence and why I ignore AI alarmists, including Hawking until we develop the tech where physical processors can remap themselves. Software just is not enough to replace that incredibly important function.
Besides, how often does Science get it wrong? The science is almost never settled... but at least we learn more along the way.
I don't think its the game turning people into psychopaths... it looks like power-tripping is doing a much better job of that, maybe they psychopaths in government like to be an inclusive club, no 3rd party imitations allowed?
You are when you feel the need to defend against the observation.
Let me ask you this.
Put yourself in the shoes of an educator and ask yourself... Would you talk to your students the same way pro/anti-vaxxers talk to each other? If so, why? If no, why?
I hope you can start to get the idea now. This is not just about attracting more bees with honey rather than vinegar, it is also about not trying to act superior to others with different ideas, beliefs, or understandings about things right or wrong.
"btw being OTC has little bearing on overall safety" #1. This is a Strawman fallacy, I am not making the claim that OTC means it's perfectly safe, the claim I am making is that accusations of vaccines being perfectly safe are obviously bunk when they are not even over the counter, they also have special contraindications as well. #2. OTC does actually have a LOT of bearing on overall safety as well as why there are 7 schedules of drugs dealing with their safety and addiction attributes.
Yes, even OTC drugs can kill you, but so can water and salt as well. But they are still considered safe enough that average people should be able to self administer with simple instruction.
"pro-pharma shills? I mean seriously, such profits as pharma makes from childhood vaccinations are so tiny as to be less than a rounding error."
Making large amounts of money per is not the only way to make money, drumming up enough outrage to get laws passed so that everyone are legally required to get them will create such a scenario at least of an increase in sales, and this is still if they can resist the temptation to jack up the price if getting vaccinated becomes compulsory! It is quite possible that the current cost is because they are readily available and not compulsory.
"the short version there are plenty of reasons to hate on pharma but vaccinations ain't one of them"
I will agree with you there, but I am just trying to explain to those like YOU that offensive pro-vax behavior is helping to foment these kinds of problematic contrarian beliefs. Start looking at anti-vaxxers like they are humans instead of like they are subhuman primates that you should be controlling and telling what to do.
"but you associate with nuts, you get labeled a nut too"
Seriously? Guilty by association? At least you freely admit that you can only think like a bigot. There have been lots of innocent people that have been harmed by folks like you and your bigotry. A few racists come to mind... like the KKK, they didn't like white folks hanging out with black folks either... you sound just exactly like them with trash talk like that!
The anti-vaxxers constantly come off as a bunch of wacky conspiracy theorists that are doing more damage to their cause than good with constant accusations that vaccines contains chemicals that have been removed for a while now to stoke fear.
The pro-vaxxers constantly come off as a bunch of pharma shills that are actually ADDING to the ranks of the anti-vaxxers with their vitriolic rhetoric and constant claims that they are perfectly safe. If they were actually that safe they would be over the counter instead of behind a medical industry process, so there is obvious risk being under played.
Stop treating each other like trash, it is not helping! Human fear is an irrational beast and everyone has these kinds of fears and the reasons they have them are because they have a component of truth which makes lies so damn effective when it feeds someone's confirmation bias. Trying to silence your opponent only leads to people asking why you think that is necessary considering the history of silencing people is mostly used as a form of oppression. For the longest time there was a strong anti-socialist anti-communist movement in American, it has failed spectacularly. Instead of constantly talking about the issues people just called them bad names and never listened to them. So instead they found a different way to subvert things and now there are active self proclaimed socialists getting voted into office and for now. Any attempt to silence people almost always backfires, because when you do... you start piquing other folks curiosity... because if they are actually wrong... why do you need to silence them?
I am a progressive now? Stop acting like the other butt hurt knobs that keep assuming I am something I am not just because I don't spout your BS rhetoric!
I agree Mueller is on a witch hunt, but only because he targets Trump. Truth be told a lot more folks need to be investigate like Hillary right there along with Trump.
Here is how you know you are no different. Republicans would cheer Hillary being railroaded to jail without due process. Democrats would cheer Trump being railroaded to jail without due process.
Notice how neither side really gives a fuck about rights or the constitution? Well unless it's their own getting fucked?
No, the democrats are trying to take guns from everyone and are not hypocritical about it... except the politicians running around being protected by guns. The republicans are totally hypocritical about guns depending on who has them!
But the NRA & Republicans are anti-gun when it suits their politics. Regan was the first big republican to do this, Trump even banned bump stocks, another republican. But notice how neither side really seems to care for a single person to be able to ban something without much oversight... all they needed was a single sympathetic judge to give it a green light.
This goes towards my accusation that the parties are not really that different from each other. Both are taking over your life, the republicans just like to kick down the front door with police and guns while the left like to do it in secret by the back door through manufactured political outrage and manipulation, and occasionally with police and guns. You becoming a slave is the end goal, they just disagree on the process. They do however, want you to have the illusion that you are free, its the best way to keep a slave is for them to think they are free. And greatest currency is "for your protection".
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." ~Franklin
Is there any wonder the police will not hesitate to murder you the moment they "fear you" and why the government does not care much when they do?
For the article to no be true a shadow government is running the government then? That is one hell of a conspiracy! In fact that would still technically only goes to support the article anyway. Pray tell, what in the article is wrong? I can provide many things that help prove it true, can't think of any the prove it wrong though.
The only external force folks have no control over running the government is the Federal Reserve, but no matter what, They can still be removed if the Legislature wants to or SCOTUS declares the institution as Unconstitutional.
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Okay guys... stop using those words, they don't mean what you think they mean!
At best we have advance algorithms... but nothing is actually learning... yet.
Like Quantum computing... we have been promised AI for decades and it still is not here. Even getting anything close enough to potentially pass the Turing test requires massive hardware and resources. You want something intelligent go and have sex and wait several years... and you MIGHT get something smart. But you are most likely only going to get something that is not smart but thinks it is anyways!
I have never met a smart human, seen many dumb-asses and morons though... including in the mirror.
This is the natural result of a fear driven society. We are so risk adverse that we are steadily introducing and inviting more and more tyranny... and everyone knows that leads to misery, suffering, and conflict.
All, just to keep you safe!
This is utter flapping bullshit. Religion is not the problem, never has been.
Evil people are evil, they just USE religion as an excuse to be or act out what they ALREADY ARE! You don't need religion to justify it either, secular people have no problem murdering, hurting, trash talking, abusing, and marginalizing other people just the same as people with a religion.
At the very end there is only 1 religion. the religion of you trying to make people live the way you want them to... its called society... that IS the religion and the only one that exists. You can center it around 1 god, multiple gods, no gods, or humans. It is all the same... people coming up with some excuse, scheme, idea, policy, law, regulation, or rule people have to follow to be accepted into that society or risk getting excluded. Every religion and non-religious group has jails and a desire to put anyone they decide they do not like in jails so they are out of society.
Saying religion is the root of all evil when it is actually just "humans" being evil just shows that you have a nasty bias that creates a serious deficit of intellectual honesty in your logic!
I am not even sure it is worth responding to you because your entire argument is a strawman fallcy and total non-sequitur all mixed up in a fantasy load of ignorance.
"except this isn't bandwidth to a central server, where you need capacity for all your customers." > non-sequitur you clearly missed the point of what I said, perhaps I should have detailed my post more to an excruciating and exacting degree to avoid folks like you that like to get into ultra meaningless minutiae from trying to fluff the commentary with meaningless prattle.
"this is bandwidth between a cellphone and the local cell tower,"
Exactly and the ONLY thing I am discussing here. It is simple science fact, not a mystery of any kind. The faster a wireless user can complete their data transaction and end their portion of consumption of the air space, the lower latency will be experienced overall by all parties participating in that same airspace.
Think of it like a road, where even though the speed limit is always the same, it still takes you longer to get where you want to go when a lot of people are also using that road. You have added latency from collisions (yes data has those), you also have latency from people entering and exiting the road way (guess what... data does that fucking shit too!), and you have other things like road hazards that cause trouble (say holy shit to nature just being nature cause DATA HAS THAT PROBLEM TOO!). Guess what... if the speed limit got increased or the "lanes" are increase the latency goes down if the same number of cars are using it. The same actual scientifically already proven principle applies here as well!
The rest of your post is entirely not even important for this discussion.
There actually are many potential applications for these speeds, but lets break it down to a couple of simple use case senarios.
Total throughput alone is enough to justify it. The reason for increasing bandwidth also reduces latency because more per second can be transmitted and received. Or in laymens terms... (yes this will be a gross over simplification so don't go crazy about it) If your can only do 1G speeds and everyone needs at least 0.01G to function then only 100 people can effectively use that network at any given time. If usage is low, then yea this is find. But if the business has 1000 customers and they all try to use it at the same time... a lot of people are going to have problems due to congestion. Now... if you move to 5G and people still really only need 0.01G to function you can now support 5 times as many or 500 active users. Which means that the network could support more people and folks will have less latency because when they do receive data it gets to them faster, even if its only a little bit, and they get their usage done before the next group of folks try to use it.
So, does everyone need 250MB/s of through put? The answer is yes, even when they do not think they do. Air space has limited bandwidth depending on the protocols and technology, this means you share the same wire up if you are using the same tower as those around you and you have to share that bandwidth. And when you can download that 25kb web page in 1/2 a second on 1G you can download that page in 1/8 of a second on 5G, that really is important!
"The Constitution is not a suicide pact."
Are you claiming that it is suicide for the Government to actually follow the constitution? If so, when you should tell us which laws you consider valid and which you do not consider valid. And once you are done with that, you need to also explain why you have a right to complain when someone else decides that the laws saying they cannot harm you should be upheld? After all you have arbitrarily decided others should not be upheld, considering that would be suicide... maybe they think letting you live free is equally suicide?
"When there is proof that someone has been grievously injured by the governments actions you are free to use the press and judicial systems to publicize and address your grievances."
Strawman Fallacy. When you break the law by speeding, why don't they have to prove that you harmed someone before you can be fined/charged? The simple fact is that the law was broken. The "proving someone was harmed" requirement is an intellectual dishonesty, that the government has assumed is valid in its defense and a farce you have bought for no gain of any kind. If we truly hold this standard then breaking the law should be perfectly fine until someone can prove they were harmed and that is not that easy, especially for poor people now is it?
"Preventing the NSA from conducting surveillance and collecting meta data on specific individuals and their associates would cripple the NSA and prevent them from fulfilling their congressionally approved mandate."
Another strawman fallacy. They can still get warrants just as the constitution demands. The metadata program is NOT this and you know it.
You seem to lack the ability to know the difference between blanket surveillance, something that is expressly prohibited by the 4th, and targeted surveillance, something the 4th does support provided the law is followed.
If it is okay to break the law for expedience, then we do not actually have the rule of law then do we? Which begs the next question... why do you even need government? It's first job is to enforce the law, if it's busy ignoring one of its most important duties... how can you trust it? Truly a fitting example of you deserving the government you have.
Agree, if metadata was not that big of a deal then why are they willing to crap all over the constitution to get hold of it. Additionally, the fact that Government regulates telephony to a high degree telecom essentially serves as an extension of law enforcement as well. Knowing that the government has mandated collection in advance without warrant is more than enough to call it a breach of the 4th. Collection of data is a seizure of it, the moment they make a law to require businesses to keep them they overstepped.
Now if a businesses decided to collect and keep it for their own purposes that is another story, but we all know that there are multiple ways to skin a cat. The result is the same... the government the one the constitution expressly says cannot perform a collection of data without warrant specifying the person, place, and things to be searched or seized. The gimmick of saying a business has to do it, is really just a smoke an mirrors act to "knowingly and intentionally" breach the constitution.
Heck that alone is proof that people will willingly give up their liberty. You can drive people to give up everything and willingly submit to slavery if you promise then enough security and protection.
Why do people even bother with this? What are you actually going to do about it if they don't stop and keep breaking the law? The government has been breaking the law for a long time regardless of party in power and nothing gets done about it either way. At best when a citizen is wronged they sue the government and the citizens pay for that lawsuit along with paying the payout the wronged citizen receives. Not only that most people do not even challenge the charges the government brings against people they charge? The court treats government employees as people that have no reason to lie. The only thing keeping "some" innocents out of jail is because every once in a while a Judge makes the state prove it's case when a citizen manages to overcome the onslaught of charges the DA is going to throw at them if they don't take a plea deal and goes to trial. The presence of a jury changes little, most jurors are pissed off they got stuck in jury duty, don't give a shit about their fellow citizens and many believe in passing a guilty verdict because the defendant is guilty of something so they might as well fuck them over whatever that may be.
Carlin said it best... you have no rights.
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"The government does not give a fuck about you, it is interested in its own power, keeping it, and expanding it where ever possible."
That is because no one wants you thinking for yourself. You parents are involved with raising you and helping set your moral compass. School also tries to do this, College tries to do this, your friends try to do this, and government threatens to hurts you if you don't do this.
If you reveal a view that is not fitting into a groups cookie cutter mantra you get labeled immediately, called names, and generally disrespected as well as at risk for being oppressed by government types.
I use them both interchangeably depending on my needs.
Firefox with NoScript is my default, searching browser.
I use Brave for a few other things when I get tired of dealing with the alphabet script soup I deal with on some websites and it had a built in AD block, tracker block, anti-phish, anti fingerprinting, and HTTPS anywhere stuff.
Google Chrome is spyware and its not even a secret.
Notice that line item on your receipts that say "Tax:$$$"... you pay that, not the business... they just collect for uncle sam from you.
Did you also know that businesses calculate the total cost of a product they buy from whole-sellers and vendors, which they paid taxes on, which is a cost they transfer to the consumer that buys the end product?
Did you know that when you cheer on a business paying MORE tax you are actually just cheering on the poor paying more for all of their products? People cheered windfall taxes... prices at the pumps when up... then they cried about it. I was like... huh? you cheered for this you numb-nuts!
The poor tax is real, and it has everything to do with being ignorant about how the economy works. Microsoft is a big company, the money they make filters down to you... the lowly consumer, and NO you do not escape that cost just because you don't use windows. You buy food, your store might use Windows, you pay bills, that company might be using Windows. They all pass down the cost of buying their licenses from Microsoft to you... their customer.
Have you wondered why your dollars do not go as far as they used to? It's not just inflation... inflation is just one component, in fact inflation is more a tax on your savings than anything else.
Let's make this simple.
You own a Burger Joint.
Taxes today for a $5 burger is 10%
Customer pays $5.50 for that burger.
Taxes tomorrow for a $5 burger is 15%
Customer now pays $5.75 for that burger.
Those that cheer for taxes like this, is like the customer cheering that their burger just went up 25 cents. Hurray for you, your senators thank you for your gullibility! They will happily take 20 cents of that 25 and give it to their cronies... D or R it matters not.
It is not a joke when they say that the poor pay for everything and it is not a joke when a reasonable minimum wage is enforced to ensure a minimum viable economy, because if the poor have no money the rich soon lose theirs as well. Look at how many rich folks also suffered in Venezuela when it ran out. Only the super rich are finding ways to survive and that is mostly because they are connected to power, not just because they have $$$.
Couple this with the fact that another poster mentioned that Americans already pay more than enough for education, you might as well call that more than enough evidence that foul play is afoot and you need a sanity check to cheer this on any longer.
And lets not forgot how many businesses that still get out of paying taxes through loophole laws, brought to you by none other that the very elected officials everyone that cheers for this voted in. Do you feel the daggers in your backs yet? No? Okay, that's great... it means they can dig it in further and twist a little more!
"Nothing in science is taken 'on faith' without any proof like in religion."
Yea, gonna have to stop you right there and called that a bald faced lie. There is even a famous yak about just this exact thing.
---The German physicist Max Planck said that science advances one funeral at a time. Or more precisely: "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."---
Scientists are humans too... and many scientists are religious or agnostic. In many ways a scientist that is an atheist is the worst scientist of all because they take the non-existence of any superior beings on faith alone. The absence of evidence is no proof of anything, and you seem to lack the understanding of why this is.
more like because old folks run slower, from a zombies perspective... its fast food!
Until I see new information that indicates otherwise I have a high degree of certainty that Software is not enough. We may not be able to point to a hard drive in our own brains, but there does seem to be some kind of an OS at work here with a storage medium and computational structure we are only just beginning to understand.
The primary reason that remapping by hardware is required is so that the software can process more efficiently. If software has to overcome the limitations of the hardware then we begin to introduce major lags in processing. Each section of the brain has RISC like processing dedicated to certain skills, sensory, knowledge, understanding, and logic. But also shows CISC like adaptability as we also have evidence of an area of the brain remapping to perform other tasks not originally processed there. This does not even account for the limitations that Binary places on our mechanical computing capacities. Our neurons communicate in more that just binary, in fact we are not even entirely sure how many "bits" our neurons do communicate in.
Luck sometimes is a component, but often times only after plenty of effort and work has already gone into things. If you think Trump is stupid then you are shallow. Trump is by no means stupid, he is quite capable of saying things and getting by with it in several ways and has managed to play on the biases of the media to elevate himself. He is at least smart enough to play them or smart enough to hire someone smart enough to show him how to play them.
Trump won because and entire group of democrats were dumb enough to think they could laugh Trump out of the election... at least John Oliver mentions his regret for his flamboyant ignorance when he cheered Trump on for running for President so he could farm the situation for laughs.
"How could any of that really be possible if it was not possible to essentially re-wire your brain?"
Well, this is NEW neurons, not remapping per se...
But yea, you are mostly on target here with your post. The ability for neurons to grow and remap are a key components to our intelligence as well, one of the major hurdles for any real Artificial Intelligence and why I ignore AI alarmists, including Hawking until we develop the tech where physical processors can remap themselves. Software just is not enough to replace that incredibly important function.
Besides, how often does Science get it wrong? The science is almost never settled... but at least we learn more along the way.
I don't think its the game turning people into psychopaths... it looks like power-tripping is doing a much better job of that, maybe they psychopaths in government like to be an inclusive club, no 3rd party imitations allowed?
You are when you feel the need to defend against the observation.
Let me ask you this.
Put yourself in the shoes of an educator and ask yourself... Would you talk to your students the same way pro/anti-vaxxers talk to each other? If so, why? If no, why?
I hope you can start to get the idea now. This is not just about attracting more bees with honey rather than vinegar, it is also about not trying to act superior to others with different ideas, beliefs, or understandings about things right or wrong.
Being in or out of a closet has nothing to do with going away or coming back. The only thing blacklisting does is create a black-market for it.
Things usually do not fester in the light of day, but instead in dark corners where people avoid looking out of fear of being falsely accused!
"btw being OTC has little bearing on overall safety"
#1. This is a Strawman fallacy, I am not making the claim that OTC means it's perfectly safe, the claim I am making is that accusations of vaccines being perfectly safe are obviously bunk when they are not even over the counter, they also have special contraindications as well.
#2. OTC does actually have a LOT of bearing on overall safety as well as why there are 7 schedules of drugs dealing with their safety and addiction attributes.
Yes, even OTC drugs can kill you, but so can water and salt as well. But they are still considered safe enough that average people should be able to self administer with simple instruction.
"pro-pharma shills? I mean seriously, such profits as pharma makes from childhood vaccinations are so tiny as to be less than a rounding error."
Making large amounts of money per is not the only way to make money, drumming up enough outrage to get laws passed so that everyone are legally required to get them will create such a scenario at least of an increase in sales, and this is still if they can resist the temptation to jack up the price if getting vaccinated becomes compulsory! It is quite possible that the current cost is because they are readily available and not compulsory.
"the short version there are plenty of reasons to hate on pharma but vaccinations ain't one of them"
I will agree with you there, but I am just trying to explain to those like YOU that offensive pro-vax behavior is helping to foment these kinds of problematic contrarian beliefs. Start looking at anti-vaxxers like they are humans instead of like they are subhuman primates that you should be controlling and telling what to do.
"but you associate with nuts, you get labeled a nut too"
Seriously? Guilty by association? At least you freely admit that you can only think like a bigot. There have been lots of innocent people that have been harmed by folks like you and your bigotry. A few racists come to mind... like the KKK, they didn't like white folks hanging out with black folks either... you sound just exactly like them with trash talk like that!
This pro-vax vs anti-vax baloney needs to stop.
The anti-vaxxers constantly come off as a bunch of wacky conspiracy theorists that are doing more damage to their cause than good with constant accusations that vaccines contains chemicals that have been removed for a while now to stoke fear.
The pro-vaxxers constantly come off as a bunch of pharma shills that are actually ADDING to the ranks of the anti-vaxxers with their vitriolic rhetoric and constant claims that they are perfectly safe. If they were actually that safe they would be over the counter instead of behind a medical industry process, so there is obvious risk being under played.
Stop treating each other like trash, it is not helping! Human fear is an irrational beast and everyone has these kinds of fears and the reasons they have them are because they have a component of truth which makes lies so damn effective when it feeds someone's confirmation bias. Trying to silence your opponent only leads to people asking why you think that is necessary considering the history of silencing people is mostly used as a form of oppression. For the longest time there was a strong anti-socialist anti-communist movement in American, it has failed spectacularly. Instead of constantly talking about the issues people just called them bad names and never listened to them. So instead they found a different way to subvert things and now there are active self proclaimed socialists getting voted into office and for now. Any attempt to silence people almost always backfires, because when you do... you start piquing other folks curiosity... because if they are actually wrong... why do you need to silence them?
I am a progressive now? Stop acting like the other butt hurt knobs that keep assuming I am something I am not just because I don't spout your BS rhetoric!
I agree Mueller is on a witch hunt, but only because he targets Trump. Truth be told a lot more folks need to be investigate like Hillary right there along with Trump.
Here is how you know you are no different.
Republicans would cheer Hillary being railroaded to jail without due process.
Democrats would cheer Trump being railroaded to jail without due process.
Notice how neither side really gives a fuck about rights or the constitution? Well unless it's their own getting fucked?
No, the democrats are trying to take guns from everyone and are not hypocritical about it... except the politicians running around being protected by guns. The republicans are totally hypocritical about guns depending on who has them!
But the NRA & Republicans are anti-gun when it suits their politics. Regan was the first big republican to do this, Trump even banned bump stocks, another republican. But notice how neither side really seems to care for a single person to be able to ban something without much oversight... all they needed was a single sympathetic judge to give it a green light.
This goes towards my accusation that the parties are not really that different from each other. Both are taking over your life, the republicans just like to kick down the front door with police and guns while the left like to do it in secret by the back door through manufactured political outrage and manipulation, and occasionally with police and guns. You becoming a slave is the end goal, they just disagree on the process. They do however, want you to have the illusion that you are free, its the best way to keep a slave is for them to think they are free. And greatest currency is "for your protection".
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
~Franklin
Is there any wonder the police will not hesitate to murder you the moment they "fear you" and why the government does not care much when they do?
It never fails to see a Republican throw out all of their "supposed beliefs" to get back at someone because their little ego's are hurt.
Just like how the republicans are all for the 2nd until they see black folks with guns... but that is all good.
herp a derp... seriously?
For the article to no be true a shadow government is running the government then? That is one hell of a conspiracy! In fact that would still technically only goes to support the article anyway. Pray tell, what in the article is wrong? I can provide many things that help prove it true, can't think of any the prove it wrong though.
The only external force folks have no control over running the government is the Federal Reserve, but no matter what, They can still be removed if the Legislature wants to or SCOTUS declares the institution as Unconstitutional.