Saying "Maduro's attempt to block Wikipedia in Venezuela" seems to mean you are ready to jump to any unsubstantiated conclusion that's part of the ongoing narrative western governments and media are trying to push.
"Instead of a war exclusion clause, Zurich should have invoked a gross negligence clause, which is much easier to prove in this case than attribution to a nation-state, particularly considering Mondelez was hit twice by the same ransomware," he said. The "fool me once" proverb is fully applicable here: while many companies fall victims to ransomware, one of the first steps to recovery is to make sure it doesn't happen again."
I don't think word choice matters very much in the OPs point, be it addiction, habit forming, dependence, cravings, or psychological addiction, but there still is reasonable support for the involvement of a biological mechanism:
Overfeeding should be considered child abuse and corporations wanting you to keep buying their food is an incredibly poor excuse.
Possibly but still a lot of people, from parents to corporations, are encouraging people to over eat.
No, in this case, if people are well educated they understand exactly what happens. If you consume past your TDEE, the excess kcal is stored as fat. There is no argument here, that situation is fixed. You overeat it, you wear it.
I'm not sure what you mean by well educated or what the percentage of the population you think that represents, or if we can make such clear distinctions between those that are and those that aren't. But anyway, my point was that especially in social species when an individual's behavior seems to go against an individual's wishes and what appears to be the psychological mechanics or logic of the situation, then it's more than fair to consider things like culture, addiction, and genetics.
"These devices can be extremely effective at preventing debilitating tremors or seizures in patients with a variety of neurological conditions. But the electrical signatures that precede a seizure or tremor can be extremely subtle, and the frequency and strength of electrical stimulation required to prevent them is equally touchy. It can take years of small adjustments by doctors before the devices provide optimal treatment.
WAND, which stands for wireless artifact-free neuromodulation device, is both wireless and autonomous, meaning that once it learns to recognize the signs of tremor or seizure, it can adjust the stimulation parameters on its own to prevent the unwanted movements. And because it is closed-loop -- meaning it can stimulate and record simultaneously -- it can adjust these parameters in real-time."
"Of course, people believing in animism today are not completely sane and are not very smart as well."
I wouldn't go there, but I do think most of us were deeply exposed to that and related ideas, be it through religion, super heroes, or children's entertainment in general, and that when we grow older the awe and similar emotions we felt in those situations will unconsciously bias our judgement when we're exposed to recent technological advances.
"The "utter" nonsense here is assertions like "AI is driven by animism"
I disagree. I think a part of the hype around 'achieving' autonomous cars, real AI, robot sentience, and around things in the past like puppets, plants or lumps of clay becoming sentient, is at least partly driven by emotion that's related to ideas like animism, spontaneous generation, and the joining of the physical and spiritual into a duality.
"Each GPS satellite continuously transmits a radio signal containing the current time and data about its position. Since the speed of radio waves is constant and independent of the satellite speed, the time delay between when the satellite transmits a signal and the receiver receives it is proportional to the distance from the satellite to the receiver. A GPS receiver monitors multiple satellites and solves equations to determine the precise position of the receiver and its deviation from true time. At a minimum, four satellites must be in view of the receiver for it to compute four unknown quantities (three position coordinates and clock deviation from satellite time)."
Do you see any evidence that all this isn't simply about americans buying ad campaigns from a Russian internet marketing company and not declaring the expense.
Suppose your basement just started flooding. You setup a pump to empty the water at a rate of 1 liter per second. Then someone else sets up a pump to fill your basement at 2 liters a second.
In that context your pump is still helping reduce the damage, it's still working.
I guess my point was that as long as some countries are reducing and giving a good example by doing so, then the agreement they signed, to hopefully help cap global warming at 2 degrees, is working to help reduce global warming.
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Saying "Maduro's attempt to block Wikipedia in Venezuela" seems to mean you are ready to jump to any unsubstantiated conclusion that's part of the ongoing narrative western governments and media are trying to push.
And the OP didn't mention censorship.
"Does it need to be mentioned that Autopilot doesn't even remotely work this way? You can't "activate it as a passenger..."
I wouldn't waste much time arguing or questioning word choice with what's probably a machine translation from a company sensationalizing the event.
"Anytime a company has hack insurance, that tells me their management doesn't trust the I.T. staff ..."
Sounds right in this case:
https://www.itpro.co.uk/securi...
"Instead of a war exclusion clause, Zurich should have invoked a gross negligence clause, which is much easier to prove in this case than attribution to a nation-state, particularly considering Mondelez was hit twice by the same ransomware," he said. The "fool me once" proverb is fully applicable here: while many companies fall victims to ransomware, one of the first steps to recovery is to make sure it doesn't happen again."
"We tried that."
What do you mean. I've tried a lot of things. Some worked 100%, some less, some none.
Should we still be 'trying' it ?
Glad we agree its not addictive
I don't think word choice matters very much in the OPs point, be it addiction, habit forming, dependence, cravings, or psychological addiction, but there still is reasonable support for the involvement of a biological mechanism:
https://www.princeton.edu/news...
https://pr.princeton.edu/news/...
Overfeeding should be considered child abuse and corporations wanting you to keep buying their food is an incredibly poor excuse.
Possibly but still a lot of people, from parents to corporations, are encouraging people to over eat.
No, in this case, if people are well educated they understand exactly what happens. If you consume past your TDEE, the excess kcal is stored as fat. There is no argument here, that situation is fixed. You overeat it, you wear it.
I'm not sure what you mean by well educated or what the percentage of the population you think that represents, or if we can make such clear distinctions between those that are and those that aren't. But anyway, my point was that especially in social species when an individual's behavior seems to go against an individual's wishes and what appears to be the psychological mechanics or logic of the situation, then it's more than fair to consider things like culture, addiction, and genetics.
"Food is not addictive."
Food can be very habit forming.
"Nobody is forcing people to overeat."
A lot of people, from parents to corporations, are insisting people over eat.
"If you're fat as an adult with education on kcal, its your fault, not the food companies."
Fault isn't always an either or. Especially in social species.
"And we are back to the dark ages..."
Not according to this:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/r...
"These devices can be extremely effective at preventing debilitating tremors or seizures in patients with a variety of neurological conditions. But the electrical signatures that precede a seizure or tremor can be extremely subtle, and the frequency and strength of electrical stimulation required to prevent them is equally touchy. It can take years of small adjustments by doctors before the devices provide optimal treatment.
WAND, which stands for wireless artifact-free neuromodulation device, is both wireless and autonomous, meaning that once it learns to recognize the signs of tremor or seizure, it can adjust the stimulation parameters on its own to prevent the unwanted movements. And because it is closed-loop -- meaning it can stimulate and record simultaneously -- it can adjust these parameters in real-time."
I was with you till this:
"If you have a friend and that friends mind was put in a computer"
The mind isn't defined as a something that we can consider as the kind of thing we can be put in a computer.
"people are consuming something that is obvious bad for them"
Depends. Lots of producers don't use sodium nitrite.
"Especially factory farms?"
Fertilizer run off inspectors and fines?
"Of course, people believing in animism today are not completely sane and are not very smart as well."
I wouldn't go there, but I do think most of us were deeply exposed to that and related ideas, be it through religion, super heroes, or children's entertainment in general, and that when we grow older the awe and similar emotions we felt in those situations will unconsciously bias our judgement when we're exposed to recent technological advances.
"The desire to find someone to blame and punish them severely is human nature"
I think that's in a large part cultural and it's the desire to resolve problems that's human nature.
"The "utter" nonsense here is assertions like "AI is driven by animism"
I disagree. I think a part of the hype around 'achieving' autonomous cars, real AI, robot sentience, and around things in the past like puppets, plants or lumps of clay becoming sentient, is at least partly driven by emotion that's related to ideas like animism, spontaneous generation, and the joining of the physical and spiritual into a duality.
"Each GPS satellite continuously transmits a radio signal containing the current time and data about its position. Since the speed of radio waves is constant and independent of the satellite speed, the time delay between when the satellite transmits a signal and the receiver receives it is proportional to the distance from the satellite to the receiver. A GPS receiver monitors multiple satellites and solves equations to determine the precise position of the receiver and its deviation from true time. At a minimum, four satellites must be in view of the receiver for it to compute four unknown quantities (three position coordinates and clock deviation from satellite time)."
If we could just as easily send a spacex rocket to mars as we can send one to an earth orbit, then I'd agree.
"Compare your quote to that reply in the post immediately prior. If you're still confused, ask someone next to you."
If your going to be like that I've lost interest.
"Referring to actual Buddhists in Asia rather than the hip Buddhists in the West"
Still reads like a false dichotomy.
Do you see any evidence that all this isn't simply about americans buying ad campaigns from a Russian internet marketing company and not declaring the expense.
"So you didn't notice the removal of the key word in that reply?"
No, I'm not sure what comment your talking about, maybe you could link to it and clarify what word you think he left out.
I quoted your statement, this one:
https://slashdot.org/comments....
It reads like a false dichotomy, if you don't agree I'm curious why.
"Wall them off -- online and offline. No internet. No visas. No trade. No food. No energy. No nothing."
But American politics don't seem anywhere near walling off Saudi Arabia.
Suppose your basement just started flooding. You setup a pump to empty the water at a rate of 1 liter per second. Then someone else sets up a pump to fill your basement at 2 liters a second.
In that context your pump is still helping reduce the damage, it's still working.
I guess my point was that as long as some countries are reducing and giving a good example by doing so, then the agreement they signed, to hopefully help cap global warming at 2 degrees, is working to help reduce global warming.
"Referring to actual Buddhists in Asia rather than the hip Buddhists in the West"
False dichotomy ?
"No climate agreement without both China and the US can work."
What do you mean by work? Is this what the agreement is about?
"And just because you said that doesn't make you right."
Of course.
It's true whether I said it or not.
Not sure what the rest of your comment means in this comment thread.