There is no AI
Intelligence is insight. The ability to apply one experience or idea to a different and unrelated concept. "the eureka" moment, the creative spark, curiosity... .
Today's computers do only task programming. A system is programmed to perform a specific task with predetermined parameters. I submit that using today's technology, AI is not even possible. Look at the hardware layer. A "massively parallel" system has what, a few dozen cores limited by bus of connectivity.
A brain, even an lower mammal has billions interconnected neurons, each capable of independent firing and the inter-connectivity is dynamic as it changes over time, experiences and developing needs and/or skills.
Till the medium of computer development changes, AI is over-hyped task programming.
Hogwash - end CONSUMERS are paying for the connection at the other end while Comcast/AT&T/Verizon are still making record profits
Again, an ISP a service you're paying for connectivity. As a business, monitor your backbone and if you need to replace your switch faster with more/redundant switches, decrease switch planned replacement periods and if that makes you unprofitable, increase monthly rates. But that's not what they're doing. They want to carve up the internet and sell your personal data.
These greedy bully's are just trying to extract more revenue and using "elected" officials and laws to do so while removing consumer protections.
ISP's complaining about binge watchers is a red herring. You already pay for the connection rated at X mbps, on top of that they limit your total monthly consumption. Now they want to charge you extra for going to Y site. This is the GOP being owned by the communications cabal.
you pay for a connection... period. That's the definition of ISP model revenue stream.
Killing Net Neutrality will allow the communications cabal (AT&T/Comcast/Verizon) to say-"Oh! You want netflix, now you have to buy an -entertainment bundle- to visit that site". Or the "sports bundle" if you want to watch ESPN stream. They really want to turn the internet into "packages" like they've done with cable TV. The difference here is that ESPN & HBO on the cable side license their content and charge stations. With Netflix/Hulu/Prime, we the consumers are already paying for the content, plus we're paying for the connection, plus the cabal wants the charge the content providers usage of their path ways, plus charge the consumer extra...
AND they want to build profiles and sell your surfing habits to marketers (aka facebook) and you as a consumer have no rights or protections without NN.
This is an $8B give away to the communications cabal at the expense of the American consumer. Nothing more.
So, what they're really saying is what we already suspected - google devices are always spying on you, now it's visual and they are identifying what's happening in the background.
sure... we need many more people who lack critical thinking skills.
People who continue to rally for coal companies because they don't believe in global warming
People who promote cigarette smoking because they don't believe it is addicting or causes cancer
People who refuse to believe in medicine because "god cures all" while they let their children die.
Rather than build on successes of the past,or, as we used to say “standing on the shoulders of giants”, build a better future from lessons learned-
na, let’s just repeat past failures without learning from them.
"Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it."-George Santayana
Ya, we need a bunch more of these people - they have sooo much to teach us.
tool.
Have you paid attention to google fiber? It collapsed due to the incredible costs and fewer than expected sign ups. Furthermore it's not the job of government to compete with enterprise in a free market system. And ultimately in those areas where voters have chosen to allow new competitors, the communications cabal's (AT&T/Comcast/Verizon) have beaten them in the court room.
unfortunately, we do not have a free market system. The oligarchy is using its quickly amassing wealth to fund further plundering of our rights for it's own riches. Till we change how elections are funded, expect this process to accelerate.
If you read the article, he states he does he does NOT believe in science. "There’s no difference between science and science fiction.”, he continues. So, in the name of "Non-Science", lets encourage this asshat to an expedient joining of the Darwin Awards club.
“I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people, which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.”
-Thomas Jefferson
The MAIN difference here is that GUN RIGHTS are specifically spelled out under the Constitution. If you bother to look even further, and read the Federalist Papers (documents and thought by the founding fathers), you will clearly read that The Founding Fathers of the United States firmly believed it was the right and responsibility of every Citizen to stand against tyranny, and gun ownership was a necessary balance as the last step against a corrupt Government.
Just like building codes regulate that structures should be able to withstand earthquakes in earthquake zones, and that public buildings need fire escapes, and that you just can't dump garbage into rivers, lakes and streams, etc.
So, yes, in that regard, most believe it's Government's job to setup protections - since corporations have shown time after time they put profit over safety or human life.
It this case, Net Neutrality tells ISP's they CAN NOT sell your personal surfing behavior or prioritize one source over another. Without NN your ISP will be able to sell you not only the connection, but also a "bundle" where if you don't pay for the "sports bundle", your ESPN will crawl, or if you don't purchase the "entertainment" bundle, Netflix / Hulu or Amazon Prime will be too slow to stream in HiDef. Remember, you are already paying for the connection (which is the DEFINITION of ISP), and you've likely had data caps put in place over the past year or two. Repealing NN is nothing more than an estimate $8 BILLION hand over to ISP's with ZERO consumer benefit, reduced protections and increased cost.
As far as "choice", most cable companies have used laws to ensure nobody else can compete in their market. I live in Seattle... My "choice" is Comast or DSL with Frontier... Ya, some choice.
This just epitomizes why consumer protections are necessary and proves the our government is actually an oligarchy.
Rather than risk a market of 1B people, these sheep corporations bow to any anti human rights local edict.
They could have said, "no thank you, we support free speak, and oh, by they way, 1 million jobs from FoxConn get pulled starting Jan 1."
But that takes standing up for principle and American values - screw that.
My concern about the truck is that most Semi's have that huge front bumper, where as this lacks one...
The reason being is that many trucks create lots of road kill.... the front end of this truck is going to explode when it it hits it's first deer... at about day 2.
Every single time i go walmart it's a painful experience. The last time I was there, i brought 4 items up to the self check out and, literally, just as I got there, some 300# woman with a mullet waddles off a stool, flips a switch turning off all the self checkouts. not a word, just a glance, then she spun around and limped off towards customer service.
I left the items on the deactivated conveyor belt and left. Sadly, experiences like this have happened multiple times at various locations
i will absolutely positively pay more to avoid Walmart.
I could not agree more - a I continue to tell people this same story. What we have today is "task programming". Systems are designed and written to perform a task. No computer has ever had a "eureka moment" where for example a speech recognition system like siri suddenly realizes what's wrong with the next door neighbors garage door. Won't happen. Not in our life times.
I'm not arguing either side of the issue in my post - so don't try and debate with me... I'm just stating the fact that there's many educated, intelligent VOTERS in the US who don't believe it's man made. AND it's really our bought off representatives who make laws - not you, I or anyone else who is thoughtful and/or reasonable.
Ultimately, the only way to change things in the US is campaign finance reform.
As an prime subscriber myself, my answer is 'hell no'.
Yes, there's quite the pool of industrious thieves following amazon deliver trucks stealing boxes.. but really, send it to a delivery station or deliver to work.
I have a sister-in-law with a Master’s degree in Chemistry (who, BTW is a high school teacher and shares her thoughts with students) and close friend who’s an Electrical Engineer who both say there’s no proof global warming is caused by man.
We also have a Commander In Chief in the oval office and the majority of law making Republicans who claim Global Warming is a liberal conspiracy and the greatest farce on mankind.
So you’re claim that it’s “settled” is both pre-mature and inaccurate. The reality is, it does not matter what you or I think, what matters is the laws and rules those in power enact that dictates behavior of corporations who actually affect our planet.
unemployment is (c) 4% - that's considered full employment. Everyone who wants a job and is employable has one. Culling marginal employees today means months of an empty seat, ZERO productivity for the employer and likely having to up the pay scale to attract someone else already employed.
Untrue - as someone who moved AWAY from a corn producing state, i can attest that with a few acres of corn you can become a millionaire from corn based subsidies. Farm land that for decades sold for (c) $3K per acre is now going for as high as $17K per acre. Corn is being distilled into ethanol meanwhile cereals, anything that requires fructose sweetening, and any live stock based product (milk & meat) that were fed corn now skyrockets in cost to the consumer.
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There is no AI
Intelligence is insight. The ability to apply one experience or idea to a different and unrelated concept. "the eureka" moment, the creative spark, curiosity... .
Today's computers do only task programming. A system is programmed to perform a specific task with predetermined parameters. I submit that using today's technology, AI is not even possible. Look at the hardware layer. A "massively parallel" system has what, a few dozen cores limited by bus of connectivity.
A brain, even an lower mammal has billions interconnected neurons, each capable of independent firing and the inter-connectivity is dynamic as it changes over time, experiences and developing needs and/or skills.
Till the medium of computer development changes, AI is over-hyped task programming.
Hogwash - end CONSUMERS are paying for the connection at the other end while Comcast/AT&T/Verizon are still making record profits
Again, an ISP a service you're paying for connectivity. As a business, monitor your backbone and if you need to replace your switch faster with more/redundant switches, decrease switch planned replacement periods and if that makes you unprofitable, increase monthly rates. But that's not what they're doing. They want to carve up the internet and sell your personal data.
These greedy bully's are just trying to extract more revenue and using "elected" officials and laws to do so while removing consumer protections.
What does a complaint to HR at an organization he left have to do with the current company? I miss the connection.
ISP's complaining about binge watchers is a red herring. You already pay for the connection rated at X mbps, on top of that they limit your total monthly consumption. Now they want to charge you extra for going to Y site. This is the GOP being owned by the communications cabal.
you pay for a connection... period. That's the definition of ISP model revenue stream.
Killing Net Neutrality will allow the communications cabal (AT&T/Comcast/Verizon) to say-"Oh! You want netflix, now you have to buy an -entertainment bundle- to visit that site". Or the "sports bundle" if you want to watch ESPN stream. They really want to turn the internet into "packages" like they've done with cable TV. The difference here is that ESPN & HBO on the cable side license their content and charge stations. With Netflix/Hulu/Prime, we the consumers are already paying for the content, plus we're paying for the connection, plus the cabal wants the charge the content providers usage of their path ways, plus charge the consumer extra...
AND they want to build profiles and sell your surfing habits to marketers (aka facebook) and you as a consumer have no rights or protections without NN.
This is an $8B give away to the communications cabal at the expense of the American consumer. Nothing more.
So, what they're really saying is what we already suspected - google devices are always spying on you, now it's visual and they are identifying what's happening in the background.
sure... we need many more people who lack critical thinking skills. ,or, as we used to say “standing on the shoulders of giants”, build a better future from lessons learned-
People who continue to rally for coal companies because they don't believe in global warming
People who promote cigarette smoking because they don't believe it is addicting or causes cancer
People who refuse to believe in medicine because "god cures all" while they let their children die.
Rather than build on successes of the past
na, let’s just repeat past failures without learning from them.
"Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it."-George Santayana
Ya, we need a bunch more of these people - they have sooo much to teach us.
tool.
Have you paid attention to google fiber? It collapsed due to the incredible costs and fewer than expected sign ups. Furthermore it's not the job of government to compete with enterprise in a free market system. And ultimately in those areas where voters have chosen to allow new competitors, the communications cabal's (AT&T/Comcast/Verizon) have beaten them in the court room.
unfortunately, we do not have a free market system. The oligarchy is using its quickly amassing wealth to fund further plundering of our rights for it's own riches. Till we change how elections are funded, expect this process to accelerate.
If you read the article, he states he does he does NOT believe in science. "There’s no difference between science and science fiction.”, he continues. So, in the name of "Non-Science", lets encourage this asshat to an expedient joining of the Darwin Awards club.
“I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people, which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.”
-Thomas Jefferson
The MAIN difference here is that GUN RIGHTS are specifically spelled out under the Constitution. If you bother to look even further, and read the Federalist Papers (documents and thought by the founding fathers), you will clearly read that The Founding Fathers of the United States firmly believed it was the right and responsibility of every Citizen to stand against tyranny, and gun ownership was a necessary balance as the last step against a corrupt Government.
I would submit the 1st step is to alter how elections are funded. Removed the umbilical cord linking politicians to corporations.
Just like building codes regulate that structures should be able to withstand earthquakes in earthquake zones, and that public buildings need fire escapes, and that you just can't dump garbage into rivers, lakes and streams, etc.
So, yes, in that regard, most believe it's Government's job to setup protections - since corporations have shown time after time they put profit over safety or human life.
It this case, Net Neutrality tells ISP's they CAN NOT sell your personal surfing behavior or prioritize one source over another. Without NN your ISP will be able to sell you not only the connection, but also a "bundle" where if you don't pay for the "sports bundle", your ESPN will crawl, or if you don't purchase the "entertainment" bundle, Netflix / Hulu or Amazon Prime will be too slow to stream in HiDef. Remember, you are already paying for the connection (which is the DEFINITION of ISP), and you've likely had data caps put in place over the past year or two. Repealing NN is nothing more than an estimate $8 BILLION hand over to ISP's with ZERO consumer benefit, reduced protections and increased cost.
As far as "choice", most cable companies have used laws to ensure nobody else can compete in their market. I live in Seattle... My "choice" is Comast or DSL with Frontier... Ya, some choice.
This just epitomizes why consumer protections are necessary and proves the our government is actually an oligarchy.
Rather than risk a market of 1B people, these sheep corporations bow to any anti human rights local edict.
They could have said, "no thank you, we support free speak, and oh, by they way, 1 million jobs from FoxConn get pulled starting Jan 1."
But that takes standing up for principle and American values - screw that.
My concern about the truck is that most Semi's have that huge front bumper, where as this lacks one...
The reason being is that many trucks create lots of road kill.... the front end of this truck is going to explode when it it hits it's first deer... at about day 2.
The article did NOT says 250 MPH, it said the average route was 250 miles in length....
Every single time i go walmart it's a painful experience. The last time I was there, i brought 4 items up to the self check out and, literally, just as I got there, some 300# woman with a mullet waddles off a stool, flips a switch turning off all the self checkouts. not a word, just a glance, then she spun around and limped off towards customer service.
I left the items on the deactivated conveyor belt and left. Sadly, experiences like this have happened multiple times at various locations
i will absolutely positively pay more to avoid Walmart.
for those who believe in God, the proof would go as such:
God Created the Universe
humans created / are creating, AI
Since AI did not create humans
IA is not GOD.
done.
I could not agree more - a I continue to tell people this same story. What we have today is "task programming". Systems are designed and written to perform a task. No computer has ever had a "eureka moment" where for example a speech recognition system like siri suddenly realizes what's wrong with the next door neighbors garage door. Won't happen. Not in our life times.
I'm not arguing either side of the issue in my post - so don't try and debate with me... I'm just stating the fact that there's many educated, intelligent VOTERS in the US who don't believe it's man made. AND it's really our bought off representatives who make laws - not you, I or anyone else who is thoughtful and/or reasonable.
Ultimately, the only way to change things in the US is campaign finance reform.
As an prime subscriber myself, my answer is 'hell no'.
Yes, there's quite the pool of industrious thieves following amazon deliver trucks stealing boxes.. but really, send it to a delivery station or deliver to work.
I have a sister-in-law with a Master’s degree in Chemistry (who, BTW is a high school teacher and shares her thoughts with students) and close friend who’s an Electrical Engineer who both say there’s no proof global warming is caused by man.
We also have a Commander In Chief in the oval office and the majority of law making Republicans who claim Global Warming is a liberal conspiracy and the greatest farce on mankind.
So you’re claim that it’s “settled” is both pre-mature and inaccurate. The reality is, it does not matter what you or I think, what matters is the laws and rules those in power enact that dictates behavior of corporations who actually affect our planet.
unemployment is (c) 4% - that's considered full employment. Everyone who wants a job and is employable has one. Culling marginal employees today means months of an empty seat, ZERO productivity for the employer and likely having to up the pay scale to attract someone else already employed.
Untrue - as someone who moved AWAY from a corn producing state, i can attest that with a few acres of corn you can become a millionaire from corn based subsidies. Farm land that for decades sold for (c) $3K per acre is now going for as high as $17K per acre. Corn is being distilled into ethanol meanwhile cereals, anything that requires fructose sweetening, and any live stock based product (milk & meat) that were fed corn now skyrockets in cost to the consumer.
Seriously... no it's not free. He's paying for the electricity consumed by the processors performing bitcoin mining which create heat.