The Geneva Convention prohibited the use of certain chemical attacks and.50 caliber ammunition on human combatants, and required the humane treatment of captured or wounded enemy combatants... after WWII.
It could be argued successfully that the signing of this grand treaty, by pretty much everyone (eventually) limited some of the aforementioned inhumane acts, yet violations persist.
Does the signing of such an advanced directive give anyone a true advantage, so much as it disadvantages those nations with the moral conviction to see their commitment through?
A good-sized iceberg might measure 3,000 x 1,500 x 600 feet. An iceberg that size contains somewhere around 20 billion gallons of fresh water.
A supertanker carries about two million barrels, or, 84 million gallons.
Assuming no water loss during ice melt (improbable) and subsequent water collection in the Arctic Circle, that's fuel for 238 supertankers + whatever energy is expended during the collection process... if you can tow and harvest the water, including melt losses, with less fuel consumption per harvested gallon than harvesting in the Arctic and subsequently shipping it, that's a win.
Although California's almonds get a lot of the bad press, depleting the desert aquifers to grow hay and corn to feed slaughter cattle is similarly wasteful.
That's the worst argument for trying anything ever. "We really don't have a good feel for the feasibility of fucking this bison in the ass, so it seems like an experiment worth trying"
Pretty sure that's the origin story for "buffaloed".
Cheap labor may not vote early and often, but so far, they're infinitely more important at the ballot box than their robotic replacements.
The Magnus Robot Fighter, human/robot confrontation of the future might more likely develop from displaced lower class workers than an AI attempt at Overlord-ship.
Yeah, but at a store I get a receipt right then and there I can check and point out if there is an issue, and someone is there that can look at my cart right away to resolve it.
In this case, it'd be more like dealing with a credit card dispute which quite often ends with the consumer losing and the vendor keeping the money. If the system screwed up, say a camera didn't catch something like you putting something back, or miscounted how many you grabbed at once, then what? Anyone who you appealed to would also miss the count and you'd be screwed.
The 2018 State of Chargebacks Survey from Kount and Chargebacks911 found that, of the 82 percent of businesses that said they respond to chargebacks, half win 30 percent or fewer of their disputes, one-fifth of those merchants win fewer than 15 percent.Feb 1, 2018
And, for me at least, a good part of the reason I shop online beneath the umbrella of an Amazon or Newegg is the customer-friendly dispute resolution and generous return policies... it seems likely that their brick-and-mortar stores would continue this successful practice of customer appeasement, at least until a threshold number of disputes is reached by a single customer.
Conversely, this methodology would actually encourage Amazon (and others) to expand their robotic workforce so "what it's costing the rest of us" would increase... unless you have reason to believe Amazon is holding these workers back from getting better paying jobs elsewhere?
Looking at it another way, opponents of welfare-type benefits have lobbied variously for implementing drug-testing and community service work to receive these government pittances some call "handouts". Amazon and Walmart, et al, accomplish these two goals, and keep the cheap goods flowing for the nearly poor (middle class).
How many people are capable of retiring like Xinshng Ma, at the top of his game, at 54 without injury, disease, or corporate coup?
Like our vaunted sports heroes, too many corporate demigods stay too long; stagnating, afraid to leave the comforts of the present to move on to the next adventure.
--Dude seriously needs to take a couple of weeks vacation somewhere private and calm down from the stress. But he's rich enough that it's difficult for his friends and family to call him on his shit.
A fine lesson there. No matter how gifted you are, do yourself a gigantic favor, and resist the temptation to surround yourself with yes-men... everyone benefits from a critical viewpoint now and then.
List of Data Breaches (that do not include Paypal) where customer's personal and credit card information were taken.
Or. Like you might explain it to a 5 year old: "Little Jimmy... You can hide your entire collection of transformers somewhere on the playground, and tell one trusted friend where they are, or the entire class. Which would you choose?"
It must be very difficult for Elon to deal with the pressures of the business side of his genius; especially since he seems to be cursed with control issues, making it difficult for him to delegate tasks, including the appointment of another CEO or two at his flagship companies.
Has he made some miscalculations recently? Sure. Can he rebound from this? Certainly. It's simply clear he has to prioritize time for what he's great at (inspiration and innovation) and learn to hand off to others what he can afford to delegate (daily business stress and decisions).
Personally, I hope he gets it together... there is a worldwide scarcity of visionaries who stand to make the earth a better place.
Since self-driving delivery trucking is clearly, on the order of crystal, more profitable for your online-goods-provider-overlord, perhaps it comes down to insurability. Once your automotive insurance companies collectively determine it is in their actuarial interest to back nonhuman automobile pilots, the lobbying effort will be insurmountable.
Frankly there's no good reason we can't all start jumping onto 100% renewable energy, we need to reinvest in our infrastructure anyway so on-site generation makes more sense all the time. Utilities hate the idea, less $. Republican oil-trolls hate the idea, less $. Nuclear slashdot apologist morons hate the idea, less shilling contract $. The idea that there's no subscriber model required for power is a foreign and hostile concept to these shortsighted pricks.
Isn't it worthy of consideration that renewable energy is sort of an all inclusive club, over a long enough time line.
Isn't it theoretically plausible the earth (and her sun) has enough lifespan remaining to sequester the carbon necessary for a future oil & gas boom in the year 165,002,018?
You're gonna have to keep your angry racist off-topic tirade down to 2 paragraphs max or I'm just not gonna even read it, ok?
Ironically, an angry, off-topic tirade might be just the thing to bait the press into distraction from its coverage of a scandal-ridden week or two for the POTUS.
There are certain groups that are really angry that young men are choosing to enjoy video games rather than go out in the world, get married, have children, and participate in society in the way they demand.
Perhaps then, they have a bigger axe to grind with pronhub.
It is in the interest of every business model to get more customers, and to get current customers to use the company's products more frequently.
It is in the interest of society to regulate business, through government interference, when it is determined the business promotion is to the detriment of the current societal belief set; but damn, everything's not a disease.
Gaming Disorder.?.? Just, wow. It's not your fault, you poor addict.
Won't do any good. It got 98F in Ontario this month and the pussies started dropping like flies. As in died. 98 is a LOW temp where I live. Come back when you enjoy a nice 121F in the shade, weaklings.
The weaklings can't handle our weather is a common misconception, whether it's being told in January in the Upper Peninsula or in July in El Paso.
Human bodies have a remarkable ability to acclimate to the weather where they find themselves. If it seems odd to folks living in West Texas that folks perish in northern cities during heat waves of 98F/37C, try to remember that shoveling the Newport, Vt snow in freezing winter conditions would doom many fresh off the plane from Southern Florida.
The idea that this great fraud was perpetrated by some rogue engineers never made much sense.
Even if we assume this is an accurate depiction of when the CEO was told, there almost had to be some degree of lower management complicity in this from the outset, even if it was in the form of setting impossible goals for employees, much like the Wells Fargo fake accounts debacle.
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The Geneva Convention prohibited the use of certain chemical attacks and .50 caliber ammunition on human combatants, and required the humane treatment of captured or wounded enemy combatants... after WWII.
It could be argued successfully that the signing of this grand treaty, by pretty much everyone (eventually) limited some of the aforementioned inhumane acts, yet violations persist.
Does the signing of such an advanced directive give anyone a true advantage, so much as it disadvantages those nations with the moral conviction to see their commitment through?
A good-sized iceberg might measure 3,000 x 1,500 x 600 feet. An iceberg that size contains somewhere around 20 billion gallons of fresh water.
A supertanker carries about two million barrels, or, 84 million gallons.
Assuming no water loss during ice melt (improbable) and subsequent water collection in the Arctic Circle, that's fuel for 238 supertankers + whatever energy is expended during the collection process... if you can tow and harvest the water, including melt losses, with less fuel consumption per harvested gallon than harvesting in the Arctic and subsequently shipping it, that's a win.
Unfortunately, it's done virtually everywhere.
Although California's almonds get a lot of the bad press, depleting the desert aquifers to grow hay and corn to feed slaughter cattle is similarly wasteful.
That's the worst argument for trying anything ever. "We really don't have a good feel for the feasibility of fucking this bison in the ass, so it seems like an experiment worth trying"
Pretty sure that's the origin story for "buffaloed".
Cheap labor may not vote early and often, but so far, they're infinitely more important at the ballot box than their robotic replacements.
The Magnus Robot Fighter, human/robot confrontation of the future might more likely develop from displaced lower class workers than an AI attempt at Overlord-ship.
Yeah, but at a store I get a receipt right then and there I can check and point out if there is an issue, and someone is there that can look at my cart right away to resolve it.
In this case, it'd be more like dealing with a credit card dispute which quite often ends with the consumer losing and the vendor keeping the money. If the system screwed up, say a camera didn't catch something like you putting something back, or miscounted how many you grabbed at once, then what? Anyone who you appealed to would also miss the count and you'd be screwed.
The 2018 State of Chargebacks Survey from Kount and Chargebacks911 found that, of the 82 percent of businesses that said they respond to chargebacks, half win 30 percent or fewer of their disputes, one-fifth of those merchants win fewer than 15 percent.Feb 1, 2018
And, for me at least, a good part of the reason I shop online beneath the umbrella of an Amazon or Newegg is the customer-friendly dispute resolution and generous return policies... it seems likely that their brick-and-mortar stores would continue this successful practice of customer appeasement, at least until a threshold number of disputes is reached by a single customer.
Conversely, this methodology would actually encourage Amazon (and others) to expand their robotic workforce so "what it's costing the rest of us" would increase... unless you have reason to believe Amazon is holding these workers back from getting better paying jobs elsewhere?
Looking at it another way, opponents of welfare-type benefits have lobbied variously for implementing drug-testing and community service work to receive these government pittances some call "handouts". Amazon and Walmart, et al, accomplish these two goals, and keep the cheap goods flowing for the nearly poor (middle class).
That's the equivalent of pulling down a cool $185 a week in West Virginia...
Champagne wishes and caviar dreams
Rothschild himself couldn't implement a better investment strategy.
Those silly shorts. They keep using Slashdot to drive down the stock. We all know that investment houses read Slashdot for investment advice!
That would, at least partially, explain the Bitcoin debacle.
How many people are capable of retiring like Xinshng Ma, at the top of his game, at 54 without injury, disease, or corporate coup?
Like our vaunted sports heroes, too many corporate demigods stay too long; stagnating, afraid to leave the comforts of the present to move on to the next adventure.
--Dude seriously needs to take a couple of weeks vacation somewhere private and calm down from the stress. But he's rich enough that it's difficult for his friends and family to call him on his shit.
A fine lesson there. No matter how gifted you are, do yourself a gigantic favor, and resist the temptation to surround yourself with yes-men... everyone benefits from a critical viewpoint now and then.
List of Data Breaches (that do not include Paypal) where customer's personal and credit card information were taken.
Or. Like you might explain it to a 5 year old: "Little Jimmy... You can hide your entire collection of transformers somewhere on the playground, and tell one trusted friend where they are, or the entire class. Which would you choose?"
Still a good interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Agreed.
It must be very difficult for Elon to deal with the pressures of the business side of his genius; especially since he seems to be cursed with control issues, making it difficult for him to delegate tasks, including the appointment of another CEO or two at his flagship companies.
Has he made some miscalculations recently? Sure. Can he rebound from this? Certainly. It's simply clear he has to prioritize time for what he's great at (inspiration and innovation) and learn to hand off to others what he can afford to delegate (daily business stress and decisions).
Personally, I hope he gets it together... there is a worldwide scarcity of visionaries who stand to make the earth a better place.
Since self-driving delivery trucking is clearly, on the order of crystal, more profitable for your online-goods-provider-overlord, perhaps it comes down to insurability. Once your automotive insurance companies collectively determine it is in their actuarial interest to back nonhuman automobile pilots, the lobbying effort will be insurmountable.
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas Watson, IBM
Self-driving vehicles are inevitably the future, should the human population of Earth continue as Alpha species, which seems quite likely.
Early technological setbacks are simply part of the evolution.
Kids aren't saying "awoke", just "woke". Get with it, grandad.
Disrespectful agrasswalker, get off my lawn.
Or. As the kids are saying, Awoke.
I won't even pretend to be intelligent enough to discern the ramifications of this development, yet it seems plausible this is a big advancement.
QWouldn't it be great if our ability to advance technology outpaced our tribalism-based predisposition towards self-destruction?
Frankly there's no good reason we can't all start jumping onto 100% renewable energy, we need to reinvest in our infrastructure anyway so on-site generation makes more sense all the time. Utilities hate the idea, less $. Republican oil-trolls hate the idea, less $. Nuclear slashdot apologist morons hate the idea, less shilling contract $. The idea that there's no subscriber model required for power is a foreign and hostile concept to these shortsighted pricks.
Isn't it worthy of consideration that renewable energy is sort of an all inclusive club, over a long enough time line.
Isn't it theoretically plausible the earth (and her sun) has enough lifespan remaining to sequester the carbon necessary for a future oil & gas boom in the year 165,002,018?
You're gonna have to keep your angry racist off-topic tirade down to 2 paragraphs max or I'm just not gonna even read it, ok?
Ironically, an angry, off-topic tirade might be just the thing to bait the press into distraction from its coverage of a scandal-ridden week or two for the POTUS.
There are certain groups that are really angry that young men are choosing to enjoy video games rather than go out in the world, get married, have children, and participate in society in the way they demand.
Perhaps then, they have a bigger axe to grind with pronhub.
It is in the interest of every business model to get more customers, and to get current customers to use the company's products more frequently.
It is in the interest of society to regulate business, through government interference, when it is determined the business promotion is to the detriment of the current societal belief set; but damn, everything's not a disease.
Gaming Disorder.?.? Just, wow. It's not your fault, you poor addict.
Won't do any good. It got 98F in Ontario this month and the pussies started dropping like flies. As in died. 98 is a LOW temp where I live. Come back when you enjoy a nice 121F in the shade, weaklings.
The weaklings can't handle our weather is a common misconception, whether it's being told in January in the Upper Peninsula or in July in El Paso.
Human bodies have a remarkable ability to acclimate to the weather where they find themselves. If it seems odd to folks living in West Texas that folks perish in northern cities during heat waves of 98F/37C, try to remember that shoveling the Newport, Vt snow in freezing winter conditions would doom many fresh off the plane from Southern Florida.
The idea that this great fraud was perpetrated by some rogue engineers never made much sense.
Even if we assume this is an accurate depiction of when the CEO was told, there almost had to be some degree of lower management complicity in this from the outset, even if it was in the form of setting impossible goals for employees, much like the Wells Fargo fake accounts debacle.
To be fair, California receives federal spending dollars more than any other State, by a lot.