You would pay attention to balancing them off each other but not necessarily try to make them kill each other off. You don't have to be a psychopath in order to be a realist but it's possible An example of balancing would be Russia vs China. We used to do a good job there. Now not quite so.
I don't really feel like being honest about this, it would dilute the idea:) And I can plead ignorance because I've never used anything else than the safety razor!
The serious part though is that the increase in revenue is really large. There's no need to deny the added value of the newer razors for that.
What a brilliant marketing. Instead of the basic cheap gear with replaceable single blades people now use disposable razors with 5 blades which look like an F1 car. Imagine the increase of revenue that means.
But Russia is now more dark and foreboding than during the cold war. They think we're reckless warmongers and if there's war they'd better be prepared.So I wouldn't be surprised they're very active in cyberspace. The problem I have is that our secret services appear to be totally unconcerned about our interests and they'll deceive us all the time if it suits them.They're not working for us.
It's complicated. We tried hard to keep the modding algorithm credible and coded in human flaws but in the end nobody understood how it worked anymore.
You're on to us. Actually the Russian trolls are the only commenters left on this site. And bots of course. It's a honeypot site for the occasional visitor who strays onto the site. I spend most of the time quarrelling with myself under different ids in the hope I manage to trap a visitor. It's a lot of work.
I know. But the sarin case was wrong and VX is just a guess. The chlorine cases could have happened because they plain industrial ingredients and are so far removed from 'WMD', these cases could also be revisited.
I agree with a lot here. In the time they had a philosophy and now they don't. Now they're just doing 'realist politics'. I appreciate a few realist political theorists (Walt, Mearsheimer) so I can live with that. I don't agree maintaining the war is a good outcome, I'm not that cynical. But I agree maintaining the war has been the aim, to the extent the aim was not to overthrow Assad. Now things escalate because as they say 'Assad threatens peace'.
I agree Russia does play the game well in this instance, but the analysts I pay attention to (and people like Stephen Cohen and Gilbert Doctorow are treated as Russian shills) emphasize the sense of impending doom in Russia. That there is going to be war. At this time the task for the opposition is still clear: set up another incident. Assad is winning, the population is more and more on his side, the presence of the US becomes untenable. The US is controlling most of the Syrian oil , for what reason again? Meanwhile the warmongers will claim with some reason that the restrained attack has only had downsides so they'll insist on going all out. This is far from over.
I should remind people that Obama considered it his best decision not to escalate in Syria and one of his worst was Libya. He refused to go to war with Syria against the pressure of what he called 'the Washington playbook', which means just about everyone around him. I believe Trump has shown the right instincts (it's not clear if he's capable of more than that) in his statements on Afghanistan, Syria, Russia and North Korea before his election, but he is much weaker than Obama and he's easily manipulated. There are those who claim that it was Mattis who did most in avoiding war. This time.
I'm saying the in the cold war the Russian threat was more real so where's the disagreement. If you know Orwell's 'freedom of the press' article you also know that after the war there was too much goodwill and self censorship in the UK towards Russia.
Western level of propaganda now has gone through the roof. We've become a propaganda society. The WMD claims are a good example. Maybe I'm overstating but I would claim that in the last 25 years it has been clear to all regimes that if you have any semblance of a WMD program and it is not really potent - like a fully developed nuclear arsenal, then it can be used as a pretext to attack you. Chemical weapons programs are orders of magnitude less potent than nukes and certainly chlorine. That is why Qadaffi decided to give up his fledgling nuclear program 15 years ago. That is why Assad was ready to give up his chemical weapons program. That is also why , when Obama drew a red line about chemical weapons in 2012 everyone in the opposition knew what to do: arrange an incident. And Assad knew what to do: too many downsides to actually using chemical weapons. Not worth it. This is not an issue of 'Assad is not that cruel'. It is 'no regime is that stupid'.
With the last incident there have at least been two British generals willing to point out that this was not credible (listed on this page https://timhayward.wordpress.c... , the owner of the page has meanwhile had his moment on the Times front page, accusing him of being a Russian asset). There is military value sometimes to using chemical weapons but in this case Ghouta was about to fall and it was entirely redundant.
And then here are two headlines in the NYTimes from today: "Pentagon Says Syria Strikes Hit ‘Heart’ of Chemical Weapons Program". What program? "A Hard Lesson in Syria: Assad Can Still Gas His Own People". If Assad had a chemical weapons program it could be verified. There are no such claims. No accusations of suspected sites. And ‘Mission Accomplished!’ But What Is the Mission in Syria?' starts with : 'The strike on chemical arms sites reflected President Trump’s competing impulses:...' There are no such sites.
I think the nature of the Russian threat is different now and the level of the propaganda has gone up. One easily forgets that McCarthyism happened in a real cold war environment. There were some valid reasons. Now there has been an escalation which can be better described as 'Russian insubordination' while in the west the Russians are actually not taken seriously as a threat. When the politicians in the west show so little fear to escalate it becomes very hard to avoid a war with Russia. And it will be our last war. It reminds me too much of the typical rattlesnake victim whose last words are 'hold my beer and watch this!'.
I'm already modded as troll. Could be someone's sense of humor.
All dissent from the official line should be dismissed as Russian trolls.
And you can bet it will work. There's also an awful lot wrong with the official line. The US just has just performed an completely unlawful act of aggression against another state. You want to impeach Trump, there's a valid reason. Instead the only claim is that he's not going far enough.
The way the funding for the military system works, especially in the US , is it is relatively easy so siphon off a lot of money for armament and operations but human resources are more difficult to handle. You can't be wasteful with them and they wear out. Privatization can mitigate this somewhat but in the end it has the same problems. If robots can replace humans there are less restraints, more freedom, and more money to pump into the system.
There is some value in that. Russia nor China may be weak at power projection at this time and they won't consider expansion but especially Russia is capable of wiping us all out in a matter of hours. We may even find out about that in the coming days if the conflict in Syria escalates.
As soon as lawyers are involved it becomes hard to avoid weaseling. I see two places. I understand his statement as "we won't record behind your back but as soon as you record anything or share it, it's ours to scavenge." This may already lead to surprising end user scenarios. The other weaseling is in 'better service'. I imagine that at some level of implementation they do voice to text conversion and feed that in to the text processing algorithms. The voice to text doesn't have to be perfect for that and it's a standard feature in youtube by now . More data could be mined if they see potential use for it, even if this potential use comes in the form of 'there are always idiots who think more data means more value'. The NSA has for a very long time logged voice patterns which they can match fairly well with recordings to identify people automatically. To use a simple example, any recording of Bin Laden would have said anywhere would have been detected automatically. I assume it exists at least in an experimental stage on the market as well.
A fleet of Teslas out there it would represent an interesting amount of buffer capacity, and buffer capacity is very important. With a realtime market price driven mechanism the batteries could be charged when electricity is cheap and discharged when it is expensive(the cost of electricity fluctuates all day long and at peak moments it is very high) . This would be more than an emergency standby but the idea of the emergency buffer is certainly part of it.
Anything is possible of course, but if you want a best guess.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Binney is one of the real guys. The guys who've been penetrating all the networks are from the US not Russia.
It's true that the RSS feed single account twitter feed would account as a bot and it could muddle the discussion but it would be odd if Pew would mess up the analysis by including these in the 'scattergun bot' group. This page says the verified accounts from news sites do not affect the results because their contribution is insignificant http://www.pewinternet.org/201...
That is not true. Under Obama there were even cases where the Democrats ridiculed Republicans who demonized Russia. Obama certainly was not enthusiastic about escalating tensions with Russia until the end. Clinton herself supported the 'let's not degrade relations too much' reset initiative in 2009 and she's on the far hawkish side of the spectrum. Afterwards she went all out though and I'm certain that's out of self interest. If there's one article I'd recommend on the deterioration of ties iwth Russia it would be Mearsheimer in Foreign Policy. He's a hardcore realist. https://www.foreignaffairs.com... One of his most remarkable claims(and I believe it) is that much of the expansion of the Nato was not driven by anti-Russia paranoia.
Indictments built upon solid evidence indicate it's not a witch hunt.
Not necessarily a witch hunt but in this case yes it is. The avalanche of accusations against Trump and Russia are the equivalent of throwing shit against the wall and finding out what sticks. And so in fact is the council of investigation. There are a few people accused of lying now. Well that's a big deal is it, these people lie as they breathe. The purpose of the council is to apply pressure. Now there's an indictment for a russian troll farm and for what, attempting to sow dissent. Compare that to the original claims of collusion. Now the Russians weren't even trying to elect Trump anymore. Cambridge Analytica is interesting because , well just check the clients of their parent company, they include the Pentagon . I don't know if this guy should be called a whistleblower because it's not as if this damages their reputation, rather the opposite. They would pay him to do what he's doing.
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Actually that was a joke. Are you sure you're not an AI yourself? I mean, would you know?
Yes, that was another joke.
Having witnessed humans assemble IKEA furniture I can testify that this robot achievement is far more impressive than the aim of sentience.
You would pay attention to balancing them off each other but not necessarily try to make them kill each other off. You don't have to be a psychopath in order to be a realist but it's possible
An example of balancing would be Russia vs China. We used to do a good job there. Now not quite so.
I don't really feel like being honest about this, it would dilute the idea :) And I can plead ignorance because I've never used anything else than the safety razor!
The serious part though is that the increase in revenue is really large. There's no need to deny the added value of the newer razors for that.
What a brilliant marketing. Instead of the basic cheap gear with replaceable single blades people now use disposable razors with 5 blades which look like an F1 car. Imagine the increase of revenue that means.
And yes I still use the oldfashioned gear...
But Russia is now more dark and foreboding than during the cold war. They think we're reckless warmongers and if there's war they'd better be prepared.So I wouldn't be surprised they're very active in cyberspace.
The problem I have is that our secret services appear to be totally unconcerned about our interests and they'll deceive us all the time if it suits them.They're not working for us.
It's complicated. We tried hard to keep the modding algorithm credible and coded in human flaws but in the end nobody understood how it worked anymore.
You're on to us. Actually the Russian trolls are the only commenters left on this site. And bots of course. It's a honeypot site for the occasional visitor who strays onto the site. I spend most of the time quarrelling with myself under different ids in the hope I manage to trap a visitor. It's a lot of work.
Damn, now I'm jealous. I thought I was pretty fluent at irony but now I see others reached the 'post ironic' stage.
I know. But the sarin case was wrong and VX is just a guess. The chlorine cases could have happened because they plain industrial ingredients and are so far removed from 'WMD', these cases could also be revisited.
I agree with a lot here. In the time they had a philosophy and now they don't. Now they're just doing 'realist politics'. I appreciate a few realist political theorists (Walt, Mearsheimer) so I can live with that.
I don't agree maintaining the war is a good outcome, I'm not that cynical. But I agree maintaining the war has been the aim, to the extent the aim was not to overthrow Assad. Now things escalate because as they say 'Assad threatens peace'.
I agree Russia does play the game well in this instance, but the analysts I pay attention to (and people like Stephen Cohen and Gilbert Doctorow are treated as Russian shills) emphasize the sense of impending doom in Russia. That there is going to be war.
At this time the task for the opposition is still clear: set up another incident. Assad is winning, the population is more and more on his side, the presence of the US becomes untenable. The US is controlling most of the Syrian oil , for what reason again? Meanwhile the warmongers will claim with some reason that the restrained attack has only had downsides so they'll insist on going all out. This is far from over.
I should remind people that Obama considered it his best decision not to escalate in Syria and one of his worst was Libya. He refused to go to war with Syria against the pressure of what he called 'the Washington playbook', which means just about everyone around him. I believe Trump has shown the right instincts (it's not clear if he's capable of more than that) in his statements on Afghanistan, Syria, Russia and North Korea before his election, but he is much weaker than Obama and he's easily manipulated. There are those who claim that it was Mattis who did most in avoiding war. This time.
I'm saying the in the cold war the Russian threat was more real so where's the disagreement. If you know Orwell's 'freedom of the press' article you also know that after the war there was too much goodwill and self censorship in the UK towards Russia.
Western level of propaganda now has gone through the roof. We've become a propaganda society. The WMD claims are a good example. Maybe I'm overstating but I would claim that in the last 25 years it has been clear to all regimes that if you have any semblance of a WMD program and it is not really potent - like a fully developed nuclear arsenal, then it can be used as a pretext to attack you. Chemical weapons programs are orders of magnitude less potent than nukes and certainly chlorine.
That is why Qadaffi decided to give up his fledgling nuclear program 15 years ago. That is why Assad was ready to give up his chemical weapons program. That is also why , when Obama drew a red line about chemical weapons in 2012 everyone in the opposition knew what to do: arrange an incident. And Assad knew what to do: too many downsides to actually using chemical weapons. Not worth it. This is not an issue of 'Assad is not that cruel'. It is 'no regime is that stupid'.
With the last incident there have at least been two British generals willing to point out that this was not credible (listed on this page https://timhayward.wordpress.c... , the owner of the page has meanwhile had his moment on the Times front page, accusing him of being a Russian asset). There is military value sometimes to using chemical weapons but in this case Ghouta was about to fall and it was entirely redundant.
And then here are two headlines in the NYTimes from today: ...'
"Pentagon Says Syria Strikes Hit ‘Heart’ of Chemical Weapons Program".
What program?
"A Hard Lesson in Syria: Assad Can Still Gas His Own People".
If Assad had a chemical weapons program it could be verified. There are no such claims. No accusations of suspected sites.
And ‘Mission Accomplished!’ But What Is the Mission in Syria?' starts with :
'The strike on chemical arms sites reflected President Trump’s competing impulses:
There are no such sites.
I think the nature of the Russian threat is different now and the level of the propaganda has gone up. One easily forgets that McCarthyism happened in a real cold war environment. There were some valid reasons. Now there has been an escalation which can be better described as 'Russian insubordination' while in the west the Russians are actually not taken seriously as a threat. When the politicians in the west show so little fear to escalate it becomes very hard to avoid a war with Russia. And it will be our last war. It reminds me too much of the typical rattlesnake victim whose last words are 'hold my beer and watch this!'.
I'm already modded as troll. Could be someone's sense of humor.
All dissent from the official line should be dismissed as Russian trolls.
And you can bet it will work.
There's also an awful lot wrong with the official line. The US just has just performed an completely unlawful act of aggression against another state. You want to impeach Trump, there's a valid reason. Instead the only claim is that he's not going far enough.
The way the funding for the military system works, especially in the US , is it is relatively easy so siphon off a lot of money for armament and operations but human resources are more difficult to handle. You can't be wasteful with them and they wear out.
Privatization can mitigate this somewhat but in the end it has the same problems. If robots can replace humans there are less restraints, more freedom, and more money to pump into the system.
There is some value in that. Russia nor China may be weak at power projection at this time and they won't consider expansion but especially Russia is capable of wiping us all out in a matter of hours. We may even find out about that in the coming days if the conflict in Syria escalates.
As soon as lawyers are involved it becomes hard to avoid weaseling. I see two places. I understand his statement as "we won't record behind your back but as soon as you record anything or share it, it's ours to scavenge." This may already lead to surprising end user scenarios. The other weaseling is in 'better service'.
I imagine that at some level of implementation they do voice to text conversion and feed that in to the text processing algorithms. The voice to text doesn't have to be perfect for that and it's a standard feature in youtube by now . More data could be mined if they see potential use for it, even if this potential use comes in the form of 'there are always idiots who think more data means more value'. The NSA has for a very long time logged voice patterns which they can match fairly well with recordings to identify people automatically. To use a simple example, any recording of Bin Laden would have said anywhere would have been detected automatically. I assume it exists at least in an experimental stage on the market as well.
A fleet of Teslas out there it would represent an interesting amount of buffer capacity, and buffer capacity is very important. With a realtime market price driven mechanism the batteries could be charged when electricity is cheap and discharged when it is expensive(the cost of electricity fluctuates all day long and at peak moments it is very high) . This would be more than an emergency standby but the idea of the emergency buffer is certainly part of it.
That is mildly ironic because in general any mention of 'Palestine' is considered reason enough to delete a video. Or a twitter or facebook account.
I thought the general rule was:don't backtrack just spend more on your PR. It's not as if the Patriot missiles or the F35 suddenly stopped selling.
Anything is possible of course, but if you want a best guess..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Binney is one of the real guys. The guys who've been penetrating all the networks are from the US not Russia.
It's true that the RSS feed single account twitter feed would account as a bot and it could muddle the discussion but it would be odd if Pew would mess up the analysis by including these in the 'scattergun bot' group. This page says the verified accounts from news sites do not affect the results because their contribution is insignificant http://www.pewinternet.org/201...
That is not true. Under Obama there were even cases where the Democrats ridiculed Republicans who demonized Russia. Obama certainly was not enthusiastic about escalating tensions with Russia until the end.
Clinton herself supported the 'let's not degrade relations too much' reset initiative in 2009 and she's on the far hawkish side of the spectrum. Afterwards she went all out though and I'm certain that's out of self interest.
If there's one article I'd recommend on the deterioration of ties iwth Russia it would be Mearsheimer in Foreign Policy. He's a hardcore realist.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com...
One of his most remarkable claims(and I believe it) is that much of the expansion of the Nato was not driven by anti-Russia paranoia.
Not necessarily a witch hunt but in this case yes it is. The avalanche of accusations against Trump and Russia are the equivalent of throwing shit against the wall and finding out what sticks. And so in fact is the council of investigation. There are a few people accused of lying now. Well that's a big deal is it, these people lie as they breathe. The purpose of the council is to apply pressure. Now there's an indictment for a russian troll farm and for what, attempting to sow dissent. Compare that to the original claims of collusion. Now the Russians weren't even trying to elect Trump anymore.
Cambridge Analytica is interesting because , well just check the clients of their parent company, they include the Pentagon . I don't know if this guy should be called a whistleblower because it's not as if this damages their reputation, rather the opposite. They would pay him to do what he's doing.