The cloud is the ONLY way? How about flashh memory implants, genetic manipulation toincrease brain capacity, electronic plug-in interfaces where you could plug in new knowledge like a flash drive? All previously written about in sci-fi.
You misunderstand the purpose of intelligence. It is to gather information that may be useful to the government and analyze it. Some of that information is secret. Some of it is speculative. Most comes from open sources and the only secret thing about it is what the analysts think its implications are for security.
The thing is this is applied research with a defined goal that's kinda far out there. So a clear forecast of how long it will take and how much it will cost isn't possible. But this is a potentially a multi trillion dollar payout project. So a large expenditure for a low probability it will work may be justified.
Everybody except the Africans seems to have gotten some of the Neanderthal genes, so that says that the mixing of genes happened early or often or both. Maybe the low mix of Neanderthal genes is just due to the late-out-of-Africa people being more numerous or their genes being more advantageous. But the Neanderthal genes that are left are probably adaptive in some way. Possibly in dealing with cold weather, limited sunlight or non-tropical immune challenges. I read that there are a good number of possibly Neanderthal genes in European immune systems, and the Neanderthals had lived in more varied climates including the north during the last Ice Age so they were probably lighter-skinned and lighter haired than Africans, who were probably dark like they are today. Maybe all the genes for features that are atypical of Africans like light hair, light eyes and straight hair come through the Neanderthal lineage.
I'm a manager and I find scope creep works both ways. My job is largely protect my team from customers and sales guys who want to change the requirements AND to protect the sales guys and customers from coders who constantly want to leave out or do a halfassed implementation of important features. As much as possible I tell customers and salespeople that their requests are not in scope and would cause schedule delays and cost increases and I tell employees to implement the features as they were originally agreed with customers or sales.
Sales guys are generally a lot worse than customers. Customers generally know what they want and know they don't know what we can do. Sales guys don't know what customers want and don't know that they don't know what we can do.
Of the development guys, the most dependable are the firmware guys, who almost always have a clear idea what they can do with hardware. Then the hardware guys, who are prone to mistakes but know very well how much time it takes to design hardware to meet reasonably well-defined specs. At the bottom of the barrel are the software guys. They can do amazing things but have absolutely no idea how long it will take to do them and can't communicate their status to managers and can't communicate with customers (with a few blessed exceptions).
Really? A guy that suborned a US Army private to illegally give him access to classified diplomatic cables wouldn't do something if he didn't have a good case? Oh, wait he might sue ME now because I said he did something illegal that he has bragged that he did only I said that it is illegal. Well it IS illegal to do what he did. You might disagree with me about whether it ought to be illegal but there's no real question that it IS.
Yes, but isn't it generally considered that if they DO mate and produce fertile offspring "in the wild", they're the same species? Unless there's limited-interfertility issue, which can't be established now.
Technically they are considered a subspecies of Homo Sapiens, Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, or as a separate species altogether, Homo neanderthalensis.
Given the recent data that they're our recent ancestors, only the former makes sense.
Likely. But I suggest that we modify the election system as follows: Keep the current nominee system, but automatically put a citizen from the district selected at random on it as well.
That way, nobody ever gets a by. You always face at least one other person on the ballot.
Funny, but Maria is probably as Neanderthal as Arnold. What interests me is that the Neanderthal genes never made it back into Sub-Saharan Africa, which means that some Africans remained mostly separated from non-Africans for a quite a long time. Same goes for Micronesians and Austrailians, who have Denisovan genes that the rest of humanity doesn't have.
And I guess this explains how it is we managed to end up with noticeably tweaked physical features. If Europeans and Mid-East people had been exchanging a lot of genes with Sub-Saharan Africans (for example if there had been a lot of trade between Africa and Europe or if there had been migrations into Africa) you'd expect there to be less difference in skin and eye color and more variation of hair curliness among Africans.
Had there been more trade or immigration to Africa, Africans might look more like African-Americans, who have a mixture of African, European and other ancestry.
What could possibly go wrong? The cost/weight of high def video cameras and display screens isn't so bad, but the potential for failure is going to spook most pilots. They know that wires don't short out and make their windows go black...
On the other hand, a lot of aircraft could benefit from a low angle looking camera/screen so the pilot can see the runway clearly on approach.
Probably it's more practical to put the viewing systems in visors. If something goes wrong with the visor, you can raise it. You also would get the advantage of multiple cameras, multiple viewing angles, multi-spectral imaging (infrared and UV), etc, with a processor that cuts out any malfunctioning camera. Some such features are already available, but more limited than I envision. I can even imagine military applications where you put cameras on the wingtips, potentially giving pilots stereoscopic vision out to kilometers. That could be very handy for landing a plane on a carrier, or in a dogfight.
He can say whatever he likes because he's running unopposed. The people of his district just have to take it, or write in the name of somebody who's not certifiably insane.
Actually, I thought of one. Get rid of the window. Replace it with an array of video cameras and a big viewing screen. Put different color filters on each of the cameras and have a computer system that will turn off one of the cameras if it gets excessive amounts of light.
What do you mean? They're objecting to something you put in your body. That puts them right in line with the anti-drug crowd, which is notably unleftist.
Can we ALL just stop worrying about the things people put in (or have in) their bodies that does not affect us?
I have little sympathy for smokers. They know what they're doing to their bodies and they do it anyway.
But I have even less sympathy for tobacco companies. Those fuckers got my Dad and ten million other people hooked and killed him. Fuck them. I'd like to see every one of them sued out of existence and everyone who works for them unemployed and all their rich executives lined up and shot in the head after they're forced to give back every nickel they ever made to the people who got cancer or heart disease because of their evil product.
Issues? Did you say I have issues? You're damn right I have issues.
But refusing to hire smokers at all? That's stupid is what it is. Hire them and help them quit if they want help, and don't let them smoke on the job.
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What could go wrong?
The cloud is the ONLY way? How about flashh memory implants, genetic manipulation toincrease brain capacity, electronic plug-in interfaces where you could plug in new knowledge like a flash drive? All previously written about in sci-fi.
You misunderstand the purpose of intelligence. It is to gather information that may be useful to the government and analyze it. Some of that information is secret. Some of it is speculative. Most comes from open sources and the only secret thing about it is what the analysts think its implications are for security.
The thing is this is applied research with a defined goal that's kinda far out there. So a clear forecast of how long it will take and how much it will cost isn't possible. But this is a potentially a multi trillion dollar payout project. So a large expenditure for a low probability it will work may be justified.
Everybody except the Africans seems to have gotten some of the Neanderthal genes, so that says that the mixing of genes happened early or often or both. Maybe the low mix of Neanderthal genes is just due to the late-out-of-Africa people being more numerous or their genes being more advantageous. But the Neanderthal genes that are left are probably adaptive in some way. Possibly in dealing with cold weather, limited sunlight or non-tropical immune challenges. I read that there are a good number of possibly Neanderthal genes in European immune systems, and the Neanderthals had lived in more varied climates including the north during the last Ice Age so they were probably lighter-skinned and lighter haired than Africans, who were probably dark like they are today. Maybe all the genes for features that are atypical of Africans like light hair, light eyes and straight hair come through the Neanderthal lineage.
I'm a manager and I find scope creep works both ways. My job is largely protect my team from customers and sales guys who want to change the requirements AND to protect the sales guys and customers from coders who constantly want to leave out or do a halfassed implementation of important features. As much as possible I tell customers and salespeople that their requests are not in scope and would cause schedule delays and cost increases and I tell employees to implement the features as they were originally agreed with customers or sales.
Sales guys are generally a lot worse than customers. Customers generally know what they want and know they don't know what we can do. Sales guys don't know what customers want and don't know that they don't know what we can do.
Of the development guys, the most dependable are the firmware guys, who almost always have a clear idea what they can do with hardware. Then the hardware guys, who are prone to mistakes but know very well how much time it takes to design hardware to meet reasonably well-defined specs. At the bottom of the barrel are the software guys. They can do amazing things but have absolutely no idea how long it will take to do them and can't communicate their status to managers and can't communicate with customers (with a few blessed exceptions).
Really? A guy that suborned a US Army private to illegally give him access to classified diplomatic cables wouldn't do something if he didn't have a good case? Oh, wait he might sue ME now because I said he did something illegal that he has bragged that he did only I said that it is illegal. Well it IS illegal to do what he did. You might disagree with me about whether it ought to be illegal but there's no real question that it IS.
Considering our hominid ancestors did interbreed, most consequent approach would be to call them a single species.
Fixed that for you.
Yes, but isn't it generally considered that if they DO mate and produce fertile offspring "in the wild", they're the same species? Unless there's limited-interfertility issue, which can't be established now.
Technically they are considered a subspecies of Homo Sapiens, Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, or as a separate species altogether, Homo neanderthalensis.
Given the recent data that they're our recent ancestors, only the former makes sense.
Likely. But I suggest that we modify the election system as follows: Keep the current nominee system, but automatically put a citizen from the district selected at random on it as well.
That way, nobody ever gets a by. You always face at least one other person on the ballot.
Except that Neanderthals were also homo Sapiens. But they were more primitive in their technology, for whatever reason.
Funny, but Maria is probably as Neanderthal as Arnold. What interests me is that the Neanderthal genes never made it back into Sub-Saharan Africa, which means that some Africans remained mostly separated from non-Africans for a quite a long time. Same goes for Micronesians and Austrailians, who have Denisovan genes that the rest of humanity doesn't have.
And I guess this explains how it is we managed to end up with noticeably tweaked physical features. If Europeans and Mid-East people had been exchanging a lot of genes with Sub-Saharan Africans (for example if there had been a lot of trade between Africa and Europe or if there had been migrations into Africa) you'd expect there to be less difference in skin and eye color and more variation of hair curliness among Africans.
Had there been more trade or immigration to Africa, Africans might look more like African-Americans, who have a mixture of African, European and other ancestry.
What could possibly go wrong? The cost/weight of high def video cameras and display screens isn't so bad, but the potential for failure is going to spook most pilots. They know that wires don't short out and make their windows go black...
On the other hand, a lot of aircraft could benefit from a low angle looking camera/screen so the pilot can see the runway clearly on approach.
Probably it's more practical to put the viewing systems in visors. If something goes wrong with the visor, you can raise it. You also would get the advantage of multiple cameras, multiple viewing angles, multi-spectral imaging (infrared and UV), etc, with a processor that cuts out any malfunctioning camera. Some such features are already available, but more limited than I envision. I can even imagine military applications where you put cameras on the wingtips, potentially giving pilots stereoscopic vision out to kilometers. That could be very handy for landing a plane on a carrier, or in a dogfight.
He can say whatever he likes because he's running unopposed. The people of his district just have to take it, or write in the name of somebody who's not certifiably insane.
... and this is what we get. Any Congressman with a halfway credible opposition candidate wouldn't dare say something this stupid.
Send him to effing Guantanamo. Then close Guantanamo. Give it back to the Cubans. Let them deal with the scum we sent there.
Actually, I thought of one. Get rid of the window. Replace it with an array of video cameras and a big viewing screen. Put different color filters on each of the cameras and have a computer system that will turn off one of the cameras if it gets excessive amounts of light.
I didn't say it was an affordable solution.
It's a BEHAVIOR problem. There is no such thing as a technical solution to a behavior problem.
... but doesn't a new species of dinosaur sound a little far-fetched?
What do you mean? They're objecting to something you put in your body. That puts them right in line with the anti-drug crowd, which is notably unleftist.
Can we ALL just stop worrying about the things people put in (or have in) their bodies that does not affect us?
I have little sympathy for smokers. They know what they're doing to their bodies and they do it anyway.
But I have even less sympathy for tobacco companies. Those fuckers got my Dad and ten million other people hooked and killed him. Fuck them. I'd like to see every one of them sued out of existence and everyone who works for them unemployed and all their rich executives lined up and shot in the head after they're forced to give back every nickel they ever made to the people who got cancer or heart disease because of their evil product.
Issues? Did you say I have issues? You're damn right I have issues.
But refusing to hire smokers at all? That's stupid is what it is. Hire them and help them quit if they want help, and don't let them smoke on the job.
Sounds like bullshit.
More like you save about $5000 on gas over 120k miles.