My target result was reduction of temperature to eventually accommodate microorganisms. Reducing the greenhouse effect by reducing the CO2 content of the atmosphere is indirect. You Lagrange parasol does both in one swoop and I like it. Big plus, make the sunward side partially photovoltaic and you have abundant power for whatever you want.
Lethal atmosphere to humans, yes, but not to soil organisms that will form the basis of the food chain.
Venus would be fun to try to colonize. I'm thinking orbital construction of continent sized aerogel density catalysts, dropped slowly into the atmosphere, scrubbing it of carbon, releasing oxygen, and raining graphite while the catalyst dissolves like planetary cough drop.
You don't need Earth plants to grow on Mars. You need Mars plants that live happily on Mars. For that you need to start small and let the bigger pieces self-assemble. Seed that bitch with all sorts of little shit that digests inorganic matter and shits organic matter. If we can get to free living simple macroscopic organisms that are able to thrive in low light/low temperature/minimal atmosphere conditions of Mars we can splice up from there, adding for edibility or for the characteristics necessary to feed them into something that will turn them into edibles.
An atmosphere is a luxury. Food production is the necessary.
So since the whole slate will be swept clean eventually, lets make a mess! Send every organism we think might kickstart planetary life, no matter how small or insignificant, and then see what happens until the sun wipes us all out.
We're just wasting time right now. The more life the better. Want humans to see aliens? Well, we need to start growing them now! Want to know what it feels like to be responsible for an entirely new species? Want to see what evolution looks like? If you answered yes to any of these you should be in favor of sending Terran life everywhere it might have a chance to get a toehold.
This is the only way to terraform. At least the first time. We need *experience*. No plan will survive first contact with the environment so why have one?
I suggest throwing everything we can think of at the ol' red dustball and see what sticks. We need a foundation of microorganisms, the basic energy economy, over which we can layer and integrate successively higher life forms until we reach "food production." Once we have some little guys processing stuff and some respiration going on we can do some dart tossing with selected introductions and see if any of our predictions are accurate.
In essence all we are trying to do is re-create an evolution story on another planet, albeit with already evolved organisms. Think of all the organisms on this planet as our toolbox. With them we can recapitulate (with some modifications due to the differences in the planets) the story of our own Earth's journey.
I believe in panspermia. It's not an origin story. It's a policy.
I think terraforming is easier than most people think. I propose a test to settle this. Seed the atmosphere and soil of Mars with a smorgasbord of microorganisms and resilient colony organisms, everything from archaea to zooplankton. Let simmer for a few hundred thousand years.
I betcha some of them take root and form the base of the food chain.
Yeah that would be correct, if it wasn't both parties sending our children overseas to die for dubious reasons. Look at the congressional voting record and executive actions that result in military actions. When and while you undertake these actions, I want you to do something challenging and outside the norm: Be honest with yourself.
Hatred is one thing. Saying you support people who come here and then making sure they have no path to citizenship is completely another. Those hated Irish were citizens. They got a voice and a vote, and while they might have lived in fear of what some other citizen would do to them, they didn't have to live in constant fear of what the country's laws would do to them.
How can you miss the glaringly obvious differences? Are you too stupid to realize the difference between being a citizen and an illegal immigrant? I don't think so. I suspect you are trying your best to sidestep the issue because you have no way to rebut the facts.
OK, so what I am hearing you say is this "CNN, Reuters, AP news, NPR, and MSNBC are horrible news sources that Trump has co-opted and subverted to Russian control. No one can be trusted. I don't even know if I can be trusted. I swear I heard Russian voices from my toothpaste tube this morning. Are they in my head now?"
You have taken a logically sound position (distrust of politicians, government, and the press) and twisted it into an excuse to deny the veracity of any information you find undermines the house of cards you call a worldview. Go check out any news source you would like on this claim. No one, save you, disputes it.
Also, can we coin a new logical fallacy already for people who see NAZI's everywhere?
Your insanity aside, the truthfulness of the issue is really not at issue with respect to what I am stating. The Democrats at the State of the Union address weren't protesting the veracity of the information about jobless claims. They were upset that this happened under Republican control and wanted to make sure to turn a victory of the American people into a point of contention. They made it about themselves, not about We, The People, and in doing so fomented division, hatred, self hatred, disorientation to truth, and disorientation to authority.
I didn't expect Trump to speak for The People, to be their champion, to sing their victories and to point out how strong we are. That is the domain of the Democrats. Well, was the domain of Democrats, until they found their true religion and started selling division and hatred as their mainstay of party politics.
So yeah, telling me to not trust Trump is just finger exercise you pitiful nincompoop. Par for the course, of course. What I was deeply saddened by was the reaction by the Democrats. They wanted to make a statement, so they did. In doing so they showed me what they really think of us.
You saw the faces of the democrats during the state of the union address when Trump announced that black and Hispanic unemployment was at the lowest rate in history?
Instead of participating in a celebration of the Americans and our American spirit, can do attitude, and immense accomplishment, WHICH ALL OF US CREATED TOGETHER, they chose to stand stone faced, black clad, and disparaging. Great theater for the masses, and lo and behold, the media, the pundits and sick fucks all over the US ate it up.
If you were with them, with their faces and hearts, disparaging and criticizing, I want you to know that you have been chained up and beaten so much, your mind has been so broken, that you now love your abusers. These "leaders"...they took a huge steaming shit on the American people, right on our collective chest, in front of the whole world and recorded it for future generations to relive endlessly. And many of you took pride in it; supported it wholeheartedly. They told you *your* accomplishments mean nothing. They stole your agency from you. They made sure you know that only they are the triumphant ones. You get nothing save they give it to you. Even your happiness at the fact that people you know and love and want the best for can now support themselves and their families better than before...that there is now a new plateau to work forward from and achieve even more. You can't even have that...unless they let you. But they won't.
You poor beat down dog slaves, licking the hand of the one that beats you mercilessly and who rejoices to the sounds of your heart breaking apart. When they see you lashing out at everyone around you, condemning without just cause like they taught you to, and hating those that would see you succeed, then they know they have completely dominated your mind with their lies and broken your spirit with their abuse. You crave it like a drug and anyone who tries to keep you from it is your enemy. Fucking ridiculous fools, the lot of you.
These people are not leaders. Leaders empower others. These people sell only lies, hatred, and division and while you are sucking their poison down your throats, they line their own pockets at our expense. These fuckers aren't even affected by the economy, access to medical care, or worried about their retirement!!! They're fucking rich enough already, before they receive the princely imputation of government ascendancy at elected. Every single stinking one of them is so far removed from the true American experience they might as well be from another galaxy. And yet many of you let them speak for you, and when they do they pour derision and discontent all over the successes of the American people, all over yourselves, your pride, your incredible spirit and heart. And you eat it up, beg for more, even cheer them on. You poor simple bastards love it, and can't seem to live without it. I'm fucking dumbfounded at how you can take undeniable evidence of triumph, cooperation, positive change, and proof of how good American can be and let a gaggle of silver-spoon wielding would-be aristocrats tell you it means less than nothing and you should be ashamed of America in spite of your accomplishments. Fuck those people, and if you support this kind of civilization destroying self-hatred, fuck you too.
This isn't a zero-sum game. You don't have to take something away from someone else to get something for yourself.
All the while, liberals appeal to false freedom, encouraging more illegal immigration without taking responsibility for the lives of the people who come here illegally.
These people live in fear of authority every day. They work and contribute to society and the economy just like a regular American does, but cannot participate in America as if they were citizens. They cannot travel freely. They are not free to speak without fear of reprisals. They cannot legally own a firearm for self defense. Their person is not safe, nor are their effects. Deportation undermines due process and their right to compensation for property and money seized from them.
I think you see where I am going with this. If not I will put it plainly. The efforts to bolster illegal immigration create a sub-class of quasi-citizens who do not enjoy the freedoms and rights established as "inalienable" by our founders. They are slaves. Not to the whip, but to fear.
That there are Americans who will encourage people to come here without first doing their civic duty to preserve the health, well being, and freedom of these people is mind boggling to me. These same people cry and scream, shame everyone from our leaders to our law enforcement to anyone who believes in upholding the law, and blame everyone else for the vicious hardships and pain which befall those few illegal immigrants that are caught. And yet, not one will take responsibility for reforming immigration law and creating a system that works in conjunction with the unique pressures and stresses this country faces as the largest immigration portal in the world (by a staggering margin too!)
You want to talk about destroying America? The "left side" of the political spectrum in the US is intentionally importing victims, watching as they are eaten alive, and then holding up the bloody pieces saying "SEE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE!" when all along it was they who enabled the carnage, fomenting and fostering it at every step. That is the destruction of America. Complete and total disorientation to responsibility, the rule of law, our unique founding principles and the well being of innocent humans, combined with false compassion and a self-righteous callousness the likes of which I have never seen.
Fuck you. Fuck you all for being so self absorbed that you will use, abuse, and mutilate oppressed and desperate people, whose main fault is simply believing that America and Americans are now as they once were, as cannon fodder in a stale and played out game of "who can take the least responsibility." It's fucking sick, deeply sick and depraved, and I feel powerless to stop any of you from lying to yourselves while you wallow in your own filth.
You just described America for at least the last 100 years. Nothing has changed except you finally see what has been there all along.
I'm surrounded by sleeping fools who use emotion to perceive the world. The only reason many of you now see the writing that has been on the wall is because the person occupying the White House has made himself into a outre caricature of yourselves. He feeds you your own shit and you can't stand it. He shows you a mirror and you recoil in horror. He apes you and you damn him for acting...just...like...you.
At no point in my post did I either endorse or condemn the veracity of evolution or the Genesis account.
You're an excellent example of what I was referring to. You can't read two sentences in plain English without fucking it up completely. How could you be expected to understand something as academically dense as the evidence and conjecture surrounding the fossil record?
Without the ability to read, understand, and form a relevant and cogent reply, you're a terrible endorsement for anything you say you stand for.
I will give you this accolade. At least you aren't taking your inability to read and turning it into a whole new branch of religion.
So the data fed to train Watson wasn't from actual cases? Why does it matter what the computer prescribed, then? The system that is Watson is only as good as the data you feed it. Feed it fake information, get not even wrong results. Sounds more like a smear campaign,
intentionally designed to fail, and certainly not an experiment designed to measure Watson's recommendations against actual doctor recommendations.
Here's a better idea...
Feed the damn thing actual patient records with everything included from first immunization to the patient's ultimate death. If you are looking to see if there are any correlations that humans haven't already made you need to feed that sucker as much data as is inhumanly possible and then let it do the work.
What we have now is a pseudepigrapha of Watson's capabilities. Sure the results are from Watson, but they are not what Watson would do if given accurate, real life data to work with. They made a forgery of the system and put Watson's name on it.
We have thumbs, brains, and can run for freakin ever. We don't need to get close enough to bite something to kill it. Doing so is counterproductive most of the time, at least with animals of significant fractions of our body mass or larger.
"Biting apples is much easier with..." has so many faulty assumptions loaded into it, it isn't even wrong. Apples have not always been the same size as they are now. Apples aren't a staple food that people subsisted on and induced genetic changes. Sigh, there's so many layers of WTF in your statement I can't even.
Could it be considered the height of irony to jest at people so stupid they can't understand their own source material while appealing to an intensely academic idea like evolution?
Because the extension of copyright has created giant media company/organisms that amass catalogs of protected entertainment, never let it go, and use the money they charge for access to buy politicians and through them create laws that ensure the company/organism not only survives but grows.
You are one person who wants to watch a movie. Disney is an ungodly immortal monster with 74,000 human/cells fighting for its survival. Who do you think wins this battle?
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
Remember, about the time Assange freaked out Obama had just recently ordered a drone strike against a US citizen on foreign soil, murdering him. IF a sitting US president could kill assasinate a US citizen overseas what would stop him from doing the same or worse to Assange? I am sure that was part of Assange's logic and justifiable fear. In addition, Assange was being sought under the Espionage Act since late 2010, and in late 2011 the US painted him (flimsily) as an active participant in Chelsea Manning's attempts to gather intelligence. The US was obviously trying to create the impression he was an enemy of the state, and I am sure this was obvious to Assange more than anyone else.
I don't think the US Government is the good guy in this exchange. I don't think they have the capacity to tolerate an entity which will publish unvarnished truth from internal whistle-blowers. It is easy to see how anyone who seeks to expose illegal activity by the US government becomes a target. Assange knew the score. He's still alive, not in an supermax US prison, and not enduring torture at some rendition site. Good for him. Bad for us that he's been stifled.
One major US party has come out recently and quite vociferously in opposition to transparency in government officials communications. They have what seems to be universal support from their adherents.
Sentiments like "I may not agree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it," that show dedication to the principles that America was founded on, are being eroded by the same party. Similarly, the idea of a government that serves the people and is responsible to them, rather than one that the people live under and who they are beholden to, is being eradicated at an alarming rate. The Constitution was specific in circumscribing the federal government's powers, and yet, we see the American people continually transferring their freedoms to the domain of government control and then grousing and whinging when they can't get them back.
Maybe it's just time to be true to who we are as a people and admit that we are too distracted by the necessity of ever increasing work hours, infinite diversions, and self centered arrogance to participate properly in the Great Experiment. Just give up and let the freedoms this country was founded on disappear into the history books not as a failure, but as an indictment of our culture. I'm pretty sure it will work eventually, if we can ever conjure it again. It just doesn't work with American culture. It requires an understanding that our ignorant and selfish culture is now firmly opposed to.
I mean really, encouraging illegal immigration? Saying you are standing for the freedom of other people by encouraging them to come to the US illegally so they can live in perpetual fear as second class citizens? That belies a self-centered callousness to other human beings I can't even begin to rationalize. Instead of taking responsibility for the laws we have on the books, holding their own leaders accountable when they are in office, and changing the laws in our own country to promote freedom and liberty for all, these people try to place blame, point fingers, dissemble, and agitate. Then they use the human suffering they created through their refusal to hold their own government accountable, their own inaction, and their encouragement of illegal activity to push their political agenda and to empower their political party.
It is, without a doubt, the intentional creation of human suffering to manipulate political policy. I call that terrorism, YMMV. Whatever it is, it's not congruent with the America I want to live in, nor with the principles that created our Constitution. We do it with our drug laws too, our prison policies, or "justice" system....There is no compassion, no love, no understanding, no respect for freedom or self determination.
Sure, the debate is couched in relationship to those terms. Pejoratives are dispensed by the differing groups that appeal to these principles and point out their opponents lack of them. However, if dedication to those principles was really what was at stake, and they were really the most important thing to people, their actions would not include, among many other horrific things, turning the US into a honeypot where we torture, incarcerate, and abuse people who have already left intolerable circumstances and endured immeasurable hardship to come here.
So yeah, let's call the time of death on this thing and just get on with the overt oppression. I want a real enemy to fight. There are so many of you misguided and deluded former Americans sucking on the government's appendages and orifices that I can't get in a clear shot.
Government officials have been refining their tactics in this arena since Nixon hung himself with those tapes.
If it isn't one thing it will be another. Or, in other words, it's not the technology that creates the clandestine act, and even without it, the clandestine acts will continue. Focusing on the tech is another way to scapegoat the whole conversation and avoid the hard questions about how to eliminate this kind of behavior by our elected officials.
Sadly, I get the feeling that partisan people are in favor of this kind of behavior, as most of them see government as a blunt instrument with which to strike at the heads of anyone who believes differently than they do.
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My target result was reduction of temperature to eventually accommodate microorganisms. Reducing the greenhouse effect by reducing the CO2 content of the atmosphere is indirect. You Lagrange parasol does both in one swoop and I like it. Big plus, make the sunward side partially photovoltaic and you have abundant power for whatever you want.
Lethal atmosphere to humans, yes, but not to soil organisms that will form the basis of the food chain.
Venus would be fun to try to colonize. I'm thinking orbital construction of continent sized aerogel density catalysts, dropped slowly into the atmosphere, scrubbing it of carbon, releasing oxygen, and raining graphite while the catalyst dissolves like planetary cough drop.
You don't need Earth plants to grow on Mars. You need Mars plants that live happily on Mars. For that you need to start small and let the bigger pieces self-assemble. Seed that bitch with all sorts of little shit that digests inorganic matter and shits organic matter. If we can get to free living simple macroscopic organisms that are able to thrive in low light/low temperature/minimal atmosphere conditions of Mars we can splice up from there, adding for edibility or for the characteristics necessary to feed them into something that will turn them into edibles.
An atmosphere is a luxury. Food production is the necessary.
So since the whole slate will be swept clean eventually, lets make a mess! Send every organism we think might kickstart planetary life, no matter how small or insignificant, and then see what happens until the sun wipes us all out.
We're just wasting time right now. The more life the better. Want humans to see aliens? Well, we need to start growing them now! Want to know what it feels like to be responsible for an entirely new species? Want to see what evolution looks like? If you answered yes to any of these you should be in favor of sending Terran life everywhere it might have a chance to get a toehold.
Then we get to sit back and watch what happens!
This is the only way to terraform. At least the first time. We need *experience*. No plan will survive first contact with the environment so why have one?
I suggest throwing everything we can think of at the ol' red dustball and see what sticks. We need a foundation of microorganisms, the basic energy economy, over which we can layer and integrate successively higher life forms until we reach "food production." Once we have some little guys processing stuff and some respiration going on we can do some dart tossing with selected introductions and see if any of our predictions are accurate.
In essence all we are trying to do is re-create an evolution story on another planet, albeit with already evolved organisms. Think of all the organisms on this planet as our toolbox. With them we can recapitulate (with some modifications due to the differences in the planets) the story of our own Earth's journey.
I believe in panspermia. It's not an origin story. It's a policy.
I think terraforming is easier than most people think. I propose a test to settle this. Seed the atmosphere and soil of Mars with a smorgasbord of microorganisms and resilient colony organisms, everything from archaea to zooplankton. Let simmer for a few hundred thousand years.
I betcha some of them take root and form the base of the food chain.
Yeah that would be correct, if it wasn't both parties sending our children overseas to die for dubious reasons. Look at the congressional voting record and executive actions that result in military actions. When and while you undertake these actions, I want you to do something challenging and outside the norm: Be honest with yourself.
Hatred is one thing. Saying you support people who come here and then making sure they have no path to citizenship is completely another. Those hated Irish were citizens. They got a voice and a vote, and while they might have lived in fear of what some other citizen would do to them, they didn't have to live in constant fear of what the country's laws would do to them.
How can you miss the glaringly obvious differences? Are you too stupid to realize the difference between being a citizen and an illegal immigrant? I don't think so. I suspect you are trying your best to sidestep the issue because you have no way to rebut the facts.
OK, so what I am hearing you say is this "CNN, Reuters, AP news, NPR, and MSNBC are horrible news sources that Trump has co-opted and subverted to Russian control. No one can be trusted. I don't even know if I can be trusted. I swear I heard Russian voices from my toothpaste tube this morning. Are they in my head now?"
You have taken a logically sound position (distrust of politicians, government, and the press) and twisted it into an excuse to deny the veracity of any information you find undermines the house of cards you call a worldview. Go check out any news source you would like on this claim. No one, save you, disputes it.
Also, can we coin a new logical fallacy already for people who see NAZI's everywhere?
Your insanity aside, the truthfulness of the issue is really not at issue with respect to what I am stating. The Democrats at the State of the Union address weren't protesting the veracity of the information about jobless claims. They were upset that this happened under Republican control and wanted to make sure to turn a victory of the American people into a point of contention. They made it about themselves, not about We, The People, and in doing so fomented division, hatred, self hatred, disorientation to truth, and disorientation to authority.
I didn't expect Trump to speak for The People, to be their champion, to sing their victories and to point out how strong we are. That is the domain of the Democrats. Well, was the domain of Democrats, until they found their true religion and started selling division and hatred as their mainstay of party politics.
So yeah, telling me to not trust Trump is just finger exercise you pitiful nincompoop. Par for the course, of course. What I was deeply saddened by was the reaction by the Democrats. They wanted to make a statement, so they did. In doing so they showed me what they really think of us.
You saw the faces of the democrats during the state of the union address when Trump announced that black and Hispanic unemployment was at the lowest rate in history?
Instead of participating in a celebration of the Americans and our American spirit, can do attitude, and immense accomplishment, WHICH ALL OF US CREATED TOGETHER, they chose to stand stone faced, black clad, and disparaging. Great theater for the masses, and lo and behold, the media, the pundits and sick fucks all over the US ate it up.
If you were with them, with their faces and hearts, disparaging and criticizing, I want you to know that you have been chained up and beaten so much, your mind has been so broken, that you now love your abusers. These "leaders"...they took a huge steaming shit on the American people, right on our collective chest, in front of the whole world and recorded it for future generations to relive endlessly. And many of you took pride in it; supported it wholeheartedly. They told you *your* accomplishments mean nothing. They stole your agency from you. They made sure you know that only they are the triumphant ones. You get nothing save they give it to you. Even your happiness at the fact that people you know and love and want the best for can now support themselves and their families better than before...that there is now a new plateau to work forward from and achieve even more. You can't even have that...unless they let you. But they won't.
You poor beat down dog slaves, licking the hand of the one that beats you mercilessly and who rejoices to the sounds of your heart breaking apart. When they see you lashing out at everyone around you, condemning without just cause like they taught you to, and hating those that would see you succeed, then they know they have completely dominated your mind with their lies and broken your spirit with their abuse. You crave it like a drug and anyone who tries to keep you from it is your enemy. Fucking ridiculous fools, the lot of you.
These people are not leaders. Leaders empower others. These people sell only lies, hatred, and division and while you are sucking their poison down your throats, they line their own pockets at our expense. These fuckers aren't even affected by the economy, access to medical care, or worried about their retirement!!! They're fucking rich enough already, before they receive the princely imputation of government ascendancy at elected. Every single stinking one of them is so far removed from the true American experience they might as well be from another galaxy. And yet many of you let them speak for you, and when they do they pour derision and discontent all over the successes of the American people, all over yourselves, your pride, your incredible spirit and heart. And you eat it up, beg for more, even cheer them on. You poor simple bastards love it, and can't seem to live without it. I'm fucking dumbfounded at how you can take undeniable evidence of triumph, cooperation, positive change, and proof of how good American can be and let a gaggle of silver-spoon wielding would-be aristocrats tell you it means less than nothing and you should be ashamed of America in spite of your accomplishments. Fuck those people, and if you support this kind of civilization destroying self-hatred, fuck you too.
This isn't a zero-sum game. You don't have to take something away from someone else to get something for yourself.
All the while, liberals appeal to false freedom, encouraging more illegal immigration without taking responsibility for the lives of the people who come here illegally.
These people live in fear of authority every day.
They work and contribute to society and the economy just like a regular American does, but cannot participate in America as if they were citizens.
They cannot travel freely. They are not free to speak without fear of reprisals. They cannot legally own a firearm for self defense. Their person is not safe, nor are their effects. Deportation undermines due process and their right to compensation for property and money seized from them.
I think you see where I am going with this. If not I will put it plainly. The efforts to bolster illegal immigration create a sub-class of quasi-citizens who do not enjoy the freedoms and rights established as "inalienable" by our founders. They are slaves. Not to the whip, but to fear.
That there are Americans who will encourage people to come here without first doing their civic duty to preserve the health, well being, and freedom of these people is mind boggling to me. These same people cry and scream, shame everyone from our leaders to our law enforcement to anyone who believes in upholding the law, and blame everyone else for the vicious hardships and pain which befall those few illegal immigrants that are caught. And yet, not one will take responsibility for reforming immigration law and creating a system that works in conjunction with the unique pressures and stresses this country faces as the largest immigration portal in the world (by a staggering margin too!)
You want to talk about destroying America? The "left side" of the political spectrum in the US is intentionally importing victims, watching as they are eaten alive, and then holding up the bloody pieces saying "SEE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE!" when all along it was they who enabled the carnage, fomenting and fostering it at every step. That is the destruction of America. Complete and total disorientation to responsibility, the rule of law, our unique founding principles and the well being of innocent humans, combined with false compassion and a self-righteous callousness the likes of which I have never seen.
Fuck you. Fuck you all for being so self absorbed that you will use, abuse, and mutilate oppressed and desperate people, whose main fault is simply believing that America and Americans are now as they once were, as cannon fodder in a stale and played out game of "who can take the least responsibility." It's fucking sick, deeply sick and depraved, and I feel powerless to stop any of you from lying to yourselves while you wallow in your own filth.
You just described America for at least the last 100 years. Nothing has changed except you finally see what has been there all along.
I'm surrounded by sleeping fools who use emotion to perceive the world. The only reason many of you now see the writing that has been on the wall is because the person occupying the White House has made himself into a outre caricature of yourselves. He feeds you your own shit and you can't stand it. He shows you a mirror and you recoil in horror. He apes you and you damn him for acting...just...like...you.
At no point in my post did I either endorse or condemn the veracity of evolution or the Genesis account.
You're an excellent example of what I was referring to. You can't read two sentences in plain English without fucking it up completely. How could you be expected to understand something as academically dense as the evidence and conjecture surrounding the fossil record?
Without the ability to read, understand, and form a relevant and cogent reply, you're a terrible endorsement for anything you say you stand for.
I will give you this accolade. At least you aren't taking your inability to read and turning it into a whole new branch of religion.
Point taken, but Disney doesn't count. They own Congress.
That said, Google owned the previous presidential administration. I wonder how things are going with the new guy?
The contractors are paid $137.25 an hour, or their contract management company is paid $137.25 per hour, out of which the employee is paid less?
One wonders...
So the data fed to train Watson wasn't from actual cases? Why does it matter what the computer prescribed, then? The system that is Watson is only as good as the data you feed it. Feed it fake information, get not even wrong results. Sounds more like a smear campaign,
intentionally designed to fail, and certainly not an experiment designed to measure Watson's recommendations against actual doctor recommendations.
Here's a better idea...
Feed the damn thing actual patient records with everything included from first immunization to the patient's ultimate death. If you are looking to see if there are any correlations that humans haven't already made you need to feed that sucker as much data as is inhumanly possible and then let it do the work.
What we have now is a pseudepigrapha of Watson's capabilities. Sure the results are from Watson, but they are not what Watson would do if given accurate, real life data to work with. They made a forgery of the system and put Watson's name on it.
Shady, bro. Shady...
Those aren't toxic. Try again.
We have thumbs, brains, and can run for freakin ever. We don't need to get close enough to bite something to kill it. Doing so is counterproductive most of the time, at least with animals of significant fractions of our body mass or larger.
"Biting apples is much easier with..." has so many faulty assumptions loaded into it, it isn't even wrong. Apples have not always been the same size as they are now. Apples aren't a staple food that people subsisted on and induced genetic changes. Sigh, there's so many layers of WTF in your statement I can't even.
Could it be considered the height of irony to jest at people so stupid they can't understand their own source material while appealing to an intensely academic idea like evolution?
These people can't even read their Bible right.
The mildly toxic constituents of edible plant life provide some amazing cellular-level benefits which trickle up to the health of the whole organism.
Because the extension of copyright has created giant media company/organisms that amass catalogs of protected entertainment, never let it go, and use the money they charge for access to buy politicians and through them create laws that ensure the company/organism not only survives but grows.
You are one person who wants to watch a movie. Disney is an ungodly immortal monster with 74,000 human/cells fighting for its survival. Who do you think wins this battle?
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
Remember, about the time Assange freaked out Obama had just recently ordered a drone strike against a US citizen on foreign soil, murdering him. IF a sitting US president could kill assasinate a US citizen overseas what would stop him from doing the same or worse to Assange? I am sure that was part of Assange's logic and justifiable fear. In addition, Assange was being sought under the Espionage Act since late 2010, and in late 2011 the US painted him (flimsily) as an active participant in Chelsea Manning's attempts to gather intelligence. The US was obviously trying to create the impression he was an enemy of the state, and I am sure this was obvious to Assange more than anyone else.
I don't think the US Government is the good guy in this exchange. I don't think they have the capacity to tolerate an entity which will publish unvarnished truth from internal whistle-blowers. It is easy to see how anyone who seeks to expose illegal activity by the US government becomes a target. Assange knew the score. He's still alive, not in an supermax US prison, and not enduring torture at some rendition site. Good for him. Bad for us that he's been stifled.
One major US party has come out recently and quite vociferously in opposition to transparency in government officials communications. They have what seems to be universal support from their adherents.
Sentiments like "I may not agree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it," that show dedication to the principles that America was founded on, are being eroded by the same party. Similarly, the idea of a government that serves the people and is responsible to them, rather than one that the people live under and who they are beholden to, is being eradicated at an alarming rate. The Constitution was specific in circumscribing the federal government's powers, and yet, we see the American people continually transferring their freedoms to the domain of government control and then grousing and whinging when they can't get them back.
Maybe it's just time to be true to who we are as a people and admit that we are too distracted by the necessity of ever increasing work hours, infinite diversions, and self centered arrogance to participate properly in the Great Experiment. Just give up and let the freedoms this country was founded on disappear into the history books not as a failure, but as an indictment of our culture. I'm pretty sure it will work eventually, if we can ever conjure it again. It just doesn't work with American culture. It requires an understanding that our ignorant and selfish culture is now firmly opposed to.
I mean really, encouraging illegal immigration? Saying you are standing for the freedom of other people by encouraging them to come to the US illegally so they can live in perpetual fear as second class citizens? That belies a self-centered callousness to other human beings I can't even begin to rationalize. Instead of taking responsibility for the laws we have on the books, holding their own leaders accountable when they are in office, and changing the laws in our own country to promote freedom and liberty for all, these people try to place blame, point fingers, dissemble, and agitate. Then they use the human suffering they created through their refusal to hold their own government accountable, their own inaction, and their encouragement of illegal activity to push their political agenda and to empower their political party.
It is, without a doubt, the intentional creation of human suffering to manipulate political policy. I call that terrorism, YMMV. Whatever it is, it's not congruent with the America I want to live in, nor with the principles that created our Constitution. We do it with our drug laws too, our prison policies, or "justice" system....There is no compassion, no love, no understanding, no respect for freedom or self determination.
Sure, the debate is couched in relationship to those terms. Pejoratives are dispensed by the differing groups that appeal to these principles and point out their opponents lack of them. However, if dedication to those principles was really what was at stake, and they were really the most important thing to people, their actions would not include, among many other horrific things, turning the US into a honeypot where we torture, incarcerate, and abuse people who have already left intolerable circumstances and endured immeasurable hardship to come here.
So yeah, let's call the time of death on this thing and just get on with the overt oppression. I want a real enemy to fight. There are so many of you misguided and deluded former Americans sucking on the government's appendages and orifices that I can't get in a clear shot.
Government officials have been refining their tactics in this arena since Nixon hung himself with those tapes.
If it isn't one thing it will be another. Or, in other words, it's not the technology that creates the clandestine act, and even without it, the clandestine acts will continue. Focusing on the tech is another way to scapegoat the whole conversation and avoid the hard questions about how to eliminate this kind of behavior by our elected officials.
Sadly, I get the feeling that partisan people are in favor of this kind of behavior, as most of them see government as a blunt instrument with which to strike at the heads of anyone who believes differently than they do.
DID YOU KNOW:
The American people now beg their government for limited access to their "inalienable rights?"