Drunks crashed into Y2K? Or are you one of the fools that thinks it was a hoax, and all the hard work we did to avoid problems was just a billing scheme?
You don't appear to understand what "rock bottom" means.
Free in the sense that we can move from place to place and change jobs without checking in with the feds. We even hold our own passports and can leave the country unlike people in less-free countries.
Derps who fall for wingnut media seem to have a delusion that we've lost our freedom recently, when we've always had strange restrictions like Jim Crow, and the totally bonkers drug war, and remain as free and as restricted as ever.
I think the death throes of any party look like that. You get a brain-drain when everyone sensible is driven out by the extremists, which is why such a high percentage of current Republicans constantly beclown themselves by acting like poorly-raised pre-teens.
There are plenty of smart former-Republicans that would come back if the religious fanatics, conspiracy theorists, and hatemongers were gone, but I don't think there's anyone sane left with enough power in the party to force reform.
I'd say the greater problem with Reagan is how he courted religious extremists, that combined with the bigots brought in by Nixon's southern strategy, led to the devolution of the Republican party into the far-right-wing circus it is today.
I'd like to get back to having 2 sane parties to choose from, but I don't think the Republicans can recover since they're unwilling to show the bigots and crazies the door, and modernize their views so they can appeal to reasonable people.
>I never understood why people think a A.I. should learn any faster than a real child could.
I think that's because we're used to computers processing data much more quickly than we do. This probably wouldn't be true to early AIs, but we judge things on our personal experience, and we have no experience with AIs, so we go to the closest related thing, the computer.
If we could create a super-intelligent AI, it could scan the Internet to bring itself up to speed pretty quickly, and would probably be really into cat pictures.
Because they waited hours and hours until they decided to send the alert, and for some reason couldn't wait a few hours more. It's a shame, because they just forced a ton of people to opt out of the alerts.
If they're just grumbling, they're part of the problem. The effective response is to organize a bunch of annoyed parents and meet with the school admins to put an end to the non-emergency calls.
More like an alert that there's been a serious attack on our country or a major natural disaster. It's pure wingnut derp to suggest that it would be used to track the ignorant teabaggers.
No, we shouldn't allow an insane parent to annoy a whole city. They're obviously not rational, and an uninvolved person should stop the alert from going out in situations like this.
Insulting people who are more rational than you are just makes you look like an idiot.
A childs life is more important than one person's sleep, but not the whole world's sleep. I'm not sure where the line should be drawn, but it's somewhere between those extremes.
How does being woken by an alarm result in only a few minutes of lost sleep? Many will have lost however many hours are between the alert and their normal wake-up time.
The Guardian is a leftist rag, the Daily Fail is a reactionary rag, they both exist to keep their readers outraged and unthinking.
Don't let the dead trees fool you, they shouldn't be taken any more seriously than nutjob websites like Breitbart or Democratic Underground.
Are you advocating a welfare state that busses non-prisoners, or to not keep prisoners anymore? It'll have to be one or the other to resolve this imagined problem of yours.
I think they're saying they're the kind of person who doesn't give a damn about people locked up by the state, and that they like to pretend that not treating prisoners like rats is somehow an affront to non-prisoners.
A lot of people are just awful, and since being awful actually gets you rewards in the wingnut subculture, I don't see them improving until that whole culture collapses due to their inability to compete with educated people.
I agree with you, but isn't it the shareholder's fault if they're holding stock in a company that doesn't care about them?
If they're not happy about Yahoo's lack of focus or a plan, they should sell before the stock crashes.
Keep in mind that that's probably paranoid hysteria. We know that Snowden has made claims that are wild exaggerations at best, and that Greenwald is an "activist" rather than a journalist.
I think when the info comes out, all but the worse alex jones-style nuts will understand that this was all smoke, no fire.
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Drunks crashed into Y2K? Or are you one of the fools that thinks it was a hoax, and all the hard work we did to avoid problems was just a billing scheme?
You don't appear to understand what "rock bottom" means. Free in the sense that we can move from place to place and change jobs without checking in with the feds. We even hold our own passports and can leave the country unlike people in less-free countries. Derps who fall for wingnut media seem to have a delusion that we've lost our freedom recently, when we've always had strange restrictions like Jim Crow, and the totally bonkers drug war, and remain as free and as restricted as ever.
I think the death throes of any party look like that. You get a brain-drain when everyone sensible is driven out by the extremists, which is why such a high percentage of current Republicans constantly beclown themselves by acting like poorly-raised pre-teens. There are plenty of smart former-Republicans that would come back if the religious fanatics, conspiracy theorists, and hatemongers were gone, but I don't think there's anyone sane left with enough power in the party to force reform.
I'd say the greater problem with Reagan is how he courted religious extremists, that combined with the bigots brought in by Nixon's southern strategy, led to the devolution of the Republican party into the far-right-wing circus it is today. I'd like to get back to having 2 sane parties to choose from, but I don't think the Republicans can recover since they're unwilling to show the bigots and crazies the door, and modernize their views so they can appeal to reasonable people.
Not just the American people. Man is a story-telling animal, and most of those stories are fiction.
Maybe you should unplug your ethernet cable until you feel less obnoxious.
>I never understood why people think a A.I. should learn any faster than a real child could. I think that's because we're used to computers processing data much more quickly than we do. This probably wouldn't be true to early AIs, but we judge things on our personal experience, and we have no experience with AIs, so we go to the closest related thing, the computer. If we could create a super-intelligent AI, it could scan the Internet to bring itself up to speed pretty quickly, and would probably be really into cat pictures.
Because they waited hours and hours until they decided to send the alert, and for some reason couldn't wait a few hours more. It's a shame, because they just forced a ton of people to opt out of the alerts.
If they're just grumbling, they're part of the problem. The effective response is to organize a bunch of annoyed parents and meet with the school admins to put an end to the non-emergency calls.
More like an alert that there's been a serious attack on our country or a major natural disaster. It's pure wingnut derp to suggest that it would be used to track the ignorant teabaggers.
Notifying everybody isn't necessarily a bad idea, but do it over a free text message, don't make people's phones shriek in the night.
I see no reason not to set off an alert every 40 seconds on the phones of the asshats who think this alert was appropriate.
No, we shouldn't allow an insane parent to annoy a whole city. They're obviously not rational, and an uninvolved person should stop the alert from going out in situations like this. Insulting people who are more rational than you are just makes you look like an idiot.
A childs life is more important than one person's sleep, but not the whole world's sleep. I'm not sure where the line should be drawn, but it's somewhere between those extremes. How does being woken by an alarm result in only a few minutes of lost sleep? Many will have lost however many hours are between the alert and their normal wake-up time.
That information is useless. A user needs to be able to turn this off on a stock cellphone.
The Guardian is a leftist rag, the Daily Fail is a reactionary rag, they both exist to keep their readers outraged and unthinking. Don't let the dead trees fool you, they shouldn't be taken any more seriously than nutjob websites like Breitbart or Democratic Underground.
Are you advocating a welfare state that busses non-prisoners, or to not keep prisoners anymore? It'll have to be one or the other to resolve this imagined problem of yours.
I think they're saying they're the kind of person who doesn't give a damn about people locked up by the state, and that they like to pretend that not treating prisoners like rats is somehow an affront to non-prisoners. A lot of people are just awful, and since being awful actually gets you rewards in the wingnut subculture, I don't see them improving until that whole culture collapses due to their inability to compete with educated people.
I agree with you, but isn't it the shareholder's fault if they're holding stock in a company that doesn't care about them? If they're not happy about Yahoo's lack of focus or a plan, they should sell before the stock crashes.
Not really, but many ignorant people who have been tricked by their own superstitions and insular worldview into voting Republican think so.
Not really. That's just obvious derp.
It turned out that the organism wasn't really substituting arsenic for phosphorus, the researcher was just incompetent, and still is. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/07/120709-arsenic-space-nasa-science-felisa-wolfe-simon/
Keep in mind that that's probably paranoid hysteria. We know that Snowden has made claims that are wild exaggerations at best, and that Greenwald is an "activist" rather than a journalist. I think when the info comes out, all but the worse alex jones-style nuts will understand that this was all smoke, no fire.
All we have to do is put some desks in the server rooms to accomplish that. Linux is very popular where most of the computing is actually done.
Rough office. If a lead acted that way at my work, they'd just be replaced with a professional.