Seriously, the Dems have been playing this game for as long as I have been watching politics, and that was with Reagan. I'm old enough to remember when a Supreme Court nominee was attacked with completely unsubstantiated claims of rape, and then gang rape. There is a reason that this process is named after a CONSERVATIVE Supreme Court Justice nominee. You're precious Dem governor has been borked.
Ever tried to carry around a case of glass bottles? Even with nothing in them, they are heavy. Now, consider a truckload of them. The industry moved away from glass bottles, because not only was the collection, breakage and cleaning expensive, but toting them out to where the customer could get them was also expensive.
Once you consider the total life cycle, sometimes disposable is actually much cheaper.
Paper is never made from old growth forest. A paper mill doesn't want your randomly sized tree trunks that the owls were homesteading. The want small, evenly sized pines from a tree farm. They don't want the processing headache of not having every trunk being nearly the exact same size, and the trees are farmed like corn.
The energy expended sending trucks around to pick up the "stuff" and then process it is significant.
A modern landfill is not a place to "fill the land". It is a waste processing system that convert bio mass to energy. A hole is coated with clay, perforated pipes are laid, and "stuff" is piled on top. More pipes are laid, and the whole thing covered in plastic. Leachate is pumped in with enzymes that will break anything organic down into methane. The methane is collected through the pipes and pumped to a generator. Collecting the paper with last night's food scraps requires only ONE truck, fewer people, and the whole gets converted to very green electricity.
"climate research" by detecting cyclones in climate models? What's the point in that? So, that they can predict when the models don't match up to reality? I guess that could be useful for grading the models and determining which have any actual predictive qualities; otherwise, why wouldn't they turn the AI to recognizing cyclones in real weather, and using that to predict tornadoes so that we could shoot that damn butterfly.
The American Federal Legislature has been allowed to shirk their duty for far too long. The plan was that representatives, representing the people and the states, would convene in DC and create the laws that would govern our country. This premise has been almost wholly abandoned, and the power slowly handed over to the Executive branch which is slowly approaching a monarchy.
I look forward to the representative branch of our government developing a spine and clawing back some of their power. Maybe DACA will be next up.
They didn't turn around and run away, therefore it's their fault!? They responded to stupidity with mockery, so they'r racists? Don't you have a road to block with your Antifa buddies, where you uses racial epithets to call other people racists?
I doubt this will work, but it may actually advance the field of AI in an interesting way.
One way to describe an intelligent person is to consider if they can look at a situation and predict the outcome. But, there are multiple ways to come to that conclusion. A person can look at socialism and determine that the end result is totalitarianism. Was the determination arrived at by looking at the history of socialist attempts. Or, did the person construct a logical model of human interactions and see the logical conclusion?
It is the second method that is more robust and would be described as intelligent or wise, vs the former which would be considered "educated"(?)/"trained"(?). There is no indication that it does, but I would think that the AI would have to be trained on the merging of trends instead of dictionary data, which would be a great advancement in all the AI I've ever seen.
Venezuela ended the way all socialism must end. When you put a small group of people in charge of deciding how all buying and selling happens, it takes all of a microsecond for them to figure out that they can use that power to benefit themselves and their friends. There is no way out of it. Socialism ends with despots dividing the spoils of the masses between themselves.
Is there a counter lawsuit that he knew or should have known that there was a possibility of his phone being hacked and the microphone turned on without his knowledge, and that he failed to take reasonable precautions by not having the phone in the room with him?
I mean, it is not like there has not been a plethora of reports and sci-fi films of this actually happening. There are actually apps out there for turning off microphones and video cameras. I know people that have tape over their cameras, and cameras are sold with a sliding door to cover them.
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Salting the fields, or returning tit for tat?
Seriously, the Dems have been playing this game for as long as I have been watching politics, and that was with Reagan. I'm old enough to remember when a Supreme Court nominee was attacked with completely unsubstantiated claims of rape, and then gang rape. There is a reason that this process is named after a CONSERVATIVE Supreme Court Justice nominee. You're precious Dem governor has been borked.
Welcome to the game rules that you set.
As opposed to most of history, when you caught cancer and just died?
At least he has the choice of living with bankruptcy.
Or....
Setup a magnetic field around the ship. That's how the earth does it.
Ever tried to carry around a case of glass bottles? Even with nothing in them, they are heavy. Now, consider a truckload of them. The industry moved away from glass bottles, because not only was the collection, breakage and cleaning expensive, but toting them out to where the customer could get them was also expensive.
Once you consider the total life cycle, sometimes disposable is actually much cheaper.
Nah. Cardboard is never that slimey.
Recycling paper products is STUPID.
Yeah. I said it.
Paper is never made from old growth forest. A paper mill doesn't want your randomly sized tree trunks that the owls were homesteading. The want small, evenly sized pines from a tree farm. They don't want the processing headache of not having every trunk being nearly the exact same size, and the trees are farmed like corn.
The energy expended sending trucks around to pick up the "stuff" and then process it is significant.
A modern landfill is not a place to "fill the land". It is a waste processing system that convert bio mass to energy. A hole is coated with clay, perforated pipes are laid, and "stuff" is piled on top. More pipes are laid, and the whole thing covered in plastic. Leachate is pumped in with enzymes that will break anything organic down into methane. The methane is collected through the pipes and pumped to a generator. Collecting the paper with last night's food scraps requires only ONE truck, fewer people, and the whole gets converted to very green electricity.
Stop the recycling nonsense.
"climate research" by detecting cyclones in climate models?
What's the point in that? So, that they can predict when the models don't match up to reality? I guess that could be useful for grading the models and determining which have any actual predictive qualities; otherwise, why wouldn't they turn the AI to recognizing cyclones in real weather, and using that to predict tornadoes so that we could shoot that damn butterfly.
Except, that "fact checkers" have been held up as infallible arbiters of truth with lines like, "We know Trump lied, because Snopes said...."
I agree with you that it is puritanical thinking, but in this case the thinking is that Snopes gave them bad ratings, so they must be fake news.
You ARE trying out for a SNL part, aren't you!?
If the mother chooses to dump the baby in the dumpster on the way home from giving birth, why should the government interfere in that?
If I choose to not support a baby I fathered, why should the government interfere in that?
You're complete lack of logic and apologies for infanticide are stifling.
And while we're trying to deal with the jackoffs killing 39,000, why would we want to add the problem of 2,000 more to the bunch?
Death to the regulatory state.
The American Federal Legislature has been allowed to shirk their duty for far too long. The plan was that representatives, representing the people and the states, would convene in DC and create the laws that would govern our country. This premise has been almost wholly abandoned, and the power slowly handed over to the Executive branch which is slowly approaching a monarchy.
I look forward to the representative branch of our government developing a spine and clawing back some of their power. Maybe DACA will be next up.
What happens if I refuse to bake a cake for it?
No all sci-fi robots were raving maniacs. Some were just depressed.
They didn't turn around and run away, therefore it's their fault!? They responded to stupidity with mockery, so they'r racists?
Don't you have a road to block with your Antifa buddies, where you uses racial epithets to call other people racists?
A better example would be ball players and actors, I think.
I doubt this will work, but it may actually advance the field of AI in an interesting way.
One way to describe an intelligent person is to consider if they can look at a situation and predict the outcome. But, there are multiple ways to come to that conclusion. A person can look at socialism and determine that the end result is totalitarianism. Was the determination arrived at by looking at the history of socialist attempts. Or, did the person construct a logical model of human interactions and see the logical conclusion?
It is the second method that is more robust and would be described as intelligent or wise, vs the former which would be considered "educated"(?)/"trained"(?). There is no indication that it does, but I would think that the AI would have to be trained on the merging of trends instead of dictionary data, which would be a great advancement in all the AI I've ever seen.
I find that Microsoft's latest desktop looks a helluva lot like DesqView.
Creating a timeless design that never needs updating is generally not in a businesses' best interest.
You mean like the typical blue suit?
What I hear you saying is that putting a small group of people in charge of deciding how other people's money is spent is a bad idea.
I with you on that one.
Venezuela ended the way all socialism must end. When you put a small group of people in charge of deciding how all buying and selling happens, it takes all of a microsecond for them to figure out that they can use that power to benefit themselves and their friends. There is no way out of it. Socialism ends with despots dividing the spoils of the masses between themselves.
Is there a counter lawsuit that he knew or should have known that there was a possibility of his phone being hacked and the microphone turned on without his knowledge, and that he failed to take reasonable precautions by not having the phone in the room with him?
I mean, it is not like there has not been a plethora of reports and sci-fi films of this actually happening. There are actually apps out there for turning off microphones and video cameras. I know people that have tape over their cameras, and cameras are sold with a sliding door to cover them.
Would you prefer calling in a mob hit like is done is less civilized places?
First we had Predator vs Alien.
Now we have "I Robot" meets "Lawnmower Man".
We send up the BOMB!