At the tune of 80 billion a year? That money could go towards curing cancer or heart disease and they'd save a lot more lives than they ever will preventing the occasional terrorist attack
So, having conned taxpayers out of 80 billion a year, the military-industrial complex would just voluntarily hand it over to an actual productive sector of the economy for a constructive purpose?
Unions lobby for their *own* rights - any union doing otherwise is actually engaging in illegal political activity. Sometimes they find issues that overlap with the general workforce, but normally they're quite content to advance their own interests at the expense of others. Case in point: all the customers of BART.
When I prepared income tax returns for a living, I almost never saw anyone with a union dues receipt who wasn't earning double what their competition was.
Unions have done good in the past, but not for more than a generation.
Yes, that's why we don't have 2 of any other organs. Oh, wait...
Actually the heart contains two pumps - they're beside each other because the pressure in the systemic and pulmonary circulations have to be very precisely co-ordinated.
What I'm not understanding in all this is how they think artificial intelligence technology could produce an intelligence with less humanity than what corporations already achieve.
C-3PO had his memory erased. Was he still the same droid after that?
Though since his function was to be an interpreter for a criminal conspiracy to overthrow the lawful government of the Empire, his memory was probably wiped all the time and he just didn't know.
Vous attendez bientôt la visite de la Gendarmerie linquistique canadienne. On sera courtois mais dur. Vous pourriez être assujetti à une amende de 10 $ américains.
There will be certain cases - a lot of medical data, for example - where gender truly is important.
But in a lot of cases, you could reasonably have a person simply refuse to provide the information in the first place, or even just need a temporary value if gender is unknown at the time of record creation. A serious database has to anticipate those cases; this is not a big step.
And a database which needs gender for some legitimate medical purpose already needs to deal with special cases.
(And that's all without worrying about the question of whether those cases are lifestyle choices, genuine metabolic disorders, or something else entirely - the technology does not care about attitudes.)
The decline of the Western Rome Empire spanned generations - there is simply no way to piece together cause and effect relationships with everything happening at the same time over the course of that time period.
Personally, my guess is that after a thousand years of wars, revolutions, dictatorships, military coups, invasions, and civil wars, their luck just finally ran out.
"treated like crap by a large portion of society" or not, they voluntarily agreed to the process and they are the ones asking for an update to a record in some database.
A whole lot of prying into someone's medical history would be unreasonable, but some explanation is in order, same as, say, a correction to date of birth.
Now, we don't know for fact that the politicians are wrong on this.
The solution, obviously, is to fully, publicly, and impartially investigate everything that Snowden is claiming. And make sure the politicians get full credit for suggesting the idea.
How can the NSA expect the uninformed voter to make an informed decision if it keeps the voter in the dark? How can the congress make informed decisions if they are kept in the dark as well?
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It removes any legitimacy that the US might be able to claim
In other words, no obstacle whatsoever.
Polygamy by itself might not be a problem, but polygamy combined with divorce lawyers could destroy lives by the dozen.
At the tune of 80 billion a year? That money could go towards curing cancer or heart disease and they'd save a lot more lives than they ever will preventing the occasional terrorist attack
So, having conned taxpayers out of 80 billion a year, the military-industrial complex would just voluntarily hand it over to an actual productive sector of the economy for a constructive purpose?
Adolescence is actually an excellent metaphor for the US. A mix of overconfidence and insecurity, for the wrong reasons in both cases.
Humor is a medical term. You might be thinking of humour.
Unions lobby for their *own* rights - any union doing otherwise is actually engaging in illegal political activity. Sometimes they find issues that overlap with the general workforce, but normally they're quite content to advance their own interests at the expense of others. Case in point: all the customers of BART.
When I prepared income tax returns for a living, I almost never saw anyone with a union dues receipt who wasn't earning double what their competition was.
Unions have done good in the past, but not for more than a generation.
Yes, that's why we don't have 2 of any other organs. Oh, wait ...
Actually the heart contains two pumps - they're beside each other because the pressure in the systemic and pulmonary circulations have to be very precisely co-ordinated.
I was looking forward to hearing about this army full of primates.
Where are the brave calling home these days?
A genuinely alien form of life could not "blend in" and acquire a position of power. A complete lack of human empathy and morals would give them away.
Oh....
No sane race ever will do that
So, homo sapiens will be the first.
What I'm not understanding in all this is how they think artificial intelligence technology could produce an intelligence with less humanity than what corporations already achieve.
More of an inaction, really.
That one paragraph is already more thinking than they're being expected to do, so clearly that is not going to stop them.
C-3PO had his memory erased. Was he still the same droid after that?
Though since his function was to be an interpreter for a criminal conspiracy to overthrow the lawful government of the Empire, his memory was probably wiped all the time and he just didn't know.
Both have big APIs.
If the author didn't realize 'coin' was already an existing word, I'm having trouble taking the rest of his insights seriously.
Vous attendez bientôt la visite de la Gendarmerie linquistique canadienne. On sera courtois mais dur. Vous pourriez être assujetti à une amende de 10 $ américains.
There will be certain cases - a lot of medical data, for example - where gender truly is important.
But in a lot of cases, you could reasonably have a person simply refuse to provide the information in the first place, or even just need a temporary value if gender is unknown at the time of record creation. A serious database has to anticipate those cases; this is not a big step.
And a database which needs gender for some legitimate medical purpose already needs to deal with special cases.
(And that's all without worrying about the question of whether those cases are lifestyle choices, genuine metabolic disorders, or something else entirely - the technology does not care about attitudes.)
The decline of the Western Rome Empire spanned generations - there is simply no way to piece together cause and effect relationships with everything happening at the same time over the course of that time period.
Personally, my guess is that after a thousand years of wars, revolutions, dictatorships, military coups, invasions, and civil wars, their luck just finally ran out.
"treated like crap by a large portion of society" or not, they voluntarily agreed to the process and they are the ones asking for an update to a record in some database.
A whole lot of prying into someone's medical history would be unreasonable, but some explanation is in order, same as, say, a correction to date of birth.
Now, we don't know for fact that the politicians are wrong on this.
The solution, obviously, is to fully, publicly, and impartially investigate everything that Snowden is claiming. And make sure the politicians get full credit for suggesting the idea.
How can the NSA expect the uninformed voter to make an informed decision if it keeps the voter in the dark? How can the congress make informed decisions if they are kept in the dark as well?
Feature, not a bug.
The black hole would be so small that inside a planet full of matter would, from its perspective, mean being in the middle of mostly empty space.
I mean, people altering their brains with drugs has never had any adverse medical or legal consequences, right?