The only thing that I can think of, as far as color goes in the IT field, is the wires. But even then, the color really doesn't mean anything, except whatever you decide to denote them as, for your own setup.
There's enough coffee shops, fast-food places, hotels and many other "free wi-fi!" options for users to be secure enough for general things. I mean, if you're comparing 'terrorists plotting to blow up the white house', with 'folks looking at porn', big priority difference. What you outlined would be required for a terrorist to plot to blow up the white house.
Very clever, but I'm going to go with a brief verbal rendition rather than attempt recreate the entire field of artificial intelligence in a post
lol I get ya, but you opened this box.
Consciousness could be roughly described as the ability to respond to complex stimulus in complex ways, specifically including the ability communicate those stimuli abstractly, and self-reference.
If that's your definition, then one would need, not just the brain, but the entire body. If we can't say what consciousness is, then how can we say where it is?
The only terrorists these days are the ones fighting for freedom (say what you will about ISIS (hey by the way, what ever happened to Al Qaeda?) or whatever the new terrorist network is called, but if they're fighting to rid the world of the US corporate government, then they have a lot in common with a lot of Americans these days, even though their methods may differ greatly) it's the corporate government that wants us all to not be free.
Lawyers are the only ones that know the law, and the journalists are the only ones capable of explaining the law/news to all of us citizens. If the lawyers and journalists are streaming information to the citizens in a real way, then the citizens will come to know that all of the shit that the government is doing today is illegal, and revolt. That revolt is what the government is actually worried about. So anything that seems to be leading us into that revolting direction, is deemed a terror to the corporate-speaking peoples.
"Crazy" is probably the wrong word. If I"m mad as hell at someone, you bet your ass I'm not going to threaten them, I"m just going to shun them. Now, if I'm so mad that I want to kill someone, or do something to them that's illegal, then there's no way in hell I'd announce it in any form. I'd just set up some scenario where they ended up getting what I want them to get.
If I was mad at someone enough to kill them, and was a huge pussy, then I'd take to the www and do as much damage as I could, because, well, I'm a huge pussy. If someone threatened me over the www, or even over the phone, I'd (depending on what the deal was) probably alert the cops that it happened, just to cover my ass, but ultimately I'd just get a kick out of it, sort of an ego-trip I guess.
There are already people carrying the snake around, and a man (not the snake's favorite meal) is dressed in a thick rubber suit with electrical gear on. What are they going to do to scare the snake after that?
And no I don't mean "what next" as far as what the discovery channel will do, I mean what next after TV? Seriously, we're out of ideas for movies and shows, obviously. People love TV so much, why not just combine it with something important, like school? So rather than sit around watching a bunch of desperate idiots attempt to "entertain" us with some new show as ridiculous as this one, broadcast stuff that teaches people things. Remember that show "E.R."? So many people watched it. They could have thrown in just 1 medical lesson per show and the general population of the US would know a good bit more about how to how to help themselves in a medical situation.
It's called "The Discovery Channel", but if they show us a man being eaten by a large snake, what is the discovery there? This reminds me of that advertizement for that unicorn at the circus from the early 80's. But in the advertizement here that I saw, they never show the man going into the snake's mouth or anything. He's in a thick black rubber suit. My guess is that all the audience will be shown is that the snake won't eat the man in those conditions.
Well Slashdot is a comment-based advertizing website. Arguing keeps us interested in each other, as almost nothing else does these days. Slashdot meshes both of those concepts, and we all gladly comply.
I don't give half a shit about the clocks changing, it seems trivial. What seems important to me is the fact that we can do it. We can just willy-nilly change the clocks up or down, and not everyone has to be involved in this!
So often these days many people are talking about what needs to be done in order to make the world a better place, and they stop short of concluding, a lot of times, because they feel that it'd be to difficult to orchestrate. So always remember that changing the clocks as we do, isn't just some minor thing, and yet we can do it! Think of all of the other things that could actually be done.
somebody needs to kick the US in the kiester and get us 'competing' against something.
The only competition in America these days is during elections. For every right that The People lose, the political scene gets an additional right. It's quite a competition, and The People are getting their asses kicked.
Politicians actually don't have any of their own confidence, they take yours. That's the whole schtick to politics these days: Gain The People's Confidence. They each know how full of shit they are, and more importantly, they know how full of shit you are.
The revolution already happened - it's called Bitcoin.
I've spent the last year bank-free.
I live in the US, but work for a Swiss software company and get paid the CHF equivalent of $160k/year.
They pay me in Bitcoin.
I have no bank account.
Everything I need to buy I either pay for directly in Bitcoin, or in cash.
When I need cash, I use LocalBitcoins to find somebody who wants to trade.
You hear that everyone? All you have to do is get a job working remotely for a Swiss company; they pay in bitcoin! Man, once everyone in America does this, there is no way that the constitution-crushing mentality that is prevailing in the US these days will be able to figure out a way to steal our money! We won!!!
Now to find a way to live with only 20,999,839.77 bitcoins for everyone in the US, robbing the rest of the world from their use of bitcoins...
Only those that have been depositing less than $10,000 in a way that 'leads folks at the bank to think' (triggering?) that you are doing it in a way to avoid depositing $10,000, in a way to avoid "triggering".
So if you deposit $10,000 in a bank, it causes (you and) the bank to file paperwork that you deposited $10,000 - this is called triggering.
Triggering: A 1970 anti-money-laundering law known as the Bank Secrecy Act spells out the rules for large cash withdrawals. In general, banks must report any transaction involving at least $10,000 in cash. That includes not only withdrawals but also deposits, currency exchanges (such as swapping dollars for euros or Japanese yen) and the purchase of traveler's checks.
So in this case, if you deposit slightly less than $10,000 then that also triggers the bank to privately report you to the government. All of the people mentioned in the article deposited slightly less than the $10,000 to avoid triggering, and they knowingly avoided it, although for different reasons (some did it because they thought it was a hassle for the bank, and they were trying to be nice?). So if you need to deposit $10,000+ in an account, then fucking do it! In this case, it "triggers" an event, but that event doesn't remove your money.
You're right, but it's a straw man argument to his point. He's saying that if you go to the store, and buy a Dell, knowing that it has Windows installed, and asking for a refund, it's crazy. You're saying that if you go into the store, there is no other choice other than windows boxes. So you're both right.
The solution is for those that want windows, go to Best Buy (or the like) and buy a computer with warranty and guarantee, and for those that want a blank box, go and order your parts wisely.
So, if the idea of truckers driving around possibly coming at you with a hatchet, then the simple solution is to get your own hatchet, and watch out for truckers. Seeing as how truckers have no more rights or authority than you, it's a level playing ground.
However cops have more authority than an average citizen. If they choose to take advantage of that authority, then the result is that the citizens will fear the police, and eventually riots will be common place in the whole country, and order will not be able to be restored. Imagine the L.A. riots, merging with the Ferguson riots, but throughout the entire country.
So what exactly was the problem that you had with my use of the word "terrorist"?
She already has a lawyer, and I'm sure he's going to get a very substantial settlement.
So what? That settlement will come from tax dollars. What needs to happen is that these cops need to be taken to Guantanamo and treated as the terrorists that they are. And rather than a settlement, that woman should be able to work at Guantanamo for a few weeks as the sole guard to this piece of shit.
You worded that like a schmuck, but I get your drift, and you have a good point. Raising the minimum wage simply because it doesn't support a family isn't a good reason to do it. But I think that the reason that anyone suggests to raise this minimum wage is actually an effort to decrease the earnings of the investors of these corporations that are content with providing minimum food quality to those that don't have time/money to eat a decent meal at/from home (hence the name "fast food" - this is why you don't come in, have a seat, and wait for the waiter/waitress). But this effort is, obviously, easily thwarted by doing exactly what McD's proposes with replacing people with machines. Those that lose their job, will take the same attitude that they've taken with the rest of their life, and settle at some other shitty job, where they'll bitch about the wage there too.
...WTF did I just read? I understood none of it. Or if I did understand it, then I understood this waaay before reading this long article. Google works with the US government? Nnnooo, you don't say! What next, Apple too!?? Come on, this is shit that we don't even have to find out by any other methods than just thinking logically these days.
Are you into having a life of freedom? Then start giving credit to all of those thoughts that you have about quitting that shitty job that you hate, and/or making that change in your own life as you see fit, and stop giving credit to all of the hype about governmental powers. People like Assange need the government to be wicked, it gives him a way to have fame.
There is no political solution, only a realistic one.
I get what you're saying, and you're right. But judging by the hundreds of dealerships around town here, I guess the point is to sell cars? As long as there are dealerships to sell the cars, who cares? GM isn't "to big to fail" because the dealership market is killing them. They're "to big to fail" because they sell a shit-ton of cars. Tesla's cars are great (I guess, never driven one myself), but they're fucking expensive. They're so expensive that they know that once they jump into the "normal" car market (independent dealerships), it jacks the price up even more, probably out of the price range of many potential clients.
If Tesla can do this, then so will Ford and GM, and then you just killed a very large job market, seeing as how many dealerships employ 50+ employees.
Tesla, open a dealership, complete with a repair and body shop. You can even finance your own vehicles. This can be done in every state. Your prices will go up a little bit.
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I think that both of you are misdirected. These cameras don't record until the officer decides.
The only thing that I can think of, as far as color goes in the IT field, is the wires. But even then, the color really doesn't mean anything, except whatever you decide to denote them as, for your own setup.
Never mix science with politics.
There's enough coffee shops, fast-food places, hotels and many other "free wi-fi!" options for users to be secure enough for general things. I mean, if you're comparing 'terrorists plotting to blow up the white house', with 'folks looking at porn', big priority difference. What you outlined would be required for a terrorist to plot to blow up the white house.
Very clever, but I'm going to go with a brief verbal rendition rather than attempt recreate the entire field of artificial intelligence in a post
lol I get ya, but you opened this box.
Consciousness could be roughly described as the ability to respond to complex stimulus in complex ways, specifically including the ability communicate those stimuli abstractly, and self-reference.
If that's your definition, then one would need, not just the brain, but the entire body. If we can't say what consciousness is, then how can we say where it is?
The only terrorists these days are the ones fighting for freedom (say what you will about ISIS (hey by the way, what ever happened to Al Qaeda?) or whatever the new terrorist network is called, but if they're fighting to rid the world of the US corporate government, then they have a lot in common with a lot of Americans these days, even though their methods may differ greatly) it's the corporate government that wants us all to not be free.
Lawyers are the only ones that know the law, and the journalists are the only ones capable of explaining the law/news to all of us citizens. If the lawyers and journalists are streaming information to the citizens in a real way, then the citizens will come to know that all of the shit that the government is doing today is illegal, and revolt. That revolt is what the government is actually worried about. So anything that seems to be leading us into that revolting direction, is deemed a terror to the corporate-speaking peoples.
What's so hard to understand about that?
Why are so many people so adamant about the notion that consciousness can't come from the physical brain?
I might be able to answer that for you, if you can explain to me what you understand consciousness to be.
"Crazy" is probably the wrong word. If I"m mad as hell at someone, you bet your ass I'm not going to threaten them, I"m just going to shun them. Now, if I'm so mad that I want to kill someone, or do something to them that's illegal, then there's no way in hell I'd announce it in any form. I'd just set up some scenario where they ended up getting what I want them to get.
If I was mad at someone enough to kill them, and was a huge pussy, then I'd take to the www and do as much damage as I could, because, well, I'm a huge pussy. If someone threatened me over the www, or even over the phone, I'd (depending on what the deal was) probably alert the cops that it happened, just to cover my ass, but ultimately I'd just get a kick out of it, sort of an ego-trip I guess.
Wait till ISIS gets a hold of this, and uses it to remotely radicalize us all! Queue The Matrix music.
There are already people carrying the snake around, and a man (not the snake's favorite meal) is dressed in a thick rubber suit with electrical gear on. What are they going to do to scare the snake after that?
And no I don't mean "what next" as far as what the discovery channel will do, I mean what next after TV? Seriously, we're out of ideas for movies and shows, obviously. People love TV so much, why not just combine it with something important, like school? So rather than sit around watching a bunch of desperate idiots attempt to "entertain" us with some new show as ridiculous as this one, broadcast stuff that teaches people things. Remember that show "E.R."? So many people watched it. They could have thrown in just 1 medical lesson per show and the general population of the US would know a good bit more about how to how to help themselves in a medical situation.
It's called "The Discovery Channel", but if they show us a man being eaten by a large snake, what is the discovery there? This reminds me of that advertizement for that unicorn at the circus from the early 80's. But in the advertizement here that I saw, they never show the man going into the snake's mouth or anything. He's in a thick black rubber suit. My guess is that all the audience will be shown is that the snake won't eat the man in those conditions.
Q How do you get to I-65 from I-10?
A Oh fuck, I hate driving, the roads are full of holes!
Yup, very helpful and applicable.
Well Slashdot is a comment-based advertizing website. Arguing keeps us interested in each other, as almost nothing else does these days. Slashdot meshes both of those concepts, and we all gladly comply.
I don't give half a shit about the clocks changing, it seems trivial. What seems important to me is the fact that we can do it. We can just willy-nilly change the clocks up or down, and not everyone has to be involved in this!
So often these days many people are talking about what needs to be done in order to make the world a better place, and they stop short of concluding, a lot of times, because they feel that it'd be to difficult to orchestrate. So always remember that changing the clocks as we do, isn't just some minor thing, and yet we can do it! Think of all of the other things that could actually be done.
somebody needs to kick the US in the kiester and get us 'competing' against something.
The only competition in America these days is during elections. For every right that The People lose, the political scene gets an additional right. It's quite a competition, and The People are getting their asses kicked.
Politicians actually don't have any of their own confidence, they take yours. That's the whole schtick to politics these days: Gain The People's Confidence. They each know how full of shit they are, and more importantly, they know how full of shit you are.
The revolution already happened - it's called Bitcoin. I've spent the last year bank-free. I live in the US, but work for a Swiss software company and get paid the CHF equivalent of $160k/year. They pay me in Bitcoin. I have no bank account. Everything I need to buy I either pay for directly in Bitcoin, or in cash. When I need cash, I use LocalBitcoins to find somebody who wants to trade.
You hear that everyone? All you have to do is get a job working remotely for a Swiss company; they pay in bitcoin! Man, once everyone in America does this, there is no way that the constitution-crushing mentality that is prevailing in the US these days will be able to figure out a way to steal our money! We won!!!
Now to find a way to live with only 20,999,839.77 bitcoins for everyone in the US, robbing the rest of the world from their use of bitcoins...
Only those that have been depositing less than $10,000 in a way that 'leads folks at the bank to think' (triggering?) that you are doing it in a way to avoid depositing $10,000, in a way to avoid "triggering".
So if you deposit $10,000 in a bank, it causes (you and) the bank to file paperwork that you deposited $10,000 - this is called triggering.
Triggering: A 1970 anti-money-laundering law known as the Bank Secrecy Act spells out the rules for large cash withdrawals. In general, banks must report any transaction involving at least $10,000 in cash. That includes not only withdrawals but also deposits, currency exchanges (such as swapping dollars for euros or Japanese yen) and the purchase of traveler's checks.
So in this case, if you deposit slightly less than $10,000 then that also triggers the bank to privately report you to the government. All of the people mentioned in the article deposited slightly less than the $10,000 to avoid triggering, and they knowingly avoided it, although for different reasons (some did it because they thought it was a hassle for the bank, and they were trying to be nice?). So if you need to deposit $10,000+ in an account, then fucking do it! In this case, it "triggers" an event, but that event doesn't remove your money.
You're right, but it's a straw man argument to his point. He's saying that if you go to the store, and buy a Dell, knowing that it has Windows installed, and asking for a refund, it's crazy. You're saying that if you go into the store, there is no other choice other than windows boxes. So you're both right.
The solution is for those that want windows, go to Best Buy (or the like) and buy a computer with warranty and guarantee, and for those that want a blank box, go and order your parts wisely.
So, if the idea of truckers driving around possibly coming at you with a hatchet, then the simple solution is to get your own hatchet, and watch out for truckers. Seeing as how truckers have no more rights or authority than you, it's a level playing ground.
However cops have more authority than an average citizen. If they choose to take advantage of that authority, then the result is that the citizens will fear the police, and eventually riots will be common place in the whole country, and order will not be able to be restored. Imagine the L.A. riots, merging with the Ferguson riots, but throughout the entire country.
So what exactly was the problem that you had with my use of the word "terrorist"?
She already has a lawyer, and I'm sure he's going to get a very substantial settlement.
So what? That settlement will come from tax dollars. What needs to happen is that these cops need to be taken to Guantanamo and treated as the terrorists that they are. And rather than a settlement, that woman should be able to work at Guantanamo for a few weeks as the sole guard to this piece of shit.
You worded that like a schmuck, but I get your drift, and you have a good point. Raising the minimum wage simply because it doesn't support a family isn't a good reason to do it. But I think that the reason that anyone suggests to raise this minimum wage is actually an effort to decrease the earnings of the investors of these corporations that are content with providing minimum food quality to those that don't have time/money to eat a decent meal at/from home (hence the name "fast food" - this is why you don't come in, have a seat, and wait for the waiter/waitress). But this effort is, obviously, easily thwarted by doing exactly what McD's proposes with replacing people with machines. Those that lose their job, will take the same attitude that they've taken with the rest of their life, and settle at some other shitty job, where they'll bitch about the wage there too.
...WTF did I just read? I understood none of it. Or if I did understand it, then I understood this waaay before reading this long article. Google works with the US government? Nnnooo, you don't say! What next, Apple too!?? Come on, this is shit that we don't even have to find out by any other methods than just thinking logically these days.
Are you into having a life of freedom? Then start giving credit to all of those thoughts that you have about quitting that shitty job that you hate, and/or making that change in your own life as you see fit, and stop giving credit to all of the hype about governmental powers. People like Assange need the government to be wicked, it gives him a way to have fame.
There is no political solution, only a realistic one.
What advantage is there again for a dealership?
I get what you're saying, and you're right. But judging by the hundreds of dealerships around town here, I guess the point is to sell cars? As long as there are dealerships to sell the cars, who cares? GM isn't "to big to fail" because the dealership market is killing them. They're "to big to fail" because they sell a shit-ton of cars. Tesla's cars are great (I guess, never driven one myself), but they're fucking expensive. They're so expensive that they know that once they jump into the "normal" car market (independent dealerships), it jacks the price up even more, probably out of the price range of many potential clients.
If Tesla can do this, then so will Ford and GM, and then you just killed a very large job market, seeing as how many dealerships employ 50+ employees.
Tesla, open a dealership, complete with a repair and body shop. You can even finance your own vehicles. This can be done in every state. Your prices will go up a little bit.