As long as the general public keeps being duped by people who know nothing about AI and software, who tell them that The Terminator and Matrix movies are totally going to happen independent of a rogue evil programmer who instructs the AI to do so, they'll keep believing the garbage these tech journalists give them.
People need to learn advancing AI and the field of computer science is a good thing. WE'RE the only ones we need to be afraid of. WE'RE the ones that need to use it right.
"It doesn't teach you programming. It teaches you to copy paste, re-use code, and object oriented design. Stop calling it programming. If you really want to learn programming, you would learn Assembly you would fab your own libraries and DLLs and include them in your code yourself to solve problems that have already been efficiently solved because doing everything from scratch is for real men and building upon scientific advancements and technology is for losers."
Even if 1% of that money gets to the people (and, pragmatically speaking, more of it will for sure), then they are going to be better off.
More importantly, if it prompts economic reforms along the lines of what most other communist countries did - the closest example here probably being Vietnam - the people are going to be vastly better off even if the authoritarian political system remains in place.
Either way, while we can only guess what will happen without sanctions, we know full well what happens with the sanctions: absolutely nothing. So what exactly is their purpose then?
And the proof or evidence that this will happen is where? Are we so naive that we trust their government and corrupt to do what we think they should for the good of the people? All of Europe has been in free trade with Cuba. By your logic, if it were to really help, it would already have. But the return on investment for the Cuban people has been zero. They're still abused and given dirt and dead cats and dogs to eat (literally.)
Blame them for feeling that way, no (well, it depends on who they were before Castro; if it's one of Batista's cronies, or the members of the top ruling elite supporting him, I'd say they can suck it and go cry in a corner; I have no sympathy for people robbing others under gunpoint when they get robbed themselves in a similar fashion). But I will blame them for letting that emotion guide their political decisions, and especially for pushing the same onto others.
Oh, as for my comfy chair. I was born in a communist country. Don't try that "you rich American asshole can't understand" on me.
I didn't say you were American or rich and neither do I care. Don't put words in my mouth. I don't know your situation but many people (and there are a lot) who are born into communist countries nowadays still don't go through what Cuban people went through in the revolution and to this day, especially with no free market.
"The only people who object to the lifting of sanctions are those that are motivated by personal revenge against the Castros. There's no other logical reason for the embargo."
False. Your confusion lies in the fact that you believe this will do good for the Cuban people, as if somehow magically a place with no free market and a government that has historically given it's people dirt will all of a sudden benefit from these relations. This money will go to the Cuban communist regime, not the people that are suffering that need it. That is where there is truly no logic and severely detached from reality.
Also, even if it was for revenge, would you really blame someone who feels that way? It's convenient to say that from your comfy chair when you haven't experienced it. Especially if you know all it will do is keep feeding the bloated corrupt beast that is the despicable government that Castro has built. All your money is doing is going to bad people to keep doing bad things.
Are you seriously asking a Cuban American who wasn't alive during Batista's regime (but was close enough to the situation to know it) if he had the same contempt for them as a government who abused him and his families basic human rights 1000 times more over than Batista's did to anyone? Batista was no saint, but Jesus think about things before you say them. While the government was bad even before Castro, at least our economy was somewhat prosperous in a free market.
You say similarly authoritarian and brutal as if you actually know what went on and was there, but you probably just read some Wikipedia article.
So using your logic, since the US tolerated and "supported" the previous government, it makes tolerating and supporting the next up regime which is much worse acceptable? Really? Congratulations, you've just discovered the cliche saying that two wrongs don't make a right all by yourself.
Because anyone who thinks different that you just doesn't "get it." Right. Take your pompous bullshit somewhere else. I don't need your sympathy. I actually feel sorry for you, as I can probably guess with 90% certainty that you've never had to experience what the Cuban people have gone through because of the communist system and you can sit there in your nice comfy little chair and spout fairy tale bullshit about what you think works so you can't value life the way that someone else who has gone through it can.
Meanwhile, your money that you think will go to the Cuban people because of this open relationship, is actually going to the government, because newsflash: There is NO FREE MARKET in Cuba. Everything is government controlled so your money is only being used to further push the Cuban people into the dirt while the rich communist regime and everyone who supports them can keep living their lavish lifestyles (the same thing you bitch about here except times 1000) and put on a face for the tourists while people like this man are hijacking news reports to complaining about hunger, only to be put in jail shortly after.
As a Cuban American immigrant who escaped Cuba to the US myself, I feel I have to comment on this because unfortunately most of you saying how this is such a great thing are fucking clueless.
I read someone said that people have an "antiquated view on communism". Really?
Tell that to me and my siblings who in the 90s went through a rationing period where we were only allowed to shower once a week for a few minutes while a soldier stood outside our fucking door with a gun counting down the minutes.
Tell that to my parents who had to make the choice during the rationing period to feed us toothpaste in the morning so that we would be full enough to wait until we got more food.
Tell that to my grandparents who had their entire small private tile business stripped away from them and were told "this isn't yours anymore, it belongs to government and to the people."
Tell that to my cousins who came to the US on top of a fucking car floating between Cuba and Florida.
Tell that to my dead great uncles who were DRAGGED from their house in front of their children and wives for speaking out against the new regime only to be EXECUTED by firing squads led by Raul Castro and Che Guevara. Yes, your communist piece of shit heroes.
So please go fuck your snobby, pseudo intellectual self when you tell me that my view on communism is fucking outdated. You can say whatever you want about my information and my story not being true because you've read some biased bullshit book about the "truth" of the Cuban revolution but I've fucking lived it and I can tell you personally from experience that you don't know shit.
You people stop supporting a business like Hobby Lobby or Chic-Fil-A with your money for their religious beliefs and treating their employees poorly according to your standards (which is understandable and well within your rights) because you "care about people", yet you support an open economy to give our money and support to a communist Cuban regime who have murdered, robbed, and deprived their own people of basic human rights. I thought you cared about people? Maybe you're just not educated on the history of the Cuban people and communism. Or maybe you're just full of shit.
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I think the headline should read:
The Most Popular *LEAKED* Passwords Are Still "123456" and "password"
Which if you think about it...makes perfect sense why they were vulnerable in the first place.
Good. We need more of this.
As long as the general public keeps being duped by people who know nothing about AI and software, who tell them that The Terminator and Matrix movies are totally going to happen independent of a rogue evil programmer who instructs the AI to do so, they'll keep believing the garbage these tech journalists give them.
People need to learn advancing AI and the field of computer science is a good thing. WE'RE the only ones we need to be afraid of. WE'RE the ones that need to use it right.
Hmm, this line of thinking sounds familiar.
"It doesn't teach you programming. It teaches you to copy paste, re-use code, and object oriented design. Stop calling it programming. If you really want to learn programming, you would learn Assembly you would fab your own libraries and DLLs and include them in your code yourself to solve problems that have already been efficiently solved because doing everything from scratch is for real men and building upon scientific advancements and technology is for losers."
Even if 1% of that money gets to the people (and, pragmatically speaking, more of it will for sure), then they are going to be better off.
More importantly, if it prompts economic reforms along the lines of what most other communist countries did - the closest example here probably being Vietnam - the people are going to be vastly better off even if the authoritarian political system remains in place.
Either way, while we can only guess what will happen without sanctions, we know full well what happens with the sanctions: absolutely nothing. So what exactly is their purpose then?
And the proof or evidence that this will happen is where? Are we so naive that we trust their government and corrupt to do what we think they should for the good of the people? All of Europe has been in free trade with Cuba. By your logic, if it were to really help, it would already have. But the return on investment for the Cuban people has been zero. They're still abused and given dirt and dead cats and dogs to eat (literally.)
Here is your magic reform for you, straight from Raul Castro's mouth.
http://www.washingtontimes.com...
Blame them for feeling that way, no (well, it depends on who they were before Castro; if it's one of Batista's cronies, or the members of the top ruling elite supporting him, I'd say they can suck it and go cry in a corner; I have no sympathy for people robbing others under gunpoint when they get robbed themselves in a similar fashion). But I will blame them for letting that emotion guide their political decisions, and especially for pushing the same onto others.
Oh, as for my comfy chair. I was born in a communist country. Don't try that "you rich American asshole can't understand" on me.
I didn't say you were American or rich and neither do I care. Don't put words in my mouth. I don't know your situation but many people (and there are a lot) who are born into communist countries nowadays still don't go through what Cuban people went through in the revolution and to this day, especially with no free market.
"The only people who object to the lifting of sanctions are those that are motivated by personal revenge against the Castros. There's no other logical reason for the embargo."
False. Your confusion lies in the fact that you believe this will do good for the Cuban people, as if somehow magically a place with no free market and a government that has historically given it's people dirt will all of a sudden benefit from these relations. This money will go to the Cuban communist regime, not the people that are suffering that need it. That is where there is truly no logic and severely detached from reality.
Also, even if it was for revenge, would you really blame someone who feels that way? It's convenient to say that from your comfy chair when you haven't experienced it. Especially if you know all it will do is keep feeding the bloated corrupt beast that is the despicable government that Castro has built. All your money is doing is going to bad people to keep doing bad things.
Are you seriously asking a Cuban American who wasn't alive during Batista's regime (but was close enough to the situation to know it) if he had the same contempt for them as a government who abused him and his families basic human rights 1000 times more over than Batista's did to anyone? Batista was no saint, but Jesus think about things before you say them. While the government was bad even before Castro, at least our economy was somewhat prosperous in a free market.
You say similarly authoritarian and brutal as if you actually know what went on and was there, but you probably just read some Wikipedia article.
So using your logic, since the US tolerated and "supported" the previous government, it makes tolerating and supporting the next up regime which is much worse acceptable? Really? Congratulations, you've just discovered the cliche saying that two wrongs don't make a right all by yourself.
You know, I honestly should be less harsh. I've just experience more and it hits closer to home. You just don't know any better.
Because anyone who thinks different that you just doesn't "get it." Right. Take your pompous bullshit somewhere else. I don't need your sympathy. I actually feel sorry for you, as I can probably guess with 90% certainty that you've never had to experience what the Cuban people have gone through because of the communist system and you can sit there in your nice comfy little chair and spout fairy tale bullshit about what you think works so you can't value life the way that someone else who has gone through it can.
Meanwhile, your money that you think will go to the Cuban people because of this open relationship, is actually going to the government, because newsflash: There is NO FREE MARKET in Cuba. Everything is government controlled so your money is only being used to further push the Cuban people into the dirt while the rich communist regime and everyone who supports them can keep living their lavish lifestyles (the same thing you bitch about here except times 1000) and put on a face for the tourists while people like this man are hijacking news reports to complaining about hunger, only to be put in jail shortly after.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Summary translation if you don't speak Spanish: We need food, because there is tremendous hunger here.
As a Cuban American immigrant who escaped Cuba to the US myself, I feel I have to comment on this because unfortunately most of you saying how this is such a great thing are fucking clueless.
I read someone said that people have an "antiquated view on communism". Really?
Tell that to me and my siblings who in the 90s went through a rationing period where we were only allowed to shower once a week for a few minutes while a soldier stood outside our fucking door with a gun counting down the minutes.
Tell that to my parents who had to make the choice during the rationing period to feed us toothpaste in the morning so that we would be full enough to wait until we got more food.
Tell that to my grandparents who had their entire small private tile business stripped away from them and were told "this isn't yours anymore, it belongs to government and to the people."
Tell that to my cousins who came to the US on top of a fucking car floating between Cuba and Florida.
Tell that to my dead great uncles who were DRAGGED from their house in front of their children and wives for speaking out against the new regime only to be EXECUTED by firing squads led by Raul Castro and Che Guevara. Yes, your communist piece of shit heroes.
So please go fuck your snobby, pseudo intellectual self when you tell me that my view on communism is fucking outdated. You can say whatever you want about my information and my story not being true because you've read some biased bullshit book about the "truth" of the Cuban revolution but I've fucking lived it and I can tell you personally from experience that you don't know shit.
You people stop supporting a business like Hobby Lobby or Chic-Fil-A with your money for their religious beliefs and treating their employees poorly according to your standards (which is understandable and well within your rights) because you "care about people", yet you support an open economy to give our money and support to a communist Cuban regime who have murdered, robbed, and deprived their own people of basic human rights. I thought you cared about people? Maybe you're just not educated on the history of the Cuban people and communism. Or maybe you're just full of shit.