Decades ago I had a really bad sore throat. At one point, for a few miraculous minutes, I could sing two tones at once. I assumed my vocal cords got connected in the middle somewhere via open sores that partially stuck together.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of castratos with this as a permanent feature!
The Constitution states and presumes there are other unenumerated rights not listed. So for a law against gay sex, you have to ask the next question: What in the Constitution grants government the power to regulate it?
Libertarians are hated by both parties for the exact opposite reasons, which is to say for the exact same reasons: the features of each party that make it a massive blight on human life.
What I wonder is how is text generated by computer, by algorithm, considered "speech" ?
The correct question, thst any citizen of a free society should be asking, is "Where in the hell does the Constitution aithorize government to re-order computer-generated results?
In any case, Google, i.e. its owners, can, by the act of publishing it, say it is their speech regardless of origin. The government cannot touch.
This shows real memes in action, where the surface words engender its spread, but the real reason is hidden. "Yey, good-intentioned regulation" is the surface reason, and its spread mechanism, but corruption is the real driver behind.the push to use a jolly surface meme.
US candy is already overpriced because US sugar (inside the US) is several times the world market price because we blather a lot about free trade, but are just as protectionist as the Japanese are about rice.
Well, they have good reason to be scared of being declared the utility thing, and this goes well beyond forced net neutrality.
I recall way back when the Clintons tried Government Health Care 1.0. Eventually, at one point, the insurance companies threw up their hands as a last defense and said, "Fuck it. We'll just cover everybody at our own cost." This wasn't good enough, of course, because the goal wasn't universal coverage, but universal government coverage.
But that's an aside. Here, being a utility means ultimately becoming more like a water or gas or electrical company, with even less competition than now, and then service quality and rates become a game between their lobbyists and the politicians, where they whine they need an increase, slacking off, and the politicians play a game between believing it so they approve the increase, and their own political base, who wants no increase at all because democratic threat.
That's a whole different corporate world and game to play. Companies can play it, but it cuts profits way, way down from a freewheeling bleeding edge high tech.
I am for net neutrality ("You agreed to participate in this common pure data transmission service called The Internet without subverting and perverting it.") but declaring it a utility? Oh god hell god fucking god no.
I has a major sad if that's what it takes to get the laws done. (We'll leave for the moment the disturbing constitutional improprieties philosophically of such massive changes being done via a regulatory agency fiat rather than directly by Congress.)
I recall my 8th grade teacher complaining when I said I liked science fiction; she said it wasn't very good literature. I was offended. To spite her, I got the highest grade by 10 points out of 200 students taking that common course. Don't you look down on me! >:-(
30 years later, I see her point (though I doubt she could explain her own point if pressed; I have a feeling it was knee jerk meme regurgitation.)
The ideas are large and wondrous and often genius in scope. The prose is rarely of clever quality, if you put clever phrasing like Shakespeare or Twain as top examples.
Some can put up some clever banter, but in this sense, the only "science fiction" author I've read who has clever prose even remotely like that of a Twain is Neal Stephenson in things like Cryptonomicon. It's not just grand ideas, but the turn of the phrase is spectacular.
(TBH I'm not even sure if these count as science fiction. Science faction may be more accurate.)
The government of the USA is the largest spending thing. Ever.
Under Obama we passed 1943 in adjusted spending per person, the height of WWII, where we were engaged in a major war on two fronts and building one major warship a week.
There are also different mechanisms for scouring the gradient descent fitness space, and at magnitudes of different speeds. Perhaps this was one which itself evolved.
- Nuclear mutation due to neutrons or whatever. Slow, usually deadly. - Chemical transcription errors, also slow - Controlled rejuggling of genes (children who are not bud clones), must evolve this ability - Sexual exchange, must evolvr
We'll leave memes out of it for now. But each of those features produces (hopefully) useful variations ad vastly different rates.
I'm sure I missed some, but this explosion may ne the result of the evolution of a much faster next-generation random l(ish) gradient descent space exploration mechanism.
I assume at least some biologists are aware of this concept.
"We do a fecal bacterial transplant from a thin person."
"How does that work?"
"Well, first you get into this machine here after taking off your pants. Then the machine takes a slender supermodel and positions her, anus-to-anus with you, so your ani are kissing. For you, today, it's Kendall Jenner. Then she pushes out a long, firm one that forces its way(bampang!)
Dammit, mom. I was dreaming up a patentable scientific process!
10 years ago, a Windows security flaw would merit an article, and Linux fanbois would brag how secure Linux was.
I would point out how, if Linux were on half a billion computers and rapidly increasing, it would take over as the primary target of thousands of profiteering hackers, and you would quickly find out how secure it wasn't.
It was a quick ticket to a downmod. I never even used words like "fanboi" or "dried rabbit pebble-chewing ignorami".
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The most rapid general tech advancement is in a relatively free economy. This has been observed a hundred times over last century.
The prime driver is a free economy, regardless of any government assist, a different question.
Many endeavours fail, big surprise. At least it wasn't driven my a senator and congressman in exchange for a vote on some other bill.
They're confusing the halting problem with the horizon pronlem in game theory.
Like a chess grandmaster who sees a trap 15 moves down the road that a lesser-skilled player cannot.
The good ones took advantage of this when playing compters. Kasparov is still convinced he could win a rematch.
Decades ago I had a really bad sore throat. At one point, for a few miraculous minutes, I could sing two tones at once. I assumed my vocal cords got connected in the middle somewhere via open sores that partially stuck together.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of castratos with this as a permanent feature!
The Constitution states and presumes there are other unenumerated rights not listed. So for a law against gay sex, you have to ask the next question: What in the Constitution grants government the power to regulate it?
Libertarians are hated by both parties for the exact opposite reasons, which is to say for the exact same reasons: the features of each party that make it a massive blight on human life.
What I wonder is how is text generated by computer, by algorithm, considered "speech" ?
The correct question, thst any citizen of a free society should be asking, is "Where in the hell does the Constitution aithorize government to re-order computer-generated results?
In any case, Google, i.e. its owners, can, by the act of publishing it, say it is their speech regardless of origin. The government cannot touch.
This shows real memes in action, where the surface words engender its spread, but the real reason is hidden. "Yey, good-intentioned regulation" is the surface reason, and its spread mechanism, but corruption is the real driver behind.the push to use a jolly surface meme.
US candy is already overpriced because US sugar (inside the US) is several times the world market price because we blather a lot about free trade, but are just as protectionist as the Japanese are about rice.
> After Four Days, Philae Team Gets to Rest
Thank god. I have this comfy shirt I've been meaning to wear...
And hopefully, there will never be anything like it again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Hey, they're doing it wrong.
That isn't supposed to happen until the second or third season.
Great. Just what I need, another 30 spams a day.
Thank you!
Putin, you're an idiot and a thug and a hack, and your people are idiots and thugs and hacks.
Nowadays you inject silicone into the pig's hips and ass.
Well, they have good reason to be scared of being declared the utility thing, and this goes well beyond forced net neutrality.
I recall way back when the Clintons tried Government Health Care 1.0. Eventually, at one point, the insurance companies threw up their hands as a last defense and said, "Fuck it. We'll just cover everybody at our own cost." This wasn't good enough, of course, because the goal wasn't universal coverage, but universal government coverage.
But that's an aside. Here, being a utility means ultimately becoming more like a water or gas or electrical company, with even less competition than now, and then service quality and rates become a game between their lobbyists and the politicians, where they whine they need an increase, slacking off, and the politicians play a game between believing it so they approve the increase, and their own political base, who wants no increase at all because democratic threat.
That's a whole different corporate world and game to play. Companies can play it, but it cuts profits way, way down from a freewheeling bleeding edge high tech.
I am for net neutrality ("You agreed to participate in this common pure data transmission service called The Internet without subverting and perverting it.") but declaring it a utility? Oh god hell god fucking god no.
I has a major sad if that's what it takes to get the laws done. (We'll leave for the moment the disturbing constitutional improprieties philosophically of such massive changes being done via a regulatory agency fiat rather than directly by Congress.)
I recall my 8th grade teacher complaining when I said I liked science fiction; she said it wasn't very good literature. I was offended. To spite her, I got the highest grade by 10 points out of 200 students taking that common course. Don't you look down on me! >:-(
30 years later, I see her point (though I doubt she could explain her own point if pressed; I have a feeling it was knee jerk meme regurgitation.)
The ideas are large and wondrous and often genius in scope. The prose is rarely of clever quality, if you put clever phrasing like Shakespeare or Twain as top examples.
Some can put up some clever banter, but in this sense, the only "science fiction" author I've read who has clever prose even remotely like that of a Twain is Neal Stephenson in things like Cryptonomicon. It's not just grand ideas, but the turn of the phrase is spectacular.
(TBH I'm not even sure if these count as science fiction. Science faction may be more accurate.)
Not if the speech is part of the criminal activity.
I can tell you there's a drug house over there that sells whatever for whatever price, but I can't do it if I'm advertising for them.
"Unscheduled maintenance" sounds like something China would say when they had problems.
The government of the USA is the largest spending thing. Ever.
Under Obama we passed 1943 in adjusted spending per person, the height of WWII, where we were engaged in a major war on two fronts and building one major warship a week.
So, no. Fuck your "dire straits" bleat.
No. Someone fleeing you ramming it up their ass is not, in turn, ramming it up your ass.
You mean he set a speed record on a crappy motorcycle.
> and Guam
"Oh no! Someone took the credit card receipts from the grocery's trash! Well, according to Guam law, we must notify consumers."
(Opens window). "Hey, Frank! Charlie took your credit card receipt! Oh, and Paul, get your damned chickens off the runway!"
There are also different mechanisms for scouring the gradient descent fitness space, and at magnitudes of different speeds. Perhaps this was one which itself evolved.
- Nuclear mutation due to neutrons or whatever. Slow, usually deadly.
- Chemical transcription errors, also slow
- Controlled rejuggling of genes (children who are not bud clones), must evolve this ability
- Sexual exchange, must evolvr
We'll leave memes out of it for now. But each of those features produces (hopefully) useful variations ad vastly different rates.
I'm sure I missed some, but this explosion may ne the result of the evolution of a much faster next-generation random l(ish) gradient descent space exploration mechanism.
I assume at least some biologists are aware of this concept.
Downmod? Should I have used a different word than "leftist"? an "alternatively-politicked" group, perhaps?
"So, what's the solution, doctor?"
"We do a fecal bacterial transplant from a thin person."
"How does that work?"
"Well, first you get into this machine here after taking off your pants. Then the machine takes a slender supermodel and positions her, anus-to-anus with you, so your ani are kissing. For you, today, it's Kendall Jenner. Then she pushes out a long, firm one that forces its way(bampang!)
Dammit, mom. I was dreaming up a patentable scientific process!
10 years ago, a Windows security flaw would merit an article, and Linux fanbois would brag how secure Linux was.
I would point out how, if Linux were on half a billion computers and rapidly increasing, it would take over as the primary target of thousands of profiteering hackers, and you would quickly find out how secure it wasn't.
It was a quick ticket to a downmod. I never even used words like "fanboi" or "dried rabbit pebble-chewing ignorami".
Go figure.