It's about politics. With one swift cut, you can save billions and stop your predecessor from getting credit for a new moon shot.
Obama killed off one such endeavor of Bush's.
he ideas consist of sending autonomous robots to various locations in space to create infrastructure using local resources with advanced manufacturing technology, such as 3D printing. The new aspect is that someone in the White House is publicly discussing these concepts.
Well, it's about time. I've been saying for years we should launch robots and what-not up to Mars and construct a functional base with food and the ability to grow more, and only then launch humans up there.
This "giant moonshot" standard plan is idiotic and prone to failure.
I am unconcerned if facebook computers are trying to determine if I want to buy Pampers or Depends so computers can sell electrons to other computers to shove electrons in front of my face.
But claiming you have privacy from...just what now? Government, when you are feeding it back to government because government demands it?
What. The. Fuck.
That is the historical abuser of privacy we should be afraid of. Even privacy apps collapse immediately with just a wink from the onrushing government computerized panopticon juggernaut?
It's time for some kind of constitutional amendment to extend and require warrants to virtual property and locations online, to get around the loophole that it's "on some company's server somewhere, so you 'have no expectation of privacy.' "
And keep an eye on the weasel politicians who would water it down.
Science understands when life begins quite well -- they just don't includexthe purely religious concept of "ensoulment", nor the equally religious concept that there's a god out there getting mad about it.
Even if there were, the logic still holds -- God has no more right to force his will on you than any dictator (or socialist, for that matter.)
Pattern recognition, decision theory, game theory, and partitioning are AI subjects. AI isn't just the mysterious general-purpose thinking machine always on the horizon.
Some pattern recognition uses neural networks for training.
Overpopulation is not a problem (in free countries, including economic freedom). People solve shortages and other problems faster than they become seriously impactful (pardon that word.)
This has been measured again and again and again and is a real effect. Julian Simon got famous making loud public bets with gloom and doomers. His minimum granularity was 10 years, and even that was really a little short for comfort to overcome multi-year cycles as well as buffer time for markets to respond to disturbances.
People reserve unto themselves the right to purchase things anonymously. It's a check on government power, a kind of spying.
How disturbed I am at the surity with which people view modern government as nearly perfected, and worthy of such spy powers, when nothing in all human history should give you confidence in that.
This is where I have to disagree. "Well-meaning" is the memetic addition to justify the same ol' same ol' corruption, but in a democracy.
The system is designed to be twisted and perverted, running undercover of "hey, they mean well!"
I do not extend to them the benefit of the doubt, and the remediation to fix the law (often created not by legislators but by regulatory agencies even more slow to respond, and sufferin regulatory capture) is completely inadequate and overwhelmed by the rent seeking.
Obama had nothing to do with his own prize -- it was a slap in the face to Bush.
Obama should have refused it because participating in such a political action by foreigners by playing their puppet in a play is beneath the Presidency.
Keep in mind one of the two arguments to have regulatory authorities that make de facto laws without Congressional vote: "It strips it of politics".
We'll ignore for the moment this is a danger to freedom and democracy, and not a good "feature". Rather, realize these politicians could, to a man or woman, all oppose the regulation officially, to appease voters, while supporting it secretly.
None will ever lift a finger to repeal it (which happens only rarely) and will just stand there and say, "I didn't do it!" while leaders bury any attempts to change it.
Thanks to the butterfly effect, it's been calculated if you had a measurement every cubic foot of temp, pressure, wind, and humidity, you could only predict weather about a month in advance. Which you couldn't because of the computer wimpiness.
Well, my sense of smell is intact. I excercised it thoroughly but accidentally by going to a hobby store two Saturdays ago. and passing the gaming tables.
Politics is religion in all the important, and evil, power-grabbing, meme-spreading ways.
This is why I'm libertarian -- the atheism of politics. You don't get to lord over others regardless of cool-sounding patter about gods or men, and leave others alone over it.
Oop, feel that rage in you as you read that? On their identicality, I rest my case, Zeus-worshipper.
That was part of their safe harbor protections Congress gave hosting sites -- you are protected from lawsuits over what your own customers put up as long as you respond in a timely fashion to copyright takedowns.
Now Google is good standing up to things, but dragging ass on these notices is not allowed. Either fight it as a claim or take it down.
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It's about politics. With one swift cut, you can save billions and stop your predecessor from getting credit for a new moon shot.
Obama killed off one such endeavor of Bush's.
Well, it's about time. I've been saying for years we should launch robots and what-not up to Mars and construct a functional base with food and the ability to grow more, and only then launch humans up there.
This "giant moonshot" standard plan is idiotic and prone to failure.
I am unconcerned if facebook computers are trying to determine if I want to buy Pampers or Depends so computers can sell electrons to other computers to shove electrons in front of my face.
But claiming you have privacy from...just what now? Government, when you are feeding it back to government because government demands it?
What. The. Fuck.
That is the historical abuser of privacy we should be afraid of. Even privacy apps collapse immediately with just a wink from the onrushing government computerized panopticon juggernaut?
It's time for some kind of constitutional amendment to extend and require warrants to virtual property and locations online, to get around the loophole that it's "on some company's server somewhere, so you 'have no expectation of privacy.' "
And keep an eye on the weasel politicians who would water it down.
Ummmm.
We pay a "freedom tax" on property every year. You must pay money to the government or it will take your land away.
It's wrapped in memes of fire department, police, roads, but that's what happens at the end of the day.
At least a "privacy tax" to be exempt would give you the option of paying or not.
It sounds more like it would allow them to sue over costly regulations and force them to justify them in court.
I am fine with that.
> Aquaman. Lego. Harry Potter
Jesus, that Justice League movie is gonna be a mess.
Science understands when life begins quite well -- they just don't includexthe purely religious concept of "ensoulment", nor the equally religious concept that there's a god out there getting mad about it.
Even if there were, the logic still holds -- God has no more right to force his will on you than any dictator (or socialist, for that matter.)
You ALL are part of the problem.
You should have seen the opening of the first draft -- "Washington DC: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."
Pattern recognition, decision theory, game theory, and partitioning are AI subjects. AI isn't just the mysterious general-purpose thinking machine always on the horizon.
Some pattern recognition uses neural networks for training.
Overpopulation is not a problem (in free countries, including economic freedom). People solve shortages and other problems faster than they become seriously impactful (pardon that word.)
This has been measured again and again and again and is a real effect. Julian Simon got famous making loud public bets with gloom and doomers. His minimum granularity was 10 years, and even that was really a little short for comfort to overcome multi-year cycles as well as buffer time for markets to respond to disturbances.
"I don't need it; therefore nobody else does."
People reserve unto themselves the right to purchase things anonymously. It's a check on government power, a kind of spying.
How disturbed I am at the surity with which people view modern government as nearly perfected, and worthy of such spy powers, when nothing in all human history should give you confidence in that.
As commenters continue to blame Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities for allowing their nude photos to be stolen
No one is blaming them for "allowing their photos to be stolen" I didn't bother reading the rest if that's how you started.
Also, TFA is significantly longer than the tweet length you're used to thinking in.
> "but the spirit of the law is good."
This is where I have to disagree. "Well-meaning" is the memetic addition to justify the same ol' same ol' corruption, but in a democracy.
The system is designed to be twisted and perverted, running undercover of "hey, they mean well!"
I do not extend to them the benefit of the doubt, and the remediation to fix the law (often created not by legislators but by regulatory agencies even more slow to respond, and sufferin regulatory capture) is completely inadequate and overwhelmed by the rent seeking.
No, but I'm fine with the Peace Prize being extended to people who work to increase freedom and rights.
Obama had nothing to do with his own prize -- it was a slap in the face to Bush.
Obama should have refused it because participating in such a political action by foreigners by playing their puppet in a play is beneath the Presidency.
Keep in mind one of the two arguments to have regulatory authorities that make de facto laws without Congressional vote: "It strips it of politics".
We'll ignore for the moment this is a danger to freedom and democracy, and not a good "feature". Rather, realize these politicians could, to a man or woman, all oppose the regulation officially, to appease voters, while supporting it secretly.
None will ever lift a finger to repeal it (which happens only rarely) and will just stand there and say, "I didn't do it!" while leaders bury any attempts to change it.
Thanks to the butterfly effect, it's been calculated if you had a measurement every cubic foot of temp, pressure, wind, and humidity, you could only predict weather about a month in advance. Which you couldn't because of the computer wimpiness.
Still wouldn't solve the problem, StartsWith 'Windows 1". God help us when that legacy activates.
Well, my sense of smell is intact. I excercised it thoroughly but accidentally by going to a hobby store two Saturdays ago. and passing the gaming tables.
No, it means (go) suck an Imperial star destroyer.
The past few months, even searching for a porn star name yields no nude photos, even with safe turned off.
Google is becoming less usefilul.
Politics is religion in all the important, and evil, power-grabbing, meme-spreading ways.
This is why I'm libertarian -- the atheism of politics. You don't get to lord over others regardless of cool-sounding patter about gods or men, and leave others alone over it.
Oop, feel that rage in you as you read that? On their identicality, I rest my case, Zeus-worshipper.
That was part of their safe harbor protections Congress gave hosting sites -- you are protected from lawsuits over what your own customers put up as long as you respond in a timely fashion to copyright takedowns.
Now Google is good standing up to things, but dragging ass on these notices is not allowed. Either fight it as a claim or take it down.
Also, what idiot modded parent down?
House: Or, you're an idiot. (To patient) Are you a Slashdot user?
Patient: What?
House: Slashdot dot org. Do you read and post messages there?
Patient: Yes?
House: No human contact. The US is safe once again. Cameron, stop picking cases based on the bozos at the CDC.
Yes, that's what's the big problem...third parties might eavesdrop on sloppy, 1984-like government spying.
3rd parties.
General "Slashdot" Neckbeardson: And to mate with these females, would that require talking to them? Like reaching out to hold their hands and stuff?
Dr. Handlove: Regrettably, yes.
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