So nobody gets to observe you intrusively and in detail...except the one entity proven to be vastly the most harmful to human existence, as shown by actual historical evidence. Indeed, the vast bulk of history is this evidence itself.
Also as learned from history, nobody learns from history.
> "Cisco is slowly killing off its Cius business tablet [which] fell victim to the BYOD trend and cloud computing,
So a wise company would recognize the need for massive amounts of ultra high-speed routing hardware to supply a voracious Internet model where billions of computers are little more than dumb terminals streaming faux desktop video from computers running elsewhere?
Karl Malden as "The Soldier's" General Omar Bradley: "Do you have anyone in mind, Gerorge?"
Q: D&D ruleset has already been accused of turning it into a combat-oriented computer game rather than a high strategy game. Isn't this just even more of the same, making it even further PC gamelike?
A: No. Actually, it's moved on and is actually consolelike. Each character gets two powers they can set as "fingers" and two they can set as "thumbs", then when they roll the dice, they say, "Thumb 2!" and whatever it rolls it rolls.
Q: So then...
A: Yep. There are also combo moves, where a tank, er, sorry, figher can say, "thumb 2, thumb 1, finger 1", and it will increase their outcome by 0.02%.
Q: Not by, say, +2?
A: Plus what now?
Q: So at least they have stats like STR and CON and the venerable CHA, right?
A: Pfheh, cha, whaeves. Look, we jumped the shark back when the Cloak of Invisibility stopped being a cloak of invisibility and turned into +3 to hide skill.
Here's an alternative prediction everybody will ignore. Nevermind that it will come true -- it will be ignored.
Nevermind that you should watch as history unfolds -- it will be ignored.
Here's the prediction: There is a lot more to freedom than freedom of speech and "freedom" for government to insinuate itself into economic life to the tune of 1/3 of the economy -- at the behest of democracy.
There is freedom of action in the economic realm.
As that is far and away the most important thing with respect to advancing the human condition (don't argue -- it's the theory itself. Side note: would that other people of other political persuasions realize that their pet worldviews are also theories -- and ones with far less confirming and far more disconfirming evidence, sigh) I will predict they will continue to have better and better conditions w.r.t. longevity and quality of life than they did before.
And here's the kicker -- they will be able to supersede the west unless socialist nonsense drags them downward. They will end up more advanced and with longer-living people than the west does.
You, dear reader, with your worldview, aren't part of the problem. You are the problem.
Again, don't take my word for it -- watch as history unfolds. You won't. But you should, if you were intellectually honest.
Conditions got un-abysmal because of the increasing economic dynamism and advancing technology, not because of politicians, i.e. men seeking power over other men with police and armies at their back, a technique...decidedly far, far more ancient.
As is the drooling love of such.
Proof: Economic freedom, which is to say, freedom from government is advancing their condition by leaps and bounds, which those self-same power hungry thugs, running the show 100% under former communism, could not do in half a century.
How quickly people forget how the west grew from farmers to industry, with people voluntarily moving to the city for factory jobs -- and considering themselves lucky.
Be concerned with dangerous conditions, but economic issues? Please. How soon we forget.
Your only moment of note is the stark realization stuff like this is over because fewer votes are lost chopping NASA than chopping half a percent out of social spending.
Ok, the Turing Test was a thought experiment, and not intended to be a real-world filter for useful AI. Clearly non-humanlike general-purpose intelligence would be useful regardless of the form.
The test was a thought experiment to throw down the gauntlet to cs philosophers - how would you even know another human skull, aside from yourself, was conscious or not? It doesn't even really have anything to do with intelligence per se so much as illustrating the difference between intelligence and conscious intelligence. Hence the Chinese Room, q.v.
Well, suggest corrections to your congressman. Ripping down the whole site is a button push for the host. Sorting throuh thousands of pages or photos puts a lot of woek on the host.
I don't have an elegant solution.
As-is, the system gets abused. There are people on YouTube ripping terrorists and terrorist groups are issuing completely bogus DCMA takedowns, which YouTube is required to take down.
Then, according to law, the victim is required to assert their right to get it back up, including giving their legal name and address.
Which, of course, is what the terrorists want to get ahold of.
For completeness' sake, and according to the taken-down rants, by "terrorists", I mean Muslim terrorists.
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Pfeh!
I had a semicylinder reflector griller perfect for one kebob or footlong hotdog at a time, 20 minutes per.
This was back in the 70's before environmentalism was "cool", and it was called ecology. >:-(
I'm gonna guess these are the same guys who made the ring for Mr. Facebook's wife.
Inflammation and heart disease and (Type II) diabetes are all intimately tied together, too. One wonders...and hopes.
I think that's part of a Steely Dan song:
"The YooHoo drink. The fine European Nutella...make tonight a wonderful thing.
Sing it again.
The YooHoo drink. The fine European Nutella...make tonight a wonderful thing."
Use robots?
How fleshist of you! Sending in peaceful, sentient machines to dangerous areas. You think you're better than them? Huh?
> Doesn't even matter if the shit happened in
> Hungarian and you live in Norway, you somehow
> want to take credit.
I think you mean "...and you live in Norwegian..."
So nobody gets to observe you intrusively and in detail...except the one entity proven to be vastly the most harmful to human existence, as shown by actual historical evidence. Indeed, the vast bulk of history is this evidence itself.
Also as learned from history, nobody learns from history.
If you're gonna go that far, then I suppose helping Britain would be high treason.
> "Cisco is slowly killing off its Cius business tablet [which] fell victim to the BYOD trend and cloud computing,
So a wise company would recognize the need for massive amounts of ultra high-speed routing hardware to supply a voracious Internet model where billions of computers are little more than dumb terminals streaming faux desktop video from computers running elsewhere?
Karl Malden as "The Soldier's" General Omar Bradley: "Do you have anyone in mind, Gerorge?"
Missing from the linked FAQ:
Q: D&D ruleset has already been accused of turning it into a combat-oriented computer game rather than a high strategy game. Isn't this just even more of the same, making it even further PC gamelike?
A: No. Actually, it's moved on and is actually consolelike. Each character gets two powers they can set as "fingers" and two they can set as "thumbs", then when they roll the dice, they say, "Thumb 2!" and whatever it rolls it rolls.
Q: So then...
A: Yep. There are also combo moves, where a tank, er, sorry, figher can say, "thumb 2, thumb 1, finger 1", and it will increase their outcome by 0.02%.
Q: Not by, say, +2?
A: Plus what now?
Q: So at least they have stats like STR and CON and the venerable CHA, right?
A: Pfheh, cha, whaeves. Look, we jumped the shark back when the Cloak of Invisibility stopped being a cloak of invisibility and turned into +3 to hide skill.
Because it's freakin' cannon balls. I don't know about you, but I'm concerned on a scale less than ten miles.
> "Maybe with direct communication, sci-fi fans can rest easy and not have to worry about their favorite shows being cancelled like FireFly."
And the downside, which they may learn the hard way? They may end up with something exactly like FireFly.
Here's an alternative prediction everybody will ignore. Nevermind that it will come true -- it will be ignored.
Nevermind that you should watch as history unfolds -- it will be ignored.
Here's the prediction: There is a lot more to freedom than freedom of speech and "freedom" for government to insinuate itself into economic life to the tune of 1/3 of the economy -- at the behest of democracy.
There is freedom of action in the economic realm.
As that is far and away the most important thing with respect to advancing the human condition (don't argue -- it's the theory itself. Side note: would that other people of other political persuasions realize that their pet worldviews are also theories -- and ones with far less confirming and far more disconfirming evidence, sigh) I will predict they will continue to have better and better conditions w.r.t. longevity and quality of life than they did before.
And here's the kicker -- they will be able to supersede the west unless socialist nonsense drags them downward. They will end up more advanced and with longer-living people than the west does.
You, dear reader, with your worldview, aren't part of the problem. You are the problem.
Again, don't take my word for it -- watch as history unfolds. You won't. But you should, if you were intellectually honest.
Conditions got un-abysmal because of the increasing economic dynamism and advancing technology, not because of politicians, i.e. men seeking power over other men with police and armies at their back, a technique...decidedly far, far more ancient.
As is the drooling love of such.
Proof: Economic freedom, which is to say, freedom from government is advancing their condition by leaps and bounds, which those self-same power hungry thugs, running the show 100% under former communism, could not do in half a century.
How quickly people forget how the west grew from farmers to industry, with people voluntarily moving to the city for factory jobs -- and considering themselves lucky.
Be concerned with dangerous conditions, but economic issues? Please. How soon we forget.
There is a special place in Hell reserved for people who -1 comedy.
Your only moment of note is the stark realization stuff like this is over because fewer votes are lost chopping NASA than chopping half a percent out of social spending.
I will mourn it the way I mourn the death of DARPANET several trillion private dollars of investment later.
Ok, the Turing Test was a thought experiment, and not intended to be a real-world filter for useful AI. Clearly non-humanlike general-purpose intelligence would be useful regardless of the form.
The test was a thought experiment to throw down the gauntlet to cs philosophers - how would you even know another human skull, aside from yourself, was conscious or not? It doesn't even really have anything to do with intelligence per se so much as illustrating the difference between intelligence and conscious intelligence. Hence the Chinese Room, q.v.
Well, suggest corrections to your congressman. Ripping down the whole site is a button push for the host. Sorting throuh thousands of pages or photos puts a lot of woek on the host.
I don't have an elegant solution.
As-is, the system gets abused. There are people on YouTube ripping terrorists and terrorist groups are issuing completely bogus DCMA takedowns, which YouTube is required to take down.
Then, according to law, the victim is required to assert their right to get it back up, including giving their legal name and address.
Which, of course, is what the terrorists want to get ahold of.
For completeness' sake, and according to the taken-down rants, by "terrorists", I mean Muslim terrorists.
> destroying the fundamental underpinnings of the broadcast television ecosystem
They are, of course, correct. The real question is, "Is it legal or proper for them to stop it through courts?"
NASA: "That belongs to us!"
Ok, Queen Isabella of Spain.
Enjoy lording over your New Old World citizenry in 200 years.
Well I like the bit about keeping it going to "serve the public interest". If these were heart/lung machines, they may have a point.
But nothing is less necessary than entertainment luxuries.
Keep in mind you can't tax money out to pay for pet projects if you don't have a powerful, free economy to begin with.
And they should.
Why should they play the game of some government clown's memeview of propriety?