1) Large Corporations that are too big to fail. 2) Governments that are safe with your secrets because they're never go corrupt - or collapse.
You can't put back what comes out of Pandora's box, be it nukes, widespread guns, or the ability to decrypt anything ever. The tools you have today can become your enemy's tools tomorrow.
"Brought to you by the otherwise useless undergraduate course in the mythology of C.S. Lewis & JRR Tolkien."
;-)
I still don't get why Bombadil represented to the hobbits the world outside the shire. With or without him, they were to find that out anyway, in a most severe crash course over the next year or so. I guess it was the sing-y bits that irked me though. I suppose they were relevant though, in the way that many cultures pass on down information or customs via song; and in those older British decades, that kind of thing was more common than today. Granted, I read the book(s) only once, about 8 years ago, so I've forgotten much of it.
You need to learn that words are not actions, and substance is more important than superficiality. So she wrote, in one or two sentences in a book, that it was her own fault, but is that really "taking" responsibility? Because she says so? Did she ever *act* like it was her own fault? Did she ever *act* like she took responsibility for losing? In every interview I've seen and article I've read since the election, she's blamed everyone *but* herself: Bernie Sanders, the Electoral College, racism, "deplorables".. you name it. Thus the facts support my claim that what she wrote was in fact disingenuous; making it gratuitous lip service.
Exactly. It's gratuitous lip service that is expected of someone in that position, and not a syllable of it is genuinely meant. It's schtick, superficiality over substance.
I'd be okay with that. That section of the book was particularly laborious for me to read through, I just couldn't get into the singing bits. It seemed gratuitously silly; not to mention rather pointless, because even though the ring has no effect on him, we're never told why. LoTR is not an easy read anyway. It'll always be an epic classic though, really have defined much of the modern fantasy genre, like what Jimi Hendrix or Jimmy Page is to classic rock.
His approval rating would probably rise if they did. I neither voted for the guy, nor am I a "nevertrumper"; I think he's unfairly maligned much of the time (sometimes he deserves it too), but a lot of his tweets are ridiculous.
That's what I was thinking, though maybe not quite as doom and gloom, it could still be disastrous, especially if they're looking at military applications.
Is this really the kind of thing (advanced AI) that should be rushed because, "competition"? It seems like exactly the sort of thing that shouldn't be rushed, but all some people see are $$$, and that's usually the motivation behind any kind of 'damn the torpedoes' business strategy; either that, or military motivations, or both. And then some project is awarded to the lowest bidder.
This. Plus, the damn commercials. Everytime I sit down in front of my TV and starting paging through channels to find something interesting to watch (a challenge in itself) the station I invariably settle on is mid-commercial, and then it continues for another 3 to 4 minutes. Finally the program returns, but 5 minutes later, we're back to 12 more commercials back-to-back. All the while, because I pay Comcast over a hundred dollars every month, I'm paying them to watch all these commercials! Increasingly, near 50% of my viewing time is now wasted on commercials. And none of them make me want to go out and buy their stupid product. Especially the pharmaceuticals: "May cause dizziness, rash, diarrhea, difficulty in breathing, loss of consciousness, extreme pain, bloody stools, flaccidity, amputation, blindness, suicidal thoughts, insanity, lesions, boils, bubonic plague, anal warts, vomiting up toads and lizards, violent convulsions, death, and likely poltergeist activity.
I'd like to see the whole thing crash and burn, cable television has gotten beyond greedy.
Where'd I say I hate everyone? Aren't you familiar with the, "Florida Man" meme? Look it up if you're not, get ready to chuckle, and be amazed. Florida is the land of the crazies.
BLM in Baltimore and Ferguson: torching and smashing in cars, windows, businesses. Marches and riots in other cities too, shutting down traffic on major highways. I don't need to search for you, you know those examples are there, you're being disingenuous. Cops being being shot dead on sight for just being cops, 5 in Dallas in one night, July 2016. Antifa clashing with NeoNazis in Charlettesville? At least MLK preached peaceful protests.
Oh that's hilarious. It's the Left that increasingly thinks communism is wonderful; you're the guys in bed with Russia if anyone. You're the ones who want tight government control of everything and integration with the press. Just like Russia.
Agreed. A Jit Pie is a corporatist through and through, which will only serve to make capitalism look bad, and convince impressionable millennials that socialism or even communism is better. Capitalism works the best, but only when it's tempered and balanced by a modicum of gov't oversight and regulation to prevent monopolies from forming or conspiracies/collusion from occuring. The tricky thing is where to draw the very fine line with the regulation: it's easy to do too little, and just as easy to do too much, and both extremes are bad. I'm not happy with his appointment at all.
I primarily use my Galaxy Tab A as an ebook reader, it's great for that. Also, Memedroid, a time waster if ever there was one. Also the occasional web browsing, though it's slow.
Oh that's funny. I was born in 1962, don't be presumptuous. I've been around, but you've totally missed my point. I never said this was "new"; I said, there have been no major, extended race riots and nationwide feelings of division "in recent decades", which I see as the past 10, 20, and 30 years. Even going back 35 years takes us back to 1982, not the '70s and '60s. Those decades were the last ones where you really saw civil and social unrest. BTW, if you consider the 1960s a "recent" decade, you must be really, really, old, and you make me feel young, thanks. Now, there was the Rodney King affair, and the OJ Simpson trial, but they utterly pale in comparison to the BLM movement and Antifa. It was not like this in the eighties or nineties, nor even the 00s, and I remember that very well. Today, it's like the '60s all over again.
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1) Large Corporations that are too big to fail.
2) Governments that are safe with your secrets because they're never go corrupt - or collapse.
You can't put back what comes out of Pandora's box, be it nukes, widespread guns, or the ability to decrypt anything ever.
The tools you have today can become your enemy's tools tomorrow.
"Brought to you by the otherwise useless undergraduate course in the mythology of C.S. Lewis & JRR Tolkien."
I still don't get why Bombadil represented to the hobbits the world outside the shire. With or without him, they were to find that out anyway, in a most severe crash course over the next year or so. I guess it was the sing-y bits that irked me though. I suppose they were relevant though, in the way that many cultures pass on down information or customs via song; and in those older British decades, that kind of thing was more common than today.
Granted, I read the book(s) only once, about 8 years ago, so I've forgotten much of it.
That's what I was wondering. The new skin has the fixed gene in it, but the body creates all new epidermis every, what, six weeks?
You need to learn that words are not actions, and substance is more important than superficiality. So she wrote, in one or two sentences in a book, that it was her own fault, but is that really "taking" responsibility? Because she says so? Did she ever *act* like it was her own fault? Did she ever *act* like she took responsibility for losing? In every interview I've seen and article I've read since the election, she's blamed everyone *but* herself: Bernie Sanders, the Electoral College, racism, "deplorables".. you name it.
Thus the facts support my claim that what she wrote was in fact disingenuous; making it gratuitous lip service.
Exactly. It's gratuitous lip service that is expected of someone in that position, and not a syllable of it is genuinely meant.
It's schtick, superficiality over substance.
I'd be okay with that. That section of the book was particularly laborious for me to read through, I just couldn't get into the singing bits. It seemed gratuitously silly; not to mention rather pointless, because even though the ring has no effect on him, we're never told why.
LoTR is not an easy read anyway.
It'll always be an epic classic though, really have defined much of the modern fantasy genre, like what Jimi Hendrix or Jimmy Page is to classic rock.
They are (5 year olds).
His approval rating would probably rise if they did.
I neither voted for the guy, nor am I a "nevertrumper"; I think he's unfairly maligned much of the time (sometimes he deserves it too), but a lot of his tweets are ridiculous.
That's what I was thinking, though maybe not quite as doom and gloom, it could still be disastrous, especially if they're looking at military applications.
Is this really the kind of thing (advanced AI) that should be rushed because, "competition"? It seems like exactly the sort of thing that shouldn't be rushed, but all some people see are $$$, and that's usually the motivation behind any kind of 'damn the torpedoes' business strategy; either that, or military motivations, or both. And then some project is awarded to the lowest bidder.
Both. They steal and pirate stuff all the time as well.
They did. Credit for their invention belongs to the Indians.
This.
Plus, the damn commercials. Everytime I sit down in front of my TV and starting paging through channels to find something interesting to watch (a challenge in itself) the station I invariably settle on is mid-commercial, and then it continues for another 3 to 4 minutes. Finally the program returns, but 5 minutes later, we're back to 12 more commercials back-to-back.
All the while, because I pay Comcast over a hundred dollars every month, I'm paying them to watch all these commercials! Increasingly, near 50% of my viewing time is now wasted on commercials. And none of them make me want to go out and buy their stupid product.
Especially the pharmaceuticals: "May cause dizziness, rash, diarrhea, difficulty in breathing, loss of consciousness, extreme pain, bloody stools, flaccidity, amputation, blindness, suicidal thoughts, insanity, lesions, boils, bubonic plague, anal warts, vomiting up toads and lizards, violent convulsions, death, and likely poltergeist activity.
I'd like to see the whole thing crash and burn, cable television has gotten beyond greedy.
That looks more like "Owlgirl".
Where'd I say I hate everyone? Aren't you familiar with the, "Florida Man" meme?
Look it up if you're not, get ready to chuckle, and be amazed. Florida is the land of the crazies.
Maybe Yellowstone will kill us all first.
Goodbye "Florida man".. good riddance.
It'd be a shame to lose Disney and Universal though.
That's what I was thinking.
Like when Wiley E. Coyote realizes he's run off the edge of a cliff, but gravity doesn't take effect until he realizes it.
Maybe he meant, "startling a unicorn".
I didn't say either way, I was talking about fake news. The "dossier" is one such example.
BLM in Baltimore and Ferguson: torching and smashing in cars, windows, businesses. Marches and riots in other cities too, shutting down traffic on major highways. I don't need to search for you, you know those examples are there, you're being disingenuous.
Cops being being shot dead on sight for just being cops, 5 in Dallas in one night, July 2016.
Antifa clashing with NeoNazis in Charlettesville?
At least MLK preached peaceful protests.
Oh that's hilarious. It's the Left that increasingly thinks communism is wonderful; you're the guys in bed with Russia if anyone.
You're the ones who want tight government control of everything and integration with the press. Just like Russia.
Here it is right from one of biggest leftist mouthpieces there is, the WaPo.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Agreed. A Jit Pie is a corporatist through and through, which will only serve to make capitalism look bad, and convince impressionable millennials that socialism or even communism is better. Capitalism works the best, but only when it's tempered and balanced by a modicum of gov't oversight and regulation to prevent monopolies from forming or conspiracies/collusion from occuring. The tricky thing is where to draw the very fine line with the regulation: it's easy to do too little, and just as easy to do too much, and both extremes are bad.
I'm not happy with his appointment at all.
You forgot to mention the Russian dossier on Trump ("pissgate") that was funded by the Clinton Foundation.
These people were very nearly put in power.
I primarily use my Galaxy Tab A as an ebook reader, it's great for that. Also, Memedroid, a time waster if ever there was one.
Also the occasional web browsing, though it's slow.
Oh that's funny. I was born in 1962, don't be presumptuous. I've been around, but you've totally missed my point. I never said this was "new"; I said, there have been no major, extended race riots and nationwide feelings of division "in recent decades", which I see as the past 10, 20, and 30 years. Even going back 35 years takes us back to 1982, not the '70s and '60s. Those decades were the last ones where you really saw civil and social unrest.
BTW, if you consider the 1960s a "recent" decade, you must be really, really, old, and you make me feel young, thanks.
Now, there was the Rodney King affair, and the OJ Simpson trial, but they utterly pale in comparison to the BLM movement and Antifa. It was not like this in the eighties or nineties, nor even the 00s, and I remember that very well.
Today, it's like the '60s all over again.