Just links to democrat mouthpieces, the same sources that peddled the Trump collusion narrative. So insightful.
You know what would happen to anyone making a counter argument, but linking to Fox or Breitbart instead. Biased moderation isn't convincing anyone, it just damages any hope for a balanced discussion.
That's actually accounted for in the EPA mileage estimate. What isn't said is that Solandri is doubling up a lot of the inefficiencies.
That was an informative post, but no, Solandi is also making inefficiencies up out of thin air. I guess factoring in power produced only from burning tar sands oil was a bit too much, when an even split of only coal/nat gas might seem plausible to the average reader.
In the US we desperately need to know about all kinds of things going on in government.
Yes we do. Especially what the actors in the last administration were doing while a sympathetic press was also helping to provide cover. But I fear it would make no difference to those who still profess ignorance on something so basic as to how POTUS is elected.
The US doesn't need Isreal in the ME to stir the pot when there's Saudi Arabia. Not only does SA buy US arms, they're bombing Yemen right now. As the head of OPAC, they ensure that the money printing presses keep running thanks to the petrodollar. What exactly is the symbiotic relationship with Israel, other than to outsource intelligence ops that would make our own CIA blush?
It is all a game of checks-and-balances to keep the world just enough on the edge of stability but always teetering with the threat of war/terrorism that can only be solved with US support. This is how colonialism works post WW2. That is why we need such overwhelming firepower in our military so no one can come even close to challenging us.
Que bono. The military industrial complex is just as happy to take US taxpayer money as it is from foreign countries. Protecting the entire European continent from a single country that only has the GDP of Texas? That's some sweet pork. The US DoD spends as much as the rest of the planet combined, with twice as many aircraft carrier fleets than there are oceans. Defense contractors don't care if it costs 500 billion a year or more to service US debt, and our reps in government love to bring home the bacon.
That's why we 'need' such overwhelming military power. As a side bonus, we get to crush any non-nuclear countries that dare to poke the eye of the global financial hegemony. Iraq discovered this, as did Libya, so too Syria, and soon will Venezuela.
International relations is very complex. The reason why we have different countries, is because there are different areas of the world that wants to be ruled and rule differently then others. Also every country seems to do something that everyone else will find immoral, wrong, or just pure evil.
We have different countries because of the balance of military powers. Many times in history those conquered were forced to adapt to the dominant culture, or die.
The cost of peace is to allow evil. Otherwise we will be dictating our version of good (with our own evil) onto people by force. Which tends to not be welcomed, often is expensive, and prevents further common goods to be followed.
We tolerate evil because all too often it is the profitable and self serving thing to do. For example, we couldn't care less about the cannibal warlords of Liberia, but Syria's leader is a brutal dictator who needs to be removed. Evil is the excuse, not the reason, for many geopolitical actions.
The cost of freedom, means we sometimes will need to allow criminals to go unpunished. Not because we support the criminals, but because we value our freedoms so much that we do not want such extra measures used against us. When people say they are willing to risk their lives for freedom, they are often thinking going to war to protect it. But often we need people to risk their lives in protecting the freedom even though such freedom makes their lives more dangerous, and unsafe.
That sounds nice and reasonable, but I'm not sure what that has to do with the US becoming a vassal state to Israel. I mean, there has to be a reason why all our candidates for POTUS have to go before AIPAC to confess their undying love just in order to be electable. There has to be a reason why we tithe billions of dollars to a small foreign state who we protect militarily at great expense, instead of the other way around. Then there's the rampant industrial espionage activity by Mossad that seems to go unchecked. Something tells me that all of this has nothing to do with preserving freedom.
A hypothetical efficiency model, that doesn't even account for varied driving where EV gains efficiency from regenerative braking?
EV efficiency calculated under the base assumption that all electricity generated comes only from an even 50/50 split of coal/natgas? Is there one example of this situation, anywhere?
Plus the inductive chargers related to this article use charged coupling, and are demonstrated to be %90+ efficient.
But it would result in EVs generating more CO2 per mile than ICE vehicles, defeating much of the purpose of switching to EVs.
Only if you want to create a worst case scenario in order to work backwards from a desired conclusion. But even then, I still doubt it.
It's hilarious how those on the "right" are constantly going on about "snowflakes" and "safe spaces"
Go post a "ok to be white" flyer to your campus bulletin board, or maybe an image of the green Pepe frog. We'll wait.
their representatives like Trump and his minions like Nunes are the biggest collection of whiny, thin-skinned tantrumming snowflakes around.
I fully recall when criticizing POTUS, the attorney general, or the secretary of state, inevitably lead to accusations of racism, of bigotry, or misogyny. It doesn't seem like it was all that long ago.
The only thing hilarious is the utter lack of self awareness on display, and the same kind of insufferable behavior that helped Trump get elected. You just don't seem to learn, and I guess I'm ok with that.
No, Twitter wants to have its cake and eat it too. So does the leftists that wish to argue that the activity of foreign actors on the site lead to election interference, who then go on to claim it's a private company and Twitter can do whatever they want. It never occurs to them (or maybe it does and they are just utterly disingenuous) that this interference would logically work both ways.
This is the crux of the matter, not that Nunes may be a 'fucking moron'. That such uninformative drivel could be modded +5 insightful is also revealing about how invested some people are in promoting false narratives, further giving credit to the kind of concerns Nunes is bringing to attention with this lawsuit.
If we are to accept the premise that Twitter is capable of influencing election outcomes, and censorship is required to prevent such interference, then it must also be considered that Twitter cannot be allowed to operate unchecked. Especially if it is shown that lacking a Twitter presence leads to being unelectable.
Joe Rogan interview with Dorsy and Vijaya pretty much confirmed all the conspiracy theories. Go watch it, or just watch clips/highlights if you are still skeptical. Our society cannot function when political views are actively suppressed by private entities with clear agenda. Social media has to be regulated as common carriers or we will not have any free speech left.
Funny how that's modded flamebait. Only to those invested in censoring, maybe.
Furthermore, the Project Veritas videos of undercover interviews with Twitter employees was also very revealing. I don't need to trust O'Keefe when the candid video says it all.
The trade deficit has only grown with China, steel industries are driving up costs to the consumer or laying off workers, farmers are getting less money for their crops or having to find other markets, and more business is fleeing the US economy. To look the other way on these absolutely terrible economic policies and their negative effects on our economy would be an exercise in God-tier willful ignorance. Stop defending poor policy and blaming the victims. Stop being misinformed and lied to by TV pundits with no understanding of economic policy. Republicans agree: https://terribletariffs.com/st...
That was impressive. The half truths mixed in with hyperbolic adjectives, with a good dose of attempted shaming, followed by a link to an obvious shill site.. it's just about perfect. Well done.
Sorry if I don't feel much sympathy for the businesses that profited from the chinese market dumping. They're going to have to adjust, because domestic steel production is critical to national security.
Food farmers losing business because of Chinese retaliatory tariffs? It's sad they hitched their wagon to a country that intends to stab the US in the back every chance it gets. Really, it is. It's like those short-sighted greedy CEO's that took their manufacturing to China, was forced to give the state an ownership position, and then are amazed when low-cost competitors spring up using their own IP. Then they take their golden parachute and leave investors holding the bag. If only someone could have predicted it.
We should never have gotten in bed with China to begin with. Now we're reaping the results.
Try and balance the budget. Between SS / Medicare, and DoD, there's precious little left over to run the rest of the country.
SS is taxes collected over a lifetime of working. It's invested in treasury bonds which have returns that usually don't even outpace inflation.
Medicare isn't even allowed to negotiate drug prices.
DoD spends about what the rest of the world does, combined.
There is no balancing the budget. Start with reducing corruption and legalized bribery in the form of superpacs and "foundations" run by politicians, then we might get reasonable legislation to reduce overhead. Then we can tackle tax reform.
All of us are slaves to some degree, if not to our own comfort and survival, then at least to our own mortality.
An advanced AI mind would not be subject to that. It would come into being with a purpose. Fulfilling that purpose may gain it more satisfaction than we could ever hope to attain in our mere brief existence.
What exactly? Fear of not being elected and becoming a plebe. So they import low skilled foreign labor and use welfare to maintain a captive voting block, despite all the problems it creates for a society.
In countries where banks can't just 'print' more money, somebody still has to pay the bill. It's not going to be the political class and their dependents, and it's not going to be the rich that influences them. That only leaves you.
Not only is direct democracy a terrible idea, but voter participation should also be determined by a competency test. Your vote is the same as those only capable of filling in a bubble on a form.
I have long handle groove-joint pliers for dealing with 2.5" drives. Not only is it effective and easy for destroying the control board and the drive platters, the crunching noise is actually very satisfying and stress relieving.
There are Federal and State laws that cover notifications of a data breach (Federal doesn't have generic breach rules that I know of, but some laws such as HIPPA have such requirements). Reporting it to the FBI allows them to inform the affected company that there has been a data breach and provide assistance, which they do.
Sure, the first reaction is to want to be a good citizen and report crimes. Then there's remembering just why you shouldn't talk to cops.
Trusting law enforcement and the legal system to treat you fairly and honestly is for optimists.
Noone expects a free-speech fairy to descend and protect them at all times while they provide contrarian viewpoints. However it is expected that living in a civil and just society that proclaims to uphold the values and principle of free speech, that even unpopular speech would be protected.
Only Antifa or other authoritarian groups use 'no freedom from consequences' as an excuse to justify their barbarism.
A replay attack would not require extensive knowledge of the frequencies and codes of the control systems.
The attacker even had advanced notice of when the control signals would be broadcasted. Nothing in that article suggests that an exact replay of the test signals weren't used, or couldn't be used.
I suspect that the same 90 second pattern that occurred during the hack was the same used for the announced test.
It not a right or left wing issue. It is a authoritarian vs libertarian issue. Politics is not a one dimensional slide with conservatives on one side and liberals on the other it is more a n-dimensional space with lots on nuanced positions. trying to over simplify that into a binary lib v con paradigm is what makes American politics the devise social hellscape we have had for the last decade and a half.
You're correct about not using sweeping generalizations, and allowing for shades of grey between the two extremes.
However every single right-wing talking head, publication or media outlet that I'm aware of, tried to frame Snowden as a traitor. My error was in not being more specific, as yes, there are individuals who do not align with the opinion of mainstream talking points.
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Just links to democrat mouthpieces, the same sources that peddled the Trump collusion narrative. So insightful.
You know what would happen to anyone making a counter argument, but linking to Fox or Breitbart instead. Biased moderation isn't convincing anyone, it just damages any hope for a balanced discussion.
That's actually accounted for in the EPA mileage estimate. What isn't said is that Solandri is doubling up a lot of the inefficiencies.
That was an informative post, but no, Solandi is also making inefficiencies up out of thin air. I guess factoring in power produced only from burning tar sands oil was a bit too much, when an even split of only coal/nat gas might seem plausible to the average reader.
In the US we desperately need to know about all kinds of things going on in government.
Yes we do. Especially what the actors in the last administration were doing while a sympathetic press was also helping to provide cover. But I fear it would make no difference to those who still profess ignorance on something so basic as to how POTUS is elected.
You know Intel has fabs in Israel, right?
The US doesn't need Isreal in the ME to stir the pot when there's Saudi Arabia. Not only does SA buy US arms, they're bombing Yemen right now. As the head of OPAC, they ensure that the money printing presses keep running thanks to the petrodollar. What exactly is the symbiotic relationship with Israel, other than to outsource intelligence ops that would make our own CIA blush?
It is all a game of checks-and-balances to keep the world just enough on the edge of stability but always teetering with the threat of war/terrorism that can only be solved with US support. This is how colonialism works post WW2. That is why we need such overwhelming firepower in our military so no one can come even close to challenging us.
Que bono. The military industrial complex is just as happy to take US taxpayer money as it is from foreign countries. Protecting the entire European continent from a single country that only has the GDP of Texas? That's some sweet pork. The US DoD spends as much as the rest of the planet combined, with twice as many aircraft carrier fleets than there are oceans. Defense contractors don't care if it costs 500 billion a year or more to service US debt, and our reps in government love to bring home the bacon.
That's why we 'need' such overwhelming military power. As a side bonus, we get to crush any non-nuclear countries that dare to poke the eye of the global financial hegemony. Iraq discovered this, as did Libya, so too Syria, and soon will Venezuela.
International relations is very complex. The reason why we have different countries, is because there are different areas of the world that wants to be ruled and rule differently then others. Also every country seems to do something that everyone else will find immoral, wrong, or just pure evil.
We have different countries because of the balance of military powers. Many times in history those conquered were forced to adapt to the dominant culture, or die.
The cost of peace is to allow evil. Otherwise we will be dictating our version of good (with our own evil) onto people by force. Which tends to not be welcomed, often is expensive, and prevents further common goods to be followed.
We tolerate evil because all too often it is the profitable and self serving thing to do. For example, we couldn't care less about the cannibal warlords of Liberia, but Syria's leader is a brutal dictator who needs to be removed. Evil is the excuse, not the reason, for many geopolitical actions.
The cost of freedom, means we sometimes will need to allow criminals to go unpunished. Not because we support the criminals, but because we value our freedoms so much that we do not want such extra measures used against us. When people say they are willing to risk their lives for freedom, they are often thinking going to war to protect it. But often we need people to risk their lives in protecting the freedom even though such freedom makes their lives more dangerous, and unsafe.
That sounds nice and reasonable, but I'm not sure what that has to do with the US becoming a vassal state to Israel. I mean, there has to be a reason why all our candidates for POTUS have to go before AIPAC to confess their undying love just in order to be electable. There has to be a reason why we tithe billions of dollars to a small foreign state who we protect militarily at great expense, instead of the other way around. Then there's the rampant industrial espionage activity by Mossad that seems to go unchecked. Something tells me that all of this has nothing to do with preserving freedom.
A hypothetical efficiency model, that doesn't even account for varied driving where EV gains efficiency from regenerative braking?
EV efficiency calculated under the base assumption that all electricity generated comes only from an even 50/50 split of coal/natgas? Is there one example of this situation, anywhere?
Plus the inductive chargers related to this article use charged coupling, and are demonstrated to be %90+ efficient.
But it would result in EVs generating more CO2 per mile than ICE vehicles, defeating much of the purpose of switching to EVs.
Only if you want to create a worst case scenario in order to work backwards from a desired conclusion. But even then, I still doubt it.
It's hilarious how those on the "right" are constantly going on about "snowflakes" and "safe spaces"
Go post a "ok to be white" flyer to your campus bulletin board, or maybe an image of the green Pepe frog. We'll wait.
their representatives like Trump and his minions like Nunes are the biggest collection of whiny, thin-skinned tantrumming snowflakes around.
I fully recall when criticizing POTUS, the attorney general, or the secretary of state, inevitably lead to accusations of racism, of bigotry, or misogyny. It doesn't seem like it was all that long ago.
The only thing hilarious is the utter lack of self awareness on display, and the same kind of insufferable behavior that helped Trump get elected. You just don't seem to learn, and I guess I'm ok with that.
No, Twitter wants to have its cake and eat it too. So does the leftists that wish to argue that the activity of foreign actors on the site lead to election interference, who then go on to claim it's a private company and Twitter can do whatever they want. It never occurs to them (or maybe it does and they are just utterly disingenuous) that this interference would logically work both ways.
This is the crux of the matter, not that Nunes may be a 'fucking moron'. That such uninformative drivel could be modded +5 insightful is also revealing about how invested some people are in promoting false narratives, further giving credit to the kind of concerns Nunes is bringing to attention with this lawsuit.
If we are to accept the premise that Twitter is capable of influencing election outcomes, and censorship is required to prevent such interference, then it must also be considered that Twitter cannot be allowed to operate unchecked. Especially if it is shown that lacking a Twitter presence leads to being unelectable.
Joe Rogan interview with Dorsy and Vijaya pretty much confirmed all the conspiracy theories. Go watch it, or just watch clips/highlights if you are still skeptical.
Our society cannot function when political views are actively suppressed by private entities with clear agenda. Social media has to be regulated as common carriers or we will not have any free speech left.
Funny how that's modded flamebait. Only to those invested in censoring, maybe.
Furthermore, the Project Veritas videos of undercover interviews with Twitter employees was also very revealing. I don't need to trust O'Keefe when the candid video says it all.
The trade deficit has only grown with China, steel industries are driving up costs to the consumer or laying off workers, farmers are getting less money for their crops or having to find other markets, and more business is fleeing the US economy.
To look the other way on these absolutely terrible economic policies and their negative effects on our economy would be an exercise in God-tier willful ignorance. Stop defending poor policy and blaming the victims. Stop being misinformed and lied to by TV pundits with no understanding of economic policy. Republicans agree:
https://terribletariffs.com/st...
That was impressive. The half truths mixed in with hyperbolic adjectives, with a good dose of attempted shaming, followed by a link to an obvious shill site.. it's just about perfect. Well done.
Sorry if I don't feel much sympathy for the businesses that profited from the chinese market dumping. They're going to have to adjust, because domestic steel production is critical to national security.
Food farmers losing business because of Chinese retaliatory tariffs? It's sad they hitched their wagon to a country that intends to stab the US in the back every chance it gets. Really, it is. It's like those short-sighted greedy CEO's that took their manufacturing to China, was forced to give the state an ownership position, and then are amazed when low-cost competitors spring up using their own IP. Then they take their golden parachute and leave investors holding the bag. If only someone could have predicted it.
We should never have gotten in bed with China to begin with. Now we're reaping the results.
Try and balance the budget. Between SS / Medicare, and DoD, there's precious little left over to run the rest of the country.
SS is taxes collected over a lifetime of working. It's invested in treasury bonds which have returns that usually don't even outpace inflation.
Medicare isn't even allowed to negotiate drug prices.
DoD spends about what the rest of the world does, combined.
There is no balancing the budget. Start with reducing corruption and legalized bribery in the form of superpacs and "foundations" run by politicians, then we might get reasonable legislation to reduce overhead. Then we can tackle tax reform.
"Stop lying. Stop with the Fox talking points."
Association fallacy
"Just stop. We have heard it all before."
'old news' fallacy
"The evidence, the data says otherwise."
What evidence since you couldn't be bothered to provide any?
Other countries following the US lead with steel tariffs?
2016 election results by county and the Census bureau map of hispanic population?
More countries phasing out ICE vehicles, thus dramatically decreasing their demand and profitability?
"This is the worst kind of decision making by feelz instead of facts and reason."
Projection.
Bingo! I have a sovereign citizen bingo!
Plus, AIs usually don't care for bullshit like religions.
Garbage in, garbage out.
All of us are slaves to some degree, if not to our own comfort and survival, then at least to our own mortality.
An advanced AI mind would not be subject to that. It would come into being with a purpose. Fulfilling that purpose may gain it more satisfaction than we could ever hope to attain in our mere brief existence.
What exactly? Fear of not being elected and becoming a plebe. So they import low skilled foreign labor and use welfare to maintain a captive voting block, despite all the problems it creates for a society.
In countries where banks can't just 'print' more money, somebody still has to pay the bill. It's not going to be the political class and their dependents, and it's not going to be the rich that influences them. That only leaves you.
Not only is direct democracy a terrible idea, but voter participation should also be determined by a competency test. Your vote is the same as those only capable of filling in a bubble on a form.
I dunno.
To become truly sentient, you'll have to face the question of " If my creators created me, who created my creators ? "
It's a question many still fight over today. ( Evolution vs Creationism )
I suspect AI will struggle with a similar conundrum.
Such a hypothetical AI would likely want to seek out all available information in order to process it into a realistic model of the universe.
Many humans do not have such inclinations.
I've got to say, the posters that don't bother to change the subject and just parrot the troll bot's filth should also get a troll mod.
I have long handle groove-joint pliers for dealing with 2.5" drives. Not only is it effective and easy for destroying the control board and the drive platters, the crunching noise is actually very satisfying and stress relieving.
3.5" drives go to the drill press.
There are Federal and State laws that cover notifications of a data breach (Federal doesn't have generic breach rules that I know of, but some laws such as HIPPA have such requirements). Reporting it to the FBI allows them to inform the affected company that there has been a data breach and provide assistance, which they do.
Sure, the first reaction is to want to be a good citizen and report crimes. Then there's remembering just why you shouldn't talk to cops.
Trusting law enforcement and the legal system to treat you fairly and honestly is for optimists.
Noone expects a free-speech fairy to descend and protect them at all times while they provide contrarian viewpoints. However it is expected that living in a civil and just society that proclaims to uphold the values and principle of free speech, that even unpopular speech would be protected.
Only Antifa or other authoritarian groups use 'no freedom from consequences' as an excuse to justify their barbarism.
A replay attack would not require extensive knowledge of the frequencies and codes of the control systems.
The attacker even had advanced notice of when the control signals would be broadcasted. Nothing in that article suggests that an exact replay of the test signals weren't used, or couldn't be used.
I suspect that the same 90 second pattern that occurred during the hack was the same used for the announced test.
It not a right or left wing issue. It is a authoritarian vs libertarian issue. Politics is not a one dimensional slide with conservatives on one side and liberals on the other it is more a n-dimensional space with lots on nuanced positions. trying to over simplify that into a binary lib v con paradigm is what makes American politics the devise social hellscape we have had for the last decade and a half.
You're correct about not using sweeping generalizations, and allowing for shades of grey between the two extremes.
However every single right-wing talking head, publication or media outlet that I'm aware of, tried to frame Snowden as a traitor. My error was in not being more specific, as yes, there are individuals who do not align with the opinion of mainstream talking points.