So at best you can argue that the US is providing funding for programs which are incorrectly claimed to work (and you haven't demonstrated that this is the case yet). It sure seems to me rather a stretch to claim this, but if we accept it at face value, it still hardly works out to the evil US you set out to show...
Yes it does. They do know about the enviromental damages. And the hazards to people. They just don't give a shit. That IS evil.
Except that `the way he did' act was a.) not particularly bad
Yes imprisoning and killing your critics. Just the everyday good stuff.
The truth is that the CIA was as surprised by the coup as anyone else. Bullshit. There's an astute argument. What's your source for this?
A reference for my claim is here
And please keep in mind that you have yet to provide any source for your claims.
Maby they discovered it was succeptable to those things. And it was too late in the product cycle to change it(the duh answer is to add a fysical jumper to protect from flashing). So they just shut up about it.
Imagine having a picture that is all the same color. If you only had one such color in you palette, you could not encode any info in the file. But if you had many duplicates(of near duplicates) of that color you could alternate between those to encode the data. 32 duplicates(or near duplicates) could encode 5 bits in every pixel.
You could use a wery high color image. And just pair the colors close to each other. That whould make it hard to spot(with encryption maby impossible) but that whould result in a wery low payload density.
Colombia -- can you provide any reference to these `pesticides which kill other crops but not coca'?
here There was also a story about it on 60 minutes.
Why would the Colombians do such a thing?
Because they are paid to. You know what politicians will do for money.(especialy in poor countries) If they admitted that it does'nt work, they would get no more money.
Isn't it likely that that the fact that coca is more profitable than other crops is relevant?
No. The farmers who grow it get even less money then they whould for say potatoes. Coka does'nt get expensive till it is refined and in the US.
The truth is that the CIA was as surprised by the coup as anyone else.
Bullshit.
Ngo Dinh Diem -- likewise, we didn't create him, though we did back him.
Without your backing he could not have behaved the way he did. So the "we did'nt create him"-exuse is quite futile.
If you have any doubt that he was a better choice than Ho Chi Minh, consider the fact that Ho Chi Minh's thugs killed more Vietnamese in the first three years of peace than had been killed in the entire previous twenty-five years of fighting.
War does that to people. Another case for example is the use of the guilotine in paris. He whould never had gained the power to do so anyvay. If it were not for the actions of your guy before the war.
Japan......We just don't do that sort of thing.
The argument is that you whould if you could. It's not a US thing it's an anyone thing.
that US soldiers already put themselves at risk to avoid civilian casualties, and that a 6-inch-tall remote- controlled robot can get much closer to, (and hold the laser designator on), the target for longer periods of time than a live soldier, thereby reducing the chances of collateral damage and US casualties?
Collateral damage and US casualties resrict the use of war. Removing those restrictions makes war more temting. That's my point.
How the FUCK can you argue that i'm ignoring the point. If my wery point depends on the point?! What are you stupid?
...use paragraph breaks, or even spell...
And they said Alice is'nt intelligent. Because she can only react to the language, and have no understanding of the content.
Try as you may, you can't actually credibly make it the America's fault if people are growing coke
In Colombia for example. The US govt. pays for spraying the countryside with chemicals. It is an attempt to make it harder to grow coke. The problem is that it kills all other plants exept coke. So unless you grow coke you starve to death.
Show me anywhere in the world where the US is replacing a democratically elected government with any dictator
Ever heard of Agusto Pinichet? Ngo Dinh Diem? The point is however not that they do it now(now as in currently). But that if enforcing such actions with war became more feasible. They might.
Explain to me why you can argue against what you claim are violations of the Constitution here in the US and then turn around and argue that US citizens should be subject to the ICC which would have no responsibility to follow constitutional niceties like due process at all.
Fine let's make noone subject to it.
Japan?...
Fine, read the argument again and ignore that it says Japan. Think any country.
But even if you had credible points in any of these things, what's your point? If the US were the type of nation you describe, they could simply bomb the hell out of any and all of the above.
Bombing causes civilian casulties, and is hence unpopular. That restricts it's use. It whould also destroy measn of production, makeing war for conquest less efficient. Sending in troops? Causes friendly casulties. Same thing.
So just why do you think this is a bad thing?
See obove. Sending the robots in could mean no civilian casulties as you say, and also no friendly casulties. This makes war much more tempting(and feasible). The idea is that the US will use war more and more for stupider and stupider reasons.
We already go to great effort, including putting our own guys at great risk, to avoid hitting civilian targets. This will make that much easier (and safer) to do. What's your objection?
Well it will make it alot more tempting(and feasible) to just beat the whole world into submission. Poor people growing coke cause the land was poisoned(by the US) so that nothing else will grow? Put them up the clones! Poor people trying to form a union, so they don't have to work 16h/day for some american company? Put them up the clones! When the US replayces some democratically elcted govt. with their choise of dictator, and people try to fight back? Put them up the clones! Failed to get that exeption so US soliders can't commit crimes against humanity and get away with it? Put them up the clones instead! Is Japan exporting more to the US than importing? And competing with product quality whould cost the campain contributors too much money? PUT THEM UP THE CLONES!
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what is it about AI that makes people think it will automatically be evil?
As good as people are portrayed to be, how well do we really treat the "lesser" beings? So even if an AI did'nt turn out "evil" per say. It nesserily whould'nt treat humans any good. That is a valid reason to fear them getting too powerful.
well compiling and running the latest liquidwars won't suddenly splat your head against the wall so hard that the guy across the street dies. Also limiting the top speed of a car enables the making of significantly cheaper tires, and out of softer rubber that will have better grip when run at the slower speeds that people actually drive their cars.... soft tires......good at low speeds... blah blah......hard tires good at high speeds......blah blah... blah... So speed caps on cars are useful and practical.
I may be missing some key piece of information here, but I'm just not seeing why this is such a big deal when the same exact situation exists already with encrypted e-mail.
Well not really, with palladium I could send you a "I'll rape and kill you, and not in that order!"-mail and make it "read once" so you whould have no evidence to show to the cops. With encrypted and signed mail you pretty much have the opposite because you could not only prove who sent the mail but what the content was.
However, the same crowd would be outraged if I said that "Bin Laden...
Being outraged and and calling for censurship is not the same thing. Maby you have'nt seen that sig some guy here has. It's something like "I do not agree with a thing you say, but I whould be prepered to die for your right to say it." not an exact quote, but you get the idea.
Try and find a food product in the grocery store today without corn oil/corn meal/corn starch/corn syrup/corn syrup solids/corn/corn/corn.
What we need is more spam - eggs and SPAM, bacon and SPAM, bacon eggs and SPAM, eggs SPAM and SPAM, SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM eggs and SPAM, SPAM SPAM SPAM....
The biggest problem with this study is that people were not selected randomly into each group. Because of this some of the measured effect maby coming from the fact that same people game more than others for a reason. It may be that a brain that reacts in a sertain way get's more pleasure from gaming then others. (This could be compared to those studies that "proved" that living together before marrige causes increased risk of divorce.) Note that i don't claim that the conclusions of the study are wrong, just that the mechanism of choosing how a person ends up in what group can effect the results. And i don't see any method of preventing such bias in the study.
Perhaps the blind could use vibration feedback in the iFeel mouse [logitech.com] to be informed of shot accuracy. Immersion has already added distinct vibrations [immersion.com] for many events in Unreal Tournament.
"I'm just a little perplexed to understand the rationale for this. There will be a very heavy cost that the industry will pay when copy-protected CDs are introduced," Boucher said. While conceding later that copy-protected CDs aren't against existing law, he said their introduction wouldn't even impact the music piracy the music industry is trying to stop. Instead, the move will "anger millions of their best-customers who have become accustomed of making copies [of CDs] for their own use,"
Aha! so his legislating against copy protection to PROTECT the industry. Dammit when are we gonna get some politians who are on our side?
On a more seriours note: which is allowed under "fair use" provisions of copyright law. He said he would introduce legislation that would essentially codify "fair use" provisions of copyright law (that have been implied but not necessarily guaranteed). He also wants to ease up some of the more copy-restrictive provisions of the 1998 Digital Milennium Copyright Act, whose pay-per-use provisions on copies he has criticized as a threat not only to "fair use," but to innovation, idea exchange, even First Amendment guarantees on free speech....It's like you don't even know what to say man......when they like......get it.
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So at best you can argue that the US is providing funding for programs which are incorrectly claimed to work (and you haven't demonstrated that this is the case yet). It sure seems to me rather a stretch to claim this, but if we accept it at face value, it still hardly works out to the evil US you set out to show...
Yes it does. They do know about the enviromental damages. And the hazards to people. They just don't give a shit. That IS evil.
Except that `the way he did' act was a.) not particularly bad
Yes imprisoning and killing your critics. Just the everyday good stuff.
The truth is that the CIA was as surprised by the coup as anyone else.
Bullshit.
There's an astute argument. What's your source for this?
A reference for my claim is here
And please keep in mind that you have yet to provide any source for your claims.
Maby they discovered it was succeptable to those things. And it was too late in the product cycle to change it(the duh answer is to add a fysical jumper to protect from flashing). So they just shut up about it.
You could use a wery high color image. And just pair the colors close to each other. That whould make it hard to spot(with encryption maby impossible) but that whould result in a wery low payload density.
Colombia -- can you provide any reference to these `pesticides which kill other crops but not coca'?
here
There was also a story about it on 60 minutes.
Why would the Colombians do such a thing?
Because they are paid to. You know what politicians will do for money.(especialy in poor countries) If they admitted that it does'nt work, they would get no more money.
Isn't it likely that that the fact that coca is more profitable than other crops is relevant?
No. The farmers who grow it get even less money then they whould for say potatoes. Coka does'nt get expensive till it is refined and in the US.
The truth is that the CIA was as surprised by the coup as anyone else.
Bullshit.
Ngo Dinh Diem -- likewise, we didn't create him, though we did back him.
Without your backing he could not have behaved the way he did. So the "we did'nt create him"-exuse is quite futile.
If you have any doubt that he was a better choice than Ho Chi Minh, consider the fact that Ho Chi Minh's thugs killed more Vietnamese in the first three years of peace than had been killed in the entire previous twenty-five years of fighting.
War does that to people. Another case for example is the use of the guilotine in paris. He whould never had gained the power to do so anyvay. If it were not for the actions of your guy before the war.
Japan... ...We just don't do that sort of thing.
The argument is that you whould if you could. It's not a US thing it's an anyone thing.
here
No i'm not.
that US soldiers already put themselves at risk to avoid civilian casualties, and that a 6-inch-tall remote- controlled robot can get much closer to, (and hold the laser designator on), the target for longer periods of time than a live soldier, thereby reducing the chances of collateral damage and US casualties?
Collateral damage and US casualties resrict the use of war. Removing those restrictions makes war more temting. That's my point.
How the FUCK can you argue that i'm ignoring the point. If my wery point depends on the point?! What are you stupid?
And they said Alice is'nt intelligent. Because she can only react to the language, and have no understanding of the content.
Try as you may, you can't actually credibly make it the America's fault if people are growing coke
In Colombia for example. The US govt. pays for spraying the countryside with chemicals. It is an attempt to make it harder to grow coke. The problem is that it kills all other plants exept coke. So unless you grow coke you starve to death.
Show me anywhere in the world where the US is replacing a democratically elected government with any dictator
Ever heard of Agusto Pinichet? Ngo Dinh Diem?
The point is however not that they do it now(now as in currently). But that if enforcing such actions with war became more feasible. They might.
Explain to me why you can argue against what you claim are violations of the Constitution here in the US and then turn around and argue that US citizens should be subject to the ICC which would have no responsibility to follow constitutional niceties like due process at all.
Fine let's make noone subject to it.
Japan?...
Fine, read the argument again and ignore that it says Japan. Think any country.
But even if you had credible points in any of these things, what's your point? If the US were the type of nation you describe, they could simply bomb the hell out of any and all of the above.
Bombing causes civilian casulties, and is hence unpopular. That restricts it's use. It whould also destroy measn of production, makeing war for conquest less efficient. Sending in troops? Causes friendly casulties. Same thing.
So just why do you think this is a bad thing?
See obove. Sending the robots in could mean no civilian casulties as you say, and also no friendly casulties. This makes war much more tempting(and feasible). The idea is that the US will use war more and more for stupider and stupider reasons.
We already go to great effort, including putting our own guys at great risk, to avoid hitting civilian targets. This will make that much easier (and safer) to do.
What's your objection?
Well it will make it alot more tempting(and feasible) to just beat the whole world into submission. Poor people growing coke cause the land was poisoned(by the US) so that nothing else will grow? Put them up the clones! Poor people trying to form a union, so they don't have to work 16h/day for some american company? Put them up the clones! When the US replayces some democratically elcted govt. with their choise of dictator, and people try to fight back? Put them up the clones! Failed to get that exeption so US soliders can't commit crimes against humanity and get away with it? Put them up the clones instead! Is Japan exporting more to the US than importing? And competing with product quality whould cost the campain contributors too much money? PUT THEM UP THE CLONES!
Gruntmaster 9000!
what is it about AI that makes people think it will automatically be evil?
As good as people are portrayed to be, how well do we really treat the "lesser" beings? So even if an AI did'nt turn out "evil" per say. It nesserily whould'nt treat humans any good. That is a valid reason to fear them getting too powerful.
Most fast German cars are limited to 155mph.
...good at low speeds... blah blah... ...hard tires good at high speeds... ...blah blah... blah... So speed caps on cars are useful and practical.
well compiling and running the latest liquidwars won't suddenly splat your head against the wall so hard that the guy across the street dies. Also limiting the top speed of a car enables the making of significantly cheaper tires, and out of softer rubber that will have better grip when run at the slower speeds that people actually drive their cars.... soft tires...
I may be missing some key piece of information here, but I'm just not seeing why this is such a big deal when the same exact situation exists already with encrypted e-mail.
Well not really, with palladium I could send you a "I'll rape and kill you, and not in that order!"-mail and make it "read once" so you whould have no evidence to show to the cops. With encrypted and signed mail you pretty much have the opposite because you could not only prove who sent the mail but what the content was.
However, the same crowd would be outraged if I said that "Bin Laden...
Being outraged and and calling for censurship is not the same thing. Maby you have'nt seen that sig some guy here has. It's something like "I do not agree with a thing you say, but I whould be prepered to die for your right to say it." not an exact quote, but you get the idea.
If it was against the law then hurray for justice.
It was also against the law for jews to live in nazi germany.(* Hurray for justice!
*)Not relly, but you get the idea.
Try and find a food product in the grocery store today without corn oil/corn meal/corn starch/corn syrup/corn syrup solids/corn/corn/corn.
What we need is more spam - eggs and SPAM, bacon and SPAM, bacon eggs and SPAM, eggs SPAM and SPAM, SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM eggs and SPAM, SPAM SPAM SPAM....
think of food as fuel and not as something which is supposed to taste good.
Whould'nt this fail in improving the quality of your life?
The biggest problem with this study is that people were not selected randomly into each group. Because of this some of the measured effect maby coming from the fact that same people game more than others for a reason. It may be that a brain that reacts in a sertain way get's more pleasure from gaming then others. (This could be compared to those studies that "proved" that living together before marrige causes increased risk of divorce.) Note that i don't claim that the conclusions of the study are wrong, just that the mechanism of choosing how a person ends up in what group can effect the results. And i don't see any method of preventing such bias in the study.
Perhaps the blind could use vibration feedback in the iFeel mouse [logitech.com] to be informed of shot accuracy. Immersion has already added distinct vibrations [immersion.com] for many events in Unreal Tournament.
How fast can you say QUAKE MASOKHIST!
It is/should be everyone's interest to make things easier for them.
BUT NOT WITH QUAKE DAMMIT.
These people have problems with their eysight, not their personalities.
THEY MIGHT WANT TO HAVE SOME FUN TOO DAMMIT.
The Honorable Mr. Boucher will be branded either a nut case or a heretic by the rest of the house.
I think the word is com^H^H^Hterrorist now.
"I'm just a little perplexed to understand the rationale for this. There
...It's like you don't even know what to say man... ...when they like... ...get it.
will be a very heavy cost that the industry will pay when copy-protected CDs
are introduced," Boucher said.
While conceding later that copy-protected CDs aren't against existing law,
he said their introduction wouldn't even impact the music piracy the music industry is
trying to stop. Instead, the move will "anger millions of their
best-customers who have become accustomed of making copies [of CDs] for
their own use,"
Aha! so his legislating against copy protection to PROTECT the industry. Dammit when are we gonna get some politians who are on our side?
On a more seriours note:
which is allowed under "fair use" provisions of copyright law.
He said he would introduce legislation that would essentially codify
"fair use" provisions of copyright law (that have been implied but not necessarily guaranteed). He also wants to ease up some of the more copy-restrictive provisions of the 1998 Digital Milennium Copyright Act, whose pay-per-use provisions on copies he has criticized as a threat not only to "fair use," but to innovation, idea exchange, even First Amendment guarantees on free speech.
Never ever eat anything that you make with the chemistry set.
Does'nt say you can't make someone else eat it, does it?
"What does protocol do?"
It turns people into stuck up assholes.