AI has always been an anti-Western institution, right from the very beginning. Do you not know this, or are you being deliberately misleading?
"Alec saw the battle lines redrawn with stark clarity, with the victims of capitalist and imperialist oppression all over the world on one side, and the United States and its allies, including Spain, on the other. Given such a contest, he realised that to undertake the defence of the Spanish freemasons had been timely as well as symbolically correct because it opened the door for victims of injustice everywhere, but especially in countries friendly to the United States, to join his former comrades-in-arms in Spanish prisons in a grand international coalition of the oppressed whose plight, when efficiently publicised, would bring embarrassment and opprobrium to the adversaries of the Soviet Union."
-- foundation of Amnesty International, 1954
I never understood the popularity of Pokemon as a video game. Pointless random combats and very little story. Hours and hours of watching animations of attacks happen. The entire idea of the game is enslaving animals and forcing them into pit fighting. Micheal Vick was sentenced to prison and vilified by the entire world for doing the same.
The students are social justice warriors. Everything is an instrument to impel social or political change to SJWs. Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
So, in other words, you're against the market and capitalism, but if you can benefit from it, you're for them?
Sounds like gigantic hypocrisy to me. Please pick some principles and stick with them. Don't go down the capitalist road - China did and look what happened to them. A disaster for anti-capitalists the world 'round.
Well, they tried making a slashdot clone earlier this year. Got slashcode up and running and everything. I was all for it, I started reading.
Within 72 hours of the site going live they had posted a duplicate story. At that point I gave up on them. I don't remember the name, only that it was a dumb one.
Wow...just, wow. A person advocating for outright tyranny. I never thought I'd see this on Slashdot, but here it is. There are hemp ropes and cottonwood trees waiting to receive people like you. Fuck you.
There's the fact that there are real-live commie greenies who want to use the climate change fraud to introduce tyranny into the daily lives of all of us. Maybe the problem here is that you're too bloody infantile to accept that that there are evil people out there who wish to abuse the climate change situation in order to bring about their preferred political and economic ideology.
Did you see the gigantic fraud they engaged in to pass Obamacare? The one where they blatantly lied and then were proud about it afterwards? Jeez it's the same people. Open your eyes already.
A common tactic of the Left is to shout "misogynist!" to anyone who dares criticize feminists. A misogynist is a woman-hater, he or she feels that women have no value. It is the equivalent of a man-hater, or misandrist (a word so despised that my browser highlights it as a mis-spelt word), who are unfortunately highly over-represented in the ranks of feminists. An anti-feminist thinks that women as a sex are fine, he or she merely has been convinced that feminists that are man-haters and thoroughly enjoy keeping women from achieving their goals, should these goals differ from feminist goals. Here, this man says it much more eloquently than I:
It is important not to confound Anti-Feminists with Misogynists, or women haters. Some of the early Church Fathers, John Knox, Schopenhauer and Strindberg, for instance, were Misogynists. They disliked and scorned women as such and found little to say in their favour. But men like Herbert Spencer, Nietzsche and myself are Anti-Feminists. We bear no hostility to women nor do we denigrate them gratuitously. We merely assail and resist that Movement which has endured with more or less prominence and success ever since Hellenic days, and has aimed at driving women from domesticity and the home into industry, public life and, in fact, every male sphere.
Anti-Feminism differs from Misogyny in that, while the former is friendly to normal women, the latter attacks all women. Anti-Feminists see in Feminism a conspiracy against the normally functioning woman; a Movement favourable to a minority of masculinoid females ill-endowed for motherhood, and tending to lure women favourably endowed for motherhood along paths where their psycho-physical needs cannot be satisfied.
-- Anthony M. Ludovici, "Enemies of Women", http://www.anthonymludovici.co...
The feminists themselves feel nothing when using deception (i.e. flat-out lying). Of course, outrage is the result when anyone dares to turn the tables on them like Uber plans to do. The feeling is that they are such victims, nothing can possibly be worse than what they've already suffered, and this is not a new attitude.
"She considered men in general as so much in the debt of the opposite sex that any individual woman had an unlimited credit with them; she could not possibly overdraw the general feminine account."
-- Henry James, describing a feminist, 1886.
So, as soon as we "solve" world hunger, humans will irresponsibly reproduce until there are too many *again*. Somehow, I don't think you thought your cunning plan all the way through.
The problem isn't "enough food" the problem is "too many humans". Increasing the food supply just increases the number of humans.
Yup, that's what happened! It was considered problematic to administer anesthesia to infants, what with the small dosages and all. The advice for doctors was just to use enough tape to prevent the baby's arms and legs from squirming around and disrupting the operation.
Ghoulish, but then again my personal experience with doctors has pretty much done away with any respect I ever had for them, pretty much like how Rathergate destroyed my respect for journalists. It's a sad, empty world without any idols.:(
It's gone where all CPU gains have gone in the past 15 years - into sloppy development and rushed schedules. I was just browsing the reviews of the new version of Google Maps today and users are complaining that it is slow, slow, slow. Who cares about efficient programming done right when you can just sit back and wait for Moore's Law to catch up?
It's not a fortune-teller's tool, and it's just plain disingenuous to say so. It's about 70 percent accurate, which is more than any other method. I don't like polygraphs either, but at least be honest.
My 8th grade English teacher told us that books were written in the third person, and sometimes the first person. I raised my hand and asked about books written in the second person. She told me there was no such thing. The next day, I came in with "The Mystery Of Chimney Rock" and got a frown from Mrs. Sampson. She had what I found in later life to be a common reaction from the literati when they encounter an inconvenient truth: she disparaged it as garbage literature and said it didn't count.
Mrs. Sampson, you really disappointed me. Here was a chance to learn something new, and you refused because it threatened your existing view of what literature is.
Big city residents have a long history of considering anyone who doesn't live in their city an idiot, so you've got that going for you.
By the way, "how cities are supposed to work" is not point-to-point individual transportation, which is highly wasteful and unsightly. They're called "jitneys" and they are hated by the professional urbanists you seem to know so little about.
Slashdot is unabashedly an American site and always has been. Here's an idea, instead of complaining, why don't you start your own news tech website? No, seriously.
Let's completely ignore the fact that the Obama administration unabashedly used the IRS to persecute its political enemies, the Tea Party.
Hey, let's play a game! Are you totally OK with the fact that this happened? You win a prize! It's called, "more criminal than Nixon". Seriously, you have to really try to achieve this goal. Even Richard Nixon wasn't as criminal as Nixon. All he did was burglarize Democratic Party headquarters. What Obama's IRS did was much, much worse.
At least Nixon had the shame to resign. Will Obama do the same? Of course not...he doesn't think his people did anything wrong. Denying American citizens political representation? There's nothing wrong with that - the Tea Party opposes the governing party! What do dissidents expect to happen? This is normal under a left-wing government! (well, the left-wing governments of the 20th century, plus 21st century Venezuela, Boliva, and Cuba.)
Lest we forget, McCarthy was right. There really were communists in the State Department, and they really did mean to use their position to undermine the US government and replace it with a communist one. Let's just get our history straight. It is entirely appropriate for the people to be protected in this way.
All this software does is make predictions based on averages. It explicitly does not recognize outliers. This is the road to tyranny. It looks great, and offers us much better efficiency than before. We use it to get things done, there is no time lost with needless discussions. If it's wrong 10% of the time, then so what! We consider 90% to be acceptable.
And then, people start altering their behavior because they know they're being watched. Articles start appearing about how to conform to the mandarins' idea of a model citizen. Viewing these articles is, of course, a black mark against you. And on and on it goes, led by society's best shouting the battle cry, "it's for your own good!"
I love how ignorant Americans admire the Chinese education system. Their system is cruel and forces children to study, study, study without any attempt at being well-rounded. There are few or no extra-curricular activities at Chinese schools. Just endless toil and make-work homework assignments.
As for the "endless petty partisan bickering", that's called a "representative government". The Communist Party represents nobody but itself. It is very worrisome how today's modern, educated leftists openly admire a tyrannical government, because they "get things done". Aren't midwesterners endlessly mocked and ridiculed because they have the same values?
The Chinese education system is a cruel disaster. Chinese parents love nothing more than putting their kids in international schools. Your admiration of their system is wrongheaded at best and ill-intentioned at worst.
I love how you spin it so it sounds like some sort of EEEEVUUULLLL plot to make the Chinese suffer the pollution, when in fact it is much like all the other US industry that left - laws were crafted that deliberately made their businesses uneconomical, so they took the hint and stopped.
You also in the same sentence remove any moral agency from the Chinese, assuming without thinking that the only thing such people can do is pollute. Like they're some sort of children who can't make choices. Nice one, there. Well done.
Bill Gates is a robber baron who made his money through despicable behavior and monopolism. Now he's buying his way to respectability and people like you are fooled by it. Just look at how you view the names of cruel tyrants like Rockefeller and Carnegie.
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Let's keep the offensive stereotypes alive. After all, it's OK when we do it, but wrong when they do it. We have always been allied with Eurasia.
"Alec saw the battle lines redrawn with stark clarity, with the victims of capitalist and imperialist oppression all over the world on one side, and the United States and its allies, including Spain, on the other. Given such a contest, he realised that to undertake the defence of the Spanish freemasons had been timely as well as symbolically correct because it opened the door for victims of injustice everywhere, but especially in countries friendly to the United States, to join his former comrades-in-arms in Spanish prisons in a grand international coalition of the oppressed whose plight, when efficiently publicised, would bring embarrassment and opprobrium to the adversaries of the Soviet Union."
-- foundation of Amnesty International, 1954
I never understood the popularity of Pokemon as a video game. Pointless random combats and very little story. Hours and hours of watching animations of attacks happen. The entire idea of the game is enslaving animals and forcing them into pit fighting. Micheal Vick was sentenced to prison and vilified by the entire world for doing the same.
The students are social justice warriors. Everything is an instrument to impel social or political change to SJWs. Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
So, in other words, you're against the market and capitalism, but if you can benefit from it, you're for them?
Sounds like gigantic hypocrisy to me. Please pick some principles and stick with them. Don't go down the capitalist road - China did and look what happened to them. A disaster for anti-capitalists the world 'round.
Well, they tried making a slashdot clone earlier this year. Got slashcode up and running and everything. I was all for it, I started reading.
Within 72 hours of the site going live they had posted a duplicate story. At that point I gave up on them. I don't remember the name, only that it was a dumb one.
Wow...just, wow. A person advocating for outright tyranny. I never thought I'd see this on Slashdot, but here it is. There are hemp ropes and cottonwood trees waiting to receive people like you. Fuck you.
Did you see the gigantic fraud they engaged in to pass Obamacare? The one where they blatantly lied and then were proud about it afterwards? Jeez it's the same people. Open your eyes already.
The feminists themselves feel nothing when using deception (i.e. flat-out lying). Of course, outrage is the result when anyone dares to turn the tables on them like Uber plans to do. The feeling is that they are such victims, nothing can possibly be worse than what they've already suffered, and this is not a new attitude.
So, as soon as we "solve" world hunger, humans will irresponsibly reproduce until there are too many *again*. Somehow, I don't think you thought your cunning plan all the way through.
The problem isn't "enough food" the problem is "too many humans". Increasing the food supply just increases the number of humans.
Yup, that's what happened! It was considered problematic to administer anesthesia to infants, what with the small dosages and all. The advice for doctors was just to use enough tape to prevent the baby's arms and legs from squirming around and disrupting the operation.
Ghoulish, but then again my personal experience with doctors has pretty much done away with any respect I ever had for them, pretty much like how Rathergate destroyed my respect for journalists. It's a sad, empty world without any idols. :(
It's gone where all CPU gains have gone in the past 15 years - into sloppy development and rushed schedules. I was just browsing the reviews of the new version of Google Maps today and users are complaining that it is slow, slow, slow. Who cares about efficient programming done right when you can just sit back and wait for Moore's Law to catch up?
It's not a fortune-teller's tool, and it's just plain disingenuous to say so. It's about 70 percent accurate, which is more than any other method. I don't like polygraphs either, but at least be honest.
My 8th grade English teacher told us that books were written in the third person, and sometimes the first person. I raised my hand and asked about books written in the second person. She told me there was no such thing. The next day, I came in with "The Mystery Of Chimney Rock" and got a frown from Mrs. Sampson. She had what I found in later life to be a common reaction from the literati when they encounter an inconvenient truth: she disparaged it as garbage literature and said it didn't count.
Mrs. Sampson, you really disappointed me. Here was a chance to learn something new, and you refused because it threatened your existing view of what literature is.
Big city residents have a long history of considering anyone who doesn't live in their city an idiot, so you've got that going for you.
By the way, "how cities are supposed to work" is not point-to-point individual transportation, which is highly wasteful and unsightly. They're called "jitneys" and they are hated by the professional urbanists you seem to know so little about.
Paper isn't some magical solution. The PRI in Mexico rigged elections for eighty years using nothing but paper. Did you not know that?
Slashdot is unabashedly an American site and always has been. Here's an idea, instead of complaining, why don't you start your own news tech website? No, seriously.
Let's completely ignore the fact that the Obama administration unabashedly used the IRS to persecute its political enemies, the Tea Party.
Hey, let's play a game! Are you totally OK with the fact that this happened? You win a prize! It's called, "more criminal than Nixon". Seriously, you have to really try to achieve this goal. Even Richard Nixon wasn't as criminal as Nixon. All he did was burglarize Democratic Party headquarters. What Obama's IRS did was much, much worse.
At least Nixon had the shame to resign. Will Obama do the same? Of course not...he doesn't think his people did anything wrong. Denying American citizens political representation? There's nothing wrong with that - the Tea Party opposes the governing party! What do dissidents expect to happen? This is normal under a left-wing government! (well, the left-wing governments of the 20th century, plus 21st century Venezuela, Boliva, and Cuba.)
Lest we forget, McCarthy was right. There really were communists in the State Department, and they really did mean to use their position to undermine the US government and replace it with a communist one. Let's just get our history straight. It is entirely appropriate for the people to be protected in this way.
All this software does is make predictions based on averages. It explicitly does not recognize outliers. This is the road to tyranny. It looks great, and offers us much better efficiency than before. We use it to get things done, there is no time lost with needless discussions. If it's wrong 10% of the time, then so what! We consider 90% to be acceptable.
And then, people start altering their behavior because they know they're being watched. Articles start appearing about how to conform to the mandarins' idea of a model citizen. Viewing these articles is, of course, a black mark against you. And on and on it goes, led by society's best shouting the battle cry, "it's for your own good!"
My ass explained that George Lucas doesn't know his ass from his elbow, and the one time that he used science in Star Wars, he managed to screw it up.
I love how ignorant Americans admire the Chinese education system. Their system is cruel and forces children to study, study, study without any attempt at being well-rounded. There are few or no extra-curricular activities at Chinese schools. Just endless toil and make-work homework assignments.
As for the "endless petty partisan bickering", that's called a "representative government". The Communist Party represents nobody but itself. It is very worrisome how today's modern, educated leftists openly admire a tyrannical government, because they "get things done". Aren't midwesterners endlessly mocked and ridiculed because they have the same values?
The Chinese education system is a cruel disaster. Chinese parents love nothing more than putting their kids in international schools. Your admiration of their system is wrongheaded at best and ill-intentioned at worst.
I love how you spin it so it sounds like some sort of EEEEVUUULLLL plot to make the Chinese suffer the pollution, when in fact it is much like all the other US industry that left - laws were crafted that deliberately made their businesses uneconomical, so they took the hint and stopped.
You also in the same sentence remove any moral agency from the Chinese, assuming without thinking that the only thing such people can do is pollute. Like they're some sort of children who can't make choices. Nice one, there. Well done.
Bill Gates is a robber baron who made his money through despicable behavior and monopolism. Now he's buying his way to respectability and people like you are fooled by it. Just look at how you view the names of cruel tyrants like Rockefeller and Carnegie.
The Nazis only murdered 6 million Jews. And here we are seeing a proposal aired to murder 10 million Americans. Yay?