No, you are wrong. Stop saying it. You are a racist piece of trash, and I can only hope that you and your kind are thrown on the ash heap of history along with your buddies in FOX News.
Stop citing fiction as fact. Just...stop. Don't do it ever again, you are giving science a bad name. Why do you think it is called science FICTION, you moron. Never, ever again participate in a discussion like this, you are harming our cause.
So, are we totally ignoring the racism in "population management"? In the developed world, populations are declining - only in the brown and black areas are populations increasing out of control as you suggest. What's it like, being a racist? Please do tell.
A Turing test has nothing to do with intelligence. Stop saying that, you're wrong. Passing a Turing test means that a machine has successfully convinced humans it is a fellow human. That is all.
The goalposts have been moved the other way, towards "easy". 30%? Who invented that? Certainly not Alan Turing. Progress? Despite the stained reputation of the word "progress" (avoid it in the future if possible) the first time that a program passed a Turing test was in 1991.
You don't even know what a Turing test is. It has zippo to do with "AI" and has everything to do with "a machine successfully imitating a human." Lemme guess, you're one of those singularity religion followers, aren't you?
Is anyone other than me horrified that a person has just cited a work of fiction as scientific fact? This is a very disturbing trend, I've seen it elsewhere. I get the idea that modern people's brains spend so much time consuming media that they are unable to distinguish between reality and some shit that this guy wrote.
No, actually that doesn't happen. What happens is, the government runs out of money, and then resorts to what government always does when it runs out of money - raise taxes. They don't have to pay, so what the hell do they care? From their perspective, it's all imaginary anyway.
Oh, please. Don't be fatuous. She's huge and has a great influence. If the outbreak is in Europe, then what is there to fear in America? Yeah, she didn't outright say "I recommend you stop eating beef immediately" but that's pretty much what happened. Suppose she had said, "I'm not going to vaccinate my children" and that would be the same thing, right? Bullshit.
PS put your signature line in your signature file, accessible in the Slashdot user options panel.
Please stop spouting bullshit like this. Where did you read it, Huffington Post? China isn't like what you think it is. Frankly, it's racist to say that people can't care about the environment because they're Chinese. There are protests all the time and these things do have an effect.
You can't expect people to take what you're saying seriously if your argument is "Walmart blaaarrrgh!"
It's not defamation if it's true. Oprah irresponsibly used her mainstream media platform to falsely suggest that U.S. beef was affected by mad cow disease, causing a disaster in the industry. She was found not guilty, but it was enough that she was hauled into court over it.
And seriously, a link to eHow? Eww, my mouse feels dirty after clicking on that.
Ah, yes, one world government. Because there isn't nearly enough tyranny on this planet already. Surely, a global government would concentrate resources on space and advancing the cause of humanity instead of large-scale theft for their own tribe and armed response to anyone who disagreed.
America contains a large number of blacks. Frequently, anti-Americanism is just dog-whistle racism. The same people (usually white - are you white?) freely criticize America while ignoring that criticizing Obama is racist.
No True Scotsman is a logical fallacy by which an individual attempts to avoid being associated with an unpleasant act by asserting that no true member of the group they belong to would do such a thing; this fallacy also applies to defining a term or criteria biasedly as to defend it from counterargument which can be identified as a biased, persuasive, or rhetorical definition. Instead of acknowledging that some members of a group have undesirable characteristics, the fallacy tries to redefine the group to exclude them. Sentences such as "all members of X have desirable trait Y" then become tautologies, because Y becomes a requirement of membership in X.
Nativism is the political position of demanding a favored status for certain established inhabitants of a nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants.
Someone explain to me why people who just happened to be born in the bounds of an arbitrary nation should have ANY advantages over someone who was not. In fact, precisely the opposite argument can be made: those who were disadvantaged by birth should get all the advantages when it comes to being employed in the USA.
"Tech worker groups" sounds suspiciously like whites and Asians to me. Why should these high-IQ groups receive advantages when so many other groups don't? They don't need any advantages, they already have them in the form of a culture that values education and two-parent families. It sounds a hell of a lot like racism to me. What would Maya Angelou say about the situation?
Uh, since when do leftists give a SHIT about trailer dwellers? Leftists ACTIVELY HATE them.
Don't believe me? OK, try this: Professional televised sports. Didn't that set your hatred off? Try again: NASCAR. That did it, didn't it?
Why does your kind pretend to care about people who live in trailer parks? You squeal with glee every time a tornado touches down and ruins their lives. Don't even try to lie, I've seen it. It ain't pretty. In fact, it is quite ugly to see highly educated leftists chuckling at lower-class humans who just had their homes destroyed and their entire lives turned upside-down...but that is reality in 2014.
Hello dumbass. Slashdot is not a fucking advertisement platform. In fact, it is preferable that Slashdot does NOT give free publicity to some random bullshit. In fact, slashvertisements occur so often, I will be surprised if, someday, the editors are not exposed as corrupt. This sort of thing restores a shred of credibility...though it could equally be described as incompetence.
Well, I guess you really nailed it there. We should just disarm and trust the U.S. Federal Government to treat us well. After all, what could possibly go wrong? A government that doesn't fear its citizens? Eh, freedom is overrated anyway. It's better if we just all suck from the teat, like we were intended to do. And vote for one party, one-party government is the best. Slavery is freedom, ignorance is strength.
Your racist terminology and willingness to murder people without even checking their race beforehand makes any observer think you are a right-wing nutbag who longs for the days when the KKK kept the darkies in check with lynchings. You disgust me and every civilized person who reads your post.
"The only universal medicine (Marxists) have for social evils - State ownership of the means of production - is not only perfectly compatible with all the disasters of the capitalist world: with exploitation, imperialism, pollution, misery, economic waste, national hatred and national oppression, but it adds to them a series of disasters of its own: inefficiency, lack of economic incentives and above all the unrestricted rule of the omnipresent bureaucracy, a concentration of power never before known in human history".
-- Leszek Kolakowski (a man who grew up much like you, as an ardent Marxist and atheist, only to get hit on the head with a cold bucket of reality from the system that you love)
Believe it or not, there are people out there who don't know and don't care about some obscure British sitcom that was cancelled twenty years ago. Lots of people just can't stand sitcoms, period.
So quickly we forget BDS. You know, Bush Derangement Syndrome? It's when a perfectly ordinary thread is going on and suddenly someone starts ranting about Bu$hitler. Totally out of left field and completely derails the conversation. Funny how it was completely acceptable back then, and now that the shoe's on the other foot, it's unacceptable? Fill in the blank:
___________ (n.) the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense. synonyms: dissimulation, false virtue, cant, posturing, affectation, speciousness, empty talk, insincerity, falseness, deceit, dishonesty, mendacity, pretense, duplicity
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No, you are wrong. Stop saying it. You are a racist piece of trash, and I can only hope that you and your kind are thrown on the ash heap of history along with your buddies in FOX News.
Stop citing fiction as fact. Just...stop. Don't do it ever again, you are giving science a bad name. Why do you think it is called science FICTION, you moron. Never, ever again participate in a discussion like this, you are harming our cause.
So, are we totally ignoring the racism in "population management"? In the developed world, populations are declining - only in the brown and black areas are populations increasing out of control as you suggest. What's it like, being a racist? Please do tell.
A Turing test has nothing to do with intelligence. Stop saying that, you're wrong. Passing a Turing test means that a machine has successfully convinced humans it is a fellow human. That is all.
The goalposts have been moved the other way, towards "easy". 30%? Who invented that? Certainly not Alan Turing. Progress? Despite the stained reputation of the word "progress" (avoid it in the future if possible) the first time that a program passed a Turing test was in 1991.
You don't even know what a Turing test is. It has zippo to do with "AI" and has everything to do with "a machine successfully imitating a human." Lemme guess, you're one of those singularity religion followers, aren't you?
Is anyone other than me horrified that a person has just cited a work of fiction as scientific fact? This is a very disturbing trend, I've seen it elsewhere. I get the idea that modern people's brains spend so much time consuming media that they are unable to distinguish between reality and some shit that this guy wrote.
No, actually that doesn't happen. What happens is, the government runs out of money, and then resorts to what government always does when it runs out of money - raise taxes. They don't have to pay, so what the hell do they care? From their perspective, it's all imaginary anyway.
Oh, please. Don't be fatuous. She's huge and has a great influence. If the outbreak is in Europe, then what is there to fear in America? Yeah, she didn't outright say "I recommend you stop eating beef immediately" but that's pretty much what happened. Suppose she had said, "I'm not going to vaccinate my children" and that would be the same thing, right? Bullshit.
PS put your signature line in your signature file, accessible in the Slashdot user options panel.
Please stop spouting bullshit like this. Where did you read it, Huffington Post? China isn't like what you think it is. Frankly, it's racist to say that people can't care about the environment because they're Chinese. There are protests all the time and these things do have an effect.
You can't expect people to take what you're saying seriously if your argument is "Walmart blaaarrrgh!"
And seriously, a link to eHow? Eww, my mouse feels dirty after clicking on that.
Ah, yes, one world government. Because there isn't nearly enough tyranny on this planet already. Surely, a global government would concentrate resources on space and advancing the cause of humanity instead of large-scale theft for their own tribe and armed response to anyone who disagreed.
America contains a large number of blacks. Frequently, anti-Americanism is just dog-whistle racism. The same people (usually white - are you white?) freely criticize America while ignoring that criticizing Obama is racist.
No True Scotsman is a logical fallacy by which an individual attempts to avoid being associated with an unpleasant act by asserting that no true member of the group they belong to would do such a thing; this fallacy also applies to defining a term or criteria biasedly as to defend it from counterargument which can be identified as a biased, persuasive, or rhetorical definition. Instead of acknowledging that some members of a group have undesirable characteristics, the fallacy tries to redefine the group to exclude them. Sentences such as "all members of X have desirable trait Y" then become tautologies, because Y becomes a requirement of membership in X.
Nativism is the political position of demanding a favored status for certain established inhabitants of a nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants.
Someone explain to me why people who just happened to be born in the bounds of an arbitrary nation should have ANY advantages over someone who was not. In fact, precisely the opposite argument can be made: those who were disadvantaged by birth should get all the advantages when it comes to being employed in the USA.
"Tech worker groups" sounds suspiciously like whites and Asians to me. Why should these high-IQ groups receive advantages when so many other groups don't? They don't need any advantages, they already have them in the form of a culture that values education and two-parent families. It sounds a hell of a lot like racism to me. What would Maya Angelou say about the situation?
Uh, since when do leftists give a SHIT about trailer dwellers? Leftists ACTIVELY HATE them.
Don't believe me? OK, try this: Professional televised sports. Didn't that set your hatred off? Try again: NASCAR. That did it, didn't it?
Why does your kind pretend to care about people who live in trailer parks? You squeal with glee every time a tornado touches down and ruins their lives. Don't even try to lie, I've seen it. It ain't pretty. In fact, it is quite ugly to see highly educated leftists chuckling at lower-class humans who just had their homes destroyed and their entire lives turned upside-down...but that is reality in 2014.
Hello dumbass. Slashdot is not a fucking advertisement platform. In fact, it is preferable that Slashdot does NOT give free publicity to some random bullshit. In fact, slashvertisements occur so often, I will be surprised if, someday, the editors are not exposed as corrupt. This sort of thing restores a shred of credibility...though it could equally be described as incompetence.
Well, I guess you really nailed it there. We should just disarm and trust the U.S. Federal Government to treat us well. After all, what could possibly go wrong? A government that doesn't fear its citizens? Eh, freedom is overrated anyway. It's better if we just all suck from the teat, like we were intended to do. And vote for one party, one-party government is the best. Slavery is freedom, ignorance is strength.
How many of these "robot maintainers" are white/Asian, and how many are African-American/Latino?
Yeah, that's what I thought, you right-wing racist prick. All you want to do is put people who don't look like you out of a job. Fuck you.
Your racist terminology and willingness to murder people without even checking their race beforehand makes any observer think you are a right-wing nutbag who longs for the days when the KKK kept the darkies in check with lynchings. You disgust me and every civilized person who reads your post.
"The only universal medicine (Marxists) have for social evils - State ownership of the means of production - is not only perfectly compatible with all the disasters of the capitalist world: with exploitation, imperialism, pollution, misery, economic waste, national hatred and national oppression, but it adds to them a series of disasters of its own: inefficiency, lack of economic incentives and above all the unrestricted rule of the omnipresent bureaucracy, a concentration of power never before known in human history".
-- Leszek Kolakowski (a man who grew up much like you, as an ardent Marxist and atheist, only to get hit on the head with a cold bucket of reality from the system that you love)
You didn't get it, did you? Read the ENTIRE message again.
"the evil U.S." WTF you got a racism problem buddy? Tolerance is the solution, not more violence.
Believe it or not, there are people out there who don't know and don't care about some obscure British sitcom that was cancelled twenty years ago. Lots of people just can't stand sitcoms, period.
___________ (n.) the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense.
synonyms: dissimulation, false virtue, cant, posturing, affectation, speciousness, empty talk, insincerity, falseness, deceit, dishonesty, mendacity, pretense, duplicity
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