Nothing you said changes or invaldates anything I said. Also you can't exchange physical currency anonymously over the internet like you can cryptocurrency, so your point is more or less invalid.
As someone who at one point in my life used to be around 320 pounds, had ruined my knees due to chronic depression-driven inactivity, and just didn't care whether I lived or died, who then turned it all around, lost some weight, got my knees fixed, lost more weight, started training for road bike racing, and now has a bodyfat percentage that's around 10% all the time, and can ride 100 miles in less than 6 hours on a lark? I'm offended by this 'body positive', 'Health At Every Size (HAES)' nonsense -- and that's what it is, is nonsense -- and I'm completely and totally unapologetic about it, so deal with it. FAT is FAT. You're just deluding yourself if you say you're 'healthy' at 30/40/50 percent bodyfat. Get real, get the fork out of your mouth, get into a reasonable regular exercise regimen, and get healthy -- and don't sit there and tell me "..but Rick, I've tried EVERYTHING! Nothing works! Calories in/calories out doesn't work! It's my genetics!" or any of the other excuses I typically hear. I was literally crippled, needed knee surgery, knew NOTHING about fitness and proper diet, and now I race bikes and can leg press four times my bodyweight; if I can figure it out and make it work, so can everyone else, you just have to want it enough to commit to it.
Oh, and one more thing, since I'm going to get modded as 'Flamebait' anyway for DARING to speak my mind:
You can't MAKE me be attracted to you, fat women, no matter WHAT you say. Slender, proportional, and HEALTHY is attractive, not rolls of fat and a complete lack of physical fitness. Stop the self-hate-driven-delusion and DO something about it.
Oh, and guys? You being a fatass isn't attractive to WOMEN, either -- so you can stop deluding yourselves, too. YOU get the fork out of YOUR mouth, too, get your fat ass to the gym and FIX YOUR SHIT, nobody wants to see it anymore.
The first time I ever heard of 'Bitcoin', the first thing I thought was "this will be used for money laundering, hiding assets, and trafficking in contraband and for other illegal activities, guaranteed" and steered entirely clear of it. I knew that at some point governments would, one way or another, take control of it, for good or for ill.
Don't even pretend you're surprised this is happening, and don't even bother to act all righteously indignated over it, either, you're just being over-the-top disingenuous if you do.
I'd imagine either some of their other customers made it clear that they'd be leaving if Cloudflare didn't do something decisive about those jackasses, or Cloudflare decided that the best business decision would be to distance themselves from neo-nazi lightning rods. Now, if we can just convince Cloudflare to stop punishing people who use Tor..
Trump gets called out by his betters for being a jerk (again!), throws a hissy-fit (again!), decides to take his ball and go home (again!). He's a narcissistic toddler that got into the gun cabinet and I can't wait for him to be gone.
I think I'll start lobbying to get support for legislation to make coffee a Schedule 1 drug, requiring a doctors prescription to obtain it, and stiff penalties involving fines and jail time for driving while under the influence of it, or allowing access to it by a minor. How do you all think that'll go for me?
Seems like a couple times a year shitty 'studies' like this get into the news, but they never talk about coffee, now do they? Or No-Doz, which you can buy at any grocery store, and nobody is going to question you when you buy a bottle of that, now will they? No-Doz is 200mg of caffeine per pill. You take 5 of them at once, you can land yourself in the Emergency Room. I also never see them talking about how a 20 ounce Mocha Frappacino with 4 extra shots from Starbucks should be banned or regulated, even though that's pretty goddamned close to an 'energy drink', with all that caffeine and sugar. But again, that's coffee, so it's untouchable, right? Did you all know, you can buy coffee that's so high in caffeine, that a 16 ounce mug of it would send the average person to the hospital? Just like heroin addicts that get stuff that's too pure; they overdose on it. But that's coffee, so it's exempt from any such discussions about caffeine.
I am not getting into a debate over UBI with you or anyone else because I do not believe it's feasible except on a VERY SMALL SCALE and would BANKRUPT the United States in nothing flat, so don't even bother.
If the only job someone can get doesn't make them enough to pay rent, utilities, and buy them sufficient food to eat, then there's a problem. Saying "Well, those people should go find a better job", or "Well, those people should go back to school and get a better education so they can get a better job", and similar comments, just are not helpful at all. Saying "Well, that's why we need Universal Basic Income" is even less helpful, because it just plain won't work on the scale of a country with 300,000,000 people in it, and even if it's only 10% (i.e. 30,000,000 people) who need a big handout from the government in order to actually sustain their lives, the other 90% are going to scream about it being unfair -- and I don't totally blame them. I think the real problem is capitalism; it can work if managed properly, but in it's current state capitalism is totally out of control, and it's creating an ever-widening gap between the poor and rich, destroying the middle class in the process. Whether it's out of control by chance or by design is a matter that should be investigated, but just like the problem of homelessness, this isn't going to go away just by ignoring it. You can't just throw people away, not and continue to call yourself a human being. We're supposed to be better than that.
LOL if you want to out yourself as a Communist that's your business, it's not illegal to espouse Communist philosophies, but enjoy be ostracised by the rest of the country. You can publicly claim to be a Furry, too, and that's not illegal, but you're never going to be taken seriously by many people, either. Now, if you're actively a seditionist, actively working to undermine and sabotage the U.S. government and it's interests? Then enjoy being arrested for being an enemy of the United States.
You're also failing at redirecting me, I haven't forgotten that ALL his examples suck and he should find better ones -- and you should go troll someone else.
Oh and by the way nothing that involves a tiny minority (a FRACTION OF A PERCENT) of the total population can ever be considered a 'widespread problem' or 'serious', in this case it's more like 'nutcases that are screwing themselves up with an insane meme diet that has nothing whatsoever to do with health reasons'.
Do you think I make this stuff up out of wholecloth? There was a study done that I read about that says this. I don't have a link, go find it yourself if you don't believe me, I can't be bothered. Also it all fits in with my experience knowing people who are and were Vegan.
Somehow I doubt that this 'nu-meat' or whatever you want to call it is going to have an overall lower carbon footprint than, say, raising free-range chickens.
It's chronic amino acid deficiencies that create the progressive cognitive deficit that strict vegetarians inevitably suffer from. Seriously. I know vegans and some who have recanted and gone back to eating meat. They think clearer, make more sense, and their personalities change, becoming more effectual in pretty much all areas of their lives.
The storm troopers from the DOJ will raid the houses with the guns, take them, and good luck in the courts.
If it comes to that, they'll raid houses -- the occupants will fight back, win or lose, and they'll be branded 'home-grown terrorist extremists' and evidence against them will be fabricated. Of course long before it gets that bad I'll either be dead or I'll be watching it all happen on TV, north of the border.
By now Trump has demonstrated repeatedly and clearly that he thinks the Constitution and the law doesn't apply to him because he sits in the Oval Office. Consider this move in conjuction with wanting ALL the voter records of people who voted against him. If no one was around to rein him in we'd be living in a full-on dictatorship.
..and I'm getting severe eye-strain from rolling my eyes at all these 'discontented homosapiens'. FFS just chill the fuck out and DEAL WITH IT without killing people, you jackasses!
..and I'm getting severe eye-strain from rolling my eyes at all these 'discontented white men'. FFS just chill the fuck out and DEAL WITH IT without killing people, you jackasses!
Did you rip all that copypasta from a WIkipedia article or something?
None of that TL,DR has anything to do with anything. I'm only interested in ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE, not the shit we have now that everyone seems to think IS ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE. Functionally speaking I don't even really give a flying fuck about ANY of this, NONE of it has any real bearing on my day-to-day life -- YET, at least. But TOO MANY PEOPLE think it's all real when in reality it's all an over-hyped JOKE -- and THAT is what's going to get us into trouble.
What if the post office refused to carry your mail because you mailed out a communist manifesto?
What if AT&T refused to give you a land line because you called a politician and told them to ban weasels from your county?
Then you call the police because they are breaking the LAW. Unless you wrote your 'manifesto' on the back of a postcard, they'd have to open your mail, which I believe is a felony. If AT&T is listening in on your phone calls for no reason then I believe that is also a felony.
What if the power company cut service to your home because you operate a HAM radio and broadcast your own smooth jazz renditions of pop songs?
Aside from "how would they know?", YOU would be in violation of FCC rules and regulations which prohibit doing precisely what you described. Also you'd be sued by ASCAP for not paying royalties, unless you'd made arrangements for that already.
Try some better examples to make your point, okay?
Oh and as to the rest of what you said? Sure, they're outing themselves bigtime. The scumbag hosting they'll inevitably get? Probably not very well protected against hacking. They'll get hacked and DDoS'd all to hell. And yes, you can say whatever you want in this country -- but the Court of Public Opinion will pass judgement on you for it, whatever it is. If you walk into a biker bar and yell "ALL YOU PUSSY BIKERS ARE FAGS!", you're probably going to get beaten to a pulp for it. So it goes with public opinion.
Even my foolish enemies should be allowed to express themselves.
Sure. But Google is a private company, not the U.S. Government, and they don't have to do any such thing if it's in violation of their Terms of Service, which if the Wihte Supremacist group didn't read first and agree to abide by, then that's not on Google. I'm sure they can find some scumbag webhost that literally doesn't care what they're hosting so long as the bills are paid on time.
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Nothing you said changes or invaldates anything I said. Also you can't exchange physical currency anonymously over the internet like you can cryptocurrency, so your point is more or less invalid.
As someone who at one point in my life used to be around 320 pounds, had ruined my knees due to chronic depression-driven inactivity, and just didn't care whether I lived or died, who then turned it all around, lost some weight, got my knees fixed, lost more weight, started training for road bike racing, and now has a bodyfat percentage that's around 10% all the time, and can ride 100 miles in less than 6 hours on a lark? I'm offended by this 'body positive', 'Health At Every Size (HAES)' nonsense -- and that's what it is, is nonsense -- and I'm completely and totally unapologetic about it, so deal with it. FAT is FAT. You're just deluding yourself if you say you're 'healthy' at 30/40/50 percent bodyfat. Get real, get the fork out of your mouth, get into a reasonable regular exercise regimen, and get healthy -- and don't sit there and tell me "..but Rick, I've tried EVERYTHING! Nothing works! Calories in/calories out doesn't work! It's my genetics!" or any of the other excuses I typically hear. I was literally crippled, needed knee surgery, knew NOTHING about fitness and proper diet, and now I race bikes and can leg press four times my bodyweight; if I can figure it out and make it work, so can everyone else, you just have to want it enough to commit to it.
Oh, and one more thing, since I'm going to get modded as 'Flamebait' anyway for DARING to speak my mind:
You can't MAKE me be attracted to you, fat women, no matter WHAT you say. Slender, proportional, and HEALTHY is attractive, not rolls of fat and a complete lack of physical fitness. Stop the self-hate-driven-delusion and DO something about it.
Oh, and guys? You being a fatass isn't attractive to WOMEN, either -- so you can stop deluding yourselves, too. YOU get the fork out of YOUR mouth, too, get your fat ass to the gym and FIX YOUR SHIT, nobody wants to see it anymore.
The first time I ever heard of 'Bitcoin', the first thing I thought was "this will be used for money laundering, hiding assets, and trafficking in contraband and for other illegal activities, guaranteed" and steered entirely clear of it. I knew that at some point governments would, one way or another, take control of it, for good or for ill.
Don't even pretend you're surprised this is happening, and don't even bother to act all righteously indignated over it, either, you're just being over-the-top disingenuous if you do.
Except the only thing that these people are actually doing is saying shit you don't like.
And running people over with their cars. Tiny little detail you left out.
I'd imagine either some of their other customers made it clear that they'd be leaving if Cloudflare didn't do something decisive about those jackasses, or Cloudflare decided that the best business decision would be to distance themselves from neo-nazi lightning rods. Now, if we can just convince Cloudflare to stop punishing people who use Tor..
Trump gets called out by his betters for being a jerk (again!), throws a hissy-fit (again!), decides to take his ball and go home (again!). He's a narcissistic toddler that got into the gun cabinet and I can't wait for him to be gone.
people would be better off if they just accepted their lot in life
That's always real easy for someone to say when they're not going to be directly affected by it.
Let them eat cake!
Seems like a couple times a year shitty 'studies' like this get into the news, but they never talk about coffee, now do they? Or No-Doz, which you can buy at any grocery store, and nobody is going to question you when you buy a bottle of that, now will they? No-Doz is 200mg of caffeine per pill. You take 5 of them at once, you can land yourself in the Emergency Room. I also never see them talking about how a 20 ounce Mocha Frappacino with 4 extra shots from Starbucks should be banned or regulated, even though that's pretty goddamned close to an 'energy drink', with all that caffeine and sugar. But again, that's coffee, so it's untouchable, right? Did you all know, you can buy coffee that's so high in caffeine, that a 16 ounce mug of it would send the average person to the hospital? Just like heroin addicts that get stuff that's too pure; they overdose on it. But that's coffee, so it's exempt from any such discussions about caffeine.
Double standards
I am not getting into a debate over UBI with you or anyone else because I do not believe it's feasible except on a VERY SMALL SCALE and would BANKRUPT the United States in nothing flat, so don't even bother.
If the only job someone can get doesn't make them enough to pay rent, utilities, and buy them sufficient food to eat, then there's a problem. Saying "Well, those people should go find a better job", or "Well, those people should go back to school and get a better education so they can get a better job", and similar comments, just are not helpful at all. Saying "Well, that's why we need Universal Basic Income" is even less helpful, because it just plain won't work on the scale of a country with 300,000,000 people in it, and even if it's only 10% (i.e. 30,000,000 people) who need a big handout from the government in order to actually sustain their lives, the other 90% are going to scream about it being unfair -- and I don't totally blame them. I think the real problem is capitalism; it can work if managed properly, but in it's current state capitalism is totally out of control, and it's creating an ever-widening gap between the poor and rich, destroying the middle class in the process. Whether it's out of control by chance or by design is a matter that should be investigated, but just like the problem of homelessness, this isn't going to go away just by ignoring it. You can't just throw people away, not and continue to call yourself a human being. We're supposed to be better than that.
LOL if you want to out yourself as a Communist that's your business, it's not illegal to espouse Communist philosophies, but enjoy be ostracised by the rest of the country. You can publicly claim to be a Furry, too, and that's not illegal, but you're never going to be taken seriously by many people, either. Now, if you're actively a seditionist, actively working to undermine and sabotage the U.S. government and it's interests? Then enjoy being arrested for being an enemy of the United States.
You're also failing at redirecting me, I haven't forgotten that ALL his examples suck and he should find better ones -- and you should go troll someone else.
They're lying.
Oh and by the way nothing that involves a tiny minority (a FRACTION OF A PERCENT) of the total population can ever be considered a 'widespread problem' or 'serious', in this case it's more like 'nutcases that are screwing themselves up with an insane meme diet that has nothing whatsoever to do with health reasons'.
Do you think I make this stuff up out of wholecloth? There was a study done that I read about that says this. I don't have a link, go find it yourself if you don't believe me, I can't be bothered. Also it all fits in with my experience knowing people who are and were Vegan.
Somehow I doubt that this 'nu-meat' or whatever you want to call it is going to have an overall lower carbon footprint than, say, raising free-range chickens.
It's chronic amino acid deficiencies that create the progressive cognitive deficit that strict vegetarians inevitably suffer from. Seriously. I know vegans and some who have recanted and gone back to eating meat. They think clearer, make more sense, and their personalities change, becoming more effectual in pretty much all areas of their lives.
The storm troopers from the DOJ will raid the houses with the guns, take them, and good luck in the courts.
If it comes to that, they'll raid houses -- the occupants will fight back, win or lose, and they'll be branded 'home-grown terrorist extremists' and evidence against them will be fabricated. Of course long before it gets that bad I'll either be dead or I'll be watching it all happen on TV, north of the border.
By now Trump has demonstrated repeatedly and clearly that he thinks the Constitution and the law doesn't apply to him because he sits in the Oval Office. Consider this move in conjuction with wanting ALL the voter records of people who voted against him. If no one was around to rein him in we'd be living in a full-on dictatorship.
..and I'm getting severe eye-strain from rolling my eyes at all these 'discontented homosapiens'. FFS just chill the fuck out and DEAL WITH IT without killing people, you jackasses!
..and I'm getting severe eye-strain from rolling my eyes at all these 'discontented white men'. FFS just chill the fuck out and DEAL WITH IT without killing people, you jackasses!
Did you rip all that copypasta from a WIkipedia article or something?
None of that TL,DR has anything to do with anything. I'm only interested in ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE, not the shit we have now that everyone seems to think IS ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE. Functionally speaking I don't even really give a flying fuck about ANY of this, NONE of it has any real bearing on my day-to-day life -- YET, at least. But TOO MANY PEOPLE think it's all real when in reality it's all an over-hyped JOKE -- and THAT is what's going to get us into trouble.
What if the post office refused to carry your mail because you mailed out a communist manifesto?
What if AT&T refused to give you a land line because you called a politician and told them to ban weasels from your county?
Then you call the police because they are breaking the LAW. Unless you wrote your 'manifesto' on the back of a postcard, they'd have to open your mail, which I believe is a felony. If AT&T is listening in on your phone calls for no reason then I believe that is also a felony.
What if the power company cut service to your home because you operate a HAM radio and broadcast your own smooth jazz renditions of pop songs?
Aside from "how would they know?", YOU would be in violation of FCC rules and regulations which prohibit doing precisely what you described. Also you'd be sued by ASCAP for not paying royalties, unless you'd made arrangements for that already.
Try some better examples to make your point, okay?
No one is required to use Google services.
Oh and as to the rest of what you said? Sure, they're outing themselves bigtime. The scumbag hosting they'll inevitably get? Probably not very well protected against hacking. They'll get hacked and DDoS'd all to hell. And yes, you can say whatever you want in this country -- but the Court of Public Opinion will pass judgement on you for it, whatever it is. If you walk into a biker bar and yell "ALL YOU PUSSY BIKERS ARE FAGS!", you're probably going to get beaten to a pulp for it. So it goes with public opinion.
Even my foolish enemies should be allowed to express themselves.
Sure. But Google is a private company, not the U.S. Government, and they don't have to do any such thing if it's in violation of their Terms of Service, which if the Wihte Supremacist group didn't read first and agree to abide by, then that's not on Google. I'm sure they can find some scumbag webhost that literally doesn't care what they're hosting so long as the bills are paid on time.