You're not wrong. But I'd never go back to cable TV, it's shit and not even worth it if it was free. I don't 'stream' anything either, I think that's a trap, too. Hell, I'd take half the broadband bandwidth if I could cut the internet bill in half, too.
Mine was half that almost 10 years ago and I still said "fuck this" and put an antenna on the roof. Now I wish I could cut down the $60 internet bill to half of what it is, too.
Not a rhetorical question. Like all the pseudo-intelligent software being trotted out the last several years, it does not know how to 'think'. Try asking it "What are you doing right now, and why are you doing it?" and let's see what it says. All this software is doing is sifting and sorting information, and arranging it into statements, and it doesn't matter if the statements it's making are in response to statements made by the human debater, the machine does not understand what it's doing, just like it doesn't understand anything at all; there's no mind in there, it doesn't 'think', it just processes information, and it's not relevant so far as I'm concerned that it happens to do that in a sophisticated and remarkable way. Not impressed, it's just another dog-and-pony-show to placate investors and stockholders.
You're too tired to be outraged anymore? Why the the fuck do you think we have an opioid abuse problem? Suicide problems? People getting violent? You're just sitting there in whatever country you live in, comfy in your easy chair with your beer and snacks, watching the show; we're all living in this dystopian right-wing-Republican-Dominionist nightmare. It'll take decades to undo all the damage that's been done already, if can all be repaired at all -- and that's not even considering if somehow the sonofabitch manages to get re-elected!
Thank you for bringing that up. Nope, militarization of space would be a gigantic mistake, and the U.S. being the first one to cross that line would make the U.S. look even worse on the world stage than it already does because of the current administration.
They don't represent everyone in the country though, and people are starting to get outraged about this as more and more of it hits the news. What they're doing to these people and their kids goes against what this country is about.
The only way Trump will fire Sessions is if Sessions fails to recite the Loyalty to Trump Oath daily, as Trump requires. It'll take Congress and/or the Judicial branch pulling Sessions up short before this will change. FFS even Bush's wife came out in the news condemning this. It's a sad sign of the times when everyone with a lick of sense are looking back nostalgicaly at the Bush era.
Please do convey to us the transcripts of the last several dozen immigrants you've personally interviewed in your efforts to uncover the reasons they had for taking such a risk and why they feel they had no other choices, it'll be very enlightening.
..what's that, you say? You've never spoken to any of these would-be immigrants, seeking refuge from whatever situation drove them from their homes? You're just speaking from 2nd/3rd/4th...Nth-hand accounts? Interesting.
Are you a parent, sir? Please ask your wife how she feels about this 'policy' from the current administration. I think we'll find her words to be very enlightening, and perhaps you will (should?) too.
You've pretty much hit the nail on the head. 'Technology' like this has a chilling effect to say the least. We're already being sabotaged by for-profit medical care, we don't need the bean counters to be ordering doctors to stop treating patients properly because some half-assed piece of crap pseudo-intelligent excuse for AI says they're going to die based on criteria and """reasoning""" that we humans can't even examine. This is a clear case of needing full-on, general, self-aware AI that actually understands the difference between a living being and an inanimate object. I'd just as soon no one use 'technology' like this in this way; such decisions need to be made by other human beings who are doctors, and family members, not machines.
They don't stick to purely medical or science-based subjects, they keep straying into social and political subjects, and the way they do that smells an awful lot like they've got an agenda.
I'm not even talking about Mars at this point, just the Moon. A permanent installation/colony on the Moon would be a Good Thing in the long run. If you can see that far ahead anyway.,
Fixed that for you. Also only true if governments are the only ones involved. Average citizens can't reliably see past the end of their own noses let alone 100 years down the road. The private sector will have to take up the task. I hope.
As a no-look comment I don't think our species can adapt fast enough, and by the way you're forgetting every other species of plant and animal life on the planet. An ecosphere is a more delicately balanced thing than you apparently think it is.
Sure. NASA learned from that and other accidents/disasters before it, and don't want to see that happen in the private sector. I'm perfectly okay with that; why aren't you?
NASA had to learn the hard way so far as safety goes, and they're not motivated by profit like a private corporation is, so I'm perfectly okay with them keeping everyone on a short leash until they prove they can be at least as safe as NASA operations.
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You're not wrong. But I'd never go back to cable TV, it's shit and not even worth it if it was free. I don't 'stream' anything either, I think that's a trap, too. Hell, I'd take half the broadband bandwidth if I could cut the internet bill in half, too.
Mine was half that almost 10 years ago and I still said "fuck this" and put an antenna on the roof. Now I wish I could cut down the $60 internet bill to half of what it is, too.
I think I'm going to vomit.
If I hadn't already commented on this, I'd mod you up.
Not a rhetorical question. Like all the pseudo-intelligent software being trotted out the last several years, it does not know how to 'think'. Try asking it "What are you doing right now, and why are you doing it?" and let's see what it says. All this software is doing is sifting and sorting information, and arranging it into statements, and it doesn't matter if the statements it's making are in response to statements made by the human debater, the machine does not understand what it's doing, just like it doesn't understand anything at all; there's no mind in there, it doesn't 'think', it just processes information, and it's not relevant so far as I'm concerned that it happens to do that in a sophisticated and remarkable way. Not impressed, it's just another dog-and-pony-show to placate investors and stockholders.
You're too tired to be outraged anymore? Why the the fuck do you think we have an opioid abuse problem? Suicide problems? People getting violent? You're just sitting there in whatever country you live in, comfy in your easy chair with your beer and snacks, watching the show; we're all living in this dystopian right-wing-Republican-Dominionist nightmare. It'll take decades to undo all the damage that's been done already, if can all be repaired at all -- and that's not even considering if somehow the sonofabitch manages to get re-elected!
It's worse than that really. Trump is a con-man, and the greatest weakness of any con-man is being conned himself. Kim is conning Trump.
Trumps' only motivation in anything he does is to feed his own ego. Everything else is secondary to that.
Thank you for bringing that up. Nope, militarization of space would be a gigantic mistake, and the U.S. being the first one to cross that line would make the U.S. look even worse on the world stage than it already does because of the current administration.
They don't represent everyone in the country though, and people are starting to get outraged about this as more and more of it hits the news. What they're doing to these people and their kids goes against what this country is about.
The only way Trump will fire Sessions is if Sessions fails to recite the Loyalty to Trump Oath daily, as Trump requires. It'll take Congress and/or the Judicial branch pulling Sessions up short before this will change. FFS even Bush's wife came out in the news condemning this. It's a sad sign of the times when everyone with a lick of sense are looking back nostalgicaly at the Bush era.
Jeff Sessions is a Dominionist and acts like a Third Reich-era Nazi; he's a monster. Law without regard for mercy is not Justice.
Please do convey to us the transcripts of the last several dozen immigrants you've personally interviewed in your efforts to uncover the reasons they had for taking such a risk and why they feel they had no other choices, it'll be very enlightening.
..what's that, you say? You've never spoken to any of these would-be immigrants, seeking refuge from whatever situation drove them from their homes? You're just speaking from 2nd/3rd/4th...Nth-hand accounts? Interesting.
Are you a parent, sir? Please ask your wife how she feels about this 'policy' from the current administration. I think we'll find her words to be very enlightening, and perhaps you will (should?) too.
You've pretty much hit the nail on the head. 'Technology' like this has a chilling effect to say the least. We're already being sabotaged by for-profit medical care, we don't need the bean counters to be ordering doctors to stop treating patients properly because some half-assed piece of crap pseudo-intelligent excuse for AI says they're going to die based on criteria and """reasoning""" that we humans can't even examine. This is a clear case of needing full-on, general, self-aware AI that actually understands the difference between a living being and an inanimate object. I'd just as soon no one use 'technology' like this in this way; such decisions need to be made by other human beings who are doctors, and family members, not machines.
They don't stick to purely medical or science-based subjects, they keep straying into social and political subjects, and the way they do that smells an awful lot like they've got an agenda.
Trollololololol
Go back to 4chan or reddit, the adults are trying to have a conversation here.
Trollololololol
Go back to 4chan.
I'm not even talking about Mars at this point, just the Moon. A permanent installation/colony on the Moon would be a Good Thing in the long run. If you can see that far ahead anyway.,
Robots/rovers can do everything humans can at 1/10 of the cost
..except get humans off this planet and living somewhere else.
space exploration for the our species is doomed
Fixed that for you. Also only true if governments are the only ones involved. Average citizens can't reliably see past the end of their own noses let alone 100 years down the road. The private sector will have to take up the task. I hope.
Trollololol.
Not impressed.
As a no-look comment I don't think our species can adapt fast enough, and by the way you're forgetting every other species of plant and animal life on the planet. An ecosphere is a more delicately balanced thing than you apparently think it is.
Sure. NASA learned from that and other accidents/disasters before it, and don't want to see that happen in the private sector. I'm perfectly okay with that; why aren't you?
If you say so, idiot.
NASA had to learn the hard way so far as safety goes, and they're not motivated by profit like a private corporation is, so I'm perfectly okay with them keeping everyone on a short leash until they prove they can be at least as safe as NASA operations.