GMO's are only a "done deal" in countries where Monsanto has managed to buy off the government. China, Europe, and many nations have taken emphatic "no" approach, and outright banned GMOs in many cases.
Artificial intelligence is already here in the limited form of expert systems and interpretational engines like Watson. It's been here for a number of years; we just keep moving the bar as to what it takes to be called "artificial intelligence" every time we achieve the previous bar, because people are disappointed that it's not the panacea of a conversational companion robot yet.
It is impossible to win an argument with someone who defends their delusions with the claim that "God planted the evidence for evolution to tempt you."
Toews drew derision during a debate on the government's online surveillance bill in February 2012 for telling a Liberal critic he could "either stand with us or with the child pornographers."
They've been trying to pass such legislation for almost seven years. Remember a certain MP claiming that if you opposed that legislation, you were "with the paedophiles?"
I didn't say "imagine what you could do with it." I said what do you need to do that requires it.
Google fiber doesn't allow running servers as you describe.
Backing up data? Ever here of USB drives? Tape? Local media? You don't need to back up terabyte drives to the cloud -- there are plenty of viable, existing options for backups.
If you're going to share videos with families and friends, get a Dropbox account or something like that, upload the video, and use the cloud to serve up the data. Just how often are you creating hour long cat videos, anyhow?
People nowadays have a very entitled view as to what they "need".
As I said: spoiled. You never dealt with dial-up and resumable downloads that would take a week or more to complete. Everything for you has to be now, now, now, and instantaneously.
OMG! My game update will take 23 hours! I can't live without playing my game for a day!
And even so, I already have more bandwidth than the last company I worked for had for all the users and customers of their systems, so I could have saturated the corporate link by myself if I were abusing it.
If I were downloading and uploading multi gigabyte images to my home system for any company I've ever worked at, I'd be fired for stealing "company secrets." You use a remote desktop, not do everything locally.
Name ONE use case other than streaming multiple 4K video channels which REQUIRES anything more than the 6.5Mbit/s connection I already have. Sure if you're serving up a large family you might want to spring for a couple of 20Mbit connections or something, but "need" FTTH?
And just how, precisely, do you think a new terrorist cell springs up if not from someone going crazy over the ideology and following it regardless of whether there is already a local cell or not?
Of course he was "disturbed". That's the very definition of a "radical" -- someone who takes an ideology to an insane degree. All of the terrorists from ISIL to Boko Harum and around the world are insane. Every single one of them.
But the problem is not Islam. The problem is the crazies. I've read the Koran -- and it, like the Bible, is mostly a document of peace and tolerance. The problem is that the radicals are claiming to be following a "religious ideology" and the legitimate Imams around the world are not doing enough to quote the passages and phrases that condemn the actions of the radicals, leaving people to accept that what the radicals claim as "religious justification" is, indeed, valid when it is anything but.
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As John Cleese pointed out, you need a minimum level of intelligence to even realize that you are stupid.
Sadly, a huge percentage of the population is too stupid to realize that they're morons.
GMO's are only a "done deal" in countries where Monsanto has managed to buy off the government. China, Europe, and many nations have taken emphatic "no" approach, and outright banned GMOs in many cases.
Systemd articles have become the new Slashdot clickbait. It seems every freakin' day there's another "discussion" about that unholy abortion.
Artificial intelligence is already here in the limited form of expert systems and interpretational engines like Watson. It's been here for a number of years; we just keep moving the bar as to what it takes to be called "artificial intelligence" every time we achieve the previous bar, because people are disappointed that it's not the panacea of a conversational companion robot yet.
It is impossible to win an argument with someone who defends their delusions with the claim that "God planted the evidence for evolution to tempt you."
Debit cards also don't have an annual fee in Canada.
Where is the pissing and moaning about the over-representation of women in nursing?
Sorry. I had the quote wrong. From http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/07/08/vic-toews-resigns_n_3561532.html:
They've been trying to pass such legislation for almost seven years. Remember a certain MP claiming that if you opposed that legislation, you were "with the paedophiles?"
*LOL* The whole damned article is redundant!
That's a joke. They should have been fined at least as much as the backwages were.
Powerful people associate with powerful people, including the government. Don't trust them.
*yawn*
Look. Claiming you need 10 times the speed of anyone else to accomplish anything on the internet is not sane. Period.
Buttheads like you just can't grasp the difference between "need" and "want", and nor can the author of the original article.
I can just picture you whining that you need a Lambourghini to drive to work...
Sweet!
I didn't say "imagine what you could do with it." I said what do you need to do that requires it.
Google fiber doesn't allow running servers as you describe.
Backing up data? Ever here of USB drives? Tape? Local media? You don't need to back up terabyte drives to the cloud -- there are plenty of viable, existing options for backups.
If you're going to share videos with families and friends, get a Dropbox account or something like that, upload the video, and use the cloud to serve up the data. Just how often are you creating hour long cat videos, anyhow?
People nowadays have a very entitled view as to what they "need".
As I said: spoiled. You never dealt with dial-up and resumable downloads that would take a week or more to complete. Everything for you has to be now, now, now, and instantaneously.
OMG! My game update will take 23 hours! I can't live without playing my game for a day!
Pathetic.
And even so, I already have more bandwidth than the last company I worked for had for all the users and customers of their systems, so I could have saturated the corporate link by myself if I were abusing it.
If I were downloading and uploading multi gigabyte images to my home system for any company I've ever worked at, I'd be fired for stealing "company secrets." You use a remote desktop, not do everything locally.
According to my calculations (and experience), your download would have taken about 23 hours, not "a week".
You may "need" a car, but you don't "need" a Porsche.
OMFG! I had to wait like FIFTEEN MINUTES for a movie to download on my link!
HowEVER will I survive!
Name ONE use case other than streaming multiple 4K video channels which REQUIRES anything more than the 6.5Mbit/s connection I already have. Sure if you're serving up a large family you might want to spring for a couple of 20Mbit connections or something, but "need" FTTH?
Hardly.
And just how, precisely, do you think a new terrorist cell springs up if not from someone going crazy over the ideology and following it regardless of whether there is already a local cell or not?
Would you consider the Westboro Baptist parishioners "typical" Christians?
How about the savage butchers of the Crusades?
Of course he was "disturbed". That's the very definition of a "radical" -- someone who takes an ideology to an insane degree. All of the terrorists from ISIL to Boko Harum and around the world are insane. Every single one of them.
But the problem is not Islam. The problem is the crazies. I've read the Koran -- and it, like the Bible, is mostly a document of peace and tolerance. The problem is that the radicals are claiming to be following a "religious ideology" and the legitimate Imams around the world are not doing enough to quote the passages and phrases that condemn the actions of the radicals, leaving people to accept that what the radicals claim as "religious justification" is, indeed, valid when it is anything but.
Oh? And the gunman running around shooting up Parliament doesn't qualify as a terrorist attack? Or the gunman at the nearby mall?
Sure, only a soldier ended up dying, but that's only because the attackers were poor shots.