No we let stupid people vote, otherwise they would take all those who registered as democrat off the voter roles. (take it easy just kidding, hopefully democrats can take a joke.)
Not being worried by either AI or aliens I would think that the biggest danger is Nukes. Anyone hear of Russia developing one that can wipe out texas with one bomb and sub launched nukes that cannot be intercepted by missile defense?
Also was there not some hysteria about GW or the sea levels rising etc.
Most people are probably more worried by inflation and the share market.
Computers do not have any ability to understand. any more than a basket caring 2 cans with another 2 cans added understands that it has 4 cans.
The computer and the basket have no consciousness or ability to understand. Being able to state 4 is the answer is different from understanding 4.
Some interesting facts about 4 can be stated by a computer it may have more information about the number 4 than a person but still it has zero understanding.
The 51% issue is not so plain from a motive point of view as lets say you are earning $100,000 / month normal mining and by using double spend you could earn 10 million. but once you have done that you destroy trust and kill the goose that lays the golden egg, also you will be committing a crime of stealing. Double spend is a very short sighted approach, once trust is lost in the miners then the network has no value. If you steal money you can go to jail and lose it all, if you earn money no fear.
But the concept of blockchain even though it is a buzz word I don't see a huge value in it. It depends on crowd sourcing and people not losing interest and turning it off. Also I cannot see the use cases where it is going to cause the investment. Perhaps I am not being imaginative. I mean it is really useful for pets just like a database except it consumes way more resources.
Let me make it explicit. Bitcoin value will get to zero.
any Object has 3 possible value attributes
1. Intrinsic value. Such as you have physical items that have value such as a ship is made of metal which has value.
2. Utility value. This is the value you can use it for so if you did not have it (say the ship) you would not be able to transport stuff from China to the US.
3. Sentiment. In the case of the ship this could be I love this ship because it was the first one in the company, made by x factory has the best shape, pleasing to the eye etc.
Now to value bitcoin
1. zero
2. near zero (sorry but I don't know anyone who is using bitcoin for any thing actually useful and don't say storing wealth as it is too volatile, perhaps gambling here?)
3. this is where 99.9% of the value of bitcoin is.
The reason you do not think bitcoin can go to zero is you have strong sentiment saying it is worth say $10k per coin. Here is the thing about sentiment it will change over time, those who lose a ton of money on bitcoin will hate it and create negative sentiment. Also imagine 100 years away a very futuristic setting. Are people using bitcoin? Does it exist? Now if they are not then we have to go through a transition from where we are now to there it is just a matter of ticks of the clock. Bitcoin will go the way of the morse key and the teletype machine, all but forgotten history.
To take issue with the subject at hand. This is a free speech issue but you still cannot slander. This I would put in the same category.
As to the rest of your comments, best ignored (enough political tainting of threads already.)
One charge per day lets say so 2 years is around 700 cycles. This is pretty good, but time to replace the battery if that means you have not enough charge to make it through 1 day.
What we do know.
1. The FBI let off Hillary.
2. They, not all of them but at the top, hate Trump (or maybe love Hillary so much that they hate what she hates.)
3. They did get a FISA warrant and bugged the campaign and the president.
Ok lets just leave out the dossier for now, we already have enough to be seriously worried.
Now also
4. They did use the dossier to get the warrant (in some measure)
5. They, Comey, said the dossier is salacious and unverified.
Is no Democrat caring yet.
I know these guys are playing for your side but when your team is cheating you should say I don't want to support cheaters. I mean I know the Republicans don't always do the right thing and sometimes they cheat that is bad I don't want it. If it were the other way and Hillary had won and then Trump was cheating you would care (I know you already believe that crap)
A couple of extra notes
1. Trump is doing good as president (for democrats voters he is doing good things, you don't have to agree everything (coal).)
2. There will be another election in the future don't panic, we watched the country get screwed by Obama can't you wait a little bit while Trump does some fixes.
3. Utilitarianism makes great movies but will send you to Jail. Politics is so full of it that it is crazy, it would be great to get a 1/2 dozen put in prison to stop some of this and actually get back to a rule of law. This is what leaking classified documents is, covering up email scandals not to mention other cover ups.
I suggest that what the Replicans want here is a special counsel to investigate all this crap, now who would be against that there is a stack of evidence of wrong doing and how much evidence does Muller have on Trump. Not even one thing leaked or released or anything.
Last note (4)
Trump does not care about saying the right thing at the right time, he just tells the truth as he sees it. This is what gets him in trouble every other day. He is not lying but often his idea of reality is he is the best President and has the most support etc. He is getting good at it, he will make the Dems look like idiots in their politics. The Dem media is just shouting as loudly as they can to try and drown out the facts here.
The LGBT will let you know that your gender is your choice. You do not have a significant birth Gender, I think there was a news artificial about some parents who decided not to put down the gender on the birth certificate until the child was old enough to decide.
Of course the old visual method for identifying if it is boy or girl bits and pieces is over ridden by this new and more advanced method that does not relate to fact or truth but to feelings etc. There was a time where someone who looked at the facts and stated something different was the case would be called delusional.
This looks like a GE product to me, some company that thought that super crawfish would be commercially useful. Also look at the source, from a pet store. It is not like this started in the wild.
too bad when the whole country is depending on your solar array and battery and you get a week of cloud cover.
Just some simple calcs to help. Solar costs about $175/sq meter. However due to scale lets say $100. So with a simple conversion of 2.6 million square meters per square mile the cost is 260 million/ square mile. Then times by 10,000 and we get $2.6 trillion for the solar panels. Now add the batteries so just say cost is doubled
$5 trillion. Also various infrastructure probably add 20% so now 6 trillion.
I am happy to get started next week just send the first trillion deposit to my account. No guarantee about cloud cover also we need free land as in no cost and we probably need to add another 10% for the approval process and at least 10 years delay. Just to set your mind at ease the batteries are guaranteed for 5 years and the panels for 10. expected life of the batteries is 10 years and panels 20 before total replacement.
Also Solar and wind are good companions but not so much mutually elusive.
For all the talk of wonderful batteries if you have Solar and no sun for a few days due to cloud cover then batteries are flat and you wish you had Nuke power. However it sometimes happens that there is wind when there is no Sun.
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No we let stupid people vote, otherwise they would take all those who registered as democrat off the voter roles. (take it easy just kidding, hopefully democrats can take a joke.)
Not being worried by either AI or aliens I would think that the biggest danger is Nukes. Anyone hear of Russia developing one that can wipe out texas with one bomb and sub launched nukes that cannot be intercepted by missile defense? Also was there not some hysteria about GW or the sea levels rising etc. Most people are probably more worried by inflation and the share market.
Computers do not have any ability to understand. any more than a basket caring 2 cans with another 2 cans added understands that it has 4 cans. The computer and the basket have no consciousness or ability to understand. Being able to state 4 is the answer is different from understanding 4. Some interesting facts about 4 can be stated by a computer it may have more information about the number 4 than a person but still it has zero understanding.
The 51% issue is not so plain from a motive point of view as lets say you are earning $100,000 / month normal mining and by using double spend you could earn 10 million. but once you have done that you destroy trust and kill the goose that lays the golden egg, also you will be committing a crime of stealing. Double spend is a very short sighted approach, once trust is lost in the miners then the network has no value. If you steal money you can go to jail and lose it all, if you earn money no fear. But the concept of blockchain even though it is a buzz word I don't see a huge value in it. It depends on crowd sourcing and people not losing interest and turning it off. Also I cannot see the use cases where it is going to cause the investment. Perhaps I am not being imaginative. I mean it is really useful for pets just like a database except it consumes way more resources.
Let me make it explicit. Bitcoin value will get to zero. any Object has 3 possible value attributes 1. Intrinsic value. Such as you have physical items that have value such as a ship is made of metal which has value. 2. Utility value. This is the value you can use it for so if you did not have it (say the ship) you would not be able to transport stuff from China to the US. 3. Sentiment. In the case of the ship this could be I love this ship because it was the first one in the company, made by x factory has the best shape, pleasing to the eye etc. Now to value bitcoin 1. zero 2. near zero (sorry but I don't know anyone who is using bitcoin for any thing actually useful and don't say storing wealth as it is too volatile, perhaps gambling here?) 3. this is where 99.9% of the value of bitcoin is. The reason you do not think bitcoin can go to zero is you have strong sentiment saying it is worth say $10k per coin. Here is the thing about sentiment it will change over time, those who lose a ton of money on bitcoin will hate it and create negative sentiment. Also imagine 100 years away a very futuristic setting. Are people using bitcoin? Does it exist? Now if they are not then we have to go through a transition from where we are now to there it is just a matter of ticks of the clock. Bitcoin will go the way of the morse key and the teletype machine, all but forgotten history.
To take issue with the subject at hand. This is a free speech issue but you still cannot slander. This I would put in the same category. As to the rest of your comments, best ignored (enough political tainting of threads already.)
One charge per day lets say so 2 years is around 700 cycles. This is pretty good, but time to replace the battery if that means you have not enough charge to make it through 1 day.
What we do know. 1. The FBI let off Hillary. 2. They, not all of them but at the top, hate Trump (or maybe love Hillary so much that they hate what she hates.) 3. They did get a FISA warrant and bugged the campaign and the president. Ok lets just leave out the dossier for now, we already have enough to be seriously worried. Now also 4. They did use the dossier to get the warrant (in some measure) 5. They, Comey, said the dossier is salacious and unverified. Is no Democrat caring yet. I know these guys are playing for your side but when your team is cheating you should say I don't want to support cheaters. I mean I know the Republicans don't always do the right thing and sometimes they cheat that is bad I don't want it. If it were the other way and Hillary had won and then Trump was cheating you would care (I know you already believe that crap) A couple of extra notes 1. Trump is doing good as president (for democrats voters he is doing good things, you don't have to agree everything (coal).) 2. There will be another election in the future don't panic, we watched the country get screwed by Obama can't you wait a little bit while Trump does some fixes. 3. Utilitarianism makes great movies but will send you to Jail. Politics is so full of it that it is crazy, it would be great to get a 1/2 dozen put in prison to stop some of this and actually get back to a rule of law. This is what leaking classified documents is, covering up email scandals not to mention other cover ups. I suggest that what the Replicans want here is a special counsel to investigate all this crap, now who would be against that there is a stack of evidence of wrong doing and how much evidence does Muller have on Trump. Not even one thing leaked or released or anything. Last note (4) Trump does not care about saying the right thing at the right time, he just tells the truth as he sees it. This is what gets him in trouble every other day. He is not lying but often his idea of reality is he is the best President and has the most support etc. He is getting good at it, he will make the Dems look like idiots in their politics. The Dem media is just shouting as loudly as they can to try and drown out the facts here.
The LGBT will let you know that your gender is your choice. You do not have a significant birth Gender, I think there was a news artificial about some parents who decided not to put down the gender on the birth certificate until the child was old enough to decide. Of course the old visual method for identifying if it is boy or girl bits and pieces is over ridden by this new and more advanced method that does not relate to fact or truth but to feelings etc. There was a time where someone who looked at the facts and stated something different was the case would be called delusional.
This looks like a GE product to me, some company that thought that super crawfish would be commercially useful. Also look at the source, from a pet store. It is not like this started in the wild.
too bad when the whole country is depending on your solar array and battery and you get a week of cloud cover. Just some simple calcs to help. Solar costs about $175/sq meter. However due to scale lets say $100. So with a simple conversion of 2.6 million square meters per square mile the cost is 260 million/ square mile. Then times by 10,000 and we get $2.6 trillion for the solar panels. Now add the batteries so just say cost is doubled $5 trillion. Also various infrastructure probably add 20% so now 6 trillion. I am happy to get started next week just send the first trillion deposit to my account. No guarantee about cloud cover also we need free land as in no cost and we probably need to add another 10% for the approval process and at least 10 years delay. Just to set your mind at ease the batteries are guaranteed for 5 years and the panels for 10. expected life of the batteries is 10 years and panels 20 before total replacement.
Also Solar and wind are good companions but not so much mutually elusive. For all the talk of wonderful batteries if you have Solar and no sun for a few days due to cloud cover then batteries are flat and you wish you had Nuke power. However it sometimes happens that there is wind when there is no Sun.