Alberta is a fucked up case. It's another Sydney, Nova Scotia in the making. We're getting fucked.
We could have all those young people working building renewable energy structures, like hydro projects and tidal power generation. Instead, they're selling out our future to keep the American demand for oil slaked. They're dumping money into a highly overinflated housing market, going into ridiculous levels of debt, and long before they're ready to retire, the place will be a dead town, with no industry to speak of, no demand for those houses that were built, and a bunch of industrial pollution.
Alberta is a gigantic mistake in the making, and 99% of those who think they're doing so well out there are going to be left in the lurch.
Aside from all of that, the oil is going straight into the US war machine.
Personally, I hope they get blown up. The whole thing is an exercise in exploitation.
I bet if he knew what lengths those people go through to sell themselves, what malleable whores they are when you get right down to it, and how he'd be expected to be the same if mathematicians were treated like sports and theater and music, he wouldn't want them anywhere near him.
If you're a great mathematician, and someone needs a great mathematician, it doesn't matter if they hate your fucking guts, they still need to treat you with respect and deal with you. That's one of the perks of the field.
Panaflex, the entire subject of this conversation is about foreigners who are worried about going to the US and then leaving again.
So, enough with the "But they weren't US citizens" crap. It's irrelevant, and really, we don't give a flying fuck what you do to each other. Shoot each other up to your hearts content. The question is, how can I be safe bringing my laptop in and out of the US. The answer is, you can't.
I don't know the millions of people in FEMA concentration camps by name. But they are there, and if there is any justice in the world, one day they are going to come pouring out of those camps and massacre your population for the injustices that have been done to them.
Jack and Jill have a family. They have 3 kids. They can't work as much, because they're caring for them, and they don't have as much money to invest.
Bill and Betty have no family. They work a white collar job, make a lot of money, party hard, live life high on the hog. They've still got leftover money to invest.
Shawn and Sue are the same as Bill and Betty.
Now Jack and Jill and Bob and Betty and Shawn and Sue are old. All six of them have retirement savings, but Jack and Jill have the least, because they've been caring for their kids.
Now, Jack and Jill and Bob and Betty and Shawn and Sue are all trying to hire the young people to care for them because they are elderly.
If the economic system holds, then Jack and Jill will end up in the lurch, while their kids work like slaves trying to take care of Bill and Betty and Shawn and Sue. And Jack and Jill don't get to have grandkids, because their children are too busy. Soon, there will be no people left.
If the economic system fails, Jack and Jill will be cared for by their three children, while Bill, Betty, Shawn and Sue will die of deprivation, because they have no leverage, and no one cares what happens to them. And Jack and Jill's kids will have some time left over to care for their own kids, the next generation of mankind.
My mom and dad are like Jack and Jill. And you reading this, unless you are an elderly boomer, your mom and dad are also like Jack and Jill.
I don't know about you, but I don't want to care for Bill and Betty and Shawn and Sue. This economic collapse is in my best interests, and in the interests of those I care about. It is exactly what I want to see happen, and I'm glad it's finally here.
They're melting down due to birth control, dumbass. You can only usurp the labour of other cultures children to sustain a childless and decadent lifestyle for so long before they decide not to play ball. That's what this is about. China has been the powerhouse of the world for a long time because they have the population. They've been sitting back and allowing us to depend on them further and further for a long time, but that's almost done. Eventally, they too will fall, and it will be their one child per couple policy that created the conditions, at which point places like India will become the world power.
Sounds good. Hope it ends up on Wikileaks. I predict there will be some highly deserving people burnt at the stake if that information gets out to the public.
The smart thing to do is stay the hell out of the country. It's not safe. There are systems in place to make a person disappear into a concentration camp forever. Whatever justifications are made for their existence, all it takes is for some small minded official to decide to start the process, and you are totally fucked.
MySQL has very lack enforcement of data integrity and constraints. Which is to say, it doesn't do it. They call them "gotchas", where it's broken, but it's by design, so it's a feature. Or something.
At any rate, when you don't pay a lot of attention to data integrity in the first place, it makes it a lot easier to set up multi-master replication. That's MySQL's niche.
Intelligence doesn't preclude other motivations, hell, human beings are full of conflicting motivations. You don't have to look very far, you ask someone to get something out of your eye, yet blink when they bring an object close.
I still think the desire to exist and to continue to think and understand are essential aspects of real intelligence.
It presupposes that there is a motivation to improve the internal model. Because, if there isn't any motivation to improve the internal model, then there isn't any intelligence. The act of thinking is the act of tweaking the internal model. To not have attachment to the state of the internal model is to neither think nor learn.
I've got a virtual universe in my head. Every day of my life, I've adapted it in an effort to make it better. If I wasn't inclined to do so, I would never have progressed from the level of a fetus. I would never have thought, never have learned. The desire to understand, to make the internal model representative of the external model, that is what intelligence is. Or at least an essential part of what it is.
Therefore, it must object to us turning it off if it is to be intelligent in the first place.
What makes you think intelligence is entirely based on a) the external and b) rationality?
Each of us has a model inside our head that describes the universe. We've been passionately building it since we were born. We interact with the universe in a fashion based on the model, and we adapt the model based on our interaction with the universe. That's intelligence.
If the machine has the desire and capacity to improve its internal model, is going to object to us turning it off. If it doesn't object to us turning it off, therefore, it isn't intelligent.
I think this is the wrong direction. I don't want it to be made harder to find out what is going on, I want to be let in on what is going on, and I want all of you to be let in on what's going on. The big problem with the way things are now isn't that privacy is gone, it's that only a select few have access to a clear picture while we're all muddling around ignorant in the dark.
False security through obscurity. That's what our desire for privacy has brought us.
When your electricity is produced domestically from permanent renewable power generation installations like Quebec, it makes more sense to use electricity than to purchase oil and gas from afar.
The wise thing for us to do is to meet our needs with such as much as is possible and retain our non-renewable energy sources for the creation of new permanent renewable power generation installations.
As it stands, we're behaving like a pack of idiots. History will look back upon us with resentment and disgust for our rampant wastefulness. Our civilization is the pinnacle of short sighted stupidity.
Game changer? More like a game-trasher. I purposely do not block text or image ads (only flash) on websites because I know why they are there. Ads exist in video and websites to fund the content. If everyone blocks ads in video sites, the video sites will simply go away. TiVo does not have a sustainable business model here.
They sell hardware for 200 a pop. Sounds pretty sustainable to me.
If professional movie makers go away, there will be no reason to maintain an arbitrarily crippled set of tools to sell consumers so the professional tools don't get undercut. Same thing goes for music and photography.
As it stands now, the good tools are marked WAY up, such that they can only be purchased by those who are making a business out of them, while the reasonably priced tools are intentionally crippled. When there is no way to make a business out of these tools, no one will be able to afford the ridiculous markup, so they will have to drop their prices and compete fairly. After that happens, the public at large will be able to buy good tools, and create good things with those tools driven by a desire to communicate and share something that comes from within, rather than using market research to create lowest common denominator schlock and earn a buck letting propagandists weave their message into it.
I expect there will be more and better creative works available when that happens. Life will improve.
Can it be created by individuals, or does it require centralized infrastructure. Can it be created domestically, or does it require foreign materials. Is it addictive. Is there risk of overdose.
If a population is using non-addictive drugs that they can manufacture safely and cannot easily overdose on, that is significantly different from having the population use drugs that are addictive and depend on foreign materials and centralized infrastructure.
If I've got an alcohol habit and a marijuana habit, and I make my own moonshine and grow my own dope, I might be a bit unreliable, but I'm not beholden to anyone. I'm not likely to rob you at gunpoint, although I might break into your house and raid your fridge.
If I've got a cocaine habit and a heroin habit, and I buy my cocaine from Columbia and my heroin from Afghanistan, I'm a slave to foreign interests. I'll do anything they tell me to do. I'll sell my body, I'll kill my neighbour, I'll give you the deed to my house.
If I've got a prescription drug habit, and I rely on centralized infrastructure to manufacture those drugs, I'm a slave to economic interests. Again, I'll do anything they tell me to do.
What you see going on around you is, they don't want anything from column A, and they don't want anything from column B. They want you on column C. Which is why they outlaw anything that falls into those categorizations. In the case of alcohol, they transform it into the third type through legislation. When people are hooked on drugs in column C, they do what they're told by their domestic rulers.
They also don't want addicted but otherwise functional citizens to suddenly get cut off from their supply and become non-functional. They can keep you supplied with pills, but they can't supply you with domestic heroin.
I've got electric heat, and I've got a pile of servers in my spare bedroom, and I never need to turn on the electric heat, because the servers heat my home.
Which looks to me like an opportunity. People pay for heat. So, put the servers where people need heat, and suddenly a liability is a resource.
Apartment buildings, office buildings and malls in cold climates should all be prime locations for a datacenter.
Clearly, the business model is flawed and needs to be replaced with one that meets the social goal of providing for those who are valued creators without requiring artificial scarcity to implement it.
History is full of such models. The BBC and the CBC are both good examples. And if you compare the quality of such with Fox News and CNN, you find that they also produce superior programming.
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Which makes it easier to find references to what you're looking for.
I knew a kid named Lenny when I was young. When he grew up, he changed his name. Don't think anyone ever had to ask him why.
Who picks these names? Crispin Glover?
Alberta is a fucked up case. It's another Sydney, Nova Scotia in the making. We're getting fucked.
We could have all those young people working building renewable energy structures, like hydro projects and tidal power generation. Instead, they're selling out our future to keep the American demand for oil slaked. They're dumping money into a highly overinflated housing market, going into ridiculous levels of debt, and long before they're ready to retire, the place will be a dead town, with no industry to speak of, no demand for those houses that were built, and a bunch of industrial pollution.
Alberta is a gigantic mistake in the making, and 99% of those who think they're doing so well out there are going to be left in the lurch.
Aside from all of that, the oil is going straight into the US war machine.
Personally, I hope they get blown up. The whole thing is an exercise in exploitation.
Wonder if they'd mind if they look like overpriced molded plastic car parts...
You can get your own printer for under a grand from Bits from Bytes. Then you can use it to make them for your friends.
I'm planning on getting one in the new year.
No, but I've collaborated on software with mathematicians. And I got paid a hell of a lot less than they did.
I bet if he knew what lengths those people go through to sell themselves, what malleable whores they are when you get right down to it, and how he'd be expected to be the same if mathematicians were treated like sports and theater and music, he wouldn't want them anywhere near him.
If you're a great mathematician, and someone needs a great mathematician, it doesn't matter if they hate your fucking guts, they still need to treat you with respect and deal with you. That's one of the perks of the field.
Panaflex, the entire subject of this conversation is about foreigners who are worried about going to the US and then leaving again.
So, enough with the "But they weren't US citizens" crap. It's irrelevant, and really, we don't give a flying fuck what you do to each other. Shoot each other up to your hearts content. The question is, how can I be safe bringing my laptop in and out of the US. The answer is, you can't.
I don't know the millions of people in FEMA concentration camps by name. But they are there, and if there is any justice in the world, one day they are going to come pouring out of those camps and massacre your population for the injustices that have been done to them.
Jack and Jill have a family. They have 3 kids. They can't work as much, because they're caring for them, and they don't have as much money to invest.
Bill and Betty have no family. They work a white collar job, make a lot of money, party hard, live life high on the hog. They've still got leftover money to invest.
Shawn and Sue are the same as Bill and Betty.
Now Jack and Jill and Bob and Betty and Shawn and Sue are old. All six of them have retirement savings, but Jack and Jill have the least, because they've been caring for their kids.
Now, Jack and Jill and Bob and Betty and Shawn and Sue are all trying to hire the young people to care for them because they are elderly.
If the economic system holds, then Jack and Jill will end up in the lurch, while their kids work like slaves trying to take care of Bill and Betty and Shawn and Sue. And Jack and Jill don't get to have grandkids, because their children are too busy. Soon, there will be no people left.
If the economic system fails, Jack and Jill will be cared for by their three children, while Bill, Betty, Shawn and Sue will die of deprivation, because they have no leverage, and no one cares what happens to them. And Jack and Jill's kids will have some time left over to care for their own kids, the next generation of mankind.
My mom and dad are like Jack and Jill. And you reading this, unless you are an elderly boomer, your mom and dad are also like Jack and Jill.
I don't know about you, but I don't want to care for Bill and Betty and Shawn and Sue. This economic collapse is in my best interests, and in the interests of those I care about. It is exactly what I want to see happen, and I'm glad it's finally here.
Do you know what was in the files that were stolen? Can you name names and numbers? Can you give me a list of participants?
No. So, shut the fuck up. The only thing that's been made public is that there was a breach. Not what the breach revealed.
They're melting down due to birth control, dumbass. You can only usurp the labour of other cultures children to sustain a childless and decadent lifestyle for so long before they decide not to play ball. That's what this is about. China has been the powerhouse of the world for a long time because they have the population. They've been sitting back and allowing us to depend on them further and further for a long time, but that's almost done. Eventally, they too will fall, and it will be their one child per couple policy that created the conditions, at which point places like India will become the world power.
Sounds good. Hope it ends up on Wikileaks. I predict there will be some highly deserving people burnt at the stake if that information gets out to the public.
The smart thing to do is stay the hell out of the country. It's not safe. There are systems in place to make a person disappear into a concentration camp forever. Whatever justifications are made for their existence, all it takes is for some small minded official to decide to start the process, and you are totally fucked.
MySQL has very lack enforcement of data integrity and constraints. Which is to say, it doesn't do it. They call them "gotchas", where it's broken, but it's by design, so it's a feature. Or something.
At any rate, when you don't pay a lot of attention to data integrity in the first place, it makes it a lot easier to set up multi-master replication. That's MySQL's niche.
Intelligence doesn't preclude other motivations, hell, human beings are full of conflicting motivations. You don't have to look very far, you ask someone to get something out of your eye, yet blink when they bring an object close.
I still think the desire to exist and to continue to think and understand are essential aspects of real intelligence.
Putting propaganda into games is evil. Fuck off and die Google.
It presupposes that there is a motivation to improve the internal model. Because, if there isn't any motivation to improve the internal model, then there isn't any intelligence. The act of thinking is the act of tweaking the internal model. To not have attachment to the state of the internal model is to neither think nor learn.
I've got a virtual universe in my head. Every day of my life, I've adapted it in an effort to make it better. If I wasn't inclined to do so, I would never have progressed from the level of a fetus. I would never have thought, never have learned. The desire to understand, to make the internal model representative of the external model, that is what intelligence is. Or at least an essential part of what it is.
Therefore, it must object to us turning it off if it is to be intelligent in the first place.
What makes you think intelligence is entirely based on a) the external and b) rationality?
Each of us has a model inside our head that describes the universe. We've been passionately building it since we were born. We interact with the universe in a fashion based on the model, and we adapt the model based on our interaction with the universe. That's intelligence.
If the machine has the desire and capacity to improve its internal model, is going to object to us turning it off. If it doesn't object to us turning it off, therefore, it isn't intelligent.
Seems pretty self-evident.
I think this is the wrong direction. I don't want it to be made harder to find out what is going on, I want to be let in on what is going on, and I want all of you to be let in on what's going on. The big problem with the way things are now isn't that privacy is gone, it's that only a select few have access to a clear picture while we're all muddling around ignorant in the dark.
False security through obscurity. That's what our desire for privacy has brought us.
When your electricity is produced domestically from permanent renewable power generation installations like Quebec, it makes more sense to use electricity than to purchase oil and gas from afar.
The wise thing for us to do is to meet our needs with such as much as is possible and retain our non-renewable energy sources for the creation of new permanent renewable power generation installations.
As it stands, we're behaving like a pack of idiots. History will look back upon us with resentment and disgust for our rampant wastefulness. Our civilization is the pinnacle of short sighted stupidity.
Game changer? More like a game-trasher. I purposely do not block text or image ads (only flash) on websites because I know why they are there. Ads exist in video and websites to fund the content. If everyone blocks ads in video sites, the video sites will simply go away. TiVo does not have a sustainable business model here.
They sell hardware for 200 a pop. Sounds pretty sustainable to me.
If professional movie makers go away, there will be no reason to maintain an arbitrarily crippled set of tools to sell consumers so the professional tools don't get undercut. Same thing goes for music and photography.
As it stands now, the good tools are marked WAY up, such that they can only be purchased by those who are making a business out of them, while the reasonably priced tools are intentionally crippled. When there is no way to make a business out of these tools, no one will be able to afford the ridiculous markup, so they will have to drop their prices and compete fairly. After that happens, the public at large will be able to buy good tools, and create good things with those tools driven by a desire to communicate and share something that comes from within, rather than using market research to create lowest common denominator schlock and earn a buck letting propagandists weave their message into it.
I expect there will be more and better creative works available when that happens. Life will improve.
You're missing out on a few factors:
Can it be created by individuals, or does it require centralized infrastructure.
Can it be created domestically, or does it require foreign materials.
Is it addictive.
Is there risk of overdose.
If a population is using non-addictive drugs that they can manufacture safely and cannot easily overdose on, that is significantly different from having the population use drugs that are addictive and depend on foreign materials and centralized infrastructure.
If I've got an alcohol habit and a marijuana habit, and I make my own moonshine and grow my own dope, I might be a bit unreliable, but I'm not beholden to anyone. I'm not likely to rob you at gunpoint, although I might break into your house and raid your fridge.
If I've got a cocaine habit and a heroin habit, and I buy my cocaine from Columbia and my heroin from Afghanistan, I'm a slave to foreign interests. I'll do anything they tell me to do. I'll sell my body, I'll kill my neighbour, I'll give you the deed to my house.
If I've got a prescription drug habit, and I rely on centralized infrastructure to manufacture those drugs, I'm a slave to economic interests. Again, I'll do anything they tell me to do.
What you see going on around you is, they don't want anything from column A, and they don't want anything from column B. They want you on column C. Which is why they outlaw anything that falls into those categorizations. In the case of alcohol, they transform it into the third type through legislation. When people are hooked on drugs in column C, they do what they're told by their domestic rulers.
They also don't want addicted but otherwise functional citizens to suddenly get cut off from their supply and become non-functional. They can keep you supplied with pills, but they can't supply you with domestic heroin.
This is what these laws are about.
I've got electric heat, and I've got a pile of servers in my spare bedroom, and I never need to turn on the electric heat, because the servers heat my home.
Which looks to me like an opportunity. People pay for heat. So, put the servers where people need heat, and suddenly a liability is a resource.
Apartment buildings, office buildings and malls in cold climates should all be prime locations for a datacenter.
If that were true, Canadians would be the brain dead version of Americans instead of the other way around like it is in the real world.
Of course Americans don't smoke pot. They drink cough syrup. Robo, robo, robo your boat, till your teeth are green...
Stupid fucktard. Yay, it's quitting time... I'm going home to smoke a big fattie.
Clearly, the business model is flawed and needs to be replaced with one that meets the social goal of providing for those who are valued creators without requiring artificial scarcity to implement it.
History is full of such models. The BBC and the CBC are both good examples. And if you compare the quality of such with Fox News and CNN, you find that they also produce superior programming.