The American bases were planted during an UNwanted occupation post-WWII. I am not sure that the Germans have entirely "accepted" the idea of foreign bases on their soil, even today. It may have been beneficial during the Cold War but post-1991, I don't see why they would want them anymore. I say that having been to at least one of those bases.
That said, Poland and Hungary asked for what they got.
Excusing Hillary or Obama or GWB or Clinton I's behavior in any way is reprehensible. Clinton didn't have to launch missiles at an aspirin factory, GWB didn't have to invade Iraq, there was no clear and present danger, and Obama didn't have to launch missiles into Yemen a few days ago (same same).
Clinton is another in a long line of murdering scumbags who play fast and loose with both American and foreign lives. If someone could elucidate why we have a national interest in these places sufficient to get our sons and daughters killed, then i'd be on board, but no one can. These wars are pointless dick waving attempts to retain hegemony and deflect domestic criticism.
So yes, I don't want any of the internationalists at all. I want a nice stolid isolationist.
Let's start with Benghazi - 4 dead. Libya in general: 114 civilians killed and 445 wounded during Odyssey Dawn. Iraq War: (voted for, supported) 4,424 US dead, 30k+ US wounded. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and other casualties Afghanistan War: (same, same) 2,386 US dead, 20k+ US wounded. Hundreds of thousands of Afghan and other casualties.
After that, we can talk about the dozens of US dead after involvement in her scandals. Vince Foster, et al.
I do have a kind of dirty avuncular thing going on. I think in general I just get bored of their shit, though.
Sex is an attention getting scheme for many women, and when it stops working they lose interest. It stops working because when the hormones get satisfied, I have geekery to pay attention to. Far more interesting than most women.
"My candidate is a criminal on multiple levels and is getting exposed. Anyone who doesn't agree with me that electing that criminal is more important than the rule of law needs to be shut up."
He doesn't understand the limitations of technology. Unless quantum computing becomes mainstream, it's unlikely we'll have the processing power necessary to realize anything that we would recognize as AI (say, passing an unseeded Turing test with an arbitrary respondent).
It's been 35 years that I have been watching this and nothing better than an optimized Eliza has been demonstrated.
OK, agreed, but the operating income measure is far more predictive of profit, as it accounts for expenditures. My point being that maybe Azure is doing more now, but it must be costing more money too, otherwise why the dip in operating income?
Why does anyone care about revenue? I look at the operating income and both in cloud and in general, Microsoft is making considerably (several hundreds of millions) less this year on its services than the year before.
You aren't tracking why it caught on. I obviously have more familiarity with the situation in the mid-1990s than you do. There were ample commercial alternatives to the internet which died on the vine precisely on the issue of corporate control and cost. If the government had attempted to closely control the network post-1994, none of this would have happened.
The whole goddamned point was an online network not controlled by a big telco or the government. And here we are - controlled by monopolistic entities and/or governments. I'm so relieved it isn't a big national telecom monopoly (not).
Through the combined efforts of criminal activity, rogue states and a failure to just fragment the network, large monopolistic entities now control communications in a way they hadn't since the advent of public internet access. You can't run your own servers, at least if you don't want to play whack-a-mole with constant threats, paramount being the DDoS that you have no power to resist yourself. The common protocols have been one by one exposed to be insecure. The price of sufficent infrastructure to provide an emulation of those protocols has risen to the point that individuals can't afford it. If you still are, you just haven't been attacked vigorously enough yet, or you're already compromised and don't know it.
The problem is the money. None of this would be happening if it weren't possible to steal money or commit fraud over the network.
Disconnecting entirely sounds better and better every day. It's just going to get worse.
The rights holders are the problem and will never allow this.
The fragmentation of media into smaller entities is a good thing and while the complexity goes up, the result is a buffet of entertainment for any mildly skilled geek due to the broken technologies that resulted from this lack of coordination. Apple can talk and talk about fixing the brokenness but nothing is going to happen. Mainly because no one can figure out how to make money off of it except Apple.
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The American bases were planted during an UNwanted occupation post-WWII. I am not sure that the Germans have entirely "accepted" the idea of foreign bases on their soil, even today. It may have been beneficial during the Cold War but post-1991, I don't see why they would want them anymore. I say that having been to at least one of those bases.
That said, Poland and Hungary asked for what they got.
Identifying yourself was very convenient, thank you.
Watched this as a kid. Now it's closer to true than ever.
Excusing Hillary or Obama or GWB or Clinton I's behavior in any way is reprehensible. Clinton didn't have to launch missiles at an aspirin factory, GWB didn't have to invade Iraq, there was no clear and present danger, and Obama didn't have to launch missiles into Yemen a few days ago (same same).
Clinton is another in a long line of murdering scumbags who play fast and loose with both American and foreign lives. If someone could elucidate why we have a national interest in these places sufficient to get our sons and daughters killed, then i'd be on board, but no one can. These wars are pointless dick waving attempts to retain hegemony and deflect domestic criticism.
So yes, I don't want any of the internationalists at all. I want a nice stolid isolationist.
Let's start with Benghazi - 4 dead. Libya in general: 114 civilians killed and 445 wounded during Odyssey Dawn.
Iraq War: (voted for, supported) 4,424 US dead, 30k+ US wounded. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and other casualties
Afghanistan War: (same, same) 2,386 US dead, 20k+ US wounded. Hundreds of thousands of Afghan and other casualties.
After that, we can talk about the dozens of US dead after involvement in her scandals. Vince Foster, et al.
I do have a kind of dirty avuncular thing going on. I think in general I just get bored of their shit, though.
Sex is an attention getting scheme for many women, and when it stops working they lose interest. It stops working because when the hormones get satisfied, I have geekery to pay attention to. Far more interesting than most women.
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Tell that to some of my exes about sex...they got worse with time.
Her 30 years of "public service" were at least useful to science.
That's idiotic. Google made money early and often. 5 years in, it was profitable.
Twitter has lost money every quarter of the 10 years it has existed and has no hope of ever reaching even break even status. Literally no revenue.
should be firing all their employees and going bankrupt.
You can wait for the cops and they can find your corpse. I'll still be alive, thanks.
"My candidate is a criminal on multiple levels and is getting exposed. Anyone who doesn't agree with me that electing that criminal is more important than the rule of law needs to be shut up."
There, translated that for you.
That isn't AI and you should know it. It's a dressed up tree search algorithm. It has no pretense to sentience.
I grant your point. If we are looking for economic impact, we probably have enough "AI" already.
I am interested (and I imagine a lot of others) in an AI that actually has learning capabilities on par with a human being. Or even a dog.
Best give them a host to get started on.
There was a time I thought myself invincible. Then you learn that everything has limits.
He doesn't understand the limitations of technology. Unless quantum computing becomes mainstream, it's unlikely we'll have the processing power necessary to realize anything that we would recognize as AI (say, passing an unseeded Turing test with an arbitrary respondent).
It's been 35 years that I have been watching this and nothing better than an optimized Eliza has been demonstrated.
All of the long term wealthy people I know are in safe investments - mostly dividend paying stock issues and real estate.
Gamblers play for growth because they have nothing really to lose.
His administration was small potatoe.
OK, agreed, but the operating income measure is far more predictive of profit, as it accounts for expenditures. My point being that maybe Azure is doing more now, but it must be costing more money too, otherwise why the dip in operating income?
Why does anyone care about revenue? I look at the operating income and both in cloud and in general, Microsoft is making considerably (several hundreds of millions) less this year on its services than the year before.
You aren't tracking why it caught on. I obviously have more familiarity with the situation in the mid-1990s than you do. There were ample commercial alternatives to the internet which died on the vine precisely on the issue of corporate control and cost. If the government had attempted to closely control the network post-1994, none of this would have happened.
The whole goddamned point was an online network not controlled by a big telco or the government. And here we are - controlled by monopolistic entities and/or governments. I'm so relieved it isn't a big national telecom monopoly (not).
Through the combined efforts of criminal activity, rogue states and a failure to just fragment the network, large monopolistic entities now control communications in a way they hadn't since the advent of public internet access. You can't run your own servers, at least if you don't want to play whack-a-mole with constant threats, paramount being the DDoS that you have no power to resist yourself. The common protocols have been one by one exposed to be insecure. The price of sufficent infrastructure to provide an emulation of those protocols has risen to the point that individuals can't afford it. If you still are, you just haven't been attacked vigorously enough yet, or you're already compromised and don't know it.
The problem is the money. None of this would be happening if it weren't possible to steal money or commit fraud over the network.
Disconnecting entirely sounds better and better every day. It's just going to get worse.
The rights holders are the problem and will never allow this.
The fragmentation of media into smaller entities is a good thing and while the complexity goes up, the result is a buffet of entertainment for any mildly skilled geek due to the broken technologies that resulted from this lack of coordination. Apple can talk and talk about fixing the brokenness but nothing is going to happen. Mainly because no one can figure out how to make money off of it except Apple.
It's not a casino, no one is wearing pocketless clothes.