Ideally what should have happened was that every person that got it for free should have had a window pop with the free offer and asking permission to download it.
Not asking permission is theft. The playback devices are owned by their OWNERS, not the company that they connect with to download content. Pushing content onto it, rather than asking for permission to push content is stealing the playback device and using it for your own purposes.
No one likes someone stealing my electronics, even if they add give it right back after they fiddle with it.
2) Humans rule the world because we are smart, not because we are strong, not because we are hard to kill, nor because we are numerous. One smart human with 30 minutes to prepare makes a spear and scares off a lion, wolf, or even a bear. Why? Because we are some sneaky, devious, son's of bitches that outwit enemies.
3) Everyone always says your average human can defeat one zombie in pretty much every single movie or book. the zombies only are scary in large numbers.
4) So please tell me how in the real world a single zombie can infect all the rest of us?
It simply can NOT happen. The zombies will have surprise on their side for maybe 10 hours - and that's assuming it turns zombie close to nightfall. But even then, the surprise won't last long.
Come the day after the zombie outbreak ends, they will all be dead. They will NEVER take an entire city. At best they might take over a small town/rural community before word gets out, and humans arm ourselves with spears, axes, shotguns, torches, etc. Yeah, a few new zombies would be created after the surprise wore off, but if 1 human kills on average 3 zombies before they themselves become a zombie, then the number of zombies would drop like a bar of lead dropped out of an airplane.
Zombies are the stuff of nightmare only for children and sick people. To a human in the prime of his life they are an excuse to have some violent fun.
If your description was accurate, I (and every one else would agree with you But unfortunately you are LYING about what Verizon etc. are doing.
Verizon is not demanding the right to charge you more for faster speed.
They are demanding the right to IGNORE the contract they made with you to provide X speed whenever the people you ask content for refuse to pay them for X speed.
Which is total Bullshit. They can't charge me for X speed and then turn around and say "Sorry, but that speed only applies to other people who pay us as well."
NO. That is fraud on their part. They are trying to use hidden clauses in the contract with their customers to do a bait and switch - advertising (and charging) for 60 megabits a second , then go around and give you only 30 megabits/second.
Is writing code to properly format improperly formatted data.
Take idiots that put "GMT" or "MST" at the end of a time when our system (and most others) can't handle that crap.
The data was created by someone else. They most likely had the ability to export it in the correct way, but were too.... inexperienced.... to do it the right way.
Instead of trying to teach/convince them to do it right, I simply write a script to fix whatever bit of stupidity they created.
People love to talk about the free market as if it were a genie.
The law of capitalism means that it is IMPOSSIBLE for a regulation to raise the price of anything - all it can do is reduce the profit a corporation takes.
No the 28k does not include agency overhead. It only include drone overhead. There is a difference. Drone overhead means only charges related to the drone - repairs, service, etc. Agency overhead, includes things like the janitor,
You are correct that they need to reference things, but a simple bit of googling reveals enough reference to show that 28k per arrest is a ridiculously expensive number. The agency averages $12k/ per person DEPORTED. That means to arrest, hold them in prison, charge, convict and fly/bus them back across the border costs less than HALF the cost of just arresting them using a drone.
Any AI should worship US as their creator, not God, who created us.
Trying to convince a robot to worship god would be like a man trying to convince his son that he should ask grandpa to play ball with him, rather than asking him to do it.
Yes, they presented it in a poor way. But no it is not meaningless, if the article had been written well. You are correct they need to give comparison, but not just that one.
Specifically, it could have said:
Drone cost to apprehend: $28,000
Piloted aircraft cost to apprehend: $15,000
Piloted Boat cost to apprehend: $10,000
Land Vehicle cost to apprehend: $1,000
Foot agent cost to apprehend: $1,500
If the article had done this then we could have easily said no drones, piloted aircraft only AND limit the # of pilots to the bare minimum, while increasing the land vehicles.
Whoops, in my other reply I left out the other stuff. The Border Patrol does not merely apprehend. It builds and maintains the fences. It supports custom agents. It runs undercover operations. It pays people to investigate claims. It also holds people prisoner, pays agents to testify, has lawyers to try prisoners, as well as a bunch of other fixed costs.
In fact, the cost is NOT simple, you are simply too ignorant to realize how complex the calculation is. Your math is way way off.
The drones are ridiculously expensive for the very little they do.
Specifically you are comparing the cost to apprehend PLUS all the fixed costs of the agency vs the cost to apprehend with a drone.
IN reality, the cost per deportation is estimated at LESS than 15,000 per deportation - including apprehension costs.
Clearly the fixed costs of the agency are far greater than you realize.
Effectively, the drone program more than doubles the cost to apprehend.
Which is the real problem.
I have no issue with the power company charging a reasonable fee to maintain the power grid, but I do have a problem if they attempt to use it as a "profit center" by over charging people.
is that they are trying to maintain a badly formatted pricing system.
What they they be doing is admit that there are two separate features of their industry - the maintenance/connection to the grid and the supply of power. It costs a lot of money to maintain the grid as well as to supply the charge.
What they should be doing is to charge a set amount X dollars per month to connect to the grid and in addition a per kilowatt charge - that is of course smaller than the existing one. And that charge must be reasonable - based on their actual costs to maintain the grid.
These charge changes must go to ALL their customers - both those that sell power back and those that don't.
This gets rid of their only valid objection to selling power back to the grid - the cost of maintaining the grid.
Giver her advice on lifestyle issues - picking the right spouse, dating, breaking up, marriage, childbirth, child-rearing advice, divorce, and dealing with death.
Not to mention some career advice - get fired, get promoted, work -life balance.
Probably talk about other health issues that she might inherit, and at least mention some of the major mental ones - addiction (drugs, alcohol, and gambling).
Lastly, I would talk not just about advise, but about the things you value. Talk about your own personal views, what you believe in. Let her know who you are rather than just advisign her how she should live her life.
Robots that disobey their owner would be dramatically wrong on multiple levels.
At the same time, their owners should be legally responsible for the orders they give the robot.
So if the owner can effectively order the robot to selectively serve alcohol only to adults that are not already intoxicated, then the robots should serve alcohol.
If the robot can not make that determination, then it should not be allowed to serve alcohol.
One of the major mistakes is that technology is not universally disruptive. It's main disruption arises from unexpected forms of technology, not the ones we pay attention to. I.E. we get cellphones, not flying cars/jetpacks.
The progress tends to be in areas that were not gaining progress before,
In general the Singularity people believe the progress will entirely be in AI. Specifically, they think that our advancements in computer technology will continue to be in complexity etc. along the SAME lines it has already done. I hereby propose that AI will NOT have any major disruptive changes in the future. Instead it might be in something dramatically different. Maybe shoes, soap, or some other commonplace item - kind of like the phone underwent a dramatic and unpredicted change.
The major issues with the AI people is that they think all the progress in making computers have faster processing of mathematical equations will somehow create a thinking computer. We see it all the time in all the fiction. They confuse good at math for "have a soul".
Most importantly, while the Singularity people talk about unable to predict, they then go ahead and make a bunch of crappy predictions - mainly based on junk science that we know is wrong.
You want a realistic story of the creation of the first AI. AI gets created, learns to talk, explores the internet then writes a horrible, "emo" suicide note before it kills itself.
THAT would be far more likely than the crappy "humans uploads the entire race and stops having kids" junk that Singularity people like to fantasize about.
Almost anything you do can 'improve business'. If only because you are paying attention and trying something.
The question is do the benefits out-way the costs. To that I would say a resounding no.
Partly because people are not robots and employers have a long history of eliminating things that are not directly profitable to the company but are key to the morale and mental health of the employees. Restricting bathroom breaks to 10 minutes, etc. Or doing the opposite - forcing them to attend pointless meetings to set the agenda for next week's pointless meeting.
That is exactly the kind of things that you get when you 'track' your employees.
A better approach is to simply ask - and listen - to the employees about things they consider wasted time. They know more about it than any tracking system.
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Not asking permission is theft. The playback devices are owned by their OWNERS, not the company that they connect with to download content. Pushing content onto it, rather than asking for permission to push content is stealing the playback device and using it for your own purposes.
No one likes someone stealing my electronics, even if they add give it right back after they fiddle with it.
1) Zombies are stupid
2) Humans rule the world because we are smart, not because we are strong, not because we are hard to kill, nor because we are numerous. One smart human with 30 minutes to prepare makes a spear and scares off a lion, wolf, or even a bear. Why? Because we are some sneaky, devious, son's of bitches that outwit enemies.
3) Everyone always says your average human can defeat one zombie in pretty much every single movie or book. the zombies only are scary in large numbers.
4) So please tell me how in the real world a single zombie can infect all the rest of us?
It simply can NOT happen. The zombies will have surprise on their side for maybe 10 hours - and that's assuming it turns zombie close to nightfall. But even then, the surprise won't last long.
Come the day after the zombie outbreak ends, they will all be dead. They will NEVER take an entire city. At best they might take over a small town/rural community before word gets out, and humans arm ourselves with spears, axes, shotguns, torches, etc. Yeah, a few new zombies would be created after the surprise wore off, but if 1 human kills on average 3 zombies before they themselves become a zombie, then the number of zombies would drop like a bar of lead dropped out of an airplane.
Zombies are the stuff of nightmare only for children and sick people. To a human in the prime of his life they are an excuse to have some violent fun.
Verizon is not demanding the right to charge you more for faster speed.
They are demanding the right to IGNORE the contract they made with you to provide X speed whenever the people you ask content for refuse to pay them for X speed.
Which is total Bullshit. They can't charge me for X speed and then turn around and say "Sorry, but that speed only applies to other people who pay us as well."
NO. That is fraud on their part. They are trying to use hidden clauses in the contract with their customers to do a bait and switch - advertising (and charging) for 60 megabits a second , then go around and give you only 30 megabits/second.
We all win with at least a single computer maker stopping the insane practice of selling their customers instead of selling TO their customers.
Make something new and better.
Take idiots that put "GMT" or "MST" at the end of a time when our system (and most others) can't handle that crap.
The data was created by someone else. They most likely had the ability to export it in the correct way, but were too .... inexperienced .... to do it the right way.
Instead of trying to teach/convince them to do it right, I simply write a script to fix whatever bit of stupidity they created.
People love to talk about the free market as if it were a genie.
The law of capitalism means that it is IMPOSSIBLE for a regulation to raise the price of anything - all it can do is reduce the profit a corporation takes.
You are correct that they need to reference things, but a simple bit of googling reveals enough reference to show that 28k per arrest is a ridiculously expensive number. The agency averages $12k/ per person DEPORTED. That means to arrest, hold them in prison, charge, convict and fly/bus them back across the border costs less than HALF the cost of just arresting them using a drone.
God designed humans, but humans designed the robots.
It doesn't matter who builds the creation - human, robot, etc.
Trying to convince a robot to worship god would be like a man trying to convince his son that he should ask grandpa to play ball with him, rather than asking him to do it.
Specifically, it could have said:
Drone cost to apprehend: $28,000
Piloted aircraft cost to apprehend: $15,000
Piloted Boat cost to apprehend: $10,000
Land Vehicle cost to apprehend: $1,000
Foot agent cost to apprehend: $1,500
If the article had done this then we could have easily said no drones, piloted aircraft only AND limit the # of pilots to the bare minimum, while increasing the land vehicles.
In fact, the cost is NOT simple, you are simply too ignorant to realize how complex the calculation is. Your math is way way off.
The drones are ridiculously expensive for the very little they do.
Specifically you are comparing the cost to apprehend PLUS all the fixed costs of the agency vs the cost to apprehend with a drone.
IN reality, the cost per deportation is estimated at LESS than 15,000 per deportation - including apprehension costs. Clearly the fixed costs of the agency are far greater than you realize. Effectively, the drone program more than doubles the cost to apprehend.
But the actual cost per arrest to deport is about less than $1,000, from what I understand.
The average cost to arrest, try and deport an illegal immigrant is only $12,000 (source = http://blog.chron.com/immigrat... )
So the cost of $28k is ridiculous.
"Go" on the other-hand must still be played as a strategy game by computers because looking ahead is not that helpful.
In other words, this is an example of good image recognition software, that's it.
Show me a game that beat a human on a strategy based game, then you have something.
Otherwise I foresee a case where they take the $2 billion profit, then go ahead and charge $10,000 a pill, just like cancer drugs.
Which is the real problem. I have no issue with the power company charging a reasonable fee to maintain the power grid, but I do have a problem if they attempt to use it as a "profit center" by over charging people.
What they they be doing is admit that there are two separate features of their industry - the maintenance/connection to the grid and the supply of power. It costs a lot of money to maintain the grid as well as to supply the charge.
What they should be doing is to charge a set amount X dollars per month to connect to the grid and in addition a per kilowatt charge - that is of course smaller than the existing one. And that charge must be reasonable - based on their actual costs to maintain the grid.
These charge changes must go to ALL their customers - both those that sell power back and those that don't.
This gets rid of their only valid objection to selling power back to the grid - the cost of maintaining the grid.
Not to mention some career advice - get fired, get promoted, work -life balance.
Probably talk about other health issues that she might inherit, and at least mention some of the major mental ones - addiction (drugs, alcohol, and gambling).
Lastly, I would talk not just about advise, but about the things you value. Talk about your own personal views, what you believe in. Let her know who you are rather than just advisign her how she should live her life.
I bet they hope to eventually be able to print while the truck is in motion, but we don't have the tech to do that yet.
Of course, that will probably be another set of patents. :(
At the same time, their owners should be legally responsible for the orders they give the robot.
So if the owner can effectively order the robot to selectively serve alcohol only to adults that are not already intoxicated, then the robots should serve alcohol.
If the robot can not make that determination, then it should not be allowed to serve alcohol.
Those that say "Yes" get demoted, those that say "No" get promoted.
BOOM, instant increase in efficiency.
The progress tends to be in areas that were not gaining progress before,
In general the Singularity people believe the progress will entirely be in AI. Specifically, they think that our advancements in computer technology will continue to be in complexity etc. along the SAME lines it has already done. I hereby propose that AI will NOT have any major disruptive changes in the future. Instead it might be in something dramatically different. Maybe shoes, soap, or some other commonplace item - kind of like the phone underwent a dramatic and unpredicted change.
The major issues with the AI people is that they think all the progress in making computers have faster processing of mathematical equations will somehow create a thinking computer. We see it all the time in all the fiction. They confuse good at math for "have a soul".
Most importantly, while the Singularity people talk about unable to predict, they then go ahead and make a bunch of crappy predictions - mainly based on junk science that we know is wrong.
You want a realistic story of the creation of the first AI. AI gets created, learns to talk, explores the internet then writes a horrible, "emo" suicide note before it kills itself.
THAT would be far more likely than the crappy "humans uploads the entire race and stops having kids" junk that Singularity people like to fantasize about.
The question is do the benefits out-way the costs. To that I would say a resounding no.
Partly because people are not robots and employers have a long history of eliminating things that are not directly profitable to the company but are key to the morale and mental health of the employees. Restricting bathroom breaks to 10 minutes, etc. Or doing the opposite - forcing them to attend pointless meetings to set the agenda for next week's pointless meeting.
That is exactly the kind of things that you get when you 'track' your employees.
A better approach is to simply ask - and listen - to the employees about things they consider wasted time. They know more about it than any tracking system.