Georgia uses the Diebold machines. Badnarik, the libertarian candidate got 17,000 votes there, more than any other third party candidate in any other state. If the republicans "rigged" the election, as you propose, why in the hell would they give a third party candidate so many votes?
Why would they bother tampering with Georgia in the first place, that place is red as red can be!
We aren't discussing whether the individual journalists are right or wrong so much. We are more concerned that the standard operating procedures of modern journalism may be fundamentally flawed.
They have yet to produce a sentient computer. They haven't come any close to doing so. There is no science to their field. There is no systematic process for obtaining such a goal.
The assertion that the point of AI research is to build a sentient computer just shows your lack of knowledge of the field.
Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder. Are fractals beutiful because of the interesting properties of the DE that creates them or because they make pretty pictures?
So we can execute someone for stealing 20 years out of someone's life, but you think 9 years in prison is too much for robbing 100,000+ years from us all?
You make some good points, but I think most of us would rather be deleting spam than dead.
Why? Because there isn't a huge competitive market - you want carts... you're only going to have a few people to get them from. That lets them nail you without the lube or a reacharound.This is true, I did not factor in markup, though a couple other people further down the thread were saying $150 or so which is much more believable. That is still an order of magnitude less than your quote though....
hese suckers are not cheap, think $500/$1000 a unit easily. They don't look like much but alot of work goes into that shopping cart.
doubtful, I work in the steel industry, our factory makes plating wire and welded wire mesh, a very similar process. We actually used to make wire specifically for shopping carts, but that was before my time. My informed opinion would be $100 tops, we sell galvanized concrete reinforcing fabric with the same approximate specs for $25 a sheet that is about 8' X 20', same dia. wire as shopping carts. Add whatever forming required on top of that and you get your total (i'd say $25 for forming really).
We do need verified voting, but I'm sorry to say that there was no widespread fraud in all e-voting states.
Why would they bother when everyone and their dog knows that only two states would actually matter? The same ones that, coincidentally(?), had the most problems!
I'd really like to see a meteor defense started. That is the single most likely thing that could wipe out the whole planet. And lately, we've had a lot of close calls......
Ironically, that probably would require nukes and actually be a breach of the treaty, unlike the current story.
I say we form an A-prize (A for ads) to run a massive multi million dollar pro-nuclear ad campaign. It is becoming increasingly obvious that people are retarded and just believe whatever is on TV, so maybe we could get some nuclear power up in here if we can convince enough people.
But this is/. where thinking is an endangered species
At least we are talking about it. Just because we all don't agree with you doesn't mean we haven't thought about it.
A lot of us have trouble swallowing the bad for the economy line especially. Pollution control would create an entire new industry, but I guess that would be bad for certain entrenched industries so all of a sudden it is bad for the economy.
...a responsibility to report unbiased versions of the news and both sides of the story. Never mind that Google doesn't really produce news reports, and that there's no such thing as an unbiased news source that reports all sides of the story...
How long until people start suing gun makers who cater to the segment of the population who doesn't want this technology? How long before they're bankrupted by legal fees?
Well, I guess us gun people are screwed then because handguns that do this have been on the market for about 10 years, they just use analog instead of digital. I have yet to hear of any suits brought agains standard gun manufacturers though (for the reason we are talking about).
I am a pro-gun liberal, some of us liberals believe in this personal freedom thing...
Anyway, I would LOVE to get a handgun that would only fire if I or possibly someone else I trusted were holding it! I don't even know why we are arguing about whether this feature is "good" or not. But, nowhere that I can see, is it suggested that this technology should be forced on anyone. That idea was suggested by someone else up the thread as a strawman against liberals.
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Georgia uses the Diebold machines. Badnarik, the libertarian candidate got 17,000 votes there, more than any other third party candidate in any other state. If the republicans "rigged" the election, as you propose, why in the hell would they give a third party candidate so many votes?
Why would they bother tampering with Georgia in the first place, that place is red as red can be!
Aaah...what thick....black.....text you used to make that joke...
We aren't discussing whether the individual journalists are right or wrong so much. We are more concerned that the standard operating procedures of modern journalism may be fundamentally flawed.
sing it brotha, and remember kids, those student loans you get have to eventually be paid off!
it looks like we need another y2k bug, get that demand back up...
They have yet to produce a sentient computer. They haven't come any close to doing so. There is no science to their field. There is no systematic process for obtaining such a goal.
The assertion that the point of AI research is to build a sentient computer just shows your lack of knowledge of the field.
Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder. Are fractals beutiful because of the interesting properties of the DE that creates them or because they make pretty pictures?
So we can execute someone for stealing 20 years out of someone's life, but you think 9 years in prison is too much for robbing 100,000+ years from us all?
You make some good points, but I think most of us would rather be deleting spam than dead.
hehe
I hope they worded this carefully or they will be fighting the suit against me by the RIAA!
Why? Because there isn't a huge competitive market - you want carts... you're only going to have a few people to get them from. That lets them nail you without the lube or a reacharound.This is true, I did not factor in markup, though a couple other people further down the thread were saying $150 or so which is much more believable. That is still an order of magnitude less than your quote though....
hese suckers are not cheap, think $500/$1000 a unit easily. They don't look like much but alot of work goes into that shopping cart.
doubtful, I work in the steel industry, our factory makes plating wire and welded wire mesh, a very similar process. We actually used to make wire specifically for shopping carts, but that was before my time. My informed opinion would be $100 tops, we sell galvanized concrete reinforcing fabric with the same approximate specs for $25 a sheet that is about 8' X 20', same dia. wire as shopping carts. Add whatever forming required on top of that and you get your total (i'd say $25 for forming really).
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4) incompetence replicated on a massive scale
We do need verified voting, but I'm sorry to say that there was no widespread fraud in all e-voting states.
Why would they bother when everyone and their dog knows that only two states would actually matter? The same ones that, coincidentally(?), had the most problems!
I'd really like to see a meteor defense started. That is the single most likely thing that could wipe out the whole planet. And lately, we've had a lot of close calls......
Ironically, that probably would require nukes and actually be a breach of the treaty, unlike the current story.
crap, and "levy" and "distribute", "countries"...fuck...nevermind
...but if you are planning on sending this it is "placate" and "speech".
I say we form an A-prize (A for ads) to run a massive multi million dollar pro-nuclear ad campaign. It is becoming increasingly obvious that people are retarded and just believe whatever is on TV, so maybe we could get some nuclear power up in here if we can convince enough people.
Athiesm doesn't make terrorists.
No, it just makes GODLESS COMMIES!
This is a joke, sad as it is since many people actually believe this crap.
This is true, but remember that two of the more psychotic religions still have holy lands in the same city...
But this is /. where thinking is an endangered species
At least we are talking about it. Just because we all don't agree with you doesn't mean we haven't thought about it.
A lot of us have trouble swallowing the bad for the economy line especially. Pollution control would create an entire new industry, but I guess that would be bad for certain entrenched industries so all of a sudden it is bad for the economy.
...a responsibility to report unbiased versions of the news and both sides of the story. Never mind that Google doesn't really produce news reports, and that there's no such thing as an unbiased news source that reports all sides of the story...
Yeah, those pictures are totally biased!
How long until people start suing gun makers who cater to the segment of the population who doesn't want this technology? How long before they're bankrupted by legal fees?
Well, I guess us gun people are screwed then because handguns that do this have been on the market for about 10 years, they just use analog instead of digital. I have yet to hear of any suits brought agains standard gun manufacturers though (for the reason we are talking about).
Exactly:
I am a pro-gun liberal, some of us liberals believe in this personal freedom thing...
Anyway, I would LOVE to get a handgun that would only fire if I or possibly someone else I trusted were holding it! I don't even know why we are arguing about whether this feature is "good" or not. But, nowhere that I can see, is it suggested that this technology should be forced on anyone. That idea was suggested by someone else up the thread as a strawman against liberals.
since when has a maths nerd known where there are infinitely many prime twins!
Proffered Prime Twins Proof Porn?
Whatever dude, you are obviously still in your anal phase!