Actually the writers portray the talking monkeys to act like they don't like expressive robots. There is a world of difference between reality and the way university arts students express fantasy.
What he is actually accused is trying to get women pregnant who just wanted casual protected sex. Pretty much a douche act, especially considering the care and effort he put into caring for his other similarly produced children.
Illgic. If a droid were made to suffer, it would be programmed to accept defined treatment as suffering, regardless of treatment and express that suffering in human understandable terms. So the suffering is not as a human would experience suffering upon a basis of shared uniform concept but specifically what was programmed as suffering. As such it would be seriously delusional to programme the routine duties of a droid as to cause suffering and to express that suffering in human understandable terms. Far more logical to programme the routine function of a droid to be pleasurable and to express that pleasure in human understandable terms.
For the android suffering or pleasure and the expression of such, is at the hands of the programmer the programs the droid.
Three words Anti dumping laws, dumping products at artificially low prices into a market in order to seize dominant market share and force competitors out of the market before substantially raising prices. Seems the US in-justice system is asleep at the helm, to tired pursuing whistle blowers and doing the RIAA's bidding.
Nah, not any more, the flood of psychopaths into the corporate executive career path has put an end to that. They will ruthlessly strip mine any trust for their own immediate personal benefit one way or another, especially the lawyers. In fact your life comes under the greatest threat the more you hand over control to those snakes in suits.
They can always simply wait him out, he is 68 after all. Death puts an end to all schemes driven by personal ego, which is obviously what the Lanai adventure is. Likely it will all be sold off and the money invested in more profitable ventures once he kicks the bucket. Something they will need to start looking at, major terracing infrastructure projects to halt the rapid erosion of the Island, this will substantially increase the usable area of the island, whilst reducing run-off and increase coral reef growth but the capital cost would be enormous.
Further to that VOIP is also an internet service as is your email, twitter et al. So this is all pointing at direct personal censorship. Making selected individuals non-persons as far as the internet is concerned, basically making them disappear digital communications, a new direct instantaneous method of personal control and retribution.
Wrong. A permanent moon base gives the US technology to sell to other countries as long as it is a multi-national moon base. Especially when it is permanent enough and large enough to accommodate tourists. Want to sell it on being self funding then, tourism will be a must. Why because it is a sight better bloody goal than war and can more readily cycle money through the economy than war and leave a tangible result.
So going back to the moon now can trigger a global effort for a quite large permanent moon base, which then can support trips to elsewhere in the solar system.
That is down to greed and life cycle costing. There are many blends of concrete and using the right cement, additives and aggregate and you can get concrete to last well in excess of one hundred years. Increasing cover to reinforcing will increase it life, galvanising the reinforcing will increase it life (tricky because the galvanising actually breaks down due to reaction with the cement but, it alters the chemical conditions surrounding the reinforcing thus substantially extending it's life). The article is typical literary exaggeration, concrete typically lasts well in excess of one hundred years, if it was properly hydrated, compacted and the cement was of good quality.
However we live in the age of the "LOWEST BLOODY TENDER", greed being the motivating factor, it will last longer than those who did the job so they can't get sued. Hell of lot of shonky lowest tenders often shut down and re-start their companies on a regular basis to escape liabilities for their crap work, while screaming de-regulate, de-regulate- de-regulate and supporting right wing politics.
Having demolished quite a few structures, I can tell you that some concrete done well in excess of fifty years was as tough as hell and it was all done to the quality of the builder and their contractors. Today of course cheap, cheap, cheap, not my problem, bonus now, lawyers and more lawyers, right wing political ideology and no pride of workmanship just score by wealth and you have shite all around you.
Rather than the light switch a simple controller that can be put in the circuit, so that it can be added to any mains power outlet. Personally I think that with regards to modern lighting the light source should be as hidden as possible. So up-lighting from the cornices with strip leds and light levels controllable by alternating the number of leds switched on. Also not necessarily the whole room on just the side the person is on or point lighting etc. This even allows very low level night lights (very few widely distributed leds) not consuming much power at all but maintaining safety and security. With two banks you can start adding colour and varying ratios of colour to improve overall light quality, say red and white for non-jaring night lighting.
Technically in terms or realistic policing, blocking attempts to connect to the phone network is far better than bricking the phone. Each attempt at connecting to the network represents an opportunity to identify and apprehend the thief. In fact the connection could be allowed and monitored with the specific intent of investigating and prosecuting the receiver of stolen property in order to further track it back to the thief. Brick the phone and you purposefully, stupidly create a legal prosecution dead end. Ideally stolen smart phones represent an ideal way to target those who perpetrate violent crimes against others and should be used as such.
Excuse me but and a rather bloody big but, credit cards hard always been done with computers. That magnetic swipe reads digital data. Electronic checking reads ability from the credit companies cloud and passes payment back to it. The only change is to eliminate the plastic card and insert credit card ID data into a phone, so the US patents office has allowed a patent through for an expired patent because the basically don't give a rats about doing proper patents checks and are just rubber stamping and leaving it up to the courts.
Also don't do it electronically. We spent centuries perfecting manual systems and they are as simple to implement as the choice to do so, they are just a little slower. Next up is generate volumes upon volumes of false automatically generated data with tools similar to http://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/ but covering other facets of information generation. You should ideally generate 10 times as much false as true data, with computers heck a hundred times is easy and it floods their system because they retain and yours remains clean because it only takes a few extra computing cycles to create it and you don't keep it.
If you attack back, you create the opportunity for the greatest hacks of all, false ones that get you to target an innocent person or company or organisation.
Groups likely to report the attack to their legal authorities who will then prosecute, extradite and jail your silly ass.
But you get to brag how much you paid each night for it. After all it is not about function it is all about posing like a douche. How much crap out there should simply be rated on douche value, rather than how many miles per hour it will go, how gallons of fuel per hour it will burn, how big it is to substitute for how small those that buy it are. Consume and pollute ratings for poseur value are really getting kind of sick and off putting.
The real questions are out of whose pocket does that $65 come from and into whose pocket is it going and of course how many people are dying because it is priced beyond their reach.
More accurately. If you have nothing to hide, why not notify the person that they are being investigated. If your excuse is but then they will not commit the crime, 'er', problem solved. If you have nothing to hide, why not indicate who initiated the investigation and why and if this proves false, why not prosecute them for bearing false witness. If you have nothing to hide, why not notify the individual of all information collected and then actively destroy that information if no prosecution is undertaken within a set 'short' period, we are not here to sate your privacy invasive perversions after all. If you have nothing to hide, why not inform every citizen of all legally retained information so that the citizen can correct any false information and if any false information is found, investigate the person who entered it and check whether malice was intended and they need to be prosecuted.
It should never be one way open, then the intent is clearly power based and criminal at it's core, it needs to be fully open and the citizen has every right to be fully aware of the data held about them by their government and the right to have that data deleted or corrected.
Arrest, often extremely violent, even lethal. Confiscation of all electronic goods for months (replace at own expense, no choice in today's connected era). Extended trials and legal fees (measured in months if not years, Bradley Manning a glaring example). Freezing of Assets Imprisonment during extended trial, due to inability to fund high bail costs. Threats of extended prison terms, measured in decades. Trial by government compliant media, found guilty upon accusation and guilt spread far and wide to ensure all possible juries are tainted against you. Threats against family members and friends to receive similar treatment. Family members and friends actually receiving similar treatment. Coercive tactics continue until you falsely plead guilty to a lesser charge and agree to remain silent.
Anyone recognise this pattern. It hasn't happened just once but time and time again. All this surveillance provides them with ample ammunition to make spurious and circumstantial claims to attack anybody, well at least anybody not extraordinarily wealthy and what happens when it is all over. Well, tough luck chump, tens of thousands of dollars gone, months behind bars, family members and friends fear association with you and unemployment. As for the government, hmm, whoops tee hee, our wrong and they can do it to you all over again.
The whole idea of due process was to keep abuse of power in check, not let strumped up liars like Uncle Tom Obama or The Shrub or Darth Cheney to abandon the whole process to empower the CIA and it's private for profit contractors.
The difference is a preferential voting system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting and of course compulsory voting. Both ensure third, fourth and fifth parties get a look in and no major party can get it's disingenuous propagandists to run around flooding the aether with "oow ahhh can't vote third party otherwise the other major party will win" which of course is the whole idea of voting third and fourth party and sticking it to the political duopoly. The Tea Baggers are currently doing quite well by focusing in on the primaries where only about 10% of those eligible actually vote making it much easier to disrupt the vote. Don't need the Green Party to win in the US, you just need Green candidates to dominate in the primaries.
Reality. The goal is to use random acts of extreme murder to drive people from rural areas to major regional cities where they can more readily be controlled. Only those persons approved will be allowed to return to rural areas. Basically the US government is using terrorism to control the movement of foreign populations.
The goal with prism, is for the government to be able to control the population by gaining evidence of minor criminal activity against persons of interest or family members in order to silence their anti-government activities whether those activities by environmental, peace or government over-reach protests. This is of course the main reason why the US Federal is so adamant that drugs especially marijuana remain illegal with prison sentences as punishment, so that they can use it to hold over the majority of the population.
Just as the extreme penalties for minor computer abuse acts or at least the threats of extreme penalties against computer nerds and geeks whose acts might threaten the insane US Government over-reach. Uncle Tom Obama is basically the lapdog of an out of control CIA who is looking, in reality to keep the war on terrorism profits flowing, without which the major cut backs in funding especially to private contractors is assured.
'Erm', it's called a credit card. So the only change is no plastic card instead a plastic box full of electronic components, hmm, technically a step back, as more is required to identify the user, rather than less.
Well you know your real mistake. You only need to catch the right flight once and from their on in avoid the TSA for the rest of your life, emmigrate. It seems the US is going out of it's to drive it's own citizens out of their country, seriously take the hint, likely you'll be better off;).
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Then one assumes the person doing the beating should be filmed doing it by a fixed location security camera so they are prosecuted for doing so?
Actually the writers portray the talking monkeys to act like they don't like expressive robots. There is a world of difference between reality and the way university arts students express fantasy.
What he is actually accused is trying to get women pregnant who just wanted casual protected sex. Pretty much a douche act, especially considering the care and effort he put into caring for his other similarly produced children.
Illgic. If a droid were made to suffer, it would be programmed to accept defined treatment as suffering, regardless of treatment and express that suffering in human understandable terms. So the suffering is not as a human would experience suffering upon a basis of shared uniform concept but specifically what was programmed as suffering. As such it would be seriously delusional to programme the routine duties of a droid as to cause suffering and to express that suffering in human understandable terms. Far more logical to programme the routine function of a droid to be pleasurable and to express that pleasure in human understandable terms.
For the android suffering or pleasure and the expression of such, is at the hands of the programmer the programs the droid.
Three words Anti dumping laws, dumping products at artificially low prices into a market in order to seize dominant market share and force competitors out of the market before substantially raising prices. Seems the US in-justice system is asleep at the helm, to tired pursuing whistle blowers and doing the RIAA's bidding.
"I am not a lawyer" and yet under law you are deemed to have full and total knowledge of the law and ignorance is no excuse.
Nah, not any more, the flood of psychopaths into the corporate executive career path has put an end to that. They will ruthlessly strip mine any trust for their own immediate personal benefit one way or another, especially the lawyers. In fact your life comes under the greatest threat the more you hand over control to those snakes in suits.
They can always simply wait him out, he is 68 after all. Death puts an end to all schemes driven by personal ego, which is obviously what the Lanai adventure is. Likely it will all be sold off and the money invested in more profitable ventures once he kicks the bucket. Something they will need to start looking at, major terracing infrastructure projects to halt the rapid erosion of the Island, this will substantially increase the usable area of the island, whilst reducing run-off and increase coral reef growth but the capital cost would be enormous.
Further to that VOIP is also an internet service as is your email, twitter et al. So this is all pointing at direct personal censorship. Making selected individuals non-persons as far as the internet is concerned, basically making them disappear digital communications, a new direct instantaneous method of personal control and retribution.
Wrong. A permanent moon base gives the US technology to sell to other countries as long as it is a multi-national moon base. Especially when it is permanent enough and large enough to accommodate tourists. Want to sell it on being self funding then, tourism will be a must. Why because it is a sight better bloody goal than war and can more readily cycle money through the economy than war and leave a tangible result.
So going back to the moon now can trigger a global effort for a quite large permanent moon base, which then can support trips to elsewhere in the solar system.
That is down to greed and life cycle costing. There are many blends of concrete and using the right cement, additives and aggregate and you can get concrete to last well in excess of one hundred years. Increasing cover to reinforcing will increase it life, galvanising the reinforcing will increase it life (tricky because the galvanising actually breaks down due to reaction with the cement but, it alters the chemical conditions surrounding the reinforcing thus substantially extending it's life). The article is typical literary exaggeration, concrete typically lasts well in excess of one hundred years, if it was properly hydrated, compacted and the cement was of good quality.
However we live in the age of the "LOWEST BLOODY TENDER", greed being the motivating factor, it will last longer than those who did the job so they can't get sued. Hell of lot of shonky lowest tenders often shut down and re-start their companies on a regular basis to escape liabilities for their crap work, while screaming de-regulate, de-regulate- de-regulate and supporting right wing politics.
Having demolished quite a few structures, I can tell you that some concrete done well in excess of fifty years was as tough as hell and it was all done to the quality of the builder and their contractors. Today of course cheap, cheap, cheap, not my problem, bonus now, lawyers and more lawyers, right wing political ideology and no pride of workmanship just score by wealth and you have shite all around you.
Rather than the light switch a simple controller that can be put in the circuit, so that it can be added to any mains power outlet. Personally I think that with regards to modern lighting the light source should be as hidden as possible. So up-lighting from the cornices with strip leds and light levels controllable by alternating the number of leds switched on. Also not necessarily the whole room on just the side the person is on or point lighting etc. This even allows very low level night lights (very few widely distributed leds) not consuming much power at all but maintaining safety and security. With two banks you can start adding colour and varying ratios of colour to improve overall light quality, say red and white for non-jaring night lighting.
Technically in terms or realistic policing, blocking attempts to connect to the phone network is far better than bricking the phone. Each attempt at connecting to the network represents an opportunity to identify and apprehend the thief. In fact the connection could be allowed and monitored with the specific intent of investigating and prosecuting the receiver of stolen property in order to further track it back to the thief. Brick the phone and you purposefully, stupidly create a legal prosecution dead end. Ideally stolen smart phones represent an ideal way to target those who perpetrate violent crimes against others and should be used as such.
Excuse me but and a rather bloody big but, credit cards hard always been done with computers. That magnetic swipe reads digital data. Electronic checking reads ability from the credit companies cloud and passes payment back to it. The only change is to eliminate the plastic card and insert credit card ID data into a phone, so the US patents office has allowed a patent through for an expired patent because the basically don't give a rats about doing proper patents checks and are just rubber stamping and leaving it up to the courts.
Also don't do it electronically. We spent centuries perfecting manual systems and they are as simple to implement as the choice to do so, they are just a little slower. Next up is generate volumes upon volumes of false automatically generated data with tools similar to http://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/ but covering other facets of information generation. You should ideally generate 10 times as much false as true data, with computers heck a hundred times is easy and it floods their system because they retain and yours remains clean because it only takes a few extra computing cycles to create it and you don't keep it.
If you attack back, you create the opportunity for the greatest hacks of all, false ones that get you to target an innocent person or company or organisation. Groups likely to report the attack to their legal authorities who will then prosecute, extradite and jail your silly ass.
But you get to brag how much you paid each night for it. After all it is not about function it is all about posing like a douche. How much crap out there should simply be rated on douche value, rather than how many miles per hour it will go, how gallons of fuel per hour it will burn, how big it is to substitute for how small those that buy it are. Consume and pollute ratings for poseur value are really getting kind of sick and off putting.
The real questions are out of whose pocket does that $65 come from and into whose pocket is it going and of course how many people are dying because it is priced beyond their reach.
More accurately. If you have nothing to hide, why not notify the person that they are being investigated. If your excuse is but then they will not commit the crime, 'er', problem solved. If you have nothing to hide, why not indicate who initiated the investigation and why and if this proves false, why not prosecute them for bearing false witness. If you have nothing to hide, why not notify the individual of all information collected and then actively destroy that information if no prosecution is undertaken within a set 'short' period, we are not here to sate your privacy invasive perversions after all. If you have nothing to hide, why not inform every citizen of all legally retained information so that the citizen can correct any false information and if any false information is found, investigate the person who entered it and check whether malice was intended and they need to be prosecuted.
It should never be one way open, then the intent is clearly power based and criminal at it's core, it needs to be fully open and the citizen has every right to be fully aware of the data held about them by their government and the right to have that data deleted or corrected.
When corporations own the government, why bother nitpicking anti-corporation or anti-government.
What there is to fear.
Arrest, often extremely violent, even lethal.
Confiscation of all electronic goods for months (replace at own expense, no choice in today's connected era).
Extended trials and legal fees (measured in months if not years, Bradley Manning a glaring example).
Freezing of Assets
Imprisonment during extended trial, due to inability to fund high bail costs.
Threats of extended prison terms, measured in decades.
Trial by government compliant media, found guilty upon accusation and guilt spread far and wide to ensure all possible juries are tainted against you.
Threats against family members and friends to receive similar treatment.
Family members and friends actually receiving similar treatment.
Coercive tactics continue until you falsely plead guilty to a lesser charge and agree to remain silent.
Anyone recognise this pattern. It hasn't happened just once but time and time again. All this surveillance provides them with ample ammunition to make spurious and circumstantial claims to attack anybody, well at least anybody not extraordinarily wealthy and what happens when it is all over. Well, tough luck chump, tens of thousands of dollars gone, months behind bars, family members and friends fear association with you and unemployment. As for the government, hmm, whoops tee hee, our wrong and they can do it to you all over again.
The whole idea of due process was to keep abuse of power in check, not let strumped up liars like Uncle Tom Obama or The Shrub or Darth Cheney to abandon the whole process to empower the CIA and it's private for profit contractors.
The difference is a preferential voting system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting and of course compulsory voting. Both ensure third, fourth and fifth parties get a look in and no major party can get it's disingenuous propagandists to run around flooding the aether with "oow ahhh can't vote third party otherwise the other major party will win" which of course is the whole idea of voting third and fourth party and sticking it to the political duopoly. The Tea Baggers are currently doing quite well by focusing in on the primaries where only about 10% of those eligible actually vote making it much easier to disrupt the vote. Don't need the Green Party to win in the US, you just need Green candidates to dominate in the primaries.
Reality. The goal is to use random acts of extreme murder to drive people from rural areas to major regional cities where they can more readily be controlled. Only those persons approved will be allowed to return to rural areas. Basically the US government is using terrorism to control the movement of foreign populations.
The goal with prism, is for the government to be able to control the population by gaining evidence of minor criminal activity against persons of interest or family members in order to silence their anti-government activities whether those activities by environmental, peace or government over-reach protests. This is of course the main reason why the US Federal is so adamant that drugs especially marijuana remain illegal with prison sentences as punishment, so that they can use it to hold over the majority of the population.
Just as the extreme penalties for minor computer abuse acts or at least the threats of extreme penalties against computer nerds and geeks whose acts might threaten the insane US Government over-reach. Uncle Tom Obama is basically the lapdog of an out of control CIA who is looking, in reality to keep the war on terrorism profits flowing, without which the major cut backs in funding especially to private contractors is assured.
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'Erm', it's called a credit card. So the only change is no plastic card instead a plastic box full of electronic components, hmm, technically a step back, as more is required to identify the user, rather than less.
Well you know your real mistake. You only need to catch the right flight once and from their on in avoid the TSA for the rest of your life, emmigrate. It seems the US is going out of it's to drive it's own citizens out of their country, seriously take the hint, likely you'll be better off ;).