Dude, this story is really dumb. You don't have to be first in the driverless vehicle race, any idiot can just buy and install that technology in their vehicle, figuratively speaking of course. Sure you try to develop your own but you install the one that works best, the sensible decision.
Just look at things in the right way. So for example, the waffle on about hypersonic aircraft and how they can escape missiles but you look at it from another perspective. Hypersonic aircraft, how manourverable, pretty much not much what so ever, so why shoot it from behind. You can understand how damaging a hypersonic bullet would be to you, ain't no bullet proof vest going to stop that bullet. So you know exactly where they plane will be, well at least within a sufficient small volume of space. Throw up a bunch of bull bearings at let the hypseronic aircraft try to destroy them by flying into them at hypersonic speed, the aircraft a victim of it's own speed and never able to put on sufficient armour to achieve that speed and be safe from the tiniest lump of cruft with sufficient inertial mass to punch right through the aircraft.
Some times things sound like being of different import than they in reality are. Behind in car AI, so what buy someone else's manufacturing cost the same, you just have a volume based profit margin to add to that cost, so in reality neither here nor there but it sounds like it is. Hypersonic aircraft outfly anything out there, except for what is right in front of it, fly right the fuck into that and no avoiding it.
Dude entirely too complex. How to explain it to the anal idiots at M$. Manual update, I do one machine if it works, I do the next machine and if it doesn't well that fucking sucks and M$ are a pack of arsehole fuck knuckle cunts and various other bits of swearing as I try to fix the machine, yes the swearing really does happen. Automatic updates, all my machines are broken, fuck you to hell M$, no more fucking windows and hello Linux. I had M$ as a server once, it was fucking shit, I switched to a Linux server and something like six months latter, when I thought I only had the Linux server in for few weeks, I realised it had been there for six months.
Fuckig hell M$ the arse holes demand the right to install any software they want to on your computer at any time and fuck you if you don't like it, nah mate, fuck them. Ain't no way I am doing windows 10 shit, unless it is the corporate licence version M$ can go right royally fuck themselves, seriously.
You could of course do drones on rotation, so one is always up in rescue position and of course they would be enormously cheaper. So race ignores logical application and the drone could have a strong cord attached to the flotation device and ensure the flotation device is delivered to the person being rescued, whilst a board makes it's way out there. Depending upon the power output of the drone, it could also tow the person holding onto the flotation device back into shore. Now if you have three on rotation, so one is always up in the air, all three can be deployed at the same time if necessary, more than one rescue at a time, and nearby beaches.
How about looking at IQ in behavioural terms. The greater ability to learn faster and understand their existence, how does that affect 120 plus, 130 plus and 140 plus. Do they perform differently because, they live in a different world, one of greater understanding and their goals are different as a result.
Like being happy, what is it to be happy, well, brain chemical flows and thought frequency rates are in what feels like the positive zone and short, medium and long term planning indicates that current actions will keep it there (over indulgence whilst producing more in the short term has worse medium and long term outcomes). This is based on bio-electric states and chemical process but once understanding grows, so an element of quantum particle energy conscious flows starts to impact thought. So getting my mind right by choice, achieving the most effective quantum conscious state that can be achieved by my particular gene pattern, in conjunction with prior brain states, so that more positive brain states can be achieved and sustained.
So can I more readily be happy by imagining a happier brain, establishing that pattern of thought and reinforcing with with things I like to do, like thinking and trying to understand without being bound up in what I am trying to understand, a nice snack or pleasant drink, mildly intoxicating substances, a good read. Apparently simply things amuse extremely complex minds, although trying to understand is very complex, actually doing it, sitting down and thinking for hours and hours on end is quite easy and for me quite fun.
So for me, controlling a bunch of mud monkeys in their wild and extreme beliefs is something to be very much avoided, whilst achieving a pleasant mind state by choice and then pondering problems and their solutions in an broad context, is fun. The difference between an IQ of 80 and one of 140 is a difference that reflects living in a completely different world (the one constructed in your mind by which you interact with what you think exists outside of your mind), one of empty beliefs and one of struggling to understand everything and drives different pleasures, ones of the physical and ones of thought.
I can live content in my own imagination (I don't need much and have no sick desire to accumulate much at everyone eles's expense), why would I try to force the world to fit my ego like the typical freaks you see running things because they demand control. I will pass my way, with the only goal of any real import to me, one of a positive life balance, where I contributed more to life than I consume from it because I can understand the quantum conscious state import of it (sink or rise as you choose). I am more content now, having abandoned the ego forced upon me in my youth by the corrupt and damaging impact of for profit psychological manipulation, modern marketing practices conducted by psychopaths and narcissists in the 120 range. I am repulsed by the idea of exploiting others of manipulating them and do enjoy striving to break down the structures and free people to their own thoughts and desires.
Lets get a grip on reality. There is no men's clothing and there is no women's clothing, those are marketing illusions created to sell product, targeting men differently to women. Once shape adjusted there is nothing to stop men wearing what are called womens clothing and women wearing what are called mens clothing. Clothing was also bound to job types ie protective clothing and this reflected in clothing choices away from the job, male or female. Now there are much greater barriers for men to wear clothing style for women, in fact banned in most work place and women wearing mens clothing totally fine in most work places, so forced clothing choices by accepted marketing conventions.
Why can't you wear a toga to work, why would you get fired for that choice, you are covered, you are comfortable, why are you denied choice to suit existing marketed trends. How much should you be able to choose when it comes to clothing, should you be penalised for not wearing clothing chosen by others for you, perhaps prison, whipping and not just having your future destroyed with long term unemployment. Why can others control the clothes you wear, why do you accept it, why is it reasonable to be so well, unreasonable.
All about security. The is a growing push for local tech production in all infrastructure areas, as a matter of state security. Source tech from another country and make no mistake that country owns your digital future, they can switch you off, dangerous stuff. With that push, so more countries will locally tech develop or set up trusted security partnerships with other countries (anyone who trust the US is a bloody idiot and the US has most emphatically proved that over the last couple of decades, absolutely not to be trusted and that is by it's own citizens as well, a sorry state of affairs).
The problem in reality is much simpler than that. PvP (what I like to call purse vs purse, think two people battering each other with their handbags who can spend the most), attracts arse holes. People who like to make other people miserable and for whom cheating is winning. Lets be real, most PvP gaming is about cheating, specifically selling cheats for real world dollars build in developer cheats, compete equally no, but this cheats, you know 20% at a time, 20% stronger, 20% tougher, 20% more powerful and 20% faster, hey it's only 20%, nope it's 80% plus compounding affect. The sell the opportunity to be an arseholes to wipe out the people who do not pay.
They are not opposed to cheating, they are just opposed to unlicensed cheating where they are not the one making money. Stat boosts, zero cost to them, total profit from your dollars and other players misery until they wake up and give up and the game dies, all psychopaths and no norms left to kill.
My solution, too easy, PvE only, the arseholes tend to stay away, you just work you way through at your own pace. Generally selling account improvements seems the way to go, new areas, new stories, better account features, storage, crafting (forget grindy stuff, if any part of you game is grindy than that part is just shite and should not be there at all, think you are making you game unappealing on purpose making it more difficult for you to sell).
PvP as a gaming style will always be problematic, from approved pay to win cheating, to hostile game play to illegal cheats and hacks, they draw that toxic player base (get you knickers out of a knot, in part, not in total but that part can be a large and dominating percentage and when norms give up the game dies not victims for the cheats to victimise and paid buffs are cheats make no mistake).
The real ballistic appropriate ballistic missiles response, bend over and kiss you arse goodbye, because fucker, you are going to kill you one way or another. No such things as one going off, one goes off, they all go off, no one can take any chance of being the one not to fire, so they all go, targeting everyone because even if you had none and fired none, those that fired and were fired upon, can not leave you to take over, that insanity goes with the territory of nuclear insanity. The insanity of believing you can survive, make no mistake you are dead if not immediately than within a short time there after.
Tsunami and hurricane warning sure, nuclear war warning, why fucking bother, seriously, who the fuck wants to die of old age in a hole in the ground, knowing that's all there is a whole in the ground you have already buried yourself it. Far smarter to immediately reach for that special joint you have been saving.
The crime was delusions of power, they believed their own advertising about their advertising abilities. Reality is, it was more about thought resonance. Consider the typical person's standing political thought state, a kind of endlessly repeating quite complex musical note. When it comes to group alignment, people automatically tend to resonate towards similar political notes, also while trying to drown out competing notes, attempting change them to align with their tune.
Facebook, like all databases, simply sorted those notes to aligning tunes, the individuals automatically gravitated to like groups. Now numbers, people, never ever forget numbers, specifically speaking fractions, percentages part of a whole and the larger the whole the larger the larger the parts. So start sorting hundreds of millions of people and a tiny percentage of radicals, say 1% who are normally nothing in a crowd of 100 ie 1 person, but when you a dealing with an online crowd of say one hundred million, that one is no longer a one but one million. Can you see where the corporate delusion comes in, they believed they created that million, rather than the reality of just that million self sorting into a group, a natural occurrence of like minded association, starting with a large number to be sorted.
The liars at Google know better but lie for profit, claiming to create those demand groups rather than just sorting what is all ready there, no one being sold anything, just identifying those who have already be sold of zero value to advertisers. So ohh, look much panic and ado about a 1 million some what radical people. More panic about the number, 1 million all of a sudden out of nowhere and less about how actually radical they are. This is then used to sell panic by all parties to generate all sorts of profit based upon all sorts of lies, whilst others just troll it, use and abuse it for fun, the illusion of it, create panic amongst the control freaks.
The larger the number you start with, the more you can make of it, start with 7.5 billion and teeny tiny percentages can become major forces for change. All of a sudden a million ants, start eating elephants and they came from no where.
You got the thugs, you choose and trained and allowed to write up imaginary policies (law enforcement policies are not law and should not be treated as such). Choose better people, train them properly a 2 year college degree, write laws to control them so they do not run around like freaks inventing their own policies, test for psychopathy and exclude in recruitment and existing and turn trigger happy law enforcer into peace keeping first responder in any and all emergencies and trained as such (fire, medical, societal and law, actual proper law training). Get rid of insane county based policing, huge waste of administrative costs, lack of uniform policing across the state hugely disadvantaging some citizens, poorly trained and often corrupt, turned into revenue streams preying on citizens.
In most sane countries, the proper response to non-active duty use of idle vehicles, as long as it was reasonable use, as long as the vehicle was not actively needed, as long as permission was sought and idle use was approved and knowledge of the vehicle location maintained should use be necessary (logically also involving the person in question), the job is tough and high stress, perks like this improve working conditions and make for better officers as long as it is not abused, as long as the public does not hate it's law enforcers who in turn hate the public.
Want even better officers, managed negative contact hours ie for each negative contact hour, arresting someone, active confrontational policing provided an hour of non-negative contact time, visiting works place and places or residence to establish working relationships with citizens, getting to know your police and your police getting to know you, supporting, managing and securing local public recreational facilities to promote healthy social use (yeah police should actively be trying to creating healthier more peaceful communities, through positive reinforcing actions).
You want a better society you have to make it, you can not buy, sell or trade it, that's a corrupt society and it eats itself rather than producing more for it's citizens.
Defend it, all too easy. Fact, government secrecy is an anathema to democracy. Every citizen has 100% right to all information about their government, that would affect the vote of that citizen. For the government to use the tax payers money, to keep secrets from the tax payer (keep in bloody mind who works for whom) that would affect the vote of the citizens is an electoral crime and a denial of the right of citizens to a fair vote. Democracy based upon lies is no Democracy, it is an autocracy controlled by those that tell the lies and that includes lies of omission.
I would struggle with the nature of the person, living a lie. There is nothing wrong with expressing yourself in a gender based manner which suits your personality but you should not need to pretend to be the other gender (there are elements within society, that force gender behavioural norms, that prevent people from expressing themselves in what ever gender based manner they prefer, without also being forced to pretend to be that gender, the expression is individual, the gender change is forced by societies demanded gender behavioural norms, clothing, behaviour, speech).
The freedom to express yourself in a more masculine or feminine fashion, should not also require that you attempt to change sex to be accepted but society still struggles with more feminine men, not so much with more masculine women, they get more acceptance and hence the need to change to the other sign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., tends to occur a lot less. Ohh and James Damore has every right to sue the living crap out of the arse holes at Google.
Catch is by playing at amateur build, they end up being very low performance and all they will do now is antagonise reciprocal returns, except others might not choose the amateur game and on their side, well, nobody likes the Americans any more and it wouldn't take much of a bounty to get them all sorts of criminals to act that the Americans foolishly trained, it tends to be the regions hobby, so picking up a quick buck for turning Americans into sitting ducks, well.
Expect high performance military drones to performance will beyond the abilities of intelligence agency mock ups. But there is also AMERICAN anti-tank missiles etc. that the US/Saudi/Israeli governments supplied to terrorists, that were captured and could now be returned well in part. Don't play a game, where they support is opposed and is for sale to the current bidder, long term loyalty not a thing for them, not much at all beyond family in fact and the US has managed to kill quite a few of them.
So let me get that straight, a crazy tall Asian women (equal opportunity imagination) walks down a street and punches 50 passes by (http://scienceblogs.com/whitecoatunderground/2009/03/18/a-simple-bump-on-the-head-can/ and http://www.smh.com.au/national...), failing at intent should not be rewarded.
As in this case, they stole as much as they possibly felt they could get away with from as many people as possible, also cheating their shareholders and investors and honest staff, all who have to pay a much greater economic price. That fine, just what the bullshit, that's fine is now a free loan, at least charge interest on the fine but in reality double is the norm, you pay back not only what you stole but the same again as the penalty (there is zero penalty in the first part of the fine, you are just returning what you stole, so not a fine at all).
Look, wake up to yourselves. Nobody buys the propaganda any more. What Trump says is exactly what the US has done for decades. Democracy and justice, nope, turning countries into shit holes that US corporations can ruthlessly exploit, stealing the resources and using slave labour to do it. A straight up continuation of imperialistic policies from the monarchists, unlike the Belgies cutting off hands the US fires missiles from drones into unsuspecting populations when their obedience quotient falls short.
Trump has been a breath of fresh air, or is that just the true miasma from the shadow government swamp, the truth about the reality US foreign policy for all to see. People are starting to wonder if he is doing it on purpose, talking exactly the way the US government actually behaves instead of Uncle Tom Obamas sweet talking bullshit whilst he was doing exactly the same things, after Bush/Clinton/Bush did the same things, just getting worse all the time.
Typical SJW shite, which in reality in falsely claiming to be the left, a great big ole fat deep state lie, their only real function is not progressivism (just look a screeching women demanding equal high pay, but totally silent about men and women on the most unequal pay, the minimum wage, feminists don't wont to end that exploitation, they want to become the exploiters), the sole function of the SJWs is to deny workers a political party, that is why the screeching morons were created, to ensure no workers party in the USA, the majority denied a voice by the screechers of the SJW puppet community.
Who cares about where open source started or M$ using PR=B$ people to distort it to open sores, a cancer, preferred by organised crime, communist, a virus (lest we forget their true nature). Where is it going and the obvious place is in open coding standards to ensure interoperability something which M$ tried to kill in the most corrupt, self serving and destructive manner imaginable, the active corruption of international standards bodies.
What is open source software really about in the future, about creating internal coding standards for various main computer elements, to minimise overhead and administrative costs, ensure interoperability, and to enhance durability, stability and security. The basics being a coding language, spreadsheet, database, word processor, cad/cam, graphics, communications (internet et al) and server systems.
Creating systems to go forward but still maintain existing protocols and of course minimising cost, paying once instead of the demands of infinite greed ie paying an infinite number of times, a wildly insane burden upon human society and an extreme corruption of capitalism ie paying for the same thing over and over instead of just once.
Let's be honest, it is all about dishonesty. What is the nature of the current cryptocurrency market, it's dishonesty, about cheating taxes, about ponzi scheme, it's about funding criminal operations, not all of it but well and truly sufficient of it to attract criminals to it in droves. That means criminal investors, criminal business and criminal employees. With regard to fraud in that environment, look not further than it's own members. First suspect in all cryptocurrency frauds, have to be it's employees and business operators, they have to prove their innocence, not requiring them, 100% enables them to cheat the system, they designed and control, the required inside knowledge, to exploit the system internally and externally. Shit wages, not a problem, just fill your pockets, owners, managers, tech staff, even janitors (people leave passwords all over). It is the nature of that business, that they must prove their innocence, otherwise you schmucks are going to get ripped of again and again and again.
Only in the USA and other countries with third world legal systems. In other countries where loser pays ie the loser in a civil suit pays the winners court costs based upon recognised rates (no legal fee inflation). So far less likely to play games with lawyers and courts. Of course the US legal system is also really corrupt, where by certain cases are tried in certain locations, where judges have a known bias and also in location where they are elected by campaign donations from companies likely to trigger litigation by the exploitative behaviour. Note all the legal games in the US vs other countries with loser pay laws, civil suits for psychological harassment using the legal, you can get sued to attempting to sue someone just to harass them (no ability or intention to win, just harass them via the court) and face criminal penalties for abusing the civil legal system.
I can understand why they are whiny. I have hundreds of sci fi books but I have not bought any in decades. I do all my reading for free on the internet. Which might sound like I am backing their argument but the reality is, I read no sci fi books on the internet. I read everything else, there are billions upon billions of pages, there are hours of interaction well beyond a whole life times worth on the internet. The only time I touch a sci fi book now, is when I know I will be stuck for sometime in real life and reading for me is the best escape. I have not bought a book in well over a decade, sorry but the dead tree stuff doesn't do it for me any more compared to the internet. I don't need that escape when I can interact with the internet. People like me a buying a whole lot less books and I already have a collection that will last me well beyond any occasional need that I have. Right now, when I need a break form the internet, I don't read a book, I go for a walk. I have not read a book in over two years, not because I hate reading, I really enjoy it but the internet makes for a much better reader than a book, and I have simply not been trapped anywhere, where I need to fill time by reading a book.
How about this. Consider it a subsistence existence payment. The payment for denying the people the right to subsist by being a hunter gatherer. What right do you claim to be able starve people to death, by denying them a subsistence existence and killing them slowly in prison or fast with a bullet should they dare to attempt a hunter gatherer existence. By what right do you claim to be able to force slave labour or starvation and any claim on that right also provides a claim on the right for people to kill anyone who attempts to deny them a subsistence existence. A human being has a right to exist and the right is expressed by being able to exist to survive, not to be turned into a slave via threat of starvation, imprisonment until death or summary execution.
The simplest definition of capitalism, 'my capital worth is worth more than you life', in fact as many people as need to perish in order to preserve my capital value and that is the fact of capitalism, the legalisation of capital worth being greater than human worth.
In the history of forever, whenever bureaucracies fuck up - 'blame the new guy'. Someone thought it was a good idea and did it, likely for political reasons, it went down way worse than they thought and... So what was the follow up marketing meant to about, obviously stoking war fears, real war fears. Who was playing, drive war fears as an FCC distraction, make more War Industrial Complex funding more palatable, attack property values in Honolulu (Pearl Harbour is the number one target in the US and make no mistake but why force the reminder).
They had better show some images of this magic, make an entire city panic, cause harm and suffering and even death as people try to escape, button with no safety features, otherwise I just wont believe. They were going to try something on, they still might in the next few weeks, some kind of PR=B$ stunt to push an agenda.
Of course if you were going to be that destructive, much safer to drive around in a white diesel van with an PTO and an electromagnetic pulse generator and simply cause wide spread chaos on the move. Pretty hard to track you down, as all the tracking systems and agencies go down and you are only noticeable by the fact you are still moving, whilst everything else is coming to a halt with the damage and impact tied to the power output of your EMP device and how many kilometres you can travel with it pulsing away. Don't do this, it would be bad, seriously but you know where this is going been said again and again. When governments hack governments, the next step is EMP attacks, it is inevitable that it will escalate to this and you can bet corporations will attack corporations, billions at stake.
Lets not drift all over the place with foreign students versus specifically students from China. Why could so many afford school in the US, well, because the government of China was paying and why were they paying because the government of China plays the long game, as well as the short and medium game. Train them in the US, to get a job in the US and to 'well', you get the spy vs spy ramifications. Why are the going back in numbers, maybe because the US is entirely corrupt and it is simply cheaper to buy what ever info or action you want from a US contractor totally willing to betray their country for profit, why not their bosses do, as do the lobbyists who the bosses pay and as do the politician who the lobbyists in turn pay. Cheapest way to spy on and corrupt the US government, pay lobbyists to do it for you or find those who will do it for them. Don't pay and those lobbyists will arrange attacks upon you for cheating them out of their rightful money. The Russian government learnt from that mistake and now pay much more attention to the model developed by the Israeli Mossad to turn the US government into a puppet state (those guys have Americans so bum fucked it's becoming an embarrassment for other US partners).
Maybe others are just reading the writing on the wall and taking the long term view, which many Chinese do and most Americans do not. American is getting worse and worse becoming more and more an entirely corrupt fascist state and China is getting better and better, so long term bet, you are probably better off in China or say, even better work in China and live part time in say, Australia, some thing becoming increasingly popular in China. Yeah, USA, not so number one any more and drifting further and further down the charts. Yep more defence spending and less infrastructure spending will save you, sure. Just remember you must obey Israel first, they have paid for their control and will publicly ruthlessly punish any who disobey and this from the top down, this via their total control of US main stream media, RT foreign agent, what a joke Time/Disney/VIA/NBC/CBS/NEWS they are the foreign agents on the payroll of foreign corporations and governments and you people are schmucks for letting it happen.
Technically, a government of the people by the people and of the people, should have all the power. So yes the government should be all powerful but the government should be of the people. What needs to happens is higher up the food chain you go, the less privacy you should be entitled to. At the top, zero privacy, if you want a private life, leave. What is happening is corruption, a government of the elite by the elite and for the elite and protecting their privacy, the evidence of their crimes, whilst invading our privacy to control us, not for the benefit of society, that is the lie but for their own benefit, to exploit us.
The government should have power but the people should control the government, so in reality the people have the power. I definitely approve the top down invasion of privacy model. Want privacy, do not take on any kind of public role.
Have someone else commit rape and murder for you, kind of makes no sense. The rape bit was the intent, the murder bit was to get away with rape ie to the individual other people are just disposable, no value beyond how they can be used and abused. Forget phone stuff, how about testing for psychopathy before they are let into the country. Trial and prosecution well and good but still a person horribly abused and they killed for convenience, if the attacker had been tested before being let into the country and banned as a psychopath, the victim would not have become a victim nor the tens of thousands of others. Simply test for psychopathy prior to allowing entry for all refugees and immigrants and save the lives of thousands and save the suffering of millions. Psychopaths do not commit just one crime but routinely commit crime, daily, weekly, monthly, of never mind to them, as long as they believe they can get away with the crime, they will commit the crime, no matter how viscous, ugly or petty ie kill someone so that you can get away with raping them.
Well, technically there is a way to actively kill bitcoin and it's ilk basically get it banned world wide and it works like this. You create an energy backed cryptocurrency. This cryptocurrency is issued by energy corporations and is basically backed by kWh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... So whether they are oil, coal, gas, nuclear, wind, solar, tidal, hydroelectric, they all are enabled to sell energy futures, they future supply of kWh of energy as that krypto currency, not just any energy but a priority of supply, free of corrupting intervention, have your kWh of cryptocurrency from a registered corporation and you have your energy, either directly or indirectly via trading with other corporations. There would be variations in value of the kWh because obviously oil is harder to use than electricity, so electricity would have the highest dollar value.
This allows energy companies to trade energy generation risk, so oil companies can trade their coins against hydroelectric, at what ever the exchange rate is. Individuals would also be able to invest ie buying coins to invest in future energy purchases, either directly or trading. So you now have a backed crypto currencies, competing against unbacked crypto currencies. You should be able to see where this is heading.
This allows the fossil fuellers to offset future losses as a result of the growing undesirability of their energy source by trading it for other energy source cryptocurrencies, which is currently of enormous concern. Why does it kill bitcoin because the fossil fuellers loath competition and to make their coin look way better ie backed with the future value of energy, could be quite a useful investment for the right energy types versus shitty cryptocurrency backed by nothing but marketing, basically pretty much pretend hot air (they don't have any actual hot air to trade).
So energy futures cryptocurrencies issued by corporations on a regulated exchange, to balance out future energy disruptions, would kill marketing based unbacked crypto currencies. You could of course still trade those on the sly and because they are backed, they could make real coins with an embedded chip which validates the coin, not cheap, those coins would be around the hundred to a thousand dollar range at initial issue. Some people want that investment in their hands, not in the hands of traders who when they seem to have enough, always get raided by insiders 'er' outsiders, yeah prove it, they have the millions now or is it nothing now. Energy backed cryptocurrencies will kill unbacked cryptocurrencies and they will do it on purpose via lobbyists, you have been warned.
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Dude, this story is really dumb. You don't have to be first in the driverless vehicle race, any idiot can just buy and install that technology in their vehicle, figuratively speaking of course. Sure you try to develop your own but you install the one that works best, the sensible decision.
Just look at things in the right way. So for example, the waffle on about hypersonic aircraft and how they can escape missiles but you look at it from another perspective. Hypersonic aircraft, how manourverable, pretty much not much what so ever, so why shoot it from behind. You can understand how damaging a hypersonic bullet would be to you, ain't no bullet proof vest going to stop that bullet. So you know exactly where they plane will be, well at least within a sufficient small volume of space. Throw up a bunch of bull bearings at let the hypseronic aircraft try to destroy them by flying into them at hypersonic speed, the aircraft a victim of it's own speed and never able to put on sufficient armour to achieve that speed and be safe from the tiniest lump of cruft with sufficient inertial mass to punch right through the aircraft.
Some times things sound like being of different import than they in reality are. Behind in car AI, so what buy someone else's manufacturing cost the same, you just have a volume based profit margin to add to that cost, so in reality neither here nor there but it sounds like it is. Hypersonic aircraft outfly anything out there, except for what is right in front of it, fly right the fuck into that and no avoiding it.
Dude entirely too complex. How to explain it to the anal idiots at M$. Manual update, I do one machine if it works, I do the next machine and if it doesn't well that fucking sucks and M$ are a pack of arsehole fuck knuckle cunts and various other bits of swearing as I try to fix the machine, yes the swearing really does happen. Automatic updates, all my machines are broken, fuck you to hell M$, no more fucking windows and hello Linux. I had M$ as a server once, it was fucking shit, I switched to a Linux server and something like six months latter, when I thought I only had the Linux server in for few weeks, I realised it had been there for six months.
Fuckig hell M$ the arse holes demand the right to install any software they want to on your computer at any time and fuck you if you don't like it, nah mate, fuck them. Ain't no way I am doing windows 10 shit, unless it is the corporate licence version M$ can go right royally fuck themselves, seriously.
You could of course do drones on rotation, so one is always up in rescue position and of course they would be enormously cheaper. So race ignores logical application and the drone could have a strong cord attached to the flotation device and ensure the flotation device is delivered to the person being rescued, whilst a board makes it's way out there. Depending upon the power output of the drone, it could also tow the person holding onto the flotation device back into shore. Now if you have three on rotation, so one is always up in the air, all three can be deployed at the same time if necessary, more than one rescue at a time, and nearby beaches.
How about looking at IQ in behavioural terms. The greater ability to learn faster and understand their existence, how does that affect 120 plus, 130 plus and 140 plus. Do they perform differently because, they live in a different world, one of greater understanding and their goals are different as a result.
Like being happy, what is it to be happy, well, brain chemical flows and thought frequency rates are in what feels like the positive zone and short, medium and long term planning indicates that current actions will keep it there (over indulgence whilst producing more in the short term has worse medium and long term outcomes). This is based on bio-electric states and chemical process but once understanding grows, so an element of quantum particle energy conscious flows starts to impact thought. So getting my mind right by choice, achieving the most effective quantum conscious state that can be achieved by my particular gene pattern, in conjunction with prior brain states, so that more positive brain states can be achieved and sustained.
So can I more readily be happy by imagining a happier brain, establishing that pattern of thought and reinforcing with with things I like to do, like thinking and trying to understand without being bound up in what I am trying to understand, a nice snack or pleasant drink, mildly intoxicating substances, a good read. Apparently simply things amuse extremely complex minds, although trying to understand is very complex, actually doing it, sitting down and thinking for hours and hours on end is quite easy and for me quite fun.
So for me, controlling a bunch of mud monkeys in their wild and extreme beliefs is something to be very much avoided, whilst achieving a pleasant mind state by choice and then pondering problems and their solutions in an broad context, is fun. The difference between an IQ of 80 and one of 140 is a difference that reflects living in a completely different world (the one constructed in your mind by which you interact with what you think exists outside of your mind), one of empty beliefs and one of struggling to understand everything and drives different pleasures, ones of the physical and ones of thought.
I can live content in my own imagination (I don't need much and have no sick desire to accumulate much at everyone eles's expense), why would I try to force the world to fit my ego like the typical freaks you see running things because they demand control. I will pass my way, with the only goal of any real import to me, one of a positive life balance, where I contributed more to life than I consume from it because I can understand the quantum conscious state import of it (sink or rise as you choose). I am more content now, having abandoned the ego forced upon me in my youth by the corrupt and damaging impact of for profit psychological manipulation, modern marketing practices conducted by psychopaths and narcissists in the 120 range. I am repulsed by the idea of exploiting others of manipulating them and do enjoy striving to break down the structures and free people to their own thoughts and desires.
Lets get a grip on reality. There is no men's clothing and there is no women's clothing, those are marketing illusions created to sell product, targeting men differently to women. Once shape adjusted there is nothing to stop men wearing what are called womens clothing and women wearing what are called mens clothing. Clothing was also bound to job types ie protective clothing and this reflected in clothing choices away from the job, male or female. Now there are much greater barriers for men to wear clothing style for women, in fact banned in most work place and women wearing mens clothing totally fine in most work places, so forced clothing choices by accepted marketing conventions.
Why can't you wear a toga to work, why would you get fired for that choice, you are covered, you are comfortable, why are you denied choice to suit existing marketed trends. How much should you be able to choose when it comes to clothing, should you be penalised for not wearing clothing chosen by others for you, perhaps prison, whipping and not just having your future destroyed with long term unemployment. Why can others control the clothes you wear, why do you accept it, why is it reasonable to be so well, unreasonable.
All about security. The is a growing push for local tech production in all infrastructure areas, as a matter of state security. Source tech from another country and make no mistake that country owns your digital future, they can switch you off, dangerous stuff. With that push, so more countries will locally tech develop or set up trusted security partnerships with other countries (anyone who trust the US is a bloody idiot and the US has most emphatically proved that over the last couple of decades, absolutely not to be trusted and that is by it's own citizens as well, a sorry state of affairs).
The problem in reality is much simpler than that. PvP (what I like to call purse vs purse, think two people battering each other with their handbags who can spend the most), attracts arse holes. People who like to make other people miserable and for whom cheating is winning. Lets be real, most PvP gaming is about cheating, specifically selling cheats for real world dollars build in developer cheats, compete equally no, but this cheats, you know 20% at a time, 20% stronger, 20% tougher, 20% more powerful and 20% faster, hey it's only 20%, nope it's 80% plus compounding affect. The sell the opportunity to be an arseholes to wipe out the people who do not pay.
They are not opposed to cheating, they are just opposed to unlicensed cheating where they are not the one making money. Stat boosts, zero cost to them, total profit from your dollars and other players misery until they wake up and give up and the game dies, all psychopaths and no norms left to kill.
My solution, too easy, PvE only, the arseholes tend to stay away, you just work you way through at your own pace. Generally selling account improvements seems the way to go, new areas, new stories, better account features, storage, crafting (forget grindy stuff, if any part of you game is grindy than that part is just shite and should not be there at all, think you are making you game unappealing on purpose making it more difficult for you to sell).
PvP as a gaming style will always be problematic, from approved pay to win cheating, to hostile game play to illegal cheats and hacks, they draw that toxic player base (get you knickers out of a knot, in part, not in total but that part can be a large and dominating percentage and when norms give up the game dies not victims for the cheats to victimise and paid buffs are cheats make no mistake).
The real ballistic appropriate ballistic missiles response, bend over and kiss you arse goodbye, because fucker, you are going to kill you one way or another. No such things as one going off, one goes off, they all go off, no one can take any chance of being the one not to fire, so they all go, targeting everyone because even if you had none and fired none, those that fired and were fired upon, can not leave you to take over, that insanity goes with the territory of nuclear insanity. The insanity of believing you can survive, make no mistake you are dead if not immediately than within a short time there after.
Tsunami and hurricane warning sure, nuclear war warning, why fucking bother, seriously, who the fuck wants to die of old age in a hole in the ground, knowing that's all there is a whole in the ground you have already buried yourself it. Far smarter to immediately reach for that special joint you have been saving.
The crime was delusions of power, they believed their own advertising about their advertising abilities. Reality is, it was more about thought resonance. Consider the typical person's standing political thought state, a kind of endlessly repeating quite complex musical note. When it comes to group alignment, people automatically tend to resonate towards similar political notes, also while trying to drown out competing notes, attempting change them to align with their tune.
Facebook, like all databases, simply sorted those notes to aligning tunes, the individuals automatically gravitated to like groups. Now numbers, people, never ever forget numbers, specifically speaking fractions, percentages part of a whole and the larger the whole the larger the larger the parts. So start sorting hundreds of millions of people and a tiny percentage of radicals, say 1% who are normally nothing in a crowd of 100 ie 1 person, but when you a dealing with an online crowd of say one hundred million, that one is no longer a one but one million. Can you see where the corporate delusion comes in, they believed they created that million, rather than the reality of just that million self sorting into a group, a natural occurrence of like minded association, starting with a large number to be sorted.
The liars at Google know better but lie for profit, claiming to create those demand groups rather than just sorting what is all ready there, no one being sold anything, just identifying those who have already be sold of zero value to advertisers. So ohh, look much panic and ado about a 1 million some what radical people. More panic about the number, 1 million all of a sudden out of nowhere and less about how actually radical they are. This is then used to sell panic by all parties to generate all sorts of profit based upon all sorts of lies, whilst others just troll it, use and abuse it for fun, the illusion of it, create panic amongst the control freaks.
The larger the number you start with, the more you can make of it, start with 7.5 billion and teeny tiny percentages can become major forces for change. All of a sudden a million ants, start eating elephants and they came from no where.
You got the thugs, you choose and trained and allowed to write up imaginary policies (law enforcement policies are not law and should not be treated as such). Choose better people, train them properly a 2 year college degree, write laws to control them so they do not run around like freaks inventing their own policies, test for psychopathy and exclude in recruitment and existing and turn trigger happy law enforcer into peace keeping first responder in any and all emergencies and trained as such (fire, medical, societal and law, actual proper law training). Get rid of insane county based policing, huge waste of administrative costs, lack of uniform policing across the state hugely disadvantaging some citizens, poorly trained and often corrupt, turned into revenue streams preying on citizens.
In most sane countries, the proper response to non-active duty use of idle vehicles, as long as it was reasonable use, as long as the vehicle was not actively needed, as long as permission was sought and idle use was approved and knowledge of the vehicle location maintained should use be necessary (logically also involving the person in question), the job is tough and high stress, perks like this improve working conditions and make for better officers as long as it is not abused, as long as the public does not hate it's law enforcers who in turn hate the public.
Want even better officers, managed negative contact hours ie for each negative contact hour, arresting someone, active confrontational policing provided an hour of non-negative contact time, visiting works place and places or residence to establish working relationships with citizens, getting to know your police and your police getting to know you, supporting, managing and securing local public recreational facilities to promote healthy social use (yeah police should actively be trying to creating healthier more peaceful communities, through positive reinforcing actions).
You want a better society you have to make it, you can not buy, sell or trade it, that's a corrupt society and it eats itself rather than producing more for it's citizens.
Defend it, all too easy. Fact, government secrecy is an anathema to democracy. Every citizen has 100% right to all information about their government, that would affect the vote of that citizen. For the government to use the tax payers money, to keep secrets from the tax payer (keep in bloody mind who works for whom) that would affect the vote of the citizens is an electoral crime and a denial of the right of citizens to a fair vote. Democracy based upon lies is no Democracy, it is an autocracy controlled by those that tell the lies and that includes lies of omission.
I would struggle with the nature of the person, living a lie. There is nothing wrong with expressing yourself in a gender based manner which suits your personality but you should not need to pretend to be the other gender (there are elements within society, that force gender behavioural norms, that prevent people from expressing themselves in what ever gender based manner they prefer, without also being forced to pretend to be that gender, the expression is individual, the gender change is forced by societies demanded gender behavioural norms, clothing, behaviour, speech).
The freedom to express yourself in a more masculine or feminine fashion, should not also require that you attempt to change sex to be accepted but society still struggles with more feminine men, not so much with more masculine women, they get more acceptance and hence the need to change to the other sign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., tends to occur a lot less. Ohh and James Damore has every right to sue the living crap out of the arse holes at Google.
Catch is by playing at amateur build, they end up being very low performance and all they will do now is antagonise reciprocal returns, except others might not choose the amateur game and on their side, well, nobody likes the Americans any more and it wouldn't take much of a bounty to get them all sorts of criminals to act that the Americans foolishly trained, it tends to be the regions hobby, so picking up a quick buck for turning Americans into sitting ducks, well.
Expect high performance military drones to performance will beyond the abilities of intelligence agency mock ups. But there is also AMERICAN anti-tank missiles etc. that the US/Saudi/Israeli governments supplied to terrorists, that were captured and could now be returned well in part. Don't play a game, where they support is opposed and is for sale to the current bidder, long term loyalty not a thing for them, not much at all beyond family in fact and the US has managed to kill quite a few of them.
So let me get that straight, a crazy tall Asian women (equal opportunity imagination) walks down a street and punches 50 passes by (http://scienceblogs.com/whitecoatunderground/2009/03/18/a-simple-bump-on-the-head-can/ and http://www.smh.com.au/national...), failing at intent should not be rewarded.
As in this case, they stole as much as they possibly felt they could get away with from as many people as possible, also cheating their shareholders and investors and honest staff, all who have to pay a much greater economic price. That fine, just what the bullshit, that's fine is now a free loan, at least charge interest on the fine but in reality double is the norm, you pay back not only what you stole but the same again as the penalty (there is zero penalty in the first part of the fine, you are just returning what you stole, so not a fine at all).
Look, wake up to yourselves. Nobody buys the propaganda any more. What Trump says is exactly what the US has done for decades. Democracy and justice, nope, turning countries into shit holes that US corporations can ruthlessly exploit, stealing the resources and using slave labour to do it. A straight up continuation of imperialistic policies from the monarchists, unlike the Belgies cutting off hands the US fires missiles from drones into unsuspecting populations when their obedience quotient falls short.
Trump has been a breath of fresh air, or is that just the true miasma from the shadow government swamp, the truth about the reality US foreign policy for all to see. People are starting to wonder if he is doing it on purpose, talking exactly the way the US government actually behaves instead of Uncle Tom Obamas sweet talking bullshit whilst he was doing exactly the same things, after Bush/Clinton/Bush did the same things, just getting worse all the time.
Typical SJW shite, which in reality in falsely claiming to be the left, a great big ole fat deep state lie, their only real function is not progressivism (just look a screeching women demanding equal high pay, but totally silent about men and women on the most unequal pay, the minimum wage, feminists don't wont to end that exploitation, they want to become the exploiters), the sole function of the SJWs is to deny workers a political party, that is why the screeching morons were created, to ensure no workers party in the USA, the majority denied a voice by the screechers of the SJW puppet community.
Who cares about where open source started or M$ using PR=B$ people to distort it to open sores, a cancer, preferred by organised crime, communist, a virus (lest we forget their true nature). Where is it going and the obvious place is in open coding standards to ensure interoperability something which M$ tried to kill in the most corrupt, self serving and destructive manner imaginable, the active corruption of international standards bodies.
What is open source software really about in the future, about creating internal coding standards for various main computer elements, to minimise overhead and administrative costs, ensure interoperability, and to enhance durability, stability and security. The basics being a coding language, spreadsheet, database, word processor, cad/cam, graphics, communications (internet et al) and server systems.
Creating systems to go forward but still maintain existing protocols and of course minimising cost, paying once instead of the demands of infinite greed ie paying an infinite number of times, a wildly insane burden upon human society and an extreme corruption of capitalism ie paying for the same thing over and over instead of just once.
Let's be honest, it is all about dishonesty. What is the nature of the current cryptocurrency market, it's dishonesty, about cheating taxes, about ponzi scheme, it's about funding criminal operations, not all of it but well and truly sufficient of it to attract criminals to it in droves. That means criminal investors, criminal business and criminal employees. With regard to fraud in that environment, look not further than it's own members. First suspect in all cryptocurrency frauds, have to be it's employees and business operators, they have to prove their innocence, not requiring them, 100% enables them to cheat the system, they designed and control, the required inside knowledge, to exploit the system internally and externally. Shit wages, not a problem, just fill your pockets, owners, managers, tech staff, even janitors (people leave passwords all over). It is the nature of that business, that they must prove their innocence, otherwise you schmucks are going to get ripped of again and again and again.
Only in the USA and other countries with third world legal systems. In other countries where loser pays ie the loser in a civil suit pays the winners court costs based upon recognised rates (no legal fee inflation). So far less likely to play games with lawyers and courts. Of course the US legal system is also really corrupt, where by certain cases are tried in certain locations, where judges have a known bias and also in location where they are elected by campaign donations from companies likely to trigger litigation by the exploitative behaviour. Note all the legal games in the US vs other countries with loser pay laws, civil suits for psychological harassment using the legal, you can get sued to attempting to sue someone just to harass them (no ability or intention to win, just harass them via the court) and face criminal penalties for abusing the civil legal system.
I can understand why they are whiny. I have hundreds of sci fi books but I have not bought any in decades. I do all my reading for free on the internet. Which might sound like I am backing their argument but the reality is, I read no sci fi books on the internet. I read everything else, there are billions upon billions of pages, there are hours of interaction well beyond a whole life times worth on the internet. The only time I touch a sci fi book now, is when I know I will be stuck for sometime in real life and reading for me is the best escape. I have not bought a book in well over a decade, sorry but the dead tree stuff doesn't do it for me any more compared to the internet. I don't need that escape when I can interact with the internet. People like me a buying a whole lot less books and I already have a collection that will last me well beyond any occasional need that I have. Right now, when I need a break form the internet, I don't read a book, I go for a walk. I have not read a book in over two years, not because I hate reading, I really enjoy it but the internet makes for a much better reader than a book, and I have simply not been trapped anywhere, where I need to fill time by reading a book.
How about this. Consider it a subsistence existence payment. The payment for denying the people the right to subsist by being a hunter gatherer. What right do you claim to be able starve people to death, by denying them a subsistence existence and killing them slowly in prison or fast with a bullet should they dare to attempt a hunter gatherer existence. By what right do you claim to be able to force slave labour or starvation and any claim on that right also provides a claim on the right for people to kill anyone who attempts to deny them a subsistence existence. A human being has a right to exist and the right is expressed by being able to exist to survive, not to be turned into a slave via threat of starvation, imprisonment until death or summary execution.
The simplest definition of capitalism, 'my capital worth is worth more than you life', in fact as many people as need to perish in order to preserve my capital value and that is the fact of capitalism, the legalisation of capital worth being greater than human worth.
In the history of forever, whenever bureaucracies fuck up - 'blame the new guy'. Someone thought it was a good idea and did it, likely for political reasons, it went down way worse than they thought and... So what was the follow up marketing meant to about, obviously stoking war fears, real war fears. Who was playing, drive war fears as an FCC distraction, make more War Industrial Complex funding more palatable, attack property values in Honolulu (Pearl Harbour is the number one target in the US and make no mistake but why force the reminder).
They had better show some images of this magic, make an entire city panic, cause harm and suffering and even death as people try to escape, button with no safety features, otherwise I just wont believe. They were going to try something on, they still might in the next few weeks, some kind of PR=B$ stunt to push an agenda.
Of course if you were going to be that destructive, much safer to drive around in a white diesel van with an PTO and an electromagnetic pulse generator and simply cause wide spread chaos on the move. Pretty hard to track you down, as all the tracking systems and agencies go down and you are only noticeable by the fact you are still moving, whilst everything else is coming to a halt with the damage and impact tied to the power output of your EMP device and how many kilometres you can travel with it pulsing away. Don't do this, it would be bad, seriously but you know where this is going been said again and again. When governments hack governments, the next step is EMP attacks, it is inevitable that it will escalate to this and you can bet corporations will attack corporations, billions at stake.
Lets not drift all over the place with foreign students versus specifically students from China. Why could so many afford school in the US, well, because the government of China was paying and why were they paying because the government of China plays the long game, as well as the short and medium game. Train them in the US, to get a job in the US and to 'well', you get the spy vs spy ramifications. Why are the going back in numbers, maybe because the US is entirely corrupt and it is simply cheaper to buy what ever info or action you want from a US contractor totally willing to betray their country for profit, why not their bosses do, as do the lobbyists who the bosses pay and as do the politician who the lobbyists in turn pay. Cheapest way to spy on and corrupt the US government, pay lobbyists to do it for you or find those who will do it for them. Don't pay and those lobbyists will arrange attacks upon you for cheating them out of their rightful money. The Russian government learnt from that mistake and now pay much more attention to the model developed by the Israeli Mossad to turn the US government into a puppet state (those guys have Americans so bum fucked it's becoming an embarrassment for other US partners).
Maybe others are just reading the writing on the wall and taking the long term view, which many Chinese do and most Americans do not. American is getting worse and worse becoming more and more an entirely corrupt fascist state and China is getting better and better, so long term bet, you are probably better off in China or say, even better work in China and live part time in say, Australia, some thing becoming increasingly popular in China. Yeah, USA, not so number one any more and drifting further and further down the charts. Yep more defence spending and less infrastructure spending will save you, sure. Just remember you must obey Israel first, they have paid for their control and will publicly ruthlessly punish any who disobey and this from the top down, this via their total control of US main stream media, RT foreign agent, what a joke Time/Disney/VIA/NBC/CBS/NEWS they are the foreign agents on the payroll of foreign corporations and governments and you people are schmucks for letting it happen.
Technically, a government of the people by the people and of the people, should have all the power. So yes the government should be all powerful but the government should be of the people. What needs to happens is higher up the food chain you go, the less privacy you should be entitled to. At the top, zero privacy, if you want a private life, leave. What is happening is corruption, a government of the elite by the elite and for the elite and protecting their privacy, the evidence of their crimes, whilst invading our privacy to control us, not for the benefit of society, that is the lie but for their own benefit, to exploit us.
The government should have power but the people should control the government, so in reality the people have the power. I definitely approve the top down invasion of privacy model. Want privacy, do not take on any kind of public role.
Have someone else commit rape and murder for you, kind of makes no sense. The rape bit was the intent, the murder bit was to get away with rape ie to the individual other people are just disposable, no value beyond how they can be used and abused. Forget phone stuff, how about testing for psychopathy before they are let into the country. Trial and prosecution well and good but still a person horribly abused and they killed for convenience, if the attacker had been tested before being let into the country and banned as a psychopath, the victim would not have become a victim nor the tens of thousands of others. Simply test for psychopathy prior to allowing entry for all refugees and immigrants and save the lives of thousands and save the suffering of millions. Psychopaths do not commit just one crime but routinely commit crime, daily, weekly, monthly, of never mind to them, as long as they believe they can get away with the crime, they will commit the crime, no matter how viscous, ugly or petty ie kill someone so that you can get away with raping them.
Well, technically there is a way to actively kill bitcoin and it's ilk basically get it banned world wide and it works like this. You create an energy backed cryptocurrency. This cryptocurrency is issued by energy corporations and is basically backed by kWh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... So whether they are oil, coal, gas, nuclear, wind, solar, tidal, hydroelectric, they all are enabled to sell energy futures, they future supply of kWh of energy as that krypto currency, not just any energy but a priority of supply, free of corrupting intervention, have your kWh of cryptocurrency from a registered corporation and you have your energy, either directly or indirectly via trading with other corporations. There would be variations in value of the kWh because obviously oil is harder to use than electricity, so electricity would have the highest dollar value.
This allows energy companies to trade energy generation risk, so oil companies can trade their coins against hydroelectric, at what ever the exchange rate is. Individuals would also be able to invest ie buying coins to invest in future energy purchases, either directly or trading. So you now have a backed crypto currencies, competing against unbacked crypto currencies. You should be able to see where this is heading.
This allows the fossil fuellers to offset future losses as a result of the growing undesirability of their energy source by trading it for other energy source cryptocurrencies, which is currently of enormous concern. Why does it kill bitcoin because the fossil fuellers loath competition and to make their coin look way better ie backed with the future value of energy, could be quite a useful investment for the right energy types versus shitty cryptocurrency backed by nothing but marketing, basically pretty much pretend hot air (they don't have any actual hot air to trade).
So energy futures cryptocurrencies issued by corporations on a regulated exchange, to balance out future energy disruptions, would kill marketing based unbacked crypto currencies. You could of course still trade those on the sly and because they are backed, they could make real coins with an embedded chip which validates the coin, not cheap, those coins would be around the hundred to a thousand dollar range at initial issue. Some people want that investment in their hands, not in the hands of traders who when they seem to have enough, always get raided by insiders 'er' outsiders, yeah prove it, they have the millions now or is it nothing now. Energy backed cryptocurrencies will kill unbacked cryptocurrencies and they will do it on purpose via lobbyists, you have been warned.