Hitler was a fascist, which is neither left nor right in outlook...
Eh, once you start using various dichotomies for social issues, it all gets confusing as it applies in different ways, especially over time. Typically political right is considered authoritarian, left egalitarian. Economic right is considered capitalist and left socialist. Religious is some sort of theology and the left secular. Even those are going to change due to the context and subject of any particular discusion. That's the problem when you come up with an either/or terms to describe everything. Of course, the real meaning of right is siding with the king and left is against the king.
The casinos are chock-full of people sitting around pumping money into slot machines. You really think those people will give a shit if their free drinks come from a robot? They're already glued to one.
Certainly do. I hit the cheap slots. Following the advise of friends that lived in Vegas, I tip the person that gives me my free drinks. Just a dollar. I then notice that my free drinks keep coming faster and faster. I'll end up drinking more in my last 15 minutes on the slots than my first hour and still pay less than a single drink in the bar. I doubt it will work that way with a robot.
They meant "docked", but you'll have to forgive the AC. English isn't their first language and Russians have a hard time pronouncing the sound of the letter D.
That, and if your auto hits a fat rabbit at 112 mph, you and mother are going to arrive at the hospital in another vehicle... one with lights and a siren.
From experience in driving through Arizona, only if you swerve. Hit a rabbit at high speed and you and your car probably won't notice except for the thumping sound on the floorboard. What really kills people is when they try and swerve to miss the rabbit at 112 mph. Jerk the wheel to the side all of a sudden, and that will cause the car to lose control and roll. Everybody in the area is taught to just go straight through and not swerve to try and miss the rabbits. Just listen to their little bodies thump under the car in anguish. Now the cows that end up on the highways because it is all freerange. Those will kill you at much lower speeds than 112 mph as they are just high enough on their legs for their 600 pound bodies to go through the front windshield.
I left the Midwest because - like this week - it will be -30 degrees. F*ck that. I'm in Seattle...
You moved to Seattle for the weather? The last time I was there it was late summer, I had to wear a jacket, the sky was perpetually overcast, and the mountains still had passes closed with 7 feet of snow. Now, eastern Washington had some amazing weather and was actually pretty.
I moved for the weather. Forget 100+ weather in the summer, -30 wind chill in the winter, and tornados between of the great plains states. Seattle may require a jacket in late summer, but that's pretty much all it requires all winter too. The passes are relatively a long way away and at altitudes that have no bearing on the rest of the Puget Sound sea level area. I also prefer the soothing overcast to the oppressive, blinding sun. Meanwhile, eastern Washington will get you some of that seven feet of snow that is falling on the passes all winter long, and I don't think it's pretty at all. Much rather have the trees, mountains and ocean than blasted plains.
The only reason that most of us have to drive in is because we have to many PHB that don't understand the how the technical infrastructure works.
I wish that was true. I'm the employee facing bit of IT and it seems more and more the only way I can get things done for people after filling out work tickets, waiting three times the stated SLA, escalating, direct emails, having my manager talk to their manager, etc. is to actually walk over to a person's desk and ask if they can do it. Then it gets done.
No it's not. How it is supposed to work is that when rental prices start to spike in a community developers see the increasing profit potential of an area and increase development.
Kinda sorta. That's pretty much what has happened in Seattle where it seems one in six buildings has been torn with a newer high rise being built in it's place. The trouble is that nobody is going to build cheap housing*. Even the new studio lofts I looked were not only brand new with all the modern conveinences, but more than twice what a larger, older apartment was going for. Studies have bene done to show that the cost of housing is not rising as fast as it would it these weren't being built, but it's still going up faster than many people and their pay checks can cope. People with decent jobs are still being forced to move away. I was lucky enough to already have been set up ready to purchase and did so with a fixed rate mortgage. I have a decent job that makes enough to actually get more money back with the Republican tax bill this year, but my rent was already getting to the point it was forcing me out of the city center from an old apartment whose owners were trying to keep prices down in favor of long term tenants (I had been there 17 years when I left and several tenants longer than 20).
*Well, the city is building some. It's still just under 2000 units for mostly really poor families.
The InSight rover is less than 1000 pounds, costs less than $1 billion, and construction started in 2014. Let's compare that to a realistic human mission.
A realistic human mission will take about $200 Billion and 30 years for four people to have four months of boots on Mars. That equates to about 200 robot mission to Mars and if the past mars missions, those will get at least a year of service each. We'll assume that's over the same 30 years. This equates to 1.33 man years of research on Mars* versus 200 robot years. Sort of boils down to "Are humans 150 times more efficient than robots at the tasks needed on Mars?" Perhaps on Earth, but there is a lot of time taken up in moving on Mars, dealing with airlocks, and being just as careful as the robots would be. We would probalby have to take a look at the moon missions to see how well those astronauts preformed their tasks to get an idea. We could look at how well previous Mars probes did theirs. Then you could compare and try and get an estimate of which would result in more actual data and the quality of that data.
*Sure, they could leave some equipment on Mars to, but it would be a very small bit of their payload and people will be sleeping at least a third of the time they're on Mars. We'll just call it a wash.
I drive a MINI with the speedometer in the middle of the dash, that is not a problem at all after a day or two.
I'm sure it depends on the person. My girlfriend's car has a center mounted speedometer and I drive it about every other week, including on 1500 mile road trips because she doesn't like to drive and I do. Can't stand it. Wouldn't mind a Tesla, but got in one and knew I'd never buy one just because of the center dash speedo. Perhaps if they get a HUD on the windshield in the future.
I went back and looked to see why they changed it, as usually, when things get changed, there is a reason and unless that has changed, those reasons will just pop back up again. Turns out a major reason for the change was partisan bickering at the state level, where one party would sabotage another party's choice for the senate to the point of forgoing that senate seat. This was causing a disfunctional senate. Since partisan bickering probably hasn't stopped, Id' say we'd just run into the same issues that caused us to change it the first time.
While San Francisco is a big city, that just feels like a big number to me.
Not really to me. My department uses three systems and just to upgrade one of them with the same vendor from one version to the next was around 12-15 million. That's for new servers, deployment team, trainers, vendor support, etc. Any changes needed to the actual server room because of need for better HVAC, user computers, or something like that would be extra. Now, that's for a pretty large system of servers handling the main cluster, reporting, back ups, web serving, file server and archives, etc. Start talking about going from an ancient system to a new one, the project is probably going to be a year plus and have to start with figuring out decades old workflow that isn't documented, data models and conversion, and other stuff before the servers even come up.
Somewhere i got the impression that the US Navy is already building an automated war ship. i would be shocked if they have not done so.
I would be. At least for one of any size. Until they develop systems that can do damage control, fix what is broken, put out fires, stopper leaks, etc, combat ships will have crews.
This is exactly correct. There is no ethical downside to this. (At the current level of tech).
Reminds me of a story by Robert Sheckley. The Apocalypse has come the devil is attacking. Humanity sends out it's robot legions to fight the devil and eventually defeat him. God arrives, the angels sing, and all the robots are lifted up to heaven.
Why didn't the ships in Star Wars auto-fly and auto-target/kill?
Spielberg didn't see the future. James Cameron sort of got it with Terminator, except the machines weren't very good shots.
Mostly due to prejudice against droids. The Star Wars universe was highly automated. So much that a force of one million men made a difference in a galactic battle. Remember that the combat forces for just one nation in WW2 could ranging in the double digits of millions. The actual number of working humans on the Death Star was probably not near as high as some people suspect with most of the thing just being automated machine. Spielberg saw the future and it was more like Dune or The Culture than Terminator. Humans struggling at any cost to maintain their supremacy over AI, probably by limiting those AIs at the manufacturing points.
Ya, everybody knows most of these cassettes just end up on a shelf or in a box. According to the music podcasts I listen to, people just want a physical product to buy at concerts, and all these cassettes come with download codes for the digital version. I'm sure some people listen to them and understand there's no lack of cassette players still on the market. Personally, having lived though that era, I'd prefer tapes over vinyl, but I'm also not a DJ.
This is why Slashdot has a Flamebait mod. It's often abused as an "I disagree" mod, but this sort of thing is what it's intended for.
I would disagree, at least with how such terms have been defined over my time on the interwebs. Flamebait is usually written up as a seemingly calm statement that might even have some merit in certain cases, but is put forth by a person who is arguing in bad faith. They don't actually care about the topic. They probably won't even chime in on the topic again. They just want to start an argument by raising a topic that others will argue about usually justifying their actions by "just wanting to have a discussion." Their posts are often just a highly arguable opinion with nothing to actually back up their opinion. This would be like somebody coming to/. and stating how much better emacs is over vi. The above would be a troll. They are obviously trying to goad somebody into a fight which they will continue.
Of course, I could be wrong. Just recently, it seems I've been using the swapped definitions of family room and living room all my life.
The war was pretty much won by the time the bombs were dropped. *snip*
Well, the war was won, and Japan was a dead man walking, but they surrendered because of the bombs. Their previous "surrender offers" had been pretty much an offer to return to 1937 borders and pretend WW2 never happened. Japan surrendered, and only then after a coup attempt by parts of the military, because the Emperor decided to surrender. The Emperor has stated that his reason to surrender was because of the bombs. Ironically, this may have been because of Japan's use of torture. They had a captured American and wanted to know how many atomic bombs the US had ready to go. Not accepting his answer he didn't know anything, they kept torturing him till he told them "100". They decided to believe that.
The term "Deep State" is about as meaningless as "snowflake," "libertard," and other stupid motherfucking words that you use as placeholders for knowledge.
IME, usage of the term "deep state" usually either refers to the 'rule of law' and dislike that they can't just do whatever they like, or because they aren't intelligent enough to spell Illuminati.
This is an april fools joke right? Who would greenlight this?
Or did Southpark acquire DC comics? Will Jesus defeat Santa Claus?
Vertigo Comics. Way back in the 80's, DC hired some writers who started doing stories for older audiences. One of these was Neil Gaiman who did Sandman off of DC characters but added his own. He's done several movies you've probably heard of and currently known for his books and TV show, American Gods. Anywa, there was still a Comics Code which prevented pretty much everything stories for older readers might want, so DC spun off the applicable series into Vertigo Comics which would not adhere to the Comics Code. They currently do mostly non-superhero stories and often in short series that is over once completed. THis sort of thing is right up their alley, and no doubt acts as a test market for what the DC parent company can or can't get away with, which was the original intention.
Otherwise, you can always just go read the God Is Dead comic where all the gods, including Jesus, reappear on the world, and the (non-domgmatic) apocalypse that happens afterwards.
Supposedly, they'll preview one at WWDC in June. However, don't expect it till 2020. You also might not get hopes up about a tower. They are saying a modular, upgradable Mac Pro. Chances are it will have to be a tower, but they always might spring some other form factor. They have certainly done desktops and pizza boxes before.
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For example, China is in real danger (maybe already happened) of a private company taking over their national payments infrastructure and going out of control.
Well, in China, if the private company doesn't do what the government asks, the top person gets arrested for corruption and the government deals with their replacement. However, chances are the owner of the company is somebody high up in the government anyway, and there is no danger unless that person falls out of grace.
True enough. Nobody is even thinking about long term space habitats, the composite shielding that will be needed, more reliable and efficient water, food, and atmosphere systems, fuel generation on Mars, or many of the other tech that will need to be developed to make that trip. We're still about two years out from getting the BFR into space. There will be time to refine to its equivilant of Black 5, as well as testing for landing and take off again from Mars that will happen after we have Mars side re-fueling worked out. But really, this can all be seen in that nobody is spending any real money on getting to Mars. Musk, in all his optimism still expects a Mars mission to cost around $200 billion. Until we see somebody willign to pay $20/year to go to Mars for the next decade, nobody is even trying to get there in ten years (let alone to find out they can't). NASA already told Trump they can't get to Mars in 8 years with unlimited funds, and I doubt that the extra two years would make a difference.
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Hitler was a fascist, which is neither left nor right in outlook...
Eh, once you start using various dichotomies for social issues, it all gets confusing as it applies in different ways, especially over time. Typically political right is considered authoritarian, left egalitarian. Economic right is considered capitalist and left socialist. Religious is some sort of theology and the left secular. Even those are going to change due to the context and subject of any particular discusion. That's the problem when you come up with an either/or terms to describe everything. Of course, the real meaning of right is siding with the king and left is against the king.
The casinos are chock-full of people sitting around pumping money into slot machines. You really think those people will give a shit if their free drinks come from a robot? They're already glued to one.
Certainly do. I hit the cheap slots. Following the advise of friends that lived in Vegas, I tip the person that gives me my free drinks. Just a dollar. I then notice that my free drinks keep coming faster and faster. I'll end up drinking more in my last 15 minutes on the slots than my first hour and still pay less than a single drink in the bar. I doubt it will work that way with a robot.
Uh.. the capsule socked on it's own
They meant "docked", but you'll have to forgive the AC. English isn't their first language and Russians have a hard time pronouncing the sound of the letter D.
Facebook should be killed with fire, not broken up where it can turn back into itself like the Terminator from Terminator 2.)
Kill Facebook and something else will just take its place and do the exact same thing, unless you've addressed the fundamental issues first.
That, and if your auto hits a fat rabbit at 112 mph, you and mother are going to arrive at the hospital in another vehicle... one with lights and a siren.
From experience in driving through Arizona, only if you swerve. Hit a rabbit at high speed and you and your car probably won't notice except for the thumping sound on the floorboard. What really kills people is when they try and swerve to miss the rabbit at 112 mph. Jerk the wheel to the side all of a sudden, and that will cause the car to lose control and roll. Everybody in the area is taught to just go straight through and not swerve to try and miss the rabbits. Just listen to their little bodies thump under the car in anguish. Now the cows that end up on the highways because it is all freerange. Those will kill you at much lower speeds than 112 mph as they are just high enough on their legs for their 600 pound bodies to go through the front windshield.
I left the Midwest because - like this week - it will be -30 degrees. F*ck that. I'm in Seattle...
You moved to Seattle for the weather? The last time I was there it was late summer, I had to wear a jacket, the sky was perpetually overcast, and the mountains still had passes closed with 7 feet of snow. Now, eastern Washington had some amazing weather and was actually pretty.
I moved for the weather. Forget 100+ weather in the summer, -30 wind chill in the winter, and tornados between of the great plains states. Seattle may require a jacket in late summer, but that's pretty much all it requires all winter too. The passes are relatively a long way away and at altitudes that have no bearing on the rest of the Puget Sound sea level area. I also prefer the soothing overcast to the oppressive, blinding sun. Meanwhile, eastern Washington will get you some of that seven feet of snow that is falling on the passes all winter long, and I don't think it's pretty at all. Much rather have the trees, mountains and ocean than blasted plains.
The only reason that most of us have to drive in is because we have to many PHB that don't understand the how the technical infrastructure works.
I wish that was true. I'm the employee facing bit of IT and it seems more and more the only way I can get things done for people after filling out work tickets, waiting three times the stated SLA, escalating, direct emails, having my manager talk to their manager, etc. is to actually walk over to a person's desk and ask if they can do it. Then it gets done.
No it's not. How it is supposed to work is that when rental prices start to spike in a community developers see the increasing profit potential of an area and increase development.
Kinda sorta. That's pretty much what has happened in Seattle where it seems one in six buildings has been torn with a newer high rise being built in it's place. The trouble is that nobody is going to build cheap housing*. Even the new studio lofts I looked were not only brand new with all the modern conveinences, but more than twice what a larger, older apartment was going for. Studies have bene done to show that the cost of housing is not rising as fast as it would it these weren't being built, but it's still going up faster than many people and their pay checks can cope. People with decent jobs are still being forced to move away. I was lucky enough to already have been set up ready to purchase and did so with a fixed rate mortgage. I have a decent job that makes enough to actually get more money back with the Republican tax bill this year, but my rent was already getting to the point it was forcing me out of the city center from an old apartment whose owners were trying to keep prices down in favor of long term tenants (I had been there 17 years when I left and several tenants longer than 20).
*Well, the city is building some. It's still just under 2000 units for mostly really poor families.
The InSight rover is less than 1000 pounds, costs less than $1 billion, and construction started in 2014. Let's compare that to a realistic human mission.
A realistic human mission will take about $200 Billion and 30 years for four people to have four months of boots on Mars. That equates to about 200 robot mission to Mars and if the past mars missions, those will get at least a year of service each. We'll assume that's over the same 30 years. This equates to 1.33 man years of research on Mars* versus 200 robot years. Sort of boils down to "Are humans 150 times more efficient than robots at the tasks needed on Mars?" Perhaps on Earth, but there is a lot of time taken up in moving on Mars, dealing with airlocks, and being just as careful as the robots would be. We would probalby have to take a look at the moon missions to see how well those astronauts preformed their tasks to get an idea. We could look at how well previous Mars probes did theirs. Then you could compare and try and get an estimate of which would result in more actual data and the quality of that data.
*Sure, they could leave some equipment on Mars to, but it would be a very small bit of their payload and people will be sleeping at least a third of the time they're on Mars. We'll just call it a wash.
If you want post-it notes or highlighters, a stapler or tape, that requires a manager's approval.
It's quicker, easier, and more likely to get permission (after the fact) just to steal them off the manager's desk.
I drive a MINI with the speedometer in the middle of the dash, that is not a problem at all after a day or two.
I'm sure it depends on the person. My girlfriend's car has a center mounted speedometer and I drive it about every other week, including on 1500 mile road trips because she doesn't like to drive and I do. Can't stand it. Wouldn't mind a Tesla, but got in one and knew I'd never buy one just because of the center dash speedo. Perhaps if they get a HUD on the windshield in the future.
I think they had it right the first time around.
I went back and looked to see why they changed it, as usually, when things get changed, there is a reason and unless that has changed, those reasons will just pop back up again. Turns out a major reason for the change was partisan bickering at the state level, where one party would sabotage another party's choice for the senate to the point of forgoing that senate seat. This was causing a disfunctional senate. Since partisan bickering probably hasn't stopped, Id' say we'd just run into the same issues that caused us to change it the first time.
While San Francisco is a big city, that just feels like a big number to me.
Not really to me. My department uses three systems and just to upgrade one of them with the same vendor from one version to the next was around 12-15 million. That's for new servers, deployment team, trainers, vendor support, etc. Any changes needed to the actual server room because of need for better HVAC, user computers, or something like that would be extra. Now, that's for a pretty large system of servers handling the main cluster, reporting, back ups, web serving, file server and archives, etc. Start talking about going from an ancient system to a new one, the project is probably going to be a year plus and have to start with figuring out decades old workflow that isn't documented, data models and conversion, and other stuff before the servers even come up.
Somewhere i got the impression that the US Navy is already building an automated war ship. i would be shocked if they have not done so.
I would be. At least for one of any size. Until they develop systems that can do damage control, fix what is broken, put out fires, stopper leaks, etc, combat ships will have crews.
This is exactly correct. There is no ethical downside to this. (At the current level of tech).
Reminds me of a story by Robert Sheckley. The Apocalypse has come the devil is attacking. Humanity sends out it's robot legions to fight the devil and eventually defeat him. God arrives, the angels sing, and all the robots are lifted up to heaven.
Why didn't the ships in Star Wars auto-fly and auto-target/kill?
Spielberg didn't see the future. James Cameron sort of got it with Terminator, except the machines weren't very good shots.
Mostly due to prejudice against droids. The Star Wars universe was highly automated. So much that a force of one million men made a difference in a galactic battle. Remember that the combat forces for just one nation in WW2 could ranging in the double digits of millions. The actual number of working humans on the Death Star was probably not near as high as some people suspect with most of the thing just being automated machine. Spielberg saw the future and it was more like Dune or The Culture than Terminator. Humans struggling at any cost to maintain their supremacy over AI, probably by limiting those AIs at the manufacturing points.
Ya, everybody knows most of these cassettes just end up on a shelf or in a box. According to the music podcasts I listen to, people just want a physical product to buy at concerts, and all these cassettes come with download codes for the digital version. I'm sure some people listen to them and understand there's no lack of cassette players still on the market. Personally, having lived though that era, I'd prefer tapes over vinyl, but I'm also not a DJ.
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This is why Slashdot has a Flamebait mod. It's often abused as an "I disagree" mod, but this sort of thing is what it's intended for.
I would disagree, at least with how such terms have been defined over my time on the interwebs. Flamebait is usually written up as a seemingly calm statement that might even have some merit in certain cases, but is put forth by a person who is arguing in bad faith. They don't actually care about the topic. They probably won't even chime in on the topic again. They just want to start an argument by raising a topic that others will argue about usually justifying their actions by "just wanting to have a discussion." Their posts are often just a highly arguable opinion with nothing to actually back up their opinion. This would be like somebody coming to /. and stating how much better emacs is over vi. The above would be a troll. They are obviously trying to goad somebody into a fight which they will continue.
Of course, I could be wrong. Just recently, it seems I've been using the swapped definitions of family room and living room all my life.
The war was pretty much won by the time the bombs were dropped. *snip*
Well, the war was won, and Japan was a dead man walking, but they surrendered because of the bombs. Their previous "surrender offers" had been pretty much an offer to return to 1937 borders and pretend WW2 never happened. Japan surrendered, and only then after a coup attempt by parts of the military, because the Emperor decided to surrender. The Emperor has stated that his reason to surrender was because of the bombs. Ironically, this may have been because of Japan's use of torture. They had a captured American and wanted to know how many atomic bombs the US had ready to go. Not accepting his answer he didn't know anything, they kept torturing him till he told them "100". They decided to believe that.
The term "Deep State" is about as meaningless as "snowflake," "libertard," and other stupid motherfucking words that you use as placeholders for knowledge.
IME, usage of the term "deep state" usually either refers to the 'rule of law' and dislike that they can't just do whatever they like, or because they aren't intelligent enough to spell Illuminati.
This is an april fools joke right? Who would greenlight this?
Or did Southpark acquire DC comics? Will Jesus defeat Santa Claus?
Vertigo Comics. Way back in the 80's, DC hired some writers who started doing stories for older audiences. One of these was Neil Gaiman who did Sandman off of DC characters but added his own. He's done several movies you've probably heard of and currently known for his books and TV show, American Gods. Anywa, there was still a Comics Code which prevented pretty much everything stories for older readers might want, so DC spun off the applicable series into Vertigo Comics which would not adhere to the Comics Code. They currently do mostly non-superhero stories and often in short series that is over once completed. THis sort of thing is right up their alley, and no doubt acts as a test market for what the DC parent company can or can't get away with, which was the original intention.
Otherwise, you can always just go read the God Is Dead comic where all the gods, including Jesus, reappear on the world, and the (non-domgmatic) apocalypse that happens afterwards.
Wharrr. Wharrr pro tower?
Supposedly, they'll preview one at WWDC in June. However, don't expect it till 2020. You also might not get hopes up about a tower. They are saying a modular, upgradable Mac Pro. Chances are it will have to be a tower, but they always might spring some other form factor. They have certainly done desktops and pizza boxes before.
I For example, China is in real danger (maybe already happened) of a private company taking over their national payments infrastructure and going out of control.
Well, in China, if the private company doesn't do what the government asks, the top person gets arrested for corruption and the government deals with their replacement. However, chances are the owner of the company is somebody high up in the government anyway, and there is no danger unless that person falls out of grace.
A rocket is the easy part.
True enough. Nobody is even thinking about long term space habitats, the composite shielding that will be needed, more reliable and efficient water, food, and atmosphere systems, fuel generation on Mars, or many of the other tech that will need to be developed to make that trip. We're still about two years out from getting the BFR into space. There will be time to refine to its equivilant of Black 5, as well as testing for landing and take off again from Mars that will happen after we have Mars side re-fueling worked out. But really, this can all be seen in that nobody is spending any real money on getting to Mars. Musk, in all his optimism still expects a Mars mission to cost around $200 billion. Until we see somebody willign to pay $20/year to go to Mars for the next decade, nobody is even trying to get there in ten years (let alone to find out they can't). NASA already told Trump they can't get to Mars in 8 years with unlimited funds, and I doubt that the extra two years would make a difference.