The reality is that the "unsolved crimes" are whites, and the convictions are Blacks. So offending rates are similar (almost equal, when adjusted), but Blacks are much more highly prosecuted (persecuted?) for any transgressions.
When you identify as a male to your wife and family, and identify as a female only at sports events, it's obvious that you don't identify as female, but are doing so at a point in time for some other reason. Nobody is telling you that you aren't properly identifying as something, but that when you do so inconsistently, you shouldn't be treated the same as someone that is consistent.
There are some who deliberately go to bathrooms to rape people (though fewer of them than republican senators, even though there are far more trans people than republican senators).
I thought that most of those who go to bathrooms to rape people were Republican senators.
Nope, when they get tits, boys get annoying about it, so they hide in professions that aren't male-dominated. The ugly girls continue in STEM because they aren't as aggressively pursued. I know a woman in STEM that's "engaged" to a gay guy so that he doesn't get harassed as much for being gay, and she can rebuke the abusive advances by pointing out she's engaged.
And in the rural areas, you'll still be tax-free. Property tax pays for things like schools, police, fire, roads, water, sewer, power, etc. In the middle of nowhere, you get none of those, so you pay for none of those. Yes, you still get some police, in the form of state troopers, but they are funded by other means.
Alaska still has one of the largest untapped gold deposits in the world. There's some value left, even if the oil stops flowing. Alaska has the lowest expenditure of any state, per area. Yes, not many people live there, so it looks worse per capita, but the world's largest US Coastguard base is there because there's more US coastline in Alaska than the rest of the country combined (or so I heard, I haven't walked it all).
And the payout will stop when the oil stops. The State of Alaska is like every other state. It's the people. The oil pumped out of the ground doesn't belong to "the government", it belongs to the people. So the PFD is a payment to the people for their oil removed from the state and sold. If you are jealous, move there. You can get it too, once you qualify.
The foreclosure auctions I've gone to are where they foreclosed, closed, locked and sealed the doors, and sold it as-is, with no repairs, work, or anything else done that would improve the curb appeal. A drug house that would be $2M if it were done up well, still got more than $1M at auction, and since that was a drug seizure, the city kept all of it (aside from what has to be shared with other law agencies). There are almost no fees, and so long as you are evicted from your own place with it tidy, it will get you the market value, and you'll only lose the taxes you agreed to pay, but defaulted on.
IoT allows for a central server, and in fact requires servers of some kind. The light firmware-based UI-free devices get config from the network. Whether that's a DHCP server pointing to a local auto-config server, or a hard-coded trip to a locked down DRM server on every boot, many (most) IoT requires the central server. It's just that it's almost always hard coded to a secure(ish) central server, so one outage, and nothing will work, whether that outage is error, attack, or closure. The freedom to allow (and prefer) a local server is required for me to consider anything to be IoT, otherwise it's a client device for a company's app.
They are working at building a brain. That would be like tasking the Ancient Roman Empire with replacing Chariots with electric cars, when they don't have any of the pieces necessary.
You aren't born knowledgable, but every AI works hard at starting from a base of knowledge. You aren't born with rules and constraints, yet every AI puts them in.
The brain is not a computer. The brain is composed of 90 Billion dumb computers that interact. Though AI wasn't powerful to follow that when Neural Nets were tried and failed (and aimed at strong AI). So then we moved on to Machine Learning (which aimed at weak AI, and has been largely successful, but has no real path to Strong AI).
Now that we have more computing devices and better ones, we need to go back to Neural Nets and build a thinking machine, not a smart machine. We are aiming for the human replacement, without even making a computer as smart as a plant. We are Romans claiming success with the electric car because we just discovered electricity, while not having solved any of the other issues.
Artificial Intelligence? Show me some natural intelligence first.
And what about the people who say "I'm not 'other', I'm '....'"?
The choices are Male, Female, and Other. If they aren't "Other", they are male or female. By definition.
And what's the point of having "male" and "female" when these designations don't line up with biology?
Because they line up with society/convention. Some people don't like sharing with others. So why are you trying to force them to share with people they don't want to?
IoT is when everything you have talks directly to other things you own. When everything talks to a central server, that's not an IoT, that's a client-server.
So they are bricking it in a way that leaves it 100% user accessible and marginally usable, while disabling all of the management and WAN functions. If that's a brick, every Ford every sold is a brick.
How you can claim that making it 100% useless is any different isn't the same as bricking is beyond me.
The device is still 100% operational, just the remote services are disabled so the functionality is greatly reduced. That's broken, not bricked. Bricked is when it's no more useful than a brick.
But, yes, the government can take it away from you if you don't pay on it.
If you are worried about that, buy in rural Alaska. Most of Alaska is tax-free. Buy it, live there, never pay taxes the rest of your life (so long as you don't make IRS taxable income). But the loontarians don't want that. They want the fire service, the police, and maintained roads, while not having to pay for anything. The loonitarians are the worst kind of progressive.
That's the thing the Libertarians don't get. Government isn't just people sitting in a Capitol somewhere. Your HOA, if they have the "right" to fine you, is a government no more or less valid than the town/city/municipality you live in. Yet, a collection of private citizens that form a HOA is their right, but a group of private citizens that form a city government is evil. You can always sell your property and move to a new HOA/city, or to a place with none at all.
Also, Libertarians are idiots. If you want to "own" your land with no taxes at all on it. Feel free. But the only place I know that operates that way is if you are a Native American and buy land on a reservation (most don't sell), or parts of rural Alaska. If you want to hold it tax-free and without fear of foreclosure, do so. But buying in a place with taxes then complaining about them just makes you an idiot.
There are no "collection fees" if the government sells your house out from under you. The closest to that is they generally hire a private firm to advertise and hold the auction, rather than having permanent foreclosure sales teams on staff. They sell it at auction, and send you the proceeds, minus the fees you owe on the day of the sale.
That's better than my free email. Years ago, they gave away free email accounts. Then they moved into paid hosting for companies. And canceled all their users emails. Without warning, or ability to pay to keep going. Then, after pissing off the persons who selected them based on their use as a personal email provider, all their corporate accounts were canceled. And they went out of business and closed completely. I'd have paid to keep it up. I wasn't give the option.
Because, though Canada official speaks French, outside Quebec, nobody actually does. In Mexico, aside from Cancun, you'll not get far on English-only. Though much of Mexico DF works in English, it'd be hard to get by without Spanish.
The UK abolished their skilled worker points system, as it was letting in too many over-educated, under-capable people from undesireable places. The UK was one of the last with a skilled worker points system. The rest are more like France/Spain where you need a sponsoring employer, so a job offer is *always* required.
Australia/NZ have a points system that gives bonus for a job, but it is not required. Look them up. You may still be able to move, even at 34, but the working holiday visa is only available for those under 30. So you could still be able to get in in your 30s, just with a longer and more expensive (and more permanent) visa.
You put 10 spread around the parking lot with the name/logo of the company, or a competitor (or try both and see which hits best), and someone will "be nice" and try to see whose it is to return it, or something like that. The real reason scams don't work as well as they should is that scammers prey on the weak (419 scams), rather than preying on the good people.
And the people here claim that nothing can be hardened against USB. It could look like a memory stick, but have a keylogger that loads as a HID (often allowed for all), and has a USB-powered 3G modem for calling home and sending the keystrokes. Just blocking USB-loaded software won't do any good when you run into an attacker smarter than you.
Snowden ran so that he'd have all his appendages when he was exiled. The fact that the government has indicated he wouldn't get a fair trial, should he return, seems to indicate it's as close to an official exile as has ever been done in the US, as exile is illegal.
Sure. Everyone arrested by a cop should be provided with the home address of the cop, and the names of his wife and children. After all, that's just public information, and they shouldn't have any expectation of privacy. Nothing could possibly go wrong with that.
Not that I'm advocating any special permissions, but that a blanket "no privacy" policy would probably not work out well.
Did you forget that this is the Army that has soldiers buying their own body armor because there isn't enough to issue one to everyone who needs it? You are arguing that someone shouldn't be allowed to bring their own enhancement.
Your solution will only get people killed.
Reality has shown that more and cheaper of "good enough" beats a shortage of the preferred solution.
Unnecessary. Just two, marked male and female, and a single "other" (currently exists in most places, labeled "family" or "handicapped"). That'll cover 100% of the issues.
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The reality is that the "unsolved crimes" are whites, and the convictions are Blacks. So offending rates are similar (almost equal, when adjusted), but Blacks are much more highly prosecuted (persecuted?) for any transgressions.
When you identify as a male to your wife and family, and identify as a female only at sports events, it's obvious that you don't identify as female, but are doing so at a point in time for some other reason. Nobody is telling you that you aren't properly identifying as something, but that when you do so inconsistently, you shouldn't be treated the same as someone that is consistent.
There are some who deliberately go to bathrooms to rape people (though fewer of them than republican senators, even though there are far more trans people than republican senators).
I thought that most of those who go to bathrooms to rape people were Republican senators.
Nope, when they get tits, boys get annoying about it, so they hide in professions that aren't male-dominated. The ugly girls continue in STEM because they aren't as aggressively pursued. I know a woman in STEM that's "engaged" to a gay guy so that he doesn't get harassed as much for being gay, and she can rebuke the abusive advances by pointing out she's engaged.
And in the rural areas, you'll still be tax-free. Property tax pays for things like schools, police, fire, roads, water, sewer, power, etc. In the middle of nowhere, you get none of those, so you pay for none of those. Yes, you still get some police, in the form of state troopers, but they are funded by other means.
Alaska still has one of the largest untapped gold deposits in the world. There's some value left, even if the oil stops flowing. Alaska has the lowest expenditure of any state, per area. Yes, not many people live there, so it looks worse per capita, but the world's largest US Coastguard base is there because there's more US coastline in Alaska than the rest of the country combined (or so I heard, I haven't walked it all).
And the payout will stop when the oil stops. The State of Alaska is like every other state. It's the people. The oil pumped out of the ground doesn't belong to "the government", it belongs to the people. So the PFD is a payment to the people for their oil removed from the state and sold. If you are jealous, move there. You can get it too, once you qualify.
The foreclosure auctions I've gone to are where they foreclosed, closed, locked and sealed the doors, and sold it as-is, with no repairs, work, or anything else done that would improve the curb appeal. A drug house that would be $2M if it were done up well, still got more than $1M at auction, and since that was a drug seizure, the city kept all of it (aside from what has to be shared with other law agencies). There are almost no fees, and so long as you are evicted from your own place with it tidy, it will get you the market value, and you'll only lose the taxes you agreed to pay, but defaulted on.
IoT allows for a central server, and in fact requires servers of some kind. The light firmware-based UI-free devices get config from the network. Whether that's a DHCP server pointing to a local auto-config server, or a hard-coded trip to a locked down DRM server on every boot, many (most) IoT requires the central server. It's just that it's almost always hard coded to a secure(ish) central server, so one outage, and nothing will work, whether that outage is error, attack, or closure. The freedom to allow (and prefer) a local server is required for me to consider anything to be IoT, otherwise it's a client device for a company's app.
I quoted your post in responding to your points. If your words don't reflect your intentions, point out my error, or correct your own.
You are implying that puberty is somehow linked. post hoc ergo propter hoc much?
They are working at building a brain. That would be like tasking the Ancient Roman Empire with replacing Chariots with electric cars, when they don't have any of the pieces necessary.
You aren't born knowledgable, but every AI works hard at starting from a base of knowledge. You aren't born with rules and constraints, yet every AI puts them in.
The brain is not a computer. The brain is composed of 90 Billion dumb computers that interact. Though AI wasn't powerful to follow that when Neural Nets were tried and failed (and aimed at strong AI). So then we moved on to Machine Learning (which aimed at weak AI, and has been largely successful, but has no real path to Strong AI).
Now that we have more computing devices and better ones, we need to go back to Neural Nets and build a thinking machine, not a smart machine. We are aiming for the human replacement, without even making a computer as smart as a plant. We are Romans claiming success with the electric car because we just discovered electricity, while not having solved any of the other issues.
Artificial Intelligence? Show me some natural intelligence first.
And what about the people who say "I'm not 'other', I'm '....'"?
The choices are Male, Female, and Other. If they aren't "Other", they are male or female. By definition.
And what's the point of having "male" and "female" when these designations don't line up with biology?
Because they line up with society/convention. Some people don't like sharing with others. So why are you trying to force them to share with people they don't want to?
IoT is when everything you have talks directly to other things you own. When everything talks to a central server, that's not an IoT, that's a client-server.
How you can claim that making it 100% useless is any different isn't the same as bricking is beyond me.
The device is still 100% operational, just the remote services are disabled so the functionality is greatly reduced. That's broken, not bricked. Bricked is when it's no more useful than a brick.
But, yes, the government can take it away from you if you don't pay on it.
If you are worried about that, buy in rural Alaska. Most of Alaska is tax-free. Buy it, live there, never pay taxes the rest of your life (so long as you don't make IRS taxable income). But the loontarians don't want that. They want the fire service, the police, and maintained roads, while not having to pay for anything. The loonitarians are the worst kind of progressive.
That's the thing the Libertarians don't get. Government isn't just people sitting in a Capitol somewhere. Your HOA, if they have the "right" to fine you, is a government no more or less valid than the town/city/municipality you live in. Yet, a collection of private citizens that form a HOA is their right, but a group of private citizens that form a city government is evil. You can always sell your property and move to a new HOA/city, or to a place with none at all.
Also, Libertarians are idiots. If you want to "own" your land with no taxes at all on it. Feel free. But the only place I know that operates that way is if you are a Native American and buy land on a reservation (most don't sell), or parts of rural Alaska. If you want to hold it tax-free and without fear of foreclosure, do so. But buying in a place with taxes then complaining about them just makes you an idiot.
i never signed anything placing my house as collateral if i failed to pay "rent" on the land.
You didn't sign the paperwork to transfer it into your name? That is your explicit agreement to those terms and conditions.
There are no "collection fees" if the government sells your house out from under you. The closest to that is they generally hire a private firm to advertise and hold the auction, rather than having permanent foreclosure sales teams on staff. They sell it at auction, and send you the proceeds, minus the fees you owe on the day of the sale.
That's better than my free email. Years ago, they gave away free email accounts. Then they moved into paid hosting for companies. And canceled all their users emails. Without warning, or ability to pay to keep going. Then, after pissing off the persons who selected them based on their use as a personal email provider, all their corporate accounts were canceled. And they went out of business and closed completely. I'd have paid to keep it up. I wasn't give the option.
Because, though Canada official speaks French, outside Quebec, nobody actually does. In Mexico, aside from Cancun, you'll not get far on English-only. Though much of Mexico DF works in English, it'd be hard to get by without Spanish.
It's not racism, it's linguistic simplicity.
The UK abolished their skilled worker points system, as it was letting in too many over-educated, under-capable people from undesireable places. The UK was one of the last with a skilled worker points system. The rest are more like France/Spain where you need a sponsoring employer, so a job offer is *always* required.
Australia/NZ have a points system that gives bonus for a job, but it is not required. Look them up. You may still be able to move, even at 34, but the working holiday visa is only available for those under 30. So you could still be able to get in in your 30s, just with a longer and more expensive (and more permanent) visa.
You put 10 spread around the parking lot with the name/logo of the company, or a competitor (or try both and see which hits best), and someone will "be nice" and try to see whose it is to return it, or something like that. The real reason scams don't work as well as they should is that scammers prey on the weak (419 scams), rather than preying on the good people.
And the people here claim that nothing can be hardened against USB. It could look like a memory stick, but have a keylogger that loads as a HID (often allowed for all), and has a USB-powered 3G modem for calling home and sending the keystrokes. Just blocking USB-loaded software won't do any good when you run into an attacker smarter than you.
Snowden ran so that he'd have all his appendages when he was exiled. The fact that the government has indicated he wouldn't get a fair trial, should he return, seems to indicate it's as close to an official exile as has ever been done in the US, as exile is illegal.
Sure. Everyone arrested by a cop should be provided with the home address of the cop, and the names of his wife and children. After all, that's just public information, and they shouldn't have any expectation of privacy. Nothing could possibly go wrong with that.
Not that I'm advocating any special permissions, but that a blanket "no privacy" policy would probably not work out well.
Did you forget that this is the Army that has soldiers buying their own body armor because there isn't enough to issue one to everyone who needs it? You are arguing that someone shouldn't be allowed to bring their own enhancement.
Your solution will only get people killed.
Reality has shown that more and cheaper of "good enough" beats a shortage of the preferred solution.
Unnecessary. Just two, marked male and female, and a single "other" (currently exists in most places, labeled "family" or "handicapped"). That'll cover 100% of the issues.