In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Regardless of whether you agree with drugs being criminalized, the fact remains that they are, and so anyone you're involved with who's making money out of illegal drugs is a criminal. Criminals are not good at heart, however much people here like to romanticise drug dealers as Robin Hood characters.
Let m know when they offer service to match my dealer.
7 days a week, 11 AM to 10 PM (or later, sometimes). Always replies, always lets you know ahead of time if he'll be on vacation. The price is right in line with low-end market price, and the product is upper mid grade. As professional and convenient as they could possibly be.
And yes, some dealers even deliver.
It's the old dope peddler/Doing well by doing good.
We are all going to be cyborgs, and it will be awesome!!!.
No diseases, no handicaps, cheap replacements for whatever gets damaged, superior instrumentality, limitless cognitive abilities, true space travel, mind-machine virtual reality....
It will be amazing. We will transcend every human limitation and become something new entirely.
*THAT* is how A.I. will destroy the human race. Not by genocide, but by helping us evolve into something entirely post human.
(there may be some modern-day humans still around, in something like a historical wildlife preserve.....those will be the children of people who can't let go of their familiar reference points in order to reach for something better. In order to fly, the bird must first release the branch.....you cowards who white-knuckle it can live in a zoo and fling poo at tourists).
A software system that's coded to handle many different cases is 100% artificial and 0% intelligence. But it still qualifies as artificial intelligence, since it does combine both aspects of AI.
All that means is that the term "AI" is totally meaningless. A digital alarm clock is 100% artificial and 0% intelligence too.
AI researchers always fall back on this weird version of the "no true Scotsman" fallacy when confronted with the self evident truth that there is currently no such thing as Artificial Intelligence.
"Oh, no it's not real, hard AI, it's something totally different which we just like calling AI even though there is no intelligence involved."
Oh piss off. If computer researchers keep using the term "AI" to mean "anything a computer does that the programmer didn't actually hard code into it" they deserve all the scepticism and mockery they get.
You need to come up with a more accurate name for "the programming concept of AI " that doesn't involve the term AI, if there is not any actual Intelligence involved.
Among touchy-feely people there is a tendency to think that groups are smarter than individuals. They are wrong.
In the studies I've seen, groups tend to do better overall in things like problem solving tests. If you're a genius chemist, you will certainly do better than a random group if the problem is one on theoretical chemistry, but probably less well than the group if it's how to build a house.
Hey, you can program the worlds best scientific nuclear fusion simulation program and your boss won't understand the level of archievement
He will if your job is developing scientific nuclear fusion simulation programs, and if your job isn't developing scientific nuclear fusion simulation programs it's pretty obvious you've been wasting time not working.
the UN-recognized human right to freedom of movement [wikipedia.org]. Note that article 13 mentions nothing about passports, and the concept of a passport that you have to pay money for is, in fact, in direct violation of the same article, as it is a restriction on movement.
Well in that case oil companies charging for gas, or airlines charging air fares are restricting your movement.
Before WW1 the only people travelling between countries much were the very well off, who in effect formed their own separate country anyway. A rich upper class French student visiting Greece had much more in common with a rich upper class German student visiting Greece than a poor French peasant.
The problem with drug gangs could be eliminated immediately by legalizing drugs.
Even if that was true, and even if legalizing all drugs didn't contribute to more fucked up lives, it is still the fact that they are illegal now, and you are associating with and funding criminals now.
.... that all the stick-it-to-the-man trustafarians and right on student types who'll no doubt funded this will eventually wise up and realise the sort of desperately unpleasent people and groups that make a profit out of places like silk road. We're not talking knock off DVDs here or a bit of pot there, this is mass market drug dealing. Just because its online doesn't make it ok.
I wonder just how many of these idiots could send a donation to a columbian drugs gang?
They'd probably argue that columbian drug gangs are just hard working business men heroically refusing to behave like Statist sheeple.
I was going to place him as a maverick private investigator who had to quit the force after hitting a superior officer/refusing to lie to protect a corrupt colleague, and is now a divorced loner with a drink problem and a fondness for some obscure type of music. The police come to him when a particularly difficult crime has them baffled, probably involving a locked room, the solution to which requires a couple of puns, and a working knowledge of Ancient Sumerian.
90% of that was, "he was an actor." Like those ponces in high school who did glee club, only he held on to it for a career. Not a proper job for a man.
It's good of you to share your latent homosexuality with us all. All you need to do now is take the next step and come out to the world. You'll feel much happier afterwards.
I remember some goofy ways installers would try to trick users into toolbars, including double negatives: "Do you not want to not install the Foo toolbar?" or "Skip the bypass of the Foo toolbar installation?".
"Do you want to install Foo or cuddle a puppy?" Y/N
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No, I would prefer that essential life services weren't "for-profit" business.
Ah, I see. You're a fucking idiot who has no idea what makes civilized societies function.
Part of what makes civilized societies function is not calling people fucking idiots because they say something you don't agree with.
When smoking was allowed on international flights, the ventilation/air circulation actually worked properly.
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Regardless of whether you agree with drugs being criminalized, the fact remains that they are, and so anyone you're involved with who's making money out of illegal drugs is a criminal. Criminals are not good at heart, however much people here like to romanticise drug dealers as Robin Hood characters.
Let m know when they offer service to match my dealer.
7 days a week, 11 AM to 10 PM (or later, sometimes). Always replies, always lets you know ahead of time if he'll be on vacation. The price is right in line with low-end market price, and the product is upper mid grade. As professional and convenient as they could possibly be.
And yes, some dealers even deliver.
It's the old dope peddler/Doing well by doing good.
Tom Lehrer.
The only laws we obey are those of God
So if you're an atheist, you can just do whatever you want then?
Handy way of avoiding any responsibility whatsoever.
We are all going to be cyborgs, and it will be awesome!!!.
No diseases, no handicaps, cheap replacements for whatever gets damaged, superior instrumentality, limitless cognitive abilities, true space travel, mind-machine virtual reality....
It will be amazing. We will transcend every human limitation and become something new entirely.
*THAT* is how A.I. will destroy the human race. Not by genocide, but by helping us evolve into something entirely post human.
(there may be some modern-day humans still around, in something like a historical wildlife preserve.....those will be the children of people who can't let go of their familiar reference points in order to reach for something better. In order to fly, the bird must first release the branch.....you cowards who white-knuckle it can live in a zoo and fling poo at tourists).
Indeed, resistance is futile.
A software system that's coded to handle many different cases is 100% artificial and 0% intelligence. But it still qualifies as artificial intelligence, since it does combine both aspects of AI.
All that means is that the term "AI" is totally meaningless. A digital alarm clock is 100% artificial and 0% intelligence too.
"Oh, no it's not real, hard AI, it's something totally different which we just like calling AI even though there is no intelligence involved."
Just call it something else.
Just a thought.
You need to come up with a more accurate name for "the programming concept of AI " that doesn't involve the term AI, if there is not any actual Intelligence involved.
Among touchy-feely people there is a tendency to think that groups are smarter than individuals. They are wrong.
In the studies I've seen, groups tend to do better overall in things like problem solving tests. If you're a genius chemist, you will certainly do better than a random group if the problem is one on theoretical chemistry, but probably less well than the group if it's how to build a house.
Hey, you can program the worlds best scientific nuclear fusion simulation program and your boss won't understand the level of archievement
He will if your job is developing scientific nuclear fusion simulation programs, and if your job isn't developing scientific nuclear fusion simulation programs it's pretty obvious you've been wasting time not working.
I don't know about the rest of Europe, but BlackBerries were pretty big here in the UK, both with business users and kids who liked them for texting.
I have never, ever heard anyone call Manchester the Venice of the North. Not even a drunk Mancunian.
I think 3D printers are like touches from the hand of God. A least going by the comments on slashdot.
the UN-recognized human right to freedom of movement [wikipedia.org]. Note that article 13 mentions nothing about passports, and the concept of a passport that you have to pay money for is, in fact, in direct violation of the same article, as it is a restriction on movement.
Well in that case oil companies charging for gas, or airlines charging air fares are restricting your movement.
Before WW1 the only people travelling between countries much were the very well off, who in effect formed their own separate country anyway. A rich upper class French student visiting Greece had much more in common with a rich upper class German student visiting Greece than a poor French peasant.
Yes, to enslave them, you have detain them and restrict their freedom of movement.
Indeed, if there were no passports I could freely visit Syria and North Korea.
This is not the stupidest question I have ever heard, but it's close.
YMBNH
The problem with drug gangs could be eliminated immediately by legalizing drugs.
Even if that was true, and even if legalizing all drugs didn't contribute to more fucked up lives, it is still the fact that they are illegal now, and you are associating with and funding criminals now.
.... that all the stick-it-to-the-man trustafarians and right on student types who'll no doubt funded this will eventually wise up and realise the sort of desperately unpleasent people and groups that make a profit out of places like silk road. We're not talking knock off DVDs here or a bit of pot there, this is mass market drug dealing. Just because its online doesn't make it ok.
I wonder just how many of these idiots could send a donation to a columbian drugs gang?
They'd probably argue that columbian drug gangs are just hard working business men heroically refusing to behave like Statist sheeple.
I was going to place him as a maverick private investigator who had to quit the force after hitting a superior officer/refusing to lie to protect a corrupt colleague, and is now a divorced loner with a drink problem and a fondness for some obscure type of music. The police come to him when a particularly difficult crime has them baffled, probably involving a locked room, the solution to which requires a couple of puns, and a working knowledge of Ancient Sumerian.
"One should try anything he can in his career, except folkdance and incest."
No, that was Thomas Beecham - "try anything once except incest and folk dancing".
90% of that was, "he was an actor." Like those ponces in high school who did glee club, only he held on to it for a career. Not a proper job for a man.
It's good of you to share your latent homosexuality with us all. All you need to do now is take the next step and come out to the world. You'll feel much happier afterwards.
I remember some goofy ways installers would try to trick users into toolbars, including double negatives: "Do you not want to not install the Foo toolbar?" or "Skip the bypass of the Foo toolbar installation?".
"Do you want to install Foo or cuddle a puppy?" Y/N
And in neither case do you get a puppy to cuddle.