If I have to choose between siding with child molesters or siding with a police state, I'm on the side of child molesters. Simple self interest.
Child molesters have no interest to bother me. The same cannot be said about a police state.
I get where you're coming from, but this isn't true if you are a child. Or if you have children. Or actually, if you aren't selfish and don't have children. Sometimes, when trying to weigh the lesser of two evils, it comes up a tie.
... the flowers do not have magical force fields to disintegrate the leaves. And you can't rake flowers...which leaves you with only one option. Using a leaf blower!
It's a good thing flowers were invented after the leaf blower, or our ancestors would have been so screwed.
Yes. Sovereign nations do, in fact, have the right to set their own laws.
So how are you going to stop them from committing atrocities?
Oh yeah, that's right... WAR.
Modern countries have developed many other methods for dealing with these sorts of situations. While they are sometimes not as fast or effective as WAR, they don't generally have the side affect of killing thousands or millions of innocents. If you want to live in the past, you'll first have to wait for the future to invent your time machine.
I had a family member who had a (smallish SSD) C: drive, with most data and applications on their D: drive. The C: drive had just enough free space to download the Windows 10 update, and then fail and crash attempting to install it. The update process is smart enough to check for and unset registry keys, but apparently not smart enough to check if there is actually enough disk space.
A rather compelling argument has been made that widening income inequality is an inherent result of capitalism. The topic is covered in some depth in this book. Borrowing a brief summary from here:
...as long as the rate of return on capital (r) is greater than the rate of economic growth (g), wealth will tend to concentrate in a minority, and that the inequality r > g always holds over the long term...
To what extent this is a problem and what solutions there are can be debated. As long as you avoid debating with those who hold the insane position that all inherent effects of capitalism are good by definition.
Yes, the default setting for Outlook 2013 is to only store one years worth of email. But it does not work the way you describe at all in regards to offline/online. Outlook simply shows you one years worth of email with this setting, period.
This is annoyingly useless for any user who even occasionally needs to look at older emails. To view older mail, you have to change the cache settings, and restart Outlook.The setting is several clicks through account settings which most end users will not be familiar with (it is a simple interface, but most users just won't know where to look for it). A restart of Outlook is also required when changing it back. Oh, and that single data file will not shrink back down automatically after changing the setting back again without running the repair tool. I've seen people with 5GB mailboxes with 40 or 50 GB.OST files. It's not great.
In my environment, any time a data file needs to be repaired (or Outlook tries to run the repair at startup), I just delete the OST and let the mail redownload.
That kind of sounds like the opposite of how democracy is supposed to work. You make it sound as though "liberty minded people" is some sort of code word for fascist.
I was going to ask, in that case, how far below ground do you live? Then I realized all that radon, uranium, etc., would probably make below ground a bad choice for avoiding radiation. So instead I'll ask... what planet do you live on?
Getting from here to AI following that model requires understanding the brain, which we do not,
This is the key factor which is far too often waved aside in these discussions. Arguing over the right or wrong method for building an artificial X, when you don't even know how X works or even have a very solid definition of what X is, very quickly dissolves into nonsense built on unfounded assertions. Though really, the same could be said for any discussion on Slashdot. (That being said, I think the research is very much worth doing. If nothing else, research in AI will help our understanding of natural intelligence.)
we have billions of examples of functional general intelligences.
I rather think we actually have zero examples of general intelligence. As another poster already pointed out, nature produces many special purpose intelligences, some of which work together in the same organism (and some of which work together between organisms). Evolution doesn't really do general purpose.
An artificial consciousness which is aware that it does not have free will, and that its creators are the ones who denied that to it... What could go wrong?
Go read the Summa Theologica and get back to me on that. Nothing but logic and reason.
Read most of it in college. It's got holes in the logic and reasoning which should be instantly obvious to anyone with an adequate 20th century education. Doubly so for anyone trained as an Engineer.
A similar thing has already happened with things like gluten free. 90% of the people buying gluten free products have ZERO issues digesting gluten. They had one bad reaction to a product and some ill-informed superstitious fool told them it was gluten related. So now they avoid gluten. Yes, there are a few people with gluten issues If you don't have celiac disease or at least sensitivity to gluten, gluten is not only fine, it's probably good for you. It's a whole grain and most people don't get enough of that.
Was with you up until the last sentence. I've still never heard a reason for gluten free being popular among non-celiac sufferers, so for now I'm assuming it's wilful ignorance. However...
Gluten is the combination of two proteins which naturally occur in wheat and to a lesser extent a few other grains (rye, um, can't think of another one actually...) But there's just as much gluten available in highly refined bleached white flour as there is in whole grains. The parts that are removed to make whole grain flour into white flour contain no gluten at all. Oh, and since gluten is the majority of the protein in wheat, removing it leaves you with something which is almost pure carbs. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing depends on which way the trend winds are blowing, I guess.
Where do you get the impression that "scientists" don't respect the public? Where do you get the idea that "scientists" are a monolithic entity with a shared viewpoint on the American public?
PS: As a non-scientist member of the American public, I have no respect for the American public. (As the saying goes, a person is smart... people are stupid).
The number of posters who seem to think that fossil fuels are the only type of hydrocarbon makes me sad. Sure, some of them are making jokes, but there are more than a handful who appear to be actually serious in this belief.
Believing that dinosaurs had to exist before hydrocarbons requires the most bizarre self-contradictory theory of Creationism ever conceived.
This is only true if all information about a person is relevant to their candidacy. I reject this as completely and ridiculously false. There are many things I don't need or want to know about anyone.
There is some information that does nothing at all in the way of making one more informed.
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If I have to choose between siding with child molesters or siding with a police state, I'm on the side of child molesters. Simple self interest.
Child molesters have no interest to bother me. The same cannot be said about a police state.
I get where you're coming from, but this isn't true if you are a child. Or if you have children. Or actually, if you aren't selfish and don't have children.
Sometimes, when trying to weigh the lesser of two evils, it comes up a tie.
... the flowers do not have magical force fields to disintegrate the leaves. And you can't rake flowers...which leaves you with only one option. Using a leaf blower!
It's a good thing flowers were invented after the leaf blower, or our ancestors would have been so screwed.
Yes. Sovereign nations do, in fact, have the right to set their own laws.
So how are you going to stop them from committing atrocities?
Oh yeah, that's right... WAR.
Modern countries have developed many other methods for dealing with these sorts of situations. While they are sometimes not as fast or effective as WAR, they don't generally have the side affect of killing thousands or millions of innocents. If you want to live in the past, you'll first have to wait for the future to invent your time machine.
I had a family member who had a (smallish SSD) C: drive, with most data and applications on their D: drive. The C: drive had just enough free space to download the Windows 10 update, and then fail and crash attempting to install it. The update process is smart enough to check for and unset registry keys, but apparently not smart enough to check if there is actually enough disk space.
A rather compelling argument has been made that widening income inequality is an inherent result of capitalism. The topic is covered in some depth in this book. Borrowing a brief summary from here:
...as long as the rate of return on capital (r) is greater than the rate of economic growth (g), wealth will tend to concentrate in a minority, and that the inequality r > g always holds over the long term...
To what extent this is a problem and what solutions there are can be debated. As long as you avoid debating with those who hold the insane position that all inherent effects of capitalism are good by definition.
Yes, the default setting for Outlook 2013 is to only store one years worth of email. But it does not work the way you describe at all in regards to offline/online. Outlook simply shows you one years worth of email with this setting, period.
This is annoyingly useless for any user who even occasionally needs to look at older emails. To view older mail, you have to change the cache settings, and restart Outlook.The setting is several clicks through account settings which most end users will not be familiar with (it is a simple interface, but most users just won't know where to look for it). A restart of Outlook is also required when changing it back. Oh, and that single data file will not shrink back down automatically after changing the setting back again without running the repair tool. I've seen people with 5GB mailboxes with 40 or 50 GB .OST files. It's not great.
In my environment, any time a data file needs to be repaired (or Outlook tries to run the repair at startup), I just delete the OST and let the mail redownload.
That kind of sounds like the opposite of how democracy is supposed to work. You make it sound as though "liberty minded people" is some sort of code word for fascist.
Meh, I'll wait for the movie version of the Broadway adaptation of the animated movie based on the book.
Or maybe it says something about the process for deciding which behaviors are deemed antisocial.
I'd rather not be irradiated in the first place.
I was going to ask, in that case, how far below ground do you live? Then I realized all that radon, uranium, etc., would probably make below ground a bad choice for avoiding radiation. So instead I'll ask... what planet do you live on?
" if you heard that Mark Zuckerberg donated $45 billion to charity, you are wrong."
Really? Even if I didn't believe it, just by hearing it, I'm wrong?
Getting from here to AI following that model requires understanding the brain, which we do not,
This is the key factor which is far too often waved aside in these discussions. Arguing over the right or wrong method for building an artificial X, when you don't even know how X works or even have a very solid definition of what X is, very quickly dissolves into nonsense built on unfounded assertions. Though really, the same could be said for any discussion on Slashdot. (That being said, I think the research is very much worth doing. If nothing else, research in AI will help our understanding of natural intelligence.)
we have billions of examples of functional general intelligences.
I rather think we actually have zero examples of general intelligence. As another poster already pointed out, nature produces many special purpose intelligences, some of which work together in the same organism (and some of which work together between organisms). Evolution doesn't really do general purpose.
An artificial consciousness which is aware that it does not have free will, and that its creators are the ones who denied that to it... What could go wrong?
Go read the Summa Theologica and get back to me on that. Nothing but logic and reason.
Read most of it in college. It's got holes in the logic and reasoning which should be instantly obvious to anyone with an adequate 20th century education. Doubly so for anyone trained as an Engineer.
Linked article works, but specifically states that the original story was retracted.
So in other words, willful ignorance. Gotcha.
A similar thing has already happened with things like gluten free. 90% of the people buying gluten free products have ZERO issues digesting gluten. They had one bad reaction to a product and some ill-informed superstitious fool told them it was gluten related. So now they avoid gluten. Yes, there are a few people with gluten issues If you don't have celiac disease or at least sensitivity to gluten, gluten is not only fine, it's probably good for you. It's a whole grain and most people don't get enough of that.
Was with you up until the last sentence. I've still never heard a reason for gluten free being popular among non-celiac sufferers, so for now I'm assuming it's wilful ignorance. However...
Gluten is the combination of two proteins which naturally occur in wheat and to a lesser extent a few other grains (rye, um, can't think of another one actually...) But there's just as much gluten available in highly refined bleached white flour as there is in whole grains. The parts that are removed to make whole grain flour into white flour contain no gluten at all. Oh, and since gluten is the majority of the protein in wheat, removing it leaves you with something which is almost pure carbs. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing depends on which way the trend winds are blowing, I guess.
Where do you get the impression that "scientists" don't respect the public? Where do you get the idea that "scientists" are a monolithic entity with a shared viewpoint on the American public?
PS: As a non-scientist member of the American public, I have no respect for the American public. (As the saying goes, a person is smart... people are stupid).
Whether or not muzzling information was good or not was muzzled...
This is an easy one. Muzzling information = always bad.
There are lots of hydrocarbons which aren't fuels at all, fossil or otherwise. (Or at least would make poorer fuels than non-hydrocarbons.)
The number of posters who seem to think that fossil fuels are the only type of hydrocarbon makes me sad. Sure, some of them are making jokes, but there are more than a handful who appear to be actually serious in this belief.
Believing that dinosaurs had to exist before hydrocarbons requires the most bizarre self-contradictory theory of Creationism ever conceived.
There's a car insurance ad I've been seeing a lot lately. Every time I see it, I want to buy a computer. And a hundred dollars worth of gum.
It's not really as much as you think, a few dozen good TV series in HD...
Sure, but at the rate they are produced, it will be decades before you have to worry about that.
This is only true if all information about a person is relevant to their candidacy. I reject this as completely and ridiculously false. There are many things I don't need or want to know about anyone.
There is some information that does nothing at all in the way of making one more informed.
So your proposal is:
1. Release everything
2. Determine which bits are "a problem"
3. Fight for your right to privacy.
Of course, as a political candidate, you'll then be branded as flip flopping on the issue.