You don't get to blame western democracies when Serbs and Kosavars start slaughtering each other because they can't get over ethnic conflicts from almost 900 years ago.
And if your argument is that it was all worth it so your son maybe doesn't see boobs or unfiltered news coverage on the TV, then I would suggest immigrating to North Korea where they still practice the clean righteousness you miss.
It's why we've never been successfully invaded by a conquering force, while most European capitals sit atop Roman ruins, and one strata above that, hastily-buried Nazi party armbands.
There isn't a minute goes by that weasel isn't trying to build his brand for a run for governor and then president. Would be nice if he actually did his damn job instead of using his office for politically advantageous activism and grandstanding.
The free market has decided that since losing your PII to hackers effectively costs them nothing, they're going to keep cutting costs on data security.
The free market does not prioritize the best interests of customers. It prioritizes profits. If repeatedly fucking over customers or allowing others to do so is profitable - and right now it is - then customers are going to need copious lube and ice for their buttholes for the indeterminate future.
The changes in cost to orbit per pound just in the last two years have been game-changing. For all we know in 17 years Elon is going to be negotiating their payload fees from his HQ compound built into the side of the Mariner Valley.
And they are that way because we have used hard-won experience earned in blood to spend hundreds of years designing unnecessary complexity and failure points out of them.
Cartridge ammunition small arms are one of the most refined and matured technologies on Earth.
The only - ONLY - consistent reason that people have attempted to add significant complexity back into them is in convoluted, ideologically-motivated attempts to make them less accessible and reliable, and that impetus has always been based on the belief that by doing so, their use will be discouraged.
Notice that nobody hawking these devices ever suggests the military or law enforcement should be mandated to use them. Just the filthy plebs.
The AI would likely just infiltrate Facebook's newsfeed algorithm, and subtly manipulate a variety of people and groups to act in unrelated ways at certain places and certain times. The ultimate purpose isn't to have them do anything specific, but in actually, to make the movement and weight distribution infinitesimally alter the spin and balance of the Earth so that the precise location of the Falcon 9 intersected with the path of a meteorite - a meteorite that was picked up by automated observation, yet which humans missed... but the AI saw.
The old adage about everybody except you jumping off a bridge comes to mind, and this isn't the XKCD case where the reason for leaping is nebulous and open to humorous investigation. We've established the mob is stupid. Your choice comes down to telling them they're stupid and why, silently refusing to participate, or leaping just because everyone else is - even though you know it's a stupid idea.
Then his friends and family are stupid and need to be ridiculed into migrating to something more secure. Like effectively anything else, including smoke signals and pig latin.
WeChat is a Tencent product, and Tencent is partially state-owned by the People's Republic of China. So I can guarantee you that anything you do in that program - in fact, probably anything you do in any device with that program installed, or any device linked to your WeChat profile with social media or other links - is going straight to a national surveillance agency. Just not an American one.
That being the case, I have to seriously question the credibility of anybody suggesting WeChat in the context of basically anything.
Did anybody bother to control for the prevalence of smoking and other environmental factors that may not be in play for most individuals 50 years later?
Mission Control looked like a nicotine hotbox half the time back then, and astronauts rotated through as CAPCOM. And that's not even starting to consider what else they may have been deliberately or accidentally exposed to during the early space program.
She's corrupt and senile and completely off in la-la land. Time for her to retire somewhere she can yell at clouds and grumble about not being able to divert federal contracts to her husband or wipe her ass with the Bill of Rights anymore.
The core goal of 'Mechs is to pack a lot of firepower into an easily transportable package that requires a single pilot and can traverse ground like infantry.
Tanks are good - on Earth. When you suddenly have to force project across multiple planets, sometimes with hostile LZs from deorbital burns, and occasionally into completely unknown environments, 'Mechs suddenly have a lot of useful qualities as an overall warfighting system.
Once the technology matures to tie them into a pilot's nervous system for balance and direct neural control - and we are NOT that far off, really - they'll be highly effective as shock weapons and expeditionary warfighting platforms.
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Deplatform Google. Hit them in the wallet, it's all they understand.
They've forgotten the 'Don't'.
Yog-Sothoth is the gate.
Yog-Sothoth is the key.
You don't get to blame western democracies when Serbs and Kosavars start slaughtering each other because they can't get over ethnic conflicts from almost 900 years ago.
And if your argument is that it was all worth it so your son maybe doesn't see boobs or unfiltered news coverage on the TV, then I would suggest immigrating to North Korea where they still practice the clean righteousness you miss.
The planet must be clean and righteous and Communists must be destroyed. Xi first.
Nazis get bayonets, Communists get helicopter rides, humans get freedom.
I suspect it's not JASSM-ER-proof.
It's why we've never been successfully invaded by a conquering force, while most European capitals sit atop Roman ruins, and one strata above that, hastily-buried Nazi party armbands.
I'm going to assume that you also don't believe the First Amendment covers any kind of communications technology developed after the 18th century.
Because otherwise you would be a blatantly partisan hypocrite, and I don't want to speak ill of you on assumption.
There isn't a minute goes by that weasel isn't trying to build his brand for a run for governor and then president. Would be nice if he actually did his damn job instead of using his office for politically advantageous activism and grandstanding.
The free market has decided that since losing your PII to hackers effectively costs them nothing, they're going to keep cutting costs on data security.
The free market does not prioritize the best interests of customers. It prioritizes profits. If repeatedly fucking over customers or allowing others to do so is profitable - and right now it is - then customers are going to need copious lube and ice for their buttholes for the indeterminate future.
And we can finally get the Sixth World started properly with megacorps and a dystopian cyberpunk economy-stratified society.
The changes in cost to orbit per pound just in the last two years have been game-changing. For all we know in 17 years Elon is going to be negotiating their payload fees from his HQ compound built into the side of the Mariner Valley.
Get the lead out a little, ESA.
...oh, my bad, they have the Hillary Clinton Delux gun control plan.
The politicians shoot the citizens.
And they are that way because we have used hard-won experience earned in blood to spend hundreds of years designing unnecessary complexity and failure points out of them.
Cartridge ammunition small arms are one of the most refined and matured technologies on Earth.
The only - ONLY - consistent reason that people have attempted to add significant complexity back into them is in convoluted, ideologically-motivated attempts to make them less accessible and reliable, and that impetus has always been based on the belief that by doing so, their use will be discouraged.
Notice that nobody hawking these devices ever suggests the military or law enforcement should be mandated to use them. Just the filthy plebs.
Well, that can't possi -
NO GODS OR KINGS, ONLY MAN ...bly end badly. Yeah.
Far too gauche and brute force.
The AI would likely just infiltrate Facebook's newsfeed algorithm, and subtly manipulate a variety of people and groups to act in unrelated ways at certain places and certain times. The ultimate purpose isn't to have them do anything specific, but in actually, to make the movement and weight distribution infinitesimally alter the spin and balance of the Earth so that the precise location of the Falcon 9 intersected with the path of a meteorite - a meteorite that was picked up by automated observation, yet which humans missed... but the AI saw.
THAT is how an AI would destroy a rocket.
If necessary, yes.
The old adage about everybody except you jumping off a bridge comes to mind, and this isn't the XKCD case where the reason for leaping is nebulous and open to humorous investigation. We've established the mob is stupid. Your choice comes down to telling them they're stupid and why, silently refusing to participate, or leaping just because everyone else is - even though you know it's a stupid idea.
Then his friends and family are stupid and need to be ridiculed into migrating to something more secure. Like effectively anything else, including smoke signals and pig latin.
WeChat is a Tencent product, and Tencent is partially state-owned by the People's Republic of China. So I can guarantee you that anything you do in that program - in fact, probably anything you do in any device with that program installed, or any device linked to your WeChat profile with social media or other links - is going straight to a national surveillance agency. Just not an American one.
That being the case, I have to seriously question the credibility of anybody suggesting WeChat in the context of basically anything.
Did anybody bother to control for the prevalence of smoking and other environmental factors that may not be in play for most individuals 50 years later?
Mission Control looked like a nicotine hotbox half the time back then, and astronauts rotated through as CAPCOM. And that's not even starting to consider what else they may have been deliberately or accidentally exposed to during the early space program.
So many squirrels, but NONE of them are the right shade of purple. What are the odds?
She's corrupt and senile and completely off in la-la land. Time for her to retire somewhere she can yell at clouds and grumble about not being able to divert federal contracts to her husband or wipe her ass with the Bill of Rights anymore.
This article is part of an excuse-building campaign for companies to hire more H-1Bs.
"We can't find any Americans! They're all too incompetent, expensive, and doped to the gills!"
The core goal of 'Mechs is to pack a lot of firepower into an easily transportable package that requires a single pilot and can traverse ground like infantry.
Tanks are good - on Earth. When you suddenly have to force project across multiple planets, sometimes with hostile LZs from deorbital burns, and occasionally into completely unknown environments, 'Mechs suddenly have a lot of useful qualities as an overall warfighting system.
Once the technology matures to tie them into a pilot's nervous system for balance and direct neural control - and we are NOT that far off, really - they'll be highly effective as shock weapons and expeditionary warfighting platforms.
Microsoft owns the video game license to BattleTech, and Topps owns the tabletop side of the franchise.
Neither is anywhere near as likely to sue as Harmony Fucking Gold (may they be tentacle-fucked in Hell).