At least until you wind up killing a toddler because, after all, you have a right a drive in your dotage; then you can spend the rest of your misery in the clink and the toddler gets to not grow up and have a life.
Trump learning the ropes? Errr....he learns? 4 bankruptcies in a row didn't teach him anything. Now he's doing to the countries what he did to the banks stupid enough to lend to him.
Reminds me of a comment as reported in No Laughing Matter by Joseph Heller. They had a group of men who would go out and eat dinner together periodically. Someone asked how come some other person wasn't invited seeing as he was short like the rest of them. The response was, he was too short.
Speaking of their dinner club, they had a rule about wives: it was okay for you to bring your wife, it is not okay for me to bring mine.
Related in that book is the Guillain-Barre syndrome that Joseph Heller contracted (now they have much better treatments). It robs you of motor function. Heller is seated in his wheel chair in his apartment and his buddies are over so they can all go to dinner together. Mel Brooks is one of his buddies. When the time comes to leave, Brooks gets up, walks over to Heller, and in a loud voice says (paraphrase) "Walk, in the name of Jesus". Of course nothing happens. Brooks shrugs his shoulders says to the effect, "Hell, I thought I'd give it try". (Heller and Brooks are Jewish).
The boy would be perfect. He fulfills all the qualifications for the job. He knows nothing about AI, he's a sycophant to our fake president, and he has shady business dealings (turns out he a landlord in poor areas and has twice the eviction rate of others).
Wrong metric. What should be used is the difficulty of picking up a technosignature in vastness of time. It turns out the Universe is really, really big....so big you won't believe it....amazingly amazing big.
Yeah, anything to distract them from studying evolution. They should just have it banned like Kansas, no creature is now allowed to evolve in that state lest they generate humans from monkeys. See, one doesn't have to understand science to screw it up.
I doubt it, people are more interested in what's on their cell phones than alien life. Anyhow, they can't get here from there very quickly. That fact alone will cause people to harumph and move on.
Umm...foreign aid is approximately $50 Billion out of a $4 Trillion dollar budget. Of the approximately $700 Billion the U.S. spends on its military each year, about half goes to salaries, medical care, other personnel stuff. Another roughly $200 goes to physical plant. The rest goes into procurement. The amount the U.S. spends on foreign military infrastructure is more or less insignificant. However, a hot spot boiling over because the U.S. pulled back from the world, priceless.
So even whacking the entire defense bill every year will only leave the U.S. running a $300 Billion deficit every year (courtesy of the Republicans paying off their business contributors in the last tax bill). Whacking foreign expenditures is decimal dust. Allies are what gives the U.S. clout. And without supporting them militarily, the U.S. would be in the same position as China and Russia, they have no allies except Syria and the Norks. In any confrontation, they can rely on no one. Allies are a cheap way for the U.S. to increase its reach. But then maybe you'd like a world turned over the Russians and Chinese and their famous fair trade policies. They wouldn't think to screw U.S. companies out of markets, now would they?
I saw one interview with some regular Carlos just south of the U.S.-Mexico border. When asked about the wall, the man said to effect, they will pay us to build the wall, and then when that fellow leaves office, they will pay us to tear it down. It wasn't a concern of his but he welcomed the additional job opportunities.
And they are likely to get their wish, which of course runs counter to asshole wanting to get out of the Middle East. Now, the Iranian hardliners (well, the more extreme of the hardliners running their puppet government) will have to do something to distract the pop. from their economic failures. A good war with Israel should do the trick to rally the people around their puppets again...and the people probably will. Maybe will die, and asshole will claim he didn't kill them.
More to the point, China and Russia will happily build economic ties with Iran, Europe is still in thrall of American financial might. I've often though that as the world becomes more multi-polar, the U.S. will find it cannot use its economic might as though it were still the 1990s.
All one has to do is look at the Evangelicals in the American South and their support for apartheid policies to know that arm of the religion thinks of religion in terms of hate. Worse, they will construct logical arguments why Jesus preferred this, it is just that their premises are screwy....garbage in, garbage out, no matter how logical the reasoning.
Well, execution in the U.S. is from treason went out of fashion long ago. So stop being melodramatic. And Google and Facebook can sell your information to companies that will hound you for years, constantly yapping for attention. And if they sell it to insurance companies, your rates can go up for no reason you can see.
"they are much better positioned to start new groundbreaking lines of investigation" I do not think so. Science these days requires lots of years of experience. You get the one or two odd contributions from outsiders, but largely scientific progress is made in the trenches slogging it out year after year. Care to explain any advances in string theory due to outsiders to physics?
Hmmm...lemme guess, when Evariste Galois was inventing group theory, you'd be in the peanut gallery claiming you couldn't see any use for it (hint, he did it in the early 1800s). And when those wild and crazy guys were screwing up developing the math for quantum mechanics, you'd be asking them for a practical use (hint, they did it in the early 1900s).
In short, if someone cannot point to a use of something, it shouldn't be done. How enlightened of you? Have you explained your theory to scientists? I'm sure they'd listen to you.
The point of buying Apple is the software. MS's alleged software sucks. And that explains the price differential. You can buy a Dell running MS software and you pay the discounted price because the software is not very good.
In a bid to make the bot seem more human, the developers gave it a dark side. It can also ask stupid questions. And it can pee in the corner and look around guiltily claiming it was someone else. It can also dance naked. It aids security with the ability to shoot laser beams out of its eyes to deter any NRA supporters who bring their AR-15s into the museum to defend themselves. The NRA is said to be appalled by the bot and claims to be developing their own...they only have to work out a few kinks...like it going on a drunken rampage and shooting up the local pool hall.
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At least until you wind up killing a toddler because, after all, you have a right a drive in your dotage; then you can spend the rest of your misery in the clink and the toddler gets to not grow up and have a life.
Imagine Trump playing poker...bwahahahahaha....Art of the Deal my ass. Kim will own him.
Trump learning the ropes? Errr....he learns? 4 bankruptcies in a row didn't teach him anything. Now he's doing to the countries what he did to the banks stupid enough to lend to him.
Have a lie down...relax...try the little pink pills next time.
"100% maintained" For now, give it another year or two.
Reminds me of a comment as reported in No Laughing Matter by Joseph Heller. They had a group of men who would go out and eat dinner together periodically. Someone asked how come some other person wasn't invited seeing as he was short like the rest of them. The response was, he was too short.
Speaking of their dinner club, they had a rule about wives: it was okay for you to bring your wife, it is not okay for me to bring mine.
Related in that book is the Guillain-Barre syndrome that Joseph Heller contracted (now they have much better treatments). It robs you of motor function. Heller is seated in his wheel chair in his apartment and his buddies are over so they can all go to dinner together. Mel Brooks is one of his buddies. When the time comes to leave, Brooks gets up, walks over to Heller, and in a loud voice says (paraphrase) "Walk, in the name of Jesus". Of course nothing happens. Brooks shrugs his shoulders says to the effect, "Hell, I thought I'd give it try". (Heller and Brooks are Jewish).
The boy would be perfect. He fulfills all the qualifications for the job. He knows nothing about AI, he's a sycophant to our fake president, and he has shady business dealings (turns out he a landlord in poor areas and has twice the eviction rate of others).
Wrong metric. What should be used is the difficulty of picking up a technosignature in vastness of time. It turns out the Universe is really, really big....so big you won't believe it....amazingly amazing big.
I'm not believing in them unless I see hot green alien women wearing what is usually considered too few clothes....mmmm, the forbidden pleasure!!
Jesus, don't give them any ideas, are you crazy?
Yeah, anything to distract them from studying evolution. They should just have it banned like Kansas, no creature is now allowed to evolve in that state lest they generate humans from monkeys. See, one doesn't have to understand science to screw it up.
I doubt it, people are more interested in what's on their cell phones than alien life. Anyhow, they can't get here from there very quickly. That fact alone will cause people to harumph and move on.
Umm...foreign aid is approximately $50 Billion out of a $4 Trillion dollar budget. Of the approximately $700 Billion the U.S. spends on its military each year, about half goes to salaries, medical care, other personnel stuff. Another roughly $200 goes to physical plant. The rest goes into procurement. The amount the U.S. spends on foreign military infrastructure is more or less insignificant. However, a hot spot boiling over because the U.S. pulled back from the world, priceless.
So even whacking the entire defense bill every year will only leave the U.S. running a $300 Billion deficit every year (courtesy of the Republicans paying off their business contributors in the last tax bill). Whacking foreign expenditures is decimal dust. Allies are what gives the U.S. clout. And without supporting them militarily, the U.S. would be in the same position as China and Russia, they have no allies except Syria and the Norks. In any confrontation, they can rely on no one. Allies are a cheap way for the U.S. to increase its reach. But then maybe you'd like a world turned over the Russians and Chinese and their famous fair trade policies. They wouldn't think to screw U.S. companies out of markets, now would they?
I saw one interview with some regular Carlos just south of the U.S.-Mexico border. When asked about the wall, the man said to effect, they will pay us to build the wall, and then when that fellow leaves office, they will pay us to tear it down. It wasn't a concern of his but he welcomed the additional job opportunities.
And they are likely to get their wish, which of course runs counter to asshole wanting to get out of the Middle East. Now, the Iranian hardliners (well, the more extreme of the hardliners running their puppet government) will have to do something to distract the pop. from their economic failures. A good war with Israel should do the trick to rally the people around their puppets again...and the people probably will. Maybe will die, and asshole will claim he didn't kill them.
More to the point, China and Russia will happily build economic ties with Iran, Europe is still in thrall of American financial might. I've often though that as the world becomes more multi-polar, the U.S. will find it cannot use its economic might as though it were still the 1990s.
All one has to do is look at the Evangelicals in the American South and their support for apartheid policies to know that arm of the religion thinks of religion in terms of hate. Worse, they will construct logical arguments why Jesus preferred this, it is just that their premises are screwy....garbage in, garbage out, no matter how logical the reasoning.
Christ said? Errrrr....you do realize the Gospels were written at least two generations after the Romans nailed him to a cross, yes?
Or it could be his attorneys phoning each other, "Did you hear what that jackass said today?"
Well, execution in the U.S. is from treason went out of fashion long ago. So stop being melodramatic. And Google and Facebook can sell your information to companies that will hound you for years, constantly yapping for attention. And if they sell it to insurance companies, your rates can go up for no reason you can see.
"they are much better positioned to start new groundbreaking lines of investigation" I do not think so. Science these days requires lots of years of experience. You get the one or two odd contributions from outsiders, but largely scientific progress is made in the trenches slogging it out year after year. Care to explain any advances in string theory due to outsiders to physics?
Oh grow up, languages are live, they change with the times...unlike....errr...you.
Hmmm...lemme guess, when Evariste Galois was inventing group theory, you'd be in the peanut gallery claiming you couldn't see any use for it (hint, he did it in the early 1800s). And when those wild and crazy guys were screwing up developing the math for quantum mechanics, you'd be asking them for a practical use (hint, they did it in the early 1900s).
In short, if someone cannot point to a use of something, it shouldn't be done. How enlightened of you? Have you explained your theory to scientists? I'm sure they'd listen to you.
The point of buying Apple is the software. MS's alleged software sucks. And that explains the price differential. You can buy a Dell running MS software and you pay the discounted price because the software is not very good.
In a bid to make the bot seem more human, the developers gave it a dark side. It can also ask stupid questions. And it can pee in the corner and look around guiltily claiming it was someone else. It can also dance naked. It aids security with the ability to shoot laser beams out of its eyes to deter any NRA supporters who bring their AR-15s into the museum to defend themselves. The NRA is said to be appalled by the bot and claims to be developing their own...they only have to work out a few kinks...like it going on a drunken rampage and shooting up the local pool hall.