If you have to take along a 300kW gasoline-powered turbine and a copy machine-sized unit, isn't it easier to just throw this stuff in the path of the car you want to stop?
I suggest that would mean there wouldn't be an excuse to deploy microwave weapons within civilian populations.
If we're going to consider what remains of civilizations we have to consider the Younger Dryas period where ice core samples suggest the polar ice caps were MILES thick and extended from the north pole well into North America.
We have to keep in mind that human civilisations are characteristically coastal and also that means the earth had a greater land mass than today. With ice caps that thick and mounting evidence that this glacial period was ended catastrophically by some sort of orbital or volcanic activity, most of the evidence will be under at least 90 metres of water today.
Whatever happened back then it wiped the face of the earth clean with the amount of energy and water released. The only evidence left behind would have to have been deliberately buried high, like Göbekli Tepe. That would have been a very bad day.
So looking back only 10,000 years into pre-history is hard enough without adding two more zeros. Why don't we try being a little more practical and look 10-20 thousand years back first and try to figure out what happened then so the same thing doesn't happen to us?
I think you are in a different situation, BPD and that your wife *may* have developed NPD defenses, I cannot say for sure. The people who do this to other people are sick in a way that uses your compassion for them against you, so you have to be careful.
If you are interested contact me on a random, unrelated post of mine to protect your pseudonym, I'll give you some details and you can decide what you want to do.
So this is a great example of how a NPD interacts. First thing you notice is that they interact at a teenage level where their emotional development ended. They're so injured by the very idea of someone taking their supply that this one can't even spell properly.
wah wah wahhhhh.
This part demonstrates how the NPD has no capacity to interact in such a way to defend the rights they claim to be entitled to so they resort to trying to provoke an emotion response.
i would pretend to be narcicist too for 1-cent of every 100 views.
This is what an NPD needs to validate their world view about themselves. They're so desperate for attention because of the love their father didn't give them and from their mothers telling them they're special. Inside their heads a voice incessantly pesters them about how worthless they are.
gtfo...
Here you can see how desperately boring the NPD is. They don't have anything to offer so they resort to trying to trigger emotional responses. This one displays NPD traits with an over-exaggerated sense of self-importance that no-one but himself can see. The rest of the world just sees a loser.
Generally, I just ignore them, which hurts them the most however you can go as far as triggering a full blown nervous breakdown in them. Generally I wouldn't waste my time however for anyone still reading this thread this AC comment is a good example of how classic NPD abuse is conducted, they can't help themselves.
I suggest this one will be punished by their own ego for failing to get a response as expected, which can be so brutally punishing that they fall into a deep depression sometimes for days and weeks. They may find themselves trapped into risking a response that invites much more of the type of psychological torture they like to inflict or putting up with the punishment from the ego and acknowledging to themselves again that they are worthless.
Either way from what I've seen they inevitably validate their own ego's punishment of themselves for not securing the attention they covet so the voices in their head end up going on and on louder and louder torturing them for being such a loser and knowing it.
Don't feel sorry for them, that's how they want leave their victims.
That's pretty good about describing the NPD behavior.
But you are wrong about it developing because of abusive parents, and maybe codependent parent.
There is little doubt these are personality disorders. If this sounds controversial to you it's because you are probably intellectualizing and making excuses for your abuser. I think you may need to stop doing that so you aren't harming yourself and the people around you - especially your children.
Try to consider the relationship you had with your parents and their relationship with each other and see how your relationship with your wife compares.
It's genetic, organic, developmental; because of their lack of empathy and consequently missing theory of mind, modeling behavior doesn't work.
There is no genetic test for NPD, BPD or CPTSD. All of them are behavioral responses developed over time from exposure to abusive parents. It's pretty common, unfortunately.
Also you need to describe comorbid BPD, borderline personality disorder. Some people have both.
Both of my children are BPD, one also slightly NPD.
Well you have an abuser and a co-dependent who was abused as a child because it isn't genetic and it doesn't materialize from thin air. The psychological injuries a child suffers from having personal boundaries broken causes perceptual problems in the psyche that attracts them to that abuse. If that sounds fucked up - it's because it is fucked up.
It's a cycle our society needs to break.
Their mother is full blown BPD NPD.
That is a statement neither of us is qualified to utter. However if your claim is true the you are enabling her abuse on the children and yourself and it is your responsibility to put their welfare above your issues and your happiness. It is inevitable that you will eventually be discarded by the NPD and the reason you stay is because you have suffered an abuse in your childhood that make you to frightened to leave - so you stay in an abusive situation.
You need to face your own emotional issues with your parents if you are to have any hope of saving your children because she will turn them against you and they too will become NPD.
I know it sounds hurtful and I could bullshit to you or not respond however that would be cruel and this is something you need to hear. It will be confronting for you however YOU need to do something because no one else can and it is your obligation to do so. That something is you listening to that little voice in your head that is trying to tell you what is wrong, instead of your flawed instinct, and face it. Go to a counselor or a psychiatrist and sort yourself out so that we have two less NPDs in the world.
Don't expose her either or she will destroy all of you.
Folks if you encounter anyone like this in real life, run away, as far away as you can get.
That is good advice that you should consider taking very carefully. A female NPD will tear a male co-dependent apart with children and you are in a very precarious position, be very careful. That's not to say a male or female is worse than the other just that they use different tactics.
I heard of a case where a NPD fought his wife for four years to get custody of their 12 year old daughter and when he finally got those privileges he took his daughter home and kicked her skull in. Killed his daughter, put himself in jail just so he could take revenge on his wife for leaving.
Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a personality disorder
I've been writing a book on this subject and the impact of the psychological abuse from NPD. One abusive parent is required and one fawning parent who feels guilty about the abuse and tries to compensate.
with a long-term pattern of abnormal behavior characterized by exaggerated feelings of self-importance, an excessive need for admiration,
Also entitlement and imposing their emotional needs onto you via psychological manipulation.
and a lack of empathy.
I have to clear this bit up because it's important, especially if you don't want to become a victim. Empathy's traditional meaning is an awareness of other peoples feeling. Somehow, in the modern vernacular, it has been attached to compassion for other peoples feelings.
To be clear, narcissists do have empathy, however they way they use it to manipulate people better so they can secure narcissistic supply.
People affected by it often spend a lot of time thinking about achieving power or success, or about their appearance. They often take advantage of the people around them.
Thinking about it, but rarely achieving it. To be clear, narcissists are losers. They aren't talented enough at anything to be able to get what they want because they are so preoccupied manipulating people around them to get the emotional validation they seek.
This is the essence of narcissistic supply and everything they do is geared around how and what they have to do to manipulate people into interacting with them that way.
It's the narcissists sense of absolute superiority that makes them unable to submit to any discipline that would make them good any anything to generate those feelings in people in a genuine way. Everything about the narcissist is their false self and maintaining the perception of it.
The behavior typically manifests by early adulthood, and occurs across a variety of social situations.
The correction was necessary because they, themselves were abused over time. If you are going to feel any compassion for a narcissist feel it for when they were a child from age 3-13 when their brains were still plastic and their abusive parent conditioned them to being abused and the fawning parent told them they were special. After this age the narcissist is beyond help because they don't think anything is wrong with them and over time they will drive their victims to complete emotional breakdowns remorselessly and then discard them callously.
You have nailed it that it is those people that would attack the Youtube staffers instead of being grateful they have a platform. I'm not qualified to make a diagnosis, however the traits are there. Youtube took their narcissistic supply away from them, caused them an un-excusable narcissistic injury, they felt entitled to retribution.
What I'll point out though is narcissists are conscious of getting into trouble so this person was highly likely to be slipping over to an anti-social personality disorder. It's likely they are diagnose-able with one of these conditions.
After kicking all of the other kids out of it's sandbox and not letting them play all the other kids got together and built their own sandbox. Now Microsoft want to play in their sandbox because all the other kids are having such a good time. I wonder how long it will take for Microsoft to kick all the other kids out of the sandbox this time?
And the morale to the story:
Halfway across the river the scorpion stung the frog and as they were drowning the frog said "Why???" to which the scorpion replied "It's in my nature".
Linux uses mouse index click to cut, mouse middle click to paste - it's very fast. The Linux paradigm is so far ahead in terms of efficiency than using ^C and ^V, which is really horrible. I shouldn't have to take my hand off the mouse to cut and paste.
The very structure of the corporate enterprise is legally obliged to deliver profits to the shareholders above all other concerns.
For "shareholders", read "owners".
And I'm curious - would you invest in a company that promised to never deliver any kind of return for the money you invested? If not, why not?
No, however I'd remove the concept of Proprietary Limited Liability and expose companies to the full liability of their decisions and risk. Including no public bail-outs while making the lobbying of politicians illegal with jail penalties for the board and penalties for the company represented by a percentage of gross profit.
I would make companies liable for their externalities and mandate use of technology to integrate their waste streams to either identify raw materials or figure out what waste has to be handled and how. I'd introduce laws where people can launch a class action on behalf of the land that has the purpose of driving remediation for environmental issues or issues of public mental health.
I would make it *illegal* for corporate advertisers to manipulate the unconscious desires of consumers using psychoanalysis and other techniques that have been developed for understanding the human psyche, including making those features in software illegal. I'd leave the ability to take legal action and diversification though I would make liability for corporate fraud and corruption more strict.
Essentially bring back capitalism in a more basic form and get rid of a lot of the corporate welfare that is obsolete. Unfortunately what we have is the TPP and TISA.
Even though you have a valid point I suggest this issue goes a little deeper than the laws we've got that aren't being used.
The very structure of the corporate enterprise is legally obliged to deliver profits to the shareholders above all other concerns. Ultimately, despite all espoused values of said corporation, it's primary legal responsibility are those profits.
This means a corporation will and must fulfill it's obligations with in the law and, as we have seen numerous times in the courts, sometimes corporations go outside the law to deliver profits. I offer that this is something we accept as our reality no matter which side of the political spectrum you fall on.
To put this into context, I think a worthy consideration is that in the 1950's corporate law was different. Corporations had a very narrowly focused corporate charter to deliver a certain thing to the community, like a large piece of public infrastructure,
like a bridge or a something else needed by the common use of all people. Corporations didn't have human rights like the ability to initiate legal proceedings on behalf of its interests.
They are also the loudest influence of political policy and with all of that combined the modern 20th century corporation was allowed to diversify and expand, creating all of the behemoths of enterprise that rose in the 70's, 80's and 1990's. Our Early 21st century experience is colored by a nostalgic view of what a corporation is.
Now add the Internet and the ability to interact with a large audience and learn all about them and the 20th century corporation is something else again, it has evolved and adapted. It exists as the consequence of actions of all of us who work within this structure. That is not to deny that they don't do amazing and cool things, however we must always keep in mind that this structure is still oriented towards profit before all other things.
So I don't blame these people for the way that things turned out because that is the structure of our "Free Enterprise Capitalism", which is the nostalgic view and, the 21st Century reality of Corporatism which is the reality of our time regardless of politics.
I think this is a good example of taking personal responsibility as a Technologist for not doing enough to stop this circumstance. I think that the lesson that we can take away from it is if you don't bare the burden of your personally responsibility when you make a profound impact on the community, people will make you.
The second thing I see is not, what went wrong, but what is going wrong, it's still happening. We bare a larger than ever burden of responsibility for the behavior of the enterprises we create. My personal concern is as AIs start to inherit corporate functions, what sort of entities are we creating? What sort of world is our unconscious desires creating with our internet powered corporations? How can I influence things to make a good reality with technology.
I want to be optimistic, however I think it is valuable to be wise to consider those questions, especially if you are a technologist because we want to create the kind of reality that makes people respect technologist for their role in the community.
Small Business do not have access to the ISDS process to settle disputes with larger business. Small
business is not excluded from participating in the TPP's benefits however it is specifically excluded from
dispute settlement mechanisms. The possibility of larger businesses enforcing monopolistic practices
has to be considered as a consequence of this lack of access.
Transparency and AntiCorruption Chapter 26
It is guiling that the TPP forces our country to provide advance notice and a reasonable opportunity for
interested parties to comment on any matter of law covered by the agreement when the
public was denied this very opportunity with the implementation of the TPP.
Under the TPP interested parties have 60 advance notice on a proposed act of law introduced to the
parliament, an additional period for analysis and parliament must explain the purpose of the law.
The public was granted 30 days to review the 6000 pages of the TPP, no period for analysis
and offered no explanation of how the Chapters, articles and clauses would affect them.
Other articles offer the pursuit of public officials but not their private counterparts.
Investor State Dispute Mechanisms facilitate means for corporations to bypass the laws of the
communities they operate in. The TPP seeks to place these entities beyond the reach of the law in a
manner that threatens the very structure of our democracy. This is by far the most troubling article
amongst so many other troubling things that the TPP seeks to achieve.
How is it responsible government to even entertain the possibility of the taxpayer compensating for
profit entities for having to comply with community standards that have been expressed in the very
laws the people of our country have asked our representatives to create?
our country is not only liable for a complaining parties profit, but also has to provide them with a plan of
how our country intends to modify it's legal system to favour the complainers profit margins and
compensate them until it is done.
In the contexts of ISDS law is reduced to nonconformity, nullification and impairment to be
removed holding our entire legal system in disdain.
There is only tacit recognition of the public domain and it's importance to commerce and the global
economy. In fact it is public domain software, known as "Open Source" software (Source code being a
concept mentioned in the Electronic Commerce section) that is responsible for the existence of the
modern Internet and both major phone platforms.
Some licences are permissive and others are not. These licences exist for a reason selected by the
creators of software so that the software created is only used in certain ways intended by the authors of
the software.
A confident Open Source sector is the basis of many success stories such as Google, Apple
and Atlassian. Protection of Open Source licences fosters innovation in a country and generates
economic activity. This type of software can also be prior art in the construction of new types of
invention. Modern industry is built on Open Source software, considering its criticality, it should enjoy
the same protections afforded to performing artists as set out in the same Chapter 18.69 because, in
essence, it is exactly the same thing.
There is no more appropriate framing for context for the TPP than an anonymous poem from the 1700's:
They hang the man and flog the woman
That steal the goose from off the common
But let the greater villain loose
That steal the common from the goose
This surprising wisdom from our past innocently unveils the nature of the TPP which, disguised as a
trade agreement, contains a scaffolding for laws that converts the rights of ordinary citizens to capital.
Indeed, optimal implementation of the TPP and it's associated agreement TISA seek the right for
Limited Liability Companies, Incorporated businesses and Corporations to convert "The Common" into
capital.
It's very construction has sought to avoid any public scrutiny and has been carried out in secret for
years. It's product is a monolithic 6000 page agreement presented to the Parliament in a manner,
rushed if possible, that has sought to avoid the scrutiny of Government bodies whose purpose is to
analyse if it is in the Public good. With impunity the purveyors of the TPP have desperately sought to
avoid the scrutiny of the general public and many organisations committed to maintaining many public
interests.
How can any reasonable person conclude that such an agreement has been constructed with good will
towards the very communities it seeks to interact with, the populous of our country and indeed the
populous of every country that is a signatory.
It is disappointing that our elected representatives have passed this treaty without allowing the
public more time to absorb it's ramifications. This entire treaty should be rejected and
removed from further consideration as a treaty that our country has to abide by.
Our Constitution says that we are to be governed by the principles of 'Responsible Government'. How
can ratifying a treaty into law that allows for profit entities to bypass the community standards be
'Responsible Government'? Indeed, from that perspective how is implementing the TPP compatible with
the principles of our Constitution? Is it responsible to pass a treaty that has avoided the scrutiny of the
many competent organisations that have the capability to asses it?
How can it be Constitutional to allow corporate members of the community to bypass the Judicature of
our country in a manner that effectively abdicates our sovereignty?
The TPP seeks to do this by introducing articles that seek to control the behaviour of our nation's
government via mechanisms that punish the taxpayer for passing law made for the good of the
community.
Pulling out of the TPP was the one thing that i actually agreed with Trump on and that i was happy he followed through on.
Indeed, though something told me it wasn't going to last. Australian Liberals are to blame, they started pushing the TPP with Japan and it gained momentum from there.
This is the play, say it's dead so everyone lets their guard down and then push it through while the politicians high five each other about how skillfully they deceived the electorate. It's difficult to believe that any of them read all 6000 pages of the TPP. As for public debate - hahahahha, what's that?
As for the IP provisions of the TPP, I wrote an analysis of that in the 1000 pages I got through for the concerned politicians who initiated a joint standing committee. I only had time to delve into the things that would affect me, I suspect they will affect most people here the same way, keeping in mind that if you think the TPP was secrective, TISA that draws up laws affecting the banking sector is even worse.
The TPP and TISA are possibly the worst agreements I've ever seen and while I read it I couldn't help thinking how bad it would be for people of any country that has to comply with its provisions.
People should read as much of the TPP that they can stomach and draw their own conclusions so I'll post sections after this thread so people can jump to those sections and see for themselves. I welcome people to copy my analysis if they wish and refer it to whichever of their representatives they deem fit.
After they realized that one was doing this, they should have been analyzing to find others immediately.
It's Facebook showing their sincerity to their user base by punishing the assholes that embarrassed them and threatened their only viable revenue stream.
The fewer people involved making it unreliable and prone to failure the better so let's not be naive and think that nothing is going to go wrong with doing it. It's a bad idea so people of good sense and good will have the right idea slowing the process down. Do we actually need AIs that can kill us? No. Do we need to think of the ramifications and prepare for them, I don't think it's unreasonable, so let's do that first. We could start here.
I'd start with weapons that destroy themselves if they kill and have a moral capacity to determine if the cause is worth their destruction sans Revelation Space weapons. That's because AI's have no idea what it means to be alive. How will you subject AI's to the LAW while humans are subject to it. These are all the challenges that are by-passed with this stupidest of stupid ideas. And so naive.
What about AI surgical assistants, or AI counselors, or AI taxi's, there are literally thousands of better applications of AI. Things that make people live.
the only person you can stop from developing it is yourself.
I'm already involved in my second AI project. Have I thought about how I would develop weaponised AI countermeasures? Yes and the conclusion I came to was I don't want to have to development weaponised AI countermeasures, I think they're dangerous things - I'd rather spend my time developing some of the applications for AI that I deem constructive that helps people.
Why would I waste my time developing AI counter measures in a race where I can be easily outspent and any developments I patent are captured by government on national security grounds? What possible thing can an individual do to counter a force using tax dollars to develop things designed to kill?
Anyone who attempts to develop AI countermeasures will have them captured by government to strengthen existing developments and if they're lucky they will avoid jail time.
What weaponised AI counter measure do you intend developing?
Let me know how that works out for you.
Great so far because I spend my time on profitable adventures. Weaponising AI is about the dumbest idea I've ever heard from the minds of emotionally unbalanced, barely evolved primates. So it's a game where you are compelled to play by a lot of bad actors who are psychologically unsound. Just convince the AI engineers that someone will do it and someone will fall for it, but it's still a dumb idea. That's what this game is making smart people do a dumb thing.
People smart enough to develop AI can see this is stupid and are saying No. However, like always, intelligent people are pestered by people with deceit and cunning when confronted with these emotive double bind arguments that someone out there is going to do it - because they are too stupid to do it themselves. If someone else is going to do it I'll eventually see how it works out for them no matter what I do. The fewer people working on it the better.
That is not an attack on you, btw, what I'm pointing out is it's lunatic reasoning that is driving this and no matter how it is justified, it is a stupid, if not the stupidest idea I have ever heard.
I had the pleasure of seeing an un-restored 70mm print of 2001: A Space Odyssey, possibly this one, as it had never been through a projector when I saw it in the 90's. That it was unused was one of the selling point. I think there was about 5 people in the cinema - which was better for me. I'd read the book several times and was a big fan of the story.
There is something special about the 70mm format that is very pleasing to the eye, like watching a moving painting the way it draws you in, there is so much to see. A master story teller and movie maker collaborating to tell the story of man's evolution from chimp to our ultimate evolution.
I think I was really lucky to have seen it the way it was intended to be seen by the people who made it. The ultimate abstraction of all stories into this one is why I think people called it a masterpiece.
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If you have to take along a 300kW gasoline-powered turbine and a copy machine-sized unit, isn't it easier to just throw this stuff in the path of the car you want to stop?
I suggest that would mean there wouldn't be an excuse to deploy microwave weapons within civilian populations.
Another technical achievement that can be defeated by aluminum foil. ;)
So you're advocating walking around wearing a tin foil hat?
Stylish!
If we're going to consider what remains of civilizations we have to consider the Younger Dryas period where ice core samples suggest the polar ice caps were MILES thick and extended from the north pole well into North America.
We have to keep in mind that human civilisations are characteristically coastal and also that means the earth had a greater land mass than today. With ice caps that thick and mounting evidence that this glacial period was ended catastrophically by some sort of orbital or volcanic activity, most of the evidence will be under at least 90 metres of water today.
Whatever happened back then it wiped the face of the earth clean with the amount of energy and water released. The only evidence left behind would have to have been deliberately buried high, like Göbekli Tepe. That would have been a very bad day.
So looking back only 10,000 years into pre-history is hard enough without adding two more zeros. Why don't we try being a little more practical and look 10-20 thousand years back first and try to figure out what happened then so the same thing doesn't happen to us?
I think you are in a different situation, BPD and that your wife *may* have developed NPD defenses, I cannot say for sure. The people who do this to other people are sick in a way that uses your compassion for them against you, so you have to be careful.
If you are interested contact me on a random, unrelated post of mine to protect your pseudonym, I'll give you some details and you can decide what you want to do.
So this is a great example of how a NPD interacts. First thing you notice is that they interact at a teenage level where their emotional development ended. They're so injured by the very idea of someone taking their supply that this one can't even spell properly.
wah wah wahhhhh.
This part demonstrates how the NPD has no capacity to interact in such a way to defend the rights they claim to be entitled to so they resort to trying to provoke an emotion response.
i would pretend to be narcicist too for 1-cent of every 100 views.
This is what an NPD needs to validate their world view about themselves. They're so desperate for attention because of the love their father didn't give them and from their mothers telling them they're special. Inside their heads a voice incessantly pesters them about how worthless they are.
gtfo...
Here you can see how desperately boring the NPD is. They don't have anything to offer so they resort to trying to trigger emotional responses. This one displays NPD traits with an over-exaggerated sense of self-importance that no-one but himself can see. The rest of the world just sees a loser.
Generally, I just ignore them, which hurts them the most however you can go as far as triggering a full blown nervous breakdown in them. Generally I wouldn't waste my time however for anyone still reading this thread this AC comment is a good example of how classic NPD abuse is conducted, they can't help themselves.
I suggest this one will be punished by their own ego for failing to get a response as expected, which can be so brutally punishing that they fall into a deep depression sometimes for days and weeks. They may find themselves trapped into risking a response that invites much more of the type of psychological torture they like to inflict or putting up with the punishment from the ego and acknowledging to themselves again that they are worthless.
Either way from what I've seen they inevitably validate their own ego's punishment of themselves for not securing the attention they covet so the voices in their head end up going on and on louder and louder torturing them for being such a loser and knowing it.
Don't feel sorry for them, that's how they want leave their victims.
Most likely, your children's mental problems are in YOUR head.
Yes, but he didn't ask to be abused either so just go easy on the poor bastard because he is in a bad situation.
That's pretty good about describing the NPD behavior.
But you are wrong about it developing because of abusive parents, and maybe codependent parent.
There is little doubt these are personality disorders. If this sounds controversial to you it's because you are probably intellectualizing and making excuses for your abuser. I think you may need to stop doing that so you aren't harming yourself and the people around you - especially your children.
Try to consider the relationship you had with your parents and their relationship with each other and see how your relationship with your wife compares.
It's genetic, organic, developmental; because of their lack of empathy and consequently missing theory of mind, modeling behavior doesn't work.
There is no genetic test for NPD, BPD or CPTSD. All of them are behavioral responses developed over time from exposure to abusive parents. It's pretty common, unfortunately.
Also you need to describe comorbid BPD, borderline personality disorder. Some people have both.
Both of my children are BPD, one also slightly NPD.
Well you have an abuser and a co-dependent who was abused as a child because it isn't genetic and it doesn't materialize from thin air. The psychological injuries a child suffers from having personal boundaries broken causes perceptual problems in the psyche that attracts them to that abuse. If that sounds fucked up - it's because it is fucked up.
It's a cycle our society needs to break.
Their mother is full blown BPD NPD.
That is a statement neither of us is qualified to utter. However if your claim is true the you are enabling her abuse on the children and yourself and it is your responsibility to put their welfare above your issues and your happiness. It is inevitable that you will eventually be discarded by the NPD and the reason you stay is because you have suffered an abuse in your childhood that make you to frightened to leave - so you stay in an abusive situation.
You need to face your own emotional issues with your parents if you are to have any hope of saving your children because she will turn them against you and they too will become NPD.
I know it sounds hurtful and I could bullshit to you or not respond however that would be cruel and this is something you need to hear. It will be confronting for you however YOU need to do something because no one else can and it is your obligation to do so. That something is you listening to that little voice in your head that is trying to tell you what is wrong, instead of your flawed instinct, and face it. Go to a counselor or a psychiatrist and sort yourself out so that we have two less NPDs in the world.
Don't expose her either or she will destroy all of you.
Folks if you encounter anyone like this in real life, run away, as far away as you can get.
That is good advice that you should consider taking very carefully. A female NPD will tear a male co-dependent apart with children and you are in a very precarious position, be very careful. That's not to say a male or female is worse than the other just that they use different tactics.
I heard of a case where a NPD fought his wife for four years to get custody of their 12 year old daughter and when he finally got those privileges he took his daughter home and kicked her skull in. Killed his daughter, put himself in jail just so he could take revenge on his wife for leaving.
Take your situation seriously.
Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a personality disorder
I've been writing a book on this subject and the impact of the psychological abuse from NPD. One abusive parent is required and one fawning parent who feels guilty about the abuse and tries to compensate.
with a long-term pattern of abnormal behavior characterized by exaggerated feelings of self-importance, an excessive need for admiration,
Also entitlement and imposing their emotional needs onto you via psychological manipulation.
and a lack of empathy.
I have to clear this bit up because it's important, especially if you don't want to become a victim. Empathy's traditional meaning is an awareness of other peoples feeling. Somehow, in the modern vernacular, it has been attached to compassion for other peoples feelings.
To be clear, narcissists do have empathy, however they way they use it to manipulate people better so they can secure narcissistic supply.
People affected by it often spend a lot of time thinking about achieving power or success, or about their appearance. They often take advantage of the people around them.
Thinking about it, but rarely achieving it. To be clear, narcissists are losers. They aren't talented enough at anything to be able to get what they want because they are so preoccupied manipulating people around them to get the emotional validation they seek.
This is the essence of narcissistic supply and everything they do is geared around how and what they have to do to manipulate people into interacting with them that way.
It's the narcissists sense of absolute superiority that makes them unable to submit to any discipline that would make them good any anything to generate those feelings in people in a genuine way. Everything about the narcissist is their false self and maintaining the perception of it.
The behavior typically manifests by early adulthood, and occurs across a variety of social situations.
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The correction was necessary because they, themselves were abused over time. If you are going to feel any compassion for a narcissist feel it for when they were a child from age 3-13 when their brains were still plastic and their abusive parent conditioned them to being abused and the fawning parent told them they were special. After this age the narcissist is beyond help because they don't think anything is wrong with them and over time they will drive their victims to complete emotional breakdowns remorselessly and then discard them callously.
You have nailed it that it is those people that would attack the Youtube staffers instead of being grateful they have a platform. I'm not qualified to make a diagnosis, however the traits are there. Youtube took their narcissistic supply away from them, caused them an un-excusable narcissistic injury, they felt entitled to retribution.
What I'll point out though is narcissists are conscious of getting into trouble so this person was highly likely to be slipping over to an anti-social personality disorder. It's likely they are diagnose-able with one of these conditions.
My head just exploded.
After kicking all of the other kids out of it's sandbox and not letting them play all the other kids got together and built their own sandbox. Now Microsoft want to play in their sandbox because all the other kids are having such a good time. I wonder how long it will take for Microsoft to kick all the other kids out of the sandbox this time?
And the morale to the story:
Halfway across the river the scorpion stung the frog and as they were drowning the frog said "Why???" to which the scorpion replied "It's in my nature".
Sorry about all the typos. bad arm.. ;-(
No, need. I just had surgery on my elbow where they removed the bursa and ooooowwwwww!!!! for the next 6 weeks or so.
Yes, you are right, it's X11. Yes gpm does it too because it works the same way from the console.
Windows uses ctrl C + crtl V
Linux uses mouse index click to cut, mouse middle click to paste - it's very fast. The Linux paradigm is so far ahead in terms of efficiency than using ^C and ^V, which is really horrible. I shouldn't have to take my hand off the mouse to cut and paste.
Cygwin allows this on windows, does WSL?
For "shareholders", read "owners".
And I'm curious - would you invest in a company that promised to never deliver any kind of return for the money you invested? If not, why not?
No, however I'd remove the concept of Proprietary Limited Liability and expose companies to the full liability of their decisions and risk. Including no public bail-outs while making the lobbying of politicians illegal with jail penalties for the board and penalties for the company represented by a percentage of gross profit.
I would make companies liable for their externalities and mandate use of technology to integrate their waste streams to either identify raw materials or figure out what waste has to be handled and how. I'd introduce laws where people can launch a class action on behalf of the land that has the purpose of driving remediation for environmental issues or issues of public mental health.
I would make it *illegal* for corporate advertisers to manipulate the unconscious desires of consumers using psychoanalysis and other techniques that have been developed for understanding the human psyche, including making those features in software illegal. I'd leave the ability to take legal action and diversification though I would make liability for corporate fraud and corruption more strict.
Essentially bring back capitalism in a more basic form and get rid of a lot of the corporate welfare that is obsolete. Unfortunately what we have is the TPP and TISA.
already got 'em. use 'em.
Even though you have a valid point I suggest this issue goes a little deeper than the laws we've got that aren't being used.
The very structure of the corporate enterprise is legally obliged to deliver profits to the shareholders above all other concerns. Ultimately, despite all espoused values of said corporation, it's primary legal responsibility are those profits.
This means a corporation will and must fulfill it's obligations with in the law and, as we have seen numerous times in the courts, sometimes corporations go outside the law to deliver profits. I offer that this is something we accept as our reality no matter which side of the political spectrum you fall on.
To put this into context, I think a worthy consideration is that in the 1950's corporate law was different. Corporations had a very narrowly focused corporate charter to deliver a certain thing to the community, like a large piece of public infrastructure, like a bridge or a something else needed by the common use of all people. Corporations didn't have human rights like the ability to initiate legal proceedings on behalf of its interests.
They are also the loudest influence of political policy and with all of that combined the modern 20th century corporation was allowed to diversify and expand, creating all of the behemoths of enterprise that rose in the 70's, 80's and 1990's. Our Early 21st century experience is colored by a nostalgic view of what a corporation is.
Now add the Internet and the ability to interact with a large audience and learn all about them and the 20th century corporation is something else again, it has evolved and adapted. It exists as the consequence of actions of all of us who work within this structure. That is not to deny that they don't do amazing and cool things, however we must always keep in mind that this structure is still oriented towards profit before all other things.
So I don't blame these people for the way that things turned out because that is the structure of our "Free Enterprise Capitalism", which is the nostalgic view and, the 21st Century reality of Corporatism which is the reality of our time regardless of politics.
I think this is a good example of taking personal responsibility as a Technologist for not doing enough to stop this circumstance. I think that the lesson that we can take away from it is if you don't bare the burden of your personally responsibility when you make a profound impact on the community, people will make you.
The second thing I see is not, what went wrong, but what is going wrong, it's still happening. We bare a larger than ever burden of responsibility for the behavior of the enterprises we create. My personal concern is as AIs start to inherit corporate functions, what sort of entities are we creating? What sort of world is our unconscious desires creating with our internet powered corporations? How can I influence things to make a good reality with technology.
I want to be optimistic, however I think it is valuable to be wise to consider those questions, especially if you are a technologist because we want to create the kind of reality that makes people respect technologist for their role in the community.
Have a nice day!
Small Business do not have access to the ISDS process to settle disputes with larger business. Small business is not excluded from participating in the TPP's benefits however it is specifically excluded from dispute settlement mechanisms. The possibility of larger businesses enforcing monopolistic practices has to be considered as a consequence of this lack of access.
Transparency and AntiCorruption Chapter 26 It is guiling that the TPP forces our country to provide advance notice and a reasonable opportunity for interested parties to comment on any matter of law covered by the agreement when the public was denied this very opportunity with the implementation of the TPP.
Under the TPP interested parties have 60 advance notice on a proposed act of law introduced to the parliament, an additional period for analysis and parliament must explain the purpose of the law.
The public was granted 30 days to review the 6000 pages of the TPP, no period for analysis and offered no explanation of how the Chapters, articles and clauses would affect them.
Other articles offer the pursuit of public officials but not their private counterparts.
Investor State Dispute Mechanisms facilitate means for corporations to bypass the laws of the communities they operate in. The TPP seeks to place these entities beyond the reach of the law in a manner that threatens the very structure of our democracy. This is by far the most troubling article amongst so many other troubling things that the TPP seeks to achieve.
How is it responsible government to even entertain the possibility of the taxpayer compensating for profit entities for having to comply with community standards that have been expressed in the very laws the people of our country have asked our representatives to create? our country is not only liable for a complaining parties profit, but also has to provide them with a plan of how our country intends to modify it's legal system to favour the complainers profit margins and compensate them until it is done.
In the contexts of ISDS law is reduced to nonconformity, nullification and impairment to be removed holding our entire legal system in disdain.
There is only tacit recognition of the public domain and it's importance to commerce and the global economy. In fact it is public domain software, known as "Open Source" software (Source code being a concept mentioned in the Electronic Commerce section) that is responsible for the existence of the modern Internet and both major phone platforms.
Some licences are permissive and others are not. These licences exist for a reason selected by the creators of software so that the software created is only used in certain ways intended by the authors of the software.
A confident Open Source sector is the basis of many success stories such as Google, Apple and Atlassian. Protection of Open Source licences fosters innovation in a country and generates economic activity. This type of software can also be prior art in the construction of new types of invention. Modern industry is built on Open Source software, considering its criticality, it should enjoy the same protections afforded to performing artists as set out in the same Chapter 18.69 because, in essence, it is exactly the same thing.
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Honourable Members of the Committee,
There is no more appropriate framing for context for the TPP than an anonymous poem from the 1700's:
They hang the man and flog the woman
That steal the goose from off the common
But let the greater villain loose
That steal the common from the goose
This surprising wisdom from our past innocently unveils the nature of the TPP which, disguised as a trade agreement, contains a scaffolding for laws that converts the rights of ordinary citizens to capital. Indeed, optimal implementation of the TPP and it's associated agreement TISA seek the right for Limited Liability Companies, Incorporated businesses and Corporations to convert "The Common" into capital.
It's very construction has sought to avoid any public scrutiny and has been carried out in secret for years. It's product is a monolithic 6000 page agreement presented to the Parliament in a manner, rushed if possible, that has sought to avoid the scrutiny of Government bodies whose purpose is to analyse if it is in the Public good. With impunity the purveyors of the TPP have desperately sought to avoid the scrutiny of the general public and many organisations committed to maintaining many public interests.
How can any reasonable person conclude that such an agreement has been constructed with good will towards the very communities it seeks to interact with, the populous of our country and indeed the populous of every country that is a signatory.
It is disappointing that our elected representatives have passed this treaty without allowing the public more time to absorb it's ramifications. This entire treaty should be rejected and removed from further consideration as a treaty that our country has to abide by.
Our Constitution says that we are to be governed by the principles of 'Responsible Government'. How can ratifying a treaty into law that allows for profit entities to bypass the community standards be 'Responsible Government'? Indeed, from that perspective how is implementing the TPP compatible with the principles of our Constitution? Is it responsible to pass a treaty that has avoided the scrutiny of the many competent organisations that have the capability to asses it? How can it be Constitutional to allow corporate members of the community to bypass the Judicature of our country in a manner that effectively abdicates our sovereignty? The TPP seeks to do this by introducing articles that seek to control the behaviour of our nation's government via mechanisms that punish the taxpayer for passing law made for the good of the community.
Pulling out of the TPP was the one thing that i actually agreed with Trump on and that i was happy he followed through on.
Indeed, though something told me it wasn't going to last. Australian Liberals are to blame, they started pushing the TPP with Japan and it gained momentum from there.
This is the play, say it's dead so everyone lets their guard down and then push it through while the politicians high five each other about how skillfully they deceived the electorate. It's difficult to believe that any of them read all 6000 pages of the TPP. As for public debate - hahahahha, what's that?
As for the IP provisions of the TPP, I wrote an analysis of that in the 1000 pages I got through for the concerned politicians who initiated a joint standing committee. I only had time to delve into the things that would affect me, I suspect they will affect most people here the same way, keeping in mind that if you think the TPP was secrective, TISA that draws up laws affecting the banking sector is even worse.
The TPP and TISA are possibly the worst agreements I've ever seen and while I read it I couldn't help thinking how bad it would be for people of any country that has to comply with its provisions. People should read as much of the TPP that they can stomach and draw their own conclusions so I'll post sections after this thread so people can jump to those sections and see for themselves. I welcome people to copy my analysis if they wish and refer it to whichever of their representatives they deem fit.
After they realized that one was doing this, they should have been analyzing to find others immediately.
It's Facebook showing their sincerity to their user base by punishing the assholes that embarrassed them and threatened their only viable revenue stream.
Of we go then, what could possibly go wrong?
It is going to be developed;
The fewer people involved making it unreliable and prone to failure the better so let's not be naive and think that nothing is going to go wrong with doing it. It's a bad idea so people of good sense and good will have the right idea slowing the process down. Do we actually need AIs that can kill us? No. Do we need to think of the ramifications and prepare for them, I don't think it's unreasonable, so let's do that first. We could start here.
I'd start with weapons that destroy themselves if they kill and have a moral capacity to determine if the cause is worth their destruction sans Revelation Space weapons. That's because AI's have no idea what it means to be alive. How will you subject AI's to the LAW while humans are subject to it. These are all the challenges that are by-passed with this stupidest of stupid ideas. And so naive.
What about AI surgical assistants, or AI counselors, or AI taxi's, there are literally thousands of better applications of AI. Things that make people live.
the only person you can stop from developing it is yourself.
I'm already involved in my second AI project. Have I thought about how I would develop weaponised AI countermeasures? Yes and the conclusion I came to was I don't want to have to development weaponised AI countermeasures, I think they're dangerous things - I'd rather spend my time developing some of the applications for AI that I deem constructive that helps people.
Why would I waste my time developing AI counter measures in a race where I can be easily outspent and any developments I patent are captured by government on national security grounds? What possible thing can an individual do to counter a force using tax dollars to develop things designed to kill?
Anyone who attempts to develop AI countermeasures will have them captured by government to strengthen existing developments and if they're lucky they will avoid jail time.
What weaponised AI counter measure do you intend developing?
Let me know how that works out for you.
Great so far because I spend my time on profitable adventures. Weaponising AI is about the dumbest idea I've ever heard from the minds of emotionally unbalanced, barely evolved primates. So it's a game where you are compelled to play by a lot of bad actors who are psychologically unsound. Just convince the AI engineers that someone will do it and someone will fall for it, but it's still a dumb idea. That's what this game is making smart people do a dumb thing.
People smart enough to develop AI can see this is stupid and are saying No. However, like always, intelligent people are pestered by people with deceit and cunning when confronted with these emotive double bind arguments that someone out there is going to do it - because they are too stupid to do it themselves. If someone else is going to do it I'll eventually see how it works out for them no matter what I do. The fewer people working on it the better.
That is not an attack on you, btw, what I'm pointing out is it's lunatic reasoning that is driving this and no matter how it is justified, it is a stupid, if not the stupidest idea I have ever heard.
So, people just won't develop this military tech, because peace? Got it.
They say "To Err is Human, To really fowl things up you need a Computer" Can you imagine trying to debug that!??!?
No, we need to develop it, first, fastest, and best. And develop AI powered countermeasures too.
Of we go then, what could possibly go wrong?
I had the pleasure of seeing an un-restored 70mm print of 2001: A Space Odyssey, possibly this one, as it had never been through a projector when I saw it in the 90's. That it was unused was one of the selling point. I think there was about 5 people in the cinema - which was better for me. I'd read the book several times and was a big fan of the story.
There is something special about the 70mm format that is very pleasing to the eye, like watching a moving painting the way it draws you in, there is so much to see. A master story teller and movie maker collaborating to tell the story of man's evolution from chimp to our ultimate evolution.
I think I was really lucky to have seen it the way it was intended to be seen by the people who made it. The ultimate abstraction of all stories into this one is why I think people called it a masterpiece.
I hope you can fix it.