If bot-corp can build robots to do jobs and make a profit from that then why wouldn't they? If Acme Ltd can hire the robots for 20% of the price of a worker then why wouldn't they?
Why would a robot want to join a union, you have anthropomorphised them, given them emotions. What would a robot want with a union?
But is it a two way conversation with the AI showing a good level of understanding? The Turing test is a complete fail at measuring whether an AI is actually intelligent or just a good faker.
If we create true AI then most of the population will never be able to get a job of any number of hours because robots will be able to do any work they can do for a fraction of the price.
Robots don't need cars, houses, TVs, holidays etc.
If we ever create artificial intelligence greater than that of an average human then over 50% of the population will be redundant forever because the robots will do the jobs cheaper.
Job available, job filled - by a robot, cheaper, get it?
It gets worse, HMRC basically let everybody off, they were asked to pay 10% of the tax owed and gave immunity from prosecution. The guy runnning HSBC at the time was made a gov't minister.
Someone from HMRC should be fired at the very least, the action gives a very clear signal that it is OK to hide your money abroad in order to avoid tax.
Conservative party, government of the people, by the millionaires, for the billionaires.
Isis are a problem mostly because of western actions in the Middle East. Isis emerged from the brutal way US ran the occupation in Iraq and the funding of fanatics in Afghanistan prior to the US invasion there.
ISIS are a systemic problem and aren't just going away because we don't show their message.
They won't be going away but they may well get stronger as they polarise views. Does not propagating a message of violence lead to more violence?
Isis shot the video of their 'execution' and got it to the press, you have to ask why they did this and should we be cooperating with them in this way?
Should people be free to crap on the sidewalk? Not all freedoms are good. What are you losing by just reading about decapitation rather than seeing it? What is the sacrifice? Why does it matter? *Speech* is not curtailed just the video, a video shot by Isis themselves, not even shot by a news team.
We are not limitlessly free, we are not allowed to murder, steal or commit fraud, In most jurisdictions harassment is not legal. I don't think there is much to lose by not showing terrorist propaganda material.
I still have yet to hear a good argument as to why the material should be shown.
Showing the video is very much helping them win, it is exactly what they want.
How many of the people saying the murder should be shown are taking the family of the murdered guy in to account?
If you were against public hanging, would you join the crowd of a public hanging? How many of the people who attend public hangings are actually there to see justice done and how many are there for the entertainment value? But for some reason it is OK to gawp at someone being murdered on TV, how is this any better than visiting a public hanging for entertainment. I haven't seen the killing, I don't need to see it to understand that it was brutal and inhumane.
Remember that Isis claim that the killing of the pilot is just and that it is an execution, they claim that what they are doing is correct by their religion. So, Isis execute a guy and people worldwide watch the execution, this is exactly what they want.
This isn't about censorship, it's about whether it's right in a civilised society to be watching the murder of somebody who is not a friend or family. News can report murder without graphically showing it, censorship would be to withhold the information that the murder occurred, there is no need to show the video and not showing the video is not censorship when the information regarding the murder is still published.
We all know what murder is, we know what immolation and decapitation are, a video showing these things does not add anything, but what it does do is give the terrorists what they really do want - to be publicised in the most graphic way possible. Isis's goal is not censorship, Isis's goal is to convert people to Islam, a real smack-down to Isis would be for the media to just report that Isis killed the pilot of the captured plane and leave it at that, why give them what they want and publish the video?
Maybe you're just getting a poor product, I buy Sainsburys Organic Wholewheat pasta which is 'Organic wholewheat durum Semolina'. Doesn't taste bad IMO. Or maybe people just have a childish bias against brown pasta because of how it looks.
I also eat brown basmati, that really does taste different and takes 3x as long to cook.
So, half the time they'll be trying to cut you dog in half with a spoon, but part of the reason it's not cutting in half is because they're prodding instead of sawing and the ingredient keeps moving.
Or 83% * 79% * 91% = 59% success rate for tool, grasp and movement types combined, of course this is just one part of cooking a meal. They really should have a video.
Has spreadsheet conditional formatting been fixed yet? The last time I tried to use it, it went berserk after a few copy/paste/deletes of ranges of cells.
could lead to "voluntary" blocking of peoples opinion that a state/eu doesnâ(TM)t like
It's already happening I tried to visit http://www.gilad.co.uk/ on my mobile and was surprised that it is blocked by default by O2, to view this page I was supposed to prove to the provider that I was 18 in order to get this site of a musician and political commentator unblocked. Gilad's crime - being Jewish and not supporting Israel.
We are more than half way down the slippery slope.
Devices must be connected to the internet and have Windows Update enabled.
Windows update enabled, Once? All year? A handful of checks? When, now? next year? This really needs further explanation. Since I've heard so many times about automatic updates fubaring peoples installs, I prefer to wait a while before installing updates.
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If bot-corp can build robots to do jobs and make a profit from that then why wouldn't they? If Acme Ltd can hire the robots for 20% of the price of a worker then why wouldn't they?
Why would a robot want to join a union, you have anthropomorphised them, given them emotions. What would a robot want with a union?
Because what the world needs is to get every last drop of oil out of the ground and burn it. Global warming, what global warming?
Ps, look at Apple's Siri, Apple have how many hundreds of billions of dollars to make their tech the best? but Siri is the best they can come up with.
But is it a two way conversation with the AI showing a good level of understanding? The Turing test is a complete fail at measuring whether an AI is actually intelligent or just a good faker.
So far I haven't seen any good AI, got any links?
How is Fred going to be able to get a job if a robot can do any job he can do for less money?
There will be no 10-hour week. The AI gets the job, the human doesn't.
The human does not get a job ever, not more jobs for the human, AI is cheaper.
If we create true AI then most of the population will never be able to get a job of any number of hours because robots will be able to do any work they can do for a fraction of the price.
Robots don't need cars, houses, TVs, holidays etc.
If we ever create artificial intelligence greater than that of an average human then over 50% of the population will be redundant forever because the robots will do the jobs cheaper.
Job available, job filled - by a robot, cheaper, get it?
It gets worse, HMRC basically let everybody off, they were asked to pay 10% of the tax owed and gave immunity from prosecution. The guy runnning HSBC at the time was made a gov't minister.
Someone from HMRC should be fired at the very least, the action gives a very clear signal that it is OK to hide your money abroad in order to avoid tax.
Conservative party, government of the people, by the millionaires, for the billionaires.
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Isis are a problem mostly because of western actions in the Middle East. Isis emerged from the brutal way US ran the occupation in Iraq and the funding of fanatics in Afghanistan prior to the US invasion there.
They won't be going away but they may well get stronger as they polarise views. Does not propagating a message of violence lead to more violence?
Isis shot the video of their 'execution' and got it to the press, you have to ask why they did this and should we be cooperating with them in this way?
Should people be free to crap on the sidewalk? Not all freedoms are good. What are you losing by just reading about decapitation rather than seeing it? What is the sacrifice? Why does it matter? *Speech* is not curtailed just the video, a video shot by Isis themselves, not even shot by a news team.
We are not limitlessly free, we are not allowed to murder, steal or commit fraud, In most jurisdictions harassment is not legal. I don't think there is much to lose by not showing terrorist propaganda material.
I still have yet to hear a good argument as to why the material should be shown.
Showing the video is very much helping them win, it is exactly what they want.
Every single person who could of helped but didn't is responsible, that's simple, why do you even need to ask?
If someone is dying and you can help, why wouldn't you?
Greed, corporate control of countries via treaties and futures markets. Deliberate lack of distribution of wealth.
Surely it's 100x better to explain WHY the world is the way it is.
Because there's a right time to burn people alive?
How many of the people saying the murder should be shown are taking the family of the murdered guy in to account?
If you were against public hanging, would you join the crowd of a public hanging? How many of the people who attend public hangings are actually there to see justice done and how many are there for the entertainment value? But for some reason it is OK to gawp at someone being murdered on TV, how is this any better than visiting a public hanging for entertainment. I haven't seen the killing, I don't need to see it to understand that it was brutal and inhumane.
Remember that Isis claim that the killing of the pilot is just and that it is an execution, they claim that what they are doing is correct by their religion. So, Isis execute a guy and people worldwide watch the execution, this is exactly what they want.
This isn't about censorship, it's about whether it's right in a civilised society to be watching the murder of somebody who is not a friend or family. News can report murder without graphically showing it, censorship would be to withhold the information that the murder occurred, there is no need to show the video and not showing the video is not censorship when the information regarding the murder is still published.
We all know what murder is, we know what immolation and decapitation are, a video showing these things does not add anything, but what it does do is give the terrorists what they really do want - to be publicised in the most graphic way possible. Isis's goal is not censorship, Isis's goal is to convert people to Islam, a real smack-down to Isis would be for the media to just report that Isis killed the pilot of the captured plane and leave it at that, why give them what they want and publish the video?
NoScript FTW, 'This video isn't encoded for your device' :-)
Or maybe it's a case of quality, I don't think my pasta smells strong! Maybe there's cheap brown pasta that isn't made from wheat durum semolina.
Maybe you're just getting a poor product, I buy Sainsburys Organic Wholewheat pasta which is 'Organic wholewheat durum Semolina'. Doesn't taste bad IMO. Or maybe people just have a childish bias against brown pasta because of how it looks.
I also eat brown basmati, that really does taste different and takes 3x as long to cook.
'Processed pasta (white pasta) tastes a lot better than brown pasta'
Sarcasm? I don't think white/brown pasta taste much different, it's madness to rip out the nutrients and fibre.
In conservative eyes corporations can do no wrong, anything goes, just pay the party, or nudge wink give them a directorship when they leave govt.
So, half the time they'll be trying to cut you dog in half with a spoon, but part of the reason it's not cutting in half is because they're prodding instead of sawing and the ingredient keeps moving.
Or 83% * 79% * 91% = 59% success rate for tool, grasp and movement types combined, of course this is just one part of cooking a meal. They really should have a video.
Has spreadsheet conditional formatting been fixed yet? The last time I tried to use it, it went berserk after a few copy/paste/deletes of ranges of cells.
GM foods are safe*
Windows 7 !!! I want the Windows 2000 functionality and I have it with Classic start menu.
It's already happening I tried to visit http://www.gilad.co.uk/ on my mobile and was surprised that it is blocked by default by O2, to view this page I was supposed to prove to the provider that I was 18 in order to get this site of a musician and political commentator unblocked. Gilad's crime - being Jewish and not supporting Israel.
We are more than half way down the slippery slope.
My concern is what exactly does this mean:
Windows update enabled, Once? All year? A handful of checks? When, now? next year? This really needs further explanation. Since I've heard so many times about automatic updates fubaring peoples installs, I prefer to wait a while before installing updates.