It would frankly be wonderful if enough Congresscritters had the chuzpa to not raise the limit. Force some fiscal responsibility, even if it is probably too late.
The time to force fiscal responsibility is when Congress decides what to spend. All we'll get from a debt-ceiling crash is a temporary crisis, some new ugly precedents, and permanent damage to our economy and national creditworthiness.
(The last point all by itself will undo the benefit of any conceivable spending cuts we could make --- it will become much more expensive to roll over the existing debt, and tax revenues will plummet along as the economy contracts.)
Remember that about a decade ago the Federal budget was balanced. Rather than drive the country off a cliff to solve the problem, it would be more useful to figure out what's changed since that time.
It could be even worse than that. Currently foreign nations don't interfere much with US politics. As long as the USA has it's economy strong why would they? But if the US defaults, foreign interference could result in any number of possible scenarios. You are aware that other governments have a stake in the US government right?
You are also aware that the Tea Party wants to overthrow the US government which a lot of other governments have a stake in? The default would set the stage where foreign governments very well could arm one faction or another or both factions against each other. This would make civil war inevitable because the FBI and intelligence agencies wouldn't be able to pay their contractors. If the intelligence agencies can't do their jobs, there will be nothing to stop a civil war.
Foreign nations expect domestic stability, economically, and otherwise. The instability could cause foreign nations to launch operations to stabilize the USA. Right now the FBI does it, but assume the FBI somehow cannot pay their agents or set their budget, what happens then?
The (Tea Party) right wants to trigger a civil war. They know when enough peoples lives are at stake, it will wake up the passions in our country and many more people will be ready to fight. This would help them recruit people into their militias but it most likely could backfire as well. Those people who they cut off social security or government programs, they could just as easily and in all probability will join leftist socialist underground groups and prepare to go to war against their extreme right militia groups.
And this is why the situation wont end well for the nation. There will be a lot of people in the position to be recruited into ANY group. The nation will break into factions, most likely based on location, culture, tribe, and political ideology, and then these factions just like in other civil wars around the globe (including in Iraq) will fight for power violently.
This happens in the third world countries all the time. The only reason it hasn't happened in the USA is because the FBI have an excellent counter intelligence program. This will all change if the USA defaults. The default could set the stage for civil war that even the FBI wont be able to stop.
It's sad but you're probably right. The establishment, left and right, could care less about fiscal responsibility.
I think in this instance the extreme left wants revolution, and the extreme right wants revolution. This equates to both sides trying for civil war. Obama and the moderates are trying to prevent that because it would cost many American lives and could damage the country for a generation.
And the Tea Party certainly does not want the Republican politicians in office to vote on raising the debt limit. The Tea Party politicians lead by Ron Paul of Texas follow the instructions and listen to the militia, not the President of the USA.
They simply don't care if the US defaults because if the US defaults it only will increase their membership and their power. A weak economy helps militias to grow in size and in power. There will be many more revolutionaries the higher unemployment goes, and they want unemployment to be as high as possible so they can has as many recruits as possible.
It's government debt, eg bonds. Greece's interest rate is like 28%, The US is 2%. Greece's economy has basically gone titsup without default, but they're still expected to default. All the countries that are in trouble their bond rate skyrockets as soon as it looks like the bonds are going to be worthless.
What does the government do with money? It pays government employees (Miltary, Entitlement programs, infrastructure and creditors.) Creditors are other countries/people/businesses, both domestic and foreign. If the US defaults, expect the equivalent of a bank-run on bonds and stocks (equities) to get their money out of the US and into safer places like... Japan or Canada (even if it's only for a short period of time.) Take a look at the price of most of the S&P 500 1 minute before and after the jobs report last friday. So many stocks dropped by 10% for several hours before picking back up, now multiply that in a downward trend, that is what will happen.
Publicly traded companies with stocks worth less than 5$ get delisted, and that means those companies are toast. Companies that are private and those that have physical assets like Apple might survive, but a lot of the service industry does not have physical assets and they are history if the US government defaults. The irony here is that the banks would survive, but they would be calling in their loans, which means 30% interest for you.
Yes it can be doom and gloom, but it's inconceivable that the debt limit doesn't get raised. If by some chance the politicians screw the pooch and don't get it lifted, every last one of them better not be re-elected.
It's not the goal of Tea Party Republicans to get re-elected. The majority of them are operatives for the Tea Party, which is controlled by militia operatives. They want to overthrow the US government itself even if it means launching a civil war.
They are deliberately trying to create an economic crisis because that is the best way to trigger a civil war. They already have the guns, they have the organization(militias) built up, they are ready. The sad thing is most American citizens aren't ready for it or don't want it. But when enough American citizens lose their careers, their jobs, and have no government benefits whatsoever to count on, no unemployment, no welfare, no food stamps, no anything, then the militias can give them one last job.
It's a recruitment tactic. The US government uses the same tactic of sanctions when it wants to overthrow a dictator. It's also because the Tea Party militias are tired of funding the government which is trying to investigate and crush them despite the fact that they've infiltrated the US government and control many politicians, there are still FBI agents who want to crush the Tea Part movement or any extremist movement that seeks to violently overthrow the government or cause a civil war.
These threats come directly from the Tea Party which is holding President Obama hostage on the budget. They simply do not want Obama to pass a budget. They view the Obama Presidency as illegitimate. They want to overthrow the US government.
Why don't you have a look at what their strategy is:
and they aren't fooling anybody. They want a civil war and have all but admitted it. And that is exactly what America will get if the debt ceiling is not raised. In specific and to be fair to the Tea Party they want a revolution. They think if the government does not pay for benefits, social programs, and if the jobs market remains weak, they'll have an easier time recruiting desperate individuals into their militias that are spread across the country. And they are right, the FBI and Homeland security both agree:
The agency warns that an extended economic downturn with real estate foreclosures, unemployment and an inability to obtain credit could foster an environment for extremists to recruit new members who may not have been supportive of these causes in the past. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/14/homeland-security-report_n_186834.html
And this isn't the first time the Tea Party formerly known as the American Liberty League attempted to start a civil war. In the 1930s they attempted the business plot. More details on that can be learned by watching this documentary.
The coup attempt was prevented because General Butler tipped off FDR. In response to this President FDR created the CIA. The FBI initiated operation COINTELPRO. COINTELPRO became the main counter intelligence operation in the USA with the main mission to prevent a civil war from happening. COINTELPRO has wide spread recognition by those on the left but most on the right don't recognize that COINTELPRO was originally directed at them and who it's directed at is at the discretion of the President and the FBI leadership.
Do any amount of research you want to confirm these facts. Try Googling "American Liberty League", "COINTELPRO", "Business Plot", "Tea Party Movement", and see what you find. Eventually you'll discover the "Guardians of the Free Republic", and other militia's behind the Tea Party who just happen to be from Texas, the same state Ron Paul and Alex Jones happen to be from. The same state President Bush pretended to be from. Why? Because the Tea Party movements headquarters are where the militias are, and Texas is one of those places with lots of militias.
And what is happening now? The FBI is more than likely investigating the Tea Party with as much zeal as they investigated Al Qaeda. The Tea Party is being crushed by the FBI as we speak, but if the US defaults then all hell will break loose. How will the FBI agents trying to prevent civil war be paid? The country will divide into factions, and if that happens, and if it turns violent, the USA itself and the union itself will be divided into factions. Foreign nations will be in a position to invade, or simply flood all sides with weapons and make the civil war long and bloody.
I don't know about you, but I have friends and family here. I do not want a civil war. The Tea Party needs to stop playing games with the global economy. They need to pass a fucking budget ASAP. If the nation defaults there will be nothing anyone can do to prevent a civil war. The unemployment rate will be so high that many people will have nothing to lose by fighting.
The population is aging. That's the biggest reason the crime rate has gone down.
Age has nothing to do with crime. If an old person needs their medication and they don't have health insurance or a job, don't you think they'll resort to crime too?
I think they also need a.kids so that there is a separate internet for kids. This way they don't have to use children as the excuse to censor the entire internet. Anyone who wants to access.kids should either be under 18 or be a licensed adult. Sex offenders of course would not receive a license.
The USA also has increased benefits as people have become unemployed. Unemployment has been extended. Financial aid has been increased. Obama passed the healthcare bill so more people are covered. Food stamp funding has been increased.
This is why the unemployment hasn't resulted in crime. People still have enough benefits to live off when they lose employment. If we get rid of those benefits then people will have no alternative but crime.
Can you take out a life insurance policy on a person without the person agreeing to it? How is this even legal. I can't see it being used for any legitimate pupose. I Would think that the only way for anybody to take out life insurance on me would be for me to authorize it and know about it. That way if things start to go wrong, the life insurance can be cancelled.
Yes you can actually take out a life insurance policy without a person agreeing to it. Not in every state but in certain states.
The brain scans were one part of the study; the other part went on behind the scenes. The researchers had to decide which types of brain activity would indicate which intention in order to establish a computer algorithm that would read the fMRI results. The software incorporates a high degree of complexity. Brain patterns are not necessarily localized; sometimes, in order to fully grasp what's happening, you need to be able to interpret patterns from different parts of the brain simultaneously. Technological innovation plays a large part in what appears to be a successful attempt to read people's minds.
Using a combination of the brain scans and the computer software, researchers were able to "guess" whether the subject intended to add or subtract the upcoming numbers with 70 percent accuracy -- not a bad success rate for mind reading. Activity patterns in the middle of the prefrontal cortex were different depending on whether the subject intended to add or intended to subtract. The researchers essentially looked around the brain and decided, based on all of the activity they were seeing and especially the patterns of stimulation in the prefrontal cortex, whether the brain was preparing to add or subtract.
The study also proved some fascinating hypotheses set forth in other experiments that will no doubt lead to some very speedy progress in the area of mind reading via brain scan:
We are only a matter of time before Law Enforcement across the country has the computing power and equipment to not only do neurological surveillance but to actually enforce thought crimes. So let's say someone on Slashdot thinks about pedophilia, and the FMRI concludes they intend to harm a child, what should be done about this person?
Let's say there is a high correlation between wives who take out life insurance policies on their husbands, and murder, should the software instruct the police to arrest these women or just investigate them?
or are laid off, you can expect crime to rise. Duh!
That is why it's so important to have a strong economy. I don't think you need predictive software to figure out that people have to eat. This is ultimately just a waste of money on the part of Law Enforcement and that money could better be spent actually creating a job or on actually improving investigation techniques and training. Police work solves crime, and most of the crime that has to be given the highest priority is violent crime.
How would this software predict a domestic violence incident, or a murder? Until it can predict violent crime it's useless.
I would think a shield could be created to protect against UAV's. It would be possible to just create a laser net around a certain area as a defense shield.
There are some things AI is good at without being annoying, such as suggesting URL's as you type them, or suggesting the temperature so you don't burn your food. Good AI tries to prevent human error by suggesting alternatives.
This AI however sounds like shitty intrusive stuff that no one in their right mind would want. We don't need AI to tell us recipes, or to watch us 24/7. If you want that kind of AI, I'm sure you'll make the government proud because I cannot imagine anyone else wanting that even in the Facebook era. And no, we don't want to be monitored to make sure we are doing what we are told, and I wont work for any company that has to resort to that level of micromanagement.
Look at the results, look at the work, have the AI watch the employee output to figure out who is doing their job. But don't put the AI on the employee 24/7 for something as stupid as "we need to know you are doing your work.", if it's for national security that might be one thing. AI might have prevented the Bradley Manning leak so put it on the people with security clearances, but leave the rest of us alone. We don't want or need this.
IRS rules require that an internship be primarily for the education of the intern. So, like Microsoft and contractors you are risking really big problems if you do not comply, including fines and back pay.
It's one or the other. And if you disagree you could find that internship filled with an immigrant rather than a self righteous self important self involved American.
Actually, the coding hasn't gotten too much more complicated. You can pull off a decent-looking game with 3 programmers (and a licensed engine) - 1 for "real" programming, 1 for shaders and other visual stuff, and 1 more for AI and gameplay stuff. Even the big-shot engines support Linux - Unreal Engine does, as does Unity. Source (the engine) is partway there - it has OS X support, which means an OpenGL renderer, but no Linux. Idtech is "ported but not supported" - it compiles, and it sometimes even works, but there's no guarantees. And there's plenty of free ones - the previous idtech engines (Quake III engine) are GPL, there's Sauerbraten, and many more.
The problem with modern games is the art. Doom, for instance, had one programmer, one artist and two level designers. Nowadays, you need dozens of artists, because instead of a handful of sprites or a solid-color mesh of 100 polygons, you're dealing with a 100k-poly model with about a dozen different 1024x1024 textures layered on it.
I did a brief, unscientific glance at things (because I'm too lazy to do a full count). Looked at the last 10 developers on Valve's staff roster. Two programmers, a writer, a translator, a game designer, and five artists (2 3d artists, an interface designer, an animator and a mixed level designer/3d artist/animator). That seems about in line with what I've seen of things - over twice as many artists as programmers.
I am not 3 people. The point I made is you still need 3-4 programmers when you used to only need one. Mario was written by one programmer, as was Tetris.
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The time to force fiscal responsibility is when Congress decides what to spend. All we'll get from a debt-ceiling crash is a temporary crisis, some new ugly precedents, and permanent damage to our economy and national creditworthiness.
(The last point all by itself will undo the benefit of any conceivable spending cuts we could make --- it will become much more expensive to roll over the existing debt, and tax revenues will plummet along as the economy contracts.)
Remember that about a decade ago the Federal budget was balanced. Rather than drive the country off a cliff to solve the problem, it would be more useful to figure out what's changed since that time.
It could be even worse than that. Currently foreign nations don't interfere much with US politics. As long as the USA has it's economy strong why would they? But if the US defaults, foreign interference could result in any number of possible scenarios. You are aware that other governments have a stake in the US government right?
You are also aware that the Tea Party wants to overthrow the US government which a lot of other governments have a stake in? The default would set the stage where foreign governments very well could arm one faction or another or both factions against each other. This would make civil war inevitable because the FBI and intelligence agencies wouldn't be able to pay their contractors. If the intelligence agencies can't do their jobs, there will be nothing to stop a civil war.
Foreign nations expect domestic stability, economically, and otherwise. The instability could cause foreign nations to launch operations to stabilize the USA. Right now the FBI does it, but assume the FBI somehow cannot pay their agents or set their budget, what happens then?
The (Tea Party) right wants to trigger a civil war. They know when enough peoples lives are at stake, it will wake up the passions in our country and many more people will be ready to fight. This would help them recruit people into their militias but it most likely could backfire as well. Those people who they cut off social security or government programs, they could just as easily and in all probability will join leftist socialist underground groups and prepare to go to war against their extreme right militia groups.
And this is why the situation wont end well for the nation. There will be a lot of people in the position to be recruited into ANY group. The nation will break into factions, most likely based on location, culture, tribe, and political ideology, and then these factions just like in other civil wars around the globe (including in Iraq) will fight for power violently.
This happens in the third world countries all the time. The only reason it hasn't happened in the USA is because the FBI have an excellent counter intelligence program. This will all change if the USA defaults. The default could set the stage for civil war that even the FBI wont be able to stop.
It's sad but you're probably right. The establishment, left and right, could care less about fiscal responsibility.
I think in this instance the extreme left wants revolution, and the extreme right wants revolution. This equates to both sides trying for civil war. Obama and the moderates are trying to prevent that because it would cost many American lives and could damage the country for a generation.
And the Tea Party certainly does not want the Republican politicians in office to vote on raising the debt limit. The Tea Party politicians lead by Ron Paul of Texas follow the instructions and listen to the militia, not the President of the USA.
They simply don't care if the US defaults because if the US defaults it only will increase their membership and their power. A weak economy helps militias to grow in size and in power. There will be many more revolutionaries the higher unemployment goes, and they want unemployment to be as high as possible so they can has as many recruits as possible.
And the Tea Party are a right wing revolutionary group that seeks to coup Obama by using the weak economy as a weapon. They seek to follow the restore American plan and are controlled by militias. Groups like these control the Tea Party:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia_movement_(United_States)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutaree
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_citizen_movement
And that means we could end up with a war at home along with the wars overseas.
It's not the banks.
It's government debt, eg bonds. Greece's interest rate is like 28%, The US is 2%. Greece's economy has basically gone titsup without default, but they're still expected to default. All the countries that are in trouble their bond rate skyrockets as soon as it looks like the bonds are going to be worthless.
What does the government do with money? It pays government employees (Miltary, Entitlement programs, infrastructure and creditors.) Creditors are other countries/people/businesses, both domestic and foreign. If the US defaults, expect the equivalent of a bank-run on bonds and stocks (equities) to get their money out of the US and into safer places like... Japan or Canada (even if it's only for a short period of time.) Take a look at the price of most of the S&P 500 1 minute before and after the jobs report last friday. So many stocks dropped by 10% for several hours before picking back up, now multiply that in a downward trend, that is what will happen.
Publicly traded companies with stocks worth less than 5$ get delisted, and that means those companies are toast. Companies that are private and those that have physical assets like Apple might survive, but a lot of the service industry does not have physical assets and they are history if the US government defaults. The irony here is that the banks would survive, but they would be calling in their loans, which means 30% interest for you.
Yes it can be doom and gloom, but it's inconceivable that the debt limit doesn't get raised. If by some chance the politicians screw the pooch and don't get it lifted, every last one of them better not be re-elected.
It's not the goal of Tea Party Republicans to get re-elected. The majority of them are operatives for the Tea Party, which is controlled by militia operatives. They want to overthrow the US government itself even if it means launching a civil war.
They are deliberately trying to create an economic crisis because that is the best way to trigger a civil war. They already have the guns, they have the organization(militias) built up, they are ready. The sad thing is most American citizens aren't ready for it or don't want it. But when enough American citizens lose their careers, their jobs, and have no government benefits whatsoever to count on, no unemployment, no welfare, no food stamps, no anything, then the militias can give them one last job.
It's a recruitment tactic. The US government uses the same tactic of sanctions when it wants to overthrow a dictator. It's also because the Tea Party militias are tired of funding the government which is trying to investigate and crush them despite the fact that they've infiltrated the US government and control many politicians, there are still FBI agents who want to crush the Tea Part movement or any extremist movement that seeks to violently overthrow the government or cause a civil war.
My mistake.
Here are the URLs.
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1029116/pg1
http://restoreamericaplan.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clkRYkIx4Ks
http://nesaranews.blogspot.com/
It's the Tea Party behind this budget nonsense not the banks, not Obama.
These threats come directly from the Tea Party which is holding President Obama hostage on the budget. They simply do not want Obama to pass a budget. They view the Obama Presidency as illegitimate. They want to overthrow the US government.
Why don't you have a look at what their strategy is:
1. From the FBI https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2010/april/sovereigncitizens_041310
2. From a leaked videofrom one of their meetings. http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1029116/pg1
3. From YouTube ()
4. From one of their
and they aren't fooling anybody. They want a civil war and have all but admitted it. And that is exactly what America will get if the debt ceiling is not raised. In specific and to be fair to the Tea Party they want a revolution. They think if the government does not pay for benefits, social programs, and if the jobs market remains weak, they'll have an easier time recruiting desperate individuals into their militias that are spread across the country. And they are right, the FBI and Homeland security both agree:
The agency warns that an extended economic downturn with real estate foreclosures, unemployment and an inability to obtain credit could foster an environment for extremists to recruit new members who may not have been supportive of these causes in the past.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/14/homeland-security-report_n_186834.html
And this isn't the first time the Tea Party formerly known as the American Liberty League attempted to start a civil war. In the 1930s they attempted the business plot. More details on that can be learned by watching this documentary.
The coup attempt was prevented because General Butler tipped off FDR.
In response to this President FDR created the CIA. The FBI initiated operation COINTELPRO. COINTELPRO became the main counter intelligence operation in the USA with the main mission to prevent a civil war from happening. COINTELPRO has wide spread recognition by those on the left but most on the right don't recognize that COINTELPRO was originally directed at them and who it's directed at is at the discretion of the President and the FBI leadership.
Do any amount of research you want to confirm these facts. Try Googling "American Liberty League", "COINTELPRO", "Business Plot", "Tea Party Movement", and see what you find. Eventually you'll discover the "Guardians of the Free Republic", and other militia's behind the Tea Party who just happen to be from Texas, the same state Ron Paul and Alex Jones happen to be from. The same state President Bush pretended to be from. Why? Because the Tea Party movements headquarters are where the militias are, and Texas is one of those places with lots of militias.
And what is happening now? The FBI is more than likely investigating the Tea Party with as much zeal as they investigated Al Qaeda. The Tea Party is being crushed by the FBI as we speak, but if the US defaults then all hell will break loose. How will the FBI agents trying to prevent civil war be paid? The country will divide into factions, and if that happens, and if it turns violent, the USA itself and the union itself will be divided into factions. Foreign nations will be in a position to invade, or simply flood all sides with weapons and make the civil war long and bloody.
I don't know about you, but I have friends and family here. I do not want a civil war. The Tea Party needs to stop playing games with the global economy. They need to pass a fucking budget ASAP. If the nation defaults there will be nothing anyone can do to prevent a civil war. The unemployment rate will be so high that many people will have nothing to lose by fighting.
The population is aging. That's the biggest reason the crime rate has gone down.
Age has nothing to do with crime. If an old person needs their medication and they don't have health insurance or a job, don't you think they'll resort to crime too?
Financial need is the number 1 cause of crime.
I think they also need a .kids so that there is a separate internet for kids. This way they don't have to use children as the excuse to censor the entire internet. Anyone who wants to access .kids should either be under 18 or be a licensed adult. Sex offenders of course would not receive a license.
The USA also has increased benefits as people have become unemployed. Unemployment has been extended. Financial aid has been increased. Obama passed the healthcare bill so more people are covered. Food stamp funding has been increased.
This is why the unemployment hasn't resulted in crime. People still have enough benefits to live off when they lose employment.
If we get rid of those benefits then people will have no alternative but crime.
Can you take out a life insurance policy on a person without the person agreeing to it? How is this even legal. I can't see it being used for any legitimate pupose. I Would think that the only way for anybody to take out life insurance on me would be for me to authorize it and know about it. That way if things start to go wrong, the life insurance can be cancelled.
Yes you can actually take out a life insurance policy without a person agreeing to it. Not in every state but in certain states.
The brain scans were one part of the study; the other part went on behind the scenes. The researchers had to decide which types of brain activity would indicate which intention in order to establish a computer algorithm that would read the fMRI results. The software incorporates a high degree of complexity. Brain patterns are not necessarily localized; sometimes, in order to fully grasp what's happening, you need to be able to interpret patterns from different parts of the brain simultaneously. Technological innovation plays a large part in what appears to be a successful attempt to read people's minds.
Using a combination of the brain scans and the computer software, researchers were able to "guess" whether the subject intended to add or subtract the upcoming numbers with 70 percent accuracy -- not a bad success rate for mind reading. Activity patterns in the middle of the prefrontal cortex were different depending on whether the subject intended to add or intended to subtract. The researchers essentially looked around the brain and decided, based on all of the activity they were seeing and especially the patterns of stimulation in the prefrontal cortex, whether the brain was preparing to add or subtract.
The study also proved some fascinating hypotheses set forth in other experiments that will no doubt lead to some very speedy progress in the area of mind reading via brain scan:
http://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/mind-reading1.htm
We are only a matter of time before Law Enforcement across the country has the computing power and equipment to not only do neurological surveillance but to actually enforce thought crimes. So let's say someone on Slashdot thinks about pedophilia, and the FMRI concludes they intend to harm a child, what should be done about this person?
Maybe it's time to make a law to punish them?
Let's say there is a high correlation between wives who take out life insurance policies on their husbands, and murder, should the software instruct the police to arrest these women or just investigate them?
http://www.torontoestatemonitor.com/estate-litigation/man-who-killed-wife-is-denied-her-life-insurance/
or are laid off, you can expect crime to rise. Duh!
That is why it's so important to have a strong economy. I don't think you need predictive software to figure out that people have to eat.
This is ultimately just a waste of money on the part of Law Enforcement and that money could better be spent actually creating a job or on actually improving investigation techniques and training. Police work solves crime, and most of the crime that has to be given the highest priority is violent crime.
How would this software predict a domestic violence incident, or a murder? Until it can predict violent crime it's useless.
And call it a polite proper profile.
should be the title of the article. And the question is why? Why empower hacker groups like Anonymous?
And what about that crazy ex? Now they can find you again and reconnect, and I'm sure you'll love them for it.
I would think a shield could be created to protect against UAV's. It would be possible to just create a laser net around a certain area as a defense shield.
How effective would it be?
I had a Secret clearance in the military, and I never had a non disclosure document to sign. TOLD, sure, but nothing written down.
then how can you be 100% sure you had a clearance if you don't have it in writing?
There are some things AI is good at without being annoying, such as suggesting URL's as you type them, or suggesting the temperature so you don't burn your food. Good AI tries to prevent human error by suggesting alternatives.
This AI however sounds like shitty intrusive stuff that no one in their right mind would want. We don't need AI to tell us recipes, or to watch us 24/7. If you want that kind of AI, I'm sure you'll make the government proud because I cannot imagine anyone else wanting that even in the Facebook era. And no, we don't want to be monitored to make sure we are doing what we are told, and I wont work for any company that has to resort to that level of micromanagement.
Look at the results, look at the work, have the AI watch the employee output to figure out who is doing their job. But don't put the AI on the employee 24/7 for something as stupid as "we need to know you are doing your work.", if it's for national security that might be one thing. AI might have prevented the Bradley Manning leak so put it on the people with security clearances, but leave the rest of us alone. We don't want or need this.
IRS rules require that an internship be primarily for the education of the intern. So, like Microsoft and contractors you are risking really big problems if you do not comply, including fines and back pay.
It's one or the other. And if you disagree you could find that internship filled with an immigrant rather than a self righteous self important self involved American.
Actually, the coding hasn't gotten too much more complicated. You can pull off a decent-looking game with 3 programmers (and a licensed engine) - 1 for "real" programming, 1 for shaders and other visual stuff, and 1 more for AI and gameplay stuff. Even the big-shot engines support Linux - Unreal Engine does, as does Unity. Source (the engine) is partway there - it has OS X support, which means an OpenGL renderer, but no Linux. Idtech is "ported but not supported" - it compiles, and it sometimes even works, but there's no guarantees. And there's plenty of free ones - the previous idtech engines (Quake III engine) are GPL, there's Sauerbraten, and many more.
The problem with modern games is the art. Doom, for instance, had one programmer, one artist and two level designers. Nowadays, you need dozens of artists, because instead of a handful of sprites or a solid-color mesh of 100 polygons, you're dealing with a 100k-poly model with about a dozen different 1024x1024 textures layered on it.
I did a brief, unscientific glance at things (because I'm too lazy to do a full count). Looked at the last 10 developers on Valve's staff roster. Two programmers, a writer, a translator, a game designer, and five artists (2 3d artists, an interface designer, an animator and a mixed level designer/3d artist/animator). That seems about in line with what I've seen of things - over twice as many artists as programmers.
I am not 3 people. The point I made is you still need 3-4 programmers when you used to only need one. Mario was written by one programmer, as was Tetris.
Games are free speech.