this is a race , once you get an effective armor you then create better projectiles that nullify any advantages given by that armor .
wonder if they can create bullets with same metal foam ( at least on the face that hits the target )? may that would be be too expensive since not everyone will be wearing that armor and only few bullets hit targets anyway?
cheaper counter method would be to pack some bullets with some cheap poisonous dust.
with twitter , facebook, etc we had people letting the world know the uninteresting boring details of their lives. but they had to type(and so think a bit) , and edit and choose photos, etc, but with ability to livestream uninteresting boring details of their lives ( nonstop as this will soon become), even whatever small checks there were, between event and its presentation, are removed.
who said paypal is breaking constitution, or doing anything illegal ? read. paypal is even free to issue threats overturn laws that do not meet its values, if it wants. but that is not the correct way to go about overturning laws. use democratic process and courts, to challenge and change laws, not financial threats.
as i said from first here " there is a conflict where two group have conflicting values, one group is saying only the values backed up by money should matter."
until computer has the same individual personality,memory, intelligence , and emotions( including troubling ones with all the psychological complexes that come with experiencing life ) as Rembrandt, the painting created by it is not a Rembrandt.
one has to wonder why they chose painting to demonstrate this computer abilities (with added complexity of physical creation of painting which is mostly dependent on other technologies), when poetry would have been a better way to demonstrate the computer's machine-learning. why didn't they scan and analyze some famous poet (Shakespeare, Dante, Pope, Milton, Wordsworth, Eliot, Pushkin, Pound, Dickinson, etc etc ) and create new poems?
is it because falseness of this claim can be more easily spotted by even ordinary people if it is a poem? while it takes more experience and training to spot the deficiencies in painting?
you, unable to quote the law saying what you claimed it did, post a link to a ultra liberal website. quote the law, not propaganda about the law. maybe you are unable to differentiate. no wonder you fail to get the point. lol
as i said from the 1st, what is happening here is "money elites" are trying to insist on primacy of their values over democratic process. you just said they are upset their values were not followed in this law. there is a democratic process to overturn laws, as well as other checks and balances, such as subjecting it to judicial review to check its constitutionality, instead "money elites" are issuing threats. get it?
perhaps you will understand, if you read carefully ( starting with article and main post here), and not substitute and imagine your own words while reading. 2 examples - - you said "The state then chose to pass a law that... forbid local government from passing any laws that offer protections to LGBT people" really? quote that law saying what you said with link. do!
- main post here, "more than a hundred companies,... urged North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory to repeal the legislation. " "The new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal's mission and culture, Chief Executive Officer Dan Schulman said "
you said "a case of a state government over riding the will of a city government. Then Paypal decides they don't like the environment this suggests and chooses to not open up new facilities there." same thing? really? -
you see no "money elites" trying to insist on primacy of their values over democratic process?
-- if you reply, do explain, if you can, why you chose to ignore paypal's actual words?. if you can(!), quote the law with words you said it said.
of course, you are free to not do any of that, and continue to insist you do not understand my point. you are even free continue with substituting your own words to what others actually said.
point? though not a perfect one, there is a democratic process, with checks and balances, for making laws, and judging their constitutionality. then here there are threats by "money elites" to favor what they want.
such continuous blatant violations in favor of money elite giving them higher rights over others, will eventually bring about a conflict that will get ever more violent and illegal.
there was another arrival after the last , einstein once again posed the question, "what's your IQ?". Upon receiving the answer "60". einstein cried and asked, "how many of you are coming here after being sent to afghanistan, iraq, etc, to fight for elite's benefit by clintons, bush and obama, etc? "
to reduce this to basics, in usa, when there is a conflict where two group have conflicting values, one group is saying only the values backed up by money should matter.
ideally, majority democratically established, with constitutionally established checks and balances, should pass laws. constitutionality of the laws should be judged by courts.
while that is never achieved, continuous blatant violations in favor of money elite, and ignoring of others legal attempts, will eventually bring about a conflict that will get ever more violent and illegal. be warned.
"we don't even know what living means now, what it is, and what it is called? leave us alone without books[internet] and we shall be lost and in confusion at once. we shall not know what to join on to, what to cling to, what to love and what to hate, what to respect and what to despise. we are oppressed at being men--men with a real individual body and blood, we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man. we are stillborn, and for generations past have been begotten, not by living fathers, and that suits us better and better. we are developing a taste for it. soon we shall contrive to be born somehow from an idea." --notes from underground by fyodor mikhailovich dostoyevsky
do no evil, my foot! observe actions not words. that means do not trust any of the big tech corps, nor their over hyped mediocre products, nor their vague public stances and pronouncements. if they can make even one cent profit, they will sell you.
these papers implicate lots of western politicians directly, esp from uk. to quote "Six members of the House of Lords, three former Conservative MPs and dozens of donors to UK political parties", and david cameron family .
in contrast, putin's implication is indirect at best, with vague indefinite connections,"The Russian president’s best friend – a cellist called Sergei Roldugin - is at the centre of a scheme in which money from Russian state banks is hidden offshore. Some of it ends up in a ski resort where in 2013 Putin’s daughter Katerina got married." best friend not described as that before? and location of a wedding reception?
but this summary only mentions non western leaders(if we ignore iceland), as of now. curious! who is/. afraid of ?
people have been making replacement parts and customizations of all sorts of equipment and vehicles using variety of tools such as lathe machines and other power tools, since at least start of industrial revolution, if not earlier. having another way to do the same, 3d printers, is nice. but not all that new.
your comment makes no sense whatever. maybe you got confused by cosm's alteration (with bold text) the statement made by BitterOak. i suggest you read the thread in full and clarify your head.
enforcement (against violators of law) is different from maintenance (against possibility of reform of law). read my previous comment and you will see which i meant.
a case that needs analogies with Holocaust, hitler and nazis, to maintain is a failed case(when victims and perpetrators are not using or suffering same violence).
if you think something illegal is violating a higher moral law (this is very suspect territory since various people have various moral codes), fight to change the law. by all legal means. write to elected representatives, hold protests , use civil disobedience. etc etc
if the law is maintained through violence(as with nazis) against any possibility of reform, even violent resistance may be justified .
but if no violence is used to maintain the law there is no need for "slaps".
since you don't admit to saying anything definite, only way to answer and assume you have a brain, is to articulate statements and then reply. you are free to say you did not say what is in those statements.
[you said i assume] "we need to worry about are the ones that are fielded", but what about those "fielded"? in reply i will say what i said before; without invasion (or as they say "boots on the ground") impossible to "destroy" all the "fielded" "missiles, artillery, and armor "....
what do you mean by "endgame"? "details" of which you assume can be left to (presumably) south korea to deal with? same south korea which do not want a war/attack, a war/attack which without doubt could devastate seoul within hours. be definite if you are "intelligent".
what do you mean by "open warfare" that is going to "cease"? and why?
why would china be in helping usa by providing "peacekeepers" when if it stays out of any war ( very doubtful), aimed against its ally north korea? it would let south and usa deal with results of war (if usa/south even win) and help those who will fight against usa and south after such "cessation", to bleed them dry.
"Regarding Syria and Iraq, it may be simply that the US military has different goals than you presume". well if you know what their "goals" are let the world know. meanwhile, we know they bomb isis. and we know quite ineffectively, compared to russian strikes backed by assad army. as i said.
middle east is certainly not korea , nor is syria, afghanistan or iraq. nor korea in 50s same as korea now . much less vietnam. but what about similarities? what is common to all, and tactics and methods of that common outsider, and they all ended badly to common outsider.
to repeat you are free to remain indefinite and deny all statements . lol
without invasion (or as they say "boots on the ground") impossible to all "destroy the missiles, artillery, and armor ". contrast the ineffectiveness of usa air strikes at islamic state in syria and iraq, with effectiveness of russian air strikes in syria backed up with assad's ground forces, which recaptured aleppo and palmyra and lots of more places not so famous. and this is no game, where AI waits like a fool, they will invade south korea and fire missiles at both sk and japan.and probably nuclear missiles at usa and others.
quite apart from typos(or not?) there are other problems with your comment.
"The difference is k47 armed afghans and iraqis don't have a leadership." really? in iraq, most of the sunni fighters and leaders are from the former army and regime. only reason they are not winning is current iran backed and almost controlled, shia regime and militias in iraq, no friends of west. and in afghanistan taliban(and its leadership) is more or less the same as one that was supposedly defeated.
yes "idiots didn't see it coming" in iraq, but also in afghanistan. and idiots certainly "happened to be in washington DC at that time", but they were also in military in iraq, and in afghanistan, and now as well as then in same places.
since you pick analogies from ww2, why not take analogies from korean war too, more appropriately. was that "euthanasia"? or fight to a draw? and then neither north koreans, nor chinese had nuclear weapons. why not draw analogies from vietnam too. didn't north koreans have a concentrated leadership too? and were they bombed with more bombs than all of ww2? was that "euthanasia"?
"Over 115,000 reservations at $1,000... in the first 24 hours.... It looks like Tesla may have a big hit on their hands." without comparisons with stats for other cars, their (and this) preorder amount and conditions(eg is it refundable?), etc all that is meaningless.
also even if preorders are above others, that merely proves effectiveness of hype, since actual product is not available, only hype is, success will be judged after the appearance of product. same with some trashy/good movies for which people queued up for days. claiming premature success as in here, is just more hype.
as i said, "if the aim is to deter terrorists from going through a check point,..."
i agree that its impossible to completely prevent terrorists (as you say)"from getting contraband on an airplane". but that does not mean we should not deter them going through a check point, by using random full checks as described.
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this is a race , once you get an effective armor you then create better projectiles that nullify any advantages given by that armor .
wonder if they can create bullets with same metal foam ( at least on the face that hits the target )? may that would be be too expensive since not everyone will be wearing that armor and only few bullets hit targets anyway?
cheaper counter method would be to pack some bullets with some cheap poisonous dust.
no wonder you post as AC, since you obviously can't comprehend what you read.
claim that a new work can be created by computer with same quality and recognizable individuality, as a work by original creator
with twitter , facebook, etc we had people letting the world know the uninteresting boring details of their lives.
but they had to type(and so think a bit) , and edit and choose photos, etc,
but with ability to livestream uninteresting boring details of their lives ( nonstop as this will soon become), even whatever small checks there were, between event and its presentation, are removed.
who said paypal is breaking constitution, or doing anything illegal ? read.
paypal is even free to issue threats overturn laws that do not meet its values, if it wants.
but that is not the correct way to go about overturning laws. use democratic process and courts, to challenge and change laws, not financial threats.
as i said from first here " there is a conflict where two group have conflicting values, one group is saying only the values backed up by money should matter."
until computer has the same individual personality ,memory, intelligence , and emotions( including troubling ones with all the psychological complexes that come with experiencing life ) as Rembrandt, the painting created by it is not a Rembrandt.
one has to wonder why they chose painting to demonstrate this computer abilities (with added complexity of physical creation of painting which is mostly dependent on other technologies), when poetry would have been a better way to demonstrate the computer's machine-learning.
why didn't they scan and analyze some famous poet (Shakespeare, Dante, Pope, Milton, Wordsworth, Eliot, Pushkin, Pound, Dickinson, etc etc ) and create new poems?
is it because falseness of this claim can be more easily spotted by even ordinary people if it is a poem? while it takes more experience and training to spot the deficiencies in painting?
you, unable to quote the law saying what you claimed it did, post a link to a ultra liberal website.
quote the law, not propaganda about the law.
maybe you are unable to differentiate.
no wonder you fail to get the point. lol
as i said from the 1st, what is happening here is "money elites" are trying to insist on primacy of their values over democratic process. you just said they are upset their values were not followed in this law.
there is a democratic process to overturn laws, as well as other checks and balances, such as subjecting it to judicial review to check its constitutionality, instead "money elites" are issuing threats.
get it?
perhaps you will understand, if you read carefully ( starting with article and main post here), and not substitute and imagine your own words while reading. ... forbid local government from passing any laws that offer protections to LGBT people"
2 examples -
-
you said
"The state then chose to pass a law that
really?
quote that law saying what you said with link. do!
- ... urged North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory to repeal the legislation. "
main post here,
"more than a hundred companies,
"The new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal's mission and culture, Chief Executive Officer Dan Schulman said "
you said
"a case of a state government over riding the will of a city government. Then Paypal decides they don't like the environment this suggests and chooses to not open up new facilities there."
same thing? really?
-
you see no "money elites" trying to insist on primacy of their values over democratic process?
--
if you reply,
do explain, if you can, why you chose to ignore paypal's actual words?.
if you can(!), quote the law with words you said it said.
of course, you are free to not do any of that, and continue to insist you do not understand my point. you are even free continue with substituting your own words to what others actually said.
point?
though not a perfect one, there is a democratic process, with checks and balances, for making laws, and judging their constitutionality.
then here there are threats by "money elites" to favor what they want.
such continuous blatant violations in favor of money elite giving them higher rights over others, will eventually bring about a conflict that will get ever more violent and illegal.
clear?
as i said, be warned.
there was another arrival after the last ,
einstein once again posed the question, "what's your IQ?". Upon receiving the answer "60".
einstein cried and asked, "how many of you are coming here after being sent to afghanistan, iraq, etc, to fight for elite's benefit by clintons, bush and obama, etc? "
to reduce this to basics, in usa, when there is a conflict where two group have conflicting values, one group is saying only the values backed up by money should matter.
ideally,
majority democratically established, with constitutionally established checks and balances, should pass laws.
constitutionality of the laws should be judged by courts.
while that is never achieved, continuous blatant violations in favor of money elite, and ignoring of others legal attempts, will eventually bring about a conflict that will get ever more violent and illegal. be warned.
"we don't even know what living means now, what it is, and what it is called? leave us alone without books[internet] and we shall be lost and in confusion at once. we shall not know what to join on to, what to cling to, what to love and what to hate, what to respect and what to despise. we are oppressed at being men--men with a real individual body and blood, we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.
we are stillborn, and for generations past have been begotten, not by living fathers, and that suits us better and better. we are developing a taste for it. soon we shall contrive to be born somehow from an idea."
--notes from underground by fyodor mikhailovich dostoyevsky
i see that you are limited to your literal mind. even bots do better than that.
do no evil, my foot!
observe actions not words.
that means do not trust any of the big tech corps, nor their over hyped mediocre products, nor their vague public stances and pronouncements. if they can make even one cent profit, they will sell you.
these papers implicate lots of western politicians directly, esp from uk. to quote "Six members of the House of Lords, three former Conservative MPs and dozens of donors to UK political parties", and david cameron family .
in contrast, putin's implication is indirect at best, with vague indefinite connections,"The Russian president’s best friend – a cellist called Sergei Roldugin - is at the centre of a scheme in which money from Russian state banks is hidden offshore. Some of it ends up in a ski resort where in 2013 Putin’s daughter Katerina got married."
best friend not described as that before? and location of a wedding reception?
but this summary only mentions non western leaders(if we ignore iceland), as of now. curious! /. afraid of ?
who is
people have been making replacement parts and customizations of all sorts of equipment and vehicles using variety of tools such as lathe machines and other power tools, since at least start of industrial revolution, if not earlier.
having another way to do the same, 3d printers, is nice. but not all that new.
your comment makes no sense whatever.
maybe you got confused by cosm's alteration (with bold text) the statement made by BitterOak.
i suggest you read the thread in full and clarify your head.
enforcement (against violators of law) is different from maintenance (against possibility of reform of law).
read my previous comment and you will see which i meant.
your argument is false.
a case that needs analogies with Holocaust, hitler and nazis, to maintain is a failed case(when victims and perpetrators are not using or suffering same violence).
if you think something illegal is violating a higher moral law (this is very suspect territory since various people have various moral codes), fight to change the law. by all legal means. write to elected representatives, hold protests , use civil disobedience. etc etc
if the law is maintained through violence(as with nazis) against any possibility of reform, even violent resistance may be justified .
but if no violence is used to maintain the law there is no need for "slaps".
since you don't admit to saying anything definite, only way to answer and assume you have a brain, is to articulate statements and then reply.
you are free to say you did not say what is in those statements.
[you said i assume] ...
"we need to worry about are the ones that are fielded", but what about those "fielded"?
in reply i will say what i said before;
without invasion (or as they say "boots on the ground") impossible to "destroy" all the "fielded" "missiles, artillery, and armor ".
what do you mean by "endgame"? "details" of which you assume can be left to (presumably) south korea to deal with?
same south korea which do not want a war/attack, a war/attack which without doubt could devastate seoul within hours. be definite if you are "intelligent".
what do you mean by "open warfare" that is going to "cease"? and why?
why would china be in helping usa by providing "peacekeepers" when if it stays out of any war ( very doubtful), aimed against its ally north korea? it would let south and usa deal with results of war (if usa/south even win) and help those who will fight against usa and south after such "cessation", to bleed them dry.
"Regarding Syria and Iraq, it may be simply that the US military has different goals than you presume".
well if you know what their "goals" are let the world know.
meanwhile, we know they bomb isis. and we know quite ineffectively, compared to russian strikes backed by assad army. as i said.
middle east is certainly not korea , nor is syria, afghanistan or iraq. nor korea in 50s same as korea now . much less vietnam.
but what about similarities? what is common to all, and tactics and methods of that common outsider, and they all ended badly to common outsider.
to repeat you are free to remain indefinite and deny all statements . lol
without invasion (or as they say "boots on the ground") impossible to all "destroy the missiles, artillery, and armor ". .and probably nuclear missiles at usa and others.
contrast the ineffectiveness of usa air strikes at islamic state in syria and iraq, with effectiveness of russian air strikes in syria backed up with assad's ground forces, which recaptured aleppo and palmyra and lots of more places not so famous.
and this is no game, where AI waits like a fool, they will invade south korea and fire missiles at both sk and japan
quite apart from typos(or not?) there are other problems with your comment.
"The difference is k47 armed afghans and iraqis don't have a leadership."
really?
in iraq, most of the sunni fighters and leaders are from the former army and regime. only reason they are not winning is current iran backed and almost controlled, shia regime and militias in iraq, no friends of west.
and in afghanistan taliban(and its leadership) is more or less the same as one that was supposedly defeated.
yes "idiots didn't see it coming" in iraq, but also in afghanistan. and idiots certainly "happened to be in washington DC at that time", but they were also in military in iraq, and in afghanistan, and now as well as then in same places.
since you pick analogies from ww2, why not take analogies from korean war too, more appropriately.
was that "euthanasia"? or fight to a draw? and then neither north koreans, nor chinese had nuclear weapons.
why not draw analogies from vietnam too. didn't north koreans have a concentrated leadership too? and were they bombed with more bombs than all of ww2? was that "euthanasia"?
but who will "euthenize" nuclear armed "the little dog" ?
same pussy cats who got bent over and spanked by even the ak47 armed afgans and iraqis? lol
"Over 115,000 reservations at $1,000 ... in the first 24 hours. ... It looks like Tesla may have a big hit on their hands."
without comparisons with stats for other cars, their (and this) preorder amount and conditions(eg is it refundable?), etc all that is meaningless.
also even if preorders are above others, that merely proves effectiveness of hype, since actual product is not available, only hype is, success will be judged after the appearance of product.
same with some trashy/good movies for which people queued up for days.
claiming premature success as in here, is just more hype.
as i said, "if the aim is to deter terrorists from going through a check point,..."
i agree that its impossible to completely prevent terrorists (as you say)"from getting contraband on an airplane". but that does not mean we should not deter them going through a check point, by using random full checks as described.