actually he/she in grandfather post by SumDog is right, historically; about pre coup democracy in iran, western/usa sponsored coup against that, resulting revolution, usa interference (sometimes bloody ) in iran, iran's need for nuclear weapons as security, usa's massive armament and their barbaric use in past and at present, etc etc, btw all that does not constitute a moral equivalence argument.
however SumDog is wrong about "America is a semi-theocracy (in the sense conservatives have used religion to bolster pro-war agendas)" far from being a semi-theocracy, modern usa is a secular state militantly opposed to religion, especially Christan religion. state that legally aborts millions each year ( and has many laws directly contrary to Christan morality) is not a semi-theocracy. the pro war agenda is driven mainly it usa's secular elite, mostly for profit. they use crude pseudo religious propaganda, and some religious lapdogs, to make citizens support their agenda, but they never act in the interest of religion. judge usa by its actions.
we can create appearance of intelligence, by defining intelligence in certain way, and throwing greater and greater computational resources to satisfy that definition. perhaps we will know we have artificial intelligence only when it defines intelligence on its own and perhaps classify us as unintelligent.
as far as i know( and i was in a country targeted by terrorists for many years) security screenings, detectors, checks, road blocks, etc are aimed mainly to prevent, and deny attackers access, by increasing risk of making the attack and using that route, rather than actual detection. attacker thinks twice before going through that check.
circumventing laws to squeeze out the cost of complying with laws and regulations. uber does it, these companies do it. exact same thing when striped of hype.
seems audience for such things want them dumbed down and colored up. reality and facts are too dull(literally) and ugly for modern audience? this is not just science. everything western population see is dumbed down and colored up. unvarnished reality and facts not in sight. prettified info will not help make decisions, great or small. not going to end well.
seems some people believe and are promoting uber as some great innovating technology. no, rather uber is merely breaking regulations/laws that are harmful. uber is doing same as a factory that competes better by finding regulatory loopholes to dump chemicals (or carbon) that are banned to environment in comparison with factories that comply with regulations . but we don't get stories here in support of those such regulation breaking
be logical and philosophically consistent. emphasis on stories like this must be on harmfulness of regulations not uber promotion.
if nobody deliberately destroys them, most of past that matter in future will be preserved, by those who care because it matters to them. one has to look at what has survived from ancient greece and rome to see that. for example we have the best plays of the best three Greek tragedians. but we don't have (for most part ) plays of lots of ( and there were lots) mediocre palywrights, or bad plays of best ones. this is bit like evolution.
why do people even bother about uk? it is a declining society, in debt to others, with ever less share of world gdp, a slave state to usa. as such increasingly irrelevant to world affairs, nobody bothers about netherlands, so why uk? censorship/surveillance laws that matter are those in china, usa, india, brazil germany, russia, iran etc etc .
who cares if british perverts in government spy on whether rest of the british still engage as usual in national cultural practice of male male sodomy?
one comment makes a great argument against ignoring laws to punish evil doers, effectively using a great play. only retort is an ad hominem, and ignorant irrelevant one at that. both have same rating as of now(more than hour later ). ah slashdot!
what a relief ! we are all safe now that Anonymous is fighting IS. what if they hacked the wrong syrian accounts(as usual), IS will kill the account holders anyway.
notice anonymous has fine sense of morality. it does not fight against terrorist attacks in non western countries . nor against drone killing of children by our heroes the military of west.
seems instead of letting consumers and companies decide what to use and what to sell at what price, some people(who?) want pricing decisions and consequent buying decisions to follow their taste.
american congress and executive, true to their historical record, will bloviate and then ban the technology from Chinese company saying it threatens national security, and then steal the technology (as west has always done with both technology and resources of rest of the world for millennia)
with each discovery in quantum physics and astronomy, we discover we don't know anything about far greater part of the universe(or universes) and how it(they) work, from dark energy and matter, to variety of quantum effects.
seems modern sciences like astronomy, meteorology, economics, and even physics (in case of string theory and like), etc, etc, have degenerated to the point of mere speculation based largely on limited models that confirm whatever theory promotes, they have largely discarded scientific method,
since i designate myself an alien, i intend to extract and own the resources in so called north american continent of space object earth ( intend to own especially those human animals who refuse to be aliens ):-)
face facts. use logic. best way to prevent jobs going to non american citizens is to be truly productive and contributing value for money paid, not demanding to be paid more for doing less, than non americans who are deservedly getting these jobs. all other ways including unions are simply welfare leeching on productivity of rest of the world, who has to do the work anyway as always.
UK, punny remains of that bloody monstrosity brutish er... british empire, throughout its despicable history never cared about rights of anyone other than its ruling elite. it is probably the most genocidal and despicable state that ever existed on earth and is responsible for violating more basic rights (including right to life and liberty) than any other (even counting other abodes of low life scum like usa, china, ussr , france, nazi germany, etc). fact. vote me down you deniers of reality!
unless customer can access perfect or near perfect information on the item being sold, direct sales wont triumph method of sale where customer can access the item directly before sale. in case of car that means dealer for most part.
given the dissatisfaction expressed by most of tesla customers in the few publicly available surveys done( and there has been too little of surveys due to actions of tesla). direct sales of cars do not seem to serve customers satisfactorily.
government shakedown? blackmail? did companies refuse to do somethings new york establishment wanted ? such as banning certain news channels they do not like ( and not owned and controlled by 'new york' related establishment) from their cables?
too much money to waste in fields and places they do not know much about, for unclear motives, to achieve unclear goals, through murky means. just like usa and other western governments wasting blood and treasure in iraq, afagnistan, syria, libya, etc,etc,, through among other things, invasions, coups, drone killing children, torture, etc etc,, to allegedly promote liberty and democracy, (or more probably to loot resources to keep up the lifestyles of western citizen voters and their debt-ridden wasteful culture of death, catered to by companies like google)
if there is a new thing to be found or invented it will not be due to some government or government like company throwing money at it. see origin of google itself.
in this age of glottalization and world wide web(heard of that?),only record that counts is the world record. btw is this really an american record if he is carried and kept there by russians?
i would be voted down by people who can't face facts.
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actually he/she in grandfather post by SumDog is right, historically; about pre coup democracy in iran, western/usa sponsored coup against that, resulting revolution, usa interference (sometimes bloody ) in iran, iran's need for nuclear weapons as security, usa's massive armament and their barbaric use in past and at present, etc etc,
btw all that does not constitute a moral equivalence argument.
however SumDog is wrong about "America is a semi-theocracy (in the sense conservatives have used religion to bolster pro-war agendas)"
far from being a semi-theocracy, modern usa is a secular state militantly opposed to religion, especially Christan religion. state that legally aborts millions each year ( and has many laws directly contrary to Christan morality) is not a semi-theocracy.
the pro war agenda is driven mainly it usa's secular elite, mostly for profit. they use crude pseudo religious propaganda, and some religious lapdogs, to make citizens support their agenda, but they never act in the interest of religion.
judge usa by its actions.
we can create appearance of intelligence, by defining intelligence in certain way, and throwing greater and greater computational resources to satisfy that definition.
perhaps we will know we have artificial intelligence only when it defines intelligence on its own and perhaps classify us as unintelligent.
is the effort required to update these in many systems by many people really worthwhile? just asking. are there any studies on this
really! don't mention it again, triggers cravings.
jews. always victims in their own minds, even when they are the victimizers. enough said.
as far as i know( and i was in a country targeted by terrorists for many years) security screenings, detectors, checks, road blocks, etc are aimed mainly to prevent, and deny attackers access, by increasing risk of making the attack and using that route, rather than actual detection. attacker thinks twice before going through that check.
circumventing laws to squeeze out the cost of complying with laws and regulations. uber does it, these companies do it. exact same thing when striped of hype.
but uber is heroic for some people here. lol
“it is excellent To have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant”
Measure for Measure - Shakespeare
seems audience for such things want them dumbed down and colored up. reality and facts are too dull(literally) and ugly for modern audience? this is not just science. everything western population see is dumbed down and colored up. unvarnished reality and facts not in sight. prettified info will not help make decisions, great or small. not going to end well.
seems some people believe and are promoting uber as some great innovating technology. no, rather uber is merely breaking regulations/laws that are harmful.
uber is doing same as a factory that competes better by finding regulatory loopholes to dump chemicals (or carbon) that are banned to environment in comparison with factories that comply with regulations . but we don't get stories here in support of those such regulation breaking
be logical and philosophically consistent.
emphasis on stories like this must be on harmfulness of regulations not uber promotion.
if nobody deliberately destroys them, most of past that matter in future will be preserved, by those who care because it matters to them.
one has to look at what has survived from ancient greece and rome to see that. for example we have the best plays of the best three Greek tragedians. but we don't have (for most part ) plays of lots of ( and there were lots) mediocre palywrights, or bad plays of best ones.
this is bit like evolution.
why do people even bother about uk? it is a declining society, in debt to others, with ever less share of world gdp, a slave state to usa. as such increasingly irrelevant to world affairs, nobody bothers about netherlands, so why uk?
censorship/surveillance laws that matter are those in china, usa, india, brazil germany, russia, iran etc etc .
who cares if british perverts in government spy on whether rest of the british still engage as usual in national cultural practice of male male sodomy?
one comment makes a great argument against ignoring laws to punish evil doers, effectively using a great play. only retort is an ad hominem, and ignorant irrelevant one at that. both have same rating as of now(more than hour later ).
ah slashdot!
what a relief ! we are all safe now that Anonymous is fighting IS.
what if they hacked the wrong syrian accounts(as usual), IS will kill the account holders anyway.
notice anonymous has fine sense of morality. it does not fight against terrorist attacks in non western countries . nor against drone killing of children by our heroes the military of west.
seems instead of letting consumers and companies decide what to use and what to sell at what price, some people(who?) want pricing decisions and consequent buying decisions to follow their taste.
american congress and executive, true to their historical record, will bloviate and then ban the technology from Chinese company saying it threatens national security, and then steal the technology (as west has always done with both technology and resources of rest of the world for millennia)
with each discovery in quantum physics and astronomy, we discover we don't know anything about far greater part of the universe(or universes) and how it(they) work, from dark energy and matter, to variety of quantum effects.
seems modern sciences like astronomy, meteorology, economics, and even physics (in case of string theory and like), etc, etc, have degenerated to the point of mere speculation based largely on limited models that confirm whatever theory promotes, they have largely discarded scientific method,
since i designate myself an alien, i intend to extract and own the resources in so called north american continent of space object earth ( intend to own especially those human animals who refuse to be aliens ) :-)
face facts. use logic. best way to prevent jobs going to non american citizens is to be truly productive and contributing value for money paid, not demanding to be paid more for doing less, than non americans who are deservedly getting these jobs. all other ways including unions are simply welfare leeching on productivity of rest of the world, who has to do the work anyway as always.
UK, punny remains of that bloody monstrosity brutish er... british empire, throughout its despicable history never cared about rights of anyone other than its ruling elite.
it is probably the most genocidal and despicable state that ever existed on earth and is responsible for violating more basic rights (including right to life and liberty) than any other (even counting other abodes of low life scum like usa, china, ussr , france, nazi germany, etc). fact. vote me down you deniers of reality!
unless customer can access perfect or near perfect information on the item being sold, direct sales wont triumph method of sale where customer can access the item directly before sale. in case of car that means dealer for most part.
given the dissatisfaction expressed by most of tesla customers in the few publicly available surveys done( and there has been too little of surveys due to actions of tesla). direct sales of cars do not seem to serve customers satisfactorily.
government shakedown? blackmail? did companies refuse to do somethings new york establishment wanted ? such as banning certain news channels they do not like ( and not owned and controlled by 'new york' related establishment) from their cables?
too much money to waste in fields and places they do not know much about, for unclear motives, to achieve unclear goals, through murky means.
just like usa and other western governments wasting blood and treasure in iraq, afagnistan, syria, libya, etc,etc,, through among other things, invasions, coups, drone killing children, torture, etc etc,, to allegedly promote liberty and democracy, (or more probably to loot resources to keep up the lifestyles of western citizen voters and their debt-ridden wasteful culture of death, catered to by companies like google)
if there is a new thing to be found or invented it will not be due to some government or government like company throwing money at it. see origin of google itself.
in this age of glottalization and world wide web(heard of that?),only record that counts is the world record.
btw is this really an american record if he is carried and kept there by russians?
i would be voted down by people who can't face facts.