I'm sitting here quietly chewing my cud thinking about this. It bothers me.
"Aha," says my mind to me, "we see all these big expensive suits brought by New York and other companies back East; and, for some unknown reason see nothing out of California." Is it the crazed denizens of sack-o-tomatoes trying to be delicate dancing around their pet tech companies? Have the tech companies purchased second options on those denizens, who are already wholly owned by the public employees unions?
Seriously, why does California, which could use a few $billion settlements to fatten its coffers, not indulge in this popular activity of blue states? Or are the denizens of Sack-o-tomatoes just plain lazy?
This is probably a good concept. Execution may be a little bit difficult. How well have gun bans worked? How well has most of the rest of Sacramento's idiocies have worked - the carbon tax? the not a train to nowhere? the sky high taxes?
In addition it appears to me that this is effectively a barrier to interstate and international trade. The feds may object to the interstate trade barrier. And international barriers are the sole responsibility of the feds.
I predict large teams of lawyers are going to feed well at this trough that sack-o-tomatoes has created. {^_^}
This is the start of another round of inflation. Next some folks say, "My Amazon costs me more. Therefore I need a raise.' Then we have more saying "Now my everything costs more so I, too, need a raise."
And people on fixed incomes cope how? Thanks assholes. {O,O}
There is one sinple general rule I've learned about life in general over 70+ years. It reads, "If it can be done, it will be done." It's one of Joanne's laws, I guess. I have many I've derived over the years. This one is the most generally applicable. If there is a market of people willing to pay for something and any hole of any size through which to slip product, the market will be fulfilled. Drugs are the most obvious such. Guns are another obvious market filled because there was a way to fill it, a way to do it. Scientific curiosity is another way things that can be done get done. "What happens if I....?" "Oh, neat!" or "Oh well, I can buy a new lab."
AI weapons can be done. They will be done. That is a simple application of Joanne's Do-it law.
So my first question is, "If you make it illegal, what magic will you apply to prevent it from happening anyway?"
That leads directly to my second question. "Are your principles so strong you are willing to NOT be on the side that does it first and most effectively?"
(And as an aside, a Computer Organized Operation that takes over a government is a Coo-Coupe.)
If I may add a little perspective here, When adjusted for inflation that is within a factor two of what I paid for a small one room apartment above a drugstore on the intersection of State and Packard in Ann Arbor while I was an engineering student at the University of Michigan. This problem is NOT new by any means. {o.o}
Please remember the Steele Dossier and it's vaguely cited anonymous sources. Please remember how accurate it has turned out to have been.
The worth of an anonymous source is close to zero beyond maybe telling you where to look to dig for real information or maybe telling you where the misinformation lives as it distracts you from the real stuff. Off hand this pile on of anonymous sources has the ring of a Soviet Union misinformation propaganda campaign. "They say....", "They all say....", "A highly placed source says....", and its all lies.
I am sitting here 200' from neighors ON ALL SIDES, that have a sort of real "high speed", by antiquated FCC definitions, choice, DSL or Charter Spectrum. I am 1/4 mile from the nearest FIOS connection. I have no market I can call upon for alternatives. I am too far away from their poles to serve. It's the bane of a large piece of land in the middle of a sea of 60'x140' lots. The state cannot do anything, not that it would being California, because the FCC has preempted the field. And the FCC will not act because it is deep into the pockets of the big boys who are refusing to sell me, even at a premium price, any decent fast Internet service. I'm stuck on noisy wires with ADSL at 7 mbps nominal down and 768 kbs nominal up when the damn fool lines are quiet enough for the ADSL to work.
I thought this had been fought out half a century or more ago with the great "Pornography" debates, "I know it when I see it," is not a usable definition. No good definition appeared so the banning attempts sort of er "petered out" over the subsequent decades.
I discussed the same things 20 years ago with regards to spam. What *I* might call spam somebody else might call "information", A definition in that case centered around the word "unsolicited".
Now we are back with a new issue that has no solid definition possible, "Hate Speech." "I don't like it so it must be hate speech," still is not a type of statement that makes sense. I actually like to see people posting hate speech. It can tell me to rate their opinions about as high as what I daily deposit in the toilet. Some things that are hate speech today were normal modes of address in the 40s and 50s, the N-words, the F-words (ending in "t" and "y"), and so forth. If somebody my age uses those words I discount it somewhat - they're simply not bothering to school themselves to new norms because at least some of the terms were not extreme pejoratives. On the other hand I figure somebody much younger doing this as a person I don't want to be around, I close up any business I may have with it and go elsewhere.
Trying to make "hate speech" a banned item violates at the very least the spirit of the 1st amendment (if corporations are guilty) if not the letter (if governments are involved), is a fools game and actually removes valuable information from the table. Hint, what they think is good is worth a very close examination before believing them, even if they say a new smartphone.is good. Regardless, it the same old damn fool idiotic "if I don't like it then it should be banned" crap all over again. After more than 7 decades watching this parade it's time it stopped. But, just because I don't like it, it should not be banned. It should just be ignored.
They went back to machine graded multiple choice exams on paper. And then they invited in millions of ghost voters to screw up the voting counts. {o.o}
Pray tell how well did you know him or know of him? He woke up angry and went to bed angry, or so his reputation goes. He suffered fools less gracefully than the Ubuntu mailing lists. But, for friends he was always there. And his friends were there for him. He's probably somewhere akin to Heaven giving them Hell and having a grand old time doing so.
It does sound like a protection racket. And the trouble with paying off the troublemaker/blackmailer is that he never goes away and the price always goes up. {^_^}
Roger Easton was without a doubt the father of satellite navigation systems. Colonel Parkinson, as I met him and presented proposals to him when I was at Rockwell International, was the ramrod, the father, of GPS, also without question.
I say that without reservation even considering that he hired some consultants to help critique our presentations that went on to become our competitors on the next generation of the pre-launch test receiver for the GPS satellites. That smudges his reputation. But, he's still the father of GPS with Roger Easton upstaging him as the father of satellite based navigation. {^_^}
There are items which when opened in improperly equipped repair shops should not be covered by warranties. Disk drives and CPUs come to mind. If I open a rotating platters disk drive looking for what is wrong the dust and debris that invades the drive renders it's operation extremely iffy. Such warranty seal breakage should be exempt. If somebody asks a third party to repair it then the third party should warrant the repair.
On the other hand opening the back of a TV set exposes nothing to dust or dirt damage that is exceptionally vulnerable. So if Hapless Harry opens the case, looks around, decides he is out of his depth, closes the case, and sends it for warranty repair it should be covered seals notwithstanding. But if he decaps some of those pretty rectangular thinguses inside, he's on his own.
I second the notion. Amiga Forever is based on WinUAE. But it has enough added content that it's well worth the price. Fortunately for her Amiga Forever includes at least one environment which gives very accurate emulation of the A1000 with the same timing, video limitations and features, and even sounds. I suspect she'd feel right at home with it unless she wants the interlace flicker as part of her environment. (And I bet even that could be at least partially emulated on a good enough base Windows machine.) Mike and his company Cloanto have done a wonderful job. (So says the former head moderator of the BIX Amiga Exchange.) {^_^}
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Gives a new meaning to the old slur, "Chinese copy," doesn't it.
{^_-}
C. M. Kornbluth "The Marching Morons" features a car perfect for those who feel they should remain in control.
{^_-}
I'm sitting here quietly chewing my cud thinking about this. It bothers me.
"Aha," says my mind to me, "we see all these big expensive suits brought by New York and other companies back East; and, for some unknown reason see nothing out of California." Is it the crazed denizens of sack-o-tomatoes trying to be delicate dancing around their pet tech companies? Have the tech companies purchased second options on those denizens, who are already wholly owned by the public employees unions?
Seriously, why does California, which could use a few $billion settlements to fatten its coffers, not indulge in this popular activity of blue states? Or are the denizens of Sack-o-tomatoes just plain lazy?
{^_^}
This is probably a good concept. Execution may be a little bit difficult. How well have gun bans worked? How well has most of the rest of Sacramento's idiocies have worked - the carbon tax? the not a train to nowhere? the sky high taxes?
In addition it appears to me that this is effectively a barrier to interstate and international trade. The feds may object to the interstate trade barrier. And international barriers are the sole responsibility of the feds.
I predict large teams of lawyers are going to feed well at this trough that sack-o-tomatoes has created.
{^_^}
This is the start of another round of inflation. Next some folks say, "My Amazon costs me more. Therefore I need a raise.' Then we have more saying "Now my everything costs more so I, too, need a raise."
And people on fixed incomes cope how? Thanks assholes.
{O,O}
Given that California is governed by certifiable lunatics should anybody expect anything different from this sort of thing?
{o.o}
Who on this great blue marble in the wide universe could possibly withstand 50 pages of Chinglish, Google translations of Chinese to English?
{O.O}
Many decades ago a simple mantra went the rounds. It was aimed at racism. But it applies to this situation, too.
"A mind is a terrible thing to waste."
This guy may be a sexist turd; but, is that any excuse to waste his mind?
{^_^} Joanne
There is one sinple general rule I've learned about life in general over 70+ years. It reads, "If it can be done, it will be done." It's one of Joanne's laws, I guess. I have many I've derived over the years. This one is the most generally applicable. If there is a market of people willing to pay for something and any hole of any size through which to slip product, the market will be fulfilled. Drugs are the most obvious such. Guns are another obvious market filled because there was a way to fill it, a way to do it. Scientific curiosity is another way things that can be done get done. "What happens if I ....?" "Oh, neat!" or "Oh well, I can buy a new lab."
AI weapons can be done. They will be done. That is a simple application of Joanne's Do-it law.
So my first question is, "If you make it illegal, what magic will you apply to prevent it from happening anyway?"
That leads directly to my second question. "Are your principles so strong you are willing to NOT be on the side that does it first and most effectively?"
(And as an aside, a Computer Organized Operation that takes over a government is a Coo-Coupe.)
{^_^}
If I may add a little perspective here, When adjusted for inflation that is within a factor two of what I paid for a small one room apartment above a drugstore on the intersection of State and Packard in Ann Arbor while I was an engineering student at the University of Michigan. This problem is NOT new by any means.
{o.o}
Please remember the Steele Dossier and it's vaguely cited anonymous sources. Please remember how accurate it has turned out to have been.
The worth of an anonymous source is close to zero beyond maybe telling you where to look to dig for real information or maybe telling you where the misinformation lives as it distracts you from the real stuff. Off hand this pile on of anonymous sources has the ring of a Soviet Union misinformation propaganda campaign. "They say....", "They all say....", "A highly placed source says....", and its all lies.
{^_^}
Swamp the FCC with complaints.
{o.o}
I am sitting here 200' from neighors ON ALL SIDES, that have a sort of real "high speed", by antiquated FCC definitions, choice, DSL or Charter Spectrum. I am 1/4 mile from the nearest FIOS connection. I have no market I can call upon for alternatives. I am too far away from their poles to serve. It's the bane of a large piece of land in the middle of a sea of 60'x140' lots. The state cannot do anything, not that it would being California, because the FCC has preempted the field. And the FCC will not act because it is deep into the pockets of the big boys who are refusing to sell me, even at a premium price, any decent fast Internet service. I'm stuck on noisy wires with ADSL at 7 mbps nominal down and 768 kbs nominal up when the damn fool lines are quiet enough for the ADSL to work.
{+,+} Bleah! The FCC is a premier Swamp Dweller.
I thought this had been fought out half a century or more ago with the great "Pornography" debates, "I know it when I see it," is not a usable definition. No good definition appeared so the banning attempts sort of er "petered out" over the subsequent decades.
I discussed the same things 20 years ago with regards to spam. What *I* might call spam somebody else might call "information", A definition in that case centered around the word "unsolicited".
Now we are back with a new issue that has no solid definition possible, "Hate Speech." "I don't like it so it must be hate speech," still is not a type of statement that makes sense. I actually like to see people posting hate speech. It can tell me to rate their opinions about as high as what I daily deposit in the toilet. Some things that are hate speech today were normal modes of address in the 40s and 50s, the N-words, the F-words (ending in "t" and "y"), and so forth. If somebody my age uses those words I discount it somewhat - they're simply not bothering to school themselves to new norms because at least some of the terms were not extreme pejoratives. On the other hand I figure somebody much younger doing this as a person I don't want to be around, I close up any business I may have with it and go elsewhere.
Trying to make "hate speech" a banned item violates at the very least the spirit of the 1st amendment (if corporations are guilty) if not the letter (if governments are involved), is a fools game and actually removes valuable information from the table. Hint, what they think is good is worth a very close examination before believing them, even if they say a new smartphone.is good. Regardless, it the same old damn fool idiotic "if I don't like it then it should be banned" crap all over again. After more than 7 decades watching this parade it's time it stopped. But, just because I don't like it, it should not be banned. It should just be ignored.
{^_^}
As an encore they plan to legislate pi is equal to 3.000. Yeah, it's been tried before; but, THIS time we'll get it right!
{O,o} Ack! Plblbpt!
At least the rickshaws would protect their feet from the ever present poop and needles.
{o.o}
They went back to machine graded multiple choice exams on paper. And then they invited in millions of ghost voters to screw up the voting counts.
{o.o}
Pray tell how well did you know him or know of him? He woke up angry and went to bed angry, or so his reputation goes. He suffered fools less gracefully than the Ubuntu mailing lists. But, for friends he was always there. And his friends were there for him. He's probably somewhere akin to Heaven giving them Hell and having a grand old time doing so.
A toast to a grand master!
{^_^}
I wonder if they will fold up the project and consign it to oblivion when they test Lazarus Long.
{^v^}
It does sound like a protection racket. And the trouble with paying off the troublemaker/blackmailer is that he never goes away and the price always goes up.
{^_^}
Do they produce methane, the greenhouse gas?
{o.o}
Roger Easton was without a doubt the father of satellite navigation systems. Colonel Parkinson, as I met him and presented proposals to him when I was at Rockwell International, was the ramrod, the father, of GPS, also without question.
I say that without reservation even considering that he hired some consultants to help critique our presentations that went on to become our competitors on the next generation of the pre-launch test receiver for the GPS satellites. That smudges his reputation. But, he's still the father of GPS with Roger Easton upstaging him as the father of satellite based navigation.
{^_^}
There are items which when opened in improperly equipped repair shops should not be covered by warranties. Disk drives and CPUs come to mind. If I open a rotating platters disk drive looking for what is wrong the dust and debris that invades the drive renders it's operation extremely iffy. Such warranty seal breakage should be exempt. If somebody asks a third party to repair it then the third party should warrant the repair.
On the other hand opening the back of a TV set exposes nothing to dust or dirt damage that is exceptionally vulnerable. So if Hapless Harry opens the case, looks around, decides he is out of his depth, closes the case, and sends it for warranty repair it should be covered seals notwithstanding. But if he decaps some of those pretty rectangular thinguses inside, he's on his own.
{^_^}
I second the notion. Amiga Forever is based on WinUAE. But it has enough added content that it's well worth the price. Fortunately for her Amiga Forever includes at least one environment which gives very accurate emulation of the A1000 with the same timing, video limitations and features, and even sounds. I suspect she'd feel right at home with it unless she wants the interlace flicker as part of her environment. (And I bet even that could be at least partially emulated on a good enough base Windows machine.) Mike and his company Cloanto have done a wonderful job. (So says the former head moderator of the BIX Amiga Exchange.)
{^_^}
A gentleman never expects a lady to tell her true age. In fact, he knows well enough not to ask at all.
{^_-}