A very small point, you could almost call it tiny. If he had any stones, he would pardon Snowden. But that would take real guts and a real strong will to defend freedom. Nobody with that will make it to US president anytime soon. The forces of authoritarianism have been allowed to get far too strong. Stupid, and history repeating itself.
1. The people being murdered in the videos were the bodyguards. In that part of the world, bodyguards carry weapons openly to discourage attackers. So you fail to actually understand the situation, despite it having been described numerous times. 2. Manning was not pardoned. His sentence was reduced to something that would have been much more appropriate in the first place. 3. Snowden has not been in prison at all and hence no revenge has been extracted and no deterrence to other patriots that see things going horribly wrong.
It is fascinating how insight-less some posters here can be.
Whistle-blowing is a critical part of any free society, as sometimes things go wrong and some people or organizations begin the process of trying to make it a non-free society. Whistleblowers a one of the critical defense mechanisms against that. Now, classifying it as treason and dishing out harsh sentences means that freedom is already mostly removed or in the process of being removed. Only if you have no real freedom do whistleblowers become irrelevant. We are not quite there yet, but it is clear where the journey goes.
It is actually quite irrelevant and a private matter besides. All those getting aggravated about it just show that they have significant gender insecurities themselves. Just say "Manning" and leave it at that.
Now, as to the sentence commutation, it is not much, as the 7 years served by Manning are already more than the crime merits. I did not expect Obama had it in him to do even this little, namely making a gross injustice right, but apparently he managed. The actual important one (Snowden), Obama is far too small a person for and Trump is a tiny person in that regard. Remember that a pardon for Snowden would be about sending a signal that freedom is more important than surveillance and control (and in the ultimate consequence tyranny). That used to be one of the most important shared values in the west, but apparently that time is over and the really bad totalitarian states are apparently forgotten by now, so let's risk building one again.
Indeed. The AI fans are trying to make AI happen by misclassifying a lot of things as AI which are not. Fact of the matter is, even with a wider area as "AI", there are not many AI things that work, and if you go closer and require actual intelligence (sometimes called "true" or "strong" AI), there is absolutely nothing, not even credible theories.
The only thing this shows is that the AI fans are not very intelligent.
First, this is not AI, it is statistical classification. No intelligence involved at all. Second, at 80% accuracy (and the thing it actually predicts....), it sucks badly. You will probably have to search a while to find an experienced expert that does this badly on this classification task.
So while this may have some value as triage, that is about it. And even as triage, it may kill people because of the 20% where it is dead wrong. So maybe this is useful and maybe not. It will of course get misused as the AI fans are lacking in natural (i.e. actual) intelligence.
When have I heard that inane prediction before? Oh, right, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... It was bullshit 30 years ago and it still is bullshit.
Keep kidding yourself. It will not help you though. Mashing off-shoring and elimination of jobs together already shows you are not able to think clearly, because these are two different things.
The PC has now been dying for 25 years or so. If it continues dying in this way, it will still be around in a few hundred years and outlive the morons predicting its death.
They are pretty much only offering what these would cost if manufactured regularly. That means they go through a synthetic show of outrage, but in actual reality they could not care less and may even like the additional exposure this gives them. Basically these two devices had one single purpose, namely to be shown off. In engineering circles, this is known as a "stunt". It does not mean anything and is basically a form of posturing. As CES is over, these two monsters have served their purpose and the only thing they had in their future was collecting dust somewhere, because they are not actually useful for anything. For an industry that does a lot more of these, look at all the "cars of the future" that never make it into production, ever, because they are actually not practical.
Indeed. Welcome to reality, American Exceptionalism is pretty much over. Add to that, that the west is now pretty much in post-industrialism (as you say, and the rest of the world will follow in the next decades) and the next large wave of eliminating jobs, this time without replacements, is already in progress. It is easier in Europe, were the benefits the situation provided were never nearly so good, so here it is only one big change. It is already pretty hard here for many people though. The US is currently hit by a double-whammy. Let's hope some positive directions can be found soon, instead of a doomed-to-fail "let's get back to what we did before".
While blaming others may make you feel better, it does nothing to actually solve your problems. And this one is one of the "big lies" and has no validity to it. Importing people is hard, as is off-shoring jobs. You only do it if there is something really wrong with the local workforce. Well, you may do it for a while just because it is hyped up, but that does not last.
The world is getting more complicated. This has been a steady process since industrialization started. Only the truly insight-less manage to ignore that.
Education is a booster. It cab make a bright kid into an engineer or a scientist, and it can make a dull person into somebody that can read and has at least a basic understanding of how things work. That only applies to good education though. The availability and prevalence of good education defines what future a society has. On the other hand, bad education is a waste of time and the piece of paper somebody has from his or her education does not mean anything with bad education and can be disregarded.
There is also another point: If college is not a service provided for money, you can make demands on your students performance-wise. If they do not cut it, they are out. But if they are customers that pay a lot, there are strong incentives to keep them on, regardless of how stupid or lazy. This has a very bad and very obvious effect on education quality and worth of the degrees awarded, and it makes good teachers leave.
Actually, it means realizing that the epoch of work is coming to an end for most people and urgently investigating and trying out other models. What we have tried so far will all not cut it in the future (and that includes the "worker's paradise" that socialism promised), and things are starting to get dicey at this time. The lost jobs, these jobs that would urgently be needed to keep the old models working, will not come back and there will be no replacements. Even the countries where many jobs are now off-shored to will run into this problem pretty soon.
First, I think slavery is one of the most evil things humans can do to each other.
But the funny thing is that slave labor, as done in the US where the slaves basically had no positive incentives and nothing was invested in them education-wise, has really bad productivity and work-quality and would be pretty much worthless these days. The problem with these 20% is that they want somebody to look down on, because that would help to deny how much their bad situation is their own fault.
Actually, doing plumbing, welding, etc. and being good at it (something most people can reach by applying themselves and striving to be good at it, i.e. by wanting to be good at it) has an additional advantage: Excellent job security. Just like good engineers, these people will always have jobs, because a lot of the work they do is custom work and that cannot be automatized.
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A very small point, you could almost call it tiny. If he had any stones, he would pardon Snowden. But that would take real guts and a real strong will to defend freedom. Nobody with that will make it to US president anytime soon. The forces of authoritarianism have been allowed to get far too strong. Stupid, and history repeating itself.
You forget a couple of things here
1. The people being murdered in the videos were the bodyguards. In that part of the world, bodyguards carry weapons openly to discourage attackers. So you fail to actually understand the situation, despite it having been described numerous times.
2. Manning was not pardoned. His sentence was reduced to something that would have been much more appropriate in the first place.
3. Snowden has not been in prison at all and hence no revenge has been extracted and no deterrence to other patriots that see things going horribly wrong.
It is fascinating how insight-less some posters here can be.
Whistle-blowing is a critical part of any free society, as sometimes things go wrong and some people or organizations begin the process of trying to make it a non-free society. Whistleblowers a one of the critical defense mechanisms against that. Now, classifying it as treason and dishing out harsh sentences means that freedom is already mostly removed or in the process of being removed. Only if you have no real freedom do whistleblowers become irrelevant. We are not quite there yet, but it is clear where the journey goes.
It is actually quite irrelevant and a private matter besides. All those getting aggravated about it just show that they have significant gender insecurities themselves. Just say "Manning" and leave it at that.
Now, as to the sentence commutation, it is not much, as the 7 years served by Manning are already more than the crime merits. I did not expect Obama had it in him to do even this little, namely making a gross injustice right, but apparently he managed. The actual important one (Snowden), Obama is far too small a person for and Trump is a tiny person in that regard. Remember that a pardon for Snowden would be about sending a signal that freedom is more important than surveillance and control (and in the ultimate consequence tyranny). That used to be one of the most important shared values in the west, but apparently that time is over and the really bad totalitarian states are apparently forgotten by now, so let's risk building one again.
Indeed. The AI fans are trying to make AI happen by misclassifying a lot of things as AI which are not. Fact of the matter is, even with a wider area as "AI", there are not many AI things that work, and if you go closer and require actual intelligence (sometimes called "true" or "strong" AI), there is absolutely nothing, not even credible theories.
The only thing this shows is that the AI fans are not very intelligent.
First, this is not AI, it is statistical classification. No intelligence involved at all. Second, at 80% accuracy (and the thing it actually predicts....), it sucks badly. You will probably have to search a while to find an experienced expert that does this badly on this classification task.
So while this may have some value as triage, that is about it. And even as triage, it may kill people because of the 20% where it is dead wrong. So maybe this is useful and maybe not. It will of course get misused as the AI fans are lacking in natural (i.e. actual) intelligence.
How are these people thinking they are qualified to write an OS-like subsystem, let alone a full OS?
Enough people think they are "coders" these days that it has been applicable for a while: https://blog.codinghorror.com/...
When have I heard that inane prediction before? Oh, right, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It was bullshit 30 years ago and it still is bullshit.
Indeed. The good developers are out there, but they are few. Most "coders" are incompetent with no potential.
Read this:
- https://blog.codinghorror.com/...
- https://blog.codinghorror.com/...
If anything, things have gotten worse in the meantime.
That estimate is off by a few orders of magnitude. My estimation would be at the very least a few billion orders of magnitude.
Keep kidding yourself. It will not help you though. Mashing off-shoring and elimination of jobs together already shows you are not able to think clearly, because these are two different things.
Well, keep your head up your backside, if you insist. You will go down with the ship though.
The PC has now been dying for 25 years or so. If it continues dying in this way, it will still be around in a few hundred years and outlive the morons predicting its death.
They are pretty much only offering what these would cost if manufactured regularly. That means they go through a synthetic show of outrage, but in actual reality they could not care less and may even like the additional exposure this gives them. Basically these two devices had one single purpose, namely to be shown off. In engineering circles, this is known as a "stunt". It does not mean anything and is basically a form of posturing. As CES is over, these two monsters have served their purpose and the only thing they had in their future was collecting dust somewhere, because they are not actually useful for anything. For an industry that does a lot more of these, look at all the "cars of the future" that never make it into production, ever, because they are actually not practical.
Indeed. Welcome to reality, American Exceptionalism is pretty much over. Add to that, that the west is now pretty much in post-industrialism (as you say, and the rest of the world will follow in the next decades) and the next large wave of eliminating jobs, this time without replacements, is already in progress. It is easier in Europe, were the benefits the situation provided were never nearly so good, so here it is only one big change. It is already pretty hard here for many people though. The US is currently hit by a double-whammy. Let's hope some positive directions can be found soon, instead of a doomed-to-fail "let's get back to what we did before".
While blaming others may make you feel better, it does nothing to actually solve your problems. And this one is one of the "big lies" and has no validity to it. Importing people is hard, as is off-shoring jobs. You only do it if there is something really wrong with the local workforce. Well, you may do it for a while just because it is hyped up, but that does not last.
The world is getting more complicated. This has been a steady process since industrialization started. Only the truly insight-less manage to ignore that.
Education is a booster. It cab make a bright kid into an engineer or a scientist, and it can make a dull person into somebody that can read and has at least a basic understanding of how things work. That only applies to good education though. The availability and prevalence of good education defines what future a society has. On the other hand, bad education is a waste of time and the piece of paper somebody has from his or her education does not mean anything with bad education and can be disregarded.
The worth of the work-hour has gone down dramatically. Ever heard of "working poor"? That class of people is growing and it is a really sad thing.
There is also another point: If college is not a service provided for money, you can make demands on your students performance-wise. If they do not cut it, they are out. But if they are customers that pay a lot, there are strong incentives to keep them on, regardless of how stupid or lazy. This has a very bad and very obvious effect on education quality and worth of the degrees awarded, and it makes good teachers leave.
Actually, it means realizing that the epoch of work is coming to an end for most people and urgently investigating and trying out other models. What we have tried so far will all not cut it in the future (and that includes the "worker's paradise" that socialism promised), and things are starting to get dicey at this time. The lost jobs, these jobs that would urgently be needed to keep the old models working, will not come back and there will be no replacements. Even the countries where many jobs are now off-shored to will run into this problem pretty soon.
First, I think slavery is one of the most evil things humans can do to each other.
But the funny thing is that slave labor, as done in the US where the slaves basically had no positive incentives and nothing was invested in them education-wise, has really bad productivity and work-quality and would be pretty much worthless these days. The problem with these 20% is that they want somebody to look down on, because that would help to deny how much their bad situation is their own fault.
Well, I am an Eloi, but I feel for you people...
Actually, doing plumbing, welding, etc. and being good at it (something most people can reach by applying themselves and striving to be good at it, i.e. by wanting to be good at it) has an additional advantage: Excellent job security. Just like good engineers, these people will always have jobs, because a lot of the work they do is custom work and that cannot be automatized.