More worried? Care to point out where he said that international terrorists and Al Qaida aren't a problem anymore, so we need to focus on American terrorists? By the way, you do realize that the "domestic terrorist" in the context of the ACLU-supported lawsuit is about Anwar Al-Awlaki, who is Yemeni-American and one of the worst sort of Imams when it comes to the ideology he preaches? This guy is precisely who we should be worried about.
Ah, I see. Necessary taxes and programs are those that benefit you directly. Unnecessary welfare taxes and programs are those that you do not benefit from. Nice.
I hope you die from some really rare and painful disease after your medical coverage is terminated because it hit its lifetime maximum.
Actually, if you had any knowledge of how an economy functions, you'd understand that any money you earn is because around you is a stable society with stable laws and stable government. In other words, the money you earn is at least partially due to other people working to provide you with the environment in which you can earn that money. Which in turn means that they are entitled to a share of your money, because without them, that money could not be earned in the first place.
It's amazing how people think that their success is completely independent of their surroundings, yet never move to Somalia or Chechnia.
Ah yes. You plan on filing those lawsuits yourself? Be forewarned - he who represents himself has a fool for a client. Not to mention that they can be time intensive. You plan on hiring someone? That'll cost you a pretty penny. And lobbying your state AG? He's too busy running his campaign for governor. Now if you can contribute a few 100k to his campaign, maybe something can be arranged...
tl;dr: this works only if you're rich and connected. Otherwise, you're part of the unwashed masses, unfit to be paid attention.
And that's exactly it. RIM lost its lawsuit to the tune of several hundred million dollars. It doesn't matter if the patent troll ever won a lawsuit before or afterwards, they just received a lifetime payment for everyone who works there.
That's the bad part about patent trolls. They're only business is lawsuits, so engaging in one isn't a cost as it is for other businesses. Losing one is just an outcome of their daily work. Winning one is the jackpot they're after.
You're a moron. There's only one way that your story can be true. IF you own your own contracting company and are the sole employee, any contract signed by your client that you will deliver a certain result by a certain time means that you, personally, have to do it. If you are working for a consulting company doing contract work, you are a completely expendable cog. Anyone can fulfill the contract, and the client can ask for anyone to do the job. It's up to your employer to agree to that request.
Seems to me that your employer didn't want to risk a relationship with its client over your behavior.
They recently changed that to a presumption of innocence. It was actually a huge deal - not the least because it was seen as an American system. While the old system wasn't quite guilty until proven innocent, the prosecutors had immense leeway in how to conduct an investigation once they had settled on a possible perpetrator.
And it's this argument that will be the reason why computers will be self aware long before society will accept it. Kinda like how black people and women were always thought to be inferior to white men, for a number of made up reasons.
Actually, there have been millions of boys who cried wolf. Some were actual sheep herders who cried wolf, some were attention whores in high school who cried I'm dying, some were government officials who cried The World is ending.
But the story is relevant because it is still playing out and will play out for as long as people exist. The frog story however is barely plausible, and describes something that generally doesn't happen. If you want to use an analogy, use the one of a thousand cuts. It's much more accurate.
Holy Shit, you're still on that? The Supreme Law is not the Bible. It wasn't created in the same way, it isn't read the same way, it isn't upheld the same way, and, most importantly, it isn't modified the same way. Think carefully how the US constitution works, and hopefully you'll figure out why what you're saying is complete idiocy. I'm not holding my breath though.
Terminator had a sequel, and a good one. Not sure why you think that Avatar shouldn't have one. There is potential there, much as there was in Star Wars after "A New Hope". And so far, Cameron seems to be able to actually tell a decent story, completely unlike Lucas.
So I'm actually looking forward to an Avatar sequel.
He'll also have to forgive me if I'm not that sympathetic to farmers. You make a choice when you want to live out in the plains.
Somehow, I think that farmers don't have much of a choice about living out in the plains. Can you imagine the cost of running a farm in Central Park? If you're a farmer, you're out in the boonies. If you're not, you're growing a vegetable garden.
Re:This is a good review, thanks for it.
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Review: Halo: Reach
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Just in case you give too much credence to the review - there is one factually incorrect item in it. The skull (or gameplay option) that Soulskill thinks turns on some random benefit is called Tough Luck, and just means that the AI will always dodge headshots and grenades when it sees them coming. Makes me think that Soulskill played little Halo, because this is a fairly obvious change.
Be thankful you didn't have to play the Halo 2 campaign. Only single-player game I never finished. It was brutal in its asinine gameplay and completely disjointed story (or lack of it, rather).
I'm clearly behind on my political lingo here. WTF is a Classist Anti-Walmart Hipster? Is that like a statist job-killing Atheist? Or more like a fascist union muslim? Perhaps a statist fascist? A communist obamanaut with a hint of racism?
Please clue me in. I can't follow all the new definitions that you keep pumping out.
But they're very useful in finding out what businesses will believe. It's amazing how much pull a Gartner article like this can have during a sales cycle.
Don't look at Gartner articles as truth, but as as an indicator of business beliefs. They're actually useful in that way.
You don't have a frickin clue. You're correlating random events. Why not report that the seizure happened after she ate bread? Watched the teletubbies? Rode in a car? Got a hug? Ate some nuts? Because you don't know that they're related.
And you're again missing the point. Merely collecting random events is not data. Jotting down that kid A had a seizure after administration of a vaccine is not data, because it completely disregards everything else that also happened in that time span.
That's why the doctor is right in not collecting that "data", and why you're a thickheaded idiot who refuses to learn what it means to collect data.
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More worried? Care to point out where he said that international terrorists and Al Qaida aren't a problem anymore, so we need to focus on American terrorists? By the way, you do realize that the "domestic terrorist" in the context of the ACLU-supported lawsuit is about Anwar Al-Awlaki, who is Yemeni-American and one of the worst sort of Imams when it comes to the ideology he preaches? This guy is precisely who we should be worried about.
You are building a complete straw man.
Ah, I see. Necessary taxes and programs are those that benefit you directly. Unnecessary welfare taxes and programs are those that you do not benefit from. Nice.
I hope you die from some really rare and painful disease after your medical coverage is terminated because it hit its lifetime maximum.
Actually, if you had any knowledge of how an economy functions, you'd understand that any money you earn is because around you is a stable society with stable laws and stable government. In other words, the money you earn is at least partially due to other people working to provide you with the environment in which you can earn that money. Which in turn means that they are entitled to a share of your money, because without them, that money could not be earned in the first place.
It's amazing how people think that their success is completely independent of their surroundings, yet never move to Somalia or Chechnia.
Ah yes. You plan on filing those lawsuits yourself? Be forewarned - he who represents himself has a fool for a client. Not to mention that they can be time intensive. You plan on hiring someone? That'll cost you a pretty penny. And lobbying your state AG? He's too busy running his campaign for governor. Now if you can contribute a few 100k to his campaign, maybe something can be arranged...
tl;dr: this works only if you're rich and connected. Otherwise, you're part of the unwashed masses, unfit to be paid attention.
And that's exactly it. RIM lost its lawsuit to the tune of several hundred million dollars. It doesn't matter if the patent troll ever won a lawsuit before or afterwards, they just received a lifetime payment for everyone who works there.
That's the bad part about patent trolls. They're only business is lawsuits, so engaging in one isn't a cost as it is for other businesses. Losing one is just an outcome of their daily work. Winning one is the jackpot they're after.
Someone who considers planting porn on a client's computer is not professional. The client might not be professional either, but that's no excuse.
You're a moron. There's only one way that your story can be true. IF you own your own contracting company and are the sole employee, any contract signed by your client that you will deliver a certain result by a certain time means that you, personally, have to do it. If you are working for a consulting company doing contract work, you are a completely expendable cog. Anyone can fulfill the contract, and the client can ask for anyone to do the job. It's up to your employer to agree to that request.
Seems to me that your employer didn't want to risk a relationship with its client over your behavior.
They recently changed that to a presumption of innocence. It was actually a huge deal - not the least because it was seen as an American system. While the old system wasn't quite guilty until proven innocent, the prosecutors had immense leeway in how to conduct an investigation once they had settled on a possible perpetrator.
And it's this argument that will be the reason why computers will be self aware long before society will accept it. Kinda like how black people and women were always thought to be inferior to white men, for a number of made up reasons.
Actually, there have been millions of boys who cried wolf. Some were actual sheep herders who cried wolf, some were attention whores in high school who cried I'm dying, some were government officials who cried The World is ending.
But the story is relevant because it is still playing out and will play out for as long as people exist. The frog story however is barely plausible, and describes something that generally doesn't happen. If you want to use an analogy, use the one of a thousand cuts. It's much more accurate.
And yet, you still don't understand how the Constitution was created, was changed, and will be changed in the future.
That's why modern fencing has different categories for foil and sword.
The Supreme Law
Holy Shit, you're still on that? The Supreme Law is not the Bible. It wasn't created in the same way, it isn't read the same way, it isn't upheld the same way, and, most importantly, it isn't modified the same way. Think carefully how the US constitution works, and hopefully you'll figure out why what you're saying is complete idiocy. I'm not holding my breath though.
How did that work out at Kent State?
Terminator had a sequel, and a good one. Not sure why you think that Avatar shouldn't have one. There is potential there, much as there was in Star Wars after "A New Hope". And so far, Cameron seems to be able to actually tell a decent story, completely unlike Lucas.
So I'm actually looking forward to an Avatar sequel.
Now if we're talking Highlander....
He'll also have to forgive me if I'm not that sympathetic to farmers. You make a choice when you want to live out in the plains.
Somehow, I think that farmers don't have much of a choice about living out in the plains. Can you imagine the cost of running a farm in Central Park? If you're a farmer, you're out in the boonies. If you're not, you're growing a vegetable garden.
Just in case you give too much credence to the review - there is one factually incorrect item in it. The skull (or gameplay option) that Soulskill thinks turns on some random benefit is called Tough Luck, and just means that the AI will always dodge headshots and grenades when it sees them coming. Makes me think that Soulskill played little Halo, because this is a fairly obvious change.
Be thankful you didn't have to play the Halo 2 campaign. Only single-player game I never finished. It was brutal in its asinine gameplay and completely disjointed story (or lack of it, rather).
I'm clearly behind on my political lingo here. WTF is a Classist Anti-Walmart Hipster? Is that like a statist job-killing Atheist? Or more like a fascist union muslim? Perhaps a statist fascist? A communist obamanaut with a hint of racism?
Please clue me in. I can't follow all the new definitions that you keep pumping out.
But they're very useful in finding out what businesses will believe. It's amazing how much pull a Gartner article like this can have during a sales cycle.
Don't look at Gartner articles as truth, but as as an indicator of business beliefs. They're actually useful in that way.
You don't have a frickin clue. You're correlating random events. Why not report that the seizure happened after she ate bread? Watched the teletubbies? Rode in a car? Got a hug? Ate some nuts? Because you don't know that they're related.
Thank god the FDA has better sense than you.
And you're again missing the point. Merely collecting random events is not data. Jotting down that kid A had a seizure after administration of a vaccine is not data, because it completely disregards everything else that also happened in that time span.
That's why the doctor is right in not collecting that "data", and why you're a thickheaded idiot who refuses to learn what it means to collect data.
The plural of anecdote is not data. Learn it.
The publisher is supposed to take it back.