Of course, you are missing the point that under the current system, the point of corporations is to make profits for their owners. If a corporation and its owners currently exist in the UK and are paying UK taxes, then it is totally feasible to set up a system of taxation and tariffs that prevent this ownership from moving around, or eliminates the benefits of moving it around. Just like the US government requires its citizens to pay income taxes for income from their employment, a government could easily require its citizens to pay income taxes/capital gains taxes on assets they are holding around the world.
So let's say that I, as an American, buy a rental property in the UK. You state that I should pay both UK taxes on the income (income made in the country is taxed by that company), and then US taxes on the income? And you liken this to an income tax? Yea... that is such a crazy-bad deal that I would switch citizenship.
I'm sorry, I normally favor the UK in this system, but if you move your company overseas, then it is taxed overseas.
Indeed, but we also have to recognize that HMMs and all more modern "number crunching" techniques still haven't reached human-level performance, at least not in general language processing, and do not offer anything to solve other problems, such as reasoning.
"Do we really want to breed viruses which are that much harder to kill?"
I hate this argument, as it is akin to the following: "why do I have to take a shower, I'll just get dirty again" "why do I want to get better, I'll just get sick again"
Yes, actually, we do want to breed more resistant bacteria. You know, because it would save the 36000 people that die annually in the United States alone (http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/08/26/129456941/annual-flu-death-average-fluctuates-depending-on-how-you-slice-it). If your solution saves thousands of lives today, and may take extra effort to save those lives tomorrow, you implement.
Side note: it's not like MRSA is extra-deadly, it is just harder to kill. if MRSA was immune to antibiotics we would be in the same situation as if we hadn't treated at all. Yes, resistant-strain bacteria are a big problem. No, we should never not treat because of it.
I know I'm feeding the trolls, but here are some refutations in order:
I hate to break it to you, but one mammoth can only overrun a fence, not an ecosystem. Additionally, a woolly mammoth will not 'hop aboard a ship', nor find an environment where it has no natural predators (we hunted them to extinction, remember?). Jurassic Park is not a warning movie, it is an action movie with dinosaurs.
An above poster stated it best when he said that we only have problems controlling small, fast-breeding animals. Large, slow animals with 600 day gestation periods have very little risk to an ecosystem even if they were to escape the zoo/science lab that they will be created in.
Actually, ditto. Also, I've read Lifehacker for some time. It isn't exactly like SunTzuWarmaster is a username that has been ever taken... why would Gawker, of all places, have a username that I have never heard of?
"Remember, genes are NOT blueprints. This means you can't, for example, insert "the genes for an elephant's trunk" into a giraffe and get a giraffe with a trunk. There are no genes for trunks. What you CAN do with genes is chemistry, since DNA codes for chemicals. For instance, we can in theory splice the native plants' talent for nitrogen fixation into a terran plant."
University of Central Florida (UCF), Orlando, here. It is the third largest school in the United States (by enrollment). I just got my Masters (Spring 2010) for 10K in 2 years (part time). The bachelor's cost ~10K (Spring 2008) in 4 years (full time).
Here is a quick script that a browser plugin can run against pages before rendering that will turn off that flag.
sed -i s/"autoplay=\"true\""/"autoplay=\"false\""/
Or in python: string.replace(str, "autoplay=\"true\"", "autoplay=\"false\"")
Or in java: str=str.replaceAll("autoplay=\"true\"", "autoplay=\"false\"");
Your browser gets content from the webpage, then decides how to render it. For the same reason that Realplayer can simply ignore the DoNotCopy flag, your browser (or plugin) can ignore the autoplay flag, replace it, limit it to one/page, or anything else you can think of.
No first person shooters? Are the scouts aware that they actually offer a merit badge in SHOOTING.
People are up in arms because these violent video games "train young people how to operate weapons". No, they don't. You know what does train young people to use guns? Learning to shoot in the boy scouts.
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. No one is bitching about REAL guns with REAL bullets shooting REAL targets, but the second it becomes virtual everyone throws a fucking hissy fit.
Just for the record, this is CUB SCOUTS. From http://www.boyscouttrail.com/cub-scouts/cub-scouts.asp, this is limited to boys from 1st to 3rd grade. We are talking about ages 6-9. They do not have a merit badge for shooting, but they do have one for shooting BBs and archery. And no, I do not consider BB guns REAL guns with REAL bullets.
Near the end, you can hear him carefully questioning the officer to make sure that he was in fact being arrested only for the refusal to show ID:
Rachner: "If I were to pull out my ID right now, would you let me go with no further questions?" Cop: "I would have, but you're already under arrest."
Rachner was clearly making sure it was on the record that he was being arrested for refusal to show ID, and for no other reason, so they wouldn't able to go back and say "oh but we were arresting him for something else too, so it wasn't an illegal arrest". That supports what you inferred: he was making a conscious choice to let them arrest him so he could fight it later in court.
Except where they say that they are arresting him for not showing ID.
So it's kinda far fetched to plan on 0wnzoring your opponent's radars remotely by sending out data packets taking advantage of an exploit that your opponent can just patch with a firmware upgrade.
Even something as simple as a DoS attack that results in "enemy only gets 50% of orders" or "orders come 60 seconds later" could render a fairly valuable tactical advantage.
As I understand it, your argument is that on-chip encrypters will always be better any decryption/(insertion/jamming)/encryption technique. Just to be clear, are you arguing that they cannot do it NOW, or that they cannot do it by 2018?
The DoD/Navy think that we can do it by 2018. Frankly, I value their opinion more than yours.
As someone who learned Dvorak, you can program their keyboard to switch to Dvorak mode fairly quickly. In fact, it is only a simple matter of going to the control panel and changing a keyboard setting. On keyboards I frequently use, I used to set up the standard hotkey (ALT+SHIFT+0) as a toggle.
The point of Dvorak typing is that you don't have to look at the keys, so using a standard keyboard should be perfectly acceptable.
We currently view most of the entire field of Bioinformatics through the lens of AI algorithms (clustering for unsupervised, segmentation for supervised). The way to cure cancer will likely involve the human genome and AI methods, with a scientist verifying the results.
My lifetime stretches another 60 years, if statistical evidence is a reasonable evidence. I expect to see science grow by leaps and bounds in nearly every field in that time. My grandparents, who are alive still, were born in the 30s, when the 'ice man' came by to give them a block of ice for their ice box, and the average American did not have an automobile.
It is not unreasonable to think that in 60 more years we could see great advances in AI.
Just for the record, creativity related tasks have been accomplished (kind of), through a number of means. Genetic Art and PicBreeder immediately come to mind.
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Of course, you are missing the point that under the current system, the point of corporations is to make profits for their owners. If a corporation and its owners currently exist in the UK and are paying UK taxes, then it is totally feasible to set up a system of taxation and tariffs that prevent this ownership from moving around, or eliminates the benefits of moving it around. Just like the US government requires its citizens to pay income taxes for income from their employment, a government could easily require its citizens to pay income taxes/capital gains taxes on assets they are holding around the world.
So let's say that I, as an American, buy a rental property in the UK. You state that I should pay both UK taxes on the income (income made in the country is taxed by that company), and then US taxes on the income? And you liken this to an income tax? Yea... that is such a crazy-bad deal that I would switch citizenship.
I'm sorry, I normally favor the UK in this system, but if you move your company overseas, then it is taxed overseas.
Indeed, but we also have to recognize that HMMs and all more modern "number crunching" techniques still haven't reached human-level performance, at least not in general language processing, and do not offer anything to solve other problems, such as reasoning.
I submit to you, sir, a computer that had better-than-the-best human performance in the arena of general language processing and reasoning.
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/geekend/ibm-watson-supercomputer-beats-jeopardy-champs-in-practice-round/6546
"Do we really want to breed viruses which are that much harder to kill?"
I hate this argument, as it is akin to the following:
"why do I have to take a shower, I'll just get dirty again"
"why do I want to get better, I'll just get sick again"
Yes, actually, we do want to breed more resistant bacteria. You know, because it would save the 36000 people that die annually in the United States alone (http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/08/26/129456941/annual-flu-death-average-fluctuates-depending-on-how-you-slice-it). If your solution saves thousands of lives today, and may take extra effort to save those lives tomorrow, you implement.
Side note: it's not like MRSA is extra-deadly, it is just harder to kill. if MRSA was immune to antibiotics we would be in the same situation as if we hadn't treated at all. Yes, resistant-strain bacteria are a big problem. No, we should never not treat because of it.
I know I'm feeding the trolls, but here are some refutations in order:
I hate to break it to you, but one mammoth can only overrun a fence, not an ecosystem. Additionally, a woolly mammoth will not 'hop aboard a ship', nor find an environment where it has no natural predators (we hunted them to extinction, remember?). Jurassic Park is not a warning movie, it is an action movie with dinosaurs.
An above poster stated it best when he said that we only have problems controlling small, fast-breeding animals. Large, slow animals with 600 day gestation periods have very little risk to an ecosystem even if they were to escape the zoo/science lab that they will be created in.
Actually, ditto. Also, I've read Lifehacker for some time. It isn't exactly like SunTzuWarmaster is a username that has been ever taken... why would Gawker, of all places, have a username that I have never heard of?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie#Lying_by_omission
Just sayin'.
He would then forge the legendary sky-metal sword, which can reassemble itself from it's own fragments.
http://www.amazon.com/Carnivores-Light-Darkness-Journeys-Catechist/dp/0446606979
"Remember, genes are NOT blueprints. This means you can't, for example, insert "the genes for an elephant's trunk" into a giraffe and get a giraffe with a trunk. There are no genes for trunks. What you CAN do with genes is chemistry, since DNA codes for chemicals. For instance, we can in theory splice the native plants' talent for nitrogen fixation into a terran plant."
Academician Prokhor Zakharov
"Nonlinear Genetics"
Two words: "Space Gold".
I would pay more. Just saying.
Yea it is, we have the internet now!
University of Central Florida (UCF), Orlando, here. It is the third largest school in the United States (by enrollment). I just got my Masters (Spring 2010) for 10K in 2 years (part time). The bachelor's cost ~10K (Spring 2008) in 4 years (full time).
So, um, yea.
Also, student loans are stupid.
Here is a quick script that a browser plugin can run against pages before rendering that will turn off that flag.
sed -i s/"autoplay=\"true\""/"autoplay=\"false\""/
Or in python:
string.replace(str, "autoplay=\"true\"", "autoplay=\"false\"")
Or in java:
str=str.replaceAll("autoplay=\"true\"", "autoplay=\"false\"");
Your browser gets content from the webpage, then decides how to render it. For the same reason that Realplayer can simply ignore the DoNotCopy flag, your browser (or plugin) can ignore the autoplay flag, replace it, limit it to one/page, or anything else you can think of.
No first person shooters? Are the scouts aware that they actually offer a merit badge in SHOOTING.
People are up in arms because these violent video games "train young people how to operate weapons". No, they don't. You know what does train young people to use guns? Learning to shoot in the boy scouts.
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. No one is bitching about REAL guns with REAL bullets shooting REAL targets, but the second it becomes virtual everyone throws a fucking hissy fit.
Just for the record, this is CUB SCOUTS. From http://www.boyscouttrail.com/cub-scouts/cub-scouts.asp, this is limited to boys from 1st to 3rd grade. We are talking about ages 6-9. They do not have a merit badge for shooting, but they do have one for shooting BBs and archery. And no, I do not consider BB guns REAL guns with REAL bullets.
Near the end, you can hear him carefully questioning the officer to make sure that he was in fact being arrested only for the refusal to show ID:
Rachner: "If I were to pull out my ID right now, would you let me go with no further questions?"
Cop: "I would have, but you're already under arrest."
Rachner was clearly making sure it was on the record that he was being arrested for refusal to show ID, and for no other reason, so they wouldn't able to go back and say "oh but we were arresting him for something else too, so it wasn't an illegal arrest". That supports what you inferred: he was making a conscious choice to let them arrest him so he could fight it later in court.
Except where they say that they are arresting him for not showing ID.
So it's kinda far fetched to plan on 0wnzoring your opponent's radars remotely by sending out data packets taking advantage of an exploit that your opponent can just patch with a firmware upgrade.
Even something as simple as a DoS attack that results in "enemy only gets 50% of orders" or "orders come 60 seconds later" could render a fairly valuable tactical advantage.
As I understand it, your argument is that on-chip encrypters will always be better any decryption/(insertion/jamming)/encryption technique. Just to be clear, are you arguing that they cannot do it NOW, or that they cannot do it by 2018?
The DoD/Navy think that we can do it by 2018. Frankly, I value their opinion more than yours.
Ah, the classic "We're right because it took us a long time to think of it!" argument.
Bonus points for swapping "We're" with "Mankind is".
TI-89.
Just sayin'.
And then they get to pay for both, one with paycheck, one with taxes. Who doesn't win?
As someone who learned Dvorak, you can program their keyboard to switch to Dvorak mode fairly quickly. In fact, it is only a simple matter of going to the control panel and changing a keyboard setting. On keyboards I frequently use, I used to set up the standard hotkey (ALT+SHIFT+0) as a toggle.
The point of Dvorak typing is that you don't have to look at the keys, so using a standard keyboard should be perfectly acceptable.
It isn't a waste. By paying the increased price, society indicates that it values 100 pounds of meat more than 1.5 tons of grass/corn.
These foods have relative values indicated by their prices.
We currently view most of the entire field of Bioinformatics through the lens of AI algorithms (clustering for unsupervised, segmentation for supervised). The way to cure cancer will likely involve the human genome and AI methods, with a scientist verifying the results.
My lifetime stretches another 60 years, if statistical evidence is a reasonable evidence. I expect to see science grow by leaps and bounds in nearly every field in that time. My grandparents, who are alive still, were born in the 30s, when the 'ice man' came by to give them a block of ice for their ice box, and the average American did not have an automobile.
It is not unreasonable to think that in 60 more years we could see great advances in AI.
Just for the record, creativity related tasks have been accomplished (kind of), through a number of means. Genetic Art and PicBreeder immediately come to mind.
Oh man, that's this year!