The FBI is mostly independent, and their employees are mostly Republicans.
That appears to be a contradiction. I suppose they can be independent yet biased, which results in something that acts as if it's not independent in practice.
Bernie is NOT a pure socialist; lets clear that up once and for all. His favorite countries to use as examples are roughly half socialistic and half capitalistic. He never said he wanted to get rid of ALL of capitalism. If you claim he did, please reference it.
I don't know why he uses that label; it freaks out too many. His phrase choice is poor political judgement in my opinion.
Maybe he just likes getting the right all frothed up* and doesn't really plan on being President. Hillary suggested something along these lines in her book, although it appears speculative rather than via clear documentation or usage of a certified mind-reading device. (If you have one, I wanna buy it.)
Bernie is not a Democrat, and thus shouldn't expect the same level of treatment by DNC. Nothing illegal was exposed regarding that; just poor decision making.
Another problem with your logic is both parties have dirty laundry. If you expose the dirty laundry of only one, then the public is only seeing half the guts, giving them a misleading picture to judge by.
You have to admit the party in power has more control over that Bureau than the one not in power. It's not 100% independent, being the Executive branch pretty much runs it, as set forth by the Constitution.
Perhaps it should be independent, but fixing that requires refactoring the Constitution, which is about as likely to happen as me winning a billion dollars in the lottery while riding a unicycle backward chewing gum blindfolded during an earthquake.
GEICO has branched out beyond just gov't employees. They are more than 80 years old. I picked them as an example because they have a reputation for advertising heavily; the new "Spam".
There's a lot of other things to worry about besides rogue AI: social-media induced mass riots, garage-built nukes, garage-built run-away killer germs, state-built run-away killer germs, mass computer virus outbreaks*, big solar flares knocking out most our gizmos, global economic depression, and combos of these exacerbating each other.
With all the things that can go wrong, I almost think we solved Fermi's Paradox.
NASA has to sound corporate-ish to make the current administration happy, or at least less grumpy. I expect the walls of ISS to be full of spam posters soon: "In space, everyone can hear how great GEICO is".
Ridicule aside, perhaps the commercial angle can be made to work, but it also has the potential to go sour as profits and science may have to fight over the same "space".
Another thing is this newfangled NoSQL fad which should better be called "We don't do relations and normalization". However, think about how often one-to-many is resolved outside of its original relational trail (almost never) and suddenly these super flat high speed data dumps aren't that stupid an idea.
Unless you are a really big org, why can't regular RDBMS be used for the same thing? (And RDBMS are getting "scale-ier" over time.) That way when you do need something that RDBMS already provide, you don't have to reinvent the wheel.
he points to Antarctica, where scientists are stationed even during the harsh winter months but no one lives permanently.
Because they don't have to. If a bunch of zealots try to colonize Mars, they probably won't have the choice to turn back.
Much of his statements are about it being very unpleasant. However, unpleasantness doesn't kill. Those who grow up with unpleasantness will be used to it; it's all they will know. Eskimos didn't stop being eskimos because the weather sucked.
I agree that our "space camping" technology will have to improve some before it's viable, but it may not take a revolution in technology, mostly just experience and trial and error. That's how Eskimos learned to live in dire places.
JavaScript and PHP are fine if they are used how they were intended to be used: glue languages handling events and HTML templating. If you write OS's or entire GUI engines in them, or try to make them replace RDBMS, you deserve to be fucked.
Our military has traditionally accepted "ahead of the curve" jet designs, expecting that manufacturing and technology will eventually catch up. The theory is that you have to stay at least one step ahead of the enemy, otherwise your kill ratio will be close to 1-to-1.
While this philosophy has mostly worked, it has hippucced from time to time. The F-35 may be one of these hiccups.
For example, our planes had difficulty during the early phases of the Vietnam war because it was felt that air-to-air missiles would render dogfights obsolete, and our planes were designed with this assumption in mind. However, the missiles proved buggy, and the Soviet planes used their maneuverability against our planes and the missiles.
A combination of better missiles and improved training in "team based" tactics eventually overcame most of these problems, but we took a beating for a good while.
It could be argued the philosophy pays off more than it doesn't such that we should stick with it. However, we will get occasional expensive duds and/or whippings along the way.
If the "Big Desktop" corporations got sued everytime a bug in their apps deleted or mangled something, the corporations would be sued to oblivion. That's why they have "license agreements" whereby in order to use the app, you have to check a box that essentially says they are not responsible when your data goes kaflooey.
It's kind of like a North Korean election where your ballot presents two choices:
__ A) Kim __ B) die
It's even worse with apps, since you may get both.
Based on more than 100 years of economic patterns, the current bull market and probably the US economy in general is going to have a notable correction (recession) roughly within the next 18 months.
We are overdue by historical patterns of bull market durations, the stock market is jittery of late, stocks are far overvalued compared to earnings, the yield curve is close to inverting, trade wars are slumping many industries, and many countries are already in a recession. Predicting the future is hard, but all the usual needles are pointing the same way.
I say if it "looks cool" or readily triggers emotions, then it's "art". Whether it comes from a human, a bot, or a cat puking paint on a canvas is irrelevant. I've seen random patterns in stone tiles that could be framed to make nice art. Random nature at work. They all can make "art".
Requiring art to be some haughty-taughty endeavor is silly. Those who make art for a living often try to inflate their specialty. There are bullshit trends in IT whose promoters pull similar social games. Buy art because you like it, not because of the maker. I suppose an interesting "maker" may make the art more meaningful to you because there is an (alleged) story behind it; or because it's in style. That's fine, but buyer beware: it may be all show.
Slashdot Mirror
That appears to be a contradiction. I suppose they can be independent yet biased, which results in something that acts as if it's not independent in practice.
Bernie is NOT a pure socialist; lets clear that up once and for all. His favorite countries to use as examples are roughly half socialistic and half capitalistic. He never said he wanted to get rid of ALL of capitalism. If you claim he did, please reference it.
I don't know why he uses that label; it freaks out too many. His phrase choice is poor political judgement in my opinion.
Maybe he just likes getting the right all frothed up* and doesn't really plan on being President. Hillary suggested something along these lines in her book, although it appears speculative rather than via clear documentation or usage of a certified mind-reading device. (If you have one, I wanna buy it.)
* I admit, I do. Sue me.
Bernie is not a Democrat, and thus shouldn't expect the same level of treatment by DNC. Nothing illegal was exposed regarding that; just poor decision making.
Another problem with your logic is both parties have dirty laundry. If you expose the dirty laundry of only one, then the public is only seeing half the guts, giving them a misleading picture to judge by.
You have to admit the party in power has more control over that Bureau than the one not in power. It's not 100% independent, being the Executive branch pretty much runs it, as set forth by the Constitution.
Perhaps it should be independent, but fixing that requires refactoring the Constitution, which is about as likely to happen as me winning a billion dollars in the lottery while riding a unicycle backward chewing gum blindfolded during an earthquake.
GEICO has branched out beyond just gov't employees. They are more than 80 years old. I picked them as an example because they have a reputation for advertising heavily; the new "Spam".
There's a lot of other things to worry about besides rogue AI: social-media induced mass riots, garage-built nukes, garage-built run-away killer germs, state-built run-away killer germs, mass computer virus outbreaks*, big solar flares knocking out most our gizmos, global economic depression, and combos of these exacerbating each other.
With all the things that can go wrong, I almost think we solved Fermi's Paradox.
* Systemd may just be the end of humans ;-)
NASA has to sound corporate-ish to make the current administration happy, or at least less grumpy. I expect the walls of ISS to be full of spam posters soon: "In space, everyone can hear how great GEICO is".
Ridicule aside, perhaps the commercial angle can be made to work, but it also has the potential to go sour as profits and science may have to fight over the same "space".
Unless you are a really big org, why can't regular RDBMS be used for the same thing? (And RDBMS are getting "scale-ier" over time.) That way when you do need something that RDBMS already provide, you don't have to reinvent the wheel.
Because they don't have to. If a bunch of zealots try to colonize Mars, they probably won't have the choice to turn back.
Much of his statements are about it being very unpleasant. However, unpleasantness doesn't kill. Those who grow up with unpleasantness will be used to it; it's all they will know. Eskimos didn't stop being eskimos because the weather sucked.
I agree that our "space camping" technology will have to improve some before it's viable, but it may not take a revolution in technology, mostly just experience and trial and error. That's how Eskimos learned to live in dire places.
JavaScript and PHP are fine if they are used how they were intended to be used: glue languages handling events and HTML templating. If you write OS's or entire GUI engines in them, or try to make them replace RDBMS, you deserve to be fucked.
Quantum AI blockchain running node.js microservices via VR running NOSQL databases in the IOT edge cloud.
Oh, I just had a synergygasm!
Quantum physics is always teasing us with almosts: almost instantaneous communication, almost energy out of nowhere, almost backward time travel, etc.
After all these teases, I'd bet on quantum computing having an inherent flaw nobody has discovered yet.
Schrodinger Lucy is holding the football again...
Sure, crows are smart with tools, but they have shitty social skills.
Worked for the Orange Guy.
If it were any good, the military would take over the lab & plant, hush everybody up, and make the company issue "corrections".
Our military has traditionally accepted "ahead of the curve" jet designs, expecting that manufacturing and technology will eventually catch up. The theory is that you have to stay at least one step ahead of the enemy, otherwise your kill ratio will be close to 1-to-1.
While this philosophy has mostly worked, it has hippucced from time to time. The F-35 may be one of these hiccups.
For example, our planes had difficulty during the early phases of the Vietnam war because it was felt that air-to-air missiles would render dogfights obsolete, and our planes were designed with this assumption in mind. However, the missiles proved buggy, and the Soviet planes used their maneuverability against our planes and the missiles.
A combination of better missiles and improved training in "team based" tactics eventually overcame most of these problems, but we took a beating for a good while.
It could be argued the philosophy pays off more than it doesn't such that we should stick with it. However, we will get occasional expensive duds and/or whippings along the way.
Maybe the Orange Dude is right: everything is becoming fake, rigged, and/or bugged.
He's not paranoid, he's a profi...prophet.
Jiiina!
There are probably too many players in the system for any one person to pull that off. At best a single person may delay the crash or speed it up.
If the "Big Desktop" corporations got sued everytime a bug in their apps deleted or mangled something, the corporations would be sued to oblivion. That's why they have "license agreements" whereby in order to use the app, you have to check a box that essentially says they are not responsible when your data goes kaflooey.
It's kind of like a North Korean election where your ballot presents two choices:
__ A) Kim
__ B) die
It's even worse with apps, since you may get both.
Therefore, do the Ballmer Dance to "Backups backups backups"...
Monopolies are bad! This industry needs compet~ ^`# g&' NO CARRIER
Based on more than 100 years of economic patterns, the current bull market and probably the US economy in general is going to have a notable correction (recession) roughly within the next 18 months.
We are overdue by historical patterns of bull market durations, the stock market is jittery of late, stocks are far overvalued compared to earnings, the yield curve is close to inverting, trade wars are slumping many industries, and many countries are already in a recession. Predicting the future is hard, but all the usual needles are pointing the same way.
I'll consider AI to truly have arrived when it can generate fresh and unlimited variations of dogs playing poker.
I say if it "looks cool" or readily triggers emotions, then it's "art". Whether it comes from a human, a bot, or a cat puking paint on a canvas is irrelevant. I've seen random patterns in stone tiles that could be framed to make nice art. Random nature at work. They all can make "art".
Requiring art to be some haughty-taughty endeavor is silly. Those who make art for a living often try to inflate their specialty. There are bullshit trends in IT whose promoters pull similar social games. Buy art because you like it, not because of the maker. I suppose an interesting "maker" may make the art more meaningful to you because there is an (alleged) story behind it; or because it's in style. That's fine, but buyer beware: it may be all show.
Must have; he created everyone in Washington DC.