The thing is, I can put forward an argument on many topics purely by reverting to basic principles and core knowledge. I not only don't need discussion in the press but can actually challenge the viewpoints expressed in the media.
This AI will merely regurgitate the media lies du jour.
There is NO inherent value in a stock based on the company state. None what so ever.
You are so very pathetically wrong.
A company's value is a function of its anticipated revenue streams, its anticipated profit or loss, its anticipated dividends, its existing assets and liabilities, its ability to exploit the markets it targets and also the amount you can con above and beyond that amount from deluded fuckwits that think none of that matters.
At which point it's raw gambling, and Warren Buffett will get even richer by focussing on companies that have the revenue, cost position, market knowledge, product range and leadership to actually support the value of the company.
No, I'd be a fucking idiot to invest my money without a better understanding of why they're an outlier, and how long they're likely to remain that way.
Which is why I haven't invested my money in Tesla (or Tesla shorts).
Stocks very closely follow a valuation based on their fundamentals. Those are different across different industries, but the people that really make money on the markets track the fundamentals.
Warren Buffett is rich because he invests prudently based on fundamentals, not emotionally based on 'Tesla are so cool'.
Right now Tesla are viciously overvalued. They've managed to avoid a market correction and may continue to be an outlier. But they are an outlier, and you'd be a fucking idiot to pretend otherwise.
So they have the hardware needed to identify and avoid trucks crossing the carriageway, to identify and avoid concrete barriers at junctions, to identify and avoid pedestrians pushing bikes?
Just that automated cars haven't been doing too well on those fronts.
The problem is Tesla are building cars in a completely new way, and those machines have to be tuned and revised before they hum. In the long run, they will be simpler to build.
Is that why they can't get remotely close to the manufacturing output of their competitors?
That depends whether the visitor knows someone is at home or not.
If I know the householder is on holiday a dog will not deter me. Even an attack dog; they're easy to deal with, especially if I'm allowed to make noise.
If there's a chance the property isn't empty, knowing that even the tiniest dog is going to wake up every cunt in the house is a fine deterrent.
they're expensive, time-consuming, easy to defeat, and your family is going to suffer a lot more emotional trauma if they get killed
Sorry, you can use the cost argument or the emotional attachment one. They negate each other so you can't use both.
Right. So how do I get from Overloon to Berg en Dal at 9pm?
Shit, how do I get from the Openlucht museum in Arnhem to the water museum, out to the Airborne Museum Hartenstein, down to the titchy museum by the bridge then back out to the zoo in the same day by public transport, let alone with enough time to do things at all of those locations, not to mention getting to Arnhem in the first place.
Yeah, I drive in tight European cities. Fucking sue me.
Yeah, my village tried turning off streetlights after midnight. Junctions and the main roads kept the lights, the rest went dark.
Some stupid women complained that they didn't feel safe.
The crime rate stayed flat throughout. Now I get shitty light pollution again, the crime rate hasn't dropped and the women probably still don't feel safe because they're stupid.
Strange, I recall code wheels, text written in hard to read colours, use of manuals as code books, corrupt sectors on disks, 'CD must be present' checks and actual fucking rootkits in the 80s and 90s.
Maybe you were playing Rogue all that time. Good game.
Why do you now think lootboxes and microtransactions exist in "single player" AAA games?
Not the games I buy and play.
Why do think they are being shoved into every game and every game is now being drm'd up the wazoo
Games have less DRM now than they did in the 80s. Less now than they did in the 90s. Probably a comparable amount now to the 00s, but that's the post-MMO era.
and given the corporate propaganda moniker "online game"?
Sometimes the game includes online features. Sometimes the online connection is used as a more robust form of DRM. Sometimes the game is an online game. Many games work perfectly well with no network connection at all.
Team fortress 2 with hats?
Free game with cosmetic feature players can optional choose to embrace? Oh no, you mean I can actually play the game for free and never pay for it? Shit, if someone else wearing a hat upsets you that much, adopt plan B: Don't fucking play it.
Lootboxes where you might get the chance to get a skin in a game you already paid for?
You paid for the game. You didn't pay for the artistic creations that are available via the lootbox. Those are only available to people that pay additional money. I don't pay for those as I dislike the gambling aspect and I'm too sensible. I have historically paid for digitally created works to enhance my enjoyment of a game, but that's because I wanted to wear a Japanese schoolgirl sailor outfit while playing golf. I looked damn good in it too.
We live in a full blown videogame idiocracy.
That's an interesting way to spell "diverse and comprehensive market meeting a range of needs and providing opportunities to consumers with varied desires, preferences and financial options".
MMO's were the trial balloon to get people to accept paying for software they don't control so all that other stuff was possible.
Oh for fucks sake. No, they were not. MMOs have a substantial ongoing cost base that needs to be paid for and early MMOs used a subscription model to assure the continued income required to cover those costs.
We knew the writing was on the wall for single player RPG's
Like KOTOR, like the Elder Scrolls series, like the Divinity series, like Fallout, like the Witcher series. Oh, wait.
You're a fucking idiot.
The reality is the reason loot boxes and all modern exploitative game practices exist is because ignorant people and stupid irrational people like yourself gave up your right to privacy and ownership of game software.
Loot boxes and data mining have fuck all to do with MMOs. You're making a non-causal link and providing no evidence to support it.
You're a fucking idiot.
Sorry to tell ya, loot boxes exist because the average gamer and human being is ignorant and irrational.
So when I put several hundred hours into theHunter:COTW and can't find a loot box, play through 100 hours of story in The Witcher III and can't find a loot box, enjoy a long dynamic and very replayable story in Divinity Original Sin 2 and can't find a loot box, play through multiple campaigns in Total Warhammer 2 and can't find a loot box, spend several seasons trying to win the premiership with Wrexham in the latest Football Manager and can't find a loot box, is it possible, just maybe, that there are plenty of gaming choices available for people that don't want loot boxes?
If you bought an mmo game you told the corporate world explicitly that you'd bend over to be exploited
Really? So by wanting to play on a server with several hundred other players I'm begging to be exploited, instead of, I don't know, wanting to play on a server with several hundred other players?
As soon as human beings proved they didn't understand how technology worked
Well done, you've managed to prove you don't know how humans work.
I know how technology works. I don't monitor every packet leaving my PC, I don't MITM the encrypted data streams, I don't reverse engineer data formats and I don't correlate data structures to the activity, software and configuration on my PC.
Just what the fuck would an informed capable technical person do to understand the data being sent back to a game developer - especially for a game with online elements - that doesn't mean it's now their full time fucking job?
As for using MMOs as an example, it's been very obvious right from the moment people encountered them that they're sending a shit ton of data back to the server, which then shares elements of that data with other members of the public. What the fuck do you think MMO stands for?
It's not that the smart half of the public wanted it. The only way to have put a stop to it to prevent stupid consumers from robbing the smart half of society would be to have portal technology or ideological revolution.
Sorry but no, nobody is forcing any software or services onto you. If you really think there's a dumb/smart divide and you're too stupid to reject the software and services you deem malicious, guess which side of the divide on which you fall.
You can't obstruct justice in the USA because there are zero legal prosecutors or police forces now that the Republic has been re-inhabited.
The courts disagree with you, and they're the authority on how the law is interpreted.
Your Birth Certificate is a bond; You are executor of a corporation
Ah, sorry. You're a fucking looney. Could I suggest you avoid trying this shit with actual law enforcement or justice officials as it will end very badly for you.
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Hmm. You reckon the AI could Gish gallop as much as some of those commenters?
The thing is, I can put forward an argument on many topics purely by reverting to basic principles and core knowledge. I not only don't need discussion in the press but can actually challenge the viewpoints expressed in the media.
This AI will merely regurgitate the media lies du jour.
It can be ruled out unless someone provides some evidence that it should be considered.
"It's magic" does not follow from "There is a gap in our knowledge" and anybody pretending otherwise is fraudulent, stupid or both.
Aren't AMD based in Austin, Texas?
You'd best write to Samsung, ask them to enter the x64 chip market.
What can I say, I used to write portfolio management software that provided predictive tools to savvy investors.
There is NO inherent value in a stock based on the company state. None what so ever.
You are so very pathetically wrong.
A company's value is a function of its anticipated revenue streams, its anticipated profit or loss, its anticipated dividends, its existing assets and liabilities, its ability to exploit the markets it targets and also the amount you can con above and beyond that amount from deluded fuckwits that think none of that matters.
You fit the last category.
At which point it's raw gambling, and Warren Buffett will get even richer by focussing on companies that have the revenue, cost position, market knowledge, product range and leadership to actually support the value of the company.
I do understand, I also choose not to gamble.
No, I'd be a fucking idiot to invest my money without a better understanding of why they're an outlier, and how long they're likely to remain that way.
Which is why I haven't invested my money in Tesla (or Tesla shorts).
Stocks very closely follow a valuation based on their fundamentals. Those are different across different industries, but the people that really make money on the markets track the fundamentals.
Warren Buffett is rich because he invests prudently based on fundamentals, not emotionally based on 'Tesla are so cool'.
Right now Tesla are viciously overvalued. They've managed to avoid a market correction and may continue to be an outlier. But they are an outlier, and you'd be a fucking idiot to pretend otherwise.
So they have the hardware needed to identify and avoid trucks crossing the carriageway, to identify and avoid concrete barriers at junctions, to identify and avoid pedestrians pushing bikes?
Just that automated cars haven't been doing too well on those fronts.
The problem is Tesla are building cars in a completely new way, and those machines have to be tuned and revised before they hum. In the long run, they will be simpler to build.
Is that why they can't get remotely close to the manufacturing output of their competitors?
Bollocks. Most thefts are opportunity based and a shitty tablet may not be worth much but hit 2-3 houses a day and that's your drug fix sorted.
Dogs are a terrible security investment
That depends whether the visitor knows someone is at home or not.
If I know the householder is on holiday a dog will not deter me. Even an attack dog; they're easy to deal with, especially if I'm allowed to make noise.
If there's a chance the property isn't empty, knowing that even the tiniest dog is going to wake up every cunt in the house is a fine deterrent.
they're expensive, time-consuming, easy to defeat, and your family is going to suffer a lot more emotional trauma if they get killed
Sorry, you can use the cost argument or the emotional attachment one. They negate each other so you can't use both.
Step 1: Hire a homeless person to break the glass
Right. So how do I get from Overloon to Berg en Dal at 9pm?
Shit, how do I get from the Openlucht museum in Arnhem to the water museum, out to the Airborne Museum Hartenstein, down to the titchy museum by the bridge then back out to the zoo in the same day by public transport, let alone with enough time to do things at all of those locations, not to mention getting to Arnhem in the first place.
Yeah, I drive in tight European cities. Fucking sue me.
Yeah, my village tried turning off streetlights after midnight. Junctions and the main roads kept the lights, the rest went dark.
Some stupid women complained that they didn't feel safe.
The crime rate stayed flat throughout. Now I get shitty light pollution again, the crime rate hasn't dropped and the women probably still don't feel safe because they're stupid.
Strange, I recall code wheels, text written in hard to read colours, use of manuals as code books, corrupt sectors on disks, 'CD must be present' checks and actual fucking rootkits in the 80s and 90s.
Maybe you were playing Rogue all that time. Good game.
Why do you now think lootboxes and microtransactions exist in "single player" AAA games?
Not the games I buy and play.
Why do think they are being shoved into every game and every game is now being drm'd up the wazoo
Games have less DRM now than they did in the 80s. Less now than they did in the 90s. Probably a comparable amount now to the 00s, but that's the post-MMO era.
and given the corporate propaganda moniker "online game"?
Sometimes the game includes online features. Sometimes the online connection is used as a more robust form of DRM. Sometimes the game is an online game. Many games work perfectly well with no network connection at all.
Team fortress 2 with hats?
Free game with cosmetic feature players can optional choose to embrace? Oh no, you mean I can actually play the game for free and never pay for it? Shit, if someone else wearing a hat upsets you that much, adopt plan B: Don't fucking play it.
Lootboxes where you might get the chance to get a skin in a game you already paid for?
You paid for the game. You didn't pay for the artistic creations that are available via the lootbox. Those are only available to people that pay additional money. I don't pay for those as I dislike the gambling aspect and I'm too sensible. I have historically paid for digitally created works to enhance my enjoyment of a game, but that's because I wanted to wear a Japanese schoolgirl sailor outfit while playing golf. I looked damn good in it too.
We live in a full blown videogame idiocracy.
That's an interesting way to spell "diverse and comprehensive market meeting a range of needs and providing opportunities to consumers with varied desires, preferences and financial options".
MMO's were the trial balloon to get people to accept paying for software they don't control so all that other stuff was possible.
Oh for fucks sake. No, they were not. MMOs have a substantial ongoing cost base that needs to be paid for and early MMOs used a subscription model to assure the continued income required to cover those costs.
You remain a fucking idiot.
Actually, I'll add to that.
We knew the writing was on the wall for single player RPG's
Like KOTOR, like the Elder Scrolls series, like the Divinity series, like Fallout, like the Witcher series. Oh, wait.
You're a fucking idiot.
The reality is the reason loot boxes and all modern exploitative game practices exist is because ignorant people and stupid irrational people like yourself gave up your right to privacy and ownership of game software.
Loot boxes and data mining have fuck all to do with MMOs. You're making a non-causal link and providing no evidence to support it.
You're a fucking idiot.
Sorry to tell ya, loot boxes exist because the average gamer and human being is ignorant and irrational.
So when I put several hundred hours into theHunter:COTW and can't find a loot box, play through 100 hours of story in The Witcher III and can't find a loot box, enjoy a long dynamic and very replayable story in Divinity Original Sin 2 and can't find a loot box, play through multiple campaigns in Total Warhammer 2 and can't find a loot box, spend several seasons trying to win the premiership with Wrexham in the latest Football Manager and can't find a loot box, is it possible, just maybe, that there are plenty of gaming choices available for people that don't want loot boxes?
You're a fucking idiot.
If you bought an mmo game you told the corporate world explicitly that you'd bend over to be exploited
Really? So by wanting to play on a server with several hundred other players I'm begging to be exploited, instead of, I don't know, wanting to play on a server with several hundred other players?
You're a fucking idiot.
As soon as human beings proved they didn't understand how technology worked
Well done, you've managed to prove you don't know how humans work.
I know how technology works. I don't monitor every packet leaving my PC, I don't MITM the encrypted data streams, I don't reverse engineer data formats and I don't correlate data structures to the activity, software and configuration on my PC.
Just what the fuck would an informed capable technical person do to understand the data being sent back to a game developer - especially for a game with online elements - that doesn't mean it's now their full time fucking job?
As for using MMOs as an example, it's been very obvious right from the moment people encountered them that they're sending a shit ton of data back to the server, which then shares elements of that data with other members of the public. What the fuck do you think MMO stands for?
It's not that the smart half of the public wanted it. The only way to have put a stop to it to prevent stupid consumers from robbing the smart half of society would be to have portal technology or ideological revolution.
Sorry but no, nobody is forcing any software or services onto you. If you really think there's a dumb/smart divide and you're too stupid to reject the software and services you deem malicious, guess which side of the divide on which you fall.
More accurately, it's not informed and active consent as now required legally in the EU.
Which is nice, as it makes it easier to prove it's invalid.
You can't obstruct justice in the USA because there are zero legal prosecutors or police forces now that the Republic has been re-inhabited.
The courts disagree with you, and they're the authority on how the law is interpreted.
Your Birth Certificate is a bond; You are executor of a corporation
Ah, sorry. You're a fucking looney. Could I suggest you avoid trying this shit with actual law enforcement or justice officials as it will end very badly for you.
Surely "we have been informed there are hostages on the premises" is reasonable cause?
Shit, they got away with murdering some poor cunt and you think FLIR is less acceptable?
Except that there have been external inputs.
Diets have changed, chemicals present in the air and water have changed, the education system has changed, lifestyles have changed.
Any or all of these things may be relevant.