There are actually large collections of ivory in several southern African countries. And they burned a whole lot recently.
If that ivory were sold, it would raise a lot of cash for looking after elephants. It would also reduce prices for ivory, and make poaching less attractive. Perhaps more importantly, it would make elephants of some value, which could compensate people for the damage they do to crops etc.
All votes are on paper. All counts are scrutineered at the polling booth, a quick and painless process. (Real scrutineering where the votes are seen, not some bullshit where scrutineers look through a window.) And then the subtotals are independently tallied by the parties.
Would be annoying if the main Electoral Computers computers were compromised, but no big deal. It would be obvious when the subtotals did not tally, and a recount would quickly rectify it.
The UK public allowed general censorship in. And without much fuss. Defeating the Conroy censorship is one thing the Australian public can be proud of.
There was a huge fight about three years ago when the then Labor government's Senator Conroy tried to ram through internet censorship in Australia. The uproar was sufficient that the now marginal conservative government will not touch it. But now there is another attack from the courts, which is more difficult to deal with.
(Conway, incidentally, has taken up a lucrative job lobbying for gambling in Australia.)
No, the machines are now getting much smarter. Grinding flour takes a purely mechanical machine. The second generation could use pneumatic computers and simple electrical systems to control them.
But now computers are ubiquitous and cheap. And they can see. Not very well, but well enough to automate things that were unthinkable a few years ago. Such as picking out parts jumbled in a bin. Or flipping burgers that are not in exactly defined places.
This third generation will not take over the world. But unlike second generation machines, they can pick strawberries. And will soon be able to clean offices, and paint houses, and pack supermarket shelves, and drive trucks etc. Anything routine.
Initially the robots are only just a bit cheaper than labour, so slow introduction and minimal price changes. But over time, they get better and cheaper, until anyone that still relies on labour will not be able to compete.
And real "robots" are not humanoid, with arms and legs. They are purpose built machines, but with far more intelligence than existing machines.
But the interesting case is still many decades off. When computers can program themselves.
Radation is deadly. Radiation reached Oregon. Therefor people in Oregon will die.
Can't argue with that. Don't even try mentioning strange numbers, backgrounds etc. It is "Radiation". That is all we need to know. It only takes one unlucky photon to kill.
Socializing medicine has been a disaster. It is killing people. Under Obama care faceless bureaucrats will decide who lives and who lives and who dies. All freedoms will be curtailed. And the constitution will be burned.
Thank God we have Trump to turn thing around. He truly cares for the forgotten man. And if the doctors fail, he will cure the sick by blessing them.
"United States of America" is a horribly long name, almost as bad as USSR. It should be renamed "Trumponia".
"Tumponia" summarizes the true essence of the country. It is the place that elected Trump. In 100 years time American robots will be proud of the moment when Tumponia became great.
People need to use ordinary and common words and phrases to have special meanings only intelligible by context. So if "Work" means Fulung Gung, and "the Party" means Tianomin etc. it becomes very difficult for any automated algorithm to know if "Work has been tough lately" is political or not. The algorithms will start to filter the chaff. Of course China has thousands (millions?) of human censors as well, but they will also be confused. And innocent messages will be interpreted by their receivers as political even when they were not. Oh what a tangled web we weave...
A machine that can identify and sort clothes may have limited use by itself, but just think of what is involved in making it. Not easy at all. Tomorrows machine will be able to pick up the clothes from the kids floor, put them in the washing machine, hang them out to dry (I'm not American), and then iron them and fold them. And it will only cost $1,000. That is a machine that will sell once it can also make the bed and vacuum the floor.
Now put that machine in a hotel and what happens to the army of cleaners?
Can be rather off putting. They tend to hit the leading edge of the wing, trying to break it, but come off second best. Sometimes they go for the canopy.
Eagles are generally good for fining thermals, and so we often join them in flight, which is a wonderful thing. But if they look aggressive, time to move on.
I was once attacked by a Magpie (size of a crow). The little bird flapped his way up a thousand feet to my height above a ridge and then dived at my canopy. I then dived after him, but was no contest of course, he just flipped up behind me and had another go. Eventually I got high enough that he thought I was not a threat and just dropped out of the sky.
The claim was that coal dumps more radiation *into the air*. Would make sense given that their is very little nuclear radiation leak into the air.
As to accidents, with the notable exception of Cherbynol, there have been very few and most of the cost has been due to the hysteria. Very few people died in Fukushima compared to those killed by the tidal wave itself.
I personally saw this one too. Had to kill Chrome. Wondered what other damage it was doing
The most important thing about a browser is how many features it has. The more the better. Real security would involve winding back HTML5 into something so simple that it could be understood and audited. Never going to happen. And we have come to accept that shipping insecure software and then patching as the bugs are found is the way software works. Nobody is ever upset that the bugs are shipped int the first place -- it is just a fact of our ever more complex lives.
I think that we have to accept that when visit a web site we are executing their code and therefor need to just trust that they will not do anything to our computers.
Obama should have done everything in his power to help the Texan's realize their dream of independence.
I do not know why Americans like Lincoln. Fought a bloody war to keep the ugly part of America when it was keen to go. (No, the war was not actually about slavery.)
Actually it was North Korea that saw the weakness and acted. While Bush was busy with Iraq, they built their nuclear weapons. Which won't matter much... unless it does.
At the end of the day Trump is too incompetent to start a major war. Or do anything else too drastic. He is vain and intellectually lazy, so the lobbyists will keep him under control.
But the big thing he WILL do is roll back Obamacare. The thing that poor whites rely on if they get ill. He'll cut taxes to the rich and services to the poor like nobody else.
He'll make noises about Mexicans but do nothing. He will make noises about China but is unlikely to do anything.
But if you rely on government services too bad, so sad.
In a democracy the people get the government that they deserve.
Or is there a reset point. When the technology enables them to destroy themselves, at which point it just just a matter of time. Maybe thousands of years, but not billions.
And the intelligence is unlikely to be biological. How long will it be before humanity is replaced by computers. Not within 100 years, but it is hard to see it not happening within 1,000 years.
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Kids needing to do school assignments...
To be clear, most of the stocked ivory is legal. Elephants die naturally. Or are culled when the numbers get excessive.
There are actually large collections of ivory in several southern African countries. And they burned a whole lot recently.
If that ivory were sold, it would raise a lot of cash for looking after elephants. It would also reduce prices for ivory, and make poaching less attractive. Perhaps more importantly, it would make elephants of some value, which could compensate people for the damage they do to crops etc.
Slams on brakes. Car behind rear ends. Real prediction, and correct.
[Get Smart, with a psychic that KAOS wants to kidnap.]
We also need to remember that Trump lives in the umpteenth floor of a skyscraper. So even in the worst case he will remain good and dry.
All votes are on paper. All counts are scrutineered at the polling booth, a quick and painless process. (Real scrutineering where the votes are seen, not some bullshit where scrutineers look through a window.) And then the subtotals are independently tallied by the parties.
Would be annoying if the main Electoral Computers computers were compromised, but no big deal. It would be obvious when the subtotals did not tally, and a recount would quickly rectify it.
So, what is so different in the USA!
The UK public allowed general censorship in. And without much fuss. Defeating the Conroy censorship is one thing the Australian public can be proud of.
There was a huge fight about three years ago when the then Labor government's Senator Conroy tried to ram through internet censorship in Australia. The uproar was sufficient that the now marginal conservative government will not touch it. But now there is another attack from the courts, which is more difficult to deal with.
(Conway, incidentally, has taken up a lucrative job lobbying for gambling in Australia.)
What useful information could this V2V actually provide that is more than provided by blinkers and brake lights?
I cannot think of anything.
No, the machines are now getting much smarter. Grinding flour takes a purely mechanical machine. The second generation could use pneumatic computers and simple electrical systems to control them.
But now computers are ubiquitous and cheap. And they can see. Not very well, but well enough to automate things that were unthinkable a few years ago. Such as picking out parts jumbled in a bin. Or flipping burgers that are not in exactly defined places.
This third generation will not take over the world. But unlike second generation machines, they can pick strawberries. And will soon be able to clean offices, and paint houses, and pack supermarket shelves, and drive trucks etc. Anything routine.
Initially the robots are only just a bit cheaper than labour, so slow introduction and minimal price changes. But over time, they get better and cheaper, until anyone that still relies on labour will not be able to compete.
And real "robots" are not humanoid, with arms and legs. They are purpose built machines, but with far more intelligence than existing machines.
But the interesting case is still many decades off. When computers can program themselves.
http://www.computersthink.com/
Radation is deadly. Radiation reached Oregon. Therefor people in Oregon will die.
Can't argue with that. Don't even try mentioning strange numbers, backgrounds etc. It is "Radiation". That is all we need to know. It only takes one unlucky photon to kill.
Socializing medicine has been a disaster. It is killing people. Under Obama care faceless bureaucrats will decide who lives and who lives and who dies. All freedoms will be curtailed. And the constitution will be burned.
Thank God we have Trump to turn thing around. He truly cares for the forgotten man. And if the doctors fail, he will cure the sick by blessing them.
"United States of America" is a horribly long name, almost as bad as USSR. It should be renamed "Trumponia".
"Tumponia" summarizes the true essence of the country. It is the place that elected Trump. In 100 years time American robots will be proud of the moment when Tumponia became great.
People need to use ordinary and common words and phrases to have special meanings only intelligible by context. So if "Work" means Fulung Gung, and "the Party" means Tianomin etc. it becomes very difficult for any automated algorithm to know if "Work has been tough lately" is political or not. The algorithms will start to filter the chaff. Of course China has thousands (millions?) of human censors as well, but they will also be confused. And innocent messages will be interpreted by their receivers as political even when they were not. Oh what a tangled web we weave...
This is the sign of things to come.
A machine that can identify and sort clothes may have limited use by itself, but just think of what is involved in making it. Not easy at all. Tomorrows machine will be able to pick up the clothes from the kids floor, put them in the washing machine, hang them out to dry (I'm not American), and then iron them and fold them. And it will only cost $1,000. That is a machine that will sell once it can also make the bed and vacuum the floor.
Now put that machine in a hotel and what happens to the army of cleaners?
Anthony
Can be rather off putting. They tend to hit the leading edge of the wing, trying to break it, but come off second best. Sometimes they go for the canopy.
Eagles are generally good for fining thermals, and so we often join them in flight, which is a wonderful thing. But if they look aggressive, time to move on.
I was once attacked by a Magpie (size of a crow). The little bird flapped his way up a thousand feet to my height above a ridge and then dived at my canopy. I then dived after him, but was no contest of course, he just flipped up behind me and had another go. Eventually I got high enough that he thought I was not a threat and just dropped out of the sky.
Are you agreeing or disagreeing?
The claim was that coal dumps more radiation *into the air*. Would make sense given that their is very little nuclear radiation leak into the air.
As to accidents, with the notable exception of Cherbynol, there have been very few and most of the cost has been due to the hysteria. Very few people died in Fukushima compared to those killed by the tidal wave itself.
Or even biological.
Over the next 100 years or so computers will start to really think.
What would they think about us?
Why would they want us about?
Would natural selection play the same role in shaping their moral values as it has in shaping ours?
http://www.computersthink.com/
I personally saw this one too. Had to kill Chrome. Wondered what other damage it was doing
The most important thing about a browser is how many features it has. The more the better. Real security would involve winding back HTML5 into something so simple that it could be understood and audited. Never going to happen. And we have come to accept that shipping insecure software and then patching as the bugs are found is the way software works. Nobody is ever upset that the bugs are shipped int the first place -- it is just a fact of our ever more complex lives.
I think that we have to accept that when visit a web site we are executing their code and therefor need to just trust that they will not do anything to our computers.
Obama should have done everything in his power to help the Texan's realize their dream of independence.
I do not know why Americans like Lincoln. Fought a bloody war to keep the ugly part of America when it was keen to go. (No, the war was not actually about slavery.)
You do not need Russian help to hack the machines.
Just go to the "Adjust Votes" screen and correct any errors that the electorate might have made.
Unless you get sick, and can no longer get health insurance...
Actually it was North Korea that saw the weakness and acted. While Bush was busy with Iraq, they built their nuclear weapons. Which won't matter much ... unless it does.
At the end of the day Trump is too incompetent to start a major war. Or do anything else too drastic. He is vain and intellectually lazy, so the lobbyists will keep him under control.
But the big thing he WILL do is roll back Obamacare. The thing that poor whites rely on if they get ill. He'll cut taxes to the rich and services to the poor like nobody else.
He'll make noises about Mexicans but do nothing. He will make noises about China but is unlikely to do anything.
But if you rely on government services too bad, so sad.
In a democracy the people get the government that they deserve.
Or is there a reset point. When the technology enables them to destroy themselves, at which point it just just a matter of time. Maybe thousands of years, but not billions.
And the intelligence is unlikely to be biological. How long will it be before humanity is replaced by computers. Not within 100 years, but it is hard to see it not happening within 1,000 years.
http://www.computersthink.com/