Our current "AI" doesn't understand anything, it simple learns tasks (to varying degrees of success, it seems) and performs those tasks with data that it's been fed. There is no motivation, creativity, or ingenuity involved in the process. That's not a bad thing, don't misunderstand... some of the AI implementations are amazing at handling and finding patterns in data, but, AFAIK, that's it. We'd need a fundamentally new model of AI to do this... something that can actually comprehend the data it's dealing with rather than "mimic" human tasks.

Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?

Oil companies (at least in the US) don't receive ANY money from the federal government. Look it up. This "fossil fuel subsidies" bullshit never goes away even though its a complete lie.

If you own a business (again, in the US, not speaking otherwise), you get to deduct certain costs, typically expansion related activities, R&D etc. In the oil and gas industry this is basically drilling and exploration. So the only "subsidies" that the oil industry gets is the same deductions that any other business in and other industry receive. The only way you could change this is to remove the tax deductions across the board for every business in the US, which would probably cause the economy to go into free-fall. According to US law (IIRC BC IANAL), it would otherwise be illegal for Congress to pass a law punishing any one given industry over another.

As much as I *loathe* the combination of these two words in print in general, this is the epitome of "Fake News."

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/0...

March alone added 196k jobs.

I'm right there with you, it even struck me that people are in any way surprised that attention-seeking youtube celebrities have mental health issues... I mean, that's kind of a prerequisite, isn't it?

Yep, it's not a coincidence that Kim Jong Un agreed to meet with the S. Korean President and the U.S. President about a month after he made a personal trip to China, which was interestingly not too very long after Trump had put the pressure on China to do something about NK.

They'll never give Trump any credit for anything, so this whole conversation is pointless. There's a group of people in this country who hate Trump more than they love their own country, and that's sad.

And disclaimer: Trump is a douche, I know it, I couldn't even bring myself to vote for him over HRC, so I abstained out of disgust, but I try to be intellectually honest enough to give credit where credit is due.

Exactly! People don't understand the idea of negotiating through strength...

As far as DACA goes, it's never reported ANYWHERE that Trump has repeatedly said he wants Congress to pass a law to address the DACA recipients because Obama's creation of DACA via Executive Order was unconstitutional. He didn't rescind DACA out of malice or hate, he did it because it was essentially an illegal action by his predecessor.

On a side note, it's the Democrats that have blocked any legislative solution on DACA recipients because they want to use it as a tool in the upcoming elections.

What ever happened to "correlation does not mean causality?" I mean, I get more and more tired as the day goes on, and... I think it's because the sun is in the sky.

Inalienable right = something you are entitled to that a governing entity can't give. The US Constitution's inalienable rights were "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," the rest of the rights in the Bill of Rights were added on because James Madison (I think?) knew that if they didn't add the BoR, that Congress would eventually try to limit those things. Jefferson wrote where the concept of inalienable rights came from... mainly the old idea of "natural law," that there are certain things you are entitled to simply by being born into this world. You should always be able to do what you want and pursue the life that you want as long as it doesn't infringe upon others' rights to do so. That's why you can't have a "right" to a house, medical care, food, or a car, because someone else would have to supply those things for you, thereby infringing upon their freedoms.

Short version, you can't grant someone an inalienable right, especially when that right is only in existence because of privately held and owned infrastructure.

PS: I'm getting really tired of people that always want a free lunch (see: Occupy Movement demands)... life choices have consequences, a living must be earned, and I don't want to support some jackass that doesn't want to work for the things they want in life.

There should be a system that takes a progressively higher percentage of the revenue from the successful apps and distributes that revenue to the apps that aren't as successful. It's not like a app's quality or usability should affect how much revenue it is allowed to keep. Those poor little guys who make the apps with just grainy pictures of Japanese teens in scanty cosplay outfits are the victims, and the big, fat cat developers who can spend time and invest resources into making something people actually want are simply guilty of greed.

Yes, I'm trollling, but it's true.

There's two big problems with this though... first, the majority of the sound that comes from a moving car is from the tires (I didn't believe it at first, but roll you window down and listen some time), so this whole point seems moot. Second, do we really want the sound of thousands of Jetsons' cars on a crowded 5pm traffic jam? Expect road rage incidents to go through the roof.

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What?? NO!!! It's *our* fault... stupid scientists didn't get the memo, *WE* cause every iota of enviromental change on the planet because we're evil greedy self-consumed capitalist polluting pigs...I thought Al Gore covered this.

J

For the love of GOD someone mod parent as funny.

J

In AC language, basically, to sell to a power grid you must have a rather standard amount of wattage that your providing... when the wind doesn't blow, that wattage is supplied by the hydrocarbon powered motors that spin the blades and the turbines generating electricity... that's pretty much standard anywhere you go.

Resultant conclusion, you still need oil/gas to run a windfarm. No matter how green you want to be.

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The company has also leased 38,000 acres in the Gulf of Mexico, where it hopes to build hundreds of 300-foot wind turbines that can each generate up to 5 megawatts of power to support additional facilities. Baryonyx plans to sell excess capacity to the local utility, which it will use as a backup when the wind dies down.

Wind generators are required to have (usually gasoline or diesel) motor backups when the "wind dies down" because they are required to maintain a certain amount of power at all times... they have to keep producing electricity whether the wind is spinning the blades or whether the motor is.