Hopefully the guy's learned his lesson. Pulling a BB gun on a drug dealer seems like a pretty good way of getting yourself killed.
I'm guessing malaria is now resistant to quinine, too, but I'm still game to try to tackle this problem with gin and tonic. We just need a large enough gin and tonic to cover Africa. If it doesn't fix the malaria, at least they probably won't care so much that they have malaria.
I had an Apple desktop machine back in the mid 00s. Actually still have -- I'd loaned it out to my room mate and just got it back. It burned up two of the high end ATI cards it came with before I gave up and put the lower end nvidia card in there. There were a lot of complaints about this on the Internet, but Apple never admitted there was a problem there. The usual solution (Which only seemed to somewhat forestall the inevitable) was to use a third party application to spin the fans in the machine up to the point where it sounded like an airplane taking off. Or just don't ever do anything involving 3D. That's kind of funny, buy an 8 core xeon machine with 16 gigs of RAM and then never push any 3D with it. And you it was very difficult to put a third party fan/heatsink on the video card either, since those cases have no power (or any other kind of) cables in them.
Now that I have the machine back, I'm going to look at slapping some large SATA drives in it and use it as a file/media server.
It's hard to tell what happens at that point, of course. They might keep us around as a curiosity, but there's really no reason for the previous step in evolution to remain once it's been replaced by a superior model. AIs should be able to do all the things humans can't -- live forever, spread out among the stars, cooperate as a civilization. If we can leave entities that can remember us long after the sun's burned out and destroyed the Earth, is that really such a bad thing?
Ahh, yeah that makes much more sense and I agree.
Why would people agree to let their spouse leave knowing that they will never see or speak to them again??
I just dug out my marriage license, don't see anything in there about me having to ask my spouse permission to leave.
Maybe it was just a poor choice of words or maybe you really do think one party gets a veto over the other party going off somewhere.
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