Your entire argument seems based on a provably false assertion that morals only come from religion.

>> something solid must anchor thought or else it can wander into incoherence.

The "something solid" should be logic, reasoning and scientific method.

Self-contradictory and evidence-free stories about sky fairies are very far from "something solid", yet religious people refuse to understand or even acknowledge that, apparently because it means they would have to finally think for themselves.

>> Religions, by contrast, emphasize the importance of the family unit, and of community, leading to healthier outcomes for children.

Did you ever stop to wonder why? Its obviously all about growing the church's power and influence thorugh increasisng the numbers of exploitable people.Islam especially makes no secret of it's use as a tactic to convert whole countries.

>> Yes, there are certainly religious "leaders" who are in it for money,
What does it say in the bible about rich men getting into heaven? yet look at all the gold, treasure, money, power and pomp that the pope surrounds himself with, all conned out of the hands of mostly poor/ignorant 3rd world countries. This is not just some community "leader" but the head of the largest branch of modern Christianity, who should be leading by example but isn't. It's the ultimate hypocrisy.

>> But the vast majority have the best intentions at heart.

That is not an established fact, just your opinion. Besides, It doesn't matter. What matters is the fact that they are pushing fairy stories as being literally real. Humanity as a whole can't move forward if we act on lies rather than facts, regardless of . how painful they are. You've only got to look at the state of US politics to see that. Name one scientific theory that was later replaced by a supernatural explanation. Look at how backward-facing most islamic countries are now, compared to where they were in history. Hint: There's a reason that we use arabic numerals and may of the stars in the sky have arabic names.

>> YOU are claiming that the mystical side of religion is harmful. That is not an established fact, that is your opinion.

Tell that to all the people through history and through to literally today that continue to needessly die in wars and terrorist attacks led by arrogantly self-justified people supposedly in the name of their religion. Do you suppose 9/11 or the attacks by and on israel and gaza would have happened if all the populations there were atheists?

The only belief I have is that without any religion there would be a whole lot more unity and compassion in the world than with it. Futhermore,there's a lot of evidence to support that position, unlike the compete absence of evidence to justify even one of the over 4000 wildly different religions on the planet that all claim to be "the real truth".

In the case of Ukraine, the success rate is very high because anybody in range is likely an enemy soldier.

Israel's success rate may be as low as 0.1%. That tells us that robots can't tell civilians from military. A large enough stockpile of human shields would be a serious problem.

And we know drones et al are vulnerable to GPS spoof attacks, making such an attack risky against a technologically advanced enemy with intellectuals and engineers forming a scientific take on special forces.

Why bother with a missile? You're here, so a geek. You know GPS jamming is effective, as is GPS spoofing. All you need is a parabolic dish and a high power transmitter. There's simply no possibility of a wide-angle transmitter on a satellite matching a narrow beam that's broadcast from a hundredth of the distance. Sure, there'll be authentication keys. And social engineers have compromised most of the world's governments, which means the keys will be for sale somewhere.

The only way I can the robot army being effective is if they flatten everything at long range, indiscriminately. And that is going to cause its own problems. Especially if the software gets hacked prior to install. Which will happen, because hiring and training an army of hackers in Mitnick-style social engineering tactics costs a tiny, tiny fraction of the expense of maintaining a wall of tactical nukes that can EMP the robot forces.

The robots work OK, but the AI doesn't. Israel is using AI extensively to target Hamas at the moment, with the very best AI that exists and the very best military minds the world can produce. The success rate is somewhere between 1% and 0.1%.

Face scanning tech also depends on the data set being valid. The DOD has been compromised many times by airwall violations, security violations, improper screening, and extremely buggy software from Cisco and Microsoft.

All the enemy needs to do is write a rootkit that flips a couple of bits. The robot army now faces the other way and friends are identified as foe. I wouldn't put it past a group like the Lazarus hackers to be capable of such a stunt. We already know the enemy is capable of GPS jamming and GPS spoofing, because they've done so to hijack US drones, and that's another potential vulnerability.

US military robots are also known to have severe problems identifying that a person dressed as a tree is a person, not a tree. A skillful enemy could walk through US robot army lines without impediment, unless the US robots shoot indiscriminately. But if the US robots are genocidal, mutually assured destruction becomes a viable tactic. You can't be more than dead, after all.

And if the US includes a death switch, given that US defence contractors don't always wipe hard drives and the military don't psychologically screen very well (Manning was known to be seriously mentally unstable prior to deployment, for example), there's absolutely no guarantee the enemy won't simply learn it and spoof it.

I just don't see how the US think this could possibly work.

Its success rate in Israel stands at somewhere between 1% and 0.1%.

One gun can shoot at one target at any one time. If your AI-guided robot army is shooting up chicken farmers and goat herders, it's ergo not shooting at the army that's flanked it which threatens to overrun the opposing side's now largely undefended turf.

A robot army can also be taken out by EMP weapons - basically tax nukes. Since robots can't distinguish between soldiers, civilians, and cake stands (AI is pretty dumb), the defending side already faces complete genocide. You can't get any deader than that, so there's no incentive to not flatten the enemy with nukes and a very slim chance they won't fire back, because it's hard to maintain an expensive nuclear defence and an extremely expensive robot army at the same time.

(Basically, same reason the US is now outgunned on fighters, the new ones are so expensive they can't afford that many. The US relies utterly on them being more destructive faster, but again, what's the point in NOT invoking MAD when your enemy has demonstrated they're genocidal and no respectors of the norms and laws of war?)

He mentions why it looks old on the home page, point number 12.

>> "One thing many nonreligious folks get wrong, is a lack of understanding of the importance of family."

Firstly that is a ridiculous over-generalization that is inherently wrong. It claims for example that, as less than 49% of Brits identify as religious, that more than half of the entire population of the UK don't understand the importance of family.

The old "you can't have morals unless you're religious" argument is provably no more than baloney, yet the religious keep using it to make themselves feel superior.

>> "Yes, religions do put inordinate emphasis on the arcane trivia and traditions they hold. But that doesn't mean that every aspect of religion is harmful."

If religions were as well-intentioned as you claim, then why don't they do away with all of the obviously harmful, mystical and provably false content, and just stick to the things that are clearly good?
If that ever happened even I might get on board, but I just look at institutions like Islam, Israel and the Vatican. and it's blindingly obvious that its actually all about wealth, control, and power of the few over the sheep-like many, and I for one will always stand in hard opposition to that.

VMS has a versioning filesystems, which is a useful thing to have. It's also pretty secure (once you disable scripts in mail subject headers).

I'd contend it has a role in server systems, but really it's a struggle to think where else it would fit.

Couldn't agree more.
Religion has always been the justification of the most evil. The world will be a much safer and better place when society treats people who believe sky fairies exist like the clueless morons that they actually are.

Lol @ autonomous. In reality it's as much a part of the Russian empire as Moscow is.
Russia invaded Chechnya in 2009 and Putin established direct rule of Chechnya in May 2000. Only after putting a puppet leader in place (Akhmad Kadyrov), a new Chechen constitution was passed in 2003 which granted the Chechen Republic a significant degree of autonomy, however make no mistake that Putin has his hand so far up the puppet leader's arse (currently Ramsan Kadyrov, son of Akhmad), it's actually Putin who is in complete control of Chechnya, and the Chechen constitution is no more than smoke and mirrors to placate the naive and ignorant masses.

Pawn to Deep Space Nine. Check.