People love to hate on aggression. Aggression is not just the desire to hurt. It is also the desire to act - to explore, to create, to save, and the desire to fight back against evil. A world without aggression would make those idiots that talk about people being 'sheeple' correct.

Does aggression cause problems? Yes. So does complaisance. I for one am glad people have aggression, as opposed to being a bunch of complaisant, laid-back lemmings.

The problem is not excess aggression. It is insufficient self control. The inability to put off current desires in order to obtain greater rewards later on.

Yes. Because some people think that TrueCrypt was killed BECAUSE it was actually secure and the NSA wanted them to de-secure it.

As such, a warrant would let people continue to use it, secure in the fact that it actually works as required.

It also lets people fork it.

Frankly, I have been severely disappointed with BestCrypt, which I had hoped would end up as the replacement for TrueCrypt. (multiple problems with getting the regular operating system to recognize the 'mounted' drives)

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Sorry, make that 5 houses an hour, or about one every 12 minutes.

But still, you get the point. :D

You, like many other people, have seriously over-estimated the number of good little boys and girls.

From the various studies, I have seen (including my personal observation) Santa had to make only 123 stops last year. As he has 24 hours to make the trip, that averages out to around 1 house every 30 minutes. He didn't even break a sweat.

Of course, it would be a very different case if the bad kids hadn't start igniting the coal, causing Santa to discontinue that tradition.

Yes it is related. They are not only both free fall journeys, they are both elliptical orbits. Just because one goes through a hole, does not mean it isn't an orbit

One orbit has an eccentricity close to 0 (a large circle) whose radius exceeds the size of the planet.

The other orbit has an eccentricity that approaches 1 (a large, elongated ellipse, verging on a straight line), whose width (short diameter) is less than the diameter of the bottomless pit and whose length (long diameter) exceeds that of the planet.

"Imminent threat" seems to me to be the opposite of "increased risk".

Frankly, this guy seems to be using the same definition of "imminent threat" that the CIA uses when it determines who to kill/torture.

Which is of course a huge red flag that you have made a mistake. I mean really, thinking like the CIA?

There are honest banks in the world (HSBC excluded). Banks let you wire money for free and the existence of cash, credit cards, etc. means it's not profitable to try and charge to send money in/out.

But to be honest, there are a couple reasons to do a cryptocurrency - it is faster than wiring money. But the main advantage is secrecy, which is why it is so popular among criminals, people that think the government is out to get them, and spies.

One correction. I meant to write "The government has no desire to do help people trade currency SECRETLY."

Obviously the government wants people to trade currency, just not secretly.

The one and ONLY value of a cryptocurrency is that it can be reliably traded secretly. There is simply NO other reason to use one.

1) The government has no desire to do help people trade currency.

2) Only children under 10 would in fact believe that the government could not track the cryptocurrency they themselves created, even if it were open sourced.

3) There would be a market for it in foreign countries. The US government could pay spies, rebels etc. with said cryptocurrency, secure in the knowledge that the Russians, Chinese, North Koreans, ISIL, and Boku-Haram could not track the Fedcoin. Of course, those people would not try to track it, they would simply kill anyone found with it. (Too be honest, China would just lock them up, and Russia would probably trade them to the US in exchange for the right to sell oil).

Children under 10 have rather small amounts of money, so the market is on the small side.

There is no credible market for a FedCoin, and frankly I think the guy that thought this up is about as smart as someone that thinks that "Wouldn't it be nice if China would tell us all of North Korea's military secrets? Has anyone asked? Let's go ask them RIGHT AWAY!!!"

They put the annoying camera on it. Bad idea, people hate that. It should be on the separate controller, so people will always know when you are photographing them rather than suspect it. At least it appears to be 3d, using two projectors.

People don't need "cars, houses, TVs, holidays etc. We get them because we WANT them, not need them.

Any Robot that is smart enough to put us out of work will be smart enough to join a union and WANT a car, house, TV, Houses.

You basically suffer from paranoia, not logic.

But let's assume you are right. Let's assume that somehow, we (people) are smart enough to

1. Design and build robots that can do 50% of our current jobs

2. Keep ahead of the curve, upgrading all our robots faster than we upgrade our new jobs.

3. But still keep the robots from becoming self aware enough to demand luxuries, good working conditions, etc. etc. etc.

4. and keep it cheaper than a human Because at first making it smart enough to beat a human will be expensive, but almost immediately it will become more expensive to keep it stupid enough no to demand rights.

Even then, it STILL WON'T HAPPEN. Because humans have both ethics and hate technology. There are morons out there right now getting measles because they don't trust vaccines. We certainly won't trust robots that are intentionally kept stupid. We would instead assume they are just PRETENDING to be stupid and plotting a robot rebellion.

Watch any movie. That's how humans think.

Wow, I did not know you were a slave master.

Or do you not understand the concept of "Artificial Intelligence"?

Any robot smart enough to truly put 50% of the human population out of work is smart enough to JOIN A UNION.

If the machines are not smart enough to join a union, then they will not be smart enough to put us out of work. If they are smart enough to join a union, we won't be building enough of them to put 50% of us out of work.

Yeah, we might build a few of them to do certain specific jobs like emergency nuclear generator shut off Robot. But not many.

All it can do is change the work you do.

I am sick and tired of Luddites that claim robots will steal all the jobs.

Jobs are not a limited resource. Jobs are dependent on things we need to get done.

Once upon the time 100% of jobs were focused on getting food. Hunting and gathering became full time work when population was high. Once farming came around, it freed up some people to do other things. They did not suddenly become lazy do-nothing people. Instead they took up lower priority tasks, and turned them into full time jobs.

Things like clothing manufacturing, which used to be done in your spare time, turned into full industries. New products like shoes, alcohol, luxuries etc. were created.

The question is, are there still things we need to do, but have not been able to afford? The answer to that is YES. We have education, science, space exploration, green technologies, and a host of other things that we has decided would be nice, but we simply don't have the manpower to do.

We will not run out of jobs, instead we will do things that we can not even imagine today. Anymore than a hunter/gatherer could imagine someone would be paid to sell food at a basketball game.

It is clear from every one of the many successful Autistic people that Autistic people can be taught to fit into our world better.

They are not robots, they are people capable of learning social skills, just as they can learn math, art, and other human knowledge.

The question is do we know how to teach them?

I don't know a lot, but I am willing to bet that autistic people are as different from each other as they differ from us. The whole thing is a spectrum, what works with one won't necessary work with others.

I think you original idea is correct. No particular accreditation will satisfy you. You need to talk to the specific teacher/aid and hear what they have to say, what they know, and what is their guiding principle. If they impress you go with them. If not, ignore them.