Comment Re:So 1 x F35 = 60 million x vaccinations? (Score 1) 124
In my case, I would be more likely to die driving to the hospital for the vaccine, than I would be of Ebola.
in the same way that George Washington set a precedent by stepping down after two terms as President (he could very well have crowned himself if he wanted), I'm waiting to see if Larry Page's Google will set a precedent before I pass final judgment on Google's corporate existence
What kind of precedent are you hoping Larry Page will set?
Even so, a number of governments have already fallen or been pressured by it; we see repressive regimes like China throwing all kinds of defenses up against it. I don't see how even China can stand against it for very long. Assange gets this, at least on some level. That would mean America wins
I don't think that follows. If a country ends up with a better government because of the internet, the citizens of that country win.
I'm curious: why do you think that's at all relevant to any other part of this thread?
Well, if you're curious, I believe this conversation was started with this earlier point of mine:
"And that is even before getting to the engineering problem of reliable software. When Boeing built their recent airline software package, it took 5-8 years to get something that was reliable enough for air travel."
Which is a comment on the difficulty of making reliable software. It's referring to the engineering aspect of the matter, that making software without (serious) bugs is very difficult and takes time. Since the software for self-driving cars will be much more complicated than the software for air travel, it follows naturally that making the software reliable will be even more difficult.
My point being, that even if the car could already drive itself anywhere, it would still be many years away from production.
At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought.
Seriously? I'm not sure you read the same thing I did. I especially found his attempts to understand his interviewers (in the opening paragraphs) to be unusually analytical and.....rational.
Certainly Assange holds different viewpoints than I do, but his points seemed more logic based than your post, for example.
It is a more reasonable assumption that the computational power will continue to increase in line with the long term trend than that it will not, lacking evidence to the contrary.
Then look for some evidence.
With your bare hands?!?