People were not born voluntarily, once alive we mostly don't die voluntarily. We won't stop voluntarily because it would be akin to dying voluntarily. We have to accept the fact that we are not in fact the Borg, we don't have one hive mind.
Yeah, but you see, from marketing perspective what sounds better? The Line or the Dot or the Pimple?
They had these 3 choices, they made the more sensible one even though it has nothing to do with a good or sensible city outline.
it might be better to pay people based on the value they create in the world instead of whatever the market decides
- market is a collection of all people involved, who is better suited to decide on what the value is other than all of the people as a collective vote?
doctor who proscribes pumpkin seeds to cure cancer actually create negative value, yet they get paid quite a lot sometimes, so therefor the market is an ineffeciant way of deciding how much to pay people.
- they are removing the money from the gullible, which may be argued is a better way to redistribute the money (all done willingly even though misguidedly).
people who make a ton of money by owning things but do no work at all, such as heirs to large fortunes
- the market has already decided that the parents of heirs were productive enough, that even their heirs can now enjoy the fruits of the labor of the people who made the money.
Most americans at this point will piss themselves and run away from dangerous thoughts like these.
- dangerous by what measure?
With a president who solves an existential threat by finding the best expert he can find, and using his own formidable political skills and charisma to run interference for that expert.
Seriously, Comacho was a meathead, but Iâ(TM)d vote for him.
I remember a paper I found interesting which was remarking on the changing landscape of photoshop and other digital tools transforming the 'validity' of media as evidence in court cases. How, previously, having a picture or security camera footage was considered 'definitive' proof, and how the march of technology was eroding a jury's confidence in such evidence and opening new doors into reasonable doubt. The paper's focus was that the idea of how 'accurate' such media was has always been evolving, as we play with digital compression and display technologies, and that there has always been a drift in digital media between the 'captured' image and an ever changing landscape of how we attempt to display and view it.
I don't see a problem in continuing to refine and introduce new tools to offer additional options in how we interact with such media. Colorization, upscaling, and other 'enhancements' are always going to be controversial as purists argue about how it is 'supposed' to be and connoisseurs adopt a growing list of preferences of which technologies we prefer. The challenge becomes when such technologies are not optional, and manufacturers need to make choices about which to include in our phones, monitors, and televisions so that any given device has a chance to view media made today versus those captured decades ago in a variety of formats and scaling and frame rates, and codecs. As I get older and gulf between my childhood and today continues to grow, I am continually introduced to new versions of nostalgic media that aren't quite right or just feel unsettling or wrong. Part of this I see as the cost of growing older, but part of it is forced obsolescence as the choices on offer change or dwindle. Added complexity is added cost. My fancy new television has a dizzying array of settings and options to choose versus the old analog knobs of old. Deciding which to include and which to continue to support and how many to offer or bombard customers with is still a continually shifting landscape.
And while I agree with those who are saying these new technologies should be optional, I am under no illusion that such can or will always be the case. How long will we continue to carry the ever growing catalog of digital media? How much media has already been lost to time? How will copyright and licensing limbo continue to decide how much is available for streaming or 'purchase' via physical media releases? And that's before we get into the conflict between artistic vision and the ability to edit and rerelease new versions of media where Han shot first or not. I don't have any answers except that Han definitely shot first.
Take your pick.
Would someone, please, think of the children?!
designed a chip with 41 vertical layers of semiconductors and insulating materials
I love, that it is a prime number!
Xiaohang Li, a researcher at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, and his team have designed a chip with 41 vertical layers of semiconductors and insulating materials, approximately ten times higher than any previously manufactured chip. The work, recently published in the journal Nature Electronics, not only represents a technical milestone but also opens the door to a new generation of flexible, efficient, and sustainable electronic devices. “Having six or more layers of transistors stacked vertically allows us to increase circuit density without making the devices smaller laterally,” Li explains. “With six layers, we can integrate 600% more logic functions in the same area than with a single layer, achieving higher performance and lower power consumption.”
May I ask why you call firing people morally corrupt? Illegal, according to some artificial definitions of what is supposed to be the law, which is a system designed to force behaviors, maybe. But morally corrupt? Please explain, I really do not get it, absolutely don't understand what is morally corrupt about firing people that you don't want to work with because any reasons whatsoever. If it is your business, you should be able to fire anyone, it's not about morality, it is purely, completely a monetary decision. Do you feel morally corrupt for purchasing things on sale rather than overpaying for them?
IKR?! (I know right?) TBH (to be honest), I just wanted to leave a comment here for the LOL (laughing out loud) factor. I can do this all day but I don't have all day, have to leave ASAP (as soon as possible). TTYL (talk to you later).
Installing Windows of any kind is a security risk that can lead to death, on this much I agree with the AI. I still believe anyo e should be allowed to do it though.
I am 100% pro Israel, against Islam, against Hamas, there is no such thing as Palestine. People should be able to fuck whoever, if it is consenting adults.
Government power is evil in itself. Taxes are theft, laissez faire capitalism is the best economic system for long term benefits.
Climate change is real. Immigration is fine as long as there are no welfare systems based on taxes. ruzzians should be contained by a mote with alligators and lasers.
Feminism, welfare systems, urbanization is causing the declining birth rates, this cannot be easily reversed, we will suffer because of this more than from the changing climate as a species.
People must be able to own any weapon systema they can afford. Governments must be decentralized, presidents shouldn't have more power than city mayors. Democracy fails hard because of power monopolization. Power must be decentralized. Property taxes, death taxes, income taxes, capital gains, dividends must never be taxed.
Schools, health care, infrastructure, everything must be private, paid for by selling bonds. Governments must charge fees for use, not rely on taxes. Fees must be directly paying for services rendered, never used for things other than the services rendered.
Money is what the market decides, most of the time markets decide that gold is money. Governments must never be allowed to print money, they may coun it for a fee.
Trade must always be free of all and any government involvement.
etc.etc. I know how this will be moded, but that is the point of this thread.
Why not just go real bare bones and implement the only interface that is needed - Aliens style motion tracker. A couple of dots and a sound that beeps faster and faster when the target is closer?
Are they not doing music anymore for each release?
How exactly what I describe here is a Troll, when I am actually sharing my experience as a user of a technology? I luterally feel nauseous (wanting to vomit) when riding as a passenger in a Tesla. Rarely happens in an ICE vehicle, happens in electric vehicles, especially Teslas. No matter how much I get moderated as a Troll, doesn't change what I end up feeling as an EV passenger. There is something about the way these things ride, it makes me want to vomit.
Right, but as I just said obeying a disallow directive isn't legally mandatory, so it doesn't mean much.
Brain fried -- Core dumped
