Hmm, okay, I'll bite, let's see...troll, troll, troll, complaint about being modded down, troll...

I shouldn't bother replying...but because it's Friday and I'm bored:

I never once said people who criticize Clinton are pro-Trump. Rather, I'm annoyed by the notion that 'they all do it' and 'it started with XYZ' (btw, Clinton was not the first president to violate ethical or legal principles while in office, and Nixon wasn't the first, either), and all the hand-wringing about 'who is more corrupt' and 'now that it's the "new normal" there's nothing we can do.'

Right, amino acids are not life and are not alive; but experiments that show how easy they are to show up without much prodding suggests that the additional steps are likewise "easy" given enough time and replication opportunities. As we get better at spotting it, I suspect we will find amino acids and then basic types of life to be very common in the universe. There's some evidence that some form of life existed in the past on Mars, for example, but died when conditions on the planet changed (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/edited-volume/abs/pii/B9780443273483000135). And on a universe scale, that's pretty close by, and we still don't have good tools to undoubtedly determine the existence of life on Mars in the past. But with future technology breakthroughs, my hunch is we will start to see evidence of life-like things all over the place.

Life arose on Earth, and there are many experiments that have been done that showed how easy it is in the conditions on Earth (and likely present in many other places throughout the universe) for amino acids to spontaneously arise (see, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...). These conditions have even been found in meteorites and comets, which might also be possible sources for the origin of life throughout the universe. With the ease of creating the building blocks of life, it seems highly likely that it will arise in places with the right conditions.

Now, that doesn't mean it will produce little green men. It could just be single-cell organisms, algae, etc.

And unless you are the insider, why would you bet on it, knowing there are 'insiders' who are likely betting against you?

So, you agree that presidents should be held accountable for their conduct when in office? What steps are you taking to encourage the current administration be held to account for their corruption?

If you are angry about the lack of accountability for Clinton's misdeeds, how much more angry are you about the lack of accountability for Trump's - and the Trump administration's - ongoing grifting, dishonesty, corruption, and un-Constitutional activities? And what steps are you taking to see that the current administration will be held accountable?

There likely is - or was - life on LHS 1140 b. But what are you expecting to find? An image of a little green man waving at us from the surface of LHS 1140 b?

The likelihood that there is intelligent life, capable of responding in a meaningful way to human contact, is very, very, very small, even on an Earth-like planet. LHS 1140 b likely has (or had) some form of life, but the chance that it has evolved at the exact same rate as it did on Earth is really small. Humans have only been on Earth for something like .003% of Earth's existence, and given our current trajectory, will probably flame out at around .004% of Earth's existence. The chance that Earth's .001% of time aligns with LHS 1140 b's .001% of time where we can actually contact an intelligent life, is really, really small (1x10^-10).

There's a big difference between how human authors operate and how LLMs operate. LLMs, by design, use their training material to predict the text that should be placed on the screen given the prompt provided. While it is not reproducing a work word-for-word, it relies on prior works explicitly for any future production.

For human authors, yes, prior reading can inform about structure, phrasing, pacing, etc., and there are genre and common structural elements, unless they are a plagiarist or parodist they are not writing a tweaked-version of the material they read but something new.
Also, presumably, the human authors obtained the books they read legally.

Other then the death of a few leaders, Iran is winning this war in pretty much every other way. You want this to continue so Iran can win even more concessions from the U.S.?

Yes, but after fees and additional charges the deal ends up only being worth $49.95.

If the price is too high, I don't go. I'm not the target market for the recent A-list pop music tours, but I have been to some major sporting events in the past two years, and I will say Europe does a much better job of managing the secondary market for tickets than the U.S. They have limits on price increases for resellers, fees are limited for the transaction, there's clear ticket transfer process which limits forgery somewhat...but we can't have that in the U.S. because, *socialism*?

Your local school certainly would hire him as a paraeducator, and while the salary is probably not much more than a movie theater, at least it would be in the general area where he wants to work.

I'm assuming this was face value of the tickets, which has little to do with scalping?

Tours and live events are expensive, and are now one of the few ways popular music acts can actually make money. So they charge as much as they can, and all of the middlemen in the biz also take as large of a cut as they can.

Competition is good for both Apple and for Android. The existence of cheaper options puts pressure on Apple to keep their price low. The privacy, low advertising, ease of use and high quality build and performance puts pressure on Android producing tablet makers to pretend like they care about those things. If either of these two sides completely wins then consumers lose.

Then the "unemployable" could work at growing food and building housing? These are both low-skill, high-labor activities that almost anyone can do.