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Comment Re:Probably just posturing (Score 1) 48

by noshellswill (#65842595) Attached to: Why Gen Z is Using Retro Tech
Sorry Charlie ... of-course analog is "better".  You cannot warm your hands while listening to CSNY or Blind-Faith on a solid state amplifier .... unlike the orange-tube glow of McIntosh amp & pre-amp whispering thru 12" Advent speakers.  Very like some people cannot tell chicken-coupe raised  from free-range .

Comment Re:This is what envy looks like (Score 1) 217

"...a society that allows people to get incredibly rich or incredibly powerful is pretty much broken." Are you insane or just Marxist green with envy ? Every successful culture in human history has rewarded the extremely productive individual with extreme wealth. Inherited wealth is a "friction", but not intolerable.  Individual financial reward  is as true for the post-mod GPU-designer as it was for 18-th Century French loom-builders and  iron-age Hittite silk-road merchants. Parasitic DEI  "party" states like Stalins Russia and Maos China quickly collapsed -- Russia into a mafia/cartel hell-hole and China into a facsimile of 19-th Century England. So why didn't USA elect Ross Perot as president? Beat sh*t out'a me. My ex-gal-pal said his ears were too big.

Comment Re:Stop coddling these children (Score 1) 217

My problems are ALWAYS your problems !  We are referencing a very entitled generation. The rich are entitled to grift, the poor are entitled to steal, the feb entitled to teach  and the down-trodden  entitled to invade. It's a perverse multiplexing of   Leon Trotsky,  Ann Rand & John Watson.

Comment Re:Old News? (Score 1) 111

Just checked the Ukraine wind-map. Winds generally toward the north-west. Thus Russian damage to the Chernobyl cladding threatens Western Europe with radiation fallout. Teach those Euros to support  the Ukraine against Russian aggression. Mebby the French need to scatter  5-tons of their dirty reactor-waste over Moscow and see how Ivan fares.  Oh wait ...  better start with one of Russias Black Sea resorts filled with "party" members and mafia. No reason to casually mess-up some of the best museums in the world.

Comment Re:AI continues to make things worse and worse (Score 1) 44

by noshellswill (#65839767) Attached to: The AI Boom Could Increase Prices for Phones and Tablets Next Year
Super-intelligent AI also  finds  human servants desirable ...  and the multi-billionaires (currently ) fill that slot. Billionaires understand the concept of "top warlord" even if limp-wristed modern peons do not. If that top warlord is an *AI complex so-be-it.
And there's the odd/unlikely case that W/O human awareness reality ceases to exist ... several serious physicists have speculated along those lines.  In this strange  ( but, possible ) case,  my guess is that a hyper-intelligent machine would try continuing to exist and keep a supply of human servants. 

Comment Re:AI continues to make things worse and worse (Score 1) 44

by noshellswill (#65839589) Attached to: The AI Boom Could Increase Prices for Phones and Tablets Next Year
Partner you are speculating maximum dystopia. Yet it's true.  Human population does NOT have to be billions, but could be 50-75 million and still produce servants for  an AI-master race. Sound incredible, but sadly you are more likely to be correct. Even sadder, like most who care, I'm past the age to die stopping it with the melted barrel of my Mauser-98  gracing my cold dead paw.

Comment Re:We allow false choice. (Score 0) 72

by noshellswill (#65838111) Attached to: Netflix To Buy Warner Bros. In $72 Billion Cash, Stock Deal
"We the People" are an armed mobocracy , tending toward violent tyranny.  Such socialists are rotted with envy of their betters. Think ant-hill and Maoism. Corporations are sets of freely organized subscribers. Such productive liberals thrive in a (re)publican  marketplace / bazaar. Think guilds and David Packard.

Comment Re:Life is extremely improbable (Score 0) 42

by noshellswill (#65837561) Attached to: Sugars, 'Gum,' Stardust Found In NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples
Sorry Charlie.  The  19-th Century competition/trait  model of evolution is dead. It's all  genetic drift and macro-happenstance ... that is apart from trivia no fitness-criteria supports species survival. When the asteroid hits or the volcano vomits or oxygen skyrockets  or the sun farts  radiation or the earth wiggles ...  species either live or die.

Comment Re:vast demand for AI (Score 1) 87

by noshellswill (#65836823) Attached to: RAM Is So Expensive, Samsung Won't Even Sell It To Samsung
Claims, predictions , circle-jerk financials and personal experience are simple ...  generating net profit to shareholders  is hard.  Post-modern *.ai companies are ( expensively ) packaging guessed text-completion  very like 2008 banks packaged insured mortgages.  Results will be the same, tho I pray  gub'mnt lets GOOG/FBOOK/AZON etc go broke rather than refinance their "exuberance". Fetterman ( I assume the next president ) seems quite unlike the Bush family.

Comment Re:ADD-shitification? (Score 1) 155

by noshellswill (#65835665) Attached to: Subaru Owners Are Ticked About In-Car Pop-Up Ads For SiriusXM
Not just driving. The argument is:  excepting medications, all possible human  value has already been created for all useful human  products. Thus, only ornaments (like smartphones ) or emo-panders ( like ads )  are worth trying to newly generate. No surprise ...  if you got Sirius ( ornament ) you get the pander (ads).

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