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Comment Re:More Redefining Words? (Score 1) 69

by noshellswill (#65666644) Attached to: Is TV's Golden Age (Officially) Over? A Statistical Analysis
Sorry about the tarnished  karma, pal. You're gold, but  talking to a pack of luzerz who don't know: Spin & Marty, Atom Squad, Playhouse 90  and Omnibus/Dave Garaway. Nor Canadian football , gals roller-derby, Weds-night fights and Bobo-Brazil / Galager Bros. Or Fabians' ( A Lion walks among Us ) brilliant jail-scene. Don't even try.

Comment Re:Rich folks want to be vampires (Score -1) 93

You sound like a person who has never produced anything of value. Able humans work for the pure joy of producing; wealth is a natural free-flowing result of any-such production. No doubt, the off-spring of wealthy parents become wealthy themselves W/O effort. The logic of allowing that is the 60% / 40% genetic gifting of ability --- so inheritance and marriage both have the same final cause ... identifying and gifting the most able. Likewise a culture allows wealthy corporations to continue producing wealthy because they are also ( until say Y2K ) the most like to product value. Think old 20-th Century  Westinghouse, Ford, DEC,  IBM, Amana, RCA, HP etcetc. 

Comment Re:A jab at Misk (Score 0) 83

by noshellswill (#65648486) Attached to: Sam Altman Says Bots Are Making Social Media Feel 'Fake'
Xs short-term valuations may be hurt, but its long-time existence will be favored. Companies/guilds etc that cater to "discriminating" buyers  tend to last much longer than fly-by-night / race to the bottom start-ups. Musk builds  for the long-haul and his stock-holders / workers / customers will reap the financial/cultural  benefits of quality and stability. Of-course GEN-Q "twitchers" cannot conceive the ansatz. 

Comment Re:We *HAVE* them, they're just pointless. (Score 0) 92

by noshellswill (#65644784) Attached to: How Close Are We to Humanoid Robots?
Housekeeping! It's not plowing fields with a horse. Why don't you wish to perform those every-day tasks ? Consider it part of self-grooming. Or if you have the $$$, hire  experienced  mans-man, secretary, maid, butler and chef; you know, the Holmes/Watson kind of thing. From classical ROME  to the Victorians, wealthy individuals have successfully used that solution. Or perhaps you're feeling a bit entitled above your station in life.  Let me understand this ... you don't pride yourself in the quality of your own BBQ steaks or smoked ribs ?

Comment Re:As for the "why"? (Score 0) 92

by noshellswill (#65644770) Attached to: How Close Are We to Humanoid Robots?
To be human is to interact with other humans. That includes tool-use; the more a tool depends ( think manual hand-tools or C-coding  on a text-pad ) on human emotion the more humane will be that interaction.  Humans that interact mostly with abstract machines find their  empathy devalued and values corrupted. Say hello byte-boi to our dystopian AI overlords -- but first celebrate the loss of humanity. 

Comment 3% (Score -1) 134

Get real jam-boy.  Need-to-work  defines need-to-be-human. Roughly 3% of  pure-play investors  do better than an inflation-rate return. That's NO return. And those that DO make money from trading often align with cocaine-like products.  Better to destroy all-but-medical-military AI and return to a quasi-automated / guild-system of production. 

Comment Re:Prediction (Score -1, Troll) 209

by noshellswill (#65631710) Attached to: US Tourism Suffers 8.2% Decline
I'll byte thank-you. And Fuck U Jackson. TRUMP supporter here and support smash-facing border-crossers at the slightest excuse. Don't want tourists or refugees or kind-hearted crack-heads from over-populated jungles.  Either you have the docs, or get fed ( FED//get-it! ) to the crocs ... right here in sunny NASCAR-smoking Florida. 

Comment Re:The "old" economy (Score -1, Flamebait) 258

by noshellswill (#65631030) Attached to: The Age of Cheap Online Shopping is Ending
That  'reckless monetary expansion'  was used  to expand Chinese industry and military.  Only traitorous SJW/wokers or sociopath business globalists would think that's a good idea. These heinous groups infest both political parties ; patriotic American citizens should "discipline" these defectors from republican ideals and enlightenment culture.

Comment Re:To put this in retrospective (Score 1) 108

by noshellswill (#65630608) Attached to: Our Preoccupation With Protein Intake
Ounces and pounds -- like inches, feet and yards -- are human-size measurement units. The Metric system was a device of Napoleonic elites to enhance their power over commoners.  Still is ! For pure scientific measurement, power-of-10 systems have a big advantage. For everyday human activities with legs/nose/mouth/hands/arms/feet the ouncers win by a mile (1.609 km). You DO SEE the issue I imagine ...

Comment Re:Music is made by... (Score 0) 101

Oblivious to live creation? Palsy, your musical tastes have been corrupted. Wouldn't be surprised if you also prefer DVDs to records, Marantz speakers and McIntosh tube pre-amps. Can't taste free-range-chicken either, can you ! Or support the local "little theater" group. I'm afraid you have a long road back to humanity. 

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