Only Blake was unambiguously dead. The federation weapons could have been set to stun.

Does it have a microphone or a camera? Is it going to blackmail me by threatening to email video or sound of me and my wife getting it on in front of the TV?
I don't trust modern technology no more.

When a friend died and I tried to inform LinkedIn, they saw fit to suggest that I might want to do a mountain of work to support my information. They thought I might want to go further out of my way to help them maintain their data and their profitability. That's absurd. They can think again.

Arthur C Clarke and Douglas Adams had the right idea here. You want people who on no account want the job. You promise them time off for good behaviour. In other words if they do a good job they won't be forced to do it for as long.

No sane person wants to control others. But somebody has to.

That actively managed funds underperform the index fund after fees is not inconsistent with the hypothesis that they may overperform them before fees. My hypothesis is that the active fund managers and not their investors get the benefit of their research. As you say the fees on actively managed funds have decreased, however I do not think they can ever be as low as those on indexed funds. Not in the long term anyway, otherwise the manager is working for nothing.

I doubt you are claiming that if everyone invested in the index or randomly, there wouldn't be any opportunities for those who research.

My claim is that before the rise of index funds investors were paying way too much for the research of active fund managers, the effect of the index funds has been to reduce what active fund managers can charge for it, and if you are right, it may be that their investors are still paying too much.

I don't think it's controversial that index funds are taking a free ride on traders and active fund managers. After all the price is determined by the competition between these people to make a buck at each others expense. As a investor in index funds myself, my attitude is ha ha ha, you people do all this work. As a result of your hubris I get the benefit of the valuation that occurs as a result of the competition.

If you are one of those fund managers who makes massive fees, you won't be thanking him. Curiously these index funds exploit the efficiency of the market created by traders and actively traded funds and reduce it by creating vast category of new investors that don't contribute to the valuation effort.

My hypothesis is that a secondary effect of them is to improve the performance of those who are prepared to research. The tertiary effect is that people drift back to actively managed funds. The net effect is that the market achieves balance, not only between those who buy and sell, but also between those who spend time and money trying to value the market and those who can't be arsed.

Actually the article said it had passed the house. It didn't say it has passed the senate.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/20...

A new technology gets its start in porn. Porn makes the new technology grow big. Once it thinks it's big enough, it bans porn.

Yes, but you don't. And neither do I and neither do millions upon millions of others. Which makes your argument theoretical and of limited relevance.

That's great. Now I want them to be able operate a http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/P-5000_Powered_Work_Loader, so they can move around and send those aliens back where they came from.

I felt a great disturbance in the slashdot community, as though millions of us suddenly had similar thoughts and were suddenly silenced by this post.

So I just thought I'd let you know that speed is close to 0.003 furlongs per fortnight. I'm sure we'll all understand much better now.

caviare now does impersonation of Kripke from The Big Bang Theory.

"And how that's my pwobwm, no wait, that's not my pwobwm."

But seriously, if facebook and similar companies fell off the face of the earth, after an initial shock, who would mourn?

That's because you are classifying everything that has made progress in the last 40 years as not AI.