But I do find it intriguing how it's okay to launch politically motivated lawfare from one direction, but it's a crisis of democracy when it comes from the other direction.
Almost like the outrage and cheerleading are an act while the lawyers keep on collecting a few k or more per hour dragging these things out...
I've seen his stuff going back to PC Magazine or Byte or one of those in the mid-80's.
Most of the columns I read made me think "well, that's obviously wrong, and why is he being such a dick about it?"
I guess some people like that style. Never my cup of tea.
Once I realized I was almost always right when I thought "well that's obviously wrong" I learned to just skip his columns. In my teens I thought it was wise to give everybody a fair shake repeatedly, but then I learned about opportunity cost.
To be fair, he somehow got paid for decades despite his track record, so he must have been quite skilled at the hustle.
"Don't speak ill of the dead" and all, but he seemed to enjoy people being acerbic, so here we are.
Oh, it's not just that, they claim 100 miles from any border now.
Since I'm in New Hampshire and there's no part of the state further than 100 miles from a border, I've had to inform my friends that we've been kicked out of the United States.
Our ratification of the Constitution by the Legislature is what makes New Hampshire part of the United States. If the Constitution doesn't apply, well then the ratification has been nullified by DC. Unfortunate, but not our choosing.
This would apply to any of the Thirteen Colonies that joined and are in this situation (Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware) but likely not so for the States that were never independent. There's a real territorial integrity conundrum for the rest of the Thirteen Colonies. Only a tiny sliver of Vermont, Maryland, and Massachusetts have Constitutional Law under DC's theory. Texas was independent and is in this half-in, half-out situation as well.
Of course the Constitution is what authorizes the Federal Government so if it doesn't exist then they have no legal authority. It's *almost like* they're an outlaw gang at this point with no basis in law. Might be better for everybody if they followed the law.
If training data weights itself by sheer volume, one might expect the thousand page paperweights she wrote to make the average chatbot sound just a little more objectivist than the average bear.
better to not have that data on you when you cross certain borders
How about any border? Even more generally, at any situation, when the ordinary rights do not obtain...
I wonder, what the long term consequences of obtaining — and using — this skill are, if any... Does it make one smarter? Or faster? Does it reduce — or increase — the risk of developing Altzheimer? Does it affect personality in any way?
Also, can the skill be lost — if not regularly used — or is it more like bicycle-riding?
I saw a wall-sized TV at Walmart tonight for $698. Like foot traffic might damage it in a normal house.
There has to be some additional revenue source.
rsilvergun has a handy upvote cadre here who upvote every comment he makes.
And then he vanishes when simple math, facts, or logic refutes one of his wild-hair assertions.
Every dealer everywhere pushes thousand dollar tire warranties for $800 worth of tires. It's just background noise when you're buying a car.
You have to physically disable the modem to avoid that.
And nobody knows how to do that, and if they did there's no guarantee the car would keep working. I bring this up to prevent the quoted statement from making someone think that "disabling your car modem is a thing" people do... it isn't, despite many -- like myself -- very much wanting to do so.
And the barely-ever-quoted next paragraphs, perhaps even more salient?
"Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present
Oh wait, no we're not supposed to be afraid of this right now. So I guess ignore it.
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No idea if that's what they mean but it might actually be useful.
Chatbots whose ripply muscles and chiseled features ravish the conversation like a trashy romance novel.
The reason that every major university maintains a department of mathematics is that it's cheaper than institutionalizing all those people.
