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Comment Christchurch Shooting Video (Score 2) 318

I live in Australia, and have seen the awful video. I do not know if the video I saw had been modified, edited or otherwise messed with. Either way, the video appeared to show that the shell casings after being ejected were disappearing in mid air like in a video game. I would not be surprised if some people who saw that same video, came to the conclusion that it may have been a staged false flag attack. I absolutely, do not know what actually happened. The targeted censorship of the video when there is plenty of similarly violent footage on the net, makes it suspicious that some sort of cover up may be involved, to those inclined toward conspiracy. Many governments have been caught in false flag operations (and I am not saying this is one) and secrecy and censorship only tends to reinforce conspiratorial beliefs. https://washingtonsblog.com/20...

Comment Spot the obvious mistake (Score 1) 376

Regardless of your views on vaccination, Facebook did not exist for the first five or six odd years of this childs life. He claims to have been completely unvaccinated. This is not something you can land on facebook. As the provax forces push ever more draconian demands, it only reinforces the perception that they may have something to hide. They have no idea of PR how to, and I suspect it's all going to blow up in their faces when the informed consent issue is properly ventilated. If you believe in vaccination, remove the exemption from liability from the manufacturers, do actually independent multi site, double blinded controlled clinical trials using actual placebos and earn your trust like any other medical product. Hide behind the law or lie and people will smell a conspiracy (even if their isn't one).

Comment LISP (Score 1) 263

To quote Albert van der Horst (Feb 17 '14 at 13:23) "I would rephrase the question as "what features of a language are necessary for hard AI?" This is a valid and useful question, and the outcome will be that only Lisp, Forth & assembler have what it takes to do hard AI. – "

Comment Re:My feeds are pretty busy... (Score 3, Insightful) 210

This is true for me too, all my serious content is privately available to curated circles on google plus, while all the meaningless social chit chat is done through my facebook account. I would create the equiv of a Facebook Circle if enough friends were also on google plus, but the network effect is such that its not viable yet. Facebook is the lowest common denominator, and most people dont have the time or mental space, to make a change, if they think the current system (Facebook) is good enough. As more tools support posting the same content to multiple networks simultaneously, this may change, but only if laziness and familiarity with current clients is overcome. This same issue will slow the adoption of Win 10 as well.

Comment Re:Submersible, but not dry (Score 1) 91

I'm starting to worry that Elon Musk is getting spread too thin. Space-X, Tesla, Hyperloop, automatic driving, plus this. We really need for Space-X and Tesla to succeed.

Maybe the key to success will ultimately lie in Musk giving those businesses (and the people who run them day-to-day) the space they need to make their own decisions.

Comment Re:I get what he's saying here (Score 1) 438

Apollo 13 is hardcore real, only strained interpersonal dynamics were hammed up from what actually happened.

My understanding is that the way that film presents the multiple crises (air filter conversion, weight discrepancy due to lack of lunar samples, fixed point needed for avoiding gimble lock during manual burn) also had, shall we say, "Hollywood conversion" applied to their time frames and threat-to-survival-legitimacy levels. Not that it wasn't an awesome movie, but they tweaked more than one aspect of the story to keep it compelling.

Comment Control? Publication? (Score 1) 183

I'm unclear from the article whether there was a control group that was exposed to the same VR environment without a projected heart beat indicator and/or whether the researchers tried projecting the heart beat indicator on one or more images that were not the user's own image.

I also didn't see any indication this was related to an article being published in a pier review journal, which essentially just makes it complete hearsay. On the way home I think I'll ask the sasquatch who lives next to the bike trail whether he thinks claims like this deserve journalistic coverage.

Comment Re:Maybe they deserve it (Score 1) 193

Even though they share the same branding and (usually) the same product selection, they function as if they are separate companies.

I was at a Sears B&M and inquired why the Sears.com website had better pricing on a particular Craftsman tool (about $1.80 cheaper on a $12 product). The salesman (early-20s kid) replied "Well, they're actually our competitor."

Talk about missing the ONE advantage...

Kohl's, on the other hand, mostly gets it - allowing you to return in-store what you buy online, and if you order online from an in-store kiosk you get free S&H.

Comment Anyone else mentally reverse the headline & st (Score 1) 341

I thought they were going to offer licenses to hunt WITH drones not FOR drones. (As in the difference between a "bow hunting" and "deer hunting" license.)

Hunting WITH drones seemed a bit technologically innovative. Though given the target is drones it also seems like a practical method. Who wouldn't enjoy a little drone on drone violence?

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