Yep. They're a bit heavy handed with the enforcement but they really want to get the number of deaths down to a more reasonable amount. They're installing more solar and wind power each year than the rest of the planet combined. Not just for clean air, but also because they want to reduce oil and gas dependencies.

If you want to know why the Koch brothers don't like China, well, this is one reason.

Oh, duh. Yeah, I was stooping low, but not that low. There's not a single ounce of critical thinking in that crowd, I fear.

20 years? Burning fossil fuels started a lot earlier. Think 200 years.

Or, we will have artists using the new tools to make better or more art, in mediums otherwise hard to get into. Which is how it has always been gone.

If you can't hear the difference, is there even a relevant difference?

In other words, why would I care if the AI is just as good as a human? It isn't as if the KPop and all the Britney spears clones are going to be missed for their contribution to the arts. They're just rolling them off the factory line at this point.

Exactly the example I was thinking of.

There is no option for euthanasia of people with dementia in any of the countries that now have it. The main reason being that they're no longer in control of their mind. The secondary reason is that, once they're gone far enough, they no longer care too much about their old selves. And we don't give euthanasia to people because others echt that.

Indeed. He should have offered her the standard option of prostitution.

If society won't fix her problem and she find them unbearable, refusing euthanasia won't help her.

It becomes the doctors business, who presumably dedicated a lot of his or her life to learning how to heal people. I don't think random civil servants should have a say in that process.

In NL it goes as follows: if two different and unrelated doctors are satisfied that you satisfy the criteria and qualify for euthanasia, you get it. And the courts have no say in that.

Imagine the brain cancer reaching your pain centre and not having euthanasia as an option. It happened to the wife of a friend. Fortunately we live in a civilised country where you don't have to die screaming for days, as the fentanyl no longer works.

You know how many cases we've had where someone was euthanized and there were questions about money? Zero so far.

And then there are the drivers that prevent you from running things like randomised memory locations, or DEP. It's not just the vulnerabilities in the drivers themselves, it's also that they're preventing mitigating measures.

That actually a great idea. I'm already saving all installed software, but I replace it when I buy a new computer. Never thought about uploading it to the archives.

How old was it? Because I have an old display, a samsung 22", and it works flawlessly. What does the driver do anyway? Just use "generic pnp display" and it should work.

Maybe you should face reality: after a millennium of taboos and harsh punishments on sex outside of marriage, no church has ever been able to get people to stop having sex before marriage, or during marriage.

They did manage to make a lot of people miserable for centuries, give people weird distorted views of the human body, and human biology, and killed a few million people in the process to prove a point.

Maybe just prevent disease? That seems to work out a lot better so far.

We won't be seeing that sort of writing coming out of an AI anytime soon :)

Free journalism, as in ad-derived click bait?

Yeah I think we can do without that. All news I read is paid for.