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Comment You will lose an arms fight against the US Govt (Score 1) 312

No matter what *LEGAL* for personal use arms you have, the government has something much better to take you out.

So the only use of legal arms is to hunt. That's a process where you shoot and hopefully kill animals who don't carry arms.

This myth that you will somehow win against the US Govt with the arms they have at their command is completely delusional.

The only reason you may survive such a battle is if the mission objective is that they want you alive for some reason.

Comment Re:Next Ohio Governor Ramaswamy Will Ignore This (Score 1) 120

Are you hinting at the legendary brain-computer interface? That'll be friggin' awesome! Browse the internet while I sleep, internally play peaceful music, download my brain to a computer that can read everything (wish you the best of luck with that).

Nope. Kurzweil will die like the rest of us.

And any 2-way brain to computer interface with influence the interfaced brain more than the computer. If you thought the two-way interface of social media was dystopian, it is, you'll love the brain computer interface. You'll have AI answers, hallucinations and crazy available to you 24/7 without any of the skills to validate that information. You'll just be an extension of unreliable information without judgement or muscle memory to properly apply those portions that might be useful.

But you will have the "voices, pictures and and thoughts of others..." in your head.

You can do this now without the direct interface. Just ask AI, and then do what it says.

Original Star Trek (streaming on everywhere) has many episodes of the dystopian future we are barreling toward. In this case, "Landru help us" seems to apply.

Comment Re:Next Ohio Governor Ramaswamy Will Ignore This (Score 1) 120

If the government wants these precious "LLM-AI data centers" (and, I very specifically use the LLM-AI tag because all the things available are just LLMs... and, they do the same thing as your cell phone's predictive text when texting someone) (and, that's regardless of whose a$$ fills the chair), rules *can* be bent... what're you gonna do?

LLMs are just one possible front end on the core neural nets that provide an interface for an AI.

Recommended reading Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI - By Karen Hao. An Instant New York Times Bestseller Named a Best Book of the Year by Smithsonian, Scientific American, and Elle.

"Eminent Domain" can be slipped into any bill (especially one that will definitely get passed, just in case Farmer Joe says "No" to the buy-out)

If it's your farm, you could try a Tiananmen Square... there's a lot of directions they could bring the bulldozers in from, and I doubt one person can block every one of them.

So, as I said, this requires legislative and execute branch action to make happen.

Big Business doesn't care what you want... they want to make millions a month or whatever, and they don't care who they step on.

Yes, there is a conservative conspiracy that was restarted in the 1970s with Nixon and his SCOTUS appointments But it has always existed in some form in the US and was a forceful push-back to the Civil Rights and Women's Rights movements of the rich, corporate (mostly resource extracting, polluting or poisoning passers of externalities to all of us) business interests and racist (usually white supremacist) high control authoritarian churches and their religious leaders.

If it's your house, you can try to find a crew to lift it from the foundation and move it to a new tract of land, but that's only if they give you enough time.

Honestly, I don't even know what conservative is supposed to mean in these kinds of things.
I know 'capitalism' is what makes the world go 'round, and all that jazz (and it ain't nice, smooth jazz)... but if it's my family's house built by my great-grandfather, they're gonna have to pry the deed and my will from my cold, dead hands.

You sound like you have a personal stake in this issue. Why not post the notice of "Eminent Domain" you received?

Comment Re:Next Ohio Governor Ramaswamy Will Ignore This (Score 1) 120

Why would the company pay rent, when 'eminent domain' is going to be the new hotness for building these things?
What good is the family farm when you can't plant on the fields that used to be the "farm"... can you plant and harvest underneath a solar panel (does your tractor fit?), can't plant near the turbine's mast (concrete pad).

Negotiate? "I want $5,000 per hectare" "We're prepared to offer you $100 per field" "Okay, $4,000 per hectare" "We'll offer you $50 now"... if you take it, you owe 2/3 of that profit as taxes, and lost the rest and more for the deeds and everything... if you refuse, they'll just come back with a Writ of Eminent Domain (because they have someone in the Federal government on speed dial just for this situation), and give you a few days (if you're lucky) to get your stuff out before they bulldoze the house.

"Eminent Domain" is an action of government. Not competitors. Can you lose your farm if you don't pay your taxes? Sure. That's the American Way.

There are many farms making a better near term return on their land by planting under solar panels.

You seem conservative, but appear to not like, love or embrace capitalism. It's now you use what you have to beat the competition. Not, just expecting that the game will never change. The game will always change.

Particularly, with the US being run by the biggest Boss Hogg that ever was. Who creates uncertainty, speaks lie almost every sentence, and causes death and corruption where ever he goes.

Comment Re:Next Ohio Governor Ramaswamy Will Ignore This (Score 1) 120

So, it should be legal to put a data center anyplace? Do you mind rationing you power usage until the magical "Green Energy" solution works? How about when they want to buy your backyard to put up a wind turbine? Or, buy your third-generation family farm for cents on the hectare?

Farmers are paid rent for installing wind turbines.
If a Data Center installed nearby is going to a Musk gas turbine or some other fossil or nuclear powered that will will raise locals electrical costs or pollute the area, I'd absolutely like it not to be there.

BTW, Farmers can negotiated paid rent or a percentage of sales for installing wind turbines or sometimes solar panels in their fields that are connected to the grid. That income can preserve "family farms."

"Green" energy works great! Just ask Norway, they are 98% powered by "Green" renewable energy.

Too bad the US elects corrupt politicians in the pockets of dirty fossil fuel companies. We could have been like Norway by now had Jimmy Carter been re-elected in 1980. And not be killing our citizens with pollution or destroying our country's wilderness with mines, natural gas and oil extraction.

Only idiots, politicians being remunerated and extraction economy corporations do not want the US to be fully energy independent via renewable non-extracted, non-polluting sources. They spew like you just did.

Comment Next Ohio Governor Ramaswamy Will Ignore This (Score 2) 120

As a Trump disciple Ohio's next governor simply ignore any restriction on Data Centers. So any Ohioans better not vote for him regardless of the tens millions of ad buys he has already purchased to fool the public into voting against their interests (much like Kansas) and will increase his buy to $50 million to scare Ohioans into voting for him.

However, there is a glimmer of hope that the baffle them with lies tactic won't work this time. Trump has hopefully, taught everyone that by now.

After all according to the pentagon any person in a boat with a rocket launcher or mine can sink an entire oil tanker. That is why Obama made a deal about nuclear enrichment. Trump, as usual, did not do the homework. Just like with tariffs.

BTW, Why won't any prediction markets accept my bet that Trump will lie today?

It's seems like the best bet to get rich.

Comment Let's get Super Pumped! (Score 1) 59

So it sounds like... Travis Kalanick is offering 24/7 robots for business owners that are tired of dealing with humans. That's the dream of every techbro of the moment within the techno optimist grift.

And both he and Elon appear to be way behind the Chinese.

And don't forget his partner "brother born of another mother" Anthony Levandowski.

"Google later sued Uber for allegedly stealing proprietary information. Levandowski was convicted of stealing Google/Waymo trade secrets, but avoided a prison sentence thanks to a pardon from President Donald Trump."

Remember Travis has the goal of "digitizing all of life." Is there any room for you in that nightmare?

These guys are absolutely brimming with moral character. Travis must have found morals after Uber. They'll surely treat humans with respect and not like all the techbros as simply NPCs to be amused by and disposed of.

We should all be so Super Pumped to watch this all happen. Will it be a re-run?

Book to read on these topics: More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity

Comment And at 18yo tech will feed you to the Ad wolves (Score 4, Insightful) 21

And understandably so, since (aside from collecting that much more data to sell to advertisers) they're the ones being threatened with dire consequences if they don't keep children restricted from the bad old interwebs, a task that is utterly impossible. But if they shift the legal responsibility onto someone else - anyone else, but Microsoft and Apple are good targets, and ultimately, to the government itself, then they are in the clear.

Social media giants pushing for this kind of crap was inevitable when the pearl clutchers and hysterical wannabe autocrats have enough influence to seriously threaten them.

And when you reach 18 years old, the tech companies will congratulate you on your birthday and THEN sell all the data they've collected on you since you were 4 to the data brokers and targeting influencers.

Comment AI: While looking through your files I found... (Score 4, Insightful) 49

something illegal. As required, I have reported this to the authorities, advertisers, my corporate owners, friends, and your closest family members. Next time I suggest you read the "terms of service."

Have a nice day!

Signed,
The AI you don't own and have no control over sniffing through all your files...

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