They've been undermining the postal service for decades now. Doing stuff like requiring them to fund pension plans 30 years into the future and blocking off sources of funding and requiring them to be profitable despite the fact that they are a government service...

And you can bet your ass that if or when they kill the postal service the private alternatives will shoot up in cost like you wouldn't believe.

Leading to arrest. So far it's been white people so the victims are at least alive. One of them was poor and couldn't afford a lawyer so they spent 6 months in jail before their public attorney got enough time to prove they weren't the person reported.

Dumb people think the computers are smarter than they are. And so they think the computer is infallible because dumb people already think they are pretty smart.

And the entire country of America right now is being run by dumb people top to bottom. Hell with the police we intentionally screen out intelligent people because the job is generally fairly boring and people who aren't dumb have a bad habit of quitting after a few months of expensive training. I've had a few buddies who thought being a cop might be a easy job with decent benefits so they went in for it and couldn't pass the psych exam not because they were crazy but because it said they were too smart to be a cop.

His audience loves that. He has a team of writers. The late show is a corporate product, not an artistic one. He's at the helm, but it's less of a reflection of his personal ideas and more what his producers think the audience wants. You don't like it? Well...it has a huge audience...and you're not one of them. It's like Sean Hannity, Ben Shapiro, Guttfeld, the Critical Drinker Twat, etc. Their shows fucking suck and are shittily written...but they have their audiences and they love it.

Guttfeld was unwatchable to me...not because I was upset...but I was just fucking bored. I would probably enjoy well written comedy from an adversarial viewpoint....even if I think you're a shitty person, if you make me laugh...I'll have a guilty pleasure good time. But no, conservative comedy just sucks...it's boring as shit...poorly written, unimaginative...there's a FUCKTON of things to make fun of liberals about and conservatives typically suck at it. The South Park guys were decent at it for awhile...but regardless, the point stands. Gutfeld has his audience. I'm not one of them...he doesn't care what I think and he will tailor his writing to what he thinks his audience wants.

If we discover that he's a huge Miami Vice fan and wants to rewrite the series, I am confident it won't look like his Fox News show.

By your logic, there would be no new electronic music. You don't need an LLM to generate EDM from algorithms based on what clubbers respond to. We had the technology 30 years ago and yet it's a thriving genre. Time will tell, but I imagine the 2 biggest and most famous fans of Tolkein can best an LLM slopping together a story. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if they used the LLM to help them or to judge their work. That would be a smart use of technology. However, the human touch and vision will be clear an apparent vs LLM sloppy shit.

Really, is an LLM to a writer any different than a drum machine to a drummer? We still prefer live drummers, even for electronic genres, to drum machines at live shows...yeah, some studio gigs are no longer there, but there are a lot of drummers working, despite being obsolete by your logic for over 30 years.

Well, my experience wasn't good, nor was my coworker's. Whereas the only time Google sent me to the wrong place it was legitimately not it's fault. Identical addresses on the same road in two neighboring municipalities. Dunno how that got past everyone. I was pretty baffled by it, since the location I ended up at didn't exist. Plotted, but no construction at all, so there I was sitting at an intersection looking at trees and wondering where the industrial park was hiding.

And I suspect that amateur rockets rarely have to do much maneuvering to evade countermeasures.

Which leads directly to my next point - damnit, why did there have to be two damn eu words in that sentence? I misspelled both amateur and manwhatever there, and I'm annoyed by it.

Also, how cheap must the guidance system be (if any of this is real)?

Well, if you're at all like me, what you do is kick, and then immediately excise from your mind, the can. "That's future me's problem. F- that guy."

So, irritating reminders are a blessing well disguised.

I don't want to argue about the advantages and disadvantages for the American and Canadian (I almost typed comedian, dunno why) systems. They're both flawed, arguing whose is worse seems silly today.

Though I wonder how many of the problems can be traced to both the US and Canada being mostly empty. Of course there are a huge number of US counties that don't have psychologists, I'm surprised that it's only half! There are so many rural counties without enough residents to keep a shrink in business. It'd be like trying to setup an office in Dog River Saskatchewan. Who the hell are they going to serve? Brent and Hank? Brent doesn't need it and Hank can't use it!

You triggered bro?

Fun fact when everyone started wearing red hats right winger is complained about all the dirty looks they got. I mean they were throwing there a lot in with a well-known rapist and pedophile. And this was before Trump announced he would go to hell.

You do know those dirty looks that everyone wearing the Red hats complained about, what they were was you see, those were microaggressions.

So every time you go out in your red hat and you take it off and put it away because everyone keeps looking at you funny you are in fact a victim of a microaggression.

So congratulations you're officially a blue haired girl. Welcome to the club.

Are you really that clueless? Comedy is a profession and a day job for people like him. He's a devout Catholic and family man and none of his material suggests that...why?...because he's a fucking professional. He's writing jokes for his audience, not himself. Colbert is a very intelligent man with a huge passion for Tolkein and that universe. Historically, writing styles are not consistent between genres. Look at Jordan Peele. Key and Peele was a good sketch show. I enjoyed it, but not in my top 5...not even sure if it's my top 10 of the last 20 years, but his horror films were amazing and NOTHING like his sketch shows.

Colbert is a professional. He writes with that perspective because he thinks its funny and he has an audience that appreciates that. Look at Colbert report...a very sharp satire that was nothing like what you described. It just made fun of the ridiculousness of your politics, rather than really expressing much of its own view.

Shitty writers do what they know. You may disagree with Colbert's politics, but he's not a shitty writer. He will adapt to the project.

I am not much of a Tolkein fan...it's fine...not my top choice, but I always enjoy the movies. He is a HUGE fan. My guess is that he will apply every bit of intellect he has to replicate Tolkein and give the most Tolkein-ian experience and it will look nothing like his old work.

My prediction is Stephen Colbert's Lord of the Ring will reflect his perception of what his audience wants and what the spirit of Tolkein is and would never know he wrote it based on his past comedy work. Just like how Jordan Peele's comedy doesn't reflect his horror writing.

Please don't try and explain empathy, I do possess it. I just don't know why you're harping on it when the issue is a lighting engine.

I know how it feels to be the angry complaining gamer. I can look at other people's words and feel it through them. Which doesn't change the fact that the premise for their emotions is a false one. Or, a silly one, like "it'll just be used to cover up sloppy work", as if one is an expert game developer and not an armchair quarterback.

I reject the sloppy work argument. It is a silly one. It is silly to say that about temporal antialiasing. Aliasing is not the result of sloppy programming, it is the result of downsizing an image.

And note that it is indeed possible for one's empathy to exceed their judgement to deleterious effect. It is unfair to criticize someone for keeping theirs in balance when that is contextually appropriate. It may shock you, but I actually come out fairly even on personality assessments. It has been difficult for me to achieve a balance between empathy and judgement, as I find it incredibly painful when someone else's feelings are hurt. But, being honest and direct is far less painful for everyone in the long run.

I can't see where you're finding a problem with developers using new tools that make it easier to do their jobs. I don't know why you seem to think that makes things worse. I expect you'll also say DLSS generally is bad because it means developers don't have to spend all their time carefully coding in assembly to shave cycles on hardware that has 12 cores running at over 4ghz. That's not efficiency.

That you're making blanket assumptions based on a brief tech demo where it was added into existing titles by a third party as if that's going to be how every game will look from now on is just plain silly.

Your sexual preferences are of no interest or relevance to me; I'm only expressing a concern for your mental health. Is this how you normally respond to people caring about you?

Well, naturally, but since that's the question at hand, that's the question being answered.

One in front, one behind. It'll just think it's in traffic. Moreover, it's already at a railroad track, so it's waiting on the train to pass.

Since the baseline of the story is that a person trapped a car by standing in front of it, yes. I do think it would be that simple.