We are a small time player in this industry. What about France, Japan and others who depend on atomic reactors. They going dark or back to coal???

Help me a song keeps playing over and over inside my head. The cash register keeps ringing up money every time the song starts over. I am broke.

Wait I can't keep up. Is it global cooling? Is it global warming or is it climate change? Is climate change mean it is getting cooler or warmer. Does not climate always change over a long period of time. Boy the chicken littles have it all covered how can anyone disagree. Is their a group advocating for climate stagnation where nothing happens. Just clean up the air for its own sake and stop attempting to use scare tactics to extract the maximum taxation possible. You all know the monies will be used for some cockamamie scheme or to enrich the politicos. C'mon you know its all an attempt to enrich someone other then those taxed...

Instant viewing problems are one thing but a here is little off topic problem. 75% of my Blue Ray discs, which you pay extra for, come cracked. After many tries Netflix says the discs are too thin and are delicate. No plans to redesign the packaging? No answer. Anyone else have this experience or is my mailman out to get me?

It is my belief that AI will not be advanced under current theory. The goings on inside the brain do not translate to data and information moving around and being "stored" in different areas. A more metaphysical approach might unlock how it is done. Seems to me a chemical/electrical interaction takes place and creates "something" new. That is it did not exist before. Hence the "birth of an idea." This process is applied to all thought which is then physically organized by the brain for retrieval and modification. The entire mechanism is fueled and supported by the body. How would a machine understand wind on your face, hearing sounds in a forest or any other sensory inputs that create/ enhance or add to our intelligence/experience? The mind and body work together to create intelligence. Machine AI can't duplicate this process. It might take created information use it, store it or manipulate it but can't actually produce or create thought. The best we might hope for is a combination of an organic brain and a computer that the brain can use to enhance or speed up information already created. Actual creation of thought is a biological process not mechanical process. The term AI was created, now we are trying to fit research and theory to produce something to approximate what we think intelligence and real thought is in fact. Before you can duplicate something you should first completely understand what you are trying create. We don't seem to be close to taking the first step.

Maybe the subconscious needs and wants of the designer and those who approve the final product come into play. All designers of "appeal" items are trying whether on a conscious or subconscious level to attract positive attention. William Gibson's book "Patten Recognition" (2003) put this concept forth in a very entertaining way. Artists and writers instinctively know what studies "uncover" by so called research.

I always contended that the Edsel was a failure because of its front grill. A Mercury sucking a lemon was one way to describe it. I thought it looked like a boozy hooker puckering up for a kiss. The car was ahead of its time but never sold. Same for the Studabaker with the light in the center of the front grill. It turned with the front wheels but looked like a cyclops. Guess the designers missed the whole likability thing. Some people loved these cars like crazy but not enough to keep them on the road.

Seems to me a man MUST earn a living some way, cleaning sewers, hauling garbage, carrying heavy loads or digging ditches. Women on the other hand even when confronted with unemployment don't seem to seek out the dirty hard work that is available. Maybe they are smarter. They existed for 100s and 100s of years by wit and guile. Now they can chose what they want to do by getting an education and do what appeals to their wants and needs. Without an education they can still do fine if they apply social skills or marry well. Often a work life is an option while men are expected to earn a living by hook or crook. Why are there more male criminals anyway.

Call Larry Summers he knows the answer. Oh I forgot it is the unspoken truth that must not be uttered lest we be shunned by the thought control police.

Just that what seems important today may be an obscure, meaningless factoid 100 years from now. Other then a feel-good pat on the back just how does being biracial insure that this man with a very, very thin resume will guide us through these difficult times? Seems a reckless bet just to "make history." I can think of many black individuals who would have been a better choice but the people have spoken and that is how things work. Good Luck Mr. President!

Rights don't just appear in society out of nowhere. Gay marriage was unthinkable 30 years ago. Now as we evolve this situation is slowly being righted. People who it effects (a small number) want it here and how. Well if you can find a magical way to change generations of minds and alter points of view in an instant your truly a wizard. If a social change is right it will prevail --just not at the pace many would like. Slavery, the most obliviously evil and vile institution was around for centuries, and still is, before it was abolished. Gay marriage if it is to be integrated into our culture will be approved and ACCEPTED over the normal course of time. That time appears to be within our generation.

Only in America could this happen. Since an American black individual would eventually be elected I think the writer could have been referring to the election of an individual from a very, very modest background going from the bottom to the top in one lifetime without the use of armed insurrection.

There was only one president whose first language was not English. He did not turn out to be such a great president. Hope Obama does better being the first biracial president. Wonder when we will get the first brain dead president---oh I think we have had one.

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