RealID is so important to security, it can't be used to prove you are a U.S. citizen. So says DHS, the people administering the RealID program.

Why dig a ditch at all if there are no humans around to receive the benefits of it? I REALLY don't think anyone fully thought this through. Let's say that I and a few others receive the full benefits of AI. I don't even like those others, I prefer different types of people... and yet they no longer exist. They had no money for food and shelter and just died off. So I go down to the dance club to meet new people, but there is nobody there. They all died from exposure and starvation.

So I go home and turn on the TV... but all I see is static. There is nobody to make new shows or provide the news. There are no more sports teams to watch. It is just me, 20 thousand other people like me, and none of us like each other and none of want to or are capable of creating music, fine art, etc.

I have spent my entire life thinking other people are Hell... but I found out, too late, that other people make heaven possible.

And should be treated as such.

No enterprise concerns if you can just tick a policy box.

And for home users, people who don't know what GPO is let alone have access to it? They're just screwed, aren't they?

There was no issue until Israel drug the U.S. by the nose into a war it can't win.

Remind everyone again who it is that keeps attacking its neighbors claiming "self defense" then whines it's the victim? Or who has been saying another country is "two weeks away" from nuclear weapons for the past 40 years?

Dude. Give it up. The money was stolen and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it (FSLIC anyone?). Stop whining and start stealing. Everyone else is.

I used to believe like you do and I still behave that way; however, is 'ethics' really a thing anymore? All day, every day, I see unethical actions that nobody addresses. Look at how Bin Laden was captured. Nary a peep out of anyone. Look at how Supreme Court justices are somehow fortunate enough to be able to have 'friends' who gift them things a common person could only dream of. I will not even mention 'he who should not be named'. Congress is a mess of unethical actions that they can not even be investigated for anymore. ABSCAM anyone? What about the straight up looting of the Social Security fund. Yeah, yeah, I know, it is all safe in government bonds... and yet somehow or another, even just 10 years after the law passed that allowed it, there were cries about how the Social Security fund would be insolvent. When that law was passed, the Social Security fund had 300 billion dollars in excess funds. Once that money became part of the General Fund (through Bonds), it all evaporated.

No, there is nothing ethical about this world. I feel like a sucker for trying to be ethical within it.

What does 'awake' mean in relation to a thermostat? It is clear what it means in relation to a human or animal, not so clear with plants or microorganisms, but an inanimate object?

Only if he does not pay enough money to the right people. He is stupid, so he may make that mistake; however, it is perfectly clear that if you give the right amount of money to the right amount of people, you can do whatever you want without concern.

Good point. We have absolutely no history of having sailors constantly painting those steel structures to keep them protected from the harsh environment. No sir. All of those steel structures are protected once and then forgotten about. No need for constant maintenance.

(WTF)

You had the opportunity and blew it. Here is what you should have used:

Microsoft pays its employees so well.

Just like all those other programmers people say deserve their rich salaries.

I am not entirely certain that this claim is true. It is clearly true in the case that you are looking for content that you are not familiar with by 'people' that you are not familiar with, and yet, somehow or another, I do not see any AI content on YouTube. Occasionally, I will see suggestions on the sidebar that are pretty clearly AI generated, but again, I do not watch them. It took clicking on only 1 to recognize all of them. Humans and human generated content have a uniqueness to them that AI content can not imitate.

Oh, there is one AI generated video that I watch from time to time. It is based on the song War Pigs by Black Sabbath. I think it was created by someone named Gabrielle Marie. Fantastic visualizations. Really moody and artistic.

Words and consciousness have no relationship. Words are 2 dimensional while consciousness is 3 dimensional. Ever woke up from a dream and try to explain to someone else what happened in your dream? As you try to explain it, the dream recedes and your explanation becomes nonsensical. That is because words are 2 dimensional while the dream is your full consciousness expressing itself.

Long story short, Hinton had nothing useful to say to back up your claim.

You can't go after the manufacturers because 1) they're outside of your jurisdiction,

If they sell a product in your state, they're under the state's jurisdiction. It's why states can ban products or require safety features from manufacturers who sell in those states.

2) their products are likely legal in half of the world (e.g. Asia/Africa).

So? You think car manufacturers don't have different models for different parts of the world?