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Comment Hybrid -- Automatically start/stop (Score 5, Insightful) 303

I drive a hybrid. When the engine isn't needed, as in idling, it automatically stops running. (Saves gas and pollution.) The car is still On and when I take my foot off the brake or touch the accelerator pedal, the engine automatically comes to life again. What could be simpler? Saves gas and pollution. But some big companies and many car owners have this love affair with gasoline. I am afraid that they hasten the coming lethal effects of global warming. (For details, read "The Next Civil War" by Stephen Marche (2022), well researched and very prophetic.

Comment Mind-boggling (Score 2) 72

So, an apparently portable device that can affect people apparently no matter where they worked in the embassy, and apparently or probably located at some distance from the embassy ... So, the rate of diminishment of the supposed radiation would be 1/r^2, I guess. So some kind of focussing process must be used to direct all that energy at the embassy. But it is still portable? And how does it affect anyone nearer to it than the embassy? No word about wavelength, so I suppose microwaves or shorter. So, lots of questions here.

Comment Re:And......was he right ?? Left hanging..... (Score 1) 29

No need really to "verify it", because the "AI" generated every possible combination of the 13 letters (like the thousand monkeys that I mentioned above), so of course "MarvinMerrill" is in that list, and my name too, and yours as well ! Not to mention the names of all of the suspects, regardless of their involvement.

But what was done is not cryptography and it all proves nothing at all.

Comment "Rewiring Their Own Genetics"? -- Nope! (Score 5, Insightful) 27

What is happening might be (and probably is) a natural process of evolution, but it is certainly NOT due to polar bears who are "rewiring their own genetics". The headline of this article and certain statements within the article are extreme examples of the anthropomorphication that occurs today in the popular media and in pieces written by people who don't understand that most things happen in the universe without any "wilful action" by anyone or anything. It's all just because of the Laws of Physics, as one of my physics profs used to grandly declare.

Comment It is NOT a binding agreement (Score 1) 75

Hey, everybody. What was actually signed was a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the federal government and the government of the province of Alberta (one out of ten provinces), regardless of the breathless reporting that you might read in the popular news media. It is not a binding agreement (yet) and it is certainly not a law. And there is a good chance that it will fail, because of the need for further agreements, such as with the province of British Columbia (which is against the MOU) and many voting citizens of Canada who are also against it. So don't get your hats in a knot just yet.

Comment More Than Half of (title) (Score 1) 61

Not on my website, it isn't (composed by AI). Content on my site is all my own creation. There is even a disclaimer on my home page, saying that there is no AI-generated content. And I try to block visits by any AI-bots that I can identify.

I know that many of you will say "What's the point?" and that copyright is now irrelevant, etc etc. Maybe I do it for fun, or just some inner need to express myself. I don't know. But I do know that so-called "artificial intelligence" has a long way to go before it can truly Think.

Comment What next? (Score 1) 97

Ahhh, a special Facebook group for everyone who owns one of these cameras and has a subscription to support it. Quizzes, contests, prizes!! More! Kids, get your parents to buy one of these cameras. Loads of fun! No home should be without one. Oh, I forgot. This is in America! No home should be without two or three or more of these cameras.

Special product announcement! New camera specially designed for your cat's kittylitter tray. Don't have a cat? That's OK, just get one for your boyfriend. The possibilities are endless!! Only in America!!

Comment We should edit ourselves! (Score 1) 75

We should *edit out* of ourselves our dangerous inclination to adopt and follow trends, fads, and all kinds of nonsense, most of which is a waste of time and resources, some of which is actually dangerous, and occasionally of which is catastrophic.

As supporting evidence, I offer https://science.slashdot.org/s..., and all of its implications.

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