Re: Natural Ebola remedies
people who are swallowing bleach (hypochlorite) after being told that this will cure ebola
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"I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I were to guess like what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that."
Seriously? Tomorrow a specially engineered pathogen can go AWOL from USAMRIID or some Monsanto biolab, nuclear war may start over any necon-coveted land with trace amounts of petrol, meteoroids may wreck our shit, ecoysystems may go titsup making the post-bronze age collapse look like a walk in the park, and he's worrying about AI?
Megahint: Unless the AI manages to P-ify NP, it's not going to magically transform the humans into computronium appendages.
Plus, it's kinda hard to produce cheaply unless functioning nanotech assembly is invented first. The jury is still out on whether that is even possible.
I'm sorry am I missing something here?
Yeah, you are missing basic lessons in logic and conceptual ideas about how a non-totalitarian society should work.
Moreover you seem to think that the individual is responsible for the costs generated by hare-brained bureaucratic schemes. Sure, he will PAY for it, but that is something else entirely.
Could be you are just 14 and opinionated, in which case there is hope. Otherwise, good luck to you, brave citizen.
> how much more austerity we have to endure
Are you enduring "austeriy" (sic)?
1) Your spelling SUCKS
2) You may notice that taxes are going UP, salaries in the state sector are going UP, and debt INCREASES (and thus the value of money DECREASES). How is that "austerity"? It's called "letting everything hang out because no-one gives a fuck anymore".
3) If the US state stole all of Amazon in a single go, it could pay back about 0.5% of the national debt (more like 0.04% once leftists' discounting of outstanding social promises is undiscounted). You think that's going to pay your pension and healtcare? Think again.
There is no issue.
> creating accounting
Learn2english before attempting to work on the deep pseudo-logic of the tax code, created by psychotics and understandable by autists only.
Of course amazon pays taxes by sole fact that it gives its employees money that they have to hand to the friendly state on as "income tax", so there is that.
Oh, and ... hey Ballmer you stupid arsehole? Your shitty Exchange Online happens to be down currently, even though your status page says otherwise. Yeah, QUALITY MS PRODUCTS.
Yeah but SO WHAT?
I don't see a shareholder revolt and demands to CASH OUT DIVIDENDS OR ELSE. So pumping everything into EC2 buildup or god-knows-what else .. why not? Shareholders are probably okay with this because they are not "buy and hold" or "need the money now for my retirement home" types but trader types with bubble-fueled rabies.
The only thing that one can conclude from Ballmer's bragging is that under his watch, Amazon would still only be selling books, but might have "made lots of money". Or not.
If Microsoft had any serious competitor (evidently not Apple) Ballmer would sing from another sheet entirely anyway.
1) Movie about a Black Hole?
2) Get the guy on the phone who co-wrote the telephone-directory sized book on Gravitation
3) ???
4) All those feels and Rousing Magic Spielburg Music!
Definitely more impressive than Greg Egan's Applet efforts.
A smaller version of the book "Gravitation" is A. Zee's (get it?) Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell. That nutshell is the size of a coconut though.
1) Repackage this article using actual paper and a typewriter
2) Send back to 1975
3) Have it published in OMNI or wherever
4) "Hilarious ... Chilling ... Right up there with 'The Shockwave Rider' or any story of Philip K. Dick. New author ALISTAIR DABBS proves again that he can write a Sci-Fi yarn like the best of them. Seemingly random events of ordinary life in the beginning of the 21st century reveal as much as they hide about an imagined society run amuk and staring into the headlights of crushing progress. Shortlisted for 1975's Nebula Awards".
Interest in fat paychecks says this won't happen easily.
It's the same kind of phenomenon that one sees in two-dollar clubs of any sort. Fucking idiots take the helm, behave like retarded Napoleons, revel in Machiavellism for the sake of it and award themselves bonuses pulled off the contributions of club members. The only way to solve this is either let the club die messily or throw the idiots out, possibly with some "convincing" related to intimate talks in dark alleys followed by loosened molars, horse heads appearing in the morning and/or sudden fires of their luxury 4x4s.
I can't see an alternative to the US Gov smacking them over the head again and imposing a sensible governance structure before stepping back for the final time.
> 2014
> Believing in multicolored bureaucratic ponies making things better, then "stepping back", and even "for the final time"
WTF man.
Taxing each gigabyte is a bit like taxing each acre, so this is something of a Land Tax for the modern age.
Err.... In what kind of universe is "land" and "number of bits transmitted" in any way comparable?
The only effect will be to depress the number of bits transmitted (adios dreams of a 'digital economy') and suck wealth from the private economy into crony areas. A win situation only for socialists and other leeches.
Well, I guess Blockbuster will survive in Hungary, then.
"Except that taxes don't stop you from working"
Indeed, they make you work harder and longer, as you sweat and toil for the government's largesse (redistribution to those not in need for a small fee and mucho promises) till about Mai or June. Only after that is the income you gain truly yours.