Technology singularity might happen before we are dead. If it does, immortality is not out of the question.
Immortality? No one wants a thread like this to last forever...  |
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youtube needs to die, due to recent mass censorship
if mediagoblin is a true p2p replacement then im all for it
I am but one voice. The main reason for me to post about mediagoblin here is they are accepting bitcoin. Hopefully bitcoiners will spread the word and ask direct questions to the developers about their tool and their vision of the internet world. |
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“explanatory journalism”[...] Meanwhile, two things are particularly striking about the current Democratic agenda. The first is that it’s so tired. Raising the minimum wage, raising taxes on high earners, tightening environmental regulation — these are all ideas from the ’60s. The second is that nobody on the left seems to be aware of it. One of the most striking examples of this epistemic closure among liberal writers are their forays into “explanatory journalism.” The idea that many people might like clear, smart explanations of what’s going on in the news certainly has merit. But the tricky thing with “explaining” the news is that in order to do so fairly, you have to be able to do the mental exercise of detaching your ideological priors from just factually explaining what is going on. Of course, as non-liberal readers of the press have long been well aware, this has always been a problem for most journalists. And yet, the most prominent “explanatory journalism” venture has been strikingly bad at actually explaining things in a non-biased way. I am, of course, talking about Vox, the hot new venture of liberal wonkblogger extraordinaire Ezra Klein. It was already a bad sign that his starting lineup was mostly made up of ideological liberals. And a couple months in, it’s clear that much of what passes for “explanation” on Vox is really partisan commentary in question-and-answer disguise. … Increasingly, liberal writers have been drinking their own kool-aid. They really believe they are the “reality based community.” When they talk about conservatives they respect, they qualify their praise with “The smart conservative so and so…” — with such “he’s one of the good ones” asterisks betraying the wholly unwarranted assumption on the left that the vast majority of conservatives are crazy, stupid, or both. And yet, liberals themselves are very rarely capable of passing an Ideological Turing Test. They believe not only that an honest evaluation of the world lines up with their worldview (everyone does, to some extent), but have also forgotten how to differentiate between the honest evaluations and their worldview, or that doing so is even possible, or that their worldview is based on very idiosyncratic moral priors. http://theweek.com/article/index/263711/vox-derp-and-the-intellectual-stagnation-of-the-left
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What if we already are robots?
What if the conversion happened without us noticing it?
All that medicine doctors give you when you are sick, or whatever.
Maybe we already are robots!
But all joking aside I don't think there will ever be a straight conversion, I think people would have the choice whether or not to go the way of the "borg". Or maybe they won't have a decision, the way the country is going we might have free will or choice in a few years!
I feel that by the time we can put your brain on a hard drive, we will probably be making our own brains and organs. So here's an interesting question: If we erase your brain and copy the brain data of sana8410 into yours. Then who are you? If this could work, travelling would be so much faster. One could do an exchange, where two people switch brain data over the internet. Question is, if the brain data copied into the other person is not you - or your own brain is erased from the host body - then who are you? Yep. Stargate: Universe - How Communication Stones works http://youtu.be/U0kJ3o72vGQStargate is fiction. Even if the communication stones become reality one day, most people here will be long gone by then. You should pay more attention to what premise I was replying to with an example of this idea being already developed. Also the question "Do you think humans will eventually evolve into robots?" does not have a time table and can be categorized under the SciFi subgenre called social science fiction: Social science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction concerned less with technology and space opera and more with speculation about human society. In other words, it "absorbs and discusses anthropology", and speculates about human behavior and interactions.
Exploration of fictional societies is a significant aspect of science fiction, allowing it to perform predictive (The Time Machine (1895); The Final Circle of Paradise, 1965) and precautionary (Brave New World, 1932; Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949; Childhood's End, Fahrenheit 451, 1953) functions, to criticize the contemporary world ( Gulliver's Travels, 1726; Antarctica-online) and to present solutions (Walden Two), to portray alternative societies (World of the Noon) and to examine the implications of ethical principles (the works of Sergei Lukyanenko).Most people here, including you, will be long gone by then before getting the answer, but in the mid time, before our death it is fun to participate in this thread, don't you think?   |
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And Jews wonder why people hate them.
I don't see Jews being mentioned on the article. That would not matter for some people  |
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What if we already are robots?
What if the conversion happened without us noticing it?
All that medicine doctors give you when you are sick, or whatever.
Maybe we already are robots!
But all joking aside I don't think there will ever be a straight conversion, I think people would have the choice whether or not to go the way of the "borg". Or maybe they won't have a decision, the way the country is going we might have free will or choice in a few years!
I feel that by the time we can put your brain on a hard drive, we will probably be making our own brains and organs. So here's an interesting question: If we erase your brain and copy the brain data of sana8410 into yours. Then who are you? If this could work, travelling would be so much faster. One could do an exchange, where two people switch brain data over the internet. Question is, if the brain data copied into the other person is not you - or your own brain is erased from the host body - then who are you? Yep. Stargate: Universe - How Communication Stones works http://youtu.be/U0kJ3o72vGQ |
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.....proof positive the the Obama administration is by far the most corrupt administration in the history of the U.S. And that says a lot, seeing as how corrupt Bush's administration was.
Bush's was in my opinion actually about average in this respect, although a great deal of money and effort was devoted to inflaming hatred of him on many fronts, which at the time made him seem the Devil Incarnate. What we're seeing now is only the beginnings of the enabling of lawlessness. You can blame it on Obama, but that won't fix the problems. If the IRS is this easily bent, will they be similarly bent to the next admin? Is that so if it is a Republican? As well as a Democrat? Is that so only if the Attorney General is a complete mindless tool like Holder? Does that mean all future AG will be such? In case you have not noticed, what we have going on for several years is called a "Constitutional Crisis". The above facts are why efforts are underway to increase the count and influence of "low information voters", of which the primary group will be illegal Mexicans. They come in typically with an 8th grade education. Your timing is pretty good... http://www.infowars.com/uc-professor-immigration-influx-is-about-re-education-of-society/ |
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Obama’s Climate Change Plan Will Prevent 3,300 Heart Attacks…President Barack Obama’s Climate Action Plan will stop 3,300 heart attacks and 150,000 asthma attacks, according to a report released by the White House Wednesday. The plan, which includes new efficiency standards and renewable energy projects, will reportedly prevent 6,600 deaths — when “fully implemented.” “Since the Climate Action Plan’s release, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed carbon pollution standards for new and existing power plants that put our nation on track to cut carbon pollution from the power sector by 30 percent and reduce pollutants that contribute to the soot and smog that make people sick by over 25 percent in 2030,” the report explains. http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/25/white-house-obamas-climate-plan-will-prevent-3300-heart-attacks/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Not 1649, not 2999... But 3300... Hopefully NOT with the help from the VA's hospital speedy network 
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Horse shit.
Yeah this politics sub on here is just full of crazies. It's not actually that bad considering, it's just a few religious crazies that hang out here and insist on peddling their bullshit to the naive, thankfully their stupidity is actually more amusing than an annoyance so I just enjoy mocking them once in awhile. Yes. Mocking is proof of superior intelligence on the internet. My bad superior intelligence is a conspiracy that shemales work for the government to get control of your children. Another conspiracy tells me shemales are pro abortion in general, so they have no use for my already born children... In theory, of course  ....What ? What is your logic in that shemales are pro abortion? Why would anyone no matter their gender give a fuck anything like the details in the OP? (state controlled children?) .. it's another conspiracy theory... you know... like the OP... |
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REVEALED: GOP Senator Targeted by Lerner
Ways and Means investigation uncovers push to audit Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA)Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) announced the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) targeting of conservative individuals includes a sitting United States Senator. According to emails reviewed by the Committee under its Section 6103 authority, which allows the Committee to review confidential taxpayer information, Lois Lerner sought to have Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) referred for IRS examination. “We have seen a lot of unbelievable things in this investigation, but the fact that Lois Lerner attempted to initiate an apparently baseless IRS examination against a sitting Republican United States Senator is shocking,” said Camp. “At every turn, Lerner was using the IRS as a tool for political purposes in defiance of taxpayer rights. We may never know the full extent of the abuse since the IRS conveniently lost two years of Lerner emails, not to mention those of other key figures in this scandal. The fact that DOJ refuses to investigate the IRS’s abuses or appoint a special counsel demonstrates, yet again, this Administration’s unwillingness to uphold the rule of law.” Background: While the Ways and Means Committee investigation into Lerner’s involvement in the potential Grassley examination is ongoing, documents show that Lerner received an invitation to a speaking event that was intended for Senator Grassley. Instead of forwarding the invitation to Grassley’s office, Lerner immediately suggested to others in her office that the issue should be referred for examination. The Committee was able to investigate this information through its authority under Section 6103 of the tax code. A waiver was signed by Senator Grassley and his wife in order to make this information public. http://waysandmeans.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=385938------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Not Even a Smidgen of Corruption"
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Horse shit.
Yeah this politics sub on here is just full of crazies. It's not actually that bad considering, it's just a few religious crazies that hang out here and insist on peddling their bullshit to the naive, thankfully their stupidity is actually more amusing than an annoyance so I just enjoy mocking them once in awhile. Yes. Mocking is proof of superior intelligence on the internet. My bad superior intelligence is a conspiracy that shemales work for the government to get control of your children. Another conspiracy tells me shemales are pro abortion in general, so they have no use for my already born children... In theory, of course |
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Even more reason than ever to support mediagoblin's open source development... "Do no Evil"REVEALED: Google's proposed indie music-killing contract termsSuicide or death-by-DMCA? Not a great choice...[...] In short, the move will preserve Google's illegal supply chain by cracking down on its legal supply chain. [...] Why does this matter? Getting your stuff taken down from YouTube is hugely costly and in practice, almost impossible, thanks to "safe harbour" provisions designed to protect ISPs and other service providers in the mid-1990s, when the public internet was in its infancy. It requires an individual URL-by-URL take-down notice to be filed for each infringement. Google can continue to monetise the label's music via YouTube, even without the label's permission. It's been called "Notice and Shakedown", and tiny indie companies can ill afford the resources to do it. As DMN publisher Paul Resnikoff explains: It’s virtually impossible to actually remove your content from YouTube, especially if you have a smaller (ie, indie) budget… The reason is that YouTube plays by the DMCA, which of course forces the content owner to claim and demand a removal. Once you cannot upload your official versions, then you are dealing with endless crappy, low quality lyrics videos that are often monetized by someone else if not policed properly. And, usage patterns show that everyone goes to those videos if the official video isn’t uploaded fast and first. In theory Google has a content ID system that could block the unlicensed uploads - but nobody can compel it to use the system. It can stand around and whistle innocently while YouTube is populated with the same music over and over again. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/24/notice_and_shakedown_google_mafiastyle_contract_for_indie_music_revealed/here is the contract for those who cares: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2014/06/23/fk-heres-entire-youtube-contract-indieshttp://mediagoblin.org/ |
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Horse shit.
Yeah this politics sub on here is just full of crazies. It's not actually that bad considering, it's just a few religious crazies that hang out here and insist on peddling their bullshit to the naive, thankfully their stupidity is actually more amusing than an annoyance so I just enjoy mocking them once in awhile. Yes. Mocking is proof of superior intelligence on the internet. |
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Yep, that's pretty much the kind of baseless, alarmist, prejudiced tripe I've come to expect from a Wilikon thread. I'd add you to my ignore list, but feel compelled to keep an eye on this kind of stuff in case anyone's foolish enough to buy into it and needs to be corrected. Sadly people still seem to fall for the old "they're different and therefore bad, so we should invent some falsehoods to make them sound bad" arguments that bigots like to spread around.
Thank you for not adding me to your ignore list.... As long as you feel entertained by my threads. Also, do not hesitate to voice your opinion no matter what, everyone is welcome and included, with my genuine globally planetary warming embrace, famous under the ozone layer and our capricious Sun No walled garden. |
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Court allow victims to control Iranian Internethttp://freebeacon.com/national-security/terror-victims-seize-control-of-irans-internet/------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am not a fan of the iranian regime. I also believe using the internet as a technical tool for political enforcement is the start of a future fragmented internet based on multiple protocols. not good for bitcoin growth.. Unless someone creates an internet multiverse portal of a parallel bitcoin exchange...
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What if we already are robots?
What if the conversion happened without us noticing it?
All that medicine doctors give you when you are sick, or whatever.
Maybe we already are robots!
But all joking aside I don't think there will ever be a straight conversion, I think people would have the choice whether or not to go the way of the "borg". Or maybe they won't have a decision, the way the country is going we might have free will or choice in a few years!
Once Quantum Biology becomes reality, your prescription could simply be emailed/streamed to you as binary codes, not chemically based, perfectly matching your unique "DNA Platform". Prescription or even body enhancement, fixing bones with minimum external aggressive solutions would then be a reality, even skipping a need for becoming a robot. Obviously by that time, a computer virus could also hold your heart as hostage while you try to pay that hacker from eastern europe 1.5 bitcoins to get that key to release it... http://youtu.be/Z_KI9sjyVIQ |
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