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Musk trashes his own AI after it chose a liberal worldview. RobVG June 23, 2025 9:56 am (CurrentEvents)

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There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy. BuckGalaxy June 22, 2025 12:29 am (Flame)

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Russia better be careful by Eri July 1, 2011 6:39 am

Interesting! The powers that be in Russia have a long and sordid history of battling (and banning) religion. Opiate of ... by mcfly 2011-07-01 09:22:03
- EDITED: Wait a minute, isn't that a contradiction? Scientology claims to be a religion, but that's only so it ... by ERa country that permits 2011-07-01 10:37:21
  - Scientology is a pattern of corruption that has invaded the inner chamber of Hollywood and therefore, Russia's oil conglomerate, so ... by Eri 2011-07-01 15:10:20
- If people are telling you that history has no patterns, one possible reason is that they don't like what the ... by TB 2011-07-01 09:28:17
  - History doesn't repeat, but sometimes it rhymes. by Lee 2011-07-01 15:33:11
  - Theories are like opinions. Everybody's got one. And opinions are like... well, let's just say everyone has one of those, too. by ER 2011-07-01 10:22:12
    - ...he opined. by Eri 2011-07-01 15:23:56
  - Just a theory maybe, but a good one. You're correct. We're all valid historians in our own right. If you find ... by mcfly 2011-07-01 09:39:33
    - You can see how TB's "reframing" technique works. First he accuses you of saying something you didn't, then he ... by ER 2011-07-01 10:30:52
      - I looked it up. The word "reframing" does not mean "acting as though something someone said had an actual ... by TB 2011-07-01 10:44:59
        
        Santayana was a socialist gay radical middle of the roader espousing creationism while evolving into a mongrel monkey? by Eri 2011-07-01 15:13:01
        
        I use the term "reframing" the way Robert defined it here about two years ago when he first exposed your ... by ER 2011-07-01 10:59:07
        
        Friend, go back over this thread. I said this: "If people are telling you that history has no patterns, one possible reason ... by TB 2011-07-01 11:09:58
        
        And why didn't you? That is what this thread is about. I think. Wait. I've lost track of what I ... by Eri 2011-07-01 15:15:53
        
        Whatever you're on, I want some! by TB 2011-07-01 15:50:54
        
        I just told you. Gin soaked olives with a little vermouth in the gin. :-) by Eri 2011-07-01 16:01:48
        
        Tom, I already explained this to you once before. And I know you were paying attention because you hadn't attempted ... by ER 2011-07-01 12:20:35
        
        It's this simple. It's always been that simple. by TB 2011-07-01 13:06:53
        
        That's bullshit Tom. No, I don't doubt for a moment that economic freedom is better than economic control. ... by ER 2011-07-01 13:32:12
        
        "Ownership class?" Ah. "Bourgeois truth." I wonder how much you have to own to become a member of the "ownership ... by TB 2011-07-01 15:02:24
        
        And FURTHERMORE! I just re-read that harangue, and I must apologize, it is a bit over the top. I just ... by ER 2011-07-01 12:56:50
        
        Nature has a reality? I wonder if it's the same reality I'm in or another reality. Really. by Eri 2011-07-01 15:20:04
        
        Hey, I don't take any of this personal. Never did. I do let the frustration blow over once ... by TB 2011-07-01 13:10:31
        
        Yes, it does, because we create it. It prays to us: "O Creator, please leave us in peace instead ... by Eri 2011-07-01 15:21:36
        
        P.S. As you come up with further thinking on that "I" vs. "wave" stuff, put it down here. ... by TB 2011-07-01 13:13:21
        
        Reality may not care what any of us thinks, but we have no choice but to think about reality. ... by ER 2011-07-01 13:25:03

Well, frack? by Eri July 1, 2011 6:29 am

Sure, we can get up and leave after we've fouled the place up beyond all repair. It's just the ... by ER 2011-07-01 07:52:20
- I can see it having the same potential for abuse as in the coal mining industry. I'm too tired ... by Eri 2011-07-01 21:02:07
  - Here's one link. There are a lot more. And yeah, if they're crooks they should be hauled into court and ... by TB 2011-07-02 06:28:58
    - Thanks, TB, for the link. What you want to bet that, as usual, no one will be punished? Maybe I'm ... by Eri 2011-07-02 07:36:15
      - Enron is dead. As for the legal results, convictions, and reparations, they're listed in the Wikipedia entry here. by TB 2011-07-02 07:57:19
        
        I knew Enron was dead and buried. And so is one of the execs. I had forgotten that. ... by Eri 2011-07-02 13:30:24
        
        So, how do you feel about the guys who were running Fannie Mae? by TB 2011-07-02 13:35:26
        
        They're all crooks. And then it gets laid on the taxpayer to bail them out. Pisses me off ... by Eri 2011-07-02 21:45:00
- This method of hydrocarbon recovery has been in used in one form or another since the late 1940s. Regulations ... by TB 2011-07-01 09:14:11

Who shouldn't be buying Chinese products by TB June 30, 2011 4:29 pm

You go, hackers, go! by Eri June 30, 2011 7:53 am

Heh. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. by mcfly 2011-06-30 10:34:53
- So bloody true. by Eri 2011-06-30 12:50:58
- How fitting - when we were discussing Anonymous, everyone didn't seem to have as high a view of them. by VelociraptorBlade 2011-06-30 11:30:27
  - War is war and if we're at war, anything is fair. Just like if you walk down a street ... by Eri 2011-06-30 12:53:06
    - If everything was black and white, I'D be scared. But I'd be even more scared of someone who saw ... by VelociraptorBlade 2011-07-01 12:47:06

Skills gap by Eri June 30, 2011 7:52 am

These people get no sympathy from me. There is no shortage of qualified workers for mid-level jobs, only qualified young ones ... by ER 2011-06-30 10:01:48
When I was in high school, there were two major roads kids took for further schooling: college, or vocational ... by TB 2011-06-30 08:08:02
- I left University at the end of my 3rd year because my husband was going overseas with the AF. ... by Eri 2011-06-30 13:30:30
  - Maybe part of it is the relatively new idea of HR as an entirely separate department in a business. ... by TB 2011-06-30 14:51:03
    - As someone who has dealt with HR departments since before the time they started to adopt this new role you ... by ER 2011-07-01 06:13:27
      - Well, to be fair, these things have been a "good ole boy club" since time immemorial. Even when the ... by TB 2011-07-01 07:24:00
        
        You're right. But at least the boss has some justification to be a GOB, he is responsible for the ... by ER 2011-07-01 07:59:51
    - You're right. I hadn't actually looked at it from that angle but from the time we go our HR dept., ... by Eri 2011-06-30 22:10:00
      - Aha, we see the "Evil Chancellor" syndrome at work here! I remember my time at Foxjet. Tony Fox was eccentric ... by TB 2011-06-30 22:17:38
        
        When I started out at the RI, I worked for a real boss who took care of his employees, communicated ... by Eri 2011-07-01 06:35:56
        
        I'm sure all of us have worked for "good bosses", people who understood the job and their people, and treated ... by ER 2011-07-01 08:44:29
  - Sorry some of that is wordy and grammatically goofy. I'm waiting for the exterminator and may have to get ... by Eri 2011-06-30 13:35:12
- I can't wait for the education bubble to burst. Maybe then I could afford to go back to school. by mcfly 2011-06-30 10:37:44

Couldn't happen to a more deserving bank by Eri June 29, 2011 6:17 am

You're exactly right, the customers will foot the bill. At the now-defunct bank where I used to work, there was a ... by mcfly 2011-06-29 10:25:31

*^$)&(@#$@#!@#$$%!!!! by Eri June 27, 2011 3:07 pm

I'm opposed to racial profiling, after all, terrorists could pick white guys (or seniors, women, children, or the handicapped) to ... by ER 2011-06-30 10:52:48
Soooo..... What happens if we all followed the example of John Tyler? 'Course he's being fined 10 grand now..... Personally, I'm ... by VelociraptorBlade 2011-06-28 23:25:11
- What if we all decided not to fly anywhere for a week? Put the airlines into bankruptcy, put the ... by Eri 2011-06-29 02:05:45
  - Why Israel's air security wouldn't work in the U.S. by TB 2011-06-29 08:58:08
    - Israeli airport security is based in reality, it would never work in the politically correct swamp known as the United ... by Lee 2011-06-29 13:27:28
      - Frankly, I have to agree. They know it could very well happen there. by VelociraptorBlade 2011-06-29 21:58:01
That is certainly infuriating and inexcusable but, you sure can't accuse them of profiling. by FrankC 2011-06-28 16:09:42
- I wish they WOULD profile. We are the laughing stock of the world. by Eri 2011-06-28 22:28:28
  - Sure, sure...and then some little old white lady will decide to hide a bomb in her astronaut diaper, and BOOM. ... by mcfly 2011-06-30 19:19:18
  - Of course you favor profiling, and anyone with a brain agrees. Real liberals are against profiling based on the theory that ... by FrankC 2011-06-29 11:36:55
    - So I'm not a "real liberal?" LOL. by Eri 2011-07-01 21:05:19
- And that...is what it's all about. by Lee 2011-06-28 18:24:12

The Great Corn Con by TB June 27, 2011 2:24 pm

Actual news vs Fox news headlines by BuckGalaxy June 27, 2011 1:27 am

Fox uses pretty crude propaganda fit for the knuckle-draggers and mouth-breathers on the right. The more genteel and lofty ... by ER 2011-06-27 04:41:59

You know your prison population is too high... by FrankC June 26, 2011 12:17 pm

We have a serious problem with privately run prisons. Like any free market business, they need to grow every ... by BuckGalaxy 2011-06-26 20:58:30
- My guess? Private prisons should be run more like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Well, not entirely. *shudders* by VelociraptorBlade 2011-06-28 23:30:06
- Yeah, public prisons can lose money year after year and never think twice about it. Something like 8 percent of all ... by TB 2011-06-26 21:35:16
  - Yep, just think about the savings to be generated from the growing pool of prison labor, a resource we have ... by ER 2011-06-27 04:45:18
  - No end to this blame the public unions game is there? I suppose this has nothing to do with ... by BuckGalaxy 2011-06-27 01:16:27
    - From your link: "Some of the biggest names in the private prison industry have given $835,514 to federal candidates since 2000 ... by TB 2011-06-27 09:57:39
      - A little more math from that Justice Policy Institute paper. The paper declares that the two largest private prison ... by TB 2011-06-27 10:37:52
        
        You have a reading comprehension problem. I've seen studies about costs and there is conflicting data on what is ... by BuckGalaxy 2011-06-27 15:20:14
        
        I hate to keep having to drive things home with a goddam steam hammer, but don't you think the institutions ... by TB 2011-06-27 15:40:47
        
        You're still using steam? ;-) by mcfly 2011-06-27 17:18:46
        
        A lot of my posting is powered by steam. Hadn't you noticed? by TB 2011-06-27 17:46:28
Do you mean convicts watch A&E? by ER 2011-06-26 12:33:15
- It appears that the ads are aimed at the dependents of convicts. I can see the contradiction of the ad being ... by FrankC 2011-06-26 14:22:21

NATO's surreal world by TB June 26, 2011 8:13 am

NATO definitely has its problems, but Obama has succeeded in using them to further American policy at minimum risk to ... by ER 2011-06-27 05:41:22
- I'd tend to agree. I'm not really sure we (or the Europeans) should be in Libya. As I said months ... by mcfly 2011-06-27 17:15:18
  - "They don't want people like me on board." Yeah, I know what you mean about them. You don't really disagree with ... by ER 2011-06-27 20:32:11
    - I think the key to the "meeting half-way" deal is where exactly the "half-way" point is. Go over a few political ... by TB 2011-06-28 07:05:27
      - You gotta admit TB, you'd put the halfway point on the liberal's one yard line. Maybe in the end zone. ... by mcfly 2011-06-28 11:15:08
      - Your response corroborates my comments perfectly. TB, if you post here just to enlighten us barbarian Liberals on the subtler points ... by ER 2011-06-28 08:17:50
        
        No, my response does not "corroborate" your comments. My response made the reasonable point that your post was, to ... by TB 2011-06-28 08:55:14
        
        I never said I had no political opinions, or even that I was a strict middle of the roader, I've ... by ER 2011-06-28 09:30:00

A little bit of healing for Joplin by Eri June 25, 2011 8:52 pm

That's really cool. I was thinking 600 "orphaned" pets is an awful lot. I hope everyone in the area who ... by TB 2011-06-25 21:01:35
- I know. I thought about that, too. Some people may have had more than one pet, of course. ... by Eri 2011-06-26 00:01:10

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