Posts by Destroy All Monsters 16005 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Jun 2008
Everything is decaying, it's as if practically all the basics are being forgotten - actually actively destroyed by the establishment, the faster, the better.
This is why Trump has a chance.
I would buy a Sadfrog T-Shirt, but I would probably be beaten up grievously in such multicultural neighborhood zones as black inner cities or guardians of liberalism (in the old-school sense) as universities....
Kids can't use computers... and this is why it should worry you (Mon 29 July 2013)
TL;DR? Why not just go watch another five second video of a kitten with its head in a toilet roll, or a 140 character description of a meal your friend just stuffed in their mouth. "nom nom". This blog post is not for you.
Just create another 2 government intelligence agencies and a private but federally funded think-tank for additional pointing, so as to make this a round number.
Meanwhile, The Warnings of a New World War: The U.S.-Russia confrontation over Ukraine and now Syria is far more dangerous than is understood by mainstream U.S. analysts as Russia lays down clear warnings that are mostly being ignored, writes Gilbert Doctorow.
Looks like David Stockman's Book "Trumped!" delivers
The Great Bubble generated by the Federal Reserve that screwed “flyover country” and enriched the One Percent poured billions into the War Party’s coffers. “Money” created out of thin air and mountainous debt financed the greatest military buildup in history, one that started under Ronald Reagan and undermined the conservative crusade to cut back the federal Leviathan. And the politics of this process brought about our ruin.
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Trump’s economic message – that the America of their fathers and grandfathers can be restored, that this country can once again become the industrial powerhouse of the world, that the jobs can be brought back from wherever they have gone – appeals to those who have almost forgotten how to hope. And his foreign policy slogan, “America First,” also has the same visceral attraction: when Trump wonders why we’re making “bad deals,” such as the NATO deal that requires us to pay for the defense of a continent perfectly capable (albeit unwilling) to pay for itself, his supporters shout their approval. When Trump asks “Wouldn’t it be nice if we could get along with the Russians?” they cheer – because no Russian ever looked down on them, or fired them, or called them “deplorables.” When Trump avers that it would be smart to let the Russians take care of ISIS in Syria, and that we have no business “rescuing” Aleppo, they agree wholeheartedly – because, heck, why aren’t we rescuing Americans from the hopelessness and poverty so many have fallen into?
Yes, Stockman is critical of Trump, but unlike all too many ostensible libertarians, he doesn’t sneer at the Trump supporters, because he understands the economic and social roots of their pain, he gets Trump’s appeal – and offers a fully libertarian analysis and program for reform.
So basically "political operators are not responsible for what they are doing, it's in their genes"
> This is an extremely dirty job which normal humans with a moral compass cannot stomach.
An extremely dirty job is sewer maintenance. Being a crooked politician taking bad decisions with lots of dead people at the arrival point is a choice.
More about the Queen of Chaos: Hillary Clinton and Syria: Stupidity or Something Worse?
I raise this point because we now have new evidence which confirms that, in fact, Clinton is quite knowledgeable about one of today’s most prominent foreign policy issues, Syria. The evidence comes from a transcript of Clinton’s notorious Goldman Sachs speeches, which were recently leaked by WikiLeaks This particular speech occurred in June 2013, before President Obama’s more public push for strikes directly against the Syrian government.
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As crazy as this sounds, it’s important to notice what is not going on here. At least as expressed to Goldman, Clinton’s policies do not stem from ignorance or stupidity in the normal sense. Rather, she seems to understand the risks and the reality quite well – and she has just decided on a dangerous policy anyway.
In most instances, being knowledgeable is a virtue in a political candidate. But in the case of Clinton’s foreign policy, it is a severe demerit. If her hawkishness was motivated merely by ignorance, new facts and new failures could cause her to change course. The antidote for her clear-eyed belligerence is going to prove far more elusive.
The fact is, every time I ask someone to explain this "quantum" thing to me, I get the same kind of answers ("you're just too thick" or "something about cats").
Seriously, what exactly about vector addition don't you understand??
Okay, Okay. Here are some links:
Scott Aaronson explains best, for civilians
Quantum Theory from 5 reasonable axioms this needs some time and contemplation
Quantum Algorithms via Linear Algebra: A Primer or grab this book
If you are feeling chipper, you may want to check this about a pictorial approach using linear logic. I don't understand it. One day, maybe.
> strong whiff of bullshit
Ni**erDude, if it were bullshit none of the computing and electronic "entertainment" devices would work. Ditto for lasers, the sun and generally everything (i.e. matter would collapse in about a picosecond)
It NEVER comes out right, does it?
Instead of two states, 0 and 1, however, a qubit can occupy an infinite number of states as its quantum states are entangled with one another.
NO!
The qubit is in a superposition of states, a bit of 0, a bit of 1 (written as nonmixable vectors |0> and |1>):
Q = a * |0> + b * |1>
...where a and b are complex values and the vector <a,b> is of length 1 (i.e. on the complex sphere of complex dimension 2)
This is mathematically analoguos to bog-standard "I don't know" probability, where a classical system is in some unknown state until we look (but in QM, the system is ACTUALLY in the superposition until we look):
Q = a * |0> + b * |1>
where a and b are real values and the vector <a,b> is of length 1 (i.e. on the unit circle on the real plane)
The ENTANGLEMENT comes from composing N qbits into an entangled whole, and the state of the system is then described by 2^N complex values, one for each "classical state", anmd the 2^N complex vector is on the 2^N-dimensional complex unit sphere. For example, for 2 qubits:
QQ = a * |00> + b * |01> + c * |10> + d * |11>
One can mix-in to "QM probability" above some classical "don't know" probability to obtain "mixtures". For example, we have system QQ which we know is in state QQ1 with classical probability p, and in state QQ2 with classical probability (1-p), then:
QQ = p * QQ1 + (1-p) * QQ2
...some people dispute that such mixtures have physical reality though as they are indistinguishable from a quantum state.
Mon cher ami!
As the reliably "crabby nanny" The Guardian explains, your despondent mood, hating on glorious politicians and pervasive nihilism might actually due to rank Russian propaganda
David Clark, a former Foreign Office adviser and the chair of the Russia Foundation that the Kremlin used RT not for straight propaganda purposes but “information warfare”: “The clue is in the strapline: ‘Question more’. They are trying to sow confusion and to create a climate of intellectual pessimism and nihilism by mixing the genre of news and outright fabrication.” He added: “The channel is designed to undermine rational debate. It’s a multi-layered thing and just one instrument they use.”
You just have to Believe!.!
The website of the State Department should be banned in la France.
AI-driven autopatenters patenting stuff that no-one has ever read, can understand or can even decide whether it is patentable or new, while AI-driven patent attorneys start lawsuits in Texas where AI-driven attorneys argue with an AI judge and a jury that is out for lunch but has left stand-in AI-driven pseudopersonas running on their fondleslabs to argue on their behalf.
It's would be a wonderful world.
(I also would like to see "AI" replaced by "marketing-yeast-driven-so-called-AI" ... MYDSCAI)
Over decades, politics became about talking at people, in the belief that can humans can "be engineered and corrected by instruction from their enlightened betters”
If only. It seems to have become a "free for all" for those on the inside and "let the rubes deal with the shit, just keep them busy" for the rest.
Meanwhile we get fed bullshit that even pigs would avoid. Ukraine is being invaded and Russians shot down MH-17. Iran is active in Yemen. ISIS is absolutely not a joint CIA-Saudi effort. Bogeyman of the day has WMD. Trump is worse than Bill Clinton regarding wymmen etc. etc.
Doesn't India already have a nuclear agreement with the USA? The only thing I remember was that it sounded suspiciously like a way for India to perform nuclear up-armement, it's been some time.
That's unfair because there was nothing to enforce anything on that piece of paper (dead british empire is dead and has not even planes to go into Europe etc.) and Mussolini had been declared Ghaddafi of the day instead of Valued Friend Against The Mustachioed One because he had had the termerity to grab our piece of the desert, the bastard!
The logic that innovation gets “sedimented” (the great buzzword of the day) into open protocols and code was very seductive at the time (1999)
Can't remember that. I think even then people found that open protocols (as expressed in RFCs) and code either got completely ignored by the stumbling Internet giants or got "sedimented" (i.e. copied) into various "enhanced" proprietary stuff from hell, with a patent slapped on top for good measure. Microsoft being one of the prime nonnovators back then.
It's certain. It was them!!
I read it in the War Street Journal.
Meanwhile sounds like there are Rumors of Aggressive War (a new kind of October Surprise?) in the vent system.
Well, Eliza is a tired and old subject, always fun when someone wants to show that he superior to the rubes (Ha Ha, a simple chatbot confuses people about whether there is a freudian analyst there). It was a silly stunt.
I would like to have heard more about Judea Pearl who is the real deal. I have a few books by him - serious algorithm wrangling.
It's like there something really big in the pipe that we are not supposed to notice. Maybe the fact that the war on behalf our our ISIS allies and against Russia is getting hot ... OMG Kim Kardashian has been ROBBED!!
“The key question is: if something goes wrong, who is responsible?” pondered the Science and Technology Committee, in a report released today.
Yeah you dumb idiot, that's why we have insurance.
What the hell is Obama going on about now?
Maybe he should reflect about his less-than-convincing here-on-Earth tenure. 8 years of war & consequences, surveillance has become legal, undeclared drone wars, several countries blown sky-high and getting worse, in bed for war crimes with Saudi Arabia, faffing around in Russia's near abroad and racial tension like never in the land of the free, promises to pump up the nuclear arsenal, and a pivot to China.
And now Mars??? WHAT THE F*CK!!
Oh yeah, he got Osama. Yeah.
Droll. Must be a facility managed by sun people.
"What happened at Pelindaba is the thing that keeps Presidents awake at night"
I rather think that the thing that keeps Presidents awake at night is getting the next cheque to finance the elect-me circus and pandering to the masses instead of doing policy.
"Amano's remarks are prima facie terrifying"
Rumor mongering by M. Amano is "prima facie terrifying"? Who knew?
"but perhaps even scarier when one considers our 2013 story revealing Canada's nuclear plants will run code specificallly assembled for PDP-11 minicomputers for at least another 30 years"
Actually sounds relaxing, TBH.
As to the "could have been used to construct a dirty bomb" ... I think it's easier to get a fat chunk of DU and dust that over the city, see the uranium babies pile up.
I think the best black helicopter statement regarding these "russian hacks" is here. In fact, the fast-track revelations may have been to throw Trump, the loose bewigged cannon.
A Government Is Seizing Control of Our Election Process, and It Is Not the Russians
Though the first “Russian” hacks were reported in July, it is only 48 hours before the second presidential debate that the statement was released. It could easily have been held until Monday, there is no national security urgency for this to come out Friday. However, with the timing, Trump, essentially tied with Clinton in the polls, will now spend much of the debate defending himself. Since the statement includes no details, only accusations, it is hard to see how anyone could defend themselves. It would be near-impossible for Trump to come out ahead Sunday night; this is a near-coup.
Despite the certainty with which the US government has accused Russia of trying to influence the election by hacking into secured email servers, the FBI maintains there is no evidence the Russians or anyone else accessed Clinton unsecured, unencrypted email server laden with actual classified materials, including during Clinton’s first trip to Moscow when she sent and received encrypted email over the Internet and WiFi.
6 goons jump you, tazed, dragged out of the room (even if "differently abled"), be accused of anti-semitism and not strong for Israel, possibly weak on feminism and being a racist to boot, upon which Only Black Lives Matter declares open season on your family.
Then the pundit declares "this is not who we are"!
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