Wasting money speculating on future tech.

the story of the Copernican Revolution shows that science was, from its birth, a dynamic process, with good points and bad points on both sides of the debate. Not until decades after Kepler’s On the New Star and Locher and Scheiner’s Mathematical Disquisitions did astronomers begin to come upon evidence suggesting that the star sizes they were measuring, either with the eye or with early telescopes, were a spurious optical effect, and that stars did not need to be so large in a Copernican universe.

"The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" should be required reading, but isn't because it would destroy the aura of infallibility the university pinheads enjoy.

We have to equip machines with a model of the environment. If a machine does not have a model of reality, you cannot expect the machine to behave intelligently in that reality. The first step, one that will take place in maybe 10 years, is that conceptual models of reality will be programmed by humans.

The next step will be that machines will postulate such models on their own and will verify and refine them based on empirical evidence. That is what happened to science; we started with a geocentric model, with circles and epicycles, and ended up with a heliocentric model with its ellipses.

Robots, too, will communicate with each other and will translate this hypothetical world, this wild world, of metaphorical models.

More or less my conclusion. The nice part is that computers already have a nice model of resource scarcity, and discoverable rules that can form the basis of cause-and-effect reasoning.

BONUS: The Japanese may be on to something.

Spoiler alert: FDA still killing people with their moronic "efficacy" standard thanks to the thalidomide scandal where they didn't even follow their own "safety" standard back in the 70s. Screw those guys.

Something people who have been paying attention have known for years. Guy's probably on the state payroll. So much for NPOV, gotta get that NGO $$$ for Jimbo's drug stash.

E.G. A fabricated CB.

Gotta make those Uighurs stop being rowdy.

Idiots

Many open source projects shutting down rather than pay the EU's De-facto Licensure requirements. It's either that or a 20mm euro fine. As usual the statists have their typical bromides, but at the end of the day they forget the damage prior restraint and the chilling effect has. The web's brain drain has begun.

If so it's a godsend for Arthritics.

Over the Iran Sanctions. Good news if so.

What do you expect when the FIB & Po Po shot first?

Great profile of a hitman.

Again, abolish public schooling. No need to coerce children into this social pressure cooker, which results in these monstrous extreme behaviors.

It's "Not real socialism" to bankrupt your country with subsidies beyond what you can afford and then print money like a lunatic to cover for your failure, apparently. This is yet more proof of the point -- any and all government meddling in prices (socialism AKA centralized economic planning) is guaranteed to fail. It's inflexibility to demand guarantee this -- but I'm sure the author sees this as a defect of democracy, and that more Stalinist computers can fix it (TM).

In the 70s, just when they were pimping their moral authority as non-terrorists, they were doing car-bombings in Lebanon. Ariel Sharon was a real piece of work.

Countdown till the USG screams that he's a "Mad Mullah" and wants to regime change things again.

Kills 52, wounds 2,400+... some real loving behavior there.

Make Cocaine Smuggling Great Again

Only old people watch TV

Preach it, Ron!

When it comes to politics, you must have allies, and there are only two games in town. James gets this.

priests are being verbally abused and spat at, and property vandalised.

Tensions have risen this year in the Christian and Armenian quarters of the 1 sq km ancient walled city, which includes the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the holiest place in Christianity where Jesus was believed to be crucified and resurrected. The Old City is also home to places of critical religious importance to Jews and Muslims.

The churches say they are facing onslaught on three fronts: a war of attrition waged by hardline settlers; unprecedented tax demands by Jerusalem city council; and a proposal to allow the expropriation of church land sold to private developers.

Is it too early to declare a crusade against the government of Israel?

Still less effective than the LP, an they're retarded.

Dammed out and gonna go bust.