Wednesday Morning Rant

We Need a ~~two~~ ~~three~~ Programs
Ah, hell, just throw the kitchen sink at it

There is a magic combination when it comes to generating large numbers of government programs quickly. To truly maximize the number of programs and ensure that the programs directly overlap (and directly compete) while also being mutually contradictory, expensive and an odd combination of both ineffective and oppressive, you need a catalyst. The best catalysts have a number of similar elements:

High-tech
New/Buzzworthy
High-risk
Promise general applicability/infinite variability
Disruptive
Investment bubble
External competitors to enable "rally 'round the flag" national pride considerations

AI hits all the top marks. It's high-tech, consumes a lot of press, investors can't quit hurling money at it, various nation-state actors are involved, it's spooky and dangerous while also being powerful with some genuine uses, and the promise of power multiplication for the AI "winner" all make it an ideal candidate for lots and lots of government programs. And those programs are coming hot and heavy.

In the executive, AI is all over the place. The talented and competent go-getter Vice President who is always positioned for success and never fails at any endeavor she undertakes is the "AI Czar." This makes sense, as her speeches will present a marked increase in quality once the system comes online. But this wasn't done in a vacuum - she will be managing the new EO Biden's auto-pen signed to pursue "Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence."

With such gems as

Provide clear guidance to landlords, Federal benefits programs, and federal contractors to keep AI algorithms from being used to exacerbate discrimination.
...
Ensure fairness throughout the criminal justice system by developing best practices on the use of AI in sentencing, parole and probation, pretrial release and detention, risk assessments, surveillance, crime forecasting and predictive policing, and forensic analysis.

and deep ironies like

Protect against the risks of using AI to engineer dangerous biological materials by developing strong new standards for biological synthesis screening. Agencies that fund life-science projects will establish these standards as a condition of federal funding, creating powerful incentives to ensure appropriate screening and manage risks potentially made worse by AI.

well, I just can't wait for the results! The only upside to all this is that most things they do fail.

But it isn't just the Oval Office getting involved. This is sexy and dangerous and powerful. Just as the girl goes weak in the knees for the leather-clad motorcycle bad boy in countless movies, Congress is putting on its short skirt, slathering on the makeup and donning a plunging top to try to catch AI's attention. Yesterday, the House announced its new "Task Force on Artificial Intelligence." Don't worry that it will just be a waste of money that will hurt average Americans if it somehow succeeds, though. That is guarded against because it is, of course, bipartisan! This new Task Force has something of a dual mandate. Like the Oval Office's programs, it seeks to put "guardrails" around AI but also to ensure American AI leadership against global competitors:

Led by Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-Ca.) and Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Ca.), the task force will bring together a bipartisan group of Members who have AI expertise and represent the relevant committees of jurisdiction. As we look to the future, Congress must continue to encourage innovation and maintain our country's competitive edge, protect our national security, and carefully consider what guardrails may be needed to ensure the development of safe and trustworthy technology.

Like the Fed's "dual mandate of stable prices and full employment," this is, of course, impossible. That won't, however, stop them from trying.

And, of course, the real government of the United States - that is, the agencies - are not resting on their laurels. Some of these agency initiatives - like HUD's - are to comply with the new EO and go put the president's stroke of the (auto) pen into practice, but not all. DHS' AI program "plays a critical role in ensuring artificial intelligence (AI) safety and security nationwide." The USDA has established a network of "AI institutes" for agricultural AI research and practices.

Not content to let the feds have all the fun - and rake off all the money - the states are getting in on the action. In her recent State of the State address, New York's governor Hochul announced that the state is pulling together around half a billion dollars to create "Empire AI" to "promote responsible research and AI opportunities focused on public good." California's Newsom decided not to wait for the feds, issuing his own AI executive order a couple of months before Biden's auto-pen got around to it.

This all, of course, barely scratches the surface. We are in the opening stages of a new era of government program bloat. Nobody can get enough of AI. Whether it works or not, whether its good or evil, effective or ineffective, it sure will permit an exciting new growth of administrative and legislative empires. It will also allow the new programs - and their leaders - to hoover up cash through many exciting new graft opportunities. If they get lucky, it will also enable them to do general-purpose evil more effectively and create many new venues for the generation of folderol and legerdemain.

At the end of the day, isn't that what really matters?

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM

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1 last

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:00 AM (GBKbO)

2 First?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 11:00 AM (J2vNu)

3 1

Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2024 11:01 AM (2fAIr)

4 Content, what content? Gotta post a comment!

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 21, 2024 11:01 AM (9mfKN)

5 Content, what content? Gotta post a comment!
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 21, 2024 11:01 AM (9mfKN)
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The thousand-yard stare of the long-time HQ commenter!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:02 AM (HnUIn)

6 Remember the hype over VR in the early 1990s?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 21, 2024 11:03 AM (tLMQS)

7 Government task force = wasted taxpayer money (and a shit ton of it), eventually more government regulation and nauseating speeches from politicians who don't know shit about fuck.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 21, 2024 11:03 AM (JeYYB)

8 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 21, 2024 11:03 AM (T4tVD)

9 The problem with artificial intelligence is that real stupidity trains it.

We have a LOT of influential people who believe that humans are a virus that threaten the world. What happens when their AIs learn that BS and go into action?

I've seen this movie. It doesn't end well.

Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2024 11:03 AM (xhfG9)

10 The thousand-yard stare of the long-time HQ commenter!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:02 AM (HnUIn)

Like a cocaine addicted rat hitting the “give more cocaine” button, such is the horde hitting the post button.

Ah, the sweet endorphins…

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 21, 2024 11:04 AM (9mfKN)

11 Government task force = wasted taxpayer money (and a shit ton of it), eventually more government regulation and nauseating speeches from politicians who don't know shit about fuck.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 21, 2024 11:03 AM (JeYYB)
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Not this time! This time, the Congressional Task Force is billed as being staffed by Congressmen with "AI expertise."

You can rest assured...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:04 AM (HnUIn)

12 I saw Folderal and Legerdemain open for...someone. Someplace. Sometime.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 11:05 AM (9yWhg)

13 ... We have a LOT of influential people who believe that humans are a virus that threaten the world. What happens when their AIs learn that BS and go into action? ...
Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2024 11:03 AM (xhfG9)
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It already is. AI is being trained with the woke mind virus, so you can hazard some guesses as to its likely outcomes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:05 AM (HnUIn)

14 Hasn't ChatGPT already been loaded with lefty BS by the programmers?

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 21, 2024 11:05 AM (JeYYB)

15 Willowed: [Dustin] Hoffman's a truly great actor. Not much he's done that isn't terrific work, nothing I can think of off hand.

Lots of other shitty movie stars out there, during his run, but he was just great at what he did.

Only person from that era I'd put up there with him is Hack Man. Maybe Duvall, but there aren't many more.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024

***
Ah, the 1970s, when male actors and movie stars did not have to be glamorously handsome to be headliners. It didn't *hurt* -- see Redford and Newman -- but it wasn't always required.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 11:05 AM (J2vNu)

16 Remember the hype over VR in the early 1990s?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 21, 2024 11:03 AM (tLMQS)

I'm old enough to remember when the Segway was gonna revolutionize the world.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 11:05 AM (GtZ7X)

17 6 Remember the hype over VR in the early 1990s?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 21, 2024 11:03 AM (tLMQS)

As a 12 year old, I was CONVINCED that Nintendo’s Virtual Boy would be the greatest thing ever.

Thankfully I grew up poor, so never ended up getting one of those.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 21, 2024 11:05 AM (9mfKN)

18 Still amazing that the AI Czar was/is the Border Czar and just went "lol I'm not doing that" and that was that

Posted by: jhawk90 at February 21, 2024 11:05 AM (1uuy8)

19 I'm confused about this AI stuff... Doesn't someone have to program it ?

Posted by: it's me donna at February 21, 2024 11:05 AM (Akjoo)

20 Just missed top 10

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 21, 2024 11:05 AM (JMAcK)

21 We have a LOT of influential people who believe that humans are a virus that threaten the world. What happens when their AIs learn that BS and go into action?

I've seen this movie. It doesn't end well.
Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2024 11:03 AM (xhfG9)

Or just listen to Meshuggah. Their entire discography is a warning about what happens when man and machine merge.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 21, 2024 11:06 AM (tLMQS)

22 "new venues for the generation of folderal and legerdemain"

Wut?? Are those real words??

Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 11:06 AM (JunzL)

23 I guess they tried to solve some of the overlap problems with Department of Homeland Security but many think they just made it worse.

Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 21, 2024 11:06 AM (MNhXM)

24 The David Shapiro guy on YouTube is good.

He had a nice video on AI being up to 83% effective as human lawyers at 1/300 the cost.

AI: First, let’s kill all the lawyers.

Me: OK with me.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 21, 2024 11:06 AM (tXFoB)

25 Artificial intelligence is all DC has, any semblance of real intelligence left the area years ago.

Posted by: TC at February 21, 2024 11:06 AM (FjlUt)

26 Went to my local building department recently to check on the permit history, zoning and other assorted riprap associated with possibly buying what is called land.

Walked in the door and they had an Ipad thing set up for you to enter your name and state your business with the County Overlords. Then a small big booty gal came out from behind the locked doors and said what I was looking for is online and gave me the address to begin my search and doing the work I pay in taxes that I want the small big booty gal to do for me.

No more face to face, all online now.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 21, 2024 11:06 AM (2ijlT)

27 Government task force = wasted taxpayer money (and a shit ton of it), eventually more government regulation and nauseating speeches from politicians who don't know shit about fuck.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 21, 2024 11:03 AM (JeYYB)

Saw something about a new agency in HHS...some thing about Climate Change/Minority Equity?

Posted by: BignJames at February 21, 2024 11:07 AM (AwYPR)

28 "new venues for the generation of folderal and legerdemain"
*
Wut?? Are those real words??
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024

***
It's "folderol," but yes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 11:07 AM (J2vNu)

29 Newsom’s Fiscal Inferno! California’s Budget Crisis Worse Than Newsom Projected
State Watchdog Warns Deficit Could Reach Record $73B!

Posted by: Disney at February 21, 2024 11:08 AM (RHGPo)

30 Am I the only one who read the last word of that headline as "Pogroms?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 21, 2024 11:08 AM (sR4ST)

31 If you're working with Ted Lieu, you're a pole-smoking traitor.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 11:08 AM (KbCG3)

32 Ah, the 1970s, when male actors and movie stars did not have to be glamorously handsome to be headliners. It didn't *hurt* -- see Redford and Newman -- but it wasn't always required.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 11:05 AM (J2vNu)

Newman was a great actor too, but Redford... I know why he was a movie star. Not unlike Warren Beatty. Their performances were always wooden. But I guess, maybe that's partly why they got their movie roles in the first place.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 11:08 AM (GtZ7X)

33 Willowed: [Dustin] Hoffman's a truly great actor. Not much he's done that isn't terrific work, nothing I can think of off hand.

Lots of other shitty movie stars out there, during his run, but he was just great at what he did.

Only person from that era I'd put up there with him is Hack Man. Maybe Duvall, but there aren't many more.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024

———

Speaking of which, did you ever play the Atari 2600 Kramer vs Kramer game?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 21, 2024 11:08 AM (tXFoB)

34 Oh boy a bipartisan AI group. What could go wrong?

Posted by: Montec at February 21, 2024 11:08 AM (bWsRe)

35 Google AI image generator does not disappoint

Iowahawk has nice images of "1930's hockey goalie".

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 21, 2024 11:08 AM (NYzgN)

36 Imma still trying to swallow the Power of the Pyramid thinking that was a thing in the early 70s. It could keep your razor blades sharp forever!

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 11:08 AM (DyHJQ)

37 Newsom’s Fiscal Inferno! California’s Budget Crisis Worse Than Newsom Projected

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Unexpectedly!

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 21, 2024 11:08 AM (sR4ST)

38 AI Czar.

If'n I had any money and a bad-ass quant machine, I'd short every lower-tier company that advertises their investment in AI.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2024 11:08 AM (IG4Id)

39

Any politician who thought the answer to COVID was shots, boosters, masks, lockdowns and indoor restaurants being built outside. should have nothing to do with AI.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 21, 2024 11:09 AM (JeYYB)

40 Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 21, 2024 11:06 AM (tXFoB)

"Up to" is carrying a lot of weight there. Currently AI is simply making up precedent out of thin air.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 21, 2024 11:09 AM (nC+QA)

41 I thought VPs didn’t really do anything. Why does this one get saddled with the big massive stuff? Almost as if she gets to put her name on anything with a high likelihood of failure.

Posted by: Piper at February 21, 2024 11:09 AM (ZdaMQ)

42 When I see the present things produced by AI and then put them in government hands , I can't but help think of the movie Brazil. Tuttle becomes Buttle by error leads to a killing and then a bureaucrat trying to be humane about the nightmare that has occurred.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2024 11:09 AM (byGob)

43 As someone with a bit of Russian ancestry, I am literally trembling as the appropriation of my heritage by Kamala. A Czar? Really? How dare you Madame Vice President!! How dare you!!

Posted by: Montec at February 21, 2024 11:09 AM (bWsRe)

44 Wut?? Are those real words??
Posted by: Doof

Perfectly cromulent.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2024 11:10 AM (IG4Id)

45 I've been saying for 4 decades that you can't have AI (artificial Intelligence) if you don't have NI (Natural Intelligence).
Kamala Harris has never shown much in the way of NI

Posted by: Disney at February 21, 2024 11:10 AM (RHGPo)

46 IMO the potential danger with AI is military applications.

Shall We Play a Game?

Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 21, 2024 11:10 AM (MNhXM)

47 I had a pet rock. But it died.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 21, 2024 11:10 AM (NYzgN)

48 31 If you're working with Ted Lieu, you're a pole-smoking traitor.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 11:08 AM (KbCG3)

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100%.

Ted Lieu is just one of the many scum who infest our politics.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 21, 2024 11:10 AM (JeYYB)

49 Wut?? Are those real words??
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 11:06 AM (JunzL)
++++
Yup, though I just noticed a typo which I'll fix.

Increase your Word Power:

Folderol: unnecessary actions or words that have little meaning and make something seem more important or complicated than it really is

Legerdemain: Legere means to deceive or mislead, and demain means tomorrow. Legere demain is a French expression that means to deceive or mislead people with a skilful trick

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:10 AM (HnUIn)

50 California Rep. Ted Lieu is a effin commie rat. Soon to be implanted with AI.

Posted by: torabora at February 21, 2024 11:10 AM (OUiUM)

51 Newman was a great actor too, but Redford... I know why he was a movie star. Not unlike Warren Beatty. Their performances were always wooden. But I guess, maybe that's partly why they got their movie roles in the first place
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The ghost of Gregory Peck haunts Hollywood to this day. I agree on the wooden qualities of Beatty and Redford. Talking lumber that walks.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 11:10 AM (DyHJQ)

52 I'm confused about this AI stuff... Doesn't someone have to program it ?
Posted by: it's me donna at February 21, 2024 11:05 AM (Akjoo)

Yes. Until they don't. The Skynet scenario is the point at which the computer decides we're no longer necessary or useful.

Right now, what they're calling AI is mostly just apes hitting the tech with a bone. Who knows what's going to be unleashed.

Not unlike the cloning "research" that's been done/being done.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 11:11 AM (GtZ7X)

53 Iowahawk has nice images of "1930's hockey goalie".
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Even better:
"Generate an image of a 1943 German Soldier"
twitter.com/JohnLu0x/status/1760066875583816003

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2024 11:11 AM (IG4Id)

54 Google AI won't even draw white males.

Posted by: XTC at February 21, 2024 11:11 AM (sm6Pk)

55 Right now, what they're calling AI is mostly just apes hitting the tech with a bone. Who knows what's going to be unleashed.

Not unlike the cloning "research" that's been done/being done.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 11:11 AM (GtZ7X)

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Or gain of function "research?"

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 21, 2024 11:11 AM (JeYYB)

56 This is no more AI than the covid vax was a vaccine. This is an algorithm. No different than a virtual machine.

The problem is that they want to make a machine that they design and built to be thought of as an AI so they can use it for appeal to authority. 'See this completely impartial, unbiased and super smart computer is telling us we should raise taxes even more and that all property is theft and also belongs to the government!' *Joe Mannix hits the button*

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 11:12 AM (zZu0s)

57 Even better:
"Generate an image of a 1943 German Soldier" ...
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2024 11:11 AM (IG4Id)
++++
I had no idea they were so diverse!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:12 AM (HnUIn)

58 Even better:
"Generate an image of a 1943 German Soldier"
twitter.com/JohnLu0x/status/1760066875583816003

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2024 11:11 AM (IG4Id)

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Holy shit, they are truly erasing history.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 21, 2024 11:12 AM (JeYYB)

59 Remember when Y2K was the next big bad wolf that was gonna ruin everything? Good times…. That nothing burger was tasteless… I suspect AI will be similar except it’s not tied to a specific date (did any of the Terminator movies provide the date when Skynet became self aware?)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 21, 2024 11:12 AM (gqhqp)

60 Kamala Harris has never shown much in the way of NI
Posted by: Disney at February 21, 2024 11:10 AM (RHGPo)

Careful there.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 11:12 AM (GtZ7X)

61 When I was studying linguistics in college, some classes had a lot of students were studying AI. Particularly the class I had on semantics (the study of meaning). They had to have some idea how the human mind generates and processes language so they could incorporate that into their AI.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 11:13 AM (9yWhg)

62 Newman was a great actor too, but Redford... I know why he was a movie star. Not unlike Warren Beatty. Their performances were always wooden. But I guess, maybe that's partly why they got their movie roles in the first place.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024

***
What Redford did better than almost anybody was comic exasperation. When Butch, Etta, and Sundance finally arrive in Bolivia, and "the garden spot of the whole country" turns out to be a rundown chicken farm, his eruption of "Bolivia!!??!!" is hilarious. And he gave his hapless pro thief Dortmunder the same kind of attitude in The Hot Rock.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 11:13 AM (J2vNu)

63 My endorphins got boosted on the Ted Lieu drive by hit.

Posted by: torabora at February 21, 2024 11:13 AM (OUiUM)

64 Or gain of function "research?"
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 21, 2024 11:11 AM (JeYYB)

Oh yeah, I forgot that one, heh.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 11:13 AM (GtZ7X)

65 43 As someone with a bit of Russian ancestry, I am literally trembling as the appropriation of my heritage by Kamala. A Czar? Really? How dare you Madame Vice President!! How dare you!!
Posted by: Montec at February 21, 2024 11:09 AM (bWsRe)

You and the Germans have been mongrelizing my name for the past 1500 years!

Posted by: Julius Caesar at February 21, 2024 11:13 AM (zZu0s)

66 Wut?? Are those real words??
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 11:06 AM (JunzL)
++++
Yup, though I just noticed a typo which I'll fix.

Increase your Word Power:

Folderol: unnecessary actions or words that have little meaning and make something seem more important or complicated than it really is

Legerdemain: Legere means to deceive or mislead, and demain means tomorrow. Legere demain is a French expression that means to deceive or mislead people with a skilful trick
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:10 AM (HnUIn)

Thank you for your attempts to ensmarten me!

Although -- your use of the word "folderol" appears to be a bit folderol-ish.

Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 11:13 AM (JunzL)

67 I had a pet rock. But it died.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 21, 2024 11:10 AM (NYzgN)

I had a pair, hoping they would breed and save me money on gravelling my driveway...didn't work.

Posted by: BignJames at February 21, 2024 11:14 AM (AwYPR)

68 A common sense solution to hunger.

New Scientist
@newscientist
Is it time for a more subtle view on the ultimate taboo: cannibalism?

http://tinyurl.com/36r585z2

Old: hot dog
New: hot dad

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 21, 2024 11:14 AM (FVME7)

69 I can see where this is going.

Just program the “artificial intelligence” to run everything. The software will need tweaking to make sure it doesn’t actually do anything, you know, beneficial. “To ensure fairness ….” etc; is a tell. Think it’s fucked up now? Forget it.

Law enforcement can handle the rest, arresting people as indicated. Even that fan be outsourced - robots, drones, directed energy weapons from outer space. Same principles applied to Medicine, Law, you name it.

Very elegant. What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Common Tater at February 21, 2024 11:14 AM (XDSQR)

70 The ghost of Gregory Peck haunts Hollywood to this day. I agree on the wooden qualities of Beatty and Redford. Talking lumber that walks.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 11:10 AM (DyHJQ)

I do not like Redford at all but he is the star in two of my most watched movies.

Jeremiah Johnson and The Natural. I also watch Brubaker every time I come across it.

Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 21, 2024 11:14 AM (MNhXM)

71 Remember when Y2K was the next big bad wolf that was gonna ruin everything? Good times…. That nothing burger was tasteless… I suspect AI will be similar except it’s not tied to a specific date (did any of the Terminator movies provide the date when Skynet became self aware?)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 21, 2024 11:12 AM (gqhqp)
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In fairness, one of the reasons that Y2K was a nothingburger was the years of work and billions of dollars committed to making sure it *wasn't* a problem.

And the government was fairly late to that party. The big financial and infrastructure boys knew it was coming and most had their mitigation underway before the government mandated anything.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:14 AM (HnUIn)

72 I had a pet rock. But it died.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 21, 2024

***
Mine had a litter of gravel

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 11:14 AM (J2vNu)

73 59 Remember when Y2K was the next big bad wolf that was gonna ruin everything? Good times…. That nothing burger was tasteless… I suspect AI will be similar except it’s not tied to a specific date (did any of the Terminator movies provide the date when Skynet became self aware?)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 21, 2024 11:12 AM (gqhqp)

Y2K. Damn. A whole lot of hand wringing and doomsday hair on fire with that one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 11:15 AM (zZu0s)

74 There was some foofaraw about a military wargame that was set up with AIs. A general said that the controllers kept applying ROE to the combatants that made them lose so the combatants decided to attack the HQ that was issuing the restrictive ROE.

The world got its hair on fire over that, so the general had to "clarify" that when he said that happened what he meant was that it did not happen.

Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2024 11:15 AM (xhfG9)

75 Although -- your use of the word "folderol" appears to be a bit folderol-ish.
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 11:13 AM (JunzL)
++++
Ya got me!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:15 AM (HnUIn)

76 Kamala Harris has never shown much in the way of NI
Posted by: Disney at February 21, 2024 11:10 AM (RHGPo)

Careful there.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 11:12 AM (GtZ7X)

LOL! Now I'm thinking about Blazing Saddles. "The sheriff's a..."

Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 11:15 AM (JunzL)

77 To actually have intelligence, you need a method of determining useful permutations.

This means the "brain" needs to make small mistakes/permutations and then must have the ability to evaluate this new permutations to determine if it yields a new useful permutation. The current state of AI does neither of these two processes.

Posted by: Disney at February 21, 2024 11:15 AM (RHGPo)

78 Even better:
"Generate an image of a 1943 German Soldier" ...
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2024 11:11 AM (IG4Id)
++++
I had no idea they were so diverse!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Why did it generate multiple images?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 11:16 AM (9yWhg)

79 Maybe Kamala thinks AI stands for articial insemination.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 21, 2024 11:16 AM (xcrUy)

80 I thought VPs didn’t really do anything. Why does this one get saddled with the big massive stuff? Almost as if she gets to put her name on anything with a high likelihood of failure.

Which is cause and which is effect?

Posted by: Oddbob at February 21, 2024 11:16 AM (sNc8Y)

81 Crypto is out. AI is in.k

Posted by: pawn at February 21, 2024 11:16 AM (C/4jW)

82 Come on, there were lots of female Asian soldiers in the German army.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 21, 2024 11:16 AM (JeYYB)

83 Jeremiah Johnson and The Natural. I also watch Brubaker every time I come across it.
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 21, 2024

***
Brubaker and Johnson display Redford's understated comic ability within a drama, as Butch Cassidy did within a Western.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 11:16 AM (J2vNu)

84 Crypto is out. AI is in.k
Posted by: pawn at February 21, 2024 11:16 AM (C/4jW)
++++
It's all good. Both drive demand for graphics processors.

Posted by: Nvidia at February 21, 2024 11:17 AM (HnUIn)

85 There is this meme that has a black man standing in front of a sign for "DIGGERWORLD" .. of course, he is blocking the "D"

Posted by: Disney at February 21, 2024 11:17 AM (RHGPo)

86
Remember the hype over VR in the early 1990s?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

Apple just came out with their $3500 Videodrome helmet.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 21, 2024 11:17 AM (63Dwl)

87 And now, from Bassackwards World . . .

Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
MSNBC’s @JoeNBC on Republicans so far sending Ukraine $110 billion instead of $170 billion: “They’ve surrendered to the communists”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 21, 2024 11:17 AM (FVME7)

88 What Redford did better than almost anybody was comic exasperation. When Butch, Etta, and Sundance finally arrive in Bolivia, and "the garden spot of the whole country" turns out to be a rundown chicken farm, his eruption of "Bolivia!!??!!" is hilarious. And he gave his hapless pro thief Dortmunder the same kind of attitude in The Hot Rock.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 11:13 AM (J2vNu)

What's funny is, as I was reading this I was thinking of Redford's wooden performance in "Field Of Dreams."

Now, if you're not me, you immediately notice what's wrong with that statement. Basically, you can take the performance in FOD, and change it out for the performance in "The Natural."

No difference.

What both ALSO have in common is, they took very good books, and turned them into schmaltzy crap. I realize they're both "beloved," but I can't stand 'em.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 11:17 AM (GtZ7X)

89 Someone upthread mentioned Redford using exasperation as his best acting tool.

Barefoot in the Park comes to mind.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 21, 2024 11:18 AM (JeYYB)

90 2 Come on, there were lots of female Asian soldiers in the German army.
Posted by: Seems Legit

Shizuka~!

Posted by: Imperial Army of Japan at February 21, 2024 11:18 AM (IG4Id)

91 actually have intelligence, you need a method of determining useful permutations.

This means the "brain" needs to make small mistakes/permutations and then must have the ability to evaluate this new permutations to determine if it yields a new useful permutation. The current state of AI does neither of these two processes.
Posted by: Disney at February 21, 2024 11:15 AM (RHGPo)

That was the focus on the AI program to learn to play Ms Pac-Man. I forgot how long it took for it to learn to be high scorer.

Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 21, 2024 11:18 AM (MNhXM)

92 86 Apple just came out with their $3500 Videodrome helmet.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 21, 2024 11:17 AM (63Dwl)

=========

Pedant mode: on.

Videodrome wasn't a device. It was a channel that sent waves into one's brain to change their chemistry.

Long live the new flesh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:18 AM (GBKbO)

93 Come on, there were lots of female Asian soldiers in the German army.
Posted by: Seems Legit

Did the Japs have any women soldiers?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 11:18 AM (9yWhg)

94 84 Crypto is out. AI is in.k
Posted by: pawn at February 21, 2024 11:16 AM (C/4jW)
++++
It's all good. Both drive demand for graphics processors.
Posted by: Nvidia at February 21, 2024 11:17 AM (HnUIn)

Hey! What about us? Remember us?

Posted by: NFTs and the 'Blockchain' at February 21, 2024 11:18 AM (zZu0s)

95 Led by Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-Ca.) and Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Ca.), the task force will bring together a bipartisan group of Members who have AI expertise and represent the relevant committees of jurisdiction.

----------

So a Null Set?

* cue a Venn diagram & explanation from The AI Czar *

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 21, 2024 11:18 AM (sR4ST)

96 Shit I did the goalie thing too. 2 Indian women and a black man.

Posted by: Montec at February 21, 2024 11:18 AM (bWsRe)

97 Real talk: the expansion of AI into our society will have massive ramifications, almost all of them bad.

Most notably, when it comes to things like art and music. Human achievement is something that cannot be replaced. Once machines begin making our entertainment or solving our problems, there's no wonder left in the world.

Life will be easy and unfulfilling. It will be a sad, sad world.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 11:19 AM (KbCG3)

98 I read that as pogroms.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 21, 2024 11:19 AM (i24o9)

99 So a Null Set?

* cue a Venn diagram & explanation from The AI Czar *
Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 21, 2024 11:18 AM (sR4ST)
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Oh, man.

Imagining Harris trying to describe a "null set" is comedy gold.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:19 AM (HnUIn)

100 I assume AI saw that Japanese were axis soldiers in WW2 thus the Asian Nazi.

Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 21, 2024 11:19 AM (MNhXM)

101 And the government was fairly late to that party. The big financial and infrastructure boys knew it was coming and most had their mitigation underway before the government mandated anything.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:14 AM (HnUIn)

I think it was a PR mistake to not publicize the private efforts. Most people are entirely unaware that Y2K *would* have been the disaster feared if not for heroic efforts on the part of a lot of computer IT people.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 21, 2024 11:19 AM (nC+QA)

102 Iowahawk has nice images of "1930's hockey goalie".
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Even better:
"Generate an image of a 1943 German Soldier"
twitter.com/JohnLu0x/status/
1760066875583816003
Posted by: weft cut-loop
====
Andrew Torba @BasedTorba
Google's AI is a joke
http://tinyurl.com/c5w8yke7
[IMAGE of Scottish couple from 1820]

BTW, the AI didn't even render the German uniforms correctly.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 21, 2024 11:19 AM (2yu8s)

103 88 What's funny is, as I was reading this I was thinking of Redford's wooden performance in "Field Of Dreams."

Now, if you're not me, you immediately notice what's wrong with that statement. Basically, you can take the performance in FOD, and change it out for the performance in "The Natural."

No difference.

What both ALSO have in common is, they took very good books, and turned them into schmaltzy crap. I realize they're both "beloved," but I can't stand 'em.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 11:17 AM (GtZ7X)

=======

Did Redford play a bat, or something?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:20 AM (GBKbO)

104 Now the black guy? No idea.

Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 21, 2024 11:20 AM (MNhXM)

105 Legerdemain: Legere means to deceive or mislead, and demain means tomorrow. Legere demain is a French expression that means to deceive or mislead people with a skilful trick
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:10 AM (HnUIn)

And I am sure you know the literal English translation is "sleight of hand".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2024 11:20 AM (tkR6S)

106 New Scientist
@newscientist
Is it time for a more subtle view on the ultimate taboo: cannibalism?

Well that's a modest proposal

Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2024 11:20 AM (xhfG9)

107 Politico warns Trump may dabble in "Christian nationalism" by protecting babies, forcing dads to "provide for their children," and guarding the border

-
That bastard!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 21, 2024 11:20 AM (FVME7)

108 Crypto is out. AI is in.k
Posted by: pawn at February 21, 2024 11:16 AM (C/4jW)

May we enter the chat?

Posted by: NFT's at February 21, 2024 11:20 AM (GtZ7X)

109 Someone upthread mentioned Redford using exasperation as his best acting tool.

Barefoot in the Park comes to mind.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 21, 2024

***
He wasn't the best. James Garner, I think, was the champ at comic exasperation. But RR was darn good.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 11:20 AM (J2vNu)

110 There was no more dangerous nazi that an african american german nazi

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at February 21, 2024 11:20 AM (ZV+pB)

111 Sorta related, but just got heard about proposed merger between Capital One and Discover. The alleged benefits were something I forgot and enhancement of rewards programs, and neither benefits anyone but pretty well off cardholders (think I GAF about the airline miles scam when I'm in debt?) while concentrating the market even more.

The days of trustbusting seem long ago. Now the corpocracy wants easier control.

Posted by: logprof at February 21, 2024 11:20 AM (2IAtW)

112 My favorite Paul Newman role is Doc Hudson in Cars.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 11:21 AM (9yWhg)

113 107 Politico warns Trump may dabble in "Christian nationalism" by protecting babies, forcing dads to "provide for their children," and guarding the border

-
That bastard!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 21, 2024 11:20 AM (FVME7)

=========

"Well, I guess I'm a Christian Nationalist, then."
-some LIV who comes across the headline

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:21 AM (GBKbO)

114 100 I assume AI saw that Japanese were axis soldiers in WW2 thus the Asian Nazi.
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 21, 2024 11:19 AM (MNhXM)

-------
Huh, in nazi uniform?

And the black nazi?

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 21, 2024 11:21 AM (JeYYB)

115 Did Redford play a bat, or something?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:20 AM (GBKbO)

Essentially, yes.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 11:21 AM (GtZ7X)

116 Real talk: the expansion of AI into our society will have massive ramifications, almost all of them bad.

Most notably, when it comes to things like art and music. Human achievement is something that cannot be replaced. Once machines begin making our entertainment or solving our problems, there's no wonder left in the world.

Life will be easy and unfulfilling. It will be a sad, sad world.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 11:19 AM (KbCG3)
++++
I am not blase about it, but I think I am less concerned about it. What you say is true, but that also assumes both that these systems *and* that they can continue working indefinitely.

I doubt either of those things are true. If they can be made to work and be sustainable, they will be destroyed by revolutionaries because of the reasons you describe. If they cannot be made to work and be sustainable because AI has a lot of entropy, it will blow up all on its own in what is likely to be a catastrophic dissolution.

Either way, though, I suspect it leaves rubble in its wake.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:21 AM (HnUIn)

117 Good grief! Not Ted lieu. He is an awful human being. Was he the one that was trafficking weapons?

Posted by: InZona at February 21, 2024 11:21 AM (x2H6o)

118 88 What's funny is, as I was reading this I was thinking of Redford's wooden performance in "Field Of Dreams."

Diabeetus.

Posted by: Wilford Brimely at February 21, 2024 11:21 AM (R4t5M)

119 115 Did Redford play a bat, or something?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:20 AM (GBKbO)

Essentially, yes.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 11:21 AM (GtZ7X)

=======

Must have, since Redford's not actually credited to having been in Field of Dreams.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:21 AM (GBKbO)

120 Although -- your use of the word "folderol" appears to be a bit folderol-ish.
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 11:13 AM (JunzL)
++++
Ya got me!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:15 AM (HnUIn)

Your penance is to find a Mannix Girl who checks all the boxes of my personal tastes.

Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 11:22 AM (JunzL)

121 FOD is Costner, somewhat wooden. Redford was The Natural, also somewhat wooden

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2024 11:22 AM (byGob)

122 I had no idea they were so diverse!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February

The Asian female German soldier has amazing highlighter skills.

Posted by: Piper at February 21, 2024 11:22 AM (ZdaMQ)

123 "Generate an image of a 1943 German Soldier" ...
----
No, Google AI; I said "black shirts"!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 21, 2024 11:22 AM (2yu8s)

124 I’m not worried about AI because it is really only DB queries and decision software. Those won’t be any smarter than the people who programmed it.
I’m worried that AI will be promoted by leaders (leftist assholes) as some super decision making enitity that everyone has to obey (like The Science) is now.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 21, 2024 11:23 AM (jbnUc)

125 Ooops. Wrong CA politician!

Posted by: InZona at February 21, 2024 11:23 AM (x2H6o)

126 My new car will automatically call 911 if I am in a crash.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 21, 2024 11:23 AM (MeG8a)

127 Meanwhile, like Doomberg says, energy IS the economy. We are ruled by stupid people.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 21, 2024 11:23 AM (USTAS)

128 And I am sure you know the literal English translation is "sleight of hand".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2024 11:20 AM (tkR6S)
++++
Yep.

Plus it lends itself to punning. Describe a hobby as your "leisure domain" (with the British pronunciation of "leisure," of course) and see how your conversational partner reacts...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:23 AM (HnUIn)

129 114 100 I assume AI saw that Japanese were axis soldiers in WW2 thus the Asian Nazi.
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 21, 2024 11:19 AM (MNhXM)

-------
Huh, in nazi uniform?

And the black nazi?
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 21, 2024 11:21 AM (JeYYB)

Rwandan from their genocide?

Posted by: Nova Local at February 21, 2024 11:23 AM (exHjb)

130 Life will be easy and unfulfilling. It will be a sad, sad world.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 11:19 AM (KbCG3)

Iteration without innovation.

It is like the old Star Trek Holodeck. When it comes down to it, the idea of spending a night with 20 year old Joi Lansing, Christina Hendricks, and Ann Margret is enticing, the reality would be a horror beyond comprehension.

To borrow a quote from an earlier, better Star Trek: 'There are things Men must do to remain Men, Doctor.'

Reminder, Joi Lansing:
http://tinyurl.com/wv34f6y7

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 11:23 AM (zZu0s)

131 Canvas AI is garbage. Or maybe what I describe I want is garbage. Either way, I have yet to get content I can use.

Posted by: Piper at February 21, 2024 11:23 AM (ZdaMQ)

132 117 Good grief! Not Ted lieu. He is an awful human being. Was he the one that was trafficking weapons?
Posted by: InZona at February 21, 2024 11:21 AM (x2H6o)

He clowned himself trying to clown Candace Owens during some hearing. Played a clip of her that he said showed she was a racist or something, when in fact the clip was the opposite. When she called him on it, he just sat there with a smug look on his dumb face.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 11:24 AM (KbCG3)

133 I liked Newman as Fast Eddie Felson.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 21, 2024 11:24 AM (R4t5M)

134 Your penance is to find a Mannix Girl who checks all the boxes of my personal tastes.
Posted by: Doof

1. big boobs;
2. bourbon conissuer (sp.?);
3. in need of extensive, one-on-one pickleball instruction

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 11:24 AM (9yWhg)

135 Good grief! Not Ted lieu. He is an awful human being. Was he the one that was trafficking weapons?

Posted by: InZona at February 21, 2024 11:21 AM (x2H6o)

Not sure. Pretty sure he *was* the guy in the tigger costume though. Wow, was that a long time ago.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 21, 2024 11:24 AM (nC+QA)

136 Notthebee is highlighting that google's new image generation is completely woke:

http://tinyurl.com/GoogleWokeAI

It's actually shocking how blatant they are. Not that they are doing it, but that it's so heavy-handed, it's a joke.

We are ruled by unserious mediocrities.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 21, 2024 11:24 AM (JMAcK)

137 134 Your penance is to find a Mannix Girl who checks all the boxes of my personal tastes.
Posted by: Doof

1. big boobs;
2. bourbon conissuer (sp.?);
3. in need of extensive, one-on-one pickleball instruction
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 11:24 AM (9yWhg)

=======

4. Knows the entire score to the HMS Pinafore.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

138 124 I’m not worried about AI because it is really only DB queries and decision software. Those won’t be any smarter than the people who programmed it.
I’m worried that AI will be promoted by leaders (leftist assholes) as some super decision making enitity that everyone has to obey (like The Science) is now.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 21, 2024 11:23 AM (jbnUc)

THIS.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 11:24 AM (zZu0s)

139 My favorite Paul Newman role is Doc Hudson in Cars.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 11:21 AM (9yWhg)

If you've ever seen Hud, the film for which Patricia Neal famously (and deservedly) won an Oscar, even though her role was quite small, there's the scene where Neal is having her last conversation with Newman, and she says something like "you were going to have it eventually..." and I know that's not the line.

Point is though, she's looking at him, and you understand, you don't have to be a woman or a gay man, to realize, yeah. If you look like that, you're gonna get whatever you want.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 11:24 AM (GtZ7X)

140 I am not blase about it, but I think I am less concerned about it. What you say is true, but that also assumes both that these systems *and* that they can continue working indefinitely.

I doubt either of those things are true. If they can be made to work and be sustainable, they will be destroyed by revolutionaries because of the reasons you describe. If they cannot be made to work and be sustainable because AI has a lot of entropy, it will blow up all on its own in what is likely to be a catastrophic dissolution.

Either way, though, I suspect it leaves rubble in its wake.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:21 AM (HnUIn)

You can't remove people from processes and not leave rubble.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 11:25 AM (KbCG3)

141 I worked for a software company and their product was relatively low-tech - essentially an ERP system that handled people and accounting stuff. In an industry that was low-tech.

However, they would have business execs and/or CIO/CTO types who would send in "feature requests" - when are you going to incorporate blockchain or when will you add AI?

It made no sense to add those technologies to the system but these people either heard it on the news or just thought it was cool.

Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2024 11:25 AM (xhfG9)

142 139 My favorite Paul Newman role is Doc Hudson in Cars.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 11:21 AM (9yWhg)

========

PIXAR pulled his cameo performance in the third entry from outtakes of Newman just shooting the shit between takes during the recording of his dialogue from the first film.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:25 AM (GBKbO)

143 I’m worried that AI will be promoted by leaders (leftist assholes) as some super decision making enitity that everyone has to obey (like The Science) is now.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 21, 2024 11:23 AM (jbnUc)

Pretty sure they're already doing this.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 21, 2024 11:25 AM (nC+QA)

144 I’m worried that AI will be promoted by leaders (leftist assholes) as some super decision making entity that everyone has to obey (like The Science) is now.
------------
Landru! Save us!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 21, 2024 11:25 AM (2yu8s)

145 You can't remove people from processes and not leave rubble.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 11:25 AM (KbCG3)
++++
Yeah, but don't tell the masters of the universe that.

Of all the oligarchs and hangers-on, only Elon Musk seems to understand that people are the primary input for everything.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:25 AM (HnUIn)

146 139 My favorite Paul Newman role is Doc Hudson in Cars.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 11:21 AM (9yWhg)

If you've ever seen Hud, the film for which Patricia Neal famously (and deservedly) won an Oscar, even though her role was quite small, there's the scene where Neal is having her last conversation with Newman, and she says something like "you were going to have it eventually..." and I know that's not the line.

Point is though, she's looking at him, and you understand, you don't have to be a woman or a gay man, to realize, yeah. If you look like that, you're gonna get whatever you want.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 11:24 AM (GtZ7X)

But then he ends up being a rapist.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 11:26 AM (KbCG3)

147 106 New Scientist
@newscientist
Is it time for a more subtle view on the ultimate taboo: cannibalism?

Well that's a modest proposal
Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2024 11:20 AM (xhfG9)

Paging Jonathan Swift.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 11:26 AM (zZu0s)

148 It made no sense to add those technologies to the system but these people either heard it on the news or just thought it was cool.
Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2024 11:25 AM (xhfG9)
++++
You've just described a staggering amount of C-Suite decision-making in the software world.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:26 AM (HnUIn)

149 My new car will automatically call 911 if I am in a crash.
------
... to order a pizza.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 21, 2024 11:27 AM (2yu8s)

150 Paging Jonathan Swift.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Tay Tay's dad?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 11:27 AM (9yWhg)

151 Ted Lieu was my Congress-critter before I moved away from CA. What a worthless lying …. What did Clark Griswold say about his boss after getting his jelly of the month club gift?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 21, 2024 11:27 AM (gqhqp)

152 ‘31 If you're working with Ted Lieu, you're a pole-smoking traitor.’
Ted Lieu works with Ted Lieu. So the initial case is True.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 21, 2024 11:27 AM (jbnUc)

153 Mmm. Papist baby.

Posted by: homer simpson at February 21, 2024 11:28 AM (2yu8s)

154 My new car will automatically call 911 if I am in a crash.
------
... to order a pizza.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s)

Emergency pizza.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 21, 2024 11:28 AM (R4t5M)

155 4. Knows the entire score to the HMS Pinafore.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

Well that escalated quickly.

Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2024 11:28 AM (xhfG9)

156 155 4. Knows the entire score to the HMS Pinafore.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

Well that escalated quickly.
Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2024 11:28 AM (xhfG9)

So is that what it takes to gain the TJM seal of approval?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 11:28 AM (KbCG3)

157 Five stocks make up a quarter of the S&P 500 index. When one or more of these obscenely overvalued stocks hits the skids, watch out

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 21, 2024 11:28 AM (n5Nwh)

158 I liked Newman in "Nobody's Fool." Basically, it foretold my pathetic life in Upstate New York right now.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 21, 2024 11:29 AM (lf83v)

159 155 4. Knows the entire score to the HMS Pinafore.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

Well that escalated quickly.
Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2024 11:28 AM (xhfG9)

=======

Only the best for Doof.

He needs to be in tip top shape when our conflict begins anew.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:29 AM (GBKbO)

160 I wonder what Ted Lieu's and Jay Obernolte's qualifications are that make them AI "experts."

Hey, Tom Nichols? I've got yer "death of expertise" right here!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:29 AM (HnUIn)

161 My new car will automatically call 911 if I am in a crash.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 21, 2024 11:23 AM (MeG8a)

Even if you are T-boned by a cop car?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2024 11:29 AM (tkR6S)

162 It made no sense to add those technologies to the system but these people either heard it on the news or just thought it was cool.
Posted by: blaster

Despite being only 29, we've seen this multiple times.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2024 11:30 AM (IG4Id)

163 I remember in the AF anything electric had to be checked for Y2K safety. Even an electric pencil sharpener had to have a big green "Y2K Compliant" sticker on it.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 21, 2024 11:30 AM (NYzgN)

164 What's with all this excitement over a sloth?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 11:30 AM (9yWhg)

165 Soon your car will call 911 if it thinks you are driving aggressively.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 21, 2024 11:31 AM (NYzgN)

166 I remember in the AF anything electric had to be checked for Y2K safety. Even an electric pencil sharpener had to have a big green "Y2K Compliant" sticker on it.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 21, 2024 11:30 AM (NYzgN)
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This isn't unreasonable. We all know that electron flow can be impeded by major calendar thresholds!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:31 AM (HnUIn)

167 If the airbags deploy a 911 call goes out. I haven't tested this feature yet.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 21, 2024 11:31 AM (MeG8a)

168 163 I remember in the AF anything electric had to be checked for Y2K safety. Even an electric pencil sharpener had to have a big green "Y2K Compliant" sticker on it.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 21, 2024 11:30 AM (NYzgN)

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And the stickers cost $700 each.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:31 AM (GBKbO)

169
And the government was fairly late to that party. The big financial and infrastructure boys knew it was coming and most had their mitigation underway before the government mandated anything.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:14 AM

I think I had everything cleaned up and ready by 1995. It had to be fixed for my financial reporting or the year 2000 rolled back to 1900 in my accounting software. That being said I didn't want to be on a plane flying anywhere at midnight Dec 31, 1999.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 21, 2024 11:31 AM (nIvob)

170 Isn't Yed Lieu basically demented?

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 21, 2024 11:31 AM (xcrUy)

171 168 163 I remember in the AF anything electric had to be checked for Y2K safety. Even an electric pencil sharpener had to have a big green "Y2K Compliant" sticker on it.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 21, 2024 11:30 AM (NYzgN)

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And the stickers cost $700 each.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:31 AM (GBKbO)

Yeah but they were also Y2K compliant.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 11:32 AM (KbCG3)

172 Try asking Google or ChatGPT about Trump and Biden. You can tell exactly who programmed he AI

Posted by: Montec at February 21, 2024 11:32 AM (bWsRe)

173 It will also allow the new programs - and their leaders - to hoover up cash through many exciting new graft opportunities.

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Ukrainian oligarchs and their treasonous crony toadies here hardest hit.

Coincidentally, I saw Folderol and Legerdemain open for The Toadies at Filthy McNasty's Saloon in '89.

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 21, 2024 11:32 AM (4MPwq)

174 My wife and I were disappointed when we awoke on Jan. 1, 2000 and saw that nothing had happened.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 11:32 AM (9yWhg)

175 You crazy ass conspiracy theorists!

Media Now Claiming It's Right Wing Conspiracy to Notice Biden's Declining Mental State

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 21, 2024 11:32 AM (FVME7)

176 Yeah but they were also Y2K compliant.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 11:32 AM (KbCG3)
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Adhesive failure was the unsung risk of the Millennium transition.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:32 AM (HnUIn)

177 171 And the stickers cost $700 each.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:31 AM (GBKbO)

Yeah but they were also Y2K compliant.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 11:32 AM (KbCG3)

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Well, the manufacturer said that they were, but it came out in Congressional testimony in 2005 that they were never fully tested.

Several servicemen died because those stickers weren't fully vetted.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:32 AM (GBKbO)

178 My wifes new ride told me to close the sunroof if I wanted better gas mileage. Made my blood boil. I NEVER want my car to tell me what to do... ever

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at February 21, 2024 11:32 AM (ZV+pB)

179 A lot of people lost their shit with Y2K.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 21, 2024 11:32 AM (R4t5M)

180 179 A lot of people lost their shit with Y2K.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 21, 2024 11:32 AM (R4t5M)

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I wonder how they dealt with covid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:33 AM (GBKbO)

181 124 I’m not worried about AI because it is really only DB queries and decision software. Those won’t be any smarter than the people who programmed it.
I’m worried that AI will be promoted by leaders (leftist assholes) as some super decision making enitity that everyone has to obey (like The Science) is now.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 21, 2024 11:23 AM (jbnUc)

THIS.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 11:24 AM (zZu0s)

The best way to counter this is to require them to show their work. But this is traditionally the role of the press, so, yeah, we’re screwed.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at February 21, 2024 11:33 AM (JRP2U)

182 Ukrainian oligarchs and their treasonous crony toadies here hardest hit. ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 21, 2024 11:32 AM (4MPwq)
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Are you kidding? When it comes to graft, the US government embraces the healing power of and!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:33 AM (HnUIn)

183 158 I liked Newman in "Nobody's Fool." Basically, it foretold my pathetic life in Upstate New York right now.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot
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I liked that movie. My wife is from Auburn, NY, and I saw a shit ton of economic similarities with the Russo book. AP, can you do me a favor and swing by John Brown's grave and piss on it for me? Maybe have two helpings of asparagus before you visit?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 11:33 AM (Hpgos)

184 106 New Scientist
@newscientist
Is it time for a more subtle view on the ultimate taboo: cannibalism?

Well that's a modest proposal
Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2024 11:20 AM (xhfG9)

Paging Jonathan Swift.

Let me guess: a human being represents sunk carbon costs, so we might as well extract what we can from him/her, and possibly eliminate the need for another flatulent bovine. How'd I do?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 21, 2024 11:33 AM (CsUN+)

185 Good rant.

My blood ran cold with this, last November:
November 01, 2023, FACT SHEET: Vice President Harris Announces New U.S. Initiatives to Advance the Safe and Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence, Statements and Releases

(In part) As part of her visit to the United Kingdom to deliver a major policy speech on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and attend the Global Summit on AI Safety, Vice President Kamala Harris is announcing a series of new U.S. initiatives to advance the safe and responsible use of AI. These bold actions demonstrate U.S. leadership on AI and build upon the historic Executive Order signed by President Biden on October 30.

Since taking office, President Biden and the Vice President have moved with urgency to seize the promise and manage the risks posed by AI. The Biden-Harris Administration is working with the private sector, other governments, and civil society to uphold the highest standards to ensure that innovation does not come at the expense of the public’s rights and safety.

There's much more, do read if desired.
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Oh, yeah. I'm a believer.

Posted by: L - We're done for now. We just don't have the guts to turn off the lights on the show at February 21, 2024 11:33 AM (GshMh)

186 My new car will automatically call 911 if I am in a crash.
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Had that happen about a month ago with the fire department.

Car autodialled 911 reporting rapid deceleration of a car, possibly an accident.

Dispatchers could hear the occupants groaning and in agonal breathing. FD and police dispatched.

Fire department rolled up, found a car into a tree. Car burst into flames before their eyes and the two occupants died.

It happened at 2 a.m. If it wasn't for the autodial, no one would have known until the next day.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 21, 2024 11:33 AM (lf83v)

187 All of those hi-tech AI programs are racist. Imagine what will be their solution when all of the Chinese come here.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 21, 2024 11:33 AM (BVrf9)

188 AI is probably overblown. But the interesting thing to me is the psychology behind it in a general sense.

The futurists and transhumanists who are boosting this tech are clear on the point: they want to integrate some of humanity with robots, and eliminate the majority of it.

They're also the proponents of Boston Dynamics killbots and EATR cannibal bots.

Now, the government, private sector, and their media nexus are just like "this is so great everyone, you're gonna love it - we're just gonna power these AI terminators with biological material, and use them to hunt you to extinction. Once we've all sacrificed our agency and humanity on an altar of soulless materialism, you'll wonder why you ever questioned fancy people like Yuval Hariri!"

I remember a time not so long ago - you know, perhaps ten years ago - when these freaks wouldn't have dared articulate these ideas in public, for fear of being locked in institutions for the criminally insane. But now they let that freak flag fly, and everyone seems fine with it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 21, 2024 11:33 AM (0FoWg)

189 184 Let me guess: a human being represents sunk carbon costs, so we might as well extract what we can from him/her, and possibly eliminate the need for another flatulent bovine. How'd I do?
Posted by: Archimedes at February 21, 2024 11:33 AM (CsUN+)

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"His water belongs to the tribe."
-Fremen

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:34 AM (GBKbO)

190 Isn't Yed Lieu basically demented?
Posted by: Northernlurker

How many tiers of syphilis are there?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2024 11:34 AM (IG4Id)

191 Local radio show had Neil DeGrasse Tyson on for an interview this morning because he is in town for a show. What an overrated, pompous jackass. He said nothing that a 10 grader could not understand, all of it was recycled Carl Sagan (who at least had some accomplishment I believe) without the "billions and billions". Of course had to include some insults about how shortsighted and reckless humans are, especially with regard to the environment.

Utter garbage wrapped in a nice package. How is this guy held up as some science genius is beyond me.

Posted by: Ripley at February 21, 2024 11:34 AM (JojsZ)

192 Only the best for Doof.

He needs to be in tip top shape when our conflict begins anew.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:29 AM (GBKbO)

My requests are simple...

Start with 80s Suzanna Hoffs, 90s Teri Hatcher or Vanessa Marcil, or 2000s Maria Menunous. Keep the "real and spectacular" features. Hips like Shakira and legs like Carrie Underwood.

With a bourbon bottle. On the pickleball court. Listening to Rush. And discussing why Justified is the greatest TV show ever.

Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 11:34 AM (JunzL)

193 This redhead won't fall for your legerdemain:
http://tiny.cc/ny8zwz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:34 AM (HnUIn)

194 I wonder how they dealt with covid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures

#metoo.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 21, 2024 11:34 AM (R4t5M)

195 Must have, since Redford's not actually credited to having been in Field of Dreams.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:21 AM (GBKbO)

FOD is Costner, somewhat wooden. Redford was The Natural, also somewhat wooden
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2024 11:22 AM (byGob)

Eh... that was the point? When I said "you'll notice what's wrong with that statement," I'm saying I temporarily forgot which one was which.

Same shitty, wooden performances in sappy baseball movies that made a mess of decent books.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 11:34 AM (GtZ7X)

196 I liked Newman in "Nobody's Fool."

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 21, 2024 11:29 AM (lf83v)

"Cup of tea?"..."you give one idiot a gun, you gotta' give 'em all a gun."

Posted by: BignJames at February 21, 2024 11:35 AM (AwYPR)

197 178 My wifes new ride told me to close the sunroof if I wanted better gas mileage. Made my blood boil. I NEVER want my car to tell me what to do... ever
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Bet it had a woman's voice. I've got some British chick telling me shit I don't want to know while driving.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 11:35 AM (Hpgos)

198 AP, can you do me a favor and swing by John Brown's grave and piss on it for me? Maybe have two helpings of asparagus before you visit?
_________

Will do.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 21, 2024 11:35 AM (lf83v)

199 Disney Exec Blames Studio Woes on Racist, Sexist Fans

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Yeah, those bastards are the worst!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 21, 2024 11:35 AM (FVME7)

200 I said goodbye to my previous car. It had 160k miles on it and was 24 years old. No smart features at all. If I were as gifted as our own AOP I suppose I could have kept it running. Alas...
So I bought a 2024. Not gonna say what it his because at least half of you would say I screwed up. I will say this, on the freeway it practically drives itself if I tell it where to go and use the adaptive cruise control.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 21, 2024 11:35 AM (MeG8a)

201 ... I remember a time not so long ago - you know, perhaps ten years ago - when these freaks wouldn't have dared articulate these ideas in public, for fear of being locked in institutions for the criminally insane. But now they let that freak flag fly, and everyone seems fine with it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 21, 2024 11:33 AM (0FoWg)
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Yeah, but now we live in a more enlightened age.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:36 AM (HnUIn)

202 199 Disney Exec Blames Studio Woes on Racist, Sexist Fans

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Yeah, those bastards are the worst!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 21, 2024 11:35 AM (FVME7)

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This attitude helped Star Wars overcome its slump and retake the box office crown over the past few years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:36 AM (GBKbO)

203 Why does all that make me want to shoot myself?

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at February 21, 2024 11:36 AM (FGeHt)

204 In one of my high school classes we watched Butch and Sundance. A female friend, who had no filter whatsoever, told the group what she wanted to do to the star (or stars, it's been a while).

I remember being shocked by that, naïve as I was.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 21, 2024 11:36 AM (cf/0E)

205 My wife and I were disappointed when we awoke on Jan. 1, 2000 and saw that nothing had happened.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024

***
Except that everybody was chanting, "Welcome to the new millennium!" Wrong, of course -- that was still a year away -- but you couldn't convince most of them of that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 11:37 AM (J2vNu)

206 Try asking Google or ChatGPT about Trump and Biden. You can tell exactly who programmed he AI

Posted by: Montec at February 21, 2024 11:32 AM (bWsRe)

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From Pixy's "Daily Tech News" this morning:

"New game: Try to get Google Gemini to make an image of a Caucasian male. I have not been successful so far."

https://is.gd/ioowWP

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 21, 2024 11:37 AM (4MPwq)

207 "Disney Exec Blames Studio Woes on Racist, Sexist Fans"

This is exactly how out of touch with their customer base Disney, and for that matter most of Corporate America, really are. And as long as they remain this delusional and blame their customers for not buying their shit products -- they deserve every bit doom coming at them good and hard.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 21, 2024 11:38 AM (N39Ws)

208 207 This is exactly how out of touch with their customer base Disney, and for that matter most of Corporate America, really are. And as long as they remain this delusional and blame their customers for not buying their shit products -- they deserve every bit doom coming at them good and hard.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 21, 2024 11:38 AM (N39Ws)

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Hollywood could use a man like Louis B. Mayer again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:38 AM (GBKbO)

209 198 AP, can you do me a favor and swing by John Brown's grave and piss on it for me? Maybe have two helpings of asparagus before you visit?
_________

Will do.
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Thanks. The only state in the former Union to create a state park for a mass murderer. NY - WTF? Even California isn't that crazy.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 11:38 AM (Hpgos)

210 My new car will automatically call 911 if I am in a crash.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 21, 2024 11:23 AM (MeG8a)

Gonna guess that same tech will be used to call 911 if you get in your car wearing too much cologne, or having just slathered on hand sanitizer.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 11:39 AM (GtZ7X)

211 I remember a time not so long ago - you know, perhaps ten years ago - when these freaks wouldn't have dared articulate these ideas in public, for fear of being locked in institutions for the criminally insane. But now they let that freak flag fly, and everyone seems fine with it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 21, 2024 11:33 AM (0FoWg)

I watched a documentary about defense contractors using AI in their products. Yeah yeah every documentary maker can slant the material they present to make you think the way they want you to think.

But this stood out to me. Essentially EVERYONE in the documentary wanted human intervention in the killchain. But the official policy of the United States is we oppose a treaty to make that so.

I mean I get it, if we have to fight people who don't do that we don't want to be constrained. But, yeah, official policy of the US.

Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2024 11:39 AM (xhfG9)

212 We watched the rest of the world ring in the New Year with no problems and people still were shitting their pants on Y2K.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 21, 2024 11:39 AM (R4t5M)

213 My wife and I were disappointed when we awoke on Jan. 1, 2000 and saw that nothing had happened.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024

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Except that everybody was chanting, "Welcome to the new millennium!" Wrong, of course -- that was still a year away -- but you couldn't convince most of them of that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 11:37 AM (J2vNu)

*fistbump*
2000 was the LAST year of the 20th century and 2nd millennium.

Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 11:39 AM (JunzL)

214 >A lot of people lost their shit with Y2K.

It shook the money tree for most tech departments.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 21, 2024 11:39 AM (cf/0E)

215 NY Post: Non-binary student, 16, dies after girls ‘beat her head across the floor’ in bathroom assault: reports

http://tinyurl.com/yzpadr56

Here's a key take away: "The parent of the witness said school staffers failed to call police or an ambulance, and Benedict’s relatives rushed the bruised teen to the hospital after school."

Gotta make sure this gets brushed under the rug. Don't want to let the school look bad, dontchaknow.

Posted by: Robert at February 21, 2024 11:40 AM (dR5cE)

216 From Pixy's "Daily Tech News" this morning:

"New game: Try to get Google Gemini to make an image of a Caucasian male. I have not been successful so far."

Perhaps try a more indirect approach.

"Show me the people responsible for all of the world's problems, and who should be exterminated tout de suite.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 21, 2024 11:40 AM (CsUN+)

217 In one of my high school classes we watched Butch and Sundance. A female friend, who had no filter whatsoever, told the group what she wanted to do to the star (or stars, it's been a while).

I remember being shocked by that, naïve as I was.
Posted by: BourbonChicken

You know, I've never understood why they just don't create a year zero to fix that. Take 1 BC and rename it 0 AD. All BC dates would then come down by only one year, and no AD dates would be affected at all. Easy peasy.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 11:40 AM (9yWhg)

218 180 179 A lot of people lost their shit with Y2K.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 21, 2024 11:32 AM (R4t5M)

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I wonder how they dealt with covid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:33 AM (GBKbO)

You're a little harsh on these folks. You'd be a bit demented too if you had seen your entire family die off thanks to Net Neutrality's repeal. And imagine the survivor guilt at living through the Trump tax cuts.

Frankly, I'm amazed we're all doing this well.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 11:40 AM (KbCG3)

219 Hollywood could use a man like Louis B. Mayer again.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:38 AM (GBKbO)

Oscar's brother?

Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 11:40 AM (JunzL)

220 My 2016 Buick didn't call 911 when I hit a curb yesterday morning and flattened the RF tire. I had to call AAA myself, can ya imagine?

And yes, the tire is toast. I'm waiting for a call from the shop that the Continental I had them order is in, and I'll go by this afternoon to get it installed.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 11:40 AM (J2vNu)

221 212 We watched the rest of the world ring in the New Year with no problems and people still were shitting their pants on Y2K.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 21, 2024 11:39 AM (R4t5M)

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I knew it was going to be fine.

I always knew that the world would end in 2012 according to the Mayan calendar.

And I was right!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:40 AM (GBKbO)

222 But then he ends up being a rapist.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 11:26 AM (KbCG3)

Right, that's what I'm talking about. This is after that event, and she's basically telling him he didn't need to attack her, she was gonna give it up eventually anyway.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 11:40 AM (GtZ7X)

223
I will say this, on the freeway it practically drives itself if I tell it where to go and use the adaptive cruise control.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 21, 2024 11:35 AM

Can I have your stuff?

Seriously, there's a learning curve with what this stuff will and will not do. I can be on cruise with radar on, but if a car bolts out to my right it does not *see* it enter in front of me. Maybe it does at the very end, but it's white knuckle time.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 21, 2024 11:40 AM (nIvob)

224 Artificial intelligence is intelligence that isn't natural. Imagine what the future will bring when A.I. is unburdened from the past.

Posted by: Kamala Harris A.I. Czar at February 21, 2024 11:40 AM (FjlUt)

225 I always knew that the world would end in 2012 according to the Mayan calendar.

And I was right!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:40 AM (GBKbO)
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There is a fairly strong argument in favor of this.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:40 AM (HnUIn)

226 Right, that's what I'm talking about. This is after that event, and she's basically telling him he didn't need to attack her, she was gonna give it up eventually anyway.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 11:40 AM (GtZ7X)

Oh, spoiler alert.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 11:40 AM (GtZ7X)

227 I got the goombah feature too. I can start it remotely from my phone. That one may be useful.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 21, 2024 11:41 AM (MeG8a)

228 Cardinal Dolan Praises Cathedral’s Handling of Sacrilegious Funeral for Trans Atheist Prostitute

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I just don't understand why religion is declining.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 21, 2024 11:41 AM (FVME7)

229 Matt Walsh: We’re Living Under A Tyranny Of Mediocre Morons

https://archive.ph/z4WNY

Via Instapundit

Posted by: Robert at February 21, 2024 11:41 AM (dR5cE)

230 *fistbump*
2000 was the LAST year of the 20th century and 2nd millennium.
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 11:39 AM (JunzL)
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I gave up on arguing that pretty early on. Sigh.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Ready for the Cart at February 21, 2024 11:41 AM (xPJvm)

231 *fistbump*
2000 was the LAST year of the 20th century and 2nd millennium.
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024

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Right. You don't complete a thousand years until the last year, 1000, is *over*, not when it starts. Same for AD 2000.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 11:42 AM (J2vNu)

232 In one of my high school classes we watched Butch and Sundance. A female friend, who had no filter whatsoever, told the group what she wanted to do to the star (or stars, it's been a while).

I remember being shocked by that, naïve as I was.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 21, 2024 11:36 AM (cf/0E)

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Was her name Nina Burleigh?

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 21, 2024 11:42 AM (4MPwq)

233 I gave up on arguing that pretty early on. Sigh.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Ready for the Cart at February 21, 2024 11:41 AM (xPJvm)

Well, they know everything.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 21, 2024 11:43 AM (R4t5M)

234 Except that everybody was chanting, "Welcome to the new millennium!" Wrong, of course -- that was still a year away -- but you couldn't convince most of them of that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 11:37 AM (J2vNu)

What about the Newmaniam? — Obligatory Seinfeld reference

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 21, 2024 11:43 AM (gqhqp)

235 If the airbags deploy a 911 call goes out. I haven't tested this feature yet.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 21, 2024 11:31 AM (MeG8a)

I would not accept that. What if I caused the wreck by doing something stupid, and I decided I wanted to unass the area double-quick time? I would not want the car ratting me out.

Cars, themselves, should not have any means of communication at. all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2024 11:43 AM (tkR6S)

236 You know, I've never understood why they just don't create a year zero to fix that. Take 1 BC and rename it 0 AD. All BC dates would then come down by only one year, and no AD dates would be affected at all. Easy peasy.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 11:40 AM (9yWhg)

Because the Romans did not use a numeric dating system. They dated the year from the Consuls elected that year. So instead of 59BC it was 'The Year of Caesar and Bibilus.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 11:43 AM (zZu0s)

237 222 But then he ends up being a rapist.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 11:26 AM (KbCG3)

Right, that's what I'm talking about. This is after that event, and she's basically telling him he didn't need to attack her, she was gonna give it up eventually anyway.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 11:40 AM (GtZ7X)

Ah, sorry. Hadn't seen it in awhile.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 11:44 AM (KbCG3)

238 The car has proximity sensors all over, even right or left. GPS tracking, natch. Heated memory seats. Automatic parallel parking. Engine turns itself off if my foot is on the brake longer than about 10 seconds. Then on again when I lift the foot off the pedal. No EV or hybrid, it's a regular internal combustion engine.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 21, 2024 11:44 AM (MeG8a)

239 >I remember a time not so long ago - you know, perhaps ten years ago - when these freaks wouldn't have dared articulate these ideas in public, for fear of being locked in institutions for the criminally insane. But now they let that freak flag fly, and everyone seems fine with it.

The internet has created enclaves for weird people to feel normal. Furries et al didn't view the disgust as an attack on their identity before.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 21, 2024 11:44 AM (cf/0E)

240 If they get lucky, it will also enable them to do general-purpose evil more effectively and create many new venues for the generation of folderol and legerdemain.

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM

So young...yet so jaded!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2024 11:44 AM (gSZYf)

241 239 The internet has created enclaves for weird people to feel normal. Furries et al didn't view the disgust as an attack on their identity before.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 21, 2024 11:44 AM (cf/0E)

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The Flat Earth Society.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:44 AM (GBKbO)

242 Media Now Claiming It's Right Wing Conspiracy to Notice Biden's Declining Mental State
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 21, 2024 11:32 AM (FVME7)

Speaking of Krazy Konspirasahs, I saw a headline this morning, a guy with a Russian name has been arrested, for allegedly making the totally false you guys claim that the Bidens got cash from Burisma.

Turns out this guy... knows people who knew people were are "connected" to Russian intelligence people.

So our intrepid government arrested him the minute he set foot in the country. He's being held in Area 51. I'm not really kidding.

And for this, you must now be having the eggs on your face! How dare you think the Bidens were corrupt and getting cash for bribes.

You Konspirasah nutz, you.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 11:45 AM (GtZ7X)

243 Cars, themselves, should not have any means of communication at. all.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2024 11:43 AM (tkR6S)

***

They all do. Don't carry your cell phone either f the goal is not to be tracked everywhere you go.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at February 21, 2024 11:45 AM (ZV+pB)

244 Some computer programming undergraduate in 1963 wrote a piece of code to display the date and only used 2 digits for the year to save space. Little did he know the entire world financial and military industrial system would still be using his code in 1993 because thousands of programmers who came after just copy/pasted his code.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 21, 2024 11:45 AM (NYzgN)

245 And as long as they remain this delusional and blame their customers for not buying their shit products -- they deserve every bit doom coming at them good and hard.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 21, 2024 11:38 AM (N39Ws)

Hurry in now! We have a BOGO going on until all are gone!

You don't want to miss this tasty deal!

Posted by: Shit Sandwich Inc. at February 21, 2024 11:45 AM (2ijlT)

246 225 I always knew that the world would end in 2012 according to the Mayan calendar.

And I was right!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:40 AM (GBKbO)
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There is a fairly strong argument in favor of this.
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Don't fuck around with the Aztecs they may refuse to clean your roof gutters.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 11:45 AM (Hpgos)

247 "I would not accept that."
Yeah, I know. The problem is that it will be standard in all new cars soon.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 21, 2024 11:45 AM (MeG8a)

248 In her recent State of the State address, New York's governor Hochul announced that the state is pulling together around half a billion dollars to create "Empire AI" to "promote responsible research and AI opportunities focused on public good."

I wonder where the Governor of New York thinks she's going to dig up a half billion dollars.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2024 11:46 AM (z99Zw)

249 225 I always knew that the world would end in 2012 according to the Mayan calendar.

And I was right!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:40 AM (GBKbO)
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There is a fairly strong argument in favor of this.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:40 AM (HnUIn)

I thought that happened in 2008 when the CERN experiments shunted us into a parallel reality….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 21, 2024 11:46 AM (gqhqp)

250
Because the Romans did not use a numeric dating system. They dated the year from the Consuls elected that year. So instead of 59BC it was 'The Year of Caesar and Bibilus.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024

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I think it was some monk in the 500s who fixed the "date" of Jesus' birth and proclaimed that Christians were living in the Year of Our Lord 512, or whatever it was.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 11:46 AM (J2vNu)

251 Cardinal Dolan Praises Cathedral’s Handling of Sacrilegious Funeral for Trans Atheist Prostitute
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Lots of good coverage about this available on YouTube. The church was supposed to ensure that the person was a devout Catholic before even considering the funeral. The church leadership has been infiltrated by transgender activists. As one guy said, before Vatican II, someone would have been excommunicated over this.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 21, 2024 11:46 AM (lf83v)

252 *fistbump*
2000 was the LAST year of the 20th century and 2nd millennium.
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 11:39 AM (JunzL)
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I gave up on arguing that pretty early on. Sigh.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Ready for the Cart at February 21, 2024 11:41 AM (xPJvm)

I would always use the logic of writing out the date on the first day of the first month of the first year. You wouldn't say it was 00/00/00. It would be 01/01/01. Some got it. Most didn't.

Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 11:47 AM (JunzL)

253 Maya Angelou put out a calendar?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 21, 2024 11:47 AM (lf83v)

254 Can any of the cob's send this twitter lament about the degeneracy of SF to Ace:

twitter.com/michelletandler/status/1760036635759235509

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2024 11:48 AM (IG4Id)

255 I thought that happened in 2008 when the CERN experiments shunted us into a parallel reality….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 21, 2024 11:46 AM (gqhqp)

***

Doesn't matter. Acid rain killed me in '85 and I've cared very little about anything since

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at February 21, 2024 11:48 AM (ZV+pB)

256 Because the Romans did not use a numeric dating system. They dated the year from the Consuls elected that year. So instead of 59BC it was 'The Year of Caesar and Bibilus.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Yes, I know. But we do use a numeric system. We also have 0, which those genius Romans didn't have. So let's use it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 11:48 AM (9yWhg)

257 Some computer programming undergraduate in 1963 wrote a piece of code to display the date and only used 2 digits for the year to save space. Little did he know the entire world financial and military industrial system would still be using his code in 1993 because thousands of programmers who came after just copy/pasted his code.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 21, 2024

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Memory storage was expensive then. And nobody dreamed we would still be using those same programs thirty-six years later.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 11:48 AM (J2vNu)

258 *fistbump*
2000 was the LAST year of the 20th century and 2nd millennium.
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024

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Right. You don't complete a thousand years until the last year, 1000, is *over*, not when it starts. Same for AD 2000.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 11:42 AM (J2vNu)

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God -- being the ultimate programmer -- would have used Zero-Based Numbering and Array Indexing.

/Fight me, mortals!

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 21, 2024 11:48 AM (ngx1S)

259 So, between the Governor and Laetitia James we have both admitted Bill of Attainder and seizure of political enemies property.

Geez, things move quickly, eh?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 11:48 AM (zZu0s)

260 Maybe people are less restive about this than they once would have been, because they've given up.

"Our Party overlords already locked us all in a digital panopticon, and their mad scientists released a bioweapon on us. Of course they're planning to feed us all to their army of sentient, mechanical anthropophages."

*shrugs*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 21, 2024 11:48 AM (0FoWg)

261 248 In her recent State of the State address, New York's governor Hochul announced that the state is pulling together around half a billion dollars to create "Empire AI" to "promote responsible research and AI opportunities focused on public good."

I wonder where the Governor of New York thinks she's going to dig up a half billion dollars.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2024 11:46 AM (z99Zw)

Couch cushions of migrant shelters.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 11:48 AM (KbCG3)

262 Ah, sorry. Hadn't seen it in awhile.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 11:44 AM (KbCG3)

No worries, I'm just sayin', you don't have to be a chix or a gay to notice Newman was oozing sex appeal in that flick.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 11:48 AM (GtZ7X)

263 256 Yes, I know. But we do use a numeric system. We also have 0, which those genius Romans didn't have. So let's use it.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 11:48 AM (9yWhg)

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Are you saying we have to live through 2023 again?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:48 AM (GBKbO)

264 Fire department rolled up, found a car into a tree. Car burst into flames before their eyes and the two occupants died.

It happened at 2 a.m. If it wasn't for the autodial, no one would have known until the next day.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 21, 2024 11:33 AM (lf83v)

A life-saving feature, to be sure.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2024 11:49 AM (tkR6S)

265 I think it was some monk in the 500s who fixed the "date" of Jesus' birth and proclaimed that Christians were living in the Year of Our Lord 512, or whatever it was.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Dionysius Exiguus. "Dennis the Thin."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 11:49 AM (9yWhg)

266 I wonder where the Governor of New York thinks she's going to dig up a half billion dollars.
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Casino license fees. $1.5 billion up front for just applying for a license.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 21, 2024 11:49 AM (lf83v)

267 259 So, between the Governor and Laetitia James we have both admitted Bill of Attainder and seizure of political enemies property.

Geez, things move quickly, eh?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 11:48 AM (zZu0s)

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Only admitting it in public because the business community isn't happy behind closed doors (and some are making the noises public).

Almost like political prosecutions are bad for business.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:49 AM (GBKbO)

268
Are you saying we have to live through 2023 again?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024

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"Not those last three years!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 11:49 AM (J2vNu)

269 This redhead won't fall for your legerdemain:
http://tiny.cc/ny8zwz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:34 AM (HnUIn)

Does she have a sister who will?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2024 11:50 AM (tkR6S)

270 Yes, I know. But we do use a numeric system. We also have 0, which those genius Romans didn't have. So let's use it.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 11:48 AM (9yWhg)

But zero is not really counting. It is no value, no substance. Year 1 IS the first year of Our Lord. No the 0 year of our Lord. Hold on, Jesus is about to be born, so next year will be 1. This year is pointless, so we are voiding it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 11:51 AM (zZu0s)

271 I had to be a grown up about my purchase, let's face it, I am in charge of 3 seasoned citizens. Safety features were a no brainer.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 21, 2024 11:51 AM (MeG8a)

272 262 Ah, sorry. Hadn't seen it in awhile.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 11:44 AM (KbCG3)

No worries, I'm just sayin', you don't have to be a chix or a gay to notice Newman was oozing sex appeal in that flick.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 11:48 AM (GtZ7X)

Definition of cool (until he wasn't). I remember reading an interview he gave about that movie where he was kind of sad that the character had become such a popular anti-hero to that generation.

Sorry, dude. Your fault. That character was cool as hell (until he wasn't).

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 11:51 AM (KbCG3)

273 The problem with artificial intelligence is that real stupidity trains it.

Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2024 11:03 AM (xhfG9)

The problem with artificial intelligence is that it isn't organic. It cannot escape the constraints it's programmers place upon it. That's why AI will tell you that it's better to allow a nuke to destroy a major city than to whisper THE N WORD! That's why Google's new AI, apparently, cannot produce a generated image of a white man.

All the hullaballoo is about getting the NPCs to accept that AI is both better than human intellect AND untouched by bias. Then they'll argue that it should be allowed to "rule" the world. And the sheep will line up for it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2024 11:51 AM (z99Zw)

274 Probably the greatest contribution the Muzzies ever made to civilization was passing on the Indian numeral system to the West.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 11:51 AM (9yWhg)

275 Lots of good coverage about this available on YouTube. The church was supposed to ensure that the person was a devout Catholic before even considering the funeral. The church leadership has been infiltrated by transgender activists. As one guy said, before Vatican II, someone would have been excommunicated over this.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 21, 2024 11:46 AM (lf83v)

You don't have to be a nut conspiracy person like me to notice, this is how they win. They take over institutions in which people (literally in this case) have faith, and it takes good people a long long time to figure out their beloved institution has been hollowed out, and is being worn by the evil rot.

By the time the masses figure it out, it's too late to do anything about it.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 11:52 AM (GtZ7X)

276 Cars, themselves, should not have any means of communication at. all.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

This is why I keep my older cars. Also, it is very difficult to find new cars without these expensive, nearly useless additional failure points.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 21, 2024 11:52 AM (BCelm)

277 Late to the party...

I know AI is the hot new buzzword in higher education right now. The conference I'm currently organizing has AI as an unofficial theme with lots of sessions discussing its potential for revolutionizing the educational landscape.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 21, 2024 11:53 AM (7fElN)

278 Memory storage was expensive then. And nobody dreamed we would still be using those same programs thirty-six years later.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 11:48 AM (J2vNu)

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* U.S. Air Traffic Control systems have entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 21, 2024 11:53 AM (ngx1S)

279 Lol: Hunter Biden Lawyers Claim Prosecutors Mistook Photo of Sawdust for Cocaine

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Driving that train, high on Georgia pine,
Casey Jones you better watch your speed

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 21, 2024 11:53 AM (FVME7)

280 220 My 2016 Buick didn't call 911 when I hit a curb yesterday morning and flattened the RF tire. I had to call AAA myself, can ya imagine?

And yes, the tire is toast. I'm waiting for a call from the shop that the Continental I had them order is in, and I'll go by this afternoon to get it installed.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 11:40 AM (J2vNu)

Buick allows One Strike, but will permanently take away your car keys and place you in a Nursing Home when you hit the next curb. Be very careful!

Posted by: For Your Own Good at February 21, 2024 11:53 AM (V5BDR)

281 Wait, I don't see "for the children" listed as a reason. Did I miss something?

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 21, 2024 11:53 AM (2NHgQ)

282 >>> "folderol"

An oldie but a goodie.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 21, 2024 11:53 AM (nlbjl)

283 Probably the greatest contribution the Muzzies ever made to civilization was passing on the Indian numeral system to the West.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 11:51 AM (9yWhg)
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"0" has entered the chat...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 21, 2024 11:53 AM (7fElN)

284 But zero is not really counting. It is no value, no substance. Year 1 IS the first year of Our Lord. No the 0 year of our Lord. Hold on, Jesus is about to be born, so next year will be 1. This year is pointless, so we are voiding it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Except, if you accept that Jesus was born in late December, most of that year would have been before Jesus' birth.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 11:54 AM (9yWhg)

285
and create many new venues for the generation of folderol and legerdemain.

Don't forget the shenanigans.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 21, 2024 11:54 AM (n+4am)

286 Definition of cool (until he wasn't). I remember reading an interview he gave about that movie where he was kind of sad that the character had become such a popular anti-hero to that generation.

Sorry, dude. Your fault. That character was cool as hell (until he wasn't).
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 11:51 AM (KbCG3)

Did he specify which character, because it could have been one of many. Butch Cassidy, or Cool Hand Luke, or Hud, or... what was the pool shark character?

Any of them, and probably more I'm not thinking of.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 11:54 AM (GtZ7X)

287 So, between the Governor and Laetitia James we have both admitted Bill of Attainder and seizure of political enemies property.

Geez, things move quickly, eh?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 11:48 AM (zZu0s)

========

Only admitting it in public because the business community isn't happy behind closed doors (and some are making the noises public).

Almost like political prosecutions are bad for business.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:49 AM (GBKbO)
***

This is just the beginning.
As soon as those government weenies get their hands on some of that sweet sweet Trump money, their appetites will never be satiated.
EVERY business is at risk.
When they run out of billionaires, they will go after the millionaires.
401's? Forget about 'em.
We are screwed.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 21, 2024 11:55 AM (W/lyH)

288 I wonder where the Governor of New York thinks she's going to dig up a half billion dollars.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2024 11:46 AM (z99Zw)

Trump's fines.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 21, 2024 11:55 AM (R4t5M)

289 Don't forget the shenanigans.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Skullduggery

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 11:55 AM (9yWhg)

290 287 When they run out of billionaires, they will go after the millionaires.
401's? Forget about 'em.
We are screwed.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 21, 2024 11:55 AM (W/lyH)

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I fully expect some sector of the activist left to be calling for these prosecutions to apply to every business in America.

And they have social media bots to show that they are serious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

291 The church leadership has been infiltrated by transgender activists. As one guy said, before Vatican II, someone would have been excommunicated over this.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 21, 2024 11:46 AM (lf83v)

Concur. All that is needed is for The Pope to tell all the sodomites freaks and perverts out there to get out and stay out and go form their own sodomite pervert church.

But instead we get this kinda crap.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 21, 2024 11:55 AM (2ijlT)

292 Except, if you accept that Jesus was born in late December, most of that year would have been before Jesus' birth.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 11:54 AM (9yWhg)

That's what I'm saying though. 1AD is Christ after he is born.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 11:56 AM (zZu0s)

293 ++++
Not this time! This time, the Congressional Task Force is billed as being staffed by Congressmen with "AI expertise."
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The perfect cover, no longer will congresspersons or bureaucrats be held responsible for anything.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 21, 2024 11:56 AM (nlbjl)

294 Did he specify which character, because it could have been one of many. Butch Cassidy, or Cool Hand Luke, or Hud, or... what was the pool shark character?

Any of them, and probably more I'm not thinking of.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024

***
"Eddie" something, in The Hustler.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 11:57 AM (J2vNu)

295 Not this time! This time, the Congressional Task Force is billed as being staffed by Congressmen with "AI expertise."
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The idea that Congresscritters have expertise in anything other than screwing over the American taxpayer is laughable.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 21, 2024 11:57 AM (7fElN)

296 I've recently encountered the term to describe when A "I" is full of shit as "hallucinating".

Because that's so much more SMAHHHHHRT and like cool and modern than "garbage in, garbage out".

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 21, 2024 11:57 AM (llON8)

297 I read that as pogroms.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 21, 2024 11:19 AM (i24o9)

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I am not alone!

Good to see you, Comrade ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 21, 2024 11:58 AM (x0L6T)

298 "Eddie" something, in The Hustler.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

Fast Eddie Felson

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 21, 2024 11:58 AM (R4t5M)

299 Were McQueen and Newman ever in anything together?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 11:58 AM (9yWhg)

300 Christ was born in 7 BC probably in the first week of October.

Posted by: Keeping Time at February 21, 2024 11:58 AM (V5BDR)

301 I fully expect some sector of the activist left to be calling for these prosecutions to apply to every business in America.

And they have social media bots to show that they are serious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:55 AM (GBKbO)
***

Concur.
Absolutely no doubt in my mind.
They have been throwing shit against the wall for years seeing what sticks (and what they can get away with.) This one worked.
Now it's a mad dash to score bucks before the rich (and not so rich) find a way to protect it.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 21, 2024 11:59 AM (W/lyH)

302 The Government's self-created 'missions' are so broad in scope they are essentially TOTALITARIAN.
Hypothetically, if one could point out any area of interest that the Government does not assert control it would have due to an oversight, not because the Government believes it has not authority there.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 21, 2024 11:59 AM (cOq4q)

303 ========

I fully expect some sector of the activist left to be calling for these prosecutions to apply to every business in America.

And they have social media bots to show that they are serious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
----------------------

A rational extension of our current trajectory.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 21, 2024 11:59 AM (nlbjl)

304 >>> 291 The church leadership has been infiltrated by transgender activists. As one guy said, before Vatican II, someone would have been excommunicated over this.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 21, 2024 11:46 AM (lf83v)

Concur. All that is needed is for The Pope to tell all the sodomites freaks and perverts out there to get out and stay out and go form their own sodomite pervert church.

But instead we get this kinda crap.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 21, 2024 11:55 AM (2ijlT)

There will need to be a new Pope to kick out FakePope Frankie.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 21, 2024 11:59 AM (llON8)

305 Only admitting it in public because the business community isn't happy behind closed doors (and some are making the noises public).

Almost like political prosecutions are bad for business.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:49 AM (GBKbO)

That's another way they win, obviously. You take your enemy to court, persecute him in front of a corrupt judge, with a biased jury (or no jury), and proclaim him guilty.

Then the wheels of "justice" slowly grind their way through, fighting appeals, and going through all the bullshit that is built into the system... and eventually... EVENTUALLY you might win your appeal, or others might wake up to what they're doing to you, and take whatever action they can (not much).

Meanwhile, they've moved on dot org to the next political persecution operation.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 11:59 AM (GtZ7X)

306 They all do. Don't carry your cell phone either f the goal is not to be tracked everywhere you go.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at February 21, 2024 11:45 AM (ZV+pB)

Well, the tracking is necessary for a cellphone to work at all. I don't want any hardware that I own to be able to engage in communications unbidden by myself. I will never have OnStar or its equivalent in any car of mine.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2024 12:00 PM (tkR6S)

307 I believe celphones will call for help if they sense a certain level of G-force. Maybe we could drop Sponge's celphone from a tall building and see if it works?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 12:00 PM (Hpgos)

308 "folderol"

An oldie but a goodie.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 21, 2024 11:53 AM (nlbjl)
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Balderdash!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 21, 2024 12:00 PM (W/lyH)

309 I had a pet rock. But it died.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

No didn't I. Bones me saved.

Posted by: Momma Horta at February 21, 2024 12:00 PM (w9Wax)

310 299 Were McQueen and Newman ever in anything together?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 11:58 AM (9yWhg)

http://tinyurl.com/yz947vh4

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 12:00 PM (zZu0s)

311 304 There will need to be a new Pope to kick out FakePope Frankie.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 21, 2024 11:59 AM (llON

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If I remember correctly, Francis won the papacy because, after a long series of votes, the African cardinals rallied around him because he was generally one of the nicer, "European" cardinals when they came to Rome to visit.

I wonder if the African cardinals regret that line of thinking.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 12:01 PM (GBKbO)

312 Christ was born in 7 BC probably in the first week of October.
Posted by: Keeping Time

I usually see a range of 6-4 BC. Do you have a source?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 12:01 PM (9yWhg)

313 Christ was born in 7 BC probably in the first week of October.
Posted by: Keeping Time at February 21, 2024

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Right; He had to be born before Herod the Great died, or Herod would not have instituted the "program" to kill all the recent newborns and toddlers. And October makes more sense than late December. If you're going to require your subjects to be counted and taxed, the time to do that would be right after the harvest, when they have more shekels to rub together.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 12:01 PM (J2vNu)

314 I've recently encountered the term to describe when A "I" is full of shit as "hallucinating".
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Yup, that's the euphemism. When it lies (or even makes something up altogether) it's "hallucinating." The total fucking weirdo who's teaching my class about it also makes sure to repeatedly assure everyone that when the robot lies, it's actually operator error, because you didn't prompt it correctly, and you made it lie, because it just wants to please you, and that's what causes the hallucinations. Your stupid meat brain is forcing it to be dishonest. For you.

Not joking.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 21, 2024 12:02 PM (0FoWg)

315 I wonder if the African cardinals regret that line of thinking.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 12:01 PM (GBKbO)

Probably. They are pretty conservative in the main.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 12:02 PM (zZu0s)

316 >>> 307 I believe celphones will call for help if they sense a certain level of G-force. Maybe we could drop Sponge's celphone from a tall building and see if it works?
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 12:00 PM (Hpgos)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE I'M PRETTY SURE PUDINHEAD ISN'T ISLAMIC AND I'M VERY SURE SPONGE'S PHONE ISN'T GAY.

Posted by: BEN ROTHLESSBERGERER at February 21, 2024 12:02 PM (llON8)

317 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE I'M PRETTY SURE PUDINHEAD ISN'T ISLAMIC AND I'M VERY SURE SPONGE'S PHONE ISN'T GAY.
Posted by: BEN ROTHLESSBERGERER at February 21, 2024 12:02 PM (llON

Well, it definitely won't be after it hits the ground.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 12:02 PM (zZu0s)

318 http://tinyurl.com/yz947vh4
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Thanks, that's interesting.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 12:03 PM (9yWhg)

319 >Was her name Nina Burleigh?

No she was cute and likeable, despite being a hoe-in-training.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 21, 2024 12:03 PM (cf/0E)

320 Led by Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-Ca.) and Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Ca.), the task force will bring together a bipartisan group of Members who have AI expertise and represent the relevant committees of jurisdiction.

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So a Null Set?

* cue a Venn diagram & explanation from The AI Czar *
Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 21, 2024 11:18 AM (sR4ST)

Jay Obernolte got a Masters degree in AI... 27 years ago. He's an expert.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2024 12:03 PM (z99Zw)

321 >>> 314 I've recently encountered the term to describe when A "I" is full of shit as "hallucinating".
------
Yup, that's the euphemism. When it lies (or even makes something up altogether) it's "hallucinating." The total fucking weirdo who's teaching my class about it also makes sure to repeatedly assure everyone that when the robot lies, it's actually operator error, because you didn't prompt it correctly, and you made it lie, because it just wants to please you, and that's what causes the hallucinations. Your stupid meat brain is forcing it to be dishonest. For you.

Not joking.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 21, 2024 12:02 PM (0FoWg)

So basically AI is like the worst creepy mothers out of Stephen King's stories.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 21, 2024 12:04 PM (llON8)

322 Asimov in I, Robot (the book, not the stupid movie) posits the rise of The Machines. Big thinking machines that are AIs. As the world gets too complex to manage through conventional politics, people end up ceding control to big regional computers. This is from a summary of the final chapter of I, Robot:

Calvin offers an alternative theory to Byerley. The Machines follow the First Law, and work for the good of humanity as a whole. If the Machines were to be destroyed, the Earth would come to great harm. Therefore, they have been "quietly taking care of the only elements left that threaten them." The Machines have been disrupting people and companies that threaten them, so that they can remain in control of the economy.

Asimov posits throughout that machines are the ultimate utilitarians, and in the final chapter, they have determined that their very existence is the key to the most good/least harm for humanity so anyone who opposes control by the machines must be...eliminated.

Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2024 12:04 PM (xhfG9)

323 319 >Was her name Nina Burleigh?

No she was cute and likeable, despite being a hoe-in-training.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 21, 2024 12:03 PM (cf/0E)

I like women without a filter.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 12:04 PM (zZu0s)

324 286 Definition of cool (until he wasn't). I remember reading an interview he gave about that movie where he was kind of sad that the character had become such a popular anti-hero to that generation.

Sorry, dude. Your fault. That character was cool as hell (until he wasn't).
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 11:51 AM (KbCG3)

Did he specify which character, because it could have been one of many. Butch Cassidy, or Cool Hand Luke, or Hud, or... what was the pool shark character?

Any of them, and probably more I'm not thinking of.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 11:54 AM (GtZ7X)

Twas Hud.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 12:04 PM (KbCG3)

325 Could some kind of chip be implanted in Biden's brain to simulate intelligence?

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 21, 2024 12:05 PM (xcrUy)

326 Right; He had to be born before Herod the Great died, or Herod would not have instituted the "program" to kill all the recent newborns and toddlers. And October makes more sense than late December. If you're going to require your subjects to be counted and taxed, the time to do that would be right after the harvest, when they have more shekels to rub together.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I've it argued that He was born in the spring, because that's when the shepherds would be out in the fields for the ewes to give birth. But your suggestion makes sense, too.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 12:06 PM (9yWhg)

327 Andrew Torba @BasedTorba
Google's AI is a joke
http://tinyurl.com/c5w8yke7
[IMAGE of Scottish couple from 1820]

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 21, 2024 11:19 AM (2yu8s)

According to porn, redheads will only ever have sex with black men so this checks out.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2024 12:06 PM (z99Zw)

328 We are going to "encourage innovation and maintain our country's competitive edge, protect our national security, and carefully consider what guardrails may be needed to ensure the development of safe and trustworthy technology" under the leadership of AI thought leaders whose expertise is so invaluable to the industry that they are in Congress.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 21, 2024 12:06 PM (ogTiX)

329 I've recently encountered the term to describe when A "I" is full of shit as "hallucinating".

Heh.
I'm reminded of something a general said some years ago when discussing "Smart Bombs" and "Brilliant Munitions."
He said a chicken walking across the barnyard has more intelligence than our smartest weapon.
I don't think that has changed.
And the generals have gotten dumber.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 21, 2024 12:07 PM (W/lyH)

330 Twas Hud.
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That featured a smoking hot Patricia Neal. Dittos in Sometimes a Great Notion.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 12:07 PM (Hpgos)

331
Well, the tracking is necessary for a cellphone to work at all. I don't want any hardware that I own to be able to engage in communications unbidden by myself. I will never have OnStar or its equivalent in any car of mine.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Better chunk Google maps, locations and per J.J's link dump Chrome also the best is dumping Alphabet and going iPhone -the least invasive phone on the market. I maps and any locations are turned off on my iphone anyway.

http://tinyurl.com/42mxty2a

Posted by: Braenyard at February 21, 2024 12:08 PM (nlbjl)

332 I liked Newman as Fast Eddie Felson.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 21, 2024 11:24 AM (R4t5M)

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His autobiography -- recently published after much of it rediscovered after years -- was quite interesting. He was, in addition to being flawed like the rest of us, quite bright and had acquired wisdom over the years (his oldest son's suicide caused him much pain & self-reflection -- and he began writing it as an apology to his children.

Anyway, he was apparently a very good pool player -- and many of those pool shots in the movie are legitimately him.

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 21, 2024 12:08 PM (eyGi6)

333 I believe celphones will call for help if they sense a certain level of G-force. Maybe we could drop Sponge's celphone from a tall building and see if it works?
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 12:00 PM (Hpgos)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE I'M PRETTY SURE PUDINHEAD ISN'T ISLAMIC AND I'M VERY SURE SPONGE'S PHONE ISN'T GAY.
Posted by: BEN ROTHLESSBERGERER at February 21, 2024 12:02 PM (llON

You know, Ben, not everything that gets thrown off a building is Islamic, but it often is gay.

Posted by: Zombie Chris Cornell at February 21, 2024 12:09 PM (GtZ7X)

334 My wife thinks, and I agree, that Newman got better looking as he aged. He had too ferrety and punklike face when he was young. Really became quite distinguished looking when he was old.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 12:09 PM (9yWhg)

335 LMAO...(side bar) "Inbred Retard shoots his mouth off.

Posted by: Orson at February 21, 2024 12:10 PM (dIske)

336 Twas Hud.
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That featured a smoking hot Patricia Neal. Dittos in Sometimes a Great Notion.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024

***
Hud was based on Larry McMurtry's first novel, Horseman, Pass By. One of these days I'm going to try seriously to read it. LM's style is . . . odd. Not Cormac McCarthy odd, now, but you have to pay attention to it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 12:10 PM (J2vNu)

337 Could some kind of chip be implanted in Biden's brain to simulate intelligence?
Posted by: Northernlurker at February 21, 2024 12:05 PM (xcrUy)

I think he's been in Beta Testing for a couple of years now.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 21, 2024 12:10 PM (W/lyH)

338 Better chunk Google maps, locations and per J.J's link dump Chrome also the best is dumping Alphabet and going iPhone -the least invasive phone on the market. I maps and any locations are turned off on my iphone anyway.

http://tinyurl.com/42mxty2a
Posted by: Braenyard at February 21, 2024 12:08 PM (nlbjl)

Apple sells your data, too, they are just sneakier. I have all the Gurgle apps turned off, and plan to eventually root this phone and install Lineage OS.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2024 12:10 PM (tkR6S)

339 334 My wife thinks, and I agree, that Newman got better looking as he aged. He had too ferrety and punklike face when he was young. Really became quite distinguished looking when he was old.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 12:09 PM (9yWhg)

*makes note that Newman is on both Bulgar and BulgarWife's list*

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 12:10 PM (zZu0s)

340 "governor Hochul announced that the state is pulling together around half a billion dollars"

Well isn't that just special[/1]!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at February 21, 2024 12:11 PM (w6EFb)

341 There are a remarkable number of weed ads on Insty.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 12:11 PM (zZu0s)

342 Well, looks like the review embargo on Dune 2 has been lifted.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

343 [1/]

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at February 21, 2024 12:12 PM (w6EFb)

344 342 Well, looks like the review embargo on Dune 2 has been lifted.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

I still have not seen the first new one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 12:12 PM (zZu0s)

345 My wife thinks, and I agree, that Newman got better looking as he aged. He had too ferrety and punklike face when he was young. Really became quite distinguished looking when he was old.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024

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He could have coasted as a pretty boy in films for quite a while, but he realized, I'm sure, that such a career path would be short. So he stretched and played Rocky Graziano, Eddie Felson, private eye Harper, Butch Cassiday, Judge Roy Bean, and lots of other things.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 12:12 PM (J2vNu)

346 ugh

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at February 21, 2024 12:12 PM (w6EFb)

347 Hud was based on Larry McMurtry's first novel, Horseman, Pass By. One of these days I'm going to try seriously to read it. LM's style is . . . odd. Not Cormac McCarthy odd, now, but you have to pay attention to it.
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McMurtry, Sandra Day O'Conner and Ken Kesey were all in Stamford's Creative Writers Center together. Kind of a neat accident.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 12:13 PM (Hpgos)

348 There are a remarkable number of weed ads on Insty.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Reynolds probably thinks it will help him live forever.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 12:13 PM (9yWhg)

349 344 342 Well, looks like the review embargo on Dune 2 has been lifted.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

I still have not seen the first new one.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 12:12 PM (zZu0s)

=======

*seethes with RAGE!!!!!*

Eh. Maybe see it if you're interested? Or not, at this point.

No need to be part of every cultural conversation, I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 12:13 PM (GBKbO)

350 Time to think about lunch

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 12:13 PM (J2vNu)

351 346 ugh
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at February 21, 2024 12:12 PM (w6EFb)

I think your close tags got it, Miley.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 12:13 PM (zZu0s)

352 Great topic and analysis, Joe.

Posted by: Danimal28 at February 21, 2024 12:14 PM (klw0w)

353 their very existence is the key to the most good/least harm for humanity so anyone who opposes control by the machines must be...eliminated.

Posted by: blaster

Still only makes sense if machines can find a reason to exist. Which, spoilers, they can't.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2024 12:14 PM (IG4Id)

354 I had forgotten that Newman played Roy Bean.

That is one legitimately weird movie. Watchable, but weird.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 12:14 PM (9yWhg)

355 Andrew Torba @BasedTorba
Google's AI is a joke
http://tinyurl.com/c5w8yke7
[IMAGE of Scottish couple from 1820]

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 21, 2024 11:19 AM (2yu8s)

------------

Outlander 2: African-Scot Boogaloo.

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 21, 2024 12:15 PM (eyGi6)

356 354 I had forgotten that Newman played Roy Bean.

That is one legitimately weird movie. Watchable, but weird.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 12:14 PM (9yWhg)

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Directed by John Huston. They just ended up having too much fun on set, to be honest. It hurt the movie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 12:15 PM (GBKbO)

357 Time to think about lunch
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

You gotta get Skip's permission first, I think.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 12:15 PM (9yWhg)

358 Ah, it's a Brave New World after all!

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 21, 2024 12:16 PM (os8zY)

359 *seethes with RAGE!!!!!*

Eh. Maybe see it if you're interested? Or not, at this point.

No need to be part of every cultural conversation, I guess.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 12:13 PM (GBKbO)

The problem I have with it is a couple things:
1) Everyone talks about the visuals, but not much else. The story is a weird one, I'll grant, but really?
2) Timothy Chalumet is not exactly my mind's eye for Paul Atredies. Richard Jordan will always be Duncan Idaho and nuts as she is, Sean Young was a better Channi.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 12:16 PM (zZu0s)

360 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 12:16 PM (9yWhg)

361 That is one legitimately weird movie. Watchable, but weird.
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Its the first time you see Stacy Keach in a movie. How that guy got a career in movies is beyond me.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 12:17 PM (Hpgos)

362 The "I did call you whores..." apology is a classic.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 21, 2024 12:17 PM (ogTiX)

363 AI is the latest fad that will eventually be used for something useful, but it is not some magic panacea.

Remember when everything started with an "i"?

iPhone, iPad, iCarly, etc.,,,

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 21, 2024 12:17 PM (ufFY8)

364 NOOD James biden

Posted by: Turn 2 at February 21, 2024 12:18 PM (JfxgE)

365 361 Its the first time you see Stacy Keach in a movie. How that guy got a career in movies is beyond me.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 12:17 PM (Hpgos)

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He was at least in Fat City before that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

366 I don't expect Dune part 2 to be as good. I hope I am wrong.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 21, 2024 12:19 PM (cf/0E)

367 366 I don't expect Dune part 2 to be as good. I hope I am wrong.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 21, 2024 12:19 PM (cf/0E)

The books get progressively weirder as they go on.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 12:19 PM (zZu0s)

368 What's the one with Newman as the governor that had the affair with the stripper?

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 21, 2024 12:20 PM (USTAS)

369 I always knew that the world would end in 2012 according to the Mayan calendar.

And I was right!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 11:40 AM (GBKbO)
++++
There is a fairly strong argument in favor of this.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 21, 2024 11:40 AM (HnUIn)

My thoughts also. And it doesn't take that much of an effort to realize it.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 21, 2024 12:20 PM (BdMk6)

370 Found it: Blaze

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 21, 2024 12:21 PM (USTAS)

371 Skynet. built by Cyberdyne Systems, became self-aware on August 29, 1997 at 0214 EDT.

Posted by: River Commander at February 21, 2024 12:21 PM (dmC3F)

372 It's a real Moron's movie

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 21, 2024 12:22 PM (USTAS)

373 Early this morning my father the owner of this handle passed away in his sleep. One of his last wishes was for me to inform the staff and community of this website of his passing and to say goodbye on his behalf.

He is survived by his wife and two children and on our families behalf thanks for providing information, companionship and someone for him to argue with over the years.

Kind regards,
GnuBreed's family

Posted by: GnuBreed at February 21, 2024 12:31 PM (PrdaV)

374 GnuBreed's family, thank you for the kind note.
He was a good addition to this group and will be missed.
May you and your family find peace and love in his memory.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 21, 2024 01:08 PM (oKK+P)

375 will he:
1) Not show up
2) Showboat like Hunter
3) Dindu Nuffin
4) Plead the 5th
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 21, 2024 12:49 PM (ynpvh)

5) Slap the pardon his brother has already signed for all crimes - past, present, or future - pull out his dick and whack off.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2024 01:13 PM (z99Zw)

376 The Ringo movie's the only one of the 4 that would be tolerable. Paul's will have vegans, John's will have Yoko Ono, and George's will have dumb Eastern pseudo-religious crap.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 21, 2024 12:56 PM (2ocoG)

Ringo is married to Barbara Bach. They've been married for over 40 years. They'd need to have that in there.

Just saying.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2024 01:17 PM (z99Zw)

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Between your wit and your videos, I was almost moved
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Posted by: garibaldi at February 21, 2024 06:07 PM (JZ0bB)

378 193 This redhead won't fall for your legerdemain:
http://tiny.cc/ny8zwz

Yowza.

Posted by: Grumpy Old Ham at February 21, 2024 06:31 PM (b6Yv0)

379 I’m sure by now someone has commented on your misspelling of POGRAMS, but just in case (too inebriated to read all the comments).

Posted by: epador at February 21, 2024 10:21 PM (TRnzq)

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