Shut the fuck up. you Trumptard cocksucker.

Trump caved like the spineless pussy we all knew he was. What a loser.

This reads more as an indictment of the US than of Canada. Expecting the USA to do the right thing is now considered grotesquely naive, because "of course the USA will screw you over, and it's your fault for ever having expected otherwise, you silly Canucks"

What, has there been some kind of change in US foreign policy to make China believe the USA wouldn't defend its ally against an invasion? /s

Yes, I do have a bit of clue. I've been a full-time C++ coder for about 30 years now. For the first 5-10 years, I spent a lot of time debugging memory leaks in my code, and even got pretty good at it; but at some point I realized that if I used smart pointers to track my heap allocations, I didn't have to spend time debugging memory leaks anymore, because the leaks simply didn't happen in the first place. I think the last time I had to debug a memory leak in my own code was around 2008. I still have to do it in other people's code, and particularly in C code, since C doesn't have constructors or destructors and thus can't provide RAII-style smart pointers.

"Yes, I understand--that is not something you can do. "

Great, so stop giving me inadequate suggestions as if I don't already know how this site "works". Your condescension is unwarranted.

TL;DR - the article ignores some basic questions, and then suggests water is magically the answer to a question nobody should be asking because it makes no sense. Caps for emphasis, not yelling. But first, Sci-Fi:

STAR TREK
Star Trek taught us that all aliens look like us. They have two legs, two hands, talk with audio made from a vocal system, and have ears and eyes as well. (Except fo the Horta).

STAR WARS:
Star Wars (caninta scene) taught us that aliens DO NOT HAVE TO BE LIKE US but apparently they all have butts that fit on barstools and hands with which to take the drinks and quaff through a mouth. /roll eyes

THE WATER MYTHOS:
WISHING FOR WATER ON MARS that existed 4 Billion Years ago is worse than a fairy tale. It has nothing to do with previous alien life forms, nor of our ability to dredge it out so we can live on Mars. We already have a planet and it has a ton of water but we have extremely stupid political leaders who insist on destroying that water and our way of life.

THE BEGGED QUESTIONS:
> As Mars' magnetic field faded and its atmosphere thinned, most surface water vanished. Some escaped to space, some froze in polar caps, and some was trapped in minerals

WHY did Mars' magnetic field fade?
WHY did its atmosphere thin?
WHERE is the "vanished" water?
HOW did water (which has mass and therfore is held by gravity) "escaped to space"???

CRITICAL THINKING:
When someone starts talking about finding water on X planet it's definitely a good data point and science requires we start with those. However, it's also important to remember WHY we seek data points. I mean, we don't go temp our vehicle tires at three different points along the section width. Formula One teams do. NASCAR teams do if Bubba brings his kitchen thermometer to the track that weekend. To racing teams THAT data is useful. To us regular drivers, not so much. OB DISC: I'm a NASA/AZRA amateur racer and after track sessions we do keep track of pressures but not temperatures. That has much to do with the contact patch size and the gas we use (air) vs what the pros use (Nitrogen.)

So let's stop focusing on where the water might be and what it might have been.

We have plenty of water on earth and yet only 1% of the water mass floor has been mapped, and the only measurements we have of how the water level is going up (as the glaciers melt due to climate change, whether you agree it's man-made or not). How about some data as to HOW MUCH WATER EXISTS ON EARTH (where I'm pretty sure it exists, and not 4 billion years ago) and HOW MUCH WATER IS GETTING LOST and DOING SOMETHING.

And finally, let's just pretend Mars had a thriving alien life form culture, and let's also pretend they used lots of water, and let's also pretend they were so much smarter than us that they left -zero- relics and -zero- traces of intelligence. Not even a "golden record". https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...
- Given all that -
Why are they gone with no trace, nothing left, no water, no cave dwellings, just -zero- and HOW CAN WE AVOID THE SAME HERE ON EARTH?

Agreed. It is a valid discussion and reducing it to a black and white generalization is absurd.

A complete win for Western content creators would likely leave AI development and advancement crippled compared to countries where it is unfettered. Our content creators can sip their kombuchas while foreign AI dominates the future.

A complete win for AI companies would likely result in continued, flagrant abuse of created content for profit in a manner which competes with the content creators. Doesn't seem right, either.

Why does it have to be one way or the other?

Why can't we have both?

AI can train on millions of public domain works for free. And they should be encouraging works to enter public domain faster. So instead of life+70, the copyright term can be reduced to something reasonable (this also allows use of works under copyleft licenses since once copyright expires, it's public domain).

If you want to use works newer than that still under copyright, then it has to be licensed. Plenty of people want their work to be licensed, so encourage it. Maybe some body will let you easily license a bunch of works for a bulk price with residuals and manage the payments. (Unfortunately, this excludes anything under copyleft as they're still under copyright).

More advanced AIs can then learn to ingest copyleft stuff in a license-respecting way so their output will be compatible with a desired license. If you want your project to be GPLv3, you tell the AI that and it only uses code that is licensed in ways compatible with the GPLv3 when it writes code, for example.

Of course, right now the big problem is the hype around AI. And it's hype, because in a couple of years it'll die down when everyone stops wanting to waste money on it. and the remaining companies will be able to ingest content at a slower more thoughtful rate while the rest of the work gets on the next hyped thing.

No shit? Thanks for that paradigm-shifting revelation.

On everything you buy that's imported.

The goal here is always a national sales tax. Because that way they can reduce their income taxes and corporate taxes and offset it with taxes you pay.

This is why every year you're doing a little bit worse. It's like boiling a frog only the frog is smart enough to jump out

You can't but you can? Take two steps forward, and two steps back, and then two steps forward, and two steps back, and now we're doing the cha-cha.

I want their content to disappear as if it never was, whether it was modded up or not. That would be blocking, unlike what you propose.

Fuck off, Nazi.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pregnancyjusticeus...

And cover canals, and mandate it on new manufacturing plants... there's just so much low-hanging fruit before you get to residential roofs, and before you need to build solar farms. But corporations love to do big singular capital projects because they are easy and predictable.

Every MSR operated more than briefly has had problems due to the salts. If MSR is their plan then they have a pretty high hurdle to jump with that.

There are a couple of actual flying car designs now. They are based on multicopters, and they can take off from a parking space, making them actually flying cars and not roadable airplanes or some other such thing. But there's still no point because of the energy use. It still makes more sense to have the rich people who can afford to use them just hire a car to drive them around town when necessary.