Now, now.

You can't really say that you wren't warned about going hunting with Dick Cheney . . . :)

hawk

>If you have a hankering for murdering parking cops you don't need an app.

I think the motivation is more *avoiding* them than harming them!

If you wanted to harm them, you'd just tell their mothers that they weren't really hookers . . .

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hawk

>In my state, the cops are legally required (and so) post public
>notices about where DUI checkpoints will be.

Speaking as an attorney who was still handling DUIs when checkpoints were in common use . . . announcing and pbulsihign ahead of time will make at most a marginal difference in the number of drunks heading through them.

You'll get a slight decrease in sober drivers who don't want the hassle, but drunk drivers just don't plan that well.

I recall my Criminal Procedure professor in law school commenting that he *really* wanted to get stopped in one and just sit there not speaking, staring straight ahead. Just to see what happened, as they couldn't possibly develop probable cause under the circumstances.

[*checks beard in mirror*]

oh, crap!

anyway, I both leaned unix on a pdp-11 at work and bought my first Mac in 1984.

Various Macs until I switched to a combination of unix and *nix as a graduate student, largel over LyX (largely a graphical front end to LaTeX at the time, as I was editing plenty of matrices full of integrals and such, so keyboard navigation was critical.

Then in 2008, back to a Mac laptop when it mugged me on clearance in Frys. I figured I could put FreeBSD (or maybe linux) on it, but it was a good enough *nix box, and it's battery management beat the daylights out of what I could get from FreeBSD or linux on a laptop.

And it's been Macs, largely used as *nix boxes, ever since, whether legal writing or developing software.

The bit on lower maintenance, less frequent replacement, and lower support costs goes back thirty years and more. And with some notable exceptions, the general quality of Apple hardware has been top tier, dating to when it was somewhat (but not hugely) better than #2 IBM.

This story would be more convincing if they gave better details about what they are doing. As far as I can tell, the've dne these concrete things:

1) Built chatbots.
2) Automated some warehouse tasks (and pretended that was AI)
3) Hired people to improve the chatbots because they don't work well (a position they call "agent builder")

The other things they mention are just future guesses (they talk about it a lot at executive meetings). They also mention revenue is going up (why not advertise your company at any opportunity) and interestingly hired more truck drivers. So much for self-driving trucks.

tl;dr it's important to distinguish what AI is currently doing in the present and what people are predicting for the future.

Cool find

Keep on lying Randseed the Kidraper Fuck. You've never "saved a life" in your entire existence you Inhuman Kidraping Bitchboy.

Definition: "Fascism is an authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology that emphasizes a dictatorial leader, the suppression of opposition, and strict societal and economic control."

China is in fact a fascist dictatorship, not a "communist" anything.

Treason Shitbag Nazi Trump is taking the USA closer to a fascist authoritarian dictatorship every day, and his Shitrag Nazi MAGAturds are applauding it because they're anitsemitic fucking garbage.

So you're saying you're historically illiterate.

OPEC (and now "OPEC+") have been trying to take over economic dominance since the 1970s. One of the DUMBEST fucking things that America Hating Senile Bitchtraitor Reagan did was get in bed with OPEC and the Iranians so that they would help him win the 1980 election by holding hostages and keeping their oil embargo going

The Repukelikan Klan Party have been America-betraying Shitbags ever since Nixon went behind Johnson's back to keep Vietnam going, so this dumb behavior wasn't really surprising.

I lost family in Vietnam thanks to Nixon and the Treason Shitbag Repukelikan Party. Every member of the GOP should be arrested and jailed till they fucking die for their fucking America Hating Treason. The MAGA Terrorist shitbags should all just get a summary firing squad for theirs.

Slapstick humor kind of went away (or alternatively, got an upgrade) with modern CGI.

Again, shoot-em-up westerns are all over the place, but the scenery has changed.

It's not an American problem either. At least, I've rarely encountered it. Maybe if I liked to sit in the back row of the theater I would have more of a problem.

South Africa doesn't consider America to be their enemy https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtontimes.co...

> The services of a Nazi AI, owned by a Nazi broligarch, being sold to a Nazi government. Nepotism at its finest!

Tell us how you feel about assassinating Nazis.

> realized that this is the cheapest option.

It's cheaper if the financing an be achieved.

The capital costs for a retrofit are impossible for the 60% of this country who live paycheck-to-paycheck.

Then there's the matter of being responsible for your own energy system maintenance in the highly-distributed model (which is more resilient). Folks with ceiling bird aren't going to.

And of course I can design my own system but many need professional help and it's more difficult than plumbing or residential electric.

I'm slowly adding infrastructure and capacity but that also entails simultaneously paying for grid and offgrid investment which is beyond most.

The grid-scale projects really do mar the landscape and create vulnerabilities (e.g. hail) though the economies of scale are quite nice.

For $4 Aunt Gertrude can have it ask you why you don't call her anymore.