emits a siren instead of the BEEP. The robotic equivalent of sleepwalking. (RAM sleep.)
See what happens when you switch from analog to digital? You lose a human skill and you gain random noise.
New kamikaze, new VXZH supplies the usual AI disaster porn with the latest fighting robot from Boston Dynamics. One fact I hadn't heard before: Google sold the company to Softbank, Japan's equivalent of Google. So the robo-warrior is the new kamikaze.**
The commenters hit the usual subject hard, but one commenter gets relevant: Just break the lithium ion battery and the robo-warrior burns up.
In fact it's easier than that. A strong magnetic field, tuned properly, will incapacitate the robo-warrior without bothering human warriors. No bullets needed, no precision encrypted wifi hacks needed. Just tune for seizure.
A magnetic field is thus the AI equivalent of poison gas. RF is the new VX. So we can expect a prohibition on all devices that can possibly be reworked to generate a strong field. Any country that possesses radio transmitters or microwave ovens or transistors or tubes or copper wire is "authoritarian" and "malign behavior". All options on the table.
Self-defense is prohibited.
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**The kamikaze analogy doesn't work well because these robots are EXPENSIVE. Kamikazes, like all conscripted cannon fodder, are cheap. A draftee is designed and programmed by God at no cost to the government, and built by parents at no cost to the government. Cannon fodder requires a few weeks of basic training and feeding, and then it's off to the slaughter. No amortization, just mortization.
Later, I had a "bright" idea. What if we force governments to pay for the design and construction of soldiers? Pay God's contractors, churches, for the design, and pay parents for the manufacture. Terrible idea! Cancel immediately! Result would be an auction. Churches and parents would compete to program and build the most ferocious and obedient kamikazes.
Lately I've been focusing on the role of definitions in setting up pogroms. When USA STRONG attacks an innocent nation, it's defined as "democracy". When the innocent country futilely tries to defend itself against our aggressive evil unprovoked attack, it's defined as "authoritarian" and "malign behavior". In every case the aggression or oppression is treated as an attribute of the victim, not an action by the aggressor.
BBC is mentioning one of those stupid game-theory studies exploring the natural tendency of short men to fight harder. Is the so-called Napoleon Complex real?
Of course it's real.
I hadn't thought about the term itself until now. Even the name given BY TALL PEOPLE to the phenomenon shows WHY short people have to fight harder.
When tall people stomp on short people, they're "defending society against commie oddballs". When short people try to survive, they have a COMPLEX.
Even the definition of normal survival is stacked against low-status people. You're not entitled to survive. If you try, you're crazy by definition.
How can you tell when an author knows nothing of history?
Article at Catholic World Report starts with this picture:
I suppose it's one of those Stock Images, but still(heh) you should know the difference if you're going to write about old movies.
Is the article better than the image? Nope, far worse. The author is recommending a return to the 1930 Roman code for movies, which idolized Genocidal Madman Lincoln and encouraged people to be perfect useful idiots. Serve Deepstate with all your heart. Never question the authority of Experts.
Precode movies were more realistic and offered better practical guidance about dealing with life.
Fastest storm ever
Convective for damn sure:
A sudden burst of heavy rain caught me by surprise. I hadn't been watching the radar and wasn't thinking about rain. The surprise was doubled because the ROAR of rain started at the same moment when I was peeing. Wasn't sure which water sound was which. After I zipped up and opened the front door to check, I saw the heavy rain for a moment, and then it stopped. That's all.
Two minutes from sun 