A thought experiment called "Roko's Basilisk" takes the notion of world-ending artificial intelligence to a new extreme, suggesting that all-powerful robots may one day torture those who didn't help them come into existence sooner.
 
Weirder still, some make the argument that simply knowing about Roko's Basilisk now may be all the cause needed for this intelligence to torture you later. Certainly weirdest of all: Within the parameters of this thought experiment, there's a compelling case to be made that you, as you read these words now, are a computer simulation that's been generated by this AI as it researches your life.
 
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-r...?op=1&IR=T
 

If you've been asking yourself "who's behind this push for the link tax?" look no further than giant publishing houses and their lobbyists hoping to become like the next generation of record labels. But how are they framing their bid for more copyright control? Read on to find out.
 
Record labels 2.0: how publishing giants are framing their push for the link tax
 
https://openmedia.org/en/record-labels-2...h-link-tax
 

 
The EU ‘attack on the hyperlink’. What’s it all about?
 
The idea is about ancillary copyright. What that means is that a link you make to material that may be under copyright, like an article on CluckZ, is, itself, subject to copyright.
 
Under ancillary copyright, a person who links to this CluckZ article could be pursued for violating CluckZ’s copyright.
 
https://www.clickz.com/2015/11/11/the-eu...-all-about
 
According to the leaked draft, copyright holders are concerned about their content being monetised by others, without licensing, through content aggregation. This is where a rights holder or creator releases their own content online, which is then aggregated by a third party, re-packaged and re-sold.
 
Under the existing interpretation of the right of communication to the public, if a work has been made available online, linking to it does not expose it to new audiences, so the right remains intact and linking is not an infringement. But the commission proposes to overhaul these rules in order to harmonise them across the EU now that some member states have tried to solve this issue on their own.
 
http://theconversation.com/no-the-eu-is-...egal-50484
 
Hyperlink At Your Own Risk
 
Hyperlinks are inserted into a Web site by the site's owner, who can create the link without the assistance of the owner of the linked-to site. Under standard "netiquette," such links are added without the permission of the linked site. Such is the case, in part, because the link benefits the linked site by bringing it additional viewers.
 
Recently, however, a series of lawsuits have drawn into doubt the continued viability of this practice. These suits are driven by a number of concerns, principal among them is the advertising potential of the Web. Advertisers are willing to post ads based on the traffic and number of viewers attracted to a site.
 
http://www.internetlibrary.com/publicati...or_art.cfm
 
EU Commission continues slow march towards innovation-killing link tax
 
Now that the EU Commission has opened a new consultation on ancillary copyright, they're looking to justify the need for the link tax. Read Ruth's take on Günther H. Oettinger's speech in Brussels this evening. 
 
https://openmedia.org/en/eu-commission-c...g-link-tax
 
Tell the European Commission NOW: Censoring links breaks the Internet
 
https://savethelink.org/
 
 
 
 
 
All those links from the above cut and paste would now be subject to tax.
 
:chicken_pox-3582:  :Fart5:
 
 

We'll start this thread off with some education. 

Leftist Teachers Going After Your Children! But don't let that scare you! (Much )

https://rumble.com/v13t33l-leftist-teach...ldren.html

The eventful life of one Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus. Wonderful Radio Version with Derek Jacobi, from the book by Robert Graves.

https://youtu.be/rnwUxIk5dhY

How Government Takes Away Your Right to do Something and Sells it Back to You as a “License”
 
Government has, for thousands of years, refined its methods of extracting wealth from people, perhaps with no greater efficiency than in 20th century America. The Federal Reserve, corporatism, and consumerism proved a winning combination for achieving what is known as The Great Fleecing.
 
While this brought about the largest transfer of wealth in history from the middle class to the 1 percent, through taxes it has also fueled the growth of an incomprehensible leviathan. The Pentagon alone “spends” (actually borrows from the Fed) $600 billion a year using our tax dollars to perpetuate endless war, and it’s never been audited.
 
http://www.activistpost.com/2016/05/how-...cense.html
 
:Insanity:
 
Searching for the golden fleece. All governments the world over have been fleecing the sheep for all of recorded history. Before that? I suspect human beings learned how to fleece the sheep from the gods. 
 
Endless war..................Doomed to repeat....................!
 
 
 
 

Mr. Trump, explain why America First requires eliminating the U.S. Department of Education
 
All of America’s Founders, from the most known to the least, believed that the republic they created could survive only if its population was well educated, especially in history; consistently attentive to politics and the media, so as to see the approach of tyranny early on; and therefore equipped to identify tyranny if they saw it nearing and to use their right to destroy any U.S. government that became oppressive, arbitrary, lawless, and/or conspired against America with her enemies.
 
http://non-intervention.com/2195/mr-trum...education/
 

:Banana_Bigone:
 
Have to say it gets a bit boring watching big red roosters flaunt their swords. Cock fights are fine but what about hen pecking? Nothing gets the juices flowing better than watching fine chicks and fat heifers go at it in the mud. All that slippery wriggling can sure make the cocks get hard.
 
  :22:
 

 
http://www.cpath.ca/wp-content/uploads/2...ESCHER.pdf
 
 
Let's take a closer look at the scientific attitude towards the transgender issue currently debated in current pop culture advertisement. First off, a little research notes...
 
In the old DSM-IV, GID focused on the “identity” issue — namely, the incongruity between someone’s birth gender and the gender with which he or she identifies. While this incongruity is still crucial to gender dysphoria, the drafters of the new DSM-5 wanted to emphasize the importance of distress about the incongruity for a diagnosis. (The DSM-5 uses the term gender rather than sex to allow for those born with both male and female genitalia to have the condition.)
 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/04...85287.html
 
Rigid gender beliefs usually flourish in fundamentalist, religious communities where any information or alternative explanations that might challenge implicit and explicit assumptions are unwelcome. When entering the realms of gender and sexuality, it is not unusual to encounter another form of binary thinking: “morality tales” about whether certain kinds of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors are “good or bad” or, in some cases, whether they are “good or evil” 
 
Most importantly, in medicine, psychiatry, and other mental health professions, removing the diagnosis from the DSM led to an important shift from asking questions about “what causes homosexuality?” and “how can we treat it?” to focusing instead on the health and mental health needs of LGBT patient populations 
 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4695779/
 
The current dilemma now concerns public bathrooms. Should transgenders be allowed to relieve themselves as themselves in public fashion? Current debate indicates a high thresh hold of irritation among subjects on the emotional arguments brought forward. 
 
All well and good for great debate. Some questions remain. Since great learned doctors are non-elected 'authorities' in these matters. Should they be allowed to make up the 'rules' for the general 'un-learned' population. Representation without knowledge. 
 
Economic value must be considered in this political debate. The medical and pharmaceutical industries hold a big stake in the lobbies agenda. 
 
 
 
 
 

There never was, nor will there ever be,

anyone like her:

 

 

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The U.S. nuclear power industry's 93 reactors generate more than half of the country's carbon-free electricity, according to the Department of Energy (DOE). But 12 reactors have closed since 2013 in the face of competition from renewable energy and plants that burn plentiful natural gas.

In addition, safety costs have soared after the 2011 tsunami at Japan's Fukushima plant and after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The industry produces toxic waste, currently stored on site at plants across 28 states.

The program could help a range of utilities, including PSEG (PEG.N) and Constellation Energy Corp (CEG.O), which currently do not have plan to shut plants.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-a...022-04-20/

California willing to keep nuclear plant running to keep lights on

It followed a Los Angeles Times interview with the governor published on Friday in which he said the state "would be remiss" not to apply for funding under a new $6 billion federal program aimed at helping nuclear power plants stay open.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/califor...022-04-29/