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| 1920s Raised Medallion Brass Elevator Double Doors |
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Suranne Jones as UK Prime Minister Abigail Dalton (left) Julie Delpy as French President Vivienne Toussaint (right) |
We watched two episodes before we bailed. It was just awful. Seems like the shows creators wanted to show how people react to a horrific situation, but the situation they constructed to enable this was put together by a two year old. With a little more intelligence they might have been able to make something of it, but, I dunno, were they stupid? Or lazy? Or just didn't care. I don't care.
Did cause me to realize that there are two French colonies with near identical names. French Guiana is in South America and French Guinea is, or was, in Africa. French Guinea is now just Guinea. Problem, for me anyway, is that they sound almost alike. Guiana is pronounced gee-ana, and the African one is pronounced ginny.
machining tip also works for tubing - reduce chatter
COMPRESSED SEWER AIR LAUNCHES HEAVY IRON MANHOLE
Driverless cars are more common than rattlesnakes in the desert
FULL 68R TRANSMISSION REBUILD
Can You Make it Out Alive? - Gang of skateboarders on long downhill run
He Built a Wooden Apple Car for His Kids. It Actually Works - Very fancy
This remix?! - Girl goes wild
EASILY Lift 100lb Patio Stones With a ShopVac !!
One minor household disaster after another
My neighbor's mailbox is a microwave
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| Former Royal Yacht Britannia, Leith, 2009 |
Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia is the former royal yacht of the British monarchy. She was in their service from 1954 to 1997. She was the 83rd such vessel since King Charles II acceded to the throne in 1660, and is the second royal yacht to bear the name, the first being the racing cutter built for the Prince of Wales in 1893. During her 43-year career, the yacht travelled more than one million nautical miles around the world to more than 600 ports in 135 countries. Now retired from royal service, Britannia is permanently berthed at Ocean Terminal, Leith in Edinburgh, Scotland, where it is a visitor attraction with over 300,000 visits each year.
Northeast Hillsboro, where I live, is getting overrun with data centers. Seems like a new, giant, tilt-wall building goes up every week. I wonder if all this investment is going to pay off. I can see how AI (Artificial Intelligence) can be useful for some things. I ask Google questions and it usually can provide a reasonable answer, and I've seen some clever videos made by AI (I suspect the script came from a human), but nothing that could justify the zillions of dollars being spent on these techno-palaces.
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| Hillsboro Data Centers I swear none of these buildings were there last week. |
I suspect the biggest use of AI is going to be running voice chat-bots for dealing with customer service calls. And given that the whiz kids have deciphered human speech and can now reproduce most anyone's voice, we are going to see scamming elevated to the next level. And all those call centers in India are likely going to be replaced by chat-bots.
Also, with the proliferation of AI and the abysmally low level of intelligence of the general population, Artificial Intelligence is going to degenerate into Artificial Stupidity,
JMSmith has a philosophical approach to all this. In his latest post he is talking about Kevin O'Leary and ends with this:
It is obvious that life’s losers do not understand the secrets of success. But it is much less obvious, at least to successful men like Kevin O’Leary, that life’s winners do not understand the secrets of failure. They imagine they understand failure because they have known low points from which they “bounced back,” but the first secret of failure is that a failure does not bounce. Life’s losers hit bottom like a bag of sand and not like a basketball. Losers go plop; winners go boing. Winners think sandbags could bounce if they only tried harder. Losers think winners are bags, or rather balls, of wind.
Competition is Kevin O’Leary’s god, and I suspect he would be delighted if the nation’s motto were changed to, “In Competition We Trust.” But he does not understand that Competition looks to life’s losers very much as Yahweh looked to a trembling Amalkite. He does not understand that most men are not eager to enter a competitive footrace because they are fat, emphysemic, or lacking one leg. Life’s losers exchange loyalty for protection, not for the right to compete in contests in which they are certain to finish last.
Yahweh is the personal name of the God of ancient Israel and Judah, represented by the Hebrew Tetragrammaton (YHWH) and primarily used in the Hebrew Bible. Emerging as a national deity from the Iron Age Levant, Yahweh is identified in scripture as the creator and deliverer of the Israelites, often associated with attributes of power, war, and faithful covenant.
The Amalekites were an ancient, nomadic biblical nation known as persistent enemies of the Israelites, inhabiting the Negev desert south of Canaan. Descended from Esau's grandson Amalek, they were branded as hostile for attacking the vulnerable rear of the Israelite Exodus, leading to a divine decree for their eventual total destruction.
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