“Sometimes you have to roll the hard six.” - Commander William Adama of Battlestar Galactica
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I’m against war with the United States. But I am an officer of the Imperial Navy and a subject of His Majesty the Emperor. -Isoroku Yamamoto, Fleet Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy
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Co-worker:
“No ice,
no beer,
no work.”
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To Err is Human; To Really Foul Things Up Requires a Computer
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“It seems like we’re closer to artificial stupidity at the moment. Artificial Intelligence has been 20 years away for the last 50 years. That would make 2020 a reasonable date.” -Arthur C. Clarke on the topic of AI in 2001
It’s 2019 and we’re still in the “artificial stupidity” phase. 
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Computers are stupid, it’s one of the most important thing that you have to learn in computer science.
It’s when the computers will get to be even more stupid than stupid that the human intelligence level is going to be at more risk.
It took almost 8 years to make a new computer robot to replace the computer robots that failed to fix the Fukushima reactors.
Those previous ones were expected to work, but, for some reasons, they were not smart enough back then…
On a side note, the problem they fixed (it fixed) was a problem due to automation of a chemical reaction which is how the power plant works.
Or did it work?
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‘He who fights wtih monsters should look to it
that he himself does not become a monster.’
___________________ Friedrich Nietzsche,
___________________ Beyond Good and Evil
‘When we have to change our mind about a
person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us
very much against him.’
___________________ Friedrich Nietzsche,
___________________ Beyond Good and Evil
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Where’s the beef?
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All from Terry Pratchett:
1. Goodness is about what you do. Not what you pray to.
2. Pets are always a help in times of stress. And in times of starvation, too, of course.
3. Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.
4. Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
5. It’s still magic even if you know how it’s done.
6. I’d rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.
7. It’s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing it.
8. The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.
9. Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.
10. Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people .
11. The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
12. Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
13. Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
14. The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
15. It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.
16. In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods. They have not forgotten this.
17. Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
18. Give a man a fire and he’s warm for the day. But set fire to him and he’s warm for the rest of his life.
19. A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
20. Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
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Yes indeed, goodness is about virtue, and being virtuous, and doing acts of virtue, and not only about what you pray to, or praying to do wrong.
Goodness also is not about the fact that police didn’t charge you of crime, and that you don’t have a criminal record, even though the law requires this as a requirement to work for them, even though they not only discriminate, but also support actions which are not good in essence, and which do not focus on goodness in essence.
Additionally, if you are attacked with false accusation, it is not that you are not good, but rather that the party doing so is trying to coerce you into crime or organized crime, and want you to be friends with them, if they don’t try to obligate you to associate with them, even to the point of trying to drug you by force, and alienate you of your right if you try to resist their insistence, not to say incestuous intent.
So, you can be of good character, and not be of good reputation, since good reputation is not based on good character, but rather based on what people make of you, and how they represent you.
So, in that sense, to be of good reputation is related to the amount of support , although that amount of support may not be an amount of support that is good, since, to be of high reputation, although possibly of high reputation with bad intentions from the party who is holding you of that high reputation level, may not be with good intent.
They may also hold you to be of good reputation, regardless of the level, even if it is not the case, or, even if it is false.
Therefore, the state goodness is due to facts and actions, and not because of omission , and not because of overly stressing facts , in trivial complaints, and not because of a lack of importance given to important facts, as if to change the truth, and create a loss of contact with reality, and try to attribute liability onto the intended target, to credit themselves for millions of dollars over 20 to 30 years, while their victim are teamed up against to be kept poor , all the way up to acts of war and violation of military law.
It’s not worth doing something if it’s not worth it for society, not because society thinks it’s not worth it for them.
It’s not worth doing something if it’s not good for you, if your work is good for society.
And, it’s not worth doing something when others do wrong, if, by doing nothing it would be better than doing something.
It takes good people to do nothing for evil to flourish, when you ask good people to do nothing and you interfere and try to interfere against them to do good, evil will flourish.
Motivational speaker can’t hide intentional discouragement created with intent for war, especially if it is intended to divert from the discouraging intentions targeted at the same group the motivational imagination is intended to, so as to try to cover for weapons systems and weapons control directed at them, as if to make excuse for the facts.
“Every time I learn something new, it pushes something old out of my brain.”-Homer Simpson.
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More Pratchett.
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socio-economic unfairness.
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Elvis has left the building.
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In the 23,000 C.E., people will carry around datapads. They’re like powerful computers, but about the size of a magazine. No keyboard is needed, you can interact with it just by touching a screen or speaking. You can use them for audio-video communication with other people, storing information and logs, accessing information about just about anything in the world, and instantaneously transferring money. Pretty much, you can carry your entire operation, life, and everything you need to know and do on a datapad.
-CCP backstory writers, in 2003. (iPhone came out in 2007. iPads first came out in 2011).
P.S. But if you’ve been doing things you don’t want people to know about, and some double-crossed New Eden corporate guy and his thugs get your datapad… well, you’re good and well screwed, ain’t you?.
-Eve stories writer, Pod & Planet fiction contest, sometime 2012-2019
“God have mercy on my enemies, because I won’t.”-General George S. Patton.
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He probably don’t have to, since it may very well not be part of his job, since his enemies didn’t have mercy, thank you!
“Anyone not liberal and under 30 has no heart and anyone over 30 not conservative has no brains.”-Sir Winston Churchill
“Budgets balance themselves.”- The wise Justin Trudeau (He’s 40 something)
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind
is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind
of fear is fear of the unknown.
– H.P. Lovecraft
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Freedom Gas -anyone really