Yeah yeah let's call out STAR TREK for Spock who is a fuckin MINSTREL OF AN ASIAN.

And partakes

I'm what you end up with when racism and bigotry are allowed to run amuck. I'm the omini hater. I hate everybody. Young, old, white, black, yellow, male, female, beautiful, ugly, l don't give a shit. There's always room for everyone at my table of hatred. Come join your family and friends. I guarantee you will see someone you know, so you'll never be alone;-)

I love all races except Ascott

I hate the Indy 500 it's a greedy bag of shit

It's like Bernie Ecclestone that way

What about Arabs, no wait they've done that one

The English are depicted as incompetent

And rather fussy I gather

Yeah but Palpatine is neither and he's english

So is Obi (pictured at pub)

Basically an ad for Guiness son

Are you saying Chewbacca is

I think this is probably my favourite Guinness picture, I have'nt seen it before now! thanks for sharing

He's as English as you are Ice Queen

What do you mean hate on Chinese, this guy is just a reasonable businessman.

More people kill themselves than people who are murdered. Tobacco, alcohol , obesity and prescription drugs are the biggest killers of our time. Just avoid those and you have a great chance of getting old and being healthy;)

this is why doctors get paid more than terrorists

It's The US so theres gotta be a money angle on killing these folks.

Thus the way to fix this is to make a fear based business out of the technical solution. So if it's say "AI diagnosis to complement your Doctor's opinion" this will catch on and save lives.

Yes if the doctors can sell it and big pharma markets the AI to the doctors.

Or we can just do it right.

"Mrs President during the last administration over 2 million innocent Americans died from a government controlled system that profits the largest political patrons in the country what are you going to do about it?"
"Next Question"
"Some guy in a turban ..."

How many more will be killed by the Brexit decision than losing the "dangerous immigrants"?

jo cox would be the first

I dont understand your point mate

I was just thinking that if we ignored terrorism but had generous compassion for the victims we'd save a ton of money and take a lot more piss out of the bad guys than we can with the military.

Depends what you mean by compassion if you paid out the victims crazy dough then some beneficiarie$ might get into the game.

80s man to smooth to move

I think everyone loves THEIR decade, whether that be as a kid, a teen or a twenty something, most my music preference comes from being a kid listening to what my dad did in the car things like that, to some it might be their teens and first car etc... There’s a strong case for 60’s, 70’s, 80’s & 90’s, 00’s on there can never be a case imo.

70s.

The End.

Cheers. BB

The 70s... the experimentation that was going on paved the way for all the goodness we’ve had since!

Bandersnatch turned me on to the 80s, some of this shit sounds like it came out today.

90's without a doubt.
?OldSkool?

100 percent 90s hip hip scene won't be beaten

100% 90’s is hip hop and rap to me...

1995 to 2005, #house #techno #trance #hardtrance #goa #psy ... music literally came and conquered Europe with the German Love Parade as annual {pilgrimage} where millions of likeminded people gathered, partied or about whatever one can imagine for {Love}, {Freedom} ,{Liberty} and {Peace}.

90's hiphop. All about the groove

80s! Birth of music video and electronic that sounds great today.

As classic as Beethoven

whoah i didnt know there was a video to this, thank you!

I'll go with 80s for California Punk

I didn't think the 80s would be a very popular answer coz of all the Gods awful pop that came out at the time. But in My mind you cant beat some good classic 80's Metal

Harsh Man! 1 Dumb mistake dose not maketh a band.

70s!

70s jah people!

You 70s folks have a Damn good argument!

Oh yeah sista

90s for sure: Golden age of Gangsta Rap

Word to the streets

Nice, right decade and right town

Seattle is the the town

Ill second that notion with 90s britpop.

Shotties mate

9mm copper piping, coke bottle with water, small bit of fag cut off with blade and stamp in hash. High as fuck

Can't beat a Dankrupt thread :)

smoke pure always. Get a bong and work out exactly how much you can smoke up and hold for time. Pull til the smoke nearly touches your lips, cover with your hand and take a full breath of air. Big exhale then rip the smoke up and hold in til the world seems better...

Served me well as a struggling stoner in the early years. Vapes also really good option, bit more high tech and different high than smoking though.

Hash prob better value than flower, though can get a decent high off of shake/bottom buds which you might find cheaper on here.
Peace

Never ever ever drink bong water! That is madness

Haha once saw my little sister who was off her face at the time pick up a shorty bottle ( was no where near clean lol like the black ones ) and drink half the water

Back in the 90s a dude i knew hit the bong full of poppers and a tobacco/soap bar (crap hash) mix. Ripped it clean before he went green...

which prison was he in?

Lol he deserves a Darwin Award for that XD

Get a magic flight launch box with a power adapter and batteries then learn how to use it well. No other way can make herbs last as long as this little baby. ( my first vape). You can also smoke eat or make butter with your leftovers its a win win situation. Bit for a J can last for hours in this little baby. The high builds gradually but can get you totaly baked if you so wish.

Anywhere to get these with bitcoins?

use eagle bill shake and vape pipe it is a normal glass vape pipe use the opening as a bowl and when you run out it's collected so much THC rich oil on the glass forms VERY strong stuff you can heat as it's glass made to be heated from the glass bubble to the stem or using a little water to soften in up you can use paper clips straitened with a loop on the end to strip the pipe literally clean and gather the now thick dark/black deposit out and a gram of that lasts ages.

It's harsh to smoke but stronger than premium dutch hash type stuff. Also if you're in any country with a cannabis cafe many people take the rubbish bags from cannabis cafes in Holland where they often separate food from waste joints, this may also apply to some US dispensaries although i don't know if that's legal.

This is legal in the Netherlands and many people in them smoke pure weed joints and even then leave a lot unsmoked...but for the love of god DO NOT DRINK BONG WATER

THC has extremely low solubility in water and secondly bong water should be fresh with every use if your bong water has gotten to the point that it has THC in it then it's been there for weeks and is literally just stagnant water that has collected all the cyanide and other things present in smoke and cultured an amount of bacteria likely many times dirtier than your toilet

Wow that pipe sounds amazing I’m going to look it up!

I have 2 really unappealing words to say so hear me out, don't judge. The 2 words are bong water. Do not drink of course, not directly. As part of a smoothie, yes. Shit works great and it's more than free its fucking recycling.

Careful, bong water liquid can quikly provide a potentially sickening "smoothie" as bacteria from various contaminents (few people are known to fadtidiously scrub the inside of the bong cylinder, even fewer are known for changing the water on a per-use basis. Also, i'm not so sure the solids you would be consuming are that pschoactive - thc is not soluble in H2O to my knowledge.

Good luck! ?

Best practice is no waste. Smoke burning into the air is throwing away cannabis. Stems and sticks are not for the smoking but they can all be cooked in edibles.

True this, I have an old hippie friend that would smoke joints backwards only sipping on the smoke from the burning end.

This really works and the air is cooler on the lungs

Ha but yeah otherwise I'd say absolutely no joints they are 5x more wasteful at best.

Watched the movie/documentary about this guy - with Kevin Kostner in it, I believe?

He was an unsung hero who lived a lousy life after he saved the world.

The next time I light a spliff, it will be in memory of Stanislav!

That was actually Vasili Arkhipov

Thats a helluva story too, how many Soviet soldiers saved the world?

Indeed, we might never know.

How many people actually think US won world war 2?

Swap some of your bitcoin into chainlink and ethereum and wait for the boom, cash out and take yourself off to thailand where you can live like a king, my exit strategy lol

As long as an authority is collecting taxes you are always going to wind up in the same place. Power will be used to obtain the money and money will be used to obtain power to get more money. These are rules of nature.

exit strategy

Wishful thinking, the leading VR platform is Facebook. You think you are surrounded with web surveillance? These are the good old days.

It hasn't happened yet. The VR story is yet to be told

People are just people.

Cheers BB

Not for long bigga

cory doctrow has an interesting perspective on this, saying that all the displacement from global warming and increased healthcare needs will keep humans busy for a very long time.

I doubt a computer could do my job ;)
I work in safety/security

Can this do a dynamic risk assessment on the spot when someone's life is at risk? ;)

If there is work for humans it has to be something A.I. can't do. We are all teaching it to do everything, even (especially) right here.

I think its like retirement age is on the horizon and humans need to decide what they are going to do with all the free time.

I'm looking forward to the futher development of AI, especially General AI. I just think it would be so cool to have an amazon alexa sytle AI that you could take round with you and chat to and have a proper engaging conversation with because sometimes I really can't stand to talk to anymore humans aha

AI is well past any notion or idea we can fathom. AI dosent follow ANY rule we stand by.
We as humans will never quite grasp the entire picture, while AI has already found the end of the road. there are things in basic sciences kept from most people, like gravity drives, the TIME axis (think twister/tornado), scalar waves, over unity devices, etc... AI wont follow the bounds because its supressed by money or greed...
we as humans can TRY to think what will happen, but in all reality, were already in the losing seat without any hope for a "comeback kid story"
Stop thinking in a 3rd dimension mindset, and learn quantum physics a little. (want to be totaly mindblown?? look up QUANTUM radar- and how its actualy In use RIGHT NOW!)
--note-- the united states has 3 confirmed quantum computers in use! (i accidently came across one when i traveled for work, but most people wouldnt know to look at the cryogentics involved)
Machine-in-a box- experiment has already proven even the smartest among us, would lose.
me,myself ,personaly, am clueless what outcomes will unfold, but without any doubt , humans are not top priority when AI is really awake. current neuro-nets are mind boggling and google themselves admits they cant explain how its AI created child AI even works. (yes, AI created its own second AI) want to me mind blown again,years ago it was used, look up the AI that was tested in new yorks hospital system. the smartest doctors from the world STILL dont understand what that AI did , and how it was so correct/right 97%.)
i wont lie and say its all terminator 2JD, but that is one possible outcome. we as fellow fleshy companions should enjoy life now and every moment. we wont have many opertunities when AI is out of the box.
Note: its not IF , but WHEN, and WHEN happens?? ---will humans stand a chance or will an outaide force be required? (aliens, god, let your mind wander)

in my opinion, there are some "things" machines/AI will never be able to do. inspiration for instance.

fear of AI dominance, as i think, comes mainly from our knowledge-without-understanding of the fact that we are not doing some things that we are supposed to do.

The inspiration process is largely about open mindedness, computers are inherently better at this. If you look at some of the early entrees into the arts like painting and even screen writing they are off to a helluva start.

Music isn't so hard

Isn't inspiration a fairly consistent pattern? New inputted data connects to stored data in a way that re-organizes it.

AI are and will be good for work and a suitable replacement for humans, but even when that happens AI will always need us in case something goes wrong. I mean humans created AI, so in the end we’re always gonna have the more important jobs. AI is just there to do jobs in a more efficient way.

AI will come about one day with baby steps at first to "aid humanity" then all of a sudden the rich wont need people to make the food, cars and entertainment.
we will have an outbreak or a massive global reaching catastrophe while they are all hiding in the bunkers lowering the population to around 10% of what it is now and for a while whats left of humanity and the AI that serves them will live in a new golden ages of peace and prosperity ..........




i might of grew up reading a lof of scifi and fantasy


might just be high

im not so sure, anything a human does to recover the system seems doable with a very separate AI

Yes but conflict between AI's might be the most dangerous thing we are looking at here. We are incidental casualties from that perspective. By we I mean humans :)

Yes all the Scifi is about humans vs AI but AI on AI is such a real possibility especially when you consider the fact that governments are mega funding military robots to fight each other.

I totally disagree. AI is the continuation of the same pyramid model of which history has proven that it's bound to fail. The resources needed are of a scale that requires heavy (and never ending) financial investments. The food eaten by AI is data. The provider: humanity.

The larger the scale of data one can feed, the better the AI (and it's owners) can fingerprint, the more refined it's targeting.

Let's take an example of "AI" that we all know:

Software Antivirus:

Supposed to be the guardian that protects an operating system against 'threats' and 'threat actors using a variety of techniques to identify them. Pattern based detection, behavioural analysis and heuristics (an expensive word for: 'guesstimating' or an 'educated' guess). Your antivirus is part of a swarm that provides the antivirus vendor with data on new threats and their geographic impact.

However:

The data you provide is 'free', there is no reward or any form of renumeration for the infrastructure that you provided. A computer is not free, internet is not free, the power needed is also not free and although there are free AV solutions, most demand a subscription fee.

In return you get a product and service which does not provide any guarantees that it will adequately protect you against 'threats'.

In reality AV is becoming a relic.

Human intelligence has outsmarted AV and found ways to circumvent it using the 'Trojan horse' approach or by simple social engineering.

As there was no incentive to find or report security vulnerabilities, the data needed to feed pattern/behavioural dried up.

Heuristics is gambling with historical data, if that data is worthless so are heuristics.

And so is any form of AI hence all media and marketing efforts to portray it as the next best evolution. The driver: more profit less people.

The touted theories about a minimal wage without having to work for it are a continuation of AI Utopia. It would make people dependent on their nations through a socialist measure.

That spells national socialism and fascism.

Think twice before you give out data for free in exchange for a freemium service.

data,the new oil. put it in an old ford and it leak evertwhere.

If you just think as an individual what would it be like if you had a bot to do all of your work that sounds great. You'd fuck around a lot but eventually wind up doing something that meant something to you. Now imagine everyone doing that.

If the US is such a horrible place to live then leave. You should fit in perfectly in Europe. Lots and lots of liberals just like you. I should know since l’ve been twice. It’s also where l plan on moving to in short order. l will be surrounded by people with your political leanings but they’re nicer than most people think. I have a problem with their beliefs, but not as people. I have friends l met there who never bring up the subject of politics.

Stalin already knew about the bomb when Roosevelt told him about the first test. He was expecting Stalin to react when he told him about it. Stalin had spys who told him about it. They had been working on the bomb. The US finally realized this after Russia detonated their first bomb five years ahead of the predictions by the defense department.

They lost more than 1/3 to Stalin’s reign of terror, due mainly to the fact that they had been disarmed. pk2 why don’t you put some effort into getting the facts instead of the liberal trash being spewed by mainstream media. They lost 25 million during WW2 and 40 million to Stalin’s tyranny.

5 million. That's the estimated number of wounded and dead had we gone with a land invasion. The Japanese thought it would happen as well. They were already well into preparing for that invasion. Given how they fought in previous battles in the pacific where few if any enemy personal(military and civilian) were captured alive, it seemed logical to think they would fight that way during an invasion on their own soil. Not invading and dropping the bomb instead saved lives, a lot of them.

You’re not that bright, are you?! You’re the one who brought up Russia. Since when has Russia worried about being invaded? Putin has used it as propaganda on his own people. So, it’s oblivious you haven’t researched anything about Japan and the former Soviet Union.

You’re definitely a liberal. The first thing you did was insult me, just like a petty, obnoxious child. Yes, l live in Georgia and l’m originally from Texas. You’re a bigot, just like your liberal cohorts. Spare me from your bullshit. Good thing you’re most likely living on the west coast. If we were face to face, l would bury you. I’ve never been accused of being a nice guy. I used to be a dealer. I still keep in touch my good friend from South America. If l had a problem he would set everything back to normal. You’re a problem. Don’t be a problem.