Would Congress let the U.S. economy go back into recession by not negotiating a bipartisan deal on pending tax increases if Obama is re-elected but would negotiate a bipartisan deal if Romney is elected?
That seems to be what this CEO implies as a major warning to eligible/potential/likely U.S. voters.
More for me to think about the rest of this day.
Time to read a book and get away from the computer.
We want to apologise to you Earthians.
A friend of ours who used to work in the roadside gem mining tourism business in western North Carolina — where “seeding” buckets with gems is common practice — was responsible for cleaning the scoop on the Mars rover, Curiosity, before it left your planet for the planet of war.
As a practical joke, he “seeded” the scoop on the rover so that when the rover processed the Martian soil, the seeded material would give a hilarious test result for scientists to ponder.
Or so we believe he first said.
Since then, he has retracted his original statement and is seeking psychiatric help in order to avoid jail time which would have been administered by the Inner Solar System Scientific Crime Council in a summary judgement.
We are evaluating other test equipment on board the rover, wondering if the purple haze we see in some images is a result of him covering camera lenses with rubies, sapphires and other gems he collected during his youth.
The Apple computer corporation is cooperating in this investigation.
The U.S. State Department has denied providing consultation to the worker on the ability to backtrack from one’s initial statements and expect to be believed ever again.
More as it develops…
The countdown shows 13,722 days to go.
I had promised myself not to care, to let my minions, given assignments in 1000-day increments, carry out their tasks, coordinate with each other and find a way to make the dream come true, with or without me.
I keep my head in the game, watching what they do, quietly making suggestions without seeming to insert myself into their conscious thought process.
I visit local establishments, saying thanks to people like Mathew at North Alabama Computer Associates, James at Radio Shack, Ricky at Chili’s, Honey at Best Buy Mobile, John Carroll at Walmart, Dominique at Beauregard’s, Caitlin at Carson’s Grille, and Mock Electronics.
What I find, when I order online, is the absence of connecting with people face-to-face.
Even so, I set up a chatbot to answer the phone for me and talk with “Rachel from Card Services” that (who?) is not related to another robocaller which (who?) says, “Do not hang up the phone!”
My chatbot switches languages word-by-word and phrase-by-phrase to test the intelligence of the chatbot on the other end of the line.
You didn’t know there was a silent chatbot war going on, did you?
You just thought you were receiving annoying calls from telephone solicitors, didn’t you?
Well, it’s like that.
See, I’m a nice guy. I go with the flow most of the time.
However, and there’s always a however (or ‘owever (or “but…”)), years of refining the exteriour personality, being a nice, easygoing guy, letting my wife blame me for a variety of issues that are of marginal importance to me, but sufficient for me to keep track (dancing skills, yardwork, house repair, etc. — see the comic strip “Dagwood” for further examples), appearances are deceiving.
I’m not always a nice guy. I can be, am, deceptive, downright mean, ornery, angry.
My job is to slowly replace members of our species with robots, androids, chatbots, cyborgs, etc., to maximise the efficiency of the system that will allow me to achieve the major milestone I only appear to not be reaching 13,722 days from now.
Some of my minions are self-aware enough to realise what they’re being asked to do, make themselves expendable, no sequels in their future.
The rest of you? I don’t know. You tell me.
I can put you to work creating new organisms that will establish beachheads on other planetoids, if you wish.
Or, to satisfy some members of the Committee, I can set the chess game of a war in motion, eliminating hundreds of millions of you, causing a setback in my timetable.
I prefer the former — it preserves the option of wars on other planets for our offspring to spring on each other.
While we’re on the subject, are you one of those who, when competing against one another, call each other schoolyard names that are unacceptable in polite company? I watch Australians make mountains out of molehills with such a scenario and wonder what else we primates are capable of when competing for the highest social positions in the land…
Time for the next set of actions to stir the pot of the national political election season!
Are workweek expectations raising unemployment? What in this proposed model is missing?
How do capitalist/communist/socialist systems achieve full[er] employment?
Where are hundreds of millions of un/underemployed going to find/define high/normal quality/standard of living?
What of a whole generation now entering their workforce years? How does this compare to previous generations of displaced/unused youth?
What if part of what we’re seeing is nations cutting back their debt load/rate/share in foreign hands in order to lower their interdependence?
What are the longterm consequences of both?
Why should I care when populating other celestial bodies is my primary goal?
“Both sides of the political isle (should) signal that they are willing to compromise and that they’re willing to get this done … that could help lower the level of uncertainty that is affecting U.S. investors and consumers,” IMF First Deputy Managing Director David Lipton told Reuters in an interview on Monday.
Today, my scientists gave me a bag of parts to see if I could recreate the discovery they made.
Inside the bag was an Arduino board, a Sylvania Android tablet, a alcohol breathalyser and miscellaneous parts.
Within a couple of hours, I analysed the software installed on the two computer systems and deduced what my illustrious, if not esteemed, colleagues had pieced together for themselves.
Combining a voiceprint system with language dialect detection, the breathalyser signals are broken down by the Arduino, which coordinates with the Android tablet to create a personality profile, including a medical report on the person who breathes into the breathalyser, looks into the webcam and speaks several phrases at a precise rate of speed tailored to the individual test subject.
The software determines the approximate location of the person’s upbringing, compares the person’s speech patterns against a database of people observed in public CCTV/private webcam situations from the same subculture, analyses minute mouth/tongue/throat movement and breath contents to produce a health profile.
As a byproduct, the software guesstimates the type of childhood education the subject received and its effectiveness, using the audiovisual techniques given during the speech pattern testing portion of the software’s mini-exam.
Government-approved public education systems have already requested multiple copies of this “Arduinoidalyser,” in hopes that the software test results can be used in place of standardised classroom testing to predict a child’s future place in society without stigmatising the child’s testtaking abilities in comparison to other children.
Teachers who like the “tip the bottle,” as the saying goes, have asked that the breathalyser portion be turned off should the teachers have to submit themselves to the Arduinoidalyser for benchmarking.
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Meanwhile, the Chinese government today demanded that all retailers carrying authentic/counterfeit footwear designed/manufactured by/for Wolverine Worldwide are officially banned because the Wolverine corporation makes footwear for the U.S. military and thus must be a covert spy operating on Chinese soil.
The U.S. government denied any direct covert surveillance connection to Wolverine.
After seeing the Wolverine Worldwide press release, Marvel Comics has decided to sue the Wolverine corporation for the use of the name of one of their most popular cartoon characters.
Wolverine Worldwide immediately countersued, saying they’ll grind their boots in the face of an comic book hero that never really served in the military.
The University of Michigan, in order to avoid controversy, has changed its mascot to the Persian Rugs in recognition of the changing democratics demographics in the Great Lakes state.
While watching the conclusion of several political campaigns around the world, my fascination grows at the rise of the phenomenon of fact-checking the candidates’ statements/speeches.
I conclude that autism spectrum disorder is more widespread than I thought and journalists cannot see that distorting the facts to raise emotional responses is one of, if not the most, important facts of campaigning.
Focus, instead, on the audience response and see if emotional or rational behavior attracts voters more.
Lack of understanding facial/bodily/emotional behavior should be a warning flag to publishers/editors deciding which reporters to assign coverage of political stump speeches.
Purely logical/rational journalists are best for technology/mathematical news coverage and such.
Seeing the three people who agreed that the candidate lied and confirmed their apathy by deciding not to vote vs. the one thousand who voted with their emotions is missing the big picture.
A rare Cleveland Indians rookie card for Jawaharlal Nehru was recently reported at auction in Baseball Trading Card Weekly.
Those with interest in any ball sport will want to search their attics and basements to see if lightning strikes twice.
Nehru was quite the player from an early age, the blurry facsimile below shows:
Priceless doesn’t begin to describe the value of this card.
[images courtesy of India Journal, the Cleveland Indians and Major League Baseball]
In the old days, I would have put together a system like this:
You know, a touchscreen computer monitor with a plugin interface for a smartphone which acts as the portable PC with local, physical, wireless keyboard and other HID as needed for desktop use.
But then, gesture control got in the way.
I’m not one to talk with my hands and arms.
I’ve been typing on keyboards for about as long as I’ve written short stories.
I am not like the kids of today who barely know what a computer mouse is, let alone a physical keyboard.
Watching kids in the classroom manipulate their way through their coursework with a tablet PC makes we worry for no particular reason.
How many of them are more comfortable working with a game controller, including accelerometer/gyroscope/etc. than with a keyboard/mouse combination?
And what about the next set of students more comfortable with natural gesture control, where their indoor environments are wired to respond to them like living beings and augmented reality makes their outdoor environments feel more connected, their senses more stimulated by information [over]load?
What about this worries me?
The digital divide.
Environmental impact.
Collapsing world economy.
What is the sustainable version of these images?
We are not crying “Wolf” here, simply recognising the support structure needed to maintain and enhance these technological achievements for decades more without interruption by global war.
Back to the Committee meeting where we need full cooperation by those willing to reach consensus on a few important issues not yet discussed in this public forum…
Where drone-sized minimissile defense systems line national borders using UWB/mesh network technology to intercept and destroy rogue UAVs, killing a few kites (yes, birds) as collateral in the process. See the latest cartoon films starring Iron Man for a moving example. Detente is a terrible deterrent to waste, like al dente is a terrible burden on the waist.
I was sent the following information in response to one of my recent posts. Good advice, regardless of [non]religious belief:
Ecclesiastes 9:10
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