DrBeauGan says:
August 24, 2022 at 5:30 pm

AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) is still a dream.

There’s a fundamental fallacy in asserting that something is impossible because you cannot imagine a way to do it.

Oh, I can imagine a way to do it!
A nice, matt black box with many etta-oompahs of quantum computing ASICs.. and some actuator attachments, for vision, senses, movement etc..
But after building it, how to program it?
Would a hyper-massive neural network program suffice?
And how to transfer someone’s pre-frontal and limbic neuronal network structure onto it?
How to include memory?
How to exclude residua of aging, like amyloid plaque interference?
Would I then feel and believe I am my real, conscious disembodied self in that black box, looking back at my inert, comatose carcass?
And who could trustfully perform the consciousness transfer?

It might happen, one day, but it’s presently a whole lot closer to impossible than not.

Lysander just don’t get the mongtypox. Trouble is you don’t know you’ve got it coz you’re always in la la land.

”And who could trustfully perform the consciousness transfer?”……….what is consciousness?
I THINK, THEREFORE I AM.

I could well be stupidly wrong. But it seems to me that we’re in a world of scalding shit if people can get standing to sue simply on the basis of the shock of third party allegations.

Can I sue monty for exposing me to toxic levels of wrongology?
Im shocked someone that perspicacity challenged could avoid eating something toxic for so long.

But that’s all very 20th century. These days its: I FEEL therefore I am.

Plus “I am, therefore I am entitled”.

Gilas & Dr BG

Thanks, bbs. I think.

I view the extinction of the human species with calm equanimity. As long as it happens after I’ve kicked the bucket. While I quite like a few individual members, mostly the human race is pretty scrofulous.

Condolences, Delta. Always hard to put into words when a precious person is suddenly gone. It seems this is a season of loss.

Now getting Server error, just because I was responding to DrBG..
Calling Dover…

Now getting Server error, just because I was responding to DrBG..

That’s serious!

ABC News: “George Pell. Victorian court clears the way for civil action against the Cardinal.
Reporter: “Prosecutors ‘pinned the blame’ on George Pell.” for the abuse.

Gilas, re pancreatic cancer there are good outcomes sometimes.
Seven or it may now be eight years ago my brother, now 73, had his complete pancreas removed along with gall bladder, spleen, and some of his small intestine. The surgeon wasn’t sure they had got it all so he had chemo for three months after. It took a long time balancing diet and insulin but he got there and today cycles, walks and swims everyday.
He was very fit before the cancer diagnosis, never drank alcohol or smoked in his life, and not overweight. Today he looks young for someone turning 74 this year.
Pancreatic cancer is not always a death sentence.

Gary Burns is a sad fucker.

Some people don’t like me. Meh.

I hope their kids turn out better than them and aren’t fuckwits.

I don’t take them to court (and, “court”) like a monomaniacal vindictive crazed ex spouse over several years.

Humans must colonise other planets then other star systems then other galaxies.

We are working on ever smaller fission and working towards viable fusion. DARPA is funding exotic propulsion. Miguel Alcubierre showed a mathematical proof that GR can be manipulated to overcome SR. The energy requirements of this are being shown by researchers (some at NASA) to be ever smaller. There is also a mathematical link between gravity and electromagnetism.

We might live in clown world but the future still has hope.

Channel surfing before & landed on PM Live talking to Joe Hildebrand.
Paraphrasing Hildebrand: I don’t condone the Labor party’s Mediscare campaign against Turnbull but at the same time I don’t condone the estate tax scare the Libs ran in 2019.

What the actual fuck?
2019 was all about the ALP’s policies of getting rid of negative gearing & ditching franking credit refunds.
If there was an estate tax scare, I didn’t hear it.

Hildebrand is so low information.

David Elliot would have you arrested for eating a succulent Chinese meal, he is democracy manifested.

Docking

Jeebus wept why did I look that up!

[Hildebrand] He’s an idiot, he doesn’t know whether he’s Arthur or Martha.

He seems likeable though which makes it worse.

Perhaps we should cut him some slack for all those years he was sentenced to channel ten’s version of The View. Residual brain damage from simpering on cue for the morning TV audiences.

Delta being with ones you love when you die cannot be a bad thing. When my FiL died recently he went happily with MiL looking at each other. We can ask no more. Stay strong as I know you will.

Anal’s duchessing that evil old Garrett turd. Barker college sure has turned out some real horrors. Exhibit B- butch Carlton.

Lysander

For example, there’s no law to stop China parking a stationary satellite over Canberra. Permanently.

Other than orbital dynamics. Geostationary satellites must be basically over the equator (can wobble a little to either side).

But then in 1984 I remember posters of Geoffrey Blainey appearing around Sydney saying ‘shut this racist up’

Nope, Burns is not a sad “fucker”, he’s a malicious, vindictive and very litigious piece of human garbage (and that’s perhaps a too generous description) who’s spent years pursuing people he doesn’t like, particularly Christians, through various courts.

Burns and those who engage in various form of “law fare” are not the actual problem.

The parliaments that pass laws that allow law fare to exist are the problem.

Zk2A – 9.50
Intriguing.

Delta A

Sorry to hear about your brother, condolences to you and your extended family.

Who is Gary Burns?

Executive Summary

Thank you for the opportunity to lodge this submission with Portfolio Committee No. 5 – Legal Affairs as part of its inquiry into the Anti-Discrimination Amendment (Complaint Handling) Bill 2020.

I support the passage of this bill.

Mr Garry Burns has lodged 37 complaints against me since mid-2014. I responded to his latest complaint earlier this month.
Mr Burns has stated that he has lodged complaints to:
– bankrupt me;
– avoid his own financial difficulties; and
– harass and embarrass me.

Mr Burns is almost the sole complainant of homosexual vilification in New South Wales today and he has lodged the vast majority of such complaints ever lodged in New South Wales’ history.

The New South Wales Anti-Discrimination Board has refused to investigate the vexatious motivations behind Mr Burns’ complaints. Instead, it routinely removes evidence contained in his communications from my response to his complaint and describes this evidence as ‘irrelevant’.

Clearly, the ADB is abusing its statutory powers and aiding and abetting a man who is improperly seeking to use this law to silence conservative and Christian commentary in Australia.

The ADB has also refused to accept a test case that I won against Mr Burns that ruled that his complaints were misconceived and that the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW) did not extend to ‘public acts’ in Queensland.
The cost of defending myself in these matters is now approximately $400,000. I have also been deprived of an opportunity for income due to the time spent responding to these matters and they have also caused considerable stress and harm to my family’s peace and happiness.

In 2018 I was forced to sell my home in order to cover these costs.

This submission contains detailed information about the conduct of Mr Burns and the ADB and I hope that it is of use to the committee in its inquiry into this bill. It can be made public.

I am willing to appear before the committee to provide evidence.
Bernard Gaynor
26 April 2020

Ummm, emojis turned into ?’s and bloody tiny iPhone screen and bloody autocorrect >:(

Condolences, Delta.

In the Four Corners interview, Misimovic openly admitted that he had provided false testimony in court under instruction from NSW police.

If the police who did this other than Rogerson don’t even get sued we should all be furious.

Look they’re probably all dead or vegetables.

But they should be gaoled and have their assets seized or incinerated.

Noticed a couple of reports on evening news of the case of the little 7 y o Indian girl whose parents took her to hospital in Perth after she fell ill.
She was sent home but came back, obviously with something seriously wrong but kept being fobbed off. Mother down on her knees begging for attention as she worsened and eventually expired. Parents claim the doctor on duty barely spoke to them before going off duty.

Had me wondering if the doc was also Indian. Did he react that way because of caste considerations. No contact because the family were filth from whom he would be polluted ?

I don’t believe an enquiry would touch that question.

Look at me!
Don’t look at me! The Tele:

A Sydney nightclub has banned patrons from “staring at someone from afar” without prior “verbal consent” in a bid to make the venue a safe space.

Darlinghurst institution Club 77 unveiled the new Safety and Harassment policy earlier this month which will see them dispatch a “Safety Officer” in a pink fluoro vest to deal with complaints which breach rules which also stipulate that any interaction between patrons should have prior verbal consent.

‘Excuse me madam, may I look at you from across this crowded room?’
‘What?’

‘I SAID, MAY I LOOK AT YOU ACROSS THIS CROWDED ROOM?’
‘Oh. You may.’

‘The brightness of your cheek doth shame the stars….’
‘What?’

‘I SAID…’

Oh she doth teach the torchers to burn bright.
Said Romeo as he spoke of Juliet across the room.
Something about her presence being like a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear. A beautiful jewel on a velvet black background.
Did my heart love till now? Foreswear , it sight, for I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.
(Ah but the new harassment rules.)

Ah, the GAZE.
Who is constituted, so to speak, by whom, in the ‘look’.

rickw -I understand the implications, yet the right to fly was and is a matter of money. It is the matter of money which is at stake .

Thanks Tom

The Great Disappearing Raid Story
Did that big news two weeks ago actually happen?

Excuse me for giving a shit, but what happened to the Trump raid story?

Two weeks ago, the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home was the biggest story on earth and seemingly one of the most consequential American news events since 9/11. The search inspired a few hours of social media jubilation, followed by roughly a week of frenzied leaking as a parade of national security soothsayers unspooled sinister scenarios on TV, and then — nothing. The line went dead. By last week’s end, the cancellation of Brian Stelter on CNN was a top national headline in comparison.

With a caveat that the relative quiet could be upended by a court decision Thursday, could we pause to reflect on the oddness of this episode? Has a story this big ever receded to the back pages this quickly?

Once the FBI finished searching, everyone from Andrew Cuomo to the New Yorker to Mother Jones to George Will at the Washington Post pointed out the obvious, that the Justice Department needed to quickly produce an explanation, if not an indictment, to avoid the disaster of allowing the perception of a politicized raid to fester.

Instead of providing that explanation, officials across the board posed in the manner of comic strip figures, each pointing at the other and appearing genuinely surprised to be answering questions about it. On the day after the search, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre dumped the matter squarely in the Attorney General’s lap, denying President Joe Biden knew what was coming a remarkable eight times:

One: “No.”

Eight: “We did not have advance notice of this activity.”

It now looks like that’s all reporters are going to get from Biden, at least until the next time his handlers let him out of his cage. When Fox asked for more comment Sunday, the White House referred them back to Jean-Pierre’s remarks. This is the political equivalent of Biden wedging a hornet’s nest on Merrick Garland’s head and holding it there.

The Attorney General strode to a press conference podium three days after the raid looking like a condemned man. He hinted the raid only became public knowledge because Trump blabbed about it, then said the DOJ only filed a motion to release the search warrant “in light of the former president’s public confirmation of the search” and because of “substantial public interest.” Garland toward the end of his remarks said he’d “personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter,” briefly held his hand up to beseech reporters to hold their questions, and Snagglepussed out, exit stage right, without answering one.

The four-minute performance played like a hostage video. The idea of Garland both filing a motion to release the warrant and making a public appearance solely because of the post-raid reaction suggests he, too, was taken by surprise, and didn’t expect to be facing questions. If there was any amount of planning before the raid, this would be impossible.
Yet it appeared so.

Virtually simultaneous to Garland’s bizarro presser, the Washington Post released a story entitled “FBI searched Trump’s home to look for nuclear documents and other items, sources say.” Post reporters Devlin Barrett, Josh Dawsey, Perry Stein and Shane Harris cited the ever-present “people familiar with the matter” to tell us “classified documents relating to nuclear weapons” had been among the items FBI agents sought, adding the unusual raid underscored “deep concern” about “the types of information” sources thought “could be located” in Mar-a-Lago. They went on to add:

They did not offer additional details about what type of information the agents were seeking, including whether it involved weapons belonging to the United States or some other nation.

Just throwing it out there, that the raid might have been about some other country’s nuclear secrets! The Washington Post’s anonymously-sourced stunner was the beginning and end of the nuclear secrets story, however. Not one thing has come out about it since, apart from a brief flurry of speculative features (“What nuclear secrets could Trump have possibly taken?” asked Vox, while proudly gullible Post columnist Jennifer Rubin quipped, “Leaving with nuclear secrets would be Trump’s dumbest, scariest stunt yet”).

A week after announcing their motion to unseal the Trump search warrant, Garland’s DOJ turned around to oppose the full release of the affidavit in support of the warrant. The judge, Bruce Reinhart, cited “intense public and historical interest in an unprecedented search” in ordering at least partial disclosure of the affidavit. Reinhart gave Garland’s DOJ a week to submit proposed redactions for info it wanted to keep secret, then appended his order to worry that the Justice Department could redact the document to death, making release “meaningless”:

I cannot say at this point that partial redactions will be so extensive that they will result in a meaningless disclosure, but I may ultimately reach that conclusion after hearing further from the government.

On the first weekend after the raid, official sources were telling everyone that a great part about using the Espionage Act in a Trump probe is that the law doesn’t require the involvement of classified materials. Now, we’re back to Trump not only taking secret documents, but super-secret “sensitive compartmented” ones. We’re going to hear this term, “Sensitive Compartmentalized Information” (capital S, capital C, capital I), a million times before this is over. As PBS reports:

FBI agents searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate… removing 11 sets of classified documents, with some not only marked top secret but also “sensitive compartmented information,” according to a receipt of what was taken… That is a special category meant to protect the nation’s most important secrets that if revealed publicly could cause “exceptionally grave” damage to U.S. interests.

In sum: Joe Biden didn’t know the raid was coming, Merrick Garland blamed Trump for the raid becoming public at all and took three days to take responsibility for ordering it, and Trump’s crime has moved from mishandling “nuclear documents” to keeping “Sensitive Compartmented Information,” whose possession by Trump poses “exceptionally grave” risk to the United States.

Something about all this stinks. On one hand, we’re in the same place we’ve been a hundred times in the Trump era, waiting for the big reveal. We were here before Michael Cohen’s testimony, before the Mueller report, before the Ukraine whistleblower letter, the Barr memo, and countless other expected bombshells.

On the other hand, the evidentiary hype train has been turned off early this time. The deadline for more news out of Reinhart’s court about what’s inside the affidavit is this Thursday, when Garland is supposed to submit his proposed redactions, yet the story is getting more coverage on Fox (Gutfield! incredibly surged to the top of late-night comedy ratings after the raid) than in mainstream press, which appears to be tiptoeing back from the case much as administration officials did in the first week.

Trump’s lawyers filed a rambling motion Monday to ask for a Special Master to review the documents before they’re released. A few notes about this motion. One, it started off noting that “Trump is the clear frontrunner in the 2024 Republican Presidential Primary and in the 2024 General Election, should he decide to run,” which not only gave an indication about Trump’s thinking but framed the issue as a political matter, essentially accusing the DOJ of raiding Trump’s home for political reasons. “The Government,” the motion read, “has refused to provide President Trump with any reason for the unprecedented general search of his home.” There’s a lot of crazy stuff in the Trump motion, but they’re not wrong about this.

Unless Garland and the Biden administration give a clear idea of what exactly precipitated the Trump raid — whether it involved Trump funneling the names of spies to Putin, leaving launch codes out on a pizza box, whatever — Trump is going to continue to hammer this issue. Unless the man is literally in manacles before November 2024, this mess will remain an open wound for Democrats. Even if the raid wasn’t politically motivated, it will for sure continue to look politically motivated, if the Justice Department doesn’t come up with a better explanation than the six or seven leaked so far. Yet everyone is acting like that question has been answered.

What gives? Even though stories like Russiagate and Ukrainegate had holes from the start, their underlying dramatic logic was consistent: Trump is guilty, and proof will be released any minute. The Mar-a-Lago raid by contrast feels like an accidental missile launch. Are we really being softened up for the DOJ ending this story without ever explaining what it had at the time of the raid? That would be bananas, and even crazier if the public accepted such an ending. This is way too big of a story to leave unexplained.

Hahaha, Piers Morgan’s show has cratered on Fox too.

Piers Morgan Turns on Trump, Now He’s at Fox News (Newsmax, 24 Aug)

TV host Piers Morgan famously turned on former President Donald Trump in June, telling the Republican Party to “dump the Donald and run with The Ronald,” two months after Morgan joined conservative news outlet Fox News, where his show, “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” has dropped dramatically in viewership since its launch.

Morgan, who signed a $100 million deal with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. for a new channel, TalkTV, drew more than 400,000 viewers in his first episode of “Uncensored,” an interview with Trump backed by Murdoch’s multimillion-dollar advertising campaign.

But the channel has since failed to draw notable viewership, with just 64,000 tuning in in late June, according to the Guardian.

Official viewing figures dipped to zero at some point during evening broadcasts, the report said.

Zero eh? Well I suppose you can’t get any worse than that. It’s fun that the Murdoch kiddies keep persisting with RINOs in hope that someone somewhere will watch them.

And speaking of Murdoch kiddies I am amused that Lachlan is suing Crickey for saying he’s a Trump supporter or something. Sorry mate you can’t be half pregnant in this current world: get on the Trump train kid.

Lachlan Murdoch sues Australian publication Crikey after it linked him to the US Capitol riots (24 Aug)

From the Laydee pages.

https://michelleteheux.medium.com/why-women-have-had-it-with-male-bullshit-c735db3e5ffb

Why Women Have Had It With Male Bullshit

Women have figured out that marriage is a bad deal for them

I can’t even

Anchor Whatsays:
August 25, 2022 at 6:37 am

Yep

LaborLotto: ACTU pushes for industry-wide wage claims.

Meanwhile in NSW the train drivers continue their “make it hot for the coalition” series of train slow-downs and stoppages on the timeworn pretext of “safety concerns”.

But over at The Australian there’s a kind of flush, all over the world today, all over the world you can hear the sound of Influencers influencing. Forget reporting anything of substance, the rise of the influencers must be documented.

Ladypages!

From the piece:

They are no longer desperate to marry. They can earn their own money, buy property, bear and raise children and everything else without marrying a man.

A single (short) sentence separates that from this:

They have listened to the advice of burned women, and have realized that even if they do get married, they cannot depend on a man to support them.

Then, some advice delivered by this woman who has obviously yet to walk the walk:

Raising a couple of kids is intense for the first few years, but once all the kids are in school during the day, the intensity lessens.

This mashed-up conglomeration of catchphrases is then summed up by:

Yes, all the single guys milling around are problematic for society, but women shouldn’t have to martyr themselves.

This woman is said to be married, with a long-term hubby. The entire ‘article’ is shot to bits by Emma Lindsay, who penned that most excellent piece in the same ladypages, which was featured in this august journal of record the other day, and who said:

but these married women are the fucking problem. Anyone who buys into the argument that you need to change yourself to be worthy of love is the problem. Anyone who implicitly implies that the partnered state is superior to the un-partnered state is the problem. Anyone who wants to lecture single people while smugly slipping in “well, of course I personally am married” is the problem.

BAM, Ms Lindsay. Bam.

1000 extra deaths per week in the UK since jabbing started.
SO FAR.

You were told.