Do you?
For example, do you think there is a practical difference under law from letting a text to speech application read you an e-book from Amazon, vs training your Large Language Model with an e-book from Amazon?
If there is a difference, in your mind, what do you think that it is?
It is only cool when Christians do it.
Unironically.
Indiana Google search for "Why are there no Christians in Iraq"; and I got articles written as recently as this year.
There have been a few massacres, and the government turns a blind eye to brutal discrimination..Christians are charged higher prices and can't find work. I am sure that Night Letters are regularly used to tell them to leave town or something awful will happen to their kids.
Sadam was secular, but he was strongly against Iran and their influence. In effect, that meant all of the army and the senior government officials of his government were Suni Muslim or non-denominational .
When Iraq was gutted following Gulf War 1, Saddam cut spending to about 80% of the armed forces. The only part of the army really remaining was the officer corps. Officers train men and they perform the executive functions required to run an effective army. With a strong officer corps, the Iraqi army would have been able to train fighting men in six months or a year with more money and more equipment.
Gulf War 2 had the Iraqi army resolved by executive order. At that point all of the officers left. It was clear that the country would fall to the Shiite (Iranian) faction and they would probably be executed.
Some of those officers formed the core of Islamic State.
Islamic State mostly targeted Shiite Muslims, but both the Shiite and Suni factions agree that Christians and Jews can die.
That entire region is openly hostile to Christians since Gulf War 2. Everywhere religious extremists get into power, they shoot the Christians. For a recent example, See Afghanistan since Biden fucked up the pull-out.
What do the leftist shills call it? Normalization?
"In America, good boys have their dicks cut off. See how happy they are?"
You can't accept that immigrants will leave their religion or culture behind.
They might say they will, but they are lying. You just wind up with Crypto Muslims, who practice in secret until they have enough political leverage to change the environment.
The only answer is to refuse every single Muslim specifically because they are a Muslim.
Otherwise mostly men will apply; they will receive residency or citizenship. They will import wives (up to five each) and have five children per wife. This will continue until they have a voting block.
Iran has been up to its armpits in the "ethnic cleansing" (genocide) of Iraq. After the USA removed Saddam Hussein and his Sunni officers from control of the Iraqi army, Shiite factions, sponsored by Iran have taken over the country.
Christians and Sunni have all been killed or driven out. The country is more-or-less a puppet state for Iran. This was achieved through systematic executions; which are certainly terrorisms.
The Iraqi state oil reserves are still being exploited by US selected contractors; but the proceeds of the oil sales go to Shiite aligned religious factions that are cozy with Iran.
The Iraqi oil reserves are some of the biggest in the region, partly because others have depleted theirs.
This 100% counts as effective use of terrorism. It has profited Iran and Shiite aligned political actors to the tune of multiple billions of dollars.
So the first two article are reporting on how the USA was involved in the Iranian coup
I literally said that they were. What is your point?
Do you know that there is a specific name for this fallacy? It is called the genetic fallacy. It goes like this:
THING started this way, therefore THING is still the same!
I will give you a specific example.
Volkswagen was founded by Nazis. Therefore Volkswagen is a Nazi company.
A lot of water has passed under the bridge since 1953. Indo t think the Shiite religious extremists were particularly loyal to the CIAs goals at the time. I put it to you that the CIA has engineered the change of regime in Iraq specifically to oppose.iran. That would have been unnecessary if they were secretly taking orders.
Address the point of piss off.
They really are not
Yes, the CIA empowered the religious extremist and helped them take power; just like they did in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
All three of those were to stop that country from becoming cozy with Russia.
None of those regimes stayed loyal to the USA.
Later the CIA put Sadam into power in Iraq, specifically because he would opposed the Shiite Muslims, who are strongly aligned with Iran. Remember the Iraq Iran war?
Sadam didn't stay loyal either.
If it doesn't have a tail, its not a monkey. Even if its got a monkey kind of shape. If it doesn't have a tail, its not a monkey. If it doesn't have a tail, its an ape.
Seems like it was a security vehicle with flashing lights that looked close enough when parked on the street.
The simplest answer is that he had a real police SUV and a real police uniform.
One parked overnight in a lot would not be noticed missing until morning. By the it would not matter.
I'd like to see Joe Sixpack taking accountability for the slaves they enjoy by meeting them face to face and being responsible for them.
The current method we have of offshoring slavery to third world nations, where it is out of sight and out of mind is dishonest.
How so?
The main character is utterly useless and nothing he does matters.
God is real and is an interventionist god who can (and does) fuck with mortal humans; he just won't intervene to help anyone, especially the Jews.
If you dumb fuckers had castrated them all the way the Arabs did, you wouldn't be having problems now.
Then have the courage of your convictions and bring back chattel slavery in the Roman style.
I am not even against it. Repeal that bit of the constitution and make it an open-season free-for all for snatching illegals. Get yourself a strong one.
Remember Roman slaves had rights and a path to citizenship. Rome actually had a crisis because too many slaves became citizens and it affected the cultural makeup of Rome.
Not true. Just FYI, new generation small, cheap robotics (think drones etc) are much more scalable than Very Large Machines.
You can, for example, have crop dusting done by a swarm of agricultural drones rather than a crop dusting plane. Or a robot the size of a car trailer that will weed a single row of potatoes or beats with spot spraying of herbicide and / or high voltage localized burning.
If you want I can discuss the changes that must happen to the US agribusiness landscape to allow such a robotics revolution.
The major hurdles to this kind of innovation are political and regulatory, rather than technical.
I don't disagree. Supply lines would have been very long; but the Germans had already kicked the shit out of the Russians. The USA would have won a war of attrition; especially if they broke the Russian codes.
Patten famously wanted to keep tanks rolling until Moscow and put down the Socialist threat forever.
I wish they had let him do it.
The Marines have a function to oversee the other military forces. This is the reason the President's Honor Guard is made up of Marines.
Part of their function, and the reason they haven't been rolled into the regular navy, is to fight and put down insurrection within the regular armed forces.
If the National Guard decide that they would rather listen to Newsom than the PotS, then the Marines will fucking shoot them.
The deaths and the follow up study revealed that COX-2 has a role in preventing platelet / blood vessel interaction and stops spontaneous clots.
People who take COX-2 inhibitors get more blood clots.
Just to put this in context. One of the biggest drug company payouts of all time in Australia was for the drug Roficoxib, which is a selective COX-2 inhibitor.
It was marketed as a painkiller and anti-inflammatory without side-effects from long term usage, which it is.
Aspirin, which is very effective, is a COX-1 and COX-2 inhibitor. COX-1 regulates the mucus production of goblet cells in the stomach. The mucus stops your stomach acid and the enzymes from literally digesting your stomach. If you take aspirin for too long, your stomach digests itself.
Roficoxib only inhibits COX-2, and is safe for the stomach. Neat, right?
Some time later, though statistical analysis, they discovered that people who are 50 or older and are at risk of heart attacks have heart attacks slightly more often when on Roficoxib.
To be clear, no one can point to a single stroke or heart attack and say that it was caused by Roficoxib. They can be fairly sure, in aggregate, that it was a contributing factor.
The class action lawsuit could not even point to any specific deaths. Yet the Merck settled for $4.85 billion dollars in 2005, as well as $950 million in fines for criminal behavior.
In contrast, there is a high quality Swiss study that has observed young men getting myocarditis about 1 in 45 cases directly after the Fizzer clot-shot.
A tolerable level of serious drug side effects is less than one in ten thousand administrations. Hopefully much less.
So what has changed?
Feel free to move to Somalia. They don't have any cops in many towns there. You should have all the rights you crave.
You know what, I'll even pay for half your ticket if you promise to never come back.
That is only because normies can't make judgements of value across complex criteria. They just buy whatever is cheapest. So manufacturers optimize for the lowest possible manufacturing cost to give the lowest possible. Price.
I'll give you an example:
Which car is best?
Okay. Which car is cheapest?
If you compare cars today vs cars of the 1960, then it is no contest. A decent, economical four cylinder car today will drive the pants off anything manufactured in the UK or the USA in that era.
A humble Toyota Corolla will, with fastidious oil changes and mostly highway driving (that is a high proportion of KMs per start / stop cycle; say a long commute) will get a million kilometers without anything more than scheduled maintenance.
Want a mechanical, waterproof watch with a sapphire glass? Or a pocket calculator? Or a light aircraft? Every single one of these is a better product at a lower price than ages past.
Yes there is corporate fuckery. Yes, the red tape is out of control. That is a regulation issue.
Yes, design priorities have changed to focus on cheap, disposable goods, because that is what normies demand. Feel free to tell the customer that they are wrong in regards to taste.
And if you want expensive, high quality goods, then buy them! They exist.
Just buy huge stocks of ammunition, store it correctly and wait.
No, the book isn't copied or stored. The LLM can't regurgitate it on command, because it isn't inside the model.
You can ask the LLM to write new, never before seen text in the style of that author.
Training a LLM is a lot more like reading a book to a toddler than it is like making a digital copy. Neither the toddler or the LLM can repeat the words of the book.