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mr nobody wrote:
CH86 wrote: How a president can being about friendly coexistence with the CCP is simple, make moves that force respect of American power in the CCP. For example let say a new president is inaugurated, he/she warns china that US has the ability to defend its supreme interests and destroy any power who attacks but also he/she advances the olive branch. ..............................................
America then Expands into Latin America in order bring their industry and Manpower resources into Direct American Control, while America Reforms internally into a military state with the Meritocratic State and Civil-Military education and internal security system is implemented. See Problem solved as far as Millennials see things.
holly s**t!!! are you f-ing retard or insane or both? THAT WAS AOC level stupid/retarded, maybe even worse...
I have never read anything even close to this. The level of authoritarianism, ignorance, stupidity and arrogance you just showed is mindboggling, even unbelievable. I hope to God people like you never get to positions of power.
YOU AND YOUR "SIMPLE" PLAN WOULD DESTROY THE WHOLE EARTH IN ONE MONTH, MAYBE EVEN IN ONE WEEK!!!!
Lol!!

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** 25-Oct-2019 World View: New beetle named after Greta Thunberg

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  • Greta Thunberg and Nelloptodes greta (BBC)


Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenage girl who has been going around the
world declaring that we should all be ashamed of ourselves because
we're inflicting climate change on her, now has a brand new honor.

Scientist Dr Michael Darby was studying a newly-discovered species of
beetle, and decided to name it "Nelloptodes greta" after Thunberg
because he was "immensely impressed" by her environmental campaigning.

Thunberg shares this honor with others. A scientist named an
amphibian "Dermophis donaldtrumpi" after Donald Trump because it
buries its head in the sand.

And a German admirer of Adolf Hitler in 1933 named a blind cave beetle
the "Anophthalmus hitleri."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50182815

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** 25-Oct-2019 World View: Charles Barkley: Pence needs to shut the hell up

Yesterday I posted a message about Mike Pence's speech harshly
criticizing China's property theft and human rights record, such as
its arrest of priests and other religious clerics, and its
imprisonment and enslavement of millions of Muslim Uighurs in East
Turkistan (Xinjiang Province).

Pence also criticized the NBA for kowtowing to China's demands not to
speak, saying, "In siding with the Chinese Communist Party and
silencing free speech, the NBA is acting like a wholly owned
subsidiary of the authoritarian regime."

Former NBA star Charles Barkley responded as follows:
"Vice President Pence needs to shut the hell up,
number one. All American companies are doing business in China. I
thought the criticism of commissioner Silver and LeBron James was
unfair. Daryl Morey — who I like — he can say whatever he wants
to. But there are consequences.

I don’t understand why these holier-than-thou politicians — if
they’re so worried about China, why don’t they stop all
transactions with China? President Trump has been talking about
and arguing with tariffs for China for the last two years. I think
it’s unfair for them to do all their business in China and just
because this thing happens try to make the NBA and our players
look bad. All American companies do business in
China. Period."
Several commentators have noted the hyprocrisy that Barkley feels free
to criticize Pence (and Trump) in the most hostile terms with
impunity, but is demanding that no one be permitted to criticize
China.

https://sports.yahoo.com/charles-barkle ... 26523.html

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26-Oct-19 World View -- Mike Pence harshly criticizes China as US bans Chinese surveillance equipment

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26-Oct-19 World View -- Mike Pence harshly criticizes China as US bans Chinese surveillance equipment


Backlash grows against Chinese surveillance and AI equipment


** 26-Oct-19 World View -- Mike Pence harshly criticizes China as US bans Chinese surveillance equipment
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e191026




Contents:
Growing Western hostility and suspicion towards China
Mike Pence harshly criticizes China as US bans Chinese surveillance equipment
Backlash grows against Chinese surveillance and AI equipment
US bans doing business with Chinese surveillance and AI firms
China's growing global surveillance tentacles
The National Basketball Association (NBA) controversy
Mike Pence's criticism of the NBA and Nike


Keys:
Growing Western hostility and suspicion towards China
Pence harshly criticizes China as US bans Chinese surveillance equipment
Backlash grows against Chinese surveillance and AI equipment
US bans doing business with Chinese surveillance and AI firms
China's growing global surveillance tentacles
The National Basketball Association (NBA) controversy
Mike Pence's criticism of the NBA and Nike

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** 26-Oct-2019 World View: The Singularity
David Horn wrote: > You seem fascinated by the Singularity which, by definition,
> cannot be contemplated in any reasonable fashion. Will it happen
> at some point? Sure. We're already plodding along with quantum
> computing, and conventional AI. Marrying the two virtually
> guarantees a quantum change (pun intended). The real problems are
> two: when and what. When requires a crystal ball, since all
> projections of fundamental change are wrong, right to the minute
> they're right. A breakthrough (hopefully one that doesn't
> threaten the future existence of humans) will trigger the fallover
> point, and it's off to the races form there … probably, at least.
> We can't really know. The 'what' is even harder to fathom.
> Humans may cease to exist, become trans-human, become something
> akin to pets or be partners with the emerging new paradigm … or
> something else entirely.

> So let's make a few assumptions. First: we won't live to see any
> of this. Second: our children may not either. Third: the
> generations in place at the time will be the product of what we do
> in the interim. Fourth: no single path is identifiably better
> than any other, when the goal is totally undefined -- with one
> exception. We humans should prefer some substantial degree of
> freedom at the entry point. That guarantees nothing, but makes
> much more possible. This is no different than the goals we're
> trying to reach in the current paradigm, so we should get on with
> it, and let the futurists look for the coming magic in the
> entrails they study.
I don't know what word you're referring to that includes "cannot be
contemplated in any reasonable fashion" in its definition, but
Singularity is certainly not that word, since many people have
contemplated the Singularity in reasonable fashion.

Many quantities related to finance and technology grow at fixed
exponential rates. The DJIA does, which is why I can say that the
2070 trend value is 91,000.

The power of computers is also growing exponentially. Google "Moore's
Law" for more information, but even when transistors reach their
limits, things like quantum computing will continue the same
exponential growth.

I wrote an article in 2005 estimating that the Singularity will occur
around 2030. I re-posted the article a couple of years ago, since I
consider still to be valid.

** Artificial Intelligence and the Singularity by 2030
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... 151228.htm


Other people who are knowledgeable about computers estimate 2040 or
2050, and in one case 2060. I don't recall anyone who is very
knowledgeable about computers estimating any later than that. So by
2070, the world will be well into the Singularity.

Here are a couple more articles I've written about the subject:

** 13-Mar-16 World View -- Google's AlphaGo computer defeats world champion at game of Go
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e160313



** 29-Dec-15 World View -- Artificial Intelligence breakthroughs in 2015, the Singularity by 2030
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e151229



** 19-Feb-11 News -- IBM's Watson supercomputer bests human champions on Jeopardy!
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e110219


Also, Tom Mazanec wrote a science fiction short story about time
travelers who survive World War III and the Singularity, but go back
in time and try to prevent them from happening at all.

** 'Maybe we'll get it right this time' by Tom Mazanec
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... 090309.htm

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http://www.unz.com/trall/generation-x-f ... d-old-age/

Generation X Faces a Bleak, Impoverished Old Age
As millennials ascend and age into their 40s, they’ll join the call to get rid of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid so they can save on their taxes. Propaganda like Taylor’s will support the movement to disenfranchise the elderly.

Used to be that the olds voted in vast numbers to protect their political interests. Xers will be wandering the streets, dumpster diving and dying a dog’s death, with no address to enter on a voter registration card.

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Guest wrote:http://www.unz.com/trall/generation-x-f ... d-old-age/

Generation X Faces a Bleak, Impoverished Old Age
As millennials ascend and age into their 40s, they’ll join the call to get rid of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid so they can save on their taxes. Propaganda like Taylor’s will support the movement to disenfranchise the elderly.

Used to be that the olds voted in vast numbers to protect their political interests. Xers will be wandering the streets, dumpster diving and dying a dog’s death, with no address to enter on a voter registration card.

If this happens, it will be karmic justice, because of how Gen-Xers treat Boomers.

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Guest wrote:
Guest wrote:http://www.unz.com/trall/generation-x-f ... d-old-age/

Generation X Faces a Bleak, Impoverished Old Age
As millennials ascend and age into their 40s, they’ll join the call to get rid of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid so they can save on their taxes. Propaganda like Taylor’s will support the movement to disenfranchise the elderly.

Used to be that the olds voted in vast numbers to protect their political interests. Xers will be wandering the streets, dumpster diving and dying a dog’s death, with no address to enter on a voter registration card.

If this happens, it will be karmic justice, because of how Gen-Xers treat Boomers.
Of course you 're expected to work; that's how you get food, shelter, and clothing. Whether it's gathering nuts & berries and hunting wooly mammoths or toiling in a WeWork space writing code it had better be productive or face starvation.

I watch the "free as a bird" birds outside my window. They spend all their time hustling about for food and water, fighting for prime nesting spots, fighting for mates, raising little birds, and trying not to get eaten by hawks or cats. If they get cold, they die. If they get sick, they die. If they can't find food, they die. They work their asses of to live two seasons.

When in human history have people not had to work? There is no free lunch. Ask Darwin how it works.

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** 26-Oct-2019 Life
Guest 2 wrote: > I watch the "free as a bird" birds outside my window. They spend
> all their time hustling about for food and water, fighting for
> prime nesting spots, fighting for mates, raising little birds, and
> trying not to get eaten by hawks or cats. If they get cold, they
> die. If they get sick, they die. If they can't find food, they
> die. They work their asses of to live two seasons.
It's the same for birds as it is for humans: Life sucks, and then you
die.

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It was the boomers who gave us open borders for cheap labour.

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