StringJunky

We need to increase/facilitate stochastic processes to help nature, when we've been trying to remove them for control and predictability. This seems to be lesson. We need to aim for a better balance between allowing nature to do its thing and meet our needs. I made a couple of small waterfallsin a straight length of open drain and it did wonders further down with new different water plants establish. The EA even fixedv them when collapsed and reinforced where the flow was eroding the sides but, I think got too muchand they removed all pertubative materials and now dead, straight, smooth, dingy looking bit of water is flowing.... like a drain.

Perhaps a periodic demonstration of the power of nuclear destruction might be internationally entertained. Make it real in controlled circumstances. Throw the full might of multimedia technology at the event so that people who weren't there to see it so they can be as immersed as possible in the event. The level of induced fear wants to be visceral, so that it is temporally durable through generations.

Further into the article there seems to be two options: Build their own or have US ones stationed there. I'd go with the latter - if it had to happen - because they don't need the learning curve of building them, which would embed a nuclear infrastructure into the country. That would be another autonomous nuclear power, which just complicates future global disarmament even more.

It just struck me that Al Pacino's Simone is not so out there any more.

Cheers.

Thanks. Is this situation unusual in nature?

Could it be to do with resisting entropy?

Because they are labouring under an illusion that they protected.

For NK and Israel, nukes are moot because 'the enemy' is very close or within. Pointless sabre-rattling.

Sensei is probably the most computer-aware on here. @Sensei Would this improve his stealth situation:

Does vpn not work there anymore?

Damn.... how did I miss that!

This style of conversation delivery doesn't promote continuation; it sucks the oxygen out of it, killing all participants. It is the thermobaric bomb of conversation killers.

Your mind harks back to the last interesting thing that happened in your life. As time passes your memory tends to just string together the interesting parts and ignore the boring inbetween bits.... interesting to you that is. What we then do is put all these interesting evehts in sequence, removing the gaps. So, say you did something memorable in 2015 and then you plodded along for a few months/years, then had another memorable experience, only those two items in that period were memorable to you are likely to be remembered via long term memory far down the line of time. For things to be memorable in the long term, they need to have a significant impact on you in some way, such that that they impress on your memory more persistently. If an event doesn't alter your level of mood, say, then it will likely go down the memory toilet. What we are actually forgetting is the mundane, routine bits because they are plastically embedded in our brain and we don't need to remember... those routines are executed automatically. If everything you do is routine everyday, you'll likely feel a deficit of accomplishment when you try to look back... as you do now. The solution is to try and do something everyday that stimulates you and, most importantly, feels novel to you. This can be acheived by learning something that interests you. Also, try and make your life less routine where you can... mix things up abit. The other thing is your age. As we get older we slow down physically and in alertness. The subjective pace of time speeds up as well because of decreasing metabolism, in part. Our personal clock slows down so events seem to flow faster; further exacerbating that feeling of insufficient accomplishent and losing time. Import some novelty into your life and live everyday like it's your last... You should have lots more to remember with shorter gaps between significant memories. Most people go through your situation at some point, particularly near 40. This is how I've addressed this to myself over the years. I'm 61 now.

Yes, it's a strategy used by many political groups. I think the redder Tories know they won't get away with it. A blackhole, which is the NHS, is always gagging for money.

I think it stems from the brain's default mode to put things in boxes. When the thing being boxed fails to find a match it will llook through itself to find some thing to match it. When it starts thinking really hard, maybe motivated by beliefs, it will concoct a category for it in the direction of those beliefs.

This cartoon illustrates that MO quite well: We need them because we don't know what we need in the future.

NO. It is a dessicant. It has an affinity for water. They love each so much and it takes energy to separate them.

Time to get your card out. How many OS versions since xp? You cannot reasonably expect backward compatibility for this long, given the rate of change..

I know your not, I meant it rhetorically, but that's an obstacle.

How does one discretely segment a process, that is a continuum, to allow us to answer that question? If we look at a rainbow, where does one colour start and another begin? Only if we look from far enough away do we see sharp banding i.e. we have less data available.

The way I look it can be expressed as "All swans are white until we find a black one." There is an expectation but, as yet, no confirmation. I'm disinclined to speculate because there is nothing to work with that has gained any traction. The present knowledge is too vague and fuzzy to commit to a binary position.

You are probably not far wrong there.

I think it will just happen somewhere with the starting gun for AI going off recently.... after that they will try and figure out how it happened. Let us hope we know when it happens.