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McCain adviser says terrorist attack would boost campaign | World news | guardian.co.uk
Past, Present and Future, together in one sentence.
Past, Present and Future, together in one sentence.
Past, Presente and Future, together in one sentence.
I used to say that only the road warriors were missing…
…the word revolution seems to be in the lips of many.
World Briefing – Europe – Norway – New Rights Granted to Gays – Brief – NYTimes.com.
«The Parliament granted gay and lesbian couples the right to marry and to adopt children on an equal basis with heterosexual couples. The country’s new universal marriage act, which also allows lesbians to be artificially inseminated in Norwegian medical facilities, supersedes a domestic partnership policy. “No longer will there be different classes of love,” Erling Lae, the chief commissioner of Oslo, told an online newspaper minutes after the Parliament’s 84-41 vote, adding that he now plans to marry his male companion of 26 years.»
«In fact, let’s assume that this mythology is true and, within about 25 years, computers will exceed human intelligence and rapidly bootstrap themselves to godlike status. At that point, they will aid us (or run roughshod over us [see the debate of geoengineering here - Ed]) to transform the Earth into a paradise .
Here’s the problem: 25 years is too late. The newest business-as-usual climate scenarios look increasingly dire. If we haven’t solved our problems within the next decade, even these theoretical godlike AIs aren’t going to be able to help us. Thermodynamics is thermodynamics, and no amount of godlike thinking can reverse the irreversible.
Picture a lonely AI popping into superconsciousness in the last
research lab in the world. As the rioters are kicking in the doors it
says, “I understand! I know the answer! Why, all we have to do is–” at
which point some starving, flu-ravaged fundamentalist pulls the plug.»
Doesn’t Portugal’s current situation resembles a Mad Max plot?