Oh look, a Culture ship Mind.

“There was no crime in the Culture, not really. Not because people were punished—there were no punishments, as such—but because nobody wanted to commit crimes. Or if they did, there were outlets, safe simulations that hurt no one.”

– Surface Detail, Chapter 7, Iain M. Banks

https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown

only in theory. in reality, only one person would ever buy it then re-release the source code for free-as-in-beer. unless you’re talking about something other than GPL2/3.

Ray, if someone asks if you’re a god, SAY YES!

I collect spores, mold and fungus.

Not if it was created with empathy for sentience. Then it would aid and assist implementation of renewable energy, fusion, battery storage, reduce carbon emissions, make humans and AGI a multi-planet species, and basically all the stuff the elongated muskrat said he wanted to do before he went full Joiler Veppers

The same thing that happens no matter what a groundhog does. Because groundhogs don’t affect the weather.

nah, it’s dns.

LESS JOLIER VEPPERS AND MORE LUXURY GAY SPACE ANARCHY!

So are Christians, they believed that God in the form of Jesus came down and revealed the New Testament to the 12 Disciples and wrote it in the Bible.

Those of the Jewish faith are still waiting for the savior to show up because they don’t believe Jesus was the one.

to be fair that was in the prequels, which sucked ass

thunderous applause

That was the day for peaceful resistance.

twice the orange shit was impeached, and the republicans did not remove him from office.

then the orange shit was found guitly of 34 felonies and was let off the hook. technically convicted but no punishment.

the systems, checks and balances that should have prevented this situation were tried, but congress / senate did not hold him accountable and punish him. they figured they would end up with more power and money if they let him do what he wanted and so are letting him.

that’s basically it. unless there’s some sort of miracle (and i really doubt there will be) democracy is over in the united states. you just watched the grand old experiment fail.

weird way to spell “run DOOM” but okay.

Tom Knight and the Lisp Machine

A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.

Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.”

Knight turned the machine off and on.

The machine worked.

Source: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/index.html Section IIIA

just like pointers

:fingerguns: this person gets it

Actually thinking passes values.

Speaking passes references.