Imagine you have an eight year old daughter, and she says "Daddy Daddy I want to learn languages, so that in ten years time I can have a job as a translator!"
Knowledge of foreign languages is about far more than the ability to translate or even to communicate. It's a kind of weight training for the mind.
ON-topic I just watched a Fox News report on self drive cars. Google have got a new version. The Fox News lady inside said it scared her - but no one died.
Google told Fox they expect these cars to be widely on sale within 6 years, or less.
Cost? The basic model is $2000
Yes, two thousand dollars. For a car that will safely and automatically drive you around urban streets. Electric and sustainable. $2000.
This is a revolution and it will be here within 6 years. It's gonna destroy tens of thousands of jobs, from the off, it will eventually destroy millions of jobs.
I've no doubt we will find alternative ways to give people work, but, Wow.
With the greatest respect, two words: Im. Possible. That is a car costing two smartphones, when a car needs much more processing power than two phones, plus wheels and motors and a roof and sides and such. $20 000 would be only slightly less incredible.
Unless I am wrong, in which case apols.
Entirely possible that by this time of the afternoon Sean t is muddling his zeros.
Whatever the cost, it is quite clear self drive cars are now within touching distance, and they will annihilate vast sectors of employment.
Quite scary. Also exciting (if you're not a cabbie, Uber dude, truck driver, etc)
The thing is, driverless cars are one security hack away from joining the Microsoft Zune.
No, they're not. Driverless cars are clearly the future, the way email was clearly the future in the early 1990s.
A technology so transformative, quicker, superior and less wasteful than its predecessor it will become universal very quickly.
No doubt. But there are downsides even to technologies of the future.
Look at email: all those things set down which should have been said not recorded electronically. There are bankers in prison ruing the day they ever used email or chat or text etc.
Personally, I like driving. I enjoy being in control in my own space with my own music. I like having a beautiful looking car. I hate being a passenger.
Imagine you have an eight year old daughter, and she says "Daddy Daddy I want to learn languages, so that in ten years time I can have a job as a translator!"
Knowledge of foreign languages is about far more than the ability to translate or even to communicate. It's a kind of weight training for the mind.
Has anyone else here tried to have a conversation using Google translate?
Gareth Snell is up shit creek! As a normal member of the public with a decent job I wouldn't dream of writing anything like that on social media. It's incredible that a councillor or PPC could be that stupid.
Clear Lab win. Although the tories might have a chance....
I'm not convinced Nuttall is ineligible though.
If the details are as claimed then he is certainly ineligible. That doesn't mean he won't be on the ballot though, just that the matter would have to be taken to an election court afterwards.
That would be the best result for UKIP I think, better than winning and not being taken to court. It would fuel their claim that the establishment is against them and the will of the people.
"the establishment is against them and the will of the people."
It's pretty simple.
When you stand for election to parliament, you have to provide your address.
Not someone elses address. Not a fictional address.
Kay Burley has to be one of the most ignorant and rudest news presenters I have ever seen on TV. She has no clue about her subject and so makes do by just talking over people.
Clear Lab win. Although the tories might have a chance....
I'm not convinced Nuttall is ineligible though.
If the details are as claimed then he is certainly ineligible. That doesn't mean he won't be on the ballot though, just that the matter would have to be taken to an election court afterwards.
That would be the best result for UKIP I think, better than winning and not being taken to court. It would fuel their claim that the establishment is against them and the will of the people.
"the establishment is against them and the will of the people."
It's pretty simple.
When you stand for election to parliament, you have to provide your address.
Not someone elses address. Not a fictional address.
Clear Lab win. Although the tories might have a chance....
I'm not convinced Nuttall is ineligible though.
If the details are as claimed then he is certainly ineligible. That doesn't mean he won't be on the ballot though, just that the matter would have to be taken to an election court afterwards.
That would be the best result for UKIP I think, better than winning and not being taken to court. It would fuel their claim that the establishment is against them and the will of the people.
"the establishment is against them and the will of the people."
It's pretty simple.
When you stand for election to parliament, you have to provide your address.
Not someone elses address. Not a fictional address.
Your address.
The one where you live.
It's not a conspiracy.
No need to get smart with me about it, I am just saying how I think the public/normal people will view it.
People on here think the Supreme Court decision was a great thing, normal people think it stinks.
Imagine you have an eight year old daughter, and she says "Daddy Daddy I want to learn languages, so that in ten years time I can have a job as a translator!"
Knowledge of foreign languages is about far more than the ability to translate or even to communicate. It's a kind of weight training for the mind.
Has anyone else here tried to have a conversation using Google translate?
Yes. It didn't end very well. I found that if you keep your sentences short and simple it isn't too bad. Try a bit of nuance and then the problems start.
Kay Burley has to be one of the most ignorant and rudest news presenters I have ever seen on TV. She has no clue about her subject and so makes do by just talking over people.
King Cole, there was a video of using suchlike to translate the lyrics of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air's theme tune into one language, and back again, repeatedly. Here we are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMkJuDVJdTw
Imagine you have an eight year old daughter, and she says "Daddy Daddy I want to learn languages, so that in ten years time I can have a job as a translator!"
Knowledge of foreign languages is about far more than the ability to translate or even to communicate. It's a kind of weight training for the mind.
Has anyone else here tried to have a conversation using Google translate?
Clear Lab win. Although the tories might have a chance....
I'm not convinced Nuttall is ineligible though.
If the details are as claimed then he is certainly ineligible. That doesn't mean he won't be on the ballot though, just that the matter would have to be taken to an election court afterwards.
That would be the best result for UKIP I think, better than winning and not being taken to court. It would fuel their claim that the establishment is against them and the will of the people.
"the establishment is against them and the will of the people."
It's pretty simple.
When you stand for election to parliament, you have to provide your address.
Not someone elses address. Not a fictional address.
Your address.
The one where you live.
It's not a conspiracy.
Sorry, come late to this, although admittedly I made a comment upthread. Do I gather that Doc Niuttall has given a false address?
Clear Lab win. Although the tories might have a chance....
I'm not convinced Nuttall is ineligible though.
If the details are as claimed then he is certainly ineligible. That doesn't mean he won't be on the ballot though, just that the matter would have to be taken to an election court afterwards.
That would be the best result for UKIP I think, better than winning and not being taken to court. It would fuel their claim that the establishment is against them and the will of the people.
"the establishment is against them and the will of the people."
It's pretty simple.
When you stand for election to parliament, you have to provide your address.
Not someone elses address. Not a fictional address.
Your address.
The one where you live.
It's not a conspiracy.
No need to get smart with me about it, I am just saying how I think the public/normal people will view it.
People on here think the Supreme Court decision was a great thing, normal people think it stinks.
After Deep Blue/Kasparov in 1997 people were saying chess is easy-peasy, Go won't be cracked for decades - and it was, in a whisker under 2 decades. I have never thought the Turing test all that interesting or important - all Turing really did was invent conversations by email in a thought experiment, which I suppose was quite clever, but I would be very wary of making predictions about the test. If you look at Watson winning Jeopardy, you have to be a bit worried. For instance, I think it is reasonably credible that Watson could be programmed to be a PB contributor and if he got away with that for a year, that would be easily as good as passing a Turing test.
Whatever the cost, it is quite clear self drive cars are now within touching distance, and they will annihilate vast sectors of employment.
Quite scary. Also exciting (if you're not a cabbie, Uber dude, truck driver, etc)
The thing is, driverless cars are one security hack away from joining the Microsoft Zune.
No, they're not. Driverless cars are clearly the future, the way email was clearly the future in the early 1990s.
A technology so transformative, quicker, superior and less wasteful than its predecessor it will become universal very quickly.
No doubt. But there are downsides even to technologies of the future.
Look at email: all those things set down which should have been said not recorded electronically. There are bankers in prison ruing the day they ever used email or chat or text etc.
Personally, I like driving. I enjoy being in control in my own space with my own music. I like having a beautiful looking car. I hate being a passenger.
I agree. I like driving, I like owning a car, I like speeding down an empty road, the sense of freedom and autonomy.
Similarly, I liked keeping letters from people I loved. And no doubt there were people who loved a horse and carriage, and the culture that went with it. Some authors still prefer typewriters to laptops, others prefer longhand.
But in each case there is a vastly superior beneficial tech which will just overwhelm.
Think of the benefits of electric, driverless cars in London. No fumes, no pollution, no drives, no garages,no worries about parking, no need for petrol stations, no need for tyre shops - they will all go the way of horse manure, and pure finders, and livery, and coaching inns.
I’m still mind-boggl;ing over a mix of driverless cars and motor-si taxis in Bangkok.
Whatever the cost, it is quite clear self drive cars are now within touching distance, and they will annihilate vast sectors of employment.
Quite scary. Also exciting (if you're not a cabbie, Uber dude, truck driver, etc)
" it is quite clear self drive cars are now within touching distance,"
No, it isn't clear. In the same way the Turing Test is nowhere near being passed.
IIRC, you're the guy that used to argue with me, on here, that I was deluded in thinking that computers would ever master translation. Oops.
They haven't 'mastered' it, although they've improve more than I thought they would. And besides, that's a very different problem domain with radically different consequences of failure.
But if we're in that sort of mood, you're the guy, a few weeks ago, who said that the Turing test was nearly passed ...
You're hopeless. The Turing test had been passed, in all kinds of ways
I'll try and make it easier for you, by posing the question in simpler terms.
Imagine you have an eight year old daughter, and she says "Daddy Daddy I want to learn languages, so that in ten years time I can have a job as a translator!"
What would you say to her? Well, of course. As a good and decent Father you'd firmly steer her away from that option, Likewise, her Plan B - "becoming a truck driver'.
And on this clairvoyant note, night night from sultry Bangkok
No, no, no. You need to apply some (need I say it) intelligence to this. Please read those links and work out why you're being a bit silly.
As for your question: I'd say go for it. Learn a language. If you love it, do it; besides, most people I know who did a degree in one topic ended up working in another area. Concentrate on learning the language, but learn widely.
If your daughter wanted to be a painter, would you discourage her?
Clear Lab win. Although the tories might have a chance....
I'm not convinced Nuttall is ineligible though.
If the details are as claimed then he is certainly ineligible. That doesn't mean he won't be on the ballot though, just that the matter would have to be taken to an election court afterwards.
That would be the best result for UKIP I think, better than winning and not being taken to court. It would fuel their claim that the establishment is against them and the will of the people.
"the establishment is against them and the will of the people."
It's pretty simple.
When you stand for election to parliament, you have to provide your address.
Not someone elses address. Not a fictional address.
Your address.
The one where you live.
It's not a conspiracy.
No need to get smart with me about it, I am just saying how I think the public/normal people will view it.
People on here think the Supreme Court decision was a great thing, normal people think it stinks.
If so, it's because "normal people" - who they? - don't understand it. But I'm a normal person and I understand it; you sound like a fairly normal person also. Do you understand it?
Clear Lab win. Although the tories might have a chance....
I'm not convinced Nuttall is ineligible though.
If the details are as claimed then he is certainly ineligible. That doesn't mean he won't be on the ballot though, just that the matter would have to be taken to an election court afterwards.
That would be the best result for UKIP I think, better than winning and not being taken to court. It would fuel their claim that the establishment is against them and the will of the people.
"the establishment is against them and the will of the people."
It's pretty simple.
When you stand for election to parliament, you have to provide your address.
Not someone elses address. Not a fictional address.
Your address.
The one where you live.
It's not a conspiracy.
No need to get smart with me about it, I am just saying how I think the public/normal people will view it.
People on here think the Supreme Court decision was a great thing, normal people think it stinks.
If so, it's because "normal people" - who they? - don't understand it. But I'm a normal person and I understand it; you sound like a fairly normal person also. Do you understand it?
Clear Lab win. Although the tories might have a chance....
I'm not convinced Nuttall is ineligible though.
If the details are as claimed then he is certainly ineligible. That doesn't mean he won't be on the ballot though, just that the matter would have to be taken to an election court afterwards.
That would be the best result for UKIP I think, better than winning and not being taken to court. It would fuel their claim that the establishment is against them and the will of the people.
"the establishment is against them and the will of the people."
It's pretty simple.
When you stand for election to parliament, you have to provide your address.
Not someone elses address. Not a fictional address.
Your address.
The one where you live.
It's not a conspiracy.
No need to get smart with me about it, I am just saying how I think the public/normal people will view it.
People on here think the Supreme Court decision was a great thing, normal people think it stinks.
If so, it's because "normal people" - who they? - don't understand it. But I'm a normal person and I understand it; you sound like a fairly normal person also. Do you understand it?
Sorry I am using "normal" in this context as "not politically obsessed enough to post on here"
Clear Lab win. Although the tories might have a chance....
I'm not convinced Nuttall is ineligible though.
If the details are as claimed then he is certainly ineligible. That doesn't mean he won't be on the ballot though, just that the matter would have to be taken to an election court afterwards.
That would be the best result for UKIP I think, better than winning and not being taken to court. It would fuel their claim that the establishment is against them and the will of the people.
"the establishment is against them and the will of the people."
It's pretty simple.
When you stand for election to parliament, you have to provide your address.
Not someone elses address. Not a fictional address.
Your address.
The one where you live.
It's not a conspiracy.
Sorry, come late to this, although admittedly I made a comment upthread. Do I gather that Doc Niuttall has given a false address?
It's clear as mud.
From what I can tell, if he has a tenancy agreement for the address he put on his form, he's fine.
In fact if there isn't a story there then Crick is in the sin bin for posting a photo of a politicians house on twitter.
Imagine you have an eight year old daughter, and she says "Daddy Daddy I want to learn languages, so that in ten years time I can have a job as a translator!"
Knowledge of foreign languages is about far more than the ability to translate or even to communicate. It's a kind of weight training for the mind.
Quite so. Knowing a foreign language gives you an insight into the mind, culture, thinking of another country which even the best computer translation simply cannot give you.
It's a bit like saying that just because some bot will be able to speak everything to you through your phone, there is no need to learn to read.
It may be technically true but in what sense is it advanced for adults to end up - or even want to end up - with the skills of a two year old?
As it is getting harder to squeeze improvements in processors (a recent fab had a 10% yield, meaning that 90% of everything it made was unsaleable), these are the techs that will be truly transformative:
*) A way of parallelising all tasks. *) Widespread, consumer-grade quantum communications. *) Ditto quantum computing *) Widespread, home-based multi-material 3D printing. *) 'Real' AI.
ON-topic I just watched a Fox News report on self drive cars. Google have got a new version. The Fox News lady inside said it scared her - but no one died.
Google told Fox they expect these cars to be widely on sale within 6 years, or less.
Cost? The basic model is $2000
Yes, two thousand dollars. For a car that will safely and automatically drive you around urban streets. Electric and sustainable. $2000.
This is a revolution and it will be here within 6 years. It's gonna destroy tens of thousands of jobs, from the off, it will eventually destroy millions of jobs.
I've no doubt we will find alternative ways to give people work, but, Wow.
The interesting thing is are you in charge of it, or is it in charge of it? Difference being if it's in charge of it you could presumably be as drunk as a skunk on the way back from the pub and all would be well. Bad day for taxis is that.
Yes, the car is in charge. You just have to slur your address. It will be great for pubs - no more worries about drink driving. But terrible news for cabbies and Uber drivers, as you say.
I reckon a personal car driver will eventually become a status symbol for the very rich, like a butler. Otherwise cars and buses as we know them will go extinct, as the horse and carriage did, before.
Cheap, and sustainable, no buses or taxis - how about trains? Personal conveyances a necessity. Each child has one to get to school?
All the extra vehicles will need to be parked somewhere. Parking is difficult enough now, without every single person having their own individual vehicle.
Clear Lab win. Although the tories might have a chance....
I'm not convinced Nuttall is ineligible though.
If the details are as claimed then he is certainly ineligible. That doesn't mean he won't be on the ballot though, just that the matter would have to be taken to an election court afterwards.
That would be the best result for UKIP I think, better than winning and not being taken to court. It would fuel their claim that the establishment is against them and the will of the people.
"the establishment is against them and the will of the people."
It's pretty simple.
When you stand for election to parliament, you have to provide your address.
Not someone elses address. Not a fictional address.
Your address.
The one where you live.
It's not a conspiracy.
No need to get smart with me about it, I am just saying how I think the public/normal people will view it.
People on here think the Supreme Court decision was a great thing, normal people think it stinks.
If so, it's because "normal people" - who they? - don't understand it. But I'm a normal person and I understand it; you sound like a fairly normal person also. Do you understand it?
Sorry I am using "normal" in this context as "not politically obsessed enough to post on here"
hahaha fair enough. That brings in 99.9999% of the nation.
Whatever the cost, it is quite clear self drive cars are now within touching distance, and they will annihilate vast sectors of employment.
Quite scary. Also exciting (if you're not a cabbie, Uber dude, truck driver, etc)
The thing is, driverless cars are one security hack away from joining the Microsoft Zune.
No, they're not. Driverless cars are clearly the future, the way email was clearly the future in the early 1990s.
A technology so transformative, quicker, superior and less wasteful than its predecessor it will become universal very quickly.
No doubt. But there are downsides even to technologies of the future.
Look at email: all those things set down which should have been said not recorded electronically. There are bankers in prison ruing the day they ever used email or chat or text etc.
Personally, I like driving. I enjoy being in control in my own space with my own music. I like having a beautiful looking car. I hate being a passenger.
I agree. I like driving, I like owning a car, I like speeding down an empty road, the sense of freedom and autonomy.
Similarly, I liked keeping letters from people I loved. And no doubt there were people who loved a horse and carriage, and the culture that went with it. Some authors still prefer typewriters to laptops, others prefer longhand.
But in each case there is a vastly superior beneficial tech which will just overwhelm.
Think of the benefits of electric, driverless cars in London. No fumes, no pollution, no drives, no garages,no worries about parking, no need for petrol stations, no need for tyre shops - they will all go the way of horse manure, and pure finders, and livery, and coaching inns.
I’m still mind-boggl;ing over a mix of driverless cars and motor-si taxis in Bangkok.
These things will be revolutionary, in a good way, for massive "third world" cities like Bangkok - or Jakarta, or Lagos, or Mexico City (or Beijing or Shanghai for that matter).
In one go you solve half your pollution problems, and most of your traffic problems. Miraculous.
If people are still driving but in driverless - and apparently much cheaper - cars, how will traffic problems have been solved?
There will probably be advances in pollution control. That is a good thing. But a bit of healthy scepticism is in order. Remember when diesel cars were seen as the answer to our pollution issues?
Whatever the cost, it is quite clear self drive cars are now within touching distance, and they will annihilate vast sectors of employment.
Quite scary. Also exciting (if you're not a cabbie, Uber dude, truck driver, etc)
The thing is, driverless cars are one security hack away from joining the Microsoft Zune.
No, they're not. Driverless cars are clearly the future, the way email was clearly the future in the early 1990s.
A technology so transformative, quicker, superior and less wasteful than its predecessor it will become universal very quickly.
No doubt. But there are downsides even to technologies of the future.
Look at email: all those things set down which should have been said not recorded electronically. There are bankers in prison ruing the day they ever used email or chat or text etc.
Personally, I like driving. I enjoy being in control in my own space with my own music. I like having a beautiful looking car. I hate being a passenger.
I agree. I like driving, I like owning a car, I like speeding down an empty road, the sense of freedom and autonomy.
Similarly, I liked keeping letters from people I loved. And no doubt there were people who loved a horse and carriage, and the culture that went with it. Some authors still prefer typewriters to laptops, others prefer longhand.
But in each case there is a vastly superior beneficial tech which will just overwhelm.
Think of the benefits of electric, driverless cars in London. No fumes, no pollution, no drives, no garages,no worries about parking, no need for petrol stations, no need for tyre shops - they will all go the way of horse manure, and pure finders, and livery, and coaching inns.
I’m still mind-boggl;ing over a mix of driverless cars and motor-si taxis in Bangkok.
These things will be revolutionary, in a good way, for massive "third world" cities like Bangkok - or Jakarta, or Lagos, or Mexico City (or Beijing or Shanghai for that matter).
In one go you solve half your pollution problems, and most of your traffic problems. Miraculous.
what, by getting rid of half the urban population in those places via horrific road traffic accidents?
Clear Lab win. Although the tories might have a chance....
I'm not convinced Nuttall is ineligible though.
If the details are as claimed then he is certainly ineligible. That doesn't mean he won't be on the ballot though, just that the matter would have to be taken to an election court afterwards.
That would be the best result for UKIP I think, better than winning and not being taken to court. It would fuel their claim that the establishment is against them and the will of the people.
"the establishment is against them and the will of the people."
It's pretty simple.
When you stand for election to parliament, you have to provide your address.
Not someone elses address. Not a fictional address.
Your address.
The one where you live.
It's not a conspiracy.
Sorry, come late to this, although admittedly I made a comment upthread. Do I gather that Doc Niuttall has given a false address?
It's clear as mud.
From what I can tell, if he has a tenancy agreement for the address he put on his form, he's fine.
In fact if there isn't a story there then Crick is in the sin bin for posting a photo of a politicians house on twitter.
Seems pretty clear that he *now* lives there, but that he didn't at the time of nomination. Which I think is a breach of the rules, though not necessarily a determinative one.
Clear Lab win. Although the tories might have a chance....
I'm not convinced Nuttall is ineligible though.
If the details are as claimed then he is certainly ineligible. That doesn't mean he won't be on the ballot though, just that the matter would have to be taken to an election court afterwards.
That would be the best result for UKIP I think, better than winning and not being taken to court. It would fuel their claim that the establishment is against them and the will of the people.
"the establishment is against them and the will of the people."
It's pretty simple.
When you stand for election to parliament, you have to provide your address.
Not someone elses address. Not a fictional address.
Your address.
The one where you live.
It's not a conspiracy.
No need to get smart with me about it, I am just saying how I think the public/normal people will view it.
People on here think the Supreme Court decision was a great thing, normal people think it stinks.
Some people will think it's a conspiracy. Most will understand that if the rule says you have to put down your home address on a form you have to put down your home address. They might ask why such rules should not apply to UKIP Parliamentary candidates.
As for the Supreme Court decision, why would anyone think it stinks?
Virginia Dare We've got a right wing president who fights like a leftist. And boy, the activists LARPing as journalists don't like that. https://t.co/dQLpEvmxyX
Don't you have to be living there when you fill in and sign the form?
My experience suggests that that is so. And by ‘living’ it means permanently, not just for the purposes of the election. However, I’m sure that in the evnt of a Nuttal win m’learned friends will consider what the law actually means.
Imagine you have an eight year old daughter, and she says "Daddy Daddy I want to learn languages, so that in ten years time I can have a job as a translator!"
Knowledge of foreign languages is about far more than the ability to translate or even to communicate. It's a kind of weight training for the mind.
Quite so. Knowing a foreign language gives you an insight into the mind, culture, thinking of another country which even the best computer translation simply cannot give you.
It's a bit like saying that just because some bot will be able to speak everything to you through your phone, there is no need to learn to read.
It may be technically true but in what sense is it advanced for adults to end up - or even want to end up - with the skills of a two year old?
Ah yes.
The USA and GB . Two nations separated by a common language.
Clear Lab win. Although the tories might have a chance....
I'm not convinced Nuttall is ineligible though.
If the details are as claimed then he is certainly ineligible. That doesn't mean he won't be on the ballot though, just that the matter would have to be taken to an election court afterwards.
That would be the best result for UKIP I think, better than winning and not being taken to court. It would fuel their claim that the establishment is against them and the will of the people.
"the establishment is against them and the will of the people."
It's pretty simple.
When you stand for election to parliament, you have to provide your address.
Not someone elses address. Not a fictional address.
Your address.
The one where you live.
It's not a conspiracy.
No need to get smart with me about it, I am just saying how I think the public/normal people will view it.
People on here think the Supreme Court decision was a great thing, normal people think it stinks.
Some people will think it's a conspiracy. Most will understand that if the rule says you have to put down your home address on a form you have to put down your home address. They might ask why such rules should not apply to UKIP Parliamentary candidates.
As for the Supreme Court decision, why would anyone think it stinks?
The "their" in my post rather than "the" or "my" was the giveaway that I was referring to UKIP not me. I was commenting on what I think would happen if UKIP won the seat and were disqualified
Whatever the cost, it is quite clear self drive cars are now within touching distance, and they will annihilate vast sectors of employment.
Quite scary. Also exciting (if you're not a cabbie, Uber dude, truck driver, etc)
" it is quite clear self drive cars are now within touching distance,"
No, it isn't clear. In the same way the Turing Test is nowhere near being passed.
IIRC, you're the guy that used to argue with me, on here, that I was deluded in thinking that computers would ever master translation. Oops.
They haven't 'mastered' it, although they've improve more than I thought they would. And besides, that's a very different problem domain with radically different consequences of failure.
But if we're in that sort of mood, you're the guy, a few weeks ago, who said that the Turing test was nearly passed ...
You're hopeless. The Turing test had been passed, in all kinds of ways
I'll try and make it easier for you, by posing the question in simpler terms.
Imagine you have an eight year old daughter, and she says "Daddy Daddy I want to learn languages, so that in ten years time I can have a job as a translator!"
What would you say to her? Well, of course. As a good and decent Father you'd firmly steer her away from that option, Likewise, her Plan B - "becoming a truck driver'.
And on this clairvoyant note, night night from sultry Bangkok
No, no, no. You need to apply some (need I say it) intelligence to this. Please read those links and work out why you're being a bit silly.
As for your question: I'd say go for it. Learn a language. If you love it, do it; besides, most people I know who did a degree in one topic ended up working in another area. Concentrate on learning the language, but learn widely.
If your daughter wanted to be a painter, would you discourage her?
Kay Burley has to be one of the most ignorant and rudest news presenters I have ever seen on TV. She has no clue about her subject and so makes do by just talking over people.
Whatever the cost, it is quite clear self drive cars are now within touching distance, and they will annihilate vast sectors of employment.
Quite scary. Also exciting (if you're not a cabbie, Uber dude, truck driver, etc)
The thing is, driverless cars are one security hack away from joining the Microsoft Zune.
No, they're not. Driverless cars are clearly the future, the way email was clearly the future in the early 1990s.
A technology so transformative, quicker, superior and less wasteful than its predecessor it will become universal very quickly.
Personally, I like driving. I enjoy being in control in my own space with my own music. I like having a beautiful looking car. I hate being a passenger.
I agree. I like driving, I like owning a car, I like speeding down an empty road, the sense of freedom and autonomy.
Similarly, I liked keeping letters from people I loved. And no doubt there were people who loved a horse and carriage, and the culture that went with it. Some authors still prefer typewriters to laptops, others prefer longhand. .
I’m still mind-boggl;ing over a mix of driverless cars and motor-si taxis in Bangkok.
These things will be revolutionary, in a good way, for massive "third world" cities like Bangkok - or Jakarta, or Lagos, or Mexico City (or Beijing or Shanghai for that matter).
In one go you solve half your pollution problems, and most of your traffic problems. Miraculous.
If people are still driving but in driverless - and apparently much cheaper - cars, how will traffic problems have been solved?
There will probably be advances in pollution control. That is a good thing. But a bit of healthy scepticism is in order. Remember when diesel cars were seen as the answer to our pollution issues?
Even if driverless cars do work, change might be much slower than some people think. In a some Western countries, horse ownership per head of population peaked in the Fifties and Sixties, long after cars had become common. But, owning a horse had been a status symbol for centuries, so people who were growing richer wanted to own horses.
John Turner from the Association of Elect Administrators says "Whatever address you are living at time of nomination is what should appear on nomination paper."
Clear Lab win. Although the tories might have a chance....
I'm not convinced Nuttall is ineligible though.
If the details are as claimed then he is certainly ineligible. That doesn't mean he won't be on the ballot though, just that the matter would have to be taken to an election court afterwards.
That would be the best result for UKIP I think, better than winning and not being taken to court. It would fuel their claim that the establishment is against them and the will of the people.
"the establishment is against them and the will of the people."
It's pretty simple.
When you stand for election to parliament, you have to provide your address.
Not someone elses address. Not a fictional address.
Your address.
The one where you live.
It's not a conspiracy.
No need to get smart with me about it, I am just saying how I think the public/normal people will view it.
People on here think the Supreme Court decision was a great thing, normal people think it stinks.
If so, it's because "normal people" - who they? - don't understand it. But I'm a normal person and I understand it; you sound like a fairly normal person also. Do you understand it?
Whatever the cost, it is quite clear self drive cars are now within touching distance, and they will annihilate vast sectors of employment.
Quite scary. Also exciting (if you're not a cabbie, Uber dude, truck driver, etc)
The thing is, driverless cars are one security hack away from joining the Microsoft Zune.
No, they're not. Driverless cars are clearly the future, the way email was clearly the future in the early 1990s.
A technology so transformative, quicker, superior and less wasteful than its predecessor it will become universal very quickly.
@SeanT is right. The simple truth is that human beings are lousy drivers – they get distracted, drive drunk, kiss their girlfriend or fiddle with the stereo when they are supposed to be concentrating on the road, and drive when tired – hence the billions spent by governments on road safety worldwide (there are about 1.25 million road deaths worldwide annually) and ever harder driving tests. It is quite possible that those who are under seven years of age now will never learn to drive because by the time they come of age, there will be no need. It is even possible that human drivers will be banned within their lifetimes. I like driving but it will become a niche body activity fairly soon.
Whatever the cost, it is quite clear self drive cars are now within touching distance, and they will annihilate vast sectors of employment.
Quite scary. Also exciting (if you're not a cabbie, Uber dude, truck driver, etc)
The thing is, driverless cars are one security hack away from joining the Microsoft Zune.
No, they're not. Driverless cars are clearly the future, the way email was clearly the future in the early 1990s.
A technology so transformative, quicker, superior and less wasteful than its predecessor it will become universal very quickly.
@SeanT is right. The simple truth is that human beings are lousy drivers – they get distracted, drive drunk, kiss their girlfriend or fiddle with the stereo when they are supposed to be concentrating on the road, and drive when tired – hence the billions spent by governments on road safety worldwide (there are about 1.25 million road deaths worldwide annually) and ever harder driving tests. It is quite possible that those who are under seven years of age now will never learn to drive because by the time they come of age, there will be no need. It is even possible that human drivers will be banned within their lifetimes. I like driving but it will become a niche body activity fairly soon.
@SeanT is right. The simple truth is that human beings are lousy drivers – they get distracted, drive drunk, kiss their girlfriend or fiddle with the stereo when they are supposed to be concentrating on the road, and drive when tired – hence the billions spent by governments on road safety worldwide (there are about 1.25 million road deaths worldwide annually) and ever harder driving tests. It is quite possible that those who are under seven years of age now will never learn to drive because by the time they come of age, there will be no need. It is even possible that human drivers will be banned within their lifetimes. I like driving but it will become a niche hobby activity fairly soon.
Whatever the cost, it is quite clear self drive cars are now within touching distance, and they will annihilate vast sectors of employment.
Quite scary. Also exciting (if you're not a cabbie, Uber dude, truck driver, etc)
The thing is, driverless cars are one security hack away from joining the Microsoft Zune.
No, they're not. Driverless cars are clearly the future, the way email was clearly the future in the early 1990s.
A technology so transformative, quicker, superior and less wasteful than its predecessor it will become universal very quickly.
@SeanT is right. The simple truth is that human beings are lousy drivers – they get distracted, drive drunk, kiss their girlfriend or fiddle with the stereo when they are supposed to be concentrating on the road, and drive when tired – hence the billions spent by governments on road safety worldwide (there are about 1.25 million road deaths worldwide annually) and ever harder driving tests. It is quite possible that those who are under seven years of age now will never learn to drive because by the time they come of age, there will be no need. It is even possible that human drivers will be banned within their lifetimes. I like driving but it will become a niche body activity fairly soon.
It's not fair on the minority of very good drivers. My dad has been driving since 1961 and he's never been involved in an accident.
"2016 is a year that we will remember as the year in which two great friends decided to focus their policies chiefly upon themselves.... They seem to wish to turn the course of history - and this conflicts with their own traditions of openness and generosity, of joining our common dream and commitment."
John Turner from the Association of Elect Administrators says "Whatever address you are living at time of nomination is what should appear on nomination paper."
Begs the question; what does living mean.. I’ve got to say that I had a lot of sympathy with the view of the RO who challenged me; where does the candidate ordinarily with his/her(etc) family (if any). Perhaps address from which they ordinarily pay Council Tax and/or appear on the Electoral Register!
"2016 is a year that we will remember as the year in which two great friends decided to focus their policies chiefly upon themselves.... They seem to wish to turn the course of history - and this conflicts with their own traditions of openness and generosity, of joining our common dream and commitment."
The King of the Belgians speaks.
The world pauses - wonders if that noise it heard was a mouse farting - and goes about its business...
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Look at email: all those things set down which should have been said not recorded electronically. There are bankers in prison ruing the day they ever used email or chat or text etc.
Personally, I like driving. I enjoy being in control in my own space with my own music. I like having a beautiful looking car. I hate being a passenger.
It's pretty simple.
When you stand for election to parliament, you have to provide your address.
Not someone elses address. Not a fictional address.
Your address.
The one where you live.
It's not a conspiracy.
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-technology/worthless-ill-informed-opinions-in-every-home-by-2012-200901291545
People on here think the Supreme Court decision was a great thing, normal people think it stinks.
I found that if you keep your sentences short and simple it isn't too bad.
Try a bit of nuance and then the problems start.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMkJuDVJdTw
People on here think the Supreme Court decision was a great thing, normal people think it stinks.
Of course, this may already have happened...
Fecking shambles.
Jezzas will be in the doghouse there, it ain't LGBT anymore, it is at least LGBTQ these days...don't be forgetting the Queers.
With everyone* now owning a smart phone, people took pictures of an assault, the picture of the perpetrator was shared and helped track him down.
*Well not everyone.
Great shower of shite.
...and the Labour candidate is calling the voters racists
OUT OUT OUT
OUT
As for your question: I'd say go for it. Learn a language. If you love it, do it; besides, most people I know who did a degree in one topic ended up working in another area. Concentrate on learning the language, but learn widely.
If your daughter wanted to be a painter, would you discourage her?
It's QUILTBAG (Questioning, Intersex, Lesbian, Transgender, Asexual, Gay).
From what I can tell, if he has a tenancy agreement for the address he put on his form, he's fine.
In fact if there isn't a story there then Crick is in the sin bin for posting a photo of a politicians house on twitter.
It's a bit like saying that just because some bot will be able to speak everything to you through your phone, there is no need to learn to read.
It may be technically true but in what sense is it advanced for adults to end up - or even want to end up - with the skills of a two year old?
How soon could the big showdown between Trump and the UN come?
*) A way of parallelising all tasks.
*) Widespread, consumer-grade quantum communications.
*) Ditto quantum computing
*) Widespread, home-based multi-material 3D printing.
*) 'Real' AI.
Some of these may be a very long way away.
All the extra vehicles will need to be parked somewhere. Parking is difficult enough now, without every single person having their own individual vehicle.
Good evening, everyone.
There will probably be advances in pollution control. That is a good thing. But a bit of healthy scepticism is in order. Remember when diesel cars were seen as the answer to our pollution issues?
As for the Supreme Court decision, why would anyone think it stinks?
Virginia Dare
We've got a right wing president who fights like a leftist. And boy, the activists LARPing as journalists don't like that. https://t.co/dQLpEvmxyX
However, I’m sure that in the evnt of a Nuttal win m’learned friends will consider what the law actually means.
Ah yes.
The USA and GB . Two nations separated by a common language.
Seems kind of exclusive. What about Furries?
I'll probably regret asking this, but what are Furries?
Bisexual?
Poor old Cisgender's left out in the cold... again
All the publicity over Nuttall will highlight his carpetbagging.
In other UKIP news:
https://twitter.com/TotalPolitics/status/826832176700387328
Still 50/50 in my book
http://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/advanced/1109476/driverless-cars-hit-british-streets-in-landmark-trial
Poor old Cisgender's left out in the cold... again
I suppose "I" could also stand for Incestuous.
You know that's a gender "identity"
http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/News/1.2879830
"2016 is a year that we will remember as the year in which two great friends decided to focus their policies chiefly upon themselves.... They seem to wish to turn the course of history - and this conflicts with their own traditions of openness and generosity, of joining our common dream and commitment."
Would be fun to find that Jeremy had signed up to support that....
Perhaps address from which they ordinarily pay Council Tax and/or appear on the Electoral Register!
The world pauses - wonders if that noise it heard was a mouse farting - and goes about its business...