[jtodd_fl]

Originally Posted by Verbiage

Yeah, I tend to get pretty deep sometimes.



InB4 black dik.

Technically, it is impossible for you to be inb4 black dick - it would, one images, be simultaneous. Whoa.

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by jtodd_fl

This is your whacking material , isn't it?

Viewmaster in one hand and mini-Belgie in the other. Nice.

Edit: funny juxtaposition if these two posts back to back. Haha.

Your comment sounds kinda like frustration to me my friend .
Can I help you with something ?

Well...Like you said in the "mini-Belgium" are happening strange phenomena !
For the moment I have here a serious hail storm with thunder and lightning and floods of water ...good to have my ///M stored in my garage with the carbon roof .. ect..

This is the second week in a row that we are in the shit !
Luckely my house is on top of a hill..
Is this the 2016 Belgian summer ?

Actually I have enough of the shit..
Talking about shit ...The next picture dates from last week and the pic was in the Belgian newspapers as well , it happend about 6 miles from my house and think a toilet is normally reserved for shit , but in this case it was for hail !
Hail came out of the sewerage and jumped out of the toilet ..
I never saw something like this before ...No shit !
Note: This/my comment is serious .

[Mr Tonka]

Originally Posted by jtodd_fl

Cloud computing (in theory and practice) is very interesting. I am reading a book right now that takes it to a whole different level, philosophically. Not certain how far the author will take it, but he rarely disappoints with his ambition. The concept of cloud and swarms and massively distributed architecture - whether at storage or compute layer - is fascinating and has some bewildering ramifications. Image applying it to a neural network - a real biological one - people. Like the Borg or a hive mind - but where each node retains free will. What would happen if everyone had access to collective human knowledge at processing speed, not Google, but usable in real time computation. And then have it paired with reason? Would there be filters? Who would control them? Hmmm...

[Verbiage]

Originally Posted by jtodd_fl

I will answer this with a picture.
Fortunately (heh) we will blow ourselves up/destroy the planet long before this would happen. If you read "the bell curve" it will depress you even more. Because the input to the "collective human will generator" will be of increasingly poor quality. But, this is all a mental exercise anyway. I don't think we'll get that far.

I laughed REALLY hard at this. Still laughing, actually. LMFAO.

[jtodd_fl]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

Your comment sounds kinda like frustration to me my friend .
Can I help you with something ?

Well...Like you said in the "mini-Belgium" are happening strange phenomena !
For the moment I have here a serious hail storm with thunder and lightning and floods of water ...good to have my ///M stored in my garage with the carbon roof .. ect..

This is the second week in a row that we are in the shit !
Luckely my house is on top of a hill..
Is this the 2016 Belgian summer ?

Actually I have enough of the shit..
Talking about shit ...The next picture dates from last week and the pic was in the Belgian newspapers as well , it happend about 6 miles from my house and think a toilet is normally reserved for shit , but in this case it was for hail !
Hail came out of the sewerage and jumped out of the toilet ..
I never saw something like this before ...No shit !
Note: This/my comment is serious .

Haha. Nice. That picture is amazing. Great to have you back. I hope all is well!

[jtodd_fl]

Making progress. Should be at the DC tomorrow. Then, I don't know, like 10 days to get down to Naples?

[Verbiage]

Originally Posted by jtodd_fl

Making progress. Should be at the DC tomorrow. Then, I don't know, like 10 days to get down to Naples?

Have you thought of a name for her?

[EALm4]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

Your comment sounds kinda like frustration to me my friend .
Can I help you with something ?

Well...Like you said in the "mini-Belgium" are happening strange phenomena !
For the moment I have here a serious hail storm with thunder and lightning and floods of water ...good to have my ///M stored in my garage with the carbon roof .. ect..

This is the second week in a row that we are in the shit !
Luckely my house is on top of a hill..
Is this the 2016 Belgian summer ?

Actually I have enough of the shit..
Talking about shit ...The next picture dates from last week and the pic was in the Belgian newspapers as well , it happend about 6 miles from my house and think a toilet is normally reserved for shit , but in this case it was for hail !
Hail came out of the sewerage and jumped out of the toilet ..
I never saw something like this before ...No shit !
Note: This/my comment is serious .

This is somewhat disturbing

[RJ_]

Originally Posted by Verbiage

I laughed REALLY hard at this. Still laughing, actually. LMFAO.

I mean in a sense, we've already bypassed natural selection for the better part of a century and there's not really any sign of it stopping.

Humans have always been relatively fragile creatures relative to the rest of the animal kingdom, but our intelligence has allowed us to thrive. We're to a point where we can overcome almost any natural ailment and mental incapacity, and every time this happens you're effectively widening the variation in a tiny portion of the population.

I don't think this is unlike what will happen to the other facets of the human condition, whether it's social, moral, biological, etc. The more technology props us up, the less we have to rely on ourselves. The question is at what point do we begin to lose that permanently and is that inevitable?

[jtodd_fl]

Originally Posted by Verbiage

Have you thought of a name for her?

I don't name my cars. Not against it, just never have. I'll probably call it ... The blue one. It may become "my car" and thenM3 could become "the M3". Hard to say. There is currently "the truck", "her car" and "my car" ... Heh. Not creative.

[bimmette]

Originally Posted by jtodd_fl

I don't name my cars. Not against it, just never have. I'll probably call it ... The blue one. It may become "my car" and thenM3 could become "the M3". Hard to say. There is currently "the truck", "her car" and "my car" ... Heh. Not creative.

Thank you. Naming cars is stupid.

[jtodd_fl]

Originally Posted by RJ_

I mean in a sense, we've already bypassed natural selection for the better part of a century and there's not really any sign of it stopping.

Humans have always been relatively fragile creatures relative to the rest of the animal kingdom, but our intelligence has allowed us to thrive. We're to a point where we can overcome almost any natural ailment and mental incapacity, and every time this happens you're effectively widening the variation in a tiny portion of the population.

I don't think this is unlike what will happen to the other facets of the human condition, whether it's social, moral, biological, etc. The more technology props us up, the less we have to rely on ourselves. The question is at what point do we begin to lose that permanently and is that inevitable?

But this is the interest thing. We have bypassed "natural" selection but we have moved on to a different type of selection. That is the very thing we are discussing. When the selected become the selectors as well, what does that mean for the species as a whole. Apart from allowing corruption, if we take the metaphor further, it does what most selection does - it amplifies the mutations. But which mutations would we collectively decide to amplify? Would it be a conscious decision, or one that just "happens". Who will decide, and how?

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by EALm4

This is somewhat disturbing

I saw 1000 x worse on here...

[jtodd_fl]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

I posted 1000 x worse on here...

FTFY

[Mr Tonka]

Originally Posted by jtodd_fl

Making progress. Should be at the DC tomorrow. Then, I don't know, like 10 days to get down to Naples?

If Colin doesn't capsize the ship.

[Verbiage]

Originally Posted by jtodd_fl

I don't name my cars. Not against it, just never have. I'll probably call it ... The blue one. It may become "my car" and thenM3 could become "the M3". Hard to say. There is currently "the truck", "her car" and "my car" ... Heh. Not creative.

LOL. I don't name mine either, was just wondering if you did.

Originally Posted by bimmette

Thank you. Naming cars is stupid.

To each his/her own. That's the beauty of subjectivity.

[jtodd_fl]

Originally Posted by Mr Tonka

If Colin doesn't capsize the ship.

I think that leeward side of the state should be alright. But thanks for that.... Now I need to find a weather overlay. Just when I thought I was obsessing enough.

[Verbiage]

Originally Posted by RJ_

I mean in a sense, we've already bypassed natural selection for the better part of a century and there's not really any sign of it stopping.

Humans have always been relatively fragile creatures relative to the rest of the animal kingdom, but our intelligence has allowed us to thrive. We're to a point where we can overcome almost any natural ailment and mental incapacity, and every time this happens you're effectively widening the variation in a tiny portion of the population.

I don't think this is unlike what will happen to the other facets of the human condition, whether it's social, moral, biological, etc. The more technology props us up, the less we have to rely on ourselves. The question is at what point do we begin to lose that permanently and is that inevitable?

Yeah, this is what we were discussing earlier.

Originally Posted by jtodd_fl

But this is the interest thing. We have bypassed "natural" selection but we have moved on to a different type of selection. That is the very thing we are discussing. When the selected become the selectors as well, what does that mean for the species as a whole. Apart from allowing corruption, if we take the metaphor further, it does what most selection does - it amplifies the mutations. But which mutations would we collectively decide to amplify? Would it be a conscious decision, or one that just "happens". Who will decide, and how?

Exactly. There will no longer be such a thing as a "consciousness" or "awareness" because premeditation will be rendered obsolete. It's literally how cloud infrastructures work, on an operational level.

[jtodd_fl]

Originally Posted by Verbiage

LOL. I don't name mine either, was just wondering if you did.

I should start. Maybe after Game of Thrones characters. Hey, this is my new car, The Red Priestess. Heh. This is my other car, I call it "Nedd".

[Aatish]

Tesla was the first car I actually gave a name, mainly because when one first takes delivery, there is an option to name it.

I call it KITT.

[Mr Tonka]

Originally Posted by jtodd_fl

I think that leeward side of the state should be alright. But thanks for that.... Now I need to find a weather overlay. Just when I thought I was obsessing enough.

I'm sorry for your loss.

[jtodd_fl]

Originally Posted by Aatish

Tesla was the first car I actually gave a name, mainly because when one first takes delivery, there is an option to name it.

I call it KITT.

Could find a more Hasselhofian Indian. Sorry.