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Re: seattle-progressives-mrs-doubtfire

gfunk425 — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 13:27:22 -0000

The Rise of Trump, the Fall of Prejudice? Tracking White Americans' Racial Attitudes 2008-2018 via a Panel Survey

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol...

Re: A Thought Experiment: My Strategy for 2020 (Part 1)

gfunk425 — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 11:47:53 -0000

Great info Michael. I agree with everything you mention regarding A.I. however I think you might be missing a piece or perhaps decided not to include it.

A.I. is already in heavy use for creating music and with the mountain of literature available it wouldn't take much to setup A.I. to create new, unique literary works based on specified variables. The more nuanced variables applied the more unique content it could create. The speed at which it could create new content would be mind bending and it could take over entire genres with little effort aside from proper marketing. If one of the big 5 isn't already investing in this technology I would be surprised.

Re: measles-vaccine-washington-state-bill

gfunk425 — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 14:31:51 -0000

I believe I understand where you coming from here. That this court has become a payday for some lawyers and the numbers regarding payouts reflect this.

I dont agree that it's about the money. I believe it's primarily about some people in the populace that receive a particular vaccine and they get injured or dead. Money of course plays a part for some lawyers.

In case you are not aware the lawyers utilized by the government are DOJ appointed lawyers meaning they are being payed by the tax payers to defend the vaccine manufacturers.

Patient fees are added onto every vaccine in distribution to help pay for the damages caused by the vaccines when the court rules in favor of the petitioner.

I believe I understand when you state that vaccines are one of the safest and most effective medical standards on the planet, but I think we should define the word safe in this regard. If we are talking about the mirriam-webster dictionary we get:
Free from harm or risk

We know that vaccines are not free from harm or risk for the entire populace so forcing this medical procedure on the entire populace with zero regard to their overall health status doesn’t seem to add up.

It seems to make sense to try to protect the entire tribe by forced vaccines, but the data shows that a percentage of people within said tribe will have some sort of potentially life threating or life altering negative impact.

Re: measles-vaccine-washington-state-bill

gfunk425 — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 11:41:12 -0000

You can also check out the 2018 CSV File Vaers Data (35.39 MB) file to see the list of 43,620 self reported injuries for 2018.

https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/...

Re: measles-vaccine-washington-state-bill

gfunk425 — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 11:39:07 -0000

https://www.hrsa.gov/sites/...

Re: 15 minimum wage permits few luxuries in US cities

gfunk425 — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 17:45:36 -0000

When I was a lower wage worker I had roommates in order to supplement the cost of living. I didnt expect that at 18 I would have my own living space, car, money for entertainment, etc. I had two minimum wage jobs in order to survive with a crap car and roommates. Eventually I decided that sucked and motivated myself to learn skill sets for higher wage jobs. I guess a new generation calls that old school but it was a great lesson in working both harder and smarter instead of attempting to enforce others to pay for my cost of living.

Re: Removing Kinect From Xbox One Was Microsoft’s Only Play

gfunk425 — Tue, 13 May 2014 16:40:41 -0000

The point is that MS is not insisting the Kinect is necessary for an enhanced experience for the consumer base. It's a hidden agenda. So pointing fingers at people and saying they are paranoid etc is not accurate as MS shows by their own actions that they have alternative motives for this hardware. To boot that alternative use is to directly show how many people are inside of your living space. It should absolutely freak people out that a software company wants to know how many people are sitting in your living room at any given time.

Re: Removing Kinect From Xbox One Was Microsoft’s Only Play

gfunk425 — Tue, 13 May 2014 15:28:03 -0000

Link to insane Microsoft Patent

http://kotaku.com/5958307/t...

Re: Removing Kinect From Xbox One Was Microsoft’s Only Play

gfunk425 — Tue, 13 May 2014 15:26:12 -0000

Microsoft has a patent to utilize their built in Kinect camera to determine how many people are in the room watching TV. With this they want to team with movie studios in order to force a limit of the number of people within a given room who can watch the media playing. The idea is to force people to pay essentially licensing fees to watch media content based on the number of people in the room watching the content. So aside from spying it is already proven that they are making attempts to limit your viewing capabilities of media content you have purchased based upon the number of people in your living room. Pretty crappy

Re: Call of Duty 4 hackers are rampant!

gfunk425 — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:18:32 -0000

Same on the PS3. I got on yesterday and all of a sudden nearly every match I dropped into had people flying around or on top of impossible to reach roofs. Some would not die no matter how many times you shot them. I looked up the PS3 hack and some guys have it posted on youtube how to put the hack in place so I'm sure after they posted that video people started doing it. Hopefully instead of banning accounts IW will simply ban them by ip address so they cant get back on.