Western countries possibly. Not most of the world population has near zero help. Safety nets are a very modern philosophy that has only emerged in about the last 50 years and mainly in in capitalistic societies that have created the excess wealth to support.
I am happy we have those extra resources to support people. But this is not some universal law that dictates the requirement. The universe cars not about our well behind. This is provided by those that work a few extra hours to cover those that can't.
They don't have more power than the state. The state could easily legislate any demands they want. Do so though and you end up rapidly like Venezuela. Contacts matter. Unless you think the state should be able to take your house with little to no compensation as well? That is not capitalism. Don't be obtuse.
I had mentioned that in an earlier post. It is pretty scary. They could sit in a bush for a month using extremely low power motion detection. See any motion turn on camera to look for human recognition.
We still do have those real wild adversaries. Russia and China are only two that are of the conventional type.
The less obvious ones are the ones we don't think about so much. Iran, Iraq, North Korea, India, Pakistan, Argentinian at one time and so fourth. Most of these countries stay in line predominately because they now understand the likelihood of Western nation military involvement it they act too aggressive.
Point being if all Western nations backed out of the arms race right from the beginning. From WW2, I suspect WW3 would have happened long ago. One or more of those other countries would be far more active in one way or another. If we backed out now, it also would not be long before those same countries realize they could act without impunity. Nothing has really changed. Just the military damage potential is far more serious.
Hikvision line mainly if you want the low cost ones.
They won't do a 'not me' identification. Mainly because it can only identify you or any person if they get a decent view of you. Basically the first event will be 'i see a human' and if you look at the camera then it can also do an event and say basically 'Jack black' is here. It is two different kind of events you need to turn on. But the person recognition can only fire if it recognizes you.
I thought the same thing is you in that I could have it ignore known people. But it like you looking out a window. You see someone from a distance. To recognize them you need them to come closer. Thus as a person you don't call the cops or create an event immediately but at some point you might. The cameras are not quite that smart yet but as said, ten years?
It offsets government spending. Particularly wages. Russia gets far more rubles now for the oil and gas they sell. Wages are paid in rubles this everyone took a large wage cut. Imported goods would be much higher but much of the regular person's daily spending is on local products. Of which prices have not changed significantly... Yet. Also while Russia is getting top dollar or more correct, top ruble for its oil and gas, it is not exporting as much. Nationally they are awash in energy and prices for the average person has dropped.
These gains are short lived though. They are rapidly wearing out items that require are imported. TV and electronics break. Then you have industry that is starting to hurt as supply chains cost more. Basically they are living in a house and ignoring to maintain it. In the short term they can maintain their habits but eventually you have big costs down the line.
I think there are lots of people who have a strong belief in justice regardless of their ideology. Being impartial does not mean you have no foreknowledge of the case but means your willing to make a decision based on the evidence alone. Lots of infamous people are tried and convicted even though their case was quite public.
The problem is I believe there will be a much higher possibility of people with a hard political conviction that will attempt to hide that bias just to get on the jury. And they might. People willing to ignore evidence even if God himself came down and testified.
Worse. They are taking about a program that has some sort of motivation or desires to disable the kill switch. It is quite silly yet. Worst case is a program bug that somehow disables. That would be highly unlikely. Particularly in such a way it would be dangerous.
I don't like it but I think we do. China and Russia will certainly have them and they will get ten times better in a same amount of years.
I watched the Ted talk on defense drivers. Scary shit. Thing is I work with commercial cameras and have, in hand, camera that can not only identify all kinds of objects such a human's,, they can recognize individual humans and put a name to them. They can recognize if people are loitering or if someone is being followed. They can reconsider a car from a truck from a bus from a bike. This is not done in a server but thru the power of the CPU in the camera alone. The cost. 500 dollars.
Point being the power available in such a low cost item is staggering. Combined with a weapons platform and it is scary. A terrorist group could distribute hundreds into bushes and they could just sit there for a week in low power mode, waiting to recognize a simple person and spring into action. This is stuff we have right now off the shelf.
What will be part of military arsenals in ten years will eclipse this current tech significantly. Troops won't be ambushed by live human fire but by thousands of drones that care not for their survival.
These guys got so caught up in brainwashing themselves. Honestly they think they are the next Nelson Mandela of the US. Then they find out effectively none were supporting them.
When they go to jail there won't be any protest. They will be alone. What a hill to die on.
Not at all. The world LNG imports increased by an average of 6%. Europe increases it by 40%. What are the points of sanctions even as this article more or less points out.
I watched the full video. She shortened the speech but did it change the meaning or make it deceptive? I don't like her message much but I missed where the deception came from. It seems like an opinion piece with her fully disagreeing with Biden. Am I missing something? Real question.
I don't. Should be any age or person as well. Few people would have the experience by that age so likely would make no difference lowering the age but regardless it should be 18 or just removed entirely.
You have to be licensed to drive manual? Never heard of that in North America. Honestly I never heard it being a problem or unsafe or that it ever caused an accident. Seems like another level of regulation that serves little purpose.
I agree but it is a tough one to police. If your business is next to a road, can you advertise from there? What signage you allowed to put up? Only your own? What if you have two business on the same property? Both get a sign? What if you sell McDonalds a 5% stake in your land?
Yet Argentina had destroyed their economy for 25 years because they won't act responsible and institute policies of austerity. This just keeps happening to them.
Other countries in the same bed that have ignored austerity policy, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Sudan...
So ya it is actually a necessity unless your fine with triple digit inflation year after year.
I don't think Musk is too happy with this purchase. The price was a significant premium and he knows it. I am not sure if he is cash positive or profitable yet. But if not, putting even more money into an expensive purchase is a hard pill to swallow. Even for someone of his wealth.
Most of his wealth is on paper. This was a pretty large purchase even by his standard.
Western countries possibly. Not most of the world population has near zero help. Safety nets are a very modern philosophy that has only emerged in about the last 50 years and mainly in in capitalistic societies that have created the excess wealth to support.
I am happy we have those extra resources to support people. But this is not some universal law that dictates the requirement. The universe cars not about our well behind. This is provided by those that work a few extra hours to cover those that can't.