Thursday, January 11, 2018

More Norwegian immigrants? No Norwegian in their right mind wants to leave Norway for the USA. Norwegians have everything they could possibly hope for when they are born; good healthcare, great food, great educational system, incredible skiing, a lifestyle that shames any in Europe AND a longevity that averages over 80 years. Men live an average of 81 years and women 84 years. Why would any Norwegian ever want to immigrate to the USA. This country has nothing to offer them.

Americans are brainwashed about their own reality.

If they are talking about it, it means it is already here. It is called by another name, "machine learning."


This is great news, now human beings can be indicted on their thoughts.



Monday 8, 2018
By Catherine Clifford

Imagine a reality where computers can visualize what you are thinking. (click here)


Sound far out? It's now closer to becoming a reality thanks to four scientists at Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan. In late December, Guohua Shen, Tomoyasu Horikawa, Kei Majima and Yukiyasu Kamitani released the results of their recent research on using artificial intelligence to decode thoughts on the scientific platform, BioRxiv.

Machine learning has previously been used to study brain scans (MRIs, or magnetic resonance imaging) and generate visualizations of what a person is thinking when referring to simple, binary images like black and white letters or simple geographic shapes (as shown in Figure 2 here).

But the scientists from Kyoto developed new techniques of "decoding" thoughts using deep neural networks (artificial intelligence). The new technique allows the scientists to decode more sophisticated "hierarchical" images, which have multiple layers of color and structure, like a picture of a bird or a man wearing a cowboy hat, for example....

Wall Street's Machine Learning. If Wall Street is so intense about machine learning, it is time to institute the "transaction tax." They can't lie now.

Warren Buffet is exactly correct, without a sovereign state for currency, cryptocurrencies can have their own influence through artificial intelligence. There is no place for the artificial currency. Robots should never have their own digital nation.


Away from the headlines, expanding communications bandwidth (introduction of 5G, investment in subsea cables) and continuing 20% year on year growth in the Cloud provide the infrastructure for the digital transformation of the 4IR.

Incorporating an AI foundation in any major software development is increasingly taken as a given. In 2000, the internet 'disappeared down a thousand foxholes' into countless developments and applications before emerging ubiquitous as Web 2.0 and the [mobile+social+cloud] combination after 2004. Machine learning, as the 4IR's 'killer app enabler' that can be trained to see patterns and make predictions, is at the 'disappearing' stage, with work going on around the world embedding it into existing applications and using it to develop new ones.

Machine learning costs have tended to be frontloaded with intensive, iterative use of training datasets, but new techniques like transfer learning (which pre-trains the model on similar data) and synthetic data (which uses computer generated data to mimic the real dataset) are set to significantly reduce lead times and on costs.  At the processor level, specially developed AI chips (like Intel's recently announced Nervana Neural Network Processor (NNP)) are also accelerating training times, and software developers are starting to pack machine learning models into mobile devices using greater compression and power efficiency....


It is getting very eerie. The strange world of digital is racing along without any contextualized law. There needs to be a summit of countries that will begin to rein in lack of guidance. Since the USA declares money as a citizen, imagine what happens with artificial intelligence.

...In its annual tech trends report for 2018, 'The Symphonic Enterprise' Big 4 accounting firm Deloitte highlights "digital reality, cognitive and blockchain [as] the stars of the enterprise technology realm [that] are redefining IT, business and society in general".


The Deloitte report quotes a prediction from consultancy IDC that spending on digital reality – a mix of augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR) and immersive technology – will grow from $9.1bn in 2017 to over $150bn by 2021 as we adapt to a work environment where, like our mobile today, our AR/VR/MR device is 'always on' to communicate, learn, train and interact. This shift, the report says, is comparable to that from "client-server to the web and web to mobile [leading] to more natural and intuitive ways for technology to better our lives. Indeed our means of interface with digital information will likely no longer be screens and hardware but gestures, emotions and gazes". For lawyers, the digital reality era will bring to the fore copyright permissioning and rights legal issues about generating, communicating and adapting content. It will likely also add another dimension to copyright policy debate about Open Access and fair use....

How ridiculous is this? The military is out of control.

January 18, 2018
Bryan Harris and Katrina Manson

South Korea (click here) will seek to use inter-Korean talks on Tuesday to decrease tensions on the peninsula and reunite families separated by the Korean war, Seoul has said.

Comments from Cho Myung-gyon, South Korea’s unification minister, illustrate the broader possibilities of the negotiations with North Korea, which are set to focus on Pyongyang’s participation in next month’s Winter Olympic Games. 

 “Basically, the two sides will focus on the Olympics. When discussing inter-Korean relations, the government will seek to raise the issue of war-torn families and ways to ease military tensions,” Mr Cho said on Monday....

The USA military has no right to cause problems in the Pacific if allies state otherwise. The reason the USA is in the Pacific is because of allies and if they see the USA's military more as a threat than an asset there exists a real reason to question the USA strategy.

I would expect the Democratic leaders of the US House and US Senate to evaluate the current military strategy of Trump with allies. There needs to be an addition of incompetency of military use to the list of impeachable offenses.

January 10, 2018
By Alex Lockie

President Donald Trump's national security adviser, (click here) H.R. McMaster, seems to think the US's military and nuclear supremacy over North Korea cannot deter its leader, Kim Jong Un, from attacking the US — and that a strike is needed to stop him.

It also appears that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis are the key figures holding Trump back from taking McMaster's advice.

McMaster, who led the US's counterinsurgency strategy in the Iraq War of the early 2000s, frequently provides some of the most hawkish US statements on North Korea, sometimes surpassed only by Trump.

Even before becoming Trump's national security adviser, McMaster has stood at the forefront of piecing together a comprehensive US military strategy for the post-Cold War era....

B-52 bombers are long range, high altitude bombers. They will never get off the ground in Guam. The USA owns 72 of these bombers as of the end of 2015. How many are operational in a meaningful way is unclear. 

January 11, 2018
by Anna Giaritelli

The U.S. Air Force (click here) has deployed three nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers and 200 air personnel to U.S. territory of Guam, the Pacific Air Forces announced late Tuesday.

The move comes days after North Korean government officials met with South Korean leaders to discuss security concerns ahead of the Winter Olympics, in the face of the northern country's continued missile tests....

Here is a hint for the Joint Chiefs; when the Navy loses ships to freighters on a regular basis, it is time to get the Guam B-52s in the air to prevent conventional bombing by a communist country.

THE USA MILITARY IS UNWANTED IN THE PACIFIC by most countries. 

8.5 percent of Medicaid's beneficiaries are aged, and 63 percent are children.

It doesn't get more stupid than this. The adults that receive Medicaid are all too often elderly and in nursing homes. The other adults receiving Medicaid have children. Those folks are more than likely receiving benefits through the "Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA)."

PRWORA was passed under Gingrich's House. Maybe the Republicans forgot about their role in placing adults to work REGARDLESS of the age of their children. Then again, it was Newt and his Vatican wife that wanted children cleaning toilets in school. So, who knows what they are thinking now?!?

January 11, 2018
By Amy Goldstein

The Trump administration (click here) issued guidance to states early Thursday that will allow them to compel people to work or prepare for jobs in order to receive Medicaid for the first time in the half-century history of this pillar of the nation’s social safety net.

The letter to state Medicaid directors opens the door for states to cut off Medicaid benefits to Americans unless they have a job, are in school, are a caregiver or participate in other approved forms of “community engagement” — an idea that some states had broached over the past several years but that the Obama administration had consistently rebuffed.

The new policy comes as 10 states are already lined up, waiting for federal permission to impose work requirements on able-bodied adults in the program. Three other states are contemplating them. Health officials could approve the first waiver — probably for Kentucky — as soon as Friday, according to two people with knowledge of the process.

The guidance represents a fundamental and much-disputed recalibration of the compact between the government and poor Americans for whom Medicaid coverage provides a crucial pathway to health care....

Maybe American students trapped in Charter Schools are required to be responsible for the school's health certificate. The Armadillo Technical Institute should be shut down as they don't have a janitor. The janitor can be the Board of Directors and/or the principal.

April 4, 2015

Back in 2011, (click here) Newt Gingrich was running for president, and he proposed a radical idea to help schools cut costs: Fire the janitors and pay students to do the cleaning.

Needless to say, the idea to turn students into moonlighting janitors had about as much support as Gingrich's presidential campaign.

But ask Kim De Costa and she'll say there isn't anything radical about asking students to clean up after themselves. At her school, there are no janitors. Instead, students in grades 6-12 meet in teams once or twice a week to clean assigned areas.

De Costa is the executive director of the Armadillo Technical Institute. It's a public charter school in Phoenix, Ore., a few miles from the California border.

For 30 minutes after lunch, students sweep, mop, take out the trash and even clean the bathrooms — but responsibilities rotate so no one is stuck scrubbing toilets more than two or three times a year....

A janitor's job description. When working in schools, janitors usually are required to hold a certificate that proves they understand what exactly clean means including aseptic techniques. Young children performing labor is illegal.

Clean vertical and horizontal surfaces that collect dust. Cleans tops of windows, doorframes, TV’s, and other high places, using ladder when necessary. Dusts, cleans and polishes furniture.

Responsible for cleaning bathrooms and replacing supplies, such as paper-towels, soaps and toilet paper as needed.

Dispose all linen and trash in the appropriate manner.

Mop floors in all areas on a daily basis. Cleans floors by dry buffing with use of buffing machine, scrubber, extractor, and approved chemical cleaning methods. Strips and wax floors on a quarterly basis.

Perform other job related duties as assigned by Director.

THE LAW

(a) All occupations except in agriculture. (1) The Act, in section 3(1), sets a general 16-year minimum age which applies to all employment subject to its child labor provisions in any occupation other than in agriculture, with the following exceptions:

The exception of child labor laws in agriculture relates to migrant workers. The youngest a child can work as a migrant worker is 10 to 11 year old. The reason that provision was made is because there was a time when migrant workers were paid pennies. It sometimes took an entire household working to bring in enough income to provide meals.

Today, most children of migrant workers (I am thinking California) attend school as a requirement, but, during harvest months (which is mostly summer when they are off from school) they are accommodated (by the school they attend) when they need to work with their family. They can receive tutorial services during hours when they are not working.

7-11 franchise owners need to sue the federal government for targeted harassment!

This is outrageous use of federal agents. 21 people and how many millions of dollars for 21 f@#$#@$%%^%$king people!

Twenty-one PRODUCTIVE employees were arrested at the cost of at least a cool $2 million. This is how the Trump administration spends money they demand to have creating $1.5 trillion MORE NATIONAL DEBT!

I DON'T THINK SO!

January 10, 2018

Federal immigration agents (click here) descended on dozens of 7-Eleven convenience stores across the country before daybreak on Wednesday, arresting undocumented workers and demanding paperwork from managers, in what the Trump administration described as its largest enforcement operation against employers so far.

The sweeps of 98 stores in 17 states, from California to Florida, resulted in 21 arrests, according to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which signaled intensified efforts against businesses that hire unauthorized workers....