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I live in a condo where about 30 residents have landlines. I've kept a landline for years because mobile service on the 20 floor is often problematic and I need a reliable phone for emergencies. It also works well with my 1939 Ma Bell telephone. My phone line recently had a minor problem due to TOT's local exchange (not my line because I could still call out). I asked TOT to fix it. They said they would install a fiber line but there is no TOT fiber service to the building, yet. So I said, just fix the old line. Then they decided, without consulting me, to install an IP phone over 3G wireless, which I don't want either because mobile service is poor on my floor. In the meantime they inexplicably shut off my service. They've visited twice and I've called so many times via their useless call center. I only learned about the IP-phone idea today by accident. I also have no idea what an IP phone costs or what problems it may have with overseas services, etc. I just want them to fix my landline which of course they can because they support 30 other landlines to the building. Any thoughts much appreciated.

He's certainly someone to watch ...

"You seem primarily concerned ..." "you should support democracy" Nothing in the article nor your post contradict the singular point I made. Nor did I express any concerns or wants, which you wrongly presume to know. Interestingly, my extensive Thai family are from Issan and now split between Issan and Bangkok with a few down South and overseas. As they have learned more over the years, few now have any interest in either Thaksin or the ruling elite. Several younger ones liked the FFP. It is not surprising that Thai with hand phones can reason through these things better than we can.

All of history. Thaksin is world renowned as one of the great dividers. To be fair, Thaksin is like a double edge sword, a dichotomy. To accomplish his own greedy ambitions he used the rural people and they did benefit substantially. But that does not mean he is a good person. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/nov/08/thailand-rural-urban-split -- Thitinan Pongsudhirak (Executive Director, Institute of Security and International Studies, Chulalongkorn University) "Thailand's farms became increasingly alienated from the urban elite. Thaksin recognised this urban-rural divide and shrewdly exploited it, ..." "Thaksin's sins are voluminous, and became the basis of the rise of his yellow-shirted opponents,"

Reuters: Russia's Wagner threatens to leave Bakhmut, Ukraine says mercenaries reinforcing "Russia's main mercenary group announced plans on Friday to withdraw from the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, but Ukraine said the fighters were reinforcing positions to try to seize it before Russia marks World War Two Victory Day next week." Calling Captain HIMARS...

... and let me count the times any of these idiots told the truth especially in clear videos shown in the West Done. 0

"First off, my comment was about AI." The NN's in my answer are AI, they're the heart that learns and does things like medical analysis and drives cars. If you weren't aware of that it's not surprising you misleadingly claim "the notion that AI cannot reason outside their training is false." It is a generally accepted property and certainly true in the context of my answer. But since we're likely at different levels, ... let's ask ChatGPT! So, I posed my initial statement to OpenAI's ChatGPT. Rabus: Can neural networks reason outside of their training? ChatGPT: Neural networks are typically not capable of reasoning outside of their training data. The ability of a neural network to generalize to new situations is largely dependent on the quality and diversity of the training data that it has been exposed to.... Click image for full answer:

... from limited experience. Forget ChatGPT, the chat layer is not relevant. Neural networks, and more powerful deep NNs, are commonly used for medical diagnosis and other recognition problems. These NNs must be trained on existing data sets collected from existing medical records limited by which variables are collected, etc. A NN trained on millions of ordinary cases would almost surely be correct in a higher percentage of ordinary cases. Going beyond ordinary, the NN will have trouble competing with a good doctor who has human intuition and unbounded experience. For example, a Thai doctor notices over time that most Thai over 40 with H-pylori stomach infections are resistant to all but one drug regimen, which influences his decisions. It will be years before this is fully studied, written up, and becomes practiced medicine. (I learned this when I was recently diagnosed with long term H-pylori.) Now multiply this by a million to account for all that humans observe and can reason about. In short, NN's cannot reason outside their training. They are useful in some situations but I will still trust a good doctor first.

True, but, when doctors graduate they have lots of book learning and little practical experience. Good doctors, if you can find them, learn from experience treating 1000s of patients. ChatGPT can't. One of the biggest disruptions from programs like ChatGPT will be people believing they can do things that they can't.

Ukraine's Captain HIMARS mansplains Russian cannon fodder that they have been lied to and not one HIMARS system has been lost, then asks them for coordinates. Quality media releases along with multiple fuel depot and train attacks suggests the promised offensive is coming soon...

Pretty interesting. Here is a science article that explains their reasoning and shows the data (images) they analyzed. https://phys.org/news/2023-04-tianwen-zhurong-rover-evidence-latitudes.html

My comment was only meant to help understand CPP motives. You pose a practical and interesting question. If geographic diversification of Taiwan's IC manufacturing industry provides expanded business, increased profits, and helps to insure Taiwan's freedom then why not? The US and the West have been diversifying manufacturing for decades because doing so was highly profitable and helped to expand IC business. In fact, Taiwan has already started to move in this direction.

Remove all IC manufacturing technology from Taiwan then China would not invade Taiwan.

Cleopatra was mostly Macedonian Greek along with her Ptolemaic family who ruled Later Egypt from 305 to 30 BC. But even Egyptians were not black sub-Saharan Africans. Recent genetic research on mummies from the Middle Kingdom, which began about 1500BC, found that ancient Egyptians were mostly related to Eastern Mediterranean peoples. Modern Egyptians have a small trace (8%) from sub-Saharan African genes but that is more recent. Ancient Egyptian tomb paintings clearly depict Nubians from the south as black. So no surprise Egyptians are not happy.

More rocket fuel than ever assembled before in one place. Fuel pumps alone require 3.3 million horsepower just to pump fuel to the engines. Crazy numbers. To quote Musk: Success maybe, excitement guaranteed.

Best summary yet against CCP claims that Taiwan 'belongs' to mainland China. Even the Great Northern and Southern Song dynasties had little to do with Taiwan. You do know that the Qing (Manchu) are from Manchuria not China and are not ethnic Chinese like the Han.

Lets say, for argument, that Britain's survival depended on some resource from some far away friendly nation. Never mind what, such dependencies are common nowadays. Knowing this, an antagonistic foreign power invades said friendly country to halt export of said resource to Britain, thus endangering it's survival. Would you then send troops far away to defend Britain? That is exactly the situation for the free world, Taiwan, and China because of Taiwan's IC manufacturing dominance, where IC technology and even IC manufacturing technology is driven by the West and the US in particular. Also note that the Taiwan strait is a massively strategic trade route for Western bound goods and resources. An attack on Taiwan is a direct call to war and has little to do with dubious CCP claims that Taiwan historically 'belongs' to mainland China, which it doesn't.

Likely worse. Nikita Khrushchev did not want war. Putting nukes in Cuba would save money for his many agricultural programs after military demands for missile development. [ref] Putin is bat excrement crazy about nukes and power. [ref] Nuclear war is still unlikely though and there is no option other than defeating him in Ukraine. China today circled Taiwan with Naval and Air forces in an exercise. Rocks and hard places come to mind.

Here it comes. OpenAI threatened with landmark defamation lawsuit over ChatGPT false claims In addition to disruption from what AI can do, blindly believing AI may cause even more.

It's a necessary engineering step. The first flight with no astronauts proved its systems worked correctly to return the capsule to Earth. The second, free return trajectory step will test many critical life support systems. Artemis 2 will not drop into a moon orbit thus ensuring the capsule's return in case of problems. Landing is the hard part, Artemis 3 will use SpaceX's Starship to land people on the moon. Marketing? To the max but why not?

Just for clarity, brain implants or other human interface devices are not related to AI. The idea of brain interfaces is also not new. In 1984 a friend developed an incredibly simple brain-keyboard interface that monitored external brainwaves from the visual cortex. The user looked at a keyboard whose keys rapidly blinked a color (like red) one at a time. Look at the letter A and the visual cortex responses 'red' precisely when the letter A turns red. He began working on this after he was diagnosed with an inoperable tumor in his brain stem.

You miss that Putin's invasion of Ukraine in this day and age is in itself a new level of absurdity.

It's very easy to detect. It's still radioactive (about half of natural uranium) and produces recognizable damage. So at least Ukraine would know.

"Assistant Professor Napapong Pongnapang said the amount of missing caesium-137 is only 0.0005g compared to the 1986 Chernobyl explosion which released 27kg of caesium-137." Well that's clear. I can hear a sigh of relief from all Thai people. More useful, the total cesium in the lost Australian source was 19.9 GBq compared to 1.6 GBq in the Thai capsule inside the meter, or just 8%. Or 'was' until they melted it down in a pile of scrap metal. So what's next, more Thai radioactive 'health' cards like here. ‘Magic’ cards sold in Thailand to cure diseases ‘found to emit dangerous levels of radioactivity’

Putin, Xi, and peace plan for Ukraine has about zero credibility. A secure, face to face meeting is more likely for military planning outside NATO earshot.