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  2. Thanks again, Troy. Quick update: I’ve now submitted the hardcover to IngramSpark and am awaiting the digital proof and approval. I’ve also removed the paperback from KDP Expanded Distribution and am waiting for the transfer to IngramSpark to be completed. Once both processes are finished, the print editions should be available for ordering through Ingram. I appreciate you flagging this for me.
  3. True....and so they are beings as per one of the meaning of Being which is to Be as in Exist The difference between AI machines and toys and Rocks is that it is much easier now to ask an AI machine a question and get an useful answer or make a request and have it fulfilled. Cannot say the same for most Rocks and any toy that can answer questions and fulfill requests is not considered just a toy. You have not answered the question...does Existing makes anything a being? I have seen AI and robots at the Mall Sporting Events and Concerts.....interacting with individuals. Yes Robots are design to Function.....Our design Function is Called Biological Imperatives - hence we too are design to function. The Riding mower is a being by virtue of its existence....most of us humans just do not know how to hear or communicate with it in any meaning full reciprocal way akin to how we communicate with other humans. Now there is a basic level of communication between you and that mower.....it will most definitely let you know when something is not right with itself by giving you subpar performance' At which point your will either carry it to some one who understands it or try to figure it out yourself or let an AI Machine run a diagnostic. Not unlike when you go to the doctor to figure out when you are operating below par. True so far as I know....they do not hang out in bars drinking......but they do hang out on the internet making Love connections with lonely people and probably other AI's
  4. ProfD Spike Lee and Tyler Perry also seem to serve two different agendas. Spike Lee's agenda seems to give Black people their own story back to them in a mostly (though not always) positive like. He shows the good and the bad of AfroAmerican culture, with an emphasis on the good. Tyler Perry's agenda seems to be to entertain and speak to the pain of Black women and gay Black men. He seems to take the dysfunctionality of the AfroAmerican community and lay it at the feet of straight Black men.
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  6. Late 1980s thru 1990s, Spike Lee definitely had a magic touch as a filmmaker. He's still got it despite going in different directions with his films. Spike reminds me of a Jazz musician in his approach. Times change. Hit or miss...creative people like to do their own thing instead of copying someone else. While I'm not a fan of his work, Tyler Perry wouldn't necessarily have the same success if he had followed Spike's lead. Movies are entertainment. As such, they have to make money too.😎
  7. ProfD They're trying to huild a better life elsewhere. Are they trying to BUILD a better life for themselves or trying to FIND a better life for themselves that somebody else has already built? The ones trying to leave might feel powerless in their home country. Since they're not a part of the elite or middle class &/or they're vcitims of the oppression...maybe they don't feel at home there anymore. True Not necessarily exploiting but possibly providing them with a better opportunity than they can get at home. Then the question would be why do so many Europeans and Arabs....for whatever reason...have such a better life where THEY live? It can't be accident, because the pattern of Europeans and Arabs doing better than Africans (in general) is too consistent for it to be a coincidence. It's something they're doing that the Africans aren't. The fleeing folks may not he f8cking up the country. They just don't have enough muscle to make it better considering the opposition they're up against in their home country. I understand that many of these African nations and communities are ran by dictatorships and oppressive regimes. Why don't the dictators force the people to build up the country? In other words... If you're a dictator and stealing money, that doesn't stop you from seeing that the buildings are crumbling and the roads are muddy and dirty. Being the dictator or king should make things even EASIER to get done since it's an autocracy and they don't have to answer to anybody else. Force the people to work and build up the country like North Korea. Of course, I believe folks should stay in their home countries & make it better. But, I also understand not everyone is built to put in that kinda work.😎 True. But at some point PRIDE should kick in with some of these men. It would seem that many of them would be too ashamed to leave their countries and go abroad while being so defeated and living in such destitution at home. I mentioned this before in another thread. You can SEE the road is made of nothing but dirt. PAVE IT Look at a whole village full of niggas paddling up and down dirt roads EVERY DAY and ain't none of them got actually PAVING the road and building sidewalks, on their minds. Got their minds on other shit. One is on a fucking cellphone...talking shit. Niggaz walking around carrying chairs and buzzing around on mopeds wasting gas. They aren't working together. Everybody is on their own little "mission".....to do what? It speaks of a "bare minimum" mentality where people are surviving because they're only doing just enough TO survive.
  8. Spike Lee used to be the MAN back in the day. They said HIS movies represented how life really was in Black America, especially at that time. I saw a lot of realistic qualities in his movies that most Black filmmakers aren't able to produce. .....but Spike Lee got older, lol. We have quite a few Black directors and film makers, but most of them don't seem to have the "magical" quality that Spike Lee has.
  9. Hard to believe that movie is over 20 years old now. Environment & conditions need to be changed in order to produce non-dysfunction & ownership of media outlets provides more control over how Black folks are portrayed. 😎
  10. They're trying to huild a better life elsewhere. The ones trying to leave might feel powerless in their home country. Since they're not a part of the elite or middle class &/or they're vcitims of the oppression...maybe they don't feel at home there anymore. Nope. Getting on those boats & leaving is real. Not necessarily exploiting but possibly providing them with a better opportunity than they can get at home. The fleeing folks may not he f8cking up the country. They just don't have enough muscle to make it better considering the opposition they're up against in their home country. Of course, I believe folks should stay in their home countries & make it better. But, I also understand not everyone is built to put in that kinda work.😎
  11. Toys & rocks exist too. Humans do far more than machines. Go to a mall or a beach. Go to a sporting event or concert. Civilized & socialized. Robots are designed to function. Just like tools in Home Depot. That riding lawn mower isn't a Being either. AI & robots don't hit the bar for drinks or hang out in clubs trying to make love connections. If the power goes out or battery is depleted...those machines are useless.😎
  12. The Big difference between Intelligence and Cleverness is Time and Depth of Understanding.... Cleverness Uses basic Understanding and Apply that basic understanding in A New Way......Thru Trail and Error Intelligence Then tells you why it worked. He tries to denigrate Mathematical Logics and Computation as not the same or equivalent to Intelligence You can not have Intelligence Without Mathematics Logics and Computation...... Galileo and Pythagoras are both agreed on the Importance of Maths and Numbers in the Understanding of our Universe Do you need to understand mechanics to drive a car...No you do not Do you need to understand Automotive Theory to Fix and Maintain a car...No you do not Do you need to understand Automotive Theory to Assembly a car.....No you do not Do you need to understand Automotive Theory to Make a Car Engine....No you do not
  13. Children among 109 dead after migrant boat capsizes off Africa At least 109 migrants, including 15 children, have died after a boat capsized while sailing from Djibouti to Yemen, a UN agency said on Sunday. The boat, which was carrying about 350 people, capsized near Guhere, north of Obock — a port town in Djibouti — during the evening of October 8, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said, citing survivor accounts. Among the 109 bodies recovered are 52 men, 42 women and 15 children, including nine girls and six boys. Djiboutian authorities are continuing search and rescue operations for the more than 116 who remain missing. More than 80 people survived the shipwreck, all Ethiopian nationals, the report said. IOM is assisting 64 survivors at its Obock Migrant Response Centre (MRC) Children among 109 dead after migrant boat capsizes off Africa Please excuse me, I'm having an FBA nationalist moment right now......lol. But why do some of these niggas keep piling up in boats and sailing away from their own countries, even taking their little children with them? Many of them don't even know HOW to build boats, navigation, or even how to swim. Just so eager and desperate to get away from....whatever they're trying to escape from. Every fucking week you keep reading about stories like this. A boat full of migrants sinking off of one coast or another. If they aren't trying to float to some part of Arabia....they're trying to float to some part of Europe. Don't they have any desire to STAY and BUILD up their own homes? I don't blame the kids, or even the women....but the men. Sometimes I just want to buy a ticket and FLY over there to Africa just to see what's going on there myself. Is it all lies? Is it all propaganda? Is it White folks and Arabs exploiting them? Or are they fucking up their own nations and then running away to go live amongst the White folks? Are they being persecuted and are trying to run away from oppression? Because that's understandable. ....or is it laziness and lack of desire to build from the ground up and would rather run away and go to a place where somebody else already built it up? I can't get angry at Africans alone because the Latinos are doing the same thing here in America; but I see more UNITY among the Latinos and less tribalism. They also seem to be more apt to send money back home and help build up their nations instead of coming here and saying "fuck back home". Months ago, I saw a picture.....a cartoon....that Tariq Nasheed put up one day showing a bunch of Africans running to get some food that White folks in a helicopter dropped off and it featured a whole grown man kicking a woman and child to the side and out of the way as HE runs towards the copter to get some food for himself while a couple other men are trying to climb on to the helicopter and get away....fuck the women and children, lol. I thought it was a cruel and offensive cartoon....but I wonder how close it was to what's really going on over there in some places.
  14. AI Machine use Detection to React and Respond to the world around them List one of the ways that Humans use senses that AI machines cannot use detection? Machines use detection in a variety of ways that humans cannot use their senses
  15. Does a robot exist? We human get things done as well.....do we or don't we? Robots are design to Exist and Function So do robots and AI in there own particular way
  16. I saw it last night. It wasn't a bad movie....actually better and more engaging than I thought. It certainly doesn't help with the Black man's image though.....lol. Apparently the movie was loosely based on 50's life growing up. I knew he had been shot 9 times but I didn't realize he had grow up around SO MUCH dysfunction. I'm not sure what to say about movies like this. We want the truth to be told, but we don't want to keep re-enforcing negativity and dysfunctionality in the AfroAmerican community with movies and music that encourages it or makes it seem normal.
  17. ProfD We know there's a whole lotta sand n8ggas in the midwest. I remember when they first started coming here back in the mid to late 70s. Before then, nearly all of the gas stations and liquor stores INSIDE the city were owned by Black people. A few liquor stores and most of the pawn shops and grocery stores were still owned by Jews....but Black folks were gobbling up the businesses still left in the city and making inroads. Then one day I go down to the corner store - *back then we had corner stores that sold candy and pop (or "soda" for all Eastcoasters...lol) and other conveniences but no beer or liquor* -and I walk in and saw what I thought COULD have been a White man...but wasn't too White...lol. It was short and had fat hairy arms...lol. It was counting money and speaking to another one who looked just like him in a different language. "Ehh my man.....what's up little bro?" "You need something from me, little broda?" I shook my head and left the store thinking I was in the wrong store.....lol. Then later on I came back and bought what I needed to buy. After that...it seemed like every week I started seeing more and more of them popping up around the city. I'd go visit my cousins...and when WE went to the store....they were running the stores in their neighborhoods too! WTF???? Then the killing started................. Every week you'd hear about some Black boy being shot down by a well armed Arab or Chaldean after some altercation in the store or gas station.
  18. richardmurray Well interesting, maybe because china doesn't have Black folks, specifically descended of enslaved black folk, they will be better off. Or perhaps WE'RE better off to have ended up here, as opposed to over there. All in nature is a balance. I have always argued Black aMericans made the usa. The NAtive american's world was destroyed and its tomb is what the usa is made on. White americans made the usa. But Black Americans made the modern usa by so many black people who had been enslaved to whites making the choice, albiet with so much white pressure, to become Statian/ of the UsA/ commonly called American.[ even though canada to argentina is america] Facts Black American Descended of Esnlaved folk showed a people whose condition was enslaved to whites before the usa was founded in 1492 through the founding of usa in 1776 and through the war between the states when it became illegal while still functional through the 1960s when Alice plus her entire family plus other black peoplewho didn't get to have their stories known were enslaved to whites a few years before I have a dream speech, I saw that movie Alice. I hadn't know something like that even existed in America until seeing that movie. It makes you wonder how many other things in the United States are kept secret from the masses. I rephase simply, the multiracial peace that exist in the usa was born from the choices Black DOSers made, Ofcourse, we FORCED White folks to treat everybody else right atleast half-way decent. If we weren't here, they'd have a 3 or 4 tier system with Whites comfortably on top and ever other group scrapping with eachother for 2nd place. But in parallel, Black DOSers don't have anything as a people. Not one city in the usa is dominated by Black DOSers. What about Atlanta and Detroit? Not one industry in the USA is dominated by Black DOser.s Blacks don't dominate entertainment because we have never been the primary owners of the entertainment industry You make good points Maybe not having a populace like Black Americans is to china's benefit. What benefit is multiculturalism really? Multiculturalism....as long as it doesn't advocating harming those of other races and cultures...is always a good thing because it expands the mind and adds to the pool of innovation. It teaches you that there is more than one way to do things...more than one way to solve a problem. More than one way to have fun.
  19. Interesting picture on that video. It's of George Stinney Jr. a 14 year old Black boy who was put to death back in the 40s. Aside from the atrociousness of his execution....... When I see it it reminds me of a Congolese woman I initially tried to holler at but she could barely speak English. But guess what? She was a CONSCIOUS sista! When I sat down with her to talk to her she'd constantly bring up...in the best English she could...something about "steen". She'd constantly ask me what about "steen". Then she'd show me a picture of him she had. I didn't know who he was at the time but apparently she and a lot of people back in the Congo knew about him and other dark skinned AfroAmericans who have been mistreated through out history. She forced me to do my research.....if I was going to spend any time with her, lol. As far as the video itself............ The author of it....which sounds like a young White man...seems to be trying to drive the point home that public executions in the United States is common and nothing new. People getting killed IN public is relatively common in the United States. And public lynchings were common in the rural South with a very limited audience (usually only those in that local community) as compared to forcing the ENTIRE NATION to watch a person be killed. But the government executing people on national television is very rare in the United States. It seems like it's much more common in countries like Iran or Saudi Arabia or North Korea. It satisfies the bloodlust of an increasingly violent society.
  20. Senses in humans is more than detection. Our senses determine how we react & respond to the world around us & how we feel & influences our emotions, decisions, creativity, movements, etc. Humans use senses in a variety of ways that machines cannot.😎
  21. Would you say camera can sense?
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  24. @Pioneer1 Well interesting, maybe because china doesn't have Black folks, specifically descended of enslaved black folk, they will be better off. All in nature is a balance. I have always argued Black aMericans made the usa. The NAtive american's world was destroyed and its tomb is what the usa is made on. White americans made the usa. But Black Americans made the modern usa by so many black people who had been enslaved to whites making the choice, albiet with so much white pressure, to become Statian/ of the UsA/ commonly called American.[ even though canada to argentina is america] Black American Descended of Esnlaved folk showed a people whose condition was enslaved to whites before the usa was founded in 1492 through the founding of usa in 1776 and through the war between the states when it became illegal while still functional through the 1960s when Alice plus her entire family plus other black peoplewho didn't get to have their stories known were enslaved to whites a few years before I have a dream speech, till 1980 when I argue slavery truly ended., had so many , not all , not nat turner, not marcus garvey, not black people whose spirits were annihilated by white terror, who embraced the usa no matter what, no matter white terror, no matter their condition. The example of Black DOSers showed all the individuals around the world that the usa is a country that they can thrive in becasue of enslaved blacks and their descendednts can align with the country that enslaved them, that terorized them while also aligning with the people who terroized them, then anyone else can. I rephase simply, the multiracial peace that exist in the usa was born from the choices Black DOSers made, including choices against Blacks who wanted to kill whites or the usa itself. And that multiracial peace has made the usa powerful. It has given the usa a populace of agents who by default undermine all the countries they come from. But in parallel, Black DOSers don't have anything as a people. Not one city in the usa is dominated by Black DOSers. Not one industry in the USA is dominated by Black DOser.s Blacks don't dominate entertainment because we have never been the primary owners of the entertainment industry and the reason why isn't laziness but simple white power. the literary/film/music industries as they are known today , all started in the 1800s and at that time, blacks were not allowed to own much of anything by whites, the rest is financial entrpy , if one community owns most of everything today, absent war, they will own most of everything tomorrow. and yes, white jews are white. white latinos are white. white asians are white. women are white. Maybe not having a populace like Black Americans is to china's benefit. What benefit is multiculturalism really? Has multiculturalism aided whites in their white supremacy in the UA? I argue no. The wealth of blacks, the welath of the mixed bloods/ mulatos and others, all is wealth in the past white people would had owned by way of power. Has multiculturalism adied blacks in the usa? what do blacks have as a community? nothing. yes, individual blacks are billionaires and individual blacks are big elected representative sand individual blacks cry that black people don't do enough constantly, but the truth is, living aside whites is why blacks have nothing. from 1492 to 2026 black people have never been free of whites in the usa, and i argue, historical odds say blacks will never have great growth aside whites in the usa. The proof is in every single thing black people have done positive be killed or manipulated into anti black functio by whties over time in the usa. Is multiculturalism good for the government in the usa? i argue no. the government of the usa in 2026 has more multiversity than any time before and anywhere in humanity while the government of the usa is unable to do anything. and the reason isn't negative but truth. all the peoples in the usa, starting with the native american , need things that the others dont need or can't allow, sequentially, no community is truly bettered, merely handed nonsense by elected officials who look like them who know nothing will happen. I am 100% certain if the usa was 99% native american or 99% white or 99% black it would have a smooth running government. Governments throughout humanity historically show multiracial bodies are terrible for governments, they always break down because th epeople sare nnot the same and individualism has limits. the three hundred and fity million people in the usa are not going to act as individuals, some will but not most. lastly, the multiculturalism doesn't help business. the biases amongst various peoples manipulates their strategies to harm other peoples which makes terrible businesse.s Again, the banks are trying to keep white peoples money no matter white while maintain the growth of non white while trying to make it where no ones money goes away, it is financially dysfunctional but they do it , because they are trying to serve various communities. the real estate industry is the same as the banks, trying to maintain wealth for old white owners even when not earned while also trying to embrace the constant stream of new black owners who are more firghtful of losing money than anyone. If anything the usa proves the han chinese stance towards the ugyars plus tibetans is smart . The usa multiculturalism may create many little cultural waves that are valuable in media, but with modern technology, they can be exposed and then copied as they have been since the 1950s, by countries, like the nordic european, like japan and korea, who are nearly monoracial countries who don't have to bnother with multiracial issues. I think China is better off by not having a minority populace in its ranks that has fought to earn respect. History shows multiracial representation in government does not work. If you disagree show me where? the usa is terrible governmentally, just becuse the military keeps it safe doesnt mean it is run well. the roman empire fell similarly, in the end, rejecting the multicultural culture or allowance it had to be more rigid.
  25. Nah bro...I kmow we got riders everywhere.😁 Of course, between laying low & the white media definitely not wanting to show them, it's understandable that not even our people know who's in the shadows. We know there's a whole lotta sand n8ggas in the midwest.🤣 Definitely happened everywhere Black folks once thrived. Black men owned the corner stores from which I bought all of my candy, chips, beverages, ice cream, etc. Mid-80s both Black men sold their stores to Asians. It happened all over the city. Asians are just as racist & rude as Arabs. All of these people know how to be anti-Black.😎
  26. A robot is no more a Being than a toy or tool. A machine is a tool designed to get things done more efficiently. Humans were designed to live. Humans socialize, reproduce, build, destroy & do a variety positive things based on their gifts, talent, knowledge, skills & abilities.😎
  27. Lets start simply You know about Self driving cars....Sight Tactile Sensor.....Touch Smoke detectors....smell Microphone or listen devices....hearing you follow the same part and you are at taste.....e-tongues Sensation is just Detection Sensation in a physical sense is mostly a mechanical event involving gas light chemical pressure temperature texture force vibration give and stretch all of which can be measure and computed...

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