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iamswizz: ugly pics.. learn to promote our traditional attires eg agbada..

Hahaaa! Wat happin...?

What about "Gombe & Addire" the old fashioned attire designed in the 18 century for the rich ones.

That's real promotion

byvan: I believe the everyday talk is exaggerated,I just don't see the everyday possibility.

Thanks you ooooo.

Totally given wrong impression. Everyday sex I sure his joystick will not function again. Habaa!!

kandiikane: They cannot or they just won't?

Of course, a man can self-service once a day

Do you realize or consider the amount of blood you will loose to self servicing everyday? U will loose nutrient, leading to loose of strength, getting to a time your body won't carry self-servicing anymore. You will get dizzy and feel empty.

So as being intimate all day of the year. U should understand that each drop of sperm lost is more than x10 blood lost, and takes weeks to be regained. Even with the use of blood tonic/multi-vitamins. That are facts not speculation

kandiikane: I don't understand, if men can masturbate atleast once a day, how can they not have sex everyday. Don't they brush their mouth everyday? Eat everyday? So, what's so shocking about a 5min thing?

Stop listening to comment with no facts. A man can not self-service everyday. He will always get tired and have a brake even if he is an addict. Its all speculation...

Sorry Ops & Poser: your post is impossible!!!

A man doesn't have the ability to have sex everyday of the year.

Only women and ladies poses the ability to have sex in every hour interval of every day for years.

The "Terminator" film made famous the words "I'll be back" - and now self-directed robot warriors are on the way.

A science fiction-like arms race is quietly underway around the globe with the development of robots, with the autonomy to decide who shall live and die in wars of the future.

Fully autonomous machines could be deployed on battlefields within decades, and debate over the moral, ethical and legal consequences of unleashing "killer robots" is heating up around the world.

Military planners envision artificially intelligent machines that could win future wars by deciding who is an enemy to be terminated, while saving human soldiers from fighting at a far cheaper cost.

Robots do not feel fear, and ones that can think autonomously will continue to fight, even if an enemy severs command communications, proponents say.

"The development and deployment of increasingly autonomous weapon systems is inevitable, and any attempt at a global ban will likely be ineffective."

- Matthew Waxman, Columbia University"

Advances in AI [artificial intelligence] will enable systems to make combat decisions and act within legal and policy constraints without necessarily requiring human input," predicted a 2009 US Air Force report.

Little public debate has taken place so far about the consequences of robotic war-fighting technology with the ability to make "kill decisions". Those against the idea of deploying such machines are raising the issue this month in the United Kingdom at the House of Commons, demanding an international treaty banning such weaponry.

However, some military planners and scientists say the technology's rise is inevitable, and that instead of banning it, reasoned debate on the necessary safeguards must be held in order to safely guide lethal robot warriors into reality.

The future is now

So-called killer robots, such as drones and robotic sentry systems, are already widely in use. These weapons still rely on humans to decide whether or not to fire on a target. Fully autonomous weapons envisioned in the future, however, could function without human intervention.

Israel has already deployed the first autonomous weapon that pre-emptively attacks without human orders. The hovering drone called Harpy is programmed to recognise and automatically dive-bomb any radar signal that is not in its database of
"friendlies", reports New York Times columnist Bill Keller.

Israel also boasts the "Iron Dome" anti -missile system that automatically brought down hundreds of missiles fired from Gaza during the November 2012 Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Autonomous cars have been patrolling Israeli borders for years, said Hugo Guterman from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, who helped design the "Tomcar". It uses cameras, lasers and radar and "decides" what to do when surprises arise, he said.

Asked if the self-directed vehicles are fitted with weapons, "no comment" was Guterman's reply.

The United States, United Kingdom, China, Russia, Germany, and South Korea are also busy developing autonomous robotic weapons.

"Recently the military verbiage has shifted from humans remaining 'in the loop' regarding kill decisions, to 'on the loop'," wrote retired US Major General Robert Latiff and author Patrick McCloskey recently.

"The next technological steps will put soldiers 'out of the loop,' since the human mind cannot function rapidly enough to process the data streams that computers digest instantaneously."

Saving soldiers and civilians

Anti-autonomous weapons activists involved in the "Stop the Killer Robots" campaign will converge on London, April 23 to call for a pre-emptive international ban.

"Killer robots" will never possess the human judgment that limits civilian casualties during war, they say, and such machines could never be held accountable for war crimes.

Others argue, however, that it shouldn't be ruled out in advance that robot soldiers cannot be designed to reduce battlefield deaths, destruction, and atrocities. The potential exists to create machines that won't commit war crimes, such as summary executions and rape, in the heat of battle, they say.

Matthew Waxman - a law professor at Columbia University and fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations - told Al Jazeera, people shouldn't exclude the possibility of "positive technological outcomes" for self-directed robot fighters.

"The development and deployment of increasingly autonomous weapon systems is inevitable, and any attempt at a global ban will likely be ineffective," Waxman said.

"Autonomous weapon systems are not inherently unlawful or unethical. Those judgments depend on how well they work, including the possibility that they reduce risk not only to soldiers but to civilians, too."

Professor Ronald Arkin from the Georgia Institute of Technology said a moratorium on self-directed weapons would be a better course of action than an absolute ban. He also pointed out the potential benefits of robotic warriors.

"It may be possible that these lethal autonomous systems could ultimately reduce noncombatant casualties in warfare over conventional human forces," Arkin told Al Jazeera. "And if that could be achieved, I would contend there is a moral imperative to use them, as this could lead to the saving of innocent human life, much like the use of precision-guided munitions."

'Slippery slope'

The issue is contentious enough that the US Department of Defense issued a November 2012 directive outlining steps to ensure autonomous weapons "function as anticipated", and "minimise failures that could lead to unintended engagements, or to loss of control of the system".

Some observers warn the move towards autonomy in weapons could spiral out of control.

"The robotisation of warfare is a slippery slope - the endpoint of which can neither be predicted nor fully controlled," wrote Professor Wendell Wallach from Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics.

"Even if one trusts that the Department of Defense will establish robust command and control in deploying autonomous weaponry, there is no basis for assuming that other countries and non-state actors will do the same," he added.

While human combatants often do horrific things to each other, many also exhibit battlefield compassion - something machines will never be able to mimic, some robot experts say.

"What if the potential target is already wounded, or trying to surrender?" asked Keller in his op-ed titled "Smart Drones".

"Humans are nearing one of the most significant moments in our entire history: the point at which intelligence escapes the constraints of biology."

- Huw Price, Cambridge University

Can robots eventually be programmed to distinguish between an enemy and innocents, or proportionality in war?

Noel Sharkey, a professor of artificial intelligence and robotics at the UK's Sheffield University, told Al Jazeera it is unlikely robot soldiers could possess the "sixth sense" that humans employ in combat situations. He said the idea that autonomous machines would perform more accurately and humanely on the battlefield was "hopeware, not software".

"It's about human judgment in the application of lethal force," said Sharkey. "I can't see any way that a computer system can apply to the laws of war."

'Existential threat'?

While fears of self-directed robots wreaking havoc on the battlefield have been raised, others have sounded the alarm about farther-reaching consequences of machines beginning to think for themselves.

What if the artificial intelligence of robots eventually becomes sophisticated enough to challenge their human masters?

While it's the theme of many Hollywood science fiction films, the question is taken serious enough that the Cambridge University-based Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) is delving into it.

Huw Price, a Bertrand Russell professor of philosophy, is a CSER co-founder. Price said while it may be viewed as "a little flaky" to discuss whether robots could one day conquer humanity, with the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, it's an issue worthy of consideration.

"What we're trying to do is to push it in the direction of scientific respectability,"

Price said of CSER's work on artificial intelligence. "It is important to understand the range of possible intelligences that might arise in AI, especially any kind of runaway AI.
Dismissing the concerns is dangerous."

Price said while self-thinking robots may not threaten humans as portrayed in the "Terminator" movies, they could begin to direct resources towards their own goals, at the expense of human concerns such as environmental sustainability, thus threatening our existence.

"It is probably a mistake to think that any artificial intelligence, particularly one that just arose accidentally, would be anything like us and would share our values," Price said in an email.

"Humans are nearing one of the most significant moments in our entire history: the point at which intelligence escapes the constraints of biology. And, I see no compelling grounds for confidence that if that does happen, we will survive the transition in reasonable shape."

Professor Sharkey is more sceptical about robots becoming out of control, however. "There is no evidence in current AI research [that it is possible]. Predictions about human-level intelligence has always been 20 or 30
years away since the 1950s. If it is at all possible, I think that it could be a very, very long time away."

Professor Arkin also discounted the threat from artificial intelligence.

"This is a red herring - a classic Hollywood 'Terminator' vision - which is so far removed from near- to mid-term reality. It is not a concern anywhere in the near future in my opinion. It is simply a fear tactic used by proponents of a [autonomous weapons] ban."


Source: http://m.aljazeera.com/index/home#/story/201344132214594527

kettykin: Fools don't plan war on the internet rather revolutionaries do, you can check out how the Arab spring started in Egypt.
it is only a tree that will stand in one place on sighting some one with a cutlass about to cut it, igbos and Niger Deltans are no trees , let Boko Haram try bombing anything Israel and watch the prompt response with which they will be replied.
What Ideas rule the world the idea of staying put in a sink hole called Nigeria and hoping hard that Boko Haram will not locate you or that when they Locate you your Ancestors would come and fight for you.
Igbos failed in 1967 not because of the fighting power of Nigeria but because of the Alliance of foreign powers whom them selves are today victim of islamic fundamentalist

What was the outcome of UN office that was bombed?

The Fearless Slave.
Fall of the Mighty

Google this for urself to no more abt were u r going bfore jumping up "Free visa !!!!"

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji

cap28: That is exactly what i am saying and its not just Obama its all US presidents, america is run by a powerful group of elitists who own the banking and multinational corporations, the US congress are also bought and paid for by these powerful groups.

If anyone is terrified of the US govt its not necessarily becaues of who the president is its because of who runs the show from behind the scenes.

Do some research on the owners of the Federal Reserve (which is a private bank and not owned by the US govt) as well as right wing think tanks such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Brookings Institution, the royal Institute of International Affairs, the bilderberg group, Bohemian Grove - this will give you an insight into who the real power brokeers of the western world are.

I am not praying for evil to befall america but if your very existence was built on theft, ra.pe, murder and exploitation of others your demise is likely to end up in a rather unpleasant manner - ask the romans.

China and Russia have already come up wiith an alternative - to exit the dollar and trade in yuan - this has been happening since late last year and will continue, this is why america has deployed troops to africa to block china's access to oil and other valuable resourcees on the african continent - thats what that fake war in Mali and other african countries is all about- also research US africom - which is united states deployment of troops on to the african continent under the pretext of fighting terrorism .

While you are busy defending the US try and take out the time to research their funding, arming and propping up of corrupt dicatorships all over the world - nigeria being one of them.

Bro... I av been following ur comment on this tread. U are a very good researcher.

frank3.16:
Illuminati on the lose

Is it every thing u should call illuminati? Think for a second!!! It is use for Carnivals

U are not different from the guy " it doesn't affect d price of GARRI" and "My Oge @ D Top".......

chucky234: Marginalised?
With all the plenty Barka da sallah wishes and topics that fills the fP during sallah or other Muslim festivity?
Guy I dey warn you ooo,una dey hear my voice nw ooo,if I vex for alfa my vex no good cos I break everything wey Seun house...sorry front page ooo.
I don talk my own finish,who know Alfa make him come carry am comot for this party make we see space groove ooo.

Daddy, what r u trying to do...? Do u remember this is a public forum? That is how u broke all mummys' pot and plate. Now mummy has insisted not to cook easter chicken for any one. U r now in Mr. Seun's house abt to break everything (Plate, cooking pot, easter Wines and gift items) U no u promise to bring rice and chicken back home! So please, don't break everything ooo or else you will sleep outside for a week ooo

Chomzy19: my dear i kept quiet becuz d only thing u guys do in here is get nasty; call names and show ur level of maturity/immaturity i dont know which it is! U found out she is a slut; how? Based on her comment? Or u think u win d argument by leaving d point n throwing around words lyk slut and a disgrace of womanhood? U know dis fallacy is called attack against d man. D point still remains that in any relationship ur bf/fiance must spend on his woman, if he doesnt do that he doesnt really love her? Thats how i see it. a guy dat loves his woman will naturally want to spend on her. Girlz bcame demanding because guys bcame stingi while seeking to eat d forbidden fruit that shld only come wit marriage; n den go ahead to say that we re enjoyin our love; wch love? If u love her put a ring on it, meanwhile if u re depleting my resources meant for my future husband while shld i want to leave ur resources intact, wen u refuse to give out of your own freewill; then i will demand for it. Relationship is for MEN so BOIZ shld butt out of it!

Pls stop misleading: Girls become demanding because they think they can't meet up with our economic demand, while guys still see it as a challenge to progress before getting married.

Sure-P indeed Money that was supposed to be sent to Lagos state gov to create infrastructure for the betterment of Lagos people, was sent to Lagos PDP members alone.

Thief send money Thief syphon Money....

enyice: Trying to divide the country along ethno-religious line would have been quicker and more effective if they started with bombing mosques.

Trust me, they would have achieved their sinister objectives since 2yrs ago but then, they took on a religion whose doctrines teaches them to turn the other cheek when slapd on 1 cheek. In other words, retaliation doesnt seem feasible, nt this year nd nt even nxt year. They can only lament nd pray.

The question now is, why will this presumed southern christian politicians not explore the easier and more efficient route by empowering the dreaded sect to bomb mosques which ofcos will have sparked massive religious riots in the north and further hasten their agenda of dividing the nation along ethno-religious line?

Answer to ur comment: they want the North to indirectly take responsibilities of what they av not done, while the East are being pushed by GEJ to always raise alarm even if the Igbo's are not affected in the incident. The SS will not forward with bombing mosque because it will likely affect the seating president. Meanwhile the Igbo's eyes are now open to see the reality of what's really happening, while Asari Dokubo (a Southerner) want to declear war for the Igbo's (Easterners) to create tension in the country.
Nigerians it is high time we think like detectives and not just be spoon feed by our FG.

High time ya eye are open... Good development at a start to fight for presidency knowing fully ur trick to Biafra state is not possible.

I tend to feel if Hausas', Yorubas', SS and other tribes are not affected with the way Igbo's loud assault on their people? Now u know Nigeria can't separate, it better to start making things right to get the presidential seat.

oneangle: D'banj will do everything to stay rich.. D'banj condoms coming soon...

U should av said "Koko condom"

Lexoria: If he isn't married to her why does he expect her to be intimate with him.It is not her responsibility to sleep with him,if he wants to be intimate,he should put a ring on it that way,she'd bear the 1inch joystick and his 1minute maniliness performance...Y'all(men) think we aint got stuff to insult u with right,when most of u have 1inch joystick,can't last for more than 3mins,can't satisfy ur women and have sagged over-sized and overused scrotum bags....God punish all of u who keep making useless remarks about women's privates.And God help women to begin making same remarks about y'all if u fail to desist...



Elephantshit!!!

Hnmmmmm! U sound like a heartbroken Jamaican lady with built up neck/shoulder muscle while typing.

The reason going into relationship/courtship is the reason going into marriage. If I must ask, are u into marriage because ur financial instability surpasses ur ability to control it ? or u are into relationship because u need financial assistance while u overlooked ur parent positions to take responsibility? Where then is the Respect and Care? As long as u are not cripple, u should get a job that will fulfil ur financial needs. Don't come here next, only to load "Women abuse" if ur level of thinking is still this low

Note: Who actually enjoys the bleeping most? If so ladies do, then Men should be paid for any round of intimacy.

Very good question was asked in the last paragraph, last statement.

Unilag

That stubborn Otueke boy

^Musiwa22

U are very very on point. Igbos, there is still time to rethink. Pls open ur eye and fight for ur right. Don't let GEJ push u to the mud.

*Hands crossed*