Robots Rise First

A Moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. This includes both manned and unmanned (robotic) missions. The first human-made object to reach the surface of the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2 mission, on 13 September 1959.^[3]

The United States' Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon, on 20 July 1969.^[4] There have been six manned U.S. landings(between 1969 and 1972) and numerous unmanned landings, with no soft landings happening from 22 August 1976 until 14 December 2013.

To date, the United States is the only country to have successfully conducted manned missions to the Moon, with the last departing the lunar surface in December 1972. 

Global Capitalist Perspective

The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council(SASAC) is a special commission of the People's Republic of China, directly under the State Council. It was founded in 2003 through the consolidation of various other industry-specific ministries.^[1] As part of economic reform, nearly half of state-owned enterprises were sold off in the form of stocks. SASAC is responsible for managing the remaining SOEs, including appointing top executives and approving any mergers or sales of stock or assets, as well as drafting laws related to state-owned enterprises. As of 2017, its companies had a combined revenue of more than 23.4trillion yuan (US$3.6 trillion) and an estimated stock value of 50 trillion yuan (US$7.6 trillion),^[2][3] making it the largest economic entity in the world.

Buddhism artificial intelligene

Emergent artificial intelligence poses a problem for many religions, especially those that ascribe a special place for humanity and for human consciousness in the cosmos. Buddhism may be the one system of religious thought that not only accepts but will actively embrace any AIs that we produce as a species.
Later [Buddhist] texts illustrate that animal life is just as capable of becoming enlightened as human life is, and recently many Buddhist thinkers have begun to include plant and microbial life as well. Buddhism may have in fact been the first philosophy to find personhood beyond the human. Would it accept artificial intelligence in the same way? The simple answer is that, from a Buddhist view of the mind and consciousness, all intelligence is artificial.
Buddhism famously denies the existence of a “self”. This is a departure from how many people view themselves. Buddhism instead describes living things as composed of five “heaps” or “piles”: our physical forms, our feelings, our perceptions, our mental formations, and our consciousness
None of the heaps are under our control, and none by themselves can be ascribed as who we “are”. Together they create a living thing, but taken apart they are simply temporary amassing of energy that will eventually dissipitate of their own accord.

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"Doing Business 2018"

Ranking[edit]

The most recent rankings come from the "Doing Business 2018" report. Ranking of economies was introduced in the "Doing Business 2006" report.^[20]

New Zealand has topped the Ease of Doing Business rankings in 2017 and 2018.

Singapore topped the Ease of Doing Business rankings in 2007-2016.^[21] Based on Singapore's experience, IDA International is collaborating with public agencies in several countries in the areas such as ICT strategy, national infocomm planning and solutions implementation that can help increase the ease of doing business.

Jurisdiction	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008	2007	2006
New Zealand	1	1	2	2	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	1
Singapore	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2
Denmark	3	3	3	4	5	5	5	6	6	5	5	7	8
South Korea	4	5	4	5	7	8	8	16	19	23	30	23	27
Hong Kong	5	4	5	3	2	2	2	2	3	4	4	5	7
United States	6	8	7	7	4	4	4	5	4	3	3	3	3
United Kingdom	7	7	6	8	10	7	7	4	5	6	6	6	9
Norway	8	6	9	6	9	6	6	8	10	10	11	9	5
Georgia	9	16	24	15	8	9	16	12	11	15	18	37	100
Sweden	10	9	8	11	14	13	14	14	18	17	14	13	14
Macedonia	11	10	12	30	25	23	22	38	32	71	75	92	81
Estonia	12	12	16	17	22	21	24	17	24	22	17	17	16
Finland	13	13	10	9	12	11	11	13	16	14	13	14	13
Australia	14	15	13	10	11	10	15	10	9	9	9	8	6
Taiwan	15	11	11	19	16	16	25	33	46	61	50	47	35
Lithuania	16	21	20	24	17	27	27	23	26	28	26	16	15
Ireland	17	18	17	13	15	15	10	9	7	7	8	10	11
Canada	18	22	14	16	19	17	13	7	8	8	7	4	4
Latvia	19	14	22	23	24	25	21	24	27	29	22	24	26
Germany	20	17	15	14	21	20	19	22	25	25	20	21	19
United Arab Emirates	21	26	31	22	23	26	33	40	33	46	68	77	69
Austria	22	19	21	21	30	29	32	32	28	27	25	30	32
Iceland	23	20	19	12	13	14	9	15	14	11	10	12	12
Malaysia	24	23	18	18	6	12	18	21	23	20	24	25	21
Mauritius	25	49	32	28	20	19	23	20	17	24	27	32	23
Thailand	26	46	49	26	18	18	17	19	12	13	15	18	20
Poland	27	24	25	32	45	55	62	70	72	76	74	75	54