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Re:Oh boy, so much fail in one post.
So you don't dispute sea rise has been negative for about six years?
That's a start I guess.
The rest of your argument pretty much doesn't matter after that now does it? You haven't found fault with either the data or the logic here, and merely sought clarification of one part you don't understand.
So in case you don't resistant quite what what you're looking at, here goes.
Because nominal sea was was unchanged for about 8000 years, never went up, that was an error, and six years ago flipped when ice began growing again.
Perhaps I explained that badly in my post. Please allow me to try again.
If you look at the longer term map you can see the sea rise for the past 8000 years was pretty constant. Then, six years ago it began falling. I did not try to make a graph like that with only six years but if you were t try the tool at nasa to get just the last 10 years it gives you this, at least it did with my browser, why don't you try it?
Now, there were spurious reports of "sea rise" in Miami but not, only 50 miles away, in the Florida Keys it was not rising. This was found out to be because Miami was sinking, as was Beijing, by about four inches a year because the silly fucks pumped all the groundwater out. You know how nature abhors a vacuum.
Here's the long history of sea rise:
http://rs79.vrx.palo-alto.ca.u...
Look around 8000 years back. See that? That's the 33,3 century nominal sea rise.That stopped a few years ago.
Now, if you look at the same time period in the NSIDC graph is ice, you'll see there's a corresponding uptick in sea ice:
http://rs79.vrx.palo-alto.ca.u...Ok? So uptick in ice, seas fall. Got that now?
Nore that carbon dioxide also flarlines 6 years ago.Here's the stuff on the error in sea rise measurement in Miami:
Here's a picture of it:
http://geologylearn.blogspot.c...
Here's thr article in Nature about Florida.
http://www.nature.com/news/sou...
Here's the article about Beijing.
http://www.theweek.co.uk/73907...Here's the Co2 flatline stuff:
2015 CO2 has flatlined.
13 March 2015 Data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) indicate that global emissions of carbon dioxide from the energy sector stalled in 2014, marking the first time in 40 years in which there was a halt or reduction in emissions of the greenhouse gas that was not tied to an economic downturn.
http://www.iea.org/newsroomand...2016 CO2 flatlined for a second year in a row.
"The IEA reports that for the second year in a row, the world economy has grown while energy-related CO2 emissionsremained flat."
http://thinkprogress.org/clima...2017 CO2 emissions remain flat for a third year.
IEA finds CO2 emissions flat for third straight year even as global economy grew in 2016 17 March 2017.
https://www.iea.org/newsroom/n...MIT Technology Review also reported the fact CO2 stopped rising as well.
https://www.iea.org/newsroom/n...It doesn't matter what you "believe". The facts are, seas a falling, ice is growing and coe
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Re:Race to the bottom
So we have to compete with China in creepiness?
Of course since the average american and person in capitalist society is unaware how extreme wealth inequality is. So all the rulers are at full blown war against their publics. That's why the spying is there, to make sure you have the "correct" free market, corporation worshipping thoughts and not notice the end of the rule of law, endless copyright laws which equals total domination of government by the rich.
See it in this speach by former national security adivisor of the United states:
Elites fear political awakening of the globe
The Citibank memo
US distribution of wealth
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
These links will take a while to digest, but if you want to understand what's going on in the world, you owe it to yourself to become informed about the true state of the world. Realize that business and the wealthy is hostile to your interests.
Testing theories of representative government
Aka the rich (big business) vs the rest of mankind.
The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
Stratfor and social media like reddit to monitor / influence and control public opinion.
Reddit and intelligence agencies
Wikileaks -- Reddit and intelligence agencies
"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."
Crisis of democracy
http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-D... ">Crisis of democracy - BOOK
Education as ignorance
Overthrowing other peoples governments
Overthrowing other peoples governments, the master list
Interference in other states when the rich/corporations dont get their way
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Other theories being evaluated as well..
Mike McCulloch has been awarded ~$1m UKP for experimentally testing his theory of QI.
http://physicsfromtheedge.blog...
This theory has done a very good job of explaining several physics anomalies, and in particular, makes some interesting predictions for anomalous thrusters.
Something to watch, a good read, and he's a pretty accessible and nice guy too.
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My essay mentions this
Have an entire paragraph about this in the essay: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2...
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My essay
I have an essay about one problem: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2...
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I have an essay on this topic now
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Re:USA contrasted with...
" I'd love to hear companies speak of employees like something other than a lump of coal to be tossed into the boiler."
Not going to happen until you people start getting a clue that your masters don't even practice what they preach, you guys need to stop licking the balls of capitalist ideology so hard and ask tough questions about whether rule of law can even exist in a high tech society. How is one to hold a big company accountable when you are hundreds of miles away from it? I have serious doubts most of you guys are introspective and self critical enough to see through your leaders bullshit.
You want to be treated better you guys need to start scaring the shit out of the business community and let them know you'll stand up for your right to exist too instead of being so slave like to the business community.
Crisis of democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI
Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. See the manufacturing consent videos when you get the time.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Wikileaks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be
Manufacturing consent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM
Other important info
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/michael-hudson-on-parasitic-financial-capitalism.html
The Citibank memo
US distribution of wealth
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Re:Um, where?
If you do it once they'll use that trick to get what they want every time.
They've been doing that since forever you and americans don't seem very informed on this issue. You guys are up to your ass in free market fairy tales down there.
Elites respond to Crisis of democracy - aka double down and propaganda and misinformation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI
Testing theories of representative government
Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
The Citibank memo
Manufacturing consent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM
US distribution of wealth
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Re:Why?
Is there any actual evidence that monitoring the traditional finance industry works?
It's all smoke and mirrors for those in the know. Capitalism has never been "regulated" it's always worked in the interests of power.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Wikileaks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be
Manufacturing consent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM
Other important info
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/michael-hudson-on-parasitic-financial-capitalism.html
The Citibank memo
US distribution of wealth
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Re:Fix the REAL fucking problem.
the corruption that creates and sustains that shit.
If you and the rest of america weren't so uneducated and ignorant you could all choose a correct political ideology, aka it's not right wing. The more right wing your country, the more you tell the world you don't understand you're being fucked by private power.
Crisis of democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI
Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. See the manufacturing consent videos when you get the time.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Wikileaks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be
Manufacturing consent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM
Other important info
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/michael-hudson-on-parasitic-financial-capitalism.html
The Citibank memo
US distribution of wealth
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
This is a project of american empire, aka the rich (big business) vs the rest of mankind.
The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
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Postgres overtaking like Tesla in ludicrous mode
I was an Oracle user for 25 years, took my first course on Oracle 6 in 1991. That was the introduction of it into my employer (City of Calgary) which was locked in IBM mainframery at the time; they had to accept Oracle as needed for GIS mapping, the ESRI and other GIS products all practically demanded Oracle.
Now, I was not up at the sysadmin end, where Oracle's tools for moving whole databases about, and spreading them across disks and servers and all that, are greatly appreciated. But just as a user, all the needs I had for a GIS database had been replicated in Free Software by the time I retired.
I think Postgres stacks up fairly well against Oracle, even for the sysadmins fussing over partitions and multiple servers, these days; but for my needs, now considered humble, a mere 10GB database of every pipe, every house, every lot and street, every bit of water infrastructure in a large city and all the work-orders done on those pipes in 10 years - was handled by PostGIS (Postgres with a GIS plug-in) with ease. On a laptop. I started doing real work on my PostGIS copy (and no, transfer from Oracle to Postgres was not remotely difficult) because I had more control over it, was the DBA. Convenient sometimes.
I guess some Oracle admins will always have a situation where they can say "the free software alternatives just don't let me manage my petabytes easily for 365x24 service", fair enough.
But so many work needs can be handled well by a reliable database product that can manage a mere few hundred gigabytes quickly and well, that I think if everybody who *could* switch to Postgres *did* switch to Postgres, Oracle would be trying to fund itself on a small fraction of their current customer base, though they would all be huge customers.
I wouldn't have written that in 2012 when I first looked at Postgres, but their developments since 8.5 have been especially impressive. I recall a debate in their committees a few years back where they worried not enough developers were handling the routine bug-fixes and minor upgrades with each version: too many people were excitedly putting in major new features like 'big database support' and UPSERT (9.5), "parallel query and synchronous replication" (9.6) and so on, to take care of basics. They've had a very impressive five years. As to the predictions for Postgres 10, I can't even understand them: http://rhaas.blogspot.ca/2017/...
I tried to get IT at work to have a look at Postgres, but it was a non-starter: our PeopleSoft application is married to Oracle and there's no way they'd have two DB products. Indeed, Oracle may be safe for decades yet unless somebody like EnterpriseDB comes up with a really popular Oracle-to-PG migration for both SAP and PeopleSoft. Those things could not be removed from most large corporations with a nuclear-powered crowbar, so they're Oracle's best lock-in partners right now.
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Re:Attacking dissent at Google
Includes what is purported to be an internal survey at Google:
http://voxday.blogspot.ca/2017...
Who's this asshole?
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Attacking dissent at Google
Includes what is purported to be an internal survey at Google:
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The papers are puffing it up as hard as they can
It's a temporary restraining order against a company that fled BC to, perhaps, France, and is selling stolen networking technology. It's not an attempt to censor someone's opinions, but to hunt down a thief.
There is tons of non-puff-pirce commentary, though:
- Michael Geist, http://www.michaelgeist.ca/201...
- Howard Knopf, http://excesscopyright.blogspo...
- Barry Sookman, http://www.barrysookman.com/20...
and also two dissenting opinions from the judges in the case, available to everyone at https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/s... where they question how long it should apply.
I'm also pleased to note that one of the first steps cited by the court, in 2017 scc 34, was an injunction "issued by the Supreme Court of British Columbia ordering D to cease operating or carrying on business through any website."
This is a great improvement, IMHO, over cases in the EU where Google was ordered to cease indexing sites which were not similarly ordered to cease their actions.
--dave
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Re:Abandon income tax
Your delusion about rich people managing to avoid paying taxes doesn't hold up to reality. At all.
You are the one who is being deluded, I'm afraid, since your long-winded and rather pointless example makes one fatal error - it assumes that everybody making that sort of money will actually honestly declare all of their earnings. You missed the part where the money gets shuffled off to a tax haven. Or siphoned off through one of many industry- and occupation-specific loopholes that in exist in various tax codes. Not to mention using "regulatory arbitrage" (find a way to declare your income as the least-taxable item and/or to declare it in a jurisdiction that has the lowest tax rate).
We're talking about, for example, 18.5 trillion dollars hidden away in tax havens by wealthy individuals (not corporations hiding profits). We're talking about even Buffet, for whom we can I suppose presume that he is doing all things legally (i.e. not illegally hiding his wealth in Liechtenstein or the British Virgin Islands), saying that he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary.
Yes, you indeed get to avoid paying taxes by being rich - if you want to, of course. There are tons of rich people who are perfectly honest. The bad apples however, are significant and a problem. You get to avoid it because you have the money to hire people that will squeeze every loophole in the tax code for you. You have the money to cover the transactional costs of setting up offshore tax shelters. And you have the money to buy political influence, making sure that you can get away with it all. In the end, all of this costs you less than paying the proper tax rate (otherwise you wouldn't do it all). Yes, that is how the world works, really.
(Not to mention that you just pulled some numbers out of a hat in your response, simply to make the numbers line up. Or that you think that for some reason, what happens in one case in the United States is somehow relevant for the entire Western world.)
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Re:Cost
http://verizonmath.blogspot.ca...
$40 per month for one million pages?
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Re:No, thank you
The summary says ".004 cents per page".
Now, is this cost another case of VerizonMath? Do they mean really 0.004 cents or do they mean $0.004? If it's the former then it means 0.004 of $0.01, or $0.00004 per page, per month. That's $0.0072 per page for 15 years, not $0.72.
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Re:Not a problem
Or they can join Mini Microsoft (remember him) - whose last post was about Microsoft laying off 18,000 exactly 2-1/2 years ago this week. The guy with all the interesting dirt on the internal politics governing Microsoft's decisions looks to have been given a red shirt - or more likely moved on.
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Re:And the point...
If you had bothered to follow the link, you would find that they answer the question. It's so people can play classic games (Commander Keen rules!), so companies can make pinball machines, so McLaren can continue to maintain their cars and so George R.R. Martin can continue writing books.
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Re:"Poverty" will never be eliminated
If you took a close look at Versailles you would have noticed the absence of toilets.
Also lice back then did not differentiate between the poor and the aristocrats and everybody had them. Same goes for bed bugs.
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Re:Translation
I see you've been modded to oblivion, but it's actually useful to reply, so I will.
They don't control every aspect. That's hyperbolic bullshit trolling.
They have the ability to push mandatory updates and can change any aspect of the OS they choose with no recourse. There is nothing they could not cause to run on a computer with Windows 10. If this is not controlling every aspect, what is?
Even if they were, they can! It's their software.
I take it from this that you actually meant to say "Even if they could control every aspect that's ok because it's their software". Does this mean that it's ok for every software provider to have unlimited and arbitrary control of your computer because, as you say, it's their software?
*crude allegory*
Thank-you no.
...or get down and dirty with the FOSS hobos
Ahh, but FOSS is still software, and "their"" software to boot. I mean, it belongs to someone. Someone wrote it, and holds the copyright. So, shouldn't it be ok, by your logic, for them to insert code to control every aspect of our computer too?
Tired of assholes like you crying about it.
I write and protest as I can to try and get a change in attitude back to the time when Microsoft wouldn't have just been criticized for something like this, but crucified. Five years ago even there was no way they could have done this. But people are becoming more resigned to this, and that is what we need to change.
I also use a combination of methods to take control back, where I can. Windows Update Mini Tool gives me control back of my updates. An encrypted virtual OS gives me a place to put sensitive files that is a (slightly) harder target for outside interference, and yes, doing anything of actual import on FOSS operating systems that I trust, where I can.
It's assholes crying about things like British taxation without representation that gave you the country you live in. If you think there is any less of a conflict going on now than there was then for the freedoms most of us hold dear, then you are hopelessly naive.
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Re:Civilians
It's not clear that Russia has any intention to minimize civilian casualties. For one thing, their proxy forces (the DNR and LNR) get paid to fire off a certain amount of salvos, and when they shoot these artillery shells, they often fire pretty indiscriminately. This guy is located in Lugansk, and his Twitter timeline is dedicated to keeping track of the artillery shelling, in case anyone's curious about it. Second, Russia controls all of the media in the occupied territories, and their MO has been to get one of their GRU/FSB-connected "journalists" into an area (there are certain channels, such as LIfeNews, which are particularly linked to Russian security services), have the Russian journalist direct artillery or tank fire into a civilian target, and then present the footage under the guise of "the junta" shelling Donbas civilians - this is intended to foment a local uprising against Ukraine, but it only works on the most gullible individuals, and according to Russian pollsters, most people in Donbas still support Ukraine.
Possibly two most famous incidents of Russia shelling civilians in Donbas were the Volnovakha bus station bombing (it was an MH17-like situation, where the Russians thought they hit a Ukrainian military target, took credit for it, realized they hit a civilian target, and started fabricating stories that Ukraine did it) and the Mariupol bombing, in which Russia killed at least 29 people, and injured at lest 97. Another famous one was a Donetsk city mortar shelling, which, of course, the Russians tried to pin on Ukraine, until everyone realized that the shelling was done by mortar, the mortar used has a range of a few km, at most, and the nearest Ukrainian position is 20km away; at that point, the Russian terrorists shut up about it. In summary - the only sure way to limit civilian casualties, is to get the Russian invading force off of Ukrainian territory. -
Re:Results of world policy
the Ukraine
There's no "the" there. It's just Ukraine. Congrats, you've already discredited yourself. Let's see what else you have to say.
those people are ethnically Russian and that segment wants to be part of Russia.
During the last census (2001), only 17% of Ukraine was ethnic Russian. That figure has declined since then. Polls by Russian sociologists contradict your assertion that Ukrainians want to be part of Russia.
For Syria, it's the USA that started the whole mess
Disturbing that you so wantonly deprive Syrians of agency.
Just how many times has the last hospital been destroyed, anyhow?
Do you deny that Russia has conducted a campaign of bombing Syrian hospitals? Médecins Sans Frontière confirms that they are doing so, and stopped giving Syrian hospital coordinates to Russia for that reason: https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
I'd much rather be on Russia's side
Something tells me that you already are. Here's an ironic fact - you are severely ill informed, and you think you're compensating for it simply by being contrarian. You haven't said anything of substance, and have denied basic facts. I know that acquiring information (i.e. actually learning about something) requires effort, and that it's much easier to rail against the "MSM" (as if it's one monolithic thing, instead of a set of competing commercial entities), but you're actually making youself more gullible, more naive, and more ill-informed by doing this.
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Re:There is no civil war in UkraineWhile you're absolutely right that the Kremlin adjusts its propaganda (including the nationalist material) to specific audiences, Putin and company's cynical use of nationalism doesn't make them any less nationalist. As I've stated, Putin is surrounded be adherents of ultranationalist Dugin. Putin's favorite philosopher is believed to be the pro-fascist, nationalist Ilyin (Putin was involved in repatriating his body, and re-burying him). While the takeover of Crimea had pragmatic aspects to it (i.e. Putin wanted to show Russians that rebelling against a corrupt dictatorship has negative consequences; Russia wanted their naval port), the precondition for it was the Russian nationalist idea that much or all of Ukraine belongs to Russia.
Then they tried a similar tactic in the historically pro-Russian Donbass, but that didn't work out.
I'm not sure that it's accurate to call it historically pro-Russian. It was repopulated with many Russians after Stalin's genocide by starvation of Ukrainians in 1932-33, but to this day, even under Russian occupation, and under threat of death, the vast majority of the people in the Donbas remain pro-Ukrainian (according to Russian pollsters).
He'll sponsor the radical left just as he does the radical right as long as it gives him leverage against his opponents.
Absolutely. It's amazing that so many people in the US and Europe are still so naive about this cynical dictator.
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Re:RIPTerm
I remember playing Operation: Overkill and Land of Devastation (LOD) using RIPTerm. Compared to the standard ANSI interface, the RIP graphics were mind-blowing at the time.
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Re:The Self Reward Syndrome
My personal experience is, activities in the morning are more effective for weight loss. I used to walk ~4km in the evening for more than a year, but did not result in weight loss. But when switched to morning walk, I could see results in couple of months.
Did you walk before or after supper? If it was after supper perhaps you just convinced yourself that you worked up an appetite and ate enough calories to compensate for the walk.
With the morning walk if you walked before breakfast you probably didn't increase consumption to compensate, and if it was after you were probably satisfied enough to wait for lunch.
In either case the determining factor was more likely a mental one then a biological one.
Probably it has something to do with glucose/sugar levels
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Re: Shocking!
Oh the irony! A consensus of scientists agreed that fat was the culprit for heart disease and obesity. The consensus scientists, led by Ancel Keys, verified time and again through peer-reviewed experiments and studies (albeit with falsified data) that fat was the problem. They destroyed the life and work of John Yudkin, the lone scientist who disagreed with the consensus and had the research and data to prove that sugar, not fat, was the culprit. And now you're here in slashdot posting about another consensus of scientists who must be believed because they've verified time and again that their theory is valid.
http://thedogatemydata.blogspo...
http://www.climate-skeptic.com...
https://notalotofpeopleknowtha...
https://stevengoddard.wordpres...
https://stevengoddard.wordpres...
I look forward to the dozens of responses my post will generate in which all of these links are denounced and dismissed because the authors are hacks, frauds, not real scientists, or whatever else in order to justify ignoring the actual data. -
The German security service tried this years ago
The size of the problem space made it impossible. Any margin of error whatsoever, multiplied by the (number of people you're looking for + the number of people passing through the airport) leads to insane number of false positives. The German Federal Security Service did a trial with Siemens' recognizer many moons back, loved the technology, hoped the number of false positives would be small... and were disappointed. Even with an unreachably high efficiency, it kept tagging grandma as a terrorist.
It's like the birthday paradox: with only one chance in 365 of two people having the same birthday, it turns out that with 23 people in a room, you have a 50% chance of two birthdays matching. A 99% chance if there are 75 people. See http://danteslab-eng.blogspot.... As he notes, if you have a system that is 0.999999 accurate (one in a million), we have a 50% chance of a false positive or false negative as soon as we have scanned 1178 people... meaning for about each 1000 people we either arrest grandma or let Osaman Bin Laden stroll through.
They've probably reported that already, and been told "don't worry about mere mathematics, this is politics" (;-))
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Re:Every intelligent person
We still have no idea what kind of deal we are going to get when we invoke Article 50, so "Keep Calm and Carry On" seems to be a more sensible approach at this point; freaking out achieve nothing right now because there's nothing concrete to actually freak out about other than some vague thing known as "BrExit" that can't be defined.
The impacts were immediate. Uncertainty is not your friend here. Not for the markets and not for scientists. "While people are debating the options for our departure from the EU over the next few years, British science is already proving itself to be well ahead of the game. We're already being widely excluded from EU grant applications, because no-one sane wants to take the risk of setting up a multi-year collaboration with a UK partner, when this partner may be pulled out at any time (and no-one would fund such a proposal when safer alternatives exist)." - http://julesandjames.blogspot....
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Re:5bn?
I wonder if they understand what $5 billion is, and that it is different from 5 billion cents http://verizonmath.blogspot.ca...
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Nice case in point
How far has physics fallen, when theorist divas get insulted by the fact that their multiverse ideas are not backed up by the data?
http://backreaction.blogspot.c...
(Pls read till the end when Sabine, an accomplished theorist herself, mentions the Streisand effect).
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Re:You don't even need all that
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Re:how about..
No, pretty much every platform, for example:
* Symantec Endpoint (Mac, Windows, Linux, UNIX)I'm not sure what's missing in that example that would be in this one:
* Symantec Scan Engine (All Platforms)Here's a good link:
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Re:Uber income
When the cab's tag gets pulled it is a big deal. The driver license is a minor inconvenience.
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Attack of the Gmail
I take this as a sign that Google is feeling the heat of Microsoft's increasingly competitive mobile apps.
Gmail and Gmail mobile added exchange support shortly after their respective launches. Realistically, they had to. If you want to ultimately convert people from Exchange to Gmail, you have to make everything work together for as long as the user wants. In late 2012, after some squabbling with Microsoft and with confidence that Exchange was on a downward trajectory, they stopped supporting Exchange sync. Exchange and Outlook have been super useful for a long time and they've been maintenance headaches since the beginning. Gmail is mostly caught up in terms of enterprise usability, but they have a mindshare and marketing problem with many businesses. Cutting off free support for Exchange was a strategic way to try to pull more users over to Gmail and cut off Microsoft's free ride on the Android platform.
A year and a half later, Satya Nadella announced that Microsoft is shifting to Mobile-First, Cloud-First. Six months after that, they buy Accompli and turn it into Outlook Mobile. That was the first big salvo. Outlook Mobile is very good. It accomplishes the mission of being the beach-head of Office/365 on Android and makes Microsoft email services competitive on Android. If you add-in Microsoft Next lock screen, it fills a big gap in Android overall usability. I have used a Windows Phone. Its a superior system with an Apps problem. But it does MS Email, Calendar and Office really, really well. Now all of that stuff is working about as well on Android too.*
Google doesn't really have a choice if they want to keep making their services available to users. Plenty of businesses still prefer to use Outlook/Exchange and Google doesn't want to push** users to stop using Gmail to access their work email. Its really valuable for them to keep having people using the Gmail instead of Outlook on Android.
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Re:Bill would agree.
Bill Nye would enthusiastically agree that kids (and adults) should "ask those questions and not just believe what (ANYONE, including) Bill Nye the Science Guy is trying to tell them.
Especially given that he sometimes can be pretty darn wrong.
http://backreaction.blogspot.c...
Then again there is little doubt that Nye will listen to scientists when he screws up, whereas Palin is in all likelihood incapable of self correction.
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Re:10%. 90%
Anybody who disagrees with SkepticalScience has a 'grudge'. Funny how that works.
SkepticalScience is an activist blog. I wouldn't trust anything they produce.
How about Richarg Tol? I'll bet he has a 'grudge' as well?
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Re: from the not-so-bright department
Things don't always go according to plan, especially with aging infrastructure - http://neinuclearnotes.blogspo...
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Re: from the not-so-bright department
Don't be so sure - http://neinuclearnotes.blogspo...
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Re:No one needs algebra...
Yeah or Verizon. Oh wait...
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Re:Hedge funds own the market.
"The banking sector is meant to be highly competitive so that scarce capital (savings) is efficiently allocated to the businesses that will produce the best real returns on it."
This has never been the truth.
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
The Citibank memo
US distribution of wealth
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text obfuscation : an all timer
Take les liaisons dangereuses of Chaderlos de Laclos. It is an exemple of poly semantics based on changed register of the "writers". But with a unique author. "Fake polyphonie" (the purpose of the contest is to not be detected doing so)
At the other end of the spectrum "the 1001 tales" tries to unifie with a single tone stories that clearly do not match the same origins. (another failure)I do guess that collective work with misdirections of fake semantics changes might do the trick with a peculiarly engineered language for that task: french
If you cannot fuzzy the tools, fuzzy the input by using carefuly crafted designed language to make this detection hard.
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Re:Many people don't and won't buy DRM software
"The only reason that DRM is so rampant is because society has proven that they can't be trusted"
No the reason piracy is so rampant is because copyright law is corrupt and people know when the world is unjust even if they can't articulate it, the corporations stole the public domain first. Even if most of the public is ignorant of copyright law they can still smell the evil of corporations and their bought and paid for laws.
This is not new in history:
"Men very different from the present race of piratical booksellers will soon infringe this intolerable monopoly. Great masses of capital will be constantly employed in the violation of the law. Every art will be employed to evade legal pursuit; and the whole nation will be in the plot. On which side indeed should the public sympathy be when the question is whether some book as popular as Robinson Crusoe, or the Pilgrims Progress, shall be in every cottage, or whether it shall be confined to the libraries of the rich, for the advantage of the greatgrandson of a bookseller who, a hundred years before, drove a hard bargain for the copyright with the author when in great distress? Remember too that, when once it ceases to be considered as wrong and discreditable to invade literary property, no person can say where the invasion will stop. The public seldom make nice distinctions. The wholesome copyright which now exists will share in the disgrace and danger of the new copyright which you are about to create. And you will find that, in attempting to impose unreasonable restraints on the reprinting of the words of the dead, you have, to a great extent, annulled those restraints which now prevent men from pillaging and defrauding the living. If I saw, Sir any probability that this bill could be so amended in the Committee that my objections might be removed I would not divide the House in this stage. But I am so fully convinced that no alteration which would not seem insupportable to my honorable and learned friend, could render his measure supportable to me, that I must move, though with regret, that this bill be read a second time this day six months."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#/media/File:Copyright_term.svg
The piracy debate is always one sided and privileges business instead of talking about the criminal corporations/businessmen who's been taking your rights to own shit away and trying to pass piracy off a bad thing when games never reach the public domain because it was stolen by people like yourself and valve. Game licensing is a scam, games never go into libraries and are held in "intellectual property" limbo. The whole concept of IP and licensing when applied to games is a legal con and the fact that ignorant people like you eat it up and want to be corporate slaves is sickening.
http://www.onthemedia.org/story/265083-barely-any-us-culture-will-enter-public-domain-year/
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131231/23434825735/grinch-who-stole-public-domain.shtml
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131231/23434825735/grinch-who-stole-public-domain.shtml
Piracy is the only way things like video-games for instance will be preserved given that the source-code is confiscated/locked down and not going into libraries. Corporations stole our culture an illiterate like yourself is chastising the "thieves" when corporations are the biggest thieves of all time.
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Re:The real problem
Because its common knowledge, there is plenty of facts out there...
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap
http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Crisis of democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI
The real news:
http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/
http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/
The Citibank memo
http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html
US distribution of wealth
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Re:I'm I the only one
"who finds the constant buyouts and mergers disturbing?"
You should get up to speed on what has always been the case.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap
http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
The real news:
http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X
The Citibank memo
http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html
US distribution of wealth
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Re:Liberal Party?
"Don't try to focus on "left" or "right," it is a way to divide us. Instead focus on specific issues."
It would be the right approach except the government is structured so it doesn't work for you anyway.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap
http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Crisis of democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI
The real news:
http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/
http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/
The Citibank memo
http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html
US distribution of wealth
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Re:I accept my employer's right
"My employer owns my work machine and supplies the network it's connected to. I accept that the employer's right to monitor his own equipment and network.
However, that's a FAR cry from accepting internet surveillance. "
Except your employers are behind it... big business (elites and their corporations) fears people waking up. The internet is a threat to all institutions of power (aka the rich and their corporations). The free flow of information is detrimental to their goals and aims (profits and control over us).
First, see the science on reasoning. The human brain is bad at reasoning and reality:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY&feature=youtu.be&t=11
Brezinski at a press conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY
States experiencing serious systemic "handicaps":
https://youtu.be/0kmUS--QCYY?t=246
Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.
https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397
Crisis of democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI
WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap
http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6
The real news:
http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/
http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/
The Citibank memo
http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html
US distribution of wealth
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Wikileaks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be
Manufacturing consent:
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Re:Posted this a couple of years ago...
"I'm disappointed that those brilliant minds would waste them violating the laws of their own country and attacking their own people."
You're under the dangerous illusion the government worked for you. The rich want to keep control over the masses, their politics and public opinion. They do that via control of information.
In his 1970 book Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, Brzezinski wrote the following.
"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670160415
The internet is a threat to all institutions of power (aka the rich and their corporations). The free flow of information is detrimental to their goals and aims (profits and control over us).
The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY&feature=youtu.be&t=11
Brezinski at a press conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY
States experiencing serious systemic "handicaps":
https://youtu.be/0kmUS--QCYY?t=246
Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.
https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397
Crisis of democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI
WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap
http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6
The real news:
http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/
http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/
The Citibank memo
http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html
US distribution of wealth
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
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Re:a world we've been warning about for decades
"That's kind of sad, actually"
No it was actually the intent. The rich want to keep control over the masses, their politics and public opinion. They do that via control of information.
First, see the science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
In his 1970 book Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, Brzezinski wrote the following.
"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670160415
The internet is a threat to all institutions of power (aka the rich and their corporations). The free flow of information is detrimental to their goals and aims (profits and control over us).
The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY&feature=youtu.be&t=11
Brezinski at a press conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY
States experiencing serious systemic "handicaps":
https://youtu.be/0kmUS--QCYY?t=246
Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.
https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397
Crisis of democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI
WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap
http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6
The real news:
http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/
http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/
The Citibank memo
http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html
US distribution of wealth
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
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Re:Some basic rules
"1) Do not use "free" services"
You're under the dangerous idea that you haven't already been compromised by the hardware, router, OS, etc. Why do you think the NSA is spying on everyone?
Jacob Applebaum - People Think They're Exempt From NSA (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyT7yzap1Wc
Other Video 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzzDMD8pFqkOther Video 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3XWDlTEVcsThe internet is a threat to all institutions of power (aka the rich and their corporations). The free flow of information is detrimental to their goals and aims (profits and control over us).
The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY&feature=youtu.be&t=11
Brezinski at a press conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY
States experiencing serious systemic "handicaps":
https://youtu.be/0kmUS--QCYY?t=246
Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.
https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397
Crisis of democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI
WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap
http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6
The real news:
http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/
http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/
The Citibank memo
http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html
US distribution of wealth
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Wikileaks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be
Manufacturing consent:
