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He did divorce his wife and start dating a bizarrely attactive girlfriend one third his age. If that's crazy, sign me up!

You could ask about the FBI on a technology board full of middle-aged man-children, or this also explains it.

> but Fujichrome Velvia was the pick if you wanted to work the cooler colors

I don't know, Velvia seemed like it rendered things a bit warm to me.

This person feels the same way about Velvia's warmth. I used to love Velvia!

It's possible. Lead is a neurotoxin which crosses the blood-brain barrier with ease. According to Wikipedia, "Lead causes loss of neurons' myelin sheaths, reduces numbers of neurons, interferes with neurotransmission, and decreases neuronal growth" (references a medical textbook), and "Long-term exposure of adults can result in decreased performance in some tests that measure functions of the nervous system" (references the EPA website). Nasty stuff.

Canada severely limited the use of leaded gasoline since 1990 though, while this study looked at data from 2001 to 2012. So either this is a latent effect from before leaded gasoline was limited, which is possible given how slowly dementia develops, or something else is going on. Either way, Lancet has a good reputation, so the methodology in this study is probably solid.

As others have pointed out, poverty could be a factor too. People prefer living further away from highways if they can afford to. Therefore property prices tend to be lower close to highways, which makes these places more affordable for poorer people. That confounds the issue with all sorts of other lifestyle factors. Do poor people eat less fresh fruit and vegetables? Do poor people exercise less? Do poor people smoke more cigarettes or drink more alcohol? Are there other factors we aren't even aware of?

Would be Obama/Clinton, given the number of "red lines" enacted and withdrawn.

And that's not exactly good for world peace and stability.

Maybe Putin's choice really is that simple: Hillary had demonstrated a proclivity for failures that resulted in violence.

Libya is now a violent failed state - thanks to Hillary. (with no small help from Obama - remember the risible "It's not hostilities!" claim about bombing Libya?)

Remember "Fuck the EU"? While that was 2014 and after Hillary was Secretary of State, that statement was because the EU refused to get involved in internal Ukrainian politics because they knew Russia would view it as meddling in their local affairs - at best. But nope - Obama meddled in Ukraine, promoting an anti-Russian government there - which led to war.

So let's see, under Obama - and partly under Hillary - the US meddled in local politics in Israel and Ukraine (the latter over EU objections), created another failed state in Libya, backed the Muslim Brotherhood almost to the point of taking over Egypt.

Maybe Putin simply figured the entire world including Russia would be better off if that kind of crap ended, which it wouldn't have with Hillary.

Given how Obama has demonstrated he'd meddle in local politics in other countries, Democrat claims of Russian meddling don't even raise up to the point of ringing hollow.

A nice summary of the issue (and work-around) from Scott Manley:

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In other words, roughly the amount of a single year's-worth of trade deficit between the US and China.
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Well, I don't know whether they're doing it because of AGW, but they certainly have good reasons to move away from coal.

While they could probably do more in the short term by switching to natural gas, renewables hits a couple of points that are important to the Chinese government: national independence and the development of indigenous technological capabilities. Public funding for applied R&D is a lot more controversial in the US.

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Are you calling Putin a liar?

https://www.google.com/search?...

He has come out and admitted that they invaded Crimea to force a favorable vote so they could seize the territory of anouther country.

"1) Nobody serious (read: current political leaders, people with net worth in the billions, or more than 10% of the country's population) is suggesting that the election results are invalid, or that Donald Trump should not be sworn in as president. It's not like the Birther movement or anything... *cough*"

(a) LOTS of people, including some of our mast famous entertainers, people from the Clinton campaign, news people, college professors, etc ARE suggesting Trump's election is invalid,so are you saying none of these left-leaners are serious people?

(b) I VERY tired of Obama and his supporters whining about the "birther" stuff. Obama made money for years off the claim he was from Kenya (that's how his literary agent listed him while he was making money from his books) and rather than spending YEARS hiding his birth certificate, he could have done what every president before him did when asked: just pull the actual certificate out and show it. Obama could have ended the whole thing in MINUTES and at ANY TIME. He prolonged it as a way to make some of his opponents look crazy and then lump ALL his opponents together and claim they all were racists. The reason the birthers were so suspicious is that he first claimed to be from Kenya and then when challenged on eligibility to be POTUS he his the one thing that would easily end the issue.

"2) Nobody is saying that Donald Trump was elected so there must be foul play. People are saying there is foul play due to the evidence being presented."

(a) Actually, yes, there are progressives claiming Donald's election while all the polls said he could not win is indeed proof of foul play.

(b) What evidence, exactly, has been presented? That FBI report? Have you READ the thing? It's a content-free document. The DNC talking point that "all 17 agencies agree"? Can you name those agencies? Do you TRULY believe the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency or the Office of Naval Intelligence did an independent investigation of John Podesta's e-mail phishing an independently concluded that insanely smart Russkie spies brilliantly figured out how to crack his account (ignoring the fact that the doofus used the password "password")? Let's face it, the Obama administration is just shovelling a load of horse manure here and telling us "all 17 agree" as part of a narrative (which aligns nicely with that Ben Rhodes bragging about how easily the Obama admin manipulates liberal journalists)

"3) If the current evidence doesn't suggest to you that there has been foul play, then what evidence would you need to convince you that there was?..."

How about ONE SINGLE SOLITARY SMIDGEN of evidence rather than just wild claims by political appointees who were assuming they had 8 more years of comfy employment ahead and suddenly found that Trump was heading into office? There has not been ANY actual evidence presented, just lots of general accusations spiced-up with a TON of innuendo. General accusations that some Russian (implication: tied to Putin) got at Podesta's e-mail using some exotic means (rather than a simple phishing that everybody on the net is familiar with) and then (via persona/methods unknown/unproven) passed the info to Wikileaks which then somehow provided honest info about team Hillary which allowed the voters to (gasp!) see through some of the fake team Hillary image-making and thereby had some (not measured) effect on the vote that then allowed Trump to win in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania (where he campaigned really hard and which Hillary took for granted)

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I have several problems with your argument.

First is your unsupported claim that non-anthropogenic climate factors have produced most of the change. What exactly are these non-anthropogenic drivers and how much of climate change do they account for?

Second, the assertion that climate change will be beneficial is simplistic and naive. What will happen is that some people will win and others lose; an that will be strongly correlated to income. If you can rebalance your portfolio and a quarterly basis you will make money coming (causing the problem) and going (dealing with the problem). If you're a Bengladeshi subsitence farmer you will take it on the chin.

Third, you seem to have no idea what the civil engineering costs of something like rising sea level will be. Venice just spent $7 billion dollars on a flood control system -- that's because of subsidence mainly, but it gives you a benchmark for what it costs to protect a city against a 21 cm rise when you can do it with a compact barrier. Estimates to protect Boston against the coming 50cm rise are on the order of $10 billion, but again you can see for yourself that Boston is an easy case; all the seaward parts of the region are protected by marine bluffs.

Protecting a city like Miami from 50cm sea level rise would cost many times that.

Finally, you seem to be taking a strawman standard of climate change: that things have to happen that are unprecedented in human history. The simple fact is that temperature in the last century has risen at a rate that is unprecendented in the lifetime of our species and it is the rate that determines how species and ecosystems will respond. It is hardly an extraordinary claim to say that if temperature rises 4C globally that rainfall patterns and sea level will change.

There is no such thing as a "natural" disaster. Disasters are things that happen that we're not prepared for. You can easily imagine a 4C warmer world people were quite content to live in, but that's not the same as being prepared for a 4C change over the course of a century. That's something we as a species won't have a problem adapting to, but which will be traumatic for many, many individuals.

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Notice that the previous claimed that a $50k salary was saving $500 per year, a $100k salary was saving $3k a year and the $250k salary was saving $25k a year. I don't make anywhere near $50k yet I'm saving more than the alleged $100k salary is.

And how much are you paying for debts/housing/health care/school loans, Old Economy Steve?

Take the money held by the leisure class and move it into infrastructure and consumer spending

The thing is, that's where the leisure class's money already is. They're either investing it in businesses (the most common sort of infrastructure out there) or somebody else's wages (which apparently go almost exclusively into consumer spending, if the previous figure is to be believed). Government certainly hasn't shown a talent at moving money into infrastructure.

Is Leonard Nemoy still alive and walking around with a beard in your reality? One where those idle trillions have been invested in mass transit, nationwide highspeed rail? Even their investments with create a pitiful handful of jobs tend to be in "emerging markets" and do jack to employ people in the United States.

Government certainly hasn't shown a talent at moving money into infrastructure.

Because it would rather have low tax rates for the rich (which have high costs for the rest of society) while spending over a trillion a year on the imperial budget. Does it ever embarrass you that China, which has a GDP less than half that of the United States, is kicking its ass on high speed rail?

If Greece were remotely socialist, they would have seceded from the EU and NATO five years ago.

Because...?

To regain their own sovereignty, currency, and be free of their monetary obligations to NATO. Should have been a clue when neolibs were scolding Greece that they needed to cut all spending to the bone and beyond - except for their payments to NATO, those are sacrosanct.

"Syriza" and "radical left" are frequently used in conjunction, but that means fuck-all when you go out of your way to pass even more draconian measures than the previous government.

Socialist governments do draconian measures too. Not seeing the point of the argument.

What's hard to understand about a flip-flop. Imagine that Ron Paul had won in 2012 - and the first thing he did was ram through legislation to abolish private property and flat-out confiscate all assets over $500,000. That would be the equivalent of a "radical left" party winning an election and then passing even more extreme capitalist austerity. Party labels and campaign promises are irrelevant - it's actions that count.

Video game player here, there's often times I'll have 20GB updates to a 20GB game because the developer keeps needing to "remaster" the update, which essentially redelivers the entire game after nearly every update.

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And I have NEVER seen a nag screen to force me to update, are you sure you were using an Apple product?

Are you sure *YOU* have ever used one? Jesus its all over the internet. https://www.google.com/search?...

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http://apple.stackexchange.com...

You can temporarily delay the nags by deleting the update (but it redownloads it) or blocking apple's servers on your domain, but you can never switch them off. EVER. This is how Apple has yet again decided to ream its users in the ass.

You sound like an Apple hater making up stuff.

You sound like someone who likes to bend over. That makes you a good Apple customer.

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Later this year, Google will also launch a tool called My Business Websites, which will allow any small business to easily create and manage its own mobile-friendly website using nothing more than a smartphone in up to nine Indian languages.

It sounds like Google is just putting out an enhanced version of their Google Sites based on location. You pick a template and fill in a form with your information. Google then consumes it and automatically indexes your site.

Also instead of putting on these classes couldn't they just do YouTube videos and their version of the Dummies Guide to Google?

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I've always had an issue with the idea that software patents are magically different.

In theory, a patent doesn't block an idea, but an implementation. In practice, patents are written as broad as possible to cover as much implementations as possible. In all fields, you are trying to patent an idea that you think is novel.

I like to point to actual 'physical' patents because people tend to idealize them as opposed to software patents.
Let's take something simple, yet very innovative. The coffee cup sleeve... meant to make hot cups easier to hold.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi...

It's best to look at the claims section. Give it a read. It's written very generally and for good reason. If you could bypass the patent by adding a groove to the cardboard or something like that or just using a different material, the patent would be useless. And the coffee cup sleeve is simple, yet definitely novel because we've had cups for a very long time and yet this device did solve a real world problem.

Software patents aren't any different.

Have a look at a 'software' patent. Amazon's one-click patent.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi...

Again read the claims sections. Written just as generally to encompass as much as possible.
If you want to talk about it within a specific implementation. It talks about buttons and shopping cart model... in a similar way that the coffee cup sleeve talks about cups and bands...

I think it's legit to have an issue with our patent system in general.
What I don't understand is the idea that software patents are somehow special. If people think software patents protect ideas instead of implementations, then I think hardware patents do the same in practice.

I've filed a few software patents before and what do you think a person would file a patent for in the case of detecting someone is driving. You probably listed the main ways in a comment on slashdot. You don't think a patent lawyer is going to list all those way in the claims of a patent they're filing? They're going to list all those way in the claims as broadly as possible, so any 'practical' implementation will be patented. No different from a hardware patent.

Just for fun, I found the Apple patent and look at the claims.
https://www.google.com/patents...
Yeop, they patent the major practical motion detection (GPS, celluar, accelorometer...)

the PATENT prevented everyone else from implementing a safety.

No, no, and NO. Looking at the comments here so far, I strongly suspect nobody has bothered to look at the actual patent.

The patent prevents other from implementing a VERY SPECIFIC safety mechanism, most notably including a "scenery analyzer" that [magically] determines where in the car the device is based on camera inputs (this part is why you're not going to see anyone implementing this for a good long while). Claim 1 of the patent:

1. A handheld computing device comprising: a motion analyzer configured to detect whether the handheld computing device is in motion beyond a predetermined threshold level; a scenery analyzer configured to determine whether the handheld computing device is located within a safe operating area of a vehicle based on at least one of picture data and video data; and a lock-out mechanism configured to automatically and selectively disable one or more functions of the handheld computing device based on outputs from the motion analyzer and the scenery analyzer.

I would say that someone choosing to video chat on their phone while driving a car is 99% the main factor in that automotive crash.

If a manufacturer patented the concept of a safety preventing a fatal accident, then failed to implement it resulting in the exact fatal flaw it was designed to protect, I could easily see fault lying with the patent holder.

Let's understand the REAL issue here; the PATENT prevented everyone else from implementing a safety.

The only thing I use a cellphone for while driving is clipping the thing into a dashboard cradle for turn-by-turn navigation. As far as I'm concerned they can block everything else if the device is moving above a certain speed except perhaps making calls over a hand's free Bluetooth link and play music or audio books but I'd be pretty pissed off if I could no longer at least navigate using my smartphone. Then there is the issue of passengers. It's not surprising that the original patent :http://www.google.com/patents/US8706143 proposed to use a motion analyser to determine if you are in a driving car and a 'scenery analyser' to determine whether you are the driver. That sounds to me as if they are proposing to use the GPS chip to determine if you are driving and turn on the camera and use some kind of mini AI to determine whether you are sitting in the driver's seat driver or not and then base decisions on blocking on that. Even if that is possible given the current state of object recognition technology I think this would be a buggy feature which is probably why Apple did not bother with it. You could also add transponders to the driver's seat area and sensors to the phone (as the patent suggests) to determine if the user is the driver but it would take years and changes to automotive regulations to bring that into general use. Even if Apple had put such sensors into the iPhone 6 would have had little effect since no car these days has such transponders installed. The third method the patent mentions is a signal that is only receivable in the driver's seat area to disable the pone. That sounds like a good idea until you start pondering how long it would take texting drivers to figure out that holding the phone over the passenger seat still enables them to text while driving which is arguably worse than texting while pinning the phone to the steering wheel. Finally I'd be surprised if there was not prior art on at least two of these features. In the end it is the the idiot who texted or video chatted while driving is who bears 100% of the responsibility here just like it's the guy who brained you over the head with a baseball bat that bears the responsibility for that act and not Ye Olde New Jersy Baseball Bat Company (Inc) for failing to equip their bats with a people detector and exploding air bags.

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Not one use for humans in your world is there? This robots - are they goung to consume all this awesome stuff they make?

My expectation is, after a lot of pain, we'll move off of the toxic idea that one only deserves to have self-respect if one performs some kind of drudgework, and that one only deserves respect from without if one performs some kind of drudgework, to a mindset where one deserves respect because one is a socially reasonable human being and pursues one's own interests in some healthy fashion (IOW, with some degree of pleasure, while offering no harm to others.)

"Money for stuff" is an adequate model when there is a too-limited amount of stuff and everyone must produce or we all fall down. When there isn't a too-limited amount of stuff, and one does not have to produce to keep society going, it doesn't make very much sense for the majority to have to do drudgework.

There will need to be some measure of consumption, and some way to meter it out. But it won't be based on work. Or so I imagine.

It's the getting from here to there that I'm worried about. Jobs are going to go away fast. And here in the US, where I am, congress moves slowly, sometimes not moving at all, even when it is obvious they need to (for instance, they've been pursuing the complete failure of a drug war for decades now, and they're still too blind, deaf and self-centered to understand it's a pointless exercise from the POV of accomplishing anything worthwhile, while also harming the maximum possible number of people, far, far more than drugs themselves ever posed a threat to.)

Right now... now... there are about 42 million food-insecure people in the US. That's roughly 1/7th of the population. And the financial imbalance is extreme. It's pretty clear that the current model does not serve the country at large very well.

But the people keep electing millionaires to congress. That's right. The average net worth of a congresscritter is over one million dollars. So any change in the right direction will meet some resistance. I leave it to you to imagine how much.

In Germany https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/09/mass-donor-organ-fraud-germany and it wasn't a one-off either.

In California https://www.google.com/amp/people.com/archive/organ-donation-did-a-doctor-speed-a-patients-death-vol-69-no-17/amp/

In New York https://www.google.com/amp/nypost.com/2012/09/26/organs-taken-from-patients-that-doctors-were-pressured-to-declare-brain-dead-suit/amp/

In Germany https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/09/mass-donor-organ-fraud-germany and it wasn't a one-off either.

In California https://www.google.com/amp/people.com/archive/organ-donation-did-a-doctor-speed-a-patients-death-vol-69-no-17/amp/

In New York https://www.google.com/amp/nypost.com/2012/09/26/organs-taken-from-patients-that-doctors-were-pressured-to-declare-brain-dead-suit/amp/

In Germany https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/09/mass-donor-organ-fraud-germany and it wasn't a one-off either.

In California https://www.google.com/amp/people.com/archive/organ-donation-did-a-doctor-speed-a-patients-death-vol-69-no-17/amp/

In New York https://www.google.com/amp/nypost.com/2012/09/26/organs-taken-from-patients-that-doctors-were-pressured-to-declare-brain-dead-suit/amp/

Adams was the first author I ever wrote a personal letter to. I received a very nice response from his secretary, addressing my comments (not just a form letter) and a photo of Adams, which I kept in a frame for years. I must have been 10 or 11 at the time...

Some years later I wrote extensively on Adams' The Girl in the Swing, as part of a chapter in my lit dissertation (pairing it with two other contemporary novels about mother-daughter violence, Morrison's Beloved and Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills). I only read Shardik once and Plague Dogs two or three times, and never did make it all the way through Maia; but WD and TGiTS I nearly had memorized at one time.

And speaking of that ... what's with this barbarism in the article: "They'll be alright". In all the editions I've seen, including the one in Google Books, it's "all right". Yes, language changes and English has no central authority - I'm a descriptivist myself - but let's respect the author's usage preferences, eh? "Alright" is a probably-inevitable (because parallel with "already"[1]) but ugly corruption of the original phrase, and there's certainly no reason to prefer it.

[1]"already" is a compression of Middle English "al redy", in which "al" is itself a simplified "all", so "alright" has an etymological precedent. And, as I already noted, it's probably inevitable. Doesn't mean we should let it contaminate a perfectly good "all right", though.

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America is an Empire. We extract tribute through monetary policy and cheap goods made with borderline slave labor. When you go to the grocery store and Bananas are .49 cents/lb congratulations, you've just benefited from our Empire. When you buy your wife a blood diamond (or your husband gives you one), congratulations, you've just benefited from our Empire.

If they're gonna share the "load" they'll share the spoils too. Get ready to give up your personal automobile. With gas at $5/liter you won't be able to afford it

No no, it's the Danes.

This isn't just partisan Democrats driving it. The stance of Congressional Republicans on this issue hasn't been denial (like you are seeing here from the Putin trolls), but rather that the FACT that this occurred is all Obama's fault for being too nice to Putin over the last 8 years. That's where the partisan argument over this is.

There is bipartisan agreement on what actually happened here. Its literally just Trump trying to imply otherwise.