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Or (more likely) the US just defines more things as crimes and punishes the same crimes more harshly than the UK. The UK has evolved since the Bloody Code. The US has de-evolved in the last 35 years. Rise in incarceration coincident with the War on (Some) Drugs. The only thing that caused the recent drop in rate was the recession. Bankruptcy is a powerful motivator in getting governments to re-evaluate the cost-effectiveness of jailing so many people.

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Q: "Did Cambridge Analytica Harvest 50 Million Facebook Profiles?"
A: TFA money quote: "hundreds of thousands of users were paid to take a personality test and agreed to have their data collected for academic use"

which implies that friend lists of 'hundreds of thousands' of participating (paid) users were used to issue an automated flurry of direct access to related profiles by user ID... and the rabbit hole went as deep as default 'public' profiles would permit. Like sheeple-product publicly declaring their family members and supplying relation codes because, they were asked, like it's all a fun computer game.

Some where past the 2 million mark or so Facebook (if they gave a damn) would have had tripwires snap and bright red flags dropping in front of their faces. Flags like direct and obvious API access abuse, access from one or a few accounts/networks faster than humanly possible, direct profile access by ID with no referrer page pointing to it, a 404 floods (if they were guessing). White hat 101 stuff. They do not care. They are on the verge of completely monetizing their APIs anyway to (finally!) inject real portfolio value into their company and want to hook institutional data junkies first.

But if anyone thinks data mining might have helped Trump win the election, it must be evil and frightening. Any data mining efforts to 'network' and oppose are kewl and just. This is as transparently duplicitous as Mayor Swivel-Head from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

I find it ironically hilarious -- without laughing -- that the same political contingent that blanches at the thought of a physical wall at the border of our sovereign country, is so easily duped into characterizing any IP access from the former Soviet bloc as the propaganda of Putin puppets, and not entrepreneurial enterprises for hire founded by young clever people like anywhere else in the connected world. The very same data games data mining Silicon Valley startups use to schmooze money from jargon-hypnotized investors or politically fueled troll farms like ShareBlue, when applied by clever Ukranian teenagers who are waiting for their Putin paycheck like I'm waiting for my Big Oil paycheck... becomes manipulative evil. It's almost even racist.

And when a Russian server farm operator tries to alert the world that Obama's FBI showed zero interest in obtaining logs from his rented servers that (he claimed) would illuminate another hop back to the attackers, you are forced to speculate that his Russian IP address was what the FBI was politically after.

Isn't it strange how this county map is so sharply delineated at the boundaries between populous urban centers and rural areas? Pretty precise to be a map of evil hacker influence, and funny how those (alleged) manipulated voters were targeted so completely and populous counties with their more centralized and automated voting systems, were not. Heck, it looks more like an actual grassroots uprising that won by a few hairs, assisted by the electoral college. A routine upset election, welcome to reality.

Here is a photo of the blackout.

Hmm, let's try this...

It is interesting no one is proposing fixing what is really wrong. Our timezones are incorrectly laid out. They are mostly laid out vertically along longitude or along geographic boundaries. They should be laid out according to how our earth rotates.

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This map illustrates it very nicely. http://www.sco.tt/.a/6a00d8357... If you zoom it out you can see almost exactly where the boundaries should be.

When the media stopped mentioning suicides in the news in the 1980s, they plummeted significantly.

Completely false. Even assuming you're right about reduced mention of suicides in the 80's, this chart shows a complete lack of "plummeting": At best it shows about 12 deaths per 100,000 in 1980, and about 10 deaths per 100,000 in 2005.

That's a drop of 16%, which could just as easily be attributed to the reduction of leaded gasoline. Or the invention of Internet porn. Or any number of other things.

This is what a Fab looks like

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Here's one more example. In fact, the neural network hallucinated sheep every time it saw a landscape of this type. What's going on here?

Computers don't recognize organic life forms. A "sheep" is nothing more than a pattern of pixels. In this case, a black snout, white body, and black legs below -- like this. Do we see anything similar to that in the picture?

From above the Kamen line? Name one.

Apollo 11's Eagle stage landed vertically far above the Karen line.

Oh? So when I click the thumbnail of the first image on this page, then right click the preview image and click "View Image" and am taken to this URL, that's not the original image?

Perhaps try it yourself before you tell me I'm rong?

That said, I do have serious concern with how WMF does its allocation and chooses its priorities

What's your take on the established connections between WMF and The Clinton Foundation, Feminist Frequency, The Berkman Center, and The Guardian?

I was the principal engineer on Wikipedia Zero, and one of the top code contributors to the MediaWiki itself, first as a volunteer, and later as an employee. I think Wikipedia Zero was a great attempt at promoting open knowledge in the less developed locations. I suspect that by now it is not as critical as it once was, and it would be good for the Wikimedia foundation to focus on better allocation of funds.

That said, I do have serious concern with how WMF does its allocation and chooses its priorities. Foundation collects over $80 million a year, and employs nearly 300 people, yet the **only** team that is directly driven by the community is a tiny 10 person Community Tech team. Community tech runs community surveys, and picks just the top 10 items to work on. Think about this - foundation that was created and prospers financially due to the community's efforts only lets 3% of its work, and even less of its funds be directly driven by that same community. Instead of allocating funds based on comunity's preferences, and in the same order, WMF has choosen the order and fund allocation according to the internal goals and inside politics. The recent priority setting efforts (which took nearly a year) may change that, but the process so far has seem to be far too complex, whereas the community tech team's voting was much more straightforward and simple to follow and participate.

There is fundamentally only one reason WMF gets the $80 millions in donations -- content. People value Wikipedia's content, and wish to support that content as much as possible. Despite this, almost none of these money goes towards improvements in the content -- Wikipedia is still a wall of text with a few static images, just like it was in 2001. I am still hopeful that a more interactive content would make its way to Wikipedia pages, avoiding stagnation and keeping the whole project relevant for the future.

Because you simply cant buy PR like this. https://upload.wikimedia.org/w... Absolutely spectacular.

The issue there is that anyone can change Wikipedia, so there's no guarantee that the information there is correct.

It's worse than that. Wikipedia is controlled by Democratic Party operatives who forbid the use of conservative-leaning news sources and make up excuses to give "not here" lifetime bans to users who come in with sources that would have been perfectly fine ten years ago when the RS rule was that they had an editorial board and did not have a reputation for falsehood. The admins insult users who try to add balance to the encyclopedia and they routinely cuss out and threaten to ban longtime users who ask them to follow their own rules. The admins doing this have been outed as a paid PR ring with links to the CIA, British, Qatari, and Chinese intelligence, and - not kidding you - ISIS and AQIM. No action was taken by anyone. The feds won't move on them because they worked for the Clinton and Obama campaigns.

Sometimes people don't want to see how the older free software movement (a social movement which advocates for the freedom to run, inspect, share, and modify published computer software) and the younger open source development methodology are philosophically different (1, 2) and that philosophical difference leads to radical differences on the ground. Objections to raising this difference tend to take the form of trying to make it look like any reminder of software freedom (which open source enthusiasts don't like because their philosophy was founded to reject software freedom) is being somehow rude. But time after time we see this difference in action and this article promoting Skype is no different.

Here a proprietary (non-free, user subjugating) program—Skype—is being advertised for use on what might be a free software system (unfairly referred to as a "Linux" system). No reminder of anything to do with software freedom except in a place where the proprietor thinks they can benefit from the conflation the open source philosophy was designed to achieve: "While Microsoft has long been viewed as an enemy of the Linux community -- and it still is by some -- the company has actually transformed into an open source champion." tries to get you to think of "open source" but not to the extent that one would wonder if even that group's weaker philosophy is going to be available to Skype's users by running Skype. No mention of GNU as in a GNU/Linux operating system; any mention of GNU is far too strong a reminder of the software freedom you're not getting with Skype. Better to stick to distracting technocratic details that are irrelevant compared with the profound problems of running Skype, details like the software's packaging. And to reinforce the notion that open source advocates will often abandon their own developmental philosophy if it gets in the way of a powerful proprietor, we get a quote from Canonical, an open source supporting company, further encouraging users to install the non-free communications software.

Nowhere will you find a reminder that not only is Skype non-free software (and that this alone carries horrible implications) but Microsoft is an NSA partner, and Microsoft changed Skype specifically for spying. Apparently the "seamless user experience" Canonical championed and the "high quality experience" Microsoft talked about doesn't include respecting a user's software freedom, their privacy, or the security of their computer.

It sounds like the author of the text book was from New Cuyama.

Well, Nintendo portables has always done great. So there's that ..

But yeah, battery life is poor where we've seen other consoles fail due to that. I don't really see it as much of a saver for the Switch but I guess the fact that you can play games on it hooked up to the wall to some extent makes up for that by a tiny bit because at-least you're not limited to just playing for three hours and then charging it. I guess another thing which may have changed since the Game gear days is how we use batteries and live our lives and play games too. For people (mostly kids?) who bought non-rechargable AA batteries and had to replace them all the time maybe it was a larger problem than people who may play in small burst once they got the time and with a device which recharges pretty quickly.

To me the fact that one can play two people on a portable would make up for quite a bit of other issues. There was a game & watch for two player or something too wasn't it?
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Seem like it.
Given the same system otherwise the simple fact that you can sit and play with a friend make the system better.

Turkey has much bigger problems than a secular vs religious divide. The country is hodgepodge of different cultures. You see, the end of the first World War saw the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire (who fought on the losing side). The European victors carved up the territory into most of the modern Middle Eastern countries we know today. They did so completely oblivious to the cultural boundaries of the indigenous people, which is the root cause of much of the instability in the Middle East today e.g. Iraq is three disparate groups of Shia, Sunni, and Kurds who more or less hate each other, trying to form a single unified government to represent a "country" formed along arbitrary geographic lines drawn by people thousands of miles away who'd never even heard of the words Shia, Sunni, and Kurd. This is why dictatorships work so well there - through brutality they manage to suppress the cultural differences enough to hold the "country" together.

What became Turkey rebelled against the allied occupation after WWI, and won their freedom. But theirs was an alliance formed to eject an occupying force. As a country, the cultural differences still remain. It really would be much better off split into 3-5 smaller countries.

Bring back lynching. It would do a tremendous about of good for society.

Yes, it's much more fun to string up those uppity Negroes or even set them on fire than be bothered with the niceties of a trial.

(And do not even try to tell this good ol' Southern boy that lynching means anything else other than "those people aren't real people like us, so we can kill them whenever we feel like it".)

has slight variations that correspond quite well with the variations in CO2 emissions

Care to crunch the data on that? Doesn't look nearly as close a fit as I think you're imagining:

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Here's one that seems to have them side by side:

http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp...

Now, I'd love to see the data, but there seems to be nearly zero correlation, even though the slopes are similar. I can't look at that graph and see any obvious tight correlation. You can see the rate of increase (rather than the total c02 in the atmosphere) being used as a metric - and there's a bunch of variation in that rate of increase that doesn't look at all like human emissions.

As far as temperature goes there is natural variability and some human factors that produce noise in the temperature record that is much greater than the year to year increase in forcing.

Which begs the question - maybe natural variability produces more noise than any proposed human effect :)

The FBI have access to far better software than photoshop.

So does everyone else. Get crackin'.

we keep cutting funding to education and research.

Spending on education is up.
Non-defense R&D spending is up.

Companies don't innovate. There's not enough money on the table to make it worth while. Aside from the occasional bored aristocrat it's mostly been the government that financed innovation; usually through the public university system. But nobody wants to pay the taxes for that.

Corporations spend roughly twice as much money on R&D as the government.

Heck, we just borrowed $1.5 trillion over 10 years to finance massive tax cuts

The last major tax cut was 15 years ago. The drop in tax revenue in the last decade was due to the recession following the collapse of the housing bubble. Currently, tax revenue is back up to "normal" levels (if you define the highest it's ever been historically as "normal").

What's busting the budget is a refusal to cut spending to match revenue (notice the trendline for tax receipts is flat, while the trendline for spending is climbing). This is primarily driven by growth of entitlement programs. The CBO has been warning us about that since at least 1998 (when I started reading the CBO reports).

And before you claim we should balance the budget by paying more taxes, consider that the tax burden in the U.S. is already among the highest in the world. People claiming U.S. taxes are low usually only look at Federal taxes, and fail to account for state and local taxes. U.S. tax burden is the third highest of the 20 largest economies in the world (only France and Italy have a higher tax burden). That's right, Americans pay more taxes (as percent of GDP) than socialist countries like Canada, the UK, Germany.

Summary even states that the main reason the U.S. dropped was because of low percentage of STEM college graduates.

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I'll have you know father rapers started by this person

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You can get anything you want

What if it's the short-term solution? Robots remotely operated by humans?

Nothing's forever, but this isn't new, and I expect this sort of job will be around for some time. Automation that needs human babysitters is as old as automation. The software I work on keeps track of both people and robots doing their job, and "robots with babysitters" is certainly a category we've had for a long time.

Sure, eventually any sort of automation may become mature enough that it only needs humans for repair/service, but that can take decades depending on the job. In the mean time, the robots still reduce the human labor needed, and as long as the overall solution costs less, it's going to be adopted by industry.

And if you're able to game-ify the job, you'll get people paying you to do your work!

"Like it? Well, I don't see why I oughtn't to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?" - Tom Sawyer

Heck, the idea had a commemorative stamp

Like this?

That's why human vision works on segmentation, breaking down the scene into a collage of cut-out shapes of different textures, then using stereoscopic depth perception to figure out where they are relative to each other and with occlusion, then using image classification to figure out what each object is. The downside is that you can camouflage anything simply by blurring the edges or by using razzle-dazzle techiques used in World War II.

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Yes, you are in large part correct, but according to this we are in our 7th cycle.

Notice on the incredibly rapid temperature increase each time the earth goes from cold to warm.

I've tried to present this graph before but it always seems to get edited out of slashdot.

Many years ago (1990s) I took a guided trip round Chicago and one of the things was a building with that was square or rectangular section with a sloping roof at such an angle that it was a diamond shape.

Maybe this one? https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

The guide said the angle was almost perfectly wrong - just flat enough that snow would build up ... until all of a sudden it wouldn't and there'd be an avalanche.

The solution, IIRC, was auxiliary heaters.

The Birth Certificate was verified by the Republican Governor of Hawaii personally

True.

The inconsistencies didn't exist.

Agreed.

And more than one site proving them was proven to have introduced them themselves, just to point them out.

I'm tempted to ask you to support that claim, but I think it's a distraction. Let's accept it as true.

There is lots of evidence he was born in HI, and no evidence he wasn't.

True.

Even if he wasn't born in HI, the law today would have granted him citizenship at birth

True.

And yes, you can retroactively apply that to a birth before a law change

Again, distraction. But that's an awfully bold claim to make without support.

So, he was born in HI. All the evidence says he was. No evidence exists that he wasn't.

Agreed.

And even if he wasn't, he'd still have been eligible to be president.

Sure, let's go with that.

So... that still doesn't explain why he never released his original unaltered birth certificate. It's really fucking weird that there are anti-aliasing artifacts and, on the long form, a fake "security paper" background. It's kind of weird that it's a certified true copy, rather than a photograph of the original.

Maybe the paper original was lost or destroyed somehow. Maybe the security paper background image is always added, in Hawaii's software system, and maybe it always incurs anti-aliasing artifacts. But none of that was explained or even asserted by the campaign or the Administration.

I fully believe that Obama was born in Hawaii, that he was a U.S. natural born citizen, and that he was legitimately sworn into office. But the "birth certificate" (which is to say, the certified true copy of an ostensible electronic database record of a birth certificate) does indeed raise more questions than it answers. This is far more convincing than this and it isn't clear to me what the campaign thought they were doing when they altered the scan so heavily.

Do I think it's a scam and Obama perpetrated a fraud on the American people? Not in the slightest.

Do I cringe at the incompetence of a campaign being so manifestly inauthentic in the midst of trying to prove authenticity? Absofuckinlutely.

"Microsoft Beer 10. After heavy and sustained use, a reboot into the porcelain throne may be required."

Throne? The Germans have specialist throw-up porcelain (Kotzbecken) for that.

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You can get all of Wikipedia for ~60GB, I think. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik.... So, a bunch of Twitter text files might not be as large as you think. It's the JS that does the carding part and I doubt they're screen shooting them all.

not sure if clickbait or fear-mongering.Go eat a banana then get tested for radiation. Bananas are an excellent natural source for Potassium, which is naturally radioactive. Radiation Dose Chart According to that chart, a banana is about the same dose as living within 50 miles of a normal reactor for a year.

You are aware that the idea of a "banana equivalent dose" has been thouroughly debunked, right? The net increase of radioactivity exposure from eating a banana is: zero

I was subject to yearly whole body count for heavy metals of radiation. Have you eaten bananas in the last week a question asked (false positives I assumed).

Coleman lantern mantels (Thorium) were a lot of fun. Many who spent the weekend camping couldn't get past the radiation detectors.

not sure if clickbait or fear-mongering.Go eat a banana then get tested for radiation. Bananas are an excellent natural source for Potassium, which is naturally radioactive. Radiation Dose Chart According to that chart, a banana is about the same dose as living within 50 miles of a normal reactor for a year.

You are aware that the idea of a "banana equivalent dose" has been thouroughly debunked, right? The net increase of radioactivity exposure from eating a banana is: zero

"The Potassium-40 in bananas is a particularly poor model isotope to use, Meggitt says, because the potassium content of our bodies seems to be under homeostatic control. When you eat a banana, your body's level of Potassium-40 doesn't increase. You just get rid of some excess Potassium-40. The net dose of a banana is zero."

(source: https://boingboing.net/2010/08... )

not sure if clickbait or fear-mongering.

Go eat a banana then get tested for radiation. Bananas are an excellent natural source for Potassium, which is naturally radioactive.

Radiation Dose Chart

According to that chart, a banana is about the same dose as living within 50 miles of a normal reactor for a year. (and living that close to a coal plant is triple that dose!)

This is one of those "Your odds of getting killed by a cow are greater than getting killed by a shark" moments.

The home ownership rate is higher today than in 1967.

Median home prices are about the same today as they were in 1967 after you adjust for inflation.

Mortgage interest rates are lower today than in 1967.

Median income is up for all quintiles since 1967 after adjusting for inflation, even the bottom two. Meaning the home price to income ratio has fallen since 1967 (you need to use a smaller percentage of your income to afford a home).

I'm sorry for your situation, but you are an outlier. Not representative of the norm. Home ownership is easier today than in 1967.

If you want to know why you Millenials are having a hard time buying a home, the answer is really simple. The savings rate has fallen from 12% in 1967 to about 6% today. Basically, you spent all your money instead of saving it. Contrast this to, say, the UK - where the savings rate has actually gone up since the 1970s. It's not all bad news though. Young people began saving more beginning about a decade ago. Unfortunately, you actually had a negative savings rate from about 1995-2007 (you were spending more than you made). So combine your higher savings rate with paying off your accumulated debt, and you can't afford to rent an apartment so you end up living in your parents' basement.

Oops. the link to how PE files contain a Dos exe stub didn't work

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Originally this just printed "This program requires Microsoft Windows". Of course if you have a Dos version of something you can make that the stub.

The problem is that there's no documented way to combine two PE files for different APIs - Win32 and UEFI. It's also not really clear to me what the UEFI app should be built for - you can have native x86, native x64 or EBC - a byte code format.

Even though most Windows installations are 64 bit they can still run x86 code, so that seems safe. With UEFI you have to either match the native architecture or use EBC. And it's not clear how many UEFI bioses are x86, x64 or EBC capable. Then again I suppose Dell would know what would work. Still combining Win32 and UEFI code into one PE file seems like it would need a trick I don't know.

Maybe, but there's an awful lot of elephant to drill through before you get to the turtle shell.

No. It is VERY HARD to see how this could go wrong.

One barely needs to be awake to the present day to see how this can go wrong, because we're already living it.

Next to Samoa and Saudi Arabia (and one or two others), America is pretty much the most obese country in human history. Did the bariatric hover-chairs in WALL-E seem altogether implausible? No, they didn't. (Well, not unless unless you think too much about the hovering part.)

Evolution equipped us with a survival heuristic: pursue sugar.

And then, practically overnight, what had been a scarce resource for a hundred million years became almost too cheap to meter.

Evolution equipped us with a social survival heuristic: monitor the other person's facial expression when you flap your gums. In traditional social settings, communities with fewer than 200 core members, you can guarantee that what goes around, comes around. Elephants have long memories, but they don't hold a candle to tribal grievance.

And then, practically overnight, society's primary discourse setting turns into an adolescent fucktard's wildest wet dream.

Meanwhile, back at Gradient HQ, Facebook invents algorithms to prioritize outrage sugar. ("Sugar!" is the reported to be the strongest expletive ever uttered by Ernest Orlando Lawrence, even when he dropped the priming mechanism of a hydrogen bomb on his own toes, not counting that one time Leslie Groves put his military boot up Orlando's ass over the contaminated cooling oil in the first edition magnets installed at Y12.)

You don't think it launches a whole new can of worms when Pretty Woman raises the curtain on three different degrees of Revelations: one for the early evening show, one for the late evening show, and one for the xtra-late night show (that squeaking sound when you walk out of the theatre?—this time it's not sugar)? Bonus: if you bring your VR goggles, you can complete the Terminator fantasy questionnaire before the movie begins, and with the SQUID hairnet accessory, it can be auto-calibrated to your exact mental response pattern throughout.

First truly sentient thought of human technological matrix: be damn careful what you wish for, because no concerted counter-offensive against sugar has ever gone well for the first hundred years.

Carfentanil is an analog of the synthetic opioid analgesic fentanyl. A unit of carfentanil is 100 times as potent as the same amount of fentanyl, 5,000 times as potent as a unit of heroin and 10,000 times as potent as a unit of morphine.

And how is that going?

So, in summary, I completely agree with you, with only one proviso: that more of what we want proves to be worth having.

This is good for tulips.

Bzzzzt. Wrong.

The "Big Boys" (Google/Amazon/Netflix/etc.) Connect to the internet through IXPs (Internet Exchange Points)

These are the major link-ups between networks. They connect at the same levels as Comcast/Verizon/etc. (Tier 2 Providers), as seen here:

Clicky Clicky!

Due to Net Neutrality laws, the other Tier 2 providers have to accept their traffic the same as people down or upstream. So, basically, they have to shoulder the extra data without compensation. And if Netflix/Google/Etc. start sending them more traffic, they have no recourse.

That being said, I think ISPs need SOME form of control, but Title II was too onerous for small-time ISPs to gain entry.

At this point, the only mechanism we have for "correcting" the mistake is to elect an opposition party to power in Congress in 2018.

Good luck with that. The Democrats might win the House, but they're highly unlikely to win the Senate. There are 24 Democratic Senate seats (and 2 independents who vote with the Dems) up for re-election in 2018, vs just 8 Republican seats. And 5 of those Democrats are in states which voted for Trump by huge margins. Senators are re-elected every 6 years, so those Democrats rode Obama's re-election coattails to win in these deep-red states. The more likely outcome is a Republican gain in the Senate.

(2016 was the reverse, with Republicans defending 24 Senate seats, vs. just 10 for the Democrats. That was the year the Democrats had to pick up seats to win the Senate. The Republicans escaped it losing only 2 seats and maintaining control. 2020 is more favorable to the Democrats, with 22 Republicans and 11 Democratic Senate seats up for re-election.)

Yes the House is skewed by gerrymandering. What bugs me is that the press is just now reporting on gerrymandering being a problem, when they completely ignored it during the 40 years (1955-1994) the Democrats controlled the House. All this stuff about the gerrymandering problem is old hat to me because I tried to explain it all to people in the 1980s. Culminating in a ballot initiative to try to fix the problem. Environmental groups and NOW ran ads against it and defeated it because they knew the the districts were gerrymandered to favor Democrats, so fixing the problem then would've meant more Republicans in office. I'll vote for any sensible reform, but I won't cry any tears if it fails. Those groups made their bed - they can lie in it. (Republicans overcame gerrymandering by coming up with a strategy to defeat it that didn't involve winning legislative seats - win the governorship in states where Democrats controlled both state legislatures, and simply veto the gerrymandered districts the Democrats came up with.)

See here.. The difference is what you were doing was always recognized as illegal but the law was not being enforced. What Uber's doing is generally being recognized as legal.

And you should have been outraged. You were being exploited. Just because there is a time in your life when you were no longer being exploited doesn't mean you weren't. I see this periodically, where people wonder why we need all these regulations, laws and rules when the problems they're supposed to solve are gone. What this usually means is either a) the problem doesn't affect me anymore so I don't see why it's a problem (your case) or worse b) the regulations and laws prevent the problem from happening and people can't understand that without those laws the problem would come back...

Well, right or wrong, I would prefer he stay away from my kids... - https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

yes they have

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"So you ability to have global communications,"

All feasible without space, Chris.

", the thousands of scientific discoveries that affect your every single day of existence"

They were discovered in space and affect my every single day? NAME ONE, Space Nutter.

"accurate weather forecasts.."

That's down to powerful computers, idiot.

"please go live in a shack in the woods somewhere without electricity."

Electricity comes from space?

Nope. Never will, either.

Sure, space is a fun thing, but it's far from the amazing frontier the propagandists want you to believe.

>Think meter thick lines to go several hundred KM.
>AC exists to reduce effective resistance without increasing wire gauges.

Why do people persist in believing this nonsense?
AC won the war of the currents because back in the late 1800s it was more economical to convert AC power to high voltages for transmission, thus reducing I^2R losses.
There are several high voltage DC lines in use, *TODAY*, that run thousands of kilometers, and they don't use meter thick wires. There have been HVDC lines in use for at least 50 years.
A picture.
AC does not "exist" to "reduces effective resistance." Physics and electrical generator design are why AC exists, but mostly physics.
DC not inherently lossier than AC over transmission lines because of to its direct nature.
You don't need to take it from me, do a search for high voltage direct current.

I think this is a much broader problem. This isn't just about Apple. This is about almost all software today that has been developed by Millennial (some people use the term "Hipster") developers.

Millennials have been in the industry for about 10 years now, and these past 10 years have been some of the worst in terms of software quality.

Just look at the destruction they've left behind them. Windows 8, 8.1 and 10. GNOME 3. Firefox 4 and later. Systemd. Wayland. Slashdot Beta. NoSQL. The list goes on and on.

The Gedit text editor is an excellent example of how formerly-usable software has been destroyed. This is what Gedit used to look like. At that point it had a sane, easy-to-use, functional UI. This is what Gedit has become. It's like 50+ years of accumulated experience and knowledge has been discarded for no good reason, and the end result is a disaster.

What we have is a generation of software devs who are far too focused on aesthetics and trendiness, with little to no care put toward usability, security, and reliability. They go out of their way to ignore everything we've learned about doing things right. They do things their own way, and it's a disaster.

This isn't even a get-off-my-lawn situation. Many of us who are appalled by these developments are late Gen X'ers. We aren't even that much older than the Millennials who have caused so many problems! In fact, many of us spend our days trying to bring some sanity to otherwise disastrous workplaces. We remember how software used to be developed, yet we're so outnumbered by Millennials that we just can't keep up.

It was excusable when security flaws and usability problems were accidentally introduced by earlier generations because they were doing pioneering work, and the concepts behind these security flaws and usability problems hadn't even been discovered yet. But the industry should be far beyond that now. The knowledge is there, it's just that Millennials choose to totally ignore it.

I think this is a much broader problem. This isn't just about Apple. This is about almost all software today that has been developed by Millennial (some people use the term "Hipster") developers.

Millennials have been in the industry for about 10 years now, and these past 10 years have been some of the worst in terms of software quality.

Just look at the destruction they've left behind them. Windows 8, 8.1 and 10. GNOME 3. Firefox 4 and later. Systemd. Wayland. Slashdot Beta. NoSQL. The list goes on and on.

The Gedit text editor is an excellent example of how formerly-usable software has been destroyed. This is what Gedit used to look like. At that point it had a sane, easy-to-use, functional UI. This is what Gedit has become. It's like 50+ years of accumulated experience and knowledge has been discarded for no good reason, and the end result is a disaster.

What we have is a generation of software devs who are far too focused on aesthetics and trendiness, with little to no care put toward usability, security, and reliability. They go out of their way to ignore everything we've learned about doing things right. They do things their own way, and it's a disaster.

This isn't even a get-off-my-lawn situation. Many of us who are appalled by these developments are late Gen X'ers. We aren't even that much older than the Millennials who have caused so many problems! In fact, many of us spend our days trying to bring some sanity to otherwise disastrous workplaces. We remember how software used to be developed, yet we're so outnumbered by Millennials that we just can't keep up.

It was excusable when security flaws and usability problems were accidentally introduced by earlier generations because they were doing pioneering work, and the concepts behind these security flaws and usability problems hadn't even been discovered yet. But the industry should be far beyond that now. The knowledge is there, it's just that Millennials choose to totally ignore it.

Also, hockey doesn't cover nearly as much space as football of any sort. Here is a hockey rink inside a football stadium. Putting a building around a hockey rink is quite a common endeavor, especially in places where the ambient temperature would generally not be conducive to a game played on ice. Such an arena is also conducive to basketball, futsal, handball, and several other games specifically tailored to the size of a hockey rink. However, these are not the same games traditionally played outdoors -- basketball has been considered an indoor game from the beginning, even though it is frequently played outdoors, and most other arena games are modifications of outdoor games.