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Festo has already succeeded in creating a robotic dragonfly to showcase their technologies to potential customers.

FROM (& I'd suggest listening to Mr. Chaplin do it, he delivers like NO other could have (even Robert Downey Jr., as good as a "thespian" as he is, couldn't in the film "Chaplin")) -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that.

We want to live by each other's happiness - not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.

The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.

Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness.

Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost...

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.

To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people.

And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Soldiers: Don't give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts!

You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts!

You don't hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery - Fight for liberty!

In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: "the Kingdom of God is within man" - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men!

In you!

You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security.

By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will!

Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people!

Now let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance.

Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

Soldiers: in the name of democracy, let us all unite!"

APK

P.S.=> Quoting a great man (Charlie Chaplin) from LONG AGO on that one - he said it better than I ever could - CHANGE STARTS WITH YOU, in "little revolutions"... apk

I think you don't know the history here. This is land that was basically considered impossible to develop and Israel created methods to develop it and did so. After this is when all the sudden the "Palestinians" wanted it. Before and during the development it was a somewhat different story altogether.

I know a bit of the history. I used to do fund-raising for Israeli scientific research. I read Israeli patents. I played a small part in the huge Israeli government public relations machine, until I had to confront the injustice and brutality.

I played a small part in selling you on the myth of backward Arabs wasting the land, and brilliant Zionist agronomists "making the deserts bloom", with your help. Thank you for your generous contribution.

That land was occupied by traditional Arab farmers (and businessmen and professionals) who lived there as they had for hundreds or thousands of years, and were as comfortable as many pre-industrial people were, just as the Jews had lived there 2000 years ago without benefit of irrigation pumps.

Just because you can take over somebody's agricultural land, and make more money out of it, doesn't give you the right to do so. That's robbery.

Anyone could have come to those farmers, and offered them the money and technology to improve their land, and gotten the same improvement. It was standard modern farming methods, taught in agricultural colleges from Iowa to Moscow. That's what the Communists (the other Jews) did in other underdeveloped countries.

I look forward to the day when Israel will be a good country again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Also, although no actual AI came of the AI research in the '70's and '80's, a lot of really cool solutions around machine learning and reasoning were found. Again, I've seen very poorly implemented attempts to do similar types of things in recent code. Those problems were solved ages ago, but the programmers were not even aware of that.

This guy hits the nail on the head.

FROM (& I'd suggest listening to Mr. Chaplin do it, he delivers like NO other could have (even Robert Downey Jr., as good as a "thespian" as he is, couldn't in the film "Chaplin")) -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that.

We want to live by each other's happiness - not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.

The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.

Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness.

Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost...

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.

To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people.

And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Soldiers: Don't give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts!

You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts!

You don't hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery - Fight for liberty!

In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: "the Kingdom of God is within man" - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men!

In you!

You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security.

By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will!

Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people!

Now let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance.

Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

Soldiers: in the name of democracy, let us all unite!"

APK

P.S.=> Quoting a great man (Charlie Chaplin) from LONG AGO on that one - he said it better than I ever could - CHANGE STARTS WITH YOU, in "little revolutions"... apk

FROM (& I'd suggest listening to Mr. Chaplin do it, he delivers like NO other could have (even Robert Downey Jr., as good as a "thespian" as he is couldn't in the film "Chaplin")) -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that.

We want to live by each other's happiness - not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.

The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.

Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness.

Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost...

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.

To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people.

And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Soldiers: Don't give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts!

You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts!

You don't hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery - Fight for liberty!

In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: "the Kingdom of God is within man" - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men!

In you!

You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security.

By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will!

Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people!

Now let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance.

Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

Soldiers: in the name of democracy, let us all unite!"

APK

P.S.=> Quoting a great man (Charlie Chaplin) from LONG AGO on that one - he said it better than I ever could - CHANGE STARTS WITH YOU, in "little revolutions"... apk

Please don't! You know how this works in this economy. VW gets docked with fines, we get to bail them out and their managers get golden parachutes for saving the company.

Not that I'm against golden parachutes. Provided they have to use them.

Sadly, it wasn't just muslims celebrating after 9/11...

An excellent video describing the failings of the F-35 program:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The host, Bill Whittle, does get into some political commentary with a conservative slant but also gives an excellent history of fighter jet development in the USAF in less than 8 minutes.

The F-15 Eagle first flew in 1972, was updated in the 1980's to the F-15E Strike Eagle. Even though the two have a common history the F-15E is a very different, and much more capable, aircraft. Boeing is now working on the F-15 Silent Eagle, a version of the aircraft with capabilities in stealth and lethality that the F-35 wish it had.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I believe that the US Air Force and Navy would be better served with the F-15SE than the platinum plated lead sled that is the F-35. The US Marine Corps, however, needs a multi-role fighter that can take off from and land on the deck of an amphibious assault ship. If the Department of Defense had only focused on providing a capable VSTOL airframe, and updating existing airframes with improved engines and electronics, then we wouldn't have the F-35 in it's current form. We'd also have a much more capable military at a lower cost.

What the powers that be tried to do is replace four very different aircraft, F-15, F-16, A-10, and AV-8, with one. This common airframe was supposed to come with a cost savings. Instead what we have is a very expensive compromise that is a jack of all trades and master of none.

As many will tell to anyone that will listen the goal of the F-35 is not to provide a superior airframe, it is to spend federal government money in as many Congressional districts as possible.

I wonder why something like this isn't included
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
it doesn't seem that mechanically complex.

It will take a hell of a lot more than pretty background pics and games to get people to convert to Linux.

Number 1 on that list is all the devs from the million other linux dists/clones coming together, stop the in-fighting, become organised (like canonical) and be under 1 leadership developing 1 product.
And number 2 is to fix the disaster that is the ever-changing UI and incompatibility between every damn app, which reinvents the UI wheel.

Bryan Lunduke has been correctly highlighting these issues (in "LFNW" or "Why Linux Sucks") for many years, and yet it always seems to fall on deaf ears.

So in short, the GPL is at fault here, along with all the messy politics coming from people behind linux.

There's only 1 great example of an organised and well-structured open-source project - and that's Mozilla!
It's popular because there's no politics and in-fighting and the million different clones of their products.

I honestly believe there are people out there, people like me, who are desperate to move off Windows and especially due to spyware in Win10, but can't because Linux is such a mess. And it has been since the very beginning when the hot-headed kid Linus went against the masters of OS design (Professors like Tanenbaum et al)

It will take a hell of a lot more than pretty background pics and games to get people to convert to Linux.

Number 1 on that list is all the devs from the million other linux dists/clones coming together, stop the in-fighting, become organised (like canonical) and be under 1 leadership developing 1 product.
And number 2 is to fix the disaster that is the ever-changing UI and incompatibility between every damn app, which reinvents the UI wheel.

Bryan Lunduke has been correctly highlighting these issues (in "LFNW" or "Why Linux Sucks") for many years, and yet it always seems to fall on deaf ears.

So in short, the GPL is at fault here, along with all the messy politics coming from people behind linux.

There's only 1 great example of an organised and well-structured open-source project - and that's Mozilla!
It's popular because there's no politics and in-fighting and the million different clones of their products.

I honestly believe there are people out there, people like me, who are desperate to move off Windows and especially due to spyware in Win10, but can't because Linux is such a mess. And it has been since the very beginning when the hot-headed kid Linus went against the masters of OS design (Professors like Tanenbaum et al)

By your argument, people would not make new cars or houses because the average person might only buy one house and a couple cars in a lifetime. The fact that a person might only take a couple doses of a drug and then stop when cured is no deterrent when there are BILLIONS of people on Earth.

The big problem is that drugs face several costs that impact no other product as severely:

1. Very expensive R&D. Development of new drugs costs more than almost any other product.

2. Very risky R&D. Most drug research ends in nothing. Unlike R&D for a car or a plane, which can mutate into a different model that does get produced, the research into a drug can span years and lead to only one drug, which then can be blocked from sale by a single government ruling.

3. Very expensive liability insurance. A single drug can be deemed "safe", be sold to the public for years, and then be found liable for some injury in a court case opening the floodgates to millions of claims in countless lawsuits in which sympathetic juries see a poor victim facing a massive rich company thereby wiping-out decades of profits.

The recent hyper-inflation of a pill price you cited was an extreme outlier, which was why it got so much news coverage; i.e. it was a very unusual event as-in "man bites dog" - the news does not generally run "dog bites man" stories. Let me guess: you think Obama's assertions during the push for "Obamacare" that doctors neglect diabetes patients because they make more money amputating limbs than from curing diabetes.

Complete and utter nonsense.

I said "mostly", that's not an absolute. Yes there are some genre's that haven't had many console releases yet, but it is only a matter of time. It wasn't that long ago that someone like you might have said:

"let me know when I can play DOOM on a console" or "Let me know when I can play an MMORPG on a console" or "let me know when you can play a flight game on a console with a HOTAS"

Any RTS

I have several console RTS's within 20 feet of me....sadly they're all PSone games. Developers tended to be more wiling to try the genre out on console then. There was a port of RA3 on the PS3, but I don't have it. There are some indie games with RTS elements.

RPG: The excellent free Path of Exile,

PoE's a Diablo clone, right? Well there's always Diablo, or Sacred 2/3, or Dungeon Hunter Alliance, etc, etc. Some of the best Diablo-clones you've probably never played becasue they were console only.

There's no Guild wars on console...yet..but it is an MMORPG, so there's Planetside, DCUO, FFXIV, Onigiri and TESO. Destiny, Defiance, and Warframe as well. (Neverwinter on the Xbox)

Space Games:

Pickings are slim for space games, till next year anyway. there IS Dust514 on the PS3, which connects with EVE, but it's a shooter-with MMO elements. Elite Dangerous is upcoming for PS4, as is Kerbal Space Program and No Man's Sky next year.

I don't know what has happened to Drifter and Starbound, both were coming to PS4. Axiom Verge was announced at the same time as Drifter and has been out a while already. (The PS4 and Vita versions are partially done, but they say they'll going to wait till the PC version hits 1.0 but their progress is glacial)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

That's one problem with some Indie developers, their "vision" is too big for their team I suspect the same happened to No Man Sky, but at least THAT has a scheduled release now.

cross-bred consultant class (the hired-gun public-manipulation trolls that infest politics in both nations).

Politicians ALWAYS want to be in control and hate being sand-bagged. Their staff members and supporters ALWAYS want to "control the message". In the immediate post-911 period, with Bush riding very high in US politics (which tends to happen in the US to any president of any party early in a war) the Democrats ran a poll and found that they had no possibility of getting the White House in the 2004 cycle and their teams started looking for new political themes to chip-away at that support. One of the things they found was in an area their base was already alerted to, making it doubly useful: NASA had a global warming researcher who had a reputation for sandbagging his bosses, and those bosses (being typical political animals) had responded in typical fashion; they'd ordered him to stop talking to the press without first clearing it with them (so they would not keep getting blind-sided by activist-journalists hitting them "out of the blue" with Hansen quotes). There was nothing in the demands placed on Hansen that had not been placed on other government employees in the past by politicians above them, but this time it was turned into political theater. Hansen gave something like a hundred unauthorized interviews insisting he was being muzzled (a curiously inconsistent mix of action and claim) and Democrats in the press hyped this as proof that the Bush admin was "anti-science", which became a political theme deployed in the 2004 cycle. The only thing unusual in the entire setup was that it was, with a press assist, turned into a political meme. It was an orchestrated stunt that took advantage of the raging conrol-freak inside EVERY politician.

In the past several decades, the permanent political consultant class (both Republican and Democrat) in Washington DC have spread-out and discovered they could sell their political manipulation skills in other countries with elections. As a result, both Republican and Democrat consultants, advisers, messaging experts, etc have gone to work in elections countries like the UK as a way to keep busy and keep making money during lulls in the US political seasons; they're like pro athletes who play in different leagues in different seasons. With Canada sharing a border with the US and a heavy political/cultural cross-pollination there was no question that this scenario would be repeated there. There will be more of the same in the future.

Sadly, one of the reasons political propaganda survives is that it works. Members of the general public, without regard to political affiliation, do not pay attention to details and have a short attention span on political matters, so they are easily manipulated by political theater - which all politicians do.

For you Democrats who want to deny this and pretend the "anti-science" Bush admin was unique and "muzzled" James Hansen, I offer a tad of counter-evidence in two points:

1. Please list all the press interviews Hansen gave while he was supposedly being muzzled, and then provide a list of the news outlets who could not get an interview with him during that time. Hint: the first list will be a bit over a hundred and the latter list will be empty - but you should do the exercise to learn how completely manipulated you were.

2. Please list all the names of the survivors of the 2012 Benghazi raid. You cannot, because even many Republicans in congress have been unable to see the list or even interview them ..... because the Obama administration put gag orders in place; the messaging people in the current admin did not want people who work under them speaking to the press and providing a counter-narrative to what the admin was pushing (that there had been a spontaneous protest about a You Tube video that had "gotten out of hand", as opposed to a pre-planned terrorist attack on the anniversary of 9/11/2001). Like I said: this is bi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Okay, let's do this. I'll drop my book from a height of ten feet. You do the same with your book reader.

The previous, less durable model of my reader survived drops from all angles at realistic heights.

Ok, lets try this: I'll dunk my ebook reader under water (or spill coffee on it). You do the same with your dead tree book.

Or how about this: I'll toss my ebook reader into my luggage. You do the same with your dead tree book and see if you don't bend pages and corners.

Or how about this: I'll leave my ebook reader sitting around, collecting dust. You do the same with your dead tree book and see if the pages don't get damaged by oxygen, sunlight, dust or humidity.

Also, when you damage a book, you've damaged one book. When you break your reader, you've lost *all* your books.

When you damage dead tree books, those books are gone forever. When I break my reader, I can get a new reader and restore my whole library from backup.

<NeutralAmericanAccent>
For the past 30 years, technology of scanner has changed small.
It is still slow and hard to use.
Imagine one true smart scanner, which is fast, connected to Wifi, and easy operated.
What's more, it can scan books.

Scanning speed is so important for everyone.
To make this reality,
a lot of new technologies have been used on Czur for the first time.

We believe that technology shouldn't be minorities' privilege.
New technology and algorithm can lower the cost of the hardware.
So after testing image algorithm for hundreds of times.
Czur will be the first affordable book scanner for everyone.

Equipped with 16 million pixels camera.
Czur can make sure the clarity of every scanning.
and OCR function can also make digital copy editable.
Czur is also a visual projector with 1080P.
</NeutralAmericanAccent>

LOL!

Go to 1:13 in the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... . They appear to have solved page curl via the "Flattening Curve" process.

Every time a governing body gets involved, things get more complicated

Every time a governing body is lacking, things get more complicated. And then one emerges anyway.

The question always ends up being: in whose interest do those with effective governorship act?

I promise you,

Donate $10/month and I promise you Paradise.

it really is possible for people to cooperate with each other to achieve this.

Do you mean "cooperate" or "compete"? Democratic government is a form of cooperation, you realise? one citizen, one share.

This isn't an anti-enterprise post, just an anti-anti-government one. Pure ideology (e.g. "free market!" and "command economy!") is for modellers, storytellers and fanatics. The modeller knows they're simplifying the problem. The storyteller knows they're making things up completely. The fanatic, unfortunately, realises neither.

From someone who was 10 years old and was inspired by this speech that is oft forgotten and belittled in the bejeweled halls of anti-government fanatics like some of todays right wing sudo nazis and especially assholes that spout anti-government nonsense. They really need to have their motives and agendas closely scrutinized by the electorate again. What we need is someone like a Kennedy again to step forward and roast these assholes over the coals in public debate the way Nixon was exposed in 1960.

Great leaders inspire great things for mankind, the current group of anti-government leaders are an oxymoron! To quote Mr. Trump's most used bit of bullshit leadership technique, we all need to say in one voice "YOUR ALL FUCKING FIRED!" The way we did with Nixon if we ever catch on to what these so called business people are really up to with a blatant attempt to buy another Presidency the way they did with Reagan. Do they really think people are that stupid all of the time? Not that the rest of the Republican ticket is any better this time around either, yes they had once had a real leader in Lincoln, but how the once great in spirit have all fallen to the allure of the coin!

It is not the time to hold back on the future and live in an oil and blood soaked past. I can only pray that soon a time will come when someone again inspires the cooperation ventures like space exploration, a change to a real environmental economy, with the technology to eliminate waste and most of all great science ventures in all the fields that made landing on the moon possible!

Politics is being abused by those who have lead by deliberately inciting economic terror and other tactics like the ones used by Dick Chaney and Co. Even George Bush senior is finally starting to realize the real problems that these money driven assholes are creating for the economy and the world in the long term. At least the not so great actor Ronald Reagan, who became a president and asked Mr Gorbachev to "tear down that wall" admitted that it was economically important to do science right and it was this that made us great, even as his supporters ripped and tore up Nasa!

Unfortunately what I envision happening instead is a secret state visit to the international space station by both Putin and someone like Jeb or Trump to carve up the world economy in secret as they nuke the Chinese and a few other states that get in the way of their friend's enterprises. Dick Chaney can tag along, I am sure him and a few others will all be doing something in the background to oversee the talks!

"It's also unscientific to ignore peer-reviewed research that shows conclusively there is absolutely no difference in intelligence level "

That would be the case, were it true. But it isn't, sadly. It is so much easier to just wave your hands and claim that we are all the same, but we aren't. It might not even be genetic. I suspect that anyone who was born with dark skin would see a similar, if less pronounced effect as the sheep wearing the scary mask: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Human brains all work the same. Problem is that human brains interpret differing skin colors to have differing characteristics, something that might just be a self fulfilling prophesy. One that can only be solved by that most anti-liberal of solutions--segregation.

Some people agree with you

hmmm, interesting read

http://response.restoration.no...

While it's true that these areas have a higher concentration of plastic than other parts of the ocean, much of the debris found in these areas are small bits of plastic (microplastics) that are suspended throughout the water column. A comparison I like to use is that the debris is more like flecks of pepper floating throughout a bowl of soup, rather than a skim of fat that accumulates (or sits) on the surface.

That is precisely the problem, because the plastic breaks down into tidbits and some of the really nasty toxic ones become indistinguishable from the food that fish eat. Further to that sockeye salmon and other Oncorhynchus and fish everywhere are starting to show up with bellies full of plastics http://www.npafc.org/new/publi...

Naturally the ocean gyres are slowly churning the plastics into smaller and smaller pieces and they are also breaking into bits on shorelines of islands and the continents. So it is not as if there is a great garbage dump out there but the truth is that there is a level of ongoing human caused pollution that is will eventually do permanent damage to much more than the ocean's key ecosystems.

The alarmist videos and Fox News style environmental news shows do not show the real extent of the problem. They are not scientifically sound and are not really informing the public about the real problem with the world dominating petro industrial complex. Unfortunately the real problems are much more insidious and hidden as the quote I appended coming from your link clearly indicates.

Perhaps it is far better instead to scare the shit out of people with videos like this one. Hopefully the extent of the real damage going on will finally be recognized by J. Q. Public, before another Bush league petro president takes over the reigns of power.

Even Obama has stated that a lack action to change our attitudes towards the abuse of our shared environment by not being able to halt the dismissal of science, largely by the rich industry lobbies in Washington, is one of the greatest regrets he will have when he surrenders the reigns of power. Truth is it does not matter who becomes the President anymore the government is now run by the industry lobbies not the people and certainly not by truth!

Moo Point explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Just a backgrounder ...

For the past 9+ years in Canada, we had a Conservative government (right wing ideologues).

They wanted to eliminate inconvenient truths that are against their ideologies, so they started a war on data and a war on science.

Here is a recent TV program explaining how despicable this is:

War on Data

War on Science

The new liberal government promised evidence based policies. One thing they promised is to reinstate the long form census which the Conservatives axed on false premises back in 2010.

So this is just undoing the damage done by right wingers ...

Just a backgrounder ...

For the past 9+ years in Canada, we had a Conservative government (right wing ideologues).

They wanted to eliminate inconvenient truths that are against their ideologies, so they started a war on data and a war on science.

Here is a recent TV program explaining how despicable this is:

War on Data

War on Science

The new liberal government promised evidence based policies. One thing they promised is to reinstate the long form census which the Conservatives axed on false premises back in 2010.

So this is just undoing the damage done by right wingers ...

Go watch this video, it's long but it makes the point better than anything I've seen previously.

Summary - this whole argument about what "engineering" really is ignores what most engineers actually do. Civil and Structural Engineering is not all of engineering, there are so many other fields which all do things their own way and which are not at all comparable to the oft-quoted bridge building or skyscraper construction. The process of creating software is part science, part art, part craft and part engineering. That's OK, it's alright to be lots of things. They're not exclusive.

Elon Musk suggested nuking Mars to warm it up.

How about engineering controlled tiny asteroid collisions at the poles, replace the solar wind matter being stripped off.

This man was hiking, he video tapes the eruption and then has to escape it on foot. If you want to see his life and death part skip to 2 minutes where he says "I honest to god think I'm dead." Cause he can't breath. He does survive though.

Venus should be a candidate for colonisation, it would probably be much cheaper and easier:

Should We Colonize Venus Instead of Mars?

Nixie tubes. Meh.

How about an HP 9100? Programmable, scientific functions, RPN. And no integrated circuits (all discrete component logic).

What I find interesting is that it took a tremendously more advanced technology to render slide rules obsolete.

To make a slide rule, you need to figure out logarithms, then make exact marks on wood or something.

To make a modern calculator, you need to invent the microchip! You also need to invent a suitable display technology: light-emitting diodes or liquid crystal displays. We literally put a man on the moon before anyone was able to make a pocket calculator.

I love reading old science fiction stories set in the far future, where in the year 3423 or whatever people are still using slide rules. I imagine in the year 3423 people will still be using chairs, and probably spoons won't be too different... and back when those old stories were being written, slide rules seemed like that kind of basic item that wouldn't be going away.

P.S. Before the "pocket" calculator was invented, there were electronic desk calculators using Nixie tubes! Watch this video and think of how much labor it would be to assemble one of these. The soldering work alone guarantees that a typical college student could never afford one of these, but I'm sure NASA had calculators like this for engineers to use.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mig3TeKh0aU

It's on my Citizen Skyhawk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Never had to use it but I can.

"That is BS."

No it's not... get a clue.

Property laws have always expanded over the last 200 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#/media/File:Copyright_term.svg

Trade is war:

http://www.amazon.com/Trade-War-Yash-Tandon/dp/1939293812

Kim dotcom raid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMas0tWc0sg

http://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]

"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23]

"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]

General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.

http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/

Yea good luck mapping much with that. And check out the video for it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?... - the very end where they all swarm off the bottom towards a ship is just creepy...

"but in the end, the people still vote, and the people elect the government they deserve"

Problem, science says the human brain is bad at reasoning or reality, aka your statement suggest people have freedom rather than being forced to perceive the world and behave according to their biochemistry.

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought, see the science:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

The user still has to navigate to a website then install the app granting android permission to execute. The statement "spread to victims via SMS messages." is fear mongering.
Here's a pretty interesting video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

I guess she could "just go out and run", care to be the one to tell her? She's done 2 half marathons so far, Destination Races - Kelowna BC and the Denver Rock N Roll half marathon and is just ramping up to do more. I'm not really much of a runner, I'm more of a Hockey Guy (As our son would say) https://www.youtube.com/watch?... is more my style. though after watching her run, I'm starting to feel inspired to try running a bit myself.

Because it's not news, it's government progaganda that's planted.

As for voice - apparently, there were attempts to change course and to an emergency landing on another airport and there was apparently an emergency situation then communication broke up. Your Russian "" assumption is probably wrong. If there is a will to get this resolved, there is a way, as seen there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... No need for a 360x180 degree HD video. The delay in comments/news on black box content sure is weird and that's not addressed in your response.

Or features :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I think I'll stick with codebabes

https://www.youtube.com/user/C...

A good place to start might be the talks archived at the GDC Vault.
http://gdcvault.com/

You can read all back-issues of Game Developer Magazine there as well.
http://www.gdcvault.com/gdmag

And sister website Gamasutra has loads of stuff like this.
http://gamasutra.com/

More low-level and rudimentary topics are covered by a couple of good YouTube channels.
https://www.youtube.com/user/B...
https://www.youtube.com/user/c...

If you want to dip your toes into game development without needing to know anything, check out Tom Francis' GameMaker tutorials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

A good place to start might be the talks archived at the GDC Vault.
http://gdcvault.com/

You can read all back-issues of Game Developer Magazine there as well.
http://www.gdcvault.com/gdmag

And sister website Gamasutra has loads of stuff like this.
http://gamasutra.com/

More low-level and rudimentary topics are covered by a couple of good YouTube channels.
https://www.youtube.com/user/B...
https://www.youtube.com/user/c...

If you want to dip your toes into game development without needing to know anything, check out Tom Francis' GameMaker tutorials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

A good place to start might be the talks archived at the GDC Vault.
http://gdcvault.com/

You can read all back-issues of Game Developer Magazine there as well.
http://www.gdcvault.com/gdmag

And sister website Gamasutra has loads of stuff like this.
http://gamasutra.com/

More low-level and rudimentary topics are covered by a couple of good YouTube channels.
https://www.youtube.com/user/B...
https://www.youtube.com/user/c...

If you want to dip your toes into game development without needing to know anything, check out Tom Francis' GameMaker tutorials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You can pick up an old motorola MOTOACTV for cheap and root it: http://motoactv.wikispaces.com... . I love mine for cycling, and with Augmented smartwatch pro on my phone and sideloading apps through ADB, it will do many things that the latest smartwatches still don't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Motorola isn't interested in maintaining it so they lose your data once in a while. The data should be on the motoactv itself though (hopefully!).

The other problem is that it is not sweat-proof. So, you have to put it in a zip lock bag if you are running sweaty or if its raining.

...needs more struts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You can pick up an old motorola MOTOACTV for cheap and root it: http://motoactv.wikispaces.com... . I love mine for cycling, and with Augmented smartwatch pro on my phone and sideloading apps through ADB, it will do many things that the latest smartwatches still don't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Well, P&P RPG ain't no spectator sport. As can easily be seen here.

(German TV, but still funny even if you don't understand it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Shows a heck of a spin during accent.