Clearly you don't live near a glacier. Glaciers don't mean you freeze to death. Those of us who live in the north country know how to deal with cold. Glaciers aren't even particularly cold. Ding one for your science aptitude.
Apparently he hasn't actually bothered to educate himself about what Apple did do and what the FBI is asking for in addition. A little education goes a long ways. In S's case there appears to be none applied.
February? Start of the farming season? Not here. We have deep snows, often 4' of snow pack the end of February. Farming season is still months away. I know, I am a farmer.
Why have months be uneven? Why add the extra leap year day to February of all the worst of months? I wish they would do 13 moon phase months and then we get a little extra at the end of the year at Summer Solstice and every four years we could have an extra day then.
People have been afraid of new tools for a long time. So long that you've forgotten or just not studied your history. The real point is people fear change and they are correct that the change can put them out of a job, the new tool like automated looms in woolen mills for example, tractors for example, etc. But with the change new opportunities open up. That's why even though in the last several hundred years the population has increased and tool use has increased there is still employment at all.
The eternal posts about robots taking away our jobs are almost amusing.
I farm. I have robots all over the place. They let me do more work in fewer hours. Let's see there's my:
Tractors - they each replace about 50 horses and do things that just weren't practical back when we had horses (and people who feared the horses taking over their jobs). With my tractor I am leveraged so I can pickup two 1,000 lb hay bales and carry them up the mountain easily in a few minutes. Doing that by hand is a real drag.
Trucks - they are as powerful as 350 horses each and let me deliver my pastured pork each week to customers far faster and easier than it would be done if I had to use horses or worse yet on foot.
Chainsaw - a very simple robot that does an amazing job at quickly chewing threw wood faster than a dozen beavers we used to have to hire. Also faster than a skilled guy with an ax or hand saw.
Handsaw - an even simpler robot (e.g., tool) that lets me cut wood and other materials much more easily than chewing threw it with my teeth or a rock.
Shovels - massively better than that old stick.
Sticks - well, better than my finger nails for digging holes in the ground!
The list goes on and on. Last century's big innovation (diesel tractor) is accepted as todays run of the mill tool. The Boston Dynamics robots are excellent prototypes of tools we can use in the future further leveraging our abilities. They aren't taking our jobs, they're creating more opportunity.
I raise pigs on pasture year round in a cold climate (USDA Zone 3 Vermont mountains). For years I have done selective breeding to produce pigs that pasture well and thrive right through cold winters without the need for commercial grain / hog feed. There is a genetic component and this article suggests a gut biome component too which is likely passed through the herds from sow to piglets since young pigs practice coprophagia which has been shown to also teach them what to eat as well as inoculating their digestive tracts with appropriate bacteria. This may explain why people have a hard time dumping confinement pigs out on pasture, especially in our hard climate.
Throw another log on the fire. I like to keep it simple. We grow our own fuel, dead trees, and built a high thermal mass wood stove. Uses less than a cord of wood a year for all our heating. Feed it in the morning and it's golden. Our house is high thermal mass and well insulated with some passive solar gain so even without heat it never freezes even in our cold northern climate. Build appropriately. Design simple systems. Dumb works.
He's speaking for himself. With the way he writes I would expect he'll get minimal readership. Apparently he missed out on the centuries old idea of a good thesis and support structure.
So what I hear you saying is that humans are better at being paranoid than computers... An interesting theory. And how do you feel about the upcoming singularity?
It constantly amazes that idiots like you think America (a.k.a. the USA) is homogenous in anything including it's thinking. We're a melting pot with a lot more variety than almost any country, perhaps any country, because the USA was settled by and built by immigrants from around the world. There is no "American Mentality".
"While the Philips Hue system is based on open technologies we are not able to ensure all products from other brands are tested and fully interoperable with all of our software updates."
Philips will make damn sure that other products won't work.
Apparently Philips is unclear about the concept of open tech.
Don't buy from Philips. They've warned you they'll screw you in the socket.
"Contrary to what Zuckerberg claims, the creation of his LLC means he will probably pay no taxes on his $45 Billion."
Good for him. The government has already taxed him billions of dollars on the money he has earned. If he can keep it out of the government's hands and direct it to where he things it will have the most effect then more power to him. That's his right. It's his money.
You and people like you are just jealous. Grow up, earn your own billions and do what you want with them.
"You won't hear these at all. The noise is mostly high frequency and attenuates quickly."
Except some of us, like myself, have very good high frequency hearing and do hear these. They're too loud.
Perhaps part of the problem is that people like you don't know what quiet is really like out in the sticks. You've become so inured to noise in your urban environments that a little more doesn't bother you.
Or you have become deafened by all the noise pollution around you.
That's a myth. I have some. They're still vibrating the air which is audible. I don't want them flying over me or my property, especially at low altitudes.
If they're buzzing around they're going to be like having snowmobiles and dirt bikes overhead. We already have too much noise pollution and don't need more, especially low flying drones.
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Clearly you don't live near a glacier. Glaciers don't mean you freeze to death. Those of us who live in the north country know how to deal with cold. Glaciers aren't even particularly cold. Ding one for your science aptitude.
Because glacier's and climate change care about your gender. -Bender.
US Government to pay 199 Trillion dollar fine for violating the privacy of it's citizens as well as those of other countries.
Now that would be an interesting headline.
Apparently he hasn't actually bothered to educate himself about what Apple did do and what the FBI is asking for in addition. A little education goes a long ways. In S's case there appears to be none applied.
Didn't she brag that we should elect her so she could be the First Felon President? A new first in politics at that level.
This will be a boon to those of us who like Do-It-Yourself brain surgery hacks... :)
February? Start of the farming season? Not here. We have deep snows, often 4' of snow pack the end of February. Farming season is still months away. I know, I am a farmer.
Why have months be uneven? Why add the extra leap year day to February of all the worst of months? I wish they would do 13 moon phase months and then we get a little extra at the end of the year at Summer Solstice and every four years we could have an extra day then.
What is "halfway amusing" is you and your lack of a grasp of history and context. There are a lot of people like you. But you'll adapt. Or you won't.
People have been afraid of new tools for a long time. So long that you've forgotten or just not studied your history. The real point is people fear change and they are correct that the change can put them out of a job, the new tool like automated looms in woolen mills for example, tractors for example, etc. But with the change new opportunities open up. That's why even though in the last several hundred years the population has increased and tool use has increased there is still employment at all.
The eternal posts about robots taking away our jobs are almost amusing.
I farm. I have robots all over the place. They let me do more work in fewer hours. Let's see there's my:
Tractors - they each replace about 50 horses and do things that just weren't practical back when we had horses (and people who feared the horses taking over their jobs). With my tractor I am leveraged so I can pickup two 1,000 lb hay bales and carry them up the mountain easily in a few minutes. Doing that by hand is a real drag.
Trucks - they are as powerful as 350 horses each and let me deliver my pastured pork each week to customers far faster and easier than it would be done if I had to use horses or worse yet on foot.
Chainsaw - a very simple robot that does an amazing job at quickly chewing threw wood faster than a dozen beavers we used to have to hire. Also faster than a skilled guy with an ax or hand saw.
Handsaw - an even simpler robot (e.g., tool) that lets me cut wood and other materials much more easily than chewing threw it with my teeth or a rock.
Shovels - massively better than that old stick.
Sticks - well, better than my finger nails for digging holes in the ground!
The list goes on and on. Last century's big innovation (diesel tractor) is accepted as todays run of the mill tool. The Boston Dynamics robots are excellent prototypes of tools we can use in the future further leveraging our abilities. They aren't taking our jobs, they're creating more opportunity.
I raise pigs on pasture year round in a cold climate (USDA Zone 3 Vermont mountains). For years I have done selective breeding to produce pigs that pasture well and thrive right through cold winters without the need for commercial grain / hog feed. There is a genetic component and this article suggests a gut biome component too which is likely passed through the herds from sow to piglets since young pigs practice coprophagia which has been shown to also teach them what to eat as well as inoculating their digestive tracts with appropriate bacteria. This may explain why people have a hard time dumping confinement pigs out on pasture, especially in our hard climate.
Throw another log on the fire. I like to keep it simple. We grow our own fuel, dead trees, and built a high thermal mass wood stove. Uses less than a cord of wood a year for all our heating. Feed it in the morning and it's golden. Our house is high thermal mass and well insulated with some passive solar gain so even without heat it never freezes even in our cold northern climate. Build appropriately. Design simple systems. Dumb works.
He's speaking for himself. With the way he writes I would expect he'll get minimal readership. Apparently he missed out on the centuries old idea of a good thesis and support structure.
So what I hear you saying is that humans are better at being paranoid than computers... An interesting theory. And how do you feel about the upcoming singularity?
It constantly amazes that idiots like you think America (a.k.a. the USA) is homogenous in anything including it's thinking. We're a melting pot with a lot more variety than almost any country, perhaps any country, because the USA was settled by and built by immigrants from around the world. There is no "American Mentality".
"While the Philips Hue system is based on open technologies we are not able to ensure all products from other brands are tested and fully interoperable with all of our software updates."
Philips will make damn sure that other products won't work.
Apparently Philips is unclear about the concept of open tech.
Don't buy from Philips. They've warned you they'll screw you in the socket.
Fair is your opinion, not a reality. Your resorting to trash talk just further loses you points.
"Contrary to what Zuckerberg claims, the creation of his LLC means he will probably pay no taxes on his $45 Billion."
Good for him. The government has already taxed him billions of dollars on the money he has earned. If he can keep it out of the government's hands and direct it to where he things it will have the most effect then more power to him. That's his right. It's his money.
You and people like you are just jealous. Grow up, earn your own billions and do what you want with them.
"Stop selectively breeding them."
Wrong answer.
Instead selectively breed for the right things.
Please.
"You won't hear these at all. The noise is mostly high frequency and attenuates quickly."
Except some of us, like myself, have very good high frequency hearing and do hear these. They're too loud.
Perhaps part of the problem is that people like you don't know what quiet is really like out in the sticks. You've become so inured to noise in your urban environments that a little more doesn't bother you.
Or you have become deafened by all the noise pollution around you.
Or both.
Sorry but you're wrong.
I have electric motor aircraft. I know how right I am.
"electric motors are quiet"
That's a myth. I have some. They're still vibrating the air which is audible. I don't want them flying over me or my property, especially at low altitudes.
If they're buzzing around they're going to be like having snowmobiles and dirt bikes overhead. We already have too much noise pollution and don't need more, especially low flying drones.