I agree, I think Bostonians handled the situation pretty well all things being considered. I don't condone the level of police and military involvement in the entire cities affairs, but I can't really say that the military was all that involved. It sounds like it from what I hear parroted around the interwebs and cafe were I eat lunch. But the people of Boston behaved in a rather intelligent and sane manner given the situation that was presented to them.
Gaming is here to stay, and its definitely been branded and marketed as a "lifestyle choice" whatever the fuck you want to make of that, by all means.
But there are still dedicated gaming hobbyists you just have to circulate in the right communities on line and you will find them. Look towards the modding communities. Especially those that rise up around indie games or flexible simulations like Civilization.
I think these small communities have actually benefited more then the negative points you are demonstrating.
To be more specific there will always be plenty of technological solutions to power generation. We'll see them come into play once oil is no longer a cheap and easy alternative. The oil industry inhibits the actual development of these solutions because, your hospital doesn't need to run a hydrogen fuel cell for its MRI machine yet.
As a species were far from becoming powerless for a long long time yet. A vast majority might have to go without in the next century though if we don't start making a transition. Not to mention the rest of the environmental damage were causing and that impact. I hope this second post is more concise and less inflammatory.
I think that competitiveness is one of those things that you have to take on an individual basis. The conflict comes when you have a very competitive few exploiting a mostly uncompetitive majority. When everyone is being competitive this works out fine and the equation balances itself. The loosers loose, but loose less badly because they made an effort to compete, and usually in a cooperative enough way to not get completely stomped.
The rules are U.S. society are increasingly becoming anticompetitive though. And I think thats what many are railing against, and perhaps, rightly so.
I disagree. To some degree yes. But I believe oil and coal have a lot of protection while other clean technologies. Thorium salt reactors, solar arrays, desentralized solar, etc... are being stifled by the very same economy that could be using them. And all because of this excuse that without the oil companies modern civilization would collapse.
No you wouldn't be able to run your AC 24/7 and keep your house exactly at 70 degree's cheaply. But there are alternatives and they WILL become just as cheap once we kick off our old dependence on what were using now.
I've seen a myriad of hydrogen fuel cells that work, mostly at universities and parks. Sears developed cheap batteries for stuff like cell phones years ago but didn't market them... the list goes on and on.
Hydro-electric power is underdeveloped because of the fear of "geoengineering" and while I agree that it can be disastrous and greatly change the environment. I think more Hoover damns would be better then supporting the strip mining of the Appalachians. Yeah they toss some soil back into a hill shape and replant tree's but in the meantime it wrecks the environment there just as bad.
Were colonizing Alberta Canada and by we I mean INTERNATIONAL oil companies that we all support, every one of us to go about our lives, and destroying the homeland of many native Americans who are waging a guerrilla war this very moment. Yet there are alternatives that we could bring down in cost if we did the GOVERNMENT group thing and subsized the technology and rolled it out like we did the railroads. I'll tell ya what, you want to keep the same monopolies in place so the "social fucking order" doesn't get disturbed fine. But lets do this we don't have any damn excuses to keep using OBSOLETE tech here.... we are not fighting cylons.
I agree. The ideal solution is to bring the issues of governance and liability back into the local geographic arena and to stop worrying about how someone is running their business from thousands of miles away from you. The reason we care about it so much though is because you have companies like BP and Exxon which are outstanding examples of how someone thousands of miles away needs some kind of regulation.
But what we have is not working at either of the scales we need it to. And it is very hard for Joe blow coming out of high school on average to create his pizza stand and get on with life. This is especially true in industries such as MUSIC, VIDEO, and T.V....... hmmm....
Actually I was questioning the quote and not dictating a particular political policy or cultural methodology or social dogma. I rather like the idea of Star Trek, but we can't try that out until we can beam people we dislike to far away places and give them whatever tools they need to create their planet of tropes.
Innovation isn't even consistently rewarded by capitalism. No matter how much stock you may want to put into a free market. There are lots of historical events that can point this out.
Why is it we are still so reliant on oil. When there are a myriad different ways to produce energy now? Because we have an oil industry. And its that simple.
You missed an important word "armed". Which is the real deep issue. Before police helicopters use to barred from having arms. There's an entire movie done up about it from the 80's (Blue Thunder). I don't have a clue honestly what the legislation is, I wager in some jurisdictions we have armed police aircraft now.
I don't think the majority of people had an issue with the occasional "warrent" required or response to emergency use of survielance. Nor do I really.
Were most people (and me) get bothered is when the idea is to fly 24/7 subservience missions over designated area's just because you are maybe 100 miles inland from a border. The other issue is do we really have to assassinate suspects with drones? No. We can make an effort to capture them alive and bring justices.
In my humble opinion were really bad at justice now-a-days... last time I have seen a non-mock trial were the defendant wasn't completely drugged and had even an once to say in their case has been awhile. For example, even OJ's trial was nearly a joke, yet he at least could hire people to argue in his defense.
Before our legal quagmire (yeah I'm rambling off topic here) got so insane, it use to be considered that lawyers were for the infirm or un-fit. The original premise behind our legal system was that a lay man could defend themselves in most cases against the charges levied against him. The world is indeed very different now though.
Ironically how would armed drones have been sane to use in a busy metropolitan city to catch TWO people on foot. Maybe if they had hijacked a passenger less bus or vehicle and were on a stretch of the interstate by themselves, but then your still blowing up civil infrastructure for something a good o'le fashioned barricade would have made much more sense for.
Drones are a military technology for war fighting with limited use in the civil arena. The problems were having as a nation is conflating terrorism with military action.
*note that a privatized TSA would have to have as many or more legal restrictions or protocols then standard mall security guards which still have conflicts with civilian constitutional interests.
Not to mention the TSA now has mandate over much more then airport security. Wan't to work on a boat? Not as a U.S. Citizen, and not without much TSA paperwork. While I'm not going to say that the TSA grabbed this position, it was lumped onto them most likely by the Coast Guard who still has some involvement administering safety certifications.
The bureaucracy this country has put into so many fields is ridiculous and the TSA is simple another part of it. Someone commented below that Rand wanted to privatize the TSA and not abolish it. This would be fine, if they didn't end up in the same monopolistic situations that telecoms, radio, music, movie (face it many fronts, few faces) and defense has.
There's a remote chance that they deliberately picked a juxtaposition of traits and made them slightly more Jewish as a thinly veiled jibe towards Zionists (which are a non-religious and political group). But I have not met any rich Jewish bankers (do they really exist, or is this a fairy tail perpetuated by current world events, and conspiracies?) that I may see the real life comparison.
They didn't really demonstrate much nationalism... in fact Ferengi were among the least Xenophobic and nationalistic, they preferred trade empires to an actual empire and could be found in almost every Star Trek races society at some level, they were the least moralizing of all the races, fitting in with the good, bad, and neutral.
Every society has its core of wannabe capitalistic money grubbing liberals =p Even in heavily socialist countries. I think it was more a commentary on a particular ideology, one that could very well be applied to "Jewish" stereotypes, but others as well, depending on your own background. And in essence this is were Star Trek was pretty good at not being PC but taking pot shots under the radar on National Television. The original Klingons and Romulans while very stereotypical were also used in this light.
You would actually benefit from a more homogeneous network assuming everyone used Verizons wireless access points vs adding their own in. Properly configured wireless networks can load balance the signal and configure for the least noise. The good routers are pretty sophisticated and reliable at doing this.
Linux is about options and this takes the option away.
When you have increasing issues of password masking the best way is to have two input fields and train the user (this is an ADMIN anyway) to not copypaste.
Passwords should be long, they should be phrases, with alphanumerics, these are the hardest to crack passwords even if they have a lot of dictionary words. It's a lot harder to crack a 10 word phrase then a 12 letter pure alphanumeric that someone has to right down to remember.
If your using the phrase approach, then it's actually easy to not have to worry about the mask at all, as most people can consistently type the same phrase 10 times in a row. This is the most ideal solution in our imperfect world without perfect memory and direct brain to computer interfaces.
DS9 was the best overall. But the main villain, antagonist (what have you). Gull Ducat was so one dimensional and shallow it was very irritating to watch main story arc episodes were he basically sat there on screen and went "Mwhahahaha I'm DELUSIONAL!!! 11111!!!!111..."
Other then that it had some of the better stand alone episodes and the best character development.
Thats funny because we always thought Ferengi were Muslims ( oppression of women ) or Roman Catholic ( the funny hats ). The mistake your are making is mistaking tropes or "planets of hats" with ideologies that the show producers were trying to comment on. They were not portraying actual groups of people in stereotypical ways.
There aren't many snowmobiles, jet skis, or go-karts operating in the areas where drones are operating. Especially in the air. I got a great chuckle out of this one =)
The camera's needed would maybe be a lot more expensive then your standard 3-6 megapixel cheap ones. Once you start getting into good resolutions and light adaptability. It starts getting harder. Then again maybe an array of off the shelf webcams could do the trick, but that requires group participation and you think people are mad now about google street view...
I imagine really smart reconnaissance drones would fly their mission then return to a safe zone behind your line to transmit and report home. Real time reconnaissance in an actual combat zone would be supported by the more directly controlled drones in which case finding the controller might be nice, but futile as well.
Hehe, in some countries dogs are the low tech cheap option when theres tons of strays already. You'd be surprised at how easy some are to train, I would imagine some train themselves. We have a dog, and there are certain things that set her running and barking and its not the neighbors, its something halfway across the neighborhood. No way for us humans to tell what it was.
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I agree, I think Bostonians handled the situation pretty well all things being considered. I don't condone the level of police and military involvement in the entire cities affairs, but I can't really say that the military was all that involved. It sounds like it from what I hear parroted around the interwebs and cafe were I eat lunch. But the people of Boston behaved in a rather intelligent and sane manner given the situation that was presented to them.
Gaming is here to stay, and its definitely been branded and marketed as a "lifestyle choice" whatever the fuck you want to make of that, by all means.
But there are still dedicated gaming hobbyists you just have to circulate in the right communities on line and you will find them. Look towards the modding communities. Especially those that rise up around indie games or flexible simulations like Civilization.
I think these small communities have actually benefited more then the negative points you are demonstrating.
To be more specific there will always be plenty of technological solutions to power generation. We'll see them come into play once oil is no longer a cheap and easy alternative. The oil industry inhibits the actual development of these solutions because, your hospital doesn't need to run a hydrogen fuel cell for its MRI machine yet.
As a species were far from becoming powerless for a long long time yet. A vast majority might have to go without in the next century though if we don't start making a transition. Not to mention the rest of the environmental damage were causing and that impact. I hope this second post is more concise and less inflammatory.
I think that competitiveness is one of those things that you have to take on an individual basis. The conflict comes when you have a very competitive few exploiting a mostly uncompetitive majority. When everyone is being competitive this works out fine and the equation balances itself. The loosers loose, but loose less badly because they made an effort to compete, and usually in a cooperative enough way to not get completely stomped.
The rules are U.S. society are increasingly becoming anticompetitive though. And I think thats what many are railing against, and perhaps, rightly so.
I disagree. To some degree yes. But I believe oil and coal have a lot of protection while other clean technologies. Thorium salt reactors, solar arrays, desentralized solar, etc... are being stifled by the very same economy that could be using them. And all because of this excuse that without the oil companies modern civilization would collapse.
No you wouldn't be able to run your AC 24/7 and keep your house exactly at 70 degree's cheaply. But there are alternatives and they WILL become just as cheap once we kick off our old dependence on what were using now.
I've seen a myriad of hydrogen fuel cells that work, mostly at universities and parks. Sears developed cheap batteries for stuff like cell phones years ago but didn't market them... the list goes on and on.
Hydro-electric power is underdeveloped because of the fear of "geoengineering" and while I agree that it can be disastrous and greatly change the environment. I think more Hoover damns would be better then supporting the strip mining of the Appalachians. Yeah they toss some soil back into a hill shape and replant tree's but in the meantime it wrecks the environment there just as bad.
Were colonizing Alberta Canada and by we I mean INTERNATIONAL oil companies that we all support, every one of us to go about our lives, and destroying the homeland of many native Americans who are waging a guerrilla war this very moment. Yet there are alternatives that we could bring down in cost if we did the GOVERNMENT group thing and subsized the technology and rolled it out like we did the railroads. I'll tell ya what, you want to keep the same monopolies in place so the "social fucking order" doesn't get disturbed fine. But lets do this we don't have any damn excuses to keep using OBSOLETE tech here.... we are not fighting cylons.
I agree. The ideal solution is to bring the issues of governance and liability back into the local geographic arena and to stop worrying about how someone is running their business from thousands of miles away from you. The reason we care about it so much though is because you have companies like BP and Exxon which are outstanding examples of how someone thousands of miles away needs some kind of regulation.
But what we have is not working at either of the scales we need it to. And it is very hard for Joe blow coming out of high school on average to create his pizza stand and get on with life. This is especially true in industries such as MUSIC, VIDEO, and T.V....... hmmm....
Best most concise answer =)
Actually I was questioning the quote and not dictating a particular political policy or cultural methodology or social dogma. I rather like the idea of Star Trek, but we can't try that out until we can beam people we dislike to far away places and give them whatever tools they need to create their planet of tropes.
I think in many cases capitalism has been benificial, but by a means in itself I question it. Because on one hand you have http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes . And then you have Bell... *cough* vs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Meucci
Innovation isn't even consistently rewarded by capitalism. No matter how much stock you may want to put into a free market. There are lots of historical events that can point this out.
Why is it we are still so reliant on oil. When there are a myriad different ways to produce energy now? Because we have an oil industry. And its that simple.
*surveillance, stupid dictionary thinking I meant subservience.
You missed an important word "armed". Which is the real deep issue. Before police helicopters use to barred from having arms. There's an entire movie done up about it from the 80's (Blue Thunder). I don't have a clue honestly what the legislation is, I wager in some jurisdictions we have armed police aircraft now.
I don't think the majority of people had an issue with the occasional "warrent" required or response to emergency use of survielance. Nor do I really.
Were most people (and me) get bothered is when the idea is to fly 24/7 subservience missions over designated area's just because you are maybe 100 miles inland from a border. The other issue is do we really have to assassinate suspects with drones? No. We can make an effort to capture them alive and bring justices.
In my humble opinion were really bad at justice now-a-days... last time I have seen a non-mock trial were the defendant wasn't completely drugged and had even an once to say in their case has been awhile. For example, even OJ's trial was nearly a joke, yet he at least could hire people to argue in his defense.
Before our legal quagmire (yeah I'm rambling off topic here) got so insane, it use to be considered that lawyers were for the infirm or un-fit. The original premise behind our legal system was that a lay man could defend themselves in most cases against the charges levied against him. The world is indeed very different now though.
Thats a beautiful sentiment, but is it really true? =)
Ironically how would armed drones have been sane to use in a busy metropolitan city to catch TWO people on foot. Maybe if they had hijacked a passenger less bus or vehicle and were on a stretch of the interstate by themselves, but then your still blowing up civil infrastructure for something a good o'le fashioned barricade would have made much more sense for.
Drones are a military technology for war fighting with limited use in the civil arena. The problems were having as a nation is conflating terrorism with military action.
*note that a privatized TSA would have to have as many or more legal restrictions or protocols then standard mall security guards which still have conflicts with civilian constitutional interests.
Not to mention the TSA now has mandate over much more then airport security. Wan't to work on a boat? Not as a U.S. Citizen, and not without much TSA paperwork. While I'm not going to say that the TSA grabbed this position, it was lumped onto them most likely by the Coast Guard who still has some involvement administering safety certifications.
The bureaucracy this country has put into so many fields is ridiculous and the TSA is simple another part of it. Someone commented below that Rand wanted to privatize the TSA and not abolish it. This would be fine, if they didn't end up in the same monopolistic situations that telecoms, radio, music, movie (face it many fronts, few faces) and defense has.
This ^^ =)
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There's a remote chance that they deliberately picked a juxtaposition of traits and made them slightly more Jewish as a thinly veiled jibe towards Zionists (which are a non-religious and political group). But I have not met any rich Jewish bankers (do they really exist, or is this a fairy tail perpetuated by current world events, and conspiracies?) that I may see the real life comparison.
They didn't really demonstrate much nationalism... in fact Ferengi were among the least Xenophobic and nationalistic, they preferred trade empires to an actual empire and could be found in almost every Star Trek races society at some level, they were the least moralizing of all the races, fitting in with the good, bad, and neutral.
Every society has its core of wannabe capitalistic money grubbing liberals =p Even in heavily socialist countries. I think it was more a commentary on a particular ideology, one that could very well be applied to "Jewish" stereotypes, but others as well, depending on your own background. And in essence this is were Star Trek was pretty good at not being PC but taking pot shots under the radar on National Television. The original Klingons and Romulans while very stereotypical were also used in this light.
You would actually benefit from a more homogeneous network assuming everyone used Verizons wireless access points vs adding their own in. Properly configured wireless networks can load balance the signal and configure for the least noise. The good routers are pretty sophisticated and reliable at doing this.
It must be entertaining to play quake. Then again if Verizon used really good AP's maybe its not much different.
Linux is about options and this takes the option away.
When you have increasing issues of password masking the best way is to have two input fields and train the user (this is an ADMIN anyway) to not copypaste.
Passwords should be long, they should be phrases, with alphanumerics, these are the hardest to crack passwords even if they have a lot of dictionary words. It's a lot harder to crack a 10 word phrase then a 12 letter pure alphanumeric that someone has to right down to remember.
If your using the phrase approach, then it's actually easy to not have to worry about the mask at all, as most people can consistently type the same phrase 10 times in a row. This is the most ideal solution in our imperfect world without perfect memory and direct brain to computer interfaces.
DS9 was the best overall. But the main villain, antagonist (what have you). Gull Ducat was so one dimensional and shallow it was very irritating to watch main story arc episodes were he basically sat there on screen and went "Mwhahahaha I'm DELUSIONAL!!! 11111!!!!111..."
Other then that it had some of the better stand alone episodes and the best character development.
Thats funny because we always thought Ferengi were Muslims ( oppression of women ) or Roman Catholic ( the funny hats ). The mistake your are making is mistaking tropes or "planets of hats" with ideologies that the show producers were trying to comment on. They were not portraying actual groups of people in stereotypical ways.
There aren't many snowmobiles, jet skis, or go-karts operating in the areas where drones are operating. Especially in the air. I got a great chuckle out of this one =)
The camera's needed would maybe be a lot more expensive then your standard 3-6 megapixel cheap ones. Once you start getting into good resolutions and light adaptability. It starts getting harder. Then again maybe an array of off the shelf webcams could do the trick, but that requires group participation and you think people are mad now about google street view...
I imagine really smart reconnaissance drones would fly their mission then return to a safe zone behind your line to transmit and report home. Real time reconnaissance in an actual combat zone would be supported by the more directly controlled drones in which case finding the controller might be nice, but futile as well.
Hehe, in some countries dogs are the low tech cheap option when theres tons of strays already. You'd be surprised at how easy some are to train, I would imagine some train themselves. We have a dog, and there are certain things that set her running and barking and its not the neighbors, its something halfway across the neighborhood. No way for us humans to tell what it was.
Its projects like these that lead to things like.... uh... radar etc... he should get a government grant.