What about the Russian controlled press. Putin controls ALL the media there. You can not trust anything they say. To even try to compare the control of the press in US and EU in the same manner is ridiculous. Read any US or EU newspaper and you will see lots of articles and commentaries criticizing the governments and leaders. We have commentaries both for and against Ukraine in US newspapers, but where do you find any debate within Russia?
The problem is, a tiny part wanted to join Russia outright, basically the part the got all the money from Russian naval bases and with a heavy contingent of Russian navy families. Remember that the self proclaimed leader of Crimea was a politician who only got 2% of the vote in the last elections, basically a nobody with no support. After Russia "took it back" then the part of Ukraine which is *mixed* ethnically had a bunch of rebels who felt they could secede also (hurray for the mother country and father Putin!), tried to recreate the fiction that Crimea had and declared their own government, then waited for Russia to help out.
The economy is a mess because of Putin's hand picked oligarch who stole all the money. He stole more than the 15 billion they were asking to get from EU to fix the mess. Most non Russian speakers *hated* Yanukovynch. But they kick out the thief (possibly legally, possibly not) and Russian leaning citizens freak out and start calling the rest of Ukraine fascists (the most ridiculous claim in the whole thing). And Russia helps out by fanning the flames. If Russian had not treated the orange revolution as a supreme insult then Ukraine might have emerged as a major state straddling east and west with a strong economy.
The conservatives used to have the story that the remote and distant federal government were the bad guys, and to trust the local people. Now they don't like local governments either.
Because Red Hat just works? Somewhere along the line I was surprised that ubuntu got popular because there so much controversy with it. Maybe it's a generational thing, as Red Hat feels like Unix and Ubuntu feels like Windows.
And besides, once you have gcc and vi or emacs, what more does a developer need?
I think AT&T isn't yet able to discern actual traffic. They still have not rolled out their bandwidth usage tool although the button for it has been there for at least two years. And I can validate my access as an authorized viewer for some tv channels by using my internet-only AT&T account. I could be wrong, but I suspect they just don't know how much traffic is being used by who and for what purpose.
Except that comcast builds out crappy service to the undesirable areas and declares it good enough and then lets it deteriorate over time. Basically the citizens want better internet and the local monopoly refuses to provide it, then goes a step further and refuses to allow anyone else to provide it. That's why these should be categorized as common carriers, so that they really provide universal access instead of the facade they have now.
Remember the "new math" argument. There was the fight over learn by rote versus learning about sets and theory. Personally, I think we need both, but the fight was there and lasted for several years. For common core I think it's similar, there is push on "process" which causes some upset in the people who think that learning the details should be done. I disagree with that, but I don't see that as a religious objections but an objection about teaching what they see as fluff versus teaching the pragmatic details necessary for graduation and getting a basic job.
You're acting like Americans are resisting 100%, every person opposed to metric at every turn. This is not true. We use metric every day if we're in science or engineering or technology. It is taught in schools. We've ready Asiimov's essay.
I was actually a bit surprised to find that in some "enlightened" liberal European countries that the average people I talked to were not nearly so enlightened as the stereotype. Lots of racism, lots of homophobia, a big conservative leaning, reactions against immigrants, and despite protests to the contrary from some the churches were still active. Except for the language and the type of government in charge, lots of Europe felt very American.
I have a friend in the US with a French wife. When Le Pen made it to run off elections, she said "my country is full of morons". And indeed in the US we've have said the same thing. So it's somewhat apt when you have one person from a country full of morons pointing to another country and accusing it of being full of morons.
I don't think it's necessarily all religious. This is more of a response against the "core curriculum". Ie, it's a centuries old political fight pitting American stubborness and individuality against accepting dictates from the outside, with some religion thrown in. You've got one side willing to undermine education in order to prove independence, and another side pushing a new untried system everywhere at once. In the middle are people who want to try to get compromise, fix the flaws and keep the good stuff, and discuss the points of controversy, but this group is ignored because they're not partisan enough to trust.
The kilogram has been getting lighter over time. Some government paid Americans are cooperating with other people in the world measurements community to nail down a more physical oriented definition.
Agreed, it's intended to incide the typical jokes about Americans being idiots. Imperial measurements can't vanish overnight and are not a sign of ignorance or of being backwards, but the pragmatic reality that you can't just switch it all of and use something else overnight, at least not peacefully. Yes, there is some politics involved, we tried going metric in the past but pushed it too hard too fast and in response funding for conversion was removed. But the American scientific community uses metric exclusively, it is taught in the schools, it appears side-by-side with imperial values in many produced items (ie, you can switch your car to use km, a bathroom scale bought today will how lb or kg, and it's hard to find a quality ruler that does not have cm alongside inches).
Anyone who thinks it is easy should consider how easy it would be to stop using metric, throw out all metric tools, retrain every single citizen, and so on. Consider that in the UK imperial measurements are still commonly used and referred to, more obscure ones that Americans use even. And that the metric system got its birth in the reign of terror, essentially requiring massive upheaval to throw out the old and bring in the new.
But no, it's just another point used to prove every single American is a moron for not being lucky enough to be born in other parts of the world. It takes a moron to think that throwing out insults will make people more likely to convert.
Right now in Google's cars, "the system works with a very high definition inch-precision map of the area the vehicle is expected to use" (wikipedia). People are wildly extrapolating what these cars will be doing and Google isn't tamping down any of the hype. Within the next couple of decades or more, it won't be in your garage in the morning and it won't drop you off at your employee-of-the-month parking space.
That's not what these early cars will be doing at all. They will all be assumed to be on certain roads that have been pre-mapped to a high precision and assumed to be on roads with many people driving manually, and I've heard nothing from Google that their cars will talk to each other in the near future.
So maybe in 50 years we can think about getting rid of the steering wheels. Until then they are mandatory, even for basic fundamental use (such as being able to go somewhere other than the expected route).
You will need the steering wheel anyway, if you want to take the car somewhere not mapped out by Google or not mapped out properly (seriously, web maps still aren't reliable). So you can pull into your designated parking spot instead of your neighbors, or to use the spot with the unexpired meter, or hunt for a space at the grocery store, or pull into the alley, or...
But Google's plans seem to have this oriented as a transit service, not an owned automobile that can do everything.
These cars will not be 100% automatic for decades. The plans now are only for the car to pick you up at a designated location (not your driveway) and drop you off at a designated location (not the parking lot at work). If you want your own self driving car then it will need to have manual driving capabilities just for the basic stuff you need to do. Such as being able to go somewhere that is not fully mapped out by Google.
It's part of the spiel. Guy says your watch is broken and he'll sell a new one, then you look down and notice that your watch really is broken! Same with antivirus, they get the victim to check their computer and they see all these red alerts in the messages window that prove they have a virus (chances are they do anyway).
Part of the defense is knowing that Microsoft will NEVER call you, keep the paranoia meter on high alert at all times. But if you don't know that , how do really know that the person is or is not from Microsoft? Maybe you think, it really is Microsoft but you ask to see some credentials or proof. Same as if someone in a gas company uniform knocks on your door and says there are gas leaks in the neighborhood and he wants to check inside your house with his fancy detection machine. So you have to train the parents that everyone is an asshole the same way they trained you to never get into cars with strangers.
The other defense is to just hang up. Otherwise the scammer gets a chance to use the spiel and wear down defenses. If they say you have a virus then say "thanks, I'll check it out, have a nice day" and hang up. Which in essence means being rude which can be hard for some people.
My mother fell for the scam. Didn't lose anything but did get the remote service tool installed. She explained that since they called her it seemed legitimate. Later she was put in contact with some web site that did identify theft clean up, and I tried to discourage her but she said her friend had used it (turns out it was semi-legitimate as it had some downrating from the better business bureau for pushing unneeded services).
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What about the Russian controlled press. Putin controls ALL the media there. You can not trust anything they say. To even try to compare the control of the press in US and EU in the same manner is ridiculous. Read any US or EU newspaper and you will see lots of articles and commentaries criticizing the governments and leaders. We have commentaries both for and against Ukraine in US newspapers, but where do you find any debate within Russia?
The problem is, a tiny part wanted to join Russia outright, basically the part the got all the money from Russian naval bases and with a heavy contingent of Russian navy families. Remember that the self proclaimed leader of Crimea was a politician who only got 2% of the vote in the last elections, basically a nobody with no support. After Russia "took it back" then the part of Ukraine which is *mixed* ethnically had a bunch of rebels who felt they could secede also (hurray for the mother country and father Putin!), tried to recreate the fiction that Crimea had and declared their own government, then waited for Russia to help out.
The economy is a mess because of Putin's hand picked oligarch who stole all the money. He stole more than the 15 billion they were asking to get from EU to fix the mess. Most non Russian speakers *hated* Yanukovynch. But they kick out the thief (possibly legally, possibly not) and Russian leaning citizens freak out and start calling the rest of Ukraine fascists (the most ridiculous claim in the whole thing). And Russia helps out by fanning the flames. If Russian had not treated the orange revolution as a supreme insult then Ukraine might have emerged as a major state straddling east and west with a strong economy.
The conservatives used to have the story that the remote and distant federal government were the bad guys, and to trust the local people. Now they don't like local governments either.
Because Red Hat just works? Somewhere along the line I was surprised that ubuntu got popular because there so much controversy with it. Maybe it's a generational thing, as Red Hat feels like Unix and Ubuntu feels like Windows.
And besides, once you have gcc and vi or emacs, what more does a developer need?
I think AT&T isn't yet able to discern actual traffic. They still have not rolled out their bandwidth usage tool although the button for it has been there for at least two years. And I can validate my access as an authorized viewer for some tv channels by using my internet-only AT&T account. I could be wrong, but I suspect they just don't know how much traffic is being used by who and for what purpose.
Except that comcast builds out crappy service to the undesirable areas and declares it good enough and then lets it deteriorate over time.
Basically the citizens want better internet and the local monopoly refuses to provide it, then goes a step further and refuses to allow anyone else to provide it.
That's why these should be categorized as common carriers, so that they really provide universal access instead of the facade they have now.
But municipalities are essentially co-ops, if the citizens bother to vote.
Remember the "new math" argument. There was the fight over learn by rote versus learning about sets and theory. Personally, I think we need both, but the fight was there and lasted for several years. For common core I think it's similar, there is push on "process" which causes some upset in the people who think that learning the details should be done. I disagree with that, but I don't see that as a religious objections but an objection about teaching what they see as fluff versus teaching the pragmatic details necessary for graduation and getting a basic job.
You're acting like Americans are resisting 100%, every person opposed to metric at every turn. This is not true. We use metric every day if we're in science or engineering or technology. It is taught in schools. We've ready Asiimov's essay.
I was actually a bit surprised to find that in some "enlightened" liberal European countries that the average people I talked to were not nearly so enlightened as the stereotype. Lots of racism, lots of homophobia, a big conservative leaning, reactions against immigrants, and despite protests to the contrary from some the churches were still active. Except for the language and the type of government in charge, lots of Europe felt very American.
I have a friend in the US with a French wife. When Le Pen made it to run off elections, she said "my country is full of morons".
And indeed in the US we've have said the same thing. So it's somewhat apt when you have one person from a country full of morons pointing to another country and accusing it of being full of morons.
I don't think it's necessarily all religious. This is more of a response against the "core curriculum". Ie, it's a centuries old political fight pitting American stubborness and individuality against accepting dictates from the outside, with some religion thrown in. You've got one side willing to undermine education in order to prove independence, and another side pushing a new untried system everywhere at once. In the middle are people who want to try to get compromise, fix the flaws and keep the good stuff, and discuss the points of controversy, but this group is ignored because they're not partisan enough to trust.
The kilogram has been getting lighter over time. Some government paid Americans are cooperating with other people in the world measurements community to nail down a more physical oriented definition.
Agreed, it's intended to incide the typical jokes about Americans being idiots. Imperial measurements can't vanish overnight and are not a sign of ignorance or of being backwards, but the pragmatic reality that you can't just switch it all of and use something else overnight, at least not peacefully. Yes, there is some politics involved, we tried going metric in the past but pushed it too hard too fast and in response funding for conversion was removed. But the American scientific community uses metric exclusively, it is taught in the schools, it appears side-by-side with imperial values in many produced items (ie, you can switch your car to use km, a bathroom scale bought today will how lb or kg, and it's hard to find a quality ruler that does not have cm alongside inches).
Anyone who thinks it is easy should consider how easy it would be to stop using metric, throw out all metric tools, retrain every single citizen, and so on. Consider that in the UK imperial measurements are still commonly used and referred to, more obscure ones that Americans use even. And that the metric system got its birth in the reign of terror, essentially requiring massive upheaval to throw out the old and bring in the new.
But no, it's just another point used to prove every single American is a moron for not being lucky enough to be born in other parts of the world. It takes a moron to think that throwing out insults will make people more likely to convert.
Right now in Google's cars, "the system works with a very high definition inch-precision map of the area the vehicle is expected to use" (wikipedia). People are wildly extrapolating what these cars will be doing and Google isn't tamping down any of the hype. Within the next couple of decades or more, it won't be in your garage in the morning and it won't drop you off at your employee-of-the-month parking space.
It's Google though. They've never made any mistakes.
That's not what these early cars will be doing at all. They will all be assumed to be on certain roads that have been pre-mapped to a high precision and assumed to be on roads with many people driving manually, and I've heard nothing from Google that their cars will talk to each other in the near future.
So maybe in 50 years we can think about getting rid of the steering wheels. Until then they are mandatory, even for basic fundamental use (such as being able to go somewhere other than the expected route).
And it will blindly follow the incorrect map.
You will need the steering wheel anyway, if you want to take the car somewhere not mapped out by Google or not mapped out properly (seriously, web maps still aren't reliable). So you can pull into your designated parking spot instead of your neighbors, or to use the spot with the unexpired meter, or hunt for a space at the grocery store, or pull into the alley, or...
But Google's plans seem to have this oriented as a transit service, not an owned automobile that can do everything.
What if the manual brake is broken?
These cars will not be 100% automatic for decades. The plans now are only for the car to pick you up at a designated location (not your driveway) and drop you off at a designated location (not the parking lot at work). If you want your own self driving car then it will need to have manual driving capabilities just for the basic stuff you need to do. Such as being able to go somewhere that is not fully mapped out by Google.
It's part of the spiel. Guy says your watch is broken and he'll sell a new one, then you look down and notice that your watch really is broken! Same with antivirus, they get the victim to check their computer and they see all these red alerts in the messages window that prove they have a virus (chances are they do anyway).
Part of the defense is knowing that Microsoft will NEVER call you, keep the paranoia meter on high alert at all times. But if you don't know that , how do really know that the person is or is not from Microsoft? Maybe you think, it really is Microsoft but you ask to see some credentials or proof. Same as if someone in a gas company uniform knocks on your door and says there are gas leaks in the neighborhood and he wants to check inside your house with his fancy detection machine. So you have to train the parents that everyone is an asshole the same way they trained you to never get into cars with strangers.
The other defense is to just hang up. Otherwise the scammer gets a chance to use the spiel and wear down defenses. If they say you have a virus then say "thanks, I'll check it out, have a nice day" and hang up. Which in essence means being rude which can be hard for some people.
My mother fell for the scam. Didn't lose anything but did get the remote service tool installed. She explained that since they called her it seemed legitimate.
Later she was put in contact with some web site that did identify theft clean up, and I tried to discourage her but she said her friend had used it (turns out it was semi-legitimate as it had some downrating from the better business bureau for pushing unneeded services).
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