From what I've heard of the movie before, overpopulation in particular isn't the focus of the movie so much as general environmental destruction and wealth inequality. In any case it should be a good old-school dystopian sci-fi movie and piss off right-wingers so I call that a win/win.
I've read up on it, the phenomenon is pretty funny, but what I'm after specifically is the delicious lulz from self-important "social media gurus." Can anyone find anything? Bonus if there are pics and the person looks like a total hipster.
I hope it does. I hope all attempts to establish "gatekeepers of reputation" fail. Klout, Angie's List, LinkedIn, and to a lesser extent in this case, Facebook. All of them, dead.
Was going to ask a similar question, along the lines of where he thinks this curated computing thing is going, and whether he agrees with my sig. Is it a pendulum effect and will there be a swing back towards freedom or are we sliding deeper and deeper into a pit that we can't get out of?
A "Do not track" flag on a browser is like putting top-secret info on a billboard with a "do not read" banner above it. You must deny them the information but that makes the browsing experience much more difficult.
New content delivery tech will be made and is being made all the time, and do you know what you have the power to do about it, you smalldick, authoritarian shitsack? You can go fuck yourself. Forever.
A free market depends on mutual, voluntary trade. When people try to base it on greed instead, it ceases to work properly.
Really? In that case we're a bunch of dumb fucks for ever thinking it could work in the first place. At least the "greed is good" concept allows for greed in theory.
It has a couple of episodes with realistic combat between small space fighters. The whole series is pretty good, if you liked Planetes you'll like Moonlight Mile.
HAHAHAHA you know very little about cars don't you?
Plastic radiators? (end tanks sure, but plastic is shit at conducting heat). Cars lighter now than 30 years ago? (Maybe today's subcompacts vs. old American luxo-barges, but otherwise NO).
Engine technology has advanced greatly but it's had to fight increasing safety regulations which greatly increase the size and weight of vehicles. In the '80s you could buy compact sedans that got 40MPG just like today, but they weighed less. Vehicle weight has been forced up by safety regulations and the safety arms race triggered by the release of SUVs ever since the mid/late 80s.
If you put a modern compact sedan's engine in an '80s compact you'd get way better mileage.
Those chips and sensors DO improve engine efficiency and especially emissions - although that's the only place electronics have done any good in cars.
You're right, but you could firewall off your appliances from communicating with the grid using some kind of line filter and/or or battery bank. You'd lose efficiency but gain security and privacy.
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From what I've heard of the movie before, overpopulation in particular isn't the focus of the movie so much as general environmental destruction and wealth inequality. In any case it should be a good old-school dystopian sci-fi movie and piss off right-wingers so I call that a win/win.
Just the old guard is better than the old guard plus the newcomers, when it comes to privately-controlled worthiness metrics.
I've read up on it, the phenomenon is pretty funny, but what I'm after specifically is the delicious lulz from self-important "social media gurus." Can anyone find anything? Bonus if there are pics and the person looks like a total hipster.
I'm almost tempted to sign up just to see what it will say.
I'm the most influential person in the world on...designer ski boots? Oh yes, pay me big money, bitches!
I hope it does. I hope all attempts to establish "gatekeepers of reputation" fail. Klout, Angie's List, LinkedIn, and to a lesser extent in this case, Facebook. All of them, dead.
Would "electronic nudity revealer" be fair then?
Property rights vs. gun rights
FIGHT!!!
There are TSA/VIPER checkpoints at train stations and on the highways (within 100 miles of any national/state border IIRC).
Maybe they don't *really* have checks and balances, but it's the illusion of having them that counts.
Care to elaborate on why? It's a fair description of the device. It's a scanner that presents an image of a nude body.
I, for one, would welcome our old-school hacker overlords.
I thought they ranged from extremely annoying to ridiculously pompous, as satirized in this video:
http://www.cracked.com/video_18269_the-new-iphone-ads-are-getting-out-hand.html
Warning: NSFW language
Was going to ask a similar question, along the lines of where he thinks this curated computing thing is going, and whether he agrees with my sig. Is it a pendulum effect and will there be a swing back towards freedom or are we sliding deeper and deeper into a pit that we can't get out of?
But corporate "massage" day sounds like just what a geek needs! :D
A "Do not track" flag on a browser is like putting top-secret info on a billboard with a "do not read" banner above it. You must deny them the information but that makes the browsing experience much more difficult.
New content delivery tech will be made and is being made all the time, and do you know what you have the power to do about it, you smalldick, authoritarian shitsack? You can go fuck yourself. Forever.
A free market depends on mutual, voluntary trade. When people try to base it on greed instead, it ceases to work properly.
Really? In that case we're a bunch of dumb fucks for ever thinking it could work in the first place. At least the "greed is good" concept allows for greed in theory.
Parent isn't saying she had good ideas (not even a single one), he's saying the bad guys in her books had at least one bad trait.
That's how I interpreted it.
Graphics were Hollywood-quality though so that's pretty good.
It has a couple of episodes with realistic combat between small space fighters. The whole series is pretty good, if you liked Planetes you'll like Moonlight Mile.
...that I live in the middle of nowhere :-(
Maybe third time's the charm and I'll make it to the 20 year party.
Based on my experience with the Blackberry interface, probably by trying to adjust the backlight intensity.
HAHAHAHA you know very little about cars don't you?
Plastic radiators? (end tanks sure, but plastic is shit at conducting heat). Cars lighter now than 30 years ago? (Maybe today's subcompacts vs. old American luxo-barges, but otherwise NO).
Engine technology has advanced greatly but it's had to fight increasing safety regulations which greatly increase the size and weight of vehicles. In the '80s you could buy compact sedans that got 40MPG just like today, but they weighed less. Vehicle weight has been forced up by safety regulations and the safety arms race triggered by the release of SUVs ever since the mid/late 80s.
If you put a modern compact sedan's engine in an '80s compact you'd get way better mileage.
Those chips and sensors DO improve engine efficiency and especially emissions - although that's the only place electronics have done any good in cars.
You're right, but you could firewall off your appliances from communicating with the grid using some kind of line filter and/or or battery bank. You'd lose efficiency but gain security and privacy.
the smartest IT folks are the ones who ask the control engineers what they need to do their jobs, provide it, then stay the hell out of our way.
Like unsecured access from the Internet or dial-up systems I'm sure.