"Suppose, say, that a market trader sells infringing DVDs, among other goods, from a stall he has set up on someone else's land without consent. The owner of the land could not, as I see it, make any proprietary claim to the proceeds of the trading or even the profit from it. There is no evident reason why the owner of the copyright in the DVDs should be in a better position in this respect," he said.
In Hawaii, canoe racing is a big sport. Sport isn't even the right term. Fierce competition is more suitable. And there are Men's and Women's canoe clubs, the men's being slightly faster as usual. Well, one of the women's canoe clubs had a member who used to be a man. "She" had the operation and took the hormones, and legally was now a woman. Oh, the fit other clubs had over that situation, because she had a man's greater muscle mass and all that. Her club defended having her because legally she was a she, and besides all the hormones and therapy she was on actually made her less able to compete evenly because those drugs mess up the body to an extent, so they said.
But the biggest concern that the oversight board had was that, in the future, if a man was not quite able to compete with other men, he might elect to go this route and join a women's club. That way he, or she, would be among the top athletes in her sport.
Now I ask you, would you cut off your legs to compete in the Olympics, mabye even be guaranteed the gold medal? If the answer is yes, would you instead be willing to cut off other appendages and win the gold medal in the women's division of the same sport?
Simple enough to write a program that moves the static data to areas that have been used. So once every other year, move the SSD's data around so the wear leveling is more even.
Once these drives become more common, these minor issues will be solved just as quickly as I thought of this one.
And, yes, I would expect it to verify each space before actually moving data to it, just to make sure you don't move your apps files into an area that is already worn out. Not that that would happen in the first 5 years anyway, using the above poster's numbers showing a 9 year lifetime.
Exactly. How many poor health issues to us geeks/nerds usually run into?
Overweight from too much Mountain Dew and pizzas. High blood pressure from salty snackfoods. Anxiety from deadlines and having to talk to people at work. (On a side note, why do all those jobs REQUIRE excellent interpersonal communication skills?) Bad eyes from staring at monitors for eightteen hours straight. Carpal tunnel syndrome from non-ergonomic keyboard/mouse placement.
So with his argument, computers could be outlawed because someone may have to help pay for our medical expenses, which are completey avoidable by just following the rules he would make.
Actually, I've noticed that I get worse fuel economy on the highway using cruise control than when I am manually driving. This is because my cruise control is so tightly controlled my car is constantly switching between accelerating and coasting to stay at exactly the right speed. I live in a flat area, but the road surface still rises and falls every few hundred feet. I'm talking maybe a half inch variation, the road builders just can't make it laser level for 5 miles, and different spots settle slightly more (as in a tenth of an inch) than others. So, with every change in road level the car accelerates to compensate for the one-tenth mile-per-hour speed decrease, but it then goes two-tenths of a mile over the set speed, and coasts for a few seconds, and repeats this cycle continuously as I drive down the highway.
If the cruise control simply set the throttle to a specific point, and only changed it for moderate variations such as hills or overpasses, it would be so much more efficient. Obviously this is possible, but will the car manufacturers bother to make this sort of change, or make that style the standard for cruise control?
Especially with a fleet of cars as you describe, having everyone lined up and taking advantage of drafting the car ahead of them, speed has to be constant. This requires a tightly controlled setting, but I have found that lowers mileage as I described above. Eventually there will be a system, but I don't see it happening soon.
You're right. Most people in the world don't have the ability to own the land their house sits on, and their governments don't think they should be able to. Believing in personal property is so utterly right-wing, how can we Americans stand it?
Great! That is what I want to here from scientists. An honest "I don't know." As my post stated, I am an atheist (spelling matters here I notice). Of course most people who believe in God don't sit around and ponder his origin, and I wouldn't expect them to. Religious scholars do talk about it, it is their field of expertise. Just as scientists get together and talk about it. It is the self-proclaimed scientists that act like religious zealots I was ranting about. You sir do not appear to be in that category. Thank you for answering me.
Actually, I like to ask that of zealots all the time. My usual phrasing is "So, what caused the Big Bang?", or "What was there before the Big Bang?" The zealots I ask this of are of course scientists, or really simply people who hated going to church and want to piss off their parents. So they cling to anything they can that lets them berate the church and their parents. But ask them to back it up, their belief in the Big Bang, and they have nothing but the same argument they always heard at home and at church. "It just happened, there was nothing else, stop asking me that, it's all in this book my professor read to us at lecture. (My god I hate going to class.)" Do you notice the similarities there?
And people wonder why I, an athiest, say these 'bad things' about scientists. Too many people who claim to be "scientists" don't act very scientific, just as many people who call themselves Christian don't act the part either. Genuine scientists want people to ask those questions I ask, even if they don't know the answer. They will admit that they don't know that answer, but have discussed it many times with other scientists and there are some possibilities they favor, but can't prove. This in my opinion is what science should be, but frequently isn't. The worst answer I received to those questions was "It doesn't matter." How a scientist could say that is beyond me. How can a basic part of their theory not matter?
So, to turn your question back on yourself, "Where did the Big Bang come from? What were its origins?"
You Know what kind of gift I sould get a nephew? Some thing that matches him. Like if he is geeky I would get him some kind of computer game that is geeky. If he is a redneck I would get him the Jeff Foxworthy's Rednek Dictionary 1,2,and 3. So on and so forth. But if you don't know what to get him get him a gift card to eather " Toys R Us" or "Wallmart".
I kept my wireless router open for several months. I checked the DHCP log lately and had several users connected. I only encrypted it because I started experiencing problems connecting from my wired towers, and I had to ensure that it wasn't someone hacking me.
Even after locking it down, I had problems and ended up replacing the old Linksys with a newer model I had sitting around. The new one is locked down right now just to establish that it is working, and soon I will open it up.
Coincidentally, I have an older laptop that I used a wireless-B card with, and I never saw any other access points from within my apartment. Recently I picked up a wireless-G card for it and saw about 5 access points after installation. Some were encrypted, the others weren't. So right now the guys that had been piggybacking on my connection are on someone else's, maybe even their own. Who's to say that is illegal. I don't consider it illegal, and I have participated in both sides of the activity.
Just don't saturate the bandwidth, or use so much that a guy on a tiered plan pays extra for your activity. "Practice responsible piggy-backing. And protect yourself from viruses."
Thanks for your concern. This is one of the pitfalls of Slashdot, and I am stuck in it. As my sig tells, I have forgotten the passwords of two previous accounts, and no longer have the email addresses they are configured for. (Long live Yahoo!) So I recently made a new one. I thought the user name was good, just a little self-humor. Well, I replied to a post that made some reference to 'even new guys' or something similar. My reply was simply, "What do you mean?", thinking people would pick up on the nameplay, but no one did. Not the people who responded, and certainly not the moderators. So my karma tanked.
Then I figured, hell if I have bad karma, I might as well have earned it, and trolled once or twice. The funny thing was I trolled against Bush, which usually get people Insightful, but I guess I picked Neo-Con Moderators Day, and got slammed again.
So as my comments show, I cooled it. Made plain vanilla posts or helpful comments. Then I read a comment that involved metrics. I replied that metrics ain't all it's cracked up to be, and gave concrete examples of my position. And now I am in Karma Hell. Even my good posts can't be seen by most, since they are automatically at -1. And I can't post much, because people with my karma level are restriced to two posts a day.
The lessons I have learned are that you have to build up excellent karma before any trolling is safe, and anti-metric postings are instant karma killers. But realistically, if the choice was good karma and being able to critisize the usage of the metric system, I would rather take the karma hell than meek self-censorship. That's just the kind of New Guy that I am.:-P
Anyway, thanks again for your interest, and maybe I can get some more good karma from my earlier post.
My response to your second point has always been that the environmentalists who fought every nuclear power plant since the 70s did do the wrong thing. And now global warming concerns are coming back to bite them. What the environmental activists should have done is pick the guys from their groups who do understand nuclear power, and power production, and business models, and insisted these guys get put in charge of safety and operations at a new plant.
This would ensure that the plans are the safest design available, and that the standard operating procedures (SOP) are also safe and, more importantly, adhered to. Imagine if the chief of operations cared about the environment, and had the authority to shut the plant down immediately with no reprisals. We would have clean, safe power for millions of electric vehicles now, rather than the mess we are in.
Well, at least you have solved the difficulties of viewing porn while driving. And I am _sure_ your 'lapinator' will be getting a strenuous workout.;^)
Why do they use the term 0,5kg, when they could have said 500g? This is one aspect of the metric system I find hilarious. Everyone says we should use metric, because it is easier to go from a low value to a larger one, just move the decimal point and change the prefix.
Well how about using the appropriate prefix yourselves? Articles about space mention thousands or millions of kilometers. Why doesn't the auther "just move the decimal point and change the prefix"? The articles should mention megameters and gigameters. What, are those units too difficult for the whole metric-using world to comprehend? If so, than shut up about metric's supposed superiority to imperial in that regard. Because it obviously does not exist.
And at the opposite end of the scale, CPUs are described using hundredths of nanometers. e.g. Intel's 0.45nm vs. AMD's 0.90nm architecture. Switch to picometers already. You can't exactly say that picometers are too hard to visualize, but nanometers are so much easier.
Go on, mod me down. Don't matter, I'm already in the "Bad Karma" pool anyway.
And all the photos are of a golf course in South Africa. Is this really how our ancestors developed their intelligence? Chasing little white balls around a field? I wonder what animal fur they wore that could possibly inspire plaid golf pants.:)
It does matter. Predicting the cargo plane is not an easy thing to do apparently. Or at least not back in 1993-2001. And not for the suit-wearing elite. Do you remember how Condoleeza Rice commented on the attack?
And I said, at one point, that this was a historical memo, that it was -- it was not based on new threat information. And I said, "No one could have imagined them taking a plane, slamming it into the Pentagon" -- I'm paraphrasing now -- "into the World Trade Center, using planes as a missile."
Whether or not some people can think of these horrible actions, the ones who are supposed to protect us can't. They have to pay millions for a computer to think of this shit for them.
You state you have your own place with your girlfriend.... No, don't get ahead of me here.
You can't have your own place "with" your girlfriend. It would be more accurate to say that she allows you to have a small presence in the place she lives in. Here's the proof: Who has more closet and dresser space? Who has more items in the bathroom? What color are the sheets and curtains? And how many pillows are on that bed?
Even if you lived there first, and she only moved in last week, you would be losing in at least two of those areas.
Here are more criteria if you are not convinced. What movie did you watch last? How many of your socks or underwear are lying on or around the couch? How often is pizza delivered to your "own palce"? As a married man, I can honestly say I pay the rent, but she runs the place.
Or ask people that aren't certified behaviorists or criminal profilers. Ask the kids who were picked on in school, whose embarassment and anger could only be contained behind a pleasant facade. Here's a case from my view.
In 1993, terrorists tried to destroy the World Trade Center by exploding a large truck-bomb in the basement parking garage. It did a lot of damage, but nothing severe. The government reacted by not allowing trucks in the parking garage anymore. To assure this, several large cement pylons and other traffic barriers were placed out front, and only cars and light trucks/SUVs were allowed through. Seemed like a good plan. Sorta.
My first thought after reading about these cement barriers was how could you drive trucks through these barriers to bomb the buildings again. You can't, they are too thick and reinforced. You have to go _over_ the barriers somehow. Can you drive the truck over the barrier? Not very likely. So how would you get the truck over the barrier and into the building? Put two wings on the damn thing and fly it in. In other words, rent a cargo plane, fill it full of explosives, and fly it into the buildings. In reality, the bastards were even more twisted than I would have been.
So now, would the computer be able to predict that outcome? Or could that predictions only come from a twisted brain that spent several years wanting to kill many people? Because that is exactly what we are facing. Unpredictable scenarios are only for people with no _personal issues_.
Just watched the video. It is impressive. Until you start picking out details that are covered up. Notice how the mass of North America is completely black until around 1450. Then one dot appears along the southern coastline on the Gulf of Mexico. The only other dots up to then in North America are on the isthmus of Central America. There are also a few in South America.
First, this implies that North America was vacant until 1450. And since the US is in North America, that is where all the concerned Americans are watching. Books on American history state that there were millions of native people living in the eastern half of the continent when Europeans arrived. Yet there is only one dot. So it gives the impression that this great open land has just been flooded with population explosions, and now we are all looking at living cramped together in storage spaces because there are so many people where there used to be empty land. "My god, we're going to be cooped up like those Europeans and (ick) Indians." Being a white guy, I hate playing the race card, but I think it applies here.
Second, the dots never go away. The natives of North, South, and Central America were wiped out by foreign invasion. Warfare, disease, slavery, whatever cause you name. Those dots should have blinked out for a while. Same in Europe and Japan in the 1940's. Entire areas were bombed. Yet not one dot goes away.
Third, I don't think millions of people live on Mount Everest, or in the area immediately surrounding it, or to the north of it. Yet by 1990 (when the film was made) the dots cover the entire area from India's coastline to central Asia. It's actually funny that by the end, in 2020, the only dark areas are northern Canada, Scandanavia, northern Siberia, and Australia.
Very entertaining film, but the people who put it out basically disgust me. They are the ones who want more of everything, but don't want the poor masses to also have it. I mentioned the race card above. It is partly racism, but even more classism. "Rich white people" against everyone else. This movie is just their propaganda.
Am I the only one wondering about the 100X productivity boost? I don't see it. Rather than using current technology to photograph and map a certain area, say the European Alps, the workers now have to add several input streams and correlate them in 3D. For the people actually producing maps today, this sounds like it will take much longer than before to produce a final product. I don't think it takes all that long to make a 2D map from a collection of 2D images.
Up to now, the hard parts are ensuring consistancy in the initial images and blending lines between separate images. With this process it involves calculating heights of mountains, depths of river valleys, and even water and ice features as well. I doubt the computers will do this as some magic algorithm, it will be human map-makers performing the exhaustive tasks. The computers will just be there to give them more data and 'guesstimate' what it will look like.
Well, "strick" is of course the past-instransitive-pluperfect form of "to strike". It is similar to "struck" and "stricken". Here are a few examples.
When Ms. Genovese confronted him, Mr. Ballmer wanted to strike her. Later, out of camera sight, he struck her with a thrown chair. After she was stricken, she collapsed and died. This is in accordance with Microsoft's "strick policy" which Mr Ballmer wrote.
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Aaron Swartz, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, (who, whether we agree with of their actions or not, we ought to recognise as men of high ideals),
Well, one out of three, anyway.
Well, the judge's argument seems logical to me.
"Suppose, say, that a market trader sells infringing DVDs, among other goods, from a stall he has set up on someone else's land without consent. The owner of the land could not, as I see it, make any proprietary claim to the proceeds of the trading or even the profit from it. There is no evident reason why the owner of the copyright in the DVDs should be in a better position in this respect," he said.
That's nothing.
In Hawaii, canoe racing is a big sport. Sport isn't even the right term. Fierce competition is more suitable. And there are Men's and Women's canoe clubs, the men's being slightly faster as usual. Well, one of the women's canoe clubs had a member who used to be a man. "She" had the operation and took the hormones, and legally was now a woman. Oh, the fit other clubs had over that situation, because she had a man's greater muscle mass and all that. Her club defended having her because legally she was a she, and besides all the hormones and therapy she was on actually made her less able to compete evenly because those drugs mess up the body to an extent, so they said.
But the biggest concern that the oversight board had was that, in the future, if a man was not quite able to compete with other men, he might elect to go this route and join a women's club. That way he, or she, would be among the top athletes in her sport.
Now I ask you, would you cut off your legs to compete in the Olympics, mabye even be guaranteed the gold medal? If the answer is yes, would you instead be willing to cut off other appendages and win the gold medal in the women's division of the same sport?
Simple enough to write a program that moves the static data to areas that have been used. So once every other year, move the SSD's data around so the wear leveling is more even.
Once these drives become more common, these minor issues will be solved just as quickly as I thought of this one.
And, yes, I would expect it to verify each space before actually moving data to it, just to make sure you don't move your apps files into an area that is already worn out. Not that that would happen in the first 5 years anyway, using the above poster's numbers showing a 9 year lifetime.
Exactly. How many poor health issues to us geeks/nerds usually run into?
Overweight from too much Mountain Dew and pizzas.
High blood pressure from salty snackfoods.
Anxiety from deadlines and having to talk to people at work.
(On a side note, why do all those jobs REQUIRE excellent interpersonal communication skills?)
Bad eyes from staring at monitors for eightteen hours straight.
Carpal tunnel syndrome from non-ergonomic keyboard/mouse placement.
So with his argument, computers could be outlawed because someone may have to help pay for our medical expenses, which are completey avoidable by just following the rules he would make.
Actually, I've noticed that I get worse fuel economy on the highway using cruise control than when I am manually driving. This is because my cruise control is so tightly controlled my car is constantly switching between accelerating and coasting to stay at exactly the right speed. I live in a flat area, but the road surface still rises and falls every few hundred feet. I'm talking maybe a half inch variation, the road builders just can't make it laser level for 5 miles, and different spots settle slightly more (as in a tenth of an inch) than others. So, with every change in road level the car accelerates to compensate for the one-tenth mile-per-hour speed decrease, but it then goes two-tenths of a mile over the set speed, and coasts for a few seconds, and repeats this cycle continuously as I drive down the highway.
If the cruise control simply set the throttle to a specific point, and only changed it for moderate variations such as hills or overpasses, it would be so much more efficient. Obviously this is possible, but will the car manufacturers bother to make this sort of change, or make that style the standard for cruise control?
Especially with a fleet of cars as you describe, having everyone lined up and taking advantage of drafting the car ahead of them, speed has to be constant. This requires a tightly controlled setting, but I have found that lowers mileage as I described above. Eventually there will be a system, but I don't see it happening soon.
You're right. Most people in the world don't have the ability to own the land their house sits on, and their governments don't think they should be able to. Believing in personal property is so utterly right-wing, how can we Americans stand it?
Great! That is what I want to here from scientists. An honest "I don't know." As my post stated, I am an atheist (spelling matters here I notice). Of course most people who believe in God don't sit around and ponder his origin, and I wouldn't expect them to. Religious scholars do talk about it, it is their field of expertise. Just as scientists get together and talk about it. It is the self-proclaimed scientists that act like religious zealots I was ranting about. You sir do not appear to be in that category. Thank you for answering me.
Actually, I like to ask that of zealots all the time. My usual phrasing is "So, what caused the Big Bang?", or "What was there before the Big Bang?" The zealots I ask this of are of course scientists, or really simply people who hated going to church and want to piss off their parents. So they cling to anything they can that lets them berate the church and their parents. But ask them to back it up, their belief in the Big Bang, and they have nothing but the same argument they always heard at home and at church. "It just happened, there was nothing else, stop asking me that, it's all in this book my professor read to us at lecture. (My god I hate going to class.)" Do you notice the similarities there?
And people wonder why I, an athiest, say these 'bad things' about scientists. Too many people who claim to be "scientists" don't act very scientific, just as many people who call themselves Christian don't act the part either. Genuine scientists want people to ask those questions I ask, even if they don't know the answer. They will admit that they don't know that answer, but have discussed it many times with other scientists and there are some possibilities they favor, but can't prove. This in my opinion is what science should be, but frequently isn't. The worst answer I received to those questions was "It doesn't matter." How a scientist could say that is beyond me. How can a basic part of their theory not matter?
So, to turn your question back on yourself, "Where did the Big Bang come from? What were its origins?"
You Know what kind of gift I sould get a nephew? Some thing that matches him. Like if he is geeky I would get him some kind of computer game that is geeky. If he is a redneck I would get him the Jeff Foxworthy's Rednek Dictionary 1,2,and 3. So on and so forth. But if you don't know what to get him get him a gift card to eather " Toys R Us" or "Wallmart".
I kept my wireless router open for several months. I checked the DHCP log lately and had several users connected. I only encrypted it because I started experiencing problems connecting from my wired towers, and I had to ensure that it wasn't someone hacking me.
Even after locking it down, I had problems and ended up replacing the old Linksys with a newer model I had sitting around. The new one is locked down right now just to establish that it is working, and soon I will open it up.
Coincidentally, I have an older laptop that I used a wireless-B card with, and I never saw any other access points from within my apartment. Recently I picked up a wireless-G card for it and saw about 5 access points after installation. Some were encrypted, the others weren't. So right now the guys that had been piggybacking on my connection are on someone else's, maybe even their own. Who's to say that is illegal. I don't consider it illegal, and I have participated in both sides of the activity.
Just don't saturate the bandwidth, or use so much that a guy on a tiered plan pays extra for your activity. "Practice responsible piggy-backing. And protect yourself from viruses."
Hello Piping Guy,
:-P
Thanks for your concern. This is one of the pitfalls of Slashdot, and I am stuck in it. As my sig tells, I have forgotten the passwords of two previous accounts, and no longer have the email addresses they are configured for. (Long live Yahoo!) So I recently made a new one. I thought the user name was good, just a little self-humor. Well, I replied to a post that made some reference to 'even new guys' or something similar. My reply was simply, "What do you mean?", thinking people would pick up on the nameplay, but no one did. Not the people who responded, and certainly not the moderators. So my karma tanked.
Then I figured, hell if I have bad karma, I might as well have earned it, and trolled once or twice. The funny thing was I trolled against Bush, which usually get people Insightful, but I guess I picked Neo-Con Moderators Day, and got slammed again.
So as my comments show, I cooled it. Made plain vanilla posts or helpful comments. Then I read a comment that involved metrics. I replied that metrics ain't all it's cracked up to be, and gave concrete examples of my position. And now I am in Karma Hell. Even my good posts can't be seen by most, since they are automatically at -1. And I can't post much, because people with my karma level are restriced to two posts a day.
The lessons I have learned are that you have to build up excellent karma before any trolling is safe, and anti-metric postings are instant karma killers. But realistically, if the choice was good karma and being able to critisize the usage of the metric system, I would rather take the karma hell than meek self-censorship. That's just the kind of New Guy that I am.
Anyway, thanks again for your interest, and maybe I can get some more good karma from my earlier post.
My response to your second point has always been that the environmentalists who fought every nuclear power plant since the 70s did do the wrong thing. And now global warming concerns are coming back to bite them. What the environmental activists should have done is pick the guys from their groups who do understand nuclear power, and power production, and business models, and insisted these guys get put in charge of safety and operations at a new plant.
This would ensure that the plans are the safest design available, and that the standard operating procedures (SOP) are also safe and, more importantly, adhered to. Imagine if the chief of operations cared about the environment, and had the authority to shut the plant down immediately with no reprisals. We would have clean, safe power for millions of electric vehicles now, rather than the mess we are in.
Well, at least you have solved the difficulties of viewing porn while driving. And I am _sure_ your 'lapinator' will be getting a strenuous workout. ;^)
Why do they use the term 0,5kg, when they could have said 500g? This is one aspect of the metric system I find hilarious. Everyone says we should use metric, because it is easier to go from a low value to a larger one, just move the decimal point and change the prefix.
Well how about using the appropriate prefix yourselves? Articles about space mention thousands or millions of kilometers. Why doesn't the auther "just move the decimal point and change the prefix"? The articles should mention megameters and gigameters. What, are those units too difficult for the whole metric-using world to comprehend? If so, than shut up about metric's supposed superiority to imperial in that regard. Because it obviously does not exist.
And at the opposite end of the scale, CPUs are described using hundredths of nanometers. e.g. Intel's 0.45nm vs. AMD's 0.90nm architecture. Switch to picometers already. You can't exactly say that picometers are too hard to visualize, but nanometers are so much easier.
Go on, mod me down. Don't matter, I'm already in the "Bad Karma" pool anyway.
And all the photos are of a golf course in South Africa. Is this really how our ancestors developed their intelligence? Chasing little white balls around a field? I wonder what animal fur they wore that could possibly inspire plaid golf pants. :)
From http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/08/rice.transcript/
Whether or not some people can think of these horrible actions, the ones who are supposed to protect us can't. They have to pay millions for a computer to think of this shit for them.
You state you have your own place with your girlfriend.... No, don't get ahead of me here.
:)
You can't have your own place "with" your girlfriend. It would be more accurate to say that she allows you to have a small presence in the place she lives in. Here's the proof: Who has more closet and dresser space? Who has more items in the bathroom? What color are the sheets and curtains? And how many pillows are on that bed?
Even if you lived there first, and she only moved in last week, you would be losing in at least two of those areas.
Here are more criteria if you are not convinced. What movie did you watch last? How many of your socks or underwear are lying on or around the couch? How often is pizza delivered to your "own palce"? As a married man, I can honestly say I pay the rent, but she runs the place.
Have a nice day.
Or ask people that aren't certified behaviorists or criminal profilers. Ask the kids who were picked on in school, whose embarassment and anger could only be contained behind a pleasant facade. Here's a case from my view.
In 1993, terrorists tried to destroy the World Trade Center by exploding a large truck-bomb in the basement parking garage. It did a lot of damage, but nothing severe. The government reacted by not allowing trucks in the parking garage anymore. To assure this, several large cement pylons and other traffic barriers were placed out front, and only cars and light trucks/SUVs were allowed through. Seemed like a good plan. Sorta.
My first thought after reading about these cement barriers was how could you drive trucks through these barriers to bomb the buildings again. You can't, they are too thick and reinforced. You have to go _over_ the barriers somehow. Can you drive the truck over the barrier? Not very likely. So how would you get the truck over the barrier and into the building? Put two wings on the damn thing and fly it in. In other words, rent a cargo plane, fill it full of explosives, and fly it into the buildings. In reality, the bastards were even more twisted than I would have been.
So now, would the computer be able to predict that outcome? Or could that predictions only come from a twisted brain that spent several years wanting to kill many people? Because that is exactly what we are facing. Unpredictable scenarios are only for people with no _personal issues_.
Just watched the video. It is impressive. Until you start picking out details that are covered up. Notice how the mass of North America is completely black until around 1450. Then one dot appears along the southern coastline on the Gulf of Mexico. The only other dots up to then in North America are on the isthmus of Central America. There are also a few in South America.
First, this implies that North America was vacant until 1450. And since the US is in North America, that is where all the concerned Americans are watching. Books on American history state that there were millions of native people living in the eastern half of the continent when Europeans arrived. Yet there is only one dot. So it gives the impression that this great open land has just been flooded with population explosions, and now we are all looking at living cramped together in storage spaces because there are so many people where there used to be empty land. "My god, we're going to be cooped up like those Europeans and (ick) Indians." Being a white guy, I hate playing the race card, but I think it applies here.
Second, the dots never go away. The natives of North, South, and Central America were wiped out by foreign invasion. Warfare, disease, slavery, whatever cause you name. Those dots should have blinked out for a while. Same in Europe and Japan in the 1940's. Entire areas were bombed. Yet not one dot goes away.
Third, I don't think millions of people live on Mount Everest, or in the area immediately surrounding it, or to the north of it. Yet by 1990 (when the film was made) the dots cover the entire area from India's coastline to central Asia. It's actually funny that by the end, in 2020, the only dark areas are northern Canada, Scandanavia, northern Siberia, and Australia.
Very entertaining film, but the people who put it out basically disgust me. They are the ones who want more of everything, but don't want the poor masses to also have it. I mentioned the race card above. It is partly racism, but even more classism. "Rich white people" against everyone else. This movie is just their propaganda.
Wait. Are you referring to the Playboys, or your old man? I pause to shudder.
You ever hear of the ventriloquist Jeff Dunham? His skit with Achmed the Dead Terrorist has a similar line at the end.
"Well Achmed, what do you think of Bush?"
"Oh, I like bu.... Oh, you mean the president?"
Priceless. Except my 10 year old daughter is asking what he means.
"Is bush a kind of drug?"
"Yes honey, it is."
"I knew that's what he meant."
Remember what we are fighting for.
!Boobies!
Am I the only one wondering about the 100X productivity boost? I don't see it. Rather than using current technology to photograph and map a certain area, say the European Alps, the workers now have to add several input streams and correlate them in 3D. For the people actually producing maps today, this sounds like it will take much longer than before to produce a final product. I don't think it takes all that long to make a 2D map from a collection of 2D images.
Up to now, the hard parts are ensuring consistancy in the initial images and blending lines between separate images. With this process it involves calculating heights of mountains, depths of river valleys, and even water and ice features as well. I doubt the computers will do this as some magic algorithm, it will be human map-makers performing the exhaustive tasks. The computers will just be there to give them more data and 'guesstimate' what it will look like.
Well, "strick" is of course the past-instransitive-pluperfect form of "to strike". It is similar to "struck" and "stricken". Here are a few examples.
When Ms. Genovese confronted him, Mr. Ballmer wanted to strike her.
Later, out of camera sight, he struck her with a thrown chair.
After she was stricken, she collapsed and died.
This is in accordance with Microsoft's "strick policy" which Mr Ballmer wrote.
I hope this clears this matter up for all.