yea, but they are headed in the wrong direction, and are moving REALLY slow. If we saw stars moving around at a few percent the speed of light, then maybe. But a million miles per hour? That's 0.0014% the speed of light. Our closest neighbor is 25.8 trillion miles away. So it would take them nearly 3 thousand years just to get there. Not much of a mother ship.
You can still get plenty of cars that don't have GPS. I've got a 2009 escape and no GPS. In fact, I tore out that damned "Microsoft Sync" garbage the day after I got it to. The cars computer still logs a bit of data on how you are driving. But that's just as likely to end up being helpful to you in a civil case as it is to hurt you. I doubt it would be of much use by marketting orgs or the government. It also doesn't have a way to transmit. When they start embedding "free" cellular connections and android OS in your, I'll start freaking out.
No, I think there's diminishing returns there. We knew they could read news print by at least the late 80s. Much smaller than that and I really don't see the utility. I think where we'd likely be shocked is in the wavelengths outside the visible spectrum they're using as well as automated targeting and signal processing. One of the problems with the old film sats was how few pictures they could take and the armies of people it would take to analyze and likely miss things because they're human. I bet the software they use to analyze the data they collect is amazing. Not to mention, I suspect we have munitions in space.
The CIA has had a remote control dragon fly since the 70s. It was guided by laser and relayed audio and video by the same laser. The things friggen insane given the time period it was designed in.
You think they can't get him in Russia? They are terrified of the "Security" file he has. I suspect a lot more damaging stuff would get released if he suddenly disappeared.
I would juxtapose that with the advertisements these very same businesses often use with "Fake" customers (actors) that claim how great the service is on television and on the radio. If the business is allowed to make False statements of fact regarding the quality of their services and have it protected by the first amendment, how can the public be denied the same right? I do not see how this is any different that the very same businesses fraudulent claims in advertising.
Well, I think the problem was that we thought people like us were in Iraq... and once Saddam was gone they come out of their houses and go about being free and democratic like Europe did after WW2. Well, they're not like us. They didn't do that. And while we do have our own problems, the kind of shit they are willing to put up with is a lot different than the kind of shit we're willing to put up with. Their society needs to change fundamentally. Something deep and eye opening like what happened in the US during the civil rights movement. We can't help them with that, just like no-one could have helped us through the 60s.
Yea, but they CANT destroy the US. It's not possible. It's like we live in a mansion and a rat ran in and shit on our floor. So now we have the entire staff chopping up the floorboards and taring the plaster off the walls looking for the fucking thing. We're doing far more damage than the stupid rat ever could. Some pests just don't go away, so you have to keep the cheese in the fridge, put out some traps and deal with it. Don't burn the house down around you just to win.
All books written by politically active people like O'Reilley are nothing more than slush funds to funnel money towards a particular party or candidate. The Clintons have done it, Sarah Palins a master of it... Your donors buy up your books, giving you fame, getting the press to talk about you... and then "donate" them to fund-raisers who "Give" them away to donors. It looks like you sold lots of books, your all over the news because of it but no-ones reading the book, not even the anchors claiming to interview you about it. God I hate marketing.
Or... and I know this sounds crazy... we could just not kill people anymore. I know we like to be the super heroes of the world, running around fighting everyones wars and everything... hell, I used to think that way to. But at a certain point you just have to stand back and say "you know what? Fuck it. I'm done blowing 1/3rd of our budget dropping bombs on people I don't know for a cause I barely understand just to have any and all progress erased in a few years because the real problems in other parts of the world have little to do with their totalitarian leaderships."
Depending on the strain you're growing you can have "Best in the world" quality pot in a few months just by planting a seed outside and leaving it alone. Brewing moonshine is a hell of a lot of work. It takes less time to produce maybe, but you get less of it, it takes a large initial investment in equipment and if you do it wrong the product can kill you. If you do pot wrong, you just get a lower yield.
That's what I find the most funny about legalization efforts. They think there's going to be this huge tax windfall... give it 5 years and everyone will have a plant in their backyard over the summer. Most people aren't going to be able to smoke as much as a single plant can produce in a year... why would they ever buy it?
You have no friggen idea what you're talking about. This information is money in the bank. 10 years ago a salesman would call you at work and suggest you buy their printers. They had no idea who you were, if you could make purchases on behalf of your company and no idea if you would be interested. Companies had armies of salesman that would just canvas whole area codes looking for customers.
Now, when they want to call Business A, they know nearly everyone who works there... they can cross reference that against social media activity of those people and determine who are more likely to buy. When they call you, they know every click you've made on their site, along with ever click you've made on just about every other site affiliated with whichever marketing platform their using. Now you may think that data would be overwhelming, but it's all served up in nice graphs. They know your favorite sports team, what your interests are, how much time you've spent looking at different products they might be selling. You're basically talking to a con artist that knows you better than your own mother and you think he's a stranger. You're at a complete disadvantage in the negotiation and have no idea.
This is the problem with the Right-Think pro-gun lobby. You try and justify why you need your constitutional rights. It doesn't matter if the 2nd amendment makes it harder to govern. It doesn't matter if it does increase violence. It doesn't even matter if my own kid gets killed by a gun. Constitutional rights do not need to be justified. They are a right of the people, given to the people, by the people. The government, nor anyone else can take them away.
We have the right to bare arms. And we need not explain why. That's how rights work.
They finally got the size right. Next they need to get the price in the under $20 range... Power consumption low enough that it can be powered off either ambient wifi, solar, heat exchanger... something small...
The problem is "Peak" usage. Which is usually friday and Saturday evenings. The rest of the week the networks fine, but during those 2 times usage quadruples due to a few sites. YouTube, Netflix, etc... mostly netflix. Ironically filesharing isn't even discussed when they talk about this stuff. Netflix is 80% of our traffic on Friday and Saturday nights. There's a lot netflix could do to make this less of a pain in the ass for the ISPs but so far they've been total asshats about the situation.
The ISPs don't want to charge the suppliers to get more money (though it's a nice side effect) what they want them to do is share the burden on their content so they have more incentive to change their products to reduce load on the network. This is a really hard issue to adress without giving the Feds some control over the internet that we'd rather not...
No, I work in the industry, there actually ISNT enough bandwidth. If this becomes popular, wait for the data caps to get lowered.
The only legitimate argument I've heard for this is that the content providers have been irresponsible with their delivery because it costs them nothing. For example, not allowing users to download off-hours, even encouraging them to all download at peak times, and not using proper compression. If using more bandwidth cost them more money then they'd be more inclined to work with the ISP to reduce the load on the consumers end.
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yea, but they are headed in the wrong direction, and are moving REALLY slow. If we saw stars moving around at a few percent the speed of light, then maybe. But a million miles per hour? That's 0.0014% the speed of light. Our closest neighbor is 25.8 trillion miles away. So it would take them nearly 3 thousand years just to get there. Not much of a mother ship.
You can still get plenty of cars that don't have GPS. I've got a 2009 escape and no GPS. In fact, I tore out that damned "Microsoft Sync" garbage the day after I got it to. The cars computer still logs a bit of data on how you are driving. But that's just as likely to end up being helpful to you in a civil case as it is to hurt you. I doubt it would be of much use by marketting orgs or the government. It also doesn't have a way to transmit. When they start embedding "free" cellular connections and android OS in your, I'll start freaking out.
Now if you find an inhabitable planet orbiting one of these stars let me know. That would be the mothership of all motherships.
Or really bad luck. Leaving the galactic plane would pretty much assure your species would never branch out beyond your own solar system.
No, I think there's diminishing returns there. We knew they could read news print by at least the late 80s. Much smaller than that and I really don't see the utility. I think where we'd likely be shocked is in the wavelengths outside the visible spectrum they're using as well as automated targeting and signal processing. One of the problems with the old film sats was how few pictures they could take and the armies of people it would take to analyze and likely miss things because they're human. I bet the software they use to analyze the data they collect is amazing. Not to mention, I suspect we have munitions in space.
The CIA has had a remote control dragon fly since the 70s. It was guided by laser and relayed audio and video by the same laser. The things friggen insane given the time period it was designed in.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/30/cia-dragonfly-drone-uavs-40-years/
No, they'd drop the film via parachute and it got picked up by the navy. The highest resolution they got was 1ft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_(satellite)
Ok, lets check them out then:
C- with the BBB
34 complaints, 2 unresolved
http://www.bbb.org/washington-dc-eastern-pa/business-reviews/carpet-and-rug-cleaners/hadeed-carpet-cleaning-inc-in-alexandria-va-9331/
Here's one of their commercials, seemingly libeling every other carpet cleaner in the area:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmr3F2bmyyc
Here's some fake customers, and no "Paid actors" warning:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24KaJugEcSE
So again, if they can lie about how good they are, lie about how bad everyone else is, then why can't other people lie about how bad they are?
I think Libelous speech should be protected, despite the supreme courts previous rulings.
You think they can't get him in Russia? They are terrified of the "Security" file he has. I suspect a lot more damaging stuff would get released if he suddenly disappeared.
I would juxtapose that with the advertisements these very same businesses often use with "Fake" customers (actors) that claim how great the service is on television and on the radio. If the business is allowed to make False statements of fact regarding the quality of their services and have it protected by the first amendment, how can the public be denied the same right? I do not see how this is any different that the very same businesses fraudulent claims in advertising.
Its all about the perception of their customers. US territory is tainted in the eyes of the world now.
Well, I think the problem was that we thought people like us were in Iraq... and once Saddam was gone they come out of their houses and go about being free and democratic like Europe did after WW2. Well, they're not like us. They didn't do that. And while we do have our own problems, the kind of shit they are willing to put up with is a lot different than the kind of shit we're willing to put up with. Their society needs to change fundamentally. Something deep and eye opening like what happened in the US during the civil rights movement. We can't help them with that, just like no-one could have helped us through the 60s.
Yea, but they CANT destroy the US. It's not possible. It's like we live in a mansion and a rat ran in and shit on our floor. So now we have the entire staff chopping up the floorboards and taring the plaster off the walls looking for the fucking thing. We're doing far more damage than the stupid rat ever could. Some pests just don't go away, so you have to keep the cheese in the fridge, put out some traps and deal with it. Don't burn the house down around you just to win.
All books written by politically active people like O'Reilley are nothing more than slush funds to funnel money towards a particular party or candidate. The Clintons have done it, Sarah Palins a master of it... Your donors buy up your books, giving you fame, getting the press to talk about you... and then "donate" them to fund-raisers who "Give" them away to donors. It looks like you sold lots of books, your all over the news because of it but no-ones reading the book, not even the anchors claiming to interview you about it. God I hate marketing.
Or... and I know this sounds crazy... we could just not kill people anymore. I know we like to be the super heroes of the world, running around fighting everyones wars and everything... hell, I used to think that way to. But at a certain point you just have to stand back and say "you know what? Fuck it. I'm done blowing 1/3rd of our budget dropping bombs on people I don't know for a cause I barely understand just to have any and all progress erased in a few years because the real problems in other parts of the world have little to do with their totalitarian leaderships."
With fission and fusion. Why are you excluding them?
No, the big boxy thing is the hard drive you dolt!
No, doctors are lazy, and with more information usually jump to the diagnoses that will get the patient out of their office the quickest.
Depending on the strain you're growing you can have "Best in the world" quality pot in a few months just by planting a seed outside and leaving it alone. Brewing moonshine is a hell of a lot of work. It takes less time to produce maybe, but you get less of it, it takes a large initial investment in equipment and if you do it wrong the product can kill you. If you do pot wrong, you just get a lower yield.
That's what I find the most funny about legalization efforts. They think there's going to be this huge tax windfall... give it 5 years and everyone will have a plant in their backyard over the summer. Most people aren't going to be able to smoke as much as a single plant can produce in a year... why would they ever buy it?
You have no friggen idea what you're talking about. This information is money in the bank. 10 years ago a salesman would call you at work and suggest you buy their printers. They had no idea who you were, if you could make purchases on behalf of your company and no idea if you would be interested. Companies had armies of salesman that would just canvas whole area codes looking for customers.
Now, when they want to call Business A, they know nearly everyone who works there... they can cross reference that against social media activity of those people and determine who are more likely to buy. When they call you, they know every click you've made on their site, along with ever click you've made on just about every other site affiliated with whichever marketing platform their using. Now you may think that data would be overwhelming, but it's all served up in nice graphs. They know your favorite sports team, what your interests are, how much time you've spent looking at different products they might be selling. You're basically talking to a con artist that knows you better than your own mother and you think he's a stranger. You're at a complete disadvantage in the negotiation and have no idea.
um... it's all of them. lol
This is the problem with the Right-Think pro-gun lobby. You try and justify why you need your constitutional rights. It doesn't matter if the 2nd amendment makes it harder to govern. It doesn't matter if it does increase violence. It doesn't even matter if my own kid gets killed by a gun. Constitutional rights do not need to be justified. They are a right of the people, given to the people, by the people. The government, nor anyone else can take them away.
We have the right to bare arms. And we need not explain why. That's how rights work.
You're missing the point.
They finally got the size right.
Next they need to get the price in the under $20 range...
Power consumption low enough that it can be powered off either ambient wifi, solar, heat exchanger... something small...
THEN the revolution will come.
This is neat. But, I'll be honest, I don't want to compile anything. At the very least give me an android APK or better yet get it on the play store.
The problem is "Peak" usage. Which is usually friday and Saturday evenings. The rest of the week the networks fine, but during those 2 times usage quadruples due to a few sites. YouTube, Netflix, etc... mostly netflix. Ironically filesharing isn't even discussed when they talk about this stuff. Netflix is 80% of our traffic on Friday and Saturday nights. There's a lot netflix could do to make this less of a pain in the ass for the ISPs but so far they've been total asshats about the situation.
The ISPs don't want to charge the suppliers to get more money (though it's a nice side effect) what they want them to do is share the burden on their content so they have more incentive to change their products to reduce load on the network. This is a really hard issue to adress without giving the Feds some control over the internet that we'd rather not...
No, I work in the industry, there actually ISNT enough bandwidth. If this becomes popular, wait for the data caps to get lowered.
The only legitimate argument I've heard for this is that the content providers have been irresponsible with their delivery because it costs them nothing. For example, not allowing users to download off-hours, even encouraging them to all download at peak times, and not using proper compression. If using more bandwidth cost them more money then they'd be more inclined to work with the ISP to reduce the load on the consumers end.