Unfortunately, what we want/need is not what we're willing to pay for. When we're sitting at the dealership for 10hrs strait, wondering how society has devolved into such a state that you can't just walk in and buy a car without being force to wait through the most soul crushing nightmare of a sales pitch ever created... and we get presented with $25k Ford that has a basic radio, and a $25k GM that has a touch screen that does... well we don't know, but it's pretty. Our reptillian brain takes over and we go with out caveman "Me want more!"
Cars are built to make you buy them. It's just a side effect they have a use after purchase.
Why does slashdot keep linking to this popsci website? These are basically blog posts that make very little sense. I've yet to read anything on there that's anything more than this dude ranting on some scientific topic he's not qualified to comment on.
There are robots RIGHT NOW killing people. They're drones. Yes, they're under human control. But so will future robots. Robots aren't going to decide to kill humanity. Humanity is going to use robots to kill humanity. Eventually we'll give up direct control and they'll target tanks on their own. Then small arms. Then people talking about Jihad. Then criminals? The death penalty shouldn't be decided by algorithm.
This guy argues that Stephen Hawkings is basically just making an oped because there was a movie about killer robots. Why should we listen to him? We're listing to him because he's STEPHEN HAWKINGS. He's one of the smartest people who's ever lived. He made his point after the movie because, being smart, he understood the popular movie would have peoples attention focused on the issue. Hawkings is qualified, smart and has my respect. He also has a point. Popsci? What a joke.
I'm a foster parent, our current we got around 11 months, and holy cow that girl could SCREAM and yell all night... 3 years later she still has sleep issues but much more manageable instead of her psychologist termed PTSD from what she saw her first 10 months of life screaming uncontrollably for hours on end. I'm convinced her poor memory is from her not willing to go to sleep till 3-4 hours after bedtime...
Sadly I remember those nights too well, but then again, as she got older we had another kid (or own), so must have passed enough in memory...
I remember it said that being an adoptive parent takes a special kind of person, which luckily I am. We're very blessed. But adopting pales in comparison to fostering. My hats off to you sir.
It's amazing how little sleep you can get and not die.
And for about a month after both of my kids were born, I really don't remember much at all.
Same here. We adopted my son at the age of 2. I don't remember about the first 6 months other than that he was VERY upset and trying to kill us. I still have scars from the bite marks. He wouldn't sleep unless we held him and walked in circles... all night. As soon as we stopped he would wake up and bite. I always thought it was PTSD blocking it out but maybe not.:-)
Its not the job of any third level course to teach basic spelling and grammar to anyone, or it shouldn't be. That's a failure of primary and secondary education.
Or: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disor... Which I have. I spent years in handwriting classes. Thank god computers came along. Those classes didn't help at all. I can't even read my own handwriting.
Homophone mistakes are my biggest problem, followed closely by just general spelling. I literally don't even see what I'm typing. I think "Write" and a word pops out on the screen which my brain sees and it sounds correct so on I go. But spellcheck helps immensely (again, thank god for computers) Though I love Firefox which has about the worst spellcheck I've ever seen. I've been thinking of switching for that very reason.
And for the record, I nearly got my degree in English. I was getting very good grades before I switched focus so I could, you know, actually get a job. Granted my professors were all aware of my problems and I got a bit of a pass in that regard. I'll admit, had I finished I'd have definitely needed a very good editor:-)
Frankly in my experience GM is too incompetent for that. I see their engineers do stuff all the time that is borderline retarded and the company is so large it's hard to even find a person responsible for a specific issue, much less hold them accountable. While I can't say for certain either way, I tend to think the cause of this fiasco is more structural than criminal. I think this is probably a case of incompetence of such a degree that it appears as malfeasance.
I'd like to confirm your point. My father used to run one of GMs largest suppliers. I'm not sure I'd call them incompetent. But they're large on a scale that's comparable to AT&T. They're to the point of being almost a government institution. I doubt the CEO has ANY clue at all what's going on with the engineers or the production floor. The way they work with suppliers is "You will give us X and if you don't we can switch suppliers with no notice. Sign here or don't. We don't care." and if you screw up, at all, they will literately switch suppliers in hours. Often they owned the tooling and had plenty of backup to send off to another vendor.
I remember parts mixups resulting in my father packing suitcases full of automotive parts, boarding a residential flight and hand carrying the parts to Detroit on more than one occasion. If you have a problem, you fix it immediately, either directly or by covering it up, or GM will pull your contract and you'll be laying people off the next day.
This is the market at work. A Humanities degree is fiscally worthless. At best, you can teach other people how to get the same degree you have. You might as well be teaching someone about stamp collecting or theology. Sure, there's rare cases where that will be handy to some company, but for the most part the humanities exist in their own echo chamber. You can teach other people about them, right books for other people interested in humanities, but it does the rest of the world almost no benefit. Get your humanities degree and you'll most likely end up working in tech support and spending your day correcting other peoples grammar. What's worse, is those other people (like me) wont care and just flag you as a troll.
How much of this has to be revealed before the general population in America cares enough to do something about it?
As an American, I worry.
Don't worry about everyone else. Worry about you. Do the right thing and you've done enough. If someone is dying of a heart attack and everyone's walking by, do you think to yourself "I wish someone that knew CPR would stop. I don't, so I'll just keep walking." ?!? No, stop, offer what aid you can. Scream for help. They will probably die anyway, but that doesn't excuse you from caring.
The same goes for the NSA (and other governments agencies) Yell for help... for example I posted this to Slashdot, and I'm commenting. I'm doing my best to make my slashdot friends (and enemies) aware of what's going on. Vote for people that oppose this. They will probably lose, but at least you did something. Apathy is the NSA's most powerful tool.
We don't have control because people like you throw up your hands and say "There's nothing we can do! Big evil people are in control!"
I can't say that I've never had that opinion. But I'll not my apathy ruin the world for my son. Whats wrong is wrong. My rage may amount to nothing, but at least I speak out. At the very least, in the future my son can look back and know that his father was not ok with this. I'll not vote for anyone that supports this sort of thing. I'll not remain friends with anyone that defends this. I'll not be a part of building a prison for our children. This is THE civil rights issue of our generation.
Why did GM write into their bail-out a few years ago the clause that they cannot be held responsible for malfeasance which occurred prior to that bail out?
Makes me sick thinking about it.
Irrelevant of if they knew about it... if it were you, wouldn't you make such a term if you could get the signers to agree to it?
Modern air superiority is done with Cruise missiles. There are no foreign aircraft left by the time our bombers go in. Soon it will all be done with drones.
From all the noise here, it seemed pretty clear that ONLY the NSA did this kind of stuff and not any other government in the world. Isn't that why we're all supposed to toe the "NSA is evil" line?
The government is like a child.
I tell my 6yr old that throwing sticks at people is wrong. He says "Look! Philip, Lacey and Clancy are throwing sticks!" I tell him "I'm not their parent. I can't tell them what to do. I can only teach you what's right or wrong. It's not acceptable for my child to throw sticks. I'll talk to the other parents about their kids."
I'm an US citizen. I can't vote the UK's government out of office. I'm in charge of my own government and it's NOT acceptable for them to do this.
This story is about other countries. It's good to let the other parents know what their governments are up to so they can discipline them.
It's not that hard of a concept. Perhaps you should read this? It helped my kid.
Right, I was a bit confused by this as well. When did we suddenly forget what Astroturfing was?
This is exactly what corporate regulatory affairs departments are for. Every company and charity out there does this. The corporations owners/shareholders have 1st amendment rights to. They're free to donate to whatever lobbying groups they think they should.
In general, S corporations do not pay any federal income taxes. Instead, the corporation's income or losses are divided among and passed through to its shareholders. The shareholders must then report the income or loss on their own individual income tax returns.
He'll be paying taxes. It's just a matter of how and when.
Then there's the argument that he may win $1billion from the NBA during a lawsuit. Well good. This is the united states. He should be able to say what he wants no matter how stupid and offensive it is, then we should be able to boycott his business. The NBA may or may not have been right in what they did, I've no knowledge of the particulars of their contract. But that is exactly what this is, a contractual dispute.
The impact simulations kind of rule that out. I'd say the sample size is a real issue though. Also, there are quite a few assumptions that I'd say are questionable. We've no idea where this protoplanet came from. It could have been from outside the solar system... or it could have been part of earth at one time, jettisoned in a previous impact and came back for revenge. The fact that we have as much information as we do blows my mind. Science is amazing.
I can only speculate that at some point regular sellers and buyers will 'take their business elsewhere' because the parasitism of HFT and it's successors reaches the point that NOT using the standard markets is more cost effective.
They can't. HFTs are in the only market there is. The "Victims" are only losing fractions of pennies per trade, so no ones in an uproar. It will take an act of congress to fix this and they're bought and paid for by the HFT's.
This is pointless. The 5 people that do this will be protected when they communicate with one another. That's it.
Lets be clear. I don't care if Google or Facebook are spying on me (well, I do, but that's an entirely different topic.) The NSA is definitely the "worst" despite what this says. I'm even less concerned about foreign governments or criminals spying on me. The real danger is to our entire way of life. What the NSA is doing could be used to turn us into a true totalitarian state... very easily. What China, or some script kiddy, or even what Google can do with this information pales in comparison to the atrocities the federal government could commit with this power. The only thing restraining them at this time is their own will not to do so. That is NOT acceptable in my opinion. How long before we elect the next Nixon? or Stalin? It will happen, it always does. What will they do with this power?
I have never understood this problem. Let me opt in and out of purchases outside my country... or even my state. The code would be trivial. Let me log into my CC admin page and check off where I can use the card. It's that simple.
Aluminium recycle is one of the most efficient ones. Aluminium is hard to create from bauxite, but once extracted, is very easy to recicle. (Low energies compared to other metals).
Also I think that recyclic from alumina (Aluminium oxide, which is the byproduct) is even easier.
So they are not disposable, they are true rechargable, but not by a common mean. Sure, you can also dispose the alumina to be recycled locally and buy new ones. This will have the same CO2 footprint. But I'm sure they will offer you a discount for the interchange.
No, you are not recycling aluminum. You're recycling Alumina otherwise known as Aluminum Oxide which is basically bauxite.The only difference between Aluminum Oxide and Bauxite is the Bauxite has a lot of impurities in it. So it probably takes less energy than refining ore, but definitely takes more than simply recycling aluminum cans.
In researching this post I found that there is a new and better way to do this! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... Very very interesting. Is till can't find an efficiency numbers on this. It does not, however, sound like a very efficient process. But at least it's better than smelting from bauxite.
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Unfortunately, what we want/need is not what we're willing to pay for. When we're sitting at the dealership for 10hrs strait, wondering how society has devolved into such a state that you can't just walk in and buy a car without being force to wait through the most soul crushing nightmare of a sales pitch ever created... and we get presented with $25k Ford that has a basic radio, and a $25k GM that has a touch screen that does... well we don't know, but it's pretty. Our reptillian brain takes over and we go with out caveman "Me want more!"
Cars are built to make you buy them. It's just a side effect they have a use after purchase.
Why does slashdot keep linking to this popsci website? These are basically blog posts that make very little sense. I've yet to read anything on there that's anything more than this dude ranting on some scientific topic he's not qualified to comment on.
There are robots RIGHT NOW killing people. They're drones. Yes, they're under human control. But so will future robots. Robots aren't going to decide to kill humanity. Humanity is going to use robots to kill humanity. Eventually we'll give up direct control and they'll target tanks on their own. Then small arms. Then people talking about Jihad. Then criminals? The death penalty shouldn't be decided by algorithm.
This guy argues that Stephen Hawkings is basically just making an oped because there was a movie about killer robots. Why should we listen to him? We're listing to him because he's STEPHEN HAWKINGS. He's one of the smartest people who's ever lived. He made his point after the movie because, being smart, he understood the popular movie would have peoples attention focused on the issue. Hawkings is qualified, smart and has my respect. He also has a point. Popsci? What a joke.
I'm a foster parent, our current we got around 11 months, and holy cow that girl could SCREAM and yell all night... 3 years later she still has sleep issues but much more manageable instead of her psychologist termed PTSD from what she saw her first 10 months of life screaming uncontrollably for hours on end. I'm convinced her poor memory is from her not willing to go to sleep till 3-4 hours after bedtime...
Sadly I remember those nights too well, but then again, as she got older we had another kid (or own), so must have passed enough in memory...
I remember it said that being an adoptive parent takes a special kind of person, which luckily I am. We're very blessed. But adopting pales in comparison to fostering. My hats off to you sir.
It's amazing how little sleep you can get and not die.
And for about a month after both of my kids were born, I really don't remember much at all.
Same here. We adopted my son at the age of 2. I don't remember about the first 6 months other than that he was VERY upset and trying to kill us. I still have scars from the bite marks. He wouldn't sleep unless we held him and walked in circles... all night. As soon as we stopped he would wake up and bite. I always thought it was PTSD blocking it out but maybe not. :-)
Its not the job of any third level course to teach basic spelling and grammar to anyone, or it shouldn't be. That's a failure of primary and secondary education.
Or: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disor...
Which I have. I spent years in handwriting classes. Thank god computers came along. Those classes didn't help at all. I can't even read my own handwriting.
Homophone mistakes are my biggest problem, followed closely by just general spelling. I literally don't even see what I'm typing. I think "Write" and a word pops out on the screen which my brain sees and it sounds correct so on I go. But spellcheck helps immensely (again, thank god for computers) Though I love Firefox which has about the worst spellcheck I've ever seen. I've been thinking of switching for that very reason.
And for the record, I nearly got my degree in English. I was getting very good grades before I switched focus so I could, you know, actually get a job. Granted my professors were all aware of my problems and I got a bit of a pass in that regard. I'll admit, had I finished I'd have definitely needed a very good editor :-)
> right books
Yeah - humanities education is worthless.
So you're working in tech support I see? ;-)
Frankly in my experience GM is too incompetent for that. I see their engineers do stuff all the time that is borderline retarded and the company is so large it's hard to even find a person responsible for a specific issue, much less hold them accountable. While I can't say for certain either way, I tend to think the cause of this fiasco is more structural than criminal. I think this is probably a case of incompetence of such a degree that it appears as malfeasance.
I'd like to confirm your point. My father used to run one of GMs largest suppliers. I'm not sure I'd call them incompetent. But they're large on a scale that's comparable to AT&T. They're to the point of being almost a government institution. I doubt the CEO has ANY clue at all what's going on with the engineers or the production floor. The way they work with suppliers is "You will give us X and if you don't we can switch suppliers with no notice. Sign here or don't. We don't care." and if you screw up, at all, they will literately switch suppliers in hours. Often they owned the tooling and had plenty of backup to send off to another vendor.
I remember parts mixups resulting in my father packing suitcases full of automotive parts, boarding a residential flight and hand carrying the parts to Detroit on more than one occasion. If you have a problem, you fix it immediately, either directly or by covering it up, or GM will pull your contract and you'll be laying people off the next day.
This is the market at work. A Humanities degree is fiscally worthless. At best, you can teach other people how to get the same degree you have. You might as well be teaching someone about stamp collecting or theology. Sure, there's rare cases where that will be handy to some company, but for the most part the humanities exist in their own echo chamber. You can teach other people about them, right books for other people interested in humanities, but it does the rest of the world almost no benefit. Get your humanities degree and you'll most likely end up working in tech support and spending your day correcting other peoples grammar. What's worse, is those other people (like me) wont care and just flag you as a troll.
Watch the first 60 seconds of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I know the quality is terrible, but you'll get the idea.
I heard these sets would cost 30% of the sets with male scientists.
So they're still be an average over $30 for 3oz of injection molded plastic and 10 page instruction booklet?
How much of this has to be revealed before the general population in America cares enough to do something about it?
As an American, I worry.
Don't worry about everyone else. Worry about you. Do the right thing and you've done enough. If someone is dying of a heart attack and everyone's walking by, do you think to yourself "I wish someone that knew CPR would stop. I don't, so I'll just keep walking." ?!? No, stop, offer what aid you can. Scream for help. They will probably die anyway, but that doesn't excuse you from caring.
The same goes for the NSA (and other governments agencies) Yell for help... for example I posted this to Slashdot, and I'm commenting. I'm doing my best to make my slashdot friends (and enemies) aware of what's going on. Vote for people that oppose this. They will probably lose, but at least you did something. Apathy is the NSA's most powerful tool.
At your device, what else can you do?
Vote
We don't have control because people like you throw up your hands and say "There's nothing we can do! Big evil people are in control!"
I can't say that I've never had that opinion. But I'll not my apathy ruin the world for my son. Whats wrong is wrong. My rage may amount to nothing, but at least I speak out. At the very least, in the future my son can look back and know that his father was not ok with this. I'll not vote for anyone that supports this sort of thing. I'll not remain friends with anyone that defends this. I'll not be a part of building a prison for our children. This is THE civil rights issue of our generation.
Why did GM write into their bail-out a few years ago the clause that they cannot be held responsible for malfeasance which occurred prior to that bail out?
Makes me sick thinking about it.
Irrelevant of if they knew about it... if it were you, wouldn't you make such a term if you could get the signers to agree to it?
Modern air superiority is done with Cruise missiles. There are no foreign aircraft left by the time our bombers go in. Soon it will all be done with drones.
From all the noise here, it seemed pretty clear that ONLY the NSA did this kind of stuff and not any other government in the world. Isn't that why we're all supposed to toe the "NSA is evil" line?
The government is like a child.
I tell my 6yr old that throwing sticks at people is wrong.
He says "Look! Philip, Lacey and Clancy are throwing sticks!"
I tell him "I'm not their parent. I can't tell them what to do. I can only teach you what's right or wrong. It's not acceptable for my child to throw sticks. I'll talk to the other parents about their kids."
I'm an US citizen. I can't vote the UK's government out of office. I'm in charge of my own government and it's NOT acceptable for them to do this.
This story is about other countries. It's good to let the other parents know what their governments are up to so they can discipline them.
It's not that hard of a concept. Perhaps you should read this?
It helped my kid.
Right, I was a bit confused by this as well. When did we suddenly forget what Astroturfing was?
This is exactly what corporate regulatory affairs departments are for. Every company and charity out there does this. The corporations owners/shareholders have 1st amendment rights to. They're free to donate to whatever lobbying groups they think they should.
I know slashdot loves to hate on the rich and all, but lets have some facts here.
This entire gripe seems to be based on the premise that he's filed as an "S Corporation" and therefor "It's not taxed! OMG!"
Well, that's not accurate.
From Wikipedia:
In general, S corporations do not pay any federal income taxes. Instead, the corporation's income or losses are divided among and passed through to its shareholders. The shareholders must then report the income or loss on their own individual income tax returns.
He'll be paying taxes. It's just a matter of how and when.
Then there's the argument that he may win $1billion from the NBA during a lawsuit. Well good. This is the united states. He should be able to say what he wants no matter how stupid and offensive it is, then we should be able to boycott his business. The NBA may or may not have been right in what they did, I've no knowledge of the particulars of their contract. But that is exactly what this is, a contractual dispute.
The impact simulations kind of rule that out. I'd say the sample size is a real issue though. Also, there are quite a few assumptions that I'd say are questionable. We've no idea where this protoplanet came from. It could have been from outside the solar system... or it could have been part of earth at one time, jettisoned in a previous impact and came back for revenge. The fact that we have as much information as we do blows my mind. Science is amazing.
Buy drones instead. They are rapidly making aircraft obsolete.
Where do you live? Iran? Drones have a long way to go before they can replace a supersonic air superiority fighter.
But then again, so does the F-35.
Fighter Jets became useless 20yrs ago. They're only still around because the current generals running the US military grew up whacking off to topgun.
The answer is, all of the above... and more.
I can only speculate that at some point regular sellers and buyers will 'take their business elsewhere' because the parasitism of HFT and it's successors reaches the point that NOT using the standard markets is more cost effective.
They can't. HFTs are in the only market there is. The "Victims" are only losing fractions of pennies per trade, so no ones in an uproar. It will take an act of congress to fix this and they're bought and paid for by the HFT's.
This is pointless. The 5 people that do this will be protected when they communicate with one another. That's it.
Lets be clear. I don't care if Google or Facebook are spying on me (well, I do, but that's an entirely different topic.) The NSA is definitely the "worst" despite what this says. I'm even less concerned about foreign governments or criminals spying on me. The real danger is to our entire way of life. What the NSA is doing could be used to turn us into a true totalitarian state... very easily. What China, or some script kiddy, or even what Google can do with this information pales in comparison to the atrocities the federal government could commit with this power. The only thing restraining them at this time is their own will not to do so. That is NOT acceptable in my opinion. How long before we elect the next Nixon? or Stalin? It will happen, it always does. What will they do with this power?
I have never understood this problem. Let me opt in and out of purchases outside my country... or even my state. The code would be trivial. Let me log into my CC admin page and check off where I can use the card. It's that simple.
Aluminium recycle is one of the most efficient ones. Aluminium is hard to create from bauxite, but once extracted, is very easy to recicle. (Low energies compared to other metals).
Also I think that recyclic from alumina (Aluminium oxide, which is the byproduct) is even easier.
So they are not disposable, they are true rechargable, but not by a common mean. Sure, you can also dispose the alumina to be recycled locally and buy new ones. This will have the same CO2 footprint. But I'm sure they will offer you a discount for the interchange.
No, you are not recycling aluminum. You're recycling Alumina otherwise known as Aluminum Oxide which is basically bauxite.The only difference between Aluminum Oxide and Bauxite is the Bauxite has a lot of impurities in it. So it probably takes less energy than refining ore, but definitely takes more than simply recycling aluminum cans.
In researching this post I found that there is a new and better way to do this!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
Very very interesting. Is till can't find an efficiency numbers on this. It does not, however, sound like a very efficient process. But at least it's better than smelting from bauxite.