Substitution errors shouldn't happen in corporate level scanning hardware, even if you bury a warning about it 107 pages into the 350 page manual. You can't have something that fundamentally makes your product not fit for purpose and claim that it's ok just because it's a known issue.
It will take a lot to ever convince me that something synthetic can taste the same as something that was alive and running around with blood pumping through its brains and a nervous system that spent time outdoors.
If they succeed won't it take... one bite? Maybe one double blinded bite if you don't trust yourself to be objective?
There is no chance that reducing CO2 emissions here is going to mean anything, ever.
When a Watt of energy from wind or solar costs significantly less than a Watt of energy from coal, oil, or gas emissions will plummet. When a battery has higher effective energy density than gasoline, emissions will plummet. The problem is thinking you can come up with treaties and laws to tackle the problem, the thing about agreements like that is that the more everyone sticks to them the more there is to be gained by being the one who cheats. If you want to fix it, you have to improve the tech so that it's an upgrade, not a downgrade.
There's a difference between "golly I'm such a night owl" and having a circadian rhythm disorder. It's like the difference of "I'm so anti-social I have autism" and actually being diagnosed.
"The offending article"... that phrase actually makes me shudder a bit. It comes dangerously close to "the illegal information" which is itself dangerously close to "the dangerous thought". I am not a paranoid anti-big brother tin foil hat wearer, but this is getting ridiculous and downright scary.
A) (The number of pressure cooker bombs made) / (the number of pressure cookers sold) is virtually 0. B) (The number of backpacks used to bomb something) / (the number of backpacks sold) is virtually 0. Even taking A and B together, (the number of pressure cooker bombs transported in backpacks) / (the number of people who own both pressure cookers and backpacks) is virtually 0.
A and B are meaningless. Worse than meaningless, they waste resources that could be put toward investigating real threats.
C) With all the news about pressure cooker bombs, there are lots of people, in the 10s of millions, who have searched for what a pressure cooker bomb is, myself included. D) Lots of people travel. Neither China nor S. Korea are hotbeds of terrorist activity. N. Korea is all but impossible to enter from either of those countries.
And for gods sake, most importantly, absolutely none of this should have been known by any law enforcement agency because they had no probable cause to start an investigation in the first place. There is a serious problem when everyone American citizen's internet activity and travel history are being constantly monitored.
Nothing to lose? You realize the government can lean on companies that don't cooperate right? Make all kinds of things more difficult, more costly, and sometimes even impossible. From spectrum deals to taxes to grants to visa applications, our various federal departments are far too interconnected to claim that they have "nothing to lose" by refusing to cooperate.
There are advantages to being in the atmosphere though that you can't get in space. First and foremost is... the atmosphere. CO2 can be cracked for oxygen, the various acids can be broken down for water and fuel. Yes, using breathable air as a lifting gas makes your dirigible bigger, but you have to bring the air along anyway and store it someplace. If you compress it down and store it in tanks you'd then need more H2 to support that weight, may as well just use it for lift.
Also, I think you underestimate how hostile vacuum is. If I had to design a habitat and had the choice between building it in vacuum and building it in a caustic CO2 atmosphere at 10C and 1 atmosphere of pressure, I'd much rather design for the atmosphere.
It has more to do with the fat content. We were told for some many years that fat is bad that we forget that fat is necissary for the absorption of a lot of nutrients. Lobster, by itself, has almost no fat. Eat it as your primary protein (almost sole protein for those workers if the reports are to be believed) for weeks, months, and years on end and you're end up with all kinds of health issues.
When the atmosphere is so dense that a pleasant nitrogen oxygen mix at is a lifting gas gravity isn't as much of a problem as you might expect. And since you're airborne you neatly get around the problems associated with Venus's very long day, and you can map/explore most of the planet just by letting the winds take you where they will. Not to mention that there are elevations with approximately 1 atmosphere of pressure and comfortable temperatures too, and if your dirigible springs a leak you have equal pressure inside and out so your lifting gas doesn't escape at more than the diffusion rate.
In fact other than Earth, 50 miles above the surface of Venus is the most pleasant environment in the solar system, you could stroll outside with modified scuba gear.
The government's stated position is that the data is used "only for anti-terror". The question isn't "what is the data being used for?" the question is "do you trust your government's stated position?". 63% of respondents think that the government is flat out lying to their faces on the issue.
Oil is fungible, it doesn't matter who is selling to who, what matters is that someone is selling and someone is buying.
A and B sells to C and D. Everyone is happy.
A refuses to sell to C, D temporarily enjoys a drop in price as they are flooded with oil from A until B realizes they can sell for higher to C. Soon enough everything balances back out again. So long as the total oil produced and the total oil consumed remains the same there will be very little price fluctuation
If you're thinking OPEC turning off the spigot to the US would ruin everything, what you're thinking off is OPEC reducing production for everyone not just a single market.
It's much easier to kill someone than to keep them alive, which is the whole problem with the "war on terror". A bit of imagination and about $50 is all it takes to cause all hell to break loose, trying to stop terrorism the ways we are going about it is like walking through a room filled ankle deep with sleeping cobras. Every move you make is just going to wake more and more of them up and all it takes is a single strike to ruin your day.
As a matter of principle I understand where you're coming from, but from a practical standpoint I just don't see it. I find it much easier to share stuff and interact with family members, especially the less tech savy, then I could if the services were separate.
Don't make ISPs a utility, make conduit a utility and throw out all the local government granted monopolies. Conduit should be put down any time the road is torn up, anyone should be able to lease space in the conduit to run whatever they want through it. New cable company wants to move in? They lease spot in the conduit. Google wants to install fiber to the home? They lease a spot. Alternatively the same could be done directly with fiber, the city puts it in and leases bandwidth to 3rd parties, but that doesn't seem as flexible to me.
An infinite number of monkeys and a ruthless unit testing process. As for documentation, there's lots of people working on it, but some of them think they should be able to hold exclusive rights to their documentation.
If I hand you a piece of glass that is noticeably thicker on one end and tell you to put it in the window, you're not going to put the thick side down? Almost all glass is found that way because it was installed that way on purpose for stability reasons and, arguably more importantly, to prevent water pooling at the bottom of the window seal. I say "almost" because there are, in fact, instances where it was installed incorrectly.
The fact that so many wildly successful authors had such an amazingly hard time getting their first books published is one of the many, many reason why I've never tried my hand at writing. Ok, if I'm being honest its relatively low down the list, but if something as approachable and universally loved as Harry Potter is has trouble being published I can't help but think I wouldn't have a chance.
Constitution trumps it anyway. The courts have already said that you can't have free speech without anonymity, I think there's an obvious argument to be made that you can't have freedom of assembly without anonymous movement. And that's even ignore the whole search and seizure thing. Apparently what we need is an amendment to specifically call out privacy, because the 1st, 4th, and 9th are not cutting it these days.
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Substitution errors shouldn't happen in corporate level scanning hardware, even if you bury a warning about it 107 pages into the 350 page manual. You can't have something that fundamentally makes your product not fit for purpose and claim that it's ok just because it's a known issue.
It will take a lot to ever convince me that something synthetic can taste the same as something that was alive and running around with blood pumping through its brains and a nervous system that spent time outdoors.
If they succeed won't it take... one bite? Maybe one double blinded bite if you don't trust yourself to be objective?
Personally I'd be more worried about texture.
There is no chance that reducing CO2 emissions here is going to mean anything, ever.
When a Watt of energy from wind or solar costs significantly less than a Watt of energy from coal, oil, or gas emissions will plummet. When a battery has higher effective energy density than gasoline, emissions will plummet. The problem is thinking you can come up with treaties and laws to tackle the problem, the thing about agreements like that is that the more everyone sticks to them the more there is to be gained by being the one who cheats. If you want to fix it, you have to improve the tech so that it's an upgrade, not a downgrade.
There's a difference between "golly I'm such a night owl" and having a circadian rhythm disorder. It's like the difference of "I'm so anti-social I have autism" and actually being diagnosed.
"The offending article"... that phrase actually makes me shudder a bit. It comes dangerously close to "the illegal information" which is itself dangerously close to "the dangerous thought". I am not a paranoid anti-big brother tin foil hat wearer, but this is getting ridiculous and downright scary.
A) (The number of pressure cooker bombs made) / (the number of pressure cookers sold) is virtually 0.
B) (The number of backpacks used to bomb something) / (the number of backpacks sold) is virtually 0.
Even taking A and B together, (the number of pressure cooker bombs transported in backpacks) / (the number of people who own both pressure cookers and backpacks) is virtually 0.
A and B are meaningless. Worse than meaningless, they waste resources that could be put toward investigating real threats.
C) With all the news about pressure cooker bombs, there are lots of people, in the 10s of millions, who have searched for what a pressure cooker bomb is, myself included.
D) Lots of people travel. Neither China nor S. Korea are hotbeds of terrorist activity. N. Korea is all but impossible to enter from either of those countries.
And for gods sake, most importantly, absolutely none of this should have been known by any law enforcement agency because they had no probable cause to start an investigation in the first place. There is a serious problem when everyone American citizen's internet activity and travel history are being constantly monitored.
Oh well just the local police, that's fine then.
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Nothing to lose? You realize the government can lean on companies that don't cooperate right? Make all kinds of things more difficult, more costly, and sometimes even impossible. From spectrum deals to taxes to grants to visa applications, our various federal departments are far too interconnected to claim that they have "nothing to lose" by refusing to cooperate.
In some businesses being forced to open your code could be much more damaging that even the largest copyright settlements.
There are advantages to being in the atmosphere though that you can't get in space. First and foremost is... the atmosphere. CO2 can be cracked for oxygen, the various acids can be broken down for water and fuel. Yes, using breathable air as a lifting gas makes your dirigible bigger, but you have to bring the air along anyway and store it someplace. If you compress it down and store it in tanks you'd then need more H2 to support that weight, may as well just use it for lift.
Also, I think you underestimate how hostile vacuum is. If I had to design a habitat and had the choice between building it in vacuum and building it in a caustic CO2 atmosphere at 10C and 1 atmosphere of pressure, I'd much rather design for the atmosphere.
It has more to do with the fat content. We were told for some many years that fat is bad that we forget that fat is necissary for the absorption of a lot of nutrients. Lobster, by itself, has almost no fat. Eat it as your primary protein (almost sole protein for those workers if the reports are to be believed) for weeks, months, and years on end and you're end up with all kinds of health issues.
When the atmosphere is so dense that a pleasant nitrogen oxygen mix at is a lifting gas gravity isn't as much of a problem as you might expect. And since you're airborne you neatly get around the problems associated with Venus's very long day, and you can map/explore most of the planet just by letting the winds take you where they will. Not to mention that there are elevations with approximately 1 atmosphere of pressure and comfortable temperatures too, and if your dirigible springs a leak you have equal pressure inside and out so your lifting gas doesn't escape at more than the diffusion rate.
In fact other than Earth, 50 miles above the surface of Venus is the most pleasant environment in the solar system, you could stroll outside with modified scuba gear.
The government's stated position is that the data is used "only for anti-terror". The question isn't "what is the data being used for?" the question is "do you trust your government's stated position?". 63% of respondents think that the government is flat out lying to their faces on the issue.
Oil is fungible, it doesn't matter who is selling to who, what matters is that someone is selling and someone is buying.
A and B sells to C and D. Everyone is happy.
A refuses to sell to C, D temporarily enjoys a drop in price as they are flooded with oil from A until B realizes they can sell for higher to C. Soon enough everything balances back out again. So long as the total oil produced and the total oil consumed remains the same there will be very little price fluctuation
If you're thinking OPEC turning off the spigot to the US would ruin everything, what you're thinking off is OPEC reducing production for everyone not just a single market.
It's much easier to kill someone than to keep them alive, which is the whole problem with the "war on terror". A bit of imagination and about $50 is all it takes to cause all hell to break loose, trying to stop terrorism the ways we are going about it is like walking through a room filled ankle deep with sleeping cobras. Every move you make is just going to wake more and more of them up and all it takes is a single strike to ruin your day.
As a matter of principle I understand where you're coming from, but from a practical standpoint I just don't see it. I find it much easier to share stuff and interact with family members, especially the less tech savy, then I could if the services were separate.
Don't make ISPs a utility, make conduit a utility and throw out all the local government granted monopolies. Conduit should be put down any time the road is torn up, anyone should be able to lease space in the conduit to run whatever they want through it. New cable company wants to move in? They lease spot in the conduit. Google wants to install fiber to the home? They lease a spot. Alternatively the same could be done directly with fiber, the city puts it in and leases bandwidth to 3rd parties, but that doesn't seem as flexible to me.
An infinite number of monkeys and a ruthless unit testing process. As for documentation, there's lots of people working on it, but some of them think they should be able to hold exclusive rights to their documentation.
Why impose an arbitrary limit on yourself when you can just use an unsigned long?
If I hand you a piece of glass that is noticeably thicker on one end and tell you to put it in the window, you're not going to put the thick side down? Almost all glass is found that way because it was installed that way on purpose for stability reasons and, arguably more importantly, to prevent water pooling at the bottom of the window seal. I say "almost" because there are, in fact, instances where it was installed incorrectly.
The fact that so many wildly successful authors had such an amazingly hard time getting their first books published is one of the many, many reason why I've never tried my hand at writing. Ok, if I'm being honest its relatively low down the list, but if something as approachable and universally loved as Harry Potter is has trouble being published I can't help but think I wouldn't have a chance.
The cathedral glass reports have nothing to do with glass flowing and everything to do with how glass was made hundreds of yeas ago.
I'm not saying it was aliens but...
Constitution trumps it anyway. The courts have already said that you can't have free speech without anonymity, I think there's an obvious argument to be made that you can't have freedom of assembly without anonymous movement. And that's even ignore the whole search and seizure thing. Apparently what we need is an amendment to specifically call out privacy, because the 1st, 4th, and 9th are not cutting it these days.