This has been know for a long time, but yeah it's good to bring it up again. Watch a few videos for fun, but generally you should go for facts. When voting, try not to watch anything on the candidates (hard to do, but try) and just go look at their voting records. That's the only concrete thing you have.
Humans are happy or sad based on expectations. Predictions just lead to expectations.
Let's predict PCs will never be sold again after today. Then tomorrow we can all be happy because poof, they are selling like hotcakes in relation to our expectations based on our predictions~~~!!!
This post by Rei just has so much smart thought put down in writing for the general public to consider, I had to post this saying so. Some common sense items that I never considered: rats probably like sweeter food. Rats probably don't like general lab food. When they do these tests, do they sweeten the food or the water?
Anything connected to the car's bluetooth now only allows voice commands and no keyboard input. Passengers just need to get off the bluetooth (they probably aren't on it already) and they can do whatever they want. This should work fine with newer vehicles since most have bluetooth I believe.
Criticizing somebody for not voting is obviously phony. What you mean is everybody should listen to you and vote your way... that way "your vote counts" b/c 100 people followed you. Well, people have the right to not vote in the US... and the right to not like who is elected or whatever anyway.
God damn right, get an education so your engineering, IT, whatever job can be outsourced after your barely get your feet wet out of college! Seriously though, future kids might as well go into blue collar labor... it's harder to outsource that, then again Mexican immigration is fixing that in the US right now. Of course, you might die or get cancer from the job anyway.
Flame bait, OK. My kids are doing things in elementary school that I did in 7th and 8th grade. I personally teach them to not trust commercials (IMO very important when ever other one is to buy legal drugs that have deadly side effects), so they don't just trust anything thrown at them. At the same time, I don't want them to distrust the whole world... just to be wary/distrust people trying to sell them BS, whether that is a physical product or an idea.
As for the "stupid"... my sibling has an IQ over 150, has a masters degree... and still can't manage money. It's easy to say people are stupid... but the truth is, people are just spoiled and greedy and then close their eyes to the reality around them because they get overwhelmed. 90% of the problem is the credit cards and banks screwing over the masses.
Taxes... government tax rates are meaningless without taking into account how much money you have after other deductions at your paycheck, etc. So this quick off the top of my head list is what are taxes that people never take into account:
1. How much your employer keeps for himself and doesn't pay you. If there are 100 people in the company, and one person gets 90% of the money, that's just like a really big tax.
2. Insurance costs. We're forced to get car and health insurance. Maybe these are good things, but still keep them in mind.
3. Inflation. Yep, wouldn't it be nice to save money and not have to invest it in something that every 10 or 20 years gets blown away by Wallstreet problems. You can thank inflation.
So if the government charges a ton of taxes against the rich, and the rich are just "taxing" the workers, then it's sort of like the non-rich classes being double taxed. Of course the rich would rather take 99% of the money and also pay no government taxes. The people without all the money still have voting power... we just need politicians who aren't bad people. Good luck will be needed.
None of that matters if the public doesn't trust automated cars. And trust won't happen if...
A. These cars require frequent software updates because they are buggy. B. And if buggy, they are dangerous. So they'll need very quick software updates (which seems to be the norm in modern software dev). C.That means they'll be networked for updates, and if they are networked, they will get hacked. Then who knows what will happen.
Any one of those reasons is probably enough to prevent broad public trust of these cars in my lifetime. People trust personal machines when they are the ones that have control over them... when they bond with their machine. If it is a public machine, it needs to be big and predictable. Trains, airplanes, bridges, electricity. Something everybody uses and is so big and costly that you know the ones running the machines are doing all they can to protect that thing. Then people get into the herd mentality and jump onboard. But self-driving cars... that's like asking people to trust their google maps on their buggy phone to always get them to the right destination 100.000000% of the time.
Last time I was in Switzerland, we found a place to eat that was off the tourist beaten track. They served what we thought was beef steak... only it turned out to be horse meat. I ate it anyway, I'm adventurous. But is that normal and is it considered undesirable in Switzerland? In the US, I don't think anybody eats horse meat... it'd be like eating your pet or something I guess.
OK, that is a fucking lie. Sucrose is not essentially the same damn thing!!! It's probably just as bad, but it tastes precisely 1000 times better than HFCS!!! If I'm going to die, I'm going to die eating great tasting stuff, not nasty HFCS! Hell, I can't even drink softdrinks, sodas, or cokes anymore with all the high fructose corn syrup destroying the flavor.
I have a ps3 and ps4, and use the ps3 much more b/c the remote is 100000 times better for watching TV and video content via the internet. So, I kind of don't care about this upgrade... I'll still only use the PS4 for the 2 games I bought for it.:(
Not sure about that as this says: Malaria: affects animals as well as humans - The Science Show - ABC... www.abc.net.au/.../malaria-affects-animals.../313... Australian Broadcasting Corporation May 16, 2009 - There are over 200 species of malaria. Humans are infected by five. But birds, bats, lizards and antelopes are also hosts for malaria parasites.
Here here. The reason Luke and then Rey were so special and the focus of the movies is because they were above and beyond the normal force users, aka they were naturals. The force is magic, first and foremost so I have no problem with it. And let's not forget Lucas based the whole concept on the Japanese art of Kenpo which is, go figure, a type of sword fighting. If you are one with the force, it will guide your actions, Luke learned fast and so did Rey, so one can see lightsaber dueling to be the most easily tapped into.
And to me, the majority of the training was to try to teach potential Jedis how to not accidentally succumb to the dark side and much less about pure battle-prowess. That's why they wanted them young, not because they couldn't learn later, but because that is when it was easy to teach them right from wrong.
Let's not forget Rey was a badass with her staff on that rough planet for years, obviously using the force naturally during many a fight. Kylo getting hurt is believable to me, because it also means something that Kylo was just part of a huge gut wrenching scene that probably bordered on him thinking about suicide right afterwards anyway. He obviously was extremely conflicted about the whole thing.
Well that is disappointing... I want to see stats on the new one, even more so since I can't own it yet.
And to answer my other question, it was the Gamorrean guards with Luke. Here they talk about it, and how in a draft of A New Hope Kenobi was also going to use it on several people:
With so many great Japanese artists, in the drawing/painting arena, I am willing to bet something in the teachings of writing Japanese Kanji is helpful when learning to draw. Be it attention to detail, hand eye coordination, patience, or some combination I don't know, but I see it time and time again. On topic, this guy was great, and I am sorry to see him go.
Just as frustrating as a corrupt government, is trying to pronounce the Australian long "O" vowel. I just watched The Babadook right after watching Crocodile Dundee, and it dawned on me how impossible it is to imitate that sound they make! According to this link, it has 4 vowel sounds in one.
It also has this weird tonal quality... like high to low to high again. Maybe my Vietnamese born friend could give it a shot with all their crazy tonal difficulties in their language. I mean, how else are these fellows so great at imitating Christopher Walken? Are these guys all Vietnamese in this Youtube?
They don't taste like chicken... but some things taste more like chicken than other foods we are used to. For instance, alligator tastes nothing like chicken, but relatively speaking, it tastes WAY more like white meat chicken than beef. Frogs legs are in the same category for me. Squirrel I have only had once, and I didn't like it... but maybe it was similar to dark meat chicken, which I am not a huge fan of. Never tried the others on this short list.
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This has been know for a long time, but yeah it's good to bring it up again. Watch a few videos for fun, but generally you should go for facts. When voting, try not to watch anything on the candidates (hard to do, but try) and just go look at their voting records. That's the only concrete thing you have.
Humans are happy or sad based on expectations. Predictions just lead to expectations.
Let's predict PCs will never be sold again after today. Then tomorrow we can all be happy because poof, they are selling like hotcakes in relation to our expectations based on our predictions~~~!!!
This post by Rei just has so much smart thought put down in writing for the general public to consider, I had to post this saying so. Some common sense items that I never considered: rats probably like sweeter food. Rats probably don't like general lab food. When they do these tests, do they sweeten the food or the water?
Thank you for the post!
Anything connected to the car's bluetooth now only allows voice commands and no keyboard input. Passengers just need to get off the bluetooth (they probably aren't on it already) and they can do whatever they want. This should work fine with newer vehicles since most have bluetooth I believe.
Criticizing somebody for not voting is obviously phony. What you mean is everybody should listen to you and vote your way... that way "your vote counts" b/c 100 people followed you. Well, people have the right to not vote in the US... and the right to not like who is elected or whatever anyway.
God damn right, get an education so your engineering, IT, whatever job can be outsourced after your barely get your feet wet out of college! Seriously though, future kids might as well go into blue collar labor... it's harder to outsource that, then again Mexican immigration is fixing that in the US right now. Of course, you might die or get cancer from the job anyway.
Flame bait, OK. My kids are doing things in elementary school that I did in 7th and 8th grade. I personally teach them to not trust commercials (IMO very important when ever other one is to buy legal drugs that have deadly side effects), so they don't just trust anything thrown at them. At the same time, I don't want them to distrust the whole world... just to be wary/distrust people trying to sell them BS, whether that is a physical product or an idea.
As for the "stupid"... my sibling has an IQ over 150, has a masters degree... and still can't manage money. It's easy to say people are stupid... but the truth is, people are just spoiled and greedy and then close their eyes to the reality around them because they get overwhelmed. 90% of the problem is the credit cards and banks screwing over the masses.
Taxes... government tax rates are meaningless without taking into account how much money you have after other deductions at your paycheck, etc. So this quick off the top of my head list is what are taxes that people never take into account:
1. How much your employer keeps for himself and doesn't pay you. If there are 100 people in the company, and one person gets 90% of the money, that's just like a really big tax.
2. Insurance costs. We're forced to get car and health insurance. Maybe these are good things, but still keep them in mind.
3. Inflation. Yep, wouldn't it be nice to save money and not have to invest it in something that every 10 or 20 years gets blown away by Wallstreet problems. You can thank inflation.
So if the government charges a ton of taxes against the rich, and the rich are just "taxing" the workers, then it's sort of like the non-rich classes being double taxed. Of course the rich would rather take 99% of the money and also pay no government taxes. The people without all the money still have voting power... we just need politicians who aren't bad people. Good luck will be needed.
Turns out, coma patients and the elderly with severe health issues don't use Facebook so much.
No phone port? No upgrade I say. Ether way, China will find a way to cheap out.
None of that matters if the public doesn't trust automated cars. And trust won't happen if...
A. These cars require frequent software updates because they are buggy.
B. And if buggy, they are dangerous. So they'll need very quick software updates (which seems to be the norm in modern software dev).
C.That means they'll be networked for updates, and if they are networked, they will get hacked. Then who knows what will happen.
Any one of those reasons is probably enough to prevent broad public trust of these cars in my lifetime. People trust personal machines when they are the ones that have control over them... when they bond with their machine. If it is a public machine, it needs to be big and predictable. Trains, airplanes, bridges, electricity. Something everybody uses and is so big and costly that you know the ones running the machines are doing all they can to protect that thing. Then people get into the herd mentality and jump onboard. But self-driving cars... that's like asking people to trust their google maps on their buggy phone to always get them to the right destination 100.000000% of the time.
In Japan, you can totally watch a movie up front on their car infotainment systems.
Last time I was in Switzerland, we found a place to eat that was off the tourist beaten track. They served what we thought was beef steak... only it turned out to be horse meat. I ate it anyway, I'm adventurous. But is that normal and is it considered undesirable in Switzerland? In the US, I don't think anybody eats horse meat... it'd be like eating your pet or something I guess.
Someone tell me I'm wrong, but I have the impression that toner printed on paper will wear off pretty quickly compared to ink. No?
OK, that is a fucking lie. Sucrose is not essentially the same damn thing!!! It's probably just as bad, but it tastes precisely 1000 times better than HFCS!!! If I'm going to die, I'm going to die eating great tasting stuff, not nasty HFCS! Hell, I can't even drink softdrinks, sodas, or cokes anymore with all the high fructose corn syrup destroying the flavor.
I have a ps3 and ps4, and use the ps3 much more b/c the remote is 100000 times better for watching TV and video content via the internet. So, I kind of don't care about this upgrade... I'll still only use the PS4 for the 2 games I bought for it. :(
Not sure about that as this says: Malaria: affects animals as well as humans - The Science Show - ABC ...
www.abc.net.au/.../malaria-affects-animals.../313...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
May 16, 2009 - There are over 200 species of malaria. Humans are infected by five. But birds, bats, lizards and antelopes are also hosts for malaria parasites.
Other bugs are dying as well. Mosquitoes are great pollinators, but my guess is they are dying in the millions as well.
Here here. The reason Luke and then Rey were so special and the focus of the movies is because they were above and beyond the normal force users, aka they were naturals. The force is magic, first and foremost so I have no problem with it. And let's not forget Lucas based the whole concept on the Japanese art of Kenpo which is, go figure, a type of sword fighting. If you are one with the force, it will guide your actions, Luke learned fast and so did Rey, so one can see lightsaber dueling to be the most easily tapped into.
And to me, the majority of the training was to try to teach potential Jedis how to not accidentally succumb to the dark side and much less about pure battle-prowess. That's why they wanted them young, not because they couldn't learn later, but because that is when it was easy to teach them right from wrong.
Let's not forget Rey was a badass with her staff on that rough planet for years, obviously using the force naturally during many a fight. Kylo getting hurt is believable to me, because it also means something that Kylo was just part of a huge gut wrenching scene that probably bordered on him thinking about suicide right afterwards anyway. He obviously was extremely conflicted about the whole thing.
Well that is disappointing... I want to see stats on the new one, even more so since I can't own it yet.
And to answer my other question, it was the Gamorrean guards with Luke. Here they talk about it, and how in a draft of A New Hope Kenobi was also going to use it on several people:
http://boards.theforce.net/thr...
Fun stuff, but they haven't done it on the awesome new movie yet. Baffling.
I don't remember the good guys using the choke... it says Luke did it once. When was that?!?!
In The Force Awakens, you wonder if Kylo Ren is using the dark side 100% of the time or not. How will that be handled?
Jedi Mind Trick... are some species really resistant, or is it an individual thing? Jabba just had a strong will it seemed.
With so many great Japanese artists, in the drawing/painting arena, I am willing to bet something in the teachings of writing Japanese Kanji is helpful when learning to draw. Be it attention to detail, hand eye coordination, patience, or some combination I don't know, but I see it time and time again. On topic, this guy was great, and I am sorry to see him go.
Just as frustrating as a corrupt government, is trying to pronounce the Australian long "O" vowel. I just watched The Babadook right after watching Crocodile Dundee, and it dawned on me how impossible it is to imitate that sound they make! According to this link, it has 4 vowel sounds in one.
https://answers.yahoo.com/ques...
It also has this weird tonal quality... like high to low to high again. Maybe my Vietnamese born friend could give it a shot with all their crazy tonal difficulties in their language. I mean, how else are these fellows so great at imitating Christopher Walken? Are these guys all Vietnamese in this Youtube?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
They don't taste like chicken... but some things taste more like chicken than other foods we are used to. For instance, alligator tastes nothing like chicken, but relatively speaking, it tastes WAY more like white meat chicken than beef. Frogs legs are in the same category for me. Squirrel I have only had once, and I didn't like it... but maybe it was similar to dark meat chicken, which I am not a huge fan of. Never tried the others on this short list.
I'm sure that oversimplifying it a million times over, but it sounds cool at a reading the headlines level.