By "prepared" he meant, "this is as good as it gets, this is Olympics third-world pandemic version."
In a normal year, I might share concerns about open sewers. But with zika? That's a minor concern.
Why so many people put so much stock into a corrupt proceedings as the Olympics, I don't know. I'd at least suggest that they take all of the athletes to some islan to quarantine them for a few months after it is over.
A long time ago, I watched them, but darn it, it's sleaze greed and bribes from beginning to end.
I'm pretty certain that they'd hold it among the corium in the Chernobyl reactor if paid the right sum. And if I were a betting man, I'd wager Zika will be globally distributed after the games.
You can read any published paper from any "respected" journal and see from yourself.
Slashdot has posted a number of articles over the last 18 months or so about how journals and peer review are broken and gamed. You can look there.
IOW, no cites. At least let me know a general idea of how many peer reviiewed articles you have written. Then describe the peer review process. Its a little funny that people like you read about a retraction and someone getting caught, and think You see? You SEE? Your Stupid Stupid minds!
When in fact, it is merely a case of people getting caught. Despite the right wing's insistence, scientists are humans too, and just like family values politician getting caught in an airport bathroom cruising for Big Richard Smoker. Stuff happens.
Snapchat debuted sponsored lenses in fall last year, and charges a pretty penny to advertisers wanting to get their brand on people's faces.
It's for shit like this that we need a Dot Bomb 2.0. Flush these turds down the drain.
Let it go. This will take care of itself. That idiotic sponsored lenses thing will be around until the first time it's used to photograph gruesome stuff, or sponsored kiddie porn.
I cannot for the life of me understand why "What could make this a really bad idea?" never occurs to these people.
Although it might be funny for a Chick-fil-A sponsored selfie of some gay folks kissing.
Tell me of anything we've put on the internet that has been secure and private. I just do not want to have to buy Norton or McAfee AV for my friggin toilet or refrigerator.
Or ad blockers.
Or the ridiculous piece of crap that Samsung makes that already enables MiTM attacks.https://www.schneier.com/blog/...
Some reasons: Americans have a pathological hate for cyclists. They think that roads are built for cars and not transport in general, and all American drivers think they own the road they drive on.
Living in a college town there are reasons other than the ones you quote, like 'Murricans wannd burn gas and the other tripe you spewed.
Around my little city, most of the Car/bike accidents result in a citation against the bike rider, as many consider stop signs and traffic lights not for them. And in the downtown area, the typical accident is a bike blowing through a traffic light and hitting a car on the side. Riding 5 abreast to the middle of the road - even with a bike lane - is also popular.
Some riders have such a bitched up attitude, they become counter productive. I was assisting with a bike road race, following behind the last riders, and one of them got pissed at me because I wouldn't pass him. Went all apeshit on me. Dropped back a couple times to I suppose kick the door. Spent a while swearing at me. I let him, then announced who I was. A simple radio call to the next way station, and he was disqualified for abuse of an official.
Download a bootloader and disable automatic updates in services, as well as the windows installer, activating that only when you want to install an app.
Then install GWX Control panel as an extra measure of removing yourself from the collective.
Also find your scheduled tasks folder and delete everything there. There's hooks in that folder that will start certain upgrade paths for you.
Be sure to have a good Antivirus, and be ready to never receive another update unless you download it and apply it manually.
Seriously, this is the provider of your Operating system that you have to treat like the criminals who want access your computer.
So you might as well have typed "replace your PC with a potato!
Dude, you went full potato there. Never go full potato.
I remember a time when VHS video was the equivalent of Windows, and people made the same arguments as you do.
How's that work out? Or are you going to claim that Windows is going to continue as you describe forever?
In the end, who the potato cares? I use Linux and OSX because they work better for me, not because of popularity. Your version of reality has Kim Kardashian as the most beautiful woman ever placed on earth. She rules on Facebook, so anyone liking any other woman is stupid, right?
Dude, that isn't the argument at all. The argument is, that from a human standpoint this is doable. From a human standpoint this is done. IF this is true, then eventually somebody IN a simulation asks this question.
No, he is saying that there is 1 in billions chance that we are not a simulation. Despite the whackadoodle "Billions" - after all b billion billion billions is as much billions by that weird statement, lit's just use one in 1 billion, apparently the bottom end. of his certainty.
1 chace in a billion that we aren't a simulation is about as certain as you can get that we are. Perhaps there is no such thing as reality.
This whole thing reeks of stoners having deep discussions about how our universe is just a grain of salt on their Frito's.
Yes, that's absolutely what they do. Peer review is useless. 90% of the time no one reads the paper. 9% of the time they read the paper but don't understand it and just give it a thumbs up because they don't want to reveal how useless they are. 1% of the time they hate the person who wrote it so they read it and tear it apart thoroughly.
"A conclusion we came to was wrong because we jumped to it for no reason"
You believe that's what cosmologists do in peer-reviewed papers, just to conclusions for no reason? Somehow I think random/. armchair experts know less than they think.
All part of the anti-intellectual crusade. If you can discredit any part of science, then some of the more uncomfortable parts are easy to enact political answers for.
Even in the summary, it is written that this is causing headaches for cosmologists. Good gawd no! More like excitement. Science isn't like religion or politics, where you make your decision, then stick to it at all costs, think trickle down economics or the war on drugs. Things that don't work, but some folks still worship them. Scientists get excited at anomalies, and trying to come up with new models.
The difference between "Oh Shit!" like the summary suggests, and my reaction of "Cool!"
No one understands what dark energy actually is - that's what the "dark" part means.
Actually we do - Dark energy, dark matter - is just a placeholder for what we don't know. While it might seem like a word game for scientists, it kind of seems like we know what the energy is and are searching for it to the public.
The continuing, accelerating expansion of the universe is an observation seeking explanation. People propose hypotheses, and when we get new data many of those are falsified. That's called "science".
And the falsified (incorrect) data is often very valuable in it's own right. It closes off a line of thought/research that we now know is wrong. Some times I think this is the most confusing thing for most people. If my pet theory is proven wrong, I accept it and move on to something else. Most people seem to think you pick an idea and stick with it forever.
What if the programmer is an AI program itself? I'd wager that a self-aware computer won't make silly logic mistakes. What if that AI is residing in another layer of simulation?
It could be an infinite number of simulations performed by an infinite number of A.I. constructs, each with an infinite number of simulations.
Or just as easily, Chewbacca backing off in the jack room, and our universe - just the splooge.
I think Musk is simply making the same argument that the producers of Ancient Aliens makes:
Humans are too stupid to do anything by themselves, so something something POOF and here we are!
Wrong.
It seems a little like a replacement religion.
But its wrong. For all of our shortcomings like a seeming need to kill each other, humans are actually pretty clever, and have done some pretty impressive things over the years.
If we are merely a computer simulation of some advanced intelligence, is the advanced intgelligence a simulation in a yet more advanced intelligence? On and on
I'd prefer an all-out ban. Pieces of shit like him are toxic to a community when allowed to stay; decent people simply leave over time unless these people are cut out like the cancers they are. There's a reason that every successful discussion site isn't a free-for-all anarchy, but instead has a moderation system of some kind, and usually has moderators who have the ability to ban truly toxic individuals like him. This site does a poor job with both, and we've seen the quality devolve immensely over the last 15 years as a result.
Well, it wouldn't hurt. I have no issue with strong words, and heated arguments - hell that's part of the fun. But there is a line, especially when dealing with people who have a problem in their lives, that dare not be crossed before I get what the boys down at the shop call really fucking pissed..
I might have a bit of sensitivity towards depressed people, because I also had a relative that got his backside reamed numerous times by a priest when he was a little boy, and struggled with depression all of his adult life until he committed suicide. I'm not depressed myself, but it's unfortunate that people who dismiss it don't get to experience it. Not out of vengeance but to gain a ittle understanding.
But it matters not, Shanghai Bill is a black hole level asshole, which is worse than suffering from depression. Only a total asshole can do more about their affliction than a depressed person can.
Hillary Clinton thinks everything is great. Her daughter is married to one of those hedge fund managers and lives in a place in Manhattan worth tens of millions of dollars, but rest assured, Hillary is one of us!
And remember, those hedge fund managers overwhelmingly support Clinton. They know where they can reliably buy votes and get what they need to keep enriching themselves at the expense of everyone else...
If nothing else, Sanders and Trump are a shot across the bow that there is a limit to the concept of "we will only be weathy when everyone is poor."
I have nothing against a single person making the impressive amount of 1.7 billion dollars a year in principle. But not when they tell us how it costs too much to employ people that they don't want to pay at all, the numbers are cute.
$1,700,000,000 is fine.
$15,080 is unacceptable, that person is being paid too much. A taker, a leech upon society.
As I said before, in principle a person should be able to make what they can make. Others might find that comparison a little unsettling, especially when they are told they are making too much by people making a billion or more a year. Which is all to ask the question, how little is little enough?
When in fact, Jesus said he would return very soon:
“For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and will then repay every man according to his deeds. Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.“ (Matthew 16: 27, 28)
Oh, and I forgot to add that that quote also flies in the face of fundamentalists dismissal of doing good deeds as a mandate. They say that the only requirement is accepting Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior is the entry ticket.
Since tthe rapture is any day now, you can't blame them.
Christians have been saying that for 2000 years, Muslims for almost 1400. Don't hold your breath waiting for it - unless you're downwind of one of those hidden SO2 sources.
When in fact, Jesus said he would return very soon:
“For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and will then repay every man according to his deeds. Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.“ (Matthew 16: 27, 28)
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They're just following China's lead. How the Bwittish have fallen. Actually, no, no they haven't. They're still stuck in their Victorian gutter.
Engineers keep finding things to engineer.
Accountants keep finding things to account.
Protecters keep finding things to protect you from.
By "prepared" he meant, "this is as good as it gets, this is Olympics third-world pandemic version."
In a normal year, I might share concerns about open sewers. But with zika? That's a minor concern.
Why so many people put so much stock into a corrupt proceedings as the Olympics, I don't know. I'd at least suggest that they take all of the athletes to some islan to quarantine them for a few months after it is over.
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A long time ago, I watched them, but darn it, it's sleaze greed and bribes from beginning to end.
I'm pretty certain that they'd hold it among the corium in the Chernobyl reactor if paid the right sum. And if I were a betting man, I'd wager Zika will be globally distributed after the games.
You can read any published paper from any "respected" journal and see from yourself. Slashdot has posted a number of articles over the last 18 months or so about how journals and peer review are broken and gamed. You can look there.
IOW, no cites. At least let me know a general idea of how many peer reviiewed articles you have written. Then describe the peer review process. Its a little funny that people like you read about a retraction and someone getting caught, and think You see? You SEE? Your Stupid Stupid minds!
When in fact, it is merely a case of people getting caught. Despite the right wing's insistence, scientists are humans too, and just like family values politician getting caught in an airport bathroom cruising for Big Richard Smoker. Stuff happens.
Getting caught is merely science self correcting.
I think this is even more sad:
Snapchat debuted sponsored lenses in fall last year, and charges a pretty penny to advertisers wanting to get their brand on people's faces.
It's for shit like this that we need a Dot Bomb 2.0. Flush these turds down the drain.
Let it go. This will take care of itself. That idiotic sponsored lenses thing will be around until the first time it's used to photograph gruesome stuff, or sponsored kiddie porn.
I cannot for the life of me understand why "What could make this a really bad idea?" never occurs to these people.
Although it might be funny for a Chick-fil-A sponsored selfie of some gay folks kissing.
Or ad blockers. Or the ridiculous piece of crap that Samsung makes that already enables MiTM attacks. https://www.schneier.com/blog/...
Yes, it does. We put George W. Bush in charge of something and that didn't work out too well either.
Well played sir - well played indeed!
WR50m is a standard mark on equipment suited to surface swimming. For snorkelling
You can't snorkle in Brazil. Turds get stuck in the tube.
Have they even finished building the stadiums yet??
Matter of fact, yes. It's all prepared.
Y'all clean up the open sewers that are your shores?
For women, they could make a VisaPay IUD.
Hella fun extracting a payment there!
Where exactly would Olympic swimmers be going to buy things between races? Also what would they be buying?
Antibiotics?
Some reasons: Americans have a pathological hate for cyclists. They think that roads are built for cars and not transport in general, and all American drivers think they own the road they drive on.
Living in a college town there are reasons other than the ones you quote, like 'Murricans wannd burn gas and the other tripe you spewed.
Around my little city, most of the Car/bike accidents result in a citation against the bike rider, as many consider stop signs and traffic lights not for them. And in the downtown area, the typical accident is a bike blowing through a traffic light and hitting a car on the side. Riding 5 abreast to the middle of the road - even with a bike lane - is also popular.
Some riders have such a bitched up attitude, they become counter productive. I was assisting with a bike road race, following behind the last riders, and one of them got pissed at me because I wouldn't pass him. Went all apeshit on me. Dropped back a couple times to I suppose kick the door. Spent a while swearing at me. I let him, then announced who I was. A simple radio call to the next way station, and he was disqualified for abuse of an official.
Download a bootloader and disable automatic updates in services, as well as the windows installer, activating that only when you want to install an app.
Then install GWX Control panel as an extra measure of removing yourself from the collective.
Also find your scheduled tasks folder and delete everything there. There's hooks in that folder that will start certain upgrade paths for you.
Be sure to have a good Antivirus, and be ready to never receive another update unless you download it and apply it manually.
Seriously, this is the provider of your Operating system that you have to treat like the criminals who want access your computer.
So you might as well have typed "replace your PC with a potato!
Dude, you went full potato there. Never go full potato.
I remember a time when VHS video was the equivalent of Windows, and people made the same arguments as you do.
How's that work out? Or are you going to claim that Windows is going to continue as you describe forever?
In the end, who the potato cares? I use Linux and OSX because they work better for me, not because of popularity. Your version of reality has Kim Kardashian as the most beautiful woman ever placed on earth. She rules on Facebook, so anyone liking any other woman is stupid, right?
Dude, that isn't the argument at all. The argument is, that from a human standpoint this is doable. From a human standpoint this is done. IF this is true, then eventually somebody IN a simulation asks this question.
No, he is saying that there is 1 in billions chance that we are not a simulation. Despite the whackadoodle "Billions" - after all b billion billion billions is as much billions by that weird statement, lit's just use one in 1 billion, apparently the bottom end. of his certainty.
1 chace in a billion that we aren't a simulation is about as certain as you can get that we are. Perhaps there is no such thing as reality.
This whole thing reeks of stoners having deep discussions about how our universe is just a grain of salt on their Frito's.
Yes, that's absolutely what they do. Peer review is useless. 90% of the time no one reads the paper. 9% of the time they read the paper but don't understand it and just give it a thumbs up because they don't want to reveal how useless they are. 1% of the time they hate the person who wrote it so they read it and tear it apart thoroughly.
You have the cites for that?
"A conclusion we came to was wrong because we jumped to it for no reason"
You believe that's what cosmologists do in peer-reviewed papers, just to conclusions for no reason? Somehow I think random /. armchair experts know less than they think.
All part of the anti-intellectual crusade. If you can discredit any part of science, then some of the more uncomfortable parts are easy to enact political answers for.
Even in the summary, it is written that this is causing headaches for cosmologists. Good gawd no! More like excitement. Science isn't like religion or politics, where you make your decision, then stick to it at all costs, think trickle down economics or the war on drugs. Things that don't work, but some folks still worship them. Scientists get excited at anomalies, and trying to come up with new models.
The difference between "Oh Shit!" like the summary suggests, and my reaction of "Cool!"
No one understands what dark energy actually is - that's what the "dark" part means.
Actually we do - Dark energy, dark matter - is just a placeholder for what we don't know. While it might seem like a word game for scientists, it kind of seems like we know what the energy is and are searching for it to the public.
The continuing, accelerating expansion of the universe is an observation seeking explanation. People propose hypotheses, and when we get new data many of those are falsified. That's called "science".
And the falsified (incorrect) data is often very valuable in it's own right. It closes off a line of thought/research that we now know is wrong. Some times I think this is the most confusing thing for most people. If my pet theory is proven wrong, I accept it and move on to something else. Most people seem to think you pick an idea and stick with it forever.
What if the programmer is an AI program itself? I'd wager that a self-aware computer won't make silly logic mistakes. What if that AI is residing in another layer of simulation?
It could be an infinite number of simulations performed by an infinite number of A.I. constructs, each with an infinite number of simulations.
Or just as easily, Chewbacca backing off in the jack room, and our universe - just the splooge.
Which is just as credible as Musk's argument.
Is it just me or does it start to seem like ol' Elon is going senile?
Or found a source of kickass weed.
Humans are too stupid to do anything by themselves, so something something POOF and here we are!
Wrong. It seems a little like a replacement religion.
But its wrong. For all of our shortcomings like a seeming need to kill each other, humans are actually pretty clever, and have done some pretty impressive things over the years.
If we are merely a computer simulation of some advanced intelligence, is the advanced intgelligence a simulation in a yet more advanced intelligence? On and on
In other words. is it turtles all the way up?
Wow, nothing like a person that know nothing about economics thinking that "depression" is only a medical term.
Wow nothing like a person with really limited intellect and comprehension.
I'd prefer an all-out ban. Pieces of shit like him are toxic to a community when allowed to stay; decent people simply leave over time unless these people are cut out like the cancers they are. There's a reason that every successful discussion site isn't a free-for-all anarchy, but instead has a moderation system of some kind, and usually has moderators who have the ability to ban truly toxic individuals like him. This site does a poor job with both, and we've seen the quality devolve immensely over the last 15 years as a result.
Well, it wouldn't hurt. I have no issue with strong words, and heated arguments - hell that's part of the fun. But there is a line, especially when dealing with people who have a problem in their lives, that dare not be crossed before I get what the boys down at the shop call really fucking pissed..
I might have a bit of sensitivity towards depressed people, because I also had a relative that got his backside reamed numerous times by a priest when he was a little boy, and struggled with depression all of his adult life until he committed suicide. I'm not depressed myself, but it's unfortunate that people who dismiss it don't get to experience it. Not out of vengeance but to gain a ittle understanding.
But it matters not, Shanghai Bill is a black hole level asshole, which is worse than suffering from depression. Only a total asshole can do more about their affliction than a depressed person can.
Hillary Clinton thinks everything is great. Her daughter is married to one of those hedge fund managers and lives in a place in Manhattan worth tens of millions of dollars, but rest assured, Hillary is one of us!
Not even Sanders is one of us.
And remember, those hedge fund managers overwhelmingly support Clinton. They know where they can reliably buy votes and get what they need to keep enriching themselves at the expense of everyone else...
If nothing else, Sanders and Trump are a shot across the bow that there is a limit to the concept of "we will only be weathy when everyone is poor."
I have nothing against a single person making the impressive amount of 1.7 billion dollars a year in principle. But not when they tell us how it costs too much to employ people that they don't want to pay at all, the numbers are cute.
$1,700,000,000 is fine.
$15,080 is unacceptable, that person is being paid too much. A taker, a leech upon society.
As I said before, in principle a person should be able to make what they can make. Others might find that comparison a little unsettling, especially when they are told they are making too much by people making a billion or more a year. Which is all to ask the question, how little is little enough?
When in fact, Jesus said he would return very soon:
“For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and will then repay every man according to his deeds. Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.“ (Matthew 16: 27, 28)
Oh, and I forgot to add that that quote also flies in the face of fundamentalists dismissal of doing good deeds as a mandate. They say that the only requirement is accepting Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior is the entry ticket.
Since tthe rapture is any day now, you can't blame them.
Christians have been saying that for 2000 years, Muslims for almost 1400. Don't hold your breath waiting for it - unless you're downwind of one of those hidden SO2 sources.
When in fact, Jesus said he would return very soon:
“For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and will then repay every man according to his deeds. Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.“ (Matthew 16: 27, 28)