The entire point of American warfare is to expend as much ammunition as possible so to stick the American public with the biggest bill possible. A 13 meter margin of error means you can justify using three guided missiles instead of one. How does a military contractor not see the benefit of that? How are they supposed to create business for you if you're tying them up in court!
These clowns can't possibly think they're actually looking for WMD's and Osama Bin Laden could they? They're looking for an intractable enemy to spend billions trying to irradicate, and they've found them in the Taliban, just like Isreal found the Palestinians. Spooky sneaky "bad guys" are literally booming business.
Agreed, same in Canada. Most royalties don't get paid to artists without high-profile representation, and therefore the artists that need the royalties most aren't getting them.
In particular SOCAN is basically a bully for the music labels, literally threatening lawsuits against music venues (who also can least afford this) for having live music unless they cough up a percentage, which is then handed over to the big labels, _even if the bands are playing their own original music_. Must be nice to have the government do your extortion for you! Welcome to Toronto...
Since it's only the car that needs inspection, and not the driver, no doubt it will add to the frequency and especially the severity of accidents.
However if the program were used as an incentive for drivers to pass higher licensing standards, I'd be all for it. Remember Nevada is for the mostpart a flat desert with long straight roads and few intersections. Surely they specify only certain highways are eligible for the higher speeds and you can't go ripping through a Reno subdivision at 90mph.
In fact I'd love to see this all over North America. The biggest danger to drivers here is other drivers. Where road conditions allow, including weather, low traffic, wildlife, etc, it's perfectly safe for a good driver in a safe vehicle to rip down many highways at 90mph, assuming they have to slow to 70mph to pass. Having such a program could be the incentive drivers need to seek training and better appreciate their driving record and increase the overall level of driver skill.
The downside is that many areas do not have suitable road conditions, for example the grueling 23 hour drive through Northern Ontario to the prairies at the legal limit of 90kph (56mph). Done it eight times in the last three years, at times careening over a cliff seems like a welcome idea...
A major advancement of stereo effect was the ORTF microphone format, named after the the French radio/television authority. Instead of putting a mic on each sound source and panning it on a mixer to a specific spot between the speakers, ORTF picks up all stereo imaging cues - phase differentials (angle of mics are different relative to source), time differentials (sound hits one mic before the other, often mistaken for phase), and volume differentials (louder in one side than other).
While audio replays well to an audience, the disadvantages of accommodating a crowd with a 3D TV are too deleterious. It's easy to send separate images in different directions from the same screen simultaneously, but not to various viewing positions, and definitely not to a moving observer. It's time to put on viewing goggles so each eye gets full framerate.
Just watch, the iPod will soon become the premier 3D playback medium, thanks to the iGlasses... *barf*
The skeptic in me can't help but dream up military applications of new inventions. In this case I can see a major WMD forming by using D-Drives as ultra-low-frequency transducers. (an examle of another motor-driven ULFT)
Massive D-Drives could be used to couple a large sea vessel's engine(s) to large baffles on either side of the vessel, and upon engagement could simultaneously push huge amounts of water in and out, creating an artificial tsunami. One boat couldn't do a lot, but a fleet sure could. The wave generators could be synchronized and the ships aligned in an arc to focus the tsunami on a specific shore position with no significant ill-effect to the rear, and the magnitudes would combine at the target plus be amplified by shallowing water. There would be absolutely no defense except a perfectly aligned and synchronized reciprocating wave generator array, which would be very difficult to defend against an air attack.
The scary part is that we're not talking about just one big honkin wave, think hundreds of them, sustained as long as the fuel supply allows. Meanwhile, on-board marine nuclear power plants have long been in service already, all set to unleash that power upon any coastal city or military base without the fuss of nuclear fall-out. It'd actually be as eco-friendly a WMD as you'll get.
Well we're talking about people who run scripts taken from Facebook pages promising them a $100 Walmart card, then when the card doesn't arrive, they make a group slagging Walmart for being dishonest, all the while not realizing it was a scam all along, Walmart had nothing to do with it, and their Facebook info is pwned. Last I saw before it was taken down, the anti-Walmart group had 78,000+ fans.
The ENTIRE purpose of Facebook is to sell as much of your identity as they legally can. The more of your identity they can convince you to agree to share, the more money they make. Knowing this, I am still a Facebook user since I actually get most of my freelance work by following the actions of my peers and seeing when they're in the market for my services. For me it's definitely worth it to stay on my toes and maintain as much privacy as I can, but for most it's a trap with potentially dire consequences.
Bribes cost money, which comes either from parents or taxes. Those who can generally afford taxation or bribery the most are those who did best in school. So bribery proportionally costs those who did worst in school the most, and only benefits those who do well in school. If parenting has anything to do with student potential (not a big reach there) then you've got classic classism. Add a little racial bias to the 'awards committee' and you've got educational ethnic cleansing.
How's about instead we make kids aware of the market for their potential fields of study, let them decide what they want to learn, provide the means for them to achieve their goals, and may the best win. Those who don't try hard enough or don't have what it takes can deliver my pizzas.
The last thing that should be suggested to kids is that we know what they should learn better than they do. That's complete crap. Most parents these days didn't get on the internet until their teens, and the internet is still in its adolescence and growing rapidly. Kids are in a better position of awareness than we ever had, all we can do to help is to give them certain perspective on what they're exposed to.
The only bribing that should be done is to occasionally buy them pizza, just so they ask themselves whether the delivery guy worked hard enough in school or not.
What about the practical compass? Did they really think a software barrier would be impenetrable? All they can hope to accomplish with a filter is to make certain sites less convenient to access. I guess their toilets aren't the only things that spin backwards.
The thing that we can least afford to be censored is criticism of censorship. Too often it is the first to fall.
Settling the fraudulent debt is one thing, being compensated for the runaround is another. If banks are going to save money by enabling ID theft as a matter of policy, they must compensate for when that policy causes damages to their clients in the form of time and money spent correcting the problems. Then we'll see if it's actually better to save on ID theft prevention.
The last people they'll let out are the non-violent drug users. In the US prisons are for the mostpart privately owned, and non-violent prisoners are the least costly. Where do you think the pressure to keep drug possession criminalized is coming from?
But getting back to psychopaths, yes they have a serious brain defect, but they do know right from wrong. Their defect makes rehabilitation impossible, but it does not induce them to criminal behaviour, it only enables it to a higher degree than the usual stimuli. If you've got a killer animal loose in your neighborhood, you can't always afford to be humane about stopping it.
Not to mention the imprisonment of a violent psychopath is much more costly and risky than non-violent offenders, and is not at the top of my list of worthy uses of tax money. Best of all, they're not going to feel bad about being killed, exactly like they can't feel bad about killing someone. How much more appropriate could it get?
Just because a cut's shape is consistent with the broken glass don't make it so. Plus there's the possibility that the blood was planted, which gets better the more police can't tie either brother to the crime by conventional investigation. Who knows, maybe they sold a blood sample to the real thief to throw off the cops knowing it couldn't be pinned on either of them.
By your rationale, you should be lucky they let you have it back at all. In many countries such a case would be buried to spare embarrassment.
Just because justice cannot be 100% accurate does not mean that crimes should go unpunished. And I'm all for the death penalty for cases that are especially heinous, rehabilitation especially unlikely, and where the proof of guilt is especially compelling. Hardened criminals aren't afraid of jail, and true psychopaths aren't afraid of anything, but will alter their behavior to stay alive. To risk letting the worst of them harm a guard or even another prisoner is grossly irresponsible, and there is no more expensive prison time to taxpayers than solitary.
Classification has nothing to do with it. You do the crime, you do the time, regardless of how much time you've spent not committing crimes.
It's a moot issue anyway. Rapidshare has been copied so many times over that they have absolutely no pull to make this happen. If they interfere with the dissemination of illegal content their user base will drop like a lead balloon. Just by attempting to address the issue they've acknowledged that piracy constitutes a significant segment of their business. The whole idea is self-defeating.
Does "mechanical mutagen" sit any better? The things alter and/or destroy living tissues with extreme precision and effectiveness. If they can be built to target cancer cells, they can presumably target other genetic markers, including RACE. First military to successfully weaponize it is basically in a position to make the holocaust seem like a frat house hazing.
Not necessarily the website, it need only feed to an application in your computer. The directed content would come from an outside source, but the camera feed itself does not have to leave the room. It's basically a glorified mouse. In fact the only information that would be of any use to spiders would be the metadata interpreted by the application, so the expense of a full video feed wouldn't be worthwhile. Cheers to being unimportant!
It's still very creepy and I wouldn't ever use it, but it's not as bad as one might initially think. There are positive aspects that could develop from it, but it's also a magnet for all sorts of abuses. I can already imagine pop-up ads that follow my eyes around... that one's inevitable.
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With fricken lasers attached to their heads!
The entire point of American warfare is to expend as much ammunition as possible so to stick the American public with the biggest bill possible. A 13 meter margin of error means you can justify using three guided missiles instead of one. How does a military contractor not see the benefit of that? How are they supposed to create business for you if you're tying them up in court!
These clowns can't possibly think they're actually looking for WMD's and Osama Bin Laden could they? They're looking for an intractable enemy to spend billions trying to irradicate, and they've found them in the Taliban, just like Isreal found the Palestinians. Spooky sneaky "bad guys" are literally booming business.
But that's our money we paid our internet bills with. We should get 25% for paying the ISP's bills for them.
Then there's the lawyers, they'll take at least 25%.
Then there's 25% for the artist's management.
Another 25% goes towards the interest on the loan needed to produce the artwork and promote it etc.
Makes sense to me, I don't see why these artists keep whining...
Agreed, same in Canada. Most royalties don't get paid to artists without high-profile representation, and therefore the artists that need the royalties most aren't getting them.
In particular SOCAN is basically a bully for the music labels, literally threatening lawsuits against music venues (who also can least afford this) for having live music unless they cough up a percentage, which is then handed over to the big labels, _even if the bands are playing their own original music_. Must be nice to have the government do your extortion for you! Welcome to Toronto...
Do all right-ring female pundits come from the arctic?
Since it's only the car that needs inspection, and not the driver, no doubt it will add to the frequency and especially the severity of accidents.
However if the program were used as an incentive for drivers to pass higher licensing standards, I'd be all for it. Remember Nevada is for the mostpart a flat desert with long straight roads and few intersections. Surely they specify only certain highways are eligible for the higher speeds and you can't go ripping through a Reno subdivision at 90mph.
In fact I'd love to see this all over North America. The biggest danger to drivers here is other drivers. Where road conditions allow, including weather, low traffic, wildlife, etc, it's perfectly safe for a good driver in a safe vehicle to rip down many highways at 90mph, assuming they have to slow to 70mph to pass. Having such a program could be the incentive drivers need to seek training and better appreciate their driving record and increase the overall level of driver skill.
The downside is that many areas do not have suitable road conditions, for example the grueling 23 hour drive through Northern Ontario to the prairies at the legal limit of 90kph (56mph). Done it eight times in the last three years, at times careening over a cliff seems like a welcome idea...
A major advancement of stereo effect was the ORTF microphone format, named after the the French radio/television authority. Instead of putting a mic on each sound source and panning it on a mixer to a specific spot between the speakers, ORTF picks up all stereo imaging cues - phase differentials (angle of mics are different relative to source), time differentials (sound hits one mic before the other, often mistaken for phase), and volume differentials (louder in one side than other).
While audio replays well to an audience, the disadvantages of accommodating a crowd with a 3D TV are too deleterious. It's easy to send separate images in different directions from the same screen simultaneously, but not to various viewing positions, and definitely not to a moving observer. It's time to put on viewing goggles so each eye gets full framerate.
Just watch, the iPod will soon become the premier 3D playback medium, thanks to the iGlasses... *barf*
The skeptic in me can't help but dream up military applications of new inventions. In this case I can see a major WMD forming by using D-Drives as ultra-low-frequency transducers. (an examle of another motor-driven ULFT)
Massive D-Drives could be used to couple a large sea vessel's engine(s) to large baffles on either side of the vessel, and upon engagement could simultaneously push huge amounts of water in and out, creating an artificial tsunami. One boat couldn't do a lot, but a fleet sure could. The wave generators could be synchronized and the ships aligned in an arc to focus the tsunami on a specific shore position with no significant ill-effect to the rear, and the magnitudes would combine at the target plus be amplified by shallowing water. There would be absolutely no defense except a perfectly aligned and synchronized reciprocating wave generator array, which would be very difficult to defend against an air attack.
The scary part is that we're not talking about just one big honkin wave, think hundreds of them, sustained as long as the fuel supply allows. Meanwhile, on-board marine nuclear power plants have long been in service already, all set to unleash that power upon any coastal city or military base without the fuss of nuclear fall-out. It'd actually be as eco-friendly a WMD as you'll get.
Surf's up!
Well we're talking about people who run scripts taken from Facebook pages promising them a $100 Walmart card, then when the card doesn't arrive, they make a group slagging Walmart for being dishonest, all the while not realizing it was a scam all along, Walmart had nothing to do with it, and their Facebook info is pwned. Last I saw before it was taken down, the anti-Walmart group had 78,000+ fans. The ENTIRE purpose of Facebook is to sell as much of your identity as they legally can. The more of your identity they can convince you to agree to share, the more money they make. Knowing this, I am still a Facebook user since I actually get most of my freelance work by following the actions of my peers and seeing when they're in the market for my services. For me it's definitely worth it to stay on my toes and maintain as much privacy as I can, but for most it's a trap with potentially dire consequences.
Bribes cost money, which comes either from parents or taxes. Those who can generally afford taxation or bribery the most are those who did best in school. So bribery proportionally costs those who did worst in school the most, and only benefits those who do well in school. If parenting has anything to do with student potential (not a big reach there) then you've got classic classism. Add a little racial bias to the 'awards committee' and you've got educational ethnic cleansing.
How's about instead we make kids aware of the market for their potential fields of study, let them decide what they want to learn, provide the means for them to achieve their goals, and may the best win. Those who don't try hard enough or don't have what it takes can deliver my pizzas.
The last thing that should be suggested to kids is that we know what they should learn better than they do. That's complete crap. Most parents these days didn't get on the internet until their teens, and the internet is still in its adolescence and growing rapidly. Kids are in a better position of awareness than we ever had, all we can do to help is to give them certain perspective on what they're exposed to.
The only bribing that should be done is to occasionally buy them pizza, just so they ask themselves whether the delivery guy worked hard enough in school or not.
What about the practical compass? Did they really think a software barrier would be impenetrable? All they can hope to accomplish with a filter is to make certain sites less convenient to access. I guess their toilets aren't the only things that spin backwards.
The thing that we can least afford to be censored is criticism of censorship. Too often it is the first to fall.
Settling the fraudulent debt is one thing, being compensated for the runaround is another. If banks are going to save money by enabling ID theft as a matter of policy, they must compensate for when that policy causes damages to their clients in the form of time and money spent correcting the problems. Then we'll see if it's actually better to save on ID theft prevention.
The last people they'll let out are the non-violent drug users. In the US prisons are for the mostpart privately owned, and non-violent prisoners are the least costly. Where do you think the pressure to keep drug possession criminalized is coming from?
But getting back to psychopaths, yes they have a serious brain defect, but they do know right from wrong. Their defect makes rehabilitation impossible, but it does not induce them to criminal behaviour, it only enables it to a higher degree than the usual stimuli. If you've got a killer animal loose in your neighborhood, you can't always afford to be humane about stopping it.
Not to mention the imprisonment of a violent psychopath is much more costly and risky than non-violent offenders, and is not at the top of my list of worthy uses of tax money. Best of all, they're not going to feel bad about being killed, exactly like they can't feel bad about killing someone. How much more appropriate could it get?
Just because a cut's shape is consistent with the broken glass don't make it so. Plus there's the possibility that the blood was planted, which gets better the more police can't tie either brother to the crime by conventional investigation. Who knows, maybe they sold a blood sample to the real thief to throw off the cops knowing it couldn't be pinned on either of them.
By your rationale, you should be lucky they let you have it back at all. In many countries such a case would be buried to spare embarrassment.
Just because justice cannot be 100% accurate does not mean that crimes should go unpunished. And I'm all for the death penalty for cases that are especially heinous, rehabilitation especially unlikely, and where the proof of guilt is especially compelling. Hardened criminals aren't afraid of jail, and true psychopaths aren't afraid of anything, but will alter their behavior to stay alive. To risk letting the worst of them harm a guard or even another prisoner is grossly irresponsible, and there is no more expensive prison time to taxpayers than solitary.
Classification has nothing to do with it. You do the crime, you do the time, regardless of how much time you've spent not committing crimes.
It's a moot issue anyway. Rapidshare has been copied so many times over that they have absolutely no pull to make this happen. If they interfere with the dissemination of illegal content their user base will drop like a lead balloon. Just by attempting to address the issue they've acknowledged that piracy constitutes a significant segment of their business. The whole idea is self-defeating.
FTA: "What's so exciting is that virtually any gene can be targeted now. Every protein now is druggable." Eesh... hope I'm wrong.
So, they made an artificial virus...
Fail.
Does "mechanical mutagen" sit any better? The things alter and/or destroy living tissues with extreme precision and effectiveness. If they can be built to target cancer cells, they can presumably target other genetic markers, including RACE. First military to successfully weaponize it is basically in a position to make the holocaust seem like a frat house hazing.
Easy fix - exterminate all non-conformists. We've been looking for the right excuse for decades. There will be an unmarked van to pick you up shortly.
Not necessarily the website, it need only feed to an application in your computer. The directed content would come from an outside source, but the camera feed itself does not have to leave the room. It's basically a glorified mouse. In fact the only information that would be of any use to spiders would be the metadata interpreted by the application, so the expense of a full video feed wouldn't be worthwhile. Cheers to being unimportant!
It's still very creepy and I wouldn't ever use it, but it's not as bad as one might initially think. There are positive aspects that could develop from it, but it's also a magnet for all sorts of abuses. I can already imagine pop-up ads that follow my eyes around... that one's inevitable.
"Now go away, or I shall obliterate you a second time-uh!"
No it's not, "une solutions" has incorrect gender and pluralization, no period at the end of the sentence, wrong accent on "limitee"...
Where are the real-world tests? I bet that lead-core CPU stays at room temperature with the picture fan even under heavy load.
Lemme guess, he thought he was voting for Busch?
Might want to avoid extortion targets who are very well experienced, staffed, and funded in risk analysis.