If you had to pick one or two objective measures to have an overall barometer, which would you choose?
I would not presume to. It's not my area of expertise, sorry. Those were just the obvious things, an expert might be able come up with some "best indicators" or a weighted formula of some sort used inside academia.
If it lasts 4 years, the health of trade relations (like, how many countries have sanctions against us), how much war has broken out where we used to use our diplomacy to tamp such things down, how many countries consider themselves our allies, how many enemies, and how much territory has been seized from small countries by aggressor states like Russia, how much stateless terrorism has evolved using the U.S. as a bogeyman, the strength of the U.S. dollar and competitive measures against other reserve currencies, how many countries kick our embassies out... there are lots of such measures.
Surveillance is just an inevitable consequence of the advance of technology. No person put in a position of responsibility will not attempt to utilize it, because it would be irresponsible not to, and they'll go over the line to the extent they do not understand the line and why it is there. This makes it increasingly important to elect people with character, training, and intellect... exactly the opposite of what we just did. (Not saying Clinton was perfect, or even progress, but Trump is just dreadful.)
It's going to be like this for the duration of Trump's presidency, because so much shit is about to get screwed up completely. Get used to it and stop complaining.
Yep we had a total of four evils to choose the least of, and two even had a change of winning, to boot. And still, we ended up with the worst of all four.
This strategy of projecting strength will only serve to isolate the U.S. It is a dead end, a relic from last century, and anyone who knows anything about geopolitics knows no such strategy can only cause harm to everyone in today's world.
You forget "con man". You'll realize that for yourself pretty shortly.
Anyway, the reason why such statements normally doom politicians is because normally voters have the sense not to destabilize politics on a national and global level by making the public antsy. Just merely by nominating him in the first place, these voters have done much damage... and winning the election... well, I personally think that Obama Nobel Peace prize should have been awarded to the voters, not Obama... but this year, Trump voters would be up in the running with perennial nominee N. Korea and Putin for the opposite, if it existed.
Well, not that some of that doesn't go on, but that's a bit too paranoid... the larger portion is due to money... selling big data repositories for market analysis, and the fact that companies want their products on the market before they actually work, and need to make it all cloud-based so they can try to put the toothpaste back into the tube afterwards.
Because ethernet is cheap as it's a simple design and therefore it will be cheaper to make it work over ethernet which will then be a complicated design and... oh wait.
Umm... ok maybe just because everything must be made to work over ethernet and/or IP because everyone already uses ethernet and/or IP and billions of endpoints can't be wrong... right?
(Really, considering the proposed use is on inherently unreliable unlicensed radio spectrum, offering guarantees up to the application layer so they can write code that relies on them seems rather silly, don't it?)
Now how do you do FCoE over a WAN like the Internet?
Obviously the "answer" must be "SDN"... despite SDN solutions not even having a way to adequately abstract switch realtime resources and capabilities.
ATM might have been a viable answer to that, back in the 90s. There just weren't enough monetizable applications that needed this level of RT support... most of the uses it was put to were happy enough to run on IP qos mechanisms once IP packet transmission times fell with increased bandwidth.
IoT will have to come up with some much more convincing business plans than simply leveraging information harvesting from witless consumers if they want to ISPs to pay into that feature set.
Jeez, and I was just clicking into this article to post a sarcastic remark that ethernet was finally coming full circle from beatng out ATM, to becoming ATM, just like IDE/ATA became SCSI and USB is becoming firewire. Now I find I've been totally out-bus-protocol-geeked. Thanks for the interesting read.
Well, technically we could freeze it and sink it to the bottom of the ocean in a spot that's likely to keep it that way, or break it down and recombine it into a solid compound, but considering the agricultural side-benefits, burying it makes a hell of a lot more sense.
Some remains in the soil. If it is active carbon when it is buried, it can even form a very productive substrate known as Terra Preta, though whether it can work it's magic outside of tropical latitudes is still under scientific review IIRC.
Ya know what, I think I'll just blame Trump for what he is, and the stupid assholes who voted for him for what they are. I'll just blame the media for too much horse race, not enough issues.
When I stop seeing clear cases of corporate malfeasance and incompetence in the nuclear sector for a decade and some plans for waste disposal that don't involve seismic fault lines, I'm perfectly happy to consider nuclear. The problem with nuclear is not so much the technology but the people.
But you're dead wrong on solar/wind. It can do the job. We just need an investment in storage.
Taxing personal property needed for survival is wrong.
I'm sure details could be negotiated to your satisfaction. You seem reasonable. Were I to be taking a contrarian point, I'd move the negotiating chip to "no higher than can be payed by some sort of reverse mortgage annuity lasting two human lifespans" and we could kick the puck around in the middle for a while.
There are also other things that could be thrown in to the mix:
Personally I think any federal property taxation should come with federal insurance on the property, at least in those property classes where that does not produce too much of a moral hazard. That would give the government extra incentive to ensure the protection of the property.
More like a sign of disgust at the country, not just the president. If you knew me you'd know how loathe I am to engage in any ritual or symbolism, so that's how bad I feel for this nation. I didn't do it for dubya either time even though I hated his guts. Trump is just beyond the pale.
Actually, it was abstentions and third party votes that "put him over the edge", across all races, but in particular, Clinton was down 2 points from Obama in the white vote.
But you knew that, and decided to be dishonest about it anyway. Way to take after the president elect.
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there's nothing preventing hordes of conservatives from leaving for another social network or starting their own.
That would be... awesome! Especially when they got so intellectually inbred they actually started to fake news about "junk anti-inbreeding science"
If you had to pick one or two objective measures to have an overall barometer, which would you choose?
I would not presume to. It's not my area of expertise, sorry. Those were just the obvious things, an expert might be able come up with some "best indicators" or a weighted formula of some sort used inside academia.
If it lasts 4 years, the health of trade relations (like, how many countries have sanctions against us), how much war has broken out where we used to use our diplomacy to tamp such things down, how many countries consider themselves our allies, how many enemies, and how much territory has been seized from small countries by aggressor states like Russia, how much stateless terrorism has evolved using the U.S. as a bogeyman, the strength of the U.S. dollar and competitive measures against other reserve currencies, how many countries kick our embassies out... there are lots of such measures.
Surveillance is just an inevitable consequence of the advance of technology. No person put in a position of responsibility will not attempt to utilize it, because it would be irresponsible not to, and they'll go over the line to the extent they do not understand the line and why it is there. This makes it increasingly important to elect people with character, training, and intellect... exactly the opposite of what we just did. (Not saying Clinton was perfect, or even progress, but Trump is just dreadful.)
It's going to be like this for the duration of Trump's presidency, because so much shit is about to get screwed up completely. Get used to it and stop complaining.
Yep we had a total of four evils to choose the least of, and two even had a change of winning, to boot. And still, we ended up with the worst of all four.
Umm... get over it... you won?
Geez talk about sore winners.
You own every problem Trump creates now. Congratulations!
This strategy of projecting strength will only serve to isolate the U.S. It is a dead end, a relic from last century, and anyone who knows anything about geopolitics knows no such strategy can only cause harm to everyone in today's world.
You forget "con man". You'll realize that for yourself pretty shortly.
Anyway, the reason why such statements normally doom politicians is because normally voters have the sense not to destabilize politics on a national and global level by making the public antsy. Just merely by nominating him in the first place, these voters have done much damage... and winning the election... well, I personally think that Obama Nobel Peace prize should have been awarded to the voters, not Obama... but this year, Trump voters would be up in the running with perennial nominee N. Korea and Putin for the opposite, if it existed.
Well, not that some of that doesn't go on, but that's a bit too paranoid... the larger portion is due to money... selling big data repositories for market analysis, and the fact that companies want their products on the market before they actually work, and need to make it all cloud-based so they can try to put the toothpaste back into the tube afterwards.
Because ethernet is cheap as it's a simple design and therefore it will be cheaper to make it work over ethernet which will then be a complicated design and... oh wait.
Umm... ok maybe just because everything must be made to work over ethernet and/or IP because everyone already uses ethernet and/or IP and billions of endpoints can't be wrong... right?
(Really, considering the proposed use is on inherently unreliable unlicensed radio spectrum, offering guarantees up to the application layer so they can write code that relies on them seems rather silly, don't it?)
Now how do you do FCoE over a WAN like the Internet?
Obviously the "answer" must be "SDN"... despite SDN solutions not even having a way to adequately abstract switch realtime resources and capabilities.
ATM might have been a viable answer to that, back in the 90s. There just weren't enough monetizable applications that needed this level of RT support... most of the uses it was put to were happy enough to run on IP qos mechanisms once IP packet transmission times fell with increased bandwidth.
IoT will have to come up with some much more convincing business plans than simply leveraging information harvesting from witless consumers if they want to ISPs to pay into that feature set.
Jeez, and I was just clicking into this article to post a sarcastic remark that ethernet was finally coming full circle from beatng out ATM, to becoming ATM, just like IDE/ATA became SCSI and USB is becoming firewire. Now I find I've been totally out-bus-protocol-geeked. Thanks for the interesting read.
An all-out thermonuclear/chemical/biological war would probably do nicely.
Heh. Well, if that's what "saves" us, I guess electing Trump improved our odds.
Well, technically we could freeze it and sink it to the bottom of the ocean in a spot that's likely to keep it that way, or break it down and recombine it into a solid compound, but considering the agricultural side-benefits, burying it makes a hell of a lot more sense.
Some remains in the soil. If it is active carbon when it is buried, it can even form a very productive substrate known as Terra Preta, though whether it can work it's magic outside of tropical latitudes is still under scientific review IIRC.
Ya know what, I think I'll just blame Trump for what he is, and the stupid assholes who voted for him for what they are. I'll just blame the media for too much horse race, not enough issues.
That hasn't, and won't, stop them from leveraging anti-semetic sentiments to rally dumbfuckistan.
Your mind is ugly, you can see it from your motivations for posting your drivel, and you are probably of no benefit to humanity.
When I stop seeing clear cases of corporate malfeasance and incompetence in the nuclear sector for a decade and some plans for waste disposal that don't involve seismic fault lines, I'm perfectly happy to consider nuclear. The problem with nuclear is not so much the technology but the people.
But you're dead wrong on solar/wind. It can do the job. We just need an investment in storage.
Taxing personal property needed for survival is wrong.
I'm sure details could be negotiated to your satisfaction. You seem reasonable. Were I to be taking a contrarian point, I'd move the negotiating chip to "no higher than can be payed by some sort of reverse mortgage annuity lasting two human lifespans" and we could kick the puck around in the middle for a while.
There are also other things that could be thrown in to the mix:
Personally I think any federal property taxation should come with federal insurance on the property, at least in those property classes where that does not produce too much of a moral hazard. That would give the government extra incentive to ensure the protection of the property.
All those machinations rely on idiocy. It is the soil in which they grow.
More like a sign of disgust at the country, not just the president. If you knew me you'd know how loathe I am to engage in any ritual or symbolism, so that's how bad I feel for this nation. I didn't do it for dubya either time even though I hated his guts. Trump is just beyond the pale.
a majority of those believe God is responsible for everything. I think they knew exactly what they were doing.
Really? You think people who think that "know what they are doing"?
Actually, it was abstentions and third party votes that "put him over the edge", across all races, but in particular, Clinton was down 2 points from Obama in the white vote.
But you knew that, and decided to be dishonest about it anyway. Way to take after the president elect.