That's funny because searching for "Chris Harris" on youtube returns a 3 car shootout with 1.7 million hits, a review of the 488 spyder with 1.1 million hits, and a review of the 991 GT3RS with 1.2 million hits. Hell, his review of the latest mustang (which, generally, no one outside america cares about) got 600k.
By way of contrast, Psy's Gangnam Style video has over 2.5 billion views. Any YouTube video with less than 10 million views is just noise in the long tail.
YouTube does get a lot of aggregate traffic for that long tail, of course. I wonder what the stats are for that.
Lives in Bay Area and saves 200k in 6 years at 95k year? highly doubtful.
Just be willing to commute. I lived in Fremont, in a nice modern 2-bedroom apartment that costs me less than $2K/month. My total spend was only $40k/year, plus what I set aside for my next car. That would actually work out about right at that pay (assuming I didn't buy a car).
Many states already have this. Doesn't stop a terrorist from obtaining a weapon illegally, as with the Belgium and France nightclub shootings, and a couple of the recent US shootings by crazy people (I remember at least one was a "straw purchase" - getting a friend to buy the gun for you - which is very illegal).
In the context of "nightclubs", not so much. There's good reason most states ban carrying where alcohol is served, and all if you're drinking. The recent shooting was yet another in a gun-free zone.
Technological fix? No. Smart guns? It's the terrorist's gun. Metal detectors? Terrorist. Outlaw guns? Terrorist (much like shootings in nightclubs in other countries).
Outlawing religion seems a better bet, except historically religion has thrived on that.
It wasn't until the last 100 years that currency wasn't tied to the market value of a precious metal
Less than that. Nixon officially took us off the gold standard (which is one reason there was so much inflation in the Carter years). FDR effectively did, by outlawing possession of gold by citizens so that you couldn't legally redeem the note.
But none of that matters: as soon as you have fractional reserve banking, the currency stops being tied to whatever underlies it, not in any real way.
You don't need anything to back currency, you just need social acceptance that this specific thing mediates barter.
As far as I could tell from just the TV shows, "Gold Pressed Latinum" was only a Ferengi currency, really (though currencies are of course exchangeable). They were obsessed with the stuff (really, could a racial stereotype caricature be any more blatant? I guess big noses instead of big ears would have been too much, but still, it always seemed creepy to me). The federation sort of shrugged at the whole notion.
The greater obstacle is that, even before that, humans had to already have eliminated religion, wealth inequality, corruption, nationalism, racism, otherwise even the first step would be impossible, and the real fantasy is that even one of those things is achievable.
Most of the is believable - it just moves up a level. Just as nationalism replaced tribalism (and was better!), fanaticism for galaxy-spanning empires replaced nationalism, and there were still plenty of prejudices around, just at a larger scale. It's easy to believe "we're all humans together - let's lynch us a Klingon", pr whatever outsider served the purpose.
I saw no sign that wealth inequality had been banished, however. The story focused on a semi-military crew, not society in general, so there were the formal inequalities of rank instead. We didn't see much of the common entity on the street, one way or the other.
Gimp is not even close to Photoshop for someone who uses it professionally, rather than just doing a few simple things with it.
No one has a good alternative to Excel for someone who uses it professionally, rather than just doing a few simple things with it.
No one has a good alternative to PowerPoint for someone who uses it professionally, rather than just doing a few simple things with it.
You'd think the latter 2 wouldn't be so hard to replace, but no one in any of the alternative Office products seems to really understand the use cases.
Seriously, they could be kidnapping people off the street at random and tossing them into wood chippers and you would chalk it up to "market research" or some shit.
Can you think of any other explanation for Windows 8?
Your premise is that healthcare will get cheaper, and then it can get more expensive as new technology arrives.
Not quite. My premise is that we as a society pay the most we can afford for good health care, rather than the least we can manage, because we like to stay alive, and not in pain if possible. That means new tech is funded by dropping prices in old tech.
I'm not sure we disagree on this.
The advance of technology ensures specific treatments get cheaper over time (or cheaper substitute treatments are found - scans replacing exploratory surgery and so on). The combination of our strong survival instinct and the profit motive ensure new research is capitalized, and thus a steady stream of expensive-at-first new breakthroughs.
If you focus on cost minimization alone, the capital for new research nearly vanishes (sure, we'll still get some progress from individuals finding better ways to do what we already do, and some low-capital advancements, but those are fundamentally limited). Many countries have significantly cheaper healthcare than the US, and in turn aren't the source of amazing breakthroughs.
Logic is always going to be the hard part. If you have an IQ of 135+, you should *consider* computer science (if you also enjoy it). If not, but you like computers, focus more on IT. Yes, you need to be a genius to do the hard stuff.
When talking about adults or teens, yes, the logic is the hard part and getting the syntax right won't be a barrier to anyone who's going to be able to get the logic right in the first place. This is why attempts to fix the language are misguided at best.
However, to give kids some exposure to programming and logical thought both, it's different.Removing the frustration of debugging stupid syntax errors is a good thing there. There's likely a better way than curly braces, semicolons, or indention (or words that do the same thing but take more letters) to get started with the whole idea. There have been some attempts at this in the past, using shapes with space for bits of text, but it hasn't really evolved much. Maybe it should.
Once you come out on the wrong side of the culture war, I have no use for you. And taking either side is the wrong side for half your readers. Zero sympathy.
Gawker has made a long business of vile personal attacks. You seem to think that's OK as long as they attack someone you don't like. That's what's destroying America: anything's OK if it hurts the "other side". That sort of thinking leaves only rubble at the end.
The dude used his wealth to abuse the already overloaded court system to even up a personal grudge.
This is vastly better than the non-court alternative: physical violence. A billion can buy substantial physical violence - not that I would shed a tear if everyone who has ever worked for Gawker on any of its properties all died in a fire, mind you, but there is always collateral damage at that scale, thus the courts are a far better way to settle grudges.
But you might care about the excellent sub-sires operated by Gawker, including Kotaku.com, io9.com, gizmodo.com, and other
Oh, I care. The best part of the Gawker bankruptcy is the likely death of the corrupt SJW pustule Kotaku. Their worse tham Jezebel, as no one is confused into thinking Jezebel is legitimate.
Oh, they sure will in some distant future. But by then will have new latest and greatest expensive medical tech - unless we get socialized medicine, of course, then all such progress will fade away.
Except how effective is that Glock going to be against the local SWAT team?
Revolutions start when ex-military gun nuts with rifles take armories, and some portion of the military decides it's not on the government's side in the first place. In the War of Independence, they had actually smuggled quite a bit of artillery out and hidden it before the shooting started (the shooting war started over troops sent to confiscate guns, humorously enough, both rifles and stolen cannon).
Much the same happened in the Civil War (which is what you call a failed revolution).
Of course, it won't be long before the victor is the side who can build more combat robots, and I can't even guess what a revolution would look like.
ere's more to it than just "thug life". That _is_ a big part of it but one should also consider the criminal's background. I wonder, what's the poverty rate in the black population compared to the white?
A lot of this has been studied, rather than BSed about by racists. The strong correlation is between "absentee father" and becoming a criminal. If you adjust for that, the correlation between poverty and crime (in the US) is fairly weak.
That's PopeRatzo for you. He, Rei, and AmiJoJo have their collective heads so far up their own asses it makes the guy that made the movie "Human Centipede" pause to wonder if he should sue them for copyright infringement
Wait, what? I've never seen SJW BS from Rei. The other two of course are dependable trolls on every SJW story.
The only thing that sounds likely to me for self-flying is a volocopter, or similar many-fixed-rotor design. Everything else is too difficult to land. Already flying people short distances (at least, experimentally). I don't see how you'd add enough weight for road safety and ever get off the ground, though - that adds orders of magnitude to the problem, at which point even if you did it it would be huge.
Self-driving cars are very near, though, in automotive development terms. Volvo claims to be getting close, and what Tesla has today on the road is also close.
Metals are only named -ium because it's a -um stuck on the end of a base word that already had the "i". he suffix is the -um part, the "i" part is (sometimes) from the root. E.g., Helios becomes helium.
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That's funny because searching for "Chris Harris" on youtube returns a 3 car shootout with 1.7 million hits, a review of the 488 spyder with 1.1 million hits, and a review of the 991 GT3RS with 1.2 million hits. Hell, his review of the latest mustang (which, generally, no one outside america cares about) got 600k.
By way of contrast, Psy's Gangnam Style video has over 2.5 billion views. Any YouTube video with less than 10 million views is just noise in the long tail.
YouTube does get a lot of aggregate traffic for that long tail, of course. I wonder what the stats are for that.
A lot of words saying nothing of importance.
Lives in Bay Area and saves 200k in 6 years at 95k year? highly doubtful.
Just be willing to commute. I lived in Fremont, in a nice modern 2-bedroom apartment that costs me less than $2K/month. My total spend was only $40k/year, plus what I set aside for my next car. That would actually work out about right at that pay (assuming I didn't buy a car).
Many other things are different between these nation than gun laws. But do say more about cherry picking.
Back on the topic of terrorists - they will get guns regardless, and in the US they overwhelmingly choose gun-free zones to attack.
Many states already have this. Doesn't stop a terrorist from obtaining a weapon illegally, as with the Belgium and France nightclub shootings, and a couple of the recent US shootings by crazy people (I remember at least one was a "straw purchase" - getting a friend to buy the gun for you - which is very illegal).
Came here to say this. Well done!
In the context of "nightclubs", not so much. There's good reason most states ban carrying where alcohol is served, and all if you're drinking. The recent shooting was yet another in a gun-free zone.
Technological fix? No. Smart guns? It's the terrorist's gun. Metal detectors? Terrorist. Outlaw guns? Terrorist (much like shootings in nightclubs in other countries).
Outlawing religion seems a better bet, except historically religion has thrived on that.
No easy answers to evil men.
Powerpoint is the undisputed leader in animations and transitions, but I would not call that very professional.
Which is exactly why nothing can replace it. Geeks simply don't understand what salesdroids love so much about PowerPoint. Also: Smart Art.
It wasn't until the last 100 years that currency wasn't tied to the market value of a precious metal
Less than that. Nixon officially took us off the gold standard (which is one reason there was so much inflation in the Carter years). FDR effectively did, by outlawing possession of gold by citizens so that you couldn't legally redeem the note.
But none of that matters: as soon as you have fractional reserve banking, the currency stops being tied to whatever underlies it, not in any real way.
You don't need anything to back currency, you just need social acceptance that this specific thing mediates barter.
As far as I could tell from just the TV shows, "Gold Pressed Latinum" was only a Ferengi currency, really (though currencies are of course exchangeable). They were obsessed with the stuff (really, could a racial stereotype caricature be any more blatant? I guess big noses instead of big ears would have been too much, but still, it always seemed creepy to me). The federation sort of shrugged at the whole notion.
The greater obstacle is that, even before that, humans had to already have eliminated religion, wealth inequality, corruption, nationalism, racism, otherwise even the first step would be impossible, and the real fantasy is that even one of those things is achievable.
Most of the is believable - it just moves up a level. Just as nationalism replaced tribalism (and was better!), fanaticism for galaxy-spanning empires replaced nationalism, and there were still plenty of prejudices around, just at a larger scale. It's easy to believe "we're all humans together - let's lynch us a Klingon", pr whatever outsider served the purpose.
I saw no sign that wealth inequality had been banished, however. The story focused on a semi-military crew, not society in general, so there were the formal inequalities of rank instead. We didn't see much of the common entity on the street, one way or the other.
Gimp is not even close to Photoshop for someone who uses it professionally, rather than just doing a few simple things with it.
No one has a good alternative to Excel for someone who uses it professionally, rather than just doing a few simple things with it.
No one has a good alternative to PowerPoint for someone who uses it professionally, rather than just doing a few simple things with it.
You'd think the latter 2 wouldn't be so hard to replace, but no one in any of the alternative Office products seems to really understand the use cases.
Seriously, they could be kidnapping people off the street at random and tossing them into wood chippers and you would chalk it up to "market research" or some shit.
Can you think of any other explanation for Windows 8?
Your premise is that healthcare will get cheaper, and then it can get more expensive as new technology arrives.
Not quite. My premise is that we as a society pay the most we can afford for good health care, rather than the least we can manage, because we like to stay alive, and not in pain if possible. That means new tech is funded by dropping prices in old tech.
I'm not sure we disagree on this.
The advance of technology ensures specific treatments get cheaper over time (or cheaper substitute treatments are found - scans replacing exploratory surgery and so on). The combination of our strong survival instinct and the profit motive ensure new research is capitalized, and thus a steady stream of expensive-at-first new breakthroughs.
If you focus on cost minimization alone, the capital for new research nearly vanishes (sure, we'll still get some progress from individuals finding better ways to do what we already do, and some low-capital advancements, but those are fundamentally limited). Many countries have significantly cheaper healthcare than the US, and in turn aren't the source of amazing breakthroughs.
Logic is always going to be the hard part. If you have an IQ of 135+, you should *consider* computer science (if you also enjoy it). If not, but you like computers, focus more on IT. Yes, you need to be a genius to do the hard stuff.
When talking about adults or teens, yes, the logic is the hard part and getting the syntax right won't be a barrier to anyone who's going to be able to get the logic right in the first place. This is why attempts to fix the language are misguided at best.
However, to give kids some exposure to programming and logical thought both, it's different.Removing the frustration of debugging stupid syntax errors is a good thing there. There's likely a better way than curly braces, semicolons, or indention (or words that do the same thing but take more letters) to get started with the whole idea. There have been some attempts at this in the past, using shapes with space for bits of text, but it hasn't really evolved much. Maybe it should.
Once you come out on the wrong side of the culture war, I have no use for you. And taking either side is the wrong side for half your readers. Zero sympathy.
Gawker has made a long business of vile personal attacks. You seem to think that's OK as long as they attack someone you don't like. That's what's destroying America: anything's OK if it hurts the "other side". That sort of thinking leaves only rubble at the end.
The dude used his wealth to abuse the already overloaded court system to even up a personal grudge.
This is vastly better than the non-court alternative: physical violence. A billion can buy substantial physical violence - not that I would shed a tear if everyone who has ever worked for Gawker on any of its properties all died in a fire, mind you, but there is always collateral damage at that scale, thus the courts are a far better way to settle grudges.
But you might care about the excellent sub-sires operated by Gawker, including Kotaku.com, io9.com, gizmodo.com, and other
Oh, I care. The best part of the Gawker bankruptcy is the likely death of the corrupt SJW pustule Kotaku. Their worse tham Jezebel, as no one is confused into thinking Jezebel is legitimate.
Oh, they sure will in some distant future. But by then will have new latest and greatest expensive medical tech - unless we get socialized medicine, of course, then all such progress will fade away.
Except how effective is that Glock going to be against the local SWAT team?
Revolutions start when ex-military gun nuts with rifles take armories, and some portion of the military decides it's not on the government's side in the first place. In the War of Independence, they had actually smuggled quite a bit of artillery out and hidden it before the shooting started (the shooting war started over troops sent to confiscate guns, humorously enough, both rifles and stolen cannon).
Much the same happened in the Civil War (which is what you call a failed revolution).
Of course, it won't be long before the victor is the side who can build more combat robots, and I can't even guess what a revolution would look like.
ere's more to it than just "thug life". That _is_ a big part of it but one should also consider the criminal's background. I wonder, what's the poverty rate in the black population compared to the white?
A lot of this has been studied, rather than BSed about by racists. The strong correlation is between "absentee father" and becoming a criminal. If you adjust for that, the correlation between poverty and crime (in the US) is fairly weak.
That's PopeRatzo for you. He, Rei, and AmiJoJo have their collective heads so far up their own asses it makes the guy that made the movie "Human Centipede" pause to wonder if he should sue them for copyright infringement
Wait, what? I've never seen SJW BS from Rei. The other two of course are dependable trolls on every SJW story.
But it can't - that wouldn't even pay for the power to the MRI machines, let alone the machines and the people to operate them.
The only thing that sounds likely to me for self-flying is a volocopter, or similar many-fixed-rotor design. Everything else is too difficult to land. Already flying people short distances (at least, experimentally). I don't see how you'd add enough weight for road safety and ever get off the ground, though - that adds orders of magnitude to the problem, at which point even if you did it it would be huge.
Self-driving cars are very near, though, in automotive development terms. Volvo claims to be getting close, and what Tesla has today on the road is also close.
Metals are only named -ium because it's a -um stuck on the end of a base word that already had the "i". he suffix is the -um part, the "i" part is (sometimes) from the root. E.g., Helios becomes helium.