'Minimal personal consequences' for the officers. If another perp happens to suffer from 'excited delirium'(probably because of drugs, if we can find any), well, maybe some paid leave will be in order...
Police are now so badly trained and so out of shape they can't even handle a 44 year-old, 80 pound Chinese woman, they have to resort to high tech weaponry.
You seem to be operating under the assumption that using 'pain compliance' tools on people weaker than they are, with minimal chances of any significant personal consequences, is something that cops are trying to avoid...
If you want to make a protest about being asked to choose a religion, do it properly. Just write atheist or agnostic, according to your view of things.
If memory serves, the protest was about which religions got to be on the choices list. The 'Jedi' were drumming up enough write-ins for something no stupider than the options already on the list in order to protest the incumbency-based listing.
It's analogous to the Flying Spaghetti Monster's role in the US creationism-in-schools fight. Obviously, nobody actually wants children to be told that biology involves a Flying Spaghetti Monster creating trees and midgets with his noodly appendage; but it was a useful way to highlight the absurdity of the fact that bizarre nonsense with the advantages of incumbency was at serious risk of being taught as science, while equally bizarre nonsense without that benefit would never even be considered.
Are they allowed to open any flavor of 'faith school' that they want, based on the overall number of non-atheists? Shouldn't an uptick in Jedi require them to open more Jedi Academies, rather than more of some other denomination's preferred facility?
If a comparison between the US and the UK is anything to go by, having a relatively feckless state church to provide service with the same care and attention as your average monopoly telco might actually have been a very sensible move... The US left religion to a dynamic private sector and just look at all the talented, competitive, marketing-savvy complete and utter nutjobs we have to put up with...
A lot of people like to pay what my father used to called the "stupid tax": lottery.
I'd be interested to get a behavioral econ type in on the question of whether the lottery is a "stupid tax", or whether it is a sale of hope products to those with comparatively few competitively priced suppliers of such.
People who actually think that the probability discounted value of a lottery ticket is higher than its sticker price are either dumb as rocks or horribly betrayed by whoever was supposed to teach them math. People who don't; but are buying some sort of less tangible emotional rush are making a severely questionable decision; but one that falls into the same category as people who eat too much dessert because it is tasty. Not a good plan; but the sort of emotional hedonic optimization in the short term that no amount of pure intellectual talent will save you from.
How many people reading this intentionally pay more tax than they are strictly required to?
How many people reading this have any significant ability to adjust their 'nothing we did was other than legal' tax rate to be substantially different from their 'time to fill out the tax forms' tax rate?
That's the thing: complaints about corporate and HNW tax-dodging are not based on the premise that everybody should just voluntarily chip in an extra 10% for Uncle Sam; but on the (largely accurate) perception that there is a little-people tax code and a quite distinct, and very, very generous indeed, tax code for people who can afford the requisite caymans subsidiary, 'tax opinion letters', and suitably talented accountants.
It's like answering a complaint about criminal justice for poor schmucks with overworked public defenders vs. celebrities with fancy lawyers by asking "Well, did you go and voluntarily turn yourself in and plead guilty for all that jaywalking you've done?". That's orthogonal to the point: The complaint is not "some people aren't volunteering!" but "some people are forced, and some people would only be held to anything resembling what the rest are forced to if they were to volunteer."
If it does end up damaging another satellite, what can anyone do about it? It's not like North Korea is going to nicely exchange insurance info with the aggrieved party or pay for damages. Hell, if it's a US company I doubt they'd even be allowed to accept funds from there legally if they were amenable. I could see several scenarios in which this leads to war with North Korea, and frankly I'm not really caring who takes them out at this point. - HEX
I suspect that paying damages would be the least of our problems. You can write an insurance policy to cover a satellite if you care that much, and you can launch more satellites than your constellation strictly requires if it's a Big Deal that things stay working; but mechanisms for dealing with orbital debris are hardly so mature...
I can definitely see the use cases(if nothing else, the window manager needs to know where the mouse is to manage windows), it just seems like a strange thing to have available by default, especially for a browser, which can reasonably assume that it will spend its entire life handling malicious inputs.
Unless I've missed a major demographic shift, the people most personally affected by fracking are only slightly more left leaning than the people most personally affected by Appalachian coal mining techniques...
Liberals do tend to be against this sort of thing at a policy level; but the supply of people who've been personally fucked over is generally drawn from an entirely different geographic and social stratum.
But don't let me derail your internal narrative or anything.
I can definitely understand the HTPC-is-too-much-work position(especially since prebuilt options are rather thin on the ground), I'm just struck by how dire the shit baked in to TVs is even compared to the little $50-$100 puck appliances and streaming boxes.
In magical pony fantasyland, It'd be nice if the TV people could standardize an 'appliance socket' that provides, say, an HDMI port with CEC and a specified amount of power to work with in a defined slide-in chassis size. Then you could still replace the appliance when the time came; but you wouldn't need a rats nest of HDMI cables and random wall warts.
Given that the press shots for the part show a damn lot of teeny BGA balls on the bottom, I'd hope that it isn't an end user part...
The question is whether it will(as some Atoms in the past have) show up fairly cheaply in the nicer Prosumer/SMB NASes and assorted 1U/shallow server barebones kits, or whether this will be a "Well, the totally proprietary cardcage is $25,000, I'll throw in a license for our Enterprise Backplane Management Console for just 3k more, cause I like you, and cards are 6k a pop..." type product.
I'm sure that Intel's Xeon team, and their margins, are 100% totally delighted with this chip, have greatest confidence in its success, and wish it only the best in the future...
The main problem with 'smart' TVs is that you end up with a TV that(barring ghastly shoddiness) will last for several years; but the 'smart' part of it will be lucky to receive a firmware update or two, generally delivered by a team of crack programmers who previous job was providing horribly malformed DDC information...
If it's a discrete computer, or some dinky Roku stick or whatever, you can upgrade it when the streaming service of the month goes out of business, or the manufacturer loses interest in you.
Intel EOLed even their embedded 386s sufficiently long ago that I had to go to archive.org to find the discontinuation notice. The last 386 rolled out the door in 2007.
There still seem to be some other outfits I've never heard of making x86s for embedded applications, but the specs on those boards are sufficiently primitive that they generally seem to be aiming for DOS, not the leading edge of the 3.X kernel tree.
Elsevier's ethical standards are such that, in all likelihood, they got hacked because somebody forgot to refill the firewall's kitten tears hopper or empty its puppy grinder promptly.
Aside from doing...um... important work in pharmaceutical awareness, Reed Elsevier has the somewhat tense situation of owning The Lancet and a bunch of other medical journals that attract bleeding-heart do-no-harm types, and also running among the world's largest trade shows for the security forces of the world looking for new and exciting ways to generate interesting cases for the trauma surgeons to write up. They've had some togetherness issues over that.
Do you know if the signal path between mic and amp in the teeny new digital MEMS mics are long and unshielded enough for it to show up on devices using those?
Something like an ADMP441 is a 4.72 mm × 3.76 mm × 1 mm little can with pads, and both the mic and all the analog wrangling are handled inside, external interface is I2S. How much 'we-shielded-it-just-enough-that-the-FCC-doesn't-care' analog signal path would you need before the amplifier?
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'Minimal personal consequences' for the officers. If another perp happens to suffer from 'excited delirium'(probably because of drugs, if we can find any), well, maybe some paid leave will be in order...
Police are now so badly trained and so out of shape they can't even handle a 44 year-old, 80 pound Chinese woman, they have to resort to high tech weaponry.
You seem to be operating under the assumption that using 'pain compliance' tools on people weaker than they are, with minimal chances of any significant personal consequences, is something that cops are trying to avoid...
If you want to make a protest about being asked to choose a religion, do it properly. Just write atheist or agnostic, according to your view of things.
If memory serves, the protest was about which religions got to be on the choices list. The 'Jedi' were drumming up enough write-ins for something no stupider than the options already on the list in order to protest the incumbency-based listing.
It's analogous to the Flying Spaghetti Monster's role in the US creationism-in-schools fight. Obviously, nobody actually wants children to be told that biology involves a Flying Spaghetti Monster creating trees and midgets with his noodly appendage; but it was a useful way to highlight the absurdity of the fact that bizarre nonsense with the advantages of incumbency was at serious risk of being taught as science, while equally bizarre nonsense without that benefit would never even be considered.
Are they allowed to open any flavor of 'faith school' that they want, based on the overall number of non-atheists? Shouldn't an uptick in Jedi require them to open more Jedi Academies, rather than more of some other denomination's preferred facility?
Oh; but without the lovely patina of legitimacy that age lends to even the most childish iron-age bullshit...
If a comparison between the US and the UK is anything to go by, having a relatively feckless state church to provide service with the same care and attention as your average monopoly telco might actually have been a very sensible move... The US left religion to a dynamic private sector and just look at all the talented, competitive, marketing-savvy complete and utter nutjobs we have to put up with...
I'd hesitate to call them 'sane'; but Democratic Party has largely stepped into the role of being the American center-right.
Regardless of your actual faith, why wouldn't you choose this option?
Heretics will never know the Beer Volcano that He has prepared for us in His Noodly Paradise.
Don't hate the player, hate the game.
Also, please do me a personal favor and hate people who use that phrase.
A lot of people like to pay what my father used to called the "stupid tax": lottery.
I'd be interested to get a behavioral econ type in on the question of whether the lottery is a "stupid tax", or whether it is a sale of hope products to those with comparatively few competitively priced suppliers of such.
People who actually think that the probability discounted value of a lottery ticket is higher than its sticker price are either dumb as rocks or horribly betrayed by whoever was supposed to teach them math. People who don't; but are buying some sort of less tangible emotional rush are making a severely questionable decision; but one that falls into the same category as people who eat too much dessert because it is tasty. Not a good plan; but the sort of emotional hedonic optimization in the short term that no amount of pure intellectual talent will save you from.
How many people reading this intentionally pay more tax than they are strictly required to?
How many people reading this have any significant ability to adjust their 'nothing we did was other than legal' tax rate to be substantially different from their 'time to fill out the tax forms' tax rate?
That's the thing: complaints about corporate and HNW tax-dodging are not based on the premise that everybody should just voluntarily chip in an extra 10% for Uncle Sam; but on the (largely accurate) perception that there is a little-people tax code and a quite distinct, and very, very generous indeed, tax code for people who can afford the requisite caymans subsidiary, 'tax opinion letters', and suitably talented accountants.
It's like answering a complaint about criminal justice for poor schmucks with overworked public defenders vs. celebrities with fancy lawyers by asking "Well, did you go and voluntarily turn yourself in and plead guilty for all that jaywalking you've done?". That's orthogonal to the point: The complaint is not "some people aren't volunteering!" but "some people are forced, and some people would only be held to anything resembling what the rest are forced to if they were to volunteer."
If it does end up damaging another satellite, what can anyone do about it? It's not like North Korea is going to nicely exchange insurance info with the aggrieved party or pay for damages. Hell, if it's a US company I doubt they'd even be allowed to accept funds from there legally if they were amenable. I could see several scenarios in which this leads to war with North Korea, and frankly I'm not really caring who takes them out at this point. - HEX
I suspect that paying damages would be the least of our problems. You can write an insurance policy to cover a satellite if you care that much, and you can launch more satellites than your constellation strictly requires if it's a Big Deal that things stay working; but mechanisms for dealing with orbital debris are hardly so mature...
If they only had google they would have know how it was done.
I'm pretty sure that North Korea is so advanced that they've just started putting satellites on tumblr, rather than bothering with rockets.
I can definitely see the use cases(if nothing else, the window manager needs to know where the mouse is to manage windows), it just seems like a strange thing to have available by default, especially for a browser, which can reasonably assume that it will spend its entire life handling malicious inputs.
Why would a program even have access to mouse activity that isn't occurring within its window?
Unless I've missed a major demographic shift, the people most personally affected by fracking are only slightly more left leaning than the people most personally affected by Appalachian coal mining techniques...
Liberals do tend to be against this sort of thing at a policy level; but the supply of people who've been personally fucked over is generally drawn from an entirely different geographic and social stratum.
But don't let me derail your internal narrative or anything.
He might want to, um, keep a close eye on his drinks any time he is in fracking country... There might be one or two angry locals to contend with.
I can definitely understand the HTPC-is-too-much-work position(especially since prebuilt options are rather thin on the ground), I'm just struck by how dire the shit baked in to TVs is even compared to the little $50-$100 puck appliances and streaming boxes.
In magical pony fantasyland, It'd be nice if the TV people could standardize an 'appliance socket' that provides, say, an HDMI port with CEC and a specified amount of power to work with in a defined slide-in chassis size. Then you could still replace the appliance when the time came; but you wouldn't need a rats nest of HDMI cables and random wall warts.
Given that the press shots for the part show a damn lot of teeny BGA balls on the bottom, I'd hope that it isn't an end user part...
The question is whether it will(as some Atoms in the past have) show up fairly cheaply in the nicer Prosumer/SMB NASes and assorted 1U/shallow server barebones kits, or whether this will be a "Well, the totally proprietary cardcage is $25,000, I'll throw in a license for our Enterprise Backplane Management Console for just 3k more, cause I like you, and cards are 6k a pop..." type product.
I'm sure that Intel's Xeon team, and their margins, are 100% totally delighted with this chip, have greatest confidence in its success, and wish it only the best in the future...
Tivoized or not?
The main problem with 'smart' TVs is that you end up with a TV that(barring ghastly shoddiness) will last for several years; but the 'smart' part of it will be lucky to receive a firmware update or two, generally delivered by a team of crack programmers who previous job was providing horribly malformed DDC information...
If it's a discrete computer, or some dinky Roku stick or whatever, you can upgrade it when the streaming service of the month goes out of business, or the manufacturer loses interest in you.
I'm honestly surprised that it held on this long.
Intel EOLed even their embedded 386s sufficiently long ago that I had to go to archive.org to find the discontinuation notice. The last 386 rolled out the door in 2007.
There still seem to be some other outfits I've never heard of making x86s for embedded applications, but the specs on those boards are sufficiently primitive that they generally seem to be aiming for DOS, not the leading edge of the 3.X kernel tree.
Elsevier's ethical standards are such that, in all likelihood, they got hacked because somebody forgot to refill the firewall's kitten tears hopper or empty its puppy grinder promptly.
Aside from doing...um... important work in pharmaceutical awareness, Reed Elsevier has the somewhat tense situation of owning The Lancet and a bunch of other medical journals that attract bleeding-heart do-no-harm types, and also running among the world's largest trade shows for the security forces of the world looking for new and exciting ways to generate interesting cases for the trauma surgeons to write up. They've had some togetherness issues over that.
Do you know if the signal path between mic and amp in the teeny new digital MEMS mics are long and unshielded enough for it to show up on devices using those?
Something like an ADMP441 is a 4.72 mm × 3.76 mm × 1 mm little can with pads, and both the mic and all the analog wrangling are handled inside, external interface is I2S. How much 'we-shielded-it-just-enough-that-the-FCC-doesn't-care' analog signal path would you need before the amplifier?