The embargo remains in place, only congress can end it and the republican party at least has no intention of doing so. Obama has stretched the rules about as much as presidential discretion allows.
Lack of social structure is a huge problem for octopuses, but elephants for example have pretty advanced social interactions and have been shown to pass on knowledge.
Consider some of the most intelligent species on Earth: primates, dolphins, birds, elephants, octopuses. That's a very diverse group. That suggests that evolution has a bias to evolving intelligence in different forms, at least on Earth. Capability of tool use is another matter, but both birds and primates have shown some.
Robots.txt isn't supposed to be a tool for de-indexing yourself anyway -- it's only supposed to control spidering. Archive.org should specify a different file to set if you want to be de-indexed, and that file can specify a retroactive date if desired. Or just make people fill out a form on the site to de-index.
You get your news about Russia from RT? Heh. If you're not a paid shill, use some basic common sense and read about Russia from a neutral country's media -- say China.
So a corporatists scale of those who want to steal everything on the left and those who want to kill everyone on the right.
Democrats and republicans have long been in agreement on killing everybody (everybody who looks at us wrong or has oil, anyway). They both want to steal too, the difference is who they want to take from and give to. Both parties want to use the government to pad corporate profits, but they support different corporations, with the republicans fighting mainly for fossil fuels and democrats fighting more for the tech sector and IP. And republicans want to gut programs for the poor to give tax breaks to the rich while democrats want to increase taxes on the rich to subsidize more programs for the poor (and of course they typically compromise by giving the rich their tax breaks and the poor their programs, hence the national debt).
Not true at all. The ship is his long term relationship, but he woos women constantly and loves them for a very short term. This has diplomatic advantages in influencing their behavior during first contact.
Even more directly, it'd be nice to be able to walk along a city street without being smothered in exhaust fumes and deafened by ICE noise. Unfortunately that's several decades away still.
Russia is also in the list of top weapons selling companies.
At least Russia didn't sell weapons / training to the Afghan mujahideen, the Saudis, most of the dictators in latin america for the past couple centuries, or Syran opposition who openly collaborate with terrorists.
Unfortunately, we're very far away from a jobless society. Every time we've automated things, we've invented new jobs for people and are actually employing far more people than we did before the automation.
Uber's version of "self-driving" certainly seems to be a lot less practical and a lot more publicity than others. They don't even try anything difficult.
The Earth will be uninhabitable within a billion years almost certainly -- but at that time, it will still be more habitable than Mars because it will have a thick atmosphere (even if not necessarily a breathable one) and a good amount of resources left. It should be relatively easy to "colonize" the Earth with climate-controlled domes or underground structures at that time.
It's anything but easy to describe where to make a series of clicks. It's easy to show someone how to update through a GUI, but you're stuck describing then you're better off describing a command line so that they only have to remember 3 words (sudo apt-get upgrade) instead of several paragraphs of vague attempts at describing their screen only to find out they have a different version where it all looks different.
The only scenario I can come up with is when the sun expands and swallows the Earth in a few billion years. At that point, Mars will clearly be more inhabitable (though also very hard to live on because of the heat).
We continue to find evidence of ancient life on Earth, and we haven't sanitized Earth. Should we stop and exterminate all current life on Earth first just to be on the safe side though?
If there's current life on Mars, odds are it's not going to be out-competed by mal-adapted Earth microbes either. And there'll be differences to tell them apart.
Sure, if you want to turn a 15 second process into a 2 minute process with a bunch of clicking around and waiting for horridly slow GUIs to load/refresh.
Those parts of the emails are valid to report on. Stuff like a staffer thinking Lessig is smug is not valid to report on. It's like the diplomatic cable leaks a few years ago -- a few of them were important revelations in the public interest, and most of them were unimportant gossipy personal stuff that unnecessarily strained all sorts of international relationships. Good reporters report on the part that matters, bad reporters just try to find something salacious to poke a bee hive.
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The embargo remains in place, only congress can end it and the republican party at least has no intention of doing so. Obama has stretched the rules about as much as presidential discretion allows.
Lack of social structure is a huge problem for octopuses, but elephants for example have pretty advanced social interactions and have been shown to pass on knowledge.
Consider some of the most intelligent species on Earth: primates, dolphins, birds, elephants, octopuses. That's a very diverse group. That suggests that evolution has a bias to evolving intelligence in different forms, at least on Earth. Capability of tool use is another matter, but both birds and primates have shown some.
Unfortunately, ET will probably destroy the Earth to stop us from sending more Jehovah's Witnesses to their door.
Robots.txt isn't supposed to be a tool for de-indexing yourself anyway -- it's only supposed to control spidering. Archive.org should specify a different file to set if you want to be de-indexed, and that file can specify a retroactive date if desired. Or just make people fill out a form on the site to de-index.
Would you rather have a waffling flip-floper who checks the polls every day, or someone who governs based on their principles?
You get your news about Russia from RT? Heh. If you're not a paid shill, use some basic common sense and read about Russia from a neutral country's media -- say China.
So a corporatists scale of those who want to steal everything on the left and those who want to kill everyone on the right.
Democrats and republicans have long been in agreement on killing everybody (everybody who looks at us wrong or has oil, anyway). They both want to steal too, the difference is who they want to take from and give to. Both parties want to use the government to pad corporate profits, but they support different corporations, with the republicans fighting mainly for fossil fuels and democrats fighting more for the tech sector and IP. And republicans want to gut programs for the poor to give tax breaks to the rich while democrats want to increase taxes on the rich to subsidize more programs for the poor (and of course they typically compromise by giving the rich their tax breaks and the poor their programs, hence the national debt).
Excel runs in EGA color?
Not true at all. The ship is his long term relationship, but he woos women constantly and loves them for a very short term. This has diplomatic advantages in influencing their behavior during first contact.
Having watched the original series, I thought it was because the main duty of a starship captain is to woo heterosexual female aliens.
Sub-orbital? With the way uber has been BSing lately, they'll announce a manned faster than light colony transport to the Andromeda galaxy.
Even more directly, it'd be nice to be able to walk along a city street without being smothered in exhaust fumes and deafened by ICE noise. Unfortunately that's several decades away still.
At least Russia didn't sell weapons / training to the Afghan mujahideen, the Saudis, most of the dictators in latin america for the past couple centuries, or Syran opposition who openly collaborate with terrorists.
Russian-speaking Eastern Ukraine and a sliver of Georgia are the world? The USSR dominated far more of the world and we survived.
Unfortunately, we're very far away from a jobless society. Every time we've automated things, we've invented new jobs for people and are actually employing far more people than we did before the automation.
Uber's version of "self-driving" certainly seems to be a lot less practical and a lot more publicity than others. They don't even try anything difficult.
The Earth will be uninhabitable within a billion years almost certainly -- but at that time, it will still be more habitable than Mars because it will have a thick atmosphere (even if not necessarily a breathable one) and a good amount of resources left. It should be relatively easy to "colonize" the Earth with climate-controlled domes or underground structures at that time.
It's anything but easy to describe where to make a series of clicks. It's easy to show someone how to update through a GUI, but you're stuck describing then you're better off describing a command line so that they only have to remember 3 words (sudo apt-get upgrade) instead of several paragraphs of vague attempts at describing their screen only to find out they have a different version where it all looks different.
The only scenario I can come up with is when the sun expands and swallows the Earth in a few billion years. At that point, Mars will clearly be more inhabitable (though also very hard to live on because of the heat).
Plants do survive in San Francisco, and other places that don't get full sunlight.
We continue to find evidence of ancient life on Earth, and we haven't sanitized Earth. Should we stop and exterminate all current life on Earth first just to be on the safe side though?
If there's current life on Mars, odds are it's not going to be out-competed by mal-adapted Earth microbes either. And there'll be differences to tell them apart.
Sure, if you want to turn a 15 second process into a 2 minute process with a bunch of clicking around and waiting for horridly slow GUIs to load/refresh.
Those parts of the emails are valid to report on. Stuff like a staffer thinking Lessig is smug is not valid to report on. It's like the diplomatic cable leaks a few years ago -- a few of them were important revelations in the public interest, and most of them were unimportant gossipy personal stuff that unnecessarily strained all sorts of international relationships. Good reporters report on the part that matters, bad reporters just try to find something salacious to poke a bee hive.
If it's clearly marked, 10 cent stickers saying "will release noxious gas if cut" are going to be much better sellers than the $100 lock.
There are two war candidates, and two peace candidates. Everyone wants a war candidate.