I once suspected that eventually there would be only three types of nations remaining: Those that have a nuclear arsenal, those that are effectively satellite states of the former, and those that exist only in name or history books.
Of course the prospect of robotic troops has had a significant impact upon my thinking.
The intersection of robotics, nuclear weaponry, and public opinion will become the arena upon which the fate of nations is decided.
"When site owner Harry Maugans requested clarification on exactly which wallpapers were copyrighted by Toyota, he was told that for them to cite specifics (in order to file proper DMCA Takedown Notices), they would invoice Desktop Nexus for their labor."
By saying this Toyota is admitting that this would be a service rendered by them to Harry. This establishes that this is worth goods and therefore is a good. So what they're saying is that they want him to perform the service for them, free of charge. There has to be something in that argument that a good business lawyer can use to get him out of this. Especially given that this is, in all likelihood, illegal anyway.
These are precisely the sort of computers that hikers look for. Laptops are too clumsy for multi-day trips and the drives are rather fragile as well. Its a lot easier to store a flashcard in a waterproof container than it is a hard disk.
The popular conception of Democrat politics is that they are fighting against a small cadre of unnaturally advantaged inhuman elites who only see the public as cattle and want to drain the vitality from of the world.
The popular conception of Republican politics is that they are fighting against a larger bulk of subhuman, mindless things that are only a threat because there are too many of them to kill.
The Libertarians, at least in the public eye, are a bunch of inhuman elites who are only concerned with their own ambitions
The Socialists, to the public, are are mindless creatures who value only rote instinct and do not give a damn about civilization.
Agreed, I remember the people at the school that I worked at in the early 90's coming up with the bright idea to save money on storage by running our database off of a doublespace compressed disk. Update time on anything more than trivial edits went through the stratosphere as the thing did not have the cpu needed to handle the load. This, of course would cost considerably more than the larger drive would.
After accessing the information, he sent an email alerting the principal to the breach and signed it "A student." With the help of the district's IT department, the principal identified the boy as the culprit.
This is the main reason why there will soon (relatively) be two kinds of nations; Modern technological industrial nations and their vassal states. Yes one response to this is nuclear but how many nations would be willing to risk it and for what? I suspect thats the real reason behind the continued interest in conventional weapons. With nuclear weapons all you have is a deterrent. With conventional weapons you also get a useful 'labour force' with which to 'recruit' more workers.
Diameter in gas giants does not correlate well to mass. If Jupiter were significantly more massive than it is it would actually be smaller as it's density would increase.
This is exactly why numerous parents around me are throwing away their 25-35 years old oven or washing machine, at the same time as their kid's 3 to 5 years old ones. Quality is dead for low price is king. The landfills have plenty of space anyway.
We should all forget the USA as the unfair capitalist system. China is the most savage capitalists of all. They where already grabbing everything they could on foreign markets and use it in total diseregard of any international aw or agreement. Now they want you to give it to them on a platter.
It's also why the quality of a given product line can vary wildly sometimes even within the same production run. As if it isn't hard enough to find quality goods. Better testing would catch a lot of this but that costs money so it needs work to sell it and so the system slides.
What is happening with the US vs. China situation in some ways parallels the UK vs. US situation. Well, except that the US and China really don't care for each other generally and have little reason to restrain themselves. To an extent, capitalism relies upon good will towards others to work. In situations where that is not present it tends to run away with itself.
Or, it's the case of people having other, more interesting things to spend their time learning. I used to be a computer geek, but now stuff like OS' bore the living shit out of me. I have -zero- interest in dicking around with a computer any more than I have to. I have a lot more interesting things to do,like running my business, fixing up my house, studying art, whatever. I wouldn't bother with Linux because to me, it's a complete and total waste of my time.
Hm, this is one of the reasons why I don't do free tech support anymore. Yes people are free to choose what they learn, but if they choose not to learn basic concepts they become a burden to others. I have absolutely no problem with charging them money to support this behavior as this sort of thing is the root of all kinds of trouble that could otherwise be easily avoided.
Regardless of what OS you use you still need to know something about it. Well, either that or you pay someone to fix your stuff regularly, or maybe you just replace the thing whenever the trojans cause it to become an anchor. Frankly, the fact that MS markets to people who think this way probably does more to damage their software's rep than the fact that so much of it is buggy.
Take the bail-out for instance. Like that old saying implies it may not have been corruption so much as the side effect of having too many 'post-turtles' in the wrong places.
Hm, this is the sort of response that I'd expect from the other side of the field on this issue. The suggestion that he put forward is reasonable and rational. The only error he made is in assuming that the public schools are rational and reasonable places. This has yet to be adequately demonstrated.
Ideally it should be discussed in the social classes, but the most likely result, at least in the US, would be chaos. Maybe it's different in the UK but I'm not optimistic.
The problem here is that the people pushing this would quickly stir themselves into a froth over any honest discussion of these matters. This would quickly turn the class into an exercise in name-calling, pressure tactics, and outright threats, not unlike the talk show circuit, except probably even worse. It would end up becoming a denial of service attack upon the system.
Frankly, it probably should be discussed in the social classes, but if the public discourse that has already happened is any indication this would probably start something resembling a riot in many schools. I seriously doubt that the same society that has allowed this mess to escalate to this level would have the spine needed to put a stop to it.
There was a time when 'networking' was synonymous with schmoozing.:-)
The concept has merit, taking some of what's been learned in IT over the last three decades and folding it into the other departments could bring real gains. That said, giving IT control of those departments would be a serious mistake for all but a relative few enterprises.
It was, it's still a popular theory as I recall. There was also some speculation that a brwon dwarf could be out there despite the surveys failure to detect it. Anything small enough to evade detection at this point would probably be too small to cause much disruption though.
I remember the governor of Tennessee saying once that it was his goal to get 50% of Tenn's children into college. I remembered wanting to ask why do you want to use our state taxes to drive wages down and push our children out of the state as only 17% of the state's jobs required a college degree.
The people ate it up. This isn't the sort of thing said with real intent. It's said because it's just one of those things politicians are supposed to say. No one takes it seriously, except those who are stupid or perhaps desperate enough to buy into it.
There's a shortage of everyone in IT, mainly because you still have to pay more for a network engineer that for a hamburger flipper.
Evil?
No it's human nature. People are like that. They want what they perceive their neighbor to have. It doesn't necessarily have to make sense, it just is. They also want to stop their neighbor from getting what they have. It's true of this 'white economic elite' stuff as well. There's no satisfying human nature, at least not for long.
It would increase the time needed to destroy the missle/bomb, but as others have mentioned, most missles already spin in flight in order to enhance range. I'm not sure about bombs though, but I don't think they do, in which case it would benefit them too. They'd still be easier to track than artillery shells or missles as they are considerably slower.
For example, in the public schools, someone can physically attack you without provocation and if you defend yourself, you are punished and your punishment is equal to theirs for attacking you. This is true no matter how well-established it is that the other person started the fight.
I'm not sure if this is the cause. When I came through the system it was up to the administration to determine punishment. The usual result was that the kid who had the best record and/or reputation got off light while the other one took a hit. Granted this was often justified, but it often wasn't. The result was that some of the popular ones got away with murder while the ones that everybody liked to pick on got hammered down for defending themselves.
Your 'rights' regarding firearms are nothing more than a throwback to the Wild West and the events that followed during the formative years of your nation. However, I stopped thinking that I was a cowboy when I grew up. You are entitled, both individually and as a Nation, to continue to carry weapons but please don't think less of others because they choose not to.
Hm, so he's an arrested-development case, but that's alright, as long as he doesn't think less of you for saying that?
For that matter, England has few gun rights to speak of but does have gay rights. The U.S. has few gay rights to speak of but does have gun rights. Why don't people realize that any society that trusts it's citizens enough to let them decide where and when to fire a gun will also trust them to decide who to have sex with?
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I once suspected that eventually there would be only three types of nations remaining: Those that have a nuclear arsenal, those that are effectively satellite states of the former, and those that exist only in name or history books.
Of course the prospect of robotic troops has had a significant impact upon my thinking.
The intersection of robotics, nuclear weaponry, and public opinion will become the arena upon which the fate of nations is decided.
"When site owner Harry Maugans requested clarification on exactly which wallpapers were copyrighted by Toyota, he was told that for them to cite specifics (in order to file proper DMCA Takedown Notices), they would invoice Desktop Nexus for their labor."
By saying this Toyota is admitting that this would be a service rendered by them to Harry. This establishes that this is worth goods and therefore is a good. So what they're saying is that they want him to perform the service for them, free of charge. There has to be something in that argument that a good business lawyer can use to get him out of this. Especially given that this is, in all likelihood, illegal anyway.
These are precisely the sort of computers that hikers look for. Laptops are too clumsy for multi-day trips and the drives are rather fragile as well. Its a lot easier to store a flashcard in a waterproof container than it is a hard disk.
The popular conception of Democrat politics is that they are fighting against a small cadre of unnaturally advantaged inhuman elites who only see the public as cattle and want to drain the vitality from of the world.
The popular conception of Republican politics is that they are fighting against a larger bulk of subhuman, mindless things that are only a threat because there are too many of them to kill.
The Libertarians, at least in the public eye, are a bunch of inhuman elites who are only concerned with their own ambitions
The Socialists, to the public, are are mindless creatures who value only rote instinct and do not give a damn about civilization.
Agreed, I remember the people at the school that I worked at in the early 90's coming up with the bright idea to save money on storage by running our database off of a doublespace compressed disk. Update time on anything more than trivial edits went through the stratosphere as the thing did not have the cpu needed to handle the load. This, of course would cost considerably more than the larger drive would.
If the email was anonymous how did they find him?
After accessing the information, he sent an email alerting the principal to the breach and signed it "A student." With the help of the district's IT department, the principal identified the boy as the culprit.
Ah, looks like it wasn't anonymous at all.
This is the main reason why there will soon (relatively) be two kinds of nations; Modern technological industrial nations and their vassal states. Yes one response to this is nuclear but how many nations would be willing to risk it and for what? I suspect thats the real reason behind the continued interest in conventional weapons. With nuclear weapons all you have is a deterrent. With conventional weapons you also get a useful 'labour force' with which to 'recruit' more workers.
Forget AI, those laws require just plain old I and that seems to be in short supply.
Ah, yes. The old "Back up the data by letting the enemy have it" ploy. Hey, maybe they'll secure it better than the govt. did. :-/
Diameter in gas giants does not correlate well to mass. If Jupiter were significantly more massive than it is it would actually be smaller as it's density would increase.
This is exactly why numerous parents around me are throwing away their 25-35 years old oven or washing machine, at the same time as their kid's 3 to 5 years old ones. Quality is dead for low price is king. The landfills have plenty of space anyway.
We should all forget the USA as the unfair capitalist system. China is the most savage capitalists of all. They where already grabbing everything they could on foreign markets and use it in total diseregard of any international aw or agreement. Now they want you to give it to them on a platter.
It's also why the quality of a given product line can vary wildly sometimes even within the same production run. As if it isn't hard enough to find quality goods. Better testing would catch a lot of this but that costs money so it needs work to sell it and so the system slides.
What is happening with the US vs. China situation in some ways parallels the UK vs. US situation. Well, except that the US and China really don't care for each other generally and have little reason to restrain themselves. To an extent, capitalism relies upon good will towards others to work. In situations where that is not present it tends to run away with itself.
Indeed. It's ironic that Chinese communism has learned to survive by becoming, in some ways, a better capitalist society than America.
Or, it's the case of people having other, more interesting things to spend their time learning. I used to be a computer geek, but now stuff like OS' bore the living shit out of me. I have -zero- interest in dicking around with a computer any more than I have to. I have a lot more interesting things to do ,like running my business, fixing up my house, studying art, whatever. I wouldn't bother with Linux because to me, it's a complete and total waste of my time.
Hm, this is one of the reasons why I don't do free tech support anymore. Yes people are free to choose what they learn, but if they choose not to learn basic concepts they become a burden to others. I have absolutely no problem with charging them money to support this behavior as this sort of thing is the root of all kinds of trouble that could otherwise be easily avoided.
Regardless of what OS you use you still need to know something about it. Well, either that or you pay someone to fix your stuff regularly, or maybe you just replace the thing whenever the trojans cause it to become an anchor. Frankly, the fact that MS markets to people who think this way probably does more to damage their software's rep than the fact that so much of it is buggy.
Take the bail-out for instance. Like that old saying implies it may not have been corruption so much as the side effect of having too many 'post-turtles' in the wrong places.
Hm, this is the sort of response that I'd expect from the other side of the field on this issue. The suggestion that he put forward is reasonable and rational. The only error he made is in assuming that the public schools are rational and reasonable places. This has yet to be adequately demonstrated.
Ideally it should be discussed in the social classes, but the most likely result, at least in the US, would be chaos. Maybe it's different in the UK but I'm not optimistic.
The problem here is that the people pushing this would quickly stir themselves into a froth over any honest discussion of these matters. This would quickly turn the class into an exercise in name-calling, pressure tactics, and outright threats, not unlike the talk show circuit, except probably even worse. It would end up becoming a denial of service attack upon the system.
Frankly, it probably should be discussed in the social classes, but if the public discourse that has already happened is any indication this would probably start something resembling a riot in many schools. I seriously doubt that the same society that has allowed this mess to escalate to this level would have the spine needed to put a stop to it.
There was a time when 'networking' was synonymous with schmoozing. :-)
The concept has merit, taking some of what's been learned in IT over the last three decades and folding it into the other departments could bring real gains. That said, giving IT control of those departments would be a serious mistake for all but a relative few enterprises.
It was, it's still a popular theory as I recall. There was also some speculation that a brwon dwarf could be out there despite the surveys failure to detect it. Anything small enough to evade detection at this point would probably be too small to cause much disruption though.
I remember the governor of Tennessee saying once that it was his goal to get 50% of Tenn's children into college. I remembered wanting to ask why do you want to use our state taxes to drive wages down and push our children out of the state as only 17% of the state's jobs required a college degree.
The people ate it up. This isn't the sort of thing said with real intent. It's said because it's just one of those things politicians are supposed to say. No one takes it seriously, except those who are stupid or perhaps desperate enough to buy into it.
I have to second this. Flash has a well-earned nickname; Crashplayer. In my experience it's as bad on Windows as on Linux.
There's a shortage of everyone in IT, mainly because you still have to pay more for a network engineer that for a hamburger flipper.
Evil?
No it's human nature. People are like that. They want what they perceive their neighbor to have. It doesn't necessarily have to make sense, it just is. They also want to stop their neighbor from getting what they have. It's true of this 'white economic elite' stuff as well. There's no satisfying human nature, at least not for long.
So the logical short-term response to this is to use only the cheapest laptop you can possibly get by with in these circumstances.
It would increase the time needed to destroy the missle/bomb, but as others have mentioned, most missles already spin in flight in order to enhance range. I'm not sure about bombs though, but I don't think they do, in which case it would benefit them too. They'd still be easier to track than artillery shells or missles as they are considerably slower.
For example, in the public schools, someone can physically attack you without provocation and if you defend yourself, you are punished and your punishment is equal to theirs for attacking you. This is true no matter how well-established it is that the other person started the fight.
I'm not sure if this is the cause. When I came through the system it was up to the administration to determine punishment. The usual result was that the kid who had the best record and/or reputation got off light while the other one took a hit. Granted this was often justified, but it often wasn't. The result was that some of the popular ones got away with murder while the ones that everybody liked to pick on got hammered down for defending themselves.
Your 'rights' regarding firearms are nothing more than a throwback to the Wild West and the events that followed during the formative years of your nation. However, I stopped thinking that I was a cowboy when I grew up. You are entitled, both individually and as a Nation, to continue to carry weapons but please don't think less of others because they choose not to.
Hm, so he's an arrested-development case, but that's alright, as long as he doesn't think less of you for saying that?
For that matter, England has few gun rights to speak of but does have gay rights. The U.S. has few gay rights to speak of but does have gun rights. Why don't people realize that any society that trusts it's citizens enough to let them decide where and when to fire a gun will also trust them to decide who to have sex with?