Shaming pedestrians for crossing safe roads (I assume they are not suicidal) while the president makes himself an all-powerful dictator makes a fine country indeed. I'd rather have a country where corruption is automatically shamed.
The EU actually put data-privacy and retention limits in place.
That is one way of looking at it. It was also the EU who made data retention compulsory in the first place. And they don't punish countries (like the Netherlands) that wipe their behinds on the retention limits.
What a monstrous thing is that. There is a reason that helicopters have big main rotors: they are way more efficient than multiple smaller ones. Off course, the small quadcopters can get away with it because they are so small (the Square Cube Law: scaling down an aircraft decreases the weight faster than the wing or rotor surface that holds it in the air).
The only positive thing is that in normal flight it uses wings, so it can glide in case of emergency, but it looks extremely vulnerable during take off and vertical landings, as I cannot image these upward propellers to provide any useful autorotation. If the thing is autonomous, will there be controls in case of emergency? And if not, how can they ever hope to get a permit for these things?
Or a weed plantation. Or a datacenter. Or a trader in derivatives. Or maybe they stole some stirling engines as well and are generating their own electricity from volcanic heat.
Imagine managing 300 to 400 people who do nothing for eight to 10 hours but to load a mannequin and then with sandpaper on their hands to begin the destruction process to remove the indigo.
Do the lasers still damage the fibres or do they just remove the indigo or even just its colour?
Indigo is a plant chemical that takes a specific chemical reaction to form, and needs special treatment to adhere it to the fibres. The fact that it does not adhere perfectly is what causes the specific worn look on jeans. If the fibres can be kept intact but the indigo selectively removed, you could have a pair of jeans that looks used but also can still be used for a long time.
... determinism, a fundamental feature of the universe...
While we may wish for determinism, it has been shown long before that it does not exist.Since it was shown that we can not accurately know both the position of a particle and its speed, it has been proven that predicting the future is impossible because it is impossible to know the present, let alone calculate the future by using the present as a starting condition. So determinism is absolutely not a feature of the universe.
.. we either we end up automate everything and become the ultimate slackers
On the contrary.
Just like in the first 18th century (the 20th is so similar I like to call it the 2nd 18th century), easier jobs do not bring more time. Oh they bring more time for a very limited happy few who will show off their happiness (by sending their car to Mars, for example), but for the most of society the pressure to produce just gets harder. Just like with the mechanical revolution, we want handmade quality, but refuse to pay craftsmen.
Their is very little difference between having your products made by a steam-powered machine (that has to be kept going by human operators) or by electric autonomous robots (which have to be maintained by human operators).
That this signifies progress is only partly true. Off course this signifies technical progress, but we can only have human progress if the structure of society evolves with it.
While the trade is commonly painted as a wild west full of mercenaries who sell hacking tools to whoever can afford them, over a dozen well-placed sources described an overlooked section of the industry that focuses on supplying to a select group of democratic governments, rather than authoritarian regimes.
Phew! I'm glad that there are still people who can tell the difference between "democratic governments" and authoritarian regimes, especially in the field of violating basic human rights.
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Shaming pedestrians for crossing safe roads (I assume they are not suicidal) while the president makes himself an all-powerful dictator makes a fine country indeed. I'd rather have a country where corruption is automatically shamed.
The EU actually put data-privacy and retention limits in place.
That is one way of looking at it. It was also the EU who made data retention compulsory in the first place. And they don't punish countries (like the Netherlands) that wipe their behinds on the retention limits.
Yup.
I have a new tag: #idontwantsocialmedia. Now I am going to post this tag everywhere!
What? The U.S. have a privacy watchdog? Well, this is certainly news to me.
I wonder if they will have the notorious V.O.C. mentality.
I think you mistake him for his brother Cornelis. Understandable, as Cornelis seemed to have had the same temper as Donald.
Nor their bosses who yell "We can't sell security! Ship the code now!"
What a monstrous thing is that. There is a reason that helicopters have big main rotors: they are way more efficient than multiple smaller ones. Off course, the small quadcopters can get away with it because they are so small (the Square Cube Law: scaling down an aircraft decreases the weight faster than the wing or rotor surface that holds it in the air).
The only positive thing is that in normal flight it uses wings, so it can glide in case of emergency, but it looks extremely vulnerable during take off and vertical landings, as I cannot image these upward propellers to provide any useful autorotation. If the thing is autonomous, will there be controls in case of emergency? And if not, how can they ever hope to get a permit for these things?
- Sir! there's a missile coming in!
- Fire our Google Enhanced countermeasures, soldier!
(drone plays advertisement before launch)
* * * No Carrier * * *
Does that change the dyeing process?
Or a weed plantation. Or a datacenter. Or a trader in derivatives. Or maybe they stole some stirling engines as well and are generating their own electricity from volcanic heat.
Imagine managing 300 to 400 people who do nothing for eight to 10 hours but to load a mannequin and then with sandpaper on their hands to begin the destruction process to remove the indigo.
Do the lasers still damage the fibres or do they just remove the indigo or even just its colour?
Indigo is a plant chemical that takes a specific chemical reaction to form, and needs special treatment to adhere it to the fibres. The fact that it does not adhere perfectly is what causes the specific worn look on jeans. If the fibres can be kept intact but the indigo selectively removed, you could have a pair of jeans that looks used but also can still be used for a long time.
I suspect there will be a long episode of Sesame Street in China when somebody will go looking for the letter "N".
I was more thinking of the "Clippy of Windows 3.1", the Watson that tried to make Windows errors worse.
... determinism, a fundamental feature of the universe ...
While we may wish for determinism, it has been shown long before that it does not exist.Since it was shown that we can not accurately know both the position of a particle and its speed, it has been proven that predicting the future is impossible because it is impossible to know the present, let alone calculate the future by using the present as a starting condition. So determinism is absolutely not a feature of the universe.
So it's the Aliens now, is it? The story gets more credible by the day...
.. we either we end up automate everything and become the ultimate slackers
On the contrary.
Just like in the first 18th century (the 20th is so similar I like to call it the 2nd 18th century), easier jobs do not bring more time. Oh they bring more time for a very limited happy few who will show off their happiness (by sending their car to Mars, for example), but for the most of society the pressure to produce just gets harder. Just like with the mechanical revolution, we want handmade quality, but refuse to pay craftsmen.
Their is very little difference between having your products made by a steam-powered machine (that has to be kept going by human operators) or by electric autonomous robots (which have to be maintained by human operators).
That this signifies progress is only partly true. Off course this signifies technical progress, but we can only have human progress if the structure of society evolves with it.
none who hold democracy dear
In other words, the European Commission, which holds all the power.
While the trade is commonly painted as a wild west full of mercenaries who sell hacking tools to whoever can afford them, over a dozen well-placed sources described an overlooked section of the industry that focuses on supplying to a select group of democratic governments, rather than authoritarian regimes.
Phew! I'm glad that there are still people who can tell the difference between "democratic governments" and authoritarian regimes, especially in the field of violating basic human rights.
In what way? I think their economy is way more stable than ours.
Every German knows that the fourth phase of water is Dutch tomatoes.
This is called a "koud kunstje" (cold trick = easy trick).
In the firefox add-ons, search for "redirect".
Since when is it news if someone does not use twitter?