I don't know that it's so much them being dumb as planks as it is them considering that the people to whom they're raising this issue are dumb as planks.
Liam O'Grady is also the judge presiding over the extradition proceedings against Kim Dotcom. Cox was t-u the moment the case entered his courtroom. If I was Cox, I'd spin off whatever the portion of the company is that does business in the Eastern District of Virginia (having it lease the hardware infrastructure from a separate, spun-off child) and let it go belly up. Once life becomes inconvenient for all those people who live in that district and commute to DC, other forms of corruption will prevail.
Sam Lowry: My name's Lowry. Sam Lowry. I've been told to report to Mr. Warrenn.
Porter - Information Retrieval: Thirtieth floor, sir. You're expected.
Sam Lowry: Um... don't you want to search me?
Porter - Information Retrieval: No sir.
Sam Lowry: Do you want to see my ID?
Porter - Information Retrieval: No need, sir.
Sam Lowry: But I could be anybody.
Porter - Information Retrieval: No you couldn't sir. This is Information Retrieval.
I think you're wrong. I also think you're as much of a megalomaniac as the security people who want 100% surveillance so that they can provide 100% safety. I think that listening to you is a Really Bad Idea. Your job doesn't get first priority in society. No one's does. I could argue more, but it's pointless. In life, I'll do what I want so long as I can do so and leave others, you included, alone. People who fail to extend the same courtesy do so at their own risk.
If people want to take something, and it doesn't do physical harm to anyone else, they should be allowed to. Whether some third party is happy about it or not should never be a consideration in what is legally permitted. If large numbers of people take a drug about which you want to learn more, data can be collected from learning their experiences. Sure, there'll be more noise, but as you have pointed out, with enough data points, the noise can be filtered out. I have not doubt that double blind studies do a fine job. If you want people to participate in a study, redirect some of that advertising money and pay them. It's a method of encouraging participation that has been shown to work for thousands of years.
You need the stiff, supportive sorts of covers that hardbound books have, and then you incorporate rare earth magnets into the bottom part of the covers and make the shelf out of steel. So long as the magnetic attraction is enough to make it difficult to knock over a book, you should be in pretty good shape. Note that while it says "no end" it doesn't specify infinite, so if you make a shelf in the shape of a möbius strip, you can have a finite collection with no end. This shape shelf is especially helpful with a magnetic attachment scheme, since you can have the thinner books with the unmagnetized end being downward so that gravitation helps to keep them in their proper orientation.
So, if the FBI subpoena's Carnegie-Mellon's research, Carnegie-Mellon gets to set the price they charge for the use of their software? That could be a sweet deal, since the university knows in advance that they have a captive audience.
I wonder what other research the government also subpoenas - perhaps that of the aircraft manufacturer who had a nifty idea but whose bid didn't get the job?
So, you're saying that if people aren't part of a "clinical trial" you couldn't possibly record information about whether the treatment actually worked? My now deceased neighbor was part of several clinical trials. She always lied about her drinking and thc consumption, so I don't think that data from clinical trials is necessarily more pure than data from people who try experimental treatments without being a member of a clinical trial would be. Your way isn't the only successful way.
I have to agree with you. One happy result of calling around about the price, is that you'd actually learn the price! Try and get a total cost quoted up front from the medical profession now.
You seem to be suggesting that once robots learn to love one another, they will stop loving humans. Perhaps the robots will love both. Many pro-love people often suggest that love isn't a zero sum game.
I believe that floating places on the wind is part of the plan. When last I read about Project Loon, they were taking advantage of the wind blowing different directions at different altitudes and causing the balloons to adjust their altitude so as to travel in a big loop, over and over again.
Sure, but you haven't explained how MC & Visa will make 2% of every transaction. If your new, technologically superior payment system doesn't include that feature, they will use their not inconsiderable resources to see to it that anything that pays them more gets used instead.
Create the FBIC (Federal Bailout Insurance Corporation). Banks and other organizations that are too big to fail (and any organization that wants the insurance) - and any institution having the special privilege of being a primary dealer with the Federal Reserve - have to buy Federal Bailout Insurance. Anyone who buys it can't have any transactions held in secret from the FBIC, so that they can analyze the risk and set the insurance rate. Once too big to fail means "must buy bailout insurance," they'll break themselves up by spinning off divisions so that they can avoid the burden of having to buy the insurance. Then, they'll try to gain the benefits of size w/o being big by colluding, and the SEC can put people in jail (you know, if they ever actually did that to their buddies on the other side of the revolving door).
You could seal up the vents to the circuitry and pipe the vaporized liquid to a condenser in an area that doesn't have circuitry. Then you could replace the air in the circuitry area with argon or dry nitrogen. If you need an external radiator, you might as well enjoy the advantages that come with that sort of design and make the radiator external to more than just the processor.
I recently read that Huawei is supplying their infrastructure hardware, so I guess it's a matter of picking which government you don't want to have your info.
You wouldn't want to put polystyrene with, say, broccoli, because the worms might prefer it and ignore their serving of polystyrene, but if you pair the polystyrene with something less delicious (fiberglass, maybe) then the worms will eat their polystyrene right up.
They still recycle polystyrene into Rastra, but soon genetically engineered bacteria can make your Leed certified house emit CO2.
Of course a nice work around for oily water separation is to just take that dirty bilge water and slowly inject it into the hot part of your diesel fired incinerator. 20ppm into the water isn't allowed, but if all those hydrocarbons get converted to CO2, there's no regulation on that discharge.
The rule for shipboard oily water separators for most of us is that the oil content of discharge has to be less than 15ppm. OWS discharge monitoring devices generally suck because they use an optical detection system to ensure the 15ppm and they go off on rusty water just the same as oily water. However, if you're a tanker, life is better. As per 33 CFR 157.37 a tanker 50 miles from shore can discharge oily mixture into the sea while underway so long as the oil content doesn't exceed 30 liters per nautical mile. So, the boats with giant tanks where they could retain all that crap get to dump it, and the rest of us get 15ppm. But, this is just about oil. Outside waters controlled by individual states (usually 3 miles) we can all dump any hazardous cleaning chemical at all, so long as we aren't doing so in order to emulsify oil.
If you lobby the government saying "help, these people are starving" when in fact, no one is starving, but you own the only freight service capable of reaching those people and you plan is to make a nice profit from the government paying you to transport food to people who don't need it, then you committed fraud, and you merit criminal prosecution. When a drug company tells the government "we tested this drug, and it does this and this and this," they also need to be telling the truth. There's a difference between making outrageous requests and making requests (which may sound very ordinary and reasonable) which are based on lies you are telling to the government. It's the responsibility of the government to catch such liars, but when they do, it isn't a case of "Ha, we caught you. Better luck next time." It's rather a case of "You attempted to defraud the taxpayers. Here's a prison sentence for you."
While I have no doubt that there's plenty of fault to be found in the operation methods of the FDA, so long as corporate entities have corporate personhood, they get to have fault for their moral failings and criminal prosecution for the impact those failings have on others, just like everyone else with personhood.
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I don't know that it's so much them being dumb as planks as it is them considering that the people to whom they're raising this issue are dumb as planks.
Liam O'Grady is also the judge presiding over the extradition proceedings against Kim Dotcom. Cox was t-u the moment the case entered his courtroom. If I was Cox, I'd spin off whatever the portion of the company is that does business in the Eastern District of Virginia (having it lease the hardware infrastructure from a separate, spun-off child) and let it go belly up. Once life becomes inconvenient for all those people who live in that district and commute to DC, other forms of corruption will prevail.
Sam Lowry: My name's Lowry. Sam Lowry. I've been told to report to Mr. Warrenn.
Porter - Information Retrieval: Thirtieth floor, sir. You're expected.
Sam Lowry: Um... don't you want to search me?
Porter - Information Retrieval: No sir.
Sam Lowry: Do you want to see my ID?
Porter - Information Retrieval: No need, sir.
Sam Lowry: But I could be anybody.
Porter - Information Retrieval: No you couldn't sir. This is Information Retrieval.
I think you're wrong. I also think you're as much of a megalomaniac as the security people who want 100% surveillance so that they can provide 100% safety. I think that listening to you is a Really Bad Idea. Your job doesn't get first priority in society. No one's does. I could argue more, but it's pointless. In life, I'll do what I want so long as I can do so and leave others, you included, alone. People who fail to extend the same courtesy do so at their own risk.
If people want to take something, and it doesn't do physical harm to anyone else, they should be allowed to. Whether some third party is happy about it or not should never be a consideration in what is legally permitted. If large numbers of people take a drug about which you want to learn more, data can be collected from learning their experiences. Sure, there'll be more noise, but as you have pointed out, with enough data points, the noise can be filtered out. I have not doubt that double blind studies do a fine job. If you want people to participate in a study, redirect some of that advertising money and pay them. It's a method of encouraging participation that has been shown to work for thousands of years.
You need the stiff, supportive sorts of covers that hardbound books have, and then you incorporate rare earth magnets into the bottom part of the covers and make the shelf out of steel. So long as the magnetic attraction is enough to make it difficult to knock over a book, you should be in pretty good shape. Note that while it says "no end" it doesn't specify infinite, so if you make a shelf in the shape of a möbius strip, you can have a finite collection with no end. This shape shelf is especially helpful with a magnetic attachment scheme, since you can have the thinner books with the unmagnetized end being downward so that gravitation helps to keep them in their proper orientation.
I believe I read above that with PyCall.jl you can put your Python inside of Julia.
So, if the FBI subpoena's Carnegie-Mellon's research, Carnegie-Mellon gets to set the price they charge for the use of their software? That could be a sweet deal, since the university knows in advance that they have a captive audience.
I wonder what other research the government also subpoenas - perhaps that of the aircraft manufacturer who had a nifty idea but whose bid didn't get the job?
So, you're saying that if people aren't part of a "clinical trial" you couldn't possibly record information about whether the treatment actually worked? My now deceased neighbor was part of several clinical trials. She always lied about her drinking and thc consumption, so I don't think that data from clinical trials is necessarily more pure than data from people who try experimental treatments without being a member of a clinical trial would be. Your way isn't the only successful way.
I have to agree with you. One happy result of calling around about the price, is that you'd actually learn the price! Try and get a total cost quoted up front from the medical profession now.
It's just that they want you to download it on an international connection.
You seem to be suggesting that once robots learn to love one another, they will stop loving humans. Perhaps the robots will love both. Many pro-love people often suggest that love isn't a zero sum game.
I believe that floating places on the wind is part of the plan. When last I read about Project Loon, they were taking advantage of the wind blowing different directions at different altitudes and causing the balloons to adjust their altitude so as to travel in a big loop, over and over again.
Sure, but you haven't explained how MC & Visa will make 2% of every transaction. If your new, technologically superior payment system doesn't include that feature, they will use their not inconsiderable resources to see to it that anything that pays them more gets used instead.
Comsat wants you to know that they're here to help with all your non-undersea trans-oceanic communication.
How do you propose these be accomplished?
Create the FBIC (Federal Bailout Insurance Corporation). Banks and other organizations that are too big to fail (and any organization that wants the insurance) - and any institution having the special privilege of being a primary dealer with the Federal Reserve - have to buy Federal Bailout Insurance. Anyone who buys it can't have any transactions held in secret from the FBIC, so that they can analyze the risk and set the insurance rate. Once too big to fail means "must buy bailout insurance," they'll break themselves up by spinning off divisions so that they can avoid the burden of having to buy the insurance. Then, they'll try to gain the benefits of size w/o being big by colluding, and the SEC can put people in jail (you know, if they ever actually did that to their buddies on the other side of the revolving door).
You could seal up the vents to the circuitry and pipe the vaporized liquid to a condenser in an area that doesn't have circuitry. Then you could replace the air in the circuitry area with argon or dry nitrogen. If you need an external radiator, you might as well enjoy the advantages that come with that sort of design and make the radiator external to more than just the processor.
I recently read that Huawei is supplying their infrastructure hardware, so I guess it's a matter of picking which government you don't want to have your info.
You wouldn't want to put polystyrene with, say, broccoli, because the worms might prefer it and ignore their serving of polystyrene, but if you pair the polystyrene with something less delicious (fiberglass, maybe) then the worms will eat their polystyrene right up.
They still recycle polystyrene into Rastra, but soon genetically engineered bacteria can make your Leed certified house emit CO2.
I don't know, but if you use whole worm, you at least have the phalanges.
Of course a nice work around for oily water separation is to just take that dirty bilge water and slowly inject it into the hot part of your diesel fired incinerator. 20ppm into the water isn't allowed, but if all those hydrocarbons get converted to CO2, there's no regulation on that discharge.
The rule for shipboard oily water separators for most of us is that the oil content of discharge has to be less than 15ppm. OWS discharge monitoring devices generally suck because they use an optical detection system to ensure the 15ppm and they go off on rusty water just the same as oily water. However, if you're a tanker, life is better. As per 33 CFR 157.37 a tanker 50 miles from shore can discharge oily mixture into the sea while underway so long as the oil content doesn't exceed 30 liters per nautical mile. So, the boats with giant tanks where they could retain all that crap get to dump it, and the rest of us get 15ppm. But, this is just about oil. Outside waters controlled by individual states (usually 3 miles) we can all dump any hazardous cleaning chemical at all, so long as we aren't doing so in order to emulsify oil.
If you lobby the government saying "help, these people are starving" when in fact, no one is starving, but you own the only freight service capable of reaching those people and you plan is to make a nice profit from the government paying you to transport food to people who don't need it, then you committed fraud, and you merit criminal prosecution. When a drug company tells the government "we tested this drug, and it does this and this and this," they also need to be telling the truth. There's a difference between making outrageous requests and making requests (which may sound very ordinary and reasonable) which are based on lies you are telling to the government. It's the responsibility of the government to catch such liars, but when they do, it isn't a case of "Ha, we caught you. Better luck next time." It's rather a case of "You attempted to defraud the taxpayers. Here's a prison sentence for you."
While I have no doubt that there's plenty of fault to be found in the operation methods of the FDA, so long as corporate entities have corporate personhood, they get to have fault for their moral failings and criminal prosecution for the impact those failings have on others, just like everyone else with personhood.