Union reaction to occupy. Question the motives all you want; but the association is right out there, and even involves an SEIU local. OK, have a ball guys. AFK for a while. Happy New Year. Lucky '13.
Large portions of your argument are ad hominem so I won't address those portions. Your cited source has obvious bias. Anything that's "self funded" was ultimately derived from taxation. It might be more correct to say, "taxation, with the government as an intermediary", but that's obvious.
AFAICT, the motivation for individuals in PEUs to join OWS (as opposed to the organization itselff, which probably didn't endorse it, but I haven't got a source) was that they identified with it as being part of the Progressive movement.
This is not a troll. Occupy people fall into a few categories. First, there were the sincere people inspired by a Canadian media outlet, the name escapes me. Then within a few days the Public Employee unions moved in and that's the bulk of the movement that persisted for a few months across the country.
If you think PEUs are the 99%, I have a bridge to sell you. They take your taxes here in California and use them to fund six-figure pensions. They fund the campaigns, then sit down at the negotiating table with the people elected in the campaigns they funded. They're the very definition of corruption.
Anyway, that's one block of Occupy. There are a few other fringe groups, actual communists and a few sincere people... but a significant chunk of them are defenders of the status quo masquerading as revolutionaries.
That's not to say that the TEA party is any better. Same shit, different toilet, different organizational backers.
No real revolution takes place in this country until the last PEU chokes on the entrails of the last corporate lobbyist.
They should have Knight Capital on the list. They probably thought it belonged in the finance category as opposed to tech; but it was a tech problem. They also could have put HFT in general on the list, of which Knight is just one example.
This. It jibes perfectly with what Bruce Schneier says about identity being less relevant to security than character.
Trolling is a kind of security problem. Of course you're going to have trolls if you afford ACs the same privileges as regular users. ID is useful, but only to the extent it authenticates the character of the user. Once you do that you can filter to users based on character. The only downside to that is the "echo chamber" effect in which users only listen to what they want and never get challenged. Sometimes I think Slashdot would be better with more moderation types and the ability to filter on mod characteristics (e.g., filter for Funny and turn it into a source of comedy material) then I consider the echo chamber effect and decide it's a bad idea. I think Slashdot has it right (but not perfect), and that's something that keeps me coming back.
This is like saying that my Ferrari beat your Yugo because I pumped more gas into it.
Never mind hunger. What if you feel like you're going to pass out after you run a mile? What if you feel like you're going to fall asleep after two hours at the desk? You find that calories allow you to run 2 miles, or get through 8 hours of work. Alas, there is a side effect. What do you tell the overweight office worker who is in this situation? Quit office work and climb transmission towers?
(In Homer voice) So it's fears you're selling, ay?I'd like a dozen fears please. That costs HOW MUCH??? I'd like one fear please. What? Can I get just a taste? Mmmmmmm.... fear.
The security bars on urban windows are bad enough. Security glass would just ratchet up the "prisoner in my own home" effect that much more. At least the iron bars can be made decorative and almost make you forget the purpose. That wire glass, OTOH, just screams "holding cell" and makes it impossible to appreciate whatever view you might have.
It's not as easy as you think. Any lock that can be opened from the inside can be opened from the outside if you break the glass and reach through the bars. I recall researching the issue and there *are* some locks that have a simple mechanical release further from the window. It's an installation hassle. Anything electronic could break in a fire, so that's out. Anything that's difficult to unlatch through the bars tends to slow you down in an emergency, so that's out. I suppose the government could set some test standards for egress, but that requires money which will go to some consultant who knew somebody, who will charge the city $10 million to say, "Use Acme quick release, they're pretty good". All things considered, I think I got off pretty easy having the city simply tell me to remove the lock.
OK, I looked up the KE of a 50 caliber round (basicly light anti-aircraft gun) and it's 15kJ. I'll have to work backwards to see how large a particle it would take at 0.3c to get that kind of energy. Don't forget to use the relativistic KE equation, which is *not* 1/2 mv^2.
I don't really have the time to do it. It's a bit of a pointless calc too since in our every day world KE from projectile weapons gets transferred to the target. At these velocities the projectile might pass right through the target and only transfer a small fraction of the energy. That's why we need to test the living daylights out of this before we even think about it.
This could lead to some very counter-intuitive designs, such as walls designed to minimized energy transfer rather than absorb energy as we do for non-relativistic impacts. Think self-healing rubber filled aluminum or something rather than Kevlar.
I imagine that the ship would have to have multiple independent life support zones. If impact doesn't explode a zone, then it's a problem we can manage. You just sound an alarm and give people time to evacuate the leaking zone until it can be repaired.
The real problem would be a small swarm of particles that impact multiple zones in such a way that they don't seal. The trip ends not with an explosion, but with the ship full of pinhole leaks and no more zones left to which you can evacuate. As a last ditch effort you don your suits, only for pinholes to appear in them. Oddly, you might even survive such a pinhole right through the heart as long as it doesn't disrupt the electrical pace; but your suit is leaking, your ship is leaking, and you're finished.
After the swarm passes, you'd have a dead ship hurtling through space.
Thinking out all possible debris scenarios and how to mitigate them seems like the biggest problem to me.
Is their study going to take a look at this game?. For those loath to follow the link, it's a google search for "drone cockpit", a game in which you actually do live killing. I understand that some participants have become mentally ill after playing the game.
When I was a kid in the rural south all the doors and windows at our school had bars to keep thieves out.
Keep thieves out, keep fire victims in. When I was getting my apartment approved for rental by regulatory authorities in DC, one of several things done was to remove the lock from the security bars on the back window for this very reason. DC's code for renting apartments was heavily influenced by an incident involving some Georgetown University students who were trapped in a basement apartment during a fire. When it comes to this kind of security, it's entirely possible to put yourself in one kind of danger when defending against another.
let's just make a bunch of incredibly fast scientific probes, say 0.3 c
We should to this for no other reason than to see if it's even possible to detect and evade objects. A little interstellar gas and dust pinging you with that kind of energy might just degrade the outer skin. We can handle that. Anything over a certain size will just explode the craft. IIRC, a paint fleck hit the space shuttle and made a scary pit in the cockpit window one time. That was considerably less than 0.3c. If a frozen bacterium hit your head at 0.3c, I bet it would explode.
Burning a cross on a black man's lawn is free speech, and yet is also a hate crime.
A cross burning isn't speech. It's trespass and vandalism, aside from the fact that it's trespass and vandalism intended to incite fear which makes it a hate crime. Burning a cross on your OWN property is protected speech.
No it isn't, but like many things that have transpired on the WWW, it could have been implemented as an RFC. If it had been, it would be not only a national treasure but an international treasure like the IP protocols, TCP, and any number of other protocols with free specifications that we are free to implement, without the encumberance of patents, copyrights, or trademarks.
If we as a country really feel that much about all this we could purchase a license to the API and have the Library of Congress host the entire FlickR, archive. We'd have to compenstate Yahoo fairly. It's an interesting idea. Sorry though, we spent it all on wars that corporations wanted because selling weapons is profitable. We spent it on drugs that should cost much less, but pharma companies manipulated the FDA so that drugs formerly compounded by pharmacies would now cost 100 times what they once did. Sorry America. Sorry world. We're all tapped out.
Apparently you did your share of pot and other drugs in your youth. Somehow, you avoided getting a criminal record. Please explain to us why giving millions of Black men like yourself a criminal record might not be such a good thing. Please tell us if you think you'd be where you are today if you had gotten busted.
stacked adapters to go from ATX to PS/2, and PS/2 to USB
Ditto. My PS/2 to USB adapter comes with connectors for the keyboard and mouse. The connector for the mouse dangles un-used. I prefer my laptop's trackpad to a map. The keyboard is a vintage Acer with a "fat" enter key and NO WINDOWS KEYS, which I never liked. I understand there are some shortcuts that might be nice with proprietary metakeys, but I never learned them, don't miss them, and get royally peeved when I hit them by accident.
As an added bonus, one of the keyboards has Asian characters along side Roman characters on the key caps. I like the way that looks. I bought a few of these from some guy in Oregon who had old keyboards. It's nice to keep this stuff going instead of just tossing it.
Suddenly, algebra made sense. This happened to me at the perfect time too, right when they were introducing us to algebra. I wonder if I would have done as well without it. The leap from concrete numbers with values to variables that could be anything, that leap of abstraction was facilitated greatly.
Sarcasm and inference are both broken on the Internet. Please fix that.
BTW, I know it can't be fixed and has nothing to do with the Internet. BTW stands for "By the way". Yes, I know that re-stating a common abbreviation is irritating. My sig is a joke. Yes I know the joke isn't funny if I say it's a joke. Yes I know this disclaimer is too long to read. This disclaimer is an object lesson in what I think ought to be one of "the laws" for the Internet, right up there with Godwin. It goes something like this: "if there's something ridiculous to be inferred from what you've typed in a forum, it will be inferred" with a corrolary, "no amount of explanation can prevent such inferences". Furthermore, I did not copy this from Chuck Lorre. Yes I know I'm not as good as Chuck Lorre. Neither are you. Yes I know that you can't Godwin something explicitly, and so on and so forth, ad nauseum until we all explode. No I don't have schizophrenia or live in my parent's basement. You do. Yes I know that's childish. Yes, any attempt to disclaim only leads to more misunderstandings. Thus, one can only conclude that this is a strange game in which the only winning move is not to play. That's a War Games reference. Yes I know you knew that. Yes I know you didn't know that. Yes I'll Google War Games for you. No I won't...
Melted chocolate coming out of flat, squeezable plastic thing would be better than chocolate with strange chemical properties. For troops in the field, have an outer plastic wrapper so that they can put the inner plastic part in their mouth and squeeze out all the product without having to get dust and grime in their mouth. Oh, better yet don't make the inner wrapper plastic. Make it an edible product that's flexible but tasteless. How about gel caps full of chocolate? There would probably be too much gel though, and it might be confused as a medication. Of course there are M&Ms, but the hard shells crack and they still make a mess at high temperatore. I can't believe M&M Mars doesn't make a "battle hardened" version.
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BAK. OK, "commandeered" is subject to interpretation. There's plenty of material out there.
Draw your own conclusions.
Union reaction to occupy. Question the motives all you want; but the association is right out there, and even involves an SEIU local. OK, have a ball guys. AFK for a while. Happy New Year. Lucky '13.
Large portions of your argument are ad hominem so I won't address those portions. Your cited source has obvious bias. Anything that's "self funded" was ultimately derived from taxation. It might be more correct to say, "taxation, with the government as an intermediary", but that's obvious.
AFAICT, the motivation for individuals in PEUs to join OWS (as opposed to the organization itselff, which probably didn't endorse it, but I haven't got a source) was that they identified with it as being part of the Progressive movement.
This is not a troll. Occupy people fall into a few categories. First, there were the sincere people inspired by a Canadian media outlet, the name escapes me. Then within a few days the Public Employee unions moved in and that's the bulk of the movement that persisted for a few months across the country.
If you think PEUs are the 99%, I have a bridge to sell you. They take your taxes here in California and use them to fund six-figure pensions. They fund the campaigns, then sit down at the negotiating table with the people elected in the campaigns they funded. They're the very definition of corruption.
Anyway, that's one block of Occupy. There are a few other fringe groups, actual communists and a few sincere people... but a significant chunk of them are defenders of the status quo masquerading as revolutionaries.
That's not to say that the TEA party is any better. Same shit, different toilet, different organizational backers.
No real revolution takes place in this country until the last PEU chokes on the entrails of the last corporate lobbyist.
They should have Knight Capital on the list. They probably thought it belonged in the finance category as opposed to tech; but it was a tech problem. They also could have put HFT in general on the list, of which Knight is just one example.
This. It jibes perfectly with what Bruce Schneier says about identity being less relevant to security than character.
Trolling is a kind of security problem. Of course you're going to have trolls if you afford ACs the same privileges as regular users. ID is useful, but only to the extent it authenticates the character of the user. Once you do that you can filter to users based on character. The only downside to that is the "echo chamber" effect in which users only listen to what they want and never get challenged. Sometimes I think Slashdot would be better with more moderation types and the ability to filter on mod characteristics (e.g., filter for Funny and turn it into a source of comedy material) then I consider the echo chamber effect and decide it's a bad idea. I think Slashdot has it right (but not perfect), and that's something that keeps me coming back.
This is like saying that my Ferrari beat your Yugo because I pumped more gas into it.
Never mind hunger. What if you feel like you're going to pass out after you run a mile? What if you feel like you're going to fall asleep after two hours at the desk? You find that calories allow you to run 2 miles, or get through 8 hours of work. Alas, there is a side effect. What do you tell the overweight office worker who is in this situation? Quit office work and climb transmission towers?
(In Homer voice) So it's fears you're selling, ay?I'd like a dozen fears please. That costs HOW MUCH??? I'd like one fear please. What? Can I get just a taste? Mmmmmmm.... fear.
The security bars on urban windows are bad enough. Security glass would just ratchet up the "prisoner in my own home" effect that much more. At least the iron bars can be made decorative and almost make you forget the purpose. That wire glass, OTOH, just screams "holding cell" and makes it impossible to appreciate whatever view you might have.
It's not as easy as you think. Any lock that can be opened from the inside can be opened from the outside if you break the glass and reach through the bars. I recall researching the issue and there *are* some locks that have a simple mechanical release further from the window. It's an installation hassle. Anything electronic could break in a fire, so that's out. Anything that's difficult to unlatch through the bars tends to slow you down in an emergency, so that's out. I suppose the government could set some test standards for egress, but that requires money which will go to some consultant who knew somebody, who will charge the city $10 million to say, "Use Acme quick release, they're pretty good". All things considered, I think I got off pretty easy having the city simply tell me to remove the lock.
OK, I looked up the KE of a 50 caliber round (basicly light anti-aircraft gun) and it's 15kJ. I'll have to work backwards to see how large a particle it would take at 0.3c to get that kind of energy. Don't forget to use the relativistic KE equation, which is *not* 1/2 mv^2.
I don't really have the time to do it. It's a bit of a pointless calc too since in our every day world KE from projectile weapons gets transferred to the target. At these velocities the projectile might pass right through the target and only transfer a small fraction of the energy. That's why we need to test the living daylights out of this before we even think about it.
This could lead to some very counter-intuitive designs, such as walls designed to minimized energy transfer rather than absorb energy as we do for non-relativistic impacts. Think self-healing rubber filled aluminum or something rather than Kevlar.
I imagine that the ship would have to have multiple independent life support zones. If impact doesn't explode a zone, then it's a problem we can manage. You just sound an alarm and give people time to evacuate the leaking zone until it can be repaired.
The real problem would be a small swarm of particles that impact multiple zones in such a way that they don't seal. The trip ends not with an explosion, but with the ship full of pinhole leaks and no more zones left to which you can evacuate. As a last ditch effort you don your suits, only for pinholes to appear in them. Oddly, you might even survive such a pinhole right through the heart as long as it doesn't disrupt the electrical pace; but your suit is leaking, your ship is leaking, and you're finished.
After the swarm passes, you'd have a dead ship hurtling through space.
Thinking out all possible debris scenarios and how to mitigate them seems like the biggest problem to me.
Is their study going to take a look at this game?. For those loath to follow the link, it's a google search for "drone cockpit", a game in which you actually do live killing. I understand that some participants have become mentally ill after playing the game.
When I was a kid in the rural south all the doors and windows at our school had bars to keep thieves out.
Keep thieves out, keep fire victims in. When I was getting my apartment approved for rental by regulatory authorities in DC, one of several things done was to remove the lock from the security bars on the back window for this very reason. DC's code for renting apartments was heavily influenced by an incident involving some Georgetown University students who were trapped in a basement apartment during a fire. When it comes to this kind of security, it's entirely possible to put yourself in one kind of danger when defending against another.
let's just make a bunch of incredibly fast scientific probes, say 0.3 c
We should to this for no other reason than to see if it's even possible to detect and evade objects. A little interstellar gas and dust pinging you with that kind of energy might just degrade the outer skin. We can handle that. Anything over a certain size will just explode the craft. IIRC, a paint fleck hit the space shuttle and made a scary pit in the cockpit window one time. That was considerably less than 0.3c. If a frozen bacterium hit your head at 0.3c, I bet it would explode.
bust W. for selling drugs and keep him from becoming president
Oh great, Bryan and Stewie just showed up and told you not to do that. Then another Bryan and Stewie showed up...
TODO...
Burning a cross on a black man's lawn is free speech, and yet is also a hate crime.
A cross burning isn't speech. It's trespass and vandalism, aside from the fact that it's trespass and vandalism intended to incite fear which makes it a hate crime. Burning a cross on your OWN property is protected speech.
No it isn't, but like many things that have transpired on the WWW, it could have been implemented as an RFC. If it had been, it would be not only a national treasure but an international treasure like the IP protocols, TCP, and any number of other protocols with free specifications that we are free to implement, without the encumberance of patents, copyrights, or trademarks.
If we as a country really feel that much about all this we could purchase a license to the API and have the Library of Congress host the entire FlickR, archive. We'd have to compenstate Yahoo fairly. It's an interesting idea. Sorry though, we spent it all on wars that corporations wanted because selling weapons is profitable. We spent it on drugs that should cost much less, but pharma companies manipulated the FDA so that drugs formerly compounded by pharmacies would now cost 100 times what they once did. Sorry America. Sorry world. We're all tapped out.
Dear Mr. President,
Apparently you did your share of pot and other drugs in your youth. Somehow, you avoided getting a criminal record. Please explain to us why giving millions of Black men like yourself a criminal record might not be such a good thing. Please tell us if you think you'd be where you are today if you had gotten busted.
Sincerely,
A lot of us who are tired of wars on nouns.
This is essentially a vast wasteland repeat, updated for the 21st century.
how much money are they making from the Steamboat Mickey cartoons? Does anyone know?
Since it's on YouTube , they're at least getting however much ad revenue it generated from the currently 1,537,753 views.
stacked adapters to go from ATX to PS/2, and PS/2 to USB
Ditto. My PS/2 to USB adapter comes with connectors for the keyboard and mouse. The connector for the mouse dangles un-used. I prefer my laptop's trackpad to a map. The keyboard is a vintage Acer with a "fat" enter key and NO WINDOWS KEYS, which I never liked. I understand there are some shortcuts that might be nice with proprietary metakeys, but I never learned them, don't miss them, and get royally peeved when I hit them by accident.
As an added bonus, one of the keyboards has Asian characters along side Roman characters on the key caps. I like the way that looks. I bought a few of these from some guy in Oregon who had old keyboards. It's nice to keep this stuff going instead of just tossing it.
Even more powerful than that was FOR X=...
Suddenly, algebra made sense. This happened to me at the perfect time too, right when they were introducing us to algebra. I wonder if I would have done as well without it. The leap from concrete numbers with values to variables that could be anything, that leap of abstraction was facilitated greatly.
Sarcasm and inference are both broken on the Internet. Please fix that.
BTW, I know it can't be fixed and has nothing to do with the Internet. BTW stands for "By the way". Yes, I know that re-stating a common abbreviation is irritating. My sig is a joke. Yes I know the joke isn't funny if I say it's a joke. Yes I know this disclaimer is too long to read. This disclaimer is an object lesson in what I think ought to be one of "the laws" for the Internet, right up there with Godwin. It goes something like this: "if there's something ridiculous to be inferred from what you've typed in a forum, it will be inferred" with a corrolary, "no amount of explanation can prevent such inferences". Furthermore, I did not copy this from Chuck Lorre. Yes I know I'm not as good as Chuck Lorre. Neither are you. Yes I know that you can't Godwin something explicitly, and so on and so forth, ad nauseum until we all explode. No I don't have schizophrenia or live in my parent's basement. You do. Yes I know that's childish. Yes, any attempt to disclaim only leads to more misunderstandings. Thus, one can only conclude that this is a strange game in which the only winning move is not to play. That's a War Games reference. Yes I know you knew that. Yes I know you didn't know that. Yes I'll Google War Games for you. No I won't...
Melted chocolate coming out of flat, squeezable plastic thing would be better than chocolate with strange chemical properties. For troops in the field, have an outer plastic wrapper so that they can put the inner plastic part in their mouth and squeeze out all the product without having to get dust and grime in their mouth. Oh, better yet don't make the inner wrapper plastic. Make it an edible product that's flexible but tasteless. How about gel caps full of chocolate? There would probably be too much gel though, and it might be confused as a medication. Of course there are M&Ms, but the hard shells crack and they still make a mess at high temperatore. I can't believe M&M Mars doesn't make a "battle hardened" version.