That's nice, but in February the Supreme Court explicitly ruled about dog searches, "tough shit, the searches are legally admissible, we believe cops more than we believe you".
"More importantly, the restaurant is now more productive, the labour market has more surplus so it may be cheaper for other businesses to hire labour, and that's great."
So to restate your point: More people will be out of work and at risk for being homeless and hungry. I do agree except for the latter point ("and that's great"). I think you've nicely highlighted how technology advancement really must be coupled with increasing socialism, so that technology benefits everyone, or else a nightmarish dystopia for most people will be the end result.
"I don't know how large his company is; but behind every corporate veil, there is some asshole making the decisions."
It's even better than that. The guy's lawyer has expressly stated that the libel case is on behalf of him personally, and that the company is NOT part of the case.
"I act for Mr Kirby Kearns, the Claimant in the above libel action and am responding to the email you sent to a company of which he is a Director – the company is not a party to the action."
As communicated to Popehat -- http://www.popehat.com/2013/04/15/in-which-a-london-solicitor-threatens-me/
"Don't do obvious stuff like use cellphones in the operation."
CBS News tonight:
"[CBS News correspondent Bob] Orr said authorities have video of a man in a black jacket on a cell phone, wearing a gray hoodie and a white baseball cap backwards placing a black bag at the second bomb site outside of the Forum restaurant on Boylston Street and then leaving the area before that explosion. Orr said the man was on the phone at the second bomb site when the first bomb exploded. Orr said the FBI determined the time the man was on his cell phone, then went back and scanned all the calls made in the area to track who they wanted to talk to."
With this kind of "No Expectation of Privacy" thing that comes up (re: emails, phones messages, etc.) -- Hypothetically, what if someone did a scientific survey of U.S. residents and asked: "Do you expect that your stored email messages are private from the government? Do expect that the text messages stored in your phone are private from the government?". Then would there be any possibility that the results of such a survey would be usable in a future court case to knock down such foolishness?
As I understand it, prior issues #1-11 with various explicit heterosexual encounters are still available at Apple. Only issue #12 with minimal gay sex has been banned/removed.
For god's sake, you don't even know how to SPELL "censor". I mean, look it up in a dictionary; it's not restricted to governments. - True statement: "The First Amendment only applies to the government." - False statement: "Censorship is something only government can do."
Privately-owned broadcast television companies and publishing houses have in-house staff who function as censors. http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2010/07/how-to-get-back-at-network-censor.html
Okay, let's go for some information from a non-cartoon propaganda source. First of all, India's experimental 500MWe reactor will definitely not be going online this year. It has exceeded the sales pitch for time and money by a factor of 2, and still counting:
The Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) is a 500MWe fast breeder nuclear reactor presently being constructed in Kalpakkam, India.[1] The Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) is responsible for the design of this reactor. As of 2007 the reactor was expected to begin functioning in 2010.[2] As of April 2011, it was expected to be commissioned in 2012.[3]As of July 2012, it was expected to begin operations in 2013. As of February 2013, it was expected to begin operations in September 2014.[4] Total costs, originally estimated at 3500 crore (35 billion) Rupees are now estimated at 5,677 crore (56 billion) Rs.
Secondly, this reactor does NOT use a thorium fuel cycle. "It will make use of MOX fuel, a mixture of PuO2 and UO2." (same link above). Rather, what it does is OUTPUT processed thorium that can be used to jump-start a later, hypothetical, thorium-based reactor. In other words: The current project is just "Stage II" in India's 3-stage nuclear program, which has taken since the 1950's to even get to this point. Stage III is now hoped to be a reality maybe around 2050:
According to replies given in Q&A in the Indian Parliament on two separate occasions, 19 August 2010 and 21 March 2012, large scale thorium deployment is only to be expected "3 – 4 decades after the commercial operation of fast breeder reactors with short doubling time".[66][31] Full exploitation of India’s domestic thorium reserves will likely not occur until after the year 2050.[67]
"The judge agreed with McCracken’s harsh assessment. He sentenced Anaya to 292 months in federal prison—more than 24 years—with no possibility of parole. Curtis Crow and Cesar Bonilla Montiel, the men at the top of the organization, received sentences half that length."
Just to be clear -- the article doesn't reveal the 24-year sentence until almost the very end. Part of the problem is, as usual (see Aaron Swartz) unchecked prosecutors piling on crazy charges to force a plea bargain, and one person who truly believes they didn't do anything wrong, and refuses to take it for principle's sake. End result: epic miscarriage of justice.
Here is a citation; below is the definition "score". Note that the loose usage of "a large amount or number of something" is a sub-part under the meaning of "twenty" (#2); that and the example show that the meaning is "about", or within an order-of-magnitude, of twenty. Only the stupidest of stupid people would say something like "Mercury is dozens of miles away"; it's uninformative, just like your ignorant usage of "score". I challenge you to come up with a prominent example of anyone using the word "scores" to mean "hundreds of thousands". Seriously, ask an English teacher and stop advertising your ignorance.
1the number of points, goals, runs, etc., achieved in a game by a team or an individual:the final score was 25-16 in favor of Washington
informal an act of gaining a point, goal, or run in a game.
a rating or grade, such as a mark achieved in a test:an IQ score of 161
(the score) informal the state of affairs; the real facts about the present situation:“Hey, what’s the score here, what’s goin' on?”
informal an act of buying illegal drugs.
informal the proceeds of a crime.
2 (plural same) a group or set of twenty or about twenty:a score of men lost their lives in the battle Doyle’s success brought imitators by the score
(scores of) a large amount or number of something:he sent scores of enthusiastic letters to friends
3a written representation of a musical composition showing all the vocal and instrumental parts arranged one below the other.
the music composed for a movie or play.
4a notch or line cut or scratched into a surface.
historical a running account kept by marks against a customer’s name, typically in a tavern.
"This seems more 'urban ledgend' / paranoia then real..."
I agree. Based on experience with my students in college classes, where the rule is that phones must be shut off (especially on exams), many if not a majority of people are confused about when a phone is really off versus when it is just in standby. I get a lot of students who claim a phone was off when it was ringing, or that they absolutely believe it's impossible to really shut the phone off. (Even in the face being penalized multiple times on a test -- once I had a guy turn around and just throw his phone into the hallway after it rang the third time and he couldn't stop it.)
"Try setting your alarm and turning your phone off."
Great experiment -- I just did this, turned it off, and when the time passed, NO alarm or sound occurred. For a control, I did the same thing and just put it in standby -- then the alarm did sound as expected. This is on a Virgin Mobile LG Rumor Touch.
I find that a lot of people are confused about when a phone is really off versus when it is just in standby.
No, one would have to be embarrassingly ignorant to not know that "score" means "twenty". And no, it does not get used for arbitrarily large numbers, any more than one would say that Bill Gates has made "thousands of dollars". That's just flat-out incorrect and stupid usage.
"If it had a measurable effect on tourist numbers or very large numbers of Americans started to reject it then something might happen. If your rail network didn't suck so much one of the companies could run an advertising campaign along the lines of "Don't like getting your balls checked for explosives or your children sexually assaulted in public? Take the train!""
The only problem with that is the HSA/TSA is already chomping at the bit to roll out checks on trains, buses, and highways (lready spot-tested them in places). An aggressive ad campaign like that would be painting a bullseye on oneself, attract HSA scrutiny, and likely provide fodder for the next time they make their case in Congress ("This bus/train company is a massive security risk, and in fact advertises itself to criminals and terrorists.") So a fairly large business, under heavy federal regulation like that (consider the 26 or so budget bus lines from Boston to New York shut down in the last year), would likely have to be more diplomatic (consider also the various big tech companies that tried to go without lobbyists for the early part of their existence).
"The TSA consists of a bunch of mindless idiots following stupid rules."
I think you're being too generous in the "following rules" part. This kind of corrupt, useless police-state bureaucracy is pretty transparently set up to allow idiots, too dumb to follow actual procedures, to act in an arbitrary and abusive manner, and then cover it up afterward with a sheen of supposed rulemaking (if only secretive and confidential, unstated rules). This article is a pretty good example of that -- the TSA has obviously broken the law multiple times for this one traveler.
Do you know that a "score" is the same as "twenty"? I feel like you either (a) didn't know that, (b) are making some kind of joke, or (c) estimating a very low number for a reason I can't detect.
That is: "scores of dead", for example 2-10 score, would imply between 40 and 200 dead or so. Usually when the U.S. goes to war there are thousands or hundreds of thousands dead, which is really a terrible thing.
"It seems to me that the North Korean leadership has just spent all of its rhetorical ammo. If the next thing out of Kim's mouth isn't a launch code and an authorization to launch a nuclear tipped missile he's just ruined his credibility."
Well, note that this is all going on during the annual U.S.-South Korea military exercises, which are scheduled to end in April (seem to be longer than prior years). Prediction: When the exercises end, Kim will announce that he was victorious in this announced war at turning away Americans from invading North Korea.
So by changing the subject from sample size (as per your great-grandparent post), it seems like we agree that you were just bullshitting us on your knowledge of statistical methods. And with your new attempt, you don't even attempt any citations. You are just continuing with more and different bullshit.
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That's nice, but in February the Supreme Court explicitly ruled about dog searches, "tough shit, the searches are legally admissible, we believe cops more than we believe you".
http://reason.com/blog/2013/02/19/scotus-approves-search-warrants-issued-b
Maybe it's like Nostradamus: make 1,000 predictions and 1 of them is right. If you can't figure out which one, that's your problem.
I find that telling capitalist proselytizers that they're actually restating Marx drives them wild.
"More importantly, the restaurant is now more productive, the labour market has more surplus so it may be cheaper for other businesses to hire labour, and that's great."
So to restate your point: More people will be out of work and at risk for being homeless and hungry. I do agree except for the latter point ("and that's great"). I think you've nicely highlighted how technology advancement really must be coupled with increasing socialism, so that technology benefits everyone, or else a nightmarish dystopia for most people will be the end result.
"How can we ensure a quality life for everyone now that we know machines can do a lot of the work?"
Fewer humans?
"I don't know how large his company is; but behind every corporate veil, there is some asshole making the decisions."
It's even better than that. The guy's lawyer has expressly stated that the libel case is on behalf of him personally, and that the company is NOT part of the case.
"I act for Mr Kirby Kearns, the Claimant in the above libel action and am responding to the email you sent to a company of which he is a Director – the company is not a party to the action."
As communicated to Popehat -- http://www.popehat.com/2013/04/15/in-which-a-london-solicitor-threatens-me/
"Don't do obvious stuff like use cellphones in the operation."
CBS News tonight:
"[CBS News correspondent Bob] Orr said authorities have video of a man in a black jacket on a cell phone, wearing a gray hoodie and a white baseball cap backwards placing a black bag at the second bomb site outside of the Forum restaurant on Boylston Street and then leaving the area before that explosion. Orr said the man was on the phone at the second bomb site when the first bomb exploded. Orr said the FBI determined the time the man was on his cell phone, then went back and scanned all the calls made in the area to track who they wanted to talk to."
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/04/17/cnn-boston-marathon-bombings-suspect-identified-in-surveillance-video/
For I have been looking for one, lo, these past 27 years.
"Sample of 162 in 9.5 Million"
This is the dumbest goddamn thing you can say about statistics.
With this kind of "No Expectation of Privacy" thing that comes up (re: emails, phones messages, etc.) -- Hypothetically, what if someone did a scientific survey of U.S. residents and asked: "Do you expect that your stored email messages are private from the government? Do expect that the text messages stored in your phone are private from the government?". Then would there be any possibility that the results of such a survey would be usable in a future court case to knock down such foolishness?
As I understand it, prior issues #1-11 with various explicit heterosexual encounters are still available at Apple. Only issue #12 with minimal gay sex has been banned/removed.
Your neanderthal homophobia is showing.
"Only governments can sensor."
For god's sake, you don't even know how to SPELL "censor". I mean, look it up in a dictionary; it's not restricted to governments.
- True statement: "The First Amendment only applies to the government."
- False statement: "Censorship is something only government can do."
Privately-owned broadcast television companies and publishing houses have in-house staff who function as censors.
http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2010/07/how-to-get-back-at-network-censor.html
Okay, let's go for some information from a non-cartoon propaganda source. First of all, India's experimental 500MWe reactor will definitely not be going online this year. It has exceeded the sales pitch for time and money by a factor of 2, and still counting:
The Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) is a 500MWe fast breeder nuclear reactor presently being constructed in Kalpakkam, India.[1] The Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) is responsible for the design of this reactor. As of 2007 the reactor was expected to begin functioning in 2010.[2] As of April 2011, it was expected to be commissioned in 2012.[3]As of July 2012, it was expected to begin operations in 2013. As of February 2013, it was expected to begin operations in September 2014.[4] Total costs, originally estimated at 3500 crore (35 billion) Rupees are now estimated at 5,677 crore (56 billion) Rs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype_fast_breeder_reactor
Secondly, this reactor does NOT use a thorium fuel cycle. "It will make use of MOX fuel, a mixture of PuO2 and UO2." (same link above). Rather, what it does is OUTPUT processed thorium that can be used to jump-start a later, hypothetical, thorium-based reactor. In other words: The current project is just "Stage II" in India's 3-stage nuclear program, which has taken since the 1950's to even get to this point. Stage III is now hoped to be a reality maybe around 2050:
According to replies given in Q&A in the Indian Parliament on two separate occasions, 19 August 2010 and 21 March 2012, large scale thorium deployment is only to be expected "3 – 4 decades after the commercial operation of fast breeder reactors with short doubling time".[66][31] Full exploitation of India’s domestic thorium reserves will likely not occur until after the year 2050.[67]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%27s_three_stage_nuclear_power_programme#Stage_III_.E2.80.93_thorium_based_reactors
"The judge agreed with McCracken’s harsh assessment. He sentenced Anaya to 292 months in federal prison—more than 24 years—with no possibility of parole. Curtis Crow and Cesar Bonilla Montiel, the men at the top of the organization, received sentences half that length."
Just to be clear -- the article doesn't reveal the 24-year sentence until almost the very end. Part of the problem is, as usual (see Aaron Swartz) unchecked prosecutors piling on crazy charges to force a plea bargain, and one person who truly believes they didn't do anything wrong, and refuses to take it for principle's sake. End result: epic miscarriage of justice.
Here is a citation; below is the definition "score". Note that the loose usage of "a large amount or number of something" is a sub-part under the meaning of "twenty" (#2); that and the example show that the meaning is "about", or within an order-of-magnitude, of twenty. Only the stupidest of stupid people would say something like "Mercury is dozens of miles away"; it's uninformative, just like your ignorant usage of "score". I challenge you to come up with a prominent example of anyone using the word "scores" to mean "hundreds of thousands". Seriously, ask an English teacher and stop advertising your ignorance.
http://oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/score
Definition of score
noun
1the number of points, goals, runs, etc., achieved in a game by a team or an individual:the final score was 25-16 in favor of Washington
informal an act of gaining a point, goal, or run in a game.
a rating or grade, such as a mark achieved in a test:an IQ score of 161
(the score) informal the state of affairs; the real facts about the present situation:“Hey, what’s the score here, what’s goin' on?”
informal an act of buying illegal drugs.
informal the proceeds of a crime.
2 (plural same) a group or set of twenty or about twenty:a score of men lost their lives in the battle Doyle’s success brought imitators by the score
(scores of) a large amount or number of something:he sent scores of enthusiastic letters to friends
3a written representation of a musical composition showing all the vocal and instrumental parts arranged one below the other.
the music composed for a movie or play.
4a notch or line cut or scratched into a surface.
historical a running account kept by marks against a customer’s name, typically in a tavern.
"This seems more 'urban ledgend' / paranoia then real..."
I agree. Based on experience with my students in college classes, where the rule is that phones must be shut off (especially on exams), many if not a majority of people are confused about when a phone is really off versus when it is just in standby. I get a lot of students who claim a phone was off when it was ringing, or that they absolutely believe it's impossible to really shut the phone off. (Even in the face being penalized multiple times on a test -- once I had a guy turn around and just throw his phone into the hallway after it rang the third time and he couldn't stop it.)
"Try setting your alarm and turning your phone off."
Great experiment -- I just did this, turned it off, and when the time passed, NO alarm or sound occurred. For a control, I did the same thing and just put it in standby -- then the alarm did sound as expected. This is on a Virgin Mobile LG Rumor Touch.
I find that a lot of people are confused about when a phone is really off versus when it is just in standby.
No, one would have to be embarrassingly ignorant to not know that "score" means "twenty". And no, it does not get used for arbitrarily large numbers, any more than one would say that Bill Gates has made "thousands of dollars". That's just flat-out incorrect and stupid usage.
"If it had a measurable effect on tourist numbers or very large numbers of Americans started to reject it then something might happen. If your rail network didn't suck so much one of the companies could run an advertising campaign along the lines of "Don't like getting your balls checked for explosives or your children sexually assaulted in public? Take the train!""
The only problem with that is the HSA/TSA is already chomping at the bit to roll out checks on trains, buses, and highways (lready spot-tested them in places). An aggressive ad campaign like that would be painting a bullseye on oneself, attract HSA scrutiny, and likely provide fodder for the next time they make their case in Congress ("This bus/train company is a massive security risk, and in fact advertises itself to criminals and terrorists.") So a fairly large business, under heavy federal regulation like that (consider the 26 or so budget bus lines from Boston to New York shut down in the last year), would likely have to be more diplomatic (consider also the various big tech companies that tried to go without lobbyists for the early part of their existence).
"The TSA consists of a bunch of mindless idiots following stupid rules."
I think you're being too generous in the "following rules" part. This kind of corrupt, useless police-state bureaucracy is pretty transparently set up to allow idiots, too dumb to follow actual procedures, to act in an arbitrary and abusive manner, and then cover it up afterward with a sheen of supposed rulemaking (if only secretive and confidential, unstated rules). This article is a pretty good example of that -- the TSA has obviously broken the law multiple times for this one traveler.
Do you know that a "score" is the same as "twenty"? I feel like you either (a) didn't know that, (b) are making some kind of joke, or (c) estimating a very low number for a reason I can't detect.
That is: "scores of dead", for example 2-10 score, would imply between 40 and 200 dead or so. Usually when the U.S. goes to war there are thousands or hundreds of thousands dead, which is really a terrible thing.
"It seems to me that the North Korean leadership has just spent all of its rhetorical ammo. If the next thing out of Kim's mouth isn't a launch code and an authorization to launch a nuclear tipped missile he's just ruined his credibility."
Well, note that this is all going on during the annual U.S.-South Korea military exercises, which are scheduled to end in April (seem to be longer than prior years). Prediction: When the exercises end, Kim will announce that he was victorious in this announced war at turning away Americans from invading North Korea.
http://www.usfk.mil/usfk/press-release.foal.eagle.exercise.2013.1024
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foal_Eagle
"If infinite money representing real resources fell out of the sky into our hands..."
But it can't. Physics trumps economics.
"But if energy use has limits, so may economic growth. So far, at least, nobody has found a way to decouple the two."
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-11/could-economic-growth-kill-us-.html
http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist/
So by changing the subject from sample size (as per your great-grandparent post), it seems like we agree that you were just bullshitting us on your knowledge of statistical methods. And with your new attempt, you don't even attempt any citations. You are just continuing with more and different bullshit.