I saw it on the main news sites somewhat. One of the main physicists they always have on PBS documentaries (oriental looking guy with white hair) would go on and making outlandish claims about this is proof that it created everything. It was odd b/c he was going beyond what science was saying about the issue.
This is America after all and whether I think it's morally right or not to do a certain thing should not necessarily make it so. Having said that though, can someone tell me why the incredible amount of LGBT in the news, tv, popular culture, business practices, etc for the past decade or more (it seems to be increasing in amount), for a group of at most 3-5% of the population? The coverage and discourse is not proportional at all and I'm not sure I understand why. Perhaps it's due to the amount of backlash it creates, which in tern creates stories, which sells in the popular media. It's interesting though to see from an outside analysis.
Not to mention that the article blatantly exaggerates how much power we the people actually have in the first place.
The ohio election hack pretty much proves that we have no voice unless it is approved by the elite. It proves that the powers that be aren't afraid to lie, cheat, steal their way into office.
In order for the american public to change anything they have to unite against it. That implies that
a) they care (apathy)
b) they haven't already given up hope (learned helplessness)
c) they aren't already busy scrambling to survive.
a is entirely our own fault. b, not so much because who wants to get beat up for zero payoff?. c is blatant manipulation of circumstances to make it too expensive to resist. Keep everyone too poor to both protest and feed their families at the same time./
Many Ron Paulites will attest to that fact. Just do a simple search on how the party leaders bent or broke rules to make sure his followers weren't allowed a voice. While I'm not one of them, the examples I saw on the news and online were appalling (no pun).
We have Voter ID. It's called registering to vote. Your voter registration card should be all the ID you need. Anything else is a waste of peoples time and money. People actually showing up at a poling place to impersonate another voter is so rare that more people are struck by lightening every year than attempt this fraud.
And yet I've never been asked in 20+ years for my voter registration card. Never. It is always a verbal name and then a signature (if someone hadn't beat me to it already.) It is one more check against fraud, against out of town people bussed in to vote, against the dead voting, or against multiple voting, etc. It's a simple logical rule for the revered act of voting.
How about we just get Voter ID laws passed first so we know who is actually voting.
Existing law already requires that you identify yourself to the satisfaction of the electoral judges and provides precedures for protests. Electoral judges who fail their duties under present law are not going to notice fake IDs.
Fair enough, but requiring a verbal response and signature is all that is needed in many places. This will force uniformity and be another protection against dead people and out of state folks from voting.
Of all the things you need an ID for in life...
There are far too many of them.
Quantity of how many things require ID in no way affects the legitimacy of req'ing a gov ID to prove you are who you are and that you are allowed to vote.
First things first. How about we just get Voter ID laws passed first so we know who is actually voting. Then we can work on getting everyone the simple scan-trons that work so well around here.
But..but..Voter ID laws disenfranchise people! Of all the things you need an ID for in life many of them are much less important that voting. Nothing worse than going to the polls and finding someone (unique name) already signed in as you and voted.
I did think it was awesome! So it doesn't matter if it lasted 15 seconds or 15 minutes. And I say that coming from a city that boasts one of the top 10 firework displays in the nation. Ours lasted 30 minutes exactly and the finale was similar to that 15 seconds (though slightly longer). I'd prefer it be slightly shorter b/c you do get tired of the routine after a while.
Initial government involvement on such things should always show a benefit in the near term. It's the long term ramifications though that truly matter. So you've "saved" part of this generation from worrying about "sick homes". You've just placed the financial burden on the next. And b/c it's not free the gov tries to dictate pricing. Talk to some medical friends and find out how many are still accepting Medicare/aid and look at how soon those programs are expected to run out of money.
As others have mentioned, coastal area does not equal flood area. Also we are talking over a period of 100 years. Anything that will be affecting population will be organically implemented. Also, the height for all USians is just 1ft, over an incredible long time period for development, of which we can do nothing about and realistically won't do anything about.
Healthcare should NOT be a for-profit industry. It is complete and utter barbarity for a so-called "civilized" society. I've stated before and will continue to state that any government that does not provide for the care of its people has no use.
What we need is a public option for food. You know, cutting the profit motive out of fending off starvation, so that people do not have to fight with their grocery stores just to get the sustenance we need. Also a public option for housing, so that people don't have to fight with their landlords or builders just to keep from dying from exposure. And a public option for transportation, just so I don't have to fight with the auto retailer just so I can perform useful work for this great civilization. And a public option for clothing, but I already mentioned exposure. And a public option for entertainment, because life will be awfully dreary with no entertainment.
I pay for my health insurance. I choose a high deductible plan.My costs are low.
Now, they will probably triple because I'll have to pay for coverage for things I don't use such as OBGYN.
So, thanks for raising my costs with no benefit to me.
How do you know? Did it ever cross your mind that more people in the pool will lower your premiums? Why don't you wait for them to actually triple before griping about it?
Related, having of health insurance in no way means you'll have what's actually needed, health care. This bill seems to be about the former instead of the latter.
fix what's broken and allow the same functionality as the website. I hate it when apps like Pandora, FB, or even G+ or any others that have an app and a website where the website gives you many more options. They only give you the basic experience on the mobile app and am still tied to a computer for doing anything more than basic.
Google Glass is a nice concept but it will never take off--in its current form. For starters, most don't want to wear glasses unless they are sunglasses, they realize this. Second, at least with a mobile you somewhat know when someone is recording or taking pics. The public pressure will be against these for general use, just as they would be if many started wearing GoPro cams everywhere they went, which is what these currently are since they have not shown any HUD functionality as of yet.
They should have waited till further along in development before showcasing it anyway. Developers wont get one until next year and then it will be much more time before the general public can. Without that functionality and some type of smartphone interface to make it more useful, the (non-geek) public has already passed judgement. Sure they might have a place, but it's likely right alongside BT earpieces.
To sort of answer your concerns with a question, how is the current configuration of Glass any different than walking around with a camera taking video and snapshots constantly?
But no, this party invite software is the best thing since sliced bread! You can put pics together to remember the event! And your invitations are animated!!
Is it just me or do I see Google engineers all standing around at a party with their phones fighting over music playlists (Nexus Q) updating status' and combining pics of the event forgetting they are there to interact with other humans?
There was quite a bit of back and forth between what looked like Glass viewpoint and 3rd part Go camera viewpoint. In fact, you can see that some of them have the Go-type cameras mounted on their helmets. I was actually a little surprised at how much was shot using non-Glass. So parts of it did look a bit staged or faked, even if they weren't. I was just wondering what kind of device they were streaming to from the plane, to the ground where there was no interruption (or were they cutting out to 3rd party when connection issues arose?)
Either way, glad it went smooth, but it did seem rather gimmicky for what is currently only a streaming POV camera. HUD potential like what was shown in the initial commercial was not displayed or shown.
I'm not a programmer so this may be a dumb question, but do cracking programs somehow go around the normal web interfaces we all usually have to use? Because many that I use only allow a certain number of tries or the refresh time after each unsuccessful attempt is not instant. Sure if you put the program in a standalone it could do the cracking fairly quickly but that's not always real world is it unless you have some direct access to the server?
That seems rather high for a simple gallon of clean, frozen water bits in bulk. I'm gonna say maybe it's your region or something else every accountant at every fast food place is an idiot cause they always fill it up with ice, many even having lines on the cups where employees are to fill to. In the case given of Sonic, they fill it completely full. I find it highly suspicious they would consistently do that with the most expensive part and would instead look to reduce costs, esp at a firm that has happy hours every day with half price drinks.
Water around here is something like 2.45 USD per 1000 gallons out of the tap. Add an ice machine which is basically a sunk cost and then periodically have filters changed, negligible, and electricity is only around 10 cents per kWh so I'd be curious to see those calculations.
TBH, those are fairly ugly. Seems there could be a market for disguising them just like they do some cell phone towers or simply having the city allow it to be put in spaces not out in the open.
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I saw it on the main news sites somewhat. One of the main physicists they always have on PBS documentaries (oriental looking guy with white hair) would go on and making outlandish claims about this is proof that it created everything. It was odd b/c he was going beyond what science was saying about the issue.
This is America after all and whether I think it's morally right or not to do a certain thing should not necessarily make it so. Having said that though, can someone tell me why the incredible amount of LGBT in the news, tv, popular culture, business practices, etc for the past decade or more (it seems to be increasing in amount), for a group of at most 3-5% of the population? The coverage and discourse is not proportional at all and I'm not sure I understand why. Perhaps it's due to the amount of backlash it creates, which in tern creates stories, which sells in the popular media. It's interesting though to see from an outside analysis.
Not to mention that the article blatantly exaggerates how much power we the people actually have in the first place.
The ohio election hack pretty much proves that we have no voice unless it is approved by the elite. It proves that the powers that be aren't afraid to lie, cheat, steal their way into office.
In order for the american public to change anything they have to unite against it. That implies that a) they care (apathy) b) they haven't already given up hope (learned helplessness) c) they aren't already busy scrambling to survive.
a is entirely our own fault. b, not so much because who wants to get beat up for zero payoff?. c is blatant manipulation of circumstances to make it too expensive to resist. Keep everyone too poor to both protest and feed their families at the same time./
Many Ron Paulites will attest to that fact. Just do a simple search on how the party leaders bent or broke rules to make sure his followers weren't allowed a voice. While I'm not one of them, the examples I saw on the news and online were appalling (no pun).
We have Voter ID. It's called registering to vote. Your voter registration card should be all the ID you need. Anything else is a waste of peoples time and money. People actually showing up at a poling place to impersonate another voter is so rare that more people are struck by lightening every year than attempt this fraud.
And yet I've never been asked in 20+ years for my voter registration card. Never. It is always a verbal name and then a signature (if someone hadn't beat me to it already.) It is one more check against fraud, against out of town people bussed in to vote, against the dead voting, or against multiple voting, etc. It's a simple logical rule for the revered act of voting.
"Nothing worse than going to the polls and finding someone (unique name) already signed in as you and voted"
how would you know if it virtually never happens?
Because it happens more than you realize or care to believe. It's happened to immediate relatives of mine.
Existing law already requires that you identify yourself to the satisfaction of the electoral judges and provides precedures for protests. Electoral judges who fail their duties under present law are not going to notice fake IDs.
Fair enough, but requiring a verbal response and signature is all that is needed in many places. This will force uniformity and be another protection against dead people and out of state folks from voting.
There are far too many of them.
Quantity of how many things require ID in no way affects the legitimacy of req'ing a gov ID to prove you are who you are and that you are allowed to vote.
First things first. How about we just get Voter ID laws passed first so we know who is actually voting. Then we can work on getting everyone the simple scan-trons that work so well around here.
But..but..Voter ID laws disenfranchise people! Of all the things you need an ID for in life many of them are much less important that voting. Nothing worse than going to the polls and finding someone (unique name) already signed in as you and voted.
I did think it was awesome! So it doesn't matter if it lasted 15 seconds or 15 minutes. And I say that coming from a city that boasts one of the top 10 firework displays in the nation. Ours lasted 30 minutes exactly and the finale was similar to that 15 seconds (though slightly longer). I'd prefer it be slightly shorter b/c you do get tired of the routine after a while.
Initial government involvement on such things should always show a benefit in the near term. It's the long term ramifications though that truly matter. So you've "saved" part of this generation from worrying about "sick homes". You've just placed the financial burden on the next. And b/c it's not free the gov tries to dictate pricing. Talk to some medical friends and find out how many are still accepting Medicare/aid and look at how soon those programs are expected to run out of money.
Well said. Even if the probability of detection is low $2mln/year is next to nothing for what could be a huge payoff.
And what actionable thing would that "huge payoff" be exactly? That we are not alone? How would that affect or change anything?
As others have mentioned, coastal area does not equal flood area. Also we are talking over a period of 100 years. Anything that will be affecting population will be organically implemented. Also, the height for all USians is just 1ft, over an incredible long time period for development, of which we can do nothing about and realistically won't do anything about.
Healthcare should NOT be a for-profit industry. It is complete and utter barbarity for a so-called "civilized" society. I've stated before and will continue to state that any government that does not provide for the care of its people has no use.
To quote another /. poster: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2945055&cid=40479701
What we need is a public option for food. You know, cutting the profit motive out of fending off starvation, so that people do not have to fight with their grocery stores just to get the sustenance we need. Also a public option for housing, so that people don't have to fight with their landlords or builders just to keep from dying from exposure. And a public option for transportation, just so I don't have to fight with the auto retailer just so I can perform useful work for this great civilization. And a public option for clothing, but I already mentioned exposure. And a public option for entertainment, because life will be awfully dreary with no entertainment.
I pay for my health insurance. I choose a high deductible plan.My costs are low.
Now, they will probably triple because I'll have to pay for coverage for things I don't use such as OBGYN.
So, thanks for raising my costs with no benefit to me.
How do you know? Did it ever cross your mind that more people in the pool will lower your premiums? Why don't you wait for them to actually triple before griping about it?
Related, having of health insurance in no way means you'll have what's actually needed, health care. This bill seems to be about the former instead of the latter.
You really think the cost of losing weight is more than the cost of being obese? Really?
The cost to who though. That is always the question.
fix what's broken and allow the same functionality as the website. I hate it when apps like Pandora, FB, or even G+ or any others that have an app and a website where the website gives you many more options. They only give you the basic experience on the mobile app and am still tied to a computer for doing anything more than basic.
I was always jealous of my friends that got the 5200 when I had the 2600. I mean c'mon it's coolest feature was that you could PAUSE the game!!
Google Glass is a nice concept but it will never take off--in its current form. For starters, most don't want to wear glasses unless they are sunglasses, they realize this. Second, at least with a mobile you somewhat know when someone is recording or taking pics. The public pressure will be against these for general use, just as they would be if many started wearing GoPro cams everywhere they went, which is what these currently are since they have not shown any HUD functionality as of yet.
They should have waited till further along in development before showcasing it anyway. Developers wont get one until next year and then it will be much more time before the general public can. Without that functionality and some type of smartphone interface to make it more useful, the (non-geek) public has already passed judgement. Sure they might have a place, but it's likely right alongside BT earpieces.
To sort of answer your concerns with a question, how is the current configuration of Glass any different than walking around with a camera taking video and snapshots constantly?
But no, this party invite software is the best thing since sliced bread! You can put pics together to remember the event! And your invitations are animated!!
Is it just me or do I see Google engineers all standing around at a party with their phones fighting over music playlists (Nexus Q) updating status' and combining pics of the event forgetting they are there to interact with other humans?
There was quite a bit of back and forth between what looked like Glass viewpoint and 3rd part Go camera viewpoint. In fact, you can see that some of them have the Go-type cameras mounted on their helmets. I was actually a little surprised at how much was shot using non-Glass. So parts of it did look a bit staged or faked, even if they weren't. I was just wondering what kind of device they were streaming to from the plane, to the ground where there was no interruption (or were they cutting out to 3rd party when connection issues arose?)
Either way, glad it went smooth, but it did seem rather gimmicky for what is currently only a streaming POV camera. HUD potential like what was shown in the initial commercial was not displayed or shown.
Because she admitted on camera that she was going to violate US law.
Seeing the probes and how far they've gone in the image, it always makes me want to play Homeworld again, just for the interstellar travel.
I'm not a programmer so this may be a dumb question, but do cracking programs somehow go around the normal web interfaces we all usually have to use? Because many that I use only allow a certain number of tries or the refresh time after each unsuccessful attempt is not instant. Sure if you put the program in a standalone it could do the cracking fairly quickly but that's not always real world is it unless you have some direct access to the server?
That seems rather high for a simple gallon of clean, frozen water bits in bulk. I'm gonna say maybe it's your region or something else every accountant at every fast food place is an idiot cause they always fill it up with ice, many even having lines on the cups where employees are to fill to. In the case given of Sonic, they fill it completely full. I find it highly suspicious they would consistently do that with the most expensive part and would instead look to reduce costs, esp at a firm that has happy hours every day with half price drinks.
Water around here is something like 2.45 USD per 1000 gallons out of the tap. Add an ice machine which is basically a sunk cost and then periodically have filters changed, negligible, and electricity is only around 10 cents per kWh so I'd be curious to see those calculations.
TBH, those are fairly ugly. Seems there could be a market for disguising them just like they do some cell phone towers or simply having the city allow it to be put in spaces not out in the open.