Keep in mind the group who allegedly killed these bloggers were initially a group of US trained Mexicans meant to fight the drug cartels, but realized it was more profitable to train them.
After a decade of being severely underpaid in regards to contracts in Afghanistan and Iraq you have to wonder what ideas will make their ways into the soldiers we sent to Mexico.
I enjoyed the section of the Nim Chimpsky project where they tried to replicate Washoe's success in a scenario that almost sounds like a human classroom. Dismal failure.
That's the idea of voluntarily declassifying this information. You seem to want all intelligence automatically posted to a Twitter feed. These are groups who seem some days to think using lemons and water to make invisible ink should still be classified.
They aren't going to release relatively recent information on ongoing wars and their alleged operations against a person they see as a near terrorist just because in an ideal world we citizens should know what the government is doing in our name.
If it works, it is the Gov's genius. If it fails, it was the corporations. Plus it doesn't effect the budget.
Brilliant future ideas: * Drug testing before being allowed to get drugs from pharmacies. * For the US, gun sellers and/or buyers must do volunteer service as deputy border watchmen. * Grocery stores must keep a running tab on who buys what, cross referenced to medical databases on health/weight for tax reasons.
Copyrights have more value to the originators or holders. Take Micky Mouse, you can only apply him in so many ways. Plus copyrights are more specific. Patents are more general. They can also be applied in many different ways. Because of this there is more incentive for lower expiration ceilings on patents.
To use an analogy, you can copyright Micky Mouse or Bugs Bunny, but the patent equivalent would be patenting use of a mouse, or patenting the use of a comedic drawn humanoid figure. Easier to get around the copyright in this scenario if you are in the industry.
Times change. I am not bashing you with the following comment if you are a states' rights supporter, but are you just focused on that issue or the whole picture? That is just the largest and most promoted example I see, as a US citizen, being thrown around. It isn't the only example of that.
* Europe is following after the US. It is now in a state of affairs similar to what the early United States were in.
* Locally communities are merging. Access to cars and good roads have destroyed smaller communities and merged others. My town used to have five fire department wards for different named areas. Many, many more schools, but small ones. All due to each set of blocks, the group of homes up on the hill, the town itself, the group of homes on each side of the river, that group by the old shut down factory were factory owned with a factory store were all closed off groups effectively.
My grandparents still talk as if there are six/seven communities in the area, my parent thinks of the area as two/three but retains the others as direction descriptions, my siblings and I think of boro/township only due to legal differences. In my part of the country boros and townships are now looking to merge to reduce redundancy with how things are changing.
* Quick, are you talking about New York City or the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Statan Island?
Counties are becoming the new towns/cities. States are becoming the new counties. The US is/is becoming the new "state", It is merging all the way down and up.
I am sure you could wrangle up a sufficient number of college students looking for credit, interns and retro-post modernist-faux-psuedo-quasi hippie hipsters to move in for a few months for relatively lost cost for those experiments.
From everything I have seen over the years they are between a rock and a hard place. They either need to be set free to be a private corporation or be yanked back in to be a complete government service. Both political parties over the years have successfully pushed the USPA into a situation where it has the worst traits of a government organization and a private corporation.
Reptiles->Dinosaurs (descended from Reptiles)->Birds (Descended from Dinosaurs) so birds are a type of Reptile now. I believe this is the video from AronRa that explains it well enough.
I have a simple server for a simple purpose hosted by a third party that requires FTP or web style uploads. Look, it may not be the best method, but I don't stop beside the Amish buggies I pass and shout "WTF" at them.
That's the thing. This isn't a "I don't care about privacy. Do whatever." This is Facebook answering to "I care about my privacy, I want to opt out" with the opting out only makes it looked like you opted out.
This is a deceptive practice. This is like ordering a sandwich, asking them to hold the pickles and finding they just hid the pickles under the burger.
What is the process of becoming an undercover cop? Your strategy works now if a person is becoming or is an undercover, but hasn't used social media before. The flaw in your logic is why "'impossible' in the future" is stated.
Give it ten, twenty years and you'll have a whole crop of people raised with social media. With there now being FaceBook Phones (well, phones with a hard button that links right to the facebook app), Twitter being tied more strongly into iOS 5, the day is coming fast if not here that most people won't think of social media as new but mundane.
You logic works only if this person grows up effectively never using a computer at all. Doesn't have any friends who upload photos of him to their social media. No newspaper has his photo on their websites for doing something newsworthy on their own or just being part of a group that does. Heck, joining the force and having his/her picture taken by the local press could occur.
Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if the Amish start getting recruitment drives for this sort of work.
The problem is the Bible does claim a bottleneck for ALL species, not just humans. Noah and the Flood. Well, unless you are a Mormon. Some Mormon sects believe a group
If you start the clock at Adam and Eve then you have a problem of an even further reduced time span. This is the problem with the Bible and genetics. Either you need a period of super evolution or you have to reconcile God every so often turning automatic evolution off and on.
Hmm, reminds me of another study I saw. It's premise was that suicide bombs tended to be middle class. The poor were too busy "living" to get serious enough about their faith to actually die for it. The middle class had the time and money to sit around and become "serious" enough in their faith to see suicidal blaze of martyrdom as a good thing.
Query: How many engineers tend to be middle class and lacking wives/kids?
Argentina has censored "over a million blogs". That is the de facto occurrence. They ordered two to be censored, correct. However, the article is about how two were targeted and massive overkill was done. The ISPs saw it fit to block the best and most certain way they could to minimize their own headaches.
Spoken like a true primative unaware @Ffnnllij$##*!. The environmental damage you are causing to @Ffnnllij$##*! is atrocious beyond imagining. Just because you are a developing planet does not excuse your crimes against sentience, non-sentience living and even common quarks. Human, you disgust me worse than the acts of Grivaloud the Liatonajikirous.
Since you mentioned RockStar, I don't think I ever finished a game of theirs. Repeat, repeat, repeat, same stuff. Shorter games? In the last year I've yet to finish Angry Birds. Started on iPod, got an iPhone, couldn't stand the graphics on iPad so I got the HD version.... each time start back to the very start.
60 minutes, 60 hours, give me a good game and I'll play it up. Just don't charge the 60 hour game price for these 60 minute games if all you are doing is lopping off fluff content. Give me a 60 minute game that moves me to tears and causes me to rethink my life because it is just that epic, then it would be worth full price.
Haven't the last few elections in the U.S. have boxes of votes turn up?
Voting is effectively like currency. Online voting would be paper currency based solely on trust. Paper voting is paper money based on a gold standard that is based solely on trust that the government isn't lying about what they have in their reserves. Paper voting just provides the illusion of being more valid. We saw already in 2000 that in a heated enough recount that anything and everything will be used to disqualify votes if it will get one side an advantage.
I don't zerg the stables. I ninja the stables while the Allies zerg the farm to even the score. It is just the Horde are so team minded they come to my aid and looks like a zerg.
I am wondering if this all isn't just a modified case of nostalgia myself. TED is an example. Did everyone have big, grand ideas or do we just remember those who had those ideas out of proportion of what really happened? Everyone remembers the Einsteins and Edisons, but how many recall Tesla?
The culture has changed some too, I do have to concede. Are our ideas less big because we don't have Edisons electrocuting full grown elephants to death in public to prove how dangerous his opponent's competing project is or Teslas building (privately) attempts at giant power transmitters and death rays? I suspect the big ideas exist. They just aren't as flamboyant.
I admitted it wouldn't be a perfectly logical thing. The point I was trying to give is they wouldn't be utilizing energy from their world, but this would be a glorified solar panel. It would be a method of collector solar energy hitting their general solar system real estate.
I'm sure there is a major flaw in the following hypothesis, but couldn't there be a "dyson sphere" around a planet for different reasons? Dyson Spheres are built around a star as a hypothetical optimal method of complete solar harvesting.
What if a species not quite that advanced built such a shell around their own world? One flaw is how to best simulate their sun for grass/animals. Holes in the sphere? A series of lights, or a few on a track, that go around the world as needed? It would work best if the species were nocturnal (either by natural or "artificial" evolution at this point). Considering this is "Jupiter sized" then this thing would have enough room for twenty-two Earths to go from one end to another at the equator. There could be a whole planet and moon system inside.
That much surface area and they might be able to easily simulate their sun on planet for wildlife and then some. According to Wikipedia Jupiter's surface area: 6.1419×1010 km2. Cut that in half since even if the sphere doesn't rotate half of it will be facing their sun, and you have the maximum usable space for solar cells or whatever they are using instead. How much energy would that produce? Unless this thing is a relic left behind, they might not need a full blown Dyson Sphere yet.
According to the article it is in that star's habital zone. So it is in the right spot if it were a converted habital world. Dyson Sphere may not be the correct term, but the concept itself completely off from what could be here.
Then again, it could be the universe's largest naturally formed piece of coal or we discovered the home hub of the all consuming nanite swarm.
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I cringe when I realize I have the Wowhead model viewer set to Java instead of flash. I can't imagine what all of WoW would do.
This just seems to be the perennial cry of home computers are too difficult, turn them into fancy TVs that has everything hand delivered.
Keep in mind the group who allegedly killed these bloggers were initially a group of US trained Mexicans meant to fight the drug cartels, but realized it was more profitable to train them.
After a decade of being severely underpaid in regards to contracts in Afghanistan and Iraq you have to wonder what ideas will make their ways into the soldiers we sent to Mexico.
Heard it here first folks. Tetris multiplayer a bigger danger and a threat to society than Mortal Kombat single player.
(/snark(
I enjoyed the section of the Nim Chimpsky project where they tried to replicate Washoe's success in a scenario that almost sounds like a human classroom. Dismal failure.
That's the idea of voluntarily declassifying this information. You seem to want all intelligence automatically posted to a Twitter feed. These are groups who seem some days to think using lemons and water to make invisible ink should still be classified.
They aren't going to release relatively recent information on ongoing wars and their alleged operations against a person they see as a near terrorist just because in an ideal world we citizens should know what the government is doing in our name.
If it works, it is the Gov's genius. If it fails, it was the corporations. Plus it doesn't effect the budget.
Brilliant future ideas:
* Drug testing before being allowed to get drugs from pharmacies.
* For the US, gun sellers and/or buyers must do volunteer service as deputy border watchmen.
* Grocery stores must keep a running tab on who buys what, cross referenced to medical databases on health/weight for tax reasons.
Copyrights have more value to the originators or holders. Take Micky Mouse, you can only apply him in so many ways. Plus copyrights are more specific. Patents are more general. They can also be applied in many different ways. Because of this there is more incentive for lower expiration ceilings on patents.
To use an analogy, you can copyright Micky Mouse or Bugs Bunny, but the patent equivalent would be patenting use of a mouse, or patenting the use of a comedic drawn humanoid figure. Easier to get around the copyright in this scenario if you are in the industry.
Times change. I am not bashing you with the following comment if you are a states' rights supporter, but are you just focused on that issue or the whole picture? That is just the largest and most promoted example I see, as a US citizen, being thrown around. It isn't the only example of that.
* Europe is following after the US. It is now in a state of affairs similar to what the early United States were in.
* Locally communities are merging. Access to cars and good roads have destroyed smaller communities and merged others. My town used to have five fire department wards for different named areas. Many, many more schools, but small ones. All due to each set of blocks, the group of homes up on the hill, the town itself, the group of homes on each side of the river, that group by the old shut down factory were factory owned with a factory store were all closed off groups effectively.
My grandparents still talk as if there are six/seven communities in the area, my parent thinks of the area as two/three but retains the others as direction descriptions, my siblings and I think of boro/township only due to legal differences. In my part of the country boros and townships are now looking to merge to reduce redundancy with how things are changing.
* Quick, are you talking about New York City or the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Statan Island?
Counties are becoming the new towns/cities. States are becoming the new counties. The US is/is becoming the new "state", It is merging all the way down and up.
I am sure you could wrangle up a sufficient number of college students looking for credit, interns and retro-post modernist-faux-psuedo-quasi hippie hipsters to move in for a few months for relatively lost cost for those experiments.
From everything I have seen over the years they are between a rock and a hard place. They either need to be set free to be a private corporation or be yanked back in to be a complete government service. Both political parties over the years have successfully pushed the USPA into a situation where it has the worst traits of a government organization and a private corporation.
The thing works like folders in Windows.
Reptiles->Dinosaurs (descended from Reptiles)->Birds (Descended from Dinosaurs) so birds are a type of Reptile now. I believe this is the video from AronRa that explains it well enough.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A-dMqEbSk8&feature=channel_video_title
I have a simple server for a simple purpose hosted by a third party that requires FTP or web style uploads. Look, it may not be the best method, but I don't stop beside the Amish buggies I pass and shout "WTF" at them.
That's the thing. This isn't a "I don't care about privacy. Do whatever." This is Facebook answering to "I care about my privacy, I want to opt out" with the opting out only makes it looked like you opted out.
This is a deceptive practice. This is like ordering a sandwich, asking them to hold the pickles and finding they just hid the pickles under the burger.
Yeah, I remember hearing that Jobs himself considered getting booted from Apple was the wake up call he needed.
What is the process of becoming an undercover cop? Your strategy works now if a person is becoming or is an undercover, but hasn't used social media before. The flaw in your logic is why "'impossible' in the future" is stated.
Give it ten, twenty years and you'll have a whole crop of people raised with social media. With there now being FaceBook Phones (well, phones with a hard button that links right to the facebook app), Twitter being tied more strongly into iOS 5, the day is coming fast if not here that most people won't think of social media as new but mundane.
You logic works only if this person grows up effectively never using a computer at all. Doesn't have any friends who upload photos of him to their social media. No newspaper has his photo on their websites for doing something newsworthy on their own or just being part of a group that does. Heck, joining the force and having his/her picture taken by the local press could occur.
Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if the Amish start getting recruitment drives for this sort of work.
The problem is the Bible does claim a bottleneck for ALL species, not just humans. Noah and the Flood. Well, unless you are a Mormon. Some Mormon sects believe a group
If you start the clock at Adam and Eve then you have a problem of an even further reduced time span. This is the problem with the Bible and genetics. Either you need a period of super evolution or you have to reconcile God every so often turning automatic evolution off and on.
Hmm, reminds me of another study I saw. It's premise was that suicide bombs tended to be middle class. The poor were too busy "living" to get serious enough about their faith to actually die for it. The middle class had the time and money to sit around and become "serious" enough in their faith to see suicidal blaze of martyrdom as a good thing.
Query: How many engineers tend to be middle class and lacking wives/kids?
Right headline, I say.
Argentina has censored "over a million blogs". That is the de facto occurrence. They ordered two to be censored, correct. However, the article is about how two were targeted and massive overkill was done. The ISPs saw it fit to block the best and most certain way they could to minimize their own headaches.
Spoken like a true primative unaware @Ffnnllij$##*!. The environmental damage you are causing to @Ffnnllij$##*! is atrocious beyond imagining. Just because you are a developing planet does not excuse your crimes against sentience, non-sentience living and even common quarks. Human, you disgust me worse than the acts of Grivaloud the Liatonajikirous.
Since you mentioned RockStar, I don't think I ever finished a game of theirs. Repeat, repeat, repeat, same stuff. Shorter games? In the last year I've yet to finish Angry Birds. Started on iPod, got an iPhone, couldn't stand the graphics on iPad so I got the HD version.... each time start back to the very start.
60 minutes, 60 hours, give me a good game and I'll play it up. Just don't charge the 60 hour game price for these 60 minute games if all you are doing is lopping off fluff content. Give me a 60 minute game that moves me to tears and causes me to rethink my life because it is just that epic, then it would be worth full price.
Haven't the last few elections in the U.S. have boxes of votes turn up?
Voting is effectively like currency. Online voting would be paper currency based solely on trust. Paper voting is paper money based on a gold standard that is based solely on trust that the government isn't lying about what they have in their reserves. Paper voting just provides the illusion of being more valid. We saw already in 2000 that in a heated enough recount that anything and everything will be used to disqualify votes if it will get one side an advantage.
Off-topic to the original article above,
I don't zerg the stables. I ninja the stables while the Allies zerg the farm to even the score. It is just the Horde are so team minded they come to my aid and looks like a zerg.
I am wondering if this all isn't just a modified case of nostalgia myself. TED is an example. Did everyone have big, grand ideas or do we just remember those who had those ideas out of proportion of what really happened? Everyone remembers the Einsteins and Edisons, but how many recall Tesla?
The culture has changed some too, I do have to concede. Are our ideas less big because we don't have Edisons electrocuting full grown elephants to death in public to prove how dangerous his opponent's competing project is or Teslas building (privately) attempts at giant power transmitters and death rays? I suspect the big ideas exist. They just aren't as flamboyant.
I admitted it wouldn't be a perfectly logical thing. The point I was trying to give is they wouldn't be utilizing energy from their world, but this would be a glorified solar panel. It would be a method of collector solar energy hitting their general solar system real estate.
I'm sure there is a major flaw in the following hypothesis, but couldn't there be a "dyson sphere" around a planet for different reasons? Dyson Spheres are built around a star as a hypothetical optimal method of complete solar harvesting.
What if a species not quite that advanced built such a shell around their own world? One flaw is how to best simulate their sun for grass/animals. Holes in the sphere? A series of lights, or a few on a track, that go around the world as needed? It would work best if the species were nocturnal (either by natural or "artificial" evolution at this point). Considering this is "Jupiter sized" then this thing would have enough room for twenty-two Earths to go from one end to another at the equator. There could be a whole planet and moon system inside.
That much surface area and they might be able to easily simulate their sun on planet for wildlife and then some. According to Wikipedia Jupiter's surface area: 6.1419×1010 km2. Cut that in half since even if the sphere doesn't rotate half of it will be facing their sun, and you have the maximum usable space for solar cells or whatever they are using instead. How much energy would that produce? Unless this thing is a relic left behind, they might not need a full blown Dyson Sphere yet.
According to the article it is in that star's habital zone. So it is in the right spot if it were a converted habital world. Dyson Sphere may not be the correct term, but the concept itself completely off from what could be here.
Then again, it could be the universe's largest naturally formed piece of coal or we discovered the home hub of the all consuming nanite swarm.