I live near State College, Pa. Knew several people who went wind farming as in this state there is a group that will pay you if you generate surplus energy. I've heard nothing from complaints about single digit pay outs. Your wind farm idea won't work here.
Marcellus Shale? There are the people who don't want it due to environmental reasons and the people in rural communities who have $28,000 average house hold incomes thinking this is he best golden era for the state since the coal mines and lumber clear cutting. The area needs money badly.
Not just drilling is helping us. Businesses that were shut down due to the economy have reopened and retooled to M.S. support. General metal fabricators are now reopening as dedicated parts crafters for well pads. Welders are producing storage tanks. Cash strapped municiplaties are selling water to be used for fracking. There are roads that were once paved, deteriorated into gravel that were repaved by the Shale Drillers in order to have good roads for their trucks. Locals are now being hired for 2-4x the average salary for the area. There are even talks in several communities of building frack water treatment facilities.
Jobs, money, etc. are being created by shale when green energy such as the ethanol plant a county away is shutting down. I just wish it was all being done by something without such negative impacts.
Additional Fun Facts: * Mineral rights != Shale rights in PA. We also have a thing called gas rights. * Well drillers can drill on your property if you want it or not if your neighbors sell their rights but your property is the only one around that can support a well.
This for me. I just bought a new DS not long ago I barely use. I use it some, but I just don't see the incentive (even if I see my DSi) to get a 3DS when there is maybe two games on it I want. One of them is a remake too.
Eh... correlational coincidence. Remember, there have also been reports of groups in China outright recreating whole companies, passing themselves off as the real companies, signing contracts with other companies as the real companies and the original company being baffled about complaints about the quality of products they don't like.
The Chinese economy is soaring because they don't care about ANYTHING. Were looking back to an industrial revolution style mindset in the modern era. Not caring about patents seems to be a subset of that mindset that correlates, but not causates. They also have obscene amounts of funds being pumped into their country by the US borrowing money from them to buy their own goods mixed with a currency that is even more rigged than the US Dollar.
Their economy is just as built on pillars of sand as most of the Western World's economies. It will come down to whether they are clever enough to pound support columns to bedrock before the sand pillars collapse.
Gold is a shiny rock that has some interesting properties. There is no such thing as a "real" currency. Just currencies with rules that you prefer and currencies with rules that allow for conditions you don't care for to arise.
You might as well be trying to argue "Linux" Distro X is the only "real" computer because you dislike the practices of Ubuntu, Android, Windows, and OSX.
Facebook: We're tired of you all complaining about us invading your privacy. It is because you expect anonymity! There should be no anonymity so we can invade as we will.
Apparently "blind guessing" didn't work with "Gay Girl in Damascus".
With only 140 characters to work with I am finding 65.9% impressive. When I get a chance I hope to read the full article to see if it mentions that 15% increases dramatically when given more to work with. As I implied/snarked in the first line, a blind guess would requiring assuming every person is a lying SOB and randomly assuming they could be a different gender. I'd like to see how this program compared to neutral online entities (not trying to be one or the other), genuine entities (truthfully who they say they are) and liars (false genders).
This research does have uses and benefits if it can be expanded upon. Boosting the efficiency of targeted advertising, as said in the summary. The stated socio-linguistic research could assist in robotics/AIs bridge the uncanny valley when we reach that river. There is also the psychology aspect of it. How much of this is universal and just American-English? Can this be applied to other languages to pick up like patterns?
It reminds me of a TED talk, will link in a sub-comment if I can find it, from a man who that was given the task to mediate between Western and Indian medical professionals. Eventually he found out that language and the psychology of each culture was leading to problems. He found his Western colleagues were more bound by absolute truths and hierarchy while the Indian colleagues were more generalists. He attributed this to the regional cultural faiths (one life, obey the god, one truth, one chance vs reincarnation, multiple attempts, will work out eventually).
I hope millions were spent on this, but I don't see it is a complete waste for just being only 15%.
The article, when taken in a general scope, appears to be "Stop making [humans] less unique!" and "Animals might be able to communicate. THE HORROR!!". And this article happens to be timed as Planet of the Apes advertisements are playing.
Can we stop trying to have policies and laws passed based on Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Fiction movies? What next, a UN declaration declaring Smurfs a protected indigenous people and rings (especially green ones) fire arms?
You know, I used to feel bad for Pluto. Poor, alone out there except for Charon. Then they demoted Pluto and ever since it seems like all Pluto can do is try to bling itself out more and more for attention. Maybe the right decision was made. Between Saturn and its rings, Earth with its fancy smancy life, Uranus and Venus with their hipster rational anomalies... I just don't think we can take another attention seeeker.
Indie: We need more creativity! Nostalgia: We want doom level newness! Carmack: We made some creative stuff, but now we are doing it for the cash. Here, have another COD where you can endlessly fight each other in the same maps. Nostalgia: *whimpers* Steam: Here, we have hats! *It is super effected, Nostlagia feints*
Indie: Art matters. Art... *stomach growls*
Steam: We'll package your stuff together and drum up sales. Indie: Can't make art if dead from starvation....
It does look suspicious, but it could be covenant timing. Takes time to plan raids like this. At worst that removed any doubt holding the raid back. You have hackers attacking hackers publicly. To the IT uneducated this probably looks digital version of FNC's Mexico.
I don't know where your "here" is. I live in a rural area in the middle of the rust belt. Maybe the culture in your area will keep your Mom and Pa stores alive. It comes down to the culture of an area for M&P style businesses. Not so where I live, however.
Every bookstore that does new books within an hour of where I live has gone out except for Waldens (linked to Borders, so I don't know if they are going to survive or if they are sinking too) and two Barnes and Nobles.* Not for lack of trying. A store would start up, exist, then flounder.
There are two used bookstores, but they keep getting forced to move to more and more remote locations in their perspective towns. A new used book store opened up where a Waldens went out in a neighboring city 40 minutes away. The two existing used bookstores have niche demographics. One is located in a college town and cultivated a "We're the Hipster alternative to B&N" vibe. The other has catered to used romance novels and tea parties taking up 2/3rds of the store.
A tad off topic, but relevant to culture, my town has to choose between Wal-Mart and 7-11 style stores if you want groceries. I don't think a culture that can even keep a M&P grocery store going is going to take kindly to bookstores.
*Not counting Wal-Mart or text book stores that happen to have other books to fill out their shelves.
I tried explaining the TSA mess to my sister and mother this weekend. They said it sounded terrific that they were checking elderly people with diapers and making wheel chaired bound people prove they needed a wheelchair.
Mother: "We'll be safer." Sister: "I have nothing to hide."
Me:"Terrorists have announced plans to start trying to hide bombs surgically implanted in their skin."
Mother: "So... they have to perform surgery mid-flight to blow themselves up? *laugh*"
Me: "Remote detonation. First time they catch someone attempting this the TSA will start requiring medical records if they see an operation scar."
Sister: "So what? I got nothing to hide. In fact, I think it is a good idea for them to have our medical records to make sure our flights are safe."
They are the first to Google people, gossip, etc. My sister has been caught looking at homes with binoculars at night. When a family friend joking texted her saying he could see her at night you'd be surprised how fast her translucent curtains were replaced with thick drapes. Some people don't care about privacy until it affects them.
Back in highschool around 2001 the administration went with a group who were tasked to filter out all sorts of nastiness. For one, it was meant to protect us the children. For two, it made doing reports at school annoying as it blocked out any reference to Nazis so World War 2 reports had to be researched at home (killing the point of a school net access if you were too poor to own a computer back then. High poverty rate district) or with books only. For third, the entire system was based on a proxy server.
Kids who either were too dumb or just didn't care enough to pass the "how to turn a computer on" class became knowledgeable on how to navigate IE and turn off the proxy server. They didn't know what proxy servers were or why it worked, but the entire school quickly taught each other how to disable going through the proxy server to get what they wanted.
That and a generational gap. You'd think I was making it up if I tried explaining in context.
The area I live in, summarized, has the view if you take pills the pills drove you insane. If you were insane before the pills then you are either a closet gay or pedophile. If you are too young for them to perceive to be a pedophile or gay, then you are snorting the medication to get high.
Note the last line there. Starting with my mother's generation, unevenly, when they became parents they began seeing psyche health as being something worth checking into. As their kids are now adults they are more willing (due to seeing it help their peers) seek help when something emerges and take their kids for help if something seems off.
I think it is a three-fold problem: * Previous generations were undermedicated due to social stigma * Prices keep/kept some economic classes of people from buying the drugs until generics started coming out. * Just like anti-vax proponents, you have people who are over medicating more now throwing the number off in the opposite direction.
even if it was done in retaliation, at least Google has the defense that copyright trolls in the past have tried claiming merely linking to their content was infringement. This could be seen as proactive.
They are putting gelatin genes into yeast. If Vegans can drink beer can they not eat gelatin as it is? It isn't like the yeast have suddenly become more animal like with a few extra genes.
Innocent, but not trusted. You breath, you live, you could be a terrorist. Unless you join this program only available to profitable customers to a series of corporations and hand over information to the government so they can crowdsource their spying of their own citizens.
Not quite that simple. I didn't even read the article and the summary had me scratching my head. That large number of dead monkeys and the humans are merely "ill"? It sounded backwards to me. So I looked at the articles.
Not that they could be blamed for not at lealst doing a quick reading. After opening the links you can see that the article says monkey->human transtion. The journal states it was likely not native to the monkeys, implying Human->Monkey (or possibly, human->monkey->human), in the summaries, but adds more research is needed to confirm the direction of species jumping.
I remember back in middle school hearing my social studies teacher explain how much the poor suckers of workers in China were. He explained that if they did not meet their quota they would be punished (stick) but they had a goal where they would get bonuses for rising that far above the quota (carrot). If they got their carrot that would become the new quota they always had to meet.
Jump ahead 1.5 decades and what I am hearing a near identical thing from U.S. workers.
No flashy graphics bringing your machine to its knees.
Oooh, some of the stuff you can do to cause that to happen. Heck, there are small things you can do to cause a multi-player game to head that direction easily. I've never seen a multiplayer capable game where so many users in their youtube how to videos go "This is cool, woah, lag from all this stuff going on. Okay, don't do this online. It will melt the server with all the interactions between the players".
Not is adding village and NPC generation in a future patch. Don't confuse "not added" out of time constraint or no desire for "doesn't work". Combat is getting revamped. Buried, abandoned ruins are a work in progress that Notch has been revealing screenshots of.
Friendster -> MySpace -> FaceBook. It ain't Friendster or MySpace that is plastered on dang near every website and being visited by the U.S. president. It doesn't matter who did it first.
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I live near State College, Pa. Knew several people who went wind farming as in this state there is a group that will pay you if you generate surplus energy. I've heard nothing from complaints about single digit pay outs. Your wind farm idea won't work here.
Marcellus Shale? There are the people who don't want it due to environmental reasons and the people in rural communities who have $28,000 average house hold incomes thinking this is he best golden era for the state since the coal mines and lumber clear cutting. The area needs money badly.
Not just drilling is helping us. Businesses that were shut down due to the economy have reopened and retooled to M.S. support. General metal fabricators are now reopening as dedicated parts crafters for well pads. Welders are producing storage tanks. Cash strapped municiplaties are selling water to be used for fracking. There are roads that were once paved, deteriorated into gravel that were repaved by the Shale Drillers in order to have good roads for their trucks. Locals are now being hired for 2-4x the average salary for the area. There are even talks in several communities of building frack water treatment facilities.
Jobs, money, etc. are being created by shale when green energy such as the ethanol plant a county away is shutting down. I just wish it was all being done by something without such negative impacts.
Additional Fun Facts:
* Mineral rights != Shale rights in PA. We also have a thing called gas rights.
* Well drillers can drill on your property if you want it or not if your neighbors sell their rights but your property is the only one around that can support a well.
This for me. I just bought a new DS not long ago I barely use. I use it some, but I just don't see the incentive (even if I see my DSi) to get a 3DS when there is maybe two games on it I want. One of them is a remake too.
Eh... correlational coincidence. Remember, there have also been reports of groups in China outright recreating whole companies, passing themselves off as the real companies, signing contracts with other companies as the real companies and the original company being baffled about complaints about the quality of products they don't like.
The Chinese economy is soaring because they don't care about ANYTHING. Were looking back to an industrial revolution style mindset in the modern era. Not caring about patents seems to be a subset of that mindset that correlates, but not causates. They also have obscene amounts of funds being pumped into their country by the US borrowing money from them to buy their own goods mixed with a currency that is even more rigged than the US Dollar.
Their economy is just as built on pillars of sand as most of the Western World's economies. It will come down to whether they are clever enough to pound support columns to bedrock before the sand pillars collapse.
Gold is a shiny rock that has some interesting properties. There is no such thing as a "real" currency. Just currencies with rules that you prefer and currencies with rules that allow for conditions you don't care for to arise.
You might as well be trying to argue "Linux" Distro X is the only "real" computer because you dislike the practices of Ubuntu, Android, Windows, and OSX.
Writing it off as laziness.
Facebook: We're tired of you all complaining about us invading your privacy. It is because you expect anonymity! There should be no anonymity so we can invade as we will.
Apparently "blind guessing" didn't work with "Gay Girl in Damascus".
With only 140 characters to work with I am finding 65.9% impressive. When I get a chance I hope to read the full article to see if it mentions that 15% increases dramatically when given more to work with. As I implied/snarked in the first line, a blind guess would requiring assuming every person is a lying SOB and randomly assuming they could be a different gender. I'd like to see how this program compared to neutral online entities (not trying to be one or the other), genuine entities (truthfully who they say they are) and liars (false genders).
This research does have uses and benefits if it can be expanded upon. Boosting the efficiency of targeted advertising, as said in the summary. The stated socio-linguistic research could assist in robotics/AIs bridge the uncanny valley when we reach that river. There is also the psychology aspect of it. How much of this is universal and just American-English? Can this be applied to other languages to pick up like patterns?
It reminds me of a TED talk, will link in a sub-comment if I can find it, from a man who that was given the task to mediate between Western and Indian medical professionals. Eventually he found out that language and the psychology of each culture was leading to problems. He found his Western colleagues were more bound by absolute truths and hierarchy while the Indian colleagues were more generalists. He attributed this to the regional cultural faiths (one life, obey the god, one truth, one chance vs reincarnation, multiple attempts, will work out eventually).
I hope millions were spent on this, but I don't see it is a complete waste for just being only 15%.
Make it too easy and those departments can be axed more readily in the budget. Hm, this would mean less of them to go through the data.
The article, when taken in a general scope, appears to be "Stop making [humans] less unique!" and "Animals might be able to communicate. THE HORROR!!". And this article happens to be timed as Planet of the Apes advertisements are playing.
Can we stop trying to have policies and laws passed based on Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Fiction movies? What next, a UN declaration declaring Smurfs a protected indigenous people and rings (especially green ones) fire arms?
You know, I used to feel bad for Pluto. Poor, alone out there except for Charon. Then they demoted Pluto and ever since it seems like all Pluto can do is try to bling itself out more and more for attention. Maybe the right decision was made. Between Saturn and its rings, Earth with its fancy smancy life, Uranus and Venus with their hipster rational anomalies... I just don't think we can take another attention seeeker.
Current state of affairs
Indie: We need more creativity!
Nostalgia: We want doom level newness!
Carmack: We made some creative stuff, but now we are doing it for the cash. Here, have another COD where you can endlessly fight each other in the same maps.
Nostalgia: *whimpers*
Steam: Here, we have hats!
*It is super effected, Nostlagia feints*
Indie: Art matters. Art... *stomach growls*
Steam: We'll package your stuff together and drum up sales.
Indie: Can't make art if dead from starvation....
I guess I can cross New Hampshire off the states to consider moving to as a semi-pro photojournalist. Not that I was seriously considering them.
Let's see who else is on that list so far. Kansas, Alabama, Arizona... any other suggestions?
It does look suspicious, but it could be covenant timing. Takes time to plan raids like this. At worst that removed any doubt holding the raid back. You have hackers attacking hackers publicly. To the IT uneducated this probably looks digital version of FNC's Mexico.
I don't know where your "here" is. I live in a rural area in the middle of the rust belt. Maybe the culture in your area will keep your Mom and Pa stores alive. It comes down to the culture of an area for M&P style businesses. Not so where I live, however.
Every bookstore that does new books within an hour of where I live has gone out except for Waldens (linked to Borders, so I don't know if they are going to survive or if they are sinking too) and two Barnes and Nobles.* Not for lack of trying. A store would start up, exist, then flounder.
There are two used bookstores, but they keep getting forced to move to more and more remote locations in their perspective towns. A new used book store opened up where a Waldens went out in a neighboring city 40 minutes away. The two existing used bookstores have niche demographics. One is located in a college town and cultivated a "We're the Hipster alternative to B&N" vibe. The other has catered to used romance novels and tea parties taking up 2/3rds of the store.
A tad off topic, but relevant to culture, my town has to choose between Wal-Mart and 7-11 style stores if you want groceries. I don't think a culture that can even keep a M&P grocery store going is going to take kindly to bookstores.
*Not counting Wal-Mart or text book stores that happen to have other books to fill out their shelves.
I tried explaining the TSA mess to my sister and mother this weekend. They said it sounded terrific that they were checking elderly people with diapers and making wheel chaired bound people prove they needed a wheelchair.
Mother: "We'll be safer."
Sister: "I have nothing to hide."
Me:"Terrorists have announced plans to start trying to hide bombs surgically implanted in their skin."
Mother: "So... they have to perform surgery mid-flight to blow themselves up? *laugh*"
Me: "Remote detonation. First time they catch someone attempting this the TSA will start requiring medical records if they see an operation scar."
Sister: "So what? I got nothing to hide. In fact, I think it is a good idea for them to have our medical records to make sure our flights are safe."
They are the first to Google people, gossip, etc. My sister has been caught looking at homes with binoculars at night. When a family friend joking texted her saying he could see her at night you'd be surprised how fast her translucent curtains were replaced with thick drapes. Some people don't care about privacy until it affects them.
Exactly.
Back in highschool around 2001 the administration went with a group who were tasked to filter out all sorts of nastiness. For one, it was meant to protect us the children. For two, it made doing reports at school annoying as it blocked out any reference to Nazis so World War 2 reports had to be researched at home (killing the point of a school net access if you were too poor to own a computer back then. High poverty rate district) or with books only. For third, the entire system was based on a proxy server.
Kids who either were too dumb or just didn't care enough to pass the "how to turn a computer on" class became knowledgeable on how to navigate IE and turn off the proxy server. They didn't know what proxy servers were or why it worked, but the entire school quickly taught each other how to disable going through the proxy server to get what they wanted.
You are either free from corporate interests or government interests. Pick a master and hope they aren't corruptible easily.
That and a generational gap. You'd think I was making it up if I tried explaining in context.
The area I live in, summarized, has the view if you take pills the pills drove you insane. If you were insane before the pills then you are either a closet gay or pedophile. If you are too young for them to perceive to be a pedophile or gay, then you are snorting the medication to get high.
Note the last line there. Starting with my mother's generation, unevenly, when they became parents they began seeing psyche health as being something worth checking into. As their kids are now adults they are more willing (due to seeing it help their peers) seek help when something emerges and take their kids for help if something seems off.
I think it is a three-fold problem:
* Previous generations were undermedicated due to social stigma
* Prices keep/kept some economic classes of people from buying the drugs until generics started coming out.
* Just like anti-vax proponents, you have people who are over medicating more now throwing the number off in the opposite direction.
even if it was done in retaliation, at least Google has the defense that copyright trolls in the past have tried claiming merely linking to their content was infringement. This could be seen as proactive.
They are putting gelatin genes into yeast. If Vegans can drink beer can they not eat gelatin as it is? It isn't like the yeast have suddenly become more animal like with a few extra genes.
Innocent, but not trusted. You breath, you live, you could be a terrorist. Unless you join this program only available to profitable customers to a series of corporations and hand over information to the government so they can crowdsource their spying of their own citizens.
Not quite that simple. I didn't even read the article and the summary had me scratching my head. That large number of dead monkeys and the humans are merely "ill"? It sounded backwards to me. So I looked at the articles.
Not that they could be blamed for not at lealst doing a quick reading. After opening the links you can see that the article says monkey->human transtion. The journal states it was likely not native to the monkeys, implying Human->Monkey (or possibly, human->monkey->human), in the summaries, but adds more research is needed to confirm the direction of species jumping.
I remember back in middle school hearing my social studies teacher explain how much the poor suckers of workers in China were. He explained that if they did not meet their quota they would be punished (stick) but they had a goal where they would get bonuses for rising that far above the quota (carrot). If they got their carrot that would become the new quota they always had to meet.
Jump ahead 1.5 decades and what I am hearing a near identical thing from U.S. workers.
No flashy graphics bringing your machine to its knees.
Oooh, some of the stuff you can do to cause that to happen. Heck, there are small things you can do to cause a multi-player game to head that direction easily. I've never seen a multiplayer capable game where so many users in their youtube how to videos go "This is cool, woah, lag from all this stuff going on. Okay, don't do this online. It will melt the server with all the interactions between the players".
3 Redstone abuse.
Not is adding village and NPC generation in a future patch. Don't confuse "not added" out of time constraint or no desire for "doesn't work". Combat is getting revamped. Buried, abandoned ruins are a work in progress that Notch has been revealing screenshots of.
Minecraft is getting there.
Stigler's Law variant.
Friendster -> MySpace -> FaceBook. It ain't Friendster or MySpace that is plastered on dang near every website and being visited by the U.S. president. It doesn't matter who did it first.