Actually most people survive plane crashes: "95.7 percent of people involved in a plane crash actually survive. Even in the most serious class of crashes, more than 76 percent of those on board live to tell the tale" (source)
You clearly didn't watch the video. Yes, trademarks are protected in the fashion industry, and trademark infringement will get the cops involved. But no, designs cannot be copyrighted, so you could copy an Anne Klein bag down to the last zipper, and as long as you didn't use their trademark, you're fine.
I think often there is very good reason to be more afraid of a powerful government than a powerful corporation. The government is the one with the power to put you in jail, kill you, take away everything you own, etc. Also government is often driven not by predictable profit-seeking motives, but more "irrational" fanaticism. True, in some cases corporations can also take things from you, but usually they have the power to do so through, or because of, the government (the cops are the ones who force you out of your foreclosed house, not bankers). Of course there's a flipside also -- too weak a government can't protect you from private entities directly fucking with you.
Actually one could make the argument that Java is worse, since at least C++ voodoo can allow a highly trained programmer to accomplish some really cool and unusual things. Of course that doesn't change the fact that at least in Java tiny changes in whitespace won't result in two valid but entirely different meanings...
From what little I remember about wireless, between-packet redundancy is the novel part here (at least I have personally never heard of it before). Within-packet redundancy has of course been used since pretty much the beginning of time.
Meh, I don't think it's such a great idea to force all pharma to be non-profit. If there's demand for dick pills even with frequent side effects, why shouldn't there be supply? Now maybe there should be more restrictive regulation on what can be advertised (e.g. for serious conditions like depression, or high cholesterol, maybe even for any drug not explicitly stated to be only for 18+ people, I think there's good reason not to allow any advertising). But outright banning profit from pharma seems like overkill.
Yeah, that's a wonderful idea. I can see no possible backlash from banning one of the only sources of pleasure most deployed soldiers have most days./s
Why exactly would a ringworld be more impossible to construct than a Dyson Ring? It could be built piece by piece, so that at fist each piece orbits the star independently, and then joined...
This seems more akin to targeted advertising by private entities than "the government assembling lists". They're don't seem to be doing it in any official capacity, but rather as a tactic for promoting their party. Not that I'm saying it's not creepy or a cause for concern! But the implication that this is akin to something the NSA might be doing is, I think, out of place.
From what I understand, if you were using a warp drive in interstellar space to go at an "effective " 10c, you wouldn't collide with any atoms in that space at 10c (that is impossible, since it would mean two objects traveling at 10c relative to each other in a "traditional" way). I have no idea what would actually happen, though. Perhaps it would increase the density of the matter you're travelling through. Or perhaps that matter would first experience an immense contraction (passing through the front of the bubble), then return to normal density by the time it reaches the ship, then experience dilation upon exiting the bubble... But I'm not a physicist, so dunno.
Well of course it's a problem with the passenger, namely that she's been raped in the past and suffers from PTSD because of that. In all the cases I've heard when sexual abuse and PTSD are brought up in regards to the TSA it's to say that the person had a history of rape, and had PTSD as a result of that rape, and that the pat-down triggered flashbacks/episodes as a result of said PTSD.
A related question: if a parent denies essential (read: life-saving) medical care for his already born and self-aware child (assuming an idealized scenario where intervention implies instant guarantee of survival without side effects or financial burden), should he be arrested and put in jail? Of course in that situation the intermediate step is to strip parental rights, but suppose that is not possible, meaning whatever the parent decides happens?
or perhaps my mind is already playing tricks on me
It is. The first one or two seasons were perhaps acceptable (though even that is tentative), but after that it turned into some of the most horrible, repetitive garbage I've seen on TV (10 whole fucking seasons of it, too).
I could rig the game to let the user play random strings
Seems like that would take a pretty long time for 30 characters. Plus it might not work the way you describe -- it's not necessarily true that the user would be better at playing any substring.
I reallllly hope they have some good statisticians hanging around keeping an eye on things. Given how high-profile the whole thing is I'm almost certain they have a good analysis of any potential sources of a false positive before making an announcement, but... I actually know a statistics prof who collaborated with people at CERN and said that he got out of that because, well, it was a bit of a mess (though he wasn't involved with the Higgs experiment).
I really don't understand the problem some people have with anthropomorphizing things like that. What, are you afraid some creationist will overhear you or something? We all know what he meant, and that's the purpose of language.
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Actually most people survive plane crashes: "95.7 percent of people involved in a plane crash actually survive. Even in the most serious class of crashes, more than 76 percent of those on board live to tell the tale" (source)
You clearly didn't watch the video. Yes, trademarks are protected in the fashion industry, and trademark infringement will get the cops involved. But no, designs cannot be copyrighted, so you could copy an Anne Klein bag down to the last zipper, and as long as you didn't use their trademark, you're fine.
I think often there is very good reason to be more afraid of a powerful government than a powerful corporation. The government is the one with the power to put you in jail, kill you, take away everything you own, etc. Also government is often driven not by predictable profit-seeking motives, but more "irrational" fanaticism. True, in some cases corporations can also take things from you, but usually they have the power to do so through, or because of, the government (the cops are the ones who force you out of your foreclosed house, not bankers). Of course there's a flipside also -- too weak a government can't protect you from private entities directly fucking with you.
Cool and unusual things are *not* something to strive for
I never disagreed with that, I think that's bad programming.
and it's not what C++ is for.
No, but C++ makes such things possible more than most other languages.
Did you change the topic to Python now? I don't recall any such problem in C++.
That was an exaggeration. I was referring to problems like these.
Actually one could make the argument that Java is worse, since at least C++ voodoo can allow a highly trained programmer to accomplish some really cool and unusual things. Of course that doesn't change the fact that at least in Java tiny changes in whitespace won't result in two valid but entirely different meanings...
From what little I remember about wireless, between-packet redundancy is the novel part here (at least I have personally never heard of it before). Within-packet redundancy has of course been used since pretty much the beginning of time.
I can't believe I hadn't heard about them before. What they're doing is awesome, and adorable!
Meh, I don't think it's such a great idea to force all pharma to be non-profit. If there's demand for dick pills even with frequent side effects, why shouldn't there be supply? Now maybe there should be more restrictive regulation on what can be advertised (e.g. for serious conditions like depression, or high cholesterol, maybe even for any drug not explicitly stated to be only for 18+ people, I think there's good reason not to allow any advertising). But outright banning profit from pharma seems like overkill.
Yeah, that's a wonderful idea. I can see no possible backlash from banning one of the only sources of pleasure most deployed soldiers have most days. /s
Ah, right, I forgot it would have to rotate faster than orbital so things like people and atmosphere stick to it...
Why exactly would a ringworld be more impossible to construct than a Dyson Ring? It could be built piece by piece, so that at fist each piece orbits the star independently, and then joined...
Don't forget about that pesky accelerated dilation thing. Infinite energy doesn't to you much good if you're being torn apart as a sub-nuclear level.
When caught, the suspect is reported to have said "Hey, her USB ports were clearly exposed, she was asking for it!"
This seems more akin to targeted advertising by private entities than "the government assembling lists". They're don't seem to be doing it in any official capacity, but rather as a tactic for promoting their party. Not that I'm saying it's not creepy or a cause for concern! But the implication that this is akin to something the NSA might be doing is, I think, out of place.
From what I understand, if you were using a warp drive in interstellar space to go at an "effective " 10c, you wouldn't collide with any atoms in that space at 10c (that is impossible, since it would mean two objects traveling at 10c relative to each other in a "traditional" way). I have no idea what would actually happen, though. Perhaps it would increase the density of the matter you're travelling through. Or perhaps that matter would first experience an immense contraction (passing through the front of the bubble), then return to normal density by the time it reaches the ship, then experience dilation upon exiting the bubble... But I'm not a physicist, so dunno.
How so?
It's just cocaine. Not really dangerous in the quantities they're talking about.
Well of course it's a problem with the passenger, namely that she's been raped in the past and suffers from PTSD because of that. In all the cases I've heard when sexual abuse and PTSD are brought up in regards to the TSA it's to say that the person had a history of rape, and had PTSD as a result of that rape, and that the pat-down triggered flashbacks/episodes as a result of said PTSD.
You mean one more thing for me not to have sex with...
A related question: if a parent denies essential (read: life-saving) medical care for his already born and self-aware child (assuming an idealized scenario where intervention implies instant guarantee of survival without side effects or financial burden), should he be arrested and put in jail? Of course in that situation the intermediate step is to strip parental rights, but suppose that is not possible, meaning whatever the parent decides happens?
or perhaps my mind is already playing tricks on me
It is. The first one or two seasons were perhaps acceptable (though even that is tentative), but after that it turned into some of the most horrible, repetitive garbage I've seen on TV (10 whole fucking seasons of it, too).
I could rig the game to let the user play random strings
Seems like that would take a pretty long time for 30 characters. Plus it might not work the way you describe -- it's not necessarily true that the user would be better at playing any substring.
Yeah but once you plug in that AC/DC converter, all hell breaks loose!
I reallllly hope they have some good statisticians hanging around keeping an eye on things. Given how high-profile the whole thing is I'm almost certain they have a good analysis of any potential sources of a false positive before making an announcement, but... I actually know a statistics prof who collaborated with people at CERN and said that he got out of that because, well, it was a bit of a mess (though he wasn't involved with the Higgs experiment).
I really don't understand the problem some people have with anthropomorphizing things like that. What, are you afraid some creationist will overhear you or something? We all know what he meant, and that's the purpose of language.