For me, most of the allure of watching it via the internet is that I don't have to change my schedule to fit the broadcasting schedule. The opening ceremonies aren't being broadcast live here anyway.
snub (snb)
tr.v. snubbed, snubbing, snubs
1. To ignore or behave coldly toward; slight.
2. To dismiss, turn down, or frustrate the expectations of.
No one is saying anyone is "owed" or "entitled" to it. Just "Hey, we realize that many of you like watching things in a -slightly- different way than you used to, and it really could easily be better for everyone including us if we decided to embrace it... but no, fuck you for no real reason."
Probably silly question: wouldn't the effectiveness of that be reduced by mirror-coating the missile? I'm aware mirrors aren't perfect and won't be perfect on a missile, but you wouldn't need to completely bounce all the energy away. As I understand it, we don't have a laser that can focus on and cook a normal missile in the air yet, if reflective coating doubled the time required for a laser, wouldn't that double the requirement for the laser?
Googling didn't immediately bring up anything more than short answers to forum posts like this.
I agree there are barriers. And I obviously was just making idle wishes, not a well researched policy suggestion. I know why the towns get the money, I'm saying they shouldn't. I know it's not official that police officers will be fired if they don't write enough tickets, I'm saying it should in reality not be a thing.
I'd like to see the effects of a national law saying money collected from traffic tickets like this don't go to the city or the police department. Have it go towards paying down the national debt instead. Also, number of tickets issued isn't a metric by which police officer performance can be judged.
Cities deciding to cut taxes but not spending, then trying to make up for it by writing tickets all over is a politician's solution. And a police union's solution I suppose. Raise taxes normally and/or cut your spending, cities. Hire a few IRS auditors, not a bunch more police officers with expensive pensions. Or do that second part if you must but have them on the streets looking for violent crimes. If your voters scream bloody murder when you're raising rather than cutting $5 from their taxes a year, educate them on how stupid they are. Obviously I haven't done any research on this subject, but I'd bet a parking ticket it will work out better in the long run.
Better yet: if those things need to be protected, protect them further by not using them to prosecute criminals you could stop through ordinary, legal police work. Or that you don't really need to stop at all.
It's like antibiotic resistance. You preserve antibiotic efficiency by using them only when you need to. Wiretapping for stupid shit like drug offenses is just asking for wiretapping to become useless, on top of skirting the law.
So the goal was to catch US residents who were claiming they weren't in order to dodge taxes, and it ended up affecting US citizens who AREN'T residents?
Kind of makes it hard to blame the tax dodgers. I would prefer my tax dollars not go to an organization as counterproductive as the US government too.
Who thinks the Wii U is successful? And the 360 has been out for almost a decade. Apple TV outselling it the last two years means that people may have stopped replacing their 360s as much, not that apple TV sold a lot.
"Massively improved gaming performance"? Is that true? I thought the conventional wisdom on external GPUs is that they were a waste of money even on PCs. For roughly the same amount as the external GPU, you could just build a gaming rig that would be comparable to the external + PC.
Let me state clearly that I have no idea of how true that is, I don't know hardware. Just that the last time I looked into it for my laptop, I was quickly convinced it was not a good idea.
Good, but I'd argue that MS and google are just one of a few companies that are too big to be trusted. Monsanto, for example, is more blatantly evil. They are coming close to a monopoly on corn and soybeans (source). You can live without an electronic map with very little trouble. I suspect Monsanto is not on your list, as eating all organic food that doesn't stem from corn or soybeans is pretty expensive.
Then again, I suppose Monsanto has grown past the point where consumer action is going to do anything ever.
Hornick's comments make no sense in biotech. Genes and cells are patented not organs. You can print organs with a 3D printer, not genes or cells. Cells already "print" themselves, and genes can be printed easily with a PCR machine.
Companies who engineer fluorescent proteins, for example, have patents on them. They seem to turn a profit despite the fact that there's nothing like DRM on them (DNA rights management I guess?)
I suppose people could patent the scaffolds that will be printed, but as I understand it, it's just strips of plastic in the vague shape of the organ. You patented that particular scaffold? Well, my scaffold is up and down instead of side to side, so it's different. And fuck off anyway.
It's a straw man argument he's making. Possibly just to hear himself talk. Lawyers do that I guess.
And since "terrorist threat" is not an extraordinary circumstance (went nine years without going below "yellow: elevated risk") that clearly wouldn't apply. It's an ordinary circumstance, our rights are being infringed, not temporarily suspended for an important cause.
Case in point: the patriot act is being used for the war on drugs, not the war on terrorism. If anyone believes that national security requests aren't likewise being used for very very ordinary law enforcement scams or industrial espionage... well then they probably can't understand most of the words in this post.
Who is "we?" Were you expecting google and samsung to team up to fix IP globally? Of course they're going to remove that one edge from the graph: that's one that they deal with and can fix.
"Hey, fuck you Mr. Politician! You fixed ONE problem in your ONE country! Not EVERY PROBLEM IN THE WORLD SIMULTANEOUSLY!!!"
(That joke would be better if I could give an example of a politician who fixed anything)
You paint it as black and white. The new managers may have saved it, that doesn't mean that all their actions are good.
I'd say the large issue is why did the country allow a historic site to be threatened. It's not like maintaining a historic site is ruinously expensive. The state should say "Eh, chaps, this is going to be funded with taxpayer money. Marmelade. Here's a cheque for the property, here's a cheque for maintenence. Tea time and crumpets" and that could be that. Why does history need to make a profit to be saved? The religion of free-market worship has gone too far, insisting that historical sites make money or be bulldozed is one symptom of that.
No, they're one upping Orwell and successfully framing it as a new thing. In airports they say "Due to heightened security..." implying security is higher than normal at airports despite the fact that it has been that way for a decade and will never decrease. The national security level system had lower levels of threats on it, but pretty clearly no one ever intended to tell the public they were finally safe and could stop funding the military industrial complex.
With a conflict that has always been going on, people will accept it. But they'll be apathetic about it too, so you can get less money out of it.
It's still useful data for responding to the movie industry's absurd statements.
Movie industry: "We can't make a profit with streaming! Titanic! Movie magic! Actors will starve!"
Response: "Yes you can. For a flat rate of $15, let alone whatever you WILL charge. And that's even if you DON'T charge premiums, which you fucking will."
Movie industry: "But PIRACY IS GOING TO DESTROY ENTERTAINMENT FOREVER"
Response: "NO."
I don't know much about physics, but it seems to me that every nice little summary like "Black holes don't exist" come from math that I can't even look at without getting dizzy.
I suspect you could come up with any number of conjectures without doing the math.
"Your theory of a donut-shaped universe is intriguing, Homer. I may have to steal it."
Stephen Hawking
Citation needed about the jamming. Specifically the "easily" part. Seems like there are a lot of dead terrorists who would have been very motivated to figure it out if it were "easy."
Perhaps you mean "Easily for a real threat to national security," IE an actual country who can use technology beyond a pipe bomb or a 40 year old soviet rifle. That would actually be a good point as to why we'd need piloted planes. Potentially anyway, citation still needed.
With only a minority of eligible voters bothering to vote in the primaries or most elections, I'm not sure we can conclude that the system is designed to prevent that. I'd argue that voter apathy is what causes it.
Strawman argument alert. Additionally, tu quoque argument alert.
Firethrorn never said the US should be exempt from similar laws. Additionally, Firethorn is not an embodiment of the US, nor does he have much power over US trade agreements. You appear to be suggesting hypocrisy where there is none.
You could make an argument that such a move will have unintended consequences when other countries enact similar laws, however Firethorn might thing that was a good thing. I certainly would. Countries imposing sanctions on the US and China until our countries quit dumping CO2 and other pollutants might be the only way to get the oligarchs to finally quit screwing over the climate. I'm willing to take the risk that my standard of living decreases as a result.
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For me, most of the allure of watching it via the internet is that I don't have to change my schedule to fit the broadcasting schedule. The opening ceremonies aren't being broadcast live here anyway.
snub (snb)
tr.v. snubbed, snubbing, snubs
1. To ignore or behave coldly toward; slight.
2. To dismiss, turn down, or frustrate the expectations of.
No one is saying anyone is "owed" or "entitled" to it. Just "Hey, we realize that many of you like watching things in a -slightly- different way than you used to, and it really could easily be better for everyone including us if we decided to embrace it... but no, fuck you for no real reason."
Probably silly question: wouldn't the effectiveness of that be reduced by mirror-coating the missile? I'm aware mirrors aren't perfect and won't be perfect on a missile, but you wouldn't need to completely bounce all the energy away. As I understand it, we don't have a laser that can focus on and cook a normal missile in the air yet, if reflective coating doubled the time required for a laser, wouldn't that double the requirement for the laser?
Googling didn't immediately bring up anything more than short answers to forum posts like this.
I agree there are barriers. And I obviously was just making idle wishes, not a well researched policy suggestion. I know why the towns get the money, I'm saying they shouldn't. I know it's not official that police officers will be fired if they don't write enough tickets, I'm saying it should in reality not be a thing.
And not even the usual "insurance scam" way!
I'd like to see the effects of a national law saying money collected from traffic tickets like this don't go to the city or the police department. Have it go towards paying down the national debt instead. Also, number of tickets issued isn't a metric by which police officer performance can be judged.
Cities deciding to cut taxes but not spending, then trying to make up for it by writing tickets all over is a politician's solution. And a police union's solution I suppose. Raise taxes normally and/or cut your spending, cities. Hire a few IRS auditors, not a bunch more police officers with expensive pensions. Or do that second part if you must but have them on the streets looking for violent crimes. If your voters scream bloody murder when you're raising rather than cutting $5 from their taxes a year, educate them on how stupid they are. Obviously I haven't done any research on this subject, but I'd bet a parking ticket it will work out better in the long run.
Better yet: if those things need to be protected, protect them further by not using them to prosecute criminals you could stop through ordinary, legal police work. Or that you don't really need to stop at all.
It's like antibiotic resistance. You preserve antibiotic efficiency by using them only when you need to. Wiretapping for stupid shit like drug offenses is just asking for wiretapping to become useless, on top of skirting the law.
So the goal was to catch US residents who were claiming they weren't in order to dodge taxes, and it ended up affecting US citizens who AREN'T residents?
Kind of makes it hard to blame the tax dodgers. I would prefer my tax dollars not go to an organization as counterproductive as the US government too.
Who thinks the Wii U is successful? And the 360 has been out for almost a decade. Apple TV outselling it the last two years means that people may have stopped replacing their 360s as much, not that apple TV sold a lot.
"Massively improved gaming performance"? Is that true? I thought the conventional wisdom on external GPUs is that they were a waste of money even on PCs. For roughly the same amount as the external GPU, you could just build a gaming rig that would be comparable to the external + PC.
Let me state clearly that I have no idea of how true that is, I don't know hardware. Just that the last time I looked into it for my laptop, I was quickly convinced it was not a good idea.
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89% Windows
6% Mac OSX
5% Linux
I have more good news for you. In a three way dunk competition between you, Kobe Bryant, and me, you have a good shot at coming in second!!!
Good, but I'd argue that MS and google are just one of a few companies that are too big to be trusted. Monsanto, for example, is more blatantly evil. They are coming close to a monopoly on corn and soybeans (source). You can live without an electronic map with very little trouble. I suspect Monsanto is not on your list, as eating all organic food that doesn't stem from corn or soybeans is pretty expensive.
Then again, I suppose Monsanto has grown past the point where consumer action is going to do anything ever.
Hornick's comments make no sense in biotech. Genes and cells are patented not organs. You can print organs with a 3D printer, not genes or cells. Cells already "print" themselves, and genes can be printed easily with a PCR machine.
Companies who engineer fluorescent proteins, for example, have patents on them. They seem to turn a profit despite the fact that there's nothing like DRM on them (DNA rights management I guess?)
I suppose people could patent the scaffolds that will be printed, but as I understand it, it's just strips of plastic in the vague shape of the organ. You patented that particular scaffold? Well, my scaffold is up and down instead of side to side, so it's different. And fuck off anyway.
It's a straw man argument he's making. Possibly just to hear himself talk. Lawyers do that I guess.
And since "terrorist threat" is not an extraordinary circumstance (went nine years without going below "yellow: elevated risk") that clearly wouldn't apply. It's an ordinary circumstance, our rights are being infringed, not temporarily suspended for an important cause.
Case in point: the patriot act is being used for the war on drugs, not the war on terrorism. If anyone believes that national security requests aren't likewise being used for very very ordinary law enforcement scams or industrial espionage... well then they probably can't understand most of the words in this post.
More like "Come up with a double-secret FISA that doesn't fall under any of these rules."
"One step forward, two steps back" is the phrase you were looking for, not "slowly being boiled." For your mistake, you owe me $200.
Alright, that was a bit harsh. You only owe me $100.
Who is "we?" Were you expecting google and samsung to team up to fix IP globally? Of course they're going to remove that one edge from the graph: that's one that they deal with and can fix.
"Hey, fuck you Mr. Politician! You fixed ONE problem in your ONE country! Not EVERY PROBLEM IN THE WORLD SIMULTANEOUSLY!!!"
(That joke would be better if I could give an example of a politician who fixed anything)
You paint it as black and white. The new managers may have saved it, that doesn't mean that all their actions are good.
I'd say the large issue is why did the country allow a historic site to be threatened. It's not like maintaining a historic site is ruinously expensive. The state should say "Eh, chaps, this is going to be funded with taxpayer money. Marmelade. Here's a cheque for the property, here's a cheque for maintenence. Tea time and crumpets" and that could be that. Why does history need to make a profit to be saved? The religion of free-market worship has gone too far, insisting that historical sites make money or be bulldozed is one symptom of that.
No, they're one upping Orwell and successfully framing it as a new thing. In airports they say "Due to heightened security..." implying security is higher than normal at airports despite the fact that it has been that way for a decade and will never decrease. The national security level system had lower levels of threats on it, but pretty clearly no one ever intended to tell the public they were finally safe and could stop funding the military industrial complex.
With a conflict that has always been going on, people will accept it. But they'll be apathetic about it too, so you can get less money out of it.
It's still useful data for responding to the movie industry's absurd statements.
Movie industry: "We can't make a profit with streaming! Titanic! Movie magic! Actors will starve!"
Response: "Yes you can. For a flat rate of $15, let alone whatever you WILL charge. And that's even if you DON'T charge premiums, which you fucking will."
Movie industry: "But PIRACY IS GOING TO DESTROY ENTERTAINMENT FOREVER"
Response: "NO."
I don't know much about physics, but it seems to me that every nice little summary like "Black holes don't exist" come from math that I can't even look at without getting dizzy.
I suspect you could come up with any number of conjectures without doing the math.
"Your theory of a donut-shaped universe is intriguing, Homer. I may have to steal it."
Stephen Hawking
Citation needed about the jamming. Specifically the "easily" part. Seems like there are a lot of dead terrorists who would have been very motivated to figure it out if it were "easy."
Perhaps you mean "Easily for a real threat to national security," IE an actual country who can use technology beyond a pipe bomb or a 40 year old soviet rifle. That would actually be a good point as to why we'd need piloted planes. Potentially anyway, citation still needed.
While privacy has progressively gotten worse, the services themselves have progressively gotten less annoying...
With only a minority of eligible voters bothering to vote in the primaries or most elections, I'm not sure we can conclude that the system is designed to prevent that. I'd argue that voter apathy is what causes it.
Strawman argument alert. Additionally, tu quoque argument alert.
Firethrorn never said the US should be exempt from similar laws. Additionally, Firethorn is not an embodiment of the US, nor does he have much power over US trade agreements. You appear to be suggesting hypocrisy where there is none.
You could make an argument that such a move will have unintended consequences when other countries enact similar laws, however Firethorn might thing that was a good thing. I certainly would. Countries imposing sanctions on the US and China until our countries quit dumping CO2 and other pollutants might be the only way to get the oligarchs to finally quit screwing over the climate. I'm willing to take the risk that my standard of living decreases as a result.