The 25 year old man totally deserves the jail time. So does the cop. Actually, since it's about a year later, he's probably 26 now. No idea how old the cop is, but he'd been a cop there for 7 years, so he's no stupid rookie that got scared and did something stupid.
Because of the "Blue Shield". In short, cops protect cops, and the prosecutors who decide what cases to prosecute are complicit in this conspiracy due to their working closely with the police and seeing them as their allies and aids. After who's going to arrest the cops?
No. A person that has just murdered someone and has a hostage is not going to casually answer the door in the first place. That cop would have just shot dead the hostage.
He's not an easy fall guy, he's the guy who decided to use a seriously flawed system to knowingly put innocent lives in extreme risk for pocket change and giggles. Both are messed up, and for different reasons. By the way, the cop that murdered the guy got off scott free. So as many people have pointed out, there's more than one person guilty, and that in no way reduces the culpability of anyone involved in this travesty, but of course, cops are almost never punished at all, even when you have the video evidence that they lied and murdered a harmless and innocent person. Too bad we don't have the video evidence for this, not that it would likely help obtain justice.
He has intentionally, and multiple times, sent armed men with a penchant for shooting first to go and invade some innocent persons home EXPECTING to find violent criminals!
So if someone throws molotov cocktails into peoples windows and somebody dies of smoke inhilation or is burned to death, or just maimed by fire (If you've seen what the scars from 3rd degree burns are like you'd understand why survivors of them are considered maimed) you think they should just have a few hundred hours of community service?
He was knowingly and intentionally putting many peoples lives at severe risk!
It's not like it's any secret that the police prefer to shoot first and lie about it later whenever they think their target has so much as a rubber band.
Sure, this will definitely help us understand the brain and probably AI in general, but don't mistake it for an "electronic brain" on the level of a humans as some people are doing, either for fun or in ignorance.
Also, don't forget that our wetware already has a lot of programming in it by default, and we don't even pretend to be able to read and comprehend that source code. So even if we did do a good duplicate of the brain, it's just not going to be the same. A further complication that may invalidate a lot of this digital mimicry is the sheer complexity of the human brain. Yes, we all know it's big and complex, but they are just starting to figure out that even the tiny bits are more than a bit. One type of brain cell (there are several different types, and they each do different things) appears not to be the equivalent of a bit in a computer as people have talked about before, and it might not even be a qubit as more recent discussions have gone over! Some work in the past couple of years has identified structures that might make each of those cells in our brains be the equivalent of many quibits in a quantum processor! (I don't remember the exact number, but I'm pretty sure it was somewhere between 10 and 20 each cell.) If that's correct, it increases the relative computing power of the human brain to insane levels that no regular computer can ever duplicate. Even a quantum computer would have to have far more processing than anything we've possible built so far. I say possibly built because the quantum processors out there are suspected by some of not actually being quantum processors.
The project is still important, and will likely yield very valuable research material, but the whole sci-fi electronic brain is still a looooong way off.
I've tried the Oculus Rift, and had fun, but it's still rather novel. The reality is that the tech is still way too expensive for any decent market penetration. The software makers need more time to get a handle on how to make the new capabilities fun and desirable rather than just ringing the "new thing" bell, and for the most part, they aren't going to do a lot of development until there's a larger installed base.
It's fine for people with lots of spare cash, but for the majority of the market, it's still years away mainstream, if not a lot longer.
Not so much, as has been proven by many economic studies and real world cases over the past 50 years. This gets more money flowing into the economy where it's needed, at the lower end. That in turn increases demand for pretty much everything, which increases sales, which increases demand, etc. Don't forget that this money is already in the system, but now instead of going to the top of the economic food chain where it mostly sits static or in stocks, bonds, or off shore accounts where it does absolutely nothing for the economy, it's now flowing through many hands at the base of the economic chain where it actually does good. The rich don't create jobs, they stifle the economy. The richer they get, the worse it becomes. These are very well known and studied economic realities among economists. Many of them, including winners of the Nobel Prize for Economics have talked about this in language us non-economists can understand. As to it violating what is often called "common sense". That's pretty common with reality not conforming to what uneducated humans expect.
My question I haven't yet found the answer to is this:
Did they register the domain before word of Microsoft &the Green Bay Packers plans leaked?
If so, it's a company using lawyers to steal something they want but aren't entitled to. If not, then it's probably a case of cybersquatters getting squashed like they deserve.
Considering the number of species, that 66,000 is a drop in the bucket of animal DNA.
I don't consider that as any kind of definition for "staggering" if you are actually trying to do any kind of ark.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault currently has about 968,000 samples, and can hold up to about 4,500,000, and theirs aren't genetic profiles, it's actual packets of seeds.
As to the VPA, will those "high definition genetic profiles" have enough data to replicate the DNA? Why don't they have tissue samples?
Yes, sure, this is going to be helpful for biologists and others, if the data is accessible, but will it do anything to help SAVE the animals, which is something pretty much considered the prime directive of any kind of ARK
You'd think he was worried about someone trying to fire him, throw him in jail, getting executed or something... Trump took it with stride and didn't rant about it make threats right? He did? I guess there's a valid reason that person decided to be an A.C. in this situation.
Ever hear of a public library? Scientist expect to be able to access the bulk of research papers because it's integral to science itself. The paywalling of such papers makes the majority of them inaccessible to scientists and the public. Nobody, especially the average scientist/researcher, has the near unlimited funds that would be needed to search out data from the wide array of papers and publications out there. And yet, the sharing of information and collaboration of knowledge is a vital process to the enrichment of science itself.
The paywalls are massive detriment to the progress of science and humanity. Fuck the fees!
Doesn't work if the material is too hot. Once the oxygen comes back, if the fuel source is still hot enough it just bursts back into flames. It's not like an oil/gas rig when the material is coming out in an unignited stream, and then hitting the burning part to ignite. In those cases the explosion breaks the stream and when it succeeds there's nothing left hot enough to reignite it. Part of the reason why have to remove some of the parts before they attempt it or the hot metal will just start the fire back up.
Now trees don't move into the fire, rather the fire moves to them. Those glowing hot pieces of wood/charcoal are still glowing hot even after the explosion, so they are both a source of fuel and heat, all it needs is oxygen.
There might be situations where it can potentially help, but a widespread fire has the nasty habit of just going back and reigniting fuel if conditions allow. (Uphill, downwind, etc.) So you are going to want to get a damn near perfect spread so there's not spots left that can reignite the whole mess again. Of course carpet bombing can provide quantity, but accuracy isn't part of that equation, for that you need smart bombs, either Laser or TV guided.
Now here's the other part of this mess. Using real munitions is VERY expensive. If you add smart bombs to the mix, you've multiplied the price by many times! Sure the warhead is expensive, but the guidance unit is so much more expensive! As in you can buy a new Tesla for the price of one of those guidance units.
Then there's all that talk about a combustible case for the warhead. Hey, great idea! Except there aren't any, and that would be an expensive thing to build. Did you know that STEEL case of a warhead serves the purpose of confining the explosive so it can build up a higher pressure so it's a high order explosion instead of a low order explosion? So unless you want to increase the number of bombs you have to use since you've very dramatically decreased the power of your explosive, that combustible casing has to be able to withstand the same kind of forces the steel one does. If you didn't know, that's not sheet metal those things are made out of. A blacksmith could cut sword blanks out of those things if they had some empties to play with. Not an oversized and insane anime or video game sword, just a regular historical sized one. (I'm not sure if the weight of an empty warhead casing is public info or not, so I'm not going to bring up specifics like that)
So again, some situations may be able to use explosives, but most of the time it's a champagne in solid gold goblets kind of price tag to go with it. The special non-steel cases don't exist and somebody would have to develop them. There's a ton of issues with that idea.
I see Saloomy brought up bulldozing. Yes, they do a lot of that to try and make firebreaks, but you again can't build those everywhere. It takes time, there are only so much equipment even available, and they have time limits to make it, and that's assuming the fire doesn't shift direction. Even then, there's always the problem that fires can and do jump firebreaks at times. Those burning bits get carried on the wind and can ignite a multitude of other fires on the otherside of the break. When some idiots from the OSI ignored multiple rules and did something really stupid, they burned down a lot of the forest that was on base. That area was used for wargames and training. The road between the bomb dump and the burning woods was acting like a firebreak, and for about an hour before they pulled us out my crew was driving around in our truck with all the fire extinguishers we could get our hands on chasing down the burning embers floating across on the light breeze.
With a big fire, there's always a breeze, they are big enough affect the weather and create their own thermal updraft column.
Anyway, not dissing the posters here, just spreading some knowledge.
You don't have to know everything to do repairs. Do you know how to build a video card? Probably not. Of course, it's pretty easy to replace a known bad video card with a known good one despite that lack of in depth knowledge. Of course you could just assume that since you don't have the level of knowledge to build your own video card you should leave it alone, despite the fact that experience has shown us that a smoking video card eventually bursts into flames and destroys the entire computer long before it would have expired if you had just replaced the bad video card.
Well we sure as heck know the misery and death those genetic based diseases will cause, so I'd rather risk a new programming error to fix an obvious show stopper than to let the damn thing slip through QA & Testing.
Yes, but most of the people screaming that it's wrong and against their religion despite there not being a single condemnation of genetic alteration or healing the sick in their holy book(s) are christians, not jews.
For me, I think any god that's so incompetent and cruel to have genetically based diseases around deserved to be abolished to the dustbin of rejected despots.
Totally correct, but they are basing the "rifle" due to size and configuration of the weapon instead of a physical component like riflings. Though scientists have figured out how to put spin on a laser (or at least the photons, I forget the details of the article).
Though I don't have any mod points today, you sir/madam/whatever totally deserve them;)
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False. That was tattoos, not implanted technology that didn't even exist in the 40s.
The 25 year old man totally deserves the jail time.
So does the cop.
Actually, since it's about a year later, he's probably 26 now.
No idea how old the cop is, but he'd been a cop there for 7 years, so he's no stupid rookie that got scared and did something stupid.
Because of the "Blue Shield".
In short, cops protect cops, and the prosecutors who decide what cases to prosecute are complicit in this conspiracy due to their working closely with the police and seeing them as their allies and aids.
After who's going to arrest the cops?
No.
A person that has just murdered someone and has a hostage is not going to casually answer the door in the first place. That cop would have just shot dead the hostage.
He's not an easy fall guy, he's the guy who decided to use a seriously flawed system to knowingly put innocent lives in extreme risk for pocket change and giggles.
Both are messed up, and for different reasons.
By the way, the cop that murdered the guy got off scott free.
So as many people have pointed out, there's more than one person guilty, and that in no way reduces the culpability of anyone involved in this travesty, but of course, cops are almost never punished at all, even when you have the video evidence that they lied and murdered a harmless and innocent person. Too bad we don't have the video evidence for this, not that it would likely help obtain justice.
He has intentionally, and multiple times, sent armed men with a penchant for shooting first to go and invade some innocent persons home EXPECTING to find violent criminals!
So if someone throws molotov cocktails into peoples windows and somebody dies of smoke inhilation or is burned to death, or just maimed by fire (If you've seen what the scars from 3rd degree burns are like you'd understand why survivors of them are considered maimed) you think they should just have a few hundred hours of community service?
He was knowingly and intentionally putting many peoples lives at severe risk!
It's not like it's any secret that the police prefer to shoot first and lie about it later whenever they think their target has so much as a rubber band.
That scum is getting off light in my opinion.
Sure, this will definitely help us understand the brain and probably AI in general, but don't mistake it for an "electronic brain" on the level of a humans as some people are doing, either for fun or in ignorance.
Also, don't forget that our wetware already has a lot of programming in it by default, and we don't even pretend to be able to read and comprehend that source code. So even if we did do a good duplicate of the brain, it's just not going to be the same.
A further complication that may invalidate a lot of this digital mimicry is the sheer complexity of the human brain.
Yes, we all know it's big and complex, but they are just starting to figure out that even the tiny bits are more than a bit. One type of brain cell (there are several different types, and they each do different things) appears not to be the equivalent of a bit in a computer as people have talked about before, and it might not even be a qubit as more recent discussions have gone over!
Some work in the past couple of years has identified structures that might make each of those cells in our brains be the equivalent of many quibits in a quantum processor! (I don't remember the exact number, but I'm pretty sure it was somewhere between 10 and 20 each cell.)
If that's correct, it increases the relative computing power of the human brain to insane levels that no regular computer can ever duplicate. Even a quantum computer would have to have far more processing than anything we've possible built so far. I say possibly built because the quantum processors out there are suspected by some of not actually being quantum processors.
The project is still important, and will likely yield very valuable research material, but the whole sci-fi electronic brain is still a looooong way off.
I've tried the Oculus Rift, and had fun, but it's still rather novel.
The reality is that the tech is still way too expensive for any decent market penetration. The software makers need more time to get a handle on how to make the new capabilities fun and desirable rather than just ringing the "new thing" bell, and for the most part, they aren't going to do a lot of development until there's a larger installed base.
It's fine for people with lots of spare cash, but for the majority of the market, it's still years away mainstream, if not a lot longer.
Not so much, as has been proven by many economic studies and real world cases over the past 50 years.
This gets more money flowing into the economy where it's needed, at the lower end.
That in turn increases demand for pretty much everything, which increases sales, which increases demand, etc.
Don't forget that this money is already in the system, but now instead of going to the top of the economic food chain where it mostly sits static or in stocks, bonds, or off shore accounts where it does absolutely nothing for the economy, it's now flowing through many hands at the base of the economic chain where it actually does good.
The rich don't create jobs, they stifle the economy. The richer they get, the worse it becomes. These are very well known and studied economic realities among economists. Many of them, including winners of the Nobel Prize for Economics have talked about this in language us non-economists can understand.
As to it violating what is often called "common sense". That's pretty common with reality not conforming to what uneducated humans expect.
My question I haven't yet found the answer to is this:
Did they register the domain before word of Microsoft &the Green Bay Packers plans leaked?
If so, it's a company using lawyers to steal something they want but aren't entitled to.
If not, then it's probably a case of cybersquatters getting squashed like they deserve.
Considering the number of species, that 66,000 is a drop in the bucket of animal DNA.
I don't consider that as any kind of definition for "staggering" if you are actually trying to do any kind of ark.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault currently has about 968,000 samples, and can hold up to about 4,500,000, and theirs aren't genetic profiles, it's actual packets of seeds.
As to the VPA, will those "high definition genetic profiles" have enough data to replicate the DNA? Why don't they have tissue samples?
Yes, sure, this is going to be helpful for biologists and others, if the data is accessible, but will it do anything to help SAVE the animals, which is something pretty much considered the prime directive of any kind of ARK
You'd think he was worried about someone trying to fire him, throw him in jail, getting executed or something...
Trump took it with stride and didn't rant about it make threats right?
He did?
I guess there's a valid reason that person decided to be an A.C. in this situation.
Ever hear of a public library?
Scientist expect to be able to access the bulk of research papers because it's integral to science itself. The paywalling of such papers makes the majority of them inaccessible to scientists and the public. Nobody, especially the average scientist/researcher, has the near unlimited funds that would be needed to search out data from the wide array of papers and publications out there. And yet, the sharing of information and collaboration of knowledge is a vital process to the enrichment of science itself.
The paywalls are massive detriment to the progress of science and humanity. Fuck the fees!
ianal, that sounds rather like a price fixing scheme of some variety to me. I wonder what a lawyer in the appropriate field would think of that
Doesn't work if the material is too hot. Once the oxygen comes back, if the fuel source is still hot enough it just bursts back into flames. It's not like an oil/gas rig when the material is coming out in an unignited stream, and then hitting the burning part to ignite. In those cases the explosion breaks the stream and when it succeeds there's nothing left hot enough to reignite it. Part of the reason why have to remove some of the parts before they attempt it or the hot metal will just start the fire back up.
Now trees don't move into the fire, rather the fire moves to them. Those glowing hot pieces of wood/charcoal are still glowing hot even after the explosion, so they are both a source of fuel and heat, all it needs is oxygen.
There might be situations where it can potentially help, but a widespread fire has the nasty habit of just going back and reigniting fuel if conditions allow. (Uphill, downwind, etc.) So you are going to want to get a damn near perfect spread so there's not spots left that can reignite the whole mess again. Of course carpet bombing can provide quantity, but accuracy isn't part of that equation, for that you need smart bombs, either Laser or TV guided.
Now here's the other part of this mess. Using real munitions is VERY expensive. If you add smart bombs to the mix, you've multiplied the price by many times! Sure the warhead is expensive, but the guidance unit is so much more expensive! As in you can buy a new Tesla for the price of one of those guidance units.
Then there's all that talk about a combustible case for the warhead. Hey, great idea! Except there aren't any, and that would be an expensive thing to build. Did you know that STEEL case of a warhead serves the purpose of confining the explosive so it can build up a higher pressure so it's a high order explosion instead of a low order explosion? So unless you want to increase the number of bombs you have to use since you've very dramatically decreased the power of your explosive, that combustible casing has to be able to withstand the same kind of forces the steel one does. If you didn't know, that's not sheet metal those things are made out of. A blacksmith could cut sword blanks out of those things if they had some empties to play with. Not an oversized and insane anime or video game sword, just a regular historical sized one. (I'm not sure if the weight of an empty warhead casing is public info or not, so I'm not going to bring up specifics like that)
So again, some situations may be able to use explosives, but most of the time it's a champagne in solid gold goblets kind of price tag to go with it.
The special non-steel cases don't exist and somebody would have to develop them. There's a ton of issues with that idea.
I see Saloomy brought up bulldozing. Yes, they do a lot of that to try and make firebreaks, but you again can't build those everywhere. It takes time, there are only so much equipment even available, and they have time limits to make it, and that's assuming the fire doesn't shift direction. Even then, there's always the problem that fires can and do jump firebreaks at times. Those burning bits get carried on the wind and can ignite a multitude of other fires on the otherside of the break. When some idiots from the OSI ignored multiple rules and did something really stupid, they burned down a lot of the forest that was on base. That area was used for wargames and training. The road between the bomb dump and the burning woods was acting like a firebreak, and for about an hour before they pulled us out my crew was driving around in our truck with all the fire extinguishers we could get our hands on chasing down the burning embers floating across on the light breeze.
With a big fire, there's always a breeze, they are big enough affect the weather and create their own thermal updraft column.
Anyway, not dissing the posters here, just spreading some knowledge.
You don't have to know everything to do repairs. Do you know how to build a video card? Probably not. Of course, it's pretty easy to replace a known bad video card with a known good one despite that lack of in depth knowledge. Of course you could just assume that since you don't have the level of knowledge to build your own video card you should leave it alone, despite the fact that experience has shown us that a smoking video card eventually bursts into flames and destroys the entire computer long before it would have expired if you had just replaced the bad video card.
Well we sure as heck know the misery and death those genetic based diseases will cause, so I'd rather risk a new programming error to fix an obvious show stopper than to let the damn thing slip through QA & Testing.
There's a lot more to submitted to the how incompetent of a bioengineer, errr, bugs list along with more than a few suggestions for improvements.
LoL :D
As well as Raven and Coyote.
(Depends on the tribes which of those two stole fire to help mankind. I like the Coyote one myself.)
Yes, but most of the people screaming that it's wrong and against their religion despite there not being a single condemnation of genetic alteration or healing the sick in their holy book(s) are christians, not jews.
For me, I think any god that's so incompetent and cruel to have genetically based diseases around deserved to be abolished to the dustbin of rejected despots.
The enemy will still be trying to recharge their batteries
Totally correct, but they are basing the "rifle" due to size and configuration of the weapon instead of a physical component like riflings.
;)
Though scientists have figured out how to put spin on a laser (or at least the photons, I forget the details of the article).
Though I don't have any mod points today, you sir/madam/whatever totally deserve them
Except when the lasers, like these, are outside the visible spectrum. So what color is "invisible" ?
Yeah, but these are only for drones and not shooting people in the eyes... honest!
(People always find a way around limitations one way or another. Just research about the napalm/incindigel mess)