>> So, what exactly makes US so different that it is impossible to achieve what other countries can?
You are making an assumption.
Assumption which, in your view is...??? (my apologies, I couldn't read it between lines. As such, I can't confirm/adjust/refute your statement).
Other countries dragging themselves down into the cesspool provides great real-world examples of what not to do. Every time a country destroys itself because they decided they could re-invent the governmental wheel, it provides example that the sane can use against the insane in this country.
Is there a single "governmental wheel" - so that, once invented, any other attempts to do it again would be suboptimal? What is sane and what is insane?
Ridiculous theories that remain not fully tested, can still influence the weak-minded. I fully support any governmental changes in other countries that do not reconcile *actual* human nature, as opposed to what they think it is (based on their own neurological disorders).
I really don't get what you mean by "reconciling actual human nature". What is the "actual human nature"?
Anyway, I have a recommendation for you: Liars and outliers. Speaking for myself, it didn't tell me anything new, but it surely put a good order in the concepts about the pragmatical approach to trust.
(I might be wrong, but... bluntly speaking... I think I detect in you an unbalanced reaction to trust in the human individuals and community, with quite strong reflection on your view about your own/family security... too scared, as it comes to me).
So, go for it. I wish you luck in your quest.
Thanks, I'm wishing the same to you... (again, my gut-feeling is that each of us think the other would need luck more than oneself. I find this an absolutely fascinating thing in life).
(So long for "the home of the brave"? My apologies, it is not malice... but I really can't resist to point out the growing distance between the ideals and the reality in post 9/11 US).
If you don't, then you are not in the group of people I was referring my comments to. Even so, you again avoided following out the consequences of the changes you (not I) propose.
Mate, for the first 20 years of my life, I grew in one of the East European countries under a communist regime. All the laws were crafted "to protect" the populace against "decadent and rotten capitalism", but I guarantee you that any law system crafted "to protect against X" (replace X with anything, really. Maybe "terrorism"?) will finish in the same sick state of total loss of liberty for the population.
Careful of what you wish for, your wish may be granted. You may finish in a situation in which you are "totally protected" but you are neither safe nor free - with the whole country acting as a jail (and that is the jail I was referring to in my original post). BTW: I'm quite far from the libertarian mind set, but I concede them a point: freedom cannot be maintained without assuming a good deal of individual responsibility on one's life. Granted, exclusive individual responsibility is not sufficient (that's where I depart at high speed from libertarianism), but it is necessary.
If you do live in a different country - then I would encourage any and all changes in laws that someone like you supports.
So, what exactly makes US so different that it is impossible to achieve what other countries can?
All this would be fine if your goals were the same as non-aberrant persons - protecting yourself and your loved one from criminal violent behavior. But your goal of changing the world to suit *you* overrides that.
...
As for protecting your own - I believe in that. I can easily protect my family from the wolf I know is there, but people like you want to bring about a situation where there are thousands of invisible wolves out there - all so that your * predilections* can be catered to.
Nice.
So the world is a violent place one needs constant protection to survive... is this what you think? Let me guess... you live in US?
Can any of you who vigorously push for "freedom" tell me how your efforts will directly help to make things safer for my family?
Why, yes... of course I can. If you want them protected, build a jail and throw them in there.
But don't ask me to do the same... my family will be quite all right unprotected.
Personally I'm always in favor of less power for the police, and more power for the people. (I'm also strongly in favor of capital punishment for politicians.)
You forgot the lawyers. With patent/copyright ones as a special case.
If everybody opened their WiFi AP, then an IP address will become meaningless as a way of identifying a person to arrest or sue.
It's already meaningless. I'm not impressed.
Depends. The current situation is somehow like beauty: in the eye of beholder... for various reasons, some will still try to find a meaning where technically there is little in it. For now, all that matter is the meaning attached by the person who decides if one is to be arrested or sued. Now, in regards with little meaning: assuming they exists, would you call meaningless the tyre marks at the place of a hit-and-run accident? True, by themselves, they don't fully identify the car/driver, but would you recommend the investigators to discard them?
bullshit. Gustafson's assumes an arbitrarily large dataset. Graphics are the only arbitrarily large dataset anything deals with, and playing Duke Nukem Forever isn't going to happen on a mobile phone.
Yeah, well... you sure about graphics? Ummm... maybe you could actually run a decent "Siri" on your phone, with no round-trip to the cloud?
My point: there was a person who once said "640k ought to be enough for everybody". Nowadays, it's mainly quoted as a reminder of stupid assumptions one can make.
Speaking about the "astronomers of the world" - did you know that English is spoken by less than 7% of the world's population? Do you really fracking think this makes sense as a joke (stupid and childish word play rather) in any language other than English!?
In short, the cascading failures don't happen because one local failure cause the entire capacity of the network to be exceeded... you see, it is not a case of every node connected to every node (O(N^2) connections), thus a failure only need to overload the capacity of the nodes connected to the failing one...
Are they using this to campaign in the traditional sense or is the line between PR/Advertisement and "Spy Agency" is growing thinner and thinner. After all, the CIA started merely reading russian newspapers and expanded from there.
I'd suggest to dissolve CIA and other 3 letter agencies and let the hand of free market reign supreme... after all, the private sector shows a much better efficiency and drive for innovation in wagging the dog and, more important, they are not hindered by that piece of scribbling called Constitution. (the said agencies are already outsourcing to the private sector... taking the next logical step: why would the agencies still be needed?)
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I didn't know that Apple made pacemakers...
Don't be silly. Apple would never allow you to change the battery.
And neither to develop yourself in a slim shape with rounded corners.
because then Apple... buys all their displays from someone else
Like who? Samsung?
There is plenty of data loose on the internet to allow anyone to draw the same conclusion.
where?!?
>> So, what exactly makes US so different that it is impossible to achieve what other countries can?
You are making an assumption.
Assumption which, in your view is...??? (my apologies, I couldn't read it between lines. As such, I can't confirm/adjust/refute your statement).
Other countries dragging themselves down into the cesspool provides great real-world examples of what not to do. Every time a country destroys itself because they decided they could re-invent the governmental wheel, it provides example that the sane can use against the insane in this country.
Is there a single "governmental wheel" - so that, once invented, any other attempts to do it again would be suboptimal?
What is sane and what is insane?
Ridiculous theories that remain not fully tested, can still influence the weak-minded. I fully support any governmental changes in other countries that do not reconcile *actual* human nature, as opposed to what they think it is (based on their own neurological disorders).
I really don't get what you mean by "reconciling actual human nature". What is the "actual human nature"?
Anyway, I have a recommendation for you: Liars and outliers. Speaking for myself, it didn't tell me anything new, but it surely put a good order in the concepts about the pragmatical approach to trust.
(I might be wrong, but... bluntly speaking... I think I detect in you an unbalanced reaction to trust in the human individuals and community, with quite strong reflection on your view about your own/family security... too scared, as it comes to me).
So, go for it. I wish you luck in your quest.
Thanks, I'm wishing the same to you... (again, my gut-feeling is that each of us think the other would need luck more than oneself. I find this an absolutely fascinating thing in life).
What I really miss is the feeling that my government cared about my interests.
Ahhh... the sweet innocence during my childhood.
Yes, as I stated, I live in the USA.
(So long for "the home of the brave"? My apologies, it is not malice... but I really can't resist to point out the growing distance between the ideals and the reality in post 9/11 US).
If you don't, then you are not in the group of people I was referring my comments to. Even so, you again avoided following out the consequences of the changes you (not I) propose.
Mate, for the first 20 years of my life, I grew in one of the East European countries under a communist regime. All the laws were crafted "to protect" the populace against "decadent and rotten capitalism", but I guarantee you that any law system crafted "to protect against X" (replace X with anything, really. Maybe "terrorism"?) will finish in the same sick state of total loss of liberty for the population.
Careful of what you wish for, your wish may be granted. You may finish in a situation in which you are "totally protected" but you are neither safe nor free - with the whole country acting as a jail (and that is the jail I was referring to in my original post).
BTW: I'm quite far from the libertarian mind set, but I concede them a point: freedom cannot be maintained without assuming a good deal of individual responsibility on one's life. Granted, exclusive individual responsibility is not sufficient (that's where I depart at high speed from libertarianism), but it is necessary.
If you do live in a different country - then I would encourage any and all changes in laws that someone like you supports.
So, what exactly makes US so different that it is impossible to achieve what other countries can?
you cannot commandeer /.!
Warmly recommend DHS to try at 4chan: recruit them young, you know! (grin)
All this would be fine if your goals were the same as non-aberrant persons - protecting yourself and your loved one from criminal violent behavior. But your goal of changing the world to suit *you* overrides that.
...
As for protecting your own - I believe in that. I can easily protect my family from the wolf I know is there, but people like you want to bring about a situation where there are thousands of invisible wolves out there - all so that your * predilections* can be catered to.
Nice.
So the world is a violent place one needs constant protection to survive... is this what you think?
Let me guess... you live in US?
Can any of you who vigorously push for "freedom" tell me how your efforts will directly help to make things safer for my family?
Why, yes... of course I can. If you want them protected, build a jail and throw them in there.
But don't ask me to do the same... my family will be quite all right unprotected.
Personally I'm always in favor of less power for the police, and more power for the people. (I'm also strongly in favor of capital punishment for politicians.)
You forgot the lawyers. With patent/copyright ones as a special case.
Truly badass players don't die anyway.
Yes, they do... the antibiotics abuse is to blame.
(grin)
Wasn't this supposed to be somehow alleviated by the mesh networking side of the Freedom Box?
Errr... what box?
If everybody opened their WiFi AP, then an IP address will become meaningless as a way of identifying a person to arrest or sue.
It's already meaningless. I'm not impressed.
Depends. The current situation is somehow like beauty: in the eye of beholder... for various reasons, some will still try to find a meaning where technically there is little in it. For now, all that matter is the meaning attached by the person who decides if one is to be arrested or sued.
Now, in regards with little meaning: assuming they exists, would you call meaningless the tyre marks at the place of a hit-and-run accident? True, by themselves, they don't fully identify the car/driver, but would you recommend the investigators to discard them?
bullshit. Gustafson's assumes an arbitrarily large dataset. Graphics are the only arbitrarily large dataset anything deals with, and playing Duke Nukem Forever isn't going to happen on a mobile phone.
Yeah, well... you sure about graphics? Ummm... maybe you could actually run a decent "Siri" on your phone, with no round-trip to the cloud?
My point: there was a person who once said "640k ought to be enough for everybody". Nowadays, it's mainly quoted as a reminder of stupid assumptions one can make.
I see your Amdahl's Law and raise you a Gustafson's law.
Imagine USS Seal and Merrimack having a malformed child conceived as a results of drunken/berserker reciprocal legitimate rape.
FTFY. I looked for both USS Seal and Merrimack photos.
By whatever God you respect! both of them have elegant lines in comparison with Jobs' yacht.
Publish the vulnerability and the name of the hoster on 4chan
FTFY
This blog post from an un-happy Microsoft developer highlights
Developers! Developers! Developers!
Developers?
[sound of crickets]
Are there any happy Microsoft developers?
[sound of crickets]
And if some corporation pays enough, it also might be considered a tractor.
Damn I hope they do this because then I can get some agricultural tax breaks...
You know... if xxIAA pays enough, it will be the tractor to be considered a tablet rather than the reverse.
Ask them
</grin>
Just in case you missed it the first time (hint: I got that)
Astronomers of the world, unite!
Speaking about the "astronomers of the world" - did you know that English is spoken by less than 7% of the world's population?
Do you really fracking think this makes sense as a joke (stupid and childish word play rather) in any language other than English!?
If they WERE using Multi AZ, or there is some other technical reason why it wouldn't help, I'm really curious to know why...
Here's your answer: cascading failures.
In short, the cascading failures don't happen because one local failure cause the entire capacity of the network to be exceeded... you see, it is not a case of every node connected to every node (O(N^2) connections), thus a failure only need to overload the capacity of the nodes connected to the failing one...
Are they using this to campaign in the traditional sense or is the line between PR/Advertisement and "Spy Agency" is growing thinner and thinner. After all, the CIA started merely reading russian newspapers and expanded from there.
I'd suggest to dissolve CIA and other 3 letter agencies and let the hand of free market reign supreme... after all, the private sector shows a much better efficiency and drive for innovation in wagging the dog and, more important, they are not hindered by that piece of scribbling called Constitution.
(the said agencies are already outsourcing to the private sector... taking the next logical step: why would the agencies still be needed?)
</grin>
Where the hell is Span?
Relevant citation:
The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dûm