I guess instead taking that internal job that doubled my salary with another division of my company that I now have 10 years with and 6 weeks paid time off was a mistake. I should have just quit and found a much less paying job with another company since that's "what you do now".
Thank god. The US was really falling behind with an an ever-growing suicidal worker gap. And now US high school students can also have "unpaid internships" working hours each day in factories to teach them valuable work skills, much like their Chinese contemporaries.
How do you prove who contracted a disease from whom? If that were easy and reliable wouldn't we just be using that method to find source vectors quickly and quarantining them?
They do this all the time. It's just that once you realize you have an outbreak and not just isolated cases, the disease has spread far enough/killed enough people that quarantining people will not work or the original source vector may already be dead/over the disease. Finding the patient zero or the initial infection vector can't be done in real time. It can only be done at the earliest once you actually realize you have an outbreak, and may not be finished until the outbreak is already over or contained.
People who advocate forced vaccination should give some thought to what they are promoting. They are stating that they want a government that forces them to do things whether they are opposed to them or not. That might be justified with smallpox or polio, but measles and chickenpox are not so devastating as to call for fascism.
It's not fascism. The government (as an agent of society) has a duty to protect those citizens that are unable to do so themselves. In this case it is people who rely on herd immunity due to an inability to receive vaccinations. Because the government cannot realistically or ethically force those people into social and physical isolation for the rest of their lives, the only other alternative is to ensure they are in an environment safe enough for them (please do not try to construe this into a "safe space" argument). Anti-vaxxers aren't abstaining from vaccinations for legitimate health reasons, they are doing based on religious/political/misinformed (all so one guy could make money off some treatments) beliefs. If they don't want to vaccinate their kids and choose to forgo public schools, day care, or anything else, that is their choice. But that is better than giving the middle finger and saying "sucks to be you" to the people who have no choice.
Not to rain on your anti-immigrant parade, but the west-coast states also have a lot of hippy dippy anti-vaxxers. Immigrants might have some responsibility for the increase; however, I'd guess that the anti-vax movement probably has more to do with it.
How was my post an anti-immigrant parade? I specifically mentioned the idiocacy of the parents belief and that the infections come from non-immunized foreign visitors. But the blame lies fully on the parents for not vaccinating their children, not the foreigners who may not have the money for/availability of vaccinations in their home countries.
The problem isn't unvaccinated illegal aliens. The issue is a lot of parents in the US aren't vaccinating their kids because Jenny McCarthy and people like her scare them into thinking vaccines are evil. So, when people visit to/from places where diseases such as measels are still endemic they bring the diseases with them and spread them among the unvaccinated population here (a lot of whom tend to be clustered together since people with anti-vaccination beliefs tend to have certain other political or religious beliefs and live in communities with others who share those beliefs). Illegal immigration is a very small factor, if at all. And if the US and Europe would put in a proper refugee system, a lot of those people you mentioned would have proper medical screenings and be provided food, housing, and education/employment; allowing them to become productive members of a society they literally risked their lives for to join.
While its extremely non-PC to suggest this, but illegal immigration has a role here. The study was done in Texas (a border state). While parents should vaccinate their children, herd immunity should prevent any large-scale outbreaks unless there is an injection of sick people who are acting as carriers.
A lot of outbreaks are also happening in West Coast states (where you have enclaves of non-immunized children due parents' belief in misinformation) where non-immunized foreigners are visiting and spread diseases that are otherwise no longer endemic in the US. Oregon is a good example.
Unless those terrorists plan to then sell that technology to the highest bidder, there is no more danger than with them stealing any other piece of equipment. Even with all the equipment ISIL was able to loot/capture from Iraqi soldiers, and the millions of dollars they were getting when they controlled oil fields, we didn't see them producing their own Hummers, artillery, weapons, etc. Terrorists wouldn't get much out of autonomous equipment anyway as getting them to the target location without being detected is an issue. If anything they might be used by insurgent/guerrilla groups, but then they are likely going up against conventional military units armed with equipment capable of neutralizing the autonomous equipment.
Maybe they need to switch to a new reporting metric: how many people are unemployed, or working part time/multiple part time jobs when they would rather work full time? Personally, up until about 2-3 years ago, I was making $13 an hour with a graduate degree. I wasn't unemployed, but I also certainly wasn't making the economic impact I could have. With enough people working minimum wage jobs, part time, or stuck in the gig economy, you are still going to have negative impact on the economy, social unrest, and reliance on government support programs just as if you had unemployment.
At the very least it is inevitable that we will see autonomous support equipment. When the US first invade Afghanistan, Special Forces troops regularly used mules to move equipment. It's not hard to see a future foot patrol using a multi-legged, load bearing autonomous robot for carrying equipment, supplies, or wounded soldiers. If it is legged it should be able to go over almost any terrain a soldier could go. Autonomous drones for reconnaissance are also extremely likely, again especially in foot patrol/small unit situations.
And really, once equipment like this is perfected, it should be relatively easy to develop automated targeting technology on the side and mate the two as necessary (necessary being when encountering someone else doing it). As you said do it because someone else can and probably is. With that autonomous load bearing robot I mentioned: build it with a mount for a machine gun and a slot for whatever hardware module contains the autonomous targeting software. There is nothing making you install them unless you absolutely have too. Of course, once you do, you've opened Pandora's box and there's no closing it again.
The Germans did actually use chemical weapons in a handful of cases in combat. From Wikipedia:
The Nazis did use chemical weapons in combat on several occasions along the Black Sea, notably in Sevastopol, where they used toxic smoke to force Russian resistance fighters out of caverns below the city, in violation of the 1925 Geneva Protocol.[61] The Nazis also used asphyxiating gas in the catacombs of Odessa in November 1941, following their capture of the city, and in late May 1942 during the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula in eastern Crimea.[61] Victor Israelyan, a Soviet ambassador, reported that the latter incident was perpetrated by the Wehrmacht's Chemical Forces and organized by a special detail of SS troops with the help of a field engineer battalion. Chemical Forces General Ochsner reported to German command in June 1942 that a chemical unit had taken part in the battle.[62] After the battle in mid-May 1942, roughly 3,000 Red Army soldiers and Soviet civilians not evacuated by sea were besieged in a series of caves and tunnels in the nearby Adzhimuskai quarry. After holding out for approximately three months, "poison gas was released into the tunnels, killing all but a few score of the Soviet defenders."[63] Thousands of those killed around Adzhimushk were documented to have been killed by asphyxiation from gas.[62]
Plenty of competent press secretaries have done this job, and have turned "no comment" into an art form. It's notable when one is unable to do that. Notable enough that their antics get into pop culture. The average joe couldn't name more than 1 other former press secretary. The average joe knows this one.
The problem is, if he went out there and said nothing but "No Comment", in Trump's mind that would come across at the very least as not defending him, if not outright criticism of Trump.
Press secretaries generally don't say stupid things all the time. They are chosen because they're eloquent, intelligent, well informed, and thoughtful. I.E. not the way Trump's are.
Spicer was between a rock and a hard place, though. The official message coming out of the White House was very often up against hard facts directly disputing the official line. In the face of clear contradictory evidence, the only option he had was to keep pounding out the line. They have to know most of the statements they make are pure bullshit, but it's their job. It's how Trump operates and how he expects his administration to operate. Look at Kelly Ann Conway for another example.
Personally, I think SNL should do one last Spicey skit, it could be his last press conference, and have the actual Sean Spicer play a reporter and ask Spicey a question. He's seemed to at least publicly have a decent sense of humor around the Spicey sketches and it would be a good way for him to say "no hard feelings".
I could also be that they are testing it in a location where the particular species that is being targeted is an invasive species and therefore not necessary to the ecosystem, and the local government allowed the test. If the idea works here then it can be expanded to other areas where the mosquitos are native. Of course that may require a concurrent release of non-buring mosquitos to maintain the ecosystem balance. But if Google were to test this is Africa or Central America then you would have people screaming about Google using brown people as guinea pigs.
Exactly. I was all over the Rift until it got bought by Facebook. Now, if I was to even get anything it would probably have just been a Samsung since I have an S7, but now I really have no desire to even get one of those. A shame really, something like Eve Valkyrie could have been really fun
At this point, premade UAVs can easily be reprogrammed to be fully autonomous (with minimal skill) and microwave jamming won't do anything to stop it. What's really needed here is for the prison guards to actually... guard the prison. -_-
Go old school- guards on the wire armed with shotguns loaded with bird shot. Then it's just a matter of a little trap shooting if a drone flies over. It's also easy to quickly reload a shotgun to either buckshot or less lethal rounds such as bean bags in the case of a riot(or just use the birdshot, should work fine for crowd control at a distance), assault, or escape attempt. Plus it's a lot cheaper than trying to use a jammer to bring down drones.
But I'm not sure the market won't be more suited to utility than gaming. I can imagine lots of cool things, but it may all just wind up being more novelty.
Could be useful for things like design or architecture, where you could overlay plans, models, measurements, etc where you plan to build/place something. It could be very useful while driving by highlighting obstacles/pedestrians or overlaying routes (like turning the streets on the route you need to take yellow instead of HUDs showing distance/upcoming turns). If it gets good enough I could see the military all over it: imagine a system similar to the proposed Land Warrior system-individual soldiers could transmit their location suing GPS or similar allowing unit leadership to see the exact location of their troops whether through walls or the next street over as well as possibly status such as in contact, wounded, etc. Couple in real time intelligence from drones and it could be a game changer for urban warfare.
How is this news for nerds? Why are we seeing what is basically an attempt at viral advertising. Let them pay for advertising out of their own pockets like everyone else.
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I guess instead taking that internal job that doubled my salary with another division of my company that I now have 10 years with and 6 weeks paid time off was a mistake. I should have just quit and found a much less paying job with another company since that's "what you do now".
Thank god. The US was really falling behind with an an ever-growing suicidal worker gap. And now US high school students can also have "unpaid internships" working hours each day in factories to teach them valuable work skills, much like their Chinese contemporaries.
These outbreaks aren't happening in the suburbs, they're happening in the migrant ghettos.
Disneyland is a "migrant ghetto" now?
How do you prove who contracted a disease from whom? If that were easy and reliable wouldn't we just be using that method to find source vectors quickly and quarantining them?
They do this all the time. It's just that once you realize you have an outbreak and not just isolated cases, the disease has spread far enough/killed enough people that quarantining people will not work or the original source vector may already be dead/over the disease. Finding the patient zero or the initial infection vector can't be done in real time. It can only be done at the earliest once you actually realize you have an outbreak, and may not be finished until the outbreak is already over or contained.
People who advocate forced vaccination should give some thought to what they are promoting. They are stating that they want a government that forces them to do things whether they are opposed to them or not. That might be justified with smallpox or polio, but measles and chickenpox are not so devastating as to call for fascism.
It's not fascism. The government (as an agent of society) has a duty to protect those citizens that are unable to do so themselves. In this case it is people who rely on herd immunity due to an inability to receive vaccinations. Because the government cannot realistically or ethically force those people into social and physical isolation for the rest of their lives, the only other alternative is to ensure they are in an environment safe enough for them (please do not try to construe this into a "safe space" argument). Anti-vaxxers aren't abstaining from vaccinations for legitimate health reasons, they are doing based on religious/political/misinformed (all so one guy could make money off some treatments) beliefs. If they don't want to vaccinate their kids and choose to forgo public schools, day care, or anything else, that is their choice. But that is better than giving the middle finger and saying "sucks to be you" to the people who have no choice.
Not to rain on your anti-immigrant parade, but the west-coast states also have a lot of hippy dippy anti-vaxxers. Immigrants might have some responsibility for the increase; however, I'd guess that the anti-vax movement probably has more to do with it.
How was my post an anti-immigrant parade? I specifically mentioned the idiocacy of the parents belief and that the infections come from non-immunized foreign visitors. But the blame lies fully on the parents for not vaccinating their children, not the foreigners who may not have the money for/availability of vaccinations in their home countries.
The problem isn't unvaccinated illegal aliens. The issue is a lot of parents in the US aren't vaccinating their kids because Jenny McCarthy and people like her scare them into thinking vaccines are evil. So, when people visit to/from places where diseases such as measels are still endemic they bring the diseases with them and spread them among the unvaccinated population here (a lot of whom tend to be clustered together since people with anti-vaccination beliefs tend to have certain other political or religious beliefs and live in communities with others who share those beliefs). Illegal immigration is a very small factor, if at all. And if the US and Europe would put in a proper refugee system, a lot of those people you mentioned would have proper medical screenings and be provided food, housing, and education/employment; allowing them to become productive members of a society they literally risked their lives for to join.
While its extremely non-PC to suggest this, but illegal immigration has a role here. The study was done in Texas (a border state). While parents should vaccinate their children, herd immunity should prevent any large-scale outbreaks unless there is an injection of sick people who are acting as carriers.
A lot of outbreaks are also happening in West Coast states (where you have enclaves of non-immunized children due parents' belief in misinformation) where non-immunized foreigners are visiting and spread diseases that are otherwise no longer endemic in the US. Oregon is a good example.
Unless those terrorists plan to then sell that technology to the highest bidder, there is no more danger than with them stealing any other piece of equipment. Even with all the equipment ISIL was able to loot/capture from Iraqi soldiers, and the millions of dollars they were getting when they controlled oil fields, we didn't see them producing their own Hummers, artillery, weapons, etc. Terrorists wouldn't get much out of autonomous equipment anyway as getting them to the target location without being detected is an issue. If anything they might be used by insurgent/guerrilla groups, but then they are likely going up against conventional military units armed with equipment capable of neutralizing the autonomous equipment.
Maybe they need to switch to a new reporting metric: how many people are unemployed, or working part time/multiple part time jobs when they would rather work full time? Personally, up until about 2-3 years ago, I was making $13 an hour with a graduate degree. I wasn't unemployed, but I also certainly wasn't making the economic impact I could have. With enough people working minimum wage jobs, part time, or stuck in the gig economy, you are still going to have negative impact on the economy, social unrest, and reliance on government support programs just as if you had unemployment.
At the very least it is inevitable that we will see autonomous support equipment. When the US first invade Afghanistan, Special Forces troops regularly used mules to move equipment. It's not hard to see a future foot patrol using a multi-legged, load bearing autonomous robot for carrying equipment, supplies, or wounded soldiers. If it is legged it should be able to go over almost any terrain a soldier could go. Autonomous drones for reconnaissance are also extremely likely, again especially in foot patrol/small unit situations.
And really, once equipment like this is perfected, it should be relatively easy to develop automated targeting technology on the side and mate the two as necessary (necessary being when encountering someone else doing it). As you said do it because someone else can and probably is. With that autonomous load bearing robot I mentioned: build it with a mount for a machine gun and a slot for whatever hardware module contains the autonomous targeting software. There is nothing making you install them unless you absolutely have too. Of course, once you do, you've opened Pandora's box and there's no closing it again.
Hitler didn't use chemical weapons in warfare
The Germans did actually use chemical weapons in a handful of cases in combat. From Wikipedia:
The Nazis did use chemical weapons in combat on several occasions along the Black Sea, notably in Sevastopol, where they used toxic smoke to force Russian resistance fighters out of caverns below the city, in violation of the 1925 Geneva Protocol.[61] The Nazis also used asphyxiating gas in the catacombs of Odessa in November 1941, following their capture of the city, and in late May 1942 during the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula in eastern Crimea.[61] Victor Israelyan, a Soviet ambassador, reported that the latter incident was perpetrated by the Wehrmacht's Chemical Forces and organized by a special detail of SS troops with the help of a field engineer battalion. Chemical Forces General Ochsner reported to German command in June 1942 that a chemical unit had taken part in the battle.[62] After the battle in mid-May 1942, roughly 3,000 Red Army soldiers and Soviet civilians not evacuated by sea were besieged in a series of caves and tunnels in the nearby Adzhimuskai quarry. After holding out for approximately three months, "poison gas was released into the tunnels, killing all but a few score of the Soviet defenders."[63] Thousands of those killed around Adzhimushk were documented to have been killed by asphyxiation from gas.[62]
Plenty of competent press secretaries have done this job, and have turned "no comment" into an art form. It's notable when one is unable to do that. Notable enough that their antics get into pop culture. The average joe couldn't name more than 1 other former press secretary. The average joe knows this one.
The problem is, if he went out there and said nothing but "No Comment", in Trump's mind that would come across at the very least as not defending him, if not outright criticism of Trump.
Press secretaries generally don't say stupid things all the time. They are chosen because they're eloquent, intelligent, well informed, and thoughtful. I.E. not the way Trump's are.
Spicer was between a rock and a hard place, though. The official message coming out of the White House was very often up against hard facts directly disputing the official line. In the face of clear contradictory evidence, the only option he had was to keep pounding out the line. They have to know most of the statements they make are pure bullshit, but it's their job. It's how Trump operates and how he expects his administration to operate. Look at Kelly Ann Conway for another example.
Personally, I think SNL should do one last Spicey skit, it could be his last press conference, and have the actual Sean Spicer play a reporter and ask Spicey a question. He's seemed to at least publicly have a decent sense of humor around the Spicey sketches and it would be a good way for him to say "no hard feelings".
I can't see how anything could possibly keep an idea like this from working.
I could also be that they are testing it in a location where the particular species that is being targeted is an invasive species and therefore not necessary to the ecosystem, and the local government allowed the test. If the idea works here then it can be expanded to other areas where the mosquitos are native. Of course that may require a concurrent release of non-buring mosquitos to maintain the ecosystem balance. But if Google were to test this is Africa or Central America then you would have people screaming about Google using brown people as guinea pigs.
No, but with the massive amounts of air pollution in China increased adoption of electric vehicles is a very good thing.
Exactly. I was all over the Rift until it got bought by Facebook. Now, if I was to even get anything it would probably have just been a Samsung since I have an S7, but now I really have no desire to even get one of those. A shame really, something like Eve Valkyrie could have been really fun
At this point, premade UAVs can easily be reprogrammed to be fully autonomous (with minimal skill) and microwave jamming won't do anything to stop it. What's really needed here is for the prison guards to actually... guard the prison. -_-
Go old school- guards on the wire armed with shotguns loaded with bird shot. Then it's just a matter of a little trap shooting if a drone flies over. It's also easy to quickly reload a shotgun to either buckshot or less lethal rounds such as bean bags in the case of a riot(or just use the birdshot, should work fine for crowd control at a distance), assault, or escape attempt. Plus it's a lot cheaper than trying to use a jammer to bring down drones.
They better be equipped with EVA suits armed with blue lasers, otherwise it will never work
Here are your winnings sir
But I'm not sure the market won't be more suited to utility than gaming. I can imagine lots of cool things, but it may all just wind up being more novelty.
Could be useful for things like design or architecture, where you could overlay plans, models, measurements, etc where you plan to build/place something. It could be very useful while driving by highlighting obstacles/pedestrians or overlaying routes (like turning the streets on the route you need to take yellow instead of HUDs showing distance/upcoming turns). If it gets good enough I could see the military all over it: imagine a system similar to the proposed Land Warrior system-individual soldiers could transmit their location suing GPS or similar allowing unit leadership to see the exact location of their troops whether through walls or the next street over as well as possibly status such as in contact, wounded, etc. Couple in real time intelligence from drones and it could be a game changer for urban warfare.
We need stories like this to remind investors, and people in general, that unicorns are made up. Especially the kind that come in startup form.
How is this news for nerds? Why are we seeing what is basically an attempt at viral advertising. Let them pay for advertising out of their own pockets like everyone else.
Who says they didn't pay for it here, too?
You also have to watch out for people with umbrellas and should stay away from drinking tea.