I made it through V1 and half of volume 2 a few years ago, and found myself frustrated.
For myself, Godel Escher and Bach feels to me to be more useful as a programmer mindset book (or is that just me) or Unix Power Tools for practical guidelines,
And yeah - a lot of it is above my level of mathematical sophistication - I topped off at modern algebra, and I concede I fin it frustrating that I can have a reasonable grasp of number theory, encryption, and matrix arithmetic, and still be going "Wait, whut?" in these.
However if you're claiming 'Far from fair' you're discounting how many conservatives they have on air, entirely conservative based shows like Tucker Carlson, The Editorial board of the WSJ, the 60%-80% conservative panel of the McLaughlin group, Religious programming, local politics, et al. And that's before even talking about the number of conservative guests and think-tanks on the 'Liberal' shows.
So A) NPR/PBS bends over backwards to make sure conservatives have a voice B) When's the last time you heard NPR/PBS cut someones a conservatives mic because they were winning the argument?
Coding in the workforce, with a company guide that specifies language X in coding environ Y, remembering to put in remarks for the guy that has to maintain it that are both useful and not in iambic pentameter, with an object-oriented styleguide for a functional program that was determined by a middle manager who last coded in Basic and thinks "Goto" is bad without ever having understood why (and occasionally why not) and once suggested simply using an un-returned function instead... is hard.
Yeah that was the first thing that went through my mind - Under current planetary evolution theories, despite it's size it has almost certainly not cleared it's neighborhood.
Which is of course the *exact* problem many people had with the definition, and I really hope this turns out to be real and they have to deal with a 'Dwarf Planet' ten times Earth Mass.
This is particularly bad in consideration of the fact the the (right wing of) Supreme Court has severely weakened the 'Fruit of the Poisoned Tree' Doctrine.
I obtained this evidence illegally, but this evidence pointed to evidence I could have found legally, can I use *this* Evidence?
The answer used to be a flat 'No'. However Several cases of late have shift that to a 'Well, did you have a good faith belief it was obtained legally?' (Because it turns out Ignorance of the Law *is* an excuse, if you're a professional! Only Amateurs can be held liable for not knowing the law!). Indeed, even the illegally obtained evidence itself can be introduced now, as long as there was 'Good Faith'.
To Paraphrase J.R. Ewing: 'Good Faith', if you can fake that, you've got it made!
I've reread that post three times, and although I think he came down in favor of the GPL, that doesn't actually match what little I could get out of the meandering stream of consciousness of that post.
I really would like to see Truecrypt live and usable again. Just in terms of having a great and useful interface/featureset Truecrypt was and hopefully will again be the best crypto out there. Assuming it audits well of course.
Truecrypt inside BTsync would be amazingly powerful.
No, you (Alice) encrypt with your private key, then encrypt with 'Bobs' public key, then Bob decrypts with his private key and again with Alice's public key.
Thus Both Alice and Bob are authenticated, and no one besides Alice and Bob can intercept.
I'm enjoying 'The Nightly Show' - his format does kind of the John Oliver thing of getting a *bit* deeper into a topic than TDS or the Colbert Report could do in their format. It works well for Larry Larry Larry - {G}.
Horrible policies like listening to scientists, letting people control their own bodies, keeping the government out of the bedroom, and providing better healthcare to more people for less money.
Frankly in my experience Politifact is annoyingly biased in their ratings, against liberals.
You may or may not agree with their articles - I usually *do* agree with the written article. But they will *happily* rate a liberal 'false' because their review shows that 'Yes it's true, but they left this or that context out, didn't mention this exception, yadda yadda' and then do backflips rating a conservative 'halftrue' when the article clearly shows it's not true at all, but 'if you consider that maybe they meant this esoteric way they might have meant it . ..'
I think it's because if they didn't grade on a curve, no conservative would ever read any of these fact-check sites, but my God is it annoying to watch liberals get bounced down one or two stars for minor mistakes, then watch them hem and haw and rate something half-true because there's is some esoteric 13th century use of a word that a conservative *might* have meant.
"Trusted newsman" is going a bit far. The problem I have with political comedy is that, to be funny, it has to take an idea to the extreme, which means everything turns into a strawman argument, reinforcing the tribal polarisation of political discourse.
Actually, while TDS certainly indulged in fallacies on occasion, the Straw Man argument, e.g. actually misrepresenting the argument someone is making, was something I thought they did a very good job of dodging over the years.
Probably less 'journalistic ethics' than that Straw men don't actually get laughs.
More to the point, anything that evolves to eat stars, must also evolve to be able to survive the death of the first one they eat, or must have evolved to survive the death of a start prior to developing the capacity to feeding on them.
In a not-quite infinite Universe I can just manage to buy into a life form that feeds on a star . . . once. Once that happens it must either manage to escape the now dead gravity well, or having triggered a stellar explosion, survive a supernova. Legion of Super Heroes aside, these both strike me as being orders of magnitude more unlikely than the already only mathematically possible evolution of an 'Astrophage' in the first place.
Now a Planet-Eater (a'la "One of our Planets is Missing" from ST-TAS) seems more viable, although the gravity well situation is still iffy. But at least it doesn't involve surviving a super-nova.
The other possibility would be an something that is more of an infection than a 'creature' - if something started a process that ended in a supernova, but during early stages resulted in the star blowing out the infection as it blew out it's outer shells, such an interstellar virus *could* survive in deep space as part of the Nebula before being drawn into another star that passed through it and 'Infecting' it. But even then the 'it somehow survived this' value seems unlikely.
*Just* finished the last of the side missions in Arkham City and Riddler items (Still have some of the combat 'use such in such five times in combat' but otherwise complete). In an oddly neat twist of fate, evidently the only character I can play that suddenly decides to whip through the Advanced AR missions was the 'Batman Beyond' batman - which explains what sadist *designed* those things - Bruce Wayne! THAT MY STORY AND I'M STICKING BY IT! Probably will go back to my dream of actually finishing Baldur's gate all the way through now (Never finished Throne of Bhaal).
Skyrim rocks of course - my mother is still playing, and is insisting I get Daggerfall installed so she can play all the way through, which I find hilarious.
New Undeclared WMD's were *reported* as found by Fox news, multiple times.
And then they did much quieter retractions, multiple times.
Only Chemical Weaponss were ever found, all of which were properly declared to the UN Weapons inspectors before the Iraq war. No weapons, Nuclear Biological *or* Chemical dating from after the 1991 Iraq war have *ever* been recovered in Iraq.
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I made it through V1 and half of volume 2 a few years ago, and found myself frustrated.
For myself, Godel Escher and Bach feels to me to be more useful as a programmer mindset book (or is that just me) or Unix Power Tools for practical guidelines,
And yeah - a lot of it is above my level of mathematical sophistication - I topped off at modern algebra, and I concede I fin it frustrating that I can have a reasonable grasp of number theory, encryption, and matrix arithmetic, and still be going "Wait, whut?" in these.
NPR/PBS leans leftwards ... somewhat.
However if you're claiming 'Far from fair' you're discounting how many conservatives they have on air, entirely conservative based shows like Tucker Carlson, The Editorial board of the WSJ, the 60%-80% conservative panel of the McLaughlin group, Religious programming, local politics, et al. And that's before even talking about the number of conservative guests and think-tanks on the 'Liberal' shows.
So
A) NPR/PBS bends over backwards to make sure conservatives have a voice
B) When's the last time you heard NPR/PBS cut someones a conservatives mic because they were winning the argument?
Coding is Easy.
Coding in the workforce, with a company guide that specifies language X in coding environ Y, remembering to put in remarks for the guy that has to maintain it that are both useful and not in iambic pentameter, with an object-oriented styleguide for a functional program that was determined by a middle manager who last coded in Basic and thinks "Goto" is bad without ever having understood why (and occasionally why not) and once suggested simply using an un-returned function instead ... is hard.
But yeah - Coding is easy.
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Yeah that was the first thing that went through my mind - Under current planetary evolution theories, despite it's size it has almost certainly not cleared it's neighborhood.
Which is of course the *exact* problem many people had with the definition, and I really hope this turns out to be real and they have to deal with a 'Dwarf Planet' ten times Earth Mass.
This is particularly bad in consideration of the fact the the (right wing of) Supreme Court has severely weakened the 'Fruit of the Poisoned Tree' Doctrine.
I obtained this evidence illegally, but this evidence pointed to evidence I could have found legally, can I use *this* Evidence?
The answer used to be a flat 'No'. However Several cases of late have shift that to a 'Well, did you have a good faith belief it was obtained legally?' (Because it turns out Ignorance of the Law *is* an excuse, if you're a professional! Only Amateurs can be held liable for not knowing the law!). Indeed, even the illegally obtained evidence itself can be introduced now, as long as there was 'Good Faith'.
To Paraphrase J.R. Ewing: 'Good Faith', if you can fake that, you've got it made!
Pug
Whatinthehell did I just read?
I've reread that post three times, and although I think he came down in favor of the GPL, that doesn't actually match what little I could get out of the meandering stream of consciousness of that post.
Why is that here?
What the heck is a patent for doing something . . . on a truck . . . doing?
I really would like to see Truecrypt live and usable again. Just in terms of having a great and useful interface/featureset Truecrypt was and hopefully will again be the best crypto out there. Assuming it audits well of course.
Truecrypt inside BTsync would be amazingly powerful.
Pug
Woo-hoo Cybernetic limbs be damned, I Officially live in a god-damn Shadowrun game now!
Since Excel and other programs natively provide security, why not use that?
Because native security ain't?
How anything works - outside their domain.
The problem is that being a generalist doesn't pay worth a damn.
Pug
No, you (Alice) encrypt with your private key, then encrypt with 'Bobs' public key, then Bob decrypts with his private key and again with Alice's public key.
Thus Both Alice and Bob are authenticated, and no one besides Alice and Bob can intercept.
Pug
I'm enjoying 'The Nightly Show' - his format does kind of the John Oliver thing of getting a *bit* deeper into a topic than TDS or the Colbert Report could do in their format. It works well for Larry Larry Larry - {G}.
Pug
Hah - in *my* day we used Raw HTML, parsed in binary!
Horrible policies like listening to scientists, letting people control their own bodies, keeping the government out of the bedroom, and providing better healthcare to more people for less money.
What horrors will they visit upon us next!
Pug
Frankly in my experience Politifact is annoyingly biased in their ratings, against liberals.
You may or may not agree with their articles - I usually *do* agree with the written article. But they will *happily* rate a liberal 'false' because their review shows that 'Yes it's true, but they left this or that context out, didn't mention this exception, yadda yadda' and then do backflips rating a conservative 'halftrue' when the article clearly shows it's not true at all, but 'if you consider that maybe they meant this esoteric way they might have meant it . . .'
I think it's because if they didn't grade on a curve, no conservative would ever read any of these fact-check sites, but my God is it annoying to watch liberals get bounced down one or two stars for minor mistakes, then watch them hem and haw and rate something half-true because there's is some esoteric 13th century use of a word that a conservative *might* have meant.
Our liberal media bias in action!
Pug
"Trusted newsman" is going a bit far. The problem I have with political comedy is that, to be funny, it has to take an idea to the extreme, which means everything turns into a strawman argument, reinforcing the tribal polarisation of political discourse.
Actually, while TDS certainly indulged in fallacies on occasion, the Straw Man argument, e.g. actually misrepresenting the argument someone is making, was something I thought they did a very good job of dodging over the years.
Probably less 'journalistic ethics' than that Straw men don't actually get laughs.
Pug
As a leftie liberal, someone please revert the scoring on the prior post (Currently 0: Troll);
I disagree with him/her, but that is *not* a troll post.
Thank you
Not per capita.
Fucking Moron.
More to the point, anything that evolves to eat stars, must also evolve to be able to survive the death of the first one they eat, or must have evolved to survive the death of a start prior to developing the capacity to feeding on them.
In a not-quite infinite Universe I can just manage to buy into a life form that feeds on a star . . . once. Once that happens it must either manage to escape the now dead gravity well, or having triggered a stellar explosion, survive a supernova. Legion of Super Heroes aside, these both strike me as being orders of magnitude more unlikely than the already only mathematically possible evolution of an 'Astrophage' in the first place.
Now a Planet-Eater (a'la "One of our Planets is Missing" from ST-TAS) seems more viable, although the gravity well situation is still iffy. But at least it doesn't involve surviving a super-nova.
The other possibility would be an something that is more of an infection than a 'creature' - if something started a process that ended in a supernova, but during early stages resulted in the star blowing out the infection as it blew out it's outer shells, such an interstellar virus *could* survive in deep space as part of the Nebula before being drawn into another star that passed through it and 'Infecting' it. But even then the 'it somehow survived this' value seems unlikely.
OW! You insensitive Clod - You hit my Eigenball with your Eigenvector!
*Just* finished the last of the side missions in Arkham City and Riddler items (Still have some of the combat 'use such in such five times in combat' but otherwise complete). In an oddly neat twist of fate, evidently the only character I can play that suddenly decides to whip through the Advanced AR missions was the 'Batman Beyond' batman - which explains what sadist *designed* those things - Bruce Wayne! THAT MY STORY AND I'M STICKING BY IT! Probably will go back to my dream of actually finishing Baldur's gate all the way through now (Never finished Throne of Bhaal).
Skyrim rocks of course - my mother is still playing, and is insisting I get Daggerfall installed so she can play all the way through, which I find hilarious.
Pug
Also The Heritage Foundation, the Cato institute . . .
The Affordable Care Act wasn't a liberal compromise with conservatives. It was a conservative plan that liberals were willing to back.
Still wanted single payer though.
(Score:3, Informative)? <-- Seriously?
Ah . . . no. Try (Score:-1 Counterfactual)
New Undeclared WMD's were *reported* as found by Fox news, multiple times.
And then they did much quieter retractions, multiple times.
Only Chemical Weaponss were ever found, all of which were properly declared to the UN Weapons inspectors before the Iraq war.
No weapons, Nuclear Biological *or* Chemical dating from after the 1991 Iraq war have *ever* been recovered in Iraq.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
Anyone that says WMD's or evidence of ongoing programs for WMD's have been found in Iraq is lying to you.
Pug
Oh wait, you couldn't . . .