Let's cut the budget in anything that sets up a definite investment, and make sure we keep blowing money on weapons and a deparmtent of defense to make sure no one can invade the burned out wasteland left after the GOP wins in 2012.
For my part, I'll be investing overseas - maybe if I make enough money I can corrupt their government into forgetting to educate their citizenry too! Remember, whoever gives heavy metal poisoning to their children last, wins!!!
That's kinda 'Well, yeah, but what are you going to do about it?" The only way to protect against *that* is to get it together and install something like gpg encrypt everything maintain a public/private key; Sensible, but not something even I do - though maintaining a copy of Truecrypt on your laptop is easy enough.
http://passwordmaker.org/ does exactly that - generates a password of specified size and character mix based on a Domain+MasterPassword Hash; Out of all the sites I use there are only maybe four that the generated password isn't suitable out of the box, and most of those involve adding a number or symbol at the end.
I would like a law, similar to Libel or Slander laws, that enforced the publication of factual information in major news publications, to prevent this kind of blatantly incorrect information (like ignoring the fact that Rape has consistently *fallen* since the 70's) going out there. I'm not sure how to prevent abuse of it - the best I can say is that it should be as difficult to get a conviction under that law as it is to get a libel/slander conviction, but yes, statements about "The increase in Rape" being published while ignoring that the crime has decreased over the years would fall afoul of it.
I'm going to skip A) - I recall that passage differently, but don't care enough to look it up.
Regarding B) however? You're saying the part where he disguised himself in order to receive the blessing is moot then? The same way if you win the lottery and jokingly trade the ticket for a kiss from a pretty girl, then she forges the signature on the check to receive the prize money, it's not fraud?
You know, if the one true word of your God calls that ethical, you need to go shopping for a divinity that's read better books on ethics.
I can say your stats conflicts with the stats I've seen; with the caveat that I recall my source as being (U.S. Federal) governmental, but not where I found it -- Although physical abuse is (Slightly) more common male > female, female on male abuse is (considerably) more likely to cause traumatic injury, hospitalization, or death, primarily due to the greater likelihood of using a weapon.
This was about a decade ago, so this may have been inaccurate, been proved inaccurate since then, or even that I simple do not remember it correctly. They also did use a correction factor for under-reporting by men, which I instinctively distrust because badly computed correction factors can prove anything, but at the time the way they derived it seemed reasonable.
From my own (Thoroughly layman's) point of view - there are a lot of neural structures that don't seem to make particular sense *unless* the brain is (metaphorically) designed to make use of quantum effects.
Certainly speculative - but from what I can see of the current state of neuroscience, the people swearing the brain is a simple Turing machine seem 'skeptical' almost to the same 'lack of desire for evidence != lack of evidence' point that creatio . . . er, 'intelligent design' advocates are.
I at least find the speculation at least intriguing enough to be worth waiting for more evidence before making any decision to put it into the 'extraordinary claims' region.
Christians, Jews (and, to be fair also Muslims) worship a god that had a man's daughters sleep with him, and had a kid steal his brothers birthright via fraud.
The house here isn't glass, it's that special breakable sugarglass they use in movies.
Going by my experience with women that overreact like this? He turned out to be exactly the guy her parents and two dozen friends said he was when they tried to warn her off.
But she was *sure* he would change . . . for her . . . for their love was something . . . special . . .
Sorry - "your actions as an individual are insignificant to the point of being negligible" is the worst kind of rationalization. I don't agree with everything Kant wrote, but the fundamental dictum "What world would result if everyone followed your example" is right on target.
That said - as a helpdesk worker in the United States - until conditions in foreign countries achieve a level of parity, such that services in India and China are just as expensive as workers in the U.S., this employment arbitrage will keep happening. So my take is not only do it, but do it right - make a good helpdesk that will raise the standard of living there.
I'd say you care because if you don't care Microsoft's tactic here might work.
Presuming you're interested in getting better search results, lets assume for a moment Microsoft had not gotten caught.
Microsoft's results benefit from both their research, and Googles, not matter how little research they put into it - since we've premised this on their never getting caught, eventually Bing becomes the dominant engine, despite Googles desperate efforts to create a better search engine.
Then Google dies . . . and Bing stagnates, because the entire point of this exercise was to improve Bing's results without actually doing the work. The Internet moves on, and the newer Holographic starmaps aren't searchable, because market forces mean you have to beat Microsoft, people that silently cheat behind the scenes, before you can even bother trying to do the *new* search technologies.
And your life gets suckier, at least until we're all eaten by little green men from Betelgeuse, who looked up "Stupid planets that allow monopolies" found earth, and invade.
Microsoft improved their results by copying off their neighbour's papers. Google has proved what they were doing beyond any reasonable doubt, and whatever the legality of their doing so it would be stupid of me to trust Microsoft search results any more than I trust the guy that got caught coping off his neighbour's math test to do my accounting.
Usage statistics of their customers relationship with a competitor. Rather like suddenly finding out the car you bought through Costco has a tool to measure the groceries you put in the trunk at Sam's Club.
The search is the users, but if the response were not based on Google's Algorithm you wouldn't be bothering with the search; Microsoft is demonstrably copying their results and using them without doing the work themselves.
As for MS's response - sorry, but screaming that Google cheated by using a trap - well, if they hadn't been in the cookie jar, they wouldn't have been caught with the cookies.
I hate to be blunt, but the authorities have long since seized the right to abscond with *actual* property - cars, homes, et al based on the mere accusation of a drug related crime. Unfortunately everyone save the Libertarians (and some Liberals, including the ACLU.) went "Well, that's drug stuff - I'm sure they did *something* to deserve it".
"As detailed in a Frontline report from 2000, federal and local practices regarding property seizure in drug cases shifted in 1984, when federal law created forfeiture funds for property seized by the DEA and FBI, and allowed local law enforcement to share proceeds from the sale of property seized."
You've waited about 25 years too long to suddenly realise "Oh . . . this could apply to *me*?!?" (Good old Saint Reagan - Who'da thunk it? I mean - not counting people actually familiar with his record.). If people don't like this, they're going to have to go back to stopping the actual real property seizures and start pushing back from there.
So what your saying is that homeopathy, psychic healing, et al is not scientifically acceptable because it doesn't beat the scientifically verified Placebo effect . . . which has no known mechanism, is growing markedly stronger and harder to overcome in current studies, but which is scientific because the term is derived from Latin rather than Greek.
If words seem so powerful to you that merely the use of the term consumer reduces you to a one dimensional object, you need to worry less about being pigeonholed and more about how you are assuming everyone else is so much dumber than you that they think the use of a single term circumscribes the whole of your existence.
I can't say there's not a lot of stuff to sift through, but I've found a *lot* of fun stuff on Netflix Instant Streaming (On Wii) - Older movies, good Documentaries that fell under "Yeah I wanted to watch that", cartoons I get to queue and claim I'm going to watch with my Niece/Nephew, some good TV series et al . . .
What it lacks is good organization - I have to sort stuff using a greasemonkey script running just to sort stuff into categories and such, when what I'd like would be able to tag or make folders or something.
I know, for myself, I get irritated at my utter lack of desire for certifications.
Don't get me wrong, I pick up new languages and so on, but the 'please paint this picture in the exact way we have taught you to' nature of certifications drives me insane, particularly when it's all too obvious that you can get certified and know absolutely nothing about actually programming. Add into that the same "Not do the homework then ace the test" work ethic that made me mr underachiever in highschool (College was better - mostly because the teachers were more interested in making the test hard and homework was for your self-evaluation needs) and getting certifications is a trip through hell.
Yet - yeah, they would be useful. I know darn well I get along at work (I'm, ah . . . {coff}{coff} not being paid less than the new people) because I have somehow managed to come off as 'The Uber Cool Geek God', but that doesn't help me if I try to jump ship for a better job.
Not that I don't find placebo effects interesting, but what is it about a certain species of skeptic that says (in this case, explicitly says) they think the concept of people healing themselves through mental processes, whether you call it psychic or otherwise, is uninteresting and entirely unscientific to investigate. Call the same thing "The Placebo Effect" however, and suddenly it's fascinating and scientific?
Climate science no more works that way than statistics predicts the results of individual coin flips.
Trend lines? Sure. But if Bastardi has genuine complaints about the trend lines being inaccurate, the statistical models, the correlation of A and B, he could do exactly what any other scientists does - make a genuine experiment debunking the current set.
But since actual temperatures fall squarely in the middle between the best and worst case scenarios predicted some 30 years ago now, he's decided he wants to run with a PR stunt with the predictable result that during the 7 years he's wrong will never be mentioned in conservative circles, but the two or three years that are below average in Lake CuCooLander will be trumpeted 24/7 as a complete debunking of climate science - and never mentioned again when it regresses to the mean.
Golly Gee Willikers I would love to, but it seems I'm going to be busy hitting my head against the wall for the next decade.
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Let's cut the budget in anything that sets up a definite investment, and make sure we keep blowing money on weapons and a deparmtent of defense to make sure no one can invade the burned out wasteland left after the GOP wins in 2012.
For my part, I'll be investing overseas - maybe if I make enough money I can corrupt their government into forgetting to educate their citizenry too!
Remember, whoever gives heavy metal poisoning to their children last, wins!!!
Pug
That's kinda 'Well, yeah, but what are you going to do about it?" The only way to protect against *that* is to get it together and install something like gpg encrypt everything maintain a public/private key; Sensible, but not something even I do - though maintaining a copy of Truecrypt on your laptop is easy enough.
Pug
http://passwordmaker.org/ does exactly that - generates a password of specified size and character mix based on a Domain+MasterPassword Hash; Out of all the sites I use there are only maybe four that the generated password isn't suitable out of the box, and most of those involve adding a number or symbol at the end.
Pug
I would like a law, similar to Libel or Slander laws, that enforced the publication of factual information in major news publications, to prevent this kind of blatantly incorrect information (like ignoring the fact that Rape has consistently *fallen* since the 70's) going out there.
I'm not sure how to prevent abuse of it - the best I can say is that it should be as difficult to get a conviction under that law as it is to get a libel/slander conviction, but yes, statements about "The increase in Rape" being published while ignoring that the crime has decreased over the years would fall afoul of it.
That's bad even for Fox.
Pug
I'm going to skip A) - I recall that passage differently, but don't care enough to look it up.
Regarding B) however? You're saying the part where he disguised himself in order to receive the blessing is moot then? The same way if you win the lottery and jokingly trade the ticket for a kiss from a pretty girl, then she forges the signature on the check to receive the prize money, it's not fraud?
You know, if the one true word of your God calls that ethical, you need to go shopping for a divinity that's read better books on ethics.
Pug
I can say your stats conflicts with the stats I've seen; with the caveat that I recall my source as being (U.S. Federal) governmental, but not where I found it --
Although physical abuse is (Slightly) more common male > female, female on male abuse is (considerably) more likely to cause traumatic injury, hospitalization, or death, primarily due to the greater likelihood of using a weapon.
This was about a decade ago, so this may have been inaccurate, been proved inaccurate since then, or even that I simple do not remember it correctly. They also did use a correction factor for under-reporting by men, which I instinctively distrust because badly computed correction factors can prove anything, but at the time the way they derived it seemed reasonable.
Pug
From my own (Thoroughly layman's) point of view - there are a lot of neural structures that don't seem to make particular sense *unless* the brain is (metaphorically) designed to make use of quantum effects.
Certainly speculative - but from what I can see of the current state of neuroscience, the people swearing the brain is a simple Turing machine seem 'skeptical' almost to the same 'lack of desire for evidence != lack of evidence' point that creatio . . . er, 'intelligent design' advocates are.
I at least find the speculation at least intriguing enough to be worth waiting for more evidence before making any decision to put it into the 'extraordinary claims' region.
Pug
Christians, Jews (and, to be fair also Muslims) worship a god that had a man's daughters sleep with him, and had a kid steal his brothers birthright via fraud.
The house here isn't glass, it's that special breakable sugarglass they use in movies.
Pug
Going by my experience with women that overreact like this? He turned out to be exactly the guy her parents and two dozen friends said he was when they tried to warn her off.
But she was *sure* he would change . . . for her . . . for their love was something . . . special . . .
or not.
Pug
Sorry - "your actions as an individual are insignificant to the point of being negligible" is the worst kind of rationalization. I don't agree with everything Kant wrote, but the fundamental dictum "What world would result if everyone followed your example" is right on target.
That said - as a helpdesk worker in the United States - until conditions in foreign countries achieve a level of parity, such that services in India and China are just as expensive as workers in the U.S., this employment arbitrage will keep happening. So my take is not only do it, but do it right - make a good helpdesk that will raise the standard of living there.
Pug
I'd say you care because if you don't care Microsoft's tactic here might work.
Presuming you're interested in getting better search results, lets assume for a moment Microsoft had not gotten caught.
Microsoft's results benefit from both their research, and Googles, not matter how little research they put into it - since we've premised this on their never getting caught, eventually Bing becomes the dominant engine, despite Googles desperate efforts to create a better search engine.
Then Google dies . . . and Bing stagnates, because the entire point of this exercise was to improve Bing's results without actually doing the work. The Internet moves on, and the newer Holographic starmaps aren't searchable, because market forces mean you have to beat Microsoft, people that silently cheat behind the scenes, before you can even bother trying to do the *new* search technologies.
And your life gets suckier, at least until we're all eaten by little green men from Betelgeuse, who looked up "Stupid planets that allow monopolies" found earth, and invade.
Microsoft improved their results by copying off their neighbour's papers. Google has proved what they were doing beyond any reasonable doubt, and whatever the legality of their doing so it would be stupid of me to trust Microsoft search results any more than I trust the guy that got caught coping off his neighbour's math test to do my accounting.
Pug
Usage statistics of their customers relationship with a competitor. Rather like suddenly finding out the car you bought through Costco has a tool to measure the groceries you put in the trunk at Sam's Club.
Pug
The search is the users, but if the response were not based on Google's Algorithm you wouldn't be bothering with the search; Microsoft is demonstrably copying their results and using them without doing the work themselves.
As for MS's response - sorry, but screaming that Google cheated by using a trap - well, if they hadn't been in the cookie jar, they wouldn't have been caught with the cookies.
Pug
You can even set it to use https so that noone else is snooping on your searches.
HTTPS Everywhere will do that with Google (and a slew of other sites).
I hate to be blunt, but the authorities have long since seized the right to abscond with *actual* property - cars, homes, et al based on the mere accusation of a drug related crime. Unfortunately everyone save the Libertarians (and some Liberals, including the ACLU.) went "Well, that's drug stuff - I'm sure they did *something* to deserve it".
From Findlaw
"As detailed in a Frontline report from 2000, federal and local practices regarding property seizure in drug cases shifted in 1984, when federal law created forfeiture funds for property seized by the DEA and FBI, and allowed local law enforcement to share proceeds from the sale of property seized."
You've waited about 25 years too long to suddenly realise "Oh . . . this could apply to *me*?!?" (Good old Saint Reagan - Who'da thunk it? I mean - not counting people actually familiar with his record.). If people don't like this, they're going to have to go back to stopping the actual real property seizures and start pushing back from there.
Pug
So what your saying is that homeopathy, psychic healing, et al is not scientifically acceptable because it doesn't beat the scientifically verified Placebo effect . . . which has no known mechanism, is growing markedly stronger and harder to overcome in current studies, but which is scientific because the term is derived from Latin rather than Greek.
Thanks for your clarification . . . wait, what?
{G} - Pug
If words seem so powerful to you that merely the use of the term consumer reduces you to a one dimensional object, you need to worry less about being pigeonholed and more about how you are assuming everyone else is so much dumber than you that they think the use of a single term circumscribes the whole of your existence.
Pug
He seems pretty honest and forthright. Even if he didn't use the Bumper Sticker idea I sent him - {G}.
Pug
Fortunately Volume 4b has an algorithm for doing exactly that over IP16 transmat protocol - I gave myself an advance copy two weeks ago.
Pug
I can't say there's not a lot of stuff to sift through, but I've found a *lot* of fun stuff on Netflix Instant Streaming (On Wii) - Older movies, good Documentaries that fell under "Yeah I wanted to watch that", cartoons I get to queue and claim I'm going to watch with my Niece/Nephew, some good TV series et al . . .
What it lacks is good organization - I have to sort stuff using a greasemonkey script running just to sort stuff into categories and such, when what I'd like would be able to tag or make folders or something.
Pug
Depends - Which is worse - being C&D'd by Blizzard, or by Kirby?
Though I hate to admit it - Imagine a MMORPG based on that - {G};
Pug
I know, for myself, I get irritated at my utter lack of desire for certifications.
Don't get me wrong, I pick up new languages and so on, but the 'please paint this picture in the exact way we have taught you to' nature of certifications drives me insane, particularly when it's all too obvious that you can get certified and know absolutely nothing about actually programming. Add into that the same "Not do the homework then ace the test" work ethic that made me mr underachiever in highschool (College was better - mostly because the teachers were more interested in making the test hard and homework was for your self-evaluation needs) and getting certifications is a trip through hell.
Yet - yeah, they would be useful. I know darn well I get along at work (I'm, ah . . . {coff}{coff} not being paid less than the new people) because I have somehow managed to come off as 'The Uber Cool Geek God', but that doesn't help me if I try to jump ship for a better job.
Get Certified or be stuck where you're at.
Pug
Not that I don't find placebo effects interesting, but what is it about a certain species of skeptic that says (in this case, explicitly says) they think the concept of people healing themselves through mental processes, whether you call it psychic or otherwise, is uninteresting and entirely unscientific to investigate.
Call the same thing "The Placebo Effect" however, and suddenly it's fascinating and scientific?
WTF Over?
Pug
Play at 80% speed, and you can understand the man.
Pug
Climate science no more works that way than statistics predicts the results of individual coin flips.
Trend lines? Sure. But if Bastardi has genuine complaints about the trend lines being inaccurate, the statistical models, the correlation of A and B, he could do exactly what any other scientists does - make a genuine experiment debunking the current set.
But since actual temperatures fall squarely in the middle between the best and worst case scenarios predicted some 30 years ago now, he's decided he wants to run with a PR stunt with the predictable result that during the 7 years he's wrong will never be mentioned in conservative circles, but the two or three years that are below average in Lake CuCooLander will be trumpeted 24/7 as a complete debunking of climate science - and never mentioned again when it regresses to the mean.
Golly Gee Willikers I would love to, but it seems I'm going to be busy hitting my head against the wall for the next decade.
Pug