Few would argue that stuff wasn't developed by/for the military, the argument is that it could have been developed without it, and in some cases it would have cost much less to do. Given that militaries run around destroying things, suggesting that we need military investment to develop technology is a variation of the broken window fallacy.
Laserdisc sucked in several ways, and the only ways in which it was superior were image quality, and not having to rewind. (Super Beta had PCM audio, and could have had more complex digital audio — probably would have, if it had stayed around.) Mostly, though, LD was just too expensive.
So they can give powerful narcotics to warriors. My dad used to sing the praises of the wonderful drugs they had in the military. He was a Marine ATC in Korea...
Who's the Commander-in-Chief of the US Department of Defense? I thought the President was, but I could be wrong, not being a U-all.
You've got it right. The pres says what, the sec of def figures out how, and interfaces with the rest of the military so the pres doesn't have to be a military expert.
CO2 levels over geologic time spans are usually much, much higher on Earth than the current 400 ppm. Levels in the thousands PPM are more normal.
Nobody human cares what's been more normal for the planet any more than anyone thinks it will be the end of the planet if CO2 increases. The concern is that it will be the end of humanity, or at least our dominance. Levels in the thousands of PPM are harmful to humans, starting at 1,000 PPM and becoming acute around 5,000 PPM. What is normal or natural is irrelevant. It's this period of abnormally low CO2 that has permitted us to flourish, and if we want to continue to do so, we're going to have to keep it low.
As someone who has a degree in botany and has worked in greenhouses that were maintained at 1500ppm. You should know that CO2 levels become dangerous at 5000 ppm, not 1200ppm.
Your degree in botany may speak to your ability to determine what effect CO2 has on plants, but it has no bearing on your ability to determine its effects on humans and other mammals. CO2 has negative health repercussions beginning at about 1000 ppm, which vary between individuals. Working environments with 1500 ppm CO2 can definitely be harmful to health. (They may also reduce plants' ability to absorb nitrogen, but that's a separate argument.)
We should also give North America back to the native peoples.
I have pointed out many times that the way we treated the natives was abominable. Whether it was literally genocide or not, when you boil it down, that's what's left in the bottom of the kettle. But sure, do that! I'm a quarter Mexican, which means I am one, partially anyway. Don't let the door hit you. Or did you mean full-blood natives? Because this land would look funny with just a few hundred people on it.
More seriously, Jews already lost that land, and then were reinstalled by force by the USA. Great Britain conceived of the notion but was then talked out of it, more or less by TE Lawrence. Sounded like a good idea to US, though. Israel is literally an example of giving the land "back"... to people who were never more than a minority in the region.
So I take it that you've never used any software developed under government contract, designed to meet a formally agreed-upon requirements document, that actually has a user interface.:-)
No, but I've suffered the CA DMV's god-awful system... except that some people seem to be able to navigate it just fine, which tells me that it's as much a training issue as anything else. Anyway, Windows for Warships, anyone?
The alternative is giving this contract to one of your more traditional defense contractors, who is probably going to charge a lot more and deliver a significantly worse product.
Worse than a Microsoft product? Go on, pull the other one.
"We made a principled decision that we're not going to withhold technology from institutions that we have elected in democracies to protect the freedoms we enjoy,"
What about institutions that got elected through gerrymandering in oligarchies to protect profits for oil barons at the expense of human lives, especially in the middle east but also all over the planet? Asking for 7.53 billion friends.
Even at the cost of a Bollywood movie it still costs AT LEAST TWICE AS MUCH to film the same movie twice.
What? First, it's only some scenes. Second, even if it was all the scenes, it still wouldn't double the cost.
And if you're dubbing INTO English - now you're paying American actors American salaries to dub something that no one wants to watch.
If no one wants to watch it, you wouldn't bother. And you don't have to pay Americans. You just need English speakers. In fact, it would be weirder if you used Americans.
Also... Most of the stuff that works great in India would only register as weird or as cheap melodrama in the USA. Or most anywhere.
People watch a lot of weird shit full of cheap melodrama here.
Wordpress is shit, but at least it lets fools update through the admin interface rather than require hiring an overpriced outsourced development team because your modules are fucked on every manual upgrade.
I've been running Drupal since 4.somethingorother and upgrades have been largely smooth throughout. Maybe I'm just good at picking modules. But this 7-8 transition isn't working for me. I've got a couple years before I actually have to convert, so maybe they'll get migration working correctly by then.
So, your 'whataboutism' is OK, mine isn't. Funny person you are.
Point to my whataboutism.
As for less cops dying, Its telling you find trouble with that.
I don't, and you're being a disingenuous dickhead. I brought that up specifically to point out that there is no war on cops.
As for as 'murdering more of us', well, you asked for stats but didn't deliver. The real question is how many in terms of totals and percentage. Its an immensely tiny percentage,
Irrelevant.
You hate cops because you've been told to.
I hate the state of policing because I don't have my head up my asshole.
You seem to lack knowledge of history. Not long after Israel was created, there were armies massing on their borders ready to invade, and wipe them out.
If you want to talk history, let's go back a bit further. The Jews got kicked out of that area, and then were reinstalled by force. How do you expect the neighbors to have felt about that?
Yes, you are partially right. I agree that Israel should not really expand into those lands. But as to the rest of it, if Palestinians routinely try to kill Jews, should the Jews just let them?
Would they try so much without the 1967 expansion?
The crime of allowing Christians, Jews, and Muslims to happily coexist without persecutions of one or more of them.
...unless they were born next door. In which case, take their property, build a wall to keep them out, bulldoze their greenhouses, and build settlements on their land which are internationally understood to be illegal.
Which entry-level phone ships with 64-bit Android 7 or later?
Moto X4, available at $140 or less carrier locked (I paid $150 for the unlocked Android One version) supports Android 9. It also has ARCore support. I tried and tried to find something better and/or cheaper with water resistance (X4 claims full IP68) and failed. Granted, it's at about the end of its lifecycle, so updates will probably stop soon, but since it's actually current now that should hold me for a while. I'm replacing a Moto G2, on which I am currently running Pixel Experience, so I'm going to double my cores and triple my RAM. The X4 doesn't have a battery door, but it does have a headphone jack.
I'm still just mildly annoyed (though not upset) that they're making an Alita movie at all. Why? What's wrong with Anime? However, I'm not angry enough to write long rants about it, or to go try to bomb sites with votes, only to write a short comment about it.
... bus mastering being used in an Intel processor exploit in 10, 9, 8...
If you buy a modern system without a IOMMU, you deserve exactly what you get. We figured out that this was a problem back in the firewire days, and first servers and then desktops sprouted IOMMUs to solve it.
I would politely listen to them and tell them (again) that SMS relied on email to get the messages to the towers. So just how I was I going to send a message that email was down if.. I used a system that depended on email to send messages?
That's not a law of physics, it's an implementation detail. SMS itself doesn't rely on email, nor do paging systems, though both can be used that way. I've been involved with paging both through TAP and through email, and with SMS both directly and through email.
Using pagers is cool because they don't depend on the cellular network, but it also sucks because using good ones which can ack a message is as expensive as cellular. But if you expect it to work even in an emergency while the cellular network may be down and even if not is probably getting pounded by users, it still makes sense. Therefore, if it makes sense for anyone, it's medical professionals.
Never mind that many of these fossils sit in the archives of a museum lost and forgotten for years.
If they're sitting there, then they can be dug up (so to speak) later and research done on them. If they're in private collections, this is much harder, and they're more likely to be destroyed or damaged.
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Few would argue that stuff wasn't developed by/for the military, the argument is that it could have been developed without it, and in some cases it would have cost much less to do. Given that militaries run around destroying things, suggesting that we need military investment to develop technology is a variation of the broken window fallacy.
Laserdisc sucked in several ways, and the only ways in which it was superior were image quality, and not having to rewind. (Super Beta had PCM audio, and could have had more complex digital audio — probably would have, if it had stayed around.) Mostly, though, LD was just too expensive.
Why do they have a "narcotics" fund at all?
So they can give powerful narcotics to warriors. My dad used to sing the praises of the wonderful drugs they had in the military. He was a Marine ATC in Korea...
Who's the Commander-in-Chief of the US Department of Defense? I thought the President was, but I could be wrong, not being a U-all.
You've got it right. The pres says what, the sec of def figures out how, and interfaces with the rest of the military so the pres doesn't have to be a military expert.
CO2 levels over geologic time spans are usually much, much higher on Earth than the current 400 ppm. Levels in the thousands PPM are more normal.
Nobody human cares what's been more normal for the planet any more than anyone thinks it will be the end of the planet if CO2 increases. The concern is that it will be the end of humanity, or at least our dominance. Levels in the thousands of PPM are harmful to humans, starting at 1,000 PPM and becoming acute around 5,000 PPM. What is normal or natural is irrelevant. It's this period of abnormally low CO2 that has permitted us to flourish, and if we want to continue to do so, we're going to have to keep it low.
As someone who has a degree in botany and has worked in greenhouses that were maintained at 1500ppm. You should know that CO2 levels become dangerous at 5000 ppm, not 1200ppm.
Your degree in botany may speak to your ability to determine what effect CO2 has on plants, but it has no bearing on your ability to determine its effects on humans and other mammals. CO2 has negative health repercussions beginning at about 1000 ppm, which vary between individuals. Working environments with 1500 ppm CO2 can definitely be harmful to health. (They may also reduce plants' ability to absorb nitrogen, but that's a separate argument.)
We should also give North America back to the native peoples.
I have pointed out many times that the way we treated the natives was abominable. Whether it was literally genocide or not, when you boil it down, that's what's left in the bottom of the kettle. But sure, do that! I'm a quarter Mexican, which means I am one, partially anyway. Don't let the door hit you. Or did you mean full-blood natives? Because this land would look funny with just a few hundred people on it.
More seriously, Jews already lost that land, and then were reinstalled by force by the USA. Great Britain conceived of the notion but was then talked out of it, more or less by TE Lawrence. Sounded like a good idea to US, though. Israel is literally an example of giving the land "back" ... to people who were never more than a minority in the region.
About 20 million artifacts were destroyed just this past September when the National Museum of Brazil went up in flames.
If you want to argue that third-world countries with massive corruption like Brazil aren't safe places, I will readily agree.
So I take it that you've never used any software developed under government contract, designed to meet a formally agreed-upon requirements document, that actually has a user interface. :-)
No, but I've suffered the CA DMV's god-awful system... except that some people seem to be able to navigate it just fine, which tells me that it's as much a training issue as anything else. Anyway, Windows for Warships, anyone?
The alternative is giving this contract to one of your more traditional defense contractors, who is probably going to charge a lot more and deliver a significantly worse product.
Worse than a Microsoft product? Go on, pull the other one.
"We made a principled decision that we're not going to withhold technology from institutions that we have elected in democracies to protect the freedoms we enjoy,"
What about institutions that got elected through gerrymandering in oligarchies to protect profits for oil barons at the expense of human lives, especially in the middle east but also all over the planet? Asking for 7.53 billion friends.
Even at the cost of a Bollywood movie it still costs AT LEAST TWICE AS MUCH to film the same movie twice.
What? First, it's only some scenes. Second, even if it was all the scenes, it still wouldn't double the cost.
And if you're dubbing INTO English - now you're paying American actors American salaries to dub something that no one wants to watch.
If no one wants to watch it, you wouldn't bother. And you don't have to pay Americans. You just need English speakers. In fact, it would be weirder if you used Americans.
Also... Most of the stuff that works great in India would only register as weird or as cheap melodrama in the USA. Or most anywhere.
People watch a lot of weird shit full of cheap melodrama here.
Wordpress is shit, but at least it lets fools update through the admin interface rather than require hiring an overpriced outsourced development team because your modules are fucked on every manual upgrade.
I've been running Drupal since 4.somethingorother and upgrades have been largely smooth throughout. Maybe I'm just good at picking modules. But this 7-8 transition isn't working for me. I've got a couple years before I actually have to convert, so maybe they'll get migration working correctly by then.
This crap has been going on for decades and they still can not check their code properly, or, do they?
Fair point, but there's plenty of evidence for both malice and incompetence.
So, your 'whataboutism' is OK, mine isn't. Funny person you are.
Point to my whataboutism.
As for less cops dying, Its telling you find trouble with that.
I don't, and you're being a disingenuous dickhead. I brought that up specifically to point out that there is no war on cops.
As for as 'murdering more of us', well, you asked for stats but didn't deliver. The real question is how many in terms of totals and percentage. Its an immensely tiny percentage,
Irrelevant.
You hate cops because you've been told to.
I hate the state of policing because I don't have my head up my asshole.
I suppose you don't even know any.
On a personal level? I sure don't. Why would I?
You seem to lack knowledge of history. Not long after Israel was created, there were armies massing on their borders ready to invade, and wipe them out.
If you want to talk history, let's go back a bit further. The Jews got kicked out of that area, and then were reinstalled by force. How do you expect the neighbors to have felt about that?
Yes, you are partially right. I agree that Israel should not really expand into those lands. But as to the rest of it, if Palestinians routinely try to kill Jews, should the Jews just let them?
Would they try so much without the 1967 expansion?
Well, when these neighbors keep launching explosive rockets, hoping to kill as many civilians as possible, that changes the picture a bit.
You know what changes the picture a bit? Expansionism. In fact, it changed the borders.
Do you know HOW they got control of those lands? Hint: their neighbors wanted to wipe them out.
Wait, are you talking about the Israelis, or the Palestinians? Because you could equally use that description in any direction.
I think that this sums up the situation better than anything else. But you could equally well have asked TE Lawrence.
It's not ideal, but ironically, it's less likely to be turned into a smoking crater than the place it came from.
The crime of allowing Christians, Jews, and Muslims to happily coexist without persecutions of one or more of them.
...unless they were born next door. In which case, take their property, build a wall to keep them out, bulldoze their greenhouses, and build settlements on their land which are internationally understood to be illegal.
Are we talking real 5G, or AT&T 5G?
Both, since the flaws are also in 4G.
Which entry-level phone ships with 64-bit Android 7 or later?
Moto X4, available at $140 or less carrier locked (I paid $150 for the unlocked Android One version) supports Android 9. It also has ARCore support. I tried and tried to find something better and/or cheaper with water resistance (X4 claims full IP68) and failed. Granted, it's at about the end of its lifecycle, so updates will probably stop soon, but since it's actually current now that should hold me for a while. I'm replacing a Moto G2, on which I am currently running Pixel Experience, so I'm going to double my cores and triple my RAM. The X4 doesn't have a battery door, but it does have a headphone jack.
I'm still just mildly annoyed (though not upset) that they're making an Alita movie at all. Why? What's wrong with Anime? However, I'm not angry enough to write long rants about it, or to go try to bomb sites with votes, only to write a short comment about it.
... bus mastering being used in an Intel processor exploit in 10, 9, 8 ...
If you buy a modern system without a IOMMU, you deserve exactly what you get. We figured out that this was a problem back in the firewire days, and first servers and then desktops sprouted IOMMUs to solve it.
I would politely listen to them and tell them (again) that SMS relied on email to get the messages to the towers. So just how I was I going to send a message that email was down if .. I used a system that depended on email to send messages?
That's not a law of physics, it's an implementation detail. SMS itself doesn't rely on email, nor do paging systems, though both can be used that way. I've been involved with paging both through TAP and through email, and with SMS both directly and through email.
Using pagers is cool because they don't depend on the cellular network, but it also sucks because using good ones which can ack a message is as expensive as cellular. But if you expect it to work even in an emergency while the cellular network may be down and even if not is probably getting pounded by users, it still makes sense. Therefore, if it makes sense for anyone, it's medical professionals.
Never mind that many of these fossils sit in the archives of a museum lost and forgotten for years.
If they're sitting there, then they can be dug up (so to speak) later and research done on them. If they're in private collections, this is much harder, and they're more likely to be destroyed or damaged.