I like Halderman and Heinlen but this nonsense about prime troops in direct contact is sad. Clearly, proxies are what you will use to fight, whether they are remotely controlled or AI's or blockades or cheap meat from some place it doesn't matter. I actually like Ender's Game for that reason even if not done all that well. I hope I didn't spoil anything.
"We also have the right to pay a price if we knowing[ly] say false and reckless things that hurt others." WTF! You just made that up.
At the very least it's called satire and it's not illegal and it's OK to make a profit from such speech. In fact, the more outrageous and the more often you say it the better.
And you wonder why certain groups have basically given up trying to work with the police. I don't condone the violence, in fact I condemn it, but what do you expect when, seemingly, the police (and complicit city councils) don't respect you and repeatedly trample your rights?
I would recommend that these groups give up the violence and focus on city hall and all the bastards that we keep electing. Insist on new management and ditch the entrenched LEO leadership, union or actual. Policing is big money and changing that is going to be really hard!
As long as the Feds keep pushing student loans the universities are not under any pressure to contain costs or use endowments. And now you hear talk of loan forgiveness being the only solution to the burden of these loans. Ha, that will just make it worse.
Sounds like the way a lot of people do job references. You can get away with it too as it's real easy to get temporary phone numbers and with contracted out reference checkers it's easy enough to pretend to be multiple people. I've detected this scam a few time for companies that were trying to hire for "commodity" type jobs.
FF has gone down hill fast ever since they fired the president of mozilla for giving money to political causes that some people didn't like. Who wants to work in an "open" environment like that? I don't defend his views, I just defend his right to political speech unencumbered by punishment. Employees with half a brain and the ability to think outside the box probably started making plans to leave and that seems to have left a lot of weak people who can't think for themselves. Diversity must have limits!
I agree that we need to keep researching, but I think we need to speed it up and "go like hell" and get off this rock even if the process is a bit dirty. I mean, what do we do when renewables aren't enough or some fast moving rock is on its way to destroy our rock or some idiot does something really stupid with a virus or two. Let's go!
If you come up to me and ask for money and say you are going to "put me in the hospital" if I don't give it to you then I have the right to kick you in the balls (among other things). There are certainly times when speech can and should result in violence.
Shooting is hard for a lot of people and lots of training certainly does help. If you want to deploy technology that makes a big difference then I think there are better avenues to approach.
I agree, get off the earth as soon as possible. All kinds of bad things can happen to life on a single planet (Fermi's Paradox?) and we shouldn't expect to have free rein for ever.
In the real world people work as much as necessary or as much as they want. I'm sure Bill Gates and Warren Buffer work far more than 40 hours/week. It's obvious that, to them, it's worth it. Now, you have to expand you horizons and see that probably a lot of people have decided that their salary is worth the time required even if they aren't billionaires and millionaires. Would they like to work less, hell yeah, but we can't all live in Greece.
Facebook has what are effectively public forums where friends are not personal friends but friends of some activity or idea. There is no reason to insist on a documented name for something that doesn't require trust.
Not sure what came first, the decline of new species or the decline of taxonomists. But there has been a steady decline in the number of the taxonomists. In the field of botany lots of newly discovered plants are not described because they just aren't interesting enough for the taxonomists to work on them.
Anyway, the best way to stop the perception of an extinction event is to create more species! Admittedly, that would be a short term fix.
Wax is hardly immortalizing. There is this place near Keystone, South Dakota that has some few people reasonably immortalized! Woz isn't (yet) one of them.
I just put a kid through college in Florida. It wasn't all that expensive with the Bright Futures scholarship and Florida's relatively low cost for college. I spent more on the car than I did on tuition and that was certainly optional. We never even considered getting a loan.
Come on guys/gals, it's obvious that this was a honey pot. They didn't catch a bear but I'm sure there are dragon prints all over the place and major laughter from team USA.
OK, when France switches to a metric calendar...
Seriously, if we can tell time with a stupid 12/24 hour clock and dumb seconds/minutes/hours/days/weeks... why can't we deal with inches/feet/yards/fathoms/leagues/miles whatever.
It didn't happen if there are no pictures.
Seriously, I can't image that Chrome is 10% faster or slower loading web pages than Firefox. Let's see some hard data showing that Firefox is slower.
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It's racist to suggest that the locals are stupid and greedy. Clearly, shiny objects distracted them. It must be somebody else's fault.
I like Halderman and Heinlen but this nonsense about prime troops in direct contact is sad. Clearly, proxies are what you will use to fight, whether they are remotely controlled or AI's or blockades or cheap meat from some place it doesn't matter. I actually like Ender's Game for that reason even if not done all that well. I hope I didn't spoil anything.
"We also have the right to pay a price if we knowing[ly] say false and reckless things that hurt others." WTF! You just made that up.
At the very least it's called satire and it's not illegal and it's OK to make a profit from such speech. In fact, the more outrageous and the more often you say it the better.
Je suis Charlie?
What I really want to know is what kind of toilet paper they use.
And you wonder why certain groups have basically given up trying to work with the police. I don't condone the violence, in fact I condemn it, but what do you expect when, seemingly, the police (and complicit city councils) don't respect you and repeatedly trample your rights? I would recommend that these groups give up the violence and focus on city hall and all the bastards that we keep electing. Insist on new management and ditch the entrenched LEO leadership, union or actual. Policing is big money and changing that is going to be really hard!
My first reaction was that they made it gender neutral. You know, kind of castrated with no testosterone.
They lie! You would think that Bing is better at searching .Net stuff but it's not. Usually it sucks more than Google.
As long as the Feds keep pushing student loans the universities are not under any pressure to contain costs or use endowments. And now you hear talk of loan forgiveness being the only solution to the burden of these loans. Ha, that will just make it worse.
Sounds like the way a lot of people do job references. You can get away with it too as it's real easy to get temporary phone numbers and with contracted out reference checkers it's easy enough to pretend to be multiple people. I've detected this scam a few time for companies that were trying to hire for "commodity" type jobs.
FF has gone down hill fast ever since they fired the president of mozilla for giving money to political causes that some people didn't like. Who wants to work in an "open" environment like that? I don't defend his views, I just defend his right to political speech unencumbered by punishment. Employees with half a brain and the ability to think outside the box probably started making plans to leave and that seems to have left a lot of weak people who can't think for themselves. Diversity must have limits!
I agree that we need to keep researching, but I think we need to speed it up and "go like hell" and get off this rock even if the process is a bit dirty. I mean, what do we do when renewables aren't enough or some fast moving rock is on its way to destroy our rock or some idiot does something really stupid with a virus or two. Let's go!
If you come up to me and ask for money and say you are going to "put me in the hospital" if I don't give it to you then I have the right to kick you in the balls (among other things). There are certainly times when speech can and should result in violence.
Shooting is hard for a lot of people and lots of training certainly does help. If you want to deploy technology that makes a big difference then I think there are better avenues to approach.
I agree, get off the earth as soon as possible. All kinds of bad things can happen to life on a single planet (Fermi's Paradox?) and we shouldn't expect to have free rein for ever.
In the real world people work as much as necessary or as much as they want. I'm sure Bill Gates and Warren Buffer work far more than 40 hours/week. It's obvious that, to them, it's worth it. Now, you have to expand you horizons and see that probably a lot of people have decided that their salary is worth the time required even if they aren't billionaires and millionaires. Would they like to work less, hell yeah, but we can't all live in Greece.
Facebook has what are effectively public forums where friends are not personal friends but friends of some activity or idea. There is no reason to insist on a documented name for something that doesn't require trust.
Not sure what came first, the decline of new species or the decline of taxonomists. But there has been a steady decline in the number of the taxonomists. In the field of botany lots of newly discovered plants are not described because they just aren't interesting enough for the taxonomists to work on them. Anyway, the best way to stop the perception of an extinction event is to create more species! Admittedly, that would be a short term fix.
Wax is hardly immortalizing. There is this place near Keystone, South Dakota that has some few people reasonably immortalized! Woz isn't (yet) one of them.
I just put a kid through college in Florida. It wasn't all that expensive with the Bright Futures scholarship and Florida's relatively low cost for college. I spent more on the car than I did on tuition and that was certainly optional. We never even considered getting a loan.
Come on guys/gals, it's obvious that this was a honey pot. They didn't catch a bear but I'm sure there are dragon prints all over the place and major laughter from team USA.
OK, when France switches to a metric calendar... Seriously, if we can tell time with a stupid 12/24 hour clock and dumb seconds/minutes/hours/days/weeks... why can't we deal with inches/feet/yards/fathoms/leagues/miles whatever.
It didn't happen if there are no pictures. Seriously, I can't image that Chrome is 10% faster or slower loading web pages than Firefox. Let's see some hard data showing that Firefox is slower.
be an American. Not exactly the first time but to paraphrase those who should know better...
I think Hitler tried something like that already.
Wow! You just like to make stuff up. Pure hyperbole, not a fact in sight.