Pretty sure Mein Kampf was considered "racist and controversial" by 1930s standards too, what with all the stuff about snuffing the 'weak' and wiping out the jews!
Whilst the tea-party wing of the GOP might be more or less unredeamable wing-nuts, I've never quite understood why the libertarians have tolerated the anti Tesla thing.
Libertarians in recent years have found themselves in the untennable situation of being forced to side with the climate change denialist flat earther society, having to weave weirder and wilder conspiracy theories whilst discarding more and more fundamental science to try and dismiss an unfortunate fact of chemistry and science that was largely proven over a century, because the suggested solution doesnt fit neatly at all into their "no government interventions ever" mindset. The more thoughtful libertarians must surely find this a situation as difficult as the smarter minds in the left find the anti-nuclear power sentiment. A troublesom matter of faith not reason.
So things like the Tesla would seem an obvious way out of this mess. It provides a market based solution, creates jobs, and generally ticks all the boxes that the libertarians want ticked, without forcing them to share the same podium with the creationists and "smoking DOESNT cause cancer!" whackjobs by reluctantly feining a belief that scientists are in some 100 year old sinister global conspiracy to lie about physics for some undeteriminable reason.
I dont think this is really the problem. I'm on a mid range ADSL2 connection and Netflix streams fine for me, as does youtube and most silverlight based sites (Silverlight was a misconcieved technology that nobody wanted, but to its credit, its video streaming worked exceptionally well).
The problem is straight up the fact that some of what I want to watch is on Netflix, some of it is on hula and yet more is just straight up not available.
Unless I use Pirate bay.
If the industry wants people to stop downloading unauthorized copies, maaaaybe they could consideri doing like them music industry did and fixing this. I havent downloaded an unauthorized mp3 in years because iTunes and spotify just work.
Here in australia your not supposed to listen in to police comms, but journalists, tow truck drivers and whoever else have been doing so for decades with no penalty.
That said I wouldn't be surprise if its encrypted (or whatever they do) these days.
The approach of the IPCC is to take the worst scenario that hasn't been conclusively rejected by the scientific community, and promoting that scenario most prominently, which is why we you see it being presented with judgement words, like "darkest yet." Their goal seems to be to make it look as dark, which is obviously not a good scientific approach.
Wouldn't it have been quicker to have just note you actually don't have any idea whats in the report?
The IPCC does nothing of the sort. The risk assesment framework of the IPCC is actually quite conservative and is regularly criticized by climate scientists and physicists for understating the risks involved. To its credit the IPCC takes the approach of a mass literature survey and then weights the results of the tens of thousands of research papers , and looks at what the median opinion is. Nobody is predicting a Venus result, however we do know that runaway climate change is both a very real possibility and rather nasty.
Whatever the case is , the predictions of the IPCC are not the high ends, not the low ends, but somewhere in the middle and the other outlier predictions are also presented with the approprite probabilities assigned.
Actually try reading the thing. The first thing you'll notice is these global warming denial blogs are not being very honest about what the IPCC actually says.
Someone is getting their pockets lined. This is politics Al Gore style. Its pathetic, "food shortages" yeah right, because we all know food doesn't grow when the climate is warmer........ Scare tactics by intellectually challenged pseudo scientists.
Well this ooky spooky vast left wing conspiracy certainly has forgot to line my sisters pockets who's been staring at satelite data and , you know, using physics and stuff (hint: The picture coming out of the science really isn't pretty)
Thankfully the christian right blogosphere will teach us about how real science works!
Reminds me a bit of one of the tropes from battlestar galactica. Adama knew from the previous war that the cylons where master hackers and could disable battlestars by breaking into networks via wireless and then using them to disable the whole ship, leaving them effectively dead in the water, so he simply ordered that none of his ship ever be networked and that the ship be driven using manual control. Later on they meet the other surviving battleship, the pegasus, and it turns out that only survived because its network was offline due to maintainance. Its not actually a novel idea in militaries. I remember in the 90s doing a small contract for a special forces group I can't name, and asked them about their computer network. He said they used "Sneaker-net", which is that any info that needed transfer was put on a floppy and walked to its destination, thus creating an air gap between battlefield systems.
I guess this isn't quite that, but it certainly seems to be a sort of variant of it.
Don't. Just forget the password. They can't prove you haven't. In fact its actually really common for people under duress to forget passwords for real, since memory can get quite impaired by anxiety (Its part of why torture doesnt work. The more people are freaked out, the more the brain reverts to a fight-or-flight baseline with faster reflexes and diminished cognitive skills)
We had a few arse-backwards white supremacists in the 1980s blow up some chinese resturants and a few things. Somehow doubt those hillbillies are going to be particularly sophisticated about their communication.
No its not. A naturalistic fallacy is where someone justifies a moral stance by a physical condition. It is essentially a round-about variation of the is/ought problem.
However, death has no real moral status, because we have no say over the matter. To say death is immoral presupposes that there is an alternative to death which IS moral, and for which we might chose.
But there isn't. Death isn't a moral choice, its simply something that exists, and we're all going to get knived by it some day.
Well the Americans in WW-II pretty much pulled off the whole thing, plus the whole "invent nuclear weapons" things in about that amount of time.
Being that the whole "invent nuclear weapons" bit is already done, and the Ukraine has the physicists to fill in the middle bits, yeah 4 years is probably a good bet.
Problem of course is that they have about 4 weeks, not 4 years to pull this off so....
Pavlov hasn't really been a thing in neurology or psychology since the 50s. Lets get that clear before we start spouting grossly outdated theories before we really screw up and start spouting freud.
Dogs do analyse our facial expressions and the like to guage our moods. But its also how humans do it as well. We know that because people who cant, namely people with autism, suffer from something called "mind blindness", the inability to guage the internal states of others.
The thing is, we can only guess at what animals can't understand, because they can't tell us otherwise. But we also need to acknowledge these animals for the large part have the same brain parts we do (with a few notable exceptions, like an inability to process grammar) and often display similar reason to us.
We know they tend not to be as smart as us. We've got whacking great big frontal and temporal lobes, but we need to be very careful in assuming they dont understand us, just because they are mute.
The US dollar is worth anywhere from 1/29th to 1/539th of what it originally was worth after the Revolutionary War, so your statement is inane.
Theres really nothing bad about this. Its called economic growth and its why our western countries don't look like the backward-arse third world countries who've failed to increase the value of their products.
When I was younger, early 20s back in the 1990s , once of my best friends started to slip into schizophrenia (it ran in his family). He constantly jotted drawings and writings on paper, which grew increasingly more bizare. Started with pictures of aliens and UFOs (Which he'd say where just him having fun) but over time turned into numerological type things (My first letter is T my second is C, I am top cat, my age adds up to 9 which upside down is a third of 666 etc etc etc) and increasingly more paranoid mystery theories. He'd draw charts explaining the relationships between things.
And since he was a biology student, he drew lots of plants. Particularly his favorite, marihuana.
Whats to say this isn't the mad scrawlings of a schizophrenic mad man, 500 years ago? It'd certainly fit the pattern.
Yes it has. But that don't mean we'll survive it. A 4c warming over a thousand years triggered the permafrost melt (for a total of 10c warming) which damn near sterilized the planet.
Regardless, those massive shifts are not contemporary and not compatible with our survival. In fact we're not even sure 4c is particularly compatible with our survival if history has any say in it.
Yeah sometimes its necessary. A friend of mine has been stalked by a Neo Nazi gang for some time after she spoke out somewhere about racism. Death threats, and so on (Neo nazis are one of the nastiest organized crime things I've ever seen!). She has *very good* reason to want to be anonymous and use a fake name on facebook only known to family and close friends.
Its *dangerous* to force real identities on people.
I'd wager that tramadol actually is working. Having been on it to recover from some *savagely* painful throat surgery a few years back, the stuff worked amazingly well. Possibly better than the morphine I was being weened off.
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Pretty sure Mein Kampf was considered "racist and controversial" by 1930s standards too, what with all the stuff about snuffing the 'weak' and wiping out the jews!
Whilst the tea-party wing of the GOP might be more or less unredeamable wing-nuts, I've never quite understood why the libertarians have tolerated the anti Tesla thing.
Libertarians in recent years have found themselves in the untennable situation of being forced to side with the climate change denialist flat earther society, having to weave weirder and wilder conspiracy theories whilst discarding more and more fundamental science to try and dismiss an unfortunate fact of chemistry and science that was largely proven over a century, because the suggested solution doesnt fit neatly at all into their "no government interventions ever" mindset. The more thoughtful libertarians must surely find this a situation as difficult as the smarter minds in the left find the anti-nuclear power sentiment. A troublesom matter of faith not reason.
So things like the Tesla would seem an obvious way out of this mess. It provides a market based solution, creates jobs, and generally ticks all the boxes that the libertarians want ticked, without forcing them to share the same podium with the creationists and "smoking DOESNT cause cancer!" whackjobs by reluctantly feining a belief that scientists are in some 100 year old sinister global conspiracy to lie about physics for some undeteriminable reason.
I dont think this is really the problem. I'm on a mid range ADSL2 connection and Netflix streams fine for me, as does youtube and most silverlight based sites (Silverlight was a misconcieved technology that nobody wanted, but to its credit, its video streaming worked exceptionally well).
The problem is straight up the fact that some of what I want to watch is on Netflix, some of it is on hula and yet more is just straight up not available.
Unless I use Pirate bay.
If the industry wants people to stop downloading unauthorized copies, maaaaybe they could consideri doing like them music industry did and fixing this. I havent downloaded an unauthorized mp3 in years because iTunes and spotify just work.
We only accept Gold Pressed Latinum in this station buddy. BY order of the Grand Negus.
Prune flavors would work. Worf always liked prune juice because it tasted like a "Warriors drink". I guess you could make inferences from that.
Here in australia your not supposed to listen in to police comms, but journalists, tow truck drivers and whoever else have been doing so for decades with no penalty.
That said I wouldn't be surprise if its encrypted (or whatever they do) these days.
Wouldn't it have been quicker to have just note you actually don't have any idea whats in the report?
The IPCC does nothing of the sort. The risk assesment framework of the IPCC is actually quite conservative and is regularly criticized by climate scientists and physicists for understating the risks involved. To its credit the IPCC takes the approach of a mass literature survey and then weights the results of the tens of thousands of research papers , and looks at what the median opinion is. Nobody is predicting a Venus result, however we do know that runaway climate change is both a very real possibility and rather nasty.
Whatever the case is , the predictions of the IPCC are not the high ends, not the low ends, but somewhere in the middle and the other outlier predictions are also presented with the approprite probabilities assigned.
Actually try reading the thing. The first thing you'll notice is these global warming denial blogs are not being very honest about what the IPCC actually says.
Well this ooky spooky vast left wing conspiracy certainly has forgot to line my sisters pockets who's been staring at satelite data and , you know, using physics and stuff (hint: The picture coming out of the science really isn't pretty)
Thankfully the christian right blogosphere will teach us about how real science works!
And yet death row is filled with people desperate to exchange their impending deaths for life imprisonent.
In fairness Python 3 isn't really as widespread as it should be. I think people have found the 2.7 branch just works well for them.
With that said I do wish people WOULD move to python 3. 2.7's unicode handling is infinitely awful and fragile compared to 3.
Reminds me a bit of one of the tropes from battlestar galactica. Adama knew from the previous war that the cylons where master hackers and could disable battlestars by breaking into networks via wireless and then using them to disable the whole ship, leaving them effectively dead in the water, so he simply ordered that none of his ship ever be networked and that the ship be driven using manual control. Later on they meet the other surviving battleship, the pegasus, and it turns out that only survived because its network was offline due to maintainance. Its not actually a novel idea in militaries. I remember in the 90s doing a small contract for a special forces group I can't name, and asked them about their computer network. He said they used "Sneaker-net", which is that any info that needed transfer was put on a floppy and walked to its destination, thus creating an air gap between battlefield systems.
I guess this isn't quite that, but it certainly seems to be a sort of variant of it.
Don't. Just forget the password. They can't prove you haven't. In fact its actually really common for people under duress to forget passwords for real, since memory can get quite impaired by anxiety (Its part of why torture doesnt work. The more people are freaked out, the more the brain reverts to a fight-or-flight baseline with faster reflexes and diminished cognitive skills)
We had a few arse-backwards white supremacists in the 1980s blow up some chinese resturants and a few things. Somehow doubt those hillbillies are going to be particularly sophisticated about their communication.
No its not. A naturalistic fallacy is where someone justifies a moral stance by a physical condition. It is essentially a round-about variation of the is/ought problem.
However, death has no real moral status, because we have no say over the matter. To say death is immoral presupposes that there is an alternative to death which IS moral, and for which we might chose.
But there isn't. Death isn't a moral choice, its simply something that exists, and we're all going to get knived by it some day.
Death *sucks*, but it isn't wrong. It just is.
Won't SOMEBODY think of those more fortunate than us?
Well the Americans in WW-II pretty much pulled off the whole thing, plus the whole "invent nuclear weapons" things in about that amount of time.
Being that the whole "invent nuclear weapons" bit is already done, and the Ukraine has the physicists to fill in the middle bits, yeah 4 years is probably a good bet.
Problem of course is that they have about 4 weeks, not 4 years to pull this off so....
Pavlov hasn't really been a thing in neurology or psychology since the 50s. Lets get that clear before we start spouting grossly outdated theories before we really screw up and start spouting freud.
Dogs do analyse our facial expressions and the like to guage our moods. But its also how humans do it as well. We know that because people who cant, namely people with autism, suffer from something called "mind blindness", the inability to guage the internal states of others.
The thing is, we can only guess at what animals can't understand, because they can't tell us otherwise. But we also need to acknowledge these animals for the large part have the same brain parts we do (with a few notable exceptions, like an inability to process grammar) and often display similar reason to us.
We know they tend not to be as smart as us. We've got whacking great big frontal and temporal lobes, but we need to be very careful in assuming they dont understand us, just because they are mute.
Theres really nothing bad about this. Its called economic growth and its why our western countries don't look like the backward-arse third world countries who've failed to increase the value of their products.
When I was younger, early 20s back in the 1990s , once of my best friends started to slip into schizophrenia (it ran in his family). He constantly jotted drawings and writings on paper, which grew increasingly more bizare. Started with pictures of aliens and UFOs (Which he'd say where just him having fun) but over time turned into numerological type things (My first letter is T my second is C, I am top cat, my age adds up to 9 which upside down is a third of 666 etc etc etc) and increasingly more paranoid mystery theories. He'd draw charts explaining the relationships between things.
And since he was a biology student, he drew lots of plants. Particularly his favorite, marihuana.
Whats to say this isn't the mad scrawlings of a schizophrenic mad man, 500 years ago? It'd certainly fit the pattern.
Doesn't matter. First to publish gets the prize. Second place needs to find a new phd
Yes it has. But that don't mean we'll survive it. A 4c warming over a thousand years triggered the permafrost melt (for a total of 10c warming) which damn near sterilized the planet.
Regardless, those massive shifts are not contemporary and not compatible with our survival. In fact we're not even sure 4c is particularly compatible with our survival if history has any say in it.
Dear Finnish police board,
Jurisdiction, you goddamn scandinavian hillbillies.
Sincerely,
Jimmy Wales.
Yeah sometimes its necessary. A friend of mine has been stalked by a Neo Nazi gang for some time after she spoke out somewhere about racism. Death threats, and so on (Neo nazis are one of the nastiest organized crime things I've ever seen!). She has *very good* reason to want to be anonymous and use a fake name on facebook only known to family and close friends.
Its *dangerous* to force real identities on people.
I'd wager that tramadol actually is working. Having been on it to recover from some *savagely* painful throat surgery a few years back, the stuff worked amazingly well. Possibly better than the morphine I was being weened off.
Theres a big difference between the Nazis arguments on the Jews and the OWS argument on the 1%.
The OWS believe the ultra rich are ultra rich because they are ultra rich
The nazis thought the jews where ultra rich because the nazis where racist fanatics.
Kind of a difference.