In NYC nearly all the guns used to kill, wound, rob, rape and terrorize people come from other states. States that don't control their own guns enough, and export into NY where our state alone can't control it. Increased Federal regulation since the 1980s has helped reduce the amount of damage that people do with guns here.
In Somalia you can get all the guns you want. Freedom now!
If the CFC ban were postponed, then when that time came we'd be in exactly the situation we're in now. there's been no lack of time to replace that revenue stream with one that doesn't externalize its costs elsewhere, like to cancer victims from ozone layer depletion.
It's clear that the pharmacos only act when both forced by law and enticed by profits, simultaneously. Giving them more time would only give them more time to lobby for more time, or to kill the regulation entirely.
So people will die because the alternative has an odor. I see.
And Primatene won't sacrifice its profits to reformuate in accordance with the law that's been known to it for years and years. Unless maybe it can put other useless crap into the new formula to protect its profits for another generation or three.
The problem here is the many profit protections in the cartel that prevent non-CFC inhalers from competing each other into the $10 price range occupied by Primatene. If "the government" is a villain here, it's in failing to break up that cartel in favor of competition. Or just in failing to provide universal healthcare financing for something as obvious as asthma inhalers.
Ozone regenerates but only accumulates when CFCs aren't destroying it. CFCs in inhalers are just one part of the CFC pollution that we backed away from over several decades. Most of the sources individually are a very small amount, but combined they deplete the ozone layer. Which causes increases in cancer, not just among humans but among other animals around the world. Each small source has its claim to exemption, and some worked those claims for many years while alternatives were developed. This single last brand using CFCs is cheaper because it's generating pollution its competitors don't, which simply externalizes its costs from asthma people to cancer people affected by the ozone depletion.
No, there's just a lot of lies peddled by coal and tobacco corps through liars like you. The ozone hole was mapped in the 1970s, anyway. You are so addled that you can't even keep the basic lies organized.
Primatene sucks, and barely works. It's cheap because its costs have been paid off for decades, and it's just a brand. But millions of people don't use it, even though it's cheap, because it sucks. The EPA isn't just protecting the health of the rest of us by protecting the Ozone Layer from CFCs - it's flushing this crap product out of the market. The asthma industry has had decades to switch away from CFCs, longer than practically all others. And even this final shutdown has been coming for 3 years, plenty of time to switch.
If you want to be angry at a government agency, be angry at the FDA which requires the non-CFC version, that actually works, to be a prescription. Which drives up its costs, and lets the doctor industry take their cut for peddling it. There's no reason the non-CFC version should cost 50-100% more than the OTC version. It's the doctor/drug cartel that keeps this stuff so profitable and expensive.
What's idiotic is the kneejerk attacks on government agencies that protect us, without knowing anything about what you're talking about. "The government" isn't some monolithic entity. The EPA controls damaging substances to protect us
What makes you say that? As someone who dropped out of college (where I took only a couple of IT classes; one for easy grades and the other to learn 3D graphics from a pioneer) and created my own very successful IT career, I've found most IT grads with just a little simultaneous IT experience to be much better hires than people with no schooling but plenty of (some quality of) experience. FWIW most people have no skill sets or other job requirements, often after years of working. In any field.
In other words there are notable exceptions, but generally people who study IT in college and pursue a career benefit well from the time and money spent, including compared to the alternative of on the job training.
In fact the degree benefits the community more than it does its holder. The value of the degree holder's work is greater to its consumers than to the worker, which is why they buy it. The social value is at least as valuable to others. That is the fundamental value of the social network that makes humans successful because we are social animals. The societal benefit of each of us, when we're well adjusted and productive, is greater to the network than it is to us.
There is a case for making all tuition a loan from the public to the student. That's repaid at an interest rate proportional to the benefit the student eventually gets, once the mutual investment in them pays off. We call that taxes, which should be high enough to loan the money to everyone who qualifies: high school graduation or equivalent testing, or perhaps a school's independent judgment (subject to performance review).
Every state should offer completely free public education through a post-highschool degree. If you graduated a public school in the state/county, the state/county should offer you a degree path at a state/county college. That is an investment in all the people in the state/county, since its during college that people typically travel to where they'll start careers, which mostly serve the other people in the local area. The more and better the local college grads, the better life gets in the area, offering more productive workers and associates, and more complete people, with which the rest of the locals can make money and live their lives.
If we can't fund education by taxing the businesses making money from educated people, and by taxing the people who opt to pay for private education instead, and by collecting taxes and fees from the many proceeds of public (and publicly subsidized private) education production like patents and research products, then we have to admit that our kind of capitalism is totally unsustainable, a fraud, and just a scam. Before it's too late to do anything about it.
You're just a Republican thief. Public union pensions, like any pensions, are paid for by the workers. They put off collecting a significant part of their pay for their work while they're working, in exchange for getting it back with some interest later when they can't work anymore. They loan the money to the government, or to their private employer.
Most Americans collect Social Security to base funding their retirements, the safest way to finance it. But you Republican thieves are working to steal that, too.
The problem with the system is that you Republicans insisted on spending the $TRILLIONS workers loaned our government on fraud wars instead of productive investment in Americans. But you Republicans want more of the wars, but none of the investment in Americans. That's the "old school" that is burning down around us.
Like any other state/national entity, states should apply max quotas of immigrants to who they admit from outside, who are all subsidized by the taxpayers in the state. There's both financial and educational (diversity, quality) benefits to admitting as many outsiders as the state can get, before the net effects exclude actual residents too from the net benefits.
Well, what this system is doing is selecting from a library of video clips the 100 clips whose brain signatures when viewed were closest to the brain signatures sensed later. So the video is lo-fi because of averaging of the images. More signal processing, particularly a stats model for excluding red herrings, will give this system higher specificity in selecting the video to match the sensed signature.
It will take another breakthru to generate a 3D image (more likely than a 2D image, which is really just a derived artifact of the 3D brain activity) directly from the sensed brain activity rather than selecting a correlating video. But that breakthru is at least as likely to occur in the SW/data video realm as in the brain/sensor realm. Because we might be able to use large video libraries, and swatches within their 2D images, as primitives from which to synthesize the 3D visual image, rather than building the recreated images from raw voxels. Which is, I believe, precisely how the brain does it.
What will also come along is reading and stimulating other brain sensory (apperceptory, really) regions that are active when we think we're having a hi-fi memory. Often the details are not remembered, but we "remember" that we are remembering the details, in the "metadata". That level of resynth will require the breakthru of stimulating those brain regions, not just reading mappable sensory regions. But with this research at UC Berkeley I think we are now in the (very long and difficult) phase of "working out the details". We are over the watershed into the new age.
This science is the watershed in human/machine interfaces. An improved version of this tech will give computers direct reads of our visual mind. We will imagine scenes that computers will interpret to execute.
How far along are we getting in cheap, low-power SQUID caps (or alternative gear) that we can wear to express to our Internet and personal processors what we imagine happening, so our machines can make it so?
No, Sprint's network and services already look bad. But Sprint is cheap - compared to AT&T. T-Mobile is cheaper. AT&T is buying T-Mobile to eliminate the cheap competition. Which might be good for Sprint, driving cheapo subscribers into Sprint's cheap(er) contracts. But that's supply/demand competition without a cartel. In a cartel, they compete not based on price or quality, but on lockins and infrastructure screwovers. With a cheapo T-Mobile as an ally downmarket, Sprint will be easier for AT&T and Verizon to screw with, inside the boundaries of their cartel. Which is why Verizon is supporting AT&T's killing T-Mobile: anything to reduce the competition, even if it helps your remaining competitors screw you worse.
In monopolistic markets, competition is nonlinear - and practically non-Euclidean.
If there were a VOIP phone app for Android that worked over Sprint 3G but handed off seamlessly (in-call, no disconnect) to WiFi when in range, then we would have an alternative to Sprint's network lockin monopoly. And these price gouging limits would become pretty scarce. Competition that isn't just a cartel will do that.
My HTC 4G Android isn't going anywhere except Sprint, since that's the only network it will connect to. Sprint has of course locked it, which is how they're implementing this data cap and get to charge $30 extra a month to enable it.
The real question is what Android config/SW can do it anyway, despite Sprint's terms - which they're changing unilaterally now.
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In NYC nearly all the guns used to kill, wound, rob, rape and terrorize people come from other states. States that don't control their own guns enough, and export into NY where our state alone can't control it. Increased Federal regulation since the 1980s has helped reduce the amount of damage that people do with guns here.
In Somalia you can get all the guns you want. Freedom now!
If the CFC ban were postponed, then when that time came we'd be in exactly the situation we're in now. there's been no lack of time to replace that revenue stream with one that doesn't externalize its costs elsewhere, like to cancer victims from ozone layer depletion.
It's clear that the pharmacos only act when both forced by law and enticed by profits, simultaneously. Giving them more time would only give them more time to lobby for more time, or to kill the regulation entirely.
So people will die because the alternative has an odor. I see.
And Primatene won't sacrifice its profits to reformuate in accordance with the law that's been known to it for years and years. Unless maybe it can put other useless crap into the new formula to protect its profits for another generation or three.
The problem here is the many profit protections in the cartel that prevent non-CFC inhalers from competing each other into the $10 price range occupied by Primatene. If "the government" is a villain here, it's in failing to break up that cartel in favor of competition. Or just in failing to provide universal healthcare financing for something as obvious as asthma inhalers.
Ozone regenerates but only accumulates when CFCs aren't destroying it. CFCs in inhalers are just one part of the CFC pollution that we backed away from over several decades. Most of the sources individually are a very small amount, but combined they deplete the ozone layer. Which causes increases in cancer, not just among humans but among other animals around the world. Each small source has its claim to exemption, and some worked those claims for many years while alternatives were developed. This single last brand using CFCs is cheaper because it's generating pollution its competitors don't, which simply externalizes its costs from asthma people to cancer people affected by the ozone depletion.
No, there's just a lot of lies peddled by coal and tobacco corps through liars like you. The ozone hole was mapped in the 1970s, anyway. You are so addled that you can't even keep the basic lies organized.
Primatene sucks, and barely works. It's cheap because its costs have been paid off for decades, and it's just a brand. But millions of people don't use it, even though it's cheap, because it sucks. The EPA isn't just protecting the health of the rest of us by protecting the Ozone Layer from CFCs - it's flushing this crap product out of the market. The asthma industry has had decades to switch away from CFCs, longer than practically all others. And even this final shutdown has been coming for 3 years, plenty of time to switch.
If you want to be angry at a government agency, be angry at the FDA which requires the non-CFC version, that actually works, to be a prescription. Which drives up its costs, and lets the doctor industry take their cut for peddling it. There's no reason the non-CFC version should cost 50-100% more than the OTC version. It's the doctor/drug cartel that keeps this stuff so profitable and expensive.
What's idiotic is the kneejerk attacks on government agencies that protect us, without knowing anything about what you're talking about. "The government" isn't some monolithic entity. The EPA controls damaging substances to protect us
What makes you say that? As someone who dropped out of college (where I took only a couple of IT classes; one for easy grades and the other to learn 3D graphics from a pioneer) and created my own very successful IT career, I've found most IT grads with just a little simultaneous IT experience to be much better hires than people with no schooling but plenty of (some quality of) experience. FWIW most people have no skill sets or other job requirements, often after years of working. In any field.
In other words there are notable exceptions, but generally people who study IT in college and pursue a career benefit well from the time and money spent, including compared to the alternative of on the job training.
What makes you say that?
In fact the degree benefits the community more than it does its holder. The value of the degree holder's work is greater to its consumers than to the worker, which is why they buy it. The social value is at least as valuable to others. That is the fundamental value of the social network that makes humans successful because we are social animals. The societal benefit of each of us, when we're well adjusted and productive, is greater to the network than it is to us.
There is a case for making all tuition a loan from the public to the student. That's repaid at an interest rate proportional to the benefit the student eventually gets, once the mutual investment in them pays off. We call that taxes, which should be high enough to loan the money to everyone who qualifies: high school graduation or equivalent testing, or perhaps a school's independent judgment (subject to performance review).
Crappy beer is bread for Americans.
Nobody's forcing you to go to college, or to study IT while you're there.
Every state should offer completely free public education through a post-highschool degree. If you graduated a public school in the state/county, the state/county should offer you a degree path at a state/county college. That is an investment in all the people in the state/county, since its during college that people typically travel to where they'll start careers, which mostly serve the other people in the local area. The more and better the local college grads, the better life gets in the area, offering more productive workers and associates, and more complete people, with which the rest of the locals can make money and live their lives.
If we can't fund education by taxing the businesses making money from educated people, and by taxing the people who opt to pay for private education instead, and by collecting taxes and fees from the many proceeds of public (and publicly subsidized private) education production like patents and research products, then we have to admit that our kind of capitalism is totally unsustainable, a fraud, and just a scam. Before it's too late to do anything about it.
You're just a Republican thief. Public union pensions, like any pensions, are paid for by the workers. They put off collecting a significant part of their pay for their work while they're working, in exchange for getting it back with some interest later when they can't work anymore. They loan the money to the government, or to their private employer.
Most Americans collect Social Security to base funding their retirements, the safest way to finance it. But you Republican thieves are working to steal that, too.
The problem with the system is that you Republicans insisted on spending the $TRILLIONS workers loaned our government on fraud wars instead of productive investment in Americans. But you Republicans want more of the wars, but none of the investment in Americans. That's the "old school" that is burning down around us.
Like any other state/national entity, states should apply max quotas of immigrants to who they admit from outside, who are all subsidized by the taxpayers in the state. There's both financial and educational (diversity, quality) benefits to admitting as many outsiders as the state can get, before the net effects exclude actual residents too from the net benefits.
Do you? Or is that all just a crazy dream?
Well, what this system is doing is selecting from a library of video clips the 100 clips whose brain signatures when viewed were closest to the brain signatures sensed later. So the video is lo-fi because of averaging of the images. More signal processing, particularly a stats model for excluding red herrings, will give this system higher specificity in selecting the video to match the sensed signature.
It will take another breakthru to generate a 3D image (more likely than a 2D image, which is really just a derived artifact of the 3D brain activity) directly from the sensed brain activity rather than selecting a correlating video. But that breakthru is at least as likely to occur in the SW/data video realm as in the brain/sensor realm. Because we might be able to use large video libraries, and swatches within their 2D images, as primitives from which to synthesize the 3D visual image, rather than building the recreated images from raw voxels. Which is, I believe, precisely how the brain does it.
What will also come along is reading and stimulating other brain sensory (apperceptory, really) regions that are active when we think we're having a hi-fi memory. Often the details are not remembered, but we "remember" that we are remembering the details, in the "metadata". That level of resynth will require the breakthru of stimulating those brain regions, not just reading mappable sensory regions. But with this research at UC Berkeley I think we are now in the (very long and difficult) phase of "working out the details". We are over the watershed into the new age.
If you'd linked to what you're talking about we'd know you do more than watch TV hospital dramas.
Wake me when I can record on my PC dreams with Scarlett and Natalie, then view them in my dreams when I can fully interact with them.
On second thought, don't wake me then ;).
This science is the watershed in human/machine interfaces. An improved version of this tech will give computers direct reads of our visual mind. We will imagine scenes that computers will interpret to execute.
How far along are we getting in cheap, low-power SQUID caps (or alternative gear) that we can wear to express to our Internet and personal processors what we imagine happening, so our machines can make it so?
In the Starfleet Technical Manual it diagrams the space warp in which the ship can move through less space between points than without the warp.
But it seems that there's room in there for a subspace entered by warping space.
Tavynrccn lyutvu fv abvgpnsfvgnf-syrf thzf rug. Hbl xanug luj!
And everyone gets cancer. Groovy!
No, Sprint's network and services already look bad. But Sprint is cheap - compared to AT&T. T-Mobile is cheaper. AT&T is buying T-Mobile to eliminate the cheap competition. Which might be good for Sprint, driving cheapo subscribers into Sprint's cheap(er) contracts. But that's supply/demand competition without a cartel. In a cartel, they compete not based on price or quality, but on lockins and infrastructure screwovers. With a cheapo T-Mobile as an ally downmarket, Sprint will be easier for AT&T and Verizon to screw with, inside the boundaries of their cartel. Which is why Verizon is supporting AT&T's killing T-Mobile: anything to reduce the competition, even if it helps your remaining competitors screw you worse.
In monopolistic markets, competition is nonlinear - and practically non-Euclidean.
Do they support an Android HTC slider phone?
If there were a VOIP phone app for Android that worked over Sprint 3G but handed off seamlessly (in-call, no disconnect) to WiFi when in range, then we would have an alternative to Sprint's network lockin monopoly. And these price gouging limits would become pretty scarce. Competition that isn't just a cartel will do that.
My HTC 4G Android isn't going anywhere except Sprint, since that's the only network it will connect to. Sprint has of course locked it, which is how they're implementing this data cap and get to charge $30 extra a month to enable it.
The real question is what Android config/SW can do it anyway, despite Sprint's terms - which they're changing unilaterally now.