Get out the lube...you're about to be bent over. Ask Sam Clemens and many others. Julian peed in a lotta cornflakes. Funny that not one of the offended parties claims anything he published was fake or a lie. This is pure shoot the messenger to deflect from your own guilt stuff.
You are wrong about this, sorry. There's a huge difference between a hands-free phone and someone in the vehicle, whose own life is at stake and who has at least a little situational awareness. A sales droid pretending to be in his office while actually at a dangerous intersection can't say "hold on a sec" - while with a passenger, there is simply no need for that. When driving around with some of my employees, they even developed a system to help the driver at dangerous spots, say turning left across traffic at a nearly blind intersection. The person in the passenger set would monitor traffic coming from that direction and say "green, green green" or "red red red" - idea borrowed from one of the hotshots movies - as it was his own butt on the line if the driver missed a suddenly appearing car from that direction while trying to also look the other way.
I have a car with a built in hands-free phone. I learned this quickly, the person on the other end can't see you and doesn't know when to shut up, at the very least, or why you might suddenly need to pay full attention. I quit using it other than to order pizza from a custom place I'd be passing on my way home.
The real issue in all this is that the multinationals can choose to report those profits anywhere they want, and there's always that one or two countries that consider that collecting a tiny percentage of that is better than nothing, which is how all those fancy "tax sandwiches" come to pass - and lobbying is around a 100:1 payoff to get those "loopholes" made into law - this is well known and not limited to these guys by any means; how'd we get to a point where Medicare can't negotiate drug prices in the US, you know, like very other country can do, and who all get vastly lower prices? .
In effect due to internal unity of purpose, they beat the world governments in power - "All you need" is for all governments to agree on some uniform way of taxing. As we used to say here, GoodLuckWithThat.
I'm not sure the assumption that governments are the best way to redistribute money is a good one anyway. Seems to be a lot spent on military adventures we could do without - while it's a jobs program, I think we can come up with something better. If we agree, that is. See the issue? We don't and won't, as a world.
Tom Mabe pretending to be a cop at his own murder scene - suspecting the marketer...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmKtS-k12b0
Henry Rollins "coming on" to a telemarketer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Classics....
My time is the one thing I can never get back...
It's only coders and forum users who use the keyboard more than a few keystrokes a day anyway, and we are that small minority of people who have issues with their poor keyboard that will only live through a few strokes a day....We are holding it wrong. You're not supposed to type on it.
No one sets out to be a lousy architect and design code that's inherently inefficient, either. But it sure does happen a lot, and compiler flags or cute tricks inside some routine don't fix that, either. Approaching a problem the wrong way is a main driver of inefficiency, followed by using the wrong tools (language, server, whatever). =
I use C/C++ when computer time is important, and use a lot of the fancy tricks to avoid various dumb things.
But I also do lots of "research grade" code where I just want the answer and in the least total time - which includes my time. Then perhaps I use a language that is easier to write faster, not caring so much about runtime.
It's latency vs throughput all over again.
While all banks have at best questionable morals and legality, Warren Buffet's bank really stands out for criminality. Uncle Oracle only plays a nice guy on TV. From cramming to laundering, they're a ubiquitous one-stop shop for criminal acts. In collusion with the government, it seems fines of this are only ever a "cost of doing business", instead of truly damaging, when they are caught...again.
Plenty of "right wingers" and "conservatives" think Snowden was a hero for taking his oath seriously. It's only the oxymoronically named Intelligence Community and the corrupt State dept that hate him - and they are avowedly NOT right wingers. None of whom, I'd point out, were voted for. Zero.
Leave the partisanship behind and learn the truth instead. (IMO, unaccountable people in power *all* suck)
Conservatives hate Nazis and other social democrats or racists as much as anyone else - stop claiming all are the same.
Because if you do, some are going to say all progressives and lefties are as bad as Antifa and murder people with bike locks.
And it'll be just as fair.
All the MAGA people I know, know that to make America Great - it has to first be made honest. I don't see any monopoly on corruption developing, not even close.
I'm glad we mostly agree on most things. I think we'd be good friends in meatspace.
I think the measles vaccine risk depends somewhat on which study you look at. It's all I actually know; I'm, I guess, lucky I had it as a child and it doesn't matter to me personally anyway. I'm not an anti-vaxxer by any stretch. Western medicine has saved my hide more than once. And also messed me up more than once, but that was lack of skill on an individual's part. I'm a scientist by trade myself, and I kinda believe in the validity of it. I'm pretty sure that while censorship is almost always bad, that there are worse things yet, as evidenced by some of DARPAs contracts to learn how to "control the narrative". Otherwise known as "how to generate more effective propaganda, or fake news" - a sin of commision on top of the omission one. I find many times when I'm involved in a disagreement of some kind, the other party has been...affected by such techniques. There have been plenty of cases where I'm pretty sure I could believe I knew the truth because I was there...but what was told to everyone else had almost no relation. .
Reference - they didn't even try to hide it and nope, it has nothing to do with partisanship - they're all guilty, and like Douglas Adams said about Zaphod, they're just there to distract from the actual power.
I guess I can put these in here without disturbing the sleepers, by this time no one else is following this thread anyway, right?
https://phys.org/news/2011-10-...
I have lots more if you care. I'm rather sick of having to apologize to my friends overseas for being American. We lost control of our government long ago, and apparently have no remedy short of acts no one reasonable wants to contemplate.
Since those in power have made it legal to tell us lies, and even pay to learn to do it better, shutting down dissent is bad, even when that dissent is wrong. We need it if for no other reason than to let crazies self-identify, and promote critical thinking.
But someone else doesn't agree and modded the comment you agreed with down!
Agreed, this way lies totalitarianism, which is (so far always) the endgame of empires that are on the downslope, no matter what "ism" they purport to be based upon. Some create more corpses than others, maybe, but even that is up for grabs.
I worked in the oxymoronically named intelligence community. You may or may not be surprised how much of the stuff that's classified is just to cover for a screwup of some sort. .
See George Carlin. They don't want critical thinking citizens at all, the the educational system has obviously become one of almost pure indoctrination - many college grads today might not have passed my own sophomore year in High school, and most of us wouldn't have passed High School in the early 1900s - most of us have seen that test.
They want people just smart enough to run the productive stuff and not question why most of their money is taken for "other things". And lots (ever increasing) amounts of their freedom is limited in the name of "safety" - not for thee, but for the Just-us system. .
Of course, it's better for ME if YOU get vaccinated with a high risk vaccine...because herd immunity....so this is a case where it's easy for anyone running things to make a case it's the best for the most people, even if there ARE flaws in the current vaccines...you still wind up with fewer deaths.
It's still the wrong way to get there from here. "Controlling the narrative" is just too damn dishonest and scary, and no power that exists hasn't been abused.
Nope, you're the one stuck, along with much of our government. Projection much? This anti-Russia everything has driven us closer to war, just to mess with Cheeto - he can't attempt any worthwhile diplomacy without being called a traitor doing treason now. Is war really what you wanted? If so, you're the one who needs a head removed - from the neck, after pulling it out of your nether region. Are you so hate filled you don't care about the rest of us getting killed? Sure looks that way - there are thousands of examples of anti-cheeto hate speech that basically are driving what's possible in foreign affairs. Try to pull out of the sand and death in Syria? Treason to the military industrial congressional complex (Eisenhower's original title for it). Try to stop a stupid Korean war that's been going on since I was born, quite a long time ago? Treasonous legitimizing of the actual (like it or not, and I don't) leader of DPRK. Not useful if you want to end that war, pull up mines, and start economic recovery which would be good for all. Too many examples of total evil being used just because some cheeto snuck past the usual "selection process" and got elected - note the choice of words carefully there. We've had plenty of dolts as presidents. Making it worse is productive how?
I said "beginning". Yes, NASA is their prime customer, at a huge savings to us. But how about all those other launches, the profit from which ultimately helps fund this kind of thing? It's all good, we're not there yet, but I've been waiting literally since the late 60's for *any progress whatever* so, yeah, I'm psyched.
People need to dream. If you give them something to dream about, and then take it away, they're not even as happy as they were before. This is bringing back the dream. Boy, people have short attention spans these days. So I guess, "relax and enjoy your shoes".
Finally, the beginning of delivery of the implicit promise of Apollo. Late, and not by the government that implied human space travel would become commonplace, instead of a ****-waving political exercise and cancelled at step 1.
Money was of course, an issue, and as usual, private enterprise - and not one yet totally involved in crony capitalism, managed to deliver what the government and their heavily subsidized old-school aerospace contractors could not. .
All possible congrats, props, general hip hip hurray and so forth.
Just wish I didn't have to wait from childhood until too old to fly for this.
For "lawmakers" - a dumb title itself, as though we needed more laws, instead of ones that work and make sense - and are enforced uniformly, instead of on the just-us system. This guy is a moron, true, but he's got plenty of company...after all, we have a bartender in congress now who doesn't know the branches of government...and that's just skimming the obvious surface of idiocy, and not even moving on to the corruption that allows them all to retire eventually rich on what actually isn't that great a paycheck for someone who has to live in DC and commute home as well....
We allow them to exempt themselves from laws they make for us -
Insider trading. (Pelosi comes to mind, but it's really all of 'em.
Health care - they get special, and free. We get plans where the copay is more than I pay without any insurance at all.
Free armed guards - while they want "sensible gun control" for the rest of us.
I could go on endlessly, mention their special pension system that can't go broke...and on and on.
I somehow don't think we kept our republic, as was warned by the founders.
Tentler is hilarious. I liked the defcon comedy inception panel version of this (with "and give me a drink" added to the title).
Normally I'd say "and nothing of value was learned" because most of us know that there are all kinds of things on the 'net that shouldn't be.
But evidently there are some people behind the curve of the obvious.
It really got bad, and is getting worse due to the usual "follow the money" issues. Why to I need to use some intermediary for my internet of things stuff? So they can be man in the middle, and maybe either sell your data or just start charging rent to use your own stuff?
Why do people fall for it? Could it be that the ipv4 space is tight, competence is low, and this whole scheme profits due to the difficulty of getting your own web presence? It might still be insecure, as there always seem to be debug backdoors in the cheap IoT stuff, which is why my 'stead uses a LAN of things - only. .
If it had been workable, we'd be living in what amounts to a microwave oven (only one with longer wavelengths). Think of the people who think non ionizing radiation gives them cancer as is!
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Get out the lube...you're about to be bent over. Ask Sam Clemens and many others. Julian peed in a lotta cornflakes. Funny that not one of the offended parties claims anything he published was fake or a lie. This is pure shoot the messenger to deflect from your own guilt stuff.
Yeah, it's only quiet if you're not a legislator...
I'd mod this up had I not posted as myself already. Thanks for adding to and helping make my point!
You are wrong about this, sorry. There's a huge difference between a hands-free phone and someone in the vehicle, whose own life is at stake and who has at least a little situational awareness. A sales droid pretending to be in his office while actually at a dangerous intersection can't say "hold on a sec" - while with a passenger, there is simply no need for that. When driving around with some of my employees, they even developed a system to help the driver at dangerous spots, say turning left across traffic at a nearly blind intersection. The person in the passenger set would monitor traffic coming from that direction and say "green, green green" or "red red red" - idea borrowed from one of the hotshots movies - as it was his own butt on the line if the driver missed a suddenly appearing car from that direction while trying to also look the other way.
I have a car with a built in hands-free phone. I learned this quickly, the person on the other end can't see you and doesn't know when to shut up, at the very least, or why you might suddenly need to pay full attention. I quit using it other than to order pizza from a custom place I'd be passing on my way home.
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In effect due to internal unity of purpose, they beat the world governments in power - "All you need" is for all governments to agree on some uniform way of taxing. As we used to say here, GoodLuckWithThat.
I'm not sure the assumption that governments are the best way to redistribute money is a good one anyway. Seems to be a lot spent on military adventures we could do without - while it's a jobs program, I think we can come up with something better. If we agree, that is. See the issue? We don't and won't, as a world.
Yup, viscous as molasses on a cold day.
Tom Mabe pretending to be a cop at his own murder scene - suspecting the marketer...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmKtS-k12b0
Henry Rollins "coming on" to a telemarketer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Classics....
My time is the one thing I can never get back...
They tighten them back up for even more money, though.
It's only coders and forum users who use the keyboard more than a few keystrokes a day anyway, and we are that small minority of people who have issues with their poor keyboard that will only live through a few strokes a day....We are holding it wrong. You're not supposed to type on it.
=
I use C/C++ when computer time is important, and use a lot of the fancy tricks to avoid various dumb things.
But I also do lots of "research grade" code where I just want the answer and in the least total time - which includes my time. Then perhaps I use a language that is easier to write faster, not caring so much about runtime.
It's latency vs throughput all over again.
While all banks have at best questionable morals and legality, Warren Buffet's bank really stands out for criminality. Uncle Oracle only plays a nice guy on TV. From cramming to laundering, they're a ubiquitous one-stop shop for criminal acts. In collusion with the government, it seems fines of this are only ever a "cost of doing business", instead of truly damaging, when they are caught...again.
Plenty of "right wingers" and "conservatives" think Snowden was a hero for taking his oath seriously. It's only the oxymoronically named Intelligence Community and the corrupt State dept that hate him - and they are avowedly NOT right wingers. None of whom, I'd point out, were voted for. Zero.
Leave the partisanship behind and learn the truth instead. (IMO, unaccountable people in power *all* suck)
Conservatives hate Nazis and other social democrats or racists as much as anyone else - stop claiming all are the same.
Because if you do, some are going to say all progressives and lefties are as bad as Antifa and murder people with bike locks.
And it'll be just as fair.
All the MAGA people I know, know that to make America Great - it has to first be made honest. I don't see any monopoly on corruption developing, not even close.
I think the measles vaccine risk depends somewhat on which study you look at. It's all I actually know; I'm, I guess, lucky I had it as a child and it doesn't matter to me personally anyway. I'm not an anti-vaxxer by any stretch. Western medicine has saved my hide more than once. And also messed me up more than once, but that was lack of skill on an individual's part. I'm a scientist by trade myself, and I kinda believe in the validity of it.
I'm pretty sure that while censorship is almost always bad, that there are worse things yet, as evidenced by some of DARPAs contracts to learn how to "control the narrative". Otherwise known as "how to generate more effective propaganda, or fake news" - a sin of commision on top of the omission one. I find many times when I'm involved in a disagreement of some kind, the other party has been...affected by such techniques. There have been plenty of cases where I'm pretty sure I could believe I knew the truth because I was there...but what was told to everyone else had almost no relation.
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Reference - they didn't even try to hide it and nope, it has nothing to do with partisanship - they're all guilty, and like Douglas Adams said about Zaphod, they're just there to distract from the actual power.
I guess I can put these in here without disturbing the sleepers, by this time no one else is following this thread anyway, right? https://phys.org/news/2011-10-... I have lots more if you care. I'm rather sick of having to apologize to my friends overseas for being American. We lost control of our government long ago, and apparently have no remedy short of acts no one reasonable wants to contemplate.
Since those in power have made it legal to tell us lies, and even pay to learn to do it better, shutting down dissent is bad, even when that dissent is wrong. We need it if for no other reason than to let crazies self-identify, and promote critical thinking.
But someone else doesn't agree and modded the comment you agreed with down!
What a time to be out of mod points. ^^^^^^
I worked in the oxymoronically named intelligence community. You may or may not be surprised how much of the stuff that's classified is just to cover for a screwup of some sort.
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See George Carlin. They don't want critical thinking citizens at all, the the educational system has obviously become one of almost pure indoctrination - many college grads today might not have passed my own sophomore year in High school, and most of us wouldn't have passed High School in the early 1900s - most of us have seen that test.
They want people just smart enough to run the productive stuff and not question why most of their money is taken for "other things". And lots (ever increasing) amounts of their freedom is limited in the name of "safety" - not for thee, but for the Just-us system.
.
Of course, it's better for ME if YOU get vaccinated with a high risk vaccine...because herd immunity....so this is a case where it's easy for anyone running things to make a case it's the best for the most people, even if there ARE flaws in the current vaccines...you still wind up with fewer deaths.
It's still the wrong way to get there from here. "Controlling the narrative" is just too damn dishonest and scary, and no power that exists hasn't been abused.
You win the internet today. About time someone called BS on the entire subject area. Artificial Ignorance, except nope, it's real.
Nope, you're the one stuck, along with much of our government. Projection much? This anti-Russia everything has driven us closer to war, just to mess with Cheeto - he can't attempt any worthwhile diplomacy without being called a traitor doing treason now. Is war really what you wanted? If so, you're the one who needs a head removed - from the neck, after pulling it out of your nether region. Are you so hate filled you don't care about the rest of us getting killed? Sure looks that way - there are thousands of examples of anti-cheeto hate speech that basically are driving what's possible in foreign affairs. Try to pull out of the sand and death in Syria? Treason to the military industrial congressional complex (Eisenhower's original title for it). Try to stop a stupid Korean war that's been going on since I was born, quite a long time ago? Treasonous legitimizing of the actual (like it or not, and I don't) leader of DPRK. Not useful if you want to end that war, pull up mines, and start economic recovery which would be good for all. Too many examples of total evil being used just because some cheeto snuck past the usual "selection process" and got elected - note the choice of words carefully there. We've had plenty of dolts as presidents. Making it worse is productive how?
Rubber ducky. USB has a fatal flaw that can't be fixed with back compatibility. It has to trust the device to tell the truth about what it is.
I said "beginning". Yes, NASA is their prime customer, at a huge savings to us. But how about all those other launches, the profit from which ultimately helps fund this kind of thing? It's all good, we're not there yet, but I've been waiting literally since the late 60's for *any progress whatever* so, yeah, I'm psyched.
People need to dream. If you give them something to dream about, and then take it away, they're not even as happy as they were before. This is bringing back the dream. Boy, people have short attention spans these days. So I guess, "relax and enjoy your shoes".
Money was of course, an issue, and as usual, private enterprise - and not one yet totally involved in crony capitalism, managed to deliver what the government and their heavily subsidized old-school aerospace contractors could not.
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All possible congrats, props, general hip hip hurray and so forth.
Just wish I didn't have to wait from childhood until too old to fly for this.
No one else read Isaac Asimov? I'm ashamed of y'all. First foundation!
For "lawmakers" - a dumb title itself, as though we needed more laws, instead of ones that work and make sense - and are enforced uniformly, instead of on the just-us system. This guy is a moron, true, but he's got plenty of company...after all, we have a bartender in congress now who doesn't know the branches of government...and that's just skimming the obvious surface of idiocy, and not even moving on to the corruption that allows them all to retire eventually rich on what actually isn't that great a paycheck for someone who has to live in DC and commute home as well....
We allow them to exempt themselves from laws they make for us -
Insider trading. (Pelosi comes to mind, but it's really all of 'em.
Health care - they get special, and free. We get plans where the copay is more than I pay without any insurance at all.
Free armed guards - while they want "sensible gun control" for the rest of us.
I could go on endlessly, mention their special pension system that can't go broke...and on and on.
I somehow don't think we kept our republic, as was warned by the founders.
Normally I'd say "and nothing of value was learned" because most of us know that there are all kinds of things on the 'net that shouldn't be.
But evidently there are some people behind the curve of the obvious.
It really got bad, and is getting worse due to the usual "follow the money" issues. Why to I need to use some intermediary for my internet of things stuff? So they can be man in the middle, and maybe either sell your data or just start charging rent to use your own stuff? Why do people fall for it? Could it be that the ipv4 space is tight, competence is low, and this whole scheme profits due to the difficulty of getting your own web presence? It might still be insecure, as there always seem to be debug backdoors in the cheap IoT stuff, which is why my 'stead uses a LAN of things - only.
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As usual, cui bono....
But government is all about the next election, like business is all about the next quarter. Wise investing is ancient history.
If it had been workable, we'd be living in what amounts to a microwave oven (only one with longer wavelengths). Think of the people who think non ionizing radiation gives them cancer as is!